SCAMMONIUM.
Botanical origin
, Convolvulus scammonia,
L.
Natural order
, Convolvulaceæ.
Common name
, Scammony, etc.
Preparation
, Tricturations of the dried
milky juice of the root.
Authorities.
1,
Sprengel, Monograph München, 1874, from Dr. Cersoy, Bull. Gén. de
Thérap., 1873, a nursing woman took a large quantity; the effects were
perceived only on the infant, not at all on the mother; 2, Hess, Archiv der Pharmacie, 3, 223,
effects of a dose of 0.3 gram of the resin; 2a, same, effects of three hourly doses of
0.05 gram; 2b,
effects of 1 gram.►
Sudden vomiting and copious green
stools, followed by collapse, distension and sensitiveness of the
abdomen and death, [1]. ► Slight pain in the stomach, with
evacuation of fæces (after half an hour), [2]; (after third dose), [2a]. ►
Violent pain and a rapid succession of evacuations, leaving considerable
inactivity of the lower intestines, lasting several days, [2b]. ► A
loose evacuation of fæces, attended with slight pain in the stomach
(after half an hour); a second and third (after one hour and a half), [2]; (after third dose), [2a]. ►
Evacuation of urine (in fifteen minutes), [2];
(after third dose), [2a]. ► Inflammation of the mucous membrane,
attended by loss of appetite and headache, [2b].® 2000
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