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The Effects of Semen Hyofcyami albi, by 
Dr ARCHIBALD HamILTon Phyfician 
in Edinburgh *. , 
Student of phyfic, of a thin 
habit of body, about twenty years of age, 
had been, for two years, in the ufe of ta- 
king a {mall quantity of white henbane- 
feed to make him fleep, and without any 
bad effect. But, on Friday March the 
Sth 1754, betwixt four and five in the af- 
“ternoon, he, in order to procure fleep, 
f{wallowed about twice as much of this » 
feed as he could'take up betwixt his fore- 
finger and thumb, 7. ¢. nearly 25 grains. 
He felt himfelf, half an hour after, very 
heavy and much inclined to fleep ; his 
eyes were oppreiled, and fpirits dejected, © 
with a general laffitude and inadtivity O- | 
ver his whole body. Thefe fymptoms 
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* May 1. 1755. 
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