HYDROCYANIC ACID.
STOMACH.
►
Appetite. ► Increased
hunger, with aversion to food (second day), [1a]. ►
Diminished appetite and digestion, [11].
[220.] ►
Loss of appetite, [33], [35]; (second day), [1a]. ► Loss
of appetite, for eighteen days, [6].
► Appetite for the first hour
completely wanting, but afterwards unusually increased, [1]. ►
Aversion to eating, [9]. ► Thirst. ►
Thirst (after four hours), [46]. ► Eructation and Hiccough. ► Eructations tasting of the drug (second
day), [1a]. ►
Evolution of gas from the mouth of the odor and taste of the drug, [12]. ►
Violent hiccough, which lasted almost an hour, did not yield to the
usual remedies, such as holding the breath a long time, etc., but
disappeared after a cup of black coffee (second day), [1a]. ►
Heartburn and waterbrash, with accumulation of much saliva in the mouth,
after eating (second day), [1a]. ► Nausea and Vomiting. ► Nausea and vomiting, with relief of the
symptoms, [16]. [230.] ►
Vomiting, [19], [33]; (sixth day), [41].
► Vomited frequently during the day, [46]. ►
Vomiting of black liquid, [12]. ► Vomited a blackish mucus (the fauces
being tickled with a feather), [50].
► Stomach. ► Region of stomach distended, [50]. ►
Warmth in the stomach, [35]. ► Disturbances of the stomach, [21]. ►
Discomfort, with nausea, after eating (second day), [1a]. ►
Remarkable and unpleasant sensation at the epigastrium, with such
weakness in the limbs and loss of power in the muscles that he thought
he should have fallen; quite momentary (immediately), [68]. ►
Feeling of a lump in the stomach, gradually changing to a sticking pain,
which, after lasting a short time, left behind a sensation of pressure
(second day), [1a]. [240.] ►
Slight sensitiveness of the epigastric region, [33].
ABDOMEN.
►
Feeling as if the spleen were enlarged (during the first days), [16]. ►
Rumbling in the abdomen, [35];
(third day), [4a].
STOOL.
►
Involuntary excretion of stools (after three hours), [57]. ►
Involuntary discharge of stool and urine, [23].
► Discharge of fæces in the bed, [33]. ►
The usual stool did not occur (first day), [2a].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Burning in the urethra, during micturition (third day), [3]. ► Profuse
discharge of watery urine (third day), [3].
► The activity of the kidneys seemed
increased; the urine had a normal relation to the amount of drink, but
was passed at shorter intervals than usual (second day), [4]. [250.] ► Involuntary excretion of urine (after
three hours), [57]. ► Retention of urine for four days, [12]. ►
Greatly increased secretion of urine and perspiration from the skin, [11]. ►
Urine saturated; more copious than usual (third day), [4a].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Increased sexual desire, [11]. ► Emissions of semen, [33].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► Larynx. ►
Scraping in the air-passages, soon, [1].
► Feeling as though the larynx were
enlarged or swollen (fourth day), [4].
► Spasmodic constriction of the
larynx, [17]; with hawking (from
the fumes), [14]. ► Rawness and scraping in the larynx, [2a]. [260.]
► Scraping in the larynx (soon), [1]; (second day), [5]. ►
Scraping in the larynx, together with sticking, leaving a feeling as
though the larynx were swollen and too narrow, and as if it pressed
against the neighboring parts; swallowing of food and drinks however was
not difficult nor painful (second day), [4a].
► Scraping sensation in the larynx
(first day), [1a]. ► Scraping irritation in the larynx (after
ten minutes), [4a]. ► Tickling and scraping in the larynx,
causing a frequent dry cough (soon), (second day), [1a]. ► Voice.
► Voice hoarse but distinct, [57]. ►
Cough and Expectoration. ►
Cough, [15]. ►
Frequent cough, in the evening, [46].
► Violent cough (immediately), [26]. ►
Paroxysms of cough with expectoration of black yellowish mucus, with
relief of the rattling respiration, [32].
[270.] ►
Greater secretion and expectoration of mucus from the air-passages than
usual, in the evening (first day), [1].
► Increased secretion of mucus from
the larynx, in the afternoon and evening (second day), [5]. ►
Respiration. ► Noisy and
agitated breathing, [37].
► Wheezing, rattling breathing, [50]. ►
The convulsive respiration at the outset had been soon succeeded by
regular breathing, with snorting inspiration, and moaning expiration, [50]. ►
Gurgling noise in the throat, [46].
► Moaning noise (after five or ten
minutes), [58]. ► Uttering a low moaning noise, [49]. ►
She made a noise (“Oh! oh! oh!”), [55]. ►
Breathed irregularly (after about twenty minutes), [46]. [280.] ► Convulsive respiration at times, [67]. ►
Gasping as it were for breath (immediately), [49]. ►
Respiration after a while occurred only after long pauses, [33]. ►
Respirations very infrequent; after a time slower, only seven in a
minute; each breath seemed as if it would be the last; breathing also
distinctly stertorous, [66]. ► Faint, forcible respiration, which was
repeated after an interval of five or six seconds, [52]. ►
Breathing for a time, quite imperceptible, [53]. ►
Respirations and pulse were slower than usual (fourth day), [4]. ►
Respiration somewhat slower, with frequent need of taking a deep breath
(second day), [4a]. ► Respiration slow, weak, [13]; (after a quarter of an hour), [43]. ►
Respiration slow, but not labored, though deep drawn (after five
minutes); became slower and slower, until intervals of over one minute
intervened, [65]. [290.] ►
Respiration slow and labored, [62].
► Breathing slow, laborious, and at
long intervals, [54]. ► Respirations became slow, faint, gasping,
and finally ceased; with one or two of the respirations there was slight
stertor, [63]. ► Breathed slowly and with difficulty, and
the respirations were rather deep (heaving), (after fifteen or twenty
minutes), [58]. ► Breathed slowly and convulsively,
something like violent sobbing, [48].
► Breathing slowly, with deep,
prolonged inspirations, and uttering a moaning sound, [49]. ► Very
slow, excessively deep respirations, whereby the ribs were drawn back to
the spine, [34]. ► Breathing exceedingly slow, laborious,
and accompanied by a hissing sound; gradually becoming more laborious
(after eight or nine minutes), [51].
► Respiration deep and difficult
(second day), [1a]. ► Respiration impeded (after half an hour),
[1]. [300.]
► Respiration anxious, [11]. ►
Breathing labored, [60]. ► Difficulty of breathing; she gave heavy
sighs, with occasional sobs (after five or ten minutes), [58]. ►
Difficult respiration, a feeling as though the lungs could not be
expanded as usual (third day), [4].
► Very difficult rattling
respiration, [12]. ► Dyspnœa; respiration stertorous,
rattling, [32]. ► Dyspnœa, with slight contraction of both
sides of the chest (after ten minutes), [4a].
► Dyspnœa, with slight pressure in
the region of the heart (after one hour, second day), [4]. ►
Increasing dyspnœa, [50]. ► Attack of suffocation, followed by
stupefaction, congestion, and constant pain in the chest, [26].
CHEST.
[310.]
► Tension of the chest, aggravated by
inspiration, especially affecting the lower portion of the thorax, in
the region of the seventh and eighth ribs, transversely across the chest
(soon), (first day), [4a]. ► Constriction of the chest, [30]. ►
Constriction in the chest, obliging deep inspiration (fourth day), [4]. ►
Constriction of the chest, and sudden difficulty of breathing, [24]. ►
A feeling in the chest as though there were constriction transversely
across it, without however amounting to real pain (after two hours), [1]. ►
Violent constriction of the diaphragm, with a sense of suffocation, [47]. ►
Tightness of the chest, [20];
(first and second days), [4]. ► Tightness of the chest, gradually
extending into the right side of the chest and becoming a pain which
extends over the whole chest and makes breathing difficult (third day), [4a]. ►
Pressure and tightness in the chest (first day), [1a]. ►
Pressive pain in the chest, [2a]. [320.] ►
Oppression of the chest, [9], [20]. ►
Great oppression of the chest and difficult respiration, [16]. ► Very
acute pains in the chest and a feeling of anxiety, which only
disappeared several hours after inhaling the fumes, [18]. ►
Stitches in the chest, on deep breathing (first day), [4]. ► Some
transient stitches in the right side, in the region of the fifth and
sixth ribs, near the sternum (after half an hour), [2]. ► Front.
► Slight sticking beneath the lower
end of the sternum (second day), [5].
► Sides. ►
Pain in the left side of the chest, in the region of the heart, with
dyspnœa (fourth day), [4]. ► Pressure in the right side of the chest
(second day), [4]. ► Pressive pain in the right side of the
chest between the fifth and sixth ribs, near the sternum, lasting a
quarter of an hour, [2a]. ► Pressive pain, which afterwards became
sticking, in both sides of the chest, soon (second day), [1a]. [330.] ► Sticking pain under the short ribs of the
right side, [2a]. ► Sticking in the left side of the chest,
internal to the left nipple (first day), [5].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Præcordium. ► Anxiety in
the præcordium, [23]. ► Præcordial anxiety, alternating with
slight vertigo, pain in the same locality, not increased by pressure,
lasting six hours, [20]. ► Transient stitches in the region of the
heart (second day), [1a]. ► Heart’s Action. ►
Palpitation of the heart (second day), [1a].
► Palpitation, with soft, full pulse,
[8]. ►
*Heart’s action very weak (after eight or nine minutes), [51]. ►
Heart’s action irregular, pulse hardly to be felt, [60]. ►
*Irregular beat of the heart, with slow depressed pulse, [8]. [340.]
► Beat of the heart and pulse
variable, sometimes frequent, sometimes seldom and intermitting, also
weak, [33]. ► Pulse. ►
Pulse rapid and weak, [9], [46]. ►
Pulse more rapid but smaller and unequal in force, a weak impulse
alternating with a strong one (second day), [4a]. ► Pulse
small, less energetic, and more rapid than usual (fourth day), [4]. ►
Pulse slightly increased in rapidity, smaller and unequal, so that after
every six or seven beats there were one or two stronger and longer waves
of the artery (soon), [4a]. ► Pulse very rapid, [66]. ► Pulse
small and quick (after five minutes), [61].
► Pulse became quicker and less
distinct, and the action of the heart could scarcely be felt whilst
lying on his back, [46]. ► Very frequent pulse, [37]. ► Pulse
100, very small, feeble, yet regular (after one hour), [59]. [350.] ► Pulse between 70 and 80 (after fifteen or
twenty minutes), [58]. ► Pulse rose, from 58 to 78, and had not
regained its usual rate for an hour and a half, [42]. ► Pulse
previous to the experiment 57; 77 (after ten minutes); 57 (after one
hour), [20]. ►
Slow pulse (after a quarter of an hour), [48].
► Pulse weak and slow, [6]. ► Pulse
slow and scarcely perceptible (after eight or nine minutes), [51]. ►
Pulse slower than usual (second day), [1a].
► Pulse slightly slower than usual
(third day), [3]. ► Pulse a trifle slower than usual (60
instead of 65), in the evening (second day), [4]. ► Pulse
always became slower, with confusion of the head (55 to 58 instead of
65, as usual), (second day), [4]. [360.] ►
Pulse 50 (after five minutes); becoming slower and less strong to the
moment of his death, [65]. ► Pulse 5 or 6 beats less than usual
(second day), [5]. ► Pulse falls from 116 to 80, [24]. ►
The pulse was neither rapid nor slow, but the tone of the different
beats was irregular for about ten minutes (after 3 drops), [2]. ►
Beats of the pulse unequal in strength, [2a].
► Pulse irritable, small, and of
unequal force (third day), [4a]. ► Pulse small, [57]. ► Pulse
small, and scarcely perceptible, [12].
► Small pulse, scarcely perceptible
at the left wrist, [50]. ► Pulse was scarcely perceptible (after a
quarter of an hour), [43]. [370.] ►
Pulse almost imperceptible, [36]. ► Pulse not perceptible, while the action
of the heart was but feebly to be felt, [54].
► No pulse could be felt, [63]. ►
No radial pulse on either side, [44].
► Pulse at the wrist could not be
felt, although the heart still continued to beat with a feeble,
fluttering effort (after a few minutes), [49].
► I could not distinguish any
pulsation at the wrist, and the heart’s action was scarcely audible when
my ear was placed close to his chest, nor could is impulse be felt, [62].
NECK AND BACK.
►
Veins of the neck and face were strongly congested, [65]. ► Cramp
in the back, [12]. ► Sudden pain in the region of the right
kidney, extending thence to the epigastric region, and then spreading
over the whole abdomen, causing at the same time a feeling of increased
warmth of the abdomen (third day), [4a].
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
► Extremities seemed bloodless, [44]. [380.]
► Limbs quite flaccid (after a
quarter of an hour), [43]. ► The limbs were completely lax and fell
lifeless when lifted, [44]. ► Trembling of the limbs, [19]. ►
Trembling and uselessness of the limbs, [8].
► Legs, arms, and chest were slightly
convulsed, the upper extremities more than the lower, [48]. ► Some
contractions of the extremities, but no tetanus, [60]. ► After
he had become insensible and while lying on the table, his thighs were
drawn up on the abdomen, and rigid; the upper extremities were also
observed to be rigid; and on drawing them from the side, they forcibly
reverted to their former position; eyes shut; teeth clenched, and the
muscles of the face violently convulsed (sixth day), [41]. ►
Movements difficult, as if from loss of power of the limbs, [35]. ►
Such weakness in the limbs and loss of power in the muscles that he
thought he should have fallen, quite momentary (immediately), [68]. ►
Paralysis of the hands and feet (after three hours), [57]. [390.] ► Limbs paralyzed and lay in whatever
position they were placed; and they were free from all rigidity, [66]. ►
Extremities, although immovable and cold, had not however lost their
sensibility, [57].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Arms bent and the hands clenched (after
eight or nine minutes), [51]. ► The forearms became stiff and inflected
on the arms, [46]. ► Trembling of the right hand, [33]. ►
Hands partially contracted, fingers rigid, and about the nails of a
dark-lead color, [48].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► As soon as the legs were placed in a
depending position they became very dark in color, from the bloodvessels
being so congested, but immediately the legs were placed on the sofa
after death, the appearance was lost, [48].
► Legs straight and stiff (after
eight or nine minutes), [51]. ► Unusual stiffness of the legs, [35].
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
►
Objective. ► Increased
secretions from the skin, glands, especially the salivary glands,
kidneys, and serous membrane, [11].
[400.] ►
Muscular system in a state of rigidity (after eight or nine minutes), [51]. ►
Slight jerkings, [8]. ► Spasms, [37].
► Spasm commencing in the toes,
followed by distortion of the eyes, towards the right and upward,
afterwards general spasm, distortion of the limbs, frightful distortion
of the face, etc., [33]. ► Trunk spasmodically bent forward, [50]. ►
A violent spasm, during which the body became rigid, the arms were
twisted around, and more particularly the region of the stomach became
distended (after one hour), [50]. ► The body under such strong spasmodic
action that the head seemed buried between the shoulders, and the arms
nearly turned around by the action of the pronator muscles, [54]. ►
Convulsions, [12], [21]. ►
General convulsions (immediately), [40].
► Convulsions, with loss of
consciousness, [35]. [410.] ►
Violently convulsed; the muscles of her face undergoing great
distortion, her limbs becoming spasmodically extended, and her head
drawn down on her shoulders, [49].
► Convulsions became stronger; he
drew himself up in his seat, supported behind by the right arm,
contracted the inferior extremities, and with a fierce look and fixed
eye, uttered three hideous groans, then twisted the body towards the
left side, with the face to the floor (after three hours and a half), [46]. ►
Tetanus, [21]. ► Violent tetanic convulsions, lasting
several hours (after one hour), [32].
► At first convulsions, afterwards
paralysis, [21]. ► Body excessively relaxed, and without any
convulsive movement (after one hour), [59].
► Muscles relaxed and flaccid, with
the exception of the muscles of the jaw, the jaw being firmly closed
(after five minutes), [65]. ► The patient rose up slowly and
unsteadily, [33]. ► Aversion to mental or physical exertion, [9]. ►
All motion, especially walking, was difficult and caused perspiration
(second day), [1a]. [420.] ►
It was difficulty that he could move his body (after one hour); this
latter sensation, with prostration and aversion to every work, mental as
well as physical, lasted the whole day (after one hour), [1]. ►
Standing upon the feet was exceedingly difficult (after a few minutes), [3]. ►
Lassitude and weariness, in the evening (third day), [3a]. ► Very
unusual weariness, with inclination to sleep (after one hour and a
half), [4]. ► *Loss of power, [9]. ► Was not
strong and did not feel as well as usual; was irritable and little
inclined for continued mental labor, for a few days after the proving, [5]. ►
Weakness, not subsiding for several days, [38].
► Weakness of the whole body, and
especially of the lower extremities, in the evening (first day), [1]. ►
Weakness and exhaustion, in the evening (first day), [1a]. ► *General
weakness, [35]. [430.] ►
Great weakness and lassitude; it was impossible to work, in the
afternoon (third day), [3]. ► Unusual weakness, especially of the feet,
in the afternoon (second day), [4a].
► Extremely weak and weary, [6]. ►
Nervous weakness, [9]. ► Exhaustion of the whole body (second
day), [1a]. ►
Exhaustion, was obliged to keep his bed for eight days, [16]. ► *Great
exhaustion, [30]. ► Much prostrated (after five minutes), [61]. ►
Faintness, could scarcely move, [20].
► Faintness, with perspiration, [35]. [440.]
► Paralysis, [21]. ► Fell
suddenly as if struck by lightning, [50].
► He staggered and fell, [56]. ►
Threw her hands over her head and fell to the ground, almost
immediately, [53]. ► Instantly jumped up, ran for a short
distance, holding up her arms, and gasping as it were for breath, she
then fell, [49]. ► Told his wife he had taken Prussic acid,
immediately fell down senseless on a sofa, without either cry or
convulsions, but drawing his breath deeply, forcibly, and slowly, [59]. ►
He suddenly fell to the ground without a cry, and after five minutes the
body was stretched out lifeless without trace of the pulse or
respiration, extremities icy cold, all the muscles paralyzed, but the
eyes glistening and full of life, [25].
► He walked to the outer door of the
house, about twelve or fourteen paces, when he fell insensible, and
remained insensible for nearly four hours, [47]. ► She
started up, throwing her hands over her head, at the same time making a
kind of gasping sound (as if she had a difficulty of getting her
breath), stood for a second, and then running forward for a short
distance with great violence, fell with her had first to the ground,
after which she never moved, but continued to make a moaning noise for
five minutes afterwards (immediately), [54].
► Insensibility, [11], [67];
(immediately), [49]. [450.] ►
Insensible and cold, but recovered in eight or ten hours (after one
hour), [38]. ►
Insensible, pale, and cold, [52]. ► Insensible, with her head leaning on a
table, her right hand hanging down, and her left hand in her lap (after
five or ten minutes), [58]. ► Quite insensible, [66]; almost immediately, [43]; (after two minutes), [51]. ►
Perfectly insensible, [54]. ► Insensibility complete, from the first, [59]. ►
Loss of sense and motion, and appeared to those around her to be
expiring (soon), [38]. ► Death before twelve hours, [57]. ► He
died in about ten minutes, without any screaming and very tranquilly, [56]. ►
Very restless, [33]. [460.] ►
Extreme agitation, with trembling of the whole body, [35]. ► She
began to throw herself about in a violent manner, [55]. ►
Subjective. ► Increased
activity of the senses, [11]. ► Dulness of the senses, [10]. ► It
greatly depresses the senses and irritable organs, [15]. ► A
peculiar sensation as of an impediment to the touch, for thee days, [29]. ►
Feeling of quiet and internal comfort, [11].
► Feeling of weakness and exhaustion,
[11]. ►
Feeling of great weakness, [27]. ► General discomfort (third day), [4a]. [470.]
► Ill and weak for a few days, [42].
SKIN.
►
Objective. ► Great
paleness of the whole surface, which was also extremely cold to touch, [62]. ►
Rubescence appeared on the arms in twenty minutes, and on the legs in
forty, [46]. ►
The integuments about the neck and breast became livid and of a
yellowish tinge, [46]. ► Subjective. ►
Formication, especially at the epigastric region, [35]. ►
Prickling in various parts of the body, [35].
► Formication of the limbs, [35]. ►
Some creeping in the skin of the thighs (fourth day), [3a]. ►
Itching on the neck and arms, [35].
SLEEP.
►
Yawning, [9]. [480.] ►
Could not resist frequent yawning, with overpowering desire to sleep;
and contrary to his habit he slept soundly for some hours; on waking
from this sleep he was very much confused in his head, and it was
scarcely possible to keep awake (third day), [3]. ►
Sleepiness (from the smallest dose), [10];
(third day), [4]; towards noon
(third day), [4a]. ► Overpowering sleepiness, [9]. ►
Slumber, [11]. ► Sleep prolonged and deep, [35]. ►
Sleeplessness, [35].
FEVER.
►
Chilliness. ► Coldness of
the skin (after fifteen or twenty minutes), [58]. ► Skin
cold and clammy, [67]. ► Chilliness, [19]; (after a quarter of an hour), [46]. ►
Very chilly, is very cold to the touch, [6].
[490.] ►
Frequent creeping chills from time to time, in the afternoon (second
day), [5]. ►
Violent chill alternating with heat, with stupefaction and vertigo
(after a quarter of an hour); the sensation of heat lasted about twelve
hours, [16]. ►
Febrile chill over the whole body followed by general warmth, [35]. ►
Feeling of coldness, [35]. ► Frequent attacks of coldness, shivering
(third day), [4a]. ► Slight shivering, as from febrile
paroxysms, coming on in the afternoon while riding in a wagon over a
rough road (third day), [5]. ► Shuddering like electric shocks, [35]. ►
Rigors which disappeared after swallowing coffee and brandy (after four
hours), [46]. ► Cold extremities, [12], [32],
[34], [36], etc. ► Heat.
► Inclination to heat and sweat
(second day), [1a]. [500.] ►
Warmth, especially of the feet, [35].
► Sweat. ►
Increased perspiration, [35]. ► Body covered with sweat, [37]. ► Body
covered with clammy sweat, [34]. ► Cold clammy sweat over the surface (after
a quarter of an hour), [43]. ► The perspiration caused by the acid was
momentary, not lasting over five minutes, [35].
► Skin dry, [6]. ► Face
covered with cold perspiration, [46].
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Afternoon), Chills. ►
(Evening), Pressure, etc., in head;
cough; mucus from air passages; weakness. ►
(Night), Headache. ► (After eating),
Heartburn. ► Amelioration. ► (Open air),
Pressure, etc., in the head. ► (Coffee), Hiccough. ►
(After eating), General relief.
SUPPLEMENT: HYDROCYANIC ACID.
Authorities.
69,
Manchester Examiner (Pharm. Journ., Second Ser., vol. vii, 1866, p.
487), Catharine Joyce committed suicide with an overdose; 70, John W. Tripe, Brit. Med. Journ., Jan.,
1877, p. 11, D. A. took Scheele’s acid, death in eight or nine minutes;
about 2 minims were found in his stomach; 71,
Dr. Hunt, Med. Times and Gaz., 1878 (1), p. 37, a boy, æt. three years,
ate several bitter almonds; 72, E.
W. Berridge, Am. Obs., 1876, p. 15-16 (Hom. Times, vol. vii, p. 12, of
Retrospect of Literature), a girl took 1 grain.►
Staggering, and soon fell to the
ground; groaning; breathed quick; foaming at the mouth; hand clenched, [69]. ►
Eyes prominent and glistening; pupils slightly dilated and insensible to
light; lips, as well as the tongue, purplish; gasping for breath with
his mouth wide open; heart’s action had ceased, whilst the breathing was
irregular and gasping, and continued so for about two minutes, when he
ceased to live; pulse scarcely perceptible; muscles of the arms relaxed;
fingers contracted; skin clammy; a very small quantity of vomit on his
beard and clothes, [70]. [510.] ►
Apparently unconscious, slightly cyanotic, and markedly pale, with
eyelids closed; on raising the eyelids the pupils were seen to be
moderately dilated; the arms were stiffened through tonic spasms of the
muscles, [71]. ► She instantly jumped up, ran for a short
distance, holding up her arms and gasping for breath, fell and became
insensible, and was violently convulsed; muscles of the face undergoing
great distortion, limbs spasmodically extended, and head drawn down upon
the shoulders; she was then removed to a bed; whole body was drawn a
little forward; the limbs fixed and extended in tetanic spasm; face
swollen, turgid, and almost purple from congestion; jaws clenched, mouth
covered with foam, eyes half closed, prominent, and glistening; pupils
widely dilated, insensible to light; breathing slow, with deep prolonged
inspiration, and uttering a low moaning and could not bear light; an
hour and a half before death was insensible, face pale and cold, pupils
contracted, respiration slow and stertorous, pulse quick and weak, [72].® 2000
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