Common names: Ahovai-baum (of the Antilles).
Introduction.
Thevetia nerifolia, Jess. (Cerbera thevetia, Linn.) Natural order: Apocynaceae.
A tendency to sleep, disturbed every three to five minutes by irritation in the throat, and the discharge of a mouthful of frothy mucus with a sort of gulp; this action was very peculiar, I have never seen anything like it before; then the child would lie down and close his eyes until again disturbed. Vomiting.
Bowels of both moved twice or thrice. Pulse of the older, 60; of the younger, 70.