166-3 
Cedren-Camphor, C,.H,,0.—This aromatic, almost tasteless body, may be 
extracted from the oil from which it results as satiny needles, soluble in alcohol, 
and fusing at 79° (174.2° F.). 
A bitter extractive, gum, fatty matter, resin, and tannic acid, have also been 
separated from the plant.* 
PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTION.—Dr. C. A. Lee records a case of a woman who 
took an ounce of the oil to produce an abortion. Her symptoms were: Rigors ; 
fever; thirst; raving while in fever, exhausted when out; vomiting of black then 
green matter; griping pain in the bowels; great difficulty in passing urine ; uterine 
hemorrhage, accompanied with labor-like pains; great purging, with stupor with- 
out being able to regain consciousness, and death, Many other cases of poisoning 
by the oil taken in doses of from one drachm to an ounce, for the purpose of 
abortion or as an emmenagogue, show Juniperus Virginiana to cause severe venous 
congestion throughout the body. The class of symptoms are in general as follows: 
Raving or quiet delirium, followed by stupor; pupils dilated; veins of face, head, 
and neck fully distended ; face swollen and livid, or lurid; great thirst, nausea, and 
vomiting ; abdomen swollen, hot, and very painful; great heaving of the chest in 
effort at inspiration, with stertor and a general appearance of impending apoplexy ; 
slow pulse; and violent convulsions. 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE 166. 
End of fruiting branch, Ithaca, N. Y. 
End of fertile branchlet. 
Sterile flower head. 
Scale of staminate rachis, showing unopened anthers. 
Same, with anthers open. 
Fruit. 
Seed. 
. Fruit of Juaiperus Sadina. 
. Distant view of tree. 
(2-5 and 7 enlarged.) 
CHEW ANRY Dm 
* Jenks, Am. Four. Phar., xiv., 235- 
