The intoxication affects the higher cerebral functions and causes nervousness, irritability, and tremor; the cardiac and vaso-motor centres, causing tachycardia and pallor of the skin; the sympathetic fibres to the eye, causing protrusion of the eyeballs, staring of the eyes without winking, narrowing of the palpebral fissure, dilatation of the pupil, and lagging behind of the upper lid, and sometimes also of the lower lid-von Graefe's symptom.
"Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities--Head--Neck. Sixth Edition."
Alexander Miles Alexis Thomson
He has no family history of tachycardia, though there is a history of rather nervous irritable hearts in other members for two generations.
"Psychotherapy"
James J. Walsh
In a number of cases of heart failure, tachycardia becomes a prominent feature and it is probably due to some such disturbance as this.
"Psychotherapy"
James J. Walsh