Carya Alba
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Carya alba, Nutt.
Nat. order , Juglandaceæ.
Common name , Shellbark or Shagbark hickory.
Authority.
Dr. Forsyth, Med. Repos., 11 (N. Am. J. of Hom., 2, 473), effects of eating the nuts (the exclusive diet, for three or four weeks, of a girl 7 years old).
FACE
- Appearance clay-colored.
- Face swollen.
MOUTH
- Gums swelled, began to bleed and turn black, and she could not move her lips without occasioning a profuse discharge from them.
STOMACH
- Appetite for animal food bad.
- Appetite gone (after seventeen days).
ABDOMEN
- Abdomen much swelled (after seventeen days).
STOOL
- Discharge of black-colored blood by stool (after seventeen days).
RESPIRATORY ORGANS
- Breathing short.
- Respiration difficult.
HEART AND PULSE. [10.]
- Pulse small and quick.
- Pulse weak and irregular.
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL
- Extremities swollen.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS
- On the least excoriation of the skin, the blood would gush out, of a very dark color.
- Blood gushed from gums, nostrils, ears, and several other parts (after seventeen days).
- Want of strength.
SKIN
- Whole body, including face, covered with livid spots, from size of one inch in diameter to that of a pin's head; the largest resembled a bruise, the smaller were sometimes red, resembling flea-bites.