Case of Atropine Poisoning

Abstract

ATI,4' Afp;IC44 7QURN4. [Oct. 5.t 187, regularly every four hours a tablespoonful of liquor acetatis ammoniae with five grains of carbonate of ammonia added, and had champagne, with or without soda-water, at the rate of a bottle every twenty-four hours. I may mention that this treatment and the washing out the vagina and uterus were continued throughout. Next day, the skin was completely covered with the eruption, the tongue taking on the typical strawberry appearance, and the fauces being very much inflamed and painful. The pulse remained about I20, and the temperature ranged from Ioi deg. to I04 deg. Altogether, the case was one of pure unmixed scarlatina. I say pure, for from first to last there was not a single local puerperal symptom. On the third and fourth nights of the fever, there were some delirium and restlessness, but not more than one sees in even moderately mild cases of scarlatina. The case went on well; desquamation began on the eighth day, and was completed before the end of a month. The patient sat up in a chair in a fortnight from her delivery, and was outof-doors in a month. Now here is a case in which a sharp attack of undoubted scarlatina, setting in thirty-two hours after delivery, does not modify in any way the puerperal condition. There never was the slightest abdominal tenderness, or tympanites, or suppression of the lochial discharge; the