AGARICUS EMETICUS.
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
(A. emeticus, Schæf.?), probably Russula emetica, Fr. A small acrid species, found in woods in Europe.
Authority.
Poisoning cases.
HEAD
- Vertigo so severe that one must be carried to bed; is not able to sit or stand.
EYE
- Lachrymation (from the smell).
- Lasting weakness of eyes.
NOSE
- Sneezing (from the smell).
MOUTH
- Nauseous taste of the fungus, several days.
- Sharp burning in mouth.
STOMACH
- Sudden, violent longing for ice-cold water (during the worst attacks of anxiety), which causes gradual relief.
- Dislike for wine and meat, several days.
- Violent vomiting, with anxious sensation, as if the stomach hung on a thread, which would momentarily break, with ice-cold sweat of face , and constantly renewed faintness, even from moving the head on listening to reading; increased by smelling cordials, especially by vinegar, which is unbearable.
- Violent burning pain in stomach becomes a sensation, as if a moving dull body in the stomach pressed it out; now in one place, now in another, with nausea and great qualmishness, violent eructations, and weak eyes.
- Painful pressure in stomach, followed by frequent eructations, repeated attempts to vomit.
- Constantly increasing anxiety in stomach.
- Stomach so sensitive for eight days that one could not touch it, nor cough.
ABDOMEN
- Abdomen distended.
- Constantly increasing pain in abdomen (for half hour).
STOOL AND ANUS
- Diarrhœa.
HEART AND PULSE
- Pulse rapid, exceedingly weak.
GENERALITIES
- Sudden great weakness (quarter of an hour).
CONDITIONS
- Cold water relieved speedily and permanently.