The use of belladonnaas a poison was also known in classical times; fourteen of the berries have been known to produce death; a moderate dose will produce wild excitement and delirium.
The belladonna in the second ointment would produce excitement which might pass into delirium.
Cases of poisoning associated with delirium have actually been recorded following the application of belladonna plasters to the skin.
Belladonna and black henbane: Give emetics, and afterwards a dose of paregoric, and a hot whisky toddy, or a cupful of strong tea.
Belladonna ointment is a valuable remedy for older children, but with babies it must be used with extreme care.
Sometimes the glands of the neck and the tonsils swell and become very painful; for this the Belladonna ointment applied with gentle friction night and morning and the neck enveloped in cotton batting are certain to give relief.
To relieve this I recommend the application of a liniment of equal parts camphorated oil, laudanum, and tincture of belladonna gently applied several times a day.
It is said that belladonna and opium were always used as ingredients in the incense, in order to produce a state of semi-stupor and influence the imagination.
The symptoms of poisoning by belladonna or atropine are dealt with above.
Totally to be reprobated is the use, in order to relieve pain, of belladonna or any other application which affects the skin, in cases where the surgeon may later be required to operate.
This warning applies notably to those--usually women--who are accustomed indiscriminately to usebelladonna or atropine in order to give greater brilliancy to their eyes.
The liniment or plaster of belladonna will relieve many forms of local pain.
The monk caused the apprentices, whom he doubtless made drunk with belladonna and other magical drinks, to believe that they had been taken to the Sabbath and there married to the devil Dagon.
It has been proposed to give {864} belladonna in place of opium; in small doses and carefully watched it may be added to the opium, but should not be substituted for it.
If there is much spasm of the sphincters, extract of belladonna may be added.
Belladonna was advised by Trousseau as a stimulant to unstriped muscular fibre, and it can well be given with strychnia; ipecacuanha and atropia are approved of in conjunction.
In more obstinate cases a bougie covered with ointment of belladonna should be used daily.
To relieve pain and sense of constriction belladonna or stramonium ointment, applied in the same manner, sometimes fulfils a useful indication.
Belladonna is advised for cases of this kind in combination with strychnia for the constipation.
DaCosta has suggested giving one drop {655} of the fluid extract of belladonna with compound tincture of gentian or cinchona three times daily after meals.
The sulphate or valerianate of zinc, oxide of zinc, extract of valerian or gentian, capsicum, or black pepper can be tried in pill form with belladonna and strychnia.
In the case just narrated opium or an opiate alone produced such unpleasant after-effects that she was unwilling to take it, but when the extract of belladonna was given with it she slept pleasantly, and could take her food the next day.
The compound podophyllin pill or a pill of one-sixth of a grain of belladonna and podophyllin at night or three times daily, the pill of aloes and myrrh, or the Lady Webster pill, are well-approved forms of administration.
A remarkable series of poisonings by belladonna berries occurred in London during the autumn of 1846.
It is the general opinion that rabbits may eat sufficient of the belladonna plant to render their flesh poisonous, and yet the animals themselves may show no disturbance in health; but this must not be considered adequately established.
According to a research by Ladenburg, hyoscyamine is associated with atropine, both in the Belladonna and Datura plants.
Belladonna berries and stramonium leaves and seeds are eaten occasionally by children.
The identity of the active principle in both the datura and belladonna tribes is now completely established.
A child suffering from belladonna rash, with hot dry skin, quick pulse, and reddened fauces, looks not unlike one under an attack of scarlet fever.
Insensibility from chloral, from alcohol, from belladonnaor atropine, and from carbon oxide gas, are all more or less like opium poisoning.
When no physician is available, begin with belladonnaduring the day, using bromide of sodium at night.
Thirty drops of tincture of belladonna to an adult, every hour, will assist the breathing.
Breathlessly she watched the beginnings of the distillation of the belladonna which she had seen gathered.
In case any one among us ate of poisonous toadstools, and were seized with severe spasms of the nature of the effect of toadstools, belladonna alone would save them.
Belladonna, the Belladonna Lily, which is a very effective plant with silvery rose flowers in late summer or early autumn.
The leaves appear in spring, and as the flowers come after these have withered, the Belladonna Lily should have some carpeting plant above the bulbs.
William Scott, who tired of her because someone told him she put belladonna in her eyes--and it is not true; and now there is Mr. Sims!
She puts belladonna in her eyes, and is a vixen and a flirt, and I dare say her wealth is all talk.
It is questionable whether belladonna can be useful in preventing closure of an artificial pupil.
Belladonna is of use when gradual contraction of the pupil occurs.
It does not follow that we must all do the same, any more than because belladonna or arsenic is administered in one case of illness we should therefore all go to taking belladonna or arsenic.
But Comte Belladonna belongs to the country of Machiavelli, and la belle Americaine has only her face for her fortune.
Comte Belladonna and Mr. Vanduzen hinted outrageously for the two vacant seats, but we didn't intend to have our frocks crushed to save them a few francs, and wouldn't take their hints.
As I was looking at the lake which the wind had turned into an ocean with waves mountains high, I saw Comte Belladonna soaked to the skin hurrying along the quai to the hotel.
Comte Belladonna wilted at midnight; he danced once with Rosalie, and would have given anything afterwards to go back to the National.
Cooper mentions the symptoms of poisoning following the application of extract of belladonnato the scrotum.
Davison reports poisoning by the application of belladonna liniment.
The treatment consisted of the application of belladonna and cantharides plasters, bismuth, and lime-water, camphor, and salts of white hellebore inhaled through the nose in finest powder.
In some cases the idiosyncrasy to belladonna is so marked that violent symptoms follow the application of the ordinary belladonna plaster.
Potassium bromid and belladonna were administered for a few days with negative results, when the attacks of yawning suddenly turned to sneezing.
Golden mentions two cases in which the application of belladonna ointment to the breasts caused suppression of the secretion of milk.
Maddox describes a ease of poisoning in a music teacher by thebelladonna plaster of a reputable maker.
Goodwin relates the history of a case in which an infant was poisoned by a belladonna plaster applied to its mother's breast and died within twenty-four hours after the first application of the plaster.
An enema containing 80 grains of belladonna root has been followed in five hours by death, and Taylor has mentioned recovery after the ingestion of three drams of belladonna.
In 1881 Betancourt spoke of an instance of inherited susceptibility to belladonna, in which the external application of the ointment produced all the symptoms of belladonna poisoning.
According to Hahnemann, Koreff, and Randhahn, belladonnais a prophylactic against scarlet fever.
A few, as those of belladonnaand ammoniacum with mercury, are commonly placed in pots.
Powdered opium and extracts of belladonna and henbane, of each 10 gr.
Belladonna has great power as a local remedy in Erysipelas, to be applied with water in proportion of ten drops of the tr.
Belladonna certainly receives the endorsement of the greatest number of writers.
Since belladonna and ergot were shown to diminish vascular action in the cerebro-spinal axis by contracting its capillary blood-vessels, they have {834} been put forward as having a specific virtue in this disease.
Probably next to belladonna in the treatment of this disease we should place chloral hydrate.
Seiner trusted belladonna more than any other remedy; so also Rilliet and Barthez.
William Scott, who tired of her because some one told him she put belladonna in her eyes—and it is not true; and now there is Mr. Sims!
But I would decidedly express the opinion that such remedies as either opium or belladonna are mostly unsuited to this purpose.
There is the belladonna type, by which pain is also much relieved, though with far greater certainty in some regions than in others (e.
The hand, smeared with belladonna ointment and with the fingers drawn into the form of a cone, is introduced through the vagina until the projecting, rounded neck of the womb is felt at its anterior end.
Steaming the head with the vapor of warm water poured over a bucket of bran and hay, in which belladonna leaves or tar have been placed, will allay the inflammation of the mucous membranes and greatly ease the cough.
Good results may be obtained sometimes by the rectal injection of the fluid extract of belladonna and of cannabis indica, of each 1 dram, every four or six hours.
Subsequently tincture of belladonna in half-ounce doses may be given three times a day.
Sometimes irritability may be lessened by daily doses of belladonna extract (1 dram), or a better tone may be given to the parts by balsam copaiba (1 dram).
Daily doses of 2 drams extract of belladonna or of 2 grains powdered Spanish fly may serve to rouse the lost tone.
A paralysis of eyesight may occur very suddenly from rupture of a blood vessel in the brain, acute local congestion of the brain, the administration of excessive doses of belladonna or its alkaloid atropia, etc.
Hot-water applications to the spine, 1-dram doses fluid extract of belladonna repeated every four hours, and tincture of aconite root 20 drops every hour until the symptoms become ameliorated.
It may be treated by oxid of zinc ointment, and to relieve the irritation a solution of opium or belladonna in water, or of sugar of lead or oil of peppermint.
If the suffering is very severe, a lotion with a few grains of extract of belladonna or of morphia in an ounce of water may be applied, or, if it is available, a few drops of 4 per cent solution of cocaine may be instilled into the eye.
Norwood's tincture of veratrum viride, in 20-drop doses, should be given every hour and 1 dram of solid extract of belladonna every four hours until the symptoms become modified and the pulse regular and full.
This distinct Japanese plant is closely related to the Belladonna Lily (see p.
The Belladonna Lily can only be grown satisfactorily in the open air in the milder parts of the kingdom.
There too, were several poisonous species; among others the Euphorbia antiquorum growing side by side with the deadly belladonna lily, (Amaryllis belladonna).
The bees had been busy among the blossoms of the belladonna and the flowers of the euphorbia, and their honey was poison!
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