PIX LIQUIDA.
A product of dry distillation of various coniferous
woods.
Authorities.
1,
H. and J. Slight, Lancet, 1832-3 (2), p. 598, a man, aged thirty-two
years, drank about a gill of the oil of tar, recovery; 2, Dr. Buckley, Practitioner (Brown-sequard’s
Archives of Sci. and Pract. Med., No. 2, 1873), effects which sometimes
follow local application in skin diseases.►
Fulness and pain in the head, [2]. ►
Pain in the stomach, [2]. ► Constant vomiting (after seven hours and
a half), [1]. ► Vomiting of a blackish fluid, [2]. ►
Excessive pains in bowels and loins (after seven hours and a half), [1]. ►
Ardor urinæ (second day), [1]. ► Dark-colored urine, [2]. ►
Dark-colored fecal evacuations, [2].
► Great exhaustion (after seven hours
and a half), [1]. ► It may produce an acute eczema, some
skins not tolerating the substance at all; while in others an acne is
developed from closure and irritation of the sebaceous orifices, [2]. ►
Occasionally high fever, [2].® 2000
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