Is not in his right consciousness. [REINEGGS, l. c.]
Stupefaction of the senses and loss of reason. [FR. HOFFMANN, Diss. de operatione Opii, Hal., 1700, p. 5. (General statement.)
35. Indifference to pain and to pleasure. [REINE, in Blumen. [TRALLES, l. c.]
She knew not what was going on around her and gave no sign of feeling; the limbs were flexible and all muscles were relaxed. [LASSUS, in Mem. de l’Inst National des sc. Et arts tom. ii. (From twenty-six grains taken by a woman of 60.) ]
45. Obscuration and weakness of the understanding; self-deception, as if his eyes were four times larger and his body (Observer says nothing about his body.) of gigantic size. [SCHELHAMMER, l. c.]
He feels as if he flew or floated in the air, and as if all turned round to him. [SCHELHAMMER, l. c.]
He is no destitute of sight and hearing, but of the senses of taste, smell, and touch in regard to external objects; and yet he feels the coldness of his own body (The last clause in the original is – “He felt his cheeks cold when he touched them.”) (aft. 1.1/2 h.). [SCHELHAMMER, l. c.]
Stupidity. [REINEGGS, l. c.]
Stupidity, indifference to external objects. [CRUMPE, Natur und Eigensch. des Opium (General statement(p. 38.) ]
50. Stupidity and imbecility. [HALLER, in Proelect. In Boerh. Instit., iv, p. 519. (General statement.) ]
Opium eaters are drowsy and almost stupid. [ALPIN, (General statements as to Egypten opium – eaters.) Medorrhinum Aegypt. Iv, cap. i.]
Opium eaters are always lazy and intoxicated. [ALPIN, l. c.]
Want of memory. [REINEGGS, l. c.]
Loss of memory. [BERGIUS, l. c.]
55. Often weakness of memory (from the frequent use of opium). [WILLIS, (Observations and statements.) l. c.]
Loss of memory for several weeks. [WILLIS, l. c.]
Long continued loss of memory. [COCQ, (Symptoms not found.) in STALPAART VAN DER WIEL, Observ., cent. ii, obs. 41.]
Lost memory. [BONET, Sepilcret. Anatom., lib. I, sect. L, p. 214. (General statement.)(Note to 48, 49. 50, 51, 52, 53, 45, 55, 56, 57, 58. – If all these states are long continued they become permanent after a prolonged repetition of indulgence in opium; they then amount to the chronic disease, to a kind of paralysis of the mental organs, which may well be incurable (53 to 58 secondary action). ]
Fluctating conceptions. [SCHELHAMMER, l. c.]
60. Insensibility to modesty and the finer feelings. [REINEGGS, l. c.]
The power of the will was lost at the merest trifle. [DE RUEF, (General statement.) App. Ad Nova Acta Nat. Cur., v., p. 63.]
Opium eaters have a reputation for fickleness; they often promise what they hesitate to perform (every one guards himself from them, no one will have anything to do with them). [ALPIN, l. c., cap. 2.]
Rush of blood to the brain. [HALLER, l. c., iv, p. 509.]
(The cerebral vessels were distented with blood.) [MEAD, (General statement. This is merely an hypothesis thrown out by the author.) De Venenis, in Opera, t. ii, p. 190, edit. Gotting.]
65. Pulsation of the arteries of the head. [CHARVET, (Experiments with various doses (act. de l’ Opium, Paris, 1826). L. c.]
He hears the arteries bringing the blood to the brain. [CHSRVET, l. c.]
Very painful headache, involving the occiput. [D’ OUTERPONT. (From a large dose taken by a woman eight months gone in pregnancy (Deutsche Zeitschrift f. Geburtskunde, i, I, 99). ]
One sided headache in the forehead as if it pressed out, diminished by external pressure.
Headache like outward pressure in the forehead.
70. Tearing and pecking in the forehead, sour vomiting, she must lie down and then she perspired.
Single twitches in the temporal muscles.
A kind of pressure in the forehead that seemed to extend to the eyes and nose. [CHARVET, l. c.]
A sensation of tension in the head. [CHARVET, l. c.]
Headache. [MATTHAEI, l. c., viii, 4.]
75. Violent headache. [MUZELL, (From a mixture of opium and spiritus cornu cervi.) Wahrnehmungen, ii, p. 131.]
Aching pain in the head. [MATTEHAEI, l. c., viii, 4; and xi, 2.]
Pain as if all were lacerated in the head and sensation as if all turned round in the body, with cross discomfort. [Ctz.]
Heaviness of the head. [MURRAY, l. c. – BERGIUS, l. c., p. 482. – Gn.]
For several days very heavy head, the occiput like lead, so that the head always fell back and he could not hold it up. [TRALLES, l. c., p. 87.]
80. He cannot hold the head up; it sways to and fro. [TRALLES, l. c., I, p. 283.]
Sunken, pale face. [PYL, Aufsatze, samml. I, p. 95. (From a large dose of the extract in a man of 50-60) ]
Pale face. [Sche.]
Frequent alternation of redness and paleness of the face.