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quietly the remainder of tlie night. Mr. J. A. 

 Waller observes " that a temporary madness seems 

 uniformly the result of this poison." Vicat records 

 a case of a man who drank a decoction of the fruit, 

 and became melancholy, lost his voice, his pulse 

 disappeared, and the limbs became paralyzed ; 

 after which madness came on. Another, after 

 drinking milk boiled with the same fruit, experi- 

 enced vertigoes, became insensible, talked in a 

 raving manner, had at first a small weak pulse, 

 which afterwards became hardly perceptible. His 

 legs were paralyzed, and he ultimately became 

 mad. The smell alone of this plant causes ebriety, 

 and it has been used for the most dreadful purposes 

 in eastern countries. Garcias tells us that thieves 

 mix it in the food of those whom they intend to 

 rob ; and Acosta mentions that abandoned females 

 frequently give it to their incautious gallants. In 

 Java these unfortunate women take it themselves 

 as a stimulus. Some of these women are so expe- 

 rienced in administering this medicine, and know 

 how to temper it in such a manner, that its effects 

 shall last for a certain time, or for as many hours 

 as they please. 



Indian princes have been known to make use of 

 it to render their rivals stupid, and then to expose 

 them to the people, to show how incapable they are 

 to govern. 



