Root - Specimen details

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Catalogue Number: 47575

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Plant Name 114.01 SOLANACEAE Atropa belladonna Entry Book Number
Artefact Name Root Vernacular Name
Iso Country Bulgaria TDWG Region Bulgaria
Parts Held Root Geography Description Bulgaria
Uses RootUse: MEDICINES User: Man TDWG use MEDICINES
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Donor Pharm Soc GB Donor No 44 D 1
Donor Date 03/01/1938 Donor Notes Dr King, Med. Research Institute, Hampsteadx0Dx0A
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Notes: Opuscular source: Letter re treatment of Encephalitis Lethargica. Ivan Raeff, Chipka (Bulgaria). Method of use. Take 30 g of root no 1 and one powder no 2, and boil them in 600 g of natural white wine. From the moment of boiling allow the boiling to, go on for 10 minutes, cool and filter the decoction and pour into a bottle. Stopper well and put in a cool place. Of this decoction give the patient that night after his 1st sleep (he must be wakened for this) the following dose. 1/2 soup spoons for ch, ildren of 5 yrs, 1 for 5 - 15 yrs, 2 for 15 to 25 yrs, and 3 for 25 etc. On 1st days the reaction to treatment takes place in different forms - delirium, incoherence of speech etc, this disappears after some hours. Give as much milk as patient can drink, . If crisis is violent diminish dose temporarily to one soupspoon, it not, the dose may be increased. Give pills package no 3 one in the morning taken fasting, after which take hot milk or tea (lime, chamomile?) The roots in pack no 4 to be given every, 2 hours, a piece the size of grain of wheat, 6 or 7 a day. Chew before swallowing, after which wash out mouth. Cod liver oil is recommended for feeble patients. Root no 1 - Belladonna Root, Root 2 Wood charcoal 0.15 g each. Pills 3 - Wheat flour dough w, ith Cassia and Aconite. Root 4 Rhizome of Acorus? calamus. Copied from a circular sent out by the pharmacist distributed in Bulgaria.

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