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* Yellow moth mullein, Blattaria, Verhasaim hiattaria. 

 Has the same qualities ; attracts moths ; seeds inebriate fish. 



*Black mullein, Verbascum nigrum. Root astringent ; leaves 

 and flowers anodyne and pectoral. 



*White-flowebed mullein, F, aJbum, V,lychnitis, Leaves 

 pulmonary. 



*Hen-bane, Hi/osci/amus, H» niger. Leaves, hyoscyayni folia, 

 a very powerful narcotic, in doses of gr. iij to gr. x ; externally is 

 anodyne or resolvent ; seeds, hgoscgami semina, narcotic, gr. iij to 

 gr. X, less uncertain than the leaves ; their smoke, applied by a 

 funnel, is used in toothach. Officinal -preparations, — Succus 

 spissatus hyoscyami, E, D. Extract, hyoscyami, L, Tinct. 

 hyos. Z*. E, D. 



Great white hen-bane, Hgoscyamus albus. Milder than the 

 black ; seeds used in spitting of blood. 



Tobacco, Nicotiana, Petiim^ Tabaciim, N, tabacum. Leaves, 

 tabaci folia, when green, detersive, acrid, narcotic, and apophleg- 

 matizant ; used externally in diseases of the skin, and as a dressing 

 to verminous sores ; and internally as an emetic, gr. iij to gr. x in 

 water 3iiij, and in dropsy and palsy ; their smoke is used as a 

 pleasant mode of losing time, and as a stimulating clyster in 

 apoplexy, inveterate costiveness, and apparent death by drowning 

 or hanging ; in which last case, however, it is sometimes improper; 

 as, if it does not immediately succeed, it exhausts the patient so 

 much as to render other means ineffectual ; imported from 

 Ai7ierica and the West Indian islands. — English tobacco, Nicotiana 

 minor, y, rustica. Leaves narcotic; sometimes sold as those of 

 mandrake. Officinal preparations, — Infus. tabaci, Z/. Z). Vinum 

 tabaci, E, 



*Thoeny apple. Stramonium, Datura stramonium. Herb a 

 strong narcotic, even when mixed with tobacco and smoked ; much 

 used lately in asthma ; externally the leaves, stramonii folia, are 

 .inodyne, and used in headach and the gout; seeds, stramonii 

 aanina, may be given in powder to gr. x ; expressed juice made 

 into an ointment with hog's lard, used for irritable ulcers, burns, 

 and scalds. Officinal preparations. — Extractum stramonii, D, 



Met EL, Datura me.tel. Seeds narcotic, more powerful than 

 the last, produce temporary idiotcy, used for frauds. 



ALvNiJKAKK, Mandmgora, Atropa mandragora. Formerly 

 Rnp]>o^d to be aphrodisiac, root gr. iij narcotic, or it may be 

 II wine : leaves externally used as anodynes and resolvents, 

 ne powder of the root to indurated glands. 



* Deadly night-shade, Dwale, Solanum lethale, S.maniacum, 

 S, furiosum, Belladonna, Atropa Mladonna, Leaves belladonncs 



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