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,of vegetable Poifons, makes no Mention of this Dif- 
ference. 
Neither the Roots of the Oenanthe of Label. \ nor 
thofe of the Ckuta of Wepfer , have any Flavour in 
them difagreeable enough to deter thofe, who tafte 
them, from eating. They both occafion violent Con- 
vulfions, 'and Death, if not timely prevented. The 
Intention of Cure fee ms in both to be the fame 5 viz. 
firft, by emptying the Stomach and Inteftines as fooh 
as poffible, and then by caufing the Patient to fwal- 
low large Quantities of oleaginous Fluids. But it is 
to be obferved, that the caufing the Patient to fwai- 
low any Quantity is attended with great Difficulty* 
after he is attacked by the Poifon ; becaufe of the 
Jaws being, as it were, locked together by the Vio- 
lence of the Spafm. After the Stomach is freed from 
this pernicious Vegetable, the Symptoms have gene- 
rally diminifhed by Degrees, and the Patient reco- 
vered. 
Threlkeld , in his Synopjis Plantartm , mentions, 
that he has feen great Plenty of this Oenanthe in 
Cumberland , where the Country-People call it Dead 
Tongue > and ufe it, when boiled like a Pultice, to 
the galled Backs of their Horfes. 
Neither the German Botanifts*, nor Haller in his 
Enume ratio Stirpium Helvetia 9r mention this Plant 
as growing amongft them. I believe, therefore, it 
is feldom met with but in Hol!and y England > and in 
fome Parts of France 5 for Morrifon mentions it grow- 
ing 
* Unlefs the Qljewchium of Valerius Crrdus y and Thyjfelmm of 
Dodon<eus y hereafter mention’d, are other Names of the Plant in 
Queftion, 
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