128 FLORA HOMCOPATHICA. 
p. 102), confirms this, and remarks that the convulsions were 
attended with a singular kind of delirium, which made the ani- 
mals run up and down, without apparent cause, as if they were 
maniacal. He also found that the urinary organs were affected 
generally, and for the most part with strangury. 
On Man.—The symptoms it produces in over-doses on man 
have not been often observed ; its effects are singularly uncertain, 
at one time producing most injurious consequences, at another, 
perfectly harmless. It is a narcotico-acrid poison; its narcotic 
effects were shown in the case of Mr. Alexander (Experimental 
Essays, p. 128, 1763), who, in the course of his experiments on 
“his own person, was nearly killed by this poison. After having 
proved, by previous experiments, that a scruple did not affect, 
or cause any particular symptom, he swallowed two scruples, 
mixed with syrup of roses; in twenty minutes he became 
languid and listless; in an hour, giddy, confused, and forgetful ; 
all objects quivered before his eyes, and a tumult of undigested 
ideas floated through his mind; at length he lost all conscious- 
ness, during which he was attacked by strong convulsive fits, 
and maniacal frenzy. These alarming symptoms were dispelled 
on Dr. Monro discovering the subject of his patient’s experi- 
mental researches, by an emetic, but a variety of singularly 
mental affections continued for some time after. The emetic 
brought away all or nearly all the Camphor, which had been 
swallowed three hours before. . 
Dr. Erckhorn, of New Orleans, swallowed three drachms, in 
small doses, within three hours, the only result was, 
‘ great heat, 
palpitation, hurried pulse, 
