Solanum tuberosum, Linn.

Natural order , Solanaceæ.

Common names , Potato; (Fr.), Pomme de terre.

Authorities.

1 , Muncke, Hecker's Annals, 1845 (Frank's Mag., 3, 223), effects of eating new potatoes; 2 , Bourgeois, Journ. Gén. de Méd., No. 334, p. 69 (Frank's Mag., 3, 23 4), effects of eating green potatoes; 3 , W. Thistleton Dyer, Pharm. Journ., 1842, p. 590, effects of the extract; 4 , Thomas Morris, Brit. Med. Journ., 1859, p. 719, Miss H., ate berries of potato plant, death on third day; 5 , Manners, Edin. Med. Journ., 1867, p. 399, a man ate the berries, fatal effect; 6 , same, effects on other members of family; 7 , Lancet, 1859, 2, 202, fatal effects in a girl of eating the berries.

MIND

Almost lost consciousness, 1.

HEAD

Vertigo, 2.
In a large dose, it produces all the effects of narcotic poisons, headache, vertigo, stupor, etc., 3.
Persistent headache, 2.

EYE

Eyes deep in their sockets, 1.
Looks staring, 1.
Eyes for the most part open, and the pupils were not very much dilated, 4.
Dilated pupils, 1, 6.
Indistinct vision, 2.

FACE. [10.]

Hippocratic face, 1.
Expression anxious, 4, 6.

MOUTH

The teeth were for the most part closed, and she was constantly spitting through the closed teeth a viscid frothy phlegm, 4.
Tongue covered with a brown moist fur, 4.
Difficulty of moving the tongue in talking, 2.
Hardly able to articulate, the tongue appearing heavy, 6.
Talked thick (in half an hour), 5.
Speechless, 4.

STOMACH

Violent retching, followed by vomiting and diarrhœa, 1.
A good deal of sickness, 4. [20.]
Felt sick, a darkness over his eyes, his skin cold, and cramped all over (in a half hour), 5.
Epigastric region sensitive to pressure, 1.

ABDOMEN

Violent colic and vomiting, 2.
Pain in bowels, 4.

STOOL

Diarrhœa with tenesmus, 2.
Decided tendency to produce relaxation of the bowels, 3.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

Respiration hurried, 4.
Respiration irregular, at times suppressed; usually short and incomplete, only seldom slow and sighing, 1.
Difficult respiration, 2.

PULSE

Pulse 100, small, rapid, scarcely perceptible, 1.

EXTREMITIES. [30.]

Cramps, especially in the calves, with spasmodic contractions of the fingers and thumbs, 1.

GENERALITIES

Tossing to and fro in bed, 4.
General rigidity, 2.
Patient exceedingly weak, 1.
Faintness, 2.
In moderate doses it seems to me to possess power far more certain than either Hyoscyamus or Conium, 3.

SKIN

Skin of a livid color, 4.

SLEEP

She occasionally slumbered for a few minutes, and again was restless, 4.

FEVER

Skin cold, 6.
Face, chest, and extremities cold, 1. [40.]
Skin bedewed with a cold clammy perspiration, 4.

Solanum Tuberosum