Star.
London, England, 1830-11-16 00:00:00

SEDATIVE EFFECT OF THE SPIDER'S WEB.

The web of the black spider has received commendation from :may
respectable sources, as a sedative agent, capable of calming, with pecu-
liar ease and certainty, morbid excitability of the cerebral and nerves,.
systems. On the credit of those qualities it has been employed in use
various farms of temulence, and not without a share of reputed success.
sufficient to entitle it to consideration in that state of constitution..!
irritation. In the summer of len we tried this article in many cases,
and in full doses. To test its qualities it was given, where the state of
the patient admitted, uncombined with opiates. When thus used. its
effects were generally partial or doubtful, and its powers inadequaw t.
the production of tranquillity or sleep. In one case only have I
found this substance 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 1
thirty.six hours, fell into a state of temulent excitation so excessive.
that he was Incapable of keeping a recumbent or even a sitting patine
for more than a minute, but paced his chamber with a ceaseless step
for two days and nights. lie was not delirious : on the contrary. his
conversation was rational, though hurried and vehement. But he.
was so far under the influence of spectral hallucination, that it
he closed his eyes for a moment, day or night, he was instant-
ly 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 shop's' short
intervals, and in full doses, until the quantity of opiate approached the
' utmost limit of probable safe administration, without even partial re-
lief of constitutional irritation, or any apparent proneness to sleep. The
temulent excitement kept unabated for twenty-four hours, the second
night passed in constant vigilance, locomotion, and mental excitement.
and it seemed probable that excitation so intense, protracted, and en-
remitting, must soon lapse into delirium or convulsions. At slits Uallei
the morning of the third day, (the second of my attendance,) he belly!
' the use of its, fresh web in pills of five grains every hour. Its den
was prompt and unequivocal. The patient spoke emphatically. both
the first and second day, of the soothing influence produced by the
pills. Be was not at the time informed of their composition.

DIED.
Sunday monslag, at his bons', In Yorklisee, James Buller, Egi
Chief Clerk at the Council. Mr. Boller had submitted to an operation
on Saturday weak on his lips, which was followed by inflammation. and
which terminated in death.
On the loth inst. u•Vaeaham, in the county of Surrey. Lady Choirs
goy, aged 14 —At Golden Vas, Jainsios, on the lith &pc Dlr. Far
els Km, mond son of the late Charles Kerr, Esq. Calder Bank.- .k
Prasetennan, parish of Stepson. on the first of October, Mary Mathie-
sea, in the hanthedth year of her age. AS her mental Acuities ►r•
instead entire* the close of life, and though blind for many yews. fet'
was she always encerCtil, contented. sod happy. The beautiful loke of
he imanall vii haws hint, irs the eye of its many visitors, one of
most winismalic sad in °Netts, in the lamented removal of poor
obi babe Mary. The Non.• Hamilton Nisbet of Dirinen, tre co•
441giaadeiw about to raise a monument to the memory of her simple amt.
gnintilm mod worth.
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