HEN 
change, became {mall beetles, ses were doubtlefs of the 
in 
with fymptoms of intoxication. About t 
wards, three of thefe perfons were become quite infenfible, 
did not know their c eS, _ incoherently, and 
i ple in the rage of a 
All of them had low at pulfes, flavered and 
frequently changed colour; their eyes looked fiery, and 
they caught at ae lay next them, calling out that it 
was going to fall. . Tranf. vol. xlviil. ann, 1750. 
- Henbane is sdiloande to birds and dogs; but horfes, 
cows, goats, and {wine are not affected by it. Nevertheleds, 
this plant, under proper management, may be fafely em- 
ployed, and in many cafes may be found an active and uife- 
It was known to the ancients, and its anodyne 
convulfions, palpitation of the heart, madnefs, melancholy, 
epilepfy, nda So hemoptyfis, and a trouble- 
fome cough, accompanying the laft-mentioned seeiplivt 
The fuccefs in thefe cafes is Sapeae by Collin, who ex 
tended the dofe of the extract to 24 or 30 grains a day, 
But from the experiments of Greeding, who tried it in 40 
cafes of melancholia, mania, and epilepfia, the refult was 
its anodyne an till he had proceeded to dofes of eight or 
ten grains, and fometimes to 15 and even to 20. The. leaves 
are faid to Rive ‘been applied externally with advantage 
in the way of poultice, for refolving fchirrous tumours, an 
for removing fome pains o the rheumatic and arthritic 
. Woodw. Med. Bot. 
-Hlensane, Yellow. See Nice ANA _~ oo 
igicnat E-loufey in Natural Hiffory, e given by 
fome to a peculiar infect found very Brecpltiily on that plant 
jn the fummer m auth: tis one of the cimices of authors. 
and is very well defcribed by ews in the Philofophical 
Tranfactions. It is avery large cimex, of a fine red, fpot- 
ted with black. It feeds on the juices of the henbane, whofe 
leaves and ftalks it pierces with itstrunk. It is very a 
able that the juices of this ftinking plant become of a 
agreeable and aromatic flavour in the body of this es a; 
and on trial it may perhaps be found, that the mudchinkens 
— —? ein! plan it may “be rendered wholefome, 
a good me in the body of this infeed. Phil. 
: Tranf. N° 71. 
In Ju une and July i Pe is common to fee feveral Sesioe of ob- 
oloured bodies 
he eggs of this cimex. 
a are white in the belly of the infeét, and whitifh 
however, to be an ufeful ano-— 
‘ : 
HEN 
when laid firft; but they grow more deep coloured when 
the youn ig Ones come near the time of hatching, They are 
hatched into perfect cimices, not into worms. efe eggs 
yield a colour, which is fo fine, that it may be worth intro- 
ducing into ufe in fome manner; it is a fine live ely carnation, 
There needs no more to obtain ic. but the rubbing or crufh- 
ing the eggs, while frefh, upon white paper. ‘he infeéts 
themfelves are fo commoz, that £ 
They are fometimes laid i ay» never later thon 
une ; their colour is apt fade of itfelf; but this might 
probably be much affifted as to holding, by alum, or rt other 
additions. 
HENBIT, in Botany. See Lamivum. 
HENDA, in terer hy. See Hanpa. 
HENDAYE, a town of France, in the department of 
the Lower Pyrenées, ee the mouth of the river Bidafloa, 
oppolite to Fontarabia 
HENDECAGON, Expecacon, or Undecagon, com- 
pounded of ivd:xa, eleven, and jyous, angle, in Geometry, a 
figure which has eleven fides, and as many angles. If each 
fide of this figure be 1, its area will be equal. to 9. *3050399 
4 ; 
tang. 73 7 “, radius being 1. (See Potycon. 
the “method of conitruéting a “regular hendecagon. on a 
given line, fee alfo Ponycon. 
Sp nscgey ae in Fort ees is ufed fora place defended 
by eleven batlion 
HENDECASYLLABUM, "Evdexeez suAA 06 Oy compound. 
ed of Sdzxx, eleven, and warutn, Syllable 
=: in Greek and Latin Poetr: ~y, a verfe of eleven 
yllabl 
Sapphic and Phaleucic verfes are, hendecafyllaba, Bye 
cafyllabic. E. gr. 
Sap. Jam fatis terris nivis atque dire. 
Phal. Paffer mortuus eft mex puellz. — 
HEND-DEIRE, in Seago: ra town of patel in 
the province of Irak ; 50 m of Com 
HENDERSON, Atexaxomig in in Biography, a cotch 
prefbyterian divine, who, on account of his great raise 
and impreffive caves. was fent ~ : Eagline « as peo 
tiary. When Charles I. was at Newcattle in 1646, he en- 
ged in a difpute with him about ner at in which 
aa was overcome. This difgrace, it is faid, halten- 
bog ies end, and before his death he apis much concern 
he part he had taken againft the ing. 
ay ee in Geography, the chief town of Mostar 
mery ati orth Carolina, feated at the confluence ° 
uarry rivers, which form the Great Pedee? 
its court-hate is 35 miles from Salifbur 
Henperson’s Grant, a tract of land 12 miles fqua 
the sean formed BS the shy of Geeen river 
the Ohio, in t the fta 
re on 
with 
ie 
the 
county, in North Carolina afhin, ington. | 
SPE ATER eke: poisons fi a 
cures 2 Virgi nia 3 ue miles from gton. — is 
poit, é Gosiaee county, Teneflee s 720 mules es from Wath 
ington. _ 
HENDON, a parifh and village i in the hun of 
and county of Middlefex, England, is feven mile d nora 
Longon, and contained, in the year 1800) 313" Seeited 
y0f currAap Bary ° 
