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animal died in about sixty hours, without having appeared 
to experience other symptoms than a very severe pain. On 
opening the body, there was no lesion of the alimentary canal ; 
the lungs were sound ; the membrane operated upon exhibited 
an inflammation so extensive, that it was terminating in sup- 
puration. 
In another experiment, he introduced into the stomach of a 
small dog half an ounce of the dry root, finely pulverized, and 
tied the esophagus. After four hours the animal did not appear 
to be at all affected, but was found dead the next morning. 
The blood which filled the ventricle of the heart was coagulated ; 
the lungs, slightly crepitant, were of a reddish colour, and con- 
tained a considerable quantity of blood ; the stomach, very red 
at the exterior, contained nearly all the injected powder; the 
mucous membrane, of a fiery red, presented here and there 
blackish spots, not ulcerated ; the interior of the large intestines 
was much inflamed; the other parts of the digestive canal 
were scarcely inflamed. The same experiment was repeated 
with three ounces of water, in which had been infused for four 
hours, half an ounce of the root of powdered Bryony. Thirteen 
hours after, the animal did not seem to experience any other 
Symptoms than a great state of debility ; he made but few efforts 
to move, but had no vertigo; he died in the night. On ex- 
amination the next day, the heart was distended by a considerable 
quantity of blood, partly coagulated and partly fluid; the lungs, 
a little red, contained fluid blood; the mucous membrane of 
the stomach was of a cherry-red over its whole extent, including 
the rectum. The other intestines, except the commencement 
of the duodenum, were nearly in a normal state. 
Symptoms on Man.—In a communication in the Gazette de 
Santé, Sept. 1816, there is an account of a woman who had just 
been confined, and the village doctor had ordered her, for the 
purpose of stopping the milk, a draught composed of about an 
ounce of Bryony root, in a pint of water, and a layement made 
of a concentrated decoction of the same substance. Four hours 
