Abstract
Dr. Lawson, of the West Riding Asylum, contributes to the “Practitioner” of July last his experience of the action of this drug. In sufficient quantities it produces a subdued form of mania accompanied by almost complete paralysis of the voluntary muscles, and ending in quiet and refreshing sleep. Having regard to these effects, he thought it probable that it might be useful in certain forms of violent sthenic mania, which, notwithstanding the virtues of ergot of rye, do appear to be met with in the West Riding Asylum, and be useful in this way—by substituting for the extreme forms of excitement a quieter form of mania, which, on disappearing in its turn, might leave the patient quiet. Experience seems to have established the correctness of this surmise.
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