On poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine . petual mo-tion before him. He became delirious, attempted repeatedly to passhis urine, but could not; and for an hour and a half he was in con-stant motion, although his gait was unsteady. The muscles of his face,jaws, and limbs were agitated by convulsivetwitchings; the pupils were excessively di- fig. 90. lated, and there were singular was neither nausea, vomiting, norpurging. Emetics, injections, and bleedingwere resorted to, and the next morning heawoke as if from a dream. The leaves ofbelladonna are peculi
On poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine . petual mo-tion before him. He became delirious, attempted repeatedly to passhis urine, but could not; and for an hour and a half he was in con-stant motion, although his gait was unsteady. The muscles of his face,jaws, and limbs were agitated by convulsivetwitchings; the pupils were excessively di- fig. 90. lated, and there were singular was neither nausea, vomiting, norpurging. Emetics, injections, and bleedingwere resorted to, and the next morning heawoke as if from a dream. The leaves ofbelladonna are peculiar in shape. The an-nexed illustration (Fig. 90) is from a photo-graph of a small leaf of the fresh plant,showing the natural venation of the livingleaf. (Ann. aVHyg., Oct. 1847, p. 413.) Dr. Garrod has communicated to me thesymptoms which one of his patients and smaiiieaf of belladonna, himself suffered as a result of taking an in- natural size. fusion of belladonna-leaves which had beenignorantly supplied for ash-leaves. A quarter of an ounce of the leaves. 728 POISONING WITH EXTRACT OF BELLADONNA. was boiled for a few minutes with ten ounces of water. Dr. Garrodtook about half a wineglassful of this decoction, equivalent to elevengrains of the dried leaves. He believed, at the time, it was the infu-sion of ash-leaves, and wished to determine by taste whether it wasgood. In about half an hour the symptoms commenced by swimmingin the head, intense feeling of nervousness, palpitation of the heart, asmall and rapid pulse, dryness of the mouth and throat, and perver-sion of taste, indistinctness of vision, dilatation of the pupils, rapidflow of ideas, weakness of the limbs, and slight difficulty of articula-tion. His taste was so altered that some brandy given to him had thetaste of the infusion. Some of the infusion was put into an eye, and inabout a quarter of an hour it dilated the pupil powerfully. In aboutfour hours Dr. Garrod had recovered from these effects; but there wasi
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