i8 
/ 
\ 
fyft 
b 
by keeping it long 
hand 
bofom, we are told unpleafant fymptoms have been produced 
the ancients confidered the Aconitum 
1 the 
That 
getable produdions, appears from their fanciful d 
be the moft deftrudive 
f 
iC 
iC 
g 
C( 
ut ab Hecate inventum aut ex Cerb 
vation of its 
fpuma enatum 
pronunciarent ;" and Ray fays, " Napellus venenorum praefenta 
facile princep 
rhe deleterious eifeds of 
like thofe of moft vegetable poifons 
adion upon the nervous energy; for of the difFei 
have been deftroyed by it, we find but one inftance 
diffedic 
F 
well as thofe mentioned 
donna. 
produced by its immed 
marks of org 
difeafe ^ were difcovered 
mals ° which 
herein upon 
and this, as 
former number refpeding the Bell 
Hall 
£^ 
u 
a, we attribute to the adion of fecondary caufes 
The fatal fymptoms brought on by this poifon, are 
,ii.j.. « jji|-us adfumtus Napellus vomitum movet, 
g 
thus ftated by= 
convulfiones, 
ginem, maniam, hypercatharfes, furfum &^ deorfum, 
erumpentes,^tum ventris tumores, & alia graviffima fymptomata,^ 
Stoerck appears to be the firft 
who 
fudorem frigidum^ afphyxiam 
* The juice was applied to a wound of the finger, which not only produced pains in 
the hand and arm, but cardialgia, great anxiety, a fenfe of fuffocation, fyncope, &c. 
and the wounded part fphacelated before it came to fuppuration. Rodder in Alberti 
T 
Jurifp. Med 
4 
^ 
J 
than to the povv^er of the plant. 
pecul 
Me 
Napell 
much of its virulency by being tranfplantedi 
from the mountains into our gardens; and this obfervation has been confirmed by the 
experiment of D. Martinus Bernhardus a Berniz, in Ephem. Germ. ann. 2. Obferv. 42. 
(Rav, Hift. Plant, d. 702.) and for farther confirmation fee Pet. Job. Faber in- 
Pauth. 1. T. cap. 43 
Napell 
to almoft all animals, bat aftual 
experiments with it have been made upon wolves, cats, dogs, mice, &c. See Wepfer,; 
E 
76. de N 
circa venena, p. 6. Hillefeld, p 
Tranfi 
23 
.ct. vol. 27. p. 488. Sprogel DilF. 
Ehrhart, vide Reinhold, DifT. cit. 
Cows and Goats, by being forced to eat this' plant, periihed. Moraeus Fil. in K. 
Vet. Acad. 
f Th 
Wepfer, 1. c. p. 180. 
745 
s N. 1 198. 1. c. Thefe fymptoms are collea^ 
^me of which we fhall menti 
The 
experiment 
