Laburnum Anagyroides

▲   GENERAL

General

Cytisus Laburnum, Linn.

Natural order, Leguminosae.

Common name (German), Aurum Metallicum ^Gold-regens.

Preparation, Tincture of the bark (which contains the largest proportion of the active principles).

GENERAL SYMPTOMS.

Objective.

Convulsions,

Transitory languor and somnolence, but this soon passed off, leaving marked insomnia, which lasted through the night (after nine hours),

Very weak (after one hour and a quarter) quite prostrate (after one hour and a half),

Great debility,

Exhaustion,

Prostration,

Great prostration of strength (after one hour),

Complete collapse, with great restlessness, with perfect consciousness,

In an almost dying state (after three hours),

Extreme, intractable restlessness, ending in incessant and almost frantic jactitation,

Subjective.

Felt faint and giddy (after one hour and a half),

Slight feeling of malaise, followed by vomiting, vertigo, and cold sweats, succeeded by high fever (after fifteen minutes), (in three ladies),

All the symptoms appeared in five out of the seven persons who had partaken of the fritters, but in various degrees of intensity; in the case of a vigorous man the symptoms did not supervene until two hours after the repast; in the case of a servant who had eaten the fritters cold, the symptoms did not appear for ten hours,

▲   MIND

Mind

Emotional.

Intellectual.

Stupefaction,

▲   VERTIGO, DIZZINESS

Vertigo

General Head.

The head rigidly thrown back (after three hours),

Headache,

▲   EYES

Eyes

Lids.

Pupils.

Pupils much dilated, but acting readily in strong light (one case),

Sluggish pupils,

▲   FACE

Face

Face pale and expressive of severe pain, augmented from time to time by a succession of spasmodic muscular contractions, after the fever,

Lips blue,

▲   MOUTH

Mouth

General Mouth.

Speech very indistinct,

Tongue

Tongue.

Tongue clean and moist (after one hour and a half),

▲   THROAT

Throat

Burning in the throat, with great thirst,

▲   CHEST

Respiration

Breathing slow; expiration very markedly prolonged,

Heart and pulse

Pulse rapid, 130 (one case),

Pulse small,

Pulse imperceptible (after three hours),

▲   ABDOMEN

Abdomen

Felt his belly sore, but had no marked sickness (one case),

▲   MODALITIES ETC

Appetite

Impaired appetite,

Thirst.

Excessive thirst,

Greedily thirsty, and grasped at liquids with avidity, seizing the vessel with both hands and draining it,

▲   ABDOMEN

Stomach

Great epigastric pain (after half or three-quarters of an hour),

Cramplike sensation in the region of the stomach,

▲   RECTUM, ANUS, STOOL

Stool

Diarrhoea.

Diarrhoea, followed by cessation of convulsions,

Constipation.

The bowels almost always become constipated,

▲   GENITALS ETC

Urine

If we measure the quantity of urine passed daily before the administration of the drug, and again after we administer it, we shall find in the latter case that the quantity in increased, usually to the extent of a few ounces; in some cases we shall find scarcely any perceptible increase,

▲   EXTREMITIES, LIMBS

Extremities, limbs

Extremities weak and cold,

▲   FEVER AND CHILL

Fever

Chilliness.

Cold skin (after one hour and a half),

▲   GENERALITIES

Sleep

Sleepiness.

Sleeplessness.

Intervals of restlessness and tossing from point to point in the bed alternated with others of heavy drowsiness,

▲   ABDOMEN

Nausea and vomiting

Occasional vomiting of a light-brown fluid, in which floated some glutinous and stringy matters, ; (after half an hour),