Authorities. 1 , Dr. Cutler, Mem. Am. Acad. vol. 1, p. 484 (1785), effects of chewing leaves and of holding them in the mouth for some time; 2 , Cutler, in Thacher's Dispensatory, p. 146, took three doses of one tablespoonful of tincture each, at intervals of ten minutes, for asthma (which it cured); 3 , Samuel Thomson, New Guide to Health or Botanic Physician (from Dr. Jeane's collection, Trans. Am. Inst. of Hom., 1, p. 171, effects in a man of eating a sprig); 4 , Dr. Randall, in Bigelow's Am. Med. Bot., 1, p. 813 (1817), general effects; 5 , Dr. Bradstreet, from Bigelow (loc. cit.), effects; 6 , Bigelow (loc. cit), effects of one teaspoonful of an infusion of 2 ounces of dried plant in 1 pint of diluted Alcohol; 7 , Samuel Thomson caused the death of Ezra Lovett (who had a bad cold), by large and repeated doses, Tyng's Mass. Reports, vol. 6, p. 134; 8 , Boston Med. Intell., vol. 2 (1824), effects of 2 or 3 drs, in a woman, taken for an emetic; 9 , Chs. Whitelaw, Lancet, vol. 23, 1833, general statement of effects ( 10 to 15 , proving by Dr. Noak, Hygea , 1841); 10 , Kermes, a young man, aged twenty-six, took 30 drops of tinct., in the morning; 11 , Noack, took first day, tincture, 10 drops in morning, 20 at 11 A.M., 50 in P.M., after two days took 80 drops morning, 100 at 3 P.M.; 12 , Birkner, 4 drops tinct. first day, 8 drops second day, 16 drops third day; 12 a , same, subsequently took 10 drops first day, 20 drops second day; 12 b , same, third proving, one dose of 30 drops; 13 , Dr. Moerz, repeated doses of tinct., 20 to 150-drop doses; 14 , Laura G., aged twenty-one various doses, 6 to 40 drops; 15 , Dr. Piper, repeated doses of tinct., 2 to 20 drops; 16 , Norton, Br. J. of Hom., 17, p. 464, took 1/2 dr. tinct. first day, 1dr. second day, 2drs. third day, 2 1/2 drs. fourth day, 1/2 ounce fifth day; ( 17 to 25 , from Dr. Jeane's collection, Am. Inst. of Hom. Trans., vol. 1); 17 , Dr. Jeanes; 18 , Williamson; 19 , Link; 20 , Geist; 21 , Z---s, took a teaspoonful of tinct. every quarter of an hour, till he had taken an ounce; 22 , Dr. Caspari, gave (?) to a lady who had not menstruated for four years, for pain in right shoulder, which it relieved; 23 , Dr. Gosewich, effects in a lady in last stage of consumption; she had not menstruated for six months; 24 , same, effects in a lady over fifty, who had long ceased to menstruate, for a cough; 25 , same, effects in a boy, of a "Thomsonian emetic;" ( Nos . 26 to 36 , provings on healthy persons , "medical students and naval surgeons, at the Medical School of Toulon," by Dr. Barrallier, "Des effects physiol. de la Lobelia Inflata, Paris , 1864"); 26 , man, aged twenty-one, pulse 72, took 5 drops of tinct.; 27 , man, aged eighteen, pulse 74, took 5 drops; 28 , man, aged twenty-one pulse 58, took 5 drops; 29 , man, aged nineteen, pulse 74, took 5 drops; 30 , man, aged twenty-five, pulse 76, took 10 drops; 31 , man, aged twenty-eight, pulse 70, took 10 drops; 32 , man, aged twenty, pulse 72, took 10 drops; 33 , man, aged twenty, pusle 70, took 10 drops; 34 , man, aged forty-seven, pulse 68, took 20 drops; 35 , man, aged twenty-five, pulse 72, took 20 drops; 36 , Dr. Barrallier, aged forty-seven, pulse 66, took 40 drops.