Tartaric Acid

Tartaric acid, C4H606.

Preparation, Solutions in water, freshly prepared.

Authorities. 1, Kenning, Praktischen Mittheilungen, 1827 (Journ. de la Sac. Gall., Mat. Med. Pura, vol. 4, p. 519) ; 2, Journ. de Chim. Med., 1838, p. 72 (ibid.) ; 3, Husemann, Pflanz., p. 550; 4, Times (Pharm. Journ., vol. 4, 1845, p. 370), William Watts, set. twenty-four years, drank 2 ounces dissolved ; 5, Cattell, Brit. Journ. of Horn., vol. 11, p. 337; 6, Alfred S. Taylor, M.D., Principles and Practice of Med. Jurisprudence, 1873, p. 230, a man' set. twenty-four years, drank 1 ounce dissolved in £ pint of warm water, death in nine days.

Head

Dizziness (in one hour)

Face

His face instantly became as red as fire, and having exclaimed that he was poisoned, he became speechless ; he never after left his bed, where he died on the tenth day

The lips turn brown and blackish at their inner edge

Constant dryness of the lips ; he is obliged to moisten them

(Burning at the upper lip, on a spot where a pimple had been cured)

Burning of the lips (in a quarter of an hour)

Mouth

The teeth are set on edge

Brown and dry tongue

Pasty taste in the mouth, in the morning, which ceases after eating

Throat

Burning sensation in throat and stomach as if on fire

Complained of a burning sensation in his throat and stomach, as though he had drunk oil of vitriol, and stated that he could compare it to nothing but being all on fire

Stomach

Very urgent thirst

Eructations

Nausea (immediately)

Vomiting continued till death

Repeated and almost continual vomiting?.

The matters vomited were of a deep-green color

Abdomen

Pain in the umbilical region

Pinching below the navel, with emission of flatulence ; cold feeling in the abdomen for a quarter of an hour (in ten minutes)

Pinching in the abdomen

Stool

Many stools during the night

The forces were of the color of coffee-grounds

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness and scraping in the larynx

Respiration accelerated, then laborious and slow

Respiration difficult and slow

Heart and Pulse

Very weak action of the heart

Feeble pulse

Back

Sharp pain in the region of the loins

Inferior Extremities

Paralysis of the thighs and legs

Tearing pain at the soles of the feet, near the heel, which prevents him from setting his foot on the ground, after luncheon

Generalities

Convulsions just before death

Excessive weakness

In the evening he feels very tired, and can scarcely drag himself along2.

General bruised sensation, especially of the lower limbs

Amelioration in the open air

Sleep

Yawning and stretching

Frequent yawning

Fever

General cold feeling, in the evening in bed

Amelioration

(In the open air), The symptoms.