JASMINUM.
Jasminum officinale, Linn.
Natural order
, oleaceæ.
Common name
, White Jessamine.
Authority.
Dr. W. H. Hull, Phila. Med. and
Surg. Rep., Jan. 1861; a boy ate the red berries.►
Comatose condition. ► Pupils immoderately dilated. ► Face pallid. ►
Emesis, after a quiet sleep. ► Slight
emesis. ► Respiration somewhat
rhoncous, but of usual frequency. ►
Pulse slow and feeble. ► Muscular
movements observed first about the eyes and face, especially on the left
side, towards which the eyes and facial muscles were directed, becoming
gradually more and more aggravated, going from the head to the left arm,
then to the left lower extremity, till finally the whole body was thrown
into the most violent convulsions; at one time the spasms were chiefly
opisthotonic, when the whole surface was congested almost to a blackened
hue; most marked rigidity about the muscles of the head and throat; the
jaws were for the most part firmly locked, trismus being complete, as is
often in tetanus; relieved by a bath. ►
Weak and almost helpless for a few days. ►
Lying on the floor in a “fainting fit.” ►
Perfect insensibility. ► Surface
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