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bled, which gave him much relief in his face and eyes. From this time until 
Monday, he continued to get better, but had, even then, pain, heat, and inflamma 
tion of the eyes, with cedematous swelling of the cheeks; his remaining symptoms 
went off gradually.” —(Lowe.) 
Riviere relates that a person died after taking this plant. “His tongue wa: 
black ; a brownish serosity was found in the stomach; the liver was hard, of a y 
low color; the spleen livid; but the body was not at all emphysematous.” _ 
The symptoms of poisoning by this drug show, according to Schulze, that it 
chief action is upon the medulla spinalis. 
On Animals.—Seven ounces of the juice of the leaves were given to a stron: 
dog, and the cesophagus tied. Twenty minutes thereafter the dog became s 
in half an hour it did not seem to affect him much, when suddenly he stretche 
out his limbs and lay upon his stomach; in a few minutes he tried to arouse him 
self, but his efforts were in vain. The muscles of the limbs, particularly of 
posterior, refused to obey the will, but the organs of sense exercised their fur 
tions; the pupils were scarcely dilated; the pulsations of the heart were slow a 
strong. This state lasted a quarter of an hour, and then the extremities y 
agitated by convulsive movements; the animal threw himself from one side to 
other, his senses began to be enfeebled, and the cesophagus and fauces we 
spasmodically contracted. This state of stupor increased, and the animal died 
hour after taking the poison. On opening the body the heart was found to 
~ contracted, and the left ventricle contained fluid and black blood; the lungs w 
a little less crepitant than natural. The stomach was found full of the poison, 
there was no alteration of the digestive canal.* | 
- DESCRIPTION OF PLATE 65. 
1. End of flowering plant. 
2. Bract of the involucel. 
3. Flower. 
4. Stigmas. 
ef Me PE ke . 
6. Dorsal view of a mericarp. 
7. Commissural view of same. 
8. 
Section of same. 
(4, and 6 enlarged.) 
* Orfila, vol. ii, 323. 
