Thevetia

Thevetia nereifolia, Juss. (Cerbera thevetia, Linn.)

Natural order , Apocynaceae.

Common names , Ahovai-baum (of the Antilles).

Authority. Dr. John Balfour, Edin. Med. Journ., 1856, p. 1094, effects of eating some seeds in two boys, aged eight years and six years and a half.

A tendency to sleep, disturbed every three to five minutes by irritation in the throat, and the discharge of a mouthful of frothy mucus with a sort op gulp; this action was very peculiar, I have never seen anything like it before; then the child would lie down and close his eyes until again disturbed. Vomiting.

Bowels of both moved twice or thrice.

Pulse of the older, 60; of the younger, 70.