Observations on poisons; and on the use of mercury in the cure of obstinate dysenteries / by Thomas Houlston.

Date:
1784
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Credit: Observations on poisons; and on the use of mercury in the cure of obstinate dysenteries / by Thomas Houlston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Magazine for Auguft, 1781.* Similar are the effects of the cicuta aquatica, or water-hem- lock, which, like the two former, almoft cer^ tainly and fpeedily produces death. Mri Wilmer enumerates further the following indu- genous plants of a poifonous quality, though their a&ion is neither fo fpeedy, nor fo una- voidably fatal, as that of the foregoing ones. THE Hyofcamis Niger, Henbane : Belladonna, Deadly Nightjhade i Napellus Coeruleus, Blue Monk’s-hood : Cynocrambe, Dog’s Mercury : Stramonium, Thorn Apple : Cicuta Major, Common Hemlock i Amricus Mufcarins. Bug Agaric : and Fungus Piperatus, Pepper Agaric. The * Sec No. III. -f- Children, and ignorant people, are often induced by their appearance to eat of the berries of this flirub. In Dodfley’s Annual Regifter for 1780, vve read of two wo- men, who, gleaning in a field near Cambridge, were found nearly dead from this caufe, and were fucccfsfully affifted by Mr. Hoffman of that city. Other inftances are there alfo brought, of perfons dying, or being almoft dead, from having eat of thefe berries or the plant itfelf. The method