30 NOTES ON A CASE OF POISONING. 



However, no such cause was to be found but she said the child 

 had been eating the plant she produced, which is said to have 

 a pleasant taste. Under prompt treatment the child improved 

 and next day was nearly well, and on the following day 

 apparently none the worse for its botanical experiments, but 

 the parents have decided not to grow a trumpet lily in their 

 garden, as they had intended doing. I have heard that a 

 similar case occurred here some years ago, but have been 

 unable to find out the particulars, or how the case terminated. 

 My object in bringing forward this case, apart from the 

 scientific interest, is, that although proverbially "a little 

 knowledge is a dangerous thing," still, the knowledge of the 

 unsuspected dangers existing in our gardens is of interest to 

 those of us, like myself, having chixdren of an inouisitive turn 

 of mind 



