brucaea

Updated: May 4, 2025

With opium, belladonna, brucaea, snake-wood, and the cherry-laurel, they put to sleep all who stand in their way. There is not one of those women, Egyptian, Turkish, or Greek, whom here you call 'good women, who do not know how, by means of chemistry, to stupefy a doctor, and in psychology to amaze a confessor."

Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo