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Show 180 DEADLY NIGHTSHADE. nence from, the belladonna, there were several of these alter. nations which fell under my own observation.” The leaves of the belladonna werefirst used externally to dis. cuss scirrhous and cancerous tumours, and also as an application to ill-conditioned ulcers: their good effects in this wayat length induced physicians to employ them internally for the samedis orders, and we have a considerable number of well-authenticated facts which prove them a very serviceable and important remedy. Die Wag LrS\ t y But it must likewise be confessed, that manycases of this sort have occurred in which the belladonna has been employed with. out success: this, however, may besaid of every medicine. In our present state of medical science we would advise ex treme caution in the use of such a poisonous drug: for, as the great Haller says, we have seen fromits use a furious delirium arise, which has continued ; a permanent blindness ; and more than one case where this remedy, used as a cure for the gout, has proved fatal to the party. } JENS HENBANE. HYOSC¥AMUS NIGER. Class V. Pentandria. Order I. Monogynia. Essenr, Gen. Cuar. Corolla funnel-shaped, obtuse: Stamina inclined: Capsule operculate, bilocular. Srec. Cuar. Leaves embracing the stem, waving: Flowers sessile. EE - DESCRIPTION. Tu: plant rises from one to two feet. The leaves arelarge, cut into irregular lobes or pointed segments, of a glaucous coe lour, undulated, woolly, and embrace the stem. Flowers are funnel-shaped, the tube short, the border expanded, and cut into five obtuse segments. The colour is a dingey yellow, with bright purple streaks, which is the livery of poisonous herbs, purple With yellow being the characteristic. into five short-pointed downy segments. ‘Ihe calyx is also divided |