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[Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>]

At 07:58 PM 12/3/2004 -0600, Donna wrote:
>     There are other toxins in this family of course, not just nicotine, but
> also in the carolina horse nettle there is the basis for the drug
> scopalamine.  It was a drug used during childbirth, if I remember correctly
> it's the one that didn't actually stop the pain, the women screamed bloody
> murder, but afterward they didn't remember the pain, or the birth,... or the
> baby.

Hmm... Was reading a National Geographic magazine this weekend - saw an ad 
for a transdermal scopalamine patch as an aid/preventative for motion sickness.

LLP