Santoninum
Allen, Supplement to the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica, 1879, Vol. X, p. 631
Addition by Berridge, in a letter to the editor.
“In Your Encyclopedia you quote Hubbard’s recent case of poisoning by Santonin. As the side was not specified, I send the following from Hubbard.”
“ It was the left side that was affected, and the left cheek that was red, and was equally*red all the time. The swelling commenced nearly under the centre of the chin, spreading each way, but more particularly towards the left parotid gland.” (See 44, in V^ol. VIII.)
Authorities. 45, Benz, Ruiukschan, May, 1876 (New Eug. Med. Gaz., vol. xi, p. 513), a child, aged two years, took H grains; 46, C. Cuthbert, M.D., Lancet, 1877 (1), p. 337, a girl, aged eighteen years, took 4 grains, for worms.
In twenty or thirty minutes after taking the medicine she was seized with giddiness, intense headache, and every object appeared to her of a bright-green color,"—[170.] Great interference with the breathing," — Violent convulsions, beginning in the face and extending to the extremities,".