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FLORA HOMCEOPATHICA. 



poses, the juice is expressed from the bark which has been 

 recently collected, and mixed with equal parts of alcohol, and 

 then attenuated to the fifteenth (v) dilution. 



Physiological Effects.— On Animals. It is highly poison- 

 ous to dogs, wolves, and foxes. It is eaten by sheep and 

 goats. 



Man 



All parts of the plant are very acrid, and act as 

 an irritant and cathartic. In large doses it is a dangerous, 

 irritant poison, causing redness and vesication of the skin, when 

 left some time in contact with it, and exciting, when swallowed, 

 dryness and burning in the throat, vomiting, hyper catharsis, 

 and occasionally symptoms of irritation of the kidneys. 



Linnasus (Flora Suecia, No. 338) reports that a young lady, 

 labouring under intermittent fever, died from hemoptysis in 

 consequence of having taken twelve berries of the Daphne 

 Mezereon, which had been given with the intention of purging 



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of Mezereon, was suddenly attacked with diarrhoea, which was 

 continual, and accompanied with insupportable pains. He had 

 besides, for six weeks, vomitings, which returned every day 

 with extreme violence, although during the whole time proper 

 remedies were employed to quiet them. 



M 



Mezereon 



It 



occasioned violent pains in the stomach and intestines, accom- 

 panied by stinging, burning sensations in the skin, restlessness, 

 loss of appetite, intense fever, and irregular action of the 

 tendons. 



An otherwise robust man took Mezereum internally for 

 some complaints that he had. But as he continued the use 

 of this drug, even after the disappearance of these complaints, 

 he became affected with intolerable itching over the whole body, 

 which did not allow him an hour's sleep. He discontinued the 

 medicine ; came to me thirty-six hours afterwards, and assured 



