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].® 2000
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