Narcissus Pseudonarcissus

Narcissus, Pseudo-Narcissus, L.

Natural order , Amaryllidaceae.

Common name , Daffodil.

Authorities. Sideny Ringer, M.D., Journ. of Phys., vol. i, 1878-9, p. 437; ( 1 to 6 , experiments with the alkaloid from flowering bulbs); 1 , a small quantity of a solution of the sulphate of the alkaloid (strength, 1 in 5 of water) was dropped into the eye; 2 , a woman, aet. eighteen years, received 3/5 grain sulphate by hypodermic injection in the arm; 2 a , same experiment repeated after two days; 3 , effects of topical application to the eye; 4 , injected hypodermically 3/5 grain into a woman, aet. nineteen years; 5 , another case; 6 , injected hypodermically 4/5 gain into a man, aet. thirty-nine years; ( 7 to 9 , experiments with the alkaloid from bulbs that had flowered); 7 , a man, aet. forty years, took 1/2 grain nitrate (first day); 3/4 grain (second day); 1 grain (third day); 1 1/2 grain (fourth day); 2 grains (fifth day); 2 1/2 grains (seventh day); 2 3/4 grains (eighth day); 3 grains (ninth day); 4 grains (tenth day); 8 , same, afterwards took 1/2 grain every two hours for two days, and on the third day took 1 grain every two hours; 9 , effects of topical application to eye; 10 , a man took 12 minims of a solution of the flowered bulbs; 11 , same, took 4 grains alkaloid; 12 , effects of 12 minims.

Frontal headache, in the evening (first day), [2] .

Eye.

Slight running at the eyes (fourth day), [7] .

Pupils a little dilated (second day), [7] .

[10.]

Slight salivation (in ten minutes); more marked (in one hour) (fourth day), [7] .

Free salivation, spat about an ounce of saliva (in eight minutes, fifth day), [7] .

In seventeen minutes free salivation occurred, and in the course of the following half hour he spat an ounce and a half of very ropy saliva (seventh day), [7] . Salivation to the extent of an ounce of thick ropy saliva (eighth day), [7] .

Spat an ounce of saliva (ninth day), [7] .

Spat an ounce and a half of saliva (tenth day), [7] .

Dryness of the throat (in twenty-five minutes), [2] .

[20.]

Hiccough (fifth day), [7] .

Slight hiccough, sinking and faint feeling (seventh day), [7] .

Heartburn (fifth day), [7] . Sickness, [12] .

Felt sick (in twenty minutes); vomited with a slight amount of retching (in thirty and forty minutes), [10] .

Felt a little sick, with a sinking sensation at the epigastrium (after one hour, second day), [7] . Some sinking at the epigastrium, with slight nausea and hiccough (fourth day), [7] .

Sinking sick sensation (fifth day), [7] .

Sinking feeling (eighth and ninth days), [7] .

Rumbling in the stomach (first and second days), [8] .

[30.]

Diarrhoea, five motions in the day, with severe aching pain below the left false ribs (after second dose, third day), [8] . Three large watery motions, [12] .

Two watery stools, [11] . Loose stool (in two hours, ninth day), [7] .

Two loose stools (after one hour and a half, tenth day), [7] . Relaxed stool, though previously he had suffered from constipation, [7] .

Semi-solid motion (after some hours, fourth day), [7] .

Pulse 64 (before injection); rose to 116 and continued quick five hours, [6] .

Quickening of the pulse 12 beats per minute (eighth day), [7] . Pulse 92 (before injection); rose to 124; continued quick two hours, [5] .

Pulse 84 (before experiment); rose to 128, continued quick two hours, [4] .

Pulse 84 (before experiment); 136 (in one hour); 102 (in one hour and forty minutes), [2] . Pulse fell 10 beats (in six minutes); rose 8 above initial beat (in twelve minutes); 22 above (in twenty-three minutes); after this is gradually fell, and in one hour and a half it was 112, [2a] .

Slight faintness, [11] . Slight faintness and drowsiness (in a quarter of an hour, third day), [7] .

Greater faintness (tenth day), [7] .

In twelve minutes the hands, which were quite wet with perspiration, became dry, and so remained for one hour and three-quarters, [2] . [50.]

Hands, which were quite wet with perspiration, became dry (in twelve minutes), [2a] .