O34 ORD. XII. Solanacee, seu Luride. 
The sensible effects produced by the leaves of this plant taken im 
medicinal doses, are usually by tze skin, the urinary passages, and 
sometimes by stool; in larger doses troublesome dryness of the 
mouth and throat, giddiness, and dimness of sight are experienced. 
That the advantages derived from the internal use of Belladonna 
are only in proportion to the evacuations effected by it, is a con- 
clusion we cannot admit as gre eh warranted by the facts ad- 
duced upon this point. 
As this plant is very uncertain in its operation, the proper dose is 
with difficulty ascertained; the most prudent manner of administer- 
ing it is by beginning with one grain or less, which may be gra- 
dually increased according to its effects. Six grains are consider- 
ed as a very large dose.—With respect to the berries, so successfully 
employed as an anodyne, by Gesner and others, in dysenteries, a 
small spoonful (coch. parvum ) of a syrup of the juice was the dose 
given. 
The root seems to = of the same qualities as the leaves, 
but is less virulent. 
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ATROPA MANDRAGORA. MANDRAKE.. 
SYNONYMA. Mandragora.’ Pharm. Geoff. iii. 808. Dale. 170. 
Alston. i. 478. Rutty. 306. Bergius. 126. Murray. 7. 441. 
Edinb. New Disp, 225. Mandragora fructu rotundo. Bauh. Pin. 
169. Ray. Hist. 668. M. fructu-majore. Hist. Oxon. iii, 531. 
Mandragoras mas. Ger. Emac. 352. Park. Theat. 343. Conf. 
Miller’s Figures, t. 173. 
Sp. Ch. A. acaulis, scapis unifloris. 
ROOT perennial, large, fusiform, RS or “a feet long, exter- 
nally brown, internally whitish. Leaves radical, sessile, ovate, 
entire, veined, pointed, waved, smooth, at first erect, but on attain- 
ing their full size resting upon the ground. There is no stem. 
