Digitalis purpurea. Natural Order: Scrofhulariacecc — F/gwort Family. 
|X ITERALLY, the purple finger-flower, this plant is of easy 
culture, and well adapted for the borders of walks and beds. 
'• The blossoms, which grow in a long spike, are many, and 
thimble-shaped, with dots of a color differing from the flower 
: in the interior. The whole plant is a violent and dangerous 
^ poison when taken internally in any considerable quantity, 
producing delirium, convulsions and death. It becomes a valuable 
medicine in the hands of a skillful physician. It thrives best in par¬ 
tially shaded locations. There are a number of varieties, the flowers 
being white, purple, carmine, brown, and yellow. 
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THIS poor brain! ten thousand shapes of fury 
Are whirling there, and reason is no more. 
— Fielding. 
T T E raves, his words are loose 
1 As heaps of sand, and scattering wide from sense; 
So high he’s mounted on his airy throne, 
That now the wind has got into his head, 
And turns his brains to phrenzy. —Dryden. 
T T IS brain is wrecked — 
A 1 For ever in the pauses of his speech 
His lip doth work with inward mutterings, 
And his fixed eye is riveted fearfully 
On something that no other sight can spy. 
— Maturin. 
f AM not mad; too well, too well I feel 
The different plague of each calamity. 
— Shakespeare. 
T AM not mad; I would to heaven I were! 
^ For then ’tis like I should forget myself; 
O, if I could, what grief should I forget! 
•— Shakespeare. 
'T'HIS wretched brain gave way, 
*■ And I became a wreck, at random driven, 
Without one glimpse of reason or of heaven. 
— Moore. 
IF a phrenzy do possess the brain, 
1 It so disturbs and blots the form of things, 
As fantasy proves altogether vain, 
And to the wit no true relation brings. 
— Sir John Davis. 
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