Cina

A aidhorities. 14, Mauthner, Journ. Kinderkrankheiten, 22, 1854, p. 1, a boy, aged six years, took 14 drachms; 15, M. Caravasse, Bost. Med. and Surg. Journ., vol. Ixv, 1862, p. 126 (London Lancet), a nervous woman, believing that she suffered from worms, took a drachm of wormseed, semen contra; 16, Drs. Burdock and Lilienthal, N. A. J. of Horn., 14, 139 (Horn. AVorld, vol. xii, 1877, 444), fatal case of poisoning with Santonin lozenges, in a girl, aged five years; she took about 6 grains in divided doses.

Mind

Consciousness clear when awake, but during her restless sleep delirious

Chancing to look in the glass, she distinctly saw herself peagreen

Complains of seeing things yellow

Mouth

Tongue deep red, without coating

Stomach

Continual thirst for ice-water, which she swallowed greedily

A^vomiting of yellowish slimy mucus set in at 11 p.m., and continued Vill forenoon; purging of watery, flaky, foul-smelling stools every ten to fifteen minutes. Abdomen very sensitive, the child complaining of a dull pain in the pit of the. stomach. In the evening we found the abdomen somewhat tumid, but soft

Abdomen

Conc (soon)

Urinary Organs

Urine saffron-yellow, containing flakes of mucus

^320.] Urine orange-colored

Respiratory Organs p. 470

Breath quick and catching

Coughed incessantly the whole night (first night)/®.

Pulse p. 470

At 9 P.M., the pulse of the left side was gone; on the right side thready and soft (second day)

Generalities p. 470

Slight twitchings of facial muscles. After midnight severe convulsions set in, more like tetanus; throwing the head backwards, eyes rolling about, countenance distorted, body sometimes nearly curved, with legs turned back. At intervals grasping at everything; gnawing of fingers. Burning pains apparently torment her, as she forces everything in her mouth. After four convulsions she died about 2 A.M. (second night)

Very restless; throws herself about with her whole body fro’m one side to the other

Collapsed, the face pinched, extremities rather cold, great restlessness, drawing up of lips over the teeth, with pinched expression of mouth and nose

Fetter p. 470

Hot perspiration on occiput; clammy in forehead. The icycold clammy perspiration crept steadily upwards