Raphanus

Authority. 15, Dr. R. B. Todd, Med. Times and Gaz., 1853 (Berridge, New Eug. Med. Gaz., 1876, p. 301), John Selkirk ate freely of radishes.

Admitted May 27th. Fourteen days before his admission he began to feel a drawing pain, which extended from sternum almost to middle of abdomen ; at 7 P.M., May 26th, he began to feel very ill ; the pain became more intense and spread to the back, but did not reach lower than umbilicus ; he took one half ounce of Castor oil ; during the night he became worse, and in ihe morning the pain still continued very severe; about 8 A.M. the bowels were relieved, but afterwards the pains became worse than ever, and the feeling of nausea which he had felt from the beginning of the attack, became also aggravated ; on the 27th, soon after admission, while in a warm bath, he vomited some dark, slimy matter; the vomiting continued at intervals till the 29th ; there were tympanitic swelling, and great pain in region of ascending and transverse colon, and also of left groin ; the pain was worse on pressure ; the pain was of a writhing, twisting character; pulse not above 100 ; an enema of gruel brought away lumps of faeces, with relief to pain aud sickness; convalescent June 2d,’^