18 FLORA HOMGOPATHICA. 
turnips, was suddenly seized with pain in the abdomen, followed 
by nausea, without vomiting; could not swallow; vacuity ; 
inability to answer questions; lower jaw fixed; insensibility 
and death, an hour after the commencement of the symptoms. 
(Med. Times, August 23, 1845.) 
Two ladies, of Castle Donnington, Leicestershire, partook of 
some salad in which the Aithusa had been put by mistake for 
common parsley. Serious symptoms soon followed. There was 
troublesome nausea, with vomiting; oppressive headache and 
giddiness ; desire to sleep, with frequent startings and excessive 
agitations ; pungent heat in the mouth, throat, and gullet, with 
great difficulty of swallowing ; great thirst, with total loss of ap- 
petite for every kind of solid food ; the extremities felt benumbed,° 
and were affected with tremors; and all the vital and animal 
functions were performed with unusual activity. The ladies 
eventually recovered. (Med. and Phys. Journal, vol. xiv. p. 425.) 
On Thursday, the 5th of June, W. Frekleton, a healthy, 
strong man, about thirty-five years of age, a publican, ate a 
handful of fool’s parsley, with nearly the same quantity of young 
lettuce, about one o’clock at noon ; in about ten minutes he was 
affected with a pain in the stomach and bowels, attended with a 
rumbling. He walked out in the fields, but was seized with 
such languor, weariness, and weakness, that he supported him- 
self with difficulty. He was much troubled with giddiness in 
the head; his vision was confused, and sometimes objects 
appeared double. At seven o’clock he got an emetic, which 
brought up, he supposes, all the fool’s parsley, but none of the 
lettuce; this relieved him of the unpleasant symptoms in the 
stomach, but the other sensations continued, and he passed a 
restless night. Next day he had much pain in his head and 
eyes, which last were inflamed and bloodshot. He had different 
circumscribed swellings in his face, which were painful and in- 
flamed, but they were transient, and flew from place to place. On 
the Saturday his eyes were highly inflamed, painful, and entirely 
closed by the surrounding inflammation. He was bled, which 
