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says, would induce us to pursue the same plan as 

 in counteracting other narcotic poisons. In those 

 cases, early vomiting, whether spontaneous or in- 

 duced by art, removes the disease at once ; and 

 cold lathing, so useful in other spasmodic or con- 

 vulsive affections, is employed with considerable 

 advantage by both Natives and Europeans. This 

 should seem to be one of those cases in which 

 the stomach-pump would be peculiarly beneficial, 

 from the promptness and certainty of its action. 



To the credit of the genus of plants last named, 

 it should be mentioned that one species (Andromeda 

 nitida or lucida of BARTRAM) affords abundance of 

 excellent honey ; hence the name of honey-flower 

 is given to it, by the country people in Georgia 

 and Carolina, not however merely from the cir- 

 cumstance just mentioned, but from the regular 

 position of the flowers on the peduncle, which 

 open like the cells of a honey-comb, and from the 

 odour of these flowers, which greatly resembles 

 that of honey." Barton. 



" As most of the plants enumerated in the above 

 list are now introduced into our gardens, and the 

 Datura (common Thorn Apple) has long become 

 perfectly naturalized, they might be supposed to 

 injure the British honey. Most probably, how- 

 ever, their proportion to the whole of the flowers 

 in bloom, is too small to produce any such 

 inconvenience ; whereas on their native continent 



