AGARICUS EMETICUS.
(A. emeticus, Schæf.?), probably Russula emetica, Fr. A small acrid
species, found in woods in Europe.
Authority.
Poisoning cases.
HEAD.
► Vertigo so severe
that one must be carried to bed; is not able to sit or stand.
EYE.
► Lachrymation (from
the smell). ► Lasting weakness of eyes.
NOSE.
► Sneezing (from the
smell).
MOUTH.
► Nauseous taste of
the fungus, several days. ► Sharp burning in mouth.
STOMACH.
► Sudden, violent
longing for ice-cold water (during the worst attacks of anxiety), which
causes gradual relief. ► Dislike for wine and
meat, several days. ► Violent vomiting, with anxious
sensation, as if the stomach hung on a thread, which would momentarily break, with ice-cold sweat of face, and constantly renewed faintness,
even from moving the head on listening to reading; increased by smelling cordials,
especially by vinegar, which is unbearable. ► Violent
burning pain in stomach becomes a sensation, as if a moving dull body in the stomach pressed
it out; now in one place, now in another, with nausea and great qualmishness, violent
eructations, and weak eyes. ► Painful pressure in
stomach, followed by frequent eructations, repeated attempts to vomit. ►
Constantly increasing anxiety in stomach. ► Stomach so
sensitive for eight days that one could not touch it, nor cough.
ABDOMEN.
► Abdomen
distended. ► Constantly increasing pain in abdomen (for
half hour).
STOOL AND ANUS.
► Diarrhœa.
HEART AND PULSE.
► Pulse
rapid, exceedingly weak.
GENERALITIES.
► Sudden
great weakness (quarter of an hour).
CONDITIONS.
► Cold water
relieved speedily and permanently.® 2000
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