48 PHYTOLACCA DECANDRA. 
ach in an hour, and rarely continuing longer than 
four. He found it to excite little or no nausea 
previous to its operation, and though it made a 
powerful impression on the system, it never pro- 
duced any disagreeable or unusual symptoms. 
Dr. Hayward also made trial of the powder of 
the leaves, which he found to possess the same 
properties with that of the root, but to be less ef- 
fectual and less certain in its operation, He al- 
so prepared a tincture, decoction, and wine of the 
root ; but all these were inferior to the medicine 
in substance, being less certain in their effect, and 
sometimes giving rise to troublesome symptoms, 
Dr. Shultz of Pennsylvania, author of an in- 
augural dissertation on the Phytolacca decandra, 
gave the expressed juice of the leaves, berries, 
and roots, in considerable quantity to animals. It 
operated by emesis and catharsis, attended with 
drowsiness. The juice of the root was most active. 
He also gave to a dog two ounces of the spiritous 
liquor distilled from the berries, It occasioned 
nausea and drowsiness, with slight spasmodic moe 
tions, but no vomiting. 
In the same dissertation, Dr. Shultz refers to 
seyeral instances of persons who had incautiously 
eaten large quantities of the root through mistake. 
Its effects were violent yomiting and purging, 
