Citrus limonum
Allen, The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica, 1874, Vol. III, p. 337
C. Limonum, Risso. Natural order, Rutaceoe. Common name, Lemon.
Preparation, Expressed juice.
Authorities. 1, Fane, poisoning of two children, by eating two and one and a half lemons respectively, Lancet, 1860; 2, Husemann, effects of the juice, Schmidt's Jahrbucher, 74, 159.
Mind
Insensibility
Face
Lividity of face
Abdomen
Haemorrhage from the bowels, and death (after the use of 60 ounces of the juice, gradually administered, for dropsy following intermittent fever)
Respiratory Organs.-^ Haemoptysis, with fatal result (two cases, from use of Succus Citri)
Breathing in the form of gasping
Heart and Pulse
Heart beating very feebly
Absence of pulse at wrist
Generalities
Great prostration, and collapse
Fever
General surface of body cold