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-creased rates of pulse and respiration. In cattle also the 
pulse is accelerated and there is salivation, bloating and 
great pain. A small quantity is sufficient to produce 
‘marked effects. The plant has a disagreeable odour and 
is coarse and unattractive when full grown. In early 
summer, however, the leaves are succulent and are some- 
times eaten by grazing animals. 
Chesnut recommends the following treatment: “Use 
of the stomach pump or emetics, tannin, tea, oak bark, 
stimulants, warmth at the extremities, arti- 
ficial respiration and the subcutaneous injec- 
tion of atropin.” 
The plant, though introduced from Europe, is found 
throughout the east to the Great Lake region, ‘and again 
in the mountains of the west. It is an erect, 
biennial, branching plant, two to six feet tall, 
with a hollow stem spotted with purple. The leaves are 
large and pinnately decompound, with much-dissected 
leaflets, the ultimate divisions resembling parsley in ap- 
pearance. The flowers are small and white, in large com- 
pound umbels. The fruit is smooth, ovate and flattened, 
with prominent, wavy ribs. It has no oil ducts. The 
tapering root is about an inch in diameter and has an 
odour like that of parsnip. The rest of the plant, when 
crushed, produces the characteristic foetid odour of 
coniin. 
Treatment 
The Plant 
“THE WATER PARSNIP—Sium cicutaefoliwm Schrank. 
Miss Fyles reports cases from different parts of Can- 
ada where animals have died from the effects of Water 
Parsnip. Symptoms and treatment have not been worked 
out. The poison apparently acts on the kidneys. 
