These fellows made cakes of manioc and poisoned them with Stramonium.
"Eight Years' Wandering in Ceylon"
Samuel White Baker
The asthmatic had bitten off either end of the Stramonium cigarette, and was soon choking himself with the crude fumes, which he inhaled in desperate gulps, to exhale in furious fits of coughing.
"A Thief in the Night"
E. W. Hornung
I'm not positive," he continued, "but I believe these crystals to be those of Dhatura Stramonium, and, as you say speed's the thing, we'll begin by noting the effect of the stuff as a gas on that guinea-pig over there."
"The Master Mystery"
Arthur B. Reeve and John W. Grey