Erythrophlæum

Erythrophlæum guinense, G. Don.

Natural order , Leguminosæ.

Preparations , From the bark.

Authorities.

1 , Drs. Mitchell and Hammond, Charleston Med. Journ. and Rev., vol. xiv, 1859, p. 734, took 4 drachms of the saturated tincture at 11 A.M., 2 and 5 P.M.; 1 a , same, two days later took 1 once of the tincture at 10 A.M.; 2 , Bowditch's Ashantee, p. 279 (Berridge's Collection, New Eng. Med. Gaz., vol. xi, 1876, p. 306), infusion of the bark; 3 , New Eng. Med. Gaz. ibid. (Berridge), effects of the dust of the bark; 4 , Robert Christison, Pharm. Journ., vol. xiv, 1854-55, p. 471 (called here Fillœa), effect of 1 or 2 grains of the bark.

HEAD

• Slight dizziness (in one hour), 1.
• Headache, 1a.

FACE

• Face flushed, 1a.

NOSE

• When inhaled by the nose it causes long-continued spasms of sneezing, with distress about the forehead and eyes, 3.

MOUTH

• When a grain or two of the bark is tasted it causes slowly an intense numbness and tingling of the part of the tongue to which it is confined, 4.

STOMACH

• Slight nausea, 1a.
• It operates instantly and convulsively as a most violent emetic, 2.

STOOL

• Bowels slightly loose and some griping (after first dose); somewhat constipated (second day), 1.

PULSE

• Pulse 91 (before experiment); 83 (in one hour); 93 (in two hours); 80 (in four hours); 93 (in eight hours), 1. [10.]
• A decline in the rapidity and force of the pulse, 1a.

GENERALITIES

• Lassitude, 1a.
• A pleasant lassitude, a desire for quiet, and an indisposition for either mental or physical exertion, 1.