Common names , Woody Nightshade (not Deadly Nightshade, Belladonna), Bittersweet (not Climbing Bittersweet, Celastrus). German , Bittersuss. French , Douce-amère, Morelle. Preparation , Tincture of plant above woody portion, gathered just before flowering. Authorities. 1 , Hahnemman, Chronische Krank.; 2 , Ahner, ibid.; 3 , Cubitz, ibid.; 4 , Gross, ibid.; 5 , Muller, ibid.; 6 , Neuning, ibid.; 7 , Hartlaub and Trinks, ibid.; 8 , Rückert, ibid.; 9 , Stapf, ibid.; 10 , Wagner, ibid.; 11 , Wahle, ibid.; 12 , Althof, ibid., from Murray, Appar. Med., statement from observation; 13 , Carrère. Traité des Propriétées, Usages, et Effets de la Douce-amère. Paris. 1787. Effects of Dulcamara when given for chronic rheumatism, suppressed secretions, and cutaneous diseases. [The author says that he has, after seventeen years' experience with the drug, seen no inconvenience result from full doses, save those described in S. 83, 112, and 347; S. 256, 408, 451 (sometimes the precursors of a new eruption, and then associated with S. 413 and 414, S. 27 and 88, and S. 141.) -Hughes.] 14 , Gowan, Mem. de la Soc. de Montpell., not obtainable, ibid.; 15 , De Haen, Rat. Med., iv, p. 228, Observation in Disease, ibid.; 16 , Linné, Diss. de Dulcam., not accessible, ibid.; 17 , Piquot, Samml. br. Abhandl., statement from observation, ibid.; 18 , Starke, Translation of Carrère into German; Roth says that his symptoms are of the same kind, ibid.; 19 , Tode ibid., not found; 20 , Fritze, Annal. des Klin. Inst. in Berlin, statement from observation, ibid.; 21 , Dr. Rockwith, proving with 5 drops of tinct. taken at 9 P.M., Am. J. Hom. M. M., N. S., 1, 289; 22 , Knorre, symptoms from juice and first dil., A. H. Z., 6, 35; 23 , Berridge. Mr. --- took one dose of 3m. (Jenichen), N. Y. J. of Hom., 2, 460; 24 , Robinson, proving with tinct., and 24 b , with the 1000th dil. of Jenichen, B. J. of Hom., 24, 513; 25 , Prof. Hoppe, effects of 2 1/2 drs. of infusion of Herba Dulcamara daily for three days, on a woman suffering from uterine trouble and affections of both hip-joints, A. H. Z., M. B., 2, 14; 26 , ibid., a boy, aged 20 suffering from "coxarthrocace," took a tea of Dulcamara; 27 , Dr. J. S. Douglas, symptoms, Am. Hom. Obs., 1867, p. 32; 28 , Dr. Bodenmuller, Frank's Mag., 2, p. 80, a boy ate a quantity of the berries; 29 , Schlegel, Frank's Mag., 2, 720, a man took an infusion of the herb and also half an ounce of the extract; 30 , Plaetschke, Caspar's Wochenschrift (Am. J. of M. Sc, 1851), a man took one forenoon, for a cough, three to four quarts of an infusion of a peck of the stalks; 31 , Journ. de Chim. Méd., 6, 143 (from Orfila, Toxicologie), poisoning of three children by the berries; 32 , Heintz (from Orfila), poisoning of two children by the berries.