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V. At3 Account of fome EffeBs of Pa paver Gor- 
niculatum luteura, &c. By Mr. Ja.Newtoa 
IN my Itinerary from London to Margaret Ijland^ and 
thence moft by the vSea Shear to the Lands End in 
Cornwall^ to obferve what Plants each Part produced, 
between Tenfants and Marketjem^ on the Sandy vShoar, 
there growing abundance of Papaver CorHiculatum LutC" 
urn, or Horned Poppy, with a Yellow Flower, vulgarly 
called in Hampfhire and Dor jet (hire ^ Sq^uatmore^ or 
Bruferoot^ (as I was there informed) where they ufe it 
againft Bruifts external and internal : Mr. John Hancock, 
an Apothecary ifi Penfants^ gave me the following Ac- 
count of its Effects on one Charles Worthy and others of 
his Family, dwelling at the Half-way Houfe between 
P enfant s and Market] ew,(uiz?)T\i2.t the faid CharlesWorth^ 
eaufing a Pye to be made of the Roots of the faid Poppy, 
Tuppofing them to be Sea-Holly or Eringo Roots (for that 
by order of a Phyfician lately lodging at his Houfe, they 
bad made Pies thereof, which was very pleafant to them) 
I ,but he eating of the aforefaid Poppy Pye (whilft hot) ^ 
I was prefently taken v/ith fuch a kind of Dtlirium as 
made him fancy that moft what he &w was Gold, and 
calling for a Chamber Pot, being a white Earthen one, 
after having purged by Stool into it, he broke it into 
pieces, and bid the By-ftanders to fave them, for they 
-all were Gold, as v/as alfo (as he faid) all the Pewter in 
the Houfe ( he then poiocing to it ). The Man and 
Maid Servants, haviog alfo eat of the fame Pye^ 
ftript themiejves quite naked, and fo danced one egamft 
the other a long time. The Miftrefs, who w^as gone to 
Market, coming Home, and faying, How now, what is 
here a do ? the Maid turn'd hsr Brich againft her, and 
purging: 
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