RUSSIAN RESEARCH CENTER 
38 Quincy Street 
Memorandum Date April 12, 1951 
From C. Brant 
To D r, Richard Howard 
CASE HISTORY OF MAUCIHELLA (?) POISONING 
Quantity eaten: app. i fruit (which had fallen off %ree)o» beach) 
Time:- About llf:30 A.M. 
Symptoms: 
Immediate — hitter taste in mouth, getting stronger 
(also salty taste, probably because fruit 
had been sprayed or even submerged at high tide)) 
Around 4 ^- parched feeling in mouth and throat;: great 
thirst * 1 * * * S , unrelieved by- drinking* Rapidly 
progressing loss of strength and of appetite- 
for anything, including liquids. 
Between 1 and 1:30 - first loose bowel movement. Throughout 
afternoon — how&e movements-- at about 3/b hr to 1 hr inter¬ 
nals, C ontinued weakness, but slight gain 
in strength around b P.M. 
Todk paregoric; in large doses, no- other 
medication, Without effect. 
Ate light supper (soup, milk, toast). 
Throughout night, bowel movement's continued, with cramps. 
I believe they increased in frequency, often coming at 
l/b hrrte 1/2 hr-intervals. Greatest frequency of bowel 
movements came toward morning, between b and ? A,M. 
9*30 A.M. - noticed when getting up that interior of 
mouth almost totally white. Parched feeling 
gone, however. 
Between 10- and 12 A.M. - only- two more bowel movements, 
S light appetite by noon. 
P.M. - Strength and appetite rapidly going b a ck to normal. 
Whiteness in arhutht almost gone by evening. 
HO bowel movements for the following SIX r days, when 
laxative was taken. 
