SOLANACEA. 579 
Mr. A. W. Gerrard has obtained the following amount. of 
alkaloid from Belladonna roots and leaves from plants of 
different ages: -- : 
Wild. Sn a 
Age | inl Comin meaitl Yield from leaves. , 
al | 260 ° 431 
Be vensencie ice sn son peupes “381 407 
ad. | “410 510 
Cultivated. 
years *207 320 
” *370 "457 
aes | -313 ‘491 
Prof. Schmidt. and Mr. Schiitte (Apoth. Ztg. 1890, 511) 
have obtained the following alkaloidal results from Belladonna 
_ Taken in Old roots. Young roots. 
Per cent. Per cent. 
Spring 0°174 °0°127 
— Summer .........-eees000e 0°358 0452 
0°458 
PAGED fence ceeecece veep 0°280 
ey found that the young roots contained only hyoscyamine, 
the old roots much hyoscyamine and a little atropine; no 
erence was observed between roots collected 1 spring, 
mmer or autumn. cs 
Toxicology.—Cases of fatal poisoning by belladonna are few 
nber. A lad of sixteen died from a drachm of the 
and a woman of sixty-six after swallowing “a tea- 
1 of belladonna liniment.” A woman, having taken $ 
each of Lin. belladonnw and Lin. aconiti (Br. Phar.), 
pasms within half an hour. (Hilinb. Med. Jour., xxvii. 
A man having liquefied an ointment containing’ 2} _ 
10) of extract of belladonna, injected it into his — 
‘a portion of it, but the remainder cai 
