Note 128 — TABLE

Our learned and candid Author has a very long Note in this Place, strongly in Favour of Storck's Extract of Hemlock, in which it is evident he credits the greater Part of the Cures affirmed by Dr. Storck to have been effected by it. He says he made some himself, but not of the right Hemlock, which we think it very difficult to mistake, from its peculiar rank fetid Smell, and its purple spotted Stalk. After first taking this himself, he found it mitigated the Pain of Cancers, but did not cure them. But then addressing himself to Dr. Storck, and exactly following his Directions in making it, he took of Dr. Storck's Extract, and of his own, which exactly resembled each other, to the Quantity of a Drachm and a half daily; and finding his Health not in the least impaired by it, he then gave it to several Patients, curing many scrophulous and cancerous Cases, and mitigating others, which he supposes were incurable. So that he seems fully persuaded Dr. Storck's Extract is always innocent [which in Fact, except in a very few Instances, none of which were fatal, it has been] and he thinks it a Specific in many Cases, to which nothing can be substituted as an equivalent Remedy; that it should be taken with entire Confidence, and that it would be absurd to neglect its Continuance. The Translator of this Work of Dr. Tissot's has thought it but fair to give all the Force of this Note here, which must be his own, as his Editor at Lyons seems to entertain a very different Opinion of the Efficacy of this Medicine; for which Opinion we refer back to his Note, § 375, of this Treatise, which the Reader may compare with this of our Author's. K.