...faculty (which is probably due solely to an unusually slow elimination through the kidneys) of unfolding its action in the body during a relatively long period, and therefore of developing cumulative effects when repeated doses are administered. These may, under certain circumstances,...

...morphia to be owing to bad quality, having been partially transformed, by keeping, into apomorphia. DIGITALIS shares with only a few other drugs the property...latter may, under certain circumstances, give rise to symptoms of positive poisoning; these last are headache, dryness in the throat, nausea, choking, and...