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io unruly, that it was with much difficulty 

 they were kept in bed. 



Dr. Lambert gave them 15 grains of 

 white vitriol, which foon occaiioned a fick- 

 nefs. The emetic was repeated, and they 

 vomited plentifully ; they were ordered to 

 drink an oily emulfion. Cathartic medicines 

 were given by the mouth, and a common 

 clyfter was adminiftered. At twelve o'clock 

 at night, the purgative medicines produced 

 the wifhed-for efFedt, and the ilools appeared 

 purple like the juice of the berries, inter- 

 mixed with their black flcins : after this they 

 were foon relieved : they fpoke, and became 

 fenfible; but their eyes continued feveral 

 days in a weak ftate, and the laft fymptom 

 which remained was a vertigo. 



It appears from the hiftory of this cafe, 

 that emetics were of no ufe, and the reafon 

 is very obvious. Dr. Lambert was not called 

 till twenty-one hours had elapfed from the 

 time the children eat the berries, and the 

 ftomach had probably long before paffed 

 them into the inteftines. 



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