Gaultheria Procumbens gaul.

A tincture made of the fresh leaves of Gaultheria procumbens, L. (Wintergreen).

Convulsions. ▶ Insensible, apparently in sound sleep, but could not be aroused for ten hours. ▶ Restlessness. ▶ Weakness. ▶ Hemiparesis of left side and loss of power. ▶ Stupidity. ▶ Headache and noise in ears like the buzzing of bees. ▶ Dizziness; and drowsiness, then delirium. ▶ Contraction of pupils. ▶ Disturbance of vision when she was not delirious, with hallucinations of sight and hearing. ▶ Dullness of hearing. ▶ Tongue dry, smooth and swollen, so that speech was rather indistinct, mouth parched. ▶ Inability to speak. ▶ Beating of carotids increased in intensity. ▶ Uncontrollable appetite, notwithstanding the irritability of stomach. ▶ Vomiting; after supper of all the contents of stomach, the V. with retching continued all night whenever anything, as a cup of water, was given him; but she was nearly strangled by the contents of the stomach lodging in fauces. ▶ Gastritis. ▶ Pain in epigastrium and lower part of hypochondria, agg. pressure with finger. ▶ Cramp in epigastrium. ▶ Two copious stool at night. ▶ Urine contained salicylic acid. ▶ Pulse 125. ▶ Respiration labored; and quick; labored, slow, prolonged, loud but not stertorous. ▶ Sleep only prevented by strong currents of electricity. ▶ Cold limbs. ▶ Hot skin. ▶ Cold sweats.

The oil of wintergreen has been very largely used for both acute and subacute rheumatism. ▶ The plant itself contains salicylic acid, and to this fact may be due some of the beneficial effects of the drug. ▶ It has also proved useful in pleurodynia in the anterior part of the chest.