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of* tlieir fatal elFe(3:s, particularly upon children, who are readllv 
teiiif)ted to eat this^fruit by its alluring appearance and fweet tafti 
The number of thefe berries neceJTary to produce deleterious eiFeas* 
may probably depend upon the ftate of maturity in which they are 
eaten Mf not more than three or four be fwallowed, according to 
Halier's account, no bad cbnfequence enfues ; " Baccse fapore fatuo 
pofTunt abfque noxa edi " fi numerus tres quatuorve non 
exceflerit: plures etiam a ftudiofo medicine Colonienfi nomine 
Simonis vidi deglutiri." Hal. Stirp. Helv. No. 579. 
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_ » Sennert. lib. vi. par. 7. cap. 9. Lobe! Stirplum Adverfa. p. 103. ~ Matthiolus 
Oper. Omn. p. 754. Oetinger de Belladonna. -Aug. Vindel. Strychnomania, &c. 
^odaeus a Stapel. Comment, in Theophraft. 586. Simon Pauli Quad. Botan. 0188 
Gerard's Herbal, 341. Wepfer's Cicut. Aquat. Hiftor. et Nox^, p. 228. Boulduc*. 
Hiftoire de 1 Acad. a. 1703. Roffi Plant. Venen. p. 11. Boerhaave's Hift. Pknt 
^"1, Tf^^rt. t/^ P; ^^°- J^"'"- ^^ ^^^- ^""- '759- Gent. Magaz. 1747 & inA 
Hill s 3rit,{h Herbal, p. 329. Spielman's DilT. Veget. Venen. p. 16. Mapp. PI. Alfat 
p. 36. ^ Murray s Apparat. Medicam. p. 431. ^ Many other recent fads of the fame 
kind might be adduced from various periodical publications. Ray found by applyins the 
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relaxation 
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the plant which produced fuch 
_ ftrange and dreadful efFeas upon the Roman foldiers, during their retreat f under the 
command of Anthony) from the Parthians; they are faid to have « fuffered great 
diltrefs for want of provifions, and were urged to eat unknown plants : among others 
; they met with an herb that was mortal ; he that had eaten of it, loft his memory and 
' his fenfes, and employed himfelf wholly in turning about all the ftones he could find, 
c x.^^1 ^?"^^^'"S up bile, fell down dead." Plutarch's Life of Anthony. The 
fecotch hiftorian, Buchanan, relates that the Scots mixed a quantity of the juice of the 
belladonna (Solanuni Sommferum) with the bread and drink, which bv their truce thev 
were 
greateft part of Svveno's army while afleep. Lib. vii. 
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Ray relates a curious inftance of the efFeas of this plant In the following 
Max I 
?"±,"'„,?^ (tr"^° .?":'i"^''L"^g™ ^"'"'^ («; -"iW hJc Auguft^ retulit ejus 
hortulanus) infunderet in vino Mai 
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daturam alias per noaem ut ejus herbae efFeaus difcerentj' infufum hoc propinarunt 
cuidam fratri mendicanti ex conventu S. Hieronymi, qui Patavii Fratrum ignoranti^ 
tu^Z'r^ %"'"'' breve dehrium, cachinni, gefticulationes variae i dein infania vera, poft 
itupor mentis quahs eft ebriorum vigilantium. Cardinalis pro ebrio in carcere includit ; 
r^^nln.- "^P rem fubolfecerat innocens pronuntiatur, qui aceti cyatho propinata, 
., dementia quam Bella Donna caufavit eum liberat. Hachftdlerus Decad. 7 Ob. 
*v Oh 
w^v-«.^ Ill iii^ Macbeth makes Banquo fay. ^*^^ ^^--^^ 
Or have tvf* f^citpn /sf *-Vio ;«A*^« *. *. 
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