SOLANUM TUBEROSUM.

Solanum tuberosum, Linn.

Natural order , Solanaceæ.

Common names , Potato; (Fr.), Pomme de terre.

Authorities.

1 , Muncke, Hecker's Annals, 1845 (Frank's Mag., 3, 223), effects of eating new potatoes; 2 , Bourgeois, Journ. Gén. de Méd., No. 334, p. 69 (Frank's Mag., 3, 23 4), effects of eating green potatoes; 3 , W. Thistleton Dyer, Pharm. Journ., 1842, p. 590, effects of the extract; 4 , Thomas Morris, Brit. Med. Journ., 1859, p. 719, Miss H., ate berries of potato plant, death on third day; 5 , Manners, Edin. Med. Journ., 1867, p. 399, a man ate the berries, fatal effect; 6 , same, effects on other members of family; 7 , Lancet, 1859, 2, 202, fatal effects in a girl of eating the berries.

MIND

• Almost lost consciousness, 1.

HEAD

• Vertigo, 2.
• In a large dose, it produces all the effects of narcotic poisons, headache, vertigo, stupor, etc., 3.
• Persistent headache, 2.

EYE

• Eyes deep in their sockets, 1.
• Looks staring, 1.
• Eyes for the most part open, and the pupils were not very much dilated, 4.
• Dilated pupils, 1, 6.
• Indistinct vision, 2.

FACE. [10.]

• Hippocratic face, 1.
• Expression anxious, 4, 6.

MOUTH

• The teeth were for the most part closed, and she was constantly spitting through the closed teeth a viscid frothy phlegm, 4.
• Tongue covered with a brown moist fur, 4.
• Difficulty of moving the tongue in talking, 2.
• Hardly able to articulate, the tongue appearing heavy, 6.
• Talked thick (in half an hour), 5.
• Speechless, 4.

STOMACH

• Violent retching, followed by vomiting and diarrhœa, 1.
• A good deal of sickness, 4. [20.]
• Felt sick, a darkness over his eyes, his skin cold, and cramped all over (in a half hour), 5.
• Epigastric region sensitive to pressure, 1.

ABDOMEN

• Violent colic and vomiting, 2.
• Pain in bowels, 4.

STOOL

• Diarrhœa with tenesmus, 2.
• Decided tendency to produce relaxation of the bowels, 3.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

• Respiration hurried, 4.
• Respiration irregular, at times suppressed; usually short and incomplete, only seldom slow and sighing, 1.
• Difficult respiration, 2.

PULSE

• Pulse 100, small, rapid, scarcely perceptible, 1.

EXTREMITIES. [30.]

• Cramps, especially in the calves, with spasmodic contractions of the fingers and thumbs, 1.

GENERALITIES

• Tossing to and fro in bed, 4.
• General rigidity, 2.
• Patient exceedingly weak, 1.
• Faintness, 2.
• In moderate doses it seems to me to possess power far more certain than either Hyoscyamus or Conium, 3.

SKIN

• Skin of a livid color, 4.

SLEEP

• She occasionally slumbered for a few minutes, and again was restless, 4.

FEVER

• Skin cold, 6.
• Face, chest, and extremities cold, 1. [40.]
• Skin bedewed with a cold clammy perspiration, 4.