88-3 
Braconnot also determined a green and a bitter resin, albumen, starch, a 
tasteless nitrogenized body, a bitter nitrogenized body, and nitre.* 
PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION.—A druggist’s clerk took about half an ounce of 
the oil; he was found on the floor perfectly insensible, convulsed, and foaming at 
the mouth; shortly afterward the convulsions ceased, the patient remained sts 
sible with the jaws locked, pupils dilated, pulse weak, and stomach retching. After 
causing free emesis and applying stimulants the man recovered, but could not 
remember how or when he had taken the drug. According to Dr. Legrand, the 
effects prominent in absinthe drinkers are: Derangement of the digestive organs 
intense thirst, restlessness, vertigo, tingling in the ears, and illusions of sight sat 
hearing. These are followed by tremblings in the arms, hands, and legs, numbness 
of the extremities, loss of muscular power, delirium, loss of intellect, general paral- 
ysis, and death. Dr, Magnan, who had a great number of absinthe drinkers under 
his care, and who performed many experiments with the liquor upon animals, states 
that peculiar epileptic attacks result, which he has called “absinthe epilepsy.” + 
Post-Mortem.—Great congestion of the cerbro-spinal vessels, of the meninges 
of the brain, extreme hyperaemia of the medulla oblongata, injection of the vessels 
of the cord, with suffusion of the cord itself. The stomach, endocardium, and 
pericardium show small ecchymoses.{ 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE 88. 
1. End of a flowering branch, escaped at Binghamton, N. Y., Aug. roth, 1885. 
2. A lower leaf. 
3. Flower head. 
4. Marginal floret. 
5. Central floret. 
6. Anther. 
7. Style of central floret. 
(3-7 enlarged.) 
* Thomson, Organic Chem., 1838, 864. 
+ Et supra, Taylor On Poisons, 1885, 652. 
t Four, of Physiological Med., 9, 525; in Allen, 
Ency. Mat. Med., loc, cit. 
