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face; pupils dilated and insensible, conjunctivae highly injected; 

 lips and tongue parched ; no vomiting ; breathing at times ster- 

 torous and laboured ; hands cold, with a trembling and slightly- 

 convulsive movement ; great rigidity of the muscles of the neck 

 and back; at times active efforts at utterance. Two cases 

 recovered, one proved fatal. 



ise (of his own child) illustrates the effect of 



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this poison. His li 

 swallowed, without the knowledge of the parents, upwards of 

 one hundred of the seeds. The first symptoms were great 

 irritability of temper, accompanied by general itching over the 

 whole surface of the body, more especially of the face, and con- 

 duct as if intoxicated. To these succeeded flushed countenance, 

 wildness of manner, suffused eyes, maniacal expression, in- 

 effectual efforts to vomit, incoherent and rapid utterance, scream- 

 ing, catching at imaginary objects in the air, or rather striking 

 at them, for it was evident that these spectra were of a frightful 

 nature, for there was an expression of horror on her face ; she 

 screamed violently and hid her face ; her eye would, to appear- 

 ance, follow the imaginary object for a moment or two before 

 she made an effort to escape from its supposed approach ; she 

 rapidly became furiously delirious, struck at, pinched, or at- 

 tempted to bite every person who came near her, or any object 

 that was offered to her. In two hours the child had lost all 

 power of utterance and of voice ; she could only utter a hoarse, 

 croaking sound, alternating with a sonorous, croupy, barking 

 cough, and was unable to swallow, in consequence of the violent 

 spasm which affected the muscles of deglutition when she made 

 the effort ; the pupils were dilated, had been so from the first ; 

 the voluntary power of the extremities was gone, and the limbs 

 were violently agitated by spasmodic twitching and palpitation 

 (not by regular convulsions) 



(opisthotonos). The pulse was almost imper- 



ceptible from the first ; coma came on in five hours ; a tympanitic 

 tate of the abdomen, with paralysis of the bladder ; and death 



