Thomson's Conspectus of the British pharmacopoeias.

  • Anthony Todd Thomson
Date:
1852
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    Treatment. Emetics, and afterwards dilution with acidulous drinks and demulcents. SABINE or SAVINE, and OIL OF SAVINE. (Sabina? folia et oleum.) An acro-narcotic vegetable poison. Symptoms. All those of high excitement, with very acute pain of the stomach and bowels, nausea, vomiting, hypercatharsis, and convul- sions. Abortion in pregnant women. Morbid Appearances. Inflammation of the mucous membrane of the stomach and rectum; but the symptoms depend chiefly on the action which the poison exerts on the nervous system. Test. None. The microscope has detected the small glands on the leaf of the plant, among the contents of the stomach. Treatment. Evacuate the stomach by copious dilution with mucila- ginous fluids, and keep down the inflammatory symptoms by the use of the lancet, and other antiphlogistic measures. SAINT IGNATIUS'S BEAN. (Strychnos Sancti Ignatii.) An acro- narcotic poison. Symptoms. See Strychnia. Tests. This seed is about the size of a small olive, convex on one side and angular on the other, and covered with a gray powder; the in- ternal substance is horny, hard, brown, inodorous, and very bitter to the taste. Treatment. See Strychnia. SOWBREAD. (Cyclamen Europeum.) An acrid vegetable poison. Symptoms. Violent tormina and purging; bloody stools, accompanied with cold sweats and convulsions, frequently terminating in death. Test. None. Morbid Appearances. Inflammation of the mucous membrane of the stomach and bowels. Treatment. Induce vomiting by large draughts of demulcent fluids; and combat the secondary symptoms by antiphlogistic or other means, as may be required. SPURGE —EUPHORBIUM. (Euphorbiarum Succus proprius, et fructus.) Acrid vegetable poisons. Symptoms. A burning sensation in the mouth, throat, and stomach; vomiting, hypercatharsis, producing bloody stools, convulsions, and death. Test. The euphorbium of the shops is readily recognised by the ir- regular triangular form of its tears, and their enclosed seeds. When boiled in alcohol, the greater part is taken up, but an insipid wax separates as the solution cools, whilst a hot acrid oil remains in so- lution. Morbid Appearances. Evidences of violent inflammation of the stomach and the bowels ; but more particularly of the rectum, which is always ulcerated, the surface of the abraded spots being covered with a brown or blackish fluid, which is probably extravasated blood. Treatment. Excite vomiting by large draughts of tepid water, and then exhibit, alternately and repeatedly, a few table-spoonfuls of olive oil, and a cupful of milk. Soothe the rectum with mutton broth and starch clysters, and bleed, if the excitement run high, after the stomach and bowels are evacuated. STRAMONIUM, or THORN APPLE. {Datura Stramonii Herba, fructus et semina.) A narcotic vegetable poison, deriving its power from an alkaloid, named Daturia. Symptoms. Vomiting, vertigo, delirium, sometimes furious madness, stupor, convulsions, paralysis, cold sweats, and death. Test. None. Morbid Appearances. Evidences of inflammation in the mucous mem- brane of the stomach and the meninges of the brain. The lungs are generally gorged with very dark-coloured blood, and blotches of ex- travasated hlood are seen in various parts of the alimentary canal. Treatment. The same as in cases of poisoning by opium.
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