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Alstonia (constricta?).

Dr. Augustus Cathcart, Am. Hom., vol. i, p. 142, effects of large doses (from the bark).

Invariably producing great debility and general prostration, or low fever -often also with diarrhoea- and when pushed sufficiently far, rigors, sweats (usually cold), and other symptoms resembling fever and ague.