belladonna

• "This would suggest that Sibyl Adams ingested a lethal dose of belladonna, which belongs in the deadly nightshade plant family." —  Karin Slaughter - Blindsighted
• According to Nick, the easiest and most popular way to take belladonna is to soak the seeds in hot water. —  Karin Slaughter - Blindsighted
• British pharmaceutical chemists, with one or two exceptions, had been relying upon foreign sources not only for synthetic drugs but actually for the raw materials of many of their preparations--such, for example, as aconite, belladonna, henbane, all of which can be freely grown--which even grow wild--in these islands; even, incredible as it may seem, for foxglove leaves. —  Science and Morals and Other Essays
• Compresses, wet in a solution composed of half an ounce of muriate of ammonia, three drachms of the fluid extract of belladonna, and a pint of water, are beneficial, and should be continuously applied. —  Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage
• Anodynes, belladonna, hyoscyamus, and opium act as antipyretics simply by quieting the nervous system. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse

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