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March 24, 1825
Phenix Gazette
Alexandria, Virginia
What is this article about?
Three students from Lansingburgh Academy ate water hemlock mistaken for spikenard while gathering greens, resulting in the deaths of Cambridge Davidson and James Hector; young Heermance survived after an emetic.
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Three lads, members of Lansingburgh Academy, went into the woods on Monday last to gather winter greens, and found and ate a kind of root they supposed to be spikenard; before they got home however, they complained of feeling unwell, and one of them Cambridge Davidson, of Charleston, S. C. died before he could reach his boarding house; another, James Hector, of Lansingburgh, died immediately after, and the life of young Heermance, of Albany, was saved by the operation of a powerful emetic. The root they had eaten, and believed to be spikenard, proved to be water hemlock, which it seems is one of the most active vegetable poisons produced in our climate. Young Davidson was preparing to enter college, was a youth of great promise, the only child of his mother.
[Troy Sentinel.
Three lads, members of Lansingburgh Academy, went into the woods on Monday last to gather winter greens, and found and ate a kind of root they supposed to be spikenard; before they got home however, they complained of feeling unwell, and one of them Cambridge Davidson, of Charleston, S. C. died before he could reach his boarding house; another, James Hector, of Lansingburgh, died immediately after, and the life of young Heermance, of Albany, was saved by the operation of a powerful emetic. The root they had eaten, and believed to be spikenard, proved to be water hemlock, which it seems is one of the most active vegetable poisons produced in our climate. Young Davidson was preparing to enter college, was a youth of great promise, the only child of his mother.
[Troy Sentinel.
What sub-type of article is it?
Accident
Death Or Funeral
What keywords are associated?
Poisoning Accident
Water Hemlock
Lansingburgh Academy
Student Deaths
Spikenard Mistake
What entities or persons were involved?
Cambridge Davidson
James Hector
Heermance
Where did it happen?
Lansingburgh
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Lansingburgh
Event Date
Monday Last
Key Persons
Cambridge Davidson
James Hector
Heermance
Outcome
cambridge davidson and james hector died; young heermance survived due to emetic.
Event Details
Three lads from Lansingburgh Academy ate water hemlock mistaken for spikenard while gathering winter greens in the woods, leading to illness and two deaths.