_First day._—(The drug was taken at half past seven in the evening.)
One hour after, violent headache, with painful lancinations. The pains
continued all night, with sleeplessness.
_Second day._—130. The headache continues, especially at the temples
and above the eyes. Acute pain at the elbow-joints. Taste of blood in
the mouth. Rheumatic pain at the shoulder-blade. Repeated, violent
lancinations in the right side of the abdomen. 135. Lancinations at
irregular intervals, in the left shoulder-blade and muscles, from the
left side of the chest. Headache all day. Constant dryness in the throat.
Taste of blood in the mouth all day.
_Third day._—Painful lancinations in the head, temples, and over the
eyes. 140. Intense lancinating pains in the left side. Lancinations
in the hypochondria and shoulder-blades. The pain at the elbow-joint
continues. Lancination in the right knee-joint. Excessive heaviness
and dulness of the head. 145. Constant drowsiness. Incessant headache.
Intense, lancinating and constrictive pain in the muscles of the upper
part of the right arm, for more than an hour. Continued formication in
both feet, especially the left. Taste of blood in the mouth, as if blood
had ascended in the throat, and had left the taste of it in the mouth.
150. Frequent and violent lancinations in the abdomen and bowels. Almost
complete loss of appetite. Comatose, constantly drowsy. The head feels
very heavy, with constant pain in it.
_Fourth day._—No sleep at night. 155. The headache becomes intolerable.
Taste of blood in the mouth. Attack of diarrhœa, with pain and tenesmus.
First a natural stool, followed by frequent, painful discharges, first
of black, fetid substances, then of a watery liquid; the attack lasts
upwards of two hours. Lancination in the muscles of the right knee, also
in the ribs and right side. 160. Pains in the hypochondria. Lancinating
pain in the bowels. Lancinating pain in the left shoulder. The headache
continues. Complete loss of appetite. 165. No sleep.