This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...is more intense, and is associated with redness of the fauces, dilated pupils, disordered vision, and possibly diplopia. The pulse is sometimes at first rendered less frequent, but this decrease is very transient, and certainly in many cases cannot be demonstrated at all. Often from the first, certainly after a short ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 Excerpt: ...is more intense, and is associated with redness of the fauces, dilated pupils, disordered vision, and possibly diplopia. The pulse is sometimes at first rendered less frequent, but this decrease is very transient, and certainly in many cases cannot be demonstrated at all. Often from the first, certainly after a short time in all cases, the heart's beats, after a large dose of the alkaloid, become excessively rapid, the pulse rising to one hundred and twenty, or even one hundred and sixty; and in a little while a peculiar bright-red flush appears on the face and neck, and may spread over the whole body. As I have seen this it lacks the punctuations of the rash of scarlet fever, and is only in very severe cases followed by desquamation. Early in the course of the symptoms of atropia-poisoning there is very often forcible expulsion of urine, and erections of the penis may occur; but afterwards there is generally, Harley says, retention of urine. With the symptoms above enumerated, intellection may remain perfect; but there are generally some lightness of head, giddiness, and confusion of thought, as well as a staggering gait and restlessness. Occasionally, even with doses which may be called medicinal, there are spectral illusions. Drowsiness is not a general or at all characteristic symptom; if present, it is apparently always produced indirectly, as by the removal of some cause of previous wakefulness. When a decidedly poisonous amount of belladonna or its alkaloid has been taken, all the symptoms already noted are intensified, and to them is added a peculiar talkative delirium, in which the patient lives in a world of his own, engrossed by the spectres and visions which throng him, and completely oblivious to the surrounding realities. Sometimes this deliri...
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