Belladonna Poisoning Simulating Puerperal Insanity.

Belladonna Poisoning

Recently, a patient, aged 35 years, attended the out-patients' department one morning for swelling and pain of the right side of the scrotum of a couple of days' duration. There was no history of any venereal disease. There was a history, however, of a similar previous enlargement, two or three times years ago. The patient kept up a slight temperature. Bowels?constipated. Urine?normal. Diagnosi...

A Case of Malaria Simulating Confusional Insanity

Medical Officer, Sugar Estate, Finlay Fleming and Co., Sahmazv, Upper Burma. A Kachin boy, aged 15, working on this estate, by name La Noe, was brought to hospital on the 14th July, 1927, with a history of three days of fever. On admission he showed extreme prostration, a temperature of only 98.4?F., the pulse 144 per minute and feeble, and respiration rate 50. A certain degree of aphasia was n...

Cases Illustrating the Benefit of Belladonna in Opium-Poisoning

in the morning, and began to be uneasy and to fall into a drowsy state since 10 A. M. The patient had no fever previously, and no sort of constitutional disturbance whatever. It was a female child, about a year and a half old. On my visit I found my little patient recumbent on her mother's lap, dozing and perspiring a little ; skin cold, both the pupils much contracted, pulse weak and frequent,...

Insanity

Belladonna and Blethers