[402]. Ελλεβορος λευκος of Dioscorides.
[403]. Histoire des Plantes Vénéneuses de la Suisse.
[404]. The same alkali has been discovered in the seeds of the Veratrum Sabadilla, and in the root of the Colchicum Autumnale.
[405]. It was first cultivated by Gerarde in 1596.
[406]. See London Medical Repository, vol. xii, no. 67.
[407]. Pharmacologia, vol. ii, art. Extract. Elaterii, p. 204.
[408]. Fragmenta Chirurg. et Med. p. 66.
[409]. Obs. Lib. iv, c. xxvi, p. 208.
[410]. The juice of every species of spurge is so acrid, that it corrodes and ulcerates the body wherever it is applied. Warts or corns, annointed with the juice presently disappear; hence this tribe of plants has derived the popular name of wart weed.
[411]. One of the supposed proofs of the guilt of Charles Angus in the case of Margaret Burns, as stated at page [177], rested upon the fact, that on searching the prisoner’s bed room, three bottles were found in the wardrobe, viz. one marked “poison water;” a second “Jacob’s water;” and a third “Savine oil.”