3 = 8=—S—S—«é«CSN ARINC 
‘No. $06. Winco: Narcotine-(éatlea also 
~ _ Opiane; and Matter, or salt of Derosnes) — 
the narcotic principle of opium, and other 
cotic plants. See Papaver. 
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No. 397.—Nicotiana Tasacum. Tobacco. 
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: ee Ord. 1. Pentandria Monogynia. Bat. oad, Luride, 
Linn, Solanex, Juss. - 
Orricinat. Tubaci folia. Lond. Nini. Tabaci foka. 
_Edin. Nicotianz folia. Dub. Nicotiana Tabacum, folia; 
um. U.S. Tobacco—the leaves. 
Cabinet : ‘specimen, Jeff. Coll. figure of plant, No. 477. 
Ro A well known annual plant, first discovered by the: Spaniards, 
in Yueatan, in 1520. Yields a green essential oil, when dis- 
tilled, on which the medicinal properties have been sup- 
: ed to ai sonous effects are very power- 
: eee 15 
t applied some of it, 
rom ( pipe, to the 
outh of a snake, while pais out its tongue. The effect 
spetagianc ous as an electric shock ; with a convulsive 
} momentary, the snake half untwisted 
stirred m and th muscles were 80 
saci; contains nitragesfhlele causes the defi: 
in burning. Bouillon la Grange discovered rouriate of 
es in its inspissated juice ; Orfila concludes from e3 
fae 
ona specific action on the. nervous systems 
that. they "ar a general trembling, 
” by other poisons; th 
oduced in solution, 
