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I. An Account of Symptoms arifmg from eating 
the Seeds of Henbane, with their Cure, Or, 
and fome occajional (Remark*, by Sir Hans 
Sloane, Bart. <P. S. <R. 
I N the Year i729,aPerfoncarne to confult me on 
an Accident, that befell four of his Children, aged 
from four Years and a half, to thirteen Years 
and a half, upon eating fome Seeds they had gathered 
in the Fields, near Pancras-Chmch, which they mi- 
ftook for Philberts. He brought one of the Cap - 
fules with him : I inftantly knew it to be that of 
the Hyofciamus niger, vel vulgaris , C. B, (or the 
common Henbane) which bears fome grofs Re- 
femblance to the Husk of a Philbert ; and the Seeds 
are like thofe of the Poppy. The Symptoms that 
appear’d in all the Four were, greatThirft, Swimmings 
of the Head, Dimnefs of Sight, Ravings, and profound 
Sleep ; which laft,in one ofthem, continued two Days 
and Nights. 
I order’d them all to be bled, blifter’d in feveral 
Places, and afterwards purged with a Medicine com- 
pofed of EleB. lenitiv. 01 . amygd. dulc.Jor. Sulph. 
Syr. fi or. per 'ft cor. which operated both by Vomit 
and Stool : And by this Method they perfectly re- 
covered 
The Delirium occafioned by thefe Seeds differs 
from the common, and in fome Meafure agrees with 
that produced by xheDutroa^ Species of Stramonium; 
and by the Bangue of Eajt*lndia, a fort of Hemp: 
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