Pix Liquida
Allen, Supplement to the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica, 1879, Vol. X, p. 620
A product of dry distillation of various coniferous woods.
Authorities. 1, H. and J. Slight, Lancet, 1832-3 (2), p. 598, a man, aged thirty-two years, drank about a gill of the oil of tar, recovery; 2, Dr. Buckley, Practitioner (Brown-Sequard’s Archives of Sci. and Pract. Med., No. 2,1873), effects which sometimes follow local application in skin diseases.
Fulness and pain in the head,**.—Pain in the stomach,**.—Constant vomiting (after seven hours and a half),*.—Vomiting of a blackish fluid,**.— Excessive pains in bowels and loins (after seven hours and a half),*.— Ardor urine (second day),*.—Dark-colored urine,**.—Dark-colored fecal evacuations,*.—Great exhaustion (after seven hours and a half),*.—It may produce an acute eczema, some skins not tolerating the substance at all; while in others an acne is developed from closure and irritation of the sebaceous orifices,*.—Occasionally high fever,*.