Podophyllum

Allen, Supplement to the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica, 1879, Vol. X, p. 623

Authority. 20, D. AA^webster, M.D., Med. Record, June, 1877, p. 357, Thomas C., set. seventeen years, while powdering the resin got some in his face and eyes.

The next morning he first noticed that his face and eyes were red, and the skin about them discolored. The discoloration extended over the whole of his face, his forehead, and the front part of his neck during the day, and the following night his eyes became so painful as to prevent sleep. On the following day all the parts which had been exposed to contact with the powder were of a yellowish-red color, but not swollen to an appreciable extent. The ocular conjunctivse were much injected, the palpebral only slightly, the pupils small, the eyes painful and sensitive to light,'^“.

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