[453]. Pliny informs us that the word cicuta amongst the ancients, was not indicative of any particular species of plant, but of vegetable poisons in general. We have already made the same remark with respect to Aconite.
[454]. Κωνειον of Dioscorides.
[455]. In the London Medical and Physical Journal, vol. 14, p. 425, we shall find a case wherein the hemlock was eaten through mistake for common parsley. Similar accidents are also recorded in Miller’s Dictionary.
[456]. It is figured in the Hortus Malabaricus under the name of Canirum.
[457]. Annales de Chimie, t. 8 to 10.
[458]. Ibid. t. x, 153.
[459]. Journal de Physiologie Experimentale, 1er numeroJanvier 1821, in a paper entitled “Memoire sur le Méchanisme de l’Absorption.”
[460]. We avail ourselves of this report, as given by Orfila in his System of Toxicology.
[461]. Bulletin de la Société de Med. Nov. 1807.
[462]. Analyse Chimique de la Coque du Levant. Paris, 1812.