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unaffected, becoming slightly quickened only during a fit; but 
in oleander poisoning its preteanipre! slowness is a marked 
feature. 
In Madras oleander pounded with Pingel oil is a favourite 
poison with suicides. ‘The Madras Chemical Examiner’s Re- 
port for 1882-83, mentions three cases ; for 1883, two cases ; for 
1885, one case. They were all suicides, the root was detected 
by its physical characters in the vomited matters. 
_ In the whole of India, during the fifteen years ending 1888, 
the reports of the Chemical Examiners record 29 detections of 
oleander,—namely, Bengal, 2; N.-W. Provinces, 2; Madras, 
11; Bombay, 14. Two of the detections in Bombay were in 
connection with cattle poisoning. 
THEVETIA NERIIFOLIA, Juss. 
Fig.—Bot. Mag. 2309; Lyon, Med. Juris. for weraas 
p- 298. Exile or Yellow Oleander (Zng.). 
Hab.— West Indies. Cultivated in India. The bark. 
Vernacular.—Pila-kanér (Hind., Guz.), Kolkaphul (Beng.), 
Pachchaialari, Tiruvachchippu (Tam.), Pachcha-gannéru (7'el.), 
Pachcha-arali (Mal.), Pivala-kanér (Mar.). 
History, Uses, &c.—‘his plant is commonly cultivated 
in India as an ornamental garden shrub. 
Descourtila, i in his Flora of the Antilles, speaks of T. neriifolia 
as an acrid poison, of the bark as a drastic purgative, of the 
fruit as emétic, and of an extract of the plant as a remedy 
for intermittent fever. He describes the case of a young 
negro who had eaten of the green fruit, and who was affected 
with chills, delirium, and other nervous symptoms, nausea, and 
a thready pulse; he had irregular spasms, followed by extreme 
agitation, with singing, laughing, and weeping, and then by 
- a fixed blank look. He seemed tending to coma, but was 
aeheree by an emetic. . 
’ The antiperiodic properties of the bork have been confirmed 
we} Dr. G.  Bidie: (Madras Quart.. Med. poms Vv», Pp, ier 
Dr. J. Shortt (Ibid., -viii.,; ps 294), Epes 
