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Bodaeus a Stapel, in his comment upon Theo- 
phraftus (15), tells us of two youths, that eat two 
or three of thefe berries, which they got in the Ley- 
den garden, miftaking them for black currants : one 
of them periffied, and the other recovered with great 
difficulty. 
Simon Pauli relates two or three examples to the 
fame effedt (16). Wepfer gives us a circumftantial 
account of a child about ten years old, who was 
thrown into a great variety of convulftve fymptoms 
after eating of this fruit : but proper care being taken 
by vomiting, and afterwards giving alexipharmics and 
anti-epileptic medicines, he recovered (17). 
M. Boulduc (18) laid before the Royal Academy 
of Sciences at Paris, the cafe of fome children, who, 
upon eating thefe berries, were feized with a vio- 
lent fever, palpitations of the heart, convullions, and 
loft their fenfes. One of them, a little boy of four 
years old, died the next morning. 
Boerhaave has inftances to the fame effiedt ( 1 9) : 
and it was the misfortune of Dr. Abraham Munting, 
a noted botanift and profeftor of phylic in the uni- 
verfttv of Groningen, to have his own daughter 
.poifoned with the berries of the Bella-donna. 
It would be almoft endlefs to recite all the in- 
ftances to be met with upon this head. The Ger- 
man Ephemerides, the Commercium Literarium, and 
other periodical works, furniffi us with farther proofs 
(15) Page 586. 
(16) Quadripart. Botan. p.4.88. 
(17) Cicut. Aquat. Hiftoria et Noxas. Bafil. 1716. p. 228. 
(18) Hiftoire de l’Academie Royale. 1703. 
(19) Hift. Plant. Lugd. Bat. Hort. p. 510. 
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