Erythrophlaeum

Erythrophlaeum guinense, G. Don.

Natural order , Leguminosae.

Preparations , From the bark.

Authorities. 1 , Drs. Mitchell and Hammond, Charleston Med. Journ. and Rev., vol. xiv, 1859, p. 734, took 4 drachms of the saturated tincture at 11 A.M., 2 and 5 P.M.; 1 a , same, two days later took 1 once of the tincture at 10 A.M.; 2 , Bowditch's Ashantee, p. 279 (Berridge's Collection, New Eng. Med.

Gaz., vol. xi, 1876, p. 306), infusion of the bark; 3 , New Eng. Med. Gaz. ibid. (Berridge), effects of the dust of the bark; 4 , Robert Christison, Pharm.

Journ., vol. xiv, 1854-55, p. 471 (called here Filloea), effect of 1 or 2 grains of the bark.

Slight dizziness (in one hour), [1] .

Headache, [1a] .

Face flushed, [1a] .

When inhaled by the nose it causes long-continued spasms of sneezing, with distress about the forehead and eyes, [3] .

When a grain or two of the bark is tasted it causes slowly an intense numbness and tingling of the part of the tongue to which it is confined, [4] .

Slight nausea, [1a] . It operates instantly and convulsively as a most violent emetic, [2] .

Bowels slightly loose and some griping (after first dose); somewhat constipated (second day), [1] .

Pulse 91 (before experiment); 83 (in one hour); 93 (in two hours); 80 (in four hours); 93 (in eight hours), [1] . [10.]

A decline in the rapidity and force of the pulse, [1a] .

Lassitude, [1a] . A pleasant lassitude, a desire for quiet, and an indisposition for either mental or physical exertion, [1] .