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too much being administered, or on account of there being no virus of real hydro- 
phobia, the consequences may be ameliorated by making the patient drink an 
infusion of licorice root, a most precious antidote against poisoning by stramony. 
In 1869, the bishop relates, a very honorable member of the clergy of Paris was 
bitten by a pet dog, which died thirty hours afterwards with the most charac- 
terized convulsions of rabies. The following day he felt the first symptoms of the 
dreadful disease, and these augmented in intensity every day. The priest, how- 
ever, applied at once all sorts of known remedies, ancient and modern, and even 
employed a very small dose of stramony. Each time he used the latter the pro- 
gress of the disease ceased for some hours, even days, and then continued its 
ravages with greater intensity than before. When the fatal issue was at hand, 
just at the crisis of the disease, when the paroxysms had attained the greatest 
violence, the patient, with almost superhuman energy, began chewing a pinch of 
dried stramony leaves, swallowing the juice. The effect was not long in making 
itself felt. In half an hour the disease had attained its height, the patient being 
delirious during the convulsions ; but on the following day he was perfectly cured. 
“The same remedy,” concludes the bishop, “is used in India, and is always suc- 
cessful.” 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE 127. 
1. End of a flowering branch and portion of the main stem, Jersey City, N. J., July roth, 1884. 
2. Stamen. 
3- Ovary. 
4. Stigma. 
5- Pollen x 200. 
(2-4 enlarged.) 
