ATROPA BELLADONNA. 69 
The following symptoms soon set in: want of appetite ; nausea ; 
vomiting, and symptoms of drunkenness; slight delirium, and 
inextinguishable thirst; afterwards tumefaction, and redness 
of the face and lips; elevation of the eyelids; dilatation of 
the pupil; insensibility of the eye to light, etc.; convulsive 
contraction of the jaw and muscles of the face and extremities ; 
delirium; very feeble pulse and irregular respiration. The 
next day there was increase of convulsive movements, with 
redness of the face, and great perspiration; the pupil remained 
dilated; there was great rigidity down the spine; tumefaction 
of the abdomen, which was very tender to the touch; consti- 
pation, and weak pulse. The next day these symptoms con- 
tinued, but in a less degree, but he complained of great pain in 
his teeth. On the 31st all the symptoms had disappeared. It 
seems that, after an emetic, vinegar and honey had the best 
antidotal effects. 
Some children ate in a garden some of the fruit of the Bella- 
donna. They soon suffered from violent fever, accompanied by 
convulsions and strong palpitation of the heart; they lost con- 
sciousness, and were very delirious. One died the next day. 
One of the children ate four, the other six berries of Bella- 
donna; an hour after, both of them were so extravagant in their 
manners, that they astonished their mother. Their pupils were 
dilated ; their vision was altered; and a gay delirium, accom- 
panied with fever, set in. The physician who was called in 
found them in a state of great agitation ; talking here and there; 
running; leaping; laughing sardonically ; with purple face and 
rapid pulse. After some tartar emetic, as an emetic, and some 
Glauber salts, the berries were got rid of, and the symptoms 
gradually disappeared. 
Mappi (Plant. Alsat., p. 36) says that the wine of Belladonna 
occasions a universal gangrene, followed by death. 
Ithas also been observed, that the berries of the Belladonna have = 
been taken without producing any sensible effect, viz.: two chil- | 
dren, after dinner, ate each two berries of the Belladonna, without 
