Bryonia

Allen, Supplement to the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica, 1879, Vol. X, p. 392

Aidhorities. 44, C. E. Goate, M.D., Lancet, 1868 (1), p. 610, a child, aged three years, ate freely of the berries; 45, E. W. Berridge, M.D., Am. Journ. of Horn. Mat. Med., vol. ix (New Series, 5), 1876, Berridge took 2000th (Jenichen) by olfaction for cough ; 46 (L’Art. Med., 1877, 92), Recueil des Travail de la Sac. Med. dTndre et-Lou’e, Tours, 1878, a man took as a purge an infusion of a large quantity of the root.

In about half an hour she became giddy, and during the night furious delirium supervened ; the pupils became dilated ; vomiting incessant, but not accompanied by diarrhoea. As morning approached, the delirium ceased, and she became comatose, with occasional subsultus tendinum,^f— Occasional sudden sharp pain in left lower second bicuspid, somewhat as if the tooth were being pulled out; it was felt on and off during the day, worse morning and evening; in the evening it was sometimes intermixed with shooting in the tooth ; the pain (of pulling out) was worse on pulling with the fingers (second day). In morning once the same pulling out pain, but less; in evening several times and more severe, worse by pulling at the tooth, and intermixed with shooting in the tooth ; the pain sometimes ended in a shoot; the tooth is sound (third day),*^—Great prostration ; extreme coldness; numbness of the extremities; convulsions with tonic contractions of the extremities ; opisthotonos; thorax immovable, inspiration associated with a remarkable depression of the pit of the stomach,^®.

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