i6 OBSERVATIONS on 



beautiful appearance, have often occafioned 

 the moft fatal efFeds. 



The works of medical authors abound 

 with inflances of the deleterious effeds of 

 the deadly nig^tfhade, and experience hath 

 fufBciently ^ ccrtained the truth of their re- 

 lations. 



This plant has a faint fmell, fomewhatof 

 the peppy kind, which is loft when it is 

 dry 5 whether frefli or dry, there is no pecu- 

 liar fenfation conveyed, when the leaves are 

 applied to the organs of tafte. 



Mr. Ray informs us of a remarkable ef- 

 fect which a fmall part of the leaf of Bella- 

 donna hrid when applied to a fmall ulcer, 

 which a lady was afflidted with beneath the 

 eye. In one night the iris was fo much re- 

 laxed, that it became paralytic, and did not 

 contract the pupil at the approach of the 

 ftrongeft light. It v/as dilated to four times 

 its natural iize, till the leaf being removed, 

 the parts gradually recovered their tone. 



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