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I) , L.NE < r THE EARLY FOUNDERS OF HOMffiOPATHY IN AMEBlOrt. i*D EYKB AN EFFICIENT CONTRIBUTOR TO ITS LITERATUM, THIS ,,jrTH EDITION OF A WORK SO RICHLY ADORNED BT HIM IS INSCRIBED, WITH PROFOUND RESPECT AND GRATEFUL AFFECTIOH BY FREDERICK G. SNELLINO, M. D. PREFACE TO THE FOURTH AMERICAN EDITION. BY BR. JOHN F. GRAY. At the instance of Mr. Radde, the publisher, I have examined the manuscript of the new edition of Jahr's Hand-book, pre- pared by Dr. Snelling, the diligent and worthy successor of my cherished pupil and beloved friend, the late Dr. A. Gerald Hull. It will prove very gratifying to most practitioners to find that Dr. Hull's successor, in this indispensable hand-book of our school, has faithfully preserved, not only the liberal spirit and scheme of the preceding editions, but all the con- tributions of his deeply lamented predecessor, in their original form. He has, moreover, carefully collated from all good sources over two hundred pages of useful new matter, for the clinical chapters of this first volume. This important task, as far as I am able to judge, fairly and ably brings the hur- ried practitioner face to face with the best adjuvants to hia responsible duties which modern and recent researches and experienflb have added to clinical medicine. Dr. Spelling's edition is to the homoeopathic practice of to-day just what Dr. Hull's first one was to that of 1840. 3 4 PREFACE. Clinical conjectures, when carefully constructed from the whole retrospect of medical literature, are guides to the suc- cessful use of our materia medica. For, without such aids as the present editor and his predecessors have furnished, it would be impossible to make a selection between half a dozen very dissimilar, but, by the text of the Symptomatology and Repertory, equally indicated drugs—a predicament in which the practitioner constantly finds himself placed in the cham- ber of the invalid. All honor, then, to Hahnemann, Hartlaub, Trinks, Fleischmann, Jahr, Hering, Hull, Hempel, Guernsey, and their brave young successor, Snelling ! Let us thank them for their necessary and useful work. <• INTRODUCTION. L-ON THE SYMPTOMS COLLATES IN THIS WORK. Our plan of collating the effects of medicaments consists in presenting primarily the pure pathogenetic effects; and secondarily, as perfecting the former, the morbid conditions known from experience to have been cured by them. In composing the first edition of our work we took an entirely op- posite course, and preferred for our basis the symptoms which, in the prac- tice of medicine, had contributed to indicate the remedies. But, reflecting that these symptoms are much less certain than symptoms purely patho- genetic, we changed our course in the second edition, taking the pure Materia Medica for the basis. There was a single inconvenience which attended this procedure: that two sets of symptoms were thrown together without distinction. On the other hand, this inconvenience was not, it is true, followed by any serious result; inasmuch as the direct symptoms indicated the circumstances in which a medicine, according to our prin- ciples, ought to act favorably; whilst the symptoms cured discover those in which the medicine has acted with good effect, which, as regards practice, amounts to the same thing, if, in relation to these last, it was certain J;hat they had disappeared under the action of the remedy. For this reason we have endeavored, in this edition, to distinguish as far as possible the two kinds of symptoms, designating by a zero (°) those which, without having been observed as pathogenetic symptoms, have, not- withstanding, been cured by the medicine; and those by an asterisk (*) which have been observed, at the game time, as pathogenetic effects and clinical indications; while those pathogenetic effects which have not as yet contributed to any known cases of cure are left without any distinguishing sign. Thus each symptom can be estimated according to its true value, and applied according to the confidence placed in the respective classes which we propose to establish. For our own part, we are never guided by a singls Bymptom; it is the general characteristic resulting from the total pathogene- sis that controls us in our appreciation of particular symptoms of every 1* o 10 INTKODUCTION. kind. This is our rule for determining the choice of a medicine; it is the rule we have observed in tracing out the tableaux of this work, and it should be that of every homoeopathic physician who would avoid deception. For, when some isolated feature fails to exact resemblance of the symptoma- tology of the Materia Medica, the total physiognomy, such as results from the ensemble of the symptoms, will not on that account be less exact than the best portrait after nature; and whosoever shall acquire by profound study the truly essential characteristic, will be in possession of a scienca that the knowledge of single features can never give. That the sphere of action of medicines may be better settled, we hava given a more extended number of symptoms than in the previous editions. This, it is true, has rendered the coup d'ail more difficult; but the clinical observations, which are to be found at the end of this volume, alphabetically arranged in a clinical index, will prove ample aids to bring them into favor- able light, and to form a much more concise resume, without interfering in the least with the residue. It is not intended, however, that the symptoms marked in italics should determine the choice of remedies to the exclu- sion of the others. Every symptom has a relative value, but no one in an absolute manner. That which is characteristic in the pathogenesis of a medicine is only relatively so to the medicines which do not possess it; and the same symptom which, in such or such a series of comparisons, has no distinctive value, because common to them all, acquires the highest im- portance on comparing this medicine with another. In this manner we have generally distinguished those phenomena which appeared to predominate over the others in the same organ, or those sensa- tions which seemed to reappear most frequently in organs which were most unlike, &c. We have frequently, also, distinguished in two alternating effects that which seemed to occur the most frequently, although, in almost every case, the one and other of these effects had an equal importance. Thus it is that diarrhaa and constipation in Nux-vomica, thirst and thirstlessness in Pulsatilla, burning pain and ice-cold sensation in Arsenic, are one and all alike characteristic for the choice of the medicine when the rest of the symptoms accord with the disease. There is also a phenomenon more con- stant than is generally imagined: all medicines, principally the polychrests wh ih have some well-marked symptom,AoW equally in alternation this symp- tom and the phenomenon opposed to it: and it is generally wrong to consider nne symptom as primitive, and another as secondary or consecutive : for one or other (according to the individuals) can, in reality, first manifest itself. And is not the same fact observable in a large number of diseases sui generis 1 Does not typhus, for example, produce incessant sleeplessness and then the INTRODUCTION. H most profound coma, or stupidity at times and then delirium, or constipa- tion the most obstinate, or diarrhoea the most violent, according to the con- stitution of the individual affected ? The question of Sim'ilia and Contraria does not hang on the relation of some isolate symptoms, but on the totality of the phenomena, the general aspect of the disease, and the pathogenesis of the medicament. But this is not the place for the discussion of this question, of which we have simply taken note, and to which we have given a passing glance, merely to answer those who have desired to know how we have, among contrary or contradictory effects, distinguished that which is primitive from that which is consecutive. II.-ON THE USE OE THE HOMOEOPATHIC DOSES. Beside the pathogenesis and resume of clinical cases, some remarks upon the doses used and the duration of their action may be found at the head of each medicine. In regard to the doses, we have selected them as found in authors, regarding them only as historical authority, but in no respect as absolute rules. The question of dilution must always be secondary, rela- tively to that of the medicine. Hahnemann employed the thirtieth in pre- ference ; others such as they find in the pharmacopoeias, and others pass from one dilution to another, especially in cases of repetition. Dr. Mure, in an article inserted in the Bibliotheque de Geneve, prefers the use of the first (low) attenuations in acute diseases, and those of the last (high) in chronic maladies. We ourselves, in the preface to a former Paris edition, expressed similar opinions regarding the different dilutions, and virtually the same up to the present time, in this form : that, if any distinction is to be maintained for practice, we think that the first attenuations generally answer the best for maladies whose progress is rapid, while the last accord with those whose progress is tedious. But another question arises for information: whether, in cases where the low dilutions seem to be re- quired (such as same primitive forms of syphilis, gonorrhoea, &c), a desi- rable result cannot be attained by administering the last dilutions in reite- rated doses, and especially by spoonful doses of a watery solution ? For w hatever may be the increase of strength which the remedies may acquire by trituration or shaking, it is not the less true that there follows at thy game lime a loss of power, inasmuch as any quantity of the thirtieth dilution will always prove more feeble than an equal volume of the first. The thina is perfectly evident, if we compare the effects which ten drops of the crudfl tincture of Arsenic will produce with those which result from ton drops of 12 INTRODUCTION. the thirtieth. The observation is equally applicable to those substance* which are called inert in their natural state: in this, that if we take a grain of Lycopodium, or pure Carbon, but sufficiently triturated to become active, this grain will act more than an equal volume of the thirtieth dilution of these substances. But, on the other hand, it is ascertained that, by these dilutions, the body of the substances has been dilated or expanded in its surface; and, in this manner, not only affects a greater number of our organs, when taken, but also develops all its atoms, which remain inactive in the compact state, and, by consequence, allows a display of their entire action. For example, a hundred drops of the first dilution will produce, together, an effect infinitely more decided than can be obtained by a single drop of the crude tincture; yet, in the hundred drops of the first dilution, there is not in reality any more medicinal matter than existed in the single drop of the crude tincture. Whence it appears that, while a single drop of the thirtieth, in itself, may be more feeble than a drop of the first, a certain number of drops may constitute a dose which, by the extension of its active atoms, will not only prove equal, but even surpass the power of the first dilutions. This is not the appropriate place to treat the preparation of doses, which justly belongs to the pharmacopceias; notwithstanding, we will propose this question: For the development of the dynamic virtue of a medicine, will it answer to move the atoms of substances, either by shaking or trituration, or will it not be preferable to advance from dilution to dilution to reach the greatest extension possible of the atoms as to surface? We have seen the ingenious instrument of trituration invented by Mure, and the really powerful machine with which he effects the dilutions of his medicines; we have used the medicines prepared by these means, and must confess that, in respect to activity, they absolutely leave nothing to be desired, unless that their effects are sometimes in direct proportion to the increased number of shakings they may have received. The essential requisite is that the mixture shall be as intimate as possible ; and, to produce this result, it is necessary that the substances be agitated up to a certain point; but, for a medicine mixed with alcohol in the proportion of 1 to 100, it is probable that, after 50 or 100 shakings, the combination of all the atoms will be effected as completely as possible. The palpable advantage which a machine offers for shaking appears in the power of preparing medicines in the proportion of 1 to 100, and perhaps, also, of 1 to 10,000, advancing even up to the thirtieth Through a mechanism which will conveniently allow agitation in so larga proportions, we can obtain all that is to bo coveted in relation to the deve lopment of the virtue of medicines. INTRODUCTION. 18 LH.-ON THE REPETITION OF DOSE8. We have treated at length of the dilution to be employed in a separate article, feeling that this question appeared less important for practice than that of the multiplication of doses, or of the repetition according to the oc- casion. Give, if you please, during a certain time, 10, 12, or 15 globules to the sick, and also one entire drop of the first dilutions; and. on abstaining from the repetition of the dose until a new indication supervenes, you will not perceive a more unpleasant aggravation than if you had administered some globules of the last dilutions, and, in this case, the difference will be by no means in proportion to the relative volume of the medical substance taken. Change your experiment, on the contrary: take a single globule of any dilution, whether of the first or of the thirtieth, and dissolve it in 10, 12, or 15 spoonfuls of water, and give the solution to the sick by Spoonfuls; the aggravations that will follow in particular cases, especially in some chronic affections, will be much more violent, and much less easy to combat than those which appear in consequence of one entire drop, also of the first dilu- tion, when it has been taken at a single time. We have remarked this fact more than a hundred times in the course of our observations; and Hahne- mann himself has given it as his opinion that one or two globules, taken at a single time, form a feeble and most gentle dose, while the same globules, dissolved in a quantity of water, and taken in repeated spoonfuls, have a much more decided action upon the organism. Frequently, it is true, a patient may take a spoonful of a like solution for a fortnight, every evening or every morning, without any misadventure; but it is not less frequently the case that, after the use of the solution, an aggravation arises proportion- ately more violent than the state of the patient had been satisfactory during the taking of the medicament—an aggravation which, in many cases, does not yield to a new dose of the solution, but to return, in consequence, with renewed intensity, resembling in action the relief afforded by palliatives. On this account, however salutary and however preferable this mode of ad- ministering medicines in repeated doses may be, in many cases, it is, never theless, not always applicable, and demands, for its successful employment, to be based on fixed principles and rules. These rules, we very well know, cannot be established with any certainty but by comparing a great number of the most contradictory observations; and, if we here essay to express out opinion on this subject, it is only with the intention of presenting some ideas for a more extended examination in the solution of thu impo -taut question 14 INTRODUCTION. Our ideas, in other respects, are the same as those we have expressed in oui first edition, but more matured. The principle which, according to our views, and conformably to the basis of our science, should lead to a view of the question in its true aspect, is that true, durable, and radical cures are never effected by the direct action of a medicine, but by a reaction of nature excited by it ; whence there follows, as a first general consequence, that every repetition of doses is at least superfluous, except entirely displaced, whilst this reaction follows its course. Thus, we observe, in a large number of not very inveterate func- tional lesions, an amelioration often established after the single taking of an appropriate medicine, which, with very unimportant interruptions, continues in general up fo the entire cessation of suffering. To administer reiterated doses immediately after, in such cases, or to renew the first taken upon a • slight and sudden diminution that this amelioration may undergo, would be opposing nature in her efforts, and most certainly retard the cure. Also, in some recent and trifling organic lesions, a cure may be frequently obtained much more promptly by the administration of a single dose. But it is quite the contrary in all very severe cases of organic lesions, especially those which result from the energetic action of some poison, miasm, or medicinal substance. In such instances the disease appears to have its own peculiar vital power, which controls the vital force of the organization, and obstructs or promptly neutralizes the reaction, which requires for its support a new and constant activity sufficient to triumph over the disease. Here we can administer repeated doses, in solutions, with the greatest success, whether the dilutions be the first or last, provided they are only continued to the aecessary point for establishing the victorious reaction of the vital principle. The same rule applies to all the organic lesions which, from their nature, maintain a continual focus of irritation in the parts affected—such as inflam- mations with suppuration, ulcers, some forms of disorganization, &c. In some cases of chronic diseases, characterized by a kind of inertness and want of reaction, we may have similar recourse to reiterated doses of globules dissolved in water; but this depends upon another reason, and in regard to % design quite different from that of the preceding cases. For, whilst we struggle to combat the violence of the disease which triumphs over the re- action, we will also endeavor to aggravate the malady, so to speak, before .ti-ousing it from its inertness, and thus elicit the reaction of the vitality of I he organism. Nevertheless, these trials are not always without danger, and it is necessary to proceed with much caution, lest the aggravation, on deve loping itself, may be so violent as to render insufficient the reaction of the vital force. Therefore, in similar cases, wo must most cautiously administer INTRODUCTION. lg the repeated doses at intervals as short as possible, and arrest them on wit uessing the supervention of the first signs of an aggravation. Finally, there is another case in which we may repeat the doses: it is when, after a time more or less prolonged, the disease improves, and yet th« symptoms indicate the same medicine more than any other. But these cases seldom occur, except we have given a single dose one time for all, or many spoonfuls to the point of aggravation, the effects of which we await without further action; and then it is essential that we are certain of the cessation of the aggravation before we have recourse to a repetition. IV.-ON THE DTJBATTON OF THE ACTION OF MEDICINES. What we have said regarding the period when the repetition of a single dose should seem to be indicated, applies equally to the choice of a medicine, For every aggravation, after an appropriate time, is not always a natural aggravation of the disease; frequently, on the contrary, it is dependent upon anew excitement provoked by the medicine which continues to act; and here nothing better can be done than to wait, since it will generally subside in a few days, and give place to a much more decided expression. We fre- quently witness this development, especially in chronic diseases, after the administration of a single dose, one time for all. Frequently the two and three first days are good, then follows a light aggravation, which dis- appears and renews itself occasionally for some time; so that—generally in the first fortnight, and especially during the third week—the number of bad days exceed those of the good, while a change finally takes place at the conclusion of the month;—the favorable days now exceeding the bad, a durable benefit is established, and continues to the seventh and eighth weeks, an epoch in which the relics of the disease, which have not been com- pletely destroyed, commence their reappearance. In the meantime, there is a case where the aggravation is only the last effort of the action of the medicine: an effort that does not fail to subside in several days, leaving the disease, if not entirely cured, at least in such a state that no other means offer a more favorable issue. To apply a new medicine in such a case, with- out knowing what might be developed, must frequently annul the whole treatment, while, by carefully watching and understanding the progress of the vital reaction, we may frequently obtain in two months, with a singh dose of a single medicine, an acceleration of cure—which could not be done in two years by a continual change of medicines, or by inappropriate multi- plication of doses. Such is our oft-repeated experience in following out the lfi INTRODUCTION. / precepts Hahnemann gives on this subject in his " Organon," and in the first volume on ll Chronic Maladies;" and to it we seriously call the atten- tion of every homoeopathic physician. It is never necessary, in any chronic disease, to change the medicine without having observed, at least during five or six days, the aggravation which seemed to demand it; and, likewise, those which sometimes occur after the cessation of a medicine administered by spoonfuls ought to be treated after the same manner—that is to say, to allow the medicine to act so long as there is any room to hope for improvement. Notwithstanding the indispensable rule that a salutary remedy shall be allowed to expend its entire action, including the occasional momentary aggravation, we must not hesitate to interfere with the medicine we have chosen: 1. When it produces no effect; or 2. When its effect is unfavorable. The first of these conditions will be revealed to the attentive physician when he observes no symptom peculiar to the medicine, and when the state of the disease remains stationary, or is progressively aggravated without ameliora- tion in any respect, presenting only such symptoms as belong to a more ad- vanced state of the malady. It is then that the physician will do well to make an immediate repetition of the medicament administered, even to the extent of producing some change. If there follows an improvement, even though it be slight, it will be necessary to watch the alternations of good and bad, as we have before indicated; but if, on the contrary, the state be rendered worse after the repetition, we must observe whether the aggrava- tion be salutary, or whether it be owing to badly-chosen medicine, from the prolonged action of which we must expect unfavorable results. This last may be easily recognized when the supervening aggravation, which may be a contest of the medicinal symptoms, is neither preceded nor interrupted by a single moment of comfort, and when, at the same time, the originally mani- fested disease makes its progress in the fashion of the general symptoms. In this case the physician ought not fail to replace the acting medicine by one which responds more accurately to the ensemble of the malady, and which will also cover the symptoms produced by the acting medicine. We can lay down as a principle that, if the general state, and especially ihe moral condition of the patient be ameliorated, the physician should await the action of the medicine, whatever may be the state of the local signs in other respects; but, whenever the patient is worse in these respects (the general state including the moral), without any promise of a favorable ter- mination, the medicine should be changed. The time justly required for observation, before deciding for or against, should be at least 5, 6, or 8 daye in chronic diseases, as we have before stated; and in acute diseases from 15 to 30 minutes, or from 6 to 12 or 24 hours, according to the degree of vio- INTRODUCTION. 17 lonce and the more or less rapid progress of the disease. Thus, on examin ing the state of the invalid, we have frequently witnessed the salutary action of the medicines prolonged to 24, 48, and 96 hours, in acute diseases, and to seven and eight weeks in chronic maladies. These are the views we have wished to make known in indicating the duration of the action of each medicine. V.-ON ANALOGOUS REMEDIES. A salutary medicine having expended its action, the disease will be fre- quently left in a state which is less characterized by the kind of symptoms than by the diminution of their intensity, so that we feel that we should repeat the same medicine. In the meantime, on carefully examining the patient, we shall observe some shades of variation, even though very deli- cate ; it is then that another medicine is frequently indicated, which, in its pathogenesis, bears a strong resemblance to the first. On this account Hahnemann has indicated Calcarea or Nitric-acid as suitable after Sulphur, Lycopodium, &c. Dr. Constantine Hering has increased these indications, which we have taken pains to add to the descriptions of medicines for facili- tating researches of every kind to the physician. And, to render useful the other affinities, besides those which Hahnemann and Hering have indicated, we have given at the head of each medicine, under the rubric, " Compare with,'; a list of those which seemed to have the closest analogy, and which, on occasion, could not only be administered after, but also serve as antidotes to this medicine. This list frequently differs from that of Bo:nninghausen, because the additions which the pathogenesis of many medicines has received in latter times has also developed their analogies. The principal advantage which the physician can draw from these indica- tions is in making comparative studies of analogous medicines, the better to establish their points of dissimilarity, and to avoid a multitude of deceptions which cannot fail to arise if they be confused in the administration of one for the other, as, for example, Lachesis in the place of Mercury, Veratrum, or China, in that of Arsenic, &c. A deplorable abuse of these indications would he, on the contrary, to take them for an absolute guide for a choice, and to givo a series of analogous medicines without any other reason than thic analogy; or, again, to precede a medicine still indicated by another which is not, only because it has been reputed to be efficacious after the use of the first. The fundamental law for the employment of medicines is always the similitude of symptoms and the necessity of allowing the medicine to expend its action. An analogous medicine cannot be thought of until the action of 2 18 INTRODUCTION. the first has been expended, and then it should be only used on a comparison of symptoms, and a conviction of the fitness of its indication. In the article on "Antidotes" we have indicated medicines of which that in question is the antidote itself, persuaded, as we are, in many cases, that the antidotal relations of two medicines are reciprocal, and that by the one we can relieve the others. Besides, it is necessary, in the choice of antidotes, as in that of medicines in general, to follow them in their series. The best antidote will always be that which best answers to the symptoms; and, in general, it will be much more profitable not to lose time in seeking for an antidote, but to make use of the medicine which most clearly accords with the ensemble of the symptoms which the patient presents. If this medicine partake of both relations (antidotal and homoeopathic), so much the better; but, if it possess neither of these, he must not hesitate to search after one that is more suitable. VT.-ON THE MANNER OF USING THIS MANUAL. Having already given instructions for the practical use of this Manual, we deem it equally important to make a few remarks on the mode of pur- suing the study of the medicines. We should commence by glancing at the " Clinical Index," for which the employment of a medicine has been recom- mended, taking into consideration such cases only as are distinguished by italics, and, in cemparing each one of the cases with the pathogenetic symp- toms, which can indicate the medicine in a given case. This investigation, once made for the cases which are prominent, the same will answer for the rest, and may be extended to other cases than those we have cited, but which must ever depend on the ensemble of the symptoms. In this manner we gradually become familiarized with the medicine, and begin to have a sufficient general knowledge thereof. To attain this knowledge it will answer a good purpose to make extracts from this Manual. But, if the practitioner be much occupied, he may abridge his labor by underlining in red all the clinical cases and such symptoms as we have distinguished by italics, and, in order to have some guiding marks at once—a frame-work which he can gradually fill up in the course of his practical researches—take pains to underline in red the symptoms he may not have so distinguished. A person beginning to act thus respecting the medicines, and comparing the most analogous medicines with each other, will soon find that he has not done enough, but, appalled by the mass of the symptoms, will feel that he ought have recourse to Hahnemann's most important works—" Materia INTRODUCTION. 19 Medica" and "Chronic Diseases"—for the pursuance of these studies, to procure the ample details of symptoms which the last analysis requires. The complete knowledge of the Materia Medica is not as difficult as ha? been generally thought, and all depends upon the manner in which it is undertaken. By proceeding in a methodic manner, and by progressing from generals to particulars, the student cannot fail in the end to master the most complex lessons of this art. The course of study should begin with those medicines which are most useful, and gradually extended, step by step, down the scale of importance, till the remainder are understood also. The homoeopathist, in making choice of a remedy for a case of diseaBO, excludes none of the medicines from the inquest, but takes all under consi- deration impartially; and in the practice it is indispensable to take this course. Whilst, in a preparatory study of the Materia Medica, it is better to avoid the attempt to form a coup d'ail of all the medicines at once, and t« study only one or a few at a time. Finally, that physicians may have the study of the selection of medicines facilitated, we have indicated in Table 1. those which are most used, and after this we have prepared another (Table II.), which contains a classification of the medicines according to their im- portance. These classes are five in number, each one of which is divided into five parts, except the last, which is composed of medicines not much known. At the end of this table will be found a plan of study, arranged so that the student who follows it will thoroughly examine the medicines, and very much extend his knowledge of a great number of them. We have divided it into three parts—the first including seven studies of all of the most important, and the two others of eleven each for the details. By devoting a week to each of these studies, in eight months' time the student may acquire the contents of our Manual, when he may also undertake the comparison of analogous medicines, a labor which, in every case, will prove equally productive with the others. The new student of homoeopathy should pursue this labor, then, so in- dispensable to the acquirement of a certain degree of safety in practice. To see all the homoeopathic physicians give that attention to our science which its importance demands will unquestionably prove a more agree- able recompense than we could have wished for all the industry and trouble that the new remodelling f our work has necessarily required nt our hands. C. H. G. JAHB. TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. Kable of t\t Purines Contained in ijris Sffitarh; WITH THEIR ABBREVIATIONS, SYNONYMS, COMMON NAMES. ANTIDOTES, AND COMPARISONS. REMEDIES. SYNONYMS. ENGLISH.--GERMAN. L—Acet.-acid, Acidum-aceti- cum. . 49 2.—*Acon., Aconitum (Hahne- mann). 55 8.—Act.-rac, Actea-racemosa. 85 4.—°Act, Actsea(Ruckert). 91 5.—Adeps. 94 6.—-tter, however little, he must cease taking medicine; but, as soon as his convalescence ceases 20 TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. 21 Nor.—The asterisk (*) indicates the medicines respecting which we possess at the same time clinical observations and pathogenetic symptoms. The cypher (°) indicates those of which we possess only the clinical observations. The remedies whoso names are printed in italics are those of whioh the greatest use l.w- hitherto been made. Those which have no distinction are those of which we pofness son.t pathogenetic symptoms, but which have hitherto been scarcely ever employed. The names of the several remedies referred to in this book will be found in the first colun;:; The names of the second column are used in medical works, and are affixed to imported pre parations. The third column contains the English and German Names; the fourth column the Comparisons; and the fifth column the Antidotes. COMPARE WITH. 1.—Oxalic, citric, tartaric, and other vegetable acids; also Phos.-ac, sulph.-ac, nitric, and muriatic-acids. 2.—Agar., anac, ant-cr., am., are., asar., bell., bry., conn., canth., caust., cham., coff., colch., croc, dros., dulc, graph., hep., hyos., ipec, mere, nitr.-ac, mix-v., op., phos., plat., puis., rut., sabin., sep., spig., spong., stram., sulph., verat. 8.—Digitalis, Ergot 4.—Aeon, is often indicated as an intermediary remedy after Am. and sulph.; frequently after Aeon., am., ars., bell., bry., cann., ipec, spong., sulph. 5.—? 6.—Cic, con., cupr., and the other remedies belonging to that family. 7.—Aeon., bell., coff., graph., nux-v., phos., puis., staph. S.—Bov., cupr., natr.-mur., nitr.-ac, olea., plat., sel., sep. 9.—? 10.—? 11.—? 12.—? 13.—Carbo-v., puis., sabin., sulph., and Calc.-c, cham., eoloc, jal., nux-v., phos., rheum. 14.—? 15.—Ars., bar., bell., calc, cham.., ign., ipec, loch., led., magn., mere, nux-v., phos., plum., rhus. sil., sulph. It is particularly suitable after Bry., lach., sulph. Bry. is often of great use after Alum, when indicated. 16.—Calc, cham., graph., lye, nwe-v., phos., phos.-ac. puis., sab., Sep., staph., verat., verb. 17.—Bell., dulc, hep.-sulph., mere, nitr., puis., seneg., stan sulph., tart.-emet. 18.—? 19.—Am.-caust., am.-mur., ant.-e, am., art., asa., bell., bry., camph., chin., ferr., graph., hep., hyos., kali-e, lach., lauroc, lye, mere, mang., nux-v., phos., puis., rhus, sil., stann., staph., sulph. 20.—Am.-carb. and am.-mur. II.—Am.-carb., and its analogous remedies. Chalk, whiting, white of eggs, mag- nesia, soap or oil, bicarbonated al- kalies, china, nux, coffea, ars., bellad. Acetum, vinum, camph., n.-vom. Aeon, is antidote to Cham., coff., nux-vom., petrol., sulph. ANTIDOTES. Secale-cornut Vegetable acids. It is an antidote to Opium. Camph., coff., tosta., pula, vinniri Camph. Vinegar, vegetable muds Bry., cham., ipt-o. Camph., n.-vom., puis. It antk'otet Staph., n.-vom. Senega. ? Am., am., camph., bfp. i Dilute vinegar. | Ars., camph., coff., hop., hydr.-ikv, lauroc, nitr.-sp. ____________ he should begin to take some of the same medicine, or another appropriate one. It not unfre quently happens that the medicine aggravates the symptoms and makes the patient temporarily be interrupted and cease altogether—the patient growing worse, in consequence of taking cold eating improper food, Ac—he should take something to counteract the cause which occasioned this interruption, and then recur to the same medicine which had previously produced the fa- vorable change. With regard to the external application of the tincture of Arnica, Uypertcinr. Ruta, Symphytum, &c, it is only necessary to put 1 or 2 drops of the remedy in a wine-gl.ot of water, and apply th.5 3 or 4 times a day, or as often as mentioned under each particular c* e, U> the inj-ireil part. 22 TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. REMEDIES. 22.—-*Anac, Anacardium (Hah- nemann). 241 iS.—Aug., Angustura (Hahne- mann). 250 24.—Angustura-spuria. 256 See Brucea, &c. 258 Anisatum-stellatum. See Illic-anisat 706 25.—Anthrak., Anthrakokali (Klinger). 202 i6.—*Ant., Antirnoniunn-wa- tl/'im (Hahnemann). 264 *Ant.-t, Antimonium-tar- taricum; Tartarus-emet- '".us. See Tartarus-sti- Hatus. 1116 27.—Apis-met, Apis-mellifico. 271 28.—*Arg., Argentum (Hahne- mann). 279 29.—*Arg.-nitr. Argentum-ni- tricum. 284 tfO.—*Arn., Arnica-montana (Hahnemann). 298 Bl.- *Ars., Ai'senicum-album (Hahnemann). 310 Arsenicum-citrinum. See Arc-ter. 834 $'£.—Ars.-hydrog., Arsenicum- Uydrogenisatum. 332 33.—Ara.-tcr., Arsenicum-ter- sulphuratuin (Hahnemann). 334 S-L—Art-v., Ai"temisia-vulgaris (Noack and Trinks). 335 35.—Arum-m., Arum-macula- tum. 835 8€.—*Aaa-/., Ata-foetida (Stapf.) 336 87—*Asar., Asarum-enropfeum I Hahnemann). 340 :K—Asp., Asparagus. 34< ;J,'J.—Atham., Athamanta-oreso linum. 344 40.—*Aur., Aurv/m (Hahne mann). 345 41.—Anr.-ful., Aurum-fulminans (Hahnemann). 349 42.—Aui.-mur., Aurum-muria- ticum v Hahnemann). 350 SYNONYMS. Anacardium-oriental; Semecar pus-anac Cortex-angusturae; Galipea-offi- cinalis. LithanthrakokalL Antim-sulphuret; Stibium-sul- phuratum-nigrum. Argentum-foliatum; Argentum- metallicum. Argentum-oxydatum-nitratum. Calendula-alpina. Arseniosum-acidum; Arseni- cum. ENGLISH.--GERMAN. Malacca Bean.—Malaccanuss. Bark of Bonplandia Trifoliaia —Wahre Angustura. AnthracitB CoaL — Fiinf kirch- ner, eine Art Braunkohle; Steinkohle. Crude Antimony. — Schwefel- spiessglanz. Poison of the Honey-Bee. Silver.—Silber. Nitrate of Silver.—Salpeterssu res Silber; Aetzsilber. Leopard's Bane.—WoluVerloi. Arsenic.—Weisser itmcnik. Hydrogenium-arsenicosum. Arsenicum-citrinum; Auripig- mentum, Orpiment Radix-parthenii. Arum-vulgare. Asaffletida; Stercus-diaboli. Asarum-off.; Asara-baccara. Asparagi. Aurum-metallicum; Aurum-fo- liatum. Arseniuretted Hydrogen Gafl.- , Arsenik-Wasserstoff Gas. Tersulphuret of Arsenic. Mugwort—Gemeiner Beifupa. Common Arum. — Geflecktei Aron. Gum Kesin of Ferula.—Stinksn. der Asand. Asaret of Europe.—Huselwurz Asparagus.—SpargeL Mountain Parsley. — Gebirge- Metallic Gold.—Blatt-Gold. Fulminating Gold; the Oxide ol Gold with Ammoniae. The Muriate of Gold. TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. 2b COMPARE WITH. IS.—Aeon., ars., calc, natr.-m., nux-v., oleand., plat., Sep., sulph.-ae, or Ign., nux-mosch., croc, petros., phos., rhus., staph., sulph. 23.—Brue, canth., carb.-a.,* carb.-v., coff., mur., plat, 24.—Xux-vomica. 25.—Ant.-c, bry., carb.-a., carb.-v., kali, rhus, verat 6.—Aeon., alum., amm., am., caust., ars.. asa-f., chain., coff., hep., hyos., jod., ipec, mere, nux-v., puis., sep., stann., sulph., tart.-st. Puis., and mere, are sometimes indicated after Ant-crud. 27.—Arsenicum. 28.—Asa-f., aur., belL, chin., hep., mere, nitr.-ac, nux-vom. puis., plat, stann., zinc 29.—Alumen, alum., natr.-mur., phos., and arg.-fol., 80.—Aeon., am., ars., bell., bry., cann., caps., cham., chin. cic, cina, coloc, euphr., fer., hep., ign., ipec, mere. nutr., nux-v., puis., rhus, ruta, samb., sabin., seneg. staph., sulph.-ae, reratr. It is indicated after Aeon. ipec, veratr. It Is suitable after Aeon., ipec, rhus. sulph.-ac. SI.—Aeon., am., bell., bry., cale-e, carb.-v., cham., chin. coff., dig., dulc, fen:, graph., hell., hep., iod., ipec, lach. lye, mere, natr.-m., nux-v., phos., puis., rhus., samb. sep., sulph., verat. Ars. is indicated after Aeon., arn. bell., chin., ipec, lach., verat After Ars. is suitable Chin. Ipec, nux-v., sulph., verat ANTIDOTES. 82.—Arstwio. 33.—? Camph., coff., juglans Coff. Camphor. Bry. ? veratr. 1 Hep., mere, puis. Ant.-c. is anti- dote to Ars., jod., mere, plumb. Wine increases the pains. Mere, puis. Merc, corr.. nat-m., nitr.-a. Large doses are antidoted by Kitchen Salt dissolved in water, and taken , in large quantities; afterwards mucilaginous drinks are to be given. Camph., caps., ipec, ign., verat., and vinegar in large quantity. It antidotes Am.-c, chin., cic, ferr., ipec, seneg. Wine Increases the pains. Of large doses, the Sesqui-oxyde of iron; the juice of the sugar cane, and honey water; the carbonate of potash and magn., shaken with oil-infusions of astringent sub- stances; large quantities of di- luent drinks; op. Of small doses, Camph., chin., chin.-sulph., ferr., hep., jod., ipec, nux-v., sambue, tabac, veratr. Ars. is used as an antidote of Carb.-v., chin., ferrum, graph., jodium, ipecac, laches., mere, nux-v., veratr. Oil of turpentine. ? B4.—Caust, puis., ruta, sec, stram. 85.—Canth., mezer., ranunc-b., and sceler., rhus, verat; or Aeon., asar., hell., kali, phos., puis., thuja. 86.—Am.-c. am.-m., aur., caust., chin., lye, mere, phos.-a., plat, puis., thuja, or Ant.-t, coff., con., cycl., ipec, lobcl., inosch., rhus, ruta, aeon., calc.-c, cast., cicut., nux-v., ol.-a., petrol., phell., tax. ? Asa-f. is indicated after Thuja, puis. Afterwards are suitable Caust, puis. 57.—Aeon., cham., chin., hep., ipec, mere, puis., sep., stram., aur., graph., ign., valer., vioL 8S.—Arn., cann., dig., spig. 40.—Asa-f., bell., calc, chm., cupr., lach., mere, nitr.-ac. puis., nux-v., spig. Aur. is indicated after Bell., chin., puis. 41.—? 42.—See Aurum. Vinegar Camph., china, caust, elect It antidotes Merc, puis. Camph., vinegar, vegetable add* Coff. Asparagus is said to antiitoi* Coff. Bell., chin., cupr., mere. Ann. Ui tidotes Merc, spig. 24 TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. REMEDIES. 43.—*Bar.-e, Baryta-carboni- cum (Hahnemann). 351 44—*Bar.-m., Baryta-muriatica (Hering). 360 45.—*Bell., Belladonna (Hah- nemann). 861 46.—Benz.-ae, Benzoic-acid— (Jeanes). 382 47.—*Berb.-v., Berberis-vulga- ris. 384 48.—*Bism., Bismuthum (Hah- nemann). 891 4t.—*Bor., Borax (Hahne- mann). 393 50.—*Bov., Bovista (Hartlaub and Trinks). 400 51.—Brane, Branca-ursina (No- ack and Trinks). 405 "J.—Broin., Bromine. 406 Brue, Brucea-antidysente- rica (Hering). See p. 258 58.—*Bry., Bryonia-alba— (Hahnemann). 412 44. Cal., Caladium-seguinum. 423 56.—*Calc, Calcarearcarboni- oa (Hahnemann). 426 5*.—Calc-caust, Calcarea-caus- tlca (Noack and Trinks). 447 57.—Calc.-phos., Calcarea-phos- phorica. 450 58.—Calend., Calendula (Stapf). 451 59.—Camph., Camphora (Hah- nemann). 452 60.—Cann.-ap., Cannabinum-ap- ocynum. 458 61.—*Cann., Cannabis (Hah nemann). 458 62.—* Canth., Cantharis (Hart- laub and Trinks). 463 63.—*Caps., Capsicum (Hahne- mann). 470 64.—*Carb.-a., Carbo-anvmalis (Hahnemann). 475 65.—*Carb.-v., Carbo-vegetabi- Us; Carbo-ligni-fag. (Hahne- mann). 481 SYNONYMS. Barytae-carbonas. Barytoe-murias. Atropa-belladonna. Berberis-dumetorum. Bismuthi-subnitras. Borax-veneta, or Natrum-bora- cicum. Lycoperdon-bovista. Heraclium-sphmdylium. Bromium, or Murides. Ferruginea L'Her. Bryonia. Caladium, or Arum-seguinum. Calcis-carbonas. Calci um-oxi datum. Calcis-phosphas. Calendula-officinalig. Laurus-camphora. Cannabis-sativa. Meloe-vesicatorius. Capsicum-annum. Carbo-carnis. Carbo-ligni-fag. Croton-cascarilla. 66.—Case, Cascarilla (Noack and Trinks). 492 67.—Cast, Castoreum (Hartlaub Castoreum-sibiricum. and Trinks). 4931 *i8.—*Caust., Causticum (Hah- Tincture-acris sine Kali, nemann). 496 ENGLISH.--GERMAN. Carbonate of Barytes.—Kohlen saure Schwererde. Muriate of Baryta.—Kochsalz saure Schwererde. Deadly Nightshade. — Tollkir sche. Flowers of Benzoin. — Botizox Blumen. Barberry.—Berberritze. Nitrate of Bismuth.—Bismuth. Sub-borate of Soda.—Borax, einc Salzart The Puff-Ball.—Bovist Bear's Breech. Bromi ne—Stinkstoff. False Angustura.—Brucea-antl- dysenteri. White Bryony.—Zaunrebe. Poisonous Pediveaux.—Giftigei Aron. Carbonate of Lime. — Kohlen saure Kalkerde. Oxide of Lime.—Aetz-Kalk. Phosphate of Lime.—Phosphor- saure Kalkerde. Marigold.—Goldblume; llingel- blume. Camphor.—Kampfer. Indian Hemp. — Indianischei Hanf. Hemp.—Hanf. Spanish Fly. — Spanisclie Kli» gen. Cayenne Pepper. — Spairucha Pfefler. Animal Charcoal.—Thierkonla Charcoal.—Holzkohle Croton Cascarilla.—CuseaiUlo. Castor.—Bibergeil. Caustic—Aetzs toff. TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. 2fi COMPARE WITH. ANTIDOTES. IS.—Alum., bell., calc, caust., cham., chin., dulc, lach., magn., mere, natr., phos., sep., sil., sulph., tart-e. Tart.-e. is suitable before and after Bar.-e 44.—Bar.-carb. Ant-chel., cic, dig., dulc, fer., mur., hyos., lact, lauroc, op., spong. 45.—Aeon., agar., alum., am., arn., ars., aur., bar., calc, canth., caust., cham., chin., cina, coff., coloc, con., cop., cupr., dig., dulc, fer., hep., hyos., lach., mere, nitr.-a., op., phos., phos.-a., plat., plumb., puis., *hus, seneg., sep., sil., stram., sulph., valer. Bell, is indicated after Hep., lach., mere, phos., nitr.-ac. After Bell, are suitable Chin., con., dulc, hep., lach., rhus., seneg., stram., valer. 46.—? 47.—Aloe, ars., asa-f., calc, carb.-v., cham., chin., lye, natr.- m., nitr.-ac, nux-v., puis., rheum., tarax., tart-em. 48.—Calc, verat, zinc; or Ant-c, caps., carb.-v., nux.-v., plumb.; or Cann., sulph. 49.—Cham., coff., mere, natr., puis., sulph. 50.—Bell., bry., carb.-a., carb.-v., kali, mere, puis., sep., sil., stron., verat. 51.—Aur., bor., lye, plat, sulph., vinc.-m.-kreas. 52.—Amnion., chlor., jod. Angust-vera, bell., cham., coff., nux-v., op., sec, phos., stram. 53.—Aeon., alum., arn., ars., cham., chin., clem., ign., lach., led., lye, mere, mur.-ae, nux-v., op., phos., puis., rhus, squil., seneg. Bry. is suitable after Aeon., nux-v., op., rhus. After Bry. are indicated Alum., rhus. 54.—Caps., carb.-veg., chin., graph., ign., mere, nitr.-a., phos. 55.—Alum., anac, arn., ars., bar., bell., bism., chin., cupr., graph., kali, lye, magnes., mere, nitr.-a., nux-v., phos. puis., sep., sil., sulph., verat. Calc-c is indicated after Chin., cupr., nit.-a., sulph. After Calc.-c. are indicated Lye, nitr.-a., phos., siL 86.—Calc-carb. and cale-acet 57.—Calc-carb. 58.—Arn., carb.-a. and veget, con., fer.-mur., led., rhus, rut, sulph.-a., symp. 59.—Canth., cham., cocc, hyos., kali, lauroc, op., puis., rhus, stram., verat 60.—? 61.—Arn., bry., canth., nux-v., op., petrol., puis., stann. 62.—Aeon., bell., camph., cann., caps., chin., coff., coloc, lauroc, led., lye, puis., rhus, seneg., sulph., zinc. 68.—Am., bell., calad., chin., cina, ign., nux-v., pull., veratr, 64,—Bov., calc, carb.-v., ign., ipec, mere, natr.-mur., rhod., sel., sil., and the remedies which are analagous to Carb.-v. 65.—Ant, ars., calc, carb.-a., chin., coff., fer., graph., kali, lach., lye, mere, natr., nux-v., sulph.-a.,pu\&., rhod., sep.. stram., zinc. Carb.-v. is indicated after Kali, lach., nux-v., sep. After Carbo-v. is indicated Ars kali, mere, phos.-a 66.—Chin., nux-v., rhus, valer. 67.—Amra, asa-f., camph., cham., croc, op., valer., zinc. 68.—Amn., asa-f., bell., calc, cham., coff., coloc, cupr., ign. lack., lye, mere, natr., nux-v., phos., phos.-ac, rhus, sep. stann., sulph., verat Is indicated after Asa-f., cupr., lach., sep. After Caust are suitable Sep., stann. •) Of large doses, the Sulphat of soda or magnes. Of small doses, Bell., camph., dulc, mere See Bar.-carb. The white of an egg is the best antidote of large doses. Black coff., camph., hep., sulph., op., puis., vinum, zinc. Bell, an- tidotes Aeon., cupr., fer., hyos., kali-chlor., mere, plat, plumb. Camph. According to Buchnor, Bcrb. antidotes Aeon. Of small doses, Calc, caps., nux-v. Cham., coff. Camph. Camph. and all the acids. Large doses of Op., coff., vapors of alcohol, of ammonia; camph. Of large doses, an infusion of the tincture of galls; of smaller doses, Cham., coff., op., tereb. Aeon., cham., nux-v. It antidotes Alum., rhus. The root of the plant against poi- soning by the leaves. Caps. Camph., nitr.-ac, nitr.-sp., sulph. It antidotes Bism., china, cliinln., sulph., nitr.-ac. Bry., nux-v. Vinegar and coff. In- creases the effects. Op., spir.-nitr.-dulcis, vinegar, wine. Coff. and alcohol increase the ef- fects, &e Bry., chin., ipec. It antidotes Qui- nine. Of large doses, a few glasses of very sour Lemonade: of small, Camph. Camph., vinegar, and alcohol. Camph. Caps, antidotes Calad. and chin. Camph., and ars., coff., lach. Ars., camph., coff., lach., nitr.-sp. It antidotes Chin., lach., mure, vinum. Camph., op. Coff., coloc, nitr.-sp., nux-v. 26 TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. REMEDIES. 9.—*Cham., Chamomilla (Hah- nemann). 508 70.—Chel., Chelidonium (Hahne- mann). 516 71.—Chen., Chenopodii. 518 72.—*Chin., China-qfficinalis (Hahnemann). 519 78.—Chin.-sulph., Chininum- sulphuricum (Hartmann). 532 74.—Chin.-hydro., Chininum- hydrocyanicum. 538 75.—Chin.-mur., Chininum-mu- riaticum. 539 76.—*Cie, Cicuta-virosa (Hah- nemann). 539 77.—Cim.-lect, Cimex-lectula- rius. 542 78.—*Cin., Cina (Hahnemann). 544 79.—Cinch.-sulp., Cinch oninum- sulphuricum. 548 80.—*Cinnab., Cinnabaris (Hah- nemann). 551 81.—Cinnam., Cinnamonum. 552 82.—*Cist, Cistus-canadensis. 553 83.—Citr., Citri-succus. 554 84.—*Clem., Clematis-erecta (Hahnemann). 554 S5.—Coccion., Coccionella. 557 SYNONYMS. ENGLISH.--GERMAN. Matricaria-chamomilla. Chelidonium-majus. Chenopodii-glauci-aphis. Chincona. Cicuta. Artemisia-judaica; Artemisia- santonica. Hydrargyri-sulphuretum-ru- brum. 6.—*Coc, Cocculus (Hahne- mann). 557 67.—Coch., Cochlearea. 564 S8.— *Cqff.,Cqffea-cruda(8tApt). 564 Coce-septempunctata. Cocculus; Superosus. (Menis- pernum-cocculus.) 9.—Colch., Colchicum. 568 90.—*Coloc, Colocynthis (Hah nemann). 571 91.—*Con., Conium (Hahne- mann). 576 92.—Conv., Convolvulus. 586 93.—*Cop., CopaivaB-balsamum (Hahnemann). 586 94.—Coral., Corallia. 588 95.—*Croe, Crocus (Stapf). 589 96—Crotal., Crotalus (Hering). 593 »7.—Crot, Croton. 597 Coch. -armoracia. Coffea-Arabica. Colchicum-autumnale. Cucumis-colocynthis. Conium-maculatum. Conv. -arvensis. Copaiba. Corallia-rubra. Crocus-sativus. Crotalus-horridus. Croton-tiglium. Common Chamomile. — feld- kamille. Great Celandine.—Schollkraut Chenopod.-album. — Gemeine* Gansefuss. Peruvian Bark.—China, Sulphate of Quinine.—Schwefel- saures Chinin. Hydrocianate of Quinine— Blausaures Chinin. Hydrochlorate of Quinine. — Salzsaures Chinin. Water Hemlock. — "Wasser- Schierling. Common Bed-bug.—Wanze. Mugwort of Judaea. -Cinasa men. Sulphate of Cinchonine. - Schwefelsaures Cinchonin. Red Sulphur of Mercury.__Zin- nober. Cinnamon.—Zimmt. Rock Rose—Stein-Rose. Lemon Juice.—Zitronensaft Upright Virgin's Bower.—Brenn- waldrebe. Cochineal.—Sonnenkafer. Indian Cockel.—Kockelsamen. Common Horse-Radish. — Ge- meiner Meerrettig. Raw Coffee.—Kaffee. Meadow Saffron.—Herbst Zeit- Iose. Bitter Cucumber.—Coloquinten Gurke. Common Hemlock. — Flecken- schierling. Bind-Weed.—Ackerwinde. Balsam of Copaiva.—Copaiv* balsam. Red Cora'l -Rothe Korallen. Saffron.—Saffran. Rattlesnake Poison.—Klapper schlangengift. Purging Croton.—Purgiocroton TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. 27 COMPARE WITH. ANTIDOTES. K.—Aeon., alum., ambr., arn., ars., bar., bell., bar., bry., camph., caps., caust, chin., cina, coce, coff., coloc, fer., graph., hell., hep., hyos., ign., ipec, kali, led., lyc.,magn., magn.-mur., mere, nux-v., petr., phosph., puis., rheum, rhus, sass., sep., stram., sulph. 70.—Thuja, nitr.-ac, sulph.-a., op., helleb. 71.—? 72.—Am., arn., ars., asa-f., bar., bell., bry., calc, caps., carb.-v., cham., chin., cina, cupr., dig., fer., graph., hell., hep.-sulph., jod., ipec, lach., lye, mere, mur.-a., natr., natr.-m., nux-v., phosp., phosp.-a., puis., rhus, samb., Sep., sil., stan., sulph., thuj., verat. Chin, is indicated after Arn., ars., ipec, mere, phosp.-a., verat. After Chin., Ars., belt, carb.-v., puis., verat 78.—Am.-mur., ang., ant-tart, aran., am., ars., belL, bism., cast, cham., coff, dig., ign., ipec, mere, mosch., nux-m., nux-v., op., phos., puis., sulph., vinum, chin. 74—See Chinin.-sulph. 75.—? 76.—Arn., con., lach., lye, mere, op., puis., thuja, verat Cic. is indicated after Lach. 77.—? 78.—Am., arn., ars., bell., bry., calc, caps., cham., chin., fer., hep.-s., ign., ipec, nitr.-a., oleand., phosp., sabad., sil. 79.—See Chin, and quinine. Aeon., coce, coff., ign., nux-v., puis. Aeon, relieves the tearing and drawing pains. Cham, antidotes Coff., nux-v. Camph. SO.—Merc, sulph., nitr.-a., thuja. 81.—? 82.—BelL, carb.-v., phos. 83.—? 84.—Ars., bell., bry., canth., caps., caust, con., mere, rhus, sil, sulp. ... j 85.—Bell., cham., nux-v., puis., rhus, staph., thuja, and Anare, bry., chin., hyos., mere 86.—Ant.-e, ars., carb.-v., cham., coff., colch., cupr., ign., ipec, jod., laur., mere, mosch., natr.-m., nitr., nux-v., olean., puis., rhus, sabin., sass., spong., stram., tarax., tart.-em., valer., verat. Coce is indicated after Ipec. 87.—Alum., canth., caps., rhus. 88.__Aeon., agar., am.-m., angust, ant-c, ars., asa-f., bell., bry., canth., carb.-v., caust., cham., coce, col., con., dig., ign., jod., kali, lauroc, mang., mere, nux-v., op., phos., phos.-ae, puis., rhus, Sep., sulph., valer., verat. 89.—Aeon., ars., chin., coce, mere, natr.-mur., nux-v., op., puis., sep. 90.—Arn., bell., canth., caust., cham., coff., dig., staph., 91.—Am., asa-f., bell., calc-c, coff., dig., dulc, ferr., graph., jod., lye, magn.-mur., mang., mere, mosch., nitr.-ac, nux-m., nux-v., op., phos., phos.-a., plumb., puis., rhus, ruta, sabad., sassap., sep., staph., sulp., sulp.-a., tarax., teucr., valer., zinc. 92.-? 93.—Cubcb., mere, tereb. 94.—Calc-carb. Bo.—Aeon., bell., caust, ignat, lach., magn., mosch., magn.- p.-arct, op., plat., stann., tart-em. 96.—Lach. and the analogous remedies. 97.—Jatrop.-cur., euphorb.? tart-em,, and BelL, coloc, rhus, verat Arn., ars., bell., calc, caps., carb.-v., fer., ipec, mere, natr., natr.-mur., puis., nux-v., sep., sulph., verat. Cina. Selen. aggravates the pair* occasioned by China. Of large doses, Fer. See Chinin.-sulph. Arn., tabac. It antidotes Op. Bry., chin., hyos., ipec See Chin, and quinine. Nitr.-a., chin., op., sulph. It antidotes Euphor. and stram. Bry. for the toothache caused bj Clem. Camph. Camph., nux-v. It antidotes Cham, cuprum., ignat, nux-v. Aeon. From the abuse of Coffee, Cham., ign., mere, nux-vonu, sulph. Coff. antidotes Psorin. Of large doses, Vinegar and honey or 6 to 8 drops Caust.-am. to one pint of water with sugar. Small doses, Coce, nux-v., puis. Camph., caust., cham., coff. staph. It antidotes Caust Coff., nitr.-spir. It antidotes nitr.- Merc, merc-corr. Calc-carb. Aeon., bell., op. Phosph. See the antidotts of Lach It antidotes Plumb. ? 28 TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. REMEDIES. 98.-*-Cub., Cubebse (Noack and Trinks). 601 99.—*Cupr., Cuprum (Hahne- mann). 601 100.—*Uupr.-acet, Cuprum-ace- ticum (Noack and Trinks). 606 101.—Cupr.-carb., Cuprum-car- bonicum. 609 102.—Cupr.-ars., Cuprum-arse- nicosum. 610 103.—Cupr.-sulph., Cuprum-sul- phurlcum. 610 104.—Cyc, Cyclamen (Hahne- mann). 611 105.—Daph.,Daphne-indica> 614 106.—*Mez., Mezereum. 615 107.—Diad., Diadema. 621 108.—Diet, Dictamnus. 621 109.—*Dig., Digitalis (Hahne- mann). 622 110.—Dracontiura-foetidus. 627 111.—*Dros., Drosera (Hahne- mann). 627 112.—*Dulc, Dulcamara (Hah- nemann). 627 118.—Elat, Elaterium (Mat- thews). 636 Electricity, see Impondera- bilia. 706 114.—Eug., Eugenia-jambos. 636 115.—Eupat, Eupatorium (Wil- liamson). 637 116.—Euphor., Euphorbium (Hahnemann). 641 117.—*Euphr., Euphrasia (Hah- nemann). 643 118.—Evon., Evonymus. 645 119.—*Fer., Ferrum (Noack and Trinks). 646 120.—*Pcr.-acct, Ferrum-aceti- cum (Hahnemann). 646 121.—Fer.-carb., Ferrum-carbo- nlcum (Noack and Trinks). 650 122.—Fer.-iod., Ferrum-iodatum (Noack and Tri nks). 650 123.—Fer.-magn., Ferrum-mag- neticum. 650 124.—Fcr.-mur., Ferrum-muria- tieum. 652 125.—Fer.-sulph., Ferrum-sul- phuricum. 652 126.—°Fil.-m., Filix-mas (Noack and Trinks). 652 127.—Fluor.-ae, Fluoric-acid (Hering). 653 128.—Frag., Fragaria-vesca. 657 Galvanism. See Impondera- bilia. 706 129.-Gent, Gentiana. 658 SYNONYMS. Piper-cubeba, Cuprum-metallicum. Cuprnm-oxydatum-arsenico- sum. Sulphas-cupricus-c; Aqua. Cyclamen-Europwum, Daphne-mezereum. Aranea-diadema. Dictamnus-albus. Digitalis-purpurea. Dracont.-foet. Drosera-rotundifolia. Solanum-dulcamara. Momordica-elaterlum, Jambos. Eupatorium-iierfoliatun" Euphorbinm-officinarum Euphrasia-officinalis. Evonymus-Europaeus. Ferrum-metallicum. Ferrum-aceticum-oxydatum. Ferrum-oxydulatum-carboni- cum. Ferrum-hydroiodicum-oxydula- tum. Lapis-magneticus. Ferrum-muriaticum-rubrum. Ferrum-oxydulatum-sulphuri- cum. Aspidium-filix-mas. Acidum-fluoricum. Gentiana-cruciata. ENGLISH.--GERMAN. Cubebs.—Kubebenpfeffer. Copper.—Kupfer. Acetate of Copper.—Grunspan. Carbonate of Copper.—Kohlen eaures Kupferoxyd. Arsenite of Copper.—Arsenik- saures Kupferoxyd, or Scheel'l Grun. Sulphate of Copper. — Reiner Kupfer-Vitriol. Sow-Bread.—Schweinsbrot Indian Daphne.—Indischer Sel- delbast Mezereon. — Gemeiner Keller- hals. Papal Cross Spider. — Kreuz* spinne. White Dittany. Fox-Glove.—Rother Fingerhut Skunk's Cabbage. Sun-Dew.—Sonnenthau. Bltter-Sweet.—Bittersiiss. Wild Cucumber.—Eselsgurke. Malabar Plum-Tree. — Wilder Jambos. Bone-Set.—Wasserdost Spurge.—Wolfsmilch. Eye-bright—Augentrost. Spindle Tree.—Pfaffenhutchen. Metallic Iron.—Eisen. Acetate of Iron. — Essigsanres Eisen. Carbonate of Iron.—Eisensafren. Iodide of Iron.—Iodeisen. Loadstone.—Magnetstein. Muriate of Iron.—Rothes Salz- saures Eisenoxyd. Sulphate of Iron.—Eisenvttriol Male Fern.—Farren. Fluoric-Acid.—Fluss-spatsaure. Common Strawberry. — Erd- beore. C'osswort Gentian.—Bitterwurj TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. 29 COMPARE WITH. 18.-Caps., cop., tereb. 99.—Agn., am.-c, aur., bell., calc, chin., coce, dros., dulc, hep., hyos., jod., ipec, mere, nux-v., puis., rhus, ruta, samb., spong., sulp., verat Cupr. is indicated after Verat After Cupr. are indicated Calc.-e, verat. 100.—See Cupr.-met. 101.—See Cupr.-met. 102.—See Cupr.-met. 108.—See Cupr.-met 104.—Arn., asa-f., chin., magn.-mur., nux-v., puis., rhus, sil. 105.—See Daphne-mezereum. 106.—Ambr., canth., caps., cham., ouphor., helL, hyos., ign., mere, nitr.-a., staph., verat, zinc. 107.—? 10S.—August? artem., ruta. 109.—Ars., bell., chin., coff., colch., con., helL, hyos., mere, nux-v., op., petr., puis., spig., sulph.-ae 110.—? 111.—Aeon., alum., amm., bry., cina., cupr., hep., hyos., ipec. nitr., nux-v., puis., rhus, Sep., sil., spong., squills, verat 112.— Aeon., ars, bell., bry., con., cupr., ipec, lach., mere, nux-v., phosp., rhus, sulph. 118.—? 114.—Opium. 115.—Arn., cham., mere, natr.-mur., rhus, tart-em. It al- ternates well with Natr.-mur. in intermittent fevers. 116.—Bell., mere, mezer., nitr.-ac. Euphorb. is indicated after Bell., mere, nitr.-ac. 117.—Arn., mere, nux-v., puis., seneg., spig. 118.—Phos., spig., thuja. 119.—See Ferrum-acet. 120.—Am., ars., bell., cale-c, carb.-v., chin., cham., cina, con., graph., hep., ipec, led., mere, mur.-mag., natr.-mur. nux-v plat, plumb- puis., sep., thuja, verat., verb. 121.—See Ferr.-acet. 122.—See Fe~~.-acet. 123- See Ferr.-acet. 124.—See Ferr.-acet. 125.—See Ferr.-acet. 126.-? 127.-? 128.—» 129.- Rheum, tarax. Opium. Of large doses, the white of an egg, or milk, or wheat flour, or a solu- tion of sugar. Of small doses, Bell., calc.-e, chin., coce, dulc, hep.-sulp., ipec, mere-corr., nux- v., rhus., sulph., &c. See Cupr.-met. ANTIDOTES. See Cupr.-met. See Cupr.-met. See Cupr.-met, Puis. Bry., dig., rhus, sil., sep., zinc Vinegar, camph., mere It anti- dotes Merc, nitr.-ac. Mere Of large doses, Vegetable acids, vine- gar, camph. Of small doses, Nux- v., op. Camph. Camph., ipec, mere It antidotei Cupr. ? Coffee. ? Camph., citri-sne Camph., puis. ? See Ferrum-acet. Am., ars., bell., chin., hep., iptt. mere, puis., verat Iron antidotes Copper. See Ferr.-acet. See Ferr.-acet See Ferr.-acet. See Ferr.-acet See Ferr.-acel. Camph. ? » 30 TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. REMEDIES. SYNONYMS. ENGLISH.--GERMAN. 180.—Gent-lut, Gentiana-lute- tia. 659 181.—Gins., Ginseng. 660 182.—Gran., Granatum. 661 183.—*Graph., Graphites (Hah- nemann). 863 134—*Grat, Gratiola. 671 185.—Guaj., Guajacum (Hahne- mann). 674 186.—Gutt, Gummi-gutti. 676 187.—*Hsematox., Hoematoxy- lum. 679 188.—*Hell., Helleborus (Hah- nemann). 680 189.—*Hep., Hepar-sulphuris (Hahnemann). 683 Heracleum-sphondilium. See Branca-ursina. 405 140.—Hydr., Hydrocianic-acid (Hartlaub and Trinks). 690 141.—*Hyos., Hyosciamus (Hah neraann). 692 142.—Hyper-per., Hypericum (Noack and Trinks). 697 148.—*Ign., Ignatia (Hahne^ mann). 144.—Anis., Hlicium-anisatum 706 145.—Elee, Imponderabilia : a. Electricity. 706 6. Galvanism. 708 1. Magnetisinus (Hahne- mann). 710 2 Magn.-p.-arct, Magnetis- polus-articus (Hahnemann), 713 8. Magn.-p.-anst, Magnetis po-lus-australia (Hahne- mann). 715 146.—Ind., Indigo (Noack and Trinks). 718 147.—*//»., Ipecacuanha (Hahne- mann). 722 Radix-ginseng. Punica-granatum. Plumbago. Gratiola-officinalis. Guajacum-officinale. Gutta-gamba. Haematoxylum-campechianum. Helleboras-niger. He par- su 1 ph uri s,calcare 11 u i. Acidum-borussicum. Hyosciamus-niger. Hypericum-perfoliat u ii i. Ignatia-amara. Semen-anisi-stellati. Magnes-artiflciales. Indigofera-tinctoria. 148.—°Jal., Jalapa (Noack and Trinks). 725 149.—Jatr., Jatrr>~ha-curcas (Hahnemann). 725 150.—Jod.., Jodium (Hahne- innn). 726 Convolvulus-jalapa. Semina-ricini-majoris. Jodum; jodina. Gentiana-Lutea. Funfblattrige Kraftwurzei. Bark from the root of the Pomegranate Tree. Black Lead.—Reisblei Hedge Hyssop. — Gottes Gna- denkraut. Resin of Guajacum. — Gnajak- gummi. Gamboge.—Mangostana; Morel- la-Gaerte. Logwood.—West-Blutholz. Christmas Rose. — Schwarze Nlesswurz. Sulphuret of Lime.—Schwefel leber. Prussic Acid.—Blau-Saiire. Black Henbane.—Bilscnkraut. Perforated St. John's Wort— Hexenkraut St. Ignatius' Bean. — Ignati Bohne. The Seed Badian. — Sternanls samen. North Pole of the Magnet South Pole of the Magnet. Indigo Plant—Indigo. Ipecacuanha__BrechwuneL Jalap.—Schwarze Jalapa. Barbadoes Nut - Barbados Nuss. Iodine.—Jodine. TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. 3] COMPARE WITH. 131.—Cannabis. 182.—Ars. ? jod. ? filix-m., chin. 133.—Aeon., agar., ambr., am.-c, ars., asar., bell., bry.. calad., calc, carb.-v., cham., chin., con., guaj., hep., hyos., kali, lye, magn.-e, magn.-mur., mere, nitr.-ac, nux-v., phosph., puis., rhus, sabin., selen., Sep., sil., sulp. Graph is suitable after Lye 134.—Bel', dig., euphorb., nux-v. 135.—Graph., mere, nux-v.; also Antim., sulph. 186.—CoL, cop.? silic 187.—Merc. ANTIDOTES. ? Camph. Ars., nux-v., vinum. Graph, anti- dotes Ars. Camph. ? Grat antidotes Tod. ? Kali-e, op., coff., vegetable acid*. Camph. 138.—Ars., bell., bry., cham., chin., dig., ignat, op., par., Camph., chin. phos., see-c, stann., stram., verat It is indicated after Bell., chin., bry. 189.—Am.-c, ant.-c, arn., ars., bell., bry., cham., chin., cin., cupr., dros., ferr., jod., lach., mere, nitr.-ac, plumb., spong., sil., zinc. Hep.-s. is suitable after Bell., lach., siL, spong., zinc. Afterwards are indicated Bell., mere, nitr.-ac, spong., sil. 140.—tauroe, mur.-ac, op. 141.—Aeon., ant-e, arn., bell., camph., caust., carb.-a., carb, v., cham., chin., cupr., dig., dros., graph., ign., lach., led., hiagn.-mur., nux-v., op., phos., plat, plumb., puis., ruta, sab., Sep., spig., squil., stram., verat 142.—Agar., coce 143.—Alum., arn., ars., bell., calad., calc.-e, caps., caust., cham., chin., coce, coff., croc, hell., hyos., ipec, magn., magnet-p.-arc, magn.-p.-aust, mezer., mosch., natr.-mur., nux-mosch., nux-v., par., phos., phos.-ac, puis., ranune, rhus, ruta, sabad., sec-e, sep., sil., spong., stann., staph., sulph., teucr., tart-em., val., verat, zinc. 144,-? 145.-? Bell., croc, elee, fer., mag., galv., ign., lye, magn p.-arct., magn.-p.-austr., nux-v., petrol., puis., stram., sab., teucr., zinc. 2. See Magnet.-art. 8. See Magnet.-p.-arct. 146.—Ign., lye, nux-v., tongo. 147.—Aeon., alum., ambr., arn., ars.. bell., calc, canth., carb.-v., caust., cham., chin., cina, coce, croc, cupr., dros., dulc, ferr., ign., lauroc, lye, nux-v., op., phosph., puis., sabin.. Sep., sulph., tab., tart., veratr. Ipec. is suitable after Aeon., arn., ars., verat. After Ipec. are suitable Arn., ars., chin., coce, ign., nux-v. 148.-? 149.-Croton Oil. 160.—Ars., caust, cnin., coce, coff., con., cupr., dig., hep.-s. mei c, phosph., rhus, sabin., spong., squiL, sulph., verat Bell., cham. against the colic and diarrhoea. Vinegar. Amm.-c, coff., camph., ipec, op. Vinegar, bell., camph., chin. Puis., cham.; sometimes by Cooc, arn., camph., vinegar. Electr., Ign., zinc. See Magnet.-art. See Magnet.-p.-arct. Camph.? op.? Of large doses, Tincture of Galls. Of small, Arn., ars., chin., nux-v. Ipecac, antidotes Alum., ant, tart., ars., cham., chin., cupr., dulc, ferr., lauroc, op., tab. Camph. ? OL-croton., camph. Of large doses, Boiled starch; or sugar-water, milk, tepid baths, sulphui baths, mere, and Ars., op., hyos. Of small doses, Ant., ars., camph., chin., sulph., coff., hep.-s., phosph.,spong. Jod. is useful after or in alternation with Merr 82 TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. REMEDIES. SYNONYMS. ENGLISH, ERMAN. 161.—June, Juncus. 782 152.—Kali-bichr., Kali-bichro- micum. 783 163.—Kal.-brom., Kali-broma- tum. 738 154.—*Kal.-carb., Kali-carboni- cum (Hahnemann). 739 155.—Kal.-chl., Kali-chloricum. 748 156.—Kal.-hyd., Kali-hydriodi- cum (Noack and Trinks). 750 157.—*Kali-nitr., Nitrnm (Hah- nemann). 753 158.—Kalm.-lat, Kalmia-latifo- lia (Hering). 756 159.—*Kreas., Kreasotum. 758 160.—*Lach., Lachesis (Her- ing). 763 161.—Lact, Lactuca. 776 162.—Lam.-alb., Lamium-al- bum. 779 168.—*Laur., Laurocerasus (Hartlaub and Trinks). 780 164.— Amygd.-amar., Amygdalae amarse (Noack and Trinks). 784 165.—*Led., Ledum (Hahne- mann). 785 166.—Lob.-c, Lobelia-cardinalis (Dubs). 789 167.—Lob.-infl., Lobelia-inflata (Jcanes). 789 Juncus-effusus. Bromuretum-potassicum. Potasse-carbonas. Potasse-jodidum. Nitrum; Kali-nitricum. Kreasotum. Trigonocephalus-lachesis. Lactuca-virosa. Lamium-foliosum. Prunus-laurocerasus. Amygdalus-comtnunis. Ledum-palustre. 168.—Lup., Lupulus. 790 169.—*Lyc, Lycopodium (Hah- nemann). 791 ITO.—*Magn.-c, Magnesia-car- bonica (Hahnemann). 801 171.—*Magn.-m., Magnesia- muriatica (Hahnemann). 806 72.—Magn.-sulph., Magnesia- sulphnrica (Hartlaub and Trinks). 811 Lycopodium-clavatum. Magnesia-alba. Magnesia-salita. Sulphas-magnesiae Flowering Rush.—Flatter Bin se. Bichromate of Potash. Hydrobomate of Potash — Brom. Subcarbonate of Potash.—Go wachs Laugensalz. Chlorate of Potash.—Knallsalz. Hydriodate of Potash.—Chlor saures KalL Nitrate of Potash.—Salpeter. Laurel; Spoon wood. Kreosote.— Kreosot Lachesis. — Lachesisschlangen gift Poisonous Lettuce. Dead Nettle. — Weissbienen saug. Cherry Laurel.—Kirsohlorbeer. Gemeiner Mandelbaum. Marsh Tea.—Sumpfporst Scarlet Lobelia. — Rothe Car- dinalsblume. Indian Tobacco. — Lobelien Kraut. Common Hop.—Gemeiner Hop fen. Wolf's Foot—Barlapp. Carbonate of Magnesia.— Bitter salzerde. Muriate of Magnesia___Koch salzsaure Bittererde. Sulphate of Magnesia__Schwe felsaure Bittererde. TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. 33 COMPARE WITH. loL-J 152.—? 153.-? 154.—Am.-c, am.-m., ars., bov., bry., caust, calc.-e, camph., carb.-v., cham., chin., coff., graph., laur., lye, magn.-e, mangan., natr.-m., nitr.-a., nitr.-sp., nux-v., par., phosph., puis., rhus, sabad., staph., sil., sulp., tarax., viol.-od. Kal.- c is suitable after Lye, natr.-m., nitr.-a. Afterwards Carb.- v., phosph., and the remedies which are analogous to the latter. 155.—Am.-c, am., bell., calc-c, coce, kali-c, kali-hyd., natr.-m., nitr. 156.—Jodium. 157.—Am.-c, arn., calc, coce, kal.-e, natr.-m., nitr.-a., nitr.- sp. 158.-? 159.—Phosph., mur., and sulph.-ae, nitr.-a., ars., calc.-e, chin., chinin.-sulp., coce, ipec, jod., kali-hyd., mere, nux v., petr., phosp., puis., rhus, sec-c, sil., sulph. 160.—Alum., ars., bell., bry., caps., carb.-v., caust., cham., chin., coce, con., dulc, hep., hyos., lye, mere, natr.-m. nitr.-ac, nux-m., nux-v., phos.-a., puis., rhus, samb. seien., snip., verat. Is suitable after Ars., con., hep., lye, mere, nitr.-a., nux-v. Afterwards Alum., ars., bell., carb. v., caust, con., dulc, mere, nux-v., phos.-ac. 161.—Am.-e, ars., carb.-v., con., cupr., dig., hyos., ipec, lach., lye, merc-s., nux-v., seneg., &e 162.—Calc.-e, chin., ferr., puis., sabin., see-e, sulp. 168.—Am.-c, canth., chin., coce, coff., hydr.-ae, ipee, kali c, lach., mere,, nux-v., op., rhus, sec-c, spig., verat 164.—? ANTIDOTES. Amm.-c. Camph., coff., nitr.-sp. Of small doses, Puis., bell. Compare Jod. Of small doses, Am.- m., ars., chin., mere, rhus, sulp., valer. Nitr.-sp. Camph. increases the pains. ? Chin.? ars.? ipee? coce? Aeon., nux-v. Alum, ars., bell., cham., caps., chin., coce, hep., mere, natr.-m., nux- m., nux-v., phos.-a., rhus, samb., verat. For the bite of the Serpent, Ars., bell., caps., natr.-m., samb. Vegetable acids and coffee ? Of large doses, Am.-e, soap-water, strong coffee, milk, tart.-em. Of small doses, Camph., coff., ipec, op 165.—Ars., bell., bry., canth., cham., chin., ferr., jod., kali- hyd., lye, mere, nux-v., phosph., phos.-ac, puis., rhod., rhus, Sep., sulp., thuja. Led. is indicated after Lye After Led. are suitable Chin., sep. 166.—? 167.—Ae-hydr., ars., asar., coce, hyos., ipec, .act-v., laur., stram., tebac.; also Alum., ant-e, and tart, con., crot, dig., jod., mere-sol., mezer., nux-v., phos., spong., verat, zinc. 168.—Bell., cann., coce, hyos., ipee, lact-v., lauroc, led., nux-v., stram. 169.—Ambr., am.-e, am.-m., ars., bar., bry., calc.-e, canth., caps., carb.-v., caust, cham., chin., cic, con., graph., ipec, led., mag., magn.-p.-arct, mag.-m., mang., mere, mur.-a., natr., natr.-m., nitr.-ac, nux-v., petr., plat., phosp., phos.- ac, puis., rhod., rhus, sep., sil., spig., staph., sulph., thuja, verat. Lycop. is suitable after Calc, silic After Lye, Graph., led., phos., puis., sil. 170.—Aeon., ars.; bar., bell., bry., calc.-e, carb.-a., carb.-v., caust., cham., con., croc, cycL, ferr., graph., hyos., jod., kali-c, lye, magn.m., nitr.-a., nux-v., nux-m., petrol., phos., plat, plumb., rhus, sil., spig., spong., squil., staph., sulp., sulph.-a., verat. 171.—Aeon., ars., bar., bell., bry., cale-c, carb.-a., carb.-v., caust, cham., con., cycl., ferr., graph., hyos., kali-c., lye, magn., magn.-sulph., nitr.-a., nux-v., nux-m., petrol., plat., plumb., puis., rhus, sil., spig., staph., squil., sulph., sulph. a., verat 172.—Calc-carb., chin., mag.-m., nux-v., puis., sulph. Camph. Camph., ipee, laur., stram.. taba Camph., sol.-n. Ign., puis. Chin, aggravates th« pain. Arn., bell., bry., camph Aeon.-, spir.-nitr.-dul., tart-St., acet- vini. Sep. antidotes Calc, phosph, chin., mere, sassap., sulp. 40 TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. REMEDIES. 845.—*Sil., Silicea (Hahne- mann). 1058 246.—Solanum: a. Sol.-lyc, Solanum-lycoper- sicon. ] 066 b. Sol.-mam., Solanum-mam- mosum (Hering). 1066 c. Sol.-nig., Solanum-nigrum. 1066 247.—*Spig., Spigelia (Hahne- mann). 1066 248.—*Spong., Spongia (Hah nemann). 1071 249.—Squil., Squilla (Hahne mann). 1074 250.—* Stann., Stannum (Hah- nemann). 1076 •251.—*Staph., Staphysagria (Hahnemann). 10S2 252.—* Stram., Strammonium (Hahnemann). 1087 253.—Stront, Strontiana (Hart- laub and Trinks). 1091 254— *Sulp., Sulphur (Hahne mann). 1094 255.—*Sulp.-a., Sulphuris-aci dum (Hahnemann). 1107 256.—Symphytum-officinale. 1110 157.—Tab., Tabacum. 1111 258.—Tan., Tauacetum. 1114 259.—Tarax., Taraxacum. 1115 260.—*Tart.-em., Tartarus- emeticus (Noack and Trinks). 1116 261.—Tart-ac, Tartari-acidum. 1128 262.—Tax.-b., Taxus-baccata. 1129 263.—Tereb., Terebinthina (Hartlaub and Trinks). 1130 264.—*Teuc, Teucrium (Stapf). 1131 265.—Thea,Thea-chinensis. 1133 266.—Then, Theridion. 1133 267.—*Thuj., Thuja (Hahne- mann). 1134 268.—Ton., Tongo. 1139 269.—Trios., Triosteum (Wil- liamson). 1140 270.—Tussilago-petasites. 1141 271.—Urt, Urtica-urens. 1141 272.—Uva-ur., Uva-ursi. 1141 273.—Valer.-of., Valeriana-offi. cinslis (Stapf). 1141 SYNONYMS. Silica. Lycopersicon-esculentum Spigelia-anthelmia. Spongia-marina-tosta. Scilla; Scilla-maratima. Delphinum-staphysagria. Datura-strammonium. Strontiana-carbonica. Nicotiana-tabacum. Tanacetum-vulgare. Leontodon-taraxacum. Antimontum-tartaricum; tarus-stibiatus. Aciduin-vinL Oleum-terebinthinae. Marum-verum. Theridion-curassavicum Thuja-occidentalis. Baryosma-tongo. Triosteum-perfoliatum. Dipterix-odorata. Arbutus-uva-ursi. Valeriana-officinalii, ENGLISH.--GERMAN. Silicious Earth.—Kieselerde. Tomato.—Liebesapfel. Night-Shade; Poison-Apple. - Giftapfel. Garden Night-Shade.—Schwar zer Nachtschatten. Iudian Pink.—Spigelie. Burnt Sponge.—Rost Schwamm, Sea-Onion.—MeerzwiebeL Tin.—^inn Stavesacre.—Stephanskorner. Thorn-Apple.—StechapfeL Strontian.—Kohlensaurer Stron- tian. Brimstone.—SchwefeL Sulphuric Acid. — Schwefel saure Tobacco.—Taback. Common Tansy. — Gemeiner Rain-Farren. Dandelion.—Lowenzahn. Tartar Emetic. — Brechwein- stein. Tartaric Acid. — Weinstetn- saure. Jew.—Gemeiner Eibenbaum. Turpentine.—Terpentin. Wall Germander. — Kntzen- kraut. Tea.—Thee. Theridion of Curacoa.—Aranjs Spinne. The Tree of Life.—Lebensbaam. Tonkin Bean.—Tonkcbohne. Three Bony Seeds.—Dreiblat triger Dreistein. Stinging Nettle.—BrennesseL Bear's Berry.—Barentraubc. Valerian.—Baldriau. TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. 41 COMPARE WITH. 245 —Alum., ambr., am.-c, bell., bov., calc.-e, carb.-a., caust, cycl., cic, cin., dros., graph., ign., hep., kali, lack., lye, magn., mere, natr., petrol., phosp., puis., rhod., rhus, ran.- sc sab., sass., sep., spig., sulp., verat Sil. is suitable after Cale-c, hep., lye, sulp. After Sil., Hep., lach., lye, sep 246.—? ? ANTIDOTES. Camph., hep. Sil. antidotes Mere, snip. 247.—Aeon., aur., bar., bov., chin., dig., euphr., hyos., lach., law., lye, magn.-m., mere, mosch., natr.-m., nux-v., pe- trol., phosp., puis., sabad., sabin., sil., spong., stram., tarax., 248.—Aeon., dros., hep., jod., phosp. After Spong. is suitable Hep.-s. , 049.__Bry., dros., hyos., jod., mur.-ae, natr.-m., nux-v., puis., rheum, rhus, seneg., spong. 250.—Am.-c, am.-m., arg.-m., arg.-n., calc.-e, cann., caust., chin., dulc, fer., ign., puis., seneg., sil., zinc. 251.—Ambr., arn., con., ign., lye, mere, nux-v., phos.-ae, phos., puis., ruta, thuja^ verat 252.—Aeon., bell., bry., camph.. canth., cham., coce, hell., hyos., ign., mere, nux-v., op., plumb., tab., verat., zinc. 253.—Asa-f., cale-c, graph., kali-c, natr.-m., phos., plat, stan., sil., sulp. , 254.—Aeon., am.-m., ant.-c, ars., bar., bell., bry., cale-e, canth., caps., caust, cham., chin., coff, con., cupr., dulc, eraph ign., ipee, jod., lach., lye, magn., magn.-m., mere, natr.-e et mur., nitr.-ac, nux-v., petrol., phosp., phos .-ae, puis., rhus, sassap , seneg., sep., sil., sulp.-ae, verat. bulp Is suitable after Aeon., are., cupr., mere, nitr.-ac, nux-v. puis., rhus. After Sulph., Aeon., belL, calc, cupr., mere nitr.-ac, nux-v., puis., rhus, sep., siL 255—Arn., con., dig., mur., and nitr.-ac, puis., ruta, sulph 256.—? 257 —Aeon., ars., bell., cham., cic, coco., con., hell., hyos., ipee, krea., nux-v., op., stram., verat., zinc 258.—? 259.—Con., kali, nux-v., puis., spig., valer. 260—Aeon., ant.-c, asa-f., bar., cham., coce igu., ipee, kali- n., nlfc-ae, nux-V., puis., sep., verat After Tart.-em are suitable Bar.-e, ipee, puis., sep., sulph. Tart-em. is suit- able after Puis., bar.-c 261.—? 262.—? 263.—Aeon., bell., camph., canth., nux-v., puis. 264—Con., ign., magn.-p.-arct 266.—Calc.-e, phos.-ac. It is suitable after Calc.-e, lye 2«7 —Asa-f brv., cann., canth., chin., cop., fer., led., lye. mere nib-, ae petrol., plat, puis., sabin., sep., staph., s^lph. Thuja is suitable after Nitr.-ac. After Thuja, Nitr, ae, puis., staph. ? 26S.—? 269.—? 270.—? 271.—? fll'-Bell., camph., canth., coce, coff., con., ign., mere nux-v., plat, puis., stann., tarax., spong. Aur., camph. Spig. antidotes Mere. Camphor. Camphor. Puis. It antidotes Merc, and Camph. thuja. Vegetable acids, and Vinegar, nux- v., op., tab., stram. It antidotes Mere, plumb. Camph. Aeon., camph., cham., chin., mere, nux-v., puis., sep., sulp. It anti dotes China, jod., mere, nitr.-ac rhus, sep. Puis. ? Camph., ipee, nux-v., vinum. ? Camph. Chin., ipec. Of small doses, Asa-f., chin., coce, ipee, op., puis. It antidotes Sepia. Camph. ? Camph., canth. Camph., ign. Chin., fer., thuja. ? Cham., coce, mero Merc, thea. Ace turn. ? It antidote! ? ? ? Camph., coff 42 TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. REMEDIES. SYNONYMS. ?74—*Verat„ Veratrum (Hah- nemann). 1143 275.—Veratri., Vera.rinum. 1150 276.—Verbas., Verbascum (Hah- nemann). 1151 277.—*Vinc, Vinca. 1152 278.—*Viol.-o., Viola-odorata (Stapf). 1153 279.—*Viol.-t, Viola-tricolor. 1154 280.—Vip., Vipera-redi (Her ing). 1155 281.—*Vip., Vipera-torva (Her- ing). 1156 282.—*Zine, Zincum (Hahne xann). 1158 283.—Zinc-ox., Zincum-oxyda- turn. H65 284—Zine-sulph., Zincum-sul- phuricum. 1166 »oo.—Zing., Zingiber. 1166 B86.—Gelsem., Gelscminum- sempervirens. 1201 987.—Hamm., Hammamolis- virginica. 1208 Veratrum-album. Verbascum-thapsus, Vinca-minor. Jacea. Zincum-metallicum. Zincum-oxydatum-album. Vitriolum-zincL Zingiber-officinale. ENGLISH.--GERMAN. White Hellebore.—Weiss Niess wurz. Veratnn. The Yellow Mullein.—Konigs- kerze. Wintergroen.—Barwurzel. Sweet Violet.—Wohlriechendes Veilchen. Heart's Ease.—Stiefmutterchen. Italian Viper. German Viper. Zinc—Zink. Oxyde of Zinc—Zinkkalk. Sulphate of Zinc — Scnwefel saures Zinkoxyd. Ginger.—Ingwer. Yellow Jessamine; Woodbine Witch Hazel.—Wiinschelratf < Zauberstreuca. TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. 43 COMPARE WITH. ANTIDOTES. 274—Aeon., ambr., arn., ars., bell., bov., bry., camph., caps., caust, chin., cic, coff, coloc, cupr., dros., ferr., hell., hyos., ign., ipec, jod., lauroc, lye, mangan., magn.-mur., mere, mez., op., petrol., phos., phos.-a., puis., ran.-sc, rhus, ruta, sab., sec, sep., sil., spig., staph., stram., sulph., tart.-em., zinc. Verat is suitable after Ars., chin., cupr., phos.-ac. After Verat. are indicated Arn., ars., chin., cupr., ipec 275.—? 276.—? 277.—Hep.-sulph., lycop. 278.—Kali, mur.-ae, nux-v., phosph., plat 279.—Baryt, caps., mere, natr.-mur., nitr.-ac, sulph., vioL-od. 280.—Lachesis. 281.—Lachesis. 282.—Anac, am., ars., bell., bry., calc, canth., carb.-v., hep.-s.-e, ign., hyos., kali, lye, natr.-m., nux-v., phos., plat., plumb., puis., rhus, Sep., sil., stann., staph., stront, sulph., thuja. 283.—? 284—See Zincum. 285.-? 286.—Baptisia-tinct 887.—Colllnsonia-canarlei.sift, Aeon., camph., coff. Verat anti dotes Ars., chin., ferr. Black coffee with lemon-juice Camph. ? Vegetable acids. Camph. Camph, ? ? Camph., hep., ignat It antidotes Bar. Cham, and nux-v. aggra vate the effects of tine ? See Zincum. ? ? ? 44 TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. ORDER OF MEDICINE TO BE STUDIED. A. Poltchrest.—Aeon., Bell., Bry., Merc., Nux-vom., Puis.—Arn., Ars., Cham., Lach., Rhus, Sulph.—Calc, Chin., Lye, Phos., Sep., Sil.— Carb.-v., Dulc, Hep., Hyos., Ipec, Veratr. B. Skmi-Polychrest.—Caus., Coce, Fer., Graph., Ign., Nitr.-ac, Op., Petr., Staph.—Aur., Bar.-c, Cann., Canth., Coloc, Con., Phos.-ac, Spig., Stram.—Ant., Cic, Coff., Kal.-c, Magn.-c, Magn.-m., Stann., Tart.— Dig., Dros., Iod., Led., Natr., Natr.-m., N.-mos., Thuj., Zinc. C. Medicines which have been equally often employed.—Alum, Am,-j.( Bor», Cupr., Hell., Kreos., Mez., Mur.-ac, Spong., Sulph.-ac.—Am.-m.j Asa., Carb.-an., Cin., Euphr., Mosch., Sabad., Sabin., Sassap., Squil.— Agar., Amb., Anac, Bis., Caps., Clem., Colch., Magn.-arct., Magn.-aust., Rheum, Valer.—Agn., Ang., Asar., Bov., Guai., Oleand., Plumb., Plumb.- ac, Prun., Rod., Rut. D. Medicines which have hitherto been used less extensively or less fre- quently.—Ac.-fluor., Am.-caust., Bar.-m., Calc.-caust., Calc-ph., Camph., Chel., Croc, Cyc, Euphorb., Grat., Laur., Nitr., Samb., Sec, Seneg., Tarax. —Arg., Arg.-nit., Lam., Magn.-s., Men., Meph.. Natr.-s., Par., Ran., Ran.- sc, Stront., Tabac, Teucr., Viol.-od., Viol.-tr.—Berb., Bruc, Cinn., Cist., Coral., Daph., Gent., Gran., Gum.-gut., Ind., Merc-c, Nice, 01.-an., Phell.t Sang., Selen.—iEth., Cal., Cast., Crot., Eug., Evon., Fer.-mg., Haem., Hy- per., Kal.-ch., Lact., Paeon., Ratan., Symph., Tereb., Ther., Tong., Verb. E. Medicines respecting which we possess some notions.—Ac.-ox., Act., Aloes, Anis., Artes., Arum., Aur.-m., Brom., Case, Cinnam., Citr.-suc, Coccion., Convol., Cop., Cub., Diad., Diet., Elat., Fer.-ac, Fil., Frag., Jal., Jatr., Kal.-bich., Kal.-lat., Lob.-inf., Lob.-car., Merc.-jod., Mill., Morph.- ac, Natr.-n., Natr.-sp., Nux-jugl., Ol.-an., Ol.-jec, Onis., Petros., Pin., Pod.-pelt., Rhus-rad., Rhus-v., Scroph., Senn., Sol.-m., Sol.-n., Tanao., Tart.-ac, Thea, Trif., Trios.-perf., Tuss.-pet., Urt., Uva., Vine, Zinc.-s. Zing., Ammoniac, Amyg.-a., Anthrak., Ars.-hydr., Ars.-ters., Atham. Aur.-ful., Benz.-ac, Branc.-urs., Cann.-ap., Chenop., Chin.-sulph., Chin.- hydr., Chin.-mur., Cimex, Cinch.-sulph., Cochl., Crotal., Cupr.-ars., Cupr.- carb., Cupr.-sulph., Elect., Eupat., Fer.-carb., Fer.-jod., Fer.-mur. Fer.. sulph., Galvan., Gins., Hydr.-ac, June, Kal.-hydr., Lupul., Mang., Mere- p., Murex., Ophiot., Phytol., Pimp., Ran.-ac, Ran.-fl., Raph., Scroph., Sol.-lyc, Tax.-b., Veratrin., Vip.-r., Vip.-t. TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. 46 ORDER OF INSTRUCTION. ETRST COURSE.—MOST IMPORTANT DISTINCTIONS. 1. Distinction of the most important jlinical cases, for the medicines of letters A and B. 2. Distinction of the most important of the general stmttoms, com- prising the skin, sleep, fevers, and mind for A and B. 3. Study of the most important of the symptoms of particular organs, singly for A. 4. Same study for B. 5. Same study as that of No. 2, for C and D. 6, 7. Same studies as 3 and 4, first for C, then for D. SECOND COURSE.—STUDY IN DETAIL OF THE POLYCHRE8TB A AND B. 8 Study of all the clinical cases, for A and B. 9*. Study of all the signs of general symptoms, including the mental, ^fi-T^Study of all the signs of particular organs in succession,for each one of the four collections contained under A. 14. Same study as that of No. 9, for B. 15-18. Same studies as those of Nos. 10-13, for the four summaries of B. THIRD COURSE.—STUDY IN DETAIL OF THE OTHER MEDICINES, C AND D. 19-29. Same studies as those of Second Course, in the same order a* for C and D and the summaries they comprise. V ^r the comparison of analogous medicines see the list of medicines at the head of the pathogenesis of each substance. DISTRIBUTION OF MATERIAL m THE EXPOSITION OF THE PATHOGENESIS OF MEDICINES. A Abbreviation of the name of the medicine.-English names.-Nam* of labors who have P^^ a, B. Antidotes of the medicine, and the substances ior w ^Analogous medicines, with indication of thoae which precede or follow 46 TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. CLINICAL REMARKS.—See "Clinical Index." GENERAL SYMPTOMS—Containing predominant sensations; state of strength; the phenomena of the nervous, sanguineous, lymphatic, osseous systems, &c.; access of restlessness, convulsions, &c; and predommant circumstances under which the symptoms are aggravated, ameliorated, &c Skin—With lesions of the exterior organs, ulcerations, abscesses, &c. Sleep—With dreams and nocturnal sufferings. Fever—With state of the pulse, perspiration, &c Mind—With symptoms of the understanding and memory. Head—With dizziness, vertigo, and condition of the scalp. Eyes—With symptoms of the pupils and sight. Ears—With symptoms of hearing and the parotids. Nose—With symptoms of smelling and coryza. Face—With phenomena of the skin of the forehead, lips, jaws, and sub- maxillary glands. Teeth—With the gums. Mouth—With the tongue, saliva, speech, &c Throat—With curtains of the palate, palate, and tonsils. Appetite—With the defects of taste, hunger, thirst, aversion to food, or extraordinary loss of appetite, suffering after meals, or consequence of cer- tain aliment, &c. Stomach—With eructations, nausea, vomiting, and symptoms in the prae- cordial region. Abdomen—With symptoms of the liver, spleen, anus, and inguinal glands, as well as flatulence. Stools—With suffering of the anus, rectum, and perineeum. Urine—With affections of the urinary passages. Genital Organs—With the sexual functions of man. Menstruation—With symptoms of the genital parts of the female, mam- ma, &c, and also the symptoms which are connected with nursing. Larynx—With symptoms of cough. Lungs—With symptoms of respiration, and sufferings of the heart. Trunk—Containing symptoms of the back, loins, neck, arm-pit, and sh*n of the trunk. Arms—Containing symptoms of the upper extremities. Legs—Containing symptoms of the lower extremities. EXPLANATION OF SIGNS EMPLOYED TO DESIGNATE THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF SYMPTOMS. The symptoms which have no sign are symptoms purely pathogenetic— that is to say, symptoms produced by pure experiment. (*) The asterisk designates the pathogenetic symptoms which have beer confirmed by cures. TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. 47 (°) The cipher indicates the symptoms or the circumstances under the presence of which the medicine has acted favorably, but which have not a? yet been observed as pathogenetic symptoms. (-) The stroke above is intended to annul the indication of the preceding sign. Thus, where this stroke is not found, the last sign of a phrase always influences all the rest. On the contrary, all that comes after this stroke is fully equivalent to the symptoms which have no sign, and belong to the ob- servations purely pathogenetic. All the signs will be often found in a single phrase, as, for instance, in the following: Itching, ^shooting pains and pressure in the eyes -and in the eye-lids, °especially at night, *or in the evening, "as well as in the morning. In this phrase there are first: Itching, shooting pains, and pressure, which have been observed, all three, as pathogenetic symptoms, but of which the two last, shooting pains and pressure, have been at the same time removed by the medicine in one case of cure, as the asterisk (*) indicates. But the stroke (-) before and in the eye-lids announces, at the same time, that the cure has as yet been observed only for the eyes, and not for the eye-lids, for which the observation is not pathogenetic. Then comes the cipher (°) before especially at night, which declares that these sensations, in the case cured, had taken place at night, but that, at that hour, they had not been observed as pathogenetic effects. But the second asterisk (*) before in the evening, means that, at that latter period, these symptoms have taken place, as well in the case of cure as in the quality of pathogenetic effects. The last stroke (") indicates, finally, that the appearance of these symptoms, in the morn- ing, has been hitherto observed only as pathogenetic effects. (? ) The note of interrogation is placed after the name of any disease which has not yet, to our knowledge, been cured by that remedy with ab- solute certainty, or which has been recommended merely upon theoretical grounds. (;) The semicolon in this work has been employed to separate the parts of one and the same symptom; it has only been used for the purpose of dis- tinguishing the part after it, as being entirely different from the part pre- ceding. Thus, " vertigo in the evening; when walking in the open air; with nausea," &c, means : Vertigo in the evening; vertigo when walking in the open air; vertigo with nausea, &c The symptoms printed in italics are generally those which have been observed or removed more frequently than the others; but this distinction has been made only with relation to the symptoms of the same organ, and often even only for the kind of sufferings, so that one pain, for instance, has been distinguished only with relation to other pains, and not with rela- tion to other symptoms of the same organ, and still less with relation to all the symptoms of the medicine. It is thus, for instance, that in the following phrase: Pressure, itching, and shooting pains in the eyes and in the eye-lids, the passage printed in italics means only that the shooting pains have been observed oftener than the itching and the pressure, and that they hava taken place more frequently in the eyes than in the nyn-lids. \ MANUAL OF THE HOMEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA 1.—ACETIC ACID. A.CET.-ACID.—'Vinegar.—An acid peculiar to the vegetable kingdom.—Dura- tion of action: primarily, from one to twenty-four hours; secondarily (from long-continued use), many months. Compare with—Oxalic, Citric, Tartaric, and other vegetable acids; also Phos.- ac, Sulph.-ac, Nitric and Muriatic-ac. Antidotes.—For poisoning, Chalk, Whiting, Magnesia, Soap or Oil, Bicar- bonated alkalies, Milk, White of Egg, or almost any demulcent. Homceopa- thically, China, Nux-v, Coifea, Ars., Bell. Rationale of its Action.—Acetic-acid is a powerful antiseptic, being employed, as is well known, in pickling, preservation of animal food, and anatomical preparations. Liquid albumen (as the serum of the blood and white of egg) is not coagulated by it, but coagulated albumen is readily dissolved by it, especially with the assistance of heat. Fibrin, as muscle or the crassamentum of blood, is also readily dissolved by it. Casein is coagulated by it, and it dissolves the haematin of the blood. It is a solvent of gelatine. Diluted, and mixed with mucus, it will act as a digestive fluid. Only one fatal case of poisoning with it is on record, and in that the patient, a girl, appeared to be intoxicated, complained of acute pain, and was violently convulsed. Swallowed in a very dilute form, and in moderate doses, it proves refreshing, allays thirst, diminishes preternatural heat, lowers the pulse, and augments the urine. In its general effects, therefore, it appears to lower the powers of life, aud to prove mildly antiphlogistic. Its local operation is astringent. When habitually used, it appears to produce a languor of digestion, which has been known to be followed by tuberculosis. It is said, in long-continued doses, to induce disease of the gastro-enteric mucous membrane. To these observations it may be added that, according to Hebreart, a small quantity of Acetic-acid, dropped into the wind?- 50 acetic \cid. pipe, caused hissing respiration, rattling in the throat, and death in three days, from true croup. The lining membrane of the windpipe was covered with a fibrinous pseudo-membrane, exactly as aftei croup.—F. G S. Intellect.—Confusion of ideas ; disinclination to exert the mind ; slight and transient delirium; diminished intellectual power. Clinical Remarks.—It has proved curative in mania with cerebral excitement; delirium caused by Opium; delirium of typhus ; alter- nate stupor and delirium of typhus. Disposition.—Irritability of temper ; nervous and excitable mood. Head.—Giddiness ; dull pains in the forehead and vertex ; shoot- ing pains through the temples; heaviness of the head, with sense of intoxication ; indications of vascular excitement in the brain ; disten- tion of the temporal blood-vessels, with increased heat of the head. Clinical Remarks.—It has proved curative of haemorrhage of the nose, arising from determination of blood to the head (used locally as well as internally); headaches from abuse of stimulants, tobacco, coffee, and Opium; affections of the brain dependent on nervous congestion. Scalp. Clinical Remarks.—In tinea-capitis, the local application of the strong acid is recommended by Wigan. The first application is with the acid, diluted with three times its weight of water. On being applied, a number of spots, previously looking healthy, become red patches; then, with a piece of sponge tied to the end of a stick, each spot is to be saturated thoroughly with the strong acid for three or four minutes. A single application is sufficient in the majority of cases. A crust grows up with the hair, which may be removed aa soon as a pair of fine scissors can be introduced beneath it. Erasir^s Wilson speaks favorably of a similar mode of treatment repeated once a week.—J. C. P. Eye. Clinical Remarks.—Particles of lime in the eye are effectu- ally dissolved, and the pain eased, by bathing the eye with diluted Vinegar.—J. C. P. Face.—Face pale and waxen; eyes sunken and surrounded by a dark circle. Throat ; Diphtheritic or Croupous False Membrane. Clinica* Remarks.—The sore throtx of scarlet fever is much benefitted by the application of the steam of warm Vinegar; in quinsy, and almost every form of ulcerated or relaxed sore throat, much relief is obtained by inhaling the vapor of hot Vinegar and water. Appetite and Taste.—Diminished appetite; tongue pale and flabby; adypsia; vomiting soon after eating. ICETIC ACID. 51 Stomach.—When taken daily, in its diluted form and in large doses, it produces great uneasiness, cramps and colic, and gradually destroys so effectually the texture of the stomach, and its digestive functions, as to cause emaciation of the body. Clinical Remarks.—Dr. Tracy's (of Ohio) experience with the vegetable acids, as corrigents of acidity of the stomach, has been considerable; he has prescribed them in a large number of cases, and in nearly all with decided benefit. Dr. Tracy himself was subject to repeated and severe attacks of conjunctivitis, accompanied with acidity of the stomach, which he had attempted to correct by the early and free use of Soda, but in vain. He had for months abstained from the use of acids, but was finally induced to take a glass of lemon- ade, with great alleviation. The remedy was again and again re- peated, and the threatened ophthalmic attacks effectually prevented. Dr. Tracy has found vegetable acids uniformly and entirely successful in removing the disposition to attacks of acidity of the stomach in persons subject to them ; and his impression is that, in all such cases, they can be relied upon with more confidence than any other reme- dies. In cases of acidity from pregnancy, he has found the sub-acid fruit of great service, while those that were tart could not be borne, and mineral acids were decidedly injurious, while the whole range of alkalies and absorbents were of little or no avail. Braithwaite says this may seem a very unscientific (but very homoeopathic) mode of procedure ; still facts seem to corroborate the value of the practice in some cases. Dr. Chapman, of Philadelphia, experienced relief from the same remedy. The late Professor Wiston had for a long time ineffectually endeavored to relieve an opulent merchant of acidity of the stomach, who was very speedily cured by drinking of sour beer. Dr. Chapman had a most distressing case, which proved utterly in- tractable during nearly a whole winter, to the regular alkaline reme- dies, which was cured promptly during the summer by the patient subsisting on the sour pie-cherry. Nor is this the only instance in which Dr. Chapman has heard of cures ascribed to tart and perhaps unripe fruit of several kinds, and one especially by Professor Hodges, to sour or unripe apples; he also attended a case with Dr. J. Rhea Barton, which yielded immediately to wheaten mush and Vinegar, largely and eagerly consumed.—J. C. P. Abdomen.—Griping pain in the bowels; diarrhoea; tympanitis, with difficulty of breathing (from large doses); rumbling in the ab- domen. Clinical Remarks.—Dr. Parrot has treated, successfully, diarrhoea accompanying typhus fever with diluted Vinegar ; also diarrhoea with 52 ACETIC ACID. pain in the gastric region, rumbling, and delirium; also constipatioa with tympanitic abdomen and stupor; also griping pains in the abdo- men of several years' standing, with difficulty of breathing, sleepless- ness, vomiting after every meal, impaired sight, and irritable mood; also six cases of ascites following intermittent and scarlet fevers. Stool.—Watery diarrhoea; diarrhoea, with colic pains, and tender- ness of the abdomen to the touch ; bloody discharges from the bowels. Clinical Remarks.—In a paper read before the Epidemicological Society of London, Dr. J. H. Tucker begins by alluding to the re- markable, but well established fact that, in 1849, the cider-districts of Herefordshire, Somersetshire, and part of Devonshire were, to a great extent, exempt from the ravages of cholera, while the disease was raging around. Upon further inquiry, it was ascertained that this exemption was confined a good deal to those individuals who drank cider as a common beverage, and that those who partook of malt liquor occasionally suffered. He also remarks that, in some parts of France and Normandy, more particularly where cider is the common beve- rage, cholera is seldom known to exist. Tucker also expresses the opinion that other vegetable acids will be found of service, such as lemon-juice (but lemonade often causes griping and diarrhoea), orange- juice, and sour wines made from grapes. As it would be quite im- possible to supply the world with a sufficient quantity of pure cider, he suggests that Vinegar might be found a useful substitute in case of another outbreak of cholera. He then proceeds to show that acid drinks were not only preventive, but remedial in epidemic disorders of the bowels. Cases are related in which not only were persons exempt from attacks of cholera raging around them, who drank freely of cider, but a case of severe cholera is also related which yielded to the diluted juice of sour apples. He also refers to some established facts connected with the spread of epidemic dysentery in the army, showing the efficacy of vegetable acids in that disease. Urine.—Urine increased in quantity, and of a lighter color. Uterus. Clinical Remarks.—In uterine haemorrhages the appli- cation of cold Vinegar and water to the pubes is not only agreeable, but tends considerably to arrest the discharge of blood.—J. C. P. Larynx, Trachea, and Chest.—Irritation of the windpipe and chest; dry cough, attended with oppressed respiration, succeeded by a moist cough with fever, increased difficulty of breathing, emaciation night-sweats, oedema of the feet and legs, diarrhoea, and death. De- position of diphtheritic false membrane. True croup. Klusemann reports three cases of haemoptysis caused by the use of Acetic-acid. in from one to four weeks. acetic acid. 53 Clinical Remarks.—Vinegar, much diluted with water, has often checked night-sweats, bronchial haemorrhages, and diarrhoea from hectic fever. Kopperstaetter, Oettinger, and others, have cured several cases of hydrothorax by the use of Vinegar, in from two to six weeks. In phthisis, the value of the external application of diluted Vinegar to the chest and upper part of the body, in allaying the profuse per- spirations, is well known; it is a measure attended with salutary effects, and is of great comfort to the patient. The mixture employed by Sir C. Scudamore for this purpose is composed of one pint of Vinegar, one of Cologne water, and two of water. Alcohol or spirits and water is often more useful than Vinegar. Dr. Roberts strongly advocates both the internal and external use of Vinegar for checking the hectic and night-sweats, restraining haemoptysis, and producing costiveness. As a preventive of phthisis, Dr. Graves speaks favor- ably of washing the chest with Vinegar and water, beginning with it tepid, and reducing the temperature gradually until it can be used cold. In hemoptysis, the internal and external use of Vinegar was highly esteemed by the ancients; Caelius Aurelianns Avicenna, and Rhases are among its chief advocates. In asthenia and angina-pectoAs, it is of great importance to dimi- nish the susceptibilitv of the patient to cold ; one of the most effectual means of effecting this is to bathe the chest with Vinegar and water. It is a measure fraught with benefit also to those who are liable to continual catarrhal attacks.—J. C. P. Breasts. Clinical Remarks.—To milk or mammary abscesses, the application of warm Vinegar is stated, by Dr. Dewees, to be so successful, in the early stage of the disease, that we need not in general look for any other remedy. It is, he states, particularly use- ful when the breasts are greatly and painfully distended with milk; it should be perseveringly employed for twenty-four hours. This testimony in favor of it is very strong. Upper Extremities.—Diminished muscular power of the arms and hands; paralytic sensation in the wrists and hands; coldness and prickling in the hands. Lower Extremities.—(Edematous swelling of the feet and legs; impaired muscular power of the legs; diminished sensibility of the feet; coldness of the feet. Fever.—Hectic fever, with emaciation, cough, night-sweats, diar- rheea, dyspnoea, and dropsical swelling of the feet and legs ; typhus fever, with violent delirium, diarrhoea, pain in the abdomen, rumbling 54 acetic acid. in the gastric region; also typhus with stupor, tympanitic abdomen, and obstinate constipation. Skin.—Skin pale and waxen ; general anasarca; diminished sensi- bility of the surface of the body; temperature of the skin below the natural standard. In scarlatina, dilute Acetic-acid, internally, has been strongly re- commended by Dr. Isaac Brown. He considers that it is more effica- cious than any other treatment, and that it tends to prevent tho occurrence of dropsy. Dr. Webster relates four cases, in which it appeared to him conclusive that sponging the body of the patient pre vented the spread of the disease beyond the original patient.—J. C. P. In psoriasis, Dr. Cummin states that his trials with strong Acetic- acid have been highly satisfactory; the diseased cuticle separating in flakes, and a new surface being exposed, of a much more healthy character. The application of the acid is hot and painful, especially when there are excoriations and fissures; but these should be pro- tected by Glycerine, or simple cerate. The acid requires, in most cases, to be repeated two or three times. In obstinate cases of lepra, much benefit has been derived from the use of baths acidulated with Acetic-acid.—J. C. P. Ncevus-Maternus.—Dr. Behrend, of Berlin, advises, in the case of the small flat nam, the application of strong Acetic-acid ; under this treatment the blood is made to coagulate in its vessels, the naevus becomes hard and yellow, and is thrown off in the form of a parch- ment-like layer. In obstinate cases, the Muriate Tincture of Iron, or a slight application of strong Nitric-acid may be used. Warts and moles may be removed effectually by the application of the strong acid. The warts should be first carefully pared down, and the acid should then be applied with a camel's hair brush. Large moles may be touched lightly with strong Nitric-acid, a wet rag may be applied at once to prevent the acid from burning too deep, and subsequently the mole may be touched every day or two with Acetic- acid. I have found this mode of treatment very successful.__J. C. P. Cancer.—Acetic-acid is the only known agent which dissolves the true cancer cells; it may be used freely, internally and externally. Burns and Scalds.—Cleghorn, of Edinburgh, recommends the im- mediate application of Vinegar to the burnt surface, to be continued until the pain abates, and when this returned the application was ro- peated. In purpura, whether attended by fever or of a torpid character Erasmus Wilson advises sponging the body with tepid Vinegar and water. aconitum napelltjs. 55 In hospital gangrene, when of a mild character, Delpech speaks highly of the topical application of Acetic-acid and Vinegar. The ulcerations having been previously cleansed, are to be washed with strong Vinegar, and then covered with charpie, wet with the same liquid. If this fails, caustics must be used. Vinegar in Itch.—Professor Le Coeur, of Caen, recommends for the cure of itch, forcible frictions of the parts affected with a hard sponge, soaked in good Vinegar, thrice daily, so as to penetrate the skin and rupture the vesicles. He has tried this treatment with the most complete success in ten cases, the average length of the treat- ment being less than five days. He thinks this treatment preferable to all others, on account of its speedy action, its inexpensive nature, its freedom from all unpleasant odors, and its easy application. He suggests that similar results might be obtained by frictions with the mineral acids, diluted with water. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Febrile symptoms accompanying ty- phus ; hectic fever; dropsical affections arising from loss of blood, diarrhoea, or functional derangements; haemorrhages from the nose, lungs, and stomach; local eruptions, of an itching and burning char- acter ; determination of blood to the head, with delirium, convulsive movements, and severe pains in the head. PATHOLOGY.__Concentrated Acetic-acid acts as a caustic poison to dogs. It causes blackening of the mucous lining of the stomach, ana- logous to that produced by Sulphuric-acid. Four or five ounces of common Vinegar proved fatal to dogs in ten or fifteen minutes, when the oesophagus was tied to prevent vomiting. Injected into the blood, it does not appear to act energetically. Its chemical influence de- pends principally on its power of dissolving fibrin, albumen, and gela- tine, by which it is enabled to dissolve many of the animal tissues. On animals, it was noticed that large doses of the impure acid affected the cerebro-spinal system, and caused giddiness, insensibility, para- lysis, and convulsions. A very constant effect of it was an affection of the windpipe and lungs. The acid was detected by its odor in the blood and secretions. 2.—ACONITUM NAPELLUS. ACON—Blue Wolfsbane or Monkshood.—See Hahnemann's Materia Med., VoL I.—Duration of action: from half an hour to 48 hours, or several weeks, according to circumstances. CoMPtRK wrrH-Agar., Anac, Ant.-c, Am., Ars., Asar.,,Bell, Bry., Cann, Canth , Caust., Cham., Coff, Colch., Croc, Dros., Dulc Graph., Hep., Hyos.. Ipec Merc. Nitr.-a., Nux-v., Op., Phosph., Plat., Puis., Ruta, Sabin., Sep, 56 aconitum napellus. Spig., Spong., Stram., Sulph., Verat.—Aeon, is frequently useful as ftn inter current remedy after Arn. and Sulph., unless indicated at the commencement of the disease.—The following remedies are most frequently indicated after Aeon.: Arn., Ars, Bell., Bry., Cann., Ipec, Spong., Sulph. Antidotes.—In poisoning, free vomiting with Mustard, Sulphate of Zinc or Ipe- cac, Wine, vegetable acids (vinegar, acid fruit). Homceopathically, Camph., Nux-v., Par.? Guhco??—Aeon, is an antidote to Cham., Coff, Nux-v., Petrol., Sulph., Sep., Verat.—Oil, and vomiting excited by oil, seem to aggravate the effects of Aeon. Rationale of its Actcon.—According to Dr. Gerstel (a homceo- pathist), the primary action of Aconite consists : 1. Almost exclusively of an affection of the nervous system, especi- ally of the vaso-motor portion of the great sympathetic nerve, with a simultaneous affection of a larger portion of that part of the spinal marrow which presides over sensation, viz., the posterior column, while the anterior or motor column only becomes implicated by reflex action. 2. The peculiar character of the primitive action of Aconite is paralyzing or depressing; from smaller doses and slighter degrees of its action, this paralyzing influence is marked by the occurrence of crawling, prickling, and creeping sensations, accompanied with a sense of numbness, to which is added, at a later period, a feeling of swelling, especially in the skin of "the arms, fingers, face, external chest, and legs. 3. Frequently the depressing action of the Aconite is confined to the sphere of the sympathetic nerve, and is marked by a confused and depressed state of mind, which seems to proceed from the region of the heart. 4. Then a feeling of chilliness, or creeping chills over the back, or proceeding from the back, are experienced, and may gradually in- crease to an intense sense of coldness, with shaking chills, actual numbness and blueness of the parts most distant from the centre of the circulation, viz., the fingers and toes. 5. From a continuous and more powerful action of it, its paralyzing power will influence the vaso-motor apparatus in particular, marked by intermitting, weak, and irregular action of the heart, emptiness of the left side of the heart and great blood-vessels, with corresponding alteration of the pulse, even down to complete pulselessness, with oppression of the chest anxiety, restlessness, vertigo, and swooning, all proceeding from debility of the heart. 6. The simultaneous affection of the sympathetic and spinal nerves is marked by sensations of bruisedness, sluggishness, heaviness, and lameness of the muscles, especially of the mouth, tongue, upper, and still more of the lower limbs, and by entire loss of sensation, especially of the hands. aconitum napellus. 57 7. It is to be expected, from this state of depression of the arteries and sensorial nerves, that all the secretions and excretions which de- pend principally upon the arterial influence will be more or less inter- rupted ; still the urinary secretion seems at times to form an exception, as it may be increased in quantity, and then it is more watery and spas- modic. It is very probable that similar alteration's take place in the serous, fibrous, and mucous membranes. 8. From extreme degrees of its action, viz., from more or less com- plete paralysis of the arteries, a very high state of venosity, or intense venous congestion ensues. The heart is then found to contain retained blood ; the lungs are hyperaemic ajjd over-filled with black, thinly-fluid, and venous blood, without exhibiting the slightest trace of inflam- mation; the sinuses of the membranes of the brain are crowded with black blood; hence the vertigo, staggering as if from intoxication, the bloating of the face, the involuntary sighing, the deep breathing, the blueness of the skin of the face and lips, the icy coldness of the limbs, the venous abdominal plethora, the obstruction of the liver, the crowding of the blood with crude bilious substances, the dark yellow color of the skin, &c, until, finally, death ensues, from complete obstruction of the circulation and respiration, owing to paralysis of the heart, pulmo- nary apoplexy, and asphyxia.—J. C. P. Secondary or Reactive Stage of the Aconite Disease.—In those cases where the primary action of the Aconite is not too powerful, the organism reacts at once against it, and nervous erethism, hyper- aesthesia, and arterial reaction ensue; thus, the creeping, crawling, and numb sensations give way to more or less painful piercing, rend- ing, aching, and pressing sensations; the sense of weariness, las- situde, lameness, and powerlessness are supplied by trembling, jerk- ing, partial or general convulsions; the coldness, faintness, weak- ness, irregularity, and slowness of the pulse are supplanted by arterial reaction, heat of the face, sensation of swelling of external parts, and erethistic or synochal fever; the heart beats more powerfully; the pulse becomes quicker and fuller, and occasions congestion and irritation in all the secreting organs, and in parts abundantly supplied with blood, as the bronchial mucous membrane, exudation of blood and inflam- mation may ensue.—J. C. P. General Effects on the Nervous System. Nerves of Sensation. —Aconite seems to exert a very decided and specific action upon the nerves of sensation, as evidenced by the peculiar feelings of tingling, prickling, numbness, creeping, and crawling, &c, which it causes in so marked a degree in almost every organ and part of the body. It is somewhat a matter of doubt whether it acts primarily and para- 58 aconitum napellus. lyzingly upon the nerves of sensation, or whether the numbness, ting ling, and loss of sensation, which it produces in so eminent a degroe arises from its depressing action upon those ganglionic, or vaso-motor, or great sympathetic nerves which follow the blood-vessels to their most minute ramifications and preside over their functions. My own impression is, that the pains caused and cured by Aconite are not purely nervous or neuralgic pains, but are such as arise from some acrid, or rheumatic, or other irritation of the ganglionic nerves about the blood-vessels, or else are congestive in their nature, or owing to the return of the circulation and nervous energy to the blood-vessels and nerves of the afflicted parts, similar to what happens when the foot or leg is said to be asleep. Veith Meyer thinks that Aconite stimulates, or excites, or arouses the sensibility of the nerves of sen- sation, and assumes that the few symptoms that indicate an opposite condition are so insignificant that they may be considered as the results of secondary action. But it is impossible to read a well de- scribed case of poisoning with Aconite or Aconitine without becom- ing aware of the prominent and primary importance of the signs of paralysis of the circulation and the nervous energies, or direct depres- sion of the vital powers; thus, the most manifest symptoms are, slight wandering delirium, the consciousness being partly retained; general muscular tremors, or very slight convulsions; failure of the circu- lation ; a feeling of numbness and tingling over the entire body; coolness or coldness of the skin; loss of sight, and death by exhaus- tion or syncope. If the above views be correct, it cannot be a specific in cases of pure neuralgia, in which the nerve alone is affected.—J. C. P. Nerves of Motion.—Aconite does not irritate the nerves of motion primarily like Nux-vomica, Angustura, Ignatia, and Strychnine, but rather produces great muscular debility, which may, however, in the reactive stage, be followed by increased muscular energy, or irrita- tion, and even convulsions. Still it is to be supposed that the con- vulsions caused by Aconite are similar to those which follow an excessive loss of blood, or the use of Tobacco, Digitalis, Pvussic- acid, &c.—J. C. P. Muscular System.—If Aconite is homoeopathic to any form of in- flammation at all, it is so to rheumatic inflammation, inflammation of the muscular and fibrous systems, &e. Latham says: Acute rheu- matism of the severest kind may have the start of us for full ten or fourteen days, during which nothing whatever has been done for its relief, and when at length the proper remedy has been applied, it has been cured as easily and rapidly as any one could promise himself that it would have been if he had taken it in hand one or two weeks AC0N1TUM NAPELLUS. 59 sooner ; surely there is something remarkable enough to make us stop and think for a moment. An inflammation of the brain, the liver, or the lungs, would not thus wait our pleasure or our neglect, and be as curable ten or fourteen days hence as it is to-day. For inflamma- tion in those organs does not stand still in its first stage. It is pro- gressive from stage to stage, and each succeeding stage carries it far- ther and farther away from the remedy. But it is the very peculi- arity of acute rheumatism that it does, in a certain sense, stand still, or rather.does not get beyond the.first stage. All its actions and movements are as forcible and rapid as possible, yet it does not get beyond the first stage. All its energy is expended upon one stage, and there is no apparent progression beyond it. A fortnight ago there was great heat, and nervous and vascular excitement, and great pain and swelling of the joints, and to-day we have nothing more, and per- haps nothing less. There is no more sign of inflammatory exudation, or suppuration, or of parts disorganized, or parts destroyed, now than then. Verily, it seems as if the disease had wanted to be cured all the while. In fact, all the principal German writers on the materia medica place great stress upon the proclivity of Aconite to cause rheumatic symptoms; thus Vogt, Dierbach, and Sobernheim agree that, after the first tumult caused by taking large quantities of Aco- nite has passed off, that tho head is apt to become very painful, and pains appear in the limbs, especially the so-called bone and joint pains, and persist until a more or less profuse sweat and increased flow oi saturated urine set in. Vascular System. Heart and Arteries.—Pulse frequent, soft, and weak, the beat being sometimes so feeble as to be almost impercep- tible. Pulse 100, feeble, and regular. Pulse feeble, 120, and inter- mitting after every second stroke. Pulse 90 and of fair strength. Heart's action ajmost imperceptible. Pulse small and 140. Pulse 40. Pulse often intermitting and feeble. Pulse scarcely perceptible. Sensation as if all the blood in his veins were frozen. Pulse scarcely to be felt; when it became more perceptible it was still intermitting and irregular ; at times two or three beats followed each other quickly, and then were succeeded by an intermission. Pulse quick and ir- regular. Pulse slow and intermitting. Heart flabby and containing but little black fluid blood. Pulse so small and weak that it can scarcely be felt. Coldness and pulselessness of the limbs, and feeWe beating of the heart; when the pulse became fuller it was only 58, and intermitted every fourth beat; gradually it rose to 70, and finally to 100, the skin becoming hot and dry. Pulse irregular and slow; pulse 54, unequal and soft, as if the blood did not fill the arteries. Heart 00 ACONITUM NAPELL^S. almost empty. No pulse to be felt in radial or temporal arteries; afterwards it rose to 125. Both venous and arterial blood very fluid. Some fluid and a great deal of coagulated blood in right side of heart; ventricles and auricles filled with black coagulated blood. Teste asserts that, " If Aconite could be given in the very com- mencement, before the disease has had time to develop a local inflam- mation, this localization might be prevented in many cases; but I be- lieve, likewise, that when the local inflammation has already acquired a certain degree of intensity, many other drugs may, by virtue of con- stitutional idiosyncrasies, or with respect to the organ which has be- come the local focus of the disease, be preferable to Aconite, which, in such cases, could not be administered without involving a precious loss of time. As a general rule, it seems to me that, even in acute inflammations, Aconite is only indicated when the inflammatory fever is the ruling symptom." CLINICAL REMARKS.—In disease of the heart, particularly in those in which the chief indication is to diminish the action of that organ, Fleming found Aconite a most valuable remedy. In functional derangement it will often effect a cure. In simple hypertrophy, pain and increased action of the heart, it is preferable to Digitalis; its action is more purely sedative and more uniform. But, in a very large class of cases of disease of the heart, when obstruction exists, which prevents the heart from transmitting the necessary quantity of blood by the usual number of pulsations, and it is forced to make up for such inadequacy by more frequent and forcible contractions, the use of Aconite, Digitalis, and similar remedies is highly injurious Venous System.—It is homoeopathic to intense or excessive venous oongestion of many organs, with entire paralysis, or depotentization of all the arterial activities, carried up to the point of absolute cya- nosis. If the vital forces of the patient are great enough to react against the Aconite, of course quite opposite symptoms will arise, viz., acute pains in various parts, and more or less active febrile excitement, which rarely, however, proceeds to the extent of causing true inflam- mation. When it does seem to cause inflammation, it is not a pure, frank, and decisive inflammation; even Dr. Veith Meyer is obliged to admit that, " We have as yet no irrefragable proofs that this drug can produce any thing farther than the congestive state; there are as yet no instances, not even in cases of poisoning, nor in the later and most industrious provings of our Vienna colleagues, in which the in troduction of it into the healthy organism has resulted in the appear ance of any one of the products peculiar to inflammation, viz., an eccuflation." It may occasionally cause an effusion, but never a true AC0NITUM NArELLUS. 61 inflammatory exudation of plastic lymph, fibrine, or pus. * Even in the post-mortem examinations of those poisoned by Aconite, so far as now known, as well as in the experiments upon animals, no positive and decisive indications have been observed that any true inflamma- tory product has ever followed the administration of Aconite." Hence Aconite cannot cure a fully developed inflammation, but can only subdue that congestive state which precedes inflammation, before a per- fect inflammatory stasis and exudation have set in; in other words, it can cut an inflammation short before it is fully develop ed, but it cannot cure it when it is; this is confirmed at the bedside. In inflammation this remedy never fails to exert its beneficent and quieting power over the fever which accompanies the inflammation, and even over some of the inflammatory symptoms themselves, still, should the disease have gone a stage beyond the stadium congestivum, we often find our- selves obliged to abandon our Aconite, or at least only to rely upon it as a fellow-worker with other drugs more homoeopathic to the exist- ing disease. Pereyra (not Pereira) says, " We observe no genuine traces of in flammation in the bodies of those who have fallen victims to this poi son—he insists that the mere circumstance of patches here and there of vascular fullness (which even Noack and Trinks-admit to be seated especially in the veins) along the alimentary canal, does not prove that inflammation is present—for this appearance is observed in almost all cases where life is extinguished from the action of seda- tive agents," and Opium, it is well known, causes flushed counte- nance, full pulse, but does not excite inflammation, but venous con- gestion.—J. C. P. Vogt says, except the over-filling of the great vessels with {venous) blood, we find but few traces of affection of the intestinal canal, in poisoning with Aconite, of the kind which the acria cause. He adds that violent poisoning with it is characterized especially by the excessive predominance of venosity, great congestion, and accu- mulation of (venous) blood in the head, chest, liver, and whole ab- domen—it seems evident that, if the veins be so full, the arteries must be comparatively empty.—J. C. P. The bilious symptoms which Aconite is apt to cause, also speak for its primary action upon the venous system. This is a great stum- bling-block to those who assume that it acts primarily and excitingly upon the arterial system. Veith Meyer says : " There is one morbid condition of the economy which, in the present position nf our science, is not easily reconciled with what we (Veith Meyer) have laid down as the general sphere of activity of this drug; I (V. M.) have as- 62 ACONITUM napellus. sumed that its field of operation is solely in the ganglionic nervous system, that it affects only the vaso-motor nerves which excite or sus- tain the arterial activity." Biliousness, jaundice, and congestion of the liver are vastly different affections from arterial congestion, true and arterial inflammation. Look for a moment at the following symptoms of Aconite, and see if they do not present a perfect picture of— Jaundice.—Dark-yellow skin. Yellowness of the sclerotica. Loss of appetite. Disgust for meat. Bitter taste in the mouth. Bitter taste in the mouth, with want of appetite. Pains in the chest and under the short ribs. Malaise after eating. Eructations with sourish taste. Vomiturition. Vomiting of green bile. Vomiting of a greenish, watery fluid. Vomiting of mucus. Pressing pain in the stomach, as if from a weight. Violent colic-pains. Pressing pains, as from a weight in the hypochondria. Colic, with inflation of the abdomen, relieved by the discharge of wind. Pressure in the hepatic region, by which the respiration is embarrassed (apparently from an increase of bulk in the organ), then aching in the umbilical region. Squeezing pain in the region of the gall-bladder, when sitting, embarrassing the respiration. Flatulence. White evacuations. White evacuations and red urine. Thin, rather watery evacuations, with some colic, grumbling in the abdomen, and faint feeling. Constipation for several days. The urine passed in the early morning is brown, becomes cloudy after a time, and deposits a sediment. Nights in the highest degree restless, sleepless, and full of dreams. Fearful, vexatious dreams. Head confused and vacant in the morning after waking. Pain all over, as if beaten. Unusual weariness. Constant itching and biting in different spots on the skin, obliging him to scratch. Slow pulse. Pulse unequally full, soft. You will not easily find, in any of the text-books on pathology, a clearer description of icterus than this detail of symptoms brings before you. According to the assumption of the primary venous, and passive- congestive action of Aconite, we would expect exactly such effects upon the liver and biliary functions. It also seems homoeopathic to abdominal dropsy from disease of the liver and omentum. Lymphatic System.—Storck and Greding assume that Aconite does not act as prominently upon the glandular system as Conium, yet they both report cases of glandular swellings and tumors which resisted the action of Conium and yielded to that of Aconite. Toxicology.—Dorsal decubitus ; fixed eyes ; contracted pupils ; livid countenance ; stiffness of the jaws ; coldness and pulselessness of the limbs ; short, imperfect, difficult respiration ; feeble beating of ACONITUM NAPELLUS 63 the heart, with intermissions. Peculiar crawling and trembling in the limbs, attended with piercing pain. In another case, the patient first experienced warmth and contraction of the throat; excessively anxious and restless, complaining of his throat, and of burning along the oesophagus. His mental and sensorial functions were undisturbed; his tongue whitish ; nausea; no pain in the bowels. The primitive action of the drug seemed to fall upon the lower limbs, which were in incessant motion, even while sitting; when he walked, his legs trembled, so as to give him a peculiar staggering gait; he had violent pain in the throat, and exhibited excessive restlessness and fear of death. Two and a half hours after, he could not hold himself upright, and was attacked with a peculiar variety of convulsions, viz., the upper and lower extremities were forcibly drawn inwards, the fingers clenched, and thumbs turned in so as to form a fist; the legs were in a state of persistent adduction ; all this time there was not the slight- est concussion; the face was covered with a cold viscid sweat; the eyes turned up, so that only their whites were to be seen. No pulse was to be felt in the radial or temporal arteries ; the paroxysm lasted about three minutes, was attended by cracking of the joints, and suc- ceeded by exhaustion. He experienced and expressed very great anxiety ; thought that his last hour had come ; his intellect was gene- rally unclouded, except at intervals, when he fell into a state of stupe- faotion, closed his eyes, let his head sink, and then rose up again, with a motion similar to that made by one who has fallen asleep while riding and then suddenly awakes; but he was perfectly blind, and could distinguish neither persons nor objects around him. He again vomited, had constant nausea, and was again attacked with convulsions. In two hours more the patient had recovered his sight, but the convul- sions were as frequent and more severe than before ; the temperature of his skin sank lower every moment; he experienced several shud- derings, and soon after became icy cold, with hippooratic countenance and violent retraction of the head backwards ; respiration stertorous ; mucous rattle heard at a distance ; still, notwithstanding his agonizing condition, he heard everything that was said to him, and had not the slightest pain in the abdomen; soon after the first attack of convul- sions, the palms of his hands became so insensible that he did not feel deep pricks with a needle. He remained in this condition for two hours longer, when the heart and pulse-beats again became percep- tible ; warmth and general comfort returned ; in an hour more his ap- pearance had improved, a profuse warm sweat broke out, pulse rose U> 125, sensation had returned in the palms of both hands, and respi- ration was free and easy. After a short sleep, the patient awoke with 64 ACONITUM NAPELLUS. a general bruised feeling; injections brought away black and verj offensive faeces ; urine was scanty and very turbid ; abdomen not at all painful; tongue moist and white. For several days the patient's features bore the marks of fright and stupidity. Hahnemann.*—The very careful observations of the venerable founder of homoeopathy deserve the strictest attention—viz.: " That Aconite causes a prompt removal of inflammatory action, without consecutive effect in fevers, called purely inflammatory; acts magi- cally in measles, purpura-miliaris, in inflammatory fevers with pleu- risy, &c, if the regimen be somewhat cooling; is an indispensable remedy in the most obstinate chronic affections, in which the state of the body requires a diminution of what is called rigidity of fibre (sthenic diathesis, &c.); is the first and most powerful curative agent in croup, several kinds of angina, and other local inflamma- tions, especially when thirst and frequent pulse are attended by great impatience, agitation which nothing can calm, and tossing from side to side in great agony; cures morbid states in persons whose minds have been excited from fear and indignation ; is indis- pensable for females who suffer from fear or contrarieties during the catamenia, which otherwise might be interrupted; may be salutary for those symptoms (which follow), principally of a tonic character, which appear to be contradictory, but are alternate states; and will prove inoperative through vegetable acids, wine, and other remedies which correspond palliatively or homceopathically with its effects in excessive doses." Hartmann.—" Sanguine temperament, robust constitution, and di- minution of the pains when moving, especially indicate this remedy Inflammatory fever—for which Aconite is a specific—is characterized by : Constant burning heat over the whole body, with redness of skin ; distention and redness of the face; eyes glistening and prominent; respiration short and anxious; dry, red tongue—in rare cases it is somewhat coated with mucus; great thirst, constipation, and even absence of dejections ; inappetence ; hot, red urine, which is passed in small quantities ; sleeplessness, jactitation, restlessness, and anxiety. In all local inflammations, attended by this fever, as pleurisy, pneu- monia, carditis, enteritis, &c, Aconite is frequently required, either as a direct or preparatory expedient. In congestions, seething of 1 The Clinical Remarks—in the previous editions of this Manual__comprise so many repetitions that we shall arrange them, and the additions of Noack and Trinks, in an alphabetical form, at the close of the volume, while their place will be supplied by practical observations derived from the best medical authors, properly accredited.—Ei ACONITUM NAT-ELLUS. 65 blood, and hemorrhages of various kinds, it is indispensable. In acute diseases, where all remedies which seem to be indicated are in- effectual, or affect too powerfully without improvement, Aconite often removes very quickly this hyper-excitation of the nervous system; by this treatment, the remedies which are then indicated act more favorably." Griesselich thought that Aconite was indicated when there is ex- cessive irritability of body or mind; in mental derangement, when the vascular system is much involved ; when there is frenzy, attended with congestion or inflammation of tho brain. Especially when there are paroxysms of great anxiety and mental depression. In hypo- chondria, when the patient imagines that various wonderful trans- formations have taken place in his internal or external organs. Riickert advises it when there is anxiety and fear of approaching death; when the organ of caution is affected. Lombard thought it affected the brain somewhat like Opium. Teste commends Aconite in mental derangement of recent date, caused by fright, and in the delirium which precedes or accompanies certain acute fevers. Fleming used Aconite internally in fifteen cases of headache, with complete success in ten ; of the successful cases, three were nervous, four plethoric, and three rheumatic ; of the unsuccessful cases, three were nervous, and two dyspeptic. Relief was usually experienced after the first dose, and a complete cure effected on the first or second day. Drs. Burgess and Radley have seen Aconite of incalculable service in relieving the agonizing pain of nervous headache; Hen- derson and Miller have also used it with success. Storck and Vogel recommended it in rheumatic headache, and Copland has found it useful in both nervous and rheumatic cases. It is often more useful when applied externally than when taken internally. It is homoeopathic to the most violent headaches, when the patient lies as if unconscious, retches to vomit, thinks he must die, cannot endure the slightest noise or motion, and in which the face is pale and the pulse small and intermitting. Also, in hemicrania, when there is a violent pain over the left eye, attended with nausea and vomiting. In severe rheumatic headaches, when attended with pains in the fibrous sheaths of the nerves, in the fibrous membranes of the brain and scalp. In venous congestive headaches, with excessive numbness and tingling in various parts. It is antipathic to arterial congestive and inflammatory headaches, and must then be giTen in full doses. In coma and apoplexy it is homoeopathic to these disorders when 5 66 ACONITUM NAPELLU8. they arise from venous congestion or nervous exhaustion, and must then be given in very small doses; when they depend upon active arterial congestion the dose must be comparatively largo. Fleming says, the pupil in general is more or less contracted, di- lating to its natural size immediately on the cessation of respiration; it is owing to venous congestion. Its sympathetic action on the retina is remarkable : when applied to one of the temples, or one side of the forehead, more or less blindness of the same side is produced When the conjunctiva is slightly painted with Aconitine, contrac- tion of the pupil speedily takes place and continues for several hours. —Pereira has observed it to cause contraction of the pupil in some amaurotic cases of several years' standing, and where the iris undei- went no change on exposure to strong light—when the ointment of the alkaloid, or the tincture of the root is applied to the temple or forehead, the pupil occasionally becomes dilated. Fleming has only witnessed this in two cases, in both of which it was attended with partial blindness of the same eye; why such opposite effects should ensue in the two cases it is difficult to understand. Giddiness, with confusion of sight. Headache, vertigo, with dimness of vision. Con traction of the pupil, disappearing after the jugular vein is opened. In four cases, Fleming saw dilatation of the pupil accompanied by almost total blindness—either paralysis of retina, or of iris. Aconi- tine applied to the eye-ball of a rabbit—in three minutes the pupil began to contract; in five minutes it was scarcely one-sixth of the size of that of the other eye; when the contraction was extreme the pupil was insensible to light, but when only partial it still retained its mobility ; the contraction continued for nine hours. Slight giddi- ness and dimness of vision are very common effects; dull, heavy pain in the eye-balls ; dimness of vision and profuse secretion of tears ; pain and watering of the eyes, without vascularity; black specks floating in the field of vision, dazzling and dimness of vision; from ten drops of the root, general trembling, violent headache, pain of the eye-balls, constant lachrymation and intense photophobia, vascu- larity of conjunctiva not increased, eyes fixed and protruded, pupils contracted. Noack advises it in ophthalmia of a catarrhal or rheu matic nature, especially when chemosis, or great redness and swelling around the cornea has taken place. Heat and burning in the eyes especially the left; great photophobia, inflammation, and lachrymation of the eyes, with such severe pain that the patient wished to die swelling of inflamed eyes, redness of the conjunctiva and sclerotica Inflammation from a foreign body in the eye, with redness, stinging pain and pressure in every part of the eye, intolerance of light and aconitum napellus. 67 "achrymation. Dryness and heaviness of the upper eye-lids. Pain- ful, tense, red, and hard swelling of the lids, especially in the morn- ing. Sensation as if the whole eye-ball were pushed into the orbit. Prickling and smarting of the eye-lids, as when a cold is setting in. Soreness and itching of the eye-lids. Yellowness of the whites of the eyes. Sparks and mist before the eyes; flashes and scin- tillations ; lamps seem tremulous, and luminous vibrations before the eyes. It is used internally and externally, by German physicians, in rheu- matic and arthritic iritis and amaurosis ; also in simple rheumatic in- flammations of the eye. A very deaf old lady was almost cured of her deafness by an acci- dental over-dose of Aconite. In cases of severe earache and inflam- mation of the ear, I have been in the habit of putting in a small quantity of the root of Aconite.—J. C. P. It is a very useful remedy in the epistaxis of young and plethoric persons It has been used successfully in many cases of neuralgia of the face Thus, it cured one case of tic-doloureux, of eight years' standing, in eight days ; one case, in both intra-maxillary nerves, of nine years' standing, in six days; one application of the tincture of the root, ex- ternally, cured one case each of neuralgia, supra- and infra-orbitalis ; one case of infra-orbital neuralgia, of five years' standing, was cured by the external use of Aconitine in fifteen days ; one case of supra-orbital neuralgia, of four years' standing, by the internal use of the alkaloid, in six days ; a nine months' infra-orbital neuralgia, by external applica- tion of the tincture, in nine days; a seven months' neuralgia, infra- maxillary, by the tincture, internally and externally, in thirteen days ; a two months' neuralgia-frontalis, by the external use of the tincture in three days; a tic-doloureux, of several years' standing, affecting the whole left side of the face, was only temporarily relieved after each application of the tincture; a neuralgia occipito-cervicalis, oi several months' duration, was cured in four days ; another, of several years' duration, was only relieved for several hours after each appli- cation ; ahemicrania, of three weeks' duration, was cured in five days ; another, of seven days' standing, was cured by two applications ; and one of three days, by three applications.—In all cases of neuralgia it is said to be better to commence the treatment by external applica- tions ; but, if it be caused by inflammation, cither in the painful parts or in the nerve farther up in its course, or should it be traceable to sympathetic irritation, the internal use of the remedy will probably have to be resorted to; if the neuralgia arises from some local irrita- 68 aconitum NAPELLUS. tion of the nerve, or is merely functional, the local applications will probably be sufficient.—J. C. P. Dr. Fleming employed it in forty cases, by rubbing the gum with a few drops of the tincture of the root, or by introducing a bit of cot- ton, with a drop or two of the tincturo, into the carious tooth. In seven of these cases it failed ; in six, it relieved only for a short time, and in the remaining twenty-seven it afforded complete and perma- nent relief. I have used Aconite in this way for seven or eight years, with almost invariable success.—J. C. P. It is a valuable local application in painful affections of the tongue, especially in cancer; it should never, however, be applied to any open sore. Noack advises it only in slight catarrhal inflammation of the ton- sils, palate, and pharynx, but I have used the tincture of the root successfully in the severest attacks of quinsy, and found it more beneficial than Belladonna; it is especially indicated in rheumatism of the muscles of the throat, in which there is intense pain on swal- lowing, and but little redness or swelling of the mucous membrane. It has been used successfully in many cases of chronic pharyngitis. I often apply the tincture of the root externally to the neck with much benefit. Professor Dumas, depending upon the intimate sym- pathy between the throat and womb in women, and knowing the specific impression which Aconite makes upon the throat, was led to use it in uterine pains ; when the throat became affected the uterus was relieved.—J. C. P. It is homoeopathic to want of appetite, from excessive debility or a piralytic state of the digestive orgaus; also to well-marked bilious derangement- Noack advises it in the vomitings of pregnant or hysteric females; when there is vomiting of blood or worms ; also in cramps and inflam- mation of the stomach. I have found the external application of the tincture of the root very useful in many painful and inflammatory affections of the stomach.—J. C. P. Noack recommends it in disphragmitis ; in peritonitis, even the puerperal variety ; in colic, from taking cold ; enteritis, inflammations of both the large and small bowels, when attended with piercing, cutting, burning, and rendering pains, with extreme sensitiveness of the abdomen to touch ; it is said to have proven useful even when faeaal vomiting, great anxiety, and coldness of the legs have set in, and in strangulated hernia. I have been in the habit of depending upon a lavish external use of the tin urc of the root in ail the above afl'ec tions . The relief in puerperal peritonitis is extraordinary ; I have AC0NITUM napellus. 69 almost ceased to regard peritonitis and enteritis as formidable affec tions, provided Aconite can be applied externally, both early and abundantly enough. Aconite certainly seems to exert a very power- ful action over the liver; it is homoeopathic to venous congestion of the liver, and general plethora-abdominalis ; to ascites, from disease of the liver, even from granulated liver; also to fully-developed jaundice. The external use of the tincture should not be forgotten. Professor Fouquier has used it, with some success, as a diuretic in passive dropsies. De Candolle says it is a domestic remedy among the Alp people in dropsy.—J. C. P. In Dysentery.—Marbot, surgeon-major of the " Crocodile," man-of- war, treated three hundred cases of inflammatory dysentery with Aconite : there was intense fever ; hard, contracted, rapid pulse ; vio- lent headache; a dry and bitter mouth, although the tongue was flat- tened and not much loaded; tenderness of the abdomen, colic, dis- tressing pulsation in the right hypochondrium, and tenesmus. The effects of the Aconite quite surpassed his expectations, for the in- flammatory symptoms subsided in less than a day, and the blood dis- appeared from the stools in a few hours ; he always found it to abate the haemorrhage and lessen the fever, the pain in the belly also be- coming relieved, and the stools passing easier, even a few hours after the first dose. But the Aconite exerted no other effects upon the stools than removing the blood from them, their mucous and glairy characters continuing as before, and even their number not undergo- ing a diminution proportionate to the improvement of the other symp- toms ; it would seem to exert a very feeble action on the intestinal contractions, but promptly subdues the febrile action and the excite- ment produced in the various organs. Aconite does not cure the dysentery, but so modifies its nature as to render it amenable to treatment that proved useless before. After Aconite, Ipecac, came in play ; Mercury was given when the liver and pancreas were disor- dered, the stools being green, opaque, or foamy and muco-purulent. He did not lose one case out of three hundred. It renders the evacuations in inflammatory dysentery and diarrhoea less irritating, and removes the fever.—J. C. P. In simple inflammatory, catarrhal, and spasmodic croups, I have been in the habit of relying almost exclusively upou tincture of Aconite root and Tartar-emetic, in alternation; and, I may say, always with success, and that right promptly. It is a great waste of time, how- ever, to use these remedies in true membranous croup : Bromine, Am- mon.-caust., Iod., Merc, or Bichrom.-pot., are there required.—J. C. P. Borda recommends it in pneumonia, after the first violence of the 70 aconitum napelltjs inflammation is broken, and spasmodic coagh, suspicious expecxira tion, great irritability of the lungs, and an erethistic state remains Busch and Beaumes advise it in pulmonary consumption, during the erethistic inflammatory stage, with flying stitches of pain in the chest ■aid feverishness ; also when the tubercles are softening and the sputa are fetid and of bad character. Kindervater, of Hanover, has de- pended upon it for twenty years in the cure of all acute internal rheu- matic inflammations, i. e., all those that are caused by taking #old, such as rheumatic pleurisy, pneumonia, bronchitis, peritonitis, acute ar- thritis, &c. The above are all allopathic authorities; another, Dr. Routh (see London Lancet, Aug., 1855), says, the first indication in pneumonia is to diminish the general fever and the increased pulmo- nary respiration; thes-c can be effected by the tincture of the root oi Aconite, on the action of which, in small and repeated doses, he dwells at length, and especially in reference to its certainty of action and utility as compared with the ordinary tincture.—J. C. P. In lumbago, Fleming used Aconite in ten cases, and in each a com- plete cure was effected; it was used internally and externally, and relief was felt speedily in every case. It seems homoeopathic to spinal irritation. Vogt says, after great restlessness, Aconite causes relaxation, dimi- nution of heart and pulse-beats, head becoming confused, often very painful, the face more puffed-up and livid, pains set in in the limbs, especially so-called bone-pains, and pains in the joints, until, under profusely out-breaking sweat and increased flow of urine, the symp- toms generally disappear. It seems not only to produce the pains, but also the crises, by sweat and urine, of rheumatism.—J. C. P. J. A. Schmidt has advanced the conjecture that it acts prominently upon the fibrous tissues, external skin, and pulmonary mucous mem- brane—far less upon the lymphatic system and glands. Vogt thinks this notion is not far from the truth, if we call to mind the pains in the bones and joints, the sweat, itching, and springing up of vesicles (like rheumatic miliaria ?); in further corroboration, he adds, that the observations of the best practitioners have found it more serviceable in diseases of the fibrous tissues, and even Storek admits that it is far less serviceable in glandular affections than Conium, although it is a ^uch more acrid and energetic drug.—J. C. P. Sobernheim says it causes painful sensations in the joints ana bones, which disappear after the breaking out of a profuse sweat and abundant secretion of urine, and adds that it differs from Conium b\ its more prominent action on the fibrous system and external skin whence arise the bone and joint-pains. aconitum napellus. 71 Harnisch says it causes pain, fullness, and trembling of the limbs especially of the lower extremities, and the patient at the same time often suffers from the most violent pains in the bones and joints. Kuttner says, general painfulness of all the joints not unfregnently arises after large doses of Aconite. Harnisch adds that the skin-eruptions, profuse sweats, also tJie pains in the joints, limbs, and bones, all prove the peculiar action of Aconite upon the skin and fibrous tissues, which is to increase the activity of them. Harnisch thinks it is to be doubted whether the good effects of Aconite against rheumatic and gouty joint-, limb-, and bone-pains depend upon its homoeopathic power (which it certainly possesses) of causing similar effects on the healthy ; the violent pains, which it causes in the bones, limbs, and joints, prove the peculiar action of it upon those parts, and depend partly upon an inflamma- tory-like irritation, and in part upon a purely nervous affection ; hence, he says, if this remedy cures these complaints according to the ho- moeopathic law, it should also, as it quickens the pulse and circula- tion, and causes febrile symptoms, cure acute rheumatism and febrile gout.—J. C. P. There is a vast quantity of old-school testimony to the efficacy of Aconite in rheumatism and similar affections. Noack and Trinks say it is used in the old-school practice in rheumatic-spasmodic asthma; in arthritic affections of the chest; in lumbago and ischias; in stiffness of the limbs (rheumatic); in rheumatic swellings ; in rheu- matic swelling of the periosteum ; in rheumatic swelling of the bones; in local bone-pains ; in mercurial disease, taking the form of rheuma- tism ; in rheumatism ; in wandering rheumatism ; in rheumatism of the joints ; in gout, nodous gout, and gout with paralysis ; in violent pains in the limbs ; in rheumatic metastases to internal parts.—In Germany, it is regarded as the main remedy against chronic rheumatism. Of fourteen recipes for Aconite, in Sobernheim's " Materia Medica," eleven are for rheumatism. Sobernheim says it is the main remedy in rheumatic and gouty affections, partly chronic and inveterate, at- tended with abnormal metamorphoses, partly fixed and very painful, and occurring in the form of joint-rheumatism and joint-gout; he thinks it allays the pains by actively exciting the suppressed perspi- ration and causing profuse diaphoresis. Graefe, Schmidt, Rust, Lom- bard, Kopp, Brera, G. A. Richter, Stark, Hufeland, Storck, Barthez, Scudamore, Vering, &c, all join in recommending it.—J. C. P. Vogel advises it in atonic gout, and in the head-gout which occurs in the form of hemicrania, with predominant affection of the fibrotu dura-mater. 72 aconitum napellus. Greding recommends it in affections of the heart and chest, from rheumatic and arthritic causes. Kahleis, Davies, and Lombard, in rheumatism of the heart and affections of the fibrous portion of the pericardium. Vogt says, in many instances, pretty rapid relief from pain has been caused by it; but most of such cases seem to have been of rheumatic or arthritic origin, and ceased when Aconite-perspiration set in. Harnisch says it cures chronic rheumatic and arthritic inflamma- tions of the stomach and bowels. Storck cured the most violent rheumatic pains, which do not allow of the use of the arms and legs. Thilenius says it relieves nocturnal syphilitic bone-pains far better than Opium. Storck thought that the syphilitic acridities, which attacked the nerves and bones, and caused the pains, were solved by the Aconite, brought into the general circulation, and then cast out by the profuse sweats and urinations which ensue under the use of it.—J. C. P. The alcoholic extract of Aconite, according to Lombard, possesses a specific curative power against acute joint-rheumatism; he says it quickly relieves the pains, and rapidly promotes the absorption of the effused synovial fluid from the affected joint; he used it exclusively f^r two years in the Hospital at Geneva. Kopp advises it in rheumatic pains with syphilitic basis. Brera, in nocturnal syphilitic bone-pains. Pereira says, as a topical remedy, it is most valuable for the relief of neuralgic and rheumatic pains ; in rheumatic pains, unaccompanied with local swelling or redness, it is frequently of great service; in painful conditions of the intercostal and other respiratory muscles, occurring in rheumatic individuals, Pereira has found this remedy most valuable. In acute rheumatism, it has not proved successful in his hands, but he has been informed of cases occurring to others in which it has been of great service; he adds, in rheumatism, it has frequently proved serviceable when combined with a sudorific regi men; and he has seen it give great relief to rheumatic pains. In rheumatic hypertrophy of the heart, it has been recommended by Lombard, of Geneva, on account of its decidedly sedative effects jpon that organ.—J. C. P. Pereira says the application of the tincture, as an embrocation, in neuralgia and rheumatism is invaluable, and adds further : " Of the great efficacy of Aconitina in neuralgic and rheumatic affections no one can entertain a doubt who has submitted the remedy to a trial." Vogt says it is among those remedies which onlv cure after a pro- aconitum napellus. 73 tracted use; it is praised with justice in old and atonio dyscrasias as the rheumatic, arthritic, psoric, and degenerate syphilitic; espe- cially when these affections have attacked the periosteum, articular apparatus, the muscular and tendinous sheaths or have lasted for a long time, and are deeply seated. He says it is used in acute and chronic rheumatism and chronic gout. In acute joint-rheumatism, he says, Aconite is now admitted to be one of the most efficient remedies, which most quickly relieves the pains, and even aids much in facili- tating the absorption of the effusions about and in the joints, and lessens the inflammation, especially when combined with Colchicum. Not less great is its curative influence in chronic rheumatism, even in those forms which are increased to the highest grade of neuralgia, viz., in prosopalgia and ischias, in which Roche, Thealier, and others, have praised it as almost a specific. Also in diseases of the fibrous tissues and bones, viz., in tophi, dolores-osteocopi, &c, when de- pendent upon venereal, arthritic, rheumatic, or degenerate scrofu- lous dyscrasia, it, according to the most experienced practitioners, effects more than any other narcotico-acrid remedy.—J. C. P. It also caused dizziness, dimness of sight, and a great vivacit}7 of impressions, which the patient compared to the magic lantern, which appeared to her as soon as she closed her eyes; also caused stiffness of the diseased arm, dizziness, fanciful visions, sudden flushes of the face, and a great liveliness of impressions, almost always accompa- nied with gay and pleasing thoughts (like Opium). From the first day, the pains were much diminished, and each time the dose was increased the pains were calmed in proportion. Fi- nally, the large articulations, such as the wrist, elbow, and shoulder, were more promptly cured than those of the fingers, although the lat- ter were first affected ; perhaps, hence, were more fixed. The ozdema followed the course of the pains, i. e., disappeared from around the large joints more rapidly than from the smaller.—J. C. P. Lombard thinks Aconite possesses a specific virtue for the disper- sion of rheumatic inflammations when seated in the joints. It does not appear to destroy the principle of rheumatism, for this attacks other joints while the patient is using it; hence, without exerting a pre- servative action, it cures rheumatism by neutralizing its morbid in- fluence wherever it tends to fix itself. Patients have declared that they have found a diminution of paiu in the space of an hour, but usually the sedative effect was only evident at the end of several hours. The antiphlogistic action, which arrests the inflammation and tumefaction, whether internal or external to the joint, is commonly more slow; as twelve to twenty-four hours is the most common period 4 74 ACONITUM NAPELLUS for this amelioration; sometimes, however, thirty-six to forty-eight hours elapse. Its influence extends to the synovial membranes, and con tributes powerfully to the absorption of the effusions which exist in almost all cases of acute rheumatism. Its influence on the nervous system is very remarkable : as soon as the doses are a little increased, there is observed a certain excitement of the brain, characterized by noctur- nal visions, by a peculiar gaiety, and a great vivacity of impressions ; the circulation of the brain also appears to be modified in such a way as to produce vertigoes; with dazzlings and flushes of heat in the face. The digestive organs were but little or not at all affected. Appetite re- returns after the second or third day, and remain good. Some com- plain of a disagreeable mouth, and have a little whiteness of the tongue. The stools were increased in frequency in one case only ; but not altered in quantity or quality. Hence Lombard was forced to con- sider that this remedy acts neither as a derivative nor a sudorific, bu1 as a specific remedy against rheumatic inflammations, one whose ac- tion is upon the fibrous and tendinous parts which surround the joints, as well as upon the synovial membrane lining them.—J. C. P. Dierbach classes Aconite among the diaphoretica-acrida in com- pany with Ledum-palustris, Rhododendron-chrysanthum, Rhus-toxi- codendron, Dulcamara, Pulsatilla-nigricantis, Chelidonium-majoris. Lombard says Storck, who first used this remedy in rheumatism, thought he observed a sudorific virtue in it, and was struck with this indication. However, in eight or ten cases of acute articular rheu- matism, which Lombard treated with Aconite, there was but one in which its use was followed by abundant perspiration; all the other cures were obtained without any sudorific action, and even in one case it arrested copious sweatings which had lasted fifteen days. Vogt says, in small doses it frequently causes a great increase of the secretions; but thinks this action is most marked upon the skin, where, besides copious sweats, it often causes violent itching, and for- mication with springing up of vesicles. Storck noticed its great affinity to the skin, especially when perspi- ration has been suppressed.—J. C. P. Dierbach says, even in small doses it exerts a great influence upon the skin; this Storck noticed in his experiments upon himself, an<^ thence drew the conclusion that it might, prove serviceable in rheu matic and arthritic affections. The diaphoresis takes place under violent itching, and in arthritic and rheumatic diseases not infre- quently passes over into profuse sweats; which at times, however, only show themselves on the most diseased parts, upon which red ACONITUM NAPELLUS. 75 vesicles (perhaps like rheumatic miliaria) or pustules, filled with watery fluid, at times spring up. In some persons, it also excites an abundant secretion of strongly saturated urine. Sobernheim thinks it acts es- pecially upon the skin and uropoetic organs; causing increased and altered urine, which is very much saturated and highly tinged. Dupont has published a curious case of chronic general perspira- tion, which had lasted upwards of six years, and resisted all treat- ment, until extract of Aconite was given ; at first, in one-half grain doses, gradually increased until sixteen grains per day were taken. (See " Wilson on the Skin," p. 272).—J. C. P. Our experience has confirmed most of the above observations, with the exception, perhaps, of croup. In angina-membranacea, or true croup, the continued use of Aconite involves a vital loss of time: Tartar-emetic, or Bichromate of Potash, should be instantly applied, according to their indications. In the advanced stages of phthisis- pulmonalis, a sudden sense of suffocation sets in, attended by pros- tration and expression of death, which we have promptly palliated by repeated doses of this drug.—Ed. GENERAL SYMPTOMS. — *Shooting pains, °or rheumatic, which are reproduced by wine or other stimulants.—*Sufferings which, particularly at night, seem insufferable, and which generally disappear in a sitting posture.—*Attacks of pain, with thirst and redness of the cheeks.—^Distressing sensibility of body, and espe- cially of the parts affected, to every movement, and to the slightest touch.—°Pain as from a bruise, and sensation of heaviness in all the limbs.—A sensation of drawing, with paralytic weakness in the arms and legs.—Failure of strength and stability, pains and cracking in the joints, principally of the legs.—Rapid and general decay of strength.—*Attacks of fainting, °chiefly on rising from a recumbent posture,—and sometimes with ^congestion of blood in the head, °buz- zing in the ears, *deadly paleness of countenance, and shuddering. —*Uneasiness, as if from suppressed perspiration, or in consequence of a chill, with pain in the head, buzzing in the ears, colic, and cold in the head.—Sensation of cold and of stagnation of blood in all the vessels.—Shaking in the limbs.—Cataleptic attack, with cries, grind- ing of the teeth, and sobs.—Swelling of the whole body, which as 6umes a blackish color. Characteristic Peculiarities.—°Acute local, and especially con- gestive inflammations, with great erethism of the nerves and the vascular system; violent fever, the pains appearing intolerable.— ° Congestions, especially of the chest, heart, and head, arising from plethora.—Inflammation of the serous membranes. — °Neuralgia, 76 ACONITUM NAPELLUS. rheumatism, and arthritis, accompanied with *stingvig pains, or with a lame and numb feeling in the affected parts, °violent intoler* able pains, and great nervousness.—°External and internal dry heat of the affected parts.—°Great sensitiveness of the affected parts from contact and movement.—*Pains as if bruised.—°Paroxysms of pain, with thirst and redness of face.—°Various affections consequent upon fright and chagrin, especially in females, during the catamenia.— °Aconite is particularly suitable to persons with bright redness ol the cheeks, especially young girls of a plethoric habit, disposed to rushes of blood, who are lively, nervous, irritable, and lead a sedentary life. °Wine and other heating substances renew the pains.—° The pains are particularly intolerable at night, and disappear, for the most part, when sitting.—Many of the symptoms appear in the even- ing, or early in the morning, and frequently diminish in the open air.—^Complaints arising from a cold, °especially from the effects oi dry and cold weather, from a current of air, and particularly from the east wind (this is a dry and sharp wind in Germany). Skin.—Crawling, itching, and desquamation of the skin, especially of the parts affected.—Itching over the whole body, especially on the genitals.—Entire body (of a child) painful, and distressingly sen- sitive to the touch.—*Skin dry and burning.—A sensation of crawling and burning, extending through the entire body, especially the arms and feet.—°Swelling and burning heat of injured or suffer- ing parts.—^Yellowish color of the skin.—Single, long-continued stitches, here and there mixed with a sensation of soreness, and finally terminating in a diffused sore feeling.—Fine prickings, as from needles, on different parts of the body.—Spots similar to flea- bites on the hands, on the body, and elsewhere.—Vesicles red and broad, attended by itching.—Reddish vesicles, filled with an acrid fluid.—°Morbilli.—°Purpura-miliaris.—° Rubeola.—° Variola. Sleep.—Great desire to sleep, even while walking, but principally after dinner; frequent yawning and stretching.—°Drowsiness, with anxious fancies and rapid respiration.—*Dreams and confused re- veries during the waking state, -and springing out of heo\.^-*Sleep- lessness, °with anxiety, ^restlessness, and continued tossing from one side to the other, in consequence of pain, with inability to lie either on the right side or back.—*Startings in sleep.__* Anxious dreams, with nightmare.—Dreams, with a sort of clairvoyance.— Light sleep.—^Impossibility of lying on the side.—During sleep, one lies on the back, with one hand under the occiput; or gets in a sitting posture, with the head inclined forward.—^Nightly delirium. Fever.—Cold shiverings over the arms and feet, continually, oi aconitum napellus. 77 of the back and arms ; also on the face, or ascend from below interior ly to the chest; sometimes *in the evening, after lying down, also with frequent yawning, after rising early in the morning.—Universa.1 chilliness, with internal dry heat, hot forehead, and tips of the ears; or, with redness of cheeks and pains in the limbs; or, coldness, with stiffness of the whole body, heat and redness of one choek, and cold- ness and paleness of the other ; open and staring eyes, and contracted pupils, which dilate slowly and lightly, and only in the dusk.—Cold- ness and chilliness, and paleness, at first of the finger-points, and then of the fingers, followed by cramp in the calves of the legs and in the soles of the feet, and, finally, chilliness of the forehead.— °Chilliness if uncovered in the least (#or by movement) during the hot stage of fever.—° Frequent shiverings, with dry, burning heat of the skin.—Chilliness and coldness of the hands and feet, towards evening; then inclination to vomit, which ceases after taking food, that is neither craved nor disliked, followed by heat of the face, and sad and despairing thoughts.—*Burning heat, especially in the head and face, towards evening, with redness of the cheeks, shivering over the entire body, pressing-outward headache, with thirst and anguish. —Alternating paroxysms of redness of the cheeks ; either with heat of the head, universal shivering, and natural taste; or, heat over the whole body, headache with rolling the eyes, and puerile gaiety ; or, shiverings attended by weeping, and oppressive headache ; or, obsti- nacy and opposition, with burning around the navel.—°Fevers, inflam- matory, and with local inflammation, violent dry heat, burning dry- ness of the skin, excessive thirst, redness, or alternate redness or paleness of the countenance; great nervousness, restlessness, moan- ing and tossing, fears and anxiety, painful congestion of the head, vertigo and delirium, the latter chiefly at night.—^Slight perspira- tion over the entire body.—Copious sweat, with diarrhoea and increase of urine.—°Constant sweat, especially on the covered parts.—Sour sweat. — °Pulse hard, frequent, and accelerated. — Feverish, fre- quently intermittent pulse.—Pulse feeble, 120, intermitting after every second stroke. Moral Symptoms.—*'Inconsolable anguish, piteous howlings, la- mentations and reproaches, from trifling causes ; painfully anxious lamentations, attended by disheartening apprehensions, despair, loud moaning and weeping, bitter complaints and reproaches.— Great anxiety, attended by palpitation of the heart, oppressed breathing, increased heat of the body and face, and great weariness in all the limbs, followed by congestion of the head, and stupefaction, with fleeting redness of the face.—^Lamenting apprehensions oj 78 aconitum napellus. approaching death, designating the day of her death.—F resenti ments as if in a state of clairvoyance.—Anthropophobia and misan- thropy.—*A strong tendency to be angry, or to be frightened, -and to quarrel.—The least noise, even music, appears insufferable.—Fit- ful humor: at one time sad, depressed, irritable, and despairing; at another time gay, excited, full of hope, and disposed to sing and dance.—* Alternate paroxysms of laughter and tears. — * Anxiety respecting one's malady, and despair of cure.—°Fear of spectres.— ^Disposition to run away from one's bed.—Mind, as it were, para- lyzed, with incapability of reflection, and a sensation as if all the intellectual functions were performed in the region of the stomach. —Paroxysms of folly and madness.—Unsteadiness of ideas.—*De lirium, especially at night.—Weakness of memory. Head.—* Vertigo, °particularly on raising the head, -or else on rising from one's seat, from stooping, or moving the head, and often *with a sensation of intoxication or reeling in the head, loss of con- sciousness, -dimness of the eyes, nausea, and qualmishness at the pit of the stomach.—*On going into a warm room, the forehead feels as if it were compressed.—*Headoche, as if a portion of the brain, here and there, were raised up, which is aggravated by the least motion, and even by speaking and drinking.—*Pain in the head, with in- clination to vomit, also vomiting.—Dull headache, as if the head were bruised, with bruised feeling in all the limbs.—The brain feels as if contracted in the forehead. — Compressed, tensive headache behind the orbits.—*The forehead is grasped with pinching pain, as if in the bones, or over the root of the nose, as if she would lose her reason, -aggravated by walking in the open air.—^Fullness and heaviness in the forehead, as from a weight, which, with the entire brain, would press through the forehead, -or as if the eyes would start out of their sockets.—*Piercing and throbbing, and piercing- throbbing in the head, forehead, or temples, -as if from an abscess • sometimes induced by walking and abated by sitting.—Lacerating pain in the left temple, with roaring and ringing in tho ears.__Sen- sation as if a ball rose from the umbilical region and diffused a cool ness through the vertex and occiput.—Burning headache, as if the brain were moved by boiling water.—^Congestion of the head, with heat and redness of face, or with a sensation of heat in the brain sweat on the scalp, and paleness of the face.—Crepitation, as from the crumpling of tinsel, in the temples, nose, and forehead.__Senaa. tion in the vertex as if pulled by the hair.—Pain in the head, as if from taking cold after profuse perspiration, with buzzing in the ears, cold in the head, and colic—^Aggravation of the pains in tho aconitum napellus. 79 head by movement, speaking, rising from a recumbent position, and by drinking; relief experienced in the open air. Eyes.—*Eyes red and inflamed, with deep redness of the vessels, -and intolerable pains—°Acute ophthalmia.—^Profuse lachryma- tion, -and with intense pain.—Vertiginous dimness of vision.— Frightful inflammation of the eyes, with lachrymation.—Transitory blindness in many cases. — Heat and burning in the eyes, with *pressive and °shooting pains, especially on moving the balls.— °Swelling of the eyes*—^Dilated pupils.—Dryness, heaviness, and pressure of the upper eye-lids, and ^inflammatory swelling of the lids, especially early in the morning.—°Eyes sparkling, -convulsed, and prominent.—Look fixed.—*Excessioe photophobia, -or a strong desire for light.—Black spots and mist before the eyes.—Sudden attacks of blindness. Ears.—Tearing in the ears, or tickling (as of a small worm in the right ear).—Ringing and *roaring in the ears.—A sensation of stoppage of the ears, or as if something obstructed the left ear.— Excessive sensitiveness of hearing, and intolerance of every noise. Nose.—Stupefying pressure over the root of the nose.—*Bleeding from the nose, °especially in plethoric persons.—Smell very sensi- tive.—Violent sneezing, with pain in the abdomen, or in the region of the left ribs—Coryza, headache, humming in the ears, and colic. Face.—Bluish face, with black lips.—°(During the febrile parox- ysms) the face is swollen, red, and hot, or red and pale.—Redness of one cheek and paleness of the other, or redness of both cheeks.— °On rising up. the red face becomes pale as death.—*Sweat on the forehead, -the upper lip, omd the cheek on which one is lying.— Distortion of the facial muscles.—Tingling pain -and sensation as if swollen in the cheeks.— Ulcerative pain in the malar bones.— 0Lateral prosopalgia, with swelling of the lower jaw.—*Lips black °and dry.—Burning, tingling, and piercing jerks in the lov;erjaw. Teeth.—° Toothache (especially from cold) in a raw air, with throb- bing pains in one side in the face, intense redness of the cheek, con- gestion of the head, burning heat in the face, and great restlessness. —°Rheumatic tooth and faceache, especially in sensitive and con- gestive subjects, renewed or aggravated by wine or other stimulants ; also if caused by agitation of the mind, especially chagrin.—°Con- gestive tooth (and faceache), especially in lively, young, and sedentary girls. Mouth.—^Sensation of dryness, or dryness of the mouth and tongue; also with heat, ascending from the chest to the head. Cool ness and dryness of the mouth, or sensation of dryness and roughness 80 ACONITUM NAPELLUS. of the middle of the tongue, without thirst.—Numbness and tingling of the tongue.—Tingling, biting, piercing, and burning of the tongue.—Paralysis of the tongue, especially at its point.—° Trem- bling, temporary stammering speech.—Soreness of the oriflces of the salivary ducts, as if corroded.—Ptyalism, with stitches in the tongue. Throat and Oesophagus.—Scraping in the throat, with difficulty of swallowing.—Piercing choking, at first of the left, then of the right side of the throat, especially when swallowing or talking.— ^Burning, fine piercing, -and astringent sensation in the fauces.— 0Acute inflammation of the throat, with violent fever; also with dark redness of the parts (the fauces, velum-palati, tonsils), almost entire inability to swallow, and hoarseness.—Dryness of the throat Violent pain in the throat. Appetite and Taste.—* Taste bitter, or insipid and fishy, as from stagnant water, or from bad eggs.—°Bitter taste of all kinds of food and drinks, excepting water.—*Loss of appetite, -with sourish taste in the mouth; or bitter taste, with pains in the chest, and under the short ribs.—°Aversion to food.—Pepper taste. — *Burnins, un- quenchable thirst for beer, -which sometimes oppresses the stomach. Gastric Symptoms.—Rising of sweetish water into the mouth, like waterbrash, sometimes with nausea.—Scraping sensation from the pit of the stomach to the throat, with nausea, qualmishness, and a sensation as if water would rise.—Singultus, especially in the morning, or else after eating or drinking.—Empty, or ineffectual effort to eructate.—Loathing, qualmishness, nausea, and inclination to vomit, especially in the pit of the stomach, sometimes while walk- ing in the open air; somotimes worse when sitting, and better when walking.—Inclination to vomit, as after eating anything sweet o? fat.— Vomiting, with nausea, thirst, general heat, profuse sweat, and eneuresis.— Vomiting of blood, of blood and mucus, of green bile, of lumbrici.—Inclination to vomit, with violent diarrhoea.__In a hysterical person, before eating in the morning, vomiting of mucus, with nausea and gagging, renewed after eating and drinking, with stomach-ache, and violent pressing pains in the forehead and orbits of the eyes.—°Vomiting of large quantities of dark-red, coagulated blood. Stomach.—Pressure, as of a load or stone in the stomach and pit of the stom,ach (with feeling of repletion); it increases to asthma, or extends to the back, with contraction, sensation of stiffness, as from lifting.—Stomach-ache.—Aching and coldness of the stomach.__ Feeling as if a cold ball lay in the stomach, and ascended, and spread a cool air over the vertex and occiput.—Painful feeling of swettin° AC0NITUM NAt'ELLUS. 8! in the pit of the stomach, with want of appetite, end paroxysms oi shortness of breath.—Contraction in the stomach, as of astringents —° Violent pains in the stomach, after eating or drinking.—"In- flammation of the stomach?—*Tightness, pressure, fullness, and weight in the hypochondria.—*Pressure in the region of the liver, with oppression and arrest of breathing.—°Acute hepatitis, with violent fever, and painful sensitiveness of the region of the liver to the touch.—^Jaundice.—Complete jaundice, twice produced in one case, toxicologically. Abdomen.—Drawing in of the umbilicus, especially early in the morning, before breakfast.—Burning in the umbilical region, some- times spreading to the pit of the stomach, with anxious throbbing, piercing, and vanishing with a chill.—Pinching, griping, and wring- ing in the umbilical region.—Compression of the navel, with spas- modic pressure at intervals.—Sensation above the umbilicus, on the left side of it, as if something cold were pressing out in that region. Drawing pains in the abdomen, extending from both sides to the umbilicus, which are excited by stooping with the abdomen.—*The abdomen is sensitive to the touch.—°Inflammation of the bowels and peritoneum.—°Inflammation of the intestines, with intense burning and lacerating pains in the umbilical region, becoming intolerable to pressure, and aggravated by turning on the left side ; with distention of the abdomen, paroxysms of anguish, frequent hiccough, constipa- tion, loss of appetite and sleep.—*The abdomen is distended and swollen, as in dropsy.—°Ascites ?—Colicky pains in the abdomen, with tension and pi'essure, as from flatulence.—Rumbling, grumb- ling, and fermentation in the abdomen, either with raw feeling, or during the entire night.—°Inflammation of the hernial stricture, especially when accompanied with bitter, bilious vomiting Stool and Anus.—°Constipation in acute affections.— Diarrlioea, with nausea and sweat, either before or after.—^Frequent, scanty, and loose stools, with tenesmus.—Diarrhoea, with eneuresis and colic. —* Watery diarrhoea.—* White stools, with red urine.—Momentary paralysis of the anus, with involuntary stools.—Pain in the rectum —Piercing and pressure in the anus.—Bleeding piles. Urinary Organs.—Retention or suppression of urine, with pres- sure in the bladder, or piercing in the region of the kidneys.—In- continence of urine, sometimes accompanied with profuse sweat, with frequent watery diarrluza, and colic.—Painful, anxious urging to urinate, with excessive watery urination, sometimes excited by touching the hypogastrium.—Difficult and scanty emission of urine, with frequent urging, and sometimes with pinching around the urn- 4* 6 82 ACONITUM naphllus. bilicus.—Brown, burning urine, with brick-colortd sediment.—°In frequent urination, with bright-red, hot urine, without sediment —Momentary paralysis of the bladder, with involuntary emission oj urine.—Burning and tenesmus of the neck t the bladder.—Stitches in the kidneys, with retention of urine. Male Genital Organs.—Itching of the prepuce. Piercing and pinching in the glans, on urinating.—Pain in the scrotum, as if contused.—Tingling in the genital organs.—Amorous paroxysms.— Diminished or increased sexual desire, alternating with relaxation of the penis.—°Inflammation of the scrotum ?—Itching of the genital organs. Female Genital Organs.—*Increased and profuse menses, Espe- cially in plethoric females.—°Suppression of the catamenia, in lively young girls of plethoric and sedentary habit.—Frenzy on the ap- pearance of the catamenia.—Metrorrhagia.—Copious, tenacious, yel- lowish Heucorrluxa.—° Complaints in pregnancy, especially fear oj death.—°Phlegmasia-alba-dolens of lying-in women ?—Increase of milk in the mammae.—°Milk fever, especially in plethoric females, and when violent delirium sets in.—°Puerperal fever, especially with peritonitis.—°Varicella and benign rash of infants 1 Larynx and Trachea.—Attacks of catarrh and coryza, sometimes accompanied with headache, colic, humming in the ears, and enure- sis.—Hoarseness early in the morning.—Croaking voice.—Relaxa- tion of the epiglottis, allowing food and drink to enter the larynx, causing suffocation and cough.—Sensation as if the trachea ivas benumbed.—*Cough in the hot stage of a fever.—*Short dry cough, arising from a. titillation in the larynx, with constant inclination to »cough, -particularly excited by smoking or drinking, or *at night, or -after midnight, and returning every half-hour.—°Spasmodic, rough, ■croaking cough, sometimes with danger of suffocation, and constriction •of the windpipe.—° Cough, with thick, white, bloody, or raucous ex- pectoration.—°Dry cough, with heat over the body, thirst, and great restlessness.—° Cough whenever one takes cold, and which is particu- larly troublesome at night—°Dry cough, which allows no rest at night., with constant irritation and oppression in the upper half of the left lobe of the lungs.—°Whooping cough, first stage, especially when dry and whistling, with fever and burning pain in the larynx and trachea. — ° Grippe, with inflammatory condition of the pleura or lungs; or with rheumatic symptoms, catarrh of the windpipe, and sore throat.—°Membranous croup—inflammatory stage, especially in excitable, nervous, and vascular subjects. Burning heat, thirst, short cough, quick and hurried breathing.—*Hcemoptysis, in preg AC0NITUM napellus. 83 nancy, without pain, but with nocturnal anguish, lamentation, and whimpering; bright red face, and improvement in the recumbent posture.—°Inflammation of the trachea and bronchia.—°The larynx feels painful to touch. Chest —*Shortness of breath, especially when sleeping, after mid- night, °or on rising up.—*Fetid breath.—° The breathing is anxious, labored, sobbing, or quick and superficial; or loud, strong, and noisy, with open mouth and asthma.—Slow breathing during sleep.— ^Paroxysms of suffocation, with anxiety.—Asthma.—Irregular and spasmodic respiration.—Stertorous respiration.—Oppression of chest. —Oppression, with a sensation of contraction and anxiety in the chest.—Asthmatic complaints, especially in sensitive, plethoric young persons (particularly young girls), who lead a sedentary life, or in whom the attacks are brought on by the least excitement of feeling.—° Asth- matic complaints of adults, especially if there be great congestion of the head, vertigo, a full and strong pulse, or even haemoptysis. —°A kind of asthma-millari, with a violent, hoarse, crowing cough, at night, danger of suffocation, and constriction of the trachea.—An- guish in the chest, arresting the breathing, and accompanied with warm sweat on the forehead.—Aching pain in the chest, which is only relieved for a short time, by bending the trunk backwards.— Aching, oppressive, and constrictive pain in the chest or side of the chest.—Pain in the chest as if the sides were drawn towards one another.—Piercing and stitches in the chest and its sides, especially on respiring and coughing; frequently with a plaintive and whining mood, with anguish and ill humor, or with oppression of breathing. —°Pneumonia and pleurisy, especially in the first stage, during violent fever, accompanied with heat and thirst, dry cough, and extreme nervousness.—°Carditis?—Feeling of heaviness about the heart.—°Chronic affections of the heart, with constant pressure in the left side of the chest, difficult breathing from violent exercise and going up-stairs, with stitches in the region of the heart, oppressive congestion of the head, fainting fits, and aggravations in the fall and spring.—^Palpitation of the heart, with great anguish, ° general heat, especially in the face, and feeling as if the muscles were severely beaten.—°Palpitation of the heart in young, plethoric, sensitive persons, especially of sedentary habit.—Intermitting and irregular 'pulse. Three radial beats to one impulse of the apex, contractions of left ventricle still being synchronous with pulse. Right auricle seems to be in a constant convulsive state, its actions quick, ir regular, and disproportionate. Trunk or Back.—A bruised sensation, or a painful lame stiffness 84 ACONITUM NAPELLUS. on motion, in the small of the back and loins, often extending to the back and neck.—Painful boring to the left of the lumbar vertebra. —A rooting, boring pain from the right scapula to the chest, in- creased by an inspiration.—Rheumatic pain in the neck, only when moving it.—Aching pain in the left half of a cervical vertebra.— Pressing pain in the neck, as if pressure were made with the tip of a finger, from without inwards, in the direction of the trachea.— °Painful stiffness of the nape of the neck. Upper Extremities.—Numbness and paralysis of the left arm, which scarcely permits the hand to stir.—The arms hang down powerless, as if broken.—The arms feel chilly and insensible.—Lace- rating pain in the arm, from the shoulder to the wrist-joint and fingers seldom felt except during movement, with blueness of the hand during the pain.—Bruised pain in the shoulder-joint (also in the hip- joint).—Swelling of the deltoid muscle, which, when touched, feels painful, as if bruised.—Drawing pain in the elbow-joints.—Weight and debility in the fore-arms; pain as if from a blow.—Transient paralysis.—Drawing, with a sense of stitching and tearing, and pain excited by motion.—Contractive pain in the* hands and fingers.— Tearing and paralyzing drawing in the wrists (joints).—Numbness, icy coldness, and insensibility (deadness) of one hand.—Cool stveat in the palms of the hands.—Swelling of the hands, with frequent paroxysms of cough, and good appetite.—Feeling of fullness in the limbs, as if about to burst, accompanied with a sensation of numbness and pricking over the whole surface.—Pain in the thumbs, as if sprained and lame. When bending the fingers, violent stitches dart through the wrist-joint to the elbow-joint.—Tingling pain in the fingers, even while writing. Lower Limbs.—Tensive pressure in the thighs, with great weak- ness while walking.— Weakness in the region of the head of the femur, and inability to walk, with a feeling as if it had been crushed, particularly after lying down and sleeping.—Numbness and lameness in the left thigh.—Transient paralysis.— Unsteadiness of the knees, they totter and give way when walking.— Tearing in the knees, as from a jerk, in the inner side.—Drawing in the right leg and the region of the tendo-Achillis, extending as far as the heel. — The legs feel heavy.—The legs and feet feel numb, and go to sleep. —Coldness of the feet, extending as far as the malleoli, with sweat on the toes and soles of the feet. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—General convulsions, lasting about five minutes. Prickling over the whole body. Distressing restless- ness. Constant movement of the legs, like in chorea. Arms and legs aconitum napellus. 85 drawn inwards; fingers strongly clenched together; turned-in thumbs, and feet in a state of permanent abduction ; no convulsive shocks or jerks. Painfulness of all the joints, as if attacked by rheumatic in- flammation. Bruised and festered feeling of the whole body. Men- tality generally clear and unclouded—only obscured exceptionally. Transient paralysis. Feeling as if all the blood in ones veins was frozen ; then became dizzy, with burning in the head as if the skull were filled with boiling water. Clonic spasms and cold sweats, also tonic spasms. First feeling was a tingling heat in the tongue and jaws, with such strange alteration of sensation that neither friends nor the looking-glass could convince him thai his face was not enlarged to twice its size; this gradually extended, until it involved the wlwle body, especially the extremities. Slow and difficult respira- tion. Pulse quick and irregular. Skin burning hot. PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY.—In Men.—Bloated counte- nance ; expression of terror on the countenance—The abdomen is distended.—Blue spots on the neck and back.—The vessels of the brain considerably injected; the substance of the brain dotted with blackish points.—The lungs are heavy, bluish, violet-colored on the posterior surface; filled with blood; scarcely any crepitation.— The left ventricle is empty, the right is filled with clots of gelatinous blood.—The oesophagus, stomach, and bowels, as far as the coecum, are red and congested.—The blood-vessels, particularly the veins ol the bowels, are turgid with venous blood.—The liver and spleen are filled with a quantity of blackish blood.—Effusion of yellow serum into the abdominal cavity. 3.—ACTEA RACEMQSA. ACT.-RAC.—Cimicifuga Racemosa. Black Snake-root Rationale of its Action.—Dr. Mears, who tried it upon himself, reports a decided impression on the brain, evinced by a distressing pain in the head, and giddiness; it also increased the force and full- ness of the pulse, and produced a flushed condition of the face, fol- lowed by uneasiness in the stomach, and violent efforts to vomit. Dr. Garden had previously mentioned this tendency to affect the brain, which he compared to that of Digitalis; he also thinks that it acts powerfully upon the secreting organs and absorbents, and, in large doses, causes nausea, vertigo, anxiety, great restlessness, and pains in the extremities.—J. C. P. Chapman says, if given so as sensibly to affect the system, it causes 86 actea racemosa. flrst: some nausea, greater freedom of expectoration, more or 1c ■* relaxation of the skin, with slight nervous tremors and some vertigo , the pulse is apt to be considerably lowered, and to remain so for some time. It has also been supposed to act specifically upon the uterus. Dr. Hildreth, of Ohio, has found it, in large doses, to cause some vertigo, impaired vision, nausea and vomiting and a reduction of the force of the circulation.—J. C. P. Dr. N. J. Davis, of New-York, has uniformly found it to lessen the force and frequency of the pulse, to soothe pain, and allay irritability. From experiments conducted by our friend Dr. Henry D. Paine, of Albany, we find among the most prominent symptoms : Restlessness early in the morning, continuing for a week. Disposition to perspire at night, continuing for three weeks; these perspirations were ir- regular, usually occurring three or four times a week, about three, A. M., commencing while asleep, and disappearing a few minutes after waking ; never profuse. During the first week, the surface was cold with the perspiration, but, during the last ten days, the perspiration was attended by heat rather than coldness. Pain in the eye-balls was one of the most constant symptoms : it was an aching pain, situated in the centre of both eye-balls, rarely in one alone ; it con- tinued about three weeks after leaving off the drug. Another well- marked effect was anorexia, lasting for two weeks; a sensation of faintness in the epigastrium was also an important symptom, usually experienced in the morning, before eating; it did not entirely pre- vent eating, which was followed by a sense of repletion, as if too much food had been taken. The bowels regular at first, were followed by alternate constipation and tendency to diarrhoea. Symptoms of catar- rhal fever were supposed to be among the most common effects of the remedy—viz., pain in .the head, coryza, sore throat, dry, short, and hacking cough, continuing night and day, for two weeks.—J. C. P. Wood and Bache think that it stimulates the secretions of the skin, kidneys, and pulmonary mucous membrane. From Dr. Paine's ex- periments, it would seem to cause perspiration and eruptions upon the skin ; also frequent urination, and increased flow of pale urine ; finally, it excites secretion from the nasal and bronchial mucous mem- branes. It is supposed, by some eminent physicians, to be a good substitute for Ergot in parturition, although it acts in quite a different way—viz., by relaxing the parts, thereby rendering labor short and easy. Its action in rheumatism is said closely to resemble that oi Colchicum.—J. C. P. Nervous System.—It undoubtedly exercises considerable in- fluence over the nervous system, probably of a sedative character ■ ACTEA RACEMOSA. 87 but this power is shown rather in morbid states of the system than in health. Very large quantities cause no alarming effects. It is said to soothe pain and allay irritability.—J. C. P. 1. Nerves of Sensation.—Its effects upon these nerves seem to be secondary to its action on the vascular system. 2. Nerves of Motion.—It appears to exert a peculiar and specific action upon some of the diseases of the nerves of motion, especially in chorea, more especially when a rheumatic irritation falls upon the motor nerves and the muscles, and causes St. Vitus' dance. Dr. Davis says we cannot doubt its efficacy in chorea, in all cases arising from undue irritability or mobility of the nervous sys- tem, especially when induced by exposure to cold; in short, when chorea arises from a rheumatic irritation of the motor nerves and muscles, or of the anterior column of the spinal marrow.—J. C. P. Drs. Garden and Chapman say that, in large doses, it causes anxiety, great restlessness, slight nervous tremors, and pains in the extremi- ties. As it requires large quantities to produce these effects, it may be possible that large doses only are homoeopathic to chorea. Vascular System.—Dr. Davis has never known it to produce a per- ceptible increase of any of the secretions ; nor thinks it has the slight- est stimulating powers. He has uniformly found it to lessen the force and frequency of the pulse, to soothe pain, and allay irritability. In a word, he regards it as one of the most purely sedative agents we possess, and asserts it causes a depression of the pulse, which remains for a considerable time. In acute rheumatism, the only visible effects of the Actea are: Diminution of the force and frequency of the pulse; disappearance of the arthritic pains and inflammation, with occasional vertigo, or disposition to fall on attempting to assume the erect attitude. Hence it seems to exert a decidedly depressing and sedative effect upon the vascular system.—J. C. P. CLINICAL REMARKS.—It has proved curative in dyspepsia of several months' standing, with severe pain in the forehead, over the right eye, and extending to the temple and vertex, with fullness, heat, and throbbing; and, when going up-stairs, a sensation as if the top of the head would fly off; coldness and chills, particularly of the arms and fe.et; faintness in the epigastrium ; pain and regurgitation of food after eating. Also to various neuralgic pains incidont to the critical period of life, and severe pains in the head, particularly in the forehead and eye-balls. Also to dull pain in the head, fullness in the forehead and eyes, pain in the eye-balls, increased secretion of tears; fluent watery coryza, frequent sneezing ; soreness in the throat, causing dif- ficulty in swallowing; cough, particularly at night, caused by tickling 88 ACTEA racemosa. in the throat.—Paine. Dr. Davis says it will relieve many oases of severe headache, from simple irritation of the brain, in delicate fe- males. It has cured ophthalmia, with pain in the eye-balls, a sensa- tion as if they were enlarged, most severe in the morning; prickling in the inner canthus, aggravated by reading; inflammation of the eye-lids ; slight secretion of mucus only in the morning; sore throat; headache caused by reading. It seems homoeopathic to rheumatic and catarrhal ophthalmia; it may prove useful in sclerotitis and iritis. Some authors assert that they have never known it to produce a per- ceptible increase of any of the secretions ; others say that it operates powerfully upon the secreting organs and absorbents, and that it is expectorant and diaphoretic. It certainly seems homoeopathic to ca- tarrhal affections. It has cured chorea, when attended with almost complete loss of the power of swallowing. In the sore throat and cyuanche-maligna, a decoction of the root is recommended by Dr. Barton. It is an excellent remedy against dryness of the throat, or a dry spot in the throat, causing cough; also in dry coughs proceed- ing from irritation and tickling at the lower part of the larynx. It is peculiarly homoeopathic to a faint and sinking feeling at the pit of the stomach. It has been supposed, by some eminent physicians, to be a good substitute for Ergot in parturition: being dissimilar, how- ever, in its mode of action, relaxing the parts, and thereby rendering labor short and easy. Hence it is useful where there is great rigidity of the soft parts, such as occurs in females who have their first chil dren late; or in those who are remarkably firm and muscular, or in whom the os-uteri dilates slowly, from great muscular resistance and rigidity. In cases of parturition where the vagina is dry, and the os is rigid, this remedy will do good service. It facilitates labor, by rousing into increased action the mucous membrane, and thus sup. plying the parts with a lubrication. In domestic practice, it is occa- sionally employed to produce abortions, and in a few instances with success. In these cases a decoction of the root is used.—Chas. Sum- ner, M. D., while attempting to obtain provings of Actea-racemosa, did not observe any decided symptoms from the medicine, yet was relieved of a very troublesome hacking cough, of some months' stand- ing. Dr. Garden thought highly of it in consumption. In some parts of the country it has become a very popular remedy for coughs. Dr. Wheeler has found it useful in several cases of severe and pro- tracted cough, especially in the chronic cough or bronchitis of old people. Dr. Hildreth advises it in acute phthisis or gallopping con- sumption; he has often seen the most prompt relief from the decoc- tion alone against the febrile excitement or hectic paroxysms ; also in actea racemosa. 89 allaying the cough, reducing the rapidity and force of the pulse, and promoting gentle perspirations; he has often seen the same happy influence exerted against those intercurrent congestions and inflam- mations so frequent in the second and third stages of consumption, especially when caused by taking cold. Actea is a useful remedy.in rheumatic inflammations of the lungs, and especially in that form of consumption which arises without any especial hereditary tendency, from carelessness and exposure to cold and wet. Dr. Garden used it successfully for twenty years. He says, shortly after commencing its Qse, the lr Aic paroxysms are entirely checked, the night-sweats be- gin to diminish, the purulent expectoration is speedily improved, the cough becomes less troublesome and frequent, the pulse falls from 120 or 130 to the natural standard, the pain in the breast and sides abate, strength and appetite improves. It is supposed to possess tho peculiar power, in an eminent degree, of lessening arterial action, and, at the same time, imparting tone and energy to the system. The efficacy of Actea in chorea has already been dwelt upon. The evidence of a favorable influence over rheumatism, is of a decided character. Very many cases, including the severest forms of acute inflammatory rheumatism, have been treated with results satisfactory in the highest degree : every vestige of the disease disappearing in from two to eight or ten days, without inducing any sensible evacua- tion, or leaving behind a single bad symptom. It is particularly use- ful in the early and severe stages of acute rheumatism. It is compa- ratively of little use in sub-acute and chronic rheumatism ; the more iicute the disease, the more prompt and decided will be the action of the remedy. In large doses, it causes vertigo, dimness of vision, and a depression of the pulse, which remains for some time. It seems somewhat homoeopathic to rheumatism, or at least to rheumatic pains, as it caused in one case, that of Dr. Jesse Young, an uneasy feeling, almost amounting to an ache, through all the limbs, occurring after each dose, and lasting for three or four hours; while Dr. Garden says it causes great restlessness and pains in the limbs. Still it re- quires large doses to cause these effects. A strong decoction is said to be an-effectual remedy for scabies.—J. C. P. Mind and Sensorium.—Vertigo, impaired vision, dizziness, dull- ness in the head. Vertigo, fullness, and dull aching in the vertex, Vertigo, anxiety, and great restlessness. . Head.—Acute pain generally through the head during the day ; at times more severe on the left side. Remittent headache, of long standing, more or less severe every day, but increased every second day. Dullness of the head, and pain in the forehead and occiput 90 ACTEA RACEMOSA. Dull boring pain in the forehead, over the left superciliary ridge continuing for two hours. Pain from the eyes to the top of the head which seemed as if the nerves were excited to too much action, last- ing three hours. Pain in the forehead; dryness of the pharynx ; aching in the eyes, apparently between the eye-ball and orbital plate of the frontal bone. The pain in the head is always'relieved by the open air. Dr. Mears reports a decided impression on the brain evinced by a distressing pain in the head, and giddiness, with in creased force and fullness of the pulse, and flushed face. Dr. Garden had previously mentioned the tendency to affect the brain, somewhat like Digitalis.—J. C. P. Eyes.—Aching of the eyes. Aching pain in both eye-balls, rarely in one alone, continuing for three weeks after discontinuing the drug. Pain in the eye-balls; increased secretion of tear3; constant dull aching pain in the right eye-ball and across the forehead, accompa- nied with nausea. Stinging in the eye-lids ; dullness and heaviness of the head and eyes, as if produced by cold. Nose.—Frequent sneezing and fluent coryza during the day. Co- pious coryza. Fluent coryza, aching and soreness in the nose during the day. Fluent watery coryza ; frequent sneezing ; soreness in the throat, causing difficulty in swallowing. Very profuse greenish and slightly sanguineous coryza after rising; fullness of the pharynx, and constant inclination to swallow ; dullness of the head, and pain in the forehead and occiput. Mouth.—Offensive breath. Dryness and soreness of the lips. Unpleasant taste in the mouth; accumulation of thick mucus upon the teeth. Throat.—Dryness of the pharynx, and inclination to swallow. Fullness of the pharynx, and constant inclination to swallow. Sore- ness of the throat when swallowing; sensation of fullness and stiff- ness of the neck. Sensation of rawness in the throat; hoarseness, which increased towards night; constant unpleasant fullness in the pharynx. Palate and uvula red and inflamed. Appetite and Stomach.—Eructations and slight nausea. Pain and regurgitation of food after eating. Loss of appetite. Repug- nance to food. Nausea and vomiting. Sense of internal tremor in the stomach after breakfast. Faintness in the epigastrium, with re- pugnance to food. It requires large doses to produce nausea, and then almost only when taken on an empty stomach. Abdomen.—Flatulence, causing a sensation of fullness in the abdo- men. Rumbling of flatus below the umbilicus. Fullness and pres- sure in the lower part of the abdomen. ACTEA SPICATA. 91 Stool.—Disposition to diarrhoea. Urine.—Increased flow of urine. Larynx.—Hoarseness. Unpleasant fullness in the pharynx. Con- stant inclination to cough, caused by a tickling sensation in the larynx, which almost prevents speaking. Short dry cough in the evening, and at night; fluent coryza. Chest.—The pain in the head continuing for ten days, followed by coryza, with sore throat, and gradual extension of the disease to the bronchial mucous membrane; dry, short, and hacking cough, night and day, continuing two weeks, which was uncommon ; the prover not having had a catarrh or cold for several years. Acute pain in the right lung, extending from apex to base, aggravated by inspiration. Lancinating pain along the cartilages of the false ribs, increased by inspiration. Soreness of the chest. Cold chills and prickling sen- sation, during the day, in the (female) mammae. Prickling sensation in the breasts. Superior and Inferior Extremities.—Dull pain in the right arm, deep in the muscles, extending from the shoulder to the wrist. Dr. Garden experienced pains in both the upper and lower extremi- ties, from the use of large doses. Back.—Stiffness of the neck. Drawing pain in the lumbar region. Pulsating pains in the region of the kidneys. Skin.—Eruption of white pustules, and large red papulae on the face and neck. Fever.—Occasional cold chill. (See Vascular System) Sleep.—Very restless at night. 4.—ACTEA SPICATA. ACT.-SPIC—Herb Christopher. Baneberry. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Riickert advises it in prosopalgia, and in certain rheumatic and neuralgic affections of the face and head. A girl, twenty years of age, had a chill, and was speedily attacked with a violent pain, which commenced in a carious tooth of the upper jaw. This pain was pulling and tearing in its character, and ex- tended to the zygomatic bone, and to the temples, and was increased by the lightest touch, or any movement of the facial muscles. Three globules of Actea removed this pain in a few hours. Dr. Roth has given this medicine, with advantage, in cancer of the stomach. It is particularly useful when there is much tearing and darting pain in the epigastric region, accompanied with vomiting. Dr. Roth 92 ACTEA SPICATA. commends Actea in acute and chronic hepatitis. Riickert has also employed it successfully in hepatic affections. In constipation, from a lack of bile in the intestinal canal, Dr. Lemercier has found this medicine quite serviceable. Dr. Roth has employed Actea with considerable benefit in calculous affections of the kidneys. It is especially appropriate in those cases which occur in individuals of gouty diathesis. A woman, forty years old, subject to rheumatic affections and haemorrhoids, had been attacked, apparently in con- sequence of a chill, with severe pains in the articulations of the hands and thumbs, accompanied with swelling. The least move- ment rendered the pains insupportable. Three globules of Actea, thirtieth, produced a decided amelioration in a short time. A second dose, three days afterwards, effected a perfect cure. In rheumatic affections of the large articulations, this is a remedy of considerable value. It has proved most beneficial in cases accompanied by biliary derangement, and is appropriate in both the acute and sub- acute varieties. Colden advises a dilution of Actea for weak and nervous patients, who are troubled with frequent cold sweats after slight exertions of mind or body. It is also homoeopathic to sup- pressed perspiration, especially when occurring in rheumatic subjects. Intellectual Faculties.—Loss of consciousness. A sort of in- toxication. Disturbance of the cerebral functions. Furious delirium. Affections.—Sadness. Melancholy, causing a distaste of life. Obstinacy. Complainings. Head.—Boring pain in the head. The head-symptoms are more intense at night; they are also increased by walking, and are gene- rally periodical. Frontal Region.—Pressure in the forehead, commencing early in the morning. Temporal Region.—Lancinating pain in the temples. Vertex.—Pressure in the vertex. Occiput.—Hammering pain in the occiput. Scalp.—Sensation of horripilation in the hairy scalp. Eruption of small pimples in the hairy scalp. Cranial Bones.—Pain, which seems to be located in the periosteum, and even in the bones of the skull. Conjunctiva.—Injection of the vessels of the conjunctiva. Oph thalmia of a catarrhal character. Vision.—Blue colors appear in the objects which we look at When fixing the eyes for a long time upon an object, spots appear before them. Tears —Flow of burning tears ACTEA SriCATA. 93 Ears.—The external cars are painful to the touch. When sneez' Ing or masticating, lancinating pain in the ear. Murmur in the ears after sleeping, increased by mental emotions. Nose.—Bruised feeling of the nose. Redness of the wings of the nose. Nasal secretion tinged with blood. Epistaxis, during an op- pression of the chest. Face.—Great sensitiveness of the face. Pain in the face similar to that of rheumatism. The cheek upon which he lies perspires easily. Sweat upon the face. Cold sweat upon the forehead. Lips.—Slight cracks upon the lips. The skin around the mouth assumes a light yellow color. Saliva.—Increased secretion of saliva. Buccal Cavity.—Foetid breath. Sub-maxillary Glands.—Paiu in the sub-maxillary glands when eating. Pharynx.—Sensitiveness of the throat when speaking. Tearing pains in the throat, especially when respiring cold morning or evening air. Appetite.—Sharp appetite in the morning. Hunger, with repug- nance to meats. Nausea.—Nausea. Malaise after eating. Vomiting.—Inclination to vomit, with giddiness. Vomiting of acid substances. Vomiting. Stomach.—Cramp of the stomach. Painful sensation of pressure at the epigastrium. Cancer of the stomach. Abdomen.—General uneasiness in the bowels. Abdomen sensitive to the touch. Sensation of compression in the abdomen. Spasmodic contractions in the abdomen. Pain in the abdomen like that which precedes or accompanies menstruation. Pain in the abdomen like that which precedes diarrhoea. Hepatic Region.—Pulsations in the right hypochondrium. Acute or chronic hepatitis. Region of the Spleen.—Insensibility of the left hypochondrium. Flatulence.—Expulsion of a great abundance of flatulence. Alvine Discharges.—Stools in the form of pap. Colic pains during the stools. Suspension of the evacuations. Urine.—Frequent desire to urinate. Frequent desire to urinate, and pain during the act. Respiration.—Difficulty of breathing, like an attack of suffocation. Difficulty of breathing, with lancinating pain in the epigastrium on taking a lonjr breath. Difficulty of breathing, with pain in the stomach. Whistling respiration. Difficulty of breathing, with pain- 94 adeps. ful Bhocks in the abdomen at each inspiration. Respiration seems difficult, in consequence of weakness, especially obvious when expir- ing. Difficulty of breathing, with pain in the hip. Renal Region.—Sensation of beating in the region of the kid- neys. Calculi of the kidneys. Sacro-lumbar Region.—Tearing pains in the loins. Bruised pain in the sacral region, when lying on the side. Hands.—Pain and paralytic weakness of the hands. Fingers.—The fingers are numb, cold, and discolored. Inferior Extremities.—Swelling of the lower limbs. Boring pain in the legs, which is relieved by extension. Weakness of the lower extremities after changes of temperature. Swelling of the joints after a little fatigue. Trembling of the thighs on raising them. Sen- sation of great lassitude in the knees. Inflammation of the knee-joint Coldness.—Coldness after drinking. Rigors, followed by heat, during which vomiting occurs. Eructations during the chill. Sweat.—Viscid sweat. Hot sweat upon the head. Malaise and cold sweat. Suppression of the perspiration. Fever —Cephalalgia, which continues after the fever has subsided. Delirium during the fever. Strength.—Sudden lassitude, without any appreciable cause. Lassitude after eating. Lassitude after speaking for a long time. Debility from walking in the open air. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Pulsations throughout the body. The pains are generally tearing and pulling. The symptoms manifest themselves particularly after mental emotions, walking, fatigue, speaking, eating, by the use of salt meats, beer, and by inhaling the fumes of tobacco. Most of the symptoms appear in the morning, and especially when in the open air. Its action is most decided in afec- tions of the parenchymatous organs, the seat of old inflammations, or of active sanguineous congestions. This medicine is especially suit- able to men. The characteristic symptoms are weakness and tingling. This proving seems singularly trivial, and gives but little idea of the spirit of the remedy. 5.—ADEPS. ADEPS.—Hog's Lard. CLINICAL REMARKS. In Scarlatina—Inunction of the sur face with Lard was first proposed by Dr. Scbneeman, of Hanover and has since boon adopted successfully by Dr. Mauthner, of Vienna' ADEPS. 95 Mr. Taylor, of London, and others. The treatment has been further tested by Professor Ebers, of Berlin, who treated twenty-two cases. eleven of which presented one or more of the severe complications, and of whom six died. Of the twenty-two, the inunction with Lard was tried in thirteen cases, and the ordinary remedies in nine; o! the latter, five died; of the former, only one was fatal, and this was beyond hope when the treatment was commenced; the remainder re- covered. Prof. Ebers concludes that the inunction with Lard does not interfere with the development of the eruption ; for this comes out on the third day, and declines on the fourth or fifth. The com- plications of the disease disappear more favorably than under the ordinary treatment. No desquamation or anasarca ever follows the use of Lard. The inunction seems to destroy the contagious prin- ciple. The Lard requires to be diligently rubbed in, over tho whole surface of the body, every morning and evening. Mauthner treated his own daughter, aged fifteen, successfully with it.—J. C. P. In Measles, the Exanthemata generally, and in Inflammatory and Typhus Fevers.—In these diseases, inunction with Lard is strongly advised by Mr. Taylor. He relates numerous instances in which in- unction with an ointment, composed of equal parts of Lard and Suet, was attended with the best effects; no internal remedies were em- ployed. He states that it reduces the force and frequency of the pulse, and, when employed at an early period of the disease, that it wards off a typhoid condition. The dry and brown tongue becomes clear, the patient falls into a sound sleep, and delirium subsides ; in fact, all the symptoms improve, with a steadiness and rapidity not seen in other methods of treating fevers.—J. C. P. In Erysipelas.—Erasmus Wilson considers that inunction with Lard is in every way superior to all fluid applications. He at first, on the suggestion of Mr. Grantham, relaxes the skin with hot water or steam, and then saturates the surface with hot Lard, which is after- wards covered with wool. He also speaks highly of the value of Lard inunctions in the treatment of violent sprains. Mauthner also uses it in burns and erysipelas. In Itch.—Professor Bennett used Lard inunction in four cases of itch, and in each a cure was speedily effected. From these and other cases, he infers that the efficacy of Sulphur ointment mainly depends on the unctuous matter which it contains. It is of importance that the parts should be kept moist, and for this purpose oil-silk, so as to completely envelop the parts, should be used. The same treatment has been found successful by Mr. Bazin, who found that six frictions during three days, were sufficient to effect a cure of itch.—J. C. P. 96 fiTHUSA CYNAPIUM. In Consumption.—In Frank's Magazine, about twenty cases oi consumption, more or less successfully treated with Lard inunctions, are reported; the hectic fever and sweats soon abated, and all the patients improved in flesh and strength. It may be tried in cases in which Cod-liver oil cannot be used internally.—J, C. P. In Profuse Sweats.—Several cases are reported in which it re- moved profuse and debilitating perspirations in non-tuberculous persons. In scrofula, it has also been used successfully.—In all oases, the Lard should contain no salt; if the Lard has already been salted, this should be worked out in water.—J. C. P. 6.—iETHUSA CYNAPIUM. jETH.—Garden Hemlock, Fool's Parsley.—See Hartlaub and Trinks' Annals, vol. iv., 1.—Duration of Action: from three to four weeks. Compare with—Cicut., Conium, and the other remedies belonging to that family. Antidotes ! This plant has received the common name of Fool's Parsley, from its resemblance to common Parsley, and the unpleasant accidents which have occurred from mistaking one plant for the other. It has a botanical alliance with Conium-maculatum, Cicuta-virosa, &c.—J. C. P. Rationale of its Action on the Nervous System. Nerves of Motion.—According to Christison, it is more apt to cause convul- sions than any other Hemlock. It is homoeopathic to violent epileptic cramps, with turning in of the thumbs, redness of the face, convul- sive movements of the eyes, which are turned down spasmodically ; very great dilatation of the pupils ; frothing at the mouth ; clenchina of the teeth; small, hard, and quick pulse, with natural warmth of the body, or coldness of the extremities. From its marked action on the stomach, bowels, and liver, it would seem most homoeopathic to the abdominal or ganglionic epilepsy of Sehcenlein. In this dis- ease, the patient first experiences, from time to time, a gnawing, contracting, burning, or piercing pain in the region of the navel, cor- responding to the superior or inferior mesenteric plexus of nerves • this pain may subside on the setting in of a feeling as if a vapor or a hot flame passed over the part The aura may ascend to the stomach followed by a feeling of spasm there, and by vomiting of an albumi- nous fluid; or it may extend from the stomach towards the right hy- pochondrium, followed by slight and transient signs of jaundice, such as yellowness of the whites of the eyes, yellowness of the face and tongue, &o.; or it may progress at once towards the brain, and iv JETHUSA CYNAPIUM. 97 actual paroxysm of epilepsy may promptly occur. Abdominal epilepsy is said to happen most frequently between the seventh and eleventh years of life; it is four times more frequent in males than females; the attack* are more common towards the full of the moon, after which they *essen, and towards the last quarter they are entirely ab- sent.—J. C. P. If iEthusa ke homoeopathic to epilepsy, it ought to be antipathic to paralysis ; yet Noack has recommended it in paraplegia inferior. It causes great debility, lassitude, and tiredness, especially in the legs, attended with drowsiness ; also, paralytic pain in the left shoulder; sudden lassitude vl the fore-arms while knitting; weakness of the right wrist; paralytic pains in the thighs while sitting, disappearing after motion; great lassitude of the legs. These are all symptoms which point to great debility, and, perhaps, to approaching paralysis ; but, as iEthusa is pi ^eminently a convulsive remedy, it must be anti- pathic to paralysis, except when it occurs in consequence of the ex- haustion which succeeds previous convulsive action.—J. C.P. Nerves of Sensation.—It is supposed to act much less specifically upon these than upon the nerves of motion; in fact, most of the jEthusa-pains are rending and piercing, such as occur in muscular or fibrous strictures, and are comparable to rheumatic or muscular contractive pains, like labor-pains. Thus, it is homoeopathic to rend- ing and piercing pains in the muscles ; in the head, especially in the temples, mostly in the afternoon ; in the ears ; zygoma; in the gums ; in the epigastrium, extending up to the oesophagus ; in the lumbar and hypochondriac regions; in the nape; in the elbow, hand, and finger-joints ; in the thighs, knees, and feet.—J. C. P. Muscular System.—Any remedy which acts specifically upon the nerves of motion, almost necessarily acts equally specifically upon the muscles. It may prove homoeopathic to the convulsions which attend Bright's disease.—J. C. P. Vascular System. Fever.—Chill in the room; chill after hav- ing walked in the open air. General coldness. Internal coldness. Coldness of the whole body, accompanied by somnolence; coldness of the whole body, perceptible to the touch, without thirst, for two days. Redness of the face during the coldness. Horripilation, with heat extending over the whole body. Painful lassitude, hQt breath, and jactitation during the horripilation. General heat. Complete absence of thirst, notwithstanding the great general heat General sweat. He cannot bear to be uncovered during the sweat. Irregu- lar pulse ; full, accelerated, imperceptible pulse. The febrile fymp toms manifest themselves more especially in the morning with very 5 1 98 .ETHUSA CYNAPIUM. great malaise and disposition to delirium, which go off during tho sweat.—J. C. P. Abdominal Typhus.—It causes blackness and dryness of the tongue, buzzing in the ears, and severe purging of light yellow bilious matters; these symptoms probably led Noack to suggest its use in typhoid fever. The stools in typhoid fever are for the most part loose and frequent, and either of a dark color and offensive, or else thin, yellow, and ochry, somewhat like pea-soup. But the most es- sential part in typhoid fever is the peculiar change in the blood; this consists in a diminution of the fibrin and an increase of the car- bonated salts, especially of carbonate of soda. Numerous experi- ments have shown that, in animals which have for a long time been submitted to the excessive use of alkalies, the blood becomes desti- tute of fibrin, and rich in the carbonated alkalies; hence the alkalies are homoeopathic to typhoid fever, and tho acids antipathic. It is not known whether iEthusa, Rhus, Belladonna, &c, also produce a change in the blood similar to that which occurs in typhoid fever.—J. C. P. Glandular System.—Roth says it is homoeopathic to swelling of the lymphatic glands of the neck; also of the axillary glands. It may prove homoeopathic to some scrofulous affections, as it is found to produce tumefaction of the meibomian glands, chronic photopho- bia, stoppage of the nose with thick mucus, yellowish discharge from the ears, herpetic excoriations of the thighs, great debility, emacia- tion, profuse perspiration from the least exertion, and general dropsy. —J. C. P. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Roth says it is homoeopathic and cura- tive against: tumefaction of the meibomian glands; chronic inflam- mation of the edges of the lids; sticking together of the eye-lids in the morning; pustules, on the cornea; commencing amaurosis ; and chronic photophobia. He also says it is homoeopathic to a yellowish dis- charge from the eitrs.—This remedy is one of the most homoeopathic to vomiting and diarrhoea; to cholera. It has been used very success fully against the vomiting of milk in infants; against regurgitation of food about an hour after meals; intolerance of milk; children throw up milk almost as soon as it is swallowed, either coagulated or 'not coagulated, and by a sudden fit of vomiting, followed by great weakness and tendency to fainting. It is supposed to be homoeopa- thic to the first stage of granular liver; in one case, the liver was found hard and yellow; it also exerts a specific action on the duode- num and liver. It is homoeopathic to that irritation of the duodenum which extends along the ductus-communis to the liver, thus causins a great accumulation of bile in the gall-bladder, and a great overflew .ethusa cynapium. 99 of bile, sufficient to stain the whole liver, duodenum, and part of the colon and omentum with yellow bile : it is also homoeopathic to pain and tenderness in the region of the liver. According to Corrigan, the first stage of granular liver is marked by colic-pains, generally felt about four or six hours after dinner, quick pulse, vomiting, and constipation, or the stools may be loaded with mucus, and sometimes tinged with blood. As the disease advances, the fits of colic occur more frequently, the vomiting becomes more intense, the skin dry, the pulse quicker, the tongue red and smooth; in most cases there is pain at the top of the right shoulder, and in all a degree of jaundice, very slight at first, but progressing gradually, and sufficiently dis- tinct, if the conjunctiva be examined. There is also some slight pain in the region of the liver and duodenum. It is very evident that iEthusa is homoeopathic to this train of symptoms. It is homoeopa- thic to cholera-infantum; to bilious diarrhoea and dysentery; to the diarrhoea of teething children, when attended with acidity of the stomach and decided bilious derangement'. It promises to prove ho- moeopathic to Bright's disease ; it is homoeopathic to codema of the face, and to the diarrhoea and vomiting which so frequently attends this affection. Noack recommends it in paraplegia; it is homoeopa- thic to great debility, lassitude, and tiredness, especially in the legs, attended with drowsiness; paralytic pain in the left shoulder; sud- den lassitude of the arms ; weakness of the wrist; paralytic pain in the thighs ; great lassitude of the legs.—J. C. P. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Great prostration, languor, debility, with drowsiness.—The limbs become cold and stiff.—Epileptic fits of children, with clenched thumbs, red face, squinting of the eyes down- ward, dilated pupils, foam at the mouth, lock-jaw.—Spasms, with stu- por and delirium.—Fatal convulsions. Sleep.—Drowsiness, with languor and debility ; soporose condition the whole day, with involuntary closing of the eye-lids; sometimes passing off in the open air.—Drowsiness in the afternoon. Fever.— General coldness; sometimes with drowsiness.—Shud- dering when entering a room from the open air.—Febrile heat.—The puhe is small, accelerated, and hard.—Irregularity of the pulse and the .beats of the heart. Moral Symptoms.—Great anguish, restlessness, and oppressive anxiety; sometimes followed by headache and colic.—111 humor, vexed and irritable mood ; especially in the afternoon or in the open air.—He looks serious, does not feel disposed to talk, complains of beat in the head.—Sadness and oppressive anxiety, in tho afternoon. —Delirium, frenzy, insanity. 100 iETHUSA CYNAPIUM. Sensorium.—Out of his senses; stupefied—His head feels dull and stupid, as if intoxicated.-Sensation as if the brain were con. strictzd.-Vertigo: coming on or going off in the open air; with drowsiness; the eyes close involuntarily-while sitting and after ris- ing from the seat; while sitting, and going off after rising. Head.—Violent headache, as if the brain were dashed to pieces.— The forehead feels as if compressed.— Weight in the forehead, with ill humor, and pressure upon the eye-lids; during dinner ; m the occi- put with beating in the forehead.—Sensation as if both sides of the head were in a vice.-Lacerating pain in the head, paroxysms of a sort of darting laceration.-Stitches in the left temple, the head being drawn up; in the temple, when turning the head.—Stinging and throbbing in the whole of the head.—Throbbing in the head upon entering a room from the open air.—Most attacks of the headache come on in the afternoon.—Rising of heat to the head, with increased temperature of the body, redness of countenance, and abatement of the giddiness. Scalp.—After a walk in the open air, the head, face, and hands feel swollen ; this sensation passes off in the room. Eyes.—Burning in the eyes as from smoke, in the room.—The eyes are glistening and protruded; staring and inanimate.—The conjunc- tiva looks red, and the vessels of the conjunctiva are injected.—Staring, strange look.—The pupils are very much dilated and insensible. Ears.—Violent itching in the ears, going off by rubbing.—Stitches, particularly in the right ear, sometimes with a sense of lacerating.— Tearing around the left ear, following upon stitches in the ear.—The ears feel obstructed.—Hardness of hearing, especially of the left ear. Nose.—Stinging in the side of the nose, followed by burning. Pain in the nose as if ulcerated.—Sneezing and irritation, inducing a desire to sneeze, especially in the left nostril.—Stoppage of the nose ; early in the morning after waking.—Copious secretion of a dry nasal mucus.—Fluent coryza. yACE.__Features expressive of anguish and pain.—The countenance is pale, altered, and collapsed.—Lacerating in the face; in the mala? bones. Teeth.__Stinging in the gums.—Painful sensitiveness of a hollow molar tooth, increased by contact. Mouth. Throat, and (Esophagus.—The mouth feels dry, although it is moist.—Heat and dryness in the throat. Stinging between the jets of deglutition.—Sensation as if deglutition were impeded, with jpasmodic contraction of the throat and ear of the right side. Taste ani Appetite.--Flat, sweetish taste in the mouth; early on .ETHUSA CYNAPIUM. 10] waking; accompanied with dryness of the mouth.—Bitter taste.— Thirst; continual thirst. Gastric Symptoms.—Empty eructations (in the afternoon). Eruc- tations, tasting of the ingesta.—Singultus in the evening.— Violent vomiting, with diarrhoea ; vomiting of coagulated milk (in children); of greenish mucus ; of a frothy, milky-white substance. Stomach and Hypochondria.—Sensation as if something were turning about in the stomach, followed by burning, which extends up into the chest.—Lacerating in the pit of the stomach, extending into the oesophagus.—Piercing in the hypochondria; in the left hypochon- drium, accompanied with burning and a pressure from without in- wards, or succeeded at times by a piercing under the left mammae, and a whining mood.—Sensitiveness of the region of the liver. Abdomen.—A cutting across the abdomen, above the umbilicus; and in the hypogastric region.—Pinching and shifting of flatulence around the umbilicus, with urging to stool.—A sensation as of boil- ing water in the umbilical region, followed by pinching in the stomach.—Cold feeling in tlte abdomen.—The abdomen is distended and sensitive to the touch; black and blue swelling of the abdomen. Stool.—Hard stools, with violent urging, and lacerating sensation in the anus.—Loose stool, generally preceded by a pinching or cutting in the abdomen; accompanied with tenesmus, and followed by urg ing; early in the morning, after rising.—Diarrhoeic stools, of a liquid, bilious, light yellow, or greenish substance, accompanied with violent tenesmus.—Bloody stools. Urine.—Copious, pale, watery urine. Larynx, Trachea, and Chest.—Frequent turns of a short and hacking cough.—Dry cough after dinner.—The breathing is short and anxious, or interrupted by singultus.—Rending sensation and tightness in the right side of the chest; and in the middle of tlie sternum, followed by burning and anguish. Back, Small of the Back.—Sensation as if the small of the back were in a vice; burning in that part, passing off by rubbing it.— Sensation of heat in the back from below upward. Lacerating in the nape of the neck, sometimes, throbbing and drawing. Upper Extremities.—Tension in the muscles.—Lacerating in the fore-arm and hand. Lower Limbs.—Lancination in the left thigh, from the hip down .into the leg, accompanied with drawing; in the bottom of the right foot.—Great languor in the lower limbs. PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY. In Men.—The body is but slightly decayed after the lapse of three days.—A multitude of ca« 102 AGARICUS MCSCARIUS. daverous spots.—Immediately after death the body becomes stiff and very cold.—The upper limbs are moveable, the lower stiff.—The hair is very firmly rooted in the scalp. Bloated countenance, the cornea is dim and deeply sunken, the pupils are very much dilated.—The mouth is firmly closed. Black tongue.—Contraction of the cardiac orifice of the stomach ; the stomach contains a brownish, serous fluid.— Apparent, but not fully developed inflammation of the mouth, fauces oesophagus, and stomach.—The whole of the intestinal canal is dis tended with air.—Light color of the bile in the duodenum; the ante^ rior edge of the liver, a portion of the colon near the liver, and a portion of the omentum exhibit a similar color. The liver is hard and yellow ; the gall-bladder is turgid with a fluid, yellowish-brown bile.—The spleen has a livid color.—The kidneys are congested with blood.—The brain and the sinuse are congested with blood.—The venous blood is fluid throughout. 7.—AGARICUS MUSCARIUS. AGAR.—Amanita or Bug Agaric.—See Hahnemann's Chronic Diseases, Vol. I. Duration of Action: forty days in chronic affections. Compare with—Aeon., Bell., Coff., Graph., Nux-v., Op., Phosp., Puis., Staph. Antidotes.—Camph., Coff., Puis., Vinum. Rationale of its Action.—This species of mushroom derives its name from killing flies, when dissolved in milk. It is highly nar- cotic, producing in small doses intoxication and delirium, for which purpose it is used in Kamtschatka. From the account of Dr. Langsdorf, it appears that the inhabitants of the North-eastern part of Asia use this variety in the same manner that wine, brandy, arrack, opium, &c, are used by other nations. The fungi are collected in the hottest months, and hung up in the air by a string to dry; some dry of themselves upon the ground, and are far more narcotic. The usual mode of taking the fungus, is to roll it up like a bolus, and swallow it without chewing; which the Kamtschat- dales say would disorder the stomach. One large, or two small fungi is a common dose to produce a pleasant intoxication for a whole day, par- ticularly if water be drunk after it, which augments the narcotic prin- ciple. The desired effect comes on from one to two hours after taking the fungus. Giddiness and drunkenness result in the same manner as from wine or spirits; cheerful emotions of the mind are first pro- duced, involuntary words and actions follow, and sometimes, at last, »n entire loss of consciousness. It renders some remarkably active AGARICUS MUSCARIUS. 103 and proves highly stimulant to muscular exertion ; by too large a dose, violent spasmodic effects are produced. So very exciting to the ner- vous system, in many individuals, is this fungus, that the effects are often very ludicrous; a person under its influence wishing to step over a straw, takes a stride, or a jump sufficient to clear the trunk of a tree; a talkative person cannot keep silence or secrets; and one fond of music is perpetually singing.—J. C. P. The most singular effect of the Amanita is the influence it possesses over the urine. It is said that from time immemorial the Kamtschat- dales have known that the fungus imparts an intoxicating quality to that secretion, which continues for a considerable time after taking it. For instance, a man moderately intoxicated to-day, will, by the next morning, have slept himself sober; but (as is the custom) by taking a teacupful of his urine, he will be more powerfully intoxicated than he was the preceding day. It is, therefore, not uncommon for con- firmed drunkards to preserve their urine as precious liquor, against a scarcity of the fungus. This intoxicating property of the urine is capable of being propagated; for every one who partakes of this in- toxicating urine has his own urine similarly affected. Thus, with a very few Amanitae, a party of drunkards may keep up their debauche for a week. Dr. Langsdorff mentions, that by means of the second per- son taking the urine of the first, the third that of the second, and so on, the intoxication may be propagated through five individuals.—J. C. P. The effects of this active principle of this and other fungi, viz., Amanatine, appear to resemble considerably those of Opium. It promises to prove homoeopathic to delirium tremens. It was supposed that the Northern hordes, when they invaded the South of Europe, were aided in their victories by its exciting effects. Several French soldiers in Russia ate a large quantity of the Aga- ricus-muscarius, which they had mistaken for Agaricus-caeserca. Some were not taken ill for six hours and upwards. Four of them, who were very powerful men, thought themselves safe, because, while their companions were already suffering, they themselves felt perfectly well; and they refused to take emetics. In the evening, however, they began to complain of anxiety, a sense of suffocation, frequent fainting, burning thirst, and violent gripes. The pulse became small and irregular, and the body bedewed with cold sweat; the lineaments of the countenance were singularly changed, the nose and lips ac- quiring a violet tint; they trembled much; the body swelled; and a profuse fetid diarrhoea supervened. The extremities soon became livid, and the pain of the abdomen intense ; delirium ensued, and all four died. Several of their comrades were severely affected, but re- 104 AGARICUS MUSCARIUS. covered. Two of these had weak pulse, tense and painful belly, par. tial cold sweats, fetid b.re.ath and stools. In the afternoon they be came delirious, then comatose; the coma lasted twenty-four hours. The symptoms of deep narcotism and violent irritation are gene- rally observed. PATHOLOGY.—Skin yellow; round pale-red spots upon the body pupils natural; abdomen somewhat distended; mucous and bloody froth from tho mouth ; vessels of the scalp congested ; all the vessels of the brain filled with dissolved, dark-red blood; dura-mater and arachnoid quite red; the blood-vessels which penetrate between the convolutions of the brain, enormously distended with blood; the cortical substance of the brain much reddened, and the medullary substance marked with numerous bloody points, from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea; one teaspoonful of bloody serum in each lateral ventricle; vessels at the base of the brain, especially the circle of Willis, crowded with blood; tentorium-cerebolli covered with a net-work of minute vessels; cerebellum unusually soft, with an extravasation of blood of the size of a pea in its arbor-vitae. Pleura, diaphragm, and pericardium much reddened. Lungs much congested, blue and marbled, in a state of splenization, and crowded with black blood. Heart filled with black fluid blood. Arch of the aorta much reddened. Gall-bladder filled with much grass-green fluid bile; pharynx, oesophagus, trachea, omentum, pancreas, perito- / neum, external surface of the stomach, and small bowels, and the in- ternal surface of the bladder much reddened, and all the blood-ves- sels filled with black fluid blood. Internal coat of the stomach, duo- denum, jejunum, and colon of a scarlet-red color; brownish-red appearance of the base of the stomach and pylorus; two large exco- riations in the fundus of the stomach, and one in the duodenum; contraction of the cardiac and pyloric orifices.—J. C. P. Antidotes.—It is well known that the noxious qualities of the most virulent species of Agaricus are communicated to brine, vine- gar, &c.; the olive-tree Agaric loses all its poisonous properties when salted, and becomes eatable; the pickle is thrown away. In fact, two poisonous principles have been discovered in Agaricus, one of which is so volatile that it is dispelled by heat, or the act of drying, or by immersion in acids, alkalies, or alcohol; the other is more fixed, and resists such processes. With the aid of these processes, especially in Poland and Russia, even those kinds of mushrooms which are elsewhere refused by common consent as poisonous, are «;aten with perfect impunity, being extensively dried or pickled in salt or vinegar. AGARICUS MUSCARIUS. 105 In poisoning with mushrooms, emetics and cathartics should be used; as vinegar dissolves out all the noxious principle, it should be avoided; the strength must be sustained by mild tonics and stimu. lants; Ether, and infusion of Galls are particularly recommended Teste asserts that Camphor and Nitric-acid are antidotes to this drug Mr. Gerard has recently shown, before a committee of the Paris Council of Health, that the poisonous mushrooms may be entirely deprived of their deleterious properties by being simply macerated, and then boiled in water to which a little vinegar has been added. The poisonous principle is perfectly soluble in water, and is entirely removed. It is not soluble in alcohol, except by virtue of the water which it may contain. This furnishes an important hint for the phar- maceutical preparation of the Agaricus and other fungi, in which the alcohol used should be as largely diluted with water as is consistent with its preserving powers. On the Nervous System. Nerves of Sensation.—It produces excessive sensitiveness to all external impressions ; great sensibility of the skin, so that the slightest pressure produces intense and long- continued pains. Nerves of Motion.—It causes great liability to twitching of the muscles, irregular convulsive movements, and desire to dance; also a curious state of the nervous system, which becomes so acted upon * by mental emotions, or the exercise of the will, that muscular twitch- ings and convulsive movements aro excited, a condition of body closely resembling that of a patient suffering from chorea and hysteria. It is asserted by some physiologists, that the principal office of the cerebellum is to preside over and regulate the faculty of locomotion, and Agaricus acts specifically upon the cerebellum.—J. C. P. On the Vascular System.—Like all the narcotic remedies, Aga- ricus seems to act far more powerfully upon the venous than upon the arterial system. It seems to prevent the arterialization of the blood, and render it more venous. It is more homoeopathic to venous congestion than to inflammation.—J. C. P. On the Blood.—The body is in general livid, the blood fluid, so much so that it sometimes flows from the natural openings of the body. All the vessels of the brain are filled with dissolved, dark-red blood. Heart filled with black fluid blood; all the blood-vessels filled with black fluid blood. On the Heart.—Heart filled with black fluid blood. Pericar. dium and arch of the aorta much reddened, i. e., stained with the fluid blood. On the Pulse.—In one case the pulse became small and irregu- 5* 106 agaricus muscarius. lar, and the body was bedewed with cold sweat; in another, the pulse was weak. Pulse small and quick (80); or slow, feeble, \m equal, intermitting or undulating. Fever.—^Constant chilliness, with inability to get warm. Violent shaking chills through the whole body, with normal temperature of the face. Cold hands, without thirst and subsequent heat. Sensitive- ness to cool air. General heat in the evening, with redness of the cheeks, coldness of the hands, and thirst; general heat at night, in- termingled with chilliness, followed by sweat; general heat in the afternoon, with headache and thirst, followed by aggravation in the evening, attended with hurried breathing and great languor. Sleep.—Irresistible drowsiness in the day-time. Drowsiness, es- pecially after dinner; sleeplessness, on account of pain and uneasi- ness in the legs. Sleep disturbed by desire to urinate, with copious flow of urine, spasmodic cough, or coldness in the legs. Sleep inter- rupted by a multitude of dreams with fitful fancies, partly pleasant, partly unpleasant. On the Mucous Membranes.—Many of the varieties of Agaricus cause the secretion of large quantities of yellow mucus. Thus, in a dog, poisoned with Agaricus-bulbosus, the stomach was found full of a thick, yellow mucus; in another case, the whole intestinal canal was filled with a thick, yellow mucus ; a woman evacuated an abun- dance of yellow mucus.—J. C. P. Skin.—Itching, burning, and redness of various parts, as if frozen. Miliary eruptions, close and whitish, with burning itching. CLINICAL REMARKS. Hahnemann.—" Apelt has found this drug serviceable in pains of the upper jaw-bone and the teeth; also in pains of the bones of the lower extremities (as well as in the marrow), and finally in itching eruptions of the skin, of the size of a millet-seed, and thickly set together.—It has also been found useful in lassitude consequent upon coition.—Whistling has cured with it convulsions and tremor, and J. C. Bernhard even some kinds of epi- lepsy.—Dr. Woost has seen the effects of large doses of Agaricus lasting for seven or eight weeks. Camphor is the chief antidote, even against such affections consequent upon the use of Agaricus as have assumed a chronic character."—Hull. It seems to be homoeopathic to a variety of nervous and hysterical affections, especially to spinal irritation, and those affections of the brain which simulate it. Noack recommends it in mania-salta- toria, as it is homoeopathic to a state in which the slightest exer- tion of the will produces the most violent effect upon the over-sensi- tive nerves and muscles, and calls forth the most strange and almo-st agaricus muscarius. 107 unimaginable motions of the limbs; inclination to dance; th© most curious motions of the hands ; extraordinary agility of the limbs, and extreme facility in the performance of the most fantastic motions.— J. C. P. In Chorea.—St. Vitus' dance has been denominated an insanity of the muscles, and is very analogous to mania-saltatoria. Agaricus is homoeopathic to trembling of the limbs, subsultus, slight jerks of the muscles here and there; twisting about of the arms, persistent convulsed state of the muscles of the head and neck. Agaricus is only homoeopathic to the true nervous cerebral chorea, i. e., the most common form of it, or that which arises from a func- tional disease of the brain, and in which the convulsive movements cease during sleep. Nux and Ignatia are homoeopathic to spinal chorea, in which the spasmodic action does not cease during sleep, for the spinal cord does not sleep. Hydriodate of Potash, Iodine, and Actea-racemosa are homoeopathic to rheumatic chorea, which is apt to be attended with acute endocarditis or pericarditis. I have seen two instances in which chorea was attended with acute rheumatic inflam- mation of some of the structures of the heart. Agaricus may also prove homoeopathic to that most dangerous and almost always fatal variety called electrical chorea, in which the convulsive movements finally give way to coma, and the patient dies with apoplectic symp- toms ; venous congestion of the cerebral and spinal meninges appears to be the only uniform abnormal condition observed in electrical chorea.—J. C. P. In Cramps, Convulsions, and Epilepsy.—It has long ago been re- commended, in the dominant school, in epilepsy, especially in that variety induced by fright (Vogt, Dierbach), and is said to form the active part of Ragolo's secret remedy against this disease.—J. C. P. This remedy has been employed empirically, for many centuries, for the cure of epilepsy and chronic enlargement and induration of the glands of the neck and throat. Teste considers its action to be somewhat similar to Belladonna and Lachesis, and prescribes it only after these remedies have failed. Agaricus ought to provo curative in some cases of intermittent fever; it may also prove useful in hectic fever, but its great affinity is for nervous fevers, typhus- versatilis, and delirium tremens. It is one of the most homoeopathic and useful remedies against frost-bites. It is one of the most homceo- pathic remedies against acute delirium, mania, delirium tremens, the delirium of typhus, &c.; it should be borne in mind when Belladonna and other remedies fail. It is one of the most homceo. pathic remedies against chronic dizziness resulting from frequent 103 agaricus muscarius. intoxication, or habitual free use of strong liquors; in dizziness, from congestion of the brain, with .threatening of apoplexy, especially in the studious, sluggish, or intemperate in eating and drinking. - It is most homoeopathic to the headaches of persons subject to nervous twitchings and St. Vitus' dance, or to spinal irritation, with great soreness, uneasiness, and weakness down the spine, with or without derangement or enlargement of the liver. Also in the headaches of those who use wine and spirits too freely, or who be- come delirious whenever they are feverish or in pain, attended with twitchings, startings, grimaces, and a state resembling pleasant intoxication. According to Black, it is indicated in nervous and congestive headaches, in which fullness, sleepiness, and frequent inclination to yawn are present, attended with relaxation and soreness of the whole body, pain in the back, and a feeling as if all the joints were dislocated. Hence it would also seem suited to the headache and general derangement which attends influenza. It is homoeopa- thic to congestion of the head, with pulsation in all the vessels, red- ness and heat of the face, and delirium. Also to catarrhal headache, with aching in the forehead over the eyes, drawing pain in the fore- head, extending to the root of the nose, rending pain in the forehead above the root of the nose, as if the brain were lacerated, with burn- ing pain in the nose and eyes, great dryness of the nose, profuse epistaxis, and abundant discharge of thick, viscid, nasal mucus, fol- lowed by frequent dropping of water from the nose. I have used it frequently and successfully against many varieties of headache in nervous and hysterical persons. It is homoeopathic to headaches attended with or followed by great soreness or tenderness of the scalp, and against chronic tenderness of the scalp, such as occurs in persons with spinal irritation. It is homoeopathic to spasmodic twitching of the eye-lids and winking, such as occurs in nervous, ver- minous, or scrofulous children ; to chronic inflammation of the mei- bomian glands ; to short-sightedness and dim-sightedness of both eyes; to muscae-volitantes, from disorder of the watery spectrum, when every- thing seems as if obscured by turbid water; to incipient amaurosis, when black motes hover before the eyes, or everything seems sur- rounded by a mist, or covered with a cobweb. It is homoeopathic to nervous pains in the ears; but especially against the pains, itch- ings, and other inconveniences which attend frost-bites of the ears. It is homoeopathic to epistaxis and frost-bites of the nose ; also to great sensitiveness and tenderness of the nose, with or without great acute- ness of the sense of smell. It is homoeopathic to frost-bites of the face; to painful throbbings and twitchings in the face, such as attend gum agaricus muscarius. 106 boils and abscesses about the face; it is useful against the pimplea of acne, which occur on the faces of young persons, and a tendency to blueness and roughness of the skin of the face ; also to chaps and fis- sures of the lips. It is homoeopathic to neuralgia of the face; to toothache from taking cold, especially when the teeth feel long, and are very sensitive to pressure when touched or while chewing; and to inflammation of the lining membrane of the alveolar processes. It is homoeopathic to mercurial salivation ; also to ulceration and sore- ness of the mouth, from gastric and bilious derangement, and to a foul and bilious state of the mouth. It is very homoeopathic to bilious dyspepsia, especially when occurring in very nervous and sensitive persons. Agaricus is one of the most homoeopathic remedies against excessive flatulence of the stomach and bowels ; against the fullness and oppression of the stomach which arises from flatulence, and produces a feeling as if the contents of the chest were compressed. It is most suited against the flatulence of nervous, hysterical, and bilious persons. Agaricus is one of the most homoeopathic remedies to excessive flatulence and tendency to diarrhoea, such as occur in nervous and hysterical persons, especially if there be marked bilious derangement; also in indigestion, colic, and flatulence, from irritation or sub-acute inflammation of the stomach and bowels (chronic gastro-enteritis). Agaricus is one of the few homoeopathic remedies against enlargement of the liver and spleen, and all the attendant gastric, bilious, and intestinal derangements. Against general abdominal and venous plethora. It is homoeopathic to bilious diarrhoea, especially when attended with much and exces- sively fetid flatulence—viz., when there is yellowness of the skin and whites of the eyes and tongue, bitter taste in the mouth, nausea, eructations, pain, tenderness, and fullness in the region of the liver and spleen, great rumbling in and distention of the abdomen. It is peculiarly suitable when these symptoms are associated with much nervousness. It may prove useful in gastro-enteritis and peritonitis; also in ulceration of the stomach and bowels, especially that which obtains in typhoid fever. This remedy may prove useful in many affections of the kidneys, bladder, and urethra, as we have indubitable proofs that it is conveyed to these parts. It probably acts upon the genital organs in the same manner as spirituous liquors. It is ho- moeopathic to excessive itching of these parts and profuse menstrua tion.—J. C-P. Air-Passages.— We have already noticed the tendency of Agancud to excite the secretion of large quantities of yellow mucus from the stomach and bowels. The Agaricus catarrh is characterized by a 110 agaricus muscarius. copious discharge of thick tenacious mucus from the nose, followed or preceded by an accumulation of dry mucus in the nostrils, as if they were entirely filled with it; frequent sneezing. Roughness of the throat; frequent hawking, with discharge of small balls of phlegm, frequent irritation in the trachea, with inclination to cough; dry cough. Shortness of breath and asthma, frequently obliging one to stand still while walking; labored breathing, as if the chest were filled with blood; violent oppression of the chest, preventing deep breathing, with sensation as if the breath were constricted. Parox- ysms of anxiety in the chest, and sense of suffocation. Stitches in the lungs. Itching and burning of the breast and nipples, with eruption of pimpies. Profuse sweat upon the chest. Agaricus promises to be one of our most valuable remedies in congestion of the lungs and in congestive asthma, especially when these disorders occur in bilious and nervous persons. It ought to prove an admi- rable remedy against derangement of the heart, when associated with great enlargement of the liver, and secondary congestion of the lungs, with all the attendant difficulty of breathing, palpitations, spasmodic cough, derangement and congestion of the kidneys. It may ward off many cases of ascites and hydrothorax, arising from primary conges- tion and enlargement of the liver. The powerful action of Aga- ricus upon the motor nerves and muscles has already been alluded to. It is one of the most useful remedies in spinal irritation and lumbago. Many cases of so-called nervous headaches are merely ex- tensions of spinal irritation to the ramifications of the spinal nerves within the brain. Ker has used it successfully when there were vio- lent oppressive pains, principally m the forehead, often attended with delirium, vomiting of a bitter bilious fluid, sense of languor, feeling as if the body were bruised and joints dislocated, with a sense of uneasiness and weakness all down the spine. It is homoeo- pathic to many of those anomalous pains in the limbs which arise from spinal irritation. It is one of the best remedies against frost- bites of the fingers, and that peculiar mottled purplish state of the skin, owing to a fluidity and venous condition of the blood, which so easily leads to chilblains and frost-bites.—J. C. P. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Great debility, languor; painful sense of weight, and sensitiveness in all the limbs; staggering gait, want of muscular power ; trembling.—After a little exercise or walk he feels weary, with a burning sensation in the lower extremities, and the muscles feeling nalnful to the touch.—After ascending a little eminenoe, he feels faint, and profuse sweat breaks out.—Concussion of the nerves.—Convulsions: partial; in the posterior portion of the AGARICUS MUSCAR1US. Ill cheat; in the epigastrium and hypogastrium, with sensation as if the whole body were shaken through.—-*Epilepsy. Characteristic Peculiarities.—Cramp-pains in the muscles ol the limbs, especially when sitting.—Drawing and tearing, especially in the limbs, which continues when sitting or standing, and goes off during motion.—The pains are diminished and removed by movement. Skin.—Itching of the whole body; burning and prickling in va- rious parts; *itching, burning, and redness of various parts, as if frozen.—^Miliary eruptions, close and whitish, with burning itching. Sleep.—Frequent yawning; as if he had not slept enough, with stretching of the limbs ; so violent in the morning that it makes him giddy .—Irresistible drowsiness in the day-time; early in the evening, sometimes with inability to fall asleep.—Sleep is prevented by ideas crowding upon his mind, and feeling of weariness.—The night sleep is restless, unrefreshing, and full of dreams.—At night; desire to urinate, with copious emission; spasmodic cough from an irritation in the larynx, soon after going to sleep; feeling of coldness in the left lower limb. Fever.—Shuddering.—Chilliness, sensitiveness to cool air, even at night, when raising the cover of the bed but slightly; constant chilliness, particularly in the morning in the room, with inability to get warm ; in the evening, accompanied with shaking.—Heat in the face and trunk, with cold, trembling hands and thirst.—Sweat after very little bodily exertion; when walking; at night when sleeping. Pulse small, quick (80), in the morning; slow, feeble, unequal, inter mittent. Moral Symptoms.—Despondency ; lowness of spirits ; anxiety, as if he apprehended some unpleasant occurrence ; uneasiness of mind.— Bodily and mental restlessness.—Indisposition to talk.—Irritable vexed mood, ill humor.—Listlessness, aversion to any kind of work, particularly to mental labor, followed by congestion of blood to the head, pulsations in all the vessels, heat in the face, and inability to think.—Great forgetfulness.—Loss of consciousness.—Fearless frenzy, with intoxication, accompanied with bold, vindictive designs.—Me- nacing, mischievous rage, the patient directing it against himself in some instances, with great strength.—Shy mania.—Excess of fancy; ecstasy ; prophecy ; he makes verses. Sensorium.—Dullness of the head, with dull pain; as after in- toxication; especially early in the morning, with muddled and con- fused state of the mind.—Dullness of sense ; imbecility.—Dizziness, intoxication, stupefaction ; staggering to and fro, especially during a walk in the open air.—Vertigo of various kinds, especially early in H2 AGARICUS MUSCARIU*- the morning, as if-intoxicated; vertigo as if he would fall, occasioned by the light of the sun; with staggering obscuration of sight, in paroxysms every five minutes; in the open air, particularly when walking and reflecting; in a room when turning about, relieved by turning the head speedily. Head.—Headache early in the morning, in bed; when sitting, especially in the occipital protuberance.—Dull pains in the right temple ; in the forehead; in the whole head, with stupefaction, thirst, and heat of the face.—Great weight in the head, especially in the forehead and temples; in the morning, as after intoxication.—Pres- sure in the head, accompanied with flushes of heat, and passing off after an evacuation; in paroxysms, in the evening before going to bed; in the forehead, particularly over the eyes, sometimes accom panied with stinging or with vertigo; changing from the left to the right side ; in the temples, frequently accompanied with despondency, and increased by pressure or by touching the hair; in the occiput, sometimes a pushing pressure, after dinner.—Drawing pains in the head; early in the morning when waking, with pressure in the eyes; in the forehead, extending to the root of the nose; in the temples and occiput.—Drawing cutting in the forehead, which increases to an oppressive stupefying pain in the sitting posture.— Tearing in the head, as if the brain were torn, in the forehead, above the root of the nose ; in the right temple ; the left side of the occiput and the whole of the head, at intervals, particularly behind the right ear; in the left hemisphere of the brain, with pressure and a confused state of the brain.—Lancination from one side of the head to the other, in the morning.—Stitches in the left temple.—Digging, especially in the forehead ; boring in the vertex, driving him almost to a state of frantic despair. Scalp.—Painful sensitiveness of the scalp, as from subcutaneous ulceration; especially in the vertex, with tearing drawing, and made worse by pressing upon the part.—Twitching of the skin of the fore- head and temples.—Cramp-pain in the region of the left temple.— Pimples on the hairy scalp. Eyes.—Pressure in the eyes from without inwards.—Pressing and drawing in the eye-balls, especially the left.—Itching and tingling of the eyes.—Burning sensation in the eyes, with sensation of con- traction, in the evening; of the inner canthi.—Redness of the whites of the eyes ; yellow color of the eyes.—Swelling of the left eye-lids, towards the inner canthus.—Narrowing of the interval between tht eye-lids for several days.—Twitches in the eye-lalls and eye-lids.— Dryness of the eyes.—The caruncula of the left eye increases in AGARICUS MUSCARITJS. H3 Bize.—Lachrymation of the right eye.—Sensation in the eyes as if they had to be wiped constantly.—The eye-lids adhere to one another as by slimy threads; wiping relieves this symptom only for a short time.—Gum in the canthiofthe eyes.—A viscid, yellow humoi glues the eye-lids to one another.—Vanishing of s.ight when walking in the open air.—Great weakness of the eyes ; if she looks at an ob- ject long, it appears pale.—Short-sightedness and dim-si ghtedness of both eyes.— Very indistinct sight; everything appears obscured, as if by turbid water ; or surrounded with a mist; or as if covered with a cobweb.—A black mote is hovering before the left eye.__He sees things double.—Dread of light.—Incipient amaurosis ? Bars.—Tearing pain in' the meatus of the right ear, increased by cold air passing into it.—Itching in and behind the ears.—Itching redness, and burning of the ears, as if they had been frozen.—Hum- ming in the ears.—Tinkling, in the open air. Nose.—Itching of the nose and alee of the nose.—Burning pain in the nose and eyes.—Soreness and inflammation of the inner wall of the nose.—In blowing the nose, blood comes out of it, early in the morning, immediately after rising from the bed; this is followed by violent bleeding from the nose.—The smell is more acute. Face.—Burning sensation and stitches of the cheeks,—Twitching and pulsations in the cheeks.—Redness of the face, with itching and burning, as if frozen.—Itching in the face.—Itching of the forehead, with pimples.—A tearing pain in the lips and the throat.—Dryness and burning of the lips.—The upper lip is chapped, with a burning sensation in the fissures.—Bluish lips. Jaws and Teeth.— Violent tearing in the right side of the lower jaw.— Tearing in the teeth of the lower jaw, increased by cold.— Drawing, throbbing, lacerating pain in the molar teeth. Mouth.—Painfulness and bleeding of the gums.—Swelling of the gums.—Bad odor from the mouth, with a fetid taste.—Acrid odor from the mouth in the morning.—Soreness of the inner mouth, espe- cially the palate. The tongue is sore,—Small painful ulcer by the side of the fraenum of the tongue; at the tip if is bordered with dirty-yellow aphthae, producing a sensation, immediately after a meal as if the skin would peal off.—Tongue is coated white.—Back part of the tongue is coated yellow.—Slimy tongue.—Foam at the mouth.—Flow of saliva. Taste and Appetite.—Insipid or bitter taste in the mouth.— Want of appetite, with thirst.—A good deal of hunger, but no ap- petite; early in the morning.—Ravenous appetite.—Sudden attacks of rabid hunger, towards evening, with perspiration.—After a meal, 8 114 AGARICUS MUSCARIUS. sensation of choking in the oesophagus, and oppression at tlu stomach. Gastric Symptoms.—Frequent rising of mere air.^-Heartburn.— Hiccough.—Nausea, with cutting pain in the abdomen. Eructations, with qualmishness in the region of the stomach. Stomach.—Oppression at the stomach, with inclination to go to Btool.—Oppressive weight in the stomach.—Oppression at the pit of the stomach, extending as far as the sternum—Cramp-like drawing in the pit of the stomach, extending as far as the chest.—Cutting, resembling spasms in the stomach, immediately below the diaphragm, and extending towards the vertebral column when sitting. Abdomen.—Acute pulsative pain below the left hypochondrium; it rises as high up as the third and fourth rib.—Stitches under the short ribs of the left side, when breathing, and especially when sitting with a stooping chest.—In the region of the liver, sharp stitches, as of needles.—Dull stitches in the liver, during an inspiration—Trouble- some fullness of the whole abdomen; it makes sitting and breathing difficult.—Bloated abdomen.—Sense as of writhing in the abdomen.— Pinching below the umbilicus, attended with a bloated condition of the abdomen.— Violent pinching in the abdomen, attended with diar- rhaza; in the epigastrium.—Cutting pain in the abdomen, sometimes followed by liquid stools.—Loud rumbling in the abdomen.—Emis- sion of a large quantity of wind, smelling of garlic, with smarting pain in the rectum. Stool and Anus.—Hard, dark-colored stools after constipation.— Stools are first hard and knotty, afterwards loose, and lastly diar- rhazic.—Watery stool with nausea, with cutting and fermentation in tho abdomen.—Liquid, or slimy yellow diarrhoeic stools.— The diar- rhazic stools are accompanied with pinching and cutting in the abdo- men, and emission of a quantity of flatulence; also with painful drawing-in of the stomach and abdomen.—The evacuations are accompanied and succeeded by smarting in the anus.—Itching, ting- ling, and titillation of the anus, as of ascarides. Urinary Organs.—Pressure in the region of the kidneys and in the loins ; disturbing the night's rest.—Frequent urging to urinate, with copious emission.—Scanty urine.—Difficult emission of urine.— Retention of urine.— The urine is reddish, scanty; clear lemon-colored. —Discharge of viscid tenacious mucus from the urethra. Male Sexual Organs.—Itching of the genitals.—Drawing in the testes.—Involuntary emissions.—Great aversion to an embrace, or else great desire for it, with little ability, or with deficient excitement, or tardy, insufficient emission of semen.—Every embrace is followed by AGARICUS muscarius. 115 great debility and languor, profuse night-sweats, and sometimes a burning itching of the skin. Female Sexual Organs.—Increased menses.—Titillation of the genital organs. Larynx and Trachea.—Frequent hawking, with discharge of small flocks or small balls of phlegm.—Frequent irritation in the trachea, with desire to cough.—Dry cough after dinner.—Both dry and fluent coryza, with sneezing. Chest.—Shortness of breath and asthma, frequently obliging him to stand still when walking.—Labored breathing; breathing as if the chest were filled with blood.— Violent oppression of the chest, hinder- ing deep breathing, or else obliging one to take a deep breath; with sensation as if the chest were constricted; with drawing pain in the region of the diaphragm; in the region of the heart, with oppression and pulsations.—Oppression of breathing in the lower portion of the chest, when moving about.—Painful palpitation of the heart when standing.—Beating sore pain in several parts of the chest; at night, Itching and burning of the chest and nipples, after which pimples make their appearance.—Profuse sweat on the chest at night. Back, Sacral Region.—Pain as if sprained and bruised in the small of the back, when standing ; in the loins, nape of the neck, and back, when lying down and sitting still.—Lameness and painful weakness of the dorsal muscles, especially of the loins, worse when standing or walking.—Violent pain in the small of the back when rising from a seat, rendering it difficult to move, or when sitting or lying down, relieved by movement.—Burning itching of the back. Upper Limbs.—Weakness and painful weariness of the arms, with pain as if bruised.—Rheumatic pains in the arms; drawing in the shoulder-joint, with weakness of the arm.— Trembling of the hands, as from old age, particularly when holding anything.—^Burning of the fingers, with itching and redness, as if frozen, -or from a burn.— White pimples (miliaria-alba) of the size of a grain of millet-seed, brought out by scratching a burning itching place, and followed by scaling off of the skin. Lower Limbs.—Painful lameness of the lower limbs.—Painful ami excessive weariness and weakness of the thighs and legs, with tottering.—Pain in the hip-joint, very great while walking, and relieved by sitting.—Lacerating pain in the limbs when sitting, improved by movement; in the thigh* at night, disturbing the sleep.—Rheumatic pains in the thighs and legs, while sitting.— Stinging in the leg.—Cramp in the feet at night.—^Itching, burn- ing, and redness of the toes, as if frozen.—Burning itching of the 116 AGNUS CASTUS. legs, especially in the evening, followed by desquamation of tht skin. PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY.—Discharge of frothy, blackish- green substances.—The stomach and bowels are distended with fetid air, their inner surface exhibits traces of inflammation and gangrenous spots.—A sort of inflammatory congestion in the neighborhood of the pyloric orifice of the stomach.—Large spots in the stomach and in- testinal canal, where decomposition seems to have made considerable advance.—The mucous membrane of the ileum is destroyed in various places.__The stomach contains a blackish fluid.—The liver is exces- sively enlarged.—The gall-bladder is filled with a thick, dark-colored bile. 8.—AGNUS CASTUS. AGN.— Vitex Agnus Castus, or Chaste Tree.—Stapfs Additions.—Duration of Action: from eight to fifteen days in some cases. Compare with—Bov., Cup., Natr.-ac, Oleand., Plat., Selen., Sep. ApmnoTE—Camph. Rationale of its Action.—Dioscorides says that it increases the flow of milk, brings on the menses, thins the spermatic fluid, produces pain in the testicles, and brings on sleep. He recommends the seeds against poisonous stings, dropsy, and enlargement and disease of the spleen; a decoction of the leaves and seeds, in a bath, in inflammations and other diseases of the womb. It is said to be useful in lethargy and frenzy, when applied to the head. It was thought to cure the bites of serpents; to remove hardness of the genital organs, fissures of the anus, bruises, and wounds. Hippo- crates recommended the leaves steeped in wine against metrorrhagia, with wine and oil to expel the after-birth; the seeds in diseases of the spleen; also against ascarides; to increase the secretion of milk in nursing women; the fresh leaves to be put on inflamed organs, and plasters of the same for ulcers. Roth says it has cured : White- ness of the tongue, bitterness of the mouth, loss of appetite, sensitive- ness of the abdomen to pressure, swelling of the abdomen after eating, occasional pains in the lower abdomen and in the kidneys while urinating, great accumulatioiuof wind in the bowels, hardness of the stools, and redness and muddiness of the urine. Also when the menses last from ten to eighteen days, being preceded by head ache, vertigo, and dimness of sight, accompanied with pains in the pelvis and loins. Also oppression of the chest on going up-stairs; AGNUS CASTUS. 117 cough, with raising of blood, followed by copious mucous expectora tion, with paroxysmal attacks, especially in the morning, of palpi tations and bleeding of the nose; also when there is a deficient secretion of milk in child-bed women; when the legs are much fa- tigued and swollen towards evening, with sallowness of the skin and disturbed dreams. It has cured quartan fevers of six months' dura- tion, marked by slight chilliness towards evening, followed by heat and headache, without thirst, but with slight delirium, the paroxysm terminating in profuse perspiration. According to the homoeopa- thists, the spirit of the action of this drug may be expressed by stating that it produces a condition which counterfeits marvellously that which obtains in old age, marked by dullness of the intellect, weakness of memory and hearing, blear-eyedness, trembling and feebleness of the limbs, decay of the sexual appetite and power, sup- pression of the menses and secretion of milk, and prevalence of urinary and arthritic complaints. It is also homoeopathic to that premature old age which arises in young persons from abuse of the sexual powers, marked by melancholy, apathy, mental distraction, self-con- tempt, general debility, frequent loss of prostatic fluid, &c.—J. C. P. On the Nervous System. Nerves of Motion.—It seems to exert a more decided action upon the motor nerves, and upon the muscles and joints, than upon the nerves of sensation. On the Vascular System.—Chilliness, without thirst or subse- quent heat. Constant trembling of the whole body, from internal chilliness, the body feeling warm to the touch. Chilliness of the whole body, without thirst, although the hands are the only portions of the body which feel cold to the touch. Frequent alternations of chilliness and heat, without thirst. Heat of the whole body, with coldness of the knees. Pulse.—The pulse is apt to become slower and less perceptible, 60 per minute. Skin.—This remedy is especially remarkable for the sensation of corrosive itching which it produces in various parts, without its being attended with any marked eruption. It is homoeopathic to corrosive itching upon the scalp, especially in the evening; also upon the fore- head and eye-brows, in the eyes and upon the lids, about the tip of the nose, upon the cheeks, about the ears and chin; itching and scratching sensation in the throat, with irritation to cough ; about the groins, nerinaeum, genitalia, and arm-pits.—J. C. P. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Roth says it has cured quartan fevers of six months' duration, when characterized by slight chilliness to- wards evening, followed by heat and headache, without thirst bui 118 AGNUS CASTUS. with slight delirium, the paroxysms terminating with profuse perspi- rations. It may prove useful against the spleen-affections and dropsy which follow quartan fevers. It may prove a useful remedy against pruritus and prurigo. It had an ancient reputation against itching of the anus. Noack recommends it in hypochondriacal melancholy, melancholia-anoa, melancholia-taedium-vitae. It is homoeopathic to great mental dejection, with fear of approaching death; despair and melancholic undervaluing of one's self, with desire to be dead ; melan- cholic hypochondriacal humor, with dissatisfaction with one's self and contemptuous undervaluing of everything; thoughtlessness and ina- bility to work; difficult comprehension of what has been read and heard ; great mental anxiety, with excessive debility, and feeling as if diarrhoea were about to occur ; excessive mental distraction while reading. It is said to be very useful in purely hysterical and hypo- chondriacal affections bordering upon fixed melancholy, not depend- ing upon any dyscratic or material cause, but rather upon a misdirec- tion of the mental powers, and occurring in old maids, widows, and widowers. It is allied to Ignatia and Aurum in its action; and while Agaricus produces great excitement of the nervous system, Agnus-castus causes great torpor. Noack proposes it in hemicrania. It is homoeopathic to tearing pains, especially above the right eye and temple, as if one had received a blow upon the eye, attended with soreness to touch, increased by motion, aggravated in the even- ing, and lasting for several days. It is probably best suited to the headaches of persons with derangements of the womb, ovaries, tes- ticles, or sexual organs in general; in the headaches of those given to sexual excesses or subject to seminal emissions, or of those of un- married persons suffering from nervous debility. Noack proposes it as a remedy against coma; it is probably most suitable against the drowsiness which arises from nervous exhaustion, rather than from congestion. It may be suited against hydrocephaloid drowsiness. It is homoeopathic to pharyngitis ; also to the formation of an excess of uric acid in the stomach. It is a singular coincidence that Agnus- castus has been supposed to exert a specific influence upon the spleen and Scherer has found uric-acid in considerable quantity as a normal constituent in the juice of the spleen. It may prove useful in some forms of dyspepsia and flatulence. Roth says it is homoeopathic against whiteness of the tongue, bitterness of the mouth, loss of ap- petite, sensitiveness of the abdomen to pressure, swelling of the abdo- men after eating, occasional pains in the hypogastrium, great accumu- lation of wind in the bowels, hardness of the stools, pains in the kid- neys, and redness and muddiness of the urine. Dioscorides recom- AGNUS CASTUS. 119 mended it against dropsy, ascites, enlargement and other diseases of the spleen. Hippocrates recommended the seeds in diseases of the spleen. It has been recommended by Noack in chronic diar- rhoea. In pruritis-podicis and excoriations about the rectum. It is homoeopathic to corrosive itching about the groins, anus, and peri- naeum; to acute, deep, sharp stitches about the coccyx; to painful spots near the .anus while walking, as if there were subcutaneous ulcerations. It has been recommended against fissures of the anus. It may prove useful against the uric-acid diathesis, and also against the oxalic-acid diathesis, as the recent experiments of Wbhler and Frerichs—in which the introduction of uric-acid into the organism, by the primce-vue or by the veins, was followed by an augmentation of the urea and oxalate of lime in the urine—afford tolerably strong evi- dence that the uric-acid in the animal organism undergoes a decom- position into urea and oxalic-acid, precisely similar to that which can be artificially produced by Peroxide of Lead. It may prove useful against the melancholy and despondency which attends the oxalic- acid diathesis.—To prevent getting children, a man took for three months, morning and evening, twelve grains of the Agnus-castus, by which the parts were weakened to such an extent that, not only did the erections become deficient, but he lost his semen as he intended, and never begat children. This drug has received the Greek name Lygon, from the great flaccidity of the penis, which it causes. Dr. Landerer, of Athens, uses the seeds of the Agnus-castus with the greatest success in gonorrhoea, curing cases in which even Cubebs had failed. Although it is said to thin the spermatic fluid, and produce pain in the testicles, still an ointment of it will remove pains in the testicles. Roth says it is useful against oppression of the chest on going up-stairs, cough with raising of blood, followed by copious mu- cous expectoration, with paroxysmal attacks, especially in the morn- ing, attended with palpitations and bleeding of the nose. Noack has recommended it against the after-effects of dislocations. It is ho- moeopathic to piercing and rending pains in the joints; pains as if from dislocation of the joints, especially in the shoulder-joints ; para- lytic pain in the wrist-joint, only felt when turning the hand; gouty rending pain, with swelling of the finger-joints ; lassitude and tired- ness of the limbs, increased by every motion. It will also probably prove useful against gonorrhceal rheumatism. It had an ancient reputation against bruises and wounds. It is homoeopathic to pier- cing, aching, rending, and luxation-pain in the hip-joints; piercing, drawing, and dislocation-pain in the knee-joints; weakness of the ankles, with predisposition to sprain them.—J. C. P. 120 AGNUS CASTUS. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—The corrosive itching is relieved b§ scratching, but returns speedily. Sleep.—Starts in sleep, as if from fright.—Restless sleep.— Anxious and voluptuous dreams. Fever.—The pulse is slower and weaker, only sixty. Constant trembling qfthe whole body from internal chilliness, the body feeling warm to the touch.—Chilliness of the whole body, without thirst; the hands are the only parts cold to the touch.—Frequent alternations of chilliness and heat, without thirst.—Heat of the whole body, with cold knees in the evening in bed; he feels as if fire were creeping over him.—Great weakness, as if from violent anguish, with sensa- tion as if diarrhoea would set in, when standing. Moral Symptoms.—Melancholic, hypochondriac mood.-—Discour- agement and desire for death, followed by exalted feeling.—Sadness, with idea of approaching death. Sensorium.—Extreme absence of mind; he is unable to recollect many things.—Vertigo.—Contractive headache above the temples, when reading; he has to read several things twice, and is unable to chain his attention. Head.—°Headache in the upper part of the head, as from staying in a room filled with a thick and smoky atmosphere.—Tearing pain in the temples and forehead, more violent during motion.—Pain towards the temple, as if she had received a blow upon the eye.— Pain in the upper part of the right side of the head, of a smarting and stinging nature, externally, as if it were in the bone. Scalp.—Corrosive and stinging itching in several portions of the face and scalp.—Chilliness of the scalp, which feels warm to the hand, however. Eyes.—Dilated pupils the whole day.—Running of the eyes when in the room.—Burning of the eyes when reading.—Corrosive itching under the eyes.—Pain under the right malar bone. Ears.—Ringing in the ears, or rather roaring.—Hardness of hearing.—Corrosive itching of either cheek. Nose.—Illusions of smell; he sometimes smells herring and musk, without either being present.—Aching pain in the dorsum of the nose.—Corrosive itching of the tip of the nose. Jaws and Teeth.—Corrosive itching near the chin.—The teeth are painful when touched by warm food or drink.—Deep tearing in the right ramus qfthe lower jaw, below the sockets.—°Ulcers about the teeth. Taste and Appetite.—Coppery taste in the mouth, as if the mouth had been galvanized.—Aversion to drink, followed by increase of thirst. ALCOHOL. 121 Gastric Symptoms.—Eructations, smelling like old urine.—Disa- greement of food, with sense of repletion, or feeling of nausea in the pit of the stomach.—Frequent hiccough, with ill humor.—The mouth is very dry; saliva viscid, and the uvula red.—°Ulccrs in the mouth. Stomach and Abdomen.—Loud rumbling in the abdomen.—Hard pressure in the hepatic, region, increased by touch.—°Swelling and induration of the spleen.—° Ascites.—Much flatulence ? Stool and Anus.—Loose diarrhoeic stools, followed by inaction of the rectum.—Constipation.—Itching-stinging in the inguinal region, perinaeum, coccyx, and sacrum. Urinary Organs.—Urine frequent and abundant, of a dark color. Male Genital Organs.—An absence of sexual desire, with flac- cidity and coldness of genital organs.—Drawing along the spermatio cords.—A kind of yellow gonorrhoea, and crawling itching of the genital organs.—The semen runs out in a stream,'witt out ejaculation, followed by increase of sexual desire, with a kind of madness and violent erections. Female Genital Organs.—Suppression of the menses, with drawing pains in the abdomen.—°Leucorrhoea.—°Sterility.—Defi- cient secretion of milk in lying-in women. Larynx and Chest.—Sneezing, from dryness of the nose.—Tena- cious mucus is lodged in his throat, which he is unable to bring up.— Pressure on the sternum, especially during a deep inspiration.—Dull pain in the chest. Upper Limbs.—Lacerating pain in the joints, increased by motion. —Hard pressure in the axilla and upper arm.—Prickings and stitches above the elbow and wrist.—Swelling of a finger-joint, with lacerating pain. Lower Limbs.—Pain in the right hip-joint, violently increased during motion, with debility and weariness.—Cramp-pain in the left thigh, when walking.—Shooting drawing in the knees and muscles. —Heaviness of the right foot; sensation as if a heavy load were attached to the tarsal bones, drawing the foot down.—Tearing in the anterior joints of the left toes, more violent when walking.—Fine lancinations in the soles of both feet. 9.—ALCOHOL. Acute Effects__-According to Christison and authors who have treated of the actions of alcoholic and spirituous liquors on man, have distinguished three degrees in its immediate effects: 6 122 ALCOHOL. 1. When the dose is small, much excitement and attle subsequent depression are produced. 2. In the second degree, the symptoms are more violent: excite ment, flushed face, confusion of thought, delirium, and various mental affections, varying with individual character. The majority of in- toxicated persons become jovial, sympathetic, and even indiscreet— many things which otherwise would remain a profound secret are allowed to escape (in vino Veritas) ; others become sentimental and affectionate ; some speak with incomprehensible suavity about learned subjects, politics, country; in some cases, the coward becomes a hero in his own imagination; others are always ready to quarrel or fight, and either comport themselves as pugilists, or become almost mur- derous in their ferocity; but, fortunately, there are generally others not less drunk who are not only peaceable, but anxious to preserve the peace. Another class of drunkards always become depressed in spirits, sit quietly in a corner, are much absorbed in themselves, and burst into tears and complaints over the most trivial occurrences. The perceptions are disturbed and often confused; the harmony between the intellect and will is broken up; the higher intellectual functions, and even the common processes of the understanding become more and more difficult, while the imagination and the lower impulses predominate. These symptoms are followed by dozing and gradually increasing somnolency, which may, at length, become so deep as not easily to be broken. After the state of somnolency has continued several hours, it ceases gradually, but is followed by gid- diness, weakness, stupidity, headache, sickness, and vomiting. This degree of injury from Alcohol may prove fatal, either in itself, by the coma becoming deeper and deeper, or from the previous excited state of the circulation causing diseases of the brain in a predisposed habit. There is a singular variety in the principal symptoms in this form of intoxication, even when completely formed : thus, when the stage of stupor is fully formed, the person is sometimes capable of being roused, sometimes immoveably comatose for a long time; the pulse is sometimes imperceptible or very feeble, sometimes distinct, or even full, generally slow or natural, seldom frequent, very seldom firm; the pupHs are occasionally contracted, much more generally dilated, and, in a few instances, alternating between one state and the other; the countenance is commonly pale, sometimes turgid and flushed; the breathing is for the most part slow, and also soft, yet not unfrequently laborious, but very rarely stertorous. Convulsions are rare, having been observed twice only in twenty-six cases. Neither do any of the special symptoms seem to bear a marked rela- ALCOHOL. 123 tion to the ultimate event; for many cases get well when the pupils are much dilated, the coma profound, and the pulse imperceptible. It usually happens that, if the stage of stupor be completely over- come, recovery speedily ensues, without any particular symptom except headache, giddiness, sickness, and the customary conse- quences of a debauch. But, on some occasions, the comatose stage is succeeded by one which indicates much cerebral excitement__by flushed face, injected eyes, restlessness, a febrile state of the system, and delirium, even of the violent kind. In other cases, this affection tnUs on very much the characters of a slight attack of typhoid fever. In another variety of this second degree of intoxication, an apoplectic disposition is called into action by the excited state of the circulating system, and death ensues from apoplexy, or some other disease of the brain, rather than from simple drunkenness. Thus, in some in- stances, extravasation of blood is found within the head after death; but, as this is a rare effect of intoxication, it must be considered as the result of poisoning with spirits, exciting sanguineous apoplexy in a predisposed constitution. In other cases, the stupor of intoxication, after putting on all the characters of apoplexy for two days and up- wards, terminates fatally without extravasation; here the poison operates by developing a constitutional tendency to congestive apo- plexy. In some cases, an interval of returning health occurs between the immediate narcotic effects of the poison and the ultimate apo- plectic coma which is the occasion of death.—J. C. P. Case.—A lad, aged sixteen, swallowed sixteen ounces of whiskey in the course of ten minutes, and, pursuant to the terms of a wager, walked up and down a room for half an hour. He then went into the open air, apparently not at all the worse for his feat; but, in a very few minutes, while in the act of putting his hand into his pocket to take out some money, he became so suddenly senseless as to forget to withdraw his hand, and so insensible that his companions could not rouse him. He died in sixteen hours.—J. C. P. 3. The third degree of poisoning is not so often witnessed, because, in order to produce it, a greater quantity of spirits must be swallowed, pure and at once, than is usually taken, except by persons who have made foolish wagers on their prowess in drinking. Then there is seldom much preliminary excitement; coma approaches in a few minutes, and soon becomes profound, as in apoplexy; the face is sometimes livid, more generally ghastly pale; the breathing sterto- rous, and the breath having a spirituous odor; the pupils sometimes much contracted, more commonly dilated and insensible; and, if relief is not speedily procured, death takes place, generally in a few 124 ALCOHOL. hours, and sometimes immediately. The patient may recover if the iris remains contractile; but, if it is dilated and motionless on the approach of sight, recovery is very improbable. 'These cases gene- rally die with the symptoms of pure coma; convulsions are not common, but occasional cases do occur in which the coma is accom- panied with alternating opisthotonos and emprosthotonos.—J. C. P. Occasionally Alcohol acts as an irritant; after its ordinary narco- tic action passes off another set of symptoms occasionally appear, which indicate inflammation of the alimentary canal. Case.—A young man had been drinking brandy immoderately for several days, when at length he was attacked with shivering, nausea, feverishness, pain in the stomach, vomiting of everything he swal- lowed except cold water, thirst, and at last hiccough, delirium, jaundice, and convulsions. Death took place on the ninth day. The stomach was found gangrenous over the whole villous coat; the colon was much inflamed, and all the small intestines red. On Animals.—Huss and Dahlstrom administered daily to three dogs, of various ages but of nearly equal size, six ounces of Swedish brandy. Intoxication, canine appetite, and intense thirst were occa- sioned by each dose during the first three months; but the dogs continued fat and apparently well. In the fourth month the bark of the animals became hoarse, they had a hoarse, dry hiccough and cough, the eyes were staring and full of tears, hearing was much diminished, and their sleep became restless, with frequent subsultus and jerking of the limbs. After the completion of the fourth month the dogs trembled when they attempted to stand; their walk was shuffling, and there was evident weakness of the extremities, espe- cially in the hind-legs, so that they often remained in a sitting posture while taking food. Cramps and convulsive movements and subsultus next appeared in the limbs and trunk, both during sleep and when the animals were awake and lying on their sides. The sight of other dogs, however, roused them at all times from their apathetic condition, and they endeavored, even in their weakened state, to attack and bite them. Their strength diminished more and more, the sensibility of the skin, especially of the ears, was remarkably lessened, the appetite fell off rapidly, but .the irritability towards other dogs continued unabated to the 1-ast. The deposit of fat rather increased. They all died in the eighth month. PATHOLOGY.—The appearances were the same in all three : the stomach was contracted, its mucous membrane lead-colored and cede- matous ; the intestinal canal coated with a tough bad-smellin^ mucus • the liver considerably enlarged, softened, and dark; the bile dark ALCOHOL. 125 and so tough that it could be drawn out in threads; nasal, tracheal and bronchial mucous membrane slightly inflamed; vessels of the brain and its membranes much congested, with effusion of clear scrum between the arachnoid and dura-mater; a clear, gelatinous, semi-coagulated fluid between the same membranes of the spinal cord, especially near the fourth and sixth dorsal vertebrae; muscles pale, relaxed, and soft; fat soft. General Effects on the Nervous System.—Alcohol has been generally believed, since the experiments of Sir B. Brodie, to act on the brain through the medium of the nerves, and to do so without entering the blood. But we agree with Christison, who says this may be doubted, as it does not act so swiftly, but that absorption may easily take place before its operation begins. It is probable that Alcohol exerts a similar action upon many of the nerves to that which it does upon the brain; congestion, serous effusion, and indu- ration of the nerves are not improbable effects.—J. C. P. Nerves of Motion.—Alcohol rarely causes convulsions; but it exerts some influence over the nerves of motion, probably through the cerebellum, whose office it is to coordinate muscular movements; for intoxicated persons do not possess full control over the voluntary muscles, as is seen in their stammering speech, the staggering to and fro, and tendency to fall. In delirium tremens, also, there are pecu- liar tremors, particularly of the tongue and hands. • There is also trembling of the hands and arms; a constant trem- bling motion of the muscles under the skin (tremblement vermicu- laire). Shaking and shivering are merely higher degrees of trembling, and only occur when the muscular system is much weakened. Diminished strength and a state of weakness and relaxation of the locomotive muscular system. Partial paralysis. Subsultus, jerking, and spasmodic drawing and starting of the muscles. Convulsions and epileptic attacks. Nerves of Sensation.—Formication in or under the skin is one of the most common chronic effects of Alcohol on the nerves of sensation; it is frequently attended with restlessness, which obliges the patient to move the affected limbs constantly. Fleeting sensations of draw- ing or piercing, generally in the feet and legs. Hyperesthesia, pain, and neuralgic rendings; these are generally preceded for some time by formication, flying pains, and piercings. These may be followed by dullness of sensation, or even loss of sensation, or anaesthesia; it is noticed first in the tips of the toes, then in those of the fingers, finally it extends over the back of the foot to the leg, or tibia, or to ' the back of the hands. 126 alcohol. Great Sympathetic Nerve.—The chronic action of Alcohol upon this nerve and its ramifications are evinced more by alterations in the struc- ture and functions of the various organs of the chest, abdomen, and pelvis than by any particular sensations. In small quantities, Alcohol expends its action almost exclusively upon the abdominal organs. One can distinctly feel how its action expands from the solar plexus upon those organs in which the splanchnic nerves ramify. There is a feeling of comfort in the abdomen, more rapid and powerful diges- tion, more active peristaltic movements, increased desire for food and drinks, more profuse secretions, especially from the kidneys. On the Blood.—Through whatever channel Alcohol operates, there is no doubt that it enters the blood ; for in man the breath has a strong smell of spirits for a considerable time after it is swallowed, and it has been found in the tissues and secretions after death from large doses. One of the most important appearances in poisoning with Alco- hol is the fluid and venous condition of the blood. According to Stein- heimer and Roesch, Alcohol acts directly on the blood, and intoxica- tion is owing to an alcoholic venous plethora, in which the proportion of hydrogen and carbon in the blood is much increased. A similar alteration of the blood occurs in poisoning with narcotic drugs, and the delirium and excitement of the nervous system produced by them and Alcohol is consequent upon this change in the quality of the blood. If Alcohol be added to blood which has been drawn from a vein, it becomes dark, and loses its normal opacity; or becomes more or less transparent, and changes to a cherry-juicelike fluid. With the aid of a microscope we see the blood-globules gradually losing their red coloring matter, which becomes uniformly dissolved and diffused through the serum, which then assumes a peculiar cherry-red color. This serum coagulates to the consistence of thick milk, but cannot form solid coagulae, and no watery particles separate from it. These appearances coincide with those of the blood of topers, which is thick but fluid ; it coagulates very loosely, contains little fibrin, but much albumen and fat.—J. C. P. According to C. H. Schultz, when Alcohol is absorbed into the blood, it renders the coloring matter of blood-globules soluble in the blood- plasma, and produces a contraction of the walls of the blood-globules. The quantity of fat in the blood of topers is considerably increased, it may increase to eleven per cent, according to Lecanu. The blood often seems milky or curdy. According to Moleschott, Alcohol burns off in the blood, or forms a combination with the oxygen of the blood, and is converted into carbonic acid and water; this prevents the oxygen pf the blood from combining with the organic mass, thus stopping ALCOHOL. 127 * ita oxygenation and combustion, and retarding the normal and constant metamorphosis of the tissues; hence it occasions a lesser demand for food and solid nourishment. Dr. Ogston has furnished the most positive proofs of the absorption of Alcohol into the blood. He says, " that Alcohol will escape by the kidneys unchanged, is proved by the fact that it can be tested chemically in the urine." This he has verified in several cases of death by drowning. That this* fluid, however, could be found in the urine in any but the minutest quantities, and in a highly diluted state, he did not con- sider at all likely till the following occurrence showed its possibility : Case.—A man, aged forty-seven, while intoxicated, threw himself into the water ; the body was recovered in less than an hour, and in- spected fourteen hours after death. At the inspection, from three to four drachms of urine from the bladder was being heated in an iron spoon over the flame of a candle, to ascertain if it contained albumen, when the flame set fire to the vapor rising from the fluid. This unexpected event was witnessed by Dr. James Jameson, and several medical students.—J. C. P. Alcohol passes directly from the stomach and intestines into the blood; a part of the spirit is, perhaps, then decomposed, but another portion is carried directly by the portal system through the liver, and from thence to the lungs, where much is exhaled with the air that is breathed, but the remainder passes into the arterial system, and from thence over the whole body. All authors are agreed that the blood of dram-drinkers contains a much larger proportion of carbon than that of healthy individuals. Scharlau has estimated the excess of carbon in the blood of drunkards to be not less than thirty per cent. Huss comes to the conclusion that both the arterial and venous blood of dram-drinkers is loaded with fat; that it is impregnated likewise with Alcohol ; that the solid constituents in defibrinated blood are diminished, as is likewise the proportion of blood-globules.—J. C. P. Bcecker thinks that Alcohol causes a decidedly venous condition of the blood, with a proclivity towards melanosis. Also that it pro- duces a partial solution of the coloring matter of the blood in the plasma, rendering the serum reddish and turbid.—The blood in five drunkards contained : In 1000 Parti Health. Solid constituents of defibrinated blood.....202.180 221.000 Blood-globules.......................... 122.484 141.100 Albumen............................... 76.804 69.400 Extractive masters and soluble salts of serum 12.694 6.800 Fibrin.................................. 2.200 2.200 128 ALCOHOL. Hence Alcohol diminishes the solid constituents and the blood. globules ; increases the quantity of albumen, fat, and other extractive matters; and exerts little or no influence upon the fibrin. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Alcohol is evidently suitable in some dyscrasias and blood diseases. It is homoeopathic to adiposis and venosis; more or less antagonistic to tuberculosis. In tuberculosis there is a deficiency of fat in the system, which Alcohol may supply, especially if aided by fatty food, cream, Cod-liver oil, &c ; there is an excess of albumen which Alcohol may increase ; there is a deficiency of iron and the chlorides of soda and potassa which Alcohol cannot supply. Hence Alcohol alone may prevent tuberculosis, but cannot entirely cure it when fully developed ; it may require the aid of Cod- liver oil, Iron, and Chlorides of Soda and Potassa. In this connection we may be permitted to add, that the morbid condition of the blood produced by the malaria or poison of intermittent fever, is totally distinct from the morbid condition of the blood which attends tuber- culosis. As far as chemical analysis goes, the facts show that the state of the blood in confirmed and aggravated intermittent fever is the very antithesis of the state of the blood in tuberculosis in several important particulars ; and, more especially, that the proportion of albumen is greatly diminished, while that of the red corpuscules is uniformly and to a very considerable extent increased—two circum- stances which are in direct opposition to the state of the blood in tu- berculosis.—J. C. P. The blood of four persons, residing in malarious districts, and suf- fering from intermittent fever, was analyzed by Cozzi; the following are the results : 13 3 4 Average. Water and salts.. 737.67 705.49 732.45 809.17 746.19 Fibrin.......... 2.20 2.06 2.29 1.96 2.12 Fat............ 15 21 13 16 16 Albumen........ 48.71 56.61 47.59 53.10 51.50 Blood-corpuscles, 211.27 235.63 217.54 135.61 200.01 Tuberculosis. Fever and Ague. Health. Water................. 798.021 746.19 791.378 Fibrin................. 2.776 2.12 2.952 Fat................. 1.554 16 3.240 Albumen.............. 88.144 51.50 70.501 Blood-globules......... 114.794 200.01 127.426 Hence it is evident that fever and ague diminishes the quantity of fat and albumen, and increases that of the blood-globules. Hence a residence in a fever and aguish atmosphere, in order to cure tuber- ALCOHOL. 129 culosis, must be assisted by fatty food, Cod-liver oil, Alcohol, Iron, ana the Chlorides of Soda and Potassa.—J. C. P. Heart and Arteries.—In strong, but not excessive doses, a feel- ing of warmth and comfort spreads from the epigastrium over the whole body; the pulse becomes raised, more powerful, and quicker; all the muscular movements take place with more ease, power, and endurance; the tone of the nervous system is raised, especially in the brain, followed by greater vivacity, excitement of the feelings and courage, and more general and astute powers of thought. The metamorphosis of the tissues takes place more rapidly, followed by increased secretions, especially from the skin and kidneys. In a few hours this state is followed by relaxation and exhaustion, lassitude, inclination to repose and sleep. In Ogston's cases, the walls of the heart were loaded with fat in eleven cases, coincident with general obesity in three cases. There was general enlargement or hypertrophy in eleven cases, coincident with abundant fat on its walls in five cases. Hypertrophy of the left ventricle in five cases; dilatation and attenuation of the right ven- tricle in nine cases. The tricuspid valve was diseased in four cases, the mitral in eight, and the aortic in two. There was dilatation oi the aorta in four cases; bony plates and atheroma in four cases. There were abnormal appearances in the pericardium, heart, and aorta in thirty cases out of seventy-three, or in forty-one per cent. The changes in the'heart and arteries, to be met with in drunkards in such numbers, are attributed, by Dr. Carpenter, partly to the gouty and rheumatic diatheses generated in such persons by alcoholic fluids, and in part to the direct action of the poison introduced into the blood; but, more particularly, with the exception of the increase ol fat about the heart, by the exposure to inclement weather from which drunkards so frequently suffer.—J. C. P. Alcohol is homoeopathic to a fatty state of the heart and adiposis in general. ■ Chambers has been in the habit of forbidding tea, coffee, and alcohol to obese persons, with striking advantage ; and he thinks that good effects have followed their disuse in cases of thickened heart in muscular subjects. It is also homoeopathic to many of the symptoms of typhoid fever; and Tweedie gives the following sum- mary of cases or stages of fever in which stimulants prove bene- ficial : 1. It is sometimes observed that when a patient in fever has been going on favorably, the pulse becomes suddenly soft and compressible, the skin cool and damp, accompanied by a feeling of considerable ex- haustion. With these symptoms there need be little hesitation in 9 130 ALCOHOL. allowing six or eight ounces of wine in twenty-four hours, at proper lntprvftls 2. When the symptoms denoting sensorial disturbance, languor, low muttering delirium, tremor, or subsultus progressively increase, if, at the same time, the patient lose his strength from day to day, the pulse be soft and the skin cool, Wine may be safely prescribed. ^ 3. When the fever assumes the petechial character, more especially if the spots be large, and of a dark or livid hue, Wine is indicated. 4. In cases of sudden and unexpected collapse. 5. Dr. Graves considers that Wine and Opium may be sometimes advantageously prescribed in the advanced stages of fever, even when particular symptoms apparently render their propriety doubtful. Thus, when the tongue is coated with dry brown fur, the teeth covered with sordes, when there is suffusion of the eyes, dry and hot skin, heat of the scalp and flushing of the face, a low form of delirium, sense of weight or pain in the head, not of an acute or throbbing character, and the pulse small, rapid, and thrilling, Wine may be given with advantage.—J. C. P. Head.—Hallucinations and congestion of the head occur as a mat- ter of course; they do not require explanation. Melancholy with inclination to suicide (monomanie suicide ebrieuse) is not an uncom- mon effect of chronic alcoholismus; also mania with inclination to commit murder {monomanie homicide ebrieuse); mania with inclina- tion to incendiarism {monomanie incendiaire, pyromanie ebrieuse); mania with excessive inclination to drink (monomanie d'ivresse); polidipsia (omomania), this is not a fault, but a disease, and must be treated as such, with the aid of nurses, attendants, medicines, &c.; the liabilities to relapse are as frequent and obstinate as those of mania and fever and ague, and must be guarded against as sedulously. Stupidity, (stupidite ebrieuse) ; maniacal or drunken ferocity (manie, ou ferocite ebrieuse), this is most common in those of hasty and pas- sionate temperaments ; dementia (demence ebrieuse). In the bodies of nearly seventy drunkards, examined by Drs. Pe- ters, Middleton Goldsmith, and Moses, in 1842 and 1843, there was •invariably more or less congestion of the scalp, and of the membranes of the brain, with considerable serous effusion under the arachnoid. The substance of the brain was unusually white and firm, as if it had lain in Alcohol for an hour or two. The ventricles were generally nearly or quite empty. In not more than eight or ten cases were there more red spots on the cut surface of the brain than are usually found The peculiar firmness of the brain was noticed several times, even when decomposition of the rest of the body had made conside ALCOHOL. 131 rable advance; typhus fever is the only disease, save induration of the brain, in which a like firmness is often observed. Occasionally a few drachms of colorless or reddish turbid serum were found in the ventricles of the brain.—J. C. P. In ten cases of fatal delirium tremens, the membranes of the brain were congested in four ; an excess of fluid was found under the arach- noid in eight; an excess of fluid in the ventricles in six; and in the majority of cases the substance of the brain was " wet." In seventy- three cases, examined by Dr. Ogston, the dura-mater was adherent to the calvarium in eleven ; highly injected in four ; much thickened (leathery) in one; serum between it and skull-cap in one. The arachnoid was thickened in thirty-one cases; serum under it and over the cerebral hemispheres in forty (coincident with arachnoid thickening in thirty); serum at the base of the skull in seventeen ; between the dura-mater and arachnoid in two; in the cerebral ven- tricles in twenty-four—viz., in some quantity in fourteen, and limited to these in four. The pia-mater was injected in twenty cases ; very minutely in nineteen; limited to the base of the brain in two. The surface was figured in one; coincident with ventricular effusion in fourteen; with effusion at the base of the brain in nine; a quantity of serum under the pia-mater in one case. The brain was hyper- trophied in two cases ; indurated in twenty-six, very much so in ten ; indurated coincidently with sub-arachnoid serum in twenty-one; with abundant ventricular serum in five ; with lymph on portions of the brain in three; with softened fornix in one. The brain was softened in four cases. There was oedema at its base in five, coin- cident with injection of the pia-mater. The cerebellum was softened in six cases ; coincident with softened cerebrum in three ; with indu- rated brain in one. The cerebellum was indurated in eight cases; coincidently with induration of the brain in all. The medidla-oblon- gata and spinal cord were indurated in one case, coincidently with induration of the brain and cerebellum. The choroid plexuses had vesicles upon them in fourteen cases. The cerebral arteries were in a state of fatty degeneration in one case. There were abnormal appear- ances in the brain and appendages in eighty-nine per cent.—J. C. P. Alcohol is homoeopathic to many forms of congestion of the brain, insanity, dropsy of the brain, especially hydrocephaloid disease, induration of the brain, &c. In many cases of typhoid fevers, and other maladies characterized by cerebral disturbance and depression of nervous energy, Alcohol is a specific remedy of great value. How often do we meet with groups of symptoms, during the course of scar- latina, typhoid, and other fevers, which similate those of alcoholic 132 ALCOHOL. intoxication! Like Opium, it impresses specifically the brain 'juber- cula quadrigemina particularly) and nervous system; and the phe- nomena which arise from its use bear a close resemblance to those of this drug. Eyes.—A blood-shot condition or congestion of the eyes, with a bilious condition of these organs, are among the most common effects af even moderate quantities of Alcohol. Hallucinations of sight are common, both in simple intoxication, delirium tremens, and alcoholis- mus-chronicus. The patient sees double, or thinks he sees a variety of objects, men, animals, good or bad spirits, angels or demons. Op- tical illusions are among the most uniform and singular effects of the abuse of Alcohol. This probably arises from the fact that the most marked action of this stimulus is upon that portion of the brain which gives origin to the optic nerves. Ears.—Singing in the ears, or rushing and roaring noises are not uncommon ; hallucinations of hearing are also not uncommon, such as imaginary voices, talking, or shouting; in chronic alcoholismus they are not constant, but occur most frequently in the evening and about midnight; the patient may even imagine that he hears singing or in- strumental music. Ringing in the ears, which has arisen from mere debility, from excessive loss of blood, &c, is often cured by the judi- cious employment of alcoholic stimulants. Nose.—Hallucinations of smell are not common; but the patient may imagine that his room is full of the vapors of Sulphur, or sup- pose that the devil has defiled his bed, and that this smells as the devil is supposed to do.—J. C. P • Mouth, Taste.—Great dryness of the mouth is a common effect of Alcohol, although the tongue is commonly moist in delirium tremens. Hallucinations of taste sometimes occur in alcoholismus-chronicus, and the patient may suppose that all the drinks which are offered him taste more or less of Alcohol.—J. C. P. The excessive dryness of the mouth and tongue which so often accompany typhoid and malignant fevers, is sometimes materially diminished by the use of Brandy or Wine. When other phenomena correspond, such as delirium, optical hallucinations, depression of the nervous system, &c, Alcohol is homceopathically indicated, and should be prescribed without hesitation.—J. C. P. Stomach.—Derangements of the stomach are very common in drunkards; among the chronic effects, the most frequent is vomiting, viz., tho well-known morning-nausea and vomiting. At first the throat seems full of mucus, which is hawked up with difficulty; this becomes more and more difficult, and finally inclination to vomit and ALCOHOL. 133 actual vomiting occur, caused at first by the attempts to hawk up phlegm, but finally they occur without this, and are attended with a feeling of oppression, discomfort, tension, and aching in the epigas- trium. Besides the morning-vomiting, these symptoms may also occur more or less frequently during the day, especially after eating and drinking. These gaggings or vomitings of drunkards are pre- ceded for a longer or shorter time by a feeling of pressure or tension below the breast, by fullness and distension after eating, by sour or putrid eructations, rising of water in the mouth, &c. In the morning, a tough, or sour or bitter, or saltish or insipid water is raised ; during the day, the food, more or less altered or digested, is brought up, but the vomits are always more or less sour or offensive. The tongue is more or less furrowed or cracked ; the furrows either run the whole length of the tongue, or else are confined to the tip; the fissures, like the furrows, may be deeper or smaller, straight or crooked, or in zig-zags, but they always run from the median line of the tongue towards the edges; the surface of the tongue may be furry or fibrilated, but it is more frequently scraped, robbed of its epithelium, and as if varnished; in such cases it is flesh-red in color, with enlarged papillae at its tip. The appearance of the tongue varies in the same person, according as he drinks more or less, or the stomach is more or less irritated. The trembling of the tongue has already been alluded to. The breath has an offensive smell, especially while digestion is going on, arising in part from the evaporation of alcohol from the bronchial mucous membrane, in part from the eructations, and in part from the filth in the mouth and between the teeth. The mucous membrane of the throat is often unnaturally red, and has a feeling of stiffness. That of the oesophagus is generally in the same condition, as is evident from the burning or slightly painful sen- sation which is frequently felt in swallowing. The stomach may be sensitive or not, tense or relaxed, according as it is filled with food, air, &c. When emaciation commences to take place, the recti muscles, especially that of the right side, be- comes rigid, and cannot be relaxed. The appetite, which at first was good, or even excessive, especially for tasty and fatty food, becomes less and less, in proportion as the taste for drink increases. Inflam- mation and ulceration of the stomach may arise from other causes, and then will be aggravated by the Alcohol. Dysphagia, arising from spasms in the pharynx and oesophagus, is not uncommon; at first the attacks are periodical, finally, they become continual, and may lead to contraction of the oesophagus.—J. C. P. 134 ALCOHOL. According to Orfila, if a large quantity of Alcohol be taken during or shortly after a meal, it coagulates the albuminous portions of the contents of the stomach, and this coagulated albumen passes off almost unchanged into the small intestines. The action of tha gastric juice upon the other constituents of the food is prevented, and they undergo acetous fermentation. Hence, as Alcohol prevents the digestion of albumen, it may prevent tuberculosis.—J. C P. In Peters' cases, the stomach presented various appearances. In some drunkards the mucous membrane is perfectly white, but some- what thickened, with distinct flat mamellonated elevations of small size. My friend, Professor Middleton Goldsmith, was one of the first to call attention to the fact that, when a large quantity of undiluted spirits had been taken shortly before death th« stomach was often found wrinkled, as if from the action of a powerful astringent; the tops of the rugae or wrinkles presented a punctated and vivid-rod appearance, while the depressions between them were blanched, as if from the action of Alcohol, and the whole mucous membrane was coated with a thick layer of white and very tenacious mucus. In other instances, there were thickening and mamellonation of the mucous membrane, with patches of elate-grey chronic inflammation, upon which spots of punctated, starlike, or diffused haemorrhagic effusion had supervened. In ten or twelve of the worst cases, in which from three pints to two quarts of liquor bad been swallowed, within thirty-six or forty-eight hours before death, we found exten- sive haemorrhagic effusion in a larger portion of the walls of the stomach, with exudation of blood in large patches under the mucous membrane.—J. C. P. In Ogston's cases, the stomach was usually small or atrophied in sixteen ; highly congested in ten ; false melanosis in two ; softening of the mucous membrane in two; hour-glass contraction in five; un- usual thickening or hypertrophy in one; covered with copious muco- purulent secretion in one. Ogsten places much stress upon the unusually small size of the stomach, altogether different from any mere state of emptiness or natural contraction of the organ; in short, he regards it as such an atrophy of the whole stomach as that viscus might have presented had its growth been arrested in early life. Thus, in one case, the stomach was only half the ordinary size; in a second, it was not larger than that of an infant at birth ; in a third, it barely exceeded the diameter of the duodenum over the greater part of its extent; and in the remainder it was unusually or remarkably small as com pared with the rest of the intestinal tube ALCOHOL. 135 I feel confident, that there was no actual atrophy in many of these oases. I have seen many cases in which a large quantity of pure spirits had been taken, probably enough to cause death without the aid of other causes, in which the stomach seemed unusually small, from the powerful corrugating action of the Alcohol, but such sto- machs could be easily stretched to their natural size. It is true, however, that many habitual drunkards take very little solid food, and hence, as the stomach is very rarely fully distended, it may finally remain almost permanently contracted.—J. C. P. Alcohol is homoeopathic to many forms of irritation and congestion of the stomach; it is a favorite remedy against dyspepsia from debi- lity ; it relieves many forms of nausea and vomiting, and may prove homoeopathic to the morning-vomiting of pregnant women. It is also homoeopathic to acidity of tho stomach and water-brash.—J. C. P. According to our experience, about one dyspeptic in five can take brandy with benefit, provided it is employed in a very dilute form, and is drank during dinner. As a general rule, it will disagree with dyspeptics of a bilious temperament, while those who are nervous or lymphatic will be able to use it with impunity, and, occasionally, with advantage.—J. C. P. Bowels.—The small bowels generally partake of the chronic irri- tation and congestion which obtain in the stomach; but the symp- toms do not all arise from chronic inflammation, but from the influ- ence of the altered chyme which comes down from the stomach, altered composition of the bile, imperfection in the nutrition in general, and of the composition of the blood. Hence, after death, the small bowels may appear nearly healthy. But, in higher grades of alcoholismus, there will be more or less difficulty of digestion, colic- pains, flatulence, persistent constipation, or alternations with diarr hoea, with puttylike, globular, blackish, or light grey faeces, or con stant diarrhoea, with bilious discharges, or like clay dissolved in water, or slimy or bloody matters. A large quantity of pure Alcohol also reaches the duodenum, mixes with the bile, which loses its alkaline properties, and can no longer be precipitated into insoluble flocculi by the addition of the acid chyme, as is normally the case; in the natural state, this inso- luble precipitate from the bile is not reabsorbed, but is cast out ot the body with the faeces; in drunkards, however, no such precipitate ensues, the bile remains fluid and unchanged by the chyme, and a large portion of it is reabsorbed. Hence the bilious disorders in topers, and the frequent occurrence of jaundice. Large quantities of acid chyme and imperfectly digested food pass along the "mab 136 ALCOHOL. intestines, and even reach the ccecum and colon, when they alsc undergo a farther acetous fermentation. Hence the sour eructations, colic from acidity, irritation and flatulence, and the dyspeptic troubles of drunkards. The small bowels, in Peters' cases, were literally filled with bile, and their mucous membrane thickly coated with a very tenacious mucus. In eight or ten of the worst cases, numerous and extensive patches of haemorrhagic effusion were found, with copious exudation of blood in and beneath the mucous membrane.—J. C. P. Ogston found unusual contraction of the intestines in six cases, softening of tho mucous coat in two; enormous distention in two; atrophy in one case, the bowel being attenuated and translucent; congestion of the duodenum in one. It is quite homoeopathic in diarrhoeas proceeding from an atonic condition of the mucous membrane of the intestines, and from chronic inflammations of this structure. It likewise proves curative in diar- rhoeas caused by slight irritation of the mucous coat, in consequence of colds, improper food, &c. Omentum.—The appearance of this organ was generally very pecu liar; it was usually equally filled with an ashy-grey slushy fat, but no large masses or lumps of fat were met with. Our attention was first called to this sign in Vienna; it is there regarded as so charac teristic that a cadaver was often judged to be that of a confirmed drunkard, from a glance at the omentum when the abdomen is first laid open.—J. C. P. In Ogston's cases, the omentum was loaded with fat in four, coin- cident in all with abundant subcutaneous fat; in two with fat around the heart; in one with conversion of the vermiform appendages into large fatty masses. Mesentery.—This was always loaded with a thick layer of whitish yellow fat. Liver and Portal System.—Alcohol rarely or never causes acute inflammation of the liver in temperate climates; but it often causes congestion, attended with jaundice; also enlargement. The blood which returns from the intestines into the portal-system and liver is more or less mixed with Alcohol, imperfect bile, and other undigested and impure matters; hence the abdominal venous plethora and subsequent affections of tho liver. As much bile is returned to the liver, it is doubtless resecreted from it again with great rapidity ; hence, among other causes, the large quantity of bile which is usually found in the gall-bladder and small bowels. Abdo minal dropsy only occurs in drunkards after the liver has been dis ALCOHOL. 137 eased, indurated, or granulated for a long time. It is apt U< remain isolated, or unassociated with general dropsy ; even the feet and legs are not apt to swell. The contrast between the distended abdomen and emaciated extremities is very striking in this form of dropsy. In Peters' cases the liver in moderate drinkers was found a little larger than natural, somewhat softened, and its external surface dotted with whitish patches of fatty infiltration, which extended but two or three lines into the parenchyma; the color of the rest of the organ was of a rather darker red than natural, and the edges retained their normal sharpness. In excessive drinkers the liver was con- siderably larger, the edges more obtuse, and the patches of fat larger and more numerous. In old habitual drunkards the liver was very large, weighing at least six or eight pounds, and often ten or twelve; the edges were very thick and much rounded; the parenchyma almost white with fat, soft, fragile, and the peritoneal covering could be torn off in large pieces with great ease. Granular liver was found in four or five cases only; and gall-stones only twice.—J. C. P. Ogston found the liver enlarged in thirty-two cases; granular in fourteen; nutmeg liver in thirteen; fatty liver in twenty-four. Cirrhosis was only present in five cases out of one hundred and seventeen. Alcohol is homoeopathic to enlargement of the liver, fatty condition of this organ, and to the nutmeg and granular liver; also to bilious- ness and jaundice; and the ascites from disease of the liver.— J. C. P. Spleen.—Although the spleen, in those who die of delirium tremens, is generally enlarged, soft, and brittle, and swells more rapidly and considerably when drunkards are attacked with intermit- tent fever, still no actual alterations of structure take place during the course of alcoholismus-chronicus, neither are there any symptoms referable to this organ. In Peters' cases this organ presented but few characteristic alterations. It generally retained its normal size, but was somewhat congested and softened. Occasionally it was rather larger than na- tural, but, as a rule, the small size of the spleen contrasted strongly with the very great size of the liver.—In Ogsten's cases the spleen was indurated or hepatized in ten; enlarged in two; atrophied in one ; softened in one. It was softened in fifteen per cent, of the cases, and hypertrophied in eighteen per cent. Kidneys.—Pain and sensitiveness in the region of the kidneys are apt to arise after a debauch, when the urine may also contain albu- men, or the serum of the blood, owing to a transient but decided 138 alcohol. congestion. At- times the urine also contains the coloring matter of the bile, viz., when there is congestion or chronic disease of the liver; or an excess of phosphates or urates, especially when the liver is indurated; or it may become alkaline when symptoms of paralysis arise. Drunkards are particularly apt to get disease of the kidneys when they are attacked with relapsing fever and ague, or chronic rheumatism. In Peters' cases the kidneys were generally somewhat enlarged flabby, their cortical substance infiltrated in numerous small spots, with a whitish, fatty, or albuminous substance; occasionally they were granular; the pelvis and ureters were generally in a state of chronic, slate-grey inflammation.—J. C. P. In Ogsten's cases there was general fatty degeneration in one; congestion in four; sometimes coincident with nutmeg liver and al- buminous urine ; enlarged in thirteen ; atrophied in one; buff-colored. with atrophy of the cortical portion in four ; with albuminous urine in five. Bladder.—In Peters' cases the bladder generally presented no unusual appearance; but in four or five of the worst cases there was a state of haemorrhagic exudation, which rivalled in extent and se- verity that which has already been described as occurring in the stomach and bowels. When drunkards become weak or partially paralytic, the bladder will partake of the debility of the rest of the system.—J. C. P. In retention of urine from paralysis of the bladder, bathing the hypogastric region with Alcohol, and allowing it to evaporate, is occasionally useful. Lungs.—In Peters' cases these were generally not much diseased ; at least, dyscratic organic disease of them, directly attributable to Alcohol, was not often met with. Congestion of the lungs was very common. Where large quantities of spirits had been taken shortly before death, the lungs were often found in a state of splenization; they appeared perfectly saturated with dark blood, which soon changed to a florid red on exposure to the air, except that which flowed from the large severed vessels, for this remained thick, dark, and tar-like. The parenchyma of the lungs was heavy and semi-solid to the feel, and somewhat softened, as the finger could easily be forced through it. The bronchi were almost always found reddened, somewhat dilated, and more or less filled with catarrhal secretions. Dr. Peters feels obliged to call particular attention to the iufrequency of phthisis in drunkards; in the seventy cases, he never met with a tubercular abscess, even of the smallest size, while a small numbei ALCOHOL. 139 of chalky or obsolete tubercles was frequently noticed; and cica- trices were also occasionally found, marked by the presence oi puckering of the surface of the lungs, of solid lumps or stripes, which were readily felt before the lung was cut into, and, when this was done, they were found to consist of masses or stripes of callous fibrous tissue, around which were rarely discovered a few discrete, grey, crude, small, tubercular granulations. In every instance, these appearances were strictly confined to the upper third of the superior lobes, and all the rest of the lungs was entirely free from either recent or old tubercular disease.—J. C. P. Ogsten also says that, so far as his one hundred and seventeen cases go, his observations bear out the correctness of the now com- monly-received opinion as to the comparative immunity of drunkards from tubercular affections. In Barclay's report of the fatal cases of disease of the brain, occur- ring during the last four years in St. George's Hospital, in ten fatal cases of delirium tremens, tubercles were found in the lungs in six cases, once recent, and five times in the form of a cretaceous mass. In seventy-three of Ogsten's cases, there was effusion into the pleura in three cases; adhesions of the lungs in twenty-five cases ; emphysema in twenty-one cases ; tubercles, and those latent, in only one case. Ogsten says that the additional labor thrown upon the lungs, when Alcohol has entered the circulation, after its absorption and the retardation which takes place under these circumstances of their functional activity from this cause, as well as by the toxical effects of the Alcohol on the medulla-oblongata, will alone go far to account for the frequency of morbid changes in these organs in drunkards; still, there can be but little room for hesitation in attri- buting many of these morbid changes, in part at least, to other causes, such as exposure to cold. Ogsten places much stress upon the frequent occurrence of emphysema in drunkards; and emphysema, it is well known, almost excludes tubercles. The emphysema of drunkards is supposed to arise from a lax or flabby, non-contractile or debilitated state of the lungs, as it never occurs unaccompanied by pulmonary collapse, or by one or the other form of pulmonary atrophy. There is probably a fatty degeneration, or some similar defective nutrition of the tissues of the lungs. Skin.—In the earlier stages of drinking, the skin is soft, velvety, and much disposed to perspiration; gradually this changes, and finally it becomes dry, rigid, thick, dirty, or yellowish grey, and a variety of eruptions are apt to break out, especially eczema and prurigo. Varices and ulcers of the legs also occur, but the lattei 140 ALCOHOL SULPHURIS. may also be caused by eczema, erysipelas, accidental injuries, &c, but they are always difficult to heal, and frequently break out afresh. The cellular and adipose tissues undergo various changes; at first they are generally the seat of a larger or smaller quantity of greasy greyish-white fat, which is deposited partly under the skin, partly between the muscles, and partly in the omentum, and in various portions of the abdomen. In the latter stages, this is reabsorbed and emaciation occurs; then we find a gelatine-like mass under the skin, followed by serous exudations and anasarca, or an excessive degree of emaciation. 10.—ALCOHOL SULPHURIS. ALCOHOL-SULPH.—Liquor Lampadii, Carburet of Sulphur. Lampadius, in 1796, while distilling a mixture of pyrites and charcoal, procured a clear liquid in the receiver, which he named Alcohol-sulphur is, or the Alcohol of Sulphur. It consists of one equivalent of Carbon and two of Sulphur. It is a transparent, color- less, volatile, and inflammable liquid, with a very pungent taste and peculiar odor, somewhat ethereal, and yet partaking of that of sul- phuretted hydrogen. It is insoluble in water, soluble in alcohol and ether, and in the oils generally. Its solvent powers are remark- able, as it dissolves Sulphur and Phosphorus rapidly and in con- siderable quantities. CLINICAL REMARKS.—It may prove useful in some forms of sick headache, especially when the pain commences in the forehead, and extends to one or the other temples ; also to scrofulous affections of the eyes and lids; to twitching of the eyes and lids, such as occurs in scrofulous, nervous, and verminous children. It is ho- moeopathic to some rheumatic and neuralgic affections of the face; and is also one of the most homoeopathic remedies to chronic pharyn- gitis, which is so often mistaken for chronic bronchitis ; to irritation of the pharynx, with much hawking and spitting, and gagging cough from the irritation of an elongated uvula, especially when these symptoms occur in bilious and dyspeptic subjects. It is homoeo- pathic to pyrosis and heartburn, and to various dyspeptic and bilious derangements. It is homoeopathic to flatulence, bilious derangement, bilious and flatulent colic, and congestion of the liver. It is one of the few drugs which seem to exert a specific action upon the ccecum. It has cured a chronic diarrhoea, appearing every four or six weeks, attended with colic, the evacuations being liquid, frothy, yellowish, ALCOHOL SULPHURIS. 141 sour, and attended with tenesmus. It is homoeopathic to chionic irri tation of the pharynx and larynx, with constant desire to hawk and spit, with hoarseness and short cough, and may prove homoeopathic to the first stage of tubercular disease of the lungs; it may prevent the tendency to irritation and congestion of the upper parts of the lungs which so readily lead to the fresh deposit of tubercles in con- sumptive patients. It is homoeopathic to chronic rheumatism, and to prurigo and impetigo.—J. C. P. Head.—Pain in the forehead, which draws towards the left temple, and remains there for two hours. Pressive frontal headache, lasting almost all day, and accompanied with transient pains in the temple. Drawing and tearing pain, stretching from the forehead to the temples, lasting all day, more severe in the room and during rest, relieved by walking in the open air. Dull pain in the frontal region, with nausea and heaviness of the whole head. Thumping pain in both temples. Violent pressive pain in the right temple, with malaise. desire to vomit, and rumbling of wind in the bowels, Eyes.—Burning and itching of the lids; pustules on the lids, lasting four days. Dilatation of the pupils, with quickness of the pulse. Abundant secretion of whitish yellow mucus in the eyes. Lachrymation of the eyes ; twitching and trembling of the muscles of the eyes and lids. Ears.—Pain in the ears as if some one were striking upon the tympanum with a dull instrument. Face.—Redness and puffiness of the face; heat of the face and hands. Lancinating and tearing pains in the cheeks, extending up to the temples, and lasting two months. Mouth.—Dryness of the lips and mouth; irritation of the cavity and isthmus of the fauces, followed by a sensation of contraction in the larynx, with gagging cough and quick breathing. Gum-boils, Pasty, disagreeable taste in the mouth, with foul taste of the pharyn geal mucus; bitter sharp taste in the mouth, or very repulsive acrid taste, or sweetish putrid taste. Great accumulation of saliva, with sweetish taste; very frequent spitting; pale red swelling of the uvula and velum. Burning and scraping in the pharynx and oeso- phagus. Stomach.—Very abundant eructations ; sour, burning, acrid regur- gitations (pyrosis), occurring one or two hours after eating. Con- tinual acrid regurgitations. Regurgitations of air, with nausea, dis- charge of flatulence upwards and downwards. Burning in the stomach and hepatic region; heat in the epigastric region, which ascends and occupies the whole chest; violent heat, ascending from 142 ALLIUM CEPA. the stomach to the head. Fullness in the stomach, with eructations yawning, desire to vomit, and dizziness. Abdomen.—Great inflation of the abdomen, with rumbling of wind and tearing colic; colic-pains after eating; slight wind-colic, from time to time, with desire to urinate; colic-pains, with loose stools and flatulence. Paroxysm of disagreeable pain in the left lobe of the liver. Soft stools, preceded by pain in the left lobe of the liver, and followed by pains in the caecal region. CjEcal Region.—Lancinating, twitching, and pinching pains in the region of the caecum, not relieved by discharge of flatus, and increased by pressure, by turning from one side to the other, and doubling-up the body. Dull pains in the region of the caecum. Stools.—Liquid stools ; slimy diarrhoea ; watery diarrhoea ; liquid diarrhoea, with violent pain in the epigastrium; sudden diarrhoea, after having dined, with good appetite; violent diarrhoea, with tenes- mus and sour evacuations. Larynx.—Heat and irritation of the larynx ; hoarseness and irri- tation of the larynx, with continued desire to hawk ; cough provoked by a tickling at the bifurcation of the bronchi. Slight dry cough. Chest.—Sensation of heat in the chest; congestion in the upper parts of the lungs; oppression of the chest; fullness of the chest. Slight stitches and pains about the chest. Limbs.—Pains in and eruption upon the arms and legs. Skin.—Sharp itching and stinging in different parts of the skin, as if from nettles ; itching in various parts of the skin, much aggravated by scratching; bleeding and burning of eruptions when scratched; (prurigo); eruptions of impetigo on the back of the hands, the pus- tules are seated on an inflamed red base, contain a yellowish cloudy serum, and form thick yellowish scabs. Fever.—Great internal heat, with coldness of the hands and feet; general heat, headache, quick pulse, cramps in the calves of the legs and toes, without much thirst, and no perspiration. Pulse.—Quick pulse—it rises from 76 to 90 or 95. Sleep.—Sleeplessness from headache ; dryness of the skin, and general unpleasant heat, so that he is obliged to rise and bathe himself 11.—ALLIUM CEPA. ALLIUM-CEPA.—Common Onion. Rationale of its Action.—Onions contain an ethereal oil, which is colorless, very volatile, of acrid taste and smell, and which causes ALLIUM CEPA. 143 inflammation of the skin when applied to it; when this oil is burnt, sulphurous acid is developed. Fourcroy and Vauquelin found Sul- phur and Phosphorus in combination with this ethereal oil, and which give rise to the peculiarly disagreeable onion odor; also an abundance of uncrystallizable sugar, a mucilaginous substance re- sembling gum-arabic, free Phosphoric-acid, and Phosphate of Lime Acetic-acid, Citrate of Lime, and Pectic-acid. According to Dierbach, Onions are rarely used as a medicine, although they have often been recommended as an article of diet to dropsical persons, while the expressed juice, in teaspoonful doses, sweetened with sugar, has been praised for the same purpose. Ap- plied externally, they also exhibit a diuretic action, whence the bruised bulbs have been used in the form of cataplasms over the ab domen in ascites. Consbruch and Jenner have recommended them in spasmodic ischury and strangury. Onions have been held to the nostrils for the relief of hysteric cramps, and a decoction in milk has been used as an injection against ascarides. But still more fre- quently their irritating properties have been called in play in order to hasten the suppuration of abscesses, boils, buboes, either singly, or in combination wiih Mustard, Soap, &c. The vapor of Onions irritates the eyes, and causes lachrymation; when used in excess, the peculiar odor of the Onions is exhaled from the skin, and, in one instance, it was unmistakably detected in the pus of a fistula. Cb.il dren and delicate adults cannot well digest raw onions ; they are apt to cause eructations, heartburn, and cramps of the stomach. Epi- leptics should avoid them; also those subject to seminal emissions. Hippocrates was acquainted with the diuretic action of this plant, and also recommended its external use against falling out of the hair. In paralysis of the tongue, Celsus recommended the chewing of raw Onions ; Appollonius used the juice in deafness. Vogt recommends them against infarctions of the abdominal organs ; flatulence ; chronic catarrhal affections, with tough, glassy mucus; in diseases of the urinary organs, gravel, dropsy, &c. Pereira says raw Onions are occasionally taken as an expectorant, with advantage, by elderly per sons affected with a winter cough. A roasted Onion is sometimes em- ployed as an emollient poultice to suppurating tumors, or to the ear to relieve the earache. The expressed juice has been given to children, mixed with sugar as an expectorant. The large quantity of Sulphur and Phosphorus which the volatile oil of Onions contains, ren- ders them an applicable remedy in many lung-affections. Sulphur, Graves says (see "Clinical Lectures"), will relieve chronic cough and bng-coutinued congestion of the bronchial mucous membrane.—II 144 ALLIUM CEPA. would appear that Sulphur, when taken into the system, is eliminated by the kidneys in the form of sulphates, or exhaled from the skin and mucous membranes in the form of sulphuretted hydrogen, and in this way we arrive at some explanation of its beneficial action in diseases of the skin and chronic irritation of the bronchial mucous membrane. In fact, paradoxical and homoeopathical as it may seem, Sulphur, although evidently stimulating, is nevertheless very effica- cious in curing many diseases connected with, or depending on inflam- mation or congestion. Thus, what remedy gives such prompt and certain relief in that painful affection, piles ? How rapidly does that specific irritation of the skin termed scabies, yield to its use ! The celebrated Hoffmann was in the habit of adding Sulphur to his cough prescriptions in all cases of chronic bronchitis in the aged and debili- tated, and Graves has no doubt that from five to ten grains of Sul- phur, taken three or four times a day, is one of the best remedies in chronic cough accompanied by constitutional debility and copious secretion into the bronchial tubes; it has a tendency to produce elevation of the pulse, increased heat of the skin, and sweating. It is most homoeopathic when the cough arises form a peculiar tickling or itching sensation about the throat-pit. Hering thinks that Onions fill a chasm between Aconite and Ipecac.; that it is peculiarly useful during many catarrhal epidemics; that it has a certain relation to Chlorine and to Phosphorus, and that it may be successfully used either before or after the use of Phosphor., or to complete, with greater rapidity, cures which Phosphorus has left unfinished. It would be more correct to assume that it has affinities with Sulphur and Phos- phor. Hering thinks that, in children, it is suited to many affections of the head and eyes ; to catarrhs and constant discharges from the nose ; to sore throat, cough, rattling in the chest, colic, flatulence, disorders arising from worms, and urinary difficulties. It will often have to be aided by Iodine, Spongia, Sulphur, and Phosphorus. In adults it is also suited to catarrhal affections of the head and eyes; oppression of the chest, senile asthma, and the accompanying or alter- nating affections of the kidneys, bladder and urinary apparatus, disorders of the stomach and bowels, flatulence, chilliness, &c. It very closely resembles Assafoetida in its action. A rather rare case of poisoning by Allium-cepa is reported in Frank's Magazine: A man, aged fifty years, of large frame, san- guine temperament, of regular habits, and always having enjoyed excellent health, was attacked a quarter of an hour after having eaten a raw Onion with his bread and butter at supper, with violent cutting pain in the bowels, frequent urging to urinate, with ability to pass only ALLIUM SATIVUM. 145 a few drops of scalding urine. Four hours later his physician found him walking through his apartments in extreme anguish; at times he would throw himself on his bed, complaining of constant violent pain in the left lower half of the abdomen near the umbilicus, accom panied by the above-mentioned urinary difficulty, with constipation, and violent thirst; his countenance had an expression of great an- guish and despair ; there was increased heat of the skin ; pulse some- what accelerated, full and hard. The pain in the abdomen was increased by the slightest pressure. The contents of the stomach were removed by an emetic, &c. 12.—ALLIUM SATIVUM. ALIUM-SAT.—Common Garlic. Rational of its Action.—The effects of Garlic on the system are those of a general stimulant; it quickens the circulation, excites the nervous system, promotes expectoration, produces diaphoresis or diuresis, according as the patient is kept warm or cool, and acts upon the stomach as a tonic and carminative. It is also said to be emena- gogue; applied to the skin it is rubifacient and irritant. Mode- rately employed it is beneficial in enfeebled digestion and flatulence, and is habitually used for this purpose by many who have no objection to an offensive breath. It has been given with advantage in chronic catarrh, humoral asthma, and other pectoral affections in which the symptoms of inflammation has been subdued and a feeble condition of the vessels remains. It is advised habitually and with great benefit in such affections occurring in children, as well as in the nervous and spas- modic coughs, to which they are peculiarly liable. Some physicians have highly recommended it in old atonic dropsies and calculous dis- orders ; and it has been employed in fever and ague. It is thought to be an excellent anthelmintic, especially in cases of ascarides, in which it is given both by mouth and rectum. The juice, in doses of a few drops, is said sometimes to check nervous vomiting. If taken too largely, or in excited states of the system, it is apt to cause gastric irritation, flatulence, haemorrhoids, headache, and fever. Bruised and applied to the feet, it is much used as a revulsive in disorders of the head. It is especially useful in the febrile complaints of children. by quieting restlessness and producing sleep. Bruised in oil, it is often tried as a liniment in infantile convulsions, and other cases of spasmodic or nervous disorders among children. It is also used to resolve indolent tumors, and in cases of cutaneous eruption. A clove 7 10 116 ALLIUM SATIVUM. of Garlic, or a few drops of the juice introduced into the ear, are said to be highly efficacious in atonic deafness. A Garlic poultice applied above the pubes has sometimes restored action to the bladder in cases of retention of urine from debility of that organ. Vogt says that the acrid ethereal oil which exists in Garlic gives this remedy some affinity with the empreuymatic ethereal oils, and renders it serviceable in nervous and verminous diseases; still, he thinks, its principal ac- tion is upon the skin and mucous membranes. A decoction in milk is used internally and in clysters against ascarides and lumbrici; it is also employed against blenorrhceas of the lungs, genital organs, and bowels ; in diseases of the urinary organs, such as gravel and dropsy. Dierbach thinks that Garlic acts more upon the skin, and Onions upon the kidneys. According to Medberg, Garlic is very injurious to consumptive and bilious persons, and those suffering with haema- turia.—According to Merat and Delens' "Diet. Univ. de Mat. Med.," Vol. L, p. 189 : " It sharpens the appetite, stimulates the stomach, fa- cilitates the digestion, and expels flatulence ;" and according to them it is an excellent remedy for phlegm. " Pounded Garlic has been applied to the skin on account of its stimulating properties in para- lytic or rheumatic diseases; in about two hours after its application it will draw a blister like a mustard plaster." Murray furnishes the following sketch of the empirical uses of this drug: The anthel- mintic and febrifuge properties of Garlic were known even to Plinius and Dioscorides, and have since been verified by a number of phy- sicians of the highest rank. Rosenstein, Taube, and the English physician Bisset, have even expelled taenia with Garlic. According to Laurembergius and Lind, Garlic is not only a preventive of scurvy, but a real specific for this disease. Celsus and Dioscorides recommended it in old chronic coughs, accompanied by dyspnoea and a profuse expectoration of ropy phlegm. In accordance with this recommendation it was used with success by Mead, Rosenstein, and even Murray. Rosenstein relates that, by means of Garlic, he sue ceeded in stopping a chronic cough, with general prostration and ex- cessive emaciation. Three similar cases were cured by Teste.—J. C. P. CLINICAL REMARKS.—In intermittent fevers, Garlic is a highly esteemed Hindoo remedy. It is, or was also, formerly em- ployed in Europe. Bergius speaks highly of its virtues ; he com- menced with one clove, night and morning, and increased the quan- tity until four or five were taken at a dose. The quantity of Sulphur which Onions and Garlic contain make them useful in many cutaneous complaints. Teste recommends Allium-sat. very highly in diabetes-mellitus, as ALLIUM SATIVUM. 147 & palliative. It has been used in retention of urine, in dropsy, and gravel. It would seem somewhat homoeopathic to Bright's disease In calculous diseases and ulceration of the bladder, Bransby Cooper relates a severe case, treated by Mr. Cline, in which, after a variety of remedies had been employed in vain, Leek tea afforded the most astonishing relief. Cooper has given it several times since, sometimes with, at others without benefit.—J. C. P. It is recommended in cases of erythematous angina, not preceded by coryza, occasioned by a cold or by excesses at table, and attended with a sticky feeling in the throat, with dryness, tickling, heat, and a sense of rawness in the larynx, roughness of voice, hollow, dry, and not very frequent cough, dry heat on the back of the hands, and slight moisture in the palms, all of which symptoms generally come on in the evening. In cases of chronic bronchial catarrh, with pro- fuse mucous expectoration, without acute pains in the chest (especi- ally in fat individuals). In cases of permanent dyspnoea of long standing. In whooping cough, Dr. Dewees says he has never em- ployed any remedy of equal service with Garlic in substance, to relieve the cough of habit, which often remains after whooping cough ; he has used it repeatedly, and never seen it fail. A child, aged six or seven years, may eat one-third of a clove daily, gradually increas- ing the quantity.—J. C. P. Three cases of rheumatism of the hips were cured by Allium. General Effects. Fever.—Catarrhal fever, with predominance of coldness; shiverings from day to day, coldness all over, with heat in the face; horripilations in the forenoon and in the evening ; general heat, with malaise, thirst, tense pulse, sweat after twelve o'clock in the day-time ; sweat with itching; sour sweat; fetid sweat; vomiting during the fever. Sleep.—Oppression of the chest during sleep; coldness during sleep, which occasions frequent waking; thirst at night, preventing sleep. Skin.—Flaccid skin ; formication ; excessive sensitiveness of the skin ; tension of the skin, in the joints ; dry skin ; white spots, which afterwards turn yellow, and are accompanied with stinging and itching; red spots in the back, hands, on the inner surface of the thighs, and on the genital organs. Mind, Disposition, and Sensorium.—Vertigo when steadily look- ing at a thing for a long time ; or transient, and only on rising from a chair. Head.—Weight in the head; dull pain in the occiput in the morn ing; heaviness in the head, which ceases during the menses, and 148 ALLIUM SATIVUM. reappears afterwards; throbbing in the temples; heaviness in thi forehead, which scarcely allows one to open one's eyes. Ears.—Buzzing in the ears. Taste and Appetite.—Hot taste in the mouth, coming from the throat, exactly like the taste of Garlic, immediately after taking the drug; it continued the whole morning, and returned after the second breakfast so strongly that it caused a flow of saliva, dryness of the lips and palate; profuse flow of sweetish saliva in the mouth, in the forenoon, after eating; more particularly in the afternoon and at night. Eructations; immediately sensation as if something cold were rising to the throat; voracious appetite; burning eructations after eating. Stomach and Abdomen.—Straining to vomit, with retraction of the abdomen; burning in the stomach, stitches of pain in the sto- mach ; twisting and pinching around the navel. Stool.—Soft stools. Diarrhoeic stools, accompanied and succeed cd by cutting pains in the abdomen and loins. Constipation, with dull pain in the abdomon, which continues almost all the time (for eight days). Urine.—Profuse whitish urine (which is rendered cloudy by the addition of nitric acid). Genital Organs.—During the menses, pimples break out about the vulva, and extensive excoriations occur on the internal surface of the thighs ; the spots are of a bright red color, and accompanied by itching and smarting on the inner surface of the labia-majora and the orifice of the vagina. Thorax.—Coryza; accumulation of phlegm in the throat in the morning, with heaviness in the head. Cough, with painful irritation in the windpipe ; difficult expectoration of a glutinous mucus ; cough in the morning, after going out of his room, with profuse expectora- tion of mucus; almost continual rattling of mucus in the bronchia. Stitches in one side of the chest; stitches under the shoulder-blades and pectoral muscles, increased while coughing and drawing a long breath. Embarrassed respiration. The chest-symptoms are worse in the open air, after eating, and when stooping. Back.—Stitches in the back; red spots on the back, apparently like tetter ; tearing pains in the sacrum. Upper Extremities.—Painful sense of contraction in the arms; tearing pain in the fingers ; heat, followed by moisture, in the hollow of the hands. Lower Extremities—Tearing pain in the hip-joint; intolerable pain in the united tendon of the iliac and psoas muscles, worse on ALOES. 149 motion. Painful lameness in the thighs; boils on the thighs; dig ging pain at the tibio-tarsal articulation ; stiffness of the feet; burn ing at the soles of the feet. GENERAL SYMPTOMS—General lassitude, especially in the lower limbs, so that one dreads the fatigue of ascending a few steps only ; lassitude, especially in the morning. The pains caused by Al Hum are mostly pressive pains from within outwards, or tearing pains 13.—ALOES. ALOE.—Allg. Horn. Zeit., XX.—Duration of Action i Antidotes.—Vinegar, vegetable acids. Rationale of its Action. On the Nervous System.—Aloes does not act specifically, either upon the nerves of sensation or motion ; it may possibly exert a secondary action upon the great sympathetic nerve. Vascular System.—It acts far more specifically upon the vascular system than upon the nervous; it may, however, act specifically upon those parts of the great sympathetic nerve which accompany the blood-vessels into every part of the system. Blood.—It was once a common opinion that Aloes dissolved the blood, or increased its fluidity. Lewis alleges that this is the condi- tion of the blood drawn from persons who are in the constant habit of using Aloetics, although, according to Schwenke, it seems rather to coagulate than dissolve the blood, when added to some which has been drawn from a vein. It was also an old opinion that it proved emenagogue, from its power of dissolving the blood, and hence would be hurtful in scurvy, and in all haemorrhages proceeding from a lax state of the blood and system. It is probable that Aloes acts in the same way upon the venous system that Iron does upon the arterial; they both diminish the quantity of fibrin in the blood, and increase the quantity of blood-globules.—J. C. P. Fever.—Dierbach says it is a heating remedy, which readily excites febrile symptoms in young persons, such as a quick pulse and a troublesome sensation of warmth in the abdomen. The excited state of the portal system, which it so readily causes, may, in some cases, extend to the whole venous side of the circulation, and conges- tion, to the head and chest, but especially to the abdomen may arise, attended with unpleasant heat, anxious feelings and throbbings, with increased sensitiveness and distention of the abdomen, frequent stools, mixed with blood, or bloody stools with violent abdominal 150 ALOES. pains, piles, severe distress in the kidneys, hot, scanty urin^. with burning while urinating, and pain in the back. Harnisch says, in very sensitive and plethoric persons it may cause an excited state of tho whole vascular system, so that the pulse becomes fuller and harder, the mouth dry with thirst, scanty discharge of red urine, increased warmth in the abdomen, throbbing and aching in the region of the liver, congestnn to the head and chest, with oppression and anxiety, bleeding from the lungs, and apoplexy.—J. C. P. Hemorrhages.—Aloes is particularly apt to excite haemorrhagies, especially and more frequently from the hoemorrhoidal vessels and the womb; occasionally from the kidneys and bowels, and rarely from the stomach, lungs, and head. Liver.—Aloes has been supposed to act upon the liver from time immemorial. Aloe bilem rubrum expellit (Rhazes). Aloe ad in- fernis intestinum bilem ducit (Aretaeus). According to Sigmond, its influence upon the liver is marked by the particular compo- sition of the evacuations, the color and odor of which, and their pecu- liar pungent effect on the rectum, prove that an increased quantity of bile has been poured out. Wedekind assumes that the operation of Aloes upon the bowels depends upon an increased secretion of bile, excited by its specific action on the liver, and asserts that, as long as the stools are white or grey in jaundice, Aloes will not purge, even in large doses, while the purgative effect supervenes as soon as the faecal matters contain bile. When there is an excess of bile, it is apt to cause bilious dysentery and hepatitis. Vogt says that it exerts a special action on the liver, and tends more to the restoration of a checked secretion of bile than any drastic purgative. Antyllus counts it among the remedies which evacuate yellow bile. It causes aching and tension, and uneasiness in the region of the liver, bilious papescent stools, with heat of the whole body, while the evacuations are not watery and copious, but faecal and bilious, and emit a pecu- liar putrid smell.—J. C. P. Vena-Porta.—Another class of physicians think that Aloes acts primarily and specifically upon the portal system, and assume that its influence upon the liver and bowels is secondary to this. That it acts upon the vena-portarum is fairly to be deduced, from the very peculiar state into which the haemorrhoidal vessels are thrown by the congestions which so rapidly occur after a dose of this drug has been taken. Wedekind says it exerts a specific stimulant action on the venous system of the abdomen and pelvis, and hence causes an in- creased secretion of bile, irritation about the rectum, and vascular excitement of the sexual organs. It readily causes stagnation and ALOES 151 accumulation of blood in the abdominal vessels, and the various affec- tions and consequences of plethora-abdominalis.—J. C. P. Abdomen.—Pressure, tension, and heat in the region of the liver. Fullness, heat, and distention of the abdomen. Beating, boring, and stinging in the umbilical region. Diarrhoea, preceded by colic. Most violent colics. Discharge of a large quantity of fetid flatulence. Violent cutting pains in the abdomen. Bowels.—It is a specific purgative ; for, when applied externally to a blister, it will operate upon the bowels (Gerhard); tincture of Aloes, put into a carious bone, has excited purging (Munro); an Aloetic pill, applied to an issue, has had the same effect (Pereira); also an Aloetic salve, rubbed upon the abdomen (Dierbach). Dr. Heller injected a solution of half an ounce of socrotine Aloes in six ounces of warm water into the jugular vein of a cow, which had suf- fered, for six days, with obstinate constipation and constant vomiting, and had withstood all ordinary injections and purgative medicines; the cow shivered immediately, followed by quickness of the pulse and respiration for one hour; then succeeded frequent urgings to stool, by which, however, only a small quantity of hard faeces were evacuated. The same procedure was repeated the next day, when violent straining produced first the discharge of some dry dung, fol- lowed by profuse soft evacuations ; the vomiting ceased, and appetite and health soon returned.—The part of the bowels upon which it operates by preference is a matter of dispute. Wood and Bache think that it has a peculiar affinity for the large bowel, and acts rather upon its muscular coat than upon the exhalent vessels. Cul- len agrees to this, and asserts that it rarely or ever produces more than one stool, which seems to be merely an evacuation of what may be supposed to have been already present in the great intestine. Hardly any dose under twenty grains will produce a liquid stool, which effect is always attended with pain and griping; on the other hand, the ordinary bulky and rather hard Aloes-evacuation may, in innumerable instances, be constantly obtained from one to two grains. The slowness of its effects has also been advanced by Lewis in proof that it acts on the large rather than the small bowels ; for Aloes hardly ever operates under ten or twelve hours, and often not till sixteen or eighteen, while even twenty-four hours may elapse. Fi- nally, to be still more minute, Newman has conjectured that it acts more especially upon the circular than upon the longitudinal muscular fibres of the colon. Whether given in a large or small dose, it hardly ever causes a copious evacuation, and an increased quantity does not produce a corresponding cathartic effect. But these authors forget 152 ALOES. its decided action upon the liver and bile. Its effects upon these are so distinct and characteristic that, when added to other purga- tives, its peculiar operation do not take place until some hours after the evacuations caused by the other purgatives have occurred, and the Aloes-stools differ from them both in color and smell. It rarely or never causes watery stools, but the dejections are always yellowish, greenish, or blackish and slimy, and often emit a peculiar, offensive, and almost putrid smell; the color and odor of the evacuations, to- gether with their pungent effect on the rectum, prove that an in- creased quantity of bile has been poured out.—J. C. P. It may cause emaciation, stricture of the rectum, and enteritis. If its use be long continued, it causes dryness of the intestines rigidity of the muscular coat of the bowels, especially of the colon and rectum, in consequence of which obstinate constipation may ensue Very large doses may cause violent cutting abdominal pains, watery and long-continued diarrhoea, tenesmus, and inflammation of the lower portion of the alimentary canal. The faeces may be enveloped in a thin pellicle of altered intestinal slime, or there may be discharges of membranous-like pieces from the rectum, or very large rolled-up pieces of intestinal mucus. One of the most common effects of Aloes is irritation of the rec- tum, giving rise, in some instances, to haemorrhoids. Cullen has seen piles produced by large and frequent doses, with heat and irri- tation about the rectum, and tenesmus. Fallopius says, of one hun- dred persons, who had used Aloes freely as a purgative, at least ninety became affected with a haemorrhoidal flux, which ceased when their use was omitted. Urinary Organs.—Strangury, flow of blood from the kidneys; burning while urinating; violent pains in the kidneys; hot, scanty urine. Greenhow ascribes a diuretic effect to Aloes, and Moiroud injected four drachms into a vein of a horse with no other effect than producing the evacuation of a large quantity of urine. It has been repeatedly noticed that when Squills and other diuretics failed to act, the addition of a small portion of Aloes has speedily produced a copi- ous diuresis. Genital Organs.—It causes a determination of blood to the womb, and fullness of its blood-vessels, especially the veins, and thus uterine irritation and menorrhagia are apt to be induced or in- creased by it. Vascular excitement of the sexual organs, immode- rate flow of the menses, racking pains in the loins, and labor-like pains are frequently occasioned by it. Discharge of blood from the crethra. drawing and burning pain in the sacral region. Burning ALOES. I53 while urinating, aching and heaviness in the pelvis, erections and pollutions, and excitement of the uterine vessels. CLINICAL REMARKS.—It has been used successfully in some troublesome nervous affections, such as hypochondria, melancholy, mania, cramps in the stomach, &c, when brought on by a suppres- sion of the menstrual or haemorrhoidal discharges. Hcemorrhoidal congestion of the spinal marrow is most common in the cervical por- tion—there is stiffness and drawing pain along the nape, with difficulty of swallowing; when the dorsal portion is affected there is stiffness of the arms, and compressing pain in the chest, which often amounts to dyspnoea and asthmatic attacks. Many cases of hypochondria and melancholy owe their origin to functional derangement of the liver. Aloes, which exercises a specific action upon this organ, and pro- motes the bilious secretion, is quite homoeopathic in instances of this character. Among the phenomena accompanying this variety of hy- pochondria, we usually observe constipation, stools scanty, dry, and clay-colored. Aloes rouses into action the torpid liver, promotes the intestinal secretions, and thus regulates the bowels, restores the nor- mal foecal discharges, and enables the nervous system to recover its impaired tone. Aloes is one of the most useful remedies against vicarious haemor- rhages, such as occur from suppression of the menstrual or haemor- rhoidal discharges. I have several times removed haematemesis from suppression of piles or menstruation; also bleeding of the nose, and bleeding from the lungs. It may prove useful in haemorrhagic apo- plexy, from suppression of one or the other of these discharges, and should be borne in mind in all these vicarious haemorrhages.—J. C. P. Haemorrhages occurring in chlorotic patients are often permanently removed by the use of Aloes. The following symptoms are espe- cially characteristic: Emaciation, pale and waxen countenance, ute- rine irritation, irregular menstruation, leucorrhoea, heat and irritation in the rectum, haemorrhages from the nose, throat, lungs, and rectum, obstruction of the portal circulation, large secretion of urine, active sexual feelings. In apoplexy and other cerebral affections, Aloes is a valuable remedy, especially when these affections arise from a suppression of the menstrual or haemorrhoidal discharges. Irregular haemorrhoidal congestion to the head, with the attendant redness and heat of the face, illusions of vision, and threatened apoplexy, may be removed by Aloes. Serious affections of the head have sometimes disappeared on the occurrence of a haemorrhoidal flux, and therefore, in persons Who have been subject to this discharge, but in whom it has ceased, 154 ALOES. it may be advisable to attempt its reestablishment, with a view of relieving other and more serious disorders. In hcemorrhoidal con- gestion of the brain, often the patient complains of dizziness, great heaviness and confusion of the head, and the choroid coat is blue with congestion; illusions of sight, such as sparks, flies, and spider- feet, before the eyes, and an approach to amblyopia-amaurotica; from time to time, severe turns of vertigo set in, so that the patient becomes much agitated, and supposes that he is attacked with apo- plexy ; the attacks are more severe in hot weather, and when con- stipation is present.—J. C. P. A few drops of a watery infusion of Aloes, put into the ears, and a teaspoonful, night and morning, of the simple tincture of Aloes, with Liquorice, has removed the most obstinate deafness, loss of smell, and congestion to the head. In hcemorrhoidal congestion to the head, noises in the ears, illusions and hardness of hearing are not uncommon. Aloes is homoeopathic to many cases of what may be called bilious sore throat—i. e., when the irritation of an excess of bile in the system causes more or less irritation in the pharynx. Many cases of catarrhal, rheumatic, or inflammatory sore throat, occurring in very bilious persons, often require an intercurrent dose of Aloes to remove the bilious derangement, before the other symptoms will yield to the usual remedies. It has been recommended in derangements of digestion, depending upon debility of the muscular fibres of the stomach and bowels; against abnormal secretion of mucus, acid, or gas ; in anorexia, dys- pepsia, flatulent distention, and painful aching in the region of the stomach, with acid, rancid eructations, sluggish digestion, constipa- tion, especially when these disorders occur in bilious and hypochon- driacal subjects. Its bitterness is said to render it an admirable stomachic, which promotes both appetite and digestion; some think that it regulates the due secretion of the gastric juice, while the ancients termed it the anima ventriculi.—J. C. P. Waring recommends it in dyspepsia, occurring in persons of a relaxed habit, or in those who have been debilitated by long illness, particularly if there is reason to believe that the duodenum is impli- cated. It doubtless acts specifically upon the portal portion of the vas- cular system of the stomach. It is the best remedy in hcemorrhoidal congestion of the stomach and spleen, when there is congestion and en- largement of the spleen; when pressure on the enlarged spleen causes difficulty of breathing in the left side of the chest; when there are pains in the spleen, following the course of the vasa-brevia, sour eruc- ALOES. 155 tations, heartburn, or sour vomiting; when there is distention of, and pain in the stomach, with sensation as if a warm fluid had been poured out into it, followed by vomiting of blood. In mild cases of dyspep- sia, accompanied by an excess of the gastric secretions, water-brash, tasteless or bitter eructations, and heartburn, Aloes, in a non- attenuated form, often proves beneficial. It has also been employed with success in indigestion caused by a lack of the bilious secretion. Against slight functional derangements of the liver, Aloes is an excellent remedy. The symptoms for which it is particularly indi- dated are : Irregular secretion of the bile, the stools sometimes con- taining an excess, and at other times a deficiency of this fluid; heat, fullness, and pressure in the hepatic region; dull pains in the liver; lassitude, drowsiness ; yellowish tinge of the skin ; feeble appetite ; depression of spirits. It is one of the most homoeopathic remedies against plethora-abdo- minalis ; also against many forms of bilious and venous congestive colics; also against many haemorrhoidal and congestive colics. In hcemorrhoidal congestion of the duodenum and malcena, often there is a peculiar cutting or aching pain about the navel, aggravated a few hours after eating ; the umbilical region is apt to be distended and rather hard, the bowels constipated, and the fasces as if burnt; there is also are markable pallor of the external surface, coldness of the limbs and hands, and a peculiar pale-yellow, earthy color of the face; finally, there is a sensation as if a warm fluid had been poured out about the navel, the abdomen swells more and more, with a doughy or mushy sensation to touch; the more the abdomen becomes dis- turbed the greater is the pallor of the skin ; the pulse becomes small, weak, and trembling, the extremities cold, the features shrunken; final- ly, black tar-like passages take place, with much straining.—J. C. P. Aloes is one of the most homoeopathic remedies against bilious diarrhoea and dysentery; it is also far more useful in haemorrhoids than Nux or Sulphur. According to Dr. Belcher, it is indicated in hcemorrhoidal dysentery when the patient is restless and anxious, the face flushed, tormina troublesome, and tenesmus vehement, the eva- cuations being dark-green in color, or bloody, with offensive mucus; when the abdomen is puffed up, the lungs oppressed, with frequent inclination to breathe deeply, and the pulse frequent. Also in dysentery in pregnant females, or those suffering with uterine con- gestion ; or when it attacks emaciated persons, especially children, with distended abdomens and tendency to marasmus. Tilt says he has never seen haemorrhoidal affections caused by Aloes, but he has often seen them relieved by it, and his experienct 156 ALOES. is corroborated by that of Giacomina, Avicenna, and Stahl. In former times, Aloes was regarded as the sacra anchora in the cure of haemorrhoids of an asthenic character, although it produces active congestive piles. At times the moliminae-haemorrhoidaliaD pass ovei into flowing piles under the use of Aloes, while at others they ceas. without any discharge having been produced. Under the latter cir- cumstances, Harnisch conjectures that the tonic and stimulating effects of the Aloes removes the debility of the vessels upon which the premonitory signs of piles has depended; i. e., that the tendency to active congestion, produced by the Aloes, overcomes the passive stagnation of blood which previously existed. Loeseke asserts that if Aloes be given before the accustomed flow of piles comes on, the flux will ensue; but, on the other hand, if given while they are flowing, a stoppage will be effected.—J. C. P. It has often proved useful in hcemorrhoidal affections qfthe kidney and bladder, when there is pain in one or both sides of the lumbar region, drawing pains along the ureters, towards the bladder, with scanty secretion of urine, and those derangements of the stomach which always attend kidney-affections, such as gastralgia, with good appetite, and vomiting soon after eating. These symptoms may in- crease until nephritic colic ensues, the pains are exceedingly severe, the abdomen is retracted, vomiting occurs, the urine is suppressed, until, finally, a quantity of dark blood red urine is passed. When the bladder is more particularly affected, there are periodical, violent, and contracting pains in the neck of the bladder, especially while urinating; when the pains are very severe, entire retention of urine may occur, or when any water is passed it is only in drops or jets, never in a full stream; the pains continue after urination, and extend over the pubis ; the patients can neither sit in comfort or assume any position in which the perinaeum is pressed upon; at first the urine is not altered in quality, but finally blood is passed; sometimes the urine is mixed with a large quantity of tough, ropy mucus. Harnisch says that aching in the region of the kidneys, with scanty discharge of hot urine, or tenesmus of the bladder from venous congestion of it, will often give way before the use of Aloes. It is homoeopathic to hcemorrhoidal affections qfthe uterus, in which there is aching in the region of the womb, pressing-down pain, with some prolapsus, varicose swellings about the neck of the womb, and in the vagina, with discharges of blood during the menstrual inter- vals ; these discharges consist of a dark, pitch-like substance, and have a different odor from that of menstrual blood; either before or after these haemorrhages there may be a discharge of tough greenish ALOES. 157 ieucorrhcea, with the peculiar odor of haemorrhoidal mucus By re- storing the haemorrhoidal secretion, Aloes will often relieve the sen- sations of aching and weight on the pelvis, the erections, pollutions and tenesmus, which are often felt as premonitory symptoms of piles, Eberlec says that Aloes, given in small but frequent doses, deserves to be accounted the best remedy we possess for those protracted, ex- hausting, and obstinate haemorrhages from the uterus which occur in women of relaxed, nervous, and phlegmatic habits about the critical period of life. In amenorrhoea, it is, perhaps, more frequently em- ployed than any other remedy in the dominant school, entering into almost all the numerous empirical preparations which are habitually resorted to by females, and enjoying a no less favorable reputation in ordinary practice. Schoenlein recommends the injection of a solution of ten grains of Aloes in a small quantity of warm fluid, to be thrown into the rectum at the period when the catamenia should occur. He states that its action is more certain than that of any other emena- gogue. Dr. Atwell has used it in this way with decided advantage. Aloes will often prove serviceable in hcemorrhoidal affections of the chest, when there are more or less of the signs of congestion of the lungs—viz,, aching upon one or both sides of the chest, difficulty of breathing, cough, with expectoration of but little mucus, no fever, but lividity of the face, lips, cheeks, and tongue, followed by more or less haemoptysis.—J. C. P. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Congestion of blood to the head, chest, and especially the abdomen-—General heat of the body.—Accelerated pulse.—Anxiety. Head.—Periodical haemorrhoidal headache, alternating with pains in the small of the back.—Dryness and chapping of the lips. Jaws, Mouth, Pharynx, &c.—Stitches and throbbing in the hollow teeth.—Heat and dryness in the mouth; redness and dryness of tha tongue.—Haematemesis. Taste, Appetite, Gastric Symptoms.—Taste as of clay; dimi- nished appetite; violent thirst.—Eructations tasting of the ingu^ta; bilious eructations. Abdomen.—Congestive malaise, pressure, tension, and heat in the region of the liver.—Congestive fullness, heat, and distention of the abdomen; beating, boring, and stinging in the umbilical region ; emission of a quantity of fetid flatulence.—Violent cutting pains in the abdomen. Stool and Anus.—Bilious papescent stools, the whole body be- coming hot during the evacuation, with a feeling of malaise, in the region qfthe liver.—Evacuations consisting offcecal and bilious mat 158 ALUMEN. ter, having a peculiar putrid smell.—Discharge of large clots of mu cus from the rectum.—Frequent watery sanguineous stools, with vio lent colic.—Ilcemorrhoids.—Cutting pains previous to the diarrhoea which is accompanied with tenesmus.—Diarrhoea, followed by obsti- nate constipation, and torpor of the intestinal canal.—Violent burn- ing in the rectum.—Congestive stricture of the rectum.—Fistula ? Urinary and Genital Organs.—Violent pains in the region of the kidneys.—Scanty, hot urine.—Burning during micturition.— Discharge of blood from the urethra.—Increased secretion of yellow turbid urine.—Congestion of blood to the uterus.—Profuse menstrua tion.—Miscarriage. Chest.—Congestive oppression of the chest, with anxiety. Back.—Drawing and burning in the small of the back. PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY—Dryness of the intestines- Inflammation and ulceration of the mucous membrane of the intes- tines. 14.-ALUMEN. ALUM.—Sulphate of Alumina and Potash. Alum. Rationale of its Action.—This is a compound of Alumina, 10.92 ; Potash, 10.08 ; and Sulphuric-acid, 33.68, and in its action it partakes of some of the properties of all these articles. It is generally supposed to act very much like Sulphuric-acid, only somewhat less severely, and more purely as an astringent. Others have compared its action to that of Sulphate of Zinc, Acetate of Lead, Sulphate of Iron, &c.; but it differs widely from all these. In common parlance, Alum is said to be a purely and simple astringent remedy, but the Potash which it contains also renders it somewhat of an alterative and deobstru- ent medicine. Besides, as all the Alums of commerce contain more or less of Sulphate of Iron, varying from five to seven parts in a thousand, it is also somewhat tonic and blood-improving in its action. The immediate topical effect of a solution of Alum is corrugation of fibres and contraction of small vessels, by virtue of which it checks or temporarily stops exhalation and secretion, and produces paleness of parts by diminishing the diameters of small vessels. It is by these local effects that Alum, when taken internally, causes dryness of the mouth and throat, somewhat increases thirst, checks the secretions of the alimentary canal, and thereby diminishes the frequency and in- creases the consistency of the stools, as observed by Wibmer, when taken in doses of three grains, dissolved in five drachms of water ALU MEN. 159 several times a day. When taken internally, in moderate doses, it ic absorbed into the system, and has been detected in the liver, spleen and urine. Kraus has noticed that the urine becomes remarkablv acid from the use of Alum. When taken in large quantities, the astriction is soon followed by irritation, and the paleness by pre ternatural redness ; it may thus excite nausea, vomiting, griping, and purging, and even an inflammatory condition of the alimentary canal ; effects which may sometimes be induced by small quantities in persons endowed with unusual or morbid sensibility of the sto- mach and bowels. Barthez, from half-drachm doses, solved in one ounce of distilled water, experienced a sense of contraction in the stomach, lasting for a quarter of an hour, followed by acute aching in the stomach. From one drachm doses, solved in two ounces of water, he merely felt a more decided sense of contraction of the stomach ; his appetite was never disturbed, on the contrary he rather thought that it was increased. From two and a half drachm doses he felt an inclination to vomit, lasting for a quarter of an hour, but no vomiting ensued ; three drachm doses caused vomiting and con- stipation ; the vomiting was easy and not preceded by much nausea. Alum was detected chemically in his stools.—J. C. P. PATHOLOGY.—From doses sufficiently large to cause death in animals : The stomach was found filled with a large quantity of fluid ; its internal surface, throughout all its extent, was covered with a grey- ish substance, intermixed with greenish and bilious-looking particles ; the mucous membrane was extensively reddened or inflamed, espe- cially in the greater cul-de-sac, which was dark brown in color; near the pylorus there was an extravasion of blood, and the mucous membrane was very red ; the coats towards the pylorus were extra- ordinarily thick and hard, as if they had been tanned, and were very firm under the knife; the walls of the small bowels were slightly thickened, and coated with a yellowish-white granular substance; the large bowels were filled with a greenish offensive fluid. As Alum has been but little used by homoeopathic physicians, a large portion of the clinical remarks must be derived from allopathic sources ; this is not to be regretted, because we take it for granted that homceopathists claim to know, not only all that is contained in old-school writings anrt experience, but a great deal more. Hence we must take heed that our old-school brethren are not in possession of new or old facts with which we are not acquainted—J. C. P. Nervous System.—Alum is not supposed to act as prominently on the nervous system as Sulphate of Zinc or Acetate of Lead. Nerves of Motion. —It is said, from its action in lead and othei 160 ALUMEN. colics and in whooping cough, to be an antispasmodic ; but Copland thinks it cures lead colic by exciting the partially paralyzed muscular coat of the bowels, and thereby enabling them to expel retained mat ters of a noxious description. Too little is known about its action upon muscular fibres and nerves of motion to hazard any decided opinion. Among the symptoms enumerated by Fournier, in the case of a lady who had taken a large quantity of Alum, we find " slight convulsive movements." Orfila also alludes to a similar case.—J. C.P. Nerves of Sensation.—It is not known that Alum acts specifically upon any of the nerves of sensation. Ganglionic Nerves.—It is generally supposed that the action of Alum upon the nervous system is confined to the ganglionic nerves; it may be propagated thence to the vascular system, as these nerves follow the blood-vessels into every part of the human frame. Heart and Arteries.—The especial action of Alum upon the heart and arteries, apart from its astringent action, has not not been particularly investigated. Venous System.—Alum is supposed to exert not only a blood' coagulating, but also an antiseptic power on the venous blood. By astriction of the capillaries it may impede the return of blood from the arteries, and thus operate upon the venous system. Capillary System.—This seems to be the great field of the action of Alum. It exerts an astringent effect upon the capillaries of all the mucous and serous surfaces, upon the lymphatic and blood-con- veying vessels; hence it moderates or checks all profuse mucous fluxes arising from atony of the parts ; and by exerting a tonico-astrin- gent action upon the tone of the vessels, it prevents passive haemor- rhages, and even opposes the tendency to liquefaction and putrefac- tion of the organic mass when such is in operation. Lymphatic System and Glandular System.—It is not known whether Alum exerts any specific and peculiar action upon these systems apart from its tonic and astringent action. Fever.—Notwithstanding that Alum causes dryness of the tongue, mouth, and throat, similar to that which obtains in typhus and typhoid fever, it still has been strongly recommended in those diseases by Fuster, Fouquier, Dobler, and Skoda. The two former recommend it in the second stage of abdominal typhus, when, in consequence of ulceration of the abdominal mucous membrane and of its glandular apparatus, there are ichorous, offensive, and blood-mixed loose stools. In 1838, Drs. Dobler, Skoda, Herz, and Folwarenzy placed their sole reliance upon it; many hundreds of cases have been treated and saved by it.—J. C P. ALUMEN 161 CLINICAL REMARKS.—In dilatation of the heart, and aneu- rism of the aorta, Alum has been advised by Kreysig and Dzondi. Sundelin also mentions a case of supposed dilatation of the heart, in which relief was gained by the use of Alum. The value of Alum in menorrhagia and haematuria has been already considered under the appropriate heads. In purely atonic haemoptysis it likewise proves serviceable. Dr. Theophilus Thomp- son considers that it is one of the best direct astringents that can be employed, and thinks it acts more efficiently when allowed to dissolve in the mouth than when taken in mixture. In atonic haematemesis, Alum thrice daily in combination with Opium has proved ser- viceable, although it is of inferior efficacy to the Acetate of Lead. In haemorrhage from leech-bites, in that from the gums after the ex- traction of a tooth, and in other superficial bleedings, a saturated solution, or the powder of Alum, locally applied, is often an effectual styptic. In haemorrhages, whether proceeding from an exhalation or exudation from the extremities, or pores of the minute vessels, or from a rupture of a blood-vessel, a solution, or, in some cases, the powder of Alum, may be used with advantage to temporarily con- stringe the capillary vessels, and close their bleeding orifices.—J.C.P. It has been used successfully in a peculiar form of mental aliena- tion, in which the patient plagues his family continually, keeps his or her bed almost entirely, without apparent necessity, has an appear- ance of embonpoint from general bloating, but a sickly and sallow complexion, with burning down the oesophagus, tenderness over the stomach, cough, and insupportable pain near the left groin or ovary. Under the use of Alum, the patient will soon leave his bed, become rational and affectionate towards his family, and attend to his duties* In profuse atonic epistaxis, the injection of a solution of Alum into the nostrils often proVes effectual in arresting the discharge. It is frequently also applied by means of a plug soaked in a saturated solution, and pressed up the nostril. Several cases of polypus of the nose are reported as cured by simply snuffing up a solution of Alum. Alum, reduced to an impalpable powder, and snuffed into the nostrils, has, in a few cases within my own knowledge, effected cures of copious catarrhal discharges. As an application to nasal polypi, we can vouch for its utility. In purulent ophthalmia, a collyrium of Alum is a useful cleansing application. In the severer forms, a saturated solution, of Alum, dropped into the eye, is occasionally of great service. In the puru- lent ophthalmia of Egypt, Clot Bey found great benefit from dropping into the eye a saturated solution of Alum and Sulphate of Zinc. Dr 11 162 ALUMEN. Rognetta speaks highly of its value. In the ophthalmia of India commonly known as country sore eye, Waring speaks from experience of the efficacy of the following native preparation : Place some finely powdered Alum on a heated plate of iron, and whilst the salt is in a state of fusion, add a small portion of lemon or lemon-juice, until it forms a soft black mass. This, while hot, is placed entirely round the orbit, taking care that none of it gets beneath the eye-lids, as it causes under these circumstances intense agony. One or two applications, each being allowed to remain on twelve hours, are suffi- cient in ordinary cases to effect a cure. In the ophthalmia of infants, after the subsidence of acute inflammation, a colyrium of Alum is one of the most serviceable applications which can be had recourse to. Waring employed it with success in hundreds of cases. It has also the recommendation of Ramsbottom, Lawrence, Pereira, &c. In ophthalmia-tarsi, a similar colyrium is advised by Howard. In the purulent ophthalmia of infants, it forms the most efficacious remedy we possess. In these cases it is usually applied in the form of the Alum cataplasm. In ecchymosis of the eye, an Alum poultice is an effectual application. It is made by agitating a small piece of Alum with the white of an egg, until it forms a coagulum. This is placed between two pieces of linen rag, and applied to the eye for some hours. In the latter stages of conjunctival inflammation it is often proper. As regards topical applications to the eye, a certain amount of judgment should be used. In the first stage of ophthalmia, it is sometimes considered expedient to cut short the disease by the application of a strong astringent solution. " It is not to be denied," says Dr. Jacob, " that such applications may have the effect of arrest- ing the disease at once; but, if they have not that effect, they are liable to produce an increase of irritation." But, as the details necessary for making the student acquainted with all the circum- stances respecting the application of stimulating or astringent appli- cations, in the first stage of ophthalmia, are too lengthened and numerous to admit of their proper discussion in this work, I must refer for further particulars to the essay of Dr. Jacob's ("Cyclopaedia of Pract. Med.," art. Ophthalmia), as well as to the treatises of writers on ophthalmic surgery. I may, however, add, that whatever difference of opinion exists as to the propriety of these applications in the first stage of ophthalmia, all are agreed as to their value after the violence of vascular action has been subdued. In the treatment of the purulent ophthalmia of infants, no remedy is perhaps equal tc an Alum wash. In purulent discharges from the ears, topical appli cations of a solution of Alum are often serviceable. We have fre- ALUMEN. 163 quently seen chronic otorrhoea disappear under the use of injections of Alum water. In affections of the mouth, involving a congested state of the mucous membranes, much benefit is often derived from the local application of Alum.—J. C. P. In ulceration and sponginess of the gums, whether mercurial or scorbutic, the lotion as for ulceration of the throat is found highly serviceable. It should be used several times daily. To scorbutic ulcers, very finely powdered Alum, in substance, may be applied. It forms a useful astringent wash in certain states of mercurial sore mouth, and is used with the best effect to check profuse ptyalism, whether from the abuse of Mercury or other causes. It is an excel- lent topical application, in the form of powder, in profuse haemor- rhages after the extraction of teeth. In catarrhal affections of the throat and fauces, Alum is highly re- commended as a local application. In chronic cases, when the mucous membrane is much congested, and covered with mucus, which gives rise to a troublesome cough, Alum gargles afford great relief and benefit. In ulceration and relaxation of the throat, a solu- tion of Alum in water, or decoction of Cinchona, proves a very useful gargle for ordinary cases. It has been employed successfully as a gargle in elongation and loss of contractile power of the uvula. As an internal remedy in chronic ulcerations of the mucous membrane of the throat and pharynx, it is a remedy of great value. We have cured cases of this kind with small doses of Alum, after having been baffled for months with other medicines, which at first appeared to be more homoeopathic. Dr. Marcy says, he is acquainted with a number of obstinate cases, which have been quite cured by the internal and topical use of the Rockville Alum spring water of Virginia. When confined in the stomach, Alum causes inflammation of the entire mucous membrane, worse near the great cul-de-sac, where it is of a deep brown color. The walls of the stomach are much thickened at the pyloric extremity, and hardened as if tanned. The walls of the small intestines are slightly thickened, and lined with a light yellowish substance. Traces of Alum may be found in the stomach long after it has been taken. In catarrhal affections of the stomach, Sir J. Murray speaks in the highest terms of Alum. In one aggravated case, attended with pyrosis, a complete cure was effected by Alum in electuary. He considers that it renders the mucous coats more firm, and restores their tone and strength. He considers it especially useful in the peculiar affection of the stomach, attended by the frequent vomiting of a large quantity of glairy fluid. In prescribing Alum, it should 164 ALUMEN. be remembered that the vegetable astringents decompose it, by which the astringent property of the mixture is probably diminished Alum was first given in colica-pictonum, by a Dutch physician named Grashuis, and was afterwards, in 1774, used in fifteen cases by Dr. Percival, with great success, and subsequently its efficacy was fully established. It allays vomiting, abates flatulence, mitigates pain, and opens the bowels, frequently when other powerful remedies have failed. The modus operandi of Alum in lead colic is not very clear, but the theory of its action is, that it converts the poisonous salt of lead in the system into an innocuous sulphate, and in support of this view must be mentioned the fact, that other sulphates (as those of Magnesia, Soda, Zinc, and Copper), as well as free Sulphuric- acid, have been successfully employed in the lead colic. But, on the other hand, the presence of lead in the primae-viae or evacuations has not been demonstrated, though experiments have shown that when the Acetate of Lead is swallowed, the greater portion of it forms an insoluble combination with the gastro-intestinal mucus, and in this state may remain some time in the alimentary canal. Alum has also been found successful in other varieties of colic not caused by lead, and unaccompanied by constipation. In large doses it acts as a purgative. In abdominal typhus, which was epidemic in Vienna in 1838, chief reliance was placed on the internal exhibition of Alum. Under every phase of the disease—diarrhoea, delirium, and debility—it is stated to have been equally beneficial. It was found particularly ser- viceable in checking the exhausing diarrhoea.—F. G. S. In infantile cholera, Alum has been found to be signally successful. Of sixty-seven cases treated with it by Dr. Durr only seven died. The ages of the children varied from the period of birth to fifteen months. In chronic diarrhoza^axxd diarrhoea-mucosa, depending upon a relaxed condition of the mucous intestinal membrane, Alum given internally is often attended with great amelioration. Drs. Adair and Harrison speak favorably of it in this class of cases. In chronic dysentery, Alum was formerly held in high repute. It has been ad- vised, variously combined, by Birnstiel, Loos, Hunnius, Michaelis, Hargens, &c. Moseley and Jackson employed it, and Adair found it useful, combined with Opium and aromatics, in epidemic dysentery, occurring among negroes. Injections of Alum water, or of Alum whey, are very aseful in the copious and frequent haemorrhages which sometimes accompany piles and abrasions of the mucous membrane of the rectum. Cases of this kind now and then reduce patients to a very low and dangerous con dition, and appear to resist all internal remedies. The astringeul alumen. 165 and toughening effect of these injections have, in some instances, arrested the bleeding promptly and permanently. In prolapsus of the rectum, the injection of a solution of Alum proves serviceable. It may also be used in painful bleeding piles, when unattended by inflammation. In haematuria, which resists the action of the Acetate of Lead and other ordinary remedies, the injection into the bladder of a solution of Alum is sometimes effectual in arresting the discharge ; this, how- ever, should not be had recourse to until it has been ascertained that the bladder, and not the kidneys, is the seat of the disease. Dr. Prout observes that he has never seen any unpleasant consequences follow the use of this expedient; and that he has seen it arrest the most formidable haemorrhage when all other remedies had failed, and when the bladder had repeatedly become again distended with blood, almost immediately after its removal. If, after the use of the injection, coagulae remain in the bladder, they should be broken up by repeated injections of cold water. Alum may be given internally at the same time ; although, as an internal remedy, it is less efficacious than Gallic-acid. In catarrh of the bladder it is highly spoken of by Sir J. Eyre. In diabetes, under the idea that the discharge might be arrested by the use of powerful astringents, Alum, in combination with other remedies of the same class, was advised by Dorer, Brock- lesby, and others ; but Dr. Brisbane satisfactorily proved that it was incapable of arresting the disease. Kraus observes that the urine becomes very acid from the use of Alum. It has been used success- fully against incontinence of urine. In one case of irritable bladder, in which the patient was obliged to pass urine every hour or two, both by day and night, grain doses of the first trituration of Alum every four hours effected a cure in six weeks.—F. G. S. In gonorrhoea and gleet, the injection of a solution of Alum is often productive of benefit. Dr. Friedrich, of Leipsic, also advised its internal use, as well in the inflammatory as in the chronic stage. He states, that under its use, all the symptoms subsided rapidly, and that he never saw any ill effects from its employment. In obstinate cases it may be advantageously combined with Cubebs. In gonor- rhoea-praeputialis, a weak solution of Alum, applied on lint to the part, is generally effectual. In leucorrhoea, Alum, combined with Aloes, proves highly serviceable. It is also sometimes used in conjunction with Sulphate of Zinc. The decoction of Oak-bark often forms a good vehicle. Dr. Burne found this solution most serviceable when simply applied continuously to the external parts. Dr. Dewees states that in some obstinate cases he has effected a cure by Alum and Nitre 166 ALUMEN. In menorrhagia and uterine haemorrhage, Alum internally has been advised by Lentin, Miiller, Hufeland, Dewees, &c, and it often proves effectual in controlling the discharge. Dr. Ferguson regards it as a highly useful stypic, and advises it in small doses with syrup of Gin- ger, three or four times daily. In purely atonic casep, Alumin solu- tion may be used as a vaginal injection. It is inadmissible if any in- flammatory symptoms are present. In morbid growths and ulcera- tions of the uterine cavity, or of the os-uteri, an Alum hip-bath and vaginal injections are strongly advised by Drs. Lange and Ash well, and its utility is confirmed by Delmas, Recamier, and others. Care should be taken that the fluid passes well up into the vagina. In prolapsus-uteri the same measure is attended with the best effects. Dr. Nevins also speaks highly of a pessary, composed of equal parts of powdered gall and Alum, enclosed in a fine muslin bag. It has been recommended internally and locally against hypertrophy, induration, and excoriation of the womb. It will often cure obstinate ulcerated buboes rapidly when applied locally.—F. G. S. In angina-membranacea, called by Bretonneau, diphtheritis, great importance has been attached to the employment of local applications, and, among others, to promote the expulsion of the false membrane, he recommends the insufflation of finely powdered Alum. The most effectual means of administration is in the form of an impalpable powder, blown through a quill upon the affected part. It is recom- mended as an emetic in croup in preference to Antimony or Ipecacu- anha. Prof. Meigs states that it acts more certainly and powerfully than those medicines, and produces less prostration of the vital powers. In various anginose affections Alum is found highly useful, applied topically, either in powder or solution. When the affection is attended with membranous exudation, its effacacy has been particu- larly insisted upon by Bretonneau, applied in solution prepared with vinegar and honey for adults, and in powder by insufflation in the cases of children. Velpeau, in 1835, extended the observations of Bretonneau, and has used Alum successfully, not only in simple in- flammatory sore throat, but in those forms of angina dependent on small-pox, scarlatina, &c.—F. G. S. In the chronic stage of whooping cough no remedy has proved more efficacious than Alum, given in increasing doses. A very ex* cellent formula is recommended by Dr. Golding Bird, in which he combines it with Conium. Alum is supposed to exert a sedative power in diseases of the chest by J. Symons, London Lancet, March, 1844, p. 42. Dr. Simm, of Ripon, first recommended Symonds to use it in whoop ALUMEN. 167 ing cough; he found it to answer his fullest expectations, thence led to use it in other thoracic complaints. It evidently so changed the expectoration as immediately to cause a copious discharge of mucus from the bronchi, and finally checked the superabundant secretion; did not produca^iirst or any unpleasant symptoms, and, so far from aggravating the febrile state it often served materially to alleviate it. It produced neither nausea, pain, nor constipation, while it some- times relieved colic pains accidently present.—J. C. P. In acute and chronic bronchitis, especially when expectoration was ropy. Even in very acute bronchitis in children, with profuse secretion of mucus. In the acute bronchitis of old persons, supervening upon chronic morning cough. In whooping cough, to allay irritation, re- strain inflammatory tendency, and diminish superabundant secretion. In nervous asthma; in phthisis. In general it does cot interfere with expectoration ; the first effect is usually a copious discharge of mucus, followed by a diminution in quantity, without any oppression of chest or other indication of improper interference with the secre- tion.—J. C. P. In in-growing nails the local application of burnt Alum will often effect a cure in three weeks, and that after extirpation of the nail had failed ; the nail must be raised up, so as to expose the whole of the sore and ulcerated part, which must then be dried, and the Alum applied ; the crust formed by this application must be renewed every day, and a fresh quantity applied.—F. G. S. In rupia, Mr. Erasmus Wilson states that, in one very obstinate case, he succeeded in healing the ulcerations, after other applications had failed, by injecting a strong solution of Alum beneath the under- mined edges. To the ill-favored ulcers left by ecthyma, he advises the application of a solution of Alum, with or without Opium. To flat naevi, Dieffenbach recommends the use of a compress of lint, to be firmly bandaged on the morbid structure, and to be frequently wetted with a solution of Alum. The lint should be disturbed as little as possible, and the compression maintained, if necessary, for several weeks. When the naevus becomes white, flat, and firm, its speedy cure may be expected. To chilblains, an Alum poultice is stated to be an excellent application. It is only admissible in un- broken chilblains. To indolent and other ulcers, whether of the skin or mucous membranes, Alum has been found serviceable. It is particularly recommended by Dalmas. As it causes much irritation, he advises it to be combined with Opium, and made into an ointment with lard: used thus, it quickly determines the cicatrization of ulcers. It occasionally gives rise to great irritation. To repress 168 ALUMEW. the growth of fungous granulations, burnt Alum sprinkled over the surface is very effectual.—F. G. S. In intermittent fever, Alum was at one time much used, it having been prescribed by Ettmuller, Lindt, Muller, and others. Lange and De Haen recommend it with aromatics, or ^pjphuric-acid, or Ether, and Adair with Cinchona. It is rarely used at the present day—F. G. S. PATHOLOGY.—From doses sufficiently large to cause death in animals, the stomach was found filled with a large quantity of fluid; its internal surface, throughout all its extent, was covered with a greyish substance, intermixed with greenish and bilious-looking par- ticles ; the mucous membrane was extensively reddened or inflamed, especially in the greater cul-de-sac, which was dark brown in color; near the pylorus, there was an extravasation of blood, and the mucous membrane was very red; the coats towards the pylorus were extraordinarily thick and hard, as if they had been tanned, and were very firm under the knife ; the walls of the small bowels were slight- ly thickened, and coated with a yellowish-white granular substance ; the large bowels were filled with a yellowish, offensive fluid. As Alum has been but little used by homoeopathic physicians, a large portion of the clinical remarks must be derived from allopathic sources ; this is not to be regretted, because we take it for granted, that homceopathists claim to know, not only all that is contained in old-school writings and experience, but a great deal more. Hence we must take heed that our old-school brethren are not in possession of new or old facts with which we are not acquainted.—J. C. P. Mouth.—Very severe pain, burning sensation, and dryness of the mouth. Throat.—Very severe pains in the pharynx. Burning in the mouth, pharynx, and stomach. Stomach.—Burning heat, and tearing pains in the stomach. Nau- sea and vomiting. Distention of the stomach. Intense thirst. When confined in the stomach, Alum causes inflammation of the entire mucous membrane, worse near the great cul-de-sac, where it is of a deep brown color. The walls of the stomach are much thickened at the pyloric extremity, and hardened as if tanned. The walls, of the small intestines are slightly thickened, and lined with a light yellowish substance. Traces of Alum may be found in the sto- mach long after it has been taken. Taken internally, in large doses, Alum excites nausea, vomiting, griping, purging, and even an inflammatory condition of the intes- tinal canal,- -effects which may perhaps be induced by small quan ALUMINA. 158 t aties in persons endowed with unusual or morbid sensibility of the stomach and bowels; as in the case of the lady in whom dangerous gastro-enteritis was apparently induced by a single dose of a solution containing between ten and twenty grains of burnt Alum. Ordina- rily, however, tolerably large doses of Alum may be given without any unpleasant effects;—thus Prof. Dumeril has given a drachm, properly diluted, in chronic diarrhoeas, within twenty-four hours; Prof. Marc, two drachms in passive haemorrhages, within the same period of time, and MM. Kapeler and Gendrin have administered three drachms at one dose in colica-pictonum. Bowels.—Distention of the bowels. Burning pains in the small intestines. Copious solid stools. The walls of the small intestines are somewhat thickened, and lined with a light yellowish substance. Rectum.—Smarting and burning at the rectum, after a solid stool; haemorrhoidal tumors after a hard stool. Kidneys and. Bladder.—When Alum has been absorbed into the system, it has been found shortly afterwards in the urine. But, in its passage through the kidneys and bladder, we are not aware of any peculiar sensations it produces. Windpipe.—Sense of constriction in the windpipe. Heat and burning in the throat and larynx. Chest.—Oppression of the chest. Tightness across the upper part of the chest. Sense of heat and burning in the chest. Skin.—Creeping and coldness of the skin, soon after large doses, followed by heat and tingling of the same parts. Fever.—Fever, accompanied by intense thirst, continued nausea and vomiting, sleeplessness, agitation, animated expression of the face, pain and distention of the epigastric region, frequent pulse, and burning pains in the mouth, pharynx, and stomach. 15.—ALUMINA (OXYDE OF ALUMINUM). ALUM.—Argilla, Pure Clay.—Hahnemann's Chronic Diseases, Vol. II.—Dura- tion of Action: 40 days in some cases. Compare with—Ars., Bar., Bell., Calc, Cham., Ignat., Ipec, Lach., Led., Magn , Merc, Nux.-v., Phosph., Plum , Rhus., Sil., Sulph.—It is particularly suitable after Bry., Lach., and Sulph.—Bry. is often of great use after Alum., when indicated. ANTinoTEs.—Bry., Cham., Ipec. Rationale of its Action.—Alumina is allied to Calcarea, Bary- ta-c, Magnes -carb., Silex, Carb.-vegetabilis, and Carb.-animalis, Graphite, and Sepia. Teste, with characteristic flippancy and as> 8 170 alumina. Bumption, asserts that it is the Sepia of chronic diseases. The deve- lopment of the curative powers of this drug are solely due to Hahne- mann, and even as yet, but little is known about, and less is done with it in the old school. Hahnemann recommended it especially in chronic disposition to eructations lasting for years, and to colds and catarrhs of the head of very long standing. Dr. Hirschel reports several cases of inflammation of the throat, chronic gonorrhoea, chronic induration of the testes, in consequence of gonorrhoea ; obstinate leucorrhoea, elevated papulous eruptions, and burning red, violently itching spots about the organs of generation, cured by Alumina. Nervous System. Nerves of Motion.—It has been supposed to produce various pains and weaknesses in the nerves of motion and fibrous tissues, arising from arthritic or scrofulous irritation of these parts, or from an alkaline or phosphatic condition of some of the juices or fluids of these parts. Nerves of Sensation.—Here also it has been supposed to pro- duce various changes of sensation and pains arising from the causes above alluded to, and others which cannot be more nearly desig- nated. Ganglionic Nerves.—It probably acts more decidedly upon these than upon the cerebro-spinal nerves.—J. C. P. Vascular System. Blood.—The peculiar action of Alumina upon the blood can only be vaguely hinted at; it is similar to that pro- duced by alkalies and alkaline earths in general, approaching towards a scorbutic or scrofulous condition of this fluid, marked by thinness of the blood, predominance of the white globules, deficiency of fibrin, albumen, iron, and fat, with a probable excess of water and chlorides, leading to scorbutic or dyscratic inflammations, ulcerations, and deposits.—J. C. P. Venous System.—It may act somewhat more decidedly upon this than upon the arterial, or rather it may tend to depotentize the arterial system in strict proportion as it may tend to cause a prepon- derance of the venous. Capillary Vessels.—This probably is the great field of the action of Alumina upon the blood and blood-vessels ; this remedy doubtless tends to produce an excess of white blood, rather than of red; to prevent the action of the capillaries, and cause various ulcerative, scorbutic, and dyscratic capillary actions. Glandular System.—Alumina doubtless acts specifically upon the glands and lymphatics, and upon those nerves and vessels which supply and control the operation of these organs. This is evidenced ALUMINA 171 by its specific action upon the cervical, follicular, and other glands, and upon the testicles. Mucous Membranes.—Alumina seems to have a specific affinity for many of the mucous membranes, especially those of the nose, ears, throat, larynx, and sexual organs. Serous Membranes.—Its action upon these parts cannot be cer- tainly made manifest; it seems to act more decidedly upon the mucous than upon the serous tissues. Fibrous Tissue.—It seems to be homoeopathic to various pains and disorders of the cellular or fibrous tissues, arising from or connected with a scorbutic, phosphatic, or scrofulous taint of the blood. Muscular System.—Its action upon this system is doubtless similar to that exerted upon the fibrous tissues in general. Cellular Tissue.—It seems to act more decidedly upon the sub- cutaneous cellular tissue than upon the cutis-vera; at least acne, urticaria, paronychia-cellulosa. rhagades, &c, to which it is more or less homoeopathic, are affections of the cellular tissue rather than of the skin proper.—J. C. P. CLINICAL REMARKS.—It may prove homoeopathic to several forms of chronic dyscratic fevers, or sub-acute inflammations, and to chronic and obstinate fever and ague, with a great predominance of coldness and debility, and to slow consumptive fevers under like circumstances. It may prove as useful as Baryta in the hypochondria of aged people, and in that arising from obstinate catarrhal and dyspeptic derangement. It may prove homoeopathic to the vertigo of aged people affected with an atheromatous or earthy deposit in the coats of the cerebral and cardiac arteries. It may rival Baryta in the prevention of apo- plexy under these circumstances. It may also prove useful in brain and other affections, arising from the phosphatic diathesis.—J. C. P. The sleep-phenomena, to which this drug is homoeopathic, are symptomatic of other more important derangements of the organism. Among these conditions, may be ranked diminished power of the capillary vessels and nerves, and, as a consequence, diminished animal heat in the tissues supplied by them. It may prove useful against the chronic headaches which attend or follow obstinate or severe fever and ague. It is homoeopathic to the roughness and pimply condition of the face and forehead, and the fissures and chapping of the lips, which attend disorders of menstruation in many young girls. Also agaii\a1 172 ALUMINA. the clayey and earthen complexion and eruptions of the face and lip« which follow fever and ague. It is homoeopathic to the weakness of the eyes and chronic con- junctivitis which is sometimes connected with leucorrhoea and dis orders of menstruation. It is homoeopathic to ozoena and chronic catarrh ; it should always be borne in mind when Baryta, Calcarea, and Aurum fail to cure. It is homoeopathic to chronic and obstinate otorrhcea, arising from a scrofulous affection of the mucous membrane of the ears. In its primary action, it is homoeopathic to dryness of the mouth and throat, similar to that which occurs in typhoid fever; but this may be followed by a scrofulous or scorbutic state of these parts, attended with more or less profuse secretion. It may prove useful against some gum-boils, and scurvy of the mouth, but it is more than probable that most of the above so-called pathogenetic effects were accidental, as they were felt in decayed teeth and old stumps. It is homoeopathic to a very common and troublesome chronic affection of the pharynx, in which this organ looks as if it had been dried, glazed, or varnished, with or without considerable redness, and always with great dryness and stiffness of the throat, and more or less hoarseness.—J. C. P. It is homoeopathic to those forms of dyspepsia in which there is a deficiency of gastric juice and other gastric fluids. This may allow the food to ferment, followed by flatulence and Acetic-acid pyrosis. Teste says, he has often derived the greatest advantage from the use of this drug against diseases occurring in aged females, which had apparently been primarily seated in the sexual system, but whose peculiar symptoms had completely disappeared with the ces- sation of menstruation. Generally these were cases of dyspepsia, with rush of blood to the face after eating, tettery redness of the tip of the nose and upon the knees, sour eructations, vomiting, attend- ed with paroxysms of suffocation, and returning every now and then, with such violence that the life of the patient seemed in jeopardy. These attacks of cramps in the stomach generally took place in the evening or at night; the vomiting was soon followed by cutting pains, spasms in the bowels, cramps in the legs, and a violent diar- rhoea, which relieved the majority of the symptoms. In one obsti- nate case, Alumina frequently produced a surprisingly speedy improvement; the vomiting and cramps of the stomach were per- manently relieved, but the herpetic eruption on the nose, cheeks, and chin remained, and Teste says he has never succeeded in effecting a ALUMINA. 173 cure of this form of acne, nor does he believe that other practi- tioners have been more successful. Gratiola, Cicuta-virosa, and Carbo-animalis will often do a great deal when other remedies have failed.—J. C. P. Alumina is one of the most homoeopathic remedies against consti- pation from very great dryness of the bowels; it should be used more frequently than Nux and Sulphur, as should Calcarea, Plum- bum, Baryta-carb., Bismuth, &c. Dr. Ficinius has used it in diarrhoza-acida, and dysenteries, both grave and slight. According to Scila, Alumina is not exceeded by any other ant-acid remedy for celerity and certainty of action. Erd- mann, of Dorpat, always used it with the greatest confidence in the diarrhoeas of children, arising from acidity in the prima-viae. Dr. Wiese, of Tnorn, gave it successfully in seven cases of diarrhoea in children, when caused by errors in diet, or when the presence of acidity of the stomach and bowels was more or less evident. Scila recommends it after four years' experience, not only in infants, against vomiting arising from acidity, and obstinate greenish diarrhoea, but also in children up to four years of age. He never gave it without benefit, and in the majority of cases it alone sufficed to effect a cure. In several old and neglected cases, in which the pains were very great, the remedy had to be continued for fourteen days before a cure was effected. It is said to be far superior to Magnes.-carb., and Cal- carea. It may prove useful in some scrofulous affections of the mucous membranes of the urethra, bladder, ureters, and pelves of the kidneys; also in phosphatic diseases of the urinary organs. It is homoeo- pathic to enlargement and induration of the testicles and to chronic gonorrhoea. Teste says he has seen a few doses of Alumina excite and maintain for two months (?) in succession, a tearing cough, every paroxysm of which was accompanied by involuntary emission of urine, which reduced the patient to despair. Every physician in full practice must have met with such cases, in which no Alumina had been given. It is homoeopathic to the dry irritating cough which occurs in the first stage of phthisis from scrofulous irritation of the pharyngeal and laryngeal mucous membranes. To hoarseness from dryness or even follicular ulceration, or thinning and absorption of the mucous membranes of the air- passages.—J. C. P. It is homoeopathic to slow and insidious dyscratic irritations and inflammations about the lungs and air-passages, especially when the mucous membranes and follicular and glandular parts are especially 174 ALUMINA. affected. In the first stage of tubercular consumption, when the cough is dry and hacking, or almost incessant. It is homoeopathic to acnous and urticarious eruptions on the nape and back. Also to chronic enlargement and induration of the cervical glands. It is homoeopathic to scrofulous irritation of the nerves and fibrous tissues which simulate rheumatic pains; also to a chronic tendency to ulceration of the hands and fingers, and to subcutaneous corrosion of the cellular tissue, and to superficial felons. It is homoeopathic to the pains and weaknesses in the back and legs which attend phosphatic diseases of the urinary organs; also to swelling and pains in the legs and feet from atheromatous disease of the coats of the arteries; to rhagades, fissures, herpes, and ten- dency to ulceration about the toes.—J. C. P. Hahnemann recommends it in the following affections, provided the remedy is otherwise homceopathically indicated.* " Moroseness ; fearfulness (easily starting up with fright); reluc- tance to labor ; absence of the power of recollection ; difficulty of thinking; vertigo; headache, attended with nausea; oppression in the forehead, and rush of blood to the eyes and nose, with bleeding from the nose ; itching of the forehead ; heaviness of the face (Her- ing) ; bloated places in the face, like bulbous excrescences (Her- ing) ; coldness in the eyes, when walking in the open air; in the evening, pressure in the canthi of the eyes, as if from sand; the eyes are closed with pus ; running of the eyes; buzzing in the ears ; redness of the nose ; tearing pains in the malar bone; dry- ness of the mouth ; eructations ; inclination to eructations for years ; sourish risings ; irregular appetite, which is sometimes great, some- times wanting ; frequent nausea ; pain at the pit of the stomach, and in the hypochondria, when stooping ; colic early in the morning ; want of action of the rectum ; itching of the anus ; frequent urinating at night; difficult stools, attended with discharge of the prostatic fluid ; excessive sexual desire ; scanty menses ; painful menstruation ; leu- * Note.—The diseases which I have indicated in the preface to every remedy, are not to be considered as names of diseases, but merely as isolated symptoms, which have either decreased or disappeared when using the remedv under whose head they are mentioned. As these affections have not always been indicated with the necessary correctness, they should never be relied upon as indicating the disorders which will be cured by this special remedy ; they are mentioned to inform the reader that reliable experience, obtained at the bed-side of the pa- tient, has proved that certain remedies.which had been chosen agreeably to their pathogenetic symptoms, were curative in the diseases for which they had been administered.—Jahr. ALUMINA. 175 xnrluaM; disposition to catch cold, which lasts for years ; coryza and cough ; rawness in the throat; catarrh of the throat and chest; diffi. culty of breathing ; asthma; cough; itching in the mammae ; pain ir. the thyroid cartilage ; palpitation and shocks of the heart; pain in the small of the back, during rest; paralytic heaviness of the arms ; pain in the arms on letting them hr.ng down or stretching them in the bed ; chapping and sense of excoriation of the hands ; paronychia numbness, stiffness, and insensibility of the legs at night,; pain, as from fatigue, in the articulations of the foot when sitting ; cold feet, followed by burning under the toes ; tremor and twitches of the limbs ; frequent aching of the limbs when sitting; disagreeable want of animal heat ; bad consequences of chagrin ; falling asleep late ; light sleep ; a great number of dreams during sleep; unre- freshing sleep, which is more like stupor ; chills in the evening ; fever and ague, beginning with chills, immediately after having eaten warm soup. "According to Bute, Bryonia is an excellent antidote against the fevers caused by Alumina; others consider Chamomilla and Ipe- cacuanha antidotes." ? GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Tearing and drawing, particularly in the limbs.—Feeling of constriction, particularly in the internal organs.—Dull bone-pains, with pressure.—Involuntary motions and convulsive jerks of single limbs.—°Affections of the mucous mem- branes, sometimes accompanied with ulceration and purulent secre- tions ?—°Scrofulous, °arthritic, and rheumatic affections ?—°Com- plaints arising from chagrin or from the abuse of Mercury ?—°Conges- tion of blood to the chest and head, occasioned by suppression of the haemorrhoidal flux ?—°Spasmodic affections ?—Lacerating or pressure in the limbs.—Sensation of paralysis in the muscles, principally in the morning.—Congestion of blood to the head; blackness before the eyes ; giddiness, tingling in the ears, and drowsiness.—Incli- nation to convulsive laughter, in the evening, when in bed.— Tremulous irritation of the whole nervous system ; shaking pulsations through the whole body; sense of contraction in the feet, as if the tendons were too short; when he touches anything, he feels as if electrified.—^Involuntary convulsions and movements of the feet, fingers, and of the head and other parts, with twitchings in all the limbs.—Pain in the limbs, as if the bones were compressed; pres- sure in the joints.—Great liability to take cold.—Depression of strength, with lassitude, headache, dullness of the mind, chilliness, or feveribhness.--°Tremblingof the limbs.—°Deficiency of animal beat 176 ALUMINA. Characteristic Peculiarities.—Most of the symptoms come whila sitting, and decrease when walking. Skin.—Corrosive itching over the whole body, particularly in the evening after getting warm in the bed. Existing herpes get worse towards evening.—Itching rash on the arms and lower limbs, which bleed after scratching.—Small excoriations become inflamed.—°Rha- gades.—°Humid scurf and gnawing tetters.—°The cutaneous troubles come on at every new and full moon. Sleep.—Great drowsiness in the day-time, especially towards even- ing, succeeded by ^wakefulness in the evening, from fancies crowd- ing on his mind; followed by yawning, with and without drowsiness. —Restless night-sleep; he tosses about, and wakes frequently, with heat and anxiety, especially after midnight; *unrefreshing night- sleep, a mere slumbering, with sensation in the morning as if he had not slept enough ; followed by *deep, sound sleep, especially towards morning, when he wakes with difficulty, frequently with languor, weariness, and yawning.—Symptoms at night, when in bed: uneasi- ness in the limbs and tossing al)out; heat and anxiety ; throbbing in the roots of the teeth; cough, which disturbs sleep, and is succeeded by a dry heat ; pinching pain and rumbling in the abdomen ; head- ache, with pain from the bend of the knee down to the heel; spasm and oppression of the chest; anxiety, asthmatic oppression, and sweat while walking.—During the sleep : starting up as from fright, muttering, loud talking, and laughing ; violent crying, sometimes with great restlessness, lamentations, expressions of disconsolate grief, moaning and groaning.—*A number of dreams at night; -particu- larly dreams with anxiety, or apprehensions of death after waking, or with nightmare ; dreams with mental exertions ; agreeable, vexa- tious, confused, disgusting, and frightful dreams.—In the morning on waking: lowness of spirits, as if oppressed with grief; and pain in the stomach, chilliness, nausea, and fever. Fever.—Internal chilliness and shuddering, especially in the even- ing, with great sensitiveness to cold air ; continuing even while in a warm room or in bed ; or the whole night, with restless sleep ; °or coming on immediately after eating the soup at dinner.—Cold creep- ing over the body towards evening, with beating in the forehead and occiput.—Hot cheeks and cold hands.—Bitterness of the mouth, flow of saliva, prostration of strength, pain in the head as if it would burst, and vertigo ; want of appetite, sleeplessness, and tossing about in the bed. Paroxysms of fever in the evening, consisting of chilli- ness and shuddering over the whole body, especially over the back and ~eet, sometimes with heat of the face, and alternations of coldness or ALUMINA. 177 warmth, or followed by heat of the body and sweat on the face.— Heat over the whole body, generally without thirst; anxious sweat with heat, especially at night; or sudden paroxysms of heat, witt anxiety and palpitation of the heart. Moral Symptoms.—Sullen, joyless, and desponding mood, espe- cially early in the morning on waking ; weeping, groaning, and de- sire to be alone ; disposition to look at everything unfavorably.— * Anxiety, -anguish, oppressive and vague fearfulncss, or uneasiness as if he had committed a crime.—Anxiety, with fear of an epileptic attack or loss of reason.—Despondency and fear of death.—°Appre- hensiveness.—Nervousness; ^tendency to start.—Thoughts of suicide on seeing blood or a knife.—Fitful mood ; at times full of confidence, at times desponding.—Dissatisfied ; despairing ; lowness of spirits ; ill humor, vexed, grumbling ; peevish, obstinate ; quarrelsome, repul- sive.—Smiles at everything contemptuously.—Serious ; reflecting on himself; anxious or ill-humored.—Ennui, *no desire to do any- thing, especially anything serious.—Listless.—Absence of mind; want of attention when reading, and unsteadiness of ideas. Sexsorium.—^Inability to recollect things or follow up a train of thoughts.—Stupid dullness and numbness of the head, sometimes with heat in it, particularly in the morning.—Stupefaction, with dread of falling forward.—* Vertigo, -particularly in the morning, increased by stooping; reeling vertigo, as if he would fall over when walking (during which he staggers); vertigo as if everything were turning in a circle. Head.—Headache, sometimes on the left side, aggravated by walk- ing in the open air.—The head feels heavy ; with paleness of coun- tenance and langour ; the vertex feels painful to the touch.—Pressure in the forehead from without inward ; or within outward ; or over the eyes in the evening, sometimes with a chill, or followed by nocturnal heat and sweat; sensation in the head as if its contents were in a vice with a weight on the top.—Feeling as if the brain were dashed to pieces or bruised ; with redness of the cheeks.—Stupefying tight- ness in the right temple, relieved by pressing upon it; tightness, with drawing and beating in the right side of the occiput.—°Drawing as if the hairs were pulled at, with inclination to vomit.—Lacerating pain in the head.—Stitches in the brain, sometimes with inclination, to vomit.—Boring in the temples, sometimes with tearing, in the evening.— Throbbing in the head, sometimes with stitches, pressure, or lacerating.— °Congestion of blood to the head, with pressure in the forehead and bleeding of the nose.—Heat in the head.—The head- ache abates when it is rested quietly upon a cushion. 8* 12 178 ALUMINA. Scalp.__Falling off and dryness of the hair : soreness to touch creeping and titillation of the hairy scalp, °itching of the forehead. —Pitching scales on the hairy scalp.—°Humid scurf on the temples. Eyes.—Pressure on the eyes, with inability to open them ; great photophobia ; °pressure in the canthi, in the evening, as from a grain of sand.—Lacerating in the upper margin of the orbits. Prickling, smarting, and violent itching of the canthi, eyes, and lids.—°Feeling of coldness in the eyes, when walking in the open air.—*Burningin the eyes.—Redness of the eyes, especially of the right, with feeling of soreness, smarting, and dimness of sight.—Inflammation of the conjunctiva.—Stinging pimple on the lower lid ; stye on the upper lid.—Falling off of the eye-lashes.—Weakness of the upper lids.— Spasmodic closing of the lids, at night, with great pain when open- ing them.—*Copious lachrymation, -especially in the open air.— Profuse secretion of mucus, with *nightly agglutination.—Dim- sightedness, as if seeing through mist, obliging one to wipe his eyes constantly.—Everything has a yellow tinge.—Squinting of either pye,—Twitchings and luminous vibrations and stars before the eyes, as in vertigo.—Light before the eyes when closing them. Ears.—Lacerating, boring, or pulsation in the ears.—Stitches in the ears, especially in the evening.—Itching in the ears, increased by rubbing.—Heat and redness of the ear.—Discharge of pus from the right ear.—Sensation as if something were before the ears.— ^Humming in the ears, or vibrations as from the tolling of bells when rising from bed ; hissing in the ears ; whistling ; crepitation ; snap- ping as if from electric sparks, especially when chewing or swallowing. —One's own voice appears altered to the right ear. Nose.—Ulceration of the nostrils, *which are sore and scurfy; with discharge of a quantity of thick, yellowish mucus.—°Ulcera- tion of the Schneiderian membrane, with pains in the root of the nose and the frontal sinuses.—*Bleeding from the nose, which is painful to the touch, *swollen and red.—°Discharge of pieces of dry, hard, yellow-green mucus.—The smell is weak ; °wanting; -or acute.—Frequent sneezing, without catarrh ; with singultus.—*Stop- page of the nose.—Fluent coryza ; in the left nostril, with stop- page of the right; followed by dry coryza and complete stoppage of both nostrils.—Disposition to catarrh, continuing for mas y years.— 0Coryza with cough. Face.—Gloomy and desponding expression of countenance.—*Pale- ness of countenance; -alternate redness and paleness of the face; copper-colored cheeks, like those of drunkards.—°Lancinations in the malar bones, and -in the right side of the face, with tearing in the ALUMINA. 1J§ teeth.—Drawing in the jaws and cheeks ; tension of the skin, with heat in the face, or as if the white of an egg were drying upon it.__ °The face feels heavy and swollen.—Flushesof heat.—Painful red spot on the left cheek.—Roughness of the skin of the face, especially on the forehead.—°Blotches on the face.— Violent itching of the face, *forehead, or -cheeks, with small pimples, either sore or painless.— Frequent boils on the left cheek.—°Humid scurf on the temples.— Bluish lips, during and after an attack of fever.—The lips feel swollen, vesicles on the lips, and on the inner side.—Peeling off of the lips ; dry, chapped lips. Teeth and Jaws.—Lock-jaw.—Tension in the articulation of the jaw, with difficulty in opening the mouth, and stitches while opening it, which shoot up to the temples.—Drawing, lacerating, boring, cutting pain in the teeth, sometimes extending to the larnyx and temples.—The pain is most violent when chewing and pressing the teeth against one another.—Sensation as if the teeth were elongated. —Ulcerated condition at the root of every tooth.—Ulcers on the gums, discharging a kind of blood, which tastes saltish.—Drawing pain, with soreness of the gums.—Bleeding of the gums.—Swellings about the gums.—Thick, fetid mucus on the teeth.—Toothache of preg- nant females. Mouth.—Soreness of the mouth, about the palate, tongue, and gums, as if burnt.—A number of little ulcers in the mouth.—*Dry- ness of the mouth, -on waking ; followed by increased secretion oj saliva, with astringent sensation in the mouth, and a musty, putrid smell; ptyalism.—Constant secretion of saliva in the mouth; even with dryness of the throat.—Tongue feels rough, and is coated white, with good taste ; or is yellowish-white, with bitter taste. Throat and Oesophagus.—Pain in the throat when swallowing. —Pressure in the throat, or in the middle of the chest, when swal- lowing food or drink, as if the ozsophagus were compressed.—Constric- tive pressure, tension, spasmodic drawing, or stinging in the throat during deglutition.—Roughness and scraping in the throat, with hawking.—Burning and soreness of the throat.—Chronic inflamma- tion of the fauces.—Tedious swelling of the tonsils.—The pain in the throat is most violent in the evening and at night, and is relieved by warm food or drinks.—Great dryness of the throat and mouth, as if parched, with violent thirst; or with rawness.—Copious accumula- tion of a thick, tenacious mucus, particularly in the evening, and when waking ; frequent hawking and difficult raising of phlegm. Taste and Appetite.—Taste as if from blood in the mouth; sweet taste in the throat, with giddiness and subsequent raising of 180 ALUMINA. bloody mucus.—Astringent, bitter, and slimy taste; or flat, insipid metallic, sourish-salt taste; or acid and rancid taste in the throat.— Everything has a flat taste.—Entire absence of hunger and appe tite; nothing has a taste to it; °irregular appetite, at times excessive, at times deficient.—Aversion to meat; hunger without appetite.— Great desire for vegetables, fruit, and liquid food.—After eating, and principally in the evening: hiccough, pressure in the stomach, pinching in the abdomen, violent nausea, tremor; or aversion to food, and languor.—After eating potatoes : pain in the stomach, nau- sea, inclination to vomit, and colic.—A good deal of thirst the whole day, also at dinner. Gastric Symptoms.—Heartburn.—Waterbrash.—°Inclination to eructate, of many years' standing; ^frequent eructations : empty; or bitter, with loathing; or rancid, burning, acrid, and corrosive; *or soicr, -in the evening, in bed, with burning in the throat, and gulping up of a sour mucus.—Frequent nausea: -especially during the chilly paroxysms; with chilliness; after a walk, with headache paleness of countenance, want of appetite, with faint feeling at night —Qualmishness in the stomach, pharynx, and oesophagus.—Nausea. with inclination to vomit when standing ; with strangling sensation in the oesophagus ; vomiting of mucus and water, preceded by retching Stomach.—Violent pain in the stomach, with tenderness to pre^ sure.—Violent pressure and soreness at the pit of the stomach, and great oppression of the chest —The stomach feels bloated.—Twisting and constriction in the stomach, extending into the chest and throat, attended with labored breathing. Sensation of pressure and con traction at the pit of the stomach, extending into the chest, and between the scapulae.—Drawing pain in the stomach, with difficulty of breathing.—Sensation of coldness in the stomach. Hypochondria.—Stitches and cutting pain in the region of the liver on stooping or raising the body. Long-continued burning and stitches in the hypochondriac region.—Pain in the hypochondria and epigastrium, when stooping. Abdomen.—Continual pressure, weight, and burning in the abdo- men.—Pinching or writhing, or colicky pinching and lacerating, with chilliness in the abdomen, relieved by heat.—Flatulent colic.—°Co- lica-plumbea ?—Violent cutting and rumbling in the abdomen, prin- cipally in the evening, succeeded by an oppression of the chest, and difficult breathing.—Drawing pain in the abdomen.—Colic, followed Dy diarrhoea, and pain in the region of the kidneys. Protrusion and incarceration of inguinal hernia ? Distention of the abdomen, with rumbling and emission of flatulence. ALUMINA. 181 Stool and Anus.—Retention of stool.—*Tenesmus, lasting a long while, and succeeding a troublesome pressure in the abdomen.—*In activity and paralysis of the rectum.—*Hard and difficult stool attended with pain in the rectum.—^Bearing down, during an eva- cuation ; the stools hard, knotty, and scanty. Bright stools covered with slime, preceded by colic.—Stools almost liquid, with a burning sensation in the rectum. Chronic diarrhaza, attended with tenesmus, Chills over the whole body, during an evacuation, in the evening. ^Sensation of pricking and excoriation in the rectum, after an evacua- tion. Chronic difficult evacuation of hard stools, with cutting pain in the orifice of the rectum, succeeded by a jet of blood. Drops of blood and bloody mucus, during an evacuation.—Chronic piles.— *Itching and burning of the anus. Pressure and stitches in the perineum and rectum. Urinary Organs—Pains in the kidneys and loins, when walking or stooping, as if bruised. Pressure and drawing in the region of the bladder; itching and burning in the urethra.—Feeling of weak- ness in the urethra and the genital organs. Frequent desire to make water; with an increased secretion of aqueous urine, sometimes with burning.—Reddish, turbid urine, leaving a sandy sediment. Scanty urine, or less copious. A thick, white sediment in the urine.—White, turbid urine, as if chalk had been stirred with it. Phosphates ?— Burning when urinating, much worse in the evening.—Involuntary emission of urine. Male Sexual Organs.—Pressure in or tickling of the sexual organs and the thighs.—Secretion of smegma behind the prepuce.— Painful contraction in the spermatic cord and testicle. Sexual desire increased or suppressed.—Numerous erections in the evening and during the night, when lying in bed, and in the afternoon when sitting. Frequent and violent erections, and involuntary emissions of semen. Symptoms are worse after a pollution.—Pressure in the perineum during erections. Female Sexual Organs.—The menses are scanty and pale; too soon; or do not appear till the third month.—Uneasy sleep before the appearance of the menses ; with many dreams, and rush of blood, heat in the face, headache, and palpitation of the heart on waking.— Flow of mucus from the vagina before the appearance of the menses, with tremor, lassitude, and a bearing down sensation, with cutting pains in the abdomen during an evacuation ; *or attended with pinch- ing, writhing, and pressing, like labor-pains. During the menses: ♦pinching in the abdomen, and lassitude ; or frequent urinating, tho urine corroding the genital organs.—Painless leucorrhoea.—*Chro 182 alumina. nic leucorrhoea, continuing three days after the menses.—Acrid leu- corrhoea, irritating the genital parts. Leucorrhoea like lymph, in the afternoon and night. *Chronic abundant leucorrhoea of transparent mucus in the day-time. Chronic leucorrhoea, clear, like water or transparent mucus; stiffening the linen, Chronic leucorrhoea ol yellow mucus. Itching in the vagina during the leucorrhoea.—In p-egnant females: ° Toothache ; ° constipation ; "constipation of in- fants ; °itching in the mammae. Larynx and Trachea.—Rattling in the chest, caused by mucus. —Hoarseness; roughness of the throat. Violent tickling in the throat. Irritation in the larynx, inducing cough. Cough, with claw- ing and tearing in the throat; and violent pain in the head. Chro- nic, violent, short, dry cough, with sneezing ; and tearing, lancinat- ing and pinching pain from the nape of the neck to the right axilla. Chronic dry cough, at night, with dryness of the throat; coming on suddenly early in the morning, and passing off quickly, or else con- tinuing when walking in the open air, and discontinuing in the room. —Chronic continual dry cough, attended with vomiting, stoppage of the breath, and lancinating pain, extending from the left side of the abdomen to the hypochondrium and pit of the stomach. Long turns of a violent dry cough, during the day. * Chronic cough, with copious expectoration, especially early in the morning.—Sensation of stric- ture in the throat. Chest.—^Oppression of the chest. Oppression, seething, and pulsations in the chest. Chronic stricture across the chest.—Weight on the chest, with shortness of breath, without cough. Oppressive pain in the chest. Pressure and oppression of the chest, with shortness of breath and irritation to cough.—Oppressive pain in the middle of the chest, alternating with a tightness and violent palpitation of the heart, especially after dinner ; violent oppressive pain in the chest, at night.—Constriction of the chest. Chronic soreness of the chest and in the pit of the stomach, with fatiguing cough, running of the eyes, and tenacious phlegm. Erratic stitches in the chest, sometimes aggravated by breathing, sometimes burning ; lancination, aggravated by the slightest motion.—Boring pain, aggravated by breathing, relieved by raising the trunk.—Chilliness in the sternum.—Heat in the chest with stitch.—*Palpitation of the heart, on waking. Fre- quent palpitation of the heart; °shocks in the region of the heart.— Burning eruption on the chest.—°Pain in the thyroid cartilaga when touching it. Back.—^Gnawing pain in the sacrum, relieved by stretching, and ascending to between the shoulders.—Lancinations.—-Tearing and ALUMINA. 183 lerkings in the small of the back, especially in the evening, d iring motion.—Pain as from bruises in the sacrum and back.—Violent pain, stitches, and shooting pains all along the back, sometimes aggra- vated by breathing or stooping. Pain in the back, as if a hot iron were thrust through the lower vertebrae. Neck.—Painful drawing in the muscles of the neck ; increased on moving the head.—Itching in the nape, and stitches in the glands of the right side of the neck. Stinging in the left side of the neck, relieved by pressing upon the part, with tearing in the head and stitches in the ears.—Drawing, pressure, and swelling of the left side of tlie neck.—Stiffness of the muscles of the neck. Superior Extremities.—Pain in the shoulder-joint, as if sprained, especially on moving the arm.—Stitches, lacerating pain, lameness, and pain as if bruised in the arms, changing from side to side. —Great lassitude in the arms, which one is scarcely able to lift.— Burning sensation and tension of the upper arms and fingers, as from a red-hot iron. Soft, red swelling of the arm, with violent stitches of pain.—Pain as if strained in the muscles of the upper arm ; drawing pain and lancinations in the upper arm and the elbow; the pain seems to be in the bones. Lancinating pain, as if sprained, in the elbow and wrist-joint.—Drawing, lacerating pain in the arms. Para- lytic sensation in the arms. Hands.—Painful sensation of the wrists. Burning itching of the hands ; the skin peels off.—Coldness of the bands.—Rough, chapped, readily-bleeding hands.—Gnawing behind the finger-nails, with tingling along the arm, as high up as the clavicle. Swelling of the fingers.—The tips of the fingers are disposed to ulcerate ; with lanci- nating pains.—°Panaritia. Inferior Extremities.—Stitches and lacerating pains in the hipa and pelvis, and in the thighs and legs, principally when at rest.— Heaviness of the legs; principally in the hips; he can scarcely drag them; when walking he staggers, and has to sit down; great weariness of the legs when sitting.—Pain in tie bend of the knee, rendering it difficult to extend the foot. Drawing pain in both knees, when ascending the stairs. Violent lacerating in the knees and patella ; and from the knees down through the toes, with a sen- sation of swelling of the knees ; trembling of the knees ; weariness of the legs ; tearing and drawing pain in the leg; tension and burn- ing in the external surface of the right calf.—Frequent cramps in the ealves when laying one foot across the other, or standing upon the toes; or as if the tendons were too short, after rising from a seat; heaviness of the feet, with great lassitude of the legs. Lacerating 184 ambra grisea. pain in the feet. Weariness in the feet when sitting.—Pain in tht soles of the feet, when stepping upon them, as though they were tendei and swollen; itching of the toes with redness, as if frozen, worse after scratching, in the evening. Herpes between the toes. It is extraordinary that this remedy is not more frequently used in chronic affections, if we take into consideration the careful prov- ings it has been submitted to.—Ed. 16.—AMBRA GRISEA. .AMBR.—Ambergris. Grey Amber.—Hahnemann's "Materia Medica Pura," Vol I.—Duration of Action: 40 days in chronic affections. Compare with—Calc, Cham., Graph., Lycop., Nux.-v., Phosph., Phosph.-ac, Puis., Sabad., Sep., Staph., Verat., Verb. Antidotes.—Camph., Nux.-v., Puis.—It antidotes Staph., Nux.-v. Rationale of its Action.—By some the Grey Amber is sup- posed to be a tallow-like product from the gall-bladder of the whale. According to Pereira, it is produced from the sperm whale, and seems to be the indurated faeces (perhaps somewhat altered by disease) ol the animal. Mr. Beale collected some of the semi-fluid faeces, and found that the dried mass had all the properties of Ambergris. It has a pleasant Musk-like odor, which is supposed to be derived from the squid, or Sepia-moschata, on which the whale feeds; in support of this opinion, it must be mentioned that the horny beaks of this ani- mal are found imbedded in the masses of Ambergris. Swediaur was the first to trace its origin to the sperm whale; Lecleuse was the first to suggest that it might be hardened and altered faeces; Home the first to hint that it might be a hardened and altered secretion from the liver of the whale, or a kind of gall-stone ; Oken supposed that it was indurated bile-resin, which opinion is strengthened by the chemical analysis of Pelletier and Caventou; while J. J. Ferey con- jectured that it was a species of adipocere, arising from the decompo- sition of dead Sepia-octopedia, and the other kinds of Sepia, which emit an Amber or Musk-like odor, and bases his opinion on the fajt that the beaks and bones of those cuttle-fish are found in Ambergris but, as these are also the most common food of the whale, it may have a double origin, one from the faeces of the whale, and the other from the spontaneous decomposition of dead cuttle-fish. When genuine, Ambergris has a peculiarly pleasant odor, not easily described or imitated, and which is exceedingly diffusive, especially in solution, so that a very minute quantity is perceptible even when mixed with other perfumes; a grain or two rubbed down with sugar, and added AMBRA GR1SEA. 18b bo a hogshead of claret, is very perceptible in the wine, and gives it a flavor by some considered as an improvement.—J. C. P. Boswell noticed, after taking thirty grains, quickness of the pulse, increase of muscular power, and of sight and hearing; also greater activity of mind and of the sexual power. It was formerly much celebrated as a stimulant and anti-spasmodic, supposed to produce excitation and strengthening of the whole nervous system, and even to prolong life. In the East, it has long been used as an aphrodisia- cum; hence its action may be the opposite in this respect of that of Agnus-castus, Conium, Camphor, &c. According to Noack and F. Hofstetter, Ambra is said to exert a remarkably specific action on the organ of hearing; and as curative effects, old-school physicians have noticed increase of muscular power, relief from intellectual weak- ness and mental depression, increased power of seeing and hearing, and increase of the sexual power and fluids. Its action has been compared by old-school physicians to that of Musk, Castor, Coffee, Valerian, &c, &c. It had also an ancient reputation for causing the reappearance of suppressed eruptions, such as itch and herpes. On account of its stimulating properties, Chaumeton and Cloquet were led to give it in typhus fever.—J. C. P. GENERAL SYMPTOMS. —Spasms and * convulsions of the muscles.—Lacerating or cramping pains in the muscles; aching pains in internal organs; lacerating pains in the joints, frequently on one side of the body only.—°Drawing through the limbs, and °cut- ting in the hands and feet.—Tingling inquietude in all the limbs, with anxiety, only in the day-time; agitation of the blood, and acce- lerated circulation, with increased debility of the body after a walk in the open air ; he feels the throbbing of the arteries like the tick of a watch. Conversation produces fatigue, heaviness of the head, and restlessness.—Nervousness, with great irritability of temper and im- patience.—*G/eat languor : especially in the morning in bed, -and particularly in the lower limbs; sometimes relieved by walking; weariness and pain in all the limbs; sense of weight in the body, and weariness; prostration of strength; giving way of the knees; weakness, especially in the feet; a sort of insensibility; sudden weakness, early in the morning, with inability to walk alone, and cold sweat upon the forehead and hands; he has to lie down, owing to a feeling of weakness in the stomach, and giddiness.—°Cramps in the body.—* Jerks and twitches of the limbs, -the whole night, with soldness of the body.—°Complaints incident to old age.? Characteristic Peculiarities.—Many of the symptoms make their appearance during sleep, and abate after rising; many othei 186 ambra grisea. symptoms are aggravated in the evening, when in a recumbent posture and by warmth.—Many symptoms are relieved by a walk in the open air, and by resting on the part affected, but reappear when sitting down. Skin.—^Numbness of the skin as if asleep, -early in the morning "»n waking.—*Itching and burning of the skin, °as if from the itch; causes suppressed itch and herpes to reappear upon the skin.—°Burn- ing herpes.—°Dryness of the skin. Sleep.—*Drowsiness in the day-time, -with inclination to stretch one's limbs, followed by sleeplessness the whole night, without any apparent cause; sleepless until morning, when he falls into a slum- ber, disturbed with fanciful wanderings.—*Restless night-sleep, full of dreams ; he wakes frequently at night.—At night : uneasiness in the whole body; pressure in the epigastrium, with restless sleep; lacerating pain, with pressure from the occiput, and in the forehead, after falling asleep ; heat in the head before midnight, and uneasiness in the occiput after midnight.—On waking in the morning : great weariness, especially in the upper part of the body, dullness of the head, nausea in the pit of the stomach, aversion to getting up from bed, and sensation as if the eyes had been closed too tightly.— Anxious and vexatious dreams, with talking during sleep ; also dis- turbing sleep. Fever.—Chilliness : with great weariness and desire to sleep.— At night: coldness of the body, and twitches of the limbs, with rest- less sleep, or internal chilliness, which does not permit him to fall asleep, or which wakes him frequently; °chilliness of single parts, followed by heat in the face.—Flushes of heat, with anxiety about the heart; flushes of heat in the face and over the body, every quarter of an hour.—Profuse night-sweat.—Sweat the whole day; worse during a walk, especially on the abdomen and thighs. Moral Symptoms.—Great restlessness the whole day, with oppres- sion of the chest; nervousness of long duration.—Anxiety in the even- ing.—Great lowness of spirits ; indifference to joy or sorrow ; °dis- consolateness ; -sad thoughts, with qualmishness about the heart and sadness of mood ; despair ; °loathing of life.—Vexed, quarrelsome, disposed to whine and to be vehement.—Alternation of lowness of spirits and vehemence.—° Aversion to talking or laughing.—Embar- rassed manners in society. Sensorium.—Dullness of the head, every morning; it feels muddled as after nocturnal revelling.—Great weakness of the head, withchilli ness about it, or vertigo.—Dullness of the mind; weak memory.— Vertigo ; especially when walking in the air, obliging him to lie down, with weakness in the stomach. AMBRA grisea. 187 Head.—Headache : in ike forehead, with apprehension of losing his reason; in the sinciput and forehead, with pressure from above downward, every other day, commencing in the morning, with heat of the head, burning of the eyes, paleness of face ; or heaviness of the head, in the evening, on the top of the head ; or in the whole of the head, with stinging pains ; in small parts of the occiput, or in the left frontal eminence..—Continuous headache, as if a catarrh in the head would set in.—Rush of blood to the head, especially when listening to music.—Crampy sensation in the head, from temple to temple.—Drawing in the head, with pressure from the nape of the neck to the sinciput; the pressure being afterwards felt in the occi- put.—Lacerating pain in the head, with paleness of face and cold- ness of the left hand.—Stitches : above the left temple, from without inward in the head ; violent stitches, in the evening, darting upwards in the direction of the occiput; painful lancinations while making an exertion, which are felt at every step, and abate in a recumbent pos- ture.—Dartings in the head. Scalp.—Painful spot in the occiput; tearing with pressure on the top of the head ; whizzing noise about the temples.—*The hair feels sore when touched; *f ailing off of the hair.—Pimples on the fore- head. Eyes.—Pressure in the eyes, as if they had been closed too tightly; or as if they were lying deep in the sockets, especially early in the morning.—Lacerating in the eye, and in the parts surrounding it.— Smarting in the eyes ; as if dust were lodged in them, with pres- sure ; or with lachrymation.—Burning in the right eye; and about the lids.—Itching: of the lids, as if a stye would form; around the eyes, violent, titillating.—Inflammatory redness of the white of the eye, *and injected condition of the vessels.—^Dimness of sight, -as through fog ; obscuration of sight. Ears.—Frequent tearing in the right ear, and behind the ears.— Tension about, and tingling, itching, and tifiliation in the ears.— *Boring, °ringing, and *whistling in the ears, -in the afternoon; crepitation and snapping, as from electric sparks in the ears.—Dimin- ished hearing ; deafness of one ear. Nose.—Bleeding from the nose, especially in the morning. Con- tinuous dryness of the nose, a biting irritation and frequent desire to sneeze, with tingling in the nose ; frequent sneezing.—Dry coryza; ^stoppage of the nose, -with a feeling of soreness; headache when blowing the nose ; catarrhal feeling in the forehead and eyes.—°Chro- nic suppression of catarrh. Face.—Spasmodic tremor of the muscles of the face.—Flushes oj 188 AMBRA grisea. heat in the face.—Jaundiced complexion.—Red spots on the cheek —Corrosive itching in the face.—Pimples on the face.—Hot lips. Teeth and Jaws.—Stinging, drawing, and lacerating pain in ca- rious teeth, aggravated by warm, allayed by cold substances.—Bleed- ing of the gums, especially of those of the right lower jaw.—The gums are painful and swollen. Mouth.—Fetid smell from the mouth.—►Dryness of the mouth, tongue, and lips, early in the morning when waking; sometimes the parts feel numb.—Smarting in the mouth, with sensation as if the parts were excoriated, and with inability to eat anything solid on account of the pain; vesicles in the mouth, with burning pain.— Rheumatic pain in the tongue and fauces ; scraping sensation about the palate.—The tongue has a greyish-yellow coating. Throat and Oesophagus.—Scraping in the throat, as in catarrh; dryness early in the morning.—Pain as if a foreign body were lodged in the throat.—Secretion of mucus in the throat, with roughness and scraping ; or with hawking, gagging, and vomiting.—°Choking in the throat, when swallowing food.—°Soreness in the throat. Appetite and Taste.—°Insipid, rancid taste in the mouth ; -(bitter taste, in the morning on waking).—°Loss of appetite.—After dinner: anguish and pressure in the pit of the throat, as if food were lodged vhere.—Acidity in the mouth after drinking milk. Gastric Symptoms.—^Frequent empty eructations, -after dinner or in the afternoon; loud and bitter, or ^frequent sour eructations ; *ineffecual eructations ; or °tastingof the ingesta.—Frequent heart- burn while walking in the open air, with ineffectual eructations; acrid rising in the throat, every evening, with sensation as if the stomach were deranged.—*Nausea and °vomiting. Stomach and Hypochondria.—Feeling of weakness in the stomach, with vertigo.—Spasm of the stomach.—Pressure in the region oj the liver. Abdomen.—Pressure in the abdomen, and in the epigastrium, with coldness of the hands and feet.—Crampy sensation in the ab- domen, succeeded by a cutting pain in the epigastrium, or a fermen- tation and bubbling sensation in the epigastrium.—Violent spasms in the abdomen.—Tightness and distention of the abdomen, after eating or drinking ; *pain from incarceration of flatulence, -princi- pally in the right side ; emission of inodorous flatulence, after pres- sure in the abdomen.—Sensation as if the parts in the abdomen were compressed, early in the morning.—Cutting in the abdomen. very violent in the evening and after midnight, with general sweat; or with loose, diarrhceic stools, early in the morning.—Stitches ovei AMBRA GRISEA. 180 the hips.—Twitchings in the abdominal muscles in the evening, soreness of the muscles, when coughing or turning the body.—Feel vng of coldness in the abdomen, sometimes only in one side. Stool and Anus.—Frequent ineffectual urging to stool; crampy sensation in the abdomen, especially in the right side, after an inef fectual urging ; ^constipation ; -scanty stool; °irregular intermit- tent stool, sometimes every other day, followed by copious, loose, light- brown stool.—After stool: pressure in the hypogastrium, weakness m the pit of the stomach, and constant urging.—Pain in the rectum and bladder ; urging titillation of the rectum.—Stinging, smarting, and itching ofthe anus.—Discharge of blood with the stool; °varices of the rectum ; hemorrhoids. Urinary Organs.—Increased secretions of urine, with inability to retain it, in the morning.—The urine is turbid during the emission, and dark brown; or light brown, with brown sediment, the urine itself having a yellow color; urine with a reddish cloud; having an acrid smell after standing awhile ; mixed with blood; scanty urine, with reddish sediment after a couple of hours.—°Sourish smell of the urine.—Burning of the orifice of the urethra and in the anus. Male Sexual Organs.—Lacerating in the glans; or pain as if ulcerated.—Burning in the region of the vesiculae-seminales.— Itching in the glans. Female Sexual Organs.—Burning in the genital organs, with dis- charge of a few drops of blood, especially after walking and a hard stool.—Pain as of soreness, and violent itching of the pudendum ; swelling and soreness of the labia.—The menses are too early.— Discharge of blood between the menses.—During the menses the left leg looks blue, on account of the distended varices, with pressing pain.—*Leucorrhoea: -(only at night); discharge of thick mucus, with stitches in the vagina before the discharge ; discharge of pieces of a bluish-white mucus from the vagina.—Inflammation of the ovaries. ? Larynx and Trachea.—Hoarseness and roughness of the voice.— Accumulation of a greyish mucus, which it is difficult to cough up, with scraping in the throat.—Burning titillation from the larynx to the abdomen.—Tickling in the throat, inducing cough.—Cough: excited by a scraping sensation in the throat.—Deep, dry cough, with confluence of water in the mouth, and subsequent scraping in the throat.—Cough, with occasional violent paroxysms ; a kind of whoop- ing cough; *spasmodic cough, °especially in slender persons ; with eructations and hoarseness.—Cough, with expectoration of white mu- cus and coryza; cough, with saltish expectoration.— With the cough. 190 AMBRA GRISEA. °pressing in the temples; -itching in the throat and in the region cf the thyroid gland; pain in the side, below the pit of the stomach; sore pain in the throat; pressure in the umbilical region. Chest.—Fetid breath, in the morning on waking.—Oppression and tightness of the chest, with uneasiness, impeding a deep inspi- ration.—°Shortness of breath.—°Asthmatic complaints of children and scrofulous persons ?—Oppression of the chest, extending to the back between the scapulae, and relieved for a short while by eating. —Wheezing.—Feeling of rawness, and burning lancination in the chest, extending through to the back; in the right half of the chest a violent lancination, arresting the breathing.—Pressure in the chest. —°Nightly tremor in the chest.—Pain as if bruised, with oppression of the chest, relieved by eructating.—Anxiety about the heart, with arrest of breathing and flushes of heat; palpitation of the heart during a walk in the open air, with*paleness of countenance; during the palpitation of the heart he experiences a pressing in the chest as from some foreign body.—Burning with pressure, aggravated by pressing upon the part ; rheumatic pain in the right side ; pressure with lacerating in the left. Back, Sacral Region.—Stitches in the small of the back, aggra- vated by movement.—°Stiffness in the small of the back, after sitting. —Pressing pain in the small of the back, from within outward, with great weight.—Painful tension in the lumbar muscles; rheumatic pain, with tension in the back.—burning, with stinging-rheumatic pain in the scapula; drawing with pressure in the nape of the neck. Arms.—*The arms go to sleep easily ; *when lying down upon them; *while carrying something in the hand, also at night (the right arm), *with numbness -of the left arm, in rest; of the hands, at night; tingling in the thumb as if gone to sleep.—Lacerating in the arms.—Drawing : in the shoulder, fingers, and thumb, with pres- sure in the right fore-arm; rheumatic pain from the thumb to the wrist-joint.—Stitches in the arms.—Pain in the shoulder as if sprained and lame ; in the evening with drawing.—°Tremor of the arms; -bubbling sensation and jerking in the arm.—Lameness of the hand. *Cramp in the hands ; °in some cases only when taking hold of anything.—(Painful swelling and stiffness of the articulations of the fingers and thumb, when in a state of rest).—Continuous cold- ness of the hands; particularly in the evening, with chilliness of those parts.—Itching of the hands. Lower Limbs.—Lacerating in the lower limbs ; rheumatic lacerat- ing in the leg ?—Sensation in the thigh and legs as if asleep, with weight or rigidity of the muscles.—Lameness of the knee, as if AMMONIACUM. 191 sprained, aggravated in the evening.—Intense and painful coldness of the legs, particularly in the evening.—Cramp in the thighs and calves, almost every night; buzzing sensation in the calves and feet; tingling and numbness of the feet, when lying down, with faint- ing and obscuration of sight on rising, followed by vomiting of bile; he is obliged to lie down again.—°Stiffness of the tarsal joint; of the feet, with great weariness ; *the feet are painful when walking, -the heel and the left tarsal joint are painful; °pain in the bottom of the feet, as from subcutaneous ulceration; arthritic pain in the tarsal joints and in the ball of the big toe ; stinging in the left foot, in the heel, in the ball of the big toe.—°Swelling of the feet; -of the left mal- leolus, with pain when beginning to walk ; (pain in the legs up to the knees).—Itching of the toes and interior of the bottom of thi feet, not removed by rubbing.—Cold feet.—^Burning of the bottom of the feet.—°Lancinations in the chilblains on the toes. 17.—AMMONIACUM. AMMONIAC.—Gummi Ammoniacum.—See Homozopathic Gazette, <$•<:. Dura- tion of Action'! Rationale of its Action.—Ammoniac is the concrete juice of an umbelliferous plant denominated Dorema-ammoniacum, six or seven feet in height, growing in Persia and Afghanistan. All parts of the plant contain a milky juice. At certain seasons this exudes through punctures made in the plant, and hardens in the shape of tears, which are collected for use. It is exported from Bushire, and usually reaches Europe and this country through the ports of Hin- dostan Though usually imported from Bombay, it occasionally comes from the Levant. It is said to be a stimulant, although Trousseau and Pidoux deny that it has any stimulant properties whatever, having taken it in two-drachm doses without observing any such effect. Still, large doses are said to cause congestions, violent pains in the head, espe- cially in the occiput and forehead ; pains in the eyes and dim-sight- edness, aching in the chest and spitting of blood, restlessness, loss of appetite, relaxation and weakness of the stomach, and diarrhoea. Wood says, like many other stimulants, it may be given so as to prove diaphoretic, diuretic, and emenagogue, although its principal action is manifested upon the pulmonary, gastric, intestinal, and uri- nary mucous membranes. Again, it is asserted, that is not merely a stimulant, but a nervous 192 AMMONIACUM. stimulant, although much less powerful and useful in nervous affeo^ tions (except in those which arise from primary disorder of the mu- cous membranes) than Assafoetida, Galbanum, and Olibanum. It is generally regarded as a trivial remedy, but that is only because it is so frequently used in inappropriate cases, and in too large or too small doses, and at improper times and stages of the diseases against which it is suited.—J. C. P. General Effects upon the Nervous System.—In addition to other properties, it has been supposed to possess those of a nervous stimulant, in a somewhat less degree, however, than Assafoetida and Galbanum. In this capacity it has been supposed to be useful in some affections of the optic nerve, in neuralgic and colicky affections of the bowels, in nervous and asthmatic affections of the chest; but in all these disorders its action on the nerves is probably secondary to that upon the mucous membranes of these parts. Nerves of Motion.—It probably acts more decidedly upon the nerves of motion than upon those of sensation. It seems to exert a specific action upon the motor nerves of the chest, abdomen, and limbs, as evidenced by the cramps and pains in the chest and bowels, and the rheumatic pains in the limbs which it removes. On the Vascular System.—Although, when used externally, it acts as a local irritant, often producing a papular eruption, and some- times considerable inflammation of the skin, yet it is generally thought to exert a very moderate excitant influence over the circula- tion. In large doses, it often occasions a feeling of heat, weight, or uneasiness in the stomach. On the Blood.—Its action on this fluid is unknown ; it doubtless tends rather to increase the white than the red globules. Fever and Pulse.—Increased circulation in the capillaries; pulse small, corded, quick, and hard; tendency to chilliness and perspiration. On the Lymphatics and Glands.—It has generally been sup- posed to exert a specific action upon the lymphatics, glands, and absorbents, and has been much used to promote the resolution of scrofulous tumors, chronic swelling of the joints, venereal nodes and tumefactions, and enlargements of the liver. It is said to increase the flow of lymph more than any other gum-resin. On the Mucous Membranes.—This is apparently the great centre of the action of Ammoniacum; it doubtless acts more specifically upon these parts, and upon the mucous follicles and muciparous glands, than upon any other tissues. It is homoeopathic to catarrhal affections of many of the mucous membranes, and also to catarrhal- AMMONIACUM. 193 rheumatic affections, and to scrofulo-spasmodic affections, such an scrofulous ophthalmia, when attended with much spasm of the eye- lids ; scrofulous bronchitis, when attended with spasmodic or asth- matic affections of the muscular fibres of the bronchial tubes, and in chronic or scrofulous affections of the intestinal mucous membrane, especially when attended with spasmodic or colicky affections of the bowels. Vogt says it acts more powerfully than Assafoetida upon condensed secretions of mucus and lymph, influencing especially the mucous membranes of the chest, abdomen, and genitals. Besides in- creasing the flow of mucus, it is said undoubtedly to possess the power of rendering a thick and tough secretion more serous, and hence is thought to be more suitable in blenorrhoeas of viscid, than of merely profuse mucus. In fact, it is regarded as a mucum incidens et resolvens. It acts much less decidedly upon the serous mem- branes and cellular tissue.—J. C. P. Skin.—A papular eruption is frequently caused by the application of Ammoniac plaster, which occasionally increases to a quite consider- able degree of inflammation of the skin. Dr. Duncan has described a fatal case of diffuse inflammation following its use in a case of dis- eased knee-joint.—J. C. P. CLINICAL REMARKS.—It is homoeopathic to the dullness of mind and relaxation of body which so often arises in persons suf- fering from chronic mucous affections; also to some of the nervous and irritative phenomena which occur in like subjects, although less useful than Ambra, Assafoetida, and Moschus. It is homoeo- pathic especially to headache arising from disease of the nasal pas- sages and frontal sinuses. The specific action of Ammoniacum and Galbanum on the optic nerve is undoubted. Schwartz recommends it in amaurosis, although he refers to Wichmann's observation, that it causes dimness of sight. It would seem most homoeopathic to affections of the eyes, when attended with derangement of several or many of the mucous mem- branes. The tinctures of Ammoniacum and Galbanum are said to have been used locally, with great success, in various diseases of the eyes, such as scrofulous ophthalmia, ocular debility from prolonged reading, spasmodic motions of the eye-lids, weakness of the lachrymal duct, &c. A compress, moistened with the tincture, has been applied over the eye for one hour, then removed for several hours, and reap- plied again. A burning heat is first felt; it lessens gradually, and ceases within an hour, when the compress becomes dry. Richter says he has used it with much benefit in amaurosis, and adds that he has frequently performed a complete cure in cases where he hardly 9 13 194 AMMONIACUM. expected it, and in some where the disease had actually been present for several years.—J. C. P. It seems to act specifically upon the mucous membranes of the ears, and doubtless will prove a better local application than many others more frequently used. It is far more homoeopathic to in- fluenza, and acute and chronic catarrh of the nose, than many other remedies which are more frequently used. It is homoeopathic to some neuralgic affections about the lips and cheeks, which arise from a catarrhal affection of the sinuses, and other nasal passages. It is homoeopathic to many catarrhal affections of the mucous mem- brane of the mouth and pharynx; also to many cases of chronic dys- peptic sore throat, the so-called clergymen's sore throat, or chronic pharyngitis, which is so often mistaken for chronic bronchitis. Both schools advise it in weakness of digestion. Noack says it is remarkable that Wibmer says it causes weakness of digestion, yet calls it a stomachicum. It is homoeopathic when there is a thin yel- lowish coating on the tongue, tastelessness, or insipid sweetish taste in the mouth in the morning, or a nauseous bitter taste in the mouth, disappearing after eating, loss of appetite, eructations after eating, nausea almost to the point of vomiting, and great weakness of diges- tion. In short, it is homoeopathic to many gastric and bilious states, especially when occurring in scrofulous subjects. It has been used in disturbances of the biliary secretion, and in swelling, inclination to induration, and already formed induration of the liver. Schneider advises it in chronic jaundice, in old obstructions and infarctions of the liver, spleen, and pancreas. It is most homoeopathic when there is a thin yellowish coating upon the tongue, and nauseous, bitter taste in the mouth, disappearing after eating. Still, Wood says, it has only been prescribed in obstructions and engorgements of the abdominal viscera, from a vague notion of its deobstruent power, although Paris found it valuable in mesenteric affections, by correct- ing the viscid mucous secretions of the intestines ; hence it may be most useful and homoeopathic in those affections of the liver and other abdominal organs which commence in disease of the mucous mem brane of the duodenum, and are propagated, along the ductus-com ;munis to the biliary ducts, gall-bladder, &c. It deserves attention in scrofulous affections of the gastro-intestinal and biliary mucous membranes.—J. C. P. In a peculiar chronic affection of the stomach and bowels, marked by constant distress and burning about the epigastrium, continual rumbling and foetid flatulence, with papescent stools and general dis tress from, and mal-assimilation of the food, Ammoniacum (first to AMMONIACUM. 195 third trituration) will often prove a remarkable palliative, and fre- quently remove the disorder. It should be thought of in chronic dysentery ; and when there is a mucous diarrhoea, with colicky pains and flatulence, connected with a feeble, or torpid, or scrofulous state of the alimentary mucous membrane, and especially when this condi- tion happens to be associated with a chronic cough, there is a double indication for its use. Some authors speak highly of its utility in long and obstinate colics depending upon thick mucous matter. lodged in the intestines. It is homoeopathic to mucous piles, to mucous diarrhoea, and to many other chronic affections of the intestinal mucous membrane. Noack recommends it in diarrhoea-mucosa, when attended with chills, cutting pains in the abdomen, and profuse slimy stools; also in colic with diarrhoea, when there are violent cutting pains in the bowels, soft pappy stools, with profuse discharge of wind, and much rumbling in the bowels. It is also recommended in the dominant school in abdominal cramps and flatulent colic. In all these cases, if smaller quantities fail, moderate doses of Lac-ammoniacum will often prove useful. In passive dropsy, it has been advised by Fordyce, but it is a remedy of inferior value. Frank says it has been used externally with success in many cases of hydrocele, especially in young persons. It should be thought of in chronic gonorrhoea and leucorrhoea; in diseases of the spermatic cord : in tendency to diabetes; in the uric and lactic-acid diatheses, and in the peculiar forms of indigestion and urinary derangement which attend them. Its action on the uri- nary organs is said to be inferior to that of the balsams, but greater than that of any other gum-resin. It is most homoeopathic when there is an increased flow of urine, followed by dripping of a few drops, the urine being loaded with lactate of urea. It has been advised against haematurea and diabetes. Sobernheim says it causes a congestive state of the uterus, and even excites a flow of blood from it, and hence has obtained the repu- tation of an excellent emenagogue, and has, in fact, afforded excellent service in amenorrhoea when there was local debility or torpor of tbe uterine mucous membranes. Schneider has recommended it in menostasia and dysmenorrhcea, when arising from obstruction in the portal system, and in irregular menstruation. Also in amenorrhoea arising from chlorosis, and in those hysterical affections which attend these disorders. It may prove useful in some cases of dysmenorrhcea and partial retention of the menses, arising from a scrofulo -catarrhal thickening of the mucous membrane of tbe cervix.—J C. P. 196 AMMONIACUM The complaints in which it is most frequently used are chronic cs> tarrh, asthma, and other pectoral affections, attended with deficient expectoration, without acute inflammation, or with a too copious secretion from the bronchial mucous membrane, dependent upon debility of the vessels. In spasmodic asthma, Ammoniacum often proves highly serviceable, relieving the symptoms in a remarkable manner. It is best given in alternation with Scillae, or with a small portion of Hyosciamus or Conium. Plasters of Ammoniacum applied to the chest also afford evident relief. In hysterical asthma it also proves most useful. It may be alternated with equal doses of Assa- foetida. In asthenic pulmonary complaints, it proves useful by pro- moting expectoration when this is deficient, and by assisting its expulsion, when it accumulates in the air-passages, and the patient has not strength to expectorate. Pereira says, in chronic cough, with deficient expectoration, or in chronic catarrhs and asthmatic affec- tions, with profuse secretion, it sometimes affords slight relief; but although he has seen it extensively employed, he had observed it to prove useful in a few cases only. Quarin, Wedekind, and Selle ad- vise it when the mucus is tough, profuse, and hard to be expectorated. Peter Frank in chronic, pulmonary, and bronchial catarrhs, with nauseous, thinly-fluid, and purulent-like expectoration; Brumer, Quarin, and Behrends, in mucous asthma; also in asthenic inflam- mation of the lungs, especially when the expectoration is checked. In alternation with Nitric-acid, it is said to be an excellent remedy in cases where large accumulations of purulent or viscid matter exist, with feeble or difficult expectoration.—J. C. P. It has been recommended in joint and hip-pains, and in gouty nodes; but it is more homoeopathic to pains seated in the lymphatic vessels, and which are often mistaken for rheumatism. It is most specific against pains in the joints and limbs, when attended with affections of one or several mucous membranes, with derangement of the urinary organs, and excess of lactate of urea in the urine. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Swelling of the joints of the'upper and lower limbs.—Neuralgia ?—Languor after making the least effort; heaviness of the limbs towards evening; heaviness and lan- guor of the body, with despondency of mind.—Drowsiness in the day-time, in the morning when rising, with lazy feeling; restless night-sleep, disturbed by dreams, unrefreshing; falls asleep late; heavy dreams.—Coldness and chilliness; disposition to sweat.— Pulse small, tight; quick and hard.—Gloomy mood ; not disposed to do anything; ill humor ; he is displeased with anything he does; ina- bility to make any mental exertion. AMMONIACUM. 197 Head.—Dullness of the head, with inability to work; heaviness of the head.—Violent headache.—Pressure in the forehead, on one 6ide; pressure over the eye-brows.—Sense of dullness in the fore head, with dimness of sight.—Tearing in the right side.—Pressure in the occiput.—Stinging of the hairy scalp.—Sense of swelling in the region of the occiput.—Itching, tingling; pimples on the borders of the hairy scalp. Eyes.—Pressure and tingling in the upper portion of the eye-ball; beating and tingling in the upper part of the left eye, succeeded by pressure.—Feeling of dryness in the eyes, with sensation as if a foreign body were lodged between the upper lid and the left eye.— Dimsightedness in tbe evening, and particularly early in the morn- ing, immediately after rising, and heat in the eyes.—In order to read, he has to exert his eyes.—Photophobia, even in cloudy weather. Ears.—Tearing rn the right meatus auditorius externus.—Roaring in the ears, with hardness of hearing. Nose.—Disagreeable dryness of the nose, early in the morning on waking.—Increased secretion of mucus.—Sneezing, followed by a copious flow of mucus. Face.—Pale countenance with sick feeling, preceded by frequent change of color.—Drawing in the right malar bone, towards the temple.—Dartings from the region of the lower jaw to the interior of the mouth. Mouth, Pharynx, &c.—Dryness of the mouth and throat, early in the morning on waking.—Sense of fullness in the fauces and pharynx, with nausea.—Sensation as if a foreign body were lodged in the throat, with inclination to swallow it.—Burning roughness in the pharynx and oesophagus. Gastric Symptoms.—Frequent eructations.—Nausea, with incli- nation to vomit.—Pappy taste ; insipid, sweetish, in the morning; bitter taste in the pharynx, with absence of taste on the anterior portion of the tongue. Abdomen.—Rumbling in the hypogastrium, with sense of dullness in the frontal region.—Pinching.—Violent colic.—Violent pressure in the pubic region. Stool and Anus.—Insufficient stool; retention of stool.—Stool loose, papescent; loose, with a good deal of flatulence, and preceded by rumbling in the abdomen; slimy, preceded by chilliness and writhing colic.—Liquid stools ; mucous diarrhoea.—Pressure in the rectum. Urinary and Sexual Organs.—Increased secretion of urine • the urine contains a good deal of urea and lactic acid.—Burning in 198 ammonium aceticum. the urethra.—A few drops come out after micturition.—Stinging in the right spermatic cord, and near it; drawing in the cord.—Sting- ing in the root of the penis.—Itching of the pubic region. Larynx and Trachea.—Roughness of the throat.—Continual tickling, without any desire to cough. Chest.—The breathing is short and loud, with anxiety; accele- rated ; oppression and stitches in the left half of the chest, during an inspiration.—Pressure in the chest; dullness and numbness of the posterior part of the right half of the chest, with subsequent pressure deep in the chest. Upper Limbs.—Lancinations in the shoulder-joints; tingling in the left joint.—Rheumatic pain; pain as if bruised, particularly in the elbow and left wrist-joint, accompanied with tearing in the right hand.—Swelling of the fingers ; drawing in the middle finger of the right hand; rheumatic pain in the right index-finger. Lower Limbs and Loins.—Weight and pressure in the lumbar vertebrae ; stitches in the loins, particularly during an inspiration.— Rheumatic pain in the left side of the region of the pelvis; stitches over the hip, when walking, obliging him to limp ; in the right hip- joint when sitting.—Languid feeling in the lower limbs.—Darting pain in the left thigh, along the crural nerve ; violent pain over the knee, when walking.—The knees feel swollen in the evening, when sitting, with pinching in the bend of the knee; stitches in the right knee. Tension in the knee-joint when walking.—Lacerating in the tibia.—Lacerating in the larsal-joint; tearing and burning in the metacarpus,—Sense of weight in the right foot; pinching, burning, tearing, and drawing in the left foot; tingling in the right foot.— Swelling of the toes. 18.—AMMONIUM ACETICUM AMMON.-ACET.—Acetate of Ammonia. Spiritus Mindereri. Rationale of its Action.—The experience with this medicine is almost wholly clinical. It is usually regarded as refrigerant and diaphoretic. Externally, it has been applied as a lotion and colly- rium. Dierbach regards it as the only specific diaphoretic remedy, with the exception of Dover's powders; he regards it as one of the most powerful and certain remedies for the promotion of transpira- tion and perspiration. It is a very great favorite, and an unusually fre- quently used remedy in the dominant school, being used almost uni- versally for the production of crises through the skin in febrile ammonium aceticum. 199 diseases, although it is less useful in the commencement of severe attacks when the fever and inflammation are violent, than when these have already somewhat abated and a skin-crisis is about to occur, or, as Wendt says, when there is a cutis mollis et tractabilis. As it is not competent to the removal of any severe febrile or inflammatory disease, it is only used in the milder forms of synochal, irritative, typhoid fevers, and rheumatic fevers, and then generally has to be aided by other remedies ; in gastric and bilious fevers, after sufficient evacuations are supposed to have been effected; but more especially in catarrhal rheumatic fevers, as these are supposed to be attended with check of perspiration. It has also been used in rheumatic an- ginas, rheumatic pleurisies and pneumonias ; in exanthematic fevers, such as measles, scarlet fever, and small-pox, to aid the outbreak of the eruption when this is retarded. In dropsy, from checked per- spiration, or injury of the skin, such as occurs after scarlet fever and in Bright's disease.—J. C. P. On account of its ammoniacal basis, it is supposed to approach somewhat in its action that of the exciting or stimulating remedies, although it causes so little heat of the skin and activity of the pulse that it has been regarded as the most excellent diaphoreticum non calidum ; but still it is regarded as better adapted to feeble consti- tutions, and to typhoid and debilitated states than most other allopa- thic antiphlogistic remedies. On the other hand, the neutralization of the Ammonia by means of the Acetic-acid, renders it somewhat similar in its action to that of the neutral salts, although it is not so depressing and debilitating. Again, like Vinegar and some other acids, it is supposed to exert a peculiar action upon the biliary and urinary organs.—J. C. P. On the Nervous System. Nerves of Motion.—This remedy is supposed not to exert the same irritating action upon the spinal sys- tem and nerves of motion which the other ammoniacal remedies are known to do. Thus, Christison says that the second group of the order of alkaline poisons, including Ammonia, with its salts and the Sulphuret of Potassa, have a double action on the system ; for, beside their local effects, they produce through the medium of the blood a disorder of some part of the nervous system closely resembling tetanus. Nerves of Sensation.—With the exception of the relief of pain in dysmenorrhcea, the Acetate of Ammonia is not known to act specifi- cally upon the nerves of sensation ; but, as dysmenorrhcea often de- pends upon the congestion of a womb which has not a sufficient out- let, and Acetate of Ammonia causes scantiness of menstruation, it may relieve the pain, merely by lessening the congestion. 200 AMMONIUM ACETICUM. Ganglionic Nerves.—It is supposed that this remedy acts more decidedly upon the ganglionic nervous system, especially that portion of the great sympathetic nerve which controls the functions of the arterial system, than upon any other portion of the nervous system. Vascular System. Heart and Arteries.—Sobernheim says it causes some increased heat of the skin, together with a quicker, fuller, and more undulating pulse; but that these phenomena cease on the breaking out of the perspiration which it is the specific action of the remedy to cause. Venous System.—We have no absolute proof of any action upon this system, although some authors think that it acts upon the portal system and biliary organs, like Vinegar and the Muriate of Ammonia. Glandular System.—Vogt supposes that it acts specifically upon the lymphatic system, like tbe Muriate of Ammonia. CLINICAL REMARKS.—In febrile and inflammatory affections, and exanthemata, those medicines which determine freely to the skin are best calculated to afford relief. Of these, none will gene- rally answer the purpose more uniformly than liquor Ammonium- aceticum. It also forms a good auxiliary to more specific measures. In inflammatory dropsy, Dr. Todd found liquor Ammonium-aceti- cum a very valuable sudorific, particularly when alternated with small doses of Tartar-emetic. The solution of Acetate of Ammonia is a valuable diaphoretic, much employed in the dominant school in febrile and inflammatory diseases. The late Dr. A. T. Thomson used it as a lotion, with good effect, in porrigo affecting the scalp. It is sometimes used externally as a dis- cutient, and Mr. Brande speaks of it as an excellent application in mumps, when applied hot on a piece of flannel. In tonsillitis, liquor Ammonium-aceticum will be found very useful. In the hydrocele of children it is strongly recommended by Dr. Maushner, applied by means of compresses kept constantly moist. In dysmenorrhcea it has been strongly advised by Cloquet and Patin ; they found it very successful in relieving the paroxysms of pain. Kopp praises this remedy very highly, as a palliative in dysmenor- rhcea ; he gives a tea or dessertspoonful every hour, from the com- mencement of the pain until its relief; it only palliates, but is not severe in its action, and does not produce secondary affections. In dysmenorrhea, Colombat says, with the view of producing a more rapid sedative action upon the uterus, and to overcome the painful tormina which accompany the discharge, we may give from forty to seventy drops of spiritus Mindereri, in a glass of plain or sweetened water at two doses. It allays the pain, and in that way facilitatei ammonium aceticum. 201 the flow of the menses; the first dose should be given as soon as the malaise and uterine pains are felt, and the second in a half-hour; if the symptoms do not improve, a third dose may be given, but with some reserve, in order to avoid what sometimes results from it, a diminution in the quantity of the flow.—J. C. P. In Menorrhagia and Organic Diseases qfthe Womb.—A married lady, aged thirty-four, who had been much reduced by profuse men- struation, had had all the signs of consumption and organic disease of the womb for two years. She had lancinating pains in the womb, decided increase in the size and hardness of the organ, with ulcera- tion, and profuse discharge of sanious, very offensive pus, mixed with shreds of organic matter and black coagulae. Walking and sitting were very painful; and all her sufferings were much increased at the monthly period; the abdomen then became exceedingly tense and painful, so that the slightest touch could not be borne ; the lanci nating pains became so incessant as to deprive her of all rest, and led, in the course of a few days, to a state of exhaustion which was only interrupted by frequent convulsive shocks and loud.cries. At the end of five or six days of suffering, profuse menstruation would occur, and relieve her from her intense suffering, but plunge her into a highly dangerous state of exhaustion. After the use of all other means, forty-drop doses of spirits Min- dereri were given on the second day of a monthly period, when all her sufferings had reached their height; the pains abated rapidly, and ceased entirely in twenty minutes, and the menses became less abundant. Henceforth, thirty or forty drops would always relieve the lanci- nating pains, and control, although not entirely abate the haemor- rhage. The next monthly periods occurred without much suffering, and the flow was decidedly lessened. Examination by touch and speculum proved that the womb had lessened in size, the ulcerations had also improved, and some of them seemed on the point of cica- trizing ; the discharge was less abundant and offensive, and she could sit and walk without pain. Case.—A lady, aged thirty-two, had suffered with frequent men- struation, and so abundant that she became decidedly weaker and hinner; she also had a habitual dry cough, oppression of the chest, nausea, vomiting, and poor digestion ; finally the menses occurred as often as twice a month, leaving her only four or five free days, and all her other symptoms were aggravated; spiritus Mindereri was given in twenty-drop doses, night and morning, followed by gradual diminution of the haemorrhages, so that in three months the menses 9* 202 AMMONIUM CARBONICUBt. occurred only regularly once a month, and lasted only four days, the other symptoms also disappeared gradually, with the exception of the cough, which was also much better. Case.—A lady, aged thirty-seven, subject to profuse menstruation, tasting for ten or twelve days, followed by leucorrhoea, had had six miscarriages, followed by dangerous haemorrhages; these were suc- ceeded by dry cough, attended with oppression of the chest, in- creasing in intensity with the metrorrhagia, which at one time lasted for three months, attended with heat in the genitals, extending through the whole abdomen, increase of cough, oppression, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, emaciation, and daily loss of strength Finally, her face became earthen, eyes dull, emaciation great, skin hot and dry ; pulse frequent, small, and thread-like ; cough dry and frequent; oppression constant; burning heat in the abdomen, entire loss of appetite, obstinate constipation, violent pain in the epigastrium and between the shoulders, burning thirst, constant nausea, and fre- quent vomiting of mucous matters ; the lower portion of the abdomen was tense and very painful. The neck of the womb was hot, soft, much enlarged, and sensitive, and the slightest touch caused bleed- ing ; with all these sufferings she had an incessant inclination for coition. Spirits Mindereri was given, in forty-drop doses, three times a day; in three days the haemorrhage had lessened three-fourths, with entire relief from the accompanying symptoms; the sexual inclina- tion had also almost ceased. On examination, after six weeks' treat- ment, she was found almost natural in size ; and in three months she recovered her former flesh, strength, and health. 19.—AMMONIUM CARBONICUM. AM. CARB.—Carbonate of Ammonia. Sub-carbonate of Ammonia. Volatile Salts. Salts of Hartshorn. Baker*s Salt.—See Hahnemann^ " Chronic Dis- eases," Vol. II.—Duration of action: forty days in some chronic affections. Compare with—Am.-mur., Arn., Ars., Bell., Bry., Chin., Fer., Graph.. Hep., Kali., Lack., Lauroc., Lye, Mang., Nux.-v., Phosph., Puis., Rhus., Sil., Staph., Sulph. ANTinoTEs.—Arn., Camph., Hep. Rationale of its Action.—Carbonate of Ammonia is formed during the putrefaction or destructive distillation of the ^e organic substances which contain nitrogen. The anhydrous neuVral carbo- nate can only be obtained by bringing together dry carbonic-acid and ammoniacal gases. It is supposed to prevent the coagulation of the blood, and retain it in a liquid state. If this be true, it must prove a valuable remedy AMMONIUM CARBONICUM. 203 in those maladies which are accompanied by a crude condition of the blood, and an unusual tendency to decomposition of this fluid. Theo- retically, we should commend it in typhus, malignant scarlatina malignant erysipelas, and diseases of a similar character. It is readily absorbed into the blood, and appears to act specifically upon the nervous system, especially upon the vertebral column. Its action is nearly the same when injected into the veins. In the first place, its effects are chiefly manifested upon the ganglionic and true spinal systems; then we observe its effects upon the circulation, respiration, secretions, and the muscular fibres. It is not, like'Opium and alcoholic stimulants, a diffusible stimulant, and its effects are more transient than these substances. According to Billing, it is a " local stimulant, and as such excites momentarily the action of the heart, through the solar plexus. It immediately unites with animal acids, and then circulates, or is diffused, not as a diffusible stimu- lant, but as a saline sedative. It therefore performs the double office of a temporary local stimulant to the stomach and heart, and a sedative to inflamed capillaries elsewhere." Carbonate of Ammonia is a stimulant, excitant, diaphoretic, powerful ant-acid, and anti-spasmodic; in large doses, emetic; and, under some cir- cumstances, expectorant. Injected into the veins it causes convulsions. Internally it has caused gastric inflammation with tetanic convulsions, the body ulti- mately becoming curved, with the head bent backwards. (Opistho tonos.) Wibmer found one and one-half grains to cause no particulai effect upon himself; three grains increased the pulse from 68 to 72, with throbbing headache ; six to twelve grains usually, but not constantly, caused increased frequency of pulse, with disorder of brain, mani- fested by pain, heaviness, throbbing, &c.; in one case, the disposi- tion to cough, with increased secretion of bronchial mucus, was ex- traordinary. Pereira gave fifteen grains, three times a day for two months, with no other effect than suspending epileptic fits during this time. Huxham has detailed a remarkable case, illustrative of the ill effects resulting from the long-continued use of it. A gentleman had so habituated himself to the use of vast quantities of it that at length he could eat it in a very astonishing manner, as other people eat sugar or carraway seeds. The consequence was, he brought on hectic fever; vast haemorrhages from the intestines, nose, and gums ; every one of his teeth dropped out, and he could in consequence eat nothing solid, he wasted vastly in flesh, and his muscles became as soft and flabby as those of a new-born infant; he broke out all over his body 204 AMMONIUM CARBONICUM. in pustules; his urine was always excessively high-colored, turbid, and very fetid; he finally died in the highest degree of marasmus. Vogt assumes that it causes a more active metamorphosis and lique- faction in the vegetative organs, viz.: increased secretion from the skin; more ready loosening of mucus from the bronchi; more pro' fuse secretion of urine, with simultaneous absorption of lymphatic fluids from internal parts ; increase and hastening of the menses ; in creased flow of bile; but the most marked of all is its action on the Bkin ; so that the ammoniac remedies have always been considered as excellent diaphoretica; and next in its action upon the lymphatic, vascular, and glandular systems, whence it is regarded as a fluidizing, absorption-hastening, and resolvent remedy for the organs of theet systems.—J. C. P. In larger doses it causes stimulation to the point of overheating, whence heat and congestion have generally been regarded as signs of too great irritation from Ammonia; its expanding and dissolving powers then also become evident; excessive and very profuse per- spirations set in ; also greater secretions of mucus, more profuse flow of urine, and, in general, more hasty and active metamorphoses, with great inclination to excessive expansion and liquefaction. This fluidizing action may become excessive, overbalance the formative power, and cause inclination to solution and decomposition ; we see this not only in the profuse secretions which it causes, but in the undermining of all the assimilative processes, viz.: in the destruction of digestion, in the solution of the chyle and blood, the want of con- tractile power, the diminution of organic cohesion in all parts—in short, by the occurrence of a true scorbutic state ; yet it is advised in affections of the intestinal mucous membrane, viz.: in gastric fever, in mucous inflammations, and in chronic mucous states with forma- tion of viscid slime, in diarrhoeas, and dysentery.—J. C. P. General Effects on the Nervous System.—That the principal action of Ammonia is first manifested upon the ganglionic and true spinal systems is evident from the spasmodic actions which it induces, and from the increased activity of the circulation, respiration, and the secretions. It does not affect the brain like Opium and alcoholic stimulants, but appears to impress specifically the vertebral column. Among the effects of large doses, convulsions have sometimes been observed. Nerves of Sensation.—It produces temporarily increased heat of the skin and a tendency to perspiration. Indeed it exalts momen- tarily the sensibility of all the organs, operating especially upon the sentient extremities of the nerves, and upon the capillaries. It causes AMMONIUM CARBONICUM. 205 much itchinc of the scalp, and of the whole surface of the body, From its stimulating effect upon the nerves and capillaries, it has been often employed in low forms of typhus, scarlatina, and other maladies characterized by depressed nervous and vascular power. Nerves of Motion.—It probably acts more specifically or powerfully upon the nerves of motion than upon those of sensation ; it not only causes increased capability for muscular exertion, and a state in which all the nervous functions are executed with greater facility, but all the salts of Ammonia cause convulsions. Great Sympathetic Nerve.—By its specific action upon the solar plexus, it rouses into augmented activity, temporarily, the heart, stomach, and lungs. Under its influence the activity of nearly every organ of the body is for a short time increased. Thus we have an increase of perspiration, of urine, of mucous seeretions, and a tem- porary increase of muscular power. On the Vascular System. Blood.—It is speedily absorbed into the blood, and exercises the remarkable power of inducing a more liquid state of this fluid. It counteracts all tendency to crudeness, coagulation, or decomposition of the blood, and on this account affords a reasonable ground for supposing that it may prove useful in some dis- eases which are accompanied by, or eventuate in blood-deteriorations. According to Billing, " it immediately unites with animal acids, and then circulates, or is diffused, not as a diffusible stimulant, but as a saline sedative. It therefore performs the double operation of a tem- porary local stimulant to the stomach and heart, and a sedative to inflamed capillaries elsewhere." In cases of poisoning by this sub- stance, sanguineous effusions are found in various parts of the body. Physical Effects of Ammonia on the Blood.—Hufeland observed that the officinal, and probably all the salts of Ammonia, have the pro- perty, to a greater or less degree, of dissolving the blood-corpuscules, even to the nucleus, although slowly, and the protein textures gene- rally. Whether they are thus endowed of themselves, or whether it is in virtue of Ammonia set free from the alkali of the blood, is a question ; but, at all events, it has been ascertained that free Am- monia is not essential to these effects. When blood is combined with an ammoniacal salt, it acquires, generally, a brighter red ; but this soon passes into a brownish-red hue ; it does not coagulate, but forms at best a loose, semi-fluid cruor ; the corpuscules begin to disappear, and the whole becomes more limpid. Blood thus decomposed, pro- gressively evolves distinct traces of Ammonia. It is very probable that we may partially explain, upon chemical grounds (solution and disengagement of Ammonia), why large doses of the Ammonia act 206 ammonium carbonicum. as poisons, and smaller doses, long continued, induce a scorbutic coi* dition. Yet the same salt, judiciously exhibited, furnishes a valu able stimulant to the secretory and excretory apparatus. It causes a sensation of congestion to the end of the nose, blowing out of blood from, and bleeding from the nose after eating. We do not see that it causes vomiting of blood, and doubt whether it has any specific tendency to do this ; it may, however, act chemically and corrosively upon the stomach, and thus cause haemorrhage from it, as it induces inflammation of the stomach, even when introduced into the cellular tissue. As for haemorrhoids, it causes great swelling and protrusion of piles, with pain, discharge of blood from the rec- tum during and after stool. As for haemoptysis, it causes cough, with mucous or muco-sanguineous expectoration, coughing up of blood, with burning and heaviness upon the chest, shortness of breath, red- ness and heat of the face, nausea, anxiety, and trembling of the whole body. As for apoplexia-pulmonum, it causes congestion to the chest, great heaviness upon the chest with pain, heaviness upon the chest, as if from accumulation of blood. It is very decidedly homoeopathic to purpura-haemorrhagica. Heart and Arteries.—By its action on the nervous system, it augments temporarily the muscular force of the entire organism. Through its local action upon the solar plexus, it stimulates into in- creased activity the heart and arteries. This augmented action is of but short duration, not excessive, and therefore not usually fol- lowed by any reaction of a depressing character. This effect of Am- monia upon the circulation is accomplished independently of any action upon the brain. Fever.—Frequent chilliness towards evening, frequent paroxysms of feverish chilliness, blueness of the hands and nails, chattering of teeth, and shaking ; sometimes these symptoms are followed by nightly heat, with sensitiveness to cold; nausea, thirst, oppression of the chest, with stitches in the left side, tearing in the forehead, and dull- ness of the head, alternate redness and paleness, of the cheeks, pres- sure at the stomach, with disposition to eructations, accompanied by a violent coryza and sleeplessness, for several days,during the catamenia. Feverish heat in the head, with cold feet. Continual night-sweats. CLINICAL REMARKS.—In scarlet fever, the Sesqui-carbonate is a very valuable remedy. It has been strongly advised by Mr. Wilkin- son, who has employed it successfully in above two hundred cases. He does not depend, he states, upon its diuretic, nor diaphoretic qualities, but believes that it possesses the power of increasing the strength of the arterial action, at the same time that it dimin- ammonium carbonicum. 207 ishes its frequency ; that it supports the vis-vitce, without increasing the heat and irritability of the system, and by such means counteracts the tendency in scarlatina-anginosa and scarlatina-maligna, to ulcera- tion and sloughing, and all the other evils attending it. In Austria, during an epidemic of scarlet-fever, commencing in April, 1841, Dr. J. Fischer treated 112 cases by Ammonium-carb., aided by occasional applications of cold water to the head; of which 105 recovered, and 7 cases terminated fatally. The seven fatal cases were : two of hydrothorax, one case of angina gangraenosa ; the four remaining came under treatment at a very late date, suffering from violent disturbance of the brain. In acute glanders, it proved successful in a case which came under the care of Mr. Wilkinson. Ammonia is evidently homoeopathic to some varieties of fever and ague, and also to hectic fever, when the chills and sweats are predominant. In lepra and psoriasis, Mr. Cazenave successfully employs this salt. In syphilitic eruptions, Dr. Schedel states that be has seen this salt succeed when mercurials have failed. The remedy, he adds, is certainly disagreeable at first, and often causes nausea, but with a little patience the stomach is soon brought to bear it. In erysipelas, occurring in debilitated subjects, it proves highly useful. Dr. Watson observes that, after a preliminary purgation, he commences its use, and, generally speaking, a large proportion of his cases recover. In rubeola, urticaria, roseola, erythema, and in other diseases of the same class, Mr. Wilkinson also bears witness to the value of the Sesqui-carbonate. He states that for the last seventeen years he has administered this remedy, and that he has not only never lost a patient in the above diseases, but has never had a case of the kind that has even appeared dangerous, or that has given him a moment's anxiety. In scrofula, the late Dr. Armstrong found that those cases attended by much debility, a languid state of the circulation, and deficient cutaneous secretions, were much benefitted by the use of this remedy. In puerperal insanity, when great debility exists, together with defective subcutaneous circulation and cold extremities, the Carbo- nate of Ammonium, in alternation with Camphor, may be given every third hour with advantage. In mercurial erethism no internal remedy is more to be trusted than the Sesqui-carbonate, in conjunction with Camphor and other stimulants. In the nervous, excitable, anxious, and tremulous conditions which often follow abuses of alcoholic stimulants and opiates, this is a re« 208 ammonium carbonicum. medy of considerable power. It is also useful in similar conditioni arising from undue mental excitements, such as grief, excessive anxiety, &c. Cases of delirium tremens have been said to have been cured with Carb.-ammon. alone, but Wood says, over absolute drunken- ness it has no control whatever ; but, in slight disorder from alcoholic drinks, it occasionally gives relief. In sick headache with excess of acid in the stomach it is often useful. In those sudden cases of col- lapse and loss of consciousness, which, if the patient survive, must be followed by febrile reaction or inflammation, it is admirably adapted ; and, from the absence of any special stimulating action on the brain, to those cases in which the reaction is likely to be attended with in- flammation or greater vascular exitement of the brain. Instances of this kind not unfrequently occur in the cold stage of febrile diseases, in collapse from concussion of the brain, and prostration from any sudden shock.—J. C. P. In typhoid and scarlet fever, accompanied by a general prostration of the forces, with a dull and stupid intellectual state, alternating occasionally with transient flushes of mental exhilaration, this medi- cine is quite appropriate. Under such circumstances we are in the habit of prescribing the first trituration. A case of epistaxis is related by Dr. Chapman, in a young woman, represented as anaemic, reduced in flesh, very pallid, and very de- jected. She was twenty-two or twenty-three years of age, and had been subject for several years to repeated and copious bleedings from the nose. The only characteristic symptom that was mentioned in the letter of consultation, for the choice of a remedy for epistaxis, was, that it was brought on by washing the face and hands in the morning. Amnion.-carb., 3, was sent to her, and, after a few doses, the bleeding ceased and recurred no more; she also recovered strength, flesh, spirits, and color. The cure was permanent.— F. G. S. Dr. Chapman also relates a case of critical epistaxis, caused, it was supposed, by latent measles, to which the patient had been exposed some three months previously. The epistaxis continued to occur daily for a few days to an alarming extent. On the fourth day he com- plained of a severe pain in the forehead, and a sensation as if the brain was forcing itself out just above the nose. About a grain of the third trituration of Ammon.-carb. was administered. One of his serious bleedings had occurred just before. In three or four hours after he was covered with measles, and a few doses of Pulsatilla suf- ficed to effect a cure.—F. G. S. Mr. Wallace states that he has seen some very severe cases of AMMONIUM CARBONICUM 209 cancrum-oris cured by the internal use of this remedy. He advises the strong Nitric-acid as a local application at the same time. A liberal diet should be allowed. In acidity of the primae-viae, heartburn, and flatulence, particularly when occurring in cases of atonic dyspepsia, or in hysterical females the Carbonate of Ammonia proves very efficacious. It may be re- peated if necessary. In drunkenness, after the stomach has been emptied, the Sesqui- carbonate may be given internally with advantage. Its application to the nostrils is also beneficial. In dyspeptic complaints, accompanied by preternatural acidity of the stomach, and flatulence, without inflammation, a properly-diluted solution of Ammonia may be employed, with a two-fold object. that of neutralizing the free acid, and of stimulating the stomach. It must be remembered that the healthy secretions of the stomach are of an acid nature, and that the constant use of Ammonia, or any other alkali, must ultimately be attended with injurious consequences, more especially to the digestive functions. While, therefore, the occasional employment of alkalis may be serviceable, their long-continued use must ultimately prove deleterious. It has a specific action upon the lining membrane of the kidneys, bladder, and urethra. A case of diabetes is reported in Frank's Magazine as cured by Ammonium-carb., in a lady, aged forty-eight, past menstruating. Symptoms : Violent thirst, dryness of the skin, constant chilliness, emaciation, oedema of the feet, with gradually increasing ascites, passing from fifteen to twenty quarts of urine daily, of a greenish color, clear and without smell, appetite voracious. The length of time in effecting the cure not mentioned.—In cases of urinary calculi, in which the urine is acid, and alkalis are indicated, especially if the constitution is much debilitated, the Carbonate of Ammonia is the most preferable alkali for administration. At the same time that it corrects the acid diathesis, it determines to the skin, and gives a stimulus to the system generally. In chronic bronchitis, and catarrhal affections occurring in debili- tated constitutions, this salt will be found serviceable. It is also very useful in that form of catarrh which Laennec designates as "suffocative." In the advanced stages of croup, the Sesqui-carbonate has been prescribed as a stimulant, expectorant, and occasionally as an emetic, in order to promote the discharge of effused lymp . When the pa- tient is greatly debilitated, it may prove useful, but some caution is. necessary in its use. 14 210 AMMONIUM CARBONICUM. In those forms of asthma arising from, and connected with disease of the heart, Dr. Hope states that he has derived more benefit from this salt than from any other remedy. In a very obstinate case, which resisted, all other means, the alternation of Ammonium-sesqui-carb. and Antim.-tart. afforded great relief. In pneumonia, in the advanced stages, when the inflammatory symp- toms have subsided, and it becomes of importance to promote expec- toration, Dr. Williams states that he has seen this indication well answered by the Sesqui-carbonate of Ammonia in doses of five grains or more, every two or three hours, as the urgency of the case may re- quire. He advises its exhibition in alternation with infus. Senegae, and with five to ten drop doses of tincture Lobeliae-inflatae. It acts specifically upon the mucous membrane of the bronchi, and their ramifications through the lungs, augmenting the secretion, and giving rise to a congested sensation in this structure. It also stimulates temporarily the lungs, increases the number of respira- tions, and causes slight dyspnoea and some uneasiness of this organ. It is an excellent remedy against very troublesome dry or moist short coughs, day and night, with irritation of the bronchial membrane and its ramifications, and of the substance of the lungs, with dyspnoea after the slightest exertion, stitching pains through the sides of the chest, palpitation of the heart, accelerated respirations, worse on as- cending stairs ; or from exertion of any kind, a general feeling of malaise. In advanced stages of pneumonia, when the lungs are approaching a paralytic condition, with a general loss of vital energy, this is a remedy of great value. It tends to re-establish the impaired vitali- ty, and, by promoting expectoration, and imparting to the pulmonary structures increased activity, it not unfrequently induces a permanent improvement of all the symptoms. Ammonium-carbonicum is homoeopathic to one form of hydrothorax, and occasionally will cure it when the disease has advanced to that stage where the effusion becomes general, as shown by oedema of the lower extremities, enlargement of the abdomen, &c. Hahnemann.—"Ammonium-carbonicum has been found useful in the following affections: " Fearfulness; disobedience; want of do- cility ; loathing of life ; uneasiness in the evening ; attacks of anxiety; anxiety, with weakness ; diminution of the thinking faculty ; vertigo, when sitting or reading; chronic headache; headache as if some- thing would get out at the forehead; headache, with nausea; ham- mering headache; falling off of the hair; dry pus on the eye-lids; burning and feeling of coldness in the eyes ; dimnes? of sight, with AMMONIUM CARBONICUM. 211 a sense as of waving before the eyes; black points and streaks of light hovering before the eyes ; cataract of the crystalline lens; short- sightedness ; hardness of hearing, accompanied by suppuration, and itching of the ear; humming and tingling before the ears; itching of the nose ; pustules in the nose ; bleeding at the nose, early in the morning, when washing ; summer freckles ; tearings, extending from the left upper lip across the cheek as far as the ear; cracking in the articulation of the jaw, when chewing ; chronic looseness of the teeth; sore throat, like rawness of the throat; soreness of the throat; swell- ing of the inner mouth; eructations tasting of the ingesta, either food or drink; bitter taste in the mouth, especially after a meal; rawness and burning of the oesophagus from below upwards, after a meal; headache after a meal; nausea after a meal; vertiginous gid- diness during a meal; unconquerable desire to eat sugar; thirst; want of appetite in the morning ; sour eructations ; heartburn ; eruc- tations and vomiting; pain at the stomach; spasm of the stomach; contractive pain in the pit cf the stomach, when stretching one's self; burning pain in the liver; boring stitches in the liver, in the evening, when sitting; uneasiness in the abdomen \ painful concus« siou in the hypogastrium, when setting the foot down in walking; costiveness; difficulty of passing the stools; colic, with diarrhoea; blood with the stools; discharge of blood from the rectum (flowing haemorrhoids); itching of the anus; varices of the rectum; nightly micturition; pollutions ; (deficiency of the sexual desire); scanty menses; sterility, with scanty menses ; menses too short and scanty; menses too early;—during the menses, she experiences a pressure upon the genital organs, cutting in the abdomen, tearing in the back and the genital organs, these symptoms obliging her to lie down; watery discharge from the uterus; leucorrhoza; profuse, acrid, corro- sive leucorrhoea; chronic dryness of the nose ; chronic coryza; dry coryza; shortness of breath; asthma; cough; cough with hoarse- ness, the body being warm; caused by titillation in the throat, with discharge; cough by day; cough at night; stitches in the small of the back when coughing; burning in the chest from below upwards; tearings, beginning at the upper left side of the chest, and extending as far as the should er-joint; stitches in the fleshy part of the chest; goitre; swelling of the cervical glands, accompanied by an itching eruption of the face and body ; pain in the nape of the neck ; rigidity of the arms and fingers,—they become cold and insensible, at night, early in the morning, and when closing the hands in seizing some- thing ; pain of the wrist-joint, which had been sprained some time ago; swelling of the fingers, when letting the arms hang down; the 212 AMMONIUM CARBONICUM. fingers go to sleep; great lassitude in the lower extremities; draw ing pain in the legs, when sitting; stitches in the heel; sweating of the feet; swelling of the feet; cramp in the sole of the feet; pain as from a sprain in the ball of the big toe, at night when in bed; burning in the hands and feet; feeling of weakness in the limbs, when walking in the open air; disinclination to walking; drawing and tension in the small of the back, in the back and in the joints curvature of the bones; warts; burning stitches and tearings ir, the corns ; drowsiness by day ; sleeplessness at night; nightmare on falling asleep; feverish heat in the head, with cold feet; evening chills; sweat. " This remedy may be repeated with advantage, after some inter- mediate remedies. Its effects, when excessive, may be diminished by smelling of Camphor."—Ed. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Violent headache after walking in the open air; violent rheumatic pain, with sensation as of drawing, through all the limbs, hands, feet, nape of the neck, head, &c. The hands and feet go to sleep when sitting; this symptom passes off by moving about.—Cold hands and feet, even in a warm room, and when they are well covered; all her limbs ache in the forenoon, and at night, with gnawing pain in the small of the back, more when at rest than when moving about.—The right side of the body appears more affected than the left. Visible emaciation of the whole body.—Tired and weary all day, without being either sad or cheerful. *Exces- sively tired. ^Extreme lassitude ;—weariness and moroseness when walking in the open air ; he trembled with weakness ; when walking, she trembles all over; she staggers when rising. *Great lassitude in her limbs, and complete disinclination to work; great lassitude and fatigue of the body, early in the morning and in the forenoon, as if he had worked too much; relieved by walking in the open air.— Sensation as if bruised in the whole body, lassitude and whining mood, early after rising; sensation as if the limbs were bruised, in the evening; great fatigue and weakness of the limbs,—especially in the evening hours, in the knees and legs; he is obliged to lie down.—Pains in some parts as if ulcerated; or lancinations and tearing, relieved in the warmth of the bed.—*Pains as if sprained in the joints; ^drawing and tension in the joints, -as if the tendons were too short.—°Curvature of the bones (and other rickety and scrofulous complaints) ?—°Sprains ?—Local inflammations.—Scorbu- tic affections ?—^Glandular swellings. Characteristic Peculiarities.—The right side of the body seems to be more affected than the left.—Several of the symptoms seem AMMONIUM CARBONICUM. 213 either to appear or to become aggravated in the open air.—Many of the symptoms are aggravated in the evening. Skin—Itching of the skin of the whole body; burning pimples, of the size of a millet-grain, on the nape of the neck and on the fore- arms.—The whole upper part of the body is red, as if covered unth scarlatina. *Rash on the left side of the neck and the left lower arm. °Chronic rash.—Small red tubercles around the elbow, and on the neck, cutting and painful, a few of them ulcerated.—Unusual sensitiveness of the skin to cold. Sleep.—Weariness, uneasiness, or chilliness.—Spasmodic yawn- ing in the evening ; sleepiness during the day ; very sleepy when not busy. *Sleepiness in the day, with yawning ; unconquerable sleepi- ness after supper; does not sleep well in the night; cannot fall asleep on account of uneasiness, dry heat, and sometimes burning at the stomach ; or on account of itching and stinging of the skin; to- wards morning falls into a heavy sleep, with perspiration.—Light sleep at night; uneasy, unrefreshing sleep, tosses about; uneasy sleep, with frequent waking.—Frequent waking at night, with chilli- ness ; with inability to fall asleep again; frequent waking up, with groaning and sobbing; frequent starting from sleep, as if in affright, at night, with subsequent great fearfulness.—Sleep full of dreams; he dreams while awake, at night; vivid, fanciful, lewd, romantic, or anxious dreams.—At night, attack of great anxiety, as if she had to die, with cold sweat, audible palpitation of the heart, and involuntary weeping; she was unable to move her eyes, or to speak, accompanied by labored breathing and trembling of the hands ; vertigo at night, rush of blood to the head, at night, and heat in the face on waking; boring and lancinating pain in the head, sparks before her eyes on waking; attacks of nausea, the whole night, preventing sleep ; pres- sure at the stomach, at night; violent colic; dry coryza, and ob- struction of the nose, while lying in bed ; all the limbs pain at night, with a gnawing pain in the small of the back; motion gives him pain ;—easier to lie on the left side than on the right. Fever.—Excessive seething of the blood at night; he imagines that the blood will burst the vessels and heart; chilliness at night; ^frequent chilliness, towards evening, continuing until he goes to bed. *Frequent paroxysms of feverish chilliness, in the evening. *Chills before falling asl )ep ; chilliness in the open air, or upon coming out of the open ail and entering the room. ^Attacks of chilliness, in the evening frequently with horripilation, blue hands, blue nails, chattf Action" of Antimony, see Antimonium-tartaricum, vtl Stibium-tartar. antimonium crudum. 265 horny excrescence in front, under the nail of the big toe; malfor- mations of the skin ; sensitiveness to cold ; somnolence." Hartlaub.—" Hepar-sulphuris and Mercury are antidotes to the effects of Antimony."—Ed. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—° Rheumatic inflammation of the muscles ; °arthritic affections, with swelling and nodosities.—°Drop- sical affections.—°Rheumatic contraction of the muscles, with curva- ture of the limbs.—°Freckles.—°Malformations of the skin ; °horny excrescences ; °corns; °fungus-articularis (by applying the drug externally?).—°Red and hot swelling of the parts affected with gout or rheumatism; °fistulous ulcers.—Convulsive movements, especially of the head ; convulsions, and trembling of the limbs; excessive swelling of the whole body.—Dropsical swelling of the body; in- curable dropsy.—Excessive haemorrhages.—Emaciation and exhaus- tion.—Apoplexy, accompanied by such a violent flow of saliva that he expelled at least a quart of watery foam.—Death after a few hours, brought on by the use of Antimony for cramps of the stomach.—Death produced by suffocating catarrh in fifteen days, occa- sioned by a few grains of Antimony.—Weariness, especially of the feet, with great peevishness, at seven o'clock in the evening; great lassitude, early in the morning, and disinclination to rise. Skin.—Itching of the whole body, mostly at night.—Pustules with yellow or brown scurfs.—Eruption resembling rash.—Nettle-rash; white blotches with red areolae, with violent burning and fine sting- ing, in the face, on the limbs, except the fingers, which were swollen; with violent thirst and nausea.—Blotches and vesicles, as from stings of insects, especially in the face and in the joints of the extremities; they come on with itching, and often disappear after a few hours; brown spots and dots, like small hepatic spots, especially on the arms. —Pale and livid color of the nails. Sleep.—*Great sleepiness during the day, and early in the morn- ing after waking ; tired feeling in the morning ; in the evening feels overwhelmed with sleep; ^somnolence in the forenoon.—Slumber, with fanciful delirium.—Slumber, with illusions of the fancy; he falls asleep late.—An erratic itching, with perceptible blisters, fre- quently rouses him from sleep.—He wakes at two o'clock at night, with a mild warmth all over, and burning itching and sensation of excoriation of the anus.—Tenesmus of the bladder rouses him from sleep at night; at night, intermittent emission of a small quantity of urine, with painful erections.—Frequent waking, as from fright.— Anxious, horrible, disagreeable, or lewd dreams. Fever.—A good deal of chilliness, no heat.—Disagreeable feeling 12 266 ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM. of internal chilliness, so that he cannot get warm.—Icy cold feet constantly.—Shiverings over the whole back, without thirst; shiver- ings over the whole body, early in the morning, with heat in the fore- head, without thirst.—Towards noon, violent chills, for an hour, with violent thirst for beer; then sleep, succeeded by heat and constant thirst.—Pulse sometimes a few quick beats, then three or four slow ones.—°Gastric and bilious fevers.—°Quotidian fevers (also tertian) with gastric symptoms, such as want of appetite, eructations, loath- ing, nausea, vomiting, coated tongue, bitter taste, tension and pressure at the stomach, little thirst, pain in the chest. Moral Symptoms.—Irritated state of mind, feeling of grief, breath- ing is short and heavy.—Dejection of spirits during the day.—He is averse to talking.—Attacks of anxiety, uneasiness ; anxious reflec- tions about himself.—Disposition to commit suicide, in the night.— Disposition to start, even at slight noises.—Ill-humor the whole day; he felt discouraged; peevish, vexed without any cause; °the child will not allow itself to be touched or looked at. Sensorium.—Weakness of the head.—Dementia, idiocy.—Does not complain of hunger, but eats when it is offered.—Complains of no pain. Head.—Confused and muddled state of the head, as after continual working in a cold room.—Intoxication.—Vertigo.—Headache, and sub- sequently a little bleeding at the nose.—Indistinct dull headache in the anterior part of the head, and vertigo, increased by ascending a flight of stairs.—Violent headache after bathing.—Dull stupefying pain.—Headache as if her forehead would burst; with a feeling of intoxication.—Pain in the region of the right eye-brow, within the skull, as if the parts were pressed asunder.—Pressure from without inwards, in the forehead, with sense as of drawing, at intervals.__ Momentary drawing pain over the left temporal bone, going off by- pressure, and returning with increased violence immediately after.— Lacerating pain in the whole head, from morning till night; with heat in the head towards noon, diminishing when walking in the open air.—Continual boring pain in the forehead and in the temples, from within outwards. Scalp.—Pain in the left parietal bone.—Slow pulsations in the left temple, externally, with fine prickings.—Single lancinations in the hairy scalp.—Red, hard pimple, painful to the touch, close to the cartilage of the ear.—Small flat tubercles upon the hairy scalp, of the size of small peas, painful to pressure, and with titillation all round. —Red, hardened, slightly elevated place on each side of the forehead, itching like nettle-rash, going and coming.—°Troublesome itching of the hairy scalp.—°Falling off of the hair. ANTIMONIUM ORUDUM. 267 Eyes.—Itching in the external canthus of the eye.—Winking of the left eye-lids.—Lancinations, with pressure below the left eye- brows.—Redness of the eye-lids, with fine stitches in the eye-ball.— ^Redness of the left eye, with dread of light on rising in the morning, and with secretion of mucus in the inner canthus.—*Red inflamed eyes, with itching, and nightly agglutination.—^Inflammation of the eyes.—Mucus in the rigni cantnus, in the morning, with dry gum in both lids.—Enlarged opening between the lids.—Incurable blindness. —° Arthritic affections of the eyes. Ears.—Stitches in the ears.—Redness, burning, and swelling of the ear.—Splashing in the ear, as of a few drops of water, when mov- ing the jaws.—Tingling before the ears; *continual roaring in the ears,—especially when there is stillness around ; most in the after- noon; *painful roaring in the ears.—Violent din in the ears, as if some one were beating against the gate of the house.—A kind of deafness of the right ear, as if a leaflet were placed before the tympa- num ; in the evening his right ear felt as if locked up.—Loss of hearing. Nose.—#Feeling of soreness in the nostrils,—when inspiring air, especially in the right nostril, which is a little obstructed; *both nostrils become chapped and covered with crusts ; *sore nostril, with drawing pain.—Bleeding at the nose.—*Stoppage of the nose; par- ticularly in the evening; dryness when walking in the open air, which scarcely allows him to talk.—Coryza, with sore, crusty nostrils ; dry ox fluent coryzoj, particularly in the morning. Face.—Pimples like chicken-pox, stinging on pressure.—Nettle- rash in the face, especially on the cheeks; several pimples in the face, painful like mosquito-bites.—Red, burning, suppurating erup- tions on the face.—Eruption on the cheek with a yellow crust, pain- ful to the touch.—Sensation of soreness on moving the hand over the face.—Burning stinging in the chin and the upper lip, as from a little spark of fire.—Formication on the upper lip.—Twitches of the muscles in the corners of the mouth.—The lips are dry.—Cracks in the corners of the mouth, painful like sores. Teeth and Jaws.—^Toothache in a hollow tooth, worse at night than in the day-time.—Pain as if the nerves were affected.—The toothache is renewed after eating, or applying cold water, and is relieved in the open air.—The nocturnal toothache is accompanied by great warmth, which seems to come from the chest.—Shooting toothache, in the evening, when in bed, and after dinner.—Stitches in the tooth, when inspiring air.—Profuse bleeding of the gums.— The gums stand off from the teeth, and bleed easily. Mouth.—Dryness of the mouth at night.—Accumulation of saltish 268 ANT1M0NIUM CRUDUM. saliva or water in the mouth; on the tongue.—Smell from the mouth, as in mercurial ptyalism; violent ptyalism from nose and mouth, ptyalism, without any fetid odor from the mouth, and without loose- ness of the teeth.—Blisters on the tongue.—Tongue coated white in the forenoon.—Fine pinching in the region of the palate the whole night, especially painful during deglutition.—Sensation as of scraping (raw- ness) in the velum-palati.—Rawness of the palate, with expectoration of a quantity of mucus.—Sore throat on the left side, as from a swell ing or a plug.—Impeded deglutition. Taste and Appetite.— Violent thirst, with dryness of the lips; thirst in the evening; at night.—*Want of appetite.—Feeling of hunger in the region of the stomach, on waking, without appetite; not relieved by eating.—Laziness and disposition to lie down after dinner.—Lassitude, tremulous fatigue, and heaviness in all the limbs after dinner.—Flatulence.—Difficulty of breathing during supper. Gastric Symptoms.—*Bitter eructations, like bile; gulping up of a fluid, *which tastes of the ingesta.—Hiccough.—Nausea with vertigo ; *nausea after drinking a glass of wine ; *nausea and vomit- ing.—*Violent nausea; terrible vomiting, which nothing can stop; ^vomiting of slime and bile ; frightful vomiting, with convulsions.— Violent vomiting and diarrhoea, with excessive anguish.—°Gastric derangement from overloading the stomach. Stomach.—Painfulness of the stomach when pressing upon it.— Pressure at the stomach early in the morning, with thirst; *pain at the stomach, as from excessive fullness, with appetite.—*Cramp-like pains at the stomach.—*Cramp of the 3tomach.—Burning spasmodic pain at the pit of the stomach, in paroxysms.—Heartburn, °tension and pressure in the pit of the stomach. Abdomen.—Great inflation of the abdomen, especially after a meal; with pain as from internal pressure.—Intolerable pain in every part of the abdomen.—Pinching pain in the region of the umbilicus and stomach.—Violent cutting iu the abdomen, with loss of appetite, hard stool, and red urine (in the case of a child); cutting in the abdomen with a feeling of nausea, and accumulation of water in the mouth.—Sudden compressive colic, with gulping up of water.— Cutting in the abdomen the whole day, with a feeling of oppressive anxiety as if coming from the stomach, want of disposition to work, indifferent mood, and pain at the stomach, during eructations.—Pain in the groins when pressing upon the parts, which feel hard as if the glands were swollen.—Hernia.—Rumbling in the abdomen. Stool.—Flatulence.—Constipation.—Severe tenesmus after dinner and quick expulsion of ordinary faeces, with straining.—*Hard stool, ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM. 269 with previous straining in the rectum ; *difficult expulsion of hard stool, without previous straining.—Papescent stool; liquid stool__. ♦Disposition to diarrhoea, which does not take place ; diarrhoea at night, and early in the morning ; °altcrnate diarrhoea and constipation in aged persons ; °diarrhoea of pregnant females ; ^discharge of slime from the rectum, with emission of flatulence.—Continual discharge of blood and solid excrements by the rectum ; expulsion of black blood by the rectum ; pain in the rectum during stool; feeling of sore- ness, as if an ulcer were torn open.—Protrusion of the rectum during stool.—Drawing pain in the anus.—Itchingof the anus.—Sharp itching in the rectum.—Burning itching, and sense of excoriation in the anus at night.—Boil on the perinaeum, with burning, and pain far around. Urine.—Desire to urinate, frequent and violent, emitting much urine every time.—Frequent desire, although little urine is emitted.— Frequent copious micturition, also at night; involuntary emission of a large quantity of urine, occasioned by a convulsive cough.—Gold- yellow watery urine, with a scarcely perceptible cloud.—Brown-red or dark-red urine; small red corpuscles in the urine, after standing.—° Fre- quent micturition, with discharge of mucus and burning in the ure- thra, with pain in the small of the back.—°Cutting during micturition. Genital Organs.—Drawing in the spermatic cord ; itching of the genitals.—Nocturnal emissions, with many dreams; pressure in the womb as if something would come out; discharge of an acrid water from the vagina. Larynx and Trachea.—Rough voice.—Extreme feebleness of voice.—Loss of voice whenever he became hot; the voice returned by resting himself.—Early in the morning, roughness and dryness in the throat.—Sensation as of a foreign body in the throat.—Violent spasms in the larynx and pharynx.—Hawking when walking in the open air.—Cough early in the morning after rising, in paroxysms ; decreases in severity.—Frequent dry cough ; severe dry cough, with sense as of scraping in the larynx.—Cough, with discharge of viscid thin phlegm; deep out of the chest, early in the morning. Chest.—Burning in the chest during every turn of cough, as of fire, with a glowing hot breath.—Deep sighing breathing, as from fullness of the chest, dyspnoea ; very troublesome asthma.—Suffo- cative catarrh; oppression at the chest early on waking ; aching pain in the interior of the chest in the evening, when lying down ; heavy aching pain in the chest or back ; lancinating pain, with pressure, under the clavicle, apparently in the larynx, when drawing breath.—- Stitches and lancinations in the chest; burning in the chest, with dry oough, and dyspnoea almost to suffocation.—Violent palpitation of thfl 2/J antimonium crudum. heart; violent, continual itching of the chest.— The chest is dotted with fine red points, with violent itching. Back.—Violent pain in the small of the back, when rising from a chair, it disappears in walking ; lacerating in the back, from morning to night.—Spasmodic stitches in the scapula, when sitting.— Violent itching of the back.—Red pimples and brown liver-colored spots on the shoulders and back.—Rigidity in the nape of the neck, and between the scapulae, when stooping.—Drawing in the muscles of the back worse in the evening or morning on motion; stitches in the skin of the neck; itching of the neck ; sensitiveness of the skin of the neck; small pimples on the neck and under the chin, painful to the touch.—Hard, long-continuing pustules below the neck, like small blisters, which fill with pus. Arms.—Itching in the arm, with reddish blisters.—Eruption on the arm, resembling rash or hepatic spots.—Painful lameness in the muscles of the upper arms, when bending the arms.—Quivering drawing in the muscles" of the upper arms, passing off by warmth, and returning in a draft of air.—Corrosively-itching pimples in the bend of the elbow.— Drawing, with lameness, in the fore-arm; with sensation of pressure from without inwards.—Itching vesicles of the left hand.—Itching vesicles and pimples on the hand and arms.—Drawing pains in the fingers and their joints.— Gouty pain in the joints of the fingers. Legs.—Drawing pain in the hip-joint, when walking; also in the evening.—Drawing pain in the thigh and pelvis.—White, hard tubercles on the leg, of the size of a small pea, itching, and surrounded by a small red circle.—Bluish spots on the thighs.—Repeated attacks of rigidity in the thigh, like a slight cramp.—Sharp stinging itching of the thigh, followed by a flat yellowish pimple.—Stiffness of the knee; painful stiffness of the knee.—Drawing pain in the knee.—Red pimples on the knee, like vesicles, resembling chicken-pox, with stinging pain when touched.—Drawing pain in the leg, lancination in the hollow of the tibia, deep stitches all along the tibia.—Bluish spots on the tibiae.—Pain as from a sprain.—The feet feel heavy and benumbed. —Drawing pain in the heel.—Sharp fine prickings in the sole of the foot; painful stinging in the sole of the foot.—Chilblains on the feet, with pain and redness in the summer season.—Great sensitiveness of the soles of the feet, when walking, especially on stone pavement. —^Large horny places on the soles of the feet, close to where the toes commence, painful like corns, and always returning after having been cut out.—Mortification of the foot; the foot is quite black.—Cracking of the big toe, during every movement requiring an effort.—Lacerat- ing, cutting, or burning pain in the big toe. APIS MELLIF1CA. 27J ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM. (See Stibium tar tap.) 27.—APIS MELLIFICA. APIS-MELL.—Poison of the Honey Bee.—(See "New Materia Medica.") Rationale of its Action. Nerves of Motion.—We infer that it operates as a gentle stimulant and tonic upon the anterior portion of the spinal column. An increase of muscular power, and a tendency to spasmodic movements of various muscles have now and then been observed from a protracted use of large doses. Nerves of Sensation.—It rouses the nerves of sensation into a con- dition of morbid excitability. A marked effect produced upon several provers was excessive sensitiveness of all parts of the body to the touch, the heat, and cold ; and their sensitiveness was usually accom- pained by great mental irritability. Ganglionic Nerves.—Many facts prove that it acts specifically upon this system of nerves. Its influence in producing muscular contractions of the uterus, miscarriages, menorrhagia, &c, is pro- bably due to a primary action upon the great sympathetic. Other reflex phenomena have occasionally been noticed, which lead us to the same conclusion. Mucous Tissues.—Upon the mucous membranes of the tongue, mouth, fauces, and throat it acts specifically; redness, burning, sen- sation of fullness and dryness are the chief effects. Two provers experienced coryza, with feeling of swelling and burning of the Schneiderian membrane. It acts especially upon the neck of the blad- der, producing mucous and bloody micturition. Its influence upon the pulmonary mucous membrane is evidenced by oppression of the chest, frequent inclination to expectorate, and burning of the mem- brane. Serous Tissues.—Its action upon the serous tissues is strongly marked. Among the first effects which we experienced while proving it, was great tenderness of the entire peritoneum on pressure, or on turning in bed. It impresses specifically all the serous membranes, producing that kind of inflammation which disposes to dropsical effu- sions. The physiological and clinical facts adduced farther on will demonstrate this conclusively. Muscular Tissue.—Temporarily, it exalts muscular power; but a reaction occurs in a few hours, which leave the muscles wearied, weak, and tremulous. The muscles are apt to become stiff, tender upon pressure, and somewhat swollen. 272 APIS MELLIFICA. Glandular System. Ovaries.—Upon these organs it exerts a most powerful influence. Not only does it produce inflammation and en- largement of the ovaries themselves, but it operates speciiically upon their serous envelopes. Tonsils.—It acts slightly upon the tonsils and the salivary glands ; but this slight action may be due to the effect produced upon the mucous membrane covering these glands. The action of Apis is very similar to that of Cantharides, Euphor- bium, Mezereum, and Rhus, and it often succeeds when these remedies fail. It is often wonderfully useful in erysipelatous, serous, and cede- matous inflammations, and in serous effusions and dropsies ; still we have often seen it fail in our own and others' hands, when it seemed fully indicated.—J. C. P. CLINICAL REMARKS.—In doses of five, ten, or fifteen drops, three or four times a day, it is highly recommended in many diseases of the bladder and kidneys, as well as in some uterine affections. Some practitioners assert that it will produce abortion in the pregnant female if its use be too long continued or when em- ployed too freely. It seems to have been most successful in quinsy, ascites (particularly post-scarlatinal), amenorrhoea, dysmenorrhcea, hypertrophy of uterus, with induration, &c. Some forms of ophthal- mia, and also hordeolum or stye, erysipelas, &c, have been cured. See the report above alluded to. For hydrops-amnii et oedema-labii, see Peters' "Diseases of Married Females." It is appropriate in scarlatina, when there are much heat, redness, and irritation of the skin, great restlessness and nervous agitation, sensitiveness of the entire surface of the body, an cedematous and erysipelatous ap- pearance around the ulcers in the throat, frequent and painful urina- tion, redness, heat, and burning of the tongue, disturbed sleep, and thirst. In many instances, where the above group of symptoms have been prominent, the third dilution of Apis has afforded speedy relief. Its virtues in scarlatinal dropsy are well known. Operating, as it does, specifically upon the kidneys as the main seat of the malady, and also upon the membranes which throw out the effusion, it is evident that it must present an excellent simile to a majority of these cases. Post-scarlatinal dropsy, in a girl about nine years old, developing itself a month subsequent to an attack of scarlatina, was treated successfully, by Dr. E. A. Munger, with Apis;—the patient was in the following condition : Puffed face, remarkably so about the eyes; anxious expression of countenance; abdomen very much dis- tended, and general anasarcous condition of the body; violent beating of the heart, distinct over the whole chest; pulse 160 or more; res- APIS MELLIFICA. 273 piration excessively labored, panting, and hurried ; inability to assume a recumbent posture ; urine very scanty and high colored ; heat and dryness of the surface, with thirst; no pain. Aconite, Ars., Bell., Digit., Helleb., with no apparent change for the better; on tht con- trary, on the second day of January, being the third or fourth day of her present illness, the condition became still more alarming; face and lips livid ; gasping and exceedingly rapid respiration ; pulse in- distinct ; cold perspiration, and cold face and extremities. The case was considered as extremely doubtful of recovery; however, after the use of Apis, 3, for about twenty-four hours, tbe patient began to pass large quantities of urine, and from that time gradually re- covered, when, on the tenth day of treatment, she was considered perfectly cured. A case of eruption was cured by Dr. Bishop, with the following characteristics: commencing with small pustular formations just under the cuticle, with burning, smarting, stinging sensation; in coming to maturity, deposition of dry scabby matter, laminated form, scaly, brownish, and sometimes straw-colored. Looseness of the bowels in the morning, thin, watery, yellowish; some griping at times, but generally painless. The looseness of the bowels had con- tinued three or four weeks. Treatment for the last ten days, Rhus and other anti-psoric remedies ; no abatement of symptoms, either of skin or bowels. The parts mostly affected with the eruption were the inner portion of the thighs, also below the knees, upon the hands, face, and back of the neck, and upon the central portions of the body. He received Apis, first, to be taken twice in twenty-four hours, which was followed by an effectual and almost immediate cure of both diar- rhoea and eruption; no return for eighteen months. The cutaneous affections for which Apis is most appropriate are urticaria, lichen, porrigo, eczema, prurigo, and certain forms of scar- latina. The special indications are, itching, stinging, pricking, and burning of the eruptions. When the eruption presents this pecu- liarity, and other symptoms correspond, one of the high dilutions will generally afford prompt relief. Dr. E. A. Munger has used Apis- mcllifica with success in several cases of urticaria, of which the fol lowing are the most prominent symptoms: Hard, red, somewhai conical swellings, occurring usually on the lower extremities, below the knees, but sometimes on the arms, and occasionally, but rarely, on other parts of the body, varying in number and size, some being no larger than a half-dime, others an inch or two in diameter. Heat. redness, extreme soreness, and a burning, smarting, stinging pain are the principal characteristic symptoms. In from two to six days ths 12* 18 274 APIS MELLIFICA. spots which made their appearance become livid, and the swelling, heat, and pain subside; but, unless the disease is checked, new ones continue to appear for an indefinite time. There is usually but slight general swellings of the limbs affected, and but little febrile excite- ment or other constitutional symptoms ; but, in a few instances, they have been considerable. The accumulation of evidence of its efficacy in ascites and anasarca is too voluminous for a work of this nature ; suffice it to say that it is among the most prominent and certain of its therapeutic properties. Mind and Disposition.—Irritable disposition the whole day; nothing appeared to satisfy him, everything awry.—Unfitness for mental exertion.—Dread of death, or sensation as if he should not be able to breathe again.—Great anxiety, and apprehension of some ap- proaching disaster.—Intellect clear and active, but morose and irri- table. Sensorium.—Confused vertigo for several days, at times very violent; worse when sitting than when walking, and extreme when lying down, and on closing the eyes, from several doses of the thir- tieth.—Head is dull and slightly confused.—Crazy, wild, blind stag- gers in horses (old observation).—Vertigo on rising suddenly from bed.—Lightness of the head on rising, and when walking in the open air. Head.—Chronic headache in nervous subjects ; violent pain in the forehead and temples, at times involving the eyes, attended by ver- tigo, nausea, and vomiting; must hold the head and eyes down.—Pain in the sinciput, and confusion of the head.—Violent headache, mostly confined to the forehead, with fever, second day.—Burning and throbbing in the head, aggravated by motion or stooping, temporarily relieved by pressing the head firmly with the hands, with occasional sweat for some hours.—Violent pressive pains in the forehead and temples for several days.—Violent sharp pain in the left temple. —Headache, with fullness and heaviness in the occiput.—Sense of fullness and heaviness of the head.—Head feels as if swollen.__ Severe pains in the eye-balls, increased by exposure to light.—Puffi- ness of the scalp, forehead, and around the eyes.—Integuments of the head feel swollen and stiff. Sleep.—Night-sleep is full of dreams (this symptom repeated in every proving).—Fidgetty restlessness the latter part of the night. Fidgetty restlessness the entire night, with inability to sleep—Great inclination to sleep, but inability to do so, from extreme restlessness and nervousness.—Sleep disturbed by oppressed respiration and disagreeable dreams,—Sudden startings from sleep, with great agita* APIS MELLIFICA. 275 tion and anxiety; the prover wakes from s!eep in the morning, weary and unrefreshed. Eyes.—Quivering and twitching of the left eye-ball, es ecially at night.—Burning stinging in the right eye, commencing with a dull heaviness, causing flow of water; twice repeated.—Stinging itching in the eye, eye-lids, and around the eyes.—Pain around the orbits of the eyes.—Slight agglutination of the eyes at night; had to pick them open in the morning.—Soreness, redness of the eyes and lids, secre- tion of mucus, and agglutination of the lids, attended with nettle rash over the surface.—Erysipelatous inflammation of the eye-lids.—Weak eyes; for several days, with photophobia.—(Edematous swelling of the eye-lids.—Smoky opacity of the cornea, occasioning almost entire loss of sight (curative).—Redness and smarting of the eye-lids.—Eyes sensitive to light.—Puffy swellings of the eye-lids, and around the eyes, with sensation of burning, and stiffness of the integuments.— Acute pain in the eye-balls.—Slight inflammation of the lachrymal sac. __Redness of the conjunctiva, with burning pain, increased flow of tears, and great sensitiveness to light. Nose.—Sneezing.—Redness and burning in the nostrils.—GEde- matous swelling of the upper lip and nose.—Erysipelatous inflamma- tion of the nose.—Acrid discharge from the nostrils.—Burning, itch- ing, and stinging eruption upon the nose. Teeth.—Jumping pain m the superior molars of the left side.— Sore pain in several teeth, accompanied by swelling and redness of the gums and cheeks.—Throbbing pain in a single tooth, with numb sensation in the gums. Face.—Sore elevations, like the sting of insects, very tender to the touch, at the external corner of the eye-brow.—Burning stinging, as of fire, on the chin, malar bones, and left superciliary ridge.—Swelling of the lips, and sensation of swelling for several days, followed by a fine eruption around the lips, and dryness and peeling off of the lower 011e—Prickling in the lips, and sensation as if they had received a severe contusion, with sensation of swelling in a few hours.—Face puffy, with a feeling of stiffness.—Face swollen, red, and painful.— Lips swollen, stiff, and slightly tender.—Puffy swellings ((edematous) under the eyes, with smarting and burning of the eye-lids.—Itching and burning eruption upon the lips, the chin, the nose, and under^the eye-brows.—Spots like hives upon the chin and cheeks. Mouth and Throat.—Contraction and erosion in the throat in the mornmg.—Extreme sensation of rawness and scalding all around the margin of the tongue, as if it had been scalded, and slight pirn- pies on tbe edge, from taking the tincture at four hours.—Increased 276 APIS MELLIFICA. feeling of contraction in the throat, rendering deglutition difficult, a eight hours.—Rawness, burning, and blisters along the edge of the tongue, which are very painful, accompanied with stinging, at eight hours, from the tincture.—Scalding of the mouth and throat for two days.—Dryness and heat in the mouth and throat, and a feeling in the tongue as if burnt.—Dryness of the tongue; red, fiery appearance of the buccal cavity, with painful tenderness.—An aching pressure, as if from a hard body, back in the upper part of the throat and fauces.—Stinging, burning, dryness, and swelling in the throat.— Frequent inclination to swallow, but the act is attended with some difficulty, from diminished power over the muscles of deglutition. —Dryness of the tongue, with prickling sensation in the tongue and fauces.—Redness, swelling, and burning pain of the entire tongue.- Erysipelatous appearance of the tonsils and fauces. Appetite and Stomach.—Violent eructations.—Nausea, apparently from the throat.—Nausea and inclination to vomit at night, and disa greeable rumbling in the abdomen, as if diarrhoea would come on.— Prickling pain, and sensation of heat and burning in the stomach.—■ Increase of appetite.—Strong craving for food and drinks, but nausea, eructations, heat, and burning in the stomach shortly after eating or drinking.—Distention of the stomach, with occasional burning sensa- tions at the pit of the stomach and in the throat, lasting several days, and followed with catarrh of the stomach, with its usual dyspeptio concomitants.—Bitter, or acrid eructations. Abdomen.—Abdomen full, swollen, and tender, with swollen feet and scanty secretion of urine.—Burning, internal soreness, externa] tenderness, even to the pressure of the bed-clothes.—Aching and pressing pain in the hypogastrium, with bearing down in the uterus, as if the menses would come on, in two persons.—Rumbling in the abdomen, as if diarrhoea would ensue.—Sore, sickly feeling in the abdomeu.—Dull pain in the bowels.—Fullness and evident enlarge- ment of the abdomen, from many and large doses, in a female.—Full- ness and sensation of bloating in the abdomen.—Tenderness of the entire abdomen on pressure, or on turning in bed.—Sensation of fullness in the abdomen, with dull pains, which are worse on motion, or from pressure.—Tension over the hypochondriac region, with prickling sensations. Anus and Stool.—Throbbing in the rectum.—Loose, lumpy stool.—Loose, urgent stool in the morning.—Stools soft and pappy, mixed with serum.—Loose stools, eight days in successions__Several loose yellow stools, with extreme weakness and prostration; stools coming on at every movement of the body, as though the anus were APIS MELLIFICA. 277 continually open, in a lady of forty, affected with chronic ascites. —Yellow, watery diarrhoea; griping ; twelve movements in as many hours ; frequent yellow watery evacuations, from a single dose.— Watery diarrhoea, with smarting at the anus.—Frequent disposition to go to stool, with inability to accomplish anything.—Distension and soreness of the bowels, with much flatulency, and small brown sJvine discharges, affording no relief.—Small bilious discharges, which pro- duce slight smarting at the anus and tenesmus.—Loose discharges, containing some mucus and considerable blood. Urine and Genitals.—Repeated urination every few minutes, continuing through the entire day, in a person never subject to such attacks.—Frequent and excessively profuse discharge of natural urine through the day and night, in a dropsical and pregnant subject, from three doses of the thirtieth.—Frequent and copious discharge of urine.—Burning in the urethra, before and after micturition.—A pustule, sore as a boil, surrounded by a red areola, and maturated in the centre, arises in the hair of the pubes, remaining sore and painful some days.—Frequent desire to urinate, attended with burning in the urethra, with uneasiness in the spermatic cord ; on the sixth day, from large doses.—Frequent urging to urinate, with copious dis- charges of straw-colored urine (from large doses).—Vesical tenesmus, with frequent slight discharges of red urine.—Burning and scalding in the urethra, especially near the neck of the bladder, during and after urination.—Strangury.—Frequent and painful urging to uri- nate, with scanty discharges of urine, mixed with blood.—Copious urinary secretion (primary effect), succeeded by very rare and small discharges (secondary effect).—After urinating, pain in the neck of the bladder, with shooting pains along the ureters towards the kid- neys. Menstruation.—Bearing down pain, and sensation as if the menses would come on, in many cases.—Bearing-down pains in the uterus, as if the menses would come on, with aching and pressing in the hypogastrium.—Metrorrhagia at the second month, with profuse flow of the blood ; heaviness of the abdomen ; faintness ; great uneasiness; restlessness, and yawning.—Haemorrhage from the uterus, occurring in a lady who was always regular and healthy; occurring one week after the cessation of the usual menstrual period, and three days after taking the medicine.—Miscarriages at the second, third, and fourth months.—Suppressed menstruation (pathogenetic and curative effect in many cases).—Tenderness of the ovaries on pressure.—Steady pains in the ovaries, with occasional bearing-down sensations in tho ovarian and uterine organs.—Sharp, cutting pains in the left ovary 278 APIS MELL1FICA. worse at intervals, and extending down the thigh.—Severe paroxysms of contractiye and spasmodic pain in the right ovary, occurring every fifteen to twenty minutes, and each paroxysm lasting from ona to three minutes.—Six days previous to the monthly sickness, sensa- tion of weight and heaviness in the ovaries; pressing pains at the os-uteri, and after taking the second dilution, night and morning for three days, premature appearance of the menses, with unusually copious flow.—Great tenderness over the uterine region, with bearing- down pains, leucorrhoea, and painful urination after four doses of the tincture.—Profuse yellow leucorrhoeal discharge.—Green and acrid leucorrhoea, with frequent and painful urination.—Conversion of an existing mild leucorrhoea to one of a yellow and irritating character. —General increase of heat and of vitality in the uterus and ovaries. Larynx and Trachea.—Hoarseness and rough voice, day and night, on second day.—Heat and smarting in the throat, with occa- sional hacking coughs.—Dryness of the throat in the morning, caus- ing cough and hoarseness.—Hoarse voice and hoarse cough, from irritation of the trachea.—Hoarseness, with scraping in the larynx and oppression of breathing.—Symptoms worse in a warm room, and ameliorated in the open air. Chest.—Stitches in the left side of the chest.—Sensation of aching heat in the region of the diaphragm, as if from running vio- lently.—Pressure in the chest, soon.—Sharp pains and stitches through the chest and back at night.—Hurried and difficult respira- tion, with fever and headache.—Pain near the heart, almost arresting breathing at night, continuing at intervals for some days.—Short, rapid breathing at night.—Sensation of soreness, lame, bruised feel- ing, as if from a recent injury, from being jammed, bruised, or beaten; confirmed in many provers.—Sensation of burning heat in the chest and stomach, early in the morning, second day.—Sense of fullness, constriction, or of suffocation in the thorax; difficult and anxious respiration.—Rapid, painful, and spasmodic respiration, aggravated by lying down, and ameliorated by inhaling the fresh air in an up- right posture.—Burning and stinging pains throughout the entire front part of the chest.—Slight pleuritic stitches in the sides of the chest. Back and Neck.—Rheumatic stitches in the muscles of the right side of the neck, worse on motion.—Tension in the right side of the neck, beneath and back of the ear.—Sudden flush of heat over the back, as though sweat would break out, accompanied by a pain at the left ileo-sacral articulation.—Dull pressure under the scapula, with sore feeling on motion.—Pain in the. back, under the scapula, worse on moving.—Stiffness in the small of the back.—Weakness of the ARGENTUM METALLICUM. 279 back, obliging him to lie down.—Stiff and weary feeling in the lum- bar muscles.—Itching eruption like urticaria covering the entire back, and extending up the back of the neck to the hairy scalp.—■ Blotches on the neck and back, which itch and smart on rubbing and scratching them.—Pain and soreness in the region of the kidneys, on pressure, or on stooping, constant dull pains in both kidneys, with small secretion of red urine (from repeated doses of the twelfth dilution). Superior Extremities.—Fiery burning at the points of the fingers.—Tingling of the fingers of the left hand.—Dull pains, appa- rently in the bones of the arms and fingers.—Aching in the right shoulder and upper portion of the arm.—Red spots upon the arms, hands, and fingers, which itch and burn very much.—((Edematous appearance of the hands and fingers.—Feeling of stiffness in the hands and arms. Inferior Extremities.—Fine burning stinging on the knee.—• ((Edematous swelling of the extremities.—Darting, transient pain in the external malleolus of the left ankle for four days.—Dull pains, as if in the bones of the lower extremities, disappearing on walking, re- turning again while sitting.—Burning of the toes, and redness like erysipelas, and heat of a circumscribed patch on the foot, while the remainder of the foot is cold, continuing half an hour.—At night, the feet were found swollen, with a sensation of heaviness and rigidity; the upper part of the feet felt tingling and itched, and were of a bright red color.—The soles of the feet and balls of the toes had a feeling of painful fullness, and in walking gave a sensation as if cushioned; sixth day, from large doses.—((Edematous swelling of the legs and feet, with sensation of weariness and stiffness when attempting to walk.—Itching eruption, like urticaria, upon the posterior portion of both thighs.—Bruised and sore feeling in the feet. 28.—ARGENTUM METALLICUM (or Arg. foliattjm). ARG.—Silver.—See Hahnemann's "Mat. Med. Pur.," Vol. I.—Duration of Action: 3 weeks in chronic affections. Compare with—Asa-f, Aur., Bell., Chin., Hep., Mere., Nitr.-ac, Nux.-v., Puis. Plat., Stan. A.ntiootes.—Merc, Puis. ? Rationale of its Action.—Dierbach tells us that Silver hag been repeatedly observed to cause fatal dropsy when given against 280 ARGENTUM METALLICUM. epilepsy; Vogt also says that it has caused cachexia, emacia tion, and dropsy, although he tells us that it was used in olden times in dropsy, ulcerous cachexia, and other obstinate diseases oj the vegetative system. G. A. Richter says, in some instances, when given against epilepsy, the original disease has been supplanted by a fatal dropsy, complicated with induration of the liver. From the experiments of the homoeopathists we find no proof that it is homoeo- pathic to dropsy, except that it has caused a painless, slightly red- dened swelling of the wrist and lower half of the fore-arm. Vogt says it was once regarded as diuretic, but that latterly we hear little or nothing of this effect; but, in the experiments upon the healthy, the metallic Silver causes frequent urging to urinate, and more pro- fuse flow of urine, while the Nitrate is said to have caused violent irritation of the urinary organs, increased secretion, and involuntary discharge of urine. Noack regards this effect as so marked that he has recommended it in diabetes ; hence it may prove homoeopathic to dropsy with increased flow of urine.—J. C. P. According to Dr. Huber, metallic Silver acts principally upon the following parts : 1. The Articulations.—The action of Silver upon the articulations is so uniformly the same, and so certain, that but few remedies equal it in this respect. 2 The Bones—especially the long bones, and upon the cartilages, particularly the cartilaginous surfaces of the ears, eustachian tube, tarsal cartilages, cartilages of the nose, false ribs, &c. 3. The Muscles, Tendons, and Ligaments—especially those which are in the neighborhood of joints, also upon the psoas, triceps-bra- chialis, &c. 4. Upon certain Glandular Organs—such as the salivary glands and testicles. 5. Upon the Heart.—Huber recommends it in spasm of the heart, and Noack in some heart-affections. CLINICAL REMARKS. Hahnemann.—"Some forms of dia- betes can be permanently cured by Silver, provided the other conco- mitant symptoms are also indicative of the remedy."—Ed. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Lassitude and heat all over when walking in the open air; he feels a sort of anguish, as if his clothes were too tight.—A tearing, with pressure in the extremities of the iong bones, over or below their joints, in different parts of the body.__ Great weakness of the body, especially of the thighs, when sitting or walking, with somnelence.—Uneasiness and a feeling of laziness in all the limbs. ARGENTUM METALLICUM. 281 Skin.—Intolerable itching, as from a flea.—Burning itching. Sleep.—Dreams about the events of the day.—Anxious dreams. Fever.—Chilliness in the afternoon and evening, even in bed; sweat after midnight.—Heat in the afternoon, without thirst.—Shiver' ing through the whole body.—In the evening, when in bed, quids pulse with thirst. Moral Symptoms.—Increased cheerfulness, and disposition to talk the whole day.—Discouraged. Head.—Sudden giddiness, and as if a mist had been before hie eyes.—Vertiginous drowsiness, his eyes closed.—He feels a tingling in his head, and vertigo, as if he were tipsy.—The head feels dull and hollow, his whole brain aches, accompanied by chilliness.—Ach- ing in the forehead, with stupor and drawing pressure in the occiput. —Stinging and burning pain in the head.—Violent lancinating and tearing pain in the head.—When standing or reading, a sensation as if the brain were compressed, with nausea and heat of the body.— The nape of the neck feels stiff.—Spasmodic jerking of the muscles of the head, face, and neck —Attacks of vertigo.—He is all the time in a kind of intoxication.—Sense of darkness in the head, as if there were smoke in the brain.—Sensation in the head, both as of pressure and trembling, over the right ear, towards the occiput.—Excessive pain in the temple, being both aching and lacerating.—Pressure and lacerating pain in the region of the temporal bone, increased by con- tact.—Lancinations, apparently in the skull, or on the surface of the brain, in front of the ear.—Light pressure in the head, with a feeling of soreness.—Slight thrill of shivering over the hairy scalp.—Aching in the forehead, over the eye-brows.—Lacerating in the frontal emi- nence.—Intermittent boring the whole day, the pain increases in the evening after lying down. Eyes.—(The eye-lids are very red and thick).—Violent itching in the corner of the eyes. Nose.—Tingling and itching in the nose, followed by bleeding.— Irritation in the nose, as if catarrh would set in.—Stoppage of the nose, with smarting in the left nostril.—Fluent coryza, with constant and profuse secretion of mucus ; excessive fluent coryza, with frequent sneezing, or without sneezing. # Face.—Painful gnawing pressure in the bones of the face of the right side, the pressure is most violent in the malar bone.—Lacer- ating in the region of the left malar bone.—Fine drawing pain in the muscles of the face, especially in the region of the cheek-bones. Ears.—Violent itching of the external ear.—Lancinations from tbe internal ear of the left side as far as the brain.—Sensatim as if the \ 282 ARGENTUM METALLICUM. ear were stopped.—Lacerating, with pressure over the ear.—Corrosive itching of the lobules of both ears early in the morning, after ri'%nk Jaws and Teeth.—Swelling of the upper lip, close under th nose.—The gums are painful, especially when touched. Mouth, Pharynx, &c—A little blister on the tongue, feeling sore and burning.—His throat feels raw and sore.—Boring and digging pain in the throat.—Pressure in the outer and left side of the neck, when walking in the open air.—Lancinations in the submaxillary gland, from without inwards.—The region of the submaxillary glands is swollen; the neck stiff, with tension in the parts when moved; deglutition is rendered difficult, as if there were an internal swelling of the throat; he is obliged to force every mouthful of food down his throat.—Feeling of dryness of the tongue, which, however, is moist. —Mercurial angina.-—Sense as of scraping in the velum-pendulum palati, as if a rough body were adhering to it. Taste, Appetite, and Gastric Symptoms.—Accumulation of vis- cid saliva in the mouth.—Indifference to food.—Violent appetite, even when the stomach is replete.—Excessive gnawing hunger the whole day, which cannot be satisfied by eating.—Heartburn.—Almost continual qualmishness and nausea.—Nausea in the throat, followed by heat all over, mostly about the head, with redness of the face, without thirst.—Retching.—Loathing for food. Abdominal Region.—Early in the morning, sense as of burning, like heartburn, in the abdomen, stomach, and as far as the chest.—A painful distension of the abdomen at night, with pressure.—Contrac- tive pain in the belly, after the morning stool, when sitting, as arises from a cold in the bowels.—Pressure at the pit of the stomach.—■ Pinching across the stomach, and in the left hypochondrium.—Loud rumbling in the abdomen.—Bellyache as in diarrhoea.—Cutting inter- nally, across the abdomen.—Contraction and straining of the abdo- minal muscles when walking, so that he has to walk stooping.—Lanci- nations in the abdominal muscles.—Boring pain on the right side of the hypogastrium, over the groin.—Lancinations in the region of tbe abdominal ring. Stool.—Frequent desire for stool in the lower part of the rectum, with expulsion of a small quantity of loose stool.—Stool after dinner, dry and cru ling. Urinary and Genital Organs.—Frequent desire to urinate, and copious emission of urine, for several ho>< /.\.—Pain in the testicle, as m contusion.—Emission almost every n''? t. Larynx and Trachea.—Irritating, short, hacking cough, without any expectoration, early in the immin , after rising from the bed. I ARGENTUM METALLICUM. 283 —Cutting in the trachea, producing cough, which does not relieve the pain.—*Rawness and soreness of the throat, especially when coughing, not when swallowing. Chest.—Pressure in the chest, sometimes with violent stitches.— Oppression of the chest, as if a heavy load had been lying upon the chest, which almost prevented breathing.—Spasmodic tension, with pressure in the region of some of the ribs.—Stitches in the chest, making breathing painful.—Gnawing irritation on the left side of the chest, when at rest.—Cramp-like pain of the chest; after the pain has subsided, the place is painful to the touch.—(Oppression and burning in the region of the heart).—A lancinating and crampy pain in the sternum, most violent when stooping.—Violent pressure in the region of the sternum, internally, increased by every motion, especially by stooping.—Aching of the sternum, externally.—Violent cutting in the region of the lowest ribs during a deep inspiration.—Lancinations at the termination of the ribs, near the vertebral column, especially when curving the back. Back.—Burning stitches in the small of the back.—Drawing in the pelvis and small of the back.—Bruised sensation on the small of the back.—Sharp pressure under the scapulae.—Lacerating and pressure in the shoulder.—Boring stitches in the axilla.—Titillating and itching stitches between the scapulae. Arms.—Tensive drawing in different parts of the arms, resem bling stitches.—Spasmodic drawing pain, with pressure in the bend of the elbow, as if the arm had been violently sprained by motion.— Continued pinching in the upper arm.—Lacerating in the upper arm. —Burning, quickly-passing stitch in the upper arm.—Aching in the flesh of the upper arm, which increases by contact.—Feeling of lame- ness in the arms during motion, especially in the elbow-joint.—Ten- sion, when bending the arm, at the upper extremity of the ulna.— Lacerating, with pressure in the muscles.—Stinging, itching burning under the skin of the wrist-joint.—Cramp-like drawing in the back of the hand and foot.—Tearing, with pressure, in the bones of the wrist and fingers.—°Inflammation of the tendons, with redness and curvature of the arm. Legs.—Tension and drawing in the groin.—Violent pain behind the left hip.—Lameness in the hip-joint and thigh when walking, especially when moving the leg forward, with stitches when setting down the foot.—Cramp-like lacerating pain in the knee or its vicinity. —The knee is painful, as if it had been bruised, worse when sitting than when walking.—The knees often bend when walking.—In the evening, when in bed, he experiences burning, corrosive stitches in 284 ARGENTUM NITRATUM. the tibia.—Cramps in the calf, most violent when at rest.—Pain, as from bruises, and throbbing in the joints of the feet, worst when sit- ting.—Lancinations and lacerating in the feet and ankles.—Burning sensation in the right heel and tendo Achillis; tho parts felt as if they had gone to sleep. 29.—ARGENTUM NITRATUM. ARG. Nil.—Oester. Zeitschrift. Compare with—Alumen, Alum., Natr.-mur., Phosph., Argentum-fol. Antiootes.—Merc.-cor., Natr.-mur., Nitr.-ac—Large doses are antidoted by kitchen-salt dissolved in water, and taken in large quantity; afterwards mucilaginous drinks are to be given. Rationale of its Action.—M. Poumarede has related an in- stance of poisoning with an ounce of the Nitrate of Silver in solution. A few hours afterwards the individual was found insensible, with the eyes turned up, the pupils dilated, the jaws locked, and the arms and face agitated by convulsions. In two hours there was some return of consciousness, and an abatement of the convulsions, but still complete insensibility of the limbs, with redness of the features, and pain in the stomach. In eleven hours he could articulate. For thirty-six hours he continued subject to fits of protracted coma ; but he eventually recovered. Sixteen hours after taking the poison he vomited a large quantity of Chloride of Silver. Esquirol mentioned a case in which Nitrate of Silver was given freely during a period of eighteen months, at the end of which time the patient died, and the stomach was found destitute of the mucous coat over one-half of the inner surface, with several points of corrosion down to the peritoneal coat. PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY. In Men and Animals.—Dark rose-colored, or bluish-red, or blackish-red, black-spotted, or blackish green lungs; the posterior portions of them are affected in particular, and either equiformly, or in places only. Condensation of the lungs, as in hepatization ; they neither crepitate nor float on water. Much blackish blood in the lungs. Crepitating, anaemic, almost emphysema- tous lungs. The heart appears bluish-black, and is distended with a great quantity of blood ; black blood in the left ventricle. Emptiness of the arteries of the heart. Much black blood in the veins. Con- traction and smallness of the stomach. Paleness of the mucous mem- brane of the stomach. Small black spots, of the size of a pin's head near the pylorus, consisting of corroded portions of the mucous mem- brane, and forming true perforations—giving the affected portion a ARGENTUM NITRATUM. 285 sprinkled appearance. Transformation, of the gastri mucous mem- brane into a soft pulp; whitish-grey eschars near the pylorus, cherry-redness and inflammation of the stomach in several spots, with very great thinning, even of the muscular coat in others. Dark cherry-red coloring and softening of the mucous membrane of the duodenum. Thickening of the walls of the bladder. Metallic Silver has been found in the choroid plexus, the pancreas, bones, and skin. Experiments on the Healthy.—Schaebert experimented on him- self with Nitrate of Silver ; he first took one-eighth of a grain in one half-ounce of distilled water, in the morning, while fasting, and only observed a very unpleasant metallic taste and slight burning in the throat; several repetitions of the same experiment only produced like results. After taking one-fourth grain, the burning in the throat was somewhat more persistent; after taking three half-grain doses, in the course of three days, tbe burning sensation became decidedly seveie, stools and pulse were not altered, the tongue acquired a dark bluish color in a few places, there was an increased feeling of warmth in the stomach, and slight nausea, disappearing after eating. After the lapse of a few days, he took one grain, one and a half hours after dinner, and experienced an intense burning in the throat, attended with nausea and retching, without actual vomiting, but with a par- oxysmally increased feeling of warmth and some spasm in the sto- mach ; the tongue had a dirty brown coating for several days, and a slight diarrhoza occurred towards evening and continued the next day, relieving the pains in the ttomach entirely. Besides this, he experi- enced annoying and dull pains in the head, attended with a peculiar dejection of spirits, and restlessness. In three days all these symp- toms disappeared ; but, eight days afterwards, he took one and a half grains in the morning, fasting ; the nausea and inclination to vomit which ensued were immediately relieved by hearty eating, but he felt unwell the whole day, and had dull pains in his head. Frank took small doses of the Nitrate while he was in perfect health; he soon became indisposed, derangement of the stomach, heartburn and water-brash set in, and lasted several days after he dis- continued the Silver; he had never suffered in this way before. These symptoms disappeared, but a neuralgic pain in the left infraorbital region gradually developed itself, and lasted the whole winter; the pain was persistent, and generally not very severe, but occasionally it would become quite severe for a few moments. Simultaneously the action of the heart became somewhat irregular ; at times there would be an intermission of its beats, with an evident and unpleasant feel ing in the chest; if his attention was strongly directed to this point. 286 ARGENTUM NITRATUM the action of the heart became still more irregular, but exercise in the open air did not affect it. He had, at the same time, a constant feel- ing of fullness in the epigastrium. Sudden and violent exercise of his muscles, such as jumping, or going fast up-stairs, and some mental emotions, would produce rather violent palpitation of the heart; and all the above symptoms were apt to be increased at night while in bed. Some time afterwards, Frank took four doses a day, for two days, of one-tenth grain each ; then two-tenths of a grain, four times a day, for two days more; then three-tenths, four times a day, for one day; then four-tenths as often, for one day; then five-tenths, three-fifths, four-fifths, one grain, and one and one-fifth grains, each four times a day, for one day, when he became so unwell that he had no further inclination to pursue his experiments. He became and remained cmstipated for eleven days ; on the tenth day he began to have an aching sensation of fullness in the stomach, after very light meals of bread and milk ; his whole abdomen became very much distended on the eleventh day; on the twelfth, violent headache was added to the above symptoms, and it was with the greatest difficulty that he could force himself to take any food ; his nights were restless, so that he could not stay in bed after four, a.m. On the thirteenth day there was still greater disgust for food, with foulness of taste and tongue ; on the fourteenth day he again had violent headache, without feeling otherwise unwell, but his night was so disturbed that he was obliged to rise at three o'clock; he could only force down one glass of milk during the whole of the next day, during which the very violent headache continued, without nausea; finally, he was much re- lieved by taking two cups of strong blaok coffee, his supper tasted excellently, but, on the following day, he could only take very small quantities of food, on account of heartburn. His desire for food and drink was very slight. In another series of experiments, Frank took one-fourth of a grain mixed with three grains of sugar of milk ; he experienced a very bit- ter taste, with warmth on the tongue and in the throat; drinking a little distilled water caused light eructations, and sensations such as attend a catarrh of the pharynx and larynx. A few hours after, the same dose was taken, solved in one drachm of distilled water, followed hy a fweetish taste and sense of warmth in the mouth ; an hour after- wards he took half a grain, solved in one drachm of distilled water, and experienced the same sensations in a somewhat greater decree• a scratching sensation in the larynx, which caused him to hawk and cough; in a quarter of an hour more he felt a warmth between tha shoulder-blades and breast-bone (probably the oesophagus), which gra I* ARGCNTUM NITRATUM. 287 dually changed into a slight aching in the epigastiium, attended with insipid eructations; one grain doses, in one ounce of water, only caused a very bitter taste and transient nausea. On the Vascular System. On the Blood.—Nitrate of Silver acts on the system at large through the circulation; of its absorption, or rather of the absorption of the metal in one form or another, there can be no reasonable doubt. Dr. Dreyer, of Moscow, thinks that it possesses a certain peculiar and specific power of urging the fibrin of the blood to more ener- getic vitality, by consolidating its parts, while Kopp found, when he let blood from a vein flow into a solution of eight grains in one ounce of water, that it coagulated with great rapidity and quite firmly. Frank concludes that it coagulates the albumen of the blood; also that it diminishes or prevents the absorption of oxygen; it prevents the putrefaction of organic substances and the decomposition of the blood by preventing, or very much limiting the formation of sulphu- retted hydrogen. According to Mr. Blake, the Salts of Silver, when directly intro- duced into the blood, do not act on the heart, but operate by causing obstruction of the capillary system. If they are injected into the aorta, the systemic capillaries are obstructed, the nervous system is consequently oppressed, respiration is arrested, through the medium of this nervous oppression, and death takes place by asphyxia; the heart continuing to beat vigorously. If, again, they be injected into a great vein, immediate obstruction of the pulmonary capillaries takes place, so that the blood ceases to be transmitted to the left side of the heart. On the Nervous System.—It is evident that the Nitrate in small quantities, and the Chloride and Oxide of Silver in larger propor- tions, are absorbed into the vascular system, and thus conveyed to all parts of the body, and consequently also to the nerves, with which they doubtless come in immediate contact. Upon these they may exert an irritant or astringent, or toughening action, and probably the Salts of Silver may also enter into a chemical combination with some of the constituents of the nervous mass, especially the albumen, and that an actual and tangible Albuminate of Silver may be there formed, as it is in the blood and in other parts of the system. In the case of poison- ing before quoted, it produced convulsions, and hence it seems to act decidedly upon the motor nerves of the spine and brain, while clini- cally it has been found more useful in epilepsy and other spasmodic disorders than in neuralgia or other affections of the nerves of sen sation. w 288 ARGENTUM NITRATUM. CLINICAL REMARKS. Dr. Gray.—" According to my obser- vations, the Nitrate of Silver is eminently indicated in disturbances of the brain, and the consequent derangements in the system gene- rally, which have arisen from moral causes. The opinion advanced by Miiller does not correspond with the facts I have witnessed. Epilepsies produced by moral causes (such as, for example, very impassioned lay-preaching), a: <• promptly and durably cured by a few small doses of this drug, whilst those proceeding from abdominal irritation, independently of moral causes, are, at best, but poorly pal- liated by very large and frequently-repeated doses. The same obser- vation must, I am persuaded, hold good with respect to gastric dis- turbances ; those only will be really cured by it which have arisen during too great or too long-continued mental exertion. The bodily symptoms being similar to those produced by this drug, I should regard it as an indispensable remedy when there are the following moral conditions: 1. A crowd of impulses to act, to move, to be busy, which, without any distinct purpose to effect, keeps the patient in continual motion; a state of unrest, which gives the appearance of hurry and discontent to all bis conduct. 2. The opposite of the foregoing condition; not the calmness of deportment which occurs when the mind is in healthful contempla- tion, but an apathy indicative of a privation of motive or purpose; a state verging upon, and often ending in perfect imbecility. Or, 3. Errors and defects of perception. The erroneous perceptions in which I have seen Nitrate useful, have been : 1. As to time; tha patient constantly fearing he should be too late, and supposing that one or two hours had elapsed, when not more than a quarter or an eighth of the supposed time had passed, and this all the while, night and day, for many weeks together; and 2. Errors as to the velocity of gait, the patient supposing that he was walking very rapidly, when he was, in fact, moving but very slowly indeed. Moreover, I should regard the Nitrate as the remedy (other indi- cations existing for its use) in all severe commotions of the system arising from too great acuteness of the perceptive organs: e. g., certain forms of epilepsia and chorea. It is, I think, probable that Silver will be found as strictly adapted to the cure of morbid perceptions, and their concomitant disturbances in the digestive, motor, and genital apparatus, as Gold is to the removal of diseased affections, and their consensual motory and geni- tal diseases. However the reader may regard the foregoing specula- tions of Miiller, he cannot, if he be a thorough student of Hahnemann. ARGENTUM NITRATUM. 289 permit them to have the slightest weight with him in the choice or rejection of the Nitrate of Silver as a remedy for a case in hand; they are beyond the limits of possible testimony, and for all known purposes of the homoeopathic art they would be useless, even if de- monstrably true, because we have no possible means of knowing when the pneumo-gastric nerve or the abdominal ganglia are the essential site of disease."—Ed. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Great debility and weariness in the lower limbs the whole afternoon, as after a long journey on foot, with sick feeling, dread of labor, drowsiness, chilliness, and sickly appear- ance.—Peculiar debility.—Rigidity in the calves.—Feeble, weary, and without appetite.—In the morning, after rising, debilitated, tremulous, irritated, and apprehensive.—Tremulous weakness, accom- panied with general debility, as after physical exertion, and apathy. —Nervous, faintish, tremulous sensation, as if a severe disease were about to attack him.—Excessive debility, wretched appearance, and emaciation.—Tremor of the limbs, general debility, as from physical exertion.—Powerful excitation of the muscles and nerves, and con- sensual excitation of the nerves of the stomach.—Seething in the whole body, with increased temperature.—Sensation as if the body, and especially the face and head, expanded; he feels as if the bones of the skull separated, with increase of temperature.—Sensation in the ximbs as if they would go to sleep or become rigid.—Complete in sensibility of the body.—Convulsions.—Presentiment of the approach- ing epileptic fit.—Paralysis of the extremities. Skin.—Cachexia, emaciation, affection of the liver, dropsy.—Fatal dropsy.—Prickling itching in the skin at night.—Small itching pimples.—Small itch-pimples, bleeding when scratched.—Pustulous ecthyma.—Wart-shaped excrescences on the skin.—Peculiar discolo ration of the skin (argyria) from the blue-grey, violet, or bronze- colored tinges to the real black. Sleep.—Soporous condition.—Sleepiness when sitting.—Nightly nervousness.—Nightly nervousness, with heat and fullness in the head. —Sopor, with tossing about in the night; no sleep.—Sleep very rest- less.—Restless night; tossing • about; heavy fantastic dreams.— Restless, stupefied sleep, with horrid dreams.—Restless night, with headache and stupefaction.—The night's rest is disturbed with a dull headache.—In the morning he wakes from a slumber full of dreams, with dullness of the head.—He wakes in the night with sore throat Fever.— Yawning and chilliness.—Feverish sick feeling the whole afternoon; constant weakness and exhaustion.—Shuddering over the whole body, which passed into a febrile chill, the head being 13 19 290 ARGENTUM NITRATUM. hot and the hands cold, with nausea.—Chilliness and nausea after rising.—Chilliness and headache in the forenoon.—The chilliness was accompanied with a pale, almost yellowish countenance, nausea, and empty risings.—Fever, after a meal.—Febrile condition ; head- ache and chilliness in the forenoon ; in the afternoon, creeping chills, dry and hot skin, and nausea.—Night-sweat.—Sweat, with chilliness in bed.—Morning-sweat. Moral Symptoms.—Irritated and anxious mood in the morning after rising, with great nervousness, feeling of weakness, and tremu- lousness.—Anxiety in the praecordial region ; sighing ; feeling of dis- ease.—Apathy, with great debility and tremulous weakness.—Hypo- chondriac taciturnity, with dullness of the head, and beating in the whole body.—Hypochondriac and gloomy mood ; drawing pain in the forehead ; yellowish complexion ; sweetish bitter taste in the mouth; dry, viscid lips; feebleness, and febrile sensation; debility and weariness of the lower limbs. Head.'—Vertigo in the morning, with headache.—Vertigo, with complete but transitory blindness, nausea, and confusion of the senses, buzzing in the ears, and general debility of the limbs as after fatigue, and trembling.—Giddiness, as if from intoxication, with lassitude and debility of the lower limbs.—Giddy dullness of sense, as if he had lost all sensations, with drowsiness.—Dizziness before falling asleep.—Soporose condition.—Difficulty to collect his senses.—Dull- ness of sense.—Weakness of memory.—Imbecile appearance.—On lying down for the purpose of relieving his head, visions and distorted faces hover before his imagination.—Stupid feeling in the head when writing.—Dull headache over night; in the morning, sometimes changing to fullness, and stinging in the forehead.—Confusion of the head.—Dull and muddled state of the head, with beating in the whole body, and hypochondriac taciturnity after dinner.—The head feels obtuse, with whizzing in the ears and hard hearing.—Headache at night, with heat relieved by cold.—Sensation in tbe head as if the epileptic fit were approaching.—When waking in the morning, he has a terrible headache, obliging him to gnash his teeth.—The head feels full, heavy, and stupid; the headache becomes intolerable when making the least movement, and continues the whole day.—Pressing pain, or painful fullness and heaviness in the head.—Pain in the forehead and vertex as if the parts were grasped together.—Pressure deep in the brain, with chilliness the whole forenoon.—Pressure in the fore- head.—Aching pain in the forehead, above the eye-brows.—Aching pain, extending as far as the eyes, with sneezing.—Pain in the head, as if it would burst, occasioned by mental labor.—Undulating throb ARGENTUM NITRATUM. 291 bmg in the whole forehead.—Drawing, or bands, over the surface of the brain, apparently in the membranes or the sinuses.—Lacerating, extending down the temple as far as the face.—Drawing, with pres- sure and heaviness in the side of the head, abating in rest, but in- creasing by the least motion.—Pushing-beating pain in the right side of the head, with a general feeling of uncomfortableness.—Pulsations in the left side of the forehead.—Digging pain in the head, increased by motion.—Stitches and digging in the frontal eminence.—Dig- ging-up, incisive motion through the left hemisphere of the brain, recurring frequently and decreasing rapidly.—Cutting, as with knives, in the left temple.—Excessive congestion of the head, with throbbing of the carotid arteries, with heaviness, stupefying dullness qfthe head, great melancholy, weakness of mind, inability to express himself suitably and coherently.—Pain in the head, the head seem- ing enlarged.—The whole head affected, appears enlarged.—Headache all the time.—The headache is worse in the open air ; relieved by tying a handkerchief lightly round it.—Headache, with eructations and chilliness.—Generally the headache is accompanied with chilli- ness, and sometimes with a general increase qfthe temperature of the body.—Headache and toothache. Scalp.—Itching of the hairy scalp, particularly at night.—Itching and biting near the nape of the neck.—Tumor-shaped, itching eleva- tions on the hairy scalp, and in the nape of the neck.—Extremely troublesome itching, creeping, and crawling of the hairy scalp, as of vermin, with sensation as if the roots of the hairs were pulled up- wards. Face.—Dull, drawing, lacerating pains from the right temple to the upper jaw, and to part of the teeth.—Convulsions of the facial muscles, the mouth being almost locked.—Sickly appearance.— Sunken, pale, bluish countenance.—Appearance of old age. Eyes.—Itching and smarting of the canthi.—Itching and smart ing of the left eye.—The eye runs, looks red, and glistens.—Aching pain deep in the eye, early in the morning.—Burning and dryness of the eyes in the morning, when waking.—Pressure in the eyes as if too full, heat and pain in the ball of the eye when moving or touching it; mucous flocks impeding the sight.—Redness of the eyes ; sensa- tion as if a grain of sand were in the eye; he saw through mist.— Nightly agglutination of the eye.—The eyes were filled with mucus ; reading is difficult.—The canthi are red; the carunculus-laehrymalis is swollen ; clusters of intensely red vessels extend from the inner canthus to the cornea; the conjunctiva is puckered and interstitially distended; increased secretion of tears and gum.—The conjunctiva 292 ARGENTUM NITRATUM. Df the eyes and lids is red as blood.—Around the cornea, towards the inner canthus, the conjunctiva exhibits a red congested swelling. —Blear-eyedness.—Vanishing of sight.—Sensation as if blindness were coming on in the evening, at twilight.—The letters become blurred before the eyes; her sight vanishes when reading or writing. —She is only able to read by holding the page at a distance from her eyes.—Fiery bodies and flashes before her eyes, in the morning, in the dark.—Obscuration of sight, with anxiety, heat in the face, and lachrymation.—Ophthalmia, with intense pains.—Opacity of the cornea; a large portion of the cornea is covered with a white, opaque, apparently dense, but not very deeply penetrating spot.—Contraction of the pupil.—Wild rolling of the eyes, the pupils being dilated and insensible to light.—Hollow-eyedness.—Ophthalmia, abating in the cool and open air, intolerable in the warm room. Ears.—Dragging pain in the ears.—Clear ringing before the ears, passing into momentary deafness, with dull roaring.—Ringing in the ears and deafness.—Whizzing before the ears, with dullness of the head.— Whizzing, feeling of obstruction, and hard hearing in the left ear.—Painful stoppage of the ears, with headache. Nose.—Pain and swelling of the right alae-nasi.—The left nasal bones are painful, as if bruised.—Rigidity and clawing in the nasal cavities.—Smarting and itching in the nose.—Ulcers in the nose, becoming covered with yellow crusts.—Scurfs in the nose, being ex- cessively painful when becoming detached, and occasioning a bleeding. —When sneezing, a bloody and purulent matter comes out of the nose.—The nose is obstructed.—Dullness of the sense of smell.—A good deal of sneezing.—Coryza, with constant chilliness, sickly look, lachrymation, sneezing, and violent stupefying headache.—Disagree- able stoppage of the upper part of the nose.—Discharge from the nose resembling white pus, with clots of blood. Mouth and Lips.—Painful pustules on the lips and corner of the mouth.—The lips and soft parts of the mouth have a bluish appear- ance.—The lips are dry and viscid, without thirst.—Parched condi- tion of the lips, mouth, tongue, and fauces, night and morning. Jaws and Teeth.—The gums are inflamed, and stand off from the teeth.—Loose, readily-bleeding gums, neither painful nor swollen.— The teeth are very sensitive to cold water.—Pain in the teeth when chewing, and eating sour or cold things ; grumbling in the teeth, as if from decay.—Pain as if beaten to pieces in the body of the left lower jaw.—The tongue and mouth are dry and parched, with violent thirst.—Dry tongue, with slimy mouth.—White tongue.—White, slimy tongue.—Yellowish-grey tongue—Red, painful tip of the ARGENTUM NITRATUM. 293 tongue; rough tongue; the tongue is painful, as if burred.—The tongue is swollen and painful, as if ulcerated subcutaneously.—Ulce- rated crusts on the mucous membrane of the mouth, especially that of the left cheek.—Fetid odor from the mouth in the morning.— Ptyalism.—Astringent taste in the mouth, with confluence of waterj saliva.—Burning pain in the region of the velum-palatinum and the posterior nares.—Ulcerative pain of a small spot in the velum-pendu lum-palati.—Troublesome tension and prickling of the palate.—Swell ing, with a wart-shaped excrescence. Pharynx and Oesophagus.—Intense titillation of the palate and pharynx, occasioning a fatiguing short, hacking cough, at noon.— Dark redness of the uvula and fauces.—Scraping in the throat.— Roughness and scraping of the throat, as if raw and sore.—Sore feel- ing in the pharynx when drinking cold water, or during empty de- glutition.—Roughness and dryness of the throat, with ulcerative pain, at night.—Seated ulcerative pain in the pharynx.—Pain in the right side of the throat, as of an ulcer, drawing and tension upioard and downward ; sensation as if a splinter were lodged in the throat, when swallowing, eructating, breathing, stretching, and moving the neck; sometimes an undulating jerking and pulsating was felt in the throat, continuing for several days.—Burning and dryness in the fauces and pharynx.—Dryness and strangulation in the throat, with shortness of breath, at night.—Accumulation of a tenacious thick mucus in the throat.—Strangulation.—Continuous repulsive sensa- tion in the stomach and pharynx.—Paroxysm of cramp in the azso- phagus.—(Esophagus feels spasmodically closed; producing a sensa- tion in the stomach as if it would burst. Taste.—Bitter, astringent, metallic taste, as of verdigris, exciting nausea and inclination to vomit.—Pappy, chalk-like taste in the mouth, viscid lips, thin mucous coating on the reddish-white tongue. —Pappy, bitter taste, with viscid mouth.—Sweetish-bitter taste, with hypochondriac mood. Appetite.—Diminished appetite.—No appetite ; a quantity of eruc- tations.—Speedy repletion.—No appetite at breakfast.—Unusual ap- petite.—Strong appetite.—Urging desire for acrid cheese.—Irresis- tible desire for sugar in the evening. Gastric Symptoms.— Violent belching.—Most of the gastric de- rangements are accompanied with belching.—Slight nausea in the stomach, with chilliness and shuddering, and a peculiar sensation of rigor in the lower limbs.—Nausea, resembling hunger.—Nausea, with gurgling in the abdomen.—Faintish sort of nausea, with violent palpitation of the heart.—Leaden-colored countenance, with nausea 294 ARGENTUM NITRATtM. —Nausea.—Vomiting.—Great irritation of the stomach, anxiety in the praecordial region, and vomiting.—Vomiting and diarrhoea, with violent colicky pain.—She wakes about midnight with an oppressive sensation, as of a heavy lump in the region of the stomach, inducing vomiting; a tremulous weakness and a sensation in the head as if it were in a vice.—Pain in the praecordia. Stomach.—Trembling and throbbing in the stomach.—Sensation of heaviness and pains in the stomach, with nausea.—Nausea, heaviness, and pressure in the stomach.—Oppression of the stomach.—Tension and pressure in the stomach, causing anxiety, and a sensation as if the stomach were filled to bursting.—Weak stomach; food oppresses the stomach like a dead weight and drags it downward; on waking, a violent spasm of the stomach, with hunger, nausea, and consider- able flatulence.—Raging gnawing at the stomach, a sort of hunger, with nausea.—Cardialgia and internal chilliness, early in the morn- ing.—Violent cardialgia, waking her in the night; twisting of the stomach, which extends down into the abdomen.—Violent cardialgia; griping and burning, momentarily.—Burning, ascending from the stomach.—Burning sensation, nausea, and pain in the stomach.— Burning in the stomach and chest.—Inflammation of the stomach.— Inflammation, suppuration, and dissolution of the mucous membrane of the stomach, the muscular membrane appearing to be more or less involved in the inflammatory process.—Gastro-enteritis.—Gangrene of the primae-viae.—Contraction of the stomach.—Gnawing pain in the stomach, on the left side.—Stinging ulcerative pain on the left side of the stomach, below the short ribs, more intense during a deep inspiration and when touching the parts.—Ulcerative pain in the stomach after dinner.—Hard pressure in the left hypochondrium. —Pain in the hypochondria. Abdominal Region.—Cutting and stinging in the liver.—Affection of the liver, ending in fatal dropsy.—Fine stitches in the spleen, coming on at intervals.—Emptiness of the abdomen, with nausea.— Fullness, heaviness, and distention of the abdomen, with anxiety, impeding respiration after supper.—Oppressive drawing pain in the whole abdomen down to the groin, with tension, as in ascites.—Pain- ful tension and pressure in the abdomen, as if sore and ulcerated.__■ Darting stitches through the abdomen.—Coldness in the abdomen, which is painfully irritated.—Sensation as of a ball ascending from the abdomen into the throat.—Pressing pain in the groins, more riolent when touching them.—Cutting in the small of the back and ibdomen.—Colic around the u-.nbilicus.—Flatulence. Stool.—Frequent evacuations of a greenish, very fetid mucus, ARGENTUM NITRATUM. 295 with emission of noisy flatulence.—Acts powerfully upon the intestinal canal, occasioning from four to five stools a day.—Frequent evacua- tions, with slight pains in the abdomen.—Diarrhoea with colic.—Vio- lent diarrhoea.—Bloody evacuations.—Bloody stools with great de- bility.—Several evacuations of bloody mucus, without any particular pain, towards morning.—A good deal of urging during the diarrhoea —Colic previous to the diarrhoea.—Constipation; the substances evacuated were dry and of a firm consistence, whereas his bowels were generally loose.—Slowness and diminution of the faecal and urinary discharges.—Dry, firm, alvine evacuations.—Diarrhoea or constipation. —Intestinal phthisis, ulceration of the intestines.—Creeping and burning in the anus.—Itching of the anus.—Discharge of a quantity of the ascarides.—Discharge of taenia. Urinary Organs.—Pains in tbe kidneys.—At first the urinary organs are greatly irritated.—Is a diuretic and diaphoretic.—Fre- quent emission of a pale, strong-smelling urine.—Copious urination. —Scanty and rare emission of a dark-yellow urine.—Emission of a few drops of urine after urinating, with a sensation as if the interior of the urethra were swollen.—Burning micturition and feel- ing in the urethra as if swollen.—Burning after micturition.—Drag- ging pains during micturition.—Painful pushing in the urethra.— Heat, itching, and titillation, in tbe morning when urinating for the first time.—The urethra is painful, as if closed up by swelling, and ulcerated.—Ulcerative pain in the middle of the urethra, as if a splinter had been pushed in. The urethra feels swollen, hard, and knotty.—Inflammation and violent pains of the urethra, with increased gonorrhoea, priapism, dysuria, bloody urine, fever.—Slight burning in the whole course of the urethra, increased gonorrhoea, burning dur- ing micturition, painful tension during erections, chordee, bleeding from the urethra, shootings in the same from behind forward. Oozing of mucus from the urethra.—Stricture of the urethra. Male Genital Organs.—Chancre-like ulcers on the prepuce; at first their tips were covered with pus, but afterwards the ulcers be- came diffused through a pretty spacious depression, exhibiting the tallow-like coating of chancres.—The right testicle is enlarged and hard.—Painful coition.— Want of sexual desire, the genital organs having become shrivelled. Female Sexual Organs.—Congestions to the uterus.—Haemor- rhages from the uterus.—The menses are accompanied with cutting pains in the small of the back and groin.—Suppression of the menses, miscarriage, and metrorrhagia.—Suppression of the mucous leucor rhcea; it reappeared in a few weeks, but less and milder. 296 ARGENTUM NITRATUM. Larynx and Trachea.—Hoarseness with roughness in the throat.— Nightly hoarseness, with turns of dry cough, after which she throws off blood-tinged mucus mixed with saliva.—Dry tickling in the larynx, occasioning a cough.—Dry, fatiguing cough, occasioned by a violent, almost burning titillation in the throat, before retiring in the even- ing.—Paroxysms of dry cough at night, sometimes so violent as to induce vomiting.—Suffocative cough for several days at noon.—Cough after dinner, impeding speech. Chest.—Violent, continual irritation, with cough and spitting of blood, with torturing oppression of breathing.—Nightly cough and sweat.—Fullness and anxiousness in the chest, with disposition to sigh.—Heaviness in the cavity of the chest, with desire to sigh.— Oppression of the chest, with a crampy sensation.—Difficulty of breathing.—Excessive suffocative oppression of breathing.—Suffoca- tive fits.—Nightly pain in the chest.—Stitches in tbe chest.—Aching- tensive pain in the chest.—Pressure and weight as of a stone, in tho middle of the sternum.—Burning in the chest.—Palpitation of the heart, at night.— Violent palpitation of the heart, with a faintish nausea.—Beating of the heart.—The outer chest is painful to the touch.—The glands of the chest are painful, as if ulcerated.—Itching of the chest and the axillae. Neck.—Sensation as of a cramp in the right anterior cervical muscles.—Bounding pulsations of the left carotid at regular intervals, distinctly seen by the naked eye. Back.—Violent pressure between the shoulders.—Itch-like erup- tion, especially on the back.—Tensive squeezing pains in the back.—■ Nightly pains in the back.—Weight in the small of the back.—Vio- lent pain in the small of the back, as if sprained, early in the morn- ing, when sitting.—Pain in the small of the back, relieved when standing or walking.—The small of the back feels weary.—Digging, cutting in the small of the back.—The lumbar region feels bruised. —Heaviness and drawing in the loins, with debility and weariness, trembling in the lower limbs, as after a fatiguing journey.—Stiffness, heaviness, and paralytic pains in the region of the sacrum and back. —Heaviness and paralytic sensation in tbe region of the os-sacrum. Arms.—Tensive pain in the shoulders and arms.—Pain iD the wrist, as if sprained.—Painful eruption.—Rheumatic tearing in the joints of the fingers. Legs;—Paralytic heaviness and debility of the lower limbs.— Periodical nervous (cramp-like) drawing, from the hip down to the knees.—Paralytic weakness of the lower limbs, and emaciation of tbe same.—Itching, blotch-shaped pimples, principally at night.—Paralytic ARGENTUM NITRATUM. 297 painful drawing, as if bruised, above the left patella.—Violent tear- ing, raging, digging-up pain under the patellae.—Drawing tearing from the knees into the legs.—Rigidity in the calves, with great de- bility and exhaustion, as from fatigue.—Excessive weariness of the calves, as from fatigue.—Violent drawing in the calves when going up-stairs.—Arthritic drawing in the foot.—Staggering gait in the open air. PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY.—The plexus-choroideus and the veins of the fourth ventricle presented a lead-colored appearance, in the case of a female, of thirty years, who died in the Salpetriere, and who had taken for a long while the Nitrate of Silver against epilepsy, and finally died of tuberculous phthisis. What is remark- able in her case is the fact that her skin had a lead-colored appear- ance during her life, and that this discoloration disappeared after her death in every part of her body except around her mouth. Par- tial erosion of the mucous membrane of the fauces and the oesophagus; slight detachment of the membrane. The stomach is deprived of its mucous membrane in that portion of it which is turned towards the oesophagus and in the region of the curvature, the space being from four to five inches; the other membranes in the above-mentioned parts ot the stomach offered so slight a resistance that they were torn by the mere weight of the contents of the stomach. More or less intense redness of the mucous membrane of the stomach; here and there greyish-white or blackish-dark crusts were discovered in it. The mucous membrane having been destroyed, the muscular coat of the stomach became inflamed, and exhibited a vivid redness, and here and there a crusty appearance. The stomach was perforated where the poison acted intensely. The mucous membrane of the intestines, especially of the stomach, was covered with a whitish coagulum, or was red and congested, or parts of it were cauterized and transformed into white-grey or brownish-black scurfs; those parts were sometimes seen perforated. The liver was softened, large, and flabby. The kid- neys exhibited a lead-color. The lungs and the veins of the body looked black-green, the veins looked as if they had been injected with black-green blood. (A portion of the vena-cava became white by dipping it into muriatic acid). The lungs were congested, infiltrated with serum, or parts of the lungs looked ecchymozed and were of a black-red color ; the heart looked dark-red and livid ; the ventricles and thf trunks of the large veins were turgid with black blood 13* 298 ARNICA MONTANA. 30.—ARNICA MONTANA. ARN.—Leopard's Bane.—Hahnemann's "Mat. Med. Pur.,' Vol. I.—Duration o, Action: from six to ten days. Compare with—Aeon., Am., Ars., Bell., Bry., Cann., Caps., Cham., Chin., C'.c, Cina, Coloc, Euphr., Fer., Hep., Ign., Ipec , Merc, Natr., Nux-v., Put's^ Rhus, Ruta, Samb., Sabin., Seneg. Staph., Sulph.-ac., Verat.—It is frequently indicated after: Aeon., Ipec, Verat.—Is frequently suitable after : Aeon* Ipec, Rhus, Sulph.-ac. Antiootes.—Camph., Ignat.—It antidotes: Am., Chin., Cic, Fer., Ip' c, Sen.— Wine increases the pains. Rationale of its Action.—Wood and Bache say that Leopard's bane is a stimulant, directed with peculiar energy to the brain and whole nervous system, as manifested by the headache, spasmodio contractions of the limbs, and difficulty of respiration which result from its use. It acts also as an irritant to the stomach and bowels. Dierbach says that its effects are very characteristic, and that its action upon the skin is the most marked, the functions of which it can arouse from the most torpid state ; the outbreak of perspiration, which sometimes assumes a red color on the chest, is one of the most con- stant symptoms. Not unfrequently one notices a feeling of formica- tion, and a prickling, piercing, spasmodic sensation, which has been compared to slight electric shocks; in large doses it sometimes produces a sensation of coldness over the whole surface of the body. The primae-viae are soon attacked by Arnica, and eructations, stomach- ache, retching, nausea, vomiting, colic, tenesmus, at times diarrhoea, but more frequently constipation, increased flow of urine, and a pain- ful itching of the genitals, have often been noticed. Its influence upon the organs of the chest is marked by anxiety, oppression, palpi- tation of the heart, and dry irritative cough. It often excites head- ache, attended with dizziness; the smell of the flowers is apt to excite sneezing, whence the name of the plant, which is properly Ptarmica. It is generally believed to possess the power of absorbing blood which has exhaled from the blood-vessels (ecchymosis), and is then apt to cause pain in the injured part. The pains produced by Arnica are said to be far less severe if the patient moves about his room than when he lies in bed. According to Vogt, it is an acrid, aethereal-oily, or exciting remedy, which, in small doses, acts specifically upon the vegetative side of the nervous system, and upon the motor functions ; he would describe more exactly the sphere of its action by saying that it is at those points where the nerves and arteries lose themselves in the organic structures, and where the veins and lymphatics arise, viz., in the ARNICA MONTANA. 299 capillary vascular system, especially that of the membranous struc- tures, viz., the external skin, the fibrous membranes, the tendons and sheaths of the muscles, the ligaments of the joints, the periosteuio; serous and synovial membranes, the pleura, peritoneum, &c. In these parts, in virtue of its exciting or acrid powers, in combination with its aethereal-oily properties, it excites the actions of the nerves and vessels, hastens the natural metamorphoses of the tissues, or arouses them from torpor and inactivity, or retains them in a certain stage oi organic vitality when they tend towards colliquation or putrescency Given in larger doses, it either affects the stomach especially, and causes scraping in the throat, burning, extending down to the epigas- trium, spasmodic painful contraction of the stomach, with flow of much saliva into the mouth, unpleasant sensation of nausea, cardial- gia, eructations, retchings, vomiting, followed "by colic or diarrhoea; or it may affect the whole organism, especially the brain and spina] marrow, and excite vertigo, stupefaction, confusion of the head, glim- mering before the eyes, noises in the ears, anxiety, timidity, oppres- sion at the praecordia, inability to stand up, followed by increased pulsation of the arteries, violent congestions of blood towards the ter- minal branches of all the blood-vessels, especially to the head, chest, and abdomen, attended with palpitations of the heart, pulsations in the epigastrium, greater development of heat, and irritation of all the tissues, marked by formication, prickling, piercing, trembling, sub- sultus, &c.; finally, the secretions are stimulated, especially those of the skin, mucous membranes, and kidneys, which not unfrequently are attended with haemorrhages. CLINICAL REMARKS. Hahnemann.—"Arnica is a polychrest, or remedy applicable to a great variety of diseases ; exhibits its spe- cific efficacy in all cases of injury from falls, blows, and surgical ope- rations ; is an indispensable intermediate remedy in most invete- rate chronic diseases, although each dose acts only six days; is useful in some forms of spurious pleurisy ; but is always hurtful in purely inflammatory, acute diseases characterized by external general heat, also in diarrhoea."—Ed. For a long time popular empiricism had availed itself of the pro- perties of Arnica, when a Belgian physician, Fehrius or Fehr, drew the attention of his colleagues to this plant. The facts published by him tended to show that the Arnica, whether used internally or ex tcrnally, was a specific remedy for sanguineous effusions, sugilla- tions, ecchymosis, &c. A large number of German, Swedish, and French practitioners confirmed Fehr's observations, and its use soon became quite extensive. According to Murray, it was successfully 300 ARNICA MONTANA. used against the following maladies : external lesions, such as are caused by a blow or fall, or contusion ; a certain form of fall pleurisy, cachexia; ozdema ; atrophy; traumatic peripneumonia ; suppression of the menses or lochia; uterine hemorrhage; calculous nephritis; gout; muscular contractions; gangrene; jaundice produced by contusions; paraplegia; hemiplegia; paralysis of the bladder; amaurosis caused by a cerebral affection. Stoll used it with success in certain forms of dysentery, especially in epidemic dysentery, and also cured with it several cases of intermittent fever, a circumstance which induced him to term it the Quinine of the poor, a designation which, however, it does not seem to deserve. More recently it has been lauded as a remedy for spasms, convulsions, tetanus, convulsive cough, trembling, and even for the itch ; but this last is not to be relied on. Murray states the accidents which it is capable of producing, in over-doses, to be : vomiting, anxiety, sweats, an aggravation of pain around injured parts, which, however, never lasted long, sensitiveness of the abdomen, weakness of the senses and nerves, tingling, lancing, and burning pains, or shocks resembling those produced by the electric fluid. Homceopathically, the sphere of Arnica comprises, all traumatic lesions (contusions, cut or torn wounds), with their immediate conse- quences (internal or external hemorrhages, fractures, luxations, sprains, traumatic fever, syncope, tetanus, paralysis, pneumonia, hepa- titis, cyc), or their remote, consequences (partial emaciation, neural- gia, intermittent fevers, cyc.) It is particularly adapted to sanguine- plethoric persons, with lively complexions, and disposed to cerebral con- gestions. It acts but feebly on persons who are partially debilitated, with impoverished blood and soft flesh. It acts principally on the muscles and cellular tissue. The boil is the one of all cutaneous affections to which it is most adapted. Hence, again, it is more adapted to the treatment of phlegmonous erysipelas and deep burns than to that of simple erysipelas and superficial burns. From the fact that Arnica frequently cures acne and boils independent of any trau- matic cause, it probably cures internal maladies which emanate from their retrocession. Much success has been obtained with the Arnica in the homoeopathic treatment of gout, especially of the foot; also idiopathic rheumatism, and of certain kinds of neuralgia character- ized by the cutting, tearing, or wrenching character of the pains. Arnica has been used in paralysis since the time of Junker, in 1736, and, although it was for a time supplanted by Nux and Strych- nine, its use was revived by Schneider in 1821, who preferred the ethereal oi] of Arnica in the paralysis which remained after apoplec- tic attacks, and by Graefer, who used the flowers against paralysis ARNICA MONTANA. 301 from injuries. Golis rendered himself famous by his successful use of Arnica in the latter stages of dropsy of the brain. The celebrated Neumann has seen the most decided good effects from the internal and external use of Arnica in acute hydrocephalus. Concussion of the brain is often accompanied by congestion, depression of the cerebral action, stupor, &c. All these symptoms are either prevented or re lieved by speedily washing the parts which have received the shock with the tincture of Arnica, which should at the same time be given internally. A linen compress may be applied to the part, and mois- tened more or less frequently, according as the injury is more or less considerable. As soon as the above-named symptoms have disap- peared, the use of Arnica must be stopped, the rest is to be left to nature. The smaller vessels of the brain, when torn, have frequently been healed by Arnica. Secondary haemorrhage in the brain, con gestion of blood, secondary suppurations and effusions of lymph have frequently been prevented by the proper and speedy application of the tincture of Arnica. Notes on Arnica in Pleurisy and Pneumonia.—a. In pneumonia- notha Arnica is an excellent remedy, if the irritation of the vascular system is very moderate, with a sensation of soreness of the chest, cough not frequent, and the expectoration of slime is streaked with blood, b. Characteristic indications for the use of Arnica in pleurisy are especially: uneasiness in the affected side; a constant desire for change of position in bed ; a painful soreness of the chest, with general inter- nal heat, with cold hands and feet; or when the patient complains of stitching pain in the affected side, with feeling of tightness of the chest, and frequent dry cough, causing increase of pain.—Hartmann. c. If the expectoration in pneumonia is watery and foaming, or brown, of foul odor, and mixed with foul blood, and brings no relief, then Arnica will be the best remedy ; also if stitching pain remains after a deep inspiration, in traumatic inflammation after surgical ope- rations and extensive injuries; not less useful in the rheumatic form, especially when there is a certain degree of mental depression; also in nervous and torpid inflammations.—Buchner. d. According to Watzke, Arnica is indicated in the first stage of pneumonia in strong-built individuals, with consensual irritation of the brain. e. According to Peschier, in the remaining pain in the chest, op- pression, and dyspnoea, after the inflammatory condition has been re- moved by Aconite and Bryonia. /. Dr. Wurmb, of Vienna, says : "As Arnica is one of the few reme- dies which cause resorption, it is a pity that it is overlooked too often 302 ARNICA MONTANA. by physicians in cases such as pleurisy; although Arnica appears to act more speedily when there is an exudation of plastic lymph, never theless it is very efficacious in serous exudations." g. The physiological provings of Arnica completely show its speci- fic sphere of action on the lungs and pleura, with its numerous symp- toms of bleedings from the substance of the lungs, and its prompt action on the heart. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Complaints of nervous individuals, or oi plethoric persons with red face ; sometimes also of lymphatic, weak persons, with pale, livid face.—°Rheumatic and arthritic pains, with inflammatory or erysipelatous swelling of the affected parts.—Atro- phy of children.—Mechanical injuries : sprains, dislocations, strains, contusions, concussions.—°Bad effects from China.—°Paralysis after apoplexy. — Jerks and shocks in the body, as by the electric fluid.—°IIot, hard, and shining swelling of the affected parts.— °Red, blue, and yellow spots, like ecchymosis.—°Bites of insects. —Wounds by dull instruments, with more or less contusion; °wounds inflicted by the teeth, by cutting, and by pointed in- struments, fire-arms; tearing of the fibre; °sore excoriated places of the skin; bed-sores; °burns; °corns (after cutting them).— Jactitation of single muscles, in every part of the body, especially in the limbs.—*From time to time, sense as of lacerating in almost every part of the body, especially in the lower and upper extremities; the pain for the most part appears to rise from below upwards.—Dart- ing pain in the affected part.—Twitchings in all the limbs, espe- cially in the feet and shoulders, with heat of the feet.—Uneasiness in the whole body, without any mental anguish ; a kind of excessive mobility, *which finally increases to a kind of trembling of the whole body, °with a throbbing sensation in all the vessels.—The parts of the side on which he is resting go to sleep.—Painful sensitiveness of all the joints, and of the skin, on making the slightest motion.— #Painful and excessive sensitiveness of the whole body.—^Heaviness in all the limbs, with painful lameness in all the joints, darin* motion, as if the joints were bruised.—Painful concussion %n all the limbs ; it is felt when the carriage in which one is riding shakes, or ivhen one treads too hard in walking.—Disagreeable sense as of dull tingling, or dull pain in a contused part.—*Rending pain in the limbs.—Excessively violent pain, which caused many to scratch the wall or the floor with their nails, like madmen ; tbe pains do not con- tinue more than an hour (immediately after taking the medicine).— *Tremor of the limbs.—Pain in all the limbs, a3 if they had been bruised, beth when at rest and in motion.—Languor in the feet and ARNICA MONTANA. 803 arms, when walking in the open air.—Languor, weariness, sensation as of being bruised, obliging him to lie down.—^Tremulous uneasi- ness and languor.—He feels faint when walking ; he recovers himself when standing.—The feet felt tired after a walk in the open air; the knees gave way; she became sleepy immediately, fell asleep, and dreamed.—When walking in the open air, he feels as if the whole right side, especially the shoulder, were too heavy and paralyzed.— Lassitude and laziness of the whole body.—General sinking of strength; he can scarcely move a limb.—Fainting turn, with loss of consciousness, in mechanical injuries.—°Paralysis of the right side of the body, after apoplexy.—°Convulsions and tetanic spasms con- sequent upon mechanical injuries. Characteristic Peculiarities.—The pains increase by talking, moving about, blowing, and even by every sound.—The pains quickly wander from one part to another.—The violence of the pains almost makes him crazy. Skin.—Deeply penetrating, dull stitches in the limbs, here and there.—^Pricking in the skin.—*Fine prickings in almost every part of the body, especially the nose, eye-brows, eye-lids, even hands and fingers.—Stinging, burning, and itching pain in the skin.—Burn- ing and cutting pains. Sleep.—In the evening, one feels sleepy too soon.—Sleepy after a walk.—Starting during sleep.—Moaning when asleep.—Loud, unin- telligible talking when asleep.—*Involuntary expulsion of faces while asleep.—His sleep is full of dreams and does not refresh him, he feels as if he had not slept at all.—Sleepiness during the day.— Sopor, starting as in affright, when falling asleep.—Dreams about frightful objects, qfthe lightning having struck, graves, &c.—Sleep- lessness, with anguish, as if occasioned by heat, until two or three o'clock in the morning. Fever.—Great internal heat, hands and feet being cold, with chills over the whole body.—Dry heat in bed, with violent thirst.—Violent shivering when gaping.—Dry heat over the whole body, after waking, early in the morning.—Occasional flushes of heat in the back.— Nightly thirst.— Thirst without any external heat, the pupils being scarcely capable of dilatation.—-Feeling of cold all over the body, although the skin feels warm.—Chilliness mostly in the evening.— Fevers: °tertian, quartan; °in the afternoon, *or evening.—°Typhus. __Fever early in the morning; #first chilliness, then heat.—Extreme- ly disagreeable painfulness of the periosteum of all the bones, resem hling almost a drawing in all the limbs, such as occurs in an attack of fever and ague: Accompanied and succeeded by headache, yellow- 804 ARNICA MONTANA. ness of the face, want of appetite, aversion to meat, and bitterness of mouth.—Shivering over the whole body and the head, with heat in the head, and redness and heat in the face, accompanied by coldness of the hands, and a feeling as if the hips, the back, and tho anterior Burface of the arms were bruised.—*A good deal of thirst and drink- ing during the yawning stage previous to fever;—afterwards thirst, but little drinking during tbe hot stage.—Shaking chills, without any thirst.—External and internal chilliness an hour after the headache and constant anguish.—Seething of the blood in the evening, accom- panied by dizziness of the head; he feels pulsations in the whole body (and coughs for hours until he vomits ; this wakes him at night). Moral Symptoms.—Violent attacks of anguish.—Irritable, sensi- tive mood.—Depression of spirits and absence of mind.—*Hypochon- driac anxiety, peevishness.—Uneasiness of body and mind (without anxiety).—Indifference to everything.—Excessive sensitiveness of the mind.—Quarrelsomeness and peevishness.—*Obstinate and head- strong resistance to other people's opinions.—Sullen insolence and imperiousness.—Weeping.—Apprehension of future evils.—Hopeless- ness.— Tendency to start.—°Frivolous, wanton, ill-behaved; absurd talk. Sensouium.—Vertigo ; *in the forehead, especially when walking, everything turning with her, and threatening to fall over with her. —Vertigo ; *when raising or moving the head, she feels as if every- thing were turning with her.—Dullness of the head, with vertigo and anguish.—Stupefying headache, early in the morning.—Heaviness in the forehead.—Want of memory.—Absence of mind.—Contraction of the pupils, with cloudiness of the head, and dullness of one-half of the head.—°Loss of consciousness ; °delirium ; °vertigo, with obscu- ration of sight.—°Apoplexia-sanguinea, with extravasation of blood —°Concussion of the brain and spinal marrow by a fall or blow.— °Hydrocephalus. Head.—* Burning in the brain, the remainder of the body being cool.—*Heat in the head; the remainder of the body being cool. —Aching in the temples. — Headache, followed by a throbbing pain in the temples.—*Aching in the forehead, which increases near the warm stove, ascending the stairs, walking, or reading.__ Headache as if the head were distended from within outwards.__ Headache over the eyes, extending towards the temples, with sensation as if the integuments of the forehead tvere spasmodically contracted. —Stupefying, dull, continued pain in the forehead, more externally. —Headache on the top of the head.—In the left side of the forehead, as after a violent knock against something.—^Lancinations in the ARNICA MONTANA. 30£ forepart of the head, when coughing.—Lancinating pain in the fore- head, which becomes worse by lifting up the eyes, with heat in the face and thirst.—*Stitches in the forehead.—Headache as if a nail had been thrust into the temple, with general sweat about midnight, followed by languor.—Aching in the left temple, lancinating and lacerating.—Stitching pain in the forehead.—Darting, lancinating headache when stooping, as if everything would issue through the forehead, with nausea, qualmishness.—^Lancinating and tearing pain in the head, increased by stooping and coughing.—*Darting pain in the fore part of the bead.—Great internal and external heat of the head.—Transitory burning on the top of the head and on the neck, externally.—Headache, worse when sitting up. Scalp.—Cold feeling in the head.—Stinging itching of the hairy scalp. Eyes.—Dry heat in the face towards evening, extending as far as behind the ears, without thirst, the nose being quite cold.— Cramp- like tearing of the left eye-brow.—Staring eyes, °faint, dim, without lustre.—The eye-lids are swollen and ecchymozed.—^Contraction of the pupils, with cloudiness of the head.—Dilatation of the pupils.__■ Stitches in the eyes.—Itching of the canthi.—Burning in the eyes, without any dryness.—Occasional flow of tears, which burn like fire, —*Slight protrusion of the right eye.—Drawing pain in the right eye-ball.—*Painful, dull, intermittent pressure in the margin of the left orbit.—Spasmodic twitchings, with pressure under the left eye.— °The eyes are half closed ; °ophthalmia from mechanical injuries.-— 0Obscuration of sight. Ears.—Pain in the cartilage of the ear, as if the parts had been bruised or contused.—Intermittent pressure in both ears, in the region of the tympanum.—Dull stitches through the internal ear.— Heat and burning in the lobule.—Stitches in the ear, followed by a lacerating pain.—Pressure in the ear.—Sensibly-diminished hearing. —Humming in the ears. Face.—Feeling of heat in the ear and cheek.—Eruption on the cheeks, like small-pox, under the eyes.—Throbbing and pinching in the swollen cheek.—Pain as from bruises in the articulation of the right jaw, when moving it.—Red swelling of one cheek, with throb- bing and pinching pain, swollen lip, and heat in the head, with cold body.—*Hot, red, shining, stiff swelling of the left cheek. Nose.—The nose pains him from above downwards, as if he had had a violent fall upon it.—Lancinating pain in the nose.—^Swelling of the nose.—Sensation as if the nostrils were ulcerated.—Feeling of heat in the nose, it is cold to the touch.—^Frequent bleeding at the 20 306 ARNICA MONTANA. nose.—-Dull pressure on the nasal bone, with stupefaction.—Itching of the upper lip, it burns when rubbing it.—Parched lips.—Chapped %?.—Ulcerated corners of the mouth, with burning pain, especially when moving those parts.—Burning heat in both lips, with moderate warmth in the body.—Swollen lips.—Trembling of the lower lip- Incipient paralysis of the lower jaw.—Swelling of the submaxillary glands. Jaws and Teeth.—Tingling in the gums, as if they had gone to sleep.__^Toothache as if the teeth had been bitten out, it is throb- bing ; the teeth feel as if they were pressed out by the blood rushing towards them.—During mastication the gums are painful, as from subcutaneous ulceration.—° Toothache, with swelling of the cheek. Mouth.—Dryness in the mouth, with or without thirst.—*Tongue coated white, with a good appetite and good taste.—Sensation of dry- ness on the tip of the tongue, in the palate, on the lips, with shiver- ing over the arms and thighs.—Biting sensation in the tongue.—The tongue feels sore.—Fetid breath from the mouth.—Sputa mixed with blood.—°Haemoptysis.—°Haemorrhage from nose and mouth ?—Pu- trid smell from the mouth. Throat.—Burning in the back part of the throat, with a feeling of internal heat.—Stinging in the back part of the throat, between the acts of swallowing.—Deglutition is prevented by a sort of nausea, as if the food would not go down. Taste and Appetite.—*Putrid, slimy taste in the mouth.—*Re- pugnance to meat and broth.—Desire for vinegar.—Want of appetite, the tongue being coated white and yellow.—Taste of rotten eggs in the mouth between the meals.—Phlegm in the throat; it tastes bitter when hawking it up.—*Bitter taste in the mouth. Gastric Symptoms.—*Empty eructations.—*During the eructa- tions a bitter phlegm is gulped up.—*Empty eructations.—*Early in the morning, eructations, tasting of rotten eggs.—Nausea and dispo- sition to vomit, early in the morning.—Heartburn.—After supper she weeps, is peevish, listens to nobody, and does not wish to be told anything.—Complete want of appetite, with nausea.—*Nausea.— Qualmishness of the stomach, with empty eructations.—Nausea, with- out vomiting, or without stool.—Vertigo and nausea when reading too long.—inclination to vomit.—Vomiting.—^Vomiting of coagu- lated blood; °of dark blood; °renewed by drinking or eating, with vomiting of the ingesta.—Empty retching.—^Retching at night, with weight as of a lump in the pit of her stomach. Stomach.—Fullness and pressure in the stomach.—Feeling of re> pletion in the stomach, accompanied by loathing.—^Pinching, spas- ARNICA MONTANA. 307 modic griping in the stomach.—Pain in the region of the heart, as if the heart were squeezed together.—Oppression of the heart.—Pres- sure as if a stone were lying in the stomach.—Painful pressure above the pit of the stomach, with dyspnoea.—°Stitches in the pit of the stomach, with pressure extending to the back, and constriction of the chest. Abdomen.—Spasm in the hypochondriac region.—Sudden pinching in the stomach.—Stitches under the false ribs, arresting the breath, when standing.—Cutting above the umbilicus, especially when taking a deep breath, and at every step.—Cutting in the abdomen, as after a cold.—Colic resembling dysentery.—^Tension and inflation of the abdomen, especially the lower part, with a dull general pressure in those parts during the night, with heat of the limbs, and dreams, fatiguing the mind.—Sore pain in the abdomen when coughing or touching it.—Pain in the region of the liver, with pressure as of a stone, both during expiration and inspiration.—Lacerating in the ab- domen above the umbilicus.—Cutting and pinching in the abdomen. —Lancinations in both loins.—Cutting in the loins, especially when stooping.—Dull stitches in the right side, below the ribs.—Sharp thrusts through the abdomen, from one side to the opposite.—Aching pain in the region of the liver.—Burning stinging pains in the epi- gastric region.—Retraction of the umbilicus.—Fine tearings in the abdominal muscles.—Colic ; an hour afterwards tenesmus ; at last an evacuation of faeces composed of small lumps, mixed with flatulence. —Rumbling in the abdomen.—Colicky pains, owing to flatulence.— Fermenting in the abdomen.—°Colic from straining the bowels by lifting a heavy load. Stool.—Flatulence smelling like rotten eggs.—Urging to stool, followed by a copious, loose, or pap-like, sourish-smelling stool, giving great relief.—Hard, difficult stool, with pressure in the ab- domen.—Papescent diarrhoea, with distention of the abdomen pre- vious to stool.—^Papescent, brown stool, with rumbling in the ab- domen.—Painful pressure in the rectum.—Frequent small stools, consisting only of slime.—Frequent stool; after every stool he is obliged to lie down.—*White diarrhoea-like stools.—(Diarrhoea re- sembling brown yeast).—^Constipation.—^Involuntary stool at night, when asleep.—Undigested stools, although not liquid.—Crampy sen- sation in the rectum.—Tenesmus of the rectum.—Pressing in the rectum when standing.—Blind haemorrhoids. Urinary Organs.—Frequent desire to urinate, with copious emis- sion of urine.—Watery urine.—Retention of urine, with tenesmus of the bladder.— Tenesmus qfthe neck qfthe bladder.—*TJrging, tha 308 ARNICA MONTANA. urine dropping out involuntarily.—Desire to urinate, with biting burning, increased after micturition. Cutting pain in the orifice of the urethra, at the termination of micturition.—Stitches in the urethra—Brown, clear urine, which immediately becomes whitish and turbid.—*Broivn urine, with brick-red sediment.—A small quan- tity of red urine.—Frequent emission of white watery urine.—Fre- quent desire to urinate, with emission of a small quantity of yellow- red urine.—Itching in the anterior part of the urethra, in the region of the glans, when he is not urinating.—*Haematuria. Genital Organs.—Itching, or itching stitches in the glans.— Itching red spot on the glans.—Itching pimple on the prepuce.— (Painless tubercle on the scrotum).—°Symptoms after mechanical injuries: Red-blue swelling of the penis and scrotum, inflammatory swelling of the testicles; hydrocele; painful swelling of the sper- matic cord, with lancinations from the testes into the abdomen.— Symptoms as if the menses would make their appearance.—°Too long and too violent after-pains; soreness of the parts after hard labor; erysipelatous inflammation of the mammae, and soreness of the nipples. Larynx and Trachea.—Catarrh of the chest, on waking.— Hoarseness, early in the morning.—Frequent sneezing.—Feeling of internal coldness in the chest.—*Dry, short, and hacking cough, as from a titillation in the trachea, every morning after rising.— Cough at night, during sleep.—*Cough, in children, produced by weeping and lamenting.—Pain in the chest, as if it were raw, with roughness of the throat during cough.—*Hamopto'e.—Cough which excites vomiting.—Cough, producing a feeling in the ribs as if bruised.—Cough, with stitches in the side of the chest.—Bloody ex- pectoration from the chest.—°Cough, with expectoration of a bright- red frothy blood, mixed with coagulated clots and mucus ; °expulsion from the chest of clots of black blood, even when not coughing, at every exertion of the body.—°Inability to throw off the loose phlegm in coughing, he has to swallow it. Chest.—*Short panting breath.—Dyspnoea, quick expirations and inspirations.—*Oppression at the chest, with anguish, pains in the abdomen, and headache.—^Excessive difficulty of breathing.—Fre- quent and slow deep breathing, with pressure below the chest.— Aching pain in the lower extremity of the sternum, which is espe- cially felt during a deep inspiration.—Cutting, with pressure through both sides of the thoracic cavity, increased by inspiration.—*Dull stitches in the thoracic cavity through the sternum, from without inward.—*Stitching pain in one side of the chest, with a short cough, ARNICA MONTANA. 309 which increases the pain, and continued asthma.—*Stitches and prickings below the last rib.—*Dull stitches in the right side, near the ribs.—*Stitches in the left breast, during a deep inspiration, near the sternum.—His chest feels sore, his sputa are sometimes tinged with blood, especially when walking.—*A11 the joints of the bones and cartilages of the chest feel painful, as if they were bruised, during motion and breathing.—Stitches in the heart, from the left side to the right, °with fainting fits.—Oppression at the heart.—The beating of the heart is more like a quivering.—Pain in the region of the heart, as if it were squeezed together, or like a shock.—The motion of the heart is first very rapid, then suddenly slow.—*Pain as from a sprain in the joints of the chest and back.—Anguish across the chest, with inclination to vomit.—Aching pain in the right breast. —Stinging itching in the sides of the chest and in the back. Back.—The small qfthe back is painful, as if bruised and lame. —Arthritic pain in the back and limbs.—Pain as from bruises, in the back.—Burning pain in the back, when walking out in the open air.—Sensation in the back, almost under the shoulders, as if a lump were lodged there.—Stitch, at every inspiration, in the right side of the back.—Tingling in the vertebral column.—Painful pressure in the middle of the dorsal spine (when sitting).—Aching pain between the scapula.—CuttiLg thrusts between the scapulae, extending into the thoracic cavity, when walking.—Pain of the right scapula, towards the back, as after a violent shock or fall.—Cramp-like tensive pain in the muscles of the neck, and cervical vertebrae.—Pimple on the side of the neck, with stinging pain when touched.1-—Prominent swelling of the cervical glands, exceedingly painful.—Drawing lace- rating and pressure in the neck.—The head feels heavy, and falls to every side, on account of a weakness of the muscles of the neck. Arms.—Drawing and aching pain in the left shoulder, when stand- ing erect.—Broad sharp stitches under the axilla, from without inwards.—Sense of excoriation under the shoulder.—The arms feel weary, as if bruised by blows, so that he was unable to bend his fingers inwards.—Drawing tingling, and stitches in the bones and muscles of the arm.—Twitchings in the muscles of the upper arm.— Intermittent, painful lacerating, with pressure extending from the lower part of the upper arm as far as the elbow, apparently in the bone.—Tingling in the fore-arms.—Lacerating pain in the arms and 1 This kind of pimple, surrounded with an inflamed red border, is extremely similar to a boil. Boils are, therefore, cured by Arnica. Homceopathically, Ar- nica may be used as a preventive against boils in persons who are subject to them. 310 ARSENICUM ALBUM. nands.—Burning stitches in the fore-arm.—Pain as from a spr.iin in the wrist-joint.—Cramp in the fingers qfthe left hand.—Lancinating, darting pain in the finger. Legs.—Trembling in the lower extremities.—Tearing pain in the lower extremities.—Pain as from a sprain in the hip (back, chest wrists).—Pain in the thigh, when rising and treading upon the foot. —Sense as of twitching in the muscles qfthe thigh.—Pain in the thighs, when walking, as from a blow or contusion.—Drawing, cramp- like pressure in the muscles of the left thigh, when sitting.—Stitches in the knee.—Sudden weakness in the knees; they give way whilst the feet are numb and insensible.—Arthritic pain in the foot, with a little fever towards evening.—Standing becomes painful.—Prick in the knee, when touched.—Lacerating in the bones and muscles of the legs and in the joints.—(Aching in the paralyzed foot).—Feeling as of tingling and creeping in the feet.—Sudden swelling of the (sick) foot.— Violent burning in the feet.—Tingling in the feet.—Dull throbbing pain in one of the toes.—Dull trembling pain in one of the toes.—Violent stitches in the toes, when walking.—Severe lacerating pain in the toes, sometimes with redness.—Painful cramp in the muscles of the soles of the feet.—Sense as of tingling in hands and feet, and lancinating pains in divers joints 31.—ARSENICUM ALBUM. ARS.—Acidum Arseniosum, Arsenious Acid.—Hahnemann's "Chronic Diseases," Vol. V.—Duration of Action: 36 to 40 days in chronic affections. Compare with—Aeon., Arn., Bell., Bry., Calc, Carb.-v., Cham.., Chin., Coff., Dig., Dulc, Fer., Graph., Hell., Hep., Iod., Ipec, Lach., Lye, Merc, Natr.- mur., Nux-v., Phosp., Puis., Rhus., Samb., Sep., Sulph., Verat.—Ars. is fre- quently indicated after: Aeon., Arn., Bell., Chin., Ipec, Lach., Verat.— fter Ars. are frequently suitable: Chin., Ipec, Nux-v., Sulph., Verat. Ahtidotes.—Of large doses: the Sesquioxide of Iron; the juice of the sugar- cane and honey-water; the Carbonate of Potash and Magn. shaken with oil; infusions of astringent substances; large quantities of diluent drinks ; Op.— Of small doses: Camph., Chin., Chin.-sulph., Fer., Hep., Iod., Ipec, Nux-v., Samb., Tabac, Verat.—Ars. is used as an antidote of Carb.-v., ^hin., Fer., Graph., Iod., Ipec, Lach., Merc, Nux-v., Verat. Rationale of its Action.—Christison says : " The symptoms of poisoning with Arsenic may be advantageously considered under three heads. " First Class.—In the first set of cases there are signs of violent irritation of the alimentary canal, and sometimes of the other mucous membranes also, accompanied with excessive general depression, but ARSENICUM ALBUM. 311 not with distinct disorder of the nervous system. When such cases prove fatal, which they generally do, they terminate, for the most part, in from twenty-four hours to three days. " Second Class.—In a second and very singular set of cases, there is little sign of irritation in any part of the alimentary canal, perhaps trivial vomiting, or slight pain in the stomach, but sometimes neither; the patient is chiefly or solely affected with excessive prostration of strength and frequent fainting; and death is seldom delayed beyond the fifth or sixth hour. " Third Class.—In a third set of cases, life is commonly prolonged at least six days, sometimes much longer, or recovery may even take place after a tedious illness; and the signs of inflammation in the alimentary canal are succeeded or become accompanied, about the second or fourth day, or later, by symptoms of irritation in the other mucous passages, and more particularly by symptoms indicating a derangement of the nervous system, such as palsy or epilepsy. The distinctions now laid down will be found in practice to be well de- fined, and useful for estimating in criminal cases the weight of the evidence from symptoms." Hahnemann, in his first essay on the homoeopathic principle, asserts " that it has a great tendency to excite that spasm in the blood-vessels, and the shock in the nervous system, called febrile rigor. If it be given in a pretty large dose (one-sixth or one-fifth of a grain) to an adult, this rigor becomes very evident. This tendency makes it a powerful remedy as a similarly acting medicine in inter- mittent fever; and this all the more as it possesses the power, observed by me, of exciting a daily-recurring, although always weaker paroxysm, even although its use be discontinued. In typical diseases of all kinds (in periodical headache, &c), this type-exciting property of Arsenic in small doses (one-tenth to, at most, one-sixth of a grain in solution) becomes valuable, and will, I venture to guess, become invaluable to our perhaps bolder, more observant, and more cautious posterity. * * * * The continued use of Arsenic, in large doses, causes gradually an almost constant febrile state; it will thus, as indeed, experience has to a certain extent taught us, prove useful in hectic and remittent fevers, as a similarly acting remedy, in small doses (about one-twelfth of a grain). It possesses a great disposition to diminish the vital heat and the tone of the muscular fibre. Hence paralysis, from a strong dose, or a long-con- tinued and incautious employment of it. It diminishes the tone of the muscular fibre, by diminishing the tone and cohesion of tha coagulable lymph of the blood, as I have convinced myself bv 312 ARSENICUM ALBUM. drawing blood from persons suffering from the effects of Arsenic more especially such as had a too inspissated blood before the use of this metallic acid. It also diminishes the sensibility of the nerves, Thus, it generally seems to kill more by extinguishing the vita] power and sensibility than by corrosive and inflammatory power, which is only local and circumscribed. It weakens the absorbent system. I would direct particular attention to its peculiar power of increasing the irritability of the fibre, especially of the system of the vital functions. Hence cough, and hence the above-mentioned febrile actions. When used for a length of time, and in pretty large doses, it seldom fails to cause some chronic cutaneous disease (at least, des- quamation of the skin). It produces acute continued pains in the joints, as I have seen." The following remarks were compiled many years ago, from au- thorities not now recollected: The earliest poisonous (!) effects are, diminished (?) action of heart and intense inflammation of stomach. Given medicinally! the first and earliest sign of its action is an increased strength and frequency of the pulse ; next follows the well-known fullness of the palpebrae, and itching of the alae-nasi. If its use be continued, the irritation of the mucous mem- branes extends to the fauces, inducing redness and cough, and along with these symptoms the tongue begins to be covered with a white fur, which, gradually increasing in thickness, gives its surface the appearance of having been rubbed over with chalk; the action of the heart continues to increase in force and frequency—tha pulse becomes full and hard, and, at last, a general anasarcous state is set up. Again, the symptoms induced by an overdose are of an inflam- matory or pyretic character. Bouillaud says it acts poisonously on the system in two different ways: First, By exerting a specific influence on the blood, thus giving rise to adynamia; Second, By exciting an inflamed or sthenic condition in the parts to which it is applied. Emery says, whenever unpleasant symptoms arise from doses of one-fourth of a grain, they are always of a more or less in- flammatory character; such as a quickened and strong pulse, sharp pains in the region of the heart, and general feverish heat. Along with these symptoms, he has occasionally observed a partial paralysis of the extensor muscles of the hand. The prostration of the nervous and circulatory systems are often fatally great, coupled with severe structural disorganization of the stomach and bowels. Brodie, in his experiments, always found the action of the heart excessively feeble, although the muscular parts, including the intestines, nearly retained their usual irritability; hence it would seem to exert a specific para- ARSENICUM ALBUM. 313 lyzing power upon the heart. It seems also to have almost a specific tendency to irritate and inflame the gastric surfaces, as appears from the fact, in several cases of fatal poisoning from its external applica- tion, that the mucous membrane of the stomach and bowels has, on dissection, been found highly inflamed. Jaeger compares the action of Arsenic to that of the poison of snakes, which acts primarily upon the blood. Sproegel sprinkled it upon a wound in a dog's back, and he found that the stomach and bowels became inflamed. Coagulated blood was effused into the cavities of the stomach and bowels. The pleura, pericardium, and lungs were also very much inflamed. La- chaise, of Angers, says that one-eighth of a grain has no other effect than that of inducing speedy vomiting. One-fourth to one-half of a grain produces more decided symptoms—stomach seriously affected, also the bowels. Hence there was pain in the abdomen, nausea, vomiting, with acrid sensation in the throat. Repetition of the dose, same symptoms, with vertigo and great prostration of strength. A. S. Taylor gave one-third of a grain to a child of sixteen months : in about twenty minutes it became sick, and vomited severely for three hours, and thus recovered; it did not complain of pain. A lady, at fifty-two, took one-half of a grain ; in thirty to forty minutes com- plained of general uneasiness; she had no pain, but vomited vio- lently for four hours ; she then recovered. A gentleman, aged forty, took two and one-half grains; in twenty minutes felt unwell, and vomited for three hours; he did not recover entirely for several days. In these four cases there was no pain, but violent vomiting and prostration of strength. A full stomach probably saved them all. Characteristic Peculiarities.—Arsenic exhausts the powers of life, either of single organs or of the whole organism. It produces decomposition of the organic substance, a cachectic condition, colli- quation, which the following symptoms clearly show: Yellow, pale, death-like color of the face, sunken eyes, haemorrhage, per rectum, &c.; foul, destructive, easily bleeding, cancerous ulcers ; eruptions like scorbutis ; black pustules; emaciation; dropsy; pthisis, &c. Among the pains produced by Arsenic, burning pain is the most characteristic and constant, although there are other remedies, such as Carbo-anim. and vegetabilis, Euphorbium, Mezereum, Pulsatilla, Secale-cornutum, &c, which produce this kind of pain, but none in such a marked degree as Arsenic. A very characteristic effect of Arsenic is the periodicity of its physiological phenomena, although there are other remedial agents—such as China, Ipecac, Natrum-mur., Nux-vom., Pulsatilla, Rhus-tox., Veratrum—which possess this inter mittent character. All morbid conditions produced by Arsenic are 14 314 ARSENICUM ALBUM. characterized by extreme restlessness, uneasiness, and almost causing frenzy in some instances. Arsenic pain is relieved, although only temporarily, by the application of external heat. The arsenic pain appears mostly during rest, and is generally relieved on motion. Roaring in the ears, during a paroxysm of pain, as in China, is a characteristic symptom of Arsenic. Arsenic nausea and vomiting is accompanied by extreme prostration and anguish, periodical, and worse during rest. The cardiac symptoms point strongly to Arsenic as a remedy or palliative in morbid conditions of the heart; also its specific action on the external skin is very strongly marked. General Sphere of .Action.—Arsenious-acid appears to exert a specific influence on several parts of the body, especially the ali- mentary canal, the heart, and the nervous system. That the alimen- tary canal is specifically affected is shown by the inflammation oi the stomach produced by the application of Arsenic to wounds, and which, according to Sir B. Brodie, is more violent and more imme- diate than when this poison is taken into the stomach itself. That the heart is also specifically acted on by Arsenious-acid is proved by the symptoms (the anxiety at the precordia, the quick, irregular pulse, &c), and by the post-mortem appearances (red spots in the substance of this viscus), and by the diminished susceptibility to the galvanic influence. The specific affection of the nervous system is inferred from the symptoms : namely, the headache, giddiness, wan- dering pains, impaired sensibility of the extremities, delirium, coma, feebleness, lassitude, trembling of the limbs, and the paralysis, or tetanic symptoms. The alimentary canal, heart, and nervous system are not the only parts on which this acid appears to exert a specific influence; the lungs, the skin, the salivary glands, &c, are also spe- cifically affected. The disorder of the lungs is inferred from the local pain, cough, and occasional inflammatory appearances after death. The eruptions and other altered appearances of the skin, and the falling off of the hair and nails, sometimes noticed, have led to the idea of the specific influence of Arsenious-acid on the cu- taneous system; an opinion which seems further supported by the fact of the remarkable influence it exercises in some cutaneous diseases, especially lepra The salivation noticed by Marcus, Fer- riur, McFarley, Cazenave, and others, shows that the salivary glands are specifically influenced. The swelling of the face, and the irrita- tion and redness of the eye-lids also deserve notice, in connection with the specific effects of this poison. CLINICAL REMARKS. Hahnemann.—" Fits of anguish at night, driving him out of bed. Burning in the skin; burning pain ARSENICUM ALBUM. 816 in the ulcers. Quotidian and intermittent fevers. Scabs. Inflam- mation of the eyes and lids. Vomiting after every meal, burning pain at the pit of the stomach. Corrosive ulcerated blisters in the soles and toes." Dr. Gray.—" It is important that practitioners should point their attention to the question, whether drugs which are isomorphous are not, on that account, allies in the treatment of disease ; thus Arsenio Phosphorus, and Antimony, being eminent instances of the isomor- phous relation, and being strikingly analogous in their pathogenesy, is it not very probable that these two similitudes depend on the same element in each—namely, an identical original force or power 1 We find these drugs chemically uniting with other substances in precisely the same atonic proportions, and producing crystals in each case of the same form. " The analogies between these drugs as to their pharmacotoxio results, already very striking, would doubtless have been still more so, if either the simple form in each case had been tried on the healthy, or, what is the same thing, the same combination, as, for example, the sulphuret of each had been in use for the pathogenesy. " It is quite possible we may, by looking in this direction diligently, find the rich vein of classification upon which Bcenninghausen has empirically struck so eagerly, and yet with so little satisfaction to his colleagues."—Ed. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Pains in the whole body, excessive, intolerable, in every position of the body, mostly in the evening. Anxiety, with languor ; inability to collect one's senses ; reeling sen- sation, and difficulty of attending to all his business.—°Attacks of hysteric weakness—Faintingfits ; violent, deep ; with weak pulse ; with vertigo and swelling of the face; early in the morning, with anxiety.—^General rapid sinking of strength; ^excessive debility; -particularly of the lower limbs, knees, hands, and feet, which are trembling ; as from want of food; when walking ever so little; lame- ness ; ^weakness, with inability to take even a few steps without sinking, particularly previous to vomiting setting in; ^weakness, obliging him to lie down, with inability to leave the bed ; *he feels stronger when lying down, and sometimes falls down suddenly when rising, with vertigo and aggravation of the headache; °weakness, with dropping of the lower jaw, sunken, extinct eyes, and open mouth; -with profuse sweat, vomiting, and haematuria.—*Emacia- tion, marasmus, consumption ; *sometimes with fever; with livid face, blue margins around the eyes, great debility, want of disposition to do anything, and constant desire to lie down ; atrophy of children 316 ARSENICUM ALBUM. with tympanitis and glandular swellings.—*Spasms; *tetanic spasms ^convulsions, with frightful contortion of the limbs, or else the con vulsions may be excited by violent pains in the bottom of the feet.-~ *Epileptic fits : °with burning in the stomach and spinal marrow, with sensation as if the paroxysm commenced in the spinal marrow, and moved thence to behind the ears and into the brain, after which the patient becomes giddy, and falls down with loss of consciousness; or else the paroxysms commence with beating about with the arms, and end with a jerk through the whole body; during the paroxysm, the patient is lying like a dead person, pale but warm, his thumbs are clenched, his fists are turned to and fro, the arms are slowly drawn up and down, his mouth is distorted, and the breathing has become imperceptible.—^Trembling of the limbs ; -particularly when walk- ing ; with sweat in the face : °in drunkards.—Stiffness and immo- bility qfthe limbs; particularly of the knees and feet; with violent lacerating pains; paralysis, particularly of the lower limbs, some- times with loss of sensation ; contraction of limbs.—*Diseases of the mucous membranes and chronic blenorrhcea ; °dropsical complaints; °scrofulous affections.—Complaints arising from abuse of China or Iodine; °from drinking wine; °from cold and wet.—* Arthritic and rheumatic pains and complaints ; ^drawing and lacerating, particu- larly in the limbs, with inability to lie on the affected part, and di- minution qfthe pains when moving the affected part; -tearing in the bones; ^burning, particularly in the interior of the affected parts; -burning-corrosive pains; pain in the affected part as if the bone were swollen and interstitially distended, or as if an ulcer were seated there. Characteristic Peculiarities.—Arsenic is especially suitable to melancholy, but also to nervous and even choleric temperaments ; also to females.—The pains wake one particularly before midnight; *they are fell at night while sleeping ; *the pains seem intolerable, drive one to despair and frenzy; #they appear periodically, and are particularly apt to recur every day or every fourth day.—*The paroxysms of pain are frequently accompanied with secondary com- plaints, such as: * shuddering; *coldness; -chills, with subsequent thirst; heat in the face and body; humming in the ears ; languish; ^excessive failing of strength, and inability to remain up.—The pains come on : ^principally in the evening after lying down; *after mid- night ; *early in the morning after rising; when sitting or lying down; after dinner.—Aggravation: *after dinner; from the con- versation of other persons ; when sitting or lying down, when the pains become intolerable.—Amelioration : when standing, and when ARSENICUM ALBUM. 317 moving the affected part; #by walking about, particularly of the pains which come on at night; *by the application of warmth: -by compression of the affected part. Skin.—°Chlorosis ; *jaundice.—^General anasarca.—Swelling of the face and body.—Inflammatory swellings, with burning pains.— The skin of the body peels off in large scales ; painfulness of the skin all over the body; *burning and burning itching;—°parchment-like dryness, coldness, and blueness of the skin.—Spots: blue, particularly on the abdomen, genitals, and in the white of the eye ; inflamed, like measles, especially on the head, face, and neck; *resembling pete- rhice, °accompanied with typhus-putridus, -or unaccompanied by any fever, painful in the evening.—*Miliary eruption ; -scaling off; red, scorbutic; °white.—^Urticaria.—Itch-like eruption, fine, like sand, itching; particularly in the bends of the knees.—*Pustules: °red pustules, changing to ichorous, crusty, burning, and spreading ulcers, sometimes seen on the head and in the whiskers; °blotches filled with blood and pus, excessively painful.—°The Arsenic should be exhibited in small-pox, when hoarseness, angina-faueium, and diarrhoea supervene.—Little blotches which heal with difficulty; white blotches of the size of lentils, and having the color of the skin, with a biting sensation, particularly at night.—°Black blisters; -burning and very painful.—°Carbuncle.—°Herpes, having a red, unwholesome appearance, with vesicles and violent burning, particu- larly at night; (in the pit of the stomach and back).—*Ulcers: *cancerous, particularly painful early in the morning; *with burning in the ulcer and in the margin; #with lacerating pain, °particularly when the parts become cold; °mortifying ulcers; °putrid; *with high edges; °with red, shining areola, and a basis which is either black-blue or has the appearance of lard; *with thin, bloody pus; *with fetid ichor and proud flesh, -which soon becomes putrid, blue, and green; *with a thin scurf on the surface, and slight bleeding when bandaging the ulcer ; -with deficient secretion of pus ; °ulcers having the shape of warts.—^Varices.—Chilblains.—Discoloration of the nails. Sleep.—Laziness, dread of movement; great weariness; violent, unconquerable drowsiness, alternating with restlessness.—°Coma vigil, interrupted by sighing and grinding of the teeth.—^Sleepless- ness, *with uneasiness and tossing about; -with fainting fits ; with moaning.—Restless sleep; Nearly waking; °frequent waking, and difficulty to fall asleep again.—^Starting of the limbs when on the point of falling asleep, -particularly of the affected parts.—Symp- toms at night ivhen in bed: prickling, lacerating, ^restlessness ana 318 ARSENICUM ALBUM. tossing about; inability to get warm; anxious heat and uneasiness, with ^burning as if hot water were coursing through the veins, or with throbbing in the head; °suffocative fits; *great anguish; dryness in the throat, with thirst.—Symptoms during sleep: *start- ing as in affright; -loud moaning ; talking and quarrelling ; grind- ing of the teeth ; sick feeling all over; °grasping at flocks.—Symp- toms in the morning when waking: great irritation of temper; vomiting of white mucus, with bitterness of mouth, preceded by qualmishness and nausea, extending up into the chest.—Dreams: full of threats, repentance, or apprehensions; frightful dreams; dreams about thunder-storms, fires, black water, and darkness, vivid, vexatious dreams; dreams full of fatiguing reflections; fan- ciful dreams ; raving of the fancy at night. Fever.—*Coldness of the limbs: *general coldness, with parch- ment-like dryness qfthe skin, or with profuse sweat, -or alternation of dryness and sweat; in the evening, on the hands, feet, and abdomen : °coldness, as if cold water were poured over him; in the evening and morning, with copious emission of urine, scanty stool, and stretching of the limbs; at night, followed by heat; external coldness with internal heat; coldness in the knees, with heat of the head and ears.—*Chill: ^particularly after drinking, with chilli- ness; *after a meal; -sometimes the chill passes off after a meal; —shuddering when out of bed ; *when walking in the open air ; *at the commencement of the fever, before the chilly stage sets in ; with hot forehead, hot cheeks, and cold hands ; in the morning it some- times alternates with heat.—*'Chilliness, violent, with shaking; -every afternoon at three o'clock, with hunger, the chilliness increas- ing after a meal; internal chilliness in the afternoon, with heat of the skin and red cheeks ; *in the evening, all over, with coldness, or only from the calves to the feet, with inability to get warm,, particu- larly in the evening when in bed, as if occasioned by a cold; Chilli- ness down the back, and afterwards all over.—Internal coldness, without any coldness of the skin, or warmth without any warmth being perceptible externally.—*Heat, generally dry and burning: -internally and externally, with desire for beer ; internal heat, some- times with diarrhoea; *anxious heat, *at night, dry, -sometimes without thirst.—* Violent fever; °from abuse of Cinchona; inter- mittent, particularly quotidian, quartan, tertian, and double tertian ; 0typhoid, putrid fevers, fevers with petechia and miliaria-alba; °gastric, bilious, mucous fevers; *lentescent, hectic fevers.—*Fever commencing with coldness; -coldness at night, followed by heat; at first shuddering, then chilliness, and lastly dry heat in the evening. ARSENICUM ALBUM. 319 -sometimes with cold hands and feet; chilliness after a walk in the open air, followed by sweat, preceded and succeeded by hiccough; ^Chilliness, generally in the afternoon or evening, followed by dry heat, generally in the evening, and sweat at the termination of the fever, mostly at night; ^alternation or mingling of chilliness and heat; *heat without any previous chilliness, followed by sweat; -heat at night, with sweat of the face and feet; burning heat (every fort night), followed by sweat in the nape of the neck.—°Fever chardc terized by: °absence of thirst during the chilly stage, and sometimes the hot, or else great thirst, particularly in the hot stage ; °great languor, weakness, trembling of the limbs, and sometimes partial paralysis ; 0cedematous swelling of the feet and other dropsical com- plaints: °uneasiness and great anguish at heart; °violent lacerating pains in the bones and limbs, particularly in the back; °stretching of the limbs ; °delirium ; °vertigo, humming in the ears, and fainting fits, particularly when raising from a recumbent posture ; °muddled condition of the head, with laceration and oppression in the forehead and temples; °bloatedness of the head and face; °yellow, livid countenance; °tongue coated white, or dry and red; the lips are swollen, dry, and parched; °eruption and scurf around the mouth ; °slow speech, tardy answers ; °bitter taste in the mouth, or insipid and flat taste; °nausea and aversion to food; °violent pains, op- pression, and burning in the region of the stomach and pit qfthe stomach; particularly after a meal; pain and swelling of the spleen and liver; distended abdomen; °hard and intermittent stool; °diffi- culty of breathing, oppression and pains of the chest.—Symptoms preceding the fever (the chilly or cold stage): ^feeling of illness in the whole body; * stretching of the limbs and drawing through the whole body; °yawning; ^weakness, desire to lie down, sometimes even °fainting ; °headache, vertigo, and stupefaction ; muddled con- dition of the head, and inability to collect one's senses ; -humming in the ears.—During the chilly stage: goose-flesh ; °chattering of the teeth ; °coldness, particularly in the abdomen ; °prostration; °yawn- ing; ^stretching of the limbs; -drowsiness; *feeling of illness in the whole body; ^drawing through the whole body; *pains in the limbs ; °tearing or sticking, sometimes in the bones or in the head; -heat while talking or moving about, with redness of the face; -ill- humor; *anxiety; -inability to collect one's senses; Qheadache; °bitterness of mouth ; -nausea, with disposition to vomit; *pains in the stomach and pit of the stomach, oppressive or -gnawing ; cutting colic and diarrhoea; difficulty of breathing, oppression, -spasms in the chest; °cough until vomiting sets in ; -the thighs are weary and 320 ARSENICUM ALBUM. bruised ; pains in the small of the back and back.—After the chilty and previous to the hot stage: °lassitude and sleep; °vertigoj *thirst; -hiccough ; °anxiety ; °nausea and sometimes vomiting of bile; °diminution of the pains.—During the hot stage: Restless- ness ; °delirium ; inability to collect one's senses ; °muddled con- dition and heaviness of the head, vertigo, headache; * anxiety, °bitterness of mouth; °tongue coated white and dry; °nausea; °pains in the liver and spleen ; tension and fullness in the abdomen ; °pressure and burning in the pit of the stomach ; °pleuritic stitches ; *redness of the skin ; Oppression of the chest; °dryness of the nose and mouth ; °dry cough; -sweat of the face and feet; -colicky, anxious tightness in the hypochondria and epigastrium.—After the hot stage: °sleep, from which he wakes with anguish and sweat; -nausea, with inclination to vomit.—After the fever (the sweating stage): hiccough; °pressure in the forehead and temples, with frightful dreams; °feeling in the limbs as if bruised.—*The sweat sets in at the close of the fever, generally at night; *in the evening, when in bed, at the commencement of sleep, -sometimes seen only on the hands and thighs ; *debilitating sweats, the debility sometimes increases to syncope; *cold, clammy sweats; °sour, fetid sweats; -sweats tinging the skin and eyes yellow; *nightly, particularly about the thighs and knees, or in the back, with itching.—During the sweat : excessive thirst, with constant desire to drink ; a diminu- tion of all the pains accompanying the fever ; °anguish ; -humming in the ears;—excessive seething of the blood, as if the blood were too hot, and coursing through the vessels too rapidly, with small, quick pulse ; the pulse is irritated, frequent, not full; quick, small, rather hard; rapid,, feeble, intermittent; small, feeble, frequent; intermittent, -small, unequal; suppressed, even while the beats of the heart are frequent and irritated. Moral Symptoms.—^Melancholy sadness, -particularly after din- ner, with headache ; melancholy mood; ^religious melancholy and retirement from the world ; loud weeping, with few incoherent words ; -piercing lamentations, interrupted by swoons.—*Fits of anguish of the most violent kind; -with lamentations about the pain in the abdo- men, which arrests the breathing; *with uneasiness in the whole body; -with tremor, and fear that he will be obliged to murder some- body; *with heat, whi'h does not allow him to sleep before midnight, also at three o'clock at night, wii'h nausea and an inclination to vomit" with tossing about in the bed; ^driving him out of his bed at night, or in the evening after lying drnvn ; -with oppression of the chest and labored breathing; *anguish, as if from remorse of conscience; ARSENICUM ALUUM. 321 -as if he should die, anguish of death ; anguish about the heart, with fainting fits ; with tremor and cold sweat in the face, or tearing in the abdomen.—Restlessness : with sadness and violent thirst; with pain in the abdomen and knees ; with moaning and ill-humor (in a child).—*Fear ; *with great anguish and sweat; °dread of solitude, -fear of some absent person, whom he imagines to be lying dead before him ; *dread of ghosts, which appear to his fancy day and night; dread of vermin which are crawling about his bed ; *of thieves, -whom he sees everywhere, and hunts up in his house in the night; *springs up from his bed and hides himself.—Irresoluteness.—Great earnestness ; when alone, ideas about illness crowd upon his mind ; he despairs of his life; *great fear of death, °which she frequently deems quite near, with weeping, coldness, chilliness, and subsequent languor.—Excessive sensitiveness ; °anxiety of conscience, as if she had offended everybody; -tendency to start.—He talks little, com- plains of anguish; weakness of body and soul, without talking.—No inclination for anything; impatience and anxiety ; out of humor.— * Vexed mood ; about trifles, with disposition to censure everything, or to talk about the weaknesses ofother people ; with excessive sensitive- ness to noise, talk, or light.—*Great indifference even to life ; Aver- sion to life, disposition to suicide.—°Melancholia, arising from tlie abuse of wine or brandy.—°Melancholia arising from the retrocession of rash, and in consequence of taking a cold drink. Sensorium.—Diminished memory.—Stupid and weak feeling of the head, as in catarrh of the head.—Weakness of the mind.—*Delirium. —Many thoughts crowd upon him ; morbid activity of the organs of sense ; he lies down without consciousness, articulating unintelligible sounds, with staring eyes, cold sweat on the forehead, tremor, and small, hard, quick pulse.—Loss of sensation ; loss of consciousness ; loss of speech.—Delirium with open eyes ; mania, with headache, anguish, ringing in the ears, with disposition to hang one's self, writing down unmeaning characters, with trembling, weeping, sweat as from anguish on the forehead.—Rage, with mania to escape, he has to be confined.— Dullness of the head in the evening; ^weakness of the head, some- times arising from an excess of pain, with qualmishness and weakness in the pit of the stomach; dizzy and dull feeling in the head after sleep; muddled condition of the head; stupefaction, sometimes with loss of sense and vertigo, or with restlessness, as arises from an. excess of activity.—* Vertigo : -with reeling, during a walk in the open air, with stupid feeling in the forehead, as if intoxicated ; ver- tigo as if one would fall, only when walking, or every evening when closing the eyes ; with obscuration of sight; with vanishing of sigh*- 14* 21 322 ARSENICUM ALBUM. when raising the head; with nausea and disposition to vomit in a recumbent posture, less when sitting up ; with headache. Headache.— Violent headache; for several days, with vertigo simple headache in the occiput; semilateral headache *after dinner , ^periodical headache, diminished by the application of cold water; headache over the eye, very violent in the evening and night.— Stupefying pain in the forehead, generally of an oppressive nature.—■ Pain as if bruised: on one side, early in the morning when rising, as if the region of the forehead over the nose were sore.—*Great weight in the head : particularly in the forehead ; -especially when standing or sitting ; *with humming in the ears, -particularly in the room, going off in the open air, or early in the morning after rising. with pressure as from a load.—Tensive pain in the head; crampy pain over the eyes.—^Lacerating in the head : -with heaviness of the head, weariness, and drowsiness.—*Beating pain in the head; -with nausea and inclination to vomit when raising one's self in the bed ; hammering in the temples, particularly in the forehead over the root of the nose.—Sensation as if the brain were moved ; snapping in the head as of electric sparks, above the ear, when walking. Scalp.—*The hair is painful; *when touching the scalp, it feels painful as from subcutaneous ulceration ; -burning of the part which is touched ; contractive pain ; creeping in the occiput as if the roots of the hairs were in motion ; °violent pain in the left temple and side of the forehead, with weeping and moaning, intolerance of contact, and a brownish-red spot on the left frontal eminence, with a black tip in the middle.—^Swelling of the head and face ; -excessive.—Corro- sive, burning itching of the hairy scalp, as if ulcerated; *pimples covered with scurf, and painful as if ecchymosed when touched; -innumerable red pimples ; *pustules with burning pain, on the scalp and face; pimples filled with a bloody water, on the forehead and temples, with painful soreness after friction; spreading ulcers and suppurating crusts on the hairy scalp, as far as the middle of the forehead ; *tinea-capitis, °with swelling of the cervical and posterior cervical glands. Eyes.—Pain deep in the eye, with violent stitches when moving the eye-ball; °pains which oblige him to lie down; ^aggravated by moving the eyes, °by the light; pain in the eye as from sand.__ ^Lacerating in the eyes; -throbbing in the eyos after midnight, every throb being accompanied with a stitch; drawing pain, with twitching of the lids ; jerking in the left eye.—°Stinging burning in the eyes; -itching burning around the eyes and temples, as of red- hot needles; corrosive itching in the eyes ; ^burning in the eyes, ARSENICUM ALBUM. 323 -and in the upper margin.—* Ophthalmia; *violent, with intense redness; ^inflammation of the conjunctiva and °sclerotica, with dark redness and congestion of the vessels; °scrofulous inflammation of the eyes; rheumatic inflammation;? °arthritic;? °catarrhal; inflam- mation from having been standing in the water.—°Specks and ulcers on the cornea.—* Violent swelling of the lids; °inflammatory ; -oede- matous swelling; the eyes close and swell in consequence; soft swelling under the left eye, obliging the eye to close.—Yellowness of the sclerotica, as in jaundice; *faint, protruded, staring eyes, with- out lustre, and turned upwards; *staring, wild look.—Contracted pupils.—^Dryness of the lids, especially the margins, with pain when moving them, as if the eye were rubbed by the lids.—*Lachrymation, the eyes water profusely; the tears are acrid and corrosive.—^Nightly agglutination.—The eyes close, as from weariness; *spasmodic clos- ing of the eyes, especially when looking into the light; tremor of the upper lids, with lachrymation.—* Photophobia, ° excessive..—Weakness of sight; dim-sightedness, as through white gauze ; vibrations of light before the eyes and obscuration of sight; sparks, white spots, or points before the eyes ; almost complete blindness, with dullness of sense. Ears.—Dragging, lacerating burning in the ears.—Hardness of hearing, as if the ear were stopped up ; the ear becomes closed during deglutition; deafness.—^Roaring in the ears, particularly during the paroxysms of pain; noise as of rushing water; tingling, also in the head; singing in the right ear, when sitting. Nose.—Pain in the root of the nose ; stitches in the bone ; *burn- ing in the nose; swelling of the nose, with pain to the touch ; °hard tumor in the nose; scaling off of the epidermis; ° cancer of the nose. Violent bleeding from the nose. Ulcerated condition of the nostrils, high up, with discharge of fetid and bitter-tasting ichor.—Frequent con- tinued sneezing.—Dryness of the nose, or else discharge of an acrid fluid.—Coryza; every morning, when waking, *with sneezing; pro- fuse fluent coryza, with stoppage of the nose; excessive coryza, with hoarseness and-sleeplessness; with discharge of a watery mucus, occasioning a biting, burning, and soreness in the nose. Face.—*Sunken countenance; *pale, death-colored face ; ^yellow, livid; *bluish, sickly color of the face; lead-colored; °greenish ; -with green and blue spots and streaks; ^disfigured, *dcath-like ; *distortedfeatures, -as if dissatisfied; °with sunken eyes, surrounded with blue margins, and with a pointed nose.—* Bloated, puffed, red face; swelling, -sometimes elastic, especially under the eyes, and par- ticularly early in the morning, or accompanied with fainting and ver- 324 ARSENICUM ALBUM. tigo; hard swelling on the frontal eminences, resembling a nut, worse in the evening.—°Drawing and stinging in the face ; convulsions of the face; itching; eruption on the forehead, blotches; ulcers all over the face; °wart-shaped ulcer on the cheek; °cancer of the face; °crusta-lactea; °herpes-furfuraceus; °acne-rosacea.—*Bluish lips; *with black dots; -blackish color around the mouth; °dry and parched lips ; -brown streak through the vermilion border of the lower lip, as if burnt.—Twitchings of the upper lip when falling asleep: * swelling of the lips; -swelling of the upper lip, preceded by a burn ing-stinging itching as of red-hot needles; extending as far as under the nose.—Red herpetic skin around the mouth; ^eruption along the margin of the vermilion border; *burning eruption around the mouth; ♦ulcerated eruption around the lips; ^cancerous eruption, with a thick crust, and a basis which has the appearance of lard, on the lower lip; -spreading ulcer on the lip, with pain in the evening, in bed, with tearing and biting in the daytime during movement, most violent when touching it, and in the open air, disturbing the night's rest.—°Swelling of the sub?naxillary glands, -with pressure and pain as from contusion, or painful only when pressing upon the gland. Teeth.—Drawing pressure in the teeth; violent lacerating in the teeth, with tearing in the head, immediately before the catamenia; painful looseness of the teeth, with soreness of the gums when touch- ing them, and swelling of the cheeks.—Falling out of the teeth.— ^Spasmodic grinding of the teeth.—Nightly lacerating pain in the teeth, when lying on the affected side, removed by the ivarmth of the stove, succeeded by a painful swelling of the nose.—°The gums bleed readily. Mouth.—*The tongue is bluish or white; °coated white; °red and dry; °brown or blackish; °cracked and trembling; -insensible; as if burnt and having no taste; pain in the tongue as if covered with burning vesicles; the anterior portion of the border of the tongue feels corroded, with a biting sensation in the part.—*Fetid smell from the mouth; *great dryness of the mouth and tongue, fre- quently accompanied with a violent thirst.—Feeling of roughness in the region of the palate; tasting bloody saliva.—°Aphthae in the mouth.—°Slow and tardy speech; °or else hurried, anxious speech. —°Stomacace ? Throat.—^Scraping sensation in the throat; -as if occasioned by rancid grease, early in the morning, when swallowing the first mouth- ful of food; lacerating in the pharynx; ^burning in the pharynx.— *Angina; * angina-gangrenosa.—Constriction of the pharynx and Tesophagus; sensation as if the oesophagus were closed.—Painful, dif- ARSENICUM ALBUM. 325 ficult deglutition, as if the pharynx and oesophagus were paralysed.— °Everything he swallows occasions a pressure in the oesophagus, as if it had stopped in that. part.—The throat feels very dry, with con- stant desire to drink; slimy condition of the throat; hawking up of mucus ; *grey, *green, -saltish, bitter expectoration. Appetite and Taste.—^Bitterness of mouth, ^particularly after eating and drinking, -in the throat every other day, *or early in the morning; -saltish, dry taste; putrid, fetid taste, as of putrid meat, early in the morning; sour taste, even the food tastes sour.—*The food has no taste to him; it does not taste salt enough; -or else the food tastes too salt.—* Violent, unquenchable, burning, suffocative thirst, obliging him to drink frequently, although but little at a time; or else ^complete absence of thirst.—*Desire for acid things (-water and vinegar, acid fruit); ^desire for cold water; *for brandy; -for coffee or milk.—*Loss of appetite; -with violent thirst; he relishes his food; insurmountable aversion to food, the mere thought of food nauseates him.—When eating, his chest feels compressed ; eating is preceded by nausea.—After a meal: *headache; (in the morning) and at dinner, *he experienced a ^pressure at the stomach, and suf- fers *with empty eructations -and a faintish feeling in the body which occasions nausea; *nausea and vomiting; -distention of the abdomen, or pressure and cutting in the abdomen, after eating or drinking.—* After drinking, shivering and chilliness, °the vomiting and diarrhoea set in again, eructations and gagging take place.— °Weakness of digestion, with vomiting after eating.—°Derangement of the stomach in consequence of ice, fruit, acid things, &c. Gastric Symptoms.—Frequent and empty eructations, sometimes with dullness of the head ; sour eructations after dinner ; bitter eruc- tations after a meal, with gulping up of a greenish bitter mucus; gulping up of an acrid fluid.—Frequent hiccough, with eructations.— Nausea, qualmishness in the morning and afternoon; nausea with great anguish; with fainting, tremor, followed by heat and shudder- ing.—* Water-brash.—Inclination to vomit, particularly in the open air ; with qualmishness when raising one's self in the bed, and sudden vomiting; empty retching.—* Vomiting : *at night, or early in the morning ; *after every meal and after drinking ; ^vomiting of every- thing he eats or drinks, chronic; -excessive vomiting of what he drinks, with great exertions, mixed with mucus and water, with great bitterness of the mouth ; ^vomiting of yellow-green mucus and bile, -vomiting of a thick and glassy mucus ; vomiting of fluid, bluish, dingy-yellow substances, followed by great exhaustion ; * of brownish or blackish substances, -with great exertions, and aggravation of tho 326 ARSENICUM ALBUM. pains in the stomach, sometimes mixed with blood; *vomiting of blood; -of blood and mucus ; bloody discharges by the mouth and rectum.—°Morbus-niger ?—* Vomiting, with diarrhoea : -immediately after the fainting; copious, watery diarrhoea, when the vomiting ceases ; ° Asiatic and sporadic cholera.—During the vomiting: *vio- lent pains in the stomach ; internal, burning heat and thirst; ^sore- ness in the abdomen; -violent screams ; apprehension of death ; violent colic—°Sea-sickness.— °Vomiting of drunkards ; °vomiting of pregnant females. Stomach.—*Excessive pains in the stomach and pit qfthe stomach; -pains causing nausea; *pain as if the stomach were torn to pieces; *great painfulness to the touch.—•♦Distention of the region of the stomach; -torturing distention, as if occasioned by flatulence, worse after vomiting and a diarrhceic stool; food causes a pain in the sto- mach.— ^Pressure at the stomach : *with weight as of a stone, -some- times with burning ; *in the pit of the stomach, as if the heart would be pressed out of its position; *after a meal, particularly in the region of the cardiac orifice and in the oesophagus, as if the parts were filled with food up to the mouth, sometimes followed by empty eructations.—*Spasmodic pains in the stomach ; -particularly after eating; periodical; excessive, with thirst; with violent colic, diar- rhoea and fainting fits.—Cutting in the stomach ; drawing in the sto- mach, in tbe evening when sitting down, as if a part of the stomach would be torn off; lacerating in the stomach, spasmodic, oppressive, or boring ; lacerating across the region of the stomach when walking ; gnawing and corrosive sensation in the stomach.—*Heat or *burning in the stomach and pit of the stomach, with pain and oppression ; -in the chest and stomach, with tightness and oppression.—*Oppres- sive anxiety and excessive anguish in the pit of the stomach, with lamentations and moaning; -at night, extending to the upper part of the chest.—°Induration, scirrhus, cancer of the stomach ?—°Acute and chronic gastritis ? Hypochondria.—°Induration of the liver ; -pressing sensation in the liver during a walk in the open air; °swelling and painfulness of the liver (in fever).—°Swelling and painfulness of the spleen (in fever).—Stitches in the side of the abdomen, with inability to lie upon it; lancinations in the left hypochondrium, in the evening when in bed.—°Inflammation of the spleen. Abdomen.—Pains in the whole abdomen ; *excessive ; * at night; ♦after eating or drinking; *with vomiting or diarrhoea; -in the hypogastrium, with heat in the face; in the epigastrium and loins, like renal colic; pains wandering about in the abdomen, with diar- ARSENICUM ALBUM. 327 rbcea accompanied by pains in the anus ; pains which become seated in the left side; pains, with great anguish, lamentations, tossing about, internal restlessness which does not allow one to lie still, despair of one's life, -sometimes with a sensation as if the abdomen were detached from the thorax.—^Spasmodic pains in the abdomen, -with lacerating and boring; *colic, recurring from time to lime ; -cutting cramp-colic, in the evening in bed, and in the morning after rising; sensation as if the intestines became twisted, with pinching, cutting, rumbling, and diarrhceic stools.—^Cutting in the abdomen : -first a mere pinching in the inmost parts of the hypogastrium, only in the morning, before, during, and after a diarrhceic stool; in the side, increased by contact.—Gnawing pains in tbe abdomen ; lacerating in the abdomen, with icy coldness of the hands and feet, and cold sweat in the face.— Writhing sensation in the abdomen; dysenteric pain in the umbilical region.—♦Uneasiness in the abdomen, -with fever and thirst; *cold and chilly sensation in the abdomen, which is warm to the hand ; ^burning in the abdomen, -with heat and thirst, with cutting and lancinations, at noon or in the afternoon, going off after an evacuation.—°Soreness in the abdomen, particular^ when cough- ing or laughing.—°Enteritis ?—* Swelling of the abdomen, -excessive. —°Tympanitis in children, with glandular swellings.—°Ascites.— ^Distention of the abdomen, painful; painless after a meal, relieved by leaning the back against something; repletion in the epigastrium, with pinching.—In the right groin : pain as if sprained when stoop- ing ; burning or stitches in the inguinal regions ; °swelling of the glands; digging and burning in the inguinal cavity, which is excited even by the least touch.—Weakness of the abdominal muscles; °ulcer above the umbilicus. Stool and Anus.—* Constipation, -with pains in the abdomen; ineffectual urging; ^tenesmus as in dysentery, with burning and pressing in the anus and rectum.—Unperceived involuntary dis- charges of faeces.—*Diarrhoza: °at night, or renewed after eating or drinking; ^violent, with frequent discharges; *with tenesmus; *with colic; *with vomiting; with great weakness; ♦with thirst; ♦alternating with constipation.—Evacuations: ^burning, Accom- panied with violent colic; papescent; ^yellow, watery, scanty; *dark-green, consisting of mucus, or mucus mixed with faecal matter ; *slimy, sometimes scanty or liquid; *tenacious, bilious; °whitish; ♦greenish, dark-brown, diarrhceic, -smelling like putrid ulcers; ♦putrid ; *black, burning, and acrid, -with uneasiness and pain in the abdomen; °undigested; -expulsion of a lump resembling undi- gested tallow, and mixed with tendinous substances ; *bloody evacua- 528 ARSENICUM ALBUM. tions, -with vomiting and excessive colic.—^Dysenteric diarrhoea, °diarrhcea during dentition; °during small-pox.—Before stool: cut ting in the abdomen, and sensation as if the contents of the abdomen became twisted; sensation as if the abdomen would burst; colic— During stool: ^tenesmus and burning of the anus and rectum, -painful contraction above the anus, in the direction of the small of the back.—After stool: cessation of the colic, burning in the rectum, with great weakness and trembling: dragging pain around the umbi- licus ; distention of the abdomen; palpitation of the heart, and tremulous weakness, obliging him to lie down.—The rectum is pressed out spasmodically, with great pain ; it remains protruded, after haemorrhage from the anus.—Itching qfthe anus, with a feeling of roughness, and with soreness as if the parts were excoriated ; sore- ness when touching the parts; burning, which is sometimes relieved after the expulsion of hard, knotty stool.—The hamorrhoids are swol- len and painful, with tenesmus; blind haemorrhoids, with burning stinging; varices, which burn like fire, particularly at night, hinder- ing sleep, with stinging pain in the daytime, particularly when walking, less when lying down; expulsion of pieces of mucus, with tenesmus, cutting in the anus as of blind haemorrhoids.—Corrosive itching of the perineum. Urinary Organs.—♦Paralysis of the bladder; -retention of urine, as if the bladder were paralyzed, with great urging to urinate ; sup- pression of the secretion of urine.—Frequent urging to urinate, with burning; with emission of a quantity of urine at night, obliging him to rise frequently.—Involuntary micturition, even at night during sleep ; diminished discharge of urine, with burning; °scanty, dark- yellow urine ; -increased, copious, and sometimes burning hot urine ; the urine is almost colorless; excessively turbid ; greenish dark brown, turbid when leaving the bladder, and not becoming clear by standing; °urine depositing a slimy sediment.—°Painful, difficult micturition; strangury.—♦Haematuria.—Dwrm^micturition: burn- ing, sometimes at the commencement only; contractive pain in the left groin.—After micturition, a feeling of weakness in the epigas- trium, with trembling.—Biting and tearing in the urethra. Male Genital Organs.—Itching of the parts; corrosive itching of the penis.—Inflammation and * swelling of the genital organs, -excessively painful; gangrenous; the glans is swollen, blue, and red, with rhagades ; swelling of the scrotum.—erysipelatous inflam- mation of the scrotum of chimney-sweeps ?—Discharge of prostatic fluid during a diarrhceic stool. Fem/le Genital Organs.—*Pr^«»e catamenia ; -too soon, after ARSENICUM ALBUM. 329 twenty days.—Suppression of the catamenia —During the catame- nia: °various kinds of complaints ; -lancinations from the rectum to the anus and pudendum; laceration in the back and abdomen.— Bloody mucus after the catamenia.—♦Leucorrhoea; -dropping out while the woman is standing, with emission of flatulence; *acrid, corroding, -thick and yellowish.—°Induration, or even cancer of the uterus. ? Larynx and Trachea. — Tremulous voice.—Hoarseness, with roughness, early in the morning; with violent coryza and sleepless- ness.—♦Feeling of dryness and °burning in the larynx ; °phthisis of the trachea, with deficient secretion of mucus ; °acute and chronic inflammation of the trachea ; °grippe, particularly when accompanied with inflammation of the eyes and photophobia.—Cough : #as if occa- sioned by the smoke of Sulphur, with sense of suffocation or constric- tion in the trachea; * after drinking ; ♦cough occasioned by a con- stant irritation or titillation in the trachea ; -cough occasioned by a jerking in the hip ; ♦during movement, with want of breath ; ^during a walk in the open cold air ; ♦early in the morning, -very violent, or shortly after taking tea; *in the evening ichen in bed, or at night, -obliging him to sit up, or with asthma and suffocative fits.—*Dry cough: -deep and short, after midnight; fatiguing and violent; *short and hacking, with soreness, as from excoriation in the chest, or soreness from the pit of the stomach upwards, with short, labored breathing.—*Expectoration difficult; °scanty and frothy ; -consisting of tenacious mucus which is lodged in the chest; saltish expectora- tion, with pain in the chest while raising, preceded by oppression of the chest; * expectoration, consisting of a blood-streaked mucus, °sometimes with a burning heat in the whole body, -or succeeded by nausea, as if he would vomit; haemoptoe.—°Periodical spells of coughing ; °whooping-cough ;? °incipient pbthisis-pulmonalis.—■ Symptoms during the cough : water in the mouth, like water-brash ; *arrest of breathing; -danger of suffocation, with swelling of the throat (at night); nausea as if he would vomit (in the evening in bed); ♦soreness in the chest, as if ecchymozed ; -sensation in the ab- domen as if bruised; lancinating pains in the pit of the stomach, under the ribs, in the side of the chest and abdomen, or in the ster- num ; heat in the hedd, and aggravation of the pain, Chest.—°Difficulty of breathing, in windy weather ; °in the room, even when clad warmly ; °when laughing and moving about; °with coldness of the body ; °with cold sweat.—♦Shortness of breath; *anxious and oppressive sliortness of breath; -painful breathing; moaning breathing.—♦Asthma, ♦chronic ; -returning frequently; 330 ARSENICUM ALBUM. occasioned by chagrin ; after exertions, as from anguish.—*Oppres non, labored breathing; *when ascending an eminence, especially when going up-stairs; *when walking, particularly when walking rapidly ; -when coughing.—* Arrest of breathing: -from pain in the pit of the stomach ; from anguish, and a pain in the abdomen, with moaning and lamenting; in the evening, when getting into bed, with wheezing in the trachea, and constriction of that organ.—^Suffocative oppression, and arrest of breathing, sometimes with -weakness and excessive debility; *at night, or in the evening in bed; -suffocative catarrh.—* Angina of the chest; -with low breathing, which she is unable to accomplish, except by bending the chest forward ; °asthma Millari ; ? spasmodic asthma of full-grown people. —* Const fiction of the chest, -with anguish ; pressure, °in the sternum ; feeling in the chest as if excoriated and raw; internal chilliness in the evening, particularly after a meal; heat in the chest extending below the dia- phragm ; burning in the chest and sternum.—°Drop>sy of the chest ? —Irritated beating of the heart; ^palpitation of the heart, -violent, excessive, particularly at night, also irregular, with anguish; when lying on the back.—♦Yellow spots on the chest. Back.—Debility in the small of the back; sensation as if bruised by blows; painful stiffness.—Pains in the back, with uneasiness and anxiety; stiffness, painful sensation as if bruised.—Stiffness of the nape of the neck, as if bruised, or as if sprained ; tensive stiffness of the neck; contortion of the muscles; swelling of the neck; itching under the jaws; colorless, biting eruption.—Bleeding soreness in the axilla ; lancinations ; glandular swellings. Arms.—^Drawing and lacerating in the arms, particularly at night, from the elbow to the shoulders, -or in the elbow and wrist- joint ; corrosive itching above the wrist-joint.—°Siveliing of the arm, with black blisters, having a putrid smell.—The hands are stiff and insensible.—Drawing in the bones and joints of the hands and arms.—Cramp and rigidity of the fingers.—Coldness of the hands; painless swelling; hard swelling of the fingers, with pains in the bones; °burning ulcers on the tips of the fingers.—Sickly color of the nails. Leis.—Coxagra; °lancination in the hips, thigh, and groin.__Vio- lent pains in the limbs, particularly in the joints ; tearing or drawing laceration in the knee and tarsal joints, when moving them or when walking, with uneasiness, worse at night.—Cramp in the legs, with lassitude ; convulsions of the legs and knees ; weariness ; sensation as if the lower limbs would break down, in going un-stairs ; lameness of the lovver Lmbs ; coldness, particularly of the knees and feet, with ARSENICUM ALBUM. 331 cold sweat and inability to get them warm; swelling of the lowei limbs, with violent pains.—Corrosive itching of the thighs; *pain ai if bruised, -as if the flesh were loose, only when touching the parts and when sitting, or when rising from a seat, with sensation as if the parts were sprained ; °itching herpes in the popliteal space.—Spasmo- dic pain in the legs, early in the morning, with humming and buzzing ; drawing, *in the tibia; in the calf.—Cramp in the calf, when walk- in^, or at night in bed; with coldness, stiffness, and lameness of the leg.—Heaviness of the lower limbs, so that he is scarcely able to raise them ; wasting away of the lower limbs ; swelling of the legs to beyond the calves, preceded by lacerating in the calves ; ^ulcers on the lower limbs ; °old, *with burning and °lancinations, -or covered with gray scurf, and surrounded with an inflamed margin.—Pains in the feet, aggravated by movement; pains as if the foot had been sprained by turning over ; laceration and bruised feeling in the feet.—Numbness, stiffness, and insensibility of the feet, with swelling and great pains ; lameness; coldness, particularly when sitting still, when in bed, with contracted pulse.—* Swelling of the feet; *hot, shining, with burning red spots, or °black-blue blisters ; -hard, red-blue, very painful swell- ing ; itching swelling; colorless swelling of the malleoli, with tear- ing pains, which are relieved by external warmth.—♦Ulcers in the bottom of the feet, or also in the heels, with bloody pus.—The toes are stiff, and do not allow him to tread; °soreness of the ball of the foot, when walking, as if the skin had been rubbed off; °ulcerated spread- ing blisters on the tips of the feet. Pathological Anatomy.—The bodies of those who have been poisoned with Arsenic generally exhibit two opposite conditions : either they resist putrefaction for a long time, and finally look like mummies, or else they decay rapidly; at first Arsenic seems, indeed, to promote putrefaction, but, after a while, putrefaction is arrested by it; according to the experience of some observers, bodies that have been poisoned suddenly, by large doses of Arsenic, decay rapidly; bodies that have been poisoned slowly, by small doses, become dry like mummies. In some cases, bodies which decayed slowly had not become very . livid even on the third day after death; there was an entire absence of cadaverous spots, no trace of putrefaction anywhere, no very often- sive smell of corruption on opening the abdominal cavity, and a com- plete absence of, or only a moderate rigidity ; in some cases, however, the body soon became rigid, the muscles lost their irritability, the fingers and toes were violently contracted and bent backwards, and the mouth was tightly closed.—As respects the mummy like desicca- 332 ARSENICUM HYDROGENISATUM. fcion of bodies, which were disinterred a long time after death, the following appearances have generally been discovered: Offensive smell of the body, like old cheese; parchment-like dryness of the skin, like that of a mummy; brown mahogany color of the skin, especially dark-brown color of the face and abdomen; gray, leather- like, indurated skin, having a stiff and firm feel; peculiar toughness and hardness of the cutis, offering the same resistance to the knife as the crust of an old cheese.—The adipose tissue is transformed into a mass resembling lard or cheese.—Striking toughness and dryness of the muscles, which have preserved their shape, and look only a little paler than the muscles of a recent subject.—Destruction of the soft parts of the nose.—Transformation of the thoracic and abdominal viscera into a brownish, half desiccated, leather-like, firm substance, without any definite form.—Small, shrivelled heart.—Tho omentum, liver, and kidneys look like tallow. The rapid decay after death has been found accompanied with the following phenomena : Intolerable smell of tbe body, especially when opening the abdominal cavity ; the epidermis had disappeared entirely in every part of the body.—Dissolution of the whole body into a kind of ichor.—Papescent softening of the muscles of the thigh.—Green, yellow, or black coloration of single parts, of the whole or of only a part of the face, and also more particularly of the genital organs.— Extensive thick, white, or gray musty covering of the whole body, or only of the face, hands, and feet, with a black and putrefied integu- ment underneath. Fluidization of the lungs, with many air-vesicles on their surface.—Transformation of the substance of the heart into a kind of pap.—Dark-brown spleen and liver.—Dissolution of the pan- creas.—Putrid kidneys.—Putrid uterus.—Separation of organic parts when touching them ever so slightly.—The vertebrae and pelvic bones separated from one another.—Gangrene of the genital organs. ARSENICUM CITRINUM. (See Arsenicum Tersul- phuratum.) 32.—ARSENICUM HYDROGENISATUM. ARS. HYDROG.—Arseniuretted Hydrogen Gas.—Noack and Trinks.—To pre- pare the Gas for medicinal purposes, mix equal parts of Arsenic and Tin or Zinc with Muriatic-acid in a gas-retort; warm the mixture gently;—by passing it through boiled water, a sei'ies of attenuations may be made, and the Gas may be administered by olfaction. Antidotes.—The Gas is strongly absorbed by the Oil of Turpentine, which ia thickened by the Gas, and deposits white crystals; the Oil of Turpentin« might, perhaps, prove an antidote to the Gas. ARSENICUM HYDROGENISATUM. 333 GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Disagreeable tingling in the parts which had been dead heretofore, particularly in the nose, occasioning a violent sneezing, and such an intense coldness that warm cloths have to be applied.—Rhythmical recurrence of the pains.—Deadness of the extremities.—Weariness. —Considerable weakness. Skin.—Dark brown color of the body.—Whitening of the hair on the deadened parts.—A vesicatory applied to the pit of the stomach draws dark red blood. Sleep.—Sleep is entirely wanting.—Restless sleep, interrupted by the least noise. Fever.—Chilliness over the whole body ; violent chilliness while undressing.—(Sensation reappears amidst profuse sweat in the parts which had been dead, accompanied with a feeling of disagreeable tingling, as is experienced in a limb which is exposed to heat after having been for some time in the cold.)—Frequent pulse; cessation of the pulse, and vanishing of every sensation of life in the deadened parts. Moral Symptoms.—Great excitement of feeling, inducing him to talk constantly. Head.— Vertigo, which is especially violent in going up-stairs, when it causes a staggering gait.—Oppressive stupefying sensation in the head, as of a load, banishing sleep at night. Eyes.—Deadness of the region of the eye-brows.— Whitening of the eye-brows. Yellow-colored, deeply sunken eyes, surrounded with broad blue margins. Face.—The face is disfigured to such an extent that it cannot be recognized ; it betrays a deep internal affection; the features are dis- torted and expressive of pain. Appetite. — Loss of appetite.—Great thirst.—Loathing.—Inde- scribable weakness and nausea, hindering walking. Stomach.—Troublesome, continual singultus.—Vomiting of a yel- low-green mucus of a bitter taste ; vomiting of mucus and bile ; un- ceasing gagging and vomiting, excited again by introducing the least quantity of food or drink into the stomach, or even by merely thinking of water; repeated vomiting, with excessive anguish, colic, de- „ spondency, and apprehension of imminent death.—Violent cutting colic in the region of the stomach and below it, recurring at short intervals. Abdomen.—Violent colic in the umbilical region, returning at, in- tervals.— Undefined, excessively disagreeable sensation in the ab- domen, as if it were entirely inactive, as if the whole abdomen had been transformed into a stone.—Periodical pains in the abdomen.— Glowing heat in the abdomen, and cold extremities. 334 ARSENICUM TERSULPHURATUM. Stool.—Obstinate Constipation. Urinary Organs.—Disagreeable oppressive sensation in the re- gion of the kidneys, increasing rapidly, and spreading thence over the back to between the scapulae ; violent, uninterrupted pain in the region of the kidneys, especially perceptible during a desire to urinate.—Dark, black-red urine, consisting of pure blood, and de- positing a thick coagulum of blood, with glowing heat in the ab- domen while emitting it, and cold extremities ; haematuria. Male Genital Organs.—Vesicles on the glans and prepuce, con- taining pus, leaving small, round, flat ulcers behind after bursting. Chest.—Anguish and oppression. Back.—Intolerable pain in the back, particularly at night. Arms and Legs.—Sensation of deadness to the middle of the fore-arms, and up to the knees, the power to move the limbs re- maining intact.—Disagreeable tingling in the hands and feet, and fleeting stitches in the arms and lower limbs.—Intensely painful, lacerating pains in the upper arms and elbows, and in the knee joints, as if arising from arthritis.—Coldness of the extremities. 33.—ARSENICUM TERSULPHURATUM. ARS. CIT.—Auri Pigmentum, Orpiment, Tersulphuret of Arsenic.—Hahne- mann's " Chronic Diseases." SYMPTOMS.—Reeling as if intoxicated, when walking in the open air; stupefaction of the head, with ideas crowding upon the mind. Stitches in the right side of the forehead, sometimes beating stitches; tension behind the right ear, as of a foreign body, when turning the hair backwards. Gum in the canthi. The teeth feel painful, as if loose, when chewing. Violent nausea after a meal. Violent colic, as from cold, in the morning when waking. Prickings in the right side of the chest, from within outwards. ARTEMISIA VULGARIS.—AURUM MACULATtJM. 385 34.—ARTEMISIA VULGARIS. ART.—Mugwort.—Noack and Trinks—Duration of Action! Compare with—Caust., Puis., Ruta, Sec, Stram. Antidotes ? No regular proving of this remedy has been made. It has been used with success in epilepsy of lying-in women, occasioned by fright; in epilepsy depending on menstrual irregularities, hysterical spasms, spasmodic attacks of children, approaching to epilepsy. It is sometimes given to promote labor-pains and for suppression of menses; periodical spasms in general; gastric fevers, when on the point of passing into the typhoid form ; typhus-stupidus ; malignant petechial fever ; intermittent fever ; chlorosis ; dropsy ; chronio headache and prosopalgia: dysphagia; cardialgia; chronic vomit- ing ; scirrhous tumors of the stomach; inflammatory colic of chil- dren ; diarrhoea of children and full-grown persons; cholera-spora- dica; dysentery after the bloody discharge has ceased. 35.—AURUM MACULATUM. ARUM M.—Common Arum.—"Arcliiv.," XIII., 2.—Very little known. Antidote.—Vinegar. Head.—Slight pressure in the left temple.—Pressure below the ear, behind the lower jaw.— Violent irritation of the eyes and nose. Mouth.—Bleeding of the gums.—Stinging in the mouth.—Sting' ing and burning in the surface of the tongue.—The tongue is so much swollen that it fills up the whole buccal cavity and makes de- glutition impossible. Throat.—Impeded deglutition, as if the uvula had become swollen and elongated—Continual seated burning in the throat.—Titilla- tion in the throat, sometimes increased to a violent burning.—Burn- ing, contractive pain in the fauces.—Pressure in the throat, from without inwards, in the posterior region of the palate, causing a desire to swallow, with sensation of swelling in the larynx, which impedes deglutition, preceded by oppression in the abdomen and chest.— Pain in the left side of the throat, near the trachea, and below the larynx, when pressing the part with the finger. Stomach.—Vomiting —Hamatemesis.—Burning, contractive pain in the stomach.—Cardialgia.—Inflammation qfthe stomach. Abdomen.—Emptiness in the abdomen, as if he had vomited.— Oppression in the abdomen, as from great anguish and fear, without 836 ASA FCETIDA. palpitation of the heart, gradually rising into the chest.—Violent aching pain in a spot between the umbilicus and the superior spinous process of the ileum, particularly when standing, or when lying on the side or back, most violent when expanding the chest, or when putting the abdominal muscles on the stretch, or when pressing upon the part from without.—Inflammation of the intestinal canal. S to o l .—Diarrhaza. Urine.—Increased secretion of urine. The urine is watery, light colored, smelling almost like burnt horn, with a cloud in the middle after standing. Female Genital Organs.—Profuse menstruation. Larynx and Trachea.—Bloody sputa.—Continual hoarseness.— Pressure in the larynx; titillation, with desire to cough ; excess of mucus in the respiratory organs; violent racking cough, with scanty expectoration ; after a long paroxysm of cough he raises mucus, tra- versed with yellow threads ; sensation after drinking as if something remained sticking to the upper part of the epiglottis. 36.—ASA FCETIDA. ASA F.—Gum Resin of Ferula.—Stapf s "Additions to the Materia Med. Pura." —Duration of Action: from 4 to 6 weeks. Compare with—Ant.-c, Aur., Caust., Chin., Coff., Con.-m., Merc, Nux-v., Phosph., Plat., Puis., Rhus-tox., Thuj., Tart.-em. :—Asa-f. is frequently in- dicated after Thuj., Puis.—Afterwards are frequently suitable : Caust., Puis. Antidotes.—Caust., Chin., Elec.—It antidotes: Merc, Puis. CLINICAL REMARKS. Noack and Trinks.—" Palpitation of the heart, particularly when arising from physical exertions, or by the sudden suppression of habitual discharges of blood or other secretions, and when accompanied with violent congestion of the lungs, overloading the stomach, helminthiasis, flatulence, diseases of the liver and spleen, hysteria, and hypochondria." GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Weariness ; languor in the afternoon and evening; trembling, with cold skin, and small, feeble pulse.— Feeling of heaviness in the whole body; relaxation and sinking sensation in the limbs ; great lassitude during movement; feeling of prostration when lying down or standing, with dryness of mouth.__ *Chorea.—° Convulsions and epilepsy of children, occasioned by worms or by a morbid condition of the abdominal plexus.—°Hysteric and hypochondriac complaints, and other kinds of nervous diseases, occasioned by a morbid condition of the abdominal nerves ?__°Scro- ASA FCETIDA. 337 fulous affections; ? °rickets; ? inflammation, ramollissement, and curvature of the bones; ? *caries of the bones?—°Complaints from abuse of Mercury;? nightly, syphilitic (mercurial!) bone-pains.— Jactitation and twitching of single muscles.—Scraping and boring in the periosteum.—*Hamorrhage.—Prickings, here and there ; cramp- like drawing or jerking in the outer parts of the limbs; lacerating pains from below upwards along the track of a nerve.—Congestion of the portal system and pulsation qfthe veins. Characteristic Peculiarities.—Intermittent, pulsative, or op pressive darting, also lacerating pains from within outwards, trans- formed into different kinds of pains, or relieved by touching the parts, and sometimes with a feeling of numbness. Skin.—°Dark-red, hot swellings.—°Glandular swellings.—°Cold swellings ?—° Ulcers, particularly when affecting the bones ; '^ichor- ous, fetid, thin pus; °the ulcer is painful when applying the band- age ; -violent painfulness of the bone to the touch, also at night; bright-red, raw appearance of the wounds, covered with a crust of tenacious lymph, with transparent, lymph-like pus, and sensitiveness to the touch ; °ulcers with elevated, bluish edges. Sleep.—Somnolence in the evening, with great weariness.—Rest- less, unrefreshing sleep, with frequent waking ; great restlessness at night, with tossing about in the bed.—A number of dreams, which are generally cheerful. Fever.—Shuddering over the body.—Coldness and dryness of the skin.—Feeling of heat in the face, after dinner, with anguish and drowsiness.—The pulse (and the beats of the heart) are accelerated ; small, feeble, and increased; small, quick, unequal. Moral Symptoms.—Out of humor.—Hysteric and hypochondriac uneasiness and restlessness. — Inconstancy. — Laziness. — Irritated mood, with indifference to anything.—Fits of great joy. Sensorium.—Weakness of the thinking powers ; frequent absence of all thought.—Confusion of ideas.—Dullness of the head, with ach- ing pain, sometimes in the temples ; sensation as if the brain were constricted or compressed; dizziness and gloominess of the head; muddled state of the head.— Vertigo; sometimes with a violent press* ing in the head; with vanishing of sight, in the evening, and after- wards cold sweat on the forehead and limbs, with colic—Weakness in the head. Head.—Heaviness of the head; particularly in the forehead, with' dullness of the head.—Tightness in the head, stupefying.—Congestion of blood to the head: with warmth in the face ; with stupefying pain. —Pressure in the head, particularly in the forehead and above tht U> 22 338 ASA FCETIDA. eyes, in the whole head, as if the head would burst, or in the occiput as if the brain were compressed; pressure, with throbbing in tho temple.—Constriction of the brain.—-Stitches in the head.—Sense of shaking, as of the water in a pail when carried, with bubbling sensa- tion in°the brain.—Burning prickings in the forehead, with pain as if ecchymozed when touching the parts. Eyes.—Crampy drawing around the brows ; pressure in the eyes.— Burning in the eyes.—Burning stitches in the eyes.—Sensation as if sand were between the eyes and lids, as if cold air were blowing upon the eyes.—Closing of the eye-lids as if sleepy, with burning. Ears.—Pressure in the ears.—Tingling in the ears.—♦Diminished hearing, °sometimes accompanied with purulent discharge, even when occasioned by abuse of Mercury. Nose.—Bleeding of the nose.—°Ozana, with discharge of greenish and fetid pus 1 ?—Diminished smell.—Frequent violent sneezing; coryza. FACE.__Tension, with feeling of numbness, particularly in the region of the right malar bone; drawing in the angle of the jaw, sometimes extending down to the nape of the neck.—Heat in the face. Teeth and Jaws.—Feeling of soreness of the gums. Mouth and Throat.—The mouth feels very dry.—Dryness or burning in the throat, particularly in the cesophagus ; pressure in the oesophagus, or sensation as if a body were ascending ; tightness of the throat, with pressure in the chest; soreness in the oesophagus, pre- ceded by burning ; tension in the pharynx when swallowing.—°03so- phagitis.? Appetite and Taste.—Insipid taste, sometimes with loathing; flat, acrid taste.—Want of appetite.—Heaviness and coldness in the abdomen after drinking. Gastric Symptoms.—Frequent rising of badly-tasting air ; acrid, rancid.—Loathing; nausea as if he would vomit, from morning till noon. Stomach.—Pressure in the stomach; after eating, with great pros- tration ; pressure in the ozsophagus, with sensation as if a foreign body were ascending.—Pain as if bruised, with feeling of fullness and eructation; cutting and burning in the region of the stomach and diaphragm; spasmodic pains in the stomach; contraction of the sio mach, with loathing and nausea.—Pulsations in the pit of the stom tzk perceptible to the eye and hand.—°Inflammation of the stomacn; ". °spasm of the stomach; 1 °weakness and excessive accumulation of «»ucus in the stomach. ? Hypochondria.—°Chronic inflammation and swelling of the liver. ? Abdomen.—Colic : with great malaise, ill-humor, and oppressive ASA FCETIDA. 339 anxiety; in the epigastrium, as after a cold, or as if diarrhoea would set in, with canine hunger.—Heaviness in the abdomen, with bloated- ness.—Burning in the abdomen.—Cutting in the abdomen.—Stitches, lancinations, dartings in the abdomen, particularly in the left side when walking; through both sides of the abdomen, relieved by pres sure; in the umbilicus, tingling or burning.—°Tympanitis ?—°As- cites arising from an organic affection of some abdominal viscus ?— °Tympanitis in children, with glandular swellings ?—°Taenia ? Stool and Anus.—Costiveness.—Constant urging to stool, some- times ineffectual; violent pressing towards the rectum.—Stool hard and dark-brown, having a pungent, disgusting smell, with pain in the anus ; hard and papescent stools ; copious, papescent evacuations of a yellow or dark-brown color, and a disgusting smell; watery, liquid stools.—Diarrhoea ; with colic; preceded by urging ; with flatulence. Urinary Organs.—Spasms in the bladder during and after mic- turition.—Urine brown-yellow, or dark-brown, having an acrid, pun- gent odor. Female Genital Organs.—Labor-like pain in the uterus, with cutting and bearing down, returning at intervals.—Menses too early, scanty, and lasting only three days. Larynx.—Huskiness in the trachea, inducing a short and hacking cough.—Dull, short, and hacking cough ; dry cough, occasioned by a titillation in the trachea, violent, racking; deep, in paroxysms, with short breathing and oppression of the chest.—°Whooping cough; ? °angina-membranacea. ? Chest.—Accelerated breathing, with coughing and yawning, and generally with a small, contracted pulse.—Asthma ; oppression qfthe chest: with drawing pressure ; with hurried breathing ; with accele- rated beating of the heart and arteries, with full and swelling pulse ■ oppression as if the lungs could not expand sufficiently.—Spasmodic asthma: with dry cough, from titillation in the trachea.-—°Asthmatic complaints of scrofulous persons; ? °after too great exertions ; ? °after venereal excesses ; ? °after taking too hearty a meal; 1 asthma Millari; ? °mucous asthma of old people. ?—Pressure in the chest.— Stitches (lancinations, dartings, &c) in the chest.—-Pressure in the region of the heart, as from congestion and distention of the vessels, with small pulse.—° Organic affections qfthe heart; ? ° aneurisms ; ? 0palpitation qfthe heart. ? Back.—Racking pain below the scapula ; burning in the region of the vertebrae.—Rheumatic pains in the scapula.—Rheumatic draw- ing and lacerating in the nape qfthe neck and back. Arms.—Stitches in the shoulder; drawing in the joint, with tremu 340 ASARUM EUROPIUM. lous uneasiness, obliging him to move the part constantly.—Stitch in the elbow.—The wrist feels as if bruised, with drawing and pressure when moving it.—Pressure in the roots of the fingers. Legs.—Lacerating around the joint when walking.—°Coxagra?— Restlessness, when sitting, as from a violent throbbing of the vessels ; twitchings and jactitation of the muscles of both thighs.—Burning, and burning throbbing in the upper part of the knee.—The legs incline to go to sleep.—Tension in the foot.—°Cold swelling around the malleoli 37.—ASARUM EUROPIUM. ASAR.—Asaret of Europe.—Hahnemann's "Mat. Med Pur.," Vol. I.—Dura- tion of Action : from 8 days to a fortnight. Compare with—Aeon., Hep., Stram., Puis , Sep. Antidotes.—Camph., Vinegar, vegetable acids GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Excessive sensibility of all the nerves. Great lassitude after dinner. General weary feeling, sometimes as if bruised all over. Lacerating or darting in the limbs.—Lightness of all the limbs. When walking in the open air the headache disap- peared, together with the hot feeling in the cheek, the drowsiness, and ill-humor. Sleep.—Languor and nausea towards evening. Drowsy, out of humor. Nightly vexing dreams. Fever.—Slight shuddering over the body. The hands are icy cold, the rest of the body warm. Shaking chills in the evening, with extreme languor ; without thirst. Sensitive to the cold. Chilliness when drinking. Cold feeling over the body, as if a cold wind blew upon him. Fever the whole day ; chilliness in the afternoon. Feel- ing of heat externally, with internal chills and thirst after dinner. Profuse night-sweat.—° Sour-smelling sweat.—Q Gastric fevers. ?—In- termittent fevers. ?—°Slow typhus. ? Moral Symptoms.—Sadness, with weeping mood and anxious feel- ing.—Great cheerfulness.—♦Great nervous irritation. Sensorium.—Dullness of the mind. Inability to do any kind of work. Sensation of vertigo. Dullness, and stupid condition of the whole head, with tension in the region of the ears. Early in the morning when rising, dizziness and drowsiness of the head, with headache in the left side of the forehead. Nausea and pain in the head from the least mental exertion. Aching pain in the forehead, with muddled state of the mind. Head.—Dull headache. Painful tightness and dullness of the ASARUM EUROPjEUM. 34i head.—Pressure in the brain. Intense compressive headache, more violent when walking or shaking the head. Violent pressure in the forehead, downwards upon the eyes.—Aching in the temples, especi- ally the left. Sharp aching above the root of the nose. Violent drawing pressure in the brain, under the forehead. Drawing head- ache, as if it would extent into the temples. (Stupefying) drawing pain here and there in the brain, in the ear, and nape of the neck Lacerating, pulsative pain in the forehead. Throbbing pain in the forehead, early in the morning, when rising. Tension of the scalp, which makes the hair feel painful. Eyes.—#Dry burning in the eye-lids and the inner canthi, especi- ally in the left eye, °as if occasioned by brandy, with continual lachrymation.—°The eyes are inflamed ; blear-eyeduess.—°Redness qfthe conjunctiva, with stinging and burning in the canthi; °cold is pleasant to the eyes ; sunshine, light, and wind are intolerable. Ob- scuration of vision.—°The eyes stare. Ears.—Dull roaring in the ear. Dragging pain in the ear. Con- tinued pain, owing to pressure, with temion in the region of the orifict of the meatus-auditiorius. Diminished hearing.—Ears feel stopped up in front. Face.— Warm feeling in the cheeks. When washing the face with cold water, the vertigo, headache, burning in the upper part of the tongue and in the mouth, contraction of the left cervical muscles, and the languid feeling in the knees disappear, but all those symptoms return when wiping the parts with a towel. Cutting cramp-pain in the region of the articulation of the lower jaw. Nose.— Discharge of bloody mucus from the nose. Dry coryza. Mouth.—Biting in the gums. Frequent contractive sensation in the interior of the mouth, producing an accumulation of watery saliva. Tongue coated white. Smarting sensation on the tongue and the gums. Burning sensation across the middle of the tongue, after- wards burning and dryness in the whole mouth. Taste.—Taste in the mouth as if the stomach had been deranged. Food tastes bitter. Throat.—Dryness of the throat, with stinging. Raw throat. Difficult deglutition, as if the cervical glands were swollen. Gastric Symptoms.—Hiccough. Frequent, empty eructations, °putrid, °sour, setting the teeth on edge, with heartburn. General uneasy feeling and nausea. Nausea and loathing, with shuddering Continued nausea and inclination to vomit, in the fauces.—Nausea and inclination to vomit, with pressure in the forehead, and a quan- tity of water accumulating in the mouth. Vomiting, with great 842 ASARUM EUROPJEUM. anguish.—Vomiting, diarrhoea. Vomiting, with great exertions and violent pressure in the stomach ; a quantity of sourish water only is thrown up. Vomiting, with violent compression in the epigastrium, a similar sensation being felt in the head. (Vomiting is followed by a diminution of the pains in the head). °Asiatic cholera °and cholerine. Stomach.__Fullness in the stomach, with hunger. Pinching in the stomach. °Cardialgia ; °excess of mucus in the stomach. Abdomen.—Soreness and pain as from excoriation in the spleen.— 0Inguinal hernia ?—Constrictive sensation in the region of the dia- phragm. ♦Cutting in the epigastric region. Excessive colic and vomiting. Fullness in the abdomen, with appetite and hunger. Qualmishness in the abdomen, with repeated attacks of oppressive headache. Pressure in the abdomen. Cutting in the abdomen, and sharp stitches in the rectum from above downwards previous to stool. Stool.—Stool, consisting of hard, small pieces. Scanty, yellow, mucoi g stool. Diarrhoea, like resin, and consisting of tenacious mucus ; mucus with ascarides.—°Lienteria ?—Diarrhoea from de- bility, with hectic fever.—Before stool: discharge of thick, black blood; Oprolapsus-recti.—°After stool: pressing, with discharge of white bloody mucus. Urinary Organs.—Pressure upon the bladder, during and after the emission of urine. Constant desire to urinate. Raging, intense pain in the left groin, darting through the urethra into the glans, and causing a sore, smarting, contractive, violent pain in the same, for a long time. Genital Organs.—Miscarriage, abortion.—Menses too soon and too long, with black blood.—°Violent pain in the lumbar vertebrae, at the appearance of the menses, which scarcely permits her to breathe. Larynx.—Inspiration irritates the throat, and excites a cough. Short breathing ; the throat feels constricted, and he is attacked with a short and backing cough.—°Whooping cough. ?—°Angina-membra- nacea. ?—Tabes-pituitosa. 1 Chest.—Frequent dull stitches in both lungs, during an inspira- tion. Feeling of pressure in the whole chest. Sharp pressure in the region of the last ribs, as with the back of a knife. Pain round about both lungs, as if constricted with a sharp wire.—°Chronic pneumo- nia. ?—Pituitous and spasmodic asthma of full-grown people. ? Back.—Burning pain, with stitches, in the small of the back, while sitting. Painful lameness in the back, as if bruised, disappearing when lying down. Pain as from bruises, in the back. Violent lace- rating stitches in the shoulders. ASPARAGUS. 343 Superior Extremities.—Sudden dull pain in the axillary glands Pain as from a sprain in the shoulder, when moving the arm. Lame- ness in the arm. Drawing, with painful lameness in the wrist-joint. Occasional darting and lacerating pains in the upper and lower limbs. Inferior Extremities.—Bruised feeling, and sometimes a painful lacerating in the upper and lower limbs. Painful feeling in the hip. Drawing pain, with pressure, in the hips. Dull pain in the hip-joint, and in the middle of the thigh, when touching the parts. Pain in the hip-joint in walking. Violent lancinations in the knees, during motion and when at rest. *Lassitude of the lower limbs, when going up-stairs. Lassitude in the knees, with staggering when walking Languor and weariness of the lower limbs and knees, with sensation as if bruised. ♦Uneasiness in the left knee-joint, inducing one to move about. The toes of both feet are painful, as if frozen. 38.—ASPARAGUS. ASPA.R.—See " Hygea" of 1840.—Very little known. Compare with—Arn., Cann., Dig., Spig. Antidotes—Coff. ?—Asparagus is said to antidote Coff. Head, Eyes, an» Face.—Giddiness in the forehead ; dullness of the head like giddiness; stupefaction in the region of the forehead, followed by pressure in the temples ; pressure in the forehead.—Pale face.—Burning of the cheeks. Stomach.—Increased thirst.—Nausea, early in the morning on waking, followed by vomiting of food, bile, and mucus, afterwards diarrhoea, consisting of bile and faeces.—Feeling of repletion in the abdomen; pinching in the umbilical region, in the evening, with painfulness to the touch; distention of the abdomen.—Bilious diar- rhoea, with burning and soreness of the anus, colic, and drawing in the groins. Urinary Organs.—The urine is straw-colored, scanty, becoming speedily turbid, with a white pellicle on top, and a white, flocculent sediment; the urine deposits a fatty substance; clear urine of bad smell.—Urging to urinate; frequent emission of a small quantity of urine, succeeded by burning ; diminished emission of urine.—Burn- ing in the urethra ; also cutting ; with drawing in the groins, colic, diarrhoea, and pain in the anus. Genital Organs.—Excitement of the sexual instinct. Respiratory Organs.—Hawking, with irritation, inducing cough 344 ATHAMANTA. with inability to detach the mucus.—Violent cough, with oppression of the chest, and expectoration of a quantity of mucus ; violent cough inducing a desire to vomit.—Oppression of the chest, particularly k writing ; labored breathing, during movement.—Pressure in the chest. after breakfast, with tightness during an inspiration.—Palpitation of the heart, which can be heard and felt; frequent palpitation of tht heart, with anxious restlessness when moving about; violent palpita tion of the heart when sitting; irregular, quick, double beats of the heart; the beats are scarcely perceptible.—Stitches in the region of the heart, after dinner. Back.—Pain in the region of the shoulder when touching it; rheu matic pain between the scapulae. Legs.—Pain as if sprained in the hip-joint. Pain as if bruised in the thigh. Painful soreness in the hip and knee-joint when bending them. 39.—ATHAMANTA. ATHAM.—Athamanta Oreoselinum, Mountain Parsley.—"Archiv.," XVII.— Duration of Action 1 Antidotes? GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Feeling of weakness and exhaustion, as from fatigue.—Icy coldness of the hands and feet, with chilliness all over the body, and a feeling of weariness and exhaustion ; burn- ing in various parts of the body, going off by touching the parts, suc- ceeded by great coldness ; increased warmth of the head in the even- ing, with quick pulse, and excessive excitement of the mind and phy- sical powers, without thirst.—The night's sleep is sound and deep, in the morning he sleeps longer than usual. Head, Eyes, and Ears.—Giddiness; dizziness and dullness of the occiput in walking; pressure and dullness in the head and in the upper teeth ; cloudiness with dull headache; giddiness and con- striction in the sides of the head. Stomach, Abdomen, and Stool.—Bitter taste, particularly while eating; eructations, imperfect, with malaise as from hunger. Rheu- matic drawing in the outer parts. Sudden, almost irresistible expul- sion of faeces, preceded by pinching in the abdomen. Trachea and Chest.—Bitter mucus in the trachea, which cannot be thrown off, even by vomiting.—Oppressed feeling in the thoracic viscera. Extremities.—Pain as if bruised above the thighs; pressure in the knee-joint from within outwards. rf AURUM. 345 40.—AURUM (the Common Metal). AUR.—Gold.—Hahnemann's "Chronic Diseases," Vol.11.—Duration of Action: 6 weeks, and even several years. Compare with—Asa-f., Bell., Calc, Chin., Cupr., Lach., Merc, Nitr.-ac., Puis.. Nux-v., Spig.—Aur. is frequently indicated after Bell., Chin., Puis. Antidotes.;—Bell., Chin., Cupr., Merc.—Aur. antidotes Merc, Spig. CLINICAL REMARKS. Hahnemann.—" I have cured, by means of Gold, several cases of melancholy, in persons who earnestly thought of killing themselves. They took in all about the -fa or -fa part of a grain of Gold. I have also cured several other important affections, which will be found enumerated among the symptoms of Gold, and I doubt not that much higher triturations than those which I employed would have been sufficient for obtaining the same results. " Shortly after closing these introductory remarks, I had an oppor- tunity of convincing myself that luiu o part of a grain of Gold will manifest a most powerful curative action, especially in cancer of the palate and nasal bones consequent upon the abuse of the acidulated preparations of Mercury. The Gold symptoms analogous to these artificial affections will be found among the subsequent symptoms* " Farther trituration and dilution develops and dynamizes the power of Gold still more, so that I now use, very often, only the smallest part of a grain of the decillionth potency. " In the following affections, Gold has been found especially useful: Hypochondriasis ; melancholy ; loathing of life ; disposition to sui- cide ; rush of blood to the head; cancer of the palate bones and nasal bones ; obscuration of sight by black spots hovering before the eyes ; toothache from rush of blood to the head, with heat in the head; inguinal hernia; induration of the testes of long standing ; prolapsus and induration of the uterus ; rush of blood to the chest; falling down unconsciously, with the face becoming blue; attack of suffocation, with severe constrictive dyspnoea; injuries inflicted by the abuse of Quicksilver; pains in the bones, at night; nodosities of the gout." —Ed. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Simple pain, or pain as from a bruise, early in the morning, when in bed, in all the joints, especially in the small of the bask and knees; the pain increases during rest, and * Note.—Ant. Chalmetus, in "Enchiridion Chirug.," p. 402, has observed this same curative powers of Gold, when used internally, against the bad conse. quences of the abuse of the preparations of Mercury. 15* 346 AURUM. passes off after rising. Pain as from bruises in the head and in aU the limbs, early in the morning when in bed, most violent when at rest; passing off immediately after rising.—Going to sleep ; numb- ness and insensibility of the arms and legs early on waking, more when lying still than in motion.—Shooting and drawing pains in tne arms and legs, occasionally.—In the afternoon, painful drawing in the veins, with exhaustion. Violent seething of blood, as if it were boiling; all her blood appears to rush from her head into the lower extremities ; they feel paralyzed.—Internal emptiness and weakness of the whole body.—Excessive sensitiveness of the whole body, sus- ceptibility to every sort of pain.—°Hysteric and hypochondriac com- plaints ; °scrofulous sufferings; °dropsical affections; °complaints from abuse of Merc.; °nightly bone-pains ; °inflammation and ulce- ration of the bones ; syphilitic and mercurial affections of the bones. Sxin.—°Bony tumors on the head, arms, and legs ; °arthritic nodo- sities ; °dropsical swellings; °scrofulous and mercurial glandular swellings, ulcers, and tetters ; °rhagades ; °cancerous ulcers.—For- mication all over the body ; itching and burning shootings.—Pustules on the face, the neck, and chest. Sleep.—In the morning and on waking, sense of fatigue. Drow- siness in the daytime. Uneasy sleep. He sobs aloud when asleep. Frequent waking at night, as in affright; frightful dreams, with loud screams in his sleep. Fever. — Very sensitive to cold over the whole body. Coldness over the whole body, early in the morning. Coldness of the body, espe- cially of the hands and feet, in the evening when in bed. Chilliness, in the evening, when in bed, with coldness of the legs as far as the knees. Horripilation over the whole body, in the evening, with dry coryza, without heat and without subsequent thirst; in the evening shiverings and chills after lying down; headache before lying down. Moral Symptoms.—*Dejected spirits, and full of grief; ♦longs for death ; frequent attacks of anguish about the heart, and tremulous fearfulness; excessive anguish, with palpitation of the heart, weariness in all the limbs, and sleepiness ; great anguish, ♦increasing unto self-destruction, with spasmodic contraction in the abdomen. °Reli- gious melancholy, occasioned by remorse after a violation of duty.— Uneasiness, and hurried desire for bodily and mental activity.—■ Apprehensiveness; dread of men ; shyness; pusillanimity.—Loathing of life.—Constant sullenness and taciturnity.—Peevishness, and indis- position to speak. Atra-bilious and quarrelsome.—Peevish and *vtiuemcnt; the least contradiction excites his wrath.—*Rash anger and vehemence; #weeps and laughs alternately. ♦Frequent alternation AURUM. 341 of silent peevishness and cheerfulness. ° Hysteric and hypochondriac dejection of spirits.—Tremulous agitation of the nerves, as in joyous hope. Sensorium.—Fatigue and nausea from mental labor. Head.—Dullness of the head. Vertigo. Headache as from an incipient cold. Headache, worse on reflecting or reading. Pressure in the temples; pressure, with lacerating in the head, erratic— Lacerating pain, more violent during motion.—Semi-lateral, throbbing, hacking headache—*Rush of blood to the head; when stooping, passing off again after raising the head; *tumult and roaring in the head, °especially in hysteric persons; °sensation as if a current of air were rushing through the head when it is not kept warm.—The bones of the skull painful on lying down.—*Small exostosis, with boring pain, which increases when the tumor is touched. Eyes.—Sensation of weakness and pressure in the eyes.—Pressure in the eyes, as from some foreign body.—Tension in the eyes, with diminution of sight.—°Red swelling ofHhe lids in scrofulous persons, with styes.—Distended, protruded eyes.—Contraction or dilatation of the pupils.—Indistinct sight, as if a black gauze were drawn over the eyes.—Half-sightedness, as if the upper half of the eye were covered with a dark body.—Double sight.—*Fiery sparks before the eyes.— °Incipient amaurosis.—°Specks on the cornea. Ears.—Tension in the ears.—Crepitation in the left car.—Hum- ming.—♦Roaring in the ears, early in the morning.—The parotid gland is painful to the touch, as if contused.—° Affections of the ears from abuse of Mercury.—°Carics of the mastoid process.—°Fetid otorrhoea.—°Hardness of hearing, from elongation of the uvula, with difficulty of speech. Nose.—° Caries of the nose.— The right nasal bone and the ad- joining part of the upper jaw are painful to the touch, especially at the place where the infra-orbital nerve comes out.—Feeling of soreness in the nose.—♦Painful nostrils, they are closed by ulcers.— ♦Swelling of the nose, in the room, after walking in the open air, °in scrofulous persons; ♦swelling and redness of the right nostril, and underneath. Dark, brown-red, slightly elevated spots on the nose, painful when touched.—Cancer of the nose. ?—Loss of smell.—°Stop- page of the nose.—Coryza, sometimes violent and profuse. Face.—Violent lacerating in the malar bone.—♦Tension in the malar bones and in the ears.—Burning stitches in the malar bone.— Eruption on the face ; fine pimples.— Bloated face, shining as from sweat, with distended, protruded eyes ; swelling of both checks, with swelling of the lips and nose.—°Inflammatory pain in the bones of the 348 AURUM. face, particularly when occasioned by abuse of Mercury; °swelling of the frontal bone, the upper jaws, and the nasal bones; °re'1 eruption on the forehead and tbe nose, with scaling off of the skin; °swollen, ulcerated lips, in scrofulous subjects. Jaws and Teeth.—Pain in a submaxillary gland, as if it were swollen. Hacking and grumbling pain in the teeth, with swelling of the cheeks. Toothache caused by air entering the mouth. Sensation of dullness of the molar teeth. Looseness of the teeth. Painful pustules on the gums, as if a fistula-dentalis would form. Ulcer on the gums, with swelling of the cheeks. °Boring ; -a kind of pressure in the region of the palate.—°Swelling and ulceration of the tonsils. Mouth, Pharynx, and (Esophagus.—Stinging soreness in the throat, only during deglutition. #Putrid smell of the mouth, in young girls at the age of pubescence. ° Caries of the palate, especially after abuse of Mercury, with bluish ulcers; °drinks flow back again through the nose. Taste and Appetite.—Bitter taste in the mouth, with sensation of dryness. Gastric Symptoms.—Want of appetite.—Nausea in the stomach and throat. Stomach and Abdomen.—Pain in the stomach, as of hunger. Swelling of the precordial region and the whole upper part of the belly. Heaviness in the abdomen, with icy-cold hands and feet. Pressure in the abdomen. Tensive pressure in the abdomen, just below the umbilicus, and in both lumbar regions, with feeling of fullness and urging.—Painful feeling of contraction in the abdomen Colic in the abdomen.—°Swelling and suppuration of the inguinal glands, after abuse of Mercury ; or from some syphilitic cause.—Want of flexibility, and painful stiffness in the hip and the tendons of the psoas muscles.—Weakness in the groin.—♦Pressing in the right abdominal ring, as if hernia would protrude, when sitting : ♦protrusion of inguinal hernia, with great, cramp-like pain.—°Inguinal hernia of children.—°Exostosis in the pelvic cavity. Stool.—Constipation.—Diarrhoea; nightly diarrhoea, with much burning in the rectum.—The external border of the rectum is painful and swollen. Urine.—°Frequent emission of watery urine.—Painful reten- tion of urine, with pressure on the bladder. Turbid urine, like buttermilk, with a deep sediment of mucus.—Dull lancinations in the urethra. Genital Organs.—Nightly erections and pollutions.—Itching of the scrotum.—*:Swelling of the right testicle,—with aching pain when AURUM FULMTNANS. 349 touohing or rubbing it.—°Chronic induration qfthe testes.—Pains in the abdomen, as from labor, as if the menses would make their ap- pearance.—°Prolapsus and induration of the uterus. Larynx.—Cough, at night, from want of breath.—Nasal tone of voice. Chest.—Oppression of the chest and abdomen when coughing.— Intensely painful stitches under the ribs, when taking a deep breath and vawning.—Difficulty of breathing; severe dyspnaza; asthma, when walking in the open air; excessive dyspnaza, with difficulty of breathing at night; dyspnaza with dull stitches in the chest, when drawing breath.—Tightness of the thoracic cavity, with anxiety. 0Suffocative fit, with constrictive oppression of the chest, falling down without consciousness, and blueness of countenance.—°Violent congestion of blood to the chest.—Pressure on the right side of the chest, with extreme anguish.—Cutting pain on the left side near the sternum, more violent during an inspiration. Stitches, with heat and dyspnoea ; when walking, the heart seems to shake as if it were loose ; sometimes a single very violent beat of the heart. ^Palpitation of the heart, °with anguish and oppression of the chest.—°Organic affections of the heart, with hydrothorax.?—°Aneurisms.? Back.—Pain in the small of the back.—Tension in the neck, as if a muscle were too -short, even when at rest, but more violent when stooping. Arms.__Fine stitches in the shoulder.—Soreness of the shoulders, even without touching or moving them.—Lacerating in the arms, wrists, and hands.—The fore-arms feel heavy when at rest. Legs.—Lameness and pain in the hip-joint, only when rising from a seat and walking. The thigh feels paralyzed.—Weakness of the thigh when walking.—Painful stiffness and lameness of the knees, both when at rest and in motion; pain in the knees, as if tightly ban- daged, when sitting and walking.—Vacillation of the knees.—The heels are painful as from subcutaneous ulceration. 41.—AURUM FULMINANS. AUR. FUL.—Fulminating Gold, the Oxyde of Gold with Ammonia.—Hahne- mann's "Chronic Diseases." Spasms, convulsions.—Sinking of strength; fainting fits, cold sweat on the limbs, violent vomiting.—Internal anguish and restless- ness.—Profuse salivation.—Violent, green vomiting.—Black stool; colic, particularly in children.— Violent, colic, with vomiting and diarrhnza.— Violent diarrhaza 850 AURUM MURIATICUM. 42.—AURUM MURIATICUM. AUR. MUR.—The Muriate of Gold.—Hahnemann's " Chronic Diseases," II. (Symptoms from Jahr, Noack, and Trinks, &c.) GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Spasms and convulsions.—Inflamma tory affections of internal organs.—Seething of the blood.—Haemor- rhages.—Fainting fits.—Aggravation of the syphilitic symptoms. Skin.—Purple redness of the skin.— Condylomata. Sleep.—Obstinate sleeplessness. Fever.—Violent chills.—Increase of the animal heat and of the turgor-vitalis ; general erethism-and acceleration of the circulation. —Profuse sweats.—Violent fever; fever, with excessive and continual heat of the skin; febrile paroxysm, with shuddering pain in the limbs, back, and stomach, terminating in critical sweat, sediment in the urine, and ptyalism; febrile paroxysm, with irritated pulse, slight chilliness, heat, thirst, redness of the skin, terminating in a critical sweat which continued for several days ; urine, ptyalism, diarrhoea, blennorrhoea, and ulcers ; fever, with hard, spasmodic pulse and great restlessness; the fever resembles tbe Mercury, but still more the Iodine fever.—Feverish, full, strong pulse; pulse 80,90,100 a minute. Moral Symptoms.— Violent anguish.—Sadness.—Cheerfulness. Head.— Vertigo.—Titillation in the forehead.—Drawing pain in the forehead.—Congestion of the blood to the head, increasing to delirium.—Throbbing in the carotids and temporal arteries. Eyes.—Lacerating in the left eye.—Amaurosis. Ears.—Tingling and humming in the ears, followed by hardness of hearing. Nose.—Creeping and crawling in the nose; ^redness and inflam mation, with itching of the nose, and subsequent desquamation; *red swelling of the left side of the nose, ulceration of the inner cavity; °ozoena, with discharge of a yellowish-green pus, °also with discharge of blood from the nose. Teeth.—Darting pain in the teeth, partly on one side of the jaw, partly in the upper incisors.—(N. B. According to Chrestien, the Muriate of Gold acts more violently than Corrosive Sublimate, but irritates the gums less). Mouth.—Frequent accumulation of saliva in the mouth; mild inodorous, watery salivation, with slight inflammation of the buccal cavity.—Dry mouth.— Painful irritation of the parts over which the food passes.—Inflammation of the buccal cavity.—Dryness of the tongue.—Red tongue.—Excoriation of the tongue.—Warts on tho BARYTA CARBONICA. 351 tongue.—Blueness of the mucous membrane of the mouth and tha tongue protruded from the mouth (in dogs).—°Ulceration and swelling of the lips and nose, particularly in scrofulous persons. Pharynx and Oesophagus.—Dryness of the fauces.—Redness of the fauces and pharynx. Appetite and Taste.—Metallic taste.—Loss of appetite.—In creased appetite. Stomach.—Nausea.— Vomiting ; vomiting of white, frothy matter, or of a small quantity of livid-colored matter.—Feeling of increased warmth in the stomach.—Pressure in the region of the stomach.— Cardialgia.—Gastric irritation.—Most violent gastritis. Abdomen.—Distention of the abdomen.—Contractive, tensive pain of the abdomen.—Pains in the abdomen and diarrhaza. Stool and Anus.—Constipation.—Frequent liquid stools. Diar- rhaza and pain in the bowels.—Warts and condylomata at the anus. Urine.—Increased secretion of urine, the urine having a peculiar smell and sediment.—Turbid urine, with brick-dust sediment. Genital Organs.—Increased sexual instinct.—Exhausting erec- tions. —Warts and condylomata on the prepuce.—Flat ulcers on the scrotum.—The menses appear sooner and are more profuse. Larynx.—Feeling of obstruction in the larynx, with shortness of breath; °affections of the larynx in syphilitic persons, or from abuse of Mercury.—Hoarseness, with violent fever. Chest.—Deep, labored breathing; oppressed breathing.—Strong noise at every expiration.—Labored, whistling, panting breathing, threatening suffocation.—Great oppression in the chest.—Suffocation, with great pain.—Sticking pain below the ribs, with all the symptoms of pleurisy.—Inflammatory condition of the thoracic viscera ; pneu- monia.—A few stitches directly above the heart.—Peculiar feeling of heaviness and hardness in the heart, with frequent and sudden arrest of breathing.—Palpitation of the heart.—Inflammation of the heart. Extremities.—Swelling on the wrist-joint, with tension when bending the hand backwards, and stitches in the swelling when grasping anything. 43.—BARYTA CARBONICA. BAR. CARB.—The Carbonate of Baryta.—Hahnemann's " Chronic Diseases," II.—Duration of Action: 50 days. Compare with—Alum., BelL, Calc, Caust., Cham., Chin., Dulc, Lach., Magn., Merc, Natr., Phosph., Sep , Sil., Sulph , Tart.,—Tart.-em. is frequently suit able before and after Bar. 352 BARYTA CARBONICA. Antidotes.—Of large doses • the Sulphate of Soda or Magnesia.—Of small doses: Bell., Camph., Dulc, Merc CLINICAL REMARKS. Hahnemann.—" This drug may be advantageously used in the following affections, provided it be ho- moeopathically indicated : Whining mood; anxiety, as regards domestic concerns ; dread of strangers, of company ; headache close over the eyes; susceptibility of the head to cold; eruption upon the head; baldness ; eruption upon and behind the ears ; tubercles behind the ears; eruption upon the lobule; buzzing and tingling before the ear; pressure in the eyes; inflammation of the eye-balls and lids, with dread of light; agglutination of the eye-lids ; flying webs and black spots before the eyes; dimness of sight; he cannot read; the eyes are dazzled by the light; scurf under the nose; eruption upon the face ; single jerks in the teeth; burning stitches in the hollow tooth, if something warm touches them; dryness of the mouth; constant thirst; eructations after eating; sour eructation; water-brash; chronic nausea ; pressure at the stomach, also after eating; pain at the stomach, fasting and after eating; pain at the stomach on touching the pit difficult knotty stool; hard and insufficient stool; tenesmus of the bladder and frequent micturition; weakness qfthe sexual powers; leucorrhoea immediately before the menses; coryza; troublesome dryness of the nose; night-cough; hoarseness of the chest with night- cough ; excessive secretion of mucus in the chest; palpitation of the heart, perceptible without any previously exciting cause ; pain in the rmall of the back ; stiffness of the-small of the back ; stiffness of the nape of the neck; stitches in the nape of the neck: pain in the deltoid muscle, on raising the arm ; the arm goes to sleep when lying upon it; the fingers go to sleep; traction and tearing in the legs; ulcers on the feet; fetid sweat of the feet; painful lymphatic swelling of the ball of the big toe; twitches and jerks of the body by day; heaviness in the whole body; loss of strength; general weakness of the nerves and body; susceptibility to cold. WARTS ; raving when asleep; twitches of the muscles of the whole body, at night; nig ht-sweat.''—E d . GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Consequences of a cold.—.oScrofulous affections.—Pains in the joints and long bones ; crampy pressure (or pressure with lameness), drawing and tearing, or tension as if too short; *jerking of single limbs, also in the daytime; jactitation of the muscles, particularly at night, in the whole body.—Stitches in the joints, with feeling of relaxation.—In the morning, on waking, all the limbs feel bruised, with weariness and heaviness in the limbs.__#Great BARYTA CARBONICA. 353 sensitiveness to cold ; *he catches cold easily, and is liable to sore throat in consequence.—A walk in the open air fatigues him.—Great weariness: with constant inclination to lie or sit down; at eight o'clock in the evening, with weakness and languor of the body, as if he would sink down ; ^prostration and inability to support one' i-self on one's limbs ; -also with giving way of the knees, pain in the spine in the region of the loins, and a feeling of malaise in the whole body ; great nervousness, with excessive irritation of all the senses.— 0Atrophy of children, with tympanitis and glandular swellings.— °Paralysis after apoplexy. Characteristic Peculiarities.—The pains are more particularly felt on the left side, most of them come on while sitting, and go off during movement or in the open air.—The limbs go to sleep when lying on them.—Inability to rest on the left side, owing to seething of the blood, palpitation of the heart, with soreness in the heart, and anxiety.—The weakness, which is generally a kind of heaviness, is most supportable while lying down.—° Complaints of old people, or of children, ^particularly physical, nervous, and mental weakness. Skin.—Prickings over the whole body.—Tingling and burning prickings, here and there.—Intolerable tingling over the whole body. Burning itching here and there.—°Warts.—*Panaritia.—^Swelling and induration of the glands.—°Steatoma and sarcoma. Sleep.—Frequent yawning. Unconquerable drowsiness. Uneasy sleep, full of dreams. Sleeplessness, at night, on account of feeling very hot. At night, frequent drawing in the ear. Pain in the legs, at night, as if he had outdone himself by excessive walking or dancing. Faintishness, at night, with nausea and vomiting, Weeping mood, at night. ^Ravings of the fancy and stupefaction, at night, as in fever. Unrefreshing sleep, the limbs felt weary, as if bruised. Con- fused dreams, with uneasy sleep, frequent waking, and great fatigue. Fever.—Chilliness with thirst, in the afternoon. Sensitiveness to the cold. Slight chills, especially over the arms, with goose-flesh and yawning, in repeated attacks. Chilliness of the head, with shaking, and tension in the region of the malar bones. Chilliness, in the forenoon. Constant coldness, as if she had cold water poured over her, worse in the afternoon. Sense of coldness with burning, on the forehead, in the forenoon. Alternate chilliness and heat, the whole night. Frequent flushes of heat rising to her head. Heat at night, and anguish. Dry heat the whole night, with sleeplessness. Ex- cessive languor of all the limbs, in the afternoon. ♦Sweat after midnight. Exhausting *night-sweats. Moral Symptoms.—Disinclination to talk ; dejection of spirits, 23 354 BARYTA CARBONICA ♦dread of men; ♦suddenly overwhelmed with an evil apprehension; ♦great solicitude and anxious care, about insignificant things, -parti cularly about domestic affairs.—Highest degree of irresoluteness; great ennui and ill humor; peevish, morose, quarrelsome. Anger. Mirth increases to wantonness. Sensorium. — Deficiency of memory. Dullness of the head : the head feels gloomy on waking; dullness when sitting, abating in the open air; dullness and heaviness of the head, with drowsiness spreading towards the temples and the forehead ; with tension in the forehead and eyes.—Vertigo; vertigo, ♦from stooping, with nausea, or headache.—° Apoplexy, of the old, or drunken. Head.—Headache in the evening; every noise affected her brain painfully. Painful pressure in the brain. Stupefying dull pressure in the forehead, close above the eye; pressure in the forehead, from within outwards ; violent pressing in the whole head, as if it would burst, especially violent in both frontal eminences, and above the orbits ; sense of weight in the whole occiput, close to the nape of the neck, with tension ; feeling of tension around the whole forehead, in the skin, as if it were too tight. Drawing and lacerating. Rheuma- tic pain in the occipital bone ; with glandular swellings in the nape of the neck; shooting, deep in the temple, in the orbit, and the ear of the left side ; stitches in the head, commencing immediately in a warm room; severe stitches in the whole head, increasing and decreasing; violent stitches in the brain, with heat and tingling in the head; throbbing in the occiput, as far as the frontal eminence, in the evening; violent throbbing in the forehead, deep in the brain, when stooping ; digging headache, in the forehead and temples, also In the upper and fore part in the head, almost daily, early after rising, discontinuing in the afternoon ; sense of looseness in the brain ; rush of blood to the head, the blood seems to be stagnant; whizzing in the head, as of boiling water ; heat in the head.—Shivering over the hairy scalp.—The scalp is painful to every touch; the hair comes out when combing it; °baldness ; "liable to colds in the head; itching and gnawing of the hairy scalp and the temples ; formication in the scalp; eruption on the forehead (of the genus herpes ?) with a burning itching sensation.—°Humid and dry scurf on the head. Eyes.—The eye-balls are painful.—♦Soreness and weariness of the eyes, with pressure.—♦Pressure deep in the eyes.—Pressure in both eyes, with itching as from dust.—Lacerating in the eyes ; itching in the eyes : itching, burning pressure, sense of soreness, and feeling of dryness in the eyes; dry heat and pressure in the eyes ; the eyes burn after exerting them, internal inflamed redness of the lids BARYTA CARBONICA. 355 redness of the white of the eye, and a white pimple on it, near the cornea; inflammation of the eyes and lids, especially in scrofulous subjects.—Swelling of the lids, early in the morning; purulent mucus in the lids, early in the morning ; ♦agglutination of the eye- lids. ♦Sees everything as in a fog; accompanied by an aching pain in the eye-balls; sensation as of a gauze before the eyes, early in the morning and after dinner; frequent obscuration of sight; ♦black spots before the eyes ; fiery sparks before the eyes, and lacerating in the eyes. Ears.—Drawing pain in the ears ; violent stitches in the ear; ♦throbbing in the left ear; ♦throbbing and hard pressure deep in the right ear.—Itching in the ears; ♦eruption on the ears.—The right parotid is swollen, and painful to the touch.—Cracking in the ear, when walking fast, swallowing, sneezing, &c.—^Roaring and buzzing in the ears; noise in the ears, in the evening, like the ringing of bells ; hard hearing. Nose.—Bleeding at the nose.—°Scurf under the nose. Sneezing, especially in the evening, with concussive sensation in the brain, and subsequent vertigo.—Stoppage and ♦troublesome dryness of the nose. —Constant coryza, with sense of obstruction; *fluent, -with hollow, deep voice, and dry cough, in the morning and daytime. Face.—inflammatory prosopalgia with swelling.—Stitches in the face ; sense of tension in the whole face, with loathing and diarrhoea ; °sensation as if the face were swollen; slight swelling of the face ; ♦swelling of the left cheek and the region behind the ear, with pain in the temple.—Heat in the face, without redness ; redness of the face, with purple lips and seething of the blood.—°Herpes; ? °crusta- lactea. ?—Dryness of the lips and gums. Swelling of the lip, with burning pain. Pustules about the lips. Jaws and Teeth.—Painful gnawing in the left lower jaw. The glands of the left lower jaw are painful. ♦Swelling of the submaxillary glands, °with induration. Toothache in the evening, when in bed. Tensive pain, and painful stitches in the whole of the right row of teeth. Lacerating in the molar teeth. Painful gnawing in the roots and the gums of the molar teeth. Boring in the teeth, as soon as he introduces cold or warm substances into his mouth. ♦Drawing, jerking, throbbing toothache, as if something were lodged under the teeth. °Burning stitches in hollow teeth when touched by warm food.—Painful toothache, with soreness.—Frequent and considerable bleeding qfthe gums. #They are of a pale red, and bordered with a dark-red narrow border.—°Toothache in decayed teeth, before iln menses, or from a cold. 356 baryta carbj::;ca Mouth.—The buccal cavity feels numb. The whole mouth is filleo with inflamed vesicles, especially the palate and the inside of th<* cheeks. Hardness on the middle of the tongue, burning when touched; burning sense of excoriation at the tip of the tongue.— Burning blisters at the tip of the tongue.—Coated tongue. ♦Dryness of the tongue, early in the morning, with sense of swelling of the throat. Dryness in the mouth, early, after rising. Viscidity of the mouth. Fetid odor from the mouth. Throat.—Rawness and roughness in the throat, worse after swal- lowing. Roughness and sense of excoriation in the throat, worse during empty deglutition, the neck being painful on both sides when touched. Stinging sore throat, when swallowing. Dryness, and painful stinging and pressing, as from a swelling in the left side of the throat, only when swallowing. Choking, or contraction in the throat, with arrest of breathing. Sensation as if a plug or a quantity of phlegm were in the throat. Swelling of the left tonsil. Chilliness, heat, and sensation as if bruised in all the limbs, succeeded by ♦in- flammation of the throat, with swelling of the palate and tonsils, which pass into suppuration, preventing him from opening the jaws, or from speaking and swallowing, with dark-brown urine and sleep- lessness.—° Chronic disposition to inflammation of the throat, and swelling of the tonsils. Taste and Appetite.— Bitter and slimy mouth, with coated tongue. Sour taste in the mouth. *Thirst, with dryness in the mouth. No appetite. Slight appetite. Repugnance to food, with feeling of hunger. Symptoms after dinner : worn out, faintish, un- easy from constant urging to stool, and feeling of anxiety in the lum- bar region; great laziness and dread of labor; pressure upon the bladder ; suppressed eructations, with subsequent spasmodic contrac- tive pain at the stomach. Gastric Symptoms.—Incessant eructations. ♦Sourish or bitter eructations. Rancid eructations. Heartburn, preceded by eructa- tions. Nausea, early in the morning when fasting, with palpitation of the heart and anxiety. ♦Nausea, as from a deranged stomach, early in the morning.—° Weakness of digestion. Stomach.—♦Nausea in the region of the stomach. *Inclination to vomit, a kind of uneasiness with qualmishness. Frequent vomiting of mucus. ♦Pain in tho stomach. Sensitiveness in the praecordial region. ♦Heaviness of the stomach, with nausea, when fasting. Feeling of repletion after taking ever so little food, with painful heaviness of the stomach, as from a stone, and an intensely painful gnawing. ♦Pressure at the stomach, as from a stone, relieved by BARYTA CARBONICA. 357 eructations. Pressure in the praecordial region, with dyspnoea and a sensation as if the breath were arrested; the pressure increases by tasting a little food. Contractive pain in the stomach, in the after- noon. Pain in the stomach, as from ulceration, on external pressure Soreness in the pit of the stomach, when pressing upon it, and when drawing breath. Painful, writhing sensation in the stomach, ivhilt eating, when the food is descending into it, as if it had to force it* way through and over sore places. ♦Even fasting, she feels a sore- ness in the stomach. The sense of pressure, with soreness and gnawing in the stomach, is most violent when walking or standing, also when sitting crooked; when lying on the back, when stooping, ♦or press- ing upon the stomach, only feels a painful pressure, not the gnawing. Abdomen.—Severe pain in the bowels, preventing sleep, and returning on the least motion. Painful distention of the abdomen. Feeling in the abdomen as if something were swollen in it. Tense- ness of the abdomen, with sensitiveness of the abdominal integuments to the touch. Sudden contractive pain in the hypogastrium, above the genital organs. Pinching in the abdomen, with nausea. Pinch- ing round the naval, on the least motion. Pinching bellyache, extending from the top to the bottom of the abdomen. Cutting colic, at night. Painful cutting in the abdomen, especially round the navel, in the evening. Violent colic, as if diarrhoea would take place. Sensation in the abdomen as if she would be attacked by diarrhoea, accompanied by chills. Sensation of anguish, with unea- siness and sick feeling in the lumbar region, like an urging to stool. Feeling of soreness around the belly, commencing in the small of the back. Painful pressure in the muscles, especially in the evening, increasing to an insupportable degree when walking. Pressing in the abdominal ring, during exercise and stool. Stool.—Frequent urging. Frequent urging, with painful sore- ness in the lumbar region, and shivering chills over the head and legs, as in dysentery; then loose stool, at short intervals, the pains in the loins continuing, with renewed urging. Urging, with violent pain in the belly. Loose stool, terminating in diarrhoea. Diarrhoea, mixed with blood. Hard stool, with burning in the rectum. Expul- sion of ascarides. Burning in the rectum during the otherwise natural stool. Humid varices after stool. Varices of the rectum, with stinging pains, and as from excoriation. Frequent expulsion of blood from the rectum, with distention of the abdomen. Crawling in the rectum. Biting, burning in the rectum. Burning around the anus, and soreness, as if the parts were excoriated. Urine.—#Great desire to urinate, cannot retain the urine. *Fr& BARYTA CARBONICA. quent emission of urine every other day. Rare and scanty emission of urine, with burning in the urethra. Urine with yellow sediment. Burning in the urethra during micturition. Pinching in the abdomen during micturition. Male Genital Organs.—Burning in the left testicle. Red, excoriated, moist, burning place between the scrotum and the thigh. Numbness of the sexual organs. ♦The sexual desire is suppressed ♦Diminished sexual desire. Great increase of the sexual desire. Sudden erection in the evening, with shuddering. Female Genital Organs.—Continued increase of the sexual desire. ♦The menses are very scanty. The menses appear too soon. Before the menses: °Toothache, with swelling of the gums ; °colic, with swelling of the lower limbs ; °leucorrhoea. During the menses: Cutting and pinching in the abdomen ; pain, as from bruises, in the small of the back. Discharge of sanguinolent mucus from the vagina, with anxious beating of the heart, uneasiness in the body, pain in the back, and weakness even unto fainting. Tearing in the pudendum, at intervals. Larynx.—Hoarseness and aphony for some weeks. ♦Voice not clear, on account of tenacious pniegm. Roughness or tickling in the throat, occasioning a continual short hacking cough. Cough excited by continual speaking. *Cough after midnight, -also with huskiness and accumulation of mucus in the chest. Dry, short cough, in the evening, with subsequent weakness in the head.—Suffocating cough —°Loose cough, with a saltish, starch-like expectoration of four weeks' standing, went off. Chest.—Soreness in the chest, when coughing. °Suffocative catarrh, an 1 paralysis of the lungs in old people. Fullness in the chest, with short breath, especially when ascending a height; with pain as from bruises, in the left side. *A pressure on the chest, with tickling and dry cough. Stitches and shooting in the chest and heart. Soreness in the inner and outer parts of the chest.—Violent beating of the heart. Palpitation of the heart, when lying on the left side.__Burn- ing of the outer parts of the chest, with redness of the skin. Itching of the outer parts of the chest. Back.—Pain in the small of the back. Heaviness in the small of the back and loins, as from cold. -Painful drawing in the small of the back, as if a heavy body were moving downwards. *Tensivt pain in the small of the back, worst in the evening. ♦Sensation as of incipient throbbing in the small of the back.—Great pain in the right side of the back, when lying down. Weakness and want of mobility in the dorsal spine. Pain, as from bruises, between the shoulders.__ BARYTA CARBONICA. 359 Burning in the loins.—Throbbing in the back, like strong pulsations, mostly when at rest, and after an emotion.—Violent itching of the back, day aud night.—*Stiffness in the nape of the neck, -when waking from the siesta. °Lancinations in the nape of the neck, ^tension in the neck and scapulae, particularly when the air is rough and cold ; °sarcoma, with burning in the inmost parts. Swelling on the nape of the neck, which, little by little, spreads over the whole head with redness of the skin, and pain thereof, as from ulceration, ♦ac- companied by considerable swelling of the glands in this region, foi several days. ♦Several glandular swellings in the nape of the neck and occiput.—Frequent pain of the axillary glands. °Steatoma in the axilla. Arms.—The arms are heavy and tremulous. ♦When laying the arm upon the table, it goes to sleep. Tension in small places of the arms. Swelling of the right arm, with pain in the axillary glands. —Bone-pain at a small spot of the upper arm, as if an ulcer would form there. °Pain in the deltoid muscle when raising the arm.— Pain of the elbow, as from a contusion.—Pain, as from bruises, appa- rently in the radius.—Painful lameness in the fore-arm and hand, going off by motion. Tension or drawing in the wrist-joint.—Cramp- pain in the hand. Dryness of the skin of the hands, like parchment. Titillation in the hands, ♦after which they go to sleep. ♦Numbness in the fingers, as if gone to sleep. Legs.—Sudden stitches in the hip-joint, as if luxated, with pain when walking, as if it would break down. Burning in the nates. Violent lancinations in the nates. Lacerating from above downwards in the buttock, increasing and decreasing. Cramp in the lower limbs. Tension in the lower extremities, up to the hip. ^Lacerating and tension in the bones of the lower extremities, down to the heel. Drawing pain from above downwards, along the whole of the left lower limb. Languor in the left lower limb, early in the morning. Weariness in the lower limbs, and jerks in the foot, when sitting, with painful soreness of the posterior surface of the thigh. Sudden beating in the thigh. Violent pain, as from a contusion, in the middle of the thigh. Violent itching of the thighs, even at night. Painful stitches in the knee-joints.—Pain in the leg, especially in the right tibia, as if the parts were lame. Drawing pain in the legs, apparently in the bones. °Ulcers in the legs.—Uneasiness in the fttt, when sitting. Tremor of the feet, when standing. Cramp-like pain in the soles of the feet. Drawing pain in the foot, only when walking. Burning in the soles of the feet. Drawing pain in the toes Cramp in the toes, on extending the foot.—°Fetid sweat of the feet- 860 BARYTA MURIATICA. 44.—BARYTA MURIATICA. BAK. MUR.—Muriate of Baryta.—Hering's " Jahr." Compare with—Bar.-carb., Ant., Chel., Cic, Dig., Dulc, Fer.-mur., Hyoo.. Lact., Lauroc, Op., Spong. Antidotes.—See Bar.-carb.—According to Lisfrane, the white of an egg is the best antidote of large doses. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—°Scrofulous complaints.—Great weak ness, obliging him to lie down ; general muscular weakness, as if paralyzed.—Fainting fits.—Stiffness and immobility of the body, with periodical convulsions.— General heaviness.— Convulsions general, of single parts; in the face; periodical attacks of convul- sions, with excessive jactitation of the limbs.—Increase of the secre- tions and excretions, and disposition to decomposition of the animal fluids.—Hamorrhages.—General insensibility.—General emaciation and atrophy.— Increased insensibility of the whole nervous system. Skin.—Biting in the skin ; burning and biting in excoriated parts. —Itch-like pimples on the head, nape of the neck, abdomen, and thighs; yellowish scaly eruptions ; tetters.-—-Fetid, ichorous ulcers.— Swelling and induration of the glands, particularly those of the neck and abdomen ; suppuration of glands.—°General anasarea after scarlet fever. Fever.—Heat all over, day and night; heat in the face, with red- ness.—Pulse full and frequent.—Tertian fever.—Increased exhala- tion from the skin ; cold sweats. Moral Symptoms.—Attacks of oppressive anxiety, with pain in the stomach, nausea, and gagging.—Anxiety, with vertigo.—Ten- dency to start.—Great internal anguish.—Absence of mind.—Acute mania.—Sense of oppressive anxiety.—Imbecility. Head.—Vertigo, with sense as of turning before the eyes.—Dull ness and heaviness of the head.—Headache, with vomiting.—Tinea- capitis, extending to the sides and the posterior part of the neck; violent itching eruption on the hairy scalp. Eyes, Ears, and Face.—Swelling and inflammation of the eye- lids ; staring, immovable eyes; the pupils are dilated, insensible; the eyes are staring.—Blennorrhoea of the eyes, ears, and nose.— Deafness during the vomiting.—Drawing pain in the facial muscles Teeth, Mouth, Pharynx, &c.—Beating and stinging in the teeth, after midnight, on waking; looseness of the teeth.—Swelling of the palate and salivary glands ; coated tongue ; dry mouth and tongue ; mercurial odor from the mouth.—Difficulty of swallowing. Gastric Symptoms.—Putrid taste in the mouth, and also of the belladonna. 361 food he takes ; loss of appetite; thirst.—Great weakness of digestion. —Constant nausea ; loathing; empty retching ; vomiting, also early in the morning, with anguish; watery vomiting, with nausea. Stomach and Abdomen.—Pressure at the stomach, also after a meal, particularly after eating heavy food ; weakness, and excessive sensitiveness of the stomach; spasmodic pains ; ascension of heat into the chest and head; burning at the stomach, with vomiting; inflammation qfthe stomach.—Swelling of the liver.—Violent colic ; burning in the abdomen ; pain as of worms ; accumulation of mucus in the stomach and intestinal canal.—Swelling and induration of the abdominal glands; fetid, ichorous ulcers in the inguinal region. Stool and Urine.—Obstinate constipation ; slimy, yellowish diar- rhoea ; diarrhoea, either painless, or else accompanied with violent colic.—Frequent urination, sometimes involuntary and painful; enu- resis ; whitish sediment;—Diabetes. ? Genital Organs.—Swelling of the scrotum; frequent nocturnal emissions.—°Chronic gonorrhoea. 1—The menses are too early ; pain as if bruised in the pelvic cavity. Respiratory Organs.—Catarrh, with heat; cough ; oppression of the chest; heat in the chest.—°Humid asthma. ?—Palpitation of the heart; accelerated beating of the heart. Extremities.—Pains in the back.—Swelling of the hands and feet.—Drawing pains in the thighs ; cramps in the toes.—Convulsive jerkings of the hands and feet.—Paralysis of the upper and lower limbs. 45.—BELLADONNA. BELL.—Deadly Nightshade.—Hahnemann's " Mat. Med. Pura," Vol. I.—Dura- tion of Action : from one day to eighteen months. Compare with—Aeon., Agar., Alum., Am., Arn., Ars., Aur., Bar., Calc, Canth., Caust., Cham., Chin., Cina., Coff., Coloc, Con., Cop., Cupr., Dig., Dulc, Ferr., Hep., Hyos., Lach., Merc, Nitr.-ac, Op., Phosph., Phosph.-ac, Plat., Plumb., Puis., Rhus.-tox., Seneg., Sep , Sil., Stram., Sulph., Valer.—Bell, is frequently indicated after: Hep., Lach., Merc, Phosph., Nitr.-ac.—After Bell, are frequently suitable: Chin., Con., Dulc, Hep., Lach., Rhus-tox., Seneg., Stram., Valer. Antidotes.—Large doses of Bell, are counteracted by black Coffee. Almost all authors have recommended Vinegar as an antidote against Bell. This is a mere conjecture, which one author has copied from another. Abundant expe- rience has taught me, on the contrary, that Vinegar increases the pain produced by Bell.* Fits of paralysis and colic, produced by Bell., may be assuaged by • Stapf has al.so observed that applications of Vinegar to the forehead increase Hie headache produced by Bell., so as to make it insupportable ; the application* had to be discontinued. 16 362 belladonna Op., although it acts only as a palliative. A small dose of Op .probably, also relieves the somnolence consequent upon the use of Bell. Stupor, in- sanity, and frenzy, produced by Bell., are homceopathically relieved, in the speediest and most certain manner, by a few small doses of Hyos. The intoxi- cation of Bell, is relieved by Wine ; myself, as well as Trajus and Moibanus, have witnessed this effect of Wine. A small dose of Bell, having been admin- istered non-homoeopathically, and being succeeded by a weeping mood, at- tended with chills and headache, these effects may be stayed by a similarly small dose of Puis. Adequate help is the most necessary when a large quantity of the berries of Bell, have been swallowed. In this case, relief may be obtained by large portions of strong Coffee, which restores the irritability of the mus- cular fibre, puts a stop to the tetanic convulsions—although acting as a mere palliative—and secures the vomiting of the berries ; this may, moreover, be facilitated by tickling the pharynx with a long feather. The erysipelatous swellings of Bell, are speedily removed by small doses of Hep. Camphor, too, is a good antidote against some of the symptoms of Bell.—Hahnemann. CLINICAL OBSERVATIONS.—According to Hahnemann, Bel- ladonna may be used as a prophylactic against the genuine, erysipe- latous, smooth, and glossy scarlet fever, as described by Sydenham, Plencitz, and others. To effect this the smallest doses of Bell, ought to bo given every six or seven days. He says : " This great dis- covery of mine has been scorned and sneered at by a number of phy- sicians, for at least nineteen years. They were ignorant of the character of this disease, which is proper to childhood, and they were indiscreet enough to mistake for scarlet fever the purple-rash, which had migrated into Germany from Belgium, as early as the year 1801. They falsely applied to this purple-rash the term " scarlet fever," and failed, of course, in trying to cure it by means of the remedy which I had proposed. I rejoice that, in subsequent years, other physicians should have again observed the genuine scarlet fever, that they should have confirmed the prophylactic virtues of Bell, against this disease, and should have done me justice, after the unjust derision which I had so long suffered. "Purple-rash (Roodvonk) being a disease different from scarlet fever, it requires to be treated in a different way. In purple-rash, Bell, can do no good; and patients who are treated with Bell, in this disease, will generally have to die; whereas all of them might have been saved by the alternate use of Aeon, and the tincture of Coff,—the former being given against the heat, the increasing uneasi- ness, and the agonizing anguish ; the latter against the excessive pain and weeping mood. Aeon, and Coff. should be alternately given every twelve, sixteen, or twenty-four hours, in proportion as one or the other medicine is indicated. Of the Aeon., I give a small portion of a drop of the decillionth solution; of the Coff, I exhibit the mil- lionth degree of potency in the same form and quantity. Recently, both diseases, which are so different from each other—the Syden BELLADONNA. 363 hamian scarlet fever and the purple-rash—seem to have become com- plicated in some epidemic diseases, so that one patient derives more benefit from Aeon., another from Bell." Hartmann.—This author states: " In addition to the antidotes mentioned by Hahnemann, Merc-sol., in chronic sequela, remaining after the use of Belladonna, deserves attention ;—acts more powerfully than any other substance on the nerves, particularly those of the cerebrum;—is applicable, under certain circumstances, to intermit- tent, nervous, and other fevers;—is an admirable remedy during dentition ;—also, in inflammatory affections, as : Acute and chronic hepatitis; anginose affections; abdominal inflammations; inflam- mations of the lymphatic vessels and glands in children ; catarrhal ophthalmia, also arthritic; amaurosis; inflammation of the brain; otitis; measles; and hydrophobia. Belladonna is indicated, also, for : Congestions of the head, chest, and uterus ;—hamorrhages ;— spasmodic diseases, cramp of the stomach ;—whooping cough ; epilep- sy ;—chorea ;—raphania ;—apoplexy ;—gout;—rheumatism ;—pro- sopalgia-fothergilli ;—vertigo ;—scrofula ;—otorrhoza ;—scirrhous in- durations ;—dysentery;—cachexies;—insanity and imbecility."—Ed. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—* Spasms, starlings, and convulsions of the limbs: when waking from sleep ; *after a fit of chagrin, -so violent that he runs up the walls; ^renewed by the least contact; with hiccough ; with weariness and anxiety ; *with screams and loss of consciousness; ♦with delirium; ♦with laughter; #with contor- tion of the eyes ; *with extension of the limbs, or violent distortion of the muscles ; -affecting principally the flexor muscles ; with starting, principally of the hands and feet, with insensibility and rattling breathing; alternating with complete immobility ; ♦tetanic spasms, opisthotonos, spasmodic inclination of the body and head to the left side ; ^paroxysms of stiffness and immobility of all the limbs, or of single limbs only, -sometimes with insensibility, distention of the cutaneous veins, red, puffed face, full and quick pulse, and profuse bweat; ^epileptic spasms; °hysteric spasms; °eclampsia; °St. Vitus-dance, especially in girls ; °the spasms are preceded by creep- ing in the muscles, as of a mouse, tingling, with feeling of swelling and numbness in the limbs, or colic, with pressure extending up to the head.—^Trembling qfthe limbs ; ^weariness, -particularly in the evening, which scarcely allows him to walk ; ^laziness and indispo- sition to work or stir.—* Great general debility, with weariness and a desire to sleep, in the afternoon.—♦Lameness and paralysis, -of the upper and lower limbs; ^hemiplegia of the right or left side, -parti- cularly of the arm and lower limb ; °sometimes with loss of sensation 364 BELLADONNA. —Faintingfits, sometimes resembling lethargy.—♦Excessive irrita, bility and sensibility of the organs of sense.—^Liability to take cold, with great sensitiveness to cold air.—Seething of the circulation and rush of blood to the head, with debility as if he would faint.—°Atro- phy and marasmus of scrofulous subjects.—°Ergotism, from eating Ergot.? °Bad effeots from taking cold; °from fright, chagrin, or mortification; cfrom abuse of Chin., Valer., Merc, Op., Cham.— oRheumatic and arthritic complaints, with inflammation and swelling ; °congestion of blood; °scrofulous and rachitic complaints.—♦Pres- sure, with sticking or tearing in the limbs; *bw*ning stinging; ♦tingling in the limbs ; -pain as if bruised in the limbs and bones ; lancinations in the affected parts, extending into the head. Characteristic Peculiarities.—°Bell. is particularly suitable for complaints of plethoric individuals disposed to phlegmonous inflammation; or for complaints of lymphatic, scrofulous individuals liable to glandular swellings: °diseases of children, females, and young people of mild temper, blue eyes, blond hair, delicate skin, and red complexion.—Some of the Bell, pains disappear suddenly when they have reached the highest degree of violence, or they disappear in one place while other and different pains make their appearance in other parts of the body.—Sudden and violent cramp- pains, which are generally experienced during sleep, obliging one to draw in the affected part, especially the side of the chest or abdomen, loins, elbow, &c.—♦Aggravations of the pains at night or in the afternoon at three or four o'clock; the least contact, and sometimes the least movement aggravates the pain ; some of the Bell, pains are aggravated or appear after sleep. Skin.—Creeping or crawling itching; prickling biting; the skin is painful to the touch.—Watery vesicles (on the palm of the hand and tibia), so painful that he would like to scream; ^pemphigus; ? red, scaly eruption on the lower parts of the body, extending as far as the abdomen ; red spots, as if occasioned by flea-bites, or like bloody spots or petechiae, on the chest, abdomen, face, and neck; ^eruption re- sembling measles; °purple-rash (giving first Aeon.); °rubeolae; ^scarlet spots and starlet redness, particularly on the face, neck, chest, abdomen, and hands, sometimes with hot swelling of the parts, and with small, quick pulse, asthma, violent cough, delirium, -increase of memory, rubbing of the nose, and dilatation of the pupils ; °natural small-pox, when metastasis to the brain threatens to set in ; °blisters occasioned by a burn, with white margin, black scurf, and oedematous swelling of the parts.—* Erysipelatous inflammation, with swelling, -or even mortification of the parts; -redness, inflammation, and BELLADONNA. 365 swelling of the whole skin; *red, hot swelling of affected parts; °vesicular erysipelas (giving Bell, before Rhus, when the fever is violent).—Cold and hot gangrene ; °ulceration occasioned by a burn. —♦Boils; ♦chilblains ; #bites of insects.—Cold, painful blotches and swellings.—^Glandular swellings, painful or suppurating.—^Scir- rhous indurations ; ? cancerous affections;? ° scrofulous and mercurial ulcers.—In the ulcers: burning when touching them ; soreness around the ulcer; black crust of blood on the ulcer; secretion of bloody ichor.—♦Bleeding soreness in the bends of the joints.— °Jaundice. Sleep.—*Drowsiness: ♦continual, or more particularly in the evening, -with desire to stretch the limbs.—*Somnolence ; * stupor, lethargy, deep sleep with snoring, he lies motionless, -sometimes he raises his eyes, with wild looks, or subsultus-tendinum, pale, cold face, cold hands, and hard, quick, small pulse ; also with thirst after waking, or hunger, with burning heat, dryness of the mouth and breath.—Stupor at night.—Sleeplessness at night; *even with drow- siness ; * sleeplessness from anguish; -sleeplessness occasioned by thinking about a business which requires to be attended to.—Symptoms at night: ♦restless and tossing about; ^frequent waking, with great difficulty to fall asleep again; ^starting as in affright, particularly when on the point of falling asleep, -sometimes with sweat on the forehead and in the pit of the stomach, or with dry heat and fear; ^anguish, hindering sleep, with drawing in the limbs; intermittent breathing with forcible expirations, when sleeping or waking.— During sleep : ♦tossing about (in children), -they stamp with their feet and scold; ^screaming, ^moaning, ^starts, which wake him even when on the point of falling asleep; aggravation of the pains, making sleep intolerable; singing and loud talking; suffocative snoring when taking an inspiration.—In the evening, when on the point of falling asleep, he feels as if floating in bed; °frightful visions and convulsions after scarcely closing his eyes.—*Dreams; -after having scarcely fallen asleep ; ^anxious, frightful, terrifying, -rendering sleep intolerable.—Symptoms in the morning when waking: unrefreshed, languid ; -he finds it very difficult to rouse himself, and is ill-humored ; weariness and reeling vertigo ; headache tvith great languor; heaviness in the head, above the eyes, these are painful when touched.—Symptoms after sleeping: °aggravation of the symptoms and ♦headache. Fever.—Coldness: qfthe whole body, generally with pale face; particularly of the feet, sometimes with bloated red face and conges* tion of blood to the head.—Chilliness *'u\ the back, or in the pit of 366 BELLADONNA. the stomach, or commencing on the arms and spreading thence ovei the whole body; ^particularly on the arms, -when taking off hia clothes, with goose-flesh, and redness and heat of the ears and nose; creeping chilliness, in the evening.—Shuddering: when the least current of air blows up«wi him.—*Fever, °particularly quotidian, also double quotidian, #or tertian ; ♦commencing with a shaking-chill or shivering, mostly in the evening, sometimes in bed or at night; °less frequently early in the morning, ^succeeded by heat, -sometimes after a very short time, or on the left side only, or a mere flush of heat, *with or without sweat; ♦alternation of chilliness and heat; -external coldness with internal burning heat.—Symptoms during the fever ; ^absence of thirst during the chilly and hot stage, or else burning thirst in the hot stage; drowsiness; vertigo ; dullness of the head. —During the chilly stage : °nausea; drawing in the back and limbs, with sensation as if bruised.—*Heat : ^violent burning : ^internal or external, or both at the same time; *dry; -particularly of the bands and feet, also with paleness of face and absence of thirst; ^principally of the head and face, with redness (and sometimes sweat) of the face; especially after dinner or every noon; *at night, with pain on removing the cover of the bed, as he feels when he is attacked with chilliness; -in the evening, particularly in the hands and feet; during slight movement.—Symptoms during the hot stage : ^delirium; ^redness of the face; ♦obscuration of sight; ^violent burning thirst, or else absence of thirst; -burning in the stomach; ♦rage ; ♦dullness of the head ; °restlessness ; *redness andpuffiness of the face.—inflammatory fever ; °typhoid fever, especially when accompanied with an excited state of the circulation, with furious delirium, violent aching in the forehead, visions, frightful startings, and violent burning heat: °lentescent fevers ; ? °gastric. ?—Pulse : ^strong and quick; *full and slow; -large and frequent; °hard and tight.—Sweat: ^during or after the heat; -from the least movement, over the whole body, especially in the face and on the nose; cold sweat on the forehead. Moral Symptoms.—°Derangement of the will-faculty; °after sup- pression of erysipelas, meningitis, typhoid fevers, apoplexy; °in drunkards ; °in pregnant and lying-in females ; °after frights, chagrin, mortification, grief; °after a cold.—°Melancholy, amorous, with sexual excitement; °home-sickness ; she felt as though she ought to escape. *Great anguish about the heart. ♦Anxiousness in the praecordial region. ^Frequent moaning, especially early in the morning; at every expiration ; while asleep, alternating with jumping ind dancing. He suddenly screams, while his hands and feet tremble, BELLADONNA. 367 *Anguish about the heart, -headache, redness of the face, and bitter- ness of the mouth towards noon and evening. Anxiousness when meeting people. ♦Uneasiness; she changes from one place to another. Unceasing movement of the body, especially the arms ; the pulse remaining unchanged. Violent agitation in bed. Incoherent speech in the evening. Constant delirium. The delirium subsides after a meal. She prepares for her departure for home. He talks deliriously as in a dream. ♦Talk about wolves and bulls, °war and soldiers. He is beside himself; in a rage ; talks much about dogs; arm and face swell. ^Nightly delirium, which subsides during the day. ♦He mutters as if asleep. °Senseless prattle. He talks like a maniac, with staring, protruded eyes. Talkative, lascivious. Dumb- ness succeeding the talkativeness. Merry craziness. ♦Inactive, sitting behind the stove. ♦She tries to compose songs, and sings merry, but utterly senseless songs; she whistles occasionally, but refuses either to eat or drink; at the same time she hears nothing and sees nothing, with paleness of the face and sweat upon the fore- head. *He sings and warbles an air. He smiles a long while to himself. ^Frequent laughter. While laughing and singing she constantly touches the things around her. ^Immoderate laughter. Wild and wantonly merry, disposed to quarrel without any cause, and to offend; ♦extreme mirth after supper. *Foolish manners: ♦At times he talks ridiculously like a crazy person, at times ration- ally. #He demeans himself like a fool and crazy person. He imitates the gesticulations of a juggler.—Craziness : they undress themselves, run through the streets in their shirts, gesticulate in a strange manner, dance, laugh aloud, and utter and demand foolish things. Violent shaking of the head, foam at the mouth, and loss of con- sciousness. Horrible contortion of the muscles of the face, she puts out her tongue to its full length, smacks with her tongue, and is tormented by retching, in paroxysms. At times he grasps hurriedly at those who are near him, at times he recedes from them shyly Irritated mood, she would like to weep at the slightest provocation. When walking in the open air she is attacked with anguish and a weeping mood; she is weary of life and inclines to drown herself. * Violent weeping, moaning, and howling, without any cause, accom- panied ipvth fearfulness. °Now he weeps, then he sobs; ♦weeping, and extreme ill-humor when waking from sleep. Despondency, dejection of spirits. #Want of disposition to attend to anything whatever, indifference, deficient physical and mental activity. ♦Ex- treme indifference, for hours. *Apathy, nothing could make an impression upon her; #want of cheerfulness. Headache, with prei 368 BELLADONNA. sure as from a stone, during which she moans and is put out of humor by trifles. #Not disposed to talk; he answers with ill-humor and screams. He desires solitude and rest. ♦Irritable mood, with great dryness of the mouth. *Great irritability of the senses; taste, smell, tact, sight, and hearing are more refined and keener than usual. ♦She is very much irritated; she gets easily vexed and then weeps. ^Delirium, which is either continual or returns in paroxysms, first ;>f a merry nature, and afterwards changing to rage. ♦Howling and screaming on account of trifles ; this is made worse by talking to him kindly, the pupils being easily dilated and contracted. ♦Violent quarrelsomeness, which cannot be appeased. ♦Delirium, with wild manners. Rage; He tosses about in his bed in a perfect rage. ♦He tears his shirts and clothes. He strikes bis face with his fists. ^Frenzy, with attempts at violence. ♦Rage, with gnashing of teeth and convulsions. ♦Instead of eating that which he had called for he bit the wooden spoon in two, gnawed at the dish, and snarled and barked like a dog. ♦Rage, the patient being sometimes very cunning, and alternately singing and screaming, or spitting and biting. ♦He acts foolishly, tears his clothes, pulls stones out of the ground and throws them at those around him. #Rage; he injures himself and others, and strikes around himself. ♦He wants to bile those arouna him, at night. ♦Burning heat of the body, open, staring, immovable eyes, with rage, so that she has to be held constantly, lest one should be attacked by her; when thus held and prevented from using her limbs she constantly spit at those around her. *He bites everything in his way. #He tears everything around him, bites and spits. ♦He attempts to jump out of bed. Anxious and confused; she ap- prehends death. *Shy craziness. ♦iJe tries to escape. ♦She tries to i.-hrottle herself, and begs those around her to kill her. Sensorium—♦Vertigo. ♦His head turns; ♦vertigo attended with nausea, -as is experienced when turning quickly round in a circle, or when waking from the morning sleep, after spending the night in revelry. ♦Sense as of turning in the head and in the pit of the stomach, becoming so excessive after rising that everything vanished from before her sight.—♦Vertigo, as though everything turned in a circle. Sense as of turning in the head, relieved in the open air, aggravated in the room. Fits of vertigo, both when at rest and in motion. ♦Sense as of reeling in the head, while sitting, resembling vertigo. ♦She totters to and fro, as if intoxicated. Fits of vertigo attended with dullness of the mind; °accompanied with loss of con- sciousness and falling; °with anguish and luminous vibrations before the eyes; °when rising from a recumbent posture; °when stooping, BELLADONNA. 369 °early after rising from bed.—Cloudiness of the head, with glandular swellings in the nape of the neck. Dullness of the head, increasing during motion. Reluctance to all sorts of mental labor. Lassitude of both mind and body.—Mental weakness. ♦Stupefaction. Con- fusion of the mind and senses. Illusion of the senses, ♦He imagines he sees things which are not present. ♦He does not recognize his own relatives. °He wants to pull out his teeth; °he walks about as if very busy; °he gathers herbs, which he names wrong, and then offers for sale; °he converses with his late sister in the church-yard. ♦Loss of consciousness.—♦Highest degree of stupor. ♦Loss of sense, with convulsions of the extremities.—♦Loss of intellect, for some weeks. Insensibility. She has a headache, during which she loses her ideas. Absence of mind. Head.—Headache, as if the brain were stunned. *His whole head feels heavy as from intoxication. His head feels heavy as if he were going to fall asleep; he is not disposed to do anything. ♦His head aches,, but only above the eyes; the headache is like a weight in the head, and is experienced early on waking up. Sense of weight with violent pressure in the whole of the occiput. ♦Heaviness of the head as though it were about to fall down. #Early in the morning, headache, as if something were descending in the forehead from above the eye-brows, by which the opening of the eyes is prevented. ^Head- ache, especially in ilie forehead. Continous dull headache in one of the sides of the head. Aching in the head, especially in the lowei part of the forehead, close above the nose, becoming insufferable on setting the foot down for the purpose of standing or walking. Head- a<..he above the orbits, as though the brain were pressed into a smaller space; *this pain obliges him to close his eyes. Violent pressure and aching pain in the forehead. Pressure in the head, extending over large surfaces. *Aching in the forehead; during motion it increased so much that it caused his eye-lids to close; the headache became milder when seated or lying down;, as soon as he walks into the open air the forehead feels pressed upon, as though it would be crushed, ♦as if a heavy stone were pressing upon the forehead; aching, deep in the brain, which is felt over the whole head, both when walking and after having walked in the open air. Tension and pressure in the left vertex, and in the forehead. Headache, as though the head were screwed together from side to side. *Continuou,s and forcible dilatation of the whole brain.—Violent pressing in the whole head, from within outwards, as though it would be dashed to pieces, increased by coughing, and in the open air.—^Headache, close above the orbits, as though the brain u;ere pressed out; the eyes remain 16^ 24 370 BELLADONNA. forcibly closed on account of the pain, the pupils being contracted Pain when stooping, as though everything would press out at the forehead. *An aching in the forehead frequently obliges him to stand still when walking ; at every step the brain feels as if it were ascending and descending in the forehead; the pain decreased by strongly pressing upon the parts. Violent pulsations in the forehead, with pain as if the bone were being raised. Pulsations in the head and in most parts of the body, when waking. Violent throbbing in the brain from before backwards and towards both sides ; this throb- bing terminates in the shape of painful stitches. ^Pressure, with a sense as of lacerating, in the head, especially in the frontal and temporal region, the pain is wandering. ^Drawing in the head, extending towards the forehead, as if the brain would dilate. ♦Draw- ing pain extending from the temple across and over the right orbit. Boring and throbbing in the head, in the cheek; increased by motion. *Stitches in the head. ♦Sharp stitches through both frontal eminences from within outwards. Excessive headache ; dull stitches dart through the brain in all directions. Lancination, as with a knife, from one temple to the other. Cutting and lacerating pain in the head, wandering from one place to another. Burning and lacerating parin in the left frontal eminence. Lacerating pain in the right side of the vertex; it is more violent during motion. ^Lacerating over the eye-brows. ♦Sense of cold in the brain, in the centre of the forehead. ♦Drawing in the forehead. Drawing pain in the frontal bone and in the nape of the neck, both when at rest and in motion. ♦Sensation as of swashing in the brain. ♦When stooping, the blood rushes to the head ; the head feels heavy and giddy. ♦Congestion of blood to the head, without any internal heat. ♦Heat in the head. Pain, externally, over the whole head, as is felt in the integuments after pulling the hair. Violently gnawing pain, externally, in the region of the frontal eminences. Cramp-like pain. °Headache every day, from four o'clock in the afternoon until three next morning, increased by the warmth of the bed and a recumbent posture.—°Headache, which is aggravated by moving the eyes, by concussion, and by a current of air.—°Hemicrania.?—Hysteric headache.?—Headache after a cold. Titillating itching of the forehead. Swelling of the head The integuments of the head are so painful that even the pressure of the hair gives pain. Uneasy look.—* Convulsive shaking and ■bending backwards of the head.— °Boring with the head into the pillow.—°Profuse sweat of the hairy scalp. Face.—Lacerating and drawing below the malar bone.—Distracted features. ♦Paleness of the face; anxious countenance, -with thirst; BELLADONNA 37] with an increased appetite. ♦An extreme paleness of the face is in- stantaneously changed to redness, with cold cheeks and hot forehead. Feeling of burning heat in the face, without redness or thirst, with a moderately warm body and cold feet. ♦Sensation of a tingling heat in the face, under the skin. ♦Uncommon redness of the face. ♦ Vio- lent redness and heat in the face, without sweat. ♦Red, hot face, with icy-cold extremities. *Glowing redness of the face, with violent, inexpressible headache. ♦Heat and redness about the head. #Great heat and redness of the cheeks. ♦The face is very much swollen and hot. *Dark-red face. Thickening of the skin in the face, as if an eruption would break out. *Bluish-red face, with great heat of the body in the evening. ♦Scarlet redness of the skin of the body, espe- cially the face, accompanied by great cerebral action. ♦Scarlet-red spots in the face, with a strong pulse. Sudden shivering, with great cloudiness of the head and face, red eyes, and swelling of the face, which is covered with small, dark-red spots. Red and swollen face, with staring eyes. ♦Swelling of the cheeks, with burning pain. Hard, large swelling in the face, near the nose and eye, with swelling of the parotid glands. Swelling of the face, and especially of the lips, °with induration and stinging in rough weather.—^Erysipelas of the face.—*Nervous prosopalgia, with violent cutting pains; -pressure, cramp-feeling, lacerating, and drawing in the malar bone. ♦ Ulcerated corners qfthe mouth, near the commissure, -with lacerat- ing pains round about, even when left untouched or unmoved. Small pimples on the lips, covered with a scurf, and smarting as if they had been touched by saltish water. ° Scirrhous induration and cancer of the lips. ? Spasmodic movements of the lips. The right corner of the mouth is drawn outwards. Risus-sardonius : spasmodic distortion of the mouth. Bloody foam at the mouth, vacillation of the head, and gnashing of the teeth from morning till noon. A number of small pimples on the chin, resembling rash, and burning when touched. °Swelling of the submaxillary glands; -red blotch in the angle of the lower jaw, with stinging when pressing upon it. Eyes.—°Entropium. Continual trembling and winking of the eye-lids. Throbbing pain in the lower eye-lid, towards the inner can- thus ; the spot where the pain is is swollen and inflamed. ♦ After waking in the morning her eye-lids close again spontaneously, (°ptosis). Itching stitches in the inner canthi, which only go off for a while by rubbing. ♦The inner canthus of the left eye is very painful even when slightly touched. ♦Smarting in both eyes. ♦Involuntary lachryma- tion. ♦Saltish water continually runs out of the eyes. ^Feeling of burning dryness in both eyes. ♦Pain and burning in the eyes, 372 BELLADONNA. ♦Photophobia, with spasmodic movement of the eyes, occasioned by the light. Burning of the eyes, accompanied by an intensely painful itching, disappearing by the eyes being pressed upwards. *Inflam' mation qf the eyes °in scrofulous and gouty individuals.—°Interstitial distention of the sclerotica; °specks, thickening, and ulcers of the cornea ; °fuiigus-medullaris in the eye ; °hamorrhage and ecchymosis of the eye ; ♦stitches in the eye, from without inwards. ♦Early in the morning, the eye-lids are completely agglutinated. Swelling and suppurative inflammation of the left caruncula-lachrymalis ; the pain being first burning. ^General pressure in both eyes. When closing the eyes, she feels an aching deep in the eye-ball. ♦Pressure in the eyes, with lachrymation, especially early in the morning. ♦Tingling and pressure in the eyes; they felt as if they had been full of sand. Pain in the orbits; the eyes sometimes feel as if being torn out ; sometimes as if pressed into the head. Lacerating in the eyes, which extends from the inner canthi. ♦Contraction of the pupils. ♦Dilata- tion of the pupils in the evening, even when the light is held quite near. ♦Dilated, immovable pupils. ♦The power of vision is at times entirely extinct, at times only diminished, the pupils being immov- able and enormously dilated. ♦Obscuration of sight, with great dila- tation of the pupils. ♦The eyes see dim and black. ^Amaurosis, he cannot read anything printed. On waking, he is blind. ♦Exces- sive weakness of sight. Transitory blindness, with headache. *Dim- ness of sight, alternating with cramps of the hands and feet; cloudi- ness of the head, and languid feeling in the limbs. Dullness of sight, with trembling of all the limbs. Presbyopia, as exists in old age. ♦Obscuration of sight, as if fog were before the eyes. ♦When read- ing, the letters look blurred, and appear blue and gold-colored ♦The eyes see a large ring around the light, of several colors, especially red. When moving the eye-lids, he sees sparks, like electric pparks. *One sees things double; multiplied and dark. ♦He sees things wrong side up, °or they look red. ♦The eyes feel as if protruded. The eyes protrude, with dilated pupils. ♦Staring and sparkling, shining, glistening eyes. ♦The eyes are red, glistening, and turn in their sockets. ♦The eye-balls turn convulsively in a circle. ♦The eyes become distorted. ♦Spasms of the eyes. Eyes and hands are constantly in a sort of spasmodic motion.—°Squinting. ?—°Weakness of sight from doing fine work. Ears.—Stitches extending from the upper jaw into the internal ear. *Stitches in the parotid gland. ♦Lacerating in the external right ear, from before backwards. ♦Lacerating,from above doion- wards in the external and internal ear. Lacerating pain in the BELLADONNA. 373 external ear of the right side, and in the whole side of the face, from above downwards. Feeling in the right ear as if it wera violently torn out of the head. Pain in the ears and temples, which is alter- nately lacerating from within outwards, and pressing from without inwards; this pain alternates with a similar pain in the orbits. Sharp thrusts in the internal ear, like a painful dragging. The muscles behind the left ear are painful, the pain extending as far as the neck. Stitches in the external ear, with hardness of hearing. ♦Stitches in the internal ear, occurring during eructations tasting of the ingesta. Drawing pain from the ears as far as the nape of the neck. Puriform liquid exuding from the ears. ^Tingling in the ears.—Din in the ears as of trumpets and cymbals, also like the whizzing of the wind (immediately); afterwards ^humming and murmuring, worst when sitting, relieved when standing or lying, still better when walking. ^Roaring in the ears. Vertigo and dull colic. Wind rushes out at the ears. Deafness, as if a skin had been drawn over the ears. #Hard hearing.—°Acute otitis.—°Hardness of hearing from a cold, after cutting the hair.—^Inflammatory swell- ing of the parotid glands. Nose.—Small red blotches near the root of the nose, painful only when touched, as from subcutaneous ulceration. Pimples on the cheeks and nose, becoming quickly filled with pus, and covered with a crust. Cold nose. Diminished or increased smell. ♦Bleeding at the nose. ♦Tingling in the tip of the nose, going off by friction ♦Fine stitches in the tip of the nose, the whole night, beginning in the evening. ♦Sudden redness of the tip of the nose, with a burning sensation. ♦ Ulcerated state of the nostrils a,nd the corners of the lips ; but they neither itch nor pain.—°Great dryness of the nose; -at times it is stopped up, at times water flows from it.—*Coryza, *with :ough; -fluent coryza of one nostril, with smell as of herring- brine. Jaws and Teeth.—*Lock-jaw. Lock-jaw, accompanied by con- vulsions in all the limbs, and chilliness. Stitches and tension of the jaw, in the direction of the ear. Excessive pain when biting. Swell- ing of the cervical glands, painful at night; not painful during deglutition. Cramp-like, tensive sensation of the left cervical muscles, even during rest. ♦Grinding of the teeth, with foam at the mouth, smelling like rotten eggs. Spasm of the right arm. ♦Painful swell- ing of the right side of the gums, with fever and sensation of chilli- ness. Vesicles on the gums, painful like burns. Ulcerative pain of the gums when touched. Heat in the gums ; itching and throbbing The gums of a hollow tooth are bleeding. Toothache, more drawing 374 BELLADONNA. than lancinating. Toothache, with drawing in the ear. ♦He wakei aftei midnight, with a violent lacerating in the teeth.—Uniform, simple toothache, resembling a sore pain, brought on by the contact of the open air. Toothache in the evening after lying down, and when engaged in some kind of intellectual activity; a numb pain in tha dental nerve, almost resembling a sore pain, or a continuous lan- cination in severe cases. Toothache; sharp drawing from the ear down into the hollow teeth of the upper jaw ; in the teeth, the pain became boring, less when eating, increasing after the meal, worst at night, and hindering sleep. Dull drawing in the upper and right roiv of teeth, the whole night; painful jerks were occasionally felt in the teeth. ♦[Digging (searching) toothache (lasting only a short while.)] ♦The fore-teeth feel too long. The teeth are painful when biting, as if the roots were ulcerated, and would break off imme- diately. Painful dartings in the nerves of the roots of one or more teeth.—°Rheumatic toothache, particularly in females, especially when pregnant.—0Throbbing (lacerating, and digging) in the teeth of pregnant females.—°Lacerating toothache, worse in the evening; °lancinating lacerating on the left side, now in the ears, then in the teeth, then in the face.—0 Toothache, with red, hot face, and beating in the head.—°Difficult dentition. Mouth.—°Red, inflammatory swelling of the mouth and fauces. ♦The tongue is painful, especially to the touch; it is red, hot, and dry, with red edges, and white in the middle; *cracked tongue, white coated, #with ptyalism. Feeling in the tip of the tongue as if it haa a vesicle upon it, painfully burning when touched. *The papilla are bright-red, inflamed, and swollen. *Tremor of the tongue ♦Stammering weakness of the organs of speech, with unimpaired consciousness and dilatation of the pupils. Passing aphonia. ♦Pa- ralytic weakness of the organs of speech. Speechlessness. Dumb- ness. ♦Heavy speech, heavy breathing, and great lassitude, conse- quent upon the oppressed condition of the chest. *Nasal voice. ♦The tongue is covered with a quantity of yellowish-white, tough (°or brown) mucus. *Profuse ptyalism, °mercurial; ^soreness of the inner side of the cheek; ♦the orifice of the salivary ducts feels corroded. ♦The saliva in his throat was thick, tenacious, white, and sticking to the tongue like glue. ♦Slimy mouth, with sensation as if a bad smell came from it, as when the stomach is deranged. *Slimy mouth, early in the morning when waking, with headache. ° Great feeling of dryness in the mouth, -with irritable mood, mouth and tongue looking moist. ^Considerable dryness in the throat and mouth, with thirst, ♦parched condition of the mouth, as if the skin BELLADONNA. 3V5 had been destroyed by something acrid or corrosive, *Ha?norrhage from the mouth and nose. Throat.—Roughness of the throat. Rawness and soreness of the palate. Dryness in the fauces and burning of the tongue. ♦ Violent burning in the throat, the mouth being naturally moist. Food and beverage cause a burning sensation in the mouth, like spirits of wine. ^Inflammation of the throat and fauces, °phlegmonous with violent fever (alternating Bell, and Aeon.); inflammation of the velum-pen- dulum ; °of the uvula. Continual desire to swallow. *Sore throat, stitches in the fauces, and pain as from an internal swelling; -felt only when swallowing and turning the neck, or when touching its side. Internal swelling of the throat. * Soreness of the throat when swallowing or spitting. °Sensation as of a lump which cannot be removed. ♦Violent lancinating pain in the throat when swallowing or breathing. ♦Stitches in the left side of the throat. ♦Inflamma- tion ofthe tonsils ; they suppurate in four days ; °the inflamed parts are covered with a white, tenacious mucus, as with a skin ; °mercu- rial angina.—* Impeded deglutition, or entire inability to swallow even liquids, °which return by the nose. ^Considerable constriction of the fauces. Contraction of the oesophagus, with painful scraping in the region of the epiglottis. ^Painful contraction and narrowing of the fauces. *When swallowing, one experiences a sensation in the throat as if the parts were too narrow, contracted, as if nothing would go down. Aversion to every kind of liquid, she demeans her- self like a fury when seeing it. °Hydrophobia ; ? °constant urging to swallow, with danger of suffocation when he restrains himself from swallowing; ♦deglutition is impeded by dryness of the throat and fauces. Paralytic weakness of the inner parts of the mouth. Pres- sure in the throat, with choking ascending from the abdomen, unac- companied by either nausea or vomiting. Appetite and Taste.—*Loss qf taste. #Insipid taste in the mouth. ^Disgusting taste, the tongue being clean. *Putrid taste in the mouth, -after having eaten something. °A putrid taste arises from the fauces, also while eating or drinking, although both food and drink have a natural taste. #Flat sweetish, or ♦viscid taste in the mouth. Saltish, sourish taste in the mouth, °bitter taste. ♦Bread tastes and smells sour. ♦The smell of milk is disgusting and repulsive, and has at first a bitter or sourish taste. *Aversion to food. * Total aversion to all sorts of nourishment and drinks, with frequent and weak pulse. ^Complete loss of appetite. Want of appe- tite, with headache. Diminished appetite ; *meat especially is repul- sive to him. ^Repugnance to beer ; *to acid things. * Long-lasting 376 BELLADONNA. aversion to food. °Insatiable hunger. A peculiar contractive sen. sation in the stomach after eating a little. Cough and great thirst after a meal. Feeling of intoxication after a meal. Violent pinching below the umbilicus after a meal, directly behind the abdominal inte- guments. ^Absence of thirst. Desire for drinks, without caring about drinking; he approached the cup to his lips, and then set it down again immediately. Excessive thirst in the evening, with watery taste. ^Great desire for cold drinks, without any heat. Violent thirst at dinner. Violent, burning, suffocative, unquenchable thirst, with inability to swallow the least drop, or with great aversion lo drinks ; °he drinks with a trembling haste. Gastric Symptoms.—Bitter, ^frequent eructations, with want of appetite, and vertigo. * Half-suppressed incomplete eructatwns. Pu- trid, burning, sore eructations.—Heartburn. °Water-brash. *Re- peated attacks of violent hiccough. ♦Violent hiccough about mid- night. ♦Eructation resembling hiccough ; a sort of spasmodic eruc- tation. Nightly hiccough, with violent sweat. Convulsions of the head and limbs after hiccough, afterwards nausea and lassitude. #Nausea and inclination to vomit in the throat (not in the pit of the stomach), with occasional bitter eructations, in the evening. Qualmishness after breakfast. ♦Frequent attacks of nausea in the forenoon. In- clination to vomit, xohen walking in the open air. ^Nausea in the stomach. Nausea, with inclination to vomit, especially wheu about to eat. Nausea, inclination to vomit, and vehement thirst. Vomit- ing in the evening. ♦Vomiting, vertigo, and flushes of heat. ♦Vo- miting qf bile and mucus. ♦Vomiting of undigested food, which had been taken twelve hours previous. °Sour, watery vomiting. ♦Un- successful inclination to vomit; empty retching. Stomach.—Violent pains in the region of the pit of the stomach. *Hard and painful pressure in the stomach, especially after a meal. Periodical pain in the pit of the stomach, with tremor, at niaht. Painful pressure in the pit of the stomach, felt only when walking; he has to walk slowly. ♦Spasm of the stomach, resembling a cramp. Chronic spasm of the stomach, always occurring during a meal. Contractive pain in the pit of the stomach. Burning in the stomach Stitches in the pit of the stomach. Excessive, lancinating, and cut- ting pain in the pit of the stomach, which forees one to bend tho body backwards, and to arrest the breathing. Inflammation of the stomach and duodenum. Abdomen.—Burning in the abdomen. ♦Continual colic. ♦Colic, constipation, enuresis, with eructations and inclination to vomit. Colic, spasmodic tension, from the chest into the abdomen; so vie- BELLADONNA. 377 lent that he is unable to move his body. Colic and leucorrhoea, ♦Pressure in the abdomen as from a stone, in the evening, with pains in the loins. °Digging pains in the abdomen. ^Distended, but neither hard nor painful abdomen. ♦Sensation as if the abdomen were distended, with constrictive colic below the umbilicus, coming on in paroxysms, and obliging one to bend double. Distention of the abdomen around the ribs, °with protrusion of the colon like a pad Pressure in the abdomen, which is drawn in (when lying down). *Cramp-like, constrictive pain in the lowermost intestines, alternat- ing with dull stitches or jerks in the direction of the perineum. ^Constriction of the abdomen around the umbilicus, as if a ball or lump would form. *Colic, as if a spot in the abdomen were seized ivith the nails, a griping, clutching, seizing as with talons (clawing). Contractive dragging in the umbilical region, especially about noon and in the afternoon. * Violent contractive griping in tbe right side of the abdomen when walking, accompanied by sharp stitches darting trom that side through the right side of the chest and the axilla Extismely painful contractive griping? in the umbilical region, coming from both sides, and meeting in the umbilicus. ^Pinching colic; he is obliged to sit with his body bent double, with unsuccess- ful inclination to diarrhoea and subsequent vomiting. °Flatulent colic. Painful pinching in the region of the liver. Lancinations in the inguinal glands. Sticking, with pressure, in the umbilical region. Violent, incisive pressure in the hypogastrium, here and there. Itching stinging about the umbilicus, passing off by rubbing. Heat, with anxiety, in the abdomen, chest, and face, with obstruction of the nose. Heat from below upwards, with sweat as from anguish ; afterwards nausea with horrible anguish, the nausea descending more and more in the abdomen. *Long lasting painfulness of the whole abdomen, as if it were all sore and raw. Rumbling and pinch- ing in the abdomen.—°Painfulness of the abdomen to contact.— °Peritonitis. ?—°Enteritis. ? Stool and Anus.—Shuddering, during stool. Desire for stool, with sensation in the abdomen as if diarrhoea would come on, accom- panied by heat in the abdomen. ♦Papescent stool, mixed with mucus. Heat in the head, alternating with diarrhoea. Diarrhoea, inclination to vomit, and pressure in the stomach. -Granular, yellow, some- what ♦slimy stool (Stool smells very sour). Stool white or green, with enuresis and sweat. ^Diarrhceic stool, followed by frequent urging, little or no stool being passed. Frequent loose stool3, with tenesmus. °Dysenteric stools. ? ♦Tenesmus, with diarrhozic stoot in small quantity, followed immediately by increased tenesmus. 378 BELLADONNA, ♦Tenesmus and colic. Vomiting after tenesmus. ♦Tenesmus, con, stant pressing and bearing down in the direction of the anus and the genital organs, alternating with painful contraction of the anus. Pressure in the rectum, towards the orifice. * Constipation. Con- stipation with inflation of the abdomen, and heat in the head. *Con- tractive pain in the rectum, afterwards sore pain in the epigastrium followed by sudden diarrhceic stool, lastly tenesmus. Violent itching and constrictive sensation in the anus. Haemorrhoidal flux for several days. ^Involuntary discharge of faces, -from paralysis of the sphinc- ter-ani. Urine.—^Suppression of stool and urine for ten hours, -accom- panied by profuse sweat. ♦Difficult micturition. ^Retention of urine, which comes off only drop by drop. ^Frequent desire to urinate, the urine being passed in very small quantity, although of a natural color. * Yellow, turbid urine. Clear, lemon-colored urine. ♦Urine yellow as gold. Urine with white, thick sediment. Scanty, dark, or brown-red urine. The urine becomes turbid, like yeast, with reddish sediment. *Frequent and copious emissiem of urine. Frequent and copious emission of pale, thin, watery urine. Enuresis at night, with profuse sweat. Enuresis, especially in the morning, with thirst and obscuration of vision. Enuresis with appearance of the menses. Enuresis from paralysis of the neck of the bladder. ♦Inability to retain the urine. Sensation of writhing and turning in the bladder, as if there were a large worm in it, without any desire to urinate. Dull pressure in the region of the bladder at night. °Nephritis. ? Male Genital Organs.—Itching titillation in the fore part of the glans. Lacerating in the spermatic cord. Lancination all along the urethra. Soft, painless tumor on the glans. Lancinations in the testicles, which are drawn up. Nocturnal emission of semen, the penis being relaxed. Violent lancinations in the pubic region at every step, apparently in the internal genital organs. Female Genital Organs.—The menses appear four days too soon, °they are suppressed, °too pale. Increased flow of the menses. Pressing early in the morning, as if all the contents of the abdomen would issue through the genital organs, followed by a discharge of a white mucus. Leucorrhoea and colic.—°Pressing, followed by hamor- rhage.—♦Stitches in the inner parts, °great dryness of the vagina; °prolapsus and induration of the uterus.—°Flow of blood between the periods.—Metrorrhagia, the blood having a bad smell, °of a bright-red color, with lumps.—°Moral derangement, toothache, car- dialgia, and colic of pregnant females; °attachment of the placenta; °haemorrhage after confinement, or after miscarriage; spasms of BELLADONNA. 379 parturient women; °phlegmasia-alba-dolens, nymphomania, and other complaints of lying-in women; °milk-fever; °deficiency of milk, or °galactorrhoea, and difficulties in consequence of weaning; defi- cient lochia; ° puerperal fever, particularly after a violent emotion, or after suppression of the secretion of milk; °erysipelatous inflamma- tion of the mamma, particularly from weaning; °swelling and induration of the mammae ; °cancer of the mamma.—°Ophthalmia, spasms, sleeplessness, and screams of new-born infants; °troubles from dentition. Larynx.—^Hoarseness. Rough, hoarse voice. ♦Noise and rattling in the bronchial tubes. Every inspiration causing an irritation, with dry cough. ♦The voice is rough, hoarse ; ♦weak and whizzing; °nasal; ^aphonia.—°Great painfulness of the larynx, with danger qf suffocation when touching or turning the throat, when coughing, talking, or taking breath ; °spasmodic constriction of the throat.— °Grippe. ?—°Laryngitis and tracheitis; ♦angina membranacea. ? ♦Violent cough about noon, several days in succession, with discharge of a large quantity of tenacious mucus. ♦Coughing fit, with subse- quent heat, °with asthma, from congestion of blood to the chest. *Night-cough, frequently waking her from sleep, with rattling of mucus in scrofulous subjects; °with catarrh and stitches in the sternum, with lacerating in the chest. ♦Violent dry cough (in the forenoon), as if a foreign body had got into the larnyx; with coryza. ♦Itching titil- lation in the back part of the larynx, in the evening when in bed, causing an irresistible dry cough. ^Sensation as of a dry catarrh having settled in the chest, which continually excites a dry cough. Dry cough day, and night, from titillation in the pit of the throat, or with headache and redness of the face.—Short and hacking cough, from scraping in the throat; °hollow cough, °barking, spasmodic, especially after midnight, with gagging.—°Whooping cough. ♦Ex- pectoration of bloody mucus, early in the morning when coughing. Violent cough during sleep, with gnashing of teeth. Cough, with lancinations in the side under the left ribs. ♦The cough is preceded by weeping, °or pain in the stomach, and accompanied by a sensation as if he would vomit; °by lancinations in the hypogastrium, as if the uterus would be torn off. Chest.—♦Oppression of the chest. ^Labored, ♦irregular breathing, at times hurried, at times slow; °violent expirations. ♦Difficult respiration. ♦Small, frequent, anxious, °short, and hurried inspira- tions, °with moaning. ♦Pressure in the chest, affecting the heart. Violent oppression across the chest, as if compressed from both sides. ♦Asthma Feeling of oppression in the chest, in the evening when 380 BELLADONNA. in bed, with difficulty in taking an inspiration, as if prevented by mucus in tie trachea; accompanied by a burning iu the chest. Burning in the right half of the chest. Stitches in the sternum when coughing or yawning. *Fine stitches under the clavicle, from before backwards, during a walk. ♦Fine stitches in the left side of the chest, extending from the sternum towards the axilla, more violent during motion. Stitches in the side of the chest under the right arm. Pinching-stitching pain in the chest on both sides of the upper part of the sternum. °Tension in the chest.—°Hysteric spasms of the chest.—Continuous .stitch with pressure in the cartilage of the left ribs, increasing in violence during an expiration, when it resembles a burning sensation. Painful pressure below the right nipple; in the chest, and between the shoulders ; *with short breathing, when walking or sitting. Crampy painful pressure in both halves of the chest. Great uneasiness in the chest. (^Palpitation of the heart, when at rest, as if the shock extended to the neck, increasing during motion, with difficult and slow breathing). A sort of palpitation of the heart when going up-stairs, a kind of bubbling sensation. Chest and thighs are covered with dark-red small spots of different sizes. ♦The breasts become filled with milk (in a female who is not pregnant), the milk running out.—*Tremor of the heart, with anguish and °an aching pain. Back.—Dull intensely painful drawing in the whole circumference 01 the pelvis.—Intense cramp-pain in the small ofih*. back and the os coccygis; he can only sit for a short while ; unable to lie upon the back, and relieved mostly by standing and walking about slowly. Rheumatic pain in the back. Lancinations from without inwards in the vertebrae, resembling stabs with a knife. Pain, as from a sprain, in the right side of the back and the spinal column. Cramp- like, oppressive sensation in the middle of the spinal column, becoming tensive when attempting to straighten the back. The back, especially the scapulae, are covered with large red pimples; the whole skin looks red, and feels sore when touched. Aching under the left scapula, more towards the outer side. Pain between the scapulae, as if the parts had been strained by lifting. Itching stinging of the scapula. Stitching with pressure on the top of the left shoulder. ♦Painful stiffness between the scapulae and in the nape of the neck when turning the neck and head to and fro, early in the morning.__Aching pain in the outer side of the neck, when bending the head backwards or when touching the parts. ^Glandular swelling on the nape of the neck, with cloudiness of the head. * Painful swelling of one qf the left axillary glands.—*Painful swelling and stiffness of the nape of BELLADONNA. 381 the neck; -crampy tension, drawing, and drawing pressure in the muscles ; -perceptible throbbing of the vessels; distended veins, °sour sweat on the neck; lacerating in the axilla. Arms.—^Lacerating with pressure, in the shoulder, °darting sud- denly along the arm, particularly painful at night, relieved by pressing upon the parts, excited by movement. Extension and stretching of the upper limbs. Rheumatic pains of the arm with tingling, followed by convulsions of the same arm. The arm feels stunned and painful. Swelling of the arm. Great languor in the arms, especially in the hands. Weight in both arms. Weight and *lameness of the upper limbs, more however of the left one. *Lame- ness and pressure of the arms with weakness. ^Lameness with lacerating and pressure in the anterior surface of the left upper arm. Concussive spasms of the upper limbs. Drawing pain in the inner side of the left upper arm. Lacerating pain in the humerus. Pain, as from bruises, in the upper arms. Creeping along the left arm. Lameness and drawing pain in the elbow and the fingers. Stitches in the fore-arm. Cutting lacerating in the lower muscles of the right fore-arm. Lameness and lacerating in the carpal bones and bones of the hand. Copious, cold sweat qf the hands. ^Swelling of the hands. Feeling of stiffness in the hand and the fingers. Legs.—°Coxalgia, with burning stinging in the articulation, most violent at night and by contact; °stiffhess in the hip-joints, after sitting, with difficulty in rising from the seat.—Pain of the thighs and legs as if bruised. Occasional lassitude of the lower limbs, with drawing pain. ^Heaviness of the thighs and legs when walking, accompanied by stiffness of the knee-joints. ^Paralytic drawing in the right lower limb. Lameness of the lower limbs ; she had to lie down, suffering with nausea, tremor, anxiety, and vertigo.—Pain of the left hip, with limping. Tension in the hip-joints when walking, as if they were sprained. Cutting omd darting lacerating in the muscles of the thigh when sitting. Excessive weight and stitches in the thighs, when walking; also when sitting. Painful throbbing in the upper and inner part of the left thigh. Violent pains in the knee. Tremor of the knees. Disagreeable sensation in the joints of the limbs, especially the knee-joints, as if they would give way, especially when walking, and mostly when going down a height. Lassitude of the legs when going up-stairs, especially of the calves. Creeping in the legs from below upwards, externally, accompanied with sensation as of innumerable stitches, internally. Pain in the leg, as.if jammed, with a dull lacerating and confused commotion internally, especially in the right, relieved by letting the leg. hang down Burning lace 882 BENZOIC AC1C. rating along the leg, through the inner side of the patella. Tremuloua weight of the legs. Dull lacerating in the legs. Excessive pain in the legs, obliging one to extend them. Drawing weight in the legs. Lacerating pam in the tibia. Cramp in the calf when bending the leg, in the evening when in bed, going off by extending the leg. Lacerating and pressure in the middle of the inner side of the leg. Sweat of the feet, without any warmth, when sitting. Corrosive itching of the feet. Pain as from a sprain in the tarsal bones, when walking or bending the foot inwards. Cramp in the sole of the foot, in the evening when in bed. Burning, and digging sensation in the soles of the feet. Tingling in the feet from below upwards. Swelling of the feet. Heat, especially in the feet. Stinging pain in the soles of the feet. Pain, as from a bruise, in the ball of the heel, when treading upon it. PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY.—Rigidity of the whole body.— The fingers, particularly the thumbs, are spasmodically clenched.— Great distention of the whole body.—Rapid decay of the body.— Absence of putrefaction.—Horrible smell of the body.—The blood is generally in a state of decomposition.—Frothy blood from the eyes, nose, and mouth; discharge of a watery, brown-yellow, disgustingly- smelling fluid from the nose, mouth, genitals, and anus.—Expression of fear and dread in the countenance.—The mouth is tightly closed. —Hard abdomen and distended to such a degree that it seems as if it would burst; the abdomen, penis, and genitals are hard as a stone, emitting a frothy, fetid water when opened; effusion of a yellowish serum into the abdominal cavity.—The veins of the abdomen are turgid with a black-red blood.—Intense inflammation of the mucous membrane of the pharynx, oesophagus, and stomach, which can be easily detached.—Yellow coating in the stomach of bile and mucus. 46.—BENZOIC ACID. BENZ. AC.—Flowers of Benzoin.—See "Transactions of the Amer. Institute of Homoeopathy," 1846. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Itching on various parts of the body and extremities. Sleep.—Wakes after midnight with violent pulsation of the heart and temporal arteries (110 in the minute), without external heat, and cannot fall asleep again; in the morning, the tongue is covered with a white mucous coat; nausea and total loss of appetite: in the after- noon, at four o'clock, all these symptoms had vanished. He wakes BENZOIC ACID. 383 every morning about two o'clock, from strong internal heat and a hard, bounding, but not quickened pulse, so that he must lie awake upon his back, because the pulsation of the temporal arteries sounds like puffing in the ears, and prevents him from going to sleep again. Fever.—Feeling of coldness of the knees, as if they were blown upon by a cold wind. Frequent pulse. Head.—Confusion of the head with drowsiness. Pain in the temples. Pressure on the whole of the upper part of the head and spinal column, as if they were pressed together by an elastic body. Itching of the scalp. Eyes.—Itching in the angles of the eyes. Ears.—Itching in the left ear. Shooting pain in the right ear; intermitting. Teeth.—Slight cutting pain in the teeth. Darting pain in carious molars in both jaws. Mouth.—Soreness of the back part of the tongue, felt most whilst swallowing. Sensation of soreness and rawness at the root of the tongue, and on the palate. ♦Extensive ulcerations of the tongue, with deeply chapped or fungoid surface. #An ulcerated tumor in the left side of the mouth, upon the soft commissure of the jaws behind the last molar teeth. Throat.—Heat in the oesophagus, as from acid eructation. Stomach.—Singultus. Sensation of heat throughout the abdomen. Pain in the left side of the abdomen immediately below the short ribs. Bowels.—Bowels freely open, with extraordinary pressure to stool. ♦Fetid, watery, white stools, very copious and exhausting in infants, the urine being of a very deep-red color. Urine.—Irritability of bladder, too frequent desire to evacuate the bladder, the urine normal in appearance. Urine at first only increased in quantity and not in frequency. In a few days urination became exceedingly frequent, with strong pressing. Urine of an aromatic odor, and saline taste; the odor long retained, most in the forenoon. ♦Urine highly-colored, sometimes of the color of brandy, the urinous odor exceedingly strong. ♦Urine of the above character, of a specific gravity greater than that of healthy urine passed into the same vessel, retaining its place below the healthy urine without admixture, and though of a very deep-red color, depositing no sedi- ment. ♦Hot, scalding urine of a deep-red color and strong odor, causing so much suffering in its passage that this was performed but once a day. Genital Organs.—A thrilling almost painful sensation on the left 384 BERBERIS VULGARIS. side of the glans-penis, extending into the urethra, so severe as to occasion starting, ending in a sensation of tickling and itching. Larynx.—Sneezing, with slight hoarseness, without accompanying catarrhal symptoms. ♦Troublesome, and almost constant dry hack- ing cough. Back—Dull pain in the back, in the region of the kidneys. Arms and Legs.—Giving way and cracking of the joints, both of the superior and inferior extremities, in motion. Pain in the joints of the fingers of the right hand. Pain in the right tendo-achillis, and in the region of the heart at the same time. The pain is incessantly and suddenly changing its location, but its most constant seat is in the region of the heart. ♦Pain in the large joints of the great toes, with slight tumefaction and redness 47. -BERBERIS VULGARIS. BERB. V.—Barberry.—See Journal fiii Arzneimittellehre, I., 1.—Duration of Action: several weeks. Compare with—Aloes, Ars., Asa-f, Bry., Calc, Carb.-v., Cham., Chin., Lye, Natr.-mur., Nitr.-ac, Nux-v., Puis., Rheum., Tarax., Tart.-em. Antidotes.—Camph.—According to Buchner, Barberry antidotes Aeon. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Itching, corrosive sensations here and there.—Smarting pain, as from excoriation (on the genital organs).— Lacerating pains (head, eyes, ears, cheeks, upper-jaw, lips, teeth, neck, abdomen, mons-veneris, chest, back, extremities).—Lancinat- ing, darting pains (head, eyes, ears, teeth, tongue, stomach, abdo- men, inguinal region and region of the bladder, extremities).—Ten- sive aching pains (bones, head, eyes, nape of the neck, chest, inguinal and vesical region, small of the back, extremities).—Feeling qf cold- ness in various parts.—Bubbling sensation in various parts.—Jerk- ing pains here and there.—Burning sensation in various parts of the body.—Bone-pains; distention of joints.—Lymphatic swellings on the tendon.—Feeling of anxiety during movement, long standing, rising from a seat, or early in the morning, when sitting up in the bed or rising.—General languor and debility, increased by walking or standing for some time, feeling of exhaustion, even after slight exertion only; languor, even unto trembling; slow, feeble pulse.— General feeling as if bruised in the whole body, particularly in the lower limbs, and more especially after stooping for some time.— Weakness, almost amounting to fainting, when walking, standing, or rising, sometimes accompanied with vertigo; condition of fainting BERBERIS VULGARIS. 385 while walking, after riding in a carriage ; fainting turn after a walk, with sudden seething of the blood, sweat, heat of the upper half of the body; coldness, paleness, and sunken appearance of the face, oppression of the chest shortly before going to bed, shivering while entering the bed, difficulty in falling asleep, restless tossing about, and heavy dreams.—°Arthritic, and rheumatic complaints con- nected with affections of the urinary organs, or hamorrhoidal affec- tions, or menstrual derangement, complaints which are either aggra- vated or excited by movement, fatigue, riding in a carriage or on horseback, coition, spirituous drinks. Characteristic Peculiarities.—The pains are either excited or aggravated by movement.—The pains are more particularly expe- rienced on the left side.—The pains are frequently most violent in the afternoon. Skin.—Burning pricking, as of mosquitoes, in the skin of the head. —Corrosive itching and stinging in the scalp and face, felt repeat- edly in various places. Small, dingy-red, petechial, sometimes slightly itching or burning spots on the fore-arms, or on the dorsum of the hand.—Blotches like nettle-rash on the upper arm.—Clusters of red, burning itching or stinging, also gnawing pimples on the skin, painful when pressed upon, generally surrounded with a vividly-red areola, and surmounted by small tips containing pus, lastly changing to brown spots, resembling hepatic spots.—Painful, intensely-red and inflamed pimples on the mucous membrane of the cheeks and lips, with ulceration in the centre.—Vesicles on the lower lip, of the size of a pea or smaller ; blisters on the tongue and gums.—Soreness of the skin around the anus, with violent burning, severe pain to the touch, and great sensitiveness when sitting, terminating in the forma- tion of a crust around the border of the anus.—Soreness of the anus, after a walk of several hours. Sleep.—Great weariness and drowsiness in the daytime and even- ing.—Unusually long sleep, with a feeling of languor and as if bruised, with oppressive headache, pain in the small of the back and loins.—Repeated waking at night, with tightness in the head, con- gestion of blood to the head, and nervous irritation.—Restless sleep, disturbed with itching and burning, or with anxious dreams; sleep full of dreams, restless.—Bodily and mental languor, early in the morning on waking. Fever.—Chilliness, particularly before or after dinner, with icy- cold feet, dryness and viscidity of the mouth, without thirst.—Chilli- ness along the back.—Chills over the whole body, with subsequent heat and increase of thirst.—Feeling of chilliness on the whole body, 17 25 BERBERIS VULGARIS. with heat in the face and icy-cold feet.—Heat in the hands and head, in the afternoon.—Feeling of heat the whole day.—Violent flush of heat in the face, particularly in the evening. Profuse night- sweat. Moral Symptoms.—Mental languor, with difficulty to collect one's senses, and weakness of thought.—Want of disposition to work dizziness ; indifferent, calm, sometimes even apathetic mood.—Dispo- sition to weep.—Out of humor.—Anxious mood, with great fearful- ness and tendency to start. Great anguish and uneasiness. Head.—Giddiness and dizziness in the head, when walking, or at work, with weakness, as if he would faint in stooping.—Feeling of intoxication in the head.—Empty and muddled sensation in the head; stupid and dizzy feeling in the head.—Early in the morning the head feels dull and heavy, sometimes with languor, ill-humor, and chilli- ness; feeling of heaviness and fullness, particularly the sinciput. Sensation as if the head were swollen and bloated.—Feeling of ten- sion and numbness in the skin of the head and face.—Oppressive, or oppressive tensive pain in the whole head, particularly the fore part; dull aching or stinging pain in the head.—Oppressive dragging, tensive pain in the forehead, increased or excited by stooping, relieved in the open air.—Pressing pain in the forehead and temples, from within outwards.—Oppressive pain in the temporal regions, in the direction of the eyes.—Lacerating pain in the whole head.—Sticking pains in the head, generally darting or shooting, or in paroxysms.—Lancinating pain in the forehead and temples.— Increased warmth in the head; heat in the head after dinner, and in the afternoon. Peculiar feeling of coldness in the temporal region. — The pains are relieved in the open air and aggravated by move- ment. Eyes.—Sunken eyes, surrounded with blue or dingy-gray borders. —Itching in the eye-brows and eye-lids, burning, biting, or stinging; itching in the canthi of the eyes, sometimes biting or stinging.— Heaviness in the eye-lids when moving them.—Feeling as if the lids were swollen.—Heat in the face in the evening, mostly in and around the eyes; heat, burning, and redness of the inner surface of the lids Continual dryness of the eyes.—Dryness and biting or burning, sometimes with a sensation as if sand were in the eyes, with occasional slight redness of the conjunctiva of the lids and even the eye-ball.— Inflammation of those canthi where the lachrymal glands are situated; sensation of coldness in the eyes.—Pressure and burning in the eyes. —Intermittent, painful lacerating in the eye-ball.—Bubbling in the eye.—Dartings in the eyes.—The eyes are sensitive to bright light.— $ BERBERIS VULGARIS. 387 Most of the eye-symptoms seem to become worse in the open air; movement of the eye-balls excites or aggravates the pains. Ears.—Heat or itching in the ears.—Drawing pains in the ears, ter- minating in severe stitches.—Lacerating and lancinating pain in the inner ears, alternating with similar phenomena in other parts of the head. Pressing pain with stitches in the ear, as if the parts were being dug up by something.—Painless beating with pressure, and buzzing in the ears, particularly the left, with dryness and a feeling of coldness of the ear.—Lancinations through the tympanum at intervals, causing one to start, mingled with fine digging-up stitches and a sensation as if the ears were full.—Stitches in the ear. Nose.—Frequent tingling, biting, or itching in the nostril.—Profuse coryza, with oppression of the chest, particularly at night.—Dryness of the mucous membrane of the nose.—Catarrh of the nose, lasting for months. Face.—Striking paleness of the face, with a dingy-grayish tinge, sunken cheeks and deep-seated eyes surrounded with bluish or blackish- gray borders.—Frequently-returning evanescent heat of the counte- nance, with redness.—Cool cheeks and hot temples.—Pressing-sticking pains in the jaws, particularly in the lower jaw, more especially at night. Teeth.—Slight bleeding of the gums.—Dingy-red border of the gums.—Sensation in the teeth as if too long, too large or dull.— Scraping-gnawing pain in the roots and on the body of all the lower molares. Ulcers on the gums. Lacerating pain in the upper molares. Darting through the teeth, with sensation as if the gums were loose, and as if the teeth were raised out of their sockets. Mouth.—Burning about the mouth and chin.—Simple, or else biting or burning itching in the lips, going off by rubbing.—The mouth feels dry and sticky.—Bad, metallic smell from the mouth.— Stinging-burning sensation on the tongue, with painfulness to the touch.—Painful white blister on the tip of the tongue; violently- stinging, small, red pimples on the tongue, the fore part of which is stiff and somewhat thick. Throat—Dryness in the throat and feeling of pressure in the posterior region of the palate and fauces.—Scraping in the throat.-'— The pain is either excited or increased by talking or swallowing, and is accompanied with redness of the tonsil. Inflammation of the throat, with stiffness of the neck, hoarseness, and burning in the throat. Appetite and Taste.—Increased thirst and dryness of the mouth. —Hunger without appetite.—Increased appetite, almost like canine hunger.—Loss of appetite, with taste bitter as bile.—Bitter, sour taste; long-continuing, bitter, scraping-burning taste, particularly in 388 BERBERIS VULGARIS. the palate.—Bad, qualmish taste in the mouth, as if coming out of the stomach, like heartburn. Gastric Symptoms.—Nausea and inclination to vomit before breakfast, disappearing after breakfast, nausea and languor. Empty eructations; bilious ei-uctations.—Singultus.—Intensely stinging- burning taste; peculiar pain in the stomach, resembling heartburn, sometimes rising into the oesophagus. Stomach.—Violent, continued, lancinating colicky pains in the upper part of the abdomen, in the stomach and left hypochondrium, increased by respiration, movement, and contact, in the evening on going to bed : with shortness of breath and distention of the abdomen. Whirling sensation in the region of the stomach.—Pressure in the stomach, a few hours after a meal. Abdomen.—Distention of the abdomen.—Drawing-lacerating or lancinating pain in the left hypochondrium, with sensation on taking an inspiration as if something were torn loose. Sticking pain with pressure in that region of the liver, near the gall-bladder; pressure in the region of the liver, in the border of the false ribs.—Dull sticking or stinging, or burning, gnawing, aching pain on one side of the umbilicus, increased by deep pressure, and passing either to the right lumbar region, or else to the inguinal, hepatic, splenetic region, or to the region of the stomach.—Lancinating pain in the abdomen.—Drawing pain in the abdomen.—Cutting-jerking pains in the umbilical region, or superficial lancinating pain in that region, sometimes extending towards the lumbar region.—Sticking, darting, or else pressing sticking, or tensive sticking, or oppressive dragging-pain, in the inguinal region, aggravated by walking.—Cutting-contractive pain in the inguinal ring from without inwards.—Externally : violent burning pain under the skin in the left side of the abdomen; wandering- lacerating or lancinating pains in the walls of the abdomen, particu- larly in the left hypochondrium in the direction of the umbilicus. Stool and Anus.—Hard, scanty stool; tinged with blood.— Copious faecal diarrhoea with a good deal of pressing; copious liquid stool, with constant colic.— Watery evacuation.—Burning-stinging pain in the anus before, during, and after stool.—Tensive-pressing in the small of the back and anus after stool, sensation as if he would go to stool again.—Painful pressure in the perinaeum.—Sensation of fullness in the anus.—Pressing in the anus, frequently-returning irritation in the anus, or smarting pain as if the parts were excoriated, or at times simple itching, and at times a burning titillation in the anus and in the surrounding parts, transitory stinging or beating pain in the anus.—Continual violent burning pain and soreness as from BERBERIS VULGARIS. 389 excoriation at the anus.—Hamorrhoidal tumors with burning pain make their appearance several times after stool. Urine.—Oppressive-tensive, or lancinating pain in the region of the kidneys.—Sensation in the kidneys as from ulceration.—The •pains in the region of the kidney are generally worse when stooping and rising again, and when sitting or lying down than when standing.—Painful cutting, extending from the left kidney in the direction of the ureter into the region of the bladder and the urethra; violent sticking pain in the bladder, extending from the kidneys into the urethra, increased by strong pressure, with urging to urinate.— Burning-itching, biting, or smarting pain in the region of the bladder. —Crampy contractive pain in the region of the bladder.—Continuous, frequently-recurring aching pain in the region of the bladder, both when the bladder is full and empty.—Stitch in the urethra, extending into the bladder.—Titillating pain in the urethra.—The pains in the urethra are either excited or aggravated by movement.— Urging to urinate.—Pale, yellowish urine, with weak, transparent, jelly-like sediment, or else turbid, flocculent urine, with a more copious mucous sediment, covered with a white, or grayish-white, or reddish bran-like sediment, or yellow-red crystals upon the sediment and the walls of the vessel.—The emission is accompanied with violent pains in the kidneys; the urine looks red as if inflamed, and deposits a copious sediment. Male Genital Organs.—Most of the pains in the genital organs are excited and aggravated by movement.—Depression qf the sexual instinct: burning pain as from excoriation in the penis.—Stinging in the glans.—Pain in the spermatic cord, which is at times dragging, at times lancinating, and then smarting as from excoriation, and frequently extends into the testicles.—Soft swelling of the spermatic cord.—Lancinating or smarting pain as from excoriation, or smarting burning pain in the testicles, the pain is generally very intense.— Burning, itching, and tingling of the Scrotum; pain of the scrotum as if sore, particularly of one side, and more especially the left.— Shrivelling and coldnes of the scrotum, with aching pain. Female Genital Organs.—Smarting pain as from excoriation in the vagina.—Feeling of burning and soreness in the vagina, particu- larly in the fore part. The menses are very scanty and painful, the blood is more like serum; in the commencement they are accompanied with a good deal of chilliness, pain in the small of the back and head, violent lacerating in the whole body.—The menses are very scanty, and intermitting of a gray mucus with labor-like or ulcerative pains, ill humor and tensive pains in the muscles. 390 BERBERIS VULGARIS. Larynx.—Hoarseness, with pain or inflammation of the tonsils.— Rawness, or scraping sensation in the chest.—Short, dry cough, with deep sticking pain behind the sternum, which is increased by a deep inspiration. Chest.__Pain in the mammae.—Feeling of subcutaneous ulceration and swelling in the lateral region of the chest near the scapula.— Oppressed breathing.—Sticking pain between the scapulae, increased by deap breathing. Stitches (lancinations, dartings, intermittent- continuous) in the sides of the chest.—Painful dragging-stieking in the region of the heart, outwards and downwards.—Palpitation of the heart. Back.—Painful stiffness of the neck, with tensive burning, oi lacerating-sticking, or lancinating pains in the neck.—Lacerating pain in the side of the neck.—Itching in the nape of the neck.— Drawing and lacerating in the scapulae.—Lancinations from the lower region of the dorsal vertebrae through the chest, arresting the breathing.—Itching in the lumbar region.—Digging pain with pres- sure, or gnawing pain in the lumbar region, as if an abscess would form.—Sticking pain, or sticking pain with pressure in the lumbar region, in the region of the kidney, in the side qfthe abdomen, in the region of the bladder, or the inguinal region; aching, or tensive, lacerating, or lacerating-sticking, in the region of the loins and kidneys, in the posterior region of the pelvis, the thighs, and some- times extending even down into the calves, with a feeling of lameness or swelling in the back, in the lower extremities.—Itching in the small of the back; burning pain, or digging pain with pressure, or sticking pain in the small of the back.—Drawing, lacerating in the small of the back.—Feeling of lameness and as if bruised in the small qf the back, felt on waking, worse when sitting or lying down. Arms.—Feeling of languor and lameness in the arms, which increases to a pain when making an exertion.—Pain as if sprained in the shoulder-joint, or else pain as of subcutaneous ulceration.— Itching.—Burning and burning stitches.—Stinging in the arms and hands.—Smarting-lacerating pain in the arms and fingers.__Drawing and pressure in the arms and hands. Painful lacerating in the arms, extending into the fingers.—Drawing-tensive sensation, aching pain, and wandering-lacerating in the muscular parts of the arm.__Slight redness qf the tips of the fingers, with frequent itching in the joints, as if they had been slightly frozen. Legs.—Emaciation of the lower extremities.—Feeling qf weari- ness and as if bruised in the lower extremities, sometimes with heaviness and a feeling of lameness and stiffness; dull aching pain BISMUTHUM. 391 as if bruised in the calves.—Feeling of coldness, or of warmth.— Buzzing sensation in the calves, as if they had gone to sleep.—Simple or else burning biting, prickling itching.—Smarting as from excoria- tion.—Simple pain as if sore in the bend of the hip-joint, or in the outer parts of the thigh, accompanied wtth burning in the bend of the knee, or in the toes, with pale redness in the toes as if frozen.— Burning or burning stitches.—Sticking pulsative pain.—Crampy sensation in the outer parts of the thigh, legs, and feet.—Aching pain in the bend of the knee, with sensation as if the ham-strings were shortened, as if the knee were stiff and swollen, aggravated by bending, and particularly by extending the knee.—Pain in the tibia as if the bone would become enlarged, tensive aching, or pressing, sometimes accompanied with burning.—Drawing tension with lame feeling on rising.—Lancinating pain in the lower extremities.—Pain in the toes as if ulcerated and contused.—Pain as if sprained (partly with lacerating) in the metacarpal joints of the toes, with sensation of swelling, increased by contact.—Violent pain in the inner side of the knee-joint near the patella, penetrating into the bend of the knee, and behind the patella through the joint, as if the part were violently swollen, on bending the knee. 48.—BISMUTHUM. BISM.—Nitrate of Bismuth.—Hahnemann's " Mat. Med. Pura," Vol. I.—Du- ration of Action: from five to seven weeks. Antidotes.—Of small doses : Calc, Caps., Nux-vom. Sleep.—Languor and depression qf strength. When working, an excessive drowsiness assails him.—Excessive drowsiness, a few hours after rising.—Frequent waking, at night, as if in affright. Vivid, anxious dreams at night. Night-sleep disturbed by lascivious dreams. —Frequent waking, at night, with lassitude. Fever.—Flushes of heat over the whole body, especially on the head and chest, without any chilliness either before or after; early in the morning, shortly after rising. Moral Symptoms.—Restless ill-humor. He is peevish and dis- satisfied with his condition. He commences one thing and then another, without finishing any. Solitude is intolerable to him.— Violent apprehensive anguish. Head.—Vertigo, sensation as if the brain were turning in a circle. Dullness of the head. Heavy, oppressive, painful weight in the forehead, especially above the root of the nose, and in both temples 392 BISMUTHUM. when sitting. Pressure and sensation of weight in the forehead, more violent during motion. Pressure and sensation of weight in the occiput, more violent during motion. Dull pressure, with drawing in different parts of the head, more violent during motion. Dull, cutting pain in the brain, from above the right orbit to the occiput. —Burning contractive feeling, particularly in the forehead and eyes. Eyes.__Lacerating pain in the forehead above the internal canthus of the right eye, and in the bottom of the orbit. Pressure in the tight eye-ball. Gum in both canthi.—Mistiness before the eyes, with stupefaction. Face.—Livid complexion, blue borders around the eyes Ears.—Drawing pressure in the external meatus of the left ear. Mouth and Taste.— White coated tongue in the evening, without heat or thirst. Metallic, sweetish-sour taste on the back part of the tongue. Great desire for cold drinks in the evening, without heat. Violent eructations, of a fetid, cadaverous smell. Nausea at the stomach; especially violent after a meal. Violent retching.— Vomit- ing : vomiting of brownish substances. Stomach and Abdomen.—Slight nausea, pressure at the stomach, passing over into a burning pressure in the frontal region, vertigo with humming in the ears, redness of the conjunctiva, and quick, rather hard, small pulse.—Inclination to vomit and actual vomiting, with oppressive anxiety, small pulse, vertigo, and prostration.—Re- peated easy vomiting of bile; easy vomiting of bile, with empty eructations and nausea.— Vomiting and diarrhoea, with gagging and burning in the throat.— Violent convulsive gagging and inex- pressible pain in the stomach.—Oppression of the stomach, which passes over into a burning ; troublesome pressure and burning in the region of the stomach, and afterwards emission of a quantity of flatulence from the stomach ; pressure in the stomach, vertigo, head- ache, particularly in the frontal region, redness of the eyes and dimness of sight, with small, contracted, rather hard, frequent pulse, elevated temperature of the body, white-coated tongue, loss of appetite, thirst; oppression of the stomach and colicky pains, with emission of a quantity qf wind from the stomach, and loose bilious stool.—In- flammation qf the stomach. ^Pressure in the stomach, especially after a meal.—Burning in the stomach ; °cardialgia.—Pinching, with pressure in the abdomen, and rumbling, with urging to stool.—> Urging in the evening, without any evacuation; evacuation of a cada verous smell; diarrhoea, watery. Urine.—Frequent and copious micturition; the urine is watery, retention of urine. BORAX VENETA. 393 Genital Organs.—Aching of the right testicle, more violent when touching it.—Nocturnal emission, without any voluptuous dreams. Chest.—Fine stingings in the middle of the sternum, not altered by inspiration or expiration. Crampy pressure in the region of the diaphragm, through the chest, when walking. Violent beating of the heart. Dull lancinations and lacerations in the region of the last ribs. Back and Neck.—Pain in the left side of the back when sitting, as if one had stooped too long. Tensive pressure on the right side of the neck, near the cervical vertebrae, both when in motion and at rest. Sensation of jactitation of the muscles in the right side of the neck. Arms.—Lacerating pressure in the right shoulder-joint.—The arms are bluish, lame, weak and languid.—Spasmodic, contractive lace- rating in the muscles of the arm. Lameness and languor of the right arm. Pain in the bones of the left for^-arm, as if bruised, with vibratory sensations as by blows. Lacerating with lameness and pressure in the right fore-arm, especially violent in the carpal bones. Lacerating in the right carpal bones, going off during motion. Weak feeling in the hand, as if he were not able to hold the pen, and would tremble. Intense lacerating pain around the styloid process of the radius, as far as the muscles of the hand, most violent in the process itself. Violent lacerating pain in the left carpal bones. Lacerating in the metacarpal bones qf the right index and middle finger. Itching lacerating and pressure in the styloid process of both ulnae. Fine lacerating in the tips and joints of the fingers, especially under the nails. Legs.—Bluish thighs.—Corrosive itching near the tibia and in the dorsa of both feet, near the joint, becoming more violent by scratching. Lacerating in the bones and joints. Lacerating in the heels. 49.—BORAX VENETA. BOR.—Natrum Boracicum.—Hahnemann's "Chronic Diseases," II.—Duration of Action: four weeks. Compare with—Cham., Coff., Merc, Natr., Puis., Sulph Antidotes.—Cham., Coff. CLINICAL REMARKS. Hahnemann.—" Borax has, for a long time, been used as a domestic remedy, against the aphthae ef chil- dren, and for the purpose of facilitating the labor-pains of parturient women. 17* 394 BORAX VENETA. Anliilotes.—Coffea-cruda against the sleeplessness and the head- complaints of Borax; Chamomilla against the painful swelling of the cheeks. Wine aggravates the symptoms, especially those of the chest, and Vinegar reproduces the symptoms which had already been relieved, especially the stitches in the chest." Noack and Trinks.—''Borax is especially adapted to sensitive, lav temperaments and nervous constitutions, especially to females and children, pregnant and nursing women, and such individuals as suffer from hamorrhoids. Borax is especially suitable for diseases qf the mucous membranes of the respiratory and digestive organs, and the diseases of the female parts."—Ed. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—°Catarrhal complaints in damp and cold weather.—Loss of appetite every evening, nausea, drawing in the head from the vertex into the temples, and drawing in the abdo- men towards the groin. Uneasiness in the body, which did not permit him to sit, or to be lying long on the same part. The infant grows pale, almost livid, the flesh, which was before hard, becomes relaxed and withering; it cries much, loathes the breast, and often wakes with anxious cries. Loss of strength in the joints. Weakness, especially in the abdomen and the thighs. Worn out, weary, and indolent, with heaviness in the feet. Formication and tremor of the feet, with nausea and disposition to swoon; going off in the open air. After an animated conversation, uneasiness in the body, nausea, and stupefaction with vertigo. While meditating during labor, trembling of the whole body, especially of the hands, with nausea, and with weakness of the knees. Faint, lazy, peevish, thirsty, after the siesta, with heat when walking in the open air, and sweat on the head and in the face, with dullness of the head, pressure in the forehead and the eyes, which feel sore when touched; at the same time inclination to deep breathing, during which he experiences stitches in the inter- costal muscles, with hard, quick pulse. Skin.—Unwholesome skin: small wounds suppurate and ulcerate. Inclination of old wounds and ulcers to suppurate. Whitish pimples of the size of a hemp-seed, with red areolae, on the chest. Erysipe- latous inflammation of the leg, accompanied first by coldness, chills, and thirst, with vomiting of food and bile, then heaviness in the head, and throbbing in the temples, with uneasy sleep at night, resembling slumber, and afterwards bleeding at the nose on the sixth day. Sleep.—Sleep, disturbed with thirst and coldness. Disturbed nights ; he was unable to sleep soundly, on account of a rush of blood to the head, uneasiness in the body, rumbling in the abdomen, and diarrhoea. On turning to the right side, pain in the intercostal BORAX VENETA. 395 muscles. The infant often wakes with screams, and clings to the mother with anguish, as if it had been tormented by frightful dreams, Vexatious or voluptuous dreams. Fever.—Cold creeping over the whole body, with throbbing head- ache in the occiput, as of an ulcer. Slight chills over the whole body, especially the back, without thirst, with flat taste, rough throat, stitches in the chest when breathing, languor, lameness, extension and stretching of the limbs, with contracted, quick pulse; at the same time heat, heaviness, and stupefaction of the head, and burning of the eyes, with sensitiveness of the same to light. Chills at night, with tremor, vomiting of food, lacerating in the thighs, and pain in the femur, as if broken; then heat and thirst after sleep ; in the morning, bitter vomiting, succeeded by sweat with diminished thirst. Cold- ness, with headache, and subsequent heat without thirst; when walking in the open air, the headache ceased. Coldness every other day, in the afternoon, with thirst and sleep. Alternate coldness and heat, frequently with sweat in the face, whilst he has cold creepings over the baok, with extension and stretching of the limbs, accom- panied by languor and drowsiness. Frequent flushes of heat early in the morning, with nausea and inclination to vomit. Moral Symptoms—Great anguish, with great drowsiness. An- guish with weakness, trembling of the feet, and palpitation of the heart. Easily frightened. Low-spirited and peevish. Want of disposition to work. Occasional loss of ideas.—Attacks of vertigo, with loss of presence of mind. Giddy, with fullness of the forehead early in the morning. Vertigo and fullness of the head, on ascending a mountain or a stair-case. Fullness in the head, and pressure round the eyes, as if they were held fast. Fullness in the head, and pressure in the small of the back when sitting. Fullness in the head early in the morning, with want of clear ideas and presence of mind. Heavi- ness of the head. Headache, on the top of the head, and in the forehead, in the evening. Headache, with dullness of the whole head. Headache, all over, with nausea, inclination to vomit, and trembling of the whole body, early in the morning. Oppressive headache over the eyes, going off soon, when walking in the open air. Pressure above the eyes. Dull headache early in the morning, especially in the forehead. Oppressive drawing pain in the forehead, above the eyes and towards the root of the nose, sometimes extending into the nape of the neck. Shooting pain in the forehead, with nausea and lacerating in both eye-balls, in the afternoon. Lacerating in the vertex, in the afternoon, with buzzing of the ears. Lancinating headache above the eyes, and in the temples, with heat and coldn sg 396 BORAX VENETA. in alternation. Throbbing in both temples ; in the forehead. Pul sative pressing upwards of the blood high up in occiput. Hot head qf the infant, with hot mouth and hot palms of the hands. Scalp.—Sensitiveness of the external head to cold, and to changes of weather. Eyes.—Lacerating in both eye-balls, with shootings in the fore- head, and nausea in the afternoon. Itching in the eyes, sometimes with a feeling as if sand were in the eyes. Soreness in the external canthi. Burning in the eyes. The eye-lashes turn themselves in- wards into the eye, inflaming it. Inflammation of the borders of the eye-lids, in an infant. At night, the eyes are closed with hard, dry gum, which irritates the eyes like sand. Lachrymation. Ears.—Pain in the ear. Stitches in the ears; when washing them with cold water, early in the morning. Inflamed and hot swell- ing of both ears, with ♦discharge of pus. ♦Discharge of pus from the ears, with lancinating headache ; ♦discharge of pus from both ears, after previous itching of the occiput. Sudden sensation of ob- struction in the ear. Roaring in the ears, the hearing being much harder. Nose.—Ulcer in the nostril. Red and shining swelling of the nose, with a sensation as of throbbing and tension. Bleeding at the nose early in the morning, and pulsative headache in the evening.— Fluent coryza, also with sneezing or tingling in the nose. Face.—Erysipelas in the face. Swelling, heat, and redness of the cheek, with lacerating pains in the malar bone, and great pain in the swelling when laughing. Swelling of the face, with pimples on the nose and lips. Pimples in the face. Jaws and Teeth.—Pain in the corners of the mouth, as if they would ulcerate. Red inflamed swelling on the lower lip, of the size of a pea, with burning soreness when touched. Large patches, like herpes, around the mouth; the upper lip, after a burning heat, be- came covered with porrigo. Toothache in a hollow tooth of the upper row, with swelling of the cheek, which is painful to the touch, with a sensation of tension. Toothache in hollow teeth, dull and griping, in wet, rainy weather. Contractive griping in a hollow tooth. La- cerating from the hollow teeth into one-half of the head, whenever she touched the teeth with her tongue, or took cold water into her mouth. Pressure in he hollow teeth in bad weather. Drawing pain in the teeth. Fine stitches, intermittent, in all the teeth. The teeth feel elongated. The gums of the upper teeth are bleeding, without any pain. Inflamed swelling of the external side of the gums, very painful (ulcer on the gums), with dull pain in a hollow tooth, swell- BORAX VENETA. 397 ing of the cheek and the whole of the left side of the face, extending below the eye; here the swelling is changed to a watery blister. Mouth.—Slimy mouth. Aphtha in the mouth. ♦Aphthae on the inside of the cheek, bleeding when eating. Aphthae on the tongue. °Ulccrs in the mouth, as in stomacace. Red blisters on the tongue, as if the skin were pulled off. Dryness of the tongue, in the after- noon. Spasm in the tongue, like stiffness, or as if the tongue had gone to sleep. The palate of the infant seems wrinkled, and it often screams when sucking. The mucous membrane of the palate, in front, feels burned and shrivelled, and is especially painful when chewing. Dryness in the throat. Throat, &c.—Roughness of the throat. Burning in the throat Much phlegm accumulates in the throat. A little piece of phlegm, streaked with blood, is hawked up. Taste and Appetite.—Bitter taste in the mouth. Thirst early in the morning. Diminution of hunger and appetite. No appetite for dinner. Desire for sour drinks. During the meal, uneasiness of the whole body, with nausea, so that he had to make an effort in order to eat something; stretching himself backwards procured re- lief. Nausea during the meal. Gastric Symptoms.—Distention from flatulence after every meal. After the meal, he felt distended, uneasy, unwell, peevish. Rum- bling in the abdomen, and diarrhoea after dinner. Diarrhoea shortly after dinner, with debility in the joints and legs. Diarrhoea after breakfast. Hiccough after dinner. Nausea and little appetite. Nausea with subsequent vomiting of phlegm, with heat, and a quick, feverish pulse. Pain in the stomach, as from dyspepsia, when press- ing upon the pit of the stomach. Stomach.—Pain in the region of the stomach, after lifting a heavy weight; extended to the small of the back. Pressure at the stomach after every meal, disappearing when walking. Stitches with pres- sure in the pit of the stomach, with dyspnoea. Contractive pain in the region of the stomach. Contraction in the pit of the stomach. Abdomen.—Intensely painful pressure in the region of the spleen. Pressure, and sometimes burning in the left hypochondrium. Pres- sure and stitches in the region of the spleen, increased by turning. Weakness in the abdomen. Colic, with shuddering and goose-flesh. Pinching in the abdomen at different times. Pinching, contracting colic above the navel. Pinching in the abdomen, with diarrhasa. Stool.—Frequent urging, with rumbling in the belly and diar- rhoea. Urging, early in the morning, first with hard evacuations, then diarrhoea, with burning in the rectum. Loose stools. Sqfty 398 BORAX VENETA. light-yellow, slimy stools, three times a day, with faintness and weah ness. Diarrhoea, from morning till afternoon, without pain; with subsequent evacuation of slime and blood; with rumbling in the belly. The first effect of Borax is relaxation of the bowels, after- wards no stool for a couple of days, then hard stool once a day. Hard stool, with straining. Constipation, and stool like sheep's dung. Green stools in an infant. Discharge of lumbrici. Tena- cious, viscid, yellowish slime with the stool. Reddish liquid slime, during stool, as if the stool were tinged with blood. Distended vein of the rectum, soft to the touch, and without pain. Itching of the rectum, in the evening; as from the slime of haemorrhoids. Con- traction in the rectum, with itching. Boring and stinging pains in the rectum and small of the back. Stitches in the rectum, in the evening. Urine.—Pressure upon the bladder, without being able to expel the urine, with cuttings in the genital organs and distention in both hips, in the evening. Violent instantaneous desire to urinate. Fre- quent micturition. The infant urinates almost every ten or twelve minutes; it frequently weeps and cries before the urine is expelled Hot urine in infants. Acrid smell of urine. After micturition: burning straining in the urethra; the extremity of the urethra feels sore. Along the urethra, pain as from excoriation. Dark blue spot at the orifice of the urethra, as if the skin had gone, with biting pain during micturition. The orifice of the urethra seems closed as with gum. Male Genital Organs.—Emission, with dream. Cutting pains in the urethra, during an involuntary emission of semen. Weakness of the genital organs. Female Genital Organs.—Courses too soon, with or without pain. The courses, which had been suppressed for six weeks, im- mediately made their appearance after taking Borax ; they lasted a day, and then disappeared ; they were so copious that they resembled a haemorrhage. Suppression of the menses, fifty-four days, without any pain. Beating in the head and buzzing in the ears during the catamenia. Spasmodic pressing and lancinating pain-in the groin, during the catamenia. Leucorrhaza: white as mucus, without any other ailments, a fortnight after the menses ; like albumen, with sensation as if warm water were flowing down, for several days. Sterility, on account of a chronic, acrid leucorrhoea. Easy concep- tion during the use of Borax. Stitches in the region of the uterus.— °Sterility.—Contraction in the left mamma while the infant nurses at the right; milk increases, flows out, and coagulates BORAX VENETA. 399 Larynx.—Roughness, lacerating, and tickling in the throat. Dry and hacking cough, in a child. Dry cough, as from cachexia, such as old people are affected with, especially in the mornino- and evening Cough, with rawness of the throat, and pressure in the chest. Hack ing and violent cough. Night-cough. Cough, with expectoration of mucus, especially in the morning, with pain in the region of the liver. Coughs up a white mucus streaked with blood, which is loosened with difficulty. Chest: Stitches in the chest at every turn of cough and deep inspiration. Tightness of the chest, with constric- tive oppression of the breathing on going up-stairs. Arrest of breath when lying in bed. At every inspiration, stitch in the left side of the chest from without inwards, as with a knife. At every attempt it breathing, her chest becomes contracted. Weight on the chest, so that she is sometimes deprived of breath. Oppressive anxiety in the chest, in the evening when in bed. Oppression of the chest. Stitches in the chest, when yawning, coughing, or breathing deeply. Stitches in the left region of the ribs, with soreness in the chest. Stitches between tbe ribs of the right side, so painful that he cannot lie on this side, with intensely-painful drawing, and sudden arrest of breath. Pain in the chest, relieved by pressure or lying on the back. Weakness of the chest, with dryness of the throat. Sensation as if the heart were on the right side. Pain as from having lain upon a hard couch, with soreness to the touch, at night. Back.—Violent itching and pricking of the os-coccygis. Pain in the small of the back. Dull pressure in the small of the back. Burn- ing in the small of the back, while sitting. Pressure in the back part of both shoulders. Rheumatic drawing pain in the nape of the neck. Arms.—Drawing, lacerating pain in and between the shoulders. Burning pain all round the upper arm. Stitches in the palm of the hand, with sensation as if the arm had gone to sleep, in the evening. Itching of the dorsa of the hands here and there, as if the parts had been bitten by fleas. Violent itching of the joints of the fingers. Burning heat, and redness of the fingers, even from slight cold, as if they had been frozen. Lower Limbs.—Herpes on the nates. B rning pain round the thigh. Shooting lacerating in the femur. Tn the limb, sense of numbness, with heat. Erysipelatous inflammation, and swelling of the left leg and foot, after dancing. Stitches in the sole of the foot. Sense of heaviness in the feet on going up-stairs, in the evening, Itching of the malleoli. Pain in the heel, as from soreness by walking Burning heat, and redness of the toes in slight cold, as if frozen. 400 BOVISTA. 50.—BOVISTA. BOV.—Lycoperdon Bovista, Puff-ball.—Hartlaub and Trinks, III.—Duration of action: upwards of fifty days. Compare with—Bell., Bry., Carb.-a., Carb-v., Kali, Merc, Puis., Sep., Sil., Stron., Veratr. Antidote.—Camph GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—General languor, with oppressive anxiety, eructations, nausea, bloatedness of the abdomen, emission of flatulence, yawning, stretching, and disposition to sleep ; great lassi- tude, the whole day, particularly after a walk in the open air, with languor ; debility, particularly in the shoulder-joints, arms, and hands, which let the lightest things drop; great lassitude, particularly in the hands and feet, also in the bends of the knees.—Stretching of the arms, without drowsiness.—Fainting turn, at noon, when sitting down, with sensation as if the objects around him were turned the wrong side up. Pain as if bruised in the whole body, particularly in the articulations of the arms, and in the abdominal muscles, during motion and contact. Skin.—Itching of various parts, particularly in the evening, qfthe arms, with biting and burning, particularly early in the morning after washing. °Moist scurfy herpes, looking like red pimples.— Pimples on the whole body, also red pimples, with itching. Sleep.—Drowsiness.—Restless sleep.—Many dreams. Anxious dreams. Fever.—Chilliness and coldness even near the warm stove.— Coldness.—Heat, with anxiety, with restlessness ; frequent attacks of heat, with oppression of the chest; heat, with thirst.—Quotidian fever every evening at seven o'clock, violent chilliness commencing in the back, with thirst, followed by drawing pain in the abdomen.— Attacks of seething of the blood, with thirst. Moral Symptoms.—Uneasiness, sometimes accompanied with op- pressive anxiety, and an alternation of cold feeling in the body, and warmth and heaviness in the abdomen.—Sad and desponding, parti- cularly when alone, with listlessness, also with languor in the even- ing.—Ill-humor, vexed mood, with violent headache, also with oppres- sive anxiety, and dullness of the head.—Great sensitiveness of feeling. —Great indifference to everything around him. Sensorium.—Weakness of memory ; unmeaning staring; great absence of mind.—Dullness of the head, particularly in stooping; heaviness, with gloom, or with dullness and sensation as if bruised, in the evening. —Dizziness, early in the morning ; sometimes amount. BOVISTA. 401 ing to stupefaction.—Vertigo, with stupefaction, early in the morning. —Giddiness, everything turning in a circle, also particularly early in the morning, on rising. Head.—Dull pain, with languor; stupefying pain, particularly in the forehead, or in the vertex, with heat of the eyes.—Pressure, with ill-humor, beating, or heaviness.—Heaviness of the head, sometimes accompanied with despondency, inability to think, and pain in the forehead above the nose, aggravated in a recumbent posture.—Con- tractive pain—Sensation as if both sides of the head were pressed towards one another, after a walk in the open air.—Distensive pain in the head.—Lacerating in the sinciput and forehead, with heavi- ness on stooping, and burning in the right eye ; lacerating, with pres- sure above the eyes, and in the region of the root of the nose ; in the vertex, with pain as if bruised on touching the parts; in the temples, accompanied with digging and wild confusion in those parts; lace rating in the whole head, with heaviness and sensation as if bruised, with lancinations in the forehead, extending to the ear.—Stitches in the forehead, also in different parts of the head.—Beating in the head, as if there were an abscess, or with a sensation of wild confusion, the beating is excited by cold air.—Feeling as if bruised in the right side, extending into the eye, early in the morning ; in the left vertex, also when touching the parts.—The headache is deep-seated; the head feels enlarged during the pain; inability to raise the head a* night, on account of the pain.—The scalp is extremely sensitive to the touch.—Itching of the hairy scalp, particularly when getting warm in the bed.—Pimples or reddish vesicles on the hairy scalp, with itching; scattered pimples on the forehead ; painful blister on the temple, itching, suppurating blister on the forehead.—Sore places on the hairy scalp, with itching.—Falling off of the hair. Eyes.—Pressure in the eyes, with lachrymation or redness.— Itching in the eyes and ears.—Burning in the eyes, with heat of the cheeks as if they would burst.—Inflammation of the left eye, redness of the canthi.—Nightly agglutination qf the eyes.—Lachrymation, early in the morning.—Dim eyes, without lustre.—Dim sight, in the morning on rising, as if a gauze were before the eyes.—Objects seem to be too near the eye. Ears.—Drawing in the interior of the ears ; stinging, ticking, as of something that is lodged in the ears ; twitching in the outer ear. — Ulcer in the right ear, with pain when swallowing ; °diminution of a chronic discharge of fetid pus from the ears.—Hardness of hearing, with itching or humming in the ears.—Rushing noise in the ears Nose.—Itching in front of the nose.—Sore burning in both nostrils; 26 402 BOVISTA. scurfs ana crusts about the nostrils; scurfy pustules uader the nose -Constant feeling as of catarrh of the nose, with desire to blow, with swelling of the nose; fluent coryza, with thin mucus, with dullnes? of the head.—Stoppage of the nose, with want of air, and difficulty of speech, with pressure in the temples.—Dry coryza, early in the morning after rising, with frequent sneezing, and stoppage of the right side of the nose.—Bleeding of the nose early in the morning. Face.—Boring and digging in the malar bones ; beating under the jaw, as if in a swollen gland.—Heat and flushes of heat in the fa.;e, preceded by a general seething of the blood.—Pustules on the fore- head and chin.—Rough herpetic spot under the chin, with itching.— Chapped lips; eruption in the corners of the mouth.—Swelling of the upper lip (after toothache), and afterwards of the cheek, with pain of the parts to the touch.—°Scrofulous swelling of the lips. Teeth.—Pain in the evening when in bed, relieved by warmth; ceasing in the open air ; pain of the upper fore-teeth, when touching them and when chewing, with subsequent swelling of the upper lip and cheek.—Drawing : in decayed teeth, particularly in the evening —Stitches, particularly at night, disturbing sleep, darting from the teeth to the eyes, or with bleeding of the gums. Digging, in hol- low teeth, morning and evening.—Pain as if an exposed nerve were being rubbed.—Elongation of the teeth ; the gums disappear.—The gums are painful and swollen; inflamed spot over the decayed root of a tooth, with throbbing and ulcerative pain, especially when touching the part; ulcer, with bleeding when pressing upon it. Mouth.—Fetid odor from the mouth.—Sensation as if the inner mouth were numb (pithy) and crisp, early in the morning on waking. —Burning and heat in the mouth; great dryness, as if sand were in the mouth.—Accumulation of saliva in the mouth.—Cutting in the tongue; burning in the tip of the tongue, and numbness in the pos- terior portion, early in the morning on waking.—Stuttering, parti- cularly when reading, with inability to pronounce several words rapidly. Throat.—Dryness, particularly early in the morning, on waking, with stinging during deglutition, and numbness in the mouth ; scrap- ing, slimy feeling, and burning.—Frequent pains in the throat, in the evening, with pain when merely swallowing the saliva, as if some- thing were lodged in the throat. Appetite and Taste.—Bitter taste; putrid taste, with a good deal of mucus in the mouth; taste as of blood.— Want of appetite, with aversion to food.—Constant, violent hunger, insatiable, renewed goon after eating.—After a meal: oppression of the stomach, as if the BOVISTA. 403 stomach had been overloaded; cutting as with knives in the region of the umbilicus ; weariness and drowdness.— Violent thirst, particu- larly in the evening. Gastric Symptoms.—Frequent violent hiccough.—Nausea: early in the morning, with chilliness.— Vomiting of mucus and food in a child, preceded by loss of appetite, accompanied by heat in the whole body, with bright-red puffed countenance; after the vomiting he is attacked with profuse sweat at night, particularly about the head, and bleeding of the nose during sleep. Stomach.—Cold feeling in the stomach, as if a lump of ice were lodged there.—Pressure in the pit of the stomach : with tension in the temples and weight on the sternum.—Burning and pricking in the outer parts of the pit of the stomach, after a meal.—Fullness and anxiety in the praecordial region. Hypochondria.—Darting in the right and left hypochondrium. Abdomen.—Pain in the region of the kidneys ; colic with diarrhoea, at night and in the morning ; internal and external painfulness of the abdomen, not permitting him to touch the parts, and obliging him to bend over in walking.—Pinching in the abdomen: early in the morning, on waking, with urging; around the umbilicus.—Colicky pains: in the afternoon, with disposition to stool; with violent pain early in the morning, on waking; distention of the left side, and urging to stool: aggravation of the pains in rest, diminution of the pains by pressing on the part and walking about.—Cutting in the abdomen.—Stitches (lancinations, dartings, &c.) in the abdomen.— Ul- cerative pain in the hypogastrium; with lacerating in the abdomen, diarrhoea, and languor, at the termination of the catamenia.—Burning, around the umbilicus.—Rumbling, with constipation, or else sensa- tion as if diarrhoea would come on.—In the left groin: constriction relieved by extending the body ; pinching ; darting. Stool and Anus.—Intermittent stool; hard, difficult stool.— Urging to stool.—Liquid, yellow stool, preceded by urging, and suc- ceeded by burning.—Diarrhcea: particularly early in the morning, in the evening, or at night; with cutting, lacerating, or ulcerative pain in the abdomen; generally watery, liquid; faecal diarrhoea, early in the morning.—Before stool: urging, also painful.—After stool: tenesmus and burning at the anus, sometimes accompanied with languor of the whole body; sensation after a natural stool as if diar- rhcea would set in.—In the rectum : pressing after the diarrhoeic stool; itching as of worms, when riding in a carriage ; dartings from the perineum to the rectum and the genital organs. Urine.—Frequent desire to urinate, even immediately after urina- 404 BOVISTA- tion, with emission of a few drops; with scanty emission.—The urine is 'yellow-green, becomes turbid; bright-yellow, with slowly. forming cloud ; turbid like loam water, with violet sediment.—Sting- ing in the urethra; itching, burning; the orifice is inflamed and as if glued up. Male Genital Organs.—Burning and voluptuous feeling in the parts.—Red, hard, suppurating tubercle in the penis, with pain. Female Genital Organs.—Catamenia retarded by two or five days ; too scanty ; too short; flowing only at night; the blood is of a watery consistence; too early by eight or nine days, and more profuse, particularly early in the morning, less at night; discharge of blood between the catamenia.—Before the catamenia : diarrhoea ; ^during the catamenia : headache ; toothache ; soreness of the fold between the sexual organs and the thighs; colic; diarrhoea; languor, the blood being watery.—Leucorrhoza : after the catamenia ; while walk- ing, thick, slimy, tenacious, like the white of an egg; yellow-green, acrid, corrosive. Larynx.—Scraping in the throat, with desire to cough and burn- ing, or with feeling of soreness extending into the chest.—Cough from titillation in the throat.—Dry cough, particularly in the morn- ing after rising, and in the evening. Chest.—Oppressed breathing, with rising of heat to the head.— Weight on the chest as of a load, with difficulty of taking deep breath ; shortness of breath when making any manual exertion; constriction behind the sternum.—Pressure below the sternum and in the stomach, as if occasioned by spasm or overloading of the stomach.—■ Stitches in the chest.—Palpitation of the heart: visible, with burn- ing in the region of the sternum; with giddiness and headache; tremor and restlessness; with congestion of blood to the head, heat, thirst, and itching in the right eye.—In the outer parts of the chest: visible pulsations near the clavicle; cutting burning in the middle of the chest; itching, with eruption and pimples after scratching ; red, hard, lintel-shaped pimples, with itching and burning. Back, &c.—°Chronic pain in the back, with stiffness after stoop- ing ; -itching of the os-coccygis.—Lancinations between the shoul- ders. Stiffness in the nape of the neck, early in the morning on rising; tension, with pain as if from a blow when pressing upon the parts.—In the neck: lacerating.—Glandular swelling on the neck, also with tension and drawing. Arms.—Difficulty of moving the arm, on account of weakness in the shoulder-joint; lameness of the left arm as if sprained, with diffi- aulty of lifting it;. languor of the arms; swelling of the right arm, BRANCA. URSINA. 405 with pain as if sore when touching it, and pressure in the shoulders ; itching, particularly in the evening, with biting and burning.—La- cerating in the upper arm, apparently in the humerus.—Lacerating in the elbows, early in the morning.—Boring sticking in the fore-arm, extending into the fingers; lacerating, as if the tendons were being torn off, accompanied with lancinations.—Lacerating in the wrist- joint; pain as if ulcerated or sprained, at a small spot in the back of the wrist-joint, when bending the hand or pressing upon it.—The hand feels stiff, with difficulty of opening or closing it, and a feeling of weakness in the fingers ; weakness qf the hands, they let the least thing drop; tremor, with palpitation of the heart and oppressive anxiety; the hands are covered with dry, reddish pimples. Legs.—Pain when stooping, in the right hip.—Lancinations in the thighs and legs, extending into the chest; going to sleep of the lower limbs.—Burning above the knee, and itching pimple; reddish, hard swelling like a boil.—Pain above the bend of the knee-joint, as if bruised.—Painful weariness in the leg (during the catamenia).—The feet are heavy; languid and debilitated; drawing and lacerating in the foot, with sensation as if the joint would break, with swelling of the foot; burning in the bottom of the foot; red pimples on the foot. 51.—BRANCA URSINA. BRANC.—Heraclium Sphondylium, Brane Ursine, Bear's Breech.—See Noack and Trinks' "Handbuch." Compare with—Aur., Bor., Lye, Plat., Sulph., Vinc-m., Kreos. Antidotes.—Camph., and all the acids. Head.—Vertigo when reading and sitting.—Headache, particu- larly in the back and fore part of the head, with inclination to vomit and sleep, aggravated by movement in the open air, relieved by tying a handkerchief round the head.—Excessive oily exhalation from the head, so that the tips of the fingers become oily when scratching the scalp.—The eyes run and become faint when reading. Digestive Apparatus.—Swelling of the lips and gums, with for- mation of vesicles.—Pressure in the throat as of hard phlegm.—In- creased secretion of mucus.—Bitter taste in the mouth.—Sweet and bitter eructations, with gulping up of a bitter fluid.—Hunger, with nausea and loathing of food.—Increased thirst.—Nausea, with incli- nation to vomit.—Bitter, bilious vomiting, with pain in the stomach and violent congestions of the head.—Oppression of the stomach with nausea, and pressure in the pit of the stomach after a meal, as 4Q6 BROMINK. of a stone.—Lancinating and pinching colic, obliging him to Dend double.—Beating and pain in the region of the spleen ; stitch in the region of the spleen when sneezing.—Flatulence and colic, with nausea and offensive eructations.—Delay of stool, with urging and pain in the anus.—Slimy, fetid-diarrhoea. Genital Organs.—Drawing in the penis.—Stitches in the glans. —Itching and biting of the scrotum.—Nocturnal emissions.—Dart- ings in the labia. Respiratory Organs. —Frequent sneezing.—Titillating rough- ness in the throat.—Dry and hacking cough, with sore feeling and dartings in the chest.—Oppression of the chest and chilliness.— Arrest of breathing when ascending an eminence.—Palpitation of the heart and oppression of the chest.—Darting in the side of the chest during an inspiration. Legs.—Arthritic lacerating in the limbs.—Stinging and burning of the feet. 52.—BROMINE. BROM.—See "Neues Archiv," Vol. II., 3. Compare with—Amm., Chlor., Iod. Antidotes—from Noack and Trinks.—Of large doses : Opium, Coffee, vapors of Alcohol, of Ammonia (using half a drachm of Ammon. with four parts of water to ten drops of Brom.) Magnesia.—Camphor dissolves the Brom. very rapidly, but destroys the odor and volatility of Brom., and forms a solid crystalline mass with Brom. ; Noack and Trinks suggest, therefore, Camph. as an antidote.—-Small doses are antidoted by : Coff. ? Camph. ? Am.—Ac- cording to Donne and Balard, Brom. antidotes Strychnine, Brucine, and Veratnne, which has, however, become very doubtful, in consequence of the very exact experiments instituted by Hering. Administration.—According to Hering, where pure Bromine is preferable to higher attenuations, a drop should be taken from a vial of tincture, with a glass stopple, by means of a fine glass tube, and quickly dropped into a tum- blerful of fresh water. By pouring out part, and adding fresh water, any degree of attenuation may be attained. One part of Brom. to 1000 parts •f water is sufficiently powerful. CLINICAL OBSERVATIONS. Dr. Hering.—"The principal eurative sphere of Brom. is not scrofula, but affections of the chest, heart, and eyes. In the most violent inflammations, as well as in chronic affection? of these organs—for instance, consumption—Brom will prove extremely useful, provided all the symptoms correspond. I have cured a number of cases of tuberculosis-pulmonalis with Spong., 30, sometimes exhibiting it in alternation with Hep.-sulph., 30; in some cases, however, Iod., and in others Brom. may be more BROMINE. 407 advantageous. In croup, likewise, Brom. may sometimes be supe- rior to Spong. Most kinds of croup, being originally a species of urticaria, Ars. will, in most cases, be found preferable to Brom. In the so-called complicated inflammation of the lungs, and in incipient hepatization, it is as important a remedy as Phosph. It is worthy of remark that Phosph. has a more specific action on the left lung; Brom., on the contrary, on the right, to judge from the symptoms." -Ed. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Cracking in the joints, in the morn ing after rising. Tingling on tbe fingers and short jerkings of the muscles of the foot and the region of the knee. Great stiffness in all the limbs, in the forenoon, less in the afternoon. In the after- noon the neck, nape of the neck, arms, and lower limbs were stiff, with headache extending from the occiput to the forehead, with sense as of pushing, as if the contents of the skull would be pressed out at the forehead. Great languor after breakfast, as if all the strength had been beaten out of the limbs, she was scarcely able to make her bed. Great lassitude in walking, obliging her to sit down. Exces- sive languor and debility. Tremulousness all over. Clonic spasms in the muscles of the eyes, in the face and limbs. Characteristic Peculiarities. — The pains appear to become worse in the warm room and when sitting down. The pains disap- pear entirely when riding on horseback or in a carriage. During motion most of the symptoms seemed to be less intense than during rest or in a recumbent posture. Aggravation of the symptoms from evening until midnight. Many of the symptoms are felt only on one side (the left). Skin.—Boils on the arm and in the face. Increase of embonpoint. *Scrofulosis; particularly swellings. Sleep.—Excessive drowsiness and languor. Sleep full of dreams of a vivid or startling character Tremulous sensation when waking in the night. Long stupefied morning-sleep. Fever.—Violent chill, with yawning and stretching as in fever and ague; at the same time the head feels confused and muddled; the paroxysm returns every other day, in the shape of a chilliness with cold feet. Cold shiver along the back. Cold, disagreeable drawing through the whole body, alternating rapidly with warmth, first in the left hand and side. Chilliness, with external coldness. Pains in the limbs, which afterwards give way to chilliness and beat Heat of both hands and heat in the head, with coldness of the rest of the body. Heat in the feet, he feels cold in the other parts of the body. Burning sensation in the whole body. Internal burning in 408 bromine, the morning. Internal burning sensation, after which he feels as if in a hot vapor, but without sweating. The pulse is full, rather hard, slow at first, afterwards accelerated. Feeble, frequent beats of the heart. Mind and Disposition. —Extreme ill-humor. Cheerful mood. Taciturn. His business is repulsive to him. Desire for mental labor. Great forgetfulness. Illusions of the fancy. Illusion of sight. Sensorium.—Giddiness, as if he would fall backwards. Vertigo, particularly in the evening on lying down, with dullness of the head. Giddiness as soon as he attempts to cross a flowing water. Giddi- ness, worse in damp weather. Giddiness with nausea. Dullness of the head, or as if a band were around the head. Giddiness with headache, in the morning on waking, with itching over the whole body. Dullness of the head, particularly of the sinciput, with pres- sure in the region of the eye-brows and the root of the nose. Head.—Dull oppressive headache. Headache, remaining after the other symptoms had subsided. Headache, heaviness in the sin- ciput, in the heat of the sun, going off in the shade (comp. Chlor.) Stupefying pain in the forehead, aggravated in rest, going off when riding on horseback. Oppressive dull pain in the forehead, in the morning, affecting the eyes. Oppressive headache, with raging pain over the eyes. Hemicrania (on the left side). Beating headache, extending to the jaw-bones. Distensive pain in the head, particu- larly in the left side. Lancinating pain through the right side of the head. Darting pain. Headache, wandering from the left ear to the left temple, worse when stooping. Paroxysms of pain, with pressure in the eyes and root of the nose, darting from the interior of the brain to the vertex. Headache, particularly in the sinciput, alternating with pains in the small of the back. ^Malignant scald- head. Eyes.—Stinging sensation in the parts round the orbits. Darting through the left eye. Stitches in the eyes and chest. ^Throbbing stitches in the left upper eye-lid, extending to the eye-brows, fore- head, and left temple, increased by pressure, movement, and stoop- ing, relieved during rest. Troublesome burning in the eyes. The eye-lids are very heavy. Lachrymation of the right eye. Violent ophthalmia. Inflammation and dimness of the right eye, with lach- rymation. Screams, photophobia, lachrymation, and secretion of mucus, followed by puckering up of the conjunctiva, which remained inflamed a fortnight. Violent conjunctivitis of the left eye. The eye became violently inflamed, with fever and suppuration. Sensi- tiveness of the eyes to bright lights. Photophobia. Flashes before BROMINE. 409 the eyes. Dilatation of the pupils. Dilatation of the pupils, with quick pulse, restlessness, and emission of urine. Dilatation of the pupils, labored breathing, frequent pulse. Affection of the respira- tory organs and eyes. Protruded eyes. Ears.—Aching pain in the ear, as if around the inner parts of the ear. Pain in the left malar bone and stitches in the ear. Burning sensation in the right ear, towards evening. Beating in the ears. ♦Painless otorrhoea. Tingling in the right ear, as of a number of bells. Constant whizzing in the ears. *Slight swelling of the arti- culation of the left jaw, with cracking in the articulation when chew- ing ; swelling and hardness of the left parotid gland; rose-colored swelling of the tonsils, difficult deglutition, tension and pressure in the throat. Nose.—Pimples on the nose and on the back part of t'ae tongue; swelling and pain of the left side of the nose when pressing upon it, as if a small abscess would form. Soreness in the nose, with scurfs. Ulceration of the left nostril, like scurfs. Soreness of the whole of the nose, and swelling of the wings; with formation of scurf in the nose, pain and bleeding on wiping the parts. Violent, concussive sneezing, followed immediately by stoppage of the nose. Fluent coryza, with frequent, violent sneezing ; the parts under the nose and the margins are corroded. Fluent coryza. Stoppage of the nose and fluent coryza at the same time. Discharge of watery and afterwards purulent mucus from the nose. Face.—Heat in the face. Hot, disagreeable feeling in the face, particularly under the nose, titillating and smarting, as if occasioned by cobweb, particularly when moving the nose, accompanied by fluent coryza and lachrymation of the eye. Sensation of burning and scraping in the fauces, so violent that convulsive twitchings in the face and hands took place. Pain in the left malar bone in the even- ing. Pain in both submaxillary glands, slight aching pain in the left, forenoon and afternoon. Burning of the upper lip, which appears very smooth. Soreness of the upper lip, with coryza, and long-con- tinued peeling off of the upper lip. Teeth.—The gums are painful in the morning. Toothache on the left side. The toothache is relieved by pressure. Beating under the decayed tooth. Pain in a decayed tooth. Mouth.—Heat in the mouth, oesophagus, stomach, with colic. In- creased secretion of saliva. Inflammation of the salivary glands. Throat and (Esophagus.—Disagreeable astringent sensation in the fauces, followed by a sensation of burning and soreness. Burning sensation in the mouth, pharynx, oesophagus, and stomach; inclina 18 410 BROMINE. tion to vomit, violent eructations, and colic. The chronic inflamatory condition of the throat, with a feeling of redness all around, increases. Rough, disagreeable feeling in the pharynx and oesophagus. Taste and Appetite.—Astringent, burning, and offensive taste in the mouth. Sour taste in the mouth. Diminished appetite. Nausea Eructations, and Vomiting.—Nausea with desire to vomit, without being able, relieved after eating. Acrid burning from the tongue to the stomach, with nausea. Loathing, eructations, roughness in the throat, warmth in the stomach, ptyalism, slow pulse, and congestions of the chest. Frequent eructations with vomituri- tion, a good deal of phlegm being forced up. Vomiting of bloody mucus. Sour vomiting. Stomach.__Constant oppression of the stomach, as of a stone, with internal heat. A kind of contractive spasm of the stomach, which disappears after a meal. Feeling of heaviness in the stomach. Ex- cessive pressure in the stomach, with desire to vomit, eructations, colic, and rumbling of the abdomen. Warmth and burning in the Btomach, with ptyalism. Burning sensation in the mouth, oesophagus. and stomach, also colic. Sensitiveness of the region of the stomach when pressing upon it. Inflammation of the stomach. Hypochondria.—Pain in the left side, for several days. *En- largement and induration of the spleen, from mismanaged gonorrhoea. Abdomen.—Violent colicky pains in the abdomen. Violent pinch- ing in the bowels. Colic, and borborygmi. Stool and Anus.—Stool like sheep's dung, with pressure at the stomach, and in the abdomen. Hard, black-brown faeces, or mixed with bloody mucus. Slimy stools with a quantity of flatu- lence. #The diarrhoea, which took place after every meal, ceased; returned after eating oysters. Black faecal diarrhoea, accompanied with blind, intensely-painful varices ; cold and warm water aggra- vated the suffering. Tickling at the anus. Urinary Organs.—Burning in the urethra, after micturition. Male Genital Organs.—Feeling of coldness of the left testicle. Swelling of the left testicle, with sore pain. ^Swelling of the scro- tum, with chronic gonorrhoea. Increased sexual desire. Nocturnal emissions. Female Genital Organs.—Pain in the vagina as if sore. Menses too early, and too profuse. *Passive metrorrhagia. ^Suppression of the menses. Headache on the appearances of the menses ; of the forehead, with sensation, when stooping, as if the eyes would fall out. Pains in tht abdomen, and small of the back. Larynx.—Hoarseness, aphony. Soreness and roughness of the BROMINE. 411 throat. Slight hacking cough. Rough, hollow, dry cough, with weariness. Cough, excited by scraping and titillation. Exhausting cough, which does not permit him to talk. Cough occasioned by deep breathing. Cough with suffocative symptoms. Cough with pains in the chest. Short cough without expectoration, with soreness in the chest. Dry, obstinate, croupy cough. Dry, spasmodic, wheezing cough, with rattling breathing. Chest.—Violent oppression of the chest, cough, headache, vertigo. Labored breathing; worse in the morning, relieved in the evening and at night. Difficulty in breathing ; sensation as if the breathing were arrested in the middle of the chest. Slight feeling of fullness in the chest and throat, increasing towards noon, and continuing until evening. *Dyspnoea of long standing after measles. Difficult breathing, frequent pulse, the pulse became feeble and trembling. Accelerated breathing, sinking of strength, diminution of tempera- ture ; with violent convulsions. Snoring, and difficult beating, with a clear fluid flowing out of the nostrils, accompanied with a small, violent beating of the heart. Rattling breathing, continually inter- rupted by coughing, threatening suffocation. Difficult breathing with ptyalism, cough, and lachrymation ; with cough and gagging; with vomiting and small pulse ; with frothy vomiting and accelerated pulse. Peculiar feeling of weakness and exhaustion in the chest. Tightness of the chest. Slight pressure on the chest when taking a deep inspiration. Aching pain in the chest. Feeling of stricture in the chest, the breathing is oppressed, and very unpleasant, with a dry titillating cough. While walking in the open air, he experienced a violent rheumatic, dull pain, with sensation of contraction in the affected part. Drawing pain, with lameness through the left breast towards the scapula, and into the left arm. Headache, violent stitches in the lungs when attempting to take deep breath, he had to cough frequently; the pulse was full, and rather hard. Sharp stitches in the right breast, particularly when walking fast. Burning in the chest, succeeded by a feeling of heat, disappearing gradually, with ineffectual inclination to vomit. Congestions of the chest. Slight oppression about the heart, and palpitation. Violent palpita- tion in the evening, which does not permit her to rest on the left side. Inflammation of the heart. ^Hypertrophy of the heart. Sensa- tion as if the flesh were loose and bruised, on feeling the chest Swelling of the mammae. Back, &c.—Painful soreness of the small of the back, unaltered during motion or rest. Cold drawing along the back. Stinging titil- lation in the region of the sninal column, rather on the right side 412 BRYONIA ALBA. The neck is stiff and painful, on turning the head about. *Scrofuloua swellings on both sides of the neck. *Goitre. Arms.—Constrictive sensation in the upper limbs. Compressive sensation in the fore-arms. Painful feeling of lameness in the shoul- der. Lacerating in the arms, particularly the hands and fingers, in the evening. Weakness in the arm. Debility of the arms. Violent pain in the hand, darting suddenly into the middle finger, with beat- ing pains. Heat of both hands. Lacerating in the fingers. Lan- cinations in the fingers. Dead pain in all the joints of the fingers. *Chronic arthritis, with swelling, immobility, and deformity of the joints. Legs.—Beating pain in both lower extremities, during a walk in the evening. Weakness in the lower limbs. Pain in the left knee and hip, worse during motion. Rheumatic pain in the knee. Ach- ing or burning pain in the bend of the knee. Heat in the feet ; pain in the toes. BRUCEA ANTIDYSENTERICA.—(See Angustura Spuria.) 53.—BRYONIA ALBA. BRY.—"White Bryony.—Hahnemann's " Mat. Med. Pur.," Vol. I.—Duration qf Action : from four or five days, to three or four weeks. Compare with—Aeon., Alum., Arn., Ars., Cham., Chin., Clem., Ign., Lach., Led., Lye , Merc, Mur.-ac, Nux-v., Op., Phosph., Puis., Rhus, Squill., Seneg —Bry. is frequently suitable after: Aeon., Nux-v., Op., Rhus.—After Bry. are frequently indicated : Alum., Rhus. Antidotes.—Aeon., Cham., Ign., Nux-v.—It antidotes Alum , Rhus. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Her strength disappeared on making the least effort.—Heaviness and weakness in all the limbs, she is scarcely able to move her feet when walking, from mere heaviness. —°Trembling of the limbs when rising from a recumbent postura. —°Stiffness in the joints.—^Fainting fits.—*He feels very languid when sitting, less so when walking. Characteristic Peculiarities.—The symptoms are aggravated at night, or towards nine o'clock in the evening, also on waking from sleep, after a meal, by movement and contact; amelioration during rest. Skin.—Pain all over the body, as if the flesh were loose. *Yellow color of the skin, jaundice.—°Viscid, moist skin, in fever.—Prickings over the whole body. Burning, itching, and stinging in different parts, in the evening, after lying down in bed.—Stitches in the joints, when moving or touching them. Itch-like eruption in the joints. Pimples BRYONIA ALBA. ' 413 make their appearance on the abdomen and hips, with a burning itch- ing. Eruption on the whole body, especially on the back, extending to the upper side of the neck, itching violently. °Vesicles which burst open and scale off, with itching and burning of the whole body.—°White miliaria (sudamina).—*Rash of lying-in women and their infants.—°Petechiae ; purpura haemorrhagica ; °nettle-rash.— Herpes-furfuraceus, with burning itching.—°Erysipelas, particularly in the joints. Smarting pain in the ulcer.—°Dropsy.—°Tense, hot, pale, or red swellings, also with stinging during motion.—°Swelling and induration of the glands. °Hard knots in various places, re- sembling indurated cutaneous glands.—°Chilblains.—°Arthritic nodosities. Sleep.—*Great drowsiness in the dav, and great inclination to sleep after dinner; on waking from her siesta, all her limbs had gone to sleep. Every part of his body on which he is lying aches, Sleeplessness from agitation of the blood, and anguish. Heat aftei lying down. Sleeplessness from heat, when uncovering himself he feels too cool. *The child is unable to fall asleep in the evening, he leaves the bed again. She wakes in the evening, when in bed, after a short sleep, with sensation in the pit of the stomach as if the parts in that region were twisted around something, she has qualms of sickness, feeling of suffocation. Moaning when asleep. Startings every evening when falling asleep. Vexatious, vivid dreams. *While dreaming, she rises from her bed, at night, and goes to the door, as if she would go out. Shrieking and delirium as soon as he closes his eyes. He is delirious when waked from his sleep. Nightly de- lirium. Delirium at day-break, about business which he has to at- tend to ; the delirium abates when the pain commences. Sleep does not refresh him; he feels quite tired early in the morning when waking up; the lassitude disappears when rising and dressing him- self. Sleep, *with twitchings in the face. *Continual inclination to sleep. Somnambulism.—°Nightmare. Fever.—Shuddering.—°Chilliness, chilly feeling, and creeping chills, after the siesta, with muddled condition of the head, *particu- larly in the evening, before or after lying down in bed ; during or after a walk in the open air ; *with coldness of the body ; over the whole skin or only over the arms.—*Intermittent fevers : °quotidian or tertian fevers, with predominant coldness or chilliness, thirst dur- ing the hot and chilly stage, dry cough, with stitches in the chest, asthma, nausea, and gagging, and paleness of the face. Intermittent fevers commencing with chilliness, then sweat in the night; "^shud- dering and chill first in the morning or afternoon, sometimes alter 414 BRYONIA ALBA. nating with heat, with or without profuse sweat afterwards ; natural warmth with thirst, then cold hands and feet, with absence of thirst; heat in the forenoon, followed by chilliness without thirst in the afternoon, with redness of face. Symptoms before the paroxysm (the chilly stage): °vertigo and violent headache, as if the head would burst; °stretching and drawing in the limbs.—During the chilly stage : °Heat in the head, redness of the face, and thirst; Shatter- ing of the teeth, dry and viscid tongue, aversion to food and drink, nausea, and vomiting.—°After the chilly stage: Languor and debility. —°During the hot stage : Increase of the headache and vertigo.— °Heat: *either internal or only external, or both at tbe same time, and generally burning, dry, and with thirst, also with red urine ; heat as if the blood in the veins were burning ; *dry heat in the morning or at night; heat on every motion of the body, and from every noise. Flushes of heat. Heat in the lower limbs, as if plung- ing them into hot water ; particularly in the abdomen ; in the pit of the stomach, with violent thirst: *particularly in the head, with sen- sation as if the contents of the head would issue through the forehead, also early in the morning. *Heat in the face, particularly towards evening, also with redness of the cheeks, or -red round spot on the region of the malar bone, also with thirst.—° Acute inflammatory fevers, characterized by great irritation of the nervous and vascular system; °gastric fevers; °bilious fevers; typhus and typhoid fevers, also with petechiae, white miliaria, particularly when violent delirium is pre- sent, and the heat is intense ; °febrile symptoms preceding the erup- tion of small-pox, varioloid, miliaria; secondary affections remaining after measles and scarlatina.—*Sweat: *profuse sweat, particularly in the morning or at night; *anxious sweat, preventing sleep, °with sighing, short cough, and pressure on the chest. °Cold sweat on the forehead and head. Sour sweat at night, also preceded by thirst, oppressive drawing in the head when sweat is about to terminate, and succeeded by a muddled condition of the head. Moral Symptoms.—*Lowness of spirits; ° discouragement; °doubt about one's recovery, with fear of death.—*Fears ; ^apprehensions; *anxiety ; uneasiness and dread on account qf the future ; -disposed to start as in affright, and to conceive fears ; -disposition to escape out of the bed.—Weeping.—Irritable mood; restlessness of mind. Indisposition to think; °taciturn.—*Out of humor, and irritable, with hurriedness and pressing in the forehead; ^vehemence.—*Desire for things which do not exist, or which are no longer cared for when offered. Sensorium.—Vertigo, as if one were turning around, or as if every BRYONIA ALBA. 415 thing were turned around him when standing. *Vertigo, when rising from the chair, disappearing after walking. ^Vertigo the whole day as if intoxicated. ^Vertigo when sitting straight in her bed, with nausea. Giddiness the whole day, with weakness of the limbs. So weak in his mind that his thoughts vanish. Inability to recollect things. *Great weight in the head, and pressure of the brain from behind forwards. Stupefaction of the head. ^Delirious talk at ntght, *with desire to escape, in the evening, when asleep, with hur- ried speech, imagining at the same time that she is among strangers, with desire to go home. Head.—*In the morning, the headache does not begin when wak- ing, but when opening and moving the eyes. *Early in the morning, when waking, his head feels gloomy and aches, as if he had spent the whole night in revelry. Gloomy compression in the head, in the forehead, above the eyes.—*The blood rushes to the head, after which the head felt compressed from temple to temple. Headache, a sort of compression, with jerkings in the brain resembling pulsa- tions. Compressive pain in the head, early in the morning, with heaviness, intermixed with stitches, and so violent that she was scarcely able to lift up her eyes ; when stooping, she was not able to raise herself again. *Violent headache, the head feeling very heavy, as if it would incline to all sides, with pressure in the brain from within outwards, and great desire to lie down. ^Headache after a meal, and pressure in the forehead from within outwards during a walk. ^Headache, when stooping, as if all the contents of the head would issue from the forehead. *Pain in both temples, pressing from within outwards. ^Headache, as if the skull were being pressed asunder. *Pressing in the head when stooping, also accompanied with dartings; -also when sitting, with pressure.—Jerking drawing in the malar and jaw-bones, early in the morning after rising. Dart- ing : °through one side of the head; through the temples, -when walking in the open air.—Beating in the head: worse during move- ment, with dullness of the eyes and dimness of sight.—*Congestion, qf blood to the head; *heat in the head, -also early in the morning; °burning pain in the forehead.—*The headache sets in principally in the morning on waking ; *the headache is aggravated by movement, particularly by opening and moving the eyes.—The scalp is painful to the touch, as if sore ; °lacerating over the forehead.—^Burning head; °cold sweat on the forehead; *warm sweat, even about the head.—Corrosive gnawing, at night. Eyes.—°The eyes are painful when touching them ; °pressure in the eyes, as if pressed out of the head; °press re in the eyes as of 416 BRYONIA ALBA. mndot smoke, particularly early in the morning on waking, or in the evening; °lancinations in the eyes.—Soreness as from excoria- tion in the inner canthus ; ^burning in the eyes, also in the margins of the lids, with biting and itching.—Redness and inflammation of the lids, also with swelling, pressure, heat, and nightly agglutination; ^particularly of the upper lids, or only of the lower ; painful swelling of one eye, without redness, with discharge of pus, and dark-red and puffed conjunctiva; ophthalmia of infants at the breast and of arthri- tic persons. ? °Fistula-lachrymalis. ?—°Furfuraceous herpes on the upper lid, with burning itching.—Frequent lachrymation, *particu- larly in the open air, °especially when the sun shines brightly, with dimness of sight,—°Dim, faint, glassy, or sparkling, swimming eyes. —°Photophobia.—°Obscuration of sight, or else °flames before the eyes. Ears.—Contractive pain in the ear, with hardness of hearing; dartings in the ear, during and after a walk in the open air; burning in the ear from within outwards.—Hard tumor behind the ear ; tumor in front of the ear, breaking, moist, covered with a yellow scurf.— Discharge of blood from the ears.—Ulcerated concha.—*Sensation as if the ears were obstructed; °humming in the ears; -buzzing or singing in the ear.—°Intolerance of noise. NOSE.—^Swelling of the nose, with violent ulcerative pain when touched, -twitchings in the nose, and °chronic dry coryza; ^inflamed and ulcerated nostrils—■*'Bleeding of the nose, particularly early in the morning, or after rising : °during the suppression of the catame- n{a_—°Dryness and obstruction of the nose, also when chronic.— Profuse, violent coryza ; with obstruction of the nose and chilliness ; with dartings in the head, or pain in the forehead, as if everything would issue through the forehead, particularly when stooping; *dry coryza, °also chronic.—°Crusts of hardened mucus in the nose. Face.—*Pale, yellow, or °livid color of the face.—*Heat in the face, particularly in the evening, also with burning and redness, par- ticularly of the cheeks; -red, round spots in the face, particularly in the region of the malar bone, and on the neck.—*Bloatedness qf the face ; *red, soft, hot; blue—and brown-red ; ^swelling qf the face, -also of one side only ; swelling of the cheek close to the ear, with burning.—Tension of the skin of the face and forehead, when moving the muscles; lacerating and darting from the malar bone to the temple, worse when touching the parts ; (throbbing in every part of the face, perceptible on the outer side).—°Hard blotches in the face, resembling swollen cutaneous glands.—°The lips are swollen and * chapped; -covered with ulcerated patches, burning when touched BRYONIA ALBA 417 Teeth.—Pain of a molar tooth, when masticating; excessive pain during rest, particularly when in bed, relieved by chewing; tooth- ache on introducing anything warm into the mouth ; toothache occa- sioned by the contact of air.—^Darting or flashing pain in the teeth. in the direction of the ear, obliging one to lie down.—Lancinations : extending into the cervical muscles, when eating, and aggravated by warmth.—Painful soreness in a tooth.—Looseness qf the teeth, with pain when masticating and biting, and sensation as if elongated; particularly early in the morning on waking.—The gums are painful, as if sore and raw ; spongy gums. Mouth.—^Dryness qfthe mouth, with great thirst, or else absence of thirst.—*Tongue coated, *white or °yellow ; °dry tongue ; °rough dark-colored tongue ; -burning vesicles on the border of the tongue. —°Indistinct speech, owing to a parched state of the throat. Throat.—°Great dryness of the throat, -particularly in the even- ing.—*Sore throat, with difficult deglutition and hoarseness; -food and drinks produce a choky sensation in the oesophagus, as if they would not go down.—Pressure in the azsophagus, as from a hard body ; ^sticking sensation, when swallowing, turning the head, or touching the throat; scraping and roughness in the throat, posteriorly.—Sen- sation of swelling in the pharynx and oesophagus, or as if mucus had accumulated, particularly during deglutition; also attended with difficulty of speech.—Painful sensation of constriction in the oeso- phagus. Appetite and Taste.—°Loss of taste; *flat, insipid, sweetish, sickly, disgusting taste; *putrid taste, as of decayed teeth or fetid meat, -particularly early in the morning, or even with clean tongue ; *bitter taste, even of the food, or also after and before a meal; ^par- ticularly before breakfast, -or in the evening when in bed ; *the food has no taste.—*Loss of appetite, -even with empty stomach, with hunger ; °aversion to food; *loss of appetite after the first mouthful.—°Morbid hunger, which frequently obliges him to eat a little; -violent hunger, canine hunger, extending into the night, or early in the morning, with thirst and flushes of heat, frequently accompanied with loss of appetite —^Violent thirst.—Desire °for sour drinks, *for many things which cannot be eaten.—*Eructa- tions, oppression of the stomach and pit of the stomach, with colic or vomiting, after every meal, °particularly after eating bread.—After a meal: Astringent dry taste, with dry parched lips ; distention of the abdomen, headache. Gastric Symptoms.—*Frequent empty eructations ; -particularly after a meal; pungent, burning eructations ; bitter or sourish eruc 1^* 27 418 BRYONIA ALBA. tations.—* Regurgitation of the ingesta, -also after every meal.—. *Nausea: Nausea on tvaking in the mwning, accompanied with empty eructations. Nausea with bitterness of the mouth. Nausea with ptyalism, in the evening before-going to bed, or in the morning after rising. °Nausea with anxiety whenever he attempts to drink or sits down.—* Empty retching, also in the evening, -bringing up water and mucus, like water-brash, with coldness of the whole body. —^Vomiting: immediately after drinking; °after eating bread, ^vomiting qfthe ingesta, °also attended with hiccough and gagging; ^bitter vomiting, of bile and water, particularly after drinking im mediately after a meal.—*Bloody vomiting (obliging him to lie down).—°Stitches in the left side of the abdomen during vomiting. Stomach.—^Pressure in the stomach: ^particularly after eating, as of a stone, with ill-humor; °after eating bread. Pressure in the stomach, when walking, disappearing when sitting.—Contractive ■pain in the stomach, particularly after eating, succeeded by cutting in the pit of the stomach, flushes of heat, eructations, nausea, and vomiting of the ingesta.—°Stitches in the stomach when lying on one side. *Darting in the pit of the stomach when treading, parti- cularly when making a false step, or also during movement.—°Pain- ful soreness in the pit of the stomach, when touching the part or when coughing. Intolerance of the least pressure in the pit of the stomach. °Pinching in the pit of the stomach. Cutting as with knives in the pit of the stomach. Oppression in the pit of the sto- mach and feeling of warmth, with tensive pain when touching the part. Sensation of swelling in the pit of the stomach.—°Burning in the stomach, or in the pit of the stomach, particularly during motion.—°Inflammation of the stomach. °Spasms of the stomach, °Contraction of the orifice of the stomach. ? Hypochondria.—Hard swelling in the hypochondria and around the umbilicus. *Tension, *burning, or °stinging in the region of the liver, particularly when touching it, or when coughing or taking breath. °Drawing in the region of the liver, extending into the stomach and back, particularly early in the morning and after a meal, with vomiting.—°Inflammation of the liver.— Stitches in the region of the spleen.—°Diaphragmitis. ? ? Abdomen.—°Colic of pregnant females. °Chronic colic, with ten- sion of the abdomen and water-brash. °Hysteric abdominal spasms. ? 0 Abdominal complaints from sedentary habits. °Inflammaticn of the bowels. ? °Peritonitis. ? ^Ascites. *Hard swelling around the umbilicus, and under the hypochondria.—Pain in the abdomen, as if r>ne would vomit. Lacerating and drawing in the abdomen, °from BRYONIA ALBA. 419 the hips to the pit of the stomach, especially during motion, followed by stitches, especially during stool, and mostly in the evening.— Painful writhing (twisting) around the umbilicus, with stitches.— Pain in the abdomen, with anguish, which renders the breathing difficult and is relieved by walking. Pain in the abdomen, as if he had been purged, or as if haemorrhoids would make their appearance. *Spasmodic pains in the abdomen after dinner. Rumbling in the abdomen, with sensation as if diarrhoea would set in. Horrible colic (in the forenoon), as if she would have an attack of dysentery, without stool. Colic and pinching in the abdomen, and the umbilical region, as after a cold for several days. Copious, fetid stool, preceded by cutting in the abdomen. Bloated abdomen, flatulence moves about in his abdomen with colic, continual constipation, and sensation as if something were lodged in his abdomen. Colic during stool, as if the parts were constricted, or were being pinched together with the hand. Stool.—* Constipation}—*Chronic constipation. *Hard, tough stool, with protrusion of the rectum, °dry stool, as if burnt. *The faeces are of a large size, and are therefore passed with difficulty.— *Diarrhoza, vnth previous colic. *Diarrhcea, °from cold, alternating with constipation and spasm of the stomach-—Long-lasting burning at the rectum after hard stool. Soft stool, with a burning sharp pain in the rectum. Diarrhoea, especially at night, with burning at the anus at every evacuation. Thin, bloody stool. Hard stool, followed bv diarrhoea with fermentation in the abdomen. °Diarrho3a with un- digested stool. Urine.—Pain in the abdomen, when emitting the urine. Sensa- tion, when urinating, as if the urinary passage were too narrow. Violent desire to urinate without the bladder being full, also at night. Itching, burning, and stinging pain in the anterior portion of the urethra, between the acts of micturition. Burning in the urethra. (Aching in the urethra.) Drawing and lacerating in the anterior portion of the urethra, between the acts of micturition.—*Hot urine ; *red, °brown, and scanty urine ; frequent emission of a watery urine. —Burning and cutting previous to the appearance of the urine. Male Genital Organs.—Stinging-burning itching of the prepuce, stitches in the testicles when sitting; red, itching rash of the glans. Female Genital Organs.—Pinching and uneasiness in the dis- 1 Note by Hahnemann.—A more frequent, primary effect of Bry. is retention o{ stool; its alternate effect, looseness of the bowels, is rarer ; when the other symptoms correspond, Bry. is therefore able to cure constipation, which few remedies besides Nux-v. and Op. can do. 420 BRYONIA ALBA. tended abdomen, as if the menses would appear.—°Suppressi—Erysipelatous, active inflammation of the skin, with more burning than itching, and exudation of a serous liquid, raising the epidermis in the shape of blisters}—Small, itching vesicles between the chin and lips, on the forehead and cheek, on the palm of the hand.—Petechia.—Carbuncle.—Eczema. Ecthymatous pustules;— Ulceration and gangrene, particularly after exanthematous diseases. —Ulcers on the leg.—Itching and lacerating in the ulcers. Sleep.—Drowsiness in the daytime.—Sleeplessness, particularly after midnight, with tossing about.—Symptoms at night: frequent waking ; starting up from sleep ; illusions.—Frequent, confused, and vivid dreams.—Languor in all her limbs, in the morning in bed, with disinclination to rise. Fever.—Frequent paroxysms of feverish coldness.—° Tertian fevers, ivith difficult micturition; °fevers consisting almost exclusively of the cold stage; -chilliness mingled with heat, with heaviness of the feet, lameness and immobility of the limbs, loss of appetite, pain in the eyes, and desire to be in bed.— Violent, acute, burning fevers.— Feverish irritation, with dryness of the mouth, thirst, anxiety, and pains in the limbs.—Heat, with thirst, general redness, and delirious talk.—°Typhoid fevers ; ? °typhus ; ? lentescent fevers ; ? Consump- tive fevers. ?—Pulse increased, full, early in the morning, after the pains; hard and full, as in febrile inflammations ; full and slow; small, hard, and intermittent, or strong; frequent, hard, and quick; slow ; feeble, vanishing; uneasy, in the whole body, with trembling of the limbs. Moral Symptoms.—Apprehensive mood ; great anguish ; anxiety, resembling hypochondria, with want of confidence in one's self.— Great restlessness.—Not disposed to do anything, taciturn.—Nervous; irritable; vehement; noisy, and dissatisfied with everything; in 1 According to Humboldt, this serum became so corrosive by galvanizing the blistered surface, that letters which w '.re written on the skin with it shone lik« fire. * CANTHARIS. 465 solcnt and contradicting.—Paroxysms of rage, like frenzy or hydro phobia, with convulsions. Sensorium.—Mental languor and inertia, early in the morning; delirium; confusion of the mind.—Dullness qfthe head, early in the morning, with pulsation in the forehead.— Vertigo: with loss of sense and mistiness before his eyes during a walk in the open air; with fainting; with weakness in the head.—Inflammation of the brain. Head.— Violent pains in the head, deep in the brain, going off after breakfast.—Weight in the forehead, also deep in the brain, with dullness and sensation as if the head were pressed forward.—La- cerating in the head.—Stitches in the head, in the occiput, as if in the bone, or deep in the brain.—Gnawing in the periosteum of the right temple.—Throbbing, deep in the right side ; in the region of the right temple, with drawing in the bone.—Congestion of blood to the head when stooping, with redness of the face ; also when sitting, with heat of the face.—Heat in the head: after dinner, with sweat and burning of the hands; ascension of heat, with anxiety; in the forehead, with headache. Eyes.—Pressure in the eyes ; tearing in the right eye, or drawing; itching; smarting as from salt; burning.—Twitching and stinging of the lids ; pimples on the upper lid ; pain of the margins, as if sore and excoriated, when opening the eyes, in tbe open air, with lachry- mation.—Ophthalmia.—Lachrymation, with tension in the upper lids; in the open air, with pain of the lid when opening the eyes.-r- Protruded eyes ; eyes in spasmodic motion ; fiery, sparkling, with steady, staring look.—Things look yellow.—Dim-sightedness, par- ticularly when writing, with headache afterwards. Ears.—Lacerating in and about the ears.—Humming in the ears after supper. Nose.—Tension in the interior of the nose, with beating sensation as if swollen, and pain to the touch.—Erysipelatous inflammation of the dorsum of the nose, extending to the cheeks, particularly on the right side, with swelling, hardness, and subsequent desquamation.— Pimples in the nostril, with burning when touching them.—Sneezing, violent. Face.—Paleness of the face, with a feeling of internal coldness; pale, wretched, sickly appearance.—Heat in the face, suddenly, with redness and thirst.—Bloatedness of the face; swelling of the right side, with tension, also without redness and heat.—Lacerating in the right mastoid process.—Eruptions on the face; itching vesicles, burning when touched.—Soreness; peeling off"; swelling of the upper lip.—■ 20* 30 * 466 CANTHARIS. Lacerating in the lower jaw.—Lock-jaw, with grinding of the teeth, and discharge of foamy and even bloody saliva. Teeth.—Gnawing in the lower teeth and jaw.—Suppurating fit* tula-dentalis over the root of one of the upper incisores.—Pains in the gums ; lacerating ; drawing.—Inflamed tumor on the gums, red- dish-yellow and sore. Suppuration of the gums. Mouth.—Burning, extending down to the pharynx, oesophagus, and stomach.—Inflammation and destruction of the mucous mem- brane. Vesicles in the mouth. Small ulcers in the mouth. Ptyalism, profuse, particularly during the paroxysms of rage.—Coagulated blood in the mouth, early in the morning in bed.—White coating on the tip of the tongue, with bitter taste and loathing. Inflammation of the tongue, with vesicles. Suppuration of the tongue.—Weakness of the organs of speech, with weak voice.—Redness, from the palate to the uvula. Throat.—Stinging dryness. Astringent sensation in the pharynx. Burning in the pharynx, also during deglutition, or extending down the oesophagus, into the stomach and intestinal canal.—Inflamma- tion of the tonsils. Suppuration and destruction of the mucous membrane.—Difficulty of swallowing, particularly liquids. Appetite and Tastk.—Impure, offensive taste. Bitter taste. Aversion to every kind of nourishment, particularly in the evening, —Increase qf appetite.—Loss qf thirst, or else violent burning thirst, —Aversion to drinks.—Nausea and loathing, or excessive thirst, during a meal. Gastric Symptoms.—Water-brash. Qualmishness in the stomach. ■—Loathing, with ill-humor, inclination to vomit.—Nausea, while eating, with loathing of food.— Vomiting, sometimes with violent retching or fierce colic. Vomiting of everything he eats, sometimes with gagging up of bile and mucus. Vomiting of blood, with con- stant gagging. , Stomach.—Sensitiveness of the stomach, also externally. Feeling of weakness in the stomach.—Violent pains with heat in the stomach, tossing about in despair, sometimes with pains in the abdomen, kid- neys, and bladder.—Drawing in the stomach.—Heat in the stomach, with pain. Violent burning in the stomach. Burning in the region of the pylorus.—Inflammation of the stomach. Abdomen.—Inflammation of the liver and diaphragm.— Violent pains in the abdomen and intestines, particularly at night.__Violent colic.—Pinching in the abdomen, early in the morning, violent, or with bearing-down towards the genital organs; around the umbilicus after dinner.—Cutting in the abdomen; stinging; gnawing.—Heat CANTHARIS. 467 and burning in the abdomen and bowels.—Inflammation and mortifi. cation of the bowels.—Sensitiveness qfthe abdominal walls to the touch. °Peritonitis. ?—Pains in the groin.—Immovable, firm, hard tumor directly above the symphysis-pubis, in the region of the blad- der, with peculiar, tensive, and burning pains in the loins.1 Stool ano Anus.—Constipation, with retention of urine or emis- sion of flatulence.—Frequent or constant urging; ineffectual urging or with scanty relief.—Increased and painful evacuations.—*Diar- rhoza. Dysenteric diarrhoea. °Diarrhcea during dentition.—Frothy, liquid, or diarrhceic evacuations ; yellow, brown, watery stools. Stools consisting of white mucus, looking like scrapings from the bowels, and streaked with blood. Evacuations consisting of blood or bloody mucus.—Before stool: colic, urging, pinching below the um- bilicus (the latter also during stool).—During stool: colic, pain in the anus and intestinal canal; pressing, extorting cries; cutting or burning in the anus ; prolapsus of the rectum.—After stool: allevi- ation of the colic ; cutting colic ; burning, biting, and stinging in the anus; tenesmus; shuddering; violent chilliness, as if cold water were poured over one, with internal warmth. Urine.—Pains in the region of the kidneys, extending into the ab- domen, with severe pain during urination. Stitches in the region of the kidneys.—Cutting in the region of the kidneys, extending to the axillae. Pains along the ureters, lacerating cutting and contraction, relieved by pressing upon the glans. Pressing from the kidneys to the bladder. Inflammation of the kidneys. Enlargement of the kidneys. Pains in the bladder, violent, excessive. Pressure, sting- ing, pressing, and lacerating pain in the neck qf the bladder. Heat and burning in the bladder. Suppuration of the bladder. Gangrene of the inner coat of the bladder. Distention of the bladder. Para- lysis of the neck of the bladder.—-Violent pains in the urethra, with icy coldness of the hands and feet. Violent cutting in the urethra, obliging one to bend double and scream, before, during, and after micturition. Burning, tension, sticking, or itching in the urethra. Inflammation, enlargement, and suppuration of the urethra.—Sup- pression of urine.—Retention of urine, with retention of stool. Re- tention of urine from over-distention of the bladder. Painful reten- tion of urine, with difficult emission of a few drops.—*Desire to urinate, ♦constant, violent, with inability to urinate, or with scanty 1 John Howslip, in his " Practical Observations on the Diseases of the Urinary Organs," observes : " This tumor had been occasioned by a blister of Cantharides which was applied to the lumbar region of a female suffering with haematuria.' Compare Pathological Anatomy. 468 CANTHARIS emission, or discharge of a few drops only, with great pains, and sometimes streaks of blood, or with discharge of tenacious mucus, at- tended with cutting; inability to retain the least quantity of urine without occasioning a pressure on the bladder.—^Tenesmus of the bladder, strangury, -also with burning, pain in the back, or *dis- charge qf drops qf blood. —Frequent micturition, with scanty watery discharge; with profuse discharge. Nocturnal enuresis.—Enuresis, sometimes painful, irresistible, bloody; involuntary flow of urine from paralysis of the neck of the bladder.—Urine white ; red or reddish; turbid, like-loam water, with white sediment, at night; full of mucus, which is sometimes filamentous, or mixed with sand, or clots of blood ; bloody urine, or hot, with painful emission of the urine in drops.—*Hamorrhage of the urethra, haematuria, -with convul- sions. *Painful hamorrhage from the urethra, with tenesmus. Haemorrhage from the urethra during an erection, attended with haemorrhage from the rectum.—During micturition : dysuria, burn- ing ; biting, burning, jerking; tension as if the urine would be ar- rested in its course ; violent cutting.—After micturition : burning ; tingling in the urethra.—Discharge of a dirty, purulent fluid from the urethra ; discharge of a yellow fluid from the urethra, like gonor- rhoea, also bloody. °Painful gonorrhoea, with chordee and painful erections.—Jelly-like urine, almost looking like hydatids.—Albu- minous urine. Male Genital Organs.—Itching, heat, and burning of the sexual organs. Swelling of the scrotum, penis, fraenulum-praeputii. In- flammation of the penis. Mortification of the penis.—Feeling of weakness in the sexual organs. Increased sexual desire. Frightful satyriasis. Violent priapism, with excessive pains.—Frequent erec- tions, continuous ; ♦particularly at night, with contraction and sore- ness in the urethra. ^Painful erections, °with chordee.—Frequent involuntary emissions. Spermatorrhoea from a relaxed penis, early in the morning, in bed, without sensation. Discharge of blood in the place of semen. Female Genital Organs.—Burning in the pudendum ; violent itching in the vagina. Swelling of the neck of the uterus, attended with burning in the bladder, pain in the abdomen, constant vomiting, and acute fever. Pressing towards the genital organs. Inflamma- tion of the ovaries.—Menses too early, profuse, with black blood. Retarded menses.—Before the menses : burning during micturition, with white sediment in the urine.—After micturition : discharge of bloody mucus.—Cantharides promote fecundity, expel moles, dead foetuses, and the placenta. CANTHARIS. 469 Larynx and Trachea —Burning heat in the larynx.—Contraction and constriction of the larynx, even unto suffocation.—Roughness and hoarseness of the throat and chest.—Cough, early on rising, with difficult expectoration. Short turns of cough, from irritation in the larynx, with hurried breathing and asthma, or with pain in the abdo- men.—Bloody expectoration, after short cough. Chest.—Difficult breathing, owing to contraction of the larynx and trachea, or to dryness of the nose. Feeling of weaknsss in the air- passages, with feeble, timid voice. Want of breath when ascending a mountain, with orgasm in the chest and nausea.—Sticking pain and stitches in the chest, sometimes during an inspiration. Violent lancinations in the sternum. Stitches in the left side, at night, during an inspiration, not permitting him to lie on one side, or when turning the body quickly, or when breathing rapidly, with arrest of breathing. Lacerating in the chest, particularly in the region of the heart; feeling of dryness in the chest. Heat and burning in the chest, with pinching in the abdomen, and constipation, or with rising of little clots of blood into the mouth (early in the morning), also with dartings in the chest and the cartilages of the chest.—Drawing pain in the region of the heart; pain of the heart. Violent palpitation of the heart.—Great sensitiveness of the chest to contact. Back, Small of the Back.—Pressure in the small of the back. Gnawing in the small of the back, particularly in the evening, also corrosive gnawing, or as if in the bone, with stinging.—Pain during movement, as if sprained. Violent pains in the back.—Lancination between the shoulders at every movement, as if the parts were sprained. Lacerating between the scapulae. Stitches or lancina- tions in the scapulae, attended with burning of the skin.—Stiffness Df the nape of the neck, with tension when bending it over.—Lace- rating or drawing in the muscles of the neck. Arms.—Drawing pain in the shoulder-joint.—Gnawing, drawing, and sticking after dinner, apparently in the bone. Painful boring. —Pain as if bruised. Lacerating pain in the arms.—Drawing in the bones, also in the metacarpal bones.—Burning of the palms of the hands like fire. Legs.—Lancinations in the hip.—°Coxagra. ?—Lacerating in the thigh, down to the bend of the knee.—Gnawing in the bones of the lower limb, extending down to the calves. Going to sleep, now of one, then of the Other limb.—Painful sensation of swelling in both knees.—Boring in the knees, with contraction of the lower limb.— Tottering of the knees when going down-stairs. Violent lacerating in the calves, as if the flesh were torn loose.—Pain in the tibia, above 470 CAPSICUM ANNUUM. the tarsal joint, as if the flesh were loose.—Violent ulcerative pain in the soles.—Burning of the soles., particularly in bed. 63.—CAPSICUM ANNUUM. CAPS.—Spanish Pepper.—See Hahnemann's "Materia Medica Pura," Vol.1.— Duration of Action: three weeks. Compare with—Arn., Bell., Calad., Chin., Cina, Ign., Nux-v., Puis., Verat. Antidotes.—Camph.—Pepper antidotes Calad. and Chin. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Superficial, drawing pains in different parts of the limbs, in the back, nape of the neck, scapulae, and hands, for many hours, excited by motion. Early in the morning, when rising, he feels as if all his joints were broken, a paralytic painful stiffness when commencing to move, especially in the knees and tar- sal joints, relieved by continued motion. All his joints are painful, as if dislocated, accompanied with a sensation as if swollen. Cramp,. first in the left arm, and afterwards in the whole body, with stiffness of the arms and the feet, when rising from a seat, with tingling in the feet and as if they had gone to sleep. Lassitude of the limbs, greater during rest and when sitting. Weariness, greater in the morning than evening. Trembling, weakness of the feet. Complete depres- sion of strength. He dreads all kinds of exercise.—Languor and heaviness of the limbs, followed by trembling of the upper limbs and knees, the hands felt too weary to write. Characteristic Peculiarities.—Most of the symptoms occur in the evening and at night.—Aggravation of the symptoms by contact, open air, and cold temperature. Skin.—Creeping in different parts of the skin, as of a fly. Sensa- tion over the whole body as if all the parts of the body would go to sleep. Stinging burning itching of the whole body, greatest on the chest and in the face. Sleep.—Sleep full of dreams. His sleep is interrupted by screams and startings, as if he were falling down from a height. Sleeplessness. Fever.—Coldness over the whole body, the limbs are cold, with- out shuddering. Shuddering and shaking chills after drinking. Excessive chilliness, in the evening, after lying down, followed by coryza. He trembles and shudders. ♦Shuddering and chilliness in the back, in the evening, followed by slight sweat, but neither heat nor thirst. Feverish shuddering, in the evening, with thirst, with great weakness, short breath, drowsiness, and ill-humor, °or with headache, ptyalism, vomiting of mucus, painful swelling of the spleen, CAPSICUM ANNUUM. 471 pain in the back, lacerating in the limbs, and contraction of the same, __*Fevers: °particularly quotidian and tertian, with predominant chilliness ; °chilliness, with great thirst, followed by heat with thirst or without, and attended with sweat.—°Fever after abuse of Cin- chona. Heat, at the same time shuddering, with thirst for water. During the hot stage : °dartings in the head, bad taste in the mouth, colic, with ineffectual urging, pain in the chest and back, lacerating in the limbs.—Heat in the face and redness, with tremor of the limbs. —Glowing cheeks, after dinner, with cold hands and feet, without shuddering. Red cheeks. The face is alternately pale and red, together with the lobules, with a burning sensation, without any par- ticular heat being felt when touching the parts. (Burning of the hands, feet, and cheeks, the latter being swollen.) Hot ears, and hot, red tip of the nose, towards evening.—(Internal heat, with cold sweat on the forehead.) Heat of the hands. Coldness of the feet. Moral Symptoms.—Taciturn, obstinate, and peevish. Ill humor. Tendency to start. Capricious. Anguish ; he imagines he will die. Want of disposition to work or think.—°Home-sickness, with redness of the cheeks. Sensorium.— Intoxication. Dizziness of the head, early in the morning, when waking. Feverish chills and coldness, with anxiety, sense as of reeling, and dullness of the head.—Vertigo. Increased acuteness of all the senses. Inability to think. Fatigue of the mind after the least exertion. Confusion of thought, absence of mind. Head.—Headache, as if the skull would burst, when moving the head or when walking. Beating, throbbing headache in one of the temples. Beating headache in the forehead. Aching in the temples and forehead, above the root of the nose, with stitches over the eye and in the ear. Stinging pain in one side of the head, increasing by raising the eyes or head, or by stooping, and accompanied with for- getfulness and nausea. Darting pain in the head, worse during rest, less during motion. Distensive headache, or as if the brain were too full. Drawing pain, with pressure in the forehead. Deeply. penetrating dartings in the vertex. Scalp.—Gnawing or burning itching, as of vermin, in the hairy scalp- Face.—Pain in the face, either pain in the bone, excited by touch- ing the parts, or fine pain in the nerves, when falling asleep. Red points in the face, and herpes on the forehead, with corrosive itching. Eyes.—Dilatation of the pupils. Eyes protrude from their sockets, with paleness of countenance. Aching in the eyes, as if a foreign body were lodged in them. Burning in the eyes, early in the morning they are red, with lachrymation. Inflammation of the eyes. Dim- 472 CAPSICUM annuum. sightedness, early in the morning, as if a turbid substance were floab ing over the cornea, and obscured it, relieved for a time when rub- bing. All objects appear black when brought before the eyes. Al- most complete extinction of sight. Pressure on the eyes, he is un- able to open them sufficiently.—°Incipient amaurosis. ? Ears.—Lacerating in the concha. Itching pain deep in the ear. Aching deep in the ear. Swelling on the petrous portion of the tern- poral bone, painful when touched. Pain under the ear.—Hard hear- ing, with roaring. Attack of deafness, after previous burning and stinging in the ear, and succeeded by tingling. Nose.—Bloody mucus from the nose. Violent, concussive sneez- ing. Dry coryza; tingling and tickling in the nose, also burning as in dry coryza. Jaws and Teeth.—Ulcerative eruption on the lips. Swollen lips. Rhagades of the lips. Swelling of the gums. Drawing pain in the gums. The teeth feel to him as if elongated and raised, also dull. Burning of the lips. Mouth.—Pimples on the tongue, with stinging pain when touched. —°Stomacace.—Pain as if the tongue were swollen. Throat.—Ptyalism. Pain during deglutition, as if the throat were inflamed. Simple pain in the fauces, only when coughing. Spasmodic contraction of the fauces. Dryness of the mouth. Taste and Appetite.—Taste in the mouth as of putrid water Watery,flat taste in the mouth: afterwards heartburn. Heartburn. Acrid, sourish taste in the mouth. Stomach and Gastric Symptoms.—Coldness in the stomach. In- clination to vomit. Qualmishness and inclination to vomit, in the pit of the stomach, early in the morning and afternoon. Fullness and anxiousness in the chest, after a meal, afterwards sour risings or heartburn, finally loose stool. Stool and redness of the cheeks, im- mediately after dinner. Burning over the pit of the stomach, imme- diately after a meal. Aching in the pit of the stomach. Burning, with sense of swelling in the region of the stomach. Abdomen.—Pain, deep in the abdomen, more burning than sting- ing, accompanied by cutting in the umbilical region, during motion especially when stooping or walking, with desire to weep, ill humor, and apprehensiveness, and sweat in the face. Oppressive tension in the abdomen, especially the epigastric region, between the pit of the stomach and the umbilicus, increased by motion and accompanied with tension and pressure in the lower part of the back. Sensation as if the abdomen were distended unto bursting, producing a suffo- cative arrest of breathing. Pressure under the short ribs and in CAPSICUM annuum. 473 the pit of the stomach. °Colic, as if from flatulence. Increased warmth of the intestinal canal. Stool.—Colic, cutting and writhing around the umbilicus, accom- panied by expulsion of a tenacious mucus, sometimes streaked with black blood, every stool is followed by thirst, and every drink by shuddering. Drawing and shifting in the abdomen, with or without diarrhoea. Mucous diarrhoea with tenesmus. Diarrhoea, immediately followed by tenesmus, without stool. Small stools, consisting of mere mucus. Small stools, consisting of bloody mucus. °Dysenteric diarrhoea. ? Nightly diarrhoea, with burning at the anus. Tenesmus. After drinking he has to go to stool, in spite of his costiveness ; he only passes mucus. Constipation, as if there were too much heat in the abdomen. Burning pain in the anus. Itching of the anus. Smarting, stinging pain in the anus, during diarrhoea. Blind haemor- rhoids, varices of the anus, very painful during stool. Varices in the anus, sometimes itching. Haemorrhage from the anus, for four days. Urine.—Spasmodic contraction of the neck of the bladder, with .cutting pain. Tenesmus of the bladder : frequent but unsuccessful desire to urinate. The urine is emitted in drops, as if it were poured over the urethra occasionally (immediately and for a long time). Burning urine.—Burning, smarting pain in the urethra, after mictu- rition. Pain in the urethra, especially in the forenoon. Prickings or violent stitches in the anterior portion of the urethra, between the acts of urinating. Cutting pain in the urethra, between the acts of mictu- rition, from before backwards. The urethra is painful to the touch. The urine deposits a white sediment. °Haematuria.? Catarrh of the bladder.? Genital Organs.—Continual pressing and prickling in the glans, especially morning and evening. Drawing pain in the spermatic cord, and crampy pain in the testicle, during emission of urine, and some time afterwards. Violent erection, early in the morning, when rising, which can only be subdued by cold water. Purulent discharge from the urethra. Gonorrhoea.—Discharge of fetid mucus from the vagina. Coldness qfthe scrotum, and impotence.—Tabes-testiculorum; dwindling of the testes to the size of a bean, extinction of the sexual instinct, emaciation, falling off of the beard, and weakness of sight.1 1 Those among the French soldiers in Egypt who drank brandy which had been poisoned with "Solanum-capsicum and Pseudo-capsicum,'1'' were afflicted with the following symptoms : loss of sensibility in the testicles, softening and gra- dual dwindling of those parts. At first this was not noticed by the patient, un- til the testicles were reduced to the size of a bean, insensible, hard, and drawn up close to the abdominal ring, and suspended by a shrivelled spermatic cord.— Larrev, " Observations sur plusieurs Maladies qui ont affect6 les Troupes pen- dant l'Expedition dc l'Egypte." 474 capsicum annuum. Larynx and Trachea.—Hoarseness.—Frequent and short, barking cough. Cough, especially towards evening. In the evening, after lying down, tingling and tickling in the larynx, and dry, short, and hacking cough.—Painful cough. Pain in the throat, when coughing, as of a simple, painful swelling. Aching in the throat, only during the coughing fit, as if an ulcer would open. Headache during cough. Cough excites an inclination to vomit. Continual stitches in the throat, in the region of the epiglottis, exciting a dry cough, without going off by it. Coughing, accompanied with an aching pain in the ear. Drawing pain when coughing, in the side of the chest, extending up to the neck. Chest.—Pain in the region of the ribs and sternum, when taking an inspiration. ♦Simple pain in the region of a rib, at a small place, worst when touching the parts, but excited neither by breathing nor by coughing.—Sticking pain in the side of the chest and back when coughing. Several violent stitches in the region of the heart.—In- voluntary, violent expiration. Deep breathing, almost like a sigh. Asthma, sensation of fullness in the chest. Asthma, apparently coming from the stomach. Asthma, with redness of the face, eruc- tation, and sensation as if the chest were extended. Orthopnoe. Pain as if the chest were constricted, oppressing the breathing, and increasing, even by the slightest motion. Asthma in walking. Throb- bing pain in the chest. Aching pain in that side of the chest on which she is resting. Back.—Drawing-aching pain in the back. Stiffness of the nape of the neck, diminished by motion. Painful stiffness of the nape of the neck, which is felt only when moving it. Drawing-lacerating pain in, and by the side of, the spinal column.—Darting-lacerating pain in the cervical glands. Arms.—Pain in the shoulder-joint, as if sprained. Drawing pain with lameness above and below the elbow-joint.—Drawing-lacerating pains extending from the right clavicle to the tips of the fingers. Legs.—Drawing pain in the hip-joint, increasing by contact and by bending the trunk backwards.—Lancinating pain from the hip-joint down to the feet, especially when coughing. Pain in the muscles of the thigh, resembling an aching, and as if the parts had been strained Pain, as from bruises, in the right thigh, disappearing when walking, but returning when at rest.—Convulsive jerking and twitching, now of the thigh, then of the lower arm. Tensive pain in the knee. Straining pain in the calves when walking. Pain, as from bruises, in the heel-bone. CARBO ANIMALIS. 475 64.—CARBO ANIMALIS. OARB. A.—Animal Charcoal.—Hahnemann's "Chronic Diseases," ILL—Dura- tion of Action: forty days Compare with—Bov., Calc, Carb.-v., Ign., Ipec, Merc, Natr.-mur., Rhod., Sel., Sil., and the remedies which are analogous to Carb.-v. Antidote.—Camph. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Aching in the joints and muscles. Pressure in the stomach, the chest, and sometimes in the abdomen. Pain in the arms and legs as if they had been pressed with the fingers. Lacerating and drawing pain in the fingers and toes. Stiffness of the limbs, after sitting. Sensation as if hands and feet would go to sleep, frequently. The arms and legs go to sleep, the former when leaning upon them, the latter when laying them across each other.— Feeling of numbness in all the limbs, also in the head. All the limbs feel bruised, especially during motion.—The ligaments of the elbows and knees are painful when lying down.—The joints of the body feel bruised, severed, weak. Feeling in the joints as if broken. Cracking in the joints.—Vacillating gait, as if caused by some ex- ternal force.—Heaviness and trembling of the arms and legs.—- Throbbing and beating in the wb^le body, worse in the evening.— Seething of the blood, without heat.—Weakness and want of energy of the whole body, with dullness of the head.—*Easily exhausted by walking. A good deal of sweat when walking in the open air. ♦Tired and sleepy after walking. Paroxysms : vertigo.—Laziness and indisposition for any kind of mental or physical labor, the whole day.—Languid, anxious, and melancholy, especially in the afternoon. —The whole day as if in a state of slumber, indolent, deaf, dim- sighted, peevish, and gloomy.—Dull and drowsy in the forenoon, more so after dinner.—Lassitude in the morning, with sadness. Skin.—Itching over the whole body, especially in the evening when in bed. Smarting over the whole body. Sleep.—Great drowsiness. Sleeplessness.—Hot and restless, at night.—Uneasy sleep, interrupted by frequent waking.—When fall- ing asleep, she starts up as if she would fall. Anguish and seething of the blood, she had to sit up. Pain in the joints, at night.—Cramp in the thighs and legs, at night.—Bleeding at the nose, languor, and sensation as if the body were bruised, at night.—Trembling in the interior of the limbs, in the evening when falling asleep, with twitch- ing in the knees, legs, and feet.—Ptyalism during sleep.—Moaning —Loud talking, weeping when asleep, and sobbing when waking Sleep full qf vivid fancies. 476 CARBO ANIMALIS. Fever.—Great chilliness in the daytime.—Constant chilliness, with icy-cold feet. Some shuddering, with thirst, every other day, towards evening; afterwards violent dry heat.—Chilliness over the whole body, afterwards heat, when lying down.—At night, when in bed, his head and the upper part of his body were hot, the legs were cold, getting warm only gradually.—Heat and thirst at night, without either previous chilliness or succeeding sweat.—Night-heat, with moist skin.—Sweat coloring the linen yellow. Profuse night-sweat. Sweat about the head, at night. Exhausting night-sweats. Fetid night-sweats. Moral Symptoms.—Melancholy, low-spirited, sad, or taciturn.— Home-sickness.—Anxious and desponding. Shy and timid. Hope- lessness. Peevish. Angry and full of wrath. Excessively merry. Sensorium.—Weakness of memory.—Gloominess in the head, early in the morning. Dizziness in the head, and drowsiness, as if one had not slept enough. In the morning his head is confused. Sudden stupefaction in repeated attacks. Sudden stupefaction when moving the head or walking. Vertigo. Vertigo, with blackness of sight. Feeling of giddiness in the head, as if he would be attacked with qualms of sickness, accompanied by a watery mist before the eyes. Vertigo with nausea, when raising the head after stooping. ♦Ver- tigo, towards seven o'clock in the evening; when raising her head everything turned with her; on rising from her chair she reeled to and fro. Head.—Heaviness qfthe head, in the morning, with dim-sighted- ness and watery eyes. Heaviness in the forehead when stooping, with sensation as if the brain would fall forward; when raising her head, vertigo. Heaviness qfthe head, especially the occiput and the left side, with dullness of the head. Pain in the top of the head, the place feeling sore externally. ♦Pressure and sense of dullness in the whole of the head, ♦after dinner, and continuing until evening. Aching in both temples. Tightness in the head, every day. Pain in the vertex, as if the skull had been blown to pieces, or were open. Lacerating and throbbing in the whole of the head, relieved by pres- sure. Pain over and in the root of the nose, as if the parts were bruised. Boring pain in the temporal bone, extending to the malar bone. Boring and drawing pains about the head, accompanied by lacerating; increasing when the head becomes cool. Stitches in the head, especially in the temples. Stitches and throbbing in the occi- put. Beating and lancinating pain in the vertex, as if the head would burst, when walking. ♦Congestion of blood to the head, with dullness of the head. Heat in the head, with anguish, in the evening CARBO 4NIMALIS. 477 when in bed, relieved ty rising. Feeling as if the brain were loose, during motion, attended with pain.—Pain as from ulceration. Violent itching in the hairy scalp. °Eruption and scurfs. Hard tumor on the forehead. Falling off of the hair. Eyes.—Pressure in the eye.—Stitches in the eyes. Stitches, burning, and moistening of the eyes, with previous itching.—Itching and pressure in the eyes, in the daytime. Smarting and burning in the external canthus. Weakness in the eyes. Great weakness in the eyes, in the evening. Running of the eyes, when rising in the morning. Dimness before the eyes, as if she saw through mist. The eyes are continally dim. Sense as of filaments floating before the eyes. Light hurts the eyes. Ears.—Uramp in the ears, extending as far as the oesophagus, on the left side, rendering deglutition difficult. Drawing in the ear. Stitches in the ears.—°Discharge from the ears.—A kind of swelling of the periosteum behind the right ear.—Swelling of the parotid glands The hearing is weak and dull. Weak, confused hearing.— °Humming in the ears. Nose.—Redness and swelling of the nose; it feels sore inside. Swelling of the nose and the mouth. Bleeding at the nose, succeed- ing a pressure and feeling of dullness in the head.—♦Stoppage of the nose, especially the left nostril.—*Dry coryza, -with want of breath in the nose; early in the morning on waking, going off after rising; or from forenoon till evening.—Fluent coryza, with loss of smell, yawning, and sneezing. Face.—The skin of the face is painful. Lacerating or shooting in the jaws or malar-bone.—Heat in the face and head, in the afternoon. Eruption on the cheeks like red spots. Yellowness of the face. Copper-colored eruption in the face. Numerous pimples in the face, without sensation.—°Erysipelas of the face. Swelling of the mouth. —The lips are chapped. Bleeding of the lips. Vesicles on the lips. Jaws and Teeth.—♦Drawing in the teeth, with flying heat in the face. ♦Continual drawing in the left molar teeth, especially in the afternoon. ♦Drawing in a left molar tooth of the lower jaw, at night, every time she wakes. Drawing and darting pains in the nerves of the molar teeth, coming on suddenly while eating bread. Lacerating toothache, especiaPy in the hollow teeth. Grumbling in the teeth, when touching them, worse in the evening.—The upper and lower teeth feel elongated, they vacillate.—Great looseness of the teeth; she is unable to chew the softest food without feeling pain. The gums are pale and painful, as if ulcerated.—The gums are red and swollen 478 CARBO ANIMALIS. and very painful.—Drawing pain in the gums. °Bleeding of the gums. Mouth.—Vesicles in the mouth, which cause a sense as of burn- ing. Burning of the tiD of the tongue, and roughness in the mouth Mouth and tongue are immovable, with difficult, drawling and very low speech.—♦Dryness of the mouth, particularly of the tongue and palate. Throat.—Sore throat as if ulcerated, or as of a blister. Scraping in the throat, attended with ptyalism.—Soreness and burning, like heartburn, in the throat, extending down to the stomach, worse to- wards evening, at night, and in the morning, relieved after rising and after a meal.—Sense as of burning in the throat.—Pressure in the throat, when swallowing. Taste and Appetite.—^Bitter taste every morning, passing off after rising. Bitter, sour, or putrid taste. Great thirst. No appe- tite. Repugnance to cold drink. Violent hunger in the morning. Ravenous hunger. Gastric Symptoms.—°Great weakness of the digestion, with de- rangement of the digestive powers from every meal.—Eating meat is followed by long-lasting nausea and inclination to vomit. Internal chilliness when commencing the meal. Anguish in the chest after a meal. Pressure in the stomach after eating. Asthma shortly after a meal. Palpitation of the heart after a meal. Eructations tasting of the food. Putrid eructations almost continually. °Sour eructations ; Suppressed eructations, with pain.—Acrid heartburn. Nausea and inclination to vomit, which is felt in the stomach in the morning after rising, with heat, anguish, and rising of sourish water into the mouth, accompanied by general lassitude. Inclination to water-brash, with nausea, in the stomach, at night. Stomach.—♦Pressure in the stomach, even in the morning, °as from a load.—Pressure in the stomach, with heaviness and fullness, attended with an inclination to water-brash.—Sudden and short ach- ing in the pit of the stomach, when taking a deep inspiration. *Con- tracting spasm of the stomach. ° Clawing and griping in the Btomach.—Frequent stitches; boring pain in the stomach, as if brought on by long fasting in the morning.—°Burning in the stomach —♦Audible rumbling in the stomach, in the morning on waking. Abdomen.—Violent aching in the liver, almost like cutting; thjp region of the liver is painful when touched, as if sore.—Sticking with pressure below the left ribs. Aching in the left side of the abdomen. Weight as of a lump in the abdomen.—Distention of the abdomen. Bloated conditior of the abdomen in different places CARBO ANIMALIS. 479 like hernia —Painful tightness in the abdomen ; the parts below the ribs feel sore, as from subcutaneous ulceration. Pain in the abdomen as from subcutaneous ulceration. Pinching constriction in the abdo- men.—Griping and uneasiness in the abdomen.—Griping in the region of the umbilicus. Pinching in the abdomen, around the umbilicus, and in the epigastrium, with sensation as if the bowels would be moved.—Lancinations in the abdomen.—Violent cutting in the abdomen, with frequent desire for stool, and even tenesmus. —Digging and writhing pain in the epigastrium.—Heat about the abdomen. Burning in the abdomen, when walking. Colic, as if diar- rhoea would come on.—Bearing-down in the groins, sometimes like the burning in strangury.—Stitches in the groins. The abdomen becomes distended, and feels sore when walking, moving, or touch- ing the parts.—♦Audible rumbling, as of incarcerated flatulence. Stool ano Anus.—Unsuccessful desire for stool.' Violent tones. mus; the stool is passed with much difficulty, it is hard and streaked with blood. Stool scanty and delaying, for several days.—♦Four evacuations on the third day, each of which is preceded by colic. —Stool, first hard, then soft, preceded by burning in the rectum, Soft stool, with mucus, looking like coagulated albumen. Soft green stool, preceded and accompanied by colic. Liquid stool, followed by tenesmus. Diarrhoea, after pinching in the abdomen, with burning at the rectum. Violent cutting in the varices of the rectum during stool. Discharge of blood with the stool.—Pain in the small qfthe back, during stool, with inflation of the abdomen, extending as high as the chest. Shuddering after stool (in the evening). Stool is fol- lowed by a desire for micturition (♦the urine smelling very badly); afterwards lassitude and sleepiness, without being able to fall asleep. The varices become distended, with burnin;: pain when walking. Violent burning in the rectum, in the evening. Painful contraction of the rectum. ^Stitches in the rectum, which is sore. Soreness of the rectum, with oozing the whole evening. Boil at the anus. Urine.—Pain in walking, in the region of the kidneys.—Pressure on the bladder, at night. Almost involuntary emission of urine, even from slight pressure. Increased emission of urine. Turbid, orange-colored urine; deposits a turbid sediment. Yellow urine. with loose sediment. Interrupted stream. Scanty urine. Hot urine in small quantity, at night, with burning sensation when emitted. —Burning in the urethra when urinating. Burning soreness in the urethra, during and after the emission of urine. Male Genital Organs.—Absence of sexual desire and laxness of the genital organs.—Frequent pollutions.—Spasmodic pain along the 480 CARBO ANIMALIS. urethra, especially the membranous portion, after a pollution. Men- tal and physical exhaustion after a pollution, attended with anxiety. Female Genital Organs.—Menses four days too soon, with head- ache previous to their appearance. Menses only flow in the morn- ing. Anxious heat previous to the appearance of the menses. Vio- lent pressing in the groins, the small of the back, and the thighs during the menses, attended with unsuccessful inclination to eructa- tions, chilliness, and yawning. Bloated abdomen, during the menses. ^Leucorrhaza, °burning, biting. Leucorrhoea, tinging the linen yellow.—Watery leucorrhaza, when walking or standing.—°The lochia are too thin, and smell badly.—°Darting in the mamma of a nursing female, arresting the breathing, and aggravated by pressure —°Painful nodosities and indurations of the mammae.—°Erysipela- tous inflammation. Larynx and Trachea.—Hoarseness, worse in the evening. Rough- ness and hoarseness in the throat, in the morning, after rising, ac- companied by dry cough. Irritation inducing cough, attended with constriction of the throat and spasms of the chest.—Rough cough, with pain in the throat, as if sore. Cough from tickling in the larynx. Suffocative cough in the evening, after falling asleep. Dry cough, day and night.—Discharge of white, yellowish mucus. Cough, with discharge of thick pus. Discharge of green pus, after dry cough. Discharge of thick, green pus, from a vomica in the right cavity of the chest. Pleuritic stitches brought on by cough. Soreness in the abdomen, from coughing.—°Suppuration of the lungs Chest.—Panting breathing, with oppression of the chest. Oppres- sion of the chest, after a meal. Tightness of the chest, the chest feels oppressed, or as if fatigued by exertion. Violent compression in the chest, with arrest of breathing, early in the morning. Violent pain in the chest, as if it would fly to pieces, with soreness.—Stitches in the right breast, when sitting or writing, or at every inspiration, as if the parts were ulcerated.—Writhing (twisting) pain in and below the chest.—Tremor in the chest, like a sort of moaning.— Feeling of coldness in the chest.—Burning in the chest, with aching. Pressure about the heart, almost like pinching. Palpitation of the heart, in the evening, without anguish. Violent palpitation of the heart, every beat being felt in the head. Violent palpitation of the heart, early in the morning, on waking. Back.—Pain in the coccyx, which becomes a burning pain when the parts are touched. Pressing (bearing-down) pain in the coccyx, as if the parts were bruised. Pain, as from subcutaneous ulceration, in the inferior extremity of the spinal column, mostly when sitting CARBO VEGETABILIS. 481 and lying down.—Pain in the small of the back, when sitting, as if the menses would make their appearance. Pressing pain in tht small qf the back. Stiffness in the small of the back. Drawing pain in the small of the back, as if broken, when walking, standing, or lying down.—Lancination in the small of the back, down the thighs, on every inspiration. The back is so painful on the left side that she cannot rest upon it.—Pressing pain in the back, between the sca- pulae, as if the parts had been strained or sprained. °Burning in the back. Tension in the nape of the neck. ♦Glandular swellings in the neck. °Indurated glandular swellings, with sticking pain. Arms.—°Herpes ; °indurated glands.—Drawing pain in the arms and hands.—Lacerating in the upper arm.—Pain in the wrist-joint as if sprained. Dragging pain in the wrist-joints when moved.—Lace- rating in the hands.—The hands go to sleep. The metacarpal joints are painful when moved.—Stitches in the tips of the fingers.—°Ar- thritic stiffness of the joints. Legs.—Disagreeable tightness of the skin over the lower extremi- ties, with a feeling either of burning or icy coldness.—Cold legs in the daytime. Pinching pains in different parts of the lower limbs. Darting pain in the thighs.—Drawing and lacerating in the muscles of the thigh.—Fine burning shooting stitches in the thigh and small of the back.—Lacerating above the knee, as if in the bone. Soreness in the knee, when bending it, day and night. Cramp in the calves Painful tightness in the calves when walking. ♦Drawing in the leg. Pain in the tibia as if bruised, when walking in the open air, at inter- vals, with tightness in the calf.—Jerking drawing in the tibia. ♦Painless drawing in the left leg, at night, from below upwards, °with sticking. Lacerating in the left leg, especially in the knee and ankle-joint.—The legs go to sleep in the daytime.—Weakness of the ankle-joint.—Pain in the heels, as from subcutaneous ulcera- tion. Stinging tingling in the feet, as if they had gone to sleep, in the morning. Feet burn when walking, swell when sitting.—Inflam- matory swelling on tbe foot, bursting open near one of the toes. Swelling and tightness of the feet.—Profuse sweat of the feet. Fre- quent cramp in the toes.—Violent cutting burning in the toes, espe- cially the little toes.—Corns painful to the touch. 65.—CARBO VEGETABILIS. CARB. V.—Vegetable Charcoal.—Hahnemann's "Chronic Diseases." Vol. Ill' Duration of Action: forty days. Compare with—Ant., Ars., Calo\ Carb.-a., Chin., Coff., Frr., Graph., Kali,. 482 CARBO VEGETABILIS. Lach., Lye, Merc, Natr., Nux-v., Phos.-ac, Puis., Rhod., Sep., SVam., Zino __Carb-v. is frequently indicated after: Kali, Lach., Nux-v., Sep.—After Carb.-v. are frequently'indicated: Ars., Kali, Merc, Phosph.-ac. Antidotes.—Ars., Camph., Coff., Lach., Nitr.-spir.—It antidotes : Chin., Lach., Merc, Vinum. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Drawing pain in the limbs, and in almost every part of the body. ^Rheumatic drawing in the whole body, with coldness of the hands and feet. Lacerating in different parts of the body, at night when in bed, and in the morning when waking.—Great anguish, heat, and feeling of unhappiness during the pains. °Pains as if sprained or strained by lifting.—*Great lassi- tude after the pains. Seething of the blood. Tingling in the whole body. *The limbs go to sleep. *All the limbs feel bruised. *The joints feel bruised, relieved by stretching the limbs, in the morning when waking. Great heaviness in the left arm and leg, like paraly- sis.—Want of energy of the muscular motions. ♦The joints feel too weak to support the body. *Tremulousness of the body, attended with great failing of strength. ♦Languor, especially in the lower extremities. ^General physical depression towards noon, with emptiness of the head and sensation of hunger. ♦Feeling of great lassitude, early in the morning, as after drinking much wine, attended with trembling of the limbs and stomach. ♦He feels ex- hausted and languid, as if he had recovered from a severe illness. —^Languor after a short walk in the open air. ♦Attacks of sudden weakness, like fainting. ^Attack of vertigo, in the forenoon, with nausea and obscuration of sight, tingling before the ears, tremor, warm sweat over the whole body, drops of sweat on the forehead; shortly before the attack some drops of blood come out of the nose. —*Fit when looking out of the window, with nausea and vertigo ; he falls down and remains without consciousness for several minutes; upon recovering his senses he feels as if he had been in a deep sleep. Beating in the body here and there.—°Want of nervous irri- tability and susceptibility to medicine. Most of the pains come on in the open air. Skin.—Itching over the whole body, day and night. Burning in different places of the skin, at night when in bed. Burning in the skin as qf sinapisms. ♦Nettle-rash. °Aneurisms. ? °Varices. ?— °Chilblains. ?—°Glandular swellings,indurated.—°Lymphatic swell- ings.with suppuration and burning pain.—Jaundice.?—♦Fine blotches like dry itch; °dry, rash-like itch ; °herpes.— °Reddish-brown moles. °Bright-red, round, flat, elevated aneurisms by anastomosis, bleed- ing violently when wounded in the least. Pressure and tension around the ulcer on the leg.—*An ulcer, which had been cured *r CARBO VEGETABILIS. 483 breaks open again, and, instead of pus, emits bloody lymph ; the place is hard and painful to the touch. ♦The ulcer occasioned by the tis- sue emits a corrosive humor. ♦The pus of the ulcer emits a cada- verous smell. Sleep.—♦Drowsiness, which goes of by motion, in the forenoon, when sitting or reading. ♦Great drowsiness in the daytime. Ex- cessive drowsiness after a meal, in the evening. °Sopor with snor- ing.—♦No sleep, with inability to open her eyes—^Sleeplessness, on account of uneasiness in tbe body.—Uneasy, unrefreshing sleep. Uneasy sleep, frequently interrupted by waking, with headache in the morning, and burning in different parts of the body. Anguish in the evening, after lying down, as from oppression of the chest, with heat in the head, heat in the hands, and sweat on the forehead. ♦Uneasiness in the evening when in bed. Nightly pulsations in the head, as if he would be attacked with apoplexy, waking him with anxiety. He wakes several times at night, with sensation of conges- tion of blood to the head.—Violent pain in the occiput, at night, and boring in the fore part of the head, accompanied by sweat, paleness of the face, cold and trembling hands, and nausea at the stomach.— Continual sneezing, at night.—A very vivid lewd dream; frightful dreams. °Dreams with fanciful ravings. Fever.—^Chilliness and' coldness of the body.—*Fever, °with thirst during the cold stage only. Shuddering in the evening, with weariness, followed by flushes of heat.—Chilliness with great thirst, followed by heat with slight thirst.—Symptoms befm-e the chilly stage : °beating in the temples ; °lacerating in the bones of the limbs and in the teeth ; -cold feet; °stretching of the limbs.—During the chilly stage : °languor.—During the hot stage : °headache, vertigo, redness of the face, obscuration of sight, nausea, pains in the stomach, abdomen, or chest, oppression of the chest, pain in the lower limbs. After the fever : °headache.—°Quotidian, tertian, and quartan inter- mittent fevers, also after abuse of Cinchona.—*A good deal of heat : °frequent attacks of flying heat; -in the evening, burning, with great weariness and nightly delirium, or only internal heat, with great anguish, with coldness externally, which is perceptible to the touch. —° Typhus and typhoid fevers, particularly in. the last stage, with sopor and rattling, cold sweat on the face and limbs, hippocratic coun- tenance, and small pulse.—Pulse : frequent; ♦feeble and depressed ; °collapse of pulse (in the cholera).—*Gr tibia. *Dull and humming sensation in the legs and feet, as if they had gone to sleep, in the morning. Red, painful spot on the tibia, spreading lengthwise, and itching when scaling off.—Ner- vous patv* in the soles of the feet. Pressure od the dorsum of the foot. l>nsion in the heel and the tendo-achillis Cramp in the feet. Stiffness in the ankle-joint. Drawing in the ankle-joints.—*Draw- ing paf in the bend of the right foot, extending to the big toe, where it is on'y felt during motion.—Pain when walking, as if the ankle- joint w^re sprained, or as if broken.—Burning in the soles of the feet. Swelling, especially of the anterior part of the foot, late in the evening, with heat, burning sensation, and internal itching, as if the foot had been frozen.—*Co!d feet. Humming and burning tingling in the soles. Itching in the dorsum of the foot. Ulcerated heel. Burning lacerating in the toes and under the nails. Pain in the big toe pi if burnt, or inflamed, or ulcerated. Violent stitches. 69.—CHAMOMILLA VULGARIS. CH^M.—Matricaria Chamomilla, Chamomile.—Hahnemann's "Materia Medica Pura," II.—Duration of Action: three or four days. Compare with—Aeon., Alum., Ambr., Arn., Ars., Bar., Bell., Bor., Bry., Camph., Caps , Caust, Chin., Cina., Coce, Coff., Coloc, Fer., Graph., Heil , Hep., Hyos , ?gn., Ipec, Kali., Led., Lye, Magn.. Magn.-mur., Merc, Nux-v., Petr., Phosph., Puis., Rheum., Rhus, Sass., Sep., Strain., Sulph. ^mtidotes.—Antidotes are Coff., Ign , and Puis. ; Aeon, relieves the lacerating and drawing pains, when they are felt less during motion. Cham, is an ex- cellent antidote to Coffee, unless Nux-v. corresponds more exactly to the symptoms to be removed. Persons who feel injurious effects from Coffee whenever they take any, cannot be relieved by Cham. ; they must give up the use of Coffee altogether. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Weakness of the hands and feet. Cracking in the joints, especially those of the lower limbs, and pains in the same as if bruised, nevertheless no real weariness. Simple pain in all the joints, during motion, as if they were stiff and would break. Bruised pain of all the joints, or as if worn out; hands and feet have lost their strength, but without any real weariness. Heavi- ness in all the limbs. *Pain in the periosteum of all the limbs, with paralytic weakness.—Lacerating pain in the limbs, which can only be CHAMOMILLA VULGARI8. 509 appeased by constantly turning from side to side in the bed.—Even- ing-attack of lacerating pains. ^Drawing, lacerating jerks in the long bones of the limbs or in the tendons.—^General stiffness, for a short period. ^Sensation of paralysis in the parts in which the pain had abated.—Weariness, especially of the feet. Weakness. Dreads all kind of labor. Weakness, which is greater during rest than motion. Excessive weakness in the morning when rising from bed. *Fainting fits. Qualmishness about the heart, the feet feel sud- denly paralyzed, and the limbs feel worn out. °Hysteric paroxysms of weakness and fainting. ? Convulsive, single twitchings of the limbs, when on tbe point of falling asleep. Twitchings in the limbs and eye-lids.—* Convulsions of children.—*The child lies insensible, with frequent changes in the countenance, distorts the eyes and facial muscles; rattling in the chest, with cough ; the child yawns and stretches the limbs. °Cataleptic fits, with hippocratic countenance, coldness of the extremities, half-closed eyes and dilated pupils, without lustre. °Epileplic spasms, with foam at the mouth, colic before, and sopor after the attack.—°Emaciation and atrophy of scrofulous children. ? ? Skin.—Red rash on the cheeks and forehead, without heat. Small red spots on the skin, the spots being covered with rash-pimples. *Thick clusters of red pimples on a red spot on the skin, itching especially in the night, and somewhat smarting, in the region of the lumbar vertebrae and the side of the abdomen.—°Rash of infants and nursing females. ° Jaundice. ?—°Sore places on the skin, espe- cially in children.— The skin becomes unhealthy, and every injury ulcerates.—An existing ulcer becomes painful. Darting and lancinat- ing pain in the ulcer. Bv -ling and smarting pain in the ulcer, at night with creeping ana erce^sive sensitiveness to the touch.—°Erysipe- las. ° Extreme irritability and sensitiveness qfthe nervous system, with excessive sensitiveness to pain. Great sensitiveness to the wind and currents of air. Sleep.—Excessive drowsiness. °Soporous condition, with fever- ish restlessness, -short breathing, and thirst. Nightly sleeplessness, with fits of anguish. He imagines he hears the voice of absent per- sons in the night. Sleep full of fanciful dreams. Moaning when asleep.— Weeping and howling, when asleep. Quarrelsome vexatious dreams. *He starts in his sleep. * Starting, uttering sudden cries, tossing about, and talking while asleep. ♦He feels an excessive an- guish when in bed, but none out of it.—Snoring breathing when asleep. Snorting inspirations when asleep. Moaning when asleep, *with viscid sweat on the forehead. *Coma-vigil, or inability to bl) CHAMOMILLA VULGARIS. opt.i ib.6 eyes ; slumber without any sleep, quick expiration, and lacerating headache in the forehead, with inclination to vomit. Fever.—*lle feels a shuddering in some parts, in the face, ovei the arms, with or without external coldness.—#He is cold, with shud- dering from the back to the abdomen. *He shudders when uncover- ing himself ^Shuddering in the open air. Coldness, in the evening when lying liown, with a sort of deafness, inclination to vomit, unea- siness, tossiug about in bed, a sort of stupefaction of the head, and diminished sensibility of the skin.—#Icy coldness of the cheeks, hands, and feet, with burning heat of the forehead, neck, chest. Coldness of the whole body, with burning heat in the face. Violent internal chilliness, without coldness of the outer parts, except the feet, with thirst; afterwards great heat with sweat.—°Intermittent fever, with nightly exacerbation, pressure in the pit of the stomach, nausea, vomitiog of bile, colic, diarrhoea, painful micturition.—°In- flammatory fevers. °Typhoid fevers. °Gastric fevers, and particu- larly bilious, after anger and chagrin.—Chilliness in the afternoon, with violent nausea in the abdomen, accompanied by a throbbing- stinging headache in the forehead, aggravated bylying down.—(Fever: chills in the afternoon ; he is unable to get warm, with ptyalism, bruised pain in the back and side, and dull aching pain in the fore- head; next night excessive heat with violent thirst and sleeplessness.) —Chilliness in the evening, sweat and thirst in the night.—Burning cheeks in the evening, with chilliness, particularly at night; or in the evening.—°Anguish during the heat. ^Internal heat with shuddering. ^External heat with shuddering.—♦Glowing heat of the cheeks, with thirst and involuntary moaning. ♦Feverish heat and redness of the cheeks, with tossing about and delirium, eyes open. Sensation of external heat, without any heat being present. Dry tongue, desire for water, want of appetite, flushes of heat, sweat in the face, palpitation of the heart, followed by an unnatural hunger. —Unquenchable thirst and dry tongue.—General morning-sweat, ♦with smarting sensation of the skin, during or after the heat, with sour sweat. —General night-sweat, without sleep. Moral Symptoms.—*Repeated attacks of anguish in the daytime. *Anguish as if he had to go to stool. ♦Tremulous anguish with palpitation qf the heart. * Excessive restlessness, anguish, agonizing tossing about, with lacerating pains in the abdomen, followed by dullness of sense and intolerable headache. ♦Hypochondriac anxi- ety.—Cardialgia, he is beside himself with anguish, moans and sweats profusely Crying and howling. Fits for some minutes, every two or three hours the child si/etches his body, bends backwards, CHAMOMILLA VULGARIS. 51i kicks with his feet. Weeping uneasiness. ♦The child is not still till carried on the arm.—Tremulous tendency to start.—*Crying on account of a very trifling, and often imaginary offence, which fre- quently is very old. *!$> unable to stop talking about old vexatious things. ♦Peevishness and ill-humor ; he is dissatisfied with every- thing that others do. ♦He inclines to be angry and out of humor.— Excessively sensitive to all odors. Irritated mood. ♦Inclining to be quarrelsome and angry. ♦She seeks a cause for quarrelling Moaning and groaning from lowness of spirits. Taciturn. Sensorium.—Vertigo when stooping or talking. Vertigo after a meal, as if the head would fall to one side. Vertigo when rising from bed, as if intoxicated.—♦ Vertigo and dim-sightedness after lying down, with flushes of heat. Vertigo as if one would faint. Dullness of comprehension.—Absence of mind. Vanishing of thought. Head.—Dull, aching pain in the head, when sitting or reflecting. Headache, the head feels heavy and bruised. °Oppressive heavi- ness in the head.—Pain in the head as if it would burst, on waking. Lacerating pain in the forehead, returning by starts.—Drawing head- ache in one side.—Lancinating pain in the forehead, extending into the chest. Lacerations and lancinations in the temples, from within outwards. Violent stitches in the brain. Stinging headache. Throb- bing headache. Darting pain in the forehead, especially after a meal.—The left temple is swollen and painful to the touch. Gnaw- ing itching of the skin of the forehead.—°Megrim, hysteric nervous headache; °catarrhal headache, particularly after suppression of sweat. Eyes.—Swelling and agglutination of the eye-lids in the morning, °with swelling of the eye ; °red swelling of the lids.—°Yellowness of the whites.—°Haemorrhage from the eyes. Pressure in the eyes, the eyes and lids are inflamed and full of gum in the morning, par- ticularly in new-born infants or arthritic individuals ? or after a cold. Aching pain in the upper eye-lid, when moving the eyes and shaking the head.—♦Twitchings of the eyes and lids; spasmodic closing qfthe lids. °Distortion of the eyes. Violent stitches in the eyes. Sensation as if fire and heat came out of the eyes. Luminous oscillations before the eyes.—Dim-sightedness, with chilliness. Ears.—Lacerating in the ears, otalgia. Dull hearing in the even- ing. Humming in the ears, as from the rushing of water.—Tingling in the ears. °Drawing and tensive pain in the ears.—°Discharge from the ears.—°Inflammatory swelling of the parotid gland. Nose.—Sore nose ; ulcerated nostrils.—^Bleeding of the nose.— Sensitive smell.—Obstruction of the nose, with discharge of mucus ; fluent coryza. 512 CHAMOMILLA VULGARIS. Face.—^Redness and burning heat qf the face, particularly of the cheeks, sometimes of only one cheek, with coldness and paleness of the other cheek. °Pale, sunken countenance, with features as if dis- torted by pain.—♦Frequent changes of color in the face. °Yellow complexion.—^Bloatedness of the face. °Erysipelas in the face "Swelling of one side of the cheeks, °with hardness, blue-redness, and drawing, beating, and darting pains.—Red rash on the cheeks.—*Con- vulsive movements and twitchings of the facial muscles and lips.— Parched lips. Scurfy ulcerations on the border of the lip. Mouth.—Putrid or sour smell from the mouth.—#Dry mouth and tongue, with thirst.—*Red tongue, °fissured.—°Thick, white, or yel- low coating of the tongue.—Stinging vesicles on and under the tongue. Throat.—Pain in the throat, increased by movement and degluti- tion. Beating in the throat. Pain as from a plug when swal- lowing. °Stinging and burning in the pharynx. °Burning heat in the oesophagus, extending to the mouth and stomach. °Ina bility to swallow solid food, particularly in a recumbent posture. —♦Sore throat, with swelling of the parotids, °or submaxillary glands ; inflammation and swelling of the tonsils with dark redness. Jaws and Teeth.—Swelling of the gums. Looseness of the teeth. Toothache, with swelling of the cheeks.f—Grumbling and creeping in the upper teeth. Grumbling and drawing pain in the jaw Drawing pain in the teeth. ♦Toothache, as after a cold or iuppressed sweat. ♦Toothache when taking warm things into the mcath.—♦The toothache recommences in a warm room. ^Toothache which is especi- ally violent after warm drinks, especially coffee. °Toothache with painful swelling of the gums or the submaxillary glands.—♦Nightly toothache, particularly after getting warm in the bed. Toothache, re- curring by starts, with swelling of the cheeks and accumulation of saliva. Drawing toothache, without knowing what tooth is affected , the pain goes off while eating, and is especially violent in the night, the teeth feel elongated.}: ° Throbbing, darting, and jerking in the teeth ; °digging and gnawing in decayed teeth ; °intolerable tooth ache, driving one to despair.—° Burning and painful swelling of the gums.—°Difficult dentition, with diarrhoea, fever, and convulsions. Taste and Appetite.—Sour taste. Putrid taste ir. Jie mouth in the night. ♦Bitter taste in the mouth, early in the rnvning. Aver- sion to food. Want of appetite, as if he loathed fc ,d.—Unnatural hunger, in the evening. Gastric Symptoms.—Empty eructations. *Sourt uctations. The ction of Action: from thirty to fifty days. Compare with—Arn., Asa., Bell., Calc, Coff, Dig., Dulc, Fer., Graph.. Iod., Lye, Magn.-mur., Mang., Merc, Mosch., Nitr.-ac, Nux-mos., Nux-v., Op., Phosph., Phos.-ac. Plumb., Puis., Rhus, Ruta, Sabad., Sassap., Sep., Staph., Sulph., Sulph -ac, Tarax., Teucr , Valer., Zinc. Antidotes. —Coff, Nitr.-spir.—It antidotes: Nitr.-ac GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Sensation in the bones of the upper CONIUM MACULATUM. 577 and lower limbs as if surrounded by tight ba ''s, causing a languid feeling. Crampy and spasmodic pains in various parts, chest, jaws, &c.—Pulsative jerking in the abdomen and small of the back.—A kind of stiffness of the body, the movement of the limbs, the nape of the neck, &c, excites a disagreeable sensation.—Lacerating in all the limbs, as if sprained.—Burning sensation on the tongue and in the hands. Sensation in all the joints as if bruised, when at rest. ♦Vio- lent pain, as from bruises, in all the limbs. The limbs go to sleep. Numbness and coldness of the fingers and toes. ♦Walking in the open air is fatiguing.—Continued want of animal heat, and constant chilliness. Great liability to take cold.—Seething of the blood. Con- tinued and violent seething, intermixed with, jerkings in the region of the heart. Trembling motions and tremor of the whole body, espe- cially in the anus. Tremor of all the limbs. Subsultus-tendinum. Convulsions. *Sick and faint, early in the morning, in bed, -with low spirits, drowsiness, and pain in the stomach.—Nervous attacks. —*Great exhaustion, also of the whole body, evening and morning. Faintishness early in the morning after waking, as after a fever, going off after rising. Languor of both mind and body.—Gene al feeling as if bruised by blows.—Weakness of the whole body. Ner- vous weakness.—^Exhausted, faint, and as if paralyzed, after a short walk, with peevish and hypochondriac mood. Sudden lassitude in walking.—♦Fainting fits. Consumption. Dropsy. Apoplexy. Apoplexy with dropsical symptoms. Paralysis. Characteristic Peculiarities.—The pains occur mostly during rest, rarely during motion. The worst pains come on at night, and rouse him from sleep. Skin.—^Erratic and evanescent itching of all the parts of the body. Corrosive itching. ^Stinging sensation, as of flea-1 ites, closely succeeding each other in different places of the whole body, but single bites, never two at the same time. *Slow, itching- smarting, burning stitches in different parts of the body. Inflamma- tion of the skin all over the body, it is painful and burning. °The skin is painful all over.—°Nettle-rash from violent exercise.— ♦Chronic herpes, humid, or crusty and burning.—°Chronic brown, or frequently-recurring red itching spots on the body.—°Chlorotic con- ditions. ?—Increased intolerable pains in the affected parts. Bleeding of tha ulcers. The edges of the ulcer become black, with effusion of a fetid ichor. Gangrene of one portion of the ulcer. Petechiae. Blueness of the whole body. Concealed cancer of the bones, in the middle of the long bones.— The glands painful in the evening.— 25 37 578 CONIUM MACULATUM. °Swelling and induration of the glands, particularly from contusion —°Scirrhous indurations. ?—°Cancerous ulcers. Sleep.—^Drowsiness in the daytime, without being able to sleep. Somnolence. Somnolence the whole day, with great weakness, even unto falling. Torpor, in the afternoon. *Great drowsiness in the evening, and indisposition to do anything, °or with sensation as if the eye-lids were forcibly closed.—*One falls asleep late, after midnight. Sleeplessness. Sleep, which is bordering upon stupor, after which the headache, which had been scarcely perceptible before, becomes more violent. Interrupted sleep. Nightly symptoms : pulsation in the right side of the head, in the evening; headache with nausea; spasm of the stomach, resembling a griping and drawing together; scraping in the throat, with cough ; bleeding from the nose, with vertigo, on rising.—Violent weeping at night, when asleep. He mutters during sleep.—Nightmare.—Anxious, frightful dreams. ♦A number of intimidating dreams. °Sleep full of ravings. °Unre- freshing night-sleep. Fever.—Shuddering. Shuddering, with heat and thirst, or cold- ness followed by heat and dullness of the head. Chilliness in the morning, with headache and nausea. Chilliness, with tremor of all the limbs. Chilliness, with cold hands and a cold face, accompanied by nausea.—Feeling of heat in the whole body. Heat. Feeling o internal and external heat, after sleep. Constant heat.—Violent feverish heat, with profuse sweat and great thirst, with want of appetite, diarrhoea, and vomiting. *Catarrhalfever, with sore throat and cough.— Quotidian fever. Severe attacks of fever.—Slow fever, with complete loss of appetite. Sweat all over, especially on the forehead, with redness of the face and body, without any particular heat.—Night-sweat. Inclination to. sweat, even of the cold limbs, on ;and after waking. Local, fetid, smarting sweat.—Pulsations are perceptible throughout the whole body.—Quick pulse. Unequal pulse as regards strength and rapidity. Large, slow pulse; it is interrupted by a few smaller pulsations, coming on without regu ilarity. Slow, weak pulse. Collapse of pulse. Moral Symptoms.—Sad.—* Hypochondria, depression of spirits and indifference, when walking in the open air. * Hysteric fit, with chilliness and a kind of spasmodic movements.—♦Anxiousness. Su perstitious thoughts. Fearful, whining, and desponding. Fear of thieves. ^Inclination to start, as with fright. Frequent thoughts of death. Peevish. ♦One easily feels vexed and angry. Indif- ference. ♦Indisposition to work. Sensorium.— Want of memory. Excessive difficulty to recollect CONIUM MACULATUM. 579 things. Dullness of mind. Dullness of all the senses, Insensi- bility and indolence. Hurriedness. Confused thoughts. Delirium. Dementia. Dullness of the head. Dullness and heaviness of the head, on waking from a sound sleep. Dizziness and whirling sen- sation in the head. Intoxication. Continued stupefaction of the head, with constant inclination to slumber. Vertigo. °Vertigo on looking round, as if he would fall to one side.—°Apoplexy, with pa- ralysis, particularly in old people. Head.—Headache, with nausea and vomiting of mucus. Violent headache, with vertigo. Stupefying headache in the outer part of the forehead. Headache in the morning on waking, as in epidemic fevers.—Semilateral, gradually-increasing headache, as if the head were bruised, and as if a load were pressing downwards in the head. —♦Dullaess and heaviness of tbe head. Headache, as if the head were *m full and would burst, in the morning, on waking.—Pressure in botfi temples. Aching above the eyes, extending from within outwards.—Drawing pain in the brain, behind the middle of the forehead. ^Lacerating headache in the occiput and nape of the neck, especially in the orbits, constantly accompanied by nausea; *she had to go to bed. Lacerating headache in the region of the temples, with pressure in the forehead. Painful lancination, darting through the forehead, from within outivards, at noon. Chronic lancinating headache °in the sinciput. Stitches in the parietal bones and in the forehead, with vertigo. Pain in the occiput, at every pulsation, as if that part of the head were pierced with a knife. Throbbing in the forehead.—Heat in the head.—°Dropsy of the brain. ? 1—Sense of numbness and coldness on one side of the head. Aching in the outer parts of the forehead. Drawing pain in the temporal bones. Drawing pain in the forehead, over the eye-brows. Itching in the hairy scalp. ♦ Falling off of the hair. Eyes.—Pressure in the eyes, especially when reading. °Feeling of coldness in the eyes, during a walk in the open air. Painful pressure in the eyes, while closing them in the evening.—Drawing pain and redness of the eyes. Itching of the margin of the eye-lids. Heat in the eyes. Burning in the eyes.—Redness of the eyes. In- flamed eye-lids, *with incipient styes at some places, and frequent M'inking. Yellowish color of the eyes. Tremulous look, as if the eye were trembling. Protruded eyes.—Dilatation of the pupils. Weak- ness of sight °and of the eyes.—°The eyes are dazzled by the light of day.—°Photophobia, particularly in scrofilnus subjects, with pale redness of the eye-ball, or partial congestion of the conjunctiva. Obstruction of sight. Obscuration of sight, when walking in th« 580 CONIUM MACULATUM. open air. *More short-sighted than formerly; he was only able tc recognise near objects. He saw things double. Thread, clouds, and light spots seem to float before the eyes. Things look red. Fiery sparks before his eyes, in the open air. °Dark points and colored streaks in the room. Increased irritability of the eye. Ears.—Pain in the ear, as if the internal ear were forced asunder. —Sudden sharp pressure in the ear, a sort of acute dragging pain. *Stitches in both ears, °also during a walk in the open air, °in and about the ears. °Drawing stitches in the ear, from within outward. Throbbing in the ears. Accumulation of ear-wax, mixed with puru- lent mucus. Blood-red cerumen. Painful sensitiveness qf the sens* of hearing. °Hardness of hearing, ceasing when the wax is removed and returning with the wax.—♦Shrill tingling in the ear. *Roai- ing as of wind in the ear, with hard hearing, increased during a meal. ^Roaring and humming in both ears.—Parotitis and indura. tion of the parotid gland. Nose.—Frequent itching about the nose. Burning of the nostrils. —Hamorrhage from the nose. Frequent bleeding from the nose °Inflammation of the nose after abuse of Mercury.—°Purulent dis- charge from the nose.—°Troublesome feeling of dryness in the nose.— "Stoppage of the nose, chronic, of both nostrils.—Frequent sneezing Face.—*Heat in the face, with congestion of blood to the head and a sensation in the nose as if one had a cold. Bluish, swollen face. Swelling of the molar region and upper gums, with a tight pain. ^Prosopalgia at night. °Flashing lacerating in the right half of the face. Aching in the bones above the eye, near the nose, and in the malar bone.—Lancinating pain in the face. ^Itching and gnawing in the forehead. Soreness, as from excoriation, in the skin of the face. ♦Eruption of a pimple on the forehead, with a tight and drawing pain. °Herpes and spreading ulcers in the face. Tremor of the lip. Ulcers on the lips, after a fever.—°Cancer of the lips.— °Dry and scaly lips. Jaws and Teeth.—Spasm of the jaws. Gnashing of teeth. Toothache (lacerating ?) towards the ear, eye, and malar bone, only during a meal. Drawing in a hollow tooth, when eating anything cold, not when taking a cold drink. ♦Drawing pain, extending from the lower teeth of the right side to the malar bone. Dartings in the teeth.—Jerkings and gnawing in the teeth.—Pain in the teeth, during mastication, as if they were loose. Looseness of the molar teeth, as if they would fall out. The gums are affected with a burning" pain. Swollen, blue-red gums, as if ecchymosed. Bleeding of the gums in the region of the molar teeth. The gums bleed readily CONIUM MACULATUM. 581 Mouth.—Stiff, swollen, painful tongue. Heavy speech. Loss of tpeech. ore throat, a sore pain when swallowing. Difficult deglu tition. °Involuntary deglutition. Dryness of the mouth. Dry tongue. Violent ptyalism. ^Frequent hawking of mucus.—° crap- ing in the throat. Pressure in the oesophagus from the pit of the stomach, as if a round body would ascend. Taste and Appetite.—*Acidity of the stomach, with a flat and somewhat putrid taste in the mouth. Bitter and sour taste, after breakfast. Bitterness of the mouth and throat. Decreasing appe- tite. Loss of appetite. °Does not relish bread. Thirst.—°Canine hunger. Gastric Symptoms.—♦ After a meal, distention of the epigastrium, with pressure in the stomach, and subsequent arrest of breathing; stomach-ache, with great fullness of the stomach and chest the whole day ; nausea with oppressive headache ; pain in the umbilical region, as if all the bowels were bruised by blows ; drawing pain in the um- bilical region ; drawing pain in the abdomen, when sitting; chilliness, oppressed breathing, and hard pressure on the sternum ; great weak- ness and depression of strength ; sour eructations; gulping up of sour substances from the stomach. ^Suppressed eructations after breakfast. *Unsuccessful eructations, with subsequent pain in the stomach, °also with fullness in the throat-pit.—^Frequent and empty eructations, especially early in the morning, °or the whole day. ♦Sour eructations, with burning in the stomach. *Eructations tasting of the ingesta. ^Heartburn, in the evening, °or after eating. —Acrid heartburn.—Hiccough.—Frequent nausea, and complete loss of appetite. Nausea and disposition to vomit, after every meal. Violent vomiting. °Nausea and vomiting of pregnant females °Oppression of the stomach during a meal. Stomach.—Pressure in the pit of the stomach.—Drawing pain from the pit of the stomach to the fauces, with short and difficult breathing. *Contractive pain in the stomach, with a feeling of cold ness in the stomach and back. ^Spasmodic pains in the stomach, *Spasm of the stomach. Pinching in the stomach, which afterwards affects the intestines in a similar but dull manner. Sore and raw feeling in the stomach. Oppression (tightness) of the pit of the Btomach, when leaning backwards, with arrest of breathing and sup- pression of speech. Hypochondria.—Aching in the liver, when walking. Aching in the right side of the abdomen and chest, increased by breathing. *Sharp drawing in the anterior lobe of the liver. Painful lacerating *«■ the, region of the liver Painful stitches in the region of the liver 582 CONIUM MACULATUM. in paroxysms, arresting the breathing. ♦Searching (grinding) lanoi nations in the left side of the abdomen. Abdomen.—Pain above the hips when walking. Violent pains in the abdomen, with chilliness. Excessive colic. Continued pressure in the abdomen, as from a load. Hardness and violent inflation oi the abdomen. Inflation of the abdomen, like flatulent colic, in the evening, with coldness of one foot.—Swelling qf the abdomen. Swell ing of the mesenteric glands. Oppression of the abdomen. Con tractive pain in the abdomen, resembling after-pains ; this pain causes tenesmus. Griping and pressure in the abdomen.—Spasm in the abdomen. °Oppressive contraction of the abdomen. °Writhing and digging in the abdomen. Most violent colic. Pinching colic, but neither immediately preceding, nor succeeding stool. Violent pinch- ing in the abdomen, as if diarrhoea would set in. Cutting colic, early in the morning, after a chilliness of two hours, with headache and nausea. Cutting colic with diarrhoea. ♦Violent lancinations in the abdomen, every day, especially in the right side. ^Lancinations in the abdomen, as if knives were plunged into it. Shooting pains in the abdomen, particularly during emission of flatulence. Drawing colic, when walking. Drawing pain in the intestines, as if bruised. °Pain as from soreness in the abdomen, when walking on stone pave- ment. Sore kind of lacerating, in paroxysms, extending from the region of the stomach to the side of the abdomen, as if everything would be torn out. Pain in the right groin, as if swollen, with a sensation of subcutaneous ulceration when touching the parts.—Pains as if the hernial sac would protrude. Rumbling and grumbling in the abdomen. Violent emission of flatulence. ^Cutting pain in the abdomen, previous to and during the emission of flatulence. Stool.—♦Constipation. * Frequent urging without stool. Scanty stool. Frequent urging every day, a small quantity being expelled at a time. Constant tenesmus, with thin evacuations. Violent urg- ing, diarrhoeic stools. Papescent stools, every day, with burning at the rectum. *Diarrhaza. Exhausting diarrhoea. Frequent diar- rhoea, like water, mixed with undigested substances, with pinching in the stomach, which extends through the abdomen. Undigested stool. Passage of faeces during sleep, without waking. ^Discharge of blood with stool, early in the morning. Every evacuation is pre- ceded by a short cutting pain in the abdomen. Burning at the rectum, during stool. Chilliness during every stool. Palpitation of the heart after stool. Tremulous weakness after every stool, passing off in the open air. Pressing in the direction of the anus and the small of the back, in frequent paroxysms. Frequent stitches in the CONIUM MACULATUM. 583 anus, between the stools. Itching of the rectum. Burning and heal at the rectum and anus. Urine.—Ischury. Strangury. °The flow of urine suddenly stops, and continues after a short interruption. Urgent desire to urinate, every half-hour. ♦Frequent micturition, ♦the urine cannot be re- tained. Diabetes. Diabetes, accompanied by great pain. Wetting the bed, at night. Red urine. Haematuria. Frequent hematuria with asthma. °The urine is thick, white, and turbid, °or clear as water, with frequent urging. ^Cutting in the urethra, while emit ting the urine. Pressure upon the uterus, and cutting in the urethra, while urinating. Burning when urinating. Pressing as of the urine, with a smarting sensation, after micturition.—Sharp pressure in the bladder. Burning in the urethra. Discharge of mucu^ from the male urethra, also after micturition. Male Genital Organs.—Discharge of pus from the urethra, after previous itching. Itching of the penis.—Inflammation oi the pre- puce.—Cutting pain in the glans. Pain in the testes. °Swelling of the testicles, particularly after contusion. Absence of sexual desire. Excessive sexual desire. Lasciviousness. °Insufncient erections during an embrace. °Feeble embrace. °Languor after an embrace.—°Excessive pollutions. Female Genital Organs.—♦Violent itching of the pudendum, also of the vagina, immediately after the menses ; succeeded by a press- ing downwards of the uterus. ^Severe stitches of the pudendum. °Stitches in the vagina and pressing from above downwards.—° Ute- rine spasms, with digging above the pudendum, distention of the abdomen, and lancinations extending into the left side of the chest. °Pinching and griping in the uterus. *Suppression of the menses. °Feeblc menses. *Appearance of the menses on the seventeenth day. Brownish blood appears instead of the menses. °Pain in the mammae before the menses. Dry heat in the whole body, previous to the appearance of the menses, without thirst.—°Pressure from above downwards and drawing in the legs during the menses. °Painful abdominal spasms during the menses. *Leucorrhaa, °smarting, ex- coriating. Violent leucorrhoea, succeeded by hoarseness, cough, and expectoration. Discharge of a white, acrid mucus from the vagina, causing a burning sensation. Thickish, milk-colored leucorrhoea. with contractive, labor-like colic from both sides of the abdomen.— Bloody mucus, instead of tbe leucorrhoea.—Leucorrhoea, ten days after the menses, preceded by colic. Leucorrhoea with weakness and lameness in the small of the back previous to the discharge, with subsequent lassitude. Pinching in the abdomen previous to the 584 CONIUM MACULATUM. leucorrhazal discharge. In pregnant females : °cough; °vomiting and nausea.—°Sterility, particularly during suppression of the menses.—°Prqfuse lochia. ?—Pain in the mammae. Itching of the mammae and nipples, with red, scaly skin and burning after rubbing. °Scirrhous induration of the mammae. Inflammation of the scirrhous mammae. Dwindling of the mammae. ° Cancer qfthe mamma. ? Larynx and Trachea.—Violent catarrhal fever, with inflammation of the throat and loss of appetite.—Hoarseness. Sensation offullnesi in the chest; inability to raise anything by coughing.—Rattling in the chest. A dry little spot in the larynx, where one experiences a titillation inducing a dry and almost constant cough.—Itching in the throat, with titillation causing a short hacking cough. Scraping and tingling in the chest, in the direction of the larynx, inducing a dry, almost continual cough. °Dry, tickling cough, with oppression of the chest and evening fever.—Cough increasing when lying down. ^Nightly cough. Short, convulsive cough, excited by a deep inspi- ration. Violent cough. ♦Whooping cough and asthma, particu- larly after measles.—*Nightly whooping cough. Whooping cough, with discharge of a bloody mucus from the chest. °Suffocative cough with flushed face. °Dry, spasmodic cough, with shortness of breath. °Cough with bloody expectoration. °Cough in pregnant females. °Cough in scrofulous persons.—Dry cough with hoarse- ness. Dry, short, and hacking cough. Loose cough, without ability to throw off.—Discharge qf pus from the chest—Stitches in the head when coughing. Pain in both sides of the abdomen when coughing. Chest.—Difficult breathing and violent pain in the chest. Short panting breath °Shortness of breath, °particularly when walking, or when taking the least exercise, sometimes with paroxysms of spas- modic cough. ♦Asthma, °particularly in the morning on waking.— ^Frequent oppression in the upper and right half of the chest, as if caused by accumulation of flatulence, °in the evening in bed, with pain in the chest. Violent pain in the chest, with violent cough.— Tightness across the chest, with pressure in it when taking an inspiration.__ Aching in the sternum, with shortness of breath. Cutting pressure in both sides of tbe chest, increasing by inspiration.—Pleuritic stitches.—°Stitches in the sternum.—Drawing and lacerating through the whole chest, in the evening when in bed, lying on one side with oppressed breathing. Lacerating in the chest.—° Jerks in the chest.—Pain as from bruises in front of the chest, and in the back. Burning in the region of the sternum.— Violent palpitation of the heart, after drinking. Palpitation of the heart, when rising from bed.—Frequent shocks in the region of the heart.—Stinging itching CONIUM MACULATUM 585 over the whole chest.—Pimples on the chest, painful to the touch.— Caries of the sternum. Back.—Violent pain in the back after a short walk, afterwards nausea and exhaustion.—Stitches in the small qf the back, with draw ing through the lumbar vertebra when standing.—Tight pain in the back. Painful tightness of the muscles below the scapulae, when at rest, augmented by raising the arms.—Drawing in the lumbar vertebrae, when standing.—Dull stitches between the scapulae.—Pain, as from a sprain, in the left side of the back. Hot feeling along the back, in the morning on waking.—Tensive pain in the nape of the neck, when at rest, with a feeling of dryness in the fauces. °Pain as from sore- ness in the lowermost cervical vertebrae. Apparent enlargement of the neck. Increase of the goitre. Arms.—Drawing pain in the arm, upwards and downwards, mostly when moving it. °The shoulders feel as if pressed sore.—Paralytio and drawing pain in tbe upper arm, when at rest. Lacerating in the upper arm and bend of the elbow. Heaviness in the elbow-joints, with fine stitches.—Dull drawing in the fore-arms, more violent when at rest than in motion. °Humid, crusty, burning herpes on the fore-arm.—Paralytic drawing pain in the wrist-joint, when at rest. Numbness of the fingers. Itching in the dorsa of the fingers Panaris, with inflammation, and a throbbing, burning pain as from subcutaneous ulceration. Legs,—°Drawing pain in the hips.—°Uneasiness and languor in the lower limbs.—Swelling of the thighs.—Drawing, lacerating, and pricking in the thighs.—Dull pain in the knee, when stepping. Ar- thritic pain around the knee-joint. Pain as from a bruise in the left knee, lacerating when walking or standing in the open air. Pain in the knee as if sprained. Paralytic pain in the bend of the knee. *Pain as if from fatigue in the knee. ° Tension and lacerating in the knees, worst at the commencement of a walk.—Tight and painful stiffness in the calves. Pain in the tibia, as if it had been bruised by blows. Lacerating in the lower legs and feet. °Cramp in the calves. °Painful reddish spots on the calves, becoming afterwards green or yellow, as after contusion, and impeding the movement of the foot.—Dull pain in the tarsus. Burning and throbbing stitches in the bend of the foot.—Tiigling pain in the soles of the feet when stepping.—Numbness and insensibility of the feet. °Coldness of the feet, and liability to take cold.—Swelling of the whole foot, affected with a burning pain. Painful swelling of the feet. Pustule on the feet.—The tips of the toes are painful, as from subcutaneous ulcera tion. 25* 586 CONVOLVULUS ARVENSIS.--COPAIVA BALSAM UM. 92.—CONVOLVULUS ARVENSIS. CONVOLV.—Bind-weed. CLINICAL REMARK.—This remedy is recommended for (ede- matous swellings. 93.—COPAIViE BALSAMUM. COP AIV.—Balsam of Copaiva.—See Hahnemann's "Fragmenta de Viribus Medicamentorum," hings of the lower limbs. Pain in the thighs. Lancinating laceration in the whole thigh. Drawing in the muscles of.the thigh, with sensitiveness to the touch. Burning itching in the outer parts of the thighs.—Weariness of the knees. Bloatedness and swelling of the leg. Painful weariness in 636 ELATERIUM.—EUGENIA IAMB0S. the tibia.—Numb feeling of the calf.—Burning in the feet.—Sting- ing burning oi the toes.—°Erysipelatous peeling off and itching of the feet. ° Formication in the feet. 113.—ELATERIUM. ELAT.—Memordica, Elaterium, "Wild or Squirting Cucumber.—See " Transac- tions of the American Institute of Homoeopathy." GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Incessant gaping. Sharp, fugitive, or dull aching pains. Pains mostly affecting the left side, but also the right. Chilliness with continued gaping, as if an attack of inter- mittent fever were approaching. Head.—Depression of spirits. Pains in the temples Eyes.—Sticking as of a splinter, in the inner canthus of the eye. Intestinal Canal.—Bitter taste in the mouth. Dull pains in the bowels. Watery discharges from the boweb, of a frothy character Discharges of dark masses of bilious mucus. Dull olive-green dis- charges. Costiveness. Dull pain in the epigastrium. Feeling of stricture or oppression at the epigastrium. Cutting pains in the bowels, like the griping of medicine.—Constant nausea and disposi- tion to vomit. Eructations of flatus. Bleeding of haemorrhoidal tumors. Extremities.—Pains under the shoulder-blade.—Pains extending from the shoulder to the ends of tbe fingers ELECTRICITY (See Imponderabilia.) 114.—EUGENIA IAMBOS. EUG.—Malabar Plum Tree.—See "Archiv," XII. Compare with—Op. Antidote.—Coffee. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Dr. Hering has derived great use from the tincture of Eug. in an epidemic disease, characterized by cough, coryza, ophthalmia, and pain in the ears, which was very troublesome to children. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Laming and crampy pains, particu- larly in the tibiae and heels.—Constant slight yawning in the open air. Headache, burning in the eyes, a good deal of thirst, and copi- ous micturition at night.—Heat before midnight, with little thirst, sweat, pain in the small of the back, and disposition to sit alone Sweat in walking. Sweat and thirst in the morning. Violent thirst at night.—Out of humor. EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM. 637 Sensorium and Head.—Dullness of the head.— Vertigo, with con- gestion of blood to the head.—Rolling and burning in the head and in the eyes, with lachrymation, afterwards nausea and vomiting. Eyes.—Violent itching in the eyes. Violent burning in the eyes. Inflammation with stitches in the inner canthus.—Lachrymation, evening and night, with sensation as if fire were pouring out qfthe eyes.—Sleepy appearance and unsteadiness of the eyes.—Obscuration of sight, with diploplia. Face, Nose, and Teeth.—Ptyalism.—The gums of the decayed teeth become painful. Mouth, Pharynx, &c.—Yellowish, bloody mucus in the mouth after dinner. Dryness of the throat, with thirst. Appetite and Gastric Symptoms.—Heartburn at night.—Evening nausea, with vertigo, headache, vomiting, subsequently bitterness of mouth, desire for cold water, and then sweat. Stomach and Addomen.—Crampy sensation in the stomach, with spasmodic feeling, and afterwards nausea. Stitches in the pit of the stomach.—Burning in the abdomen as from brandy. Drawing around the umbilicus as from a carthartic. Distention of the epigastrium with coldness internally. Stool.— Scanty stool. Scanty, hard stool, after much pressing, Several stools a day, with burning in the abdomen. Diarrhoeic stools, followed by vomiting.—Cramp-pain in the rectum. Urine.—Dark urine. Suppression of the usual nightly urina tion.—Burning when urinating. Male Genital Organs.—Impotence. Larynx and Trachea.—Constant hawking up of yellow and bloody mucus.—Moist cough, evening and night, without expectora- tion.—Dryness of the throat from coughing. Back, Arms, and Legs.—Stinging-burning itching on the back. Painful stiffness of tbe nape of the neck.—Heat of the hands.— Nightly cramp in the soles of the feet. Rbagades between the toes. 115.—EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM. EUP. PERF.—Bone" Set; Thorough Wort; Thorough Stem; Cross "Wort; Thorough Wax ; Vegetable Antimony ; Indian Sage ; Ague Weed ; Joe-pye. —See "Transaction of the American Institute of Homoeopathy." Compare with—Arn, Cham., Merc, Natr.-mur., Rhus-tox., Tart-em.—It alter- nates well with Natr-mur. in intermittent fevers. Dr. Gray.—" I have for many years applied the Eupat. in cases of intermittent when there was Lttle or no sweat at any time during 638 EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM. the disease: and, consequently, in those forms closely verging upon the remittent type." Fever.—Intermittent fever, quotidian, tertian, and quartan. The paroxysm generally commences in the morning. Thirst several, hours before the chill, which continues during the chill and heat Chilliness through the night, and in the morning, with nausea, from the least motion.—Aching pain and soreness, as if from having been beaten, in the calves of the legs, small of the back, and in the arms, above and below the elbows. ♦Flushed face and dry hot skin, during the fever. ♦Chill at seven o'clock in the morning, preceded by thirst, and attended with moisture of the hands. ♦Vomiting at the conclusion of the chill. ♦Fever, with sleep and moaning, and fol- lowed by slight perspiration.—♦Nausea and sickness of the stomach, at the commencement of the heat, with violent, throbbing headache. *Chill in the morning, heat during the rest of the day, and slight perspiration in the evening. ♦Intermittent fever with a heavy chill, early in the morning of one day, and a light chill about noon the next day, aud so on successively. ♦Headache and trembling during the heat. ♦Chill, preceded by pain above the right ilium, with thirst and disposition to yawn. *Pain in the bones, early in the morning, before the paroxysm.—♦The chill is induced or hastened by taking a drink of water.—Headache, backache, and thirst during the chill. Nausea as the chill goes off. ♦Increased headache, but diminished thirst, during the heat. Aching in the bones of the extremities, ivith soreness qfthe flesh. ♦Coldness, with a great deal of trembling, attended with nausea. Chilliness, with excessive trembling and nausea. ♦Internal trembling, with external heat. Chilliness in the morning, heat throughout the rest of the day, but no perspiration. ♦Coldness and stinging or pricking, as from pins, in both feet at the commencement of the chill. ♦Aching in the bones of the ex- tremities, in the latter part of the chill, and in tbe beginning of the heat. ♦The thirst frequently commences in the night previous to the chill, in tertian ague. ♦Chill begins at nine o'clock in the morning. ♦Stiffness of the fingers during the chill.—Soreness in the bones. ♦Aching pain, with moaning, throughout the cold stage.— Retching and vomiting of bile. ♦ Vomiting at the conclusion of the thill. ♦Distressing pain in the scrobiculus-cordis, throughout the chill and heat. ^Throbbing headache during the chill and heat. ♦Violent pain in the head and back, before the chill. ♦Inconsiderable perspiration, or none at all, after the hot stage.—♦Fever in the fore- noon, preceded by thirst early in the morning, but no chili; attended by fatiguing cough, and not followed by perspiration.—♦Loose cougb EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM. 639 fn the intermission. ♦Cough in the night previous to the paroxysm. ♦Great weakness and prostration during the fever, with faintness from motion. ♦The heat goes off by moderate perspiration, during sleep in the evening. ♦Thirst throughout the night, before the pa- roxysm, in tertian ague. Thirst several hours before the chill. #The thirst continues during the chill and heat, with vomiting after each draught of water. ♦Vomiting of bile at the close of the hot stage. ♦Inconsiderable perspiration after the fever. ♦Coldness during nocturnal perspiration. Chilliness from motion. Pungent heat at- tending the perspiration at night. Alternate chilliness and flashes of heat.—♦Fever, with despondency of mind, morbid sensitiveness of the skin, and sleeplessness. Head.—Headache, with sensation of soreness internally.—♦Throb- bing headache. ♦Headache and sick stomach, every other morning when first awaking. #Pain in the occiput after lying, with sensation of a great weight in the part.—Darting pains through the temples, with sensation of blood rushing across the head.—♦Distress on the top and in the back part of the head.—♦Shooting pains from the left to the right side of the head.—♦Painful soreness in the right parietal {>rotuberance.—Heat on the top of the head, with pain, which is re- ieved by pressure.—♦Thumping in the side of the head, above the right ear. ♦Soreness and beating in the back part of the head. Eyes.—♦Soreness of the eye-balls. ♦Intolerance of light. Red- ness of the margins of tbe lids, with glutinous secretion from the meibomian glands. Increased lachrymation. Nose.—Flowing coryza. ♦Sneezing. Face.—♦Sickly, sallow countenance. Flushed face. Redness of the cheeks, with dry skin. Mouth.—Paleness of the mucous membrane of the mouth. ♦Tongue coated, yellow or white. ♦Sores in the corners -f the mouth. Throat.—Dryness of the throat. ♦Soreness of the fauces, with catarrh. Appetite.—♦Tastelessness of food. #Want of appetite. Loss of appetite. Thirst for cold water. Stomach.—General shuddering, proceeding from the stomach. Sensation of fullness in the stomach. Heat in the stomach. Nausea and vomiting of food. ^Vomiting immediately after drinking. Vomiting preceded by thirst. ^Vomiting of bile, with trembling, attended by pain in the epigastrium, with nausea and extreme pros- tration, almost syncope. Distressing disposition to vomit. Abdomen.—♦Soreness around the waist. Soreness and fullness in the region of the liver. 640 EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM. Stool.—♦Constipation. ♦Costiveness attending catarrh. Purging Stools, with smarting and heat in the anus. Tenesmus, with a small discharge of loose stool. Morning diarrhoea. Four or five watery stools in the day. Urine.—♦Dark-brown scanty urine, depositing a whitish, clay-like sediment. ♦Itching of the mons-veneris. Larynx.—♦Hoarseness, with roughness of the voice.—Hacking cough in the evening. Cough, with soreness and heat in the bronchia. Cough, aggravated in the evening. ♦Hectic cr.ugh from suppressed intermittent fever. ♦Nocturnal loose cough. ♦Hoarse rough cough, with scraping in the bronchia. ♦Violent cough, with soreness in the chest. ♦Cough, with flushed face and tearful eyes. ♦Cough pre- ceding measles. ♦Cough, following measles. ♦Disposition to cough, with dyspnoea. Chest.—♦Dyspnoea very great, obliging the patient to lie with his head and shoulders very high. ♦Difficulty of breathing, attended with perspiration and anxious countenance ; with sleepiness. ♦Pain- ful irritation of the pulmonary organs, with heat in the chest. Ina- bility to lie on the left side. Soreness in the chest, from taking a full inspiration. ♦Deep-seated pain in the left side and in the right shoulder. Grating sensation in the chest, at every deep inspi- ration Back.—Weakness in the small of the back. Deep-seated pain in the loins,#with soreness from motion. Pain in the back, as from a bruise. Beating pain in the nape. ♦Pain in the back and lower extremities. Arms.—Soreness and aching in the arms and fore-arms. Stiffness of the arms. Painful soreness in both wrists, as if broken or dislo- cated. Stiffness of the fingers, with obtuseness of the sense of touch. ♦Heat in the palms of the hands, sometimes with moisture. Legs.—♦Pain in a spot over the left hip, with soreness. ♦Flagging of the muscles of the thigh, as if they were falling off the bone. ♦Gouty inflammation of the left knee and the right elbow. The pains are worse from ten o'clock, a. m., until four o'clock, p. m. Stiffness and general soreness of the lower extremities, when rising to walk. •Soreness and swelling of both feet when standing on them. ♦Lame- ness in the right hip and lower extremity, when walking. Soreness and aching of the lower limbs. ♦Throbbing in the right foot. ♦Rheu- matic pain on the inside of the knee. ♦Dropsical swelling of both feet and ankles. EUPHORBIUM OFFICINARUM. 641 116.—EUPHORBIUM OFFICINARUM. EUPHOR.—Spurge.—See Hahnemann's "Chronic Diseases," III.—Duration of Action: about seven weeks. Compare with —Bell., Merc, Mez., Nitr-ac—Euph. is frequently indicated after: Bell., Merc, Nitr.-ac. Antidotes.—Camph., Citri-suc. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Rheumatic pains in the bones. In- flammation of external parts. General swelling, inflammation, cold gangrene.—°Chronic eruptions. °01d, torpid ulcers.—°Warts. ? ? Lassitude and want of tone of the whole body. Burning pains in in- ternal organs. Stitches and tightness in the muscles.—Lacerating lancinating pains during rest, relieved by motion. Characteristic Peculiarities.—The primary effects of tho dru<* are slow in making their appearance. The symptoms are aggravate-1 by rest (sitting) and by contact. Sleep.—Frequent yawning. Great drowsiness after dinner. Sort of stupor in the afternoon. Sleeplessness and tremulous tossing about in bed.—Anxious, confused dream. Fever.—Chilliness of the whole body. Constant chilliness with sweat, shuddering. Shuddering over the upper parts qf the body. Great heat the whole day. Fever. Moral Symptoms.—Temporary craziness. Melancholia. Anxious. and apprehensive mood. Serious and taciturn. Head.— Vertigo.—Headache, as if caused by a deranged stomach Dull, stupefying, oppressive pain in the forehead. Aching in the forehead. Aching in the occiput.—Headache, as if the head would be pressed asunder.—Tensive pressure about the head, especially the forehead and the posterior cervical muscles.—Sticking with pres sure in the temples. Eyes.—Pressure in the eye, as from sand. * Smarting of the eyes, with lachrymation. ♦Inflammation of the eyes, °also chronic, with itching and dryness of the lids and canthi.—*Pcle red inflammation of the eye-lids, with nightly agglutination.—Swelling of the eye-lids, with lacerating above the eye-brow when opening the eye?.—Diplo- pia.—°Obscuration of the cornea. 1 Ears.—Pain in the ears, in the open air.— Tingling in the ear, also when sneezing.—Roaring in the ears, at night. Nose.—Suffocative smarting in the nose, extending to the brain, with profuse discharge of mucus.—Frequent sneezing. Face.—Paleness of the face, sallow complexion.—Tight pain in the cheek, as if swollen. Violent burning in the face. Erysipelatous 41 642 EUrHORBIUM OFFICINARUM. inflammation of the face and external head. Red, inflammatory swelling of the cheek, with boring, gnawing, and digging from the «mms to the ears. Red, excessive swelling of the cheeks, covered with yellowish vesicles. Erysipelatous inflammatory swelling of the cheeks, with vesicles of the size of peas, full of yellowish humor. White, oedema-like swelling of the cheeks. Jaws and Teeth.—Toothache, increasing when touched or when masticating.—Toothache, in the beginning of a meal, with chilliness; gnawing lacerating, accompanied with headache.—Breaking off oi the teeth. Mouth and Throat.—Ptyalism, preceded by shiverings or with inclination to vomit and shuddering.—Burning of the palate, as from hot coal. Rawness and roughness of the throat. Burning in the throat and stomach. Burning in the throat, down to the stomach, with trembling anxiousness, and heat on the whole upper part of the body, with inclination to vomit and ptyalism. Inflammation of the oesophagus. Taste and Appetite.—Bitter, astringent taste. Thirst for cold drinks. Great hunger. Gastric Symptoms and Stomach.—Violent, empty eructations. Nausea with shaking. Morning-nausea. Vomiting with diarrhcou. The stomach is painful to the touch. Spasmodic pain in the stomach. Burning feeling in the pit of the stomach. Inflammation of the stomach. Abdomen.—Excessive colic and inflation. Anxious and sore feel- ing in the abdomen. Heaviness and heat in the abdomen. Empty feeling in the abdomen, as after an emetic, early in the morning. Writhing (twisting) through the whole of the intestinal canal; after- wards loose stool, with burning itching around the rectum.—Aching in the lumbar region. Stool.—Constipation. Papescent, yellowish stool. Copious diar- rhoea, with previous itching around the rectum, the desire for stool being very urgent.—Diarrhoea, with burning at the rectum, inflation of the abdomen, and pain in the abdomen as if it were sore.—Fatal dysentery.—Burning sore pain around the rectum. Urine.—Pressure on the bladder. Strangury. Frequent desire to urinate, with slight discharge of urine. A quantity of white sedi- ment in the urine. (Haemorrhage from the urethra. ?) Genital Organs.—Lacerating pain in the scrotum. Nightly and continual erections. Windpipe.—Short and hacking cough, excited by a slight titilla- tion in the throat. Violent irritation in the upper part of the larynx, EUPHRASIA OFFICINALIS. 343 with short and hacking cough. Cough occasioned by a burning titil- lation in the upper part of the larynx. Cough, day and night, as if caused by asthma and shortness of breath. Dry, hollow cou°h, caused by a tickling in the middle of the chest, during rest. Almost uninterrupted dry cough. Chest.—Asthma.—Sensation as if the left lobe of the lungs were adhering. Spasmodic pressing asunder in the lower parts of the chest. Back.—Pain in the small of the back, or sort of pressure during rest. Pains in the small of the back, resembling jerking stitches. Arms.—Pinching pain in the scapula.—Paralytic tightness in the shoulder-joint, early in the morning after rising, aggravated by motion. Internal intensely-painful drawing in the arm, with a feeling of weak- ness.—Pain, as from a sprain, in the upper arm, near the elbow-joint. —Intensely-painful drawing in the ulna.—Paralytic pain in the wrist-joint, when moving the hand. Legs.—Paralytic pain in the hip-joint, when stepping. Pain, as from a sprain, in both hip-joints. Aching in the muscles around the hip.—Burning pain, at night, in the bones of the hip-joint and in the femur. The lower limbs frequently go to sleep.—Corrosive itch- ing of the thighs.—Lacerating in the knee. Violent lancinating lacerating in the muscles of the legs. Great weakness of the legs.— Cramp-pain in the foot. Sore pain of the heel, as from a subcutaneous ulceration. 117.—EUPHRASIA OFFICINALIS. EUPHR—Eye-Bright.—Hahnemann's "Mat. Med. Pur.," II.—Duration of Ac- tion: from three to four weeks. Compare with—Arn., Merc, Nux-v., Puis., Sen., Spig. Antidotes.—Camph., Puis. , GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Shooting, itching stitches here and there, the whole night; he tosses about in his bed, and cannot get warm. Great weakness in the whole body, especially the lower limbs. °Consequences of bruises, blows, or contusions.—Cramp-pains through the whole body.—°Crawling as of a fly in one or the other limb, from below upwards, with numbness of the part. Sleep and Fever.—Drowsiness, without being able to sleep, with much yawning. Frequent waking in the night, as from fright. Frightful dreams. Internal chilliness in the forenoon, followed by violent chilliness and coldness of both arms in the afternoon 644 EUPHRASIA OFFICINALIS. Feverish chilliness over the whole body. Redness and heat of th« cheeks. Sudden heat and redness of the face, with cold hands. Moral Symptoms.—Taciturn.—Inertia, hypochondria, listlessness, Head.—Dullness of the head with pressure on the vertex. Violent headache, as if bruised, or a sort of painful bewilderment in the head. Aching pain in the outer part of the head, especially in the forehead. Headache, as if the skull would burst, with dazzling of the eyes from the light of the sun. °Beating in the head, perceptible on the outer side. Eyes.—Dimness of the eyes. Injection of the vessels of the sclerotica, by looking at the fire.—°Smarting in the eyes as from sand. °Stinging in the eyes, from bright light. ^Inflammation and ulceration of the margins of the eye-lids, with headache.— °Corneitis. °Blueness and obscuration of, and pellicle over the cornea.—°Swelling of the eye-lids, particularly the lower. °Fine eruption around the eyes. ♦Burning and smarting lachrymation, particularly in the wind. ♦Photophobia, and pain from looking at the light. Sensation in the evening as if both eyes, especially the upper eye-lids, were drawn towards one another, obliging one to wink frequently. Fine stitches in the eye-ball. *Gum in the canthi, °purulent, with nightly agglutination. Rheumatic inflammation of the eyes, almost blinding him. Ears.—Violent boring pain in the ear. Nose.—°Sorcness and painfulness of the inner nose. °Epistaxis. —♦Profuse fluent coryza, °with smarting lachrymation and photo- phobia, -or with sneezing and discharge of mucus. Face.—Rash in the face, itching in warmth, and becoming burning and red when moistened. °Stiffness of the upper lip, as if made of wood. Jaws and Teeth.—Beating in the teeth, after a meal. Violent bleeding of the gums. °Lameness and stiffness of the tongue and cheeks. Taste and Appetite.—Hunger without an appetite at noon. Hie cough. Stomach and Abdomen.—Painless grumbling in the abdomen. A sort of oppression in the abdomen, a sort of burning pressing pain in a transverse direction, during rest or motion. Pinching in the abdomen, in short paroxysms. °Colic, alternating with the pains in the eyes. Urine.—Frequent micturition Genital Organs.—°Fig-warts.—°The menses appear at the regular period, but last only one hour. EVONYMUS EUROP.EUS. 645 Larynx.—♦Cough only in the daytime, ♦with mucus in the chest which cannot be detached, °and difficulty of breathing. Copious fluent coryza in the morning, and violent cough with expectoration. Difficult breathing, even in a room. Back.—Cramp-like pain in the back. Continual aching of tho back. Arms.—Sensation in the arms as if they had gone to sleep. Dull lacerating in the elbow and wrist-joints. Cramp-pain in the wrist- joints. Pain in the knuckles and joints of the fingers. °Painless swelling of the wrist-joint during motion. °Numbness of the fingers. Legs.—°Cramp in the lower limbs, when standing. Jerks in the thigh, succeeded by lameness and numbness. Weariness in the knees *'Cramp in the calf, particularly when standing. 118.—EVONYMUS EUROP^EUS. EVON.—Spindle-Tree.—See "Pract. Mittheil.," 1827. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Drawing-sticking pains.—Gnawing and itching in the skin. Small dry pustules on the skin.—Feverish shuddering, or violent chilliness over the whole body.—Anguish about the heart, a sort of internal oppression. Moaning and frequent deep inspirations, on account of a tightness and fullness in the chest. Vexed, peevish, out of humor, not disposed to work.—Vanishing of thought in reading, this puts him out of humor. Characteristic Peculiarities.—The pains oblige one to lie down. The pains in the chest head and abdomen are particularly aggravated after dinner. Head.—Violent vertigo Vertigo in the fore part of the head, worse in sitting.—Headache with great chilliness.—Pain in the ver- tex, as if a nail were pressed into the part.—Stupefying pressure above the right orbit. Eyes.—Pressure in the eye, aggravated by external pressure. Obscuration of sight. Dark spots before the eyes. Dim-sightedness Mistiness with vertigo. Ears, Face, Teeth.—Roaring in the ears.—Lacerating in the lower teeth. Stomach, &c.—Sticking in and near the pit of the stomach.—Lan- cinating or constrictive pain in the abdomen.—Cutting and oonstric- tion in the abdomen. Cutting in the urethra, extending into the bladder. Chest.—Violent pain in the chest, aggravated by inspirations 646 PERRUM METALLICUM AND ACETICUM. Diminished by expirations. The chest feels sore and bruised. —Drawing, stupefying crampy pressure and stitches in the region qfthe nipples.—Digging in the chest.—Tension in the sternum. Back and Limbs.—Formication in the back. Small dry pustules on the back.—Violent lacerating in the left shoulder. Laming pains in the fingers.—Paralytic pain in the region of the hip, around the pelvis, or tingling, gnawing, and itching in those parts. Paralytic pain in the knees, after sitting, excited by walking and aggravated by standing. 119.—FERRUM METALLICUM. FER.—Metallic Iron.—See Noack and Trinks. SYMPTOMS.—a. From the internal use : Taste as of rotten eggs. —Putrid eructations. Intense, oppressive pain in the stomach. Violent oppression and excessive tightness of the stomach.—Disten- tion of the stomach and abdomen.—Asthma.—Pulmonary consumption. b. From contact: Tonic spasm of the thigh and leg (after touch- ing the sole of the foot).—Feeling of violent coldness and rigidity, and spasmodic contraction of the fingers.— Violent convulsions (on touching the schneiderian membrane of an individual affected with chorea). 120.—FERRUM ACETICUM. FER. ACET—Acetate of Iron.—See Hahnemann's "Mat. Med. Pura," H— Noack and Trinks. Compare with—Am., Ars., Bell., Calc, Carb.-v., Chin., Cham., Cina, Con.-m., Graph., Hep.-s., Ipec, Led., Merc, Mur.-mag., Natr.-mur., Nux-v., Plat., Plumb., Puis., Sep., Thuj., Verat., Verb. Antidotes,—Arn., Ars., Bell., Chin., Hep.-s., Ipec, Merc, Puis., Verat.—Iron is used as an antidote in poisoning by Copper (Cyanite of Iron and Sulphate of Iron), by Mercury (Carbon, and Sulph. of Iron), by Prussic-acid (Sulphate of Iron), and by Arsenic (Sesquioxide of Iron). GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Frequent attacks of tremor, also anxious tremor, alternating with weakness as if weary. Constant trembling of the whole body. Great languor, also with drowsiness or emaciation. General weakness, even from talking. Great weak- ness, as if weary.—Heaviness qf the limbs, want of firmness, and languor. Great, even irresistible disposition to lie down. A walk, particularly in the open air, is very fatiguing.—Fainting spells, with subsequent weakness. Faint feeling in walking, with blackness before the eyes, roaring in the ears, and heat at every step, and sen- FERRUM ACETICUM. 647 sation as if threatened with apoplexy.—^Emaciation, also with great languor. Characteristic Peculiarities.—Many qf the symptoms appeal at night, are aggravated by sitting, relieved by slight motion. Skin.—Burning, painful soreness of some parts of the skin.—In- flammation and suppuration of dark hepatic spots. Sleep.—Constant weariness and drowsiness in the daytime.—Light sleep.—Falls asleep from weariness, nevertheless his sleep is rest- less.—Falls asleep late.—Heavy sleep in the morning.—Frequent waking and mere slumbering.—Restless sleep at night. Anxious tossing about in the bed after midnight. Flatulent colic, at night.— Vivid dreams. Fever.(—General coldness in the evening, in bed. °Frequent short shudderings. °Want of animal heat.—°Chilliness with great thirst, preceded and succeeded by headache.—Seething of the blood in the daytime, with heat in the hands.—Nightly sweat with languor. Morning sweat. ° Viscid, exhausting sweats.—Pulse scarcely percep- tible, °or hard and full.—° Intermittent fevers. Moral Symptoms.—Vehement, quarrelsome, disputative.—Anxiety. Head.—Staggering in walking, as if intoxicated. Reeling sensa- tion and vertigo on seeing flowing water.—Vertigo with sickness at the stomach in walking.—Momentary shock with giddiness in the brain. —Dullness of the bead and want of disposition to think.—Headache every evening above the root of the nose. The head feels dizzy, con- fused, and dull. Gloomy feeling in the head, early in the morning. —The head feels heavy and confused.—(Aching pains in the forehead as if it would burst.)—^Hammering and throbbing headache. Lan- cinations in the forehead.—Drawing headache, drawing from the nape of the neck into the head, with stinging, hammering, and roaring in the head—.Undulating pain in the head.—Headache as if the brain were rent asunder. Rush of blood to the head, with swelling of the veins of the head and slight flushes of heat.—*Pain about the head, as from subcutaneous ulceration, and pain fulness qf the hair when touching it. Eyes.—Redness and swelling of the lids, suppurating stye on the upper lid, and nightly agglutination.—Pressure in the eye and nightly agglutination.—Itching of the eyes in the evening and pressure as if from a grain of sand. Burning and stinging in the eyes.—Burning and pain in the eyes as if from excessive drowsiness.—Red eyes with burning pain.—Darkness before the eyes, in the evening, aching pain above the eyes, and discharge of a few drops of blood from the nose. Ears.—Ulcerative pain of the outer ear. 648 FERRUM ACETICUM. Face.—*Livid, -jaundiced complexion, sometimes #blue spots in the face.—*Pale face and lips. °Fiery redness qf the face. ° Yellow spots in the face. °Pufnness of the face around the eyes. Mouth.—Pale lips.—(Swelling of the gums and cheek.) Throat.—Long-lasting swelling of the cervical glands. (Rough 6ore throat, with hoarseness.) Aching pain in the throat during deglutition, with heat in the fauces. The cervical muscles feel stiff and are painful when moved.—(Pressure and feeling of soreness in the pharynx, during deglutition.)—Constrictive sensation in the throat. Appetite.—Everything he eats tastes bitter.—Putrid taste.— Complete absence of thirst.—Loss of appetite.—Nausea when eating, as if be would vomit.'—After a meal: heat and anxiety (drowsiness and gloominess, with slight headache above the root of the nose, pre- venting mental exertions), dullness of the head, thirst, heartburn, constant eructations and gulping up of food, without nausea or incli- nation to vomit, ^vomiting of the ingesta (after every meal), repletion and violent pressure in the stomach and abdomen, immediately below the stomach, -weariness of the feet. Gastric Symptoms.—Constant nausea and loathing. Attack of paleness, rumbling in the bowels, contractive crampy sensation in the chest, dullness of the head, spasmodic, violent eructations, after- wards heat in the face, pain in the head, and lancinating pain in the vertex.—Inclination to vomit.—Vomiting before midnight most vio- lent when lying, particularly when lying on one side. ^Vomiting of the ingesta, immediately after midnight. Vomiting of mucus and water every morning and after eating.—♦Everything she vomits tastes sour and acrid. Stomach.—♦Pressure at the stomach after taking the least food or drink.—Cr.amp-pains in the stomach. Cardialgia.—(Burning in the stomach.) Sensitiveness of tbe pit of the stomach to contact. Abdomen.—On touching the abdomen, or when coughing, the bowels feel sore, as if bruised or weakened by cathartics.—Painful weight of the abdominal viscera in walking.—Stitches in the abdomen Stinging pain in the abdomen.—Flatulent colic at night. Stool and Anus.—Frequent urging to stool, with burning at the anus, and pain in the back during motion.—Constipation and varices of the rectum ; with painful pressure during stool.—Frequent diar- rhozic stools. °Watery diarrhoea, corroding the anus.—Discharge of mucus and blood at every evacuation.—Itching and gnawing in the rectum and discharge of ascarides with the slimy stool.—Lacerating in the rectum.—Contractive spasm in the rectum.—Protrusion of large varices at the anus. FERRUM ACETICUM. 649 Urine.—Involuntary micturition, particularly in the daytime.— Burning pain in the urethra during micturition, as if the urine were hot. Genital Organs.—Erection day and night.—Nocturnal emissions. —Discharge of mucus from the urethra.—Labor-like pains in the abdomen, as previous to the appearance of the menses.—The menses delay a few days, with scanty discharge of watery blood, attended with violent colic.—The menses remain suppressed for eight weeks —Previous to the menses : stinging headache and singing in the ears, discharge of long pieces of mucus from the uterus, with shifting of flatulence in the abdomen.—Sterility.—^Miscarriage.—Painfulness of the vagina during an embrace. Prolapsus of the vagina (during pregnancy).—Leucorrhoea resembling watery milk, smarting and corroding when first appearing. Larynx and Trachea.—Contractive spasms in the chest and cough from exercise and walking.—Painful contraction in the pit of the stomach, followed by a kind of *spasmodic cough with expectora- tion of mucus, °which is transparent and tenacious.—Spasmodic cough, with vomiting of the ingesta after dinner.—Catarrh and cough, with aching pain in the upper part of the sternum.—*Bloody cough at night, succeeded by increased asthma. Bloody cough on rising. Cough and bloody expectoration during lactation. The cough is more frequent during motion than rest.—^Hawking up qf bloody phlegm.—Slight cough, with white, copious, purulent expectoration. Copious expectoration of pus, having a putrid or sickly taste (early in the morning). Chest.—Pain in the outer parts of the chest and stinging and ten- sion between the scapulae, preventing motion.—Bruised pain in the outer parts of the chest.—Difficulty of breathing and oppression of the chest.—Fullness and tightness of the chest.—*Asthma, -after midnight, obliging one to sit up. Asthma, with weariness of the limbs, generally worse in the forenoon, frequently relieved, and some- times aggravated by walking. Asthma, difficult slow breathing, re- lieved by walking and talking. Tightness of the chest, as if con- stricted, with difficult, anxious breathing, aggravated by walking. Contractive spasm in the chest.—Fatal pneumorrhagia.1 Back.—Pain as if bruised in the small of the back.—Pains in the small of the back on rising from a seat. Arms.—Drawing in the arm, occasioning a heaviness and lameness. —Stizking and lacerating in the shoulder-joint (painful as if bruised 1 From the tinctura ferri acetici setherea Klapprotbii. 28 650 FERRUM CARBONICUM, IODATUM, AND MAGNETICUM. on touching it).—Tremor of the hands.—Cramp in the fingers, numbness and insensibility of the fingers.—Painful contraction of the fingers and toes. Swelling of the hands and feet up to the knees. Legs.—Varices on the feet.—Numbness of the thigh. Feeling in the thighs as if they had gone to sleep.—Lacerating and lancination in the hip-joint (painful as if bruised on touching it).—Painful lame- ness in the thigh.—Weakness of the knees.—Contractive pain in the knee and tarsal joints.—Swelling of the knee and tarsal joints, with pain.—^Painful drawing in the legs, °also with stiffness and heavi- ness.—Pain as if bruised in the legs, early in the morning in bed, going off soon after rising. Tremor and pain as if bruised in the leg in walking.—Painful cramp in the calves.—Frequent painful cramps in the toes and soles of the feet.—^Swelling of the feet, -extending up to the ankles, or even knees (accompanied with swelling of the hands), °attended with drawing pains when commencing to walk.— °GMematous swelling of the feet.—Cold feet. 121.—FERRUM CARBONICUM. FERR. CARB.—Carbonate of Iron.—See Noack and Trinks. SYMPTOMS.—Watery diarrhoea, with cutting colic.—Dysentery. —Violent cholera (in a person suffering with prosopalgia, and who passed a worm rolled up in a ball, with much mucus, after the proso- palgia had subsided). 122.—FERRUM IODATUM. FER. IOD—Iodide of Iron.—Noack and Trinks. SYMPTOMS.—Slight perspiration and increased temperature of the skin.—Increased appetite.—Increase of the digestive powers (curative ?).—Disagreeable feeling in the epigastrium, with sickness at the stomach and slight headache.—Copious black stools, with less smell than usual. 123.—FERRUM MAGNETICUM. FER. MAGN.—Lapis Magneticus, Loadstone.—See " Biblioth. de Geneve," I. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.-Thirst, sweat, languor, and paleness after a walk.—Prickling in various parts.—Lameness, excessive languor.—Trembling of the extremities.—Weakness after a walk, as if proceeding from the abdomen. FERRUM MAGNETICUM. 651 Skin.—Itching of the skin.—Red spots, like fire, or blue-red.— Small warts on the hands. Sleep.—Yawning, with ptyalism.—Drowsiness in the daytime. Unrefreshing sleep, with languor, dullness of the head. Confused dreams. Fever.—Heat after a walk in the open air, with weakness pro ceeding from the stomach, vertigo, paleness, feeling as if catarrh would set in.—Internal heat, after washing, with slow pulse. Sweat on the least motion.—Sour sweat. Mind and Disposition.—Irresolute, slow.—Important, self-con- tented look.—Vehement. Head.—Headache on stooping, moving the arms, or going up-stairs. Sudden headache, affecting the eyes and nose, as if he would cry and sneeze.—Beating headache. Itching of the hairy scalp. Painful pimples on the hairy scalp. Falling off of the hair. Eyes.—Stinging itching in the canthi.—Swelling of the lower lid. Lachrymation and sensitiveness of the lachrymal glands. Ears and Nose.—Drawing in the ears and fauces on swallowing. —Stinging in the ears.—Sneezing and coryza. Face and Teeth.—Sunken face, with heat and subsequent red- ness.—The teeth are easily set on edge, and sensitive when chewing Mouth and Throat.—Itching of the palate. Sensation as if mucus were accumulating round the uvula. Gastri-c Symptoms.—Bitter taste.—Flatulence during a meal.— After a meal: taciturn, languid, flatulent, pains in the stomach, with anguish, urging to stool, diarrhoea.—Nausea. Abdomen.—Pains in the left side of the abdomen.—Noises from flatulence, with urging to stool and pressure on the bladder, and drawing in the lower limbs down to the toes.—Excessive flatulence. Stool and Anus.— Urging, with flatulence.—Diarrhoza, with languor and pale face.—Itching and stinging of the anus. Urine and Genital Organs.—Copious, red urine, becoming tur bid.—Excessive or deficient sexual instinct. Larynx, &c.—Hawking. Dry cough after a meal, as if dust had got into the larynx.—Empty feeling in the chest.—Palpitation of the heart, on moving the shoulders. Arms.—Laming drawing in the arm.—Herpetic spots on the hands and fingers.—Dryness and tension in the hands. Legs.—Tension and pressure in the hip-joint.—Lancinations in the knee. Prickling in the heel. Jerking in the sole. Wen on the foot * 652 FERRUM MURIATICUM AND SULPHURICUM.—FILIX MAS. 124.—FERRUM MURIATICUM. FER. MUR.—Muriate of Iron.—See Bcenninghausen's "Verwandtachaft del Arzneien." SYMPTOMS.—Frequent sudden cramps in the limbs, in the day- time. Contraction of the limbs. Laming lacerating from the shoulder- joint to the upper arm and clavicle, with inability to raise the arm, and going oft by slight motion.—Cramp in the calves during re6t, particularly at night.—Dry heat, with disposition to uncover one's self. Strong-smelling night-sweat. Muscular spasms, attended with cold sweat as from anguish.—Pain in the occiput, when coughing.— Coagulated blood in the nose, constantly.—Pale face, with red spots on the pale cheek. Solid food tastes dry.—Aversion to sour food and to meat.—Excessive thirst, or absence of thirst.—Sour eructa- tions. Vomiting after eating eggs.—Colic, spasms in the muscles, as if the abdomen were contracted, particularly on stooping.—Deposition of a number qf bright-red crystals in the urine.—Pain as from sore- ness in.the vagina, during an embrace.—Loud breathing, as in sleep, while sitting still.—Spasmodic cough, with expectoration of a trans- parent, tenacious mucus, ceasing after eating. Pain as if bruised in the chest when coughing, or stitches in the chest. 125.—FERRUM SULPHURICUM. FER. SULPH.—Sulphate of Iron.—Noack and Trinks. SYMPTOMS.—Sudden convulsions.—Violent burning and pain of the bead, with thirst.—Nausea.— Vomiting.—Cardialgia.—Inflam- matory affection of the membranes of the stomach.—Violent colic- Colic and diarrhoza. Constipation. 126.—FILIX MAS. FIL. M.—Noack and Trinks. CLINICAL REMARKS.—This remedy is recommended against taenia, worm fever, and sterility.—Dr. Bicking uses a saturated decoc tion, of which he gives his patients half an ounce every day, directly after dinner. This treatment causes the expulsion of the worm After some time the worm reappears, but much reduced, when the same process is resorted to, and continued until every vestige of the worm has effectually and permanently disappeared. Dr. B. assures FTLIX MAS.—FLUORIC ACID. 653 us that this treatment has proved successful in every case.—Dr. Lobethal employs the tincture of Filix-mas, a few drops a day, and, in obstinate cases, the tincture of Granatum. 127.—FLUORIC ACID. FLUOR. AC.—See "Transactions of the American Institute of Homoeopathy." CLINICAL REMARKS.—This acid plays an important part in the animal economy. Brugnatelli believed that he had discovered the existence of this acid in the gastric juice of birds, and Trevira- nus also believed that, when the contents of the intestinal canal of fowls were digested in porcelain vessels, the glazing was attacked, on account of the presence of hydro-fluoric acid. Again, the fluoride of calicum is so integral a part of the enamel of the teeth that we must ascribe to its presence (at least in part) the polish and extraordinary hardness of that substance. The presence of fluoride of calcium has also been determined with certainty in the bones of almost all ani- mals. Berzelius found 2.1 of fluoride of calcium in the dentine, and 3.2 in the enamel of a man's teeth. The presence of fluorine in blood and milk has been clearly demonstrated by Dr. George Wilson. In regard to the origin of the fluoride of calcium, Lehmann says, we cannot doubt that it is easily conveyed into the animal system with the food; we need only remember that many mineral waters contain traces of fluorides, and that plants take up a little fluoride of calcium from micaceous soils. Fluoric acid is a solvent for some elementary principles which re- sist the action even of nitro-hydrochloric acid; thus, it solves silica in particular, also silica and silicic acid. It is especially useful as a solvent of silex in the animal economy, for small quantities of silica are found in the blood, in the white of eggs, in bile, in urine, and in the solid excrements, and occasionally in certain morbid concretions; it has also been shown, by numerous experiments, that silica forms an integral constituent of hair and feathers, and hence it is evident that a perfect solvent for it is required, in order that it may be readily conveyed through the most minute capillaries to its appropriate des- tination. Fluoric acid is an admirable solvent; its vapor is more pungent than chlorine or any of the irritating gases. Of all sub- stances, it is the most destructive to animal matter—it produces the strongest caustic effects : when applied to the skin it causes violent pain, the parts around become white and painful, forming a dense pustule filled with matter; even a very small and hardly visible 654 FLUORIC ACID. quantity will produce the same effects, though only after the lapse of several hours. The smallest quantity, applied to the hand, excites violent itching, and pustules filled with matter are soon formed, ac- cording to Liebig; in fact, the acid unites itself to the skin to such a degree that it cannot be washed off, even by means of carbonate of soda, although the pain may be mitigated. The solution of one forty- eighth of a grain, and even that of one-sixteenth, does not produce either pain or redness; one-eighth of a grain, however, produces some pain, redness, and heat, the epidermis falling off in scales after the lapse of a few days. In consequence of its solvent action upon flint, fluoric acid acts energetically upon glass ; the transparency of the glass is instantly destroyed, and heat is evolved. As fluoric acid is sometimes developed in excess in the stomach, we may hazard the conjecture that it sometimes gives rise to intense suffering, and may even be the cause of the well-known perforating ulcer of the stomach. An excess of the acid will also cause rapid caries of the teeth, and may even cause felons, &c, &c. In order to give a better idea of its action in its concentrated state, we append the following case, from Frank's Magazine: Franz Pschick, assistant in the Chemical Institute of Dr. Jacquin, made some experiments with it publicly, December 23d, on which occasion he accidentally exposed his hand to the fumes of fluoric acid for about one minute. An hour after the occurrence, while engaged in cleaning some instruments in warm water, he experienced a very troublesome prickling in the extremities of the fingers, and, shortly after, such violent pain as obliged him to stop short from his work; soon after this he felt a chilly sensation in his left arm, gradually extending all through his body ; in the evening, when he was seized with a violent fever and chill, he mistrusted the real cause of his suffering. The pain now became intolerable, and the integument of the hand very much swollen. On the morning of December 24th all the^fingers of the left hand, but especially the thumb, were very much inflamed and discolored, with very great stiffness of the first and second phalanges, and severe pain extending to the axilla. He then put his hand in albumen, drank water with some Nitrate of Potash, and applied a poultice of raw potatoes to his hand, all of which eased his condition somewhat. Towards evening, however, the pain and swelling increased again; he reapplied poultices, but could not sleep during the night. On the twenty-fifth the extremi- ties of the fingers had all become white, and the thumb covered with large blisters, attended with severe pulsating pain in the same; on opening one blister after another, a thick, brown, and very offensive FLUORIC ACID. 655 smelling liquid exuded from the same, having an acid reaction. In the course of four weeks the patient gradually recovered. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Sensation as if the shoulder and hip- joints were about to be pulled out of place. Jerking pains in dif- ferent parts of the body. Violent jerking burning painst confined to a small space. Pressure and sensation of lameness. In the evening. pressing pain in different parts, of short duration. Different aching pains in the bones of the fore-arms and legs.—Increased ability to exercise his muscles without fatigue. Excessively languid. Skin.—Burning pains on small spots of the skin. Severe itching. Itching of the skin habitual in the month of March. Itching in cica- trices. —Small, light, carmine-red, round, elevated blood-vesicles, re- sembling flesh-warts. ♦Numerous varicose veins. Sleep.—Sleeplessness. Drowsiness, constant sleepiness. Periodi- cal attacks of sleepiness in the afternoon. Sudden sleepiness in the evening. Profound sleep until late in the morning. Soon after falling asleep, anxious, frightful dreams, with waking up at midnight. Frightful or vivid dreams.—Dreams towards morning.—Snoring in his sleep and exclamations in the dream.—Thirst in the night. Fever.—Sensation of great warmth. General heat after little ex- ercise. General feeling of heat, heaviness, and lameness of the whole body. Profuse, sour, offensive perspiration. Profuse and glutinous perspiration, with itching. Moral Symptoms.—Disposition to anxious ideas. Ill-humored, fault-finding. Sensation as if dangers menaced him. Sensorium.—Forgetful. Great difficulty in fixing the attention. Head. — Vertigo, with sickness at the stomach. Painful determi- nation of blood to the forehead, like a quick jerk. A kind of deter- mination of blood to the head and loss of consciousness. Dullness of the head. Dullness and painful tension in the head. A stunning sensation in the head, mostly in front. A sensation somewhat re- sembling numbness or burning. Heaviness of the head. A dull, heavy pain in the upper part of the forehead. Heaviness above the eyes, with nausea. Headache from the nape of the neck upwards, a dull pressure. Pressing pains in the forehead, as if it were in the bone.—Headache in the forehead and temples.—Sharp, shooting, un- dulating pain.—♦Baldness. Eyes.—Elevated red blotches over the eye-brows. Scaly eruption, with pricking sensation in the eye-brows. Violent itching in the canthi. Painful itching in the left eye, as if from a grain of ?and.— Burning in the eyes.—Increased lachrymation.—In the evening, on 656 FLUORIC ACID. closing the eyes, red sparklings cross each other in all possible di« rections. *A dark spot, whilst reading, floats before his eyes. Ears.—Itching in the ears. Nose.—#A chronic inflammation of the nose, with pain; redness, some swelling, and heat. ♦Pimples, with inflamed base. Sudden attacks of coryza. Face and Jaws.—Heat in the face. Compression of both zygomata, drawing downwards towards the larynx. Deep in the bones, superior and posterior to the left eye, a soreness occasionally. Painful sen- sibility of the upper jaw. Teeth.— Teeth feel warm. Toothache. ♦Fistula, with great sen sitiveness on touching the upper jaw. Mouth and Taste.—Sour eructations ; sensation of heat and a disa- greeable flat taste in the mouth.—Acid taste, and greasy feeling in the mouth. Frequent acid eructations, with pyrosis and passage of flatulency. Eructations with choking. Frequent nauseating eruc- tations, with inclination to vomit. Pyrosis with nausea. Continual sickness of stomach, with vertigo and headache. Throat.—A feeling of tenderness and irritability in the larynx ♦Painful ulcer in the lower part of the mouth. Sensation of heat in the fauces.—Violent burning in the fauces, and a sensation of con- striction ; rumbling in the bowels, pressure in the stomach, and burning eructations. Sore throat, with difficult deglutition. Appetite.—Thirst at night. Excessive hunger. Stomach.—Constriction in the throat; pressure and sensation of fullness in the region of the stomach. Pressure in the stomach, and burning.—Sensitiveness of the region of the stomach to pressure. Abdomen.—Pinching in the region of the spleen. In the evening, a pressing pain in the abdomen.—Pinching in the region of the navel, excitement to diarrhoea, and a copious watery evacuation. Rumbling in the bowels, with erratic pain. Shooting pain in the bowels, as if from wind, sometimes very acute. In the night, a sensation of warmth in the abdomen, with a pressure towards the bladder. Throb- bing like a pulsation on feeling the breast and abdomen Stool and Anus.—In the evening, ineffectual desire for a pas sage. After eating, rumbling in the stomach, and urging as in diar- rhoea. After midnight, burning pinching pain in the stomach and abdomen, followed by an evacuation.—Pappy evacuations. Frequent evacuations of flatus and eructations.—Constriction of the anus. ♦Protrusion of the anus during evacuation. Within and around the anus violent itching. Groins, Bladder, and Urine.—Continual dull pain in the in« FRAG ARIA VESCA. 657 guinal region, deeply situated.—Dull pains in the region of th*? bladder.—Pressure on the bladder, with a sensation of warmth in the abdomen.—Before and after urination, a pain in the lower part of the bladder. Pungent and strong odor of the urine. Genital Organs.—Increase of sexual desire. Monthly perioa too soon ; the discharge thick and coagulated. Chest.—Increased irritability of the larynx.—Pain in the larynx as if it were in the cartilage. Soreness in the chest. Oppression with pain in the chest. Oppression in the upper part of the chest. ♦In- curable hydrothorax.—Uneasiness about the heart. Aching in the region of the heart. Painful jerking in the heart. Continual sore- ness in the heart. Back.—Strong heat, extending from the centre of the dorsal region to the loins. Pain in the back, sometimes high up near the shoulder- blades, sometimes deeply seated, as if it were in the region of the kidneys. Violent itching, and small pimples. ♦Bruised pain in the os-sacrum and lumbar region.—Aching pain in the os-sacrum. Arms.—Violent itching.—Rheumatic pains in the bones of the left arm.—Aching in the elbow-joint.—A burning, pricking, and jerking pain in the whole left arm.—Pressure and lameness, with pain in the fore-arm.—On waking, the upper arm and shoulder feel bruised and benumbed.—Paralytic sensation in the arm. Weakness and numbness of the head and hands.—♦A perspiration in the palms of the hands. Legs.—Pain in the right hip. Lameness in the left hip. A vio- lent, slightly-burning, quick, nervous pain proceeds from the region of the bladder down to the right thigh.—Burning shooting pain, as- if it were in the nerve, from the right hip downwards.—Burning itching pain in the back part of the thigh.—Soreness in the muscles of the thigh.—Bruise-like pain of the thigh, particularly in the pos- terior and inner portions.—Pain in the knee and ankle-joints.—Press- ing pain in the foot.—Burning feeling in the sole of tbe foot.—Vio- lent burning in all the toes. 128.—FRAGARIA VESCA. FRAG.—Common Strawberry.—"Arcbiv," XIII., 1. It is recommended for taenia, and is said to bring on nettle-rash. GALVANISM (See Imponderabilia.) 28* 42 658 GENTIANA CRUCIATA. 129.—GENTIANA CRUCIATA. GENT. CRUC—Cross-Wort Gentian.—See " Oesterr. Zeitschrift," III CLINICAL REMARKS.—Dr. Watzke recommends Gentiana- cruciata for the following affections: 1. Gastric derangement with- out fever: a. Pressure, feeling of repletion (flat, burning sensation?) in the stomach, empty eructations, with dullness of the head, pres- sure in the forehead, transitory attacks of vertigo, with either slight or undisturbed appetite; b. Tightness, repletion, distention of the abdomen, sensation of pressure in the pit of the stomach from with- out inwards, with great uneasiness, oppression, heavy and accelerated breathing; c. Sour eructations, gulping up of a sour fluid, loathing, nausea, inclination to vomit, watery sour vomiting, slimy painless diarrhoeic stool preceded by derangement of the stomach; d. Sensi- tiveness, pinching, feeling of repletion in the umbilical region, searching flatulence in the bowels, like colic, after a meal, worse when standing and walking, relieved by sitting and lying, obliging one to bend forward. 2. Congestive chronic affections of the mucous membrane of the throat.—Scraping and roughness of the throat, obliging one to hawk up mucus which is tenacious and adhering, attended with uniform redness of the velum-palati, uvula, pharynx, tonsils, shootings in the tonsils, constriction of the throat, difficult deglutition, increased ptya- lism, hoarseness, loss of voice. 3. Cephalalgia.—Constrictive sensation in the head, sensitiveness of the brain and outer parts of the head, tension, jerking, pressure in the vertex (increased by thinking, motion, and exertions of the arms), with pressure and stitches in the temples, gauze before the eyes, drawing in the nape of the neck and mastoid process, pulsations of the carotids, and ill-humor. 4. Menstrual irregularities.—Premature menses, with sensation of distention and contraction in the abdomen, tightness in the region of the liver, depression of spirits, whining mood, distensive pain in ithe bead, preventing sleep and aggravated by movement. Schwarz's femoral protrusion is too isolated a phenomenon to allow us to consider it as an indication of the curative virtues of Gent, in femoral hernia. If the remedy be truly homoeopathic to the disease, a few drops of the tincture may be the appropriate dose in some cases, in others a few pellets of the first, third, ninth, twelfth (and probably of a mucb higher potency) may be found sufficient. GENTIANA LUTETIA. 659 130.—GENTIANA LUTETIA. GENT. LUT.—Gentiana Lutea.—See " Hygea." GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—General weariness and languor.— Drowsiness, without being able to sleep.—Shuddering like electric shocks. Accelerated pulse. Ill-humor. Head.—Dullness and heaviness of the head when writing, with tension and pressure in the forehead. Confusion and heat of the head and cheeks. Cloudiness as after taking spirituous drinks. Feeling of giddiness in the head. Empty and confused feeling in the head, with dull pressure in the forehead.—Pressure in the occiput. Eyes.—Frequent pressure in the eyes. Pain and sensitiveness of the eyes, followed by stinging in the upper lid.—Redness of the conjunctiva.—Obscuration of sight. Mouth and Gastric Symptoms.—Mouth and throat are dry. Roughness of the throat.—Sour eructations, with hiccough.—Nausea. almost unto vomiting. Inclination to vomit, with malaise, yawn- ing, and vertigo, or with lachrymation. Stomach.—Pressure at the stomach, with anxiety, or tension, or with nausea and inclination to vomit.—Heaviness and pressure in the stomach, with anguish and full, heavy breathing.—Constrictive sen- sation in the stomach. Abdomen.—Colic, with pressure in the region of the stomach and urging to stool. Painfulness of the whole abdomen, with tension in the hypogastrium. Sensitiveness qf the umbdical region to contact, with aching pain. Pressure in the umbilical region, with tension.— Cutting in the abdomen, with heat and hurried breathing.—Seated drawing pain in the umbilical region, with heaviness and fullness of the head.—Distention of the abdomen, with heaviness and fullness, or with sensitiveness to contact. Stool, &c.—Pressure at the anus during the urging.—Bilious diarrhoea. Larynx and Chest.—Roughness of the voice.—Crampy feeling in the chest. Fullness in the chest, with pressure and difficulty of breathing. Arms and Legs.—Arthritic drawing and tension in the hand, with inflammatory redness of the finger-joints, pressure and heaviness in tbe small of the back.—Tingling in the knees. 660 ginseng. 131.—GINSENG. GINS.—See " Bibliotheque de Geneve" (Premiere Serie). Antidote.—Camph. ? GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Painful languor of the upper and lower extremities. Coldness, trembling, and numbness of the hands, with deadness of the fingers.—Drowsiness.—Difficult waking, or wak- ing with a start as in affright.—Febrile motion, malaise with drowsi- ness, internal chilliness with external heat, tingling in the fingers, yawning and stretching, chilliness with shaking, thirst, dry mouth, drawing in the region of the stomach, weakness of the thighs and legs as after a severo illness. Great sensitiveness to cold and disposition to pains as if bruised. Head.—Vertigo. Cloudiness. Difficulty of thinking. Forgetful- ness.—Sensitiveness of the scalp. Darting from the right side of the forehead to the orbit, with heaviness of the eye-lid, unconquer- able drowsiness, heat in the head, pressure in the temples. Eyes.—Falling of the upper lids, which are heavy and painful.— Diplopia on looking at objects sharply. Face.—Alternate redness and paleness.—Burning erythematous redness. Gastric Symptoms.—The tongue is red and burning, then white in the middle.—Nausea and inclination to vomit, with eructations afford- ing relief. Stomach.—Pressure and distention of the stomach, with feeling of distention in the abdomen.—Painful drawing in the region of the stomach, as if from hunger, preceded by chilliness, with painful stitches in the region of the heart, violent wandering pains in the abdomen, distention of the stomach, with beating, anguish, inclination to vomit, and pains in the region of the heart.—Contractive pain in the stomach, with anguish, oppression of breathing, drawing in the stomach, and stitches in the right side which arrest the breathing. Abdomen.—Pain in the right lower side of the abdomen, extending info the groin.—Pains in the hypogastrium, with violent pressure in the groin.—Colic, extending into the stomach, with pressure and pain when pressing on the parts.—Pains in the abdomen as if compressed. Distended, painful abdomen, with bruised feeling in the small of the back. Stool and Urine.—Hard stool, with subsequent burning at the anus, tenesmus, and stitches of the rectum. Liquid stools in the evening, preceded by colic.—Frequent desire to urinate, with smart GRANATUM. 861 ing burning and itching in the urethra.—Yellow urine, with brick- dust sediment. Chest.—Oppression of the chest, with stitches in the pit of the stomach and in the region of the kidneys, languor. Back.—Lancinations between the scapulae. Heaviness in the nape of the nesk and pain as if bruised along the back. Legs.—Heaviness of the lower limbs, with pain 132—GRANATUM. GRAN.—Punica Granatum. Bark from the Root of the Pomegranate Tree.—See "Hygea,»X. Dr. Gray.—" The Granatum has, in my hands, proved very ser- viceable in a few cases of cramp-like pains, high up in the abdomen, coming in paroxysms a few minutes apart, and attended by morbid hunger, prostration of strength, and abortive tendency to stool. The cases were all of children ; one of them a retrocession of the mumps, affecting the digestive organs as above." GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—°Poisoning by Arsenic. ? ? °Fainting spells. ? ? °Suppuration of the internal organs, particularly the liver. ? ? Extreme languor and prostration, with burning heat of the hands. Trembling of the limbs. Flabbiness of the muscles, espe- cially those of the lower limbs. Emaciation.—°External inflammatory swellings. ? ? ° Ulcers. ? ? ° Chilblains. ? ?—Spasmodic yawning. Restless sleep.—Feverish shiverings of single parts, with semilateral headache. Dry, burning heat over the whole body, with disposition to uncover himself. The heat generally sets in in the evening; the chilliness and shuddering in the morning. °Tertian fever. ? ? °Gas- tric fevers. ? ? °Bilious fevers. ? °Typhus fever. ? ?—Sensitive. Irritable and arrogant. Quarrelsome. Hypochondria. Melancholy, want of cheerfulness, lowness of spirits, discouragement. Head.— Vertigo, with obscuration of sight, nausea, and pain at the stomach.—Empty feeling in the head. Stupefying pain and painful heaviness in the forehead. Lacerating in the right side of the head. Eyes.—Sunken eyes. Itching and burning smarting in the canthi. Inflammation of the eyes as in catarrh. °Specks on the cornea. ? ? °Blear-eyedness. ? ? Dilatation of the pupils. Weakness of sight. Ears and Nose.—Dragging lacerating and stinging in the ears. ^Ulceration of tbe ears. ? ? Tingling itching in the nose. Burning heat and dryness in the nostrils, or else accumulation of tenacious mucus. Alternation of fluent and dry coryza. °Nose bleeds. ?? 662 GRANATUM. Face.—Yellow, livid complexion. Corrosive itching of tht cneeks. Swelling of the cheek, with livid color, burning heat, tightness, and tingling as in frozen parts. Crampy feeling and lacerating in the malar bones and in the region of the root of the nose.—Dry and burning lips. Teeth and Jaws.—Lacerating, tension, and crampy sensation in the articulation of the jaws, with cracking while chewing.—Stinging in the teeth, even at night while in bed. Sensation as if the teeth were elongated.—°The gums stand off from the teeth and bleed readily.— °Loose teeth. I ? Mouth and Throat.—Ptyalism. °Ulcers in the mouth. ? ? °Sto- macace. ? ?.—Contractive sensation in different parts of the throat. °Serous and catarrhal sore throat. ? ? °Inflammation and suppuration of the tonsils. ?.? Gastric Symptoms.—Frequent eructations and nausea, with lan- guor, pain in the stomach and abdomen, frequent ineffectual urging, chilliness, wretched look, and ill-humor. Vomiting, sometimes at- tended with languor, trembling, sweat, and vertigo. Stomach and Abdomen.—Cramps in the stomach, before breakfast, Pressure,, fullness, burning, and anguish in the pit of the stomach.— Frequent colic, sometimes constant, or with nausea, ptyalism, chilli- ness, vertigo. Colic after every meal, or before breakfast.—Pinching, sticking, and turning around the umbilicus, and in the stomach. 0Taenia. ??—Anxiety in the abdomen. Painful distention in the ab- domen, with canine hunger. Flatulence.—Swelling resembling um bilical hernia.—Painful pressure in the groin, and swelling as if inguinul Jternia would set in. Stool and Anus.—Copious,, dark-colored stools.—Tenesmus.— Frequent diarrhceic stools, °Dysenteric diarrhoea. ? ? °Cholera. ? ? The diarrhoeic stools are preceded by nausea and fermentation. The stools are accompanied with burning heat in the face and pressure on the rectum.—Itching and intolerable tingling in the rectum. Prolapsus of the rectum during stool. Urine and Genital Organs.—Cutting, stinging, and gnawing in the urethra. Inflammation and swelling of the urethra. Mucous discharge like gonorrhoea, with burning drawing in the penis, extend- ing to the glans.—Increased sexual desire.—The menses are too short and too profuse, with cvllc and pressing from the small of the back to the groin. Yellowish Leucorrhaza. °Prolapsus of the vagina. ? ? °Prolapsus of the uterus. 11 Chest.—° Catarrh. ?? ° Hoarseness. ? ? °Cough with coryza.?? °Haemoptysis. ??—Feeling of anguish, with sighing, in the chest.— GRAPHITES. 663 Rheumatic drawing and sticking in the diaphragm. Tension and crampy feeling in the sides. Stitches in the chest, particularly during motion.—°Pleuritis. ? ?—Palpitation of the heart, on the slightest motion. Pains and spasmodic contraction of the muscles on the outer parts of the chest. Back, Arms, and Legs.—Pains in the small of the back and shoulders, as if bruised and weary.—Lameness, tingling, drawing. and rheumatic pains in the arms, with difficulty of raising the parts. Painful lame stiffness of the fingers. Pain in the knee and ankle joints. 133.—GRAPHITES. GRAPH.—Black Lead.—See Hahnemann's "Chronic Diseases," III.—Duration of Action: about fifty days. Compare with—Aeon., Agar., Ambr., Ammon , Ars., Asar., Bell., Bry., Calad., Calc, Carb.-v., Cham., Chin., Con.-m., Guai., Hep., Hyosc., Kali, Lye,Magn., Magn.-mur., Merc, Nitr.-ac, Nux-v., Phosph., Puis., Rhus., Sabin., Selen., Sep., Sil., Sulph.—Graph, is frequently suitable after Lye. Antidotes.—Ars., Nux-v., Vinum.—Graph, antidotes Ars. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—°Arthritic pains, with nodosities.— °Scrofulous affections.—Occasional momentary pain in various places which are then sore to the touch.—° Cramp-like sensations, afterwards these parts swell for a couple of days, become red, hard, and are sen- sitive when touched. °Stiffness of the joints of the arms and of the knees, with liability to become strained.—Stiffness of the limbs. ♦Rigidity, here and there, as from muscular contraction. ♦Cramp and contraotion of single parts. ^Painful drawing tension of the whole body, both when at rest and in motion, especially about the arms and trunk. ^Drawing in the whole body, as in intermittent fevers, early in the morning after rising. Pain in the periosteum of all the bones, it is an aching rather than a drawing pain, and is momentary, at times in one, at times in another place, when at rest, especially when falling asleep. Violent twitchings in all the limbs, at times in one, at times in another, also in the shoulder and scrotum. —Pain, as from bruises, in the limbs. Weary pain of the joints, when sleeping and sitting down.—*The arms and lower limbs go to sleep, -particularly when sitting, with tingling in those limbs when walking, in the evening. °Nightly pains, with are felt even during sleep. When walking in the open air the eyes begin to run and close, as from drowsiness. Weariness, even unto falling, during and after a walk in the open air, with retching and nausea. *Dread qf the open air, early in the morning. Sensitiveness to every draught 664 GRAPHITES. of air, with hoarseness, chilliness, dryness of the nose, and anxious- ness in the evening. °Pains when the weather changes. ^Liability to take cold, he has to avoid a draft of air. Liability to take cold, and consequent headache. Violent pulsations in the whole body, especially about the heart, increased by every motion.—Tremulom sensation through the whole body. Tremor and slight twitchings about the head, neck, and right arm.—Shocks through the whole body, occasionally, as if caused by fright, or by some electric shock, when at rest and in motion.— Twitchings of the limbs, in the evening, or inclination to twitch, almost every day. Frequent startings of hands and feet.—Weight in all the limbs, with sad mood. Weary and un- oomfortable, but the head is light.— Weakness qf all the limbs.— Depression of strength in the whole body, as if owing to a cold.— Great weakness, especially of the limbs, which he is scarcely able to drag along. Sudden failing of strength. ^Emaciation (°particularly after using Lycop. first). Sensation as of fainting. Paralytic sensa- tion in all the joints. Characteristic Peculiarities.—The symptoms pass off when walking in the open air. The pains appear again ih the beginning of a walk. SKIN.—°Chronic dryness of the skin.—Itching of the back and arms. Itching pimples full of acrid water. Small, red, itching pimples.—Spots, like flea-bites.—Smarting pain in the limbs covered with herpes.—* Unhealthy skin, every little injury produces suppura- tion. A number qf small boils on the neck, back, and arms. Un- healthy ulcer. Proud flesh in the ulcers. Sleep.—Excessively tired and drowsy. ♦Sleeplessness. Uneasy nights, with heat in the whole body. ^Frequent waking, at night. —♦Frequent startings when asleep. Sleep disturbed by dreams ♦ Vivid, anxious dreams.—♦Anxious dreams which arrest her breath ^Frightful dreams.—^Fanciful ravings at night. ♦Anxiousness at night. Restlessness at night, with anxious warmth and anxious dreams.—Bleeding from the nose at night.—Toothache at night.— Inclination to vomit at night, with weakness bordering on fainting. Water-brash at night. Fever.—Chilliness and drawing pain in the limbs, at night. Chilli- ness, early when in bed. Slight chills, for several days, previous to dinner. Sudden chilliness over the whole body. Cold hands and feet. Violent fever; he was unable to get warm, even when lying in a warmed bed. Violent thirst the whole evening and night, head- ache in the evening during the chilliness, accompanied by lacerating in all the limbs, and a coated tongue. Feverish shuddering, in the GRAPHITES. 665 evening, with painful stitches in the temples.—Violent feverish chills morning and evening, followed by heat and sweat.—Intermittent fever, every day, shaking chills in the evening, in an hour after, heat in the face and cold feet, without subsequent sweat.—^Night-sweat. Fetid exhalation from the body. Sour smelling sweat. Moral Symptoms.—Dejection of spirits, sad mood. Grief about the smallest things, even unto despair. Sadness, with thoughts of death. Oppression qfthe mind, °in the morning. Oppression of the mind and anguish, with malaise about tbe stomach. Anguish, with headache, vertigo, and loss of cheerfulness. °Anxiety during a seden- tary occupation. Extreme scrupulousness. Great tendency to start. Irritable, vehement. Irritable and restless. * Out of humor. *Very much vexed and wrathful. Want of disposition to work. Sensorium.—Absence qf mind. Continued forgetfulness.—Vio- lent painful dulhiess of the head, early in the morning, with nausea and sour vomiting. Gloominess of the forehead, with a contractive sensation. Feeling of intoxication in the head. °Wildness and con- fusion of the head. Staggering and disposition to vertigo, with loss of consciousness, shuddering, and chilliness. Head.—Headache, early in the morning on waking. Semilateral headache, early in the morning, in bed, with inclination to vomit. Violent headache, early in the morning, on waking, with vomiting, diarrhoea and icy-cold sweat even unto fainting.—Headache when moving the head. Headache during and after a meal.—Pain in the head, as if the head were numb and pithy. Pain, as from bruises in the head, with a general sick feeling in tbe evening. Pain in the fore part of the head, as if rent asunder, from morning until noon.— Oppressive headache. Dull pressure in the forehead, worse after motion. Oppressive headache in the top of the head. Aching in the occiput.—Violent, tight headache, on waking from sleep, over the whole surface of the brain.—Drawing pain in the forehead, with pain in the nape of the neck, as if stiff.—Seething of the blood and feeling of heat in the head. Seething in the head, with compressive pain in the vertex, in the afternoon.—Throbbing in the forehead. Feeling of looseness of the whole brain. Disagreeable warmth in the whole of the head. *Burning on the top of the head. Roaring in the head. °Humming in the head. Weakness of the head, as far as the neck. —Coldness and spasmodic contraction of the scalp. ^Lacerating about the head, of a rheumatic nature, particularly on one side, ex- tending to the teeth and cervical glands.—°Sweat about the head during a walk in the open air.—^Itching qfthe hairy scalp. ♦A number vf scabs on the head. *Humid eruption on the top of the head, it is 666 GRAPHITES. painful to the touch. Scurfy spots on the head. Single hairs turn gray. *Falling off of the hair qfthe head, °even on the sides of the head. Eyes.—Pain in the eyes, when opening them. °Pressure in the lids as from sand. ^Pressure in the right eye-brow, extending through the whole eye. Heaviness of the eye-lids. Paralytic pain of the eye-lids. ♦Violent stitch through the right eye. Smarting in the eyes, with heat in them.—Coldness over the eyes. Violent burning of the eyes. Burning and running of the eyes in the open air. ♦Redness qfthe whites qfthe eyes, with lachrymation and photo- phobia, °also with swelling and profuse secretion of gum. Redness and painful inflammation of the lower eye-lid and internal canthus. Redness and inflammation of the eyes, with aching and a drawing pain. Inflamed margins of the eye-lids. Swelling qf the eye-lids and the lachrymal gland. Suppuration of the eyes, with pressure in them and a drawing pain extending up into the head. Weakness and reddish appearance of the eyes. ^Frequent lachrymation of the eyes, and pressure in them with stinging. Agglutination of the eyes, early in the morning. Short-sightedness. ♦Intolerance qf light. *The light dazzles his eyes. Ears.—Painful pressure in the internal ear, like a painful drag- ging. Feeling of tightness about the ear. Stitches in the ears. Ulcerative pain in the left ear. Pulsative throbbing in the ears. Feeling in the ear as if it were filled with water. °Dryness of the inner ear. Red, hot ears. Swelling of the interior of the left ear. Swelling of the right parotid gland.—Itching behind the ears. ^Herpes behind the ears. Hard tubercle behind the right ear. °The herpetic formations behind the ears scale off. Moisture and sore places behind both ears. Bloody discharge from the ear. °Discharge of pus from the ears. °Bad smell from the ears. °Hard- ness of hearing. ^Tingling, afterwards humming in the ears. *Roar- ing in the head, afterwards detonation in the ears, followed by an im- provement of hearing. Nightly violent roaring in the ears, with occasional obstruction. ^Pealing as of thunder. ♦Hissing in the ear. ^Detonation and report as of a gun, in the ear, when swallowing. Nose.—The inside of the nose is painful. Tight feeling in the nose. Sore feeling in the nose, when blowing it. Black sweaty pores on the nose Painful scabs in the nose. °Swelling of the nose. °Dry scurfs in the nose. °Sore, cracked, ulcerated nostrils.—Ex- pulsion of bloody mucus from the nose. Bleeding at the nose, with palpitation of the heart. °Smell, at night, as qf burnt hair mixed with the vapor of sulphur. ♦Smell in the nose, early in the morning, GRAPHITES. 667 as of burning soot.—Sneezing ♦Obstruction of the nose. ♦Coryza, with sneezing and dullness in the head. *Dry coryza, with dullness of the head, oppression of the chest, heat in the fore part of the head and face. Violent dry coryza, with great nausea and headache with- out vomiting. Coryza, with headache and alternation of chilliness and heat. Fluent coryza, with catarrh and frequent sneezing, with an aching in the submaxillary gland. Face.—Paleness qf the face. Yellowness of the face, with weak eyes. ° Flushes qf heat in the face.—^Erysipelas on both sides qfthe face, burning and stinging ^Incipient paralysis of the left side of the face, after toothache.—Muscles of the face distorted.—Continual feeling as of cobweb in the face. Pain in all the bones of the face. Lacerating in the malar bones. Lipomatous swelling on the cheek. °Freckles. °Eruption in the face, as if the skin were raw.—°Falling off of the whiskers. °Ulcers on the inner surface of the lips.—Erup- tions on the lip.—^Ulcerated corner of the mouth. ♦The chin is covered with eruptions, °also scurfy, around the mouth and on the cheek. Jaws and Teeth.—Aching in the submaxillary glands. Swelling of the submaxillary glands, with pain to the touch and stiffness of the throat. Swelling of the parotid gland, with a tight pain. Toothache, ^especially at night, with heat in the face, or in the evening, accom- panied by a sore pain in the palate and swelling of the cheeks. Pain- ful dartings in the teeth. Sore pain of the teeth during a meal, in- creasing after it. Aching of the teeth, aggravated by contact.— Drawing toothache.—Lacerating pain in all the teeth, made worse by warmth.—♦Stinging toothache.~Gna.wmg in the sockets.—Burning toothache, as if owing to looseness of the teeth, aggravated by masti- cating.—Pain in the lower teeth, as if they were loose, when masticat- ing.— Sore pain qfthe gums.—Ulcerated pain of tbe gums.—Itching corrosion in the gums. ^Swelling of the gums and dryness in the mouth. Mouth.—Bad smell from the mouth.— White tongue.—Burning vesicles on the lower surface and on the tip of the tongue. Painful tubercles and vesicles on the back part of the tongue. Throat.—°Sore throat during deglutition.—Sore throat, as if from swelling of the glands. ^Sensation in the throat, when swallowing, as if a plug had lodged in it. Spasm in the throat, with nausea. Intolerable scraping and rawness of the throat. Roughness and raw soreness of the throat.—Stitches in the throat, between the acts of deglutition.—Swelling of the tonsils, with pain when swallowing.— Spitting of blood, with great sensitiveness of the palate and tongue. 668 GRAPHITES. Taste and Appetite.—Bitter taste in the mouth, the tongue being much coated. Acidity in the stomach, with canine hunger. °Canine hunger, after eating, nausea and vertigo. °Little appetite for warm food. Loathing of food. Unusual thirst. Gastric Symptoms.—Headache during and after a meal. Empty and confused condition of the head after a meal. Rancid heartburn after a meal. Sudden and violent gripings after a meal. Shortly after a meal, burning in the stomach.—Somnolence after dinner.— Continual eructations, with nausea. Sour regurgitation of food.— Heartburn. Rancid heartburn. Hiccough. Great qualmishness and nausea ♦Nausea for several hours. Violent nausea, with in- clination to vomit and tolerable appetite. Water-brash. Vomiting with nausea and colic, the whole day, without diarrhoea. * Vomiting of all the ingesta, with nausea, °also chronic. °Sour vomiting. Stomach.—Pain in the stomach, like canine hunger.—Pain in the stomach, with oppression of the chest and anguish.—^Pressure in the stomach.—Griping in the stomach, with nausea. °Contractive pain in the stomach. Cold feeling and feeling of great emptiness in the stomach. Burning in the stomach, afterwards heat in the whole body, and then sweat. Hypochondria.—Tightness as from a firm band in tbe hypochon- dria, with oppression of the chest.—Stitches in both hypochondria. Intensely painful stitches in the region of the liver. Aching in the region of the spleen. Abdomen.—Pain in the right side of the abdomen. Violent colic, early in the morning, a few seconds, afterwards diarrhoea. Weight in the abdomen, with bearing down. Fullness and heaviness of the abdomen. ^Fullness and hardness qfthe abdomen, with a feeling as of incarcerated flatulence, especially in the evening and night. In- flation of the abdomen, with congestion of blood to the head, heaviness in the head, vertigo, and drowsy dizziness. ^Distended abdomen, with diarrhoea.—Jerking gripings in the abdomen.—Spasmodic colic at night.—Cramp-pain in the intestines. Pinching in the abdomen, especially in the region of the ccecum.—Spasmodic stitches in the abdomen. Drawing colic, at night, with urgent desire for stool, but without diarrhoea.—Twitchings in the abdomen. Grinding (digging) pain in the abdomen.—Qualmishness in the abdomen. Burning and cutting in the abdomen.—♦Violent pains in the right groin, -a burn- ing and bearing down. Swelling of the inguinal glands. Flatulence with gripings in the stomach. Inflation, uneasiness, and pinching in the abdomen, after stool.—Erysipelatous inflammation, with large resides near tbe umbilicus. GRAPHITES. 669 Stool.—*Stool frequentlyintermitting. Inaction of the rectum Hard stool, with much tenesmus and stitches in the rectum. Hard, knotty stool. Knotty stool, the lumps being united by mucous threads. Stool of ilie size of alumbricus. * Constipation. °Diarrhoea. Diar- rhoea, almost without any colic. Diarrhoea, with burning at the rectum. Mucous diarrhoea. *A quantity of white mucus is expelled with the stool. Reddish mucus is expelled with the stool. Sour smelling stool, with burning at the rectum.—Blood is discharged with the soft stool.—Lumbrici are expelled with the stool. Dis- charge of ascarides, with itching of the rectum.—Tenesmus during stool. Burning at the rectum during stool. Violent bearing down in the rectum, as in haemorrhoids. Bearing down and burning in the rectum and anus. Sticking pain in the rectum, as if it had become indurated.—Itching of the anus. Smarting sore feeling of the anus, when wiping it. Swelling of the anus. ♦Varices of the rectum, causing a burning sensation. °The varices feel sore after an evacuation. Painful burning cracks (rbagades) between the varices. —Discharge of blood from the rectum. Prolapsus-recti. Urine.—Anxious pressure on the bladder, at night, with cutting in the abdomen. Sudden desire to urinate, but scanty emission. Frequent micturition. *Nightly desire to urinate. Wetting the bed at night. Acrid, sourish smell of the urine. The urine becomes very turbid, with a reddish sediment. Micturition is preceded by a cut- ting pressing from both kidneys. Genital Organs.—Tension and disagreeable feeling about the geni- tal organs. Cramp-pain in the penis. Eruptions on the penis. Draw- ing pain in the glans. Swelling of the prepuce. Drawing sensation in both testes.—Swelling in the scrotum. Voluptuous irritation of the genital organs.—♦Increase or decrease of the sexual instinct.— Violent erection. Pollution almost every night. °Almost involun- tary emission of semen, during an embrace. Female Genital Organs.—Painful bearing down towards the genital organs. Smarting in the vagina. Pimples on the labia, somewhat itching. *Soreness of the pudendum. The left ovarium swells and is painful. *The menses delay. ^Suppression of the menses, with weight in the arms and lower limbs. The menses appear too soon. °The menses are too scanty and pale. Violent itching in the genital organs. Aching in the abdomen, with feeling of heat in this part, a few days previous to, and during the menses. Cough, previous to, and during the menses, fatiguing the chest. Violent headache during the menses, with eructations and nausea. Morning eickness during the menses, with weakness and trembling in the day- 670 GRAPHITES. time. Pain in the abdomen and back during the menses, bearing down and pressing, resembling labor-pains. *Soreness between the limbs, near the pudendum, during the menses. Hoarseness, violent coryza, and catarrhal fever during the menses. Swelling of the feet, and painless swelling of the cheeks. *Leucorrhoea. ^Profuse leu- corrhaza. Profuse discharge of white mucus from the vagina. Pro- fuse leucorrhoea, with weakness in the back and small of the back, when walking or sitting. Thin leucorrhoea, with distended abdomen. Larynx.—Catarrhal roughness and hoarseness of the chest and trachea. Catarrh and coryza, accompanied with a feeling of exhaus- tion and headache, and a tickling roughness exciting a cough. Raw- ness of the chest. ^Scraping of the trachea. ♦Rough throat. Fre- quent tickling in the throat, causing a short cough. Chest.—Cough fatiguing the chest, with pains deep in the chest. Dry and hacking cough wakes him at night. Oppressed breathing, owing to an oppressed condition of the chest. ♦Asthma in the even- ing when lying in bed, cough is excited by a deep inspiration. Sudden asthma, with difficult, short breathing. Violent asthma, as if she would suffocate, when walking in the open air. ^Oppression qf the chest. Pressure in the region of the heart when breathing. Pressure in the chest.—Pleuritic stitches at every trifling motion. Stitches in the region of the heart. Violent throbbing about the heart and in the rest of the body, at every little motion. Violent pulsations of the heart, causing the arm and hand to move. Violent palpitation of the heart, resembling an electric shock, from the heart to the neck. Burning and tight feeling in the outer and middle part of the chest during an inspiration. Back.— Violent pains in the small of the back. *Pain, as from bruises, in the small of the back, especially when touching the part. —Pressure in the small of the back. Violent griping and turning in the small of the back, succeeded by pains in the arms and feet. Vio- lent drawing in the back. ♦Contractive pain between the shoulders. Rheumatic pain in the scapula. Formication in the back.—* Violent pains and stiffness in the nape qf the neck. A number of tumors about the neck. Swelling of the glands on one side of the neck. Arms.—Pain of the axillae. Rheumatic pain in the left shoulder. Lacerating in the shoulder-joint, when moving the arm.—Stitches in the elbow and shoulder-joints.—Burning in the shoulder-joints.— Drawing in the arm.—Sore feeling in the upper arm—Pain in the bend of the elbow. Paralytic pressure in the elbow-joint.—Gnaw- ing pain in the bones of the fore-arm. °Cramp in the hands.— Lacerating in the hands, like rheumatism. Pain, as from a sprain, GRATIOLA OFFICINALIS. 671 in the wrist-joint.—Emaciation of the hand.—Erysipelas of the hands. °Bunnions in the hands.—°Pain as if sprained in the joint of the thumb.—Arthritic nodosities on the fingers.—Miliary eruptions on the fingers. °Herpetic soreness between the fingers. Legs.—^Soreness between the thighs, -during and after a walk. Painful soreness between the thighs, near the pudendum.—Arthritic lacerating in the hips. Rheumatic pain in the lower limbs. *Great uneasiness in one qfthe lower limbs. Heaviness of the lower limbs. Deadness of the lower limbs.—Drawing pain in the thighs, apparently in the bone. ° Numbness and stiffness qfthe thighs, also of the toes. —Pain, as from bruises, in the thighs. Numb and hot feeling in the thigh. Stinging itching of the thighs.—Tension in the bends of the knee. Painful stiffness of the knees, when bending them. Drawing pain in the knees. Pain, as from bruises, in the knee, at night. °Rigidity of the knees.—°Herpes in the bend of the knee.—When walking, the legs feel tense, with pain as from bruises. Drawing, lacerating, or cramp-pain in the legs.—Swelling of the leg. Great weight of the legs. °Herpes on the tibia. ° Ulcers on the leg.—The malleoli are painful to the touch.—Arthritic lacerating in the feet and toes. ♦Violent stitches in the heels, °when stepping. Pain in the heel, as from subcutaneous ulceration. Ulcerative pain in the soles of the feet. ♦Burning of the feet. ^Swelling qfthe sore foot.—*Cold feet. Lacerating in the toes, also arthritic lacerating. ^Swelling of the toes. *Soreness between the toes, with violent itching.—°Spread- ing blister on the toes. ° Ulcer on the fourth toe. ^Ulceration on the borders of the big toes. °Horny skin on the toes. °The nails are thick and crippled. 134.—GRATIOLA OFFICINALIS. GRAT.—Hedge Hyssop.—Hartlaub and Trink's "Annals," II., "Archiv," XVIL Compare with—Bell., Dig., Euph., Nux-v. Antidote.—Grat. antidotes Iod. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Prickling in various parts of the body, particularly the lower limbs.— Tetanic condition, without loss of consciousness, while lying down after a meal, with subsequent deep sleep with emission of semen, and bruised feeling of the body, back, and left arm, on waking.—Excitation, with sleeplessness, sweat, and desire to urinate.—Great languor and prostration. Physical and mental depression.—Bruised feeling, with confusion of the head, after rising in the morning.—Weariness in the armt. and lower limbs, during emotion.—°Hysteric and hypochondriac complaints. 672 GRATIOLA OFFICINALIS. Characteristic Peculiarities.—The majority of the pains come on at night and in a sitting posture, or on rising from a scat; they • are relieved by contact.—The symptoms are worse after a meal and in the afternoon. Skin.—Itching, with burning after scratching. Itch-like pustules or herpes. Small boils. °Humid eruptions.? Sleep.—Irresistible drowsiness, with involuntary closing of the eyes.—Deep night-sleep, like stupor, with dizziness and dullness on waking.—Sleep full of dreams. Fever.— Chilliness, even in a warm room. Shuddering, with * shaking and loathing during dinner. Mounting qf heat to the face, with redness of the face and increase of external warmth.—Pulse small, intermittent. Moral Symptoms.—Sadness.—Anxiety and heat throughout the whole body, with languor, going off in the open air.—Great ill-humor. —Serious, taciturn, absorbed in revery.—Irresolute, want qf perseve- rance. Sensorium.—Dullness qfthe head, with bewilderment.—Intoxicated feeling of the head during and after a meal.— Vertigo.—Violent congestion of blood to the head, with beating in the forehead, which soon increases to vertigo, with obscuration of sight. Head.—Violent headache, with loathing and inclination to vomit. Headache when sitting, with vibrations in the head depriving her of hearing and sight.—Pressure in the forehead, with vertigo. Pres- sure in the head, the whole day, with heat in tbe face and languid feeling in the arms and legs.—Feeling of fullness in the head. Sen- sation as if the brain contracted.—Severe lacerating pain in the head. Beating in the forehead, particularly in the afternoon.—Seething of the blood and a sort of cloudiness of the whole brain.—Violent heat in the head, with languor of the whole body.—Heat in the head, with redness of the face, and going off in the open air.—The head is very sensitive to cold.—Itching qfthe hairy scalp.—Burning stinging on the vertex. Eyes.—Pressure in the eyes, with inflammation of the conjunctiva. Lacerating in the eyes, with secretion of pus of the lids and canthi. —Itching of the eye-lashes.—Dryness of the eyes, with sensation as of sand in the eyes.—Lachrymation when reading, with feeling of weakness of the eyes.—Mist before the eyes.—Obscuration of sight when reading or looking at bright things.—Short-sightedness, with burning heat in the face. Ears—Lacerating or sticking in the left ear. Itching qf tht ears. GRATIOLA OFFICINALIS. 673 Nose.—Pressure at the upper part of the nose.—Sneezing after a meal, with dartings in the hypochondrium. Face.—Burning heat in the face, it feels cold to the hand. *Burn- ing qfthe face like fire, -after a meal, with redness and warmth, per- ceptible to the hand. Tingling burning in the malar bones, or cheeks, with feeling as if the parts were swollen. Tight feeling in the face as if swollen. Teeth.—Drawing in the upper incisores. Lacerating in the molares, going off by pressure. Mouth.—Ptyalism.—Dryness, roughness, and burning of the palate.—Fetid breath on waking. Throat.—Pain in the throat as if it would become sore.—Stinging in the throat, during and between the acts of deglutition. Scraping in the throat, or in the oesophagus, with acidity. Feeling qf rough. ness, with hoarseness and hacking cough. Appetite and Taste.—Bitter taste, with inclination to vomit Aversion to food, with good taste. Violent thirst. Gastric Symptoms.—Hiccough.—Frequent eructations, also fast. tng qfthe ingesta. Violent rancid eructations after breakfast. Bitter eructations. Regurgitation of food.—Aversion to food, with shud- dering and nausea.—Nausea, with inclination to vomit.—Vomiting of bitter water, or of a yellowish substance. Stomach.—Pain in the stomach, with nausea and general malaise Sensitiveness of the stomach to the touch. ^Pressure in the stomach after every meal, with nausea, disappearing after an eructation.— Feeling of heaviness in the stomach.—Contractive pain, as if proceed- ing from the abdomen.—Empty or cold feeling, in the stomach, witl previous warmth.—Gnawing, as from hunger, after eating.—Cutting in the epigastrium. Hypochondria.—Beating, burning pain in the left hypochondrium Abdomen.—Pain in the abdomen, with nausea. Violent pinching in the abdomen after a meal. Violent cutting in the abdomen. Gnawing in the umbilical region as of worms. Tingling in the hy- pogastrium and around the umbilicus.—Cold feeling in the abdomen —Colic, as after diarrhoea, with rumbling.—Rumbling, with nausea, eructations, and vertigo. Stool and Anus.—Frequent urging to stool, with dullness of the head, pinching, drawing, and rumbling in the abdomen.—Costiveness —Hard stool, followed by tenesmus of the anus.—Diarrliozic stools watery, preceded by nausea, rumbling in the abdomen, and cutting wound the umbilicus, or with pain as from soreness at the anus. Yellow diarrhoeic stools succeeded bv coldness.—Yellow-green bilious 29 43 674 ouaiacum officinale. stoo!s, succeeded by burning at the anus.—Frequent stools, with burning and protrusion of large stinging-burning tumors.—Passage of faeces without being conscious of it.—Discharge qf a number qf ascarides. In the rectum : soreness, burning during and after stool. —In the anus : stinging ; itching ; smarting ; beating pain.—dis- appearance of a painful varix. Urine.—Scanty urine, reddish, and becoming turbid while stand- ing. Male Genital Organs.—Drawing pain in the glans.—Involun- tary emission, succeeded by a painful erection. Female Genital Organs.—Nymphomania.—Lacerating in the milky breast, with stitches in the region of the right ribs. Larynx and Trachea.—Dry cough, with a raw feeling in the entire trachea.—Cough towards midnight, with oppression of the chest and coldness. Chest.—Oppression of the chest, with increased palpitation of the heart.—Spasmodic sensation, as if the whole chest were constricted. —Heat in the chest, then in the head, with redness of the face and hands.—Strong and quick palpitation of the heart. Violent palpita- tion of the heart, which shakes the whole body, and seems to proceed from the pit of the stomach, particularly violent immediately after stool. Back.—Sticking in the lower vertebrae.—Drawing and lacerating in the right side of the neck, or burning and tension. Arms.—Itching in the axilla. Rheumatic drawing in the shoul- ders and arms, particularly in the elbow and wrist-joint.—Lacerating in the upper arm.—Lacerating in the elbow-joints.—Lacerating in the lower arm, as if in the bone.—Languor in the hands. Lacerating in the wrist-joints, with beating. Legs.—Languor and heaviness of the lower limbs.—Bruised pain in the thighs.—Tension at a small spot of the knee. Lancinating lacerating in the tibia when sitting.—The feet feel weary, as if they would give way. 135.—GUAIACUM OFFICINALE. GUAIAC.—Resin of Guaiacum.—See Hahnemann's " Chronic Diseases " HI.__ Duration of Action: five weeks. Compare with—Graph , Merc, Nux-v. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Burning itching of the skin, in- creased by scratching.—General uncomfortableness of the whole body GUAIACUM OFFICINALE. 675 Exhaustion, as after great exertions, especially in the thighs and arms.—Consumption and hectic fever, in men of a dry constitution. —Laziness and dread of exercise. Characteristic Peculiarities.—The majority of the symptoms occur when sitting, most of them immediately after rising in the morning, or in the evening before going to bed; some from nine to twelve o'clock in the forenoon. Sleep.—Great drowsiness in the afternoon. Sleep full of dreams. Nightmare when lying on the back, waking with screams. Frequent waking from sleep, as if by fright. Fever.—Shuddering and feverish chills in the back. Internal chilliness through the whole body, followed by heat, especially in the face, without thirst, towards evening. Moral Symptoms.—Peevish. Contemptuous mood. Refractory. Disinclination to labor. Weakness of memory. Head.—Headache, at night, like a pressure in the brain from below upwards. Headache across the forehead. Lacerating in the whole left side of the head. Drawing lacerating in the occiput and forehead. Violent lancinations in the brain, from below upwards. Sensation as if the brain were detached and loose. External head- ache. Pulsative throbbing in the outer parts of the head. Eyes.—°Swelling of the eyes.—Sensation of swelling and protru- sion of the eyes.—Dilated pupils.—Amaurosis a few days. Ears.—^Painful dragging and lacerating in the left ear. Face.—The face is red and painfully swollen. Teeth and Jaws.—Dull ache in the left jaw. Toothache. Appetite and Taste.—Want of appetite, ♦and aversion to every- thing. °Aversion to milk—Violent hunger, afternoon and evening Gastric Symptoms.—Empty eructations. Nausea, occasioned by a sensation as if mucus were in the throat.—Violent vomiting of watery mucus, in the morning, with great exertion. Stomach and Abdomen.—Frequently-returning pressure in the pit of the stomach, with difficulty of breathing, oppression of the chest, and anguish. Constrictive sensation in the region of the stomach. with anguish and difficult breathing. Pinching cutting through the abdomen, when taking an inspiration. Stool.—♦Constipation. Soft stool, *in pieces.—Thin, slimy stool after previous pinching in the abdomen. Urine.—Frequent and urging desire to urinate, even directly after an emission of urine. He is obliged to urinate every half-hour; considerable quantity of urine at a time, °which has sometimes a fetid smell. Stitches in the neck qfthe bladder after micturition. 676 GUMMI GUTT1. Genital Organ:*. —Nocturnal emission, without lascivious dreama —Increase of leucorrhoea. Larynx and Chest.—Suddenly attacked with a sensation of ob struction in the chest, in the region of the heart, as if the breathing would be arrested. *Dry cough, returning until some expectoration sets in. °Cough, with expectoration of fetid pus.—♦Stitches in the left side. Back.—Contractive pain between the scapulae. Rheumatic stiff ness in the whole left side of the back. Drawing and lacerating along the right side of the spinal column. Lancinating laceration in the borders of scapulae. Corrosive itching of the back by day.— Aching in the nape of the neck, on the right and left sides of the vertebrae. Arms.—Painful, drawing laceration in the arm.—Feeling of ex- haustion of the upper arms, as after heavy work. Legs.—Exhaustion of the lower limbs. Tension in the thighs. Severe lacerating and drawing pain in the legs.—Pain as from bruisesin the thigh.—Drawing pain in the knee, terminating in a stitch. 136.—GUMMI GUTTI. GUTT.—Gamboge—The following symptoms are taken from an unprinted monograph of the surgeon, Dr. Cajetao Nenning. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Itching and formication in various parts.—Burning. Stinging. Pricking. Burning stinging. La- cerating, particularly in the bones and tendons. Lancinating in the side of the neck.—Drawing.—Tension in the groins.—Compressive pains in the head.—Constrictive or contractive pains (stomach, umbi- licus, foot). Gnawing (stomach, subcostal region, umbilical region, os-ooccygis).—Pain as from soreness (gums, neck, stomach, chest). —Pain as if bruised (head, small of the back).—Beating or throbbing (ear, teeth, stomach).—Congestions of the head, chest, uterus.__ Haemorrhage from the nose, mouth, throat.—Spasmodic conditions of the lower limbs. Characteristic Peculiarities.—The symptoms of the right side predominate.—The majority of the symptoms come on while sitting, and go off during motion in the open air. The symptoms are parti- cularly apt to occur in the evening or night. Skin.—Intolerable itching. Sleep.—Drowsiness the whole day.—Sleep disturbed with anxious dreams. GUMMI GUTTI. 677 Fever.. -Chilliness.—Internal and external coldness in the even ing.—Violent chills proceeding from the back, with coldness of the whole body.—Increased warmth, with anxiety and sweat.—Violent thirst in the evening.—The fever is remittent or intermittent, quoti dian or tertian. Moral Symptoms. — Cheerful, talkative.—Ill-humored, vexed, anxious. Head.—Vertigo. Heaviness in the whole head, with inertia, drow- siness, and pain in the small of the back.—Pain in the whole head and beating in the forehead, towards the nose, in the forenoon.—Op- pressive headache, with heaviness in the forehead (in the afternoon, relieved in the open air), or with heat in the head and whole body. Compressive pain in the head, from both sides, in the forenoon.— Headache in the vertex, as if bruised, in the forenoon, relieved in the open air. Eyes.—Itching qfthe inner canthi (and in the forehead), with dis- charge of acrid, corrosive tears.—Nightly agglutination, burning in the morning, photophobia through the day, and frequent stinging pain in the eyes.—Violent itching of the eyes, in the evening.— Vio- lent burning of the eyes, and photophobia, in the evening or after- noon, relieved by walking in the open air. Ears.—Violent lacerating deep in the ears.—Excessive lancination in both ears.—Throbbing pain in the left ear, as from an abscess.— Frequent buzzing in the ear. Nose.—Lacerating in the nasal bones.—Ulceration of the right nostril, with burning pain.—Sneezing. Violent chronic sneezing. Face.—Lacerating in the right malar bone, and in the right lower jaw. Teeth.—Sensation of chilliness and elongation of all the anterior teeth, in the morning.—Laceration in the right molares, also in the gums, with sensation as if the gums were sore and swollen. Mouth.—Dry mouth.—Burning of the tip and anterior half of the tongue.—Sensation of soreness in the palate, relieved by cold. Throat.—Roughness and burning in the throat. Sore pain in the throat, which is felt even when touching the outer side of the neck. Burning soreness low down in the fauces, between the acts of deglu- tition.—Choking sensation in the throat, ascending from the chest, arresting the breathing.—Feeling of swelling in the throat. Appetite.—Bitter taste in the mouth.—Violent hunger.—Aver- sion to food.—Nausea, inclination to vomit, ptyalism, roughness of the throat.—Pinching in the abdomen, after eating. Stomach.—Nausea.—Gulping up of sour water, and movements 678 GUMMI GUTT1. in the stomach.—Inclination to vomit, followed by painful twitching in the umbilical region, and diarrhoeic stools.—Horrid vomiting and purging,with fainting.—Empty feeling in the abdomen and stomach. Weakness of the stomach, as after long fasting, with accumulation of water in the mouth.—Gnawing in the stomach. Contractive and sore feeling in the stomach, with sensitiveness to the touch.— Ulce- rative pain of the stomach, going off after eating. Constant pain in the innermost parts of the stomach, as if sore, with sensitiveness of the integuments to the touch.—Dartings in the stomach.—Pressure in the stomach and chest, arresting the breathing, in paroxysms, going off after an eructation. Abdomen.—Inflation and tension of the abdomen, with pinching in the umbilical region.—Extremely painful burning in the region of the liver. Frequent violent pinching in the entire abdomen, without urging, or else succeeded by diarrhoea. Stool and Anus.—Constipation.—Frequent urging, with pinch- ing around the umbilicus.—Hard stool, succeeded by burning at the anus.—Hard, insufficient stool, with violent urging, pressing, and protrusion of the rectum.—Repeated diarrhoeic stools, with discharge of green mucus, preceded by pinching in the bowels.—Diarrhoza, with burning pain and tenesmus of the rectum, protrusion of the anus, and constant pinching around the umbilicus, sometimes at- tended with discharge of mucus.—Diarrhoea, preceded by cutting in the bowels, and succeeded by burning at the anus.—Profuse watery diarrhoza, ivith colic and tenesmus. Urine.—Scanty or difficult emission of urine. Female Genital Organs.—The menses appear too soon, and aro too profuse.—Leucorrhaza. Larynx and Trachea.—Scraping in the region of the larynx, in- ducing a dry cough.—Frequent dry and hacking cough in the day. time.—Nightly cough, with soreness of the chest. Chest.—Oppression and heaviness in the chest, with stitches in the back.—Weight on the chest, at night, occasioning sleeplessness. —Pain in the chest, as if every part of it were sore.—Pressure in the middle qf the chest. Back.—Lacerating in the nape of the neck, and in the right shoul- der.—Pain as if bruised in the small of the back, as if sprained. Arms.—Violent burning stitch. Lacerating in the shoulders and in different parts of the body. Legs.—Lacerating, cramp-like, or ulcerative pains in the legs and feet. Heaviness and languor of the feet. H.EMATOXYLUM CAMPECHIANUM 679 137.—H^MATOXYLUM CAMPECHIANUM. H^EMATOX.—Logwood.— Noack and Trinks. Compare with—Merc. Antidote.—Camph. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Pressure. Compressive pain in the head.—Contraction (throat, chest).—Pain as if bruised (head, region of the heart). Characteristic Peculiarities.—Seme of the pains are aggravated by contact and pressure, some are relieved in the open air. Sleep.—Irresistible drowsiness. Fever.—Chill and goose-flesh.—General chilliness, more internal than external. Moral Symptoms.—Ill-humor, sadness.—Weakness of mind, ver- tigo unto falling. Head.—Dullness of the frontal region, feeling of heaviness in the head, difficulty of generating or expressing ideas.—Compressive pain in the forehead and occiput, on the left side, extending to the ear, with burning heat in the head.—Paiu in the forehead, with disposition to vomit on stooping.—Pinching and violent aching pain over the eye, and extending to the temporal region. Eyes.—Redness of the eyes, with blue margins.—Feeling as of sand in the eyes.—Sensation of heaviness in the eyes, and as if covered with a gauze.—Contraction of the pupils, and dimness of sight. Ears.—Intense pain of the right ear, down the throat, with con- traction of the throat, burning and pain during deglutition, and fre- quent spitting. Face.—Pale, disfigured face, with sad, desponding look.—Pain in the left part of the forehead, spreading over the entire left side of the face, and over the teeth.—Pain of the lower jaw, with stinging in the teeth and cheek of the same side. Throat, &c.—Contraction qfthe throat, with desire to swallow. Stomach.—Loathing inclination to vomit.—Pain in the stomach, increased by pressure.—General sick feeling, with anguish proceed- ing from the stomach, and colic.—Distention of the stomach and ab- domen, anguish, inclination to vomit, sour eructations tasting of the ingesta, headache as from derangement of the stomach, at night. Abdomen.—Tympanitic distention of the abdomen, sensitiveness of the pit of the stomach to the touch, and aggravation of the pain from pressure.—Colic, pain in the loins, and loathing. Colic, inclination to vomit, pninful digging about in the abdomen.—Paroxysms of pain 680 HELLEBORUS NIGER. in the stomach and abdomen, as if the parts would be torn.— ViolenI colic in the hypogastrium, as if diarrhoea would ensue, with tympa nitic distention, and great sensitiveness of the abdomen to the touch —Violent palpitation of the heart, general sick feeling, anguish, and. lastly, shuddering and chilliness over the whole body. Cutting colic. with distention, relieved after soft stool.—General chilliness, with burning heat in the palms of the hands after the colic ceases. Urinary and Genital Organs.—Slight quantity of red, burning urine.1—Painful pressure on the genital organs.—Malaise and pain in the hypogastrium, as previous to the menses, attended with slimy, whitish leucorrhaza. Chest.—Oppression.—Constriction of the chest down to the pit of the stomach, with a feeling of heat and burning. Pain in the region of the heart, with sensation as if a bar were extending from the heart to the right side, and violent pain in the left upper region of the chest.—Great painfulness of the region of tbe heart, oppressive anxiety, increased beating of the heart, small pulse, hot hands, chil- liness over the whole body.- Palpitation of the heart. Arms and Legs.—The limbs are painful and languid.—Pain and chilliness between th°, shoulders.—Pain in the left shoulder as if in- flamed. - ° Suppression of the habitual sweat of the feet. 138.—HELLEBORUS NIGER. HELL.—Christmas Rose.—See Hahnemann's "Mat. Med. Pura," II.—Duration of Action: three or four weeks. Compare with.—Ars., hell, Bry., Cham., Chin., Dig., Ign., Op. Par., Phosph. Sec-c, Stan.. Stram., Verat.—It is frequently indicated after Bell., Bry. Chin. Antidotes.—Camph., Chin. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Falling off of the hair and of tbe nails. Peeling off of the epidermis.—Sharp lacerating stitches in several parts of the body at once, in the thighs, legs, chest, back, &c. Paralytic weakness of the limbs and unusual stiffness.—All the muscles of the limbs feel heavy and painful.—Sudden relaxation of the muscles, coldness of the body, and cold sweat on the forehead, sudden falling to the ground, and stammering, but with consciousness ; the pulse slow and the pupils contracted.—He feels better in the open air. Sticking-boring pains in the periosteum. Sticking-boring pains in various parts of the body, aggravated by cool air, bodily exertion, and after eating or drinking.—Fainting fits.—Convulsive spasms 1 Logwood tinges the urine and faeces dark-red or purple. HELLEBORUS NIGER. 681 ^Convulsive movements, and a shock in the brain as with an arrow. —Spasmodic rigidity qf the limbs, with concussive shaking qf the head. Skin.—°Pale color of the skin.—°Rash. ?—♦Sudden watery swell- ing of the skin of the whole body. ♦Anasarca, particularly after suppressed eruptions.—Sensation in the swollen parts as if too heavy and as if pressed asunder. Sleep.—Restless sleep towards morning, full of dreams. Con- fused, anxious dreams.—°Sopor. Fever.—Strong pulse. Strong pulsations through the whole body, especially in the region of the heart. Palpitation of the heart. Thirst.—General chill with goose-skin, t/ie head is painful when feel- ing or moving it, drawing lacerating in the limbs, and frequent stitches in the joints, especially the elbow and shoulder-joints, without thirst. In the evening, and especially after lying down, burning heat over the whole body, internal shuddering and chilliness, without thirst. General sweat.—Pale, sunken countenance, no pulse, icy coldness and cold sweat all over.—Slow, small pulse. Coldness of the body, especially in the morning. Fever: violent heat in the head, cold hands and feet. Fever : continual chilliness over the body, without thirst, heat in the head, and headache in the occiput, as if bruised. Moral Symptoms.—*Silent melancholy. Home-sickness. Invo- luntary sighing, moaning. Taciturn. Despairs of his life. Great anguish, with nausea, and pain as if he would die. Horrid anguish. which is relieved after vomiting.—Irresolute.—°Obstinate silence —°Hypochondriac mood.—♦Diffidence. Sensorium.—Inability to reflect. Dullness of the internal sense* 0Imbecility.? °The mind has no power over the body.— Weakness of memory.—Dullness of the head, with a dull aching in the afternoon. Confusion qfthe head, as if bruised, with fluent coryza.— Dullness qf the head, with heaviness. Dullness of the head, with burning and heat. Cloudiness in the forehead. Dullness with vertigo, as if every- thing were turning in a circle.—Painful stupefaction of the head, as from intoxication. °Inflammation of the brain. °Acute and chronic hydrocephalus. Head.—Troublesome headache. Pain in the head, as if the whole brain were compressed at every step, in the open air. Violent head- ache, with great heaviness, especially in the occiput, on waking. Un- interrupted aching pain in the occiput, towards the nape of the neck Compressive pain in both temples. Pulsative throbbing in the left temple. Boring stitches across the forehead Pain as if bruised of 29* 682 HELLEBORUS NIGER the outer parts of the vertex and occiput. Pulsations in tht forehead and temples, with heat of the face.—°Humid scurf on the hairy scalp Eyes.— Pressure in the orbits. Burning smarting in the eyes, especially in the inner canthi. Prickling in the eyes. *'Photophobia, °without much inflammation.—Photophobia during the fever. Ears.—Drawing in both ears, as if the inner ear would burst Pressure. Nose.—Constriction of the nose. Spasmodic, ineffectual desire to sneeze, with yawning. Face.— Yellowish complexion. °Pale face during the heat in the Qead.—°Pale oedematous swelling of the face.—Dull pain in the right malar bone.—°Swelling of the lips, with white vesicles. Teeth.—Lancinating in the molares at night, aggravated by either warmth or cold. Mouth, Throat, &c.—Insensible rigidity of the tongue. ♦Ptya- lism, with soreness of the corners of the mouth.—*Vesicles on the tongue. Aphthae in the mouth.—Swelling of the tongue.— Troublesome dryness of the palate, with cutting and scraping pain when moving the mouth.—Soreness of the throat and pressure during deglutition. Taste, Appetite, and Gastric Symptoms.—Dry, slimy taste. Great appetite. Nausea, with a sensation of hunger and loathing of food. Continual inclination to vomit; vomiting.— Vomiting qf green- Hackish substances, with colic. Stomach and Abdomen.—Excessive pain in the pit of the stomach. Cardialgia.—Scraping rough sensation in the stomach.—Intensely painful burning in the stomach, rising to the oesophagus.—Pinching in the stomach. Severe pain as if bruised, near and below the pit of the stomach, aggravated by loud talking and contact. Distention of the pit of the stomach, with pain as from subcutaneous ulceration. —Painful pressure on the pit of the stomach at every step.— Weight in the abdomen. Violent pinching, as in dysentery, across the abdomen. °Gurgling in the bowels, as if full of water.—°Ascites. Stool.—Diarrhoea, with nausea and colic. Diarrhoea, preceded by colic, disappearing after the evacuation.—Hard, scanty stool, during and after which violent cutting stitches in the rectum. °Frequent watery stools.—Stools consisting of pure, tenacious, white mucus. Tendency to haemorrhoids. Urine.—Frequent desire to urinate, emitting but a slight quantity. °Feeble stream. Larynx and Chest.—Difficulty of breathing. Constriction of the throat. Contraction of the chest. Sharp cutting in the region of the lowermost true ribs, across the chest, increased by inspiration HEPAR SULPHURIS CALCAREUM. 683 Scraping, rough sensation in the upper part of the sternum.— °Hydrothorax. 1 Back.—Stiffness qf the cervical muscles. °Swelling of the cervical glands. Pain as if bruised between the scapulae, in the region of the spine. Arms.—Drawing and lacerating in the bones of the arms and joints of the fingers. Lacerating in the fingers. ^Boring sticking pain in the middle joint of the middle and index finger.— Weakness in both hands. Legs.—Drawing, lancinating, or burning pain in the hip. Stiffness and tension of the muscles of the thighs.—Great weakness of the thighs and legs. Aching pain in the joints and feet. 139—HEPAR SULPHURIS CALCAREJM. HEP. S.—Sulphuret of Lime.—See Hahnemann's " Chronic Diseases," III.—• Duration of Action: eight weeks. Compare with—Am., Ant., Arn., Ars., Bell., Bry , Cham., Chin., Cin., Cupr., Dros., Fer., Iod., Lach., Merc, Nitr.-ac, Plumb., Spong., Sil., Zinc.—Hep.-s. is particularly suitable after : Bell., Lach., Sib, Spong., Zinc.—Afterwards are frequently indicated : Bell., Merc, Nitr.-ac , Spong., Sil. Antidotes.—Bell, and Cham, against the colic and diarrhoea.—Vinegar. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Great nervous irritability, every im- pression on the body or mind excites the nervous system even to tremulousness.—^Drawing pain in the limbs, particularly on wak- ing, with sense of paralysis, especially in the thighs and legs. Draw- ing pain in the shoulder-joints, those of the hips, and especially the knees. Drawing pain in the region of the stomach and back. 3Lacerating in the limbs.—Stitches in the joints, when at rest and in motion.—*The pains are greatest, °or excited, at night. *In- crease qf pains during his nightly fever, especially the cold stage. Sensitiveness to the open air, with chilliness and frequent nausea When walking in the open air the knees tremble, with anxiousness, heat of the whole body, and burning of the soles of the feet. Emacia- tion, with chilliness in the back, red cheeks, sleeplessness, affected larynx, hoarse, faint voice, anguish, and excessive irritability, as in con- sumptive fever. She feels in all her limbs as if she had taken cold. —Weakness of all the limbs, and feeling as if they were bruised by blows. Weakness, early in the morning after rising, she was scarcely able to stand. Weariness, early in the morning when in bed, uneasi- ness in the legs, and obstruction of the nose. Great weakness and palpitation of the heart, early in the morning on waking; in the even 684 HEPAR SULPHURIS CALCAREUM. ing, with nervous depression. Weakness when walking in the open air, after a meal, with stretching of the limbs as previous to an attack of the fever and ague. °Tremulous languor after smoking Skin.—Fine, stinging itching. Burning itching of the body Nettle-rash. *Chapped skin omd rhagades qfthe hands and feet.— ♦ Unhealthy skin, even slight injuries produce suppuration and ulce- ration. Corrosive pain in the ulcer. Burning and throbbing in the ulcer, at night. Inflammation of the affected part. Sour-smelling pus from the ulcer. The ulcer bleeds, even when slightly wiped. Yellow skin and complexion. Attack oi jaundice, with blood-red urine and yellow color of the white of the eye. Sleep.—Great drowsiness towards evening, with frequent, violent, almost convulsive yawning. Sleeplessness after midnight. The sleep is too long and dull, followed by a sense of dullness, fullness, and giddiness in the head, with pressure in the temples. Anxious and frightful dreams. Starting from sleep as with fright. Great anxiety and uneasiness in the whole body. Nightly nausea and vomiting. Seething of the blood prevents him from sleeping in the night. Sleep- lessness at night, and feverish chilliness. Fever.—Chilliness of the upper and lower limbs, early in the morning. Chilliness, with frequent nausea and sensitiveness to the open air. Frequent shudderings, extending to the top of the head, the hair was painful to the touch. Violent chilliness with chattering of the teeth, in the evening.—Nightly feverish chills, without any subsequent heat.—Chilliness in the back, with red cheeks, sleepless- ness, affected larynx, hoarse, weak voice, anguish, apprehensiveness, extreme irritability, and emaciation as in consumptive fever.—Fever, alternate chilliness and heat, the latter with photophobia.—^Burning feverish heat, with an almost unquenchable thirst, °red face, tortur- ing headache, and muttering delirium, from four o'clock in the after- noon through the night.—At night, dry beat of the body with sweaty hands.—Fever, with violent, frequent vomiting of a green acrid water and tenacious mucus, and nausea. *Slight sweat at every little motion. ^Profuse sweat day and night. Night-sweat. Sweat, im- mediately after lying down, especially about the head. Sour-smell- ing, profuse sweat, at night. Moral Symptoms.—Hypochondriac. Dejected, sad,fearful. Fright- ful anguish in the evening. Repulsive mood. Irritable mood. Iro patient and out of humor. *The slightest cause irritated him. Sensorium.—Weak memory when out of humor. Vertigo as in a fainting fit, or vanishing of sight, as if absorbed in a revery.—Vertigo. Short attacks of stupidity, dullness of mind, and want of memory. HEPAR SULPHURIS CALCAREUM. 68? Head —The fore part of the head feels stupefied and heavy *Headache when shaking the head, with vertigo.—Headache every morning, brought on by the least concussion. Dull headache early in the morning when in bed, abating after rising.—Aching in the forehead, as if bruised. ♦Aching in the forehead, like a boil. Head- ache early in the morning, on waking. Aching in the vertex, with palpitation of the heart, in the evening.—Pressure and drawing in the temples by day. Tensive aching pain above the nose. Violent headache, at night, as if the forehead would be torn out, with general heat, without thirst.—Stitches in the head, when stooping, and sensa- tion as if the skull would burst, waking him at night. Early in the morning, after a sound sleep, lancinating headache, disappearing when walking in the open air. Pulsative stitches in the occiput. ♦Boring pain °in tbe root of the nose, every morning.—Searching (grinding) headache. Painful throbbing in the right temple.—Hammering sen- sation in the head.—* Pimples, like blotches, on the hairy scalp, and in the nape of the neck, sore when touched. °Humid scald-head.— *Great falling off of the hair, particularly after abuse of Mercury, after severe illness, or in consequence of frequent attacks of hysteric headache. Eyes.—Aching in the eye-balls, and as if bruised, when touched. —Pressure in the eyes, especially when moving thein, with redness —° Violent pain in the eyes, as if pulled into the head.—*Dull stitch in the eye.—Boring pain in the upper bones of the orbit.—Redness, inflammation, and swelling of the upper eye-lid, with aching and stinging'. Inflammation and swelling of the eye, with redness of the white. °Erysipelatous inflammation of the eyes, with soreness and bruised pain of the lids on touching them.—°Lachrymation.—Nightly agglutination of the eye-lids, the eyes become dim. °Specks and ulcers on the cornea.—°Protruded eyes. Nightly spasm of the lids. Obscuration of sight when reading.— Twinkling before the eyes. *The eyes ache from the bright light of day, when moving them. Ears.—Darting pain in the ear. Itching in the ears. °Scurfs on and behind the ears. —°Inflammation of the ears. ?—Discharge of pus, *also fetid, from the ear.—°Hardness of hearing, with whizzing in the ears, going off after a report in the head following upon blow- ing the nose. Whizzing and throbbing in the ears, in the evening. Nose.—The bones of the nose are painful to the touch.—Contractive sensation in the nose. Itching in the nose. Burning in the nose. Pain in the tip of the nose as if bruised. —Ulcerative pain in the nostrils °Nasitis. ? ? Scurfy formation. Congestion of blood tc the nose Bfceding at the nose. Loss of smell. Frequent sneezing 586 HEPAR SULPHURIS CALCAREUM. Dry coryza. Coryza and scraping in the throat. Coryza, with chills and fever, ill-humor, and weakness of the limbs Coryza, with inflam matory swelling of the nose, painful like a boil, accompanied by cough. , Face.— Yellow complexion, with blue borders around the eyes. ♦Heat in the face, at night, and early in the morning, on waking. Flushes of heat in the face and head. Erysipelatous swelling of tht cheeks early in the morning. °Erysipelas of the face, with prickling and tension. ° Vesicular erysipelas. *Pain of the bones of the face, when touching them. °Drawing lacerating from the cheeks into the ear and temple. Eruption of rash in the face.—°Crusty pimples in t the faces of young people. Swelling of the lips. Itching around the mouth. Eruption about the mouth and on the lips. Itching pimples on the chin. Vesicles and ulcers on the chin, with a burn- ing sensation. Teeth and Jaws.—Toothache, especially during a meal. Tooth- ache, aggravated by cold or in a warm room, or on pressing them together Jerking toothache, extending into the ear.—Stitches in the teeth. Looseness of the teeth. The gums bleed readily. Jerkings in the gums. Inflammation and swelling of the anterior and inner portion of the gums. Ulcer on the gums. Mouth.—Burning pain on the tip of the tongue. °Ulcer in the mouth.—Ptyalism, also after abuse of Mercury. Throat.—*In the pharynx, sensation as of a clot of mucus or internal swelling when swallowing. Violent pressure in the throat —Difficult deglutition, without any sore throat.—♦Smarting rough- ness and rawness of the fauces, most violent when swallowing sulid food. ^Roughness and scraping sensation in the throat. ^Stinging in the throat, when taking a deep inspiration", -or when coughing. *Stitches in the throat, when swallowing, as if caused by a splinter ^Stitches in the throat, extending to the ear, when swallowing -or when turning the head. Expectoration mixed with blood. °Swell ing of the tonsils.—°Dry throat. Taste and Appetite.—Bitter, slimy taste. Putrid taste. Me tallic taste. No appetite. ° Canine hunger.—Loath ing of all nourish- ment. Excessive thirst. °Weakness of digestion in persons who have taken much Merc, or Chin. Gastric Symptoms.— After a meal: hot regurgitation of the in- gesta; fullness in the abdomen ; great weakness ; hot feeling in the abdomen; violent palpitation of the heart, with oppression of the chest, and desire to take a deep breath. *Frequent eructations, with- out smell or taste. Eructations, with burning in the throat. *Fre HEPAR SULPHURIS CALCAREUM. 687 qu nt and momentary attacks qf nausea, with coldress and paleness. Nttusea, early in the morning.—Qualmishness, with inclination to vomit.— Water-brash. Vomiting of green, acrid water, and tenacious m"cus, accompanied by continued nausea. Vomiting of mucus, mixed with coagulated blood. •Stomach.—The stomach is painful when walking. ^Pressure in tk? stomach, -after moderate eating. Pressure in the pit of the sto- mach, every morning on waking. °Swelling of the region of the stomach, with pressure.—Tension across the pit of the stomach.— Uneasiness, weight, and acrid sensation in the pit of the stomach during the period of digestion. Hypochondria.—Stitches in the region qfthe liver, when walking. Painful congestion of blood to the hypochondria. Abdomen.—Bloatedness and painful sensitiveness of the abdomen, more when walking than when sitting. Aching in the abdomen, near and around the hips.—Cramp-like pin-ching tension in the abdomen. Spasms in the abdomen. ♦Contractive pain in the abdomen. Grip. ing, lacerating in the umbilical region. Pinching pain in the abdo- men, as from cold. Colic, stitches, cuttings, and pinchings in different parts of the abdomen. Cutting pain in the abdomen, without diar- rhoea. Sticking pain in the abdomen. ♦Violent stitches in the left side of the abdomen, below the ribs. ^Splenetic stitches when walk- ing. Sore pain above the umbilicus.—Drawing pain in the abdomen. The inguinal glands become painful. Suppuration qf the inguinal glands, buboes. Rumbling in the abdomen.—°Incarceration of flatu- lence. Stool.—Sluggishness of the rectum, the stools are hard and insuf- ficient, the rectum is swollen.—A good deal of tenesmus, the stools are hard, and are passed with difficulty.—Frequent stools, at night, with bearing down, tenesmus, and weakness.—Diarrhoza, with colic, inclination to lie down, hot hands and cheeks, also with qualms of nausea, and rumbling in the abdomen. °Sour-smelling, whitish diar- rhoea in children. °Dysenterie diarrhoea. Evacuation of bloody mucus. Clay-colored stool. Greenish stool.—Blood during stool.— Haemorrhage from the rectum, with soft stool. Soreness of the rec« tum after stool.—Protrusion of the varices.—Creeping in the rectum, as of ascarides.—Burning at the rectum. Urine.—Weakness of the bladder. Frequent desire to urinate.— °Wetting the bed at night. The urine looks flocculent and turbid Dark, yellow urine, burning while passing. Brown-red urine. The last drops of urine are mixed with blood. Greasy pellicle on the urine. Sharp, burning urine, corroding the internal surface of thA 688 HEPAR SULPHUR. 5 CAI CAREUM. prepuce and causing ulceration. Burning urine during the emis- sion. Intense soreness in the urethra during the emission of urine. The orifice of the urethra is red and inflamed.—°Discharge of mucua from the urethra. Genital Organs.— Ulcers on the prepuce, resembling chancre. Itching of the scrotum.—Weakness of the sexual organs.—Dimi- nished sexual instinct.—Excited condition of the sexual organs. °Feeble erections.—^Occasional discharge of the prostatic juice with stool, or after stool. Soreness of the pudendum and between the thighs. Female Genital Organs.—Hamorthage from the uterus, pre- ceded by bloatedness of the abdomen. The menses delay ten days, the discharge being diminished. , Contractive headache previous to the menses. °Congestion of blood to the womb.—°Leucorrhoea, with smarting of the pudendum.—°Scirrhous ulcer on the mamma, with stinging burning of the edges. Larynx.—Weakness of the organs of speech and of the chest.— Titillation in the throat.—°Seated pain in one spot of the larynx, aggravated by pressure, speech, cough, and breathing. Cough, from scraping and rawness of the throat. Subdued cough, from oppression qfthe chest. Deep, dry cough, from oppression of the chest during an inspiration, with soreness of the chest at every fit of cough.—Vio- lent fits of cough, from time to time, as if one would suffocate or vomit.—Violent deep cough in the larynx, a few turns only, causing retching.—Violent cough, from irritation in the upper part of the throat.—Short and hacking cough, immediately after a meal.—Fit of cough, as if brought on by a cold, and excessive sensitiveness of the nervous system, coming on when any part of the body gets very cool. —Cough, in the evening and early in the morning.—*Fits qf dry coughin the evening. Dry, painless, short cough. Violent cough, at night. Cough, day and night. Cough, with expectoration of mucus, excited by a scraping in the larynx, especially in the throat. Expec- toration of sourish mucus, at night, almost without cough.—Tenacious mucus in the chest.—Bloody expectoration from the chest, with ill- humor and weakness.—Haemoptysis, preceded by a sensation in the pit of the stomach as if there were a hard body.—The whole head is affected by the cough, with throbbing in the forehead and temples.— When coughing, sense as of violent groaning in the head (a vibratory feeling).—When coughing, stitches in the throat and pain in the head, as if the contents of the head would issue from the forehead. Burning in the stomach, when coughing. Sneezing °or crying aftei the fits of cough. HEPAR SULPHURIS CALCAREUM. 689 Chest.—Short breath. ^Frequent and deep breathing.—°Hoarse, anxious, wheezing breathing, with danger of suffocation in a recum bent posture. °Suffocative fits. Stitches in the sternum, when breath- ing or walking. Sticking pain in the side of the chest, in the direc- tion of the back. °Spasmodic constriction of the chest. Stitches in the region of the heart. Violent palpitation of the heart, with fine stitches in the heart and left chest. Back.—Frequent attacks of pain in the small of the back. Violent pain in the small of the back, as if the parts were being cut through, when at rest, or in motion.—Pain as from bruises in the small of the back when walking. Sharp pressure and pain, as from bruises, in the small of the back and the lumbar vertebrae. Tensive pain in the back, at night, worst when turning the body. ^Drawing in the whole back and in the small of the back. Stitches in the back, in the region of the kidney. Great weakness in the whole spine.—Pain as from bruises of the cervical muscles. Arms .— Ulceration and suppuration of the axillary glands. ° Fetid sweat in the axilla. Pain in the shoulder, as if a weight were rest- ing on it. Pain in the shoulder when raising the arm. Drawing pain in the shoulders. Pain, as from bruises, in the shoulder. ♦La- cerating in the arm, in the direction of the scirrhous ulcer.—Pain, as from bruises, in both arms. Great weariness of both arms. Pain, as from bruises, in the humeri. °Steatoma at the point of the elbow. The wrist is painful. Feeling of heat in the palm of the hand and the wrist. Frequent burning of the hands. Heat, redness, and swelling of one hand, with an insufferable contusive pain extending into the arm, during motion. Unsteadiness of the hands. Itching of the hands, with a rough, dry, grating skin. °Nettle-rash on the hands and fingers. Deadness of the fingers. Swelling of the fingers. Swelling of the finger-joints, with arthritic pains.—°Hep.-s. is a spe- cific against panaritia. Legs.— When walking in the open air the hip-joint is painful as if it were sprained. °Coxagra, with throbbing pain and disposition to suppurate.? Soreness of the fold between the scrotum and the thighs. Painful tension in the lower limbs, at night, which hinders sleep. Weight of the lower limbs. Lacerating in the thigh, when sitting, with a numb, tingling sensation, as if gone to sleep. Pain as from bruises in the anterior muscles of the thigh. Cramp in the knee.—Aching in the bend of the knee, during motion. Pain as from bruises in the knee. Pain in the knee as if broken. Swelling qfthe knee. Cramp-pain in all the muscles of the leg, when walking Great weariness in the legs, especially when ascending an eminence 44 690 HYDROCYANIC ACID. Erysipelas of the sick leg. Cramp in the feet. Pain, as from sub cutaneous ulceration, in the tarsal joint. Paroxysms of pain in the tarsal joint, when walking, as from a sprain. Drawing and burning pain in the feet. ^Swelling of tite feet around the ankles, with diffi- cult breathing. Chilblains on the feet. °Rhagades of the feet. Tingling in the toes. HERACLEUM SPHONDYLIUM (See Branca Urslna). 140.—HYDROCYANIC ACID. HTDR. AC—Prussic Acid.—See Hartlaub and Trinks. Compare with—Lauroc. Antidotes.—Of large doses : Am., Chlorine water, cold dash, Solution of Nitre or Salt in cold water, Coffee. Of small doses : Camph., Ipec, Op., Coff. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Rapid languor and weakness of the limbs, particularly the thighs. Nervous weakness. Cramp in the back. Cramp in the face and jaws, convulsions.—Paralysis of the lower, then the upper limbs. The limbs become insensible and stiff. Catalepsy. The limbs are excessively flexible and yielding. The beats of the heart become more and more slow, small, imperceptible, until apparently extinct. Diminution of the animal heat. Skin.—Itching of several parts, particularly between tbe chin and lips.—Itching burning vesicles on the upper limbs and on the neck. —Dryness of the skin.—General paleness with a blue tinge. Sleep.—Frequent yawning, with shivering and cramps of the skin.—Irresistible or constant drowsiness.—Sleeplessness.—°Vivid, incoherent dreams. Fever.—Chilliness, without shuddering, particularly after midnight and morning.—Feeling of coldness. Alternation of violent chilliness and burning heat. Heat in the head, with coldness of the extremi- ties. General feverish uneasiness, with violent nervous irritation, paroxysms of heat, and quick, irregular, confused motion of the heart Stupefaction of the head and vertigo during the chilliness.—Mist before the eyes during the chill. Moral Symptoms.—Despondency. Lowness of spirits.—Oppres- sion.—Anguish in the pit of the stomach.—Nervous irritability. Vexed mood. Sensorium.—Pleasant languor.—Dullness of sense. Insensible to pain. Loss of consciousness.—Slowness of thought, with dull feeling in the bead. Inability to think. Weakness of memory—IUusiom HYDROCYANIC ACID. 691 Of the senses.—Dullness and heaviness of the head. Stupefaction and falling down Dizziness, with feeling of intoxication.—Cloudiness of the se?ises, the objects seem to move, he sees through a gauze, is scarcely able to keep on his feet after raising the head when stooping, on rising from one's seat, worse in the open air.— Vertigo, with reeling. Head.—Headache, with giddiness. Stupefying headache.—Dull pain in the forehead proceeding from the temples.— Oppressive pain in the forehead. Violent aching pain in the occiput and sinciput, extending from the vertex to the forehead and orbits.—Oppressive pain in the left side of the head.—Tension in the frontal region. Eyes.—Protruded eyes. Difficult motion of the eye-balls. The pupils are dilated and immovable. The pupils are insensible to the light. Immovable lids. The lids seem paralyzed. Obscuration of sight. Dimness and gauze before the eyes. Amaurotic blindness. Ears.—Pressure in the interior of both ears, with roaring or buzzing.—Hardness of hearing. Nose.—The wings of the nose are enlarged and look bluish.— Dryness of the inner nose. Face.—The face is bloated. Sunken face. Pale, bluish face. Sallow and gray complexion.—The features look transfigured. Lock- jaw. Frightful distortion of the facial muscles. Cynic spasms. Mouth, Throat.—Increased secretion of saliva.—Tongue coated, white, afterwards dark and foul. Cold feeling in the tongue. Burn- ing in the tip. Lameness and stiffness of the tongue, which is often protruded. Loss of speech. Pain in the palate. Inflammation of the palate.—Spasm in the pharynx and asophagus. Scraping in the throat and pharynx.—Heat in the pharynx and oesophagus. Inflam- mation of the pharynx and oesophagus. Gastric Symptoms.—Fetid taste. Acrid and pungent taste.— Loss of appetite.—Absence of thirst, with heat in the whole body.— Violent thirst.—Disposition to vomit. Vomiting of a hlnckfluid. Stomach, &c.—Cold feeling in the stomach, with stitches.—Press- ing in the pit of the stomach, with great oppression. Spasmodic con- traction of the stomach. Inflammation oi tbe stomach and bowels. Throbbing pain in the praecordia.—Coldness in the abdomen, alter- nating with burning. Rumbling in the abdomen.—Involuntary stool. Urine.—Retention of urine.—Burning in the urethra. Larynx, &c.—Painful scraping and burning in the larynx. In- flammation of the larynx. Sensation as if the larynx were swollen, Spasmodic constriction of the throat. Tickling, stinging, and drawing in the trachea.—Frequent short and hacking cough, occasioned by a prickling in the larynx and trachea. Haemoptoe. 592 HYOSCYAMUS NIGER Chest.—Rattling, moaning, slow breathing. Arrest of breathing, occasioned by stitches in the larynx. Frequent and snoring deep breathing. Paralysis of the lungs. Tightness of the chest, asthma, oppressive. Feeling of suffocation, with torturing pains in the chest. —Acute pains in the chest. Pain and pressure in the region of the heart. Irregularity of the motions of the heart. Feeble beating of the heart. 141.—HYOSCYAMUS NIGER. HYOS.—Hen-Bane.—See Hahnemann's " Mat. Med. Pur.," II.—Duration of Ac- tion : from hours to several weeks. Compare with—Aeon., Ant., Arn., Bell., Camph., Caust., Carb.-a Carb.-v., Cham., Chin., Cupr., Dig., Dros., Graph., Ign., Lach., Led., Mag.-mur., Nux-v., Op., Phosp., Plat., Plumb., Puis., Rhus., Rat., Sab., Sep., Spig., Sq., Stram., Verat. Antidotes.—Vinegar, Bell., Camph., Chin. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Rheumatic pains. Pain of the limbs and loins. Sharp, continued stitches in the joints of the arms and feet. Dull drawing pains in the joints, but more in the muscles and neighborhood of the joints. Lancinations in almost all the joints, especially during motion.—Pains in the limbs. Weariness, languor of the whole body.—When walking in the open air he becomes hot and weak. Staggering. Uncommon sinking of strength. Weakness, he is scarcely able to stand on his legs, and seems constantly inclined to fall. Chronic weakness of the feet.—General loss of strength, with trembling of the whole body and extreme coldness of the ex- tremities, until fainting was about setting in. Repeated faintingfits. Death-like fainting. Apoplexy with snoring.—Hemiplegia. Sud den falling. Sudden falling with a cry and convulsions.—^Convul- sive movements. Convulsions.—The limbs become spasmodically curved, and the curved body is jerked into the air. Excessive tossing of the body by convulsions. Convulsions, with foam at the mouth. Convulsions, with clenching of the thumbs. ^Epilepsy.—Slight epi- leptic fits, alternating with paroxysms of apoplexy. *Subsultus-ten- dinum. Spasms, with watery diarrhoea and enuresis. ^Spasms, -with diarrhoea and coldness of the whole body.—♦St. Vitus' dance. Spasms of a child, resembling St. Vitus's dance, with distortion and tossing about of the limbs, after the attack the child lies quiet with closed eyes. Characteristic Peculiarities.—The action of Hyos. is most prominent in the evening. Skin.—#The skin is dry and brittle, or else soft and warm. Itching HYOSCYAMUS NIGER. 693 Inflammation of the skin, with vermilion redness.—°Rash from abuse of Bell. Large pustules on the skin.—Alternate appearance and disappearance of brown spots on the whole body. Herpetic spots on the nape of the neck. Gangrenous spots and vesicles.—Large boils.—Obstinate dropsy. Swelling. Sleep.—Drowsiness. In the morning, excessive watchfulness, as if from weakness; in the afternoon, drowsiness, relaxation, and ir- resoluteness. Long, deep sleep. Excessive drowsiness. — Deep slumber. — Coma-vigil. ♦Sleeplessness, °from nervous irritation. ♦Sleeplessness with anxiety.—Nightly sleeplessness, with convulsions and concussions, occasioned as if by fright. Frightful dreams.— Moaning.—*Grasping at flocks. Sleep interrupted by grinding of teeth.—Suffocative snoring when taking an inspiration, while asleep. * Starting from sleep. Fever.—Chilliness and shivering over the whole body, with hot face and cold hands, without thirst. Small, weak pulse. Weak, ir- regular pulse.—Small, scarcely perceptible, wiry pulse.—Hard pulse.—Small, quick, intermittent pulse. Stronger pulse. Quick, full, strong pulse. °Accelerated pulse, with distention of the veins. —°The blood burns in the veins.—Tertian and quartan fevers, with epileptic fits, great weakness, flashes before the eyes, and congestion of blood to the head.—Afternoon fever, with coldness and pain in the back.—Burning heat in the whole internal body. *In the evening, great heat over the body, -with much thirst, putrid taste, and much mucus in the mouth.—Exhalation. Sour sweat. Sweat with faint- ness and dullness of sense. Cold sweat. Moral Symptoms.—Alternation of ease and rage. Mania. Raging and naked day and night, sleepless and screaming. * Jealousy, re- proaches others, and complains of pretended wrongs.—Indomitable rage. Low spirits, sadness, °wants to kill himself. Restlessness. ^Horrid anguish. Concussive startings, alternating with trembling and convulsions. *He complains qf having been poisoned. °He imagines he will be sold.—°Misanthropia. °Diffidence. Peevish, sad, despairing. ♦Chronic fearfulness. Impatient.—° Hydrophobia. Sensorium.—^Dullness of feeling, -unfeeling indolence.—Senseless and heavy. ^Complete stupefaction. *Does not know his relatives. ^Complete loss of sense. #He neither sees nor hears anything.— Imbecility and constant sopor.—♦Imbecility, which is manifest by his speeches and action. Amentia. Insanity with diarrhoea. Highest mental derangement. Mutters to himself, exhausted. *He talks more than usual, and more animatedly and hurriedly, disposi- tion to laugh at everything. * Mental derangement, with occasional 694 HYOSCYAMUS NIGER. muttering. Incoherent words. Grasping at flocks and muttering. * Delirium as in acute fever. Mental exaltation.—Excessive anima- tion, restlessness, hurriedness. Excessive activity. °Mental de- rangement of drunkards.—Foolish actions.—He uncovers his wliole body.—In his insanity he roves about naked.—Ludicrously solemn acts, mingled with rage; dressed in an improper garment.—Labored breathing, with constant burning beat and cries, and making violent motion with the hands.— Vertigo. Vertigo, with obscuration of sight. Reeling sensation. Want of memory. Heaviness of the head, with swelling of the eye-lids. Cloudiness of the head, costive- ness, and pain in the loins. °Inflammation of the brain.—°Hydro cephalus. ? Head.—Stupefying headache, especially in the forehead. Stupe- fying headache, especially in the forehead, increasing to a lacerating with intermissions. Constrictive, stupefying headache in the upper part of the forehead, and general malaise, alternating with absence of all pain.:—Undulating sensation in the brain.— Tingling in the head. Headache, with unnatural heat.—Dull pain, with stiffness in the nape of the neck. Sensation in walking as if the brain were shaken and hose. Eyes.—Obscuration qf sight. Contraction or dilatation of the pupils. Dim-sightedness. Dark spots hover to and fro before the eye in quick succession. Diminished sight.—♦When consciousness returned the eyes were dim, without lustre, and the brain was obscured. Weak sight. Passing amaurosis. Short-sightedness. Optical illusions. Illusion of sight. *Staring, distorted eyes. In- toxicated look. *Open eyes, distorted in different directions. *Con- vulsively moved and protruded eyes. *Red, sparkling eyes. Inflam- mation of the eyes. Pressure in the eyes, as from sand. Quivering in the eye. Swelling of the eye-lids ; the whites of the eyes are slightly reddened. Inability to open the eye-lids. °Spasmodic clos- ing of the lids. Face.—Burning heat of the face. *Bluish face. *Cold pale face. Frequent change of complexion. Red, bloated face. *Brown-ied, swollen face. Pustules resembling small-pox.—°Dry lips Ears.—Sharp stitches through the ears, pressure in the temples, dullness of the head.—°Hard hearing, as if stupefied. °Buzzing in the ears. Nose.—Crampy pressure in the root qf the nose and the malar bones. Bleeding from the nose. Jaws and Teeth.—Dull pain of the upper teeth, with sensation as if the gums were swollen. ^Lacerating toothache, with congestion HYOSCYAMUS NIGER. 695 vf blood to the head, °and throbbing extending into the forehead, or to the root of the nose and eye, with burning heat in the face and aggravation of the pain by pressure.—°Beating and whizzing in the tooth, generally coming on in the morning, and excited by cold air with feeling of looseness in the tooth in chewing, lacerating in the gums, congestion of blood to the head with violent heat, and with spasms and constriction of the throat, with inability to swallow, great mental exhaustion.—*The teeth feel elongated, loose, °covered with mucus.—*Lacerating in the gums, particularly on the access of cold air. Lock-jaw, with full consciousness. Mouth.—♦Clean, parched dry tongue. ^Burning and dryness qfthe tongue and lips, the lips look like scorched leather.—Dumb- ness.—Impeded speech. °Paralysis of the tongue.—*Loss qf speech and consciousness. A kind of stomacace. Bloody saliva. *Foam at the mouth. Throat.—Burning heat in the throat. Parching dryness of the fauces. Great dryness in the throat, and thirst.—Scraping, trouble- some sensation in the throat and palate.—^Constriction of the throat, with impeded deglutition. Inability to swallow. Hydrophobia. Appetite and Gastric Symptoms.—Loss of appetite.—Bitterness of mouth. Unquenchable thirst. *Dread qf drink.—Frequent eruc- tations.—Nausea and vertigo. Inclination to vomit. — Frequent vomiting. Watery vomiting, with vertigo. ♦Eating produces vomit- ing.—°Vomiting of bloody mucus with dark-red blood. °Vomiting of blood, with convulsions, arrest of breathing, pains in the pit of the stomach, great prostration, and coldness of the limbs.—°Retching and vomiting like cutting colic, extorting cries.—Frequent hiccough. Hiccough, with spasms and rumbling in the abdomen. Headache after a meal, pressure in the temples, and aching of the whole outer parts of the head. Stomach and Abdomen.—Tightness about the pit of the stomach. —Weakness and pain in the stomach. Oppression and burning and inflammation of the stomach. Spasm of the stomach in periodical attacks, relieved by vomiting.—°Diaphragmitis. ? Pinching in the abdomen. Colic.—°Abdominal spasms, with cutting in the abdomen, vomiting, headache, and screams.—Enteritis. ? ^Distention in the abdomen, with pain when touched. Rumbling in the abdomen, even during the diarrhoea. °Painful sensitiveness of abdominal inte- guments. °Pain as from soreness, when coughing. Stool.—Urgent desire for stool, with sensation in the rectum as if diarrhoea would come on.—Frequent stool.—Diarrhoea. *Diarrhoza, -day and night. Moderate, or mucous diarrhoza. Exhausting mucous 696 HYOSCYAMUS NIGER. diarrhoea.— Wate?y diarrhoea. °Painless diarrhoea. °Diarrhoea of lying-in women. °Involuntary stools. ° Paralysis of the sphincter ani.—Frequent expulsion of ascarides.—Difficult evacuations. Flow- ing haemorrhoids for eight days. Urine. — Retention of urine with constipation. — °Involuntary emission of urine.—Paralysis of the bladder. Enuresis. Genital Organs.—Excited sexual desire.—Male impotence.— Profuse menses Profuse menses with delirium.—Retarded menses. —Violent, almost convulsive trembling of the hands and feet, she is almost raging during the menses Enuresis during the menses. Hysteric pain previous to the appearance of the menses.—°Metror- rhagia, the blood being bright-red, or with spasmodic pains.— °Slerility. ? ?—Suppressed lochia. °Puerperal fever.—Spasms of parturient and pregnant women. Larynx.—Dryness and stinging in the region of the larynx. Burn- ing heat in the larynx. Constriction of the larynx.—°Bronchial catarrhs.—♦Constant cough when lying, going off when rising. ^Nocturnal, dry tough. *Dry, spasmodic cough, particularly at night, and more especially when lying down, occasionally attended with redness of the face and vomiting of mucus. Dry, titillating cough, as if from the trachea.—°Concussive, panting cough, during and after measles, with painful soreness of the abdominal muscles during cough. °Paroxysms of cough, resembling whooping-cough Cough with greenish expectoration. °Haemoptysis with convulsions —°Incipient suppuration of the lungs. 1 1 Chest.—Asthma. Difficulty of breathing, with occasional rattling. Oppression of the chest, as if asthmatic, accompanied with strong palpitation of the heart. °Spasms of the chest, with arrest of breath- ing, and obliging one to bend forwards.—Oppression of the chest, with internal stinging, more violent during inspiration. Stitches in the sides qfthe chest. ° Typhoid pneumonia, °Pleurisy with gastrio symptoms.—Affection of the heart. ? ? Back.—Pain in the back.—Repeated attacks of pain in the loins. —Stinging in the region of the scapulae.—Stiffness of the cervical muscles, with tension, as if too short, on bending the head.—Herpetic tpots, in the nape of the neck. Arms.—♦Trembling of the arms, -particularly in the evening, ifter exercise. Dull pain in the wrist and elbow-joint. Painful Dumbness of the hands. Rigor of the hands.—Aching with drawing around the wrist-joints and knuckles. Swelling of the hands. Legs.—Laming drawing in the lower limbs, particularly in walk ing.—Sticking drawing in the thighs, worse when at rest. Gan- HYPERICUM PERFOLIATUM. 697 grenous spots and vesicles, especially on the lower limbs. Stiffness and weakness in the knee-joints when walking in the open air.—Pinch- ing in the calves. The limbs go to sleep.—Coldness of the feet.— Swelling of the feet. 142.—HYPERICUM PERFOLIATE. HYPER. PER.—Perforated St. John's-wort.—See "Hygea," V. and VI., Noack and Trinks, &c. Compare with—Agar., Coce. Antidote.—Mesmerism. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Great languor on rising, continuing the whole day, with trembling and violent thirst. Feeling of weak- ness and trembling of all the limbs.—Sensitiveness to cold. Skin.—Smarting eruption like nettle-rash on both hands. Chilly feeling through the whole body, rash-like red eruption on the dorsum of the hand and between the fingers, thirst, and paroxysms of oppres- sion of the chest. Sleep.—Constant drowsiness.—Uneasy sleep, with frightful dreams, starting, and oppressive anxiety. Fever.—Shuddering over the whole body.—Dry burning heat over the whole body.—Quick, rather hard, accelerated pulse.—Wild staring looks and hot head, throbbing of the carotids, bright-red bloated face, dilated pupils, frequent pulse, moist hair on the head, dry burning heat on the rest of the body, great oppressive anguish; violent headache like the beating of a hammer, particularly on the vertex, lancinations in the head, tingling in the hands and feet, with violent thirst and white coating of the tongue. Moral Symptoms.—Indisposition to mental or bodily labor.— Lowness of spirits, melancholy, disposition to weep.— Weakness of memory.—Oppressive anguish, with heat ascending in the throat.— Tendency to start. Head.—Violent vertigo with loathing, on waking, with pain of the temples, also in the afternoon.—Great heaviness in the head.—Vio- lent stitches in the vertex, in the evening.—Severe flashing-lacerat- ing in the temporal region, with chilliness over the whole body.— Tension in the temples.—Sensation as if the brain were compressed. —Beating in the vertex, in the afternoon, or feeling of heat in the head.—Curling sensation on the vertex.—Confused sensation in '~ne head, particularly on the vertex, accompanied by buzzing, dull hum- ming.—Sensation as if the head became suddenly elongated.—Great falling off of the hair. 30 698 HYPERICUM PERFOLIATUM. Eyes.—Painful sensation in the eyes.—Tension in both eyes.—* Dilatation of the pupils. Ears. —Shootings through the ear. Nose.—Troublesome dryness of the nose. Face.—Feeling of heat in the face.—The face feels bloated.— Drawing pain from the left ear to the malar bone, with sensation of swelling in the latter on touching it.—Constant tension in the cheek. Teeth.—Paroxysms of dull pain in the teeth and cheeks.—Tension in the teeth, with heaviness in the head, sensation as if the brain were compressed, loathing, /and continual lacerating in the arms.— Nightly pains in all the teeth of the lower jaw. Mouth.—Feeling of heat in the lips.—Dry burning heat in the mouth.—° White tongue. Foul yellow coating of the tongue. Throat.—Hoarseness.—Sensation in the throat as of a writhing worm.—Distention of the throat. Appetite.—Loss of appetite.— Violent thirst. Thirst and feeling of heat in the mouth.—Loathing, with inclination to vomit, and great languor. Stomach.—Nausea.—Eructation on drinking water.—Pressure at the stomach after eating but little. Abdomen.—Tympanitic distention of the abdomen, going off after an evacuation.—Cutting in the umbilical region, as if something were boiling in it. Cutting and pinching in the abdomen.—Violent pinch- ing pains in the abdomen. Stool.—Soft stool.—Hard stool. Stool with violent tenesmus, attended with nausea. Stool at night, without success. Violent tenesmus. Urine.—Nightly urging to urinate, with vertigo almost amounting to syncope. Genital Organs.—Violent lacerating in the genital organs, with desire to urinate.—Tension in the region of the uterus, as from a tight bandage.—The menses delay a fortnight.—Leucorrhoea. Larynx.—Dry, short, and hacking cough. Chest.—Stitches below the breasts.—Short breathing.—Movements in the chest.—Pressure and burning in the chest.—Violent stitches through the breast.—Sensation as if the heart would fall down.—Pal- pitation of the heart. Back.—Stitches in the scapula.—Aching or laming-aching pain in the small qfthe back.—Stitches in the small of the back. Arms.—Languor of the arms.—Trembling and spasm in the arm and fingers.—Stitches in the top of the shoulder at every inspiration.—- Severe lacerating in the arms.—Tension in both arms and in the hands IGNATIA AMARA. 699 Legs.—Transitory spasm in the knee.—The feet feel pithy, as if pricked with needles.—The heels and toes are somewhat swollen with biting in those parts. J.4S.—IGNATIA AMARA. IGN.—St. Ignatius' Bean.—See Hahnemann's "Mat. Med. Pura," II.—Duration of Action: from two hours to nine davs. Compare with—Alum., Am., Ars., Bell., Calad., Calc, Caps., Caust., Cham., Chin., Coc, Coff., Croc, Hell., Hyos., Ipec, Magn., Magnet.-p.-arc, Magnet.- p.-aust., Mez., Mosch., Natr.-mur., Nux-mos., Nux-v., Par., Phosph., Phosph.- ac, Puis., Ranunc, Rhus, Ruta, Sabad., Sec'.-c, Sep., Sil., Spong., Stan.. Staph., Sulph., Tartar, Teucr., Val., Verat., Zinc Antidotes.—In case it should have been administered in too large a dose, and should have produced an excess of sensibility, susceptibility, or hurried- ness, &c, Coffee is the antidote; but, in cases where it has been exhibited without being homoeopathic to the disease, its effects may be antidoted by Puis., Cham., and sometimes by Coc, Arn., Camph., or Vinegar. CLINICAL REMARKS.—"The St. Ignatius' Bean contains four times the amount of Strychnia that the Strychnos Nux-vomica does; but its effects are not purely those which would result from a more concentrated or prolonged administration of Nux-vomica. It also possesses properties peculiar to itself, and which cause an actual difference in the action of the two drugs. Besides the strong specific effect upon the medulla-oblongata and spinal cord, which Strychnia exerts, the Ignatia seems to affect the whole encephalon." GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Simple pains, which are apt to become excessive by contact. Creeping through the whole body, apparently in the bones.—Tingling in the limbs, as if they had gone to sleep. Weari- ness of the feet and arms. Feeling of weakness and exhaustion in the arms and feet. In several parts of the periosteum, in the middle of the long bones (not at the joints), a sudden pressure is felt, as from a hard body, painful as if the parts were bruised, in the daytime, but espe- cially in the evening when lying in bed, on one or the other side, and going off when turning on the back. Nightly pain as if bruised in one or the other side on which'one is lying, in the joints of the neck, back, and shoulder, not going off till one turns on the back. Pain as if sprained or dislocated in the joints of the shoulder, femur, and knees. Continual sticking pain around the joints or a little above. Deep-sticking, burning pain in different parts, without itching. Sting- ing-burning pain, accompanied with itching, in the outer elevated portion of the joints. ♦In the evening, when going to sleep, jerks through the whole body. ^Single startings of the limbs when going to sleep. Great general lassitude from slight motion. Averse to 700 IGNATIA AMARA. motion, dreads labor. Exhaustion, relaxation of the body, in the evening. Giving way of the knees from weakness.—Languor, as if arising from a weakness in the pit of the stomach, he feels qualmish and has to lie down.—Staggers when walking, inclines to fall. Tonic spasm of the limbs, like rigidity.—Syncope, with vertigo, violent anguish about the pit of the stomach, and cold sweat. Characteristic Peculiarities.—Simple violent pain in various parts of the body, in the region of the ribs, &c.; the pain is felt only when touching the part. The symptoms of Ign. are increased by taking coffee or by smoking tobacco, by noise or brandy. The pains are renewed immediately" after dinner, in the evening after lying down, and in the morning immediately after waking. Leaves a dis- position to swelling of the cervical glands, toothache, and looseness of teeth, also to pressure at the stomach. Skin.—Itching in various parts of the body. The skin and pe- riosteum are painful. Sensitiveness of the skin to a draft of air. °Nettle-rash with violent itching. °Chilblains. Burning in the ulcer. Sleep.—Drowsiness. Deep, unrefreshing sleep. Deep sleep or sleeplessness. Light sleep.—^Restless sleep, with nightmare.—Con- vulsive movement of the muscles of the mouth during sleep. Moan- ing and groaning while asleep. Snoring inspirations during sleep. Sudden starting during sleep, moaning, piteous expression of coun- tenance, stamping and kicking with the feet, hands and face being pale and cold.—Concussive startings when about to go to sleep. In the evening, in tbe moment of waking, congestion, stagnation, and seething of the blood through the whole body, with melancholy.— Frightful or sad dreams. General heat with anxiety during the night, with cold thighs, palpitation of the heart, short breathing, and lascivious dreams.—Dreams towards morning, fatiguing the mind. Excessive, convulsive yawning. Fever.—Coldness and chilliness. Chilliness of the back and over the arms. °Chill, with desire for cold water, or with nausea and vomiting. Chills in the face and on the arms, with chattering of teeth and goose-skin. Constant shuddering between the parox- ysms of fever.—Heat of the hands, with shuddering over the body and an anxiety increasing unto tears. Shaking shuddering, with redness of the face in the evening.—Fever in the afternoon: shud- dering, with colic ; afterwards weakness and sleep, with burning heat of the body. °Chill, followed by external heat, then sweat.—°Quo- tidian, °tertian, and °quartan fevers, °with anticipating type.—cChill, with thirst and external coldness (frequently proceeding from the ab. domen), followed by heat without thirst, with cold feet, with or with IGNATIA AMARA. 701 out sweat.—° Gastric and bilious fevers. ? Sudden attacks of flushes of heat over the whole body.—External heat and chilliness without in- ternal heat.—General sweat. °Sweat during a meal. °Sweat only in the face.—During the fever : °headache, °pain in the pit of the stomach, °great languor, °paleness, or alternate redness and paleness of the face, °lips dry and chapped, °white tongue, deep sleep with snoring, °nettle-rash.—During the chilliness : °nausea, vomiting of food or bile and mucus, °sallow complexion, °pain in the back, lame- ness of the lower limbs.—During the heat: ♦redness of the cheeks, absence of thirst, °internal shuddering, °cold feet, °stinging in the limbs, °pain in the back, °delirium, °vertigo, °beating headache, lacerating in the bones, °sleep.—During the sweat: °stinging and roaring in the ears. Moral Symptoms.—Excessive anguish, hindering speech. Exces- sive and anxious desire to do things in haste. Dullness of sense, with inclination to be in a hurry. Fearfulness, timidity. Great tendency to start. Boldness.— The slightest contradiction irritates him. #Quick but transitory ill-humor and anger. Inconstancy, impatience, irresoluteness, quarrelsomeness. Intolerance of noise, the pupils dilating more easily. Subdued, low voice, is unable to talk aloud. °Seeks to be alone.—♦Great indifference and apathy, °also with whining mood and indisposition to work.—*Avoids talking; taciturn.—Still, serious melancholy.—^Brooding to himself, full of internal chagrin. Fixed idea. Sensitiveness of feeling. *Sadness. Weak fallacious memory. Sensorium and Head.—Heat in the head. Sensation of hollow- ness and emptiness in the head. Vertigo. Heaviness of the head. Sensation as if the head were full of blood.—Headache, increased by stooping. Violent headache in the morning, going off by rising.— ^Lacerating headache -in the forehead, relieved by lying on the back, increasing by raising the head, with heat and redness of the cheeks and heat of the hands.—°Boring sticking pain in the fore- head and deep in the brain, relieved by lying down. Aching in tht forehead over the root of the nose. ^Cramp-like headache -over the root of the nose. °Crampy pressure in the forehead and occiput, with redness of the face, obscuration of sight, and lachrymation.— *Sensation as if a nail were pressed into the brain (clavus). Head ache, as if something hard ivere pressed on the surface of the brain, recurring in paroxysms. Pressure in the temples, sometimes accom- panied by a deep sleep. Headache, a3 if the temples would be pressed out.—Beating headache. Headache at every pulsation Pain in the outer parts of the head. Headache as if bruised. Head 702 IGNATIA AMARA. ache in the morning, aggravated by mental action. °Tendency of the head to incline backwards. ♦Falling off of the hair. Eyes.—Agglutination of the eye-lids in the morning; pressure in the eye, as ♦from a grain of sand. *Cannot bear the glare of the light. °Inflammation of the eyes, °or of tbe eye-ball, as far as it is covered by the lids. °Scrofulous ophthalmia. ? °Redness of the eyes.—* Dim-si ghtedness.—° Convulsive movements of the eyes and lids.—°Staring with dilated pupils. Contraction of the pupils. Ears.—Beating in the interior of the ear.—Tingling in the ears. —Pain in the interior of the ear.—°Hard hearing, except for speech. Nose.—♦Pain in the nose, as if sore and ulcerated, °also with swelling of the nose. Ulcerated nostrils.—Bleeding of the nose.— *Goryza, with dull pain in the forehead and hysteric nervousness. Fluent coryza. Dry coryza with catarrh. Face.—Complexion °pale, ♦red, or °blue. ♦Redness and burn- ing heat of one cheek -and ear. °Clay-colored, sunken face, with blue margins around the eyes. Alternation of redness and paleness. °Sweat, only in the face.—°Convulsive twitching and distortion of the facial muscles. °Twitching of the corners of the mouth. ^Spas- modic closing of the jaws.—°Eruption in the face.—The lips bleed and crack. ♦Ulceration of one of the corners of the mouth. Jaws and Teeth.—Pain of the inner side of the gums, as if numb, or as if burnt. In the morning the teeth are painful as if loose Sore pain in the molares.—°Difficult dentition, with convulsions. Mouth.—Soreness of the inner mouth. °Redness and inflamma- tion oi the inner mouth. The anterior half of the tongue feels numb when talking; it feels burnt and sore when eating. Throat.—♦Increased secretion of saliva. ♦Foam at the mouth. ♦Constant mucus in the mouth, -also on waking. ^Slinging in the throat between the acts of deglutition; ♦sensation when swallowing as if one swallowed over a lump, causing a cracking noise. Stinging during deglutition, deep in the pharynx, going off by continued swal- lowing. Stinging sore throat, except when swallowing.—Strangulat- ing (contractive) sensation in tbe middle of the fauces (in the evening), as if a large lump had lodged in the throat, ♦which is more distinct between than during the acts of swallowing. Pressure in the throat. Pain of the inner throat, as if sore and raw. Creeping in the pharynx. °Stitchesfrom the throat to the ear.—°Inflamed, hard-swollen tonsils, with small ulcers.—°Constriction of the fauces, with eructation like singultus. ♦Difficulty qf swallowing solid or liquid food. Pain in the throat when touching it, as if the glands were swollen.—Aching pain qf the submaxillary glands. • IGNATIA AMARA. 703 Taste and Appetite.—Taste in the mouth as of a deranged sto- mach.—*Flat taste, taste like chalk.—#Food has no taste. Sour taste of saliva.—♦Aversion to milk.—°Desire for things which he does not relish when offered.—^Aversion to warm food and meat, -desires butter, cheese, and bread, and some fruit. ♦Want of appetite. °Good appetite, with a feeling of repletion after swallowing the first mouthful. —Great appetite. °Feeling of hunger in the evening, preventing sleep Gnawing canine hunger, with attacks of qualmishness and nausea. Gastric Symptoms.—Gulping up of a bitter fluid.—Empty, un- successful inclination to vomit.—Distention of the abdomen after a meal. Anxiety and painfulness in the abdomen after supper. Scrap- ing in the upper part of tbe region of the larynx, as if caused by heartburn. Sour eructations Hiccough after eating or drinking Burning on the tongue. ♦Nausea, with uneasiness and ano-uish. Stomach.—Pain extending from the stomach to the spleen and back. °Periodical pains in the stomach, disturbing the night's rest, aggravated by pressure. Cold stomach. Burning in the stomach. ^Sensation in the stomach as if one had been fasting long. Alter- nate paroxysms of a feeling of emptiness in the stomach with canine hunger, and feeling of repletion. Qualmishness of the stomach, ^Peculiar feeling of weakness in the epigastrium and pit of the sto- mach.—Pressure in the pit of the stomach. *Fine stinging in the region qf the stomach.—Spasmodic pains in the stomach.—Burning pressure and drawing in the region of the stomach.—Sensitiveness of the region of the stomach to contact.— -Gastritis. 1 Abdomen.—Severe, afterwards ♦fine stinging in the pit of the sto- mach. Pain in the epigastrium, as if strained. Colicky pain in the epigastrium, as if the intestines would burst. Colic : contractive pain from both sides, below the ribs. Constrictive sensation in the hypochondria, as in constipation, with hemitrania. °Periodical ab- dominal spasms, particularly in sensitive or hysteric individuals.— Colic: continual pain in the bowels as if bruised, in the morning when in bed. Sensation in the umbilical region as of something alive there. Nightly flatulent colic. *Grumbling in the abdomen. Rum- bling in the bowels. Throbbing in the abdomen. Oppression and cutting in the abdomen. Pinching with pressure in the abdomen, from eating fruit. Colic, first pinching, afterwards sticking, in one side of the abdomen.—Pinching in the abdomen.—Drawing and pinching in the abdomen, changingto a pressing sensation in the rectum, with qualmish- ness and weakness in the pit of the stomach and paleness of countenance. Stool.—* Mucous stool, °with colic. °Diarrhceic stools, of bloody mucus, with rumbling in the abdomen. Acrid stool. Frequent, 704 IGNATIA AMARA. • almost unsuccessful desire for stool, with colic, tenesmus, and ten- demy to protrusion of the rectum.—Anxious desire for stool, with in- activity of the rectum.—♦Costiveness from taking cold, or riding in a carriage.—Spasmodic tension in the rectum.—Sharp painful pres- sure in the rectum after stool. Painless contraction of the anus.— Violent itching in the rectum.—^Creeping in the rectum as of ascarides.—Haemorrhoidal sufferings during soft stools.—Sore pain in the anus between stools. Swelling of the margin of the anus, as if the veins were distended. Blind haemorrhoids with pain. Haemorrhage from the anus, with itching of the perinaeum.—Itching of the anus. Urine.—°Urging, irresistible desire to urinate.—Painful pressure, with a sensation of scraping, in the region of the neck of the bladder, especially when walking and after a meal.—Frequent emission of watery urine. Turbid urine.—Scraping and scraping-lacerating pain in the middle of the urethra. Male Genital Organs.—Burning itching in the region of the neck of the bladder.—Soreness and ulcerative pain with itching in the margin of the prepuce. Cramp-pain in the glans. Itching sting. ing of the scrotum.—Swelling of the scrotum in the evening. Sexual desire with impotence.—Complete absence of sexual desire. Female Genital Organs.—Violent, crampy pressing in the region of the uterus, resembling labor-pains, followed by a purulent, corrosive leucorrhoea. The menses come away in lumps of coagulated blood. The menses are scanty, but tbe blood is black and has a putrid odor. The menses delay. During the menses : °spasms in the abdomen. ° Headache, with heaviness and beat in the head, photophobia, con- tractive colic, anguish, palpitation of the heart, languor unto fainting. —°Metrorrhagia. ? °Uterine spasms with lancinations, °with labor pains. °Uterine spasms with crampy pressing, relieved by pressure and in a recumbent posture. Larynx and Chest.—Hollow, dry cough on waking in the morn ing. Constrictive sensation in the pit of the throat, exciting a cough, as from the vapor of Sulphur. ♦Chronic night-cough. °Dry cough, continuing day and night, with fluent coryza, °Concussive spasmodic cough. ♦Rough, dry cough after measles, °Hollow cough on wak- ing, excited by a titillation above the pit of the stomach. Difficult expectoration.— Yellow expectoration. Chest.—Stitches in the region of the heart when expiring air. Stitches in the left side. ^Oppression of the chest and breathing. Oppression of the chest after midnight. Tensive pain across the chest when standing erect. °Spasmodic constriction of the chest.— Pressing and pushing in the chest.—Want of breath when walking, IGNATIA AMARA. "05 with qualmishness in the pit of the stomach, cough when standing still, and languor of the whole body.—Fullness in the chest.—In- spirations are impeded as by a load oppressing the chest. °Arrest of breathing when running.—Pain in the sternum as if bruised, felt even when touching it. Throbbing in the right half of the chest.— ^Palpitation qf the heart, %t night, with stitches in the region of the heart. Palpitation of the heart during deep meditation. Palpi- tation of the heart during dinner. Palpitation of the heart, early in the morning, in bed, with heat. Neck and Back.—Beating in the small of the back.—°Lancina- tions from the small of the back through the loins. Aching pain as if bruised in the small of the back. Lancinating pain in the nape of the neck. Stiffness qf the nape of the neck. Sticking pain with pressure in the spine, when walking in the open air.—Aching pain in the neck. Aching pain in the glands.—°Painless glandular swellings on the neck. Arms.—Pain in the shoulder-joint, when moving the arms, as if dislocated. Pain as if bruised or as after bodily exertion, in the shoulder joint, when bending the arm backwards.—Griping, griping-lacerating pulling, and partly drawing pain, when at rest (the pain becomes sting ing during motion). Rheumatic pain in the shoulder-joints, or as if bruised, when walking in the open air. Pain as if bruised in tha muscles of the arm. Intolerable pains in the bones and joints of the arm Drawing pain in the arms. Pulsative drawing, extending from the upper arm to the wrist and fingers. °Numb feeling and creeping as of something alive in the arm, at night. °Convulsive twitchings in the arm. °Convulsive twitchings of the fingers. Legs.—Stitches in the hip-joint. Almost paralytic immobility of the lower limbs. In the morning when rising, stiffness qf the knees and tar sal-joints, thighs, and small of the back. °Convulsive jerkings of the lower limbs.—Pains as if bruised in the posterior muscles of the thighs, when sitting. Stiffness in the knees and loins, causing pain during motion. Stiffness in the feet in the morning.—Tension, with heaviness of the legs.—Cramp in the legs and feet.—Contusive pain in the ball of the heel. Aching pain in the tibia when walking. —Undulating, griping, lacerating, and pulling pain with pressure, in the anterior tibial muscles, especially during motion. Lacerating pain in the dorsum of the foot.—Itching burning (as of chilblains) in the heel and in other parts of the foot. °Stinging in tho soles.— Heaviness and weakness of the feet. Coldness of the feet and legs, extending above the knees. Painful sensitiveness of the soles when walking. °Ulcerative pain of the soles.—The feet are burning hot. 30^ 45 .'•56 ILLICIUM ANISATUM. — IMPONDERABILIA. 144.—ILLICIUM ANISATUM. &.NIS.—Semen Anisi Stellati. The Seed Badian.—Noack and Trinks SYMPTOMS.—Painful dull stitches in the skin of the fore-arm.— Warm smarting sensation in the nose, succeeded by sneezing.—Food, except bread, tastes salt, bitter, although he has a good appetite.— Nausea, with inclination to vomit, in the stomach r.nd chest.—Sensa- tion in the stomach as if it contained an ulcer. 145.—IMPONDERABILIA. a. ELECTRICITY.' ELEC.—See Caspari, "Horn. Bibliotheque," II. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.— Pains in the limbs. Drawing through all the limbs, extending to the tips of the fingers and toes. Shock through the whole body, proceeding from the malar bone. Relaxation of the nerves and muscles.—Fainting.—Stiffness qfthe limbs.—Paralysis of single limbs, particularly the lower.—Trembling of the limbs.—Subsultus-tendinum.—°St. Vitus' dance.—Aggrava- tion of the epileptic fits. Skin.—Itching or tingling over the whole body.—Itch-like eruption in the joints.—The skin becomes blackish (a).—Ecchymoses. Sleep.—Yawning, with shuddering over the whole body.—Sleep- lessness (a). Fever.—Shuddering over the body, with yawning.—Chilliness, then dry, short heat. Frequent alternation of chilliness and heat, with sore throat. Chilliness with profuse sweat, with painful spasms in the head and along the back.—Heat through the whole body, with chilliness on motion.—Pulse intermittent.—Pulse quick and strong (a).—Accelerated circulation. Moral Symptoms. — Weeping, sighing, crying out.—Paroxysms of oppressive anxiety. Violent uneasiness (a). Dread at the ap- proach of a thunder-storm (a). Involuntary laughter (also a). Rage. Sensorium.—Loss of consciousness. Loss of sensibility (a). Look- ing around with staring eyes.—Loss of memwy. Dullness of tho head. Stupefaction (a). Giddiness. He^d.—Simple headache (a). Pressure in the forehead, from above 1 The symptoms which are marked (a) belong to the atmospheric, those which are not marked to the artificially-excited electric fluid IMPONDERABILIA--ELECTRICITY. 70 J downwards, as from a stone.—Painful spasms in the head. Disagree- able shocks, generally behind. Roaring in the whole sinciput- Prickings in the scalp (a). Undulating sensation under the scalp. Feeling of coldness on the vertex.—Stinging itching of the head and thighs.—°The growth of the hair is promoted. Eyes.—Inflammation qfthe eyes.—Profuse lachrymation (also a) —Wild rolling of the eye-balls. Contraction of the morbidly en larged pupils—Dim-sightedness. omindness (ky_Black pgint fee. fore the right eye. Everything looks yellow. Ears.—Drawing from the jaws into the ears—Redness and warmth of the ear. Swelling of the inner ear. Suppuration and small ulcers in the meatus-auditorius.—Blister behind the ears full of an acrid fluid.—Whizzing in the ears, or sensation as if obstructed by a plug. Nose.—Loss of smell. Face.—Expression of terror in the countenance (a). Swelling of tbe face.—Scurf in the face, on the arms and body. Large blisters on the cheeks.—Chapped lips. Eruption around the mouth and chin. Teeth.—Lacerating in the upper teeth, proceeding from the head. Pain as from subcutaneous ulceration in old sockets of the molar teeth. Mouth and Throat.—Soreness of the inner cheek. Increased secretion of saliva (a). Foam at the mouth (a).—The tongue is very sensitive, particularly at the tip.—Swelling qfthe tongue (a). Blis- ters on the tongue.—Loss of speech, inability to articulate (a).—Con- stant titillation in the throat. Inflammation of the pharynx. Appetite.—Increased appetite.—Heartburn. Ptyalism,— Nausea. Desire to vomit. Vomiting, with sore throat.—Haematemesis. Stomach and Abdomen.—Sense of repletion in the stomach, after a slight meal.—Spasmodic contraction of the stomach.—Cutting in the abdomen. Stool.—Black-yellow, liquid stools, having a fetid smell.—Violent pressing in the anus (during the menses). Burning at the anus. Flowing haemorrhoids. Urine.—Sensation as if the bladder would burst. Frequent mic- turition. °Incontinenee of urine.—Discharge of blood with the urine. Female Genital Organs.—Black and thick menstrual blood.— Profuse menses, with pressing in the rectum.—Leucorrhoea, first thin, then thick, with coagula of the size of a hazel-nut. Larynx.—Cough, with violent titillation in the throat and pressing in the forehead from within outward. Chest.—Panting breathing. Asthma all one's life, with palpita- tion of the heart and disposition to faint (a).—Chilliness in the left 708 IMPONDERABILIA--GALVANISM. side of the chest.—Palpitation of the heart, with fever, or with head- ache, or with oppressive anxiety and bright-red face. Painful quick movement from t'te region of the heart through the chest. Back.—Creeping in tbe spine.—Boies in the back and nape of the neck. Arms.—Frightful pains in the arms and lower limbs.—Jerking or lacerating in the joints of the arms and hands.—Paralysis of the arms. Swelling of one arm. Crusty ulcers on the arms and lower limbs.—Violent jerking in the upper arm.—Trembling of the hands. Swelling of the hand, also red, or sudden.—Feeling of numbness in the tips of the fingers. Legs.—Sensation in the thigh as if the flesh had become detached from the bone.—Tottering of the knees. Red spots on the skin.— Burning of the feet, up to the knees, particularly at night. Trembling and feeling of weariness in the feet. Sense of numbness and disten- tion in the feet, and as if they had gone to sleep. Tingling in the soles of the feet. b. GALVANISM.1 GALV.—Caspari, "Bibliot.," III. GENERAL SYMPTOMS. —Painful tightness throughout the whole body (c). Slight shakings as in fever and ague (s).—Tetanic spasms. Reappearance of former epileptic spasms.—Fainting. As- phyxia. Skin.—Scarlet redness on the extremities, chest, and neck, with rash (c). Inflammation and swelling. Scarlet rash over the whole body, except the face. Sleep.—Drowsiness.—Sleeplessness. Fever.—Alternation of heat and chilliness, with giddiness, head- ache, burning in the throat, and difficult breathing (c).—Increased warmth along the back of the nerve in the paralyzed limb. Burning flushes of heat over the whole body (c).—Pulse full and strong (z). Pulse quick, small, contracted (c).—Sour exhalation from tbe body. Moral Symptoms.—Sighing and malaise.—Oppressive anxiety.— Ill humor and obstinacy. Sensorium.—Dullness of the mind.—Involuntary activity of the mind, with almost, entire suppression of the power of the voluntary muscles.—Stupefaction.—Vertigo with flashes before the eyes. Ver- tigo with deafness. Vertigo with alternation of heat and chilliness. 1 The symptoms marked (o) belong to the copper pole; (s) signifies the sil- ver, and (z) the zinc pole. IMPONDERABILIA--GALVANISM. 70J> Head.—Catarrhal feeling in the head and nose.—Roaring in the head.—Chronic hydrocephalus. Eyes.—Inflammation qfthe eyes.—Swelling of the eyes.—Styes.— Amaurosis. Things appear crooked, larger.—Things appear tremu- lous, brighter, blackish, or dark-blue (z).—Flashes before the eyes. Ball of light before the eyes. Ears.—Inflammation and suppuration of the outer ear.—°Defi- ciency of ear-wax. Discharge from the hard-hearing ear, first watery, then purulent (z). Ulcers in the ears. Haemorrhage from the ears. —^Deafness. Whizzing and singing in the ears.—Sounds as during hiccough (z).—Sounds as of wind-instruments Roaring, rumbling in the ears. Nose.—Strong pressure in the nose (z). Violent cutting and sting- ing.—Soreness of the mucous membrane.—Bleeding of the nose.— Putrid smell in the nose (s). Face and Teeth.—Redness of the face, as from erysipelas. Swell- ing of the face.—Convulsions of the lips and facial muscles. Mouth and Throat.—Increased secretion of saliva.—Convulsive contraction of the tongue. Heaviness of the tongue, with impeded deglutition. Gastric Symptoms.—Sourish taste in the mouth (z).—Metallic taste.— Vomiting of a grass-green liquid (c). Abdomen.—Dull colic. Pinching and cutting in the abdomen, as from flatulence, with eructations, emission of flatulence, and diar- rhoea. Stool and Anus.— Urging to stool.—Diarrhoza with violent vomit- ing.—Beating and working in the rectum (z). Contraction in the anus.—Increased haemorrhoidal flux. Urine and Genital Organs.—Violent burning in the bladder (z). Violent pains in the region of the bladder.—Increased gonorrhoeal discharge.—The menses, which were suppressed, appear. Larynx and Chest.—In tuberculous subjects the tubercles soon became soft and the troublesome cough disappeared.—Asthma (c). Deep, slow, rattling breathing. Great oppression of the chest, with violent anguish, palpitation qfthe heart, hurried, intermittent pulse, nausea, ptyalism, tightness in the pit of the stomach, and copious secretion of a red, fiery urine. Violent pains in the chest. Arms.—Rheumatic stiffness of the neck and nape of the neck.— Stiffness of the shoulder. Burning and beating of the shoulder, with drawing extending to the fingers.—Drawing pain and tightness in the arm (c). Warmth in the arm (z). Coldness in the arm (o). Tetanic stiffness and languor of the arm.—Burning in the hand.— 710 IMPONDERABILIA--MAGNETISMUS. Continued numbness of the fingers. Sensation as if the finger were constricted, as if swollen and inflamed. e. MAGNETISMUS. 1 MAGNES. ARTIFICIALIS.' MAGNES ART.—See Hahnemann's " Mat. Med. Pura/' III.—Duration of Ac- tion : from ten days to a fortnight. Compare with— Bell., Croc, Elec, Fer.-mag., Galv., Ign., Lye, Magn.-p.-arct., Magn.-p.-austr., Nux-v., Petrol., Puis., Stram., Sab., Teucr., Zinc. Antidotes.—Electr., Ign., Zinc, (imposition of a Zinc plate). GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Bruised pain in the joints in the morning. Bruised pain of all the joints, or rheumatic pain of the ligaments of the arms and of all the joints of the chest, back, and nape of the neck, during motion and during an expiration. Paralytic pain in all the joints,, worse during motion and when standing, accom- panied with a drawing and lacerating sensation.—The joints are painful when moving the limbs.—Burning emanations through every part of the body in every direction.—Burning and pricking pains.— Heaviness in all the limbs, and palpitation of tbe heart.—Dull, numb pain.—Drawing and pricking pain, mingled with itching. Shud- dering movement through the whole body. The joints are painful when touched.—Paralysis.—Loss of consciousness, with staring eyes, open mouth, almost imperceptible inspiration.—Languor in all the limbs.—Fits of fainting, palpitation of the heart, and suffocation.— Insensibility and deadly sopor. Skin.—Boils.—Corrosive pains in various parts.—Burning stinging pain.—Small pimples on the chest. Extremely itching eruption.— Red eruption, red spots. Sleep.—Sleep disturbed by dreams full of oppression and anxiety, resembling nightmare ; headache in the occiput after waking, with asthma, and bruised pain in all the joints, going off after rising and during motion.—Wakeful drowsiness in the night, toward morning, after sunrise the drowsiness increases to a stupor.—Tossing about in the bed during sleep. In the evening, symptoms of a catarrhal fever; the long bones are painful as if bruised; with dull headache causing a cloudiness. Fever.—Shuddering over the whole body, partly cold, partly burning, and causing an intense pain. Hot and creeping sensation 1 General symptoms of the Magnet, produced by touching either pole indis- criminately while handling the Magnet, or by laying the whole of the magnetic lurface ffat upon the body. IMPONDERABILIA— MAGNETISMUS. 711 in the affected part. Profuse sweat with shuddering.—Fever after midnight.—Disagreeable, troublesome warmth in the whole body, with sweat in the face, without thirst. Moral Symptoms.—Talks to himself while attending to his busi- ness. Excessive exhaustion of the body, with feeling of heat and cold sweat in the face. Hurried zeal. Hurried heedlessness and forgetfulness. Wavering irresoluteness, hurriedness.—Angry and vehement. Sensorium.—Vertigo in the evening after lying down. The ob- jects of sight seem to be wavering. Head.—Whizzing in the whole head. The head feels confused as when one takes Opium.—Transitory headache. Headache, in the morning, after opening the eyes, as if bruised, going off after rising. Headache, as if felt after catching cold. Headache occasioned by the least chagrin. Face and Eyes.—Cold hands, with heat in the face, and smarting sensation in the skin of the face. Intolerable burning prickings in the muscles of the face. Burning, lacerating, and sparkling in the eye. Burning, drawing, and constant sparks in the affected eye.—Fiery sparks before the eyes, like shooting stars. Smarting in the eyes in the evening after lying down, as from acrid tears. Itching qfthe eye-lids and eye-balls. Inflammation of the eye-lids. Ears and Nose.—Loud, strong whizzing in one of the ears, ac- companied with headache of the same side. Noise as of seething water in the ear. Electric shocks in the ear. Pain in the cheek and in the ear.—Illusion of smell. Teeth and Jaws.—Painful sensitiveness around the margin of the lips.—Lacerating pain in the periosteum of the upper jaw, coming with a jerk, and extending as far as the orbit.—Darting lacerating pain in the facial bones.—Looseness of the teeth.—Violent grum- bling in the teeth, even without any apparent cause. Aching pains of the hollow, carious teeth.—Uniform pain in the roots of the lower incisores, as if the teeth were bruised, sore, or corroded. Mouth and Throat.—Shocks in the jaws.—Shock in the teeth with burning. Pain in the submaxillary gland as if swollen. Ten- sive pain in the submaxillary gland. Ptyalism every evening, with swollen lips.—Swelling qfthe throat, redness of the face, and increased palpitation of the heart. Taste and Appetite.—Hunger.—Want of appetite. Gastric Symptoms.—Eructations. Abdomen.—Pressure in the epigastrium, as from a stone.—Tensive aching and anxious repletion in the epigastrium.—Qualmish sensation 712 IMPONDERABILIA--MAGNETISMUS and painfulness in the intestines, as if one had taken a resinous carthartic or Rhubarb, with painful emission of hot, putrid flatulence Pressure as from hernia. Tensive and burning pain in the epigas- trium and hypogastrium. Stomach.—Pain as from a bandage over the stomach.—Pressure in the stomach, with cramps in the direction of the upper parts; paleness of the face, and coldness of the body, the pulse being very small, tight, unequal. Stool.—Frequent, but almost unsuccessful urging to diarrhoea in the morning. Diarrhoea without colic. Constipation with headache —Constipation, as if the rectum were constricted. Violent hamor- rhoidal pain in the anus after stool.—Burning ut the anus when sit- ting, as in haemorrhoids. Itching haemorrhoids. Blind haemorrhoids 'ifter soft stool.—Prolapsus-recti when going to stool. Urine and Genital Organs.—Burning in the bladder, especially in the region of the neck, a few minutes after urinating. Nightly emission qf semen.— Want of sexual desire, aversion to an embrace. —Increased metrorrhagia. Larynx.—Violent, but short-lasting attack of dry cough. Convul- sive cough. Violent fit of cough, with profuse expectoration of blood. Chest.—Asthma, after midnight. Intolerable burning stitches in the muscles of the side of the chest, toward the back.—Spasmodic cough, with shocks in the chest and anxious breathing, and visible oppression of the chest.—Pricking in the chest, and a cold shudder- ing burning through the whole body. Violent oppression of the chest, lacerating in the stomach and bowels, and beating in the shoulders. Back.—Painful stiffness of the cervical vertebrae in the morning, during motion.—Pain in the back when standing or sitting quiet.— Burning in the dorsal spine.—Twitching of the muscles of the back. —Burning emanation from the stomach through the abdomen and back. Arms.—Beating in the top of the shoulder, with sensation as if torn.—Drawing pain in either shoulder, and down the nape of the neck, with beating in either arm.—Pulling in the joints and muscles of the arm.—Burning and cutting in the arms and chest, with cold shuddering.—Beating and throbbing in all the joints of the arms and fingers.—Deep-seated pain in the arm, extending as far as the elbow, the arm going to sleep and trembling spasmodically.—Burning in the elbow-joint.—Drawing from the head down to the tip of the fingers.— Pain in the wrist-joint. Legs.—Pain as if bruised in the fleshy part of the leg.—Drawing IMPONDERABILIA--MAGNETISMUS. 713 from the hips to the feet, leaving a burning along that tract.—Fiery burning in the upper and lower limbs. Painful going to sleep oi the thighs and legs when sitting. Pricking from the knee to the feet. Stitches in the leg. 2. MAGNETIS POLUS ARCTICUS. MAGNET. P. ARCT—North Pole of the Magnet.—See Hahnemann's "Mat. Med. Pur," III.—Duration of Action: upwards of ten days. Compare with—Magnes-art. Antidotes.—See Magnes-art. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Tensive sensation.—Bruised pain. *Tremulousness through the whole body, especially in the feet. °Nervousness, with trembling, uneasiness in the limbs, great disten- tion of the abdomen, anxiety, solicitude, and great nervous weakness. Sensation of coldness. Drawing in the periosteum of all the bones.— Heaviness in single limbs.—Sensation of dryness and tightness in the body, with want of strength.—The faintness, the bruised and painful sensation in the limbs, were worse in the open air. In the morning a general faintness, with a sweat of anguish; want of appetite at din- ner ; afterwards diarrhoea. Skin.—Crawling over the skin.—Burning pain in the existing herpes. Sleep.—Excessive spasmodic yawning, with pain in the articula- tion of the jaw. Sopor.—Constant drowsiness in the daytime. Deep sleep towards morning, with lascivious and frightful dreams.—Restless sleep.—Frequent waking as if in affright. Fever.—Chilliness, with yawning, early in the morning. Sensa- sation of coldness or coolness over the whole body. Shuddering. Cold sweat.—Heat in the face.—In the evening the blood rushes to the head. Heat in one of the cheeks, accompanied with a feeling of internal heat, irritable disposition, and talkativeness. Fiery redness of the face, oppression, stronger pulse.—Fever: frequent flushes of heat in the afternoon, only in the head, with a red, hot face.—Flush of humid warmth over the whole body. Moral Symptoms.—Out of humor and weary. Sadness.—Indolent fancy.—Indolent mind.—Anxious, desponding, inconsolable, self- reproaching mood.—Despondency. Head.—Headache, consisting of a sore and bruised pain in the surface of the brain. The head feels bruised and as if dashed to pieces. —Sensation as if the head were pressed down by a load.—Disagree- able, compressive sensation in the head. Headache, especially when raising or moving the eyes.—Tensive sensation in the brain behind 714 IMPONDERABILIA--MAGNETISMUS. the forehead. Headache, as if the temples were pressed asunder Violent headache the whole afternoon, as if the brain were pressed asunder. Rush of blood to the head, and suffusion of heat in the cheeks. Tubercles on the hairy scalp, painful when touched. Eyes.—The eyes protrude. Staring look. Jerking and drawing in the eye-lids. Drawing in the eye-lids with lachrymation. Sensa tion as of sand in the eye.—Burning in the weak eye; it becomes red and filled with water. Coldness of the eye. Pricking sensation in the eye.— Uneasy motion qfthe eye.—Sensation as of a cobweb in front of the eyes. Ears.— Whizzing and a drawing sensation in the ear.—Tight ness of the tympanum. Nose.—Illusion of smell.—Violent bleeding at the nose.—Sore pain in the nostrils. Redness and heat of the tip qf the nose, followed by hot, red, circumscribed spots on the cheeks. Face.—Intensely-painful tightness in the face, extending as far as the tonsils. Suffusion of heat in the cheeks, with rush of blood to the head. Jaws and Teeth.—Crushing-aching, or pinching pain in the sub- maxillary glands. Lacerating pain in the cervical muscles, as if too weary.—Painful drawing in the articulation of the lower jaw when moving it.—^Toothache, as if the tooth would be torn out, worse after a meal, and when sitting or lying down, improving when walking.— ^Toothache in the direction of the eye, with swollen inflamed gums and a red and burning cheek.—♦Throbbing in the hollow teeth (im- mediately), -followed by a pressure in the tooth, with drawing in the temples.—♦Throbbing in the tooth, with burning in the gums, and swollen, red, hot cheeks, with burning pain and beating in the cheeks, in the afternoon.—*The toothache ceases when walking in the open air, and returns in the room.—♦Aching in the hollow teeth, with swelling of one side of the face.—°Toothache with jerks through the periosteum of the jaw, the pain being a darting-aching digging-lace- rating, or burning-stinging pain. °The toothache is worse after eat- ing and in a warm room.—^Swelling of the gums of a hollow tooth, painful wheu touched. Mouth.—°Pain of the incisores on inspiring air. Toothache when eating, the teeth feel loose. Appetite and Gastric Symptoms.—Long-continued rancid heart- burn.—Sourish taste in the morning.—Frequent eructations of mere air.—Acidity of the stomach,—Tongue coated and covered with mucus.—Stomach feels as if deranged; food weighs heavily in his stomach. IMPONDERABILIA--MAGNETISMUS. 715 Stomach and Abdomen.—Pressure in the abdomen as from a stone Sudden griping in the pit of the stomach. Drawing in the pit of the stomach.—Drawing pain in the abdomen.—Warmth in the umbilical region.—Coldness in the abdomen.—Spasmodic contractive sensation in the hypogastrium.—Flatulent colic.—Continuous aching-pinching pain in the whole hypogastric region.—Violent colic at night.—Gurg- ling in the abdomen.—Relaxed condition qf the abdominal ring, when walking.—°Inguinal hernia. Stool.—Drawing, almost dysenteric pain in the hypogastrium. Stool with blood. Sharp pressure in the rectum. Stinging pinch- ing in the rectum. Aching pressing pain in the rectum. Urine and Genital Organs.—Dark urine.—Nightly and invo- luntary emission. Sharp drawing and cutting in the testicles. Respiratory Organs and Chest.—Racking and spasmodic cough while falling asleep, hindering sleep.—Suffocative spasmodic cough about midnight.—Unceasing (not titillating) irritation, inducing cough. Momentary violent turns of cough.—Sudden oppression of the chest, with anxiety.—Burning stitches in the region of the heart.—Pres- sure in the region qfthe heart. Crampy contractive pain through the chest. Anxiety and qualmishness about the chest. Back and Arms.—Pain as if bruised in the middle of the spine.— Gurgling and creeping sensation between the scapula.—Pain as if bruised in the left shoulder-joint. Trembling of the arm.—Cramp- like sensation in the arm.—Sensation of stiffness in the elbow-joint. Heaviness in the upper limbs.— Violent coldness in the arm.—Prick- ling pain in the arms as far as the shoulder.—Trembling of the hand. —Pain in the finger-joints. The fingers go to sleep. Legs.—Bruised pain in the hip-joints, aggravated by contact.— Burning pulsative stitches in the calf.—Great languor of the lower limbs. Weariness and numbness of the lower limbs. Excessive weakness of the lower limbs, when walking.—Sore pain in the heel. 3. MAGNETIS POLUS ATJSTRALIS. MAGNET. P. AUST.—South Pole of the Magnet.—See Hahnemann's " Mat. Med. Pur.," III. Compare with—Magnet.-p.-arct. Antidotes.—See Magnet.-p.-arct. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—A sort of anxiety in tbe limbs (im- mediately). Pinching in the flesh. Pinching and squeezing in various parts of the body. Pain in the limbs, as is felt when grow- ing too rapidly. Darting pains here and there.—Jerking sensation in every part of the body. Stinging-burning pains. Bruised pmn 716 IMPONDERABILIA—MAGNETISMUS. in all the limbs. Bruised pain in all the joints, early in the morning. —Stiffness of the joints.—Cracking of the joints during motion.— Lightness of the whole body. Laziness and heaviness of the whole body, a feeling of anxiety, as if threatened with paralysis. Great rush of blood to the brain. Skin.—Corrosive itching. Itching stinging, lacerating, in the evening, when in bed. Sleep.—Frequent yawning. Sleepless and wakeful. Restless sleep with loud talking and dreams. Unusual beating in the region of the heart. Fever.—Sensation like those preceding fever and ague. Shak- ing chilliness.—Feeling of coldness all over, &c, without being actually cold.—Internal coldness in the affected part.—(Wakes in the morning with a violent headache, heat, and alternate chilliness.)— Increase of internal warmth, without thirst.—General sweat in the night.—Great aversion to the open air.—Small, scarcely-perceptible pulse. Uncomfortable, unusual warmth, accompanied with a peevish mood. Flush of heat from one part of the body to the other.—Sen- sation as if the blood were jumping in the veins. Moral Symptoms.—Want of cheerfulness. Despondency. Great discouragement. Taciturn. Violent anger.—Wild, vehement, rude. Great quickness of fancy. Sensorium.—Unsteadiness of the mind.— Vertigo as if intoxicated. Head.—Rush of blood to the head. Heaviness of the head.—Fine crawling in the brain.—Shocks in either temple. Lacerating in the face. Pressure in the occiput.—Headache, pressure on the top of the head, or in either temple. Sharp, pointed, aching pain in the side of the head, with pressure from within outward. Simple and tensive pain over the whole brain.—Jerkings in the head. Spasmodic con- tractive headache in the region between the eye-brows. Face and Eyes.—Sensation as if cold air were blowing upon the body. Watery eyes. Erosive pain.—Painful smarting dryness of the eye-lids.—Swelling of the meibomian glands. Smarting in the inner canthus.—The skin around the eyes is sore. Beating and itching in the eye.—Deficient sight. Faintish sort of cloudiness. Ears.—Roaring in the ears. Sensation as of the whizzing qfthe wind in the ears.—(Inflammation of the outer ear.) Occasional stitches and ringing in the ear. Jaws and Teeth.—Pain of the submaxillary gland, as if swollen. ■—Toothache, aggravated by warm drink. Mouth and Throat.—Sensation of swelling in the tongue, and IMPONDERABILIA--MAGNETISMUS. 717 heat in the organs of speech.—Sore feeling in the throat during and between the acts of deglutition. Burning in the pharynx. Taste and Gastric Symptoms.—Indifference to food.—Metallic taste, partly sweetish, partly sourish.— Canine hunger.—Inclination to vomit. Fits of nausea when stooping forward. Eructations of mere air. Stomach and Abdomen.—Pain in the stomach, as when one presses upon a bruised spot. Violent aching pain in the pit of the stomach. —Loud rumbling in the abdomen. Flatulent colic at night.—Draw- ing pain in the right side of the abdomen, scarcely permitting bim to walk.—Lacerating colic occasioned by walking, and appeased by sitting. Distended abdomen. Feeling of repletion in the abdomen. Stool.—(Frequent desire for stool, causing nausea.)—Cutting in the abdomen, with chilliness, followed by diarrhoea. Involuntary discharge of thin stool. Itching of a haemorrhoidal tumor at the anus. Genital and Urinary Organs.—Incontinence of urine.—Smart- ing pain in the fore part of the urethra. Drawing in the spermatic cord. —Jerking in the spermatic cord. Lacerating in the spermatic cord. —Lacerating, strangulating jerks in the testicles.—The glans is red and inflamed, with itching and tension. Nocturnal emission. Vio- lent excitement of the sexual desire. Impotence. Derangement of the menses, appearing early or late. Respiratory Organs and Chest.—Coryza, and cough with ex- pectoration of green mucus, and short breath. Deep inspiration, resembling a kind of sobbing, and accompanied with involuntary deglutition. Shortness of breathing in the pit of the stomach.— Oppression of the chest, as if the breathing were tremulous. Pain in both sides of the sternum, consisting in pressure and drawing, with an anguish.—Palpitation of the heart. Sharp stitch in the right chest, arresting the breathing.—Aching pain in the chest, afternoon and evening. Back and Arms.—Pinching in the muscles of the back. Gnaw- ing and smarting in the back.—Aching, and at the same time burn- ing pain in tbe small of the back, during rest and motion.—Dull stitches in the small of the back.—Intolerable pain, as if bruised.— Quick, painful jerking, in the arms, from above downward.—Sense oi fullness in the arm.—Painful stiffness in the elbow-joint. Draw- ing paralytic pain. Pain in the arms, as if the blood had been arrested.—Stiffness of the elbow-joints. Sensation in the arm as if it had been asleep.—Painful drawing in the fingers, and finger-joints Legs.—Paralytic and bruised pain in the hip-joints. Drawing 718 INDIGO. with pressure, in the muscles of the thighs.—Stinging itching in the thigh. Beating and jerking, the limbs being convulsively contracted. —Lacerating with pressure in the patella. The knees give way in walking. Compound pain in the knee, aching and lacerating. Cramp-pain.—Beating in the muscles of the legs. Cramp-like draw- ing pain in the calves. Pain as if sprained in the tarsal-joint.—Sen sation in the feet as if they had been frozen. , 146.—INDIGO. IND.—Common Indigo.—See Noack and Trinks. Compare with—Nux-v., Lye, Tongo, Ign. Antidotes.—Op. ?? GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Darting and lacerating in the whole body, afternoon and evening.—Stinging of various kinds. Darting. Stitches, going and coming like the pulse. Burning stitches. Draw- ing stitches.—Lacerating. Gnawing lacerating. Boring-gnawing lacerating. Darting lacerating.—Lacerating with pressure (teeth). Drawing, simple or jerking, or else terminating with a jerk. Draw- ing sensation from below upwards. Contractive sensation. —Pulsa- tions. Gurgling.—Boring.—Gnawing.—Cutting. Lancinations. —Tension.—Pressure.—Bruised pain. Pain as from a shock. Prickling, tingling, tickling, and itching. Excessive itching of various parts of the body, preceded by a dull headache in the evening. ■—Burning.—Bone-pains.—Pains in the joints.—Jerking and twitch - ing. Slight convulsions.—Subsultus-tendinum of every extremity, also of the hypogastric region and of the inner side of the thighs.—■ Violent disturbances of the sensus-communis. Illusory sensations. —Excessive nervous irritation.—Great languor and weariness, in- dolence, and prostrate feeling, particularly in the lower limbs, in the daytime, evening, and even after going to bed. Languor of the hands and feet, as if paralyzed by blows. Weak feeling in the limbs. —°Unusually slight weariness after dinner.—Haemorrhage. Characteristic Peculiarities.— The pains are characterized by great intensity, are worst during rest and when sitting, and can frequently either be entirely suppressed by rubbing and pressure or by motion, or alleviated so as to reappear with less intensity.— The majority of the pains come on or are aggravated in the afternoon and evening. Skin.—Itching of the skin, particularly in the face, with small INDIGO. 719 blisters, particularly on the left side of the face, from the forehead to the neck.—The face and body are covered with pimples. Sleep.—Frequent yawning and great drowsiness.—Restless sleep. — Wakes very early, with a feeling of malaise and oppression in tht epigastrium, great irritability of the senses, headache, and languor.— Waking in the night with a start, as in affright.—Muttering during sleep.—Dreams occasioning anxiety and causing one to start. Fever.—Coldness after rising in the morning, or before going to bed.—Chilliness over the whole body, with violent headache.— Chilliness, constant desire to urinate, turbid urine, great weariness, and feeling of malaise.—Slight febrile shiverings. — Oppression, anguish, rapid circulation, and short-lasting congestion to the head. —Great heat, particularly in the face, great anguish, increased secre- tion of urine, itching in all the limbs, nightly restlessness, quiet but not sound or refreshing sleep in the morning.—Blue sweat.—Spas- modic pulse a» 76 beats. Moral Symptoms.—Excited mood and desire to be busy.—Cheer- ful.—Depressed, sad, taciturn.—Melancholy.1 Slight mental derange- ment and convulsions. Head.—Excessive giddiness with headache.—Sensation of dullness and heaviness in the head during motion, in the forenoon.—Heavi- ness in the head, as from a heavy load on the vertex, when stooping. *Constant pain in the sinciput, attended with an aching pain in. the right hypochondrium.—Feeling of pressure in the head.—Compressive pain.—Headache with redness and heat of the face.—Undulating sen- sation through the whole head. Beating in the whole head. Beat- ing at times in the bones of the skull. Violent darting pain in the head.—Beating with painful stinging in the occiput.—Stinging in the upper part of the head, deep in the brain. Severe lacerating pain in the head. Lacerating in the fore part of the forehead, with drowsi- ness and languor, in the evening.—Painful drawing in the upper and outer parts of the head. Eyes.—Violent jerking and twitching above and in the lids.— Weakness of the eyes, as if they would close involuntarily.—Inflam mation of the meibomian glands of the lower lid, attended with slight headache, toothache, roaring in the ears, and humming in the fore- head.—Pressure in the eye. Ears.—Violent painful lacerating before and behind the ears.— Painful stinging about the ear, extending towards the temple and the 1 According to Rush and Esquirol, the dyers in Indigo become melancholy those in searht vehement 720 INDIGO. lower jaw.—Violent boring pain deep in the ear.—Pressure and roar- ing ih the ear.—Spasm in the parotid gland. Nose.—Lacerating cuttings in the bones and cartilages of the nose. Great irritation in the root of the nose. Stoppage of the nose.— Bleeding of the nose, with failing of sight, in the afternoon.—Ex cessive continued sneezing, succeeded by a violent bleeding. Face.—Frequent determination of blood to the face, with burning of the cheeks.—Pain in the malar bone around the orbits.—Boring, lacerating, and stinging pain in the bones of the face. Boring-jerking pains from the temple to the lower maxillary bone.—Laceratings in the chin. Teeth.—Aching, lacerating pain in the upper teeth, particularly the molares.—Gnawing pain in the malar bones and in the lower jau), shifting to the teeth, going off by pressing the teeth together.— Stinging in the roots of the upper teeth.—Violent lacerating in the submaxillary gland, extending to the teeth. Mouth.—Vesicles, and burning on the tip of the tongue.—Numb- ness of the whole inner mouth.—Accumulation of water, and copious secretion of saliva.—Spitting of bloody saliva. Throat.—Swelling of the tonsils.—Contractive sensation in the anterior and outer parts of the neck.—Scraping in the fauces. Appetite.—Diminished appetite, without aversion to food.—Loss of appetite, with eructations.—Sensation as of fasting in the stomach. —Great appetite. Nausea and hiccough after a meal. Stomach.—Nausea, with flatulence. Nausea, eructations, repeated inclination to vomit, and rumbling in the stomach.—Constant inclina- tion to eructate and disagreeable feeling in the stomach.—Frequent eructations, empty, sour, bitter, tasting like ink.—Hiccough.— Vomit- ing of mucus, with violent nausea, of glue-like mucus. Retching and vomiting of watery fluid.—Sensation in the oesophagus rcsem- bling heartburn.—Fasting sensation in the stomach.—Motions to and fro in the stomach, with burning.—Violent cutting in the stomach, accompanied with violent flatulency. Sudden cutting and pressure in the stomach.—Feeling of slight pressure in the stomach.—Violent pains in the stomach. Abdomen.—Tingling pain in the pit qfthe stomach.—Pain in the epigastrium, with nausea and anxiety.—Painful tension across the epigastrium, succeeded by pinching, hard, and then liquid stool.— Frequent colic, violent and painful spasms of the muscular fibres of the intestines, and convulsive motions of the stomach.—Violent cut- ting pains in the umbilical region.—Violent colic, with flatulence and urging to stool. Painful pinching in the whole abdomen, urging to INDIGO. 721 stjol, and copious discharge of a half-liquid stool.—Darting lancina- tion and pinching in the groin. Stool.— Urging to stool, liquid stool, flatulence, chilly creeping over the skin, and coldness of the hands.—Soft and afterwards liquid stool, with violent pressing.—Repeated evacuations succeeded by tenesmus.—Diarrhoza, accompanied with slight colic and pinching in the abdomen, passing off after an evacuation. Diarrhoza frequently accompanied by colic, tbe stools watery black-blue.—Blue, clay-like stools. Urine.— Colica-renalis. — Stinging in the urethra.—Violent and frequent desire to urinate, day and night, with burning in the fundus of the bladder, pressure in the abdomen, and painful emission of a slight quantity of turbid urine, during every micturition.—Increased emission of turbid very slimy urine, without thirst, attended with violent contraction of the urethra and pain in the region qf the bladder.—Burning emission of urine. Male Genital Organs.—Depressed sexual instinct Female Genital Organs.—The menses appear too early.—Boring in the mammae. Larynx.—Profuse expectoration of mucus, from the bronchi and trachea.—Clawing pain in the trachea, gradually descending into the finest bronchial ramifications, inducing cough with expectoration of 6mall balls of tenacious mucus.—Violent cough inducing vomiting, or suffocative cough, before and after going to bed, alap at night, or early in the morning after rising. Chest.—Pain in the sternum as from a shock.—Drawing and cutting in the chest.—Oppression of breathing, resembling a spasm of the chest, and pressure at the stomach.—Gurgling and grumbling in the chest, during every inspiration.—Tensive pain in the region of the heart.—Palpitation of the heart and undulating sensation in the head, with heat, during a rapid walk. Back.—Stitch between the scapulae.—Drawing-lancinating pains. Arms.—Languor of the arms.—Lacerating and stinging in the arms and shoulders.—Violent throbbing in the elbow-joint.—Gnaw- ing pain in the elbow-joint.—Painful jerking drawing.—Rheumatic pain in the fore-arm.—Lacerating pain in the dorsum of the hand.—■ Shootings in the dorsum of the hand and in the posterior joints of the fingers. Stinging in the wrist-joint on moving it.—Swelling of the veins of the hands. Legs.—Great languor of the lower limbs, in the evening.— Bruised pain in the middle of the thighs, in the evening.—Drawing bone-pain in the knee-joint.—Lacerating in the knee.—Boring pain. 31 46 722 IPECACUANHA. in the knee-joint when sitting.—Continual weariness in the knee.— Heaviness in the leg, in the region of the ankles, with contractive sensation in the leg from below upwards.—Sudden excessive pains in the sole of the foot. 147.—IPECACUANHA. IPEC—See Hahnemann's "Mat. Med. Pur.," III.—Duration of Action: from two hours to several days. Compare with—Aeon., Alum., Ambr., Am., Ars., Bell., Calc, Canth., Carb-r., Caust, Cham., Chin., Cina, Coce, Croc, Cupr., Dros., Dulc, Fer., Ign., Lauroc , Lye, Nux-v , Op., Phosph., Puis., Sab.. Sep., Sulph., Tab., Tart., Verat. —Ipee. is frequently suitable after: Aeon., Ars., Arn., Verat.—After Ipec. are frequently suitable : Arn., Ars., Chin., Coce, Ign., Nux-v. Antidotes.—Of large doses : the tincture of Galls.—Of small doses: Arn , Ars., Chin., Nux-v. —Ipec antidotes Op (30, 40, to 60 drops of the strong tincture of Ipec), Alum, Ant.-tart., Ars., Cham., Chin., Cupr., Dulc, Fer., Lauroc, Tab. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Drawing pain in the humerus and femur in the evening after lying down. Cracking in the joints. Bruised pain in all the bones. Pain in the joints as when the limbs go to sleep.—Einprosthotonos and opisthotonos. The body qf the child is stretched stiff.—Rigid stretching of the whole body, followed by a spasmodic jerking of the arms towards one another. Skin.—Pricking pains in different parts of tbe body, excited by motion, and terminating in burning pains. °Rash of lying-in females. —°Suppressed rash. Sleep.—Drowsiness.—Sleep full of restlessness and moaning, Starting during sleep.—Sleep interrupted by frequent waking and frightful dreams. Anxiety in the blood in the morning on waking. —Moaning fearfulness when asleep. Fever.—Shuddering with yawning. Chilliness, he is unable to bear the least ivarmth.—Excessive sensitiveness to cold and warmth. —Hands a d feet are icy cold and dripping with cold sweat. Ex- ternal coldness and internal heat. ♦Towards four o'clock in the after- noon sudden attack of heat. Feeling of heat in the afternoon and ^evening, almost like a burning in the head and cheeks, without thirst, Night-sweat. Moral Symptoms.—Taciturn ill-humor.—Peevish humor. °An- guish and dread of death.—Extreme impatience.—The least noise irritates him. Sensorium.—Vertigo, with momentary vanishing of thought. Head.—Short paroxysms of fine and violently-stinging pains in the head, increasing to an aching Stinging headache and heaviness of IPECACUANHA. 723 *,ht head, alsc with diowsiness.—Lacerating pain in the forehead, excited and aggravated by feeling the heart, or by stooping.—Lacerat- ing headache, from morning till noon.—Headache as if the brain and skull were bruised, penetrating through all the bones down to the root of the tongue, with nausea. ♦Aching pain in the head.—(Constrictive headache in the temple, and over the orbit of the eye.) Tensive headache, in the occiput and nape of the neck, extending as far as the shoulders.—Dull drawing in the head, to and fro. Pain of tho occiput and nape of the neck, excited by moving the head. Eyes.—Dry lids, with drowsiness.—Red inflamed eyes. Ears.—Aching pain. °Coldness and chilliness of the ears, during the febrile heat. Nose.—Bleeding of the nose.—Loss of smell.—Frequent sneezing. —*Coryza, °with stoppage of tbe nose, -or with drawing in all the limbs. Face.—°Palc, bloated, °or livid, yellowish face. Pale face, with blue margins around the eyes, and great weakness, as after a long and severe illness.—°Convulsive movements of the facial muscles. The lips are covered with aphthae and eruption.—°Red skin around the mouth. *Rash in the face. Teeth.—Pain in the teeth as if they would be torn out, in pa- roxysras. Mouth and Throat.—The mouth feels intensely painful.—Smart- ing sensation in the edge of the tongue.—Copious secretion of saliva. °Yellowish or Avhite coating of tbe tongue.—Pain when swallowing, as if the pharynx were swollen. Difficult deglutition. Pain in the fauces as if too dry, rough, and sore. Spasmodic contractive sensation in the throat and in the chest. Appetite and Gastric Symptoms.—°Sweet taste as of blood. °Bitter taste in the morning. °Aversion to food. °Desire for dainties.—Inclination to vomit and vomiting. Qualmishness. Nausea and effort to vomit. Qualmishness in the abdomen, with incipient colic. *Nausea, as if proceeding from the stomach, with empty eruc- tations and accumulation of a quantity of saliva. Nausea with heavi- ness in the abdomen.—°Empty retching, particularly after a cold drink, and after smoking.—^Vomiting of the ingesta, -when stooping, without any previous eructations. Vomiting of yellow mucus. ^Vomit- ing of large quantities of mucus. Vomiting of green, jelly-like mucus. —°Vomiting of black, pitch-like substances. Stomach.—Sensation of emptiness and relaxation of the stomach. Excessive sick feeling in the region of the stomach. Horrid pains in the stomach. Dull sticking pain in the pit of the stomach. 724 IPECACUANHA. Abdomen.—Uneasiness in the abdomen. Contractive sensation below the short ribs. °Colic of children, with uneasiness, screams, and tossing about. Sensation of excessive distention of the abdomen —* Flatulent colic, °with frequent diarrhoeic stools. *Griping pinch- ing in the abdomen, as if one were grasping with the hands, alle- viated by rest, but excited by motion.—Cutting pain around the um- bilicus, with shuddering.—Cutting colic around the umbilicus, as if the catamenia would appear, with chilliness and coldness of the body, accompanied with rising of internal heat to the head. Lacerating colic above the umbilicus.—Pricking colic, with burning and sting- ing in the rectum, and desire for stool.—°Pain as from soreness in the abdomen.—°Enteritis.? Stool.—*Stool green as grass.—Lemon-colored stool. *Diarrhaic stools having the appearance of being fermented. Fetid stools. Stool covered with red, bloody mucus. Frequent liquid diarrhoea, with qualmishness in the abdomen. ♦Diarrhoea. ♦Bloody stool.—Sting- ing, cutting, burning pain in the margin of the anus, as in inveterate haemorrhoids.—Creeping in the anus as of ascarides. Urine.—*Bloody urine. °Also after suppression of itch, with cutting in the abdomen and urethra. Frequent desire to urinate, with scanty emission. Turbid urine with brick-dust sediment. Genital Organs.—Writhing drawing pain in the testicles. Press- ing towards the uterus and anus. Suppression of the menstrual dis- charge towards the end. Metrorrhagia. Larynx.—*Rattling noise in the bronchial tubes, when drawing breath. ^Suffocative cough. *Dry cough produced by a titillation in the upper part of the larynx. *Cough occasioned by a contractive titillating sensation in the throat, extending from the upper part of the larynx to the lowest part of the bronchial tubes. °Also when lying on the left side. Cough, continuing without an interruption after walking in the cold air and when lying down, morning and even- ing, excited by a deep inspiration ; accompanied with a colic. *Ha- moptysis, °occasioned by the least effort. Cough towards evening, continuing for one hour, suffocating, fatiguing, exhausting. Pain in the abdomen when coughing, like pressure on the bladder.—Cough occasions an inclination to vomit without nausea. Beating pain in the head and pit of the stomach after coughing. Chest.—♦Asthma.—Evening asthma.—*Spasmodic asthma, with violent contraction in the throat and chest.. % Contraction of the chest unth short and panting breathing. °Oppression of the chest in the forenoon, and short breathing, as if inhaling dust.—°Spasms of the chest from the vapor of copper and arsenic.—Soreness in tbe chest JALAPA.--JATROPHA CURCAS. 725 Palpitation qfthe heart, without anxiety. °Red itching spots on the chest, burning after scratching. Arms, Legs, and Back.—Opisthotonos and emprosthotonos.— Cramp-pain during motion between the scapula.—°Swelling and sup- puration in the throat-pit. °Sensation as if the femur would be dis- located, on sitting down. Pain in the knee as if the tendons and ligaments had been wearied by fatigue.—Weariness of the lower limbs. °Convulsive twitching of the lower limbs and feet. °Nightly cramp in the thighs.— Ulcers on the foot, with a black base. 148.—JALAPA. JAL.—See Noack and Trinks. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Weakness.—Fainting fits.—Exces- sive uneasiness and tossing about of the limbs.—The temperature of the body decreases.—The number of pulsations diminishes.—Febrile attacks.—Violent headache.—Humming in the ears. Digestive Apparatus.—Stinging on the tongue and in the fauces. —Loathing and vomiting.—Colic ; violent seated pains in the lesser intestines, as if the abdomen would be cut to pieces.—Inflammation of the bowels.—Violent excessive evacuations.—Bloody stools.— Soreness of the anus. Arms and Legs.—Pain in the thighs. 149.—JATROPHA CURCAS. .-^lTt.— Semina Ricini Majoris, Ficus Infernalis, Nux Barbadensis.—The Angular-leaved Physic Nut. Barbadoes Nut. Compare with—Croton-oil. Antidotes.—Croton-oil, Camph. Moral Symptoms.—Taciturn. Head.—Heat in the head and some coryza. Digestive Apparatus.—Rheumatic drawing in decayed teeth.— Acrid sensation in the pharynx, gradually spreading to the stomach with greater intensity, and finally occasioning vomiting.—Metallic bloody taste in the mouth, with frequent spitting.—Loathing, nausea, 'disagreeable burning sensation in the stomach and oesophagus, violent vomiting and purging, with rush of blood to the head.—Anxiety, with burning at the stomach, easy vomiting of a large quantity of watery substances resembling the white of an egg, attended with diarrhoea accompanied by anguish, coldr.ess of the body, viscid sweat, violent 726 J0DIUM. cramp-pains in the lower limbs.— Violent excessive evacuations, upwards and downwards, attended with complete prostration.—In- creased evacuations.—Violent urging early in the morning, as if a diarrhceic stool would come on, followed by violent burning at tho rectum.—Violent burning of the ascarides in the rectum, in the even- ing.—Violent itching of the orifice of the anus, at night, Legs.—Rheumatic drawing in the foot. 150.—JODIUM. IOD.—Iodine.—See Hahnemann's " Chronic Diseases," IV.—Duration of Action: six weeks. Compare with—Ars., Caust., Chin., Coce, Coff, Con., Cupr., Dig., Hep.-s., t Merc, Phosph., Rhus, Sab., Spong., Squil., Sulph., Verat. Antidotes.—Of large doses : Starch boiled to a thin glue by means of a large quantity of water, and given to the patient in large quantity ; or, in case of necessity, sugar-water, milk, especially asses' milk; tepid baths ; Sulphur baths; Merc, and Ars., frequent walks in the open air; Op., Hyos. (in case of endogastritis, brought on by abuse of Iodine) ; Grat.—Altschul says he has cured an Iodine cachexia with Iod., 30, two pellets.—Antidotes of small doses : Ant, Ars., Camph., Chin., Chin.-sulph., Coff., Hep.-s., Op., Phosph., Spong.— Iod. is especially useful after, or in alternation with Merc GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Erratic pains in the joints. ♦Lacerat- ing in the limbs, particularly the joints.—Rheumatic pains in the trunk, neck, and arms. Numb feeling in the thighs and legs. Numb feeling and trembling in the limbs.—Paralysis of the limbs.—Liability to take cold, bringing on ophthalmia. Pulsations in all the arteries, at every muscular effort. Seething of the arterial system, with dull- ness of the head and subsequent headache. The circulation is easily excited and accelerated. Erethism of the vascular system, especially the veins. Inclination to haemorrhage. Hamorrhage from different organs.—Great irritation qfthe nervous system. Increased sensibility of the whole body. Uneasiness in all the limbs. Uneasiness and nervousness, with trembling extending from the region of the stomach to every part of the periphery, as if he would tremble, or sweat all over, with an increase of warmth all over, as if coming from the stomach; afterwards pressure in the region of the heart, heaviness on the chest, with difficult breathing,.and acceleration of the pulse by 7 or 9 beats.—Trembling of the limbs, especially the hands.— Spasms. Convulsions of the limbs and face, with anguish, oppressive fear, palpitation of the heart, vomiting, violent headache, spasmodic fits with foam at the mouth.—Subsultus-tendinum in the arms, fingers, and feet.—Catching at flocks.—A kind of Asiatic cholera. Difficult, vacillating gait, from trembling of the limbs. Heaviness qfthe limbs JODIUM. 72T early in the morning. Complete prostration of strength. Inclination to fainting fits and spasms. General emaciation. Excessive ema- ciation. Chronic emaciation, pale face, and muscular weakness. Nervous consumption. Emaciation with hectic fever.—°Curvature of the bones. Characteristic Peculiarities.—The pains are aggravated in the morning and night, particularly by movement (walking, riding in a carriage), by contact and pressure, also in the warm open air and by warmth generally. Skin.—Stinging itching in different parts of the body. Sensation as of violent flea-bites over the whole body, day and night. Small, red, dry pimples on the arms, chest, and back. Dirty-yellow color of the skin. *Rough, dry skin. ^Glandular indurations, dis- appearance of single glandular swellings in the nape of the neck, axilla, and groin. °Disappearance of a fungus-articularis consequent on measles.—♦Herpes. ?—Edematous, dropsical swelling.—Anasarca. Thickening of the epidermis, which becomes brown-red, with a pain which is at times light, drawing, or burning.1—Profuse papulous eruption.—Eruption like scarlet-rash.—Furunculous cutaneous erup- tion.—Redness on the neck and chest, as if ecchymozed. Sleep.—No desire for sleep.—Restless sleep, with anxious dreams. Sleeplessness.—Sleep full of dreams. Fever.—Cold feet at night. Cold skin.—Increased warmth of the skin.—Fever ; chills alternating with flushes of heat. Feverish sen- sations. Fever with delirium, and subsultus-tendinum. Fever with dryness and coldness of the skin, soft, quick pulse, delirium, sub- sultus-tendinum, and picking at flocks. Quartan fever.—Pulse strong, large, and full. Quick, hard pulse. Accelerated, increased pulse. Increased, full, hard pulse. Small, wiry, accelerated pulse. Small, hard pulse, and so quick that it was scarcely possible to count the beats. Small, very frequent, compressed pulse.—^Night-sweat.—- Fever, with dry, cold skin, soft, quick pulse, delirium, subsultus- tendinum, picking at flocks.—Violent fever with all the symptoms of typhus-intestinalis.—Violent cholera. Moral Symptoms.—Despondency.—Sad, melancholy mood. Hypo- chondriac mood. Continued disposition to weep. Anguish.—Anxiety. Impatient. Aversion to work. Increased sensitiveness and irritability. Excessive nervous irritation. Illusory feeling.—Delirium. Fixed, immovable thoughts. Head.—Dullness of the head, with great disinclination to serious 1 From the external application. 728 JODIUM. labor. Dullness of the head, becoming an oppi ^>ssive pain.— Head ache, so violent that it makes him almost crazy.—Pain in the fore- head and top of the head, increasing at every noise or conversation, Headache as if a band were tied round the head.—Headache in the forehead; the brain feels bruised and is extremely sensitive; the whole body, and especially the arms, are weak and feel paralyzed.— Aching above the eyes, towards evening. Violent aching at the base of the occiput in the afternoon.—Aching and sometimes lancinating headache.—^Throbbing in the head at every motion. Congestion of blood to the head.—Pain in the forehead, as from subcutaneous ulcera- tion. Falling off of the hair. Eyes.—Pain in the orbits. Pressure in the eyes as from sand.— Redness and swelling of the eye-lids, with nightly agglutination. °Soreness of the eyes. Inflamed eyes. Watery white swelling of the eye-lids.—Lachrymation.—Twitchings of the eyes. Pale-red furuncle of the size of a hazel-nut on the right eye-brow.—Dilatation of the pupils with constant motion of the eye-balls. Obscuration of sight. Weak sight. Occasional twinkling before tbe eyes. Sparks before the eyes. Fiery curved rays are shooting downwards. Ears.—Dragging pain in the left ear. Sensitiveness to noise. ^Hardness cf hearing. Frequent din in the right ear as of a mill. °Buzzing in the ears. Movable painful lymphatic swelling in front of the right ear. Nose.—Red, burning spot on the nose, under the eye. Profuse bleeding qfthe nose.—Dry coryza, becoming fluent in the open air. Face.—Paleface. ♦Yellow complexion. °The yellow complexion becomes more pale.—The features become disfigured, altered.—Sunken eyes.—Convulsive twitchings of the facial muscles.—Suppurating ulcer on the cheek with swelling of the surrounding glands. Teeth and Jaws.—Painless swelling of the submaxillary glands. Toothache in alternate places, in the molar teeth, on both sides.— Cutting drawing and sore feeling in the roots or the gums of the lower incisores.—Pain, as from looseness, in the teeth and gums, when eating.—The gums are painful to the touch. Inflammation and swelling of the gums. Bleeding of the gums. °The gums are puffed up. Mouth. — Aphtha in the mouth, with ptyalism. °Mercurial ptyalism. Smarting and sensation as of pulling in the tonsils.— Putrid smell from the mouth.—Troublesome dryness of the tongue * Tongue thickly coated. Swelling and elongation of the uvula Ulceration in the mouth, redness, interstitial distention of the gums, standing off of the gums, with slight bleeding, small, ash-colored pain ful ulcers, with profuse fetid ptyalism. J0DIUM. 729 Throat.—Constrictive sensation in the fauces. Tormenting con- striction of the throat.—Feeling of fullness in the throat. Pain in the ozsophagus, increased by pressing on the larynx. Lacerating in the throat, above the larynx.—Disagreeable scraping in the fauces, with copious secretion of saliva. Burning in the fauces. Inflam- mation and ulcers of the oesophagus. Taste and Appetite.—Abominable taste in the mouth Bittet taste. Sourish offensive taste. °Taste as of soap.— Thirst, day and night. Decrease of appetite. Increase of appetite. Gnawing hunger. Voracity. *Canine hunger.—Alternate canine hunger and want of appetite. Very weak digestion. Weak feeling of sickness all over the body after dinner. Gastric Symptoms.—Continued empty eructations. °Sourish eruc- tations with burning.—Heartburn, particularly after heavy food.— Hiccough.—^Nausea. Nausea immediately after rising, with spas- modic pain at the stomach. Inclination to vomit, in paroxysms, with heartburn. Vomiting. Continual vomiting, with diarrhoea. Yellowish saltish vomiting. Vomiting of bile. Increased secretion of bile.— Gastric derangement with constipation. Stomach.—Pains in and over the stomach. Excessive pain in the stomach and bowels. Pains in the stomach, with copious bilious evacuations. Fullness and distention of the stomach, with trembling and increased warmth in the abdominal cavity. Spasmodic pain in the stomach. Spasms of the stomach, frequently recurring.—Gnaw- ing, corroding pains in the stomach.—Pulsations in the pit of the stomach. Burning in the stomach. Inflammation of the stomach in the region of the orifice. Hypochondria.—°Decrease of pain in the region of the liver and pit of the stomach.—Pressure in the region of the liver, painful to the touch. Abdomen.—Pain in the epigastrium. Great painfulness of the whole abdomen, as if from inflammation of the omentum. Frequent paroxysms of pressure in the abdomen, mostly when sitting. Painful tension of the abdomen, with unusual pressing. *Colic. ^Pinching and aching colic. °Labor-like abdominal spasms.—Cutting in the umbilical region, with papescent stools. Drawing and pressure in the region of the kidney.—Pulsations in the abdomen.—The abdomi- nal symptoms recur after eating.—°Ascites. °Disappearance qf tht swelling qfthe inguinal glands.—♦Incarceration of flatulence. Press- ing movements in the abdomen. Stool.—Desire for stool, without any evacuation. Difficult stool * Constipation. Hard, knotty, dark-colored stools. Irregular stool 3P* 730 JODIUM.^ alternote constipation and diarrhoza.—Long ind exhausting diarrhoea Violent diarrhoea, with colic. Copious discharge of a watery, foamish, whitish mucus, with pinching around the umbilicus. Discharges of thick mucus, or purulent, part of the faeces being retained, like dysentery.—Discharges of bloody mucus, fetid.—Pressure jn the rectum, in the evening, when in bed. Violent itching qfthe rectum, as from ascarides. Itching and burning of the anus. Urine.—Obstinate retention of urine.—°Nocturnal urination.— Increased secretion of thick urine, with dark sediment. Involuntary emission of urine. Dark, turbid, sometimes milky urine. Ammo- niacal odor of urine. Smarting, corroding urine, while emitting it. Male Genital Organs.—°A painless swelling of the right testis. 0 Induration of the prostate gland.—Erethism of the genital organs. [ncrease of the sexual instinct. Female Genital Organs.—Labor-like spasms in the hypogastrium. °Speedy suppression of dropsy of the ovaries. Induration of the uterus is speedily transmuted into cancer. °Diminished induration qfthe uterus. °Diminution of the cancerous degenerations in the neck of the uterus. Hysterics of girls at the age of puberty.— Cessation of the flowing menses. Menses delay eight days, with vertigo and palpitation of the heart. Menstrual irregularity.—In- crease of the menstrual flow. Menses unusually premature, copious, and violent. Violent uterine haemorrhage.—The menses are preceded by rising of heat to the head, with palpitation of the heart and tension of the neck, which became thicker. Great weakness during the menses.—Palpitation of the heart after the menses. °Complete cessation of the leucorrhoeal discharge. °The corroding leucorrhoea becomes more mild and scanty.—Dwindling and falling away of the mammae.—Acute pain in the mammae, as if sore and ulcerated. Blue- red furunculous nodosities in the skin of both mammae, with black, dessicated points at the tips. Larynx.—Pain qfthe larynx. Swelling of the bronchial glands, pressing upon the bronchial tubes even unto suffocation. Contraction and heat in the larynx. Soreness of the throat and chest, when in bed, with wheezing in the throat and drawing pains in the lungs, corresponding with the beat of the heart. ^Inflammation of the trachea. ^Hoarseness in the morning.—Intolerable tingling and tickling in the larynx.—Irritation and cough, brought on by a violent tickling in the throat. Cough, with pressure on the chest and difficulty of breathing. °Morning cough of long standing. Dry, short, and hacking cough. Dry cough, with dyspnoea, pressure and burning of the chest. Deep and dry cough, with stitches in the chest, J0DIUM. 731 *'Cough accompanied by expectoration of mucus. *'Discharge of mucus streaked with blood. Chest.—Pulmonary consumption. ♦ Violent difficulty of breathing Oppressed breathing. Oppression of the chest. ♦Asthma, with pain during a deep inspiration, more violent and rapid beating of the heart, and smaller and more frequent pulse. Difficulty of expanding the chest when taking an inspiration.*—* Want of breath, loss of breath, 0particularly in going up-stairs. Suffocating catarrh. °Stitches in the side when breathing. Feeling of weakness in the chest, and in the region of the heart.—Sore pain in the chest, continuing in both sides during respiration and contact.—Congestion of blood to the chest, with inclination to inflammation. Violent pulsations in the chest, and palpitation of the heart, increased by every muscular exer- tion. ♦Palpitation of the heart. Spasmodic palpitation of the heart. —Sensation as of the heart being squeezed together.—Burning and stinging tension in the integuments of the chest. °Organic affections, hypertrophy of the heart. Back.—Stitches in the small of the back.—Rheumatic crampy sen- sation in the lower part of the neck. Rheumatic tension in the right side of the neck. Constriction of the neck.—Enlargement and pain- ful induration of the goitre. Pains and pulsations in the goitre. °Decrease of the goitre. ° Permanent disappearance qfthe glandu- lar swellings of the neck and nape of the neck. ° Disappearance of old, hard, or soft swellings of the thyroid gland, and likewise of large goitres. Yellow spots on the neck. Painful, hot, dark-red lymphatic swelling in the axilla. Arms.—Induration of the axillary glands. Disappearance of the glandular swellings in the axilla. Drawing lacerating pains in the shoulder, which is abnormally elevated. Violent stitches in tho shoulder-joint, even when at rest. Rheumatic pains in the arms. Lacerating pain in both arms. Paralytic ^weakness in the arms, early in the morning, on waking. Subsultus-tendinum in the arms. —°Constant coldness of the hands.—Round, burning-itching spot on the hand.—Tensive pain in the joints of the fingers, when bending them.—°Tha fingers go to sleep. Legs.—Cramp-like sensation in the thighs and legs, only when sitting. Rheumatic drawing in the whole of the left lower limb. Heaviness qfthe lower limbs. Swelling of the lower limbs. (Edema- tous swelling of the lower limbs. Trembling of the lower limbs. Paralysis of the lower limbs.—Pain of the thigh, especially at night, when in bed. Twitchings of the muscles of the thigh, dis- appearance of a white swelling of the knee.—°Inflammatory swelling 732 juncus effusus. of the knee, with violent pains and suppuration. °Dropsical swelling of the knee.—Pain qfthe leg, along the tibia, as if from subcutaneous ulceration. Lacerating in both sides of the leg, close above tho ankles. Violent spasm, with twitchings, in the ankle-joint, at night. Spasms in the feet. Aching cramp-pain in the foot. Swelling oi the feet, followed by rapid emaciation. (Edematous swelling of the feet. Subsultus-tendinum in the feet.—Acrid sweat of the feet, corroding the skin. 151.—JUNCUS EFFUSUS. JUNC—Flowering Rush,' Water Gladiole.—See "Archiv.," XIX., p. 188. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Jerking in the muscles of the ex- tremities, in the knee, in the articulations of the jaws on either side, and in the clavicles.—The limbs go to sleep.—Painless cracking of the joints. Characteristic Peculiarities.—The pains of the left side pre dominate.—The pains appear to become aggravated at night; they came on again in the morning and evening, particularly the pains in the chest and neck. Fever.—Chilliness through the whole body on rising from bed.— Anxiety and frequent beating of the heart, going off on raising the trunk. Head.—Vertigo. Vertigo with nausea when walking.—Distcnsive pain in the forehead when stooping.—Digging pain in the forehead and occiput, as from subcutaneous ulceration, on raising the head early in the morning in bed. Ears.—Cramp-pain in the outer ear.—Sensation as if the meatus auditorius internus were swollen. Nose.—Catarrhal sensation in the nose.—Dry coryza Teeth.—Dull sticking toothache. Mouth.—Whitish-yellow coating of the tongue, with slimy taste in the mouth, after dinner. Throat.—Painful laming-drawing, stretching, and pulling in the cervical muscles.—Pain and scraping in the throat.—Pressure in the throat during deglutition, as if the tonsils were swollen. Abdomen.—Swelling of the pit of the stomach. Tightness in the pit of the stomach, as from fullness and swelling.—Spasmodic pulling pain in the pit and region of the stomach, increased by external pres- ■ure.—Pain in the right side of the abdomen, as from subcutaneous KALI BICHROMICUM. 733 ulceration.—Pinching colic, as if diarrhoea would set in, or as if one bad taken cold. Stool and Anus.—Itching at the rectum. Urine.—The urine looks like loam-water, depositing a red sedi- ment in a few hours.—Tension in the urethra, with sensation as if something living were creeping along in it.—Slight itching burning in the urethra. Genital Organs.—Itching of the glands and scrotum. Larynx.—Hawking up of a quantity of yellow mucus, without cough, for several days, accompanied with an excessive pain in the middle of the chest, as if the pulmonary pleura adhered and had be- come inflamed. Chest.—Violent pressure in the lower portfon of the chest, worst during expiration, and aggravated by turning the trunk to one side. —Pulling tensive pain in the lower part of the chest, during inspi- ration.—Dull sticking pain, as from subcutaneous ulceration, in the upper part of the chest, only during inspiration.—Pain in the chest, as if the chest were crushed. The whole inner chest is painful, as from subcutaneous ulceration, particularly when bending the body to one side. Back.—Drawing with pressure in the cervical vertebrae, as if tho head would be drawn to the right side.—Drawing and pulling in the dorsal vertebrae.—Bruised pain in the scapulae.—Tensive pain be- tween the scapulae.—Aching pain in the small qfthe back, occasion- ing an anguish, or attended with asthma. Arms.—Lacerating and drawing in the bones of the arm and hand. Legs.—Bruised pain in the thighs.—Dull sticking pain in the patella.—Itching and jerking in the knee.—Heaviness in the calves and thighs. 152.—KALI BICHROMICUM. KAL. BICHR.—Bichromate of Potash.—See British Journal of Horn., Vol. II. Compare with—? Antidotes.—? GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Weakness in the limbs. Debility. Weakness and great trembling. Excessive weakness, small pulse. Debility and cachectic appearance. Excessive prostration of strength. Anaemic appearance. Complexion pale and yellowish. Emaciation. —Transient flying pains in all the limbs, without any definite cha- racter. Shooting and pricking pains in all the limbs, worse in the 734 KALI BICHROMICUM. morning.—Pains all over, on rising in the morning. Slight rhcu matic pains in the flesh of the legs, arms, and fingers.—Rheumatio pains in nearly all the joints.—Feeling of swelling all over the body. —Pricking and stinging pains in the skin, in several parts of the body. The gastric pains were relieved after eating, and the rheu- matic pains reappeared. When the gastric symptoms reach to any height the rheumatic symptoms subside. Characteristic Peculiarities. — Fat and light-haired persons were most easily affected by the Kal.-bichr. Many symptoms were aggravated or produced by hot weather. The symptoms come on quickly and subside soon. Most of the symptoms appear or are ag- gravated in the morning. Pains which fly rapidly from one part to another. Skin.—Skin hot, dry, and red. " Solid eruption, like measles, over the body."—Eruption on the face, like small-pox. Eruption of small pustules, like small-pox, over the whole body, which die away without bursting. Eruption over the whole body of pustules, the size of peas, with a small black slough in the centre, resting on an inflamed base.—Violent itching of the skin all over the body; then eruption of small pustules, forming scabs, most on the arms and legs; the scabs are then painful, smarting, and burning. Itching in the legs, followed next day by breaking out of a red eruption, which ran together and formed scabs, discharging thin matter; with aching, smarting pains. Heat and itching of the skin at night, in the warmth of the bed, followed by eruption on the thighs and legs of reddish hard knots. Rash, commencing in hot weather.—Inflammation of the feet, and, in twenty-four hours, breaking out of numerous ulcers of the characteristic form.—Itching of the fore-arms and hands, then intolerable pain and formatiou of numerous ulcers.—The ulcers vary iu size, from that of a pea to that of a half-dollar ; they are generally dry, of an oval form, with overhanging edges, inflamed bright-red areola, hardened base, movable on the subjacent tissues, with a black- ish spot in the centre.—The ulcers were painful in cold weather. Sleep.—Snoring. Restless night. During sleep frequent start- ings, tossing about of the arms, incoherent talking. Sleep disturbed and with vivid dreams.—Woke early with nausea and headache. Waking with general heat and perspiration, quick pulse, palpitation of the heart, and dyspnoea. Frequent yawnings. Fever.—Yawning and short cough, with weakness and uneasiness in the limbs when walking. Fever : coldness and shuddering, with vertigo and nausea, then heat with feelings of cold and shivering, and transient si xiting pains in the temples, no thirst.—Feverishnesa KALI BICHROMICUM. 735 in the first part of the night. Feverishness nigat and morning. Ir- ritable humor. Sensorium.—Sudden, transient attacks of vertigo. Lightness in the head across the forehead. Stupid giddy sensation in the head. Heaviness across the forehead, and in the evening becomes blind on walking. Maziness and dizziness, with inclination to sleep. List- lessness, languor, and disinclination for mental or bodily labor. Head.—Headache in the temples.—Throbbing headache at the angles of the forehead, with dimness of sight.—Frontal headache, generally over one eye. Soon after dinner, dull, heavy, throbbing pain in the forehead, feeling as if it would burst. Frontal and oc- cipital headache. Flying pains about the head. Great weight in the head. Eyes.—Redness of the conjunctiva, with aching in the eyes. Red- ness of the conjunctiva, with sensation of heat and uneasiness.—Heavi- ness and soreness of the eyes.—Eyes inflamed. Eye-lids inflamed and much swollen, an eruption broke out on them and adjacent parts of the face. Eyes tender, conjunctiva injected, eye-lids slightly granu- lar. Pustules on the left cornea, with surrounding indolent inflam- mation, attended with pricking pain : Leucoma on the right cornea. Violent ophthalmia, with photophobia and loss of vision. Sight con- fused and dim.—Conjunctiva yellow. Face.—Shooting pain in the left upper maxillary bone, towards the ear. Slight pain under the left eye, and uneasy sensation in the gums, Nose.—Watery discharge, with soreness of the nose.—Discharge, with swelling, and pains of the nose and sneezing.—Soreness and swelling of the r. ala-nasi. Stuffing of the nose, with pain across the bridge.—Septum-narium destroyed by ulceration. Nose ulcerated internally. Elastic plugs form in the nose, which cause pain and soreness in removing.— Loss of smell. Mouth and Tongue.—Lower lips swelled and chapped. Ulcera- tions, with indurated edges and smarting pain on the mucous surface of both lips. Dryness of the mouth and throat.—Stinging and pricking pains in the tongue. Painful ulcer on the tongue. Tongue thickly coated with yellowish fur at the root. Tongue thickly coated, with a brown patch on the surface; papillae long. Tongue smooth, red, and cracked; with dysentery. Taste.—Sour taste in the mouth. Bitter taste in the morning.— Coppery taste. Throat.—Sensation of scraping in the throat. Sore throat — Uvula and tonsils became red and swelled, and painful, and finally ulcerated. 736 KALI BICHROMICUM. Appetite.—Loss of appetite. Capricious appetite. Food tasteless —Great thirst.—Stomach disordered by any but the mildest food. After meals, swelling of the stomach, and cough.—Sour risings, and burning in the stomach.—Heartburn.—Hiccough. Gastric Symptoms.—Nausea. Nausea, like sea-sickness. In the afternoon, nausea, with languor, drowsiness, foul taste, and slight faintness.—Nausea, relieved by eating. Nausea on moving about, relieved by lying down.—Sickness in the morning, and yellow bitter vomiting. Nausea, and vomiting of mucus. After breakfast squeam- ishness. Nausea and diminished appetite. Great heat in the throat and stomach, then violent vomiting of blood and mucus. Stomach.—Uneasiness in the stomach. Sensation of contraction in the stomach.—Pain at the epigastrium. In the morning, gnawing pain in the epigastrium, with sensation of emptiness and faintness. Sensation of coldness in the stomach. Abdomen.—Aching and shooting in the hypochondrium. Belly generally tumid.—Occasional griping pains in the abdomen. Stool.—Disposition to constipation. Periodic constipation, occur- ring every three months. Constipation with pains across the loins. Shooting pains through the bowels. Pains flying in the belly, with frequent attacks of bowel complaint. Severe pain in the abdomen, followed by blackish watery stool. Habitual constipation. Consti- pation, griping in the bowels, and flatulent eructation. Dysenteric attacks, with pain at the navel and bloody evacuations.—Smarting and rawness at the anus. Costive, with languor, foul tongue, head- ache, and coldness of the extremities. Urine and Genital Organs.—Urine red, with pain across the back.—Complete suppression of urine.—Smarting and rawness in the vulva. Swelling of the genitals. Pains across the back and thighs, as if before the catamenia. Menstruation too soon, with vertigo, nausea, feverishness, and headache.—Yellow, stiff leucorrhoea, with pain and weakness across the small of the back, and dull heavy pains in the hypogastrium. Respiratory Organs.—Sneezing and soreness of the nose. Pain, stuffing, and ulceration of nostrils and sneezing.—Slight dyspnoea, as if the mucous membrane of the bronchi were thickened, on rising in the morning. Sensation of dryness in the bronchi on awaking in the morning. Throat dry and painful on swallowing ; tonsils reddened ; tongue coated, with a brownish spot; larynx painful. Pain in the sides and nape of the neck. Cough, with transparent dirty slate- colored sputa; easily detached. Occasional attacks of catarrh.— Pain as of ulceration qfthe larynx.—Tickling in the top of the larynx KALI BICHROMICUM. 73: on lying down at night, causing considerable coughing. In^upport able tickling of the larynx, causing cough at almost every inspiration —Violent cough, proceeding as if from a small spot in the epigas trium, painful to the touch. Hard cough, with weight and soreness in the chest and copious expectoration.—Loud wheezing cough, with retching and expectoration of tough mucus. Stuffing cough, with pain at the chest and expectoration of yellowish heavy tough matter. —Eating brings on the cough.—Cough in the morning, with tough expectoration. Chronic cough loud. Immediately on waking, violent wheezing and panting, then violent cough. During sleep, wheezing and rattling in the chest, beard at a distance. On lying down at night and in sleep the cough is absent. Pain in the back, striking through to the sternum, with cough and expectoration of tough black mucus.—Expectoration of thick yellow mucus.—Traces of blood in sputa.—Before the cough, swelling and heaving at the stomach.— Cough, accompanied by pains in the loins and sides. Cough causes pain in the middle of the sternum darting through to between the shoulders. Oppression at the pit of the stomach, with smarting burning pain, followed by expectoration of tough light-colored sputa. —Dyspnoea, especially in the morning, with cough and expectoration of white mucus " as tough as pitch." Dyspnoea, and much cougli with expectoration of black tough mucus difficult to detach.—Oppres- sion at the chest. Shortness of breath. Dyspnoea with slight pains in the chest. Dyspnoea in sleep.— Slight pains in the region of the heart.—Darting pain in the proecordium.—Dull cold heavy pain in the region of the heart, and tightness in the chest with dyspnoea.— Constant pain in the chest under the left axilla. Fixed burning pain in the middle of the sternum. Back.—Dull aching pains in different parts of the back, going off in the evening.—Pains in the loins and sacrum. Darting pains in the renal region. Dull pain in the lumbar region, aggravated by motion. Pain across the loins.—Shooting pains in the back and renal regions, with suppression of urine.—Rheumatic pain in the back. Arms.—Stiffness in the shoulder-joint.—Rheumatic pains in both shoulders, worse at night. Pains in the shoulder, down the arm, and in the hips, knees, and finger-joints. —Cold and shivering in the arms and shoulders.—Pains in the elbow-joint.—Rheumatic pains in the fingers. Soreness of the bones of the hands, as if bruised when pressed. Continued rheumatic pains in all the limbs, and swelling of the finger-joints. Legs.—Rheumatic pains in the hips. Sensation of swelling and enlargement of the lower extremities in bed. Rheumatic pains in 738 KaLI bromatum. the hip. Sharp pains in the knee and hip-joints. Acute rheumatio pains and stiffness in the knees, without swelling. Aching pains in the legs, accompanied with tremblings.—Pains, heat, and throbbing in the toes. 153.—KALI BROMATUM. KAL. BROM.—Hydro-bromate of Potash.—Noack and Trinks Head.—Vertigo, with dullness of the head.—Confusion of the head.—Violent aching, particularly in the occiput, at night, about eleven o'clock. P]yes.—Dilatation of the pupils. Mouth and Throat.—Irritation of the mucous membranes of the mouth and fauces, painfulness of the tongue, prominent pupils, rough and burning sensation in the whole buccal cavity, as if burnt with caustic. Increased secretion of saliva and mucus in the mouth.— Short-lasting titillation in the fauces. Appetite.—Smarting-saltish taste.—Increased appetite.—Thirst in the afternoon. Stomach.—Repeated repulsive eructations.—Violent nausea and effort to vomit, with vomiting of a small quantity of mucus, with salt taste in the mouth.—Peculiar pressure in the region of the stomach, succeeded by violent colic.—Troublesome pressure at the stomach after dinner.—Weakness of the stomach for some time. Abdomen.—Sensation of warmth in the abdomen.—Colic ; sudden colic disturbing the night's rest.—Frequent rumbling. Stool.—Flatulence.—Frequent soft stools, preceded by colic.— Repeated papescent stools at night, becoming watery.—Constipation. —Colic before stool. Discharge of a considerable quantity of a tar- Jike substance (decomposed blood), having a fetid smell, accompanied with tenesmus. Urine.—Pain in the region qfthe kidneys, spreading in the di- rection of the colon-ascendens, afterwards copious secretion of urine. —Increased secretion of urine.—Diminished secretion of urine.—Pale, :thin urine, having a peculiar fetid smell. Larynx. — Painful, extremely disagreeable hoarseness. — Slight hacking cough towards evening. Violent congestion of blood to the respiratory organs, occasioning spitting of blood. Chest.—Oppression of the chest. Slight tightness of breathing KALI CARBONICUM. 739 154.—KALI CARBONICUM. RAL. CARB.—Carbonate of Potash.—See Hahnemann's "Chronic Diseases,'' IV.—Duration of Action: from five to six weeks. Compare with—Amm. Amm.-mur., Ars., Bovist, Bry., Caust., Calc, Camph., Carb.-v., Cham., Chin., Coff., Graph., Lauroc, Lye, Magn., Mangan., Natr.- mur., Nitr.-ac, Nitr-spir., Nux.-v., Paris, Phosph., Puis., Rhus, Sabad, Staph., Sil., Sulph., Tarax., Viol -od.—Kali-carb., is particularly suitable after : Lye, Natr.-mur., Nitr.-ac.—Afterwards are frequently suitable : Carb.-v., Phosph., and the remedies which ai-e analogous to the latter. Antidotes.—Camph., Coff., Nitr.-spir. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—The limbs are painful in those parts on which one is resting. Her whole body felt very sensitive. Ach- ing in the joints and drawing pain in the tibiae. A sort of tension in the interior of the body, extending as far as the head and eyes. Pinching and feeling of contraction in the anus, in the region of the stomach and towards the pharynx. Drawing pain in the nape of the neck, shoulder-blades, hands, and knees. ^Drawing pain in all the limbs, with great paleness of the face and emaciation. Violent draw- ing in the abdomen, arms, and lower limbs, with pain as from bruises in the upper arms, worst when at rest.—Stitches in the joints and tendons. Ulcerative pain when pressing on any part of the body Pain as from bruises of all the muscles of the body. °Disposition to strain parts by lifting.—The pains appear at two or three o'clock in the morning. Chilliness immediately after the cessation of the pains. The symptoms become more intense in the open air, especially the fever.—Drowsiness with yawning, when walking in the open air. Violent headache, for some hours, from walking in the open air.— Great dread of the open air. * Liability to take cold when walking in the open air, -with sweat and restlessness at night, and weight in tho nape of the neck as from a load. Every breath of air causes catarrhal ailments. Seething of the blood, and heat in the head. Seething of the blood, in the evening, before going to bed, with op- pressed breathing. He feels the pulsations of all the arteries doion to the tips of the toes. Heaviness of the body. Laziness.—Frequent weariness and depression of strength. Lassitude, weakness, and nausea, after the siesta. Great lassitude in the evening. Great weariness early in the morning, on waking, abating after rising, but returning in the afternoon increased.—Relaxation and weakness in the limbs.—Titillating weakness in the limbs. Fit of weakness in the whole body. Sudden attack of weakness in the evening, when lying down, with sick feeling, nausea, warmth, and faintishness in the pit of the stomach, vertigo, and vanishing of thought.—Attack of nausea, 740 KALI CARBONTCUM. early in the morning, with violent yawning, eructations, writhing in the region of the stomach, violent heat, and anguish. Attack of nausea and vomiting, with pain in the abdomen as from bruises, worse when pressing on the part; weakness unto falling, dullness of the head, drowsiness, and a few watery stools with subsequent cos- tiveness.—Sudden tremulousness. Violent trembling. *Tremulous weariness when walking. Characteristic Peculiarities.—Stitches are the most character- istic symptoms of Kali-carb. Skin.—The skin is painful, as if from subcutaneous ulceration, when pressing on it. °Dryness of the skin. °Deficient perspiration. —Itching of the whole body. Stitches and gnawing in the skin of the whole body. Burning itching of the vmole body.—°Itching burning red spots on the body.— Yellow, scaly, violently itching spots over the whole abdomen and around the pimples.—*Herpes (on the thigh). °Old warts. Spreading blisters. °Ascites and anasarca. Sleep.—*Great drowsiness in the daytime. *Early drowsiness in the evening, -and sulky silence. Sleeplessness at night. Restless night.—Half-waking night-sleep, mere slumbering at night.—♦At night, in bed, delirious, in a waking state, with heat in the brain and over the whole body, afterwards sweat, coldness.of the limbs, and shuddering, with great tendency to start.—♦Sleep full qf fanciful ravings, with talking.—♦Anxious, voluptuous, or frightful dreams. —♦Restless sleep, full of dreams. Dreams about serpents, illness, and dead persons.—♦Starting when asleep.—Congestion of blood to the head, at night, when lying in bed. Gnashing of the teeth, at night, while asleep. Acidity in the mouth, at night. Pressure and burning in the stomach, at night, sometimes with spasm and vomiting. Pinching in the abdomen, at night, in paroxysms, with nausea and constant eructations. Colic and diarrhoea, at night. Burning at the anus, at night, which prevents sleep. Nightmare. Stitches in the chest and asthma. Stiffness of the nape of the neck. Burning lacerating in the lower limbs at night. Excessive pain in the whole body at night, like strokes of a hammer. Fever.—Frequent shuddering. Chilliness, in the forenoon, hot hands in. the evening. Chilliness with shuddering, in the evening, before going to bed. Continual internal chilliness. Violent chilli- ness with fever, towards evening; afterwards nausea and vomiting, and spasmodic pain in the chest, the whole night, with short breath- ing, internal anxiety, and a good deal of sweat about the head. Continual chilliness, with violent thirst and internal heat, hot hands, and aversion to eating Feverish heat in the afternoon, and burning KALI CARBOX1CUM. 741 Bensation of the eyes, followed by chilliness in the open air. Dry heat of the cheeks and hands, with short breathing. Increased warmth, at night, with violent pains in the zygoma. ^Night-sweat. Moral Symptoms.—Great despondency. Want of energy. Sad, weeping mood. Anguish and great sadness.—Precipitate resolution and action. Irresoluteness.—*Great tendency to start.—Very low- spirited, evening and morning.—♦ Vexed and irritated mood. Vexed and peevish mood.—Angry and wrathful. Vehement.—Indifferent towards everything.—Dread of labor. Fitful mood. Sensorium.—Absence qf mind.—Delirium, day and night.—Ina- bility to collect one's senses. Loss qf consciousness.—°Weak memory. —Confused and stupid feeling in the head, in the evening.—'^Fre- quent dullness qfthe head, as after intoxication, and as if the ears were stopped up, with nausea almost unto vomiting.—Gloominess in the head.— Vertigo when walking. °Vertigo, as if proceeding from the stomach. Head.—Headache, relieved by sitting in bed, aggravated by lying down. °Headache when riding in a carriage, when sneezing or coughing. Horrid headache through the eyes.—*Attaclcs of megrim, on both sides, with faintishness almost to nausea.—Violent pain in the whole head, with throbbing and stitches in the knees, going off by motion.—♦Aching in the head. Aching in the forehead, in the afternoon, when walking, with ill-humor. Pressure in the forehead, with photophobia. Violent pressure over the whole skull, down the nape of the neck, throbbing in the head and the whole body, aggra- vated by the slightest contact, and increasing in paroxysms, with violent nausea and vomiting of bile. Pressing aching in the fore- head, with vomiting of mucus and acidity. Pressing and aching in the temples. Pressure over the eyes, with violent pain in the whole forehead.—*Aching in the occiput, towards the nape of the neck, going off in the open air.—Violent aching in the whole head, with chills over the whole body, especially in the forenoon. Violent pressure in the occiput, with seething of the blood in tbe head, and a feeling of heaviness when standing. Pressure and burning deep in the occiput, with heaviness of the head. Pressing headache, from the temples to the centre. Feeling qf fullness in the head, as if the brain were pressing against the skull.—Heaviness in the occiput, as if it were full of lead. Heaviness and painfulness of the fore part of the head. Drawing and lacerating on the top of the head. Severe lacerating in the head. Darting-lacerating pain in the head.— Stitches in the temples, causing one to start and scream.—Throbbing and beating in the forehead, and especially in the sides of the head, 742 KALI CARBONICUM. frequently intermitting.— Ulcerative pain in tbe head, after dinner, relieved by lying down.—^Congestion of blood to the head, with in- toxication arising from it. Warm rising of blood to the head, with seething of the blood in the body.—Concussive headache.—Creeping pain above the forehead. Sharp aching in the outer side of the temple.—Chilliness about the head. ^Liability qfthe head to take cold, with headache and toothache. Itching of the hairy scalp.— Pimples on the hairy scalp.—°Scurf on the head.—^Dryness qfthe hair. * Falling off of the hair. Eyes.—The eyes are painful to the touch. Pressure in the eyes and orbits, with drowsiness. Pain as if the eyes would be pressed in.—Boring pain in the eyes.—Smarting pain in the eye.—Biting and shooting pains in the eyes.—Burning in the eyes. Redness and heat of the eyes. Inflammation qfthe lids of the right eye. Swelling of the right eye. Soreness of the outer canthus, with burning pain. —The corners of the eyes ulcerate. *Agglutination of the eyes, early in the morning.—^Lachrymation of the eyes, especially the right, with a biting sensation in the canthus.—Dryness and burning of the eyes. Dry feeling, as from sand, and great drowsiness in the eyes.— Vanishing of sight, when writing. Black points and curls before her eyes when reading. *Spots, gauze, and points before her eyes, when reading or looking in the open air. A little black ball is hovering before the eyes. When looking at snow there is a sensa- tion as of white drops falling before the eyes. Various colors before the eyes. Bright sparks before the eyes.—Photophobia: painful sensitiveness of the eyes to the light of day. Ears. —Pain in the ears.—Drawing pain in the ear. Alternate lacerating in both ears. Violent lacerating in and behind the ear. —* Stitches in both ears, in the evening, when in bed. ♦Frequent fine stitches in the left ear, from within outwards.—Boring and aching in the ears.— Violent itching in the ears. Tickling in the ears.—Redness, heat, and violent itching of the outer ears. Inflam- mation and swelling of the internal ear, with pain round about. Soreness and suppuration behind the ears. Pimples on the ears.— Discharge of a yellow, liquid cerumen or pus from the ear, with pre- vious lacerating. Secretion of fetid humor in the internal ear. Opening of an ulcer in the ear. °Parotitis.—*Hard swelling qfthe parotid gland, with pain to the touch.—Sensation of obstruction of the ears.—Dullness of hearing, in the evening. ^Diminution of hearing in both ears, slowly increasing and decreasing.— Tingling in both ears. Singing, whizzing in the ears. Cracking in the ear. Nose.— Ulcerative vain in the nasal fossa.—Great burning in the KALI CARBONICUM. 743- nose. Swelling of the tip of the nose.—Pimples on the nose. *Sore, scurfy nostrils, for a long time. ♦Ulcerated nostrils.—Bloody, red nostril, every morning. Frequent bleeding qf the nose.—Sensitive smell.—°Dull smell.—Dry coryza, with itching in the nose, and difficulty of breathing through the nose, for several days.—Ob- struction qfthe nose.—Coryza, with bloody nasal mucus. Face,—Pale face and weakness. Pale face, with faint, lifeless eyes.—♦Heat and redness in the face, -early in the morning, in bed. —°Bloated face.—Burning itching in the face. Swollen red cheek, with small pimples, also on the nose.—Pimples in the face, going and coming, also continually.—°01d warts.—Lacerating in the lower jaw and in front of the right ear.—Spasmodic sensation in the lips.— Burning of the lips.—Itching around the margins of the lips.— Swelling and rhagades of the upper lip. Thick, ulcerated lip. Vesicles on the lips.—Chapped lips, peeling off. Teeth and Jaws.—Insufferable spasm in the jaws.—Swelling of the lower jaw and the submaxillary glands, with looseness of the teeth.—The teeth are sensitive to pain.—Toothache with pain in the face.—Pain of the teeth, every day, in the morning on waking.— 0 Toothache only when eating, a throbbing in all the teeth.—The teeth are painful when touched by either cold or warm substances. —Toothache.—Darting and drawing in the tooth, as if corroded.— Lacerating toothache during or shortly after a meal.—Corrosive itching, violent pain in different teeth and the gums.—Burning, lancinating toothache, especially at night. Stinging in the teeth and gums, afterwards swelling of the cheeks, with stinging pain. * Violent stitches in the teeth. Looseness of all the teeth.—Bad smell from the teeth.—Painful inflammation of the anterior gums. Swelling and soreness of the gums. Mouth.—Corrosion of the inner mouth, and tooth, as if by some thing acrid. Soreness of the mouth.—Numbness of the mouth, as if burnt.— Violent burning in the mouth.—Painful vesicles all over the inner mouth, with burning pain.—Swelling of the tongue. Pain ful vesicles on the tongue and gums. Throat.—Sore throat, with difficult deglutition and opening of the mouth. Sensitiveness of the oesophagus, warm food causes a burning sensation in it. Pressure and lacerating in the pharynx. Sensation as of a lump in the throat.—Elongation of the uvula, with stiffness of the nape of the neck.—Sore pain in the throat, in the upper part of the palate, when swallowing food. Scraping sensation in the throat. ♦Hawking of mucus. Taste and Appetite.—Bad taste in the mouth. Bitter taste in 744 KALI CARBONICUM. the mouth, with nausea. *Sour taste in the mouth, every day. Putrid taste in the mouth.—Little appetite.—Great hunger. — °Great desire for sweet things, -also for sour.—Violent thirst, in the fore- noon, evening, and at night. Gastric Symptoms.—Paleness of the face, nausea, vertigo, eructa- tions, weakness of the lower limbs, and coldness of the hands and feet, before and after dinner.—Desire for sleep during a meal. Great drowsiness, with chilliness and yawning, after a meal.—°Sense of °rcpletion in the stomach. General feeling of uneasiness after eating. Heartburn.—*Sour eructations, after a meal. ^Frequent eructations, -especially early in the morning. Great acidity of the stomach.—♦ Nausea, -as if he would faint, subsiding when lying town, in the forenoon. Violent nausea, in the stomach, with trem- bling of the hands and feet. ♦Nausea, as from a deranged or empty stomach.—Continued loathing, as if he would vomit. Inclination to vomit at every internal emotion, vexation, or joy. Vomiting, with a swoon-like failing of strength. Vomiting of food and sour substances, with nausea. Stomach.—Pressure in the stomach, with rumbling, feeling of emptiness, and eructations. Pressure in the stomach, extending into the chest, with want of breath even unto suffocation, accompanied by nausea and great depression of strength, trembling of the hands and feet, and throwing up of bitter water.— Weight in the stomach.—Sen- sation of swelling in the whole region of the stomach.—Spasmodic pains in the stomach. Violent contractive pains in the stomach, ex- tending into the chest. Constrictive pain in the stomach and towards the pharynx.—Cutting pains in the stomach. Sensation in tbe stomach as if cut to pieces, with great sensitiveness of the external region.— Sore pain in the pit of the stomach, during inspiration and expira- tion.— Throbbing in the region of the stomach, which is painful to the touch.—Throbbing in the pit of the stomach, like a violent pal- pitation of tbe heart. Sour burning proceeding from the stomach, with slight spasmodic constriction. Hypochondria.—Simple pain in the hypochondria, with grum- bling.—Pain in the liver, as if made sore by pressure.—^Pressure in the direction qfthe liver, -as if coming from the right half of the chest, with throbbing in the region of the stomach, which is painful to the touch.—Drawing pain in the liver.—Stitches in the region of the liver, resembling splenetic stitches. Burning pain in the ^egion of the liver. Abdomen.—Violent colic, sometimes extending to the hip, until late at night. Colic, with eructations, and spitting.—Pressure in the KALI CARBONICUM. 745 abdomen.—Distention of the abdomen, with aching pain. Hard, distended abdomen, with painfulness of the umbilical region to the touch. Contractive pain in the abdomen.—Cutting and drawing in the abdomen, °resembling false labor-pains.—Sore pain in the ab- domen, with bearing-down towards the genital organs, as if the menses would make their appearance, and pain in the small of the back.—Long-continued, contusive pain in the region of both kidneys, in the afternoon, when sitting.—Throbbing in the abdomen. Burn- ing and drawing in the abdomen. Burning around the umbilicus. °Inactivity and coldness in the abdomen. °Uneasiness and weight in the abdomen. ° Ascites. m Incarceration of flatulence, with colic. —♦Excessive emission of flatulence.—The abdominal muscles are painful to the touch.—Pressure in the groins, as if hernia would come on.—Painful bloatedness in both groins. Stool.—Insufficient, soft stool.—°Costiveness every other day. Costiveness, with painful drawing in the abdomen. °Inactivity of the rectum. °Difficult, too large stool.—Soft stools, preceded by colic.—Soft stool, followed by burning at the anus. Half liquid (scanty) stools, with colic and subsequent tenesmus.—Diarrhoea, at night, with insufferable colic, continuing even the next day. Profuse diarrhoea, with great weariness. Diarrhoea, preceded by pinching in the abdomen, and followed by burning at the rectum. — Stools streaked with blood, followed by anxiety and difficulty of breathing. —*'White mucus before and during stool.—Discharge of a lumbricus with the stool. Pinching colic, with the regular stool, followed by a constant desire for stool.—Tenesmus of the rectum, after the usual stool.—Continual burning at the anus, after stool. Tenesmus of the rectum.—Severe lancinating-lacerating and cutting in the anus.— ^Itching of the anus.—Burning and pinching of the anus.— Ulce- rated pimples at the anus, with stinging. *Large painful varices. Considerable protrusion qfthe varices during micturition, emitting blood at first, afterwards a white mucus. Considerable discharge of blood from the rectum; afterwards seething of blood and pulsations in the whole body. Inflammation of the varices. Urine.—* Great desire to urinate.—Turbid urine. Pale, greenish urine, with burning during and after micturition.—Cutting in the region of the bladder^ Lacerating pain in the urethra. Burning in the urethra during and after micturition. Genital Organs.—Lacerating in the glans.—Stinging itching of the glans.—*Sivelling qfthe testes, -and the spermatic cord, with heat which can be felt externally. The scrotum is painful, as if bruised. Excited sexual instinct. ^Deficient sexual instinct. Pain. L2 746 KALI CARBONICUM. ful erections, with spasmodic contraction of the spermatic cords.— *No erections for eighteen days. Copious pollutions, with subsequent zveakness. ° Suppression of the usual pollutions for forty-two days. Female Genital Organs.—♦Soreness, gnawing, -burning, and itching in the pudendum. Menses too early. ♦Reappearance of the suppressed menses.1—Suppression of the menses, with anasarca and ascites.— The menstrual blood is very acrid, has a bad, pungent smell.—Great soreness around the pudendum before, during, and after the menses. Chilliness previous to the menses, tremor of the limbs, spasmodic sensation in the abdomen. Pain in the abdomen during the menses, putrid taste in the mouth, rumbling in the abdomen, great weakness and drowsiness. During tbe menses, violent press- ing in the small of the back and in the abdomen. Costiveness during the menses. On the second day of the menses, coryza, colic, toothache, pain in the small of the back, stitches in the ears, and restless sleep. Violent itching of the whole body, during the menses. —^Leucorrhaza. Mucous leucorrhoea. Yellowish leucorrhoea, with itching and burning in the pudendum. Larynx.—Rough throat, with cough.—^Complete hoarseness and aphony. Titillation in the larynx, inducing cough, with violent hoarseness.—*Cough, -brought on by titillation in the throat.— Night-cough. Short and hacking cough, with some expectoration, mostly at night and early in the morning. A few violent paroxysms of spasmodic cough, with irritation in the throat. Violent cough, almost causing vomiting, early in the morning. Dry cough, coming and going rapidly. Stinging in the throat, with fluent coryza; occasional stitches in the left chest; lacerating scraping in the chest; nausea; pain in the varices; concussive pain in the ab- domen ; °wheezing in the chest. Chest.—Shortness of breath, early in the morning. °Oppressed breathing. °Asthma during fast walking. °Asthma early in the morning. °Spasmodic asthma. °Spasm of the chest.—Oppression of the chest, with aggravated, painful breathing. Great pain in the chest, especially when talking.—Pressive pain in the chest. Sharp aching behind the sternum, when breathing.—Spasmodic pain in the chest.—Pinching in the muscles of the chest.—Cutting sensation in the lower part of the chest. Cutting pain in the chest. Stitches in the mamma. Stitches in the region of the heart. Drawing pain across the chest.—Lacerating in the sides of the chest.—Sore pain in 1 Note by Hahnemann.—Kali has brought back the menses when Natr.- mur. did not accomplish this result. KALI CARBONICUM. ►» in 14* the upper part of the chest.—Pain in the chest, as if from bruises.— Painful throbbing in the clavicle, shoulders, and side of the abdomen &c.—Frequent and violent palpitation of the heart, in the forenoon, with dullness of the head and nausea.—Frequent intermission'of the beats of the heart. Crampy pain in or about the heart, as if it were hanging by bands firmly drawn round, the pain is most felt when taking a strong inspiration, or when coughing, not during exercise. ■—Burning in the region of the heart. Back.—Violent pains in the small of the back, with labor-like colic and leucorrhoea. ^Drawing pain in the small of the back, Some- times extending to the back.—Throbbing in the small of the back.— Violent pain, as from blows and bruises.—Violent pain in the back. Pressure in the regifon of both kidneys. Burning pressure in the back, worse when walking in the open air. ^Stiffness and paralytic feeling in the back.—Lacerating in the region of the right kidney. Stitches in the region qf both kidneys. Lancinating pain between the scapulae, with oppression and anguish of the chest. Pain in the loins, when walking, and especially when touching the parts, as if the flesh had started off the bone.—Pain in the back, as if the part had been strained by lifting.—Itching of the back.—^Stiffness qfthe nape of the neck.—Drawing pain in the nape of the neck.—Congestion qf blood to the neck.—Pain of the cervical glands, as if from a cold. Swelling in the cervical glands.—Hard swelling of the submaxillary gland.—° Goitre-like swelling of the neck. Arms.—Swelling, and pain as from subcutaneous ulceration of the axillary glands.—Burning and itching of the axilla. Tension and pressure with drawing in the shoulder, with paralytic sensation in the arm. Lacerating in the shoulder.—Pimples on the shoulder, with violent itching and burning after scratching. Lacerating in the arm, from the shoulder to the wrist-joint. *Both arms go to sleep, even after violent exercise. °Languid feeling in both arms. Pulsative pain in the upper arm, at intervals.—Pain as from bruises and blows in the upper arm. °Stiffness of the joint.—Lacerating in the bends of both elbows.—Tensive pain in the lower arm.—Lacerating in the wrist-joints.—°Painful lameness in the joint.—Cold hands. •^Trembling of the hands when writing. Itching of the wrists and hands. Rough, chapped skin of the hands.—Lacerating under the nails. Lacerating in the fingers. Stitches, ulcerating or burning pain in the hand.—°Contractive twitching of the fingers. Legs.— Ulcerative pain in the glutei muscles and thighs, when sitting. Soreness between the lower limbs.—Crampy lacerating in tbe hip-joint. Lacerating in the hips and knees, even when sitting 748 KALI CHLORICUM. Pain in the hip-joint as from bruises, with pain during motion and when sneezing.—^Pressure, also with lacerating in the lower ex- tremities, -apparently in the bones.—Burning pain in both lower limbs. Uneasiness in the lower extremities, in the evening. Heavi- ness of the lower limbs. The lower limbs frequently go to sleep. Weakness, stiffness, °burning pain in the lower limbs and feet.— Jactitation qf the muscles of the thigh. Paralytic drawing in the whole thigh.— Weary sensation in the thighs.—Nodosity above the knee, aching and lacerating. Dull pain in the side of the knee, when walking, and especially when extending the limb. Stiffness, tension, and weakness in the knee. Drawing, lacerating, throbbing, and beat- ing pain in the knee. Paralytic sensation in the knee, when sitting. Eruption in the bend of the knee.—Paralytic drawing in the legs. Drawing and lacerating in the tibia. °Creeping shivering on the tibiae. °Swelling of the legs.—Spasmodic lacerating in the region of the ankle, with pulsations along the tibia up to tbe knee. Frequent lacerating .in the tarsal joints. Stitches in the feet. Heaviness and stiffness of the feet. *Coldfeet, in bed. ♦Profuse sweat in the feet. ^Considerable swelling of the feet. Lacerating in the toes.—Inflamed red chiblains on the toes, aching. 155.—KALI CHLORICUM. KAL. CHL.—Chlorate of Potash.—See "Archiv," XVI.—Duration of Action! several weeks. Compare with—Am., Arn., Bell., Calc, Coce, Kali, Kali-hyd., Natr.-mur., Nitr. Antidotes.—Of small doses: Puis., Bell. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Rheumatic pains in various parts.— Great weariness.—Great weakness with diarrhoea.—Twitching about the head and the rest of the body.—Convulsions succeeded by delirium. Skin.—Violent itching of the whole body. Rash, with single pain« ful pimples.—Eruption as of venereal patients. Sleep.—Somnolence.—Restless sleep, with anxious dream towards morning, snoring, and oppression of breathing. Fever.—Great chilliness, even unto shivering. Shivering over the whole body. Febrile condition, with violent beating of the pulse ind heart.—Pulse accelerated by 10, 15, 20 beats. Moral Symptoms.—Sad, apathetic mood, with chilliness in the evening. Head.—Dullness and confusion of the head. Headache with vcr KALI CHLORICUM. 740 tigo. Headache extending into both jaws. Aching in the temples. Cutting pain in the head extending to the malar bone. Eyes.—Rush of blood to the eyes, they feel irritated.—Redness in the eyes, in the evening, with some pain.—Luminous appearances before the eyes, when coughing or sneezing. Nose.—Drawing in the root of the nose.—Bleeding of the nose. Violent coryza, with sneezing and profuse secretion of mucus. Face.—Flushes of heat in the face. Pressure and tension in the face. Cramp-like dravnng in the cheeks. Stinging in the face. Twitching in the nerves of the lower jaw. Swelling of the lips Pimples on the lips. Teeth—Toothache in the upper jaw. Dullness of the teeth.— The gums bleed readily when cleaning them. The gums are bright- red. Mouth and Throat.—Increased secretion of saliva, the saliva being sometimes acid. Stinging burning on the tongue. Coated tongue after diarrhoea. Roughness and dryness of the fauces and chest. Appetite and Taste.—Bitterish taste in the mouth, with a feeling of coldness on the tongue. Stinging-burning sourish taste.—Want of appetite.—Violent hunger.—Increase of thirst. Gastric Symptoms.—Empty, sourish, violent eructations, some- times alternating with pains in the chest and abdomen. Loathing, with shivering. Nausea, with eructations. Stomach.—Pressure in the region of the stomach. Cutting and warmth in the stomach. Abdomen.—Tensive pressure in the region of the liver and spleen. —Colic, with diarrhoea, in the region of the pelvis.—°Obstructions in the liver and portal system, with haemorrhoidal complaints. Stool.—Sluggish stool. Painful diarrhoea, passing at last nothing but mucus. Constant pains in the rectum. Urine and Genital Organs.—Turbid urine. Voluptuous dreams with violent emissions.—Diminished sexual desire, with chilliness and apathy. Larynx and Chest.—Hoarseness. Dryness of the throat and chest, with violent cough. Irritation in the larynx, with desire to cough. Oppression of the chest, with beating of the heart. Violent but uniform beating of the heart. AlRms and Legs.—Drawing and lacerating in the wrist-joints Cramp in the leg. Cold feet, with palpitation of the heart. 750 KALI HYDRIODICUM. 156.—KALI HYDRIODICUM. KAL. lxYv.—Ilydriodate of Potash.—See Noack and Trinks. Compare with—Iod. According to Wallace, Iod. is most analogous to Ars. Antidotes —Of large doses : Compare Iod. According to Wallace, a good deal of exercise in the open air is the best means to remove the influence of Iod. upon the system.—Of small doses : Valer., Chin, Am.-mur., Sulph., Merc, Ars., Rhus. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Pinching-grining over the whole body, particularly about the head and abdomen, most violent in the evening.—Spasmodic contraction of the muscles.—Subsultus-ten- dinum.—Exhaustion.—Paralysis. Hemiplegia. —Apoplexy. — Ha morrhage from the nose, lungs, and bowels.—Increase of the bodily volume.—Irresistible desire to go into the open air. Characteristic Peculiarities.—The majority of the symptoms appear during rest and go off during motion. Skin.—Profuse papulous eruption in the face, on the shoulders, and over the whole body, occasionally with dryness of the throat. Itching herpes in the face. Pustulous eruption. Purpura-hamor- rhagica. Sleef.—Frequent yawning without drowsiness.—Sleeplessness. Restless confused sleep. Fever.—-Creeping over the back, succeeded by coldness in the whole body. Chilliness with drowsiness. Disposition to feel chilly, and chilliness with shaking at night, with frequent waking.—Dryness of the mouth and thirst, during the chilliness, in the evening. Flash- ing heat, with dullness of the bead and malaise in the body.—At times the body is drenched with sweat, at times it is dry and feels chilly.—Violent fever. Catarrhal fever. Accelerated, frequent pulse. Moral Symptoms.—Torturing feeling of anguish, preventing sleep. Head.—Excitation, as if intoxicated by spirituous drinks. Great heat in the head, with burning and redness of the face. Beating pain in the foiehead. Painful beating in the temporal region.— Dullness and heaviness in the head. Violent headache with indiges- tion.— Violent pain in the frontal region. Pain as if the upper part of the head would be dashed to pieces. Tensive, stinging, darting, lacerating pain in the head. Ulcerative pain of the scalp when scratching it.—Falling off of the hair. Eyes.—Burning in the eyes, with secretion of purulent mucus. Burning in the eyes and redness of the lids, with lachrymation.— Convulsions of the muscles of the eyes, with dilatation of the pupils.— KALI HYDRIODICUM. 751 (Edema of the eye-lids. Inflammation of the conjunctiva, with disa- greeable itching of the eye-lids. Faint expression of the eyes. Dim- ness of the eyes. Amaurosis. Ears.—Painful gnawing in the interior and behind the ear.— Vio- lent boring or darting in the ears, sometimes extending into the head. Lacerating in the ears. Singing in the ears. Nose.—Redness and swelling of the nose. Violent bleeding qfthe nose.—Loss of smell.—Catarrhal sensation in the nose.—Frequent discharge of burning, corroding water from the nose. Profuse serous discharge from the nose.—Inflammation qfthe mucous membrane of the nose and eye-lids.—Catarrhal inflammation of the schneiderian membrane in the frontal sinuses. Face.—Great paleness of the face.—Red face. Swelling qf the face and tongue.—Fine, painful laceratings under the eye, or in front of the ears, extending to the temporal region, and affecting the whole side.—Violent lacerating in the jaw and teeth. Teeth.—Enlargement and suppuration of the submaxillary gland. — Ulcerative pain and swelling of the gums. Sensation as if the teeth were elongated, with painfulness of the teeth, in the evening. Grumbling lacerating or shooting in the teeth. Mouth.—Dry, chapped lips. Sensitiveness of the mouth and fauces.—Heat in the mouth and dyspeptic symptoms.— Ulceration of the tongue and mouth without ptyalism.—Ptyalism, great swell- ing of the tongue, and excessive ulceration of the mucous mem- brane of the mouth.—Bloody saliva, with sweetish taste in the mouth. Throat.—Dryness and bitterness in the pharynx, throat, and mouth. Pains and dryness in the throat and stomach. Burning, scraping, and roughness of the throat, like heartburn. Sore throat, as after taking cold. Dull stinging and ulcerative pain in the throat, only during deglutition. The goitre is sensitive to contact. Appetite.—Disagreeable, horrid taste in the mouth.—Great bit- terness in. the mouth, and still more in the throat, going off after breakfast.— Violent, continual, even excessive thirst.—Increased appetite. Stomach.—Frequent, empty, sobbing eructations.—Hiccough in the evening.—Nausea.—Vomiting.—Malaise in the stomach.—Pain and sense of dryness in the stomach. Troublesome burning in the utomach and oesophagus. Heartburn, with indigestion and flatulence. —Inflammation of the stomach.—Phlegmasia of the stomach (and intestinal canal). Abdomen.—Increased secretion of bile.—Sudden painful bloating 752, KALI HYDRIODICUM. up of the whole abdomen.—Horrible burning in the pit qfthe stomach, externally.—Griping and burning around the umbilicus.—Violent tearing from both sides of the abdomen towards the umbilicus.—Ach- ing and pressing pain in the hypogastrium, as if in the uterus Stool.—Costiveness. Diarrhoza. Urine.—Painful urging to urinate.—Urine which is red as blood —Discharge of mucus from the urethra in both sexes. Genital Organs.—Diminution of the sexual desire.—Atrophy of the testicles.—Reappearance of the menses, with profuse flow, colic and diarrhoea. During the catamenia: continual shuddering, icy- cold creepings over the hands, with pressure and gripings in thf bypo- gastrium ; aching pain and as if bruised in both groins and in the small of the back.—Tllin, watery, or acrid corrosive leucorrhaza, with biting in the pudendum. Discharge of mucus from the uterus and vagina. —Atrophy of the mamma. Larynx.—Catarrhal tone of voice.—Inflammation of the mucous membrane of the lungs. Simple, sub-acute bronchitis; hoarseness, pain in the chest, cough, and slight oppression of breathing, pain in both eyes. Congestive redness of the conjunctiva, sub-mucous infil- tration and contraction of the pupil. Influenza, with sneezing, in- creased secretion from the eyes and nose, headache, and drowsiness. Constant irritation in the throat, inducing a dry cough.—Dry and hacking cough, afterwards accompanied by a copious greenish expec- toration.—Disagreeable dryness and irritation in the throat, nightly waking, with great oppression of breathing and loss of voice, and all the symptoms which generally characterize a violent spasmodic croup. —Haemoptoe. Chest.—Fine, flashing, or extremely violent stitches deep in the chest, during walking.—Pain in the chest as if cut to pieces.—Pleu- ritis.—Violent stitches in the middle of the sternum, extending to the shoulder. Back.—Violent pain in the small of the back, constantly. Arms.—Pain on the shoulder as if lame, only during motion.— Violent lacerating in the shoulder.—Lacerating in the elbows.—Lace- rating in the arm and hand. Legs.—Gnawing in the hip-bones. Severe lacerating pain in the thighs and legs. Nightly lacerating in both knees. Ulcerative pain in the heels and toes. KALI NITRICUM. 753 157.—KALI NITRICUM. KAL. NITR.—Nitrum, Saltpetre, Nitrate of Potash.—See " Hahnemann's Chronia Diseases," V. Compare with—Am., Arn., Calc, Coce, Kali, Natr.-mur., Nitr.-ac, Nitr-spir. Antidotes.—Nitr.-spir.—Camph. increases the pains. GENERAL SYMPTOMS AND FITS.— Painless jerking in the whole body. Formication in the hands and feet, afterwards in the tongue.—Convulsions.—Sudden swelling of the body, neck, and thighs. Fainting fits, with vertigo, in the morning when standing, relieved when sitting down, afterwards obscuration of sight, with great weakness and drowsiness, pain in the small of the back, and constriction in the abdomen, for a quarter of an hour; when the fits cease, the pain goes down the lower limbs into the ankles, where it remains seated the whole day. Paralysis of the spinal marrow, with tetanus.—Paralysis of the extremities.—Paralysis of the organs of sense. — Chronic cachexia.—Fatal inflammation and gangrene. Great weariness, as after great exertion, with heaviness in the head. Weakness of the whole body. She felt at once so faint, worn out and drowsy that she had to lie down, without being able to open her eyes. Characteristic Peculiarities.—The majority of the symptom's occur in the afternoon and evening. The symptoms which occur during the day generally disappear in the evening after lying down. She feels relieved when lying down. The pains grow worse when in bed. She feels less weak when walking than when sitting. The symptoms, especially the headache, are immediately relieved by smell« ing of spiritus Nitri-dulcis. The symptoms grow worse by smelling of Camphor. Skin.—Itching, here and there. Burning vesicles, full of a thij yellowish fluid. Small pustules in the face and on other parts of the skin. Sleep.—Yawning. Drowsiness in the daytime, also when walking. —Restless nights.—Comatose sleep generally, with ravings.—Sleep full of fancies.—Nightmare.—Oppression of the chest from coughing, in the night. Anxious, wild dreams. Fever.—Violent chilliness, with trembling of the whole body. Chil- liness in the evening, with a cold thrill over the back, going off when lying down. Shuddering, in the evening, followed by flushes of heal and sweat. Slight heat over the whole body. Excessive sweat.—Ex hausting sweats.—The pulse is full, hard, and quick, with an inflam matory condition, especially of the abdominal organs. The pulse it quick and small, the hands being warm. 32^ 48 754 KALI NITRICUM. Moral Symptoms.—Ennui, weeping mood, melancholy appearance Uneasy, out of humor, sensitive, timid. Sensorium.—Drowsy, dullness of the head Stupefaction and heaviness of the head, in the morning. Vertigo. Staggering gait, without vertigo. Head.—Continual heaviness and pain over the whole head. Dull- ness and throbbing in the forehead. The vertex feels bruised and sensitive. Headache on waking, with fullness in the abdomen, diar- rhoea, and chilliness. Violent aching pain deep in the head, behind the eye. Pressure on the top of the head and in the occiput, as from a stone. Contractive pain in the forehead and eyes. Drawing and lacerating in the head, extending to the neck and shoulders. Feeling of looseness and stitches in the brain. Rush of blood to tbe head. Great sensitiveness of the scalp, it is painful to the touch.—Great falling off of the hair.—Small scurfy places on the hairy scalp, with itching. Eyes.—Painful pressure in the eyes, as if sand or dust had got in. Burning smarting. Violent burning of the eyes, with redness of the canthi. Continual lacerating in the inner canthi. Transitory blindness. " Ears.—Tensive pain in the ears. Tingling in the ears.—Con- tinual deafness. Nose.—Sore pain of the nostril.—Bleeding of the nose.—Griping and burning around the wings of the nose. Violent coryza, with obstruction of the nose, loss of smell, and husky voice. Face.— Tensive pain in the cheeks, with redness, increased throb- bing in the head, apparently in the middle of the brain. Lacerating in the facial bones.—Frequent violent itching of tbe face. Teeth.—Toothache, drawing and sticking. Lacerating toothache, with lacerating in the head from morning till noon. Boring tooth- ache, with pressure in the head, and alternate heat and coldness. Ulcerative pain. Darting pains in the teeth. Mouth.—Small burning pimples on the tip of the tongue.— Aphony.—Coldness from the mouth to the stomach, with nausea and inclination to vomit. Swelling of the salivary and submaxillary glands, with hardness and pain and increased secretion of saliva. Throat.—Sore throat, day and night. Aching pain in the throat, as when inflammation commences. Stinging in the throat and fauces during deglutition. Titillation in the throat. Roughness and scraping sensation in the throat. Taste and Appetite.—*Want of appetite, -with increased hun. ger.—Canine hunger.—* Thirst, without much appetite. KALI NITRICUM. 75b Gastric Symptoms.—Frequent eructations and nausea.—Heart- burn. Nausea, with inclination to vomit. Trembling of the whole body, headache, as if bruised, choking sensation in the throat, burn- ing eyes, faintness, lacerating and sticking in the vertex and occiput, cutting in the intestines, and, finally, discharge of soft faeces, followed by m«icus. Bloody vomiting. Stomach.—Violent pain in the stomach and whole body. Pressure in the titomach and colic. Spasm of the stomach. Slight pressure and burning in the region of the stomach.—Sharp sticking pain in the stomach and whole body. Coldness and pain in the stomach. Burning in the stomach. Inflammation of the stomach.—Aching pain in thtf pit of the stomach.—Pressure and gnawing in the pit of the stom»^h, painful to the touch. Abdomen.-— Violent colic. Dull painful feeling in the region of the kidneys. Dull burning pressure. Violent aching pains in the lumbar region.. Feeling of fullness in the abdomen, without pain. Violent contra,J,ive pain in the left groin when walking, arresting the breathing. Draiving pain in the lesser intestines, towards even- ing. Pinching in the abdomen. Occasional cutting in the um- bilical region. jPainful choking sensation around the umbilicus, with nausea. Pressing toward the umbilical ring. Violent rumbling in the abdomen. Stool.—Unsuccessful desire for stool. Frequent pressing on the rectum, with stool in the evening. Tenesmus of the rectum, with the usual stool. Sluggish stool. Hard stool, like sheep's dung. Hard stool, with burning and protrusion of the rectum. Soft, or diarrhoeic stool, with rumbling.—Diarrhoeic stools, without colic. Diarrhoea, with violent colic. Bloody stool. Enlargement and stinging pain of the varices. Urine.—Diminished secretion of urine.—Increased urine, with mucous sediment.—Painful stitches in the region of the prostatic gland, when urinating.—Burning in the urethra, during micturition. Genital Organs.—Increased sexual desire. Suppression of the menses. Weakness and pain in the lower limbs during the menses, Thin white leucorrhoea, with pain in the small of the back as if bruised. Larynx.—Painful tightness in the larynx, during respiration.— Cough, day and night, with soreness in the chest.—°Cough in the open air and when going up-stairs. Dry cough, with roughness of the throat and weight on the chest. Dry, short, and hacking cough, the whole day, with audible palpitation of the heart. Violent burn- ing in the chest, up the throat. Bloody expectoration, when cough 756 KALMIA LATIFOLIA. ing but little ,—°Hamoptysis., -at, full moon. Expectoration of coagn lated blood, after hawking up mucus. Chest.—Oppressed breathing when going up-stairs, sticking in the chest and cough, with expectoration of light blood. Spasmodic con- traction of the chest, with dread of suffocation and anguish.—Astama, in the region of the tbroat-p'it. Aching pain in tbe chest, of short duration. Tensive pain across the chest °Stitches in the chest during a deep inspiration.—Violent stitch in the region of the lieart. Burning and stinging in the chest. Congestion of blood to the chest. Momentary palpitation of the heart, at intervals. Violent palpitation of the heart, when lying on the back, in the night, or when lyiug on the right side. Palpitation of the heart when rising or moving about quickly, with heat of the face and oppression of the chest. Back.—Pain in the small of the back. Crampy pressure in the small of the back the whole day.—Pressure and burning in the back, relieved by motion. Violent cutting between the shoulders, shortening the breathing.—Stiffness in the nape qfthe neck. Pain- ful throbbing in one of the cervical vertebrae. Arms.—Lacerating in both shouldeis. Pain in the shoulder as if bruised, in the morning. Drawing pain in the arms. Drawing lacerating in the arm. Paralysis oi the arm. Drawing crampy pain in the upper arm. Lacerating in the wrist-joint. Sense as of breaking and lacerating in the hand. The hand feels heavy as lead Weakness oi the hands and lingers. Pain in tho fingers, as if sprained Occasional stiffness of the fingers. Legs—Lacerating in the hip-jomt. Frequent stinging and burn ing in the hip. Dull aching pain in the bones of the lower limb Intense contusive pain in the thigh. Weakness and painfulness of the lower limbs in tho- evening. Excessive weakness of the lower limbs, with yawning. Weakness of the lower limbs, with drawing pain from time to time. Feeling of great weariness, and paralytic weakness in the legs.—Frequent griping, ulcerative pain in the sole. Burning in the heel and balls of either foot, in the night in bed. Great weakness of the feet, especially when standing or walking. 158.—KA.LMIA LATIFOLIA. KALM. LAT.—Lame!; Mountain Laurel; Broad-leaved Laurel; Lambkill; Ivy-bush; Spoon-wood; Calico-busb.—See "Transactions of the American Inst, of Horn.," Vol. I. " Dr. Gray has cured violent facial neuralgia with it."—Ed. SKIN AND GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Red inflamed spots in KALMIA LATIFOLIA. 757 different places on the body, which appear like the beginning of blood-boils, and continue for several weeks.—Pressing pains in the whole body. The pains are most severe while moving, and disappear while lying. Severe neuralgic pains. Sleep.—Restlessness, frequent turning Talking in sleep. Un- pleasant, fantastic dreams. Fever.—Cold and shivering. Head.— Vertigo and headache. Nausea in the evening, followed by some dullness and aching in the head. Dullness in the head. Pain in the top of the head, as if bound closely with a cord. Strong pain in the temples and forehead.—Pressing pain in the forehead. Slight aching in the forehead, which sometimes shoots downwards to the eye-teeth. Severe pressing in the temples. Rending in the head and neck.—Pulsating pain in the forehead. Eyes.—Glimmering before the eyes, exactly in the point of vision; it seems as if small points were continually moving before the eyes. —Cloudiness before the eyes.—Sensation of stiffness in the muscles around the eyes and of the eye-lids. Pressing in the eyes, attended by pains in the arms and hands. Itching in the eyes. Ears.—Severe stitches in the ear. Excessive tingling in the ears. Nose.— Tickling in the nose.—Fluent coryza, with frequent sneezing. Face.—Pressing pain in the right side of the face. Stinging in the bones of the jaws. °Prosopalgia. Teeth.—Pain in the upper teeth.—Severe pressing in the molar teeth.—Dull pain in the incisor and eye-teeth. Mouth.—Stitches in the tongue. Tongue white and dry.—Lips swollen, dry, and stiff, in the morning.—Tingling in the salivary glands. Inflammation of the sublingual glands. Acrid bitter taste in the mouth. Throat.—Difficult deglutition. Scraping in the throat. Press- ing in the throat and nausea, with stitches in the eyes. Sensation of rawness and scraping in the throat, which is painful while swal- lowing. Stomach.—Nausea, with headache «. Abdomen.—Occasional pain across the abdomen. Pain in the right side, in the region of the liver. Bowels.—Scanty stool. Momentary nausea. Urine.—Strong desire to urinate. Genital Organs.—The menses appear too early or late. Painful menstruation. Suppression of the menses.—Pain in the loins, back, 758 KREASOTUM. and anterior part of the thighs during menstruation.— Yellowish Itu- corrhoza in the morning, eight days after the appearance of the menses. Chest.—Oppression of the chest, difficulty of breathing, dullness of the head, and nausea. Sensation in the chest as if strained by lifting. Palpitation of the heart. Back.—A sensation as if the spinal column would break. Sharp pain in the three superior dorsal vertebrae, extending through the shoulder-blades. Constant pain in the spine, sometimes worse in the lumbar region, with great heat and burning. Pain in the shoulder- blades. Aching pain across the loins, worse in the evening. Para- lytic pain in the small of the back. Arms.—Rending in the shoulder-joint. Frequent strong cracking in the joints of the elbows. Pain in the joints and arms. A sensa- tion like paralysis in the hand. Legs.—Great weariness in the evening, particularly in the extre- mities. Numbness of the limbs, as if asleep. Violent pain in the left foot. Aching in the tarsal bones of the right foot. Sticking in thb soles of the feet. Stinging in the toes. Frequent pains in the muocles of the extremities, and also in the head, with dullness, ver- tigo., and some nausea. Sprain-like pain at times in the feet and hands. 159.—KREASOTUM. KREaS.—See "Archiv," XVI. Compare with—Phosph., Mur. and Sulph.-ac, Nitr.-ac, Ars., Calc-carb , Chin., Chinin.-sulph., Coce, Ipec. Iod., Kali-hydr., Merc, Nux-v., Petr., Phosph., Puis., Rhus, Sec-corn., Sil., Sulph. Antidotes.—Of small doses: Chin.? Ars.? Ipec? Coce?—Nux-v. has been found available against the violent pulsations in every part of the organism, Aconite against the vascular irritation.—Wahle. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Jerking and pinching in every joint. Pinching, here and there. Pains as if sore and ulcerated. Laming pains. Drawing and lacerating. Sticking in the joints. ^Nightly pains. Pains as if bruised and contused.—Great irritation through- out the whole body. ♦ Uneasiness of the whole body, during rest, -also as if every part of the body were in motion. Painful shocks through the body, at night during sleep.—*Pains as if bruised in every part (limb) qfthe body, -as after running a good deal. Weari- ness in all the limbs, as previous to violent catarrh, with drowsiness and weariness. All her limbs are affected as previous to a violent catarrh.—Fainting spell, early in the morning when getting up half an hour before her usual time KREASOTUM. 759 Characteristic Peculiarities.—The pains appear to be aggra- vated by rest. Skin.—Itching, violent towards evening. Itching, with burning and heat over the whole body, at night, not allowing one to sleep.— Blotches like nettle-rash. Blisters like bug-bites, over the whole body. Large greasy-looking, pock-shaped pustules over the whole body. Pustules resembling scabies-sarcoptica, over the whole body, with swelling and stiffness of the feet.—°Herpes, furfuraceous and pustulous, dry and humid. Sleep.—Frequent yawning, with pressure in the forehead, and weariness.—*G/eat drowsiness, with frequent yawning, -accom- panied with putrid taste in the mouth and little appetite.—°A good deal of sleep.—Sleeplessness. °Restless sleep, with many dreams. Starting during sleep. Symptoms at night, in bed: uneasiness through the whole body after lying down. Feeling of fatigue in the morning. Fever.—Slight chilliness. Shivering all over the skin.—Predo- minant chilliness.—Partial chilliness.—Shaking chilliness.—Fever : shaking chills for five hours, then heat in the face, with heat of the hands and coldness of the feet, mingled with chills; alternation of chilliness and heat, with thirst, languor in every part of the body, constant, painful, fatiguing cough.—Pulse small and subdued; pulse natural, but perceptible in every part of the body as soon as she remains quiet; strong pulse through the whole body, with sensation as if the body were vacillating, but only during rest. Moral Symptoms.—Sad mood, with constant disposition to weep. *Ill-humor. Constantly excited, vexed, and obstinate. Sensorium.—Frequent failure of thought, the head feeling con- fused and dull. ♦ Weakness of memory. Dullness qfthe head, with beating and throbbing on the vertex. Vertigo, with danger of falling on turning round quickly. Head.—Headache with drowsiness. Heaviness of the head. Ten- sive pain in the head, aggravated by stooping.—Painful pressing in the head. Drawing headache, with closing of the eyes as if by force. Lacerating headache, with drawing extending to the eyes. Lacerat- ing pain in the whole head. ^Beating, throbbing, -slight, in the vertex ; on the top of the head, with dullness. ^Lacerating in the sinciput.—Throbbing and bubbling in the left temporal bone, as from an ulcer, extending to the vertex and the lower jaw, with twitching and contraction of the eye-lids. °Whizzing in the head. Ulcerative pain in the right side of the sinciput. The skin of the vertex and linciput is painful, as from subcutaneous ulceration, on touching or 760 kreasotum. combing th e head. ^Falling off of the hair, -particularly on combing the head. Eyes.—■♦Itching and biting in the eyes, -of the lids.— Warmth or ♦heat in the eyes, with lachrymation. Burning and heat, as from fire in the eyes. Redness of the lids, with some swelling. °Swelling of the margins of the lids.—°Chronic swelling of the margins of the lids. °Suppuration of the eyes. *Lachrymation -on looking at bright light.—Discharge of hot, acrid, smarting tears, like salt water. —Twitching of the lids.—* Dim-si ghtedness as through gauze, °with dim, faint eyes. Sensation as if little particles of a feather were floating before her eyes. Ears.—Stitches in the ears. Itching in the ears. °Humid herpes on the ears, with swelling of the cervical glands, and livid, gray com- plexion. Heat and burning of the ears, with coldness of the feet. Inflammation of the outer ear, with glowing heat, bright redness, considerable swelling, and tensipe burning pains. Hardness of hear- ing, with buzzing in the ears. Nose.—Bad smell before the 'nose, with loss of appetite.—Bleeding of the nose. ^Frequent sneezing, -particularly early in the morning. *Dry coryza. Face.—°Livid complexion, with swelling of a cervical gland and herpes on the ears. Eruption : *pimples on the forehead. °Acne- rosacea. °Scaly herpes on the eye-lids, cheeks, and around the mouth. Teeth.—^Drawing pains in the teeth, ^extending to the temples, °and affecting the interior of the ear. Drawing pains in the upper and lower front teeth. Mouth, Throat.—Scraping in the throat, with roughness. Pain- ful choking in the oesophagus. Taste and Appetite.—Bitter taste in the mouth. Tbe appetite is gone. Gastric Symptoms.—Sour eructations. *Nausea °of pregnant females, -with spitting, and chilliness through the whole body, as if he would vomit, with burning in the mouth.— Vomiting, before breakfast, of sweetish water. Gagging up of water and mucus on rising in the morning. Stomach.—Tightness across the stomach and pit of the stomach. Drawing lacerating in the pit of the stomach.—Movement and throb- bing in every artery. Frequent stitches in the region of the heart. °Scirrhus or cancer of the stomach. Hypochondria.—Continuous stinging in the region of the liver. Pain as if bruised in the superior and anterior lobe of the liver, with feeling of f*Uness. Pressure in the region of the spleen. aREASOTUM. 761 Abdomen.— Contractive sensation in the abdomen, as if a hard twisted ball were lying in the umbilical region. Griping lacerating around the umbilicus, with ulcerative pain of the whole abdomen. Digging and griping in the umbilical region, extending to the throat and occasioning nausea and inclination to vomit. Labor-like colic Spasmodic pains in the abdomen.—Cutting around the umbilicus, as if diarrhoea would set in.—Drawing pain in the abdomen during the menses. Ulcerative pain in the whole abdomen. Painful feeling of coldness in the abdomen, with scanty secretion of urine. Pain as from a cold in the region of the umbilicus, as if diarrhoea would set in. Tensive pain in the inguinal regions, when walking. Stool and Anus.—Intermittent stool, every three or four days, hard, dry, with a good deal of pressing. ° Constipation, with cancer of the uterus. Drawing, lacerating, and darting in the rectum, with frequent ineffectual urging to stool, hard stool after a good deal of pressing, and remission of the pains. Spasmodic pains in the rectum extending into the groin. Urine.—Diminished secretion of urine. ^Frequent desire to uri- nate, with copious emissions. ♦Frequent micturition, also at night, -sometimes with pressing on the bladder. The urine is hot and smoking, with acrid smell and reddish sediment. Mild leucorrhoea, tinging the linen yellow, previous to every micturition, with frequent desire to urinate. Male Genital Organs.—Burning in the parts, and impotence during an embrace, with swelling of the penis the next day. Female Genital Organs.—Itching, inducing rubbing in the vagina; Corrosive itching between the labia and the vagina, suc- ceeded by burning and swelling of the labia. Hard tubercle in the neck of the uterus, with ulcerative pain during an embrace. Prolapsus of the uterus. ^Menses too early, with discharge (-of dark blood), ^continuing even eight days, °also with pains in the small of the back. Menses every three weeks, profuse, succeeded by the dis- charge of an acrid-smelling, bloody ichor, with corrosive itching and biting of the parts. Profuse menses, sometimes coming away in pieces. The menses intermit for forty-eight hours, then return for twenty-four, with violent pains in the abdomen and discharge of thin bright-red blood.—The menses arepi'eceded by: hardness of hearing ; rising of an insipid white froth, or vomiting of mucus ; considerable distention of the abdomen ; clawing and digging around the umbili- cus, succeeded by discharge of white leucorrhoea ; great nervousness and uneasiness.—The menses are accompanied with : ^buzzing and humming in the head (°sometimes felt also before and after tho 762 KREASOTUM. menses), -or with pressing in the head from within outwards, worse on stooping; ^hardness ofhearing ; -emission of flatulence, smelling like rotten eggs.—After the menses: violent abdominal spasms, par- ticularly in the groin. °Frequent and acute pains remaining after too frequent and too copious menstruation.—°Metrorrhagia.—Leucor- rhaza : white, painless, preceded by pains in the small of the back, with flushes of heat in the face, and flowing like the menses; acrid, leaving yellowish-white spots on the linen; yellowish, tinging the linen yellow, with great weakness of the lower extremities. Dis- charge of mucus and blood by the vagina, in the morning on rising. *Mild as tvell as corrosive leucorrhaza. * Leucorrhaza with great debi- lity. In pregnant females : °nausea ; °appearance of the menses in the third month of pregnancy, with black blood, which flows like a stream. °Disposition to miscarriage. °Stitches in the mamma. Larynx and Trachea.—^Scraping and roughness in the throat, -also with rough, hoarse tone of voice. °Grippe.—°Chronic catarrh, particularly in old people.—♦Cough : °in the evening in bed. Cough excited by a crawling below the larynx. Dry cough, with scraping in the throat and pain in the chest. °Cough with asthma. ♦Cough, with emissions of urine, °and concussion of the abdomen. Constant cough, with a good deal of drowsiness. Whooping-cough. * Wheez- ing, dry cough.—Dry and spasmodic cough early in the morning, unto retching, occasioned by constant crawling and tickling in the throat. *Cough, with retching, -only saliva being thrown off.— Cough, with expectoration.—°Scraping cough, with copious expec- toration of thick, yellowish, or whitish mucus. Chest.—^Difficult and sometimes anxious breathing, -or as if the chest were compressed.—Frequent desire to take deep breath. Short- ness of breath, with pain as if bruised in the chest on taking an in- spiration.—^Oppression qfthe chest, coming on suddenly, with stitches in the left side of the chest.—^Heaviness in the chest, °also with anxiety. Pain as if the chest or the sternum would be crushed in —Painful feeling of rawness in the lower part of the chest. Burning from the middle of the chest to the throat. Stitches in the chest. °Frequent lancinations in the right side of the chest.—°Stitches in the heart. Back.—Digging in the small of the back, as if something would come out. Pains as if the small of the back would break, extending to between the shoulders. Labor-like pains in the small of the back, with ineffectual urging to stool and distention of the abdomen. Ul- cerative pains in the lumbar vertebra, ot as if the flesh were beaten off the bones.—■♦Frequent pains in the small of the back and lumbar LACHESIS. 763 vertebra, resembling acute labor-pains, °with strong urging to urinate. —*Pains in the back, at night, -worse during rest.—Drawing ten- sion betweeti the scapula.—°Swelling of the cervical glands, with humid herpes on the ears, and gray, livid complexion. Arms.—Pains in the shoulders as if they had been bare.—Stitches in the arm, from the shoulder-joint through the fingers.—Frequent pain of the elbow-joints.—Drawing pains in the fingers. Deadness of the fingers, which grow pale and insensible. Legs.—Humming and buzzing sensation in the lower limbs. Languor and weariness in the lower limbs. Drawing pain, with stitches from the thighs to the soles of the feet.—Darting pain above the knee. Weakness of the joints, during motion, as if they would give way. Red scaly skin, like herpes, in the bends of the knees.—Throbbing as from a boil in the legs, from the knees through the toes, worse in the soles of the feet. Tensive pain from the knees to the tarsal joints. Pain of the soles, as from subcutaneous sup- puration. GMematous white swelling of both feet. Coldness of the feet. Burning itching of the soles. 160.—LACHESIS. LACH.—Trigonocephalus Lachesis.—See Hering " On the Poison of Serpents.' —Duration of Action: from four to five weeks. Compare with—Alum , Ars., Bell., Bry., Caps., Carb.-v., Caust., Cham., Chin., Coce, Con, Dulc, Hep., Hyos., Lye, Merc, Natr.-mur., Nitr.-ac, Nux-mos., Nux-v., Phosph.-ac, Puis., Rhus, Samb., Selen., Sulph., Verat.—Is frequently suitable after: Ars., Con., Hep., Lye, Merc, Nitr.-ac, Nux-v.—Afterwards are frequently suitable: Alum., Ars., Bell., Carb.-v., Caust., Con., Dulc. Merc, IS'ux-v., Phosph.-ac. Antidotes.—Alum., Ars., Bell, Cham., Caps., Chin , Coce, Hep., Merc, Natr.- mur., Nux-mos., Nux-v., Phosph.-ac, Rhus., Samb., Veratr.—For the bite of the Serpent: Ars., Bell, Caps., Natr.-mur., Samb. Characteristic Peculiarities.—Lachesis appears to act princi pally on the left side, particularly in °apoplectic paralysis, -sore throat, eruptions, and pains in the limbs. ♦Aggravation of the symptoms in damp weather. °Exhaustion and weariness from ex- cessively cold or warm weather. ^Aggravation of the symptoms during rest, amelioration during motion, -except tbe intense inflam matory rheumatic pains. Evening exacerbation. *Exacerbation afte, every sleep, in the day or night. °Thc curative action is disturbed by acids, wine, or beer, particularly, however, by emotions, fright, mor- tification, listening to tales of murder, &c. *Typical recufrence of the aggravations. A number of the pains terminate in catairh. 764 LACHESIS. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Gnawing heaviness, lameness of the limbs, or as if bruised. Aching wandering pains. ^Lacerating in the limbs, °also with contraction and stiffness of the affected joints, with aggravation of the pains early in the morning.—^Paralysis. c'Hemiplegia, particularly of one arm, or qfthe whole left side (also in alternation with Rhus).—°Emaciation during sickness. °Ema- ciation and exhaustion after abuse of Quinine in intermittent fever. —♦Weariness, with bodily languor and mental excitement. *Great weariness in walking, °with languor.—♦Dread of motion, and lazi- ness, °also with languor and stiffness. °Great weakness, with other complaints, particularly with pains in the stomach. Frequent faint- ing fits, particularly during breakfast, with nausea, vertigo, failure of sight, and frequent recurrence of tho fainting turns iu the day- time. °Frequent attacks of fainting every day, with nausea, difficult breathing, palpitation of the heart, and moist skin with cold sweat.— Trembling of the whole body, with feeling of ennui. Sensation of internal trembling, as from anguish. Trembling of the limbs in the evening, followed by internal trembling, with fever and sensation of fainting. °Sudden attacks of vertigo, every part of the body appear- ing trembling and palpitating, preceded by palpitation of the heart, with heat, anguish, and shuddering, and trembling of the lower limbs.—Convulsions, particularly of the hands and lower limbs. Sudden convulsive starting of the whole body, proceeding from the lower extremities, when sitting. °Violent convulsions of the limbs and face, with rigid stretching of the body. °Convulsions and other spasms, with violent shriek, particularly about midnight, waking the patient. Rigid stretching of the limbs, with bending the head back- wards and distortion of the eyes. °Threatening lock-jaw. Skin.—°Itching of the whole body, as from ants. Pustules. Rash over the whole body, small smooth spots of the size of the point of a needle. °Small reddish spots on the face, neck, and arms. Warts (on the hands). ° Warts of horses.—♦Gangrenous blisters.—♦Ery- sipelas, particularly in the face. Scarlet-like eruptions. Scarlet fever, with swelling of the cervical glands, black lips and tongue, and constipation.—Swelling over the whole body. Small ulcers are scattered about. Pain in old cicatrices.—°Aneuris?ns. Sleep.—♦Drowsiness, with lassitude in all the limbs, -particularly morning and forenoon. Constant, sopor, after cessation of the pains. —^Difficulty of falling asleep, -for weeks, ♦also with great drowsi- ness in the evening. *No sleep before midnight. Constant exhaust- ing sleeplessness.—°Disturbed by every little noise. Symptoms during sleep: ^tossing about, ^particularly in children, with moan- LACHESIS. 765 ing °Starting when on the point of falling asleep.—Symptoms at aight, in bed: °Swelling of the face, -or itching and erysipelas. Pains in the nasal bone. °Constant coryza. Stinging in the throat or sensation as if closed. Amelioration of the sore throat. °Bitter- ness of the mouth. Nausea. °Weakness in the pit of the stomach. Diarrhoea. Urging to urinate. Emissions. Erections. Cough. Huskiness of the chest. Difficulty of breathing. Pains in the chest, particularly also burning. Aggravation of the rheumatic and mer- curial pains in tbe limbs. °Heat in the head, arms, &c. ^Constant dreams the whole night, with frequent waking. Symptoms on waking in the morning : dullness of the head. ^Headache. Horrid toothache. °Inclination to vomit, -cramp in the knees, &c. General illness, with vertigo, heaviness in the occiput, sensation as if sprained in all the joints, pressure in the small of the back, and fullness in the abdomen. Roaring in the ear. Pressure on the eyes. Feeling as if bruised and scarcely able to rise. Languor, particularly in the arms and feet. Sexual excitement, with pain in the loins and bruised feeling. Erections. °Disappearance of the existing catarrh.—Symp- toms after sleeping generally: ^increase qfthe number and intensity of the pains. Stiff and as if bruised. Fever.—°Icy coldness of the hand, with burning sensation. Gene- ral coldness, with desire to be near the warm stove.—Chilliness, with laziness, lowness of spirits, and amelioration when lying near the fire. Severe chilliness, with chattering of teeth and a kind of lock- jaw, in the evening. °Chilliness every other day.—Continual fever, with dry skin and mouth, dry, coated tongue, constant thirst, small, quick pulse, and faint eyes. °Fever of a child, with heat of the head, cold feet, moaning. Frequent paroxysms every day, par- ticularly morning and evening, first a good deal of thirst, then shud- dering, afterwards slow heat, without thirst and dread of being uncovered. °Shuddering at ten o'clock in the evening, afterwards alternation of heat and coldness, accompanied with lacerating in the temple and burning in the pit of the stomach. °At times chilliness, at times icy coldness, at times heat. °Frequent chills along the back, mingled with heat, blackness before the eyes, and failure of thought. *Heat with shiverings, °also as if arising from a cold, with dread of every little current of air. °Chilliness and heat, afterwards chilliness, with unquenchable thirst, head and toothache.—°Attack of inveterate fever and ague, every evening, first chills with drawing in the back and lower limbs, afterwards dry heat at night, with los-j of appetite and exhaustion. °Fever every morning on rising, com- mencing with restlessness, hurriedness, and anxious motions as if 766 LACHESIS. from fear, afterwards headache, deep breathing, moaning, and hot sweat all over, towards evening vomiting and hiccough. *Tertian fevers. °Inveterate quartan fever.—°Typhus °on the tenth and eleventh days, with vertigo on sitting up in bed, paralysis of the eye- lids with difficulty of opening them, bitterness of mouth, loss of appetite, subdued pain in the chest and dry cough, lacerating in the left thigh and in the back. °Typhus on the seventeenth, nineteenth day, with sopor, pulse 70, soft, of irregular volume, some sweat, with coolness of the legs and feet, red, yellowish, smooth, dry tongue (parched in front only), with difficulty of protruding it.—Sort of catarrhal fever, with heat, fullness of the head, drawing in the teeth and facial bones. ^Burning in the palms of the hands and soles. Qparticularly at night. ♦Intolerable heat at night, with sweat and thirst.—Small, weak, and irregular pulse. Small and quick pulse, with hot skin. ♦Small, soft pulse, of unequal volume, intermittent and small pulse, during an apoplectic fit. Full and hard pulse.— *Disposed to sweat.—°Profuse sweat accompanying other complaints. Moral Symptoms.—♦Despondency, -also with shortness of breath, or with indolence and chilliness, °or with discouragement, in gastric affections. °Melancholy of pregnant females. °Taciturn and indolent, also in children. ° Great disposition to feel sad. ° Discouragement and loathing of life.—♦Restlessness. ♦Anguish, also with trembling °Attacks of nightly fear.—^Mistrust and suspicion. *Doubts every- thing. Ennui, with trembling. °Indolent, taciturn, brooding, and melancholy, he considers himself too feeble to do anything, with aggravation of the symptoms every other day. Indolence of the mind, with bodily weakness and languor.—° Peevish, fault-fiuding. °Malice. Hurriedness and uneasiness.—Great nervous irritability. °Excessive moaning and complaining of one's pain. Great tendency to start, particularly in the evening. °Morbid talkativeness. Sensorium.—Mental languor preceded by excitement.—°Absence of thought, with weakness of memory. ° Vanishing of thought, with blackness before the eyes, in paroxysms. Complete loss qf sense, with cold feet.—°Inability to think intently. °Mental exertions affect him unpleasantly.—Great weakness of memory.—°Delirium at night. —^Mental derangement: after vexation ; °after excessive study ; °in drunkards.? QReligious craziness.—^Dullness of the head: -with heat and violent congestions. Frequent momentary vertigo, particularly on closing the eyes. °Giddiness in the sinciput, with dullness of vision, as if a mist were before the eyes. ^Giddiness with headache, particularly before the menses.—° Apoplectic fits : with distortion of the head, facial muscles, and mouth to the left side, dark LACHESIS. 767 redness of the face and violent convulsions of the muscles, violent jactitation of the upper and lower limbs. °Apoplectic fit in hydro- thorax, with paralysis of one arm and of the tongue, imperfect con- sciousness, and unintelligible muttering. °Apoplectic fit, with pa- ralysis of the left side, coldness of the hand as if dead, moaning, complaining about pain and debility, dread of death, delirium, lace- rating in the head with heat and redness of the face, weakness and tightness of the chest. °Cerebral affections of children. ? °Acute dropsy qfthe brain (?) accompanying chronic helminthiasis. ? Head.—Headache generally: Pain in both temples. °Pain in the occiput, every morning. °General, very troublesome pain, every afternoon. °Pain every day, with a languid feeling in all the limbs as if proceeding from the chest, disposition to sleep, and loss of appetite. ° Headache from the heat of the sun. °Stroke of the sun. ? —*Dull aching: -in the sinciput; in the head, with nausea, in the afternoon; in the vertex, in drunkards.—^Heaviness qfthe head: °early in the morning, with subsequent pain above the right eye; °with weakness and dullness of the head, worse in the occiput and when walking. ^Headache after a cold, first a pressure in the fore- head, which increases to a violent beating in the evening, with nausea and inclination to vomit.—♦Aching pains in the head. ♦Headache with nausea and drowsiness. ♦Aching in the forehead, °also with stitches. Aching under the skull all over.—Pressing headache, early in the morning, violent, with congestions of the head, particularly on stooping.—°Pressing in the forehead from without inwards, on stoop- ing. °Severe pain, as if the head would burst, particularly in the temples.— Tensive pain in the whole head, relieved in the open air. —^Lacerating in the head. ^Dartings in the head. Deep stinging throughout the whole head.—♦Beating headache. ° Violent beating in the whole head. °Beating above the eyes. Hammering on every motion, occasioning nausea and inclination to vomit, with painful boring in the vertex. ° Undulating pulsative beating, most violent above the eyes. ^Congestion of the head, °attonding other complaints : with dullness of the head and giddiness.—*Heat in the head. ♦ Whizz- ing in the head. ♦ Violent headache with twinkling before the eyes, ♦as if coryza would make its appearance, °or with inclination tc vomit. ^Headache with nausea, °also violent, particularly in the forehead, with chilliness and palpitation of the heart. Headache with toothache.—Painful sensitiveness qfthe whole left side of the head.— Itching of the hairy scalp. Peeling off of the skin of the head and face. Swelling of the head and face, with closing of the eyes from dwelling. —Falling off of the hair. 768 LACHESIS. Eyes.—Pains near or above the eyes. Pain in the eyes as if from dust. *Pain in the eyes from reading.—Pressure in the eyes, as if the orbits were too narrow, worse during movement. °Pressure in the eyes, as if the eyes would start from their sockets.—Stinging in the eyes, which are sometimes hot and burning. °Biting and burning in the eyes, particularly in the upper lids, with constipation.—°Redness. ^Inflammation of the eyes. Inflammation of the lids, with pain in the eyes, inflammation characterized by a large bundle of injected vessels, proceeding from the inner canthus towards the cornea. ° Ulcers of the cornea.—Faintness and dimness of the eyes, attending some other complaints, or ♦distortion of the eyes.—Dimness of the eyes. The eyes become weak. Mistiness before the eyes. Flickering before the eyes, with twitching, attended with congestion of the head Sensations as if threads or sunbeams were moving before the eyes in confusion. Black flickering before the eyes. Bright blue ring around the light, or fiery ring, with fiery rays. Ears.—Throbbing in the bones. Darting under the ears, as in erysipelas.—°Soreness and scurfs on the ears. Coldness of the ear and of the whole side of the head (during toothache). °Indescribably disagreeable sensation from the ear to the throat.—°Dryness qfthe ears. ♦White cerumen. The ears feel obstructed.—^Diminution, hardness of hearing, -also with dryness. ♦ Very sensitive to noise. Crackling in the ears. Roaring in the ear. Drumtning-roaring with congestion of blood to the head. Nose.—Pains in the nose proceeding from the head. Drawing in the bone. °Redness of the nose in drunkards and in syphilitic patients who have been poisoned with Merc. Vesicular eruption in the nostril. °Scurfs in the nose. ^Discharge qf pus and blood from the nose, °also with violent headache. °Ozaina.—Dryness of the nose, sometimes commencing in the throat. Yellow mucus from the nose and throat, preceded by dry coryza and hoarseness of long standing.—°Frequent imperfect catarrh. Interminable coryza. Coryza with soreness qfthe nose. ° Complaints from retrocession of catarrh.—*Fluent coryza °every day. °Fluent coryza with profuse secretion of mucus, running of the eyes, and cough. Face.—°Expression of pain. ^Distortion of the face, °also during an apoplectic fit. Sunken face with expression of suffering. *Pale face. *Livid, gray complexion, attending the abdominal complaints, or fever and ague after abuse of Chin. ° Yellow complexion with vermilion redness of the cheeks, in chronic affections. Blue rings around the eyes, early in the morning.—*Heat in the face. °Red- ness of the face with headache, lacerating pains in the limbs, or pains LACHESIS. 769 in the stomach and chest.—Prosopalgia: lacerating above the orbit, with vomiting of the ingesta (in girls at the period of pubescence). Drawing in the malar and jaw-bones. Burning paius in the face.— ^Swelling of the face with heat and redness. °Swelling of the left side of the face and of the lower jaw, with sensitiveness to contact.— Erysipelas of the face, particularly under the left eye. ° Arrest of erysipelas when on the point of breaking out. °Sudden nightly swelling of the face with violent itching.—Itching of the face. (°Prick« ling in the face and around the eyes.) Eruption about tbe eye. Rash over tbe whole face, going and coming. °Reddish herpes in the face. °01d herpes with thick scurf in the region of the whiskers. °Reappearance in large quantity of suppressed herpes in the face. —♦Swelling of the lips. °Distortion of the mouth to the left side during an apoplectic fit. Teeth and Jaws.—°Stiffness of the articulations of the jaws. ♦Lock-jaw -with chilliness. °Lock-jaw in a patient affected with chronic catalepsy. °Constant rising and falling of the lower jaw during an apoplectic fit. ° Lacerating in the jaw. ♦Toothache, -with swelling of tne cheeks, headache, chilliness, heat, thirst, and heaviness of the feet.—^Lacerating in the teeth, -also with furious darting and sting- ing in the roots of the lower teeth.—°Throbbing stinging, followed by discharge of blood, with frequent, readily-excited bleeding of the gums, sometimes with pain in the forehead and beating over the eyes.—Exfoliation of the inner side of the teeth.—°The gums are raw and sore. Readily-bleeding gums.—Swelling qfthe gums, with blue redness and great sensitiveness.—°Scurvy. ? Mouth.— Violent burning in the mouth, also with throbbing, or with swelling of the lips and gums. Rawness of the mouth and throat. ^Soreness. Gangrenous spots in the mouth, preceded by burning pain and rawness. °Stomacace. ?—^Dryness of the mouth °with sore feeling. — ♦Accumulation of water in the mouth.— *Ptyalism, °also when other complaints, such as mercurial-syphilitic ulcers in the throat, are present. Spitting of blood.—^Burning as if from pepper. °Burning with yellowish redness, smoothness, white edges, and cracked lip (in typhus). °Thick yellowish coating of the tongue. °White tongue, with aversion to food, during fever. °Black tongue. °Tongue as if stiff, with difficulty of moving it when swal- lowing. °Paralysis of the tongue after apoplexy. °Disposition to bite the tongue, during an epileptic fit. °Swelling of the tongue, from the bite of a viper. °Red sore parts, rhagades, and large round papillae of the tongue. °Gangrene of the tongue.—Difficulty of speech, °also in typhus, as if the tongue were too heavy. °Un- 33 49 no LACHESIS. intelligible muttering after an apoplectic fit. °Hurried talking, with headache and redness of the face, or with mental derangement and constrictive sensation in the throat.—Soreness. °Inflammation of the tongue, with titillation inducing cough. °Inflammatory swelling of the velum pendulum palati. Throat.—* Tingling, -particularly early in the morning, with nausea and subsequent prickling, stinging, and vomiting, or at night, accompanied with continual dry cough, °or on the left side of the throat with stinging.—*Sore throat, °the soreness being felt at small spots in the throat; ♦extending to the ears; ♦with danger of suffoca- tion.—^Pressure in the throat. ^Pressing in the throat, with fre- quent discharge of saliva.—*Sensation qf swelling in the throat -dur- ing deglutition.—Sensation as of a plug, lump, tubercle, &c, in the throat. ^Sensation after eating as if something had remained adhering to the ozsophagus. ^Burning in the throat, -also with hoarseness. ^Soreness in the throat, -as after a cold. °Chronic sore pain in the oesophagus during deglutition. Sensation as if the whole throat were raw.—♦Inflammation qf the throat. °Inflammation of the tonsils, with swelling, redness, and disposition to suppurate (giv- ing first Bell.) °Phlegmonous inflammation of the throat with violent fever. ? °Syphilitic-mercurial ulcers in the throat, on the palate, and in the fauces, with tingling in the ulcers, desire to cough, and violent pain on swallowing food, particularly hard, sweet, and sour food. °Small ulcerated places in the throat.—*Entire inability to swallow. ^Constant urging to swallowing. ^Drinks return by the nose.— °Hydrophobia. ?—^Dryness of the pharynx and ozsophagus, -prevent- ing deglutition. °Dryness qf small spots in the throat. °Dryness qfthe right side qf the throat.—^Hawking up qf mucus, -particularly in the evening, as if an ulcer had burst. Appetite and Taste.—Offensive, bad taste in the mouth. °Bad taste in the mouth, remaining after eating, with vomiting in the morn- ing and pressure in the pit of the throat. ♦Salt taste, °also about the lips only, -or when hawking up mucus. °Metallic taste with dryness of the mouth. * Bitter taste. ♦Loss qf appetite. °Extreme aversion to food. *Strong appetite, °also with derangement of the stomach, -or with urging to lie down after a meal. ♦Hunger. °Great desire for acids. °Vomiting of food by coughing. o Malaise, with rising of air, nausea, anxiety, inability to think intensely, and apprehensive feeling until eructations take place, after every meal. ^Pressure in the stomach, -also with weakness of the knees. °Heaviness in the stomach. °Gnawing and pressure in the stomach, a few hours after a meal. °Pressure arqund the umbilicus. #Rcpletion. °Shortness LACHESIS. 771 of breathing. ° Vertigo. ♦Sore throat, °also early in the morning, -or in the evening. ^Drowsiness, -after breakfast or supper, *oi after dinner, °with repletion, -or languor. ^Indolence and heavi- ness ; °desire to lie down. °Heaviness, after every copious meal.— * Weakness of digestion qfthe stomach, dyspepsia. ° Chronic com- plaints. Gastric Symptoms.—°Empty eructations at night, with aggrava- tion of the pains. ^Eructations which afford relief, particularly when tormented by flatulence °distending the stomach, -or pressing against the chest as if incarcerated in the chest, or *when accompanying a number of other affections.—♦Re gurgitation qfthe ingesta after eat- ing. *Gulping up of sour water -after a meal, °or particularly early in the morning.—Sensation as if heartburn would come on. A kind of loathing with nausea almost unto vomiting.—^Nausea, -in pa- roxysms. *Nausea and inclination to vomit, accompanying other complaints. ♦Vomiting, °with nausea after the bite of a viper. ° Vomiting qfthe ingesta. Spasmodic vomiting, with bile or nightly diarrhoea. *Bilious vomiting, °also early in the morning, with mucus. ° Green vomiting. Vomiting of mucus. * Vomiting with diarrhoza. °Sudden inclination to vomit and urging to diarrhoea, but ineffectual, *Vomiting of pregnant females.—°Affections of drunkards. Stomach.—°Violent pains in the stomach. A good deal of pain in the pit of the stomach, with constant inclination to vomit, nausea, and diarrhoea, °Pain as from soreness in the pit of the stomach. Gnawing in the stomach. Pressure in the stomach. °Gnawing pressure, relieved after eating. Painful pressure in the stomach, preceded by a griping lacerating at the anus.—°Burning in the stomach and the region of the liver, with hard distention of the stomach and abdomen. Hypochondria.—Pain when coughing, sometimes as if ulcerated. °Cutting on taking a deep inspiration. Gnawing on both sides, deep in the abdomen, or laceratings from the sides towards the middle. °Tension as if the tendons were too short.—Pains in the region of the liver. °Burning, abso around the umbilicus, preceded by lacerat- ing in the body. °Hepatitis? particularly in drunkards. ? Ramo- lissement of the liver. ? ° Abscesses qf the liver. ?— Violent pain in the region of the spleen. Abdomen.—*Pain across the abdomen, °after walking, -or across the umbilical region, early in the morning. °Colic with con- stipation. Intolerable pains in the abdomen, with burning and bloatedness. °Pains in the lumbar region., particularly on the left side, with constipation. Pain as if diarrhoza would set in particu- 772 LACHESIS. larly in the umbilical region. °Heaviness in the abdomen, at night —°Pressure, which arrests the breathing, above the umbilicus. °Labor-like pressing downwards proceeding from the loins during the menses. Violent spasmodic colic, with diarrhoea. Spasms in the abdomen, during the menses. Contractive sensation in the abdomen. —Cutting in the abdomen, particularly before the menses, or with burning and urging to urinate. °Frequent attacks of lacerating lan- cinations, with pains in the rectum.—^Lacerating in the abdomen, °during the menses. °Sensation as of something alive in the abdomen.—Beating in the abdomen and chest.—^Burning in the abdomen, °mounting towards the chest and descending to the thighs. Burning with colic, bloatedness, and cutting, °Burning around the umbilicus.—°Enteritis. ?—°Ascites. ? ?—♦Distention of the abdomen, °accompanying other affections.—Hard distention qf the abdomen. ♦Incarceration of flatulence.—On the abdominal integuments: Red spots like the bites of bed-bugs. °Great sensitiveness of the hernial protrusion. ° Violent pains of long standing in the groin. °Painful swelling and induration in the right side of the abdomen. Stool and Anus.—♦Constipation. ^Chronic constipation °with- out any other ailments. °Costiveness of years' standing. °Hard stool, resembling sheep-dung, with difficult, scanty discharge, or with tenesmus.—^Unsuccessfulurging to stool.—°Thin stools, °sometimes mixed with slippery balls.—°Alternate looseness and constipation of the bowels.—°Tenacious, pitch-like stool. Burning stool, preceded by colic, and urging.—^Diarrhoza. °Chronic diarrhoea, exhausting, generally evening and night. Diarrhoea, with violent spasmodic colic. °Diarrhoeic stools, which look as if hashed, with soreness of * the anus, coldness, and headache. °Diarrhoea after eating, dispo- sition to diarrhoea in warm weather. °Discharge qf blood and pus from the anus. Constriction of the anus. Lacerating griping in the anus, alternating with oppression of the chest. Pressure in the anus. Drawing in the anus. Pains in the rectum before stool. Burning in the anus during or after stool. Discharge of blood from the anus. Protrusion of the rectum after stool.—*Hamorrhoidal sufferings ° Varices qf the anus and rectum, with pain and urging to stool. 0Hemorrhoidal tumors attending the scantiness of the menstrual flow at the critical age. Urine.—Stitches in the region qfthe kidneys.—°Dull pain in the bladder, during constipation. ^Pressure, as from haemorrhoids of the bladder.—♦Difficulty of urinating.— Urging to urinate.—*Fre- quent micturition, with copious emission of foaming urine, -of a dark or also light color. ♦ Yellow urine, °like sulphur, -or saffron. °Dark LACHESIS. 773 and turbid urine, with sediment, in persons affected with rheumatism 0Copious brown-red urine, as in typhus. °Turbid and dark urine, with a sediment of brown sand, and a severe cutting during micturi- tion. Urine with red or brick-dust sediment. ♦Burning during micturition, °or with violent urging to urinate, with copious discharge. Male Genital Organs.—*Red spots on the glans, °sometimes ac- companied with syphilitic mercurial bone-pains. Reappearance of a milky (gonorrhoeal?) discharge after urinating.—°Contusive pain in the testes, worse when sitting. Increased sexual instinct. Violent erections. Nocturnal emissions. Female Genital Organs.—Pain in the parts as if swollen. ° Scanty, delaying, intermittent menses, also accompanied with tooth- ache, or with discharge of mucus, blood, and pus by the anus, with tenesmus, costiveness, attended with burning and pressure over the abdomen up to the throat. °Scanty menses, with increased leucor- rhoea. ° Reappearance qfthe suppressed menses, with diminution of the pains, at the critical age. °Lach. is frequently indispensable at the critical age, even when the menses are too profuse, or with metrorrhagia.—Before the menses : ♦vertigo with headache ; °attack of cardialgia, with oppression of the chest and eructation ; leucorrhoea. —During the menses : °lacerating in the abdomen ; °beating in the head ; °violent labor-like pressing from the loins downward ; violent spasms in the abdomen. — °Leucorrhoea before the menses, copious, smarting, slimy.—°Thin blue milk, rejected by the infant.—°Pains attendant on cancer qfthe breast. Larynx and Cough.—Suffocative throbbing between the larynx and chest. Swelling qfthe larynx, with rawness, scraping, and urg- ing to swallow. °Pain as from soreness in the larynx, early in the morning. Pressure in the larynx. °Noisy, troublesome, croupy breathing in laryngeal phthisis. °Aggravation of the laryngeal and tracheal phthisis, when the symptoms are worse at night and parti- cularly after midnight, and when they are less at noon and in the afternoon (or during rest), accompanied with disposition to diarrhoea, fine white skin, red lips and cheeks.—^Hoarseness, °with feeble voice and constriction of the throat. °Hoarseness in the evening.— *Cough, occasioned by ulcers in the throat. ° Short and hacking cough, occasioned by talking constantly. *Cough excited by pressure on the laryux. *'Titillating cough, violent in the evening, in bed, with hoarseness, headache from time to time, pain in the limbs, or in other parts of the body, here and there. *Cough occasioned by titil- lation in the. larynx. °Short, titillating cough, accompanying a num- ber of nervous affections.—*Short and hacking cough, *'occasioned by 774 LACHESIS. a tingling in the throat. Suffocative cough the whole night — Hard and fatiguing cough, even unto vomiting, with difficult expec- toration, pain in the pit of the stomach. Violent concussive cough, with congestion of blood to the head and face, violent irritation in the throat.—*Dry cough. Difficult, yellow expectoration, with rougn, hollow voice, pain as from soreness in the chest and sternum, with cough as if proceeding from the pit of the stomach. ♦Bloody expec- toration, with frothy mucus. Purulent pulmonary phthisis.—Symp- toms accompanying the cough: discharge of water from the mouth; pain in the pit of the stomach, with sensitiveness in the trachea, burning deep in the left breast, and pain over the ribs as if ulce- rated ; pain in the abdomen; ♦vomiting; -darting in the groin ; pain in the anus.—Noise in the trachea, after the cough.—°Light cough, which affords relief, with intermittent pulse. Chest.—Whizzing breathing, with nightly asthma. — Frequent urging to take deep breath, particularly when sitting. ^Shortness of breath, °accompanying other affections. Shortness of breath after every exertion, particularly manual, with great weariness. °Difficulty of breathing, with cough.—^Tightness of breathing, asthma; with anguish in the chest and great inclination to vomit; in the evening on lying down, unto suffocation.—^Oppression qfthe chest, -sudden ; °accompanied with cough and a feeling of soreness; ♦with violent pains in the back and side, violent palpitation of the heart, inability to move or talk, with swelling of the feet.—♦'Suffo- cative fits, with other affections. ° Contraction of the chest, waking after midnight, with slow, heavy, wheezing breathing—°Frequent pains in the chest, with languor, palpitation of the heart, and head- ache, after gastric fever. °Pain in the chest in typhus. °Dull, op- pressive heaviness on the chest.—♦Stitch in the chest: with difficult breathing, or worse when coughing or taking an inspiration.—*Pain as from soreness in the chest, -as in violent catarrh.—° Pneumonia? particularly neglected. ?—inexpressible anguish about the heart, with heaviness on the chest, in rheumatism. Constrictive sensation in the region of the heart. °Irregularity of the beats of the heart.— ^Palpitation qf the heart, -with anxiety. ° Chronic palpitation of the heart; a number of other affections.—°Threatening rheumatism of the heart.—°Aneurism of the right carotid.—Cyanosis, particularly oyanosis-cardiaca. ? Sensation on the chest as if swollen. Back, &c.—*Pain in the small of the back, °with great uneasiness. "Violent pains as if bruised, at times in the small of the back, at times in the abdomen or hips, during the menses. ^Rheumatic pains.. afterwards extending to the limbs. °Lacerating. °Stitches, °some LACHESIS. 775 times extending to the liver or kidneys. *Pains in the back, °with constipation, or palpitation of the heart and oppression of the chest °Rheumatic pains. °Lacerating, during typhus fever. °Sinking sensation in the back, with weakness in the knees. Stitches during every deep inspiration, in asthmatic complaints. Soreness, proceeding from the chest. *Great painfulness of the neck, and sensitiveness to contact and pressure, even of the linen, &c. Burning in the throat- pit, or pain as from a blow. Several tubercles in the neck. °Red, suppurating blotches under the jaw. °Swelling qfthe cervical glands. 0 Ulcers on the neck. Drawing, lacerating, and tension of the shoulder. Arms.—*Pains apparently in the bones qf the arms, -also in pa- roxysms. Creeping and pulling in the muscles. ^Lacerating, °also proceeding from the jaw and ear. °Jerking and lacerating with headache.—°Burning-beating, as if the flesh would be torn off the bones, with eruption on the hand. Weakness of the arms. Scrofu- lous ulcer on the arm, malignant ulcer after vaccination.—°Lacerat- ing in the elbow, with pain on contact. °Itch, with swelling.— Swelling of the muscles, painful when touched, going off in the night. Pain qfthe wrist-joints as if sprained. Rheumatic pain, particularly in the left hand, or in both joints. °Trembling of the hands, in drunkards. °Frequent swelling qfthe hands, also rheumatic swelling of the joints. °Sudden swelling, with itching and tingling. Vesicles, with itching and burning, on the hands and fingers. °Chapped skin of the hands. ^Stinging in the tips of the fingers, °also with burning. Tingling in the fingers. Small itch-vesicles. °Gangrenous ulcer on the finger. °Glanders. °Malignant carbuncle. *Panaritia. dis- appearance of the proud flesh in the panaritia. Legs.—^Lacerating in the hip. °Bruised feeling during the cata- menia. °Numb pain with stitches, proceeding from the knee. °Rheumatic pain in the right hip, extending to the back, small of the back, and knee, only at night. ^Lacerating -in the lower limbs. ^Drawing in the lower limbs. Weakness or weariness in the lower limbs. Itching in the lower limbs.—Lacerating in the bones, down to the knees. Rheumatic pains in the posterior surface.—^Stinging in the knees. °Rheumatic pains in the knees. ^Lacerating in the knees. * Pain and tension, as if too short. Weakness in the knees, with pressure at the stomach, -particularly after a meal. Stiffness and weakness of the knees, particularly on rising from a seat. Swell- ing of the knees. ^Swelling qfthe legs, °during the day and even ing. °Blue-red large swelling of the leg and foot, with short-lasting white spot on pressing with the finger, deep ulcers on the enlarged 776 LACTUCA VIROSA. tibia. °Elephantiasis in leprous patients. ? Itching of the legs. 0 Ulcers on the legs, also black, gangrenous, in many cases. °Both legs are covered with impure ichorous ulcers. °Deep holes in the enlarged tibia, with impure whitish edges. °Lacerating in the feet *Coldness of the feet, ^particularly when accompanying other com- plaints, -or succeeded by heat. ^Swelling of the feet, -particularly of the right foot. °Swelling of the feet accompanying other com plaints, °also in pregnant women. Small, hard, white, deep vesicles preceded by violent itching. Ulcers on the feet. ^Cracked skin between and on tlic toes, °also deep rhagades, or like cuts across the toes. Inflammation and suppuration of an old chilblain, after which tertian fever sets in. 161.—LACTUCA VIROSA. LACT.—Poisonous Lettuce.—See " Journal fur Arzneimittellehre." Antidotes.—Vegetable acids and Coffee. N. B.—The symptoms marked (s) have been obtained from the Lactucarium pre- pared out of the Lactuca-sativa (the common garden Lettuce). GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Drawing in the limbs and back. Painful buzzing sensation in the limbs. Cramp-pains. Bruised feeling in all the limbs.— Unsteady gait (s). Dangerous convulsions in a female (s). Great weariness.—°Hysteric, nervous, spasmodic affections. ? ? °Affections with predominance of heat. ? Characteristic Peculiarities.—Lactuca-virosa seems to affect principally the respiratory organs. Skin.—Inflammation and eruption.—°(Edematous swelling of the whole body, with asthmatic complaints, dullness of the head, difficulty of lying on the back, chills, deficiency of breath, short cough, and small low pulse. Sleep.—Yawning and stretching.—Great drowsiness in the day- time. Sopor, also with loathing. Lethargic sleep, at night. Rest- less, unrefreshing night-sleep.—ols unable to lie on his back, owing to difficulty of breathing, with tension in the pit of the stomach.— Symptoms at night in bed: great tightness of the chest. Difficulty of breathing, with griping, oppressive pain in the chest, allowing but little sleep. °Want of breath, with throbbing in the head and region of the heart. Headache, spasmodic cough, and febrile heat. Fever.—Frequent coldness over the back and head, also with heat in the face.—Fever with violent headache, pain of the scalp when touched, lacerating in the joints, great heaviness in the head, dry LACTUCA VIROSA. 777 and troublesome heat of the head and upper part of the body, with icy-coldness of the feet, burning and running of the eyes, paroxysms of dry suffocative and spasmodic cough, racking the chest and head, and spasmodic painful contraction of the abdominal muscles and the hypochondriac region.—Slow and tight pulse. Mind and Disposition.—Sad mood and out of humor.—Anguish and internal uneasiness. Sensorium.—Unable to perform any intellectual labor. Dullness of the head as from fullness. Cloudiness and giddiness of the head. — Vertigo. Head.—Pain in the region of the vertex. Dull pain in the whole head.—Aching pain in the forehead, also with sensation as if the brain were loose. Pressing in the forehead.—Painful compression in the occiput.—Trembling and pulsating in the head during rest. Eyes.—Griping pain above the eye-brows. Burning of the eyes. Redness of the conjunctiva, with increased secretion of mucus.—Dim- sightedness, with burning in the eyes. Sight as through mist oi gauze, disappearing on looking steadily at a thing. Ears.—Drawing in the ears.—Humming in the ears. Buzzing in the ears, in the evening in bed. Nose.—Frequent sneezing, with aggravation of the pains in the chest, or with painfulness qfthe chest. Face.—Deranged, pale face. Heat of the face, with trembling ot the lips and sensation as if they were swollen. Swelling of the lymphatic glands. Mouth.—Tensive feeling in the back part of the mouth and palate, with constant spitting. Increased flow of saliva, sometimes acrid. Dry mouth, without thirst.— White-coated tongue. Throat, ~&c.—Slight burning in the throat.—Difficulty of swallow- ing, with sensation of rawness and burning about the uvula. Appetite and Taste.—°Bitter taste in the throat as of bile.— Loss of appetite. Gastric Symptoms.—♦Empty eructations. Acrid, or sour erueta* tions.—Loathing.—Vomiting and nausea. Stomach.—Pain in the stomach, with retraction of the pit qfthe stomach. Tightness in the pit of the stomach, with anguish in the pracordial region. Qualmish feeling in the stomaoh. Feeling qf coldness in the stomach. Hypochondria.—Bruised feeling in the region of the liver. Swell- ing of the liver. Af.domen.—Qualmish feeling in the abdomen.—Pinching in the abdomen, with urging to stool. Cutting in the whole abdomen, with 33* 778 LACTUCA VIROSA. painful rumbling and subsequent slimy evacuation from the bowels. —°Diseases qfthe portal system.?—° Ascites, with excessive swelling of the abdomen, feet, and face. °Ascites, with induration of the liver, and asthma. Stool.—Constipation.—Stool preceded by pressing and pinching. Stool preceded by urging and pressing hard, with contusive pain in the anus. Hard, knotty stool, with burning at the anus, after a con- stipation of two days.—Diarrhoza.—General languor, weariness with drowsiness, yawning, and ptyalism during stool. Hamorrhoidal tumors around the anus, with tenesmus of the rectum, and discharge of thin Btool after every hard evacuation. Urine.—Urging to urinate, with frequent drawing in the glans. Brown, hot urine, burning in the urethra.—Dragging pressing in the region of the bladder.—°Gonorrhoea. ? Larynx and Trachea.—Roughness in the throat. °Constant feeling of fullness in the trachea.—Cough from tickling in the throat, with feeling of burning dryness in the throat. Dry cough. Spas- modic, hollow, and dry cough, or racking cough.—Increased pain in the chest when coughing or hacking.—° Whooping cough. ? Dry and suffocative cough. Chest.—Shortness of breath. Constant desire for air.—Asthma, dyspnaza, with oppression qf the chest. Oppression of the heart in the afternoon. Great oppression qf the chest at night.—Feeling of fullness in the chest, with anxiety.—Heaviness on the chest, with tightness of breathing.—Spasmodic asthma, also with organic defects of the heart. Suffocative paroxysms in dropsy of the chest. °Hy- drothorax, with general swelling, anxiety.—Aching pain in the middle of the chest. Pleuritic stitches.—Rush of blood in the chest, with pressing.—♦Qualmish feeling in the chest, from afternoon till evening. Feeling of coldness in the chest. Back.—Cramp-pain, moving through the back in various direc- tions.—Bruised feeling in the lumbar region.—Drawing and tension. Arms.—Pains in the shoulders.—Drawing in the arms.—Drawing and feeling of weakness in the upper arm.—Painful twitching in the bands. Trembling of the hands. Legs.—Great weariness. Trembling and languor of the limbs.— Bruised feeling in the thighs.—Sensation in the legs as if the circu- lation had stopped. Cold feet. LAMIUM ALBUM. 779 162.—LAMIUM ALBUM. LAM. ALB. —See "Archiv," XII GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Drawing lacerating in the uppei and lower extremities. General languor. Sleep.—Sleeplessness in the evening. Vivid, anxious dreams. Fever.—Chilliness over the whole body. Chilliness, with general weakness, mostly of the hands, or anxiety. Burning heat of the cheeks, also with cold hands. Moral Symptoms.—Sadness. Great restlessness and anguish. Head.—Dullness of the head, with difficulty of collecting her senses. Indescribable headache, deep in the brain. Headache, early in the morning, in bed.—Aching pain.—Lacerating in the head. Stitches in the head, followed by beating, accompanied by violent chills, in the evening. Eyes and Ears.—Dim-sightedness, particularly in the evening, with pressure in the eye-ball. Hardness of hearing. Nose.—Bruised pain in the soft parts of the nose.—Violent coryza, Throat.—Scraping sensation in the throat.—Hawking of a thick, sour-tasting mucus from the throat.—Burning in the oesophagus, after every swallow of liquid or solid food. Gastric Symptoms.—Empty, sour eructations.— Water-brash.— Vomiting of the ingesta, with nausea, great heat, languor, and pros- trated feeling, and blackness before the eyes. Stomach and Abdomen.—Creeping in the stomach, with desire to vomit. Stitches in the pit of the stomach, or perceptible pulsations in that region.—Painful uneasiness in the region of the liver. Stool and Urine.—Scanty hard stool, with discharge of blood.- Frequent desire to urinate, with scanty emission.—Burning in the urethra. Female Genital Organs.—Menses too early.—Leucorrhoea, smart- ing, or else without sensation. Larynx, Trachea, Chest, Back.—Feeble and trembling voice. —Want of breath in speaking, from weakness of the chest.—Bruised pain in the small qfthe back. Arms.—Prickling, gnawing itching of the arms, hands, and neck. Drawing lacerating in the fingers, also in the joints. Legs.—Feeling of swelling, gnawing pressure, and feeling of heat in the tibia and tarsal-joint.—*Blister on the heel. 780 LAUROCERASUS. 163.—LAUROCERASUS. LAUROC.—Prunus Laurocerasus, Cherry Laurel.—See Hartlaub and Trinkt, 1 "Archiv," XII. Compare with—Amm., Canth., Chin., Coce, Coff, Hydr.-ac, Ipec, Kali, Lack., Merc, Nux-v., Op., Rhus, Sec-c, Spig., Verat. Antidotes.—Of large doses: alkalies, particularly Amm.—Soap-water.—Strong Coffee (Moench, Orfila).—Milk.—Mucilaginous substances.—Oil of Turpentine. —Solution of Tartar-emetic (Bergonzi. according to whose observations uaurocnrutralizeethe excessive action of Tartar-emetic).—Chlorine, internally and externally.— Cold affusions.—Antidotes of small doses: Camph., Coff., Ipec, Op. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Pinching burning. Laming pains in the heads of bones, here and there. Sensation as if the joints were put loosely together.—Great depression of sensibility of the irritable organs. °Deficient vital energy and reaction against remedial agents.—Great languor of the whole body, particularly of the lower extremities. The feet feel faint, as if paralyzed or bruised. Exces- sive weakness and prostration. Great prostration, also (particularly towards evening) with irresistible drowsiness, lassitude, and feeling of weakne§s, sometimes accompanied with ill-humor and dread of work. Nervous weakness.—Fainting fit, falls down suddenly.—Catalepsy. Paroxysm as if dead, paralyzed, with scarcely perceptible pulse (30) —Convulsions, with subsequent paralysis of the muscles. Convul sions, with twitchings about the head, and in the dorsal and cervica, muscles, which soon became paralyzed. Convulsions, with staring eyes, lockjaw, foam at the mouth. Slight convulsions. Spasms of the back. Tetanic spasms, also general. Sudden falling down, with spasms and foam at the mouth. °Epileptic spasms, with foam at tho mouth.—Trembling of the limbs, with inability to use them. Lame- ness of the limbs, with loss of sensation. Paralysis. Apoplexy Falls down stupefied. Characteristic Peculiarities.—The pains seem to be less in the open air, except the roughness of the throat, which is worse. °Even- ing exacerbation. ° Amelioration at night. Skin.—Itching stitches in different parts.—Rough, scaly skin between the fingers, with burning of the part when touched by water. —Dry skin. Sleep.—Frequent yawning without drowsiness. Yawning, with drowsiness ; chilliness ; shuddering.—Irresistible drowsiness, like sopor, with excessive languor. Sopor. Deep, snoring sleep. Sopo- rous condition between sleeping and waking.—Sleeplessness. Sad confused, or frightful dreams. LAUROCERASUS. 781 Fever.—Coldness of the extremities. Internal coldness through the whole body. Coldness, with flushes of heat in the face. '^Defi- ciency qf natural heat. Chilliness, with coldness of the skin to the touch. Chilliness of tJie whole body, with pains in the back.—Fever, first a shuddering, afterwards burning heat with stupor, vertigo, ana subsequent languor of the limbs. Alternation of violent chilliness and burning heat, with stupor and vertigo. Fever, lasting twelve hours.—Flushes of heat in the head, in the afternoon. Heat with thirst, also flushes of heat, or in the evening, going off in bed or on falling asleep.—Violent thirst, with dryness of the mouth, evening or afternoon. — Pulse small and slow, also contracted. Pulse of unequal strength. Pulse quick and feeble. Pulse slow, full, hard. Pulse feeble and slow. Moral Symptoms.—Sadness with ill-humor. Melancholy oppres- sion of spirits.—Laziness.—Nervous irritability, with indisposition to do any mental work. Vexed mood. Sensorium.—Dullness of the senses. Insensibility and complete loss of sensation. Loss of consciousness, with loss of speech and motion. Dullness qfthe head. Sensation in the head as if the brain were cloudy. Dullness of the head, with dimness and mistiness before the eyes. Dizziness. Stupefaction, also with vertigo.— Ver- tigo. Head.— Violent aching over the whole head. Headache with ver- tigo.—Stupefying pain in the whole head, with sensation on stooping as if the brain were striking against the skull.—Heaviness of the head, with dullness.—Fullness in the forehead. Oppressive pain on the top of the head, as from a weight. Aching pain above the orbits. Frequent periodical paroxysms of aching pain under the frontal bone. Tension in the forehead and left side of the face. Dragging pain, always accompanied with drowsiness. The brain feels contracted and painful.—Lacerating headache, in the evening, in bed.—Boring headache, particularly above the eye-lids.—Beating in the head, worse on stooping. Rush of blood and stupefaction of the head Violent tingling and stinging in the brain. Scalp.—Frequent short attacks of pain on the vertex.—Itching of the hairy scalp. Eves.—Sensation as of a band around the eye-balls, mingled with stitches. Pressure in the eyes. °Diminution of the pains in cancel of the eyes. Itching in the eye. Smarting in the eyes, as from salt. —Burning of the eyes, with weakness and dim-sightedness. Burn- ing in the lids.—The congested vessels spread, like the branches of a tree, from the inner canthus towards the pupils.—Dryness of tht 782 LAUROCERASUS. eyes, also with sensation of warmth, or with burning. Distorted eyes. Eyes open and staring. Pupils contracted or immovable.—Optical illusion, every object looks larger until touched. Darkness before the eyes, the objects look dim. Amaurosis. Ears.—Dragging pressure, burning, boring, itching in the ear. Hardness of hearing. Nose.—Distensive pressing in the nasal bones. Itching in both nostrils.—Frequent sneezing. Feeling of fullness in the nose.— Catarrhal sensation in the nose. Face.—Sunken countenance. Livid, gray-yellow complexion. Yel- low spots on the face.. Bloated, swollen face. °Convulsions of the facial muscles.—Prosopalgia. Bruised pain in the whole lower jaw, in the evening. Sensation as if the jaw would become dislocated. Titillation in the face. °Eruption around the mouth. Lock-jaw. Teeth.—Darting toothache. Sensation as if the teeth would be raised, with stinging and choking sensation in the oesophagus. Mouth —Dry mouth.—Increased flow of saliva. Accumulation of acidulated saliva.—Coated tongue.—The tongue feels burnt and numb. Soreness of the border of the tongue.—*Loss of speech, °also after apoplexy. Throat.—Dull pain in the pharynx (also in the chest, region of the heart, and stomach, and in the region of the right scapula). Fre- quent paroxysms of painful feeling in the throat. Burning in the throat, also with roughness. Spasm, heat, and pain in the pharynx, oesophagus, and stomach. / Appetite and Taste.—Acrid, pungent taste. Fetid taste on the tongue. Diminished appetite and digestion. Aversion to food.— Great hunger.—Violent thirst with dry mouth.—After dinner : pain in the stomach with nausea. Gastric Symptoms.—Hiccough. Ineffectual eructations. Bitter eructations. Attacks of nausea, particularly early in the morning. Desire to vomit, with a feeling of hunger in the stomach.— Vomiting and loathing. Stomach.—Pain in the stomach with nausea, particularly after dinner. Feeling of weakness in the stomach. Violent pain in the stomach, with rapid loss of speech.—Pressure in the stomach, also violent, or with nausea. Contractive feeling in the region of the stomach. Burning in the stomach and abdomen.—Oppressive anxiety or anguish in the pit of the stomach, alternating with beating pains. Hypochondria.—Pinching, extending from the hypochondria to the umbilicus.—Sticking pains in the liver, with pressure. Beating LAUROCERASUS. 783 and throbbing in the liver as from an abscess. Lame, bruised pain from the liver to the shoulder, at every inspiration. Distention of the region of the liver, with pain as from subcutaneous ulceration, or as if an abscess would burst. °Inflammation with induration of the liver. Abdomen.—Malaise as if proceeding from the epigastrium. Colicky pains in the abdomen, with subsequent diarrhoeic stools.—Pinching in the abdomen. Cutting in the whole abdomen.—Contractive pain from both sides of the abdomen, with pinching.—Burning in the ab- domen. Hard tympanitic distention of the abdomen.—Stinging in the groin, particularly on stooping or bending forward. Contractive pain in the groin. °Inguinal and femoral hernia. ? Stool and Anus.—*Hard, firm, delayed stool, sometimes suc- ceeded by burning at the anus.—Costiveness and constipation.— Stool first hard, then soft, with colic as from a cold and ineffectual tenesmus.—*Diarrhazic stools, *with tenesmus. Diarrhoeic stools, succeeded by burning at the anus. Discharge of green, liquid mucus, in the afternoon.—Discharge of faces without being conscious of it.— Complete paralysis of the sphincter-ani.—Stinging lacerating or creep- ing in the rectum. Constriction of the rectum. Urine.—Retention of urine.—Diminished secretion of urine.— Emission of a quantity of watery urine, with burning during the emission. Urine yellow, scanty, pale. Pale-yellow urine; acrid, depositing a thick, reddish sediment, when standing.—Pain about tho region of the stomach when urinating. Burning in the urethra and pressing after urinating. Male Genital Organs. — Gangrene of the penis.—Increased sexual desire.—Erections evening and night. Female Genital Organs.—Menses too early, also with profuse, painful discharge of liquid blood for eight days, and nightly lacerat- ing on the vertex.—Stinging and burning in and below the mammae. Larynx and Trachea.—Darting in the larynx, from without inwards, arresting the breathing. Pain in the trachea when cough- ing. Spasmodic constriction of the larynx, also with hawking.— Titillation in the throat, inducing cough, or in the trachea, with rotighness. Scraping in the larynx, also with increased secretk>7i qf mucus, hoarseness, and desire to cough.—Frequent turns of cough, with roughness and hoarse voice.— °Cough, with copious, jelly-likp expectoration, mixed with bloody points. °Bloody cough.—°Acute suppuration of the lungs. ? Chest.—Panting breathing. Slow, feeble, almost imperceptible breathing. Slow, moaning, and rattling breathing.—Dyspnaza, with t784 AMYGDALAE AMAR.E. pain in the region of the heart, urging to take deep breath, and slow inspirations. Tightness of the chest, with pressure in the region of the heart. °Diminution of the asthma in walking.—Sudden paralysis of the lungs.—Constriction of the chest. Anxiety in the chest.— Pressure and tightness on the chest, with ill-humor.—Burning in the chest on taking an inspiration.—Stitches in the region of the heart, during an inspiration. Palpitation of the heart, with soft, full pulse. Irregular beating of the heart, with slow, subdued pulse.—Bruised pain of the ribs when lying on one side. Pain in every part of the external thorax on moving it. Back.—Frequent pain as from weariness in the small of the back. Painful stiffness in the small of the back and back.— Tension in the back, extending between the shoulders and into the neck. Sticking in the back. Painful stiffness in the left side of the neck and nape qfthe neck. Arms.—Lacerating in the shoulders. Laming pain in the shoulder, or violent lancinations in that part. Lacerating in the wrist-joints Burning of the hands, internally.—Distention of the veins on the hands. Trembling of the hands. Legs.—Pain as if sprained in the hip-joint, during motion.—Pain as if bruised in the thighs.—Ijacerating in the knees and tibiae.— Heaviness in the legs.—Pain as if sprained in the tar sal-joints, dur- ing rest and motion. Ulcerative pain in the lower part of the heels, on rising from bed, removed by walking. 164.—AMYGDALAE AMARJE. AMYGDAL. AMAR.—Bitter Almonds—See Noack and Trinks. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Feeling of languor, as if he had no control over his muscles.—Falls down without consciousness.—Vio- lent convulsions for three-quarters of an hour, recurring, but less vio lently in fifteen minutes.—General tetanic convulsion. Sleep.—Deep, snoring sleep, Fever.—Slow, full, and hard pulse.—Scarcely perceptible pulse at the wrist-joint, neck, and in the region of the heart. Mind and Disposition.—Intense emotion, weeping.—Excessive nervous prostration.—Loss of consciousness, speech, and power of motion Head.—Feeling of intoxication in the brain, affecting the whole body.—Vertigo as from intoxication.—Loss of consciousness.—Vio- lent pains over the whole head.—Aching pain in the frental region, LEDUM PALUSTRE. 785 above the orbits.—Feeling of heaviness in the frontal region.—Dull ness of the left half of the head.—Contracted or immovable pupils.— Spasmodic distortion of the features. Foam at the mouth.—Smell and taste as of Bitter Almonds, constantly. Digestive Apparatus.—Impeded deglutition.—Inability to swal- low.—Eructations tasting of Bitter Almonds.—Nausea and vomiting of the ingesta.—Colic, distending the abdomen, accompanied by con vulsive motion of the jaw, loss of consciousness, foam at the mouth. Genital Organs.—Gangrene of the penis. Respiratory Organs.—Scraping in the larynx and hoarseness, followed in the evening, or during the whole of the following day, by increased secretion of mucus in the trachea, particularly the larynx. —Difficulty of breathing, the chest being raised spasmodically, and the motions of the chest being hurried.—The inspirations are snoring, slow, and becoming more and more rare. Several shootings and occasional paroxysms of seated pains under the left nipple in the thoracic cavity, rendering the expirations and inspirations somewhat difficult. 165—LEDUM PALUSTRE. LED. P.—See Hahnemann's "Mat. Med.," III.—Duration of Action: several weeks. Compare with—Ars., Bell., Bry., Canth., Cham., Chin., Fer., Jod., Kal.-hydr., Lye, Merc, Nux-v., Phosph.-ac, Puis., Rhod.. Rhus, Sep., Sulph., Thuj.^ Led.-p. is frequently indicated after Lye—After Led.-p. are frequently suitable: Chin, and Sep. Antidote.—Camph. GENERAL SYMPTOMS .—Heat qfthe hands and feet in the even- ing.—Long-continuing warm sweat on the hands and feet. Drawing along the long bones during motion. (Lacerating pain in the back and knees.) Lancinating pain in the joints. Beating pain in the affected joints, hindering motion.—Painful hard tubercles and tophi in the region of the joints. Paralytic pain of all the joints at night when in bed, when moving the body. Shooting, lacerating, rheumatio pains, especially during motion. The limbs and the wlwle body are painful, as if bruised and contused. ° Aching or aching-lacerating pains in the joints, worse in the evening, in bed. Feeling of numb- ness and heaviness in the limbs, with bone-pains. Troublesome languor and weariness when sitting, standing or walking. Inclina- tion to stretch the upper limbs.—Fainting.—Nervous attack. Characteristic Peculiarities.—Only the pains in the joints be 50 786 LEDUM PALUSTRE. come more violent during motion, not the pains in other parts of the body. Skin.—Dry, extremely-itching herpes, with anxiety. Etching of the whole body, as if an eruption would break out. Bluish spots on the body like petechias. Small, round, red, insensible spots on the inner side of the arms, on the abdomen, and feet. Eruption. *Dry, itching herpes, -with anxiety.—°Boils.—°Hot, tensive, hard swellings, with lacerating pains. °Painful arthritic nodosities. ? QEdematous swelling, also of the skin of the whole body. Sleep.—Sleepiness in the daytime like sopor. Deep, but restless sleep. Restless sleep, and extremely confused dreams.—Sleepless- ness, with restlessness and tossing about. Restless dreams. Fever.—^General coldness and chilliness. Shaking chills, with trembling, towards evening, without thirst and without any subsequent heat. Chill over the whole back, with hot cheeks and forehead, with- out redness of the face and thirst, with cold hands. °Evening fever, with pain in the head and eyes. °Feeling of heat alternating with sweat. Moral Symptoms.—Anxiety. Tendency to start. Feverish mood, with much restlessness and inconstancy. Out of humor. Vehemence. Sensorium and Head.—Vertigo. Stupefaction of the whole head, as in vertigo. Excessive feeling of intoxication. Loss of sense.— Violent headache. Dull headache in the morning during sleep.— Raging headache.—♦Stupefying headache.—Pressure in the forehead. Aching pain in the upper part of the forehead, with dullness of the head, especially when covered. Painful pressure over the whole brain.—Lacerating pain in the head and eye ; the sclerotica and conjunctiva are swollen and inflamed. Sensitiveness of the head, with painful shaking of the brain on making a wrong step.—°Violent beating pain in the head. Stunning aching pain on the forehead. ^Tubercles on the forehead, as in drunkards. ♦Pimples and boils on the forehead.—°The least covering is intolerable to the head, lia- bility of the integuments of the head to take cold. Eyes.—Pain in the eyes, without inflammation, a pressure behind the eye-ball. Burning pressure in the eyes. Lachrymation. Vio- lent itching of the inner canthi.—Ophthalmia with tensive pain. Con- tracted pupils. ? Considerable dilation of the pupils. Weakness of sight. Ears.—Short hardness of hearing, °from taking cold in the head, -or as if something had lodged in front of both tympanae. Violent, but interrupted whizzing in the ears. Roaring in the ears, as qfthe wind. Ringing or whizzing in the ears. LEDUM PALUSTRE. 787 Nose.—Burning pain in the interior of the nose, the nose feeling sore when pressing on it. Face.—Paleness of the face, but without chilliness. °Bloated face, at times red, at others pale. Intolerable lacerating in the face, ex- tending to the head and neck. ^Eruption in the face. *Red tu bercles, also on the forehead (as in drunkards), with stinging when touched. Scaly dry herpes in the face, burning in the open air. ♦Pimples and boils on the forehead.—Swelling of a submaxillary gland, with aching pain when touched. Mouth and Throat.—°Haemorrhage from the mouth.?—Sore throat, with fine stinging pain. Appetite and Gastric Symptoms.—Bitter taste in the mouth.— ~Vant of appetite.—A sort of sick and qualmish feeling in the stomach. Great desire for cold drink, especially water. Constant absence of thirst.—Frequent attacks of hiccough.—Sudden flow of water from tlie mouth, resembling saliva, with colic, water-brash.— Colic : digging-up sensation under the umbilicus, with discharge of water from the mouth, like water-brash. Stomach and Abdomen.—Drawing pain in the abdomen. Colic, as in dysentery. Colic, as if the bowels were contused and weakened. Colic, every evening. Colic (cutting ?), with haemorrhage from the anus. °Ascites. ? Stool.—Constipation for several days. The stool is mixed with blood.—Diarrhoeic, faeces, with mucus. Urine.—Enuresis. Reddish urine. Burning in the urethra after urinating. Griping, deep in the abdomen, as if the bladder were seized. Genital Organs.—Swelling of the penis. Violent and continual erections. Nightly emissions. Increased menstruation. °Metror- rhagia. 1 Larynx.—Tingling in the trachea, followed by hurried, oppressed breathing. Laryngeal asthma. Hoarseness, with scraping in the chest. Cough without expectoration. Suffocative arrest of breath, previous to coughing. °Whooping cough. ? Cough, with purulent expectoration, night and morning. °Greenish, fetid expectoration. ♦Bloody cough, -with profuse expectoration. Violent cough, with expectoration of bright red blood. °Pulmonary haemorrhage. ? Chest.—Fetid breath. Spasmodic double inspirations and sob- bing. Violent tension in the hypochondriac region during an in- spiration and retention of breath. Oppressed painful breathing. *Asthmatic constriction of the chest, -aggravated by motion and walking. Pressure in the chest, when walking. Drawing in the rmter parts of the chest, especially during an inspiration, accompanied 788 LEDUM PALUSTRE. with single stitches. Soreness under the sternum.—Palpitation of the heart.—♦Small, red, constantly-itching pimples on the chest, with biting itching. Back.—Pain in the small of the back, on rising from a seat. Drawing in the small of the back and stiffness in the back. Painful stiffness of the back and loins after sitting. Spasmodic, cramp-like pain under the short ribs and directly above the hips, towards even- ing. Pain in the loins after sitting. Painful stiffness in the sca- pulae during motion. Bruised pain below the scapula. Painfu,. sticking in the shoulder when lifting the arm. Arms.—Lacerating in the shoulder-joint. Painful sticking in the shoulder-joint on lifting the arm. Pressure in both shoulder-joints, more violent during motion. Languor of the upper limbs, a sort of paralysis. Lacerating in the arms. Pressure in the elbow-joint, more violent during motion. Painful jerking in the upper part of the fore-arm. Violent trembling of the hands, as if from old age The periosteum of the finger-joints is painful when pressing upon it Painless tubercle on the middle joint of the index-finger. Legs.—Pain in either hip-joint and in the small of the back when rising from the seat. °Laming, rheumatic pain in the hip-joints Pressure in the region of the hip-joint, more violent during motion Lacerating, with pressure, from the hip-joint to the ankles, more vio* lent during motion.—Sensation as if the posterior muscles of the thighs were paralyzed. Pain of the periosteum as if bruised or sore. Burning itching of the thighs in the night.— Tremor of the knees when sitting or walking. Weakness in the knee-joints, and lacerating, with pressure in those joints when walking. Pain in the knees, as if bruised or sore. Stiffness in the knees, only when walking. Tensive pain of the knee and heel, after sitting, when walking. Pain in the front part of either patella, as if bruised, when walking. ^Swelling and tensive and pricking pain in the knee, -when walking, °or also with tension, stinging hardness even of the whole leg, and nightly lace- rating and pressure. Itching eruption in the bend of the knee.__ °Hot swelling of the legs, with stinging-drawing pain. Weakness and heaviness in the legs. Swelling of the leg, extending to beyond the calves, with tensive pain, especially in the evening. Swelling around the ankles, and intolerable pain in the tarsal-joint when step- ping. In the morning his feet feel rigid. Stiff feet, with chilliness and confused feeling in the head. ^Obstinate swelling of the foot inflammatory or oedematous swelling of the feet and legs. Pain oj the soles of the feet when walking, as if ecchymozed. Bruised pain ir- the heel when walking. °Podagra. ? LOBELIA CARDINALIS.—LOBELIA INFLATA. 789 166.—LOBELIA CARDINALIS. LOB. CAR.—The Scarlet Lobelia, or Cardinal Flower.—See "Transactions of American Institute of Homoeopathy," Vol. I. 167.—LOBELIA INFLATA. LOB. INF.—Emetic Herb, Indian Tobacco.—See " Transactions of American Institute of Homoeopathy," Vol. I. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Shivering through the whole body. —Feeling of weariness. Unusual weariness. Sleep.—Restless sleep, with many dreams. Fever.—Heat and inclination to perspiration, particularly in the face.—Chills down the back, with heat in the stomach.—♦Intermit- tent fever. ' Pulse more frequent and weaker than usual.—Prostra- tion of strength. Moral Symptoms.—Desponding and exhausting. Head.— Vertigo, with nausea. Pain in the head and trembling agitation of the whole body. Pain in the head.—Headache, with slight giddiness. Dull, heavy pain, passing around the forehead from one temple to another. Pains through the head in sudden shocks.—Heaviness in the head, and uneasiness in the back. Eyes.—Pressing pain in the eye-balls. Face.—Heat of the face. Teeth.—Dull pressing pain in the molar teeth and temple. Mouth.—Pungent taste in the mouth.—Soreness of the throat. Dryness of the mouth. Throat.—Burning in the throat. Dryness of the throat. Burn- ing prickling in the throat, increased secretion of a viscid saliva, nausea, and eructations.—^Sensation as of a lump in the pit qfthe throat, impeding deglutition. Sensation in the oesophagus as if some- thing were rising in it. Appetite and Gastric Symptoms. — *Loss of appetite.—Acrid, burning taste in the mouth. °Bitter taste, with coated tongue and - thirst.—Hiccough. °Frequent gulping up of a burning, sour fluid. DAcidity in the stomach, with contractive feeling in the pit of the sto- mach. ^Incessant violent nausea, -with shivering and shaking of the npper part of the body. An indescribable feeling about the stomach, eompounded of nausea, pain, heat, oppression, and excessive uneasi- ness accompanying the affection of the respiratory organs. Nausea, great uneasness, and vomiting. ° Vomiting of food, particularly aftei eatiny warm food,—°Dyspepsia, °Hcartburn of long duration. 790 LUPULUS. S omach.—*Feeling of weakness of the stomach, °or in the pit of the stomach, extending through the whole chest. ♦Sensation of ex- cessive weakness at the praecordium, extending upwards into the chest, and downwards as far as the umbilicus. Feeling of weight in the stomach. Burning pain in the stomach towards the back.— °Pressure in the pit of the stomach, with bilious vomiting, oppression and anguish of the chest, and pain in the small of the back.—Spasm of the stomach, during the catamenia, ? in arthritic patients, ? in drunkards, ? or with bilious complaints. Burning in the stomach. Abdomen.—Distention of the abdomen, with shortness of breath. Pain in the abdomen, always worse after eating. ♦ Stool.—Discharge of black blood, after stool. Copious haemor- rhage from the haemorrhoidal vessels. Urine.—♦Urine of a deep red color, depositing a copious red sediment. Pain in tbe loins. Genital Organs.—Uterine haemorrhage. ? ♦Violent pain in the sacrum, with fever, &c, supervening suppression of the menses during their flow. Aching pain in the urethra. Troublesome feel- ing of weight in the genitals. Larynx and Cough.—Titillation in the larynx, with frequent, short, dry cough.—°Sensation as of a foreign body in the throat, impeding the breathing and swallowing. Chest.—A general tightness of the chest, with short and some- what laborious breathing. Oppression of the chest. *Chronic dyspnoea, with the sensation of a lump in the pit of the throat, immediately above the sternum, impeding respiration and degluti- tion. ^Paroxysmal asthma.—Pains in the chest, increased by deep inspiration.—Slight deep-seated pain in the region of the heart. Back.—°Burning and cutting in the lower part of the spine.— Rheumatic pains between the scapulae. Arms.—Slight rheumatic feeling in the shoulder-joint. Severo rheumatic pain in the elbow-joint. Legs.—♦Inflammatory rheumatism of the right knee, with swelling and extreme pain.—Weariness in the limbs.—Prickling sensation through the whole body. 168.—LUPULUS. LUP.—Common Hop.—See All. Horn. Zeit., X. Antidote.—Coffee. ? GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Drawing and twitching in almost #LYC0P0DII TCLLEN. 791 every muscle, mostly between the shoulders and in the muscles of the arms and hands, in short paroxysms, as in rheumatism. Skin.—Swollen face, which is covered with an eruption, and swelling of the eyes.—Vesicles on the face and hands, increasing in size, and bursting. Sleep.—Great drowsiness —Sopor. Head.—Vertigo.—Stupefaction.—Heat in the head and face, with stupid and confused feeling in the head.—Dizzy dull headache.— Increased determination of blood to the head and eyes. Dull pressure in the forehead, as after intoxication.—Drawing pain in the head. Eyes.—Illusion of sight. Digestive Apparatus.—Eructations, increasing to nausea, accom- panied with a dizzy and confused feeling in the head, after which a colic is experienced.—Weakness of digestion.—Dull pinching in the abdomen, with nausea. Urine.—Determination of blood to the uterus.—Burning in the urethra on urinating. 169.—LYCOPODII POLLEN. LYC.—Lycopodium Clavatuin.—See Hahnemann's "Chronic Diseases," IV.— Duration of Action: from forty to fifty days. Compare with—Ambr.. Am.. Am.-mur., Ars., Bar., Bry., Calc, Canth., Caps., Carb.-v., Caust, Chain., Chin., Cic. Con.-tu., Graph., Ipec, Lai.-p., Mag., Magnet.-p.-arct., Mai'.-mur., Mang., Merc, Mur.-ae, Natr.. Natr.-niur., Nitr.- ac. Nux-v., Petrol.. Plat.. Phosph., Phosph.-ac, Pals., Rhod.. Rhus, Sep., Sil., Spig, Staph., Sulph.. Thuj., Verat.—Lye. is frequently suitable after Calc, Sil.; after Lye are frequently suitable: Graph., Led.-p., Phosph., Puis., Sil. Antidotes.— Camph. generally moderates the violent effects of Lye ; Puis. subdues the violent feverish feelings from Lye. ; the ill-humor, readiness to find fault, diffidence, tendency to reproach, ite, are subdued by Caust. A cup of coffee prevents and completely neutralizes the action of Lye . GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—All the limbs and all the soft parts jf the body are painful when touched or pressed. Intermitting, cramp-like drawing in the fore-arms, hands, and fingers. -Lace- rating in the arms and lower limbs or in the feet and fingers Drawing, with pressure, in all the joints, especially the knees. °Drawing and lacerating in the limbs in windy, rainy weather, relieved by external warmth. Pinching pains in different parts of the body. Violent stitches in the thoracie cavity and the umbilical region, arresting- the breath.—Stiffness of all the joints. Stiffness of the limbs and the small of the back. Stiffness of the arms and lower 792 LYCOPODH POLLEN.» limbs, with insensibility and numbness. °Paralysis.— "Desire to go into thz open air. Feverish sensativeness to cold air.—°Deficiency of animal heat. °Weariness of the feet and burning of the soles after walking in the open air. ♦Disposed to take cold. Appears to favor the ramollissement and curvature of the bones, ♦The whole body feels bruised, especially in the evening. ^Drawing and stretching in all his iimbs. Uncomfortableness in the whole body. —Great agitation of the blood, in the evening, increasing until it becomes a sensation of trembling. Seething of the blood, agitation in the whole circulatory apparatus.—°Sensation as if the circulation qf the blood were arrested. °Contraction of the fingers and toes. °Cramp in the fingers and calves. Jerking and twitching of single limbs, or of the whole body, sleeping or waking. Epileptic fit, screaming, foam at the mouth, loss of conciousness. Epilevtic fit, visibie twitching of the muscles of the lower limb; the pit of the stomach beeame affected, he began to scream, without conciousness, threw his arms and legs about, had foam at the mouth. °The limbs (arms, hands, lower limbs) go to sleep, day and night. °Insensibility of the arm and foot. Fainting fits when lying down, with vanishing of the senses and obscuration of sight, without any desire to move. Total relaxation of the nervous system. Sudden failing of strength —Tremor of the limbs. *Great thinness. #Great emaciation, °also of children. ♦ Weariness. Extreme weakness. °Internal weakness, Skin.—♦The skin of the whole body is hot and dry, hot hands. °Tendency of the skin to crack. ♦Itching, as if caused by fleas. °Itching of the skin, when heated. Smarting and burning itching over the whole body. °Corrosive itching of the arms and lower limbs.—°Painful eruption on the neck and chest. Itching hepatic spots. ♦Violent itching of a herpetic eruption on the tibia. ♦Freckles Unsensible, yellow-brown, shrivelled herpes. °Humid, suppurating herpes, full of deep rhagades, and covered with thick crusts. °Boils, returning periodically. ° Fistulous u!< crs, with hard, shining red everted edges, and inflamatory swelling of the affected part. °Mer curial ulcers. °Carious ulcers. °Chafing of children. Warts.— °Chilblains.—Varices of pregnant females.—♦Glandular swellings. °Arthritic nodes- *Dropsical swellings. Chlorosis. Aneurisms. 1 Sleep.—^Drowsiness in the daytime. ♦Drowsiness in the afternoon ♦Early drowsiness in the evening, ^Restless sleep full of dreams. Light sleep, at night. *Sleep full of fancies' °TJnable to lie on the left side, owing to palpitation of the heart and stitches. Loud talking while asleep.—♦Anxious, frightful, or lascivious dreams.—Starting when falling asleep. ^Startings and jerkings of the limbs, with -YCOPODII POLLEN. 793 restless sleep. Weeping at night, while asleep. Palpitation of the heart, almost every evening, when in bed. Seething of the blood, early in the morning, when waking. Troublesome pressure in the stomach. Cutting in the region of the stomach, at night. Cough and pain in the chest, at night. °Uneasiness and twitching of the feet during sleep. Seething of tbe blood, early in the morning, when waking. Unrefreshing sleep. Fever.—Spasmodic shaking from chilliness, as if caused by a mental commotion, with throbbing in the fore part of the head, in the even- ing. Internal chilliness, early in the morning. Violent chilliness in the evening, hindering sleep, with nausea.—Fever every afternoon —Fever at seven o'clock in the evening, chills, and great coldness, even when in bed.—Coldness qfthe body, in the evening, with heat in the forehead. Chilliness every day.—Evening-fever, every day, chilliness followed by heat. In the evening, alternate chilliness and heat, with aching of the whole head, and coryza. Fever, with great weakness, heat predominant, afterwards chilliness.—Fever, every evening, burning heat. ° Tertian fever, with sour vomiting after the chilliness, and bloated face and hands.—°Hectic fever, with clammy night-sweats. Typhoid fever, with constipation, waking with a peevish mood, scolding, screaming, nervous irritation. °Feverish day-sweats. ♦Flushes of heat. Burning heat, with short breath, pale face, and starting while asleep. Moral Symptoms.—Desponding, grieving mood. ♦Melancholy, in the evening. Weeping mood, with chilliness. Great oppressive anxiety in the pit of the stomach, from vexation. *She is afraid qf being alone. Despairing and disconsolate. °Internal uneasiness. °Nervousness. — ^Extremely sensitive. Great tendency to start. ^Headstrong, vehement, angry. Sensorium.—♦Weakness of memory.—°Complaints arising from mental labor. Dullness of the head. Stupefaction towards evening, with heat of the temples and ears. Vertigo like dullness of the bead. Vertigo when rising from a seat. °Incipient paralysis of the brain. Head.—Simple headache, more violent when at rest, less when walking in the open air. Violent headache, at night, as if caused by a wrong position. ♦Headache from chagrin. °Headache with faintishness and great uneasiness. Headache over the eyes, immedi- ately after breakfast. Pain in both temples, at every step. Dull pain in the forehead, as if the head were being compressed. °Rheu- matic headache. Paralytic aching in the temple. Aching, with con- tractive sensation in the head. °Tensive-aching pain in the head. 34 794 LYCOPODII POLLEN. The headache increases when lying down.—Headache, as if the bones of the skull were being driven asunder, and as if the brain were va- cillating. Heaviness in the head.—*Lacerating in the occiput. Lacerating in the head. °Lacerating in the forehead, every afternoon. Aching, with lacerating close over the eyes and into them, early in the morning. Darting headache, apparently in the bones of the skull. —Throbbing pain near the orbits, from within outwards. Violent beating in the head. Continual throbbing headache. Beating in the brain, with heat about the head.—*Rush of blood to the head, early in the morning, on waking, °also on raising the head in bed, with subsequent headache.—Excessive sensitiveness of the head externally. — Quickly-passing lacerating in the integuments of the head.—°Nightly lacerating, boring, and scraping about the head.— Contractive sensation in the hairy scalp.—The bones of the head are painful.—* Excessive falling off of the hair. °Baldness.—Itching of the hairy scalp. ^Eruption on the head, with swelling of the cer- vical glands. ♦Eruptions on the head, suppurating profusely, °alro fetid. Eyes.—♦Painful pressure in the eyes, as if dust had got in.—Pain in the eyes as if they had been bruised.— Tensive pain in the left eye. —Lacerating around the eyes, extending into the forehead and the cheeks. *Stitches in the eyes, -without any redness. Itching in the canthi.—°Smarting of the eyes.—^Burning in the eyes, °also smart- ing. Red, inflamed eyes, with sticking pain, in the evening. Inflam- mation of the white of the eye. ♦Inflammation of the eye-lids, with aching, and nightly agglutination in the outer canthi. *Inflamma- tion qfthe eyes, -with redness and dimness of the white, redness and swelling of the lids, burning; ^profuse lachrymation and nightly agglutination. Inflammation of the eyes, with itching in both canthi, redness and swelling of the lids. Styes on the eye-lids. Ulceration and redness of the eye-lids. * Agglutination qfthe eyes, especially at night. A quantity of purulent gum in the eyes, with smarting pain. Mucus in the eyes. ♦Dryness of the eyes in the evening. *Dim, hot eyes.—Spasmodic twitching of the lower eye-lid.— Weakness of sight. Uncertain sight and frequent twinkling before the eyes.—Dim-sighted- ness. -Short-sightedness.—Black spots hover before his eyes at a short distance. ♦Twinkling before the eyes, when going to bed. Sensation of vibrations before the eyes. Sparks before the eyes, in the dark.—°Blackness before the eyes. Ears.—Otalgia in the open air. Sensation as of pressing towards the ears. Lacerating about the ear.—Darting in the internal ear. Continuous lacerating pinching stitches in the ear. Throbbing and LYCOPODI1 POLLEN. 795 tension in tbe ears.—Rush of blood to the ears. Itching in the ear. °Humid scurf on and behind the ears. Ulceration and running of the ears * Sensitiveness to noise in walking. °Music and sounds affect the hearing painfully.—♦Diminution of hearing. *Roaring, hum- ming and whizzing in the ears. Nose.—Corrosive pain in the nostril. Itching of the nostrils.— Swelling of the tip of the nose, with pain to the touch.—Heat in the nose, and burning of the eyes.—°Scurf in the nose. °Nightly clos- ing of the nostril by pus. °Ulcerated nostrils.— The smell is exces- sively sensitive.—Discharge of a bloody mucus or of coagulated blood from the nose.—Sneezing without coryza.—Obstruction of the nose, high up.—Dry coryza, he cannot breathe at night. Dry coryza, with burning in the forehead and dullness of the head.— Violent coryza, with swelling of the nose; catarrhal headache; acrid discharge. ^Fluent coryza. Face.—*Pale, wretched complexion. *Blue margins around the eyes, ° with livid face, deep wrinkles, and blue lips. ♦Yellow face.— ^Frequent flushes of heat. °Circumscribed redness of the face. Burning in the face. Red, bloated face, full of dark-red spots covered with pustules. ♦Swelling of the cheeks. ♦Eruption on the face. *Itching, scaly herpes in the face and the corners of the mouth, with bleeding. Lacerating in the cheek, in the malar bone. Spasmodic twitchings in the muscles of the cheeks. Ulcerative pain oi the corners of the mouth. Eruption around the mouth. Itching pimples around the chin. Jaws and Teeth.—Lacerating in the upper jaw. Swelling of the submaxillary glands. ^Drawing in the jaws. Jerking lacerating, at times in the right, at times in the left lower jaw. Boring pain in the swollen submaxillary glands. Involuntary clashing and grind- ing of the teeth. Dull ache of the upper and lower teeth, with swelling of the gums.—Toothache, with swelling of the cheeks. The teeth are excessively painful when touching them, or wlien chewing, as if from subcutaneous ulceration. Toothache only at night. Spas- modic pain in the teeth. ^Drawing pain in the right lower molares. Throbbing toothache. Beating in a tooth, with swelling of the gums. —All the teeth ache, as if they were too dull.—Great looseness of the teeth.—Tbe teeth become yellow.—Heat and pain in the gums. Swelling of the gums over the front teeth, with swelling of the upper lip.—Gum-boil. Mouth.—Small tumors in the mouth, in various places. Coated tongue. Scraping sensation in the mouth. Fetid smell from the mouth. Numbness of the inner mouth and tongue. The tongue is 796 LYC0P0DII POLLEN. painful and swollen. Tubercles on the tongue. Ulcer under the tongue. Dryness in the mouth and throat, early in the morning, °with tension, difficulty of moving the tongue, and -indistinct speech, Feeling of dryness in the throat and mouth, without thirst. Dry and bitter or sourish mouth. Throat.—Swelling and elongation of the uvula. Sore throat, when swallowing or coughing. ♦The pharynx feels contracted. Glandular swellings inside and outside of the throat, with stinging pains in the glands when swallowing and in the ear.—° Chronic sore throat.— Lacerating pains in the pharynxyrom below upwards. Stinging and dryness in the throat. Continual stinging or prickling in the throat. Inflammation of the throat, with hoarseness and stitches. Suppura- tion of the tonsils, with stinging pain when swallowing. * Ulcers of the tonsils, resembling chancre.—Ulceration of the tonsils. °Burning in the fauces, with thirst at night. Ta»te and Appetite.—Bitter taste in the mouth, particularly early in the morning, °also with nausea. Sour, slimy or mouldy taste. Loss of taste.—Absence of thirst. Great thirst, sometimes with difficulty of swallowing. ^Excessive hunger. *Canine hunger. ♦Extreme desire for sweet things.—*Want of appetite. *Aversion to solid food. *Bread is repulsive. Gastric Symptoms.—At dinner, excessive nausea unto fainting. Nausea in the pharynx and stomach after a meal, unto vomiting, with accumulation of water in the mouth. Frequent eructations after a meal. Immediately after a meal, the abdomen is full, bloated, dis- tended. Fullness and heaviness after a meal. Colic ; pressure in the stomach ; pinching in the abdomen after a meal. Tremor and throb- bing through the whole body, after a meal. °Palpitation of the heart during digestion.—0Diarrhoea from milk. °Heavy food is not digested. °Violent eructations in the afternoon. *Sour eructations, with colic. Burning eructations, like a sort of heartburn.—^Heartburn from the stomach, acidity rising into the mouth.—Hiccough. Nausea, every morning, before breakfast. °Constant nausea. °Nausea when riding in a carriage. ♦Nausea in the afternoon, with sour eructations.— Loathing at the sight of food.—* Water-brash every other day, griping in the pit of the stomach, nausea. °Qualmishness, in the stomach, early in the morning. Inclination to vomit, with hawking up of phlegm. Nightly vomiting of food and bile, preceded by nausea and anguish about the heart. Vomiting of coagulated blood, and acrid acidity. Stomach.—Pain in the stomach, increased by stooping.—^Intense pain of the pit of the stomach, when pressing on it, °also with swell- LYCOPODII POLLEN. 797 ing.—Violent pain in the stomach after a meal, and after taking a slight cold, with chilliness and deadness of the hands. °Fullness in the stomach and abdomen. ♦Violent pressure in the stomach and abdomen, with pain to the touch and when breathing. Contusive pain in the stomach. Contraction and spasm of the stomach, as far as the chest—Lacerating and drawing pain in the stomach, with nausea and colic. Gnawing and griping sensation in the region of the stomach.—°Cancer of the stomach.1! Hypochondria.—°TeDsion around the hypochondria as from a hoop. Pain of the liver to the touch. °Pain in the liver after eating a good meal.—Pressure in the region of the liver. Sore aching in the right hypochondrium. Tension in the lower part qfthe region of the liver, with pressure. Grasping, as if with the hand, in the region of the liver. Violent cramp-pain in the region of the liver. °Chronic hepatitis. Abdomen.—Colic, early in the morning, after rising. °Pain above the umbilicus, when touching the part. ♦Aching in the epigastrium, as if caused by flatulence. Pressure in the abdomen, with drawing pain. ♦Pressure and cutting in the abdomen, before dinner. Weight in the abdomen, as from a load. *Full, distended abdomen, and cold feet.—Tension in the hypogastrium. Spasmodic contraction in the ab- domen. Griping and pinching around the umbilicus. °Griping lacerating in the hypogastrium, with arrest of breath. °Sticking pinching from the bladder to the urethra, in the evening, in bed. ♦Cutting colic, previous to stool. Cutting in the abdomen, about midnight, with vomiting and diarrhoea. ♦Cutting in the epigastrium, -every forenoon. °Lacerating in both sides of the abdomen and in the groins, extending into the thighs.—^Drawing pain in the ab- domen, also with pressure. Drawing colic. °Indurations in the abdomen. Burning in the abdomen.—^Lacerating stitches in the hernial region. Red swelling in the groin, painful during motion, and when touching it, as from subcutaneous ulceration. °Inguinal hernia. Small glandular swellings in the groins. ^Grumbling and gurgling in the abdomen. Stool.—♦Sluggish stool. ^Ineffectual urging, °with hard stool. ♦Desire for stool only in the evening, with distended abdomen. ♦Little stool, with sensation as if much remained behind, followed by excessive and painful accumulation of flatulence. Inaction of the rectum at stool. ♦Difficulty in passing stool. Tenesmus in the morn- ing; diarrhoea in the afternoon. Diarrhoea, with colic, generally early in the morning. Pale fetid stool.—Blood with stool. Ilamor- rhage from the rectum, even with soft stool. Burning at the rectum 798 LYCOPODII POLLEN. during stool. Violent contractive pain in the perinaum for many hours, after scanty, hard stool. Stool is followed by abdominal and uterine spasms across the abdomen. After stool, heat and pressing sensation in the head, and lassitude of the thighs.—Distention and protrusion of the varices. Aching, with pressure on the rectum, with cramp-pain in the abdomen. °Cutting in the rectum and bladder. Stitches in the rectum. °Tension in the anus.—^Itching eruption of the anus, painful to the touch. °Ascarides. Urine.—°Urging to urinate.—Frequent, foamy urine.—Urine with yellow or red sediment like sand. Dark urine, with burning.— Haemorrhage from the urethra, without pain, also with lameness of the lower limbs and constipation. Burning in the female urethra during micturition. °Itching in the urethra during and after mictu- rition.— Violent, but short drawing pain in the fore part of the urethra. Stitches in the bladder. ° Cutting in the bladder and rectum. Male Genital Organs.—Dropsical swelling of the genital organs. —Drawing and cutting in the glans. °Chronic orchitis. Soreness between the scrotum and thigh.—Great weakness in the genital organs and the neighboring parts, with pain in the perinseum when sitting. ^Diminution of the sexual instinct. °Male impotence for several years. *The penis is sma'l, cold, and remains relaxed. °Feeble erections, or ♦entire absence of erections.—*Excessive sexual desire.—Exhausting pollution. Female Genital Organs.—Lacerating stitches in the organs of generation. Violent burning in the vagina, during and after an embrace. Drawing in the groin, as if the menses would come on, in an aged female. °Chronic dryness of the vagina. °Itching, burning, and gnawing of the vagina. °Pressing through the vagina on stoop- ing. °Darting pain in the labia on lying down. °Discharge of wind from the vagina. Menses too early and too scanty. °Mcnses too long and too profuse. ° Chronic suppression of the menses, also by fright. —Previous to the menses : bloatedness of the abdomen; great heavi- ness of the lower limbs; cold feet; violent chilliness. During the menses: headache, nausea, swelling of the feet.—♦Profuse leucor- rhoea, at intervals. Milky leucorrhoea. Discharge of blood-red leu- corrhoea. °Cutting in the hypogastrium, previous to the leucorrhoea. —°Disposition to miscarriage, with varices on the pudendum. ? ?—■ °Varices, diarrhoea, or constipation of pregnant females. ? ?—Hard, burning nodosity in the mammse. °Soreness of the nipples, or spread- ing scurf on them.—°Stinging in the nipples.—°Chafingor constipa* tion of new-born infants. LYCOPODII POLLEN. 799 Larynx.—Frequent aching in the larynx, when swallowing. A violent, titillating scraping in the trachea, below the larynx. Dry feeling in the larynx. Hoarseness. °The voice is feeble and husky The chest feels oppressed. ^Rattling in the chest.—°Chronic catarrh °Grippe. ?—Short and hacking cough, from titillation in the throat *Irritation with cough, caused by deep breathing. Short and hack ing cough, with sore pain along the larynx.—Night-cough and hoarse- ness, with sore pain in the chest. Nightly cough, almost without any intermission.—^Dry cough, with wheezing. °Dry cough, day and night. ♦Expectoration of salt mucus. *Cough, with gray salt expec- toration. °Cough with expectoration and great weakness of the stomach. *Morning-eough, with green expectoration, -after violent pain in the chest. ♦Thick, white, yellowish expectoration, with vio- lent cough.—♦Expectoration of yellowish pus, with raw and sore feel- ing in the chest, after long dry cough. °Ulcerous phthisis.—♦Cough, with bloody expectoration. Haemorrhage, in a female affected with pulmonary phthisis. Chest.—Tightness of the chest, especially during motion, with aching in the pit of the stomach. ♦Oppression of the chest, °with shortness of breath when doing anything.—Asthma.—Tension of the chest.—Pressure in the chest.—Slight anguish in the chest.— Cutting pain in the right side of the chest. *Stitches in the left side of tite chest, also during an inspiration. Pain, as from a sprain, in the left side, in paroxysms. Pain of the chest as if bruised.—Burning rising in the chest, like heartburn.—Violent palpitation of the heart. ♦Sudden violent palpitation of the heart, after having become wearied, with yawning. Tremulous palpitation of the heart. Anxious palpi- tation of the heart.—Itching on the chest. Painful eruption on the chest. Hepatic spots. Back.—Pain in the small of the back, with pressure of the stomach and constriction of the abdomen. ^Stiffness or aching in the small of the back. ^Drawing pain in the small of the back. Pain in the small of the back, as if flesh were loose. Chilliness in the small of the back. Large swelling in the psoas-muscle, very painful when moving the body. Pain in the back, extending to the shoulders and the small of the back. Pressure in the region qfthe kidneys. Rheu- matic tension in the back, and the right side of the chest, more vio- lent during an inspiration. Pinching in the back.—^Drawing pain in the back.—Continual beating in the back.—Burning as of red-hot coal between the scapulae. Burning in the back.—Itching oi the back.—#Largc pimples between the scapulae and on the nape of the neck, with a burning sensation. Painful stiffness of the neck.—A 800 LYCOPODIl POLLEN. sort of paralysis of the cervical muscles. Swelling of the external and internal cervical muscles.—^Swelling of the cervical glands.— Goitre.—Painful eruption on the neck. Arms.—Swelling of the axillary glands. ^Lacerating in the shoulder and elbow-joints, when at re^t, not during motion. Paralytic pain in the shoulder-joint. Pain as if from bruises in the shoulder joint, scapula, and upper arm.—Nightly bone-pain in the arm ^Spasmodic starting of the arms. The arms feel paralyzed. Itching of the upper arms.—Nightly bone-pain in the elbow. Arthritic stiff- ness.—Large inflamed swelling, like erysipelas, on the fore-arm below the elbow, passing into suppuration like a boil. Lacerating in the arms and hands. Arthritic stiffness of the wrist-joint. Continu- ally cold hands. °Numbness of the hands. *Great dryness of the skin of the hands. Itching pimples on the hands. Involuntary twitching of the fingers, while asleep. Arthritic lacerating in the joints with redness and swelling. °The fingers become rigid during work. Stiffness of the fingers, from arthritic nodosities. ^Redness, inflammation, and swelling of all the joints of the fingers. Itching of the fingers. Legs.—Pressure on the hips, proceeding from the small of the back. Rheumatic tension in the hip. Paralytic pain in the hip-joint. Pain as from a sprain, in the hip, towards the small of the back, when ris- ing.—Drawing in the limbs from top to bottom, when at rest. °Nightly lacerating in the lower limbs. Cold and heavy limbs. ,:iPhlegmasia-alba-dolens. ?—Drawing and burning in the thigh. Pain as from a bruise, in the thigh, just above the knee-joint, in- creased by contact and motion. ^Stiffness qf the knee-joint. Ten- sion around the knees. ^Lacerating in the knees and ankles, with pain, even when touching them. Unusual lassitude in the knees. Sore pain in the knees and other parts of the limbs. Pain, as from a sprain, in the knee-joint. Swelling of the knees. *Itching in the bend of the knee, °also burning and biting. *Cramp in the calf °Contractive pain in the calves when walking. Sensation as if the legs were swollen and heavy. °Burning on the legs. Swelling of the legs extending beyond the knees, with large, red, hot patches, painful and burning, especially on the knee and ankle. °01d ulcers on the legs, with nightly lacerating itching and burning.—The ankles are painful at night.—°Cramp in the feet. Pain as from subcutaneous ulceration, in the soles of the feet. Burning in the feet. °Pain of the soles when walking. Great weight of the feet. Swelling around the ankles, °and of the ankles. °Swelling of the soles. The swelling if the feci increases to ascites, with swelling of the genital organs MAGNESIA CARBONICA. 801 oppressed breathing, and scanty micturition with pressing.—*Cold feet constantly. *Cold, sweaty feet. *Profuse sweat on tlie feet, until they become sore. °Cramp in the toes. 170.—MAGNESIA CARBONICA. MAG. CAR.—Carbonate of Magnesia.—See Hahnemann's " Chronic Diseases," Vol. IV.—Duration of Action: forty to fifty days. Compare with—Aeon., Ars., Bar., Bell., Bry., Calc, Carb.-a., Carb.-v., Caust., Cham., Con., Croc, Cycl., Fer., Graph., Hyos., Jod., Kali., Lye, Mag.-mur.. Nitr -ae, Nux-v., Nux-mos., Petrol., Phosph., Plat., Plumb., Rhus, Sil., Spig Spong., Squil., Staph., Sulph., Sulph.-ae, Verat. Antidotes.—Cham. ? Puis. ? Merc-sol., Nux-v. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Pains over the whole body. Stiffness of the whole body, early in the morning, when rising. Dartings in the nates, the thighs, the shoulders, and frequently the face. Parts become easily strained and sprained. Relaxed condition of the body. Sudden depression of strength when walking in the open air. Weak feeling, early in the morning, when in bed. Great weakness of the lower limbs. Languid and weary in the whole body, especially the feet. Hands and feet feel as if they had been broken and crushed. Great weakness of the whole body, with wretched appearance and inclination to vomit. A kind oi paralysis oi the left lower limb, with pain in the hip and knee-joint.—^Frequent sudden falling, with con- sciousness, when standing or walking. °Epileptic attacks. °Emacia- tion of children. Skin.—Great sensitiveness, especially to cold. Violent itching of the whole body. Burning prickings in different parts of the body. Vesicles and pimples, sometimes itching violently. Large nodosities, with stinging pain under the skin, in the axilla, and above the elbow- joint. Small, red, little elevated, smooth herpes, scaling off afterwards. Small boils on the forehead, neck, and chest, and especially the thighs. Sleep.—Frequent yawning, with sneezing. * Sleeplessness the whole night. °Sleeplessness from oppression of the abdomen. Rest- less sleep, with frequent waking. Anxiety at night, with sleepless- ness, and heaviness in the whole body. Great internal heat at night Toothache, at night, the tooth feels elongated, the pain being more lacerating than throbbing. Throbbing and drawing toothache, the whole night. Wetting the bed at night. * Anxious dreams at night. Anxious dream, with shrieks, weeping, and sobbing. Fever —Coldness in the evening, and chills, with shaking. Chil 34^ 51 802 MAGNESIA CARBONICA. Uness from morning till evening. Feverish shuddering down the back, with some nausea, without any subsequent heat. Thirst after dinner, afterwards chilliness, in the evening burning heat in the face, with cold feet and violent mental excitation. Profuse night-sweat. Fetid night-sweat. Moral Symptoms.—Trembling, anguish, and fear. Internal un- easiness, with trembling of the hands and absence of mind. Vexed. Ill -humor. Sad mood. Sensorium.—Dullness of the head from mental exertions. Reeling sensation in tbe head Vertigo. Fainting vertigo. Head.—Headache, as if brought on by stiffness of the neck. Vio- lent headache, early in the morning; in the afternoon, worse towards evening. Heaviness and dizziness of the head. Heaviness of the head, with yawning and nausea. Great pressure in the fore part of the head, with pain in the eyes. Drawing pain in the head. Vio- lent darting headache. Lacerating and throbbing, deep in the fore- head. Lacerating in the forehead, with stupefaction and heaviness in the brain. Deep dull stitch through the brain. Pulsative sensation in the region of the forehead. Congestion of blood to the head. Itch- ing of the hairy scalp. Increased falling off of the hair. Eyes.—Pressure around the eyes, towards evening. Lacerating in the eyes, followed by lachrymation. Burning and stinging in the eyes, which look injected. Inflammation and swelling of the lower eye-lid. Swelling of the eye-ball, as if dropsy of the eye would set in. Dryness and burning of tbe eyes. ♦Agglutination qfthe eye-lids, early in the morning. Gum in the eyes, early in the morn- ing on waking, with burning and dim-sightedness. °Obscuration of the cornea. °Obscuration of the crystalline lens. Mist before the eyes, especially the right. Photophobia, with burning in the eyes. —°Black motes before the eyes. Ears.—Lacerating of the ears. Great sensitiveness to noise. Tingling of the ears. Whizzing and ringing in the ear, *with dimi- nution of hearing. Roaring in the ears. Nose.—Redness of the nose and swelling. Scurfy formation in the nose. Bleeding from the nose and mouth. Violent tickling in the nose, followed by sneezing. *Dry coryza, -and obstruction of the nose, waking her at night. ^Obstruction of the nose, -frequently al- ternating with fluent coryza. Face.—Wretched, pale, earthy complexion. Nightly lacerating. digging, and boring in the malar bone. Throbbing pain in the antrum. Redness and burning of the face.—Heat in the face and hands, with redness, burning, and thirst, at noon. Hard nodosity on MAGNESIA CARBONICA. 803 the right temple, painful when touched.—°Diminution of the nodous tumors in leprous patients. Burning and tension of the lip. Fine, painful laceratings in the lip. Fine eruption about the mouth Hard, little nodosities in both corners of the mouth. Jaws and Teeth.—Toothache, with swelling of the cheeks. Tooth- ache every day, especially at night. °Nightly toothache, with ulce- rative pain in the teeth when touched. ♦Toothache, with drawing (lacerating) in the direction of the temples, °and in the whole side of the face, which is swollen, with stiffness of the nape of the neck. Drawing in all the teeth, with swelling and redness of the gums.— Darting toothache. °Throbbing toothache, with single stitches.— Burning toothache, in the evening when in bed, with pain as if the teeth were loose.—The teeth feel elongated and very sensitive. Looseness oi the teeth, with swelling of the gums. Mouth.—A number of miliary eruptions in the mouth, on the tongue and cheeks, bleeding when touched, and burning when eat- ing anything sour. Numbness of the whole inner mouth. Burning sensation of the palate, as if the skin were off. Burning saliva. Throat.—Sore throat, with burning and retching. Pain in the throat when swallowing. Burning and roughness in the throat. Roughness in the throat, with desire to vomit. Frequent rising of mucus in the throat, with roughness and dryness of the fauces. Soft fetid tubercles, of the color of green peas. Discharge of tenacious mucus, streaked with blood. Taste and Appetite.—Bitter taste in the mouth. Sour taste in the mouth. Little or no appetite or hunger. Desire for fruit and acid things. Thirst. Violent thirst. Gastric Symptoms.—After a meal, weakness, pale face, nausea, and dark-colored vomiting of the ingesta. Colic and distention of the abdomen, after a meal.—Unsuccessful eructations. Eructations tasting of the ingesta. Frequent eructations, with pain in the stomach. Sour eructations.—Frequent hiccough. Loathing, with- out any desire to vomit. Loathing and inclination to vomit, in the evening. Loathing, with pain and coldness of the stomach. Nausea and desire to vomit, with constipation. Inclination to vomit, and ac- cumulation of water in the mouth. Vomiting of bitter water. Stomach.—Pain in the stomach, with nausea, heaviness of the head, and ill-humor, without aversion to food. Pain in the stomach in the forenoon, resembling a feeling of emptiness and qualmishness Pressure in the stomach. * Contractive pain in the stomach. Ulca rative pain in the stomach, with great sensitiveness to pressure. Via lent stitch in tho pit of the stomach. 804 MAGNESIA CARBONICA. Hypochondria.—Pinching and contractive sensation, extending from both hypochondria towards the umbilicus.—Dull stitches in the right hypochondrium. Sensation as of something hard in the region qf the liver, with frequent pinching in the abdomen. Abdomen.—Colic, followed by watery leucorrhoea, occasionally. Violent colic, early in the morning, especially around the umbilicus. Great heaviness in the abdomen.—Feeling of repletion in the abdo- men. Great bloatedness of the abdomen. Spasmodic contractive pain in the abdomen, afterwards diarrhoea. Constriction and pinching it the right iliac region, very painful. Griping and digging in the ab domen, as if the menses would set in, with emission of a quantity of fetid flatulence. Painful griping in the abdomen, below the umbilicus, frequently intermitting, and afterwards reaching to the stomach.— Colicky pains in the whole abdomen, with pressing towards the geni- tal organs, accompanied by discharge of blood from the vagina. Colicky pains in the abdomen, more violent in the evening. Violent pinching around the umbilicus. Pinching and rumbling in the abdo- men, followed by green diarrhoea. Painful cutting and pressing in the abdomen and both groins. Violent colic, extending from the small of the back towards the pubic bones.—°Inguinal hernia. Stool.—^Inclines to be constipated. ^Retention of stool.—Stool hard as a stone, with pain in the anus. Hard stool in the afternoon, followed by burning at the anus. Soft stool, preceded by pinching in the abdomen. Diarrhoza. Diarrhoza, with violent cutting in the abdomen and pressing. Liquid stool, followed by burning at the anus. Discharge of a liver-colored fluid, followed by tenesmus and burning. Diarrhoea, with great weakness. Green diarrhoeic stools. A quantity of ascarides with stool. Discharge of ascarides between the stools. Cutting and pinching in the abdomen, previous to stool. Faintness after stool.—Desire for stool, with violent prickings in the rectum. Pressure in the rectum, between the stools. Sore pain in the anus, or as if ulcerated, when sitting or walking.—Painful varices of the rectum. Urine.—Inability to retain the urine. Pale or green urine. White sediment in the urine.—The urine burns while being emitted. Male Genital Organs.—Diminution of the sexual instinct. Fre- quent pollutions. Female Genital Organs.—Frequent itching of the pudendum. —Menses delaying ; preceeded by sore throat. Reappearance of the menses on the third day, with colic, they continue for several days. The menses are more profuse than usual.—The flow is most profusa when walking or standing.—The menstrual blood is dark and acrid, MAGNESIA CARBONICA. 805 dark, viscid, almost like pitch; thick and black, and appears before the time. The menses appear too soon. Previous to the menses, bearing down, cutting, and pain in the small of the back, as if it were contracted and bruised. Coryza, with obstruction of the nose. During the menses: liquid stool, followed by tremor of the limbs. Headache, with feeling of heaviness and heat. Dim, dry, burning eyes. Pale complexion. Violent colic ; cutting around the umbili- cus ; violent bearing down in the abdomen, at night, and early in the morning; frequent sneezing, early in the morning; frequent, but in- termittent headache; drawing pain in the small of the back; faint- ness ; exhaustion; the knees are painful when walking, as if they were bruised. Violent pain in the small of the back, as if it were bruised. Leucorrhaza after the menses. Thin, scanty leucorrhoea, with pinching around the navel. Leucorrhoea, like water. Smart- ing leucorrhoea.—Discharge of white mucus, preceded by abdominal spasms. °Toothache of pregnant females. Larynx and Trachea.—Contractive sensation in the trachea, with aching in the pit of the throat. Tickling in the throat, followed by a short cough. Hollow, dull cough. Fits of spasmodic cough, the whole night. During the cough, pain in the chest. Chest.—Short breathing when walking. Tightness of the chest, in the afternoon. Contractive sensation around the chest, the shoulder feeling bruised. Great oppression of the chest, with occasional deep breathing. Sudden aching in the chest, arresting the breathing.— Intensely painful cutting and stitches in the chest.—Palpitation of the heart.—Sudden, violent, sore pain in the heart, with distinctly audible cracking, accompanied by a tormenting nausea.—Pain as from bruises, in the muscles of the chest, during motion and when touching them. Back.—Violent pain, as from bruises, in the small of the back. Violent pain in the back, at night, in bed, as if the parts had been crushed, worst during motion, but also when at rest. Violent lace- rating and darting in the nape qfthe neck.—Stiffness of the nape of the neck. Arms.—♦Pain, as from a sprain, in the right shoulder, when moving the arm, also when in bed. Pressure on the shoulder. Para- lytic pain, as from bruises, in the left shoulder. Violent contractive pain in both shoulders, and lacerating down the back. °Nightly attacks of lacerating, with tingling down to the fingers, and inability to move the arm from pain.—Drawing, darting, weariness of the arms.—The elbow-joint is painful when bending the arm. Drawing pair in the hands. Burning in the palms of the hands. °The skin 806 MAGNESIA MURIATICA, of the hands becomes chapped.—Cramp feeling in the finge? joints Spreading blisters on the fingers. Legs.—Pain in both hips, generally when moving the limbs.— Tbe lower limbs, especially the knees, are very painful. Heavinesi and pain in the knees when walking. Weary pain in the knees when walking. Hard swelling in the bend of the knee, so painful that he is unable to extend the limb. Stitches in the knee-joint.— Painful drawing in the legs. Cutting pain in the tibia. °Boils on the legs.—Violent pain of the feet, as if they were too heavy and weary. Drawing pain in tb« "oles of the feet. 171.—MAGNESIA MURIATICA. MAG. MUR.—Muriate of Magnesia.—See Hahnemann's "Chronic Piseases," Vol. IV.—Duration of Action: seven weeks. Compare with—Aeon., Ars., Bar., Bell., Bry., Calc, Carb.-a., Carb.-v., Caust., Cham., Con.-m., Cycl., Fer., Graph., Hyos., Kali, Lye, Magn., Magn.-sulph., Nitr.-ac, Nux-v., Nux-mos., Petrol., Plat,, Plumb., Puis., Rhus, Sil., Spig., Staph., Squill., Sulph., Sulph.-ac, Verat. Antidotes.—Ars. ? Cham GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Burning tension in different parts of the body. 9 Laming drawing and lacerating in the limbs. Spasmodic nervous pain here and there, at times boring, at times contractive, accompanied by violent nervous headache, commencing in the fore part of the head, with drawing in the ears; sometimes lancinating laceratings in the head. °Liability to take cold. Great weariness in the limbs when walking in the open air. Great weakness, °as if pro- ceeding from the stomach. Weak feeling, with vertigo, early in the morning. The whole body feels painful, as if it were bruised. Heavi- ness and weariness of the lower limbs. Tremor of the hands and feet. Staggering gait.—Crraatf sensitiveness.—-Fainting fit at dinner, with anxiousness, nausea, and paleness of the face.—0Hysteric com- plaints and spasmodic turns. Characteristic Peculiarities.—The generality of the symptoms occur when sitting, and are generally relieved by motion. Skin.—Violent itching of the whole body. Formication of the whole body at night, when in bed, with shuddering over the face, arms, and shoulders. Itching pimples. Glandular swellings. Sleep,,—Frequent yawning, with a feeling of exhaustion in the body, and a want of disposition to intellectual labor. Drowsy, indolent, and averse to labor. Uneasiness in the whole body, as soon as she closes her eyes in the evening.—Shaking of the upper part of MAGNESIA MURIATICA. 80? the body, in the evening, when in bed, almost without chilliness or heat. Restless sleep, interrupted by frequent waking. Great restless- ness at night. Restless, sleepless nights, owing to violent pains in the small of the back. Talking and snoring when asleep. Anxious, vivid, and fearful dreams. Fever.—Chilliness, with shaking. Shaking chills in the evening, going off when in bed. Frequent chills, alternating with heat. Shudderings through the whole body, early in the morning, with icy- cold feet. Thrills of heat, with vertigo.—General increase of warmth, with thirst, in the afternoon.—Internal heat, with thirst, at night. Moral Symptoms.—Anxious and fearful, with ennui.—Peevish and out of humor. Sensorium.—Illusions of the fancy.—Reeling sensation in the hehd. Stupefaction and dullness of the head. Giddy and reeling sensation, going off after motion. Head.—°Headache every day .^-Headache early in the morning. Dull pain in the head, with sensitiveness of the scalp when touching it, and sore burning pain in the eyes, after dinner. Heaviness and dullness of the head.—Pain, as if the brain were pressing against the forehead. Pressure in the occiput. Compressive sensation in the head, from both sides. Violent lacerating and stitches in the forehead and temples.—Throbbing and beating in the head, with hot feeling and heaviness in the forehead. Griping and tumult (roaring) in the temples, in the evening after lying down, as if vertigo and loss of consciousness would come on. Increase of warmth in the whole head. Scalp.—Numbness of the forehead. Great painfulness of the outer parts of the head, when touching them, or when stooping. Eyes.—Aching in the eyes and the canthi. Pressure in the eyes. as if from dust, with dimness of sight. Pain as from bruises in the lower border of the orbit. Itching of the eyes. Burning in tlie eyes. Inflammation of the eyes, with pressure, biting, burning. especially when looking at the light; the lids were swollen and red, with nightly agglutination.—-Dim-sightedness, with burning of the eyes. Dim-sightedness, with vanishing of sight when looking at anything near. Ears.—Darting lacerating in the ear. Stitches in the ears. Sticking boring in the ears. Boring and ^pulsative throbbing in tho right ear. Violent roaring in the ears. Sensation in the ears as if something were stretched across, with diminution qf hearing, and burning and humming in the head. Almost complete deafness of both ears. 808 MAGNESIA MURIATICA. Nose.—Violent lacerating in the upper part of the nasal canities. * Burning of both nasal cavities as if sore. °Redness and swelling of the lower portion of the nose. *Sorepain qfthe inner nose. *Scurj in both nostrils, intensely painful when touched, with loss of smell. ♦Ulcerated nostrils. °Troublesome dryness of the nose.—Tickling in the nose. Oppressive sensation qf obstruction in the nose. Severe coryza, at times dry, at times fluent, with dullness of the head, and complete loss of smell and taste. Discharge of fetid, purulent, yellow nasal mucus. °Discharge of acrid, corrosive water from the nose. Face.—Pale, bilious complexion. Severe cramp-pain in the bones of the face. Tensive feeling in the face. Pimples and blotches on the face. Inflammatory swelling of the submaxillary gland. Teeth. —Drawing toothache. Frequent laceratings in the upper front teeth. The upper cuspidati feel elongated, and are very sen- sitive to pain.—The upper gums are swollen and painful, especially when eating, with throbbing in the gums. Painful swelling of the lower gums and cheek.—Bleeding of the gums. Mouth.—The inner mouth feels burnt and numb early in the morn- ing. Violent pricking in the tongue, frequently, followed by burn- ing, during a cold.—Rhagades in the tongue, with violent burning pain.—Tongue coated white, early in the morning. Great dryness of the mouth. Pharynx.—Sore throat, feeling raw at the entrance of the pharynx, with stitches when coughing. Stinging sore throat. Sore throat, worse when swallotoing. Dryness and roughness of the throat, with hoarse voice. Taste and Appetite.—Bitter taste. Sour or slimy taste, with coated tongue, early in the morning.—Increased appetite. Canine hunger and violent feeling of hunger in the stomach, followed by great nausea. Gastric Symptoms.—Acidity in the stomach, after dinner. Sour regurgitation of the ingesta. Bitter-sour eructations. Violent hie cough. Frequent nausea.—*Nausea early in the morning, after ris- ing. Frequent or constant nausea, with livid complexion, violent nervousness, and great inclination to weep. Stomach.—Pain and tremor in the region of the stomach, Fre- quent pressing in the stomach, extending to the throat and back. Violent pressure in the stomach, with nausea.—Tension in the region of the stomach, with ulcerative pain, especially when touching the parts. Pain, as from bruises, in tbe stomach, with painful sensitive- ness when touching it. Throbbing in the pit of the stomach, with dullness in the head. MAGNESIA MURIATICA 809 Hypochondk ia.—Sharp drawing in the region of the liver. °Ach- ing of the liver. °Chronic hepatitis. Abdomen.—Violent colic, early in the morning, with desire for stool.—Feeling oi pressure in the abdomen.—Drawing pain in the abdomen.—Contractive pain in the umbilical region.—*Spasms in the abdomen, -with violent pressing upon the rectum and the genital organs.—^Distended abdomen.—*Hard abdomen, particularly in the right side, -or painful when touched, with disagreeable pressure on the rectum. Pinching and cutting below tbe umbilicus, with shuddering over the back, afterwards heat in the head and desire for stool. Cut- ting and pinching in the epigastrium, with sensation as if something hard were lying over the stomach. Cutting in the whole abdomen. Digging sensation in the abdomen, as if diarrhoea would come on. Weak feeling in the abdomen. Fermentation in the abdomen. Hot feeling in the abdominal integuments, with burning at the anus, and sensitiveness of the rectum after stool. Stool.—Constipation. Frequent desire for stool. Frequent and severe pressure on the rectum, with colic. *Hard, difficult stool.— *Hard, knotty stool, with pain in the rectum when passing it. Hard stool, surrounded with streaks of blood. Soft stool, followed by burn- ing at the anus and tenesmus. Greenish papescent stools. Severe attacks of diarrhoea, with discharge of mucus and blood, and tenesmus of the rectum. °Chronic disposition to diarrhoea. °Discharge of taenia. Pinching in the abdomen previous to stool.—Burning at the anus, and pain, as from excoriation, during and after stool. Violent * pain in the abdomen, at every motion, after stool. Renewed desire for stool after an evacuation. Prolapsus-recti, during stool. Urine.—Pressure on the bladder, with scanty emission and burn- ing in the urethra. Urine pale-yellow, followed by burning in the urethra. The urine looks as if it had been mixed with yeast, and deposits a cloudy sediment. Male Genital Organs.—Excessive itching around the genital organs, and on the scrotum. Erection, early in the morning, in bed, with burning in the penis. Dull distressing pain the whole day, in the spermatic cord, the small of the back, and the testicles Relaxed scrotum. Frequent pollutions. Female Genital Organs.—♦Uterine spasms, °also extending to the thighs and occasioning leucorrhoea. °Scirrhous indurations of the uterus.—Some discharge of blood previous to the menses. Dis- charge of black clots of menstrual blood, more when sitting than when walking.—♦Leucorrhaza, -early in the morning after urinating. Pro- fuse leucorrhoea cortinuing almost without intermission. Leucorrhoea 810 MAGNESIA MURIATICA- immediately after stool. ♦Abdominal spasms, followed by leucorhoea Watery leucorrhoea. Thick leucorrhoea, followed immediately after by discharge of blood, fourteen days previous to the regular period of the menses. Larynx.—Hoarseness, with a sore feeling in the throat and chest. Sudden violent hoarseness, with dry cough and pressure on tbe chest during rough weather. Cough, with tingling in the larynx, with discharge of mucus.—Dry cough, mostly only evening and night. Short fits of cough, followed by dull aching pain in the chest. °Nightly spasmodic cough, from titillation in the throat. Ulcerative sore pain in the chest when coughing, evening and night. Violent burning in the chest when coughing. Chest.—Want of breath, when going up-hill. Contraction of the ehest, with oppressed breathing and dull stitches.—Tensive pain in the chest, most acute during a deep inspiration.—Congestion of blood to the chest.—Violent aching pain in the chest.—Constrictive pain in the chest and scapulae.—Considerable burning and throbbing in the chest.—Stitches in the heart, arresting her breath. Palpitation qfthe heart, going off during motion. Violent palpitation of the heart, with pulsation in all the arteries. Oppression of the heart. Back.—Pain in the small qf the back. Pain, as from bruises, above and in the small of the back and both hips, with sensitiveness of the parts. Contractive cramp-pain in the small of the back. Gnawing pain in the small of the back and the whole back,t in the evening, after lying down.—Paralytic sensation in the small of the back, in the evening.—Severe pain, as from bruises, in the back. Pain as from bruises, and burning, between the shoulders. Severe burning pain and constant itching of the back.—Tension between the shoulders and down the back. Lacerating between the shoulders. Arms.—Pain in the shoulder-joint, as if broken. Drawing and lacerating in the shoulder-joint, most painful during motion. Lacerat- ing in the shoulder. Throbbing pain in the shoulder. Burning from the shoulders to the fingers and scapulae. Lacerating in the npper arms, apparently in the marrow. Burning pain and continual itching of the lower arms. Lacerating in the hand. Legs.—Lacerating in the hip-joint. Lacerating and pain, as from bruises, in the hip, aggravated by walking. Throbbing in the hip. The bones of the lower limbs are very painful when walking. Tensive laceratings above the bend of the knee. Sudden and painful stitches in the thigh. Uneasiness and rigid sensation in the thighs. Lacerat- ing in the knees. Cramp in the calves. Paralytic pain, as from bruises, in both calves. Sweaty feet. Cutting in the heels. Burn magnesia sulphurica. 811 ing of the soles of the feet, in the evening. Tingling in the soles of the feet, when sitting. 172.—MAGNESIA SULPHURICA. MAG. SULPH.—Sulphate of Magnesia.—See Hartlaub and Trinks, "Annals," IV. —Duration of Action: days, and even weeks. Compare with—Calc-carb., Chin., Mag -mur., Nux-v., Puis., Sulph. Antidote.—Camph. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Lacerating pains in tbe limbs, parti- cularly at night.—Bruised feeling in the whole body, as if he would fall sick, or on waking in the morning, particularly in the back and arms, which feel sore the whole day.—Great languor with staggering gait.—Languid weakness of the feet, with trembling qfthe whole body. Characteristic Peculiarities.—Feels better in the open air.— The symptoms appear slowly, but strongly, then disappear for a time, and reappear with renewed force. Skin.—Itching blotches, either hard, or as from nettles, with burn ing after scratching. Sleep.—Irresistible drowsiness towards evening. Restless, scanty sleep. Frequent starting at night.—Violent colic at night, in bed, not allowing any rest, with moaning. Violent headache at night, in bed, preventing sleep, with colic, weak and exhausted sensation in the feet, and lacerating in the small of the back. Bruised feeling, which prevents sleep.—Confused, anxious, voluptuous, or frightful dreams. Fever.—Shuddering, with lachrymation, catarrh, and heaviness of the eyes. Chilliness with thirst. Shaking chills, particularly during the violent headache.—Fever, first chilliness in the evening until he lies down, afterwards sweat, with thirst, early in the morning. Alter- nation of chilliness and heat, at night. Alternation of heat and shud- dering, with alternate redness and paleness of the face. Mjral Symptoms.—Sad and weeping mood, with foreboding anxiety. Lazy, languid, drowsy. Sensorium.—Stupid feeling in the head.—Gloominess of the head, with heaviness, early in the morning, going off after rising.—Vertigo with dullness of the head. Head.—Bruised pain in the forehead, in the forenoon.—Pain in the forehead, as if full.—Pressure in the head.—Compressing sensa- tion.—Lacerating, particularly in the forehead. Frequent painful lacerating in the vertex.—Stitches in the head. Stabbings in tht 812 magnesia sulphurica. whole head. Hammering beating, first in the forehead, then in the whole head.— Violent rush of blood to the forehead, with sensation as if something heavy were pushing forward. Heat in the forehead, with burning.—Shaking of the brain. E^es.—Violent pain, particularly in the right eye, as if it would start out of its socket, on looking either right or left. Stinging in both eyes. Lacerating in the eyes, early in the morning, with dim- ness of sight. Burning qfthe eyes.—Lachrymation, with photophobia, also in the daytime.—Dimness of the eyes, with frequent drowsiness.— Dim-sightedness early in the morning, also with lacerating in the eyes. Ears.—Ringing in the left ear, so violent that the ear becomes sensitive. Nose.— Ulcerative pain in the right side of the nose. Burning in the left nostril, as from incipient catarrh, with discharge of a quantity of yellow mucus.—Bleeding of the nose.—Catarrhal sound of the voice, hollow, deep bass voice. Profuse coryza, with obstruction of the nostril. Face.—Lacerating in the facial bones and malar bone.—Burning of the lips, in the evening, with dryness. Teeth.—Toothache on entering the room from the open air, and in the evening, in bed, aggravated by cold or warm things, or by the contact of food. Mouth and Throat.—Mouth and throat are very dry, as if numb, early in the morning, with bitter-sweet taste.—Pain, with dryness in the throat.—Stinging in the fauces. Appetite and Taste.—Bitter taste in the mouth.—Loss of appe- tite.—Thirst. Gastric Symptoms.—Frequent eructations. Bitter eructations. Rising of water from the stomach, also with loathing and nausea.— Nausea, with inclination to vomit, and loathing, at night, with rest- less tossing in bed. Stomach.—Sensation in the stomach as if it had been deranged by unhealthy food. Trembling of the stomach, with subsequent gulping up oftvater.—Pressure in the pit of the stomach, with sensitiveness of the outer parts.—Burning stitches in the region of the stomach. Abdomen.—Colic with pain in the pit of the stomach and chest. Indescribable pains in the whole abdomen, a kind of darting pains.__ Violent darting around the umbilicus, aggravated by motion. Burn- ing below the umbilicus. Stool and Anus.—Alternation of hard and soft stools. Soft stools with burning at the anus, or with subsequent tenesmus. Liquid stools, w'th tenesmus, or morning and evening.—Diarrhoza, preceded MANGANUM. 813 by rumbling in the abdomen, sometimes accompanied with bloated- ness and emission of fetid flatulence. Discharge of ascarides at every evacuation. Urine.—Nocturnal micturition.—Diminished secretion of urine. Female Genital Organs.—Menses too late. Menses too short. Menses too early. Menses reappear in a fortnight, more profuse than usual, with thick, black blood. Discharge of blood from the vagina, between the menses.—During the menses: more heat than chilliness; great heaviness in the head; bruised pain in the small of the back, with pain in the groins when sitting or standing.—Burning leucorrhaza, particularly during motion. Thick leucorrhoea, profuse, like the menses, with bruised pain in the small of the back and thighs. Larynx.—Dry cough with burning from the larynx beyond the pit of the stomach. Fatiguing dry cough in the morning, after waking Cough without expectoration, with pain in the chest and fluent coryza. —Loose cough, with soreness in the mouth and throat. Painful burning in the chest when coughing. Chest.—Oppression of the chest, with burning. Pressure on the chest at night. Pressure as from a load on the lower part of the chest, with shortness of breath.—Burning on the chest. Back.—Pains in the small of the back, with subsequent pain in the thighs ; nightly. Creeping itching, as from vermin.—Lacerating between the shoulders. Bruised pain between the shoulders, or ulce- rative pain.—Tension in the nape qfthe neck and between the shoul- ders, also with stitches. Arms.—Frequent twitching in the arms. Lacerating in the upper arm.—Violent lacerating in the elbow.—Violent trembling of the hands. Tingling in the fingers, going off by rubbing. Legs.—Lacerating in the hip. Heaviness, at times in the hip, at times in the small of the back. Nightly pains in the lower limbs, with pains in the small of the back.—Tension in the bends of the knees. Languid feeling in the legs. 173.—MANGANUM. MANG.—Manganese.—See Hahnemann's " Chronic Diseases," IV. Compare with—Am., Am.-mur., Calc, Coff., Con -m., Kali, Lye, Plat., Puis., Sabad., Sassap., Thuj., Verat. Antidotes.—Coff., Merc-sol., GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Pinching pricking in several parts of 814 MANGANUM. the body, especially in the interior of the thighs. Drawing, darting lacerating stitches, in various parts. Tensive or cramp-like drawing, and lacerating in various parts. Nightly digging bone-pains. All the parts are painful, when touched ever so little, as from subcuta- neous ulceration; chest and cheeks experience a feverish warmth. Head, hands, and feet feel swollen and enlarged, after walking in the open air. The whole body, especially the stomach, feels uncom- fortable, accompanied with ill-humor.—Languor, in every joint; the joints feel extended, with tremor of the limbs, and tremulous sensa- tion of the knee and arm-joints; with a feeling of anxiety, as if he would die. Characteristic Peculiarities.—Most of the symptoms occur in the night. Most of the symptoms become worse when stooping. The symptoms which have come on in the room improve in the open air. Many of the symptoms come on in the open air, and improve in the room. Skin.—Violent itching, with burning and small vesicles, or deep seated little blotches.—Violent burning over the whole skin, in the evening.—Itching herpes.—Unhealthy skin.—Soreness and rhagades in the bends of the joints.—°Chronic inflammatory swelling and suppu- ration of the little finger. Sleep.—Waking at four o'clock in the morning, with pinching in the abdomen, followed by soft stool. Confused, anxious, vivid dreams the whole night. Fever.—Shuddering over the back, with stitches in the head. Chilliness thewhole day. Chilliness every evening.—Shaking chills, early in the morning, with cold hands and feet. Violent heat in the head, with some chilliness over the rest of the body. $xi&o\en flushes of heat and redness of countenance and face, especially when stand- ing, without thirst. Irregular pulse, scarcely perceptible, now quick, then slow.—Anxiousness, with shortness of breath and profuse sweat all over. Night-sweat over the whole body, when waking. Moral Symptoms.—Discouragement.—Continued, restlessness. Sensorium.—°Diminution of the power of the senses. Weak memory. Absence of mind. Gloominess and dullness of the head, with general feeling of exhaustion, when sitting.—Vertigo, when sit- ting or standing. Head.—Megrim. Dull headache in a room.—Heaviness and pain- ful dullness of the head, with heat, relieved in the open air.—Stupe- fying, aching pains in the forehead. Dull aching of the occiput. Painful pressure over the whole brain. Contractive pain in the upper and back part of the head.—Drawing pain in the temples, ap MANGANUM. 815 parently in the bones. Contractive sticking pain in tbe whole fore part of the head.—Throbbing ulcerative pain in the right side of the occiput. Throbbing pain in the whole head.—Painful concussion of the brain, from shaking the head.—Congestion of blood to the head, when sitting, standing, walking, or lying, with hot feeling in the face, without redness or external heat.—Pricking stitches, lancinations in the scalp. Eyes.—The eye-lids are painful when moved.—Pressure in the eyes, while reading.—Bloated eye-lids.—■*Hot feeling and dryness of the eyes.—Dilatation qf the pupils. Contraction of the pupils.— °Dim-sightedness, with burning of the eyes in the daytime. Great short-sightedness. Her sight vanishes after looking at an object for a long time. Fiery sparks, resembling wheels, when closing the eyes, looking black as soon as he looks at a light. Ear.—Otalgia in the left ear. The ear feels painful when touched. Dull sticking pain in the ear, whenever he talks. Scraping stinging in the region of the tympanum.—Pressive, contractive feeling in the parotid glands. ^Deafness, as if the ears were closed with the hand. —°Whizzing and rushing in the ear. °Report on blowing the nose and swallowing. Nose.__Painful crampy lacerating between the root of the nose and eye-brow.—Coryza. Violent dry coryza. Dry coryza, with red, inflamed, sore nose and upper lip, in the evening. Face.—Face wretched, pah, and sunken. Pain in the region of the malar bone. Cramp-pain in both upper and lower jaws after eat- ing.— Sore pain, as from excoriation, in the lower jaw. Dry parched lips, with shrivelled skin. Teeth.—Violent toothache. The tooth is painfully sensitive, as if ulcerated, when touched ever so slightly.—Drawing-lacerating toothache. Mouth.—Burning vesicles on the left side of the ton.gue—Dryness of the palate and lips.—Accumulation of Utter water in the mouth, with inclination to vomit. Ptyalism. Throat.—Dry scraping sensation in the throat.—Great roughness of the throat, in the evening. Cutting soreness in the throat, between the acts of deglutition.—°Chronic sore throat. Appetite and Taste.—Oily taste in the mouth. Bitter taste. Sour taste.—Feeling of hunger in the throat, with a sensation »f pressure. Gastric Symptoms.—Eructations tasting of the ingesta. Sour burnirg, like heartburn, with inclination to vomit. Stomach.—Burning in the stomach, extending into tne chest 816 MANGANUM. Pressure in the pit of the stomach and on the chest, aggravated by contact.—Oppressive and contractive pain in the stomach.—Drawing and nausea in the region of the stomach. Abdomen.—Aching sore pain in the last ribs, increased by contact or motion.—Indescribable sick feeling in the abdomen.— Ulcerative pain of the whole abdomen.—Distention and bloatedness of the abdo- men.—Aching, or rather tensive pain around and above the umbilicus. Cutting in t/ie umbilical region, when taking a deep inspiration. Stool.—Intermittent stool. Constipation. ♦Rare, dry, difficult, 3also knotty stool. Pale-yellow, scanty stool, preceded by pinching in the abdomen.—Contractive pain in the rectum, when sitting. Urine.—Frequent desire to urinate.—The urine becomes turbid, and deposits an earthy sediment.—Cutting in the region qf the blad- der, while sitting, increased when rising or moving about. Genital Organs.—Voluptuous itching oi the corona-glandis.— Itching of the interior of the scrotum.—Menstrual discharge between the periods. Leucorrhaza. Larynx and Trachea.—*Rough throat, early in the morning, when rising from the bed, with a hoarse, hollow voice.—^Roughness qf speech. In the morning chest and breathing feel oppressed. Itch- ing dryness in the throat, bringing on a short and hacking cough, early in the morning. °Chronic roughness and hoarseness. Disposi- turn to cough early in the morning. Deep cough, without expectoration. Chest.—Bloody expectoration from the chest. Dull pain in the chest, when coughing. Bruised pain in the chest.—Contractive or sticking pain in the chest.— Warmth, with nausea in the chest, ac- companied by coryza.— Throbbing in the right half of the chest; resembling the palpitation of the heart, in the evening, when in bed. Palpitation of the heart.—Small tubercles on the mammae. Back.—Pain in the small of the back, when bending the body backwards.—Lacerating along the whole spinal column.—Stiffness of the nape of the neck. Drawing tensive stiffness of tbe nape of the neck, alternating with toothache.—The neck feels swollen and stiff, with pain in the muscles, proceeding from the teeth. Arms.—Pain as from a sprain, in the shoulder, and elbow-joint, with much yawning. Gurgling in the shoulder and elbow-joint, with pain when touched.—Excessive paralytic pain, darting suddenly into tbe arm, proceeding from the teeth. Weak arm. Tensive pain in the arm, and carpal joints. Pain in the arm-joints, in paroxysms. Morbid, distressing sensation in the arm.—Sudden weak feelino- in the upper arm. Sense as of digging in the humerus, in paroxysms, ,it night. Tension of the skin of the hands, as if they were swollen MENYANTHES TRIFOLIATA. 817 Legs.—Tensive, painful tubercles on the buttock, feeling sore when pressed, as if ulcerated.—Jactitation of all the muscles of the lower extremities, during the least exercise. Languor of the thighs and legs, with drowsiness. Darting pain above the knee. Bruised pain across the thighs.—The knees are unsteady and tremble. Smart- ing sensation in the tibia, as if bruised. Languid, weak feeling in the leg, from the knee to the tarsal-joint. Itching of the tibia.— The feet are heavy. 174.—MENYANTHES TRIFOLIATA. MENYAN.—Trifolium Fibrinum, Buck-Bean, Marsh-Trefoil.—See Hahnemann'* "Mat. Med Pur." Compare with—Aeon., Chin., Nux-v., Verat. Antidote.—Camphor. ? GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—°Chronic complaints from abuse of Cinchona. °Arthritic affections.—Jerking motions, in various parts at the same time, visible, but not very painful, more violent when at rest than when walking. Jactitation of small portions of muscles, here and there, at different periods. ♦Spasmodic tossing of the lower extremities. — Stinging-pinching, here and there.—Languor in all the limbs during rest and motion.—Great weakness of the whole body, with aching pain over the os-sacrum, when standing, in- creased by sitting. Weakness of the body when walking, accom- panied with chilliness all over.—Excessive activity of the vital functions, hurried motions. Characteristic Peculiarities.—The majority of the pains appear to be worse during rest and towards evening, they are relieved by motion and pressure with the hand. Sleep.—Lascivious, vivid dreams. Restless sleep.—Redness and heat of the face during sleep. Fever.—Coldness in the spine, with shaking. Icy-cold hands and feet, the rest of the body being warm. Coldness of the feet up to the knees.—Shuddering over the whole qfthe upper part of the body.— ° Intermittent fever, with coldness in the abdomen. Thirst and heat, especially in the face; shortly after, general chilliness, both without thirst.—Heat without thirst.—Pulse 52.—Sweat, in the evening, in bed. Moral Symptoms.—Weeping, sad mood. Anxiety about the heart Sensorium.—Dullness of the head in a room.—Vertigo on stooping and raising the head. Head.—Dull headache when leaning the head on one side. Con- 35 59 818 MENYANTHES TRIFOLIATA. tinned heaviness of the head. Heaviness, with pressure in the whole head. Pressure in the forehead, from within outward.—Aching pain in the head, more violent in the open air.—Headache in the temples, as if pressed together from either side.—Stupefying headache, especi- ally in the forehead, during rest and motion. Drawing pain the fore- head.— Gnawing pain in the vertex. Tensive pain around the sinci- put. Face and Teeth.—Redness and heat of the face during sleep. Heat of the face, with coldness of the extremities.—Visible twitch- ing of the muscles.—Tension in the jaws. °Pain and cracking in tho articulation of the jaw, when chewing.—Lips parched and chapped. Grumbling in the upper teeth. Eyes.—Pressure in the eye, with sensation of vertigo or of vanishing of sight.—Dull stitches in the balls of the eyes. Sensation in the eyes as if the eye-lids were swollen.—Burning over the left eye-brow.— Dimness of the eyes, only in the open air. Frequent ob- scuration of sight, while reflecting when reading. Flickering before the eyes, as if everything were jumping.—Contraction of the pupils, then dilatation. Nose.—Tension in the root of tbe nose.—Discharge of blood from the nose on blowing it.—Profuse fluent coryza tbe whole day. Ears.—Dragging pain in the ears.—Feeling of coldness in the in- ternal ear.—Discharge from the ears, particularly after measles. scarlet-fever, &c.—Slight humming before the ears, as of crickets.— °Cracking in the ear, when chewing. Mouth and Throat.—Increased secretion of saliva.—Accumula- tion of saliva in the mouth, with nausea. Dryness and roughness of the fauces. Taste and Gastric Symptoms.—Bitter-sweet taste in the mouth. —Sudden canine hunger. Drawing pain in the region of the heart after a meal. Frequent hiccough.—Great inclination to vomit, ac- companied with painful choking and contraction of the stomach. Stomach and Abdomen.—Sudden attack of beat in the stomach, afterwards violent hunger. Contractive sensation in the stomach. Pinching, with a sort of pressure in the region of the stomach. Cutting, with pressure, in the hypochondriac region.—Tension and pressure in the abdomen. Pinching in the hypogastrium, also with urging to stool in the rectum. A cutting pain suddenly darts from the spine through the abdomen.—Pressure, apparently in the spermatic cord, which is painful when touched. Pressure in the glands surrounding the abdominal, ring, when bending the body forward.—Sore pain in the integuments of the abdomen when touching them. MENYANTHES TRIFOLIATA. 819 Stool.—Pinching in the abdomen, followed by a somewhat loose stool.—Pinching in the abdomen, followed by hard stool.—Intensely- painful itching in the interior of the rectum. Itching of the anus.— °Flowing piles. Urine and Genital Organs.—Frequent desire to urinate, with scanty discharge. Violent sexual desire.—The spermatic cord is painful to the touch, with pressure in the groin. Larynx.—Frequent titillation in the larynx. Hoarseness. Rough voice.—Spasmodic contraction of the larynx. Accelerated breathing, with increased pulse and heat and redness of the face. Dyspnoea. Compression of the chest, a disagreeable anxious sensation. Chest.—Violent stitches in the chest, only during motion.— Violent continuous stitch in the region of the heart, the stitches mul tiplied when arresting the breathing.—Pressure on the sternum, ac- companied with sharp stitches.—Compressive sensation in both sides qf the chest, with sharp stitches.—Bruised pain in the chest, when sitting bent. Back.—Bruised pain in the small qf the back, generally when sitting quiet. Drawing-aching pain in the small of the back, when stooping. Aching pain over the os-sacrum, when stooping. Con- tractive pain in the small of the back, succeeded by pressure.— Extremely painful lacerating between the scapula.—Feeling of heaviness in the muscles of the neck. Pressure with lacerating in the nape of the neck. Arms.—Fine stitches dart through the axilla on moving the arm. Burning, scraping sensation in the upper part of the shoulder.— Jactitation qfthe muscles qfthe upper arm.—Cramp-like pain in the muscles of the lower arm. Paralytic lacerating in the wrist-joints, especially when moving them. Legs.—Stitching, contractive pain in the region of the hip-joint. When sitting, *the thigh and leg are spasmodically jerked upward. —Drawing and bruised pain in the outer side of the thigh, small of the back, and loin. Crampdike drawing in the anterior portion of the thigh, when sitting. Numb, tensive aching, bruised pain in the outer parts of the thighs, when walking or sitting.—Pain as if sprained in the knee-joint.—Cramp-like pain in the muscles of the leg.—Pain as if sprained, when walking.—Pain as if sprained in the region of the ankles. 820 MEPHITIS putorius. 175.—MEPHITIS PUTORIUS. MEPHIT.—Viverra Putorius, North American Skunk.—See Nordamerit Journal.—Duration of Action: short. Antidote—Camphor relieves the pains for a short time. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Rheumatic pains of various kinds. Erratic pains, with desire to urinate. Paralytic feeling, particularly during the pains.—Uneasiness in the whole body, with excessively disagreeable feelings. Fine, nervous vibrations, reaching to the in- terior qf the bones, and causing a good deal qf anxiety.—Greatest languor and weariness, with pain of the muscles when touched or moved. Inclination to stretch one's self, with indisposition to do anything. Characteristic Peculiarities.—During the first days the symp- toms frequently alternate with their opposites, or with entirely dif- ferent symptoms, after which they become more permanent, until they disappear entirely in a few weeks. Skin.—Itching of the hairy scalp, face, and chin.—Pimples on the thighs, forehead, lower jaw, back, and nates. Sleep.—Frequent yawning, with lachrymation.—Drowsiness in the daytime.—Wakes in the night, with congestion of blood to the legs. Nightmare.—Vivid dreams.—Overwhelmed with sleep. Fever.—Coldness in the evening, with desire to urinate and colic. Warmth of the head, genital organs, and legs, at night. Moral Symptoms.—Nervous excitement, with warmth of the head. Sensorium and Head.—Dullness, with sensation as if the head became larger, accompanied with ill-humor and nausea.—Vertigo.— Violent headache, like a fullness pressing upwards. Pain above the eyes. Heaviness and dull pressure. Eyes.—Pain of the eyes on turning them. Pain as if something had lodged in the eyes. Pain of the eyes, as from over-exertion,— Prickings in the eyes. Heat, burning, and burning pressure in the eyes, particularly morning and evening.—*Rednessofithe conjunctiva, as if suffused with blood. °Inability to read fine print. The weak- ness of sight is generally accompanied with pain in the head and eyes. Ears and Nose.—Lacerating in the ear, jaw, and teeth.—Ery- sipelas of the ear, with itching, heat, redness, and blisters.—Dry nose. Bleeding from the nose. Teeth.—Sudden jerks in the roots of the teeth. Lacerating and drawing in the teeth. Appetite and Gastric Symptoms.—Coppery taste in the mouth MERCURIALIS perennis. 821 —No appetite in the morning.—After a meal: bruised feeling and drowsiness. — Eructations.—Nausea, with scraping of the palate. Nausea, with emptiness of the stomach, and sensation as if the head were distended. Stomach and Abdomen.—Pressure in the stomach and colic.— Pain in the region of the liver.—Rheumatic pain in the region of the liver.—Pressure and writhing sensation in the abdomen, as from a cold, with pressure on the bladder, feeling of coldness and shaking, relieved near the warm stove. Stool and Urine.—Stool rare, but thin.—Turbid urine, in the morning, after the evening fever. Genital Organs.—Warmth of the sexual organs. Itching of the scrotum.—Soreness of the female parts, and swelling of the labia. Larynx.—*Cough, -with fluent coryza and soreness in the chest, when reading loud. Chest.—Pain in the chest, in the region of the last true ribs, when touching or pressing the parts, particularly when coughing or sneezing.—Soreness in the region of the last ribs, and in the chest, from below and upwards, on taking a deep inspiration and moving the back. Back.—Weariness in the small of the back, early in the morning. —Pain in the back and the limbs, with lameness. Stitches in the spinal column, during motion. Arms.—Laming, drawing, rheumatic pains in the arms, relieved by motion. Lacerating and bruised feeling in the bones. Legs.—Drawing, rheumatic pains in the lower limbs, from the hip to the foot.—The knees feel bruised. Stitches in the foot. Arthritic pain in the heel. 176.—MERCURIALIS PERENNIS. MERCURIAL.—Dog's Mercury.—See "Neues Archiv," II., translated by Dr. Becker. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Strong feeling of weariness. Very tired and as if bruised all over. Lassitude. Remarkable drow- siness. A feeling of emptiness and weariness in the whole body. Great exhaustion and sleepiness, with dizziness and inability to work. Drowsy and dizzy. Skin.—Burning and itching of the skin or actual burning pain, shifting from one place to another, at times prickling. Sleep.— Uneasy sleep, full of dreams. 822 MERCURIALIS PERENNIS. Fever.—Cold over the whole body, with hot flush in tht face; pressure upon the chest and heavy breathing.— Fever ; in the evening on going to bed. Shivering in the evening. Feeling qf cold in the stomach.—Great heat in the head and on the hands; the veins in the hands are swollen, the face is red. Great burning or buzzing heat in the head and over the whole body. Moral Symptoms.—Excited. The head feels confused, as if lost in thought. Giddiness, as if from intoxication. Merry and cheerful. Sullen, quarrelsome, and peevish. Sensorium.—Dizziness in the forehead. -Vertigo succeeding head- ache. Dizziness, with heat in tbe bead. Disposition to giddiness when sitting. Turning in the head, pressing ache in the forehead, part of the occiput feels numb. Head.— Violent pressing pain in the forehead, in the morning. Pressing pain in the temples.—Constant pressure and tension in the head and forehead. Pressure in both temples. Aching pain in the forehead and eyes. Pressing headache, commencing in the right temple.—Painful tension in the forehead and eyes, subsequently extending to the temples and vertex. Tension and heaviness of the head, with a feeling of heat. Feeling oi heaviness in the head.—The scalp feels tense, numb. Lacerating and stitches in the head. Feeling of fullness and tension in the head.—Head as if inflated, confused.— Aching lacerating pains in the temple.—Burning sensation in the region of the vertex. Burning and digging in the parietes of the head. Heat in the head, with darkly-flushed cheeks. Eyes.—The eye-lids feel somewhat heavy and dry.—Feeling of weight, tension, and dryness in the eye-lids. Heaviness of the eye- lids, with aching and burning in the eyes. The eye-lu's are difficult of motion. Burning of the eye-lids, with dryness, watery secretion of the eyes. Burning heat in the eyes, with pressure. A slight suppuration of the eye-lids at the edges.— Vacant look. Staring of the eyes. Fixedness and aching in the eyes. Opaque appearance of the eyes. Dull eyes, as after sleep. Languid look, as if intoxi- cated. Smarting in the eyes. Watery dull eyes.—Difficulty of moving the eyes.—Pressure in the eyes and forehead. Pressure deep in the eyes.—Tension in the eyes and temples. Lacerating or aching pain in the borders of the orbits.—Painfulness of the eyes.__ Weakness of the eyes. Mistiness of sight. Dilated pupils, with great sensitiveness of the eyes to the light. Ears.—Aching pain in the left ear.—Pain in the ears. Nose.—Constant dryness in the nose. Moist, catarrhal nose MERCURIALIS PErENNIS. 823 Violent catarrh. Burning pain inside of the nose. Burning in tbe nose, sometimes with pricking. Face.—Feeling of coldness in the face.—Sensation of tension and numbness in the skin of the face. Pressure and lacerating above and in the region of the eye-brows. Great redness and heat of the face.—Great redness of the cheeks. Numbness in the left side of the face, with slight lacerating pains.—Very exhausted look, with blue rings around the eyes. Mouth.—Dryness in the mouth; with heat, without thirst.— Burning in the mouth.—Heartburn in the back of the throat, Tongue dry, swollen.— Tongue white, coated. Constant burning and smarting on the tongue.—Pricking pain in the tongue. Taste and Appetite.—Sour taste, like vinegar.—Disagreeable bitter taste, with heartburn and sickness. Teeth.—Lacerating in the under jaw and in the edges of the roots of the teeth.—The gums are somewhat reddened. Throat.—Scraping in the throat.—Roughness in the throat, and speaking as if there were catarrh. Great burning, astringent pain in the throat. Gastric Symptoms.—Violent nausea after previous heartburn. Violent tasteless eructations. Stomach.—Feeling of emptiness in the stomach. Feeling of dis- comfort, sickness, and distention in the stomach.—Pressing in the stomach, with feeling as if it were swollen. Abdomen.—Jerking, though not violent, griping in the belly. Griping pain in the region of the navel, which extends to the bladder. —Tension in the abdomen. Corroding sensation in the region of the spleen. Aching pain in the region of the spleen. Aching pain in the liver. Stool.—Griping in the bowels, and liquid stools.—Diarrhoza, with constant pain in the bowels. Stool somewhat inclined to diarrhoea.— Costiveness. Urgent pressing sensation in the rectum, with pressure \ and tension in the sacrum. Itching burning in the anus Urine.—Burning in the urethra. Genital Organs.—Menstruation, which usually lasts three days, now lasts only one da) followed by cramps in the belly and headache. Chest.—Pressure and painfulness of the chest. Aching in front of the chest, with pressure on the stomach and oppressed breathing. —Sticking pain in the left side of the ohest.— Throbbing in the right side of the chest, in the evening, when going to sleep.—Hot, almost burning breath.—Confused, undulating sensation in the region qfthe heart. Oppressive contraction in the region of the heart. Peculiarly 824 MERCURIUS. undulating and throbbing motion in the region of the heait, the prae- cordia, and the upper part of the abdomen; or a remarkable rolling and throbbing, with trembling and undulating, in all the blood- vessels, without heat. Repeated palpitation qf the heart, with op- pression. Back.—Dragging pressure in the sacrum, constantly. Pressing and bearing-down pain in the sacrum. Arms.—Lacerating in almost every limb, at times momentary, at others constant and shifting. On motion, constant pain in tho muscles. Dragging pain in the arms. Legs.—Aching lacerating pains in the thigh, legs, and feet. Dart- ing burning pain in the middle of the thigh. Aching lacerating pains in the shins. Burning in the sole. 177.—MERCURIUS. MERC.—Duration of Action: In regard to this subject Noack and Trinks offer the following remarks:—The effects of this metal, when given in large and fre- quently-repeated doses, develop themselves more or less slowly, sometimes reappear after long intervals, and frequently last days, weeks, months, years, and even through life. The intensity of its action upon the animal organism may be inferred from the fact that this agent, no matter in what form it is administered, is discovered in the solids and fluids of the organism in the original form of Mercury, provided its use is continued long and frequently. It has been found in the blood (Shubarth), in the urine (Cantu), in the bile (of those animals to which Quicksilver was given, Autenrieth), in the sweat (Brinkmann, Cruikshank), &e, atient wakes more weary than he was on lying down. * The pains which come on by keeping one's self confined in a room are relieved by a walk in the open air, and vice versa. Some qf the pains are relieved by lying down. Skin.—Burning itching over the whole body. Burning stinging in various parts of the body.—"Rash. "Blue spots on the body, as if ecchymozed.—°Boils.—^Chilblains, with burning itching, "or also with bleeding rhagades, and pale-red swelling.—° Ulcers with raised, pale-red edges.—"Chlorosis.? *Jaundice, -with aversion to food and fainting fits.—"Miliaria-alba, catarrhal cough, &c, after measles. Sleep.—Constant disposition to sleep and yawn.—^Excessive drowsiness in the daytime, -as if the head felt stupefied. ^Irresistible drowsiness after a meal. Sleeplessness until midnight, with a feel- ing of heat without thirst.—Symptoms at night in bed: uneasiness, particularly in the arms. "Light sleep at night, with frequent waking.—During sleep: ^starting at night as in the daytime when waking. * Violent starting on going to sleep. "Anxious, moaning babbling, early in the morning during sleep. Snuffling, whistling ■expirations through the nose. Anxious delirious fancies. "Soporose condition, with heavy deep sleep (in apoplexy).—* Delirious, fright- ful visions at night. Horrid dreams.—Anxious dreams and weep- ing during sleep. "Lewd dreams. Early in the morning in bed: Seething of the blood, with discouragement. Anxious mood. Difficult waking. Feels more weary than the eveningprevixms. After rising; diarrhceic stool, followed by languor, yawning, drowsiness, chilliness, dullness of the head, and, lastly, refreshing sleep. Fever.—Convulsive stretching. Long paroxysm of incessant $ NUX VOMICA. 89°. yawning. Headache early in the morning. The stretching and yawning are followed by spasmodic pains in the limbs, with chilliness and internal trembling. ^Coldness -at night, not even yielding ta the warmth of the bed. Great coldness, not even yielding to the warmth qfthe stove or qfthe bed. ^Coldness of the whole body, with blue skin, particularly on the hands, and blue nails.—^Chilliness -in the evening in bed, and at night on waking, as if she could not get warm. ^Chilliness, with dread of the open air, and great liability to take cold. ^Shuddering and chilliness after drinking. ^Shuddering and chilliness when touched by the least fresh air. Violent chilli- ness, with chattering of teeth. ^Desire for beer during the chilliness "Chilliness when uncovering one's self, even during the hot stage * Chilliness, with heat qfthe head and redness qfthe cheeks, "or with redness of only one cheek. °Chilliness, with rush of blood to the head. "Chilliness with headache. Nightly chilliness, preceded by violent drawing through the thighs and legs. "Chilliness, with stick- ing in the side and abdomen, pains in the back and small of the back, drawing in the limbs, stretching, spasmodic yawning, and urging to lie down.—Afternoon or evening fever. External or internal heat, ac- companied with chilliness and great weariness. Hot cheeks, with internal chilliness. Anxiety at night. Violent thirst.—Internal heat with a full pulse; the heat increases from hour to hour, without thirst; afterwards sleeplessness. Sensation of burning, internal heat through the whole body.—*Full pulse, during the hot stage. "Pulse hard, full, and frequent. Pulse small and quick, or inter- mittent. Collapse of pulse, with full consciousness. Very fetid sweats. Cold sweat.—Night-sweat. Sweat after midnight. Sour night-sweat.—Morning-sweat. Moral Symptoms.—^Sadness. "Melancholy. Inward grief and chagrin. Taciturn. Ill-humor, with lowness of spirits.—^Anxiety. Anxiety, followed by hurried breathing, accompanied by nausea. *'Hypochondriac mood. °Solicitous about one's health. * Apprehends death.—^Excessive sensitiveness to external impressions. *Noise, talk, strong odors, and bright light are intolerable. ^Violent palpi- tation of the heart after midnight, with extreme anguish. He is ap- prehensive, and inclines to start, the head feeling dizzy and intoxi- cated. * Disposed to quarrel and to feel vexed. *No desire to do any kind of work. Hysteric mood. Sensorium.—*He is incapable of thinking correctly. *He fre- quently makes mistakes in speaking.—^Insanity. "Delirium and foolish actions.' "Disposition to escape from home. "Runs about in tbe open air, like an insane man. *Gives wrong absurd answers 900 NUX VOMICA. °Mental derangement, occasioned by mortification, °by excessive study, "by suppression of the haemorrhoidal flux, "in the case of drunkards (delirium tremens).—"Muttering delirium. "Illusions of the fancy and frightful visions.—°Loss of consciousness, stupefaction. —"Weariness of the head from mental exertions.—°Dullness qf the head, with congestion of blood during motion, and indolence of the body. ^Confusion of the head, as from nightly revelling. *Stupefac- tion of the head. ^Intoxication and cloudiness. ° Ailments from in- toxication and nightly revelling.—° Chronic vertigo. * Vertigo, ivith obscuration of sight °and whizzing of the ears. * Vertigo, with loss of consciousness, -also with sensation as if the brain were turning in a circle. * Vertigo, with balancing sensation in the brain. * Vertigo, with staggering in walking, as if one would fall. *Fainting sort of vertigo.—"Apoplexy, with loss of consciousness, soporous conditior, and paralysis of the limbs, organs of deglutition, and lower jaw. Head.—"Headache every day. Headache early in the morning, as if he had not slept enough. "Headache, excited or aggravated bv stormy weather; °from taking wine or coffee; *when coughing 01 stooping; excited or aggravated by reflection; °from excessive mentai exertions; °from piles; from leading a sedentary life. "Catarrhal and rheumatic headache. ^Congestive headache. *Hemicrania, -particularly in the afternoon and evening, with languor and weari- ness, °or as if from pressing a nail into the brain, "and particularly from abuse of coffee, or in hypochondriac patients. ^Headache, with nausea and vomiting, "also vomiting of sour and bitter substances "Headache, with heat and redness of the face.—Stupefying headache, early, in bed, going off after rising. "Stupefying pain, particularly in the fore part of the head.—*Heaviness in the head, early in tbe morning. "Tensive aching pain in the forehead, particularly above the eyes. ^Pressure and sticking, -also particularly above the eyes, "or aggravated in the open air, and by raising the head. *Dis- tractive sensation in the head, "with pressure through the forehead and eyes.—Tensive headache, particularly at night or in the fore head. Crampy headache. Drawing in the head.—^Lacerating m the forehead. "Lacerating in the head, also particularly towards evening.—Headache, as if the brain were cleft. Lacerating pain in the head, extending to the root of the nose, and the upper jaw, aggra- vated by walking.—"Congestion of blood to the head. "Congestion of blood, with heat and redness of the face; "also with violent pains in the forehead; "with vertigo; -with fainting.—Groaning and swashing sensation in the brain when walking and running.__Draw- ing-jerking headache, early in the morning.—Headache in the outeT NUX VOMICA. 901 parts of the head. *The scalp on the top of the head feels bruised when touched. Red painful pimples or blotches on the hairy scalp and in the face. Painful small tumors on the forehead. Creeping in the forehead and vertex. Eyes.—"Nightly lacerating in the eye. ^Pressure on the upper eye-lids, especially early in the morning. "Pressure in the eyes, on opening them and looking at the light.—"Burning and twitching of the lids. The margin of the eye-lids is painful. ^Suppurating canthi. "Nightly agglutination of the eyes. *Burning in the eye's, without any inflammation. ^Painless sugillations in the sclerotica. ^Exudation of blood from the eye. Glistening staring eyes. Swelling of the eyes, tbe sclerotica being marked with red bands, and an ach- ing tensive pain being experienced in the eye.—Ophthalmia of vari- ous kinds. Photophobia, "also of scrofulous persons. ^Intolerance of the light of day, early in the morning, with obscuration of sight. Complete obscuration of sight, for a few hours, like amaurosis. Lu- minous vibrations out of the visual ray. Black and gray motes before tbe eyes, with stupefaction of the head. Presbyopia. Ears.—"Pains in the ears, worse on entering tbe room or at night in bed. "Lacerating in or behind the ear, extending to the face. Tingling hissing in the ears. ^Ringing in the ears. *Roaring in the ears, -early in the morning when rising.—"Otitis. ?—"Inflamma- tory swelling of the parotid glands. Nose.—Intolerable itching of the nose. Pain of the borders of the nostrils, as if sore and ulcerated. Ulceration qfthe anterior cor- ners of the nostrils. "Increased smell.—Sanguineous nasal mucus. Continued bleeding at the nose.—Discharge of an acrid humor from tbe nose.—*Stoppage of tbe nose, also of one nostril only.—*Fluent coryza in the daytime, and dry coryza at night. Continued heat in the nose and frequent incipient symptoms of catarrh.—Frequent sneezing. *Dry coryza, "with inflammatory condition of the frontal cavities and headache. "Dry coryza of infants.—Almost a specific for the ordinary catarrh in the inflammatory period which precedes the usual catarrh, particularly when there is a violent dullness of the head. Face.—Earthy, yellowish complexion. ° Yellowish appearance around the nose and mouth. *Pale> wretched look, "also with blue margins around the eyes and with pointed nose. "Sunken cheeks. DDistorted gloomy features. *Red, bloated face. "Dark redness of the face. "Alternate redness and paleness. *Redness and heat ol the cheeks, "or of one cheek only, with paleness of the other - °Sivel!i*ig on the cheek particularly pale swelling. * Swelling ana 902 NUX VOMICA. redness of the face.—"Lacerating in the malar bones, on one side of the face, with swelling.—Itching and creeping in the face. Formica- tion. "Dryness of the lips. Ulcerated corners of the lips. Painful peeling off of the lips. Jaws and Teeth.—Lock-jaw, with perfect consciousness. Draw- ing-lacerating pain in the jaws.—Toothache early in the morning, as if the gums were sore. ^Continuous painful soreness in the teeth, aggravated by fatiguing the head, and by reflection. Constant tooth- ache, *when walking in the open air.—Darting pain in the teeth, with sensation as if the gums were swollen. Darting pain in the teeth, pulsative, and accompanied with swelling of the gums.—Toothache after dinner.—Drawing toothache.—^Lacerating toothache; * brought on again by cold water.—Boring-gnawing toothache. *Stitching toothache, -in several teeth of either jaw.—"Sticking in a hollow tooth, with drawing boring.—Looseness qfthe teeth. ^Swelling qfthe gums. Swelling of the gums, with pain, with a throbbing sensation in the swelling, as if an ulcer would burst. Swelling of the gums, with drawing pain. "Putrid, bleeding swelling of tbe gums.—Swell- ing of the gums, with toothache, commencing with pressure. Mouth.—°Inflammation of the buccal cavity. °Inflammatory swelling, particularly qfthe velum pendulum palati, a,nd of the gums, with difficulty of swallowing and opening the mouth. °Aphtha. "Fetid ulcers in the mouth and fauces. °Stomacace.—"Putrid, cadaverous smell from the mouth.—Dryness of the mouth.—Accumu- lation of saliva in the mouth. Bloody saliva. Spitting of blackish, coagulated blood. Slimy mouth, the gums, tongue, and palate feeling raw and sore. "Tongue black and cracked, with bright red edges. "Dry tongue. * White tongue. "Brownish tongue. "Tongue coated with yellow or white mucus. Painful vesicles on the tongue.— ^Difficult speech, "also with heaviness of the tongue. Swelling qfthe velum pendulum palati, "also with pressure and biting. Painful feeling. Sore throat, as from a swelling in the region of the palate, not perceptible while drinking. Throat.—*Sore throat, with sensation qf swelling in the pharynx. —*Sore rawness qf the fauces, -only when inspiring cold air and during deglutition. Sore throat during deglutition, as if the throat were raw. Burning of the fauces, .as if occasioned by heartburn. Burning in the throat at night. Burning in the ozsophagus up to the mouth. Scraping sensation in the throat, and in the region of tht orifice qfthe larynx, as from rancid heartburn. °Sore throat, particu larly after taking cold. "Catarrhal sore throat. ^Swelling of the uvula, "also inflammatory, with stinging and pressure during and V NUX VOMICA. 903 DetiWweii the acts of deglutition. "Swelling of the tonsils.—"Choking and constrictive sensation of the pharynx. Taste and Appetite.—Sour taste in the mouth, -especially early in the morning. *Milk seems to sour upon his stomach.—Disagreeable taste and smell in the mouth and nose, almost like sulphur.—*Putrid taste low down in the pharynx.—*Putrid or bitter taste early in the morning. *Food has either little or no taste to him.—Constant want of appetite, "also with constant thirst. * Aversion to the ordi- nary food and drink. *Hunger, nevertheless aversion to food. "Great appetite, with vomiting of the ingesta.—During a meal: *heat in the head. "Sweat on the forehead and hairy scalp. A kind of faint- ing, with naussa and flush of heat, going off when lying.—After a meal: sick feeling, *and as if he had overloaded his stomach. Pressure at the stomach, -with return of the herb-like and metallic taste. Dis satisfied and sad. *Hypochondriac; the least cause affected him. Chilliness and coldness. Heat and redness of the cheeks, *with dullness of the head. *Drowsiness. *Sudden qualmishness; after- wards attack of vertigo and fainting turns ; lastly, eructations with- out taste or smell. * Vomiting, "with pressure in the pit of the stomach and burning in the throat.—"Ailments from tobacco.— Nausea, and inclination to vomit, after drinking, in the evening. Gastric Symptoms. — ^Frequent hiccough. "Regurgitation of food while eating, with hiccough.—^Frequent eructations. Bitter eructations before breakfast. *Sour eructations. "Putrid eructa- tions.—Gulping up of a bitter-sour fluid at night.—"Water-brash of drunkards.—Heartburn. *Nausea early in the morning. *Nausea after a meal. Qualmishness after a meal, as if one would vomit. "Chronic morning-sickness, with vomiting.—Palpitation of the heart, followed by inclination to vomit. Inclination to vomit immediately after a meal.—"Empty retching, also of drunkards. Violent vomiting. * Vomiting of sour-smelling and sour-tasting mucus, towards evening, with headache around the lower portion of the skull. "Tasteless vomiting. "Nightly vomiting of bile. "Morning-vomiting. "Vomit- ing after a meal, periodical. "Vomiting, with cramp of the calves and feet, lock-jaw, cold feet, anguish, and trembling. "Vomiting of blood, "also of black blood, or coagulated, with colic, pressure in the fore- head, and undulating motion in the chest. Gulping up of blood from the stomach. "Vomiting of pregnant females. Stomach.—Constant pressure in the region of the heart. *The region qfthe stomach is very sensitive to pressure. Sick feeling in the pit of the stomach, towards evening, as if nauseated. Constant pain in the stomach. ^Pressure in the stomach as from a stone. Aching ** 904 NUX VOMICA. pain in the region of the stomach, directly after a meal.—"Oppres- sion in the pit of the stomach, with excessive anguish at night. Press- ing in the epigastric region early in the morning, followed by cutting in the abdomen with continued nausea. "Feeling of fullness in the stomach and pit of the stomach, particularly after a meal. * Tension in and across the stomach, -followed by pain in the abdomen. ^Cramp- like pains in the stomach: *with pressure. *Contractive-cramping pains in the stomach. *Griping-laccrating pains, particularly after a meal, or before breakfast. ° Cardialgia from abuse of coffee or Chamomile.—"Painful feeling of contraction in tbe region of the pylorus, with difficulty of swallowing the food, which appears to rise again in the oesophagus. °Scirrhus and cancer of the stomach. ?— "Choking and gnawing in the stomach. ^Lacerating in the stomach. Lancinations in the pit of the stomach, also in the evening, even in bed. "Raw and sore pain in the pit of the stomach. * Throbbing in the region of the stomach, also particularly after supper.—^Burning in the region of the pylorus. *'Burning in the pit qf the stomach.— "Cardalgia with intense anguish,—"Gastris. ? Hypochondria.—*The clothes around the hypochondria and epigas- trium feel tight. ^Pressure as from incarcerated flatulence under the short ribs. Contractive pain in the hypochondria.—Cramp-pain in the left side, with qualmishness in the pit of the stomach.—°Tht region of the liver is sensitive to contact, and does not admit of lying on it. ^Throbbing in the region of the liver, -also as if there were an abscess. ° Tensive pressure in the region of the liver. *Stitches in that region, "also aggravated by contact and motion. °Hepatitis also chronic. ^Swelling and induration of the liver, also after abuse of China. *Jaundice, -also with aversion to food and fainting turns. Abdomen.—"Colic of pregnant females. "Colic after bathing. °Colic from suppression of the hamorrhoidal flux. °Periodical colic, setting in before breakfast or after a meal. *Colic as from a cold, -also with sensation as if diarrhoea would set in. Tensive pressure in the hypogastrium, on drawing breath, talking, or touching the part.—^Cramp-like pains -in the left side of the abdomen, with qualmishness, particularly in the pit of the stomach. ^Contractive colic, -particularly in the hypogastrium, or with griping and digging in the region of the uterus, attended with increased discharge of coa- gulated pieces of blood. Griping and clutching in the epigastrium, going and coming. Griping and digging-up in the abdomen. Griping and pinching around the umbilicus, after cutting. °Hysteric abdo- minal spasms.—Burning in the region of the orifice of the stomach Burning sensation in the pit of the stomach, coming from below NUX VOMICA. 905 "Burning in the abdomen.—*Distention of the abdomen, after a meal and after drinking. Excitement (seething) in the abdomen from below upward, without any heat being perceptible. ^Pinching in the abdomen: "with pressure after a meal, -as if from worms. Cutting pinching with nausea.—* Cutting in the abdomen, with desire to vomit and eructations. "Cutting in the umbilical region. Cutting in the abdomen, early in the morning, preceded by pressing in the pit of the stomach, and attended with constant nausea. Cutting every morning in the hypogastrium, with inclination to vomit, disagreeable sweetish taste in the mouth, languor, and great drowsiness. Burning cutting in the epigastrium, particularly during motion.—Stitch in the side during motion. °Retarded circulation in the abdomen, also with heat, burning, and pulsations in the abdomen. Heaviness in the abdomen, as from a load.—*Bruised pain of the bowels, -also in the loins, early in bed, with nausea.—*Pain in the abdomen, as if sore and raw, also at every step. "Enteritis. "Enlargement of the abdomen of children, with glandular swellings and consumption. *Rising of flatulence in the abdomen. Flatulent colic after stool. The abdominal muscles feel bruised when moving or touching the parts. The abdomen is painful when touched. "Peritonitis. ?— Pressing towards the genital organs in the abdomen. Sensation and indications of inguinal hernia. °Frequent protrusion of inguinal hernia.— "Frequent protrusion of inguinal hernia.—"Incarcerated hernia. "Femoral hernia. ° Umbilical hernia of infants, particularly from much crying. Stool.—* Constipation, ^with rush of blood to tbe head. "Consti- pation, with obstructed circulation in the abdomen and affection of the portal system. Constipation, as if from inactimty qfthe bowels ; "from sedentary habits ; *as if from contraction and constriction qfthe bowels; "of infants and from abuse of coffee. "Constipation of pregnant fcoiales.—^Ineffectual urging to stool, also frequent ana anxious. *Frequent urging, with tenesmus and pressure in the anus, and cutting around the umbilicus.—°Costiveness. *Large hard faces. ^Difficult stool, -also with burning. Hard and soft fasces. Diarrhoea, especially early in the morning and after dinner, dark-colored. The stool is enveloped with white mucus. Fetid diarrhoea. Discharges of thin green mucus. Colic, succeeded by dis- charge of dark-colored mucus, causing a smarting burning in the anal region.—*Frequent small diarrhazic stools, corroding the anus. —*Small stools, mostly consisting of mucus, and accompanied with urging and tenesmus. "Putrid diarrhoea. "Watery diarrhoea, after a cold, also with cutting and drawing from the abdomen and small of 906 NUX VOMICA. the back to the thighs. "Dysenteric diarrhoea, with discharge of bloody mucus and faeces, cutting in the umbilical region, and tenesmus of the rectum.—Alternate -constipation and diarrhoea.—"Pitch-like, bloody, shaggy stools. Stools lined with blood and mucus. "Undi- gested stools.—Previous to stool: pressing in the rectum. Griping in the epigastrium when she goes to stool.—At stools: he feels as if something remained behind. Stool every day# but with a colicky feeling in the abdomen. ^Discharge of blood, with sensation as if the rectum were contracted or constricted.—After stool: burning smarting as from piles. ^Ineffectual urging. Discharge of blood from the anus. Burning and pricking at the rectum, *with hamor- rhoidal tumors at the anus. Violent aching pain in the rectum, ar- resting the breathing, about midnight. Painful spasmodic stricture of the anus. ^Contraction and narrowing of the rectum, hindering the expulsion of stool. Creeping and titillation in the rectum and anus, as if caused by ascarides. Discharge of ascarides from the rectum. Itching of the margins of the anus, changing to a smarting and sore pain, as if caused by haemorrhoids. Urine. — "Retention of urine. *Painful ineffectual desire to urinate. "Painful desire to urinate, with discharge of the urine drop by drop, attended with burning and lacerating. "Strangury. ♦Nightly urging to urinate, terminating in discharge of blood and burning.—^Frequent inclination and urging, also in the afternoon. Painful emission of thick urine. Discharge of pale urine, followed by discbarge of a thick, whitish, purulent matter, with violently-burning pain. "Reddish urine, with brick-dust sediment.—"Haemorrhage from the urethra. During micturition: ^burning and lacerating pain in the neck of the bladder.—^Burning in the urethra. Itching in the urethra. "Spasmodic stricture of the urethra, with retention or difficult emission of urine. Discharge of mucus from the urethra. "Gonorrhoea. ? Male Genital Organs.—Smarting itching of the glans. Itching of the scrotum. Heat in the testicles.—°Constrictive pain in the testicles. °Inflammation and swelling of both testicles, with hard- ness and drawing up of the testicles, attended with sticking and spasmodic choking sensation rising into the spermatic cord. "Hydrocele. ?—Itching burning in the region of the neck of the blad- der. Nocturnal emission, with sexual dreams. ^Emissions -without erection ; afterwards languor of the lower limbs.—^Continued erec- tions, which are painful. Female Genital Organs.—^Contractive uterine spasms, a griping and digging, with discharge of clots of coagulated blood. °Congestion NUX VOMICA. 907 of blood to the uterus. Metritris, with burning heat, heaviness, stick ing, and pressure. "Prolapsus of the uterus from straining by lift- ing, with hardness and swelling of the os-tineae. Internal swelling of the vagina, resembling a prolapsus, with a burning pain, making contact intolerable. Burning in the pudendum, with desire for an embrace. "Inflammation of the labia. "Varices on the labia.?? Corrosive itching eruption on the pudendum.—*The menses appear too early, also with abdominal spasms. During the menses : nausea early in the morning, with chilliness and fainting turns. Debility in the afternoon, with headache. *Leucorrhcea, *also fetid, tinging the linen yellow.—In pregnant females: nausea and vomiting. "Desire to urinate.? "Retention qf stool. "Colic and abdominal spasms. "Toothache. "Headache. — Too violent labor-pains or after-pains. °False, spasmodic labor-pains, particularly when accompanied with ineffectual urging to stool. *Precursory symptoms of miscarriage, or disposition to miscarriage. "Metrorrhagia after parturition. "Phleg- masia alba dolens of lying-in females. ? °Suppression qf tlie lochia. 0Puerperal fever. The nipples are painful to the touch. Pain in both nipples, as if milk would be secreted in the breasts. °Soreness of the nipples in lying-in females.?—In infants: "ophthalmia-neona- torum. "Dry coryza. "Hernia. °Constipation. "Convulsions. Larynx and Trachea.—Catarrh with headache, heat in the face, chilliness, and a good deal of mucus in the throat. Dry, painful ca- tarrh in the larynx, -in the evening before going to bed. Catarrhal affection of the chest early in the morning. Tightness of the chest. Dry, painful catarrh, early in the morning. Scraping sensation in the chest, inducing hawking. "Grippe.—"Nux-v. is almost a specific remedy in the first stage of the ordinary bronchial catarrhs, with dry coryza and dry cough.—"Constrictive spasm of the larynx.—"Bron- chitis.—Roughness and scraping in the larynx, inducing cough. *Cough when moving the body. *Cough coming on while reading and reflecting. Cough, returning every other day with violence. *Cough after a meal. ♦Titillating cough, "a light hacking in the daytime, worse in the evening, seldom at night, and most violent in the morning. "Cough with roughness, during and after measles and rubeola. "Short backing, with soreness of the chest.—*Dry cough from midnight until daybreak. Dry, fatiguing, continuous cough, "also with vomiturition and vomiting of mucus about midnight. "Spasmodic cough with retching. "Whooping cough.—Cough, be- coming loose in tbe open air. *Acrid sensation in the throat, only while coughing, and causing a pain in the pit of the stomach. Sore stitching when coughing. "Sore and raw feeling in the throat-pit, 908 r*ux VOMICA. during cough. *Cough, occasioning a headache as if the skull would burst. *Cough, occasioning a pain as if bruised in the epigastrium. "Cough inducing vomiting. "Cough with danger of suffocation. "Cough with discharge of blood from the nose and mouth. "Rattling of mucus in the chest. Chest.—Fetid breath. Sour-smelling breath.—Oppression of breathing, occasioning a hacking. Shortness of breath. Asthmatic, constrictive sensation through the chest, when walking or going up- stairs.—Dyspnoea morning and evening.—"Anxious oppression of the chest.—° Suffocative fits after midnight. "Dry spa&modic asthma of full-grown people. "Asthma-millari. ? "Congestive dyspnoea.— "Spasms of the chest.—Painful pressure across the chest, arresting the breathing.—Drawing below the left chest, with anxiety ; a sort of oppression in tbe region of the heart, rendering breathing difficult. Drawing pain in the ribs. Burning in tbe chest, with anxiety. 0Congestion of blood to the chest.—Painful pulsative shocks in the direction of the heart. ^Palpitation of the heart, -when lying down after dinner. Seething of the blood, with palpitation of the heart early in the morning. Frequent small paroxysms of palpitation of the heart. "Palpitation of the heart, with nausea, inclination to vomit, and heaviness in the chest.— The whole sternum feels bruised when touched. "Rheumatic sticking in the muscles, even in the intercostal muscles. "Rheumatism of the muscles of the chest. Tension and pressure in the outer parts of the chest, as if oppressed by a load and as if the side were lame. Chilliness over the chest, with tensive pain. Back.—Beating pain in the small of the back, with eructations and chills. Contractive pain in the small of the back, afterwards extending to the side. The small of the back feels bruised, -worse during motion than rest. Contusive and bruised pain in the small of the back and knees.—Lacerating in the loins.—Drawing pain, commencing in the loins, and ascending the back, accompanied with a paralytic stiffness. "Drawing, extending to the shoulders. "Rheu- matic or haemorrhoidal pains in the loins, small of the back, and back.—Drawing lacerating pain in the back. ^Lacerating in the back, "also particularly in the evening. Burning lacerating in the back. Stiffness of the back. Haemorrhoidal stiffness in the back. Aching pain in the dorsal vertebrae. * Bruised pain in the back, increasing by contact or pressure, -as if ecchymozed.—Pain in the scapula as if sprained.—Drawing and bruised pain between the sea- pulac, especially when stooping. Constrictive pain between the sca- pulae.—Pain in the articulations of the cervical vertebrae. *Draw- NUX VOMICA. 909 xng pain in the nape of the neck, and as if oppressed by a load Paroxysms of lacerating pain in the nape of the neck. Arms.—Bruised pain in the shoulder-joint and scapula.—Paralytic pain in the shoulder-joint, the whole arm feeling tired and heavy. Drawing pain in the head of the humerus. Rheumatic pain in the shoulder.—Itching rash on the arms. Sensation as if the arm had gone to sleep. Pain in the arm, hindering motion.—Sudden sensa- tion of loss of strength in the arms, early in the morning. "Paralysis of the arm, with tumult and shocks in the arm, as if the blood would start out of the vessels. °Drawing pain in the arm, from below upwards, with paralytic stiffness, particularly at night.—"Rheumatio laming pain in the upper arm, increased by motion.—Contractive aching pain in the elbow.—Weariness of the fore-arms. Paralytic weakness of the fore-arms and hands.—Drawing pain in the hand, and afterwards in the elbow-joint. Deadness of the hands. Cold hands. Pale swelling of the hands and fingers. Itching of the finger-joints. #In a mild season of the year the fingers are red and swollen in various places, and affected with a burning-itching. Pain of the finger-joints, as after violent labor. Legs.—*Frequent dartings from the feet to the hips. Vacillation amd unsteadiness of the lower limbs. Heaviness and weariness of the lower limbs, and aching when walking. °Numbness and paralysis qf the lower limbs. Coldness of the lower limbs. Frequent jerking and twitching in the flesh of the thigh. Drawing pain in the abdo- men through the thighs. Paralytic drawing in the muscles of the thigh and calf, painful when walking. Painful tension in the thigh, ae if too short. Pain as after great fatigue, in the flesh of the thigh, with bruised pain when touched. Boils on the thigh, causing a violent sting- ing pain. °Sticking and drawing from the knee to the groin, aggra- vated by contact and motion.—Burning-itching rash on both thighs, during the menses. Tottering and giving way qfthe knees. Excessive weakness of the knees. Sensation in the bends qfthe knees as if they were too short. Stiffness and tension in the bend of the knee. Pain in the knees, as if bruised, during rest and motion. Painful swellingi above tbe knee. *Arthritic inflammation and swelling of the knee, also with formation of nodosities. Burning-itching rash on the km e. —Spasmodic drawing in the legs.—"Bright-red swelling of the letr, with black, painful spots.—Cramp-pain in the calves. Tensive pain in the calves. Lacerating in the ankle. The feet go to sleep. Pain- ful cramp-like contraction of the soles, when bending the legs Burning pain in the soles. Stitches in the soles of the feet.—*Itch ing burning qfthe toes as if frozen. 910 OLEANDER. 200.—OLEANDER. OLE AND.—Nerium Oleander, Laurel Rose.—Hahnemann's "Mat. Med.," III. Compare with—Agn., Chin., Cin., Coce, Ign., Nux-v., Puis., Sabad., Sulph. Antidotes.—Camph., Coce,? Nux-v. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Violent pressure in several parts of the body, gradually increasing and decreasing, from without inwards Cramp-pain in several parts of the limbs, for instance, in the ball of the thumb, feet, &c. Crampy pressure in several parts of the body and limbs, in the fingers and toes, as if the bones in those parts would be crushed. Skin.—The skin of tbe body is very sensitive; it becomes sore, raw, and painful merely by tbe friction of the clothes. Swelling. Gnawing- itching over the whole body, while undressing. "Itch-like eruptions "Herpes. "Scurfy pimples. "Tension through the whole body. "Painless paralysis. "Numbness and insensibility of the whole body. —Sick feeling and weakness in the abdomen and chest. Weak, lazy, indisposed te work. Faint-hearted and sinking. Sensation of weak- ness, as if he would breathe his last every moment. All his limbs feel weak and weary ; tbe knees are very weak. ^Fainting fits, "going off after sweating. Sleep.—Frequent yawning.—Sleeplessness.— Voluptuous dreams. Restless dreams. Fever.—Feverish shuddering all over, without thirst or heat, during rest and motion.—Chill all over, with cold hands and warm cheeks. Feeling of heat and chilliness of the whole body, without thirst.—The pulse varies; it is alternately frequent, rare, full, soft, small, and faint. Moral Symptoms.—Dullness of sense, out of humor. Sensorium.—Vertigo in the forehead, and staggering of the lower limbs, as if too weak.—Loss of consciousness.—The whole head feels obtuse. ^Dullness of the mind, he is unable to think. ■ Head.—Heaviness of the head. Sensation of tightness round the head, which occasions a feeling of stupefaction rather than pain.— Aching pain in the brain.—Aching pain in the forehead, with pressure from within outward. Pressure in tho upper bones of the skull, with sensation as if they were sore. Pain in the forehead as if it would split.—Slow painful beating in the forehead, like the beating of tbe pulse.—Boring pain in the whole brain.—Gnawing itching over tbe whole hairy scalp. "Scurfy eruption on the hairy pcalp.—■ OLEANDER. 911 0 Scaly or humid scald-head, with nightly itching and burning after scratching.—*The epidermis of the hairy scalp peels off. Eyes.— Dull pressure in the upper margin of the orbit, alternately increasing and decreasing. Dilatation of the pupils, followed by contraction.—Burning tension in both lids, even during motion.— Smarting in the eye.—Pressure in the eyes as from a hard body — Red swelling below the eyes, as if an eruption would break out. Ears.—Cramp-like drawing in the outer ear and underneath, as if pulled out.—Sharp aching pain in the interior of the ear. Pain below the ear and over the mastoid process.—Shrill, stupefying ringing in the ear. °Humid, fetid spots behind the ears, with red, rough, herpetic spots in front. Nose.—Numb feeling on the dorsum of the nose.—Stupefying dull pressure between the root of the nose and the left orbit. Face.—Wild looks; he looks pale, the eyes are surrounded with blue margins, and the cheeks are sunken. Burning itching of the forehead.—Stupefying compression in both malar bones, as if they were seized with pincers. Pressure on the malar bone, stupefying rather than painful, extending deep into the head and the root of the nose ; a tensive, stupefying, troublesome sensation. Violent aching pain in the temples. Teeth.— Constant toothache at night. — Cutting-aching pain during mastication. The molar teeth are sensitive during mastica- tion, as if decayed.—Strange feeling in the mouth, as if all the teeth were loose, the gums of both jaws being bluish white. Mouth.—White-coated tongue, with a feeling of dryness in the mouth, and with dry lips.—The power of speech is almost entirely lost.—A sort of burning in the oesophagus, down to the stomach. Appetite.—Everything tastes flat.—Great hunger and appetite. No appetite, but canine hunger.—Great thirst for cold water. Gastric Symptoms.—Frequent, violent, and empty eructations. Aversion to everything, as if it would make him vomit, or give him a diarrhoea.—Disposition to vomit from the stomach, and accumula- tion of water in the mouth. The inclination to vomit is succeeded by great hunger.—Nausea, also in the mouth, as if he would vomit. —Excessive vomiting, followed by thirst. Vomiting of a yellowish- green water of bitter taste. .General siclr feeling, with inclination to vomit. Stomach.—Sensation of emptiness in the region of the pit of the stomach, with a feeling of fullness in the abdomen. ^Sensation in the pit of the stomach as if he felt every beat of the heart through the whole chest. 912 OLEANDER. Aedomen.—Pricking pain below the umbilicus. Intermittent pricking in the abdomen, sometimes accompanied with indications of diarrhoea.—Pinching in the bowels.—Bowels feel as if weakened by purgatives, and as if he would be attacked with diarrhoea.—Gnaw- ing, internally, below and above the umbilicus. Painful sensitive- ness around the umbilicus. Stool.—Ineffectual urging to stool.—Hard and difficult stool. The first portion of the faeces is diarrhceic, the latter solid.—Scanty, thin, watery stool.—Burning at the anus between the stools. Urine.—^Frequent emission of copious urine, "particularly after drinking coffee.—*Brownish, burning urine, with whitish sediment. Larynx.—Titillation in the larynx, occasioned by the inspiration of air, and causing a short cough, which concusses the whole body. Chest.—^Oppression qfthe chest when lying. Sensation as if the chest were oppressed by something heavy, when walking, standing, or lying, occasioning a deep and anxious inspiration. Violent palpi- tation of the heart. Anxiety about the heart, with trembling of the whole body. Palpitation of the heart, with anxiety. Dull drawing pain above the heart, more violent when stooping, and continuing during an inspiration.—Stitches in the chest. Tensive stitch in the middle of the chest.—The outer parts of the chest ache. Back.—Pain as if sprained in the right side of the back.—Ten- sive pricking in the dorsal spine, when walking or standing. Violent and full, although slow pulsations of tbe carotids.—Dull lacerating pain in the left side of the nape of the neck and in the left scapula. Arms.—When raising the arms very high the shoulder-joint feels painful as if sprained.—Jerking in the muscles of the arm. Itch- ing sensation above the bend of the elbow.—Dull pressure on the fore-arm, as if occasioned by a hard blow.—Pulsative pain in the inner side of the fore-arm, near the wrist-joint. The veins of the hand are swollen, without the hand feeling hot. Intermittent, dull pressure in the palm of the hand. The hand trembles when writing. —Cramp-pain in the fingers. Legs.—Itching vesicles on the glutei muscles. Contractive pain, when walking, as if sprained, in the glutei muscles of one limb.— Weakness in the thighs and legs.—Cramp-like drawing in the knee, when bending it.—Feeling of painful weakness in the legs. Undu- lating drawing in the bones of the legs. Pulsative pain in the bend of the knee.—°Buzzing sensation in the legs and feet, particularly the soles. °Constant coldness of the feet. °Paralysis of the feet and legs. OLEUM ANIMALS. 913 201.—OLEUM ANIMALE. OL. AN.—Oleum Animale ^Ethereum; Oleum Animale Dippelii—See Hartlaub and Trinks' " Mat. Med." II. Compare with—Anac, Arn , Coce, Ign , Nux-v., Op., Phosph., Rhus, Zinc Antidotes.—Camph., Nux-v , Op GENERAL SYMPTOMS. — Cramp-like drawing in different parts.—Feeling of stiffness, particularly in the lower limbs, when walking. Lameness of the left arm and lower limb. Unsteadiness of the body and shuffling gait.— Weariness, with heaviness in the whole body. Weariness of the lower limbs, with burning of the soles, worse in the afternoon when sitting than when walking.— Languor, with indolence and constant inclination to sit, after dinner. Languor, with pulsations in the extremities. Great feeling of sick- ness in the whole body, with sadness and drowsiness. General ma- laise and prostration after a meal. Great languor and weariness, with trembling of the arms.— Weakness of the whole body, with tre- mulousness and lachrymation in the forenoon. Weakness qf the lower limbs, with trembling of the knees when standing. Weakness of the knees, with stitches in the knees and unsteadiness when stand- ing.—Fainting turn. Skin.—Itching of the whole body. Itching pimple in the bend of the elbow. Vesicles on the cheek with itching sensation. Sleep.—Frequent yawning without drowsiness. Yawning and stretching with drowsiness. Restless sleep with erections. Dreams. Fever.—During the whole forenoon he feels rather cold, without being chilly.—Chilliness over the whole body, early after rising. Shuddering over the hairy scalp.—Frequent chills.—Thirst before the chilliness.—Alternation of chills, with chattering of the teeth, and heat, in the evening, without thirst and sweat.—Dry, prickling heat, particularly in the face. Moral Symptoms.—Sadness. Taciturn and thoughtful, as if over- whelmed with grief. Ill-humor and peevishness. Sensorium.—Frequent vanishing of thought. Absorbed in thought. Great absence of mind. Frequent attacks of loss of sense, with van- ishing of hearing and sight.—Dullness of the head, as after a cold, with dullness of the ears and rheumatic drawing in the cheeks. Stu- pefying dullness of the head. Painful dizziness, early in the morn- ing, in bed. Painful sensation as of reeling. Giddiness and reeling sensation. 914 OLEUM ANIMALE. Head.—Pressure in the forehead. Lacerating in the temples.—- Gnawing in the occiput.—Slow pulsative beating in the right side of the head.—Sensation, upon entering a room, as if the blood wert rushing to the occiput.—Heat in the head.—Tension about the occi- put. Lacerating in different parts of the hairy scalp, followed by tension with sore pain as if the skin had been cut. Eyes.—^Pressure in the eyes, -with cutting and lachrymation "Pressure as from a grain of sand, particularly in the wind, with photophobia.—Drawing through the eye-balls. Stinging smarting, as from electric sparks.—Burning in the eye, with lachrymation or dim-sightedness.—Inflammation of the inner surface of the lids.— Lachrymation and dimness of the eyes, with burning Of the canthi and smarting of the lids.—Quivering of the lids, also spasmodic.— Dim-sightedness, also with drowsiness. Mistiness of sight, with shining points before the eyes. Ears.—Sticking in the ears. Boring in the ears, with dryness of the throat. Lacerating in the ears.—Itching in the ears.—Hum- ming in the ears, increased by loud noise. Nose.—Tickling in the nose. Itching in the nostrils. Pimples on the septum, with burning and oozing.—Dryness in the nose.— Coryza with sneezing. Dry coryza, Face. —Pale earthy complexion.—Drawing in the face, particu- larly in the mastoid process, in the evening, or in the malar bones, as if they would be raised by force. Cramp-pain in the cheek. Tingling in the face. Burning in the face.—Itching pimples and vesicles on the cheeks.—Chapped lips. Jaws and Teeth.—Creeping and quivering in the lower jaw. Cramp in the lower jaw. Swelling of the right lower jaw, with tension.—Lacerating in the teeth, proceeding from the ear. Mouth.—Dryness in the mouth and throat. Greasy feeling in the mouth and palate.—Itching burning of the tip of the tongue. Throat.—Choking and constriction of the throat, particularly morning and evening. Inflammation of the throat.—Burning in the throat, also coming up from the ozsophagus.—Parched feeling of the throat. Dryness with sour taste in the mouth.—Roughness in the throat, also with scraping and dryness. Appetite and Taste.—Sour taste in the mouth.—Diminished appetite.—Thirst. Gastric Symptoms.—Frequent empty eructations. Nauseating eructations. Burning eructations.—Gulping up of tasteless water. —Loathing with inclination to vomit.—N;:usea with sensitiveness of te stomach. Nausea with contractive pain of the bowels.—Con OLEUM ANIMALE. 915 stant inclination to vomit, with paleness of face. Sudden urging to vomit. Stomach.—Painfulness of the stomach when pressing on it, Bruised pain about the stomach, with pain or pressure.—Sensation in the stomach as when fasting.—Pressure in the pit of the stomach. —Contractive and constrictive sensation in the stomach. Sensation as if something were turning about in the stomach, with urging to vomit. Feeling of coldness in the stomach. Burning and heat, from the stomach to the chest," or attended with general malaise. Hypochondria.—Dull stitches in the region of the liver, during a walk in the open air. Pressure with sticking in the region of the liver and spleen. Abdomen.—Pinching in the abdomen, with grumbling. Cutting colic a few minutes before stool. Cutting motion from the abdomen to the chest. Cutting pains in the whole abdomen. Distention, with painfulness of the bowels, as in obstinate costiveness, during every motion of the trunk. Great fullness of the abdomen, in the evening, with feeling as if bloated. Gurgling, as if diarrhoea would set in, after dinner.—Drawing from the groin into the testicles. Stool.—Difficult stool, after long urging.—Papescent stools, even preceded by anxious pressing. Diarrhazic stools, in the evening.— After stool: burning at the anus, or pressing. Early in the morn- ing the bowels feel bruised.—In the anus: burning. Stinging. Tingling. Urine.—A good deal of urging to urinate, with discharge of only a few drops.—"Thin stream.—Greenish urine. Dense, flocculent sediment in the urine, which is less pale after dinner.—Itching in the urethra. Burning during micturition. Male Genital Organs.—Itching of the penis. Lancinating pain in the penis.—Swelling, at times of one, at times of another testicle, with pain on contact. Both testicles are drawn up and painful.— Pressing in the prostrate gland.—Nocturnal erections and emissions. Female Genital Organs.—Menses too early, preceded and accom- panied by colic.—Scanty menses, black blood, and languor of the hands and feet.—Leucorrhaza, consisting of thin white mucus.— Sticking and lacerating in the mammae. Larynx.—Hoarseness, with inability to talk loud. Roughness in the throat inducing a hacking. Cough with irritation. Frequent dry hacking. Chest.—Painful contraction in the middle of the chest.—Pressure on the chest, penetrating through the chest to the shoulders.—The whole «hest feels painful as if bruised.—Violent darting in the chest. 916 OLEUM JECORIS MORRHU.S. Cutting through the chest, in the evening.—Rushes of blood to the chest, with dry heat of the face. Anxiety in the c test, with shud- dering.—Pressure or crushing sensation about the heart. Back.—Pain in the small qfthe back, worse when sitting. Pres- sure in the small of the back. Pain as if sprained, particularly on stooping. Beating and pressure in the sacrum. Rheumatic pains, also in the scapula and axilla. Arms.—Rheumatic pain in the shoulder.—Lacerating in the upper arm.—Dull pain in the elbow, particularly during motion.—Violent lacerating along the arm to the wrist-joint and fingers.—Intensely- painful drawing in the hands.—Lacerating in all the fingers, in the direction of the dorsum of the hand. Drawing and digging in the thumb, as if it would ulcerate. Legs.—Drawing pain in the thigh, increased by motion. Bruised pain in the thighs, arms, and back. Lacerating in the thighs, above the knee. Tension in the bend of the knee, as if the muscles were too short. Painful stiffness in the knees, in walking. Lacerating in the knee, with ulcerative pain. Lacerating-drawing pain in the knees, shoulder, upper-arm, and side of the chest. Sticking in the knee.—Sticking in the sole of the foot. Cramp in the toes. 202.—OLEUM JECORIS MORRHU^S. OL. JEC.—Oleum Jecinoris or Jecoris Aselli, Cod-liver Oil. The following symptoms are taken from Dr. Bennett's work, pub- lished in 1841: " Nausea. Vomiting. Loss of appetite. Loaded tongue. In- continence of urine ; urine with bricky sediment. Increase of the menstrual evacuation. Increased diaphoresis. Perspiration pre- ceded by heat. Coldness of the body. Eruption of small red spots with itching. Chronic gout and rheumatism of elderly persons, with rigidity of the muscles and tendons, and the joints nearly inflexible. Rheumatism characterized by atrophy. Loss of sleep. Loss of vital power. Contraction of the muscles. Erratic pain in the joints with oedema. Rachitis. Scrofulous diseases of the joints. Caries. Tabes-mesenterica. Malacasteon. Phthisis. Hectic fever, with noc- turnal aggravations. Rheumatic pains in the sacrum and shoulder Haemoptysis. Irritating cough."—Ed. This drug has not yet been proved; the following pathogenetic effects have been sent to us by Dr. Neidhard, of Philadelphia. Run.—Redness of the skin over the whole body, at night, in bed, ONISCUS ASELLUS.--OPHIOTOXICON. 917 with much itching, disappearing in the morning. The ulcers (scro- fulous) begin to discharge a large quantity of mucus. Sleep.—Very vivid dreams. Eyes.—The sight improves every day. "She sees clearer and better. Nose.—Profuse discharge from the nose Urine.—Very brown and thick, with a strong smell of the oil. Genital Organs.—The testicles become small and the scrotum hangs down loosely. Diminution of irritability of the genital system. Stools.—Several loose evacuations daily. Every morning, dur- ing the evacuation of the bowels, an abundant secretion of mucus from the urethra, with burning pain. Arms and Legs.—Pains in the bones of the left arm.—Rheuma- tic pains in the knees and arms. Pain in the knee, particularly aiound the patella, increased on pressure, and sensation of heat on touching. 203.—ONISCUS ASELLUS. ONIS. AS.—Wood Louse, Milliped.—"Archiv," IV., 1. The symptoms marked (w) are from three of those Lice, taken in a glass of brandy previous to a paroxysm of fever. Dull heaviness of the head. Painful pressure above the eye-brows near the edge of the nose.—Boring pain behind the right ear, in the region of the mastoid process, with stronger beating of the arteries. —Pale, sunken, troubled countenance (w).—Spasm in tbe back part of the palate, as if it would close.—Thirst.—Nausea, followed by constant pressure at the cardiac orifice. Incessant vomiting.—Vio- lent colic with distention of the abdomen (w). Sudden urging to stool, with thin stool (w). Painful urging to stool and urine, with retention of both (w).—Burning cutting in the urethra, with unceas- ing tossing about (w).—Burning pain at the anus.—Erections and indisposition to work.—Hawking up of mucus streaked with blood. 204.—OPHIOTOXICON. QPHIOTOX.—Poison of Serpents.—See Hering's " Treatise on the Poison of Serpents."—The following symptoms include those from the Naja-tripudian»s marked (n.), and from Brazil Snakes, marked (b ) GENERAL SYMPTOMS. — Paralysis of the limbs. Chronic 918 0PHIT0X1C0N. paralysis, also particularly of the lower limbs. Apoplexy. °Th« flesh of serpents is a popular remedy for paralysis in Brazil.—Cachec- tic condition.—Languor and difficulty of motion. Chronic debility. Irresistible weariness (b.) Physical and mental prostration.— Fainting turns (also n.), preceded by nausea and accompanied by vomiting, vertigo, obscuration of sight, loss of sensibility, difficulty of swallowing, and loss of all the senses. Fainting, with spasms of the back (n.) Loss of sensibility, as if dead, also with lock-jaw (n.) Loss of sight and hearing, with inability to swallow (n.) Insensi- bility and prostration, with vomiting. Rigidity of the body, like that of a corpse, with loss of muscular power and vanishing of the senses and pulse.—Trembling of the whole body.—"The bile of serpents is a popular remedy for epilepsy. Distortion of the limbs and subsultus-tendinum. Complete rigidity, with entire conscious- ness.—The poison of serpents generally occasions: local swelling, with discharge, first of blood, then of an oily substance, and lastly of pus and slaver. Frightful pains, moving to and fro. Difficulty of breathing, with great heat, fever, and burning, colored urine. Head- strongness and imbecility. Vertigo and bleeding at the nose. Cold sweats, entire prostration of strength, and apoplexy. Skin, &c.—Itch-like eruptions.— Yellow color of the skin. Jaundice. Erysipelas. Small vesicles, or spreading blisters, round the wound. Blisters, also black blisters, on the skin. Blisters as from heat, with burning of the skin.—Pale, hard swelling. Swelling of the glands and lymphatic vessels, in the neighborhood of the wound. Swelling of the whole body, particularly the abdomen. Swelling with lethargy. "The bezoary of the snake is a popular remedy for dropsy. Large tumors and swellings on the body, particularly in the joints.— Ulcers. —Gangrene of the bitten spot, with an ulcer of large circumference. Purple-redness, with blueness and blackness of tbe bitten arm, ac- companied with violent vomiting, and excited, hard pulse.—In the wound: stinging, also in the whole limb, or violent sticking, with bleeding.— The blood ruslies out of the wound like a jet. The blood is at first red, then black and badly-colored. Venous blood is dis- charged from the closed wound. Discharge of purulent blood and lymphatic fluid. A bloody froth presses out of every orifice of the body. Symptoms of decomposition of the blood. Sleep.—Great inclination to sleep. Lethargy with loss of con- sciousness. Lethargy, with swelling and gangrene of the part, vomit- ing, convulsions, and pain about the heart.—Moaning and thirst dur- ing sleep. Fever.—Coldness of the skin, with feeble pulse, or with loss of OPHITOXICON 919 sensibility. Coldness of the limbs.—Pulse sm&„ and irregular. Pulse quick and scarcely perceptible Pulse collapsing, with conscious- ness. Pulse quick and feverish. Pulse animated and hard, with insensibility and swelling of the arm.— Violent fever and great heat, with malaise, headache, nausea, and inflammation of the wound, Violent acute fever, with delirium, attended with swelling.—Cold sweats, also very copious, local, or general. Sweats that afford relief Moral Symptoms. — Intolerable, oppressive anxiety. Anguish, with dread of death, or with thirst. Restlessness. Nervous irrita- tion, with crying on hearing the least noise. The pains are intole- rable. Sensorium. — Imbecility. — Sudden stupefaction. Stupefaction, with loss of sense, irregular motions of the limbs, cold, clammy sweat, and small, slow, almost imperceptible pulse. Stupefaction with loss qf sight; with foam at the mouth. Loss of consciousness.—Intoxi- cation. Head.—Aching pains in the frontal cavities and eyes.—Heaviness and fullness of the head.—Congestion of blood to the head, with vio- lent acute fever.—Swelling of the head. Falling off of the hair. Eyes.—Redness of the conjunctiva, with excessive drowsiness, heavy, languid appearance around the eyes. Protruded eyes. Dim eyes, without lustre.—"The fat of serpents is said to be good for pel- licles on the eye.—Obscuration of sight and loss qf sensibility. Failure of sight. Blindness. Ears.—Insensibility of hearing and sight. Haemorrhage from the ears. Nose.—Bleeding from the nose, and from every orifice of the body. Bleeding from the nose, with vertigo. Face.—Cadaverous features. Expression of anxiety in the face, with stupefaction. Distortion and twitchings of the facial muscles. Paleness of the face. Bloatedness of the face, with prostration and heavy breathing. Feeling of tension around the eyes, mouth, and nose, with bloatedness and formication of those parts. The face is red and swollen.—Swelling of the lips.—Lock-jaw, with loss of con- sciousness and intermittent breathing (n.) Mouth.—Inflammation of the inner mouth. Haemorrhage from the mouth. Foam at the mouth (n.) Constant urging to discharge a frothy mucus from the mouth, with stupefaction, insensibility, and difficult breathing. Violent ptyalism. Accumulation of mucus in the mouth as soon as he introduces anything into his mouth, attended with suffocative fits.—Thick white coating of the tongue. Tongue coated yellow, black, or trembling. Spasmodic stretching of the 920 OPIUM. tongue, with difficulty of drawing it back (v.)—The voice is becom ing extinct. Throat.—Paralysis of tne oesophagus, in animals (n.) Difficulty of swallowing, also with spasms of the back (n.) Violent spasm of the oesophagus, preventing deglutition.—Hydrophobia (b.) Appetite and Gastric Symptoms.—Raging thirst.—Hiccough.— Nausea, also with fainting (n.) Nausea and bilious vomiting. Nausea and diarrhoea. Nausea with coldness of the whole body. Vomiting. Spasmodic bilious vomiting, also with great bitterness. Vomiting, with paralysis ; with insensibility and stupefaction ; with swelling. Stomach and Abdomen.—Pains in the stomach, with anguish and vomiting; with haemorrhage, diarrhoea, difficulty of breathing, and paralysis.—Excessive colic in the umbilical region. Stool and Urine.—Bilious diarrhoea. Colic, with haemorrhage from the anus, bladders, ears, mouth, and nose.—Difficulty of urinat- ing. Paralysis of the bladder. Burning, colored urine. Urine with brick-dust sediment. Larynx and Chest.—Offensive breath. Difficulty of breathing, with vomiting and diarrhoza. Sufficating fits in a child, whenever anything was put into bis mouth, attended with accumulation of mu- cus (n.) Constant gasping for breath, with languor (n.) Difficult, slow breathing, with slow circulation (n.) Spasmodic breathing, with dim eyes, and other unfavorable symptoms ; afterwards profuse sweat. Painful breathing (n.), also with stupefaction and anguish. Oppres- sion of the chest.—Pain in the chest.—Beats of the heart small and trembling. "Affections of the heart. ? Dropsy qfthe pericardium. ? ° Enlargement of the heart. ? Back.—Spasms -of the dorsal muscles.—Paralysis of the lower limbs. "Bandaging the leg with the skin of a serpent is said to re- move cramp of the calf. Hard blue-red swelling from the tip of the toe to the knee, with pain about the malleolus. Swelling of the legs, with holes. Icy-cold feet. 205.—OPIUM OP.—Papaver Somniferum.—Hahnemann's "Mat. Med. Pura," IV.—Duration of Action: from a few hours to months. Compare with—Aeon., Bell., Bry., Camph., Cann., Chin., Cham., Cic, Coff., Colch., Con.-m., Croc.,' Dig., Hep.-s., Hyos., Ipec, Lach., Lact., Menyan., Merc, Mosch., Nitr.-ac, Nux-v., Phosph, Phosph.-ac, Plumb., Puis., Ruta, Stram., Tart., Verat. Awtidotes.—Of large doses : very strong Coffee, also by injection (Hahnemann). —Coffee with Lemon-juice or Vinegar'(Carmiuati, Murrav).—Vegetable acids, OPIUM. 921 according to Orfila, increase the effects of Opium as long as t has n sitiveness of the region of the liver. Stitches in the region of th« liver. Abdomen.—Drawing aching pain in the epigastrium. *Colic in the morning. Violent pain in the whole abdomen. Spasmodic pres sure, deep in the abdomen, near the genital organs. Occasional con- tractive pain in the intestines. Burning contractive pain in the abdomen.—Spasmodic griping and contraction, apparently in the uterus. Violent cutting in the abdomen, followed by discharge of liquid stool. Stitching colic, with pale complexion, chilliness, and headache, at noon. "Tearing in the abdomen, with urging to stool. Sore or inflammatory pain in the'addomen, extending to the genital organs.—Cramp-colic. Colic, as if diarrhoea would come on. Colic, followed by sour smelling diarrhoeic stool, leaving some tenesmus and burning. — Feeling of coldness in the abdomen. ^Burning -and pressure in the abdomen. ^Relaxedfeeling in the abdomen. Bloated, extremely-sensitive abdomen. Oppressive full ness of the abdomen. * Incarceration of flatulence, -with coldness of the body and heat in the face.—*Pressing in the abdomen, sometimes towards the small of the back, "or in the sides. ^Rumbling, -as if diarrhoea would set in, or painful, after eating. *Rumbling, -with emission of flatulence.—*Large yellow spots on the abdomen, on the side of the umbilicus. Great pain in the region of the inguinal hernia. Swelling of the inguinal glands. Tumor in the groin, with burning pain. Stool.—Constipation.—^Difficult expulsion qf faces.—Stool, with violent pressing. Scanty stool, followed by discharge of blood from the anus. Hard stool, with cutting in the anus. °Paralysis qfthe intestinal canal.—Scanty stool, followed by discharge of blood from the anus.—*Sqft stool, -with pressing and cutting in the larger intestines. *Papescent stool. Diarrhoea, with tenesmus of the rec- tum. Half-liquid stool. °Chronic diarrhaa. Diarrhoea, with expulsion of ascarides. "Slimy, "bloody, "watery, "exhausting diar- rhoea of phthisicky persons. "Typhoid diarrhoea. "Alternate diar- rhoea and constipation of old people. Green and black stools. "Undigested stool. "Involuntary stool. "Violent urging before stool. *Blood with the stool. Sharp scraping and burning at the anus, frequently after stool, with burning desire to urinate. Tenesmus after stool Violent burning at the anus and rectum. Lacerating in the rectum Burning at the rectum. Violent pain at the anus, as if the abdomen would be torn asunder. Cutting in the anus and rectum, especially in the evening. Gnawing and itching of th> PHOSPHORUS. 951 anus. Hamorrhage from the anus or rectum. "Mucous discharge from the anus.—°Tania. "Ascarides with stool. Urine.—Involuntary emission of urine. Acrid, offensively-smell- ing urine. Brown urine, with sediment of red sand. Urine, with a sediment of white flocculi. * The urine deposits a brick-dust sediment Cutting micturition, with discharge of blood. Smarting and burning Burning in the urethra. "Jerking in the urethra. "Stretching. Tension over the bladder. Male Genital Organs.— Ulcer on the prepuce. Violent drawing in the testicle. Drawing stretching pains in the spermatic cords. *Irresistible desire for an embrace. Impotence. Nocturnal emissions without dreams. Female Genital Organs.—^Stitches through the pelvis, -from the vagina to the uterus. Dull, lacerating pain in the pudendum, as if ulcerated. Menses too late. *Menses too early and scanty. "Menses too early, too profuse, and too long, also with pains in the small of the back and abdomen. Discharge of blood from the uterus between the menstrual periods. "Discharge of blood in pregnant females. "Leucorrhoea, urging to urinate, and weeping. Before and after the menses : swelling of the gums and swollen cheeks.—During the menses : toothache. Colic. Chilliness, with cold hands and feet. •Violent pain in the back, -as if bruised. "Cutting in the abdomen, with pain in the back and vomiting. Fever, two days in succession. Violent nausea, when sitting up in bed, sour vomiting, oppression of the chest, cold sweat on the forehead, and vertigo when walking. Cramp- like contraction of the lower limbs. "Fermentation in the abdomen. "Bloody expectoration. "Bruised feeling of the limbs. "Palpitation of the heart.—After the menses: great weakness, with blue margins around the eyes, and anxiety.—Milky leucorrhoea. Slimy leucorrhoea. Acrid, excoriating leucorrhoea. "Smarting leucorrhoea, drawing blis- ters. Reddish leucorrhoea. Viscid leucorrhoea, in place of the menses. Profuse leucorrhoea.—Stitches in the mamma. "Hard, painful nodosities. *Erysipelas, with swelling, accompanied with burning, stinging, and suppuration. "Abscesses also, with fistulous ulcers. Larynx and Trachea.—Irritation low down in the trachea, with oppression high up in the chest. "Painfulness of the larynx, im- peding speech. "Sensitiveness of the larynx, with burning.— * Roughness of the larynx and trachea, with hacking. * Hoarseness -in the morning. "Chronic hoarseness. "Aphonia. *Violent ^atarrh, with hoarseness. #Catarrh, with cough, fever, and dread of death. Mucous expectoration from the larynx.—°Croup, with (lis 952' PHOSPHORUS. position to relapses.—*Cough from titillation in the throat, "waking him at night. "Cough from tickling in the chest. "Cough from laugh- ing. "Cough, with rawness and hoarseness in the chest. "Night ■cough, with stitches in the throat. Sourish vomiting during the cough. Pain in the stomach when coughing. Violent dry cough, when sitting or lying, not at all during motion. "Cough, with chilli- aess all over.—Dry and hacking cough the whole day, and prevent- ing sleep.—Violent dry cough, with oppressive headache. "Cough for several hours a day, with pain in the stomach and abdomen. "Inveterate cough, as if from tubercles, or from chronic inflammation of the lungs.— Hollow cough, mostly in the morning, and also at night.—Loose cough, without expectoration, with pain and sore feel- ing in the chest. Panting cough, with slight oppression of the chest, and some expectoration. Fatiguing cough, with expectora- tion of tenacious mucus.—Continual cough, with discharge of mucus and tensive pain in the chest. Muco-sanguineous expectoration., when coughing, or with fatiguing backing, before and during the menses. "Greenish expectoration. "Cough, with saltish, purulent expectora- tion, particularly morning and evening. "Suppuration of the lungs. "Mucous phthisis. Chest.—"Loud and panting breathing. ^Difficulty of breathing, in the evening when in bed, or from tightness in the pit of the stomach. Panting breathing when ascending a hill. Loud, rattling breathing.—Anguish in the chest in the evening.—Frequent oppres- sion in the chest, with nausea. Sensation as if the chest were oppressed by a load. Oppression early in the morning, with palpita- tion of the heart, and nausea. Oppression, with chilliness and vio- lent headache. Tension and tightness in the chest, with dryness. Contraction of the lungs. Contraction of the chest, with pressure or crampy feeling in the epigastrium. Pain in the chest, especially during an inspiration. Severe stitches in both sides of the chest, during motion and rest. *Stitches in the side, under the ribs, "also with stinging when touched. "Chronic stitches in the side. Rush qf blood to the chest. Rush of blood to the heart, and palpitation, very violent after dinner.—^Palpitation qfthe heart, -with anxiety, morning and evening. "Palpitation in the daytime, when sitting. "Sore burning in the chest. Itching in the chest. Weakness of the chest. Bruised pain in the upper part of the chest, when stooping, moving, or when touching the part. Burning pinching below the right outer chest, with mounting of heat to the head. "Yellow spots on the chest. Back. — Pain of the os-coccygis, as if ulcerated. Pain in the PHOSPHORUS. 953 small of the back when rising after stooping. Paralytic weakness of the small of the back. "Pain as if the back were broken. Heavi- ness and weariness of the back, when lying. Periodically-returning intolerable pains in the back, hindering walking. Stitches in the lumbar vertebrae. Lacerating in the scapulae. ^Stiffness of the nape of the neck. Jerkings in the cervical muscles. "Swelling of the posterior cervical and the cervical glands. Arms.—^Swelling of the axillary glands, -with burning pain in the skin of the arms. Pressure and drawing in the shoulders. The shoulder is painful when touched or moved. Rheumatic pain in the right shoulder. "Pain of the arm on lifting it. Heaviness in the shoulders and arms. Drawing rigidity in the muscles of the arm. "Lacerating sticking in both arms and scapulae. Weakness of the joints of the arms, with distention of the veins of the hands. Para- lytic, sore pain in the arm. "Itching of the arm. "Scaly herpes on the arms. Lacerating in the upper arm. Pain of the elbow-joint as if broken. Lacerating and boring from the elbow to the shoulder. Lacerating in the wrist-joint, with paralytic weakness, in the even- ing. Pain as if sprained in the wrist-joint. — Intensely-painful stitches in the wrist-joint, during rest. Cold hands. *Tremor of the hands. Itching of the hands. Sudden swelling of the hand and fingers. Pain, as if sprained, in the finger-joints. °The tips of the flngers feel numb and insensible. Periodical contraction of the fingers, like cramp. Paralysis of the fingers. Legs.—Pain of the nates, as from subcutaneous ulceration.—Pain in the left hip-joint. Pain in the hips, as if sprained. Great weak- ness in tbe lower limbs. Cramp-like contractive sensation in both limbs and feet, in paroxysms. Great restlessness in the limbs, with icy-cold hands, especially in the evening. Drawing pain in the thighs, relieved by walking. Burning of the thigh, increased by contact. Pain as from bruises in the middle of the thigh. Trem- bling in the knees. ^Drawing pain from the knees to the feet Arthritic tension in the knees, as if sprained. Nightly stitching in the knees, in paroxysms. ° Arthritic stiffness in the knees, with para- lytic weakness of the legs. Cramp in the calf. "Twitching in the calves. Pain, as if bruised, in the periosteum qfthe tibia, painful when touched. A number of small blue-red spots on the legs, like petechias. Paralytic feeling in the feet. "Twitching of the feet, in the daytime. * Icy-cold feet. *'Swelling ofthe feet, in the evening, "Ulcerative pain in the soles. Chilblains in March. Pain of tht toe as if frozen. 954 PHOSPHORIC ACID. 213.—PHOSPHORIC ACID. PHOSPH AC.—See Hahnemann's " Chronic Diseases," V. Compare with—Asa-f., Bell., Chin., Con., Fer., Ign., Lach. Led., Lye , Mere., Nitr.-ac, Op , Phosph., Rhus., Sec, Sep., Staph., Sulph., Thv«j., Verat.—. Phosph.-acid is frequently most serviceable after: Lach. and Rhus—Aftei Phosph.-ac. are frequently suitable: Chin., Fer., Rhus., Verat. Antidotes.—Camph., Coff. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—° Arthritic affections, particularly when inveterate. °Padarthrocace (spina-ventosa. ? Swelling of joints in children ?). °Debility, from loss of animal fluids (blood, semen^J also with pain and only with burning. "Bad effects of onanism. °Bad consequence of too rapid a growth. °Bad effects of grief, cha- grin, care, anxiety, unhappy love. "Bad consequences of suppressed scarlatina or other exanthems. "Hypochondriac sufferings. "Scro- fula and rachitis. "Diseases of bones, also particularly paedarthro- cace, inflammation, and caries. °Bone-pains, and other sufferings from abuse of Mercury.—"Drawing and jerking lacerating in the limbs. —Intense pain in the periosteum of all tbe bones, as if scraped with a knife.—"Burning through the whole lower half of tbe body, although the limbs feel cold to the hand.—The upper and lower limbs go to sleep in the night; he is obliged to have them moved by others. The thighs and legs feel weak, with tingling as if gone to sleep. All the joints feel bruised in the morning, in the arms, lower limbs, and nape of the neck. Hands and feet feel bruised and paralyzed. Bruised, contractive sensation in the limbs. ^Bruised sensation in the hips, arms, thighs, and nape of the neck, as if caused by too rapid growth, -with single lancinations in all these parts at the same time, especi- ally when going up-stairs, and when beginning to walk.—Jactitation of the muscles, especially in the lower limbs.— Tumultuous move- ments in the blood. Great agitation of the blood.—Sensitive to cool air.—Emaciation, with wretched appearance and sunken eyes.— Languor of the body, inactivity of the mind, mental oppression. "Excessive weariness nf er walking.—* Weakness all over, also nerv- ous weakness, -with great disposition to sweat in the daytime. Epilepsy. Characteristic Peculiarities.—Pains caused by Phosphoric- acid remain unchanged by external pressure. The nightly pains can be relieved by pressure. He changes his place constantly ; the pains are less during motion than the rest. Skin.—Formication of the whole body. Violent burning prick- PHOSPHORIC ACJD. 955 ling in several parts, increased by scratching.—Soreness of the skin. The skin is insensible.—Red spots on the upper and lower limbs "Scarlet-like exanthems. "Erysipelas.—Rash over the whole body more burning than itching.—"Clusters of red, fine rash.—Itch-like pustules on the nates, balls of the toes, and toes. "Moist or dry herpes.—"Boils. "Ulcers, itching, inveterate, or flat, with dirty pus or indented base. Burning pain of the ulcers. * Smarting pain in the wounds, even in those of bones. Sleep.—Great drowsiness in the daytime ; sleeplessness at night. Falling asleep late in the evening. Anxious waking. During sleep: moaning.—Restless sleep, with dry heat. Anxious and vivid dreams. —Early in the morning: out of humor, weak, and drowsy. In the morning, pressure in the head and bitter taste in the mouth. Fever.—Feeling qf coldness. Frequent cold creeping, with chilly feeling and palpitation of the heart.—Attacks qf shuddering, in the evening, followed by exhausting sweat.—Shivering over the abdomen, with cold tips of the fingers.—Chilliness of the whole body, with drawing in the limbs.—Chilliness the whole forenoon, in paroxysms. Alternation of shiverings and heat in the evening. Chills over the whole body, with icy-cold fingers, no thirst. Heat and sweat all over, day and night, with violent desire for water. Pulse irregular, fre- quently intermittent. Pulse more full, the temporal and radial arteries being distended. — Profuse sweat.—Morning-sweat, with heavy dreams of dead persons. Profuse morning-sweat. Sweat the whole night, with hot feet and hot forehead. Moral Symptoms.—Lowness of spirits. Sadness. Anxiety and aneasiness in the whole body. Great irritation of the nerves, the mind feels oppressed, the body faint.—Out of humor, *not disposed to talk.—Taciturn, ^indifferent, "apathetic, indisposed to work. Sensorium.—Want of ideas and weakness of mind. Illusion qf the senses. Dullness of the head. Inability to think. Vertigo. Frequent vertigo from heat in the head, even when sitting. Head.—Violent headache, with stiffness of the nape of the neck. Violent pain over the eyes. Dull headache in the forehead and temples. Dull headache, with buzzing in the head. Dull painful pressure over the orbits. Hard pressure in the forehead or temples, almost as if bruised. Headache, as if the brain were pressed up- wards, with painful pulsative throbbing in the brain. Aching and stitching pain in every part of the head, at intervals. Compressive pain in the whole brain.—Lacerating in the vertex and occiput.— Pain of the scalp, when touching it, as if sore, or as if the hairs were pulled. Itching of the scalp.—Feeling of coldness on the hairy 956 phosphoric acid. scalp.—*Great falling off of the hair, "particularly after grief "Flaxen, withering, gray hair. Eyes.-—Constant pressure in the eyes.—Pain as if the eye-balls were compressed.—Itching in the eye.—Burning in the eyes, with burning tears. Burning and pressure in the eyes.—*'Inflammation of the eyes and stye on the upper eye-lid. "Inflammation with con- gested vessels towards the inner canthus. "Inflammation of the eye- lids. Faint, glassy, staring look. Sunken eyes.—Dilatation qfthe pupils. "Photophobia in the daytime. *The eyes are dazzled by looking at bright things.—Increased short-sightedness. Dimness of sight, with quick and short luminous vibrations before the eyes.— Black streak before the eyes. Ears.—Lacerating in the outer and inner car.—Stitches in the ears, with drawing pain in the jaws and teeth.—Ringing before the ears. Whizzing in the ears. Roaring in the ears. "Intolerance of noise and conversation. Nose.—Creeping and burning of the nose. Swelling oi the dorsum of the nose. ^Scurfs on the nose.—Purulent discharge from the nose.—Sensitive smell.—"Fetid smell from the nose. Catarrhal fever, with pain in all the limbs and loss of appetite. Face.—Blue margins around the eyes. Sunken eyes. Formica- tion in the face and in other parts. ^Burning pain in the skin of the cheek.—Itching of the whole face.—Large pimples in the face.— "Moist scurfs, herpes on the cheeks, lips, and in the corners of the mouth. "Dry lips. Ulcerated, deep sores in the vermilion border of both lips, with tensive smarting, even when not touched. Jaws and Teeth.—Pain of the lower jaw, as if it were torn out of its joint. Lacerating in the teeth, extending into the head. Boring- stitching toothache, ending with swelling of the cheek. Burning pain in the fore-teeth, at night. "The teeth become yellow. Soreness of the gums when touched, bleeding when rubbing them. "The gums stand off from the teeth. "Painful tubercle on the gum. Mouth.—Sore and raw pain in the mouth, between the acts of deglutition. The mouth is slimy, oily, and thirsty in the morning. "Tenacious, viscid mucus in the mouth.—"Smarting on the tongue when chewing solid food. Feeling of dryness on the tongue and in the palate, without thirst. Swelling of the tongue, with pain when talking.—"Nasal speech.—"Sore ulcerated velum. Throat.—Rawness of the throat, with pain from talking or swal- lowing. Sore throat when swallowing. Soreness of the left side of tbe throat, ulcerative, beating, tensive, and dry. Inflammation of the throat, with a smarting vesicle. PHOSPHORIC ACID. 957 Taste and Appetite. —Putrid, flat taste.—^Violent thirst. Loss of appetite.—"Acids occasion eructations and other ailments. Gastric Symptoms.—After a meal: dullness of the head. Pres- sure in the stomach as from a load, with drowsiness. Oppression of the stomach, with drowsiness. Load in the stomach like lead. Repletion and anxiety. "Sensation as if the stomach were balanced up and down. Sour eructations. *Nausea, as if in the palate. "Constant nausea, as if in the throat. Nausea unto vomiting in the region of the stomach. Vomiting of the ingesta. Stomach.—Painful oppression of the stomach when touching the pit.—Stitching, with pressure, in the pit of the stomach. Coldness in the stomach. Burning in the pit of the stomach, then moving to the left side. Hypochondria.—Pressing and pushing in the hypochondria, with great anguish. Periodical crampy sensation, with pressure under the short ribs.—Feeling of heaviness in the liver. Stitching in the region of the liver and spleen. Burning pain at one spot of the region of the liver. Abdomen.—Pressure in thje epigastrium. Painful pinching in the abdomen, like flatulent colic.—Crampy pain in the abdomen. Exces- sive pinching contraction of the intestines. Griping and pinching in the umbilical region, when sitting. Cutting pinching in the abdomen, as if diarrhoea would come on.—Cutting pain across the abdomen, in paroxysms. Tensive stitching pain in the whole right side of the ab- domen and chest, almost arresting the breathing. Cutting colic, with drawing in the pelvis.—"Burning in the abdomen.—Distention of the abdomen, with nausea. Tensive pain in the epigastrium, almost arresting the breath.—Rumbling in the epigastrium and abdomen. * Emission of a quantity of flatulence, "particularly after taking anything acid.—Swelling of the inguinal glands. Stool.—Frequent desire for stool. ^Diarrhoea. * White-gray diar- rhoza. "Slimy diarrhoea. "Watery diarrhoea. "Lienteria. Tenesmus after stool. Urine.—*Desire to urinate, -with s- nty emission. Urging, with burning during micturition. "Urging, with pale face, heat, and thirst "Irresistible desire to urinate. Enuresis, with cutting burning in the urethra, and cramp-pain in the small of the back. ^Frequent micturition. Milky urine, with bloody jelly-like lumps, or as if stirred with flour.—Fetid urine.—Burning during micturition, followed by gonorrhoeal discharge. "Cutting in the urethra. Burning during, and cutting previous to micturition. "Anguish and uneasiness before micturition. Frequent feeling of rawness in the urethra. Painful 058 PHOSPHORIC acid. spasmodic constriction of the bladder. Swelling of the orifice of the urethra. Male Genital Organs.—Itching stinging of the glans. Burning cutting of the glans, with painful pressure in the groins.—Drawing soreness in the testicles, as if excoriated.—"Pain of the testicles when touched. "Gnawing in the testicles. Itching of the scrotum. Formi- cation of the scrotum. Inflammation of the scrotum. Swelling of the spermatic chord, with dullness of the head.—Swelling of the penis. Violent erection. ^Frequent emissions, "also after onanism. Female Genital Organs.—"Meteoristic distention of the uterus —"Pain in the liver during the menses.—Leucorrhaza after the menses. Profuse yellowish leucorrhoea with itching, after the menses. Larynx.—Roughness of the throat, hindering speech. Violent hoarseness. Continual cough with irritation. Cough, occasioned by burning in the chest. Cough, inducing a desire to vomit. Violent cough with expectoration, causing a pain in the abdomen. Cough with yellow expectoration. Chest.—Breathing heavy and oppressed, with stitches between the short ribs, mostly. "Shortness of breath, with inability to talk for any length of time. Oppressive anxiety in the chest. Oppression and contraction of the chest, with stitches. Constrictive pain of the chest. Painful spasm in the chest and diaphragm. Pressure behind the sternum, impeding respiration. Sharp stitch in the upper part of the chest. Pinching stitch in the whole chest.—Burning in the outer parts of the chest. Palpitation of the heart when starting from sleep. Back.—Intense pain in the small of the back, a sort of drawing and pressing, sometimes lacerating. Intermittent, quickly drawing, aching pain in the small of the back, mostly when standing. Painful drawing in the dorsal vertebrae, as if bruised. Stitches in the region of the kidneys. Red pimples on the back, chest, and neck. Painful stiffness of the cervical muscles. Arms.—"Boils in the axilla. Drawing and beating in the shoulder- joint. Boils on the shoulder.—Weakness in the arm, in the forenoon, with trembling. "Pimples on the arms. Drawing in both arms, from the shoulder.—Painful jerking lacerating in the arms, fingers, and limbs generally. Paralytic crampy pressure in the upper arms, increased by contact. Drawing from the elbow to the shoulder.— Burning sensation in the elbow-joints. Pain of the elbow-joint when feeling it. Drawing cutting in the elbow, wrist, and posterior finger- joints.—The fore-arms are painful, as if bruised. Feeling of stiffness and crampy feeling in the wrist-joiM, increased by motion Rough- PHYTOLACCA DECANDRA. 959 shrivelled, dry skin of the hands.—Inflammation and suppuration behind the finger-nail. Legs.—* Boil on the nates.—Pain of the hip-joint, as if broken, when walking or when touching it. Painful stretching and pain as if bruised, in the hip-joint, worse during motion. Heaviness and para- lytic sensation in the hip-joint.—jPain of the thigh and legs when walking, as if bruised.—Heaviness, which soon becomes painful, :.n all the joints of the lower limbs. Rheumatic paralytic feeling of tho whole left lower limb. Pain as if bruised in the muscles of the thigh. Painful swelling of the glands of the thighs. °Itching ulcers on the leg. Languor of tbe legs, when walking. Nightly burning lacerating in the tibia.—Dull paralytic pain in the tarsal-joi.nt. Crampy pressure in tbe soles. Burning heat of the soles, and sore- ness between the toes. "Swelling of the feet. "Sweaty feet. Ulcera- tive pain of all the toes. "Chilblains on the toes. 214.—PHYTOLACCA DECANDRA. PHTTOL. DEC—Poke.—" Trans. Amer. Inst. Horn.," Vol. II. Compare with—? Antidotes.—Of large doses: Coffee seems to diminish the action, but does not stop it entirely ; Opium is said to be the best antidote.—Of small doses: Ign. ? GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Dryness of the fauces, most in the morning.—The pains in the head are chiefly in the forehead, and worse after dinner.—Dullness, giddiness, and vertigo.—The prominent feel- ing in the eyes is that of smarting.—Sensation of a lump in the throat. —The symptoms of the stomach, throat, and mouth are worse in the morning.—Griping pains, without diarrhoea.—The symptoms of the lower extremities are worse in the afternoon. The pains are some- times followed by itching and burning.—Transitory pains.—Neuralgia in the perinaeum in the middle of the night. The cough is worse towards morning. — Sudden translation of internal pains to the extremities. Characteristic Peculiarities.—The pains all partake of the nature of neuralgia ; they are pressing and shooting, sometimes sore, drawing, and aching. The pains are all made worse by motion and by pressure.—The pains in the extremities are always in the outer portions of the limbs.—The secretion of tears, saliva, bile, urine, and the menses is increased.—Vomiting, attended with but little distress in the stomach. Skin.—Suppuration of painless tumors.—Drawing in the cicatrices 960 PHYTOLACCA DECANDRA. —Eruption of spots on the chest of the size of lentils, elevated, with great itching. Sleep.—Yawning.—Drowsiness.—Sleepiness.—Restless sleep at night. Moral Symptoms.—Sense of entire indifference to life. Sensorium.—Sensation of soreness in the interior of the head, deep in the brain.—Dullness of the head. Transient giddiness.—Vertigo, with dimness of vision. Head.—Pains throughout the head; aching; dull feeling in the head; dull pain in the forehead; dull, steady, aching pain, principally on the forehead. Headache: with sickness of the stomach.—The pain is increased by looking down and by stooping.—Headache; slight fullness of forehead with constant gaping; heaviness in the head and especially in the temples.—Cold in the head.—Pressure : in the temples and over the eyes.—Sore pain : over the head, worse on the right side and in damp weather.—Slight constriction across the forehead.—Moving, transitory pains in various parts of the head. Heat in the head. Eyes.—Pressure in the eyes—Pressure over the eyes.—Sandy feeling in the eyes.—Soreness on closing the eye-lids. Reddish-blue swelling of the eye-lids.—Photophobia in the morning.—Dimness of sight.—Long-sightedness. Ears.—Pain in both ears, worse in the right one.—Irritation in one of the eustachian tubes.—Increased sftnse of hearing, with pain in the forehead. Nose.—Drawing sensation above the root of the nose.—Feeling in the nose and eyes as if a cold would come on.—Cold in the head. Face.—Paleness of the face.—Heat, with redness of the face and a sensation of fullness about the head, and coldness of the feet. Teeth.—Irresistible inclination to bite the teeth together. Mouth.—Tenderness and heat in the roof of the mouth and on the tongue.—Swelling of the soft palate. Pharynx and Throat.—Pressing pain in the right side of the throat.—Sore throat and swelling of the soft palate in the morning, with a thick white and yellow mucus about the fauces.—The throat feels very dry and sore.—Roughness in the pharynx.—Great dryness of the throat. Appetite and Taste.—Raging appetite.—Diminished appetite. The usual appetite remains, notwithstanding the nausea of the stomach Gastric Symptoms.—Eructations. —Constrictive feeling at the praecordia, with pressure in the temples. Sickly feeling in the sto- uiach.—Sickness of the stomach accompanying the headache. PHYTOLACCA DECANDRA. 961 Stomach.—Cutting in the pit of the stomach and in the abdomen. —Tenderness to the touch of the pit of the stomach. Hypochondria.—Digging pain in the right hypochondrium, in the upper and outer portion of the liver, preventing motion.—Pain in the region of the pylorus.—Violent dull pressing pain in the left hypo- chondrium, in the evening.—^Soreness and pain in the right hypo- chondrium during pregnancy. Abdomen.—Neuralgic pain in the left groin. Cutting in the ab domen.—Griping pain as before a diarrhoea.—Sensation in the bowels as if a diarrhoea would follow. Stool and Anus. — ^Constipation of long standing.—Continual inclination to go to stool.—Mushy stool.—Diarrhoea attended with a sickly feeling in the bowels.—Copious discharges of bile from the bowels. Urine.—*Urgent desire to pass water.—Weakness, dull pain, and soreness in the region of the kidneys, most on the right side, and connected with heat; uneasiness down the ureters; a chalk-like sediment in the urine.—*Pain in the region of the bladder, before and during urination.—#Dark-red urine. Female Genital Organs.—*Metrorrhagia.—*Menstruation too copious and too frequent.—*Painful menstruation.—* Violent pains in the abdomen during menstruation.—^Leucorrhoea.—♦Inflamma- tion and swelling, and suppuration of the mammae. Windpipe and Cough.—Dry bronchial cough, with a sensation of roughness and slight increase of heat in the trachea and bronchia. —Hacking cough. Chest and Respiration.—Shortness of breath.—Aching pain in the right side of the breast.—Tenderness of the muscles of the chest, as if tbey were bruised.—Occasional shocks of pain in the region of the heart. Back, Small of the Back.—Sensation of weight and pressure on both shoulder-blades. A very peculiar pressure and tension in the parotids. Arms.—Pain throughout the muscles of the shoulder.—Slight drawing pains in the upper arm.—Rheumatic drawing in the fore- arm.—Rheumatic pains in the hands and feet, sometimes in the arms and legs.—Neuralgic pains in the palm of the hand. Legs.—Sciatica.—Neuralgic pain in the thigh.—Neuralgic pain in the left groin.—Heaviness in the knee-joints.—Heaviness in the lower extremities, as if they were asleep.—Rheumatic pains below the kneos and in the arms.—Coldness of the feet, with increase of the capillary circulation about the face and head. 41 61 962 PINUS SILVESTRIS.--PIMPINELLA. 215.—PINUS SILVESTRIS. PIN. SILV.-Common Fir. It has been employed with success for difficulty of walking of scrofulotj children. 216.—PIMPINELLA. PIMPIN.—Pimpinella Saxifraga, L.—Pimpernel, Pimpinel. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Constant pain, contractive pressure in various parts.—Languor and general feeling of exhaustion.— Painful weariness of the limbs during rest. Skin.—Itching on the vertex. Sleep.—Irresistible drowsiness. (Restless sleep, disturbed with dreams.) Fever. — Great sensitiveness to cool air.—Unusual chilliness through the whole body. Head.—Violent vertigo.—Giddiness and dullness of the head.— Heaviness in the head when reading, and disposition to sleep.— Dullness of the head, as if senseless and stupefied. Constant dull aching in the occiput.—Buzzing in the whole head, with pressure, which increases by the buzzing.—Heat, rushing of the blood, and cloudiness of the head. Eyes.—Sore pain of the eye-lids.—Burning of the eyes.—Disa- greeable coolness in the eyes.—Dimness of the eyes and indistinct sight. Mistiness before the eyes. Ears.—Fine stitches in the ear, accompanied with buzzing. Sen- sation in the ear as from distant noise. Nose.—Dry, stopped nose. General catarrhal fever, with languor and painful weariness. Face.—Pains as of an ulcer in the cheek. Mouth.—Burning aromatic feeling on the tongue, palate, and in the throat.—Acrid, burning, somewhat bitter, earthy taste in the mouth and fauces. Stomach.—Insipid eructations, with pressure at the stomach. Sourish eructations.—Sensation of heaviness in the praecordial re- gion and the abdomen. Chest.—Oppressive anxiety in the chest. Back.—Contractive pain in the small of the back, particularly when stooping.—Burning pain in the small of the back and loins, Tensive pain, particularly in the small of the back. Pain as if broken around the hips and pelvis. PLATINA. 963 217.—PLATINA. PLAT.—See Hahnemann's " Chronic Diseases," V. Compare with—Agn.. Angust., Asa-f.. Aur.. Bell., Canth., Carb.-a., Croc, Fer., Hyos., Lye. Magn., Mang., Natr., Natr.-mur.. Nitr.-ac. Plumb.. Puis., Rhus- tox.. Sabad.. Stron., Verb., Valer., Viol.-od.—Is frequently suitable after Bell Antidote?.—Spir.-nitr.-duic, Puis.—Plat, antidotes Plumb. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Platina is particularly suitable to females of an irritable disposition, with copious menstruation and sexual excitement. "Chronic ailments from abuse of Lead. "Ail- ments from chagrin, anger, mortification. "Neuralgia and neurosis. "Spasmodic affections, particularly of females and hysteric individuals —Pressing pains from without inwards, pushing pains, constrictive pains, crampy pains with pressure. Cramp-like drawing or jerking in the limbs and joints. Tension in the limbs, as if bandaged too tightly. Pains as if from blows and contusions, particularly when pressing on the affected part. Paralytic feeling of numbness and rigidity here and there, also with trembling and palpitation of the heart. °Spasmodic affections.—Paroxysms. Burning in the limbs, here and there. Drawing in various parts of the body. Dartings through the whole body. Painful tremulousness of the whole body, with throbbing in the arteries. Excessive languor and drowsiness immediately after a meal. Characteristic Peculiarities.—Many symptoms are worse during rest, and relieved by motion. Many symptoms are worse in the evening. The symptoms which abate in the open air are worse in the room. Skin.—Itching, gnawing, stinging prickling and burning tickling in various parts.—Ulcers on the fingers and toes. Sleep.—Great inclination to violent, almost spasmodic yawning. Uneasiness in the abdomen, as from cold. Incoherent dreams. Anxious dreams, generally of a painful character. Wakes in the morning with a peevish and anxious mood. Fever.—Chilly creeping over the back.—Constant shuddering through the body, particularly tbe limbs. Chilly feeling, with shud- dering of the lower limbs from above downwards. Moral Symptoms.—Low-spirited, taciturn. Anxiety with palpi- tation of the heart. * Anguish as of death, with trembling of all the limbs, oppression of breathing, and palpitation of the heart. *Ex cessive anguish about the heart, with excessive fear of death °Fear, with trembling of the hands and feet, and illusion of the 964 PLATINA. fancy. "Loud cries for help —"Hysteric mood, with great lowness of spirits, nervous weakness, and vascular excitement.—Great uneasi- ness of the mind. Sensitive. Taciturn, drowsy, sad, peevish, weeps when addressed. *Proud feelings, with over-estimation of one's self. Vacillating mood. Sensorium.—Great absence of mind. "Loss of consciousness "Delirium. "Mental derangement after fright and chagrin.—Dull- ness of the forehead. Violent vertigo, generally attended with pal- pitation of the heart. Head.—Headache. Cramp-like drawing constriction in the head from time to time, especially around the forehead. *Cramp-like pressing in the temples from without inwards, "also with heat and redness of the face, vexed mood, and weeping. Violent pressing in the forehead. "Roaring in the head. Numb pain on the vertex. Burning on top of the head. Painful drawing in different parts of the head. Eyes.—Sore and gnawing sensation in the upper border of the orbit, as if excoriated. Tensive pain in the upper borders of the orbits, and in the eye-balls, which feel compressed.—Burning sensa- tion in the eyes, with drowsiness. "Distortion of the eyes.— Twitch- ing of the eye-lids. Ears.—Otalgia, a sort of cramp-pain in both ears. Burning heat of the ears, perceptible to the touch, with redness. Tingling of the ears. Whizzing in the ears, with stitches in the head. *Dull roaring and rolling in the ear. Nose.—Gnawing in the outer parts qfthe nose, as from something acrid. *Dry coryza, only in one nostril. Face.—Face pale and sunken. Burning heat in the face, ivith glowing redness, accompanied with great dryness of the mouth, violent thirst, headache, and vibrations before the eyes causing giddiness, with lachrymation. Feeling of coldness, creeping, and ^numbness in the whole right side of the face. Tensive feeling of numbness in the malar bones and mastoid processes. "Pulsative digging in the jaws. Vesicles on the border qfthe lips, smarting. Great dryness and rough- ness of the lips. Tensive feeling of numbness in the chin. Jaws and Teeth.—"Lock-jaw.—Cramp-pain in the lower jaw.— "Throbbing digging in the teeth. Mouth and Pharynx.—Viscid and slimy mouth. Creeping on the tongue Scraping sensation in the throat, as if raw.—Painful feeling of rawness in the throat. Scraping in the throat, as in in- oipient catarrh. Painful swelling of the tonsil. AprETiTE and Taste.— *No appetite. — Thirst.—Continual hunger FLATINA. 96a —Pinching in the umbilical region after a meal, as if diarrhoea would come on. Gastric Symptoms.—Empty eructations, in the morning. °Pres sure at the stomach, after eating. Sudden gulping up of a bitter sour fluid, inducing cough and a scraping sensation in the throat. Qualmishness in the region of the stomach, in the morning.—Con- tinual nausea, with great languor, anxiousness, and a trembling sen- sation through the whole body, in the forenoon. Desire to vomit, without vomiting, coming and going with increasing violence, accom- panied with great qualmishness, and uneasiness in the limbs. Stomach.—Pressure in the pit of the stomach, also when touching it. Drawing pain, with pressure, under the pit of the stomach, as if occasioned by a strain.—Contractive pain around the pit of the stomach. Fermenting sensation in the region of the stomach. Dull shocks in the pit qfthe stomach.—Gnawing and writhing sensation in the stomach, early in the morning. Abdomen. — "Constrictive sensation in the abdomen. — "Colica- plumbea. Drawing through the abdomen, from the chest towards both groins, terminating in the genital organs. A writhing sensa- tion around the umbilicus, with oppressed breathing, and a tremu- lous sensation through the whole body.—Dull stitches in the middle of the umbilicus. Anxiety in the whole abdomen, succeeded by a parn, as after fright; accompanied with urging to diarrhoea.—Slight burning around the umbilicus. Stool.—^Constipation, "also from poisoning by Lead or when travel- ing.—Difficult stool, with cutting, burning, and protrusion of tbe varices.—Papescent stool in the morning, half digested, and somewhat bloody.—Papescent stool in the evening, with discharge of ascarides. Stool rather thin, with slight tenesmus in the anus. Blood with stool.—Creeping tenesmus in the anus, as if diarrhoea would set in. Urine.—Red urine, with white clouds. Male Genital Organs.—Corrosion near the genital organs, as if sore and excoriated. "Excessive sexual desire.—"Discharge of prostatic fluid. Female Genital Organs.—Cutting in the hypogastrium, as if the menses would appear, with drawing headache. Painful pressing towards the genital organs. "Congestion of blood to the uterus. "Induration of the womb.—* Amenorrhoea.—*Menses too early, with diarrhoea or ^profuse menses, *or too long, -also with drawing in the abd men. "Before the menses : cutting and labor-like pains in the abdomen. °At the appearance of the menses: cramps. "Great sen- sitiveness of the parts, with pressing from above downwards. Press- 966 platina chlorica. ing in the hypogastrium, with ill-humor and menorrhagia. "Head- ache, restlessness, and weeping.—°After the menses: debility — '^Metrorrhagia.—Leucorrhaza, like albumen, only in the daytime. Larynx.—"Loss of voice. "Short, dry cough. Chest.—"Short, difficult, anxious breathing. Impeded respiration, from weakness of the chest. Dyspnoea, with heavy slow breathing. —Aching in the chest, as if strained. "Tension, pressure, and stick- ing in the sides. Back.—Pain in the small of the back, as if broken. Weakness of the nape qfthe neck.—Tensive numb feeling in the nape of the neck. Arms.—Cramp-pain near the shoulder and chest, as if constricted. Great weakness in the shoulder. Sharp stitches in the shoulder, causing the arm to start. Relaxed feeling in both arms. Pain in the arms, as if beaten to pieces. Sudden lameness, as after an apo- plectic fit. Paralytic feeling in the left arm.—Dull pain in the upper arm as from a blow, most violent when moving or stretching it.—Burning in the elbow. Undulating pain above the elbow-joint, as if bruised or contused. Undulating beating pain in some parts of the bones of the fore-arms and legs. Cramp-pain of the hands and fingers, especially the joints. Legs.—Crampy tensive pain in the hips, close above the joint. Feeling of weakness, with tremulous uneasiness in the thighs. Pain of the thighs, as if bruised. Drawing in the knee, afterwards burn- ing and pain as if sprained, when stepping. Tremulous feeling cf numbness in the knees. Feeling of great weakness in and around the knee-joints. Painful weariness below the knee, when stepping or sitting. Cramp-like sensation in the legs, in paroxysms, from above downwards, accompanied with a feeling of rigidity. ^Languor of the legs, with oppressed breathing. Weariness of the feet, with a feeling of swelling around the ankles. Pain in the tarsal-joint, as if sprained. Tensive pain in the bend of the foot. Corrosion and smarting around the ankles, as if excoriated. "Cold feet. 218.—PLATINA CHLORICA. SYMPTOMS.—Slight shiverings.—Violent headache, particularly in the occiput.—Turns of nausea.—Disposition to vomit.—Acidity of the stomach, accompanied with violent headache.—Violent con- striction of the throat, so that the voice and swallowing were per- ceptibly impeded. plumbum. 967 219.—PLUMBUM. I'LUM.—Lead.—See Noack and Trinks' " Handbuch." Compare with—Alum., Bell., Chin., Con., Hyos., Merc, Natr.-mur., Nux-v., Op Phosph , Plat., Puis., Sabad., Sec-c, Stram., Sulph., Verat., Zinc A.ntidotes.—Alum., Ac -sulph. in the shape of a lemonade, Bell., Hyos., Merc. Nux-v., Op., Plat., Puis., Sabad., Sec-c, Stram., Strychnine.—Plumbum anti u>tes the bad effects occasioned by long abuse of Vinegar. GENERAL SYMPTOMS. Arthralgia Saturnina.—Intense pains in the limbs and trunk, relieved by pressure, aggravated by motion. The pain, which is the characteristic symptom of the affec tion, is generally felt at night. Exhaustion and weariness, weakness. -—Great failing of strength. Excessive languor (Br.) An.ethesia Saturnina. —Deep-seated anathesia of the limbs and trunk. Skin, cellular tissue, and muscles are insensible to the action of external stimuli. Superficial or cutaneous anathesia. It attains its highest degree of violence within a day or a few hours. Paralysis Saturnina.—Consisting in debility or in suppression of the voluntary motion, particularly that of the extensor muscles. If the paralysis continue, the affected parts become greatly emaciated. General paralysis oftlie upper limbs, always accompanied with aphony and difficidty of speech. Paralysis of the arm, wrist-joint, and hand. General paralysis of the lower extremities. Atrophy frequently sets in after the lapse of one month. Paralysis of the thigh. Paralysis of the trunk, foot, muscles of the organs of speech. Hemiplegia.—Convulsions, of an epipleptic nature, following each other in rapid succession. Attacks of epilepsy, with foam at the mouth, succeeding each other rapidly, and sometimes terminating in apoplexy, catalepsy, combination of epilepsy, delirium, and coma. Cachexia Saturnina.—Emaciation of the paralyzed parts. Ema- ciation and consumption. — Dullness of the senses. — Apoplexy.— Jaundice.—G^dema of the face and feet. Anasarca. Skin.—Excessive sensitiveness of the skin.—Serious infiltration of the skin.—Jaundiced appearance and oedematous condition of the skin.—Skin rough, dry, scaly, yellowish. Sleep.—Restless sleep. — Sleeplessness. — Somnolence. — Sopor. Coma, sometimes with partial delirium. Fever.—Chilliness. Intolerable heat. — Cold sweat on the fo e- head and over the whole body. — Great thirst. Slow pulse. Pulse small, sluggish, spasmodic, intermittent, particularly during the spasm. Pulsus-dicrotus. Undulating pulse. 968 PLUMBUM. Pathogenetic Effects of Divers Preparations of Lead.—• *Mind and disposition.—Lowness of spirits and indifference. Rest- less, hopeless. Indifference and somnolence.—Mental derangement and difficulty of motion.—Loss of memory.—Loss of all the senses, the convulsions returning with increased violence. Idiocy.—Melancho- lia. Fright.—Delirium, after violent and frequent attacks of colic. Delirium,furious, constant, or intermitting, nightly, alternating with sopor (Br.), calm and furious loquacity, frequently alternating with rage (Br.)—Encephalopathy, saturnina (generally consisting of delirium, coma, and convulsions, without fever, from four to seven- teen days) ; precursory symptoms : violent headache, of different de- grees of intensity; general or partial pains in the head, most fre- quently in the region of the forehead, frequently with vertigo and tremulousness ;• sleeplessness, or else sleep disturbed by dreams or hallucinations ; ringing in the ears, weakness of sight, amaurosis, diplopia, contraction and dilatation of the pupils ; squinting. Stupor. Dysphagia. Paralysis. Colic. Encephalopalhia, with delirium. Furious delirium : the eyes are widely open, threatening, wild ; tbe features are spasmodically contracted. Every opposition of force brings on an attack of rage. Confused delirium, with abrupt stut- tering words and loud voice. Sometimes the delirium progresses in paroxysms, with lucid intervals. The bland and furious delirium frequently alternate. Some patients are attacked with bland delirium in the daytime and furious delirium at night. Between the par- oxysms of alternate delirium the patients are soporous. Head.— Vertigo. Epileptic vertigo.—Headache. Violent pains in the integuments of the skull from occiput to the forehead. Head- ache, with vomiting, and violent pains in the umbilical region (Br.) Eyes.—Contraction in the eyes and particularly in the eye-lids. Complete paralysis and insensibility of the eye-lids.—Profuse dis- charge of acrid tears and diminution of sight.—Faint, sad look.— Protruded eyes, with staring look.—Sunken eyes. Bluish, lead- colored sclerotica. Contraction qfthe pupils. Mistiness of sight. Blindness.—Amaurosis saturnina : several paroxysms of colic, pain, convulsions or paralysis of the hands are succeeded by sudden ob- scuration of sight, increasing in a few hours to perfect blindness, and generally disappearing as suddenly. Diagnostic characteristics cf the Lead amaurosis are : the characteristic mode in which it develops itself; the considerable dilatation of tbe pupil, which is of unequal extent and changes with the excessive rapidity ; the black, non-trans- parent bottom of the eye; and, lastly, the fact that one eye never gets blind alone. PLUMBUM: 969 E \rs.—Buzzing in the ears.—Diminution of hearing and sight. Nose.—Bleeding qfthe nose.—Loss of smell. Face.—Clay-colored face. Death-like, lead-colored face. Swelling oj the face ; eye-lids, abdomen, and feet. Sunken features.—Emaciation Teeth.—The gums are interstitially distended.—Turgescence of the gums. That portion of the gums which is nearest the teeth ex- hibits a, violet-colored border, changing to a bluish ash-color, which sometimes extends over the mouth. The teeth turn black.—Loose- ness and falling out of the teeth. Mouth.—Dryness of the mouth.—Aphthae.—Dry tongue, which is frequently covered with a brown crust. The tongue and lips are painful, with salivation and fetid smell from the mouth, attended with languor; loss of appetite, burning sensation in the stomach, nausea, and vomiting. — Salivation. — Dragging, scarcely-audibU speech.—Aphonia. Throat.—Constriction of the throat. Appetite.—Astringent taste in the mouth.—Loss of appetite.— Apepsia and dyspepsia.—Violent hunger.—Excessive thirst. Stomach.— Hiccough. — Troublesome eructations. — Sour, sweet, bitter eructations.—Loathing.—Inclination to vomit and loathing.— Retching, with discharge of a sour fluid (Richt). Vomiting.— Vomiting of a black substance.—Vomiting of bilious and foul sub- stances.—Heaviness in the stomach.—Oppression of the pit of the stomach.—Violent pains in the region of the stomach and umbilicus. Great sensitiveness of the epigastrium. Violent burning pains in the region of the stomach, and tumultuous vomiting. Constrictive pain in the prascordia.—Paroxysms of cardialgia. Abdomen.—Affections of the spleen.—Continual pressure in the epigastric region.—Excessive pains in the abdomen, with oppression in the praecordia, trembling and weakness of the limbs. Violent pains in the region of the umbilicus, with obstinate constipation. Pinching in the abdomen.—Meteorism.—Sunken abdomen.—Re- traction of the abdomen, not bearing to be touched.—Constant pres- sure, with anguish in the praecordia, dry cough, lacerating colicky pains.— Tormina-intestinorum. — Inflammation of the bowels, me- sentery, peritoneum, terminating in ulceration and gangrene. Colic and paralysis of the lower extremities. — Colic'; the face is bloated, reddened, the eyes glistening and protruded from the sockets, the tongue dry as well as the mouth, and reddened, with tormenting thirst, and desire for cold water, distention of the abdomen and sen- sitiveness to contact; the pains are relieved by strong and deep pressure. 41* 970 PLUMBUM. Colila Saturnina (Lead Colic).—Intolerable pains in the abdo- men, frightful anguish, uneasiness day and night. Violent, alter- nately-burning and lacerating pains in the umbilical region, ex- tending through the whole abdomen. Accompanied with a violent anguish and oppression, ineffectual tenesmus, vomiting of a viscid, and frequently Mour-smelling mucus, which is rarely mixed with bile; burning in rhe oesophogus and spasmodic constriction of the throat An evacuation of the bowels was accompanied with the most violent pains and tenesmus. Sleep uneasy, anxious, disturbed with fright- ful dreams.—Colica-umbilicalis : pain in the region of the umbili- cus ; retraction and even deep depression of the umbilical region, with hardness of the corresponding abdominal walls, constipation, nausea, vomiting, very rarely, however, and at long intervals, with scanty discharge.—Colica-epigastrica : pain, retraction, and hardnes3 of the epigastric region, nausea, and frequently copious vomiting.— Beating of the arteries in the epigastric region. Dyspnoea, jaundice. —Colica-hypogastrica : with difficulty of micturition, tenesmus of the bladder, pains and spasmodic movements in the region of the genital organs.—Colica-renalis : pain in the region of the kidneys. Stool.—Dysentery, attended with excessive colic.—Sluggish stcol. —Scanty, hard, black-brown faeces, resembling sheep's dung. Alter- nation of diarrhoea and constipation.—Ineffectual tenesmus.—Dis- position to constipation. Anus.—Constriction qf the sphincter-ani.—Ineffectual, exhausting urging, inducing the formation of haemorrhoidal tumors. Urine.—Suppression of urine. Tenesmus of the neck qf the bladder, with a burning sensation in the urethra.—Ischuria.—The urine looks saturated, brown, mixed with blood.—Copious red or yellow urine, without albumen. Genital Organs.—Pulling, lacerating, and contractive pains in the testicles, spermatic chords, penis, uterus, vagina, breast.— Weak- ness of the sexual powers.—Impotence and sterility.—Swelling of the testicles. Nocturnal emissions. — Spermatorrhoea (gonorrhoea).— Mucous discharge from the vagina.—Labor-like pains in the uterus and vagina. Larynx.—Fetid breath. Rough and afterwards stuttering speech. Short, dry, fatiguing cough. Dry cough, with frequent vomiting. Cough, with discharge of blood. Chest.—Oppression of the chest.—The breathing is interrupted by moaning. Excessive dyspnoea, only 35 to 40 inspirations a minute —Anguish and suffocative oppression, unable to breathe except when Bitting. Sort of angina-pectoris.—Suppuration of the lungs —Pain PLUMBUM ACETICUM. 971 in the region of the heart and violent spasmodic palpitation of the heart.—Violent palpitation of the heart.—Violent pulsations of the aorta in the epigastrium, as far as the umbilicus.—Itching and dart- Lug pains in both breasts.—Pressure on the chest. Neck.—Stiff neck.—Paralysis of the cervical muscles. Arms and Legs.—Excessive pains in the limbs, increased by con- tact.—Drawing pains in the limbs, accompanied with spasmodic movements.—Exhaustion and languor of the extremities.—Coldness of the limbs.—Trembling of the limbs. Convulsions of the limbs.— Pains in the joints of the arm and head, with convulsive movements. —Paralysis of the arms. Great languor and weariness of the lower limbs.—Paralysis qf the lower limbs. i —i^^—■ —^■ 220.—PLUMBUM ACETICUM. PLUMB. ACET.—Acetate of Lead GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Indolence, exhaustion, and weariness. General debility and malaise. Gradual emaciation and increasing debility.—Paleness, emaciation, languor, and anguish about the heart. Oppression about the chest. Restlessness, anguish. Loss of voice and senses. — Rigidity, numbness, immobility. Fainting turns. Apoplexy. Nervous apoplexy. Paralysis, partial and incomplete. Painful paralysis. Paralysis of the right side. General paralysis. Transitory paralysis. Convulsions of single limbs. Slight convul- sions. Violent convulsions. Spasmodic movements.—General con- vulsions. Convulsions, with frightful shrieks, alternating with pain in the bowels.—Epilepsy. Opisthotonos. Frightful neuralgia. Ex- cessive emaciation. Consumption. Atrophy. Hectic fever. Gan- grene. Leucophlegmasia. Dropsy. Swelling of the body. Jaun- dice.—Frightful jaundice, with excessive indurations in the bowels. Aggravation of the pains at night, convulsions, delirium, and diarrhoea. Skin.—Sensitiveness of the skin to the air. Dryness of the skin and mouth. Itching of the whole body. Lead-color qf tfic whole body. Yellowish color qfthe skin and white of the eye. Bluish-color of the body and of the extremities. Disgusting eruptions on tho skin. "Suppuration. A swelling of the sublingual and submaxillary glands. Sleep.—Yawning. Somnolence.—Sleeplessness at night. Dreams, agreeable, terrifying. Fever. — Chilliness and coldness. Chilliness, which is worse 972 PLUMBUM ACETICUM. towards evening, vertigo, thirst, redness in the face, soft frequent pulse, with coated tongue on the morning following, dullness, pale face. Fever, with excessive thirst.— Viscid sweat. Pulse rare, slow, slow and hard, feeble, small and frequent. Moral Symptoms.—Melancholy, with stupefaction, complete dull- ness of the senses, and somnolence.—Lowness of spirits.—Restless- ness.—Ennui, indolence, taciturnity. Absence of mind, delirium; nightly delirium, with swollen eyes. Furious delirium, rage.— Mania. Head.— Vertigo.—Heaviness and stupid feeling in the head. Pres- sure under the skull, as from congestion of blood. Eyes.—Lacerating in the eye-lids, with drowsiness, early in the morning. — Frequent discharge of corrosive tears.—Aching pain above the eyes. Sensation as if something had lodged under the eye-lids, and as if the eye-ball were too large, with exquisitely painful pressure. — Redness of the eye-lids. Inflammation of the eyes.—Varicose distention of the vessels of the cornea.—Frightful distortion of the eyes. Obscuration of sight. Constant mistiness of sight. Blindness.—Amaurosis. Ears.—Lacerating in the ear. Hardness of hearing, deafness. Nose.—Erysipelatous inflammation of the nose. Horrid smell from the nose. Obstruction of the nose. Fluent coryza. Discharge of watery mucus. Face,—Bloated face.—Pale or yellowish complexion.—Cadaverous complexion, Vesicles on the forehead and nose. Boring in the jaw and teeth. Lock-jaw. Teeth.—Brown or blue color of the upper border of the gums. Swelling of the gums about the roots of the teeth; painful, hard tubercles on the gums.—Pale gums. Mouth.—Heat and burning in the mouth and tongue.—Impeded speech and heavy tongue. Swelling of the gums and ptyalism. Aphthae in the mouth and pharynx. Ulcers in the mouth, particu- larly on the sides, with fetid smell. Inflammation of the tongue.— Dry, brown, cracked tongue. Throat.—Stiff neck. Burning and stinging pain in the fauces, Sensation of swelling in the throat, when swallowing. Sensation as if a foreign body had lodged in the throat.—Globus-hystericus. Con- strictions and pullings in the throat and fauces. Appetite.—Metallic taste in the mouth. Sweetish taste. Bitter taste. Want of appetite and sleep. Feeling of hunger and nausya in the evening. Excessive thirst. Stomach.—Eructations.—Hiccough. Loathing. Nausea. In- PLUMBUM ACETICUM. 973 'lination to vomit. Retching. Sour gulpings. Vomiting. Sour, bilious vomiting. Vomiting of a yellowish, fetid substance, with colic. Bloody vomiting. Vomiting of faeces, with violent colic and constipation. Malaise at the stomach, without inclination to vomit. Heaviness of the stomach. Pains in the stomach. Dull anxious pressure in the pit of the stomach. Contraction in the stomach. Constrictive burning pains in the stomach, and afterwards in the umbilical region. Burning, stinging pains in the stomach and oeso- phagus. Intermitting pains at the stomach. Cardialgia, with vom- iting. Suppuration of the stomach. Abdomen.—Dull pains in the liver. Continuous darting pain in the region of the liver. Sticking pressure in the region of the liver. Pains in the praecordia. Dull and numb feeling in the abdomen. Intolerable pains in the abdomen, with uneasiness, mental derange- ment, and fainting turns.—Wandering pains in the abdomen. Pains in the abdomen increased by contact. Pains in the umbilical region. Pains in the abdomen with emaciation. Abdominal pains with sen- sation of constriction. Pressure in the abdomen. Pressure, with vio- lent colic, contraction of the abdomen, and constipation. Gnawing colic. Violent burning and stinging pain in the umbilical region, with violent thirst, eructations, vomiting, cold extremities, and slow pulse. Constrictive pains. Pinching lacerating. Pinching. Deep pricking below the umbilicus. Heat and burning around the umbi- licus, internally.—Pains in the loins. Bruised pains in the abdominal muscles. Colic, returning periodically. Colic with frightful pains, particularly around the umbilicus. Spasmodic contraction of the bowels. Enteritis, with lentescent fever and turbid, thick, reddish urine, with anguish, burning in the bowels, and general convulsions Ulcers in the bowels. Stool.—Burning or fetid flatulence.—Ineffectual urging to stool, Constipation, with violent colic. Irregular stool.—Hard, slow stooJ. Lead-colored stool with vomiting of faeces. Liquid stool, afterwardj small balls of the most pungent smell.—Diarrhoea with rumbling, without pain. Dysentery, bloody, with horrible cutting, violent eruc- tations, fever.—Darting and burning pains in the rectum, pcrinaeum, and neck of the bladder. Tenesmus. Constriction and drawing up of the anus. Prolapsus of the anus. Urine.—Strangury. Retention of urine. Dysuria.—Ischuria, with inflammatory fever. Tenesmus of the bladder. Involuntary emission of urine. Turbid and frequently bloody urine. Male Genital Organs.—Violent inflammatory swelling of the penis and scrotum, with fever, dysuria, costiveness, delirium, gangrene. 974 PODOPHYLLUM PELTATUM. Tension about the testicles. Swelling of the testes. Painful swell ing of the testes. Emission of semen during sleep. Extinction of the sexual instinct.—Impotence. Female Genital Organs. — Miscarriage. Derangement of tht menses. Suppression of the menses. Larynx.—Roughness of the throat and voice. Dry convulsive cough.—Haemop toe. Chest.—Difficulty of breathing. Short, anxious, panting, oppressed breathing. Weariness of the chest. Dyspnoea. Impeded respira- tion, as from paralysis of the muscles of the larynx. Constriction of the throat. Suffocative catarrh. (Asthma.) Dull pressure on the left chest, aggravated by breathing and laughing. Suppuration of the lungs. Twitching in the region of the heart. Anguish about the heart, with cold sweat.—Palpitation of the heart. Back.—Drawing in the nape of the neck. Sticking in the scapula. Arms and Legs.—Pains in the limbs, intermitting, most violent at night, drawing; rheumatic; lacerating; creeping on the bones, at intervals.—Languor and great debility.—Paralysis and rigidity of the extremities. Slight insensibility in the extremities. Torpor of the hands and feet.—Insensibility and immobility of the extremities. Complete and partial paralysis qfthe limbs. Spasmodic contraction of the limbs. Violent spasms. Contractions of the joints. Exostosis. Weariness and languor. Boring in the anterior portion of the upper arm, vnth lacerating in the teeth. Itching of the wrist-joint, with burning. Paleness, weakness, trembling, paralysis of the hand. Pain- ful paralysis of the arms. Trembling of the hands.—Debility of the arm, with atrophy, after loss of sensation.—Swollen, red spots on the fingers.—Seated pain in the knee, in the soles of the feet, and between the limbs, even in the foot. Spasmodic jerking of the thighs. Spas- modic contraction of the thighs. Weariness and languor of the knees when walking. The extremities become cold. Stiffness of the legs. Laming pain, or painful feeling of lameness in the thigh, knee, and tarsal-joint, when going up-stairs. Complete paralysis of the lower extremities. Stiffness of the knees.—Swelling of the feet. 221.—PODOPHYLLUM PELTATUM. PODOPH. PELT.—Hog Apple, Duck's Foot.—See " Transactions of American Institute of Homoeopathy." I. Compare with—Ars., Bry., Nux-v., Puis., Sep., Sulph. Antidotes__Nux-v. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Sudden shocks of jerking pain. PODOPHYLLUM PELTATUM. 975 Characteristic Peculiarities.—The symptoms generally, but especially the abdominal symptoms, are aggravated in the morning and better in the evening. Skin.—*Softness of the flesh, with debility in children.—*Moist- ness of the skin, with preternatural warmth. *Sallowness of the skin in children. Sleep.—Restlessness in the fore part of the night. Sleepiness early in the evening. ^Restless sleep of children, with whimpering at night. Moaning in sleep, with eye-lids half closed. *A feeling of fatigue on waking in the morning. Fever.—^Chilliness while moving about during fever, and in the act of lying down. *ChilHness when first lying down in the evening, followed by fever and sleep. *Fever attended with constipation. *Fever with incoherent talking. Intermittent fever, quotidian, tertian, and quartan. *Back-ache before the chill. *The shaking and a sen- sation of coldness continues for some time after the heat commences. *Some thirst during the chill, but more through the heat. *Delirium and loquacity during the hot stage, with forgetfulness afterwards of all that passed. ^Violent pain in the head, with excessive thirst dur- ing the fever. *Sleep during the perspiration. *Loss of appetite in the apyrexia. Head.—Giddiness and dizziness, with the sensation of fullness over the eyes. Morning headache, with heat in the vertex. *Delirium and loquacity during fever, with excessive thirst. *Rolling of the head, during difficult dentition in children. *Perspiration of the head during sleep, with coldness of the flesh while teething. Sudden pain in the forehead with soreness of the throat, in the evening. Vertigo, with inclination to fall forwards. Headache alternating with diarrhoea. Heavy dull pain in the forehead, with soreness over the seat of the pain. *Morning headache with flushed face. Eyes.—Smarting of the eyes. Drawing sensation in the eyes, accompanying pain in the head.—Heaviness of the eyes, with occa- sional pains on the top of the head. Pain in the eye-balls, and in the temples, with heat, and throbbing of the temporal arteries. Teeth.—*Grinding of the teeth at night, especially with children during dentition. Mouth.—Copious salivation. ^Offensive odor from the mouth. *Offensiveness of the breath at night, perceptible to the patient. Sourness of the mouth. *White fur on the tongue with foul taste. Throat.—Dryness of the throat. ^Rattling of mucus in the throat *Goitre. *Sore throat, commencing on the right side and then going to the left 976 PODOPHYLLUM PELTATUM. Appetite.—*Voracious appetite. *Satiety from a small quantity of food, followed by nausea and vomiting. *Regurgitation of food Loss of appetite. *Putrid taste in the mouth. ^Diarrhoea immediately after eating or drinking. Stomach.—^Sourness of the stomach. * Acid eructations. *Nause? and vomiting with fullness in the head. ^Regurgitation of food. Vomiting of hot frothy mucus. *Vomiting of food with putrid taste and odor. ^Heartburn. *Water-brash. Heat in the stomach. *Belching of hot flatus, which is very sour. Throbbing in the epigas- trium, followed by diarrhoea. ^Stitches in the epigastrium from coughing *Food turns sour soon after eating. *Gastric affection, attended by depression of spirits. Abdomen.—*Colic, with retraction of the abdominal muscles. Sen- sation of heat in the bowels, accompanying the inclination to go to Btool. #Chronic hepatitis, with costiveness.—^Fullness, with pain and soreness in the right hypochondrium. *Cramp-like pain in the bowels, with retraction of the abdominal muscles. *Sharp pain above the right groin, preventing motion, in the latter months of preg- nancy. Bowels.—*Constipation, with flatulence and headache.—*Consti- pation, accompanying remittent fever. *The fasces are hard and dry, and voided with difficulty. *Chronic diarrhoea, worse in the morn- ing. ^Extreme weakness and cutting pain in the intestines, after stool. *Diarrhoea immediately after eating or drinking. *Faeces yellow or dark-green. — *White slimy stools. *Cholera-infantum "Evacuations, consisting of darkish-yellow mucus, which smells like carrion. ^Frequent chalk-like stools, which are very offensive, with gagging and excessive thirst in children. Painful diarrhoea, with screaming and grinding of the teeth, in children during dentition. *Hot watery evacuations. *Frothy mucous stools. *Food passes the bowels in an undigested state. Chronic diarrhoea, with prolapsus- ani at every stool, in children. — *Prolapsus-ani, with diarrhceu. *Prolapsus-ani of long standing. *The prolapsus occurs most fre- quently in the morning. #Cohstant pain in the lumbar region. Urine. — *Enuresis. ^Involuntary discharge of urine during sleep. *Diminished secretion of urine. *Suppression of urine. *Frequent nocturnal urination, during pregnancy. Genitals.—*Relaxed menstruation. *Suppression of the menses in young females. *Leucorrhoea; discharge of thick transparent mucus. ^Leucorrhoea, attended with constipation, and bearing down in the genital organs. *Prolapsus-uteri. *Symptoms of prolapsus-uteri, continuing for several weeks after parturition. Pain in the region POTHOS F02TIDUS. 977 qf the ovaria, especially the right. *Numb aching pain in the region of the left ovarium, with heat running through the left thigh in the third month of pregnancy. * Ability to lie comfortably only on the stomach, in the earlier months of pregnancy. *Swelling of the labia during pregnancy. * After-pains, attended with heats and flatulency. Larynx.—*Cough accompanying intermittent fever. *Dry cough. —*Loose hacking cough. * Whooping cough, attended with costive- ness and loss of appetite. Chest.—Pains in the chest, increas-ed by taking a deep inspira- tion. Inclination to breathe deeply ; sighing. Shortness of breath. Sensation of suffocation, when first lying down at night.—Palpitation of the heart, from exertion or mental emotion. *Palpitation of the heart. Sticking pain in the region of the heart. ^Palpitation qf the heart, from physical exertion. Trunk.—Pain in the lumbar region, with the sensation of coldness, worse at night, and from motion. Pain between the shoulders, with soreness. Stiffness of the nape, with soreness of the muscles of the neck and shoulders. Arms.—^Rheumatism in the left fore arm ana fingers.—Weakness of the wrists, with soreness to the touch. Legs.—Pains in the thighs, legs, and knees, worse from standing. Weakness of the joints, especially the knees. *Slight paralytic weakness of the whole left side, of one year's duration. Aching in the limbs, worse at night. Coldness of the feet. 222.—POTHOS FG3TIDUS. POTH. FCET.—Ictodes Fcetidum. Head.—Headache, here and there, of short duration. Face, Mouth, and Pharynx.—Violent sneezing, inducing a pain in the fauces, palate, pharynx, down to the stomach, and long-lasting after-pains in the region of the orifice of the stomach.—Swelling of the cervical and submaxillary glands.—Burning from the fauces down through the chest. Appetite, Stomach, &c.—Sensation in walking as if the bowels Were shaking. Stool, Urine, &c.—Soft stool. Chest.—Pain in the chest, with pain under the shoulders, which seems to be in connection with burning in the pharynx. Aching pain on the sternum. Sudden feeling of anguish, with oppression of breathing and sweat. 62 978 PRUNUS SPIN0SA., 223.—PRUNUS SPINOSA. PRUN. SP. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Trembling through the whole body Constant uneasiness, particularly in the lower limbs. Sleep.—Drowsiness after dinner.—Dreams and fancies. Fever.—Chilliness, with disposition to stretch.—Dry heat over the whole body, with painfulness of the glans and redness of the prepuce. Moral Symptoms.—Restlessness, with shortness of breath and oppression of the chest. Peevish mood. Head.—Dizziness, with heaviness of the head.—Nervous pain in the occiput. Compressive pain, as if the brain were compressed from all sides.—Pressure under the skull, as if pressed outwards with a plug Face and Teeth.—Itching stinging on the malar bone. Inde- scribable pains in various teeth.—Nervous pain.—Pain as if sprained in the molar teeth. Pain as if the teeth were raised out of their sockets. Mouth.—Burning in the tongue, only between meals. Appetite and Taste.—Slimy taste in the mouth. Stomach and Hypochondria.—Fullness in the pit of the stomach, with shortness of breath. Painful pressure in the region of the liver. Abdomen.—Colic, as after a cold. Contractive pain in the ab- domen. Cramps in the abdomen. Cutting across the abdomen, as if diarrhcea would set in. Dropsical swelling of the abdomen, with loss of appetite, scanty urine, and hard, knotty, difficult stool. Stool and Anus.—Hard stool.—^Diarrhoza, -with discbarge of a quantity of faeces, preceded by cutting colic.—Slimy diarrhoea, succeeded by violent burning in the anus, as from a wound. "Diar- rhoea, with nausea and constant loathing of food.—Discharge of blood :from the anus after hard stool. Urine.—Tenesmus qfthe bladder. Strangury. Troublesome urg- ing to urinate, for hours, with burning biting in the bladder and urethra. Burning in the urethra at every attempt to urinate. Scanty emission of brown urine. *Has to press a long time before the urine . makes its appearance, "also with scanty emission and feeble stream. —Spasms of the bladder, not allowing any rest at night. Ulcerative pain in the urethra when touching it. Female Genital Organs.—Painless throbbing in the parts. Menses every fortnight, attended with pains in the back.—Metrorrha- gia, the >blood being watery and thin.—Discharge of blood from the PULSATILLA. 979 vagina every day. Leucorrhaza, making the parts sore, and tinging Lhe linen yellow.—Sticking in the iiamma. Larynx.—Roughness of speech. Hoarseness and weakness of the organs of speech. Wheezing cough. Chest.—Anxious and short breathing. Oppressed and difficult breathing, with anxiety about the heart. Panting breathing. Stick- ing, with pressure on drawing breath, impeding inspirations. Back.—Pain in the small qfthe back, when sitting. Stiffness of the back and small of the back, as from a strain.—Aching ulcerative pain in the left axillary glands. Arms.—Laming pain in the left shoulder-joint, extending across the breast.—Rigid sensation in the fore-arm, impeding the movement r(f the arm. Cramp-like contractive pain in the hand, extending to the tips of the fingers. Painful rigidity in the thumb. Pain as if sprained in the thumb. Legs.—Pains in the hip, most violent in the forenoon.—Feeling of weariness in the joints. Burning on the lower limbs. Tension of the skin on the calves and thighs. Lacerating in the middle of the thigh. Languor in both joints, when standing. Pain as from sub- cutaneous ulceration in the sole. 224.—PULSATILLA. PULS.—Pulsatilla Nigricans, Anemone Pratensis, Pasque Flower.—See Hahne- mann's "Mat. Med. Pura," IV. Compare with—Aeon . Agar., Ambr., Am., Am.-mur., Ant., Angust.., Am., Ars., Asa-f., Aur., Bell., Bov., Bry., Calc, Camph., Cann., Canth.,-Caps., Carb.-v., Cham.. Chin., Cic, Coce, Coff., Colch., Con., Cupr., Cycl., Dig., Dros., Eupr., Fer., Graph., Hyos., Ign., Ipec, Kali. Lach., Led., Lye, Mag.-p.-arct., Magn.- mur., Menyan., Merc, Mezer , Mosch., Natr., Natr.-mur., Nitr.-ac, Nux-v., Oleand., Op., Par., Petrol., Phosph., Plat., Plumb , Ranunc, Ranunc.-sceler.. Rheum, Rhus-tox., Ruta, Sabad., Sabin., Sass., Scilla., Sep., Selen., Sil., Spig., Spong., Stann., Staph., Stram., Sulph., Sulph.-ac, Tartar., Thuja, Valer., Verat., Zinc.—Puis, is frequently particularly suitable after: Asa-f.j Antim., Aurum, Chin., Lach., Lye, Nitr.-ac, Rhus-tox., Sep., Sulph., Tartar., Thuja. —After Puis, are frequently suitable: Asa-f., Bry., Nitr.-ac, Sep., Thuja. Antidotes.—Cham., Coff., Ign., Nux-v., Vinegar.—Puis, antidotes Agar., Ambr., Arg., Bell., Cham., Chin., Colch., Ferr., Ign , Lye, Merc, Plat., Ranunc, Sabad., Stann., Sulph., Sulph.-ac, Tartar. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—"Pulsatilla is especially adapted to ailments of the female sex, or to individuals with a gentle, good- naturedly-mischievous disposition, who easily laugh or weep, with phlegmatic temper and inclination to melancholy, lymphatic constitu tion,paleface, blue eyes, and blonde hair, freckles, disposition to 980 PULSATILLA. 3atarrh, leucorrhoea, or otller kinds of blenorrhcoa.—"Chronic ail meuts arising from the abuse of Sulphur water, Quinine, Chamomile, Mercury. "Ailments from the use of pork, fat pastry, or other fat. "Bad effects from the abuse of wine. "Bad effects arising from fright or mortification. "Ailments arising from taking cold by exposure to wet, or by placing the feet in water, &c.—"Consequences of bruises and contusions.—° Ulceration of internal parts.—°Rheu- matic and arthritic affections, "also with swelling. "Articular rheu- matism. °Erratic gout. "Scrofulous affections and rickets, alsc with atrophy. "Curvature of bones. ^Passive congestion, with dis- tention of the veins. *Blenorrhoza.—*Pains qfthe extremities (lace- rating, drawing, or jerking) in the muscles, with aggravation qfthe pains at night or in the evening in bed, amelioration in the open air, "attended with numbness and paralytic weakness, or with swelling of the affected parts.—^Drawing lacerating in one or the other limb, -also with chilliness and coldness, or in frequent, repeated attacks. Stinging drawing in the limbs, particularly the joints, which feel painful as if bruised when touched. Darting pain in the left side. "Rigidity in single limbs, as if the tendons were contracted. *Er- ratic pains, rapidly shifting from one part to another, also with swelling and redness in the joints. *Pain as if bruised or from sub- cutaneous ulceration on touching the part. *Pains and aUments qf one side of the body. *Attacks of pain and other ailments, with chilliness, asthma, paleness of face, or also with trembling of the lower limbs. Desire for the open air, although, while in it, colic and indisposition to vomit increase.—Excessive debility and bruised feel- ing of the limbs. Painful feeling of lameness in the ligaments. Rigid immobility in the body. Heaviness of the whole body, also excessive, with chilliness in the arms and lower limbs. Troublesome beating of the arteries through the whole body, mostly perceptible when touching the parts. Tremulous weakness. *Anxious feeling qf trembling, -with drawings in the limbs and tbe whole body, or with aggravation of the pains when sitting or lying, and with ame- lioration by motion. °Fainting turns, with cadaverous paleness of the face.—°Epileptic convulsions, with violent tossing of the limbs, followed by relaxation of the limbs, disposition to vomit, and eructa- tions.—°Emaciation. Characteristic Peculiarities. — The pains are aggravated or excited when sitting, after long exercise; *on rising, after having been seated for a long time; during rest, particularly when lying on one side, -or on the back; the pains which come on when lying on the back are sometimes relieved by turning to the one or the other side PULSATILLA. 981 or by lying on the affected side; the pains which are excited 01 Ag- gravated by lying on the side are relieved by lying on the back; a number of pains are relieved by motion, walking, pressure, external warmth, and open air, whereas other pains are aggravated under those circumstances; the pains are generally worst in the evening, at night, or before midnight; some of the pains are aggravated or come on early in the morning, or after dinner. *The symptoms appear with particular violence every other evening. Skin.—^Biting itching here and there, "also like formication. Red hot spots on the body, like nettle-rash, with biting pain. Zona.? "Measles and their secondary ailments, or bad consequences from suppression of measles. °Eruption, resembling varicella, after eating pork and fat things.—"Erysipelas, also with swelling, hardness, burning heat, and stinging when touching or moving the part.—" Cracking of the skin on wetting it. Boils here and there.— "Flatputrid ulcers. "Carious ulcers. "Suppurating wound.—"Swell- ing of the limbs, with stinging limbs, or with a feeling of numbness. "Dropsical swellings. — "Jaundice. ? — Chlorosis. ? — "Varices. ?__ °Chilblains, with blue-red swelling, beat and burning, or throbbing. Sleep.—* Yawning. — ^Drowsiness in the daytime. Constant drowsiness, with a number of dreams. °Feverish somnolence, with uneasiness and anxious fancies day and night. Sleeplessness, also with excessive restlessness. * Sleep prevented by ideas crowding upon one. *Frequent waking at night. Light sleep. ^Restless sleep, with tossing about. Intolerable dry or burning heat, with restless- ness. "Great restlessness and tossing about. Anguish on waking. Snoring inspirations. ^Liability to start. Screaming and starting, as if in affright. Jerking of the limbs or the whole body. *Spasmodic distortion of the mouth. °Cryingout. "Nightmare. *Sleepfullqf dreams. Confused, vivid dreams. °Anxious dreams. *Frightful dreams. Fever.—^Coldness, -with paleness and sweat over the whole body. ^Shuddering, -in frequent paroxysms. Chilliness and a chilly feel- ing internally. Chilliness in the evening, all over. Feeling of chil- liness, with trembling. Fever. Chilliness, with occasional flushes of warmth.1 Chilliness without thirst; thirst during the hot stage. Chilliness in the evening, followed by heat. Great chilliness and external coldness in the evening, without shuddering or thirst. Vio- lent chilliness, followed by a mixed sensation of internal heat and shuddering; afterwards a general burning heat, with very quick 1 The Pulsat. fever and ague is generally characterized by the thirst occurring wily during the hot stage, rarely after the hot stage, or before the chilly stage 982 PULSATILLA. pulse and hurried breathing, as if suffering mortal anguish. Shaking and chilliness, followed by general heat and sweat, with drawing- jerking pains in the bones of the extremities. °Intermitte it fevers : "quotidian, tertian, quartan. "Intermittent fever, generally consist- ing of chilliness without thirst, followed by heat with thirst, accom- panied or succeeded by sweat. "The fever generally sets in or exa- cerbates in the evening or afternoon, remits towards morning. *The chilliness is generally accompanied with paleness of face, vertigo, stupefaction, painfulness and heaviness of the head, anxiety and oppres- sion of the chest, or "vomiting of mucus. °During the heat: *pa~ roxysms of anguish, ^headache with red, bloated face, *sweat in the face, ^chilliness when taking off the cover of the bed, -lamenting and moaning, °deep or restless sleep, "hurried and anxious breathing, "dispo- sition to vomit, "diarrhceic stools. " The fever generally, or theapyrexia. is characterized by headache, painful oppression qfthe chest, moist cough. somnolence, bitterness of mouth, diarrhoza, or constipation. "Intermit- tent fever after the abuse of Quinine or China. Violent thirst after the disappearance of the beat, especially for beer, with white tongue. *Heat at night, and chilliness when turning in bed. Heat, followed by shuddering. *Dry heat qfthe whole body at night and early in the morning. Hands and feet are hot. Flushes of heat. *Heat of the whole face in the evening. "Acute fevers. "Mucous fevers. "Gastric symptoms. "Bilious fevers. "Typhoid fevers, also with loss of consciousness, delirium, weeping, and wringing of hands, somnolence. "Hectic fever. ?—*Pulse quick and small. Feeble and slow pulse. The pulse is feeble and almost collapsed. Disposition to sweat in the daytime. Copious ^morning sweat. Moral Symptoms.—*Gloomy and melancholy. ^Melancholy, with weeping, sadness, and apprehension of dying. *Silent mood, "also as if deranged, with cold, sombre, strange look, sitting silently with folded hands. "Disposed to weep or laugh. ^Solicitude about his health. Anxiety. Anguish. * Anguish in the region qf the heart, even to a desire for suicide, -with a sensation in the pit of the stomach, as if he would vomit, *Anxiety, as if he would have an apoplectic fit. Tremulous anguish, as if death were near. "Anthropophobia. "Suspicion and distrust. "Timid, whining mood. "Mild and yield- ing. Excessive irresoluteness. ^Peevishness. Sullen mood. Gloomy, ill-humored, chilly. * Hypochondriac peevishness. "Disposed to feel sad and aggrieved internally. *He is disgusted with everything. Sensorium.—"Insensibility. °Delirium, also violent, with loss of consciousness. °Frightful visions. — Hurriedness. "Imbecility. ^Intellectual labor fatigues him. Gloominess of the head, with ver- PULSATILLA. 983 tigo, and excited by motion. Stupid feeling, with soreness of the eyes, or bruised pain in the forehead.—^Confusion of the head, *with pain as after intoxication or watching. "Emptiness of the head, with great indifference. Giddy staggering when walking. * Vertigo as if intoxicated. ° Vertigo in the evening. "Vertigo after dinner. "Vertigo with obscuration of sight. "Vertigo with roaring in the ears. * Aggravation of the vertigo by talking and meditat- ing. * Vertigo, especially when sitting. *When stooping, his head feels heavy. °Apoplectic fit, with loss of consciousness, blue-redness and bloatedness of the face, loss of motion, violent beating of the heart, collapse of the pulse, and rattling breathing. Head.—Heaviness of the head. *Headache when moving the eyes deep in the orbits. *Hemicrania*as if the brain would burst. The head feels stupid and heavy. Creeping pain in the forehead. Headache, resembling pulsations in the brain. ^Beating headache, about midnight. "Stinging beating, with rush of blood to the head. —Aching pain in the head when stooping. °Laceratng in one side qf the head, also in the ear and teeth. * Jerking lacerating, or draw- ing-darting lacerating.—Cutting headache. "Drawing pain, extend- ing into tbe ear and teeth. Drawing pain, with heaviness and creep- ing in the brain, attended with failure of sight and hearing, and succeeded by chilliness. *Headache : the brain feels tight, with a boring pain in the vertex. Constrictive pain in the temples. Boring sticking, with obscuration of sight, humming in the ears, and vertigo. Humming in the head. Pulsative sensation in the brain, when walk- ing, like the snapping of an electric spark. Headache, extending to the eyes, with pain of the eyes. ^Headache, as if from intoxication and watching. *Hemicrania, -also with nausea and vomiting. ^Sticking hemicrania. Headache in the evening, as if from dry coryza, succeeded by dry heat in bed, with excessive drowsiness, delirious fancies, and almost waking dreams. ^Headache, as if from overloading the stomach, or from eating fat meat. "Headache from a cold. "Headache from abuse of Merc.—"Headache in the evening, or early in the morning in bed, or at night. "Aggravation of the head- ache, mostly in th« evening, and continuance of the headache through the night. "Amelioration of the headache by meditation or by com- pressing the head. Small tumors on the hairy scalp, with ulcerative pain. Pimples on the forehead.—*Sweat on the hairy scalp and face. Eyes.—Violent lacerating, boring, and'cutting in the eye.—*Pres- ture in the eyes. * Pressure, as if from sand, -particularly when reading.—^Sticking in the eyes when shaking the head. "Pressure when looking in the light. Stinging itching. ^Inflammation qfthe 984 PULSATILLA. eyes. ^Inflammation of the margins of the lids, also with swelling " Inflammation qfthe meibomian glands. *Redness and swelling of the lids. *Stye, -also with inflammation of the white. ° Trichiasis on the upper lid.—"Obscuration of the cornea. ? "Cataract.—*D?y ness qfthe eyes, -with pressure as from a foreign body, early in the morning. * Lachrymation in the open air, -also with dimness of sight. *Lachrymation in cold air, -in the wind. Blear-eyedness. "Sharp, biting, corrosive tears.—Abscess in the canthus, as if a fistula-lachrymalis would form. *Dimness of sight, as if through mist. "Dimness of sight on getting warm by exercise. Obscuration of sight on rising in the morning. Paleness of sight.—Obscuration of sight, with inclination to vomit, and paleness of the face. Frequent pa- roxysms of obscuration of sight. "Incipient amaurosis. "Hemeralopia. Diploplia. Luminous vibrations before the eyes. *Fiery circles before the eyes, -increasing in size towards noon, going off in the evening. Ears.—Pain in the ear as if something would press out. °Otalgia, also inflammatory. *Darting through the ears, -also lacerating darting. Darting in the outer ear, succeeded by heat. ^Stinging in the ears. ^Hardness of hearing, as if the ears were stopped up. Heat, redness, and swelling of the ear.—*Pusflows out of the ears, also after measles and other exanthematous diseases.—Itching deep in the ear. Pain- ful glandular swelling between the antihelix and the articulation of the lower jaw. Stinging in the parotid gland.—Cracking in the ear when moving the head or body. Rush of blood to the organs of hear- ing. Pulsative murmuring in the ear. Frequent buzzing in the ear. *Noise in the ear as if caused by tbe wind or by the rustling of water. Nose.—Pressure in the root of the nose. Ulceration qfthe external wing of the nose.—Darting pain in the nose. Illusion of smell.— *Hamorrhage from the nose, -ivith dry coryza. Dry coryza, with ulcerated nostrils.—*Green, fetid discharge from the nose. Sneezing. Face.—*Paleface. "Yellowish complexion. "Alternate redness and paleness. "Red, bloated face during the febrile heat. "Puffed, blue-red face, during a fit of apoplexy. *Heat in the face. *Sweat in the face and on the hairy scalp. "Erysipelas in the face, with stinging and subsequent peeling off of the skin. Jaws and Teeth.—Contractive pain in the jaws, as if occasioned by an acid, accompanied with shuddering and a cold sweat in the face. Pain of the submaxillary glands, on deglutition.__ "Rheumatic toothache.—"Toothache of pregnant females. "Tooth- ache from cold, particularly in the spring, and generally attended with otalgia, hemicrania, chilliness, and pale face. *The toothache comes PULSATILLA. 985 on again every time he eats. * Toothache comes on as soon as he taJces anything warm, into his mouth. Drawing-jerking toothache, aggra- vated by drinking anything cold. ^Drawing toothache, as if the nerves were put upon a stretch and let loose again suddenly, "also with fine stitches in the gums.—"Gnawing drawing in the teeth.— Lacerating toothache, "also sticking lacerating.—"Digging or beating in decayed teeth, with drawing extending to the eye.—Pain in the teeth as if they would be pushed forward.—The tooth is painful when chewing or biting. *The teeth are loose early in the morning.—The gums are painful as if sore. Mouth.—Bad smell from the mouth. Dryness of the mouth. Ptyalism, also with inclination to vomit. *The tongue is lined with a tenacious mucus as with a kind qf fur. White tongue, with bad taste in the mouth, early in the morning. Sensation in the middle of the tongue as if it were burnt and insensible. The tongue is parched and coated grey. Stinging sore throat. "Pressure and tension in the throat on swallowing. Sore throat: cutting pain in the throat. Sore throat: ^sensation, on swallowing, as if the back part qf the throat were narrower than usual or closed by swelling; pain, when swallowing, as if the submaxillary glands were protruding into the throat. The back part of the throat is painful as if it were raw. "Burning and cutting during deglutition. Scraping and raw sensa- tion in the throat, as after violent vomiting. "Pharyngitis.—Difficulty of swallowing, as if from paralysis of the muscles of deglutition. Taste and Appetite.—*Slimy taste in the mouth, and inclination to vomit, early in the morning. * Taste as of putrid meat in the mouth, unth inclination to vomit. ^Nauseating taste from smoking tobacco. He has a constantly bitter, ^bilious taste in the mouth, especially after a meal. *Every kind of nourishment tastes bitter to him. *Loss of appetite. Gnawing sensation in the stomach like canine hunger. *Desires food, but does not relish it. "Thirst, with putrid eructations. Nausea with inclination to vomit. Intolerable nausea with inclination to vomit, without vomiting. Inclination to vomit with chilliness. Sensation of nausea and inclination to vomit in the epigastric region, especially after a meal. Vomiting of the food which had been taken a long time ago. Vomiting of food in the evening; afterwards bitter taste in the mouth and dullness of teeth. * Short vomiting of bile. "Nausea and inclination to vomit, evening or night, or with tingling in the pit of the stomach.—*Water-brash. —*Salt or sour vomiting, in the evening, after a walk in the open air, and with nausea. "Bitter-sour vomiting. "Bitter vomiting earl} in the morning. *Vomiting of mucus, -abo particularly in bed aftej 42 986 PULSATILLA. supper, discharging with grt*t exertions green, watery, and sour sub- stances, causing a burning in *he oesophagus. "Vomiting after every meal, -or long after the meal. °Hamatemesis.—Before the vomiting: "chilliness. GStitches in the ear. "Pale face.—After the vomiting: burning in the oesophagus. Bitterness of the mouth. Loss of appetite. Gastric Symptoms.—After a meal: ^eructations tasting of the ingesta, also with subsequent inclination to vomit. "Pressure in the pit of the stomach. Pain in the stomach. "Heaviness of the head. "Stiffness of the neck. "Shortness of breath. *Nausea, with disposi- tion to vomit. * Vomiting. ^Frequent eructations, particularly after a meal. * Frequent eructations tasting ofthe ingesta. *Sour erno- tations. *Bitter, bilious eructations. Gulping up of a bitter fluid. *Hiccough, -with suffocative paroxysms. *Nausea, -as if arising from great heat of the body. *Nausea while eating, the food becoming repulsive Stomach.—*Pain in the pk of the stomach during an inspiration. "Pain on pressure. Pain after eating. Gnawing in the stomach, as if hungry. Aching, afterwards darting pain in the pit of the stomach. Aching-drawing pain in the pit of the stomach, early in the morning. Tension from the pit of the stomach to the chest.—"Cardialgia. Grip- ing-lacerating in the stomach, early on rising. Griping in the pit of the stomach.—"Tingling in the pit of the stomach. Beating in the region of the stomach. *Perceptible pulsation in the pit of the sto- mach.—°Gastritis. ? "Increase of pain in the hypochondria and pit of the stomach, during pregnancy. Drawing-tensive pain in the hypochondria.—"Hepatitis. ? "Sticking in the region of the liver, also particularly when, walking.—"Diaphragmitis. ? ? Abdomen.—"Colic, relieved by rest, aggravated by motion. Colic only when walking. Colic, as if diarrhoea would come on, with natural stool.—Pressing in the abdomen. "Abdominal spasms, particularly in pregnant females.—Lacerating in the abdomen. Griping. Pinch- ing in the whole abdomen. Pinching, with griping, rumbling, and diarrhoea. Cutting colic above the umbilicus, as if diarrhoea would set in. °Enteritis. ?—Abdominal congestion. ? Distention of the abdomen, after every meal. "Flatulent colic of hysteric females. Loud rumbling in the abdomen, with frequent purging, griping, and pinching. ^Painful sensitiveness of the abdominal walls, -after a loose stool, accompanied with violent thirst. Swelling of the abdo- minal walls, with tensive pain. Stool. — *Obstinate constipation. "Alternate costiveness and diarrhoea. Difficult evacuation, with painful pressing and pain in PULSATILLA. 987 the back. Frequent urging to stool, as if diarrhoza would set in * Frequent loose stool mixed with mucus. ^Frequent passages of mere mucus, every evacuation being preceded by colic. ^Evacuations consisting of nothing but loose mucus mixed with blood. ^Diarrhoea, one or two stools at night, green as bile ; every discharge being pre- ceded by rumbling.1 Diarrhoea, first green, then slimy. Stool like stirred eggs, preceded and succeeded by cutting. * Watery diarrhoza at night. *Diarrhoea, with cutting in the abdomen. *Loose acria stool in the morning. *Slimy diarrhoza. "Diarrhoea after measles "Dysenteric diarrhoea.—During stool: "shaking chill, with goose flesh. ^Burning in the rectum. "Painful soreness of the rectum. After stool: *pain in the abdomen, also colicky pain, as from flatu- lence. ^Soreness qf the anus. Pressure in the rectum. "Sting- ing in the rectum. Blind haemorrhoids, with itching. Discharge of blood. Painful protruding blind haemorrhoids. Urine.—°Retention qf urine. Constrictive pain in the abdomen, extending as far as the bladder, with pressure as from a stone. Tenesmus of the bladder. "Catarrh of the bladder. Frequent, almost ineffectual urging to urinate, with cutting pain during micturi- tion. "Difficult emission of urine, drop by drop.—°Incontinence of urine. "Copious flow of urine. ^Frequent desire to urinate, °with drawing in the abdomen, particularly in pregnant females. Enu- resis-nocturna. ^Colorless watery urine. (*Jelly-like sediment.) Urine with brick-colored sediment. — "Haematuria, with purulent sediment and pains in the kidneys. After micturition : "spasmodic pain in the neck of the bladder, extending to the pelvis and thighs. *Gonorrhoeal discharge from the urethra, -almost like semen, with burning immediately after micturition. Discharge of drops of blood in gonorrhoea. "Bad effects from suppression of gonorrhoea. Genital Organs.—Itching-smarting pain in the outer and inner prepuce. Swelling of the scrotum. *Lacerating pain in the testes. ^Drawing and drawing-tensive pains from the abdomen through the spermatic cord into the testicles. Swelling of the testicles after bruises and contusions. "Burning of the testicles, without swelling. °Hydrocele. "Inflammation of the prostate gland.—"Excessive sexual desire. ^Erections day and night. *Frequent erections, with dis- charge of prostatic fluid. "Emission after onanism. Female Genital Organs. — Drawing-pressing pain towards tho uterus, with inclination to vomit every morning. Drawing-tensive pain in the abdomen, resembling labor-pains. " Uterine spasms, re 1 These kinds of nightly diarrhoea are characteristic of Pulsatilla, and there is scarcely a drug which occasions them as often. 988 PULSATILLA. sembling labor-pains. "Inflammation of the uterus. ? Burning s:ing ing in tbe vagina and labias.—^Suppression of the menses. #Sup pression of the menses, with nausea and disposition to vomit. Sup pression of the menses, with coldness of the body, chilliness, and trembling of the feet. *Too early menses: "Menses too long or too short. Profuse menses. "Puis, is suitable in cases of delaying menses.—Before the menses: chilliness, stretching, and yawning. Heaviness in the abdomen, as of a stone. "Pressing on the rectum, like urging to stool. "Hepatic colic. "Abdominal spasms. "Colic, with vomiting. "Water-brash. "Vertigo and eructations. "Pres- sure in the bladder and rectum. "Cardialgia. Pleuritic stitches during and before the menses.—During the menses : sticking in the chest during an inspiration. Pain in the stomach, oppression in the pit of the stomach, cardialgia. Pressure in the abdomen and small of the back, as from a stone. Spasmodic, almost burning pains in the abdomen. Nocturnal nausea, with discharge of water from the mouth. °Chilliness and paleness of face. Hemicrania. Mental derangement. Obscuration of sight and aggravation of the symp- toms in a warm room. *The blood is thick and black, -flowing by fits and, starts. The blood flows only in the daytime when walking, not at night. The blood is viscid, clotty, thick, dark, or else pale and watery. — °Metrorrhagia. — *Leucorrhaza, -burning. *Thin acrid leucorrhoea. *Milky leucorrhaza, -also painless, or with swelling of the pudendum, or particularly after the menses. ^Discharge of thick white mucus, -particularly when lying, "or before and during the menses, with cutting in the abdomen. In lying-in females: suppression of the lochia, with burning feeling of fullness in the parts. "Puerperal fever. ? Deficiency of milk. ? ° Ailments from. weaning.—^Swelling of the breasts, -also pressing tension in the breasts, as if milk would appear in them, "or with painful sticking and discharge of thin acrid milk. In new-born infants : "ophthal- mia. ? " Chafing of the skin of infants. Larynx and Trachea.—^Catarrhal huskiness of the chest, early in the morning after rising, with cough and expectoration "of tena- cious white mucus, or of yellow, thick lumps. Hoarseness. ^Scrap- ing and dryness in the throat. "Cough excited by an accumulation of mucus and a tickling in the trachea. "Cough excited by yawning.- *Dry night-cough, going off when sitting up in bed. ^Continuous cough in the evening after lying down. Cough, with pain in the chest. *Violent cough, with difficult expectoration, "with painful sticking in the chest and sides. *Cough, with expectovation of yellow mucus. *Cough with a bitter expectoration. "Greenish ex- PULSATILLA 989 pectoration. "Expectoration having a putrid taste.—*IIamoptoe. * Cough, with expectoration of pieces qf dark, coagulated blood "Htemoptoe at night, or until evening. *Cough with purulent ex- pectoration, hectic fever, and corroded, ulcerated lungs.—During the cough : ^sensation as if the stomach would turn, unto vomiting. *Pain in the chest. *Stitches in the side. Stitches in the shoulder. Stitches in the back. "Headache. "Shocks in the abdomen. "Pain in the small of the back. "Palpitation of the heart. Chest.—"Rattling breathing. Quick, short breathing. *Dyspnoea and vertigo, accompanied by weakness in the head, when lying on the back. "Dyspnoea at night in bed, as if the throat were constricted. "Dyspnoea, excited and aggravated by cold air. Asthma, aggravated by exercise and by ascending an eminence. "Spasmodic asthma. "Evening asthma, particularly after a meal. "Oppression of the chest on walking fast. "Suffocative fit with hiccough. "Suffocative fit, as from a spasm in the throat and chest. "Attacks of asthma- millari. ?—"Spasms of the chest, with short cough and suffocative paroxysms. ^Constriction across the chest. Spasmodic sensation through the chest. Spasmodic pain across the chest. "Pain in the side, with cough, not allowing one to lie on the side. ^Sticking in the side, only when lying, particularly at night. "Sticking in the chest, aggravated by drawing deep breath. Cutting pain in the chest, here and there.—"Typhoid pneumonia. ?—"Paroxysms of burn- ing in the chest.—Dull stitches in the region of the heart, with con- tinual pressure, anxiety impeding respiration, relieved by walking. "Heaviness, pressure, and burning in the region of the heart. Con- gestion of blood to the chest and heart, at night, with anxious dreams. *Pain of the chest as from bruises. Neck and Back.—Aching pain in the small of the back, as if weary. Stiffness and pain when lying, as if from subcutaneous ul- ceration. Pain as if dislocated, during motion. Sticking pain in the small of the back and the abdomen, with cutting pains in the ab- domen which arrest the breathing. The back is painful, and stiff as i board. Lacerating pain in the back. Sticking pain in the back and across the chest. "Interstitial distention and curvature of the dorsal vertebrae nearest the neck. Drawing-tensive pain in the loins. Sticking pain between the scapulae during motion, arresting the breathing. Sticking pain in the nape of the neck. Drawing- tensive pain in the nape of the neck. Rheumatic pain in the nape of the neck, with weariness of the feet. Swelling on the nape of the neck. Arms.—Pain in the shoulder when attempting to raise the arm 990 PULSATILLA. Continuous lacerating pain in the shoulder-joint. Sticking rheu- matic pain in the shoulder-joint, in the morning, when moving the arm, or when bending the head to one side. Darting pain in the shoulder-joint. Sensation of excessive weight in the shoulder-joint, and as if paralyzed when one attempts to raise the arm. Pain in the shoulder-joint, resembling a cramp-pain and heaviness.—Pain as if sprained in the shoulder-joint. ^Drawing pains, coming on in short- lasting paroxysms, extending from the shoulder to the wrist-joint. Burning through the arm at night, beginning in the shoulder. The upper arm feels painful to the touch: Drawing pain in the arm, even in rest. Pain as if bruised in the elbow-joint. Pain of the elbow joint, when moving it. Small, not inflamed tumors above the elbow joint, under the skin, painful when touching them. Heaviness of tho arms, with lacerating pain in the elbow-joint when attempting to bend it. Tensive pain qfthe tendons qfthe elboiv-joint when moving the arm. Drawing-lacerating pain in the bones of the lower arm, in repeated paroxysms. Lacerating drawing pain in the arm, especially in the fingers, at night. Painful stiffness in the wrist-joint, when moving it, and as if the hand were sprained or strained. "Itching chilblains on the fingers. ? Legs.—Pain in the hip-joint, as if dislocated. "Coxalgia, also chronic.—"Jerking lacerating of the lower limbs. ^Trembling of the lower limbs. Drawing and tension in the lower limbs in the evening. Inability to move the affected lower limbs, at night, on account of a bruised pain. Violent pain in the muscles of the thigh pud upper arm. Drawing pain, at night, in the muscles of the thighs. Sudden, transitory, paralytic weakness in the thigh, when walking. Pain in the thighs, as if bruised in the bones. Bruised pain in the muscles and bones of the thighs. Paralytic pain in the knees and heel. Excessive weariness of the legs, with trembling of the knees. ^Lacerating pains in the knees, like jerks. Lacerating and drawing pain in the knee. Lacerating pain in the knee, wit\ swelling. Painless ^swelling qfthe knee. ° Inflammatory hot swell- ing of the knee, with stinging. Unsteadiness and weakness of the knees. Paralytic pain of the legs on rising from a seat. Simple pain of the legs. Acute drawing in the legs as far as the knees. Heaviness and drawing pain in the legs, less in the arms. Heavi ness qfthe legs in the daytime. Weariness of the legs. "Red, hot swelling of the legs and feet, after suppression of fever and ague The tibia is painful when touched. Pain as if bruised on the tibia. especially*when raising the leg. The flesh on the legs is painful, aa if from subcutaneous ulceration. Pain in the bones of the leg RANUNCULUS BULB0SUS. 991 "Drawing in the bones. Drawing-tensive pain in the calves. *Swell- ing qfthe dorsum qf the foot. "Erysipelatous burning swelling of the dorsum of the foot, with stinging when touching or moving the part. *Swelling of one foot in the evening. ^Swelling of the feet. Hot feet. *Hot swelling qf the feet, extending as far as the calves. *Red, hot swelling qf the feet, with a tensive burning pain, increas- ing to a stitching pain when standing. "Oedematous swelling of the feet, extending above the malleoli. The soles of the feet are painful, as if bruised. Lacerating pain in the soles of the feet above the knee, and in the back. Burning pain in the soles. Itching ting- ling in the toes, as in frozen limbs, in the evening. 225.—RANUNCULUS. I.—RANUNCULUS BULBOSUS. RAN. BULB.—See Stapf's "Additions to the Materia Medica." Compare with—Ars., Bry., Merc-sol., Nux-v., Puis., Ran.-scel., Rhus-tox., Sabad., Sep., Staphys., Sulph. Antidotes.—Bry., Camph., Puis., Rhus. Arrack and Wine do not interrupt the action of Ranunc.; on the contrary, the pains, particularly those of the head, are aggravated. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Uneasiness proceeding out of the body.—Anxiety, headache, fainting.—The whole body feels bruised. Weak and debilitated during an afternoon walk, trembling of the limbs. Lassitude, ill-humor with pain in the back, and pain as if bruised in the region of the short rib. Trembling of the limbs. Violent epilepsy. Characteristic Peculiarities.—The pains are excited or aggra- vated by contact, motion, stretching, changing the position of the body. Many pains arise from a change of the external temperature, from cold to warm, or vice versa, or morning and evening, or after dinner. Skin.—"Horny and other excrescences. ° Herpes over the whole body. Sleep.—Irresistible desire for sleep. Disturbed sleep at night. Very restless sleep, with increase of pain in the chest and heat. Anxious dreams. Fever.—Chilliness after dinner, with cold hands and hot face.— Heat in the face, in the evening, especially on the right side, with cold hands, quick pulse, and eructations. Pulse full and strong Small hard pulse. 992 RANUNCULUS BULB0SUS. Moral Symptoms.—Ill-humored, and disposed to quarrel and scold. Fearfulness. Sensorium.— Vanishing of thought. Sudden attack of vertigo. Dizziness in the head. Head.—Headache, with anxiety and weakness when eating. Heavi- ness of the head. The head feels distended. Pain in the vertex as if the parts would be pressed asunder. Drawing sticking pain in the occiput.—Pain in the temples, drawing and pressure in the evening while walking, with feverish restlessness and difficulty of breathing Congestion of blood to the head. Pressing pain in the forehead from within outward. Nose.—Pressure in the region of the root of the nose. Face and Teeth.—Heat in the face in the evening, and redness with internal chilliness. Spasmodic paralytic sensation. Eyes.—Smarting in the eyes, nose, and fauces ; the eyes run and are very painful. Sensation of burning soreness in the lower eye-lid. Pressure in the eyes. Violent pressing pains in the eye-balls. Im- mobility of the pupils. Mist before the eyes. Ears.—Cramp-feeling in the ear. Stitches through the ear. Ob- struction of the nose, in the evening, with sore pain. Sore nose, also red and swollen, with tension in the nose. Mouth and Throat.—White-coated tongue. Scraping-burning sensation in the throat. Roughness and tenacious mucus in the throat. Spasmodic feeling in the pharynx and oesophagus. Taste.—Flat taste in the mouth. Bitterish, pungent taste in the mouth. Bitter-sour taste in the mouth. Gastric Symptoms.—Frequent eructations. Hiccough. — Spas- modic hiccough. Nausea in the afternoon, sometimes with headache Nausea, drowsiness. Quickly-passing nausea. Stomach.— Violent burning in the region of the cardiac orifice of the stomach, with great anxiety about the heart.—Burning sore pressure in the pit of the stomach. Painful soreness in the pit of the stomach when touched. Pressure in the pit qfthe stomach. Abdomen.—Pain in both hypochondria, accompanied with pain fulness of that region when touched. Pain in the morning as if bruised. Pain as if bruised in the region of the short ribs, with pain in the back, lassitude, ill-humor. Periodical pulsations in the left hypochondrium. Pressure deep in the region qfthe liver. Stick- ing pressure in the region of the liver, arresting the breathing. Jerking in the abdomen and arm. The subdued pinching colic sometimes alternating with pain in the chest. Sensitiveness of the intestines when walking, and dull pain. Violent colic, drawing, and RANUNCULUS BULBOSUS. 993 pinching below and around the umbilicus. Violent pinching in the umbilical region. Pain deep in the hypogastrium. Stool.—Colic, followed by an evacuation. Stools delay and are hard. Stitches in the anus. (Profusely-flowing haemorrhoids.) Genital Organs.—Frequent erections towards morning, and dizzi ness in the head.—Increase of leucorrhoea; having been mild at first, it now became acrid and corrosive. Chest.—rPressure in the chest and shortness of breath.—Heavy, short breathing in the evening, with burning and fine stitches in the left chest. Oppressive se?tsation in the ohest, as after deep chagrin. Restless sleep, with violent aching of the chest and oppression. Pain ;n the chest and restless nights. Pain in the whole chest; early in the morning on rising rheumatic pain and from subcutaneous ulceration. Violent pressure and pain as if bruised over, the whole left chest, immediately after rising in the morning; every move- ment of the chest causes a pain. Pain in the chest in the even- ing, pressure on the upper and left side of the chest, complicated with stitches, the breathing is painful, even contact is painful. Con- stant pain in the chest the whole afternoon, mostly on the left side, and partly as if in the pectoralis-major. Violent fine stitches in the middle of the chest, in front, during an inspiration. Violent sticking pains in the whole of the right chest. Painfulness of the left chest, the whole day.—Violent aching pain in the middle of the chest. Nausea in the evening, pressure on the sternum, and labored breath- ing. Pressing pain in the outer parts of the chest. Pressing-drag- ging pain in the chest. Back.—Pain in the back, lassitude, and pain as if bruised in the region of the short ribs, with ill-humor. Pain as if bruised in the back and in the hypochondriac region. Rheumatic pain between the scapula? early in the morning on waking. Aching pain in the nape of the neck. Rheumatic pain in the nape of the neck. Arms.—Jerking of the arms. Violent inflammation about the arm, with fever and delirium, followed by gangrene of the arm. Rheumatic pain in both elbow and shoulder-joints. Dull itching in the palm qf the hand. Tingling in the skin of the fingers. Inflam- mation of the arm, from the finger to the shoulder. Ulcers on the fingers. Legs.—Lacerating in the internal of both knees, when walking. Weakness in the bends of the knees. Pulsative stitches in the heel Acute pain of the heels. 42* 63 994 RANUNCULUS SCELERATUS. II.—RANUNCULUS SCELERATUS. Compare with—Clem., ? Merc, ? Puis., Ran.-bulb., Rhus. Antidotes.—Puis.—Wine and Coffee antidote the action of Ran. only partially GENERAL SYMPTOMS. — Itching, boring, biting, tingling, gnawing, in various parts of the body. Sleeplessness, accompanied with anxiety, uncommon debility, gloomy, thoughtless brooding of the mind; limbs feel bruised. Skin.—Itching, pain, burning, redness of the skin. Vesicles upon the skin, emitting a thin, acrid, yellowish ichor. Obstinate ulcers. Sleep.—Half slumber after midnight, frightful, anxious dreams Restless sleep. Fever.—Fever : he wakes after midnight, with heat over the whole body and violent thirst; the pulse is full, soft, accelerated. Dry skin and dry mouth, with thirst, at night.—Chilliness while eating. Moral Symptoms.—Laziness, want of disposition to perform any mental labor.—Sad mood, grief. Head.—Vertigo, when sitting. Vanishing of thought, giddiness. Heaviness and sensation of fullness in the whole head. Long-con- tinuing, dull, aching-gnawing pain in the left vertex. Pressing in the temples from within outwards. Face and Eyes.—Feeling of coldness in the face.—Lachrymation at night. Slight smarting in the corners of the eyes. Burning ©f the margins of the eyes. Injected state of the conjuctiva. Pain- ful pressure in the eye-balls. Ears.—Otalgia, with aching pain in the head and drawing in all the teeth. Nose.—Frequent sneezing. Teeth and Jaws.—Painful drawing in the molar teeth. Sting- ing gnawing in the fore-teeth. Stinging drawing in all the teeth. Drawing and jerking in all the teeth. Pain, swelling, redness, and bleeding of the gums. Mouth.—Smarting at the tip of the tongue. Obstinate pains, burning, redness, inflammation of the tongue.—Ptyalism. Taste, Appetite, and Gastric Symptoms.—Want of appetite. Frequent empty eructations. Rancid, sour eructations. Hiccough. —Nausea, especially after midnight. Desire to vomit, returning periodically in the morning.—Heartburn. Throat.—Smarting in the region of the palate and fauces. Burn- ing in the pharynx. Swelling of the tonsils, with shooting stitches in the same. Stomach and Abdomen.—Tension in the pit of the stomach. J?res RANUNCULIS acris and flammula. 995 sure and sensation of fullness in the pit qfthe stomach. Stitches in the pit of the stomach, causing an acute pain. Troublesomo sensa- tion of fullness in the stomach.—Constriction of the stomach. Stitches in the hepatic region. The abdominal walls are painful. Aching pain in the groins. Stool.—Delaying stool. Frequent urging and loose stools. Fre- quent sensation as if diarrhwa would set in. Titillating burning in the region of the anus. Genital Organs.—Drawing pains in tbe penis. Smarting about the scrotum. Respiratory Organs.—Dry and hacking cough. Tight and deep breathing. Sensation of great weakness in the chest. Oppression of the chest. The whole chest feels weak and bruised. Painful sticking in the right chest, not increased by inspirations. Continued dull sticking in the left chest and below the false ribs.—Stitches in the region of the heart.—Sticking contracting pinching in the region of the heart, causing tightness of breath, at night. Great sensitive- 'ness of the integuments of the chest. External painfulness of the sternum. Back.—Pain in the .small of the back, as if bruised. Paralytic pains in the small of the back. Aching pain between the scapulae. Arms.—Stinging itching in some parts of the upper arms. Para- lytic drawing in the fore-arm. Stitches in the fore-arm. Boring in the metacarpal bones of the thumbs.—Swelling of the fingers. Legs.—Drawing-gnawing pressure in the lower limb.—Biting in the bends of the knees. Itching and furious smarting of the sole of either foot. III.—RANUNCULUS ACRIS. SYMPTOMS.—Head, intolerable heat and fainting ; soreness of the joints, obstinate ulcers. Feet, as far as the knees, look burnt, red, hot, covered with blisters here and there, attended with fever and intolerable pains, gangrene, with trembling and fainting; rest lessness, small, quick pulse, and very red face.—Burning pains and spasms in the oesophagus, griping in the abdomen. Violent irritation of the salivary glands, excoriation and parched condition of the tongue, pain of the teeth, and sensitiveness and bleeding of the gums. IV.—RANUNCULUS FLAMMULA. SYMPTOMS.—Inflammation and gangrene of the arm. Disten tion of the abdomen. Inflammation and gangrene of the abdominal oi gans. 996 RAPHANUS SATIVUS. 226.—RAPHANUS SATIVUS. RAPH.—Radish.—See " Revue Crit. et Retrospect de la Mat. Med. Spec," 1840. Antidotes.—To drink a quantity of water.—Milk and water increase the pain* in the abdomen. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—*Great weakness and languor, -also with bruised feeling in the limbs. Visible emaciation.—Fleeting burning, here and there.—Somnolence the whole day, with scolding during sleep. Restless slumber, with frequent waking, headache, nausea, and pinching around the umbilicus. Profuse sweat during sleep, or low muttering. Feverish shuddering over the back. Fre- quent febrile shudderings, with heat in the head and warmth all over the skin. ^Internal heat after the shuddering, -or alternation of shuddering and heat. Pulse small, bounding, and rather hard.—FuL of anguish, -with dread of death. Head, &c.—Dullness of the head, early on waking, with dull pain in the forehead. Vertigo, with dimness of sight. Pressure above the eyes, with difficulty of sight, going off after vomiting. Pressure above the root of the nose.—Dilatation of the pupils. °Hardness of hearing. ?—^Stoppage qfthe nose.—Red face and gloomy countenance. Pale face, with expression of anguish and great suffering. Hardness and swelling of the submaxillary glands. Mouth, &c.—* Thick white coating of the tongue. Pale and blue- red tongue, with a deep furrow and pale-red points in the middle.— Heat and burning in the throat. Swelling, redness, and soreness of the tonsils. *Flat taste. *Bitter taste.—No appetite.—^Violent thirst.—Constant paroxysms of nausea.—^Constant desire to vomit, -with vanishing of sight and hearing. Frequent vomiting of food and white mucus, with oppression of the chest, heaving of the stomach, and coldness. "Vomiting of bile and mucus. Every vomiting is pre- ceded by shuddering over the back amd arms.—°Morbus-niger.J Miserere. 1 Stomach, &c.—"Pain in the stomach.—Sticking in the region of the liver, also with pressure and soreness.—Pinching around the umbilicus. Violent cutting and sticking around the umbilicus. Feel- ing of heat in the abdomen, particularly around the umbilicus. Burn- ing over the umbilicus. "Ascites. *Frequent, liquid, copious stools, passing out with great force, yellow-brown, or brown and frothy. "Chronic diarrhoea, green, liquid, with mucus and blood.—Undigested diarrhceic stools.—^Copious micturition. "Turbid urine. "Stone.7 RATANHIA. 997 Burning in the urethra during micturition. Drawing and lacerating in the testicles. Larynx, Chest, and Extremities.—°Spasmodic asthma.?—Pain in the chest, particularly when eating and coughing. Violent quick beating of the heart.—Itching burning in the back. Lacerating in the loins when stooping. Trembling of the limbs.—Coldness of the knees and feet, with drowsiness, dullness of the head, dull pain in the forehead, and vomiturition. 227.—RATANHIA. RAT.—See Hartlaub and Trinks' "Mat. Med.," Vol. IV. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Sore pain.—Languor and prostration with uneasiness in the whole body. Haemorrhages. Skin.—Itching, with small glandular swellings on the occiput. Itching, with small red spots in the region of the stomach. Sleep.—Restless sleep, with frequent waking. Unpleasant dreams. Fever.—Coldness and chilly shaking early in the morning. Chilly shuddering over the whole body, in the evening, continuing in bed. Moral Symptoms.—Quarrelsome and ill-humored; vexed mood. Sensorium and Head.—Fleeting lacerating in tbe forehead. Headache, as if the head were in a vice. Pain as if the head would burst. Bruised pain at small spots, here and there, in the head.— Digging-up in the brain.—Heat in the whole head, with heaviness. Eyes.—Inflammation of the whites. Agglutination of the lids Burning and contractive sensation in the lids. Dim-sightedness Sensation as of a white speck before the eyes, impeding sight. Ears.—Lacerating in the ear. Sensation as if an insect were creeping in the ear. Ringing in the ear. Nose and Face.—Feeling of swelling in the nostril. Violent itching in the nose. Burning in the nostrils. Violent sneezing. Dryness of the nose. Fullness and stoppage of the nose. Teeth.—Digging, shooting pain in the molares. Beating pain in the upper incisor, and frequent bleeding of the teeth. The molares feel elongated. Mouth.—The tongue feels tight, as if swollen. Burning as from fire at the top of the tongue. Accumulation of tasteless water in the mouth. Throat.—Sore throat. Painful spasmodic contraction in the throat. Appetite and Stomach.—No appetite. Violent hiccough. Vomit- ing of water, preceded by loathing. Pinching pain about the sto- 998 RHEUM. mach. Constrictive pain in the stomach and cutting in the abdo men. Ulcerative pain in the region of the stomach. Heat and burning in the stomach. Abdomen.—Violent stitch in the region of the ribs. Drawing in the umbilical region, with a feeling of coldness in that region. Burn- ing and twitching in the abdomen. Pinching in the sides of the abdomen. Contractive pain at a small spot in the groin. Stool.—Hard stool, with straining. Ineffectual urging to stool, Yellow diarrhoeic stool, with burning at the anus as from fire. Scanty diarrhoeic stool, preceded by cutting and rumbling in the abdomen Pain in the abdomen during the stool. Urine.—Frequent urging to urinate, only a few drops being passed each time. Scanty urine, soon depositing a sediment, and becoming turbid. Female Genital Organs.—Too early menses. Pain in the small of the back during the menses. Leucorrhoea. Larynx.—Foetid breath. Frequent titillation in the larynx, in- ducing cough. Dry cough, with difficult expectoration of hard mucus. Chest.—Congestion of blood to, and heat in the chest, with diffi- cult respiration. Ulcerative pain in the chest during and after the cough. Violent pressure on the chest. Painful constrictive sensa- tion from both sides of the chest. Fleeting cutting pain at the upper part of the sternum. Pointed sticking in the region of the heart. Back.—Pain as if bruised in the whole spine, going off after rising. Drawing and tensive pain along the whole spine. Arms.—Lacerating in the shoulders. Lacerating in both upper arms, from the shoulders to the elbows. Legs.—Tensive burning in the thigh and leg. Lacerating in the hips. Lacerating from the hip to the knee. Lacerating pain in the tendons of the foot. Drawing in the legs. Great heaviness and weariness in the inner side of the thighs. 228.—RHEUM. RHEUM.—Rhabarbarum, Rhubarb.—See Hahnemann's "Mat. Med." IV. Compare with—Ars, Cham., Coff., Ipec, Merc-sol., Puis. Antidotes.—Camph., Cham., Coff. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Heaviness in the whole body, as when one wakes from a deep sleep. Debility of the whole body. The whole body feels heavy, as if one had not slept enough. Sleep.—Drowsiness. Snoring inspirations during sleep. *The RHEUM. 999 child is pale; she grumbles in her sleep. Vivid, sad, and anxious dreams. Delirious evening sleep. After sleeping : he feels a heavi- ness in his whole body. Pressure in the pit of the stomach. Fever.—Alternation of chilliness and heat. Hot and restless.— Cool sweat in the face, especially around the mouth and nose. Moral Symptoms.—Taciturn and indolent. Moaning, anxious. "Anguish, as if threatened with death. Sensorium.—Delirium. Gloominess of the head, with bloated eyes. Vertigo. Head.—Dull, tight, dizzy sort of headache, extending over the .hole brain. Stupefying headache. Heaviness in the head, with an oppressive heat ascending to the head. Sensation of heaviness in the head and intermittent lacerating. Pulsative, crampy headache. Beating headache. Hammering sensation in the head. Eyes.—The eyes feel weak ; they become painful when looking at a thing for a long time; with a pressure in the eyes as if weary. Lachrymation in the open air.—Beating pain in the eyes. Drawing in the eye-lids. Nose and Ears.—Roaring in the ear. Snapping as of electric sparks and clucking in the ear and in the muscles of the side of the neck. Drawing, a sort of stupefying pain along the root of the nose. Face, Jaws, and Teeth.—Tension in the skin of the face. *Con- vulsive twitching of the facial muscles. Itching rash on the forehead and arms. Appetite and Gastric Symptoms.—Sour taste in the mouth. Want of appetite.—Hunger, but no appetite. Urging to stool after a meal. Nausea in the region of the stomach. Feeling as if one would vomit, Qualmishness. Nausea, colic. Sensation of nausea in the abdomen. Throat, Mouth, Stomach, and Abdomen.—Astringent sensation in the pharynx. Repletion in the stomach as if he had eaten too much. Contractive sensation in the stomach, accompanied with nausea. Distention qfthe abdomen. Colic before and during stool, abating after stool. Dull, strangulating cutting across the abdomen. Pressing in the umbilical region, as if the intestines would be pressed out. Cutting in the umbilical region. Colic, bloatedness of the abdomen. Violent cutting in the region of the lumbar vertebra. Stool.—Ineffectual urging to stool, with pinching in the abdomen, and inaction of the rectum. * Tenesmus. Stool, first loose, then hard; preceded and accompanied by violent cutting. *Diarrhozic stools, consisting of faces and mucus. Discharges of grayish mucus by the rectum. "Diarrhoea of lying-in females. ^Frequent diarrhoea, with vomiting and great debility.—Papescent, sour-smelling stool 1000 RHODODENDRON. Frequent urging to stool, which results in a loose, papescent, foetid evacuation, with colic and tenesmus. Increased urging to stool when moving about. A sort of tenesmus of the rectum. Urine and Genital Organs.—Weakness of the bladder. Pres- sure on the bladder. Burning in the kidneys and bladder.— Red-yellow urine, as in jaundice and acute fevers. Burning urine. Yellow, bitter milk in nursing females. — "Diarrhoea of infants. "Difficult dentition. Respiratory Organs.—Dull, quick stitches under the last rib, during an expiration and inspiration. Single stitches in the chest. —Oppression of the chest.—Compression of the chest. Dyspnoea. Back, Arms, and Legs.—Stiffness of the small of the back and hips. Lacerating in the upper arms and the finger-joints. Lacerat- ing in the fore-arms. Distended veins of the hands. Lancinating pain in the thumb. Weariness of the thighs, as after an excessive effort. Tensive aching pain in the bend of the knee, extending down to the heel. Stiffness of the knee, which is painful during motion. 229.—RHODODENDRON. RHODOD.—Rhododendron Chrysanthum.—Yellow Rose of Siberia.—See Stapf a "Additions to the Mat. Med." Compare with—Ac-phosph., Clemat, Chin., Dulc, Led., Merc, Nux-v., Puis., Rhos-tox., Seneg., Sulph., Thuja., Zinc. Antidotes.—Camph., Clem., Rhus. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Creeping sensation in the limbs. ^Erratic lacerating pains in the limbs. Insensibility of the affected parts. Insensibility and paralysis of the limbs. — Increase of the pains in the limbs. Painful sensitiveness in windy and cold weather. Disagreeable general feeling of weakness. Great weariness and bruised feeling of the whole body. Convulsions. Characteristic Peculiarities.—The pains in the limbs are espe- cially felt in the fore-arm and leg down to the fingers and toes ; they soon pass off, and resemble a cramp-like drawing. *Almost all the pains reappear at the approach of rough weather, "or of a thunder- storm. The pains in the limbs appear to be seated in the bones or skin, they affect only small spots, and reappear when the weather changes. Many symptoms appear in the morning. Skin.—Itching and gnawing in different parts of the body. Drop- sical swellings.—*The joints affected by gout become red, swollen, and painful. Sleep.—Great drowsiness in the daytime. Great drowsiness, with RHODODENDRON. 1001 burning in the eyes. Restless sleep. Tremulousness of the limbs at night. Restless sleep, disturbed with dreams. Sleep full of dreams. Fever.—Cold feet. Paroxysm of fever at six o'clock in the even- ing Great heat about the head, with cold feet and absence of thirst, intolerable headache, with pressure from within outward, burning in the eyes, dryness in the nose, and a burning hot sensation in the nose. Febrile heat, with violent thirst.—Alternation of chilliness and heat, headache, drawing in the limbs. Paroxysmal burning heat in the face, evening. Slow pulse. Moral Symptoms.—Frightful visions.—Fits of anxiety. Mental derangement. A sort of delirium. Gloomy mood, indifferent. Sensorium. — Vertigo. Vertigo and sleep. Stupefaction. Ob- scuration of the senses. Giddiness. Intoxication. Makes the head feel wild and confused. Reeling sensation in the brain. Forgetful- ness and sudden disappearance of all thoughts. Dullness of the head. The head feels dull, wild, and confused, as after intoxication. Dizzi- ness and dullness in the forehead. Head.—Headache early in the morning, in bed. Excessive head iche, as if the whole brain were oppressed. Headache, as if a catarrh were about to set in. Dull headache, in the evening.—Burning stitch through the head. Sticking headache, particularly in the part near the forehead. —Beating headache. Violent drawing lacerating pain in the forehead. Aching pain in the forehead. Beating pain in the forehead, with pressure, going off during rest. Aching pain in the left half of the forehead. Aching on the vertex. Dullness of the head. Painful pressure in the temple, from without inward. Aching pains in the temple. Lacerating boring pain in the left temporal region. Pressure in the temporal bones. Dull pressure, deep in the occiput, in the evening.—Tension in the left portion of the frontal bone. Tension, with pressure in the front part of the forehead.—Aching sore pain in the brain. Racking sensation in the head when walking. The scalp is painful to the touch. Painfulness of the vertex, as if from subcutaneous ulceration.— Violent itching of the hairy scalp. Eyes.—Swollen eye-lids, which easily become red.—Suppuration of the eye-lids, at night. Dampness of the eyes, and agglutination of the lids.—Lachrymation, also in the open, raw air.—Painful pres- sure in the internal canthus, as from a grain of sand.—Burning and pressure in the inner canthi. Slight burning and pressure in the eyes. Dry burning in the eyes. Burning and feeling of dryness in tne eyes, especially in the evening. Periodical burning in the eyes. 1002 RHODODENDRON. Itching of the eyes.—Contraction of the pupil. Sensation as of a gauze before the eyes, second day. Ears.—Humming and ringing before the ears. Constant buzzing in the ears. Beating sensation in the ear.—Shooting stitches in the ear. Violent otalgia in the ear. Periodical boring or drawing pain in and around the ears. Nose.—Itching and creeping in the nose. Increased secretion of mucus in the nose, as if a catarrh would set in. Violent fluent coryza, with headache and roughness of the throat. Face.—Prickling biting in the cheek. Dry and burning lips. Jaws and Teeth.—Occasional grumbling and lacerating in the molar teeth. Lacerating sharp aching pain in the upper molar teeth, increased by warm food. Toothache. Aching pain, as if swollen and sore. Mouth and Throat.—Prickling sensation on the tongue. Increase of saliva, which has a sourish taste. Burning in the fauces, with con- strictive feeling. Burning, and a feeling of heat in the posterior part of the mouth, as if catarrh would set in. Scraping and scratching sensation in the fauces. Taste.—Flat, bitter taste. Sourish taste in the mouth. Trouble- some thirst. Gastric Symptoms and Appetite.—Gulping up of a rancid fluid, occasioning a scraping sensation in the throat. Loss of appetite. Uncomfortable feeling after a meal.—Nausea. Nausea, accumulation of water in the mouth, and inclination to vomit. Nausea while walk- ing ; experiences a feeling of qualmishness at the stomach. Vomit- ing of a green, bitter substance. Stomach.—Troublesome pressure in the pit qfthe stomach. Aching pain in the pit of the stomach when stooping. Continual aching pain in the pit of the stomach. Contractive pressure in the pit of the sto- mach, with tightness of breathing. Aching, crampy pain in the pit of the stomach, sometimes spreading to both hypochondria and imped- ing respiration. Pinching in the pit of the stomach. Abdomen.—Hypochondria. Periodical crampy pain under the short ribs. Violent stitches in the region of the spleen, arresting the breath- ing. Pressing and drawing pain under the short ribs, early in the morning. Cutting, afterwards aching pain in the epigastrium, after a meal. Paroxysmal drawing-aching pain in the epigastrium, with nausea. Pinching colic. Painful distention of the abdomen. The abdominal integuments are painful. Stool. — Costiveness. Ineffectual urging to stool. — Occasional diarrhoea. Diarrhoea, directly after a meal. Food and drink cause RHODODENDRON. 1003 diarrhoea without colic. Fruit occasions diarrhoea and a feeling of weakness in the stomach. Feeling of qualmishness, as if diarrhoea would set in. Loose stool, but sluggish. Desire for stool, as if diar- rhoea would set in. Tenesmus, with papescent stool. Stool is suc- ceeded by a feeling of emptiness, followed by pinching in the abdo- men.—Beating pain in the anus. Crawling in the anus, as if from ascarides. Male Genital Organs.—Burning sore pain between the genital organs and thighs. Itching and increase of sweat about the scrotum. The testes are somewhat drawn up, swollen, and painful. Contusive pain in the testes, with alternate drawing. The testes, especially the epidydimis, are intensely painful to the touch. Violent painful draw ing in the hard, somewhat swollen testes. "Swelling of the testes with drawing-pressing. "Hydrocele. Profuse emission, with amorous dreams, five nights.' Urine.—Frequent desire to urinate. Burning in the urethra before and during micturition. Pain in the urethra as from sub- cutaneous ulceration. Female Genital Organs.—The menses appear too early or late. Larynx and Trachea.—Scraping sensation in the throat. Titil- lation in the throat, exciting cough. Fatiguing, dry cough, morning and night. Dry cough, with increased tightness of the chest and roughness in the throat. Chest.—Aching pain in the chest, with tight breathing. Pain in the middle of the chest, resembling cuttings. Crampy pain through the chest. Oppressive burning pain in the chest, below the ribs. Contractive pain in the chest. Constriction of the chest. Suppressed breathing, suffocative sensation.—Oppression of the chest during sleep, a sort of nightmare. Violent congestions of the chest. Rush- ing of the blood in the chest and region of the heart. Pain in the muscles of the chest, increased by contact. The whole thorax feels sprained and bruised. Small of the Back.—Aching pain in the small of the back, and back. Aching pain, with anxiety, going off by motion. Pain, as if sprained. Pain, becoming intolerable by stooping. Pain, resembling a fine drawing lacerating, as if close to the bone. Pain in the small of the back, as if bruised, increased during rest, especially violent in rainy weather. Rheumatic drawing pain in the scapulae.—Rheumatic pain between the scapula?, hindering motion. Pain in the back, shoulders, and arms, early in the morning when in bed, digging-up, drawing, disturbing sleep, accompanied with a bruised pain of the whole body. Tensive rheumatic pain in the outer side of the neck, 1004 RHUS RADICANS. with drawing, extending as far as behind the ear. Rheumatic pain with stiffness, in the nape of the neck. Arms.—Lacerating pain in the shoulder. Violent beating and drawing pain in the shoulder-joint. Paralytic rheumatic pain in the shoulder. Legs.—Pain in the hip, as if sprained. Quickly-passing pains in the lower limbs. Occasional contusive pain in some of the muscles of the lower limbs. "Lacerating in the lower limbs, also particularly in the hip-joints, worse during rest and in stormy weather, also a+ night. "Lacerating from the thigh to the foot, worse during rest. Heaviness in the thighs. Feeling of a burning soreness between the thighs and the perinaeum. Fine lacerating, deep in the knee- joints. Drawing in the bend of the knees, when walking. "Cold swelling of the right knee, with raging pain extending to the leg, in bed and during rest. ° White swelling qfthe knee. Boring, beating pain in the tibia. "Constant sensation as if gone to sleep, also in the feet, with sticking in the knees and tarsal-joints, tension in the limbs when walking, and aggravation of the pains when sitting still. Oede- matous swelling of the legs and feet. Sharp crampy pains in the tarsal-joints. Drawing, digging-up pain in the joints of the upper limbs, especially the left, when at rest. Heaviness, and tremulous, paralytic weakness of the arm, when at rest, diminished by motion. " Weakness in both arms, with tingling as if gone to sleep.—Pain in the muscles of the upper arm, as after an excessive exertion. Pulsa- tion in the upper arm. Violent aching pain, as if seated in the periosteum. Drawing in the elbow-joints. Pain in the wrist-joints, as if sprained, with increase of warmth. Digging-up, a drawing pain in the wrist-joints. "Swelling, with drawing lacerating, first in the joint, afterwards in the dorsum of the hand. Tremor of the hands, during rest and motion. Sensation of loss of strength, and heaviness in the hands. 230.—RHUS RADICANS. RHUS RAD.—Poison Ivy, Poison Vine.1 Duration of Action: from five to seven weeks, in some cases. 1 This medicine has been proved, and the symptoms arranged by Dr. B. F. Joslin, with the cooperation of Drs. S. B. Barlow, E. Bayard, R. M. Bolles, B. F. Bowers, R. A. Snow, J. Taylor, W. Williamson, and C. Wright A few symp- toms are from Drs. Bute and Horsfield. In the following article, the long dash is employed to separate symptoms observed at' different times or by different provers. None but concomitant •yn?ptoms are connected by the words "and" or "with," or placed in the same RHUS RAD1CANS. 1005 Compare with—Rhus-tox., and most of the remedies which are analogous to the latter. Rhus-rad., has acted well after: Ant.-crud., Arn., Bell., Bry., Lach., Nux-v., Op., and Sulph. Antidotes.—Bry., Camph., Coff., Merc, Puis, Sulph.—Infusion of Coffee, taken as a drink, interrupts its curative action. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—^RHEUMATIC PAINS.—^Semila- teral rheumatic pain, with rigidity, sensibility, "and contraction of the affected muscles, the pain increased at night, and by moving the part.—*WANDERING PAINS, sometimes on one side, some- times on the other.—Stinging, lacerating, sharp pains.—Aching in the joints.—Sensation of crepitation at a joint on moving it.—Ach- ing pain and lameness, especially of the extremities.—Sensation of trembling.—Jerking, trembling, or shaking, and the paralytic weak- ness of the extremities, especially at night.—"Coldness of the extre- mities. Fatigue from walking. *Excessive debility. *General debility in the morning.—^General languor, with inclination to lie down.—Disinclination to physical or mental labor.—Bodily torpor.— Dread of bodily and mental exertion.—Physical apathy. Restless nights.—Day-sleepiness, with frequent yawnings and chilliness.— Numbness of the limbs, especially at night. Characteristic Sphere and Conditions.—This remedy appears to act especially upon the brain, the muscles, tendons, skin, and mucous membranes. — Pains often semilateral. — Pains in various, and often in remote parts in succession. Pains where tendons are connected with the muscles or bones, especially during the action of the muscles.—Stiffness of the joints.—The symptoms often occur suc- cessively in parts either transversely or diagonally opposite.—Pains IN MUSCLES DURING THE EARLY PART OF THE TIME IN WHICH THEY ARE EXERTED, DISAPPEARING AFTER LONG-CONTINUED ACTION. *The pain and soreness are worse in the morning when beginning to move. —Pains when lying on the opposite side.—The sufferings are some- times mitigated by movement and walking, sometimes by rest and when lying down.—Many of the pains are relieved while walking in the open air, and when the mind is fully occupied ; worse when begin- ning to move, from the agitation of laughing, and in the house.—Many sufferings after drinking cold water. Languor on rising in the morn- group between consecutive dashes, unless some intimation of their disconnection is given by the expressions employed. The distinctions of type refer to the number of provers by whom the symptoms have been verified. No symptom is italicised unless experienced by two or three provers. The small capitals denote twice as many concurrent provers, and the larger CAPITALS three time« as many as were required for italics. The distinctions of type and the grouping of concomitants increase the value of the symptoms, though at some sacrifice of •uperficial regularity. 1006 RHUS RADICAN8. ing at seven o'clock. Many sufferings ocour between four and seven in the afternoon, especially about six o'clock. Exacerbations or new symptoms often occur in the evening or morning. Some symptoms are increased in the evening and at night. Sufferings aggravated by change of weather. Many symptoms occur on a sudden depression of atmospheric temperature.—Drowsiness, pains, and other symptoms on the approach of a storm. Pains during rainy weather. Skin.—General feeling of heat in the skin.—ITCHING OF THE SKIN in various parts.—Itching, tickling, and pricking of the skin.—CUTANEOUS ERUPTIONS, with itching, burning, and pricking.—*Hard, red, and itching eruptions.—"Hard, red, and itch- ing blotches on the extremities, face, eye-lids, and neck, with a raised and swollen appearance of the surrounding parts. Red, inflamed, tuberculoid elevations of the skin.—^Vesicular eruptions.—"Erup tion of watery pimples, in children, itching, bleeding, and scabbing. Vesicular eruption with innumerable small points.—Itching eruption in warm weather.—The eruption is attended with pricking, biting, and burning. ^Erysipelas.—Erysipelas during hot weather.—Heat and redness of the skin.—"Inflammation extending from a gun-shot wound.—Burning sensation in a part of a mucous membrane. Swell- ing of the lymphatic glands. — "Inflammation along the route of lymphatic vessels. Sleep.—Frequent yawning. — ^Sleepiness in the daytime.— *SLEEP IMPERFECT.—^Sleepless at night.—Dreamy, unrefresh- ing sleep.—*Sleep disturbed, frequent waking.—Restless sleep.— *Seminal emissions during sleep at night.—Dreams amorous and voluptuous. — Dreams of dangers. — Frightful dreams. Anxious, uneasy sleep, with frightful dreams. Fever.—*Chills, -general or partial, especially in the back Chilliness in the back, with weakness of the legs, desire to lie down, and shootings in the abdomen. General chills.—^Coldness of the extremities.—Coldness, with aching of the limbs.—*Chills and fever, with thirst, slight.—Coldness qfthe extremities, with heat and bloated- ness of the face and head.—*FEVER.—"Inflammatory fever.—"In- termittent fever.—° Quotidian intermittent fever, chills between nine and ten in the forenoon, followed by heat, with frequent pulse.— "Quotidian intermittent, chills commencing every day at one o'clock in the afternoon, increased by movement, and attended with pain in tbe bones.—"Double tertian, chills predominant. °Fever, with pains in the legs. "Intermittent fever, quartan, commencing in the even- ing with heat, followed by heat with perspiration, yellow coat and reddish tip of the tongue.—*Remittent fever.—"Fever with debility RHUS RADICANS. 1007 —"Nervous fever. — ° Typhoid fever. — "Typhoid fever, frequent pulse, pains in the limbs, vertigo on rising, thick brown coat on the tongue, and redness at the ^.-^"Typhoid fever, saliva, consisting of a white, dense, and extremely viscid froth, urine depositing a pink- colored sediment; trembling and jerking of the hands.—"Typhoid fever, with rheumatism of the neck. Typhus fever in an early stage. —"Fever in consequence of a burn, frequent pulse, hot and dry skin, headache increased by movement and stooping, disagreeable taste in tbe mouth.—"Fever, small and frequent, and feeble pulse, angina, pains in the head, neck, and back.—"Fever, with slough-like appear- ance on the tonsil, throbbings in the head, cough, and burning of the yes and cheeks.—* Universal heat, with dryness of the skin.— *Pulse frequent.—Pulse slow, especially when lying down.— "Pulse feeble, frequent, and small.—#Pulse frequent and small, with rigidity of the neck.—Easy perspiration.—Constant perspiration, with a sticky feeling.—Perspiration from the least exercise.—Easy per- spiration, with dryness of the mouth, yet without thirst. Affective Faculties and Disposition.—Melancholy.—*Mental depression.—Mental apathy.— Unusual irritability of disposition.— Depression of spirits. Peevish humor.—Discouragement, anxiety, and apprehension about the future.—Extreme peevishness and im- patience.—*Great discouragement.—Mental indolence. Sensorium and Intellect.—Weakness of memory.—Mental dull- ness and indisposition to conversation.—Cerebral congestion.—*Ver- tigo.—*Vertigo on walking.—"Vertigo on rising and after stooping. —Confusion qf head.—Momentary loss qf consciousness.—The head feels too large. Head.—* Heaviness qfthe head.—*Fullness in the head. SEMI- LATERAL PAIN IN THE TEMPLE.—Pain above the eyes.— Shootings in the head.—Dull pain in the occiput.—Pressure in the head.—Remittent pain in the head. Darting pain through the temple. *Dull and continued PAIN IN THE FOREHEAD.— Violent and ^unceasing pain across the forehead, and on the top of the head. Headache, followed by griping pains in the bowels.— Headache with nausea.—Quotidian periodical headache.—Dull ach- ing in the whole head, on waking in the morning.—Dull headache in the forenoon.—Headache in the forenoon, with sleepiness.—Dull pain in the forehead, temples, and occiput, in the morning.—Dull pain in the whole head, commencing in the anterior part.—"Pain in the top of the head, in the morning.—Transient, but severe semi- lateral headache, from intellectual labor.----*Shooting pains through the head.—*The headache is worse and the pains are sharper when 1008 RHUS RADICANS. lying down.—Darting pains w the head.—#Pain in the head and nape of the neck.—Pain in the occiput and neck.—Severe head- ache, with nausea, vomiting, and pain in the stomach.—Headache increased by movement and stooping. *Throbbing in the head Heat qfthe head. Heat, pain, and throbbing of the head. Itching of the scalp. Eruptions on the scalp. Eyes.—Pain in the eyes on opening them. Heaviness and pain over the eyes. Smarting of the eye-lids.—Itching of the eye-lids.— *Itching in the eye-lid.—^Burning in the eye-balls. *Heat and itching of the eyes. ^Sensation of heat in the eye-lid. Congestive inflammation of the conjunctiva. * Redness and swelling of the eye- lids, with itching and burning." GMematous swelling of the eye- lids, with smarting.—Lachrymation. Photophobia on waking in the morning. Confusion of sight. Obscurity of vision. Ears.—Pain in one ear. Heat and swelling of the ear, resem- bling erysipelas. Sensation as if the beating of the heart or arteries were heard in the ear.—"Parotitis after scarlatina, with oedematous swelling of the hands. Nose.—Itching in the nostrils.—Pricking in the nose.—Eruption in the nostril.—*Epistaxis.—^Bleeding from the nose in the morn- ing.— Dryness of the nostrils. ^Sneezing.—^Fluent coryza.— Fluent and burning coryza, with copious discharge of serum or mucus, and attended with headache. Face.—"Complexion pale and yellow.—"Pain at the left maxillary joint on moving the jaw.—Itching in the face.—Furunculi, pustules. pimples, or vesicles on the face.—*Burning in the face, with redness and itching.—^Erysipelas of the face.—Itching, swelling, and redness of the face.—Erysipelatous redness, burning, and smarting of the left side of the face. "Dryness of the lips.—Pimples upon the face and forehead.—Excoriated, smarting, and burning spot below the nose. Eruption of small granules across the forehead. Pricking eruption of the face, extending to tbe ears. Teeth.—Darting pain in the carious teeth.—Dull pain in the Bockets of all the teeth.— Transient throbbing in the tooth.—Pain in carious roots in the upper jaw. Toothache, attended with flow of saliva. Toothache in the evening. The gums bleed readily. In- flammation of the gums.—Gum-boil.— Tenderness and swelling near the roots of the painful teeth. Mouth.—"Breath foetid.—^Dryness of the mouth.—Increase op saliva.—"Saliva, a white dense and viscid.froth. Much salivation. Sore feeling of the palate.—"Ulcers inside of the mouth, below the check, and inside of the lips. Burning and smarting of the tongue, RHUS RADICANS. 1009 with increase of saliva.—* Yellow coat on the tongue.—PRICK- ING IN THE TONGUE. Burning in the tongue.—*REDNESS OF THE TIP OF THE TONGUE.—*TONGUE FEELS SORE AT THE TIP.—" Excoriation with vesicles at the tip qfthe tongue. Throat.—Pricking in the throat.—Constriction and irritation in the throat.—Roughness in the throat.—Burning in the throat.— Pain and burning in the oesophagus.—Sensation of swelling, of full- ness, and of rawness in the throat. Redness of the fauces.—Inflam- mation of the throat.—Soreness at the root of the tongue.—°The tonsils, especially the right one, swollen, red, and partly covered with slough-like membrane. *Painful deglutition. "Sensation as if from a foreign body in the throat.—^Dryness of the throat. Appetite and Taste.—^Disagreeable taste in the mouth. Bitter taste.—* Appetite deficient.—"Thirst at night. Gastric Symptoms.—*Empty eructations.—Burning in the sto- mach, sometimes preceded by burning in the throat.—NAUSEA.— Nausea with faintness, followed by general chilliness with perspira tion. Nausea, soon accompanied by headache. Stomach.—*PAIN IN THE STOMACH.—Severe pain in the stomach, with dizziness in the head.—Griping pain in the stomach. "Pain in the stomach after meals. Weakness and oppression in tbe stomach.—Sinking feeling at the stomach, with salivation.—Sensa- tion of fullness in the stomach.—^Pressure and fullness in the epi- gastrium, relieved by eructations.—Cramping pain in the stomach.— *Severe pains in the stomach, at intervals, extending to the chest. —"Periodical attacks of sharp lacerating pains in the stomach.— Shootings in the stomach.—Sensibility of the stomach to pressure. Hypochondria.—"Constriction of the hypochondria.—Pain in the region of the liver.—*Pain in the left hypochondrium. Abdomen.—"Pain bearing or pressing down towards the hypogas- tric region.—Constipation, with sense of dragging and falling in the abdomen.—Severe griping pains in the upper part of the abdomen, at intervals.—Twisting colic-pains.—Sharp pains in the abdomen.— Sharp griping pains, with looseness.—Colic-pain in the lower part qf the abdomen.—Colic, followed by loose stool or frequent evacua- tions.—Shootings in the abdomen after drinking cold water.—Pain in the umbilical region, with soreness on bending. Twisting colicky pain, succeeded by a loose stool.—"Flatulence, "with borborygmus. Shootings in the groin. Stool and Anus.—^Constipation.— Urgency to stool.—Brown stools.—Slimy stools.—Loose, pappy, slimy, sour-smelling stools.— Blood with the diarrhaic stools.—Stools slightly streaked with blood 43 64 1010 RHUS RADICANS. Blood from the anus after the stool.—*Diarrhcea, the evacuation sometimes preceded by lassitude. Dysenteric diarrhoea, preceded by lassitude. *Diarrhoea, with frothy, slimy, and yellow stools.—Pain- ful burning in the anus. Evacuation preceded by a pain in the ab- domen. Diarrhoea, with* burning in the anus after evacuation.— Evacuation painless, but urgent.—Procidentia-recti. Pressing down at the anus, with a dull aching pain in the rectum.—Intolerable itching and burning at the anus. Urine. — *Frequent urination.----^Frequent and small dis- charges of urine. "Pressure on the bladder, with difficult urination, frequent and painful desire to urinate.—* Urine red and discharged in small quantities.—*Deep red urine.—"Pink-colored sediment.— ^Pressure on the vesica. Genital Organs.—Dull aching pain in the penis.—Miliary erup- tion on the back of the penis, with stinging and itching.—The penis is bloated, swelled up, a sort of false erection as in syphilis, inflam- mation of the scrotum.—"Scrotum inflamed and irritated by walking. Vesicles on the scrotum.— Diminished sexual desire. "Nocturnal seminal emissions.—Catamenia profuse. Larynx and Trachea.— ^Influenza.—"Weakness of the voice.— "Is fatigued by speaking.—Feeling of soreness qfthe larynx.—Bron- chial catarrh, with sore scraping in the throat. Inflammation of the larynx descending from the fauces, with heat, soreness, and sense of suffocation. Acute bronchitis.—Soreness, extending from the throat downward through the chest, and weight, cough with expectoration of frothy mucus of a saltish taste. *Dry cough, often short.—*Dry cough in the morning, with soreness of tbe throat. *Cough from irritation in the chest. *Pain in the chest when coughing.—*Hack- ing cough, excited by tickling in the chest. "Cough on movement. Chest.—Aching heavy or pressive pains in the region of the heart. *Pain in the chest at night.—*Pain in the chest, more when at rest. "Chronic rheumatic pain in the chest.—Feeling of lameness in the musclos of the chest.—Sensation of excoriation in the chest behind the sternum.—Drawing, crampy pains of the chest.—*Pain in the chest, commencing in the stomach.—"Stinging lacerating pain in the sides of the chest, commencing in the stomach.—*Pain in the chest when walking.—Pain in the chest, worse on movement.—Pain in the chest, increased by deep inspiration.—Pain in the chest, worse on inspiration.—Shock of pain in the chest.—Sensation of heat in the chest. Burning in the chest and throat, as if in the oesophagus.— Aching pains about the heart, and occasionally sudden shootings.— Palpitation of the heart in the evening.—^Palpitation of the heart, RHUS RADICAN8. 1011 with a sensation of fullness in the head. Severe palpitation at mid- night, in bed, with pulse hard, small, and very frequent, with dyspnoea, pain in the chest. "Palpitation of the heart, increased by sitting still.—*'Sensibility qfthe chest to pressure. Spinal Regions.—"Spinal weakness.—*Pain in the loins, also on moving the part, especially at first.—*Aching in the loins when lying in bed at night. "Aching in the lumbar spinal region and ilia, when lying down at night. Rheumatic, burning, and semi-acute pain in tbe side. Pain and rigidity in the posterior lumbar region. * Aching pain through the back in the region of the kidneys, -attended with a sense of weariness and languor with stiffness.-—*Pain in the dorsal spinal region, worse in bed.—"Drawing in the dorsal spine on stooping.—"Back-ache, worse in the morning, and in bed.—Pain between the shoulders.—Chills in the back.—Weakness of the back, with lameness. Pains in the scapula. *Side of the neck sensitive to pressure.—*Rigidity of the neck, with a frequent and small pulse. ----"Rigidity of the neck, with pain in it, increased at night. ^Muscles qf the neck pained by movement and sensitive to pressure. Arms.—Severe pain in the right shoulder in the evening.—Rheu- matic pain in the shoulder and arm. Pain in the deltoid muscle. Erratic pains in the upper extremities, between the joints. Drawing, aching, and shooting in the arms, wrists, hands, and fingers. Pain in the shoulders, then immediately in the upper arm.—"Numbness and feeling of deadness in the arms and hands at night. Numbness qfthe arms, with pricking in the fingers. ^Rheumatic pain in the upper arm, "increased by movement. Pain in the elbow. Sudden attack of sore rheumatic pain about the elbow-joint. Pain in the left fore-arm. Deep-seated aching of the fore-arm. Numbness of the fore-arm, hands, and fingers. Aching of the wrist. Vesicles on the wrists.—Aching in the wrist. Pressing fullness of the hands. *Numbness of the hands -and fingers.—Stingings in the hands and fingers.—"Coldness of the hands. Swelling of the hands.—*Infiam- mation qfthe hand, with heat, redness, and swelling.—Heat, throbbing, redness, and shining of the hands, with swelling and stiffness.—^In- flammation of the hand, from external injury.—-"Inflammation of the hand extending from a burn on the fingers. Vesicles on the hands. Pain at the finger-joints.—Sharp pain in the finger.—Tingling in the fingers.—* Pricking in the fingers. Itching unsuppurating erup- tion on the fingers. *Sufferings from wounding a finger. "After a wound on the finger, inflammation extends up the arm. Lers.—*Pain in the hip.—Rheumatic pains from tbe hips and nates to the legs.—"Pain in the hip and legs.—#Aching pain, with 1012 RHUS TOXICODENDRON. soreness along the crest of the ilium. Inflammation and excoriation of the inside of the nates.—Feeling of weakness, heaviness, and insta- bility of the lower limbs, when walking.—In the evening, weakness and rigidity of the inferior extremities.—Shootings in the long muscles. Eruption on the thigh.— Weakness qfthe knees and legs.—*Lameness at the knee. *Pain in the knees.—Aching in the knees and ankles. Rheumatic pain in the inner and lower edge of the patella, extending into the knee-joint, aggravated by motion. *The legs feel weak. Weakness and heaviness of the legs when walking.—Aching of the legs. Dull aching and sensation of weakness in the legs and ankles. —Tiresome aching qfthe legs.—"Pain, as if in the bones, like rheu- matism. *Pain in the calf of the leg, often when walking. Restlessness of the legs.—Drawing pains of the legs. Cramp in the leg. Shooting pains of the legs.—^Numbness and sense of torpor of the legs.—"Numbness and paralytic weakness of the legs at night, with sense of deadness and want of feeling in the limbs. Itching of the legs. Red eruption encircling the lower part of the legs. Pains at the ankles, sometimes severe.—Pain in the ankles in the evening. —Aching in the knees and ankles.—*Pam in the right ankle. Rheumatic pains in the legs, and especially in the ankles, worse toward evening. Weakness in the ankles.—^Swelling with pain qf the right ankle. "Lameness, weakness, and aching of the feet and ankle-joints, after walking. Drawing pains in the feet.—^Coldness of the feet.—Heat of the feet. "Redness of the top of the foot, with internal soreness, pain on stepping or moving the part.—Pain between the joints of the toes. 231.—RHUS TOXICODENDRON. RHUS TOX.—Poison Oak.—Hahnemann's " Materia Medica," IV. Compare with—Am.-carb., Arn., Ars., Bell., Bry., Calc, Caust., Chin., Clem., Coce, Coff., Con.. Dulc, Lach., Led., Lye, Nitr.-ac, Nux-v., Phosph., Phosph.- ac, Plat., Puis., Ranunc, Rhod., Samb., Sep., Sil., Sulph., Verat., Zinc-— Rhus-tox. is particularly suitable after: Arn., Bry., Calc-c, Con., Phosph., Phosph.-ac, Puis., Sulph. A.ntidotes.—Bry., Camph., Coff., Sulph.—Rhus-tox. antidotes: Bry., Ranunc, Rhodod., Tart.-stib. CLINICAL REMARKS. Dr. Neidhard.—"The disease in which I have most frequently made use of Rhus, is rheumatism characterized by the following symptoms—it is a form of rheumatism which is most common in our climate: rigidity, paralytic weakness in the joints with stinging pain along the tendons and muscles RHUS TOXICODENDRON. 1013 Swelling and redness on or near the joints. Rheumatism of the hip-joint and wrist seems to be most effectually controlled by its action. The greatest rigidity and pain is experienced on firsi MOVING THE JOINTS AFTER REST, AND ON WAKING UP IN THE MORN- ING. After the joints are moved for a while the pain is lessened. This symptom is mentioned by Jahr. Its paramount importance has been evidenced to me by numerous cures. Jahr lays, however, more stress on the symptoms aggravated by rest. More than sixty cases might be detailed in this place, where rheumatic affections, charac- terized by the above symptoms, were removed in the shortest time by Rhus-tox., 3 to 30. In several of these cases other homoeopathic remedies had been prescribed in vain." GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—"Affections of the ligaments, ten- dons, and synovial membranes. "Deficient plasticity of the blood, with disposition of the organic activity to become extinct, even to paralysis. °Rheumatic or arthritic affections, also with swelling. "Scrofulous and and rachitic affections. "Glandular swellings and indurations. "Ailments arising from cold bathing, particularly con- vulsions. "Paralysis. "Ailments arising from suppressions of the menses. °Nervous inflammations of internal organs. °Rheumatic tension, drawing, and lacerating in the limbs, most violent during rest, or in the cold season, or at night in bed, frequently attended with numbness and insensibility of the affected part after moving it. *Lacerating drawing, in the evening, while sitting, -going off when walking. Cramp and rigidity, as from contraction qfthe tendons, in various parts. ^Sticking in the joints, during rest. "Tensive stick- ing, with stiffness, worse on rising from a seat and in the open air. * Tingling pains, particularly in the affected parts, -or more espe- cially in the face, spine, and sternum. Anxious pains in affected parts, with moaning, when sitting. Drawing in all the limbs, when lying. *Bruised pains in single parts, or sensation as if the flesh had been detached from the bones by blows. Pressure with drawing in the periosteum, as if the bone were scraped. °Sensation in in- ternal organs as if something were being torn off. * Pains as if sprained. °Bad consequences from straining or spraining parts. * Semilateral complaints. *The parts on which one is lying goto sleep, -particularly the arm. °Numbness of single parts, with ting- ling and insensibility.—^Stiffness of the limbs -on first moving the limo after rest. Stiffness on rising from a seat. *Lameness in all the joints, worst on rising from a seat after having been seated for Bouue time. Lameness in all the limbs, during and after a walk in *.h<* open air. ^Complete paralysis. Hemiplegia. *Paralysis qf 1014 RHUS TOXICODENDRON. the lower limbs, with dragging, slow, difficult walk. Tingling in the paralyzed parts.—Tremulous sensation in the upper and lower limbs also during rest. * Twitchings qf the limbs and muscles. "Convul- sions arising from bathing in cold water. "Tetanus, opisthotonos. "Chorea.?-— Weariness of the lower limbs. *Great languor of the whole body. ^Languor, with constant disposition to be sitting or lying. Languor, with sensation as if the bones were aching. *Is unable to remain out of bed. Feels nauseated while sitting up.— *Great debility. Sudden paroxysms of fainting. Great sensitive- ness to the open air, "even when warm. Characteristic Peculiarities.—*The pains come on or are worse during rest, or at night, or on entering a room from the open air, °or in cold weather. The pains in the joints are worse in the open air. Early, in bed, only those limbs and joints on which he is not lying feel painful and as if bruised. Skin.:—Itching of the whole body, particularly of the hairy parts, hairy scalp, and genital organs. Burning itching here and there. "Erysipelatous inflammation (also zona).—"Petechial spots, also with great debility, even to complete loss of strength. Nettle-rash. *Small burning vesicles, with redness of skin on the whole body, ex- cept on the hairy scalp, the palms of the hands, and soles of the feet. ^Burning itching eruptions* -particularly on the scrotum, prepuce, eye-lids, and eyes (arms and loins),, with swelling of the parts, and small yellowish vesicles which ran into each other and became moist. Confluent vesicles, most of them containing a milky or watery fluid. 41 Black pustules, with inflammation and itching, rapidly spreading over the whole body.—°Herpetie eruptions, alternating with pains in the chest and dysenteric stools. Scurfs over the body.—"Rhagades. " Warts, disfiguring the whole skin, or particularly on the hands and fingers. "Panaritia. "Hang-nails.—Ulcers as if gangrenous, from small vesicles,, attended with violent fever.—In the ulcers : tingling. Smarting, as if from salt. Burning biting, with weeping and moan- ing. Pain as if bruised. Burning of the affected part. The wound becomes inflamed,, and is covered with little vesicles. Swelling of the hands and feet. "Red shining swelling, with stinging sore pain when touched. °Glandular swellings (also indurated ?). "Swelling of bones. "Caries of bones. ? ° Jaundiee. Sleep.— Violent and spasmodic yawning. Drowsiness in the day- time. Restlessness during the siesta. Somnolence, full of laborious, interrupted dreams. "Somnolence, with snoring, muttering, and grasping at flocks.—Sleeplessness before midnight.—*Restless sleep, -with tossing about. Restless slumber before midnight, full of RHUS TOXICODENDRON. 1015 anxious, disagreeable notions and fancies. Symptoms at night in bed: "sad thoughts, preventing sleep. Feels nauseated in the evening, when lying down. Violent pressure at the stomach, preventing sleep. Starting, when on the point of falling asleep. Short breath. Great anxiety, he cannot remain in bed. Violent colic in the night. Nausea in the chest and stomach in the evening, going off after going to sleep Loud weeping. ^Frightful dreams. Fever.—Feeling of coldness in tbe limbs. "Feeling of coldness at every motion. Extreme coldness of the hands and feet, the whole day. He is very sensitive to the cold, open air. Shuddering in the back. Chilliness towards evening. "The chilliness, with the pa- roxysms of pain and other concomitant symptoms, generally sets in in the evening. Hot internally, the whole day, and chilly externally. Chilliness and heat in the evening. * Evening fever, with diarrhoza; -chilliness at eight o'clook in the evening, followed by dry heat and thirst, and cuttings in the abdomen and diarrhoea; afterwards sleep ; diarrhoea again in the morning. Fever : drowsiness, weariness, and yawning; when walking, he felt inclined to sleep, with anxiety \ afterwards an evacuation, with cutting, followed by excessive heat in the whole body ; or sensation as if his blood were coursing hot through the vessels, and too violently through the head. Fever: towards noon he is attacked with a febrile coldness in all his limbs, with vio- lent headache and vertigo. ^Quotidian fevers. ° Tertian fevers. ♦Compound tertian fevers, -also with jaundice. "Generally the chilliness and coldness set in first, with secondary symptoms, after- wards heat, with thirst (and with sweat), or first chilliness with thirst, then general warmth with chilliness at every motion, then sweat. "Alternation of coldness and paleness, and heat and redness of the face. °During or after the fever: twitchings, tingling in the ears, hardness of hearing, dry coryza, sleeplessness, with uneasiness and tossing about, nettle-rash, gastric derangement, thirst at night. Dur- ng the chilliness: "pains in the limbs, headache, vertigo, inclination to vomit. Inclines to vomit, with heat of the head and hands, and chilliness of the rest of the body ; afterwards chilliness all over during the inclination to vomit. Extreme heat in the hands, with dull headache, in the evening. Violent burning in the skin, with twitching tremulousness of the skin, and a general sweat at night. "Flushes of heat, with sweat, proceeding from the umbilical region, and suddenly alternating with chilliness.—"Feverish thirst, -even early in the morning. Violent feverish thirst. *Great desire for water or beer.—Pulse: quick. Slow and irregular pulse.—Fevers of various kinds.—"Sweat during the pains. "Sweat when sitting, 1016 RHUS TOXICODENDRON. frequently with violent trembling. ^General sweat, also in the foot. *Night-sweat, -particularly around the neck. Moral Symptoms. — Out of humor. ^Sadness. Restless mood, anxiety, and apprehensiveness, accompanied with constant paroxysms of sudden and painful uneasiness about the heart, and heavy breath- ing. Ill-humored, desponding. "Dread of the future and want of confidence in himself. Inexpressible anguish, with pressure at the heart and lacerating in the small of the back. Sensorium.—Absence of mind, as if absorbed in thought. ^Mental derangement. "Illusions of the fancy and visions. °Delirium, also chattering delirium.—* Languor of the mind, is unable to hold an idea, feels almost stupid. Weakness of the head. The head is gloomy and stupid. Confusion of the head. Painful dullness of the head, as if stupefied, with humming in the head. *Dizzy when rising from bed. Head.—Aching through the forehead. "Headache immediately after a meal. "Headache, obliging him to lie down, coming on again after the least chagrin and the least exercise in the open air. Reel- ing, with headache affecting the whole head. Constant heaviness in the head. Headache as if tbe brain were compressed. Lacerating in the head, to and fro, worse when stooping. Occasional shaking sensa- tion in the brain. Wavering sensation in the brain, when walking. Stitches in the bead, from within outwards. "Stitches day and night, extending to the ears, the root of the nose, and the malar bones, with painfulness of the teeth. Burning in the head and a fine beating or pecking headache. Burning-creeping sensation in the forehead. Painful creeping in the head. Creeping in the scalp. The head is painful to the touch, like a boil.—Corrosive itching of the hairy scalp of the forehead, face, and around the mouth ; rash-like pimples make their appearance. Swelling of the head, attended with swelling of the face, neck, and even chest.—"Tinea-capitis. "Periodical tinea- capitis, every year. "Tinea-capitis, every year. "Tinea-capitis, eating away the hair, with nightly itching and pus, sometimes of a greenish color, or with crusts. "Small soft tubercles on the hairy scalp. Eyes.—*The eye-ball feels sore when turning the eye or when pressing upon it. Bruised pain in the orbital bone.—Pressure in the eye, as if from dust. Pressure in the eye, when exerting the sight. Aching and contractive pain in the eyes, evening. Burning pressure in the eye. Twitching and contractive sensation in the lids, Cutting in the eyes, with difficulty of opening the lids, in the morn- ing. "Burning of the eyes. Ophthalmia, "arthritic, "scrofulous, RHUS TOXICODENDRON. 1017 -with swelling, closing the eyes.—^Inflammation of the lids. *Agglutination of the eyes, in the morning they are red. ^Swelling qfthe lids. Red, hard swelling, like a stye. ^Lachrymation, with burning pain in the evening. "Lachrymation, with oedematous swelling around the eyes. Blear-eyedness.—"Photophobia, in scro- fulous persons.—The objects look pale. Sensation of a gauze before the eyes. "Incipient amaurosis. Ears.— Otalgia. Painful beating in the internal ear at night. Sudden drawing pain in the ear. Swelling of the ears and lobules. "Discharge of bloody pus, with hardness of hearing. ^Parotitis, "also after scarlatina. Nose.—Sore feeling at the nostrils. Herpetic eruption around the mouth and nose. The tip of tbe nose is red and painful to the touch, as if it would ulcerate. ^Bleeding of the nose, at night. "Dryness of the nose. ^Stoppage qfthe nose. Face.—*Paleface. Sickly appearance, with sunken cheeks, blue margins around the eyes, and pointed nose. *Redface ; "also with burning heat, -or sweat. "Cold sweat on the face.—^Swelling of the face, particularly of the eye-lids and lobules of the ears. Swelling of the face and hands. Pale swelling, with burning, closing of the lids, and lachrymation, followed by an eruption of vesicles filled with a yellowish liquid. *Erysipelatous inflammation ofthe face. #Ery- sipelatous inflammation of the face, with swelling, also on the neck. * Vesicular erysipelas. "Erysipelatous inflammation of the face, with tensive aching, sticking, and burning tingling.—Drawing and lace- rating in the eye-brows and malar bones. "Chronic eruptions in the face, suppurating. ^Herpetic eruptions. Burning vesicles around the mouth and nostril. °Acne-rosacea around the mouth and chin. °Crusta-lactea, with thick crusts and secretion of a foetid, bloody ichor.—*The lips are dry and parched, covered with a reddish, brown crust. "Black lips. Jaws and Teeth.—Pain in the region of the articulation of the jaw. Pain in the articulation of the jaw, as if bruised. Swelling of the submaxillary glands. Darting in the nerves of the roots of the hollow teeth. Cutting toothache, as when a wound is inflicted. Intolerable burning sore pain in the gums. "Lacerating toothache, at night, in all the teeth. "Lacerating toothache, aggravated in the open air. "Rheumatic arthritic toothache, relieved by warmth. The teeth feel loose, with painful tingling. The teeth are painful when chewing. The fore-teeth are loose, and feel painful when touched by warm or cold drink. Mouth.—"Foetid smell from decayed teeth. *Feeling of dryness. 43* 1018 RHUS TOXICODENDRON. Accumulation of water in the mouth. "Nightly discharge of yellow or bloody saliva from the mouth. *The tongue is not coated, but very dry. "Parched, red, or brown tongue. Throat.—Feeling of swelling in the throat, accompanied with a bruised pain. Appetite and Taste.—Putrid, slimy taste in the mouth. *His mouth feels bitter the whole day. ^Complete loss of appetite. *Com- plete loss of appetite for any kind of food. "Difficulty of swallowing solid food, as if the pharynx and oesophagus were contracted. *Dry- ness of the throat, with thirst. Canine hunger, with emptiness in the stomach and loss of appetite. Gastric Symptoms.—Creeping in the stomach and horrid eructa- tions. Burning eructations. Shuddering, especially after a meal. Pressure at the stomach after a meal. Shuddering and nausea over the whole body. Nausea after eating and drinking. Nausea, as if in the throat. Nausea in the chest, with canine hunger. Nausea in the stomach and qualmishness in the chest. "Water-brash.—"Sud- den vomiting when eating. Stomach.—-^Pressure in the pit of the stomach, as if swollen, im- peding respiration. ^Oppression in the stomach towards evening. * Violent throbbing below the pit of the stomach. Sticking pain, with pressure, in the region of the stomach. Sticking pain in the pit of the stomach. "Ulcerative pain in the pit of the stomach. Cold feeling in the stomach. Abdomen. — "Violent colic, particularly at night, aggravated by eating and drinking, also with bloody stools. Pressing in the abdo- men, as if the intestines were raised towards the heart. Colic, com- posed of cutting, lacerating, and pinching, affecting the whole of the intestines. Burning in the abdomen and thirst.—Cramp-like draw- ing in the umbilical region. Excessive pinching in the abdomen. Distention of the abdomen in the umbilical region, with violent pinching. Sticking above the umbilicus.—Contusive pain below the umbilicus. Contraction and pain in the abdomen. *Painful disten- tion, with colic, after a meal. "Scarlet redness of the abdomen. Contraction in the groin. Stool.—"Alternate constipation and diarrhoea. ^Constant tenes- mus, with nausea and lacerating in the intestines. *Stools mixed with blood. *Red and yellow stool, mixed with mucus, jelly-like and fluid. Diarrhoea. Diarrhoea ; every evacuation being preceded by pinching. *Stirred-up stool. *Stirred diarrhceic stool. "Nightly diarrhoea, with colic, disappearing after stool, or with headache and pains in all the limbs.—*Involuntary stool, "also at night. Sore rhus Toxicodendron. 1019 blind haemorrhoids, protruding after every stool. Drawing in the back, from above downward, with tension and pressing in the rectum. Creeping in the rectum, as of ascarides. Itching pain in the anus, as if occasioned by haemorrhoids. Urine.—"Retention of urine. "Dysuria, with discharge of drops of bloody urine, attended with tenesmus. "Incontinence of urine. Hot urine. Dark urine. White, turbid urine. Male Genital Organs.—Rigidity and swelling of the parts. Tympanitic swelling of the scrotum, with much itching. Horrid eruption on the genital organs, closing of the urethra by swelling. Humid eruption on the scrotum, and swelling of the prepuce and glans. Humid vesicle on the glans. Female Genital Organs.—Violent labor-pains, as if the menses would suddenly make their appearance. Pain in the vagina, as if sore. °Metrorrliagia, with coagula of blood and labor-like pains.— "The lochia again became bloody. ? Puerperal fever. ? Phlegmasia alba dolens. ? Ailments from suppression of the milk or from wean- ing. ? Vanishing of the milk, "also with burning heat over the whole body. "Vitiated and diminished discharge of lochia, with shootings upwards in the vagina, with a bursting feeling in the head. "Dis- charge of offensive black water from the vagina, two weeks after de- livery. "Repeated attacks of milk-leg. "Heavy numb pain along the bones of the leg. "Soreness and swelling of the mammae, from cold or external lactation. Larynx and Trachea.—Hoarseness deep in the trachea. Scrap- ing, rough feeling in the larynx, causing hoarseness. Roughness in the throat and trachea, as if the chest were raw and sore. °Grippe. Roughness of the throat, inducing a short and hacking cough. Cough and coryza, with expectoration. Short, anxious, painful cough. Cough, with a disagreeable tension across the chest. Panting cough, with concussion in the head. "Cough, with expectoration of bright- red blood and qualmish feeling in the chest. "Chronic haemoptoe. Chest.—^Tightness of breath, -from nausea, under the short ribs, "or also from pressure and painfulness in the pit of the stomach.— ^Oppression of the chest. *Anxious oppression, as if she were un- able to draw breath. "Oppression, as if the breath Stopped in the pit of the stomach. Constriction of the chest, he feels qualmish. Contractive sensation in the sternum. "Stitch in the chest when sneezing and drawing breath. Violent pulsative stitohes over the heart. Violent palpitation of the heart, when sitting still. Weak- ness of the heart, like tremor. "Sticking in the region of the heart, with painful lameness and numbness of the left arm. 1020 RHUS VERNIX. Back.—*Pain in the small of the back, as if bruised; "it is re» lieved by lying on a hard couch. Stiffness of the small of the back, painful during motion. Painful bony swelling in the small of the back. "Pain as if sprained in the back and shoulders. "Creeping coldness in the back. "Curvature of the dorsal vertebra?. Pain in the nape of the neck, as from a heavy load. "Pain as if sprained in the nape of the neck and shoulders. Rheumatic stiffness in the nape of the neck. Arms.—Swelling of the axillary glands, painful even when not touched. "Lacerating and burning in the shoulder, with lameness of the arm, particularly during cold weather, rest, and in bed. Violent lacerating pain in the arm, most violent during rest. "Paralysis of the arm, with coldness and insensibility. Pain and swelling of the arm. ^Erysipelatous swelling of the arm. Burning and itch- ing pustules on the arms and hands. "Bony swelling on the arm, with burning and ichorous ulcers. Lacerating in both upper arms. Drawing and lacerating from the elbow to the wrist-joint. Debility and stiffness of the fore-arm and fingers when moving them. Coldness of the fore-arms. *The dorsum of the hands smarts and is hot; the skin is bard, rough, and stiff. Lacerating in the joints qf all the fingers. "Warts on the hands and fingers. Legs.—Aching pain in both hip-joints at every step. "Coxalgia. Heaviness and weariness of the lower limbs. "Paralysis of the lower limbs. Stiffness of the lower limbs, particularly of the knees and feet. °Pain as if sprained in the joints. Bruised and drawing pain in the thigh. Drawing and lacerating from the knee to the tarsal- joint. Drawing pain in the knee. Tension in the knee, as if too short. Paralytic drawing in the leg when sitting. Heaviness and tension in the legs. Painful weariness in the legs when sitting, going off by walking. Weariness of the legs. Beating in the dorsum of the foot. ^Swelling of the feet, painless when touched, in the even- ing. °Inflammatory swelling of the feet, erysipelatous, sometimes with pustules and rash on the dorsum of the foot. Tension and pressing in the sole of tbe foot. 232.—RHUS VERNIX. RHUS VER.—Varnish Tree, Poison Ash, Poison Oak. Skin.—Violent corrosive itching in various parts. Elevated red blotches, particularly on the face, neck, and chest. RUTA GRAVEOLENS. 1021 Head.—Intolerable heaviness of the head. Excessive swelling qf the forehead. Eyes.—Redness of the eyes. Dimness of sight when reading. Sensitiveness to the light, early on waking. Ears.—Groups of vesicles behind the ear. Face.—Redness of the face, here and there. Swelling of the face. Sense of heaviness in the swelling on the face. Pain as if burnt on the lips, or sensation as of sand. Chest.—Sudden violent stitches through the lungs. Extremities.—Rheumatic pains in the shoulder and elbow-joint worse during motion. Violent itching in the palms of the hands Hard elevated blotches on the hands, with watery vesicles on them, with violent itching. Groups of watery vesicles on the fingers. 233.—RUTA GRAVEOLENS. RUTA.—See Hahnemann's " Mat. Med. Pura," IV. Compare with—Aeon., Asa-f., Bell., Bry., Ign., Led., Merc, Nux-v., Puis., Rhus, Sec-c, Sil., Staph., Sulph., Thuj., Verat. Antidote.—Camph. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—"Ailments from mechanical injuries. *Bone-pains, burning and gnawing, in the periosteum. *Pains, as after a fall, bruise, or contusion, in the limbs, joints, or bones. Cramp- like tearing, with pressure, now in the upper, now in the lower limbs, during rest and motion.—Great debility. Lassitude and heaviness in the whole body. Characteristic Peculiarities.—° The pains in the limbs are aggravated during rest, particularly when sitting, relieved by motion. "The pains are worse in damp and cold weather. Skin.—Itching over the whole body.—"Inflamed ulcers.—"Warts. —"Anasarca.—° Contusions and injuries of the bones and perios- teum. Sleep.— Yawning.—Excessive drowsiness after a meal.—Restless- ness at night: wakes frequently, experiencing a nausea, and a painful turning in the umbilical region. Restless sleep, with vexatious dreams. Fever.—Shuddering of the whole body. Chilliness and coldness of the whole body. Coldness descending along the vertebral column. Internal chilliness. "Frequent flushes of heat. Heat over the whole body in the afternoon, with febrile uneasiness and anxiety, arresting his breathing. Great restlessness, with headache and febrile heat. 1022 RUTA GRAVEOLENS. Moral Symptoms.—Indifference. Peevish and out of humor. Irresolute. Sensorium—Frequent absence of thought.—Dullness of the head Violent vertigo. Head.—Heaviness in the head, mostly in the forehead, as if a weight were lying in the forehead.—Painful pressure on the whole brain, in the morning after rising. Stupefying headache, with nausea. __Drawing headache in the right side of the forehead. Stitching- drawing pdin, extending from the frontal to the temporal bone.—Heat in the head, with feverish uneasiness of the whole body, in the even- ing.—Dullness of the brain in the forehead, with a beating pain in the forehead, in itching and soreness of the hairy scalp. Corrosive itching of the whole hairy scalp. Gnawing pain with pressure, on the forehead.—Dull lacerating in the temporal bones.—Burning compressive pain on the head, externally, causing stupefaction. Humid scurfs on the scalp.—Erysipelas on the forehead. Eyes.—"Pains of the eyes from exerting them too much.—Feeling of heat and sensation as of fire in the eyes, with soreness when read- ing at candle-light.—Pressure on the upper wall of the orbits, with lacerating in the ball.—"Specks on the cornea.—Muscae-volitantes. —* Weakness of the eyes, as from too much reading.—"Red halo around the candle-light.—^Incipient amaurosis, "particularly from exerting the eyes too much by reading or fine work, with mistiness of eight, and complete darkness at a distance. Ears and Nose.—Pain about the ears, as if violent pressure were made upon them.—Contusive pain in the cartilages qf the ears.— Sharp pressure in the root of the nose.—*Bleeding of the nose, -also with pressure in the root of the nose. Face and Teeth.—Gnawing arthritic pain in both cheeks. Cramp- like lacerating in the malar bone, with stupefying pressure in the fore- head.—Erysipelas in the forehead.—"Acne-rosacea.—Digging pain in the lower teeth. Mouth, Throat, &c.—Sore throat, as from a lump on swallowing. —Spasm of the tongue, with difficulty of speech. Taste, Appetite, and Gastric Symptoms. — Empty risings. Eructations tasting of the ingesta, after a meal.—Frequent hiccough, with some nausea.—Inclination to vomit when stooping. "SuddeB nausea while eating, with vomiting of the ingesta. Stomach and Abdomen.—Lancination in the pit of the stomach. Gnawing oppression in the pit of the stomach, night and morning.— Oppression in the region of the liver, near the pit of the stomach, exciting an uneasiness.—Burning gnawing in the stomach .—Aching RUTA GRAVEOLENS. 1023 gnawing in the region of the liver. "Painful swelling of the spleen. •—Corrosive burning in the left region of the abdomen.—Severe stitches in the abdominal muscles. Scraping and gnawing in the umbilical region, mixed with nausea. "Colic, as from worms, in chil- dren.—Pinching and aching pain in the abdomen, with a feeling of uneasiness as after a cold. Tensive pressure in the whole abdomen, from the umbilicus to the hypogastrium, at night, as if the menses would make their appearance.—Heat in the abdomen and chest.— Bruised pain in the loins. Foetid flatulence. Tearing in the rectum and in the urethra, between the acts of micturition. Stool.—Scanty, hard stool, almost like sheep's dung.—Difficult expulsion of stool. "Mucous diarrhoea, alternating with constipation* —*Frequent urging to stool, with protrusion of the rectum, "also during stool, soft or hard. Urine.—Pressure in the region of the neck of the bladder, as if the neck closed, with pain, shortly after micturition. "Involuntary emission of urine at night, in bed, and in tbe daytime during motion. "Frequent urging, with discharge of green urine. Frequent noc- turnal enuresis.—"Gravel. Genital Organs.—Increased sexual desire.—"Menses too early and profuse, "irregular, "feeble and only two days, followed by mild leucorrhoea.—Metrorrhagia. ? Miscarriage. ? "Sterility. ?—"Corro- sive leucorrhoea, after suppression of the menses. Larynx and Chest.—Pain in the region of the larynx, as from a bruise or contusion. "Expectoration of thick yellow mucus, attended with a feeling of weakness in the chest. "Ulceration of the lungs, after mechanical injuries.—Dyspnoea, from oppressive fullness in the chest.—Gnawing in the chest. Stitches in the chest and arrest of breathing.—"Anxious palpitation of the heart.—"A spot on the sternum is painful when touched. Back.—"Stitches in the small of the back, only when walking or stooping.—Pain in the lumbar vertebra?, as if bruised.—Painful dart- ing in the dorsal spine opposite the pit of the stomach. The dorsal spine is painful, as if bruised, when sitting or walking; this pain arrests the breathing. Pain as if bruised in the dorsal spine, and paralytic weakness in the small of the back.—Drawing in the nape of the neck. Arms.—Intense pain, as if sprained, in the shoulder-joints. Dull lacerating in the long bones.—The ulna feels bruised. Weakness of the hands and feet. Erysipelas of the hands. Pain in the bones of the wrist-joints, and of the dorsa of the hands, as if bruised, during rest and motion. "Painfulness of the wrists on lifting anything 1024 sabadilla. "Pain as if sprained and stitches in the wrist-joints —"Numbnes> and tingling in the hands, after exerting them. Pains in the fingers, during rest, as if bruised or contused. Contraction of the fingers. Legs.—Pain in the bones around the hips, as from a bruise or fall. —Uneasiness and heaviness of the lower limbs. "Weariness and weakness after walking.—Burning pain in the upper and inner side of the thigh.—Paralytic heaviness in the knees. Tremulousness in the knees, with lassitude of the legs. Tremulous heaviness of the legs. Burning and corrosive pains in the bones qf the feet, during rest. Painful drawing in the toes. 234.—SABADILLA. SABAD.—Semen Sabadillse, Veratrum Sabadilla, Alder Buckthorn, Berry-bear ing Alder. See Stapf's "Additions." Compare with—Bell., Hyos., Ign., Lye, Merc, Natr.-mur., Nux-v., Phosph., Puis., Rhus-tox., Sep., Staph., Sulph., Verat Antidotes.—Camph., Puis. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Painful drawing in all the limbs and heaviness in the feet. Drawing through all the limbs and sensa- tion as if paralyzed. Pain in the limbs, especially tbe lower.— Intense but transitory pain, as of bruises, in various parts of the body. —Sensitiveness to cold. Intense pain in all the bones, especially the joints.—Tremulous sensation and trembling in the upper and lower limbs.—Weakness of the whole body. Weariness in the limbs. Great weariness and heaviness in all the limbs, especially the joints. Weariness and heaviness in all the limbs. Skin.—Burning creeping sensation about the body. Sleep.—Frequent yawning, with lachrymation. Excessive drow- siness. ^Restless sleep. ^Unrefreshing sleep.—Pulsation all over, in the evening, before falling asleep.—Excessive itching all over, at night in bed. Sleep disturbed by frightful restless dreams. Fever.—Small spasmodic pulse and coldness of the limbs. Febrile shivering through the whole body. Shivering over the back; he feels chilly through the whole body.—Burning heat in the face, with chilliness over the body, especially in the extremities. Febrile con- dition; there is seething of the blood; irresistible desire to sleep, with yawning; icy-cold shuddering without shaking; constant nausea.—°Intermittent fever. ° Chilliness or external coldness with shaking of the limbs, with little or no thirst, followed by heat with little thirst, and accompanied or followed by sweat. "Quotidian, ter- tian, or quartan fevers, occurring at a regular hour, attended with SABADILLA. 1025 loss of appetite, oppressive bloatedness of the stomach, pain in the chest, cough, debility, and thirst between the chilly and hot stages. °During the chilliness: pain of the upper ribs, dry, spasmodic cough, and lacerating in all the limbs and bones. °During the hot stage: delirium, yawning, and stretching. "Sleep during the sweat. °After the fever the limbs feel bruised without any other complaint. Moral Symptoms.—Cheerful disposition. * Anxious restlessness. "Great anguish. Rage. Sensorium.—Vertigo, as if everything were turning. Vertigo, as if he would faint, with obscuration of sight.—Gloominess of the head. His head feels dull and heavy. Head.—Aching in the vertex. Pressure in the head, with heavi ness. Tensive pain in the forehead, with pressure. Stupefying, op- pressive sensation in the forehead. Headache, as if the head were violently squeezed from all sides.—Painful pressure in the head, as if the whole head would be pressed asunder. Itching, with pressure in the head, most violent in the forehead. Constant headache, or sort of tension. Dull sensation in the forehead. Slight jerking headache. Headache, especially after every walk. Headache, occa- sioned by continued attention.—Pulsative headache in the right side of the forehead.—Sticking headache, especially in the forehead.—Con- fused headache, with burning and itching of the scalp. Tension of the scalp, particularly during the fever. Stinging in the scalp, par- ticularly on the forehead and temples. Burning pain on the hairy scalp.—Itching of the hairy scalp. Face.—Heat and stinging itching in the face.—Burning of the lips, as if scalded.—Pain of the lower jaw on touching it, as from swelling of the glands. Eyes.—Pressure in the eye-balls.—Blue rings around tbe eyes.— Redness of the margins of the eye-lids, and sensation in the eyes as if an inflammation would take place.-—Dim-sightedness, with vertigo. —*Lachrymation. Blackness before the eyes. Ears.—Otalgia and snapping as of electric sparks in the ears.— Humming and buzzing about the ears. Nose.—Contractive, biting sensation in the nose. Itching tingling in the nose. Bleeding from the nose. Occasional sneezing, accom- panied with sticking contractive headache over the eyes, and red margins of the eye-lids.—"Fluent coryza, with disfigured counte- nance and dullness of the head. Jaws and Teeth.—The lower jaws, when touched, are painful like swollen glands. Drawing in the jaws and teeth. Subdued beating and drawing in the teeth. 65 1026 sabadilla. Mouth.—Burning at the tip of the tongue. *The tongue feels sore, and as if full of blisters.—*The tongue is coated, mostly yel- lowish. The tongue is coated white, the tip is bluish.—"Dryness of the mouth, without thirst.—Burning of the tip of the tongue, with great soreness of the throat. Throat.—Sore throat when swallowing. The throat feels swollen Scraping sensation in the fauces, with dryness and difficult degluti- tion. Swelling of the uvula.—Burning and pressure in the throat, during and between the acts of deglutition. Scraping and painful sensation in the throat. Tensive crampy sensation in the parotid gland.—Burning-crawling, stinging sensation in the palate. Con- strictive sensation deep in the throat.—°Oesophagitis. ? Taste and Appetite.—Flat, bitter taste in the mouth. Loss of taste and appetite. Aversion to food.—Thirst. Gastric Symptoms.—Frequent painful eructations. Empty eruc- tations, with a feeling of shuddering over the body. A kind of heart- burn, heat being felt in the abdomen, extending through the stomach and as far as the mouth, accompanied with considerable ptyalism.— Nausea while eating. Nausea, water-brash, and vomiting. Feeling of nausea and pain, with weakness. He feels qualmish and nauseated. Nausea and desire to vomit. Constant desire to vomit. Nausea and gulping up of bitter mucus. Nausea, with bitter taste on the tongue. Nausea, with retching.—"Vomiting of ascarides. Stomach.—Feeling of emptiness in the stomach. Horrid burning in the stomach, immediately after walking. Slight pressure in the stomach, with sensation as if bloated. Burning in the stomach and along the ozsophagus. Corrosive burning pain in the stomach. Sud- den oppression of breathing, in the pit of the stomach, with anxiety.— "Gastritis. ? Abdomen.—Digging up in the liver. Burning pains in the abdo- men. Sticking in the right side, especially in the region of the liver. Pain in the stomach and abdomen, as from a stone. Cutting in the abdomen, as with knives. Shuddering in the abdomen. Colic, with violent urging to stool, with imperceptible discharge. Burning in the abdomen and rectum, coming on after every stool. Abdomen, hands, and chest are covered with red spots. Stool.—Violent urging to stool. Slippery and liquid stool, mixed with blood and mucus.—Diarrhoea; the stool looks fermented and brown. A sort of pinching sensation around the umbilicus, followed by a copious evacuation.—Dull pains in the anus and abdomen. Violent titillation in the rectum, as from ascarides. "Tasnia. Urinary Organs.—Increase of urine, mixed with blood.—Burn- 8ABINA. 1027 teg in the urethra, between the acts of micturition, with urging to urinate. The urine becomes thick and turbid, like loam-water. Scalding in the urethra, when urinating. Male Genital Organs.—Painful erection, with some chordee in the morning. Lascivious dreams in the morning, with scanty emis- sion of semen. Female Genital Organs.—Decrease or increase of the menses. Larynx and Chest. — Hoarseness. Nightly dry cough, which leaves him no rest. Short dry cough, produced by a scraping in the throat. "Cough as soon as he lies down. "Deep dull cough, with bloody expectoration. "Vomiting when coughing, with sticking in the vortex, and pains in the stomach.—°Grippe. Tightness in tbe pit of the stomach and chest, especially during an inspiration. Short difficult breathing, especially in the afternoon. Great oppression of the chest. Shortness of breath, dry and hacking cough, cardialgia. Strong, painful pressure in the middle of the chest. Stitches in the side of the chest. Palpitation of the heart, and sensation as if all the arteries in the body were beating. Back.—Violent pain in the small of the back. Pain in the small of the back, with chilliness. Simple pain in the whole back, as from weariness. Bruising pains in the spine, when sitting. Pain in the nape of the neck, when moving. Arms.—Convulsions of the arms. Aching in the muscles of the upper arm. Spasmodic jerking in the elbow. Small burning-itch- ing pimples on both fore-arms. Raging pain in the fingers and toes. Trembling of the arms and hands. Legs.—Aching pain in the hip. Stinging sensation in both thighs. Violent pains in both thighs, as if they had been compressed. Burn- ing of the knees. The knees feel weary. Violent lacerating-ten- sive pain in the calves. Weariness in the legs.—Erysipelatous in- flammation on the right tibia, with violent burning pain. Heaviness in the feet. Swelling of the feet. Tension in the feet. 235.—SABLNA. SABIN.—Juniperus Sabina, Savin.—See Stapf s "Additions." Compare with—Aeon., Agn.-cast., Bell., Chin., Fer., Ign., Ipec, Merc, Phoept., Plat., Puis , Rut., Sep., Staph., Sulph., Thuj., Zinc. Antidotes.—Camph., Puis. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Lancinations in all tbe joints, with sensation as if they were swollen, accompanied with drawing stitches 1028 sabina. through the long bones. Aching burning pain in the swollen perios- teum. Paralytic pain in the joints, especially after an exertion. Rheumatic pains. Heaviness and laziness in the body. General sick feeling. Excessive weariness. Characteristic Peculiarities.—All the symptoms cease in the open air. Sleep.—Restlessness and anxiety. Restless sleep, with confused dreams. Restless sleep, with seething of the blood, heat, and pro- fuse sweat. Fever.—Frequent shudderings. Chilliness the whole day. In- tolerable burning heat in the whole body, with great restlessness. Moral Symptoms.—Nervous irritability. Ill-humor. Sensorium.—Vertigo, with stupefaction. Continual vertigo, with mist before the eyes. Dizziness, with rushing of the blood and heat in the head.— Weakness of memory. Head.—Pressure and dullness in the head, especially the forehead. Oppression and painful heaviness in the whole head. Sticking pain through the brain, with pressure. Headache early in the morning. Pressing pain in the whole head. Digging-up, boring headache. Smarting stabbing pain. — Beating headache, with heaviness and stupefaction. The forehead is painful when moved. The vertex is sensitive to the touch. Eyes.—Blue margins around the eyes. Tensive pain in the eyes. Feeling of heat in the eyes. Pain in the eyes, and discharge of smarting water. Ears.—Hardness of hearing.—Pinching deep in the ear. Face.—Paralytic pain in the region of the malar bone. Aching in the region of the malar bone, increased by contact. Jaws and Teeth.—Aching-drawing pain in the angle of the lower jaw in the muscles of mastication. Lacerating pain in the region qfthe roots of the molares, near the gums. Dullness of the fore- teeth. Drawing pain in all the teeth. Neuralgic pain in the face. "Also with beating. Mouth and Throat.—Increased secretion of saliva.—Contractive and pricking pain in the throat. Dryness of the throat, with draw- ing pain. Sensation qf swelling in the throat. Taste, Appetite, and Gastric Symptoms. — Sanguineous and greasy taste. Putrid smell from the mouth. Bitter taste in the mouth. Loss of appetite. Acidity in the stomach after every meal. Eructations, accompanied with nausea. Heartburn.—Nausea, feel- ing of fullness. Nausea with cough. Nausea and desire to vomit. Vomiting of bile. Continual vomiting. SABINA. 1029 Stomach.—Oppressive feeling in the pit of the stomach. The region of the stomach is bloated and distended. Severe stitches from the pit of the stomach through the back.—Aching pain in the region of the stomach and liver. Feeling of warmth and burning in tbe stomach. Abdomen.— Writhing and pinching in the abdomen, in the um- bilical region. Colic, as if he had taken cold, and as if diarrhoea would come on. Contractive pain in the region of the uterus. In- flammation of tbe bowels. Cutting in the bowels, with rumbling in the side of the abdomen. Pain as if the bowels became constricted, —Bruised pain of the abdominal muscles. Stool. — Diarrhoea, with emission of much flatulence.—Liquid, slimy, and frequent stools. Discharge of bloody mucus from the anus. Stitches in the anus and in the front part of the thighs when walking. Haemorrhoidal tumors, especially painful in the morning. Urine.—Retention of urine, with burning, and emission drop by drop. Intermittent, almost painful desire to urinate. Fleeting burning pains in the vesical region. The urine is turbid when com- ing out. Smarting in the urethra, during micturition. Violent de- sire to urinate, but little urine being passed. The whole urethra is painful and inflamed, with purulent gonorrhoea. Genital Organs.—Burning sore pain of the fig-warts and glans. The fraeifulum is swollen and too rigid. Painfulness of the foreskin. Dark redness of the glans. Contusive pain in the testicles. In- creased sexual desire. Female Genital Organs. — Irresistible desire for an embrace. Painful feeling of oppressive heaviness in the abdomen, more violent when pressing upon it. Severe stitches in the vagina. Violent menstuation, the blood was partly fluid, partly lumpy. Hasmorrhage from the uterus, at the period of the menses.— "Hasmorrhage after parturition. "Hasmorrhage after miscarriage. ^Miscarriage, me- trorrhagia.—Swelling of the breasts. Tingling in the nipples. Leu- corrhoea, with itching of the pudendum. Milky leucorrhoea, occa- sioning an itching. "Leucorrhoea after suppression of the menses. "Permanent disappearance of leucorrhoea of a starch-like consistence, yellowish, ichorous, foetid, and of painful discharges of blood. Larynx.—Crawling and tickling in the larynx, exciting a cough, with slimy expectoration. Fullness in the chest, with cough. Dry and hacking cough, and titillation in the larynx, expectoratioa streaked with blood. Haemoptysis. Chest.--Asthma, increasing to arrest of breathing.—Slight op- pression of the chest, with desire to take a deep inspiration. Shoot- ing stitches in the chest. Burning stitches in the chest. Cutting 1030 SAMBUCUS. in the chest, above the pit of the stomach. Tensive pain, with pi es sure, in the middle qfthe sternum. Aching pain in the whole extent of the sternum. The sternum is painful to the touch. The beating of the heart is increased, more violent, alternating with pulsations throughout the abdomen. Intermittent stitches in the clavicle. Creep- ing over the back. Paralytic pain in the small of the back. Draw- ing pains in the small of the back, extending into the pubic region. Constant pain in the small of the back. Sharp stitches in the region of the dorsal vertebras, increased during an inspiration. Stitching pain in the dorsal vertebrae. Rheumatic drawing in the cervical muscles.—Drawing in the neck. Bruised pain, also in the vertebras. Arms.—Pressure in the shoulder-joints. Rheumatic pain in the shoulder-joint. Aching pain in the muscles of the upper arm. Para- lytic lacerating along the upper arm, as far as the hand. Stinging in both upper arms. Painful pressure in both upper arms, near the elbow-joint. Lacerating in the joints of the fingers of either hand. Legs.—Aching pain in the region of the hip. Pushing and draw- ing in the thighs and knees. Intermittent stitches in the internal surface of the thigh. Rheumatic pains in the thigh. Paralytic pain in the thigh, above the knee. Painful pressure in the middle of the thighs. Lancination below the knee, in the tibia. Lacerat- ing pain, with pressure in the metacarpus of both feet. Painful drawing in the joints of the toes, becoming more violent during a walk. Intermittent aching pain below the heel. 236.—SAMBUCUS. SAMB. N.—Elder.—See Hahnemann's " Materia Medica," IV. Compare with—Aeon., Bell., Chin., Ipec, Hep.-s., Lye, Puis., Rhus-tox., Scill., Spong., Stram., Sulph. Antidotes.—Ars., Camph. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—General rushing of the blood in the evening. Most of the pains come on during rest, and go off during motion. Dropsical swelling. "Emaciation. "Dropsical swelling of the whole body. Sleep.—Restless sleep. "Slumbering with the eyes and mouth half open. Frequent waking. *Starting from sleep, with anxiety, trembling, and shortness of breath. Vivid dreams. Fever.—Repeated attacks of slight shuddering. Chill over the whole body, with stinging crawling. ^Intolerable dry heat all over the body, with dread of uncovering. Intermittent fever. SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS. 1031 Moral Symptoms.—Great tendency to start. Sensorium and Head.—Periodical delirium. Dizziness; cloudi- ness of the head. Lacerating and aching pain in the upper part of the forehead. Aching and lacerating pain in the head when stoop- ing. Aching, stupefying pain in the head. Ears, Eyes, and Nose.—°Stoppage of the nose, with accumula- tion of thick, tenacious mucus. Face and Teeth.—*Bluish and bloated face. "Pale livid face Circumscribed redness of the cheeks. "Red spots, here and there, with burning. Mouth and Throat.—Gastric symptoms. Great dryness of the palate, without thirst.—Thirst, without relishing the drink. Vomit- ing of mucus and bile. Sensation of incipient nausea. Pinching in the abdomen. Pain in the abdomen, as if the bowels were bruised Pressure in the abdomen. Spasmodic lacerating in the abdominal muscles. Cutting in the outer parts of the hypochondria. Urinary and Genital Organs.—°Swelling of the scrotum. In- voluntary emission of semen. *Profuse menses, "like metrorrhagia. Larynx and Chest.—"Tracheitis. ? "Angina-membranacea. 1 Cough. * Violent dyspnaza. ^Suffocative paroxysm, like asthma- millari, after midnight. °Angina-pectoris. Back.—Drawing pressure in the small of the back. Aching pain in the middle of the spine.—Oppressive heaviness in the nape of the neck, with painful motion of the head. Arms.—Paralytic heaviness in the elbow-joints. Drawing pain in the carpal bones. Cutting stitches in both wrist-joints. Legs.—Lacerating pain above the hip-joint.—Sensation of weari- ness in the legs.—QMema of the feet. 237.—SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS. SANG. CAN.—Indian Puccoon, Blood Root, Red Root.—See "Transactions of American Institute of Homoeopathy," I. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Rheumatic pains in the limbs. ♦Acute inflammatory and arthritic rheumatism.—(*Acute swelling of the joints of the extremities.) Stiffness of the limbs and rheu- matic pains, with headache. Great weakness. Debility, with ver- tigo and pain in the hypochondria. Weakness and palpitation of the heart. #Is tonic in diseases of the lungs.—*Paralysis of the right side.—Convulsive rigidity of the limbs. 1032 SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS. Skin.—Heat and dryness of the skin.—*Itching and nettle-rash before the nausea.—*Warts.—*01d indolent ulcers ; ill-conditioned ulcers, with callous borders and ichorous discharge.—*Nasal polypi; fungous excrescences, &c.—*Jaundice. Sleep.—Sleeplessness at night.—Dreams of a frightful and disa- greeable character. Fever.—Chill with the headache. Chill and nausea. *Sensation as if hot water were poured from the breast into the abdomen. Fever and delirium. Pulsation through the whole body.—Quickened cir- culation, with vomiting.—*Pulse full, soft, and easily compressed, in pneumonia.—Suppression of the pulse, with fainting. Moral Symptoms.—Extreme moroseness. Sensorium.—Vertigo with nausea, long-continuing with debility, with headache. *Vertigo on turning the head quickly. Head.—Confused and dull feeling in the head.—Determination of blood to the head, with whizzing in the ears and a transitory feeling of heat.—Heaviness in the head.—Pressing drawing in the forehead. Headache, as if the forehead would split, with chill and with burning in the stomach. Pain in all the upper part of the head.—Boring pain above in the fore part of the head.—Nausea, disposition to vomit, without being able to do so; then headache, with rheumatio pains and stiffness in the limbs and neck.—Beating headache and bitter vomiting.—Headache, with nausea and chill.—Headache, with vertigo and pain in the ear.—The headache occurs paroxysmally.— *Pains in the head, in spots, soreness, especially in the temples.— *Pains in the head, in rays drawing upward from the neck.—*Se- vere pains in the head, with nausea and vomiting.—^Distention of the veins in the temples, perceptible on touching. Face.—Severe burning, heat, and redness of the face.—*A red cheek, with burning in the ears.—*Redness of the cheeks, with cough.—^Cheeks and hands livid, in typhoid pneumonia. Eyes.—Feeling as if the eyes were affected by acid vapor.—Very great glimmering before the eyes.—Diminished power of vision. Ears.—Beating under the ears.—^Burning of the ears, with red- ness of the cheeks.—Pains in the ears, with headache.—Beatinw hum- ming in the ear. Nose.—Heat in the nose.—*Nasal polypus.—*Loss of smell.__ Fluid coryza, with frequent sneezing.—♦Influenza. *Coryza, raw- ness in the throat, pain in the breast, cough, and finally diarrhoea. Jaws.—Stiffness in the jaws.—Pain in the upper teeth.—Salivation and looseness of the teeth. Throat, &c—Heat in the throat, alleviated by the inspiration of SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS. 1033 cool air.—Burning in the oesophagus.—♦Angina.—*Ulcerated sore throat. Mouth.—Feeling of dryness of the lips.—Tongue as if burned.— *Tongue sore, pains like a boil.—White-coated tongue, with loss of appetite.—♦Increases the appetite. Stomach.—Pressing in the stomach.—Soreness in the epigastrium, aggravated by eating. Feeling of warmth and heat in the stomach. Burning in the stomach, with headache. ♦Inflammation of the stomach. Gastric Symptoms.—Severe nausea. Nausea as if vomiting would succeed. Nausea after eating. Loss of appetite and periodic nausea. —Long-continued nausea, with chill.—Heartburn and nausea.—Re- gurgitation and disposition to vomit.—Vomiting.—Bitter vomiting, with headache. Vomiting worms.—Vomiting and diarrhoea. Abdomen.—Severe and continual pain in the hypochondria; vertigo and debility.—*Pain in the left hypochondrium.—Disease of the liver. Torpor and atony of the liver. Inflammation of the abdo- minal viscera.—Beating in the abdomen. Cramp in the abdomen.— ♦Flatulent distention of the abdomen.—♦Indurations in the abdomen. —Paroxysmal pain in the abdomen.—Slight cutting drawings in the abdomen.—*Colic, with torpor of the liver. Stool.—Ineffectual pressure to stool, then vomiting. Diarrhoeic stools, with great flatulence.—♦With the diarrhoea, termination of the coryza and catarrh. ♦Diarrhoea terminated the attacks of pains in the chest. ♦Dysentery.—♦Haemorrhoids. Urine.—♦Frequent and copious nocturnal urination.—^Gonorrhoea. Female Genital Organs.—Abdominal pains, as if the menses would appear. - Abortion.—Uterine haemorrhage.—♦Amenorrhoea.— ♦Escape of flatus from the vagina, with dilatation of the os-uteri.— ♦Climacteric disorders. Larynx.—♦Chronic dryness in the throat, and sensation of swelling in the larynx, and expectoration of thick mucus.—Aphonia, with swelling in the throat.—♦Continual severe cough, without expec- toration, with pain in the breast, and circumscribed redness of the cheeks. ♦Tormenting cough, with expectoration.—^Pulmonary con- sumption.—♦Cough with coryza, then diarrhoea.—Croup. Whooping cough. Chest. — ♦Hydrothorax. — ♦Asthma. ^Pneumonia. ♦Typhoid pneumonia, with very difficult respiration, cheeks and hands livid, pulse full, soft, and vibrating, and easily compressed. ♦Diseases of the lungs.—*Pain in the breast, with periodic cough.—♦Pain in the breast, with cough and expectoration. ♦Pain in the breast, with 44 1034 SASSAPARILLA. dry cough.—♦Burning and pressing in the breast, then heat through the abdomen and diarrhoea. Acute stitch in the breast. Pressing pain in the region of the heart.—Pressing pain in the chest and back. —Palpitation of the heart. Back.—Pain in the nape of the neck.—Stiffness in the nape of the neck.—Pain in the back.—Pain in the sacrum and bowels. Rheu- matic pains in the nape of the neck, shoulders, and arms. Arms.—Pain under the shoulder-blade, with chill.—Rheumatic pain in the shoulder.—Sudden rheumatic pains in the shoulder-joint. —♦Rheumatic pain in the right arm and shoulder, worse at night in bed. Rheumatic pains in the arms and hands.—♦Burning of the palms. Redness of the hands and severe burning.—#Lividity of the hands in pneumonia. ♦Ulceration at the roots of the nails. Legs.—Rheumatic pain in the hip.—#A bruise-like pain in the thigh, alternating with burning and pressure in the breast. Stiffness of the knees.—Burning in the soles of the feet and in the palms of the hands.—♦Burning of the hands and feet, at night. 238.—SASSAPARILLA. SASS.—See Hahnemann's " Chronic Diseases," V. Compare with—Am., Cham., Clem., Coce, Merc, Puis., Ran., Sep., Sil., Sulph. Antidote.—Camph. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—° Arthritic and rheumatic complaints, with diminished secretion of urine.—Lacerating in almost all the joints and limbs. Sudden drawing pains in various parts of the body and about the head.—"Languid feeling in the hands and feet. —Trembling of the hands and feet, lacerating in the forehead, and pinching in the abdomen.—Emaciation. Skin.—Itching in various parts of the body. Burning itching over the whole body, with chills. Blotches as from nettles. Herpes on every part of the body.—"Shrivelled skin.—"Ulcers from abuse of Mercury.—Big and hot swellings. Sleep.—Frequent yawning.—Drowsiness.—Restless sleep, with dreams.—Lascivious dreams. Fever.—Frequent chilliness. Internal chilliness and drowsiness. —Constant feverishness of the whole body. Moral Symptoms.—Desponding.—Dread of labor, awkward. Sensorium.—Absence of mind. Inability to perform mental labor. —Dullness and stupid feeling of the head. Weakness of the head, as after a fever.—Vertigo. SASSAPARILLA. 1035 Head.—Pressure in the forehead and occiput. Pressure and heaviness around the whole forehead.—Cramp-like headache on one side, commencing with obscuration of sight and luminous vibrations before the eyes. Lacerating in the whole frontal region, sometimes deep in the brain.—Beating headache, in the evening; worse at night, with violent nausea and sour vomiting.—Pressure and cuttings in the outer parts of the head. Lacerating in the head, with pressure, increased by motion and walking. Pulsative stitches in the forehead. Itching of the scalp. Eyes.—Continual burning in the eye-lids, sometimes alternating with aching pain.—Inflamed dry eye-lids. Lachrymation ; agglutina- tion in the morning.—Dilatation of the pupils.—Dim-sightedness, as if seeing through a fog, or as if the eyes were covered with a gauze. Ears.—Violent pressure in the ear, extending into tbe temple.— Tingling in the ear.—Inflammation and swelling of a gland below the ear, passing into suppuration. Nose.—Itching eruption under the nose. Bleeding of the nose. Dry coryza. Face.—Stiffness and tension in the muscles of mastication and the articulations of the jaws.—Contusive pain in the face, in the lower borders of both orbits.—Pale-red, a little elevated, rough spots on the forehead. Jaws and Teeth.—Pain of the jaws, as if broken.— Toothache of the right side, with creeping in the roots of the teeth.—Swelling and soreness of the gums. Mouth and Throat.—Stitches in the tongue.—Aphthae on the tongue and in the palate.—Tenacious mucus in the mouth and throat. Dryness in the throat and stinging during deglutition. Constrictive sensation in the throat and chest, with difficult respiration. Appetite and Taste.—Bitter taste. Metallic taste. Flat, sweet- ish taste. Gastric Symptoms.—Bitter-sour eructations. Gulping up of a bitter-sour liquid. — Constant nausea. Nausea and faintness after dinner. Stomach.—Aching pain in the pit of the stomach. — Frequent cramp-Mke sensation in the pit of the stomach. Constriction in the stomach, with nausea, going off at night.—Heat in the stomach. Abdomen.—Pain in the left hypochondrium, as if bruised, with beating. Contractive pain of the intestines. Frequent crampy feel- ings in the abdomen.—Heat or coldness in the abdomen.—Foetid fla- tulence. Stool.—"Obstinate constipation, with violent urging to urinate.— 1036 SASSAPARILLA. Great desire, with contraction of the intestines and excessive prei sure from above downwards.—Violent and constant urging.—Soft stool, with tenesmus in the rectum.—"Discharge of blood at stool.— Ulcer at the anus, covered with a black blister. Urine.—Frequent desire to urinate, with scanty emission.—Tenes- mus of the bladder, with cutting pain during micturition. Pressure on the bladder the whole day, but scanty emission. Severe tenesmus, as in gravel, with emission of white, acrid, turbid matter, with mu- cus.— Gravel. ?—Stone. ?—Burning during micturition, with emission of oblong flocks. Burning in the whole urethra, at every micturition. —Painful constriction of the bladder, without tenesmus.—Discharge of yellow pus from the urethra, with redness and inflammation of the glans and fever in the evening, with shivering. Male Genital Organs.—Intolerable stench about the genital organs.—Herpes on the foreskin. Female Genital Organs.—Delaying menses. Scanty and acrid menses, with burning of the inner sides of the thighs. Frequent pinching in the abdomen during the menses.—Mucous leucorrhaza when walking.—Itching around the nipples. Larynx.—Coryza and cough. Dry cough, with burning in the nose. Chest.—Foetid breath. Oppression of breathing. Painful con- striction in the chest. Pressure in the region of the sternum, worse when touching it.—Stitching in either side of the chest.—Tensive pain in the outer parts of the chest. Almost continual palpitation of the heart, with some anxiety. Back.—Pain in the small of the back, extending towards the genital organs.—Small violent stitches in the back, between the scapulae. Pain in the back, increasing to violent pressure when stooping. Arms.—Lacerating in either arm, from the shoulder to the hands. Paralytic pain in the shoulder-joint. Paralytic weariness in the elbow-joints.-—Paralytic lacerating in the fore-arm.—The hand is painful, although not swollen. Pain as if sprained in the wrist-joint. Cold hands. Pain as from subcutaneous ulceration in the tips of the fingers. The fingers go to sleep. Herpes on the hands. Rhagadea in the thumb. Legs.—Paralytic, weary, and bruised feeling in the hip-joints. Swelling and stiffness in tbe knee, with stitching pain. Lacerating in the knees and legs. Cramp along the tibia, down to the toes. Red herpetic spots on the calves, itching violently.—Intense pain of the soles. Swelling qfthe feet. Cold feet. •CROPHULARIA NODOSA.--SECALE CORNUTUM. 1037 239.—SCROPHULARIA NODOSA. SCROPH. N.—Common Brown-Wort.—See "Archiv," XT?II. Painfulness of tbe eye-ball. Tingling in the ears. Colic above the umbilicus. Dragging and stitching in the urethra. Constriction through the chest. Buzzing sensation in the arms and bands. 240.—SECALE CORNUTUM SEC. C__Ergot—See Noack and Trinks' "Handbuch," > foetus in a pregnant female "'Mis- 1064 SILICEA. carriage. "Inflammation and suppuration of the mammae and nipples. "Induration of the mammas.—"Cancer of the mammas. "The infant refuses the breast and vomits after nursing. Larynx and Trachea.—Rough throat, sometimes with dry and hacking cough. Sore feeling in the larynx. Cough with hoarseness. Cough from titillation in the throat.—Soreness qf the chest from the dry and hacking cough. "Suffocative night-cough. "Fatiguing cough, day and night, aggravated by motion, with scanty expectora- tion of mucus.—Cough with vomiting when expectorating. ♦Exces- sive continual cough, with discharge of a quantity of translucent mucus. ♦ Vomiting of quantities of purulent matter, when coughing. "Ulceration of the lungs. Cough with bloody mucus, also in the morn- ing. Discharge of clear, pure blood towards noon, with deep hollow cough.—When coughing the chest is painful as if bruised. Chest.—Frequent deep and sobbing breathing.—"Arrest of breath- ing: "when lying on the back; "when stooping; "when running; "when coughing.—"Shortness of breath; "when doing some manual labor; "when walking fast.—"Panting when walking fast.—Oppres- sion of the chest. Frequent oppression of the chest and head, with anxiety.— Weakness in the chest. "Pressure in the chest when coughing and sneezing. Aching pain in the sternum, towards the pit of the stomach. "Stitch through the back. Stitches in the side. Stitches in the chest, especially during a deep inspiration. Conges- tion of blood to the chest. Heat in the chest, with chilliness and coldness of the whole body. Burning pain in the chest. Palpita- tion of the heart when sitting still. Oppressive heaviness in the region of the heart. Back.—Violent pain in the small of the,back. Lameness in the small of the back. Pressure and tension in the small of the back. "Pain in the small of the back, on touching it. "Spasmodic drawing in the small of the back. *Stiff back, after sitting. Violent lacerat- ing or beating pressure in the back, with chilliness, afterwards dull oppressive headache, with heat in the head. "Lacerating and stick* ing in the back. "Sticking in the loin when sitting and lying. "In- flamed abscess on the psoas muscle. °Swelling and curvature qfthe vertebra.—Pain between the scapulas, as if the parts would be torn asunder. "Bruised pain in the scapulas. Stitches between the sca- pulas. Tension in the nape of the neck.—Stiffness qfthe nape qfthe neck, with headache. ^Glandular swellings in the nape qfthe neck, "also hard. Itching pimples on the nape of the neck, like nettle- rash. "Abscess on the nape of the neck. ^Swelling qfthe cervical glands.—Swelling of the thyroid body. SILICEA. 1065 Arms.—Drawing aching pain in the axillary glands. *Violent swelling of the axillary glands, "also with suppuration. Pain in the shoulder, a sort of pressure, extending into the hand. Lacerating in the shoulder during motion. "Languor of the arms, with trembling, during slight work. ^Lacerating in both arms. Uneasiness and trembling in the arm. Congestion of blood to the arms. Lacerating in the upper arm. Drawing pain in the elbows, apparently in the marrow. "Incipient lameness of the lower arm. "Induration of the cellular tissue of the fore-arm. Lacerating in the wrist-joint, painful when touched, and when moving it. Pain in the wrist-joint, as if sprained. "Stitches from the wrist-joints through the arm, at night. —Cramp-pain and paralytic weakness of the hand. Drawing pain in the hands. Prickling and numbness of the hands. "Ulcer on the hand.—Paralytic drawing in the fingers. "Creeping in the fingers Lacerating in the fingers. "Weakness and stiffness of all the fingers. "The joints are painful when pressing on them.—Sensation as if the tips of the fingers were ulcerated.—Blisters on the fingers, as from heat, with tingling itching.—Frequent panaritia, "also with proud flesh, or even when caries has already set in. Legs.—Itching of the nates. Drawing-jerking pain in the hip joint. Paralytic weakness of the limbs when rising from a seat, going off when walking. Uneasiness and paralytic weakness in the joints of the upper and lower limbs, when sitting or walking. Heavi- ness of the limbs. "Drawing and rigidity in the left limb. Pain of the femora as if bruised. Drawing in the thighs, extending to the feet. "Pressure, lacerating, and sticking in the thighs. "Itching ulcers, also about the malleolus. "Softening and caries of the bones. —Painful feeling qf stiffness in the knees when walking or standing. Lacerating in the knees when sitting, going off by motion. Weakness of the knees. °Swelling of the knee, also inflammatory, with blue redness, nightly pains, and excessive sensitiveness to contact.—i Itching qf the legs. "Swelling of the legs. "Ulcers, also with sickly complexion.—*Boils on the calves. "Cramp in the calves, also particularly'in the evening after working. "Numbness of the calves.—"Caries of the tibia. Pain as if sprained in the tarsal-joints. "Sticking in the malleolus, particularly on pressing the foot to the floor. Burning feet. * Swelling of the feet. Swelling of the feet, with redness. *Foztid sweat qfthe feet.—^Cadaverous smell qfthe feet. Lacerating in the heel.—Soreness of the soles, especially near the toes. "Painful hard bunions.—Itching suppurating scurf on the frozen toes. "Ulcerative pain of the big toe, also with stinging pain. 45* 1066 80LANUM.—SPIGELIA. 246.—SOLANUM. a. LYCOPERSICON. SOL. LYC—Tomato.—See "Archiv," XVII. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Frequent waking and tossing aboul at night, the limbs on which he is lying feel paralyzed. Head.—Stupid feeling in the head. Heaviness and dullness of the head. Pressure in the malar bone. Dry coryza. i>. MAMMOSUM. SOL. MAM.—Night-Shade.—See "Archiv," XIII. SYMPTOMS.—Inability to think coherently.—Hawks up blood- streaked mucus from the larynx.—Uneasiness.—Great weariness and disposition to sleep. c. NIGRUM. SOL. NIGR—See "Journal de Chimie Med."—Hirtz, of Strassburg, 1843. SYMPTOMS.—Complete cessation of the mental functions.— Ver- tigo.—Horrible headache. The face is congested with blood. Red, bloated face. Confused and anxious expression of countenance.— Open, humid, glistening eyes.—Extreme dilatation of both pupils.— Alternate contraction and dilatation of the pupils.—Mistiness before the eyes.—Loathing, vomiting of the ingesta. Frequent vomiting, first of mucus, afterwards of a bluish or gray-blackish fluid. Tenes- mus of the anus.—Difficulty of breathing.-—Hot skin, though covered with sweat. Frequent sweats over the whole body. Excessive thirst. Small, frequent pulse. Quick, irregular pulse.—Red, scarlet spots on the whole skin.—Convulsions and spasms. Tetanic rigidity of the whole body. Trismus. Coma, alternating with convulsions and moaning. Great restlessness.—General violent convulsive restless- ness. Tremor. Violent subsultus-tendinum. Moaning, as in hy- drocephalus. 247.—SPIGELIA. SPIG.—Spigelia Anthelmia.—See Hahnemann's "Materia Medica Pura," V. Compare with—Aeon., Aur., Bar., Bov., Chin., Dig., Euphr., Hyos., Lach., Lauroc, Lye, Magn.-mur., Merc, Mosc, Natr.-mur., Nux-v., Petrol., Pboepb. Puis., Sabad., Sabin., Sil., Spong., Stram., Tarax., Verat. Antidotes.—Aur., Camph.—Spig. antidotes Merc. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Bruised all over. Pain as if sprained SPIGELIA 1067 OP bruised in the shoulder-joint. Trembling of the lower, and then of the upper limbs.—The whole body is very sensitive to the touch, —All his limbs are affected, especially when walking ; his spine feels bruised. "Arthritic lancinating laceration.—Great heaviness in the upper and lower limbs.—He is very sensitive to cool air. Great lassitude of body and mind, especially after standing.—Convulsions. Characteristic Peculiarities.—All the symptoms are worse in the afternoon. Sleep.—Yawning, without drowsiness. Constant restlessness in all his limbs at night. Restless sleep, frequently disturbed, full of anxious, frightful dreams. Stupefied sleep.—Confused dreams. Fever.—Violent chilliness over the arms and shoulders. Violent chilliness through all the limbs. Chilliness in the afternoon, fol- lowed by heat and thirst. Fever: chilliness in the evening, with cold hands and distended abdomen, without thirst. Alternate chilli- ness and heat the whole day, with redness of face. Chills every morning after rising. Chilliness of the whole body, without thirst. Slight chilliness in the back, towards the abdomen, as far as the um- bilical region. Thrill of cold shuddering over the whole body. Cold hands, hot face, no thirst. Alternation of heat and chilliness.—Pulse feeble and irregular, at times quick, at others slow. Moral Symptoms.—Sadness : attended with great anxiety. Sad- ness, with ill-humor and redness of the face. Taciturn. Vexed and sensitive. Cheerfulness, alternating with palpitation of the heart and anxious oppression of the chest. Sensorium.—Weakness of memory, forgetfulness, also with indo- lence of the mind.—Painful dullness of the head. Dullness of the head, with pressure through the forehead. Wild and confused feel- ing in the head. Painful gloominess in the forehead and temples. Constant stupid feeling of the head, rendering any kind of mental labor difficult. Vertigo to falling. Head.—Headache from shaking the head, with vertigo or heavi- ness. Pain in the forehead. °Periodical typical headache. ? Ag- gravation of the headache in the open air.—Heaviness of the head, with pain when shaking it.—Pressure in the head', worse on stooping. Pressure in the temples.—Tension in the head.—Violent lacerating in the head, forehead, occiput, and temples.—Boring in the forehead. —Shaking and swashing sensation in the brain when walking.— Heat in the head.—Sensitiveness of the scalp to the touch, and par- ticularly when moving it. Ulcerative pain on the vertex. Pain as if bruised at the occiput.—Aching bony swelling at the temple, near the orbit, with painful soreness when touched.—Burning on the temples 1068 SPIGELIA. Eyes.—Nervous pains in the eyes. *Pains in and above the eyes "also particularly deep in the orbits. *Pain qfthe eye-balls, during motion, as if too large. "The pains in the eyes are aggravated by moving the eyes and facial muscles.—*Intolerable pressure in both eyes, worse when turning tliem. Pressure in both eyes, as if from sand, —^Sticking in the right eye, particularly during motion. *Digging sticking, -with depression of the upper lid. "Sticking with boring, penetrating to the interior of the head, sometimes attended with a maddening pain.— Tingling in the eyes.—"Arthritic ophthalmia.? "Rheumatic ophthalmia. ? "Corneitis. * Inflammation ofthe margins of the lids, with ulceration, -and smarting soreness. *Inflammation qfthe whites, -also with turgescence of the vessels, or early in the morning, with heaviness of the lids and inability to open them.— ♦ The eyes look dim and faint. Distortion of the eyes. ♦Great inclination to wink.—*The upper lids hang down as if paralyzed.— "Great sensitiveness of the eyes to the light.—Vanishing of sight when looking at anything. Indistinctness of sight, as if the eyes were full of water. Scintillation. Long-sightedness. "Flashes before the eyes. Transient amaurosis. "Cataract. ? Ears.—Pain in the ear like otalgia. Darting pain in the ear, ex- tending to the eye and lower jaw. Burning of the ears.—Painful sensitiveness of the hearing to sound.—Stoppage of the ears. "Perio- dical deafness. ?—Humming before the ears, also with undulatino pulsations in the ears. Ringing in both ears, with feeling of ob- struction. Nose.— °Biting in the nose.—Herpetic eruption, around and in the nostril, with sore feeling to the touch.—Stoppage of the nose. "Fluent coryza after the least cold. Face.—*Pale disfigured face, with yellow margins around the eyes. "The cheeks and lips are at times pale, at others dark-red.—Puffiness of the face.—"Typical, nervous prosopalgia. "Prosopalgia on one side of the face, with anguish about the heart and great uneasiness. "Violent pains in the face, not allowing the least contact or motion, with shining swelling of the affected side. ^Pressure in the malar bones. *Darting lacerating, or lacerating with pressure, -particularly in the right malar bone. ^Burning in the malar bones, -particularly the right. Tension and burning in the lips. Jaws and Teeth.—Tensive pain in the articulation of the jaw.__ "Toothache, with prosopalgia, pale, bloated face, yellow margins around the eyes, palpitation of the heart, chilliness, and restlessness. —*Darting pain through all the teeth, most violent in a decayed tooth. * Painful jerks in a decayed tooth, -from the crown to the SPIGELIA. 1069 root, *aggravated by cold water, -or by the contact of air. Throbbing lacerating. Mouth.—Stinging dryness in the mouth. Burning vesicles in the mouth. Painfulness qfthe back part of the tongue, as if swollen, par- ticularly when chewing.—Burning pain of the palate. Throat.—Pressing stitches in the region of the larynx. Appetite, Taste, Gastric Symptoms.—Flat, putrid taste.—No appetite. *Canine hunger, also with nausea "and thirst.—Sour eructations, reaching the tongue.—Nausea, as after long fasting. "Nausea before breakfast. Desire to vomit. Stomach.—Pressure in the pit of the stomach, as from a lump. Pressure in the stomach.—° Great sensitiveness of the pit of the Stomach, the least contact or pressure of the clothes excites great an- guish, with heat and redness of the face, and sensation in the chest as if something were lacerating loose. Abdomen.—Painful pressure in the abdomen. Violent pinching in the abdomen. Pinching stitch in the abdomen. Sharp stitches in the abdominal cavity. Lacerating drawing through the abdomen.— Slight burning in the abdomen.—Cutting and sticking in the region of the abdominal ring. Stool.—Long, ineffectual desire for stool in the abdomen. Spas- modic pushing and pressing in the rectum. Frequent desire, without being able to pass anything. Stool, the first portion of which is hard, the second loose. Crawling in the rectum and anus, as from ascarides. Itching of the anus. Dull pressure in the rectum, between the stools. Urine.—Watery urine. Urine with whitish sediment. Burning stitch in the urethra, with desire to urinate. Genital Organs.—One-half of the glans is swollen. Discharge of prostatic fluid. Twitchings in the scrotum. Larynx.—Catarrh, a sort of catarrhal fever. Dry, violent, hollow cough, occasioned by an irritation deep in the trachea, especially when stooping. Sort of suffocative cough. Chest.—°Shortness of breath, particularly when talking, with anxiety, redness of the cheeks and lips. "Dyspnoea, during motion in bed. °Danger of suffocation, when making the least motion or raising the arms. "Sudden suffocative attacks, with anxiety and palpitation of the heart. "Spasms of the lungs, in affections of the heart.—Pain in the chest, at intervals.—Strong painful oppression in the middle of the chest. Pressure and drawing in the chest when standing.—Lace- rating, with constriction of the muscles of the chest, when standing. Cutting constriction of the chest, with anguish.—Lacerating, with constriction of the chest.—"Spasmodic sensation in the chest, as if 1U70 SPIGELIA. proceeding from the pit of the stomach, with arrest of breathing.— Violent pain in the upper part of the left chest, resembling a pain as if sprained. Sticking in the chest, contracting it. Tensive stitch in the chest and abdomen. Tensive drawing stitch in the region of the true ribs. Continuous tensive stitch in the chest, more violent during an inspiration and expiration. Stitch in the chest, from with- in outwards. Quick painful darting in the front part of the chest, as from an electric spark. Darting pains in the outer parts of the upper portions of the chest, below the axilla. Dull stitches in the region where the beats qfthe heart are felt. Dull, oppressive sticking in the heart. Unusually strong beating of the heart; he frequently hears the beating; the beating could be seen externally through the clothes. Palpitation of the heart and anxious oppression of the chest. Palpita- tion of the heart, early in the morning after rising, when sitting, with anxious oppression of the chest; the heart seems to be in a tremulous motion. The palpitation qfthe heart increases by sitting down, and by bending the chest forward. The anguish increases during a deep inspiration, and when arresting tbe breathing; he has then palpita- tion of the heart and oppression ; the heart beats more violently, and he feels the pulsations of the heart when laying his hand on the pit of the stomach. The part above the place where this beating is felt feels as if painfully oppressed by a load. Back.—Stitches in the small of the back, worse during an expira- tion and inspiration.—Twitchings in the dorsal and intercostal muscles. Stitches in the back, opposite the heart. Painful pricking in the upper dorsal vertebras. Bruised sensation in the spine, even during rest.—Feeling of lameness in the nape of the neck, without hindering motion. Painful sensation in the nape of the neck, as if gone to sleep.—Red pimples on the neck, sore to the touch. Arms.—Itching in both axillae, especially the left. Pain as if sprained in the shoulder-joint. Trembling of the upper limbs. Cut- ting drawing across the deltoid muscle. Pressure, with lacerating in the middle and the external surface of the upper arm, more violent when touched.—Aching above the wrist-joint, during rest. Violent lancinating pains above the wrist-joint. Drawing pain through the metacarpal bones.—Cold hands, with clammy sweat, especially in the palms. Involuntary drawing in the tendons of either hand. Lace- rating pain in the joints of the thumb. Legs.—Creeping in the calves. Drawing in the legs, from above downward, with a feeling of warmth. Heaviness of the lower limbs Great lassitude of the lower limbs, especially the thighs. Bruising pain in the groin. Itching in the skin. Continual corrosive inching SP0NGIA TOSTA. 10/1 of both thighs. Lacerating, with pressure, in the outer parts of the thigh. Lacerating pain, as if sprained, in the knee-joint, only when walking. Compressive pain in the knees, mingled with drawing and striking. The knee is painful when touching it, as if bruised. Bruising pain in the interior of the knee-joint, when bending the knee.—Short-lasting feeling of heaviness in the leg, when sitting.— Creeping in tbe calves. Sticking in the calf, accompanied with jerk- ing and pulsations in the patella, when the knees are stretched. Smarting drawing in the tarsal-joint, with a feeling of soreness.— Darting lacerating in the dorsum of the foot. 248.—SPONGIA TOSTA. SPONG.—See Hahnemann's " Materia Medica Pura," IV. Compare with—Aeon., Dros., Hep.-s., Jod., Phosph.—After Spong. is frequently suitable: Hep.-s. Antidote.—Camphor. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—The lower half of the body feels numb. —Weariness in the whole body, especially the arms.—Extreme re- laxation of the body and mind.—Bruised feeling in the upper and outer parts of the body, a Skin.—An itching eruption, together with red, itching spots. Itch- ing over tbe whole body, as when sweat breaks out. Painful stitches in several parts of the body. Sleep.—Great weariness and disposition to sleep. Sleepiness, with yawning.—Sleep disturbed with dreams. Sleeplessness.—Sad dreams. Fatiguing dreams. Fever.—Cold hands. Cold feeling in the lower limbs.—Coldness, paleness, and sweat in the face, with heat of *the whole body. Stretch- ing of the upper and lower limbs. Shuddering and chilliness over the whole body. Fever, early in the morning he has pain in the head and abdomen, followed by violent chills, with cold bluish hands and some thirst: afterwards, when lying down, a dry, burning heat, with some thirst and a good deal of uneasy slumber; during the night, when waking and moving about, a nausea and vertigo.—In- creased temperature of the whole body, with thirst. Flushes of heat in the face and blood, with irritation of the nerves.—Pulse full and quick. Moral Symptoms.—Paroxysms of anxiety, with heat, pain in the pit of the stomach, weeping. Headache, loss of appetite, drowsiness, lassitude all over, ill-humor.—Taciturn and dissatisfied, or indolent 1072 SPONGIA TOSTA. Sensorium and Head.—Weakness of the head, and a dullness which unfits him for any kind of mental labor, accompanied with a feeling of weariness through the whole body. The head feels dull and stupid. Vertigo in the head. Heaviness and fullness of the head, increased by stooping.—Dartings in the forehead, increased when walking.—Increased rush of blood to the head, with heat on the forehead and throbbing of the carotids.—Gnawing pain on the top of the head, externally. Eyes.—Pressure below the eye-lids.—The eyes are sunk deep.— The eyes look dull and the eye-lids are swollen.—Itching of the lids. —Redness of the whites of the eyes. Suppuration of the eyes. Con- siderable lachrymation. Ears.—Pressure and pushing in the ears. Otalgia, a contractive pain.—Ringing in the ears. Hardness of hearing. Nose.—Lacerating in the nose.—Eruption on the tip of the nose, and on the lips.—Violent bleeding.—Tensive contraction over the root.—Dry coryza. Fluent coryza. Face.—Pale face. Eyes sunk. "Blueness or redness, with puffi- ness of the face, also with expression of anxiety.—Swelling of the cheek.—Eruptions on the lips. Pain of the chin, on touching it, as from subcutaneous ulceration. Jaws and Teeth. — Painfulness of the lower jaw to the touch. Glandular swellings, also tensive and painful to the touch, impeding the motion of the neck.—Itching in all the teeth.—The gums are swollen and painful when chewing. Mouth and Throat.— Vesicles on the border of the tongue.— Faint speech.—Stinging in the throat.—Burning in the larynx, then in the ears. Appetite and Gastric Symptoms.—^Bitter taste. Violent hun- ger.—Empty eructations. "Eructations, with cutting and lacerating in the stomach.—Sour regurgitations. Repeated hiccough. Bitter eructations. Disposition to vomit, without vomiting. Stomach.—Aching pain in the region of the stomach. Sensation of internal coldness in the pit of the stomach, with fullness in that region Abdomen.—Stitches in the region of the liver.—Spasms in the abdomen. Colic, pinching in the whole abdomen.—Cutting in the epigastrium, after a meal. Violent colic after breakfast.—Tensive pain in the epigastrium.—Digging-up sticking in the abdomen.— Strangulating sensation deep in tbe abdomen. Pain in the inguinal ring, as in inguinal hernia. Glandular swelling in the groin, with tensive pain when walking. Qualmish feeling in the abdomen, accompanied with frequent liquid stools. SP0NGIA TOSTA. 1078 Stool.—♦Hard stool.—White diarrhoea.—Bruising pain in the re gion of the anus, almost like soreness. Tenesmus in the anus, during stool, as if diarrhoea would set in.—Tensive pain from the middle of the abdomen to the anus.—Ascarides. U.une.—Frequent micturition.—Inability to retain the urine.— Thin stream. The urine deposits a thick, grayish-white sediment. Male Genital Organs. — Itching burning of the scrotum.— Squeezing, strangulating pain in the testes.—Aching ^swelling qfthe testes. "Orchitis. Swollen painful spermatic cord. Female Genital Organs.—Pain in the back, afterwards palpita- tion of the heart, previous to the menses.—Drawing in the upper and lower limbs during the menses. Larynx.—^Hoarseness, cough, and coryza, very violent. Scraping, burning, and constriction of the larynx. Dryness in the region of the larynx, increased by hawking. Difficult respiration, as if the throat were closed with a plug, and as if the air could not pass. Hollow *cough, with expectoration, day and night. Painful pressure below the short ribs when coughing. Hawking of mucus. Pain in the chest and trachea when coughing, with roughness in the throat. *Constant cough from a deep spot in the chest, where he feels a pain as if that part of the chest had become sore and bleeding from the cough. Dry cough. *Dry cough, day and night, with a burning in the chest, as if some hot substance were in the chest; the cough diminishes after eating and drinking. Chest.—Violent asthma. Slow, deep breathing Hurried, pant- ing breathing. Weak after every exertion. Boring stitch in the intercostal muscles. Fleet, painful stitches in the side of the chest. Pressure in the chest, sometimes accompanied with stitches in motion and rest. Sudden pain in the muscles of the chest and back. Back.—Violent stitch in the small of the back. "Drawing lace- rating and sticking in the small of the back.—Aching in the small of the back, only when walking. Fine lacerating in the region of the os-sacrum. Pressing sensation in the spinal marrow. Pain as if the cervical glands near the larynx and trachea were swelling. Several glandular swellings below the lower jaw, impeding the mo- tion of the neck. Stiffness of the neck, when turning it and when stooping. Aching pain in the region of the larynx while singing Painful cramp in the cervical muscles. Arms.—Jactitation qf the muscles around the shoulder-joint.— Sticking drawing through the upper arm. Stitches in the elbow- joint, when moving it. Drawing pain in the lower arms. Heaviness 68 1074 SQUILLA (SCILLA) MARITIMA. in the fore-arms. Trembling of the fore-arms and hands. ViolenI drawing in the wrist-joint. Swelling of the hands. Legs.—Pain in the internal part of the thigh, aching posteriorly. Sticking pain, with pressure, over the knee. Heaviness in the knee- joints, perceptible when walking. Weariness in the knees when walking. Lacerating in the tibia. Great uneasiness in both legs. Lacerating in the malleoli. 249.—SQUILLA (SCILLA) MARITIMA. SQUILL.—See Hahnemann's " Mat. Med. Pura," V. Compare with—Bry., Dros., Hyos., Iod., Mur.-ac, Natr.-mur., Nux.-v., Pub.. Rhubarb., Rhus-tox., Seneg., Spong. ANTinoTE.^Camphor. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Soreness between the limbs. Con- tinued, dull, rheumatic pains in the whole body, abating during rest ;and increasing during motion.—Weariness.—Feeling of heaviness in the whole body, as if weary.—The whole body becomes languid, especially when taking a long walk.—Uneasiness in the upper and lower limbs.—Violent pains in the limbs.—Spasmodic movements, Convulsions. Skin.—Burning and itching of the skin. Small red spots on the hands, feet, chest, and the whole of the body, assuming the appear- ance of itch-like pimples. Cold gangrene.—Irritates the scirrhous tumors. Scirrhous tumors, accompanied by fever and inflammation, are apt to become cancerous by using Squills. Sleep.—Frequent yawning, without drowsiness. Stretching of the tipper limbs, with yawning. Languor and drowsiness after dinner. Restless sleep. Debility early in the morning, after waking and rising, especially in the region of the hips. Confused feeling and heaviness in the head. Sleep full of dreams. Fever.—Heat and redness in the face. Heat in the head, with cold feet. Small hard pulse. Icy-cold hands and feet, the rest of the body being warm. Chilliness and, shortly after, heat over the whole body. Feeling of heat in the whole body, without thirst or sweat. Moral Symptoms.—Not disposed to think, desponding. Whining mood. Sensorium and Head.—The head feels cloudy and dizzy. Vertigo, with nausea. Crampy pain in the sides of the head. Contractive pain in both temples.—Dull, humming headache, early in the morn- ing after rising.—Extreme heaviness in the whole head. Aching SQUILLA (SCILLA) MARITIMA. 107$ drawing pain in the forehead. Lacerating headache. — Digging-up pain in the forehead. Painful sensitiveness of the top of the head and internal stupefaction, early in the morning. Eyes.—Contraction of the pupils. Dilatation of the pupils.—Fine burning in the outer canthi. Violent lacerating in both eyes. Turn- ing sensation before the eyes, with obscuration of sight. Ears and Nose.—Sore feeling about the margins of the nostrils. —Acrid nasal mucus.—Frequent sneezing. Coryza, with ulceration of the nostrils. Profuse coryza, with dim, faint, watery eyes. Face, Jaws, and Teeth.—Distorted, rigid features, large eyes, and staring -look, with redness of the cheeks, no thirst. "Dark redness during the heat, followed by paleness.—Corrosive itching of the forehead and chin. "Cracked lips, with brown crusts.—"Blaok lips. "Black teeth.—Pain in the submaxillary glands. Mouth.—Mouth feels viscid and slimy. "Mouth open and dry.— Vesicles on the tongue.—Burning in the palate and throat. Scrap ing burning in the palate, resembling heartburn. Appetite and Gastric Symptoms.—Complete loss of appetite. Canine hunger. Empty risings.—Short eructations. Sour eructa- tions. Nausea and eructations. Desire to vomit in the region of the stomach. "Constant nausea during the morning cough. Constant alternation of a desire to vomit in the pit of the stomach and indi- cation of diarrhoea in the abdomen. Excessive efforts to vomit.— Violent nausea.—Vomiting. Stomach and Abdomen.—Weakness of the stomach.—Deranges tho digestive power of the stomach. Painful crampy sensation in the pit of the stomach. Cardialgia.—Pressure at the stomach, as from a stone. Excessive pain in the stomach. Inflammation of the bowels. Drawing pain in the abdomen. Lacerating through the abdomen, below the umbilicus. Acute pain between the umbilicus and the pubic region. Cutting-pinching in the abdomen. "Ascites. Stool.—Hard, scanty faces. Papescent stool, without colic. Discharge of a quantity of brown, loose, slimy, foetid faeces. "Black diarrhoea. Bloody stools. Itching of the anus. Urine.—Tenesmus of the bladder after micturition.—Great desire to urinate, with scanty emission. Constant, but ineffectual desire to emit urine. Great desire to urinate.—♦Reddish urine, with red sediment, "also hot and dark urine. Sanguinolent urine.—*Urinates at night. "Diabetes. Genital Organs.—Anxious dull stitches in the glans.—Comprejj* sive pain in the testicles.—Haemorrhage from the uterus. Larynx.—Slight irritation in the pit of the throat, inducing cough. 1076 STANNUM. Cough in the morning, with profuse mucous expectoration. *Violent cough early in the morning, with stitches in the side at every turn of cough, with expectoration. "Cough from drinking cold water. "Cough at every inspiration, evening and night. *Cough, with ex- pectoration. Constant expectoration of mucus. "Cough, with bloody expectoration. Dry, violent cough, occasioning a racking pain in the abdomen, and dryness in the throat. Cough, even to retching. Coughing, talking, or performing the least exercise excites an intolerable feeling of heat, without any heat being perceptible externally. Headache and stoppage of breathing during cough. "Pressure on the bladder during cough, and spurting out of the urine. Chest.—Heavy, slow expirations and inspirations. Dyspnoea, with frequent quick breathing and anxiety as long as the asthma lasted. Dyspnoea and sticking in the chest. ' Oppression across the chest, as if it were too tight. ♦A kind qf pleurisy. ^Stitches in the left side. Repeated stitches in the sides.—Drawing pain in the chest. —"The pains in the chest are worse towards morning.—"Congestion of blood to the chest.—"Pneumonia and pleurisy. Back.—Red pimples on the baok. Stinging itching about the throat and jaws. Drawing and squeezing about the cervical muscles Stiffness in the nape of the neck. Arms.—Convulsive jerking of the arm. Painless jerkings and jactitations in the muscles of the upper arm. Darting pain in the wrist-joints. Stitch-like drawing pain from the wrist-joint into the fingers. Legs.—Convulsive jerking of the upper and lower limbs, when sitting. The thighs feel bruised. Weariness of the thighs.—Prick- ings in both thighs. Drawing pain in the muscles of both thighs.— Drawing pain in the leg.—Sweat of the toes. 250.—STANNUM. STANN.—Tin.—See Hahnemann's " Mat. Med. Pur.," V. Compare with—Am.-carb. and mur., Arg.-met. and nitr., Calc-c, Cann., Canst, Chin., Dulc, Fer., Ign., Puis., Seneg., Sil., Zinc. Antidote.—Puis. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Stitching pinching, alternately, in various parts of the body.—Heaviness in all the limbs, languid feel- ing in the chest, and more or less violent fits of anxiety. Bruised pain in the limbs, and especially above the small of the back. Extreme STANNUM. 1077 relaxation of body and mind.—Loss of strength, as if his lower limbs had been crushed.—Excessive heaviness.—Great weariness, with constant inclination to sit. Trembling and unsteady in the whole body and limbs.—Faint and drowsy. "Exhausted from talking.— "Sweats easily when walking during the languor. "Nervousness.— "Intolerable uneasiness in the whole body.—"Hysteric spasms.— "Eclampsia of children duriug dentition. "Epilepsy, with clench- ing of thumbs, pale face, loss of consciousness.—"Emaciation.— Consumption. Characteristic Peculiarities.—Many pains, especially the draw- ing pains with pressure, commence lightly, increase gradually and to a very high degree, and decrease again as slowly. The symptoms seem to disappear when walking, they return immediately when at rest; the lassitude is greatest when walking. Skin.—Itching burning pricking over the whole body.—Itching eruption over the whole body. Sleep.— Stretching of the arms and legs. A good deal of yawn- ing, when walking in the open air.—Drowsiness. Uneasiness in the whole body. Anxious dreams. Confused, vivid dreams. Drowsy and dizzy in the morning. Fever.—Shuddering. Slight feeling of coldness and moderate shuddering, with goose-flesh on the arms and continued chattering of the teeth.—Chilliness over the whole body. "Chilliness over the back, in the evening, or only about the head, with thirst. Quickly- passing chilliness along the back.—Great heat in the head, with hot forehead, sometimes with redness of the face, accompanied with a general, but slight heat of the whole body. Violent heat over the whole body, especially the chest and back. "Burning heat in the limbs and particularly on the hands.—*Profuse sweat, for two nights, exhausting.—♦Hectic fever. ?—"Worm fever. ?—"Pulse quick and small. Moral Symptoms.—Sad, hypochondriac mood.—Indescribable an- guish and melancholy. * Want of disposition to talk. *Discourage- ment.—Restlessness. Dullness of mind, paleness and dimness of sight. Dissatisfaction. Ill-humor. Sensorium.—Dizziness qfthe whole head.—Dullness of the head, as if catarrh would set in, with sneezing. Heaviness and dullness of the head, worse in the evening.—Stupefying vertigo. Head.—Headache, almost every morning, with want of appetite, nausea, and ill-humor.—Pressure in the forehead, temple, and vertex, diminishing by external pressure. Pressure in the forehead. Stu pefying aching pain in the brain -over the eye-brows. Dizzy pres 1078 STANNUM. sure through the whole head. Pain, the whole day, as if the temples would be crushed. Pain as if the forehead would be crushed. Bor- ing in the occipital bones, with intensely painful heaviness.—Draw- ing through the forehead and vertex, with a sensation of pressure- Pressure with lacerating in the forehead.—Pulsative stitching in the temple, with heat in the head, chilliness in the body, with slumber and loss of sense.—Beating pain in the temples.—Painful sensation, when shaking the head, as if the brain were loose.—Humming in the head.—Sense as of faintness in the head, and sleepiness.—Pain, as from subcutaneous ulceration, in the outer parts of the head. Eyes. — Pressure in the eyes. — Sudden, intensely painful, dull shocks on the outer side of the upper border of the orbit.—Burning in the eyes.—Nightly agglutination of the eye-lids, and weakness of the eyes in the daytime.—Contraction of the eye-lids, with red- ness of the whites, and burning sensation.—Jerkings in the eyes.— Eaint, dim, sunken eyes. EarSv—Dragging: pain in. the outer ear.—Pressure in the outer part of the mastoid process.—Boring pom in the right ear, with cold feet.—Sensation in the ear as if blood were rushing through it. Nose.—Violent bleeding of the nose. Left nostril is closed, swollen, red, painful to the touch. Face.:—*Face pale and sunken, "also with sunken eyes.—Flushes of heat in the face.—Stupefying pain in the face,, especially in the forehead.—Contractive pain in the bones of the face and teeth of the right side.—Burning-itching stinging in the malar bones. Pain and swelling of the upper jaw.—Itching pimples in the face. Jaws and Teeth.—Painful swelling of the submaxillary glands. *The teeth feel elongated. Jerking pain in all the teeth.—^Looseness of the teeth. Mouth.—Yellowish mucus on the tongue. Foetid odor from the mouth and throat.—"Red tongue. Throat.—Sore throat, as if swollen, with feeling of dryness and a drawing tensive pain.—Cutting in the pharynx, as with knives, when swallowing.:—Feeling of dryness- and stinging in the throat. Scrap- ing below the pit of the throat, internally. Scraping in the throat. Taste and Appetite.—Bitter-sour taste.—Sweetish rising in the throat.—Great appetite and hunger.—Increased thirst. Gastric Symptoms.—"Great weakness of digestion.—Frequent hiccough. — Frequent empty eructations-. Sour eructations, with subsequent roughness of the throat.—Nausea and bitterness in the mouth. Nausea after a meal.—Retching in the evening, followed by bout, and afterwards bitter taste m the mouth. Retching, with sen- STANNUM. 1079 sation as of deranged stomach.—Bitter bilious vomiting after eating soup. Sour vomiting. Vomiting of undigested food, after violent retching. *Hamatemesis. Stomach.—Pressure and crowded sensation in the pit qf the sto- mach. Tensive pressure in the pit. Dull hard pressure under the last cartilages of the ribs.—Cutting around the stomach.—Spasmodic griping in the stomach and around the umbilicus, with constant nausea, and with anxious rising to the pit of the stomach.—"Chronic cardialgia, with bitter eructations, feeling of hunger, and diarrhoea "Cardialgia, with nausea and sickly complexion. Abdomen.—Quickly-passing burning below the diaphragm. "Hys- teric and hypochondriac spasms in the region of the diaphragm and abdomen.—"Stinging in the region of the spleen. Simple pain in the hypochondria, followed by dull shocks.—Sudden painful jerking in both sides below the true ribs.—"Stinging in the region of the liver. Pressure in the region of the liver.—Pain in the abdomen, extending into the stomach and in both sides below the ribs. Draw- ing pressure in various parts of the abdomen.—Tensive pain in the abdomen, towards the small of the back, most violent when stoop- ing.—Painful distention of the abdomen, with painful sensitiveness of the abdominal integuments to the touch. Bloatedness of the abdo- men. Pinching cutting in the umbilical region, almost the vihole day. Pinching in the umbilical region, as from a cold. Painful digging-up in the umbilical region.—Sore feeling in the whole abdo- men, worse when touched. Smarting pain in the abdomen. Pain of the abdomen, when touched, as from subcutaneous ulceration, with arrest of breathing.—Dull stitches in the region of the kidneys, from without inward. Stinging pain in the hypogastrium.—Burning pain in the abdomen.—Feeling qf emptiness in the abdomen, without hunger.—Pressure in the inguinal glands, with swelling in that region. Stool.—Retention of stool.—Frequent desire for stool.— Unsuc- cessful desire for stool.—Dry stool, in lumps. Dry stool, of large size, with violent cutting pains. Frequent and continuous desire, as if diar- rhoea would set in. Greenish, scanty stool.—Burning pain in the region of the liver after stool. Dull pressure in the rectum after stool. Discharge of mucus after stool.—Aching pain in the tectum. Soreness and smarting at the anus, with fine stinging. Urine.—Retention of urine. ♦Frequent desire to urinate, with copious emission. After micturition, intensely-painful pressure in the neck of the bladder and along the urethra.—-Burning in uter parts of the thigh. Burning cutting creeping in the thighs.__ Painful weakness of the knees when standing, with intensely painful jerks in the knees. Burning pain in the bend of the knee.—Cramp in the calves when walking.—Stiffness of the ankles, when walking. 256.—SYMPHYTUM OFFICINALE. This remedy has been used in fractures of bones, to facilitate their reunion; it is said to have been employed with success in several cases. TABACUM. 1111 257.—TABACUM. TABAC—Tobacco.—See Noack and Trinks' "Manual.' Compare with—Aeon., Ars., Bell., Cham., Cic, Coce, Con., Hell., Hyos., iJMb.. Kreas., Nux-v., Op., Stram., Verat., Zinc. Antidotes.—Camph., Ipec, Nux-v., Vinum (Ettmuller arrested with strong Wine the convulsions and cold sweats occasioned by Tobacco GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Great weariness, languor, and de- bility qf the extremities, and trembling of the hands and feet.—Trem- bling of the head and hands. Trembling of the whole body, after the nausea. General debility and coldness, great anguish and swoons. Apoplexy. Vacillation, trembling, general weariness of the muscles, spasmodic contraction of the muscles, spasms, general insensibility, relaxation. Fainting fits, trembling, loss of consciousness. Con- vulsive movements, with paleness and distortion of the face, staring look, stupefied expression of countenance, slow and small pulse.— Spasms and convulsions.— Epilepsy.—Jaundice.—Arthritis.—Con- sumption.—Emaciation, particularly on the back and cheeks.—Com- plete insensibility, with loss of memory and consciousness. Sensa- tion as if his vitality had left him. Death-like paleness. Characteristic Peculiarities.—The pains on the left side pre- dominate, he is better in the open air. Skin.—Itching of the body. Red itching eruption on the whole back. Pustulous eruption on the nape of the neck and upper limbs. Increased turgescence of the skin, with itching and slight sweat Unusual dryness and burning of the skin. Sleep.—Drowsiness. Stupefying sleep at night. Deep sleep., succeeded by profuse sweat. Sopor. Sleep, stupefaction, and pro- fuse sweat. Restless night-sleep, with coldness and tossing about in bed.—Starting during a slumber.—Innumerable dreams. Fever.—Icy coldness of the legs, from the knees to the toes. Cold- ness of the extremities. Coldness and shuddering in the whole body:, in the evening, with flushes of heat. Chill the whole day, with aching pain between the shoulders. Internal coldness, with feeling of heat. Warmth of the body, with icy-cold hands. Hot skin with great thirst. Heat and restlessness. Profuse sweat, with coldness of the extremities. Dry, hot skin, with thirst and quick pulse. Cold sweat. Night-sweat. Hard, quick pulse. Moral Symptoms.—Mania.—Hypochondriac.—Peevish.—Mutter- ing delirum. Stupid, is unable to collect his thoughts, with heaviness and dullness of the head, going off after vomiting.—Lowness of spirits, despondency, accompanied with a dying sickness of tbe stomach 1112 TABACUM going off after vomiting. Anguish, with general sick feeling. Great restlessness, anguish, melancholy, oppression of the chest.—Vertigo. Vertigo, with qualmishness of the stomach. Vertigo, increasing to loss of consciousness. Intoxication, with violent headache. Head.—Weariness of the head, headache, stupefaction, intoxica- tion. Dullness of the head, with dull pressure from within outwards in the region of the root of the nose. Weariness of the head, she is scarcely able to keep it erect. Violent heaviness and pains in the nape of the neck. Feeling of heaviness in the head, after dinner.— Violent headache, particularly a drawing in the left half of the fore- head. Dull, aching pains deep in the frontal region, with pressure in the eyes. Dull aching pain in the forehead and root of the nose. Violent aching pain in the vertex. Wakes with a headache, and pressure in the vertex and temples. Aching pain in the parietal bones. Compressive pain in the whole head. Compressive-con- tractive sensation in the temples.—Pain in both sides of the head as if dashed to pieces.—Heat in the head. Congestion of blood to the head, with flushes of heat.—Violent itching of the hairy scalp. Burn- ing on the head, with formication, loss of appetite, violent sticking in the ears, succeeded by coldness and chills. Eyes.—Pain of the eyes, and scintillations, on looking at a thing. The eyes are painful, as after long weeping. Pressure in the eye- balls. Violent digging, drawing pains in the eye-balls and temporal regions, increased by motion, with distention of the blood-vessels and increased beating in the same.—Feeling of pressure deep in the orbits, with weakness of the eyes and vertigo. Heat of the eye-balls. Heat with lachrymation. Heat in the orbits. The cornea is some- what reddened, with photophobia.—Contraction of the eye-lids, with smarting pain in the eyes.—The eyes are closed, with photophobia.— Dimness of the eyes, as from mucus. Vanishing of sight on looking at white objects. Obscuration of sight, with dilatation of the pupils. Scintillations.—Great contractions of the pupils.—Dilatation of the pupils. Staring look. Ears.—Painful lacerations in the ear. Sticking in the ears. Titillation in the ears. The ears are burning hot and red.—Sensa- tion as if the ears were closed. Nose.—Creeping in the nostril. Acute smell. Face.—The face looks bluish and contracted. Death-like paleness during the sickness of the stomach. Red spots in the face. Violent lacerating in the facial bones and teeth, towards evening. Chapped, painful lips.—Tensive pain in the submaxillary glands, as if swollen. Teeth.—Sudden appearance of violent toothache, with heat in tha TABACUM 1113 face and reeling in the head. Drawing in the gums. Drawing pain in the upper teeth, abating on pressing upon the cheeks. Violent drawing-lacerating pain in the upper teeth, extending towards the forehead. Mouth.—Stinging in the tongue. Swelling of a sublingual gland, painful when touched.—Dryness of the whole mouth, with violent thirst. Bitter taste in the mouth. Sour taste. Throat.—Burning in the throat and mouth. Constrictive pain and burning in the larynx. Scraping and burning in the pharynx. Slight catarrhal affection of the tonsils. Spasm of the pharynx. Appetite.—Voracious appetite. Constant hunger. Gastric Symptoms.—Frequent empty eructations. Sour, hot eructations in the morning. Frequent eructation, sickness at the stomach, vomiturition.—Hiccough. Spasmodic hiccough. Heartburn, from the stomach to the throat. Qualmishness of the stomach.— Nausea. Nausea and accumulation of water.—Loathing.—Nausea, almost unto fainting, going off in the open air. Violent eructations, retching, nausea. Excessive nausea, on making the least motion.— Disposition to vomit on hawking up mucus.— Vomiting.—Spasmodio vomiting, singultus. Vomiting, with sweat, or with diarrhoea and pinching in the abdomen. Hasmatemesis and spasms. Violent vomiting, diarrhoea, anguish, debility, stupefaction, and sweat. Stomach.—Feeling of pressure in the stomach. Spasmodic pres- sure in the region qf the pylorus. Cardialgia. Colic, followed by violent cardialgia, great nausea, and ptyalism. Violent lacerating in the stomach after a meal. Pain and inflammation of the stomach, and of portions of the intestinal canal. Burning in the stomach. Feeling of coldness in the stomach, with nausea and disposition to vomit. Abdomen.—Violent contractions of the abdominal muscles. Sink- ing in of the abdomen. Pain in the region of the liver on pressing upon it, extending to the pit of the stomach. Sticking in the region of the liver. Sticking in the hypochondria.—Pressure in the hypo- chondria. Aching pains in the umbilical region, with cramp-like re- traction of the umbilicus. Violent aching pains in the hypogastrium, with nausea and disposition to vomit; or with chilliness of the whole body. Horrible pains in the abdomen, sensation of violent burning. Heat in the intestinal canal. Violent colic, with vertigo, headache, nausea, contraction of the abdomen, small pulse, cold and damp skin, dilatation of the pupils. Colic towards evening, as if diarrhoea would set in. Pinching in the abdomen, Allowed by lacerating pain in the stomach.—Cutting around the umbilicus. Spasm of the bowels, with diarrhoea. 47* 1114 TANACETUM. Stool Frequent urging, with little stool, soreness in the abdo- men before and after stool. Urging to stool, with frequent tenesmus of the rectum. Violent tenesmus, with straining. Diarrhoza. Diar- rhazic stools, with emission of flatulence, colic, and soreness of the anus.—Tenesmus and violent pains in the small of the back during soft stool. Tenesmus and violent burning in the anus, during stool. Burning pain at the anus, after stool. Urine.—Enuresis. Frequent pressure on the bladder. Male Genital Organs.—Discharge of prostatic fluid. Tingling en the glans. Nocturnal emissions. Female Genital Organs.—Discharge of a serous liquid from the vagina, a fortnight after the menses. Larynx.—Tickling and scraping in the throat. Dry cough, with sticking in the pit of the stomach. Chest.—Great difficulty of breathing, paroxysms of suffocation. Dyspnoea, anxiety, hurried, labored breathing. Hurried, anxious, irregular inspirations. Oppression of the chest, relieved by a deep inspiration. Violent constriction of the chest. Pressure and stitches in the chest. Sore pain in the chest, during rest.—Violent palpita- tion of the heart when lying on the left side, going off by turning to the right side. Irregular, generally slow beating of the heart. Vio- lent beating of the heart and carotids. Back.—Burning under the scapulas.—Contractive pain in the small of the back, particularly violent after stool. Pain in the small of the back and loins, particularly when sitting. Intolerable pain in the small of the back, rendering it difficult to sit or lie. Throbbing pain in the region of the sacrum, in the evening. Arms and Legs.—Coldness and trembling of the limbs. Spasms of the limbs. Tremor of the limbs. Lame feeling in the arm, with cramp. Complete exhaustion and painfulness of the arm. The hands feel lame, with coldness, afterwards burning. Weakness of the hands. Cramps in the hands and arms. Spasmodic contractions in the hands and arms.—Dull aching pain in the hip and knee-joints. Drawing in the thighs. Frightful burning in the knee.—Spasm in the knee. 258.—TANACETUM. TANAC—Tansey.—See "Archiv," XIII., p. 170. SYMPTOMS.—Great mobility, extraordinary motions, and strange gesticulations, stretching, and drawing up the feet, and then extend tog them again suddenly. TARAXACUM. 1115 259.—TARAXACUM. TARAX.—Leontodon Taraxacum, DandeHon.—See " Hahnemami'o "MaterU Medica Pura," V. Compare with—Con., Kali., Nux-v., Puis., Spig., Valer, Antidote.—Camphor. Sleep.—Drowsiness in the daytime. Frequent waking from sleep, and tossing about in bed. Anxious, vivid dreams. Voluptuous dreams. Fever.—Chilliness for some hours, with continuous, oppressive headache. Face, hands, and rest of the body are hot, without thirst —Fever and ague. Moral Symptoms.—Gloomy mood, when unoccupied Sensorium.—Vertigo, with unsteady gait. Head.—"Violent headache, felt only when walking or standing.— Heaviness of the head, with heat and redness of the face. Oppres- * sive stupefying pain in the forehead, as after an intoxication. Aching pain in the right temple. Painful pressure in the head from within outward. Drawing aching pain in the temple. Sensation in the head as if the brain were constricted from all sides by a soft pressure. Eyes.—Contraction, then dilatation of the pupils.—Burning in the eye-ball. Ears.—Hardness of hearing. Lacerating in the outer meatus- auditorius. Drawing pain in the outer parts of the ear. Face.—Feeling of heat and redness in the face. Mouth.—Frequent accumulation of sourish water in the mouth. Ac- cumulation of saliva in the mouth, and sensation as if the larynx were closed by pressure. Tongue coated white. Dry brown-coated tongue, early in the morning, when waking. Throat.—Difficult deglutition. Dryness and stinging in the throat. Taste and Gastric Symptoms.—Bitterish taste in the mouth, before a meal. Bitter eructations and hiccough. Nausea, accompa- nied with anxiety, when sitting, going off when standing. Nausea, as if the stomach were overloaded with fat things. Qualmishness and nausea in the pharynx.—Great chilliness after eating, and especi- ally after drinking. Stomach and Abdomen.—Tension in the pit of the stomach. Aching pain in the left side of the abdomen.—Continuous stitches, with pressure, in the left side of the abdomen. Itching-stinging pain in the right abdominal muscles. Urine and Genital Organs.—Continuous boring pain in the glans 1116 TARTARUS STIBIATUS. Respiratory Organs.—Burning pressure in the sternum, more violent during an expiration than inspiration. Tensive pain in the region of the diaphragm, during a deep inspiration. Back.—Pressure in the small of the back. Painless creeping in the small of the back.—Tensive sticking in the back, towards the right side. Sticking pain, with pressure, in the whole spine, towards the right side, when lying, with difficult breathing, especially violent in the small of the back. Sticking with pressure, in the nape of the neck. Arms.—Twitching in the upper arm. Paroxysmal throbbing on the inner side of the upper arm. Aching pain in the muscles of the upper arm. Jerking in the muscles of the fore-arm. Frequently returning drawing pains in the fore-arm. The tips of the fingers are cold as ice. Legs.—Sticking pain in the knee-joint. Drawing pains in the legs, when sitting and walking. Weakness of the legs. Aching pain in the calf. Burning-aching pain in the sole of the foot. Continuous drawing along the tibia. Paroxysms of burning in the toes. 260.—TARTARUS STIBIATUS. TART. STIB.—Tartarus Emeticus.—See Noack and Trinks. Compare with—Aeon., Ant.-cr., Asa-f., Bar.-c, Cham., Coce, Ign., Ipec, Kali- nitr., Nitr.-ac, Nux-v., Puis., Sep., Verat.—After Tart.-stib. are particularly suitable: Bar.-c, Ipec, Puis., Sep., Sulph.—Tart.-stib. is particularly effica- cious after : Puis, and Bar-c Antidotes.—Of large massive doses : China (particularly the yellow bark), Ipec. —Of small doses: Asa-f., Chin., Coce, Ipec, Op , Puis.—The principal remedy for the pustules which Tart.-stib. causes on the genital organs, is Conium.— Tart.-stib. antidotes Sepia. PATHOLOGY.—Its action on animals would appear, from the experiments of Magendie, to be somewhat peculiar. He found that dogs, like man, may take a large dose with impunity—for instance, half an ounce, if they are allowed to vomit; but that, if the gullet is tied, from four to eight grains will kill them in a few hours. His subsequent experiments go to prove that death is owing to the poison exciting inflammation of the lungs. Six or eight grains dissolved in water were injected into a vein; the animal was attacked with vomiting and purging, and died within an hour. Post-mortem ap- pearances: redness of the whole villous coat of the stomach and intestines, and also the lungs were of an orange-red or violet color throughout, destitute of crepitation, gorged weth blood, dense like tht TARTARUS STIBIATUS. 1117 tpleen, and here and there even hepatized. A larger quantity caused death more rapidly, without affecting tbe alimentary canal; a smaller quantity caused intense inflammation there, and death in twenty-four hours, but the lungs were always more or less affected. It is a fact, too, worthy of notice, that in whatever way this poison enters the body, its effects are uearly the same. This is shown, not only by researohes of Magendie, just mentioned, but likewise by the experiments of Schloepfer, who found that a scruple dissolved in twelve parts of water, and injected into the windpipe, caused violent vomiting, difficult breathing, and death in three days; and in the dead body both the lungs and stomach were much inflamed, particu larly the former. It further appears, from an experiment related by Dr. Campbell, that, when applied to a wound, it acts with almost equal energy as when injected into a vein. Five grains killed a cat in this way in three hours, causing inflammation of the wound, and vivid redness of the stomach. He did not find the lungs inflamed. Magendie infers, from his own researches, that Tartar-emetic occa- sions death when swallowed, not by inflaming the stomach, but through means of a general inflammatory state of the whole system, subsequent to its absorption,—of which disorder the affection of the stomach, and even that of the lungs are merely parts or symp- toms. The later experiments of Rayer tend in some measure to confirm these views, by showing that death may occur without in- flammation of any kind being excited anywhere. Orfila has proved by analysis the important fact that Tartar-emetic is absorbed in the course of its action, and may be detected in the animal tissues and secretions. He found that, when it is applied to the cellular tissue of small dogs, two grains disappear before death; that Antimony may be detected by his process throughout the soft textures generally, but especially in the liver and kidneys; but that it is quickly discharged from these quarters by the urine. Hence, in an animal that died in four hours, he found it abundantly in the liver, and still more in the urine. Dr. Nevins experimented on ten rabbits, the doses varied from one-half to two grains; it required from twelve to seventy-three grains, in divided doses, to cause death. For the first days no striking symptoms were present; then the animals lost spirit in a great degree, and gradually became emaciated, but continued to take food almost to the hour of death. All who lived beyond the tenth day had diarrhoea—rabbits are incapable of vomiting. Cramps were not present in a single instance, but several died in violent convul- sions for one-quarter of an hour before death. The mouth was very 1118 TARTARUS STIBIATUS. severely ulcerated in several. One pregnant rabbit continued to increase in size and weight for two weeks, when all motion in the belly ceased, she lost weight and flesh, and died while giving birth to a litter of seven dead immature foetuses. Emaciation often extreme, so that not a trace of fat remained in the body. Mouth ulcerated. Stomach frequently inflamed in patches, but not through- out , sometimes, but rarely, ulcerated—always more than half full of blood. Pylorus frequently so thickened and indurated as to re- semble cartilage under the knife. Small bowels frequently inflamed in patches, but rarely ulcerated. Intestinal glands sometimes exces- sively enlarged. Large bowels generally healthy. Liver generally congested in parts, occasionally inflamed, hard, or brittle. Kidneys generally more or less congested, sometimes one only, at others the upper portion of one and the lower of the other. Bladder generally distended with urine and more vascular than usual. Brain generally healthy. Lungs and trachea frequently congested, sometimes highly inflamed; the two lungs seldom alike. In several cases there was extensive extravasation of blood upon the surface of the lungs, and of the liver and stomach, and beneath the mucous surface of the coecum. Heart healthy and generally full of black coagulated blood. It was always present in the liver after five grains were given; appeared in this organ before it was clearly proved present in any other organ except the stomach. It appeared next in the kidneys, and after the fifteenth day was present in the bones. Its presence was also lastly proved in the blood, lungs, urine, fasces, both hard and soft. In the brain it never was clearly present, and its evidence in the muscles was very slight. It was constantly passing off by the urine and fasces, and was discovered in both these excretions, abundantly in some rabbits which survived twenty-one days after the last dose was given; and in the fasces was slightly present eighty days after the last dose. It disappeared from the liver about tbe fifteenth day, and from the kidneys somewhat later; whilst it was found abun- dantly in the bones thirty-one days after the last dose. In the litter of seven it was found abundantly in the placenta and livers, examined separately; in the remaining contents of the abdomen, in the contents of the chest, in the flesh and bones. CLINICAL REMARKS.—The homceopathicity of this medicine in variola is strongly marked; and it is now recognized by the phy- sicians of our school as one of the most important remedies. Dr. Lichtenstein, of Brunswick, says of the Tartar-emetic pustule, "The clear lymph of the pustules which arise from the external ap« plication of Tartrate of Antimony produced inoculation pustules which TARTARUS STIBIATUS. 1119 are quite undistinguishable from those produced by vaccination. They seem to confer the same protection from cow-pox and small-pox ; they excite fresh pustules by inoculation, and, in general, in other respects would appear to be analagous to cow-pox." The first experiment he made with them was in the summer of 1830 ; but, as he never heard of any similar ones, he was then diffident about them; up to this time he has made thirty-one vaccinations and revaccinations with lymph of Tartar-emetic pustules, and has found them, in all their relations, analagous to cow-pox lymph. Bethmann reports the case of a patient whose body was covered with numerous and large pus- tules filled with pus, and whom he treated unsuccessfully with Sul- phur. He administered one grain of the fourth trituration of this remedy, and, in a short time, the skin became clear, and the eruption disappeared without leaving cicatrices. Dr. Liedbeck, of Stockholm, states that he has never seen a case of small-pox terminate fatally when treated by Tartar-emetic in doses smaller than those ordinarily given. He states that all his cases yielded to Tart.-ant., in small doses, without leaving a vestige of any after-effect. He states that the identity of the Tartar-emetic pustule with the small-pox pustule first suggested to him the remedy, and its property also, according to Hahnemann, of producing miliary fever, scabs, &c. All the symp- toms are vastly mitigated by the use of Tart.-stib., in doses of one-half to one grain, dissolved in a pint of water, administered in tablespoon- ful doses every fourth hour. Often after the first dose he has found the tongue clearer, the fever subsiding, and even the difficulty of swallowing was much less when the remedy had been administered in time. Dr. Berg regards it as the one remedy to be relied upon when there is irritation of the respiratory mucous membranes. He states that in the Stockholm epidemic of 1838-39, this complication seems without exception, to have been the cause of the fatal terminations when such occurred; and while, where the disease was uncompli- cated, he left it to itself, if bronchial irritation declared itself, he ordered the repeated use of Tart.-ant. in small doses. Dr. L. says that, after nine years' further experience, he would refer to the ad- ministration of Tart.-stib. as a substitute for cow-pox inoculation. In Froriep's "Notizen" it is stated that tartarized Antimony, in large doses, has produced dryness, heat, and redness in the throat, as also internal eruption; in the mouth, throat, larynx, and trachea even were found large pustules with depressions in their centres. He avers that, in confluent small-pox, there is no doubt that it is a febri- fuge remedy, and allays the irritation of the skin better than any other remedy. I became acquainted with Lichtenstein's experiment* 1120 TARTARUS STIBIATUS fully twelve years ago, and believe I was the first in this country strongly to recommend Tart.-emet. in small-pox, variola, and many pustular and suppurative affections. It is the homoeopathic remedy, par excellence, against purulent and suppurative affections.—Peters. In bilious erysipelas, or in that originating with strongly-marked gastric disorder, Desault advises Tartar-emetic, largely diluted. He states that he has seen the symptoms entirely subside under its use, although the medicine produces no other sensible alteration in the animal economy than an increase of perspiration and of urine. More recently, Dr. Welsh expressed his opinion that this salt acts speci- fically on erysipelatous inflammation. He says, that there is no form of the disease which should not in the first instance be attacked with Tartar-emetic, whether there be high inflammatory fever, low fever, vomiting, or purging; under all and every circumstance we shall find, he adds, that the disease will yield to this remedy. A tonic course is sometimes necessary to complete a cure. Inflammations.—In inflammatory, continued, and remittent fevers, Tartarus-emeticus is a most valuable remedy, fulfilling two important indications—viz., subduing the morbidly increased action of the heart and arterial system, and determining freely to the skin. Unless contra-indicated by great gastric irritability or cerebral complica- tions, a strong antimonial solution, at the outset of the attack, may be given with manifest benefit, although it does not, as formerly sup- posed, cut short the fever. In the more advanced stages of fever, Ant.-tart., every one or two hours, in alternation with Opium, exer- cises a most beneficial influence. In those cases where it is inad- visable or impossible to administer Antimony by mouth, it is recom- nended to exhibit it by means of an enema; for this purpose it should be thrown high up into the bowels by means of a long flexible tube. In this way you can secure all the good effects of Antimony in overcoming congestion of the brain and in procuring sleep. In the cerebral complications of fever, Dr. Graves speaks in the highest terms of the efficacy of Opium and Tartar-emetic ; in the third and last stage he has also employed it with great benefit, conjoining it with a slight tonic or stimulant treatment. In intermittent fevers, an antimonial preparation, unless contra- indicated, given at the outset of the attack, is attended with evident benefit. In mild cases, a complete cure is often effected by its con- tinued use, every two hours, strict attention being paid at the same time to the condition of the bowels. Dr. Moore's treatment was to administer a brisk purgative, provided the fever was not complicated with any local affection of important viscera or organs, and then to TARTARUS STIBIATUS. 1121 proceed with the Antimony. He uses quite a weak preparation, viz., one grain of the pure salt to a hundred ounces of water, sometimes, however, using ten grains to a hundred ounces. Should complications exist, they are to be met by the use of the appropriate remedies, but they need not interfere with the continued use of the Antimony. In acute inflammation qfthe heart or its membranes, in that of the lungs, ]jleura, peritoneum, the brain and its membranes, and also in acute bronchitis, Tartar-emetic is a powerful therapeutic agent. It controls the action of the heart and arterial system, lowers the force and frequency of the pulse, depresses the action of the vascular system, increases the urinary secretion, and produces a certain amount of diaphoresis. There are few inflammations which will not yield to it if taken at an early stage, but the patient requires to be carefully watched, and any signs of returning inflammation to be met by a repetition of the same remedy. There are some inflammations, however, in which Antimony must be administered with great cau- tion ; thus, in acute meningitis it should never be given in such doses as to produce vomiting; should this symptom supervene, its use should be suspended, or at least the dose diminished. In pleuritis, also, it is necessary to guard against its emetic effect; and in ne- phritis it is seldom admissible, in consequence of the great tendency to vomiting which generally accompanies this inflammation. Dr. Watson considers Antimony most useful in inflammations of mucous membranes, and not nearly so valuable a remedy as Mercurius when serous membranes are the seat of disease. When, however, these remedies are alternated, they appear almost equally useful, whether the seat of inflammation be the mucous or serous surfaces. Pneumonia.—According to Magendie, it acts specifically in in- flaming the lungs and the mucous membrane which lines the intes- tines from the cardia to the anus. Lepelletier also remarks, " Its effects on the respiratory organs are, to produce dyspnoea in dogs which were in perfect health before its administration : the lungs were found hepatized, had lost their color, and scarcely crepitated at all. One would imagine that, admitting its action in man to be similar, far from being useful, its administration would be particu- larly pernicious in pneumonia, but it is not so, for, far from favoring engorgement of the lung, it induced its resolution." The indications for this remedy in croup are (besides its physiolo- gical effects) based on the predominating symptoms of a partial paralysis of the pneumo-gastric nerve. The short, hoarse, nearly suffocative breathing is accompanied by a whistling noise, heard even at a distance, whilst the thorax expands only with the greatest 71 1122 TARTARUS STIBIATUS. muscular effort, and the greatest anxiety and uneasiness, together with great prostration are manifested. The head is thrown back- wards ; face livid and cold; the forehead, and sometimes the whole body arc covered with a cold sweat; pulse small and very much accelerated, or depressed and slow; drinking causes great difficulty, both owing to spasm and incomplete contraction of the muscles of the throat. The remedy should be administered in strong doses, repeated every hour or half hour. The effect is a remarkably rapid diminu- tion of all the symptoms, without producing diarrhoea, vomiting, or a profuse sweat. The children fall into a gentle sleep in two or three hours, breathe freely, cough easily and loosely, expectorate a thick, lumpy, greenish mucus, their skin becomes moderately warm, and tbe pulse becomes small, weak, and mostly remarkably slow.—Quarterly Horn. Journal. Clinical Note by Dr. Gray.—" 1. I have given the Tartar-emetic with success in a case of apoplexy, accompanied by fruitless efforts to vomit. The patient, a woman of sixty years, after lying quite uncon- scious for nearly twenty-four hours, had partially recovered her senses for forty-eight hours before I saw her, but had taken neither food nor drink. Her efforts to vomit were repeated about every half-hour, Between these turns she appeared to be in an uneasy coma. The remedy was given in a watery solution, one-sixtieth of a grain, and this one dose was completely successful; no more efforts at vomiting occurred, the coma disappeared rapidly, and a hemiplegia, which remained after the full restoration of her consciousness, faded away in a very few days. No other remedy was exhibited. " 2. I have for many years been in the habit of treating the coma which occurs in the height of febrile paroxysms, especially the violent ephemeral attacks to which young children are liable, by the Tartar. emetic in doses of the one-hundredth of a grain, repeated every hour till the heat and coma abate. The presence of vomiting strengthens the indication for the drug so much as to make it advisable to givo a smaller quantity, and at intervals of from a half to a full hour longer. The very hot paroxysms of fever, occurring in the course of dentition, and especially such as are excited by errors of diet, and tend to the development of severe convulsions, have been much more satisfactorily treated by this drug than by the Aconite, Belladonna, or Chamomilla, which I have often applied singly and seriatim, as is the general practice in our school. The first sign of abatement in the fever, or coma, is, with me, the signal for stopping the remedy. " 3. In the first stage of influenza (generally of itself a fugitive Btate), I think it by very much the most strictly indicated, and, on TARTARUS STIBIATUS. 1123 that account, as well as from my own observations in many hundreds of cases, by very far the most efficacious means we can apply. The state against which I give it is : lassitude with great sensitiveness to cold, with chilly feelings, headache, pasty tongue, inflammation of the throat (tonsils, arches of the palate or pharynx), short turns of nausea, achings in the bones, especially of the lower extremities, yellowness of the skin, slight hoarseness, more or less fever-heat and sweats. " The Antimony often acts as a perfect remedy in the stage of incuba- tion, especially in those cases which would of themselves close this «iin.ge by profuse watery diarrhoea with some vomiting and cramps.l " The second or bronchial stage of the true influenza having been successfully managed by Phosphorus or Bryonia with the aid of Aconite or Hyoscyamus, I complete the cure by a return to the Antimony; that is to say, when the air-passages are loaded with mucus, the cough being frequent and the expectoration copious. "4. I have preferred this preparation to the crude Antimony in the treatment of acute inflammatory rheumatisms, in cases embarrassed by gastric symptoms, which, according to our authorities, call for that preparation. My reason for this choice is, that the Tartar-emetic has produced the desired result more promptly in my hands than the crude Antimony. " 5. In the treatment of gastric and bilious fevers, I have, for the same reason, done the same thing; and that for many years past, and with equally satisfactory results. " 6. Respecting the malarious fevers, I suggest, with unfeigned diffidence, the application of the tartarized Antimony, in doses of the one-sixtieth of a grain, repeated every two to four hours throughout the whole period or stage of incubation, and further still (unless very strong indications for other drugs are developed), even till the fever assumes a distinctly intermittent character, admitting of its then denoted specific, as, for example, China, Arsenic, or Ipecacuanha. " If, however, the dose above indicated produce any sensible effects, especially if it provoke nausea, or clearly aggravate it when previously present, I would immediately stop its use for twelve hours, giving in the interval a dose or two of Pulsatilla, and then resume it, in a 1 This stage, of which the angina-faucium, the chills, and the bone-pains are the prominent sufferings, subsides of itself in twenty-four to forty-eight hours, and the physician is very apt to be deceived as to the efficacy of his treatment. The allopathist praises his atrocious lancet and heroic purgatives, and the homoeopathist his Mercuries, or Belladonna or Nux, and the patient in either case thinks a wonder has been done for him; but the disease, if it be a real influenza, is not removed ; it has only advanced a step beyond the process of incubation, towards the stadium of bronchitis, with its concomitant cough, dyspnoea, fever sweats, and prostration. 1124 TARTARUS STIBIATUS amaller quantity, say the first or second trituration. The success of our school in the treatment of severe forms of malarious fevers has not been such as, in my judgment, to render this suggestion respecting the Antimony wholly superfluous. It is my conviction that this drug covers more of the symptoms of the bilious fevers of our climate, in the first seven to fourteen days of their existence, than any other as yet known; and I am accordingly persuaded that the riper experience of later times will give it, in our school, the rank which George Fordyce in vain sought to give it a hundred years ago in the ordi- nary practice.—(See his "Essay on Fevers.") Dr. Fordyce says that, given below the nauseating point, throughout the continued fevers (of England), it produced better results, especially when solely relied on, than any other treatment then known. " 7. In croup, the Tartar-emetic, in watery solution, applied in all states prior to the deposition of plastic lymph (diphtherite), is in my opinion, a safer practice than the Aeon., Spong., and Hepar., hitherto so much, and as, I think, unjustly lauded in our books. " 8. The Tartar-emetic is certainly a simillimum to variola and varioloid. In the incubation of these diseases I give it in doses of the fto °f a grain! later, in the second and third trituration. Since treating them in this way (now fifteen years), I have not had an instance of retrocession of the eruption.1 Should I be called to such a case, I should rely on the same remedy, but in a high attenuation " 9. I desire again to call the attention of the heroic men of our school, who are really engaged in testing the physiological powers of the drugs on their own persons, to the facts that Antimony, Arsenic, and Phosphorus produce very analogous results in the healthy, and that these great drugs have isomorphous relations with each other. " It is certainly worthy of sturdy inquiry whether isomorphous drugs can be used as substitutes for each other in any or all cases; for, if the curative power be that unknown force which determines their atomic relations and their crystalline form, then not only will a test be presented whereby the errors and falsities of pathogeneses (a canker-worm in homoeopathy) may be corrected promptly and soundly; but, by the simple consideration of these known elements, the atomic relations and crystalline dimensions, we may be enabled to determine the therapeutic value of very many, as yet untried agents of the future art of healing." GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Weariness in every part of the body. 1 I have been informed by a physician, of this city, that he has produced th« Tartar-emetic pustules on the skin, by its internal administration, in twe in- stances of phthisis-pulmonalis. TARTARUS STIBIATUS. 1125 —-Drawing-lacerating, aching, tensive, also beating and stinging pains.—Pains as if sprained and bruised feeling in the limbs.— Cracking of the joints.—Great sensitiveness of the whole body, even when touching it.—Disposition to morbid sensitiveness.—Tremor during every motion of the body, particularly of the head and hands. Peculiar internal trembling.—Spasmodic movements and convulsive twitchings about the arms and hands. Violent clonic spasms, with loss of conciousness, look-jaw.—Death-like rigidity and convulsive dis- tortion of the body.—Paralysis.—Fainting fits.—Great laziness and weariness in the limbs, relaxation of the whole body, great prostra- tion and languor, exhaustion, collapse of pulse, loss of speech, marble- coldness of the body.—Caries of the skulUbones. Gastric dyscrasia and gastric affections, with general sinking of the irritability.—Diffi- cult digestion.—Cholera morbus.—Emaciation. Characteristic Peculiarities.—The symptoms come on or are aggravated by sitting, frequently last only a short time, and recur in paroxysms. Skin.—Pale skin.—Insensibility of the skin.—Disposition to swell- ings, erysipelas, and ulcers.—Small red spots on the hands, resem- bling flea-bites.—Violent, itching, suppurating rash, particularly on the occiput, chest, and arms. Itch-like eruption, particularly on the wrist-joint and upper arm.—Pustulous eruption on the whole body, particularly on the genital organs.—Round, large, full, burning, painful pustules, with red areolae.—Furunculous-pustulous eruption, occasioning a violent painful itching.—Pustulous eruption, the pus- tules filling with pus, drying up in a few days, and sometimes leaving deeply-penetrating, malignant ulcers.—Pale, livid, blackish, depressed pustules, containing a bloody or blackish fluid. Pustules filled with blood or bloody serum, collapsing when bursting, turning blackish. and frequently changing to malignant, broad deep ulcers.—Gan- grenous ulcers with violent wound-fever. Sleep.—Constant yawning and stretching.—Laziness and great drowsiness, with vertigo.—Deep sleep.—Lethargy.—Sleeplessness. —Restless sleep, frequent waking after anxious dreams. Fever.—Anxiety and restlessness.—Great malaise all over, aris- ing from the abdomen.—General uneasiness, alternating with nausea. —Yawning and stretching.—Chilliness about the whole body, with tremor.—Chilliness during motion, alternating with heat. Chilliness with flushes of heat.—Great heat and thirst.—Restlessness, violent febrile motions, great heat, thirst, headache. General profuse 6weat. Profuse night-sweat. Throbbing in every artery of the body, per- ceptible even externally.—Quick, feeble, tremulous pulse. Irritated 1126 TARTARUS STIBIATUS. pulse. Slow pulse. Small, contracted, accelerated pulse. Suppressed, irregular, imperceptible pulse. Collapse of pulse. Gastric fever. Moral Symptoms.—Loss of sense.—Dullness and dizziness.— Stupefaction and suppression of all the sensual functions.—Delirium; muttering.—Tendency to start. Head.—Vertigo, with scintillations.—Heat in the head, increased by motion. Violent headache, with vertigo and palpitation of the heart.—Dullness of the head, with pressure in the temporal region. —Dullness and stupefaction of the head, with tensive sensation and drowsy and weary feeling.—Intoxication, with difficulty of moving the tongue.—Pain in the anterior portion of the head.—Headache, with pressure from without inwards.— Tensive, stupefying headache, with pressure from without inwards, in the forehead and over the root of the nose, particularly proceeding from the temples, with drawing and digging to the root of the nose.—Painful drawing from the tem- poral region to the malar bone and upper jaw.—Intermittent tearing in one side of the head.—Heaviness of the head. Trembling of the head during every motion of the body. Eyes.— The eyes feel so weo,ry that they close.—Tbe eye-ball feels bruised, particularly on touching it.—Tearing in the eyes.—Burning in the eyes in the evening.—The eyes are turgid with blood.—Pass- ing and frequently-recurring scintillations, mistiness, and vertigo. Ears.—Humming. Nose.—Ulcerated nostrils.—Bleeding.—Sneezingand flucntcoryza, with chilliness, deficient smell and taste. Face.—Blue margins around the eyes, blue lips, pointed nose, wretched look, and great paleness.—Great heat in tbe face.—In- tensely-painful drawing, and lastly dull pressure in the malar bone.— Spasmodic closing of the jaws.— The lips are parched, scaly, cracked, excoriated, red. Teeth.—Violent toothache, early in the morning.—Red gums. Mouth.—Dryness qfthe mouth. Burning in the mouth.—Inflam- mation of the mouth and mucous membrane of the tongue, with small pustules.—Swelling and excoriations in the mouth.—Aphthae.—Red tongue, covered with raised papillae. Throat.—Sudden swelling of the cervical glands and tonsils.__ Spasm of the cervical muscles.—Burning heat in the throat.—Vio- lent sore throat.—Painful dry heat and redness in the throat. Inflam- mation of the pharynx, with small pustules. Difficulty of swallowing Dysphagia, with difficult breathing. Appetite.—Metallic, astringent taste—Constant loathing. Qualm Lshness, prostrate feeling. TARTARUS STIBIATUB. 1127 Gastric Symptoms.—Frequent nausea, with anxiety, alternating with general uneasiness, or else continuing, accompanied with great dullness of the head. Nausea, with disposition to vomit, in repeated paroxysms.—Constant nausea, vomiting, and diarrhaa.—Nausea, cut- ting in the abdomen, retching with urging to diarrhoea, vomiting of food having a sour taste, with great exertions, trembling of the body. —Empty or putrid eructations. Stomach.—Sensation as if the stomach were overloaded, with putrid eructations, disposition to vomit, pinching in the region of the stomach, and stinging pain in the anterior and superior portion of the head.—Ineffectual retching. Violent vomiting, with headache, trem- bling of the hands, and general racking of the body. Spasmodic vomiting of tenacious substances. Excessive vomiting of bile.— Hasmatemesis.—Cholera morbus, with vomiting. The vomiting is preceded by an exceedingly troublesome feeling of nausea, anguish, yawning, profuse lachrymation, violent pressure at the stomach.— The vomiting is followed by great languor, drowsy and weary feeling, loathing, desire for cooling things, pale, sunken face, and dim swim- ming eyes.—Violent oppression of the stomach, momentarily relieved by nausea.—Violent beating in the region of the stomach.—Unpleasant sensation of warmth and burning in the region of tbe stomach.— Congestion of blood to the stomach.—Excessive pains in the stomach. —Violent cardialgia, bordering on inflammation. Inflammation of the stomach. Abdomen.— Burning in the left hypochondrium, in the pit of the stomach and abdomen.—Cutting and sticking in the pit of the sto- mach, particularly when drawing in the abdomen.—The abdomen is sensitive to contact.—Swelling of the epigastrium.—Painful tension all round below the short ribs.—Violent cutting and writhing in the abdomen.—Lacerating, violent cutting, and pinching in tlie abdomen. —Aching, tensive pains in the region of the pubic bones.—Pulsative sensation in the abdomen.—Sensation of great fullness in the abdo- men .—Meteorism. Stool.—Colliquative diarrhoea, with meteorism. Involuntary diar- rhoeic stool.—Diarrhoea and vomiting.—Palpitation of the heart dur- ing the diarrhoea.—Tenesmus.—Bloody stools.—Heat and burning pains in the anus. Urine.—Violent tension with pressure in the region of the bladder. —Violent pressure on the bladder, with violent tension in the peri- nasum.—Violent pressure on the bladder, with burning in the urethra —Inflammatory red urine, depositing bloody, red filaments when Btanding.—Dark brown turbid urine, having an acrid smell. 1128 TARTARI AC1DUM. Male Genital Organs.—Pustules.—Tearing in the testicles. Female Genital Organs.—Pustules. Discharge of watery blood from the vagina. Larynx. — Feeble voice. Dumbness. — Cough and sneezing.— Loose cough at night.—Rattling of mucus.—Cough of children, occa- sioned by anger.—Gasping for air at the commencement of every paroxysm of cough. Chest.—Short difficult breathing. Want of air, obliging one to sit erect, relieved by coughing and expectoration.—Nocturnal paroxysm of orthopnoea.—Unusual oppression of the chest. Difficult breathing accompanying the dysphagia.— Velvetty feeling in the chest.—Pa- roxysms of sore pain in the chest, with desponding mood.—Feeling of warmth about the heart, and sudden attack of great languor. Warmth and anxiety about the heart, with violent palpitation reecho- ing in the head.—Tingling and pushing in the pit of the stomach, with violent sudden beating of the heart.—Palpitation of the heart with- out vexed mood, with lowness of spirits. Palpitation during the diar- rhceic stool.—The heart almost ceases to beat.—Dilatation of the heart. Back.—Burning in the back.—Rheumatic pain in the back. Pain- ful sensation in the back, as if from weariness. Arms.—Pain in the shoulder, as if sprained.—Cracking in the shoulder-joints and tearing extending to the hands.—Violent lacerat- ing jerking and intermittent drawing in the arm.—Rheumatic pain in the elbows.—Rheumatic drawing in the hand.—Trembling of the hand.—Deadness, dryness, hardness, and insensibility of the tips of the fingers. Legs.—Heaviness in the loins.—Violent rheumatic drawing and uneasiness in the lower limbs, particularly in the region of tbe knee. —Lancinating tearing pain in the hip, in the thighs and legs.— Extremely painful cramps in the thighs and calves.—Sticking in the hip and knee.—Intensely painful burning, slow jerking in the knee-joint, 261.—TARTARI ACIDUM. TART. AC—See "Pract. Com.," 1827. SYMPTOMS.—The whole body, particularly the lower limbs, feela bruised. The symptoms seem to be less in the open air.—Frequent yawning and stretching.—Feeling of coldness, in the evening, in bed. —The lips are dry and burning, also with black or brown margins.__ Dullness of the teeth.—The mouth is slimy, with flat taste.__Loath- ing.— Feeling of coldness in tho abdomen. TAXUS BACCATA. 1129 262.—TAXUS BACCATA. TAX. B.—Common Tew Tree.—See " Bibliot. Horn, de Geneve." Compare with—? Antidotes.—? GENERAL SYMPTOMS. —General malaise. Restlessness.— Convulsions.—Complete sleeplessness. Yawning, without drowsi- ness. Feeling of drowsiness.—Excessively taciturn.—Jaundice. ?— Gangrenous decomposition of the fluids. ?—Violent narcotic affection of the nervous system. Skin.—Cutaneous eruptions. Petechias without fever. Fever.—Unpleasant dryness and great heat in the palms of the hands.—Profuse night-sweat.—Fetid sweat. Head.—Vertigo. Stupefactions. Pain in the forehead, extending to the face, with drawing in the eyes and profuse lachrymation. Burning headache. Dragging pain from both sides of the head, over the eye-brow, accompanied with luminous circles which are in con- stant motion. Eyes and Mouth.—Itching pain of the eyes. Dilatation of the pupils,—Bluish, lips. Tenacious, burning, saltish saliva. PtyalisnL Appetite and Stomach,—Loathing, sometimes followed by vomit- ing of mucus or saburra, rarely mixed with bile. Nausea, with pro- fuse secretion of hot saliva. Painless vomiting.—Pain in the pit of the stomach, sensitive to the least pressure. Pinching and burning pressure in the region of the stomach. Abdomen.—Dragging and tension across the abdomen. Slight dull pain in the region of the umbilicus. Stool.—Small evacuation, with tenesmus. Slight diarrhceic stool, with tenesmus. Diarrhoea, with tenesmus and intolerable pain at the anus during and after every evacuation or urging. Urine and Genital Organs.—Tenesmus of the bladder, with some burning pain in the urethra. Ischuria. Strangury and reddish urine. Appearance of the catamenia.—Discharge of mucus from the vagina. Larynx and Chest.—Violent fatiguing cough. Oppression in the daytime.. Sticking in the left side. Back.—Cutting pain in the sacral region. Cutting pain under the loins. Arms and Legs.—Rigidity of the extremities. Numbness and paralysis of the limbs. Acute pains in the knees, elbows, and various parts of the vertebral column. Acute flying pains in the limbs after sweating Excessively violent cutting pains in both knees. Podagra 48 1130 TEREBINTHINA. 263.—TEREBINTHINA. TEREB.—Oleum Terebinthinse—See Hartlaub and Trinks' "Annals." Compare with—Aeon., Bell., Camph., Canth., Nux-v., Puis. Antidotes.—Camph.,? Canth.? GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—General languor. Loss of strength Fainting. Dropsy. Skin.—Inflammation, redness, and painfulness of the skin. Sud- denly appearing and disappearing erythematous, papulous, and even vesicular eruptions. Sleep.—Frequent waking and tossing about at night. Nightmare. Sopor. Fever.—Chilliness.—Increased sweat. Feverish heat through the whole body, pulse hard and frequent, headache, red face, thirst and sensation of dryness of the mucous membranes. Fever, with violent thirst. Mind and Disposition.—Mania. Head and Sensorium.—Vertigo.—Intoxication.—Dull headache, with colic. Aching pains in the whole head, with vomiturition. Slight lacerating headache. Lacerating from the forehead to the right ear. Cutting in the forehead. Eyes.—Black motes, momentarily, with quickly-passing sensation i>f vertigo. Face.—Drawing in the bones of the right half of the face and fore- head, in the evening.—The face is pale and sunken.—Herpes on the tibia. Nose.—Violent bleeding at the nose. Teeth and Mouth.—Drawing in the teeth. °Burning soreness and interstitial distention of the gums. Throat.—Warmth and scraping in the pharynx and stomach. Appetite.—Want of appetite. Rancid eructations.—Slight nausea. —Vomiting of yellow mucus. Stomach.—Pressure in the pit of (the stomach, as if from without. Pinching below the pit of the stomach, with nausea and eructations. Feeling of warmth and pain in the region of the stomach. Burning in the stomach, with nausea and vertigo. Abdomen.—Meteorism, frequent colic and movements in the bowels. Sensation of coldness in the abdomen, as if uncovered. Violent burn- ing pressure in the hypochondria. Cutting in the hypogastrium. Constant cutting in the whole abdomen, thence extending into tho thighs, both during rest and motion. Sensation as if the bowela TEUCRIUM. 1131 towards the spinal marrow were constricted, with anguish, hunger, and thirst. Sensation of heaviness and pain in the region of the kid neys. Violent burning, drawing pains in the region of the kidneys. Fleeting lacerating pain in the symphysis-pubis. Slight and painful swelling of the inguinal glands. Stool.—Ineffectual urging. —Costive, with distention cf the abdo- men. Diarrhceic stool, with diminution of the nausea. Thin yellow stools, with discharge of taenia and ascarides. Violent burning in the rectum. Urine.—Inflammatory symptoms about the bladder. Violent drag- ging and cutting in the bladder. Burning in the bladder. Strangury. Dysury, sometimes real urethritis, with painful erections, as in chordee. Complete suppression of urine. Enuresis. Urine scanty and red, even bloody. The urine deposits a thick, muddy, white-yellow sedi- ment. Hoematuria. Male Genital Organs.—Violent, crampy drawing in the left testicle, and along the left spermatic chord. Seminal emission at night. Female Genital Organs.—Drawing in the thighs, with colic. Increased menses. Chest.—Dryness of the mucous membrane of the air-passages. Aching pains behind the sternum, sensation of troublesome prickling in the trachea, as at the commencement of bronchitis, sometimes at- tended with blood-streaked expectoration. Difficulty of breathing, the lungs seem congested. Dyspnoea. Back.—Drawing pains in the small of the back. Aching pain in the back. Arms and Legs.—Stiffness of the limbs. Heaviness in the limbs. Pain as if sprained in the muscles of the upper arm. Drawing and lacerating pain in the hip-joint. Drawing in the groins and thigh 3. Pains in the feet. 264.—TEUCRIUM. TEUCR.—Teucrium Marum Verum.—See Stapf's "Additions." Compare with—Con.-m., Ign., Magn.-p.-arct. Antidotes.—Camph.? Ign. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—^Irritated, tremulous sensation in the whole body. Sleep.—Disturbed sleep; vivid and anxious dreams, with start- ings, until after midnight. 1132 TEUCRIUM. Fever.__Chilliness over the whole body, with icy-cold hands, ac companied with frequent yawning. Moral Symptoms.—Ill-humored. Indolent, physically and men- tally. Head.__Confusion of the head. Painful pressure in the whole sinciput. Dull, crampy headache, frequently. Lacerating in the head, commencing in the temples. Aching sensation in the whole occiput. Pressure in the forehead, over the eyes. Face.—Pale, wretched complexion, with hollow eyes. The face is red and puffed. Eyes.—The eyes are red and inflamed, with coryza. Smarting in the inner canthi of both eyes, with increased redness of the conjunctiva Ears.—Otalgia in both ears. Nose.—Fluent coryza in the open air. Stoppage of both nos- trils. Jaws and Teeth.—Violent lacerating in the roots and gws of the lower incisores. Buzzing pain in the incisores. Mouth and Throat.—Smarting and scraping sensation in the posterior fauces. Occasional slight drawing and lacerating in the fauces. Stinging pain in the throat, impeding deglutition. Taste and Appetite.—Feeling of hunger, which prevents sleep. Violent hiccough when eating, with violent shocks in the pit of the stomach.—Qualmish feeling in the pit of the stomach, without eruc- tation or nausea. Stomach and Abdomen.—Pressure in the pit of the stomach. Sen- sation of emptiness and grumbling in the region of the stomach. Rumbling in the abdomen, with crampy pain. Dull painful pressure through the abdomen, in the region of the umbilicus, with rumbling. Crampy sensation in the abdomen, extending into the testes. Feeling of swelling, itching, and creeping in the region of the anus, as from ascarides, restlessness at night, tossing about. Urine.—Increased discharge of watery urine. Respiratory Organs.—Disagreeable sensation of huskiness and dryness in the trachea. Pressure in tne right chest. Oppressive sensation, with stricture in the anterior parts of the chest. Crampy pressive sensation in the lower part of the chest and in the pit of the stomach. Back.—Rheumatic drawing and tension in the back. Lacerating with pressure in the region of the short ribs. Arms.—Tensive pain in the shoulder-joints. Intense paralytic aching in the upper part of the upper arm Dull drawing-laceiating pain in both humeri. Suddenly-appearing, dull, cutting pain through THEA CHINENSIS.—THERIDION. 1138 the muscles of thi fore-arm. Feeling of heaviness in the whole left arm. Rheumatic tension in the region of the elbow. Legs.—Jactitation in the muscles of the arms and lower limbs, especially in the region of the hip. Aching and lacerating sensation, with heaviness, in the whole leg. 265.—THEA CHINENSIS. THEA.—See Noack and Trinks. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Oppression, slight nausea, general tremor, palpitation and oppression of the heart, feeling of debility. Fever.—The pulse became quicker, then slower, irregular, and in- termittent. Feeling of anxious oppression about the heart. Moral Symptoms.—Temporal exaltation of mind. Excessively ill- humored. Taciturn and peevish. Head.—Gloomy, heavy, and dizzy in the forehead. Excessively disagreeable headache, with throbbing of the carotids. Mouth and Appetite.—Intolerable smell in the mouth, early after waking. Complete aversion to food. Stomach and Abdomen.—Disagreeable sensation of excessive re- laxation of the stomach, with qualmishness and nausea, and discharge of water from the mouth. Slight anxiety in the prascordial region. Slight pressure in the region of the stomach. Relaxation of the bowels. 266.—THERIDION. THERID.—See "Archiv," Vol. XIV.—Is frequently suitable: after Calc. and Lye. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—°Hysteric complaints. °Complaints at the age of pubescence or at a change of life.—Feels sick and trem- bling. °Weak, all his limbs tremble. Sleep.—Drowsiness in the morning. Fever.—Internal chilliness. Moral Symptoms.—Despondency. Tendency to start. Dread of labor. Head and Sensorium.—Dullness of the head, with great heavi ness. Fullness and dullness behind the ears. Vertigo, on stooping. Vertigo, with nausea. Headache on moving. °Violent headache, in the forehead, with throbbing extending to the occiput. Headache at 1134 THDJA OCCIDENTALS. the root of the nose and over the ears, as if from a pressing band Compression in the temples.—Itching of the head. Eyes and Ears.—°Frequent paroxysms of luminous vibrations before the eyes.—°Violent itching behind the ears. Excessive sen. sitiveness of hearing. °Noise as of a water-fall. Nose and Teeth.—Itching in the nose. Discharge of water from the nose.—The teeth are sensitive from cold water or sound. Appetite, Abdomen.—Slimy taste. °Saltisb taste.—Nausea at night, on closing the eyes, with vertigo. Vomiting of slimy water, with vertigo. The vomiting is preceded by cold sweat all over the body. Vomiting of bile, early in the morning. After vomiting the throat feels scalded, with pain in the small of the back, hurrisd pulse, and headache.—°Sea-sickness.?—Sensitiveness of the pit of the sto- mach.—*Pain in the inguinal region, °during motion, or with sensation on drawing up the limb as if hard blows were received on it. Stool, &c. —Intermittent stool. The latter part of the stool is more difficult to pass than the former. Scanty papescent stool every day, with much straining.—Protrusion of the anus. Back, Limbs.—Itching of the back.—Pain between the shoulders. —Stitch from the elbow to the shoulder. 267.—THUJA OCCIDENTALIS. THUJ.—See Hahnemann's "Materia Medica Pura," IV. Compare with—Asa.-f., Bry., Cann., Canth., Chin., Cop., Fer., Led., Lye, Merc, Nitr.-ac, Phosph.-ac, Petrol.. Plat., Puis., Sabin., Sep., Staph., Sulph.—Thuj. is frequently suitable after : Nitr.-ac (in sycosis or mercurial syphilis).—After Thuj. are frequently suitable : Nitr.-ac, Puis., Staph. ? Antidotes.—Cham, for the nightly toothache, Coce. for the fever, and Merc, for the nightly ailments.—Is used as an antidote against: Merc, Thea? GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—°Rbeumatic and arthritic pains.— Painful drawing from the legs through the thighs into the head. Pressure in different parts, as if on the bones, accompanied with a scraping, prickling sensation. Weariness and bruised feeling in the shoulders and thighs. Weakness of the body, not of the mind.—Stiff- ness and heaviness in all the limbs. Characteristic Peculiarities.—The symptoms are most violent after three o'clock in the afternoon and night, preventing one from falling asleep. Skin.—The skin of the whole body is painful to the touch. Itch ing of the body, back, and upper and lower limbs, like flea-bites. THUJA OCCIDENTALIS. 1135 Sleep.—Excessive drowsiness. Restless sleep. Restlessness af night and anxiety. Sleepless nights. Sleep full of dreams and startings. Disposed to vomit the whole night. Violent headache in the morning on waking, with nausea and vomiting. Frightful dreams. Fever.—Chilliness without thirst. Shaking chill. Shuddering when uncovering the body ever so little. Shaking chill, with much yawning. Nausea and vomiting, the vomiting being followed by several chills, with heaviness in the upper and lower limbs and a lacerating in the occiput.—Violent seething of the blood every even- ing ; throbbing in all the arteries at every motion. Heat in the face and burning and redness of the cheeks. Sudden heat in the face, and redness. Swelling of the veins of the temples and hands. The tips of the fingerr are icy-cold, as if dead. Rush of blood to the head, with sweat in tbe face and desire for cold drink. Slight heat, followed by a creeping chill, with icy-cold hands in the evening. Heat, with thirst, withcut chilliness. Moral Symptoms.—Low-spirited and desponding.—Tired of life. —Dissatisfied. Sensorium. — Frequent vertigo. Cloudiness in the forehead. Stupid feeling in the head, with nausea. Slow thinking and talking. Weakness in the head ; his brain feels dead and numb. Head.—Headache early in the morning. Boring pressure in the head.—Drawing headache.—Sticking headache. Drawing in the temporal muscles, a sort of external headache, worse during degluti- tion. Dull pain in the head, as if stupefied. Dull aching in the occiput. Painful pressure across the forehead. Furious pressing in both temples from without inward. Violent painful pressure in the head. Drawing lacerating headache from the vertex to the middle of the brain.—Heaviness in the head. Heaviness of the head, with ill-humor. Prickings, especially along the forehead. Headache, as if the head were compressed, with pulsative throbbings and stitches in the region of the temples. Violent burning aching behind the ear. Corrosive gnawing in the skin of the occiput. Prickling pain in the temples. Eyes.—Short-sightedness. Sensation as of a gauze before the eyes. and a pressure in the same, as if the eyes would be pressed out of the head, or as if the eyes were swollen. The eyes are dim in the open air. The sight of the-inflamed eye is obscured. Weak eyes; pres- sure in the eyes as from fine sand. Pressure in the eyes. Dry feel- ing in the eyes.—Great dilatation of the pupils. Black points before the eyes, even when closing them. The whites of the eyes are blood 1136 THUJA OCCIDENTALS. red. The whites of the eyes arc inflamed and red, with smarting and a pressure as from sand. Swelling of the upper eye-lids. Ears.—Pain in the ear. Aching pain in the meatus-auditorius Tingling in the ears. Boring pain in the region qf the malar bone, diminished by contact. Pimples in the whole face. Creeping and twitching toward the malar bones. Stiffness of the muscles of masti- cation, on the left side, painful when opening the jaw. . Glandular swelling. Burning heat in the face and cheeks. Scurfy, itching eruption on the cheek. Red pustules above the lip, emitting blood when scratched. Dryness of the lips, without thirst. Nose.—*Ulceration half an inch up in the nose. Corrosive creep- ing on the dorsum of the nose.—Nasal mucus mixed with coagulated blood.—Bleeding at the nose. Swelling and hardness of the left nasal wing, with a tensive pain. Drawing pain between the mouth and nose, afterwards the pain is felt across the nasal bones.—Sudden and fluent coryza.—Dry c yza, with headache. Jaws and Teeth.—Stitches in the lower jaw through the eai. Sharp drawing toothache. Swollen and sore gums. Considerable swelling of the gums and tongue. ^Continued gnawing pain in the teeth. Darting through the gums of the posterior molar teeth. Sore feeling in the gums. Toothache, a sort of hacking, or sharp beating in the gams. Mouth, Pharynx, and GUsophagus.—The tip of the tongue is sore to the touch. Rough, scraping feeling on the surface of the tongue. The inner mouth feels as if full of blisters, as if he had burnt it.— °Ranula, transparent, jelly-like, blue-red, gray. Swelling of the salivary glands.—Swelling of the tonsils and throat.—Sore throat, a sort of swelling, as if brought on by a cold.—Stinging in the throat. —White coated tongue, without thirst.—He hawks up a blood-red mucus.—°Chancrous ulcers in the throat and mouth, from excessive doses of Mercury for syphilis. Appetite and Gastric Symptoms.—Flat, sweetish taste in the mouth. After eating, the abdomen bloats. Hiccough soon after eat- ing. Putrid eructations, late in the evening. Nausea and qualmish- ness in the region of the stomach.—*Desire for cold drink. Frequent pinching in the region of the stomach, during dinner.—°Bad effects from eating greasy things and onions. Stomach and Abdomen.—Cramp-pain in the pit of the stomach. Cramp in the stomach, increasing very much in the evening. Con tractive cramp in the epigastrium. Tension in the abdomen. Bloated- ness of the abdomen, with contractive pains, like cramps. Bloated abdomen. Pressure in the pit of the stomach, immediately after a THUJA OCCIDENTALS. 1137 meal.—Anguisl. in the pit of the stomach, rising into the head and returning again to the stomach; accompanied with qualmishness, Pressure in the the lower part of the liver, as from a stone, when walking. Cutting in the side, above the liver, during an inspiration. —°Indurations in the abdomen.—Feeling of burning heat in the lumbar region. Pain in the abdominal muscles, as if sprained, when bending backwards, Burning pressing-together across the abdomen. Cutting pains in the hypogastrium. Painless swelling in the groin. Drawing pain, extending from the inguinal glands through the thighs as far as the knee. °Painful swelling of the inguinal glands. Stool.—^Constipation. Urging to stool, but ineffectual. Dimi- nished stool. Loose stools. Discharge of hard, large, brown fasces, in balls, streaked with blood. *Hard, difficult stool, especially in the after- noon. Violent pain in the rectum during stool. Painful contraction of the rectum and anus, followed by lacerating, as if in the bowels, in paroxysms. Burning in the anus. Urine.—°Bloody urine. Red urine, depositing a thick brick-dus' sediment when standing. ^Burning in the urethra, between the acts of micturition. Cutting during micturition. Burning pain in the urethra, when urinating, as if excoriated. Pain in the pudendum, as if sore and smarting, especially when urinating. Drawing-cutting pain in the urethra, when walking. Violent stitches in the glans, near the urethra, constantly accompanied with a desire to urinate. °Sycotic gonorrhoea. Male Genital Organs.—Stinging and itching of the glans. Drawing sensation in the testes. Crawling and itching in the scrotum. Profuse sweat of the organs of generation. Considerable swelling of the prepuce. *Round,flat, unclean ulcer on the corona-glandis, pain- ful and burning, surrounded with redness. *A few red, smooth, excrescences behind the glans. Red excrescence on the inner surface of the prepuce, resembling a fig-wart. °Fig-warts.—Balanorrhooa, particularly after abuse of Mercury. °Chancrous ulcers in mercu- rial syphilis. Burning and painful stinging in the fig-warts. Burn- ing pain of the fig-warts when touched. Bleeding of the fig-warts.— °Inflammation of the prostate. Jerking pain in the penis, as if a nerve were suddenly and painfully put upon the stretch. Aching pain in the testes, as if contused. Female Genital Organs.—Swelling of both labia, painful and burning. Burning and smarting in the vagina, when walking and sitting. Mucous discharge from the female urethra. °Wart-shaped excrescences at the orifice of the uterus, with stinging and burning ;vben urinating.—°Cancer of the womb. ? 48* 7^ 1138 THUJA OCCIDENTALS. Respiratory Organs and Chest.—Hoarseness, as if occasioned by a contraction of the pharynx. Violent coryza with nightly cough. Hoarseness and fluent coryza. Pressure as from a heavy body in the middle of the chest. Prickling in the chest. Uneasiness in the cervical muscles, in the nape of the neck, and in the chest, Oppres- sion of the chest, as if something had grown fast in it. Asthmatic. Difficult, oppressed breathing, with great desire for water and much anxiety.—Pain in the region of the heart. Pain in the chest, resem- bling a pressure, most violent after a meal. Paroxysms of pressure in the outer parts of the chest, around the axilla. - *Considerable seething of the blood when going up-stairs ; her heart beats violently. Visible palpitation of the heart, without anxiety. Back.—Aching pain in the back, here and there, when sitting. Sore feeling in the outer parts of the back. Drawing pain in the back, when sitting. Tensive pain in the small of the back. Draw- ing in the small of the back. Aching pain in the small of the back, when stooping. Violent stitch-like pains in the back when walking. Stitches with pressure in the back. Burning-stinging pains in the back, between the scapulas, when sitting. Sensation as of the beat- ing of a large artery in the dorsal spine. Sensation of stiffness in the spino, as after standing for a long time bent. Beating and throbbing in the shoulder-joint.—Feeling of stiffness in the nape of the neck and in the left side of the neck. Pain in the swollen glands of the neck. The veins of the neck are bloated and blue. Arms.—Profuse sweat in the axilla. Paralytic feeling in the arms. Bruising pain in the upper arms, as if beaten black and blue. Invo- luntary jerking of the arm in the daytime. Violent drawing, appa- rently in the bones of the arms. Digging-up drawing pain in the whole arm, in the periosteum, as far as the fingers, pressure as from within outwards. °Lacerating beating ulcerative pain from the shoulder to the fingers. Painful difficulty of moving either arm, as if the joints had no synovial fluid. Throbbing in the elbow- joint, like pulsations. Heaviness in the fore-arms. Pain in the elbow and wrist-joints, as if dashed to pieces and crumbling. Lace- rating in the wrist-joint. Feeling of dryness in the outer parts of the hands. Legs.—Cracking in the elbow, knee, and tarsal-joints, when stretch- ing the limbs. The thighs and legs go to sleep when sitting. Weari- ness of the internal muscles of both thighs, in paroxysms. Abrupt burning-biting stitches near the inner ham-string. Dull beating pain m the outer side of the knee. Painful pressure on the inner side of the knee. Tension through the leg, as from weariness. Intermittent T0NG0. 1139 pinching in the caives. The dorsum of the foot and the toes are swollen, inflamed, and red. Drawing in all the toes, extending into the leg. All the toes are inflamed, shining-red, and swollen. 268.—TONGO. TONG —Baryosma Tongo, Conmarouma Odorata, Tongo Bean.—See Nenning, in Hartlaub and Trinks' "Annals." GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Lacerating in the limbs, relieved by motion and pressure. Epileptic paroxysms.—Yawning, with stretch- ing and dread of labor, in the afternoon. Drowsiness and great indolence after dinner.—Chill in the open air, afternoon.—Sad and apprehensive. Ill-humored. Characteristic Peculiarities.—Most of the symptoms come on while sitting, and during rest generally. Head and Sensorium.—Compressive sensation in the occiput, with external sensitiveness. Pressure on the vertex, with throbbing.— Drawing pain, particularly in the right frontal eminence. Painful drawing deep in the brain, when lying.—Lacerating in the head, with pressure and sticking, great ill-humor, painful sensitiveness of the scalp. Sticking in the vertex, also with contractive cutting in the occiput.—Beating headache early after rising, with heaviness of the head. Ulcerative pain in the right occiput, with sensitiveness of the skin to the touch.—Heat in the head.—Sensitiveness of the scalp to contact. Eyes and Nose.—Drawing and tension in the lower lid. Itching qf the inner canthus. Burning and dryness of the eyes. Lacerating in the ears. Deeply-penetrating lacerating in the ears. Coryza, with stoppage of the nose. Face aee Teeth.—Pale complexion, with red cheeks. Lacerat- ing in the gums or roots of the teeth. Lacerating in the upper molares. Lacerating in all the lower teeth.—Bleeding of the gums. Mouth, &c.—Frequent thirst. Stomach and Abdomen.—Cutting around the stomach.—Burning and cutting in the right hypochondrium.—The bowels are very sen- sitive.—Burning tension in- the right hypogastrium, and along the chest.—Pinching in both sides of the abdomen. Pinching in the epigastrium, with turning in the stomach as of a ball. Burning in the abdomen. Stool, &c.—Violent ineffectual urging. Hard stool, with much straining. Pinching and rumbling in the abdomen, followed by diar 1110 TRIOSTEUM PERFOLIATUM. rhoeic stool with mucus, and succeeded by tenesmus. Wine-colored urine, depositing a sediment of viscous mucus. The menses are too early. Discharge of thick mucus from the vagina, when straining at stool. Chest, &c.—Burning in the larynx, with hoarseness.—Stitches deep in the chest.—Stinging in the region of the ribs, succeeded by burning and stinging on a large surface.—Pain in the small of the back, with sensitiveness to pressure. Violent pain as if bruised, when sitting, going off during motion. Legs.—Lacerating in the arm. Lacerating from the knee to the middle of the tibia. Lacerating, at times in the thigh, at others in the knee, relieved by pressure and walking. 269.—TRIOSTEUM PERFOLIATUM. TPJOST. PERF.—Dr. Tinker's Weed, Wild Coffee, Gentian, Horse Gentian, White Gentian, Horse Ginseng, Fever Root, Fever Wort, Wild Ipecac, Bas- tard Ipecacuanha, Sweet Bitter, Cinque, sat a cold sweat breaks out on his fore- head. *Cold sweat all over. Sour sweat. Sweat with burning skin. Sweat, with excessive thirst. *The pulse collapses, almost. *Im- perceptible pulse. Moral Symptoms.—Taciturnity.—Excessive sensitiveness ; in- crease of the mental powers. Loquacity.—Fear.—Despair.—Melan- cholia. Sadness, despondency. *Anxiety. Anxiety and vertigo. Excessive anguish in the evening and after dinner. Great anguish, the whole night.—Slight delirium.—*He does not know his relatives. Sensorium. — Insanity. Alternation of laughing and moaning. Frequent paroxysms. Uneasiness of mind, oppression, and anxiety. Anxiety, screaming, and running about. Fearfulness, terminating in frequent eructations. Tendency to start and fearfulness. °Furious delirium Bland delirium ; coldness of the body. Reeling and in- toxication. Dizzy, as if nothing in his head were firm. Excessive dizziness.—Vanishing of the senses.—Stupid feeling in the head, with nausea. Painful dullness of the head, with contracted pupils. Head.—Headache, with vomiting of green mucus. °Headache, with nausea, vomiting, and pale face. Headache and pain in the back, with colic and desire to vomit. Painful dullness of the head, with tensive pressure, now in the temples, now in the vertex. Vio- lent headache, with diuresis. Dull headache, extending from the temples to the forehead, increased by stooping. Intermittent beat- ing headache. Aching pain in one side of the head, accompanied with pain in the stomach.—Headache as if the brain were broken.— Paroxysms of pain in various parts qfthe brain, partly as if bruised, partly pressure.—Constrictive headache, with constrictive pain in the fauces. When stooping the blood rushes to the head. °Burn- ing in the brain. When walking the headache increases to reeling 1146 VEBATRUM album. Drawing pain in the head and small of the back.—Excessive head- ache, disappearing at the appearance of the menses. Chilly on tht top qfthe head. Itching of the forehead. *Cold sweat on the fore head. °Sensation as of a piece of ice on tbe head. Eyes.—Pain in the eyes. Painful pressure in the eye, with want of appetite. Stinging itching in the inner sides of the eye-lids. Profuse lachrymation and cutting pains, accompanied with a feeling of dryness and heat. Long-continuing, strong feeling of heat in the eyes. Heat in the eyes and face, with redness of the cheeks. Pain- ful ophthalmia, with excessive headache, preventing the nightly sleep. Ophthalmia, with lacerating pain. Weak feeling in the eyes. The eyes look faint, surrounded with blue rings.—Feeling of dryness about the eye-lids. Heat in the eyes, with headache. Inflammation qf the right eye.—Scintillations before the eyes.—Vanishing of sight. —Diplopia. °Hemeralopia, commencing at twilight. Face.—*Cold, disfigured face, as of a dead person, °also with pointed nose and sunken cheeks. °Bluish face. °Yellowish face. *Pale face. *Dark-red, hot face. *Extreme redness and heat of the face. °One cheek is red, the other pale. *Redness of the face when lying, paleness on rising. °Alternate redness and paleness of the face. Burning on the face and about the head. Thick rash on the cheek, with pain in the face. Copper-red eruption in the face, around the mouth and the chin. Drawing and tensive pain over the whole right side of the face and over the right ear. *Sweat in the face and in the axillae, when walking. °Dry, black, and parched lips. Red eruption around the mouth and on the chin. Ears.—Tingling in the ear.—Roaring in the ears, as of wind. Aching pain in the meatus-auditorius. Nose.—Red spots on the nose. Sensation as if the nose were too dry inside. Bleeding of the nose. Sensation as if the nose were ulcerated inside. Sensation as if the nasal bone were compressed and pressed in. Jaws and Teeth.—Lock-jaw. Sticking pain in the articulation of the jaw when opening the mouth. When eating, all the muscles of the lower jaw are painful as if bruised.—Swelling of the left sub- maxillary glands, accompanied with sore throat. Pain in the sub- maxillary glands as if pinched.—Grinding of the teeth.—Swelling of the gums and jaws.—Violent toothache and headache. *Great iveak- ness, with the toothache and the inflammation of the tonsils. °Beat- ing toothache. °Toothache, with nausea and vomiting, bruised feel- ing and coldness of the limbs, cold sweat on the forehead, internal beat, and unquenchable thirst.—^Looseness of the teeth. VERATRUM ALBUM. 1147 Mouth aiil Throat.—Spasmodic constriction and strangulation of tbe oesophagus. Burning in the throat. Scraping in the throat. Roughness in the throat. Numb sensation in the palate. Drawing pain in the throat, thirst, and colic. Mouth.—Stammering.—Speechlessness. Burning on the tongue and in the pharynx. Inflammation of the buccal cavity. °The tongue is dry, blackish, and cracked. °Yellow-coated tongue. Ptyalism. Taste, Appetite, and Gastric Symptoms. — *Desire for fruit. *Desire for acid things. °Desire for cooling things. Diminished taste ; pappy taste. Constant sourish taste, with accumulation of a quantity of watery saliva. Putrid taste. °Bitter taste, as of bile. Voracity, without thirst. °Canine hunger.—^Unquenchable thirst, -particularly for cold drinks.—Hunger and great thirst. Empty eructations. *Bitter eructations. Constant eructations, with dis- position to vomit, and accompanied with excessive cough. Constant flow of saliva from the mouth, like water-brash. Nausea, with hun- ger and pressure in the region of the stomach, while eating, disap- pearing after eating. Disposition to vomit after breakfast, going off after dinner. Great nausea before breakfast. Inclination to vomit, with a bilious taste in the mouth. Hiccough. Cardialgia. Frequent disposition to nausea. Drinking is followed by shuddering or goose- skin." Diuresis, accompanying hunger and thirst. Qualmishness in the pit of the stomach. Nausea. Constant nausea and ptyalism, the appetite and thirst being natural. Great nausea and disposition to vomit, with great thirst. Great nausea, with red, sweaty face. Disposition to vomit, with hoarseness; a good deal of cough. Dis- position to vomit, foam coming out of his mouth. Disposition to vomit and ptyalism, with lock-jaw. Excessive desire to vomit, even to fainting. *Bitter vomiting. ° Vomiting of the ingesta.—Vomit- ing of the ingesta, with green mucus. Nightly vomiting. Vomiting of dark-green mucus, with diarrhoea. Vomiting of a good deal of mucus, with excessive weakness. Vomiting of black-green mucus. *Black vomit. *Vomiting of bile and mucus, then of black bile, and lastly of blood.—Cholera. Violent, excessive vomiting. Every vomiting was preceded by shuddering over the whole body. Cold hands previous to the vomiting ; after the vomiting the hands became hot, with seething of the blood. Vomiting, with heat of the body. °Painful retraction of the abdomen during the vomiting. °The vomiting was renewed by the least motion, or by swallowing the least quantity of liquid. °Vomiting, with diarrhoea and pressure in tho pil of the stomach. °Asiatic cholera. Stomaqh and Abdomen.—Crampy pain in the pit of the stomach, 1148 VERATRUM ALBUM. especially when walking. Pain in the stomach, as from canine hun- ger. Feeling of weakness in the stomach, with internal coidness and a slight pressure. °Painful sensitiveness of the pit of the sto- mach. °Anguish in the pit of the stomach. Burning in the pit of the stomach. °Inflammation of the stomach. ? * Violent pressure in the pit if the stomach. Tensive pain in the hypochondria, as from flatulence. Painful pressure and drawing around the pit of the sto- mach. *Pain in the abdomen, here and there, as if cut with knives. Drawing lacerating pain deep in the abdomen, most violent above the pubic bone. °Colic after a cold, or °after abuse of Chin. Cutting colic. Cutting colic, with diarrhoea, early in the morning. Flatu- lent colic, affecting the bowels and the whole abdomen. Writhing sensation in the abdomen and back, previous to stool, with great weakness.—Anxiety during an evacuation, with apprehension of apoplexy. Distension of the abdomen, with ptyalism. Swelling of the abdomen, with colic and emission of flatulence. Colic, with loud rumbling. Grumbling and pinching in the abdomen, as from flatu- lence, accompanied with scanty emission of flatulence. Pains in the stomach and intestines. Pinching in the abdomen, at times below, at times above the umbilicus. Colic, thirst, and diuresis. Nightlj oolic, with sleeplessness. Colic in the umbilical region. Lancinat ing pain in the abdomen, soon after a meal. Cutting colic in the um- bilical region, with diuresis and thirst. Pinching in the abdomen, as in diarrhoea, but without desire for stool. Drawing-aching pain in the evening, during a walk. Colic from the back towards the urn- bilicus. Frequent sensation in the abdomen as if diarrhoea would =!et in, but without urging. Sudden (pinching ?) colic, early in the morning, in bed, followed immediately by urging. Stool.—Costiveness with diuresis. °Chronic constipation of in- fants. Heat and pain in the head with the costiveness. *Chronic constipation. Unperceived discharge of loose fasces, with flatulence. Costiveness, owing to the hardness and size of the faces. Urging in the epigastrium. Suppression of all the secretions.—Diarrhoea with pain, the pain existing during and after stool. °Diarrhoea with cut- ting, before and after stool. °Greenish, watery, flocculent diarrhoea. °Brownish, °blackish diarrhoea. °Nocturnal diarrhoea. Frequent and painful diarrhoea. *Frequent and violent diarrhoea. Chilliness and shuddering with the frequent stools.—*Extreme weakness dur- ing stool. Violent bloody diarrhoea. Burning at the anus during stool. Pressing towards the anus, with blind piles. Urine.—Burning urine. The scanty urine is yellow and turbid, sven while emitting it. Acrid urine. °Greenish urine. °Frcquent VERATRUM ALBUM. 1149 but scanty emission of dark-red urine. Pinching pain in the urethra, between the acts of micturition. Painful pressure on the bladder, and burning during micturition. Diuresis, with loud rumbling in the abdomen. Diuresis, with profuse coryza. Genital Organs.—Soreness of the prepuce. Drawing pain in the testes.—Erections. Increased sensitiveness of the genital or- gans. Headache (lacerating ?), especially in the morning, accom panied with a disposition to vomit, during the menstrual flow; the headache abates in the evening. Profuse menses. The appearance of the menses is preceded by bleeding at the nose. The menses are preceded by vertigo, are accompanied by buzzing in the ears, pain in all the limbs, and great thirst. Grinding of the teeth, and bluish face, toward the end of the menses.—°Puerperal fever. Suppres- sion of the lochia, with delirium. 1 °Nymphomania of lying-in females. Larynx, Trachea.—Paroxysms qf constriction of the larynx, suffo- cative fits, with protruded eyes. Catarrh on the chest, without any real cough. Scraping in the throat, as in catarrh. Tickling in the lower parts of the bronchial tubes, inducing cough, with slight expec- toration. Dry and hacking cough, excited by a titillation in the lowest region of the sternum. Oppression of the chest, when cough- ing. °Violent cough, with constant eructations as if he would vomit. °Cough resembling whooping-cough, with vomiting. °Cough, with yellow expectoration, on entering the room, with bruised pain in the chest, after coughing. Pain in the chest, with dry cough. Pain in the side, and headache, with almost dry cough. Long turns of hoi- low cough, with cutting pain in the abdomen. Titillation in the zhest, as if cou^h would set in, in the middle of the sternum. Severe cough in the evening, with ptyalism. Hoarse, dry cough at night. Cough, with profuse expectoration, blue face, and involuntary emis- sion of urine. Chest.—Painful constriction of the chest. Aching pain in the region of the sternum, after eating or drinking. Cutting pain in the chest. Pain under the ribs, especially during an expiration. Excessive anguish, arresting the breathing. Dyspnoea and difficult breathing, even when sitting, accompanied with headache. Painful i.nd difficult breathing. Suffocative oppression of breathing. Pain in the side, with pains in the region of the stomach. Pain in the region of all the ribs. Frequent pain in the chest. Violent beating of the heart, raising the ribs. Palpitation of the heart, with anxiety, and hurried, audible breathing. Paroxysms of anguish about the heart which beats very strongly. 1150 VERATRINUM. Back.— Pain in the small of the back. Stitch in the small of the back when stooping. Aching pain in the small of the back when standing. Pain in the loins. Pain in the loins and arthritic lace- rating pains in the lower limbs. Pain from the scapulas along the whole of the back, with diuresis, thirst, and costiveness. Colic in the umbilical region, after pain in the small of the back. A painful drawing pressure and a bruising pain is experienced in the spine when walking. Violent pressure in the region of the scapula), as if crushed and bruised. Heaviness of the nape of the neck. The muscles of the nape of the neck feel paralyzed. Rheumatic stiffness of the nape of the neck, occasioning vertigo, especially during motion. Arks.—*Painful paralytic weakness in the upper and lower limbs. Twitchings in either arm. ^Paralytic and bruising pain in the arms. Feeling in the arm as if it were too full and swollen. Trem- bling in the arm when grasping anything with the hand. Drawing pain in the bend of the elbows. °Icy coldness of the hands. Ting- ling in the hand, as if it had gone to sleep. The metacarpal bones are painful to the touch. °Drawing and cramp in the fingers. Legs.—Difficult walking; first the right, then the left hip-joint feels paralytic. Weakness in the thighs and knees.—Staggering gait. Rheumatic drawing pain in the muscles of tbe thigh, when standing. Pain in the thighs, when sitting, as if broken. Pains in the feet and knees. Painful heaviness of the legs, as if too weary. Painful heaviness of the legs, as if threatened with paralysis. Lace- rating pain in the tibias, from above downward. *Cramp in the calves, very violent. °Icy coldness qf the feet. Painful drawing through the tarsal-joints. 275.—VERATRINUM. i SYMPTOMS..—Burning in the stomach, ptyalism, loathing, nausea, colic, diarrhoea, increased urging to urinate, sweat, spasmodic symp- toms, increased menstruation, dull pains, shooting sensations in the back, in various portions of muscles, and in the joints, resembling electric sensations. Dull, afterwards burning pain in the lower part of the small of the back ; afterwards increased stool, accompanied with painful sensation in the abdomen, and sometimes with painful twitching in the lower extremities ; stools of a watery mucous consistence ; dryness of the mcuth, burning, unquenchable thirst; nausea, vomiting, slimy, bloody stool; burning in the prascordia ; scanty emission of thick and red urine ; coldness in the extremities, with trembling and insensibility; VERBASCUM. 1151 great unste&diness during motion ; vertigo, delirium ; paralysic of single limbs. Antidotes.—Black Coffee with Lemon-juice. Constant sickness at the stomach ; oppressions of the chest, elec trie shocks through the chest and epigastrium; painful twitching in the limbs. Miscarriage in the third month. Strangury and ischuria renalis. Transitory photophobia and spasm of the eye-brows. Vomiturition, diarrhoea, increased secretion of bile, slow circula- tion, impeded respiration, diminished animal heat, disturbance of the sensus-communis, alteration of the quality of the blood. Larger doses affect the voluntary muscles, producing weakness, convulsions and tetanus.—Intense feeling of pain, extending over all the peri- phcral nerves of the abdomen; drawing along the spinal marrow, convulsions, great anguish, orthopnoe; nausea and vomiting, and in describable sensation of malaise. Nausea, disposition to vomit, an- guish, vertigo, and complete loss of appetite.—Ptyalism ; intolerable acridity in the mouth and pharynx. 276.—VERBASCUM. VERB. — Verbascum Thapsus, Great Mullein, Cow's Lung-wort.—See Hahne- mann's " Mat. Med. Pura," VI. Antidote.—Camphor. ? Sleep.—Frequent stretching and yawning. Restless sleep, with dreams about wars and dead bodies. Fever.—Slight passing coldness in the whole body.—Shuddering on one side of the body.—Unquenchable thirst. Moral Symptoms.—Indifference. Despondency. Vexed and peevish. Head.—Sudden vertigo, as from pressure on the whole head Dull- ness and confusion in the forehead.—Dull and painful heaviness of the head.—Violent aching pain in the whole right hemisphere of the brain, from within outwards. Violent painful pressure in the fore- head, from within outwards, disappearing by stooping. Aching in the vertex. Aching, stupefying pain in both sides of the forehead. Sensation as if both temples were pinched with pincers.—Pressing pain in the occiput. Eyes.—Heat in the eyes, and sensation as if the orbits were contracted. Gauzy and watery dim-sightedness.—Dilatation of the pupils. Ears.—Painful lacerating and drawing in the ear. Sensation as if the ears were obstructed. 1152 VINCA MINOR. Face.—Violent pressure on the malar bone. The whole cheek is affected by the dull pressure in the articulation of the jaw, it increases to a stupefying tension. Jaws and Teeth.—Crampy sensation, with pressure, in the lower jaw. Violent tension in the integuments of the chin, the masseter muscles, and the neck. Mouth, &c.—Brown-yellow tongue, coated with tenacious mucus. —Hunger, without appetite. Unquenchable thirst.—Empty eruc- tations. Bitter eructations, with disposition to vomit. Frequent hiccough. Stomach and Abdomen.—Pressure in the stomach. Pain as if the bowels adhered to the peritoneum in the umbilical region. Fre- quent constriction of the abdomen in the umbilical region.—Pressure on the umbilicus, as from a stone, aggravated by bending forward. Cutting-pinching in the whole abdomen, with frequent eructations. Stool, &c.—Nocturnal emissions. Larynx, &c.—Obstruction of the larynx and nose. ^Hoarseness, on reading loud.—Tension across the chest, after going to bed, with sticking in the region of the heart. Arms. — Itching on the fore-arm. Cramp-like pressure in the netacarpus, on moving the arms. Sticking, particularly in the palm of the hand. Laming pain in the fingers. Deadness and insensibility about the thumb. Legs.—Great heaviness in the lower limbs. Staggering gait in the open air. Drawing pressure as far as the knee. Cramp-pain in the thigh. Trembling knees. Lacerating in the leg, from above downwards. 277.—VINCA MINOR. VIN. MIN.—Wintergreen.—See "Archiv," XVII. CLINICAL OBSERVATIONS. —This plant is said to be a remedy for plica-polonica (see "Archiv," XL, 3, p. 138). Dr. Schuler has curred with it a badly-smelling eruption on the head, in the face, and behind the ears. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Excessive debility. Arthritic lace- rating in the bones. Hamorrhages.—Sensitiveness of the skin, with redness and soreness from the least friction.—Sleeplessness and uneasiness at night.—Sudden shuddering. Heat of the cheeks, with- out redness. Pulse full and hard. Sensation of tremor in every blood-vessel.—Sadness, with fear of death. VIOLA ODORATA. 1153 Head, &c.—Vertigo, with gauze and flickering before the eyes. Lacerating in the head, as if the skull would split, with hammering from within outwards. Corrosive itching on the hairy scalp. Tlie hairs are entangled, as in plica-polonica.—Humid eruptions on the head, with much vermin and nightly itching, with burning after ncratcbing. Burning and itching of the eye-lids, with redness. Dim- sightedness on reading.—Tingling in the ears. Face, &c.—Pale face. Bloated face, with pimples. The lips are dry. Swelling of the upper lip and of tbe corner of the mouth.— Aphthas in the mouth. Ulcers in the throat. Appetite, &c.—Flat taste. Alternate loss of appetite and insa- tiable hunger.—Rising of air. Vomiting of a yellow bitter fluid.— Tenesmus of the rectum. Exhausting stools, with burning at the anus.—Excessively profuse menses, flowing like a stream of water, with great debility. Larynx, &c.—Hoarseness. Spasmodic cough, with tickling in the larynx, and tenacious mucus in the trachea. Oppression of the chest, with sticking.—Painful tension in the nape of the neck, with stiff- ness and heaviness as from a load. Spasmodic drawing in the feet and toes. 278.—VIOLA ODORATA. VIOL. ODOR.—Violet—Stapfs "Additions." Compare with—Kali, Mur.-ac, Nux-v., Phosph., Plat. Antidote.—Camph. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—General relaxation of all the muscles. Drawing pain in the limbs. Bruising pain in all the joints, on wak- ing. Trembling of the limbs. Fleeting burning in different parts. —Feverish shuddering, night-sweat.—Gloomy melancholy. *Hysteric mood, with constant weeping, without knowing why. Weakness of memory. Constant wandering of ideas. Head.—Dullness and painful confusion of the hoed.—Headache, with spasm of the eyes and a fiery semicircle before the eyes. Rush of blood to the head. Eyes, Ears, and Nose.—The eye-lids close, as if from drowsiness and heaviness. Sensation of compression in the eye-ball. Heat and burning in the eyes. Fiery appearance before the eyes.—Stinging in the ears. Rushing and singing in the ears. Face, &c.—Drawing pressure in the malar bones. Tension in the skin of the face, particularly under the eyes. Lacerating from the 49 73 1154 VIOLA TRICOLOR. lower jaw to the ear.—Lacerating in the lower teeth.—Constipation, with ineffectual urging.—Nocturnal emissions, followed by headache. Chest, &c.—The breathing is heavy and scarcely perceptible, with difficult expirations, great anxiety, and palpitation of the heart. Vio- lent dyspnoea, with pressure on the chest, as from a stone.—Tension in the cervical muscles.—Drawing pain in the elbow-joint and dorsum of the hand. Aching pain in the wrist. 279.—VIOLA TRICOLOR. VIOL. TRIG.—Jacea, Heart's-Ease, Pansy.—"Archiv," VII. Compare with—Baryt., Caps., Merc, Natr.-mur., Nitr.-ac, Sulph., Viol.-od. Antidote.—Camph. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—General relaxation of the body. Stick ing pains in the limbs.—Rash over the whole body, with corrosive- stinging sensation.—Restless sleep, with frequent waking. Vivid and amorous dreams. Weeping, peevish mood. Great quarrelsome- ness and sensitiveness of temper. Disobedience. Indisposition to work and talk. Head.—Fullness and dullness of the head. Vertigo and reeling. —Headache, from the root of the nose into the brain, going off in the open air. Aching pain in the forehead and temples. Shaking sen- sation in the brain, when walking.—Itching-cutting, stinging in the eye. The lids close, with drowsiness. Face, &c.—Thick, hard^skin of the face. Tension in the integu- ments of the face and forehead. Appetite, &c.—Loss of appetite. General heat after eating, par- ticularly in the face, with oppression of the chest and great anguish. Nausea and retching.—Cutting pains in the bowels, with urging to stool, flatulence, and discharge of large pieces of mucus. Sticking, with pressure, in the diaphragm. Stool, &c.—Stitches in the urethra. Sticking or pressure through the glans. Burning in the glans. Itching and swelling of the pre- puce.—Leucorrhoea. Chest.—Anxiety about the heart, with palpitation, when lying.—■ Cramp-pain and pinching contraction between the scapula, with cut- ting and tingling in the skin.—Stitches in the shoulder-joints, elbows, fore-arms, and fingers. The thighs feel bruised, early on waking. VIPERA REDI. 1155 280.—VIPERA REDI. VIPER. R.—Italian Viper.—See Hering's " Treatise on the Poison of Serpents." Compare with—Lachesis. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Paralysis of the single limbs, or of one-half of the body, frequently during life. Fainting, with vertigo, nausea, and pain about the heart. Fainting, with stinging about the heart.—Rigidity and coldness of the body, with clammy sweat. Con vulsions and spasms, with shrieks. °Convulsions in hydrophobia °The spirits of Viper are recommended for epilepsy. Skin.—Large gangrenous blisters around the wound.—Yellow spots on the red and swollen limb. Reddish, black, lentil-sized spots all over, even in the face.—Incipient erysipelas, or boils. Sleep.—Great drowsiness, with languor. Sopor, with languor, loss of sight, difficult breathing, retching, vomiting, spasms, violent pain in the umbilical region, tension of the abdomen, and small fre- quent pulse. Ill feeling at night, with delirium and vomiting, fol lowed by profuse sweat. Fever.—Coldness, with clammy sweats.—Shuddering, mingled with flashes of heat. Shuddering, after violent heat. Feverish motions, with quick, small, contracted, unequal, intermittent pulse.— Burning heat through the whole body, with swelling of both hands. —Pulse small and contracted, or feeble and irregular, or frequent, or quick. Pulse scarcely perceptible, also with fainting, or frequent, small, and contracted. Pulse intermittent and small. Pulse slow, hard, and full, with stiffness, coldness, and sweat.—Cold sweat, dur- ing the violent paroxysms. Profuse or warm sweat. Moral Symptoms.—Restlessness. Sensorium and Head.—Delirium, during the vomiting or pains.— Frequent vertigo, to fainting, particularly during the nausea and vomiting.—Violent headache, with disposition to sleep, restlessness increasing to despair, glistening eyes, yellow complexion with red cheeks, violent thirst (with moist, white tongue with red borders), feeble, small pulse, constant disposition to faint, pains in the loins, warm, dry skin, constipation, and copious secretion of clear urine. Eyes, &c.—Heat in the eyes and profuse lachrymation. Protrudea eyes. Dark-yellow eyes. Weakness of one eye. Obscuration of sight.—Swelling of the face, or particularly of the lips and eye-lids. Mouth, &c.—Burning on the tongue. Moist .tongue, with white borders, and red in the centre. Swelling of the tongue, which turns black-brown, and protrudes. Difficulty of speech, with swelling of 1156 VIPERA T0RVA. the tongue, or lock-jaw.—Burning in the fauces and chest. Difficulty of swallowing. Appetite, &c.—Burning thirst, with violent heat.—Nausea ana fainting.—Bilious vomiting. Convulsive vomiting, with eructations. Vomiting and diarrhoea. Vomiting and colic. Stomach, &c.—Violent pain in the umbilical region, during the vomiting. Enteritis. Stool and Urine.—Diarrhoea and vomiting, with profuse emission of urine. Chest.—Difficulty of breathing, with cold sweat.—Oppression of the chest, with anguish, or with chills and vertigo.—Burning in the larynx and chest, excessively painful.—Pain about the heart, with fainting. Stinging pain about the heart, with great weakness, difficult breathing, and copious sweats. Back, &c.—Pain in the back and abdomen, with bloatedness or profuse emission of urine. Large swelling on the neck.^-Violent lacerating in the arms, wrist, elbow, particularly in the axilla, shoulders, and chest, with restlessnes, vomiting, and sleeplessness. 281.—VIPERA TORVA. VIPER. TORV.—German Viper.—See Hering's " Treatise on the Poison of Serpents." Compare with—Lachesis. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Alternate pains in tbe limbs and ab- domen. Excessive weakness. Fainting fits, with discharge of saliva, or preceded by violent pains, or attended with violent congestion to tbe heart. Frequent fainting fits, at night, alternating with vomiting and diarrhoea.—General spasms during the violent pains in the ab- domen and head. Epilepsy every year. Skin.—Black blisters, with suppuration and subsequent recovery. Blisters, with red areolae, near the axilla.—Large ulcers on the tibia, penetrating to the bone, and leaving considerable cicatrices. Deeply- penetrating suppuration after shining swelling, with blue blisters. Black crust on the wound. Sleep and Fever.—Icy-coldness of the body. Shuddering, with febrile motions and quick, small, contracted, sometimes unequal, inter- mittent pulse. Cold shiverings, with nausea, vomiting, and great thirst. Chilliness^ with paleness of face and thirst. Chilliness and pains in the chest. — Violent acute fever at night, with delirium. Fever with erysipo.'as.—Feeble and irregular pulse. VIPERA TORVA. 1157 Moral Symptoms.—Restlessness, with headache.—Anguish, with vomiting. Sensorium and Head.—Loss of consciousness, with swelling.— Stupefaction, with cutting in the abdomen.—Cerebral affection. The eyes look as if he were raving mad, with staggering and stumbling forward. Heaviness of the head, with reeling and red face. Head- ache, with vomiting and convulsions. Raging pains in the head, with general spasms. Eyes, &c.—Redness of the eyes, with profuse lachrymation. Pro truded eyes, with swelling of the face. ' Frequent loss of sight.— Chronic deafness. Face.—Distortion of features when pressing on the distended ab- domen. Tight swelling of the face, which soon turns black, with closing of the throat. Tho lips are bluo, the mouth swollen. Raging pains in the jaws.—Sordes on the teeth. Mouth, &c.—Discharge of white saliva, with death-like fainting.— Protruded and pale swollen tongue. Appetite, &c.—Unquenchable thirst.—Nausea, with vomiting and thirst. Vomiting, with mucus, blood, worms. Vomiting, with stupe- faction, or convulsions, or diarrhoea. Vomiting, with erysipelas. Vomiting, with headache, or with shuddering and violent thirst. Stomach, &c.—Violent pains in the abdomen and shoulders. Pains in the abdomen, with violent thirst and vomiting. Pains in the abdomen, alternating with pains in the limbs. Swelling of the abdomen, with great distention of the veins on the chest and abdo- men. Stool, &c.—Diarrhoea, affording relief. Several evacutions, with urging, shuddering, and thirst.—Constipation.—Excessive swelling of the scrotum and penis, the parts turned black, with excessive pains and vomiting. Chest, &c.—Violent pain in the chest, then chilliness.—Violent congestion to the heart.—Swelling up of the chest, with difficulty of breathing. Back, Arms, and Legs.—Pains in the back and abdomen. Ex- cessive swelling of the hand and arm, painful when touched. Ery- sipelatous eruption along the inner surface of the upper arm and on one side of the body. 1158 ZINCUM METALLICUM. 282.—ZINCUM METALLICUM. ZINC. MET—See Hahnemann's " Chronic Diseases," V. Compare with—Anac, Arn., Ars., Bell., Bry., Calc, Canth., Carb.-veg., Hep.-s., Ignat., Hyos., Kali-c, Lye, Natr.-mur., Nux.-v., Phosph., Plat., Plumb.,Puis., Rhus-t., Sep., Sil., Stann., Staph., Stront., Sulph., Thuj. Antidotes.—Cham., Hep.-s., Ignat.—Is used as an antidote for Baryt.—Cham and Nux-v. aggravate the effects of Zinc. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Jactitation in various parts of the body. Twitchings in various muscles. Violent trembling of all the limbs. Cramp-pain in the muscles, here and there. A sort of sub- dued nausea, with a tremulous feeling in the chest, aching in the forehead.—General exhaustion the whole day, drowsiness, aversion to noise.— Violent beating in the whole body.—Pressure on the chest and back. Cutting stitching pain in the whole right side. Very vio- lent drawing lacerating in the middle of almost all the long bones, the pain being so great that they seem unable to hold together. Piercing stitching in the joints. Stitching and lacerating in all the limbs. —Great heaviness in the limbs. Great weakness in the bends of the knees and small of the back, when walking. Sudden weakness of all the limbs, at noon, with tremor and sensation of canine hunger. Paralytic weakness and heaviness in the lower limbs. Great weak- ness in all the limbs. Characteristic Peculiarities.—The pains caused by Zinc-met. seem to exist sometimes between the skin and flesh. Wine increases the suffering. Most of the symptoms appear after dinner and towards evening. The symptoms are generally felt during rest and when sitting, less during motion. Skin.—Itching all over, sometimes with burning or redness. Itch- ing in the bends of the joints.—Itching rash in the bends of the knees and elbows. Red pimples on the chest and face. °Herpes and herpetic ulcers.—° Ganglia.—Great sensitiveness to the cold. Sleep.—Constant stretching of the limbs, the face looking pale and wretched.—Constant yawning. Drowsiness, with spasmodic light- ness of the head. Frequent waking in the night. Restless. Great drowsiness. Frequent waking from frightful dreams. Restless sleep, with vivid dreams. Deep, fatiguing sleep. *Sleep full of fancies. Restless night. Jerks through the whole body. Uneasi- ness in the lower limbs at night. Anxious feeling of soreness, espe- cially at night. Violent pain in the small of the back and colic at night, with stitching in tbe left side, and drawing pain in the lower limbs. Drawing pain in the knee at night. ZINCUM METALLICUM. 1159 Fever.—Shuddering in the evening. Frequent feverish shudder- ing over the back.—Chilliness in the open air, or after dinner. Con- stant chilliness, with increased internal warmth. Chilliness, with shaking, from afternoon till evening.—Several attacks of a fever a day; chilliness and shuddering, flushes of heat over the whole body, vio- lent trembling of all the limbs, extreme malaise to fainting, qualmish taste, violent throbbing through the whole body, short and hot breath, dry mouth, hot and dry hands.—Heat and thirst, with cool skin.—Puis* quicker in the evening.—Sour-smelling sweat. Profuse night-sweat. Moral Symptoms.—Desponding and sad. .Excessively sullen and peevish. Low-spirited. Hypochondriac mood. Indifference. *Aver- sion io labor.—He moans from chagrin. Sensorium.—Illusion of the fancy. Incoherent ideas. Absence of thought, the mind being in a sort of stupor.—*Forgetful.—Dizzi- ness, drowsiness, and heaviness of the head. Feeling of weakness in tbe head, especially in the eyes. Dullness and painful heaviness of the occiput. Stupefied and dizzy, at noon. Vertiginous stupefac- tion, in short paroxysms, with obscuration of sight and general weak- ness. Violent vertigo. Head.—Violent pain in the head, eyes, and abdomen. Pain in the occiput, as if bruised.—Stupefying headache.—Pressure in the head, with a stupid feeling.—Pressure in the forehead, with dullness of the head. Aching pain in the forehead, with general dullness of the head. Frequent aching in the forehead. Pressure in the sinciput, with dullness of the head, extending as far as the eyes. Frequent pain in both sides of the head. Drawing and beating in the forehead. Lace- rating in the temples after dinner. Drawing-lacerating, with pres- sure, in the top of the head, and still more in the forehead, in frequent transitory paroxysms. Violent beating and lacerating in the whole head, especially in the right frontal region, from morning till evening. Feeling of heat in the head, with redness of the face.— Ulcerative pain in the vertex when touching it. Feeling of soreness in the scalp, even when not touched.—Great falling off of the hair. Eyes.—Pain in the eyes, as if they would be pressed into the head. Tensive pressure in the eye, rheumatic.—Lancinations in the eyes and head. Itching of the eyes. Feeling of soreness in the inner canthi. Continual burning of the eyes. Inflammation and redness of the conjunctiva of the eye, with suppuration of the internal canthus. Violent inflammation of the eyes, without photophobia. °The upper lids arc lame and droop. Constant weariness of the eyes. Vanishing of sight, with absence of ideas. Obscuration of sight. Dimness and haziness of the eyes, in the morning. Whirling motions before the 1160 ZINCUM METALLICUM. eyes. Yellow, blue, and green wheels before the eyes, with drowsi- ness and a wretched look.—Fiery balls hover before the eyes in large semicircles. Ears.—Otalgia.—Lacerating in the ears. Sticking and itching in the ear. Frequent and continued intensely-painful lancinations deep in the ear. Purulent discharge from the left ear. Hardness of hearing.—Whizzing in the ears. Nose.—Intolerable pressure at the root of the nose. Crampy feel- ing at the root of the nose, with dullness of the forehead. ^Swelling and painfulness qfthe left nasal wing. Sneezing, preceded by a cut- ting creeping in the nose. Obstruction of both nostrils. Violent dry coryza the whole day, with pain in the back. Alternate dry and fluent coryza. Face.—Pale face. Livid face.—Bruised pain below and in front of the right ear, apparently in the bone, with dullness of the forehead. Aching pain in the upper jaw. Lacerating in the bones in front of the left ear. Bruised pain of the facial and orbital bones.—Pimples in the face.—Pain in the lips.—Swelling of the upper lip.—Thick viscid humor on the lips. Dry chapped lips. Sore, ulcerated corners of the mouth. Soreness of the upper lip, ulcerated in the middle. Tensive painful rhagades in the lower lip. Jaws and Teeth. —Cramp-like lacerating in the lower jaw, espe- cially in the chin.—Swelling of the submaxillary glands.—Frequent drawing toothache in the roots of the incisores. intensely painful drawing in the upper front teeth, with sore feeling in the gums. * Sensitiveness and painful soreness of the upper molares. *Sore pain of the inner surface of the gums, -as if they were detached from the teeth. Gnawing and itching of the inner gums. White gums. Swelling of the gums. The gums bleed at the slightest touch. * Vio- lent bleeding qfthe gums. Bleeding from the teeth and gums. Mouth.—Accumulation of saliva in the mouth, with inclination to vomit. Increased secretion of saliva, with metallic taste in the mouth and shootings in the tip of the tongue.—The tongue is painful, as if sore.—Dry tongue.— Vesicles on the tongue.—Weakness of the organs of speech, when reading loud.—Stinging smarting in the palate. Painfulness of the palate and gums. Throat.—Dryness qfthe throat.—Scraping rawness in the pharynx. Aching pain in both tonsils, when swallowing.—Spasmodic and crampy sensation in the pit of the throat.—Pain in the throat, as from an internal swelling.—Lacerating drawing-pain, in both sides of the posterior fauces. °Herpes in the throat, after neglected gonor rhoea, bluish. Sort of heartburn in the throat, also when swallowing ZINCUM METALLICUM. 1101 Taste and Appetite.—Bitter taste in the mouth. Burning thirst. —Little appetite, and almost no taste.— Canine hunger. Gastric Symptoms.—Difficult digestion. Sour eructations after eating. Great fullness and distention of the abdomen. Feeling of emptiness in the abdomen and stomach, with hunger. Dizziness after dinner. Frequent and empty eructations. Sourish empty eructations, after drinking. Nausea at the stomach, with tremor, exhaustion, and debility in-the whole body. Nausea, with retching, and vomiting of a bitter slimy fluid. Stomach.—Pain in tbe stomach, as if empty, and with nausea. Qualmishness in the stomach, in bed, and sometimes after breakfast or dinner.—Sharp pains in the stomach and pit of the stomach. Pain in the pit of the stomach when taking an inspiration. Pain in the pit of the stomach, where a burning pain is experienced when pressing upon it, in the evening. Pressure in the pit of the stomach. . Con- traction from both sides of the stomach, with anxiousness and increased warmth in the head and whole body. Frequent cramp-feeling in the pit of the stomachs—Pinching deep in tbe region of the heart, in- creased during a deep inspiration.—Drawing in and below the pit of the stomach. « Hypochondria.—Spasmodic pains in the hypochondria, alternating with oppression of the chest and difficult breathing.—Crampy pres- sure in the region of the liver. Intermittent lacerating in the region of the liver.—Stitching in the hepatic region and the right hip. Sharp jerking stitches in the hepatic region, sometimes in paroxysms. Stitching, with pressure, deep in the region of the spleen, increased by pressing on the part. Dull stitching in the region of the spleen. Pulsative feeling. Pressure in the region of the kidney, sometimes with violent cramp-feeling. Stitching in the region of the kidneys, sometimes reaching into the chest. Stitching pressure in the region of both kidneys. Abdomen.—Colic, as if diarrhoea would come on. Attacks of vio- lent colic, with nausea and flow of water from the mouth.—Pressure in the whole abdomen. Hard pressure in the sides qfthe abdomen, hypochondria, and back. ^Tension in both sides of the abdomen. Tensive sensation above the umbilicus, with a feeling of qualmish- ness in the pit of the stomach.—Weight in the abdomen.—Colicky dull pain in the abdomen.—Constrictive colic, arresting the breath- ing. Stitching pinching in the umbilical region.—Cutting through the abdomen, below the umbilicus. Cutting in the epigastrium, also during a meal. Burning prickings in the abdomen. Lancinations in the umbilical region. Biting sensation in the whole epigastrium.— 1162 ZINCUM METALLICUM. Pressing and pushing in the pubic region. Protrusion of inguinal bernia. Sensation in the inguinal gland as if swollen. Frequent gurgling in the epigastrium and hypogastrium. Stool.—Constipation, but some slight indication for stool. Fro quent ineffectual urging to stool. Dry insufficient stool. Tough scanty stool, followed by pressing, and heat and burning at the anus. Hard, small, dry stool, with much straining and rumbling.—Several loose papescent stools, enveloped in bright-red foamy blood, and pre- ceded by colic. Diarrhoeic stool, with flatulence. Papescent diar- rhoea for many days, painless, but some tenesmus after stool.—Colic at every stool and emission of flatulence. Burning at the anus, dur- ing and after stool. Drawing pain in the rectum, as far as the abdo- men. Cutting and smarting sensation in the rectum.—Lacerating at the anus. Creeping, with pressure, in the anus. Creeping at the anus, as of worms.—Itching at the rectum.—Soreness and tingling in the anus. Soreness of the rectum. Burning at the anus.—Pro- trusion of the varices, smarting and painful. Discharge of blood from the anus. Urine.—°Retention of urine, when commencing to urinate. Di- minished secretion of urine. Reddish urine. The urine looks turbid and loam-colored. Very yellow urine, depositing whitish flocks. Flow of blood from the urethra, after painful micturition. Pressure on the bladder, but no desire to urinate.—Colic, followed by spasms in the bladder.—Intensely painful drawing in the urethra and the fore part of the penis. Lacerating burning in the urethra. Male Genital Organs.—Painful jerking in the root of the penis. Lacerating in the tip of the glans. Shrivelling of the scrotum. Vio- lent itching of the scrotum, almost causing a feeling of soreness. Frequent drawing, commencing in the testicles, and following the course of the spermatic cord. ^Either the right or the left testicle is drawn up, with some pain and swelling. *The sexual organs are easily excited. *Violent and long-lasting erections. Copious dis- charge of prostatic fluid, without any cause. Female Genital Organs.—Pressing in the pudendum and rectum. Varices of the pudendum.—Suppression of the lochia and decrease of the quantity of milk in the mammas. Discharge of lumps of coagulated blood during the menses, mostly when walking. During the menses, heaviness in the limbs, with violent drawing around the knees. Inflammation of the eyes; sudden tightness and oppression of the region of the stomach; weakness in the hands and feet; chilli- ness : -Weeping mood and out of humor, during the menses; anxiety; stitching, biting, and itching of the pudendum; discharge of bloody ZINCUM METALLICUM. 1163 mucus after the menses, causing an itching of the pudendum.— Recurrence of leucorrhoea.—Cutting-colic, succeeded by leucorrhoea. °Sore nipples. °Deficiency of milk. Larynx and Trachea.—Roughness and dryness of the throat and fauces. Roughness and rawness in the chest, with nightly heat and sweat.—Hawking up of a quantity of black coagulated blood.—Hoarse ness of the chest, as if full of mucus. Hoarseness, with burning it the trachea. Suffocative cough. Dry cough, w'th violent stitches in the chest. Cough, with stitches in the head. Discharge of sangui- neous mucus when coughing, preceded by stitches in the side. Dis- charge qf blood during dry cough, with burning, and sore pain in the chest, morning and evening. Thick purulent expectoration when coughing, day and night. Chest.—The breathing is more oppressed than usual. °Chest and breathing are unusually free and easy. Constrictive sensation around the chest, with pain in the chest, as if cut to pieces. Oppression of the chest, when walking in the open air. Anxiety in the chest, going off in the evening, with headache. °Spasmodic dyspnoea. Aching pain in the chest. Pressure in the chest, as if from rheumatism. Intermittent pressure from without inward, and drawing ^tension here and there in the left chest. Tensive pains in the chest. Tension and stitching in the region of the heart —Cramp-pain in the chest, inter- mittent, with qualmishness, in the morning. Dull lacerating pain in the chest, above the pit of the stomach. Stitching pain in the sternum. Stitches under the heart, like pleuritic stitches. Stitches over tbe heart, in the evening. Sharp stitching in the region of the heart, in- creased by violent expirations. Sensation of weakness and burning in the sternum.—Burning in the chest. Frequent palpitation qfthe heart, without anxiety. Painful palpitation of the heart, and a stitch at every beat.—Pain in the chest, as if bruised, when riding. Back.—Pain in the small of the back, when walking or sitting, Pain in the region of the os-coccygis, sometimes pushing, aching, sometimes pinching. Paralytic aching pain in the small of the back. Tension and feeling of weakness in the small of the back, when sit- ting, with tension in the head. Drawing in the small of the back and spine, a sort of painful weakness, when sitting or stooping. Violent cutting in the small of the back, at the least motion, extending into the calves and feet.—Pain in the back, when sitting. * Violent tensive pains, like rheumatic pains, in the lumbar region and on the shoulders. — Tensive pain between the shoulders during rest and motion. Violent pain in the back, as if bruised, when walking in the open air with weakness.—The nape of the neck and the back are 1164 ZINCUM METALLICUM. painful, as if bruised and worn out by too great fatigue. Crampy sensation in both sides of the neck. Cramp-like drawing along the cervical muscles. Arms.—Feeling of soreness in the axillae, at a small spot, as if bruised. Rheumatic tension in the head of the humerus. Tension and lacerating in both shoulder-joints. The shoulder-joints feel as if gone to sleep. Pain, as if bruised, in the arm. Rheumatic pain in the deltoid muscles of the upper arm.—Rheumatic pressure in the elbows. Lacerating in the bend of the elbows. Rash in the bend of the elbow.—Spasmodic drawing, occasionally, in the lower arms or fingers. Pain, as if bruised, in the lower arms. Rheumatic tension above the left wrist. Rheumatic drawing in the wrist-joint. Lace- rating in the exterior of the wrist. Lacerating, with pressure, in the wrist-joint. Weakness and tremor of the hands when writing. Rigidity of the hands, especially the right hand. Paralytic condi- tion of the right hand. Cool hands. °Rough, itching, herpetic spots on the hands. Sweaty hands. *The epidermis of the hands becomes chapped and painful. Chilblains on the hands, itching and swelling violently.—Lancinations in the fingers. Lacerating in the lower joints and phalanges of the fingers. Nodosity under the skin. Legs.—Lacerating with pressure, in the hip. Pain as if bruised, with cramp-feeling, heat, and burning in the region of the hip. Pain, as if bruised, in the hip-joint, as if the flesh had become detached from the bones.—Rheumatic drawing in the right limb. Heaviness in the limbs, with lacerating. Weakness and pain in the limbs. Vio- lent itching of the whole lower limb.—Rheumatic drawing in the thighs. Drawing pain in the thighs, from time to time, in the even- ing. Lacerating in the thighs, especially the fleshy parts, sometimes violent and continuous. Lancinations in the thigh, when lying and walking. Heaviness and paralytic pain in the femur, over the knee. Itching of the thighs and bend of the knee; very violent, in the evening. Dull pain in the knee, gradually increasing and decreasing. Dull digging-up pain in the knees. Tensive pain in the right knee- joint, when walking. Painful tension in the bend of the knee, when walking in the open air. Lacerating, and pain as if bruised, in the bends of both knees, worse when walking. Lacerating in the knees. Stitches in the knee. Painful boring in the knees. Violent itching in the knee-joint. Drawing pain in the legs in the evening. Lace- rating in the calves. Piercing stitching in the tibias. Rigidity and stiffness of the muscles of the calf when walking. Rigidity and draw- ing in the "alf. Burning pain in the region of the tibia. Erysipelas and painful swelling of the tendo-achillis. °Disappearance of the ZINCUM 0XYDATUM. 1165 varices of the leg.—Rheumatic tension in the tarsal-joints, when at rest. Aching pain below the outer ankle. Lacerating in the bends of the tarsal-joints. Lacerating in the soles. Lacerating and tension in the borders of the foot. Stitches in the heel. Burning under the right heel, most violent when stepping. Burning of the soles. Burn- ing and ulcerative pain of the soles. Pain as if sprained in the tarsal-joint. Violent inflammatory swelling of the foot. Swelling around the ankles. Cold feet, even in bed. Pain as if sprained in the bxnds qf the posterior-joints qf the toes. Lancinations in all the toes. 283.—ZINCUM OXYDATUM. ZINC. OXTD.—Oxyde of Zinc—See "Hygea," XIV. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.— Tension in the muscles and painful- ness during motion. Drawing in the limbs, with pains in the small of the back. Tingling in all the limbs.—Undulating movements in single muscles. Trembling of the limbs, also with jactitation of the muscles of the lower limbs. Remarkable sinking qf strength, also with internal sick feeling. Sleep.—Restless sleep, with dreams about falling, fire, counterfeit money. Fever.—Feeling of coldness, followed by febrile motions through the whole body.—Shuddering over the whole abdomen.—Pulse small and hard. Spasmodic pulse. Tight, quick, irregular, hard, and dull pulse.—Sweat, particularly towards morning. Moral Symptoms.—Spasmodic laughter. Head and Sensorium.—Dullness and heaviness of the occiput.— Vertigo, with flushes of heat.—Tightness in the forehead, also with pressure. Ears and Nose.—Pulsations and buzzing in the ears, with in- crease of liquid wax and difficulty of hearing. Fluent coryza, worse after eating. Face and Teeth.—Spasmodic twitching of the facial muscles, with constant disposition to laugh. Mouth.—Accumulation of bitter-sour water in the mouth. Appetite.—Loss of appetite. Loathing.—Violent thirst.—Eructa- tions.—Gulping up of yellow, bitter, bilious water.—Nausea, with sourish taste in the mouth. Nausea, followed by vertigo, and attended with flushes of heat, spasmodic pulse, and great languor.—Sickness and nausea.—Sudden vomiting of children. Vomiting of slimy 1166 ZINCUM SULPHURICUM.--ZINGIBER. water, after which the headache disappeared. Bilious vomiting Vomiting and diarrhoea. Stomach.—Crampy pressure in the pit qfthe stomach, with tight- ness and sensitiveness.—Burning in the region of the stomach, with loathing.—Fullness in tlie stomach. Abdomen.—Lacerating below the umbilicus. Spasmodic drawing in the middle of the abdomen, with dull pains in the whole abdomen —Distention of the abdomen. Rumbling.—Liquid stools, with tenesmus and pinching in the abdomen. Bilious stools, followed by great relief of all the symptoms. Larynx.—Accumulation of mucus in the larynx, with dryness of the throat, and constant hawking of tenacious slimy saliva.—Difficult breathing, particularly with the left lung. Constriction of the chest. Spasmodic sensation in the lungs and heart. Spasmodic pressure in the chest and pit of the stomach.—Palpitation of the heart, unth anguish, also particularly in the evening, and with spasmodic pulse. Sensation of pressure, heaviness, and spasmodic tension in the heart. —All the ribs are sensitive to the touch. Arms and Legs.—Pain in the small of the back, at night. Feel- ing of lameness, extending to the hips.—Sticking and lacerating between the shoulders, or pain extending to tbe small of the back and sacrum.—The arms feel bruised.—Constant weakness of the lower limbs. Bruising pain of the lower limbs. Trembling of the feet. 284.—ZINCUM SULPHURICUM. ZINC. SULPH.—Sulphate of Zinc. This remedy has been recommended for certain kinds of chorea. 285.—ZINGIBER. ZINGIB.—Ginger.—See "Archiv," XVI. SYMPTOMS.—Pressure and drawing in the sinciput.—Pressure in the eyes, as from sand.—Tingling itching in the nostrils. Obstruc- tion of the nose.—Pressure and drawing in the roots of the teeth.__ Cough, excited by a smarting and burning in the larynx, or with thick expectoration.—Rheumatic drawing in the backs of the hands. Heat in the palms of the hands and face.—Burning-stinging tingling in the feet. CLINICAL INDEX. Abdomen, affections of. Berb., carb.- v., grat., lye, nux-v., phos. ——— congestion, venous, of. Aeon., ars., nux-v., puis. ----distention of. Ars., mur.-ac, nux, phos., sep. ----nerves, torpidity of. Arum. —— epilepsia of. Arum. ----hardness of. Asa-f. ----obstruction of. Asa-f, nux-v. podophyl. ----congestion of. Bell., nux-v., see- e, stib. ----chronic affections of, with con- stipation. Bry., calc, euph., nux-v., sep., sulph. — spasms of. Agar., calc, ign.. mag.-mur., mur.-ac, nux-v., puis. ----induration of. Chin. —— and urinary affections of old men. Cim. . grumbling, griping, and cutting pain in the. Coloc, mere- dule,sep. —— violent, with sensitiveness to con- tact, chills, &c. Coloc, sep. —— inflammation of. Coloc. — chronic affections, with colic, violent burning, distensive pains. Euph., sep. —— cutting and pinching in. Mur.- aq. ----burning in the. Phos.-ac. — plethora venosa. Puis. ----haemorrhoidal congestion of. Sulph. Abscess, lymphatic. Carb.-v., cham., mere, lach. ---psoas muscle, of the. Cham., chin., mere, lach. Abortus. Cann., morph. . from congestion to the uterus. Aeon., bell., calc. Acne. Bell., berb., calc, canth. carb.-v., ledum, arnica. ----rosacea. Ars., canth., caus., cim., rhus-t. Alopecia. Bar. Amaurosis. Am., arg.-nitr., asar., bell., calc, caps., dig., lact., laur., lye, mang., mere, mose, natr.-carb., nitr.-ac, phos., rhus-t., ruta, see-e, sulph. ----amblyopia. Anac, bell., calc, caps., caus., chin., cim., coc, dulc, fer., mang., mose, phos., puis., ruta, see-e? stram., sulph., stib. ----— with cerebral affections. Cim. ----torpid. Ant. ----rheumatic. Ant. ----mercurial. Ant. ----incipient. Arn. ----erethic, with intermittent type. Ars. ----apoplectic. Aur., aeon. ----consequent on suppressed anger. Aur. Amblyopia. Asar., lact., led., natr.- e, nitr.-ac, puis. Amenorrhea. Am.-m., calc.-caus., chin., coc, croc, iod., natr.-m., phos., puis., op., sep., stram., sulph., macrobys. ----when occasioned by dampness and prostration. Chin., ars. ----in weak and hysteric females. Art. ----when owing to scrofulous con- ditions. Bar. ----spasms from. Coc. ----acidity. Acet.-acid. ----with violent colic, weak and dry cough. Iod. ----with leucorrhoea, vertigo, throb- bing headache, pain in the stomach and uterus. Puis. 116T 1168 CLINICAL INDEX Anosmia. Bell., calc. Aneurism. Carb.-v., lye, sil., potas.- carb. ---of the aorta. Carb-v., lact. Anorexia. Aeon., bell., calc. Angina. Alum., dulc, puis., rhus- r., sang., sep. ----gangrenosa. Am.-e, ars., carb.- v., kreas., mere-s., mere-cor. ----parotidea. Ars., am.-e, kal.-e, mere-s. ----pectoris. Arg.-n., dig., hydr., lact., laur., mose, nux-v., samb., stram., morph. ___ — with organic disease of the heart and large vessels. Ars., morph. ----maligna. Ars., phos. — membranacea. Samb. ■----in putrid and intermittent fevers, measles, scarlatina, and dysen- tery. Ars., mere-s. ----from abuse of Mercury. Bellad., aurum, dulc. ---from cold. Bar., rhus. ----tonsillaris, even with suppura- tion. Bar., bell., cham., crot., mere-s., sulph., stib. —— catarrhal. Bell., bor., dulc, mere-s., nux-v., puis. —— catarrhal of the tonsils and fauces. Mere-s., puis. - pharyngea maligna. Caps., nitr.-ac, sang. ----morbillosa. Carb.-v. —— scarlatinosa. Carb.-v., phos. ---- ---- with parotitis. Carb.- v. ----apthosa. Carb.-v. ----tonsillaris and pharyngea.Cham., dulc, nitr.-ac, nux-v. ----putrida. Kreas., mere-s., mere- d. ----putrida in scarlet fever. Mere- s., phos., puis. ----gastric rheumatic. Spong. Anasarca. Samb., squil., sulph. ---- with affections of the chest. Samb., apocynum-cann. ----after scarlatina. Sulph. Apoplexy. Ambr., am.-e, arn., bar.- m., chin.-s., laur., sec-c, verat. .----pulmonum. Am.-c. ----renalis. Ars.-hyd. — of old people and drunkards. Bar., op., agar. Apople? r, sanguinaria. Bell., brae, coff., op., nux-v., rhus-t. ----nervous. Coff, con., ip., op. laur., nux-v., rhus-t. ----serous. Con., ip. ----cerebral. Laur., op., nux-v. ------paralysis from. Laur., nux-v. ----spinal. Nux-v. ----with sopor and paralysis. Nux- v. ----nervous, with hemiplegia. Anac, coc. ----with cerebral congestion. Coc. ----nervous. Cupr. acet., phos., rhus-t. ----serous. Dig. Aphonia. Arum., bell., caus., laur., phos., ammon. ----catarrhalis. Bell., laur ----with previous spasms of the chest. Caus. Aphtha. Ars., bor., carb.-ae, hell., merc.-v., mere-cor., sulph. ----malignant. Ars. ----with ptyalism, diarrhoea, and fever. Mere-s. ----of the mouth and fauces. Nitr. ac. ----neonatorum. Sulph.-ae Arthritic Affections. Aeon., aur., bell., benz.-ae, berb., bry.,calc, saus., cham., chin., coe, colch., coloc, dig., graph., hep., kreas., laur., led., lye, meny., natr.-carb., nitr.-ac, ol.-jee, nux-v., petrol., puis., rhus-t., phos., phos.-ac, staph. ----nodosities. Aur., berb., bry., calc, carb.-a., clem., dig., graph., led., staph. ----symptoms consequent on sexual and mercurial abuses. Aur. ----swelling of the joints. Bell., bry., hep., led., mang., puis. ----swelling of the parts. Bry. ----anomala and vaga. Cale, sulph. ----stiffness of the joints. Carb.-a., led. _ J ----with nightly pains in the lower limbs and anasarca. Puis. ----metastasis. Staph. ----rheumatic. Agn., bry., calc, daph., puis. ----from suppressed gonorrhoea. Daph. ----vaga. Puis CLINICAL INDEX. 1169 Asthma. Aeon., am.-e, anac, ant., arg.-nitr., asa-f., benz.-ae, bry., caps., sulph., carb.-v., chin., colch., dulc, fer., graph., ip., rat., nit.-kreas., lact., laur., led., lob.-inf., lye, mere-s., mose, nux-v., podoph., puis., see-e, stram., stib., zinc, —— from nervousness or from retro- cession of catarrh. Ars., bell, ----spirituous drinks, from abuse of. Ars. ----pituitosum. Arum., stan. ----senile. Bar., con. —— humidum. Bell., tabac. ----thymicum. Bell., mose, spong., verat. ----from suppressed cutaneous erup- tions. Calc. ----flatulent. Carb.-v, ----suffocating. Carb.-v., nux-v. ----spasmodic. Cupr., graph., ip., laur. ----after suppressed herpes. Graph. ----spasmodic,especially at night. Ip. ----of the aged. Lact. ----from organic defects of the heart. Lact., laur., see-e ----hysteric. Mose ----millari. Aeon., ars., bell., ip., samb., stib. ----periodical. Cann., ign. ----hysteric. Con. ----siccum periodicum, with an- asarca and paralysis of the extremities. Ars. Ascites. Cann., con., dig., led., lye, squil., stib. ----and anasarca. Apocyn.-cann., dig., lam., tereb. ____ ---- with organic affec- tions of the heart. Dig. ----with affections of the liver. Mere-s. ----with amenorrhoea and leucor- rhoea. Puis. Asphyxia. Am.-m., chin.-s., lauroc, stib. Atrophy. Am.-m., bar.-m., chin., mere-s. ----infantum. Mag.-car., lye, mere- s., mere-cor. .____infantum, with constipation, diarrhoea, and fever. Merc -s. Atony of the urinary organs. Am.- e, canth. Atony, mucous membrane of. Arum., canth. ----glandular organs. Arum. Balanorrhoja. Canth., mez. Blenorrhoxa. Am., am.-m., ant., arg -nitr., bry., natrum. ----from the lungs. Chin.-s. ----palpebrarum. Lact. ----chronic schneiderian membrane. Lye., mag.-mur. Bletharophthalmitis gonorrhoeica. Aeon., ant., caus., calc, nux-v. ----glandulosa. Alum., am.-m., sulph. Bladder, suppuration of. Aeon. ----paralysis of. Ars., cim., fer., hell., hyos., laur., mur.-ae, nux-v. ----haemorrhoids of. Ars., colch., dulc, fer., sulph. ----spasm of. Asa-f., hyos., laur. ----tenesmus of. Stram., caps., dig., hyos. ----haemorrhage from. Hamamelis, chin., nux-v. ----erethism of. Coff. ----chronic inflammation of. Con. ----catarrh, of. Con., dulc, mere- s., nux-v., sulph., tereb. ----inflammation of the neck of. Stram., cann., dig. ----distention of. Hell. ----spasms of, with tenesmus after a cold or scarlet fever. Hyos. ---polypus of. Lye ----affections of. Plum. ----spasms cf, in pregnancy. Puis. ----stone. Sass. Bilious Affections. Aeon., am., ant., ars., chin., podophyl. ----and gastric Asa-f., asar., chin. ----with or without fever, severe nightly headache, yellow skin, oppression of the chest and stomach, loss of appetite, unre- freshing sleep, and languor. Chin. Biliary Calculi. Elat. Boils. Hyos., lye, mur.-ae, nux-v, lach., mere Bones, affections of. Mez., mag.-mur., staph. ----affections of, chronic Euph., nitr.-ac. ----pains in the, at night. Aur 74 1170 CLINICA] Bones, inflammation and caries of, es- pecially from abuse of Mercury. Aur., mez., staph. ----caries of. Aur., cale-mez., lye, mere-s., nitr.-ac, phos.- ac, sil., staph., sulph. —-- pains in the. Cupr., staph. —- syphilitic softening of. Mez., inere-s. ■ ulcers of. Mez., lye, mere-s. ----inflammation of the periosteum, worse at night, with redness and swelling of the soft parts. Mere-s., nitr.-ac. ----curvature and softening. Mere- s., phos.-ac, sulph. Brain, concussion of. Am.-m., arn., cim., zinc. —— cerebral affections of. Arn., ars., bell., bry., cim., cin., rhus-r., stram.. zinc ----concussion of, from the effect of cholera. Bry. ----concussion of, from violent ex- haustion of, as after spasm, epileptic and hysteric parox- ysms. Ars. ----tubercles of. Bar. ----metastasis of acute exanthemata to the membranes of. Bell. ----inflammation of. Bell., cim., con., coral., hyos. ----dropsy of. Bell. ----pressure in the. Carb.-a. ----congestion of, with vertigo. Con. —— inflammation of, from cold, with delirium, dilatation of pupils. Hyos. —— paralytic affections of. Mose, zinc. Bronchia, blcnorrhcea of. Arn. ■ inflammation of. Am.-m., ant. - bronchitis. Ars., bov., bry., canth., caps., chin., eupa., hep., kal.-bichr., lact., laur., mere- s., spong. — bronchitis, with hoarseness. Hep., lact. ■ ■' i affections in typhus, especially the last stage. Bell. —— disposition to inflammation of Hep. ----chronic, bronchitis. Kal.-bichr., lact. 'Bubo, scrofulous. Graph., mero.-s. ----venereal. Mere-s., nitr.-ac. i INDEX. Burns, with fever. Aeon., ars., carb. v., sulph.-ae, urt., rhus. ----old. Caus. Cachexia, dropsical. Sulph., chin ----mercurial. Ant., arg. ----from abuse of China. Bell. Cancerous Affections. Con., ars., bell., clem., natr.-m. ----nose, of the. Ars., aur. ----cheeks, of the. Ars. ----lips, of the. Ars., cim., clem., lye ----womb, of the. Ars., puis. ----tongue, of the. Ars. ----stomach, of the. Art. ----cardia et pylori. Bar. ----mammae. Bell., clem. ----indurations. Carb.-v. ----face, of the. Kreas. Cardialgia. Arg.-nitr., arg., arn., bell., cal., chin., euph., graph., grat., ign., ip., laur., lact, lob.- inf., mag.-carb., natr -carb., nux-v., petrol., phos., see-e, staph., stront.-e, sulph., stib., verat. ----with black or sour vomiting. Arg.-nitr., mag.-car., nux-v. ----threatening to pass into cancer of the stomach. Arg.-nitr., nux-v. ----in pregnant women. Bell., nux v. ----nervous. Bism., nux-v. ----chronic. Bry., nux-v., sulph. ----with nervous headache. Ign., nux-v. ----with aching and burning pains Lact. ----from overloading of and organic defects of the stomach. Nux-v. ----of drunkards. Nux-v. —— with constrictive burning paina in the stomach, vomiting, and diarrhoea. Phos. ----from suppressed itch. Sulph. Carbuncle. Ars., chin., kreas., rhus-t. ----malignant. Bell., ars. ----spontaneous. Chin. Catarrhal Affections. Aeon., am.-m., bell., bov., cal., camp., carb.-v., caus., cam., chin., kreas., laur., nux-v., phos., hep.-mere, sol., puis., rhus- t., samb., squil., sulph., verat CLINICAL INDEX. 1171 OATiRRHAL Affections, from a draft' of air. Aeon., carb.-v. ----chronic, of the air passages. Am.-e, am.-m., arum., bry., caus., dros., laur., lye, nux- v., squil., sulph. ----acute. Am.-m., hep. ----intestines, of the, with burning in the anus. Ars., mere-s. ----chronic and purulent coryza. Aur., hep., mere-s. ----trachea, of the. Bar., iod., nux- v., puis. — inflammation of the air passages. Bell., mere-s., nux-v. -------of the eyes and lids. Bor. ----of the air passages, brought on by cold and in measles. Bry., chin., merc.-s., spong. ----scrofulous. Bry. ----with nightly exacerbations, burning in the throat, oppres- sion of the chest, and great anguish. Mez. — with soreness of the larynx and decrease of voice. Dros., mere- s., nux-v. ----with crampy pains in the chest. Cupr. ----inveterate. Hep. ----chronic, in persons who incline to phthisis pulmonalis or laryn- geal. Iod., nux-v. ----chronic, in old persons and drunkards. Kreas. — of the lungs. Puis. Cataract. Caus., con., dig., mag.- cac, lye, phos., puis, sulph. ----incipient. Caus., puis. Cephalalgia. Aeon., ars., coff, con., dulc, guaj., hyper., ign., laur., led., mere-s., nux-v., petrol., puis., rhus-r., rhus-t., spig., selen., sep., tarax., verat. ■ from congestion to the head. Aeon., am.-c, bell., carb.-v., coff., fer., nux-v. —— " " " " especially when occasioned by catarrh. Bell., chin., nux-v. ----congestive. Alum., bry., chin., croc, rhus-r., sep. ■ nervous. Alum., cham., con., for., kal.-bichr., kreas., lact., laur., lye, mag.-mur., merc.- b., mose, natr.-m., nux-v., phos., selen., verat. [Alalgia, hysteric. Alum., aur. calc, caps., cham., coc, nux-v. — with nausea and vomiting. Coc. ^ * particularly in the fore part of the head. Ars., bry., nux-v. rheumatic. Bell., bry., caus., chin., lye, merc.-s., nux-v., rhus-r. venous congestion to the head with Aeon., ars., sep. dyspeptic Kal.-bichr. chronic and prosopalgia. Art., calc, lye, nux-v. weakness of the stomach from. Arum., nux-v. periodical. Asar., calc, cole, con., fer., nux-v. mental exertion from. Aur., bry., lye, nux-v. derangement of digestive func- tions, and accompanied with rheumatic and arthritic affec- tions. Berb., nux-v., podoph. cold from. Bry., calc, camp., nux-v., dulc. affection of the heart from. Bry. with lacerating of the head of females. Bry., caus., sep. violent in the fore part of the head, with oppression and shooting pains. Caus., bry., nux-v. affecting the whole head, with palpitation of the heart, nausea, oppression of the chest. Bry., caus., natr.-m., nux-v., verat. chronic. Calc, kreas., laur., lye, nux-v. morning, in the. Phos., phos.-ac, excess in drinking, from. Carb.- v., nux-v. nausea with. Carb.-v., nux-v., verat. vertigo with. Caus., nux-v., sep. with catarrhal symptoms from suppression of cutaneous per- spiration. Cham., nux-v. of persons leading a sedentary life Coc, nux-v. persons who have indulged in masturbation. Coc, nux-v. 1172 CLINICAL INDEX. Cephalalgia, periodical semi-lateral. Coloc, kal.-bichr., nux-v., sep. ----violent lacerating, with suffoca- tive fits and constriction of the chest. Coloc, led., nux-v. ----neat in the face, with throbbing in the teeth. Coloc. —— gastric, with vertigo. Con., nux- v., selen. ----beating and throbbing, particu- larly at the critical age. Croc, kreas., led. ----with boring in the root of the nose. Hep., nux-v. ----chronic over the eyes, with vomiting. Kal.-carb., nux-v. ——- stupefying, tearing, beating headache. Led., mere-s., nux- v., phos. ----catarrhal. Merc.-s . nux-v. ----nightly. Mere-s., nux-v., caus. —— aggravated by mental exertion, spirituous drinks, or want of exercise. Nux-v. ----nervous, with cardialgia and con- stipation. Nux-v. ■ aching, throbbing, increased by motion, with pains in the teeth. Nux-v., petrol. •---from chagrin. Petrol. —-— derangement of the stomach from. Puis., selen. ----vertigo with. Rhus-r. ----throbbing. Rhus-r. ----from derangement in the portal system Sep. Chancre. With hydrargyrosis. Nitr.-ac. ----with warty excrescences. Thuj. Chagrin. Affections from. Ign., staph., nux. Chest. Rush of blood to the. Aur., nux-v. ■ " " and congestive asthma. Aur. ----constrictive oppression of. Aur., cupr., merc.-s., phos. ----congestion to. Bell., mere-s., nux-v.. phos., tart.-stib. ----rheumatism of. Bell., bry., rhus-r. —— catarrhal affection of. Bor., nux-v., phos. .----neuralgia of. Bry. — spasms of, from violent emo- tions, with pleuritic stitohe*. Camp., phos. Chest, chronic affections of. Carb.-v., phos. ----dropsy of. Carb.-v., lact. ----spasms of. Cin., colch., cupr.- acet., mere-s., phos., stram. ----stitches in the. Aeon., guai., merc.-s., phos. ----venous congestion to. Mere-a ----aching and drawing in. Mur.- ae, phos. ----pain in the, from gastric irrita- tion. Rhus-r. ----inflammatory affections of, with fever and typhoid symptoms. Rhus-t. ----affections of. Aeon. Chorea. Art., asa-f., coc, see-e, sulph. Chlorosis. Am.-e, am.-m., arum., aur., chin., con., fer., lye, natr.-m, phos., sulph. ----with bloody discharge from the nose and lungs. Chin., plum., puis. Coryza. Aeon., ign., kal-bichr., merc.-s., nux-v., mur.-ae, petrol., rhus-r., samb. ----chronic. Ars., alum., arum., nux-v., kreas. ----dry. Carb.-a., caus., nux-v., phos. ----fluent. Carb.-v., kreas., nux-v. Chilblains. Ant., berb., carb.-a., carb.-v., cham., kreas., lye, nux-v, petrol, phos., puis., rhus-t. ----inflamed, with burning pains. Cham., nux-v. Children. Affections of. Cham., eug., ign., mag.-car., podoph., samb., see-e ----spasms of. Cham., ign., ip., nux-v,, stram. ----when teething. Cham, podoph, ----catarrh of. Cham., ip., nux-v., samb. ----fever, brought on by teething Cham. ----fever, somnolence of. Cham. ----cholera in. Cham., phos.-ac. ----inflammation of tho eyes in in fants. Cham., nux-v. ----difficult dentition, with diar rhcea, fever, con rulsiona CLINICAL INDEX. 1173 Cham., cupr.-acet., ign., nux- v., see-e Children, congestive toothache of, Cham., nux-v. ----acidity of stomach and diarrhoea. Cham., mag.-car.,merc.-s.,rheum. ----cough from teething. Cham. ----chronic vomiting of Cin., ip. ----meteorism of, congestion of the head and abdomen. Cin. ----restlessness of. Colch. —— epidemic diseases characterized by cough, coryza, pain in the ears. Eug. —•— humid eruptions on the head of. Hep.' —— tracheitis of, with headache, short anxious breathing, hoarse voice, hollow sounding cough, Hep. —-----chronic. Hep. —— eclampsia of, from abuse of Chamomile. Ign. ■ convulsions of, with foam at the mouth, from influenza. Ign., nux-v. —— suffocative catarrh of, with green diarrhoea, constant coughing and crowing. Hep., ip., merc.-s., samb. — consumption of the mesentery in, with ulceration of the mu- cous membrane. Kreas. diarrhoea of. Kreas., merc.-s., rheum., see-e, sep. — nightly enuresis of. Kreas., puis., canth. ----debility of. Nux-v. ----pneumonia of. Puis. ----rheumatic inflammatory and cerebral affections of. Rhus-t. ----constipation of. Sulph. Cholera Asiatica. Ars., ars.-hyd., bell., camp., carb.-v., chin, colch., cupr., hydr., ip., see-e, tabae, verat. _^ — when the liver is affected or there is a congestion to the head. Bry., carb -v., laur. .. — cold stage with viscid sweat. Camph. ■ — especially during convales- cence, or when there is burning pain in the abdomen, or burn- ing urine emitted drop by drop Canth. Cholera Asiatica, with loss of strength, bloody stools, and collapse. Carb.-v. -------congestion to the head and chest in. Carb.-v"., laur. ------preoursory symptoms of. Cham., ip. -------" stage, in the. Ip. -------with spasms, vomiting, and diarrhoea. Cim., verat. ------symptoms of congestion to the brain. Cim. ------especially with convulsive movements, great restlessness, painful spasms, vomiting, pre- ceded by contractive sensation in the chest. Cupr. ----third stage. Cupr.-acet. ----with sudden failing of the strength, apoplectic condition. Hydr. —— last stage of, with pressure in the chest, cessation of diarrhoea, cramps. Hydr. ----when vomiting is the prominent symptom. Ip. ----with rice water evacuations coldness, cramps, debility, retching, and vomiting. Verat. ----of the lighter kind. Ip. Cholerina. Ars., ip., phos., see-e —---with nausea, vomiting, violent thirst, frequent diarrhoea. Ip. Cholera Infantum. Alum., ars., ip., mag.-car., podoph., verat. Cholera Sporadic. Ars., art., asp., coloc, cupr., dulc., merc.-s., see-e, verat. ----after cold drinks. Dulc. ----in children. Cham. Cholera Sicca. Ars. ----diarrhoea. Ind. Cholera Morbus. Elat., ip., tabac., stib. ----from cold. Elat. ----with fluid stools, cutting pain in the abdomen, nausea, and vomiting. Elat. ----with vomiting. Ip., stib. Chorea. Actea-rae, agar. Colic. Am.-c , cann., carb.-v., chin., coloc, nux-v., petrol., pros., plat., podoph., rhus-r., sec-c. ----from a cold. Aeon., coloc, mere- s., nux-v. — plumbea. Alum., see-e, nux v 1174 CLINICAL INDEX. Colic, menstrual. Am.-e, carb.-v., cast., cham , coc, hyos., nux-v., puis., sabin., sec-c ----spasmodic. Ars., bell, coc, coff, coloc, cupr., nux-v. ----nervosa. Ars. ----inflammatory, of children. Art., bry. ----flatulent. Asa-f., aur., bell., caps., carb.-v, cham., coc, elat., graph., hyos., lam , nux- v. ----and vomiting. Asar., nux-v. ----renal. Asp., berb., canth., lye. ----nightly, with flatulence. Aur., coloc. ----nephritic Bell., merc.-s., nux-v. ----inflammatory. Bry., coloc. ----pregnancy. Bry., nux-v. ----haemorrhoidal. Carb.-v., nux-v., sulph. Consumption. Adeps. Convulsions. Aeon., con., agar., am.-e, bell., canth., caus., cim., coc, cupr., lach., lam., lye, merc.-s., mose, op., nux-v., sec-c, stram. —— of children. Aeon., art., bell., cim., ign. ---- " in dentition. Art. ----hysteric. Aeon., bry., cann., caus., cham., cim., coc, ip., ign., mose, stram. —— chronic. Aeon., ign. ----catalepsy. Aeon., art., bell., cham., cim., laur., mose, nux- v., stram. ----tetanus. Aeon., arm, bell., brue, bry., cam., canth., cim., coc, lach., laur., mose, op., nux-v., phos., see-e, stib. —— trismus. Aeon., am., bell., brue, canth., cim., coc, hyos., ign., laur., merc.-s., nux-v., phos. ----preceding eruption of acute ex- anthema. Ant. ----with loss of consciousness. Op. ----of the limbs. Arn., ign. ----with vomiting. Ign. ----traumatic. Am. ----of one side of the face, with violent headache, delirium, loss of consciousness. Caus. .---hysterics, and painful enlarge- ment of the liver. Caus. Convulsions, preceded by headaohe in the forehead, pain in the pit of the stomach. Nux-v. ----tonic. Nux-v., phos. ----menstrual. Phos. Cornea, obscuration of. Sulph. ----ulceration of. Sulph. ----inflammation of. Sulph. Coxalgia. Ars., bell., cann., canth., kreas., mang., merc.-s. ----scrofulous. Rhus-t. ----with cutting burning pains. Cham. ----and constipation. Cinch.-s., nux-v., sulph. ----bilious. Coe, ip., nux-v. ----cramp. Coloc. ----violent, brought on by vexation. Coloc. ----with diarrhoea, after taking food. Coloc. ----from biliary calculi, with spas- modic pains, vomiting, and jaundice. Nux-v. Condylomata. Calc., lye, nitr.-ac. Constipation. Alum., bry., am.-e, calc, con., cann., cinch.-s., coff., daph.. guai., graph., fer., grat., hep., kal.-bichr., kreas., lact., lye, mez, laur., mag.-car., op., nux-v., natr.-m., op., plat., plum., rhus-r., verb., verat., sulph. ----from atony of the intestinal canal, or accompanied by strangulated hernia. Aur., nux-v. ----of infants. Bry., alum., lye, nux-v., sulph. ----with retention of urine, phymo- sis. Cann. ----chronic. Alum., caus., kal.- bichr., op., nux-v. ----especially with venous conges tion to the portal system. Graph. ----brought on by gastrodynia and enterodynia. Hell. ----with congestion to the head and chest. Nux-v. ----of drunkards. Nux-v. ----haemorrhoidal. Bell., carb.-v, nux-v. ----from mental emotions. Stan. ----of pregnant females. Alum. nux-v. Constipation, obstinate. Ars., bry., op., nux-v. Contusions. Aeon., am.-e, am.-m., arn., con. Coma. Aeon., am.-c. ----somnolentum. Aeon., ber. ---- " with engorgement of the brain, as in violent inflam- matory, exanthematic, typhoid, and putrid fevers, metastasic affections of the brain, organic affections, with pressure on the brain. Ars. —- accompanying suppuration of the brain, ascites, arthritic paroxysms, puerperal fever, phthisis pulmonalis, typhus, dysentery, intermittent fover, scurvy, old age, &e Ars. Cough. Ars., bell., con., cupr., grat., ip., iod., kal.-carb., laur., lact., lye, merc.-s., nux-v., podoph., rhus-t., rhus-r., sep., spong., stib., samb., sang., sen., verb., verat. — with palpitation of the heart and nightly anguish. Ars. —— nervous and convulsive. Bell., cupr.-acet. —— with congestion to the chest and plethoric habit. Bell. ----nightly attacks of. Bell., con., eupa., hyos., mag.-mur., nux-v., petrol., phos., rhus-t., sen., sep. —— chronic, excited by the least ir- ritation of the lungs and by spitting of blood. Bry., carb.- v., sen. — convulsive, with violent stitches of the chest. Bry., lact. ■ periodical spasmodic. Bry., ip., iod., kreas., lact., merc.-s. ----in measles. Calc ----chronic. Calc, cham., lye,spong. ----suffocative. Cham., con., cupr., lach., lact., merc.-s., petrol., phos. ----whooping, in scrofulous children having worms. Cin., iod. ----in the convulsive stage, ending in vomiting. Cin. ----dry spasmodic, nightly, with op- pression of the chest, and evening fever. Con., hyos., ip., iod., kreas., laur., merc.-s., mur.-ae, rhus-t. _ with influenza. Con., iod., nux-v. , INDEX. 1175 Cough, with vomiting. Daph., ip., nux- v., phos., stan. ----with yellow, frothy, or blood- streaked expectorations.Daph., kal.-carb., laur., lye, more-8., sen., sep. ----with coryza. Dig., nux-v., plios. ----of young consumptive persons, with sanguineous purulent ex- pectorations. Dros., iod., kal.- carb. ----nightly, especially after the eruptive stage of measles Eupa., verat. ----from tickling in the larynx Euph., hyos., ip., nux-v. ----accompanying measles. Hep., hyos. ----accompanying croup. Hep. ----mucous expectorations. Stan. ----purulent expectorations. Stan. ----catarrhal, worse at night. Hyos., ip., puis., samb., sep., sulph. ----spasmodic, with vomiting. Ip., kreas., puis., sulph. ----with spitting of blood. Iod., lye, rhus-t., sen., sep. ----first periodical; afterward? con tinuous. Iod. ----suspicious, with emaciation, hys- teric convulsions, leucorrhoea. Iod. ----with difficult expectoration Kali-carb. ----with yellowish expectorations, shortness of breath, morning sweat, and diarrhoea. Kali- carb., sulph. ----with night-sweat and hectic fever. Kali-carb., sulph. ----hacking, with symptoms of in- cipient phthisis. Kali-carb., phos. ----suspicious, with expectorations streaked with blood, painful ness of the chest and limbs. Kali-hyd., sen. ----with purulent, fetid expectora- tions. Led., lye, merc.-s. ----chronic laryngeal. Mang. ----concussive, with dry cough. Mero.-s., op., phos., samb. ----with hoarseness and rawness in the thr at and chest. Phos. ----bloody, with tuberculous lungs. Phos. 1176 CLINICAL INDEX. Cough, catarrhal. Puis., sulph. —— " with hoarseness, sore- ness of the throat, dyspnoea, emaciation, fever. Puis., samb. ----dry, short, frequent cough, some- times with oppression of the chest, palpitation of the heart. Puis., samb. ----dry tickling. Rhus-r., sulph. ----after measles. Sulph. ----whooping. Aeon., am.-m., ant., arn., ars., bell., carb.-v., cupr., ip., lact., nux-v., sep., stib., verat. —— whooping, towards the end of the convulsive stage. Con., lact., nux-v. ---whooping, with vomiting. Cham., ip., nux-v. ----whooping, with tickling in the whole chest. Iod., nux-v. ----whooping, with bloody diar- rhoea. Dros. ----whooping, with haemorrhage from the nose and mouth. Dros. ----whooping, suffocative symptoms, haemorrhage, vomiting. Dros. ----whooping, especially when it becomes moist. Dulc. ----whooping, in the secretory stage. Hep. ----whooping, second stage. Led. ----whooping, in the first stage of. Nux-v. ----whooping, with vomiting of the ingesta. Lact. Croup. Am.-m., ars., brom., calc, cupr., euph., hep., iod., kal.- bichr., lye, sulph., phos., samb., spong., stib. ----with sopor and stertorous breath- ing. Sabin. ----torpid. Spong. ----chronic, with spasmodic cough. Dros., stib. ----membranous. Am.-caust. ----with typhoid symptoms. Carb.-v. Crusta Lactea. Ars., dulc, hep., kreas., lye, merc.-s., rhus-t., sass., sulph. —— serpiginosa, with emaciation and febrile symptoms. Ars., hep., lye, merc.-s., rhus-t., sulph. — when combined with scrofula. Hep Cutaneous Diseases. Camp., oarb. v., caus., con., euph. ----with great fever, internal an guish and oppression. Camp Cystitis. Aeon., cann., canth., dig. rhus-r., stib. Dementia. Hep. ---from cold or itch. Hep. Delirium. Acet. -acid., stram., hyos., op. _ _ ---towards the termination of chronic disease. Cupr.-a. Decubitus. Caus., ars., calc, graph., kreas. Diplopia. Bell., daph., dig. Diabetes. Am., am.-e, aur., ant., arg.-n., ars., art., aur., bar.-m., bell., chin., dig., fer., kreas , led., mur.-a., nitr.-ac, phos.-ac. ----from disorganization of the ab- dominal organs. Asa-f. Diaphoresis. Aeon. Diarrhoea, after Cholera. See-C. ----watery. Phos.-ac., puis., rheum., rhus-t., see-e, stib., am.-m., ant., art., berb., caps., cham., chin., colch., coloc, sulph., verat., mez., elat., fer., kal.- nit., kreas., led., merc.-s , nux- v., podoph., rhus-r. ----chronic. Acid.-acet., agn , ars., calc, canth., coff, coloc., mag.- car., mur.-ae, nitr.-ac,petrol., phos., phos.-ae, rat., see-e, verat. ----with colic. Am., am.-e, laur., rhus-t. ----with vomiting, especially with children. Ant., bell., verat. ----alternate, with constipation in old people. Ant., bry. ----purulent, occasioned by ulcers in the intestines. Merc.-s. ----chronic, threatening intestinal phthisis. Nitr.-ac. ----with tenesmus and constipation Nux-v. ----diarrhoea-paralytic. Arn.,camp, ----catarrhal, especially with night- ly aggravation, violent colic, burning pain, nausea, and de- bility. Ars. ----teething, with. Ars., cham., ip. ----catarrhal. t Cham., dulc. ----small-pox, in. Ars., mero.-8., stib CLINICAL INDEX. 117? Diarrhoea, black. Ars.,ip. Sometimes with black vomit. Ip. ----bilious. Asp., chin., stib. ----with vomiting, from cold. Bell., coloc. ----cold from. Bry., dulc, ip., merc.-s. ----with prolapsus-recti. Calc. ---of phthisical patients. Calc, kreas. ----of scrofulous children during dentition. Calc, cham. —— acute, of children, with softening of the intestinal canal and stomach. Calc. •---serous. Cham. ■ rheumatic. Cham., dulc, gutt., mere-cor., stib. ----painful, with measles. Cham., stib. ■----secondary affection after. Chin. —— bilious, of scrofulous children, of a greenish yellow, mixed with blood, of a sour pungent or putrid smell; cries at night, small ulcers about the anus and genitals. Chin. —— yellowish, with tremulous chilli- ness, nightly restlessness and sleeplessness. Chin. ^— involuntary, with lassitude. Chin. —— particularly at night, with pinch- ing, writhing pains. Chin., rhus-r. -----with pressure in the abdomen, colic, and tenesmus. Nux-v. — with softening of the stomach and intestines, and violent colic. Nux-v. — dysenterodes. Coloc, dulc, sulph., stib. —— with bloody evacuations and cutting pains, from cold. Dulc, merc.-s., rhus-t. —— chronic, from cold. Dulc. —— mucous. Dulc, merc.-s., nux-v., petrol., puis. .---colliquative, which finally be- comes involuntary. Fer., phos., see-e ----nightly. Ip., rhus-t. ----of children. Kreas., see*e, cham. ■ with urging to stool. Phos. Dropsy. Ars., bar.-m., bry., camph., dulc, iod., kal.-e, lact., lam., mere-s., podoph., chin., colch., 50 fer., bell., kreas., lye, prun., puis., zinc. Dropsy, scarlet fever, after. Bar.-m., bry., hell. ----with fever, from suppression of rash. Bell. ----from spasmodic condition of the bladder, with strangury and tenesmus. Canth. ----from intermittent fever. Dulc, hell., iod., chin. ----from cutaneous eruptions. Chin., sulph. ----of the joints. Colch., iod. ----of the chest. Dig., hell. ----of the pericardium. Dig. ----after previous rheumatio fever. Dulc, bry. ----chronic. Hell. ----brain. Merc.-s. ----of drunkards. Sep. Dysphagia. Art., carb.-v., con., phos.. rhus-t., stib. ----especially nervous. Bell. Dysuria. Bell., cann., canth., coff., junc, lye, ip., mere-s. ----in drunkards or intermittent fever, when coma threatens. Ars., bell. ----from inactivity of the bladder. Nux-v. Dysentery. Aeon., al., am.-e, am.-m., arg.-n., berb.. bry, canth., caps., cham., coloc, kal.-bi., lye, merc-v., mere-cor., natr-in.,. podoph., rhus-t., sulph., staph. with typhoid character. Aim., bell., phos. diarrhoea in children. Ars., mere-cor. inflammatory and putrid. Ars., carb.-v. with prostration of strength. Ars. epidemic, gastric fall. Colch., mere-s., mer.-cor. first and second stage of epi demic Coloc, mere-s. with violent griping. Coloc. with slimy stools. Elat., s«p., ip., mere troublesome tenesmus with. Ip., mere-cor., merc.-s. bilious. Elat., puis., nux-v. with gastric symptoms, nausea, vomiting, and tenesmus. Ip., merc.-e 1178 CLINICAL INDEX. Dysentery, first stage of. Ip. ■ with violent tenesmus, muco-san- guineous evacuations. Merc.-s., mere-cor. Dysentery, mucous or blood. Mere- cor,, ip. Dyspepsia. Actea-rae, ars., asa-f., bar., bell., bry., calc, carb.-a., coff, con., eupa., graph., ign., nux-m., nux-v., rhus.-r., sulph. ----nervous. Am.-e, kal -bichr. - vomiting of the ingesta. Ars., bry., graph., nux-v., Dysmenorrhcea. Am.-m., bell., berb., calc, caus., chin., coc, con., graph., sep., sulph., nux-v., puis. - with epilepsy. Sulph. ----with violent labor-like pains, colic, and nausea. Ars., puis., see-e — from chagrin, with swelling of the breasts. Chin. — spasms from. Coc, puis. ----with leucorrhoea between the periods. Coc. —— with discharge of coagulated blood aud eruption over the , body. Con. Ears, scrofulous disease of. Bar., bor., chin., kal.-e, merc.-s. ----pain in the. Bell., puis. ----catarrhal affections of. Bov., puis. ■----chirping, humming, and grum- bling in the. Caus., puis. ----crusts on the. Merc.-s., lye, lact., sep., caus., sulph. ----inflammation of. Mang., merc.-s., puis. ----scrofulous caries of. Merc.-s. ----nightly pain in the. Puis. Eclampsia. Am.-e, ant., plat., stib. ----infantum. Bell., mose ----puerperarum. Bell., see-e Ecthyma. Caus., clem., dulc, kal-bi. ----cachecticum. Mez. Emaciation. Ars., calc, lach., puis. Eczema. Ant., calc, caus., crot., kal.-bi. ■ chronic. Ars., calc. —— mercuriale. Aeon., sulph.,bell., con., mez. —— mercuriale, with palpitation of the heart. Dig. > '■ solare. Arum. Eczema of the scalp, face, and j:int« Calc, carb.-v. ----after a cold. Dulc. ----impetignodes. Kal.-bi. Encephalitis. Aeon., bell., bry., canth., cupr., sulph., cin. Enteritis. Aeon., alum., am.-m., arn., bell., merc.-s., rhus-t., chin. ----gangrene symptoms of. Ars. Enuresis. Canth. ----nightly. Canth., phos.-ac. Endocarditis. Bism., spig. ----rheumatica. Spig. Enterodynia. Nux-v. Epilepsy. iEthus., agar., am.-m., ant., arg.-n., arn., ars., art., aur., bell., caus., coc, hyos., ind., kreas., laur., lye, mag.-e, merc.-s., nux-v., nitr.-ac, op., petrol., plat., puis., stan., see-e, stram., tabac, stib. ----when the attacks occur every day. Ant., cupr. ----with frenzy. Bell. ----menstrual. Caus. ----nervous. Cupr., ign., bell. —— uterine. Plat. Erysipelas. Adeps. Erythema intertrigo. Bell., bov., bry., carb.-v., caus., cham. ----symptomatic. Graph, Ergotism. Bell. Eruptions. Carb.-v., carb.-a., lye, mez., kal.-bich., kreas., led., lye, mang., merc.-s., phos., phos.-ac, puis., rhus-r., rhus-t., sep., sil., verat., stib., zinc, bry., • aur., ars., caus. ----with tendency to gangrene. Am.- e, kreas., ars. ----chronic. Am.-m., ant., cupr., sulph., nitr.-ac, sep., zinc, calc, caus., hep., kreas., mang. -------herpetic. Ang., sep. ----acute. Ant., caus., am.-e, ars., lye, nitr.-ac, rhus-t. ----vesicular. Ant., ars., bov., bry., rhus-t. ----tuberculous. Ant., ars., kreas Eruptions, squamous. Bov., bry., am.-c. ----scrofulous. Calc. ------ of children. Calc, rhus-t. ----copper-colored, on the face Carb.-a. --- confluent cutaneous, with lliick CLINICAL INDEX. crust and burning pain. Cin., mur.-ae, rhus-t. Eruptions, from abuse of Sulphur. Dulc. ----humid corrosive. Grat., mur.- ae, rhus-t., sulph., zinc. ----suspicious, frequently originating in scrofula, psora, and mercu- rial abuses. Hep. ----suppurating. Mur.-ae, sep. ----humid itch-like, with softening of the bones. Nitr.-ac, zinc. ----itching. Rhus-r., rhus-t., sop., sulph., zinc. ----burning. Rhus-t., sep. ----ihseases from suppressed. Sulph., zinc. Eyes, inflammation of the lids. Puis., hep., calc. ----cornea, specks, ulcers, and ob- scurations on the. Ars., aur., hep., bell., calc, cann., euphr., sil., merc.-s. —— scrofulous inflammation of, with photophobia, swelling of the lids, ulcers on the cornea. Bell., calc, cann., kreas., mang., merc.-s., nux-v. —— inflammation of a scrofulous, arthritic, catarrhal, rheumatic, or traumatic nature. Bell., calc, nux-v., spig. — haemorrhage from the. Bell., calc, carb.-v., cham., nux-v. ----cataract traumatic. Cann., mag.- c. ----heat and pressure in tho. Ars., carb.-v., spig. —— inflammation, with acrid lachry- mation, darting into the head, and night aggravations. Cans., spig., phos. ----conjunctivitis palpebralis. Caus., spig., sulph. i twinkling dark tissues before the. Caus., spig. ■ photophobia, with redness of, and aching pain m the. Chin., cinn., ign., sep., spig. ----affections of, from sexual excess. Chin. ----in old people. Chin., coff. ----dimness of the. Coff., euph., phos., spig. ---arthritic, inflammation of. Coloc, spig. 1179 of. Eyes, scrofulous inflammation Dulc, merc.-s. ----swelling of the. Guae, spig. ----conjunctivitis chronic. Lact., mere-j., sulph. ----catarrhal and herpetic inflam mation of the lids. Mere-s., phos., sil. ----inflammation of the sclerotica. Merc.-s., mere-j. —■— inflammation of the lid. Natr.- e, puis., calc, caus., carb.-v., hep., sil., staph., sulph. ----sensitiveness of the optic nerve. Phos. ----lime in the. Acet.-acid. Erysipelas. Ars., bell., bor., bry., camph., graph., hyos., merc.-s., nux-v., phos.-ac, aeon., ang., erat., lach., anthrax., ars., puis., rhus.-r., rhus-t., sass., sil., sulph., stib. ----vesicular. Ars., graph., rhus-t. ----of the face, with acute fever. Graph., hep., rhus-t. ----particularly about the head, and when symptoms of gangrene threaten to set in. Ars., rhus-t ----oedematous. Ars. ----scroti. Ars., rhus-t. ----pseudo. Bell. ----phlegmonous, with lustre and throbbing of the affected parts. Bell., rhus-t. ----Bell., carb.-v. ----face, with feverish irritation and gastric bilious symptoms. Bell., graph., nitr.-a., rhus-t. ----mammae, of" the. Bell. ----neonatorum. Bell., mere-s. ----in typhus. Nux-v. ----from stings of insects. Bell. ----angina faucium. Berb. ----joints, of the. Bry., rhus-t., nux-v. Fainting. Aeon., ambr., am.-e, mose, stram., camph. Fevers, catarrhal. Aeon., anac, ant., bell., calc, cham., con., cupr., merc.-s., sen., stib. ----gastric. Calc, merc.-s. ----synochal. Aeon., hell., ip., cham. ----with nervous, gastric, rheumatic, or putrid symptoms. Bell., cham. ----nervous. Am., bry., dig., hyos., ip., lye , ign., mur.-ac. 1180 CLINICAL INDEX. Fever, yellow. Berb., chin. —-— gastric. Anthrax., ant., am., berb., bry., chin., coc, kal.-bi., merc.-s., nux-v., tarax., stib. ■ — with affections of the intestinal mucous membrane. Nux-v. , — with tendency to nervous character. Ant. - — bilious. Bry., cham., mere- s., nux-v. ——-----when brought on by cha- grin. Cham. >---------venous. Dig. ----bilious. Bry., coc, coloc, merc.-s., nux-v. ------brought on by chagrin. Cham., coc, coloe — — with cutting pain in the bowels, nausea, and vomiting. Elat. ----pitutitous. Bry., chin., merc.-s. ■----putrid. Arn., ars. —— hectic. Chin., mere, cupr., ip. ----milk. Bry., calc, arn., bell., cham. —— gastric and catarrhal, with bilious and pitutitious symp- toms, delirium, restlessness, putrid typhoid character, with morning and evening exacerba- tions. Ars., bry., dig. ■ consumptive. Bar., ars., lye, mere-cor. —— with violent headache, pressing over the eyes, lacerating in the head, and limbs, uneasiness and heat, particularly at night, with pain on motion. Bry. ----postponing crisis, or threatening nervous state. Camp. —— with chronic inflammation of glandular organs. Con. — gastric rheumatic. Haem., merc.-s. —— lentescent nervous. Hell., mere- cor. —- nervous, with exhausting night- sweats. Lye, puis. ------when the stomach is irritated. Ip., puis. —— muco-gastric. Ip., merc.-s. —— remittent. Phos.-ac, podoph., bry., rhus, nux-v., coc, puis. — — approximating the inter- mittent. Ign., nux-v. — — with sopor, thirst, and head- ache on waking. Op. Fever,intermittent. Ars.,art, arum. asar., calc, canth., carb.-v. cham., chin., cin., cinch.-s., coff, mez., diad., dros., elat., eupa., ign., ip., puis.,led., lob.- inf., merc.-s., mur.-ae, natr.- m., nux-j., nux-v., rhus-r., rhus-t., sabad., samb., sep., sulph., staph., tarax. -------protracted, particularly with anticipating type. Ars. -------Cinchona, from abuse of. Ars., bell., calc, carb.-v., fer., nux-v., puis., spong. -------characterized by gastric symptoms. Ars., bry , ip. -------with vomiting and diarrhoea or constipation. Bism. -------soporous condition, with long chills. Camp., op. ----intermittent, with gastric de- velopment, torpidity of the in- testinal canal, erethism of the vascular system, writhing colic, and constipation. Cinch.-s., nux-v. ------with colic, restlessness, and tossing. Coff. -------with spasmodic convulsive cough, and gastric symptoms. Dros. -------with bilious vomiting. Ign., ip., puis. -------with constipation. Lye ------after measles, with urticaria. Puis. ------with jaundice. Nux-v. ------quotidian. Ars., chin., cin , ign., ip., kal.-nit., lob.-inf., lye, natr.-m., nux-v., puis., rhus-r., rhus-t., sabad., tarax., thuj. verat. ---------compound. Nux-v. ---------double. Sulph. ---------tertian. Ars., carb.-v., chin., cin., elat., eupa., hyos., ign., natr.-m., nux-j., nux-v., verat., puis., sabad. ---------with gastric derangement. Puis., bry. ---------in the morning, with ver- tigo, cough, and vomiting. Bry. ---------double. Rhus-t. -------quartan. Ars., carb.-v., chin., cin., elat., eupa., hyos., ign., CLINICAL INDEX. 1181 natr.-m., nux-j., nux-v., rhus, sabad. Fever,----with constipation. Nux-v. ----typhus. Ars., aeon., am.-e, bry., phos.-ac, sulph., canth., carb.-v., laur., op., puis., rhus- r., rhus-t., verat. ------tonicity, with loss of. Ars.. chin. ------putrid symptoms with. Ars., carb.-v., chin., mur.-ae, phos. ■ — petechia milari. Ars. —• — abdominalis. Ars., bell., bry., carb.-a., carb.-v., hyos., laur., merc.-s.,nitr.-ac, nux-v., verat., puis., rhus-t., stib —— abdominalis, first stage, with nausea and faintness. Coc —— typhus, abdominalis, second stage, with heat, erethism of the circulation, and debility Coc, phos.-ac. ■-----third stage, also with ul- ceration and putrid symptoms. Kreas., ars ——-----first stage, with debility, nausea, vomiting, and head- ache. Merc.-s. —-----setting in with great vio- lence, nightly delirium, and dry tongue. Phos. ---------with diarrhoea. Phos. --------second and third stage, with congestion of the lungs, pleuritic stitches, blood mucous expectorations. Phos. _________with prostration, thirst, and diarrhoea. Ars. _________stupidus. Art., chin.-s., cim., coc, phos.-ac. _________with diarrhoea and de bility. Phos.-ac. _________with dry skin, thirst, parched tongue, quick pulse, sleeplessness, and delirium. Bell. ----versatilis. Cim., hyos., op., nux-Vi, phos.-ac, rhus-t. _________approaching the nervous stage. Bell., bry., chin.-s. _________putrid stage. Phos.-ac _____with excitement, conges- tion of the head, dry burning heat, constipation, delirium, Bcreaming, violent headache, wild looks, indistinct speech, violent fever, quick soft pulse, Bry., op. Fever, versatilis, with delirium Hyos., op. — gastric Bell., chin., mere s., nux-v., phos.-ac, rhus-t. -----with disposition to watery stools. Phos.-ac. — eerebralis. Bell., oupr.-acet., laur., op. -----stupidus. Mero.-csor., op., eerebralis, pleuritic- stitches, nausea. Bry. typhus, with weakness of con- valescence. Bry. — with diarrhoea, fainting, con- vulsions, anguish, sleeplessness. Cham. — idiopathic or catarrhal. Rhus-t. — putridus. Phos., stram. -----with delirium. Cham., coc, op., hyos., hell., stram. ----from chagrin. Coc. -----with sopor and rapid prostration. Op., laur., ars. ---------with bloody evacuations. Merc.-s. ----second and third stage, with bloody slimy fetid stools and tenesmus. Mere-cor. ---------haemorrhage from the rec- tum, sensitiveness of the ab- domen, acrid diarrhoea and tenesmus, aphthaedoose rattling cough, threatening.paralysis of the lungs. Nitr.-ac. ---------soporous condition in. Op., rhus-t. — bilious. Nux-v., phos.-ac. — headache and fever, with rheumatic tearing in the limbs. Stram., rhus-t. — after cholera. Stram. ----puerperal. Bell., cham., chin.- s., eoloe, hyos., nux-v., plat., puis., rhus-t. ______with predominant cerebral symptoms. Bell. ------from mental emotion, sup- pression of the lochia or milk. Bell. ______with profuse sweat, oppressed breathing, parched or sensitive tongue, pain in the ovaries, in- creased by pressure, distension 1182 CLINICAL INDEX. of the abdomen, constipation, cessation of the lochia, and violent heat, Bry. Fever, puerperal, vanishing of the milk, milky diarrhoea, labor- like pain, headache. Cham. ■ — with excessive nervous irri- tation. Hyos., op., coff. ------from vexation. Coloc — — with dry heat, hard quick pulse, sopor, alternating with delirium, colic, and diarrhoea, sensitiveness of the stomach. Coloc. ~— lentae. Calc, coc, con., dig., ip.. chin., mere-cor., nitr.-ac, sep. ----verminosa. Ars., cim., dig., sabad., sil. Fistula in Ano. Al., dulc, calc, mere. ----lachrymalis. Phytol., natr.-c. ----dentalis. Caus. ----recti. Caus. [See Rectum.J Galactorrhea. Bell., phos. Gastralgia. Cann., carb.-v., chin., coloc, lob-inf., phos. ----of nursing women. Carb.-v. ----with pyrosis, from congestion of the portal system. Carb.-v. Gastric derangement. Bar., ars., asa-f., bell., bor., bry., calc, con., cin., cim., chin., cupr., ip., lye, mere-s., nux-v., phos - ae, puis., rheum, verat. — with sopor, staring look, vomit- ing of watery slime, hot, hard dry skin, hard pulse, groaning, starting. Bell. ----vomiting of mucus, and slimy diarrhoea. Bor. — from loss of animal fluids, or after illness. Chin. —— after eating, with nausea, vomit- ing, fullness of the stomach. Nux-v. y ... with diarrhoea. Phos.-ac. ----venous. Puis. ----from excess. Carb.-v." . ----from chagrin. Cham., ign. Gastritis. Aeon., arg.-nitr., bar., bell., bry., calc, coloc, carb.- v, cupr., dig., graph., merc.-s., natr.-carb., stib. —— when gangrene and paralysis of the nerves threaten. Ars. ---chronic. Asa-f., bry., carb.-v., coc, coff, con., grat., ign., lye natr.-carb. Gastritis, mucosa. Colch., mere-cor. Gastrodynia. Am.-e, arg.-nitv., bism., bry., mag.-car., lye, natr.-carb. Glands, affections of. Iod., mere- iod., phos., sil., thuj. ----prostate, schirrous affection of. Am.-m., thuj. ----swellings of. Am.-m., asa-f., bar., bry., calc, con., dig., dulc, graph., sulph., hep., iod., kreas, lye merc.-s., *mere- iod., petrol., sil., spig. ----sub-maxillary, hard swellings of. Ars., con., merc.-s., petrol. ----stone-like induration of. Bar.- m., merc.-s., sil. ----inflammation of. Bell., cham., con., hep., merc.-s., mere-iod., puis., sil. ----obstruction and suppuration of. Bell., calc, con., graph., hep., sil. ----scrofulous condition of. Bell., con., graph. ----induration of. Bry., cham., chin., cist., clem., dulc, graph., hep., merc.-s., sil. ----parotid, cervical, axillary, and mammary, induration of. Carb.-an., caus., con., merc.-s. ----swellings of, brought on by cold. Dulc. ----ulceration of. Cist. ----inflammation of the prostate.Puls. ----meibomian, inflammation of. Dig., hep., mere-iod. ----swelling of, from cold, with vomiting, diarrhoea, colic, and fever. Dulc. ----schirrus swelling of the inguinal. Iod., merc.-s. ----inflammation and ulceration of the parotid in scarlatina and typhus abdominalis. Mere-s. ----swelling and induration of the parotid. Rhus-t.* Glaucoma. Con. Gangrene. Carb.-v., chin., cupr.- acet., kreas., see-c. ----senilis of the toes. Carb.-v. ----decubiti. Cupr.-acet. ----tendency to. Cupr.-acet., kreas. Glossitis. Aeon., merc.-s. CLINICAL INDEX 1183 Glossitis, with symptoms of incipient gangrene. Ars. Gout. Am.-m., asa-f., calc, mang., merc.-s., nux-v., rhod., sabin., ars., nux-v., sass. —— with atrophy of the extremities and anchylosis. Ars., nux-v. ----nodosities. Aur. ----with violent nightly pain. Iod., rhod. ----metastasis of. Rhod. ----aggravated by rough weather, and during rest. Rhod ----with gastric derangement. Ant., nux-v. — of the joints. Calc. ----acute, particularly in plethoric or corpulent persons. Chin. Gonorrhcea. Am.-m., cann., canth., cinnab., clem., dulc, lact., merc.-s., petrol., puis., rhus-r., selen., sulph. ----secondary. Agn., canth., clem., caps., con., dulc, fer., kreas., lye, mere-cor., petrol., thuj. ------in scrofulous persons. Bar.- m , con , dulc. ---with neglected phymosis and swelling. Ars. — chronic. Petrol., sil. ----secondary, with chordee. Canth., selen. ----with spontaneous haemorrhage. Caps. ,----with sycosis. Thuj. ----with orchitis. Clem. ____arising from leucorrhoea. Con. Gonorrhcea, from suppressed haemor- rhoids. Nux-v., sulph. ____yellow purulent. Con. Gravel. Lye, nux-v., sass. Grief, or violent emotions. Ign. Grippe. Aeon., alum., ars., ip., sa- bad., sen, sulph. . with languor, headache, sore throat, pains in the chest, hoarseness,and cough. Mere-v. ____with inflammatory affections of the organs of the chest. Sabad. ____especially with delirium as soon as the eyes are closed. Bell. Gums, affections of. Carb.-v., mur.- ae. — scurfy of. Carb.-v., mur.-ac. .._ scorbutic affections of. Caus., cist. Gums, bleeding of. Kreas., lyo. ----swelling of. Mur.-ac. Gutta rosacea. Con., graph. Hematuria. Arn.-ae, arn., calc, cann., con., mez., ign., ip., merc.-s., mill., nux-v., puis., ----with burning in the neck of the bladder and urethra, discharge of blood, with cutting burning pains, constant tenesmus, dis- charge of urine drop by drop, with burning lancinating pains. Canth. ----violent pain in the umbilical re- gion, pressure on the bladder, nausea, vertigo, and constant desire to urinate. Ip. ----with obstinate constipation. Lye ----with burning pain in the Urethra, and syphilitic ulcers. Mere-e Hjematemesis. Aeon., am.-e, am., ars., bell., caus., cham., hyos., ip., see-e ----after a cold. Hyos., ip., puis. Hjemoptce. Am -e, am.-m., am., ars., chin., con., coc, ip., kal.- carb., laur., mill., mur.-ac, phos.-ac, plum., see-e, sep., sulph. ----from suppression of haemor- rhoids. Carb.-v. ----in females who have become ex- hausted from nursing. Chin. Hemoptysis. Aeon., bell., calc, con., cupr., dig., fer., kal.-nit., led., mill., mere-s. ----from disturbance of the men- strual functions. Bell., cham., chin. ----with seething, burning, heat and fullness in the chest, palpita- tion of the heart. Ars., chin. ----in phthisical patients, with irri- tation of the bronchial mucous membrane, and dry irritating cough. Phos. Head, chronic congestion of blood to to. Aur., nux-v. ----congestion to. Bell., mere-8., nux-v., phos., podoph., rhus-r. ----with sopor and delirium in cholera-morbus when the diar- rhoea has stopped. Bell. ----heat and fullness in the. Daph, nux-v. 1184 CLINICAL INDEX. Head, soft tubercles on the skull. Daph., merc.-s. ----hard swelling of the left side. Daph. —— exostosis of the skull. Daph. ----venous congestion to. Merc.-s., nux-v. ----rheumatic pains in the. Merc.-s. ----inflammatory affections of. Merc.-s. ----convulsions of the. Nux-v. ----eruptions on the. Staph. Hair, falling of. Am.-m., calc, hep., kreas., lye, petrol., phos. —— whitening of. Ars.-hyd. ----falling of, from sickness. Carb.- v., hep. —— from scarlatina. Phos. Hearing, hardness of. Ars., bell., bry., calc, caus., cim., coff, con., graph., iod., mere-s., nux-v., kreas., lam., laur., led., mag.-mur mang., petrol., puis, sec sil. —— hardness of, a mur.-ac, nux-v., puis. ■ — particularly when occasioned by gastric irritation, affection of the liver and spleen, gout, metastasis of febrile diseases, particularly of eruptive dis- eases, especially when occa- sioned by great exhaustion; also when accompanied by headache, and in the third stage of phthisis. Ars. — — with sleeplessness. Coff, nux-v. —-----produced by herpes. Graph. —- — with affections of the eusta- chian tube, especially in those who incline to catarrh. Graph., puis. —— — from swelling of the tonsils. Iod. — — catarrhal and rheumatic. Merc.-s., puis. —— — after typhus. Phos. --------from suppression of measles. Calc ----venous congestion. See-e ------with otorrhcea. Sil. ------periodical. Spig. ----paralytic. Petrol. Heart, affections of. Aeon., arg., bov., ham. kal.-bichr., kahu, puis., rhus-t., sulph., sep. 'eart, palpitation of. Aeon., aur., bell., bov., caus., colch., fer., lact., petrol., plum., puis., rhus.-r., see-e, sep., sulph. carditis. Aeon., dig, spig. ericarditis. Aeon., arg. ypertrophy of the left. Aeon., fer. organic affections of the left. Aeon., bov, dig., see-e chronic affections of. Aur., dig., puis., spig. — producing hydrothorax, es- pecially after abuse of Mer cury. Aur. endocarditis. Dig., puis., spig. hypertrophy of. Am.-m., ars., dig.,spig. aneurisms. Am.-m. rheumatism of. Stib. palpitation of. Ars., asa-f., asp., canth., chin., daph., dig., lact., laur., lye, merc.-s., phos., puis. from suppressed discharge of blood, eruptions, gastric irrita- tation, affections of the liver stomach, and spleen. Ars. chronic affections of. Ars., con., dig., puis — after carditis. Spig. palpitation, particularly when arising from exertion or sudden suppression of secretions, ac- companied with congestion of the lungs, overloading the sto- mach, disease of the liver and spleen, hysteria, and hypochon- dria. Asa-f. tightness of. Asa-f. dilatation of. Chin.-s. spasmodic contraction of. Lach., lact., laur., nux-v. threatening paralysis of. Phos. valvular diseases. Rhus-t. chronic affections of, after car- ditis, with articular arthritis, Spig- particularly valvular. Spig. stitches about the. Caus. organic defects of. Caus, rhus-t. palpitation of, especially in chlorotic and hysteric females. Bar., chin., coc. CLINICAL INDEX. H85 Heartburn. Am.-caust., lye, po- doph. —— with sour vomiting, Daph. Helminthiasis. Am.-m., arum., asar., fer, spig. ----especially with ascarides. Asar., fer. Hematocele. Arn. Hemicrania. Acet.-acid, ars., puis., rhus-t., sulph., zinc. ----nervous. Cim. ----with inclination to vomit. Nux-v. ----with ophthalmia. Rhus-t. Hemiplegia. Coc, lach., nux-v., rhus-t. Hepatalgia, with constipation. Nux- v. Hemorrhage, violent. Aeon., am.- m., am., asa-f., bov., con., diad., fer., hyos.; kreas., mill., see-e —— venous. Cham., fer., kreas., see- e ----chronic. Hyos. ----uterus, from debility. Chin. ----internal organs, from. Chin. ----with varicose condition of the vessels. Chin. ----purpura. Chin. ----from the ears. Cin. ---when the blood is black, dark, and viscid. Croc. ■ from the nose. Croc, fer. ----and congestion, with great vas- cular irritation. Ter. ----from every orifice in the body. Fer., mill., sec-c. ----from the anus. Nitr.-ac. Hemorrhoids. Aeon., am.-e, am,- m., ant., ars., bar., bell., berb., bor., calc, caps., carb.-v., caus., chin., led., lye, mere-s., nux-v., phos.-ac, podoph., sang., sulph., thuj. —— bad effects from suppression of. Calc, 6ulph. —— flowing. Aeon., am.-c., mur.- ae, thuj. ----blind. Ars., coloc, mur.-ae, sulph., thuj., merc.-s. ----from sedentary life and abuse of spirituous drinks. Nux-v. ----bleeding. Ars., mill., phytol., thuj. ----bladder, of the. Ars. ----mucous. Colch., merc.-s. I 50* 7 Hemorrhoids, inflamed tumors. Nux-v. Hepatitis. Actea-spie, al., aeon., ars., berb., bry., chin., mere-v., puis. ----acute. Nux-v. ----rheumatic. Nux-v. ----chronic. Nux-v., sulph Hernia, inguinal. Aur., bell., COO, coloc, laur., lye, petrol. ----ventosa. Caps. ----■ femoral. Laur. ----scrotum, of the. Mag.-car. ----umbilical. Nux-v. ----incarcerated. Nux-v., rhus-t. ----crural. Nux-v. ----with typhoid symptoms. Rhus-t. Herpes. Ars., bry., calc, aeon., ang., alum., ant., canth., cim., cupr., caus., clem., - dulc, graph., lye, merc.-s., mez., natr.-carb., nux-v., kreas., led., sil., petrol., phos., phos.-ac, ran.-bulb., rhus-r,, rhus-t., sass., sep., sulph., zinc. ----exedens, with burning pains. Ars., mere-s., rhus-t., sep., sulph. ----farinacens faciei. Ars., bar., staph., sulph. ----eschiomenos. Ars. ----prepuce, of the, with mercurial symptoms. Am., sulph. ----furfuraceous. Bor., sulph. ----under the axilla. Carb.-a., sep., sulph. ----especially in the face. Caus., graph., sulph. ----spreading. Clem., graph., mere- s., sulph. ----scurvy and scaly. Clem., con., dulc, mere-s., sep., staphs sulph. ----eruptions, burning, smarting. humid, especially on the hands and arms. Con., merc.-s., nux- v., rhus-t., sep., sulph. ----tetters on the fore-arms. Sep., caus., staph., sulph. ----suppurating. Dulc, lye, mang., merc.-s., rhus-t., staph., sulph. ----of the joints. Dulc, led., sep., sulph. ----ecthyma. Lye, sulph. ----corroding and humid, of thd genital organs. Dulc, mere. s., rhus-t., sep. 1186 CLINICAL INDEX. mere-s., sep, Herpes, dry, itching. Led rhus-t., sep., sulph. ----scrotum, of the. Petrol. sulph. ----squamous. Lye, sulph. ----syphilitic. Nitr.-ac, sulph. ----on the head. Rhus-t., staph., sulph. Hydrargyrosis. Al., asa-f, chin., dulc, euph., rhus-t., sang., sass., staph., sulph. ----mercurial arthritis. Chin. Hydrocele. Am.-m., con., dig., graph., merc.-s., puis., sil. ----in children. Chin. Hydrocephalus. Arn., ars., con., dig., hell., merc.-s., rhus-t., sulph., stib., verat. ----acute. Cin., hell., mere-s., op., rhus-t., spig., sulph. ----from suppressed eruption Ant. ----second and third stage. Ars. ----chronic. Sulph. ----first stage. Bell. ----from scarlet fever. Hell. Hydrothorax. Am.-e, ars., colch., dig., dulc, led., merc.-s. ----with tonic spasms. Mose —— after pleuritis, with oedema of the feet, or after helmoptisis. Chin. ---chronic, with general swelling. Dig. ----after scarlet fever. Sen, Hypochondria. Am.-c, aur., am.- m., arum., asa-f., con., nux-v., berb., laur., lye, natr.-carb., phos., plum., podoph., sulph., verat. Hydrophobia. Bell., canth., hyos., stram. Hysteria. Al., ambr., am.-e, am,- m., asa-f., aur., calc, carb.-v., saus., coc, lact., laur., lye, mose, nux-m., nux-v., phos., plat., puis., sil., viol.-v. —— globus. Asa-f. ----persons subject to. Aur., bar., cham., con. ----with amenorrhoea. Puis. Imbecility. Anac, ars., bar., croc, nux-m., stram., stib. Impotence. Agn., ant., bry., cal., cann., con., kreas., lye, mose, mur.-ae, sulph. Impetigo. Ars, bry., calc, dale, graph., kal.-bich., lye. ----larvalis. Bar. ----erysipelatodes. BelL Incubus. Alum. Insanity. Ars., bell. Intertrigo. Lye ----of adults. Lye ----of infants. Sulph., lye Intoxication. Am.-e, laur., led., nux-v. ----affections from. Ars., bar., nux-v. ----mental derangement from. Ars., nux-v. ----delirium tremens. Ars., bell., bism., camp., chin.-s., cupr.- acet., hyos., laur., op., nux-v., stram., stib. Influenza. Arn., aur., bry., camp., iod., kreas., lye, merc.-s., phos., stram.. stib. ----with cough or inflammatory af- fection of the liver. Bry., merc.-s. ----malignant. Kreas. ----with debility, hoarseness, pain in the head, neck, and chest, and remittent fever. Merc.-s. Icterus. Aconit., carb.-v., con., dig., merc.-s., merc-v. ----chronic. Aur. ----spasticus, with nausea, inclina- tion to vomit. Dig. ----with painfulness of the liver, rheumatic pains in the muscles of the chest. Merc.-s. Ischias. Bell., calc, canth., merc.-s., mere-cor., nitr.-ac, nux-v, stib., tereb. ----nervosa. Cham. Ischuria. Aur., cann., canth., mere-s., mur.-ae, nux-v., sil., Itch. Acid.-acet., ars., cupr., kreas., merc.-s., phos.-ae, sulph., verat., zinc. ----malignant. Ars. Iritis. Bell. ----arthritic. Mere-cor. Jaundice. Aconit., bry., canth., cupr., fer., nitr.-ac, nux-v. ----preceded by hysterical spasms. Cast. ----with ill-humor. Cham. ----particularly after stone in the gall-bladder. Chin. Jaundice, with inclination to vomit. Cinch -s., nux-v. Kidneys, diseases of. Berb., benz.-ae, colch. ----inflammation of. Ars., hyd. — lancinating, burning in the re- gion of, with pain on contact. Coloc. —— congestion of, with suppression of urine. Sabin., canth. . —— haemorrhage from. Lye —-- suppuration of. Lye —- pain in the, with bloody, slimy urine. Puis. Laryngitis. Am.-m., ant., ars., canth., lact., laur., phos. —— jhronic. Arg., ars., calc, canth., carb.-a., caus., cast, laur. ---- - with purulent-expectorations. Carb.-v. ----with great hoarseness. Caus., carb.-v. Laryngismus Stridulus. Bell. Laceration. Calend. Lethargy. Ant., bell., op. ----especially with injuries of the head, inflammation of the brain, pleuro-pneumonia, in pulmo- nary patients at tbe beginning of diseases, with fevers, especi- ally typhus, puerperal, inter- mittent, and small-pox. Bell. Leucorrhoea. Bor., bov.,calc,cann., carb.-v., caus., con., iod., kreas., laur., mag.-c, merc.-s., mur.- ae, nitr.-ac, ol.-j., see-e, sulph., petrol., phos., rhus.-r., sep. ----corrosive, with burning pain. Ars., canth., carb.-a. ----serous. Calc. ----scrofulous. Carb.-a., iod., kal.- carb. — corroding. Dulc, kreas., sep. —— chronic, with pale cachectic and chlorotic complexion. Iod. ----during pregnancy. Puis. ----with suppression of the menses. Sabin. .----with cough and night-sweat. Sulph. Lienteria. Arn., ars., asar., calc, chin., con., kreas., fer., olea., phos.-ac. Lithiasis. Am.-m., aspar. > INDEX. H87 Lichen. Aeon., ant., bry., cim., coo., dulc, lye Liver, afl'ections of. Berb., bor., iod., lact., mere-jod., nux-v., am.-m., anac. ----congestion of. Asa-f., chin. ----chronic affections of. Asa-f. calc, fer., kal.-bichr., lact. lye, natr.-e, merc.-s., mur.-ac.) nitr.-ac, nux-v. ----swelling of. Bar.-m., fer., merc.-s., merc.-jod., nux-v. ----pain in the region of. Bry., nux-v. ----induration of. Calc, cann., ohin., con., laur., mag.-m., merc.-s., nux-v., sulph. ----enlargement of. Chin., mag.-m., merc.-jod., art. ----inflammation of. Laur., mag.- m., merc.-jod, merc.-s., nux-v. ----engorgement and torpor of Merc.-jod., nux-v. ----abscess of. Sil. Lochia, long-lasting, with drawing in the ovaries, dirty, bloody, viscid, fetid discharge. Chin ----excessive discharge of. Croc. Lungs, gangrene of. Ars., carb.-v. ----paralysis and hepatization of. Aur., laur., phos , sen., stib. ----tuberculous inflation of. Bar., calc. ----inflammatory affection of. Bism., carb.-v., laur., sulph. ------with pleuritic stitches and cough. Bry. -------with inclination to sleep, de- lirium, dryness of the tongue, bloated countenance, op- pressed chest, pains excited by cough, loose, mucous, blood- streaked, yellow expectoration, Bry. ----catarrh and chronic Menorrhagia of. Calc, sulph. ----inflammation of, last stage of. Laur. ----suppuration. Led.^ sil., sulph. Lumbago. Aeon., carb.-v., kal.- bichr., led., rhus.-r. Lymphatic Affections. Nux-v., calc. Mamme, affections of. Bry. ----hardness of. Bry. ----knotty swellings of, in nursing women. Bry., caus., lye, phos. 1188 CLINICAL INDEX. Mamme, erysipelatous inflammation of, from fright or chagrin. Cham., phos. ----induration and suppuration of. Phos. ---inflammation of. Phos. Mania. Camp., cann., canth., cim., eon., cupr., nux-v., dig., ign., op., plat., stram., stib., verat. ----a potu. Stram. ----after suppression of erysipelas. Cupr.-acet. ----from mental exertion, derange- ment of the stomach. Nux-v., puis., hyos., op. ----puerperal Puis., hyos., op., stram., verat. ----monomania. Puis. ------religiosa. Stram., ars., ign., puis., verat. Marasmus, premature. Chin.-s. Mastodynia Nervosa. Bell. Mastitis. Bell., bry., con., merc.-s. Megrim. Aeon., asar., agn., am.-c, ars., aur., bar., bell., canth., cast., caus., clem., coc, coff, fer., graph., ign., lye, op., sep. ----of females. Hep, —— with nausea and vomiting. Bor., coloc. Melena. Aeon., am.-e, ant., nux-v., phos., sec-c. Melancholy. Agn., ambr., am.-m., anac, arn., aur., bell., cann., cim., clem., croc, con., canth., ' cupr.. dig., dulc, graph., hell., ign., kreas., mere-s., mur.-ae, nux-v., petrol., laur., lye, nitr.- ac, plat., puis., rhus-r. ----with excessive anguish. Ars., nux-v., puis. ----with disposition to suicide. Ars., aur., bell., nux-v., puis., verat. — with amenorrhoea. Hyos., puis. Meningitis. Aeon., bell., bry., spig., stib. ----scrofulosa infantum. Spig. Mekses, suppression of. Agn., con., fer., graph., kal.-carb., mag.- car., puis. ----delaying of. Aloe, con., graph., magn.-m., phos., puis. ----profuse. Aeon., bell., calc, ign., nux-v., phos., plat., sec. -i— spasms before the period, with labor-like pains. Bell., op., puis., sabin. Menses, irregularities of. Bor., fer., graph., hyper., kal.-carb., laur., led., puis., mag.-car., mag.- mur., mur.-ae, nitr.-ac, nux-v., phos., phos.-ac, plat., sabin., sep. ------with weakness, palpitation of the heart, and leucorrhoea. Hyper. Menostasia, chlorotic affections, withered breasts, &e Con. Mentagra. Graph., sulph. Mercurial diseases. Clem., con., hep., lach., mere, iod., rhod. ----cachexia. Mez., hep. Mercury, excessive nervousness from abuse of. Hep. ----salivation from. Hep. ----scrofula of the bones from abuse of. Hep. ----angina faucium from abuse o£ Hep. ----caries from. Lye Metrorrhagia. Aeon., aloe, arn., ars., bell., bry., con., calc., carb.-v., coc, croc, fer., ip., kreas., mur.-ae, nitr.-ac, nux- v., sabin., laur., led., mag.-car., merc.-s., see-e, natr.-carb. phos., phos.-ac, plat., puis. ----from hypertrophy of the uterus Am.-m. ----in feeble females affected with rheumatic pains, disorganiza- tion of the uterus and ovaries in eruptive fevers. Caus., chin. ----after miscarriage, with discharge of watery blood, mixed with black clots. Chm. ----and miscarriage, when ac- companied with varicose con- dition of the uterus, and con- gestion to the internal sexual organs. Chin. ----spasms from. Coc, hyos. ----after miscarriage. Croc, fer., nux-v., sabin., sep. ----chronic. Croc. ----from violent exertion or fright. Croc. ----with dark, clotty, viscid blood and lancinating pains in the abdomen. Croc. ----with discharge of fluid or clotty CLINICAL blood, with headache, violent labor-like paius, vertigo, and constipation. Fer., sabin,*, s«c.-e Metrorrhagia, after abuse of Cha- momile. Ign. ----from difficult labor. Phos., sce-e —— of pregnancy. Plat., sabin., sop. ----particularly at the critical age. Puis. ----arterial. Sabin. ----passive, with venous congestion and torpor, threatening para- lysis. See-e — after parturition. See-e Metritis. Ars., bell., cham., io*d., nux-v. — puerperalis. Sce-e Miliaria. Am.-m., bry., carb.-v., con., led. ----chronic. Con., staph., ----alba, with puerperal fever in typhus. Ars., bell. ----chrystallina. Ars. ' alba et rubra. Bell. ----herpetica. Bell., aeon., carb.-v. ----epidemic. Colch. ----especially in children and lying- in women. Bry. Mind, weakness of. Ana., ars., aur., cann., coff., eye, dig., kreas., lact., mang., nux-v., petrol., phos.-ac, sep., stib. derangement of. Bell., cim., cupr., nux-v., stram., stib. ----from abuse of spirituous drinks. Nux-v. Miscarriage. Chin., chin.-s., croc, fer., kal.-carb., kreas., lye, nux-v., sabin., sep., sulph. ----from constipation. Nux-v. Morbilli. Adeps, aeon., arn., ars., bell., carb.-v., phos.-ac. puis., Btram. ----swelling of the parotid glands, with. Arn. ---after effects of. Merc.-s., nux- v.,. puis. —— particularly when violent vomit- ing supervenes. Ars., bell. —— nigra. Ars. — when combined with intolerance .of light, inflammatory action of the brain, diptheritis. Bell. —— especially when the catarrhal affections of the organs of the chest have become compli- i INDEX. 1189 cated, and increased the in- flammation. Bry. Morbilli, secondary affections o£ Bry., chin., dulc, nux-v. ----tardy stage of. Eupa. ----retrocession of, with affections of the membranes of the brain Hell., puis. ----catarrhal cough after. Nux-v., puis. ----metastasis of, especially with affections of the larynx. Puis. Mucous Membrane, affections of. Grat., iod., kreas., lye puis. ------from cold. Ars., coff, con., dulc. ------in the fauces and behind the palate. Caus. ------secondary affections of, from measles. Dulc. ------with cough and febris lenta. Dulc. ------chronic affections of. Euph. ----. — especially when depending on scrofula and leucophleg- matic disposition. Iod. ------softening and ulceration of the intestinal canal. Kreas- ------catarrhal inflammation of the frontal cavities, with severe pains in the head. Lye ------inflammation of the trachea. Spong. Myelitis. Ars., ars.-hyd., chin.-s. ----thoracica. Chin.-s. ----lumbralis. Chin.-s. ----cervicalis. Chin.-s. Myopia. Con., natr.-carb., nitr.-ac Nausea. Cist., ip., phos. ----nightly. Carb.-a. ----of hysteric females. Ip. ----with nervous irritation. Mag mur. ----in the throat. Cist., phos.-ac. Necrosis. Am.-m., phos.-ac. Nephralgia, rheumatica. Kal.-bichr-, nux-v. Nephritis. Aeon., bell., canth,, cann. ----calculosa. Berb. Neuralgia. Aeon., ars., bell., chic, coloe, elat., fer., hyos., kal.- bichr., phos., ran.-bulb., rhus- r., see-e, sulph., kreas., led mag.-mur., merc.-s., mero. cor., op., nux-v., puis. L INDEX. 1190 CLINIC A Neuralgia, characterized- by lace- rating, burning pain. Ars. ----head, of the. Bell., hyos., ign., merc-s., nux-m., nux-v. puis., thuj. ----with violent pain on moving or touching the part. Chin. ----intermittent, of the orbits. Chin. ----infra maxillary. Mez., merc.-s. ----spinal. Kal.-bichr., op., nux-v. ----hemicrania. Lye, op., puis. ----intercostal. Puis., ran.-bulb. ----of the stomach. Rhus-r. ----of the optic nerve. Spig. Nervous weakness. Ambr. ----affections. Am.-e, asa-f., bell., phos.-ac. Nodosities, arthritic. Agn., calc. con., lye Nose, inflammation of. Ars., bell., calc, caus., kal.-bichr., mag.- mur., merc.-jod., phos., mere- m. ----polypus in. Arum., calc, lye, nitr.-ac, phos. ----carcinoma. Aur., calc. ----chronic obstruction of. Aur., bry., caus. — phlegmonous inflammation of. Bell. ----bleeding of. Acet.-acid, aeon., bell., calc, carb.-v., chin., hyos., ip., mur.-ae, phos., phos.- ac, see-e ----scrofulous swelling of. Calc. ----blenorrhoea of. Calc. ----coryza, chronic, of. Calc. --- eruption of the. Caus., mur.-ae, phos.-ac. ----bleeding of, in old people, and pulsative pain in the head. Chin. ----inflammation and ulceration of the schneiderian membrane of. Kal.-bichr., merc.-s. ----ulceration of. Mag.-mur., mere- s., mur.-ae ----swelling of. Phos. Nostalgia. Carb.-a. N imphomania. Dulc, plat. ----with diminution of the lochial discharge. Verat. Odontalgia. Calc. ----nervosa. Calc, con. ----in pregnancy. Calc, con. 0>hth>lmia. Aeon., ars., asar , bell., bry., calc, caus con., cupr., euphor., euphr., k;eas., graph., hep., ign., lye, rhus-r., rhus-t., spig., sulph., stib. Ophthalmia, catarrhal. Aeon., bell., berb., bov., dig., puis., euphr., hep., kal.-bichr., kreas., lye, merc.-s. ----rheumatic. Aeon., ars., berb. caus., euphr., led., lye, mere- s., puis., spig., stib., sulph. ----arthritic. Aeon., ars., berb., calc, caus., coc, dig., graph., led., lye, mere-s., phos., spig. ----scrofulous. Aeon., ars., asa-L, aur., bar., calc, cann., con., dig., euphr., rhus-t., petrol., staph., fer., graph., hep., kreas., mag.-e, lye, merc.-s., merc.- jod., puis., sep., sulph. ----syphilitic. Aeon., merc.-s., puis. ----neonatorum. Aeon., lye, rhus- t., sulph., arg.-n., bry., calc, lye ----angularis. Am.-m., calc. ----influenza from, with photo- phobia. Ars. ----from repelled itch, or chronic eruption. Caus. ----chronic, with specks on the cornea, roaring and throbbing in the head, eruption around the eyes. Caus., mere-s. —■— chronic. Euphor., kreas., natr.- e, sulph.-ac. ----traumatic. Euphr., rhus-t., sulph. ----scrofulous, with ulcers on the cornea and photophobia. Graph., hep., mag.-e, merc.-s., . natr.-e, sulph. ----gonorrhoeica. Merc.-s., nitr.-ac. ----from abuse of Mercury. Nitr.- ae, puis. . ----from suppressed syphilis. Nitr.- ac. ----during measles. Puis. ----psorie Sulph. Oedema. Graph., lact. ----lymphatic, with abscess. Graph. ----swelling of the body with asth- matic complaints. Lact Otorrhosa. Alum., aur., nitr.-ac. ----scrofulosa. Asa-f., aur., caus., kreas., sulph. —— from abuse of Mercury. Asa-1. ----with caries of the bones Aur. CLINICAL INDEX. 1191 Otorrhcea, puruienta scrofulosa. Calc, con., nierc.-s«j nitr.-ac, sulph. ----purulent. Carb.-v., caus., colch., merc.-s., nitr.-ac, puis., sulph. ----after exanthemata. Mang., puis. Otitis. Aeon., asar., bell., bry., bor., calc, caus., mere-s., nux-v. puis. Oophoritis. Aeon., ars., coloc. Ozcna. Alum., am.-e, bell., bry., cim., coral., kal.-bichr., lye, nitr.-ac. ----scrofulosa. Asa-f., con., lye, merc.-s., nitr.-ac, phos., calc, con., lye, magn.-m. — with thick yellow matter and stench from the nose. Aur. ----syphilitic and scrofulous. Aur., kal-c. kal.-hyd., nitr.-ac. Ovaries tumefaction of. Am.-in. con. Otalgia. Cham., con., dros., laur., merc.-s., nux-v., puis., rhus-t., spig. ----rheumatic. Puis. Oesophagitis. Asa-f, rhus-r., stib. Orchitis. Aur., merc.-s.. puis., spong. ----from contusions. Con. Parotitis. Am.-m., bar., calc-carb., cham., nitr.-ac, mere, rhus-r., rhus-t., sulph. —— after scarlet fever. Rhus., mere Paralysis. Aeon., am.-e, am.-m., am, arum., bell., brue, carb.- v., caus., coc, colch., cupr., lye, mere-cor., sil., olea., nux- v., rhus-t. Paralysis, rheumatic. Aeon., nux-v. ----of the upp^r extremities. Agar., dulc, nux-v., rhus-r., rhus-t. ——- of the lower extremities. Agar., coc, dulc, nux-v., rhod., rhus- t. ----of the limbs. Ambr., bry. nux- v., rhod., rhus-t. —— of the face. Caus., nux-v. ----organs of deglutition. Caus., coc, dulc, laur, nux-v., verat. ----from loss of animal fluids. Fer. ----of the brain after nervous apo- plexy. Phos. Panaritia. Alum., bell., berb., bor., sil. Pancreas, morbid condition of. Ars. ----induration of Ars., merc.-s. Pancreas, cancerous infiammation o£ Ars., merc.-s. ----affections of. Con., merc.-s. Peritonitis. Ars., am., bry., hyos. aeon., bell., laur., lye, mere- s., rhus-t., stib. ----muscularis. Bry. ----puerperal. Bry., cham., coff. Periostitis. Asa-f., lye, mang., aur., mez., merc.-s., nitr.-ac. Pemphigus. Bell., carb.-v., caus., dulc, ran.-b., rhus-t. ----with thirst, burning pain, rest- lessness, and emaciation, form- ing corroding ulcers. Dulc. Petechia. Ars., con. Phlegmasia alba dolens. Arn., belL, bry., chin., lye, nux-v. Photopsia. Am.-c, nitr.-ac. Phthisis. Caus., calc, laur., mere- s., phos., samb., sil., spong., stront., sulph. ----tuberculosa. Ars., calc, con., dulc., hep., iod., kal.-carb., kal.-hyd., merc.-s. Phthisis, tuberculosa, incipient. Calc, fer., kal.-carb., laur., merc.-s., mer.-cor., sep., ol.-jec. ----intestinal, purulent evacuation, sensitiveness of the abdomen, and fetid sweat. Phos. ----pituitosa. Am.-m., calc, chin., iod., kreas., led., lye. phos.,stan. ----laryngeal. Ars., dros., hep., hyos., laur., merc.-s., natr.- carb., spong., stan., stib. ----tracheal. Ars., hep., mere-8., nitr.-carb., stan., stib. ---- from syphilis. Merc.-s., nitr.- ac. ----ulcerosa. Arum., kreas., laur., stan. ----pulmonalis. Brom., bry., carb.- v., dulc, guai., hep., iod., kal.- carb., laur., mere-cor., phos., stan., sulph. ------with slow inflammation of the pleura, or with hydro- thorax. Bry. ----with an irritated oondition of the trachea. Caus. ----florida, with stitches in the chest Chin., con., laur. ----pituitosa, second stage, with vomiting, sweat, and emacia- tion. Chin. L INDEX. 1192 CLINICA Phthisis, sicca and puruienta. Con., kal.-carb. ----with dropsy. Dig. ----with pain in the chest, and puru- lent discharge. Dros. ----pulmonalis from cold, with con- stant cough and expectoration of bright blood. Dulc. ■ mucous, with violent cough, pain and dyspnoea. Kal.-carb., puis. ■ hepatica. Kal.-carb. Phlebitis. Ars., rhus-t. Pleuritis. Aeon., am -m., arn., ars., bell., bor., bry., hep., ip., kal.- carb., merc.-s., stib. i with serous effusion. Ars., colch., dig., hell., sulph. ----with nervous or gastric symp- toms. Bry. ----muscular and serous. Bry. ----rheumatic. Bry., stib. ----with chronic bronchitis. Carb- a. ----last stage of. Carb.-a. ----with typhoid symptoms. Chin. ----with tubercles of the lungs. Phos. ----chronic, with effusions of coagu- lable lymph. Hep. Pleuro-Pneumonia. Aeon., ant., cann., dulc, sen., stib. Pneumonia. Aeon., am.-m., arn., ars., ant., bell., bry., camph., hyos., kal.-carb., lye, merc.-s., nitr.- ac, phos., puis., rhus-t., sen., squil., stib., sulph. ----neglected, carelessly treated. Bry., carb.-v., led., lye, puis. ----from violent exercise. Canth. ----with bronchitis. Caps., phos. ----neglected, with badly-smelling discharge, threatening gan- grene Carb.-v., chin., hyos. ----with incipient hepatization. Ars., iod., phos. ----typhoid. Chin., hyos., laur., phos.-ac, phos., puis., rhus-t. —— mismanaged by depletion. Chin. —— with formation of abscess. Chin., ars., mere —— with dry and fatiguing night- cough, and predominant ty- phus symptoms. Hyos, phos. *— from measles, catarrh, chlorosis, or suppression of the menses. Puis. Pneumonia, erysipelatous form of typhoid. Rhus-t. ----with hepatization or tuberculous, Sulph. Portal System, derangement of Asa-f., chel, laur., nux-v. ----congestion of. Carb -v., nux-v. Porrigo. Bry, calc, ars., sulph., zinc, caus., nit.-ae ----in children, with inflammation of the eyes and parotitis. Bell. Podagra. Alum., ars., asp., lye, nit.- ac. Prostration, exhaustion of the vital powers. Ars., chin., nux-v., sulph.-ae ----from disease, medicine, or old age. Chin. ----in acute diseases, with rapid sinking ■ of the vital forces. Ars., mur.-ae, phos.-ac. ----from loss of animal fluids, exces- sive night-sweats, and diar- rhoea. Mur.-ae, phos.-ac. Prespyopia in the aged. Con., hyos., natr.-c Pregnancy, affections of Cham., ars., nux-v., calc, puis., sep. ----after-pains. Arn., cham., coff., nux-v., puis., sabin. ----morning nausea. Ars., bor., nux-v., puis., ip. ------preceded by burning. Ars. ----with vomiting. Ars., cast., kreas., nux-v., sep. ----gastrodynia of. Ars., puis. ----labor-pains, absence of. Ars., puis., see-e ----diseases of, especially when combined with moral symp- toms, toothache, gastralgia. and colic. Bell., nux-v., puis., sep. ----colic of. Bry., nux-v., puis. ----spasmodic labor-like pains. Bry., nux-v., puis., sce-e ----heartburn in. Caps., calc. ----false labor-pains. Cham., nux- v., plat, puis., sab., see-e ----abdominal sufferings of. Cham., nux-v., puis ----convulsions of. Chin., hyos., ign., op. ----metrorrhagia in. Coc, ip., puis. sabin., sec-c. ----frequent urinating in. Coe, puis CLINICAL INDEX. 1198 Pregnancy diarrhoea of. Hyos., rheum. ----haemorrhage after delivery of the placenta. Ir., see-e ----nausea of. Lye, mag.-m., nux- v., ip., sep. ----premature labor-pains. Nux-v., puis., see-e Prosopalgia. Actea-spie, aeon., aur., art., bar., bell., calc, caps., caus., coloc, con., fer., kal.- chlor.,kalm., laur., nux-v., spig., stan., stram., sulph., verb., zinc. ----with lacerating and burning pains. Ars., coloc, stib., bell. ----inflammatory. Bell., bry., coloc, stib. ----with nightly aggravation, chilli- ness, and scanty menstruation. Caus., coloc. ----nervous. Chin., stram., zinc. ----fothergillii. Phos., stram., stan., spig. ----rheumatic. Chin., stib. ----of pregnancy. Nux-v., sep. Psoitis. Aeon., bell., bry., nux-v. Psoriasis. Bry., calc, clem., graph., lye, caus. Ptyalism. Bell., colch., lye, mur.-ac. ----mercurial. Camph., nit.-ae, sulph. Purpura haemorrhagica. Ars., lye, mag.-car. ----senilis, threatening gangrene. Ars. Prurigo. Alum., am.-e, cim., coc, graph., merc.-s. Rachitis. Caus., fer., nitr.-ac, sulph. Rash. Led., stib. ----chronic. Ars., clem. ----of children. Cham. ----of pregnant women. Cham., con. ----nettle. Con., hep., art., aeon. -------feverish. Dulc. ----scarlet. Rhus-t. Rectum, polypus of. Am.-m., nux-v. ----stricture of. Am.-m., ars., bar.- m., bell. ------haemorrhoidal obstruction of. Am., fer., sep. ----fissure of. Bell. ----torpidity of, after dysentery. Cinch.-s. — blenorrhoea from vagina and. Coff. Rectum, haemorrhoidal flux from. Fer., lye, nux-v., sulph — prolapsus of. Fer., ign., lye, mur.-ae, podoph., sulph. ----paralysis of the sphiucter-ani Hyos. ----hypertrophy of. Hyos. ----stenosis of. Mur.-ac. ----varices of anus and Phos. Respiration, inflammatory affection! of the organs of. Bry. Retinitis. Bell. Rhagades. Merc.-s. ----chronic. Hep., lye ----of the joints. Lye ----of the hands and fingers. Mere- s., petrol. Rheumatism. Aetea-rae, am., ant., aur., aeon., bell., berb., benz.- ac, bov., brue, bry., calc. chin., coc, carb -v., caust., cham., colch., coloc, cupr., daph., dulc, fer., ign., kal.- bich., nitr.-ac, kreas., lach., laur., lye, mang., mere-sol., natr.-carb., ol.-jee, nux-v., phos., puis., rhod., rhus-r., rhus-t., sang., tarax. ----characterized by torpor. Am.-c ----excretions and indurations from Am.-m., bry., merc-s. ----with paralytic conditions. Ang. ant., rhod., rhus-r. ----acute. Ant., ars., bry., cham., chin, coloc, ign., lach., rhod., rhus-r., rhus-t. ------with drawing lacerating pain Cham., rhod., rhus-r. ----chronic. Ant, ars., chin., ign., lach., rhod., rhus-r. ----of the joints. Arg., bry., chin., coc, cupr., dulc, mang., mere- s., puis., rhod., rhus-r. ----with eysipelatous swelling. Arn., bry., rhus-r. ----mercurial. Ars., colch., podoph., rhod. ----obstinate. Arum., chin., rhod. ----and gout. Asa-f., art., mang., merc.-s., rhod. ----gastric fever and. Asa-f., bry ------with increased sensibility Bry., rhus-r. ----and arthritic conditions, with inflammatory fever of the part. Bell., mere-s., rhod. 1194 CLINICAL INDEX. Rheumatism, with erratic pains. Bell. ----of the neck. Bell., chiu., mere-s. nux-v., puis., rhod., rbus-r. ----back and loins. Bell., bry., chin., cinch.-s., merc.-s., nux-v., puis., rhod, rhus-r. ----fever, with catarrhal and gastric complication, lacerating pain in the whole body, hot reddened skin, and increase of pain on movement or touching the part. Bry., mere-s., nux-v., rhod. — aggravated by movement, and with a tendency to constipation. Bry., cupr., ----in the cheeks. Bry., chin. ---chest, of the. Bry., nux-v., rhus-r. ----lumbago. Bry., podoph., rhod., rhus-r. ----of the spinal marrow. Calc. ----without fever, painful, aggra- vated by movement or contact. Chin., rhod. ----fever, with tendency to periodi- cal type. Chin. ----of the dorsal muscles. Chin., rhod. ----articular. Chin., rhod., rhus-r. ----with constipation. Cinch.-s. ----with colic. ----of the intestinal canal. Coloc. ----of the joints and sudden attacks of anguish. Cupr., led., puis., rhod. ----fever, with stupefying and burn- ing headache, constipation, sleeplessness, lancinating; pain. Dulc. SF ■ with stiffness of the body and swelling of the joints. Dulc, rhus-r. —— and irritation of the intestinal canal. Dulc. — sciatic Elat. ----with vertigo, lancinating in the brain, paralysis of the arms, heat, hard stool with tenes- mus, nausea, and restlessness. Ign-' —- with arthritic affection of the joints, more violent at night, aggravated by warmth or motion, with aching or sting- ing pain. Lod., rhod., rhus-r. Rheumatism, with sensitiveness to the air. Nux-v. ----with atrophy of the limbs. Puis. ----of the upper limbs. Rhus-r. ----of the lower limbs. Rhus-r. Scarlatina. Adeps, bell., aeon., am.-c, carb.-v., dulc, hyos., iod., kreas., merc.-s., nitr.-ac, phos.-ac, rhus.-t., sang., sulph. ----maligna. Ars., kreas. ----miliaris. Ars., bar., bell., cham., con., ip., rhus-t. ------with incipient sphacelus in the fauces and vomiting. Ars. ----lae vigata et miliaris, especially with subsequent hydrocephalus or with swelling of the parotid glands. Bell. ----frightfulness, convulsions, and vomiting, consequent on sup- pression of eruption. Bell., bry. ----secondary affection of. Bry. ----miliaris, when parotitis sets in during desquamation, or the rectum is affected, followed by diarrhoea, tenesmus, and strangury. Con. ----with scarlet rash. Dulc. ----during the eruptive stage, with spasms of the trachea and lungs. Ip. ---with inflammation of the mouth and fauces, and suppurations of the tonsils. Merc.-s. ----typhoid with stupor, angina and involuntary diarrhoea. Phos.- ac, sulph. ----with stupor and vomiting. Sulph. Sarcoma. Calc, caus. Salivation. Bor. Scabies. Ran.-b., sep. ----vesicular. Calc, carb.-v., clem., stib. ----miliaris, sicca or humida. Carb.- v. ----papulous, pustulous. Caus., stib. Schirrhus affections. Con., kal., carb., kreas., dig., iod. ----and carcinoma. Con. ------of the testes. Con. -------of the uterus. Con., nitr.-ac. ------of the mammae, heart, and stomach. Ars., con. Scrofulous affections. Asa-f., aur., con., dapb., bry., cal, caus.. CLINICAL INDEX. 1195 chin., mez., hep., merc.-s., mere- iod., nat jQar., ol.-jee, nux-v., sulph. Scrofula, cutaneous. Asa-fiV, caus., carb-v., hep., merc.-s. —— osseous, characterized by inflam- mation, swelling, softening, curvature, and caries of the bones. Asa-f., lye, mere, nit- ae ----glands, of the. Bell., clem., con., mez., mere-s. —— rachitis. Bell., lye ----when the periosteum and the bones are inflamed. Bell., merc.-s. ----ulcers. Bell., merc.-s., nit.-ae, sulph. ----swellings. Carb.-v., con., mer.-s. ----and venereal buboes. Carb.-a., dulc, mere-s. ----caries. Chin., phos., sep., iod. Sciatica. Aeon., kal.-bichr. Scotopsia. Bell. Scrophulosis. Am.-e, ars., aur., dulc, fer., petr., mag.-car., lye, mag.-mur., merc.-s., mur.- ae, nitr.-ac, phos., puis., sulph. ----bubo, with. Ars. ----atrophy, with. Bar. Scurvy. Am.-e, ars., arum, chin., kreas., merc.-s., staph. Sea Sickness. Ars., petrol. Senilis. Ars. ----purpura. Camp. ----echymosis. Con. ----gangrena. Ars., kreas. .----marasmus. Bar. Sexual Organs. Ars. .------diseases of. Berb., petrol., rhod. -------inflammation and swelling of. Ars., bell., camp., mere- s., rhod. . scrotum and prepuce, oedema of. Ars., hell., merc.-s., ___ — particularly the testicles and spermatic chord, especially when of an erysipelatous cha- racter. Bell., rhod. __ — weakness of. Calc, coff, mur.-ac m_____herpes of, without syphilitic taint. Hep., mere-s. __ — eruptions of.' Merc.-s. Sexual Organs, itching herpes en the scrotum. Petrol. ------warts on the. Thuj. Sight, dimness of. Mose, phos. ----blindness in the daytime. Phos. Sleeplessness. Bell., chin., coff, daph., kreas., lac, lam., laur., mur.-ae, op., nux-v., phos.-ac, puis. ----as a symptom of internal inflam- mation, organic diseases of the chest and abdomen, or as a precursor of delirium, of local inflammation, or the evolution of a typhoid state. Bell ----nightly, with restlessness. Cul, coff. ----nervous. Coff, mose ----from mental excitement. Nux-v. Singultus. Bry., colch., laur., nux- v., puis., stram. ----spasticus. Bell. Somnolence. Croc, laur., mose, op., puis. Somnambulism. Phos. Spleen, affections of. Bry., laur., mag.-mur. ------chronic. Fer. ----congestion of. Asa-f., chin. ----inflammation of. Berb., laur., lye ----pain in the region of. Bry. ----induration of. Chin., laur. ----enlargement of. Chin., fer., laur. Sprains. Agn., am.-m., con., phos., rhus-r. Spine, diseases of. Agn., chin.-s., lact., sulph. ----concussion of. Arn. ----spinal system of nerves, inflam- mation of. Ars., nux-v. ----marrow, chronic affections o£ Ars., chin.-s., sil., sulph. -------algia and neurosis of. Ars. -------ramollisement of. Ars., nux- v., sil. -------with paralysis of the extremi- ties. Ars. -------inflammation of. Bell., bism., ldiir., nux-v., sil. -------affeetions of. Coc, laur., sil., sulph. ----spina ventosa, and caries of the spongy extremities of the bone. >od., lye, sil L INDEX. 1196 clinica: Spine, irritation of, witl paralysis of the extremities. Lact., laur., nux-v., sil. —— irritation of spinal and ganglio- nic system. Nux-v., plum., sil. Strabismus. Alum., bell., verat. Strangury. Asp., cann., canth., colch., con., iod., lye, merc.-s. ----haemorrhoidalis. Asp., nux-v. Sterility. Calc, cann., coff., con., merc.-s. Stomach, affections of. Berb., ars., bism., bor., kreas., laur., lye, merc.-s., nux-v., puis., sep., sulph., verat. — spasms of. Am.-caust., ars., bism., calc, caps., carb.-a., carb.-v., caus., cham., coc, coff, con., daph., kal.-nitr., lye, nux-v. ■ derangement of, in intermittent and remittent fever. Am.-m., ant., nux-v., sep. —— cancerous tendency of. Ars., kreas., lye, sulph. —— inflammation and gangrene of. Aut., canth., nux-v. — chronic affection of. Arg.-nitr., lye, mag.-m., nux-v., sep., sulph. ----oppression of. Ars., nux-v., puis., sep., sulph., verat. ----and intestinal canal, inflammation of. Bism., canth., nux-v. ----acidity of. Calc, carb.-v. — spasm of, with nausea, sour bitter vomiting, oppression of the chest, palpitation of the b.eart, costiveness, blind hae- morrhoids. Calc, nux-v., puis. —— softening of. Caps., fer., sec-c. ----griping in the. Carb.-a., coc, merc.-s., nux-v., phos., puis. —— prepuce in the, with headache. Caus., coc, nux-v., phos., puis., sep. —— inflammation of the mucous membrane of. Phos., kal.-bi., merc.-s., nux-v. —— aching, cramping, and burning pain in the. Ars., merc.-s., nux-v., phos., sep. —— venous congestion of. Mere-s., puis., sep. Struma. Lye, spong., staph. Stupor. Laur., mose, op. Sthenosis. Am.-m. Stomacace, scorbutica. Carb.-r. chin., iod., merc.-s., nitr.-ac. ----gangrenosa. Ars., carb.-v., chin., sil. Sycosis. Calc, clem., kal.-hyd., staph., thuj. ----excrescences. Thuj. Swelling, white, of the knee. Ars., cim., iod., kal.-hyd., lye ----inflammation of synovial mem- brane. Ars., stib., iod. Sweats, exhausting. Carb.-v., mere- s., puis., mur.-ac, stan. ----morning. Carb.-a., petrol., phos., puis., sep., stan. ----night. Acet.-acid, petrol., puis., stan. Syphilis. Ars., jatr.,iod., kal.-hyd., lach., lye, merc.-s., merc.-jod., mere-viv., mere-prae.-rub., nitr.-ac, phytol., rhus.-t., thuj. ----secundaria. Ant., ars., aur., hep., lye, merc.-s., mere-prae.- rub., nitr.-ac. ----cutaneous. Ars., kal.-hyd., mere-s., mere-prae.-rub. ----chancres, with symptoms of gangrene. Ars., iod., mere Jjrae.-rub. cers, venereal, mercurial, of the bones. Asa-f., kal.-hyd. ----rhagades. Aur., lye, mere- praecip.-rub., thuj. ----ulcers of the fauces and tongue. Aur., kal.-hyd., lach., merc.-s., mere-prae.-rub., thuj. ----with tendency to hypertrophy, Iod. ----cutaneous eruptions, tertiary ana quartenary. Kal.-hyd. ----affection of the bones, with bono pains, carious or fistulous ul- cers. Kal.-hyd., mere-praecip.- rub. ----general ulcers of. Kal.-hyd merc.-jod., mere-viv. ----of the throat. Lye, mere-prae cip.-rub. ----herpes in the mouth and fauces. Lye, phytol. ----ulcers of the sexual organs. Mere-s. ----tertiary. Merc.-s. CLINICAL INDEX. 1191 Syphilis, chancres. Phytol. ----itching, smarting, and stinging eruptions after taking Mercury. Nitr.-ac, thuj. ----with hydrargyrosis. Nitr.-ac. ----bubo. Nitr.-ac. Tabes, meseraica. Aur., iod., sulph. ----dorsalis. Chin.-s., coc, natr.- carb. ----mercurialis. Iod. Tarantism. Bell. Tetters. Alum., carb.-a.,hep., kal.- carb., merc.-s. ----humid, on the head. Hep. Testicles, atrophy of. Ant. ----swelling of. Arn., aur., chin., clem., merc.-s., mere-v., nux- v., phytol., puis, spong. ----tabes of. Caps. —— induration of. Clem., graph. ----fungus of. Con. ----inflammation of. Nux-v., puis. ----pain in the. Phos.-ac, puis. Tetanus. Am.-e, ang. Tinea, favosa. Ars., graph. —— — with swelling of the neck. Ars. ----hereditary. Ars. ----humida. Ars., graph. ■ capitis. Acet.-acid, ars., graph., hell., lye, olea., petrol., rhus- t., sil., staph. ----furfuracea. Mez. ----faciei. Dulc. Teeth, pain in the. Aur., canth., mag.-car., bov., bor,, bell., calc, carb.-v., merc.-s., mere- v., laur., lye, mur-ae, mang., nitr.-ac, nux-v., phos., puis., eabin., sep., spig., staph., sulph., verat. —— — passing into suppuration. Canth., carb.-a., mang., sulph. ■ gangrenous decay of. Ars. .------rush of blood to the head from. Aur, mez., nux-v. - pain, congestive, of. Bell., chin., mez., merc.-s., mere.-v., nux-v., sep. ------rheumatic, inflammatory. Bry., caus., merc.-s., nux-v., puis., rhus-t. — chronic looseness of. Carb.-v. . pain nervous, of. Caus., cim., chin, coff. _-— — arthritic----. Caus., rhus- t., nux-v. Teeth, pain, chronic throbbing, espe« cially after cold. Caus., nux-v., puis. ------violent, affecting the face and all the teeth. Caus., mere**, nux-v.. puis., sabin. ------chronic, from eruption. Sulph. ------from cold. Cham., graph., hyos., nux-v., puis., rhod., rhus-t. ------rheumatic, of the side, with violent nightly exacerbation, swelling of the gums, cheeks, and glands. Cham., merc.-s., nitr.-ac, nux-v., puis. -------lancinating, beginning in ca- rious teeth, and extending to all. Cham., mez., mere-s., mere-v., mur.-ae, puis. -------rheumatic. Chin., merc.-s., nitr.-ac, puis., rhod. ------throbbing, increased by the least contact. Chin., coloc, euph., nux-v., puis., sabin., sep. ------arthritic. Colch., eye, rhod. ----caries of. Mez. ------beating, with inflammation of the face. Euph., mere-8., nux-v. ------congestive, from suppression of haemorrhoids. Graph., hyos. _____ — with swelling, salivation and ulceration of the gums. Graph., merc.-s., mere-v., nux-v. ------from grief or chagrin. Ign. ______of hysteric females. Ign., nux-v. ------throbbing, from abuse of Mercury. Nitr.-ac, rhod. ------as from subcutaneous ulcera- tion. Phos. ------with swelling of the perios- teum. Sil. Tenia. Sabad. Tongue, swelling of. Lye, merc.-s. ----rheumatic swelling of. Am.-m. ----paralysis of. Anae, hyos., merc.-s., nux-v. ----cancer of. Ars. ----schirrus induration of. Aur. ----soreness of. Lye, mere-s. ►—— ulceration of. Merc.-s. ____syphilitic herpes on. Nux.-T. ____inflammation of. Petrol., rhus-r 1198 CLINICAL INDEX. Tonptlitis. Am.-m., bell, ign., lam., staph., sulph. Tonsils, rheumatic. Am.-m. ----swelling and ulceration of. Aur., lye., merc.-s., sulph. ----inflammation of. Lye, sulph. ■ induration of. Petrol., sulph. Throat, predisposition to sore, after every cold, terminating in sup- puration. Bar.-m., ign. ----dryness of, and tongue. Carb.- a., phos. — swelling of, threatening suffoca- tion. Cim., merc.-jod. —— periodical, produced by cold or dampness. Dulc. —— malignant affections of. Euph., ------in scarlatina. Ign., mere-iod. ----ulceration of. Kal.-bichr., merc.- jod., nitr.-ac. — inflammation of. Led., mang., mere, jod., nitr.-ac, petrol., puis. ----syphilitic affections of. Nitr.-ac. ----scraping and burning in the. Phos. ----chronic sore throat. Sabad. Trachea, diseases of. Iod. stib. Tumors. Graph., led. ----encysted. Graph. ----haemorrhoidal. Grat. ----suppurating. Hep., led., mere- s., sil. ----malignant watery. Kreas. ----lymphatic, of the labia. Mere- s., sil. ----leuco-phlegmatic. Phos., sil. Tympanitis. Chin., coloc, laur., phos. Ulcers. Clem., graph., lach., lye, merc.-s., merc-v., nitr.-ac, phos.-ac, puis., sep., sil., staph., sulph. —— gangrenous. Am.-m., arum, chin., con., kreas., sil. ----heel, on the. Am.-m. •—— fistulous. Ant., sil., sulph. putrid. Arn, ars., carb.-v., graph., mere-s., sil. ■—— phagedenic, on the feet, with burning pains. Ar3., merc.-s., petrol. - malignant, on the tips of the* fingers, with burning pain, Ars., sil. Ulcers, corroding, on the toes Sil ----on the feet. Ars., mag.-car., lye, sil. ----cancerous. Arum, clem., con. ----caries of the feet. Asa-f., mere- s., sil. ----venereal, mercurial, of the bones. Asa-f., con., merc.-s, nitr.-ac, sil. ----tonsils, on the. Aur., lye, mcre- s.. sil., staph. ----syphilitic, of the fauces and tongue. Aur., lye, merc.-s., mere-v., mere-praecip.-rub., nitr.-ac. —•— schneiderian membrane. Aur., mere-s., mere-praecip.-rub. ----scrofulous. Bell., chfn., con., graph., kreas., lach., merc.-s., sulph. ----mercurial. Bell., bor., lye, sil. ----indolent. Bor. ----glandular. Bry., con., graph., merc.-s , sil. ----caries, fistulous and scrofulous. Calc, chin., con., merc.-s., sil. ----fistulous, of the gums. Calc, merc.-s. ----long standing and erysipelatous. Canth. ----fetid, on the thighs. Carb.-v. --- bleeding. Carb.-v. ----mouth and tongue. Cham., kal.- bichr., merc.-s., merc-v., nitr.- ac. ----with stinging, burning pains, painful redness. Cham., graph., mere-ae ----herpetic. Con., merc.-s., sil. ----malignant, with pain in perios- teum, originating in the abuse of Mercury, in syphilis, aggra- vated at night. Con. ----carcinomatous, of the lip. Con. ----old. Lupr., sulph. ----obstinate. Graph., lach., sil. ----fetid, on the mouth. Graph., merc.-s. ----of the intestines. Merc.-s. ----of the mucous membrane of the stomach and duodenum. Kal.- bich., merc.-s. ----malignant. Lach., lye,mere-s., sil. —— phagedenic. Lye, mere-B., mere-cor. CLINICAL INDEX. 1199 Ulcers, on the penis. Lye ----spreading. Mere-s. ----scorbutic. Merc.-s. — phlagedenic, with profuse sup- puration. Mere-cor. ----in the mouth, from abuse of Mercury. Nitr.-ac. ----psoric. Sulph. Urine, retention of. Am., dulc, hell., laur., puis., stib. -------from cold. Dulc. ----violent desire to void, in fevers. Bell., hell., laur. ----painful emission of. Hell. — retention of, in typhus. Hyos. — nightly incontinence of. Ip., petrol., rhus-t. — suppression of. Laur. —— involuntary emission of. Natr.- m., petrol., rhus-t., see-e ----milky, with blood. Phos.-ac. — incontinence of, after parturition, attended with leucorrhoea. Puis. Urinary Organs. Affections of. Cann., euph., iod., lye, puis. —— wetting the bed in children. Carb.-v., caus., cann., canth. — involuntary emission of. Caus., cin. —- from mismanaged gonorrhcea. Clem. —— retention of, in children. Lye, puis. Urethra, stricture of. Am.-m., clem., con., dig., dulc, sil. ----blenorrhcea of. Lye ----haemorrhage from. Mere-s., nux-v. ----inflammation of. Merc.-s., nitr.- ac. — cutting and burning pain in. Mere-s., phos. — smarting and burning. Phos. Urticaria. Ars., berb., bry., calc, carb.-v., clem., dulc, petrol., puis., rhus-t. —— with violent cough and fever of the glands. Dulc —— chronic. Dulc, merc.-s. —— feverish, with burning itching, appearing in the warmth, with headache, nausea, restlessness, pain in the limbs, and night- Bweats. Dulc. Urfthritis. Canth., cann., clem., dig. Uterus, affections of. Sep. ----prolapsus of. Aur., bell., fer., graph., kreas., lye, merc.-A, nux-v., sulph. ----induration of. Aur., carb.-a., sep., plat. ----schirrus et carcinoma. Bell., kreas., laur., mag.-mur., plat., thuj. ----haemorrhage from. Acet.-acid, Carb.-a.,chin., cinnam., croe,ip. ---------after the removal of pla- centa. Croc. ---------with leucorrhoea. Ip. ■ from antouy of, after parturition. ----swelling of. Con. ----spasms of. Con., ign. ----complaints accompanying hae- morrhage from the. Croo ----inversion of. Fer. ----putridity of. Kreas. ----congestion to the. Lam., mose., nux-v., sabin. ; ----polypus of. Plat., see-e Vagina, inflammation of. Merc.-fl. ----prolapsus of. Merc.-s. Varices. Puis., ars., calc, carb.-v., ----of the legs. Puis. ----with burning pain at night. Ars. Variocele. Clem. Varicella, with tenesmus and stran- gury. Canth., merc.-s. ----Puis. Varioloides, and variola. Acoil, ars., bell., bry., mere-s., mur.- ac , rhus-t., stib. ----putrid, occasioned by irritation of the stomach and intestinal canal, black tongue, hoarse- ness, inflammation of the throat, diarrhoea. Ars., mur.- ac, kreas., stib. ----when the joints and mucous membrane of the trachea are affected. Bell., bry. ----malignant. Mur.-ae, ars., kreas., merc.-s., stib. ----with sphacelus under the crusts. Carb.-v., stib. ----cough, during the suppurative stage of. Cham. ----when there is irritation ot the mucous membrane of the sto- mach and vomiting. Ip. ----salivation. Hep. 1200 CLINICAL INDEX. Venous irritation. Asa-f., puis., sep. —— congestion of portal system, with venous pulsations. Asa-f. Verminous affections. Calc, chin., oin., jatr, nitr.-ac, nux-v. — ascarides. Calc, chin., cin.,jatr., nitr.-a., nux-v. —— lumbrici. Calc, ----taenia. Calc. — with sleeplessness, tossing, cries, ill-humor, delirium, heaviness in the limbs, paleness or red- ness of the face, rubbing of the nose, offensive eructations, vomiting, hot distended abdo- men, colic, costiveness, itching of the anus. Cin. Vertebre, curvature and softening of, in children. Calc. Vertigo. Arn., ant., arum., calc, cim., lact., led., merc.-s., mose, mur.-ae, nux-v., petrol., phos., rhus -r., sang, sil. — with constipation. Arn. — in the beginning of fevers, or when there are symptoms of a nervous stage, beginning of variola, in hysteric persons, in parturient women. Bell. —— with palpitation of the heart. Calc. —— in the morning. Carb. —— with vomiting. Coc. ' - with feeling of intoxication, with nausea, pressing and beating in the head. Coc, croc. — with headache, slow pulse. Croc. —— with disorders of the digestive organs. Kal.-bichr. ----with loss of thought and rheuma- tic pains. Lye — chronic. Merc.-s, sulph. —— with stupefaction, dizziness, con- gestion to the head, tetanus, and fainting. Mose, op. ----nervous. Nux-m., nux-v., phos., phos.-ac, rhus-t., stram. — particularly after fright. Op. Vitus' (St.) Dance. Chin., croc, merc.-s., nux-v., puis., stram. Vitus' (St.) Dance, brought on by fright. Cupr., op. ----from sympathy. Cupr. Vomiting. Asar., ars., bry., calc cann., coc, con., cupr., ip., lye plum., puis, stib., verat. ----of pregnaut or hysteric females. Aeon., ars., cast., con., ip., kreas., nux-v, stib. ■ of lumbrici. Aeon. ■ chronic. Art., cann , con., ip., jatr., iod., phos., sulph. ■ colic, with. Asar., verat. • especially when there are con- gestions to the head, inflamma- tion of internal organs, during and after acute exanthemata, after suppression of cutaneous eruption in arthritic metastasis, in lying-in women, spasms, and intestinal hernia. Bell., stib. of a watery and slimy bitter liquid. Bry., stib., verat. of drunkards. Bry., nux-v., kreas. saburralis. Calc, chin., nux-v. of sourish water. Caus., uux- v. bilious. Coff, nux-v., stib. bitter, preceded by cutting pain in the stomach and abdomen, hard delaying stools. Coloc, nux-v. with burning in the mouth, retching pains in the stomach, obstruction of the intestines, uneasiness, sleepiness, exhaus- tion, constriction of the chest Cupr. in the morning. Dros., ip. of the ingesta. Fer., nux-v., verat. inclination to, after typhoid fevers. Ip. idiopathic. Ip. spasmodic. Lam., nux-v., plum. of coagulated black blood, with colic, vertigo, and fainting. Nux-v. with cardialgia. Plum. NEW REMEDIES. ACACIA. (Acaciae Gummi, Gum Arabic.) This gum is recommended for its mucilaginous uses in cough and phthisis; in ardor urinae and calculous affections; haemorrhage, diarrhoea, gastritis, colitis; in burns and scalds, and for sore nipples. # ACALYPHA INDICA. (Indian Acalypha.) In the first volume of the Hornozopathic Review, Vol. I., page 256, we find it stated by Dr. Tonnerre, of Calcutta, that a tincture of the Acalypha-indica, administered in the sixth decimal dilution, is specific in haemorrhage from the lungs. ADANSONIA DIGITATA. (Baobab.) Dr. Duchassaing, of Guadeloupe, has found the leaves and bark of this tree useful in fever and ague. iESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM. (Horse-chesnut.) Compare with —Aconitum-napellus, Acidum-nitricum, Aloes, Collinsonia, Ignatia, Mercurius-vivus, Nux-vomica, Sulphur. The grated nut seems to constitute the most efficacious prepara- tion of this drug for medicinal purposes. The outer shell has to be removed. We likewise prepare an alcoholic tincture. We are inclined to believe that the triturations made after the usual deci- mal or centesimal scale, contain the therapeutic virtues of this drug more fully than the attenuations obtained from the alcoholic tinc- ture. We know of provers who were very sensibly and speedily 61 76 1201 2 NEW REMEDIES. affected by tbe triturations, upon whom as many as four hundred drops of the mother-tincture had no other effect than the production of a somewhat sweetish taste in the mouth, a little qualmishness at the stomach, and some roughness in the throat, with an inconsider- able flow of saliva. In accordance with the provings that have been instituted with this drug, and which have been collected by Professor Hale, of Chicago, in his " New Remedies," this drug has been used princi- pally in old cases of haemorrhoids and other affections of the rec- tum and anus. In our own practice we have found it to be useful: 1. In catarrhal irritations of the head and throat, characterised by a dull general headache, and more particularly by a more or less acute pain in the supra-orbital region; lachrymation, disposi- tion to sneeze, a digging, drawing sensation in one or both nostrils, slight soreness of the nose, altered metallic taste in the mouth, roughness of tbe throat, some irritation in the chest with disposi- tion to cough, chilliness. 2. In dyspepsia, with a burning distress in the epigastric region; occasional sensation of emptiness or goneness in the pit of the stomach, with a sense of fulness or heaviness after eating; con- stipation. 3. In hcemorrhoidal affections. It is not only in chronic, but likewise in the acute attacks of haemorrhoids that the horse-ches- nut has shown remarkable curative powers. Dr. Richard Hughes, •of England, makes the following remarks as to the precise form of the disease to which it is specific: "When the piles, are only secondary to existing portal or other intra-abdominal congestions, iEsculus will probably be inferior to Nux and Sulphur. When they are associated with symptoms of varicosis elsewhere, and bleed much, Hamamelis will be a better remedy. But when the only connected symptom or appreciable cause is constipation, and there is much pain but little bleeding, iEsculus seems pretty likely to effect a cure." Persons afflicted with piles are very often subject to attacks of aching, burning pains in the small of the back; the small of the back sometimes feeling rigid and stiff like a board. We have cured this pain with iEsculus, sometimes using it alone, and, in -other cases, alternating with a few doses of Sulphur or Aconite. In tbe twenty-fourth volume of the British Journal of Homoe- opathy, page 165, Dr. Hughes reports the following case of severe pain in the anus after stool, resembling that of fissure. " Miss W., nged 40, consulted me on September 20th of last year. She had 1202 AGAVE AMERICANA. 3 been suffering for two months with haemorrhage and pain after stool. The bowels were moved every other morning ; tbe bleed- ing was considerable and tbe pain intense; gradually subsiding afterwards, but not leaving her until evening. She felt much weakened and was beginning to suffer from neuralgic pain in tbe face. Regarding the haemorrhage as the most important symptom, I prescribed Hamamelis 2, a drop three times a day. "Sept. 30. The bowels had been twice moved without any bleeding, but the pain was as severe as ever. JEsculus 2, a drop three times a day. " Oct. 3. The last evacuation was painless as well as .bloodless. Continued. "Oct. 21. The patient had her last prescription, and has not been beard from since." AGAYE AMERICANA. (American Aloes.) Compare with all the anti-scorbutic vegetable acids and with Allium-sativum.-. We have no provings of this medicine worth mentioning. Dr. Perrin, of the United States Army, wdiile stationed at Fort Mcin- tosh, in Texas, has used it in scurvy with brilliant success. His cases are reported in the JV. Y. Journal of Medicine, 1850. Dr. Perrin writes: " Eleven cases, all milder in form than the two just related, were continued upon the lime juice; diet the same. On the 21st of April, they exhibited evidences of improvement, but it was nothing when compared with the cases under the use of the Maguez. (The name given to the Agave by tbe natives.) Seven cases were under treatment during the same time, making use of citric-acid. On the 21st of April no one had improved, and three were growing worse. At this time so convinced was I of the great supe- riority of the Maguez over either of the other remedies employed, that I determined to place all tbe patients upon that medicine. The result has proved exceedingly gratifying. Every case has im- proved rapidly from that date. The countenance, so universally dejected and despairing in the patient affected with scurvy, is brightened up with contentment and hope in two days from tbe time of its introduction. The most marked evidences of improve- ment were observable at every successive visit. From observing tbe effects of the Maguez in the cases which have occurred in this command, I am compelled to place it far above that remedy, which, 1203 4 NEW REMEDIES. till now, has stood above every other, the lime-juice. The manner in which I used it was as follows: The leaves are cut off close to the root. They are placed in hot ashes until thoroughly cooked, when they are removed and the juice expressed. The expressed juice is then strained, and may be used thus, or may be sweetened. It may be given in doses of from two ounces to three ounces three times daily. The use of the leaf in this way, I believe, will ward off most effectually incipient scorbutus." AILANTHUS. Compare with—Belladonna. We have a few provings of this poison, but no reliable clinical experience. In the March number of the American Homoeopa- thic Review, 1864, Dr. Wells, of Brooklyn, has published an inter- esting case of poisoning by Ailanthus, the symptoms of which have led him to suggest the use of this drug as a remedy for cer- tain forms of malignant scarlatina. ALETRIS FARINOSA. (Star-grass.) Compare with—Helonias, Hydrastis, Caulophyllum. We prepare a tincture from the root and likewise triturations. We have not yet met with a satisfactory opportunity of pre- scribing this drug. Professor Hale recommends its use in the fol- lowing language: " In cases of debility, general or local, arising from, protracted illness, loss of fluids, defective nutrition, &c, symptomatic indications are : loss of tone in the muscular system of the whole or any part of the body; loss of appetite, myalgia, or that painful affection of muscles depending on depression, or from physical or mental causes ; passive haemorrhagia—particularly uterine; and that condition of the uterus which predisposes to menorrhagia and abortion. Every practical physician knows, that these conditions do not always present symptoms which call for China, Phosphoric-acid and Ferrum; and that, in many cases, where these remedies seem indicated, they do not prove as promptly cuTative as desired. It is in these classes of cases that I have found the Aletris so valuable. Such symptoms as constipa- 1204 ALNUS GLTJTINOSA. AMMONIUM PHOSPHORICUM. 5 tion, indigestion, night-sweats, depression of spirits, always disap- peared as soon as the system came under the influence of the me- dicine."—New Remedies, 2d ed., p. 58. The Professor recommends this remedy in alternation with Phos- phoric-acid, Hypophosphite of Potash and Zinc, in cases in which debility is apparently caused by a want of the Phosphates ; in literary persons, or individuals whose morale has been broken down by depressing emotions. ALNUS GLUTINOSA. (Alder.) In the third volume of the homoeopathic Times, Dr. Ramford mentions an anomalous affection of long standing, and sometimes, but not constantly, presenting an appearance of purpura haemor- rhagica; generally there is an excited state of the system. Bella- donna failed in curing this disorder. It yielded to the alder. ALNUS RUBRA. (Tag-alder.) We prepare a tincture from the bark, and triturations from the resinoid Alnuin. This drug is recommended in impetigo, affections of the urinary organs, chronic diarrhoea. We have no provings of this drug. AMM0NI2E SPIRITUS AROMATICUS. (Aromatic Spirits of Ammonia.) This preparation is often used as a palliative in sick-headache, with acidity of the stomach, faintness.—Also in hysteric paroxysms, syncope.—It relieves the flatulent colic of children, given in a few drops in milk. AMMONIUM PHOSPHORICUM. This salt has been employed with more or less success in some cases of chronic bronchitis. We have no reliable record of the physiological or therapeutical action of this salt. 1205 6 NEW REMEDIES. AMYGDALAE DULCES. (Sweet Almond.) The oil of sweet almond, combined with a little bitter almond, relieves the distressing itching in prickly heat, ANAGALLIS ARYENSIS. (Scarlet-pimpernel., This drug has been recommended for mania and epilepsy. We have no clinical experience to offer. ANDROMEDA ARBOREA. (Sorrell-tree.) The leaves have a pleasant acid taste; a decoction of these leaves forms a refrigerant drink in fevers. This beautiful tree grows in the valleys of the Alleghany mountains. ANTHEMIS COTULA. (Wild Chamomile, May-weed.) This plant is prescribed by European physicians in nervous dis- eases, hysteria. APOCYNUM CANNABINUM. (Indian Hemp ) Compare with—Aconite, Digitalis, Hellebore, Arsenicum, Hydriodate of Potash. This drug is used by physicians of every school, but more parti- cularly by eclectic and homoeopathic physicians. We have a few provings of this drug by Drs. A. Gerald Hull and E. E. Marcy Its chief sphere of action seems to be dropsical effusions. We prepare a tincture from the root, having a dark, reddish-brown color. The fluid extracts prepared by Tilden and others are not reliable. For the treatment of dropsical effusions a watery effu- sion of the fresh root, in the proportion of one ounce of the root to a pint of water, is the most reliable preparation. This drug has been used by a number of physicians, including 1206 APOCYNUM CANNABINUM. 7 ourselves, in the following forms of dropsy, oedema, and other affections. 1. Hydrocephalus. We have no personal experience of the successful use of the drug in this disease. Several cases of cure of this disease are reported in our Journals. One is the case of a little child of Professor Renwick, Columbia College, New York; the other is the case of an infant twelve months old, reported by Dr. Waterman, in Professor Hale's New Remedies. Other physi- cians have tried the same remedy in this disease without any suc- cess whatever. 2. Ascites. Its efficiency in this disease has been verified by a number of physicians in a variety of cases. In ascites and other forms of dropsy depending upon organic disease of the liver, kid- neys, heart, &c., the effect of Apocynum is only palliative; the disorganization does not seem to be influenced by the action of the drug. We have tried it in ovarian dropsy without any apparent result. In ascites depending upon Blight's Disease, the palliative effects of Cochineal have seemed to us at least equal to those of Apocynum. A proper dose in this as well as in other forms of dropsy is a desertspoonful of the above-mentioned infusion every two or three hours. In cases where Apocynum is indicated, the pulse is either slow and weak, or slightly accelerated and weak. The urine is dark- colored and secreted in small quantity, with, perhaps, frequent urging. The bowels are generally constipated, though a watery diarrhoea may likewise be present. Such differences depend a good deal upon pre-existing constitutional peculiarities. Some of our physicians report Apocynum indicated in dropsy, depending upon that peculiar disorganization of the liver known as nutmeg-liver. If this form of dropsy ever is one of the terminations of cirrhosis, it is curable, provided the disorganization is still within the bounds of curative influence. A man of seventy-two years was suddenly attacked with typhoid symptoms, cedema of the lower extremities, bloating of the bowels, jaundice; in spite of treatment he gradually sank and died in three days. A post- mortem examination revealed cirrhosis of the liver. A year after, the eldest son of this patient, about forty-five years old, was at- tacked with similar symptoms. When we first saw him, the bloat was inconsiderable, but the jaundice, from the crown of the head to the soles of the feet, was perfectly frightful; the man looked as if he had been daubed all over with a layer of saffron-colored paint. The pulse in this case was very remarkable: slow, irregular and 120V 8 NEW REMEDIES. intermittent. Digitalis being the leading remedy, it was pre- scribed throughout in varying quantities, from five to ten, and twenty-five drops of the tincture in the course of the day. Small quantities of Fowler's solution were likewise administered at more or less remote intervals. The patient made a perfect recovery in less than three weeks. Reasoning from analogy, we should have diagnosed this case as one of nutmeg-liver. We will add that both these patients were strictly temperate and perfectly regular in all their habits. It is questionable whether cirrhosis of the liver ever does ter- minate in ascites. If so, such a termination will, as a general rule, terminate fatally. In such cases Apocynum may be resorted to as a palliative, and might be advantageously alternated with Digitalis and Fowler's solution. But none of your high, higher or highest potencies under such circumstances. Last summer, two years after his last illness, the last named pa- tient was attacked in a similar manner as before. The abdomen was puffed up, but there was not the remotest sign of effusion; the pulse was much less irregular and intermittent, nor was the jaundice as intensely developed. The same treatment restored him to perfect health in the space of a little over a fortnight. 3. Hydrothorax. In cardiac hydrothorax Apocynum has acted as an excellent palliative, in lessening the volume of water in the chest and consequently relieving the suffocative dyspncea which torments such patients. In idiopathic hydrothorax, as may be consequent upon rheumatic exposure, Apocynum will likewise prove of great benefit, sometimes alone, and in other cases either alternately with, or preceded by Aconite or Digitalis, as the case may be. 4. Hydropericardia. Quite recently we treated a case of this disease in a family where the children had had an attack of the measles. The parents had allowed the measles to run their course, without sending for a physician. Two of the children, aged re- spectively three and five years, had remained drooping for a week after the measles had disappeared, when a sudden bad turn in the condition of the children alarmed tbe parents, and we were sent for. An examination revealed the following condition of thino-s: Pulse feeble and hurried; skin dry, immoderately warm; face puffed, pale ; lips bloated, livid; breathing hurried and very anx- ious ; occasional moaning; the children seemed uncomfortable when lying on their backs; the beats of the heart very indistinct, they seemed to be heard at a distance, as if through some intervening 1208 APOCYNUM CANNABINUM. 9 body. The parents were informed that water had begun to collect in tbe pericardial sac. Apocynum, five or six drops, in a few tablespoonfuls of water, a desertspoonful of which mixture was given every hour, seemed to have a very good effect the first day. It was then deemed advisable to alternate it with Digitalis. In the course of the treatment, which lasted about a week in all, a few doses of Arsenicum 3, were likewise administered. As was stated, both children recovered perfectly in about eight days. 5. In post-scarlatinal dropsy, Apocynum has likewise proved very serviceable. It is needless to quote testimony bearing upon this point. Because Apocynum affords good service against this sometimes dangerous and distressing sequela of scarlatina, we need not, on that account, discard such tried friends as Hellebore, Arsenic and Digitalis. 6. In general dropsy or anasarca, Apocynum has proved a powerful adjuvant in the treatment of this formidable disorder. A very fine illustration of the curative virtues of this drug in general dropsy may be found in Professor Hale's New Remedies, where Dr. C. C. Smith, of Stamford, Conn., reports the following case : " I treated a case of general dropsy with this drug, with the following symptoms: Intense thirst, almost constant frontal head- ache, severe and constant pain in the region of the kidneys, dry and harsh feeling of the skin. Abdomen very much bloated, and the presence of water very easily detected on percussion. Bloat- edness of the face, principally after lying down, passing off after sitting up. Hands very much increased in size so that they could not be shut; lower limbs enormously swollen, as were also tbe testicles, the latter being frightful to behold, and exceeding any thing of the kind I had ever seen. The testicles being swollen so badly the patient could neither stand, sit nor lie with any comfort. Urine discharged pretty regularly, but very scanty and red. Appetite good. Pa- tient about seventy years old. Dropsy produced by suppression of perspiration after a hard day's work in cold weather. " He had been treated allopathically, but both his physicians deserted the case. I dissolved about five grains of Apocynum in a tumbler of water, and allowed the patient to take a full table- spoonful every two hours, lengthening the time to three and then to four hours, as the case continued to progress favorably. In a few days a change for the better set in, and the improvement continued steadily up to a perfect cure, which was accomplished in about a month." 7. We have seen Apocynum act very beneficially in the case of 51* 1209 10 NEW REMEDIES. females going through the critical period of life, more particularly when the following symptoms constituted the most marked features of the case: Frequent losses of blood, resulting in oedema of the extremities and face; anaemic condition of the patient; fluttering about the heart; vertigo, headache, either a general dull headache, or more particularly in the frontal region. In this particular Apo- cynum competes with Caulophyllum. ARALIA RACEMOSA. (Spikenard.) We use tincture of the fresh root. This medicine is recommended for dysmenorrhcea, suppression of the lochia, amenorrhoea, induced by exposure to a draught of air, getting tbe feet chilled or wet. A warm infusion of the root may be administered. ARCTIUM LAPPA. (Burdock.) This drug has long been employed in dropsy. The seeds are used. ARISTOLOCHIA SERPENTARIA. (Virginia Snake-root.) A good proving of this drug may be found in Hempel's Materia Medica. A warm infusion of the root has been used in the obstinate sick headaches of debilitated females. It is employed as a gentle stimulant in low typhoid fevers, or to promote the appearance of an exanthem like measles, scarlatina, &c. ARUM TRYPHILLUM. (Indian Turnip.) Compare with—Arum-maculatum, with whose effects those of Arum-tryphil- lum, according to Hale, are almost identical. We make triturations of the grated root; the root has to be used fresh ; the dried root loses its volatile principle, but retains some of its medicinal properties. In the 16th volume of the British Journal of Homoeopathy, ASCLEPIAS SYRIACA. 11 page 321, the following case of poisoning by Arum-maculatnm is recorded: " After chewing a young leaf-stalk for a few minutes, a very intense prickling, stinging pain was felt upon the tongue and mucous membrane of the lips and throat, accompanied with a flow of saliva, which seemed to relieve the pain a little; the pains were as if a hundred needles had been run into the tongue and lips. A friend, wTho followed my example, had, in addition to these symp- toms, constriction and burning in the larynx, his tongue was swollen, and its papillae injected and raised. The mucous membrane of the throat and fips were inflamed. The pains in the tongue and lips were increased by pressure with the teeth. In two or three cases the leaves have been eaten by children, and have pro- duced distressing effects. In one instance three children partook of them. Their tongues became swollen, so as to render swallow- ing difficult, and convulsions followed; one died in twelve, and another in sixteen days; the third recovered." In accordance with these symptoms, Arum is recommended for inflammatory swelling of the tongue, stomatitis, salivation, either mercurial or idiopathic, &c. The dried root has been used in the cough of old people, and the loose cough of children. ASCLEPIAS SYRIACA. (Milk-weed.) We prepare a tincture of the fresh root, and triturations of the dried root. In accordance with Professor Hale's suggestions we have used this drug with good effect in rheumatic-bilious conditions of the system, brought on by checked perspiration, exposure to draughts of air, getting the feet wet, exchanging heavy for light clothing, &c. A group of symptoms like the following has guided us in selecting this agent: Slight creeping chills, no marked alteration of the pulse, soreness of the flesh, pains in the limbs, slight nausea, sharp pains through the forehead, dizziness. DOSE.—Eight to ten drops in half a cupful of warm, sweetened water, the whole of it to be swallowed at one dose an hour or two before bed-time, or in tablespoonful doses every hour. This drug has likewise been recommended and used with good effect in renal and post-scarlatinal dropsy. Some of its analogues are Boneset, Bryonia, Arsenic, and Dulca- mara. 1211 12 NEW REMEDIES. ASCLEPIAS TUBEROSA, (Pleurisy-root,) Is used by our country people as a domestic remedy for colds on the chest; cough, with soreness and stitches in the chest, tight- ness of breathing and similar rheumatic irritations of the thoracic organs. We have two provings of this drug, one by Dr. Thomas Nichol, of Belleville, Canada, and the other by Dr. P. H. Hale, of Hudson, Michigan, the latter selecting the oleo-resin for his prov ing. Another proving by Dr. A. Savery, Member of the Gallican Society, is utterly worthless. Nichol's proving seems to confirm the specific action of pleurisy- root upon the respiratory organs, more particularly upon the pleura; and seems to justify the use of this drug in rheumatic affections of the pleura, in accordance with the requirements of specific homoeopathy. From Dr. Hale's proving we infer that the drug causes rheuma- tic irritations in the respiratory mucous membrane, and in the mucous expanse lining the stomach and intestines. The chest- affection is characterised by oppression on the chest, tightness of breathing, acute pain under the right clavicle or in the right lung, when drawing a long breath; accessory symptoms being : slight creeping chills, flushed cheeks, weakness and tremulousness of the lower limbs, soreness of abdominal integuments and epigastric re- gion, heavy and dull pain in the small of the back, pulse rising at night to 90, with great thirst, although tbe tongue was moist; diminished secretion of urine, which was, moreover, thick and high-colored. ASTERIAS RUBENS. (Star-fish.) is recommended by Petroz for cancer of the left mamma. ATROPINE. (Sulphate of Atropine.) The action of this salt differs from that of Belladonna only in degree. We have some excellent provings of this agent by Kafka of Prague. According to Kafka, this salt should be preferred in those cases in which Belladonna does not act effectually and per- manently. He recommends it in inflammations where the symp- 1212 AURANTIA AMARA. 13 toms seem to indicate Belladonna rather than Aconite. With the subsidence of the inflammatory symptoms, the re-absorption of the exudation is very rapid.—In painful affections from spinal irri- tation.—In hypersesthesia of some nervous branch, viz: of the oph- thalmic, auditory, olfactory, vagus, and plexus Solaris, of the uterus and sphincter of the bladder.—In severe forms of meningitis, cere- britis, of tuberculous disease of the cerebral membranes, and hydro- cephalus acutus; in some forms of epilepsy and chorea, as well as in typhoid and septic fevers: Klaf ka recommends -300 of a grain at a dose. In a case of severe neuralgia of the peritoneum an ointment, one grain to two drachms of lard, has proved of great service. See British Journal XY. page 238. A beautiful cure of disease of the pancreas with Atropine is reported in British Journal vol. XYI. page 577. AURANTIA AMARA. (Essential Oil of Bitter Orange.) Dr. Imbart Gourbeyer, of France, published some twelve or thirteen years ago an essay on the physiological action of the oil of bitter almonds, giving an interesting account of the morbid pheno- mena which the emanations from the bitter oranges cause in the women employed to peel them for the manufacturers of the oil. We give tbe following resume of the symptoms: Headache, partial or general, sometimes in the forehead, and sometimes a general ache. Hemicrania, generally on the right side, often accompanied by nausea and even vomiting. Yertigo as if intoxicated. Facial neuralgia, most frequently on the right side, with lancinat- ing or gnawing pains. Toothache, with caries of the teeth. Weakness of sight, ringing and buzzing in the ears; in one case swelling and redness of the lobes. Suffocative oppression on the chest. Frequent and uncontrollable yawning; uneasiness and weight in the stomach; pyrosis. Uneasy sleep, with starting. Epileptiform convulsions; drawings in one side of tbe face and in tbe legs; cramps, general or partial; contraction and a sensation 1213 14 NEW REMEDIES. of weight in the shoulders; cramplike pain in the wrists, intense muscular excitement; the patients work with desperate rapidity; general trembling, jerkings; the whole muscular system seems to be in a state of agitation. Eruptions; itching all over or only on the upper limbs; swelling and redness of the hands; red patches on various parts of the body; vesicular eruptions all over the arm, chiefly on the hands and be- twixt the fingers ; erysipelatous swelling of the face. These symptoms plainly show that the aroma of the bitter oranges is possessed of a remarkable faculty of deranging the ner- vous equilibrium and poisoning to some extent the blood. BADIAGA. This Russian fresh-water sponge is recommended in some forms of simple gonorrhcea and chronic syphilitic ulcers. BALSAMUM PERUYIANUM. (Balsam of Peru.) Dr. Bosch has used this agent as a remedy for the itch. He used the black balsam of Peru both internally and externally; gave two drops of the first dilution night and morning, and, at the same time, caused all the parts affected with the itch to be rubbed with this balsam. A cure was effected in eight to fifteen days. Pereira says that "this balsam, alone or in the form of ointment, is some- times applied to indolent, ill-conditioned ulcers; it cleanses them, promotes healthy granulation, and assists cicatrization. I have used it in some obstinate ulcerations about the nose. Dr. Ainslie speaks very highly of its powers of arresting the progress of sphacelous and phagedaenic affections so common and destructive in India. He recommends lint soaked in the balsam, to be applied night and morning.'' BAPTISIA TINCTORIA. (Wild Indigo.) Compare with— Carbonate of Ammonia, Bryonia, Rhus-tox, Chlorate of Potassa Arsenicum, Gelseminum, Mercurius-iodatus, and the other mercurial prepara- tions. " " We prepare a tincture of this plant. This drug has acquired considerable reputation among homceopa. 1214 BAPTISIA TINCTORIA. 15 thic physicians for its specific virtues as a remedy for fevers, of a low, typhoid type. The provings instituted by Drs. Burt, Douglns and others, have established the fact, that this agent is possessed of a remarkable power of deteriorating the animal fluids, and hence must be capable, in accordance with the homoeopathic law of cure, of exercising a certain influence over pathological conditions cha- racterised by symptoms of decomposition of the vital fluids and the organic tissues. In bis Manual of Pharmacodynamics, Dr. Richard Hughes, of England, expresses himself as follows, with reference to the cura- tive sphere of the Wild Indigo: " In a former number of the British Journal of Homoeopathy, (that for July, 1863,) I have endeavored to indicate the special form of fever to which the pathology of Baptisia, aided by clinical experience, points as its sphere of influence. It is the first stage of the ordinary endemic fever of this country, known popularly as gastric, and medically as typhoid enteric fever. In the first stage of this disease the patient has a hot dry skin and a quick full pulse; the tongue is thickly covered with a whitish-brown fur ; the bead aches, and there is at least nocturnal delirium ; the appetite is ab- sent and thirst great; the urine is high-colored, and the bowels generally constipated. Unless tbe disease is checked in this stage, tbe true typhoid symptoms supervene, wbich I need not here describe. " Now there is nothing improbable in the supposition that, if we could find a remedy perfectly homoeopathic to the first stage of this malady, we might cure it there and then before the typhoid symptoms supervened. None of our ordinary remedies seem ap- plicable. Aconite is powerless against such fevers; it never re- duces the pulse one beat, or relieves the skin by a drop of moisture. Arsenic is suitable only to the later stage of the disorder. Bryonia is the remedy generally administered ; but, better than nothing it is difficult to see any thing curative in its action. On the other hand, the pathogenesis of Baptisia, brief as it is, exhibits it as pro- perly homoeopathic to the condition I have described. And tbe result of my own experience in its use has been, that in the great majority of cases it cuts short the fever in this its first stage, free- ing the patient from all the dangers of the second. I have never yet been disappointed in it; and its curative action is often exceed- ingly rapid." Our literature is replete with reports of cases of typhoid fever that have been cured with Baptisia. Eclectics depend upon it as one 1215 16 NEW REMEDIES. of their chief agents in combating tbe low fevers of a continued typhoid type which so frequently prevail as epidemics in many dis- tricts of our country. It is well known to our readers that Dr. Hoyt was the first who brought this remedy to the notice of our profession as a remedy for typhoid fever. In the sixth volume of the North American Journal, of Homceopathy, he reports several highly interesting cases of typhoid fever, all of which rapidly yielded to Baptisia, after other homoeopathic remedies had been tried in vain. One of the patients, a lady, after having been under allopathic treatment for thirty-one days, and evidently near death, was given small quantities of a decoction of Baptisia, prepared by steeping a piece of the root about three inches long and three- eighths of an inch thick, in half a pint of water. The dose was gradually increased from five drops to nearly a teaspoonful. The report reads as follows : " In about one hour and a half, the surface of the patient presented an appearance as though she had been literally scalded, so red was the skin, accompanied with a most intense superficial heat; at the same time noticing large drops of sweat standing on her forehead, the medicine was discontinued In a few minutes a profuse perspiration appeared all over her body, which continued for nearly twelve hours, or till she was bathed freely with brandy and water. From this time she began to im- prove, and with the occasional administration of a dose or two of the remedy, got well, without any febrile symptoms. It is worthy of remark, that immediately upon the administration of the remedy she became quiet and fell asleep; she had been restless and deliri- ous for three weeks previous." A profuse perspiration very commonly characterises the favor- able reaction superinduced by this agent in continued fever. The symptoms which commonly yield to Baptisia are: sopor, delirium, dry skin, flushed face, pulse accelerated and thin or fili- form, tongue thickly furred, urine scanty and high-colored, con- stipation or diarrhoea, the discharges being of a papescent nature and having a foul smell; sometimes the stools are passed involun- tarily ; great prostration, trembling of the hands. Dr. J. B. Bell, of Augusta, Maine, mentions a characteristic symptom indicating Baptisia in typhoid fever: " She cannot go to sleep because she cannot get herself together. Her head feels as though scattered about, and she tosses about the bed to get the pieces together." Baptisia is not only indicated in low continued fevers, but like- wise in other conditions of the system, characterised by sio-ns of decomposition of the fluids. We have employed it with excellent 1216 BAR0SMA CRENATA. 17 success in stomatitis of various kinds, such as: nursing sore mouth, mercurial sore mouth, aphthous stomatitis, &c.; the breath in these affections has a foul odor, the teeth are bleeding and loose, tbe in- side of the cheeks, the roof of the mouth, the edges of the tongue, are studded writb diphtheritic ulcerations. Our provings lead us to expect good effects from Baptisia in bilious diarrhoea and dysentery. Some of our physicians report cures of dysentery wrhere the discharges were preceded by severe tormina and accompanied by tenesmus. BAROSMA CRENATA. (Buchu.) In Dr. Reil's article on Renal Remedies in the second volume ol "Homoeopathische Yierteljahrs-Schrift," page 434, we find this article alluded to in the following manner: " Buchu has been frequently used, more especially in affections of the urinary and genital organs, in rheumatism, gout and dropsy. Bardili who in- stituted experiments on man with this plant, found that besides a general increase of vascular action, the urine was discharged in greater quantity, had an aromatic odor, appeared flocky, and de- posited a purulent sediment." Pereira contains the following notice of this drug: "In this country Buchu has been principally employed in chronic maladies, of the urino-genital organs. Dr. Reese first drew the attention of practitioners and the public in this country to it in these cases; and, in 1823, Dr. M'Dowell gave a most favorable account of its good effects. It has since been employed by a considerable number of practitioners, and its remedial powers fairly tried. It seems to be principally adapted to chronic cases attended with copious secretion. In chronic inflammation of the mucous membrane of the bladder, attended with a copious discharge of mucus, it frequently checks the secretion, and diminishes the irritable condition of the bladder; but I have several times seen it fail to give the least relief, and, in some cases, it appeared rather to add to the patient's suffer- ings. In irritable conditions of the urethra, as spasmodic stricture, and in gleet, it has occasionally proved serviceable. In litbiasis, attended with increased secretion of uric acid, it has been given with considerable benefit by Dr. Carler and others, and has appeared to check the formation of this acid. For the most part it should be given in these cases in combination with alkalies (as liquor-potassse) 77 1*217 18 NEW REMEDIES. In prostatic affections, in rheumatism, and even in skin-diseases, it has been employed, and it is said, with good effect. In dyspepsi.i Dr. Hulton found it serviceable." BELLIS PERENNIS. (Daisy.) Dr. Thomas, of England, professes to have used this flower sue cessfully in sprains, in the place of Arnica or Rhus. BROMIC ACID. This agent has been used with success in a case of croup. CACTUS GRANDIFLORUS. (Night-blooming Cereus.) This drug has been introduced in homoeopathic practice by Dr. Rubini, of Naples, Italy. We are sorry to say that, in spite of tbe high-sounding flourishes with which this new claimant to pub- lic favor has been announced, we are compelled to say that we have very little, if any, confidence in Dr. Rubini's provings. These provings are of a piece with those of Mure, Petroz, Lippe and their compeers, vox et prasterea nihil. According to Dr. Rubini, " Cactus has a specific action on the heart and its bloodvessels, dissipating their congestions and sup- pressing their irritations without weakening the nervous system like Aconite. Hence it is preferable to the latter in all cases of inflammation, particularly in all cases of lymphatic and nervous temperaments." What can we think of the provings and therapeutic statements of a writer who is so little acquainted with, and seems to have so little experience of the great virtues of Aconite as to declare that Aconite weakens the nervous system in inflammations which yield to its curative influence as their specific remedial agent. It is use- less to waste an argument on such fallacies. And what shall we say of the extravagant cures which Cactus is said to have effected! Chronic bronchitis of many years' standing, with rattling of mucus day and night, oppression of breathing on going up-stairs, and im- possibility of lying horizontally in bed—rapidly cured. 1218 CACTUS GRANDIFLORUS. 19 A number of pleurisies which are cured in from two to four days. Hepatization of the lungs resolved in a few days. "Very severe peri-pneumonia cured in four days. Violent pneumor- rhagia checked in a few hours. Pneumorrhagia every four, six, seven or eight hours, accompanied each time with convulsive cough, and expectoration of two or three pounds of blood, is at once re- lieved and ceases entirely in four days. Acute carditis, with slight cyanosis of the face, oppression of breathing, dry cough, pricking pain at the heart, impossibility of lying on the left side ; pulse quick, throbbing, tense and hard—cured in four days! Chronic carditis, with oedematous and cyanotic face, suffocating respiration, continued dull pain at the heart, hydro-pericardia, hydrothorax, ascites, oedema of the hands, legs and feet, impossi- bility of lying in bed, of speaking, or even of drinking, hands and feet cold, pulse intermitting—cured in fifteen days ! Rheumatic carditis, with much dry and convulsive cough, cured in four days! Without meaning any offence to the reporter of these miraculous cures, we are free to confess that we do not place the remotest confidence in tbe correctness of these statements. They seem to us to involve some unaccountable error in diagnosis. If there was peri-pneumonia, carditis and the like, they must have been totally different from what such diseases are in our climate. May not the Doctor have had hold of some luckless wight of a consumptive invalid, or two or three, upon whom he instituted his clinical ob- servations ; construing the symptoms at one time into chronic bronchitis, at another into peri-pneumonia, another into carditis, and so forth? Heart-disease has more than once been diagnosed in consumptive patients where not a trace of it was found after death. And what are not enthusiastic physicians prepared to assert when carried away by the worship of an idea ? The cases reported by other physicians and said to have been cured with Cactus, are not sufficiently decisive to establish tbe character of Cactus as a remedy for heart-affections in the same sense as we know Aconite, Digitalis, Arsenicum or Spigelia to be such remedies. Dr. Russell's case is still under advisement. The case reported in tbe second volume, p. 159, of the Western Homoeo- pathic Observer, by E. P. D., may seem satisfactory at a first read- ing; but all that the Cactus did in this case was to relieve tbe fluttering in the stomach ; this fluttering in the stomach has been relieved time and again by ourselves and other physicians by means of a few moderate doses of Aconite. Dr. Duhring likewise reports a few cases His first case,,that of 1219 20 NEW REMEDIES. Mrs. C. M., is evidently a case of acute nervous irritation, where the attacks came on every night for seven nights in succession, until they finally ceased, not, as we believe, in consequence of the treat- ment that was pursued, but in consequence of the disease having run its course and reached its natural termination. The attacks left the patient debilitated, and the affected parts remained numb. The true remedy in this case was the Aconitum-napellus, of which we should have administered the first decimal attenuation of the tinc- ture of the root, in the full expectation of not only seeing the pa- tient relieved, but permanently cured after the first attack, without leaving her weak and numb, as was the case with this lady. Dr. O'Brien's case, in the Monthly Homoeopathic Review, May, 1866, is a good case, well told, and doing reasonable justice to the new drug, without disparaging the well-earned reputation of Aconite, Digitalis and kindred agents. The sensation as if the heart was grasped with the band which arrests the motion of that organ, is one of the most marked effects of large doses of Digitalis upon the heart. Any one who will take the trouble of reading tbe chapter on Digitalis in HempeVs Materia Medica and Therapeutics, can satisfy his mind in regard to this fact. This symptom does not call for Cactus, but Digitalis. We refer the reader to Professor Purkinge's beautiful experiments with Digitalis, reported on page 476 of the first volume of Hempel's above-mentioned work. CAHINCA RADIX. (Cainca Root-bark.) We are indebted to Dr. Buchner, of Munich, for a fine patho- genesis of this drug. It has acquired its greatest reputation from its curative virtues in dropsy. CALCAREA OXALICA. (Oxalate of Lime). This salt has been speculatively recommended as a remedy for certain forms of the calculous diathesis. •1220 CANCHALAGUA. CANNABIS INDICA. 21 CANCHALAGUA. (Gentiana de Peru, Chili Gentian.) Dr. Richter, from California, has introduced this drug as a remedy for fever and ague, for which purpose it is used by tbe natives. CANNABIS INDICA. (Haschisch.) Berthault divides the physiological effects of Haschisch into three periods: " The first is a period of excitement; it is characterized by the predominance of the physical over the intellectual excitement. Symptoms: at first, flushes of heat towards the head ; constriction of the temples, ringing in the ears, bursts of laughter, diminution of all the secretions, principally, of the salivary; feeling of happiness, of self-satisfaction, closure of the eye-lids; speech and movement are easy; general excitability, errors as to time and place, tendency to materialize and exaggerate all ideas, all sensations; pulse fre- quent, rising sometimes to one hundred and upwards. We have had it rise on one occasion to one hundred and eighty-four and one hundred and eighty-eight. " The second period is characterised by a diminution of the physical excitement; a desire is felt to lie down and be at rest; physical repose is sought while the intellectual excitement still ex- ists ; it is then especially that there exists a confusion of ideas; the patient closes his eyes; all kinds of hallucinations assail him, he experiences fixed ideas and delirious convictions ; the pulse is almost normal. " Finally, the third period is one of reaction. To this physical and intellectual excitement succeeds an urgent desire for repose. The desire to sleep becomes irresistible; and, indeed, a few hours sleep will suffice to dissipate all unpleasant symptoms."—See N. A. Journal, Yol. IV., page 121. CARDUUS MARIANUS. (St. Mary's Thistle.) An admirable proving of this drug, by Dr. Reil, of Halle, is contained in the third volume of the Horn. Vierteljahrs-Schrift, 1221 22 NEW REMEDIES. page 453. This drug was popularly used for a stitch in the side Its re-introduction into use as a remedial agent is due to Rade macher, who ranged it among his "Abdominal Remedies." This drug seems to enjoy a specific curative influence in certain chronic affections of the liver. Kissel, one of Rademacher's disciples, de- scribes the hepatic affection which yields to our lady's thistle, in the following terms: " Its form," says he, in his Zeitschrift fur Erfahrung, Vol. III., page 88, "was partly acute febrile, and partly chronic, and accompanied by fever; it presented a great variety of forms, the more constant of which, however, may be said to have been fever, stitch in the side, cough, frontal headache, debility and want of appetite; symptoms, nevertheless, not suffi- cient to diagnose the remedy. The fever and pains were exceed- ingly various, the stitches sometimes in one side, sometimes in the other, then under the false ribs, and again wandering about the abdomen; strangury was frequently present; cough, mostly dry, short, with scanty expectoration, seldom streaked with blood; de- bility always very great; inspiration .constantly very painful, but percussion and auscultation showing nothing abnormal. The right hypochondrium was soft, but sometimes very painful under pres- sure, in the region of the gall-bladder ; anorexia, moderate thirst, small, sometimes accelerated pulse; stool brown and consistent; urine mostly orange-yellow, frequently deep-yellow, or reddish-yel- low ; generally clear, always acid. In simple cases the remedy employed was a tincture of Carduus Mariae, in doses of a drachm to a drachm and a half a day ; in complicated cases, tinctura ferri acetici was simultaneously used. In the fifth volume of Kissel's work, page 12, Brennschedt, de- scribes an epidemic of grippe where Carduus proved the specific remedy. Digestive organs: Tongue moist, almost always coated, whitish-yellow in the middle, red at the tip and edges; appetite wanting or diminished, taste sticky, bitter; frequent nausea; vom- iting exceptional; the bowels were sometimes constipated, no diarrhoea, the fasces looked natural; hepatic region for the most part sensitive, especially in the neighborhood of the epigastric •egion; percussion showed nothing unnatural; urine brownish, dark-yellow, reddish. Chest: catarrh of the nasal mucous mem !>rane, and cough, with stitches in the side, but no haemoptysis. Mucous rales; hurried and superficial respiration. Nervous sys- tem: very troublesome headache in the frontal and temporal regions was always present, and even in slight attacks of the epidemic • they complained of dizziness and want of clearness of thought; 1222 CARDUUS MARIANUS. 23 sad and depressed expression of tbe countenance. General: Fever- ish reaction; increased temperature of the skin, terminating in sweat. The dose was from 15 to 20 drops of the tincture; in inveterate cases, a drachm five times a day. In 1850, a disorder resembling influenza, raged in Halle, as a precursor of cholera. The digestive apparatus was predominantly affected. Dr. Reil and some of his colleagues found the Carduus the most rapidly curative remedy. The symptoms were exceedingly diversified, but might all be reduced, in most of tbe cases, to dis- turbance of the hepatic functions. This was evidenced by the peculiar brown, gray, dirty complexion of the patient, sometimes passing into a true icteric tint, tbe sensitiveness of the left hepatic lobes to pressure, the bright, pale-yellow, seldom dark-green stool, and the dark-brown urine. This was accompanied by catarrhal irritation of the respiratory passages in varyiug intensity, generally writh considerable expectoration, without blood, but with great feeling of oppression over the whole chest, stitches in the side and great debility ; even in the slightest cases these latter symptoms were never wanting, and tbe patients complained of difficulty in speaking. Fever was present, with evening-exacerbations, violent ache in the forehead, and dullness of the head. When this disorder attacked old, asthmatic, haemorrhoidal or tuberculous subjects, their chronic ailments were greatly exagge- rated, and the Carduus alone restored them to their former con- dition. Rademacber was very fortunate in his treatment of concomitant affections, dependent upon disorders of the liver and spleen, of various sorts, with Carduus Marim. He enumerates among them haemoptysis, uterine haemorrhagia, epistaxis, jaundice, sciatica, chronic cough, haematemesis, hepatic affections consequent upon dysentery. Rademacher prepares his tincture by putting five pounds of the unbruised seeds in a convenient vessel, and pouring on them the most highly rectified alcohol and water, five pounds of each, di- gesting and frequently agitating for a week, pressing and filtering. Rademacher cautions against administering the seeds in emulsion, as the virtue lies in the hull, not in the kernel. It acts well in powder, a small spoonful of which may be administered four or five times a day; but should the apothecary, in his anxiety to pre- pare a fine powder, leave the chaff upon the sieve, the result will be null. An effective powder is not too fine, as the hulls are hard and difficult to pulverize. 1223 24 NEW REMEDIES. Reil sums up the curative sphere of Carduus in the following short paragraph : " It seems to act especially upon the liver; and, next to that, upon the haemostotic processes effected in the portal system ; also upon the thoracic and intestinal mucous membrane; it seems to act curatively in chronic as well as acute catarrhs of those tissues in old hepatic and splenic affections, and disorders of the female genital system." CAULOPHYLLUM THALICTROIDES. (Blue Cohosh.) Compare Cimicifuga, Helonias, Pulsatilla, Senecio, Secale-comutum, Trillium, Collinsonia-canadensis. We prepare a dark-brown tincture of the root. We likewise prepare triturations of the pulverised root, and use the resinoid Caulophyllum and triturations of the same. Although this drug had been extensively used by botanic and eclectic physicians, yet it remained unnoticed at the hands of homoeopathic physicians until Professor Hale directed their atten- tion to its admirable curative virtues in the first edition of his Neic Remedies. This drug has been recommended for rheumatism, more particu- larly of tbe smaller joints, and seems to be distinguished by its specific influence upon the uterine functions. Some of our best physicians testify to its virtues as an anti-rheumatic agent. Dr. Burt's provings show that Caulophyllum is specifically homoeopathic to sub-acute rheumatism of the carpal, metacarpal and phalangeal, as well as of the tarsal, metatarsal and toe-joints. Dr. Ludlam thinks that in the cases of rheumatism which he has treated with this drug, it has seemed more effectual in the case of female than in the case of male patients. Dr. Hughes suggests, in his Manual of Pharmacodynamics, that " Caulophyllum will probably rank with Pulsatilla and Sabina, as a remedy for that peculiar form of chronic rheumatism described by Dr. Fuller as secondary to uterine disorder." Professor Hale regards this drug as primarily homoeopathic to dysmenorrhcea, uterine cramps, congestion, spurious labor-pains, abortion, premature labor, after-pains, when these diseases are caused by exaltation of natural function or hyper-stimulation. Pathological conditions of this kind are distinguished by the char- 1224 CAULOPHYLLUM THALICTROIDES. 25 acter of spasm, and as a general rule, comparatively small quan- tities of the drug, such as a few drops of the tincture, or even oi the first or second decimal attenuation, are adequate to their re- moval. Secondarily, Caulophyllum is homoeopathic to uterine con- ditions resulting from exhaustion or atony of the uterine fibre, such as menorrhagia, metrorrhagia. When prescribed for conditions of this kind, larger quantities of the drug may be required. In dysmenorrhea, with horrid spasms, icy coldness of the ex- tremities, nausea and vomiting, excessive tenderness of the abdo- men, we have prescribed Caulophyllum sometimes, with instantane- ous relief. We have likewise administered it as a prophylactic, and have frequently succeeded in regulating the catamenial periods to the perfect satisfaction of the patient. A similar result has been obtained when the catamenial discharge was too profuse and too frequent. We have likewise found it very useful in moderating after-pains when they caused the patient to moan or lasted too long ; and we have found Caulophyllum an excellent means of changing the spas- modic character of labor-pains to normal pains, recurring at proper intervals, and gradually increasing to regular expulsive pains. As a preventive of miscarriage we have never yet used Caulo- phyllum alone, but either in alternation with Aconite or Secale- cornutum. After miscarriage the nervous system of the patient sometimes remains considerably shattered. Under these circumstances Caulo- phyllum, or its resinoid, Caulophyllin, may prove an excellent means of restoring it to its normal condition. In Hale's work on Abortion, we find a case reported by Dr. Ludlam, where, among other ailments, the patient was suffering with an incurable insom- nia. This was speedily cured by means of a few doses of Caulo- phyllin 2. In metrorrhagia we have used it with partial benefit. From what we have seen of the effects of Caulophyllum in an accident of this kind, we are prepared to affirm that it is endowed with re- markable remedial powers in this direction, but we are not by any means of tbe opinion expressed by some enthusiastic admirers of every thing new, that Caulophyllum supercedes Secale by its superior power to induce uterine contractions. In a case of des- perate flooding, which occurred suddenly about three hours after delivery, and where the uterus had contracted perfectly, Caulo- phyllum seemed utterly powerless to stop the flow of blood, although it was administered in proportionably small as well aa 52 1225 26 NEW REMEDIES. what might very properly be called heroic doses. Secale likewise seemed to have very little effect. Trillium and other remedies were likewise powerless. Nothing saved the patient's life but dashing snow against the abdomen, plugging the vagina with pounded ice, grasping the womb with the hand, applying stimu- lants to the nose, and supporting the patient with small quantities of broth, port-wine, &c. It was the most desperate case of flood- ing it has ever been our lot to witness. This patient, a young primipara, passed through a slow course of adynamic fever, with metro-peritoneal inflammation, a sort of puerperal typhus, but made a perfect recovery under the almost exclusive use of Digita- lis and Belladonna and suitable hygienic means. How far Caulophyllum may be relied upon as a means of arrest- ing the uterine haemorrhages which often occur during the critical period in a woman's life, we have no positive means of affirming. We have tried it faithfully in some very severe cases, and, we be- lieve, have seen good effects from it; but we have not been able, in a single case, to get along without the additional use of such drugs as Secale, Cinnamon-water, with Sulphuric-acid, Aconite, Arsenic, and others. During the session of the Western Institute of Homoeopathy, held in Chicago, May, 1864, Dr. Burbank, of Illinois, related a case of paraplegia which he cured with Caulophyllum. The pa- tient was a middle-aged lady. On the ninth day after her confine- ment she was attacked with what her allopathic physician desig- nated as metritis. Under the usual old-school treatment this affec- tion subsided, but left her almost completely paraplegic. There was almost complete loss of sensation, and the power of motion was almost entirely lost. She was unable to move her limbs in bed, or to stand upon them. The patient was emaciated, anaemic, and very much debilitated. When the Doctor first saw the case, two years after the patient was first taken sick, she was getting steadily worse. Nux, Cocculus, the Citrate of Iron, Strychnine, had no effect. An examination showed retroversion, congestion and enlargement of the uterus. Caulophyllin 2, was administered, and its use persisted in for six months, until the patient was eutirely restored to health. CEDRON. This is the fruit of the Simaruba-cedron, a tree in South-America. The nut is of a lighter color than the Brazil-nut, about the same 1226 CEPA, ALLIUM CEPA. CHIMAPHILA UMBELLATA. 27 size as the latter, flat, sharp at the edges and somewhat raised in the middle. The Natives use the kernel as an antidote against the bites of venomous serpents and as a remedy for fever and ague. CEPA, ALLIUM CEPA. (Onion.) is recommended by Dr. Hering, of Philadelphia, for coryza, cold in the head, with discharge of water from the eyes, discharge of burn- ing water from the nose, cough starting from the larynx which the patient grasps with his hand. It is likewise recommended for other affections, such as catarrhal toothache, with throbbing, drawing, pressing pains. I am not acquainted with any reliable clinical re- cords of this drug. CHELONE GLABRA. (Balmony.) We have no provings of this drug. Professor Hale recommends it in debility, jaundice and helminthiasis. If we use this agent, we have to do so empirically or in accordance with such suggestions as are offered by writers of the eclectic school. CHIMAPHILA UMBELLATA. (Pipsissewa.) This evergreen ranks with Buchu, Pareira-brava, Uva-ursi, &c. as a remedy for urinary affections. It has been used in calculous and dropsical affections, more particularly in ascites. According to eclectic writers it is more particularly in atonic dropsy, accompanied with debility that this drug is particularly indicated. According to Doctor P. H. Hale of Hudson, Michigan, the Chi- maphila induces atrophy of the breasts. He applied it to tumors in the breasts which vanished under its influence together with the breast. In a case of scirrhous tumor he prescribed the drug in 40 drop-doses of the tincture three times a day for three months, at the end of which period the tumor had disappeared together with two-thirds of each breast. 1£27 28 NEW REMEDIES. CHLORINE. (Chlorine-water.) The vapors from this water have been recommended for laryngis mus stridulus and other spasmodic affections of the air-passages We have never yet made use of this remedy, having been abun dantly able to get along without it. CIMICIFUGA RACEMOSA. (Black Cohosh.) Compare with—Aconitum-napellus, Caulophyllum, Secale-comutum, Agaricus muscarius. This plant is the Actaea-racemosa of Linnaeus; it is also described under the name of Macrotys-racemosa by older writers. We prepare a tincture of the root, and likewise triturations of the dried root. From the root we obtain a resinoid Cimicifugin, of which we likewise prepare triturations. Drs. Marcy, H. M. Paine, and others, have furnished provings of this drug. It has been used by physicians of every school with great success, in a variety of affections, and constitutes an impor- tant addition to our Materia Medica. In rheumatism it has been used with good effect, especially in rheumatism of the muscular tissue. If the rheumatism is acute, accompanied by inflammatory fever, we are in the habit of either giving Aconite first, following it up with Cimicifuga; or else we give both remedies in alternation. There are certain muscles upon which Aconite has a predominantly specific influence ; one of these is the deltoid muscle. In rheumatism of the deltoid muscle, with or without fever, no medicine can compete with Aconite. In rheumatism of the dorsum of the foot, Pulsatilla is the sovereign remedy. In rheumatic headache, with throbbing in the temples and fore- head, soreness of the scalp, dull heavy pain in the forehead, Cimi- cifuga is said to have good effect. We have no experience of our own to offer in this respect. In pleurodynia, where Aconite, Arnica, Bryonia and the like, were all that we had to depend upon, and where we were so fre- quently left in the lurch by these agents, we have in Cimicifuga a much more reliable friend than in any of the above-mentioned drugs. 1228 CIMICTFUGA RACEMOSA. 29 In rheumatic lumbago and spinal irritation, Cimicifuga com- petes with, although it does not supersede Aconite. We prescribe it both internally and externally. Our provings show very satisfactorily that this drug is possessed of a powerful and specific influence over the nervous system, not only the cerebro-spinal, but likewise the ganglionic nerves. Hence we find that it has fine curative effects in a variety of nervous disorders. In chorea we have found Cimicifuga useful, if tbe disease origi- nated in rheumatic irritation, or seemed to be traceable to some abnormal condition of the female sexual organs. In vol. HI. of the Proceedings of the New- York Horn. Med. Society, page 360, Dr. Searle, of Troy, furnishes an interesting article on the successful employment of this drug in cerebro-spinal meningitis. In delirium tremens we may expect excellent effects from our drug. Its action upon the brain has produced a group of symp- toms simulating delirium tremens to perfection. In this disease Opium has to be given in such large quantities, that any drug, which, when given in moderate doses, will conquer this abnormal condition of the brain, must be hailed as a God-send by every humane practitioner. The specific curative virtues of Cimicifuga in the sexual sphere of the female have been tested to our perfect satisfaction. It is a powerful preventive of miscarriage, where it may have to be given in teaspoonful doses, if we wish to secure the desired effect. One dose may prove sufficient. It gives great relief to nervous and rheumatic subjects who are afflicted with painful menstruation. Professor Hale informs us that, if given some time previous to the menstrual period, it will prevent the distress and secure an easy and regular advent of the catamenia. We have never seen any striking results from the use of this drug in metrorrhagia or menorrhagia. It facilitates labor-pains, securing normal and regular contractions of the uterine walls, in place of the spasmodic, irregular, ineffectual and exhausting con- tractions which sometimes render the first period of labor one of great distress to nervous females. In case of uterine atony or ex- haustion, we place more reliance upon Secale, either for the pur- pose of restoring the expulsive action of the uterus, or preventing or arresting haemorrhage, by securing adeauate contraction of this organ after parturition. In the form of epilepsy which Schoenlein denominates uterine 1229 * 30 NEW REMEDIES. epilepsy, it has been used by physicians of the eclectic and tbe regular allopathic school with much success. In puerperal mania, Professor Simpson, of Edinburgh, has used tbe Actaea with the most brilliant success. In part 43 of Braith- waiters Retrospect, he reports a case of puerperal hypochondriasis successfully treated with the tincture of Cimicifuga. After trying in vain many plans to raise the patient out of her dark and gloomy state, he finally ordered her fifty drops of the tincture of Actaea three times a day. On the third or fourth day, the cloud of misery which had been darkening her existence, suddenly began to dis- solve, and in a day or two more she felt perfectly herself again, in gaiety, spirits and energy. This lady afterwards informed the Professor that she had prescribed her own remedy to more than one melancholic subject, with nearly as great success as she had used it in her own case. Cimicifuga affords relief from tbe ailments incident to irritable uterus and to the period of menopausia, such as pain in the lum- bar region, recurring more or less periodically; distress in the upper part of the head, abnormal irritability of temper, flushings, pains in the mammae and other parts sympathetic with the mammae: and, as Dr. Richard Hughes informs us, it likewise dissipates " the infra-mammary pain in unmarried females, which Simpson tells us is to the uterus what pain in the shoulder is to the liver." In functional disturbance of the heart, neuralgia qf the heart, angina pectoris, palpitation, &c, superinduced by rheumatic ex- posure, Cimicifuga renders excellent service. Tn organic heart- disease we consider it powerless; at least we have never derived any good effects from it in our own practice. In the works of eclectic practitioners especially, we find this drug cracked up in terms of extravagant praise as a sovereign remedy for affections of the heart. We would caution homoeopathic physicians against allowing themselves to be beguiled into similar extravagances. Cimicifuga is an excellent means of cure for a certain range of heart-affections; Cactus-grandifiorus for another range; but to infer from this, as has been done by homoeopathic practitioners, that they are superior to such well-tried remedies as Aconite and Digi. talis, shows a strong deficiency of discriminating judgment and well-founded knowledge and experience. 1230 COLLINSONIA CANADENSIS. 31 COLLINSONIA CANADENSIS. (Stone-root.) Compare with—Aconite, JSsculus, Caulophyllum, Aloes, Hydrastis, Sulphur. We prepare both a tincture and trituration of the root, and likewise obtain and use a resinoid Collinsonia. This drug was first brought prominently to the notice of the homoeopathic profession by Drs. Dunham and Fowler, of New- York. It has been successfully used for hemorrhoids, constipa- tion and dysmenorrhcea. A number of interesting cases are re- ported by Dr. Fowler and others in the North American Journal op Homoeopathy, where constipation and dysmenorrhcea, or con- stipation and haemorrhoids, or constipation and a variety of con- sensual symptoms, such as headache, cough, dyspepsia, &c, yielded to the use of Collinsonia in a reasonably short period of time, and permanently. Dr. Fowler used a decoction of the root, taking a handful of the chopped root in a quart of water, boiled down to a pint. Of this preparation the patient took a wineglassful three times a day. Triturations of the Collinsonin, and the tincture and its attenua- tions, have been used with equal success by homoeopathic practi- tioners. Dr. Fowler's first acquaintance with the drug was procured in tbe following manner, (see North American Journal of Homoeo- pathy, vol. VI., page 50): " Some two years since," writes the Doctor, " I remarked to a friend and patient that I was honored with a number of cases of obstinate haemorrhoids, and that I really wished that I possessed some means of curing them, without dan- ger of entailing some more serious disorder. My friend replied that he could tell me of a remedy, and remarked that two or three years ago he was an absolute martyr, in fact crippled with haemor- rhoids." The remedy was Collinsonia, and the patient was cured by the above-mentioned decoction, in two weeks. In another case varicocele disappeared altogether with the ob- stinate constipation for which the remedy was taken. Dr. Snelling reports a case, where a distressing pruritus vulvae, dysmenorrhcea and symptoms of prolapsus uteri, in the case of an unmarried lady, aged 35 years, were " quietly and completely re- moved," in about a fortnight, by the use of Collinsonia, triturated in the proportion of one to four, of which the patient took three doses a day of three grains ea h. Dr Burt has furnished a proving of this drug, the reading of 1231 32 new remedies. which, at the third annual meeting of the Western Institute of Homoeopathy, elicited a discussion, in the course of which Prof. Hale called attention to the use of this drug in diseases of the heart. Dr. P. H. Hale, of Hudson, Mich., related a case of valvular disease consequent upon a severe attack of inflammatory rheuma- tism, where Collinsonia seemed to afford marked relief. Other physicians have reported equally favorably on the good effects of this drug in diseases of the heart. CORNUS CIRCINATA. (Round-leaved Dogwood.) A pathogenesis of this drug may be found in the third volume of the North American Journal, page 279. The provers were Drs. Crane, Freeman and Fullgraff. It is recommended for dark, bilious stools, with pain in the bowels before, during and after the discharges; dull, heavy sensation in the head, with shooting, ach- ing or throbbing pains in the head ; symptoms of gastric derange- ment, such as loss of appetite, nausea, bitter taste; cholera-infan- tum, prostrating diarrhoea, unrefreshing sleep; chilliness, followed by flushes of heat. CORYDALIS FORMOSA. (Turkey Corn.) We have no provings of this drug. Hale recommends it in his New Remedies for scrofula and scrofulous cachexia, gastric catarrh; cachexia common after intermittents, and in certain obstinate cuta- neous diseases. CYPRIPEDIUM PUBESCENS. (Large Yellow Ladies' Slipper.) We have no provings of this drug, and have to use it empiri- cally, or in accordance with the recommendations of eclectics. Professor Hale recommends it for morbid irritability of the brain, more especially in the case of children. Dr. Kendall has found an infusion of the root useful as an intercurrent remedy for the jactitation, restlessness and trembling common in typhoid fever. 1232 dioscorea vtllosa. 33 DIOSCOREA VILLOSA. (Wild Yam ) Compare with—Aconite, Chamorailla, Ipecacuanha, Arsenicum, Colocynthis. We use a tincture of the root, and likewise the resinoid Dios- corein and its triturations. This drug had been used by tbe most eminent eclectic physicians of the West, and by some of our Western homoeopaths, as their chief remedy for bilious colic, when it was more prominently intro- duced to the homoeopathic brotherhood in Professor Hale's New Remedies. We have some excellent provings of this drug by Drs. Burt, Nichol, Summer and Michener, which account most fully and satisfactorily for the curative powers which this drug has evinced in bilious colic, in spasmodic colic, and in cardialgia. We learn from these provings that Dioscorea produces severe burning, spasmodic, griping, aching pains, either in the epigastric region or bowels; hence, being in homoeopathic rapport with similar patho- logical conditions, it will necessarily cure the latter. Of the cases in which we have been able to test its virtues, we will mention the following three, as illustrative of the range of symptoms where its good effects may be relied upon. Case 1—A young lady from the South, of 22 years, was subject to attacks of bard, choking pain in the pit of the stomach. There was no nausea, but tbe distress was agonizing, causing her to moan, shiver and tremble; the extremities were cold, the pulse weak and sinking. She had been suffering for a long time from such attacks, and had done a good deal to obtain permanent relief from her distress, but so far to no purpose. An attack generally lasted a good while and left her very much prostrated. During one of her attacks she happened to be on a visit in our family, She took ten drops of Lodge's tincture of Dioscorea, and had scarcely swallowed the dose when she was completely and per- manently relieved of her suffering. In this young lady's case the attacks had originally been brought on by the great mental and physical distress which the war had caused in her section of tbe country and in her family. Case 2.—A gentleman of 45 years, of rather delicate constitu- tion and a very active mind, had for a year past been subject to attacks of pain in the epigastric region and the upper half of the abdomen. They had originally been brought on by excessive mental labor, sitting up late at night, eating late suppers, walk- 52* 78 1233 84 NEW remedies. ing and standing in very light boots on damp and cold ground, &c. The attacks set in with creeping chills, a slightly accelerated but very feeble pulse, expression of distress and pallor of the coun- tenance, severe crampy pains in the bowels as if the bowels were twisted together in a knot, or drawn together with an iron band ; the spirits were depressed, whereas, in his natural mood, the patient had tbe reputation of being the most jovial man in town ; the bowels were constipated, and the general prostration of the sys- tem was very great. The family, who had been employing an ex- cellent allopathic physician as their family adviser, had managed to get along with hot fomentations to the bowels, mustard-draughts, opiates and the like; but, getting tired of this treatment, and the attacks getting worse from week to week and month to month, finally he determined to try homoeopathic treatment in the case. Fifteen to twenty drops of the tincture of Dioscorea were mixed in half a goblet of water, of which the patient took a desertspoonful every ten minutes. In about half an hour relief commenced, and progressed so rapidly that the patient was able, on the morning after the attack, to be about his office and attend to his ordinary duties. Owing to his persistent irregularities in diet, and to his recklessness in exposing himself to all kinds of weather, attacks would come on occasionally, but the Dioscorea always proved a match for them. If I am not mistaken, he has not had any attack now for half a year, whereas, formerly, they used to come on as often as once a fortnight and even once a week, and would keep him prostrated for three, four and even more days. Case 3.—The patient was a very stout woman of 40 years, mar- ried. For several years past she had been subject to the following paroxysms, which came on once a fortnight, or once every three or four weeks, but sometimes more frequently. She was suddenly taken with a horrid cramp-pain in the pit of the stomach, the lesser curvature felt as if it were violently drawn towards the spine; every few minutes she had to vomit up bile, blood and mucus; the effort to vomit seemed truly heart-rending; the pulse was slightly accelerated and very feeble. Hands and feet very cold. These attacks sometimes lasted several days, and left tbe patient pros- trated for days after. All treatment in her case proved unavailing. All that could be done for her was to palliate her sufferings with opiates. Thanks to the New Remedies, we became acquainted with Dioscorea-villosa, which proved the best and only friend that this woman ever had had in her distress. Tbe drug at once ar- rested the vomiting, the crampy distress; she was able to lie on 1234 D0LICH0S pruriens. erigeron canadense. 35 her back or side, and the day following the attack she was able to leave her bed. Whenever an attack threatened to come on at any subsequent period, the Dioscorea very speedily put a stop to it. Over-work, such as washing and mopping the floor, or eating indi gestible food, were the main causes that brought an attack on in her case. Some of our physicians have used this drug with great advan- tage in cholera morbus and dysentery, when attended with severe spasmodic pains in the bowels. DOLICHOS PRURIENS. (Cowhage.) This agent is used as a vermifuge with excellent success. Prof. Stokes, of Dublin, reports several cases in his work on Theory and Practice, where a syrup of Cowhage removed a quantity of worms, and, together with the worms, various constitutional symptoms, cough, chronic bronchitis, dyspnoea, orthopnoea, hepatization of the left lower lobe of the lungs, &c. Dr. Jeanes, of Philadelphia, gave it for a sticking pain in the throat as from a splinter. ELAPS CORALLINUS. (Coral Viper.) This poison is recommended for deafness and fever and ague. ERIGERON CANADENSE. (Canada Flea Bane.) Compare with—Aconite, Arsenicum, Secale-cornutum, Caulophyllum, Arnica, Ipeoacuanha. This drug was first introduced to the homoeopathic profession by Dr. Ring, of Ohio. In the New- York Journal of Homozopathy, he writes: "Recently I have had two cases of dysuria in teething children, which yielded to no remedy until I made use of drop doses (two or three drops every two or three hours) of a tincture of the Erigeron-canadense. The symptoms in the two cases were more particularly pain so as to cause a great deal of crying on 1235 f 36 NEW REMEDIES. voiding urine, the calls for which are frequent. The secretion was abnormally increased and had a very strong odor. The parts ex- ternally—both were female children—were in both cases very much inflamed, or irritated, with considerable mucus discharged. The children were very fretful at all times." In dysuria of children we have found this remedy very excellent. Tbe provings furnished by Dr. Burt, of Iowa, seem to show that this drug has some speci- fic relation to the kidneys. He experienced a severe sticking pain in the right kidney, and a persistent, hard, aching pain in the lumbar region. Some of our physicians recommend this drug very strongly for uterine hcemorrhagia. In the cases where we have tried it, we have not derived any benefit from its use. It may be that it is only indicated in a peculiar range of cases which have not yet been correctly defined. Dr. Burt experienced for several days in suc- cession, hard, aching pain in the larger joints, apparently of a rheumatic character. May not the haemorrhages to which Erigeron is homoeopathic be of this nature ? We have tried the Erigeron in a case of hcematuria where we felt satisfied this remedy would exert a curative influence. The patient was a little girl, ten years old. She was a feeble, cachectic child, and passed half a small -chamberful of a dark-looking, offensive fluid, a mixture of blood and urine, at one sitting. There was considerable burning distress in the region of tbe kidneys. She bad been sick for some days when we were called. The Erigeron oil did not touch the case. Arsenicum 2 centes., changed the condition of things so completely between evening and morning, that next forenoon the child was discharged cured. Time and again we have promptly arrested haemorrhage from the nose, lungs, stomach, urethra and womb with Aconite, Squills, Arsenic, Ipecacuanha and Secale-cornutum, yet we can call to mind cases where Erigeron would have been exceedingly acceptable, if we bad known of it. ERYNGIUM AQUATICUM. (Button Snake-root.) We have a fair pathogenesis of this drug by some of the mem- bers of Cleveland College, Ohio. This drug has been used with good effect in seminal emissions and spermatorrhoea, some cures of which are recorded in Hill and Hunt's Surgery, Vol. I., page 400. 1236 EUPATORIUM AROMATICUM. GAIXIC ACID. 37 EUPATORIUM AROMATICUM. (White Snike-root.) Dr. B. L. Hill has recommended this drug in his Epitome of Practice, as a specific remedy for aphthous stomatitis in females and children. EUPATORIUM PURPUREUM. (Queen of the Meadow, Gravel Root.) The influence of this drug over the urinary secretions is very marked. It has been successfully used in strangury, excessive irritability of the bladder, dropsy depending upon renal trouble. The dose has to be tolerably large. EUPHORBIA COROLLATA. (Blooming Spurge.) According to what we know of the action of this drug upon the normal organism, it may be recommended for cholera-morbus, with vonaiting and diarrhoea, for an exhausting diarrhoea and dysenteric diarrhoea. It seems to act similarly to Ipecacuanha and Tartar- emetic. GALLIC ACID. This acid has been employed with success against various kinds of haemorrhage, from the lungs, nose, kidneys. It is useful in menorrhagia, and diminishes the profuse expectoration of pus in phthisis. In pyrosis it has bad a good effect. GALLIUM. (Cleavers.) Compare with—Agave-Americana, Erigeron-canadense, Chimaphila, Iodine. Of the various species of Gallium which are found both in this country and in Europe, the Gallium-aperinum is the species gene- rally employed for meoiciLa. preparations. It has been extensively J 1237 38 NEW REMEDIES. used by eclectic physicians, and is likewise used by physicians of our own school, in the shape of a cold or warm infusion, which seems to be the most efficient mode of securing the therapeutic virtues of this plant, the root of which is not used It is recom- mended and has been used with, success in dysuria, ischuria and calculous affections. It is likewise said to be useful as an anti scorbutic agent. Tbe British Journal of Homozopathy, vol. XXLTL, page 139, contains the record of a cancerous affection of the tongue cured by Gallium. " The patient was a married woman, 60 years of age, and was admitted into the hospital April 5th, 1864, on account of a hard, firm, somewhat circumscribed tumor, of about the size of a boy's marble flattened, imbedded in the sub- stance of tbe tongue, on the right side, about an inch from its apex, which had been gradually increasing in size since she first observed it, five weeks before, when it was about as large as a hemp-seed. " The upper surface was nodulated and uneven, and the swelling generally had the appearance and feel of a scirrhous formation in the organ. It had all along been extremely painful, so much so as entirely to prevent her sleeping at night; it was exquisitely tender to the touch when handled, and latterly she had experienced a throbbing, beating pain in it, which had induced her to think it was about to burst. There was no appearance of its having been caused by injury to the tongue through a decayed tooth. She had always been in the habit of living tolerably well, but had been suffering a good deal from general debility and languor for some time before the commencement of the swelling. Her countenance did not indicate any peculiar cachectic condition of the system, and there was no history of any hereditary cancerous taint in the family. The tumor had increased rather rapidly lately, and she was quite unable to masticate solid food on account of the pain it induced, which had added much to her original weakness. " She was ordered to have strong cold beef tea frequently dur- ing the day for diet, with a pint of porter daily, and to take tbe following medicine: Two ounces of the solid extract of Gallium- aperinum to half a pound of water. Of this solution she took one drachm and a half a day, in a wineglassful of water. She was also ordered to use the above mixture as a warm lotion to the mouth several times a day, keeping it in the mouth for some time during each application. " A month after her admission, she had completely recovered from the languor and debility under which she had previously been 1238 GELSEMINUM SEMPERVIRENS. 39 suffering; her face, instead of being pallid and sallow, had re- covered a healthy and somewhat florid appearance, which was natural to her; the pain in the tumor had been gradually diminish- ing ; and the tumor itself had become so much reduced in size as to be scarcely discernible to tbe touch, and as she was now able to take solid food without discomfort and with an appetite, she was, at tbe end of five weeks, discharged from the hospital. A fortnight afterwards, having continued the remedies prescribed, she presented herself as an out-patient, when it was found that the tumor had entirely disappeared, and the tongue had recovered its natural structure and appearance." In epilepsy, Dr. Ogle has obtained the most successful results by means of this agent! GELSEMINUM SEMPERVIRENS. (Yellow Jessamine.) Compare with—'Aconite, Belladonna, Cannabis-indica, Caulophyllum Opium, Veratrum-viride, Chloroform. We prepare a tincture of the root, and likewise use the resinoid Gelsemiu. This drug was first recommended to the homoeopathic profession by Dr. B. L. Hill, in the year 1856, who at that time filled the Chair of Surgery in the Cleveland Homoeopathic College. We have made extensive use of this drug in our own practice, and can recommend it in the following affections, where a number of other homoeopathic practitioners have likewise tested and verified its curative virtues, both in high and low attenuations, and large, ma- terial doses. Gelseminum exerts a marked influence over the muscles. In one of the few cases of poisoning reported by King, a prominent eclectic writer, we find the following effects recorded of the poison: " Complete loss of muscular power; was unable to move a limb, or even to raise bis eyelids, although he could hear and was cog- nizant of circumstances transpiring around him. His friends, greatly alarmed, collected around him, watching the result with much anxiety, and expecting every minute to see him breathe his last. After some hours he gradually recovered. This case shows that Gelseminum is specifically homoeopathic to cataleptic conditions and to attacks of hysteria resembling cata- lepsy. We have used it with advantage in such attacks. 1239 40 NEW REMEDIES. We are in possession of a number of excellent provings of thi^ drug, all of which shed a good deal of light upon the therapeutic powers of this remarkable agent. Its influence upon the eyes is very great; it causes dimness of sight, amaurosis, paralysis of tbe upper eyelids. Provers have experienced a variety of pains in the head; sometimes the pain was felt over the whole head, sometimes only in the forehead, or extending from the occiput to the fore- head, or in the side of the head. A symptom in Dr. Henry's prov- ing reads: " The pains seem to wind round the right eye." Tht Gelseminum pains in the head seem to show a tendency to occui periodically, or to shift from one region to another and then to re- appear again in the former. Headaches of this character come within the province of Gelseminum. They are nervous, or rheu- matic headaches. In nervous hemicrania Gelseminum must prove useful. There is no vomiting, as in sick headache, but great ner- vous suffering, the irritation being confined to one side of the head, involving the eye, and causing great nervousness. Rheumatic headaches, with drawing or heavy dull pains, or sharp, shooting pains in the forehead, pains in the top of the head or down the occiput, yield to Gelseminum. In both these classes of headache the eyes are more or less affected. Irritation of the eyes charac- terized by soreness of the eyeballs, disturbed vision, lachrymation, pricking pain in the eyes, heaviness and drooping of the lids, would be additional indications for Gelseminum. Such headaches are likewise very often accompanied by the dizziness which all our provers of Gelseminum have experienced in a greater or less degree. The influence of Gelseminum over the nervous and muscular systems has already been alluded to. It causes, and therefore will cure catalepsy. It likewise causes pains resembling those of neu- ralgic rheumatism. They are drawing and crampy pains in the muscles and toes. In Mr. Bigelow's proving these drawing, con- tracting and crampy pains extended from the thighs to the toes, and seemed to proceed from tbe bones as well as the muscles. Gelseminum being possessed of such a remarkable power to extin- guish muscular activity, wre may derive benefit from its use in some attacks of rheumatic paralysis. Consensual abnormal impressions of the general sensorium, such as Gelseminum is capable of pro ducing, may furnish additional indications for its use in an attack of this kind. In hysteria, with excessive melancholy, prostration of the mus- cular power, excessive nervous irritability, spasmodic attacks, Gel- peminum has effected fine cures. Its action upon the mind, as 1240 GELSEMINUM SEMPERVIRENS. 41 elicited by our provings, account for its successful use in hysteric affections. Even hysteric convulsions have yielded promptly and permanently to its influence. So have puerperal convulsions in the hands of Dr. Douglas and our own. Tetanic convulsions are said to have been cured with Gelseminum. We have no experience to offer in this respect. In trismus, more especially in the trismus of hysteria, we have known it to relax the spasm very promptly. In neuralgia, particularly of tbe face, Gelseminum should not be overlooked. It is not, by any means, the equal of Aconite in this disease; and, in the intermittent neuralgia of districts where fever and ague are endemic, Quinine exceeds it by far in therapeutic power. Nevertheless, if the attack is attended by dizziness, a sen- sation as if the brain would float off, blurred vision, soreness and redness of the eyeball; or if the attack is chiefly experienced in the eyeball itself, or in the region above or around the orbit, Gel- seminum may be advantageously given in alternation with Quinine, but in moderately large doses. In congestive neuralgia, when the affected part feels swollen, with a good deal of burning and throb- bing distress; or in the tic-douloureux of the French, when the pains are lancing, boring, gnawing, sticking, screwing, &c, wTe never hesitate, in case the external and internal use of Aconite does not afford speedy relief, to administer this remedy in alterna- tion with Gelseminum. We naturally would expect a gr*eat deal from Gelseminum in affections of the eyes. It has proved an excellent remedy in asthenopia, or weakness of sight, occasioned by abusing the visual organ, or overstraining it. Gelseminum will prove beneficial to literary persons who have weakened their eyes by reading at night, or to mechanics, who have to strain their eyes by fine work. Ruta has been the stand-by of homoeopathic physicians in this trouble, but we have never derived much benefit from it. Gelseminum promises much better in this respect. In amaurosis and amblyopia, with spots floating before the eyes, &c, Gelseminum has effected very brilliant cures. However, it will not supercede either Aconite or Belladonna in this affection. In a case of amaurosis, resulting from rheumatic exposure, attended with intense pain in the region where the internal carotid winds round the optic nerve, a few drops of tbe tincture of Aconite, in half a tumbler of water, in desert- spoonful doses every ten or fifteen minutes, effected a speedy cure. In ptosis, a paralytic drooping of the upper lids, Gelseminum is specifically indicated by our provings, and by the few cases of poisoning reported in King's Dispensatory. In strabismus, when 1241 42 NEW REMEDIES. resulting from accidental spasmodic irritation of the muscles of the eyes, Gelseminum competes with any of tbe remedies upon which we are in the habit of relying for curative effects in this disease. Whether Gelseminum will prove of much use in affections of the sense of hearing, we are unable to say. Dr. Allen, of New-York, reports a curious case of sore throat, with deafness and dysmenor- rhcea, where all these symptoms disappeared as if by magic under the operation of a dose of Gelseminum 100. Enuresis of children as well as old people, resulting from weak- ness or paralysis of the sphincter, has been satisfactorily treated with Gelseminum. In spasms of the urethers and bladder, when caused by exposure, or by the passage of calculi through the ureters, Gelseminum competes with Belladonna and Chamomilla. In seminal emissions, with relaxation of the parts, Gelseminum has afforded much relief; likewise in spermatorrhoea. Dr. Thomas Nichol reports a very brilliant cure of this latter disease. The patient was a young man who had brought himself to the brink of the grave by self-abuse. The Doctor placed him upon the first decimal trituration of Gelsemin, one-third of a grain, morning, noon and night; and, in the space of nine months restored him to perfect health. In gonorrhoea, Gelseminum has likewise effected cures. Dr. John Douglas, of Chester District, S. C, states that some thirty years ago, a patient came into his office with gonorrhoea of several months' standing, which had been improperly treated. One of his pupils begged him to allow him to treat the case, saying he could cure the most obstinate case in a few days with the root of Yellow Jessamine. A small handful of tbe root was put into a common junk-bottle of whiskey, and the patient ordered, in a day or two, to take a tablespoonful of this mixture night and morning. He took but a few doses when he became much alarmed with the effect upon his eyes, thinking that the medicine had destroyed his vision. Every symptom of gonorrhoea had, however, disappeared, and the cure was permanent. Since that time he has treated many cases with it, and invariably with the same success. In this disease tbe medicine has to be given in tolerably massive doses, Brilliant cures have been effected by this drug with quantities large enough to cause blindness. In affections of the bowels our personal experience with Gelse- minum is very limited. Eclectics profess to have employed it with great success in bilious diarrhoea, dysentery and in spasmodic colic, caused by the presence of worms. There is certainly no reason 1242 GELSEMINUM SEMPERVIRENS. 43 why it should not moderate the tormina and tenesmus in dysentery, or relax the spasm in strangulated hernia, or the spasmodic dis tress caused by worms. Dr. Hale says, that " he has had unusual success in treating worm affections with Gelsemin 2, decimal tri- turation, alternated with Podophyllin, 1 st or 2d, and Santonin, one- tenth, each in grain doses, two hours apart. After two or thret days the worms are either expelled in large numbers, or the ver- minous symptoms all disappear. A weak dilution of the tincture injected into the rectum will often bring away large quantities of ascarides." We have already alluded to the fact, that Gelseminum has evinced fine therapeutic powers in dysmenorrhcea. Dr. Allen, of New-York, relieved a case of dysmenorrhcea of long standing by a small dose of Gelseminum 100. This seems a most extraordinary case, where dysmenorrhcea, chronic sore throat and deafness were cured at one blow. Nevertheless, all these ailments may have re- sulted from one and the same condition of abnormal innervation, and, for this reason, yielded to a remedial influence that was adequate to remove the first cause of these derangements. Spasmodic labor-pains and distressing and exhausting after- pains, are controlled by Gelseminum. In uterine hcemorrhage, from atony of the uterine vessels, Gelseminum has been employed with success. In prolonged menorrhagia it may be depended upon as an efficient agent to arrest the flow of blood. The homoeo- pathicity of this drug will have to be determined by the accom- panying symptoms and the general nature of the case. In general, Gelseminum is one of those agents which will prove of vast benefit to an accoucheur. It has power to speedily over- come the rigidity of the os uteri, which is so often an obstacle to labor, and will quiet the nervousness which is so troublesome to parturient females, or during pregnancy, and will afford them a refreshing sleep, if they should be tormented by sleeplessness. Our provings point to Gelseminum as an agent that may do good service in catarrh and influenza. The headache and the peculiar irritation which this agent occasions, the sharp, shooting pains in the forehead, the catarrhal irritation of the Schneiderian membrane, fluid discharges from the nose and throat, soreness and irritation of the air-passages, cough, and the general debility, chilliness and the more or less general myalgia which we find recorded among the pathogenetic symptoms of this drug, justify its use in simple catarrhal affeotions. Of course, it will not supercede Aoonite, 1243 44 NEW REMEDIES. Arsenic, Tartar-emetic and other drugs belonging to tbe same series. In spasmodic and racking cough, having a catarrhal origin, with irritation of the lining membrane of the air-passages, we have de- rived benefit from the use of this drug. We have never depended upon it either in acute bronchitis or acute pneumonia, although in pulmonary congestion, its employment would seem justified upon homoeopathic principles. Some of the pathogenetic symptoms of this drug point to acute congestion of pulmonary parenchyma. One of Dr. Henry's symptoms reads: " Short, paroxysmal pain in the superior part of the right lung; on taking a long breath, it sticks from above downwards; this pain in the lungs is one of the most prominent symptoms." In spasm of the glottis, Gelseminum has been used with some benefit by some homoeopathic physicians. We have cured the most threatening cases of this disease with Aconite, but should not hesitate to employ both drugs in alternation, giving a much larger dose of the Gelseminum than the Aconite. In fever Gelseminum commends itself to the attention of homoeo- pathic practitioners. In the common catarrhal, or even rheumatic fever, we have always got along very satisfactorily with Aconite, Chamomilla, Mercurius-vivus, using in the more deep-seated cases a few doses of Belladonna, &c. Gelseminum has proved a most acceptable addition to this group of remedies, especially when the fever-type approximated to the remittent type. In the infantile remittent fever, which Schcenlein describes as acute scrofula, Gelse- minum is a very efficient curative agent. It must not be expected, however, that such a fever can be cured as if by magic. In infan- tile remittents the fever depends upon an acute irritation of the me- senteric ganglia, on which account, Schcenlein likewise denominates such a pathological condition " acute ganglionitis." If there is much stupor, dry heat of the skin, especially of the abdomen, flushed face, dilatation of the pupils, Belladonna may be required. Iodine and Aoonite are useful agents in this disease. Let us like- wise be thankful for the powerful aid of Gelseminum. We would suggest, however, that in some of the fine cures reported as cures of infantile remittent fever, the fever really was an acute attack of irritative fever of the remittent type, but where no ganglionic con- gestion stood in the way of a comparatively rapid cure. In cerebro-spinal meningitis we commend Gelseminum as a re- liably useful curative agent. In the third volume of the Proceed- ings of the N.-Y. State Homoeopathic Medical Society, Dr. S. Searle, 1244 GELSEMINUM SEMPERVIRENS. 45 of Troy, N.-Y., has set forth the bomoeopathicity of Gelseminum to this disease in such a strikingly convincing manner, that we take the liberty of quoting some of his remarks: "Gelseminum has direct relation to tbe incipient or congestive stage of cerebro-spinal meningitis, and also in some degree to the consequent inflammation : while Cimicifuga-racemosa is, in my judgment, homoeopathic to tbe inflammation of the sero-fibrous tissues involved, and to the irritation of the cerebro-spinal system, which is due to the proxi- mity of the inflammation of its investing membrane, and which manifests itself in spasms. It seems also correlative to that state of the blood which results in the petechiae so common in the severe cases of the disease, and, to use tbe post hoc ergo propter hoc argument as cumulative and confirmatory ; I may say that I have used these remedies, relying upon their homoeopathicity, with complete and uniform success. "Let us now briefly compare the toxicology of these drugs, with tbe symptoms of the disease under discussion. An attack of cerebro-spinal meningitis is usually sudden, and is ushered in by a severe chill, accompanied by evident congestion of the spine and brain, with its ordinary symptoms, among which, I believe, dilata- tion of tbe pupils is always seen. This state is followed, except in those cases which die collapsed, by reactionary fever of corres- ponding violence. In such a condition of the system no remedy is so homoeopathic as Gelseminum. In cases of poisoning by Gelse- minum, the universal symptoms are prostration; complete loss of muscular power, of vision and speech; staggering gait; icy cold- ness of the hands and feet; pulse very feeble or imperceptible; respiration labored, feeble; nausea and vomiting. All of these symptoms are relieved by cerebral stimulants, showing what por- tion of tbe organism feels the depressing power of the drug. One symptom which is so prominent and constant, that it is almost ' characteristic of Gelseminum, is languor and heaviness of the eye- fids ; they close in spite of all the efforts of the will. No language could more accurately describe the incipient stage of the malady under consideration. In short, every symptom of intense conges- tion to the brain and spine, and the partial paralysis which neces- sarily attends it, may be found described with equal accuracy in the pathogenesis of this drug, and the diagnosis of the disease. " It is stated by Hale ' that the intense hyperaemia of the brain caused by Gelseminum stops just short of inflammation.' As we have no record of post-mortem examinations in any case of reported death, there are no means of affirming or disproving this assumption; 1245 46 NEW REMEDIES. but I feel confident be is in error, and that the same law obtains hi toxicology as in disease, viz: that long-continued congestion, especially if violent, must end in inflammation. The only conceiva- ble exception is in cases where the congestion to vital organs is so overwhelming as at once to suspend their functions, and thus de- stroy life. Thus believing, I have continued the use of Gelseminum when its characteristic symptoms were manifest, even in the in- flammatory stage of the disease. The indications which should determine its use, after inflammation has become decided, may be found in the pathogenesis of the drug, and are quite as distinc- tively characteristic of the disease when fully developed, as in its inception." We consider it as one of the remedies to be employed in bilious remittent fever, with frontal or general headache, dizziness, ten- dency to stupor, jaundiced color of the eyes and face, foul taste in the mouth, nausea and vomiting, bilious discharges from the bowels or constipation, prostration, pains in the muscles and bones, &c. In intermittent fever its therapeutic powers are highly valued. In our region of country where intermittents are endemic, and where we cannot possibly get along without the use of Quinine we attach a good deal of importance to Gelseminum as an inter- current remedy, or as a remedy that may be profitably used in alternation with Quinine. In an attack of true congestive chills we certainly should not depend upon Gelseminum alone to ward off the next attack. ABSTRACT OF SYMPTOMS. Head.—Pain of the head, quite constant, dull, stupefying, and pressive; most frequently in the forehead and temples. Bruised pain above and back of the orbits. Tightness of the brain. Often more or less headache, with nausea. Giddiness is pretty constant: an intoxicated feel- ing, and tendency to stagger, often with dizziness and imperfection of vision, aggravated by smoking. Mental Symptoms.—Irritable and impatient mood; incapacity to think or fix the attention; confusion of mind; stupid, intoxicated feeling; dullness of all the mental faculties. In one case great mirthfulness. Eyes.—Great heaviness of tbe lids; difficulty of opening tbe eyes or keeping them open; eyes close in spite of him, on looking steadily at an object; fullness and congestion of tbe lids ; diplopia when inclining the head towards the shoulder, but vision single when holding the head erect. Dryness of the eyes; misty or 1246 GELSEMINUM SEMPERVIRENS. 47 glimmering appearance before the eyes; pain in the orbits, some- times excessive. Nose.—In a few cases watery discharge from the nose. Taste and Appetite.—Thirst during the sweat. Mawkish taste in tbe mouth, clammy feverish taste; great hunger. Gastric Symptoms.—Feeling of emptiness and weakness in the stomach and bowels ; eructation ; nausea; hiccough. Abdomen, &c. — Slight pain in the transverse colon. Gnawing pain in the transverse colon. Slight pain in the left iliac region. After chills, headache, fever and prolonged sweating. Seventeen hours after taking the drug was awakened by severe gripings in the lower abdomen, soon followed by a very large and natural stool, but followed by no diminution of pain until another large deeply bilious discharge, followed by instant relief of pain. Urine.—Rather increased in quantity, clear and watery; fre- quent micturition. Larynx and Trachea.—Paroxysms of hoarseness, with dry- ness of throat, voice seems weak; stitching sensation in the region of the heart; constrictive pain around the part of the chest. Back.—Pain in the back, as in the cold stage of ague (many cases). Extremities.—Coldness of the extremities, especially the feet, often severe ; feet feel as if in cold water. Aguish feeling, with pain in tbe legs. Pain in popliteal space. Fever.—Febrile chilliness; cold extremities; heat of head and face, with headache. Pulse uniformly depressed, and rendered less frequent. Pulse soon becomes very feeble in many cases; sometimes scarcely perceptible, with chilliness, cold feet, heat and pain of the head. In a majority of cases perspiration follows the fever. The pathogenesis of no drug represents so completely and so uniformly all the stages of the ordinary fevers of this country. Sleep.—Disposition to yawn; a sort of stupor ; cannot keep the eyes open ; is obliged to lie down and sleep. Drowsiness and long sound sleep are very general symptoms. Skin.—The Gelseminum produces a peculiar and very marked eruption in most of the cases. It appears on the face most fre- quently, but sometimes also upon the back, between the shoulders. It is papulous, very much the color of measles, which it closely resembles ; but the papulae are more distant and distinct. Though very conspicuous, they are attended with little or no sensation— tbe patient being unaware of any eruption until he happens to see himself. Persons have frequently been asked what was the matter, 1247 43 new remedies. or if they had tbe measles, when they were not aware of the erup- tion. It generally appears the second or third day of the proving, and continues one or two weeks. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Weakness and trembfing through- out the whole system ; listless and languid; great lassitude ; feel- ing of tightness of the body ; fear of falling or stumbling ; easily fatigued ; general feeling of illness, as in fever. Most of the above symptoms were elicited from the tincture, in doses of one to five drops. A few were made with tbe third dilu- tion, and in all of those the characteristic eruption was produced. GLONOINE. (Nitro-glycerine.) Compare with—Aconite, Belladonna, Opium. This drug was first introduced into homoeopathic practice by Dr. Hering of Philadelphia. Dr. Richard Hughes of England sums up the action of this drug very comprehensively in the following terse statement: " The ac- tion of Glonoine lies within a very small compass. If you will touch your tongue with a five per cent solution you will find that in a few minutes your pulse will have increased by from 20 to 40 beats until a pretty violent bursting headache develops itself with which there will be some giddiness, and a sense of constriction about the throat. If you are sensitive to the drug, nausea and faintness may supervene, and even complete insensibility ensue. This is the nearly uniform action of Glonoine upon nearly every one who has taken it.'' These physiological effects of Glonoine upon tbe medulla oblon- gata and the pneumogastric nerves coming off from this centre, have led homoeopathic physicians to use it in congestive or apoplec- tic headaches, more particularly if the occipital region of the head is the seat of distress. It has likewise shown excellent effects in gun-stroke, and has checked puerperal convulsions with hypersemia of the cerebral vessels. It ought to prove useful in apoplexy, and in the congestions, throbbing and bursting headache arising from accidental suppression of the menses. In neuralgia it has afforded relief in some cases ; whether it will prove useful in bronchial affec- tions, will have to be ascertained by further experiments. 1248 GNAPHAUUM POLICEPHALUM. HAMAMELIS VIRGINICA. 4S GNAPHALIUM POLYCEPHALUM. (Cud Weed.) Dr. Woodbury, of Manchester, has published a proving of this drug, and recommends it for diarrhoea, cholera-morbus, cholera- infantum, and especially the diarrhoeas of children, occurring dur- ing the heat of summer, and characterized by copious, watery and exhausting discharges, with or without griping or nausea, and whioh frequently proves so intractable during dentition. GOSSIPPIUM HERBACEUM. (Cotton Plant.) The medicinal effects of this plant are highly problematical. The seeds are used in intermittent fever. The drug is supposed to act beneficially in metrorrhagia from atony of the uterus and other uterine derangements. Very doubtful. GUACO, MIKANIA GUACO. This drug has acquired importance from the fact that it has been suggested as a remedy for Asiatic cholera. See North American Journal of Homoeopathy, Vol. n., page 16. One species of Guaco is used as an antidote to snake-poison. HAMAMELIS VIRGINICA. (Witch-Hazel.) Compare with : Aconite, ^Esculus, Pulsatilla, Millefolium, Secale-comutum. We prepare a tincture of the bark and leaves. The resinoid Hamamelin is likewise used. There are likewise several patent- preparations of this medicine sold by druggists, among which Pond's Extract enjoys an extensive reputation. Doctor Burt has communicated a short, but exceedingly instructive proving of this drug which furnishes confirmatory evidence of its specific relation to the sexual apparatus. This drug has been used empirically for a number of years, and, for the last fifteen years or more, has likewise been employed by homoeopathic practitioners for derangements of tbe venous system and of tbe sexual apparatus 53 79 1249 50 NEW REMEDIES. In the former range it has been used with marked success for tbe following affections: Venous hcemorrhage, the blood flowing passively, not with the projectile or per saltum force of arterial haemorrhage. The haemor- rhage may take place from any orifice of the body, from the nose (epistaxis); from tbe stomach (haematemesis); from the lungs (haemoptysis, haemoptoe); from tbe urethra (haematuria) ; from the bowels, in which latter case the haemorrhage may proceed from tbe portal system of veins or from the haemorrhoidal vessels. In metrorrhagia this drug has likewise rendered good service, not in arterial active haemorrhage, but in the passive form of this accident, in venous haemorrhage. In bleeding heemorrhoids, the witch-hazel is advantageously applied externally by means of a compress mois- tened with the medicine. To haemorrhoidal tumors tbe witch-hazel may be applied in the shape of an ointment. In some parts of our country an ointment is made of witch-hazel and powdered alum. Even in purpura the witch-hazel is said to have exhibited cura- tiv '< 'Oi'ii V'VffiBsB >.'i'.;