All complaints are characterized by sopor. They are painless, and are accompanied by heavy, stupid sleep, stertorous breathing. Sweaty skin.
Serous apoplexy-venous, passive congestion. Want of sensitiveness to the action of medicines.
Reappearance and aggravation from becoming heated.
Opium lessens voluntary movements, contracts pupils, depresses higher intellectual powers, lessens self-control and power of concentration, judgment; stimulates the imagination, checks all secretions except that of the skin.
It is uses in diseases that originate from fright.
Use under medical supervision.