\. APOCYNACE®. Pee 
September, 1866. A male adult was brought to ‘hospital iv. 
an apparently unconscious ‘state, the trunk and limbs being 
rigid, and the jaw spasmodically closed, the pulse very. feeble, 
and exceedingly slow, about 30. The history was to the 
effect that 5 hours previously more than } tola (45 grains) 
of the fresh root bark of Sheth Kurrubee (white oleander) 
rubbed up with black pepper had been taken. Within half 
an hour the patient began to feel giddy and very heavy, and 
was obliged to lie down: this was shortly followed by a gene- 
ral uneasy sensation and considerable restlessness. Soon. 
afterwards fits occurred, in which the trunk and limbs were, 
rigid and contracted, the hands clenched and ‘thumbs flexed 
inwards on the palms. Profuse perspiration and a sensation 
of constriction round the chest also accompanied each 
_ paroxysm. In hospital the patient had no regular paroxysm, 
but constant museular twitchings were observed all 
over the body, and continued for four or five hours after 
: admission. The rigidity of the muscles gradually wore off, and 
on the morning after admission the patient declared himself 
quite easy save for a slight heaviness about the head. The 
patient stated that he had never lost consciousness, and that his 
mind had been quite clear. Babu K. H. Acharjee (Ind. Med. 
Gaz., 1866,) reports the case of a boy, to- whom the powdered 
root had been administered for intermittent fever. In three 
or four hours he was attacked with tetanus, and was found 
free from fever, quite sensible, the jaws spasmodically closed, 
d the muscles of the body rigid and-contracted. The pa- 
tient recovered. Babu D. Mookerjia draws attention to the 
tetanic symptoms which may occur in oleander. poisoning, as 
evidence that the action of the poison resembles that of strych- 
and he remarks, in the case last mentioned, that all the 
symptoms (as in strychnia poisoning) were developed 
ad the museles of the jaw were likewise the la 
1d: when the symptoms began to subside, they did 
. He‘also adds—the marked difference between the Se 
oleander and-nux-vomica poisoning consists in | 
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