Carya Alba
Allen, The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica, 1874, Vol. III, p. 17
Carya alba, Nutt. Nat. order, Juglandaceae. Common name, Shellbark or Shagbark hickory.
Aidhority. Dr. Forth, Med. Repos., 11 (N. Am. J. of Plom., 2, 473), effects of eating the nuts (the exclusive diet, for three or four weeks, of a girl 7 years old).
Face
Appearance clay-colored.
Face swollen.
Mouth
Gums swelled, began to bleed and turn black, and she could not move her lips without occasioning a profuse discharge from them.
Stomach
Appetite for animal food bad.
Appetite gone (after seventeen days).
Abdomen
Abdomen much swelled (after seventeen days).
Stool
Discharge of black-colored blood by stool (after seventeen days).
Respiratory Organs
Breathing short.
Respiration difficult.
Heart and Pulse
Pulse small and quick.
Pulse weak and irregular.
Extremities in General
Extremities swollen.
Generalities p. 18
On the least excoriation of the skin, the blood would gush out, of a very dark color.
Blood gushed from gums, nostrils, ears, and several other parts (after seventeen days).
Want of strength.
Skill p. 18
Whole body, including face, covered with livid spots, from size of one inch in diameter to that of a pin's head ; the largest resembled a bruise, the smaller were sometimes red, resembling flea-bites.