Effects of Eating Tea

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 23, 1879

Effects of Eating Tea.

The Veterinary Journal reports the case of the poisoning of Lord William Beresford's horse by tea, which it pronounces "unparalleled in the annals of veterinary or even human toxicology." A staff cook having left some pounds of tea in a sack, a Kaffir groom filled it with corn, and serving out the contents to a troop of horses, gave Lord William Beresford's charger the bulk of the tea, which was eaten greedily, and produced the most startling results. The animal plunged and kicked, and ran backward, at intervals galloping madly around, finally falling into a donga, where it lay dashing its head on the rocks, and was dispatched by an assegia thrust through the heart. The post-mortem appearances indicated extreme cerebral congestion.