Argentum Cyanatum

Silver cyanide. AgCy.

Authority.

Poison case, Hirschels Zeit., 19, 128. Effect of inhaling fumes while silvering with "Argentine."

• Vertigo.
• Violent headache in the vertex.
• Itching in the nose, with profuse secretion of mucus.
• Face very red.
• Tongue very red.
• Taste pungent, gaseous.
• Scraping in the throat.
• Toothache.
• Sense of constriction and burning in the throat.
• Violent pain in the suprasternal fossa, and under the manubrium sterni, every time she turned to one side.
• Nausea, with such general discomfort that she had to lie down.
• Vomiting, with retching.
• Suffocating attack.
• Respiration difficult and short.
• Cough constant, dry, spasmodic, allowing her to articulate but one word at a time.
• Pulse 90.
• Painful cramps in the feet.
• Great weakness.
• Profuse sweating through the night.
• Slept scarcely any.