A text-book of practical therapeutics . in is wet with sweat,the face pinched and anxious. Collapse, with a thready, impercept-ible pulse and extreme dyspnea, may be present. The mouth andlips may not smell of the drug, but the mucous membrane will beseen to be corrugated and stained black if impure acid has beentaken, or be whitish if the pure drug has been used. The eschar onthe mucous membrane is a peculiar one, and is pathognomonic ofthe poison, having a white center surrounded by a reddened andinflamed zone, the center sometimes becoming dark brown or postmortem will show these
A text-book of practical therapeutics . in is wet with sweat,the face pinched and anxious. Collapse, with a thready, impercept-ible pulse and extreme dyspnea, may be present. The mouth andlips may not smell of the drug, but the mucous membrane will beseen to be corrugated and stained black if impure acid has beentaken, or be whitish if the pure drug has been used. The eschar onthe mucous membrane is a peculiar one, and is pathognomonic ofthe poison, having a white center surrounded by a reddened andinflamed zone, the center sometimes becoming dark brown or postmortem will show these spots in the esophagus and stomach,and even in the intestines. All the internal organs, as the brain,kidneys, liver, and spleen, will be found filled with dark grumousblood, and on opening the body the odor of the acid will be peculiar croupous exudate is sometimes found in the bronchialtubes, and fatty degeneration of a more or less widespread type oftenfollows phenol poisoning. Langerhans has noted that in some of PLATE I.
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