Indeed,belladonnahad fared much better in medieval times as its proximity to ruins indicates.
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Nevertheless, two other areas of discourse were working to revise belladonna's wholly evil reputation in popular culture as a botanical scourge and femme fatale.
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What, then, accounts for the late addition ofbelladonnaand for the attribution of a meaning that undercuts the very notion of a "language"?
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The most important area of discourse that assisted in redeeming belladonna's reputation participated in the sentimental tradition, but expressed a burgeoning interest in plants for plants' sake.
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The dictionary, of course, as a resource for gardeners, would naturally tend to privilege horticultural species; but this does not fully account for its rough treatment ofbelladonna.
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Take a thing likebelladonna; none can be got in this country.
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Both consultants reported that the treatment followed well recognised lines and consisted primarily of excellently planned rehabilitation and physical re-education together with administration of drugs of thebelladonnagroup.
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At least one 19th-century eclectic medicine journal explained how to prepare abelladonnatincture for direct administration to patients.
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In early youth he treated himself withbelladonna.
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It consisted of a mixture ofbelladonna, stramonium and potassium perchlorate, and was a fine powder intended to be burnt and the smoke inhaled.
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Belladonnadrops act as an antimuscarinic, blocking receptors in the muscles of the eye that constrict pupil size.
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Medicinal herbs such as digitalis, menthol, artemisia andbelladonna, are also found in these forests.
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These include aconite (also called "hecateis"),belladonna, dittany, and mandrake.
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He described the effects of camphor, opium,belladonnaand turpentine on humans in 1829.
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The antidote forbelladonnapoisoning is physostigmine or pilocarpine, the same as for atropine.
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