Gaultheria

Gaultheria procumbens, Linn.

Natural order, Ericacese.

Common names, Wintergreen, Checkerberry, etc.

Preparation, Tincture of leaves.

Authorities. 1, Dr. T. J. Gallaher, a boy, aged nine years, in whom vomiting and purging were easily induced by indigestible food, took at least i oz. of the oil on a nearly empty stomach, but ate supper soon afterward, Med. Examiner, 8, 347 ; 2, Dr. W. E. Townsend ; a woman drank 6 oz. of the essence of checkerberry, Boston Med. and Surg. Jour, (from Records of Boston Sac. for Med. Improvement); 3, Dr. Hooker; a young woman drank toddy containing a large amount of checkerberry, ibid.

Mind

Very stupid, soon

Eyes

VupWs contracted

Eyes slightly injected with blood, though this is presumed to be owing to his constant cries for something to eat (second morning)

Ears

Marked dulness of hearing (second morning)

Mouth

Tongue dry, smooth, and slightly swollen (second morning)

Mouth parched and dry (second morning),h

Speech rather indistinct in consequence of the swollen condition of the tongue (second morning),*!

Slight increase in the intenseness of the beat of the carotid arteries (second morning)

Inordinate, uncontrollable appetite for food, notwithstanding the irritability of the stomach

Vomiting

Commenced vomiting soon after supper, and speedily rejected from the stomach all that it contained (what he threw up was strongly scented with the oil of mountain tea); retching and vomiting continued the whole of the ensuing night whenever anything, as a cup of water, was given him. Irritability of the stomach great, everything received into it being immediately thrown up (second morning)

Patient complained of very severe pain in the epigastric and in the inferior part of the hypochondriac regions, which was greatly increased by pressure with the finger (second morning)

Severe and very nearly fatal attack of gastritis

Stool p. 385

Two copious evacuations from the bowels during the night (first night)/.

Respiratory Organs p. 385

Very slow, laborious, prolonged, and peculiarly loud respiration, but not stertorous (second morning),h

Heart and Pulse p. 385

Pulse 125 (second morning),h

Generalities p. 385

Made to inhale ammonia, she roused sufficiently to take an emetic, which did not operate until after a powerful galvanic battery had been applied two hours later, from the effects of which she vomited, but such was her condition that she was nearly strangled by the contents of the stomach lodging in the fauces; she then appeared to be sinking, but in the course of an hour showed signs of reanimation, and gradually recovered

Insensible, apparently in sound sleep, but could not be aroused for ten hours

Very restless (second morning)

Fever p. 385

Skin hot (second morning)