... acid of the gastric juice. The distress- ing symptoms of which patients complain may be due not to an excess of acid but hypersensitiveness resulting from disease. Tomatoes. These contain citric acid and, with rhubarb, a poisonous plant which contains oxalic acid, are objectionable on the ...

... in the blood Page 594 ---------------contained in many plants, renders them poisonous 600 _______________its tests when pure 578 ____-----------process for detect- ing it in organic mixtures -. - 580 _______________symptoms it induces in man . - - 587 ----.-----------may cause instant ...

... and is often cultivated in gardens. The whole plant is poisonous, and the berries, from their beautiful appearance, have sometimes proved fatal to children. The symptoms excited are, a dryness of the mouth; a ...

... and is often cultivated in gardens. The whole plant is poisonous, and the berries, from their beautiful appearance, nave sometimes proved fatal to children. The symptoms excited are, a dryness of the mouth; a ...

... the United States The three most important contact poisonous plants in the United States are poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumach. Their toxic principle is a resinous alkaloid that occurs in all parts of the plant. Symptoms may take from a few hours to several ...

... among the topical incitants.* In treating of the poisonous property of these two plants, I shall first enumerate the various methods in which their effects are communicated to the human body; I shall then describe the morbid symptoms which are produced by them; and lastly, I ...

... teach that perhaps it may after all be poisonous, and since students of materia medica are properly unwilling to strike out any symptom with- out good reason, we will review, briefly, the toxicological his- tory of the plant. Early writers on botany gave it a bad ...

... by carriers as in case of bacillary dysentery. Poisonous plants 1, Mushrooms - certain types, eaten mistakenly, are quite deadly, 2. Certain berries and vegetables - when eaten mistakenly or in excess produce severe symptoms. Chemical poisons - those most usually encountered 1. Lead ...

... in severe cases of tetanus are produced by poisonous doses of strychnia or ... regions. The symptoms of poisoning commence soon after the strychnine has ...

... every ten to twelve hours, until the threatening symptoms disappear. The leaves Stramonium. 404 21EDICAL PLANTS. and seeds are highly poisonous when taken in large doses. They should not ...