Tt6 FAMILY HERBAL. 



but it is not easy to say that any person ever was 

 cured, who became thoroughly distempered from 

 that bite. One of the strongest instances we have 

 known, was in a person at St. George's hospital, 

 under the cure of Dr. Hoadly, there was an appear- 

 ance of the symptoms, and the cure was effected by 

 this method. 



Black Poppy, Papaver nigrum. 



A tall and fine plant, but not so elegant as 

 the former. It is a yard high. The stalk is round, 

 upright, firm, and smooth, and toward the top 

 divides into some branches. The leaves are long 

 and broad, of a bluish green colour, and deeply 

 and irregularly cut in at the edges. The flowers are 

 large and single : they are of a dead purple colour, 

 with a black bottom. The heads or seed-vessels are 

 round, and of the bigness of a walnut. The seed i* 

 black. 



A svrup of the heads of (his poppy is a strong- 

 er sudorific than 'the common diacodium, but it is 

 not used. The gentleness of that medicine is 

 its merit : when something more powerful is 

 used, it is better to have recourse to opium, or 

 laudanum. 



Red Poppy. Papaver erraticum. 



A common wild plant in our corn fields, dis- 

 tinguished by its great scarlet flowers. It is a 

 foot high. The stalk is round, slender, hairy, of 

 a pale green, and branched. r I nc leaves are long 

 and narrow, of a dusky green, hairy, and very 

 deeply, but very regularly indented. The flowers 

 are very large, and of an extremely bright and 

 fine scarlet colour, a little blackish toward the 



