Poisonous plants of all countries

ISONOUS PLANTS OF ALL COUNTRIES A BERNHA, RD-^SMITHpm plnrarg®ije ^, p, OKIQO B4 5?STftTEUNlVLRbliaibJf^^L3 NORTH III" '• ill II I'll -^ all , I U79560S021 iliii WLMT Thisbook isdue on the date indicated below and is subject to an overdue tine as posted at the circulation desk. EXCEPTION: Date due will be earlier ifthisitem isRECALLED. 200M/09-98-981815POISONOUS PLANTS OF ALL COUNTRIES BY a: bernhard-smith in I.ATE HOUSE-SURGEON TO LORD LISTER, KLN'g's COLLEGE HOSPITAL, LONDON GRADUATE OF THE FACULTY OF MEDICINE, PARIS UNIVERSITY ; DIPLOMATS OF THE SOCIETY OF APOTHECARIES, LONDON ; MEMBER OF THE BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ; SURGEON TO THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAMSHIP COMPANY. SECOND EDITION LONDON BAILLIERE, TINDALL & COX STREET, COVENT GARDEN, W.C. 28, HENRIETTA 1923PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN; PREFACE In publishing the present work I have to acknowledge my Mr. Millerindebtedness to W. for the many names I have "his Dictionary of the English "culled from Names of Plants to the curators of the Natural Historyalso Museum, and the Botanical Gardens at Kew, Penang, and Colombo, for their in affording me opportunities for study.courtesy I have been criticised, regarding a former work, for not naming the toxins of many of the plants. When these possibly a revised classifi-principles have been identified, and shall be in a position to makecationmade by the Botanists, I in a future edition.amends numbers correspond toThe plants illustrated, and whose text, are reduced one-fifth. Thetheir descriptions in the five hundredand Bacteria are magnifiedMicro-Fungi diameters. AUTHOR.THE London, January, 1923. 46839INTRODUCTION principles contained in the plants describedThe poisonous pages are now known to exist even underin the following modify their virulence;cultivation, although cultivation may influence of heat, acids, or anti-and exposure, also, to the inert.many cases to render the toxinseptics, would seem in it, appears to beor the iodine contained inSea-water, and it is an interesting andincompatible to vegetable toxins ; verybesides being antagonistic tosignificant fact that iodine, andwill destroy most Micro-Fungimany, of the alkaloids, disease.Bacteria which cause infectiousthose of the Carpomycetes, andMicro-Fungi the Pyrenomycetes,Among power ofhost, which theyhave theOomycetes need a living Barbery,graminis selects Wheat andselecting—i.e., Puccinia Buckthorn. Pencilliumcoronata prefers Grass andwhile P. thrive equally on living or deadand Aspergillus, however, will organic food-material. causing Glandersthe microscopic plantThe virulence of from the horse to man,is increased when grafted{Bacillacece) artificiallythrives best whenjust as the mistletoe-plant tree to another.grafted from one species of from a commonall Bacteria have comeAgain; since whichultra-microscopic formsassume certainancestor, we must, for themankind; and wehave become acclimatised to nature of a ferment,to bem thepresent, suppose these forms the Bacterium.or enzyme, produced by or more ofis caused by oneaffection known as DengueThe will ultimatelyferments. Pellagrathese ultra-microscopic fungusand not to thedeficiency,prove to be due to vitamin almostother hand, isSprue, on thePencillium glaucum.— : INTRODUCTIONVUl psilosisfungi {Monilia ?),one of the yeastcertainly caused by fargrowths is stillmalignantcausation of animalbut the of thelife-historyresearch, however, into theto seek. Further intestinal-inhabit the human"wild yeasts" known totwelve definite, results.incidental, if notshould lead totract, species into arrange thefound impracticableIt has been effects although,to their poisonous ;botanical order according themable to classifymore, we shall beno doubt, as we learn approximately.more to beas are knownand BacteriaSuch of the Micro-Fungi Irritants;the head of Specifichere noticed underhurtful are bepoisoning mustsuitable to each case ofand the treatment plants,by the largertreatment of poisoningadopted. In the however, our remedies include of warm water).the stomach with plentyDiluents (wash out (especially Mustard).Emetics i.e., strong Coffee or Tea.Tannin For Opium poison-Iodine.—Dilute Solution. ing. hypoderm. ForDigitalis.—Tinct. B.P. Rxx.Antidotes Aconite poisoning. poison-—Nit. gr. hypoderm. InPilocarpine. J. ing by Deliriants. Strong Ammonia to nostrils.Alcohol; or Strychnine.—Sol. B.P. Tl\ii. hjrpoderm. Atropine.—Gr. hypoderm.J.Stimulants Current.Faradic Oxygen Inhalation. Artificial Respiration. Opium.— poisoning by Purgatives orIn Irritants. ^ Inhalation. In poisoningby Con-Sedatives Chloroform Chloral. vulsives or Irri- tants.Pot. Brom. (Castor Oil).Purgatives Demulcents (Sweet Oil; Raw Eggs). Rest and Warmth.