Do you know when I was ill I was made to take henbane, which is a drug that has the power to make one's eyes magnify like a microscope.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plays: Comrades; Facing Death; Pariah; Easter] Reference

NEURALGIA OF WOMB: Fl.ext. henbane, two drams; Fl.ext.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics] Reference

"It's like henbane, it can be harmful or helpful," Ayla commented.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clan of the Cave Bear]

Even to-day, I suppose, druggists sell henbane seed for this purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference

MITAL, S.P. and SAXENA, R.K. (1977) Egyptian henbane a promising drug plant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5] Reference

Compare “hyuscyamus,” hogbean, our henbane, which we also owe to Xenophon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anabasis] Reference

Frictions of the head and outward parts, sacculi of henbane, wormwood at his pillow, &c.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

It would be henbane to Archdeacon Grantly to have a poor son — a son living at Pau — among.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Chronicle of Barset] Reference

An early idea was that toothache was caused by a worm and that henbane seed roasted would cure it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference

"For her grief, she prescribed herself a potent cure, which was in turn provided by the healers: henbane.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Temple of the Winds]

On the other hand not a few apply the word to the henbane (hyoscyamus niger) so much used in mediæval Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

The henbane-drinkers crawled on all fours around the colossus, roaring like tigers; the Yidonim vaticinated, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salammbo] Reference

Needless to say that cocoa-nut oil would have no stupefying effect unless mixed with opium or datura, hemp or henbane.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

The coroner had gone on at length about the derivations of this substance (the nightshade family — chiefly from henbane).    From Wordnik.com.  [A Taint in the Blood]

Poisons which coagulate the blood, instead of tearing the membranes, are opium, hemlock, henbane, aconite, and several others.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

Hawley Harvey Crippen, also known as Dr Crippen, is thought to have used seeds from the henbane plant to kill his wife in 1910.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waiter, there's poison in my soup] Reference

Hyoscyamus reticulatus; henbane, the seeds and leaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

Here are the henbane, the sow-thistle, the wild cucumber.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Italian sketches] Reference

Take a glassful of Paris green mixed with some delightful henbane.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony] Reference

Mullein and nettle, henbane and wormwood, all are English emigrants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Life in Colonial Days] Reference

Like henbane, it is often seen on rubbish-heaps and in old brickfields.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naturalist on the Thames] Reference

The very memory I bear of you has saved me no inconsiderable sum in hop and henbane.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete] Reference

He used, the play says, distilled hebenon, supposed to be another form of the word henbane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raspberry Jam] Reference

He further explained that henbane is the common name for hyoscyamin, which is a deadly poison.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raspberry Jam] Reference

This love acts like henbane: you see suns, where there are none, and stars where no stars are!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Road to Damascus] Reference

So the Frank called for drink, and they brought sherbets, drugged with henbane, of which no sooner had.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III] Reference

Hippocrates advocated breathing in plant vapours, and the ancient Egyptians puffed black henbane evaporated on hot bricks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Meanwhile, Ali Shar slept on till next day, when the fumes of the henbane quitted his brain and he awoke and cried out, 'O.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV] Reference

They were idle; and when we will not sow corn, the devil will be sure to sow weeds, night-shade, henbane, and devil's-bit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Remains, Volume 1] Reference

This accounts for the fact, too, that men in good health if given henbane to drink lose their reason, because the drink affects the brain.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy] Reference