1888. | BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 101 
-of these cases is attributed to Linnzeus, 1757, who mentions | in an 
upon the strawberry the poisonous effects ‘of the fruit, and vito abe 
End symptom to be an eruption of the skin. Four other cases of the 
a 
the severi ity of the attack and the Jafforing of the sti ent. All o 
foreign cases, I believe, are recorded in Allen’s Encyclopedia of Pure Ma- 
teria Medica. On this side of the Atlantic the only ease recorded pre- 
vious to those ineatonad by myself, so far as I know, is a very interest- 
ing one which came under Dr. Millspaugh’s perianal 0 observation in his 
own practice, and is noted in Millspaugh’s American Medicinal Plants, 
Fascicle III, p. 55. 
ne very important difference between the six cases here alluded to 
by 
and those mentioned myself in the January GAZETTE is worthy of 
special note, namely, that hereas oa the former, far as stated, the 
poisoni lways resulted from eating the fruit, : the latter the mere 
inhalation of the odor of the ripe fruit might, and in many instances did, 
cause the F vary without tasting or even ame the fruit itself. 
Cornell Univer A. N. PRENTISS. 
n the Ce GazErte of January, 1888, Pr of. A. N. ebdigilee as on 
Cotiet University, refers to two interesting cases of strawberry poi 
as and states that they are the only instances of whi ch he has eier 
Since this particular idiosyncrasy is so rare, I will furnish additional 
testimony in r — to a cousin of min e, formerly resident in Glens Falls, 
N. Y., now deceased. She had never staaiionte d fondness for cetawhaeriok 
0 
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ing it a case of vegetable poison. One of them went out into the arm 
to find what there was ‘to tempt the child, and, cele g, said he 
nothing there but strawberries which would produce such results, and 
they were poisonous to his wife. The other uysaien said the symptoms 
: 
ome ¢ ich 
Strawberries. Her sister fulcind ih that later in life oi bee occa- 
owe them without experiencing ill effects . Hoag 
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