Asimina Triloba

Authority. 3, H. W. Taylor, M.D., Ciucin. Med. Advance, vol. vi, 1878, p. 2-5.

Five children ate freely of the pawpaw, without being fastidiously nice as to the ripeness or greenness. Next morning they seemed a little languid and pale, but the pawpaw eating went on. About 10 r.M. I found my only boy, Jet. two years and six months, with a violent fever. He had vomited awhile before I arrived, and I found that he was covered with a bright scarlet eruption. His pulse was 130, full and steady, and at 10.30 the thermometer, remaining in the axilla ten minutes, showed a temperature of 105°. Among the vomited ingesta were many small pieces of unripe pawqmw. The next day the eruption remained in full blush, the temperature dropped to 104°, the fauces were red and swollen, the tonsils and submaxillary glands were considerably enlarged, and a diarrhoea of yellowish discharges set iu. Each day the temperature dropped until it was normal ; a general desquamation of the cuticle took ])lace, and a carbuncle formed on the anterior aspect of the left thigh, and was two weeks finishing the process of suppuration. The diarrhoea continued more than four weeks, although many remedies were given to check it or control it.

He complained of frontal headache, soreness of the throat, and nausea. The eruption iu all its phases, the fever, the diarrhoea, were much like some cases of scarlet fever. All the other children had the eruption on the neck and upper extremities ; all had diarrhoea, lasting a long time after the other symptoms had disappeared,*.