The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-09-11

the further spread Of the eruption.
The abundant pink family furnishes
the poison corn cookie, sometimes
known as the rose campion, whitish
wooIly annual, one to three feet high,
with an erect stem, snowy, violet-red
flowers and numerous rough, black, ir-
regularly rounded seeds. The poison
Gus constituent is saponin, which is
found in nearly all parts of the plant,
but mainly in the kernel of the seed.
Machinery is used by millers to sepa-
rate the cookie, but it is not always
successful.
The symptoms of the poison are in
tense irritation of the whole digestive
tract, vomiting, headache, nausea, YER
tigo, diarrhea, hot skin, sharp pains in
the spine, difficult locomotion and de-
pressed breathing. The action is an
tagonized by the use of digitalis, dan
gerous poison, which should be admin
istered only by a physician.
The aconite plant occurs in California
only as far south as Lake County. 1t
is an erect, smooth, single-stemmed
plant, two to six feet high, with leafy
base and an elongated terminal cluster
of SNOWY blue flowers. All parts of the
plant are poisonous, but the seeds and
roots are most dangerous.
No specific antidote is recognized,
but physicians have used atropine or
Q1gltauS ana nitrate Oh aInyl.
Another very common poison, espe-
cially on the coast of this State, is the
larkspur It exists in several varieties.
Along the coast northward from this
city is a variety which is somewhat
hairy, tuberous-rooted about a foot
high, with basal cluster of finely d.
vided. long stemmed leaves. with a
single column of snowy blue flowers.
which appear between April and July.
off 70 a nj n ChaaY
sultine in the death of so per cent of
the animals partaking of it.
The poisonous action of larkspur re-
sembles that of aconite or monkshood,
the plants themselves resembling
aconite. Aconite antidotes therefore
are recommended, namely atropine.
Loco weed has long been an affiiction,
especially to the livestock of the south
ern part of the State. 1t also subsists
in several varieties under the popular
names of "woolly loco weed" .'stemless
loco weed" and "rattlebox." Its pea
pod formation is familiar to all Califor-
MANS The effect is not acute but in
its slow progress Stimulates diseases
caused by bacteria, worms, or other
parasites or such as are caused in man
by the continued use of alcohol to-
bacco or morphine
No effectual antidotes have as vet
been published, so the only positive
remedy for the evil is to remove the
animals from the vicinity of the plants
as early as possible.
The so-called spurga family (euphor-
bia) is less well known popularity, but
Is widely distributed on this coast It's
characteristic is milky juice and IN
complete and inconspicuous flowers
Contact OF the milky Juice infiames and
poisons the skin. An overdose of the
herb for medicine results in serious If
not fatal injury.
A somewhat common plant in West
ern States. although 1t Is not so well
known in this State is the hernlock.
the famous plant of Socrates undoing.
The American water hemlock is one
of the most poisonous plants native to
the United States. The underground
parts are the most poisonous Children
mistake them for horseradish, pars-
nips, artichokes, sweet cicely and other