Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1910 — The Calabar Bean. [ARTICLE]

The Calabar Bean.

The calabar bean is highly poisonous and in foreign countries is used for medicinal purposes. Its effect is opposite that of belladonna and is used for contraction of the eye, in tetanus, neuralgia and rheumatic diseases. It Is such a powerful depressant to nervous action that surgeons can only use It in small amounts.