68 FLORA HOMCEOPATHICA. 
destroyed by the Scots sending bread to their enemies, and a 
mixture of wine and ale poisoned by this plant, during a truce. 
(Vide Rer. Scotic. Hist., lib. vi. cap. vi.) 
Above 150 soldiers were poisoned by the berries of Bel- 
ladonna, which they gathered at Pirna, near Dresden. And 
Orfila (Toxicol. Génér., 8rd edit., tom. ii. p. 265) gives an 
account of the symptoms: dilatation and immobility of the 
pupil; insensibility, almost complete, of the eye to the pre- 
sence of external objects, or at least confused vision; injection 
of the conjunctiva with bluish blood; protrusion of the eye, 
which in some appeared as if it were dull, and in others ardent 
and furious; dryness of the lips, tongue, palate, and throat ; 
dificult deglutition, or total incapacity to swallow; nausea, 
attended with vomiting ; sense of weakness; lipothymia, syncope ; 
frequent bending forward of the trunk ; continual motion of the 
hands and fingers ; gay delirium, with vacant smile ; aphonia. 
Muller, of Vienna, gives an interesting description of five 
persons (one family) who had eaten of the berries of Belladonna. 
Two of the children (boys), having eaten plentifully, had the 
following symptoms. They attempted to get from their beds, 
and were with difficulty restrained; continual motion of their 
hands and fingers, and desire to lay hold of the coverlets or 
other objects within reach ; thrusting the fingers up the nos- 
trils ; acute delirium; vision nearly gone, but both patients at 
the same time fancied they saw a number of objects; great 
dilatation and insensibility of the pupil; eyeballs alternately 
fixed and rolling ; spasmodic action of the muscles of the face ; 
grinding of the teeth; yawning, etc.; voice hoarse and weak ; 
slight swelling of the left side of the throat, and burning 
sensation in the wsophagus; decided aversion to all liquids in 
both; and spasmodic attacks whenever they were forced to swallow 
anything, 
The following cases are extracted from Orfila (1. c.) A child, 
of four years of age, of a feeble constitution, but otherwise 
well, ate at eleven o'clock a quantity of the berries of Belladonna. 
