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  AND FROM THE CLINICAL PROVINGS OF RUCKERT, HERDING,
     VANDERBURGH, BARLOW, AND OTHER DISTINGUISHED
            MEMBERS OF THE PROFESSION,

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           M. FRELIGH,  M.D.,

AUTHOR OF " FRELIGH's HOMCEOPATHIC PRACTICE," " THE HOMCEOPATHIC POCKET
  COMPANION," AND " HOMCEPATIA FAMILIAR," IN SPANISH; MEMBER OF THE
     HAHNEMANN ACADEMY OF MEDICINE, OF THE HOMCEOPATHIC MED.
       SOC. OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, OF THE HOMCEOPATHIC
         MED. SOC. OF THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK, AND OF
           THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF HOMCEOPATHY.
               NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED  BY CHARLES T. HURLBURT,
            HOMCEOPATHIC PHARMACEUTIST.
         No.  437 BROOME STREET.
  \YM. RADDE ; J. T. S. SMITH & SONS. BROOKLYN : J. T. P. SMITH.
     BOSTON : OTIS CLAPP. CINCINNATI: APPLEGATE & CO.
                   1859.
              LIBRARY
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR HOMOEOPATHY 

        Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859,
                  By Charles T. Hurlburt,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern
                    District of New York.
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       NEW YORK:
BILLIN AND BROTHER, PRINTERS,
   XX. NORTH WILLIAM ST. 
PREFACE.
  Few men ever read a title-page in full, and fewer still ever
read a preface, and the reading  of an  introduction  is usually
considered a work of supererogation, and tantamount to a read-
ing of the book itself in  advance; for, in a general way, the
introduction to a work is the statement of its plan, its contents,
its arguments, and its  conclusions, and in most cases it could be
dispensed with to the comfort of the compositor, the reader, and
the compiler, or author, as the case may be.   Our title-page sets
forth the main scope and  design  of the work, and the sources
from which it has been collated, and that it is designed to pro-
mote  the use and progress  of the Homoeopathic method of
healing the sick, which knowledge is most needful to the world.
For that the Homoeopathic law of cure is the only one  founded
in consonance  with the great Creator's will, is no longer a prob-
lem to be solved, because it  is consonant with his  fixed  and
immutable laws, stamped  (at  the creation) upon all  sentient
organized as well as inorganic or amorphous beings. 
IV                       PREFACE.
  I need not stop here to prove the truth of the above assertion,
by  a course of  logical,  argumentative ratiocination, because
every man of good  common sense, whose  mind has not become
narrowed, and judgment distorted, by the adoption of principles
founded upon prejudice and in error, has been  enabled to see its
truth; for it is a truth, in its very nature axiomatic.   If he has
observed even imperfectly, but impartially, the operation of the
Homoeopathic method, and its success, as compared with  either,
or all of the other systems of medical practice, he must be con-
vinced, although it may be reluctantly acknowledged.
  One great object of this little manual is to give the physician
and  student a short, Clear, and easily understood, statement of
the curative powers and virtues of the most important remedies
used by the Homoeopathic school, without burdening the mind
with the Titanic  mass of symptoms  (mostly useless) which are
piled up in our  Symptomen Codex, and other large works on
symptomatic pathogenesis, to the discouragement and confusion
of minds  moulded in accordance with the common  formula of
patience and judgment.
  Those who have not devoted  at least  five  or ten years to the
study of the Pharmaco-dynamics of  our methodus medendi, will
find that this little work will enable them, with a comparatively
small  amount of labor and research, to prescribe  in  a large
majority of the  cases  of acute  disease with most  gratifying
success; thereby accomplishing the triple service:  1st, to  the 
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person prescribi..^, from the facility  in  selecting the remedy;
2dly, to the patient, in the promptness and perfection of the
relief obtained; and 3dly, to the cause  of Homoeopathy in its
greater acceptableness to the world at large, from witnessing the
ease, pleasantness and success  of the method  in  its practical
application.
   Another important aim is, that the blank  leaves interspersed
between the  several  articles of the Materia  Medica may invite
physicians of our school (many of whom have  become sage in
medicine)  to record the results of their clinical  provings of the
remedies,  in cases, of not frequent occurrence,  and necessarily
new to most of us.   Also  the  influence of age, sex, tempera-
ment, certain idiosyncracies,  predispositions, etc., upon particular
drugs; the use of a drug in  conditions not previously named in
its curative sphere ; and thereby enable some person at a future
day, by bringing together, duly collated,  these several proofs, to
construct a materia medica possessing the elements of reliability
and perfection.
   Thus  have we briefly stated  the objects  and design of the
work, and such as it is, imperfect, doubtless, in many respects, it
is given to the world, asking for it no other reception than the
merit it deserves, and an appreciation of  the intentions of
                                           THE COMPILER. 
 
LIST  OF KEMEDIES,
       THEIR  SYNONYMS, NATIVITIES,  AND  ANTIDOTES.

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1. Acidum Hydrocyanicum.  Hydrocyanic Acid, Prussic Acid. A compound
   formed from the cyanurets of Silver, Muriatic Acid and water.   It ex-
   ists to a great extent in the bitter kernels of fruit, such as bitter al-
   monds, peach-pits and blossoms, and the wild cherry.  Antidotes  for
   large doses, Ammonia, cold dash of water, Coffee; small doses, Camph.,
   Ipecac, Opi., Coff.
2. Acidum Muriaticum.  Acidum Hydrochloricum.  Muriatic Acid obtained
   by the action of Su]phuric Acid on Chloride of Sodium, or common salt.
   Antidotes for  large doses, Magnesia Calcined, and other alkalies;  for
   small doses, Bry., Camph.
3. Acidum Nitricum.   Nitric Acid, Aquafortis.   Prepared from Nitrate of
   Potassa and Sulphuric Acid.  Antidotes, Calc.-carb., Conium, Camph.,
   Hepar-sulph., Sulph.
4. Acoxite.  Aconitum Napellus.  Native  of  the Mountain Forests  of
   France, Switzerland,  and  Germany.   Antidotes,  Camph., Xux-vom.,
   Acetic Acid (Vinegar).
5. Agaricus.  Agaricus Muscarius, Bug Agaric.   A species of Mushroom,
   Europe and America.   Antidotes, Camph., Coffea, Wine.
6. Alianthus.  A Glandulosa.  Tree of Heaven.  Native of China.   Anti-
   dotes,  Camph., Ipeca., Aricx-vom. 
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LIST OF REMEDIES.
1. Aloes.   Aloe Barbadensis, Aloe Hepatica, Aloe Socotrina.  The inspi-
   sated juice from the leaves of the Aloe.  The Cape  and the Socotrine
   Aloes are the varieties most used in this country.  The former is  from
   the Cape of Good Hope;  and the latter from the Island of Socotra, in
   the Straits of Babelmandel.  Its duration of action varies from  one to
   fourteen days.  Antidotes, for large doses, Opium; and for  small  ones,
   the Vegetable Acids.
8. Alumina.  Alum, Alum Stone, or Alum Ores.   Is found in  large quan-
   tities at Tolfa and Piombino, in Italy.  Antidotes, Bryonia, Cham., Ipecac.

9. Ammonium Carb.  Carbonate of Ammonia, Salts of Hartshorn.  A  com-
   pound  of  Carbonic  Acid,  Ammonia  and Water.   Antidotes, Am.,
   Camph., Hep.-sulph.

10. Anacardium.  Malacca Bean.  West Indies and other parts of tropical
    America.  Antidotes, Camph., Coffea.
11. Angustura.   Bonplandia Trifoliata, Galipea Officinalis, of the United
    States and  Edinburgh Pharmacopoeias.  Native of  South America.
    Antidote, Coffea.
12. Antimony Crude.   Crude Antimony, Regulus of Antimony.  A native
    mineral of France and Germany.
13. Antlmonium  Tartaricum.   Tartarus Stibiatus, Tartarus Emeticus,  Tar-
    tarized Antimony, Tartar Emetic.  A preparation of Sulphuret of An-
    timony,  Muriatic Acid, Nitric  Acid,  and the  Bitartrate of Potassa.
    Antidotes, for large doses, Opii, China; for small doses, Ipecac, Cocc,
    Opii, Puis.
14. Apocynum Cannabinum.  Indian Hemp.  United States.   Antidotes,
    Bry.,  Chin., and Ipecac.
15. Apis Mel.   Apis Mellifica, Honey Bee.  United States.  Antidotes,
    China, Arsen., Ipecac.
16. Aebor VitjE.   Vide Thuja, Thuja Occidentalis.
17. Argent-Nit.   Argentum Nitratum, Nitrate of Silver.  Silver, in  its 
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    mineral state, is found in Mexico, Peru, Norway, Hungary, and Tran-
    sylvania, and  in  different localities in the United States.   Antidotes,
    Merc-cors., Natrum-muriat, Nit.-acid.
 18. Arnica.  Arnica Montana, Leopard's Bane.  Native of the mountainous
    districts of Europe and Siberia, and  the northern districts of this con-
    tinent west of the Mississippi (Nuttall).   Antidotes, Camphor, Ignatia.
 19. Arsenicum.   Arsenicum Album, Acidum Arseuiosum, Arsenious Acid,
    White Arsenic.  It is generally found in the form of the Gray Sulphu-
    ret or Bisulphuret, in Saxony, Bohemia, Transylvania, and in volcanic
    regions.  Antidotes,  for large doses, Hydrated Peroxyde  of Iron, Ses-
    quioxyde and  the  Muriate Tinct. of Iron; for  small  doses, Camphor,
    Chin., Ferr., Ipecac,  Nux-vom.
 20. Artemisia.   Mugwort. Europe and America.  Antidotes.
 21. Asparagus.  Asparagus Officinalis.   Europe and America.   Antidote,
    Coffea.
 22. Assafcetida.   Narthex Assafcetida.  The gum-resinous exudation of
    Narthex Assafcetida.   It is a native of Persia, AfFghanistan, and other
    neighboring regions.   Its juice is collected in large quantities in the
    provinces of Larr and Chorassan.  Antidotes, Canst, Chin., Elec

 23. Aurum-foliat.   Gold Leaf.   Gold is now being found in large quanti-
    ties in California, Australia, and in the Southern States of  the Union.
    Antidotes, Bell., Chin., Cuprum,  Merc.

24. Aurum Nitro-muriat.   Nitro-muriat of  Gold.   A compound of the
    metal with Nitro-muriatic Acid, {Aqua Regia.)

25. Baryta Carbonica.   Carbonate of Baryta.  The native Carbonate  is
    found in Sweden, Scotland, and in the lead mines of the North of Eng-
    land.  Antidotes,  Sulph., Magnesia,  for large doses; for  small ones,
    Bell.,  Camph.,  Dulc,  Merc.
26. Belladonna.   Atropa Belladonna, Deadly Nightshade.  Native of Eu-
    rope  and America.  Antidotes, Coffea, Camphor, Opii, Hyosciam. 
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LIST OF REMEDIES.
 27. Benzoic Acid.  Benzoin.  Flowers  of  Benzoin.  Distilled from  the
    balsam or concrete juice of Styrax Benzoin.   The tree from which it is
    taken is a native of Sumatra, Java, Borneo,  Laos and Siam.
 28. Bismuthum.  Bismuth, Nitrate of Bismuth.   It is found principally in
    its metallic state in  Saxony,  and has been found at Monroe,  Conn.
    Antidotes, Calc, Caps., Nux-vom.
 29. Borax.  Borate  of Soda.  Borax is a native of the East, and is also
    found in South America.  Antidotes, Coffea  Crud., Cham., Wine.
 30. Bovista.   Lycoperdon Bovista, Puff-ball.  Europe and America.  An-
    tidote, Camphor.
 31. Bromine.  Bromine  is an elementary body, somewhat  analogous  to
    Chlorine and Iodine.  It has been  detected in many of our mineral
    springs in New  York and  Pennsylvania.   Antidotes, for large doses,
    are, Opii,  Coff., Amm.; for  small doses, Coff., Camph., Ammonia.
 32. Bryonia.   Bryonia Alba, White Bryony.   Native of Europe.   Anti-
    dotes, Aconite,  Cham., Ignatia, Nux-vom.
 33. Calcarea Carb.  Carbonate of Lime.  Lime is  an abundant natural
    production but never found pure.  Antidotes, Nit-acid, Spts.-nit, and
    Sulph.
 34. Calcarea  Phos.   Phosphate of Lime.  A  chemical combination  of
    Phos.-acid and Lime.  Antidotes, Nit-acid, Bulph.-Acid.
 35. Calendula.  Calendula Officinalis, Marigold. A garden plant.  Anti-
    dotes,  Opii, Nux-vom., Ferr., Symph.
 36. Camphora.  Camphor is extracted  from the  Camphora Officinarum of
    Nees, or Laurus Camphora of Linnaeus; it is an  evergreen tree, native
    of China, Japan, and other  parts  of  Eastern Asia.  Antidotes, Opii,
    Spts.-nit-dulc.
37. Cannabis Indica.  Indian Hemp.  Native of India, Persia, Caucasus.
    Antidotes,  for large doses, Lemon Juice ; for  small doses, Camph.
38. Cannabis.  Cannabis Sativa.  Hemp is a native  of Caucasus, Persia, 
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    and the hilly regions in the North of India, but is cultivated in Europe,
    Asia, and our Western States.   Antidotes, for large doses, Citric-acid
    (Lemonade); for small doses, Camphor.

39. Cantharis.  Spanish Fly.  Cantharis Vesicatoria, " chiefly from Spain,
    Italy, Sicily, and  other  parts of the Mediterranean."  Antidotes, for,
    large doses, Camphor, Spts.-nitre.-dulc.; small doses,  Camph.

40. Capsicum.  Capsicum Annuum, Spanish  Pepper.    Cayenne  Pepper,
    native of the warmer regions of Asia and America, and cultivated in
    most parts of the world.   Antidote, Camph.

41. Carbo  Animalis.   Animal Charcoal.  Antidote, Camph.

42. Carbo  Vegetabilis.  Vegetable Charcoal.  Antidotes, Arsen., Camph.,
    Coff., Lach., Spts.-nit-dulc

43. Causticum.  Caustic of the  Alkalies.   Antidotes,  Coffea, Colocynth,
    Nux-vomica.

44. Chamomella.  German Chamomile, Matricarid  Chamomilla.  A native
    of Europe, and occasionally cultivated in  gardens.  Antidotes,  Coff.,
    Ignatia, Puis.

45, China.    Cinchona Officinalis, Peruvian Bark.   Native of Peru, not
    known to naturalists before 1737, discovered by a French Academic, in
    the province of Loxa.  Antidotes, Arsen., Bell., Calc, Carbo.-veg., Cina.,
    Ferr., Ipecac, Puis., Sidph., Nux-vom.

46, Cicutae.   CicUta Virosa, Water Hemlock, Cowbane.   European plant,
    growing  on the borders of pools and  streams.   Antidotes,  Tobacco,
    Opium.
47. Cina.   Santonici  Semen,  European Wormseed.    Native  of  Persia,
    Asia Minor, and other parts of the East.  Antidotes,  Bry., Chin., Hyos.,
    Ipecac.
48. Cinnamomum.  Cinnamon, Cinnamomum Cassia.  The bark of the tree,
    native of Ceylon, and the Malabar coast. 
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LIST OF REMEDIES.
49.  Clematis.  Erecta, Clematis, Upright Virgin's Bower.   Native of Eu-
    rope, a perennial plant.  Antidotes, Bry.,  Camph.
50.  Cocculus.  Cocculus Indicus, Menispermum Cocculus of Linnaeus, Ana-
    mirta of Wright and  Arnott.   Native of the Malabar coast, and  of
    eastern  insular and  continental India.   Antidotes,  Camph.,  Nux-
    vomica.
51.  Coffea.  Coffee, Coffea Arabica.  The Coffee tree is a native of South
    Arabia, Abyssinia, and the western coast of Liberia ;  subsequently in-
    troduced by the French into their West India Islands, and has made its
    way into various parts of tropical America.  Antidotes, Aconite, Cham.,
    Nux-vom.
52.  Colchicum.  Colchicum Autumnale,  Meadow  Saffron.   Native of the
    temperate parts of Europe, where it grows wild in the meadows.  An-
    tidotes, for large  doses, Acetic Acid  and  Mel., (Honey and Vinegar,)
    Carb, or Aqu„ Amm. ; small doses, Cocculus, Nux-vom., Pulsatil.
53.  Colocynthus.   Colocynth, Cucumus  Colocynthus, Wild  Cucumber.
    Native of Turkey; it grows in various parts of Africa and  Asia, and,
    according to Ainslie, in sandy  situations near the sea  in Lower India.
    Antidotes, for large doses, Tepid Milk, Infision of Galls, Camph., Opii ;
    small doses, Camph., Caust, Cham., Coff., Staphysagra.
54.  Conium.   Conium Maculatum, Hemlock.   Is a native of Europe, and
    has been introduced into the  United States; it grows along the road
    sides, and in waste grounds.  Antidotes, Coffee, Spts.-nit.
55.  Copatva.  Balsam Copaiba, an Oleo-resinous  balm from the Copaifera
    Officinalis.  Native of Venezuela, and the province of Carthagena.  Most
    of  the Copaiba  of commerce  is now derived from Para.  Antidotes,
    Mercurius, and Merc-cors.
56.  Corallium Rubrum.   Red Coral (Isis Nobilis of Linn).   Found at the
    bottom of the  Mediterranean and  other seas.
57.  Crocus.  Crocus Sativus, Saffron.  Native of Greece and Asia  Minor,
    and cultivated in different parts of the world.  Antidote, Opium. 
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 58.  Croton  Tiglium.  Tiglii Oleum, Croton-Oil.  An oil expressed from the
     seeds of the Croton Tiglium.   The tree is a native of Hindostan, Cey-
     lon, the Moluccas, and other parts of Continental and Insular India.
     Antidotes, Camph., Opii, Elaterium.
 59.  Cuprum.  Cuprum Metallicum, Copper.  Found in its mineral state in
     the United States, in the vicinity of Lake Superior, Pyrenees in France,
     Cornwall in England, and Fahlun in  Sweden.   Andidotes, for large
     doses, are Albumen, the White of Eggs, Sweetened Water, Milk  sweetened
     with Sugar; for small doses, Bell., Calc.-carb.,  Chin.,  Cocc,  Merc-cors.,
     Nux-vom., Rhus-tox., Ipecac.
 60.  Daphne Indica.  A species of Daphne, very closely resembling, both in
     appearance and medicinal action, the Daphne Laureola.  Antidotes,
     Bry., Dig., Rhus., Sil., "Sepia., Zinc"
 61.  Digitalis.  Digitalis Purpurea, Foxglove.  Grows wild in most of the
     temperate countries of Europe, and cultivated  as a garden ornament
     and for medicinal purposes in this country.   Antidotes, for large doses,
     Vegetable Acids, Infusion  of Galls, and Diffusible Stimulants, such as
     Brandy,  Ammonia, etc.
 62.  Drosera. Drosera Rotundafolia, Sun-dew.   Native of Europe.  Anti-
     dote, Camphor.
 63. Dulcamara.   Solanum Dulcamara, Bitter-sweet.   Common  to  Europe
    and North America; it grows in damp and sheltered places on the
    banks of streams and along hedges.  Antidotes, Camph., Ipecac, Merc.
 64.* Elaterium.  The juice of the Momordica Elaterium, a native of South-
    ern Europe, also cultivated in Great Britain.  It is brought principally
   from England, Malta.   Antidotes,  Nux-vom.,  Tart-antim.
65. Electricitas.    Electricity, Electric  Bath.,  Electric  Aura.,  Electric
   Spark, Electric  Shock, Electric Current  Antidotes,  Dash of  Cold
   Water, Ignatia, Nicx-vom., Can.-Ind., Zinc
66. Euphrasia.   Euphrasia Officinalis,  Eye-bright. Common to the United
   States and Europe.  Antidotes,  Camph., Pulsatil. 
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LIST OF REMEDIES.
67. Eupatorium.  Eupatorium Perfoliatum, Boneset, Thorough-wort.  In-
    habits meadows, the banks of streams, and other moist places, in almost
    every part of the  United States.  Compares more particularly with
    Ipecac, Antim.-tart
68. Ferrum.  Ferrum Metallicum, Iron.  Abounds in different parts of  the
    United States, in the magnetic, brown, and  argillaceous oxides.  It is
    said that the ores of New York, New  Jersey, and  Pennsylvania, rival
    the best Swedish in quality.  Antidotes, Arnica, Arsenic, Bell., Ipecac,
    Pidsatil., Mercury.
69. Ferrum  Aceticum.  Fer Acet, Acetate of Iron.  Acetate of Iron is  ob-
    tained, in solution, by dissolving the Sesquioxide of iron in  Acetic acid.
    Antidotes, Am., Arsen., Bell., Chin., Hepar-sulph., Ipecac,  Merc.

70. Ferrum  Iodatum.  Fer Iod, Iodide of Iron.   Prepared  from Iron and
    Iodine, one part by weight of the former, to two of the latter.

71. Ferrum.   Precip.-carb., Ferri sub carbonas, U. S.   Ferri Oxidum Ru-
    brun, Ed., Precipitated Carbonate of Iron.  Prepared from the Sulphate
    of Iron, and the Carbonate of Soda.

72. Ferrum  Phos.   Phosphate of Iron.  A  compound.  Prepared from  the
    Sulphate of Iron and the Phosphate of Soda.

73. Graphites.  Plumbago, Blacklead, but  more properly speaking  a Car-
    buret of Iron.   It is found in greatest purity at Borrowdale, England,
    and near Bustleton, in Pennsylvania.   Antidotes, Arsen., Nux-vom.,
    Vinum.
74. Gratiola.   Gratiola Officinalis,  Hedge Hyssop.   Indigenous to  the
    South of Europe, where it grows in meadows and moist grounds.

75. Granatum.  Punica  Granatum, U. S., Granati Radices  Cortex.  Back
    of  the Pomegranate Root.   Nativity  on the shores of the Mediter-
    ranean, in Arabia, Persia, Bengal, China, and Japan.

76. Guiac   Guiacum Officinale.  The  resinous  gum from  the Guiacum 
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    Officinale, which  grows in the West Indies, particularly Hayti and
    Jamaica.
77.  Helleborus  Niger.  Black Hellebore, Christmas Rose.  Native of the
    mountainous regions of Southern and Temperate Europe; it is found in
    Greece,  Austria, Italy, Switzerland,  France,  and Spain.  Antidotes,
    Camph., China.
78.  Hepar.-sulpii.  Hepar Sulphur, Liver of Sulphur, Sulphuret of Potas-
    sium.  A compound of Sulphur and  Carbonate of Lime.  Antidotes,
    Bell., Cham.
79.  Hydrocyanic Acid.   Vide  Acidum Hydrocyanicum.  Prussic Acid.
80.  Hyosciamus.   Hyosciamus Niger, Black Henbane.  Found in the north-
    ern and eastern sections of the United States—at Detroit and Ticonde-
    roga; also in great abundance through different parts of Europe, of
    which it is a native.   Antidotes, Vinegar, Bell.,  Camph.
81.  Ignatia.  Ignatia  Amara, Faba Sancti  Ignatii.  Native of the Philip-
    pine Islands.  According to Magendie and Delile, they act on the sys-
    tem similar  to Nux-vomica.   Antidotes, for large doses, Coffee; small
    doses, Puis., Cham., Cocculus,  Camph.
82.  Iodine.  lodinum,- an elementary non-metallic body, existing in certain
    marine vegetables, and in the animal kingdom; Sponge, Oysters, Cod-
    liver Oil, and various  Polypi; also found  in  the  Congress Spring at
    Saratoga.  It is mostly obtained from  kelp, the ashes of sea-weed.  An-
    tidotes, for large doses, Starch, Milk, and sweetened water ; small doses,
    Ant, Ars., Camph., Chin., Coff., Sulph.
88.  Ipecac.  Ipecacuanha, Cephaelis Ipecacuanha.   Native of Brazil, and
    most abundant within the limits of the eighth and twentieth degrees
    of  south latitude.   It also grows in New Granada.—Humboldt.  Anti-
    dotes, for large  doses, Tinct of Galls; for small  doses,  Am., Arsen.,
    Chin., Nux-vom.
84.  Jalap.  Jalappa, Ipomcea Jalapa.   Native of the State of Vera Cruz,
    in Mexico.  Antidotes, Nux-vom., Camph. 
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LIST OF REMEDIES.
85.  Kali Carb.  Carbonate of Potash.   A compound  manufactured from
    the sub-carbonate of Potasse, and the sub-carbonate of Ammonia.  An-
    tidotes, Camph., Coffee, Spts.-nit
86.  Kali-Hydriodicum.   Hydriodate of Potasse.  A compound prepared
    from Iodine, Iron, Carbonate of Potash and water.  There are, how-
    ever, several different formulas.  Antidotes  for large doses, similar to
    those for Iodine; small doses, Valeri., Chin.,  Amm.-mur., Sulph., Merc,
    Ars., Rhus.
87.  Kali BicnROMicuM.  Bichromate of Potash, prepared from the Neutral
    Chromate of Potassa and Sulphuric Acid.
88.  Kreosot.   Creasotum, Creasote, extracted  from tar or pyroligneous
    acid.  Antidotes, Chin., Ars., Ipecac, Cocc,  Nux-vom.
89.  Lachesis.   Trigonocephalus lachesis.   Antidotes, Arsen., Belladonna,
    Nux-vom., Rhus-tox.
90.  Lactuca Virosa.  Acrid or strong-scented Lettuce.   Native of Europe.
    Antidotes,  Vegetable Acids, Coffee.
91.  Laurocerasus.   Prunus laurocerasus, Cherry Laurel.   Native of Asia
    Minor, but cultivated in Europe for its beauty and medical use.   Anti-
    dotes, for large dose3, Ammonia and other  alkalies, strong Coffee and
    Mucilaginous drinks ; for small doses, Camph., Coffea, Ipecac, Opii.

92.  Ledum  Palustre.   Rosmarinus sylvestris, Cistus ledon.   A small ever-
    green, growing in swamps and  other wet places in the northern parts
    of Europe, Asia and America.   Antidote, Camph.

93.  Lobelia.  Lobelia inflata,  Indian .Tobacco;  grows wild on  the road
    sides and waste uncultivated  grounds throughout the United States,
    and is cultivated by the Shakers for medicinal purposes.
94.  Lupulus.   Humulus Lupulus,  Hops.   Native of North America and
    Europe.  Antidote,  Coffee.
95.  Lycopodium.  Lycopodium clavatum, Club  Moss.  Native of Switzer-
    land and Germany.  Antidotes, Camph. and Coffee. 
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96.  Magnetismus.   Magnetism, Mineral Magnetism, Magnetized Plates, Bar
    Magnet, Magnetic Staff, Magnetic Battery, Compound  Magnet, Mag-
    netic Collars, Girdles, Bracelets.
97.  Mercurius Corrosivus.  Mercurius  Sublimatus  Corrosivus,  Corrosive
    Mercury, Corrosive Sublimate, Bichloride of Mercury, made from com-
    mon 6ea salt and quicksilver.  Antidotes, Albumen (white of eggs) for
    large doses;  Hepar-sulph., Nit-acid, and Aurum Nitro-muriat for small
    doses.
98.  Mercurius Dulcts.   Merc. Dulc,  Sweet Mercury.  A Trituration of
    Calomel with sugar.  Antidotes, Hepar-sulph., Sulph., Iodine, Nit-acid

99.  Mercurius Iodatus.   Hydragyrum Iodatum, Protiodide of  Mercury.
    Prepared from Mercury and Iodine, an ounce  of the former to five
    drachms of the latter.
100. Mercurius Solubulus.  Black Oxyd of Mercury,   Prepared from the
     Protonitrate  of Mercury and Ammonia.   Antidotes, Hepar-sulph.,
     Nit-acid.
101. Mezereum.   Mezerion, Daphne Mezerium.   Native of Great Britain.
     Antidotes, Mercury, Nit-acid.
102. Moschus.  Musk.   A strong odorous concrete  substance taken from
     the Maschus  Moschiferous,  (Musk Deer,) which inhabits  the moun-
     tainous regions of Central  Asia.  Antidotes,  Camph., Coffee.
103. Muriatic Acid.  Vide Acidum Muriaticum.
104. Natrum Carbonicum.  Carbonate of Soda, Natron.  A combination
     of one equivalent  of Carbonic Acid, with one of Soda.  The native
     Soda  is found in Hungary, Egypt, and South America.  Antidotes,
     Ars.,  Camph., Spts.-nit
105. Natrum Muriaticum.  Muriate of Soda, Sodii Chloridum, Chloride of
     Soda.   It consists of one  equivalent of Chlorine, and one of Sodium,
     common table salt.  Antidotes, Ars., Camph., Spts.-nit.
106. Nitric Acid.   Vide Acidum Nitrictirjo.
           2 
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LIST OF REMEDIES.
107. Nux Moschata.   Nutmeg.  A native of the Moluccas and other neigh-
    boring islands.  Antidotes, Opii, Camph., Acetic Acid.

108. Nux-vomica.   Strychnos Nux-vomica.  The nuts or seeds of a tree
    indigenous to the East Indies, growing in  Bengal, Malabar, and the
    coast of Coromandel in Ceylon.   Antidotes, Aconite, Camph., Coff.,
    Pulsatilla.
109. Oleander.  Nereum Oleander; Laurel Rose.  Native of  the southern
    and tropical climates.  Antidotes, Camph.,  Cocc, Nux-vom.
110. Opium.   Gum Opii.  The concrete juice of the unripe capsules of the
    Papaver Somniferum.   Native of Hindostan, Persia, Egypt, and the
    Asiatic dominions  of Turkey.    Antidotes,  Coffee,  Camph., Bell.,
    Hyosciam., Ipecac, Nux-vom., etc.;  for large doses, a full emetic.

111. Petroleum.  A dark, liquid bitumen, spontaneously flowing from tho
    earth, Rock Oil,  Barbadoes Tar.  Principally  found at Arniano in
    Italy; at Gabian in France, and along the shores of the Caspian Sea;
    also at different  localities in the United States.  Antidotes, Aconite,
    Nux-vom.

112. Phosphorus.   Phosphorus is an elementary substance discovered  by
    Brandt, an alchemist of Hamburg, in 1669.  It is now manufactured
    from calcined bones, Sulphuric Acid, and Powdered Charcoal.  Anti-
    dotes,  for  large doses,  Emetics, Magnesia; in small doses, Camph.,
    Nux-vom., Coff., Vin.
113. Phosphoric Acid.  Prepared from Phosphorus and Nitric or Sulphuric
    Acid.  Antidotes, Camph.,  Coffee.

114. Platina.   Platinum.  A metal found in the Parishes of Novita and
    Citaria,  north of Choco in  Peru,  and near  Carthagena in  South
    America.  Antidotes, Spts.-nitre, Puis.

115.  Plumbum.  Lead is generally found in the form of a Sulphuret called
     Galena.   The most extensive region of Galena mines in the world is
     in the United States, extending from Wisconsin to Arkansas, a breadth 
LIST OF REMEDIES.
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    of about one hundred and fifty miles.   Antidotes, for large doses, are
     Opii and Olive Oil.  Olive Oil is a Prophylactic against its effects.
116. Plumbum Aceticum.   Plumbi Acetas, Plumb., Acet., Acetate of Lead.
    Prepared from Lead  and Acetic  Acid  Antidotes,  Opii, Nux-vom.,
     Olive Oil.
117. Plumbum  Carbonicum.  Carbonate of Lead,  White Lead.  Prepared
    by the action of Carbonic Acid  Gas, and the Fumes  of  Vinegar,
    (Acetic Vapor,) upon  thin sheets of Lead.  Antidotes, Opii, Nux-vom.
    Olive Oil is a Prophylactic against its effects.
118. Podophyllum.   U. S.   Podophyllum Peltatum, May-Apple,  Wild
     Lemon, Mandrake.  It is an indigenous, herbaceous plant.  Native of
     the U. S.    Most luxuriant in moist, shady woods, and low, marshy
     grounds.   Antidote, Nux-vom.
119.  Podophyllin.  The active principle of the Podophyllum Peltatum.

120.  Pulsatilla.  Pulsatilla, Nigricans, Anemone Pratensis, Meadow Ane-
     mone.  Native of Europe.  There are several species in this country.
     Antidotes,  Cham., Coff., Iynatia, Nux-vom., Vinegar.
121.  Ranunculus.  Ranunculus Bulbosus,  Crowfoot.   Native of Europe
     and America.  Antidotes, Camph., Bry., Puis., Rhus-tox.

122.  Raphanus.   Sativus, Raph., Radish. Antidote, a few draughts of water.

123.  Rheum.  Rhubarb, the  root of Rheum Palmatum.   There are  other
     varieties.   Native of  China, Turkey, and India.  That of Turkey is
     most  superior.   Antidotes, Camph., Cham., Nux-vom.; in large doses,
     Opium.
124. Rhododendron.    Rhodod.    Rhododendron Chrysanthum,  Yellow
    Rose  of Siberia.  Antidotes, Camph., Clem., Rhux-tox.

125. Rhus-Radicans.   Poison Ivy, Poison  Vine.   Native  of the Southern
    States.  Antidotes. Bry., Camph.,  Coff., Merc, Pids., Sulph.

126. Rhus-Toxicodendron.   Poison Oak.  Grows wild in the  woods and 
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LIST OF REMEDIES.
     along the roads from  Canada to Georgia.  Antidotes, Bry., Camph.,
     Coff., Sulph.
127.  Ruta.   Rue,  Ruta graveolens.   Native  of the south of Europe, but
     cultivated in our gardens generally for domestic purposes.  Antidote,
     Camphor.
128.  Sabadilla.   Cevadilla, the seeds or fruit of the Veratrum Sabadilla.
     Native of Mexico.  Antidotes, Camphor,  Pulsatilla.

129.  Sabina.   Savin,  Juniperus Sabina.  Native of the south of Europe
     and the Levant;  it also  grows wild on the borders of our north-
     western lakes.   Antidotes, Camp, and Pulsatilla.

130.  Sambucus.  Sambucus  Canadensis,  Sambucus Niger, Elder.   Native
     of Europe  and America; it  grows wild  along fences and the borders
     of small streams.  Antidotes, Arsenic, Camph.

131.  Sanguinaria.  Sanguinaria Canadensis, Blood Root.  Native of North
     America, growing  in abundance throughout the United States.

132.  Sarsaparilla.  The  root of Smilax  Officinalis.  Native  of  Mexico,
     Guatemala, and the warmer latitudes of South America.   There are
     different species throughout  the  United  States.   That of highest re-
     pute comes from Honduras.  Antidote, Camphor.

133.  Secale.  Secale Cornutum, Spurred Rye, Ergot.  A diseased fungous,
     or  parasitic  growth occupying  the place of the healthy or natural
     seed of the  Rye.  Antidotes,  Camph., Sol.-nig; large or continued
     doses, Wine and Malt Liquors.

134.  Senega.  Sen, Seneka.  Native of the United States; it grows wild
     abundantly in the  southern and  western states.   Antidotes, Am.
     Bell., Bry., Camph.
135.  Senna.   Senn, Senna Alexandria.  Native of Egypt.

186.  Senna Americana.   Cassia Marilandica, American Senna.  Common
     to all parts of the United States. 
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137.  Selenium.   Selen.  A rare substance, resembling Sulphur in its chem-
     ical relations, and found with it in some few localities.
138.  Sepia.  Sepia Officinalis.   The Sepia used in medicine is the juice of
     the Cuttle-fish  which inhabits the  seas of Europe, especially the
     Mediterranean.   Antidotes, Aconite, Spts.-nit-dulc, Tart-ant, Acetic
     Acid.
139.  Sctllae.  Scilla  Maratima, Squill.  Native of the sea-coast of Spain,
     France, Italy and Greece, and other parts bordering on the Mediter-
     ranean.  Antidote, Camphor.
140.  Silicea.   Silex, Silica, Silicious earth.  Found in districts abounding
     in  lime  stone,  and in many  of  the minerals.  Antidotes, Camph.,
     Hepar-Sulph.
141.  Spigelia.  Spigelia  Marilandica,  Pink Root.  Native  of  America;
     Spigelia Anthelmia, of South America and the West Indies.   Anti-
     dotes, Aurum, Camph., Hyosciam, Stramo.
142.  Spongia. Sponge, (Marina  Tosta) toasted Sponge, Spongia  Officinalis
     of  the Pharmacopcaas, inhabits the bottom of the sea, and is attached
     to rock or other solid bodies; chiefly in the Mediterranean and Red
     Seas, and in those of the East and West Indies.   Antidote, Camphor.

143.  Stannum.  Tin.   Found in different parts of Europe, Mexico, and the
     United States.   Antidote, Pulsatilla.

144.  Staphysagra.  Stavesacre, Delphinium, Staphysagria.  Native of the
     South of Europe.  Antidote, Camphor.

145.  Stramonium.  Datura Stramonium, Thorn-apple.  Native of Europe,
     America, and Asia;  grows most  abundantly in the Uuited States,
     along the  roads, about barnyards and commons.   Antidotes,  Vege-
     table Acids, Opii., Nux-vom., and Tabac

146.  Sulphur.   Sulphur  Sublimatum.    Sulphur   is  generally  found
     throughout  the  mineral  kingdom;   is most  abundant  in volcanic
     countries.   Antidotes, Aconite, Camph., Chin., Merc, Nux-vom.,  Puis. 
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LIST OF REMEDIES.
147. Sulph.-acid.   Sulphuric  Acid, Acidum  Sulphuricum.  Oil  Vitriol,
    formed from Sulphur and Nitre.  Antidote, Pulsatilla.
148. Tart.-emetic  Tartar Emetic.  Vide Antimonium Tartamatum.
149. Tabacum.  Tabacum Nicotiana, Tobacco.   Native of tropical America,
    but now cultivated extensively in  the  Southern States.  Antidotes,
    for large doses, are Champhor, Wine,Amm.;  for small doses,  Camph.,
    Ipecac, Bell., Nux-vom.
150.  Teuckium.  Teucrium, marum verum. Native of the south of Europe.
    Antidotes, Camph., Ignatia.
151. Theridion.  Therid.  See  Archiv.,  Vol.  xiv.
152. Thuja.  Thuja Occidentalis, Arbor Vita?. Grows wild  from Canada
    to Georgia, and is cultivated in the gardens as an ornament.  Anti-
     dotes,  Cham.,  Cocc, Merc
153. Triosteum Perfoliatum.  Triost.  Perf., Triosteum, (U. S.) Fever Root.
     An indigenous and perennial plant found in various parts of the United
     States.   Antidotes, Am., Arsen., Chin., Nux.-vom., Ipecac
154.  Urttca  Urens.  Dwarf Nettle.   Grows wild in Europe and America.
155. Valeriana Officinalis.   Valerian, Valer.  Native  of  Europe.   An-
     tidotes, Camph., Coff.
156. Veratrum.  Veratum  Albrum, White  Hellebore.   A  native of the
     mountainous  regions of Continental Europe, most  abundant in the
     Alps and Pyrenees, Antidotes, Aconite, Camph., Coffea.
157. Zincum Metallicum.  Metallic Zinc.  It occurs native in two principal
     States as a sulphuret, and as a carbonate  or silicate, it is  found in
     various parts of the world, but most abundantly in Germany.  Anti-
     dotes, Camp., Hep.-sulph.,  Igna. 
LIST  OF REMEDIES.
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      TINCTURES  FOR  EXTERNAL APPLICATION.

Tincture of Arnica.                     Tincture of Ruta.
    "     Symphytum.                   "      Urtica Urens.
    "     Cantharides.                    "      Camphor.
    "     Thuja.                         "      Aqua-ammonia.
The Tinctures of Arnica, Symphytum, Thuja, and Ruta are used for Strains,
                  Sprains, Bruises, Contusions, Wounds, and Corns.
  "      "     Urtica Urens, for Burns and Scalds.
  "      "     Cantharides,  for Chilblains, and some forms of Erysi-
                  pelatous Inflammation.
  "      "     Aqua-ammonia and Tincture of Camphor for the bites and
                  stings of insects. 
DURATION  OF  ACTION,
OF  THE  REMEDIES,  ESPECIALLY  IN CHRONIC  DISEASES.
Acidum Hydrocyanicum,
    even months.
Acidum Muriaticum,
Acidum Nitricum,
Aconite,
    eight hours, or longer.
Agaricus,
    tions.
Alianthus,
Aloes,
Alumina
Ammonium Carb.,
    cases.
Anacardium,
Angustura,
Antimony Crude,
Antimony Tart,
    night.
Apocynum Cannabinum,
Apis-Mel,
Arbor Vita?,
duration of action from an hour to weeks and

           "   five weeks and upwards.
    "      "   several weeks.
    "      "   from half-an-hour to forty-

    "      "   forty days in Chronic affec-

    "      "   from fifteen to thirty days.
           "   from two days to twenty.
    "      "   forty days in some cases
    "      "   forty days in  some Chronic

    "      "   thirty days in chronic cases.
    "      "   from three to eight days.
    "      "   four weeks in Chronic cases.
    "      "   from two hours to a fort-

    "      "   several weeks.
    "      "   from two to four days.
           "   from four to sixteen days. 
DURATION OF ACTION.
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Argentum Nitratum,
    in the circulation.
Arnica,
Arsenicum,
    chronic affections.
Artemisia,
Assafcetida,
Asparagus,
Aurum foliat,
    many cases.
Aurum Nitro Muriat,
    affections.
duration of action for years when carried up

           "   from six to ten days.
           "   from thirty to forty days in

           "   not definitely ascertained.
           "   from four to six weeks.
           "   from one to three days.
   "       "   from six weeks to years in

   "       "   several  weeks in Chronic
Baryta Carbonica,
Belladonna,
Benzoin (Benzoic Acid)
    to twenty-four hours.
Bismuthum,
Borax,
Bovista,
Bromine,
    short intervals.
Bryonia,
"    fifty days.
"    from a day to months.
"    of short duration, from six

"    from five to seven weeks.
"    four weeks.
"    upwards of fifty days.
"    requires to be repeated at

"   from four to five days, and
longer;  sometimes from four to five weeks.
Calcarea Carb.,
Calcarea Phos.,
Calendula,
    to ten days.
Camphora,
    hours to three days.
Cannabis Indica,
Cannibis Sativa,
duration of action upwards of fifty days.
      "       "   much the same as the Carb.
      "       "   similar  to Arnica, from six
"   of short duration, from four

"   from six hours to six weeks.
"   several weeks. 
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DURATION  OF ACTION.
Cantharis,
Capsicum,
Carbo-animali3,
Carbo-v egetabilis,
Causticum,
Chamomilla,
China,
Cicuta,
Cina,
Cinnamon,
Clematis,
Cocculus,
Coffea,
Colchicum,
Colocynthus,
Conium,
Copaiva,
Corallium Rubrum,
     doubtful utility.
Crocus-Sat,
Croton Tiglium,
Cuprum,
     night.
duration of action for weeks and even years.
    "      "    about three weeks.
    "      "    about forty days.
    "      "    about forty days.
    "      "    about fifty days.
    "      "    from three to four days.
    "      "    from two to three weeks.
    "      "    from five to six weeks.
six weeks.
from eight to fourteen days.
about ten days.
from days to weeks.
from thirty to forty days.
from thirty to fifty days.
from one to three weeks.
not  ascertained,  and  of

eight days and upwards.
from four to twenty days.
from  eight days  to a fort-
Daphne Indica,
Digitalis,
Drosera,
Dulcamara,
from four to twenty days.
from forty to fifty days.
from two to three weeks.
from six to fifty hours.
Elaterium,
Electricitas,
    months and years.
Euphrasia,
"   from one to six days.
"   from a momentary shock to

"   from three to four weeks. 
                     DURATION  OF ACTION.              XXvii

Eupatoreum,                duration of action from one to fifteen days.

                                       "  .  a  degree  of permanency
Ferrum Metal,
    that few remedies possess,
Ferrum Aceticum,
    equal to the F. M.
Ferrum lodatum,
Ferrum Precip. Carb.,
    talicum.
Ferrum Phos.,
of long  duration but  not
similiar to the Ferrum Me-
Graphites,		«<	it	about fifty days.
Gratiola,		"	"	from three to twelve days.
Granatum,		n	"	of short duration, from a few
hours to three or four days.				
Guiac,		n	"	from four to five weeks.
Helleborus Nig.,		a	a	from three to four weeks.
Hepar-sulph.,		«	it	about eight weeks. ,
Hydrocyanic Acid,		»	"	from hours to weeks, and
even months.				
Hyosciamus,		«	tl	from eight hours to several
weeks.				
Ignatia,		u	it	from two to nine days.
Iodine,		u	it	about six weeks.
Ipecac,		tt	it	from two hours to several
days.				
Jalap,

Kali Carb
Kali Hydryodicum,
"   from one to six or eight days.
from five to six weeks.
for  weeks and  months, es-
pecially in producing haemorrhagic diathesis. 
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DURATION  OF  ACTION.
Kali Bichromicum,       duration of action from two days to three weeks.
Kreosot                        "       "   from two to twelve days.
Lachesis,
Lactuca Virosa,
Laurocerasus,
Ledum Palustre,
Lobelia inflata,
    weeks.
Lupulus,
Lycopodium,
"   from four to five weeks.
"   not definitely ascertained.
"   from eight to fourteen days.
"   several weeks.
"   from six or eight  hours  to

"   from one day to twelve.
"   from forty to fifty  days.
Magnetismus,
Mercurius Cors.
    even years.
Mercurius Iod.,
Mercurius Solub.,
Mezereum,
    and longer.
Moschus,
    days.
Muriatic Acid,

Natrum Carbonicum,
Natrum Muriat.,
Nitric Acid,
Nux-moschata,
    weeks.
Nux-vomica,
    days.
"   similar to electricity.
"   from  days to  weeks  and
"   from six days to six weeks

"   from a few hours to several

"   five  weeks and upwards.

"   from thirty to forty days.
«          «        «
"   for several weeks.
"   from eight  days to three

"   from fifteen to twenty-one
Oleander,
Opium,
not definitely ascertained.
from a few hours to months. 
DURATION OF ACTION.
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Petroleum,	duration
weeks.	
Phosphorus,	a
definitely ascertained.	
Phosphoric Acid,	it
definitely ascertained.	
Platina,	it
Plumbum,	u
days, paralysis weeks and months.	
Plumbum Acet.	tt
above.	
Plumbum Carb.	it
Podophyllum Peltatum,	tt
Podophyllin "	u
Pulsatilla,	u
Ranunculus,	u
night,	
Raphanus Sat.,	u
three days.	
Rheum,	«
Rhodadendron,	a
Rhus-radicans,	u
Rhus-toxicodendron,	it
Ruta,	tt
Sabadilla,	u
weeks.	
Sabina,	u
weeks.	
Sambucus,	it
days.	
Sanguinaria,	a
of action from ten days to three

  "   of long duration; time not

  "   of long duration; time not

  "   from three to six weeks.
  "   colicky  from  one  to  ten

  "   of shorter duration than the

  "   similar to Plumbum.
  "   from ten to twenty days.
  "   similar to the Podoph. Pel.
  "   from one to ten days.

  "   from eight days to a fort-

  "   from a few hours to two or

  "   from one day to seven.
  "   from one to 6ix weeks.
  "   from five to seven weeks.
  "   from one to three weeks.
  "   not definitely ascertained.

  "   from six or  eight hours to

  "   from six or  eight hours to

  "   from one  to eight  or ten

  "   from six to forty-eight hours. 
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Sarsaparilla,
    eases.
Scillte,
    twelve days.
Secale Cornutum,
Senega,
Senna,
    hours.
Senna Amer.,
Selenium,
Sepia,
Silicea,
    that of Calcarea.
Spigelia,
    rasus and Digitalis.
Spongia.
Stannum,
    fully known.
Staphysagra,
Stramonium,
Sulphur,
    three weeks.
Sulphuric Acid,
    strains; much longer in Chronic diseases.
DURATION OF ACTION.

     duration of action a long time in chronic dis-

          "       "   from a few hours to ten  or
"   from eight to fourteen days.
"   from six to ten days.
"   from   6ix  to  twenty-four
"   from one to six days.

"   of long duration similar to

"   similar to that of Lauroce-

"   similar to that of Iodine.
"   of long duration; time not
from thirty to forty  days.
from six days  to  two and

from two  to  ten  days  in
Tabacum,
Tartar Emetic,
    night.
Teucrium,
Theridion,
Thuja,
Triosteum,
"   from one day to thirty.
"   from  two hours to a fort-

"   from two to nine days.
"   not definitely ascertained.
"   from four to sixteen days.
"   from four to six days. 
                     DURATION OF ACTION.               XXxi

Urtica Urens,              duration of action from one hour to a week in
    burns.

Valleriana Officinalis,            "      "   from four hours to thirty-
    six.
Veratrum,                      "      "   from  one  hour to six or
    eight days.

Zincum Metallicum,              "      "   from one day to ten in par-
    alysis. 
 
MATERIA   MEDICA.
                 ACIDUM MURIATICUM.
         ACIDUM HYDROCHLORICUM.  {Muriatic Acid.)
  Antidotes.—For large doses, Alkalies ; for small doses, Bry. Camph.
  Sleep.—Drowsiness during the afternoon ; sleeplessness
at night.
  Fever.—Chilliness, with thirst; chilliness, particularly
in the evening; putrid fevers; night-sweats.
  Eyes  and  Ears.—Itching;  burning of the eyes, with
pressure; twinkling before the eyes;   pulsating in  the
ear;  hardness of  hearing.
  Face.—Pimples and freckles on the face.
  Abdomen  and Stool.—Violent cutting in  the  abdo-
men ; fullness and pressure in the lower part of the  abdo-
men ; pressure in the rectum;  swelling of the  varices in
the rectum ; bleeding in jets from the  rectum ; diarrhoea.
  Genital Organs.—Itching of the scrotum ;  the menses
appear too soon ;  Leucorrhcea.
  Extremities.—Cramps   and  drawings  in  the  arms;
weakness and weariness  in the legs ; coldness of the feet;
swelling and redness of the tips of the fingers and toes,
with burning pain.
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acidum nitricum.
                  ACIDUM NITRICUM.
                ACID NITRIC.   {Nitric Acid.)
  Antidotes.—For large doses, Alkalies ; for small doses, Calc-Carb.
Camph., Hepar-Sulph., Merc, Mag.
  G-eneral Symptoms.—Drawing, aching, and lacerating
pains ; susceptible to cold ; pains increased by changes of
the weather; secondary syphilis;  emaciation  and disease
from the abuse of mercury.
  Sleep.—Disturbed, unrefreshing sleep; lascivious dreams.
  Moral Symptoms.—Sadness ; anxieties ; excessive ner-
vousness ; irritable disposition.
  Head.—Lacerating head-ache;  itching of the scalp ; ul-
cerated spots on the head ; falling off of the hair.
  Eyes, Ears and Nose.—Paralysis of  the  upper lid;
swelling of the  eyelids ;  suppuration of the glands of the
lids ; sparks before the eyes ;  Stitches in the ear; caries of
the bone behind the ear ; difficult hearing;  Obstruction of
the nose ; fetid smell from the nose;  soreness and scurf in
the nose.
  Mouth.—The gums are spongy, and bleed; the gums
retract from the teeth, and the teeth loosen; ulcers  of the
mouth and fauces; putrid smell from  the mouth.
  Abdomen.—Pinching  pain;  uneasy rumbling;  flatu-
lence ; swelling of the inguinal glands; itching of the anus.
  Genital Organs.—Warts on  the glans;  swelling of
the prepuce; itching of the scrotum; swelling of the testes.
  Extremities.—Painful swelling of the axillary glands;
uneasy, drawing sensation of the limbs; copper-colored spots
on the limbs ; cramps in  the calf; fetid sweat of the feet. 
acidum sulphuricum.
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                ACIDUM sulphuricum.
             SULPHURIC ACID.  {Oil of Vitriol.)
  Antidote.—Puis.
  Skin.—Eed itching spots on different parts of the body;
itching of the skin;  bluish ecchymozed appearing spots;
suppurating sores.  Consequences of mechanical injuries.
  Fever.—Chilliness,  with a rough papular skin (goose
flesh); small, quick pulse.
  Eyes,  Ears and  Nose.—"Tension in the  lids in  the
morning;" dimness of vision in the morning; short-sighted-
ness ; Diminished hearing; Bleeding of the nose;  coryza.
  Throat and Chest.—Hoarseness; dryness and rough-
ness in the larynx ;  short, hacking cough ; Bleeding from
the lungs; oppression of the chest;  pressure in the  left
chest, and pit of the stomach.
  Gastric Symptoms.—Sour eructations; sourness in the
throat; nausea, with  chilliness; sensitiveness of the region
of the stomach to the touch,  or to  moderate pressure;
pressure  in  the stomach;  pricking,  or burning  in  the
stomach.
  Abdomen.—Pinching and cutting in the abdomen ; burn-
ing  and  pressure  below  the umbilical  region;  chronic
diarrhoea.
  Female Genital Organs,—Too early and too profuse
menstrual discharge;  uterine hemorrhage.
   Extremities.—Stitching   in  the shoulder-joint when
raising the arm; heaviness in  the arm ;  bluish spots on the
fore-arm, as if bruised;  heaviness of the legs; painful weak-
ness of the knees when standing;  painful jerks in  the
knees. 
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aconite.
                       ACONITE.
            ACONITUM NAPELLUS.  {Monk's Hood.)
  Its Antidotes are, Camphor, N~ux Vomica and Acetic-acid.
  The toxicological effects of Aconite, together with a knowl-
edge of  its physiological  and therapeutic  action, must, of
necessity, place it  as  the first remedy in inflammations,
in fevers of an inflammatory character, and venous conges-
tions.
  Characteristic Peculiarities.—Acute local and gene-
ral  inflammations;  fevers of an inflammatory character;
congestion, especially of the chest, or from weakness of the
heart's action; neuralgia and rheumatism, accompanied with
stinging  pains; or  heat and tingling, especially in  the  ex-
tremities ; dry heat of the affected parts, and sensitiveness
of the parts, on contact; pain, with thirst and flushed face;
affections caused by fright or chagrin; pains, aggravated at
night, and relieved when sitting up.
  Skin.—Hot  and dry; swelling and burning heat of af-
fected parts; Eruptions, resembling  flea-bites;  itching and
tingling,  especially in the extremities.
  Sleep.—Drowsiness;   sleep  disturbed  from confused
dreams;  sudden startings in sleep; sleeplessness, with
anxiety; general restlessness.
  Moral Symptoms.—Anguish;  anxiety ; low-spirited;
apprehensive; or that  peculiar versatility of mind charac-
terized by  alternate paroxysms of laughter and weeping,
sadness and gayety.
  Head.—Congestion  of  the head,  with heat and  redness
of the face; severe pain  in the  head, with inclination to 
ACONITE.
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vomit;  piercing, throbbing pain in  the head, forehead, or
temples; fullness, with a degree of heaviness ;  vertigo, par-
ticularly on raising the head; pains in the head, aggravated
by movement.
   Eyes.—Inflammation and redness; intense pain; profuse
lachrymation;  shooting pains,  especially on moving the
balls; heat  and burning;  congestions of  the  eye and the
vessels of the conj unctiva.
   Ears.—Eoaring in the ears;  excessive sensitiveness  of
hearing; intolerance to sound.                  *
   Nose.—Pressure over the root of the nose; swelling of the
nose, attended with heat and burning;  bleeding from the
nose in  plethoric persons; coryza and sneezing from taking
cold.
   Teeth.—Tooth-ache from cold; rheumatic and conges-
tive tooth-ache;  tooth-ache, renewed  or aggravated by wine
or other stimulants.
   Mouth,—Dryness of the mouth and tongue; tingling,
biting,  piercing and  burning of the  tongue;  temporary
stammering; heat, numbness and tingling of the lips.
   Throat.—Acute inflammation of the  throat, attended
with fever, and great difficulty in swallowing; Inflammation
of the tonsils and palate; Burning, fine, piercing and astrin-
gent sensation in the fauces.
   Appetite and Taste.—Loss  of  appetite;  aversion  to
food ; Bitter taste, or insipid, putrid taste;  unquenchable
thirst for beer.
   Stomach.—Violent pains in the stomach after eating  or
drinking;  painful feeling  of swelling in  the pit  of the
stomach; pressure in the stomach, with feeling of repletion. 
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  Abdomen.—Sensitive to the touch ; swollen, distended
condition  of the abdomen;  colicky  pains;  Dropsy; In-
flammation of the intestines.
  Stool.—Constipation in acute affections;  frequent small
loose stools, attended with bearing down;  watery diarrhoea.
  Urinary Organs,—Eetention of urine, with pressure in
the bladder; difficult and scanty emission of urine;  high-
colored  urine;  burning and pressing at  the  neck of the
bladder ; increased flow of urine. — Storck.
  Male Genital Organs.—Burning when urinating; itch-
ing of the prepuce ; inflammation of the  scrotum ; itching
of the genitals.
  Female Genital  Organs.—Increased  and  profuse
menses in plethoric females; suppression  in young girls of
congestive and sedentary habits; yellowish leucorrhcea.
  Larynx and Trachea.—Short, dry cough, with heat
and restlessness ; cough troublesome at night; cough, with
bloody expectoration, or with expectoration of mucus ;  spas-
modic, rough, croaking cough ; cough resembling croup.
  Chest.—Shortness of breath; anxious, labored breathing;
asthmatic attacks; threatened suffocation;  palpitation of the
heart, with great anguish; pain in the chest.
  Extremities.—Numbness;  paralysis  of the arms and
legs, especially the left side; drawing pains in the joints;
swelling of the hands and feet; creeping, tingling sensation;
sweat of the hands and feet. 
agaricus.
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                      AGARICUS.
            AGARICUS MUSCARIUS.  {Bug Agaric)
  Antidotes are Camph, Coffea, Pulsatilla, Vinum.
  General Symptoms.—"Great debility;  languor; pain-
ful  sense of weight and  sensitiveness in all  the  limbs."
Weary feeling upon a little exercise; unsteady gait;  dim-
inished muscular power;  Convulsions.
  Characteristic Peculiarities.—Cramps and pains in
the limbs;  Pains diminished by motion.
  Skin.—Itching; burning and prickling; redness of parts,
as if frozen ; miliary eruptions, with burning and stinging.
  Moral  Symptoms  and Sensorium. — Despondency;
lowness of spirits;  anxiety;  irritable and vexed mood;  for-
getfulness; Dulness of the head;  dizziness, and an intoxi-
cating feeling ; pressure in the head; drawing pains in the
head.
  Eyes,  Ears  and  Nose.—Pressure in  the  eyes from
without  inwards;  burning sensation in the eyes; thick,
gummy secretion in  the corners of the eyes; weak, indis-
tinct sight; Itching redness and burning of the ears ; Severe
pain in the right ear;  itching in and behind the ears; Itch-
ing of the nose;  bleeding from the nose, especially early in
the morning.
  Jaws  and Teeth.—Severe tearing in the right side of
the lower jaw;  Tearing in the teeth of the lower jaw in-
creased by cold.
  Taste  and Appetite.—Voracious appetite, or want of
appetite,  with thirst; insipid or bitter taste.
  Stomach and Abdomen.—Oppression at the stomach; 
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alianthus.
 cramp-like drawing in the pit of the stomach; Stitching
 pain in the abdomen; rumbling, and an emission of foetid
 flatus.
   Sexual Organs.—Itching and titillation; want of sex-
 ual power.
   Chest and Back.—Labored breathing;  violent oppres-
 sion of the chest;  Lameness;  sprained or bruised feeling in
 the small of the back.
   Extremities.—Eheumatic pains in the arms;  weariness
 of the limbs; trembling of the hands; burning and itching
 of the fingers and toes, and redness, as if frozen.


                       ALIANTHUS.
               A. GLANDULOSA.  {Alianthus Tree.)
   Antidotes.—Nux  Vom., Camph.

   General Symptoms.—General uneasiness; restlessness
 and  aching in the limbs; catarrhal and asthmatic condition
 of the head and chest; " electrical* thrill, extending from
 the brain to the extremities;" reeling and staggering gait.
   Fever.—Fever of a catarrhal character;  dry skin, with
increasing  heat during the forenoon; pulse more irritative
than inflammatory.

  * Vide Dr. Alley's proving in the  N. A. Journal of Homoeopathy, Vol.
VII., page 385, to which the reader is respectfully referred.  I will here
remark that I am constrained to consider the objections against the Alian-
thus as an ornamental tree well founded.  I know of instances where the
owners of property have been obliged to cut those down which stood in
close  proximity to the  doors and windows of their dwellings, in conse-
quence of the deleterious effects that they unquestionably produced upon
some one or two of the family, and upon an occasional visitor. 
aloes.
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   Head.—" Darting pain in  the  back part of the head;"
 dizziness upon stooping;  confusion of the head ;  a feeling
 of indistinctness.
   Sensorium.—Loss  of memory; confusion and fullness
 of the head; inability  to concentrate thought.
   Eyes and  Nose.—Catarrhal opthalmia;  feeling of irri-
 tation ; smarting and aching of the eyes ;  congestion ;  red-
 ness  and inflammation of  the conjunctiva; purulent dis-
 charge from the eyes ;  dry coryza; loss of smell;  stoppage
 of the nostrils; itching of the nose.
   Throat  and  Chest.—Tenderness,  and a  feeling of
 swelling  of the  throat;  difficult deglutition;  asthmatic
 choking sensation in the throat;   oppression of  the chest;
 difficult breathing;  asthmatic constriction  of the chest;
 dry hacking or suffocative cough ;* constant dry hacking
 cough, with soreness  and  tenderness of the chest during
 measles ;  aching pains in the  chest and shoulders.
   Extremities.—Lameness of the arms; tingling in the
 arms and fingers; paralytic weakness of the legs;  inability
 to step firmly,  or to control a steady gait.

                         ALOES.
               ALCE SOCOTRINA. {Socotrme Aloes.)
  Antidotes.—For large doses, Opium ; for small ones, the Vegetable
Acids.
   General Action.—Aloes  " acts  far  more specifically

  * I have used the tincture of the Alianthus with much success in several
cases of dry hacking cough, (almost  constant,) attended with  tenderness
and soreness of the chest, occurring in measles; also in other forms of ca-
tarrhal cough, attended with dry coryza and a degree of heat of the throat
and chest. I consider it a remedy worthy  of further investigation. 
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ALUMINA.
upon the vascular system than upon the nervous."  (New
Homoeopathic Materia Medica.)   It  acts  also upon the
stomach, liver, large intestines, and pelvic viscera.
  Head.—" Periodical headache, alternating with pains in
the back;"  headache, and congestions  of  the  head from
suppressed hemorrhoidal flux.
  Mouth,  Throat, and Stomach.—Heat,  and dryness
of the mouth ; redness and dryness of the tongue;  Bilious
eructations ; distention of the stomach ;  sensation of heat,
and tension.
  Abdomen.—Violent cutting, and colicky pains ; fullness,
heat and distention of the abdomen; pressure and heat in
the region of the liver; bilious  diarrhoea   and  dysentery,
attended with griping pain ;   scanty bilious  stools,  at-
tended with pain, pressing, and a  sense of heat or excoria-
tion of the anus ; congestions of  the pelvic viscera ; inter-
nal and external  piles; itching in  the anus, and a degree
of uneasiness and pressure in the rectum.
  Sexual Organs.—Painful menstruation;  profuse or
scanty menstruation;  Strangury  from sympathetic irrita-
tion from piles; Haematuria.


                      ALUMINA.
                        ALUM.
  Antidotes.—Bryonia, Cham. Ipecac.
  General  Symptoms.—Tearing  and drawing  in the
limbs; congestions of the head and chest, from  suppressed
piles; scrofulous and arthritic  affections; involuntary mo-
tions of the head and other parts ; trembling of the limbs •
deficiency of animal heat. 
alumina.
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  Characteristic Peculiarities.—Most of the symp-
toms come  on in the sitting posture, and decrease when
walking.
  Skin.—Itching  of  the whole body; humid scurf, and
tetters;  dry, scaly eruptions, particularly on the  back and
shoulders.
  Sleep.—Drowsiness in the  day-time;  wakefulness  in
the  evening;  unrefreshing sleep; deep, sound  sleep to-
wards morning.
  Fever.—Internal  chilliness and shuddering,  especially
in the evening.
  Moral and Sensorium.—Sullen  mood;  sadness and
anxiety; apprehensiveness ; tendency to start; fitful mood,
dissatisfied and despairing;  Inability  to think  or recollect;
stupefaction and vertigo.
  Scalp.—Itching scales on the hairy scalp; itching on
the forehead;  humid scurf on the temples.
  Eyes.—Pressure in the  eyes;  burning; profuse secre-
tion of mucus, and nightly agglutination.
  Ears and Nose.—Humming in the ears ; crepitation;
snapping like electric sparks, especially when chewing  or
swallowing; Ulceration of the membrane of the nose ; stop-
page of the nose;  dry or fluent  coryza; bleeding from the
nose.
  Face and Mouth.—Paleness of countenance;  lancina-
tions in  the cheek-bones;  blotches,  and violent itching;
Soreness of the  mouth,  tongue,  palate and  gums, as  if
burnt; dryness of the mouth.
  Taste and Gastric Symptoms.—Taste as of blood  in
the  mouth ;  astringent, bitter or acid  taste; frequent eruc- 
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ammonium carbonicum.
tations; sour, corrosive and acrid condition of the throat,
and nausea; pain, pressure and soreness  at the pit of the
stomach.
  Stool and  Anus.—Tenesmus; inactivity and paralysis
of the rectum ; itching and burning of the anus;  hard and
difficult stool;  obstinate constipation in infants.
  Female Sexual  Organs.—Leucorrhoea after the men-
ses ;  profuse leucorrhoea of' transparent mucus during the
day.
  Chest and  Back,—Oppression of the chest; palpita
tion of the heart, on waking; shocks in the  region  of the
heart; Gnawing pains in the sacrum.
  Extremities.—Pain in  the shoulder-joint; lancinations
in the upper arm; heaviness of the legs ;  drawing pain in
the knees ; lacerating pain in the knees and feet.


               ammonium carbonicum.
        CARBONATE  OF AMMONIA.  {Salts of Hartshorn.)
  Antidote.—Arnica,  Camph. ; BZepar-Sulph.
  General Symptoms,—Great lassitude; weariness; bruised
sensation in the whole body; pains, as if sprained in the
joints; drawing and tension;   curvature  of the bones;
rickets and glandular affections.
  Skin.—Itching of the skin of the whole body ;  rash on
the left side of the  neck, and left  arm ; chronic rash ; un-
usual sensitiveness of the skin to  cold.
  Sleep.—Sleepiness during the day; uneasy, unrefreshing
sleep; frequent wakings and startings  from sleep, as if  in
affright, at night. 
ammonium carbonicum.
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  Fever.—Frequent  chills towards  evening;   alternate
chills and flashes of heat;  feverish heat in  the head and
cold feet; sweat during the day.

  Moral,  Sensorium  and  Head.—Turns of  anxiety;
loathing of life;  fearfulness; Diminution of the  thinking
power;  absence of thought;  Vertigo; chronic headache;
headache, with nausea;  severe pressing and hammering
headache;  falling off of the hair.

  Eyes, Ears and Nose.—Dry gum on the eye-lids; short-
ness of  sight;  cataract;  Diminished hearing; buzzing be-
fore the ears ;  Chronic dryness of the nose; stoppage of the
nose at night;  bleeding at the nose ; chronic coryza.

  Taste, Appetite and Gastric Symptoms.—Bitter, sour
and metallic taste ; sour eructations; eructations tasting of
the ingesta; heartburn;  qualmishness  after dinner; bleed-
ing from the stomach.

  Abdomen and Stool.—Burning; boring stitches in the
liver; pain in  the  abdomen, as from concussion;  constipa-
tion ; retarded and hard stool;  discharge  of blood before
and after an evacuation ; itching of the anus.

  Chest and Back.—Asthma; difficult  breathing,  with
palpitation of the heart; stitches in  the chest; drawing pain
in the nape of the neck; swelling of the cervicle glands.

  Extremities.—Eigidity and coldness of the arms; pains
in the wrist and fingers ; weakness of the legs ; swelling and
sweating of the feet. 
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anacardium.
                    anacardium.
                     {Malacca Bean.)
  Antidotes.—Camphor and Coffea.
  General Symptoms,—Drawing  and pains in  almost
every part of the body; bruised  sensation of the  bones;
inability  to  make  much of an effort; easily  exhausted;
trembling upon moving; catches cold easily, and sensitive
to currents of air.
  Fever.—Chilliness and shivering; feverish uneasiness in
the afternoon.
  Moral Symptoms.—Sadness ;  anxiety;  apprehensive-
ness, and desponding; conflicting  wills.
  Head.—Violent pressure in the region of the right tem-
ple ; simultaneous compression in  both  of the temples;
throbbing headache, and the pain  increased by motion.
  Eyes, Ears and Nose.—Dimness of the eyes; suffused
feeling;  muscae volitantes;  Itching in the  ears, attended
with a discharge of brownish matter; painful swelling of
the outer ear ; humming and roaring in the ears; Bleeding
at the nose ; obstruction, chronic coryza, and feeling of dry-
ness in the nose.
   Stool,—Constant urging without effect;  blood during
stool;  itching of the anus, and moisture from the rectum.
   Larynx and Trachea.—Eoughness of the throat; vio-
lent cough; short cough, with expectoration of pus.
   Genital Organs.—Leucorrhoea, attended with itching
and soreness;  sexual intercourse affords no enjoyment; in-
voluntary emissions.
   Extremities.—Drawing pain in the upper arm; cramp- 
          ANGUSTURA—ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM.        35

ing pains; tremor of the hands;  painful uneasiness around
the knees; cramps in the calves of the legs and burning in
the soles of the feet.

                     ANGUSTURA.
                 GALIPEA  OFFICINALIS.
   Antidote— Coffea.
   General Symptoms.—General  lameness,  attended with
chilliness and want of animal heat; drawings in the limbs;
momentary cramps; numbness  of the  feet  and legs, but
without a tingling sensation; general lassitude.
   Moral Symptoms: Sensorium, Head and  Scalp.—
Discouragement; gloominess; great absence of mind; cramp
like headache; vertigo  in the open air;  soreness of the
eyelids;  itching of the scalp.
   Extremities.—General lameness;  tired,  weary, heavy
feeling; coldness of the fingers ;  numbness of the feet, and
pains in them when standing.


                ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM.
                   CRUDE ANTIMONY.
   Antidotes.—LTepar, Sulph., Mercurius.
   General Symptoms.—Bheumatic, arthritic and dropsi-
cal affections; freckles; hard  swellings  and  horny excres-
cences of the  skin; weariness, lassitude and disinclination
to exercise.
   Fever.—Disagreeable feeling of internal chilliness ;  shiv-
erings ;  Gastric and bilious fevers.
   Eyes, Ears and Nose.—Inflammation of the eyes; red-
ness of the eyelids; painful arthritic affections of the eyes ; 
36           ANTIMONIUM  TARTARIZATUM.
painful roaring in the ears;  partial or entire deafness; feel-
ing of soreness in the nostrils; stoppage of the nose ;  crusts
on the nostrils.
  Gastric Symptoms.—Bitter  eructations;  nausea  after
eating  or drinking;  vomiting;  vomiting,  attended with
prostration and copious perspiration ; cramp of the stomach;
pain at the stomach, as from excessive fullness.

  Stool.—Disposition to diarrhoea;  slimy stools ; alternate
diarrhoea and constipation ; pain in the rectum during stool;
diarrhoea of pregnant females.

  Larynx and Trachea,—Eoughness of the voice ; con-
stant hawking; dryness of the throat; the throat is inflamed,
sore  and smarting;  small pustules on the palate, tonsils and
fauces.
  Extremities.—Drawing  pains  in the fingers and their
joints ;  itching vesicles and pimples on the hands and arms;
stiffness of the knee; drawing pains in  the legs, and great
sensitiveness of the soles of the feet.


             ANTIMONIUM  TARTARIZATUM.
     ANTIMONII ET POTASSE  TARTRAS.  {Tartar Emetic)
  One great peculiarity of tartarized antimony is, that while
its general action is that of sedative upon the circulatory
system,  it excites most of the secretions.   It is, unquestion-
ably, one of our most valuable remedies.

  General  Symptoms.—Great  prostration;  weak,  lan-
guid, prostrated state of the  system ; gastric and  intestinal
disturbance;  sore throat; particularly pustular;  eruptive
diseases. 
APIS MELLIFICA.
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  Mouth  and Throat.—Inflammation of the mucous
membrane of the cheeks and fauces; small pustules on the
tongue and palate; pustular sore throat;  yellow, ulcerated
patches on the tonsils;  titillation in the throat;  cough, with
rattling of mucous.
  Stomach.—Distressing,  prostrating nausea;  excessive
vomiting;  every thing turns the stomach; burning sting-
ing in the stomach; nausea,  with waterbrash;  cramps and
pains in the region of the stomach.
  Abdomen  and  Stool—Sickening, pinching pain in the
abdomen;  diarrhoeic stools;  watery  stools;  colliquative
diarrhoea.
  Skin.—Pustular eruption, like small pox; pustular ery-
sipelas ; mattery pimples; barbers' itch; copious, drenching
perspirations.
  Chest.—Difficult breathing;  bloody expectoration; ex-
pectoration like muddy water; rattling cough; loud mucous
rale;  painful respiration; constriction of the chest.
  Genital Organs,—Pruritis; swelling,  burning,  and
pustular eruption  on the labia; "watery or  bloody  leu-
corrhoea."
  Extremities.—Eheumatic  pains;  trembling of  the
hands;  cold hands; painful cramps in the legs, returning
at short intervals; weakness of the legs; coldness of the
extremities.

                   APIS MELLIFICA.
                     HONEY BEE.
  Antidotes.—China, Arsen., Ipecac.
  General Symptoms.—Shortness of breath from dropsy;
Dropsical affections; swellings,  especially when attended
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apocynum cannabinum.
with biting, burning,  stinging, and itching; swellings re-
sembling those arising from the sting of a bee.
  Face and Eyes.—Swelling on the side of the face and
temples, whitish or inclining to a delicate pink color; puf-
finess of the eyelids; swelling beneath the eye; eyes injected
and smarting.
  Skin.—Eruptions  resembling   nettle-rash;  large  pink
blotches with a white centre; biting and  stinging of the
skin; erysipelas, with swelling.
  Chest and Abdomen.—Shortness of breath; threatened
suffocation; bloated, uneasy feeling of the abdomen; dropsy
of the chest;  dropsy of the abdomen.
  Extremities.—Anasarcous swelling of the inferior ex-
tremities ; puffiness of the dorsum of the hands  and feet;
swelling of the hands and feet, resembling the bite of insects,
or the sting of a bee.

              APOCYNUM CANNABINUM.
                  (INDIAN HEMP. (U. S.)
  Antidotes—China, Bryonia, Arsen., Ipecac.
  General Symptoms.—Apocynum  exerts  an  influence
over the nervous and vascular systems, secretions and excre-
tions ;  upon the stomach, bowels,  kidneys, skin, and circula-
tion ; upon the brain, in producing drowsiness. Also, upon
the throat and chest.
  Head,  Mouth  and Throat.—Drowsiness; slight ver-
tigo ;  dryness of the tongue; unpleasant heat of the larynx
and fauces; heat in the throat; a disposition  to scrape the
throat by hawking.
  Chest.—Difficult  breathing;  oppression  of the chest;
dropsy of the chest;  palpitation  of the heart. 
AP0CYNUM CANNABINUM.
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   Pulse.—Small pulse; small,  quick pulse; pulse feeble
 and irregular; pulse intermits.

   Stomach  and  Abdomen.—Nausea;  nausea,  attended
 with drowsiness;  excessive vomiting;  pain  in  the abdo-
 men, of a  colicky and griping character;  distention of the
 abdomen;  abdominal dropsy.

   Stool.—Thin, watery stool;  watery  diarrhoea; copious
 watery evacuations from the bowels;  hemorrhage from the
 bowels.  (Dr. Paine, of Albany.)

   Urine.—Diminished quantity  of urine ; small discharges
 of light yellow  or dark-colored  urine;  great difficulty in
 voiding urine; frequent desire to  urinate, without effect;
 severe pain and pressure  at the  neck of the bladder, with
 constant ineffectual urgings to urinate;  entire suppression
 of urine.

   Extremities.—Heaviness  of the extremities ;  swelling
 of the  hands and feet;  dropsical swelling  of the inferior
 extremities ;  legs and feet swollen, ready to burst; swelling
 of the legs, ankles and feet; the skin cracking, and exuding
 serum from the fissures.
  Note.—Apocynum has long been a favorite remedy in dropsies, with the
 older physicians in the interior of the country, particularly those of the bo-
 tanic order;  and, from the  success attending its empirical use, it has be-
 come favorably known as one of our most efficient and reliable remedies in
 dropsy, and in urinary difficulties.  I have never had  it fail in the most
 obstinate retention or suppression of urine, or distressing strangury ;  audit
 has proven the most reliable remedy in every form of dropsy.   And I will
here remark, that I have not found it necessary to  give it in the large
doses recommended  by some.  I use from two to five drops of the tinc-
ture, (never more than seven) mixed in a tumbler two thirds full of pure
cold water, and give a dessert-spoonful, (to an adult)  for dropsical affec-
tions, every three or  four hours, and  in urinary difficulty, every hour or
two, until it affords relief.  Vide Freligh's pmvings in the " A'orlh Ameri-
can Journal of Homoeopathy," vol. iv\, png.- 019. 
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ARGENTUM NITRICUM.
                 ARGENTUM NITRICUM.
            NITRATE OF SILVER.  {Lunar Caustic.)
Antidotes.—Herc-Cors. Alum, Natr-Muriat.
   General Symptoms.—Great  debility and weariness in
the lower limbs;  Drowsiness  and chilliness; Cramps and
rigidity, particularly of  the calves of the legs;  Convul-
sions ;  Paralysis  of the  extremities;   Presentments  and
dreads.

   Skin.—Prickling  and  itching  of  the  skin at night;
small pimples, which bleed when scratched ; Cyanosis (blue
skin) from cardiac disease.
   Sleep.—Sleepiness when sitting; Eestlessness  at night,
disturbed by dreams.
   Moral  Symptoms.—Irritated  and anxious  mood; Hy-
pochondriac  taciturnity.

   Head.—Confusion ;  dull,  muddle-headedness ;  Head-
ache at night; Headache when waking in the morning;
Head feels full, heavy and stupid; severe  headache, at-
tended with  chilliness.

   Face, Eyes, Ears and Nose.—Convulsions of  the fas-
cial muscles;  old and  sickly  appearance;  bluish  counte-
nance ; Itching and smarting of the canthi; Eedness of the
eyes; sensation of blindness;  Inflammations and  conges-
tions of the eyes; opacity of the cornea; Dragging pain
in the  ears;  Einging and whizzing ; momentary deafness ;
smarting and itching of the nose; Dullness of the sense of
smell;  coryza.
   Gastric Symptoms.—Violent  belching; nausea; Vom- 
arnica.
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iting;  Sensitiveness of the stomach, and pain in the prse-
cordia.
  Stomach.—Violent cardialgia; oppression; gnawing pain
in the stomach, inclining to the left side; Pain and pressure
in the left hypochondrium.
  Urinary Organs.—Frequent emission of a pale, strong-
smelling urine;  Burning after urinating; Heat and itching
in the urethra; Blenorrhagic or mucus discharge from the
urethra; Stricture of the urethra.
  Chest.—Violent irritation ;  oppression  of the chest;
aching, tensive pain in the chest;  Palpitation of the  heart
at night; violent palpitation ;  faint, sickening feeling.
  Back.—Tensive squeezing pains in  the back; Nightly
pains in the back ;  weariness in the small of the back.
  Arms and Legs.—Pains in the wrist; Eheumatic draw-
ings in the joints of the fingers ; Paralytic weakness of the
legs;  rigidity in the calves  of the legs: drawing in the
feet.

                        ARNICA.
              ARNICA MONTANA.  {Monk's Hood.)
  Antidotes—Camphor and Ignatia.
  General Symptoms.—Complaints of nervous individu-
als ; full, plethoric  habit; rheumatic and arthritic pains;
apoplexy and  paralysis;  swellings;  ecchymosis,   from
bruises;  ecchymosed  spots;  effects from sprains,  strains
and contusions; corns and other indurations ; painful and
excessive sensitiveness of the whole body ; heaviness in the
limbs ; convulsions and tetanic spasms, from  injuries.
  Skin.—Fine pricking of the skin, especially of the  nose
and eyebrows;  stinging, burning and itching of the skin. 
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ARNICA.
  Fever.—Paroxysms,  generally  in the afternoon  and
evening; fevers of low grade ; fevers, with extreme sore-
ness of the skin and membranes covering the bones.
  Moral Symptoms, — Hypochondriacal, obstinate  and
headstrong; quarrelsome and peevish,
  Sensorium.—Vertigo, with obscuration of sight;  de-
lirium ;  apoplexy; concussion of the brain ;  congestions
and extravasations of blood.
  Head  and Eyes.—Burning in  the brain;  heat in the
head, or burning, and  the remainder of the  body being
cool; aching in the forehead; lancinations and stitches in
the forehead ; lancinating and tearing pain in the head, in-
creased  by stooping; contraction of the  pupils; the eyes
are half-closed ; obscuration of sight.
  Gastric Symptoms,  and  Stomach.—Nausea;  eructa-
tions, and an inclination  to vomit; feeling of fullness in the
stomach;  pinching, spasmodic griping  in the  stomach;
retching at night.
  Abdomen  and Stool.—Tension and  inflation  of the
abdomen, especially the  lower part; Colic from  straining
the bowels by lifting;  white diarrhoeic stool;  Involuntary
stool at night.
  Genital  Organs.—Soreness after delivery; too severe
after pains.
  Larynx.—Dry,  short,  hacking  cough;  cough  with
bloody expectoration ;  bleeding from the throat and chest.
  Chest.—Stitches in the chest;  sore oppression of the
chest; difficult  breathing.
  Extremities.—Drawing, cramp-like pains; swellings of
the hands and feet; sprained,  sore feeling. 
ARSENICUM.
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                      ARSENICUM.
            ARSENICUM ALB UM.  {White Arsenic)
  Antidotes—For large doses, Hydrated Peroxyde of Iron, Sesqui-
oxyde, and the Muriate Tincture of Iron.  For small doses,  Cam-
phor, China Fer, Ipecac, Nux Vomica.
  General Symptoms.—Pains in the whole body;  rapid
sinking of strength ;  extreme weakness and debility ;  ema-
ciation ;  marasmus and consumption;  epileptic fits;  con-
vulsions ; tetanic spasms;  diseases of the mucous and se-
rous membranes; dropsical and scrofulous affections; dis-
eases arising from the  abuse  of quinine or  iodine; fevers
of an intermittent type.
  Characteristic Peculiarities.—Arsenicum is suitable
to melancholy; pains returning at intervals; symptoms worse
in the evening, and at night;  periodical  pains and fevers.
  Skin.—Chlorosis,  jaundice,  dropsical  swellings;  dry,
parchment-like skin ; burning and itching of the skin ; pe-
techias ;  miliary  eruptions,  pustules,  nettle-rash;  dark
brown or blackish pustules, or  blisters,  filled  with a  sero-
bloody fluid, or grumous-appearing fluid;  putrid ulcers;
gangrene, varices and chilblains.
  Sleep.—Sleeplessness ;  uneasy and starting, as in fright;
unpleasant dreams.
  Fever.—Coldness of the  limbs;  intermittent  and ty-
phoid fevers ; hectic  fever, night sweats.
  Sensorium.—Delirium; Diminished memory ;  stupid,
weak feeling in the head ;  vertigo.
  Headache.—Periodical headache, relieved by the appli-
cation of cold water; weight  in the forehead ;  lacerating in
the head. 
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ARSENICUM.
  Ears and Eyes.—Humming in the ears; roaring and
singing in the ears;  humid  eruption of the ears;  swelling
of the ears, so as to  close them ; Inflammation of the eyes;
burning,  lacerating, nightly agglutination of the  eyelids;
weak sight.
  Face.—Sunken  countenance;  sallow, sickly   appear-
ance ; distorted features; bluish, dark-brown, or black lips;
dry and cracked eruptions around  the mouth;  milk crust
on the face, or head; swelling of the glands under the jaw.
  Mouth.—Fetid smell from the mouth;  great  dryness of
the mouth and tongue ; apthae; stomacace.  The tongue
is dry, dark and cracked ; brown or blackish; slowness of
speech.
  Throat.—Scraping  sensation in the throat;  inflamma-
tion  of the throat,  tending to gangrene; burning  in the
pharynx, and great  thirst.
  Appetite and  Taste.—Loss of appetite; bitterness of
the mouth,  particularly after  eating and drinking;  no
taste; desire for acids, or for brandy.
  Chest.—Difficult breathing;  short,  anxious and oppres-
sive  breathing; asthma; angina of the chest; constriction
of the chest;  dropsy of the chest;  palpitation of the heart.
  Stomach—Pressure  at the stomach  ; empty eructations;
nausea and vomiting; shivering and  chilliness after drink-
ing ; weakness  of digestion; a disposition to vomit after
eating; excessive  vomiting; vomiting of yellow, greenish
bile, or vomiting  a white frothy mucus; burning  in the
stomach;  insatiate thirst; excessive pains in the stomach,
of a burning, tearing, or cramping character ;  great weight
and oppression in the pit of the stomach; the epigastrium
is sore and tender to the touch. 
ARTEMISIA VULGARIS.
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  Abdomen.—Spasmodic pains in the abdomen; attacks
of colic; burning in the abdomen, or cold and chilly feel-
ing ;  distention of the  abdomen, from flatus or effusion,
(ascites); tympanitic condition of the abdomen in children.
  Stool and Anus.—Constipation ; diarrhoea and dysen-
tery,  attended with  tenesmus and burning; diarrhoeic and
dysinteric  stools; mucous, bilious, greenish, brown, dark
or whitish  mucus; burning and excoriation  of the anus.
  Urinary Organs.—Paralysis  of  the bladder; frequent
urging to urinate ; scanty dark-colored urine ;  painful and
difficult urination ; bloody urine; burning of the urethra.
  Female Genital Organs.—Profuse menstruation;  too
frequent menstruation; leucorrhoea; acrid and  corroding
leucorrhoea;  induration and cancerous  affections of  the
uterus.
  Extremities.—Drawing  and  lacerating  in  the arms;
swellings,  with black  blisters; bruised pain in the legs;
old ulcers; swelling of the  feet; hot,  shiny and burning
red spots on the feet;  painful ulcers  on the feet; soreness
of the balls of the feet.


                 ARTEMISIA VULGARIS.
                       MUG WORT.
  According to our materia medica  and "Symptomen
Code£," there has been no reliable proving of this remedy.
It has been used in epilepsy of lying-in women, occasioned
by fright, and in other spasmodic affections.  It has been
used to promote labor-pains, and for the suppression of the
menses.   Also, in gastric, intermittent and typhoid fevers.
Vide Hull's Jahr. 
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ASPARAG US—ASSAF03TIDA.
                     ASPARAGUS.
                ASPARAGUS OFFICINALIS.
  Antidotes— Coffea.
  Head.—Pressure in the forehead.
  Stomach.—Increased thirst and nausea.
  Urinary and Genital Organs.—Burning in the ure-
thra ;  excitement of the sexual instinct.
  Chest.—Coughs;  oppression of the  chest; palpitation
of the heart.

                    ASSAFCETIDA.
            NARTHEX ASSAFCETIDA. (Assafcetida.)
  Antidotes—Caust.  Chin. Flee.
  General Symptoms.—Languor and weariness during
the afternoon  and evening; lassitude;  trembling;   cold
skin,  with feeble  pulse;  Intermittent fever, with general
coldness and shivering, and without marked reaction; Hys-
terical and general nervous complaints; carious ulcers; ul-
cers discharging very fetid  pus;  Eickety and scrofulous
affections.
  Characteristic Peculiarities.—Tearing pains from
within outwards, changing into different characters of pain;
intermittent pains; feeling of coldness and numbness.
  Fever.—General coldness and shuddering, attendee] with
a feeble pulse.
  Moral  Symptoms.—Alternate  fits of  laughing and cry-
ing ; dull, stupid, or  semi-unconsciousness; attacks of hys-
teria.
  Chest.—Oppression  of the chest; choking sensation; 
AURUM.
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globus-hystericus; violent pounding  and striking of the
chest during a hysteric convulsion; Whooping-cough coming
on in paroxysms, and cough spasmodic, or suffocative.


                       AURUM.
                         GOLD.
  Antidotes—Bell, China, Cuprum, Merc.
  General effects of aurum are principally in promoting the
secretions of the skin, kidneys and salivary glands.   It is a
good remedy in  secondary and tertiary syphilis, and has
been employed with much success  in  that form of melan-
choly tending to suicide.
  Head.—Eush of blood  to the head ; tumult and roaring
in the head;  small bony tumors on the head.
  Eyes.—Inflammation ;  incipient amaurosis;  specks on
the cornea.
  Ears and Nose.—Affections of the ears, from the abuse
of mercury ; caries of the bones; foul, fetid discharge from
the ears; partial deafness;  roaring in the ears, early in the
morning.
  Nose.—Swelling of the nose;  sore nostrils ;  caries of the
bones of the nose; loss of smell.
  Throat and Mouth.—Sore mouth;  caries of the pal-
ate ; bluish ulcers in  the throat and on the fauces.
  Skin.—Large red patches; eruptions of a leprous  char-
acter.
  Genital  Organs.—Swelling of the right testicle;  chro-
nic  induration  of the testes; prolapsus  and induration of
the uterus. 
 48   AURUM NITRO MURIATICUM—BARYTA CARBONICA.

               AURUM NITRO MURIATICUM.
                   CHLORIDE OF GOLD.
   This preparation of gold does not differ materially in its
 effects from the Aurum Foliat, or other preparations of the
 metal.   It is principally used in scrofulous ulcers, syphilitic
 ulcers, eruptions of a leprous character, catarrh with ulcera-
 tion of the nasal  bones;  ulcer back of the  ear, and foul
 discharges from the ears, attended with imperfect hearing;
 also, in cases of melancholy, despondency and weariness of
 life.
                  BARYTA CARBONICA.
                 CARBONATE OF BARYTA.
   Antidotes.—Bell.  Camph. Pule. Merc.
   General Symptoms.—Scrofulous affections; jerking of
 a single limb or muscle; great sensitiveness to cold ;  pros-
 tration ; paralysis following apoplexy; atrophy of children;
 glandular swellings; and it is particularly  applicable to
 complaints of the  aged and infirm, also, for herpetic  erup-
 tions ;  crusta lactea.
  Skin.—Warts;  burning and stinging of the skin; prick-
 ing sensation over the whole body.
  Moral Symptoms.—Desires to be alone;  dread of men;
 disinclination  to  converse;  great solicitude  about small
 things.

  Head.—Loss of hair; scurf on the head;  the scalp is
 painful to the touch.

  Sensorium.—Dulness of the head;  dizziness from stoop-
ing, with nausea or headache;  apoplexy of the old.
  Eyes,  Ears and Nose.—Black spots before the eyes- 
BELLADONNA.
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bleered sight; agglutination  of the eyelids;  Throbbing
in the ear; eruptions on  the  ears; roaring in the ears;
Scurf under the nose ; unpleasant dryness of the nostrils.
  Face.—Dry, scaly eruptions ;  herpetic  eruption; swell-
ing of the left cheek.

  Gastric Symptoms.—Sour or bitter eructations;  nausea;
weakness of digestion.
  Stomach.—Pain in the stomach; heaviness of the stom-
ach, with nausea when fasting;  soreness in  the pit of the
stomach.
  Urinary Organs.—Great desire to urinate; cannot re-
tain the urine.
  Female Genital Organs.—Diminished flow  of the
menses; leucorrhoea; colic, with swelling of the lower limbs.
  Back.—Painful drawing in the small of the  back;  ten-
sive pain in the small of the  back;  stiffness in the  nape of
the neck; lancinations and tensive pains in the neck; sar-
comatous swelling  of the  glands of the  neck; glandular
swellings of the neck; occiput and axillae.


                     BELLADONNA.
          ATROPA BELLADONNA. (Deadly Night Shade.)
  Antidotes—Camphor, Coffea.
  General Symptoms.—Spasms;  startings and  convul-
sions of the limbs; convulsions;  Infantile convulsions; loss
of consciousness; violent screaming; Epilepsy;  St. Vitus'
dance; Fainting;  one-sided  paralysis;  Hysteria;  Scrofu-
lous swellings; opthalmia, congestions of the eyes;  conges-
tion  of the brain; scarlet eruptions;  erysipelas; burning
and stinging of the skin. 
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BELLADONNA.
  Characteristic Peculiarities.—This drug is suitable
for  complaints of  plethoric persons ;  those disposed to
phlegmonous inflammation;  lymphatic and scrofulous dis-
eases ; diseases  of children and  young  females of delicate
skin and rosy complexion ; and for diseases with aggrava-
tion of  symptoms in the afternoon, towards evening, and
during the night.

  Moral Symptoms.—Mental derangement, attended with
great anguish; anguish about the heart;  melancholic mood;
inactive, still, and listless; immoderate laughter or crying;
craziness, furious  delirium; rage, biting his teeth together;
tries to bite every thing around him ; perfect wildness.

  Skin.—Scarlet rash; scarlet fever; scarlet red spots; ery-
sipelas ;  biting, burning, stinging and itching of the skin;
red-hot swellings; bleeding ulcers ; fungous growths ; scrof-
ulous and glandular swellings.
  Sleep.—Drowsiness in the evening;  sleeplessness  at
night;  sleep disturbed by frightful dreams;  dull,  heavy,
haggard, unrefreshing sleep;  sudden starting from sleep, as
in affright.
  Fever.—Chilliness; chills passing down the back, and
of the arms;  quotidian and tertian fevers,  commencing
with a shaking chill; chills come on mostly at night; ab-
sence  of thirst during the chill; fever, with flushed face
and severe headache.  It is also a  good remedy in fevers,
when perspiration sets  in during the hot stage, or immedi-
ately after. .
  Sensorium.—Vertigo;  dizziness,  attended with nausea;
sense of reeling and turning in the head;  stupefaction and
confusion of the  mind and  senses;  loss of consciousness;
loss of sense and  intellect. 
BELLADONNA.
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   Head.—Severe headache, particularly in  the forehead;
agonizing headache;  headache from  congestion; drawing,
pressing,  violent, throbbing headache;  severe lacerating
pains over the brows; headache attended with nausea.
   Face.—Violent redness  and heat in the  face;  glowing
redness ; scarlet red or bluish redness of the face ;  bloated
and swollen face; erysipelas of the face.
   Eyes.—Inflammation and congestion of the eyes;  pain,
smarting, itching, tingling  and burning of the eyes; con-
traction of the pupils, from over-sensitiveness, or dilitation
from a want of sensitiveness; imperfect vision; sees things
double, or surrounded with a colored circle.
   Ears.—Severe earache; stitches extending from  the up-
per jaw into the  internal ear; tingling, roaring, stitches in
the ears;  acute inflammation of the internal ear: swellinc
of the external ear, attended with redness and heat; hard-
ness of hearing, from a cold.
   Nose.—Swelling of the nose;  redness  of the tip of the
nose;  ulceration  of  the nostrils;  dryness  of the nose;
bleeding at the nose, from congestion.
                       ♦
   Mouth and  Throat.—Eed, inflammatory swelling of
the mouth ; the  papillae of the tongue is raised, and bright
red ; stammering ; weakness of the organs of speech; pro-
fuse secretion  of saliva;  hemorrhage from the mouth ;  dry-
ness of the throat;  violent inflammation of the throat and
fauces;  inflammation  and swelling of the tonsils; burning
in the throat;  sharp stitches; great difficulty in swallowing.

  Appetite and Taste.—Insipid, disgusting taste;  loss of
appetite; repugnance  to food.

  Chest.—Difficult breathing;  oppression  of the chest; 
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BELLADONNA.
asthma ;  fine stitches under the clavicle; stitches in the left
side of the chest;  hysteric spasm of the chest; palpitation
of the heart.
  Stomach.—Hard and  painful pressure  in the stomach;
spasm of the stomach.
  Abdomen.—Colic;  pressure in the  abdomen;  violent
straining and bearing-down pains; distended abdomen, and
painful to the touch.
  Stool and Anus.—Diarrhoea and dysentery, attended
with tenesmus; contractive pain in the rectum; involun-
tary  discharge  of fasces,  from paralysis of the sphincter
muscle.
  Urine.—Difficulty in voiding urine; retention ; frequent
desire to urinate, with copious emissions; inability to retain
the urine.
  Female Genital Organs.—Great dryness and stitches
in the vagina; pressing, bearing-down pain; bearing down,
followed by  hemorrhage; the menses appear  between the
regular periods; erysipelatous inflammation of the breasts;
swelling and indurations of the breast.
  Back.—Glandular swellings on  the  nape of the neck;
painful swellings on the back part of the neck.
  Extremities.—Lacerating, with pressure, in the  shoul-
der ;  lameness of the arms; swelling of the hands;  pain in
the hip joints ;  heaviness and lameness of the legs.    ' 
               BENZOIC acid—bismuthum.            53


                      BENZOIC  ACID.
                  FLOWERS OF BENZOIN.
   According to the translations of the American Institute
of Homoeopathy, Benzoin should occupy a prominent posi-
tion in our Materia Medicas, particularly  as  a  remedy in
diseases of the mucus surfaces, and of the tendons of the
extremities.
   I have used it in many of the conditions named in Jahr's
Manual, and regret  to say, that it has  not come up to my
expectations.   But  I have found  it  very serviceable in
hoarseness  attended with a dry,  unpleasant heat  of the
throat and fauces.  Also in coughs arising from a sensation
of heat and titillation in the throat, and in coughs approach-
ing croup.

                       BISMUTHUM.
                NIT. OF BISMUTH.  (Bismuth.)
  Antidotes—For small doses,  Calc.  Caps.,  Nvx-Vom.   For  large
doses, Albuminous and other emollient drinks should be given, and the
metal evacuated from the stomach by means of an emetic.
   Head.—Dullness; dull pressure, with aching  pains in
different parts of  the head ;  vertigo.
   Stomach  and Abdomen. — Nausea;  eructations of
water;  water brash;  pressure in  the  stomach;  severe
gnawing  pain in  the stomach, attended with heat; cardial-
gia; Griping and pressure in the abdomen; watery diarrhoea.

  Note.—I have used Bismuth very successfully in Angina Pectoris, attended
with severe pain in the region of the heart; the pain extending from the
left shoulder down to the elbow and fingers; also, in severe cases of car-
dialgia.   It is supposed to act as a sedative on the nerves of the stomach,
from its efficacy in relieving severe pains in the stomach of a neuralgic
character.
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 54       BORAX  VENETA—BOVISTA—BROMINE.


                    BORAX VENETA.
                BORATE OF SODA.  (Borax.)
  Antidotes—Cham. Coffea.
   Borax is especially applicable to diseases of the mucous
 membranes, particularly of the mouth, throat, and ears.
   Mouth and Throat.—Apthae of the mouth and tongue;
 apthous ulcers on  the inside of the cheek ;  soreness of the
 throat, with a scalding sensation; discharges of pus from
 the ears ;  roaring in the ears.

                       BOVISTA.
            LYCOPERD ON BOVISTA.  (Puff-BaU.)
  Antidotes.—Camphor.
  This remedy is  indicated in cases marked with languor,
 lassitude, and  general  debility.   It is also a good remedy
 in moist, scurvy, and herpetic eruptions, and for pimples
 covering the entire body.

                       BROMINE.
               BROMINIUMS, U.S. (Bromine.)
  Antidotes.—For large doses,  Opium, Coffea, Vapors of Alcohol, Am-
 monia.  For small doses, Coffea, Camphor.

  Clinical Eemarks. — According to the clinical ob-
 servations of Dr. Herring, the curative sphere of Bromine
is not scrofula, but affections of the chest, heart, and eyes
and in croup he considers  that in some cases it may prove
 superior to spongia.  (Vide Hull's Jahr.)  Dr. Hull regards
it as a remedy equally important  with Phos in that stage of 
bromine.
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complicated pneumonia tending to hepatization, and says,
that it is more specific to the right lung, while Phos is to
the left.  The  late Dr. Curtis  considered it  a specific in
croup.  It is regarded by allopathic authority analogous to
Iodine, viz.,  by stimulating the lymphatic system, and pro-
moting absorption, in  bronchial, scrofulous tumors, ulcers,
and enlargement of the ventricles of the  heart.  I have
found it very serviceable  in  laryngeal  affections, and in
hoarseness,  threatening suffocation in adults (similar to
croup in children).
  Characteristic Peculiarities.—The pains appear to
become worse in a warm room,  and when sitting;  aggrava-
tion of the  symptoms from evening  until midnight, and
many of the symptoms are felt  only on one side.
  Throat and Chest.—Hoarseness ; loss of voice; sore-
ness and roughness of the throat; rough, hollow dry cough;
wheezing breathing;  suffocative  cough;  obstinate, dry,
croupy cough ;  violent oppression of the  chest; great diffi-
culty of breathing ; threatened  suffocation; palpitation and
hypertrophy of the heart.
  Neck.—Scrofulous swelling on  either side  of the neck ;
enlargement of the thyroid  gland (Goitre).
  Stomach  and  Abdomen.—Burning,  uneasy sensation
in the stomach; nausea and hiccup; pain in the abdomen;
liquid stools ; watery diarrhoea. 
56                  BRYONIA ALBA.
                    BRYONIA ALBA.
                    WHITE BRYONY.
  Antidotes—Aeon, Cham, Igna, Nux-Vom.
  General Symptoms.—Heaviness and weakness in the
limbs;  trembling of the limbs when rising from a recumbent
posture ;  stiffness in the joints;  fainting fits ;  languid feel-
ing when sitting, less so when walking.

  Characteristic  Peculiarities.—Aggravation of the
symptoms at night, toward nine o'clock in the evening; by
movement and contact;  symptoms relieved by rest.

  Skin.—Yellow,  jaundiced  skin; viscid  moist skin in
fevers;  burning, itching,  and  stinging,  particularly at
night;  nettle-rash;  vesicles, which burst open and scale off;
rash of lying-in women, and of their  infants;  erysipelas,
particularly about the joints; tense hot  swellings; swelling
and induration of glands; petechia.

  Sleep.—Drowsiness  in the  day; sleepless  at  night;
startings from sleep;  disturbed sleep; nightmare.

  Fever.—Chilliness, particularly during the evening;  in-
termittent fevers, with predominant coldness (or chills);
thirst during the chill and hot stage;  fevers, attended with
flushed face and severe headache; fevers approaching to a
typhoid, remittent fever.

  Moral and  Sensorium.—Lowness  of spirits;  dis-
couragement ; despairs of a recovery ; anxiety;  uneasiness
and  apprehension; vertigo; great weight in the head;
pressure in the brain from behind forwards; delirious talk
at night. 
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                    BRYONIA ALBA.                 57

  Head.—Headache early in the morning;  agonizing head-
ache ; jarring headache, as if the brain were loose; aggrava-
tion of headache when stooping ; congestion of blood to the
head.
  Eyes and Ears.—Eheumatic inflammation of the eyes;
pain and suffering, aggravated by the slightest motion of
the eye; inflammation and congestion in streaks; Humming
in the ears;  intolerance of noise.
  Nose.—Swelling of the nose from inflammation; bleed-
ing of the nose, dry coryza.

  Mouth.—Dryness of the mouth;  tongue coated white,
or dark; red, dry tongue; indistinct articulation.

  Appetite and Taste.—Loss  of taste; flat,  insipid,
sickly, disgusting taste;  loss of appetite; aversion to food.

  Gastric.—Eegurgitation of the  injesta; nausea; vomit-
ing immediately after eating or drinking; vomiting of bile;
haemorrhage from  the stomach.

   Stomach.—Pressure  in the stomach, particularly after
eating; stitches  in the  stomach when  lying on the  side;
painful soreness in the pit of the stomach; burning and
stinging in the region of the liver.
   Abdomen.—Colic of pregnant females; hysteric abdomi-
nal spasms; spasmodic pains in the abdomen; constipation,
or constipation alternating with diarrhoea;  diarrhoeas from
cold.
   Female Genital Organs.—Suppression of the menses,
with  bleeding at  the nose;  tearing pains in the limbs
during menstruation; burning pains in the uterus during
pregnancy. 
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58              CALCAREA CARBONICA.

  Throat and  Chest.—Hoarseness,  accompanied by  in-
clination to sweat;  dry cough;  cough early in the morning;
stitches  in  the throat;  cough, with soreness of the chest;
pressure in the chest;  stitches in the sides of the chest;  in-
flammation of the lungs; typhoid pneumonia; pleurisy, and
rheumatic affections of the chest.
  Back and Extremities.—Painful  stiffness  in the nape
of the neck ; severe pain in the small of the back; Lum-
bago ; rheumatic pain;  soreness and swelling of the limbs;
inflammation and  swelling of the integument, about the
joints;  painful swelling and inflammation of the wrist and
joints of the fingers, ankles, and toes;  strained or sprained
pain of the feet;  gout.


                CALCAREA CARBONICA.
                  CARBONATE OF LIME.
  Antidotes.— Camphor, Nit.-Acid, Nit.-Spir. Sulph.
  General Symptoms.—Obstructed  or sluggish circula-
tion ; the hands  and feet go to sleep;  physical  depression;
weakness from loss of animal fluids; exhaustion and weari-
ness ; difficult walking of children; great sensitiveness to
cold; glandular enlargements;  scrofula; bronchitis and
consumption.

  Skin.—Eough skin; herpetic eruptions ;  unhealthy con-
dition of  the  skin, readily ulcerating and slow to heal;
eruptions, with deep fissures, particularly in those who work
in water;  carious ulcers.

  Sleep.—Drowsiness in the day-time; tired, languid, and
sleepy during the  day, but sleepless  during the evening; 
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sleep  during the night exceedingly restless, and disturbed
by frightful dreams.

  Moral Symptoms.—Low spirited; uneasy state of the
mind; is apprehensive; despairing; distressed with sad fore-
bodings ;  irritability; peevish, vexed, and sullen mood.

  Sensorium.—Dullness, of  mind; vertigo,  particularly
when walking in the open air.

  Head.—The head is affected by mental labor ; heaviness
in the forehead;  pressure in the forehead; drawing pain in
the back part of the head; itching of the scalp; eruptions
on  the scalp; humid  eruptions on the  scalp; tumors and
suppurative swellings on the head and neck.

  Eyes.—Itching, burning, and stitches in the eyes; vio-
lent itching in  the  eyes;  purulent inflammation of the
eyes  and eyelids; sore eyes  of infants; discharge  of pus
from the eyes;  mattery exudation  from the eyes; agglu;
tination of the lids.
  Ears.—Stitches in the ears ; stinging in the ears ; ring-
ing, buzzing, and a peculiar cracking in the ears.
  Nose.—Inflammation and  soreness of the nose;  ulcer-
ated nostrils; dryness  and stoppage of the nostrils, scrofu-
lous swelling of the nose; pimples and humid eruptions on
the nose.
  Face.—Eruptions of a humid character; scaly eruption;
pimples on  the face; swelling of the upper lip ;  scrofulous
swelling of the lips.
  Mouth and  Teeth.—Swelling of the gums; bleeding
of the gums ; itching  of the gums ;  ulcerated gums; mat-
tery state of the gums and corners of the mouth; extreme 
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CALCAREA carbonica.
tenderness of the teeth; drawing pain in the teeth, return-
ing at intervals; severe stitches in a tooth; difficult and
slow dentition.
  Stomach and Abdomen.—Frequent  eructations; dis-
tention of the stomach; sour eructations and sour vomit-
ings ;  pressure of the stomach; nightly pressure in  the pit
of the stomach; spasms of the stomach; pressure  in the
abdomen; gnawing, griping pains, also cutting pains; en-
largement of the  abdomen, particularly in scrofulous chil-
dren.
  Stool.—Constipation ; diarrhoea in children while teeth-
ing ; diarrhoea in scrofulous children and adults; burning
and itching of the rectum.
  Urine.—Frequent  urinating  at night; catarrh  of  the
bladder;  thick, turbid urine, or urine mixed with blood.
  Female  Genital Organs.—Itching and stitches in the
parts;  uterine hemorrhage in  old ladies;  too frequent men-
struation ; leucorrhoea ;  sterility; chlorosis.
  Throat  and Chest, — Painless  hoarseness;  chronic
hoarseness ; consumption of the throat;  ulceration of the
throat; catarrhal condition of the trachea ;  nightly cough
with hoarseness ; cough, with expectoration of pus, yellow,
greenish, or  streaked  with blood; shortness  of breath;
stitches in  the  chest; stitches in the left  side of the chest;
pricking  in the muscles of the chest; palpitation  of the
heart.
  Back.—Pains in the small  of the back ; swelling on the
neck ;  swelling of the glands of the neck; swellings in the
region of the vertebrae ; tenderness of the spine; curvature
of the spine;  rickety condition  of the bones  of the chest
and spinal column. 
         CAL. PHOSPHORICA—CAL.  OFFICINALIS.       61

   Extremities.—Drawing and lacerating in the right arm
and shoulder down  to the hand ; pressure in the left upper
arm ; cramps in the hands; swelling of the hands; nodosi-
ties on the fingers; deadness of the fingers, and lameness
of the fingers; heaviness of the legs; stitches; drawings
and cramps of  the legs; painful  swelling of the knees;
scrofulous swelling  of the knee;  white swelling; ulcers on
the legs and feet;  burning in the soles of the feet; sweat
of the feet; cold feet.


               CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA.
                 PHOSPHATE OF LIME.
   General Symptoms. — Eheumatic affections, especially
in  scrofulous  and  consumptive  persons; carious  ulcers;
rickets ; consumption; glandular  enlargements; weakness
from a want of extractive matters in the system;  curving
of the limbs;  deformities of the chest and spinal column.


               CALENDULA OFFICINALIS.
                      MARIGOLD.
   Clinical Eemarks.—This very familiar plant was much
used  in  low fevers, scrofula, jaundice, and amenorrhcea,
Cancerous, and other malignant-appearing ulcers. We find
that it bears a close analogy to Arnica,  Ruta,  Bhns Tox.,
Garb. An., Carb. Veg., and Symp.  It has (more recently) been
used very satisfactorily as an external application (similar
to Arnica) in wounds, strains, and lacerations, and its deob-
struent effects are equally proven in amenorrhoea. 
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CAMPHORA.
                     CAMPHORA.
                      CAMPHOR.
  Antidotes.—Opium, Spts-Nitr-Dulc.

  Clinical Eemarks.—Camphor is better known  by the
masses, and in more general use as a domestic remedy, than
any other in the Materia Medica, and its very indiscrimi-
nate use has been  frequently productive of serious conse-
quences ; while in  moderate  doses it will  (when properly
administered) allay spasm, remove congestions by  divert-
ing the  circulation  and equalizing the action;  it is equally
capable  of producing all of these conditions.   I have seen
the most severe headache, congestion of the brain, fainting,
delirium, and convulsions produced by it.   These remarks
are not calculated to detract in the least from its merits as
a remedy, but to guard against its indiscriminate use.

  General Symptoms.—Loss of  consciousness;  tetanic
spasm;  great weakness,  languor, and heaviness; spasms,
convulsions, and twitchings.

  Characteristic Peculiarity.—Most of the pains are
excited during motion.

  Fever.—Coldness;  deadly paleness; the surface  is very
cold;  weak, small pulse.

  Sensorium  and Head.—Vertigo; heaviness  of  the
head; dull headache  with nausea; headache caused by
being exposed to the heat of the sun ; face pale; pale and
sunken.

  Gastric Symptoms.—Excessive thirst; nausea;  nausea
and vomiting;  pain in the stomach; violent pressing, or 
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cramping pains in the  stomach; severe  cramp of  the
stomach; burning in the stomach; Asiatic cholera.
  Chest.—Suffocative catarrh ;  short hacking cough; dry
suffocative  cough;  influenza;  (grippe;)  spasms of  the
chest;  spasms of the  chest from  the vapors of copper or
arsenic;  angina of the chest.
  Abdomen.—Abdominal  spasms; severe colicky pains;
severe cramps in  the  bowels;  thin,  watery  diarrhoea5
serous  appearing diarrhoea.
  Genital Organs.—Weakness  of the  genital organs;
want of desire; impotence.


                  CANNABIS SATTVA.
                   CANNABIS. (Hemp.)
  Antidotes.—Camph.; for large doses, Lemon-juice.
  General Symptoms.—Eheumatic pains in the membran-
eous coverings of the long bones; complaints occasioned by
fatigue;  hysteric symptoms ; tetanic spasms; weakness of
the inferior extremities ; dropsical  and urinary difficulties.
  Stomach and Abdomen.—Pain in the stomach; nausea;
nausea attended with drowsiness ;  pressing in the abdomen
from within outward ; diarrhoeic stool; watery diarrhoea.
  Urine.—Eetention of urine;  difficulty in voiding urine;
the urine is voided in  drops, attended with  severe pain and
burning ; burning in the urethra; discharge of mucus from
the urethra.
  Chest.—Catarrhal condition of the trachea and larynx;
asthma;  great difficulty in breathing, especially when lying
down;  dropsy of the chest; palpitation of the heart. 
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CANTHARIS.
  Clinical Eemarks.—Cannabis sativa does not appear
to differ  materially from the Apocynum, in its effects upon
the secretions of the system, particularly in dropsical affec-
tions, and urinary difficulties.


                       CANTHARIS.
               CANTHARIDES.  (Spanish My.)
  Antidotes.—Camphor, Spts-nit-dulc, large doses.  Demulcent drinks
and Opii.
  Characteristic Peculiarities.—" Most  of the symp-
toms appear on the right side;" amelioration  of the symp-
toms when lying down.
  Skin.—Erysipelatous inflammation of the skin, attended
with severe burning; Erysipelas; small, itching blisters.
  Stool and Urine.—Diarrhoea, or dysentery, with white
mucous stools, attended with burning of the anus  and irri-
tation extending to the urinary organs ; constant desire  to
urinate;  pressing and bearing, with inability to  urinate;
severe burning pain in the urethra; discharge of  drops of
blood; bloody  urine.
  Male  Genital Organs.—Nocturnal erections; painful
erections; weakness of the genitals.
  Female  Genital   Organs.—Burning  and  itching;
burning while urinating; discharge of bloody mucus.
  Extremities,—Chilblains;  inflammations from being
frostbitten ;  vesicles on the hands and feet. 
          CAPSICUM  ANNUM—CARBO ANIMALIS.       65


                  CAPSICUM ANNUM.
                CAPSICUM. (Spanish Pepper.)
  Antidote.—Camphor.
  Characteristic Peculiarities.—Most  of the symp-
toms occur in the evening.  They are aggravated by con-
tact, and cold temperature.
  Skin.—Stinging, burning, and itching of the entire sur-
face.
  Fever.—Shuddering and  chilliness in  the back, and
during the evening; fever and ague, with thirst greatest
during the cold stage.
  Head.—Severe headache;  feeling as if the head would
burst, particularly when moving the head, or when walking.
  Mouth and Throat.—Pimples on the tongue, with
stinging;  stomacace ; pain  while  swallowing; burning in
the throat.
  Urine  and Stool.—Burning,  pricking, and stitches in
the urethra; dysenteric diarrhoea; small diarrhoeic stools,
attended with burning of the anus; mucous diarrhoea, with
tenesmus.

                   CARBO ANIMALIS.
                  ANIMAL CHARCOAL.
  Antidote.—Camphor.
  Moral Symptoms.—Melancholy; low-spirited; shy and
timid.
  Head.—Pressure  and sense  of dullness in  the head
during the afternoon ; Congestion; eruptions and scurf.
  Nose.—Stoppage of the nose; dry coryza. 
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carbo vegetabilis.
   Stomach.—Pressure in the stomach, as from a load; claw-
ing and griping in the stomach ;  burning in the stomach.
   Female  Genital Organs. — Leucorrhoea ;  burning,
biting in the vagina and of the labia; darting in the breasts
of a nursing female; painful indurations of the breast; ery-
sipelas of the breast.
   Neck.—Glandular swellings in the  neck; hard cancer-
ous ulcers on the neck, attended with burning, or a stick-
ing, pricking pain.
   Extremities.—Herpetic  eruptions;  indurated  glands;
arthritic stiffness of the joints; drawing  in the leg;  pain-
less drawing in the left leg;  stinging and tingling in the
feet.

                 CARBO VEGETABILIS.
                 VEGETABLE CHARCOAL.
  Antidotes.—Ars., Camph., Coffea, Lachesis.
  General Symptoms.—Eheumatic drawing in the whole
body; lassitude;  the limbs  feel  bruised;  the limbs go to
sleep; general physical  depression; attacks of  vertigo;
obtuseness of nervous sensibility.
  Skin. — Nettle rash ;  varices ;  chilblains ;  glandular
swellings; lymphatic swellings, with suppurations,  attended
with heat and burning; dry rash, like itch;  moles; ulcers
break open again and emits bloody lymph.
  Fever.—Fever, with thirst only during the cold stage;
typhus and typhoid  fevers; great disposition to perspire;
morning and night sweats.
  Head.—Heaviness in the head; aching in the nape of
the neck; beating headache in  the  afternoon ; pulsating 
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pain in the forehead after eating;  falling off of the hair,
particularly after illness ; susceptibility to take cold in the
head.
  Eyes and Ears.—Pain in the eyes, and pressure ; burn-
ing in the eyes, particularly in the canthi; morning agglu-
tination of the eyes ; bleeding from the eyes ;  suppuration
of the  internal ear; dryness of the ear, from a deficiency
of wax.
  Nose and  Face.—Itching around the nostrils;  Bleed-
ing of  the nose at night; stoppage of the nose, particularly
in the evening;  violent coryza; Gray-appearing complex-
ion ; pimples on the face and forehead;  chapped lips;
eruptions on the chin.
  Mouth and Throat.—Stomacace; Biting and burning
in the fauces and palate; Scraping sensation in the throat;
roughness and rawness ; cough.
  Stomach and  Abdomen.—Sense  of pressure  in the
stomach ;  sour eructations ;  nausea;  Water-brash;  Bleed-
ing from  the  stomach; Spasms of the  stomach; Bruised
pain in the region of the  liver;  pressing pain; stitching
pain and aching in the region of the  liver; Distention of
the abdomen from flatulence; Flatulent colic.
  Urine.—Frequent desire to urinate; nocturnal enuresis.
  Female Genital Organs.—Itching in the pudendum;
burning  and  excoriated feeling; the menses appear too
soon; leucorrhoea.
  Extremities.—Lameness; numbness and insensibility;
a rigid feeling in the muscles  and joints; Foetid and bleed-
ing ulcers on the legs and feet;  redness,  swelling, and ten-
derness of the toes, as if frozen. 
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CAUSTICUM.
                      CAUSTICUM.
                        CAUSTIC.
  Antidotes.—Coffea, Colocynth, Nux-vom, Nitr-spts.
  General  Symptoms.—Arthritic pains in  all of  the
limbs; bruised feeling; stiffness  in all of the joints;  tin-
gling in the extremities as if they would go to sleep.
  Skin.—Itch, like eruptions; itching eruption at the root
of the nose; itching of the entire surface.
  Sleep.—Great drowsiness and weariness in the day-time,
and sleeplessness at night; sweat during sleep; sleep  dis-
turbed by anxious dreams; frequent starting from  sleep as
with fright.
  Moral  Symptoms.—Sad, whining mood;  melancholic;
anxiety ; full of apprehensions; perfect want of hope; ten-
dency to start;  hypochondriacal; extremely sensitive ;  dis-
posed to be offended.
  Head.—An  occasional  pressure  deep in the head;
stitches in the temples; tightness  and stitches from  the
lower part of the forehead to the vertex.
  Eyes.—Inflammation of the eyes, with burning; inflam-
mation of the eyes of scrofulous  persons;  obscuration of
sight; movements before the eyes as of insects; flitting to
and fro before the eyes ; amaurosis.
  Ears,—Boaring and buzzing in the ears;  running of
the ear; the discharge is acrid and corrosive.
  Nose.—Pimples on the tip of the nose;  old warts on the
nose; dry coryza ; obstruction of the nose, and difficulty in
breathing  through the nose; violent itching  and  burning
at the root of the nose. 
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  Face and Teeth.—Arthritic pains and tightness of the
muscles of the face and lower jaw; paralysis of the muscles
of one side of the face ; painful sensitiveness of the teeth;
painful  looseness of the teeth;  the gums are swollen and
painful.
  Mouth and Throat.—Paralysis of the tongue; stutter-
ing ;  great  difficulty in articulating; apthous spots in the
mouth and on the.tip and edges of the  tongue;  white ap-
pearing canker in the mouth and on the palate and fauces;
extreme tenderness of the mouth; soreness  of the throat;
hawking up phlegm.
  Stomach and Abdomen.—Nausea; vomiting; pressure
in the stomach early in the morning; spasm; griping and
pressure in the stomach ;  pressure in the abdomen extend-
ing upwards; flatulence; excessive itching of the anus;
fistula.
  Female Genital Organs.—Delay of the menses; leu-
corrhoea at night; sore and cracked nipples.
  Throat and  Chest.—Hoarseness; loss  of voice; con-
sumption of the throat;  ulcerated throat;  short, hacking
cough;  shortness of breath; asthma, when sitting or lying;
spasmodic asthma;  stitches about the heart;  palpitation of
the heart.
  Extremities.—Drawing  pains in the  arms; warts on
the arms;  itching; sprained pain  in  the  hip; drawing
pains; lacerating pains in the legs.
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chamomilla vulgaris.
               chamomilla  vulgaris.
                      CHAMOMILE.
  Antidotes.—Coffea, Ignatia, Pulsatilla.
  Skin.—Eash of infants, and nursing females; Irritability
and sensitiveness; sensitiveness to currents of air.
  Sleep.—Soporous condition, with feverish restlessness;
disturbed sleep at night.
  Fever.—Intermittent fever, with nightly exacerbation;
gastric fevers ; shuddering in the open air.
  Moral Symptoms.—Excessive restlessness; peevishness
and ill-humor; constant crying.
  Eyes and Ears.—Swelling  of the eyelids; yellowness
of the whites of the eyes; distortion  of the eyes; twitches
of the lids;  bleeding from the eyes;  Drawing and tensive
pain in the  ears; discharge from the ears;  Inflammatory
swelling of the parotid gland.
  Face.—Eedness and burning of  the  face, particularly
the cheeks;  frequent change of color of  the face;  yellow,
bilious complexion; swelling of one side  of the face;  con-
vulsive twitches of the muscles of the face and lips.
  Mouth.—Dry  mouth and tongue, with thirst; tongue
red and fissured;  apthae in the mouth;  convulsive move-
ments of the  tongue; toothache, especially  violent after
taking a warm drink; nightly toothache, especially after
getting warm in the bed; throbbing, darting, and jerking
in the teeth ; very severe toothache;  difficult dention.
  Stomach  and Abdomen.—Bitter eructations;  sour eruc-
tations ; sour vomiting; bitter bilious vomiting; vomiting 
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of the ingestea; aching pain in the stomach;  painful dis-
tended condition of the stomach ;  oppression and incarce-
ration of flatulence;  cramp  of the stomach; Abdominal
spasms;  cramping colic;  flatulent colic;  abdomen dis-
tended, and sensitive to the touch.
  Stool.—Undigested  stool;  nightly  diarrhoea;  green,
watery diarrhoea;  diarrhoea  during  teething;  diarrhoea
from cold; anger,  or chagrin.
  Female  Genital Organs.—Severe pains; cramping,
colicky, or cutting previous to the  periods;  discharges of
coagulated blood;  Abdominal spasms of nursing or preg-
nant  females;  violent after-pains;  Suppression of milk;
soreness  of the nipples ; induration of the breast.
  Chest.—Catarrhal cough; hoarseness  from mucus in
the throat;  hoarseness and cough ;  oppression of the chest
as  from  flatulence;  sudden  stoppage  of the breath in
children  ; stitches  in  the  side of the chest; stitches from
the middle of the chest to  the right  side.
  Extremities.—Nocturnal pains and lameness; swelling
of  the palms of the  hands;  convulsive twitchings of the
fingers;  cramps in the calves of the legs.

                         CHINA.
           CINCHONA OFFICINALIS. (Peruvian Bark.)
  Antidotes.—Arsen., Puis.,  Bell, Calc, Ipecac,  Ferrum, Sulph.,
Nux-vom.
  General  Symptoms.-—Irritability and  sensitiveness of
the whole system;  languor;  inertia;  heaviness  of  the
limbs; aversion to both mental  and physical  labor; pain-
ful  weariness of the limbs; weakness  from  the  loss of 
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CHINA.
animal fluids;  uneasiness in the affected parts; atrophy;
emaciation, particularly in children; Intermittent fevers;
tensive and wandering pains.
  Characteristic Peculiarities.—The pains of china
are darting, lacerating; or,  lacerating, with  pressure, and
are aggravated by contact; also at night.
  Skin.—Painful  sensitiveness of the skin; yellow skin;
soreness  of children;  arthritic  and  rheumatic hard, red
swellings.
  Fever.—Intermittent  fevers, with languor  during the
chilly stage; headache, nausea, and no thirst, but thirst
after the chilly stage;  great  desire for cold drinks during
the hot stage and sweating stages;  bilious fevers; gastric
fevers; fevers attended with  perspiration;  asthenic fevers.

  Sensorium and Head.—Indisposition to perform  any
kind of either mental or physical labor;  dullness of the
head; vertigo; headache from  suppressed coryza;  pain in
the forehead  when  opening  the eyes; heaviness in the
head; severe headache; pressure in the head from within
outwards; great sensitiveness of the scalp; profuse sweat
in the hair.

  Eyes, Ears, and Nose.—Pressure as from a  foreign
substance in the eye: inflammation of the  eyes, particu-
larly in  scrofulous persons; dimness of vision; incipient
amaurosis; stitches in  the ears; humming and ringing in
the ears;  partial deafness; frequent  bleeding of the nose
early in the morning;  dry coryza.
  Face.—Pale, sunken, hippocratic expression of counte-
nance ; red,  bloated face; blackish lips; the lips are  dry
and parched. 
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  Mouth.—Ptyalism,  also  from the abuse of mercury;
haemorrhage from the mouth; parched tongue.
  Appetite.—Flat, watery taste;  bitter taste;  indifference
and aversion to every kind of food.
 ^ Gastric Symptoms.—Bitter, sour, and  empty  eructa-
tions ;  heartburn;  inclination to vomit; vomiting of sour
mucus; Fullness and oppression of the stomach, as  if too
full ;   pressure after  eating;  spasmodic  pains in  the
stomach.
  Hypochondria.—Dull, aching pains in  the region  of
the liver; Induration of the liver and spleen;  Feeling  of
fullness and swelling in the region of the liver  and spleen;
stitches, especially  during contact.
  Abdomen.—Pinching in the abdomen; Flatulent  colic;
Distention of the abdomen, attended with diarrhoea.
  Female Genital Organs.—Uterine congestions; pro-
fuse   menstruation;  colicky pain  while  menstruating;
bloody leucorrhoea.
  Throat and Chest.—Catarrh  of the trachea and bron-
chia;  cough, which  is  excited by laughing,  talking,  or
drinking; cough,  with ordinary expectoration, or  with
expectoration  streaked with blood; Difficult  breathing;
asthma, and suffocative catarrh;  stitches in the chest, re-
lieved by  the recumbent posture. 
74                  CICUT.-E—CINA.
                       CICUT^.
          CICUTA VIROSA. (Water-hemlock.  Cowbane.)
  Antidotes.—For large doses, Tobacco.  For small doses, Arnica.
  General Symptoms.—Diseases of the nervous system;
Violent tonic spasm ; catalepsy;  epilepsy and general con-
vulsions ;  spasms of pregnant or parturient females;  Hys-
teric spasms; tremulous movements; affections of the base
of the brain ; mental derangements.
  Skin.—Suppurating eruptions; large, dark red pimples;
cancerous  indurations;  Fungoid  excrescences.
  Moral  Symptoms.—Apprehension  about the  future;
mania; moaning and howling ; tendency to start.
  Sensorium and Head.—Vertigo; reeling;  staggering;
affections of the  brain from concussion; Semilateral  head-
ache ; Headache above the orbits, with weakness of sight;
Jerking of the head and motion of the head backwards.
  Eyes, Nose and Face.—Nightly agglutination; Photo-
phobia ; the sight vanishes by times; Double sighted by
times; scurfs in  the nostrils; Dark red  lentil-sized pus-
tules on the face ; crusta lactea ;  lockjaw.
  Gastric  Symptoms. — Satiety and pressure  at the
stomach;  Desire for cool drinks;  vomiting; vomiting, alter-
nating with tonic spasms  of the muscles of the chest.

                         CINA.
              SEMEN SANTONICI.  (Wormseed.)
  Antidotes.—Bryonia, China, Hyosciam, Ipecac.
  This remedy  is supposed by  many to exercise con-
siderable of a controlling influence over catarrhal affections 
cinnamomum.
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and  Bronchial difficulties, secondary to measles, and has
also been used as a remedy in intermittent fevers, but with
what success I am  not prepared to say.  I have only used
it  successfully in  irritation  of  the  mucous surfaces  from
worms, and in that  peculiar irritative  fever arising  from
verminous irritation.

  Characteristic Peculiarities.—Symptoms most vio-
lent   in  the morning  and  evening; Pressure or  contact
aggravate the symptoms.

  General Symptoms.—Eestlessness at night; Feverish
condition ;  the heat  is principally about the head ;  uneasi-
ness ;  complaints, and weeping  of children ; stitches in the
brain; dropsy of the  brain from metastatized verminous
irritation; Dilitation of the pupils;  Picking, and  disposi-
tion to bore in the nose ;  Stoppage of the nose; Paleness
of the face;  hollow-eyed, or dark streaks beneath the eyes;
circumscribed  flush of the cheek;  Variable appetite; loss
of appetite, or voraciousness;  vomiting  and  diarrhoea;
Nocturnal enuresis;  Involuntary emission of urine.

  Note.—Cina is  a good  remedy to administer as an antecedent in Infan-
tile Intermittents  and Remittents; with reference to the presence of
verminous irritation, it will frequently cut short all of the  symptoms
when other remedies appear to be more specifically indicated.

                      CINNAMOMUM.
             CASSIA AROMATICUM. (Cinnamon.)
  Cinnamon is  a very effectual remedy in post  partem
(after delivery) haemorrhages, and in  haemorrhages follow-
ing abortions, while Ergot (secale cornutum) is the remedy
for ante partem haemorrhages, or haemorrhages threatening
mis'carriage. 
76                clematis erecta.
                  CLEMATIS ERECTA.
               UPRIGHT  VIRGINS BOWER.
  Antidotes.—Bryonia Camphor.
  Skin.—Inveterate eruptions;  versicular  and pustular
eruptions;  Herpetic eruptions, discharging yellowish cor-
rosive  ihor;  scaly eruptions;  red,  humid,  and itching
eruptions;  scirrhous indurations;  cancerous ulcers, and
fungoid excrescences.
  Moral  Symptoms.—Peevish;  dissatisfied,  indifferent,
silent and melancholy.
  Head  and Eyes.—Humid vesicles on the back part of
the head and  nape of  the neck; Inflammation of the
margin of the eyelids ; Ipitis ; Chronic inflammation of the
eyes in scrofulous persons.
  Face.—Whitish  appearing  blisters  on the  forehead;
cancer of the lip.
  Genital Organs and  Abdomen.—Swelling of a gland
in the  groin; Hard, indurated gland; bubo;  contraction
and constriction of the urethra;  swelling and induration
of the testes;  swelling of the right half of the scrotum.
  Female  Genital Organs.—Indurations, and cancer of
the breast.
  Extremities.—Spreading blisters  on  the hands and
fingers; Arthritic  nodosities in  the  finger joints;  scaly
herpetic eruptions and crusts on the legs. 
cocculus—coffea cruda.            77
                      COCCULUS.
             COCCULUS INDICUS. (Indian CocM.)
   Antidotes.—Camphor, Nux-vomica.
   General Symptoms.—Nervous weakness;  fainting fits;
hemiplegia;  paralysis  of the lower limbs;  nervous irrita-
tion, emaciation, and general weakness.
   Moral Symptoms.—Extremely sensitive to noise; great
anxiety ; anguish; sudden startings.
   Sensorium and Head.—Dizziness, and disposition  to
faint;  apoplexy; intoxicated feeling;  aching pain in the
forehead; severe headache, as if the eyes would be pressed
from their sockets; headache, attended with a dizzy, intox-
icated feeling.
   Stomach and Abdomen.—Violent spasms of the stom-
ach, particularly after a meal;  flatulence; colic at night.
   Female Genital Organs.—Suppression of the menses,
attended with cramping colicky pains; painful and scanty
menstruation;  discharge of bloody  mucus during preg-
nancy;  leucorrhoea.
   Chest.—Oppression of the chest, as from a load; spasms
of the chest; hysteric spasms of the  chest; palpitation  of
the heart.

                   COFFEA CRUDA.
                    CRUDE COFFEE.
  Antidotes.—Cham. Ignatia, Merc. Nux-vom., Camph.
  Characteristic Peculiarities.—Excitation of the or-
gans of sense, and of the nervous system generally; extreme
sensitiveness. 
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COLCHICUM.
   Sleep.—Sleeplessness  during  the  night;  waking  with
starts, and sleep disturbed by dreams.
   Moral.—Great anguish; cannot be composed; want of
memory.
   Head and Ears.—Severe lacerating headache; heat in
the face; Hardness of hearing; humming in the ears.
   Mouth and Throat.—Darting in  the teeth; toothache,
with restlessness; Sore throat, with severe pain; swelling
of the uvula.
   Gastric Symptoms.—Sickness of the stomach in the
morning; vomiting;  vomiting of bile.
   Sexual Organs.—The primary effect excites, the sec-
ondary weakens, the sexual  desire.

                     COLCHICUM.
          COLCHICUM A UTUMNALE (Meadow Saffron.)
  Antidotes.—Cocculus, Nux-vom., Puis.
  General Symptoms.—Lacerating and lancinating jerks,
principally in the  left side; sticking, drawing jerks deep in
the limbs near the bone; muscular soreness and lameness;
acute and chronic  rheumatism;  urinary and dropsical affec-
tions ; autumnal dysentery and rheumatic fevers.
  Characteristic Peculiarities.—Aggravation of the
symptoms at night.
  Fever.—Heat  of the body  at night,  with  thirst;  full,
hard pulse.
  Eyes and Ears.—Inflammation of a rheumatic char-
acter ; severe pain attended with nervous  irritation; Lacer-
ating pain in the ears, attended with a discharge. 
COLOCYNTHIS.
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  Stomach and Abdomen,—Nausea;  violent vomiting;
tingling and burning in the stomach;  stitches, and an op-
pressive sensation at the pit of the stomach;  Colicky pains;
dropsy of the abdomen; disposition to diarrhoea;  watery
diarrhoea;  mucus and bloody dysentery; fall dysentery.
  Urine.—Scanty emission of urine; frequent desire and
urging with a diminished discharge;  burning in the urethra;
catarrhal condition of the bladder and  urethra; discharges
of a milky sediment.
  Chest.—Great oppression of the  chest from dropsical ef-
fusion ;  spasms in the chest, and rheumatic pains.
  Extremities.—Eheumatic  pains; lameness and swell-
ings; oedematous  swelling of the  feet, ankles, and  legs;
tingling  and burning;  red swellings of the joints of the
fingers and toes.

                     COLOCYNTHIS.
           GUCUMIS COLOCYNTHIS. (Wild Cucumber.)
  Antidotes.—Camph., Caust., Cham., Coff., Staphy.
  Eyes  and  Face.—Severe  cutting and burning in the
eyes; inflammation attended with severe cutting pains, and
an  acrid discharge of tears;  lacerating burning and  sting-
ing, particularly of the left side of the face; swelling, with
redness and heat.
  Stomach and Abdomen.—Pain  in the stomach after  a
meal; pain upon touching the pit of the stomach; Pinching,
griping,  squeezing pain in the  abdomen;  cutting colicky
pains; rumbling in the bowels.
  Stool.—Dysentery attended  with  griping pains;  di-
arrhoeic  stool preceded by  pinching pains;  dysentery with 
80               conium maculatum.
bloody stools; tenesmus;  itching and excoriated feeling of
the anus.
  Female Sexual Organs.—Suppression  of the lochia;
painful swelling of the breasts.
  Extremities.—Flying pains in the shoulders; swelling
and stiffness of the hands;  cramp-like pains in the femoral
region;  tearing pains in the thighs;  darting pains in the
ankles;  swelling of the feet;  coxalgia.
  Note.—I cured a case of severe coxalgia with a few doses of this drug,
that had resisted treatment for years.


                 CONIUM  MACULATUM.
                       HEMLOCK.
  Antidotes.— Coff., Nitr-Spts.
  General  Symptoms.—Bruised  pains  in the limbs;
great exhaustion ; sick, faint feeling early in the morning ;
fainting  fits ;  apoplexy ;  paralysis ; general  weakness ;
Disordered state of the mind.                      j

  Characteristic Peculiarities.—The pains are prone
to come on during the night, or during rest.

  Skin.—Itching, smarting and burning stitches; general
painfulness of the skin; sensations as  from the bites  of
insects;   nettle  rash; chronic, herpetic eruptions; swell-
ing and  indurations of glands; scirrhous indurations and
cancerous ulcers.

  Sleep.—Unrefreshing;  startled  by  frightful dreams;
Eaving during sleep.

  Moral Symptoms.—Fearful, desponding, whining mood; 
conium maculatum.
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Inclination to  start as from fright;  coma; unconscious-
ness.
  Sensorium and Head.—Dullness of memory; confu-
sion of  mind; Dizziness; Apoplexy;  Paralysis in  old
people; Tearing headache in the back  part of the head;
Lacerating pain in the forehead from  within outwards;
Dropsy of the brain, particularly in children and aged per-
sons.
  Eyes  and Ears.—Eedness,  and  staring  expression;
weakness of  sight; short  sightedness ; spots appear before
the eyes;  Stitches in  the  ears;  hardness of  hearing;
roaring and buzzing in the ears.
  Nose  and Face.—Inflammation of the nose; purulent
discharge from the  nostrils ; Dryness  and stoppage of the
nose ; Heat in the face ; pain in the face  at night; itching;
herpetic  eruption  on the face;  cancer  of the lip;  dry,
scaly lips.
  Chest  and  Throat.—Dry, tickling  cough; cough in-
creased upon lying down;  cough principally  at night;
dry,  spasmodic  cough;  suffocative  cough;  Whooping
cough, with paroxysms at night; cough during pregnancy ;
Oppression and shortness of breath; Stitches in the side
of the chest,  and stitches in the breastbone.
  Stomach.—Distention  and pressure  at the pit  of the
stomach  after  eating;  eructations;   nausea;  heartburn;
spasmodic pains in the stomach; sharp, drawing pains in
the region of the liver.
  Abdomen.—Sharp,  cutting, lancinating  pains, particu-
larly  of the right side;  violent, wringing, twisting, and
cutting colic. 
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COPAIBA.
   Female Genital Organs.—Stitches, and itching of the
 pudendum; Pressing down and  painful spasms in the ab-
 domen  during the  flow  of the  menses;  smarting  and
 excoriating leucorrhoea ; scirrhous and cancerous inductions
 of the breast.

   Extremities.—Tension ;  laceration, or bruised  feeling;
 uneasiness and languid feeling in the limbs.



                       COPAIBA.
                   BALSAM COPAIVA.
   Antidote.—Mercurius.

   Copaiva acts principally upon the mucous surfaces, and
 is necessarily a good remedy in  catarrhal conditions of the
 chest, intestinal canal and  urinary passages; also for Haem-
 orrhagic discharges, depending upon inflammation  and
 irritations of mucous membranes.  It also  acts upon the
 skin, more particularly  in erysipelatous inflammation, at-
 tended with burning, and some swelling; the swelling in
 ridges.

   Skin.—Elevated  bright red  erysipelatous condition of
 the skin;  Eoseola during measles, and during the action of
 the vaccine virus.

   Abdomen.—Colicky pains, attended with watery diar-
rhoea ; Bloody stools; Piles, attended with itching of the
anus ; Haemorrhoidal discharges of blood or mucus.

   Urinary Organs.—Irritation of the bladder; Irritation
and inflammation of the  urethra, attended with  extreme 
         CORALLIUM RUBRUM—CROCUS SATIVUS.       83

burning;  Great difficulty in urinating;  Bleeding from the
urethra; Purulent gonorrhoea.

  Note.—There appears to be quite a diversity of opinion existing respect-
ing the form of eruption to which this drug is applicable.  I have known
it to produce erysipelas of the character above named, in several instances,
but always on  the skin covering the abdomen ; and I have used it success-
fully in similar cases, caused  differently of course.  And those who have
not, but will use it in Roseola-Variolosa,—Vaccina,—Miliaris,—and Rubeola,
will find it an  efficient remedy.

                CORALLIUM RUBRUM.
                        RED CORAL.
  This remedy exhibits an action on paper which I have
never been  able to obtain, and the facts I have been able to
gather from those who have instituted quite elaborate prov-
ings,  have not added much to  its reputation as a remedy.
Its  constituents, being principally carbonate of lime, oxide
of iron, and animal matter, precludes the idea of expecting
as much from it as we  do from the simple preparations of
lime which  are in daily use.
  It has been quite in  repute as a remedy in dry, spasmo-
dic, suffocative cough, and is recommended for  cough with
expectoration of purulent mucus.

                    CROCUS SATIVUS.
                         SAFFRON.
  Antidotes.—Aeon., Bell., Opium.
  General  Symptoms.—Haemorrhages of a dark, rancid,
or gumous  appearing blood from various parts,  particularly
from the  stomach ; that general lassitude, disinclination  to
mental and physical exertion  characteristic of biliary de- 
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CROTON TIGLIUM.
rangement, yellow hue of the skin, and of the white of the
eyes.
  Sensorium. — Gloomy,  absent-minded ;  forgetfulness;
stupid, heavy feeling, and dullness of the head; pain over
the eyes, and pressure in the forehead.
  Eyes, Nose, and Ears.—Soreness of the eyes; nightly
agglutination of  the  lids;  twitching  and  itching of the
upper lid; dark, tenacious blood from the nose; hardness of
hearing.
  Genital  Organs. — Increased sexual desire;  bearing-
down pain; haemorrhage from the uterus of dark-appear-
ing blood.

                  CROTON TIGLIUM.
                     CROTON OIL.
  Characteristic Peculiarities.—This remedy appears
to be  more  applicable to difficulties of the left side, par-
ticularly pain.
  Skin.—Pustular eruptions resembling pock; itching and
burning of the skin.
  Stomach  and Abdomen.—Nausea attended with burn-
ing ; oppression and pressure in the stomach; pinching,
colicky pains.
  Stool and Urine.—Violent purging attended with a
sickening  feeling; green diarrhoeic stools; Itching and
burning in the urethra. 
•CUPRUM METALICUM.
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                 CUPRUM METALICUM.
                   METALLIC COPPER.
  Antidotes.—For large doses, The whites of eggs, or other albumen,
starchy substances, sweetened water, milk, iron flings.  For small doses,
Bell, Calc, Cocculus, China, Sulph., Ipecac, Nux-vom.
  Caprum acts with much promptitude in almost every
variety of convulsions and  convulsive movements of the
muscles, and distortion of  the limbs.  It is especially indi-
cated in epilepsy, particularly when the body or limbs are
drawn backward;  St.  Vitus'  dance, nervous  affections;
cholera  morbus, Asiatic cholera, and other violent actions
of the stomach and bowels.  It also has been used success-
fully in hydrophobia.
  Characteristic Peculiarities.—"The  poisonous  ef-
fects of copper are disposed to appear in alternate groups."
—HuWs Jahr.
  Moral Symptoms.— Mental derangement; furious de-
lirium ; wild, maniacal expression; fits of craziness ; ravings
come on in paroxysms.
  Stomach and Abdomen.—Nausea;  nausea  attended
with  a burning in the stomach ;  violent vomiting; exces-
sive vomiting,  attended with severe cramping pains; cramps
of the stomach and bowels, attended with  vomiting and
purging; severe cramps in the stomach; violent spasms in
the abdomen ;  enlargement of the liver.
  Throat  and Chest.—Hoarseness ; spasmodic cough ;
whooping-cough attended with vomiting;  fits  of coughing,
the patient turns blue in the face;  difficult breathing; asth-
matic wheezing breathing;   nightly attacks of  asthma;
spasms of the chest.
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86       DAPHNE INDICA—DAPHNE MEZEREUM.

   Extremities.—Drawing,  spasmodic, cramping  pains;
spasms of the muscles of the arms and legs;  twitching of
the muscles.
   Note.—I visited a man, set. 40, who poisoned himself (while  confined
in the county jail,) by taking the acetate of copper, prepared by himself
during his incarceration.  Most of the prominent symptoms of the stomach
and bowels, above noted, were conspicuous, together with a wild and star-
ing expression, particularly of the eyes.  The case proved fatal, and a post-
mortem examination, made twelve hours after death, revealed traces of
violent inflammation of the stomach and intestinal canal, and the liver was
immoderately enlarged.


                    DAPHNE  INDICA.

  Antidotes.—Bry., Digit, Rhus., Sep., Zinc.

  General Symptoms.—Eheumatic  and  arthritic  pains;
darting pains and shocks; wandering pains;  pains  aggra-
vated by cold air.

  Sleep.—Entire inability to sleep.

  Fever.—Fever with nervous and gastric symptoms;
viscid sweat.

  Head.—" Feeling of fullness in the head, as if the skull
would burst;" " heat in the head, particularly in the vertex."

  Larynx, Trachea and Chest.—Cough with vomiting,
or with  copious watery expectoration;  difficult breathing
at night, attended with a suffocative feeling;  lacerating
pain in the region of the chest.


                  DAPHNE  MEZEREUM.

   Vide Mezereum. 
DIGITALIS.
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                       DIGITALIS.
             DIGITALIS PURPUREA. (Fox-glove.)
  Antidotes.—For large doses, Vegetable Acids, Infusion of Galls
and Diffusible Stimulants {especially Ammonia).  For small doses,
Nux-vom., Opii.

  According to Pereira's views there are three degrees of
the operation of Digitalis, which, in  a  practical point of
view, is very important to be taken into consideration, for
it explains in part why the curative action  of a drug may
serve opposite conditions, viz.:—
  First.  That produced on the organic functions, without
disordering the cerebro-spinal  functions,  such  as  gastric
disturbance, the  altered condition of the  pulse,  both in
frequency  and in volume, and  the increased  secretion of
urine.
  Second. Disordered condition  of the alimentary canal, of
the circulating organs, and of the cerebro-spinal system.
  Third. Is characterized by vomiting, purging,  and grip-
ing pains in the bowels ; slow, feeble,  and irregular pulse;
faintness;  cold  sweats; disordered vision ;  extreme debil-
ity ; afterwards, insensibility and convulsions,  with  dilated
pupils.
  The first is produced by small and repeated doses ; the
second, from too large, or too  long continued doses; the
third,  resulting from fatal doses.   Thus we  have in the
above, its therapeutic, (that is, in one view,) physiological
and toxicological action.
  Characteristic  Peculiarities.—The   symptoms of
digitalis are generally aggravated in a warm room.
  Sensorium  and  Head.—Gloomy; Dullness;  Weak- 
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digitalis.
ness of memory;  Vertigo ;  Fainting ;  Intense  headache;
Semi-lateral headache; Swelling of the head from dropsical
effusion.
  Eyes and Ears.—Stinging in the eyes; Inflammation
of the  eyes, and of the  meibomian glands; Swelling and
puffiness of the eyelids—particularly  the lower lid; obscu-
ration  of sight; objects appear  green;  Pupil of the eye
enlarged;  want  of sensitiveness  of the pupil; it does not
contract by the action of light; Hissing  and  simmering
sounds; stitches in the ears.

  Chest.—Great difficulty in breathing;  deep, slow, and
sighing breathing; Asthma; Difficult breathing,  and op-
pression of the chest from dropsy ; Palpitation of the heart,
or increased action of the heart with slow pulse.

  Gastric Symptoms.—Nausea  and vomiting; vomiting
comes  on  in  paroxysms, is attended  with  coldness of the
extremities, and small, feeble pulse ; Spasmodic pains, and
pressure in the stomach.

  Abdomen.—Sensitiveness  in the right hypochondrium;
Dropsy of the abdomen ; Sticking and shooting prickings
in the abdomen.
  Stool. — Watery  diarrhoea;  Diarrhoea preceded  by
colicky pain.
  Urine.—Desire  to urinate; Voiding  it in drops;  In-
creased and copious flow.

  Extremities.—Weak, languid feeling; cedematous and
anasarcous swelling. 
DROSERA.
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                      DROSERA.
            DROSERA ROTUNDLFOLIA.  (Sun-dew.)
  Antidote.—Camphor.

  Characteristic Peculiarities.—The symptoms  occur
during the  night, and  early in the morning, and during
rest.
  Fever.—Coldness and shuddering during rest; Gastric
ague;  Fever,  attended with  headache  and  spasmodic
cough; Thirst only during the hot stage of fever.

  Moral Symptoms.—Sadness;  Fearful;  obstinate;  ill-
humor.
  Eyes, Ears, and Face.—Dimness of vision;  blurred,
misty, indistinct vision ; Earache, with sticking pain in the
internal ear; hardness of hearing; roaring, like the  fall
of water, or humming like that of an insect; Pain in  the
face, increased by pressure.
  Mouth and Throat.—Bleeding from the mouth;  Diffi-
cult swallowing  of solids;  Stinging in the throat during
swallowing; Ulceration of the palate; the mouth  tastes
bitter.
  Larynx and Chest.—Tickling in the throat, producing
a short, dry, hacking cough;  catarrhal condition of  the
throat and chest; Asthmatic, breathing; cough producing
vomiting; cough excited by speaking,  laughing or crying;
Whooping cough; soreness of the chest from coughing.

  Stomach.—Nausea, and vomiting of bile ; Nausea after
a meal; eructating  water from the stomach; colic caused
by eating acid-fruit, or food. 
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dulcamara.
  Urine.—Frequent urination at night; Increased flow of
urine.
  Female Genital Organs.—Suppression and retention
of the menses; Leucorrhoea, attended with cramping, ab-
dominal pains.

                     DULCAMARA.
            SOLANUM D ULCAMARA.  (Bitter-sweet).
  Antidotes.—Camph., Ipecac, Merc.
  General Symptoms.—Stupefying headache ;  Heaviness
in the  head; chronic, pulmonary catarrh ;  Eheumatic and
gouty affections; chronic eruptions ; Lepra; eczerma and
psoriasis.  It also acts on the urinary organs and intestinal
canal.
  Characteristic  Peculiarities.—Symptoms occur at
night; pains, etc., relieved by motion.

  Skin.—Herpetic  eruptions ;  Humid, scaly  eruptions;
Pustular eruptions ; Salt rheum.

  Sleep.—General  restlessness; uneasy and unrefreshing
sleep.
  Head.—Severe headache;  stupefying headache ;  slight
vertigo, especially  when walking; Boring  pain in  the
temple.
  Face.—Eruptions on  the face  of various kinds; face
pale, with circumscribed redness of the cheeks.

  Mouth.—Soreness  and sensitiveness of  the  mouth;
swelling  of the tongue;  paralysis  of the  tongue; Bitter
taste; dryness  of the mouth  and tongue;  desire for cold
drinks. 
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  Stomach.—Nausea ;  nausea and vomiting; pressure in
the stomach.
  Chest.—Oppression  of  the  chest; oppression  of the
chest caused by dropsical effusion; Pains in the chest.
  Stool.—Mucous and slimy diarrhoea; Diarrhoea follow-
ing exposure to cold or wet; Diarrhoea with bloody stools.
  Back.—Painful lameness of the small of the back ; pain-
ful  stitches, and  drawing of the  muscles of the neck and
back between the shoulders.
  Extremities.—Eruptions of a herpetic character on the
arms and hands ;  Drawing pains in the legs ; Burning and
stinging of the feet and toes.

                       ELATERIUM.
           MEMORDICA ELATERIUM.  (Wild Cucumber.)
  Elaterium approximates more closely to Croton oil in
its action upon the stomach and bowels, also as  an irritant
to the skin and mucous surfaces, than any other remedy we
possess.   Hence  it is an invaluable  remedy  in  violent
vomiting and purging ;  especially if the evacuations from
the bowels are copious  and watery.   It is a good remedy
in  diseases  of the skin, attended  with  much smarting,
stinging and burning.
  Note.—Elaterium is a very efficient remedy in certain forms of dropsy
of the brain, dropsy of the chest, and of the abdomen.  I have seen the
most wonderful curative effects of it in abdominal dropsy, with general
anasarca, the inferior extremities swollen nearly twice  their natural size.
The pressure of the fluid in the abdomen  against the diaphragm, lessened
the capacity  of the chest so that it was impossible for the patient to rest a
moment in the recumbent posture.   The remedy was used in from two to
three grains of the first trituration made from Clutterbuck's preparation,
repeated at intervals of four hours. 
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ELECTRICITAS.
                     ELECTRICITAS.
                      ELECTRICITY.
   Electricity acts on the nervous system as a stimulant,
or excitant.  Like heat, alkalies, and mechanical irritation,
it excites sensation when  applied  to the sensitive nerves,
and muscular contractions when applied to the motor nerves.
Its prolonged  action (like other  stimulating  agents)  ex-
hausts the nervous excitability, but it differs  from them in
several other particulars, of which, according to the most
celebrated authority, the following are the principal, viz.:
   1. The electric  current  excites either  muscular contrac-
tion, or sensation,  according to the direction in which it is
transmitted along  a mixed nerve.
   2. The electric  current  excites  neither contraction nor
sensation when passed transversely across a nerve.
   3. It produces  no effect by its prolonged transmission
along a nerve.
   4. It excites a nerve when it ceases to pass.
   5. It restores the excitability of  a nerve which had been
exhausted by a reverse current.
   6. It retains for a longer period  than any other stimulant
its power of rousing the excitability of a  nerve.—Matteucci.

   Electricity has been employed  as  a  therapeutical agent
with considerable success  in Paralysis, especially  in  that
form of paralysis attended with trembling or shaking (shak-
ing palsy) ; also, in St. Vitus' dance; Catalepsy (one shock
has roused a  patient from a cataleptic state of several hours'
duration); in cases of loss of consciousness; severe neuralgic
pains;   chronic rheumatism;   loss of speech;  amaurosis;
partial deafness; severe toothache; Eetention and  suppres- 
ELECTRICITAS.
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sion of the menses; congestions,  attended  with prickling
and tingling  sensations.   And it has, in some instances,
proven a powerful auxiliary to the action of drugs (partic-
ularly those  prepared from  the metals,) when they were
administered  in  chronic  cases, the  system  responding
tardily, or not at all to their action.   Whether its beneficial
effects are obtained in those cases from an increased activity
imparted to the remedy, or by rousing  the semi-lethargic
tissue  to increased vitality, and thereby rendering the or-
ganism more susceptible  to  the medicinal impression,  or
both, I am not prepared to say.
  The electric current acts on the nerves of sensation like
other stimulants, and excites the special function of each
nerve.  For instance, when transmitted along the nerves of
touch, it excites  pain, the shock, and other unpleasant  sen-
sations ; along  the  optic  nerve, it  causes the sensation of .
light;  along the gustatory nerve, a remarkable taste; along
the auditory nerve, sound ; along the olfactory nerve, the sen-
sation  of smell.—Pereira,
  Electric Aura is produced by the action of a current of
electrified air on the skin, and is used as a mild stimulant,
when  electrifying delicate parts; as the eye, ulcers, ex-
coriated surfaces, etc.
  Electric Spark  is  communicated by presenting to the
part to  be electrified, the ball  or knob of an insulated
director, connected with the prime conductor, or it may be
drawn from the person by placing him on the insulating
stool.  It is generally practised in cases of deafness, loss of
speech, or for paralysis of a single muscle, and impotence.
  Electric Shock is a more violent effect of the disruptive
discharge, and is sometimes resorted  to  in suspended  ani-
mation, Deep  coma, Catalepsy,  and violent  Tetanic spasm. 
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EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM.
  Electric Bath.  The patient is placed on the insulating
stool, and in connection with the prime conductor.   " The
entire surface of the body becomes electro-positive; while
the air which surrounds the body is, by induction, rendered
electro-negative."  The  positive electricity  is  constantly
and  silently  discharged  from  all pointed  parts  of  the
surface, as from the hairs,  fingers,  etc.   This  form  is
practised in cases of general coldness,  want of animal heat,
debility, general relaxation, and want of toncity of the
muscular fibre.

             EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM.
                       BONESET.
  Antidotes.—Ipecac, Camphor, Opii.
  General  Symptoms.—General biliary  derangement;
Bilious, intermittent fever; Fever and ague; the  chill  in
the morning; sickness of the stomach;  loss of appetite;
Pains in the limbs, and of a single muscle as from cold.
  Fever.—Fever  and ague—the chill  comes  on in the
morning;  nausea at the commencement of the hot stage;
aching in the bones ; Inward chilliness.
  Head and Eyes.—Sick headache; soreness of the eye-
balls, and extreme sensitiveness to light.
   Stomach.—Loss of appetite;  no relish for food; vomit-
ing after drinking;  Bilious vomiting.
   Stool  and  Urine.—Constipation; Urine scanty, and
of a dark color ; itching of the parts.
   Larynx  and  Chest. — Hoarseness; hoarse  cough;
asthmatic,  wheezing cough;  cough  following  measles;
difficult breathing; oppression of the chest. 
EUPHRASIA.
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  Extremities.—Eheumatic lameness in the limbs; pains
of particular muscles; painful inflammatory swelling of the
knee.
  Note.—Boneset has been in use as a domestic remedy empirically, for a
long while, and it is very popular among the inhabitants of the interior
for its tonic, antibilious, diaphoretic, expectorant—and in large doses, its
emetic properties.

                      EUPHRASIA.
           EUPHRASIA  OFFICINALIS.  (Eye-bright.)
  Antidotes.—Camph. Puis.
  Euphrasia was known and used empirically, years ago,
in different affections of the eyes, which appears to be its
principal sphere of action.
  Eyes.—Smarting in the eyes, as if produced by sand, or
some fine, irritating particle of dust; stinging in the eyes,
from the action of intense  light; Inflammation and ulcera-
tion of the margins  of the eyelids; Inflammation  of the
cornea; profuse lachrymation, with burning and smarting,
particularly when  exposed to  the wind; Photophobia;
swelling of the eyelids—particularly the lower; fine erup-
tion around  the eyes; purulent opthalmia, with nightly
agglutination;  Eheumatic opthalmia;  fine  stitches  in the
eyeball; gummy secretion in the angle of the eye.
  Nose.—Bleeding from the nose;  profuse fluent coryza,
with smarting lachrymation, or with sneezing and discharge
of mucus.
  Mouth.—Lameness  and stiffness  of the  tongue  and
cheeks.
  Genital  Organs.—Fig warts; the  menses appear at
the regular period, but  continue but from a few  minutes to
an hour. 
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ferrum aceticum.
  Larynx.—Cough  during  the day, with rattling mucus,
which cannot be expectorated ;  some tightness of the chest,
and difficult breathing.
  Extremities.—Painless swelling of the wrist;  numb-
ness of the  fingers;  cramps in the  legs; cramps  in  the
calf while standing.

                  FERRUM ACETICUM.
                FER ACET. (Acetate of Iron.)
  Antidotes.—Am., Arsen., Bell, Chin., Eepar.-Sulph., Puis.
  General  Symptoms.—Great  languor, weakness,  and
weariness; weakness and weariness of the limbs; fainting
spells; emaciation.
  Characteristic Peculiarities.—Most  of the  symp-
toms appear at night;  are aggravated by sitting, and are
relieved by gentle motion.
  Sleep.—Weariness and drowsiness, but unable to sleep;
falls asleep late, and sleeps  heavy in the morning; feels
tired and unrefreshed when rising in the morning.
  Fever. — Frequent shudderings;  chilliness, with great
thirst; want of animal heat;  viscid exhausting sweats;
Intermittent fevers.
  Head.—Hammering and throbbing headache;  pain of
the head, as from ulcerations beneath the skin; painfulness
of the scalp; rush of blood  to the head, with a distended
condition of the veins.
  Face.—Pale face and lips; extreme redness of the face;
Puffiness of  the face and swelling around the eyes.
  Chest.—Asthma;  Haemorrhage from the lungs. 
FERRUM  CARBONICUM.
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  Gastric Symptoms.—Vomiting of the ingesta after every
meal; pressure in the stomach;  pressure in the stomach
after taking the least food or drink.
  Stool and Anus.—Frequent diarrhoeic stools; watery
diarrhoea producing a corroding sore feeling of the anus.
  Genital Organs.—Nocturnal emissions;  miscarriage;
leucorrhoea of a thin, milky appearance.
  Inferior Extremities.—Painful drawing in  the legs,
also stiffness and heaviness; painful cramp  in  the calves;
swelling of the  feet; oedematous swelling of the feet and
ankles.

                 FERRUM CARBONICUM.
    FERRI SUBOARBONAS.   U. S.  (Precipitated Carbonate of Iron.)
  This preparation of Iron is  employed allopathically for
nearly all the purposes to which the preparations of iron
are generally applicable.   It is regarded as a tonic, altera-
tive, and emmenagogue, and has been used successfully in
neuralgia; chorea;  traumatic tetanus;  in the second stage
of hooping cough;  amenorrhcea and anaemia.
  Symptoms.—Nausea, and sense of weight in the stomach;
pale face and lips;  tightness of the. chest;  some difficult
breathing; soreness  benealh the  collar-bone  and between
the shoulder-blades;  sinking of  strength; weariness, and
weakness of the limbs;  swelling of the feet and ankles;
watery diarrhoea; Dark-appearing stools.
  Throat  and Chest.—Cough,  with expectoration of
mucus, pus, or bloody expectoration; cough, attended with
debility; afternoon fever and night  sweats; tightness of the
chest;  pain extending from beneath the collar-bone to, and
beneath, the shoulder-blades. 
 98          FERRUM METALICUM—GRANATUM.

   Genital Organs.—Eetention, suppression, and incom-
 plete  menstruation; threatened miscarriage;  weakness of
 the organs of reproduction.

  Note.—Of all the preparations of Iron that have been used in medicine,
 there are none that have higher claims for benefits conferred than the
 Precipitated carbonate and the Phosphate.  The former in chlorosis; debil-
 ity from the loss of animal fluids, anaemia, scrofula, consumption (depraved
 conditions of the system depending upon a deficiency of solid constituents
 extractive matters and salts).  The latter in alternation with the Phosphate
 of lime  in that peculiar dyscrasy of the system upon which Rickets depend.
 Of course, these remedies are used in such conditions as nutrients, in ap-
 preciable doses, with the view of supplying deficiencies.


                   FERRUM METALICUM.
                      METALLIC IRON.
  The ordinary homoeopathic preparation,  Ferrum Metali-
 cum, has been successfully employed in cases  of oppression,
 and a sensation  as if a load, or some hard substance  were
 in  the stomach; in asthma; pulmonary  consumption ; a
 feeling of coldness, and rigidity of the limbs ;  and in partial
 paralysis, with spasmodic contraction of the fingers, or toes.
 I have also  used  the  Sulphate of Iron successfully  in a
 similar case of paralysis.

                        GRANATUM.
  GRANATI RADICIS CORTEX.   U. S.  (Bark of Pomegranate Root.)
  Granatum has been used empirically as a tonic; vermi-
fuge ;  as a remedy in intermittents, and as an astringent in
leucorrhoeas; and it has achieved quite a reputation  as a
remedy for the expulsion of tape-worm.  The Mahometan
physicians of Hindostan consider it a specific against tape-
worm. 
GRAPHITES.
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  General Symptoms.—Fainting spells; suppurations of
internal  organs;  extreme languor  and prostration,  with
heat  of the  hands; External  inflammatory swellings;
ulcers;  chilblains; Tertian fever;  gastric, bilious, and ty-
phoid fevers; Sensitive,  Irritable, and quarrelsome.
  Head.—Vertigo ; empty feeling in the head; Lacerating
in the right side of the head.
  Eyes.—Sunken eyes; specks  on the cornea; weakness
of sight.
  Mouth and Throat.—Ulcers in the mouth; stomacace;
the gums recede from the teeth,  and bleed  easily; inflam-
mation and suppuration  of the tonsils; serous and catarrhal
sore throat.
  Chest.—Catarrh;  Hoarseness;  cough  with  coryza;
Stitches in the chest;  Pleuritis.
  Stomach and Abdomen.—Cramps in the stomach before
eating;  fullness and anguish in the pit of the stomach;
Taenia;  Dysenteric diarrhoea; Itching and  tingling in the
rectum.
  Genital  Organs.—Prolapsus of the uterus; prolapsus
of the vagina.
                      GRAPHITES.
                      BLACKLEAD.
  Antidotes.—Arsen., Nux-vom., Vinum.
  Head.—Itching of the scalp; Painful humid  eruption
on the top of the head  ; disposition to grow bald; Wild-
ness and confusion ; Intoxicated  feeling.
  Eyes.—Itching and smarting of the eyes ; very sensitive
to the light; stitches in them; profuse  secretion of tears. 
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  Ears, Nose, and Face.—Hardness of hearing;  dryness
of the ears, attended with hissing and roaring;  Discharge
of pus from the ears ; Herpetic and scaly eruption behind
the ears ; Soreness of the nose;  Dry scales or scurf in  the
nostrils; Disagreeable smell; Obstruction of the  nose;
Eaw eruptions of the face; Itching and burning eruptions;
Paralysis of the left side of the face; Freckled face; Ulcers
on the inside of the lip and corner of the mouth; scurfy
eruption around the mouth,  and on the chin.
  Female Genital Organs.—Suppression of the  menses,
with weight in the  limbs;  scanty menstruation;  soreness
of the pudendum ; Leucorrhoea.
  Extremities.—Cramp in the hands; sprained feeling in
the wrist joint, and in the joints  of the fingers; small sores
between the fingers;  soreness  and  chafing  between  the
thighs ; numbness and stiffness of the legs ; Ulcers on  the
legs;  sores between the toes; Blisters  on the toes; Her-
petic  eruptions  on  different  parts of  the legs;  Violent
stitches in the heels.

               GRATIOLA  OFFICINALIS.
                   HEDGE HYSSOP.
  General Symptoms.—Languor;  Physical and mental
prostration; Hysterical and Hypochondriacal complaints;
dropsy; jaundice; hepatic affections; convulsions  in chil-
dren.
  Head.—Pressure in the forehead;  Fullness;  uneasy
feeling in the head.

  Stomach and  Abdomen. — Dyspepsia, attended with
nausea; pressure in the  stomach; sickness of the  stomach 
      GUIACUM OFFICINALE—HELLEBORUS NIGER.    101

and vomiting;  cold feeling in the abdomen; colicky pains
and diarrhoea.

  Note.—The severest convulsions I ever saw, were produced in a little
boy about four years old, by Hyssop; it was given in form of tea, for some
trifling ailment.  The convulsions continued at intervals of about fifteen
minutes for thirteen hours.

                 GUIACUM OFFICINALE.
                 GUI AC.  (Resin of Guiacum.)
   Thts remedy has  been somewhat  famed by the older
practitioners (of the old school) as a remedy in Eheumatism.
It is now only used in catarrhal affections, and those affec-
tions of the mucous surfaces generally demanding Balsamic
and  Eesinous  remedies.  As a remedy, it is not in very
general use, and is inferior to many others of the same class.


                  HELLEBORUS NIGER.
                   BLACK HELLEBORE.
  Antidotes.—Camph.,  China.

   General Symptoms.—Diseases  of the cerebro-spinal
system; violent action of the stomach and bowels; Inflam-
mation  of the  stomach and bowels ; violent vomiting and
hypercatharsis ; vertigo; stupefaction of the senses; cramps
and convulsions; convulsive movements; spasmodic rigid-
ity of the limbs; anasarca and dropsy.
   Skin.—Pale color of the skin ;  rash, resembling that of
scarlet fever;  sudden watery swelling of the skin  of the
whole body; Anasarca.
   Sleep.—Sleep disturbed by dreams; restless; sopor.
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HEPAR sulphur.
  Moral.—Silent melancholy;  obstinate silence;  Hypo-
chondriac mood;  Diffidence.
  Sensorium.—Imbecility;  want of mental energy;  con-
fused ideas; dropsy of the brain.
  Face.—Pale, sickly appearance; paleness during heat in
the head;  pale oedematous swelling of the face and lips;
swelling of the lips, with white vesicles.
  Eyes.—Photophobia, with but little inflammation.
  Mouth.—Soreness of  the corners of the mouth, with an
increased flow of  saliva ; vesicles on the tongue.
  Chest.—Sharp cutting  in the inferior portion of  the
chest, increased by coughing, sneezing, or by a full inspira-
tion ; Hydrothorax.
  Abdomen.—Gurgling  in the bowels, as if full of water;
Ascites ; Inflammation of the stomach and bowels; violent
action of the bowels; copious watery evacuations.
  Note.—Hellebore is a very good remedy in dropsy or general anasarca,
when the skin is bright red, or is covered with a rash-appearing redness
Bimilar to that of Scarlatina.  It is also efficient in Hydrocephalus second-
ary to Scarlatina.

                   HEPAR SULPHUR.
     HEPAR SULPHURIS CALCAREUM.  (Sulphuretof Lime.)
  Antidotes.—Bell and Cham.
  Characteristic Peculiarities.—Aggravation of  the
symptoms  at night;  frequent nausea; sensitiveness to the
air; weariness before rising in the morning; diseases from
the abuse of mercury, and stitches in different parts.
  Skin.—Eoughness  of, and cracks in the  skin  of  the
hands;  unhealthy state  of the  skin;  Wounds, suppurate 
HEPAR SULPHUR.
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and are tardy in healing ;  great tendency to perspire ; dis-
agreeable acid-smelling perspiration; acrid discharges from
sores.
  Head and  Eyes.—Headache, from moving the head;
sore aching in the forehead; boring pain at the root of the
nose in the morning; scald head;  itching pimples on the
scalp;  falling off of the hair;  Spots  and ulcers on the cor-
nea of the eye; opacities of the cornea; Inflammation of
the eyes, attended with stitches or boring pains.
  Face, Nose,  and  Ears. — Erysipelatous  inflammation
and swelling of the face; pains in the bones of the face,
sore when pressing  upon  them; " drawing and  lacerating
from the cheeks into the ear and temple;"  eruptions on the
face, particularly in those who are young; Itching of the
nose ;  inflammation and swelling of the nose;  dry coryza.
  Throat and  Chest. — Stinging  and stitches in the
throat,  sometimes extending to the ear; smarting rough-
ness,  rawness,  and  scraping  sensation;  dryness of the
throat; swelling of the tonsils ;  Spasmodic constriction of
the chest; Hoarseness; asthmatic breathing; Fits of suffoca-
tion ; stitches in the chest.
  Stomach and Abdomen.—Pressure, swelling, and ten-
sion in the region of the stomach; stitches in the region of
the spleen ;  stitches lower in the left side of the abdomen.
  Stool and Urine.—Sour smelling diarrhoea in children;
Dysentery, with discharges of bloody mucus; Diarrhoea;
Nightly urination;  mucus discharged from the urethra.
  Extremities. — Herpetic  eruptions  and  nettle-rash;
swellings  on the hands  and feet, disposed  to suppurate;
Hang-nails and ring-arounds ;  cracked skin of the feet. 
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hydrocyanic acid.
                  hydrocyanic acid.
          ACID UM HYDROCYANICUM.  (Prussic Acid.)
   Antidotes.—Of large doses, Amm., Cold dash, or Salt in cold
water; of small doses, Camph., Ipecac, Opii., Coff.
   General  Symptoms.—Languor  and weakness of the
limbs; cramp in the muscles of the face and jaws;  Con-
vulsions ; Paralysis  of  the  limbs;  Catalepsy; Slow  and
indistinct pulsation  of the  heart;  Diminution  of animal
heat.
   Sleep.—Yawning, with shivering,  and  cramps of the
skin ; Irresistible drowsiness;  vivid,  incoherent dreams.
   Fever.—Chilliness after midnight, and during the morn-
ing ; Coldness,  alternating chills with  heat;  stupefaction
of the head, and vertigo during the chilliness.
   Sensorium.—Inability to think; Illusions of the senses;
Dullness; Vertigo.
   Head.—Oppressive pain  in the  forehead; Oppressive
pain in the left side of the head.
   Ears.—Pressure in the interior of both ears; Eoaring
and buzzing; Imperfect hearing.
   Face.—Distortion of the facial muscles; Sallow and gray
complexion;  Lockjaw.
   Mouth.—Increased secretion of saliva;  Tongue coated
white, changing to dark and foul; stiffness  of the tongue;
imperfect articulation; pain in the palate;  spasms in the
cesaphagus ;  Inflammation of the pharynx.
  Stomach.—Severe gastralgia; severe pain and pressure
in the pit of the stomach; nausea, attended with pain, and
a degree of soreness in the stomach. 
HYOSCYAMUS NIGER.
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  Chest.—Tightness  and oppression  of the  chest; asth-
matic breathing;  acute  pains in the chest, with a feeling
of fullness ; Feeble action of the heart.
  Extremities.—Weakness of the limbs;  unsteady gait;
coldness of the extremities.

                 HYOSCYAMUS NIGER.
               HYOSCYAMUS.  (Black Henbane.)
  Antidotes.—Acetic acid, Bell, Camph., and China.
  General Symptoms.—Pains in the limbs of a rheumatic
character;  Weariness and languor; Fainting; convulsive
movements of the limbs; Jerking and twitching of  the
tendons; Epileptic  convulsions; Violent gesticulating and
throwing the limbs about; cramps of the muscles, which
come on during the night.
  Sleep.—Drowsiness during the day ; sleepless at night;
sudden startings from sleep.
  Moral Symptoms.—Peevish; sad; despairing; jealous
and suspicious.
  Sensorium.—Stupefaction;  Loss of sense; Imbecility
of mind; Delirium ; Grasping at imaginary objects; com-
plete insanity; Mania, with furious ravings.
  Eyes and Ears.—Eed, staring, and distorted eyes; red
sparkling eyes ; Quick, convulsive movements of the eyes ;
Buzzing in the ears and hardness of hearing.
  Mouth.—Tongue hot and dry; Paralysis of the tongue;
Loss of speech;  Foaming and frothing at the mouth; Lace-
rating in the gums; Lockjaw.
  Throat.—Constriction of the throat; Great difficulty in
swallowing, as in hydrophobia. 
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IGNATIA AMARA.
  Appetite  and  Stomach.—Dread of drink; Vomiting
after eating;  Vomiting of blood, or dark appearing blood
and mucus ;  Hiccough; Periodical cramps of the stomach,
which are relieved by vomiting.
  Abdomen  and  Stool.—Diarrhoea; Painless diarrhoea;
Diarrhoea of lying-in women;  involuntary discharges from
the bowels ; Paralysis of the sphincter muscle.
  Larynx and Chest.—Catarrhal  coughs; cough when
lying down, relieved by rising up; Dry, spasmodic cough ;
Dry cough at night; Spasms of  the chest; Stitches in the
sides of the chest.
  Extremities.—Lameness; Painful drawing in the limbs;
numbness of the legs and arms; Gangrenous vesicles  and
spots  on  the inferior  extremities;  cramps  in  the lower
limbs at night, particularly during pregnancy.
  Note.—Hyoscyamus is a very superior remedy in Delirium Tremens,
particularly when violent gesticulating, kicking, stamping, and throwing
the limbs about, is a prominent characteristic.

                   IGNATIA AMARA.
               IGNATIA.  (St. Ignatius' Bean.)
  Antidotes.—Puis., Cham., Camph., Cocc.
  Characteristic  Peculiarities.—Jerking and twitch-
ing, similar to St. Vitus' dance; Twitching of a  single
muscle; Jerking or starting of a limb when going to sleep;
Tingling in the limbs;  the symptoms appear early in the
morning, and return in the afternoon and evening.
  Skin.—Sensitiveness and itching of the skin; chilblains
and nettle-rash, attended with violent itching and burning.
  Fever.—Chill, with external coldness  and thirst; the 
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face and arms are chilly;  "chills, with a desire for cold
drinks;" chill, followed by heat and sweating ;  during the
chill, nausea and vomiting; Internal shuddering ; coldness
of the feet; stinging and itching of the skin.
   Moral  Symptoms. — Avoids company  and talking;
Indifference and  apathy;  sad, melancholic  mood; Disin-
clination to mental or physical exertion.
   Head.—Headache  in the  forehead, relieved  by lying
down;  Headache, as  if a  nail were driven into the brain,
or a hard substance pressing on the brain ;  Falling off of
the hair.
   Eyes, Ears, and Nose.—Pressure in  the eyes, as from
a  foreign substance;  eyes very sensitive  to light; Inflam-
mation  of the eyes,  with morning agglutination of the lids;
congested eyes;  scrofulous  inflammation  of  the  eyes;
Imperfect sight;  convulsive  movements  of  the eyes and
lids;  Tingling  in the  ears; hardness  of hearing; Pain in
the nose; Coryza, with dull pain in the frontal sinuses.
   Face.—Twitching of the muscles of the face and lips.
   Throat.—Difficult  deglutition;  Stinging  in the throat
during  the intervals  of  swallowing; constriction of the
fauces;  Inflammation and hard swelling of the  tonsils.
   Chest.—Dry cough by night and by day, with  fluent
coryza; Dry,  hacking  cough; Oppression   of the chest;
Spasmodic constriction of the chest; Palpitation of the
heart.
   Female Genital Organs.—Spasms  in  the abdomen
during  the menstrual flow; Uterine spasms,  relieved by
pressure.
   Extremities. — Convulsive  twitching  and  jerking; 
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INDIAN HEMP.
numbness, and creeping sensation; stinging, or ulcerative
pains in the soles of the feet.

                     INDIAN HEMP.
                    CANNABIS INDICA.
  (EESF' By an  oversight this article was mislaid; it ought to have pre-
ceded Cannabis Sativa.)
  History.—This  plant  grows in India, and its history
dates back to  the time of the ancient Greeks and Eomans.
Herodotus states that it was cultivated by the Scythians,
and made into garments.  It was used as a medicine at the
time of Nero.   Dioscorides and Galen used the  expressed
juice of the seeds in allaying earache, and in the description
given  of it  by  Herodotus, he adds,  that they threw the
seeds on red-hot stones,  and used the perfumed vapors thus
obtained, as a bath, which excited from  them cries of ex-
ultation.   Dr. Boyle suggests that it {hemp) must have been
the " assuager of grief," or the nepenthes of which Homer
refers to, as  having been given by Helen to Telemachus in
the house of Menelaus.   It is known in  India as the  " in-
creaser of pleasure," the  "exciter of desires," the  " cementer
of friendship," the  u causer of a reeling gait," the  "laughter
mover," etc.— Vide Pereira.
  Although it has been considered identical with the can-
nabis sativa of Linnaeus, and as possessing no specific dif-
ferences  from  the  common hemp, it  certainly differs in
form in several  particulars.  It  grows more bushy and not
so high; it  branches from the  ground to within two feet
from  the top.   The fruit is smaller  and rounder, and its
flowers more crowded.
  Clinical Eemarks.—Its physiological effects as  a neu-
rotic, is that of a cerebro-spinal.  A  wonderful display of 
INDIAN HEMP.
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which I witnessed  in the case of an apothecary in one of
the first drug-stores of this city, who took a random dose
of the alcoholic extract to relieve a severe neuralgic pain.
In about five minutes after taking it he experienced  thirst,
for which he drank a glass of soda-water.  Immediately
after drinking the soda, he experienced a sensation of full-
ness ;  felt as if he would burst, which was soon followed by
a sensation  in  waves along the spinal column from below
upward; and when the sensation referred to reached his
head,  he became apparently unconscious, or would lose con-
trol of himself.  He would get down upon his hands  and
feet, attempt to stand on  his  head, jump, perform various
antic  and fantastic feats at attitudes ; he would laugh, cry,
holloa, appear very friendly and loving, embraced an elderly
gentleman (his employer) most cordially, then attempted to
undress himself in the store, and commenced other  incon-
sistencies.   These paroxysms returned at first about every
five minutes, the intervals being perfectly lucid, and they
gradually lengthened to fifteen or twenty minutes, next to
hours, and lastly to days; its  effects continued in part for
about six weeks.   The paroxysms were always preceded
by the peculiar full  feeling and semi-chilliness in wavelets
from  below upward, until it  reached the head, and every
paroxysm appearing different, with the exception of the
" aura" preceding them.   Sometimes he would fall  down,
appear listless,  as in a cataleptic state;  at others, he would
perform some of the feats or gestures referred to, or assume
some  attitudes,  or simply laugh; again he would appear
boisterous, and would  collar,  in a menacing manner, the
person whom he previously embraced so warmly.   Want
of space admonishes me to defer the particulars (which I
have in full, partly written by the person himself) to a more
appropriate  place. 
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INDIGO.
  I regard the Cannabis Indica one of our most valuable
remedies for the cure of Catalepsy, severe nervous headache,
headache with dizziness, headache producing reeling  and
staggering, severe headache, with a feeling  of pressure, as
from a weight on the top of the head; for  a melancholic,
desponding  mood;  Hypochondriacal affections, and for
general nervous irritability.
  Also in partial derangement caused  by jealousy, or by
misplaced affections.
  I have also used it very successfully in  impotency  and
weakness of the sexual organs.
  One of its striking peculiarities is, the attacks come on in
shocks as sudden as if from electricity.

                        INDIGO.
              PIGMENTUMINDICUM.  (Indigo.)
  Antidotes.—Opium, Hyoscyam, Ignatia.
  General Symptoms.—Spasmodic affections; cardialgia;
colic; nausea  and vomiting; vertigo;  twitching   of  the
muscles; Epilepsy, and convulsions in children.
  Head.—Pain in the  sinciput; Pressure and vertigo;
Vertigo, attended  with  nausea, sometimes with  violent
vomiting, followed by diarrhoea.
  Mouth and Throat.—Metallic taste and  constriction of
the fauces ; spasm of the  fauces ; Loss of appetite.
  Stomach.—Nausea;  nausea  and vomiting; vomiting,
attended with severe cardialgia; Dyspepsia,  with giddiness
of the head.
  Abdomen. — Diarrhoea,   attended  with  colic;  Liquid
diarrhoea; dark-appearing evacuations. 
IODINUM.
Ill
  Extremities.—Twitching and  jerking of the muscles
and limbs; St. Vitus' dance.


                       IODINUM.
                        IODINE.
  Antidotes.—For large doses, Starch, made into a demulcent drink;
Arrow Boot, similarly prepared; Milk and sweetened water.  For
small doses, Ant., Arsen., Camph., China, Coffee, Phos., Spongia.

  The action  of'this non-metallic elementary body, is upon
the absorbent  and glandular system, and is a general exci-
tant of the vital actions.
  Characteristic Peculiarities.—Aggravation  of the
pains during  the morning, and at night; also by motion,
pressure, or contact.
  Skin.—Dark brown, or yellowish brown  patches on the
face, and  on different parts of the body; Herpetic erup-
tions, with  stinging and itching;  glandular enlargements
and indurations; Thickening of the skin.
  Sleep.—Entire sleeplessness.
  Moral  Symptoms. — Sad,  gloomy,  and desponding;
Sensitive and  irritable.
  Head and Face.—Throbbing  headache, produced or
increased by motion ; Yellow complexion; Brown spots on
the face ;  convulsive twitches of the muscles of the face.
  Mouth and Throat.—Smarting and burning sensation;
profuse secretion of saliva; effects  of mercury; ash-colored
ulcerations; offensive taste; voracious  appetite;  Burning
in  the  fauces; constrictive sensation in the  fauces  and
throat;  enlargement of the thyroid gland. 
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IPECACUANHA.
   Chest.—Asthmatic  difficulty in  breathing;  deep  inspi-
ration produces pain;  Palpitation  of the heart;  morning
cough;  Hoarseness, and irritative cough.

   Genital Organs.—Swelling of  the right testicle, unac-
companied with pain;  Enlargement of the prostrate gland.

   Extremities.—Weakness of the arms; coldness of the
hands;  numbness of the  fingers;  oedematous swelling  of
the legs and feet.

   Note.—Doctor L. Hallock of our city, and other very reliable homoeo-
paths, regard Iodine as almost, or quite a specific in membranous croup.
They recommend from ten to twenty drops of the officinal tincture, mixed
in a tumbler two-thirds full  of pure cold water, and a teaspoonful given
every fifteen or twenty minutes until relief is obtained.  The remedy is to
be persisted  in (unremittingly) at short intervals until there is a marked
improvement.  Then the time of administration must be gradually length-
ened as the  improvement progresses.  I will here remark, that a small
quantity of sugar is necessary to be added, to prevent the iodine from
being decomposed  by  the water; and  it prevents, to a great extent, its
volatility, which nearly equals Bromine. "  A convenient mode is to drop
the iodine on a piece of sugar, and dissolve it in the water."—Hallock.



                      IPECACUANHA.

              CEPH<ELIS IPECACUANHA.  (Ipecac.)

  Antidotes.—Of large doses, the Tinct. of galls; of small doses, Ar-
nica, Arsen., Chin., Nux-vom.

   Head.—Headache;  sick headache; headache  attended
with bilious vomiting;  vertigo,  attended with nausea.

   Skin.—Yellowish hue of the skin; yellowish pink erup-
tion, resembling faint, or receding efflorescence of scarlatina.

   Fever.—Sensitiveness  to  either  cold or warmth ;  chilli-
ness during the forenoon ;  heat in the  afternoon and  even- 
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ing; Bilious fever;  Fever attended with  headache and
nausea.
  Chest.—Cough, with copious mucous expectoration; dry
spasmodic or asthmatic  cough; tickling sensation  in the
throat,  causing  cough  ;  difficult breathing;  asthmatic
wheezing;  oppressive breathing ;  bleeding from the lungs.
  Appetite and Gastric Symptoms.—Loss of appetite;
bitter or insipid taste; nausea; vomiting of mucus;  bilious
vomiting; severe pains  in the stomach;  sticking pain  in
the pit of the stomach.
  Abdomen.—Flatulent colic;  colic  of children ; griping
pains in the abdomen; bilious diarrhoea; diarrhoea attended
with nausea; vomiting;  severe cramping and griping pains
in the stomach and bowels.
  Extremities.—Cramps in the thighs at night; twitching
of the legs and feet.

                       JALAPA.
                IPOMEA JALAPA.   (Jalap.)
  Antidotes.—Can-sat, Elaterium; for large doses, Opium.
  Head.—Severe headache, attended with chilliness ; Hy-
drocephalus in children.
  Stomach and Abdomen.—Pinching pain in the stom-
ach;  nausea and griping; Diarrhoea;  watery diarrhoea;
thin muddy-appearing  diarrhoea  in  children;  distended
abdomen; ascites ; Haemorrhoidal flux.
  Female Genital  Organs.—Suppression of the menses. 
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                 KALI BICHROMICUM.
                BICHROMATE OF POTASH.
  Antidotes.—
  General Symptoms. — Very  analogous to the  other
preparations of  Kali, especially in diseases  of the skin,
glandular enlargement, and  diseases of the respiratory or-
gans.  In membranous croup it has achieved quite a repu-
tation, and its action, in  many respects,  corresponds with
Bromine,  which is regarded by some a specific  in that
disease.
  Its indications in croup are, dry, hollow, hoarse, crowing,
or whistling cough, attended with great difficulty in breath-
ing; the child  throws itself about, its head  drawn  back-
wards so  as to  straighten the air passages and ease the
breathing; the  respirations are anxious  and wheezing or
whistling; anxious expression of countenance, gasping for
breath,  and threatened  suffocation.   In  addition to the
above, some have noted the subsidence of the cough,  and a
copious secretion of mucus in the nose and mouth as the
prominent symptoms indicating its use.
  Dose.—It should be given in from one to three grains of
the  first trituration (taking  the age of the child into con-
sideration, whether it be a few months or three or four years
old) every fifteen or twenty minutes, until decided relief is
obtained, then extend the time to every hour, or two, as the
symptoms appear to demand, or another drug is indicated; 
kali carbonicum.
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                 KALI CARBONICUM.
                CARBONATE OF POTASH.
  Antidotes.— Camph., Coffea, Nitr-Spir.
  General Symptoms.—Bruised pains in the muscles;
drawing pain in the limbs and in the nape of the neck;
great liability to take cold; weakness, weariness, relaxation,
and tremulousness.
  Characteristic  Peculiarities of  Kali  Carb.  are
stitches.
  Skin.—Painful condition of the skin; dryness; burning,
itching, and stinging; stitches in different parts;  old warts.
  Sleep.—Drowsiness during the day, and sleeplessness at
night;  sleep disturbed by dreams.
  Moral  Symptoms.—Desponding; sad; want of energy;
vexed mood.
  Sensorium.—Dullness; want of memory; vertigo ; con-
fused, stupid feeling.
  Taste.—Bitter, sour, or putrid taste;  desire for  sweet
things.
  Stomach.—Sour  eructations after eating; sense of full-
ness ;  nausea; pressure in the stomach; weight;  cutting
pains;  sore pains; throbbing in the pit of the stomach and
tenderness upon pressure.
  Chest.—Oppression  of  the  chest;  difficult  breathing;
attacks of  asthma  in the morning;  spasmodic asthma;
stitches in the chest; Hoarseness and loss of voice; tickling
cough.
  Abdomen.—Pressure in  the region of the liver;  hard, 
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KALI  IODIDUM.
distended  abdomen;  weight,  pressure,  and  weariness;
Flatulence; itching, burning, or pinching of the anus.
  Genital Organs.—Stinging and itching of the glans;
swelling  of the testes;  deficient sexual desire;  burning and
itching in the pudendum;  soreness and rawness;  suppres-
sion of the menses ;  leucorrhoea.
  B^ck.—"Stiffness and paralytic  feeling in the back;"
stiffness of the nape of the neck; stitches in the region of
the kidneys.
  Extremities.—Numbness of the arms and hands; stiff-
ness of the joints;  lameness and heaviness ;  twitching of
the fingers; cold  feet;  swelling of the feet; sweaty feet,


                    KALI IODIDUM.
         IODIDE OF POTASSIUM.  (Hydriodate of Potash.)
  Antidotes.—Similar to those for Iodine.
  The Physiology and Therapeia of the Iodide of Potas-
sium  are very analogous to those of Iodine.  Its action is
principally upon  the absorbent and glandular system; but
it differs slightly in its peculiarity respecting pain; the pains
go off, or are relieved by motion, whereas motion increases
the iodine pains.
  Iodide of Potassium  has  been used  with much success
in removing " haemorrhagic diathesis;" also  in purpuria
hcemorrhagica.  It is also a very good remedy  in secondary
and tertiary syphilitic  affections, especially nodes, thicken-
ing and induration of ligaments and fascia, and for papulous
eruptions. 
KREOSOTUM.
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                     KREOSOTUM.
                  CREASOTON.  (Creasote.)
  Antidotes.—Chin., Arsen., Ipecac, Cocculus, Nux-vom.
  Characteristic Peculiarities.—The pains are rather
aggravated by rest.
  Skin.—Irritation of the skin; destruction of the skin,
it peals off in scales; unhealthy skin; old  ulcers;  ulcers
prone to bleed.
  Head  and  Eyes.—Vertigo;  pulsating  headache;  in-
creased heat of the head;  drawing headache, with a dispo-
sition to close the eyes; falling off  of the  hair; Itching,
biting and  stinging in the  eyes ;  excessive smarting  of  the
eyes; swelling of the edges of the eyelids;  or scaly erup-
tions on the eyelids ; dimsightedness.
  Nose and Face.—Dry coryza, attended  with  frequent
sneezing; livid complexion ;  pimples on the  forehead ;  red
acne on the face.
  Stomach and Abdomen.—Severe gastralgia;  constant
nausea and burning in the stomach ; chronic inflammation
of the  mucous coat of the stomach; nausea, during preg-
nancy ;  cancer of the stomach; pain and cutting around  the
umbilicus; diarrhoea, attended with  an unpleasant heat of
the anus ; mucous dysentery.
  Urine.—Frequent urination;  increased  discharges  of
acrid smelling urine.
  Female Genital Organs.—Too early  menstruation,
and  too  profuse.   The menstrua appears  dark, and is
(sometimes) in clots.   Leucorrhoea, generally of a corrosive
character.
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lachesis.
  Chest and Back.—Oppression of the chest; difficult
and anxious  breathing;  tenderness of the spine; pain in
the small of the back ; swelling of the cervicle glands.

  Extremities.—Stitches in the arms ;  numbness  of the
fingers; scaly eruptions, and  itching at the bend  of the
knee ;  oedema of the feet.


                      LACHESIS.
              TRIGONOCEPHALUS LACHESIS.
  Antidotes.—Arsen., Belladonna, Nux-vom., Rhus-tox.

  Characteristic Peculiarities.—The action of lachesis
is  principally on  the  left side,  especially in paralysis;
secondary to apoplexy, or paralysis  depending upon an
apoplectic condition of the brain; Aggravation of symptoms
during rest;  Exhaustion  from extremes of temperature,
either heat or cold.

  General Symptoms.—Paralysis of the left side, or of a
limb on the left side ; Weariness; Languor; Disinclination
to move, and dread of exercise ;  Trembling;  Great weak-
ness and  emaciation;  Convulsions,  with  rigidity  of the
limbs,  and the head drawn  backward;  Fainting, and at-
tacks of vertigo.

  Skin.—Eed spots  on  the  face;  Gangrenous blisters;
Itching of the whole  body, as from insects;  Pain  in old
cicatrices;  small ulcers.

  Sleep.—Drowsiness in the morning, during the forenoon,
and in the evening, but sleepless during the night; Sleep
disturbed by slight noises;  sudden startings when  falling
asleep. 
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  Head. — General headache;  almost every  variety  of
headache ;  Particularly severe headache every afternoon ;
Violent beating and throbbing in the head.

  Moral and Sensorium.—Melancholic, despondent and
discouraged;  fear; mistrust and suspicious;  absent  of
thought; Weakness of memory ;  Dullness and indolence ;
Mental derangement after  vexation,  close  application  to
study, or, in intemperate persons;  giddiness, with headache
before the appearance of the menses; Apoplexy ; Apoplexy
with  paralysis of the left side ; Affections of the brain  of
children.
  Fever.—Coldness;  general  chilliness ; coldness of the
hands, with a  burning sensation ;  Tertian ague;  Fever in
a child, with heat of the head and face, and coldness of the
extremities ;  Fever and ague, with paroxysms every even-
ing, followed  by great prostration; Burning of the palms
of  the hands, and of the soles of the feet,  particularly at
night.

  Eyes.—Pain, Redness  and inflammation of  the  eyes;
Biting,  burning, stinging,  and itching; Pressure in the
eyes ; Distortion of the eyes.

  Ears.—Dryness  of the  ears; Hardness  of  hearing, or
very sensitive to noise ; Soreness,  and scurfs on the ears.

  Nose.—Redness  of  the nose, especially in intemperate
persons; Scurfs  in the  nose;  Fluent coryza;  Ozoena;
Catarrhal  affections, attended with bloody pus  from the
nostrils.
  Face.—Cadaverous,  sunken  expression;  Pale,  livid,
sickly expression;  Bloated  red face, attended with heat,
headache, and  coldness of the extremities;  Distortion of 
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lachesis.
the face and lips; swelling of the lips; Herpetic eruptions
on the face.
  Mouth.—Soreness  of the mouth;  Stiffness,  swelling,
and paralysis of the tongue; Gangrenous spots and ulcers
in the mouth and on the tongue;  Lockjaw, with  a general
chilliness;  Lacerating in the teeth;  Tenderness of the
gums, and a disposition to bleed ; Metallic taste; Salt taste;
Loss of taste ; Desire for acids.
  Throat.—Sore throat; sensation of  swelling ; Pressure
in the throat; great difficulty in swallowing, with constant
urging; Inflammation of the  tonsils, with a tendency to
suppurate ;  small ulcers in  the throat, and on the fauces;
Syphilitic ulcers in the throat.
  Chest.—Shortness of breath ; Tightness and oppression
of the  chest;  Asthma;  Dry  cough; Suffocative cough;
Tickling cough ; short, hacking cough ; cough at night.
  Stomach.—Pressure in  the stomach;  gnawing,  heavi-
ness, and repletion ; Eructations; Nausea; Bilious vomit-
ing, and vomiting of the  ingesta; nausea  and vomiting
during pregnancy.
  Abdomen.—Diseases of the liver; colic, with constipa-
tion ;  Burning  in the umbilicus: Pressure and labor-like
pains; meteorismus.

  Stool.—Lachesis appears to be  indicated in almost every
condition of the abdomen,  especially as regards the action
of the bowels.
  Genital Organs.—Scanty, menstrual discharge;  severe
labor-like pains, with violent bearing down ; Leucorrhoea;
Thin, bluish appearing milk.
  Back.—Severe pain in the small of the back;  Bruised, 
lactuca virosa.
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stitching, and lacerating pains ;  Pain, and  sensitiveness of
the neck; Swelling of the glands  of the neck ;  Ulcers on
the neck.
  Extremities. — Lacerating;  Jerking and  sprained-like
pains ; Swelling of the hands; Lacerating and tensive pains
in the legs;  stinging, or lacerating in the knees ;  eruptions
of a leprous character; old ulcers ; varicose ulcers ; cracked
skin between the toes.


                   LACTUCA VIROSA.
            ACRID LETTUCE.  (Strong-scented Lettuce.)
  Antidotes.—Acetic Acid, Coffee.
  General Symptoms.—Stupefaction  of the senses; Di-
minished  circulation;  Palpitation of the  heart;  General
restlessness ; Diarrhoeas; Increased flow of urine, and Drop-
sical affections depending upon visceral obstructions.
  Characteristic  Peculiarities.—Lactuca Virosa acts
principally  upon  the  brain,  the  circulatory system, and
upon the serous secretions,  and not principally upon the
respiratory organs, as stated in Jahr.
  Sleep.—Great restlessness; Impossible to get  asleep, or
deep sleep bordering on coma.
  Head.—Dull; heavy headache; confused feeling in the
head; dizziness.
  Fever.—Heat of the face and headache,  with  general
coldness;  especially coldness of the extremities and chills
passing over the back.
  Chest.—Difficult  breathing;  paroxysms  of suffocative
breathing from dropsy of the chest. 
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LAUROCERASUS.
   Abdomen.—Diseases of the liver; Dropsy of the abdo-
men from obstructions of the portal system.

   Extremities.—Trembling of the arms and hands;  cold-
ness and numbness of the legs and feet.
  Note.—One drop of the Tinct. Lactuca Virosa mixed in a wineglassful
of water, and given at a dose, not only quieted, but produced a refreshing
sleep of eleven hours' duration in a person laboring under " delirium tre-
mens," who had not closed his eyes to sleep for over forty-eight hours pre-
vious.  The prominent symptoms,  in this case, were great restlessness,
uneasiness, flushed face, complained of being cold, and of his head turning
around, coldness of his feet and legs, and constant tremor of his hands and
arms.

                     LAUROCERASUS.
          PRUNUS LAUROCERASUS.  (CherryLaurel.)
   Antidotes.—For large doses, Ammonia and other  Alkalies; for
small doses, Camph., Coff., Ipecac, Opt.
   The  action of Laurocerasus is  very similar to that of
Hydrocyanic acid,   excepting  convulsions,  (which  have
seldom  been witnessed) especially when  it has been taken
in doses sufficiently large to produce deleterious effects, or
to prove fatal; viz.,  Painful sensation of the stomach;  pal-
pitation of the heart;  sudden insensibility;  rapid sinking
of strength, and  of the pulse, and death in a few minutes.

   Characteristic Peculiarities.—The  pains appear to
be somewhat relieved in the open air; Evening exacerba-
tion ;  amelioration at night.

   Fever.—Coldness; Deficiency of natural heat; chilli-
ness of the whole body; alternation of severe chills and
burning heat; thirst  with dryness of the mouth, particularly
in the afternoon ;  small and feeble pulse. 
LEDUM PALUSTRE.
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  Moral  Symptoms.—Great nervous  irritability ;  sad ;
morose and irritable.
  Sensorium.—Dulness ; insensibility; loss of conscious-
ness, with loss of speech and motion; Vertigo.
  Mouth.—Dryness of the mouth ; loss of speech ; Burn-
ing sensation of the throat.
  Chest.—Cough with copious jelly like, or bloody expec-
toration ; Panting breathing, or slow moaning and rattling
breathing;  Dyspnoea;  constriction of the chest.
  Gastric Symptoms.—Attacks of nausea;  Bitter  eruc-
tations ;  vomiting and  loathing ;  Pain in the stomach, with
nausea;  Burning  in the stomach;  Severe  attacks of gas-
tralgia.
  Extremities.—Bruised pains, or sprained pains in the
hips and thighs ;  heaviness in the legs.


                   LEDUM PALUSTRE.
           ROSMARINUS SYLVESTRIS. (Marsh Tea.)
  Antidote.—Camph.
  Characteristic Peculiarities. — The pains in the
joints are aggravated by motion, but not the pains of other
parts.
  Skin.—Herpetic eruptions ; boils ;  hard swellings, with
increased heat; painful nodosities;  Pimples  and small boils
on the  forehead;  scaly herpetic eruption on the face.
  Mouth,  Larynx,  and Chest. — Bleeding from the
mouth  ; Cough, with greenish expectoration, or bloody ex-
pectoration ; bleeding from the lungs; Asthmatic tightness 
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LOBELIA inflata.
of the chest, aggravated by exercise; soreness of the chest;
itching pimples on the chest.
  Extremities.—Pains in the shoulder-joints, increased by
motion; Weakness and heaviness in the inferior extremi-
ties;  swelling of the knee, attended with prickly pain;
swelling of the feet and legs.
                  LOBELIA  INFLATA.
                 LOBELIA.  (Indian Tobacco.)
  Antidotes.—For large doses, stimulants, Ammonia and Brandy.
  The effects of Lobelia Inflata are  very similar, almost
identical  with those of the  Nicotiana Tabacum (common
tobacco).
  General  Symptoms.—Languor, feebleness, relaxation
of the muscles, trembling of the limbs, anxiety, tendency
to faint, vertigo, nausea, vomiting, partial  blindness, and a
general feeling of intoxication.
  Fever.—Chilliness down the back; inclined to perspira-
tion ;  small pulse ; Heat in the stomach, with nausea.
  Head.—Eeeling, swimming, intoxicated feeling;  Faint-
ness and partial blindness; severe headache, with dizziness
and sickness of the stomach.
  Appetite  and Gastric Symptoms.—Loss of appetite;
constant  nausea and chilliness;  Heartburn;  vomiting;
pressure in the pit of the stomach, attended with vomiting.
  Chest.—Dyspnoea; paroxysmal asthma.
  Genital Organs.—Weakness  and relaxation; dimin-
ished  sexual desire. 
LUPULUS—lycopodium.
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                        LUPULUS.
                HUMULUS LUPULUS.  {Hops.)
  Antidotes.—Coffee, Vinegar.
   General Symptoms.—"Drawing and twitching in al-
most every muscle;"  Drawing  and twitching in  short
paroxysms, as  in  rheumatism;  Dyspepsia and nervous
tremors.
   Sleep.—Drowsiness;  constant drowsiness  during  the
day; sopor.
   Sensorium. — Morbid vigilance ;  constant  uneasiness
and highly excited state of the nervous system, particularly
in drunkards ;  dizziness;  dizzy, dull, and heavy headache.
   Stomach. — Weakness of  digestion ;  eructations and
nausea.
   Urine.—Increased flow of urine.
   Note.—Lupulus is a very pretty remedy in Icteritia, infantile jaundice.
I have used it, and have frequently seen it used with marked advantage.
And it almost equals Nux-vom in those cases of an unstrung condition of
the nervous system, attended with nausea, dizziness, and headache, follow-
ing a night's debauch.

                      LYCOPODIUM.
                 LYCOPODIUM CLAVATUM.
  Antidotes.—Camph., Puis., Caust., Coffea.
   General Symptoms.—Painfulness to the touch; Dispo-
sition to take cold; drawing, lacerating pains; stiffness of the
joints; weariness; extreme weakness ; contracting pains of
the fingers and toes, and cramps in the calves of the legs. 
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lycopodium.
  Skin.—Heat and dryness of the skin; Itching, smarting,
and  burning;  tendency of the skin to  crack;  Herpetic
eruptions ; carious ulcers ;  chilblains ; dropsical swelling;
Freckles ; ulcers, with fistulous openings.
  Sleep.—Drowsiness during the day and evening; sleep-
less  at night; starting in the sleep; disturbed sleep; un-
easiness and twitching of the feet during sleep.
  Moral Symptoms.—Uneasy, nervous,  desponding, and
weeping  mood.
  Sensorium.—Weakness  of memory;  complaints arising
from mental labor.
  Head.—Various forms of headache;  suppurating  erup-
tions on the head ; itching of the scalp ; Falling off of the
hair.
  Eyes,  Ears, and Nose.—Pressure; tensive pain in the
left eye; stitches in the  eyes;  burning, smarting, profuse
lachrymation of the eyes; nightly agglutination of the lids;
dimness of vision ; twinkling and  sparks before the eyes;
Pain in the ear;  humid  eruption on and behind the ears;
roaring, humming, and whizzing in the ears;  Scurf in the
nose; ulcerated nostrils; stoppage of the nose at night;
Fluent coryza.
  Face.—Pale, sunken   expression; yellow or livid face,
with blue appearing  lips;  circumscribed redness of the
cheek; scaly eruptions on the face.
  Throat.—Chronic sore throat, with a feeling of contrac-
tion ; small yellowish ulcers on  the tonsils ; burning in the
fauces.
  Chest.—Hoarseness;  Rattling  in  the chest; asthmatic
breathing;  Grippe; Dry  cough; cough,  with salty expec- 
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toration, or morning cough, with greenish expectoration;
oppression of the chest; stitches in the left side of the chest,
or cutting pains in the right side of  the chest.

  Stomach.—Morning  nausea ;  nausea when riding;  in-
tense pain in the pit of the stomach;  fullness of the stomach
and abdomen; pressure in the stomach, with pain  to the
touch.

  Abdomen.—Tensive  pain  in  the region  of the  liver;
chronic inflammation; aching, drawing, cutting, and lacerat-
ing pains in the abdomen; lacerating stitches in the inguinal
region; constipation;  difficult stool; itching eruptions of
the anus.

  Female Genital.—Chronic dryness of the vagina; itch-
ing, burning, and gnawing in the vagina; profuse leucor-
rhoea ;  soreness of the nipples ; stinging in the nipples.

  Back.—Pain, stiffness, or aching in the small of the back;
pain in the small of the back, with a sensation of a band
or something tight drawn around the loins and abdomen.

  Extremities.—Spasmodic startings of the arms; numb-
ness and dryness of the hands; stiffness or lacerating in the
knees;  itching,  biting,  and burning  of the bend of the
knee;  burning of the legs ; cramps of the legs and feet;
pain of the soles of the feet when walking; cold feet; cold
sweat of the feet; cramps of the toes. 
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magnetismus.
                     MAGNETISMUS.
              MA GNETISM. {Mineral Magnetism.)
  The  use of magnetism to the cure of diseases dates back
to the time of Aetius, who lived about A. d. 550.  " During
the latter part of the seventeenth century, magnetic tooth-
picks and ear-picks were made as secret preventives against
pains in the teeth, eyes, and ears."

  Physiological Effects.—All substances are under the
influence  of magnetic  force,  and it is but reasonable to
expect  some modification of the vital functions from the
action of magnetism on  organized bodies; still we have not
yet succeeded in obtaining other than conflicting evidence
of its action.  Dr. Farraday says, that he was never sensi-
ble of any effect produced on him by the powerful magnets
which he  used in his recent experimental  investigations on
magnetism, although he tried in all imaginable ways to ob-
tain some evidence of their effect.  (Phil Trans.)  Reichen-
bach says, that magnets of lOlbs. supporting power, when
drawn along the body  (of healthy, sensitive individuals)
"downwards without contact, produce  a sensation rather
unpleasant than agreeable.  It  is like  an aura;  in some
cases warm ; in  others  cool;  or it may be a pricking or a
sensation of the creeping of insects on the skin; sometimes
headache  comes rapidly on."   Diseased  sensitive  subjects
"experience different sensations—often  disagreeable,  and
occasionally giving rise  to fainting, to  attacks of catalepsy,
or to  spasms so violent that they might possibly endanger
life."
  Becker states, that  the sensations which his patients ex-
perienced from the use of the magnet were: 1st, cold; 2dly, 
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heat; 3dly, traction, from a slight and rather agreeable sen-
sation, to the strongest unpleasant and painful, like that pro-
duced by a cupping-glass; 4thly, an indefinite  sensation in
the  ear, called  a working or  roaring;  5thly,  throbbing;
6thly, pain;  Ythly, numbness, or loss of feeling in the mag-
netized part.

  Uses.—Magnetism  has been practised  successfully  in
attacks of severe toothache, neuralgia, painful affections of
the  stomach, rheumatic  pains, spasmodic  asthma,  angina
pectoris, and palpitation of the  heart.  Some say that neu-
ralgic pains  are relieved by the application  of the north
pole of the magnet, and is augmented by the south pole.

  Application.—For neuralgia  of the lungs apply two
strongly magnetized oval steel plates; one  to the left pre-
cordial region, the other directly opposite, on the back, so
that their poles are opposed.   For toothache, a simple bar
magnet, called a magnetic staff, is used.  It is first warmed,
and its north  pole applied to the tooth; if relief is not
obtained, the south pole should then be substituted, or the
poles  applied to  the  gums.  For neuralgic pains,  a com-
pound magnet,  (magnetic battery,) which consists of several
U-shaped magnets, placed one  over the other, with  all  of
their poles similarly disposed, and fastened  firmly together,
or magnetic collars, chains, girdles,  and bracelets,  or magnet-
ized steel plates of any  desirable form, and fitted  to any
part  of the  body, may be applied  to the skin, and kept
adjusted to the part desired by means of a bandage. 
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MERCURIUS CORROSIVUS.
               MERCURIUS CORROSIVUS.
 HYDRARGYRIPERCHLORID UM—PERCHLORIDE OF MERCURY.
                    (Corrosive Sublimate.)
  Antidotes.—For large doses, Whites of Eggs, and other Albumen ;
for small doses, Sulph., Hepar-Sulph., Nit-Acid.
  General  Symptoms.—Rheumatic pains; Stiffness and
lameness of the joints;  Irritation and inflammation of the
stomach  and  intestinal  canal; Ulcerated condition of the
mouth and throat; Foul, indolent ulcers, and caries of the
bones ; eruptions of  a leprous  character; Spasms and  con-
vulsions ; secondary and tertiary syphilis.
  Teste says that this preparation of mercury is far more
suitable to males.
  Skin.—Eruptions  of a herpetic character;  red or copper-
colored spots on  the face, chest, and upon different parts
of the body; Syphilitic eruptions  and  ulcers; Perspira-
tion.
  Mouth and  Throat.—Inflammation  of the  mouth;
swelling  and tenderness of the gums, and a  disposition
to bleed upon gently brushing them;  Fetid breath;  metallic
taste; profuse salivation; Small cankers on the inside of
the cheeks, on the edges and tip of the tongue, and on the
palate and fauces ; Roughness  and burning in the throat.
  Stomach and Abdomen.—Nausea; nausea and vomit-
ing; vomiting of blood; constant nausea, attended  with
burning  in the  stomach; Colicky,  cutting, and twisting
pains in the region of the umbilicus.
  Stool  and Urine.—Bilious  diarrhoea, attended  with
colicky and cutting pains ; Bilious diarrhoea, attended with 
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heat, burning, or an excoriating feeling of the anus; bloody
dysenteric  stools, with tenesmus and  excoriating feeling;
Small stools of bilious matter, with natural appearing feces
and bloody mucus ; Difficulty in voiding urine; irritation
of the neck of the bladder and of the  urethra; Frequent
desire to urinate during the night;  Albuminuria.
   Genital Organs.—Gonorrhoea, attended with burning
and scalding while urinating; painful  nocturnal erections;
urethritis ; Leucorrhoea of a yellow or greenish color.
   Extremities.—Painful lameness and stiffness  of  the
muscles, and of the joints.


                  MERCURIUS DULCIS.
HYDRARGYRI SUBCHLORIDUM—SUBCHLORIDE OF  MERCURY.
                         (Calomel.)
   Antidotes.—Sulph., Repar-Sulph., Iodine.
   This preparation  of  mercury  acts  quicker,  and more
directly upon the  secretions of the system than does the
corrosive,  and is  a better remedy in  some forms of sore
mouth, attended with swelling and tenderness  of the gums,
profuse salivation, and offensive breath;  also for  Bilious
diarrhoea,  Hepatic trouble, Jaundice, and recent rheumatic
pains, especially if there is a tendency to perspiration.
   General Symptoms. — Derangement of  the  nervous
system ; Trembling of the hands and  feet; Trembling of
the limbs; Hypochondriac and hysteric spasms.
   Skin.—Erythema  in the region of the genitals, spreading
from thence over the body; bright red skin as in scarla-
tina; some tumefaction, but not painful, and no increase of
heat;  Eczema. 
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MERCURIUS IODATUS.
  Fever.—Continued  fever and heat,  with perspiration
and sinking of strength.
  Moral Symptoms. — Oppressive anxiety; general un-
easiness.
  Mouth. — Round, deep, and  spreading ulcers  in the
mouth and fauces ; swelling of the tongue, and of the sali-
vary glands; bleeding of the gums;  Breaking  off,  exfo-
liating, blackness and  looseness  of the teeth;  offensive
breath.
  Gastric Symptoms. — Vomiting;  chronic  vomiting;
Weakness of the stomach ; violent pains in the stomach.
  Abdomen.—Hepatitis; enlargement  and induration of
the liver;  enteritis; excessive pains in the abdomen, with
vomiting and diarrhoea;  Violent colic; Ascites ; alternate
constipation and diarrhoea.
  Genital Organs.—Spreading ulcers on the genital or-
gans, or ulcers,  with an inflamed  base, elevated and painful
edges.
  Extremities.—Rheumatic pains  and  lameness  of the
limbs; scaly and humid eruptions in the axillae; unhealthy
appearing sores on the hands and feet.


                 MERCURIUS  IODATUS.
        HYDRARGYRI IODID UM.  (Protiodide of Mercury.)
  Clinical Remarks.—This  preparation of mercury  is
preferable to the other forms  of mercury in scrofula and
scrofulous syphilis; in  all  forms of glandular enlargement,
attended with induration;  Induration of the parotid gland,
cervical glands, and of the tonsils, and it is the only form 
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of mercury that ought to be used in such conditions when
they attend scarlatina or measles.

  Mouth  and Throat.—Ulcers  on the margin  of the
tongue, with red edges and an ashy gray centre;  Bleeding
of the gums; soreness of the teeth, and feel as if elongated;
Granulated sore throat; induration of the tonsils ; dryness
of the throat, with partial loss of voice.

  Stomach  and Abdomen.—Nausea; loss of  appetite;
hardness and fullness in the pit of the stomach, and tender
to the touch;  fullness in the region of the liver, attended
with an uneasy soreness; Induration of  the mesenteric
glands in children ;  marasmus ; enlargement of the spleen.

  Male and  Female  Genital Organs. — Indurated
chancres;  swelling and induration  of the inguinal glands
and of the testes;  enlargement of the ovaries; induration
and ulceration of the cervix uteri.
                 MERCURIUS SOLUBILIS.
         BLACK OXYD OF MERCURY.  (Soluble Mercury.)
  Antidotes.—Nitric acid, Eepar-Sulph., Sulph., Iodine.  (" Merc-
Cors.," Teste.)

  General  Symptoms.—Scrofulous,  Syphilitic,   Rheu-
matic, and Erysipelatous affections;  Hepatic derangement;
Derangement of the stomach and bowels ; cutaneous affec-
tions ; red, shining pustular  eruptions, or blotches.

  Fever.—Fever, with shuddering; heat of the head and
face, with general coldness upon changing position in the
bed, or  uncovering ever so little ; pulse irregular, or slow,
intermittent, or tremulous ; profuse perspiration of a sickly
          10 
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MERCURIUS SOLUBILIS.
or nauseous  smell, and imparting  a yellow tinge to the
linen.
  Moral Symptoms  and  Sensorium.—Great depression
of spirits; indifference to every thing; apprehensive; fear
of becoming deranged ; imbecility; lethargy, with loss of
speech, and of the senses, but not of consciousness.
  Head.—Pressive  headache;  Throbbing, stitching, or
boring pains in the head,  especially in the left temple, or
occiput;  sore painfulness of the scalp ; humid eruption on
the scalp.
  Eyes.—Syphilitic, or scrofulous opthalmia; photophobia,
with  burning and lachrymation; muscce  volitantes;  neu-
ralgic pains of the eyes; pains proceeding from  the bottom
of the orbits ; sense of coldness around the eyes.
  Ears.—Inflammation of the internal ear, with fetid dis-
charges.
  Nose and Face.—Caries of the bones of the nose; Tear-
ing pain in the muscles and bones of the face, especially of
one side of the face.
  Mouth.—Painful swelling of the salivary glands ; gray-
ish  ulcers  on the inner surface  of  the lips, cheeks, gums,
tongue and palate ; Looseness and shrinking of the gums;
nocturnal toothache;  caries, looseness, and falling out of
the teeth; soft, spongy swellings of  the mucous membrane
of the mouth ; Swelling of the tongue; tongue coated with
a yellowish, slimy fur; exceedingly offensive breath.

  Neck and Chest.—Painful swelling of the glands of the
neck ; painful stiffness of the neck ;  Catarrhal affections of
the air-passages, with a violent fluent and corrosive coryza;
hoarse cough; sensation  of dryness and prickings  in  the 
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135
 aesophagus;  nocturnal  paroxysms of suffocation;  stitches
 in the region of the heart.

   Stomach  and Abdomen.—Nausea, with vertigo, espe-
 cially after a meal;  hiccough ;  rancid, or bitter eructations;
 pyrosis; violent vomiting; weakness of digestion; burning
 and cutting in the stomach;  sensitiveness in the precordia,
 epigastrum and hypochondrium;  Dull, aching pain  in the
 region  of the  liver;  hepatatis;   jaundice;  hardness and
 swelling of  the abdomen, which is painful to contact, espe-
 cially in the  region of the liver and umbilicus.

   Stool and Urine.—Diarrhoeic stools,  especially toward
 evening; dysenteric stools;  grayish, greenish,  bloody, or
 dark and excessively fetid stools;  constant desire to urinate,
 attended with burning and  smarting;  urine emitted drop
 by drop ; albuminuria; fetid, cloudy urine;  bloody urine.

   Genital  Organs.—Chancres  in  the urethra;  on the
 prepuce and  glans;  orchitis; swelling and indurations of
 the inguinal glands ; Swelling; ulceration and suppuration
 of the vaginal mucous membrane ; chancres on the clitoris
 and labia; ulcerations  of the cervex-uteri; metritis; ulce-
 ration and swelling of the breasts.

  Extremities.—Tearing pains  in the extremities ; trem-
bling of the limbs; acute articular rheumatism, attended
with burning thirst, and disagreeable perspiration; rheu-
matic and syphilitic nodes. 
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MEZEREUM.
                       MEZEREUM.
              DAPHNE MEZEREUM. (Mezerion.)
  Antidotes.—Merc, Nit-acid.
  General  Symptoms.—Bruised,  weary feeling  in the
joints;  pains  in  paroxysms, attended  with  chilliness;
pains principally  of one  side;  drawing  and  stiffness in
various parts ;  failing of strength ; weakness of the limbs.
  Characteristic Peculiarities.—The  pains are  most
generally of one side;  chilliness  and sensitiveness  to cold
air;  drowsiness in the daytime, and sleepless at night.
  Skin.—Severe  itching  over  the  entire body;   itching
rash on the arms;  vesication and  smarting  of the skin.
  Moral  Symptoms. — Melancholic,  sad and anxious;
taciturn and ill-humored.
  Head.—Stupifying  headache in the right side;  feeling
of heaviness;  scaly eruptions on the  scalp; Humid  itching
eruptions.
  Mouth  and Throat. — Burning in  the mouth  and
throat;  boring stitches in  a tooth ; Toothache, aggravated
by contact, and during the evening; constriction and burn-
ing in the throat and fauces;  roughness and scraping sen-
sation in the throat.
  Genital Organs.—Painless swelling  of the left  scro-
tum ; enlargement of the left* testicle; leucorrhoea of a
semi-transparent mucus; suppression of the menses.

  * I succeeded with  Mezereum in removing an enlargement of the left
testicle of nearly sixteen years' standing; the organ was at least four times
its natural size, and the person's voice was so rapidly changing, that he be-
came alarmed, as his  chief dependence  was  upon his vocal powers.  I 
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137
   Chest.—Deep, hollow, hoarse cough;  cough increased
 by the recumbent posture ; oppressive pain in the back part
 of the chest; tensive pressure in different parts of the
 chest.
   Back and Extremities.—Cutting and lacerating pains
 in the small of the back,  or on both  sides of the  spine, in
 the small of the back;  painful stiffness  in the nape of the
 neck; Bruised feeling of the limbs ;  tensive lameness ;  In-
 duration of the ligaments of the joints; stiffness and hard
 swellings of the ligaments and integument of the joints.


                        MOSCHUS.
                          MUSK.
   Antidotes.—Camph., Coffea.
   General Symptoms.—Hysteric and nervous paroxysms;
 Fainting fits ;  catalepsy;  convulsions; weakness and wea-
 riness ; stiffness of the  hands and feet.

   Characteristic Peculiarities.—Pains are aggravated
 by cold ;  great sensitiveness to air.
   Moral  Symptoms.—Anxiety, with palpitation;  starting
 as if  frightened.
   Head.—Rush of blood to the head ; pressure, as from a
load  on the top  of the head;  feeling of heaviness in  the
head; vertigo.
   Eyes and  Nose.—Itching in the eyes; swelling of  the

gave one drop of the Tincture  (mixed in a wineglassful of water) at a
dose, every day for four weeks, then every second day for a similar length
of time, at the end of which the organ had assumed its normal dimensions. 
138     MURIATIC acid—NATRUM carbonicum.

upper lid; sneezing, with pressure in the bones of the
nose ;  obstruction in the nose.
  Chest.—Suffocative shortness of breath;  stitches in the
chest; asthma millari.
  Genital Organs.—Violent sexual desire; Involuntary
emissions ; Impotence from cold;  " Violent drawing pains
at the appearance of the menses."


                   MURIATIC ACID.
  Vide Acidum  Muriaticum.


                NATRUM CARBONICUM.
                 CARBONATE OF SODA.
  Antidotes.—Arsen., Camph., Spts.-Nitr.
  General Symptoms.—Rheumatic, scrofulous, and rick-
ety  complaints ;  Great weakness and relaxation ; Tingling
in the muscles;  Liability to take cold.
  Characteristic Peculiarities.—Most of the symptoms
come on when sitting, and pass off during motion.
  Skin.—Dry, rough, and chapped skin;  Herpetic erup-
tions ; Leprous appearing blotches.
  Sleep.—Drowsiness  during the day, and  sleepless at
night.
  Fever.—Coldness, especially of the  hands and  feet;
Disposition to perspiration upon exercise ; Night-sweat.

  Moral Symptoms.—Discouraged; sad and desponding;
Irritable mood. 
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139
   Eyes.—Scrofulous inflammation of the eyelids; Purulent
opthalmia;  Ulcers on the cornea, and around the cornea;
Black points hover before the eyes.
   Face.—Burning heat, and redness of the face ; Freckles;
yellow spots on the forehead; Pimples on the face; swell-
ing of the upper lip.
   Nose.—Constant coryza ; obstruction of the nose.
   Stomach.—Nausea;  Dyspepsia, with bitter or sour eruc-
tations ;  the stomach feels swollen and sensitive; Pain in
the region of the stomach to the touch.
   Abdomen.—Pain and stitches in the abdomen ; Incarcer-
ation of  flatulence; Tabes mesenterica; Bloated abdomen,
particularly of children.
   Extremities.—" Feeling of pressure on the left shoul-
der ;" Stiffness of the muscles of the  arms;  Swelling of
the hands;  Lacerating pain in the hip in the evening, after
retiring; Heaviness  of the lower  limbs;  Pressure  in the
joints ; Swelling of the feet; Cold feet.


                NATRUM  MURIATICUM.
           PROPERLY A CHLORIDE. (Common Salt.)
   Antidotes.—Arsen., Camph., Spts.-Nitr.
   General Symptoms.—Effects  arising from the loss of
animal  fluids; Scrofulous  affections;  Liability  to take
cold; General weakness;  Hysterical  affections; Emacia-
tion.
   Characteristic Peculiarities.—The  symptoms are
aggravated  in the recumbent position; rising up  affords
relief. 
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natrum  muriaticum.
  Fever.—Constant chilliness, and shuddering, or inter-
mittent fever, attended with pain in the bones, pain in the
back; headache;  sallow, or yellow complexion; marked
debility, and  bitter taste, or loss of appetite ;  also, in inter-
mittents from the abuse of quinine.

  Moral  Symptoms.—Passionate, out  of humor and
peevish, or dejected and apprehensive.

  Sensorium.—Absent-minded ;  Dullness and weakness
of the head;  Difficulty  of  thinking; Weariness of  the
mental faculties.
  Head.—Headache in  the  morning,  or heaviness and
dullness; Stitching pains above the eyes  and  in the fore-
head ; Dull, stitching pain in the side of the head;  scurf
on the scalp;  Falling off of the hair.

  Eyes, Ears and Nose.—Excoriating pain of the eyes;
acrid  tears ; Redness and inflammation of  the eyes; Dim-
ness of vision;  objects appear blurred;  Stitches  in the
ears;  Purulent discharge from the ears; Hardness of
hearing ; Singing, ringing, or  buzzing in the ears ; Boring
pain in the  nasal bones ; Coryza.

  Face.—Pain in the bones of the face;  Pimples on the
face;  " Bloody blisters on the inner side of the upper lip."

  Mouth.—Bloody saliva; vesicles on the tongue.

  Stomach and  Abdomen.—Pain and pressure in  the
region of the stomach; Cramps in  the stomach, particularly
at night; Pressive and cutting pains in the  abdomen; Flat-
ulence and distention of the abdomen.
  Female Genital Organs.—Leucorrhoea, attended with
an itching ;  acrid leucorrhoea. 
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  Extremities.—Scurfs in  the axilla;  Stitches in the
wrist;  the fingers go  to sleep with a tingling sensation;
Painful contraction or drawing in the legs; Weakness of
the knees.

                     NITRIC ACID.
   Vide Acidum Nitricum.


                    NUX MOSCHATA.
                  NUX MOSCH. (Nutmeg.)
  Antidotes.—Camph., Carrui.
   (Nutmeg must occupy a very exalted position in the list
of remedies among some of our friends.  I see it ranges in
Jahr from Rheumatic,  Arthritic, Scorbutic and Paralytic
affections; Rickets, Tabes-dorsalis, Typhoid, Malignant and
Putrid Fevers, Plague,  old  Ulcers, Wounds, Amaurosis,
Freckles, Tooth-ache, Biliary Calculi, Stone, Colica-renalis,
Spermatorrhoea, Difficult Labor,  and  Sterility, down  to
" Pain in the right knee, as if sprained."
   Sensorium.—Alternate delirious and sleeping; stupor,
or  stupor alternating with  convulsions;  convulsions  at-
tended with great weight; pressure and anxiety in the
precordia.
   Sleep.—Drowsiness and dizziness as if intoxicated; ex-
tremely sleepy after eating;  irresistible drowsiness.

   Stomach  and  Abdomen.—Heartburn; pressure in the
pit of the stomach; distended condition of the stomach,
with a degree of warmth; distended and flatulent condition
of the abdomen. 
142                    NUX-VOMICA.

  Stool.—Diarrhoea, attended with the  above  conditions
of stomach and abdomen.

  Note.—I have used nutmeg very successfully in  Uterine  Haemorrhage
following  delivery, or consequent upon miscarriage.  Its action in this
form of Haemorrhage is very analogous to that of cinnamon. It is also a
very good remedy when the menses continue too long; also in troublesome
leucorrhoea, more particularly if the discharge  is muddy or tinged with
blood.


                      NUX-VOMICA.
            STR YCHNOS NUX- VOMICA.  ( Vomica Nut.)
  Antidotes.—For large doses, stimulants such as  Wine,  Brandy,
Coffea, Camph.; for small doses, Bell,  Camph., Cocc, Coff.
  The different degrees of action of nux-vomica (like many
other drugs) on man explains, to  a great  extent, why  it is
curative to so many opposite conditions.
  First degree.—In small and repeated doses (allopathically)
it has a tonic and diuretic effect, and sometimes acts slightly
on the bowels and skin,  but does not  materially affect the
pulse.
  Second degree.—Moderately increase  the dose and it dis-
orders the stomach, impairs the appetite, and produces  con-
stipation.
  Third degree.—Large doses are manifested by a disordered
state  of the muscular system; a feeling of weight and weak-
ness  in  the  limbs, inability to keep erect, increased sensi-
bility to external impressions  of light, sound,  touch,  and
variations  of temperature, with depression of  spirits  and
anxiety.
  Fourth degree.—Continue its use, and it produces trem- 
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bling of the limbs, and a slight rigidity, and stiffness is ex-
perienced when attempting to move.
  Fifth degree.—If the medicine is persevered in, the effects
increase in intensity.   The voluntary muscles  become con-
vulsed, and every motion brings on a convulsive paroxysm.
The sudden  contact of external  bodies act like shocks of
electricity, and  various  painful  sensations are often ex-
perienced in the skin, such  as the  creeping of insects, or
the passage of an electric shock.   It also extends its effect
to the muscular fibres of the pharynx, larynx, oesophagus,
bladder, and to the genital organs.   (Trousseau says, "that
erections have become inconvenient even in those whom for
some time before had lost somewhat of their virility, and
that females under its  use experience more energetic vene-
real desires.")
   Sixth degree. — Tetanus, asphyxia, and  death,  which is
characterized by thirst, small quick pulse, constant fever,
livid face and hands, muscles of the lips violently agitated,
rigidity from head  to foot,  perspiration, involuntary dis-
charge of urine, asphyxia, and death.
   General  Symptoms.—Complaints produced  by cold;
chagrin, anger, mental exertions, or from long watching;
Periodical and intermittent diseases or fevers; Rheumatic
affections;  Diseases of the  stomach, liver,  and  bowels;
scrofulous and lymphatic  affections, especially of children ;
Paralysis; Trembling of  drunkards;  epilepsy; St. Vitus'
dance; Fainting fits;  great  nervous weakness;  weakness
and rigidity of the limbs; emaciation; vertigo.
   Characteristic  Peculiarities. — The symptoms ap-
pear early in the morning, especially cough, and paroxysms
of  whooping cough;  wakefulness  and  restlessness  after 
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three o'clock in the morning;  Pains are most aggravated in
the evening.
  Skin.—Rash ;  ecchymosed spots ;   chilblains ;  ulcers,
with raised pale red edges ;  jaundiced skin.
  Sleep.—Very  sleepy  during  the  day;  light sleep at
night;  sudden  starting  on going to sleep;  wakeful after
three o'clock in the morning ;  mind full of ideas.
  Fever.—Paroxysms of  yawning  and stretching, with
general coldness;  coldness at night while in bed; chilliness,
with heat in the head, and flushed cheeks.
  Moral   Symptoms.—Sad  and melancholic; fear;   an-
xiety, followed by hurried respiration ; apprehends death ;
violent palpitation of the heart; Hypochondriacal; Hys-
terical.
  Sensorium.—Incapable of thinking correctly;  mental
derangement  caused  by mortification,  excessive  study,
suppression of flowing piles, or drunkenness ; Illusions of
fancy; vertigo; apoplexy.
  Head.—Headache  caused  by drinking   wine;   severe
pain in the fore part of the head, or in the back part of the
head;  semi-lateral headache;  headache,  with soreness of
the scalp;  headache attended with nausea  and vomiting;
Rheumatic and catarrhal  headache.
  Eyes, Ears, and Nose.—Burning  in the eyes without
inflammation; nightly lacerating in the eyes ; nightly ag-
glutination of the eyes;  scrofulous opthalmia; intolerance
of light; Earache  at night; ringing and roaring in the ears;
Dry coryza; stoppage of the  nose.
  Mouth  and Throat.—Apthae;  Foetid ulcers  in  the
mouth and fauces;   inflammation of the   cavity  of  the 
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mouth ; putrid smell from the mouth ;  tongue coated with
a white or yellowish  fur; sore throat, with a sensation of
swelling in the pharynx ; sore throat, with swelling of the
uvula;  catarrhal  sore throat;  a choking  sensation  in the
throat.

  Larynx  and  Trachea.—Bronchial catarrhs;  short,
dry, or hacking cough ;  dry cough early in the morning;
severe cough,  causing headache;  Whooping  cough, with
paroxysms early  in the morning; Acrid  sensation  in the
throat; anxious oppression of the chest;  suffocating fits
after midnight; asthma millari; Palpitation of the heart.

  Stomach.—Hiccough; Regurgitation of food; frequent
eructations, bitter or sour ;  nausea and vomiting; pressure
in the stomach, as from a hard substance ; the epigastrium
is very sensitive  to  the  touch; oppression and tension  in
the pit of the stomach; griping, lacerating and cramp-like
pains; severe cardialgia.

  Abdomen.—Pressure and sensitiveness  in  the region of
the liver ; swelling and induration of the liver ; colic dur-
ing pregnancy; colic from cold ; Periodical colic; enlarge-
ment of the abdomen and tender to the touch.

  Stool.—Obstinate constipation; bilious dysentery and
bilious diarrhoea; dysenteric diarrhoea, with a mixture of
bilious feces,  mucus,  and blood, attended with  cutting  in
the umbilical region, and bearing down in the rectum.

  Urine.—Painful desire to urinate;  burning and lacerat-
ing pain in the neck of the bladder; burning  or itching in
the urethra;  Gonorrhoea.
  Male Genital Organs.—Nocturnal emissions, attended 
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OLEANDER.
with pain in the back part of the head; Priapism, Inflam-
mation, and swelling of the testes.
  Female Genital Organs. — Uterine spasms; Inflam-
mation  of the labia;  varices on the labia;  the menses ap-
pear too  early, and is attended with abdominal  spasms;
leucorrhoea; foetid, yellow leucorrhoea.
  Back.—Pain and stiffness in the small of the back from
piles; bruised pain  in the small of the back; pain in the
back low down between the hips.
  Extremities.—Drawing pains in the arms; Paralysis of
the arm;  numbness and tingling in the arms and fingers ;
numbness and paralysis of the legs ; numbness of the legs
and feet;  itching and burning of the toes,  similar to that
from chilblains.

                      OLEANDER.
             NERIUM OLEANDER.  (Laurel Rose.)
  Antidotes.— Camph., Cocc, Nux-vom.
  Skin.—Itch-like  eruptions ;  Herpes;  scurfy  pimples;
sensitiveness  of the skin; numbness and insensibility  of
the whole body; Painless paralysis.
  Sensorium.—Fainting fits;  dullness of  the mind, un-
able to think.
  Head.—Dullness and  heaviness of the head; scurfy
eruptions  on the scalp;  " Humid foetid spots behind the
ears, with  red, rough, herpetic spots in front."
  Chest.—Oppression as from a weight; asthmatic oppres-
sion when in the recumbent posture.
  Urine.—Frequent and copious emissions of urine, with
brown or whitish sediment. 
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  Extremities.—Weakness in the lower limbs;  Paralysis
of the legs and feet;  coldness of the feet.


                         OPIUM.
             PAP AVER SOMNIFERUM.  (Opium.)
  Antidotes.—For large doses, Black Coffee, Camphor, Sulph-ether,
Ammonia.  For small doses, Bell,  Camph.,  Coffee, LTys., Nux-vom.,
Ipecac.
  General  Symptoms.—Diminished  sensibility ;  conges-
tions and local determinations ;  convulsions; epileptic con-
vulsions occurring at night; bad effects from fright or fear;
apoplexy;  paralysis; coma.

  Characteristic Peculiarities.—Opium does  not act
with near the promptitude in all cases, as it does in  those
that are recent;  renewal and aggravation of the  pains
when heated.
  Sleep.—Sound sleep; coma vigil; sleep, with snoring or
rattling breathing as after an apoplectic fit;  coma;  sopor;
hears every thing that is said,  but is unable  to rouse;  deep,
sound, snoring sleep,  with slow pulse;  constant drowsiness.
  Fever.—Intermittent,  with soporous condition; Fever,
first chilliness, afterwards flushes of heat in  the face;  alter-
nation of moderate warmth and chilliness.
  Moral Symptoms.—Melancholic, sullen  mood;  fearful-
ness and a tendency to start; taciturnity.
  Sensorium.—Stupefaction  of the senses; loss of  con-
sciousness and of sensation;   delirium; frightful fancies;
mania, with raving; vertigo after a fright.
  Head.—Headache, increased by moving the eyes; heavi- 
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OXALIC acid.
ness of the head; dull, heavy, confused state of the head;
congestion of the head.
  Eyes,  Ears, and Face.—Staring and glistening eyes;
immovable pupils;  humming in  the ears; bloated face;
dark red face; spasmodic movements of the muscles of the
face.
  Chest.—Oppression of the chest; irregular and suffoca-
tive breathing.
  Stomach and Abdomen.—Nausea and vomiting; nau-
sea, with stupor ; Colic; tympanitic state of the abdomen ;
constipation.
  Extremities. — Trembling  of  the  arms and hands;
weakness of the lower limbs; numbness of the feet.


                    OXALIC ACID.
  Antidotes.—For large doses, Chalk, Magnesia, Amm.

  General Symptoms.—Tremor  of the limbs; numbness,
approaching to paralysis ;  lassitude ; convulsions.

  Characteristic Peculiarities.—The pains from ox-
alic acid  occupy but a small place, viz., in  the eustachian
tube, right wrist, right hypochondrium, region of the navel,
etc., and  the  pains are aggravated by motion; it acts de-
cidedly upon the joints.

  Head.—Giddiness on lying down; sharp pains  in the
forehead.
  Stomach.—Eructations; burning pain in the stomach;
Pyrosis in the evening.

  Genital Organs.—Great increase of the sexual desire. 
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  Urine.—Urging to urinate, with copious discharges.
  Extremities.—Painfulness of the wrist, as if it were
strained or dislocated;  lameness and stiffness of the inferior
extremities.

                      PETROLEUM.
             OLEUM PETRA—NAPTHA PETRAE.
  Antidotes.—Aeon., Nux-vom.
  General  Symptoms.—Scrofulous, rachitic,  and phthisi-
cal  affections ;  stiffness  and cracking of the joints;  the
arms and legs go to sleep; great weakness; Fainting turns;
liability to take cold.
  Fever.—Slight chills, followed by violent itching of the
skin; chilliness every evening, followed by heat in the face
and cold feet; heat and chilliness at the same time.
  Moral  Symptom's.—Sadness and despondency; dispo-
sition to weep ; weakness of memory; anxious concerning
the future ; vertigo and nausea from stooping.
  Head.—Headache from chagrin ; headache in the fore-
head, increased to stupefaction by mental exertions; heavi-
ness in the head in the morning, with a sensation of full-
ness ; Throbbing in the head ; pimples on the  head and in
the nape of the neck;  scurf on the scalp.
  Ears.—Dryness  of the  internal ear; partial deafness;
paralytic deafness ;  roaring in the ears.
  Nose.—Swelling  of the  nose, with purulent discharge
from the nostrils ; catarrh, with hoarseness.
  Taste and Appetite.—Flat or putrid taste; voracious
appetite.
  Chest.—Hoarseness, with dry cough; cough at night
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PHOSPHORUS.
immediately upon retiring; stitches in the sides of the chest;
oppression of the chest;  Herpetic eruptions on the chest.
  Stomach and Abdomen.—Water-brash;  vomiting  of
pregnant females; sea-sickness, or sickness from riding in a
carriage;  feeling of fullness in the pit of the stomach, and
painful  to the touch ;  Cutting in the abdomen ;  feeling of
coldness in the abdomen.
  Extremities.—Weakness of the arms; arthritic  stiff-
ness of  the joints; chapped hands, and  the tips of the fin-
gers ; stitches in the knees; swelling of the foot: blisters
on the heel; ulcers on  the toes.

                    PHOSPHORUS.
  Antidotes.—For large doses,  Emetics;  for small doses,  Camph.,
Nux-vom., Coff., Vin.
  General Symptoms. — Scrofulous,  rachitic,  chlorotic,
and  phthisical  affections; rheumatism  and gout of  long
standing; debility from  loss of animal  fluids, particularly
the semen; bad effects from  too free sexual indulgence, and
from onanism;  lymphatic abscesses;  affections of the
bones;  sensitiveness to cold; heaviness,  physically and
mentally; emaciation.
  Characteristic Peculiarities.—Most of  the symp-
toms appear in  the morning, feels better in  the open air;
cough and diarrhoea are worst at night.
  Skin.—Furfura, leprous-appearing blotches; small boils;
yellow or brown spots on  the body;  sanguineous spots;
sore excoriations.
  Sleep.—Sleepy during the day; restless at night;  sleep
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  Fever.—Coldness; chilly feeling in the evening; Hectic
fever, with small, quick pulse; night sweats.
  Moral  Symptoms.—Lowness of spirits;  gloomy and
melancholic; inclines to start; anxious and irritable.

  Sensorium.—Somnambulism; vertigo, stupefaction, and
pain of the head.
  Head.—Dull, stupifying headache; stinging on the side
of the head ; dry scales on the scalp ; falling of the hair.

  Eyes, Ears,  and  Nose.—Inflammation  of the  eyes;
scrofulous inflammation of the eyes and  lids;  agglutination
of  the eyelids ;  amaurosis ; glaucoma;  cataract; nebula ;
opacities of the cornea; black spots passing before the eye;
congestive  deafness ; loud buzzing, roaring, or whizzing in
the ear; scrofulous swelling of the nose; loss  of smell;
foetid,  green, yellow, or bloody discharge from the nostrils.

  Face.—Pale,  sickly,  hippocratic countenance; circum-
scribed redness of the cheeks ; tensive, lacerating, or  stick-
ing pains in the  bones of the face;  dry lips.
  Mouth  and  Throat.—Nightly toothache, or toothache
from cold;  soreness of the mouth;  rawness and soreness of
the back part of the throat; dryness  of the throat and
fauces.
  Appetite.—Loss of taste; voracious  appetite.
  Chest.—Difficult breathing;  stitches in the side;  palpi-
tation  of the heart;  cough; nightly  cough; cough, with
greenish expectoration, or saltish expectoration.
  Stomach and Abdomen.—Nausea and frequent eructa-
tions ;   water-brash;  sour regurgitations;  vomiting, with
diarrhoea;  pain,  griping,  pressure, and  burning in  the 
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stomach ;  burning in the  pit of the stomach ;  colic in the
morning;  tearing in the abdomen, urging to stool; burning
and pressure in the abdomen; Flatulence.
  Stool.—Diarrhoea of various kinds; nightly diarrhoea;
burning in the rectum and of the anus.
  Urine.—Brick-dust sediment in the  urine, or a sedi-
ment of a whitish flocculi.
  Male Genital Organs.—Impotence; Nocturnal emis-
sions ;  Discharge of  prostatic fluid after urinating, and
while at  stool; Weakness from self-abuse, or from over-
taxing the organs.
  Female Genital Organs.—Discharge of blood during
pregnancy; Leucorrhoea;  Abscesses, with fistulous open-
ings ; Painful nodosities.
  Extremities.—Swelling of the  axillary  and  inguinal
glands; Pain of  a pressing  or  drawing  character in  the
shoulders  or arms;  Itching of the arms; Tremor  of the
hands ; the fingers feel numb and insensible;  Pain in the
left hip;  Drawing pain from the  knees  to  the feet; Ar-
thritic stiffness of the knees; twitching in the calves of the
legs; swelling of the feet in the evening;  cold feet.
                  PHOSPHORIC ACID.
           A CID UM PHOSPHORICUM. (Phos. Acid.)
  Antidotes.—Camph., Coffee, Nux-vom.
  The general and specific symptoms of phosphoric acid
are very analogous to those of phosphorus, with the excep-
tion of those relating to the skin, also in reference to the
female genital organs. 
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  Skin.—Scarlet like eruption ;  erysipelas;  clusters of red
fine rash ; moist, or dry herpetic eruptions ; boils ;  invete-
rate itching; ulcers, discharging a dirty pus;  boils in the
axilla; boils on the nates ;  itching ulcers on the legs.

  Female Genital Organs.—Meteorismus of the uterus;
pain in the liver during the  flow of the  menses; profuse
yellowish leucorrhoea after  the menses.
                       PLATINA.
  Antidotes.—Spts. Nitre Pule, Puis.
  General  Symptoms.—Ailments  from chagrin,  anger,
and mortification ;  neuralgia and neurosis; spasmodic affec-
tions;  paralytic feeling of numbness  and rigidity.  It is
particularly suitable to  females of an  irritable disposition
with copious menstruation.
  Characteristic Peculiarities.—Most of the symptoms
are relieved by motion,  and many of them are worse in the
evening.
  Moral Symptoms.—Excessive anguish, cries for help;
hysterical, with lowness of spirits.
  Sensorium.—Loss of consciousness ;  mental  derange-
ment after fright or chagrin ;  absent minded ; delirium.

  Head.—Cramp-like pressing pain from without inwards,
also with heat and redness of the  face ; violent pressing in
the forehead.
  Eyes, Ears,  and Nose.—Distortion of the eyes; twitch-
ing of  the eyelids ;  dull roaring in the ears; dry coryza in
one nostril; acrid feeling of the integument of the nose. 
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plumbum aceticum.
  Face.—Numbness in the right side of the face;  pulsative
digging in the jaws ; lock-jaw.
  Gastric.—Loss  of appetite; pressure  in the  stomach
after eating ;  shocks in the pit of the stomach.
  Larynx and Chest.—Loss of voice ;  short,  dry cough;
short, difficult, anxious  breathing;  tension,  pressure,  and
sticking in the sides.
  Female Genital Organs.—Uterine congestion; ame-
norrhoea;  great sensitiveness  of the parts, with  pressing
from above downwards ; induration of the womb ; profuse
menstruation; menses appear  too early, and continue too
long.
  Extremities.—Paralytic feeling in the left arm; bruised
feeling in the thighs; languor and weakness of the legs;
cold feet.

                 PLUMBUM ACETICUM.
             ACETATE OF LEAD. (Sugar of Lead.)
  General Symptoms. — Paleness, emaciation,  and  lan-
guor ; restlessness ;  gangrene.  (The many forms of convul-
sions and paralysis, said to be  " general symptoms" of the
acetate of lead, is a mistake, as it differs from  every other
preparation of the metal in that respect, whether adminis-
tered internally, or applied externally ever so extensively.)

  Skin.—Dryness  of the skin;  dryness  of the  mouth;
lead color of  the entire surface; yellowish color of the skin
and white of  the eye.
  Sleep.—Sleeplessness at night; dreams.

  Stomach. — Eructations;  hiccough ;  nausea; retching; 
PLUMBUM CARBONICUM.
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sour gulpings; Pains  in  the stomach; contraction  in the
stomach;  cardialgia.
  Abdomen.—Pains in the abdomen increased by contact;
pains in the umbilical region; Pinching or lacerating colic;
constipation; obstinate constipation.
  Extremities.—Rheumatic drawings in the limbs; wea-
riness and languor;  stiffness of the knees ; swelling of the
feet.

                PLUMBUM CARBONICUM.
            CARBONATE OF LEAD.  (White Lead.)
  Antidotes.—Allum.,  Opi. for the coostipating effects; Nux-vom.  for
its paralyzing effects; and Olive Oil is a prophylactic to the action of
the carbonate of lead upon the system.
   General Symptoms.—The effects of lead (particularly
the carbonate) are first manifested upon the secreting sys-
tem, producing biliary derangement,  obstinate constipation,
rheumatism  and suspended urinary secretion;  secondly,
upon the nerves of motion, producing paralysis, while sen-
sation does not appear to be prominently disturbed; thirdly,
it acts upon the brain, producing ramollissement (softening)
which condition is always preceded by paleness (an entire
want of color) of  the face, blueness, and  some swelling  of
the gums, and an  offensive breath.
   It  is a good remedy in partial paralysis, particularly  of
the arms, or paralysis  of a single muscle where sensation is
not materially impaired ;  also in certain forms of epilepsy. 
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podophyllum peltatum.
              PODOPHYLLUM PELTATUM.
            MAY-APPLE. (Mandrake, Wild Lemon.)
  Antidote.—Nux-vom.
  Characteristic  Peculiarities.—Aggravation of the
symptoms in the morning, and better in the evening; sud-
den shocks  of jerking pain.

  Skin.—Moisture of  the  skin with increased warmth;
sallowness of the skin of children.

  Sleep.—Restless, disturbed sleep, particularly of children;
fatigued feeling in the morning.

  Fever.—During the  fever a sense of chilliness is expe-
rienced while  moving; chilliness upon  retiring, followed
by fever and sleep ;  intermittent fever attended  with shak-
ing, and a sensation of coldness after the commencement of
the hot stage ;  thirst  during the chill, but increased during
the hot stage ;  delirium during the hot stage; sleep during
the sweating stage;  loss of appetite during the intermis-
sion.

  Head.—Delirium  and loquacity during the hot stage of
fever ; perspiration of the head during sleep ; moving head-
ache with flushed face.

  Mouth and Throat.—Grinding  of the teeth at night,
especially with children; offensive odor  from the mouth;
white* fur on  the tongue with  foul taste;  dryness  of the
throat; rattling of mucus in the throat;  sore throat, com-
mencing on the right side and going to the left.

  Throat  and Chest.—Cough dry or loose, and hacking 
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cough;  hooping cough, attended with costiveness and loss
of appetite; palpitation of the heart.
   Stomach.—Acid eructations; regurgitation of the food;
nausea and vomiting,  attended with  fulness of the  head;
vomiting, attended with  a  foul  and putrid taste;  heart-
burn ; water brash; sour stomach.
   Abdomen.—Colic cramp-like pains in the abdomen;  a
degree of fulness with pain in the region of the liver; sharp
pain above the right groin;  constipation during remittent
fever;  chronic diarrhoea, worse in  the morning;  light-
colored stools, exceedingly offensive ; frothy, mucous, and
slimy stools;  prolapsus ani.
   Urine.—Involuntary discharges during sleep ; nocturnal
urination during pregnancy ; diminished secretion of urine;
suppression of urine.
   Genital  Organs.—Suppression  of  the  menses with
young  females;  leucorrhoea,  attended  with oonstipation
and bearing down ; leucorrhoea of a thick mucus ; prolap-
sus uteri; numb, aching pain in the left illiac region ; swell-
ing of the labia during pregnancy.
   Extremities.—Rheumatism in the left forearm and fin-
gers; paralytic weakness of  the left side;  aching  of the
limbs, worse  at night.

                      PODOPHYLLIN.

   Podophyllin is the active principle of the Podophyllin
Peltatum (Mandrake).
   It is an active remedy, (cathartic  in  half-grain to three-
grain doses,)  and, considering its properties allopathically,
 viz., emetic,  cathartic, chologogue, alterative, diuretic, dia- 
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PULSATILLA.
phoretic, emmenagogue, anthelmentic, etc., it is destined to
occupy  a conspicuous place  in  our homoeopathic materia
medicas, and necessarily a more  rational  adaptation to  the
diagonstics of disease.   At present it is used quite gener-
ally by  the allopaths as an infantismal cathartic, and it is
said  that some of our homoeopathic brethren occasionally
steal in  a dose neatly coated with sugar, or give a couple
of grains of the tenth decimal trituration, when they think
a cathartic is required.


                      PULSATILLA.
      PULSATILLA NIGRICANS—ANEMONE PRAETENSIS.
                      (Pasque Flower.)

  Antidotes.—Cham., Coff., Igna., Nux-vom., Vegetable Acids.

  General  Symptoms.—This remedy is peculiarly adapt-
ed to ailments of the female sex, or to those of gentle, good-
natured  individuals, who easily  laugh or weep; lymphatic
temperament, pale face, blue eyes, blond hair, and disposi-
tion to blenorrhagic discharges;  chronic symptoms, arising
from the abuse of sulphur,  quinine, or chamomile;  from
the use  of fat pastry, effects of wine,  or from fright, or
mortification; the effects of  cold, rheumatic and arthritic
affections; erratic pains;  Pains  and ailments of one  side ;
asthma; fainting; epileptic convulsions, with violent action
of the limbs.
  Characteristic Peculiarities. — Pains  relieved by
motion; pressure; external warmth, or the  open air;  the
pains are generally more severe  in the evening, or the fore
part of  the night, or an aggravation of pain every second
evening. 
PULSATILLA.
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  Skin.—Formication; measles and the diseases secondary
to them;  eruptions resembling chicken-pox; erysipelas, at-
tended with  swelling, hardness  and a burning  heat; yel-
lowness  of the skin;  chlorosis;  varices and chilblains;
Herpes zoster and zona.

  Sleep.—Drowsy and sleepy during the day; sleepless at
night; sleep disturbed by dreams;  nightmare.

  Fever.—Fever, with general chilliness and sweat;  Inter-
mittent with evening  exacerbations; intermittents,  with
thirst during the  hot stage; the cold stage, accompanied
with pain and heaviness of the head; anxiety or oppression
of the chest;  heat  at  night, with  a  chilly feeling  upon
changing position, or by disturbing the bed-clothing; gas-
tric, mucous, and bilious fevers.
  Moral  Symptoms.—Melancholic, silent mood; disposed
to weep; Hypochondriacal peevishness; Hysterical laughter
or crying.
  Sensorium.—Confusion of the  head;  delirium; im-
becility ; vertigo;  vertigo, as if intoxicated.

  Head.—Headache, worse in the evening; lacerating pain
in one side of the head; severe drawing pain in one side
of the head, extending to the teeth and ear; beating,  lacer-
ating, or darting headache.

  Eyes,  Ears,  and  Nose.—Pressure in the eyes,  as if
from a particle  of sand ; redness and swelling of the lids ;
inflammation of the eyes, and of the  meibomian glands;
stye;  dimness of sight; fiery circles before the eyes; in-
cipient amaurosis; Pain darting through the ears; hardness
of hearing ; discharge of pus from the ears; Haemorrhage
from the nose ;  foetid  discharge from the nose;  coryza. 
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PULSATILLA.
  Face.—Pale,  or yellowish  complexion;  alternate pale
ness and redness; erysipelas of the face.
  Mouth.—Toothache during pregnancy;  rheumatic tooth-
ache; drawing, gnawing,  digging, sticking,  or  lacerating
toothache;  slimy, bad taste; putrid taste;  loss of appetite.
  Throat  and Chest. — Scraping and  dryness of  the
throat;  catarrhal condition of the throat;  cough at  night,
relieved by sitting  up; cough, with expectoration of pus;
yellow mucus; pieces of dark, coagulated blood, or purulent
expectoration;  catarrhal  huskiness  of the  chest  in  the
morning, with expectoration of tenacious  mucus ; difficult
breathing at night in bed, with constriction of the throat;
dyspnoea, from  exposure  to cold air;  suffocative fits  of
asthmatic  breathing;  asthma; pain in the side;   sharp,
sticking pain through the sides of the chest; Palpitation
of the heart.
  Stomach.—Eructations;  nausea;  nausea,  with a  dispo-
sition to vomit; pain in the pit of the stomach, particularly
after eating; pain on  pressure;  tingling  sensation  in the
stomach ; pulsation in the stomach ;  water-brash.
  Abdomen.—Colicky pains, relieved by rest, and  aggra-
vated by motion; spasms of the  abdomen during pregnancy;
bloated state of the abdomen after eating; Flatulent colic;
sensitiveness of the abdominal  walls to pressure.
  Stool.—Constipation ;  mucous stools ;  diarrhoea and
dysentery, with mucous stools; fall  dysentery;  dysentery
following measles ;  diarrhoea or dysentery, with  chilliness;
soreness of the rectum and anus.
  Male Genital Organs.—Hydrocele;  Inflamnfation of
the prostate gland; increased sexual  desire; continual erec-
tions ; erections, with a discharge of  prostatic fluid. 
ranunculus.
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  Female  Genital Organs.—Spasmodic pains of the
uterus similar to labor pains; suppression of the menses ;
suppression of the menses from cold; painful menstruation,
attended with chilliness and nausea; leucorrhoea of a milky
appearance, or of thick white mucus.
  Extremities.—Pain in the shoulder; rheumatism in the
shoulder-joint; drawing pains extending from the shoulder
to the wrist; pains in the wrists ; itching chilblains on the
fingers ;  Rheumatic affection of the hip-joint; jerking and
lacerating pains in the inferior extremities ;  swelling of the
knee ; swelling of the  feet,  of the dorsum, with stinging;
oedema of the feet; red-hot swelling of the feet, attended
with tensive, burning pain.


                     RANUNCULUS.
            RANUNCULUS BULBOSUS. (Crowfoot.)
   Antidotes.—Bry.,  Camph., Puis., Rhus-tox.
  Characteristic Peculiarities.—Pains aggravated by
contact,  motion, and changing position; pains  arise  from
change of temperature.
  Skin.—Herpetic eruptions ;  horny excrescences.
  Moral  Symptoms.—Irritable, disposed  to be quarrel-
some.
  Eyes,  Nose,  and Ears.—Smarting in the  eyes  and
nose ; pressure in the eyes ; obstruction of the nose;  sore
nose; cramp feeling in the ear; stitches through the ear.
  Extremities. — Rheumatic  pain  in  the elbow  and
shoulder-joints; tingling in the skin of the  fingers; pulsa-
tive stitches in the heel. 
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raphanus  sativus—rheum.
                 RAPHANUS SATIVUS.
                       RADISH.
  Antidotes.—Large draught of water.
  General Symptoms.—Weakness and languor;  shud-
dering followed by internal heat; profuse perspiration dur-
ing sleep.
  Eyes,  Ears,  and  Nose.—Pressure above  the  eyes;
hardness of hearing; obstruction in the nose.
  Mouth.—Tongue coated with a thick white fur;  flat or
bitter taste;  no appetite; violent thirst; nausea and vomit-
ing.
  Stomach and Abdomen.—Pain in the stomach; abdo-
minal dropsy.
  Stool  and  Urine.—Copious  stools;  frequent  liquid
stools; chronic diarrhoea;  copious flow  of  urine;  turbid
urine; burning in the urethra while voiding urine;  stone.


                       RHEUM.
              RHEUM PALMATUM. (Rhubarb.)
  General Symptoms.—Heaviness and drowsiness;  lan-
guor ; disinclination to physical and mental exertion; jaun-
dice ;  hepatic derangement; bilious diarrhoea.
  Sleep.—Dull, stupid, heavy sleep.
  Moral Symptoms.—Inactive, dull, and  heavy; indo-
lent.
Skin.—Yellowness of the skin. 
RHODODENDRON.
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 ^ Abdomen and Stool.—Dull pain in the region of the
liver;  griping  in  the umbilical region; bilious stool,  at-
tended with griping;  sour smelling stool;  diarrhoea  of
lying in females ; diarrhoea of infants.


                   RHODODENDRON.
    RHODODENDRON CHRYSANTHUM. (Yellow Rose of Siberia.)
  Antidotes.— Camph., Clem., Bus-tox.

  General Symptoms.—Insensibility, and paralysis of the
limbs; erratic lacerating pains in  the limbs; insensibility
of the affected parts.

  Characteristic Peculiarities.—Pains, appear at the
approach of stormy weather; pains are felt from the arm
to the fingers, and from the leg down to  the toes.

  Moral Symptoms.—Gloomy; Fits of anxiety ;  Visions
of a frightful character;  Delirium.

  Male  Genital Organs.—Contusive pain in the testes,
with alternate  drawing ;   " Swelling of the testes, with
drawing and pressing."

  Inferior  Extremities.—Tearing pains, particularly in
the  hip joints ; Lacerating from the thigh to the foot, worse
during rest;  White swelling of the  knee; oedema of the
legs and feet. 
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                   RHUS RADICANS.
                 RHUS RAD.  (Poison Ivy.)
  Antidotes.—Bry., Camph., Coff., Merc, Puis., Sulph.
  General  Symptoms.—Rheumatic  pains ;  semi-lateral
rheumatic pains,  with rigidity;  wandering  pains;  cold-
ness ;  excessive debility ; general languor and prostration ;
diseases of the skin, particularly pustular eruptions ;  drow-
siness during the day, and restless at night.
  Skin.—Itching, burning, and pricking;  eruptions of
watery pimples ; itch-like eruption ; small pustular, or scaly
eruption;  erysipelas.
  Sleep.—Disturbed restless sleep during the night; sleepi-
ness during the day.
  Fever.—Typhoid fever;  pulse, small and quick ;  pains
in the limbs; vertigo, when raising the head;  and dark
dry tongue, or dry red and glazed tongue.
  Sensorium.—Melancholic, irritable, depressed or  peev-
ish ; vertigo on walking, or stooping.
  Head.—Dull pain in the forehead; pain in the top of
the head in the morning; shooting pains in the head; head-
ache, aggravated when in the recumbent position.
  Eyes,  Ears, and Nose.—Itching, burning, or a  sensa-
tion of heat in the eyelid; redness and swelling of the eye-
lids, with itching and burning; pain in the ear;  inflamma-
tion of the parotid gland,  after measles; bleeding at the
nose; sneezing; fluent coryza; itching of the nose.
  Face.—Pale, and  yellow complexion ;  dryness of the
lips; pimples on the forehead and cheeks. 
RHUS RADICANS.
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  Mouth and Throat.—Foetid breath;  dryness of the
mouth;  ulcers inside of the mouth;  redness and dryness
of the tongue,  or dark brown and  dry tongue;  painful
deglutition, sensation as if obstruated  by a foreign body in
the throat; dryness of the throat.

  Chest.—Influenza; weakness of the  voice;  dry,  short
cough;  morning cough, with soreness of the throat; cough,
excited by motion; pain in the chest  at night; pain in the
chest, commencing in the stomach;  palpitation of the heart.

  Stomach and Abdomen.—Pain in  the stomach, after
eating;  pressure and fulness in the region of the stomach;
pain of  a pressing character in the abdomen;  pain in the
region of the liver, also in the left hypochondrium ;  flatu-
lence.

  Urine.—Frequent  urination, with  small  discharges;
pressure on the bladder, with difficult urination; deep, red
urine ; pink colored sediment.
  Genital  Organs.—Inflammation of the scrotum;  scaly
and itching eruptions on the scrotum.

  Extremities.—Rheumatic pain of the arm, increased by
movement;  numbness of the hands and fingers; inflamma-
tion of the hands, with heat and redness; pain in the hip ;
pain in the hip and legs; numbness; weakness, and a sense
of torpor of the legs;  redness of the  top of the foot, with
soreness; coldness of the feet.
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RHUS TOXICODENDRON.
                RHUS  TOXICODENDRON.
                  RHUS-TOX. (Poison Oak.)
  Antidotes.—Bry.,  Camph., Coffee, Sulph.
  General Symptoms.—Rheumatic  and  arthritic affec-
tions ;  glandular swellings and indurations ; deficient plas-
tic power of the blood;  ailments arising from cold bathing;
Paralysis; bruised pains; dull, heavy, aching pains;  bad
consequences from strains or sprains ; stiffness and lameness
in the limbs; complete  paralysis ;  paralysis of the inferior
extremities; lacerating, drawing pains in the evening while
sitting, going  off when walking;   convulsions, especially
caused by cold  bathing; great prostration, languor,  and
debility.
  Characteristic Peculiarities.—The  pains come on
during rest, or are worse during rest;  symptoms generally
aggravated at night.
  Skin. — Erysipelatous  inflammation ; burning,  itching
eruptions; scaly eruptions issuing an ichor from the fissures
in the skin ; red, shining swelling, with stinging, sore pain
when touched ; glandular swellings.
  Sleep.—Restless,  tossing about;  sleepless before mid-
night ;  sad  thoughts preventing  sleep; unpleasant  and
frightful  dreams.
  Fever.—Coldness, chilliness, pain, etc., in the evening;
evening  fever,  with diarrhoea; intermittent,  commencing
with chilliness, followed by heat and'thirst; then  warmth,
with chilliness at every motion; then perspiration ; flushes
of heat, with sweat;  general perspiration ;  night sweat, es-
pecially around the neck. 
RHUS TOXICODENDRON.
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   Sensorium.—Mental derangement; illusions of fancy;
languor  of the mind; delirium;  dizzy, when rising from
bed.

   Head. — Headache immediately  after eating;  severe
headache;  intoxicating headache; scald  head; small, soft
tubercles on the scalp.
   Eyes, Ears,  and Nose. — Soreness  of  the  eyeball;
burning of the eyes; inflammation of the eyes, with dull,
aching pain ; swelling of the eyelids; oedematous swelling
around the eyes ; incipient amaurosis; Earache;  discharge
of bloody  pus  from  the ear, with hardness of hearing;
Bleeding of the nose ; dryness and stoppage of the nose.
   Face.—Mahogany flush of the face, especially in typhoid
fevers; erysipelatous inflammation and swelling of the face;
Herpetic eruptions on the face;  crusta lactea; dry, dark,
and parched lips.
   Mouth.  — Lacerating toothache  at night;  lacerating
toothache,  aggravated in the open air;  rheumatic  tooth-
ache,  relieved by  warmth; foetid smell from the mouth;
dryness of  the mouth ; parched, red or brown tongue.
  Appetite.—Loss of appetite and taste.
  Stomach.—Pressure in the pit of the stomach ; oppres-
sion in the  stomach toward evening; throbbing in the epi-
gastric region; sore pain in the pit of the stomach.
  Chest.—Tightness and oppression  of the chest; difficult
breathing;  sticking in the region of the heart, with pain-
ful lameness  and numbness of the left arm; cough, with
bloody expectoration, or with bright blood.
  Back.—Bruised pain in  the small of the back, relieved
by pressure;  sprained feeling in the back and shoulders, 
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RUTA GRAVEOLENS.
and in the nape of the neck and shoulders;  " curvature of
the dorsal vertebrae."
  Abdomen.—Severe attack  of  colic at  night; pain and
distention of the abdomen after a meal;  scarlet erysipela-
tous appearance of the abdomen.
  Urine.—Retention of urine; Dysuria, with discharge of
bloody urine, and severe pressing and urging;  "Incontin-
ence of urine."
  Female  Genital Organs.—Meteorrhagia, with coagu-
las and labor-like pains; diminished lochia, with pains shoot-
ing up  into the vagina;  offensive  discharge of  black-
appearing water from the  vagina after delivery;  heavy
numb pains along the bones of the leg; soreness and swell-
ing of the breast.
  Extremities. — Tearing  and  burning  pains  in  the
shoulder, with lameness of the arm; Paralysis of the arm,
with  numbness;  heat and smarting  of the back  of  the
hand; erysipelatous swelling  of the arm;  warts  on  the
hands and fingers.
  Legs.—Coxalgia; paralysis; sprained pains in the joints;
swelling of the feet; erysipelatous swelling and inflamma-
tion of the feet.

                  RUTA  GRAVEOLENS.
                     RUTA.  (Rue.)
  Antidotes.—Camph.
  General  Symptoms.—Mechanical injuries,  such  as
sprains,  strains,  lacerations,  and contusions; imperfect
vision, from over-taxing the eyes.
  Characteristic Peculiarities.—Pains aggravated by 
sabadilla.
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rest, relieved  by motion, and pains worse during damp
weather.

  Skin.—Inflamed ulcers;  itching of the skin; warts;
anasarca.

  Fever.—Chilliness; chilliness along the spinal column ;
flushes of heat; febrile heat, during the afternoon.

  Eyes.—Pain and weakness of the eyes;  indistinct vision,
as if looking through gauze; weakness of the eyes from too
much reading, or fine sewing;  incipient amaurosis.

  Stomach and Abdomen.—Oppression in the pit of the
stomach;  painful swelling of the  spleen; colic, as  from
worms in children; mucus diarrhoea, alternating with con-
stipation ; urging, with prolapsus of the rectum.
  Urine.—Frequent urging,  with discharge  of greenish
urine; involuntary emissions  at night, in bed;  enuresis,
during sleep.
  Back and  Extremities.—Stitches in the small of the
back, when walking or stooping; pain, as if sprained in the
wrists;  weariness and weakness of the legs, after walking;
weakness, with trembling of the knees.


                      SABADLLLA.
         VERATR UM SABADLLLA. (Berry bearing Alder.)
  Antidotes.—Camph., Puis.
  Sabadilla is one of the finest anti-psoric remedies with-
in the possession of  the Homoeopath, although it is not
noted as such, nor has it  been very generally used in psoric
cases. 
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SABINA.
  Skin.—Creeping sensation and burning;  dry, rough, and
branny, or scaly skin; itch-like eruption on the body.
  Sleep.—Restless, unrefreshing  sleep;  sleep, disturbed
by dreams.
  Fever.—Intermittent fever, with chills; shaking of the
limbs; little or no thirst, followed by heat with but  little
thirst, and accompanied or followed by perspiration.
  Mouth.—Blisters on the tongue, and soreness;  dryness
of the mouth, with  thirst; raw, blistered feeling  of the
tongue;  burning on the tip of the tongue.
  Larynx and Chest.—Cough, upon  lying  down;  deep
cough, with bloody expectoration; cough, causing vomit-
ing; grippe.
  Extremities.—Stinging,  sensation in the thighs; heavi-
ness of the feet; itching and burning pimples on the fore-
arms ; dry, scaly state of the skin.

                        SABINA.
               JUNIPER US SABINA. (Savin.)
  Antidotes.—Camph., Puis., Cantharis.
  Characteristic  Peculiarities.—The symptoms cease
in the open air.
  Genital  Organs.—Warts  and excrescences  on  the
glans, with burning and soreness; haemorrhage after partu-
rition, and after miscarriage; leucorrhoea, after suppression
of the menses.
  Urine.—Retention of urine ;   burning,  scalding,  and
smarting  in  the  urethra, during  micturation;  desire to
urinate, with  voiding but little;  blenorrhagic, discharge
from the  urethra, attended with a burning and scalding. 
sambucus.
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                      SAMBUCUS.
                SAMBUCUS NIGER.  (Elder.)
  Antidotes.—Arsen., Camph.

  General Symptoms.—Dropsical swellings;  emaciation;
catarrhal difficulties  in children, from exposure to cold;
snuffles in infants.
  Characteristic  Peculiarities.—Most  of the pains
come on during rest,  and pass off during motion.
  Sleep.—Restless ;  slumbering, with the eyes and mouth
partly  open; sudden  startings from sleep, with  anxiety and
shortness of breath.
  Eyes, Ears, and Nose.—Stoppage of the nose; snuffles;
thick, tenacious mucus in  the nose; ringing in the ears;
catarrhal condition of the eyes; nightly agglutination  of
the lids.
  Larynx and Chest.—Angina membranacea; suffoca-
tive paroxysms of asthma;  attacks of asthma at night;
angina pectoris.
  Face.—Pale, lived face; red spots on the face; bluish
and bloated face.
  Male Genital Organs. — Swelling of  the  scrotum;
involuntary emission  of semen.
  Female Genital  Organs.—Profuse menstruation, bor-
dering  on haemorrhage. 
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SANGUINARIA.
                    SANGUINARIA.
          SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS.  (BloodRoot.)
  General Symptoms.—Acute, inflammatory, and arth-
ritic rheumatism ; swelling of the joints; paralysis of the
right side ;  catarrhal and bronchitic affections.
  Skin.—Itching like nettle-rash; warts; old, indolent ul-
cers; jaundice.
  Sensorium.—Dizziness on turning the head suddenly.
  Head.—Pain in the head in spots;  soreness in spots;
pain in the head, with nausea, vomiting, and a sense of heat
in the throat; pains  in the head, drawing up from the neck.
  Face,  Ears, and Nose.—Redness of the cheek; burn-
ing in  the  ears; polypus of the nose;  loss of smell; In-
fluenza ;  fluent coryza.
  Mouth and Throat.—Sore pains (like a boil) of the
tongue; ulcerated sore throat.
  Larynx and  Chest.—Dryness and  heat in  the throat;
cough; cough, with expectoration and  coryza;  dropsy of
the  chest; asthma; burning and pressing in the chest.
  Urine and Stool.—Frequent  and  copious nocturnal
urination; Gonorrhoea; diarrhoea during an attack of cold,
or during influenza; dysentery; piles.
  Extremities.—Rheumatic pain  of the right arm and
shoulder; burning of the hands; ulceration at  the root of
the  nails; bruised pains of the thigh; burning  of the feet. 
sarsaparilla—secale cornutum.       173
                    SARSAPARILLA.
           SMILAX SARSAPARILLA.  (Sarsaparilla.)
  Antidote.—Camph,
  General  Symptoms.—Rheumatic complaints, with di-
minished  secretion of urine; languid feeling in the hands
and feet.
  Skin.—Dry, shrivelled skin; ulcers and eruptions from
the abuse of mercury.
  Stool.—Constipation, with urging to urinate; discharge
of blood at stool.
  Urine.-—" Frequent desire to urinate, with scanty emis-
sion ;" tenesmus of the bladder; tomina urina.


                  SECALE CORNUTUM.
                   ERGOT. (Spurred Rye.)
  Antidotes.—Camph., and Vinous stimulants.
  Skin.—Lead-colored, dead-appearing, or shrivelled skin;
petechiae;  rash on the chest  and back;  dry  gangrene;
old, indolent ulcers;  sloughing ulcers  during  paralysis;
cancer in the axillae ; fungous haematodes.
  Sleep.—Sleeplessness, with dry heat.
  Fever.—Dry heat,  with  quick pulse;  small and sup-
pressed pulse.
  Moral Symptoms.—Anguish, sadness, and melancholic;
dread of death.
  Abdomen.—Severe  colic,  with pain in the back  and
thighs ; cutting and lacerating in the abdomen; burning in 
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SCILLAE.
the abdomen, particularly in the region of the spleen and
loins.
  Stool and  Urine.—Painful diarrhoea, with great pros-
tration ;  thin, watery  diarrhoea;  involuntary diarrhoea;
diarrhoea following cholera ;  suppression of urine.
  Female Genital Organs.—Profuse menstruation; the
menses continue too long, also is attended with spasmodic
pains in the abdomen  and back;  Haemorrhage before de-
livery; Haemorrhage during pregnancy;  threatened mis-
carriage ;  cancer of the uterus; indurations of the cervix
and os; gangrene of the uterus.
  Extremities.—Tingling, numbness, and insensibility of
the fingers ; gangrene, or gangrenous  spots on the feet and
legs.
  Note.—I have used an infusion of ergot as an injection in cases of un-
doubted cancer of the uterus, with most decided advantage. Also the
setherial oil of ergot as a dressing  to cancer of the breast, cancer in the
axillae, and to gangrenous spots and sloughing ulcers.

                        SCILLAE.
                SCILLA MARITIMA.  (Squill.)
  Antidotes.—Camph., Opii.
  General  Symptoms.—Difficulties of  the  throat and
chest; Dyspnoea ; dropsical  affections ; anasarcous  swell-
ings ; derangements of the abdominal  and  urinary organs.
  Head.—Heaviness and dizziness of the head; contrac-
tive pain in both temples ; painful  sensitiveness of the top
of the head.
  Face.—Cracked lips, with brown crusts;  dark, or black
lips. 
SELENIUM.
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  Stomach.—Loss of appetite;  nausea during the morn-
ing, and while coughing in the morning; weakness of the
stomach, and derangement of the digestive organs.
  Larynx and Chest.—Violent morning cough, attended
with stitches  in  the side; cough, at every inspiration dur-
ing the night; dyspnoea, with stitches in the  left side of
the chest;  tightness,  oppression  of the chest, and difficult
breathing; anxious breathing; dropsy of the chest; pains
in the chest, worse toward morning.
  Abdomen.—Diarrhoeic  stool;  watery diarrhoea;  diar-
rhoea, with dark, muddy-appearing discharges;  hard tumid
abdomen ;  abdominal dropsy (ascites.)
  Urinary  Organs.—Constant desire to urinate; urging,
with tenesmus of the bladder;  reddish urine, depositing a
red sediment; hot, dark urine;  diabetes.


                       SELENIUM.
  Antidotes.—Ignatia, Puis., Camph.
  Characteristic  Peculiarities.—Pains, worse  after
sleep.
  Moral  Symptoms.—Inability to perform any kind of
labor, either mental or physical;  vertigo.
  Face.—Twitching of the muscles of the face; itching of
the nose.
  Genital Organs.—Imperfect erections;  sexual desire,
with debility and relaxation  of the organs;  itching of the
scrotum.
  Extremities.—Emaciation of the hands;  cramps in the
soles of the feet. 
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SENEGA—SENNA.
                        SENEGA.
   Antidotes.—Am., Bell, Bry., Camph.

   Sensorium.—Dullness of the head; vertigo.
   Eyes, Ears,  and Nose.—Jerking in the eyelids; burn-
 ing, pain in the margins of the eyelids;  hard mucus in the
 eye lashes in the morning;  burning and pressure in the
 eyes; shadows and impeded vision ; feeling of warmth in
 the ear; itching of the nose.
   Mouth.—Prickling and stinging in the mouth; dryness
 of the mouth.
   Gastric Symptoms.—Nausea; vomiting and purging;
 qualmish feeling in the stomach.
   Chest.—Dull stitches  through the left  chest; stitches
 through the chest to the back;  dull stitches beneath the
 short ribs, in the left side; violent burning pain in the left
 chest, when sitting.
   Urine.—Mucous filaments in the urine; thick and cloudy
 urine;  burning in the urethra.


                        SENNA.
          CASSIA ACUTIFOLIA. (Alexandrian Senna.)
   Stomach  and Abdomen.—Loss of appetite;  some nau-
sea and eructations ; colicky pains, with  rumbling and fer-
mentation in the bowels, or with watery diarrhoea; diar-
rhoeic stools, with burning or itching of the anus. 
SEPIA.
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                        SEPIA.
               JUICE OF THE CUTTLEFISH.
  Antidotes.—Aeon. Spir-Nit, Pule. Stib. Acetic-Acid.

  General Symptoms.—Affections  of females, particu-
larly of those with delicate skin; affections of the capillary
system; Nervous affections,  consequences of chagrin;  bad
effects of onanism; scrofulous, rickety and rheumatic affec-
tions ; seething of the blood; the limbs go to sleep;  ten-
dency to take cold; hysterical symptoms; affections during
pregnancy.
  Characteristic Peculiarities.—Pains relieved by the
application of warmth; the  pains are attended with shud-
dering.
  Skin.—Glandular  and  lymphatic swellings;  scirrhous
indurations;  ringworm; dry, itch-like  eruptions;  claret-
colored spots on the neck and under the skin; yellow spots
on the face and nose;  scurfy  herpetic eruption; Pemphigus.
  Sleep.—Restless at night and drowsy during the day;
jerking of the limbs at night.
  Fever.—Attacks  of flushes of heat every afternoon;
profuse perspiration;  sour smelling perspirations.
  Moral Symptoms.—Melancholic, discouraged; sad  and
desponding; indifference to almost every thing.
  Sensorium.—Weak memory; absent-minded; dullness
and stupefaction;  "Vertigo only when walking in the open
air."
  Head.__Morning headache, with nausea; headache with
inability to open the eyes from the pain; heat in  the head, 
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SEPIA.
with a  burning sensation through the ears; severe and
violent headache; involuntary shaking of the head; itch-
ing of the scalp; falling off of the hair.

  Eyes, Ears, and  Nose.—Inflammation of  the  eyes,
with redness, and stinging, and pressure;  prickling pain in
the eyes, particularly in the evening; prickling pain in  the
lids ; swelling of the eyes in the evening;  pustules on  the
cornea;  agglutination  of the lids; paralysis of the lids;
dimness of sight while writing or reading;  Herpes on  the
ears and behind them; sensitive  to  noise;  loud sounds in
the ears; inflamed  and  swollen nose; obstruction of  the
nose; foetid smell; loss of smell; coryza.

  Face.—Paleness of the face with yellow spots;  redness
with flushes of heat in the face;  cruste lactea; Herpetic
eruptions;  warts on the face; dry and scaly lips.

  Mouth.—Foetid smell  from  the mouth;  swelling of  the
inner mouth;  drawing toothache caused by either hot or
cold things; drawing pains in the teeth.

  Gastric  Symptoms.—Weakness of  digestion;  eructa-
tions, bitter or sour; water-brash after drinking; nausea
during pregnancy; pressure in the stomach, as from a hard
substance;  heaviness in the stomach; cramp in the stomach
and abdomen, or in the  stomach and chest; sticking pain
in the stomach.
  Larynx  and Chest.  — Hoarseness;  hoarseness, with
dry cough ; cough during pregnancy; cough, with saltish-
tasting expectoration, or with purulent expectoration;  dysp-
noea, with  oppression and shortness of breath; stitches in
the right side of the chest and shoulder-blade during an in-
spiration ; rawness of the chest. 
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  Back.—Pain in  the  small  of the back of a pressing,
sprained, or cutting character;  stiffness of the back, also of
the nape of the neck; chilliness over the back.

  Abdomen and Stool.—Brownish spots  on the abdo-
men ; green or sour-smelling diarrhoea of children ; debili-
tating diarrhoea ;  burning and itching of the rectum ; Pro-
lapsus ani.

  Male Genital  Organs.—Itching;  weakness  of the
parts ;  pains in the testes ;  swelling of the scrotum.

  Female Genital Organs.—Induration of  the neck of
the  uterus; prolapsus  of  the parts; swelling  and itching
of the labia; soreness and redness of the labia; itching of
the pudendum; leucorrhoea, attended with itching; yellow,
bloody, or corrosive leucorrhoea; various affections during
pregnancy, such as toothache, colic, cramping pains, costive-
ness, nausea, and vomiting, etc.
  Extremities.—Humid eruptions in the axillae ; paraly-
tic feeling in the arms,  followed by  a throbbing sensation ;
drawing in the arms from above downward;  heat in the
hands;  suppurating blisters and pustules  on the back of
the hand and the ends of the fingers; numbness, as if asleep,
of  the legs;  icy coldness; lameness; drawing pains and
cramping in the  legs;  severe cramps in the calves of the
legs ; swelling of the feet; ulcers on the heel;  sweaty feet,
of a foetid smell;  corns. 
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SILICEA.
                       SILICEA.
                        SILICA.
  Antidotes.—Camph., Eepar Sulph.
  General  Symptoms. — Phlegmonous inflammation ;
scrofula and  rickets;  muscular  weakness  of  children;
nightly sticking in the joints.
  Characteristic Peculiarities. — The  pains  are in-
creased by motion, and most of the symptoms appear about
new moon.
  Skin.—Itching and biting of the skin; aching  pain  in
ulcers.
  Sleep.—Yawning and drowsiness during the day; sleep
disturbed by dreams.
  Fever.—Hectic fever; fever during  teething; fever of
scrofulous persons;  great disposition to perspire;  profuse
night sweats.
  Moral  Symptoms.—Indifferent and apathetic; anxious;
tendency to start.
  Sensorium.—Forgetful;  difficulty of thinking;  intoxi-
cated feeling.

  Head.—Headache,  from the nape of the neck  to the
vertex; morning headache; heaviness of the head; itching
humid eruption ; falling off of the hair.

  Eyes, Ears and Nose.—Redness and smarting of the
eyes; smarting, or heat in the ears;  ulcers on the cornea;
spots and cicatrices; impaired vision;  beating, boring, or
shooting in the ears; itching of the  tip of the nose; erup- 
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tions on the  nose;  soreness of the nostrils; sneezing, ob-
structions, and dryness of the nostrils.
  Face.—Chapped  skin; scirrhous indurations and ulcers;
cancer of the lip.
  Mouth. — Toothache,  produced by  something warm;
caries of the jaw; bitter taste in the morning.
  Gastric Symptoms.—Nausea, particularly in the morn-
ing; water-brash;   vomiting  after taking  fluids;  painful-
ness in the pit of the stomach.
  Male Genital Organs. — Redness  of the prepuce;
itching and humid spots on the scrotum.
  Female Genital Organs. — Milky-appearing leucor-
rhoea ; inflammation and suppuration of the breasts.
  Chest.—Arrest of breathing; shortness of breath from
the least exercise;  cough, with expectoration of purulent
matter.
  Extremities.—Lacerating in both arms; languor and
trembling of the arms; creeping in the fingers ; softening
and caries of the bones ; swelling of  the knee ;  scrofulous
swelling of the joints;  boils  on  the calves of the  legs;
numbness of  the calves of the legs.


                      SPIGELIA.
           SPIGELIA MARILANDICA.  (Pinkroot.)
  Antidotes.—Camph., Aurum.
  Characteristic  Peculiarities.—The symptoms  are
worse in the afternoon.
  Sleep.—Restless  and confused sleep.
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spigelia.
  Head.—Heaviness and confusion of the head; dizziness,
with partial blindness.
  Eyes.—Pain in the eyes and above the eyes, also deep
in the orbits;  pressing, digging, boring, or stitching in the
eyes; inclination  to wink;  paralysis  of  the upper lid;
ptosis;  partial blindness.
  Ears and  Nose.—Periodical deafness; biting  in the
nose; fluent coryza from a slight cold.
  Face.—Pale,  disfigured  face;  pressure in the  malar
bones;  pressure, darting or lacerating, with pressure in the
right cheek bone;  burning in the cheek bones.
  Teeth.—Toothache, with pain in the face;  darting pain
through all of the teeth;  painful jerks in decayed  teeth;
toothache, aggravated by cold water.
  Gastric Symptoms.—Canine hunger and thirst; nausea
before breakfast;  great  sensitiveness  of  the pit  of the
stomach.
  Chest.—Great difficulty in breathing;  threatened suffo-
cation, with palpitation of the heart; stitches in the chest in
the region of the heart; irregular action of the heart, at-
tended with pain;  enlargement of the heart.
  Abdomen.—Painful  pressure or  sharp stitches  in the
abdomen; crawling sensation in the rectum, as from worms.
  Extremities. — Itching  in  the  axillae; aching  of the
arms  above the wrists during  rest;  lacerating pain, as if
sprained in the knee-joint when walking;  sticking  and
jerking in the legs. 
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                       SPONGIA.
      SPONGIA TOSTA—MARINA TOSTA.  (Toasted Sponge.)
  Antidotes.—Camph., Opium.

  General Symptoms.—The lower half of the body feels
numb ; general weariness and relaxation.
  Skin.—Red spots attended with itching.
  Face.—Blueness or redness of the face with a degree of
puffiness; anxious expression.
  Mouth and Throat.—Vesicles on the edges of the
tongue ; burning in the larynx.
  Larynx  and  Chest. — Hoarseness;   hoarse, hollow
cough; constant cough ; croupy cough, with difficult breath-
ing ; asthmatic condition of the chest;  (croup).
  Genital Organs.—-Itching and burning of the scrotum;
pain and uneasiness in the testes;  swelling of the testes;
(orchitis).

                      STANNUM.
                         (TIN.)
  Antidote.—Pulsatilla.

  General Symptoms.—General heaviness and weariness;
exhausted  feeling;  epileptic  and hysteric  convulsions;
spasms of children while teething;  emaciation;   night
sweats; consumption.
  Fever.—Chilliness over the back in the  evening;  burn-
ing heat of the hands;  profuse night sweats;  hectic fever;
Worm fever.
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184                  STAPHYSAGRIA.
  Moral Symptoms.—Discouragement, anguish and mel-
ancholy ; hypochondriacal.
  Face.—Pale, sunken face,  also with sunken  eyes; cir-
cumscribed flush of the cheeks, or of one cheek.
  Eyes.—Weeping eye; fistula lachrymalis; obstruction
of the ductum ad nasi.
  Teeth.—Looseness of the teeth;  the teeth feel elongated
and sore.
  Larynx and Chest.—Hoarseness; mucus in the throat;
cough from a tickling sensation; cough attended with  a
feeling of soreness in the throat and chest; cough with ex-
pectoration of pus;  oppression of the  chest; constriction
of the chest with soreness; asthma.
  Female Genital Organs.—Leucorrhoea of a yellowish
or greenish appearance ;  discharge of a transparent mucus
from the  vagina.
  Extremities. —Paralytic weakness and heaviness  of the
limbs ; swelling of the hands  and around the ankles.


                    STAPHYSAGRIA.
          DELPHINIUM—STAPHYSAGRIA.  (Stavesacre.)
  Antidotes.— Camph., Verat-alb.
  General Symptoms.—Scorbutic, scrofulous, and rick-
ety affections; ailments  from chagrin,  also  those arising
from care and grief; Hysterical and hypochondriacal affec-
tions ; debility arising from onanism; Hemiplegia.
  Characteristic  Peculiarities. — One  of  the  most
striking peculiarities of this drug is chilliness.  Shuddering,
with drowsiness; dryness of the mouth,  but without thirst; 
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evening fever, with the cold stage only; chilliness predomi-
nating.
  Skin.—Dry, crusty, herpetic eruptions;  chronic  rash ;
mercurial ulcers;  carious and  scorbutic ulcers;  glandular
indurations;  affections of  the  bones;  sharp, itching, and
pricking sensation of different parts of the body.
  Moral Symptoms.—Sad;  desire to weep; indifference;
sensitiveness; ill-humor.
  Head.—Dullness  and  vanishing of ideas; headache of
various characters;  itching, scaly eruption  on the scalp;
humid scales, with an unpleasant smell.
  Eyes, Ears, and  Nose.—Smarting pain in the internal
angle of  the  eye;  inflammation of the  lids;  spasmodic
closing of the lids ;  tensive stitch in the left ear;  stoppage
of the nose;  coryza, with ulcerated nostrils.
  Face.—Nervous pain in the face ; pressure and beating,
extending from the teeth to the eyes ; inflammatory pains
of the malar  bones.
  Appetite  and Gastric Symptoms.—Voracious  appe-
tite ;  canine hunger; great desire for liquids and for wine;
pressure in the stomach, with tension, excited or aggravated
by eating.
  Larynx and  Chest.—Pressure and contraction in the
inferior portion of the throat;  tickling cough; cough, with
yellow expectoration; contractive  oppression of the  chest.
  Back.__" Stitches, as if sprained, in the small of the back
during rest;"  pressing in the small of the back during the
night; curvature of the spine.
  Urine.—Frequent emissions ; frequent desire, but pass-
ing a small quantity of dark urine; painful micturition. 
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stramonium.
   Genital Organs. — Nocturnal  emissions ;  lascivious
dreams; weakness of the organs from onanism, or from too
free sexual indulgence.
   Extremities.—Paralytic drawing pains in the arms, and
of the fingers ;  arthritic nodosities of the joints of the fin-
gers ; itching and stinging of the thighs; dull stitches in
the knees.

                     STRAMONIUM.
             DATURA STRAMONIUM. (Stinhweed.)
   Antidotes.— Vegetable Acids, Nux-vom., Opii., Tabacum.
   General  Symptoms.—Loss of sense and of voluntary
motion; stiffness and rigidity of the entire system; paraly-
sis, secondary to apoplexy;  epileptic convulsions ; spasms,
from  fright; Chorea Sancti Viti; violent motion  of the
limbs.
   Skin.—Measles, with  delirium; anasarca,  after  scarlet
fever; redness of old scars.
   Fever.—Gastric fevers, with jerking and twitching  of
the arms and fingers; fever, attended with heat of the head,
then general coldness; then heat, with thirst; low, stupid
typhus.
   Moral Symptoms.—Melancholy,  at times indifferent;
perfect rage, tries to  bite;  alternate rage and convulsions;
loud laughing, alternating with anger; hydrophobia.
   Sensorium.—Delirium, with  strange fancies ; earnest
staring expression of the eyes and countenance, with grasp-
ing  at  imaginary  objects;  insane,  dances,  gesticulates,
kneels, cries, sings,  or laughs; perfect  versatility of ideas
and actions. 
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  Head.—Headache, with obscured vision  and hardness
of hearing ; convulsive movements of the head and arms.
  Face.—Turgid swollen face;  redness of the cheeks, with
a friendly expression.
  Eyes,  Ears, and Nose.—Sparkling, earnest and glis-
tening eyes;  dimness of vision, with  dilated pupils; illu-
sions of hearing;  pain in the left ear;  sneezing.
  Mouth and Throat.—Dryness of the mouth; paraly-
sis of the organs of speech; difficult swallowing.
  Chest.—Hoarse,  rough, or croaking voice;  spasmodic
dry cough; spasm of the chest.
  Stomach.—Anxiety in the epigastric region.
  Abdomen.—Rumbling in the bowels; watery diarrhoea.
  Extremities.—Twitching and gesticulating, or paralytic
weakness.

                       SULPHUR.
                       SULPHUR.
  Antidotes.—Aeon., Camph., Cham., Chin., Merc, Nux-vom., Sepia,
Puis.
  General Symptoms.—Sulphur is  the great  anti-psoric
remedy, and  indicated in almost every case (especially in
chronic diseases) as an antecedent drug.  It is  adapted to
lymphatic, scrofulous, rachitic and psoric complaints;  dis-
eases produced by mercury;  rheumatic and  arthritic diffi-
culties ; debility;  coldness of the system; want of capil-
lary circulation, etc.
  Characteristic Peculiarities.—Aggravation of pains
at night; pains produced or  increased during the changes
of weather. 
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SULPHUR.
  Skin.—All kinds of pustular, scurfy, or scaly eruptions;
Itch; crusta  lactea;  dry or humid itching  eruptions; sup-
purating ulcers; ulcers surrounded with pimples;  caries;
glandular swellings and indurations.
  Sleep.—Very sleepy during the day; restless at night;
sleep disturbed by frightful dreams; talking and muttering
during sleep; nightmare.
  Fever.—General coldness of the surface;  slow circulation
or heat, with burning of the  hands and feet;  copious per-
spiration in the morning.
  Moral  Symptoms.—Desponding;   disposed  to  weep;
irritated and out of humor.
  Sensorium. — Inclination  to theoretical speculations;
forgetful, and difficulty of thinking.
  Head."—Headache of various characters; Tinea capitis;
dry or humid eruptions on the scalp; eruptions with thick
yellow pus; falling off of the hair.

  Eyes,  Ears and  Nose.—Inflammation  of the eyes,
attended with itching and burning; pain in the eyes as if
produced by a particle of sand; swelling  of the  eyelids;
soreness and ulceration of the eyelids; scrofulous opthalmia;
ulceration of the margin of the eyelids; purulent discharge
from the eyes;  specks or ulcers on the cornea;  obscuration
of sight;  hardness of hearing, sore  ears; swelling and  in-
flammation of the nose ; eruption on the wings of the nose;
soreness  of the nostrils;  obstruction of the nostrils with
sneezing.

  Face.—Pale, bloated face;  circumscribed redness of  the
cheek; swelling and redness  of the face;  eruptions on  the
face ; erysipelas of the face. 
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   Mouth.—Apthae; thrush;  stomacace;  Ptyalism from
 mercury;  dry  tongue; cracked  and vermilion tongue;
 swelling of the gums with throbbing pain; Fistula lachrv-
 malis.

   Throat  and Chest.—Hoarseness and  dryness of  the
 throat;  creeping sensation in  the larynx;  loss of voice;
 cough, with greenish or yellowish expectoration; dry, hoarse
 cough; rattling in the chest;  nightly suffocative feeling;
 heavy, oppressive  feeling  in the  chest;  stitches in  the
 chest extending to the back; stitches  in  the chest extend-
 ing to the breast-bone.

   Back.—Pain and stiffness in the back, particularly upon
 rising ; stiffness of  the nape of the neck; curvature of  the
 spine.

   Gastric  Symptoms. — Nausea; eructations  having a
 foetid or sour smell; sour vomiting ; raising the food; loss
 of appetite,  with putrid taste;  pain in the region of  the
 stomach upon pressure ; pressing in the stomach with burn-
 ing ; pressure toward the chest  and back; swelling of the
 pit of  the stomach.

  Region of the  Liver.—Chronic  inflammation of the
 liver;  swelling and induration of the liver; heavy, uneasy
 sensation in the region of the liver; swelling and hardness
 of the spleen.

  Abdomen.—Colic after drinking; periodical colic;  colic
 relieved by flexing the body;  movement of flatus in the
 abdomen; colic from piles; colic with diarrhoea;  colic
produced or aggravated by eating sweet things; painful-
ness  of the  abdomen when touched;  painful swelling  of
the inguinal glands. 
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sulphuric acid.
  Male  Genital Organs.—Soreness and chafing; foetid
perspiration of the parts; burning, or soreness and moist-
ure of the scrotum ; impotence.
  Female Genital Organs.—Itching of the pupendum;
delay of  the menses, with coldness of the  hands and feet;
leucorrhoea, attended with burning or smarting;  itching of
the nipples; induration and inflammation of the breasts.
  Urine.—Frequent and copious discharges of urine  after
midnight;  wetting the bed; painful  desire to urinate with
discharge of a few drops of bloody urine; foetid urine;  rose-
colored urine.
  Stool.—Constipation  with piles; constipation of  in-
fants ; small, hard, and knotty stool; diarrhoea or dysenteric
stool; undigested food in the stool; creeping and biting in
the rectum and at the anus;  itching of the anus.
  Extremities. — Drawing or  lacerating  pains  in the
shoulder joint, and in the arms and hands; creeping sensation
in the arms ;  swelling of the arms; warts on the arms and
hands; deep fissures and rhagades on the skin of the hands;
red chilblains on the fingers; weariness and heaviness in
the legs; weakness of the  legs; swelling of the legs, feet,
and ankles; dropsy of the knee joint; red, humid eruption
on  the inner  side  of the thighs; erysipelas of the leg;
swelled feet;  coldness of the feet and stiffness of the toes;
thick, shiny swellings of the toes; blisters  on the feet and
toes.

                   SULPHURIC  ACID.
                    OIL OF VITRIOL.
Vide Acidum Sulphuricum. 
SYMPHYTUM—TABACUM.
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                      SYMPHYTUM.
            SYMPHYTUM OFFICINALE.  (Comfrey.)
   Comfrey is cultivated in our gardens for medical use,
and is one of those  domestic remedies, used empirically as
a demulcent, similar to Marshmallow, and as an ingredient
in domestic cough mixtures.
   It is used, homoeopathically, (externally,) similar to Arnica,
in cases of contusion, sprain, or fracture.  And it is said to
have been successfully used in fractures of bones, to facili-
tate their union.

                       TABACUM.
               TABACUM NICOTIANA. (Tobacco.)
  Antidotes.—For large doses, Camph., Amm., Wine or Brandy, as a
stimulant; for small doses, Camph., Ipecac., Bell, Nux-vom.
   General Symptoms.—Weariness, languor and debility;
trembling of the  hands and feet;  spasms and convulsions;
extreme prostration; faintness ; vertigo and nausea.
   Characteristic  Peculiarities.—"The pains on the
left side predominate;" open air produces relief.
   Sleep.—Deep, stupefying sleep, succeeded by profuse
perspiration.
   Fever.—Coldness and  shuddering; chilly during the
day; internal coldness; cold sweat.
   Moral Symptoms.—Stupid; lowness of spirits; anguish,
melancholic and restless ;  vertigo;  severe vertigo.
   Head.—Intoxicating  headache ; severe  headache, at-
tended with vertigo,  nausea and deathly paleness. 
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TEUCRIUM.
  Eyes, Ears, and Nose.—Dimness of vision;  scintilla-
tions ;  obscuration of sight, with dilated pupils ;  sticking in
the ears ; sensation, as if the ears were closed ; acute smell.
  Stomach and Abdomen.—Loathing of food;  nausea,
almost to faintness; most prostrating nausea;  spasmodic
pressure in  the region of the pylorus;  sickening, griping
pain in the abdomen, with diarrhoeic stool.
  Chest.—Dyspnoea;  anxiety; irregular respiration.
  Genital  Organs.—Weakness and  relaxation of the
genitals; diminished sexual desire.
  Extremities.—Coldness  and weakness of the limbs;
tremor of the limbs.


                      TEUCRIUM.
               TEUCRIUM MARUM VERUM.
  Antidotes.—Camph., Ignatia.
  General Symptoms.—"Irritated, tremulous sensation
in the whole body."
  Head.—Pressure in  the  forehead over the  eyes;  dull
feeling of fullness and pressure in the frontal sinuses.
  Nose.—Catarrhal condition of  both  the  anterior  and
posterior nostrils.
  Urine.—Increased discharge of watery urine.
  Sleep.—Restlessness, particularly with children;   con-
stant, uneasy, twisting, and turning in the bed;  constant
irritation and itching of the anus, as if caused by worms.
  Abdomen.—Dull, uneasy pressure in the abdomen;  feel-
ing of swelling and fullness in the rectum and anus; violent 
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itching of the anus;  irritation of the rectum and anus from
the small pin-worms.
  Note.—Teucrium is unquestionably a specific for the irritation, itching,
and uneasiness caused by pin-worms (ascaris vermicularis). I use it thus:
Mix from three to four drops of the tincture in a tumbler half full of cold
water, stir it well and give, to a child two, three, or four years old, a large-
sized teaspoonful morning, noon, and at bedtime, for two days.

                       THERIDION.
   General Symptoms.—Hysterical complaints; those ap-
pearing at the age of puberty, and at the menstrual climac-
teric, such as weakness of the limbs, fullness of the head
and vertigo, violent  headache in the forehead, with throb-
bing, extending to the occiput; nausea, and vomiting of a
slimy substance; saltish  taste;  precarious  appetite; ab-
dominal pains ;  pains in the inguinal region.
   Eyes,  Ears, and  Nose.—Luminous vibrations before
the eyes,  and scintillations ; itching behind the ears ; noise
in the ears  as of  a fall of water; itching of the nose;  dis-
charge of thin, watery mucus from the nostrils.


                  THUJA OCCIDENTALIS.
                    THUJA.  (Arbor Vita.)
   Antidotes.—Camph., Cocc, Merc.
   General  Symptoms. — Pressure in  different parts;
weakness and weariness; rheumatic and  arthritic pains;
itching and soreness of the skin.
   Characteristic Peculiarities. — The symptoms are
worse after the  middle of the afternoon,  and during the
night. 
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THUJA OCCIDENTALIS.
  Skin.—Itching of the skin;  the skin is painful to the
touch.
  Sleep.—Restless  during the  night, and drowsy during
the day.
  Moral Symptoms.—Melancholic, desponding, and tired
of life.
  Head.—Heaviness of the head, with ill-humor and fret-
fulness.
  Eyes,  Ears, and Nose.—Short-sighted; Pressure in the
eyes ; boring pain in the region of the cheek-bone,  relieved
by pressure;  ulceration of the nostril.
  Mouth  and  Throat. — Ranula  (tumor  under  the
tongue); chancre-appearing ulcers in the throat; desire for
cold drinks.
  Male Genital  Organs.—Bloody urine;   burning in
the  urethra;  flat,  foul-appearing ulcer  on  the   corona,
glandis;  red excrescences behind the glans;  sycosis; fig
warts; chancres.
  Female  Genital Organs.—Swelling of  the labia;
warty excrescences; cancer of the uterus.
  Extremities.—Involuntary jerking of the arm; tearing,
ulcerative pain, extending  from the shoulders to  the fin-
gers;  drawing  in the toes, extending  up the legs; red,
shining swellings of the toes.
  Note.—The tincture of Arbor Vital is at present  in quite popular use
as a remedy for corns.  The mode of using it is as follows:—Bathe the feet
well in warm water (at night before retiring), dry them, wet a piece of lint
with the tincture, and apply it to the corns.  A  few such applications is
said to cure, or, at least, to afford very marked relief. 
         TONGO—TRIOS. PERF.—URTICA URENS.      195


                        TONGO.
           COUMAROUNA ODORATA. (Tonka Bean.)
  Characteristic Peculiarities.—The symptoms come
on during rest.


               TRIOSTEUM  PERFOLIATUM.
                      FEVER ROOT.
  Triostem is a very valuable remedy in diarrhoea, attended
with colicky pains and slight nausea; also for diarrhoea of
children, attended with colicky pain and an increased flow
of urine.

                    URTICA URENS.
                    D WARF NETTLE.
  Antidotes.—Elaterium,  Bry.,  Camph.
  General Symptoms.—Scorbutic and rachitic complaints;
burns and scalds ; nettle-rash ;  roseola, and some forms of
erysipelas.
  Skin.—Biting, burning, stinging, and itching; large red
blotches, or blotches with  a whitish centre ;  nettle-rash;
erysipelas, with a stinging pain, instead of burning.
  Burns and Scalds.—Urtica urens is the  best remedy
we  possess for removing the violent irritation, inflamma-
tion, and suffering produced by burns, scalds, or the super-
ficial inflammation caused by exposure  to  the direct rays
of the sun (sunburn).
  Mix forty drops of the tincture with half a pint of pure
water, and keep it constantly applied to the part, by means 
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VALERIANA  OFFICINALIS.
of a piece of old fine linen, wet in the mixture.  It should
not be continued after the inflammation is removed, which
is indicated by the  departure of pain,  and the perfectly
white appearance of the surface ;  then cover the part (sim-
ply to protect it from the air) with a piece of linen, lightly
spread with clean  mutton-tallow,  or simple cerate.   If the
burn is an internal  one, from the inhalation of steam or
scalding liquid, give  a teaspoonful of the mixture every two
or three hours,  until  the suffering  is mitigated.


               VALERIANA OFFICINALIS.
                       VALERIAN.
  Antidotes.—Camph., Coff.
  General  Symptoms.—Nervous,  hysterical,  and  hypo-
chondriacal affections;  rheumatic pains;  paralytic  weak-
ness, or numbness in the limbs.
  Moral Symptoms.—Anxious, hypochondriacal feeling;
tremulousness;  palpitation of the heart;  fainting.
  Head.—Confused, intoxicated feeling in the head;  pres-
sure in the forehead ; pain over the orbits of the eyes.
  Eyes.—Smarting of the eyes; pressure in the eyes; scin-
tillations and black motes before the eyes.
  Stomach and Abdomen.—Tenderness of the region of
the stomach to  moderate pressure; spasmodic  pain in the
abdomen in the afternoon or evening;  distension of the
abdomen.
  Back.—Severe pain in the lumbar region.
  Extremities.—Pains in the arms, and tremor of the
hands;  heaviness in the calves of the legs;  pain in the
heels. 
VERATRUM album.
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                  VERATRUM ALBUM.
                VERATRUM.  (White Hellebore.)
   Antidotes.—Aconite, Camph.,  Coffea.

   General Symptoms.—Bad effects, from fear or fright;
paralysis and paralytic pains  ; great weakness  and prostra-
tion ;  tonic  spasms; catalepsy;  chronic symptoms, from
the abuse of china ;  typhoid pneumonia, or cholera.

   Characteristic Peculiarities.—Pains (particularly of
the limbs) are more  severe during the fall and spring, and
during damp or chilly  weather; chilliness, with thirst;
aggravation of all the pains by motion.

   Skin.—Eruptions resembling itch,  or pale cadaverous
skin in low fevers ; itching of the skin.

   Sleep.—Disturbed, unrefreshing sleep ; low moaning, or
muttering during sleep.

   Fever.—General Coldness; intermittents of various types
setting in early in the morning, or in the  afternoon, with
chilliness only ;  chilliness with thirst, and pains in the head
and back, if followed by heat; constant slumber or delirium,
with flushed face;  cold sweat; imperceptible pulse at the
wrist.
   Moral  Symptoms.—Anxiety,  anguish,  delirium,  un-
consciousness.
   Sensorium.—Insanity, alternating with  laughing  and
crying ; delirium; furious delirium, or a stupid condition,
with low muttering, or moaning; unpleasant, stupid feeling
in the  head.
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VERATRUM ALBUM.
  Head.—Headache, with nausea and vomiting; paroxysms
of pain, in different parts of the brain;  pains, extending
from temple to temple ;  pains in the head, most frequently
on the right side; coldness of the head ; profuse sweat on
the head.
  Eyes,  Ears,  and Nose.—Cutting  pain  in the eyes;
severe pain in the right eyeball, relieved  by  pressure;
agglutination of the eyelids, by a  dry gum; sensation, as
if an  alternate current of cold  and warm air were coming
out of the ear;  indistinct hearing; dryness of the nose;
ulcerative feeling of the nose.
  Face.—" Cold, disfigured face;" bluish,  yellowish, or
dark  red, inclining to a mahogany brown face;  alternate
redness and paleness;  dry, black, or parched lips.
  Mouth.—Stammering, indistinct articulation; dry brown,
or red, and cracked tongue.
  Throat and  Chest.—Constriction  of the  throat; fits
of suffocation ; violent cough ;  cough, similar to whooping-
cough, with vomiting;  dyspnoea,  anguish, and  great op-
pression of the chest; palpitation of the heart, with anxiety.
  Gastric Symptoms.—Desire for acids, and cold drinks;
great  thirst; voracious appetite ; canine hunger;  bitter or
acid taste, also bitter or acrid eructations ; vomiting of bile,
or a dark grumous matter ; vomiting, excited by the least
motion; vomiting and diarrhoea, attended with cramps, or
with pressure in  the pit of the stomach.
  Stomach and Abdomen.—Pain and anguish in the pit
of the stomach ;  violent pressure in the pit of the stomach;
pain in the abdomen of  a colicky character, or severe grip-
ing cramping pain, or cutting pinching pains; 
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  Stool  and  Urine.—Chronic constipation; diarrhoea,
with severe cutting pains, before and after stool;  greenish^
brownish, or milky-appearing diarrhoea;  diarrhoea,  with
extreme  weakness and prostration; nocturnal diarrhoea;
greenish  urine ;  frequent, but scanty emission of dark red
urine ; pinching in the bladder, and in the urethra.
  Female Genital Organs.—Suppression of the lochia,
with delirium and  diarrhoea; " nymphomania of lying-in
women;" thin, watery, dark-appearing, and offensive  diar-
rhoea, occurring in puerperal fever.
  Extremities.—Paralytic, and bruised pains in the arms;
trembling of the arms and hands; coldness of the  hands;
tingling  sensation in the hands; cramps of the fingers;
weakness and heaviness of the legs; cramps in the calves
of the legs; coldness of the feet


                 ZINCUM METALLICUM.
                    METALLIC ZINC.
  Antidotes.—Camph., Eepar-Sulph., Ignatia.
  General  Symptoms.—Twitching in the muscles; trem-
bling of the limbs;  violent drawing and tearing pains in
the long bones ;  piercing and stitching in the joints; heavi-
ness and  weakness of the limbs; paralysis; paralysis of the
limbs.
  Characteristic  Peculiarities.—Most  of  the  symp-
toms appear in the afternoon,  and they are more prominent
when at rest; and another peculiarity is, that the pains ap-
pear to be between the skin and the flesh.
  Skin.—Herpetic eruptions and ulcers; rash (attended
with itching) in the bend of the knees and elbows. 
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ZINCUM METALLICUM.
  Sleep.—Restless and jerking through the body;  sleep
disturbed by frightful dreams.
  Moral  Symptoms.—Desponding, sad,  and  hypochon-
driacal ; aversion to exertion.

  Head.—Pressure in the forehead, with dullness;  pres-
sure in the sinciput, extending to the eyes, with dullness of
the head ;  tearing in the temples in the afternoon.

  Eyes, Ears, and Nose.—The upper lid droops  as if
paralyzed (ptosis); weariness of the  eyes; soreness in  the
internal canthus;  earache, with deep  lancinations in  the
ear; indistinct hearing;  whizzing  in  the  ears;  painful
swelling of the left wing of the nose; coryza.

  Mouth.—Increased secretion of saliva;  metallic taste;
vesicles on the tongue ; extreme sensitiveness and soreness
of the  upper molars ; severe pain in the upper front teeth
(incisors);  soreness of the gums ; bleeding of the gums.
  Stomach.—Pressing in the  pit of the stomach;  dull
stitches in the region of the spleen.

  Throat and  Chest.—Hoarseness, roughness, and dry-
ness of the throat; spasmodic dyspnoea; tension in the  left
chest;   dry cough,  attended with a discharge  of blood;
burning in the chest;  palpitation of the heart, with anxiety.

  Abdomen.—Tension in the sides of the abdomen; cut-
ting pain in the epigastrium; pressure in the pubic region;
pressure or stitching  in the region of the kidneys; consti-
pation ;  burning at the anus ; creeping at the anus.

  Female Genital Organs.—Pressing and bearing down
in the rectum; stitching, biting, and pinching in  the puden-
dum ; sore nipples; deficiency of milk. 
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  Extremities.—Soreness  and  lameness  of  the  arms;
rash in the bend of the elbows;  weakness of the arms and
hands; paralysis of the right hand;  Herpes on the hands ;
rheumatic pains in the legs;  heaviness and weakness of the
legs;  itching in the  bend of the knee;  soreness of  the
knee.

  Note.—The various preparations  of this metal are analogous, in their ac-
tion on the system, to those of copper, silver, and bismuth.  They exert a
specific influence over the  nervous system, producing twitching in  the
muscles, trembling  of the limbs, paralytic weakness, paralysis, etc.  The
preparation under  consideration (metallic zinc) is considered  by many
less efficacious as a remedy, and almost inert, when compared with some
of its numerous compounds; but we must consider, that this  very pre-
paration is an oxyd from the process of trituration it receives, necessarily
converting the metal into one of its most active forms.
THE  END.
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     Penalty for Injuries to  Property
           State of New York. Laws. 1927. Ch. 542
  A person who wilfully or  maliciously cuts, tears, de-
faces, disfigures, soils, obliterates, breaks or destroys, a
book,map, chart, picture, engraving, statue, coin, model,
apparatus, specimen, or other work of literature or ob-
ject of art, or curiosity, deposited in a public library,
gallery, museum, collection, fair or exhibitions, or in a
library,gallery, college or university, or to any incorpor-
ated institution devoted to  educational, scientific liter-
ary, artistic, historical or charitable purposes, is punish-
able by imprisonment of not more than one year, or by a
fine of not more  than one hundred dollars, or by both
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