Colonial North America: Countway Library of Medicine

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Materia Medica

Stimulants

it produces violent effects, in the case of a Young Lady who had a blister on the breast stramonium ointment was used as a dressing, stupor and delirium was produced, on this account I should think it would be prejudicial in burns, in order to obtain the extract we procure the adult leaves put them in a flannel towel bruise them and squize out the juice this must then be exposed in shallow vessels to the air but not to the sun, and evaporate to the consistency of an extract, the expressed juice has been recommended in weakness of vission in aging people the following is the proportion Rx gtt i [1 drop] of the extract Aqua Font ℥i [1 ounce].

Datura Ferox. This is found in India and Mr Jones says is employ’d by the Indians to make a poison, its effects are said to be the same with blanda substance produced from hemp, it produces a transport of mind, and it is said any thing might be done to a person that has taken it, theives are said to give it to those they intend to rob, wives give it to their husbands and other similar uses are made of it.

Solanum. Or Nightshade, has been employ’d sometimes in practice, it has likewise been used as is common in the United States but not verry common but I am certain it has been used by some verry respectable french ones.

Nicotiana.