Narcissus, Pseudo-Narcissus, L.

Natural order , Amaryllidaceæ.

Common name , Daffodil.

Authorities.

Sideny Ringer, M.D., Journ. of Phys., vol. i, 1878-9, p. 437; ( 1 to 6 , experiments with the alkaloid from flowering bulbs); 1 , a small quantity of a solution of the sulphate of the alkaloid (strength, 1 in 5 of water) was dropped into the eye; 2 , a woman, æt. eighteen years, received 3/5 grain sulphate by hypodermic injection in the arm; 2 a , same experiment repeated after two days; 3 , effects of topical application to the eye; 4 , injected hypodermically 3/5 grain into a woman, æt. nineteen years; 5 , another case; 6 , injected hypodermically 4/5 gain into a man, æt. thirty-nine years; ( 7 to 9 , experiments with the alkaloid from bulbs that had flowered); 7 , a man, æt. forty years, took 1/2 grain nitrate (first day); 3/4 grain (second day); 1 grain (third day); 1 1/2 grain (fourth day); 2 grains (fifth day); 2 1/2 grains (seventh day); 2 3/4 grains (eighth day); 3 grains (ninth day); 4 grains (tenth day); 8 , same, afterwards took 1/2 grain every two hours for two days, and on the third day took 1 grain every two hours; 9 , effects of topical application to eye; 10 , a man took 12 minims of a solution of the flowered bulbs; 11 , same, took 4 grains alkaloid; 12 , effects of 12 minims.

HEAD

Frontal headache, in the evening (first day), 2.

EYE

Slight running at the eyes (fourth day), 7.
Pupils a little dilated (second day), 7.
The pupil very shortly became widely dilated. This experiment was repeated on another person with the same result, 1.
Pupils contracted (in fifteen minutes); rather dilated (in thirty minutes), 2.
Pupils decidedly contracted (in nine minutes), 2a.
Pupils slightly contracted (seventh and ninth days), 7 ; (fourth day), 6.

MOUTH. [10.]

Mouth became moister in four minutes, and so continued for fifteen minutes, 10.
Slight increase of the saliva without spitting, which passed off after the fourth dose, 8.
Salivation (one and a half ounces), 11.
Slight salivation (in ten minutes); more marked (in one hour) (fourth day), 7.
Free salivation, spat about an ounce of saliva (in eight minutes, fifth day), 7.
In seventeen minutes free salivation occurred, and in the course of the following half hour he spat an ounce and a half of very ropy saliva (seventh day), 7.
Salivation to the extent of an ounce of thick ropy saliva (eighth day), 7.
Spat an ounce of saliva (ninth day), 7.
Spat an ounce and a half of saliva (tenth day), 7.

THROAT

Dryness of the throat (in twenty-five minutes), 2.

STOMACH. [20.]

Hiccough (fifth day), 7.
Slight hiccough, sinking and faint feeling (seventh day), 7.
Heartburn (fifth day), 7.
Sickness, 12.
Felt sick (in twenty minutes); vomited with a slight amount of retching (in thirty and forty minutes), 10.
Felt a little sick, with a sinking sensation at the epigastrium (after one hour, second day), 7.
Some sinking at the epigastrium, with slight nausea and hiccough (fourth day), 7.
Sinking sick sensation (fifth day), 7.
Sinking feeling (eighth and ninth days), 7.
Rumbling in the stomach (first and second days), 8.

STOOL. [30.]

Diarrhœa, five motions in the day, with severe aching pain below the left false ribs (after second dose, third day), 8.
Three large watery motions, 12.
Two watery stools, 11.
Loose stool (in two hours, ninth day), 7.
Two loose stools (after one hour and a half, tenth day), 7.
Relaxed stool, though previously he had suffered from constipation, 7.
Semi-solid motion (after some hours, fourth day), 7.

PULSE

Pulse increased 12 beats, 10.
Pulse accelerated by 10 to 12 beats per minute (seventh day), 7.
Pulse increased from 10 to 13 beats per minute (fifth day), 7. [40.]
Pulse 64 (before injection); rose to 116 and continued quick five hours, 6.
Quickening of the pulse 12 beats per minute (eighth day), 7.
Pulse 92 (before injection); rose to 124; continued quick two hours, 5.
Pulse 84 (before experiment); rose to 128, continued quick two hours, 4.
Pulse 84 (before experiment); 136 (in one hour); 102 (in one hour and forty minutes), 2.
Pulse fell 10 beats (in six minutes); rose 8 above initial beat (in twelve minutes); 22 above (in twenty-three minutes); after this is gradually fell, and in one hour and a half it was 112, 2a.

GENERALITIES

Slight faintness, 11.
Slight faintness and drowsiness (in a quarter of an hour, third day), 7.
Greater faintness (tenth day), 7.

FEVER

In twelve minutes the hands, which were quite wet with perspiration, became dry, and so remained for one hour and three-quarters, 2. [50.]
Hands, which were quite wet with perspiration, became dry (in twelve minutes), 2a.

Narcissus-Pseudo-Narcissus