Warning On Thornapple
(N.Z. Press Association) DUNEDIN, Dec. 5. Hot as a hare. Blind as a bat. Dry as a bone. Red as a beet, And mad as a hen. If your child has these symptoms he has probably been eating the flowers or seeds or any other part of datura stramonium or thornapple, and has been poisoned.
Several cases of thornapple poisoning have been reported to the National Poisons Information Centre, Dunedin, in the last two years, the director (Dr. E. G. McQueen) said today. The thornapple, every part of which is poisonous, is a strong-growing shrub reaching a height of five feet, with large, showy, funnel-shaped solitary white flowers and *
seeds which are brown and kidney-shaped. The leaves are irregularly toothed. A small boy recently admitted to Dunedin Hospital had eaten the flower of the shrub. He was in a state of maniacal excitement, delirious and hallucinated, with widely dilated pupils and fast pulse, and suffering from intense thirst.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31235, 6 December 1966, Page 3
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161Warning On Thornapple Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31235, 6 December 1966, Page 3
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