PYRETHRUM.
Pyrethrum Parthenium, L. (Chrysanthemum Parthenium,
Bernh.)
Natural order
, Compositæ.
Common names,
Spanish Pellitory, Feverfew.
Preparation
, Tincture of the plant.
Authority.
Dr. H. Langley Browne,
Practitioner, 1876, p. 86, a boy, aged three and one-half, took 50
minims of the tincture.►
Very excited, and talked incessantly
for four hours (second day). ► Lying
in a state of stupor; easily roused, but quickly relapsing (second day).
► Soreness of the tongue (first
night). ► At 5, the next morning,
diarrhœa commenced, accompanied with pain; at first diarrhœa was
profuse and exhausting, with tenesmus; afterwards involuntary
evacuations of mucus, slightly tinged with blood; the irritation of the
bowels subsided by the following morning. ►
Pulse 120 and feeble, becoming much more rapid at intervals (second
day); continued rapid (between 120 and 130) until the fifth day, when it
became normal. ► Twitching of the
muscles of the limbs, not of those of the face (second morning); at
12.30 violent convulsions came on, lasting for an hour, and leaving the
child apparently moribund, but he gradually improved, and at 3 P.M.
could be roused, took some wine, and went to sleep for some hours,
having convulsive movements like those of tetanus (second day); the
twitchings subsided by the morning of the third day. ► Restlessness (first night). ► Profuse perspiration (first night).® 2000
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