VISCUM ALBUM.
Viscum album, Linn.
Natural order
, Loranthaceæ.
Common name
, Mistletoe.
Preparation
, Tincture of leaves (and
berries).
Authorities.
1,
Dr. Center, Charleston Med. Journ. and Rev., vol. vi, 1851, 448, two
women, æt. eighteen and twenty-one years, took Viscum to procure
abortion; 2, Henry Belcher, M.D.,
Month. Hom. Rev., vol. xii, 1868, p. 282, a girl, æt. seventeen years,
in whom catamenia had not appeared, but who appeared well, except a
severe form of chorea had long troubled her, took 5 drops tincture,
three times a day, for a week; 3,
Joseph Dixon, Brit. Med. Journ., 1874 (1). p. 224, a boy, æt. fourteen
years, ate eight berries; 4, Pröll,
A. H. Z., 96, No. 10 (Brit. Journ. of Hom., vol. xxxvi, 1878, p. 271),
took the tincture, beginning with a drop, and increasing every day by a
drop until he took forty at a time.
MIND.
►
Inclined to be violent, [3]. ► Spectral illusions, [3]. ►
Insensibility, [3]. ► Stupor, succeeded by almost entire
insensibility, lying motionless, with her eyes closed, as if in sound
sleep, but easily roused by a loud noise, and then would answer any
question, but when she relapsed into her former condition there was a
slight disposition to stertorous breathing (second day), [2].
HEAD.
►
Giddiness (second day), [2], [3].
EYE.
►
Conjunctiva injected, [3]. ► Pupil slightly dilated and fixed, [3]. ►
Pupils contracted, and at first appeared insensible to light (second
day), [3].
FACE.
►
Countenance suffused, [3]. [10.] ►
Lips livid, [3].
ABDOMEN.
►
Whole of the alimentary canal paralyzed, [1].
STOOL.
►
Bowels obstinately constipated, [1].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
►
Breathing slow and stertorous, [3].
► Slight disposition to stertorous
breathing (second day), [2].
PULSE.
►
Pulse small, quick, and very irregular (second day), [2]. ► Pulse
slow, full, and bounding, [3].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► He felt in the dorsum of the left hand as
if a large spider were crawling over it; soon afterwards he felt the
same sensation in the dorsum of the right hand (after 40 drops), [4].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► In the same winter suddenly felt in the
right foot a violent aching pain from within outwards, that compelled
him to take off his boot, as it felt too light; this sensation went off
in an hour, [4].
GENERALITIES.
►
About 10 A.M., when he was going to see a patient, he felt very queer,
as if he must fall down; he felt a glow that rose up from the feet to
the head, and it seemed to him as if he were on fire, at the same time
his face became very pale; this kind of aura epileptica recurred three
times during the winter (after 40 drops), [4].
[20.] ►
Every muscle of the body, except those of the eyes, were paralyzed, [1]. ►
Could not speak or swallow, and both died about the eight or ninth day,
literally starved, [1]. ► Frequent recurrence of the symptoms
during two years, [4].
SLEEP.
►
Drowsiness (second day), [2].
FEVER.
►
Skin warm and very moist (second day), [2].® 2000
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