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bore was given them as snuff". As they were most 

 of them attached to the use of snuff, and had been 

 for a long time deprived of it, they took the Helle- 

 bore with avidity, and generally recovered from 

 their nyctalopia in the course of a very few days, 

 and the dyspeptic symptoms were at the same time 

 greatly relieved. There is no doubt (says the same 

 author) that in many other affections of the head 

 the same treatment would be found extremely effi- 

 cacious, and is well worthy of trial in many chronic 

 diseases of the eyes, particularly in the early stage 

 of gutta serena." 



Of this plant Juvenal sarcastically observes — 



Danda est ellebori multo pars maxima avaris. 

 Misers need a double dose of Hellebore. 



