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The seeds, known by the name of Nua-vomica, have been 
very long know in commerce, and in the Materia Medica, 
as a deleterious. poison. Messrs. Braconnot, Desportes, 
Chevreul, and others, have chemically analyzed them. 
The last found them to contain, 1. a gum, 2. a peculiar 
matter of an anima] nature, 3. an intense bitter principle, 
4. a fixed oil, and 5. a colouring yellow matter; and that _ 
the poisonous qualities of the seed are owing to its bitter 
principle. sec 
Qvaurries. The Arabs first introduced these seeds into the 
Materia Medica, and knew their violent action on the ani- _ 
mal system. - Their accounts were proved, by the experi- 
ence of Mathiole, Fred. Hoffman, Wepfer, Conrad Gesner, 
Linnzus, Brunner, Lossin, De Hyde, Seutter, Sorbais, 
and more recently hy Desportes, Magendie, Delisle, Orfila 
and others. They have found these seeds noxious to man, _ 
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ly, rejected t 
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roasted state, Hoffman says, 15 grains kille 
_ years old. A scruple kills a dog; a mr 
3, and a cat by 4 grains. Loss howe 
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