Laurocerasus

Authorities. 41, Lond. Med. Gaz., Encyclop. desSci. Med., Sept., 1842 (Ainer. Journ. of Med. Sci., Second Series, vol. vi, p. 499), a child, aged about eight months, was given h teaspoonful of a potion of which cherrylaurel water was the principal constituent; 42, Mr. Semple, Pharm. Journ., vol. ii, 1842-3, p. 31, Sir Theodosius Houghton, was poisoned; 43, Dr. Hay, Hufeland’s Journ., 1843 (Woodman and Tidy’s Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, p. 423), fatal poisoning of an old man, by 1|- ounces of cherry-laurel water; 44, Med. Times, May, 1845, p. 123 (ibid.), a girl, aged five years, swallowed the kernels of some stones of the sweet cherry, and died in forty hours; 45, Lancet, 1868 (1), p. 30, at Toulon, three children, aged four to five years, ate the kernels of peach-stones.

Intense coma; eyes closed; pupils dilated; respiration hurried; urine and feces involuntarily discharged; convulsions,"**.—Hands and feet became paralyzed, but did not lose sensation (after three hours); at length the respiratory muscles became affected, and he then died,*^—Very severe convulsions; one died in less than an hour, the two others, who had, perhaps, partaken less freely of the poisonous substance, recovered, thanks to very active and persevering therapeutical measures,*^—Eyes fixed upwards, his teeth clenched, and froth running from his mouth (after about a quarter of an hour), and he died in about half an hour,*^—[1090.] She had scarcely taken the mixture when she shrieked, threw her head back, and was convulsed ; death ensued in ten minutes,**.