Oplia

Axdhority. Dr. Demeures, Journ. de la Sac. Gall., Ser. 1st, vol. 4, p. 110, “effects caused by pounding the insect called Oplia farinosa”'\

Head

Next day, dulness of the head, as if he had received blows on the head.

Stupefying pain in the forehead.

Headache over the left orbit, an hour after.

Eyes

Pain in the left eyeball, afterwards extending over the whole left side of the face.

Nose

Immediately, the tip of the nose is painful to touch; it even feels warmer.

Throat

Slight acidity in the bottom of the throat.

Stool

Three hours after, several liquid diarrhoeic stools, of an ash color, with borborygmi, and slight colic also, eight hours after.

A hard stool, twenty-four hours after; four hours after this, an ash-colored diarrhoeic stool. - Third day, hard stool at noon; 5 p.m., another copious, diarrhoeic, ash-colored stool.

Fourth day, stool at noon not so hard; another stool at 5 oclock, copious, ash-coloi-ed, but not quite so loose.

Fifth day, s,ioo at 11 oclock, normal, copious; another stool at 5 p.m., very liquid and very abundant.

Generalities

Sixth day, everything has regained its normal condition.

Sleep

Falls asleep late, in the evening.