PISCIDIA.

Piscidia erythrina, L.

Natural order , Leguminosæ.

Common name , Jamaica dogwood.

Preparation , Tincture from the bark of the root, obtained while the tree is in flower, before leaf.

Authority.

William Hamilton, Pharm. Journ., 1845, p. 76, took a drachm of tincture in some water, for a toothache.

MOUTH

• The bark, on being chewed, gives out an unpleasant acrimony, similar to that of the mezereon.

SLEEP

• A sleep the most profound that I ever experienced, arrested me so abruptly, that I remained motionless for the whole night, with the uncorked vial in one hand, and the glass out of which I had taken the dose in the other, until after the sun was high above the horizon on the following morning, a space of twelve good hours, when I first returned to consciousness, free from every pain or ache, and without any of those unpleasant sensations which invariably succeed to an overdose of Opium.

FEVER

• Violent sensation of heat, which gradually increased in intensity (soon); the sensation of burning gradually extended itself to the surface, and while I was considering what antidote I ought to employ, a profuse diaphoresis burst out from every pore.