48 On the Salivating Effects 



move the doubts of many Americans, concerning 

 the injurious effects which, it is believed, have fol- 

 lowed the eating of the flesh of the American Phea- 

 sant CTetrao umbellus), in Philadelphia, &c. That 

 these birds, in consequence of their having fed upon 

 the leaves, &c. of the Laurel (Kalmia latifolia) and 

 other poisonous vegetables, have sometimes pro- 

 duced very alarming effects, and even death itself, in 

 persons who have eaten of their flesh, cannot, I think, 

 admit of a doubt. If the principles which I have 

 laid down be correct, there will be little danger in 

 eating the Pheasant (even when it may have subsisted, 

 for some time, upon the Laurel, 8cc), provided the 

 bird's stomach and intestines be carefully removed, 

 immediately after the death of the animal. Without 

 this treatment, accidents will occasionally occur, espe- 

 cially in severe winters, daring which the ground has 

 been, for a long time, covered with snows. 



The Editor. 



VII. On the SalhaWig and other effects of the Digi- 

 talis Purpurea, hi a case of Dropsy. Communicated 

 in a letter to the Editor, from Dr. Enoch Wil- 

 son, of Hights-Toivn, in Ne%v- Jersey. 



Dear Sir, 



AT our late interview, at the Aims-House, 

 in the city of Philadelphia, you called my attention 

 to a patient, in the medical department, who had been 

 completely salivated by the Gum Guaiac. ; adding, 

 that it was not the only case you had met with (al- 



