No. 52. B70SCXAAIUS. £59 



to that of Stramonium. It may be safely employed 

 in painful swellings, schirrous or scrofulous or can- 

 cerous ulcers, inflamed piles, indolent tumcys or milk 

 indurations of the breast, wandering rheumatic pains, 

 inflamed eyes, spasms of the bowels ; inflammation of 

 the kidneys, urethra, bowels, testicles, Sic; in chordee, 

 blind piles, and all painful external affections, as a 

 very efficient topical anodyne. The fresh or powder- 

 ed leaves are used as well as poultices with bread and 

 milk, or liniments in wax and oil. Injections of it 

 for bowel complaints ought to be given in decoction 

 of milk. The extract has been used to prepare for 

 ophthalmic operations, by dilating the pupil, contract- 

 ino- the iris and diminishing sensibility. The smoke 

 of the leaves and seeds, directed by a funnel to a cari- , 

 ous tooth, is said to cure odontalgy ; but the practice 

 may be deleterious and attended with danger. 



Substitutes — Datura Stra?nojuum — Jltropa 

 belladonna— Solanum Sp.—Conium — Cicuta- 



Tobacco, Opium and other powerful narcotics. The 

 Hyosciamus alius of Europe is a milder equivalent, 

 n« well as Humulus or hops. 



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