Solanum Mammosum

The poisonous properties of the berries and leaves of the potato plant are well

known, and the tubers are popularly believed to have anti-scorbutic properties when eaten as

food. Under some conditions the tubers have been known to contain poisonous quantities of

Solanin. The symptoms of the Schema are the result of eating new potatoes, green potatoes, an

extract, and the berries. The last proved fatal in a number of instances. Sickness and diarrhoea

with tenesmus, giddiness, dilated pupils and indistinct vision, a paralytic condition of the tongue,

cramps, and tetanic spasms are the main features of the poisonings. Cooper relieved with a single

• ▸dose of So/.
• ▸t.
• ▸@ a case of rheumatic iritis.
• ▸Burnett cured a case of tumours feeling like masses of

potatoes in the abdomen with So/. ¢.; and it assisted him in the cure of a case of tumours all round

• ▸the cervix uteri.
• ▸Urt.
• ▸ur.
• ▸finished this cure.

Tossing to and fro in bed.—General rigidity.—Patient exceedingly

weak.—Faintness.

• ▸Eyes deep in sockets.
• ▸—Staring look.
• ▸—Eyes for most part open.
• ▸—Pupils dilated.
• ▸—Vision

indistinct.

Most violent parotitis——Stitches in ear—Sounds seem distant.—Buzzing before ears.

Constantly spitting through the closed teeth viscid, frothy phlegm.—Tongue covered

with brown, moist fur—Tongue heavy, difficult to move; hardly able to articulate-—Speech

thick.—Speechless.

Violent retching followed by vomiting and diarrhcea.—Felt sick, a darkness over

her eyes, skin cold, cramped all over.—Epigastric region sensitive to pressure.

No stool (2nd d.); stool occurred later than usual, and after much pressure (3rd d.).

Respiration: hurried; irregular; at times suppressed; usually short and

incomplete, only seldom slow and sighing; difficult.

Twitching of large muscle below r. scapula; as if the flesh were pinched up by the

hand and shaken back and forth.

Neck sore, stiff, as if bruised; < moving head.—Severe pains in muscles of

neck.—Great pains in back of neck and shoulders and in lower limbs.—Pains in back of neck and

between shoulders.—Bruised feeling in back and limbs.

Arms heavy, prostrated, < r—Dull, heavy pain in r. arm extending to finger-

• ▸tips (10 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸to 3 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸).
• ▸—Lancinating pains down |.
• ▸arm.
• ▸—Pain shooting through |.
• ▸arm and

• ▸wrist.
• ▸—Pain in |.
• ▸shoulder and r.
• ▸wrist.
• ▸—Palms greenish blue.
• ▸—Tips of fingers black as if

dyed.—Vesicles appear on back of hands, break and discharge an acrid fluid.—Eruption like

small-pox; sloughs form on fingers.

Somnolence.

Solanum Tuberosum.

• ▸Solanum tuberosum.
• ▸Potato.
• ▸N.
• ▸O.
• ▸Solanacez.
• ▸Tincture of the berries.
• ▸Tincture of green

potatoes. Tincture of fresh plant.

Skin cold.—Face, chest, and extremities cold —Skin bedewed with cold, clammy

sweat.