Solanum Tuberosum

Solatium tuberosum, Linn.

Natural order, Solanaceae.

Common names, Potato (Fr.), Pomme de terre.

Authorities. 1, Muncke, Hecker's Annals, 1845 (Frank's Mag., 3, 223), effects of eating new potatoes ; 2, Bourgeois, Journ. Gen. de Med., No. 334, p. 69 (Frank's Mag., 3, 234), effects of eating green potatoes; 3, W. Thistleton Dyer, Pharm. Journ., 1842, p. 590, effects of the extract; 4, Thomas Morris, Brit. Med. Journ., 1859, p. 719, Miss H., ate berries of potato plant, death on third day; 5, Manners, Edin. Med. Journ., 1867, p. 399, a man ate the berries, fatal effect ; 6, same, effects on other members of family ; 7, Lancet, 1859, 2, 202, fatal effects in a girl of eating the berries.

Mind

Almost lost consciousness

Head p. 66

Vertigo

In a large dose, it produces all the effects of narcotic poisons, headache, vertigo, stupor, etc.,3.

Persistent headache/.

Eyes p. 66

Eyes deep in their sockets

Looks staring

Eyes for the most part open, and the pupils were not very much dilated

Dilated pupils

Indistinct vision

Face p. 66

Hippocratic face

Expression anxious

Mouth p. 66

The teeth were for the most part closed, and she was constantly spitting through the closed teeth a viscid frothy phlegm

Tongue covered with a brown moist fur

Difficulty of moving the tongue in talking

Hardly able to articulate, the tongue appearing heavy

Talked thick (in half an hour)

Speechless

Stomach p. 66

Violent retching, followed by vomiting and diarrhoea

A good deal of sickness

Felt sick, a darkness over his eyes, his skin cold, and cramped all over (in a half hour)

Epigastric region sensitive to pressure

Abdomen p. 66

Violent colic and vomiting

Pain in bowels

Stool p. 66

Diarrhoea with tenesmus

Decided tendency to produce relaxation of the bowels

Respiratory Organs p. 66

Respiration hurried

Respiration irregular, at times suppressed ; usually short and incomplete, only seldom slow and sighing

Difficult respiration

Pulse p. 66

Pulse 100, small, rapid, scarcely perceptible

Upper Extremities p. 66

Cramps, especially in the calves, with spasmodic contractions of the fingers and thumbs

Generalities p. 66

Tossing to and fro in bed

General rigidity

Patient exceedingly weak

Faintness

In moderate doses it seems to me to possess power jar more certain than either Hyoscyamus or Conium

Stool p. 66

Skin of a livid color

Sleep p. 66

She occasionally slumbered for a few minutes, and again was restless

Fever p. 66

Skin cold

Face, chest, and extremities cold

Skin bedewed with a cold clammy perspiration