Echites

Echites suberecta, Jacq.

Natural order , Apocynaceæ.

Authorities.

1 , Lunan, quoted by W. Hamilton, Pharm. Journ., vol. vi, 1847, p. 23, a negro woman gave the milk to a medical practitioner in Jamaica; 2 , Barham, quoted by Hamilton, a negro used a piece of the stem to stop a jar of rum, which was left in that condition, and with some leaves which had dropped in, all night; the negroes drank of the rum in the morning.

• Violent griping, nausea, and loss of appetite, followed by convulsive twitchings in various parts of his body, hectic fever and emaciation. It was a long time before the disposition to spasm was wholly subdued, 1.
• In the course of a few hours they were seized with violent vomiting and tremors. When the owner of the plantation arrived he found some dead and others just expiring. The juice expressed from the Arrowroot was administered with the happiest effect, 2.