Star.
London, England, 1830-07-28 00:00:00

Total Number of l 3303
Freeholders .. f

Carry forward 1784
The average number of votes in each county to semi a Member to
Parliament, is 97 2-33.

SEDATIVE EFFECTS OF THE SPIDER'S WEII.-The
web of the black spider has received commendation from many re-
spectable sources, as a sedative agent, capable of calming, with pe.
culler case and certainty, morbid excitability of the cerebral pa
nervous systems.* On the credit of those qualities it has been em-
ployed in the various forms of ternulence, and not without a share of
reputed success, sufficient to entitle it to consideration in that state
of constitutional irritation. In the summer of 1827 we tried this
article in many cases, and in fuU doses. To test its qualities it
was given, where the state of the patient admitted, uneombined
with opiates. When thus used, its effects were generally par-
tial or doubtful, and its rowers inadequate to the production
of tranquillity or sleep. In one case only have I found this sub-
stance to exert great or decided sedative attributes. This was the
case of an intelligent young man (In private practice) who, after
consuming, by his own report, three quarts of brandy in 36 hours,
fell into a state of temulent excitation so excessive, that he was
incapable of keeping a recumbent or even a sitting posture for
more than a minute, but paced his chamber with a ceaseless step
for two days and nights. He was not delirious; on the contrary,
his conversation was rational, though hurrial and vehement.
But he was so far under the influence of spectral hallucination.
that if he closed his eyes for a moment, day or night, he was
instantly visited by a host of phantoms of frightful aspect :
hence chiefly his aversion to lie down, or make any voluntary
effort to sleep. This patient took opium, opium with camphor,
and black drop, at short intervals, and in full doses, until the
quantum of opiate approached the utmost limit of probable safe ad.
ministration, without even partial relief of constitutional irritation,
or any apparent proneness to sleep. The temulent excitement kept
unabated for twenty-four hours, the second night passed in eon.
want vigilance, locomotion, and mental excitement, and it seemed
probable that excitation so intense, protracted, and unremitting,
must soon lapse into delirium or convulsions. At this time, the
morning of the third day (the second of my attendance) he began the
use of the web in fresh pills of five grains every hour. Its effect ;iris
prompt and unequivoarL The patient spoke emphatically, both the
first and second day, of the soothing influence produced by the pills.
He was not at the time informed of their composition..—Frun the
London Medial Gaxelle.

• See American Journal of Medical Science.

Mr. T. H. Chapman, son of Chapman, formerly of
C,ovent.garden Theatre, was lately killed in Philadelphia, by a fall
from his horse. ,

BIRTH.
At Peny.hill, Sydenham, on the 22d inst. of a stiU.bom soo, the
lady of H. Espie, Esq. surgeon. R.N.

MARRIED.

The '2241 inst. at St. Margaret's, Westminster, R. Power, Esq. to
Josephine, second daughter of Al. de Cerf, of Spa, in the Nether-
lands—At Kensington church, the 24th instant, Mr. Faulkner, of
Brentford, to Miss Sarah Wooleott Latium, of Phillinaoreplace.
Kensington, and Pail-mall!—The 22d inst. at Brighton, Mr. %%'m.
Reynolds, of Chancery-lane, to Miss Sarah Fisher, of Boswell-road.

Of spoplezy, on the 14th ofJul7, st the house of his son. ow
Evteui, Dr. Pinkstan Jamas, M.D. of Oeage-st►eet. Hanover.
square, aged 64.

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