| Plants which contain alkaloids may also be highly toxic, such as colchicum, or alternatively harmless, such as borage. |
| A peculiar principle discovered by Gieger and Hesse in the seeds of the colchicum autumnale or common meadow saffron. |
| Some cause violent pain, as colchicum, hellebore, and aconite. |
| The physiological action of colchicum is that of a local irritant and a cardiac depressant of great energy. |
| Book VI deals with surgery, including an account of tracheotomy, and a final long book is taken up with drugs, including the use of colchicum for gout. |
| A mixture of iodide of potassium, sulphate of magnesia, and wine of colchicum, disguised with an aromatic tincture. |
