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Veratrum album, cevadilla and viride produce tremors and 

 spasms. 



Ranunculus causes stupor, trembling, loss of lumbar reflex 

 and sudden death. 



Digitalis paralyzes lips and hind limbs, with stupor and con- 

 tracted pupils. 



CEnanthe crocata caused general paralysis. 



Conium maculatum led to anaesthesia, blindness dilated 

 pupil, palsy and convulsions. 



Vetches, lupins, ryegrass, millet, etc., already named (Vol. 

 II. and Meningitis). 



Fermented potatoes, chestnuts, beechnuts (see Vertigo). 



Ergot, smut, musty fodder, mouldy meal or bread (see 

 poisoning by Cryptogams). 



Bitter almond cake, wilted leaves of choke cherry, 

 hydrocyanic acid cause vertigo, tremors, paresis, epileptiform 

 convulsions. 



Aconite leads to anaesthesia, paralysis and death. 



Tobacco entails nausea, vertigo, cardiac prostration, and 

 death. 



Artemesia cinae and santonin cause in dogs epileptiform 

 convulsions and paraplegia. 



Box leaves produced coma, vertigo and convulsions. 



Cicuta virosa determines epileptiform convulsions. 



Iodoform entails stupor, sopor, coma, and rabiform symptoms. 



Strychnia, ergot and rhus cause tonic spasms. 



Coriaria Myrtifolia of Southern Europe yields a deadly 

 narcotic glucoside. 



Fruit of the Umgamu of S. Africa makes an intoxicating 

 drink acting on animals and man. 



The Coca of Brazil paralyzes sensibility and is said to over- 

 come fatigue. 



The Pareca, a species of inga of the Amazon valley acts in 

 the same way : a snuff by a new subject causing him to fall as if 

 shot, while the inured are exhilarated, and hunger, fatigue and 

 depression are relieved. Captain Herndon says it is made from 

 the ashes of a vine, the seeds of the acacia angico and the leaves 

 of the abuta (cocculus). When nearly dead with hunger, fatigue 

 and fever, a snuff made him fall drunk in the hammock, his limbs 

 feeling as if under an electric shock ; on rising he felt no pain and 



