^ 
HS 
^■r.' 
very 
d 
that this p 
manaseme: 
Id terrible fYmptoms.J But there cannot be a doubt 
ke others of the fame natural 
th 
It, may be fafely employ 
be an active and ufeful remedy. 
atural order, u 
d be found in 
proper 
many 
ancients, 
a 
d its 
iTea 
yofcyamus v/as vvell known to 
- » 
s as an 
Diofcorides," and VN^ith this intention it h 
d externally by feveral fubfequent wrii 
dyne were experienced by 
a 
d in hasmor 
It 
by PI 
3pear 
o 
/-* 
9 
the fem 
J 
Foreftus/ and 
oyle. 
s 
fed both 
particularly by Celfu 
wer 
d 
however that for a lonp- time 
Henbane, in the pradice of m 
o 
3 
paft the. 
oily laid 
■t 
ployment .of 
be 
}erck publiihed feveral cafes 'of, different' difeafes 
,d, prepared from the juice 
B 
hich 
of th 
X' 
em.edy ^ 
h a d 
een difcovered to 
be internal fpafms and convulfions, 
rhefe difeafes are fcated by the B 
itations of the heart, mad 
nefs, melancholy, epilepiy, inveterate head-aches, ha^moptyfis; and 
h 
b"3 
feveral ( 
than op 
which accompanied the laft-mentioned complai 
pletely appeafed by the repeated ufe of the extrad, which 
found 
to 
prod 
fleep 
hich were faid to be of 
The fuccefs of Hyofcyamus in thefe cafe 
more powerfully 
e 
dur 
many 
of 
3 
d to have refifced the 
eds oi other remedies) is alfo confirmed by Collin, who extended 
the dofe of the Extrad. Hyofcyami, to twenty-four or thirty erains 
B 
wh' 
fr 
n 
th 
P 
d it 
periments 
X 
per dier 
Greedin 
epilepfia 
that no benefit is to be expeded in thefe 
that this medicine is a ufeful 
ad 
of this medi 
by 
in forty cafes of melancholia, mania, and 
efult was very different i^ yet while his pradice fhews 
three difeafes, it tends to prove 
; and as it ufually opens 
the 
t Vires eraollientes, & narcoticas, claffis luas potentiffimas pofTidet, ut etiam magis, 
quam reliqur=>, mentem emovere videatur, & deliria furiofa, rixofaque ciere, unde ofim 
nomen geffit altera. Ea deliria aliquando fugacia funt, & temulentis fimilia; alias 
oiutms durant; & deniqiie in mortem tranfeunt. Alias Hyofcyamus hominem in 
II 
uporem conjicit 
Sed & fopores facit, & vertigines, convulfiones, rifufque fardonios, & 
inflationes, ftrangulatione?, ardorem faucium, frigus extremorum. 
rciolutione aliqua toni id videtur faaum fuiiTe. Halkr L c. 
*= Lib. 4. c. 69. ^ 
Vfefulnefs oj Nat. Phil, part 
p. 14.2, fe 
5. c. 25 
Med. />. 6?5 
Vide Ludw, Jdv^f, Msd, pr, f 
Vnl 
Hyofcyam. ^c 
f Obfe 
f 
F 
p. 71. ^fq 
Obfe 
m 
body. 
