Pix Liquida

A product of dry distillation of various coniferous woods.

Authorities. 1 , H. and J. Slight, Lancet, 1832-3 (2), p. 598, a man, aged thirty-two years, drank about a gill of the oil of tar, recovery; 2 , Dr. Buckley, Practitioner (Brown-sequard's Archives of Sci. and Pract. Med., No. 2, 1873), effects which sometimes follow local application in skin diseases.

Fulness and pain in the head, [2] .

Pain in the stomach, [2] . Constant vomiting (after seven hours and a half), [1] . Vomiting of a blackish fluid, [2] .

Excessive pains in bowels and loins (after seven hours and a half), [1] .

Ardor urinae (second day), [1] . Dark-colored urine, [2] .

Dark-colored fecal evacuations, [2] .

Great exhaustion (after seven hours and a half), [1] . It may produce an acute eczema, some skins not tolerating the substance at all; while in others an acne is developed from closure and irritation of the sebaceous orifices, [2] .

Occasionally high fever, [2] .