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The leaves of Henbane are said to have been applied externally with advantage, in the way of poultice, to resolve scirrhous tumours, and to remove some pains of the rheumatic and arthritic kind. Similar Plants. Verbascum Lychnites; V. nigrum. The roots of the Henbane are to be distinguished by their very powerful and narcotic scent. HYSSOPUS officinalis. HYSSOP. The Herb.
The generosity of one time will be but justice in another; the temperance that brings respect and distinction in one age, will be but decorum in one more civilized, yet the principles are at all times the same." "Nigrum flavo crinem abscondente galero" Tertullian, in his treatise "De Cultu Foeminarum," declaims with his usual fiery rhetoric against this habit.
BITTERSWEET. The berries of this plant have been sometimes eaten by children, and have produced very alarming effects. It is common in hedges, and should be at all times as much extirpated as possible. SOLANUM nigrum. DEADLY NIGHTSHADE. Webfer has given us an account of some children that were killed in consequence of having eaten the berries of this plant for black currants.
These may be in good measure prevented by the addition of aromatics; but we have plenty of safer and less precarious purgatives. RHUS coriaria. ELM-LEAVED SUMACH. Both the leaves and berries have been employed in medicine; but the former are more astringent and tonic, and have been long in common use, though at present discarded from the Pharmacopoeias. RIBES nigrum.
SENECIO Jacobaea. RAGWORT. The Leaves. Their taste is roughish, bitter, pungent, and extremely unpleasant: they stand strongly recommended by Simon Pauli against dysenteries; but their forbidding taste has prevented its coming into practice. SOLANUM nigrum. COMMON NIGHTSHADE. The Leaves and Berries. In the year 1757, Mr.
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