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deeply ulcerated than the others. The mischief had extended 

 into the smaller intestines. 



The avidity with which sheep, horses, and cows eat the 

 _R. arvensis is, as M. Brugnon justly observes, an exception to 

 the commonly-received maxim, that herbivorous animals are by 

 instinct led to reject whatever is noxious. 



On Man. — Ranunculus bulbosus has a peculiar escharotic 

 property, and if applied to the skin soon causes a blister ; and, 

 according to Murray (App. Mecl, vol. iii. p. 87), will produce 

 ill-conditioned ulcers. He also states that a slice of the fresh 

 root of the R. bulbosus placed in contact with the inside of the 

 finger, brought on a sense of pain in two minutes ; when taken 

 off, the skin was found without redness, and the sense of heat 

 and itching ceased; in two hours, however, it returned again, 

 and in ten hours a full serous blister was raised; this was 

 followed by a bad ulcer, and difficult to heal. 



In four persons who had eaten the root of the Eanun cuius 

 bulbosus, boiled in chicken-broth, the following symptoms 

 manifested themselves: violent burning in the region of the 



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cardiac orifice of the stomach, with great anxiety about the 

 heart ; pressure at the pit of the stomach, with painful soreness 

 at the stomach when touched. 



A child which was cured of fever, with subsequent dropsy 

 and hydrocele, by the application of the Ranunculus bulbosus 

 to the wrist-joint, was attacked with an ulcer which went to the 

 ligamentum annulare and flexor tendons, 



A soldier lost one of his thumbs, and another had violent 

 inflammation of the arm, with fever and delirium, which was 

 followed by gangrene of the arm, after the application of the 

 juice of the R. bulbosus, to procure their discharge. 



Inflammation of the arm, with violent tingling in the skin, 

 has been produced from the practice of placing the leaves and 

 flowers on warts which have been cut and made to bleed. 



Vesicles appeared on the fingers and hands after being touched 

 by the juice of this plant. Rhus and Bryonia were the best 



