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.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    frequently make a miftake and eat the roots of napellus ceruleus, which generally proves fatal to them. i * , i. . . . ». In the year 1764, John Crumpler, a weaver in Spitalfields, having fuppcd upon fome cold meat and fallad, was fuddenly taken ill; and when Mr. Bacon, the Surgeon employed upon this occafion, vifited him, he found him in the following fituation. He was in bed, with his head fupported by an afliftant, his eyes and teeth were fixed, his noftrils comprefled; his hands, feet, and forehead cold; no pulfe to be perceived ; his refpiration fhort, interrupted, and laborious. Mr. Bacon was informed, that foon after his patient had fupped, he complained of a fenfation of heat, afteding the tongue and fances: his teeth appeared loofe; and it was very remarkable, although a looking-glafs was produced, and his friends attempted to reafon him out of the extravagant idea, yet he imagined that his face wa$ fwelled to twice its ufual fize. By degrees the heat, which at fit ft only feemed to aided the mouth and adjacent parts, diffufed itfelf over his body and