Poisons, Their Effects and Detection

Note 497 — PART VI.—ALKALOIDS AND POISONOUS VEGETABLE PRINCIPLES SEPARATED FOR THE MOST PART BY ALCOHOLIC SOLVENTS. (continued 4)

Reading edition

Gaz. hebd., 1856.

[498] A friend of the author’s was given, by a mistake in dispensing, 16 minims of a solution of atropine sulphate, equivalent to ¹⁄₇ grain of atropine (or 9·3 mgrms). Ten minutes after taking the dose there was dilatation of the pupil, indistinctness of vision, with great dryness of the throat and difficulty in swallowing; he attempted to eat a biscuit, but, after chewing it, he was obliged to spit it out, as it was not possible to swallow; the throat was excessively sore, and there was a desire to pass urine, but only a few drops could be voided. In forty-five minutes he was unable to stand or walk. There was a bright rash on the chest. In two hours he became insensible, and was taken to the Middlesex Hospital, recovering under treatment in about eight hours.

[499] Med. Times, 1868.

[500] Lancet, vol. i., 1881, p. 414.

[501] Ibid., vol. i., 1876, p. 346.

[502] In an English case of belladonna poisoning, the patient, a tailor, sat for four hours, moving his hands and arms as if sewing, and his lips as if talking, but without uttering a word.

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