228 FLORA HOMCOPATHICA. 
moments. His countenance was bloated, the pulse only thirty, 
and the extremities cold. The insensibility became rapidly 
deeper and deeper till he died, three hours after taking the 
soup. His companions recovered (Corvisart, Journ. de Méd., 
vol. xxix. p. 107). 
Mr. W. Watson gives an account of two Dutch soldiers, who 
were quartered at Waltham Abbey, in Essex. “They collected 
on Sunday, May 6, 1744, in the fields adjoining, a quantity of 
herbs, sufficient for themselves and two others for dinner, when 
boiled with bacon; these herbs were therefore dressed, and the 
poor men first ate of the broth with bread, and afterwards the 
herbs with bacon. In a short time after they were all seized 
with violent vertigo; they soon afterwards were comatose, and 
two of them grew convulsed and died in about three hours. A 
physician ordered the other two, at that time almost dead, large 
quantities of oil, by which means they threw up most of what 
they had eaten, and afterwards grew better. In all of them the 
effects were the same as those from a large dose of opium. 
Another soldier ate of the broth made from the Hemlock, with 
bread, and felt scarce any inconvenience therefrom” (Phil. 
Trans., vol. xliii. No. 473, pp. 18—20). 
Mepicat Uses (Hommoraruic).—Hahnemann’s observations: 
“ Press out the juice of the whole plant just before it flowers ; 
mix it with equal parts of alcohol. 
“Conium maculatum is one of those medicines in which it is 
least easy to distinguish between primary and consecutive 
effects. Among its symptoms are many opposed to each other 
in certain respects, which must be considered as alternate 
effects, or perhaps temporary consecutive ones, suspended for a 
while by some new aggravation of the remedy. 
“ As to the fatal consequences that follow the continued use 
of Conium in large doses, with which we have been made 
acquainted by the unfortunate treatment of Stérck, Lange, 
Andrée, Ehrhardt, Greding, etc. etc., they are true consecutive 
effects, produced by efforts of nature, fearfully attacked by such 
