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the rocits of this plant, in two perfons who 

 had miftaken them for thofe of the Macedo- 

 nian parfley. Soon after eating the roots, 

 theycomplamed of violent heat in the throat 

 and ftomacla, attended with a vertigo, fick^Ts 

 nefs at the ilorxiach, and purging. O^e of 

 them bled at the nofe :, the other was violently 

 convulfed. Both died : one in two hours, the 

 other in three,. This cafe is accompanied with 

 figures of the plau-t, bujt not v-ery well executed. 



The fymptonas which attended the above 

 recited cafe, were different from thofe of the 

 French prifoners at. Pembroke : as in the lat- 

 ter there was no complaint of heat in the 

 mouth or throat, nor did any ficknefs or dis- 

 order of the ftomach pi:ecede the -convqlfive 

 paroxyfms. 



The oenanthe is very common in Cum- 

 berland, where the common people call it 

 dead tongue, and apply it boiled in cata- 

 plafms to fome difeafes in their horfes *. 



The root of this plant has no ill tafte : 

 J^ence it is the more dangerous to thofe whofe 



* Threlkeld, SynopC Plantar, 



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