HYOSCIAMUS NIGER

Henbane is a plant used in medicine, from which modern chemistry has extracted a new crystalline vegetable principle called hyosciamine , which is very poisonous, and when applied in solution to the eye, determines a remarkable dilatation of the pupil; as belladonna also does. HYPOSULPHATES; Hyposulphites ; saline compounds of the hyposulphuric or hyposulphurous acid with bases. HYPER OXY MURIATES; the old and incorrect name of Chlorates . i. & J.