Boletus Satanas

B. satanas, Lenz.

Nat. order , Fungi.

Preparation , Triturations.

Authorities.

1 , Lenz, Boudier on Fungi, translated from the French by Husemann, tasted a piece of the fresh fungus, but spit it out soon; 2 , Salzmann, ibid., ate some cooked in salt and water, and roasted; 3 , six persons poisoned by eating the roasted mushrooms (Wien. Med. Presse), from N. Z. f. H. Kl., 13, 55.

MIND

• Fear and restlessness, 3.
• Intellect undisturbed, 3.

EYES AND EARS

• Sparks before the eyes, alternating with obscuration of vision, 3.
• Noises in the ears, 3.

MOUTH AND THROAT

• Troublesome dryness in the mouth and throat, 3.
• Violent burning and scraping in the throat, 3.

STOMACH

• Unquenchable thirst, 3.
• Nausea, 3.
• Sudden nausea (after two hours), 2. [10.]
• Retching and vomiting, 3.
• A desire to vomit came very suddenly; between the attacks there was very little nausea, and no pain when vomiting the last time; after about three hours he noticed a slight trace of blood, 1.
• He was obliged to vomit (after two hours and three hours, and repeated twenty times within three hours), 1.
• Vomiting repeated thirty times within two hours, 2.
• He vomited everything that he took, 2.
• Salzmann continued to vomit (after the contents of the stomach) a bitter fluid, which was finally mixed with blood; olive oil did not entirely relieve the vomiting, nor when mixed with charcoal, 2.
• Epigastric region distended, 3.
• Perceptible pulsation in the epigastric region, 3.
• Frightful pain in the stomach, 3.

ABDOMEN

• Abdomen sunken and frightfully painful, 2. [20.]
• Obstinate tension of the abdomen, 3.

STOOL

• A profuse diarrhœa of blood and of the mucous membranes of the intestines, 2.
• Watery evacuations, 3.

CHEST AND PULSE

• Oppression of the chest, 3.
• Pulse scarcely perceptible, 2.

EXTREMITIES

• A sudden sensation through all his limbs as though he would be attacked with apoplexy after two hours), 1.
• Violent, extremely painful cramps in the muscles of the limbs and of the face, 2.

GENERALITIES

• Loss of all strength, 2.
• A great weakness suddenly (after two hours), 1.
• So weak that he could scarcely stand or walk (after two to eight hours), 1. [30.]
• Excessive weakness, amounting to faintness, whilst the vomiting continued; repeated ten or twelve times in an hour, 3.
• Great discomfort in the whole body, 3.

FEVER

• Limbs cold, 2.
• Cold sweat over the whole body, 3.