CONIUM MACGULATUM, ORD. VI. Umbellate. 107 
The symptoms produced by Hemlock, when taken in immoderate 
doses, are related by various authors, the principal of which have 
been collected by Haller and others, and stated in the following 
words: * Intus sumpta facit anxietates, cardialgias, vomitus, appe- 
titum prostratum diuturnum, convulsiones, czcitatem, sopores,”’ 
(Loc.) “vertiginem, dementiam, mortemque ipsam.’? Murray 
App. Med. vol. 1. p. 215.—Cicuta seems to have been, both by the 
Greek ‘and Arabian physicians, very generally employed as an 
external remedy for tumours, ulcers, and cutaneous eruptions; it 
was also thought to have the peculiar power “ frangere stimulum 
venereum ;””" fad this circumstance is the more remarkable, as 
Stéerck, Bergius, and others, recommend its internal use for 
complaints of a contrary nature, and adduce proole of its aphrodisi- 
acal powers.” > 
Baron StGerck was undoubtedly the first shbsichasi es irc! ht 
Hemlock into repute as a medicine of extraordinary, efficacy, by his 
Fate roots boiled, ‘ond found them as agreeable eating at dinner with meat as 
earrots, which they in taste somewhat resembled; and as far as his experience, 
joined with that of others, informed him, the roots might be cultivated in gardens, 
and either eaten raw like celery, or boiled as parseneps or carrots.” (Flor. Lond.) , 
And Murray observes, Non tamen tantopere esse Conium reformidandum, ut 
quidam existimant, patet inde, quod etiam infantibus tenellis impune exhibitum, : * 
nec foetum affecerit sub matris graviditate datum, nec grayidam matrem, nec detri- : 
mentum attulerit largior et per protractius tempus, ad drachmas sex extracti usque 
supraque intra nychthemerum, usus. Stoerck, vide eae Ap. Med. vol. 1. 
p- 216.—Quin & exstant exempla yetustiora, ingestam herbam vel succum “majori 
adeo quantitate subinde tam homines quam bruta Gigs tulisse. Sic Plinius 
caulem viridem comedi, Sextus Empericus feminam producit, que drachmam unam 
succi absque noxa cepit. Murray, 1. c. 
h Areteus de Morb. Acut. L. %. c. 14. Et incrementa mammarum & testium 
cohibere, Anaxilaus & Dioscorides. 
i Impotentiam virilem sub usu Conii curatam observayi, in vireo quodam 
plusquam quadrigenario, qui omnem erectionem penis perdiderat, postinde tamen 
plures liberos procreavit. Bergius Mat. Med. p. 195.—Dr. Cullen, however, 
never discovered its effects in this way. 
