Aesculus glabra

Volume I — Main text

^SCULUS GLABRA,

^sculuj glabra^ Will J. Stinking Buckeye. Nat. Ord., Saptndacem*

I. Frtnfingj, — I. Two of my pupi!s once attempted to prove the buckeye, but did not continue the experiments on account of the apparent gravity of tne few symptoms which manifested themselves. It caused vertigo, with reeling like drunken men, with nausea, with dimness of sight ; fulness and heaviness of head | confusion of ideas; "a confusetl stupor;" thickness of speech; loathing of food; cramp in stomach, and sensation of fulness there j great weakness; trembling and strong tendency to contraction of legs; constipation. (Hale, Netit Rewudi^s^ and ed.^ sub voce.)

IIL Pohottittgi (f Animals. — ^The general symptoms observed in cattle which have eaten of the fruit are dii^temion of stomach ana abdomen, reeling and staggering, apparent loss of sights falling, paralysis of hinder extremities. In one case oi palsy from it there was wry -neck, with convulsions and fixed eyes, ending in death. The fruit i I used to stupefy fish by the Indians. (IbU,)