THEVETIA.
Thevetia nereifolia, Juss. (Cerbera thevetia, Linn.)
Natural order
, Apocynaceæ.
Common names
, Ahovai-baum (of the
Antilles).
Authority.
Dr. John Balfour, Edin. Med.
Journ., 1856, p. 1094, effects of eating some seeds in two boys, aged
eight years and six years and a half.►
A tendency to sleep, disturbed every
three to five minutes by irritation in the throat, and the discharge of
a mouthful of frothy mucus with a sort op gulp; this action was very
peculiar, I have never seen anything like it before; then the child
would lie down and close his eyes until again disturbed. ► Vomiting. ►
Bowels of both moved twice or thrice. ►
Pulse of the older, 60; of the younger, 70.® 2000
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