Argentum Cyanatum
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Silver cyanide. AgCy.
Authority.
Poison case, Hirschels Zeit., 19, 128. Effect of inhaling fumes while silvering with "Argentine."
- Vertigo.
- Violent headache in the vertex.
- Itching in the nose, with profuse secretion of mucus.
- Face very red.
- Tongue very red.
- Taste pungent, gaseous.
- Scraping in the throat.
- Toothache.
- Sense of constriction and burning in the throat.
- Violent pain in the suprasternal fossa, and under the manubrium sterni, every time she turned to one side.
- Nausea, with such general discomfort that she had to lie down.
- Vomiting, with retching.
- Suffocating attack.
- Respiration difficult and short.
- Cough constant, dry, spasmodic, allowing her to articulate but one word at a time.
- Pulse 90.
- Painful cramps in the feet.
- Great weakness.
- Profuse sweating through the night.
- Slept scarcely any.