Pastinaca

Pastinaca sativa, L.

Natural order, Umbelliferae.

Co7noon name. Parsnip.

Preparation, Tincture of the roots (of the second year, when they are very poisonous).

Authorities. 1, Dr. Linger, Gaz. des Hop., Sept. 1846 (Lond. Med. Gaz.), effects of eating the old roots, cooked, in a family of four; 2, same, in a neighbor; 3, Dr. Pupcke, Pharm. Journ., 1848, p. 184, effects of wild roots, cooked, in seven children.

Head

Illusions, loss of consciousness, quiet delirium ; the illusions were confined to vision, and the patients stared and grasped at imaginary objects in the air, etc.; some of them did not speak at all, others only indistinctly or incoherently; two of them used inarticulate sounds; almost uninterrupted attempts to get out of bed

All labored under delirium tremens; they were in constant motion, talking incessantly, without knowing what they said, and fancied they saw objects which had no existence. They fought with each other and were occasionally attacked with fits of convulsive laughter. They rejected everything that was offered them and were obliged to be restrained by force (first evening)

Head

Vertigo and general uneasiness

Giddiness

Sense of weight in head (second day),k

Eyes

Pupil dilated (first evening)

Eyes

Staring look

Look vague (first evening)

Change of color of the face, ®.- Countenance pale (first evening)

Mouth

Tongue clean, moist, and trembling (first evening)

Stomach

The irritability of the gastric nerves appeared in all of them much depressed, for emetics in double the usual doses had no effect; but after repeated doses of a concentrated aqueous solution of sulphate of zinc, vomiting was effected, and perfect convalescence followed in a few days

Respiratory Organs

Breathing somewhat difficult and slow

Heart and Pulse

Suppressed (unterdriickter) beating of the heart and pulse

Pulse appeared smaller, weaker, and slower than usual (first evening)