Datura

An Illustrated Dictionary of Medicine, Biology and Allied Sciences · 1907 · p. 12

(da-tu' '-rah). A genus of Solanacese, or night-shade family. D. stramonium. See Stramonium. D. tatula, a plant belonging to the nightshade family, closely resembling stramonium in its therapeutic and physiologic properties. It has been smoked with advantage in asthma. Unof.