Nux-Vomica Poisoning of an Habitueé

Sib,?The following account of fatal poisoning' of Nux Vomica habituee may prove interesting to your readers :? Madiga Chennoogadoo, a sweeper by occupation, aged about 25, well built, was brought to the Badval Civil Dispensary, at 11 A.M. on the 12th of March last, with the following history :?Occasionally he had been in the habit of eating two seeds of Strychnos Nux Vomica at a time to get himself intoxicated. This particular morning, at about 7 a.m., he had gone to the jungle to fetch firewood, where he ate four fruits. At 9 A.M. he returned to town, and when he was sweeping the street fell down insensible. He was then carried home, where he occasionally suffered from tetanic convulsions and was brought speedily to hospital. I gave him 20-grain dose of Zinc Sulphate at once, and ten minutes after an enema of tobacco. Fifteen minutes after the administration of the emetic he began to vomit with much exertion pieces of the fruit. The act of emesis seemed to induce the spasm. Well-marked opisthotonos set in, the body being arched like a bow. The spasms