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Eehen albam, vid. Lychnis &c. 
EE'LhA'DO'ii'SAClas.pann. Syn. 2.6y. Solanum 
lethale Park. Ger. Deadly Night/hade^ Dwale 
Cl I . G XVI, flowers in May and 'June^ many 
Plants of it grow upon the llony part of Clifton 
Hill facing the trent.^ I have alfb obferved it to 
grow about Mansfield twelve Miles from Not- 
Tingham^ in a Quarry not far from the Cold Bath . 
This Plant bears a very bad Charafter among Writ- 
I «S, as being ofa poilbnous Nature. How it may prove 
in hotter Climates I will not pretend to lay, but with us 
j it leems not tobe lb hurtful, I have leveral times boiled a 
1 good many of thele Berries in Milk and given them to 
I iDogs and Cats without perceiving any ill Effefl, IDr. 
i Medley has leveral Times himfelf eaten three or four of 
1 thele Berries without receiving any Hurt. They are of 
ahckirh Tafte. However it is good to be cautious in 
luflering Children to meddle with them, it being uncertain 
how far the narcotic Quality of this Plant may alfe£f their 
tender Stomachs, I would not recommend it at all for 
inward Ules, but both Leaves and Root may with good 
Succels be applied outwardly by way offPcw/m, to in- 
! flammatory Swellings . An Ointment made of the 
Root and Leaves, or which is better the Juice evapora- 
ted to the Confiftence of an Extrafl and mixed with Ibme 
cooling Ointment does Wonders in old fharp Ulcers 
even of a Cancerous Nature. The Leaves applyed to 
the Srcajls of Women will diffipate any hard Swellings 
of thole Parts. Mr. R.ai relates a remarkable Paflage 
of a certain Lady who had a final 1 Ulcer near the Eye 
the which Ihe imagined to be cancerous, and laying a 
Piece of a Leaf of this Plant upon it, Ihe found in one 
Nights T ime, that Coat of the Eye which is called Uvea 
relaxed to that Degree that lliv coUld not contrail the 
Sight, inlbmuch that even in the moll glaring Light, 
the Pupil of that Eye appeared -more than lour tiipes 
G large- 
