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XII. Critical Obfervations concerning the Oenan- 
the aquatica,fucco virolo crocan te of Lobel ; 
by Mr. W. W atfbn, Apothecary fF.R.S ; occa- 
jiori d by an ExtraB of a Letter from Mr. 
George Howell, Surgeon , at Haverford- 
weft, to the Author , giving an Account of 
the poifonous EjfeEls of this Plant to fome 
French Prifoners at Pembroke. 
Extra of Mr. Howell’/ Letter. 
Read June 12. 
1746. 
<c 
A S you defire in your Letter, I 
cc have made the beft Inquiry I 
was capable of, concerning the melancholy Acci- 
“ dent at Pembroke . 
“ Eleven French Prifoners had the Liberty of 
c< walking in and about the Town of Pembroke: 
lc Three of them, being in the Fields a little before 
c< Noon, found and dug up a large Quantity of a 
“ Plant with its Roots (which they took to be wild 
Celeri) to eat with their Bread and Butter for 
“ Dinner. After wafhing it, while yet in the Fields, 
u they all three eat, or rather tailed, of the B.oots. 
“ As they were entering the Town, without 
“ any previous Notice of Sicknefs at the Stomach 
<{ or Diforder in the Head, one of them was feized 
a with Convulfions. The other two ran home, 
<c and fent a Surgeon to him. The Surgeon endea- 
vour’d firft to bleed, and then vomit him ; but 
< c thofe Endeavours were fruitlefs, and he died pre- 
“ fently. 
Ignorant 
