On poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine . quivalent JETHTJSA CYNAPIUM ANALYSIS. 713 to ninety grains of the fruit. The largest dose of the tincture of theunripe fruit was two fluid ounces, equivalent to more than 300 grainsof the fruit. Of the oleo-resin ten grains were given in solution to ahealthy adult. With these doses no effects whatever indicative of apoisonous action were produced. No trace of gastric irritation or anysymptom, immediate or subsequent, occurred in any case. (St. Thom-ass Hospital Reports, 1873, vol. 4, p. 43.) Analysis.—The sethusa is known from gard
On poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine . quivalent JETHTJSA CYNAPIUM ANALYSIS. 713 to ninety grains of the fruit. The largest dose of the tincture of theunripe fruit was two fluid ounces, equivalent to more than 300 grainsof the fruit. Of the oleo-resin ten grains were given in solution to ahealthy adult. With these doses no effects whatever indicative of apoisonous action were produced. No trace of gastric irritation or anysymptom, immediate or subsequent, occurred in any case. (St. Thom-ass Hospital Reports, 1873, vol. 4, p. 43.) Analysis.—The sethusa is known from garden parsley by the smellof its leaves when rubbed, which is peculiar, disagreeable, and verydifferent from that possessed by the leaves of parsley (see Fig. 79, , ante). The leaves of fools parsley are finer, more acute, decurrent,of a darker green color. They are represented in the annexed illustra-tion (Fig. 84) from a photograph of the leaf of the living plant. Fig. 85 represents the seeds of the plant, of the natural size and mag- FlG. 84. Fig.
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