BOLETUS SATANAS.
B. satanas, Lenz.
Nat. order
, Fungi. Preparation,
Triturations.
Authorities.
1, Lenz,
Boudier on Fungi, translated from the French by Husemann, tasted a piece of the fresh
fungus, but spit it out soon; 2, Salzmann, ibid., ate
some cooked in salt and water, and roasted; 3, six
persons poisoned by eating the roasted mushrooms (Wien. Med. Presse), from N. Z. f. H. Kl.,
13, 55.
MIND.
► Fear and
restlessness, [3]. ►
Intellect undisturbed, [3].
EYES AND EARS.
► Sparks
before the eyes, alternating with obscuration of vision, [3].
► Noises in the ears, [3].
MOUTH AND THROAT.
►
Troublesome dryness in the mouth and throat, [3]. ► Violent burning and scraping in the throat, [3].
STOMACH.
► Unquenchable
thirst, [3]. ►
Nausea, [3]. ►
Sudden nausea (after two hours), [2]. [10.] ► Retching and vomiting,
[3]. ► A desire to
vomit came very suddenly; between the attacks there was very little nausea, and no pain when
vomiting the last time; after about three hours he noticed a slight trace of blood, [1]. ► He was obliged to
vomit (after two hours and three hours, and repeated twenty times within three hours), [1]. ► Vomiting repeated
thirty times within two hours, [2]. ► He vomited everything that he took, [2]. ► Salzmann continued to vomit
(after the contents of the stomach) a bitter fluid, which was finally mixed with blood;
olive oil did not entirely relieve the vomiting, nor when mixed with charcoal, [2]. ► Epigastric region
distended, [3]. ►
Perceptible pulsation in the epigastric region, [3]. ► Frightful pain in the stomach, [3].
ABDOMEN.
► Abdomen sunken
and frightfully painful, [2]. [20.]
► Obstinate tension of the abdomen, [3].
STOOL.
► A profuse diarrhœa
of blood and of the mucous membranes of the intestines, [2].
► Watery evacuations, [3].
CHEST AND PULSE.
►
Oppression of the chest, [3]. ►
Pulse scarcely perceptible, [2].
EXTREMITIES.
► A sudden
sensation through all his limbs as though he would be attacked with apoplexy after two
hours), [1]. ►
Violent, extremely painful cramps in the muscles of the limbs and of the face, [2].
GENERALITIES.
► Loss of all
strength, [2]. ► A
great weakness suddenly (after two hours), [1]. ► So weak that he could scarcely stand or walk (after two to
eight hours), [1]. [30.]
► Excessive weakness, amounting to faintness, whilst the
vomiting continued; repeated ten or twelve times in an hour, [3].
► Great discomfort in the whole body, [3].
FEVER.
► Limbs cold, [2]. ► Cold sweat over
the whole body, [3].® 2000
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