Citrus Limomum
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
C. Limomum, Risso.
Natural order , Rutaceæ.
Common name , Lemon.
Preparation , Expressed juice.
Authorities.
1 , Farre, poisoning of two children, by eating two and one and a half lemons respectively, Lancet, 1860; 2 , Klusemann, effects of the juice, Schmidt's Jahrbucher, 74, 159.
MIND
- Insensibility, 1.
FACE
- Lividity of face, 1.
ABDOMEN
- Hæmorrhage from the bowels, and death (after the use of 60 ounces of the juice, gradually administered, for dropsy following intermittent fever), 2.
RESPIRATORY ORGANS
- Hæmoptysis, with fatal result (two cases, from use of Succus Citri), 2.
- Breathing in the form of gasping, 1.
HEART AND PULSE
GENERAL SYMPTOMS
- Great prostration, and collapse, 1.
FEVER
- General surface of body cold, 1.
SUPPLEMENT: CITRUS LIMONUM. Authority.
3 , G. O. Rees, experiments on a healthy man with 1 ounce lemon-juice, three times daily for three days (Treatment of Rheumatic Diseases by Lemon-juice, pp. 32-37), Edinb. Med. and Sur. Journ., vol. i, 1850, p. 241. [10.]
- Pulse naturally full, and 75 in the minute. After five doses it became much weaker and more compressible, and numbered 70 in the minute; conditions accompanied by a feeling of general depression. Pulse 66, and very small and compressible (third day). Feeling of general depression (with weaker pulse). Urine always acid, and also natural in quantity till the third day, when it increased somewhat; the sp. gr. was then 1017, with a deficiency in lithic acid, 3.