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Sleep-bringing Nightshade

SOLATRO SONIFERO.

Woodcut of the sleep-bringing nightshade: a leafy branch with broad oval leaves and small round fruits.
Herbario nuovo, Rome, 1585. John Carter Brown Library.

Somniferum somnum Solanum immittit, idemque
Confirmat dentes, lenit dentumque dolores,
Vrinam pellit, de mente & tollit, & affert
Auxilium Hydropicis.

The sleep-bringing nightshade sends sleep, and also makes the teeth firm and soothes their pains; it drives out the urine; it takes one out of one’s mind; and it brings help to the dropsical.

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