Lobelinum

Alkaloid of Lobelia inflata.

Authority.

Isaac Ott, M.D., Chicago Journ. of Nervous and Mental Diseases, vol. xi, 1877, p. 68, took 1-192 m. of Acetate of lobelina, at 2.25, 2.56, and 3.10 P.M.

HEAD

• Headache (in one hundred and six minutes).

EYE

• Pupils dilated (in seventeen minutes).

THROAT

• Tickling and dryness in the throat (in two minutes).

STOMACH

• Retching (after third dose).
• Vomiting (after third dose).
• Uncomfortable feeling in the stomach (in seventeen minutes).

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

• Respiration 17 (before experiment); 19 (in two minutes); 17 (in seven and thirteen minutes); 18 (in seventeen minutes); 17 (in twenty-two minutes); 18 (in thirty minutes); 19 (in thirty-eight minutes); 18 (in forty-two and forty-seven minutes); 20 (in fifty-four minutes); 18 (in sixty-one minutes); 19 (in seventy-eight minutes); 18 (in ninety-two minutes).

HEART AND PULSE

• Pulse 74 (before experiment); 73 (in two minutes); 70 (in seven minutes); 69 (in thirteen minutes); 68 (in seventeen and twenty-two minutes); 72 (in thirty minutes); 74 (in thirty-eight minutes); 76 (in forty-two minutes); 77 (in forty-seven minutes); 72 (in fifty-four minutes); 70 (in sixty-one minutes); 65 (in seventy-eight minutes); 68 (in ninety-two minutes).

GENERALITIES

• Prostration (in one hundred and six minutes).

SLEEP

• Disposition to sleep (in one hundred and six minutes).

FEVER. [10.]

• Temperature by mouth 99° (before experiment); 99° (in two and seven minutes); 99 1/2° (in seven, thirteen, seventeen, and twenty-two minutes); 99 1/4° (thirty to fifty-four minutes); 99° (in sixty-one minutes); 99 1/4° (in seventy-eight and ninety-two minutes).