Fagus

Authorities. (From Berridge’s Collection in Amer. Horn. Obs., 1876, p. 14); 10, Dr. Selen, from Dissert, on Hydrophobia, Oolong, 1762 (Med. Museum), a boy, jet. thirteen years, had eaten a large quantity of beechnuts; 11, Haller quotes from Trans. (Act., Hatter), general effects; 12, Berridge (?), general effects; 13, Furstenan, Act. Phys. Med. Nat. Cur., vol. viii, a boy, JBt. twelve years, ate a great deal of beech mast; 14, same, effects on the inhabitants of a village of immoderate use of beechnuts.

Swelling of mouth and headache,'l On the fourth day after, I found him in cjreat pain, languid, and terrified with apprehension of present death. Pulse very unequal, sometimes extremely quick, sometimes languid and intermittent; skin burning violently; mouth flowing with froth and saliva ; intolerable thirst, entreating for drink, but as soon as any liquid was brought he seemed to shudder with equal horror, as if he had been eating unripe grapes. Soon after eating the nuts he had been seized with torpor, gloominess, and dread of liquids. He had not been bitten by any rabid animal. Next (fifth) day, early in the morning, he was the same, but seemed to-talk more in his wildness and perturbation of mind, and his mouth flowed with foam more abundantly; the urine he had voided by night was red and fiery, depositing a copious turbid white sediment, resembling an emulsion of beechnuts,-subsiding as deep as the breadth of the finger at the bottom of the vessel. A few hours before he died he vomited a porraceous bile, after which he died quietly,'®.—Seized with pleurisy, soon became delirious, and died in convulsions on the eleventh day,'*.—Fatal pleurisy,—Ardent fevers, called liepera or causas, have been occasioned by eating them,".