Narcissus

Narcissus poeticus, Linn. [Referred to this species by the original, but both the white and yellow Narcissus (N. poeticus and N. pseudonarcissus) are quite commonly cultivated in gardens; the yellow has been more used in domestic medicine.]

Natural order , Amaryllidaceæ.

Preparation , Tincture of the bulbs.

Authorities.

Pfan, Oest. Woch., 1844 (Frank's Mag., 1, 784), a man and his wife ate a salad of Narcissus and onion bulbs (four Narcissus bulbs) from the garden.

• Stupefaction.
• Nausea, constant tormina, and burning pain in the stomach (after a quarter of an hour).
• The woman was relieved by repeated vomiting after administration of warm water, and also by the copious watery alvine evacuations which followed, attended by dreadful griping and cutting pain in the bowels.
• Symptoms of gastro-enteritis (second day), (in the man).
• Small and tremulous pulse for the whole night (in the man).
• Trembling of the limbs (after a quarter of an hour).
• Obtuseness of the senses (after a quarter of an hour).
• Fainting (after a quarter of an hour).
• Coldness of the extremities. [10.]
• Cold sweat (after a quarter of an hour).