HKO4 + 2Aq.

Preparation , Triturations.

Authorities.

1 , Dr. John Jackson, Lond. Med. Gaz., 1840, p. 480, a woman, aged 20 took about an once dissolved in hot water; 2 , Comptes Rend. d. Sc. de l'Acad. des Sc., 1842, a lady, recently confined, took inadvertently nearly half an ounce; 3 , Ann. d'Hygiène, 1842, a woman took a teaspoonful three mornings in succession; 4 , Dr. Worms, a lady poisoned by 15 grammes, Gaz. des Hôp., Jan. 20th, 1859; 5 , Dr. Webb, Med. Times and Gaz., 1859, p. 378, a man swallowed about a teaspoonful; 6 , Cattell, Br. J. of Hom., additional symptoms collected (Guy's Hosp. Rep., N. S., vol. 6, p. 192). [Original not accessible. -T. F. A.]

MIND

Became insane (third day), 3.
Great depression, 6.
Extreme depression, 1, 6.

HEAD

Swimming in the head (after seven days), 5.
Heaviness and pain in the head (after seven days), 5.
Throbbing pain in the head and great thirst, 6.

EYE

Great soreness of eyes, with dimness of vision, 1, 6.
Conjunctivæ much injected and pupils dilated, 6.
The conjunctiva of both eyes were a good deal injected, and both pupils were dilated, though the eyes were exposed to a pretty strong light, as the patient was placed opposite to a window, 1. [10.]
Pupils dilated, even in a strong light, 6.
Great dimness of vision, 6.

FACE

Countenance flushed (reaction?), 6.
Face pale, anxious-looking, and covered with a cold sweat, 4.
Face and lips pale, 1.
Face and lips pale, with continual rigors over the whole body, 6.

MOUTH

Tongue and fauces red and irritated (after ten days), 5.
Very strong acid taste of the poison, lasting two days, 4.

THROAT

Burning in the throat, immediately, 5.
Scalding sensation in the throat and stomach, 1, 6.

STOMACH. [20.]

Great thirst and throbbing pain in the head, 6.
Intense thirst, 5.
Very sick, 1.
Vomiting and faintness, 6.
Vomiting (after two hours); continuing at intervals of from ten minutes to an hour, for nearly a week, 5.
Severe vomiting, 6 ; after each dose, 2a.
Vomiting of a frothy liquid, leaving a white deposit mingled with brown flakes, 4.
Abundant vomiting (first day); vomitings bloody, blackish, and more abundant (second and third days), 3.
Hard retching (very soon), 4.
Great pain in the epigastric region (second day), 3. [30.]
Severe pain in stomach (very soon), 4.
It had scarcely reached the stomach when she was seized with excruciating pains, followed by violent convulsions, and death within ten minutes after swallowing the draught, 2.
Very severe burning pain in stomach and bowels, 4.

ABDOMEN

Violent pains in the abdomen, and convulsions, 6.
Scalding sensation extended over abdomen, with tenderness on tolerably firm pressure, 6.

URINARY ORGANS

Micturition, accompanied by a sensation of scalding (after seven days), 5.

PULSE

Pulse full and quick, 6.
Pulse 100 (after seven days), 5.
Pulse so feeble that it could scarcely be felt, 1, 6.
Pulse wretched, 4.

BACK. [40.]

Pain in the back, 1, 6.
Lumbar pain (after seven days); severe (after two hours), 5.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

Spasmodic contractions in the hands (after seven days), 5.
Nails and fingers blue, like those of a cholera patient, 4.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

Feeling of great weakness in the lower extremities (after two hours), 5.
On walking a short distance from his house he found himself hardly able to reach his home on account of his legs failing him, 5.
Cramps in the legs (after seven days), 5.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

Convulsions and violent pains in the abdomen, 6.
Violent convulsions, 2.
Great muscular weakness (after seven days), 5. [50.]
Could scarcely drag herself along, 4.
She falls and utters loud cries, 6.
Tendency to faint, 6.
Faint and exhausted, 6.
Lying on the floor quite faint (after one hour and a half), 1.

FEVER

Skin cold and clammy, 1, 6.
Sensations of coldness, succeeded by burning heat in the chest and stomach, and great muscular weakness (after seven days), 5.
Constant rigors, 6.
Continued rigors affecting the whole body, 1.

Kalium oxalicum