Common names , Squills; (G), Meerzwiebel; (F.), Ognon marin. Preparation . Tincture of the bulbs. Authorities. (Nos. 1 to 23 , from Hahnemann, R. A. M. L., 3, 265) 1 , Hahnemann; 2 , Becher; 3 , Hartmann; 4 , Hornburg; 5 , Mossdorf; 6 , Stapf; 7 , Teuthorn; 8 , Walther; 9 , Wislicenus; 10 , Bergius, Mat. Med., p. 278 (observation, -Hughes); 11 , Caspari, Diss. de Scilla, p. 11 (observation, -Hughes); 12 , Cohausen, Commerc. Lit. Norimb., vol. xii (p. 399, observations on patients, -Hughes); 13 , Crantz, Mat. Med., ii, p. 83 (observations, -Hughes); 14 , Home, Clinical Exper., p. 394 (observations, -Hughes); 15 , Lange, Med. Dom., Brunsvic, p. 176 (effects of a spoonful of powdered Squills); 16 , Ludwig, Adversaria Med., vol. ii, p. 713 (observation, -Hughes); 17 , Muzell, Wahrnehm., ii, p. 34 (observation, -Hughes); 18 , Schulze et Schroeter, Diss. Asthma, rad. Scillae usu sublatum, Halae, 1735 (observation on a case of anasarca, -Hughes); 19 , Tissot. Epist. Med., pract. edit., Bald, p. 207 (statements, -Hughes); 20 , Valentine, Hist. Simpl. Reform, lib. ii, sect. 2, cap. 34 (observation, -Hughes); 21 , Wagner, Observ. Clin. Lüb., 1737 (observation, -Hughes); 22 , Weikard, Vermischte Schriften, i, p. 245 (observation, -Hughes); 23 , Zwelfer, Pharmac. Regia, p. 146 (statements, -Hughes); 24 , Voigtl (Arzneimittell), from Wibmer, effects of exhalations of fresh Squills; 25 , Prof. A. T. Thomson, Lancet, 1836-7 (2), p. 851, alarming symptoms caused by the ordinary medicinal dose of the tincture or by the powder of the dried Squills; 26 , Dr. Wolfering, Med. Corr. Blatt. Bayerischn. Aerzte, No. 5, 1842 (Lond. and Edinb. Month. Journ. of Med. Sci., 1843, p. 79), a laborer, aet. fifty-eight years, digested some Squills cut in small pieces in 280 grams of white wine, and took over half of the mixture, death on the second day; 27 , Austrian Soc. Allop. Physicians, Zeit. Gesel. de. Aerz. zu Wien, 1847, proving of the extract, beginning with 1/4 grain and increasing to 19 grains; 28 , William A. Hammond, M.D., Am. Journ. Med. Sci., 1859 (1), p. 275, 2 grains of the dried bulb three times in twenty-four hours; 29 , Dr. Pieper, All. Cent. Zeit., 1865 (Monatblatt, vol. xiv, p. 46), a young man took at first 3 grains four times a day; 29 a , same, subsquently took doses of 1/2 to 1 scruple; 30 , Berridge, New York Journ. of Hom., vol. ii, 1874, p. 311, Miss --- took a dose of 1m (Jenichen).