A Note on Some Cases of Poisoning by Scopolia Lurida,—Atropaceæ

rapidly supervened after the leaves and succulent stalks of Scopolici larida had been eaten in mistake for a very similar and quite harmless plant known to Gurkhas as Tambaku sag or Laringa. It is an accident that might well happen again during a frontier campaign, for the plant is not very uncommon in the hills beyond and within the border though local in its habitat, and there is evidently a great similarity between the poisonous scopolia and the harmless Tambaku s&g that Gurkhas are accustomed to gather and eat, chopped up with their food like spinach in their native hills of