Jasminum
By Timothy F. Allen โ The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica
Jasminum officinale, Linn.
Natural order , oleaceรฆ.
Common name , White Jessamine.
Authority.
Dr. W. H. Hull, Phila. Med. and Surg. Rep., Jan. 1861; a boy ate the red berries.
- Comatose condition.
- Pupils immoderately dilated.
- Face pallid.
- Emesis, after a quiet sleep.
- Slight emesis.
- Respiration somewhat rhoncous, but of usual frequency.
- Pulse slow and feeble.
- Muscular movements observed first about the eyes and face, especially on the left side, towards which the eyes and facial muscles were directed, becoming gradually more and more aggravated, going from the head to the left arm, then to the left lower extremity, till finally the whole body was thrown into the most violent convulsions; at one time the spasms were chiefly opisthotonic, when the whole surface was congested almost to a blackened hue; most marked rigidity about the muscles of the head and throat; the jaws were for the most part firmly locked, trismus being complete, as is often in tetanus; relieved by a bath.
- Weak and almost helpless for a few days.
- Lying on the floor in a "fainting fit."
- Perfect insensibility.
- Surface cool.