VEGETABLE POISONS. Si 



fehfes, and terrible con vullions. The month 

 was fo clofcly fhat, that it c^ould not be 

 opened by any means. Blood * was forced 

 from the ears, arid the eyes were horribly 

 diftorted. Both the boys died' in half an 

 hour from the firft acceffion of the fyrfip- 

 toms. The fix girls, who had takenafmaller 

 quantity of the roots than the' boyo, were 

 likewife fei^ed with epileptic fymptoms, bcit 

 in the intervals of the paroxyfms, fome Venus 

 treacle diffolved in vinegar was given therri 5 

 in cbnfequence of which, they vomited and 

 recovered : but one of them, the filler of the 

 boys who died, after {he vomited, had a very 

 narrow efcape for her life. She lay nine hours 

 with her hands and feet out-dretched and! 

 • cold : all this time fhe had a cadaverous coun- 

 tenance, and her rcXpiration could fcarcely be' 

 perceived. When (lie recovered, flie com- 

 plained a long time of a pain in her itomnchy 

 and was unable to eat any food, her tongue 

 being much wounded by her teeth in the 

 convuUive fits. 



Wepfer has very minutely defcribed the 

 fymptoms which took place in the firft boy, 

 in the following words : 



G *^ Jacobus 



