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comes ftronger, they carefully avoid it : hence 

 the plant is fometimes called cow-bane. Al- 

 though it is a certain and fatal poifon to 

 cows, goats devour it greedily, and with im- 

 punity, and horfes and fheep eat it with 

 fafety. Linnsus affures us, that he has 

 known cattle die by eating the roots : and 

 Wepfer fays that one ounce of it threw a dog 

 into convulfions, and two killed him. 



ScHWENKE, a German writer, gives an 

 account of four boys vvho had the misfor- 

 tune to eat of it, three of whom died in 

 convulfions *. 



In the month of March 1670, two boys 

 and fix girls found the roots of the cicuta 

 aquatica in a meadow, and upon tailing 

 them, perceiving they were not unpleafant, 

 they all eat fome of them f . 



The two boys, who eat a large quantity, 

 were foon after feized with pains of the prc- 

 cordia, lofs of fpeech, an abolition of all the 



* Schwenke, Catal. Stirp. & Foflil. Silefis* 



t Wepfer, de Cicutae Aquatic* Hiftoria k Noxae, 



p. 7. 



fenfes. 



