PHYSICAL AND LITERARY, 243 



Art. X. 



T^e EffeBs of Semen Hyofcyami albi, by 

 Dr. Archibald Hamilton Phyfician in 

 Edinburgh *. 



I Student of pbyfic, of a thin 



habit of body, about twenty years of age, 

 had been, for two years, in the ufe of taking 

 ^ fmall quantity of white henbane-feed to 

 make himfleep, and without any bad effedt. 

 But on Friday March the 8th 1754, betwixt 

 four and five in the afternoon, he, in order to 

 procure fleep, fwallowed about twice as much 

 of this feed as he could take up betwixt his 

 fore-finger and thumb, /. e. nearly 25 grains. 

 He felt himfelf half an hour after, very heavy 

 and much inclined to fleep j his eyes were 

 pppreffed, and fpirits dejed:ed, with a general 

 jaffitude and inadivity over his whole body. 

 Thefe fymptoms ftill increafing, he went 

 abroad and drank tea about fix o'clock ; and 

 with great difficulty could keep awake, ha- 

 ving fometimes let fall the tea-fpoon infenfi- 

 bly. He complained of a great uneafinefs 



and 



f May I. 1755, 



