NARCISSUS-PSEUDO-NARCISSUS.

Narcissus, Pseudo-Narcissus, L.

Natural order , Amaryllidaceæ.

Common name , Daffodil.

Authorities.

Sideny Ringer, M.D., Journ. of Phys., vol. i, 1878-9, p. 437; ( 1 to 6 , experiments with the alkaloid from flowering bulbs); 1 , a small quantity of a solution of the sulphate of the alkaloid (strength, 1 in 5 of water) was dropped into the eye; 2 , a woman, æt. eighteen years, received 3/5 grain sulphate by hypodermic injection in the arm; 2 a , same experiment repeated after two days; 3 , effects of topical application to the eye; 4 , injected hypodermically 3/5 grain into a woman, æt. nineteen years; 5 , another case; 6 , injected hypodermically 4/5 gain into a man, æt. thirty-nine years; ( 7 to 9 , experiments with the alkaloid from bulbs that had flowered); 7 , a man, æt. forty years, took 1/2 grain nitrate (first day); 3/4 grain (second day); 1 grain (third day); 1 1/2 grain (fourth day); 2 grains (fifth day); 2 1/2 grains (seventh day); 2 3/4 grains (eighth day); 3 grains (ninth day); 4 grains (tenth day); 8 , same, afterwards took 1/2 grain every two hours for two days, and on the third day took 1 grain every two hours; 9 , effects of topical application to eye; 10 , a man took 12 minims of a solution of the flowered bulbs; 11 , same, took 4 grains alkaloid; 12 , effects of 12 minims.

HEAD

• Frontal headache, in the evening (first day), 2.

EYE

• Slight running at the eyes (fourth day), 7.
• Pupils a little dilated (second day), 7.
• The pupil very shortly became widely dilated. This experiment was repeated on another person with the same result, 1.
• Pupils contracted (in fifteen minutes); rather dilated (in thirty minutes), 2.
• Pupils decidedly contracted (in nine minutes), 2a.
• Pupils slightly contracted (seventh and ninth days), 7 ; (fourth day), 6.

MOUTH. [10.]

• Mouth became moister in four minutes, and so continued for fifteen minutes, 10.
• Slight increase of the saliva without spitting, which passed off after the fourth dose, 8.
• Salivation (one and a half ounces), 11.
• Slight salivation (in ten minutes); more marked (in one hour) (fourth day), 7.
• Free salivation, spat about an ounce of saliva (in eight minutes, fifth day), 7.
• In seventeen minutes free salivation occurred, and in the course of the following half hour he spat an ounce and a half of very ropy saliva (seventh day), 7.
• Salivation to the extent of an ounce of thick ropy saliva (eighth day), 7.
• Spat an ounce of saliva (ninth day), 7.
• Spat an ounce and a half of saliva (tenth day), 7.

THROAT

• Dryness of the throat (in twenty-five minutes), 2.

STOMACH. [20.]

• Hiccough (fifth day), 7.
• Slight hiccough, sinking and faint feeling (seventh day), 7.
• Heartburn (fifth day), 7.
• Sickness, 12.
• Felt sick (in twenty minutes); vomited with a slight amount of retching (in thirty and forty minutes), 10.
• Felt a little sick, with a sinking sensation at the epigastrium (after one hour, second day), 7.
• Some sinking at the epigastrium, with slight nausea and hiccough (fourth day), 7.
• Sinking sick sensation (fifth day), 7.
• Sinking feeling (eighth and ninth days), 7.
• Rumbling in the stomach (first and second days), 8.

STOOL. [30.]

• Diarrhœa, five motions in the day, with severe aching pain below the left false ribs (after second dose, third day), 8.
• Three large watery motions, 12.
• Two watery stools, 11.
• Loose stool (in two hours, ninth day), 7.
• Two loose stools (after one hour and a half, tenth day), 7.
• Relaxed stool, though previously he had suffered from constipation, 7.
• Semi-solid motion (after some hours, fourth day), 7.

PULSE

• Pulse increased 12 beats, 10.
• Pulse accelerated by 10 to 12 beats per minute (seventh day), 7.
• Pulse increased from 10 to 13 beats per minute (fifth day), 7. [40.]
• Pulse 64 (before injection); rose to 116 and continued quick five hours, 6.
• Quickening of the pulse 12 beats per minute (eighth day), 7.
• Pulse 92 (before injection); rose to 124; continued quick two hours, 5.
• Pulse 84 (before experiment); rose to 128, continued quick two hours, 4.
• Pulse 84 (before experiment); 136 (in one hour); 102 (in one hour and forty minutes), 2.
• Pulse fell 10 beats (in six minutes); rose 8 above initial beat (in twelve minutes); 22 above (in twenty-three minutes); after this is gradually fell, and in one hour and a half it was 112, 2a.

GENERALITIES

• Slight faintness, 11.
• Slight faintness and drowsiness (in a quarter of an hour, third day), 7.
• Greater faintness (tenth day), 7.

FEVER

• In twelve minutes the hands, which were quite wet with perspiration, became dry, and so remained for one hour and three-quarters, 2. [50.]
• Hands, which were quite wet with perspiration, became dry (in twelve minutes), 2a.