Obs. [= F. jusquiame (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. late L. iusquiamus (Palladius).] = HYOSCYAMUS.
[c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., I. 94. Ðeos wyrt þe man … iusquianum nemneð, & oðrum naman belone, & eac sume men henne belle hatað.
c. 1400. Lanfranc’s Cirurg., 264.
1527. Andrew, Brunswyke’s Distyll. Waters, II. cclxxv. T ij b/1. The venims of Opium and Iusquiamus.
1565. J. Halle, Hist. Expost., Table 52. Hyosciamus, henbane is called in Greeke Ὑοσκυαμος: in Latin: Hiosciamus … of the Apothecaries Iusquiamus.]
1727. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Goose, Henbane, or Jusquiam, call’d the Death of young Geese.
1736. Bailey, Houshold Dict., 318. Take half an ounce of … the ointment of jusquiam.
