The following drug picture has been extracted from Boericke’s Materia Medica. This is provided here for doctors’ and students’ easy and instantaneous reference.
BOTULINUM
Toxin of Bacillus Botulinum
General.–Food poisoning from canned spinach produced a clinical picture suggested in a bulbar paresis.
Eye symptoms, ptosis, double vision, blurred vision.
Difficulty in swallowing and breathing, choking sensation; weakness and uncertainty in walking, “blind staggers”, dizziness, thickening of speech. Cramping pain in stomach.
Mask-like expression of face, due to weakness of facial muscles. Severe constipation.
Dose.–Higher potencies.