Veratrum Viride
Allen, Supplement to the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica, 1879, Vol. X, p. 639
Authority. 43, T. S. Scales, Pub. Mass. Horn. Med. Sac., vol. iv, 283. A man, fifty years old, had compound fracture of humerus ; for a week or two his arm did well, and was rapidly recovering, while his general health continued perfectly good ; his doctor gave him a heroic dose of Verat. vir. “ to see what it would do for him.”
Soon the patient was seized with rigors, prostration, a feeling of terrible coldness, and soon mortification of the injured limb, followed by death in a few hours,^^