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339 



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In tills coimtiy, aloout dunghills, rubbifli, and In gardens, flov/enn^. 

 in Jul/. . . ' '^ 



This plant has been long known as a powerfl 



poiro 



gener the D. Metel, is thought to be xr,.;,.. ^.... of Thcu- 

 phraftus and biofcorides, and is therefore the fpecies received' by 

 Linnaeus into the Materia Medica. The Stramonium " " 



ftate,^ has a bitterifli tafte, and a fmell foinewhat refemblins: that of 



poppies, or as called by Bergius, narcotic, efpecially if the leaves b 

 rubbed betwixt the fingers. Bj holding the plant to the nofe fo 

 feme time, or fleepmg in a bed where the leaves are iirewed criddineP 



of the head and ftupor are faid to have been p 

 Laftances of the deleterious effeds of this d1 



plant are nume 



efpeciallj of the feeds," fome of which we fliall relate for the purpofc 

 of ftatmg the fymptoms which they produce. A man, aged fixty-nine 

 labouring under a calculous complaint, by miftake boiled the capfules 

 of ,the Stramonium in milk, and in xonfequence of drinkinr thij 

 decodion vv^as affeded with vertigo, drynefs of the fauces, anx 



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ety 



P- 5 



Mr.- A. 1733. /). 251. , Kaauw. hnpet. n. 349. Lobftcn epiji 





plant, venen. Alfat. Clauder. prax. mecl leg. Cc/s. i. Eph. M 



p 



Bucb.nev M/ce^ 1725. p. 611. Eph. Nat. a,r. Dec. in. a. 3. ohf. 170. Barrere, 

 tpifur I htJI. nat de la France\cd. nov.) p. 4.8. Deerino;. Catal of Plants, &c. p.- 

 on. <„...,.„ Mlfc. Phyf. Math. A^ed. I J 2J. p. 122. Sauvages, A^^/. T. 2. P. 2.- 



203. 



p- 430. Fowler, jkfed. Comrn. vol. v. p. 164. 



The circumilances recited in the following- ad 

 Haygarth, fli 



xicygdua, mew the neceffity of adopting the precautions, which he judicioully reco^^-• 

 nlends, and whigh ought to be made puWic. 



« "f i^^^^^ ^"^^ particularly defired to take care never to throw poifonous plants out 



ot gardens into the flreets, lanes, or even the fields to which people can have accefs.- 



" roor chddren. fnr A\x,,-rr,r.r^ ^,, -^r:^-, ^.. u „„_ ,.„j .„ „„^ „ii i,:„j„ „c 



^^■roor chddren,_for diverfion, curiofity, or hunger, are prompted to eat all kinds of 

 ^^ vegetables v/hich come in their v/ay, efpeclally feeds, fruits, or roots.- This caution- 

 (J ^oes not proceed from fanciful fpeculation, but from adual mifchief, produced by the 

 ^^ caule here fpecified.- A phyfician has lately ktn feveral children poifoned Vv^ith the' 

 „ ^oots of the Aconite or Monkfhood, thrown into an open field in the City of Chefter, 

 .^^ and with the feeds of the Stramonium or Thorn Apple, thrown into the flreet. The' 

 « if^'^^V^^^^ feized with very violent complaints of vomiting, an alarming pain of the 

 _ ead, ftomach,^ and bowels ; the latter with blindnefs, and a kind of madnefs, biting,. 

 cratchmg, flirleking, laughing, and crying, in a frightful manner. Many of them;. 



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fhould be carefully buried or burned. 



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