DELPHININUM.
Alkaloid from Delphinium staphisagria, Linn.
Formula
, C24H35NO2.
Preparation
, Triturations.
Authorities.
1, Schroff,
Pharmacologie, effects of 0.006 to 0.01 of a grm.; 2,
Turnbull, On the Medical Properties of the Ranunculaceæ, effects of 0.18 to 0.25 grm. a day
(0.03 grm. at a dose); 3, Soubeiran, Journ. de Pharm.,
1837, effects of inunction; 4, Falk and Roerig, Archiv
f. Phys. Heilk., xi, effects of 1 to 3 drops of alcoholic solution (1 drop equals 0.01
grm.); 5, Albers, Allg. Zeit. Psych., 1858, effects of
0.015 grm. four times a day for several days, in a case of “torpor of the brain and
irritability of the spine.”►
Sensation of crawling and burning in the tongue, which,
however, does not seem red or swollen, lasting an hour and a half; it produces the same
sensation of burning when introduced into a wound in the skin, [4]. ► Salivation, redness, and
inflammation of the whole of the fauces, with a gnawing burning sensation in the throat,
nausea, efforts to vomit, diminished appetite, urging to stool without relief, urging to
urinate, accompanied by sensation of burning, but without special increase of the secretion
of urine; itching and sticking of the whole skin, so that the patient could not lie in bed,
and lastly, a small but normal pulse, [5]. ► Intensely bitter taste, with sensation of burning in the tip
of the tongue and lower lip, increased secretion of saliva, eructations, nausea, feeling of
pressure in the stomach, and diminished rapidity of the pulse, [1]. ► Diuresis and a sensation of
burning and prickling in various parts of the body; such as is caused by rubbing it upon the
skin, [2]. ►
Warmth, prickling redness, and a kind of goose-flesh; applied to the nose, it caused
sneezing, to the conjunctiva pain and redness, [3].® 2000
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