HURA.
Hura crepitans, L.
Natural order
, Euphorbiaceæ.
Common name
, Sandbox.
Authorities.
(1
and 2, Hamilton, Pharm. Journ., vol.
iv, from Berridge’s Collection, New Eng. Med. Gaz., vol. xi, 1876, 304).
1, Browne, effects of tasting the
seed; 2, Mr. A. Robinson ate a
kernel of the fresh seed; 3,
Hamilton, Pharm. Journ., vol. ix, 1850, p. 131; 4,
Dr. Lorentzen, from the Swedish, S. J. 170, p. 235, three servants ate a
seed as large as a pigeon’s egg.►
It soon began to warm and scald his
palate and throat, [1]. ► If a person eats even a single kernel he
is usually attacked with severe vomiting and purging within a very few
minutes after, [3]. ► In five or six minutes he grew very sick,
and was purged, and vomited with great violence, [2]. ► After a
few hours they experienced suffocation, nausea, violent burning in the
throat; not relieved by water. The one who had eaten the shell with the
seed was seized with violent vomiting and headache. The others suffered
only from nausea and violent pain in the stomach, vomiting once, and
violent diarrhœa. They recovered after a little Camphor and Opium, [4].® 2000
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