DATURA ARBOREA.
Datura arborea, Linn.
Natural order
, Solanaceæ.
Preparation
, Tincture of the flowers (?).
Authorities.
1, Dr.
Poulson, Med. Invest., 9, 261, effects of the odor of the flowers left in the room two days.A very strange effect upon the cerebrum, as if my forehead was expanded
and my ideas were floating outside of the brain (from the perfume).A very strange feeling of pleasant and easy comfort, and as if I scarcely
touched the earth with my feet, and had to gather my ideas from afar, as if they were
floating in the clouds (from the perfume).Slight vertigo (from the perfume).
Found myself involved in a most beautiful atmosphere, bright and calm as
the sunlight at noon (from the perfume).I felt a sensible confusion of ideas across the cerebrum, with drawing
nervous irritation back to the cerebellum, and a spinal irritation or depletion of nervous
circulation in the medulla oblongata, during the process of handling and cutting them.Buchner’s Toxicologie, 1827, states that the odor of the flowers readily
causes spasms.In Froriep’s Notiz., iii, it is said that the juice, put into the eye,
causes amaurosis.® 2000
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