Authorities. 1 , "W.," Bost. Med. and Surg. Journ., vol. x, 1834, p. 216, took 2 grains of extract of root, then 4 grains (first day); two doses of 3 grains each (second day); 1 a , same, took 1/4 grain every three hours for three days; 2 , Charles Osgood, M.D., Amer. Journ. Med. Sci., vol. xvi, 1835, p. 302, took 2 grains finely pulverized extract at 12 M.; 3 , same, a man took 2 grains, afterwards 4 grains; 3 a , same, feeling well the next day, took 3 grains at 7 A.M., 12 M., and 2 grains at 11 P.M.; 3 b , took three or four doses of 1/2 grain each, at intervals of three hours; 3 c , 1/4-grain doses continued for three days, at intervals of three hours; 3 d , 1/3-grain doses at same intervals, for three or four days; 4 , S. A. Hubbard, Bost. Med. and Surg. Journ., vol. xix, 1838, p. 31, five persons ate Verat. vir., cooked with other vegetables; 5 , Cutter, Rickard, and Ingalls, Amer. Journ. Med. Sci., 1861 (2), p. 398, Dr. James Robbins made a trial; 6 , Ephraim Cutter, Med. Times and Gaz. (Mon. Hom. Rev., 1862, p. 494), put 60 minims into syrup gum acaciae and water, 1/2 ounce each, took one-seventh at 6.30 P.M., other doses at 7.30 and 10.30 P.M.; 7 , Dr. B. Woodward, Med. and Surg. Rep., Phila., Nov. 1860, p. 109 (ibid.), took 8 drops Norwod's tincture at 8 P.M., 4 drops at 10 P.M., and 3 drops at 12 M.; 8 , S. W. Abbott, M.D., Bost. Med. and Surg. Journ., 1862 (1), p. 186, four doses of 10 drops of tincture of seeds; 8 a , same, took 20 drops once an hour; 8 b , same, took 7 drops tincture of plant at 2 and 4 P.M., 4 drops at 6 P.M., 6 drops at 8 P.M.; 9 , Lancet, 1862 (1), p. 54, a tincture was given for toothache, and a portion accidentally swallowed; 10 , G. J. Scatter-good Proc. Amer. Pharm. Assoc., 1862 (Amer. Journ. of Pharm., 1863, p. 77), took 2 grains alcoholic resin at 5.15 P.M.; 11 , G. N. Edwards, Med. Times and Gaz., 1863 (1), p. 5, a man took 1 drachm tincture; 12 , W. H. Burt, M.D., Hale's New Remedies, p. 1033, in perfect health, took 30 drops of 3 dec. dil. of fluid extract prepared in water at 9.50 A.M., 50 drops at 11 A.M., 60 drops at noon, 100 drops at 2 P.M., 150 drops at 3 P.M., 200 drops at 5 P.M., 175 drops at 7 P.M. (first day); 3 drops fluid extract at 9 A.M., 4 drops at 10 A.M. 5 drops at 12 M., 6 drops at 2 and 4 P.M., 8 drops at 9 P.M. (second day); 10 drops at 9 A.M., 12 drops at 10 A.M. and 12 M., 8 drops at night on retiring (third day); 10 drops at 8 and 10 A.M., and 12 M. (fourth day); 13 , same, a girl, aged twenty-one months, took a few drops of tincture; 14 , Hale, ibid,. a young girl took 20 drops; 15 , Jones and Scudder's Mat. Med. (ibid.), took 1/4 grain alcoholic extract; 16 , same, 1/2 fluid drachm tincture instead of Gelseminum; 17 , James Watson, M.D., Edinb. Med. Journ., 1864, p. 616, took 8 drops tincture at 3, 5, and 7 P.M.; 18 , Samuel R. Percy, M.D., An Inquiry into the Phys. and Med. Properties of Verat. vir., Phila; 1864, p. 75, in 1823 a farmer boiled 10 pounds of swamp Hellebore in water down to a gallon of fluid, of which his wife took a tumblerful; 19 , same, in 1840 a person prepared 2 quarts of syrup from 2 pounds of Verat. vir., and took a tumblerful twice; 20 , N. O. Pearson, M.D., Chicago Med. Examiner (ibid.), a patient took 20 minims in an hour and a half, in three doses; 21 , Dr. Buckingham, Med. Invest., Dec. 1865, p. 32, H. C., took a swallow of extract; 22 , another man took the same; 23 , J. C. Harris, M.D., Bost. Med. and Surg. Journ., 1865 (1), p. 249, a boy, aged eighteen months, took four or five doses of the tincture, probably not less than 35 drops, death in thirteen hours; 24 , Dr. W. H. Woodbury, Med. Invest., Dec. 1865, p. 27, a man aged forty-five years, as an expectorant, took 20 drops tincture in two doses; 25 , Mr. P.M. Rice, Brit. Journ. of Hom., vol. xxiv, 1866, p. 343, took 20 minims of tincture in 1 ounce of water; 26 , Charles Bullock, Proc. Amer. Pharm. Assoc., 1867 (Am. Pharm. Journ., 1868, p. 64), took 1/3 grain resin dissolved in alcohol, every half hour, until 2 grains were taken; 27 , Dr. Hadlock, Med. and Surg. Rep., No. 8, 1870 (Practitioner, vol. iv, 1870, p. 375), effects of large doses; 28 , E. M. Hale, Amer. Obs., vol. vii, 1870; 29 , H. C. Wood, M.D., Amer. Journ. Med. Sci., 1870 (1), p. 51, took 1 grain alcoholic resin at 3.35 and 4.15 P.M., 2 grains at 5.20 P.M.; 30 , same, took 1/18 grain Viridiae sulph. in aqueous solution at 11.40 A.M., 12 M., 12.35 and 1.40 P.M., 1/9 grain at 2. 10 and 3.15 P.M., 1/6 grain at 4 and 4.30 P.M. ( 31 to 33 , E. W. Berridge, North Am. Journ. of Hom., New Series, 2, May, 1872, p. 505); 31 , James Lillie, M.D., dissolved 1 drop of tincture in 1 1/2 pints of water, shook it and took a wineglass at 8.5 P.M., another wineglassful before 9 P.M., another at 10.30. P.M. (first day); same at 8 A.M., 2 glasses at 9.30 A.M., 1 glass at 5 P.M., after dinner (6.45) 3 glasses, at 8.45 P.M. 3 glasses of a dilution made of one wineglassful of the former to 1 1/2 pints of water (second day); 4 wineglasses at 8.15 A.M., 4 glasses of a 3d dil. made as before, at 11 P.M. (third day); 4 glasses at 7 A.M., 5 glasses at 9.30 A.M. (fourth day); 2 glasses before 5 A.M. (fifth day); 4 glasses of a 4th dil. made as before, at 11 A.M. (sixth day); 1 drop of 1st dil. at 11.15 A.M., 3 drops at 10.48 P.M. (twelfth day); 10 or 12 drops of 1st dil. in 2 ounces of water at 8.30 A.M., 6 drops of 1st dil. at 10.57 P.M. (fourteenth day); 12 drops of 1st dil. in 1 1/2 ounces of water, and gradually sipped it in two or three minutes, at 11 P.M. (fifteenth day); 2 or 3 drops of 1st dil. at noon, in evening made 30th dil. from 3d, drank all the intermediate watery dilutions at once (sixteenth day); 1 drop of tincture in a glass of water, at 10, 35 P.M. (twenty-third day); 1 drop of tincture in a wineglass of water at 12.30 P.M., 1 drop of tincture at 4.15 and 10.20 P.M. (twenty-fourth day); 1 drop of tincture at 8.45 A.M., 1 drop at 10.45 P.M. (twenty-fifth day); 3 drops of 3d in sugar, at 1.30 P.M., repeated dose at 7 P.M., 1 drop in water at 10.10 P.M. (thirtieth day); 1 drop of 3d at 8.15 A.M., 1 drop of 3d on sugar at noon, 3 drops at 6 P.M., 5 or 6 drops at 10.30 P.M. (thirty-first day); 7 or 8 drops at 8.30 A.M., 3 drops of 3d in water at 1 P.M., 7 drops of 3d in water at 10.20 P.M. (thirty-second day); 3 or 4 drops of 30th dil. at 8 A.M., same dose twice in afternoon, 6 or 7 drops of 30th at 10.40 P.M. (thirty-seventh day); 2 drops of 30th at 11 A.M. and 8 P.M., 2 or 3 drops at 10.10 P.M., and 2 drops at 10.20 P.M. (thirty-eighth day); 40 or 50 globules of 200th (forty-third day); 10 globules of 200th dil. at 11 A.M., 20 or 30 globules of 200th at 10.45 P.M., then 17 globules (forty-fourth day); 10 globules at 8.40 and 11.20 A.M., 12.20, 2.30, 4.30, and 6.20 P.M. (forty-fifth day); 3 globules of 30th at 10.5 A.M., afterwards a wineglass containing all the dilutions between 30th and 200th, then another, and a third wineglass at 10.30 P.M. (forty-sixth day); 32 , Dr. Berridge, took 10 globules of Dr. Lillie's 200th; 33 , Mr. ---, took 201st prepared from Dr. Lillie's 200th, 12 drops in half a tumbler of water, and a dose at 12.50 and 3.30 P.M. (first day); a dose at 10.40. and 4 P.M. (second day); 2 drops at 10 A.M. (fifth day); 34 , J. P. Truman, M.D., Hahn. Monthly, vol. viii, 1872, p. 46, a man aged about fifty-five years, who had sciatica, with scarcely any concomitant symptoms, took Verat., macerated in whiskey, for two days, in sufficient quantities to produce perspiration, then took 1/2 ounce of the whiskey tincture at one dose; 35 , Berridge, North. Amer. Journ. of Hom., New Series, vol. iii. 1873, p. 500, Mrs. ---, dissolved 1 drop tincture in 1 1/2 pints water, and took a wineglassful at 8.5 P.M.; 36 , Dr. N. Ford, Med. Rec., vol., ix, 1774, p. 155, effect of overdose; 37 , J. Steele Bailey, M.D., New Orleans Med. and Surg. Jour., July, 1877, p. 38, case of poisoning; ( 38 to 42 a , R. B. Sullivan, M.D., copied from MS.); 38 , T. L., aged fourteen years, took 10 pellets 3d dec., every half hour, all day, for four days, a solution of 5 drops tincture in water every half hour (sixth day); 39 , E. B. S., took 10 drops tincture in afternoon (first day), 5 drops every half hour (second day); 39 a , same, two days later took 5 drops 1st dec. every half hour all day (first day), 1st dec. all day (second and third days), 3d dec. every half hour (fourth day); 40 , W. E. D., took 10 drops 6th dec. at 9.20 and 10.20 A.M. and 1 P.M. (first day); 10 drops 1st dec. at 10.12 A.M. and 1 P.M. (second day); 40 a , same, took 3 drops tincture at 7 and 10 A.M., and at 2, 6, 6.30, and 10 P.M. (first day), same at 7.45 and 11 A.M. (second day), 10 drops at 8 A.M., 12 M., and 7 P.M. (fourth day); 40 b , same, took pellets saturated with 30th potency, every half hour, for six days, with no results, then took pellets saturated with 3d potency, every half hour (first and second days), began at 2 P.M. (fourth day); 40 c , same, took 3d potency every half hour (first day), 5 drops tincture every hour (third day), 10 drops tincture at 8 and 9 A.M., 12 M., and at 1 and 2 P.M. (fourth day); 41 , J. H. C., aged twenty-eight years, began at 7 A.M. to take 10th potency, every twenty minutes (first day), continued (second day); 42 , B. G., aged forty-six years, had rheumatic pains in the back, hip, and side, superficial vein of scrotum varicosed, pains along the spermatic cord, dull heavy pain in frontal region, with vomiting, took drop doses of tincture every half hour for four days; 42 a , the same, three days later took 5 drops 1st dec. every fifteen minutes.