Fagus

Fagns sylvatica, Linn.

Natural order, Cupuliferse; Common names. Beech ; (Germ.) Buchu; (Fr.) Le here (or, le bayard).

Preparation, Trituration of the nuts (European).

A%aidhorities. 1, Bauhinus, Hist. Plant., 1, 2, 121, from Wibmer, effects of eating nuts (same as all other authorities); 2, Paulli, Quadrip. bot., 1708, p. 68, from Wibmer; 3, Gottsched, Diss. de sant. Epileps., 1771, ibid.; 4, Loesel, Hara. Pruss., p. 72, ibid.; 5, Kortum, Beit. Zur. pr. Arzn., 1795, p. 145; 6, Sandbox, Ersch and Ruber, Eucyclop., ibid.; 7, Hesse, Allg. Med. Annal., 1826, vol. 29, effects of eating nuts in a girl aged 16; 8, same, ate 70 nuts himself; 9, same, effects on a woman aged 28.

Mind

Intoxication,k

Dread of water (hydrophobia),'\t

Head

Confusion and Vertigo. The fresh beech-nuts acted

•j- Schniiedel et Seliger, Diss. de Hydrophobia ex esu fructuum fago. Erl, 1762. like Darnel and caused confusion of the head/.

Dizziness and stupefaction, the whole night (from eating fresh beech-nuts on a salad ) Reeling and intoxication

General Head. Headache,^’. Headache lasting several hours

Dull headache (after half an hour),®. Forehead. Dull frontal headache

31oath, Accumulation of water in the mouth (after half an hour)

Stomach p. 302

Eructation^l. Eructations (after half an hour),. Nausea. Slight nausea (after half an hour)

Slight nausea in the stomach, with accumulation of water in the mouth and eructations (after half an hour)

Feeling as though she must vomit,’:

Stomach. 7a\n in the stomach

Aching in the stomach

Slight aching and griping in the stomach (after half an hour)

General Symptoms. Trembling

Convulsions, with periodic spasms, stiffness and coldness, with headache and weakness, in eight children

Epileptic attacks

Fever. Fever (in a girl)