HENBANE, © 165 
. 'The instances recorded of deleterious conse- 
quences, ensuing from the Hyoscyamus incau- 
tiously taken, are exceedingly numerous. In a 
number of cases the roots have been introduced. 
by mistake among culinary vegetables, and have 
occasioned alarming symptoms in whole families 
at once. Ina case cited by Wepfer, the monks 
of a whole monastery, in consequence of some 
roots being boiled among those of chicory with 
their food, were seized with raving delirium, ac- 
companied by intense thirst, impaired vision and 
other violent affections. Dr. Patouillat has re- 
corded in the Philosophical Transactions, vol. 40, 
the case of nine persons, who were affected with 
loss of speech, convulsions, and at length with vi- 
olent delirium. These symptoms subsided on 
the subsequent day, when it was found that some 
roots of Henbane had been dug up in the garden 
the preceding day by mistake for parsnips, and 
boiled in the soup on which the family had dined. 
Sir Hans Sloane, in the same Transactions for 
4733, has given an instance of effects equally dan- 
gerous, occurring in some children who ate the 
capsules of this plant, supposing them to be fil- 
berds. Even the odour of this noxious vegetable 
seems capable of exciting its characteristic ef- 
fects. In a case cited by Murray from the 
