. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany. Botany; Botany, Economic. POISONOUS DRUGS 189 the bitterest substances used in medicine. One part of strj'chnine gives a bitter taste to 700,000 parts of water. It is one of the most violent , but in minute doses is highly valued as a tonic by physicians. The drug aconite is the dried tuber of the monkshood. Flu. 177, I.—Nux Vomica, (Stnjchnos Nux-Dornica, Logania Family. Lu- ganiacece). Flowering branch. (Baillon.)—Tree of moderate height; leaves glossy; flowers greenish or yellow; fruit orange. Native home, India and East Indies. (F
. Plants and their uses; an introduction to botany. Botany; Botany, Economic. POISONOUS DRUGS 189 the bitterest substances used in medicine. One part of strj'chnine gives a bitter taste to 700,000 parts of water. It is one of the most violent , but in minute doses is highly valued as a tonic by physicians. The drug aconite is the dried tuber of the monkshood. Flu. 177, I.—Nux Vomica, (Stnjchnos Nux-Dornica, Logania Family. Lu- ganiacece). Flowering branch. (Baillon.)—Tree of moderate height; leaves glossy; flowers greenish or yellow; fruit orange. Native home, India and East Indies. (Fig. 178). This species and nearly related ones are among the most poisonous of plants. The juice of an East Indian species is used by the natives as an arrow-poison which is .so powerful as to kill a tiger within a few minutes after it has been even slightly wounded with one of the poisoned Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Sargent, Frederick Leroy, 1863-. New York, H. Holt and Company
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