Whytt knew a
woman who was made sick by the slightest bit of nutmeg. Tissot
observed vomiting in one of his friends after the ingestion of
the slightest amount of sugar. Ritte mentions a similar instance.
Roose has seen vomiting produced in a woman by the slightest dose
of distilled water of linden. There is also mentioned a person in
whom orange-flower water produced the same effect. Dejean cites a
case in which honey taken internally or applied externally acted
like poison. It is said that the celebrated Haen would always
have convulsions after eating half a dozen strawberries. Earle
and Halifax attended a child for kidney-irritation produced by
strawberries, and this was the invariable result of the ingestion
of this fruit. The authors personally know of a family the male
members of which for several generations could not eat
strawberries without symptoms of poisoning. The female members
were exempt from the idiosyncrasy. A little boy of this family
was killed by eating a single berry. Whytt mentions a woman of
delicate constitution and great sensibility of the digestive
tract in whom foods difficult of digestion provoked spasms, which
were often followed by syncopes. Bayle describes a man who
vomited violently after taking coffee.
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