Observations on the poisonous vegetables which are either indigenous in Great-Britain, or cultivated for ornament / by B. Wilmer, surgeon.

  • Wilmer, Bradford.
Date:
1781
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Credit: Observations on the poisonous vegetables which are either indigenous in Great-Britain, or cultivated for ornament / by B. Wilmer, surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I . VEGETABLE POISONS, 19 The accounts given by other authors agree with the above defcription: and we read of men who have continued in a ftate of madnefs from nightshade feveral days. To children it generally proves fatal. When adults die of this poifon, the fcene is ufually clofed within 24 hours *. Some boys and girls perceiving in a garden at Edinburgh the beautiful berries of the deadly nightfhade, and, unacquainted with their poifonous quality, eat feveral j in a Short time dangerous fymptoms appeared, a fwell- ing of the abdomen took place, they became convulfed : the next morning one of them * Wepfer de Cicut. Aquat. p. 226. has given an account of fome dangerous fymptoms which affected three children from eating the berries of the folanum vulgare, common or garden nightfhade ; but as they all recovered, and as I have not met with an inftance where that fpecies of nightfhade proved fatal, I have on that account omited a defcription of it. Befides the folanum commune, there are other plants in this kingdom which are fufpefled to be poifonous; thefe are aconitum hyemale, colchicum vulgare, alkekengi multiflorum foliis hirfutis, fuppofed to be the folanum fonjniferum of the ancients. C 2 died,