TANACETUM.
Tanacetum vulgare, Linn.
Natural order
, Compositæ.
Common names
, Tansy; (G.), Rainfarn; (F.),
Tanaisie.
Preparation
, Tincture of the plant.
Authorities.
1,
Hering, Archiv., 13, pr. 1, p. 170, a boy, æt. twelve years, took 1 1/2
ounces of extract for worms; 2, Ely
Van de Warker, M.D., The Detection of Criminal Abortion, p. 75, 10
minims of oil of tansy in simple syrup; 3,
same, two 15-minim doses at intervals of four hours; 4, same, another case; 5, W., Bost. Med. and Surg. Jour., vol. 10,
1834, p. 30, a woman took a large dose of the oil; 6, same, X. Y. Z., took repeated doses of 10
to 20 drops; 7, same, took 209 drops
in one hour and thirty-six minutes; 8,
Charles T. Hildreth, M.D., Med. Mag., 1834 (Am. Journ. of Med. Sci.,
1835, p. 256), a woman took 1/2 ounce of the oil, death in two hours; 9, Dr. H. C. Raymond, Am. Journ. of Med.
Sci., 1841 (2), p. 514, a woman took an overdose of same; 10, W. W. Ely, M.D., Am. Journ. of Med. Sci.,
1852 (1), p. 279, a young lady took a tablespoonful of same, death in an
hour and a quarter; 11, John C.
Dalton, Jr., M.D., ibid., p. 136, a girl, æt. twenty-one years, took 11
drachms of same to procure an abortion, death in three hours and a half;
12, Dr. Chapin, Bost. Med. and Surg.
Journ., vol. 57, 1857, p. 383, a woman took 1/2 fluid ounce of same; 13, Dr. Underwood, ibid., a young woman took
the oil to produce abortion; 14,
John E. Pendleton, M.D., Am. Med. Times, vol. 2, 1861, p. 177, a girl,
æt. twenty-one years, took a strong decoction of Tansy to procure
abortion, death in twenty-six hours; 15,
E. M. Hale, North Am. Journ. of Hom., vol. 13, 1865; 16, William H. Burt, M.D., Med. Invest.,
March, 1865, p. 63, took the pure oil, 4 drops (first day), 6 drops
(second day), 10 drops (fourth day), 25 drops (sixth day); 17, A. C. Blodget, M.D., Buffalo Med. and
Surg. journ., 1868, p. 136, Mrs. O., æt. thirty years, about three
months pregnant, took 3 drachms of oil; 18,
E. M. Hale, M.D., West. Hom. Obs., vol. 6, 1869, p. 345, a young woman
took two tablespoonfuls to procure abortion; 19,
W. Aldright, M.D., Canada Med. Journ., vol. 6, 1870, p. 212, Miss —,
pregnant, took half a teaspoonful; 20,
A. D. Binkerd, M.D., Med. and Surg. Rep., vol. 22, 1870, p. 538, Mrs.
B., æt. twenty-eight years, accustomed to take 5-drop doses without
inconvenience, now took 15 or 20 drops; 21,
Dr. Henry Flood, Med. Rec., vol. 11, 1876, p. 339, Mrs. S., æt.
twenty-five years, took a teaspoonful of the oil to procure abortion,
and Mrs. D., in second month of pregnancy, took a strong decoction with
like results; 22, Dr. Welch, Med.
Rec., vol. 12, p. 348, a young girl, to procure abortion, took small
doses of the oil for two weeks, and then a heavier dose.
MIND.
►
Slight exhilaration from some cause, [6].
► Nervousness, [20]. ►
Moaning and general appearance of distress (after three-quarters of an
hour, [17]. ►
Great confusion of mind, [16]. ► Fatigue of mind after the least mental
exertion, [18]. ► Intellect enfeebled, with tendency to
stupor (after three-quarters of an hour); completely unconscious (after
one hour and a quarter), [17]. ► Upon questioning her, I detected an
indifference to my interrogatories and incoherence in her replies to the
point inquired after (after two hours), [14].
► Unable to fix my attention on
anything, and it seemed as though the next instant my reason would leave
me, [7]. ►
Dulness of all the senses, [16]. [10.] ►
Partially unconscious, [12]. ► Loss of consciousness, [9], [10]. ► Total unconsciousness, [11]. ►
Uttered a shriek and fell senseless to the ground; she continued in this
comatose condition over an hour, when she vomited again and recovered
consciousness, [20]. ► Perfectly unconscious, though not
profoundly comatose, [19]. ► Perfectly comatose (after six hours), [14].
HEAD.
►
Dizziness, [3], [10], [20].
► Dizziness and confusion of mind
continuing to increase, particularly the latter, [7]. ► Slight
giddiness (in half an hour), [2]. ► When first attacked, her condition,
judging from the description of those who saw her, was very similar to a
person in apoplexy, [18]. [20.] ►
Sense of weariness, but not pain in the head (after three hours and a
half), [4]. ►
Strange fulness and sense of pressure within the head, amounting to pain
(after one hour), [3]. ► Very unpleasant sense of fulness within
the head (in fifteen minutes), [2].
► Sense of fulness of the head and
face (after fifteen minutes), [2].
► Agonizing pain in head, [20]. ►
Constant dull heavy headache for a number of days, [16]. ► Severe
frontal headache, with great fulness of the head, [16]. ► Dull
frontal headache, with cutting pain in the temples, [16].
EYE.
►
The sclerotic coat of the eye was so congested that it had a dark-purple
glassy appearance, and was so badly swollen that the cornea seemed to be
depressed (after two weeks), [18].
► Eyes open and very brilliant;
pupils of equal size, widely dilated, and immovable; sclerotics
injected, [11]. [30.] ► A
little inward strabismus of the right eye, [11]. ►
Occasionally a slow, lateral, rolling motion of the eyeballs, [16]. ►
Agglutination of the lids, in the morning, [16]. ► Dull
aching pains in the eyeballs, [16].
► Pupils slightly dilated, [19]. ►
Pupils contracted (after two hours), [14].
► Pupils, during the first hour, very
closely contracted, afterwards very much dilated, [3].
EAR.
►
Stitches in the internal ear, [16].
► A sensation as if something closed
the ears very suddenly, [16]. ► Roaring in the ears, [16]. [40.] ► Ringing in ears (in twenty minutes), [3].
NOSE.
►
Profuse secretion of mucus in the nose, with frequent coryza, [16]. ►
Dryness of the nostrils, [16].
FACE.
►
Features seemed fixed, giving to the physiognomy an expression of deep
solemnity (after two hours), [14].
► Duskiness of the countenance (after
two hours), [14]. ► Face flushed, [2]. ► Cheeks
flushed, of a bright-red color, [11].
MOUTH.
►
Tongue feels rough, with a white coating on it, [16]. ► Mouth
and nose drawn a little to the right side, [11]. ►
Frothing at the mouth, [19]. [50.] ►
Bloodstained mouth, [22]. ► Flat insipid taste, [16].
THROAT.
►
Roughness of the throat, [16]. ► Feeling in the throat as if I would cough
all the time, without being able to cough through the whole proving, [16]. ►
Unable to swallow, [21].
STOMACH.
►
Thirst. ► Thirst (after
two hours), [2]. ► Eructations. ►
Constant eructations, tasting of the oil for twenty-four hours after
taking it, [16]. ► Eructations of sour air, at night, [16]. ►
Repeated Tansy eructations and borborygmus (after three hours and a
quarter), [3]. ► Flatulent eructations from the stomach,
tasting intensely of Tansy (after half an hour), [2]. ► Nausea and
Vomiting. [60.] ► Some nausea, [7]. ►
Suffering from nausea and vomiting, which having been promoted by
copious draughts of warm water, had continued freely for the last twenty
minutes (after three-quarters of an hour), [17]. ►
Vomiting, [12]. ► Vomited freely twice, [20]. ►
Vomiting; the matter ejected had the odor of Tansy, [9]. ► Faint
and sick at the stomach (after ten minutes), [17]. ► Stomach.
► Slight glow in the stomach, [6]. ►
Burning in stomach, [20]. ► Burning sensation in the stomach, [21]. ►
Great heat of stomach and bowels, [2].
[70.] ►
Immediate sense of heat in the stomach, [2].
► Weight at the stomach (after three
hours and a half), [4]. ► Drawing-cutting pains in the epigastrium
many times, [16].
ABDOMEN.
►
Dull pains in the right hypochondrium; sharp pains in the left, [16]. ►
Frequent colicky pains in the umbilical region through the day, and
especially at 4 A.M., for two weeks, [16].
► Sharp sticking pains in the whole
umbilical region, [14]. ► Hard, dull, aching pains in the whole of
the bowels, constant symptom, [16].
► Feeling as though the bowels were
full of limpid secretion from taking a cathartic (second morning), [6]. ►
Constant hard drawing pains in the left groin, [16]. ► The
pains are mostly all in the region of the small intestines; from small
doses, they are of a cutting-stitching character; from large doses,
constant dull, heavy, aching pains, with frequent spells of sharp,
cutting, colicky pains, worse at night, and especially after midnight, [16].
STOOL.
[80.]
► Soft papescent stools, preceded by
sharp cutting pains in the umbilicus, [16].
► A loose stool, and a second about
half an hour after, [7]. ► Two loose evacuations from the bowels,
and a feeling as though he would have more, [6]. ►
Constipation (secondary); (primary), diarrhœa, from large doses, [16].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Urine produced a slight scalding (after one hour), [3]. ►
Constant inclination to urinate, with dull heavy pains in the small of
the back (secondary), [16]. ► Desire to urinate constantly present, but
not strangury (after one hour and twenty minutes), [3]. ►
Constant desire to urinate still present (after three hours and a half),
[4]. ►
Marked diuretic action; obliged to rise and urinate, a very unusual
occurrence; the urine strongly impregnated with the Tansy odor, [2]. ►
Urinated three times in four hours, [2].
[90.] ►
At first, suppression of urine, followed by profuse flow of urine, [16]. ►
Urine very fetid, [16]. ► Urine very high-colored (primary); very
light-colored (secondary), [16]. ► Urine passed in increased quantity,
high-colored, and of strong odor of the drug (after half an hour), [2].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
There was inflammation of the vaginal walls of the internal and external
labia, which resulted in an enormous abscess in one labia (after two
weeks), [18]. ► (1st.) It will cause abortion in the
early months of pregnancy; I have known one case at the second, one at
the third, and one in the fourth month of gestation, the two former from
large quantities of the warm infusion, the latter from the oil (how much
I could not ascertain). (2d) I have known it to bring back the menses
after a suppression of several days, not naturally, but very profusely,
with severe laborlike pains (from large draughts of the infusion). (3d.)
Cases have come under my observation where its use, in moderate doses of
the infusion, had the effect of preventing a threatened abortion (it was
taken to hasten the abortion), [15].
► At full term a child was born, not larger than a rat; the child lived three
weeks, [12].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
►
Mucus had collected in the larynx and fauces, which very much disturbed
respiration (after six hours), [14].
► Constant tickling sensation in the
larynx and fauces, that produces a constant inclination to cough, but no
coughing, [16]. [100.] ►
My voice had a strange sound to my ears, [7].
► Breathing slightly oppressed (after
three hours and a half), [4]. ► Respiration disturbed, [22]. ►
Breathing much distressed (after three-quarters of an hour); labored
(after one hour and a quarter), [17].
► Strong desire to draw a full
breath, which did not give relief to the oppression in the chest when
drawn (after two hours), [2]. ► Laborious respiration, [10]. ►
Respiration 14 to the minute, with some labor of the respiratory muscles
(after two hours); 12 to the minute (after six hours), [14]. ►
Respiration hurried, labored, stertorous, and obstructed by an abundance
of frothy mucus, which filled the air-passages, and was blown from
between the lips in expiration; the breath had strong odor of Tansy, [11]. ►
Respiration laborious, not stertorous; blowing the mucus and saliva from
her fauces and mouth, but the saliva did not appear to enter the larynx;
this respiration was more marked after each spasm, but not very unlike
that of sound sleep a part of the time when most quiet, [8].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Feeble cardiac action, and all the signs of impending dissolution, [22]. [110.]
► Pulse 115 (after two hours and
three-quarters), [3]. ► Pulse 110, small and feeble (after
three-quarters of an hour); almost extinct (after one hour and a
quarter), [27]. ► Pulse 98 (after half an hour), [2]. ►
Pulse decidedly increased in force and a little in frequency (soon), [7]. ►
Pulse slightly increased, but a little slower than natural (after two
hours); 60, with a peculiar measured beat (after six hours), [14]. ►
Pulse quite full, forcible, 128, [11].
► Pulse fuller and more
incompressible, [6]. ► Pulse feeble and somewhat frequent, [19]. ►
Irregular pulse, [10]. ► Pulseless, [22].
BACK.
[120.]
► Severe attack of lumbago one
evening, lasted all the evening, [16].
► Constant dull aching pains in the
lumbar region, for ten days, [16].
EXTREMITIES.
►
Feeling of numbness, with a sensation as though her arms and legs were
suddenly swelling (after ten minutes), [17].
► A sense of cold numbness crept over
her limbs (after three hours); the numbness increased till it amounted
almost to paralysis, [20]. ► Pricking sensation coming and going over
the extremities and along the spine (after three hours and a half), [4]. ►
Prickling sensation in extremities, with flashes of heat (after one
hour), [3].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Left wrist very lame and sore, in the
morning, [16].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Great weakness of the legs, with general
prostration of strength, [16]. ► Unsteadiness of step, with a feeling I
cannot describe, but far worse than pain, [7].
GENERALITIES.
►
Trembling, [7]. [130.] ►
Paroxysms, [12]. ► Convulsions, [9]. ►
Convulsions, supposed from the description given by those around her to
be epileptic, in which the shoulder was dislocated, [5]. ► A
succession of convulsions supervened, with frothing at the mouth,
laborious respiration, and irregular pulse, [10]. ►
Convulsions of a severe and dangerous character, [21]. ► She
was seized with convulsions, after which she vomited freely, then was
carried in a state of catalepsy to bed, [20].
► Violent convulsions, [13]. ► Clonic
spasms (after three-quarters of an hour), [17].
► Violent clonic spasm, [22]. ►
Spasms occurred once in about twelve minutes. They were the most violent
rigid kind of clonic spasms, but not convulsive; they came on
instantaneously and generally, and continued about one minute. They were
attended with slight, if any, motion of the arms; it might be called a
trembling. The arms were peculiarly affected, and invariably in the same
way; they were thrown out, forward of, and at right angles with the
body; the hands, at the wrists, bent at right angles, with the forearm
supinated, the points of the fingers nearly in contact, the fingers
straight, and slightly bent at the joint which united them with the
hand. The muscles of respiration were strongly affected during each
paroxysm; air was forced from the chest slowly but steadily, and made a
slight hissing noise as it escaped from between the patient’s lips.
During the intermission of spasm, the muscles were perfectly flexible,
and the transition seemed very sudden. The jaws were the only exception
to this rule; they were for the first hour and a quarter rigidly closed,
and were with difficulty opened, but after that, were subjected to the
same action as the rest of the body; when the spasms were on, they were
rigid, and when they were off, they were relaxed. After the patient grew
weaker, the spasms were more frequent, but had about the same severity
and length, [8]. [140.] ►
At intervals of five or ten minutes the body was convulsed by strong,
spasms, in which the head was thrown back, the respiration suspended,
the arms raised and kept rigidly extended, and the fingers contracted.
After this state of rigidity had continued for about half a minute, it
was usually succeeded by a tremulous motion, often sufficient to shake
the room, together with very faint and imperfect attempts at
inspiration. The whole interval, from the commencement of the convulsion
to the first full inspiration, varied from a minute to a minute and a
half. Occasionally, the tongue was wounded by the teeth, and the saliva
slightly tinged with blood. Immediately after a convulsion, the
countenance was very pallid and livid, from the suspension of
respiration, and the pulse exceedingly reduced in strength and
frequency. The pulse and color then gradually returned until the
occurrence of the next spasm. It was very common, a few seconds after
the termination of a convulsion, for the head to be drawn slowly
backward, and the eyelids, at the same time, stretched wide open. In the
intervals of the convulsion, the limbs were mostly relaxed, but the jaws
remained clenched, [11]. ► General paralysis of all voluntary
motion, including the muscles of deglutition (after six hours), [14]. ►
Great immobility; he made extraordinary movement and remarkable
gestures, stretching, drawing up the feet, standing on his head, and
when spoken to concerning it, he said: “Let me do as I wish; I
cannot do anything else;” so he drew up the legs, and when the
muscles would not draw them farther, he pulled them up with his hands,
and then suddenly stretched them out; throughout this there no pains; it
lasted half an hour, recurring several times (after several doses), [1]. ►
Few rheumatic symptoms, [16]. ► A sensation approaching a thrill through
the whole frame, [6].
SLEEP.
►
Somewhat drowsy (after three hours and a quarter), [3]. ► Went to
bed drowsy, but not restless (after three hours and a half), [4].
FEVER.
►
Surface cool and moist (after three-quarters of an hour); cold and
clammy (after one hour and a quarter), [17].
► Surface below its normal
temperature, still cooler towards the extremities (after two hours), [14]. ►
Temperature 100.5° F. (after two hours and three-quarters), [3]. [150.]
► Temperature 99.5° F. (after half
an hour), [2]. ► Feeling of warmth diffused over whole
abdomen (after fifteen minutes), [2].
► Skin warm, but not remarkable as to
moisture, [11]. ► Cold clammy perspiration covered the
surface (after six hours), [14].
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Night), Sour eructations; 4 A.M., colicky
pains in umbilical region.
SUPPLEMENT: TANACETUM.
Authority.
23,
A. E. Spaulding, M.D., Philad. Med. Times, vol. vii, 1877, p. 467, a
woman, æt. twenty-one years, took a teaspoonful of the oil to bring on
the menses.►
Convulsion; powerful tonic contraction
of the flexor muscles, the forearms were drawn forcibly against the
thorax, face deeply congested and livid, foamy saliva was ejected from
the mouth, eyes were wide open, and remained so during the convulsion,
which lasted from one to two minutes, [23].® 2000
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