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what they had in their hands. They went out to play again, but in about twenty minutes the 

 two Johnson boys fell to the ground as if in a fit, soon passing into convulsions. The Kingery 

 lad was able to walk to his home, but was soon taken with spasms. Dr. Hester was called and 

 by a vomiting process in a few hours had the child out of danger. 



Dr. Lyon was summoned to the Johnson home, getting there at 6:30. The little fellows 

 were already in terrible convulsions and nothing could be done for them, one dying at 6:45 

 and the other at 7:15. 



Dr. Millspaugh, in his American Medicinal Plants, Fascicle 4., No. 67, has 

 recorded the following observations concerning the physiological action of the 

 Cicuta maculata: 



"Many cases of poisoning from the root of this species have been reported, all showing, 

 by the symptoms, that Cicuta produces great hyperaemia of the brain and spinal cord. The 

 following case reported by letter to Dr. Bigelow* by Dr. R. Hazeltine, (1818), gives all 



Fig. 373. Purple Stemmed Poison 

 Hemlock (Cicuta Douglasii) of the Pa- 

 cific Coast. It is very poisonous. 

 (Chesnut, U. S. Dept. Agr.) 



•Bigelow, Amer. Med. Bot. Vol. III., p. 181. 



