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three or four times, the eyes opened with a heavy dull expres- s 
sion, and closed again; though he relapsed his condition was 
now improved, the insensibility was not so deep, and his hand — 
was moved to his throat. Small quantities of strong black 
tea were administered. About 10a. m. he became sensible, : 
opened his eyes, and answered, when spoken to; towards the - 
afternoon he walked abont and improved greatly. At 5 in the : 
evening he was sensible but drowsy, pulse small and rapid, . 
complained of being giddy, had vomited twice since morning, ; 
with relief to the symptoms. His recovery was speedy, Mr. 
. Raddock justly infers from these cases that the Bahira is a 
mild narcotic poison. In the last mentioned case he is con- 
vinced that it wouid have proved fatal had the stomach-pump 
not been used, or had emetics failed. He adds that, in two of 
the boys who ate about the same quantity, no effects were pre 
duced till about eight hours after, and the poison was got ri 
of by vomiting. In the third, who ate the most, no effects 
were produced in 12 hours; at least no vomiting resulted, an 
during sleep, insensibility came on, 
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myrobalan (avola), so that it is possible that an accident. 
might occur from the use of spirit so drugged. 
~ Royle and Birdwood merely say that the seeds of the Termé. 
nalia belerica are eaten as nuts. O’Shaughnessy, however, 
adds that they “are deemed intoxicating.” (Chevers.) ‘ 
As regards the seeds eaten in moderation, 
lead to the conclusion that they are perfectly 
us has eaten kernels without any ill effect 
experiments we injected into a cat’ 
extract from 9 grams of the kernels 
another experiment we mixed 13-2 grams of kernels, equal t 
about 35—40 kernels, reduced to a fine pulp, with about 30 
grams of raw meat, also pulped : this mixture was readily eate: 
at 11°5 a. m. by a cat which had been fasting for many hours 
our experiments _ 
harmless; one of — 
8s. In one of our’ 
8 stomach an alcoholic © 
with negative results, In 4 
