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.
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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.
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Pain in the left eyeball, afterwards extending over the whole left side
of the face.
NOSE.
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Immediately, the tip of the nose is painful to touch; it even feels
warmer.
THROAT.
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Slight acidity in the bottom of the throat.
STOOL.
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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.
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Falls asleep late, in the evening.® 2000
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