The Ufeful Family Her hat, 297 



out of the Wound, hardens jind becomes Opium: 

 They make an inferior Kind, alfo by bruifing and 

 fqueezing the Heads. Laudanum Is a Tin6lure 

 of this Opium made in Wine. Either one or the 

 other is given to compofe People to flcep, and to 

 abate the Senfe of Pain, they are alfo cordial and 

 promote Sweat ; but they are to be given with 

 great Care and Caution, for they are very power- 

 ful, and therefore they may be very dangerous 

 Medicines. It is good to ftop violent Purgings 

 and Vomiting, but this muft be effeded by fmalj 

 Dofes carefully given. The prefent Pradice de- 

 pends upon Opium, and Bleeding for the Cure of 

 the Bite of a mad Dog: But it is not eafy to fay^ 

 that any Perfon ever was cured, who became tho- 

 roughly diflempered from that Bite. One of the 

 grorigeft Inftances we have known, was in a Per- 

 fon at St. George''-, Hofpital^ under the Cure of 

 Dr. Hoadly, there was an Appearance of the 

 Symptoms, and the Cure was effeded by this 



Method. 



BlackPoppy. 

 PAPAVER NIGRUM. 



Tall and fine Plant, but not fo elegant as the 

 Former. It is a Yard high. The Stalk is 

 round, upright, firm, and fmooth, and toward 

 the Top divides into fome Branches. The Leaves 

 are long, and broad, of a bluifh green Colour, 

 and deeply and irregularly cut in at the Edges. 

 The Flowers are large and fmgle : They are of a 

 dead purple Colour, with a black Bottom. The 

 Heads or Seed-VefTels are round, and of the Big- 

 nefs of a Walnut. The Seed is black, 



A Syrup of the Pleads of this Poppy, is a 

 ftronger Soporific than the common Diacodiurn, 



but it is not ufed. The Gendenefs of that Medi- 

 cine 



