Another case is related by Dr. Lambert, who was desired to visit two children at Newburn, in Scotland, who the preceding day had swallowed some of the berries of the deadly nightshade.  He found them in a deplorable situation.  The eldest (ten years of age) was delirious in bed, and affected with convulsive spasms:  the younger was not in a much better condition in his mother’s arms.  The eyes of both the children were particularly affected.  The whole circle of the cornea appeared black, the iris being so much dilated as to leave no vestige of the pupil.  The tunica conjunctiva much inflamed.  These appearances, accompanied with a remarkable kind of staring, exhibited a very affecting scene.  The symptoms came on about two hours after they had eaten the berries:  they appeared at first as if they had been intoxicated, afterwards lost the power of speaking, and continued the whole night so unruly, that it was with much difficulty they were kept in bed.  Neither of these ever recovered.

634.  Datura Stramonium.  Thorn-apple.—­The seeds and leaves of the thorn-apple received into the human stomach produce first a vertigo, and afterwards madness.  If the quantity is large, and vomiting is not occasioned, it will undoubtedly prove fatal.  Boerhaave informs us, that some boys eating some seeds of the thorn-apple which were thrown out of a garden, were seized with giddiness, horrible imaginations, terrors, and delirium.  Those that did not soon vomit, died.

635.  Hyoscyamus niger.  Henbane.—­Henbane is a very dangerous poison.  The seeds, leaves, and root, received into the human stomach, are all poisonous.

The root in a superior degree produces sometimes madness; and if taken in large quantity, and the stomach does not reject it by vomiting, a stupor and apopleptic symptoms, terminating in death, are the usual consequences.

A case of the bad effects of the roots of this plant, which occurred in Ireland, is mentioned by Dr. Threlkeld.  In the winter season, some men working in a garden threw up some roots which were supposed to be Skirrets, and those were cooked for dinner.  About two hours after they were eaten, a person who partook of them was taken with an unusual lassitude, as if being much fatigued, heat and dryness both in the mouth an the throat, a giddiness accompanied with dimness of sight, and a partial stoppage in his urine.  Several others who had eaten at the same table, as also servants who had partaken, were subjected to the like influence.  Medical assistance being at hand, by the use of emetics they were relieved; but it was many days before the whole of them had recovered from those dreadful symptoms.

Two children having both eaten of the berries of this plant, the one a boy (who recovered) being taken ill, vomitted, and was supposed to have thrown them off his stomach:  the other, a little girl, died in convulsions the next morning.  As mothers and kindred souls do not like names to be made public in these cases, I cannot help feeling some desire to suppress a publicity of a fact in which a near and dear relative was materially interested.  In justice, however, to the public, I must mention that I can vouch for the fact, and trust it may not pass without notice, so far as to let the berries be supposed anything but wholesome.