The British Journal of Homoeopathy, Volume 18John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell Maclachlan, Stewart, & Company, 1860 |
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Page 507 - About an hour after taking my first dose (I took the same quantity daily for three months,) there followed slight perspiration with griping pains in the bowels, and after three or four hours a loose evacuation :, this was followed by a keen appetite and a feeling of excitement With the exception of the pain, the same symptoms follow every increase of the dose. I subjoin, as a caution, that it is not advisable to begin arsenic eating before the age of twelve or after thirty years.
Page 510 - ... of a knife how much arsenic he took daily, without which, he said, he could not live ; the quantity I should estimate at two grains. It is said, but this I will not answer for, that in that part of the country this poison is used in making cheese ; and, in fact, several cases of poisoning by cheese have occurred in Upper Styria, one not long since. The above-mentioned peasant states, I believe truly, that they buy the arsenic from the Tyrolese, who bring into the country spirits and other medicines,...
Page 506 - The first dose is always followed by slight symptoms of poisoning, such as burning pain in the stomach, and sickness, but not very severe. Once begun, it can only be left off by very gradually diminishing the daily dose, as a sudden cessation causes sickness, burning pains in the stomach, and other symptoms of poisoning, very speedily followed by death. As a rule, arsenic-eaters are very long lived, and are peculiarly exempt from infectious diseases, fevers, &c.; but, unless they gradually give up...
Page 506 - If you wish to continue the study of assaying, and become hereafter superintendent of a factory, more especially of an arsenic factory, in which position there are so few, and which is abandoned by so many, and to preserve yourself from the fumes which injure the lungs of most, if not...
Page 508 - Kursinger says he always seemed very healthy, and every evening regularly, after remaining a little too long over his glass, he took a dose of arsenic, which enabled him to get up the next morning perfectly sober and quite bright.
Page 507 - On the third day of the second week after leaving off the dose I was attacked with faintness, depression of spirits, mental weakness, and a total loss of the little appetite I still had ; sleep also entirely deserted me. On the fourth day I had violent palpitation of the heart, accompanied by profuse perspiration. Inflammation of the lungs followed, and I was laid up for nine weeks, the same as on the first occasion of leaving off the arsenic. Had I not been bled, I should most likely have died of...
Page 510 - ... the higher parts. There is hardly a district in Upper Styria where you will not find arsenic in at least one house, under the name of hydrach. They use it for the complaints of domestic animals, to kill vermin, and as a stomachic to excite an appetite. I saw one peasant show another on the point of a knife how much arsenic he took daily, without which, he said, he could not live ; the quantity I should estimate at two grains.
Page 508 - One of the most remarkable points in this narrative is, that this gentleman began with a dose which we should consider poisonous. This is the only case of which I have been able to obtain such full particulars, but several others have been mentioned to me by those who knew the parties and can vouch for their truth, which I will briefly relate. One gentleman, besides stating that he is well aware of the existence of the practice, says he is well acquainted with a brewer in Klagenfurth, who has taken...
Page 506 - He gives the following particulars : — The arsenic is taken pure in some warm liquid, as coffee, fasting, beginning •with a bit the size of a pin's head, and increasing to that of a pea. The complexion and general appearance are much improved, and the parties using it seldom look so old as they really are, but he has never heard of any case in •which it was used to improve personal beauty, though he cannot say that it never is so used.
Page 505 - Lorenz, to whom questions were first addressed, at once stated that he was aware of the practice, but added, that it is generally difficult to get hold of individual cases, as the obtaining of arsenic without a doctor's certificate is contrary to law, and...