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at stomach and free vomiting of a thick white frothy mucus. With 
regard to the third boy, who was weakly and seven years old, the 
symptoms were more severe. Briefly stated, they were as follows :— 
Total insensibility ; heart’s action frequent and weak; legs cold, eyes 
rather glistening, and pupils normal but fixed; jaw firmly closed. 
This boy had eaten the largest quantity, it is said between 20 to 30 
kernels, He is said to have played all day and night before going 
to bed. He showed no symptoms of poisoning till the following 
morning, when he was found insensible. Notice in these cases the 
long time that it took for the poisonous symptoms to show themselves. 
In the first two boys they did not appear till about eight hours after, 
and in the third boy not even in twelve hours. 
The other set of cases referred to by Dr. Lyon are from the 
Bombay Chemical Analyser’s Report (1878-79, p. 14), in which a 
woman and two children, one of whom was a weakly girl of eight or 
nine years, were poisoned. Of these, the girl died and the two others 
recovered. The symptoms were nausea and yomiting followed by 
narcotism, Dr, Lyon observes that it is not known to what these 
narcotic properties are due. In a collection of old Sanskrit obser- 
vations on Indian drugs recently edited by Mr. R. 8. Lale under the 
name of Guna Dosha-Prakdsh (1892, p. 185) the kernel of Behedd 
is referred to as intoxicating. O’Shaughnessy seems to have heard of 
this property. 
From all accounts I have hitherto received, it appears probabie that 
the eating of the kernel affects different individuals differently. In 
some it produces intoxication ; in others it is harmless even in large 
quantities. This reminds one of the effect of a variety of Arecha 
catechu or Supdér2 nut, known as Méjri Supéri has on different 
individuals, d/djr2 means “ intoxicating.” True to its name in some, 
Majri Supéri unmistakably produces giddiness, nausea, hiccup ; where- 
as in others it is perfectly harmless. 
In the printed Proceedings of the Grant Medical College Society for 
the year 1880 (ude Part No. 8, p. 71) there is an abstract of an 
interesting paper recording a case of poisoning by the kernel of 
Behedé seed, which occurred in the practice of Dr. Tribhuvandas 
M. Shah, L.M., then Assistant Surgeon at Ahmedabad, now Chief 
Medical Officer of Junagadh State. Dr, Tribhuyandas is one of the 
