Oplia

Authority. Dr. Demeures, Journ. de la Soc. Gall., Ser. 1st, vol. 4, p. 110, "effects caused by pounding the insect called Oplia farinosa ." [The editor of the Encyclopedia is unable to dertermine the proper name of this animal.]

Eye.

Pain in the left eyeball, afterwards extending over the whole left side of the face.

Immediately, the tip of the nose is painful to touch; it even feels warmer.

Slight acidity in the bottom of the throat.

Three hours after, several liquid diarrhoeic stools, of an ash color, with borborygmi, and slight colic also, eight hours after. A hard stool, twenty-four hours after; four hours after this, an ash-colored diarrhoeic stool. [10.] Third day , hard stool at noon; 5 P.M., another copious, diarrhoeic, ash-colored stool. Fourth day , stool at noon not so hard; another stool at 5 o'clock, copious, ash-colored, but not quite so loose.

Fifth day , stool at 11 o'clock, normal, copious; another stool at 5 P.M., very liquid and very abundant.

Sixth day , everything has regained its normal condition.

Falls asleep late, in the evening.