C 329 ] 



S. The Hypfcyamus Phyf abides^ Sp. PL 258. 



9. Berries of the deadly Nightfhade. Jtropc^ 

 Bella Bonna^ Sp. PI. 26Q. 



10. Leaves of Millfoil^ {Achillea Millefolium) 

 are ufed by the Dalekarlians to render tl|eir beer 

 intoxicating. Set Flpr, Su^c. N* 770. 



11. Ta^acpOy and feveral others lefs material, are 

 mentioned ; fiich ar^ Clary^ Saffron, and Darnel, 



Artificial Tnebriants are fermented Liquors from 

 farinaceous feeds \ Wines and Spirits drawn by 

 diftillation. With thefe our author ranks the 

 Ne5lar of the gods, and the anodyne medicine of 

 Homer, commonly called Nepenthes ; and the fpells 

 by which Medea and Qrce produced their inchant- 

 ments. He then, in a moll ftriking and lively 

 inanner, introduces a fable to illuftrate the effeds 

 of intoxicating liquors on the human frame and 

 pafiions, and after having fhewn when they may 

 be fafely allowed^ concludes with cautions and 

 ej^hortations againft the abufe of them. 



II?, MoRsuRA Serpentum. J, G. Acrell, 1762. 



In this tracft on the venomous bites of Serpents^ 

 after a general defcription of the ftrucSture of this 

 order pf 4^phihia, and fome obfervations relating 

 to the Boa Confiri^or, Syft. 373, (Gigantic Serpent 

 of the Eafi Indies) and its capacity of ingorging 

 large animals ; of the fafcinating power of the 

 Rattle Snake, with which alfo, he fays, the Coluber 

 Berus, Syft. ^77, or Viper, is in fome degree en- 

 dued \ the author defcribes the mechanifm of the 

 jaw, and the venomous apparatus in Serpents 5 

 ^nd thefe are illuftrated with a figure: He th?i| 



gives 



