Lobelinum

Alkaloid of Lobelia inflata.

Authority. Isaac Ott, M.D., Chicago Journ. of Nervous and Mental Diseases, vol. xi, 1877, p. 68, took 1-192 m. of Acetate of lobelina, at 2.25, 2.56, and 3.10 P.M.

Headache (in one hundred and six minutes).

Eye.

Pupils dilated (in seventeen minutes).

Tickling and dryness in the throat (in two minutes).

Retching (after third dose).

Vomiting (after third dose).

Uncomfortable feeling in the stomach (in seventeen minutes).

Respiratory Organs.

Respiration 17 (before experiment); 19 (in two minutes); 17 (in seven and thirteen minutes); 18 (in seventeen minutes); 17 (in twenty-two minutes); 18 (in thirty minutes); 19 (in thirty-eight minutes); 18 (in forty-two and forty-seven minutes); 20 (in fifty-four minutes); 18 (in sixty-one minutes); 19 (in seventy-eight minutes); 18 (in ninety-two minutes).

Heart And Pulse.

Pulse 74 (before experiment); 73 (in two minutes); 70 (in seven minutes); 69 (in thirteen minutes); 68 (in seventeen and twenty-two minutes); 72 (in thirty minutes); 74 (in thirty-eight minutes); 76 (in forty-two minutes); 77 (in forty-seven minutes); 72 (in fifty-four minutes); 70 (in sixty-one minutes); 65 (in seventy-eight minutes); 68 (in ninety-two minutes).

Prostration (in one hundred and six minutes).

Disposition to sleep (in one hundred and six minutes).

[10.]

Temperature by mouth 99° (before experiment); 99° (in two and seven minutes); 99 1/2° (in seven, thirteen, seventeen, and twenty-two minutes); 99 1/4° (thirty to fifty-four minutes); 99° (in sixty-one minutes); 99 1/4° (in seventy-eight and ninety-two minutes).