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tion of the bowels, and in some cases diuresis ; it has no direct 

 tendency to induce sleep, hence it cannot be called soporific ; 

 but indirectly, by alleviating pain, and thereby producing 

 serenity and ease, it often disposes to sleep. 3. In fatal doses 

 the leading symptoms are, flushed countenance, delirium (usu- 

 ally maniacal), dilatation of the pupil, dryness of the throat, loss 

 of voice, difficulty of deglutition, convulsions, and in some cases 

 palsy. 



Dr. Fowler (JE& Med. Comm., v. 163) relates the case of a 

 little girl who took a drachm and a half of the seeds. In about 

 two hours furious maniacal delirium came on, with spectral 

 illusions, and this remained for some hours. She recovered. 



Dr. Burton mentions the case of two soldiers who ate it by 

 mistake for the Chenopodium album. One became furious, and 

 ran about like a madman ; the other died with the symptoms 

 of genuine tetanus. 



Albert Corvisart (Jour, de Med., vol. xxiii. p. 153) relates 

 cases of three children. The symptoms were delirium, restless- 

 ness, constant incoherent talking, dancing and singing, fever, 

 and flushed face. 



Raauw Boerhaave (Gmelin, Gesch. der Pflanz., 221) relates 

 the case of a young girl who had the powder given her in 

 some coffee, for an unlawful purpose. The symptoms were, 

 redness of the features, delirium, nymphomania, loss of speech; 

 then fixing of the eyes, tremors, convulsions, and coma ; after- 

 wards tetanic spasm, and slow respiration, with the coma. She 

 recovered. 



In another case (related in Bust's Magazin fur die gesammte 

 ttkunde, xvii. 564) the leading symptoms were spasmodic 

 closing of the eyelids and jaws, spasms also of the back, com- 

 plete coma, and excessive dilatation and insensibility of the 

 pupil. 



In a woman rather advanced in life there occurred, from two 

 grains of the extract of Stramonium, taken in two doses within 

 eight hours, stupefaction, anxiety, convulsions of the limbs, and 



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