Solanum Tuberosum Aegrotans
SOLANUM TUBEROSUM · T. F. Allen - Εγκυκλοπαίδεια της Καθαρής Materia Medica (φάρμακα που απουσιάζουν από τα άλλα βιβλία) · Timothy Field Allen · 2,802 χαρακτήρες
General EN
Solanum tuberosum, Linn.
Natural order , Solanaceae.
Common names , Potato; (Fr.), Pomme de terre.
Authorities. 1 , Muncke, Hecker's Annals, 1845 (Frank's Mag., 3, 223), effects of eating new potatoes; 2 , Bourgeois, Journ. Gén. de Méd., No. 334, p. 69 (Frank's Mag., 3, 23 4), effects of eating green potatoes; 3 , W. Thistleton Dyer, Pharm. Journ., 1842, p. 590, effects of the extract; 4 , Thomas Morris, Brit.
Med. Journ., 1859, p. 719, Miss H., ate berries of potato plant, death on third day; 5 , Manners, Edin. Med. Journ., 1867, p. 399, a man ate the berries, fatal effect; 6 , same, effects on other members of family; 7 , Lancet, 1859, 2, 202, fatal effects in a girl of eating the berries.
Mind EN
Almost lost consciousness, [1] .
Head EN
Vertigo, [2] . In a large dose, it produces all the effects of narcotic poisons, headache, vertigo, stupor, etc., [3] .
Persistent headache, [2] .
Eye.
Eyes deep in their sockets, [1] .
Looks staring, [1] .
Eyes for the most part open, and the pupils were not very much dilated, [4] .
Dilated pupils, [1] , [6] .
Indistinct vision, [2] .
Face EN
[10.]
Hippocratic face, [1] .
Expression anxious, [4] , [6] .
Mouth EN
The teeth were for the most part closed, and she was constantly spitting through the closed teeth a viscid frothy phlegm, [4] . Tongue covered with a brown moist fur, [4] .
Difficulty of moving the tongue in talking, [2] .
Hardly able to articulate, the tongue appearing heavy, [6] .
Talked thick (in half an hour), [5] .
Speechless, [4] .
Stomach EN
Violent retching, followed by vomiting and diarrhoea, [1] . A good deal of sickness, [4] . [20.]
Felt sick, a darkness over his eyes, his skin cold, and cramped all over (in a half hour), [5] . Epigastric region sensitive to pressure, [1] .
Abdomen EN
Violent colic and vomiting, [2] . Pain in bowels, [4] .
Stool EN
Diarrhoea with tenesmus, [2] . Decided tendency to produce relaxation of the bowels, [3] .
Respiratory Organs.
Respiration hurried, [4] . Respiration irregular, at times suppressed; usually short and incomplete, only seldom slow and sighing, [1] .
Difficult respiration, [2] .
Pulse EN
Pulse 100, small, rapid, scarcely perceptible, [1] .
Extremities EN
[30.]
Cramps, especially in the calves, with spasmodic contractions of the fingers and thumbs, [1] .
Generalities EN
Tossing to and fro in bed, [4] . General rigidity, [2] . Patient exceedingly weak, [1] . Faintness, [2] .
In moderate doses it seems to me to possess power far more certain than either Hyoscyamus or Conium, [3] .
Skin EN
Skin of a livid color, [4] .
Sleep EN
She occasionally slumbered for a few minutes, and again was restless, [4] .
Fever EN
Skin cold, [6] . Face, chest, and extremities cold, [1] . [40.]
Skin bedewed with a cold clammy perspiration, [4] .