Ampelopsis

Allen, Supplement to the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica, 1879, Vol. X, p. 290

Ampelopsis quinquefolia, Michx.

Natural order, Vitacese.

Virginia Creeper or American Ivy.

Mr. Bernay, Pharm. Journ. and Trans., vol. vii, 1876, p. 80, two children, £et. two and a half and five years, chewed the leaves, swallowing the juice.

They were quickly seized with violent vomiting and purging, with considerable tenesmus; then collapse, sweating, and faint pulse; followed by deep sleep for two hours, from which they were aroused by a return of the vomiting and purging. Four hours after the commencement of the attack there was still considerable dilatation of the pupil.

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