214 FLORA HOMCEOPATHICA. 



case : a man took twice as much as could be held on the point 

 of a knife. He was attacked with violent and incessant vomit- 

 ing, and lived only twelve hours. The gullet, stomach, and 

 colon were found inflamed, in patches. 



In excessive doses it produces violent vomiting and purging 

 (sometimes of blood); tenesmus; burning sensation in the mouth, 

 throat, oesophagus, stomach, and intestines ; constriction in the 

 throat, with a sense of strangulation, griping pain in the bowels, 

 small pulse, faintings, and cold sweats ; tremblings, giddiness, 

 blindness, dilated pupils, loss of voice, convulsions, and insen- 

 sibility. It has been remarked also that palpitation and inter- 

 mitting pulse, with dyspeptic and nervous symptoms, have come 

 on after the use of this medicine. 



Etmuller states that this root, when applied to the abdomen, 

 produces violent vomiting; and Schrceder observed the same 

 when this root was used as a suppository. Van Helmont also 

 says that a royal prince died in three hours after taking a 

 scruple of this drug, which induced convulsions. 



Hahnemann (Antidote to some Heroic Vegetable Substances, 



Dudgeon, M.D., in Lesser Writings, p. 379) 



relates the following cases : « I had the greatest difficulty in 

 restoring two children, the one a year and three quarters old, 

 the other five years old, who had both taken White Hellebore 

 by mistake, the former four grains, the latter seven grains. 

 Those conversant with such matters will consider both to be 

 of themselves fatal doses, and as long as no antidote is known 

 absolutely fatal. " But few minutes elapsed before the greatest 

 changes were observable in both children. They became quite 

 cold, they fell down, their eyes projected like a suffocating per- 

 son's, the saliva ran continually from their mouths, and they 

 seemed devoid of consciousness, when I saw them half an hour 

 after the accident. " It had already been tried to incite them 

 to vomit by means of a feather, without success ; indeed with 

 an aggravation of their symptoms, as I was told. Milk admi- 

 nistered by clyster, and poured down the throat in large quan- 



