Oplia

OPLIA. Authority.

Dr. Demeures, Journ. de la Soc. Gall., Ser. 1st, vol. 4, p. 110, "effects caused by pounding the insect called

Oplia farinosa ." [The editor of the Encyclopedia is unable to dertermine the proper name of this animal.]

HEAD

• Next day, dulness of the head, as if he had received blows on the head.
• Stupefying pain in the forehead.
• Headache over the left orbit, an hour after.

EYE

• Pain in the left eyeball, afterwards extending over the whole left side of the face.

NOSE

• Immediately, the tip of the nose is painful to touch; it even feels warmer.

THROAT

• Slight acidity in the bottom of the throat.

STOOL

• Three hours after, several liquid diarrhœic stools, of an ash color, with borborygmi, and slight colic also, eight hours after.
• A hard stool, twenty-four hours after; four hours after this, an ash-colored diarrhœic stool. [10.]
• Third day , hard stool at noon; 5 P.M., another copious, diarrhœic, ash-colored stool.
• Fourth day , stool at noon not so hard; another stool at 5 o'clock, copious, ash-colored, but not quite so loose.
• Fifth day , stool at 11 o'clock, normal, copious; another stool at 5 P.M., very liquid and very abundant.

GENERALITIES

• Sixth day , everything has regained its normal condition.

SLEEP

• Falls asleep late, in the evening.