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MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. June 24th, 1840.
539 between the second and third des Sciences," of Paris, in which the argu. soon after ments tended to favour the animal doctrine. The principal objects exhibited at the the expulsion of the embryo, will not admit which closed the meeting, conversazione, the Mr. Streeter more than point of a finger. were; the circulation in the nitella hyalina, judiciously recommends us to abstain from and the circulation in the web of the frog’s using any manual or instrumental force, but foot. prefers (we cannot perceive upon what principle) the continued injection of a stream of NEW REMEDY FOR TETANUS tepid water. The patient should, of course, AND OTHER keep the recumbent posture, and take small CONVULSIVE DISORDERS. doses of the ergot, with dilute sulphuric By W. B. O’SHAUGHNESSY, M.D., Calcutta. or
usually,
months; and the cervix uteri, very
acid, henbane,
hop.
For the prevention of any future miscarTHE labours of Dr. O’Shaughnessy, as a riage, the author holds it to be essentially scientific chemist, are already known in the necessary to determine the exact condition most favourable manner to our readers ; but of the ovum which has been expelled, in unlike the greater number of chemists, he order to ascertain whether the process of combines practice with theory, and directs utero-gestation has failed,because the ovum his scientific discoveries to the advancement was itself originally in an imperfect or paof medicine, as a art. The followthological condition; or because the foetus ing particulars concerning the efficacy of a having been regularly formed and nourished new remedy for tetanus, discovered by Dr. up to a certain period, has subsequently O’Shaughnessy, are contained in the last perished, in consequence of imperfection or number of the " British and Foreign Medical disease in the uterine envelopes or placenta. Review." When such an examination shows that the The narcotic and intoxicating effects of abortion depended on some imperfection of hemp are popularly known in various parts the ovutn, the after-treatment required is of of Asia, Africa, and America, where it is the most simple description. When, how- extensively employed in a multitude of ; but in Western Europe the use ever, as most commonly happens after the aflections of hemp is unknown either as a stimulant or third month, we find effusions of blood, or as a remedy, probably because the European traces of inflammation in the connecting hemp does not contain any of the resinous tissues between the uterus and embryo, an matter upon which its therapeutical properappropriate treatment will be at once called ties depend. In warm climates, and during seasons, a resinous juice exudes and for, and will often have the most beneficial certain concretes on the leaves, slender stems, and effects. flowers of the hemp. This resin has a fragrant, narcotic odour ; bitter, acrid taste ; and, when pure, is of a blackish-grey colour. It is very soluble in alcohol, or fixed oils, MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY OF and is insoluble in acids. LONDON. Having determined, by experiments on carnivorous animals, that the remedy might June 24th, 1840. be administered with safety to the human RICHARD OWEN, Esq., F.R.S., President. subject, Dr. O’Shaughnessy proceeded to try its effects in several convulsive diseases. Soma specimens of natural history, from The resinous extract which he employed, the river Gambia, were presented by Mr. was obtained by boiling the tops of the Curtis, to be distributed, as microscopic ob- dried hemp plant in spirit (sp. gr. 835), until jects, among the Fellows. the resin was dissolved, and then evapo. The discussion upon the paper of Mr. rating the tincture to dryness. The tincture Dalrymple on the Closterium, read at the last of hemp was prepared by dissolving three meeting, was resumed. grains of this extract in one drachm of Dr. LiNDLEY observed, that as starch is proof spirit. The doses vary according to almost invariably found in vegetable sub- the disease for the cure of which the remedy stances, except, perhaps, in the microscopic may be employed. In cholera, Dr. O’Shaughfungi, the absence of this principle in the Dessy gives ten drops of the tincture every interior of closteria, as inferred from the ex- half hour, until the vomiting and purging periments with iodine, would go far to prove are allayed. In cases of tetanus, a drachm the animal nature of their bodies. He re- of the tincture every half hour, until the membered to have read an elaborate paper paroxysms cease, or catalepsy is induced. on this family, by Morren, in the" Annales In hydrophobia, ten or twenty grains of the
healing
usually,
months; and the cervix uteri, very
acid, henbane,
hop.
For the prevention of any future miscarTHE labours of Dr. O’Shaughnessy, as a riage, the author holds it to be essentially scientific chemist, are already known in the necessary to determine the exact condition most favourable manner to our readers ; but of the ovum which has been expelled, in unlike the greater number of chemists, he order to ascertain whether the process of combines practice with theory, and directs utero-gestation has failed,because the ovum his scientific discoveries to the advancement was itself originally in an imperfect or paof medicine, as a art. The followthological condition; or because the foetus ing particulars concerning the efficacy of a having been regularly formed and nourished new remedy for tetanus, discovered by Dr. up to a certain period, has subsequently O’Shaughnessy, are contained in the last perished, in consequence of imperfection or number of the " British and Foreign Medical disease in the uterine envelopes or placenta. Review." When such an examination shows that the The narcotic and intoxicating effects of abortion depended on some imperfection of hemp are popularly known in various parts the ovutn, the after-treatment required is of of Asia, Africa, and America, where it is the most simple description. When, how- extensively employed in a multitude of ; but in Western Europe the use ever, as most commonly happens after the aflections of hemp is unknown either as a stimulant or third month, we find effusions of blood, or as a remedy, probably because the European traces of inflammation in the connecting hemp does not contain any of the resinous tissues between the uterus and embryo, an matter upon which its therapeutical properappropriate treatment will be at once called ties depend. In warm climates, and during seasons, a resinous juice exudes and for, and will often have the most beneficial certain concretes on the leaves, slender stems, and effects. flowers of the hemp. This resin has a fragrant, narcotic odour ; bitter, acrid taste ; and, when pure, is of a blackish-grey colour. It is very soluble in alcohol, or fixed oils, MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY OF and is insoluble in acids. LONDON. Having determined, by experiments on carnivorous animals, that the remedy might June 24th, 1840. be administered with safety to the human RICHARD OWEN, Esq., F.R.S., President. subject, Dr. O’Shaughnessy proceeded to try its effects in several convulsive diseases. Soma specimens of natural history, from The resinous extract which he employed, the river Gambia, were presented by Mr. was obtained by boiling the tops of the Curtis, to be distributed, as microscopic ob- dried hemp plant in spirit (sp. gr. 835), until jects, among the Fellows. the resin was dissolved, and then evapo. The discussion upon the paper of Mr. rating the tincture to dryness. The tincture Dalrymple on the Closterium, read at the last of hemp was prepared by dissolving three meeting, was resumed. grains of this extract in one drachm of Dr. LiNDLEY observed, that as starch is proof spirit. The doses vary according to almost invariably found in vegetable sub- the disease for the cure of which the remedy stances, except, perhaps, in the microscopic may be employed. In cholera, Dr. O’Shaughfungi, the absence of this principle in the Dessy gives ten drops of the tincture every interior of closteria, as inferred from the ex- half hour, until the vomiting and purging periments with iodine, would go far to prove are allayed. In cases of tetanus, a drachm the animal nature of their bodies. He re- of the tincture every half hour, until the membered to have read an elaborate paper paroxysms cease, or catalepsy is induced. on this family, by Morren, in the" Annales In hydrophobia, ten or twenty grains of the
healing