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Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

by W. G. Aitchison Robertson

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XXXII Camphor

The liniment, oil, and spirit have been poisonous in large dose.

Symptoms.—Odour of breath, languor, giddiness, faintness, dimness of vision, difficulty of breathing, delirium, convulsions, with hot skin, flushed face, and dilated pupils.

Fatal Dose.—Thirty grains.

Cocculus Indicus.—The fruit of Anamirta cocculus. Contains a poisonous active principle, picrotoxin; used to adulterate beer, and by poachers to stupefy fish.

Symptoms.—Convulsions, followed by stupor and complete loss of voluntary power.

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