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IN your comments on the rapidly fatal poisoning case, recorded by me, where a man and cart-horse quickly died after eating a small portion of the roots of this plant, you remark “it seems strange that the horse, as well as the man, should not have rejected a plant of so acrid and suspicious a flavour.” Now the flavour of the root, of this plant is known to be mild and pleasant, and not acrid. I can confirm the truth of its mild taste from experience, as I have twice eaten portions of the root for experiment: the taste is intermediate between that of a turnip and the stalk of celery. The poison did not act as an irritant, but the deaths resulted from paralysis of the heart.
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SMITH, W. Poisoning by Œnanthe crocata. Nature 2, 356 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/002356g0
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