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creased rates of pulse and respiration. In cattle also the 

 pulse is accelerated and there is salivation, bloating and 

 great pain. A small quantity is sufficient to produce 

 marked effects. The plant has a disagreeable odour and 

 is coarse and unattractive when full grown. In early 

 summer, however, the leaves are succulent and are some- 

 times eaten by grazing animals. 



Chesnut recommends the following treatment: "Use 



of the stomach pump or emetics, tannin, tea, oak bark, 



L stimulants, warmth at the extremities, arti- 



Treatment . . 



ficial respiration and the subcutaneous injec- 

 tion of atropin." 



The plant, though introduced from Europe, is found 

 throughout the east to the Great Lake region, and again 

 Th PI- t m ^ ne moun tains of the west. It is an erect, 



biennial, branching plant, two to six feet tall, 

 with a hollow stem spotted with purple. The leaves are 

 large and pinnately decompound, with much-dissected 

 leaflets, the ultimate divisions resembling parsley in ap- 

 pearance. The flowers are small and white, in large com- 

 pound umbels. The fruit is smooth, ovate and flattened, 

 with prominent, wavy ribs. It has no oil ducts. The 

 tapering root is about an inch in diameter and has an 

 odour like that of parsnip. The rest of the plant, when 

 crushed, produces the characteristic foetid odour oi' 

 coniin. 



THE WATER PAESNIP Slum cicutaefolium Schrank. 



Miss Fyles reports cases from different parts of Can- 

 ada where animals have died from the effects of Water 

 Parsnip. Symptoms and treatment have not been worked 

 out. The poison apparently acts on the kidneys. 



