On poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine . ndtranslucent. They are open at the top, allowing a hard brown kernelto be seen. This is of an ovoid shape, and it forms the greater part ofthe berry. The fine red skin contains a colorless and remarkably viscidor adhesive juice, which reddens litmus-paper, and has a nauseoussweetish taste. PRIVET (lIGUSTRTJM VULGARE). The privet is not commonly enumerated among vegetable reference is made to this plant in the works of Wibmer, Orfila,Christison, and other writers on toxicology; and yet it would appear,from the subjoined
On poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine . ndtranslucent. They are open at the top, allowing a hard brown kernelto be seen. This is of an ovoid shape, and it forms the greater part ofthe berry. The fine red skin contains a colorless and remarkably viscidor adhesive juice, which reddens litmus-paper, and has a nauseoussweetish taste. PRIVET (lIGUSTRTJM VULGARE). The privet is not commonly enumerated among vegetable reference is made to this plant in the works of Wibmer, Orfila,Christison, and other writers on toxicology; and yet it would appear,from the subjoined cases—for the brief particulars of which I am in-debted to Mr. Ward, of Ollerton—that the berries may exert a poison-ous action. In December, 1853, three children ate the berries of theprivet, two of them, a boy three years of age and a girl of six, eatingthem rather freely. They suffered from violent purging, and whenseen by a medical man the little boy was found pulseless and cold, andbefore death he was frequently and violently convulsed. The girl was. Yew leaves and fragments, naturalsize. 750 THE HOLLY GUELDER ROSE. in a state of collapse, but rallied a little under treatment; soon after-wards she died convulsed. The surviving child, who had only tastedthe berries, did not suffer, and she was enabled to point out the shrub,the berries of which they had gathered. A case has been communi-cated to me which occurred in November, 1866, in which a child, , died thirty-seven days after eating these berries; symptoms of irri-tation continuing more or less throughout. After death, there werethe well-marked appearances of mesenteric disease. According toLoudon, the berries are eaten by birds when other sources of food Moore, of Lancaster, has given me a notice of two cases, whichshow that the leaves of the privet, besides causing vomiting and purg-ing, act upon the brain and spinal marrow. In May, 1872, two chil-dren, aged twelve and eight years respectively, ate a
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