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; 
body, It may be advantageoufly fubftituted for opium, where tbe aftriii- 
o-ency of the latter becomes an objeclion to its ufe. Dr. CuUen fays, 
" that in epilepfy, and various convulfive aifedions, for which Baron 
" Storck particularly recommends the extrad of Henbane, we have 
" very frequently employed it, but have never found it of any great 
" virtue, nor of more than what we have found in opium. We 
" have indeed found the Hyofciamus to be often an agreeable ano- 
" dyne and foporiferous medicine ; and we have frequently found 
" fuch in perfons, who from particular circumftances did not agree 
" with opium, and particularly becaufe it was lefs binding to the belly 
" than opium. We judge however that it is more ready in full 
" dofes to give delirium than opium is, and therefore we found it in 
" many cafes to give turbulent and unrefrefhing fleep ; and not- 
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for which we had employed 
" we have been obliged to lay it afide."^ Stoerck and fome others 
recommend this extract in the dofe of one grain or two ; but Dr. 
Cullen obferves, that he feldom difcovered its anodyne effeds till he 
had proceeded to dofes of eight or ten grains, and fometimes to 
fifteen, and even to twenty. 
. The leaves of Henbane are faid to have been applied externally 
with advantage in the way of poultice, to refolve fcirrhous tumouri 
and to remove fome pains of the rheumatic and arthritic kind. 
^ Mat. Med. vol ii. p. 271. 
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ALTHiEA OFFICINALIS. MARSH-MALLOW. 
X 
STNO NTMJ. Althaea. F/jarm. Lond. '^ Edinh. Althaea 
Diofcoridis et Plinii. . BauL Pin. A 315. Althisa vulgaris. 
FarLrheat,p,^oi,, Rail H'lft. 602. Synop,2S2. Alth^sa Ibifcus. 
Gerard, Emac, p, 933. Althaea five Bifmalva. J. Bauh. Hlfl. vol 
iu p. 954. Alth^a tomentofa herbacea, caule eredo, foliis cordato- 
lanceolatis obfolete trifidis. Hal Stirp. Hclv. iu 1047. Althsa 
officinalis. Elor, Ban. tab, 530. Withering. Bot. Arrang. p. 735. 
Ax9«;« f. i/3<yHo? Diofcorid, 
Clafs Monadelphia. 
