On poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine . Fig. a. Seed of aconite, natural size. b. The same, magnified 30 diam-eters. Small leaf of aconite, natural size, from aphotograph. The abdomen was examined, and the only appearance met with was aslight redness near the cardiac extremity of the stomach. [Med. Times,Oct, 18, 1845, p. 70.) Extract.—This is made from the leaves of the plant, It varies instrength, according to the care used in its preparation. In the hos-pital at Bordeaux, jive grains of fresh extract of aconite were given tothree patients. One of them died in thr
On poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine . Fig. a. Seed of aconite, natural size. b. The same, magnified 30 diam-eters. Small leaf of aconite, natural size, from aphotograph. The abdomen was examined, and the only appearance met with was aslight redness near the cardiac extremity of the stomach. [Med. Times,Oct, 18, 1845, p. 70.) Extract.—This is made from the leaves of the plant, It varies instrength, according to the care used in its preparation. In the hos-pital at Bordeaux, jive grains of fresh extract of aconite were given tothree patients. One of them died in three hours. In a quarter of anhour after taking the poison, the patients had tremors of the muscles,and a pricking sensation over their bodies; severe vomiting became quite unconscious, and on recovering their senses therewas confusion of sight, with intense headache; the skin was cold andclammy, the pulse slow and irregular, and the breathing short andhurried. Two of the patients recovered. ( Rev., Oct. 1839,p. 544.) In November, 1862, a case
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