Hyoscyamus

Authority. 97, Dr. Robert Clark, Montreal Med. Chronicle (Ranking’s Abstract, 1858 (2), p. 159), a child, aged two years and a half, ate some seeds.

There was flushed and excited countenance, the restless and violent tossing, amounting almost to convulsions, the momentary listening to imaginary sounds, and the eager clutching at visionary phantoms ; the brilliant eye, widely dilated pupil, hurried pulse, and labored respiration. There was a bright scarlet redness of the whole surface, exactly resembling that of scarlatina. It was not a mere flushing of the surface, but a well-defined papillary eruption, disappearing on firm pressure, but returning immediately when the pressure was removed. The mucous membrane partook to some extent of the same appearance as in scarlatina,®^