Lobelinum

Alkaloid of Lobelia inflata.

Authority. Isaac Ott, M.D., Chicago Journ. of Nervous and Mental Diseases, vol. xi, 1877, p. 68, took 1-192 m. of Acetate of lobelia, at 2.25, 2.56, and 3.10 p.m.

Head

Headache (in one hundred and six minutes).

Pupils dilated (in seventeen minutes).

Throat

A^xokVmg and dryness in the throat (in two minutes).

Stomach

Retching (after third dose).

Vomiting (after third dose).

Uncomfortable feeling in the stomach (in seventeen minutes).

Respiratory Organs

Respiration 17 (before experiment) ; 19 (in two minutes) ; 17 (in seven and thirteen minutes) ; 18 (in seventeen minutes); 17 (in twenty-two minutes); 18 (in thirty minutes); 19 (in thirty-eight minutes) ; 18 (in forty-two and forty-seven minutes) ; 20 (fifty-four minutes); 18 (in sixty-one minutes); 19 (in seventy-eight minutes) ; 18 (in ninety-two minutes).

Heart and Pulse p. 577

Pulse 74 (before experiment); 73 (in two minutes); 70 (in seven minutes); 69 (in thirteen minutes); 68 (in seventeen and twenty-two minutes) ; 72 (in thirty minutes); 74 (in thirty-eight min uses) ; 76 (in forty-two minutes) ; 77 (in forty-seven minutes); 72 (in fiftyfour minutes); 70 (in sixth-one minutes); 65 (in seventy-eight minutes); 68 (in ninety-two minutes).

Generalities p. 577

Prostration (in one hundred and six minutes).

Fever p. 577

Disposition to sleep (in one hundred and six minutes).

Fever p. 577

Temperature by mouth 99^ (before experiment); 99^ (in two and seven minutes); 99i° (in seven, thirteen, seventeen, and twenty-two minutes); 99]:° (thirty to fifty-four minutes); 99° (in sixtyone minutes) ; 99j° (in seventy-eight and ninety-two minutes).