HENBANE. 467 
tion than opium, and that although in some con- 
stitutions it mitigates pain, quiets irritation, and 
procures sleep; yet in others it produces un- 
pleasant nausea, confusion of ideas, head-ach, and 
sleep which is laborious and unrefreshing. It is 
rather a secondary medicine, to be resorted to af- 
ter the failure of opium, than one which we may 
confidently apply to at first, with reliance on its 
anodyne effects. 
The Henbane was found efficacious in the dis- 
ease of colica pictorum by Stoll and several others. 
Its external application in the form of a cata- 
plasm of the bruised leaves has given relief in va- 
rious tumors and painful affections. 
For internal use the extract should be prepar- 
ed in the same way as that of stramonium. From 
one to three grains of this extract is a suitable 
commencing dose, which may be gradually in- 
creased until its effects are perceived. 
BOTANICAL REFERENCES. 
Hyoscyamus niger, Linn. Sp. pl.—WooDvIL1E, i. t. 52.— 
Smairu, Engl. Bol. t. 591.—Pursn, i. 141.—Hyoscyamus flavus, 
Fucustvs, Hist. 791.—Hyoscyamus vulgaris, BAUHIN, J. ili, 627. 
MEDICAL REFERENCES. 
Srout, ratio med. iii. 13, 423.—CULLEN, Mat. Med. ii. 271. 
Foruerciit, Med. Soc. Lond. i. 310.—Home, clinical exp’ts, 
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