Ammonius too bade us not be afraid, for he would not reply to any of our discourses; and Trypho likewise urging me to propose something, I said: To demonstrate that the ivy is cold is not so proper a task for me as Trypho, for he often useth coolers and binders; but that proposition, that wine in which ivy berries have been is more inebriating, is not true; for that disturbance which it raiseth in those that drink it is not so properly called drunkenness as alienation of mind or madness, such as hyoscyamus and a thousand other things that set men beside themselves usually produce. ❋ Unknown (2004)
On the other hand not a few apply the word to the henbane (hyoscyamus niger) so much used in mediæval Europe. ❋ Unknown (2006)
“Bhang” (almost a generic term applied to hellebore, etc.) may be hyoscyamus or henbane. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Belladonna, camphor, hyoscyamus and opium, are among the narcotics in common use. ❋ Robert Jennings (N/A)
_ -- Identical with those of belladonna and hyoscyamus, the ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Take extract of hyoscyamus, thirty grains; extract stramonium, ten grains; quinine, twenty grains; morphine, two grains. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)
They are in that drawer, -- laudanum, morphine, hyoscyamus, and all the drowsy sirups, -- little drops, but soaring like a fog, and wrapping the whole world in a dull ache, with no salient sting to catch a groan on. ❋ Various (N/A)
Lupulin, valerian, valerianate of zinc, and hyoscyamus (or with a much less tendency to derange the stomach, _hyoscyamin_ in 1/10 grain doses) all have their value in the less violent cases or toward the close of the struggle. ❋ Horace B. Day (N/A)
In fact it is closely allied to hyoscyamus, whose active principle, hyoscin, is used in modern medicine precisely for such purposes. ❋ G. Elliot Smith (N/A)
As the potato belongs to the botanical family containing the dangerous belladonna, tobacco, hyoscyamus, and stramonium, it is not surprising that is should also contain a powerful poisonous alkaloid, namely, solanine. ❋ Kenelm Winslow (N/A)
I have worked with the hyoscyamine of both Merck and Trommsdorff, as well as with a product which I obtained from hyoscyamus seeds myself. ❋ Various (N/A)
-- Agents which depress the vital energies, without destroying life; as aconite, digitalis, hellebore, hydrochloric acid, hyoscyamus, opium, and tartrate of antimony. ❋ Robert Jennings (N/A)
For several years before the date which I would fix as that of the climax of her mental trouble she had been occasionally taking henbane or hyoscyamus to allay pain and excitability and pretty frequently morphia to compel sleep, and it is a secondary action of the latter drug to induce unfounded suspicions and even delusions of persecution in those who habitually indulge in it. ❋ Unknown (1893)
Botanists claim to recognize several species of the plant, and also to ally tobacco by a botanical consanguinity with other plants differing totally in appearance, properties and uses; connecting it with some containing powerful narcotic poisonous properties, such as belladonna, stramonium and hyoscyamus, and also with the innocent tomato and potato. ❋ John Donald (1881)
In fact the hyoscyamus had, combined with his anxieties, given him a slight attack of what is now called aphasia, that brain disease the most striking symptom of which is that one word is mistaken for another. ❋ Hutton, Richard (1878)
Anodynes, belladonna, hyoscyamus, and opium act as antipyretics simply by quieting the nervous system. ❋ Charles B. Michener (1877)
I thought it right to speak to Mr. Downton, but people in high health can understand nothing short of a raging fever; however, at last he called in the parish surgeon, a stupid, ignorant fellow, who understands my case no more than his horse, and treats me with hyoscyamus, as if it were a mere throat-cough. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)
In fact the hyoscyamus had, combined with his anxieties, given him a slight attack of what is now called ❋ Richard Holt Hutton (1861)
[FN#220] Here the "Bhang" (almost a generic term applied to hellebore, etc.) may be hyoscyamus or henbane. ❋ Anonymous (1855)
