Erythrophlæum guinense, G. Don.

Natural order , Leguminosæ.

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 Fillœa), effect of 1 or 2 grains of the bark.

HEAD

Slight dizziness (in one hour), 1.
Headache, 1a.

FACE

Face flushed, 1a.

NOSE

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

MOUTH

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.

STOMACH

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

STOOL

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

PULSE

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.

GENERALITIES

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

Erythrophlæum