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267&#93; NIG administered, may prove of great service in several afFedions ; but its influence on the nerves is too pre- carious to admit of its use^ without professional advice. — ^The leaves, iexternall^ applied, abate iniiam- ination and assuage pain ; the flowers possess the odour of musk. every ki' d of cattle. NIGHTSHADE, the Dead- ty, DwAY-EERRiES, or Deadly I)wALE}. the Atropa Belladonna, Jj. indigenous plant, growing in hedges, among lime-slone and rubbish 5 it fi'owers in the month of June or July. — The whole of this plant is poisonous ; and chil- dren, allured by the beautiful ap- pearance of its berries, have too often experienced their fatal ef- fe6ts. — I'he most proper antidott.-;, jn such accidents, are strong eme- tics, lar^e draughts of oil and vi- negar, purgatives, blisters applied to the neck ; and, alter the poison the tinfture of castor in small doses of 10 or 15 dro;'s, should be diluted in a spoonful ot water, and taken every two or tiu'ee hours. — It is asserted, that tumors of the breasts, even of the cancerous kind, have been resolved by a local application of the tre^h leaves. A pouifice prepared of the roots, boiled in ■ milk, and applied to hard ill-coi'ditioned ulct^rs, has eometimts efiected a cure. — Al- Jhough the internal use of this medicine, and its great efficacy in the most obstinate diseases, such as hydrophobia, epilepsy, melan- choly, madness, and the distem- per of cattle, is attested b}- many eminent continental writt-rs, yet we dj not advise our readers to venture upon a remedy so powerful pud d'lpgerous in its etfeds. — The NIP [2^7 juice of the berries, when ripe, imparts to paper a beautii'ul and durable purple. — Slieep, rabbits, and hogs, eat the leaves of the Deadly Nightshade without the least injury ; nay, experfnce has evinced, that the last mentioned animals have, by the useof thisherb alone, been eifectually cured of the inflammatory distemper, to which they are subject in dry seasons. NIPPLE, a small prominence arising from the middle of the fe- male breast. The. lacteal tubes terminate ii) these projedtions, through whic'.i the milk is drawn ia the a^t of sucking. The nipples of f/males, wliea suckling their first child, are fre- quently so diminutive and deep within the breast, as to render it; diificult or impradicable lor the infant to extract the milk. In such cases, the young mot .er should frequently, though cautiously, pro- trude the nipple between her lin- gers, b)' depressing the projettin^ part of the breast ; and atierwar^ covering the protuberances with an excavated nutmeg, to be worn se- veral weeks previously to her deli- very. But, if this expedient prove insufficient, it vv'ill be advisable to draw the breasts, either by pre- senting them to a healthy infant, several months old j or, by apply-. ingMr. Savigny's small air-pump, coiiU'ived for that purpose ; and which is far preferable to tf.e com- mon breast-giasses,. as well as to the disgu.^tuig pra^itice of ensploy- ing quadrupeds. Another inconvenience incident to nipples, iretjuently arises froni chaps, or excoriations. Tiiese are not on'v painful to the mother, but also prevent the infant from draw- ing the necessary supply of milk. In some instances, even part of tlie
 * — The whole plant is refused by'
 * ias been ejected irom the stoniach,