VEGETABLE POISONS. 45 



Although the root of hemlock has by 

 many been fuppofed to be the moft adlive, 

 and the moft poifonous part of the plant; 

 yet it has been given in dofes of thirty grains 

 in quartan agues, acute fevers *, and fchir- 

 rous livers -f-, without any ill effeft. 



Mr, Ray informs us, that his friend Mr. 

 Pettiver eat half an ounce of the root of this 

 plant; and that Mr. Henley, afriend of Mr. 

 Pettiver*s, in his prefence eat, without any 

 inconvenience, three or four ounces of the 

 fame root §. 



From thefe inftances, and many others, 

 the poifonous effedts of this plant have been 

 much fufpe(fted. 



Since the cicuta was recommended by 

 Dr. Storck as a certain cure for many of the 



cxperimenti ergo, Lugduni Batavorum, ubi in fofHs 

 extra urbem frequens crefcit. Lindeftolpe, de Venenis, 

 P- 43'- 



* Bowie apud Raium Hift, Plant, i. 451. 



f Renealme, Obferv. iii. and iv. Etmuller, Schrac- 

 der. Diluc. par. i. fedt. ii. p. wi. 



§ Synopf. ed. 2. p. 326. 



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