22 OBSERVATIONSoN 



The dangerous effe(5ls of the deadly night- 

 fhade were known to the ancients. Theo- 

 phraftus called this plant ftrychnos, and the 

 fyaiptoms which it produced were called 

 {Irychnomania. Subfequent authors have 

 ventured to recommend the internal ufe of 

 it in very Imall quantities in obftinate dif- 

 eafes ; and if we believe the teftimony of Mr. 

 Ray *, the external application of the leaves 

 in the form of a cataplafm, have been found 

 efficacious in cancerous complaints. An in- 

 fulion of the berries given internally has 

 been faid to have been fuccefsful in inflam- 

 mations -f*, and dyfenteries J. Juncker informs 

 us, that two cancerous cafes were cured by 

 it, and recommends its farther ufe §. 



In the year 1754, Dr. Lambergen printed 

 at Groningen an inaugural diflertation, to 

 which was added an account of a cancer in a 

 woman's breaft, that had been radically cured 

 by the infufion of the leaves of deadly night- 

 {hade. This cafe was publifhed eight years 



* Ray's Hid-. Plant, p. 680. 



t Tragus, Stirp. Hift. p. 305. 



% Ray^s Hift. PI. Lin. Mat. Med. § 95. 



§ Confpect. Chirurg. p. 314. 



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