OENANTHE.
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
ŒNANTHE.
Œnanthe crocata, Linn.
Natural order , Umbelliferæ.
Common names , Drop-water, Safran-rebendolde.
Preparation , Tincture of the root.
Authorities.
1 , Ray, Philos. Trans., 1699, effects in boys, from eating the root; 2 , Stalpaart Van der Wiel, Observ. rarior., 1727 (from Bloc, Monograph on Œ., 1873), effects of eating plant; 3 , Smetius, 1593, from Stalpaart, effects of eating stems and leaves in a salad; 4 , same, effects in a woman, of eating stems cooked with parsnips; 5 , Christ. Rost. Miscell., from Stalpaart, effects of eating stems, in several persons; 6 , Baldassar, Timœus on Poisons, took 7, chap. 4, p. 310 (from Stalpaart), effects in a man, of eating stems; 7 , Simon Paullus, Traité des fièvres malignes (from Stalpaart), effects of eating leaves in order to cure fever, in three persons; 8 , Arnatus Lusitamus (from Stalpaart), effects of eating stems, in a child, aged eleven; 9 , Watson, Phil. Trans., 1746, p. 127 (No. 460), effects of eating root, in eleven French prisoners; also, Phil. Trans., 1748, No. 238, effects on soldiers; 10 , Allen, Synops. Med., effects in four children; 11 , Ehret, Phil. Trans., 1759, p. 856, effects of five spoonfuls of expressed juice of root, in a man, aged fifty-eight; 12 , Pulteney, Med. and Philos. Comment, 1784, effects, after every dose, of the juice of the root mixed with wine, taken for the cure of a chronic scaly disease of the skin; 13 , Wilmers, Obs. on Poisonous Vegetables of Great Britain, 1781, statement of Christ. Ehret, as to the effects of the effluvia when sketching the plant; 14 , Dr. Robert Graves, Med. Facts and Obs., 1797, Vol. III, p. 308 (from Berridge, Pathogenetic Record), effects of two tablespoonfuls of juice of root, in a woman, aged twenty-four; 15 , Duval, Inaug. Thesis, 1806, effects of plant, on three soldiers (from Bloc); 16 , Parise, Journ. Gén. de Méd., 1823 (Bloc), effects of eating plant, prepared as a salad, on five persons, three of whom died; 17 , Dr. Charles, Archives Clin. de Montpellier, 1814, effects of eating soup containing the plant, in a woman and child (Bloc); 18 , Godefroy, Journ. de Pharm., etc., 1822, effects of eating plant, in three sailors; 19 , Journ. de Pharm., 1822, effects of eating plant, in three women; 20 , Bry, Arch. Gén. de Méd., 1823, effects of eating plant, in a man; 21 , Joseph Fraysell, Lancet, 1833, 1, 860, effects of eating root, in a woman; 22 , Thompson, Lancet, 1836, 2, 850, effects of crushing plant, on a man; 23 , same, effects of eating a small piece of the root; 24 , Bossey, Lond. Med. Gaz., 1844, p. 289, effects of eating roots, on Wilkinson (one of a number of convicts); 25 , same, on Knight; 26 , same, on Wilson; 27 , on others, same; 28 , same, on Chamberlain; 29 , same, on Williams; 30 , same, on Jeffs; 31 , same, on Salt; 32 , same, on Burgess; 33 , Unger, Gaz. des Hôp., 1846, effects of eating leaves, on a woman and some children; 34 , Pickells, Edin. Med. and Surg. Jour., 1847, p. 435, Vol. LXVII, effects of eating the root, in three boys; 35 , same, in two other boys; 36 , same, effects in a woman; 37 , same, in five children; 38 , same, in a boy; 39 , same, in two boys; 40 , same, in a boy; 41 , same, from Cork Southern Reporter, 1827, effects in four children; 42 , same, in a boy; 43 , same, in a child; 44 , same, in two girls; 45 , same, effects of applying a poultice of the plant to a scrofulous ophthalmia, in a woman; 46 , same, effects of eating some, in a elderly woman; 47 , Nichol, Assoc. Journ., 1854 (Schmidt's Jhb., 86, 316), effects of a strong infusion of plant, taken for erythema, in a woman; 48 , Med. Times and Gaz., N. S., 13, 1856, p. 205, effects of root, in three sailors; 49 , Friedrich's Blatt. f. Ger., Aug. 1856 (A. H. Z., 54, 152), effects of the expressed juice of the root; 50 , Grahame, Med. Times and Gaz., 1858, N. S., 16, p. 241, effects of eating root; 51 , Appleton, Brit. Med. Journ., 1861, March, p. 293, effects of eating plant; 52 , same, report of another case; 53 , same, quoted from Dr. Hooper's Med. Dict., effects of eating root, in several persons; 54 , Baume, Med. Times and Gaz., 1862 (from Archives des Mal-mentales, 1861), effects of eating root, in a man; 55 , same, another case; 56 , Vacher, Journ. de Méd., 1863, effects of a soup containing the leaves and roots, in seventeen soldiers (from Bloc); 57 , Vincent, Gaz. de hebdom. Méd., Paris, 1864, effects of eating the herb; 58 , Popham, Brit. and For. Med.-Chir. Rev., 1866, p. 544 (Dubl. Quart. J. of Med., 1865), effects in some boys; 59 , same, effects in one boy; 60 , Dr. Kimball, Am. Hom. Obs., 1867, p. 70, effects of eating the root, in a boy; 61 , Kane, Med. Times and Gaz., 1869, 2, 379, effects of eating the leaves, in a child; 62 , Bloc, effects of eating root, in several persons; 63 , Nevins, Assoc. Med. J., Vol. II, effects of eating roots, in a young boy; 64 , Pharm. Journ., 3d ser., Vol. I, p. 1110, effects of eating the root, in a man; 65 , Journ. de Chim. Med., 1870 (Bloc), effects of getting the alcoholic solution of the extract on the hands; 66 , Gayet, Essai sur l'Œnanthe, 1870, poisoning of several persons by eating the herb; 67 , same, effects of eating the root, in a soldier; 68 , Journ. of Botany, 1870, Vol. VIII, p. 255, effect of eating root, in a man; 69 , Pharm. Journ. and Trans., 1875 and 1876 (Manchester Guardian), effect of eating the root, in several persons (from Berridge, Pathogenetic Record); 70 , same, additional effects, 1871, Vol. I, p. 110; 71 , Foss, Practitioner, 1876, p. 248, effects of eating root, in nine children; 72 , Taylor's Med. Juris., Vol. I, p. 422, two laborers ate some of the roots; death after about three hours.
MIND
- Furious delirium, 4.*
- Delirium, 7, 16, 23, 49.
- Very marked symptoms of maniacal delirium, 3.
- Delirium and insensibility; restless, and with difficulty kept in bed; when roused he did not speak, but stared vacantly, and seemed in a state of madness (after seven hours and a half); still restless and insane (after twenty-four hours); delirious (ninth and tenth days), 31.
- *Delirium like delirium tremens; the patients constantly moved from place to place, talked without cessation, and without knowing what they said; they grasped at imaginary objects, 33.
- Excessive excitement; she talked to herself, swore and blasphemed, while at the same time she was seized with convulsive laughter, 33.
- The patients refused everything that was offered, and constantly endeavored to escape, so that it was necessary to keep constant watch over them, 33.
- One ran mad, but his reason returned next morning, 1.
- Semi-delirium in almost all, 30. [10.]
- Approaching delirium (twelfth day), 32.
- In one the most prominent symptom was extreme restlessness, approaching to mania, 50.
- Lost control of myself and was unconscious of what I was doing or saying, 3.
- When slapped on the cheeks he bounds up indignantly, stammering out in pitiful remonstrance, "Wisha, don't, then," and covers his head impatiently; he is immediately buried in unconsciousness again (after four hours), 59.
- It seemed to her as if she were flying, 4.
- Depression of spirits (second day), 58.
- It seemed to her as if she were flying, 4.
- Depression of spirits (second day), 58.
- Great oppression, with extreme anxiety, 3.
- Moans (second day), 31.
- Temper irritable (third day), 59.
- General malaise, 15, 33. [20.]
- Much confused in intellect, and vacant in expression (second day); consciousness has quite returned, but all is a blank since he ate the root up to this morning (third day), .
HEAD
- Vertigo.
- Vertigo, 2, 12, 15, 43, 49, 50, 67.
- Vertigo like intoxication, 5.
- The first attacked was seized with vertigo and fell; the other, while placing him on his back, fell also, 35.
- Dizziness in the head (one case), 53.
- Felt dizzy and strangely (after twenty minutes), 60.
- Dizziness in his head for some time, 9.
- Giddiness, 27, 51. [40.]
- Great giddiness, with vast uneasiness and sickness at stomach, but no vomiting (after ten or fifteen minutes), 14.
- Complained of giddiness, and immediately fell to the ground, 36.
- Giddy, in one case, 50.
- Giddiness (second day), 58.
- Giddiness (eleventh day), 30.
- Giddy, so that several times he was obliged to quit the room and walk out in the fresh air to recover himself; but when the doors and windows of his room were opened, he could finish his work without giddiness, 13.
- General Head.
- Headache and giddiness (seventh day), 30.
- Headache, 58.
- Violent pain in the head, 57.
- Pain in the head (second day), 32. [50.]
- Pain in head (fifth day), 28.
- Complained greatly of pain all over him, but particularly in the head (after one hour and a half), 11.
EYE
- Eyes very much sunk (ninth day), 31.
- Eyes full and projecting, pupils dilated, 72.
- It inflamed the eye much, and caused the other eye to swell and inflame, 45.
- Injection of the eye (seventh day), 39.
- Lid and Ball.
- Eyelids spasmodically closed (after four hours), 59.
- Eyelids half closed (after six hours and a half), 28.
- Eyeballs drawn upward and inward and firmly fixed, 61.
- Pupil.
- The pupils of the eye in all cases were widely dilated; the eyes themselves were fixed, and were never moved, the retinæ being apparently insensible to light, as the children never manifested any sign of recognizing those who were attending to them, 71. [60.]
- Pupils very much contracted, 67.
- Pupil of eye contracted to the size of a pin's head (after one hour and three-quarters), 21.
- Pupils first contracted, afterwards dilated, 63.
- Pupils dilated; expression uncertain and haggard, 33.
- Pupils dilated and insensible, 59.
- Pupils dilated, 25, 26, 27, 38, 55.
- Dilatation of pupils, for several days, 40.
- Much dilatation of the pupils, and redness of the eyes, 34.
- Vision.
- Vision impaired, 49.
- Disturbance of vision, 57. [70.]
- Obscuration of vision, 6.
- Saw nothing on awaking, 8.
EAR AND NOSE
- Heard nothing on awaking, 8.
- Tip of the nose very red (second day), 31.
- Hæmorrhage from the nose (in one case), 2.
FACE
- Swelling of the face, 22.
- Rapid convulsive twitching of muscles of face, 61.*
- Face swollen, flushed (second day), 32.
- Face flushed up during his struggles, livid when quiet, 59.
- Face flushed (second day), 31. [80.]
- Face congested (after seven days), 31.
- Face black (after one hour), 64.
- Face swollen and livid, 25.
- Face livid and turgid, 63.*
- Face livid (sixth day), 31, 72.
- Face pale and cold, 61.
- Pallor of face, 27.
- The face immediately became very pale, and he said he felt as though he had eaten some tobacco, 57.
- Pale face, 25, 55.
- Features very pale, 33. [90.]
- Ghastly pallor of the cutaneous surface of the face, with blackening round the eyelids, 71.
- Looked pale, 26.
- Countenance anxious (after eleven days), 32.
- Countenance anxious, depressed (after six hours and a half), 28, 32.
- Lips.
- Lips livid (after seven hours and a half), 31.
- Lips blue (seventh day), 30.
- Jaws.
- An emetic was with great difficulty forced down, on account of his jaws being, as it were, locked together, 9.
- Jaws closed fast, so that very little could be given him, 11.
- Jaws rigidly closed, 63.
- Jaws locked (in one case), 53. [100.]
- Two boys, aged five and eight, were lockjawed, and after writhing in pain for some hours, died, 69.
- Jaws closed spasmodically, 61.
- Impracticable to introduce emetics by the mouth, notwithstanding the use of a dilator, in consequence of spasm of lower jaw, .
MOUTH
- Tongue.
- Convulsive movements of the teeth, 72.
- Tongue half bitten through about an inch from the vertex, 61.
- Tongue sore and swollen (second day); raw at tip and edges (third day), 59.
- Tongue swollen and protruded, 72.
- Tongue protruded with difficulty, swollen, white, blistered (second day); white, its edges ulcerated (third day); coated, moist, red at the tip (fifth day), 31. [110.]
- Tongue swollen (after six hours and a half); red at the tip (second day); white (fourth day); moist (sixth day); coated, moist (after seven days), 32.
- Tongue slightly coated (second day); white (third day), 28.
- Tongue moist, slightly furred (seven day), 30.
- Tongue slightly coated (sixth day), 29.
- Tongue clean, moist, and trembling, 32.
- General Mouth.
- Foaming at the mouth, 38, 51 ; (after one hour), 64.
- He foamed considerably at the mouth, 11.
- Frothy mucus, with blood about their months, 72.
- Bloody mucus oozed from the mouth, 63.
- Mouth dry and parched (second day), 28. [120.]
- Mouth parched (third day), 31.
- Speech.
- Loss of speech, 59.
- Speechless (after one hour and three-quarters), 21.
- Speechless, 25, 72.
THROAT
- Much mucus in the throat (second day), 32.
- Pressure on the throat gives pain; it is sore when he swallows (fifth day), 31.
- Inflammation of the throat and pharynx, 19.
- Inflammation of the throat and œsophagus, 18.
- Constriction of the throat, 58.
- Sensation of burning and constriction in the larynx, 49. [130.]
- Burning heat in the throat, 16.
- Burning heat in the throat and stomach, 2.
- Heat in throat, 23.
- Great heat in the throat, 20.
- Violent heat in throat and stomach, 10.
- Great heat in the throat and stomach, 3, 18.
- Loud rattles in the trachea (after six hours and a half), 32.
- To make him swallow was impossible, 25.
- She had lost the power of deglutition (after one hour and three-quarters), 21.
ŒNANTHE. STOMACH.
- Appetite and Thirst.
- Total loss of appetite, 50. [140.]
- Thirst (eleventh day), 30.
- Thirst (third day), 31.
- Desires cold drinks, in the evening (third day), 31.
- Eructation and Hiccough.
- Constant and continued eructations strongly flavored by the plant, 50.
- Hiccough, 5.
- Very distressing hiccough, 6.
- Cardialgia, 2.
- Nausea and Vomiting.
- Nausea, without vomiting, 67.
- Nausea, 2, 58, 66.
- Frequent nausea, without vomiting, 57. [150.]
- Nausea and vomiting, 15, 49.
- Nauseated, and vomited up nearly the whole of the root (after twenty minutes), 60.
- Nausea and sickness, which were soon relieved, if vomiting supervened, 12.
- Vast uneasiness and sickness at stomach, but no vomiting, with great uneasiness (after ten or fifteen minutes), 14.
- Vomiting, 46.
- Vomited blood, 63.
- Vomiting and diarrhœa, 47.
- They vomited in their fits, 10.
- Great retching; at the first attempt he threw up about half a pint of clear watery liquid; at the first and third attempts hardly anything, 11.
- Tenderness at stomach (eleventh day), 30. [160.]
- Acute pain in the stomach, 19.
- Pain in pit of stomach, with slight fever (eighth and ninth days), 31.
- Pain in the stomach, 38.
- Violent pains in the epigastric region, 49, 57.
- Pain in the epigastric region, 67.
- Burning in the stomach, 58.
ABDOMEN
- Abdomen distended like a balloon, 17. [170.]
- Distension of the abdomen, 49.
- Abdomen greatly distended, 38.
- Sudden distension of the abdomen, with shortness of breathing (second day), 28.
- Belly greatly swelled, 11.
- Abdomen rather hard (eleventh day), 30.
- Violent colic, 49.
- Colic pains in the abdomen (second day), 58.
- Tenderness, hardness, and pain in the abdomen (second day), 38.
- Belly very tender (third day), 31.
- Griping or severe tormina, 50. [180.]
- Tumescence of the abdomen, 42.
- Cough gives pain in the region of the liver and in the head (second day), 32.
- The slightest touch on any part of the abdomen causes great pain (second day), 31.
RECTUM AND STOOL
- Great desire for stool, which went off in three minutes, 11.
- Diarrhœa, 2, 49.
- Bowels moved involuntarily (after seven hours and a half), 31.
URINARY AND SEXUAL ORGANS
- Micturition painful (after five days), 31.
- Urine plentiful, dark-colored, turbid (eleventh day), 31.
- Increased flow of urine, in which there was a copious sediment, 12.
- Urine clear, high-colored (fifth day), 31. [190.]
- Passed a pint of urine, reddish, and depositing a copious white sediment (second day); urine reddish, thick, high-colored (third day); dark, with sediment (fifth day); plentiful and still thick (tenth day), 32.
- No urine since midnight, at 10 A.M.; thick, dark-colored, at midnight (second day); plentiful, dark-colored, with a thick yellowish sediment (third day); free, dark-colored, with sediment (fifth day), 28.
- Semi-priapism (second day), 32.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS
- Voice.
- Very hoarse (seventh day), 31.
- Cough and Expectoration.
- Coughs slightly, and expectorates with difficulty a reddish mucus (second day); expectorates a thick reddish mucus (third day); expectoration bloody (fourth day); cough troublesome, sputum dark, but not so bloody (seventh day); expectoration copious (ninth day); very copious, loose, and less bloody; easy, and becoming white (tenth day), 32.
- Short cough (second day), 31.
- Much mucus in the throat raised with freedom (second day); expectorates a white frothy phlegm (third day); expectorates a heavy greenish-yellow matter (fourth day); frequent cough, with copious purulent expectoration, in the forenoon; cough and expectoration frequent, in the evening (sixth day); spits a large quantity of heavy purulent mucus (seventh day); expectorates with great difficulty the same dark-greenish matter (ninth day), 31.
- Respiration.
- Spasmodic respiration, 63.
- A convulsive attempt at respiration was made to expel the blood and froth from the mouth, 61.
- Breathing convulsive, 26. [200.]
- Breathes heavily (second day); breathing short, in the morning; laborious, hurried, with loud tracheal rattles, in the evening (third day); breathing easier (fourth day); much shorter (seventh day); more oppressed (eighth day); laborious (ninth day); very short (tenth day); slight mucous rattle in the trachea (eleventh day), 31.
- Breathing labored, 23.
- Breathing stertorous and labored, 72.
- Breathing hurried (after seven hours and a half); labored (second day), 31.
- Breathing short (after six hours and a half); hurried (second day); hurried, slight rattling in trachea (second day); short and difficult when she moved (seventh day); loud mucous rattles in the trachea (eleventh day), 32.
- Shortness of breath, with sudden distension of the abdomen (second day), 28.
- Breathing slow and labored, interrupted by constant sighing and convulsive cough, 59.
- Difficult respiration, 6.
- Breathing free (after one hour and three-quarters), 21.
- Respiration very difficult, . [210.]
CHEST
- Chest firmly fixed, 61.
- On the right side of the chest there is dulness on percussion, the natural murmur wanting, a short bronchial sound; on the left side, sonorous rattles; the heart's action quick, weak, with a thrilling sensation communicated to the hand (fifth day), 32.
- Pain in chest and abdomen (second day), 28.
- Pain in the right side under the ribs (eleventh day), 30.
- Pain in breast (after six hours and a half), 32.
- Pain in breast (after ten hours and a half), 29.
HEART AND PULSE
- Pain in the heart, 6.
- Acceleration of the pulse, 22. [220.]
- The pulse at first was about 100 in the minute, but it soon became hardly perceptible, and in all the cases was imperceptible for hours previous to death, 71.
- Pulse feeble, at 8 A.M.; soft, greatly accelerated, in the evening (third day); fuller, about 100, at 8 A.M. (fourth day); soft, 112, at 1 P.M. (fifth day); feeble, 120, at 10 A.M. (seventh day); soft, feeble, very frequent (eighth day), 31.
- Pulse frequent and feeble, at noon (second day); 108, soft (fifth day); soft, 90 (seventh day); very small and feeble (eleventh day), 32.
- Pulse 84, feeble and irregular (first day); 84, rising to 108, on sitting up (second day), 59.
- Pulse soft, feeble, 78, much accelerated by slight exertion (second day), 31.
- Slow feeble pulse, 27.
- Feeble pulse, 55.
- Pulse very small, feeble, rather slow, 33.
- Pulse soft, irregular, 48 to 52, 67.
- Pulse 40, small and wiry (after one hour and three-quarters), 21. [230.]
- Pulse almost imperceptible, 63.
- "Pulse scarcely to be felt" (first case), 39.
- Pulseless, 54.
EXTREMITIES
- Lost the use of his limbs (after one hour and a half), 11.
- Arms flexed at elbow in a right angle, 61.
- Irritation of the hands and arms, with sharp lancinating pains, 22.
- Rapid convulsive twitching of muscles of hands, 61.
- Hands firmly clenched, 63.
- Tendency to cramps in lower extremities, 50.
- Legs stretched straight out, 61.
GENERALITIES. [240.]
- *He fell back, foaming at the mouth and black in the face, 70.
- "Gave a leap" and then fell, receiving, in the fall, a severe injury to the forehead (one case), 34.
- Trunk powerfully bent forward, 63.
- All reflex excitability was gone; irritation of the fauces; by putting in the stomach-pump did not in the least excite any tendency to vomit, 71.
- One lost his hair and nails, 1.
- It was impossible to get them to swallow anything, 71.
- They never spoke or uttered any cry indicating that they were in pain, 71.
- One seemed "rather mesmerized than comatose," 34.
- Risus sardonicus , and other symptoms, 43.
- Reeling, 55. [250.]
- Long-continued rigors, and it almost proved fatal (after a tablespoonful), 12.
- In a state of almost immovable rigidity; insensible, moaning, and breathing stertorously; countenance livid; eyes fixed; pupils dilated; sanguineous foam issuing from the mouth; intense action of the dorsal and lumbar muscles, or opisthotonos; the pulse very feeble, and the heart's action even scarcely perceptible; lower jaws firmly locked; the tongue much injured and slightly protruding; in eight or ten minutes from the time of first seeing him, he expired gently and without a struggle, 50.
- Severe rigors, 27.
- Body rigid, 61.
- Rigors, 23.
- They were in great agonies, with violent heat in stomach and throat, before they fell into convulsions, 10.
- Occasional general convulsions, 72.
- The convulsions were not of the body, but of the mouth, face, and extremities, 34.
- In about half an hour they were all seized with symptoms of poisoning, and one died soon after in strong convulsions, 48.
- When placed in a sitting posture, his head would fall forward or backward, or to the shoulder, but when replaced on the pillow he tossed his head from side to side, accompanied by jactitations of the hands, 59. [260.]
- Jactitation, if not convulsions, in almost all, 50.
- Numbness, nausea, horrid convulsions, and at last tetanic stiffness, coma, and death; almost all died, .
He remembered nothing that had befallen him from the first to the third day of his illness, nor of the circumstances that had accompanied, nor those which had caused it, 56.
- The eldest suddenly fell backwards without any premonitory symptoms, and lay kicking and sprawling on the ground; his countenance soon turned very ghastly, and he foamed at the mouth (after four or five hours); soon after, four more were seized in the same way, and they all died before morning, not one having spoken a word, 1.
- Terrible convulsions, followed by tetanic rigidity, coma, and death, 66.
- Most violent convulsions and death in less than an hour from the time of taking the poison. They mangled their tongues in a shocking manner, 44.
- Violent convulsions, solely affecting the flexors throughout the body, 63.
- Violently convulsed, and in the space of one hour was a corpse, 36.
- Strongly and repeatedly convulsed, and appeared to be hastening into an apoplectic condition; death in a quarter of an hour, 25. [270.]
- Dreadfully convulsed for some hours, and died in the most excruciating agony, 41.
- Very severe convulsions, which, in about fifteen minutes, deprived him of his senses, and continued, with a few intermissions, till he died, which was in about three hours and a half, 11.
- Fell convulsed; struggled so violently that several strong men could scarcely hold him; he suddenly died in a fit (after one hour and a quarter), 26.
- Fell down convulsed, and died within a quarter of an hour, 51.
- Fell down in strong convulsions; the struggling was soon over, and he became better, but retained a wild expression of countenance, which was pale, and in a short time he had another fit; about half an hour later it was manifest that he was dying; his bloated livid face, the sanguineous foam about his mouth and nostrils, the stertorous snort and convulsive breathing, extreme prostration and insensibility plainly indicated that every remedial measure would be useless; he died in five minutes, 24.
- Very violent convulsions succeeded each other with very great rapidity, and were followed by death, 15.
- Convulsions soon came on, and she lost her senses (after ten or fifteen minutes); in half an hour more the convulsions had become stronger and quicker; no sensibility; mouth firmly open; scarcely any pulse at the wrist, and extremities cold; she soon died, 14.
- Seized while stepping from the boat; insensibility, convulsions, foaming at the mouth, and almost instantaneous death, 52.
- Loss of speech and consciousness, followed by terrible convulsions, which lasted three-quarters of an hour, and terminated in death; during the convulsions the teeth were tightly closed by trismus, .
SKIN
- Irregular rosaceous spots covering nearly the whole face; these spots were not elevated above the skin; they appeared also on the abdomen and arms, 17.
- Small red spots on the chest, face, and upper extremities, 49.
- Red ecchymosed patches on the face and chest, 23.
- Roseola, on the abdomen, in patches (after a few hours), 59.
- Eruption on the hands and arms, 22.
- Eruption, accompanied by engorgement, redness, and pruritus (after three hours), 65.
SLEEP
- Drowsy (after six hours and a half), 28.
- Sleepy (second day), 31.
- Sound sleep, 8. [330.]
- Sleepy; roused with difficulty (after six hours and a half), 24.
- Great tendency to sleep, 67.
- In a deep sleep, snoring loudly and moaning (after four hours), 59.
FEVER
- Extreme coldness (second case), 2.
- "Deadly cold and pale" (first case), 39.
- The skin was cold, especially the hands and feet, which were blue long before death, 71.
- Skin cold and moist, especially over the hands and forehead (after one hour and three-quarters), 21.
- Hands and face cold (seventh day), 30.
- Extremities cold, 67.
- Coldness of the extremities, 27. [340.]
- Loss of animal heat (second day), 58.
- Burning heat, that mounted to the head, 17.
- Violent heat of the head, 49.
- Hot and feverish (second day), 32.
- Face, nose, ears, and lips excessively hot and flushed, in the evening (third day), 31.
- Skin hot (after three days), 31.
- Slight fever, with pain at pit of stomach (eighth and ninth days), 31.
- A profuse sweat accompanied all the symptoms, 11.
- Very offensive perspiration over the whole body, 49.
- Cold sweats (after a tablespoonful), 12.
CONDITIONS
- Aggravation.
- ( Morning ), Breathing short; 8 A.M., pulse feeble.
- ( Evening ), Desire for cold drinks; breathing laborious and hurried; pulse accelerated; face, nose, and lips flushed; sleepy.
- ( Exertion ), Pulse accelerated.
- ( Sitting up ), Pulse accelerated.
- ( Pressure on part ), Pain in throat.
- ( Walking in close room ), Giddiness.
- ( Water ), All symptoms, 19.