“402 APOCYNACE®:. 
‘an essential oil of disagreeable odour, and acrystalline body, the 
“aqueous solution of which has a fine blue fluorescence, especially 
after the addition of an alkali. This latter substance was only 
found in old bark. 
~ Toxicology:—Chevers (Med. Juris. for India) vefers to the 
toxicology of the drug at length, and states on the authority 
‘of Honigberger that the reot of the hill plant is more ‘toxic 
‘than that grown in gardens ; he remarks that it is proverbial 
among females of the hills, when quarrelling, to bid each other 
go and eat the root of the Kaner. Ainslie also refers to its 
‘use by Hindu women when tormented by jealousy, and 
“Broughton says that it is well known and extensively used in 
‘the Bombay Presidency as a poison, the juice from the red 
‘variety being considered the strongest and most fatal. — It is 
‘also stated to be much used as a poison in the Umballa dis- 
‘trict, the reot sometimes being given in coffee. Dr. Cleghorn 
(1868) records the history of two male adults who were found 
_ dead in the house of a prostitute. The woman confessed that 
‘she had given them the powdered root of Kurrubee in milk as 
acure for gonorrhea, from which they were suffering, the root 
‘being a popular remedy for venereal and skin diseases. Soon 
after taking the mixture, the men became sick, vomited, and 
complained of pain in the abdomen, writhed about the floor, 
and latterly became sleepy. On post-mortem examination the 
following points were noted:— 
Bra in—In one case engorgement of venous sinuses : casio 
_- sanguinea abundant: otherwisé apparently normal. In the 
se other case the brain is reported as apparently healthy. 
+ Heart,—In one case vessels on exterior surface congested , 
os eight ventricle distended with dark fluid blood; valves, &c., 
healthy. In the other case, two ounces of serum were found 
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