SOLANUM NIGRUM. GaRDEN NlGHTSHADE 



SOLANUM Limxi Gen. PI. Pentandria monocynia 



Soclris!' **"* fUbCMlitiE ' 3piCe POr ° S em! "° dehifceates. W 



SOLANUM nigrum/i^J F//cJw. ££& «>"** 7'- Haller. h,Ji. v . ,. f. H9 . n . 5?6 . 



SOLANUM officinarum. Boutin pin. p. 166 

 SOLANUM vulgare. Parkinfon. 346 

 SOLANUM hortenfe, Ger. emac. 339 . 

 , ^ 7 " $*■ 2 5+- HudfinM. angl. /. 78. (W«-. £>«». 4 6o. 



Tota planta contufa tetrum odorem fpirat. * The ™h„l» 1 * l , ., , , ~ 



RADIX annua, ramofa, albida. P ! too 7° le P la f ^ he " b ™ fe d Smells very difagreeably. 



CAULIS pedalis ant bipedalis, ramofiffimus, fubamru I STAT K f ' br / nchcd > and whiti *- 



lolbs ex folds decurrentibus, fc br ufcufus I hZrT/T "T" fet , hi S h ' ™7 «* 



folidus, ad geniculos paulnlnm incrafl" u ' ! br h^> fomewhat angular from the leaves 



I or rather a purphih green colour, particularly 



RAMI alterni, cauli (mules. I BRANrHPS^T " «fNi™*»- 



FOLIA alterna, longe petiolata, iubdecurrentia, ovato- | LEAVES^alernat? ftandit o n ,r ^ <T n 



acuta, angulofo-dentata, hirfutie raolli. ? ^"g dSe^ i^S 



* of the flowers fpreading, *it& artfing from the 



CALYX: Perianths quinquepartitum fbliolls o^ ! C M YX -T P* ° f ^' a- m , ■ 



COROLLA «onopetala, fubrotata, alba, laciniis ovato | COROLLA £^?S£&^ .aped, of 



I a white colour, the fegments oval and pointed. 



WAW ^^;A2T3C^^ I STAMIN / : \—TflTOrt white hairy FlLAMENTS , 



;: al r ■*** *** W^SbS. 1 ^td^trfav^i^t^/s- 



PERICAfpib ; M. T BTcc fHbro t nm f m - * * • ■, I^aTu^Ts ^»^^ 



PERICA f ra nTnigfarbiLr4*. ^ ^ I ^™™ V"? ^ ft* *-< *•** 

 SEMINA p.urima, reniformia, nafefc/ntia. * I0 . J SEEDS ^^Mfti&U ,. 



of a&rag&g taSte^tf Hofpital puhlhhed a treatlfe on the interna, nfe 



curld ~«*^^.f^*Ei^^ bt^Sattrf "fr TT ° f * ««* «* 



S^tf^ 

 leaf, in^ednr about a™^^ 



hree grams feldom fa.fd either to vomit, purge, or fweat the patient moderately^ t £™& th ^quan'titv of ul/ 

 It fometimes occafioned a head-ach, g ddinefs, dimnefs and / m «A, P f . w ; f «~„A "»-ieaie tne quantity of urine. 



1.1 which this medicine appeared to him to be efficacious: the principal of thel we« T two c a fo af ,* * ** 



rrei^trh"^,^^ 1 ^ 



ieir 

 his 



e 

 ors 

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eaies or uropiy ;-.n leverai cancerous cafes where it was made nfe of, very little advantage was reVnedT, 

 of the above cafes the garden NJghylade was made nfe of, between which and the Th g he bund a , o Jb 

 effects, very little difference: he found the medicine to afl differently on different coTfti'tut ons ana i , K ! 

 praa.ce to begin with half a gram of the dried leaf in infufion, increafing the aoSKdS^ta efefls and « 

 peating it every fecond or third night. & & Lb eu ^ Zs > and r€ 



About tne fame time, fome experiments were alio made bv Mr BROMirTFTn q„ W pn« ^ Qf- n j i 



lpedaon ; though the aofe of the garden Nightmade did not exceed one grain at a time 



After giving this account, we /hall leave it to our readers to determine with what propriety it is difearded in 

 th prefent pradface : ; and would juft remark that from the apparently inconteftible proofs of itsVeleteriou g q^ ualities 

 perlons cannot be too nice in feledhno; their Pot-herbs nartir.ilarlv t-bnf^ «rt>„ mn t r wisuciclciious qualities, 





