1876 
suffering from some 
ex nce datura poisoning. me 
India should show a far greater mortality = this. on 
Burt 
8 0 nin 
ie or 22°8 per cent. On the other hand, De _Girau - 
records 51 eases of datura poisonin g admitted imto the 
Jamsetjee sojeokinay Hospital: Banas 3 in 1848, without 
a single dea 
‘The poison was detected in 14 cases as compared with 9 ir 
tc Th 
each of the two previous € reports rd 
iat 6 persons were attacked with symptoms of 
datura poisoning ; ly a much r of 
persons than this d, the reports sent with many 
the cases being silent as to ‘whether any individuals ‘were 
poisoned or not. 8 ineluded i 
the 14 cases. One was a 0 aroda ; in 
his case, although the* alkaloid was not detected in the 
viscera of the dee » & powder of which 
= geo — nd swallowed t me hours before 
dea consist Bes A yeibr ie, datura seeds. 
tal eases in oe nuts ‘seldom occur. Pos- 
% 
OV NYIOS 
ty 
et: 
