POISONING BY SAVIN. 



The tops of the juniperus sabiiia when powdered and given to 

 dogs produce violent colic, vomiting, bloody faeces and urine, 

 spasms, paralysis, and death, with lesions of gastro-intestinal and 

 uro-genital inflammation. In cattle and sheep they caused tym- 

 pany, anorexia, colic, hyperthermia, and constipation followed 

 by a bloody diarrhoea. Horses took 4, 8 and even 12 ozs. twice 

 daily for eight days without any ill effect (Sick) . 



Treatment. Evacuate the stomach and give demulcents. 



OTHER VEGETABLE IRRITANTS. 



List of gastro-intestinal irritants. Common Symptoms. General treat- 

 ment : emesis, stomach pump, diluents, demulcents, laxatives, enemata, 

 anodynes, antiseptics, tannic acid. Prevention. 



Among vegetables which produce more or less disturbance of 

 the digestion, or congestion of the digestive organs Cadeac names 

 the following : Acorns in horses (Morton) ; tares ; bird's trefoil 

 (lotus corniculatus, Colin) ; vetches at ripening (Gerlach) ; 

 laburnum (cytissus) horse and ox (Cornevin) ; hybrid and 

 sweet trefoil (Pilz) ; officinal melilot (Carrey) ; the field 

 poppy, digitalis and snapdragon often mixed with wheat and 

 rye (Cornevin) ; coniutn maculatum, cicuta virosa, yew 

 leaves, lolium temulentum, and other forms of ryegrass when 

 ripening ; chickweed (stellaria) killed 60 horses in 200 

 (Semmer) ; clematis, aconite, tobacco, male fern, aloes, 

 horsetail (equisetum) when full of silica ; mercurialis annua, 

 wild radish, resinous plants, potato tops, potatoes in ex- 

 cess, or green from exposure to the sun ; CEnanthe Crocata 

 (water dropwort) ; giant fennel, anemone, Phytolacca (poke 

 root) ; buckwheat in flower (Moisant) ; St. John's wort, 

 various species of lathyrus, rhododendron, artichokes in ex- 

 cess, spurry seeds, galega, bryony, the fruit of melia azedar- 

 ach (in pigs) (Dreux) ; nux vomica, podophyllum. 

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