| Welcome to the newest wing of the house. Poison bottles are available for sale in The Shoppe. Poison bottles do not contain actual poisons.....sorry, kiddies...some of us aren't as responsible with highly dangerous chemicals and herbs as others. |
| ARSENIC Arsenic poisoning kills by allosteric inhibition of essential metabolic enzymes, leading to death from multi-system organ failure. It particularly affects the brain, causing neurological disturbances and death. |
| DENATURED ALCOHOL Despite its poisonous nature, denatured alcohol is sometimes consumed as a surrogate alcohol, which can result in blindness or death if denatured alcohol contains methanol....and ours contains methanol..... |
| HEMLOCK Symptoms of hemlock poisoning include dullness, loss of muscular power, stumbling and falling, nausea, dilation of pupils and complete paralysis. Symptoms may show as quickly as 12 minutes after the plant is eaten and death may occur in 2 to 3 hours. However, Morose keeled over in about an hour and a half. |
| DEADLY NIGHT SHADE The deadly nightshade is a woody vine and is considered quite toxic. Ingestion results in symptoms of asthenia, drowsiness, fever, hallucinations, headache, nausea, seizures, sweating, vomiting, vision changes, salivation, abdominal pain, weakness, and respiratory depression ultimately resulting in death. Great for baking! |
| WOLFSBANE Marked symptoms appear within a few minutes of the administration of a poisonous dose of aconite. The initial signs are gastrointestinal. There is a sensation of burning, tingling, and numbness in the mouth, and of burning in the abdomen. Usually death ensues before a numbing effect on the intestine can be observed. After about an hour, there is severe vomiting. Pronounced motor weakness and cutaneous sensations similar to those above described soon follow. The pulse and respiration steadily fail until death occurs from asphyxia....a guaranteed good time. |
| CYANIDE General weakness, confusion, bizarre behavior, excessive sleepiness, coma, shortness of breath, headache, dizziness, and seizures can all present with cyanide poisoning. Typically, an acute ingestion will have a dramatic, rapid onset, immediately affecting the heart and causing sudden collapse. It can also immediately affect the brain and cause a seizure or coma. Delicious in Kool-aid. |
| STRYCHNINE Strychnine poisoning can be fatal to humans and other animals and can occur by inhalation, swallowing or absorption through eyes or mouth. It produces some of the most dramatic and painful symptoms of any known toxic reaction. Ten to twenty minutes after exposure, the body's muscles begin to spasm, starting with the head and neck. The spasms then spread to every muscle in the body, with nearly continuous convulsions. The convulsions progress, increasing in intensity and frequency until the backbone arches continually. Death comes from asphyxiation.. The subject will die within 2–3 hours after exposure. |
NUX VOMICA
Causes violent convulsions, seizures, or muscle spasms.
The spasms are more frequent, extensive, and severe, sometimes
involving almost the whole frame, and are attended with a tetanic
rigidity which is probably the most characteristic symptom. The
attacks come on suddenly, like electric shocks, last usually from a
quarter of a minute to two or three minutes, and, after a longer or
shorter interval, seldom exceeding ten minutes, recur with increased
violence, and at last, if not relieved, with fatal effect. If the patient is
seized with them when attempting to walk, he staggers and falls.
During the spasms, the muscles affected feel hard like a board, and
different parts of the body are drawn fixedly into various abnormal
positions, from which they cannot be removed. Thus, the head may be
thrown backward, the jaws firmly closed, the face distorted, the arms
or lower limbs extended outward, the hands clenched, the toes flexed,
and the trunk bent backward, forward, or to either side, or stiffly
erect. The respiratory muscles become involved, and the breathing is
hurried or imperfect, and temporarily suspended, with a purple hue of
the face, lips, and extremities, coolness of the surface, and a pulse
which is sometimes slow, sometimes quickened, but always feeble, and
occasionally almost or quite imperceptible. In some instances, there
are involuntary discharges of urine or feces. The spasms are often
attended with a violent shivering or tremulous movement through the
body; and the muscles may be felt vibrating as it were under the
hand. In the intervals, there is often a feeling of trepidation, alarm,
or anxiety strongly expressed on the countenance; the stomach is
sometimes nauseated; the pulse is feeble and often agitated, or even
fluttering; and the patient complains of thirst, sweats profusely, and,
after a severe attack, has a feeling of fatigue and exhaustion. At
length, in one of the spasmodic-attacks, respiration is quite arrested,
the pulse ceases to beat, and the patient dies with asphyxia. Now,
doesn't that sound like a good time?
Causes violent convulsions, seizures, or muscle spasms.
The spasms are more frequent, extensive, and severe, sometimes
involving almost the whole frame, and are attended with a tetanic
rigidity which is probably the most characteristic symptom. The
attacks come on suddenly, like electric shocks, last usually from a
quarter of a minute to two or three minutes, and, after a longer or
shorter interval, seldom exceeding ten minutes, recur with increased
violence, and at last, if not relieved, with fatal effect. If the patient is
seized with them when attempting to walk, he staggers and falls.
During the spasms, the muscles affected feel hard like a board, and
different parts of the body are drawn fixedly into various abnormal
positions, from which they cannot be removed. Thus, the head may be
thrown backward, the jaws firmly closed, the face distorted, the arms
or lower limbs extended outward, the hands clenched, the toes flexed,
and the trunk bent backward, forward, or to either side, or stiffly
erect. The respiratory muscles become involved, and the breathing is
hurried or imperfect, and temporarily suspended, with a purple hue of
the face, lips, and extremities, coolness of the surface, and a pulse
which is sometimes slow, sometimes quickened, but always feeble, and
occasionally almost or quite imperceptible. In some instances, there
are involuntary discharges of urine or feces. The spasms are often
attended with a violent shivering or tremulous movement through the
body; and the muscles may be felt vibrating as it were under the
hand. In the intervals, there is often a feeling of trepidation, alarm,
or anxiety strongly expressed on the countenance; the stomach is
sometimes nauseated; the pulse is feeble and often agitated, or even
fluttering; and the patient complains of thirst, sweats profusely, and,
after a severe attack, has a feeling of fatigue and exhaustion. At
length, in one of the spasmodic-attacks, respiration is quite arrested,
the pulse ceases to beat, and the patient dies with asphyxia. Now,
doesn't that sound like a good time?
| As we toil away, we will continue to stock our shelves.... However, it's hard not to indulge. |
