151 ANACYCLUS PYKETHRUM 



caution in its use, for the swallowing by a child of three and 

 a half years old, of about fifty minims of the tincture, was fol- 

 lowed by profuse perspiration, and restlessness, succeeded by an 

 exhausting and painful diarrhoea, then by stupor, rapid and weak 

 pulse, and twitching of the limbs, and subsequently after fourteen 

 hours by violent convulsions which left the child apparently 

 moribund, but he ultimately recovered under treatment by 

 enemata of starch with five drops of tincture of opium, port wine 

 and coffee, and by the application of ice to the forehead and 

 spine. 



In India and some other parts of the East it is a favourite 

 remedy ; it is given internally by the Mahomedans, as a cordial 

 and stimulant, in the lethargic stages of typhus fever, and in 

 paralytic affections. 



Per. Mat. Med., vol. ii, pt. 2, p. 21; Pharmacographia, p. 342; 

 U. S. Disp., by W. &B., p. 719; Waring's Man. Pract. Therap., 

 p. 601 ; Ainslie's Mat. Med. of Hindostan, p. 34 ; O'Shaugh- 

 nessy's Bengal Disp., p. 414 ; H. Langley Brown, in Practi- 

 tioner for August, 1876. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE. 



Drawn from a specimen in the Royal Gardens, Kew. 



1. A prostrate stem with, numerous flower-beads. 



2. Section of a flower-head. 



3. A disk-flower. 



4. Section of corolla. 



5. A ray-flower. 



6. A stamen. 



7. The stigma. 



8. Scale from the receptacle. 



(2-8 enlarged.) 



