Boletus Satanas

B. satanas, Lenz.

Nat. order, Fungi. Preparation, Triturations.

Authorities. 1, Benz, Bouvier 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

Intellect undisturbed

Eyes and Ears

Sparks before the eyes, alternating with obscuration of vision

Noises in the ears

Sleep and Dreams

Troublesome dryness in the mouth and throat

Violent burning and scraping in the throat

Stomach

Unquenchable thirst

Nausea

Sudden nausea (after two hours)

Retching and vomiting

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

He was obliged to vomit (after two hours and three hours, and repeated twenty times within three hours)

Vomiting repeated thirty times within two hours

He vomited everything that he took

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

Epigastric region distended

Perceptible pulsation in the epigastric region

Frightful pain in the stomach

Abdomen

Abdomen sunken and frightfully painful

Obstinate tension of the abdomen

Stool

A profuse diarrhoea of blood and of the mucous membranes of the intestines

Watery evacuations

Heart and Pulse

Oppression of the chest

Pulse scarcely perceptible

Upper Extremities

A sudden sensation through all his limbs as though he would be attacked with apoplexy (after two hours)

Violent, extremely painful cramps in the muscles of the limbs and of the face,2. (after two hours)

So weak that he could scarcely stand or walk (after two to eight hours)

Excessive weakness, amounting to faintness, whilst the vomiting continued ; repeated ten or twelve times in an hour

Great discomfort in the Avhole body

Fever p. 191

Limbs cold

Cold sweat over the whole body