For care in the prescribing of cocaine see under the 'Dangerous Drugs Act, 1920' (p. 82).
The Cocaine Habit consists in the self-administration of the drug hypodermically. It induces excitement, which is followed by prostration. In time melancholia or mania develops, with great irritation of the skin ('cocaine bugs').
XXXII.—CAMPHOR
The liniment, oil, and spirit have been poisonous in large dose.
Symptoms.—Odour of breath, languor, giddiness, faintness, dimness of vision, difficulty of breathing, delirium, convulsions, with hot skin, flushed face, and dilated pupils.
Fatal Dose.—Thirty grains.
Cocculus Indicus.—The fruit of Anamirta cocculus. Contains a poisonous active principle, picrotoxin; used to adulterate beer, and by poachers to stupefy fish.
Symptoms.—Convulsions, followed by stupor and complete loss of voluntary power.