Hura Brasiliensis

Hura crepitans, L.

Natural order , Euphorbiaceae.

Common name , Sandbox.

Authorities. ( 1 and 2 , Hamilton, Pharm. Journ., vol. iv, from Berridge's Collection, New Eng. Med. Gaz., vol. xi, 1876, 304). 1 , Browne, effects of tasting the seed; 2 , Mr. A. Robinson ate a kernel of the fresh seed; 3 , Hamilton, Pharm. Journ., vol. ix, 1850, p. 131; 4 , Dr. Lorentzen, from the Swedish, S. J. 170, p. 235, three servants ate a seed as large as a pigeon's egg.

It soon began to warm and scald his palate and throat, [1] . If a person eats even a single kernel he is usually attacked with severe vomiting and purging within a very few minutes after, [3] . In five or six minutes he grew very sick, and was purged, and vomited with great violence, [2] . After a few hours they experienced suffocation, nausea, violent burning in the throat; not relieved by water.

The one who had eaten the shell with the seed was seized with violent vomiting and headache. The others suffered only from nausea and violent pain in the stomach, vomiting once, and violent diarrhoea. They recovered after a little Camphor and Opium, [4] .