| Some women used belladonna to pale their complexions to a ghostly pallor but Antonia's mother had forbidden this, fearing her daughter's health. |
| Some members of this family are historically notorious such as belladonna, now used for treating asthma, and the nightshades. |
| The most common ingredients prescribed were iodides, organic nitrites, stramonium, belladonna, atropine, hyoscyamus, tobacco smoke, and menthol. |
| And belladonna in higher doses is poisonous, and was employed by poisoners over the centuries. |
| Medicines like silver nitrate, belladonna, chalk powder and peppermint water were used extensively. |
| And the sweet-shop that had been a pharmacy, so that jars of humbugs stood next to jars of belladonna. |
