Oplia
By Timothy F. Allen — The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
OPLIA. Authority.
Dr. Demeures, Journ. de la Soc. Gall., Ser. 1st, vol. 4, p. 110, "effects caused by pounding the insect called
Oplia farinosa ." [The editor of the Encyclopedia is unable to dertermine the proper name of this animal.]
HEAD
- Next day, dulness of the head, as if he had received blows on the head.
- Stupefying pain in the forehead.
- Headache over the left orbit, an hour after.
EYE
- Pain in the left eyeball, afterwards extending over the whole left side of the face.
NOSE
- Immediately, the tip of the nose is painful to touch; it even feels warmer.
THROAT
- Slight acidity in the bottom of the throat.
STOOL
- Three hours after, several liquid diarrhœic stools, of an ash color, with borborygmi, and slight colic also, eight hours after.
- A hard stool, twenty-four hours after; four hours after this, an ash-colored diarrhœic stool. [10.]
- Third day , hard stool at noon; 5 P.M., another copious, diarrhœic, ash-colored stool.
- Fourth day , stool at noon not so hard; another stool at 5 o'clock, copious, ash-colored, but not quite so loose.
- Fifth day , stool at 11 o'clock, normal, copious; another stool at 5 P.M., very liquid and very abundant.
GENERALITIES
- Sixth day , everything has regained its normal condition.
SLEEP
- Falls asleep late, in the evening.