An inquiry into the physiological and medicinal properties of the Aconitum Napellus : to which are added observations on several other species of aconitum / by Alexander Fleming.
- Alexander Fleming
- Date:
- 1845
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An inquiry into the physiological and medicinal properties of the Aconitum Napellus : to which are added observations on several other species of aconitum / by Alexander Fleming. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![plateful intended for tlie rest of the family. None of the latter suffered at all. But her husband was taken yio- lently ill immediately after dinner, and died; and a neighbour accidentally present, who partook, though spa- ringly, of the same dish with him, was also similarly and violently affected, but recoyered. The deceased, before finishing the greens, said they had a disagreeable sharp taste, and was seized soon after with burning at the heart, tenderness at the pit of the stomach, yomiting, coldness, a sense of biting in the tongue, and tingling through the whole flesh, excessive restlessness, occasional incoherence, locked-jaw, clenching of the hands, and frothing at the mouth ; and he expired three hours after the meal. His neighbour, two minutes after finishing his greens, experienced a sense of ]3ricking in the mouth and burning in the throat, gullet, and stomach; then salivation, a feeling of swelling in the face without actual fulness, general numbness and creeping in the skin ; next excessive restlessness, coldness of the integuments, dim- ness of sight, and stupor ; about an hour after the meal he became speechless, repeatedly fainted, frothed at the mouth, and clenched his hands; vomiting ensued, with considerable relief, and subsequently he had frequent attacks of it, with purging, tenderness of the epigastrium, cramps, and tingling in the flesh; and from these symp- toms he recovered so slowly as to be unable to work for five weeks. The only morbid appearance of any note in](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21052207_0176.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
