*tfv: ?:-.■:, MS 'm JAHR'S NEW MANUAL ROMCEOPATHIC PRACTICE. EDITED, WITH ANNOTATIONS, A. GERALD HULL, M. D A SECOND AMERICAN, FROM THE THIRD OR PARIS EDITION. NEW-YORK : WILLIAM RADDE, 322 BROADWAY 1841. WBK J 2 5 m* v.l Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1811, by WILLIAM RADDE, V ' in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District New-York. UNIVERSITY PRESS: JOHN F. TROW, PRINTER, 114 NASSAU STREET. ADVERTISEMENT. The editor verily supposed on the first receipt of the T\":rlish Translation of this work, that it would only be ne- c...-i**ry for him to add somewhat to the Clinical depart- ; nt and ensure to the American physician and student, a careful reprint from that translation. And under this im- pression he undertook with alacrity a task which could be so casUy performed, and prove of so much, service to his countrymen. But after the prospectus had been published some weeks, he discovered, to his very great surprise, that ♦he English translation was crowded with defects of such f; .jature, as not only to render it a treacherous guide to practice, but to make the enormous labor of a complete and critical revision of the work from the French and Ger- man of the Author's second and third editions absolutely ^avoidable. This has of course delayed the work full two months beyond the time of issue promised by the publisher. —The Editor considers it his duty to warn the beginner ;a uinst relying on the English Translation in the practice. i'. is a corruption of Jahr's Compend, and in very many in- stances, fully perverts the original pathogenetic records. It has no doubt been executed by a " hack" translator, and that without the least supervision. The Student of Ho- mccopathia will be careful to read the Introduction by Jahr, and to pursue faithfully the method it sets forth. This invaluable essay is wholly omitted in the London translation. ADVERTISEMENT. The editor has been materially assisted in this work by John F. Gray, M. D., the eldest practitioner of Ilomceop.i- thia in this country, through whose valuable supervision it has not only been greatly enriched, but considerably hast- ened in its progress through the press. Dr. Hering^s translation, the first American edition, has been occasionally servicable in perfecting this work ; and the editor also acknowledges with pleasure the valua- ble aid he has derived from Mr. J, C. Peters, of this citjt. * • j . < .*-. Mr. William Radde, 322 Broadway, has been appointed* Agent of The Central Homoeopathic Pharmacy, at Leipsic, Hici medicines of which we feel assured by experience can he prxl'eh' trusted. Our friends should be careful to procure such only ; are authenticated by the seal of this distinguished association. PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION. The extraordinary success which the first edition of this Manual has obtained in France, notwithstanding its many imperfections, has inspired us with the hope that the public will not accord a less favorable judgment to this third edition, which we have aimed to render as complete and useful as the actual state of the science and restricted form of the work will allow. Those who have had occa- sion to examine the second edition, which appeared in 1835, in the German language, know that the defects charged upon the first were there avoided, and that it con- tained much more material. In comparing this with its predecessor they will be equally convinced of the improve- ments we have here introduced. We have entitled this edition: A new Manual of Ho- moeopathic Medicine ; because the work appears as an. original in French, for the first time, and also, because we have contributed various modifications, which virtually render it a new work, scarcely resembling the two previ- ous except in identity of subject. This work is divided into two entirely distinct parts; the one appropriated to medicines, the other to symptoms ; and each one of these is subdivided under special titles. The first volume treats of medicines under the designation of Manual of Materia Medica, &c. The second volume is denominated, A Man- ual of Svmptomatology, and Homoeopathic Therapeutics. This last requires a special introduction ; all that is said here on the use of this Manual only applies to the first part. Our present remarks have the following arrangement : 1st. On the design and composition of this work.—2d. On the symptoms as they are here collated.—3d. On -the clinical in- structions we have given.—kth. On the doses to be used.—5th. On the repetition of the doses.—6th. On the duration of the action of medicines.—1th. On analogous medicines and on antidotes.—8th. On the arrangement of this work in general. —9th. On the manner of using it. A f IV PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION. I.--DESIGN AND COMPOSITION OF THIS WORK. We clearly indicated the design of this work in its two earlier editions. It is by no means designed to supply the place of the Materia Medica, nor to render its study super- fluous ; but on the contrary, to facilitate its use and know- ledge by a resume as perfect, and, at the same time, as concise as possible, and to give all the particular indications that clinical experience has developed up to the present day, as an aid in the selection of remedies. For this purpose, we have laid under contribution all that the works of Hahnemann or those of his disciples, whether in Europe or America, include in pure and clinical observations up to the latest moment; and we have also added the results of our own personal experience and experiments, as well as that which has been communicated to us by friends and associates worthy of our confidence. We have carefully studied and com- pared all these observations with themselves, before reach- ing that conclusion on which the essential character of the medicine depends. Thus it is that the tableaux we have .drawn in this Manual, far from being mere collections of separate facts brought into juxtaposition, good and bad, are much more the result of sober and reflective studies, and the most exact expressions which we could give of that which is really important to be known of the Materia Medica. As we have been especially desirous to make it a prac- tical resume, we have quoted for each one of our indica- tions the authority on which it rests. The original Mate- ria Medica should contain all accessory details, and as that which the French Homceopathists possess does not contain one half the facts we have contributed, we propose to pub- lish hereafter, in addition to our Manual, a much more ex- plicit and voluminous work, which, besides the observa- tions contained in the works of Hahnemann, shall give all those of other Homoeopathic physicians, as well as our own, in detail. We anticipate the accomplishment of this project when the voice of the Homoeopathic physicians shall render it possible by their support; and indeed, this large work would have been published before this, if the time required for its execution would not have too far postponed the publication of this Manual, which we have so long promised to the French physicians. Our first edition included a hundred and forty-five me- dicines ; in the second, the number was advanced to a hundred and seventy-four, and in the present, the medi- ^ PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION. V cines number two hundred, exclusive of the Magnet. Ne- vertheless, we do not imagine that this number represents the true state of our Materia Medica ; in this collection there are not more than eighty or ninety substances which are sufficiently well known to be used habitually to advan- tage, and perhaps there are more than fifty of which we possess but very insufficient information. We should have omitted these last entirely, if it had not appeared im- portant to gather together, as far as possible, all the frag- ments of the materia medica, which, scattered here and there, would fall into neglect and be lost forever. At the end of this Introduction (Table I.) we have given a list of the medicines contained in this work, indicating those which are more or less known and those which are more or less used. We have also indicated those which were not in- cluded in the first edition, that they may be more readily distinguished. Among the new medicines are included many of the highest importance; of this number we designate, Ammo- nium muriaticum, Baryta muriatica, Brucea, Calcarea phosphorata, Cistus canadensis, Daphne indica, Kreosotum, Magnesia sulphurica, Natrunt sulphuricum, Nux moscha- ta, Prunus spinosa, etc. There were some also in the se- cond edition published in German, which had an imperfect record of symptoms, but which in the present have receiv- ed a pathogenesis nearly complete. Of this number are chiefly, Borax, Ignatia, Lachesis, Moschus, and several Antipsorics, which we have perfected from the second edition of the Chronic Diseases by Hahnemann, where the number of their symptoms has been considerably augment- ed, in some instances to the extent of two thousand, such as Sulphur, Sepia, Phosphorus and others. The nomenclature which we have employed to desig- nate the medicines, is that used in the most of our phar- macopa:ias.* We have given this a preference, supposing the majority of Homoeopathic physicians are already ac- customed to it. But at the end of this work we have given a list of the common names corresponding to the Latin names, so that those who are still unacquainted with our pharmaceutic terminology may be correctly instructed. The medicines are arranged in alphabetical order, with the exception of the Magnet, which we have placed at the end, and we have also preferred to arrange the acids according [* The author alludes here of course to the continental pharmacopeias. Ed. J h' VI PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION. to their base ; for example : Mur. etc., Nitr. ac, Phosph. ac, Sulph. ac, in place of Acid nitr., Acid phosph., etc. H.--ON THE SYMPTOMS COLLATED IN THIS WORK. Our plan of collating the effects of medicaments con- sists in presenting primarily, the pure pathogenetic effects ; and secondarily, as perfecting the former, the sufferings known from experience to have been cured by them. In composing the first edition of our work, we took an entire- ly opposite course, and preferred for our basis the symp- toms which, in the practice of medicine, had contributed to indicate the remedies. But reflecting that these symp- toms are much less certain than symptoms purely patho- genetic, we changed our course in the second edition, tak- ing 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 dis- tinction. 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 principles, ought to act favor- ably ; whilst the symptoms cured discover those in which the medicine has acted with good effect, which for the practice amounts to the same thing, if in relation to these last, it was certain that they had disappeared under the action of the remedy. For this reason we have endeavoured, 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, notwithstanding, been cured by the medicine ; and by an asterisk (*) those which have been observed at the same 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 propose to establish. For our own part we are never guided by a single symptom ; it is the general characteristic resulting from the total patho- genesis, that controls us in our appreciation of particular symptoms of every kind. This is our rule for determining the choice of a medicine ; it is the rule we have observed PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION. Vll in tracing out the tableaux of this work ; and it should be that of every Homoeopathic physician who would escape deception. For, when some isolate feature fails in ex- act resemblance to the symptomatology of the Materia Medica, the total physiognomy, such as results from the en- semble 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 charac- teristic will be in possession of a science that the know- ledge of single features can never give. That the sphere of action of medicines may be bet- ter settled we have given a more extended number of symptoms than in the previous editions. This, it is true, has rendered the coup d'ceil more difficult; but the clinical observations, which are to be found at the head of the chap- ters, and the symptoms which are printed in italics will prove ample aids to bring them into favourable 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 exclusion 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 possess it not; and the same symptom which, in such or such a series of comparisons, has no distinctive value, be- cause common to them all, acquires the highest importance on contparing 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 sensations which seemed to reappear most frequently in organs which were most un- like, &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 Diarrhcea and Constipation in Nux vomica, thirst and thirstlessness in Pulsatilla, burning pain and ice-cold sensa- tion in Arsenic, are one and all alike characteristic for the choice of the medicine, when the rest of the symptoms ac- cord with the disease. There is also aphenomenon more con- stant than is generally imagined : all medicines, principally the polychrests, which have some well marked symptom hold equally in alternation this symptom and the phenomenon opposed to it; and it is generally wrong to consider one symptom as primitive, and another as secondary or consecu- a2 viii PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION. tire : for one or other (according to the individuals) can, in reality, first manifest itself. And is not the same fact observ- able in a large number of diseases sui generis ( Does not Typhus, for example, produce incessant sleeplessness and then the most profound coma, or stupidity at times and then delirium, or constipation the most obstinate, or diar- rhoea the most violent, according to the constitution of the individual affected ? The question of similia and cdntraria 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 contra- dictory effects, distinguished that which is primitive from that which is consecutive. III. ON THE CLINICAL INSTRUCTIONS WHICH ARE TO BE FOUND AT THE HEAD OF EACH MEDICAMENT. In the two previous editions, we have occasionally mentioned among the symptoms some names of diseases in which a medicine had been employed or recommended. We by no means intended to designate it as a specific against the maladies, to which the most incorrect" names are frequently given, but simply to elicit the attention of the physician to investigate the application of a remedy in a given case. Such an experiment as this, provided the name had been misapplied, could seemingly result in no other inconvenience to the physician than a momentary loss of time ; but unfortunately this has not always been the case. Imperfectly instructed neophytes, notwithstand- ing all our rules, have administered medicines according to the names of diseases alone ; and have of course failed in the treatment. But abusus non tollit usum. For those who follow our principles, and make use of no medicine without consulting the pathogenesis, these indications have an immense ad- vantage in pointing out to them, among two hundred medi- cines of our materia medica, a limited circle, which will almost always offer the best reason for its selection. On this account we have not hesitated to give an apercu of clinical cases in this edition, but we have placed them, this PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION. IX time, under the title of Clinical Remarks, at the head of the pathogenesis, giving constant intimation of the limited field for their employment. We have occasionally followed a remark with an interrogation point where a medicine has not remained in use in the case for which it was recommended: while we have designated by italics all affections in which the medicine has been more than once employed. The nosological nomenclature which we have adopted is that of the German school, in which a word has fre- quently a more extended or restricted sense than in the French. We should have preferred that of the French school, if the French authors themselves were always united in the precise definition of terms. In order to avoid these errors as much as possible, we have given a table (Table IV.) of definitions, to be found at the conclusion of this introduction, for the expressions we have used which may appear in a doubtful sense: and ordinarily we have used the most liberal latitude, since the physician, in con- sulting the symptoms, will find the means of determining that which is necessarily vague in the general expression. Nothing is more unimportant than the name given to a disease ; the true disciplesof Hahnemann know it well. Every medicine will cure, if it be indicated by the symptoms ; and the first diagnostician in the world will not find, in this science alone, any method of supplying the place of their examination. It is then to the Tableaux of Symptoms that we definitely refer all those who would have pure and precise indications for special cases. All the quotations contained in the articles of Clinical Remarks, as well as those which rest on proved facts, have no other intention than that of advi- sing the, Homoeopathic physician to examine a medicine, to ascertain if, on investigating it in detail, he shall find it possibly indicated. Looking at the subject in another point of view, the consideration of names as infallible indications, and as guides for determining a choice, may be considered a most deplorable abuse—an abuse against which we shall ever protest with unabated energy. IV.—ON THE USE OF 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 re- X PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION. gard to the doses, we have selected them as found in au- thors, regarding them only as historical authority, but in no respect as absolute rules. The question of dilution must always be secondary, relatively to that of the medi- cine. Hahnemann employs the thirtieth in preference, others such as they find in the pharmacopseias, and others pass from one dilution to another, especially in cases of repetition. Dr. Mure, in an article inserted in the Biblio- theque de Geneve, prefers the use of the first (low) attenua- tions in acute diseases, and those of the last (high) in chronic maladies. We ourselves, in the preface to our first edition, (Paris translation of 1833,) expressed similar opinions re- garding the different dilutions, and virtually retain the same up to the present time in this form : that if any dis- tinction 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 infor- mation : whether, in cases where the low dilutions seem to be required (such as some primitive forms of syphilis, go- norrhoea, &c), a desirable result cannot be attained by ad- ministering the last dilutions in reiterated doses, and espe- cially by spoonful doses of a watery solution % For what- ever 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 the same time a loss of power, inasmuch as any quantity of the thirtieth dilution will al- ways prove more feeble than an equal volume of the first. The thing is perfectly evident, if we compare the effects which ten drops of the crude tincture of Arsenic will pro- duce, with those which result from ten drops of the thir- tieth. The observation is equally applicable to those sub- stances which are called inert in their natural state, in this, that if we take a grain of Lycopodium, or of 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 substance 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 developes all its atoms, which remain in-. active 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 PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION. XI the first dilution there is not in reality any more medicinal matter than existed in the single drop of the crude tinc- ture. 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 dilu- tions. This is not the appropriate place to treat of the prepara- tion of doses, which justly belongs to the pharmacopaeias ; notwithstanding, we will propose this question : For the de- velopment of the dynamic virtue of a medicine, will it answer to move the atoms of substances, either by shaking or tritura- tion, 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 ma- chine with which he effects the dilutions of his medicines 5 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 pal- pable advantage which a machine offers for shaking, ap- pears in the power of preparing medicines in the propor- tion of 1 to 1000, and perhaps, also, of 1 to 10,000, advancing even up to the thirtieth. Through a mechanism which will conveniently allow agitation in so large proportions, we can obtain all that is to be coveted in relation to the development of the virtue of medicines. V.—ON THE REPETITION OF DOSES. We have treated, at length, of the dilution to be em- ployed, in a separate article, feeling that this quest ionap- peared less important for practice than that of the multi- plication of doses, or of the repetition according to the oc- casion. Give, if you please, during a certain time, 10, 12, XII PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION. 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*per- ceive a more unpleasant aggravation than if you had ad- ministered 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 thir- tieth, and dissolve it in 10, 12, or 15 spoonfulsoYwater, and give the solution to the sick by spoonfuls ; the aggrava- tions 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 dilution, when it has been taken at a single time. We have remarked this fac^ more than a hundred times in the course of our observations ; and Hahnemann 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 fort- night, every evening or every morning, without any misad- venture ; but it is not less frequently the case that, after the use of the solution, an aggravation arises proportionately more violent than the state of the patient had been satisfac- tory 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 in- tensity, resembling in action the relief afforded by pallia- tives. On this account, however salutary and however preferable this mode of administering medicines in repeat- ed doses may be in many cases, it is nevertheless not al- ways applicable, and demands for its successful employ- ment to be based on fixed principles and rules. These rules, we very well know, cannot be established w;th any certainty but by comparing a great number of the most contradictory observations ; and, if we here essay to express our opinion on this subject, it is only with the intention of presenting some ideas for a more extended examination in the solu- tion of this important question. Our ideas, in other res- pects, are the same as those we have expressed in our first edition, but more matured. The principle which, according to our views, and con- formably to the basis of our science, should lead to a view PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION. Xlll of the question in its true aspect is, that true, durable and, radical cures are never effected by the direct action of a medi- cine,'BUT by a reaction of nature excited by it; whence there follows as a first general consequence, that every rep- etition of doses is at least superfluous, except entirely dis- placed, whilst t'his reaction follows its course. Thus we observe in a large number of functional lesions not very in- veterate, often the single taking of an appropriate medicine an amelioration established, which, with very unimportant interruptions, continues in general up to the entire cessa- tion of suffering. To administer reiterated doses imme- diately 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 or- ganic lesions, especially those which result from the ener- getic 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 re- action, 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 great- est success, whether the dilutions be the first or last, pro- vided they are only continued to the necessary 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 inflammations with suppuration, ulcers, some forms Disorganizations, &c. In some cases of chronic diseases, characterized by a kmd 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 a design quite different from that of the preceding cases. *or whilst we struggle to combat the violence of the dis- ease which triumphs over the reaction, we will also endea- vour to aggravate the malady, so to speak, before arousing it from its inertness, and thus elicit the reaction of the vi- tality of the organism. Nevertheless these trials are not always without danger, and it is necessary to proceed with much caution lest the aggravation, on developing itself, may be so violent as to render insufficient the reaction of XIV PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION. the vital force. Therefore in similar cases we must most cautiously administer the repeated doses at intervals as short as possible, and arrest them on witnessing the super- vention 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 the symptoms indicate the same medicine more than any other. But these cases sel- dom occur, except we have given asingle dose one time for all, or many spoonfuls to the point of aggravation, the ef- fects 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. VI. ON THE DURATION OF THE ACTION OF MEDICINES. What we have said regarding the period when the re- petition of a single dose should seem to be indicated, ap- plies equally to the choice of a new medicine. For every aggravation, after an appropriate time, is not always a natural aggravation of the disease ; frequently, on the con- trary, it is dependent upon a new excitement provoked by the medicine which continues to act ; and here nothing better can be done than to wait, since it will generally sub- side in a few days and give place to a much more decided expression. We frequently witness this development, espe- cially 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 disap- pears 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 conclu- sion of the month ; the favourable 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 completely destroyed, commence their reappearance.—In the mean time, 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 favourable issue. To apply a new medicine in such a case without knowing what might be developed must PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION. XY frequently annul the whole treatment; while by carefully watching and understanding the progress of the vital reac- tion, we may frequently obtain in two months, with a single 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 a"n inappropriate multiplication of doses. Such is our oft-repeated experience in following out the precepts Hahnemann gives on this subject in his Orgonon, and in the first volume on Chronic Maladies ; and to it we seriously call the attention of every Homoeopathic physi- cian. 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, in- cluding 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 un- favourable. 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 amelioration in any respect, presenting only such symptoms as belong to a more advanced stage 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 improve- ment, 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 aggravation be salutary, or whether it be owing to a badly chosen medicine from the prolonged action of which we must expect unfavourable results. This last may be easily recog- nized 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 manifested 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 B XVI PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION. the malady, and which will also cover the symptoms pro- duced by the acting medicine. We can lay down as a principle that, if the general state, and especially the 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 res- pects (ihe general state including the moral) without any promise of a favourable termination, the medicine should be changed. The time justly required for observation, before deciding for or against, should be at least 5, 6 or 8 days 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 violence and the more or less rapid progress of the disease. Thus on ex- amining the state of the invalid, we have frequently wit- nessed the salutary action of medicines prolonged to 24, 48 and 96 hours, in acute diseases, and to 7 and 8 weeks in chronic maladies. These are the views we have wished to make known in indicating the duration of the action of each medicine. VII.--ON ANALOGOUS MEDICINES. A salutary medicine having expended its action, the disease will be frequently left in a state which is less char- acterized 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 mean time, on carefully exam- ining the patient, we shall observe some nuances of varia- tion, even though very delicate ; 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 suit- able after Sulphur Lycopodium, Calcarea, &c. Doctor Hering has increased these indications, which we have taken pains to add to the descriptions of medicines for facilitating 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 medi- preface and introduction. xvu cine. This list frequently differs from that of Boenning- hausen, because the additions which the pathogenesis of many medicines has received in latter times, has also de- veloped their analogies. The principal advantage which the physician can draw from these indications 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 administra- tion 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 bo, on the contrary, to take them for an absolute guide for a choice, and to give a series of analogous medicines with- out any other reason than this 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 ne- cessity of allowing the medicine to expend its action. An analogous medicine cannot be thought of until the action of 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 medi- cines, of which that in question is the antidote itself, per- suaded 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 hesi- tate to search after one that is more suitable. VIII.—on the contents of this work in general. In the translation of the first edition, by Messrs. Mouzin and Noirot, these gentlemen thought proper to add several xviii preface and introduction. articles not our own. In reference to many of these arti- cles, such as the repetition of doses, &c, we have given our own opinions; and as to others, such as notices on Homceo- pathia, Homeopathic Regimen, &c, we refer the reader to our treatise entitled, Elementary Views on Homceopathia and its Mode of Practice ; although we are persuaded that a knowledge of the Organon of Hahnemann as well as of his Chronic Diseases and Pure Materia Medica, is indispen- sably necessary for the successful use of this manual. The translators of our first edition had added to each medicine some advice as to the mode of preparing it. We hold these instructions to be perfectly useless, since those who do not fear the expense which the preparation of med- icines demands, would prefer, without doubt, to procure a complete pharmacopoeia, such as is to be found in the transla- tion of the fifth edition of the Organon by Jourdan. The French expressions we have used to give the mean- ing of the German words, require the greatest indulgence on the part of the public, an indulgence no one will refuse who weighs the immense difficulties inseparably connected with similar translations. We have frequently consulted Frenchmen well versed in their language, who have ren- dered us the greatest services ; but we have frequently been compelled to have recourse to expressions little used, in order to remain faithful to the original expression which, also in the German, are popular terms that have no equiva- lents in scientific language. Under the head entitled, " Clinical Remarks," we have continually used the scien- tific terms ; but in the running text of symptoms we have avoided as far as possible every pathological expression, reserving these names for the denomination of diseases which belong to this head. The order in which the symptoms follow is that which we had adopted in the composition of our second edition, according to which the symptoms of the headare no longer the first, but the general symptoms, followed by those of the Skin, Sleep, Fever and Mind, after which succeed the resi- due in their accustomed order. This order is, in general, the same for all the medicines ; only, we have sometimes united under the same rubric two or three articles contain- ing a few symptoms ; but then we have indicated it by the titles. We have also given at the end of this introduction (Table III.) an apercu of the order we have followed, with the indication which each article contains. The titles se- lected are as brief as possible, that they may occupy but little space. preface and introduction. XIX IX.—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 pursuing the study of the me- dicines. We should commence by glancing at the clinical cases for which the employment of a medicine has been recommended, taking into consideration such cases only as are distinguished by italics, and in comparing each one of the cases with the pathogenetic symptoms, 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 de- pend on the ensemble of 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 ex- tracts from this Manual. But if the practitioner be much occupied, he may abridge this labour 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 have not so dis- tinguished. A person beginning to act thus respecting the medicines, and comparing the most analogous medi- cines 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 the Materia Medica for the pursuance of these studies, to procure the ample details of symptoms which the last analysis requires. We have given in the '•'•Journal de la Doctrine Hahne- manniene^ published by Dr. Molin, (Vol. I. March 1840,) instructions on the best method of studying the Materia Medica; we remind our readers that this subject will in- terest them, and that they will see that the complete know- ledge of the Materia Medica is not as difficult as has been generally thought, and that all depends upon the man- ner in which it is undertaken. By proceeding in a me- thodic manner, and by progressing from generals to parti- culars, 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 stfp by step down the scale of im- portance till the remainder are understood also. b2 XX PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION. The Homoeopath, in making choice of a remedy for a case of disease, excludes none of the medicines from the inquest, but takes all under consideration 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'ceil of all the medicines at once, and to study only one or a few at a time. Finally, that physicians may have the study of the selection of medicines facilitated, we have, in Table I. in- dicated those which are most used, and after this we have prepared another (Table II.) which contains a classification of the medicines according to their importance. These classes are five in number, each one of which is divided into five parts, except the last, which is composed of med- icines almost entirely unknown. 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 in- cluding 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 labour which, in every case, will prove equally productive with the others. The new student of Homoeopathia should pursue this labour, then, so indispensable to the acquirement of a cer- tain degree of safety in practice. To see all the Homoeo- pathic physicians give that attention to our science which its importance demands, will unquestionably prove a more agreeable recompense than we could have wished, for all the industry and trouble that the new remodelling of our work has necessarily required at our hands. G. H. G. JAHR. Paris, May 15, 1840. TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. I. TABLE OF THE MEDICINES CONTAINED IN THIS WORK, WITH THEIR ABBREVIATIONS AND SYNONYMES. REMEDIES. SYNONYMES. SYNONYMES 1 *Acon.—Aconitum na- Aconitum. pellus. 2 "Act.- Actsea spicata. Aciaea. Christophoriana- 3 ^Eth.-JEihusa Cyna- -Eihusa. pium. 4 "Agar.—Agaricus mus- Amanita mus. pers. Amanita. carius. 5 *Agn.—Agnus castus. Agnus. Vitex agnus. 6 °AI.— Aloes gummi. Aloe. 7 * Alum.—Alumina. Alumin. oxydatum. Argilla. 8 *Ambr.—Ambra gri- Ambra. sea. "9 *Am-c—Ammonium Ammonias carbonas. carbon. 10 *Am-m—Ammonium Ammoniae murias. mur. ll*Anac.—Anacardium. Anacardium orientale. Semecarpus anac. 12* Ang.—Angustura Bonplandia angustura. Galipea officinalis. vera. 13 "Anis.—Anisum stel- Nlicium anisatum. Illicium. latum. 14 *Ant.—Antimonium Antim. sulphuret. crudum 15 * Arg. —Argentum. Argentum foliatum. 16 *Arn.—Arnica mon- tana. 17 *Ars.—Arsenicum Arseniosum acidum. Arsenicum. album. 18 "Art.—Artemisia vul- garis. 19 Arum.—Arum macu- Arum. laium 20 *Asa—Asafcetida. Ferula asa foetida. 21 *Asar — Asarum eu- Asarum. Asarabacca. ropaeum. 22 *Aur.—Aurum folia- Aurum. turn. 23*Aur-m.—Aurum mu- riaticum. TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. XX111 Note.—The asterisk (*) indicates the medicines respecting which we possess at the same time clinical observations and pathogenetic symptoms. The cipher (") indicates those of which we possess only the clinical ob- servations. The medicines whose names are printed in italics are those of which the greatest use has hitherto been made.—Those which have no distinction are those of which we possess some pathogenetic symptoms, but which have hitherto been scarcely ever employed. The names of ihe several remedies referred to in this book will be found in the first column. The names of the second and third columns are used in medical works and affixed to imported preparations. The fourth column contains the English, the fifth the German names, and the sixth column the Antidotes. ENGLISH. 1 Monk's hood. 3 Garden hemlock. 4 Bug agaric. 5 Chaste tree. 6 Aloes. 7 Pure clay. 8 Ambergris. 9 Carb. of ammonia. 10 Muriate of ammonia. 11 Malacca bean. 21 Bark of bonplandia trifoliata. 13 Star anise-seed. 14 Crude antimony. 15 Silver. 16 Leopard's bane. 17 Arsenic. 18 Mugwort. 19 Common arum. 20 Gum-resin of ferula. 21 Asaret of Europe. 22 Metallic gold. 23 Muriate of gold. GERMAN. Sturmhut Eisenhut, Chris tophskraut. Gartenschierling. Fliegenpilz. Keuschlamm. Aloe. Thonerde. Grauer Ambra. Kohlensaures Amnion. Salmiak. Malaccanuss. Wahre Angustura. Sternanis. Schwefelspiessglanz. Silber. Wohlverlei. Weisser Arsenik. Gemeiner Beifuss. Gefleckter Aron. Stinkender Asand. Haselwurz. Blattgold. ANTIDOTES. Acetum, vinum, paria, camph., n-vom. 1 i Camph., coff, tosta, puis., vinum. Camph. Camph. Bry. camph. cham. ipec. Camph., n-vom., puis. Arn., camph., hep. 1 Camp, hep: 1 Camph., juglans. 1 Coff. Hep., mere Merc. puis. Camph., ign., ipec. Chin.fer. graph.hep.ipec. kal. n-vom- samb. 1 [veratr. Caus. chin, electric. Camph. acetum. Bell. chin. cupr. mere' 1 XXIV TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. REMEDIES. 24 *Bar-c bonica. 25 Bar-m riatica. 26 *Bell.- 27 Berb.- garis. 28 *Bi«.- 29*Bor — 30 *Bvs. 31 Bruc. dysent 32* Bry.— 33. Cal.— guinum —Baryta car- —Baryta mu- -Belladonna. -Berberis vul- Bismuthum. Borax veneta. Bovista. Brucea anti- Bryonia alba Caladium se- 34 * (''■ale.—Calcarea car- bonica. 35 *Calc-ph—Calcar. phosph. 36* Camph.—Camphora 37 *Cann.— Cannabis. 33 *Canth. — Cuntharis. 39 *Caps. — Capsicum. 40 *Carb an.— Carbo animalis. 4l*Carb-v.— Carbo veg- etabilis. 42 Case.—Cascarilla. 43 Cast.—Casloreum. 44 *Caus.—Causticum. 45* Cham.—Chamomilla 46 Chel.—Chelidonium. Chelidonium majus. 47 *Chin—China oji- Cinchona. cinalis. SYNONYMES. Baryta? carbonas. Barytas murias. Berberis. Bismuthi subnitras. Bryonia. Caladium. Calcis carbonas. Calcis phosphas. Laurus camphora. Cannabis sativa. Meloe vesicatorius. Capsicum annuum. Croton cascarilla. 48 *Cic.— Cicuta virosa. 49 *Cin.—Cina. 50 *Cinn.—Cinnabaris. 51 "Cinam.—Cinnamo- mum. 52 *Ci*t.—Cistus cana- densis. 53 °Citr. —Citri acidum. 54 *Clem.—Clematis erecta. 55Coccion.— Coccionel - la. 56 *Cocc.— Cocculus. 57*Cof. —Coffea cruda. 'Coffea Arabica. 58 *Cbleh.—Colchicum. Colchicum autumnale. 59 * Coloc—Colocynthis. j Cucumis colocynttiis. 60 *Con.-Conium mac- .Conium. ulatum. Cicuta. Artemisia judaica. Coccin.septempunctata, Cocculus suberosus. SYNONYMES. Atropa Belladonna. Lycoperdon bovista. Lytta vesicatoria. Carbo ligni fagi. Tinct. acris sine kali. Matricaria charnomilla. China regia. Artemisia santonica. Hydrargyri sulphurc- tum rubrum. Laurus cmnamomum. Menispermum cocculus. TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. XXV ENGLISH. 24 Carbonate of barytes 25 Muriate of barytes. 26 Deadly night shade. 27 Barberry. [muth. 28 Subnitrate of bis- 29 Sub-borate of soda. 30 The puff ball. 31 False angustura. 32 White bryony. 33 Poisonous pediveaux GERMAN. Kohlensaure Schwerer- t de. Kochsalzsaure Schwer- I erde. Tollkirsche. Berberitze. Bismuth. Borax, (eine Salzart.) Bovist. Brucea antidysenterica. Weisse Zaunrebe. Gifiiger Aron. 34 Carbonate of lime. 35 Phosphate of lime. 36 Camphor. 37 Hemp. 39 Spanish fly. 39 Cayenne pepper. 40 Animal charcoal. 41 Charcoal. 42 Croton cascarilla. 43 Castor. 41 Caustic. 45 Common camomile. 46 Great celandine. 47 Peruvian bark. 48 Water hemlock. 49 Mugwort of Judea. 60 Rtd sulphur of mer- cury. 5i Cinnamon. 52 Rock-rose. 53 Citric acid. 54 Upright virgin's bow- er. 55 Cochineal. 56 Indian cockel. 57 Raw coffee. 58 Meadow salTron. 59 Bitter cucumber. 60 Common hemlock. Kohlensaure Kalkerde. Phosphorsaure Kalker- de. Kampfer. Hanf. Spanische Fliegen. Spanischer Pfeffer. Tlnerkohle. Holzkohle. Cnsrarille. Bibergeil. Aetzstoff. Feld-Kamille. Schollkraut. China. Wasser Schierling. Cinasaamen. Zinnober. Zimmet. Stein rose. Zitronensaure. lirennwaldrebe. Sonnenkafer. Kockelsamen. Kaffee. Hcrlisrzeitlose. Coloquinte. Fleckenschierling, ANTIDOTES. Camph. (mere. bell. dulc.) 1 t [vinum. Coff. hyos. hep. puis. Camph. Calc. caps, (nux vom.) Cham. coff. natr. m. Camph. Coff. [rhus. Aeon, cham.ign. n vom. Carb-veg. mere. ign. zinu;., (caps, external- ly when the skin is poisoned ) Camph. nitr-ac. nitr- spir. sulph. Op. nitr- spir. Camph. Camph. Camph. Camph. Ars. camph. coff. lach. 1 1 Coff. coloc. nitr-spir. n-vom. Aeon. cocc. coff. ign. n- vom. puis. Camph. Arn. ars. bell. calc. caps. carb-veg. cin.fer. ipec. mere. natr. natr-m. puis, sep.frulph.veratr. Arn. (when poisoned by it, tabac) Ipec. 1 f 1 Bry. camph. ? Camph. n-vom. Aeon, cham.ign.n-vom. N-vom. puis. cocc. Camph. caust. cham. coif. Coff. nitr-spir. XXVI TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. REMEDIES. 61 °Con v.—Convolvu- lus arv. 62 *Cop.—Copaivae bal- samus. 63 Coral.—Corallia ru- bra. 64 * Croc—Crocus sati- vus. 65 Grot.—Croton tigli- um. 66 "Cub.—Cubeba- 67 *Cupr.— Cuprum- 68 Cyc.—Cyclamen. 69 *Daph.—Daphne in- dica. 70 *Diad.— Diadema. 71 * Dig-—Digitalis purpurea. 72 Diet.—Dictamnus al- bus. 73 *Dros.—Drosera ro- tundifolia. 74 *Dulc—Dulcamara. 75 Eug.—Eugenia 1am- bos. 76 F.uph.—Euphorbium officinale. 77 *Euph. — Euphrasia. 78 Evon —Evonymus europaeus. 79 *Fer.—Ferrum. 80 Fer-ch.—Ferrum chloratum. 81 Fer-mg.---Ferrum matrn. 82 =Ftl. —Filix mas. 83 cFrag— Fragaria ves. 84 Gran.—Granatum. 85 * Graph.—Graphites. 86 *Grat.—Gratio.a of- ficinalis. 87 *Guai.—Guajacum officinale. 88 *Haenn.—Haematox- yl. camp. 89*Hell.— Helleborus ni- ger. 90 *Hep.—Hepar sul- phur is calcar. 91 *Hyos —Hyoscyamus niger. 92 °Jalap.—Jalapa. 93 Iatr.-Iatropha. 94 *lgn.—Ignatiaama- ra. 95 Ind—Indigo. SYNONYMES. Convolvulus arvensis. Copaiba. Corallia. Crocus. Croton." Cuprum metallicum. Cyclamen europum. Aranea diadema. Dmitalis. Dictamnus. Drosera. Euphorbium: Euphrasia officinalis. Evonymus. Ferrum metallicum. Ferri oxydum magnet. Lapis magnelicus. Aspidium fil. mas. SYNONYMES. Copaifera officinalis. Isis nobilis. Crocus sat. orientalis. Tiglii oleum. Piper cubeba. Epeira or epeira diad. Solanum dulcamara. Jambos. Gratiola. Guajacum. Helleborus. Hyoscyamus. Ignatii faba. Indigofera tinctoria. Plumbago. Calcis sulphuretum. Convolvulus jalapa. TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. XXV11 ENGLISH. GERMAN. ANTIDOTES. 61 Bind-weed. Ackerwinde. 1 62 Balsam of copaiva. Kopaivabalsam. Camph. 63 Red coral. Rothe Korallen. i 64 Saffron. Saffran. Op. 65 Purging Croton. Purgiv-Croton. 1 66 Cubebs. 67 Copper. 68 Sow-bread. 69 Indian daphne. 70 Papal cross spider. 71 Fox-glove. Kubebenpfeffer. Kupfer. Schweinsbrod. Kreuzspinne. Fingerhut. 1 Bell. chin. cocc. dulc. hep. ipec. mere camph'? n-vom. Bry. dig. rhus. sep. silic. zinc. Merc. N-vom. op. 72 Bastard dittany. Diptam. 1 73 Sun-dew. Sonnenthau. Camph. 74 Bitter-sweet. 75 Malabar plum-tree. Bittersiiss. Wilder Jambos! Camph. ipec. mere Coff. 76 Spurge. Wolfsmilch. Camph. citr. 77 Eye-bright. 78 Spindle-tree. Augentrost. Pfaffenhutchem Puis. 1 79 Metallic iron. 80 Chloride of iron. Eisen. Eisenchloriir. Arn. ars. bell. chin. ipec. mere, puis ratr. 7 hep. ve- 81 Deutoxideof iron. Magnetstein. 1 82 Male fern. 63 Common strawberry. 84 Bark from the root of pomegranate tree. 85 Black-lead. 86 Hedge-hyssop. Farren. Erdbeere-Granatenbaum-Rinde. Reissblei-Goltes-Gnadenkraut. Camph. i i Ars. n-vom. vinum Camph. 1 87 Resin of guajacum- Guajakgummi.. Camph. 1 88 Logwood.' Blutholz. Camph. 89 Christmas rose. Schwarze Niesswurz. Camph. chin. 90SuIphuret of lime. Schwefelleber. Acetum bell. 91 Black henbane. Bilsenkraut. Bell, camph. chin. 92 Jalap. 93 Infernal fig. 94 St. Ignatius bean. Schwarze Jallappe. Schwarze Brechnuss. Ignaz Bohne. Camph. 1 1 Arn. camph.cham-coff. puis. cocc. 95 Indigo plant. Indigo. Camph1, xxviii TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS*. REMEDIES. 96 *Iod.—lodium. 97 *Ipec—Ipecacuan- ha. 98 *Kal.—Kali carbon- icum. 99 Kal-ch.— Kali chlor- icum. 100 Kal-h.—Kali hydn- odicum. 101 *Kreos.—Kreoso- tum. 102 *Lach.—Lachesis- 103 Lac—Lactuca viro- sa. 104 Lam.—Lamium al- bum. 105*Laur.Laurocerasus. 106 * Led.—Ledum pa- lustre. 107 Lye— Lycopodium. 108 Magn—Magnesia oarbonica. 109 Masn-m.—Magne- sia muriat. 110 Magn-s.—Magnesia sulphur. Ill *Mang.— Manga- num oxydat. 112 Men.—Menyanthes. 113 *Mtph.—Mephitis. putonus. 114 *Merc—Mercurius. 115 Merc-c.—Mercur- subl-corr. 116 *Mtz.—Mezertum. 117 Mil—Millefolium. 118 * Mosc.—Mosch us. 119 *Mur-ac.—Muria- tis acidum. 120 * Natr.—Natrum carbonicum. 121 * Natr-m.—Natrum muriatic. 122 Natr-n.—Natrum nitricum. 123 Natr-s.—Natrum sulphuncum. 124 Nic— Niccolum. 125 Nitr.—Nitrum. 126 *.\itr-ac—Nitri ac- idum. 127 °Nitr-sp.—Nitri spir- it, dul. SYNONYMES. Iodum, Iodina- Lactuca. Lamium. Ledum palustre. Lycopod. clavatum. Magnesias carbonas. Magnesias murias. Magnesiae sulphas. Manganum. Menyanthes trifoliata. Mephitis. Merc, solubilis Hahne- mann. Mercurius sublimatus. Moschus moschiferus. SYNONYMES. Potasse carbonas. Potasse jodidum. Trigonocephalus La- chesis. Prunus Laurocerasus Nicolum carbonicum. Kali nitricum. Manganesii oxydum. Hydrargyrum oxydula- tum nigrum. Hydrargyri chloridum corrosivum. Daphne mezereum. Achillea millefolium. Sodas carbonas. Sodii chloretum. Sodaenitras. Sodae sulphas. Potassae nitras. Spiritus aetheris nitrici. TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. XXIX ENGLISH. 96 Iodine. 97 Ipecacuanha. £8 Sub-carbonate ol Potash. 99 Chloride of Potash. 100 Hydriodate of Pot- ash. 101 Kreosote. 102 Lachesis. 103 Strong-scented let tuce. 104 Dead nettle. 105 Cherry-laurel. 106 Marsh-tea. 107 Wolf's foot. 108 Magnesia. 109 Muriate of magnesia 110 Sulphate of magne- sia. Ill Manganese. 112 Buck-bean. 113 The skunk 114 Mercury. 115 Corrosive sublimate 116 Mezereon. 1J7 Milfoil. Yarrow. 118 Musk. 119 Muriatic acid. 120 Sub-carbonate ol soda. 121 Muriate of soda. 122 Nitrate of soda. 123 Sulphate of soda. 124 Xickel. 125 Nitrate of Potass. 126 Nitric acid. 127 Nitrous ether. GERMAN. Iodine. Brechwurael. Gewachs-Laugensalz. Chlorsaures Kali. Hydriodsaures Kali. Kreosot. Lachesisschlangengift Giftlattich. Weissbienensaug. Kirschlorbeer. Suinpfporst. Barlapp. Bitteisalzerde. Kochsalzsaure Bitter erde. Schwefelsaure Bitter erde. Braunstein. Bilterklee. Stinkthier. Schwarzes Quecksilber Aetz Sublimat. Kellerhals. Schafgarbe. Mosclius- Kochsalzsaure. Vlineralisches Laugen- salz. Kochsalz. Salpetersaures Natrum Glaubersalz. Nickel. Salpeter. Salpetersaure. Salpelernaphta. ANTIDOTES. Ars. camph. chin, coff hep.phos.spong.sulph. Arn. ars. chin. Camph. coff nitr-spir. Bell. puis. i Ars. jod.1 cham.? n-vom Alum. ars. bell. caps. cham. chin.cocc. hep. mere, natr-m. nitr. n- mos. n-vom. phos-ac. rhus. samb. verat. Camph. 1 Camph. coff. ipec. op. Camph. Camph. puis. Camph. ars. 1 Coff. 7 Camph. Arn. asa. bell, camph. carb-v. chin. dulc. electric, hip. jod. lach. lyc.mez.nitr-a.op.sass. ? [stp. sil. sulph. Camph. mere. Camph. n-mos. 1 Camph. bry. Ars. camph. Ars. camph. nitr. spir. 1 7 1 Nitr. spir. Calc. camph. con. hep. mez. petrol, sulph. XXX TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. REMEDIES. 128*iV-?7ios.-- Nux mos- chala. 129* N-vom.—Nux-vom- ica. 130 *01eand-—Oleander 13101-an.—Oleum anim. aethereum. 132 °OI-jec.—Oleum jec- oris mor. 133 cOnis.—Oniscus as- ellus. 134 * Op.— Opium. 135 Pceon.—Pceonia. 136 Par.—Paris quadri- folia. 137 ^Petr.—Petroleum. 138 "Petros.—Petroseli- num. 139 Phell.—Phellandri- um aquat. 140* Phos.—Phosphorus 141*Phos-ac—Phospho- ri acidum. 142 cPm.—Pinus. U3*Plat.— Plalina. 144 Plumb.—Plumbum. 145 *Prun.—Prunus spi- nosa. 346 * Puis.—Pulsatilla. 147 Aan.—Ranunculus bulbosus. 148 Ran-sc.—Ranuncu- lus sceleratus. 149 Rat.—Kaianhia. 150 *Rhab.—Rhabar- bar (Rhtum). 151 *Rhododendron. 152 * Rhus.—Rhus, tox- icodendron. 153 Rhus-v.—Rhus ver- nix. 154. *Rut-g.—Ruta gra- veolens. 155**abad.-Sabadilla. 156 *Sabin.— Sabina. 157 *Hamb.—Sambucus nigra. 158 *Sang.—Sanguin- arius can. 159 cSap.—Sapo domes- ticus. 160 *Sass.—Sassapa- riila. 161 *$ec.—Secale cornu- tum. SYNONYMES. Poeonia officinalis. Paris. Plumbum aceticum; Pulsatilla'pratensis. Krameria triandria. Rhod. chrysanthum. Rhus. Ruta. Sambucus. Sang. Canadensis. SYNONYMES. Myrislica. Strychnos nux vomica. Nerium oleander. Papaver somniferum. Apium petroselinum. Anemone pratensis. Rheum palmatum. Toxicodendron. Veratrum sabadilla. Juniperus. Smilax sassaparilla. TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. XXXI ENGLISH. 128 Nutmeg. 129 Poison-nut. 130 The rose-bay. 131 Purified animal oil of Dippel. 132 Oil of cod's liver! 133 Woodlouse. 134 White poppy. 135 Peony. 136 True love. 137 Stone oil, Naptha. 138 Parsley. 13 Water-fennel. 140 Phosphorus 141 Phosphoric acid. 142 The pine. 143 Platina. 144 Lead. 145 Sloe tree. 146 The wind flower. 147 Bulbous-rooted crow foot. 148 Marsh crow-foot. 149 Rhatany root. 150 Rhubarb. [ron. 151 Yellow rhododend- 152 Poison oak. 153 Japan varnish-tree. 154 Garden rue. 155 Indian causticbarley 156 Savine tree. 167 Elder-tree. 158 Common Blood- root. 159 Soap. 160 Sassnparilla. lo Ergot of rye. GERMAN. Musscatnuss. Brechnuss Krahenau- gen. Oleander. Hir.-chhorngeist. Leberthran. Kelleresel. Mohnsaft. Gichtrose. Vierblatt-Einbeere. Bergol Steinoel. Petersilie. Wasserfenchel. Phosphor. Phosphorsaeure. Pinus. Platina. Blei. Schlehdorn. Kiichenschelle, Knolliger Hahnenfuss. Bdser Hahnenfuss. Ratanhia. Rhabarber. Sibirische Schneerose. Gift-Sumach. Firniss-Sumach. Raute. Sabadilla-Saamen. Sadebaum. Flieder. Kanadisches Blutkraut. Seife. Sarsaparilla- Mutterkorn. ANTIDOTES. Semina. cari. card. Aeon, alcohol, camph. chain, coff. cocc. puis- vinum. Camph. cocc. n-vom. 1 1 7 Camph. calc. con. hep. mez. petr. sulph. 7 Aeon. ? coff. Aeon, n-vom. 7 7 Camph. coff. n-vom. vinum. Camph. coff- 7 Puis. Alum. bell. hyos. op. plat, stram. and elec- tricity. Cham. coff. ign. n-vom. Bry. camph. puis. rhus. Puis, camph. coff.vinum Camph. cham. n-vom. Rhus. Bell. bry. camph. coff. sulph. Nitr-ac Camph. Camph. puis. Camph. Ars. camph. 7 1 7 Camph. op. solan-nigr. C2 XXX11 TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. REMEDIES. 162 Selen.—Selenium. 163 *Seneg.—Senega. 164 °Senn.—Senna. 165* Sep.— Sepiaisuccus 166 *Sil—Silicea. 167 °Sol-m.—Solanum mammosum. 168 -Sol-n.—Solanum nigrum. 169 *Spig—SpigeIia. 170 *Spong—Spongia. 171 *Squill.—bquilla maritima. 172 *Stann.—Startnum. 173 *Staph.—Staphy- sagria. 174 *Slram.—Stramo- nium. 175 Stront.—Strontiana 176 *Sulph.—Sulphur. 177' Sulph-ac.—Sulphu- ris acidum. 178 Tab—Tabacum. 179 Tan.—Tanacetum vulgare. 180 Tarax.-Taraxacum 181 Tart.—Tartarus emeticus. 182 Tart-ac.—Tartari acidum. 183 Tax.—Taxus bac- cata. 184 Tereb.—Terebinthi- na. 185 *Teucr.—Teucrium mar. ver. 186 The.—Thea caesaria 187 Ther.— Theridion curasssavicum. 188 * Thuj.- Thuya oc- cidentalis. 189 Tong —Tongo. 190 cUrt.—Urtica urens. 191 Uva.—Uva ursi. 192 *Valer.—Valeriana. 193 *Verat.— Veratrum album. 194* Verb-— Verbascum. thapsus. 195cVinc.—Vinca minor 196 *Viol-od—Viola odorata. 197 *■ Viol- tr— Viola tri- color. 198 *Zinc.—Zincum. 199 cZinc-s.—Zincum. sulphuricum. SYNONYMES. Polygala senega. Silica. Spongia marina tosta. Scilla maratima. Strontiana carbonica. Tanacetum. Ant. & potass, tartras. Thea. Theridion. Thuya. Baryosma tongo. Valeriana officinalis. Veratrum. Verbascum. Vinca. SYNONYMES. Cassia senna. Sepia? succus. Spigila anthelmia. Scilla. Delphinium staphysa- gria. Datura stramonium. Nicotiana tabacum. Leontodon taraxacum. Antimonium tartaricum kalinum. Acidum vini. Marum verum. Coumaronna odorata. Dipterix odorata. Arbutus uva ursi. TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. XXXU1 ENGLISH. 162 Selenium. 163 Rattlesnake milk- 164 Senna. [wort. 165 The juice of the cut- tle-fish. 166 Silicious earth. 167 Poison-apple. 168 Garden night-shade. 169 Indian-pink. 170 Burnt sponge. 171 Sea-onion. 172 Tin. 173 Stavesacre. 174 Thorn-apple. 175 Strontiana. 176 Brimstone. 177 Sulphuric acid. 178 Tobacco. 179 Common tansey. 180 Dandelion. 181 Tartar emetic. 182 Tartaric acid. 183 Yew. 184 Turpentine. 185 Wall-germander. 186 Imperial tea. 187 Theridion of Cura- cao. 188 The tree of life. 189 Tonkin bean. 190 Slinging nettle. 191 Bear's berry, 192 Valerian. 193 White hellebore. 194 The yellow mullein. 195 The less periwinkle. 196 Sweet violet. 197 Heart's ease. 198 Zinc. i99 Sulphate of zinc. GERMAN. Seelen-Metall. Senega Wurzel. Sennesblatler. Sepien-Saft- Kieselerde. Gutapfel. Schwarznachtschatten. Spigelie. Kost-Schwamm. Meerzwiebel. Zinn. Stephankorner. Stechapfel. Kohlensaurer Strontian. Schwefel. Schwefelsaure. Taback. Gemeiner Rain-farren. Lbwenzahn. Brechweinstein. Weinsteinsaure.' Gemeiner Eibenbaum. Tcrpentin. Katzenkraut. Kaiserthee. Aranja-Spinne. Lebensbaum-Saft. Tonkobohne. Brennessel. Barentraube. Baldrian. Weiss-Niesswurz. Konigskerze. Barwurzel. Wohlriechendes Veil- chen. Stiefmiitterchen. Zink. ANTIDOTES. Ign. puis. Arn. bell. bry. camph. Cham. Acetum, aeon. nitr. spir. tart. Camph. hep. 7 Camph. aur. Camph. Camph. Coff. puis. Amb. camph. Acetum, bell, citr-ac. n- vom. tab. Camph. Aeon.camph.cham.chin. mere n-vom.puls.cap. Puis. Acetum, camph. ipec. n- 1 [vom. Camph. Cocc. ipec. puis. 7 7 Camph. Chin, ferr thuy. 7 Camph. puis. Acetum. 7 7 Bell, camph. coff. mere Acon.ars.acidum.camph. coff. chin. mere. Camph. 7 Camph. Camph. Camph. hep. ign. 1 xxxiv TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. REMEDIES. 200 °Zing.-Zingiber. 201 Mgs.—Magnes ar- tificialis. 202 *M-am.—Magnetis polus ambo. B. *M-arct.—Magnetis pol. arct. C. M-aust.—Magnetis pol. aust. SYNONYMES. Zingiber officinale. SYNONYMES. TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. XXXV ENGLISH. 200 Ginger. 201 Artificial magnet. 202 Both poles of the magnet without dis- tinction. B. North pole of the magnet. C. South pole of the magnet. GERMAN. Ingwer. Magnetstange. ANTIDOTES. 1 Ign. zinc, and the oppo- site pole. Mgs-aus. ign. zinc. Mgs-arc. ign. zinc. |j" To those who search in vain in this table for other medicines, such as : Alkekenghi, Aquilega, Alriplex olida, Cainca, Chenopodium. Nigella satira, Solanum vesicatorium, etc., to them we say that all the pretended symptoms of these medicines are but the pure invention of Dr. Fickel, of Leipzig, who had them published to give the death blow to homoeopathy. But those who know how to judge of the effects of a medicine by their en- semble and by their mutual relation, do not allow themselves to be thus deceived. Tiny soon discovered the imposition, and have thereby afforded a proof of the degree of accuracy at which the science of pathogenesy has arrived, though it has been studied so few years. XXXVI TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. If. A. ORDER OF MEDICINE TO BE STUDIED. A.) Polychrest.—Aeon. bell. bry. mere, n-vom. puis.— Arn. ars. cham. lach. rhus. sulph.—Calc. chin. lye. phos. sep. sil. Carb-v. dulc. hep. hyos. ipec veratr. B.) Semi-Polychrest.—Caus. cocc. fer. graph, ign. nitr- ac. op. petr. staph.—Aur. bar-c. cann. canth. coloc. con. phos-ac. spig. stram.—Ant. cic. coff*. kal. magn. magn-m. plat, stann. tart.—Dig. dros. iod. led. natr. natr-m. n-mos. thuj. zinc. C.) Medicines which have been equally often employed.— Alum. amm. bor. cupr. hell, kreos. mez. mur-ac. spong. sulph-ac.—Am-m. asa. carb-an. cin. euphr. mosch. sabad. sabin. sassap. squil.—Agar. amb. anac. bis. caps. clem, colch. magn. rheum, valer.—Agn. ang. asar. bov. guai. oleand. plumb, prun. rod. rut. D.) Medicines which have hitherto been used less extensive- ly or less frequently.—Bar-m. calc-ph. camph. chel. croc. eye. euphorb. grat. laur. nitr. samb. sec. seneg. tarax. mgs.—Arg. lam. magn-s. men. meph. natr-s. par. ran. ran- sc. stront. tabac. teucr. viol-od. viol-tr.—Berb. bruc. cinn. cist, coral, daph. gran. ind. merc-c. nice, ol-an. phell. sang. selen.—JEth. cal. cast. crot. eug. evon. fer-mg. haem. kal- ch. lact. paeon, ratan. tereb. ther. tong. E.) Medicines respecting which we possess some notions. —Act. aloes, anis. artes. arum, aur-m. case, cinnam. citr- ac. coccion. convol. cop. cub. diad. diet, fer-ch. fil. frag. ial. iatr. mill, natr-n. nitr-sp. ol-an. ol-jec. onis. petros. pin. rhus-v. sap. senn. sol-m. sol-n. tanac. tart-ac. the. urt. uva. vine, zinc-s. zing. B. ORDER OF INSTRUCTION. First Course.—Most Important Distinctions. 1. Distinction of the most important clinical cases, for the medicines of letters A. and B. 2. Distinction of the most important of the general symptoms, comprising the skin, sleep, fevers and mind, for A and B. 3. Study of the most important of the symptoms of par- ticular 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. TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. XXXVll Second Course.—Study in Detail of the Polychrests A and B. 8. Study of all the clinical cases, for A. and B. 9. Study of all the signs of general symptoms, includ- ing the mental, for A only. 10-13. 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 2d Course, in the same order as for C and D, and the summaries they comprise. O^T For the comparison of analogous medicines see the list of medicines at the head of the pathogenesis of each substance. III. DISTRIBUTION OF MATERIAL IN THE EXPOSITION OF THE PATHOGENESIS OF MEDICINES. A. Abbreviation of the name of the medicine.—English names.—Names of the authors who have published the medicines.—Duration of action. B. Antidotes of the medicine, and the substances for which it is the antidote. C. Analogous medicines with indication of those which precede or follow. CLINICAL REMARKS, containing an enumeration of the affections against which the medicine has been em- ployed or recommended. GENERAL SYMPTOMS, containing predominant sen- sations; state of strength ; the phenomena of the nervous, sanguineous, lymphatic, osseous systems, &c. ; access of restlessness, convulsions, &c. ; and predominant circum- stances under which the symptoms are aggravated, ame- liorated, &c. Skin, with lesions of the exterior organs, ulcerations, abscesses, &c. Sleep, with dreams and nocturnal sufferings. Fevek, with state of the pulse, perspiration, &c. Mind, with symptoms of the understanding and memory. XXXV111 TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. 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, speech, saliva, &c. Throat, with curtains of the palate, palate and tonsils. Appetite, with the defects of taste, hunger, thirst, aver- sion to food or extraordinary loss of appetite, suffering after meals, or consequence of certain aliment, &c. Stomach, with eructations, nausea, vomiting, and sjmp- toms in the precordial region. Abdomen, with symptoms of the liver, spleen, anus and inguinal glands, as well as flatulence. Stools, with suffering of the anus, rectum, and perineum. Urine, with affections of the uninarypassages. Genital Organs, with the sexual functions ofman. Menstruation, with symptoms of the genital parts of the female, mamma, &c, and also the symptoms which are con- nected 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, armpit, and skin of the trunk. Arms, containing symptoms of the upper extremities. Legs, containing symptoms of the lower extremities. IV. EXPLANATION OF SOME EXPRESSIONS, RESPECTING WHICH, THE SENSE IN WHICH WE USED THEM MIGHT BE DOUBTFUL. Note It appeared superfluous to give the explanation of all the medi- cal expressions that have been used, since physicians know them, and other persons who wish to use this manual will find them in every dictionary. In the clinical chapters of the second volume all the technical expressions of the profession will be defined for the lay reader. Ed. Agalactia.—Failure or suppression of milk in nurses Amauros;s.—Loss of sight, more or less without percep tible organic injury. Some German authors make a dis tinction between Amaurosis and Amblyopia amaurotica employing the word to designate only the loss of sight which results from a complete paralysis of the retina or op TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. XXXIX tic nerve. The first degree of this affection receives then the name of Amblyopia. But since, in France, the word amblyopia often designates merely weak sight or confused sight, we have preferred the expression Amblyopia amau- rotica to designate the commencement of amaurosis. Amblyopia.—See Amaurosis. Anthrophobia.—The state of one who fears and flees from men. The Misanthrope, on the contrary, hates them. Asphyxia.—We have employed this word as synony- mous with apparent death. Blennorrhea.—We have employed this word to desig- nate all flowing of mucous matter, without distinction of the organ which is the seat of it. Catarrhus.—This word, employed by us in an absolute sense, signifies rheum in the chest and in the head. Colica.—We have invariably used this word as synony- mous with intestinal pain in general, with or without diar- rhoea. Tearing, Tearing Pains.—After the example of the translators of the materia medica, we have employed this word to translate the German word Reissen, an expression exceedingly vague, which sometimes means simply pain without any other distinction, at another time a sharp pain still more acute than the drawing pain, to which it bears most resemblance. In general, it is a pain more particu- larly in the affections of the muscles, the serous mem- branes and the periosteum. The pain called rheumatism, such as mercury and especially corrosive sublimate pro- duce, in causing mercurial rheumatism, is exactly that which the word Reissen most frequently designates ; and if the word rheumatic had not, at the same time, a vicious sense, there could not have been a better one to substi- tute constantly for the German word. Dvsmenia.—We have employed this word to designate the difficult establishment of the menses at the period of puberty ; while the term Dysmenorrhea has been used to designate the ordinary menstrual discharge, when it takes place with difficulty, with pain, and most commonly not in sufficient abundance. Dysmenorrhosa.—See Dysmenia. Dyspkpsia.—Morbid state of the stomach, characterized by a weak, slow, and laborious digestion, accompanied with suffering. Gastritis.—We never use this word in the sense of the physiological school. It is the gastritis of the ancients that we intend to designate by it. D xl TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. Measles.—See Rubeola. Megrim.—Though this word signifies literally pain in the side of the head, we have employed it only to designate those cephalalgias characterized by partial pains, coming on in periodical attacks, and accompanied at their highest de- gree, by vomitings, want of rest, See. Misanthropy.—See Anthropho'ia. Morbilli.—A disease which is commonly designated by the word rubeola, measles, but incorrectly, for these two diseases are quite different. See Rubeola. Mortification.—We have employed this word to de- signate the moral emotions which result from wounded self" love, and which are characterized rather by profound af- fliction, than by passion and anger. Nervous.—(Weakness, Nervous Pains, &c.)—The word nervous joined to the words fatigue and weakness designates a state of fatigue with great susceptibility of the nervous system.—Nervous pain is synonymous with neuralgia.— (Nervous Cephalalgia, Prosopalgia, Odontalgia, &c.) Paralytic.—This word joined to the denomination of some pain, such as paralytic tearing, pulling, &c, means that these pains are accompanied by a sensation of paraly- tic weakness in the parts affected. Phthisis.—When this word is found without any epi- thet, we always mean pulmonary tubercular phthisis. In all other cases we have added epithets to it, as laryngeal, mu- cous, intestinal, phthisis, &c. Phlegm from the Stomach.—We have employed this expression to translate the German word Wurmerbeseigen, a word by which Hahnemann has designated the throwing off of a certain quantity of water from the stomach, without the effort of vomiting, such as sometimes accompanies the morbid state called pyrosis, or water-brash, black water (fer chaud). See this word. Pyrosis, coming from the Greek word nvQ (fire) has been employed by us only to designate the disagreeable sensation of a burning in the epigastrium, and in the oeso- phagus, accompanied, or not, by a throwing off of serous fluid. Loins—Pain in the Loins.—By this expression we have translated the German word Kreuzschmerzen, since, in fa- miliar language, the word has always precisely the same signification as the English phrase, pain in the loins, pain in the small of the back, &c Rubeola (Measles).—We have designated under this name, the disease which much resembles morbilli, but which TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. xli holds a middle place between that and scarlatina, so that the symptoms of the mucous membranes, in the measles, approaching those which are observed in scarlatina, the exanthemata will approach that of morbilli and vice versa. This is not the place to give an entire description of this disease ; otherwise we could demonstrate all the injury that has arisen from confounding the measles {rubeola') with morbilli. Somnambulism.—A word which is not intended to de- signate the state of a person magnetized or in a state of clairvoyance, but only the state of one who, during sleep, rises and performs a great number of actions, which he does not commonly perform when awake. Stomacace.—Inflammation in the interior of the mouth, with ulceration proceeding sometimes even to gangrene. TxphoID'—Typhoid Fevers.—We have comprised under this name all those that are commonly designated under the name of malignant, pernicious, nervous, atactic, adyna- mic, putrid fevers, &c. 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 ex- periment. (*) The asterisk designates the pathogenetic symptoms which have been confirmed by cures. (°) The cipher indicates the symptoms or the circum- stances under the presence of which the medicine has acted favourably, but which have not as 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 observations 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. xlii TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS. In this phrase there are first: Itching, shooting pains and pressure, which have been observed, all three, as patho- genetic 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 observa- tion 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 quality of pathogenetic effects. The last stroke (") indicates finally that the ap- pearance of these symptoms, in the morning, has been hith- erto observed only as pathogenetic effects. 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 relation 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 follow- ing 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 itch- ing and the pressure, and that they have taken place more frequently in the eyes than in the eye-lids. cCt^, MANUAL OF THE HOMEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA. 1.—ACONITUM NAPELLUS. ACON.—Monks' Hood.—Hahnemann.— Duration of effect; 8, 16, 24, 43 hours according to circumstances. Antidotes: Acet. vinum. par.?— It is used as an antidote against; Cham. coff. n-vom. petrol, sulf. sep. veratr. Compare with : Agar. anac. ant crud arn. ars. asar. bell. bry. cann. canth. cans. cham. coff. colch. croc. dros. dulc. graph, hep. hyos. ipec. mere. nitr.-ac. n-vom. p. phos. plat, puis rut. sabin. sep. spig. spong. stram. sulph. verat.—Aconitum is sometimes indicated as an intermediary rem- edy, especially after am. and sulph.—Arn. ars. bell. bry. cann. ipec. spong. sulph. &c, will frequently be found usvful after aconitum, whether given from the commencement, or in the course of the treatment. CLINICAL REMARKS.—If indicated by the totality of the symptoms, this medicine will sometimes prove useful in some varieties of the following affections (1):—Acute local inflammations ; rheumatic (and arthritic 1) inflamma- tions with swelling; Affections, principally of plethoric persons, of a lively character, bilious and nervous tempera- ment, brown or black hair, florid complexion, SfC. ; Active, sanguineous congestions, neuralgia, and attacks of spasms, principally in young people, and especially in young wo- men of a sanguine temperament, and leading a sedentary life ; Evil consequences of a chill in a dry cold air (easterly wind), or from a current of air ; affections in consequence of fright or of anger. Attacks of convulsions!; Teta- nus 1; Trismus!; Faintingfits; Attacks of catalepsy 1; Burns; Miliary eruptions; Purpura miliaris ; Morbilli; Measles ; Eruptive period of the small-pox ; Erysipelatous (1) .\ote. In making an enumeration in this place of the diseases in which this medicine has Deen employed or recommended, we have neither intended to justify the pathological names, which the authors have used nor to be responsible, in any way, for the absolute efficacy of the medi- cine in these cases. All that we would say is, that in a similar or corres- onding disease, the physician must employ this medicine not as a specific ut solely on ascertaining by a comparison of the symptoms, whether there ■ be a sufficient indication to icarrant his having recourse to it or not ; to do otherwise would not only open a certain avenue to failures of cure but irau>d form a most deplorable perversion of our declaration ; an abuse AGAINST WHICH WE PROTEST ONCE FOR ALL, AS WELL AS FOB ALL THE MEDICINES WHICH WE HAVE IN LIKE MANNER ENUMERATED Vol. I. 1 '--2- *-*4 ACONITIWI XAPELLt'S. inflammations ; Nettle rash ; Inflammatory fevers, even with bilious or nervous symptoms; Catarrhal fever of inflam- matory character ; Somnambulism ! ; Comatose somno- lency ! ; Mental alienations with fixed ideas of approaching death; Cerebral congestion vnth dizziness; Sanguineous apoplexy ; Congestive cephalalgia, catarrhal, nervous, &c.; Megrim ; Encephalitis ; Acute hydrocephalus ; Acute oph- thalmia, even that arising from the introduction of for- eign bodies ; Congestive or nervous prosopalgia and odon- talgia ; Acute angina, phlegmonous or catarrhal; Scarla- tina angina; Difficult dentition with fever; Bilious suffer- ings ; Vomiting of pregnant or hysterical women ; Vomit- ing of worms!; JHaematemesis; Icterus; Hepatitis; En- teritis ; Peritonitis ; Metrorrhagia; and too copious menses in consequence of plethora ; Puerperal peritonitis ; Metri- tis! ; Strangulated hernia ; Common catarrh and grippe in the inflammatory period ; Croup, first period ; Hooping- cough, first period ; Attacks of congestive asthma; Asth- ma of Millar ; Acute laryngitis and bronchitis; Prrtiritis ; Pneumonia; Haemoptysis; Affections of the heart, &c. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—* Shooting pains, or rheu- matic, which are renewed by wine, or other heating arti- cles.—*Sufferings which, particularly at night, seem insupj portable, and which generally disappear in a sitting pos/r ture.—* Attacks of pain with thirst and redness of the cheekfs. —*Distressing sensibility of body and especially of the dis- eased parts to every movement and to the slightest^rouch. — Pain as from a bruise and sensation of hejjvirress in all the limbs.—A sensation of traction with paralytic weakness in the arms and legs.—Failure of strength and stability with pains and cracking in the joints, principally of the legs.— Rp.pid and general decpy of strength.—*Atti;zks of fainting, chiefly when rising from a recumbent posture, 'and some- times with congestion of blood to the head, *buzzing in the ears, "deadly paleness of countenance and shuddering. —* Uneasiness, as if in consequence of suppressed perspira- tion, or in consequence of a chill -with pain in the head, buz- zing 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, grinding of the teeth and hiccough.—Swelling and blackish colour of the body. Skin.—Crawling sensation on the skin, with itching and desquamation, principally on the parts affected.—*Skin dry and burning.— Swelling and burning heat of the wounded t^arts.—*Yello\vi:shcolourofthe skin.—Lanciuations, with a ACONITUM NAPELLUS. 3 sensation of excoriation, here and there.—Spots similar to flea-bites on the hands, body, &c—Small pimples, red and broad, with itching.—Morbilli.—Purpura miliaris. Sleep.—Great desire to sleep, even while walking, and principally after dinner.—Drowsiness with anxious thoughts and rapid respiration.—*Confused thoughts and ideas, hav- ing the eyes closed, without sleeping.—* Sleeplessness from anxiety, with constant agitation and tossing.—*Starting in sleep.—Anxious dreams with night-mare.—Clairvoyant dreams.—Light sleep.—impossibility of lying on the side. —During sleep, lying on the back, with the hand under the head; or in a sitting posture, with the head inclined forward. Fever.—*Dry, burning heat, with extreme thirst, some- times, especially at the beginning of the disease, preceded by shiverings with trembling.—*Heat, chiefly of the head and face, with redness of the cheeks, shuddering over the entire body, pressing head-ache, a disposition to cry, low- spirited and contradictory ; "or a sensation of heat in the whole body, with redness of the cheeks, pain in the head on turning the eyes, and playfulness.—Shivering, for the short time that they may be uncovered during the heat.— Coldness of the whole body with internal heat, cold fore- head and hot tips of the ears ; or with redness of the cheeks and pains in the limbs ; or with stiffness of the whole body, heat and redness of one cheek, and coldness and paleness of the other, open and fixed eyes, pupils con- tracted and dilating with difficulty.—Cold and shivering of the fingers, followed by cramps in the calves of the legs and in the soles of the feet.—Heat of face with mourn- ful and desperate thoughts, and a desire to vomit, prece- ded by cold and shiverings of the feet and hands.— Fre- quent shudderings with burning heat and dryness of jhe skin.—Continual sweat, especially on parts that are covered. —Sour sweat.— Pulse hard, frequent and accelerated. Moral Symptoms.—*Great agitation and boasting with anguish, discouragement that cannot be consoled, cries, tears, groans, complaints and reproaches.—*Apprehensions and fear of approaching death.—Presentiments, as if in a state of clairvoyance.—Anthrophobia and misanthropy.—-*A great disposition to be angry, to be frightened -and to quar- rel—The least noise, even music, appears insupportable.— Humour changeable, 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 an,d tears.—*Inquietude under disease, and despair 4 ACONITUM NAPELLUS respecting a cure.—Fear of spectres.—Disposition to run away from one's bed.—Mind, as it were, paralyzed, with incapability of reflecting, and a sensation as if all the intel- lectual functions were performed in the region of the sto- mach.—Attack of folly and madness.—Unsteadiness of ideas.—* Delirium, chiefly at night.—Weakness of memory. Head.—Head compressed, as if the brain were nailed up, principally in the heat of a room,—* Vertigo, particularly when rising, or, -perhaps, when getting up from one's seat, when stooping, or moving the head, and often attended with a sensation of intoxication or dizziness in the head, loss of consciousness, "dimness of the eyes, nausea and sensation of weakness in the pit of the stomach.—*Sensation of wa- vering motion in the brain, increased by the least motion, and even by speaking and drinking.—*Pain in the head with desire to vomit, and vomiting.—Head, as if bruised with sensation of bruising in the limbs.—Stupifyingpain in the head, with sensation of compression and drawing to- gether as from cramp, principally in the forehead and at the root of the nose.—* Weightand fulness in the forehead and temples, with pressing outward,-as if every thing was going to issue forth through them, -chiefly when stooping forward.— Shooting, *strokes and beatings in the head.—Drawing ceph- alalgia, sometimes semi-lateral.—Sensation, as if a ball were mounting in the head, and spreading a coolness over it.— * Congestion of blood to the head, with heat and redness of face, or with a sensation of heat in the brain, sweat on the shrivelled skin and paleness of the face.—Heat and bubbling in the head, as if there were boiling water in the brain.—A roaring and cracking in the head.—Sensation on the top of the head, as if one were dragged by the hair.—Pain in the head, as if in consequence of cold or suppressed perspira- tion with a buzzing in the ears, cold In the head and colic. —*Aggravation of the pains in the head, by movement, by speaking, by rising from a recumbent position and by drinking ; amendment in the open air. Eyes.—*Eyes red and inflamed, with deep redness of the vessels, -and intolerable pains.—*Profuse lachrymation.— Heat and burning in the eyes, with *pressiveand shooting pains, especially when moving the balls.— Swelling of the eyes.—* Dilated pupils.—Dryness, heaviness, and inflam- matory swelling of the lids.—"Eyes sparkling, -convulsed and prominent.—Look fixed.—Excessive photophobia, -or a great desire for light.—Black spots and mist before the eyes.—Attacks of sudden blindness.—A sensation of drawing in the eyelids with drowsiness. ACONITUM NAPELLUS. 5 Ears.—Tingling and Huzzing in the ears.—Tickling and sharp pain in the ears.—Sensation, as if something was placed before the ears.—Excessive sensitiveness of hearing; all noise is intolerable. Nose.—Stunning compression at the root of the nose.— *Bleedingfrom the nose.—Excessive acuteness of smelling. —Violent sneezing with pain in the abdomen and in the left side.—Coryza with catarrh, pain in the head, buzzing in the ears and colic. Face.—*Face bloated, hot and red, or -bluish, "or alter- nately red and pale.—On rising, the face, before red, becomes deadly pale.—Redness of one cheek with paleness of the other, or, *red spots on both cheeks.— *Sweat on the forehead, upper lip, and on the cheek on which one has laid.—Distortion of features.—Crawling pain and sensation of swelling in the cheeks.—Pain, as from ulceration in the cheek-bones.—fSemi-lateral prosopalgia with swelling of the lower jaw.—*Lips black and dry.— Burning pains, pricking and shootings, with successive drawings in the jaws. Teeth.—Lancinating shocks "or throbbing pains in the teeth, often with congestion of blood towards the head and heat of the face. Mouth.—*Sensation of dryness, or dryness in the mouth and on the tongue.—"Tongue white.—Itching, prickings and burning sensation of the tongue, with accumulation of saliva in the mouth.—Paralysis of the tongue.—*Speech tremulous and stammering.—Pain, as from excoriation in the orifices of the salivary ducts, as if they were ulcerated. Throat.—*Pain in the throat with deep redness of the parts affected and difficult deglutition.—Scraping, itching, sensation of strangling, *burning and pricking in the throat, chiefly when swallowing.—Sensation of contraction in the throat, as if caused by acrid substances. Appetite.—*Taste in the mouth bitter or putrid.—Taste of all foods and drinks bitter, except water.—-Exces- sive and unquenchable thirst, sometimes with a desire for beer.—*Loss of appetite and distaste for food.—Beer op- presses the stomach like a weight. Stomach.—Hiccough.—Ineffectual desire to eructate.— Flowing of water from the stomach like phlegm, with pain in the stomach—Desire to vomit, as after having eaten something sweetish or fat.—*Bilious vomitings, greenish, or mucous and bloody.—Vomiting of pure blood.—Vomit- ing of lumbricoides.—*Pains in the stomach after eating or drinking.—^Sensation of swelling, tension and pres- 6 ACONITUM NAPELLUS. sure, as from a weight in the precordial region and in the sto- mach, sometimes with difficult respiration.—Sensation of contraction in the stomach, as if from acrid substances. Abdomen.—Constriction, *tension and pressure in the hypochondriac region, sometimes with fulness and a sensa- tion of weight.—*Burning pain, lancinations, stitches and ^pressure in the hepatic region, with difficult respiration.— ^Painful sensitiveness to touch in the region of the liver.— ^Icterus.—Drawingpains in the abdomen when sittihg down. —Constriction, pinchings and *burnings in the umbilical re- gion, sometimes with retraction of the navel.—Unbearable cutting pains in bed in the morning.—Tension and paint ul throbbing in the abdomen, principally in the epigastrium.— •Swelling of the abdomen as in ascites.—* Painful sensitive- ness of the abdomen to the touch and to the least movement.— Flatulent colic, chiefly at night, with pressure, tension and borborygmus. Fjeces.—* Suppression of stools.—* Frequent, soft, small stools with tenesmus.—*Loose, watery stools.— White stools, with red urine.—Involuntary stools, from paralysis of theanus.—Nausea and sweating before and after loose stools. —Pains in the rectum.—Pressure and pricking in the anus. —Bloody piles.—Diarrhea with flow of urine and with colic. Urine.— Suppression of urine, with pressure in the bladder and pains in the kidneys.—A frequent desire to discharge urine with anxiety and pain.—Flow of urine, with sweat, diarrhsea and colic.—Involuntary emission of urine, from relaxation of the neck of the bladder.—* Urine scanty, burning, dark red, and with a brick-coloured sediment.— Bloody sediment in the urine.—Heat and tenesmus at the neck of the bladder. Genital Organs.—Venereal inclination alternately in- creased and diminished.—Amorous paroxysms.—Smarting in the parts.—Pains of contusion in the testicles.—Itching of the prepuce.—Lancinations and pinchings in the glans when making water.—*Menses too abundant.—Delirium on the appearance of the menses.—Loss of blood from the matrix.—Leucorrhsea viscous and yellowish.—Increase of milk in the breasts. Larynx.—Sensation of numbness in the trachea.—At- tacks of paralysis in the epiglottis, with a tendency to choking.—*Pain in the larynx.—A croaking voice.—*A constant desire to cough, produced by an irritation or a tick- ling in the larynx.—Cough after drinking or smoking. —*Short and dry cough, principally at night.—"A convul- sive cough, hoarse or croaking, sometimes with danger of ACONITUM NAPELLUP. 7 suffocation and constriction of the larynx.—Expectoration of thick and whitish matter, °or of bloody mucus, *or spitting of blood with the cough.—*Shootings and pains in the chest when coughing. Chest.—*Short breathing, chiefly during sleep, "and on getting up.—*Breathing difficult, anxious, and attended with groans, or quick and short, ~or strong and loud and with the mouth open.—Breathing slow during sleep.—Breath fcrtid.—*Constriction and anxious oppression of the chest, with difficulty of breathing.—"Attacks of suffocation, with anxiety.—Sensation of heaviness and of compression of the chest.—*Painful stitches in the chest, chiefly when breathing, coughing, and moving, even of the arms only.— *Stitches in the side, with weeping and complaining, soothed, in some degree, by lying on the back.—Itch- ing in the chest.—Pains as if from a bruise in the ster- num and in the sides.—^Sensation of anguish in the chest, which interrupts respiration.—*Palpitation of the heart with great anxiety, heat of body, chiefly in the face, and great weariness in the limbs.—"Lancinations in the region of the heart when moving or going up stairs.—Sensation of com- pression and strokes in the region of the heart. Trunk.—Pain, as if from a bruise, in the back and loins and in the nape of the neck.—* Painful stiffness in the nape of the neck, in the kidneys and the coxo-femoral joints.— Boring pain in the back and loins; itching and prick- ing in the back.—Weakness and pain, as from a bruise, in the nape of the neck. Arms.—Pain, as from a bruise, and weakness in the arms, principally in the shoulders with swelling.—Heaviness in the arms with numbness of the fingers.—Paralytic weakness of the arm and hand, especially when writing.—A sensation of drawing in the arms.—Hands benumbed.—Swelling of the hands.—Heat in the hands with coldness of the feet.— Cool sweat on the palms of the hands.—Itching in the fin- gers particularly when writing/—"Inflammatory swelling of the elbow with numbness and a paralytic state of the fingers. Legs.—Pain, as from a bruise in the coxo-femoral joints, especially after having slept, or having lain down for some time.—A sensation of drawing with paralytic weaknessinthelegs.—"Lancinating pain in the coxo-femoral joint, even to the knee; pain which forces a cry at every step.—Want of strength and steadiness in the joints of the hip and knee.—Inflammatory swelling of the knee, with shining redness, shooting pains, stiffness and great sensi- tiveness to touch.—Sensation of stiffness in the legs when 8 ACONITUM NAPELLUS — 7ETHUSA CVNAPIUM. moving them.—Pain in the insteps with despair and fear of death.—Numbness in the legs.—Heaviness of the feet.— Coldness of the feet, chiefly in the toes, and sweat on the soles of the feet. 2.—iETHUSA CYNAPIUM. iETH.—Garden hemlock.— Hartl. and Thinks.—A medicine as-yet \ery little known. Compare with : Cic con. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Shooting and rheumatic pains in the muscles.—Attacks of stiffness in the body and limbs.—Convulsions with loss of consciousness and raving. —Epileptic convulsions.—Aggravation of suffering in a room, amelioration in the open air.—Great desire to sleep in the day and drowsy heaviness.—Coldness, chiefly in the limbs with shiverings, and inclination for sleep.—Pulse, ir- regular and small, hard and quick.—Irregular beating of the heart.—Inquietude and anguish.—Humour, slovenly and irritable, especially in the open air.—Loss of con- sciousness and raving.—Ideas fixed, frantic.—Madness. Head, Eyes, &c-—Head compressed, as if the brain were bound.—Dizziness with sleepiness.—Compressive or drawing pain, beatings and dartings in the head, chiefly in the afternoon.—Heat in the eyes, as if from smoke, espe- cially when in a room.—Injection of the veins of the con- junctiva.—Eyessparkling, prominent, fixed, and, as it were, inanimate.—Fixed, strange look.—Eyeballs convulsed and directed downwards.—Drawing and tearing pains in the ears.-—Hardness of hearing wih sensation of closing of the ears.—Face wan, pale, disfigured and hollow.—Fea- tures which denote anguish and suffering.—Sensation of ^| swelling in the face and head, on entering a room.—Rend- ing and shooting pains in the cheek-bones.—Foaming at the mouth.—Heat in the throat. Abdomen, &c.—Vomiting of milk when swallowed, or of milky matter, white and frothy, or of greenish mucus.— Vomiting, with loose stools.—Tearing pain from the pit of the stomach to the oesophagus —Lancinations in the hypo- chondrium and in the kidneys.—Sensation of coldness in the abdomen.—Abdomen bloated and very painful when touch- ed, principally in the hepatic region.—Black and bluish swelling of the abdomen.—Stools,loose and bilious, greenish or yellowish, and sometimes with cutting pain and tenes- mus.—Urine pale and abundant. Chest, Trunk and Limbs.—Respiration short, anxious and sobbing.—Tearing pains, and successive drawings in kCTJEk SPICATA—AGARICUS MUSCARIUS. 9 the nape of the neck.—Compressive pain in the sacrum.— Painful furunculus on the loins.—Stiffness of the arms and in the fingers when bending them.—Sensation of swelling in the hands, after walking. _ i 3.—ACTyEA SPICATA. ACT.—With the exception of one case of Prosopalgia cured by Ruckert, ob- servations that we possess on this medicine, are fictitious, being the fab- rication of Doctor,Fickel (Heyne). 4.^AGARICUS MUSCARIUS. AMANITA.—Bug agaric—Hahnemann.— Duration of effect; 40 days in some chronic affections. Antidotes : Camph. coff. puis, vinum. Compare with : Aeon. bell. coff. graph, phos. puis. CLINICAL REMARKS.—The affections in which this remedy has been heretofore used are :—Amblyopia amau- rotica ; Odontalgia; Weakness from excessive coition ; Pains in the bones of the legs ; Convulsions and tremblings of the limbs ! ; Epileptic fits ; Miliary eruptions! ; Chilblains. [As the Agaricus causes immensely increased irrita- bility of the whole nervous and sexual systems, with excessive sensitiveness to all sensual impressions, and a condition in which the slightest exercise of the will suffices to produce violent excitation of the nervous and muscular systems, characterized by universal trembling, continual twitching of the tendons, inclination to dance, together with the strangest distortion of the limbs, con- vulsive motions, excessive sensitiveness of the skin, so that the slightest pressure causes intense and long contin- ued pains, &c. &c.; it promises to prove a most efficient remedy in hysterical chorea, convulsions, and catalepsy; and principally in neuralgias of the head and sides of the face. It deserves attention in -mental derangement and nervous headaches attended with transient mania. EdJ\ O^T See. note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Painful cramps in the mus- cles when seated.—Sensation of drawing in the limbs, prin- cipally during repose, whether seated or standing, and disap- pearing when moving.—Symptoms which show themselves across, for instance, in the right arm and in the left leg ; amelioration when walking slowly.—Great sensibility in the whole body ; the slightest pressure produces long con- tinued pains.—Pains, as from a bruise in the limbs and in all the joints, after even moderate exercise.—Piercing pains in different parts of the body, chiefly in the head, with desire 10 AGARICUS MUSCARIUS. for sleep and faintness when seated.—Great weakness and heaviness in all the limbs.—Trembling.—Convulsions.— Epileptic fits.—Great sensibility in the cool air. Skin.—Itching and titillation which force the sufferer to scratch himself.—* Itching, burning pain and redness as from chilblains in different parts of the body.—*Miliary eruption, whitish and resembling grains, with excessive itching. Sleep.—Desire to sleep in the day, particularly after a meal.—Violent yawning followed by dizziness.—In the morning, one has not slept enough, and has great difficulty in rising. Fever.—Disposition to exceeding chilliness, and shiver- ings in the open air, or on raising the bed-clothes provided that the limbs have been warm.—Violent shivering and trembling over the whole body with heat in the face, and coldness of the hands.—Sweat from even a moderate walk and slight exertion. Moral Symptoms.—Aversion to conversation.—Dread of labour.—Inclination to make verses and to prophesy.— Coy mania, or madness with great display of strength.— Anxiousness, fearful reflections upon the present and fu- ture.—Utter indifference ; mental dissipation ; rapture ; poetic excitation ; fearless and destructive rage, and fury ; restlessness ; dejection ; despair. Head.—Dizziness, as from intoxication, principally in the open air,in the morning and when reflecting. The bright light of the sun instantly produces a dizziness, so as to oc- casion falling.—Piercing pains in the head when seated.— Dull pain, chiefly in the forehead with drawing of the eye- lids.—Drawing pains in the head, even in the eyes and root of the nose, principally on waking in the morning.—Pain, as if a nail were driven into the head.—Searching pain and sensation as from a bruise in the brain.—Semilateral ce- phalalgia, drawing and pressing with confusion in the head. —Beating in the vertex with almost furious desperation.— Pressure in the left temple extending to the bottom of the brain, increased by pressure or touching the hair, and ac- companied with complete discouragement.—Sensation of icy coldnes, in the head.—A twitching in the forehead and temples.—Headache as if the brain were lacerated; inter- mittent rending in the head extending to behind the ear ; drawing in all parts of the head, and rending in the head just before going to sleep; pressing rending in the whole left side of the head, and most severely in the left orbit and zygoma ; boring pain deep in the brain, with sleepiness and relaxation of the whole body. AGARICUS MUSCARIUS. 11 Eyes.—Itching in the eyes.—Burning sensation in the internal corners of the eye-lids, with pain when touched. —Pressure in the eyes.—Bloodshot redness in the corners of the eyes, and agglutination of the lids.—The cleft of the eye-lids growing narrower.—Twitching in the eyes and eye-lids.—* Weakness and confusion of vision as from a mist before the eyes.—* Brownish spots, like flies, before the eyes.—Myopia.—Diplopia. Ears.—Otalgia excited and aggravated by the admission of free air.—*Itching in the ears with redness and burning pain, as from chilblains.—Buzzing in the ears. Nose.—Excoriation and inflammation of the nostrils with painful sensibility.—Itching in the interior and on the exterior of the nose.—Blood from blowing the nose and bleeding at the nose.—Increased acuteness of smell.—Fre- quent sneezing without coryza.—Dryness of the nose.— Flow of clear water from the nose without coryza. Face.—^Shooting or drawing pains in the jaws, cheeks and chin.—Itching, redness and burning in the cheeks, as if from chilblains.—Twitching and pulsations in the cheeks. —Bluish lips.—Burning fissures in the upper lip.—Crainp- like sensation of pulling in the chin and lower jaw. Teeth.—Tearing pains in the teeth, aggravated by cold. —Gums, swollen, painful and readily bleeding. Mouth.—Pain, as from excoriation in the mouth and palate—Excoriation of the tongue.—After a meal, tongue dotted with apthas of a dirty yellow, with a sensa- tion as if the skin were going to be taken off".—Ulcer on the frnnum of the tongue.—Offensive smell of the mouth, as if after eating horse-radish.—Foam about the mouth.— Flow of bitter saliva. Appetite.—Insipid and fetid taste in the mouth.—Want of appetite for bread.—Hunger with want of appetite.— Attacks of bulimy, chiefly in the evening.—After a meal, pressure in the stomach and the abdomen with ful- ness. Stomach.—Incomplete eructation alternating with hic- cough.—Eructations with the taste of the food that has been eaten —Nausea with cutting pains.—Desire to vomit immediately after a meal.—Pressure in the stomach, and in the precordial region, after a meal.—Pain resembling cramp and oppressive heaviness in the stomach. Abdomen.—Shootings in the hepatic region.—Prickings in the region of the spleen during and after inspiration.— Cuttino- and pinching pains in the abdomen as from diar- rliaja,—Moving about and rumbling noise in the abdomen.— 12 AGARICUS MUSCARIUS--AGNUS CASTUS. Abundant expulsion of flatulency of a fetid odour, like that of garlic. Fjeces.—Hard stools of a dark colour after a period of con- stipation.—Loose stools in the form of pap, with flatulency and violent colic.—During the loose stools, a painful drawing in the stomach and in the abdomen.—Itching in the anus. Urine.—Scanty and seldom.—Urine clear and of a yel- low lemon colour.—Flow of viscous mucus from the urethra. Genital Organs.—Increase of sexual desire with flac- cidity of the penis.—Insufficient emission in coition.—* Af- ter coition great weakness and nocturnal sweat.—Itching on the genitals.—Drawing in the testes. Larynx.—Expectoration of small globules of mucus, al- most without cough. Chest.-—Respiration, short and oppressive, with diffi- culty of walking, even slowly.—Respiration difficult, as if the breasts were full of blood.—Constrictive oppression of the chest with a necessity for breathing often and deeply. —Pain, principally in the lower part of the chest, as if every thing were compressed there.—Prickings in the chest.—Painful beatings of the heart.-—Copious nocturnal sweat'upon the chest.—Itching of the nipples. Back.—Pain, as from fatigue and dislocation in the back, at the nape of the neck and in the loins, especially when sitting or lying down.—Painful weakness in the mus- cles of the back.—Paralytic pain in the loins increased by walking or by continued standing. Arms.—Arms weak and without vigour.—Burning pain in the arms followed by an *eruption of small pimples, with scaling off of the epidermis.—Trembling of the hands.— Tearing in the fingers.—Cramp-like pain in the thumb.— Paleness and numbness of the fingers, which are, at the same time, very sensitive to cold.—*itching, burning pain and redness in the fingers, as if from chilblains. Legs.—Legs heavy and fatigued, especially in the thighs. —Drawing in the legs, as if in the interior of the bone, es- pecially when sitting or standing, and ameliorated by mo- tion.—Painful sensation in the hip on walking.—Drawing in the legs.—Darting pain in the feet and in the toes—Draw- ing pressure in the malleolar.—^Burning itching and red- ness in the toes as if from chilblains. 5.—AGNUS CASTUS. AGN.-The chaste tree.—Archives of Stapf.— Duration of effect : from 8 to 15 days in some cases. • ' AGNUS CASTUS. 13 Antidotes: Camph. Compabe with: Bov. cupr. natr-mur. nitr-ac. olcand. plat, selen. sep. CLINICAL REMARKS.—The principal affections in which this medicine has been employed or recommended are :—Impotence ; Secondary gonorrhaia ; Suppressed men- ses ; Agalactia; Ulcers in the mouth and gums; Swell- ing and induration of the spleen; Ascites; Flatulency; Excoriations and chaps of the anus (external application); Swelling and induration of the testicles; Leucorrhsea; Dislocations; Arthritic exostosis; Inflammatory, rheuma- tic swelling of the joints ; Sterility, &c, &c. [It deserves attention, in hysteria and hypochondria, bordering on deep melancholy, and dependent upon no ma- terial cause, but rather upon misdirection and abuse of the mental powers. Also in the melancholy, apathy, self- dissatisfaction, self-contempt, &c. caused by onanism, and attended with coldness and insensibility of the sexual or- gans, and flow of prostatic fluid. Ed.] O^rSee note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—A smarting, itching on dif- ferent parts.—Drowsiness.—Disturbed sleep, and waking with a start.—Anxious or lascivious dreams.—Shiverings with trembling, though the body is hot to the touch.—Shiv- ering without thirst, with coldness of the hands.—In the evening, in bed, transient heat of the body with coldness of the knees. Moral Symptoms.—Melancholy and hypochondriacal humour, with apathy, absence of ideas, and incapacity for doing any thing whatever.—State of exaltation, alternating with self-contempt.—Complete discouragement and desire for death.—Great sadness with a confirmed idea of approach- ing death.—Great distraction, absence of mind and stupe- faction.—Difficult conception of the discourse of others.— Fits of anguish with weakness, and a sensation as if diar- rhaea were about to be established. Head.—Contracting pain in the head, chiefly when read- ing.—"Headache as when one has remained a long time in a room full of smoke, with a sensation of heaviness, -amelio- rated by fixing the eyes on any object.—Pressing rending, principally in the forehead and temples, increased by move- ment.— Contused pain, as if one had received a blow on the templf.—A shooting, smarting sensation in the head as if in the bone, chiefly in the evening, and felt even during sleep.—Itching anda darting titillation in the hairy scalp.— Tension and chilliness in the teguments of the head, which, however, appear warm to the touch. Vol. I. 2 14 AGNUS CASTUS--ALOES GUMML Eyes and Ears.—Burning sensation in the eyes, when reading, in the evening—Itching and pricking in the lids and around the eyes.—Pupils greatly dilated.—Tingling and buzzing of the ears. Nose.—Smell of musk or of herring, before the nose.— Pressure at the root of the nose, relieved by compression. Face and Teeth.—Itching and prurient titillations in the cheeks.—Tearing pain in the lower jaw.—Tooth-ache excited by drinking, or by hot aliments. Mouth and Throat.—Dryness of the mouth with vis- cous saliva.—Redness of the palate and velum palati.— A sensation of scraping in the throat which causes cough- ing, with expectoration of a very viscous mucus. Appetite.—Metallic or coppery taste in the mouth.— Hunger and appetite increased.—Absence of thirst and aversion to all sorts of drink.—After dinner, fulness and inflation.—Frequent hiccough with irritability. Abdomen.—Uneasiness, first in the pit of the stomach, then in the abdomen, as if all the entrails were coming down.—Pressure in the hepatic region, increased by touch. —Rumbling noise in the abdomen during sleep. Fjeces and Urine.—Loose or soft stools.—Hard stools and constipation.—Stools difficult, without being very hard. —Itching and titillation in the perinaeum.—Urine more fre- quent and more abundant, issuing in a fuller stream. Genital Organs.—Weakness of the genital functions. —The genital organs are cold, insensible, and little dispo- sed for coition.—Sensation of traction in the spermatic cord. —"Blenorrhaic discharge from the urethra, with *absence of sexual desire and erections.—*Yellowish efflux from the urethra.—Flowing of the prostate fluid during a difficult stool.—Increase of sexual desire, with frequent erections, and accompanied by a kind of madness ; alternate effect 1— "Menses suppressed, with drawing pains in the abdomen. Chest.—Cough in the evening, in bed, before falling asleep.—Pressure on the sternum, especially when taking a full inspiration. Extremities.—Pain as from dislocation of the joints of the shoulder, hand, and knee.—Sensation of drawing in the feet and toes, chiefly when walking.—Tendency to twist the feet when walking on the pavement.—Drawing weight in the feet.—Arthritic swelling and drawing in the joints of the fingers. 6—ALOES GUMMI. AL.—Aloes.—A medicine as yet entirely unknown in homoeopathy, but ALUMINA. 15 which has been employed with success against some kinds of dysen- tery.—The primitive symptoms which Fickel (Heyne) published of it have been controverted. 7.—ALUMINA. ALUMINIUM OXVD.—Argilla—Pure Clay—Hahnemann.— Duration of effect: more than 40 days in some cases. Antidotes: Bry. camph. cham. ipec. Compare with : Ars. bar. bell calc. cham. ign. ipec. lach. led. magn. mere. n-vom. phos. plumb, rhus. sil. sulf—This medicine answers pariicu- larly well after Bry. lach. and sulph., while Bryonia is uften of great use after alumina, when it is indicated. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Guided by the totality of symptoms, this medicine Will sometimes be found useful in one or other of the following affections:—Intellectual weakness; Congestive, nervous or hysterical cephal- algia with vomiting; Strabismus!; Otorrhea; Ozcena; Odontalgia of pregnant women ; Ulceration of the gums; Acute anginse ; Hepatic pains!; Saturnine colic; Consti- pation of pregnant women and nurses ; Flowing of prostatic fluid; Leucorrhcea ; Chronic coryza ; Suffering in conse- quence of contradictions; Rhagades; Panaris; Moist and gnawing tetters ; Mercurial sufferings. [Chronic and obstinate inflammations of the eyes, which are attended with profuse mucous secretion ; Paralysis of the eyelids; Inflammation of the bones of the nose; Enlarge- ment and induration of the cervical glands; Obstinate and destructive inflammation of the throat, especially when attended with profuse purulent secretion; Water-brash; Acidity of the stomach; Worm complaints, and the at- tendant alternation of diarrhea and constipation ; In chro- nic inflammations of the throat of scrofulous persons, or of children, with enlargement of the tonsils, running from the ears, and catarrh of the nose. Ed.] 0^7" See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Rending pains in the limbs. —Sensation of constriction in several organs.—Aggravation of suffering from potatoes, and often every two days.— Several sufferings show themselves after dinner and continue till evening, when they disappear or are replaced by others, which begin only then.—The sufferings which have ap- peared in the morning, or in the evening, are ameliorated after dinner.— 'Sufferings in consequence of vexation.— *Trembling and convulsive movements of the limbs, -and even of the head.—Spasms, with alternation of tears and laughter.—Exaltation of the whole nervous system.—Trem- bling of the whole body, with desire to lie down, which, how- 16 ALUMNINA. ever, increases the fatigue.—Great general fatigue, even after a short walk on foot, but principally after speaking.— 'Frequent stretching when sitting.— Absence of vital heat. Skin.—Miliary eruption on the arms and legs, with much itching, and serous bleeding after having been scratched. —The slightest injuries of the skin smart and inflame.— "Leprous pimples.—uScurf and running sores, "or itching, chiefly in the evening.—Renewal of cutaneous symptoms at every new or full moon.—*Rhagades (cutaneous fissures). Sleep.—*Sleep tardy and -wakefulness before midnight. —Nocturnal sleep too light, agitated, with frequent starts.— *Deep sleep, not refreshing, with a desire in the morning to sleep more.—Frequent waking in the night.—*Dreams frequent and -anxious writh talking, laughter, tears, lamenta- tions, groans, and somnambulism.—Dreams of horses, quar- rels, and vexations, of fire, marriages, spectres, death, and robbers.—Dreams, with fear of death after waking.— Nightmare.—During the night, anxiety, agitation, and toss- ing; or heat, tooth-ache, head-ache, spasms and oppression of the chest, or diarrhsea with pains in the stomach and shiverings.—After sleep, on waking in the morning, mind weighed down by vexatious ideas, or nausea with insipidity in the stomach and feverish movements. Fever.—Shivering, even when near the heat of a stove, and at night, in bed, one is not able to warm oneself.— Fever towards the evening, with predominant chilliness.— 'Chilliness immediately after having eaten supper. Moral Symptoms.—Humour morose, -sad, with despair of cure.—Involuntary tears.—* Anguish and anxiety, as if one were threatened with some fatal accident or had com- mitted a crime.—*Apprehensions.—Disposition to be fright- ened.—Countenance, sorrowful and morose.—Ill-humour, Avith unfitness for labour.—Disposition to be angry.—Obsti- nacy and contradictory humour.—Taking every thing in bad part.—Humour changeable, at one time bold, at another timid.—Weakness of memory.—Distraction, inadvertence, and *incapability of following out an idea.—*Absence of ideas.—One always makes blunders in speaking.—Great vivacity of mind, alternating with stupidity and insen- sibility of sight and hearing.—Sensation, as if self-con- sciousness were without the body. Head.—* Dizziness, -whirling sensation, most frequently so as to cause falling, sometimes with nausea, or tension in the nape of the neck.—State of intoxication after smoking tobacco, or after having taken the weakest spirituous drink, and principally in the morning.—*Head-ache, as if .one ALUMINA. 17 were dragged by the hair ; or -smart shootings in the brain, *with desire to vomit.—Heaviness of the head, with pale- ness of the face and fatigue.—Compressive cephalalgia.— Beatings and pulsations in the head.—'Congestion of blood towards the eyes and nose, with *pressure in the forehead and epistaxis.—Head-ache increased while walking in the open air.—The head-ache is ameliorated when, on lying down, the head is softly supported.—*Itching on the fore- head.—Pain as from excoriation in the hairy scalp.— "Moist crusts on the temples.—Dryness of the hair.—Itching in the hairy scalp, which scales off very much. Eves.—Pressure on the eyes, which renders it impossible to open them.—*Pressure, as from a grain of sand, in the corner of the eye, in the evening.—*Sensation of burning in the eyes, with nocturnal agglutination of the lids and diur- nal lac hrymation.—"Sensation of coldness in the eyes, when walking in the open air.—Paralysis of the upper lid.—Hor- deolum; swelling of the eyelids.—Hanging of the brows.— Spasmodic drawing of the lids at night, with pain in the eyes on opening them.—Photophobia.—Confusion of sight as from a mist, and sparkling before the eyes.—Yellow aspect of all objects—Coloured reflection around the candle, in the evening.—Strabismus of both eyes.—Glittering before the eyes on opening them. Ears.—Shooting pains in the ears, principally in the evening or at night.—Itching and sensation of burning in the ears.—Frequently, in the evening, heat and redness of one ear.—Purulent discharge from the ears.—Crackling noise and 'buzzing in the ears, -chiefly when chewing, but also when swallowing. Nose.—Pain in the root of the nose and forehead. —*Pain, swelling, and red?iess of the nose.—Corrosion and scabs in the nose.—'Discharge of solid, yellow, greenish substances from the nose.—*Accumulation and flow of a thick and yellowish matter from the nose.—Nostrils ulcer- ated.—Stoppage of the nose.—Furunculus in the nose.— Blood from the nose when blown, and *epistaxis.—Sour smell from the nose.—Smell either exceedingly delicate or #weak.—Coryza with defluxion from one nostril with stop- page of the other.—Coryza alternately dry and flowing.— Stoppage of the nose. Face.-^Aspect gloomy, morose.—Rapid alternation of redness and *paleness of countenance.—Copper-like red- ness of the cheeks, as in drunkards.—Itching in the face, and tension as if it were covered with white of an egg dried. --Sensation of swelling and of *heaviness of countenance. o* 18 ALUMINA. —Red, painful spot on the cheek.—Roughness of the skin of the face, especially over the forehead.—Itching, and eruption of small pimples over the face.— Moist scabs on the temples.—*Shooting sensation and traction in the cheek-bones.—Transient heat of the face.—Furunculus on the cheeks.—"Leprous tubercles in the face.—Lips dry and cracked with exfoliation of the skin.—Swelling of the lips. —Pimples and moist eruptions on the lips.—Swelling of the jaws with tensive pain on opening the mouth and when chewing.—Shortening of the lower jaw. Teeth.—Pains in the teeth when chewing, or in the even- ing, in bed.—Tearing in the teeth, as far as the zygomatic bone, and in the forehead and temples.—Piercing pain in the carious teeth.—Ulceration of the roots of the teeth.— Ulcers on the gums.—Swelling of the gums with a tendency to bleed.—Sensation of lengthening of the teeth.—Odon- talgy with nervous irritation, as after cold or after the use of ohamomile. Mouth.—Pain as from excoriation of the mouth, palate, tongue and gums, which almost prevents eating.—Small ulcers in the mouth.—"Dryness of the mouth, -chiefly on waking.—Accumulation of a sweetish or sour saliva in the mouth, like actual salivation.—'Putrid smell from the mouth. —Tongue loaded with a black or yellowish coating.—Ex- pectoration of bloody mucus. Throat.—Sore throat which is aggravated in the even- ing and at night, and which is ameliorated by taking any thing warm, as well as in the morning.—Contracting, or shooting pains in the throat, chiefly when swallowing.— Difficult deglutition, as if from contraction of the throat,— Cramp-like pressure and squeezing in the oesophagus.— Swelling of the amygdalae.—Great dryness in the throat.— Accumulation of a thick and viscous mucus in the throat, with difficult expectoration. Appetite.—Sweetish taste, or a taste of blood in the mouth.—Rough taste, astringent or bitter and insipid.— * Irregular appetite; at one time too strong, at another too weak.—Insipidity of food, especially in the evening, and principally of bread and meat.—Distaste for food.—Hun- ger with want of appetite.—Bulimy.—Desire for vegeta- bles, fruits, and aliments.-—After having eaten, and chiefly in the evening, hiccough, pressure in the stomach and ab- domen, distaste, nausea, and lassitude.—Potatoes excite nausea and bitter eructations. Stomach.—*Eructations, sour and acrid, and pyrosis.— "Chronic tendency to eructation.—^Frequent eructations. ALUMINA. 19 —'Frequent nausea -and desire to vomit, chiefly when speaking, when re-entering the room after walking, and in the morning.—Pressure in the stomach, chiefly in the evening and after eating.—Contraction and constriction in the region of the stomach, often extending as far as the throat and breast and sometimes with oppressed respiration.— *Pain, as from excoriation in the pit of the stomach and hypochondria, -principally on returning to bed, or on stooping. Abdomen.—*Painful sensibility of the liver when stoop- ing, "followed sometimes by shooting pains.—Colic, after a general chilliness of the body.—Colic with drawing pains, principally in the evening, or at night, or after dinner.— * Cutting pains, chiefly in the morning.—Flatulent colic.— The colic is ameliorated by external heat.—Protrusion and incarceration of inguinal hernia. Fveces.—*Stools hard, seldom, and not sufficiently co- pious, sometimes with pain in the anus.—*Constipation and obstruction of the abdomen.—^Difficult stool, from inactivity of the intestines.—Voiding of much slimy matter with the stool during the continuance of colic.—Loose stools with pain in the belly and tenesmus.—Issue of blood during the stools and after them.—Burning and *itching in the anus. —Piles.—Pressure and shooting pains in the perinccum. Urine.—Pain in the kidneys, principally when walking or stooping.—Sensation of weakness in the bladder and in the genital parts.—Eager desire to make water, with in- creased and aqueous evacuation accompanied sometimes by a sensation of burning.—Urine less copious, with red and sandy sediment.—#Nocturnal urination.—Urine turbid and White, as if chalk had been put into it.—Thick, whitish sediment in the urine. Genital Organs.—*Sexual desire increased, -or sup- pressed.—Frequent pollutions and nocturnal erections.— Copious secretion behind the glans.—Excoriation of the prepuce.—Contracting pain in the spermatic cord, with contraction of the testicle.—Hardness and painful sensi- bility of one of the testes.—"Flowing of prostate fluid during difficult stools.—Pains in the perinaeum, during coition and while the erection continues.—Increase of suffering after pollution.—* Menses not sufficiently copious, "too early and of too short duration.'—Menses too copious with inflation of the abdomen.—During the menses, sleep agitated, with many dreams, ebullition of the blood, heat in the face, head-ache and palpitation of the heart.—Before and *dur- ing the menses, colics, "head-aches and other sufferings.— 20 ALUMINA--AMBRA GRISEA. After the menses great fatigue.—*Corrosive leucorrhaa with smarting of the genital parts.—*Leucorrli83a before or after the menses, -and often with trembling, fatigue, and colic.—Leucorrhsea flesh-coloured and stiffening the linen. Larynx.—Dry cough, principally in the morning and sometimes followed by late expectoration.—*Short, dry cough.—*Cough with impeded respiration, or with pains in the head and nape of the neck.—*Catarrh of the la- rynx and of the bronchia, with scraping sensation in the throat.—Sudden taking cold, with loss of voice, morning and evening. Chest.—*Oppression of the chest.—*Difliculty of breath- ing when seated.—Nocturnal pressure in the chest.—Sensa- tion of constriction of the chest, chiefly when seated in a bending attitude, or when stooping.—Pain, as from excoria- tion in the chest and pit of the stomach, sometimes with cough.—Palpitations and 'heavy throbs of the heart.— "Pain in the sternum when touching it. Trunk.—*Pain in the loins during repose.—Pain like that of a bruise in the loins, and in the back.—Shooting pains in the back.—Sensation in the back, as if it were pierced with a hot iron. Arms.— Pains in the arms while kept hanging down or extended on the bed.—Tearing in the arms from the shoul- der to the fingers.—Pain, as if burned by a hot iron in the elbows and the fingers.—* Paralytic weight of the arms.— Swelling of the arm and fingers.—"Tetters and moist sores on the fore-arms.—Mealy desquamation of the hands.—*Fissures in the hands, which readily bleed.— Gnawing pain under the nails, sometimes with itching on the arm.—The nails have a tendency to break when they are cut.—*Panaris. Legs.—"Stiffness, numbness, and insensibility of the legs at night.—Sensation of tearing in almost all parts of the lower limbs.—*Great heaviness and weakness of the legs, "chiefly in the hips.—Drawing pain in the knees when going up stairs.—Tension in the calves when walking, and cramps when crossing the legs and resting the toes on the ground.—"Pain as from fatigue in the joints of the feet, when seated.—Pains in the soles of the feet when walking. —Coldness of the feet.—Itching and redness in the toes, as if from chilblains.— Sensation of burning under the toes. . 8.—AMBRA GRISEA. AMB.—Ambergris.—Hahnemann.— Duration of effect:^as long as40 days in some cases of chronic disease. AMBRA GRISEA. 21 Antidotes : Camp, n-vom. puis.— It is used as an antidote against • staph. n-vom. Compare with: Calc. cham. graph, lye. n-vom. phos. plus, sabad. sep. staph, veratr. verb. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Taking the totality of the symptoms for a guide, this medicine may be consulted in one form or other of the following affections:—Melancho- ly ; Epistaxis; Ranula! ; Hepatic pains!; Icterus!; Hae- morrhoids ! ; Leucorrhaea ; Sufferings in consequence of suppressed coryza ; Hooping-cough ! ; Convulsive cough, especially in persons of spare habit; Asthmatic suffer- ings, especially in children or scrofulous persons ; Dis- eases of the heart ! ; Sufferings of old men and of persons of a wasted and meagre constitution; Arthritic and rheu- matic pains! ; Podagra, &c. &c. [In asthma hystericum it ranks almost as a specific ; it deserves attention in hooping-cough, even when attended with the most frightful spasms of the chest; and also in inveterate catarrhs; in diseases caused by the suppression of itch or tetters it may be used with advantage, as it often favours their reappearance upon the skin. Ed.] 03" See page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Cramps and *sensation of drawing in the muscles.—Tearing pains, chiefly in the joints and often on one side only.—Predisposition to numbness in several parts.—Many of the sufferings appear during sleep, and diminish after rising.—Many of the sufferings are mitigated by walking in the open air or when one has laid upon the diseased part.—In the evening and in the heat, many of the symptoms are aggravated.—*Sensation of drawing through the whole body.—*Cutting pain in the hands and feet.—Inflation and pulsation over the whole body, with great weakness after walking in the open air.—After having talked much, agitation and trembling all over the body with restlessness—*Fatigue, especially in the morn- ing, in bed, and at night, on waking.—Sensation of numb- ness and of torpor over the whole surface of the body, chiefly in the morning. Skin.—Itching and sensation of burning in several parts of the skin, as from the itch.—Tetters and itchy eruptions appear during the use of this medicine.—*Dryness of the skin.—Burning tetters. Sleep.—Desire to sleep in the day.—Restlessness at night.—Agitated sleep, in consequence of coldness of the body and a sensation of drawing in the limbs.—Sleep full of anxious dreams and crowded thoughts.—On sleeping, starts with fright. 22 AMBRA GRISEA. Fever.—Shivering, especially..,in the morning, with fatigue and drowsiness, ameliorated by dinner.—Feverish shivering in different parts, followed by heat in the face.— *Transient heat, sometimes with anxiety at the heart.— Constant sweat during the day, especially in the abdomen and legs, when walking'.—Nocturnal sweat, particularly on the diseased side, after midnight. Moral Svmptoms.—^Inconsolable sadness.—Anxiety, es- pecially in the evening.— Timidity.—Despair and disgust of life.—"Repugnance to laughter and conversation—Ex- citation, agitation, and precipitation, chiefly during intel- lectual labours.—Imagination occupied with grimacirTg forms and wanton images.—Absence of ideas.—Dilficult conception. Head.—Attack of dizziness, especially on walking in the open air.—Vertigo, which compels one to lie down, with a sensation of weakness in the stomach.—In the mor- ning, head-ache as after a nocturnal debauch.—Sensation of weakness in the head, with external shivering.—Pres- sing pain in the head, every two days, with heat in the head, burning in the eyes and paleness of the face.—Pressure in the forehead, with fear of losing one's reason.—Pressing squeezing, with perplexity, principally in the forehead and occiput.—Congestion of blood to the head, especially on hearing music.—Acute sensation of drawing in the head, with ulcers on the hairy scalp.—Pain on the exterior of the head, as if caused by a strain from lifting a weight.— *Pain in the hairy scalp when touched, with falling out of the hair. Eyes.—Pressure on the eyes with heaviness, and a sensation as if the eyes were too deep in the head, with a difficulty of opening them in the morning.—Insufferable tickling round the eyes.—Itching in the eyelid, as if a sty were being formed.—inflammatory redness of the sclero- tica, with injection of the vessels.—*Confusion of sight -like a mist, and obscurity before the eyes. Ears.—Acute sensation of drawing in the ears.—Ten- sion in the ears.—Itching and tickling in the interior of the ears.—* Tingling and buzzing before the ears. Xose.—Spasms in the wings of the nose.—*Nasal he- morrhage, principally in the morning.—Scurf of dried blood in the nose.—Frequent sneezing.—Dryness and *obstruc- tion of the nose,-with pain as from excoriation.—*Dry cory- za.__"Chronic suppression of the nasal mucus. Face.—Redness and heat, sometimes transient, of the face,—Jaundiced face.—Tickling and itching titillation in AMBRA GRISEA. 23 the face, with eruption of pimples ; the same in the forehead and in lie region of the whiskers.—Red spot on the cheeks, cramps in the lips.—Hot lips. Teeth.—Drawing, shooting pains, chiefly in the carious teeth, and especially in the open air, increased by taking any thing hot.—Bleeding of the teeth and gums.—Painful swelling of the gums. Mouth.—In the morning, on waking, dryness and sen- sation of numbness in the mouth, tongue, and lips.—Itching and smarting in the mouth.—Vesicles in the mouth, with burnino- pain.—Nodosities, with pain like excoriation below the tongue.—Tongue loaded with a coating, white or yel- lowish.—Offensive smell from the mouth. Throat.—Sensation as if there were a plug in the throat, with difficulty of swallowing.—*Contraction in the throat, when swallowing food.—*Corrosion *and scratching in the throat.—Accumulation of grayish mucus in the throat, with desire to vomit and vomiting when hawking.—*In the morning hawking up of mucus. Appetite.—*Insipid or rancid taste.—*Want of appe- tite.—*Sourness in the mouth after taking milk.—After eating, pressure at the pit of the throat, as if a pie'ee had Btopped there. Stomach.—*Imperfect eructations.—* Frequent eructa- tions and often sour, or with the taste of what has been taken.—Hiccough after having smoked tobacco.—Pyrosis, principally in the evening or on walking in the open air.— *Nausea and vomiting.—Pressure and cramp-like pain in the stomach.—Sensation of burning in the stomach and precordial region. Abdomen.—"Hepatic pains, most frequently pressing.— Pressing pain in the epigastrium and abdomen.—heavi- ness in the belly.—Tension and ^inflation of the belly, -principally after eating and drinking.—Compression in the belly, sometimes in the morning. Cutting pains in the evening, after midnight, and in bed in the morning, with diarrhoea.—*Pain, as from a wound in the abdominal mus- cles, when coughing and turning the body.—*Sensation of coldness in the belly, sometimes of one side only.—In the evening, sensation of drawing in the abdominal muscles.— *Obstructed flatulency.—'Flatulent colic in the night. F.eces.—Constipation and tardy stools.—Fruitless de- sire to go to stool, with anxiety and incapability of endur- ing the approach of any person.—*Irregular intermittent stools, often, only every two days.—Soft, loose, clear-brown Btools.—After the stool, pressure in the abdomen.—Flowing 24 AMBRA GRISEA. of blood with the stool.—Hemorrhoidal excrescences about the anus.—Itching and tickling in the anus and rectum. Urine.—In the morning, after getting up, an urgent de- sire to make water.—Increased secretion of urine, chiefly at night and in the morning.—Urine yellowish brown and turbid, with brown sediment.—Reddish cloud in the urine.—Urine tinged with blood.—*Acid smell from the urine.—Burning in the orifice of the uretha. Genital Organs.—Lively sensation of pleasure and itching in the genital parts, without external excitement.— Burning in the region of the spermatic vesicles —Erec- tions in the morning, with numbness of the genital parts.— Menses too early.—Discharge of blood between- the peri- ods.—During the menses, swelling of the veins, with pressure in the legs.—*Leucorrhoza "thick slimy, preceded by shooting pains in the vagina.—Running of white, bluish matter from the vagina.—The leucorrhaea is more abun- dant at night.—Burning, pain of excoriation and itching in the sexual parts of women. Larynx.—Cough with coryza and expectoration of a whitish and salt mucus.—Nocturnal cough, excited by ve- hement tickling in the gullet.—Cough in the evening, with pain in the left side, as if something were torn away.— Convulsive cough, -with eructations and hoarseness.—*On coughing, pressing head-ache in the temples.—Voice hoarse, harsh, with an accumulation of much thick mucus in the air-ducts. Chest.—*Breathing short.—*Oppression of breathing. —Breath fetid, in the morning after waking.—Wheezing in the chest —*Painful oppression in the chest and back. —Pressure in the breast, chiefly in the region of the heart.—*Sensation of rawness in the chest.—*At night, trembling in the breast.—Beating of the heart, frequently when walking in the open air, with paleness of face and pressure in the breast as from a weight.—Rheumatic pain, as from a bruise in the breast. Trunk.—Shooting pain in the loins.—*Stiffhess in the loins after sitting long.—Heaviness in the back, with pain in the belly, as if the intestines were compressed.—Press- ing, pulling pain in the nape of the neck and back. Arms.—*The arms become easily numbed, whether they are leant upon or when carrying something, or even in tha night, with sensation of torpor.—Paralytic drawing, as from dislocation, in the shoulder joints, elbows, front part of the arms, and hands.—*Trembling of the arms.—*Pain in the bone of the elbow when touched.—*Cramps in the AMBRA GRISEA—AMMONIUM CARBONICUM. 25 in the hands on taking hold of any thing.—Prolonged cold- ness of the hands.—Contraction of the fingers.—In the even- ing, attack of trembling in the thumb.—In the morning, the skin at the extremity of the fingers is wrinkled.— Nocturnal weakness of the fingers.—Itchy tetter between the fingers. Legs.—Sensation of numbness in the legs with unsteady walk.—Heaviness, tightness and relaxation of the legs.— Cramps in the legs, and at night, in the calves of the legs. —Acute drawing pains in the legs, from the os sacrum to the feet, with incapability of supporting the foot on the ground; the affected leg seems shorter than the other.— Excoriation in the hams, with pain, principally in the even- ing.—Tingling of the calves of the legs and feet.— Arthritic pains in the joints of the feet, and in the great toes.—^Tightness in the joints of the feet.—*Pain as from ulceration in the soles of the feet, when walking.—*Burn- ing in the soles of the feet.—*Swelling of the feet.— Shooting pains in the chilblains of the toes.—Pain, as from excoriation in the corns. 9.—AMMONIUM CARBONICUM. AMM.—Carbonate of ammonia.—Hahnemann.— Duration of effect: as long as 40 hours in some cases of chronic disease. Antidotes : Am. camph. hep. Compare with : Am-mur. arn. ars. bell. bry. chin, fer, graph, hep. kal. laur. lye magn. mere n-vom. phos- puis. rhus. sil. sulf. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Allowing ourselves to be guided by the totality of symptoms, this medicine will be found worthy of attention in the following affections :— Megrim ! ; Cephalalgia produced by congestion of blood ; Nasal catarrh ; Hordeolum ; Amblyopia amaurotica : My- opia ; Parotis ! ; Eruptions and tetters in the face; Oz- aena ! ; Scorbutic state of the gums ; Dyspepsia ; Gastral- gia; Haematemesis ; Hepatic pains; Piles; Pains in the testes ; Dysmenorrhea ; Sterility ; Leuchorraia ; Haemop- tysis ; Asthmatic sufferings; Hydrothorax ; Goitre ; Po- dagra ! ; Pains in consequence of dislocation ; Convul- sions I; Tetanus! ; Local inflammations!; Scrofula ; Ra- chitis; Miliary eruptions; Scarlatina; Warts; Mealy tet- ters ! ; Typhus fever! &c. &c. [Carb. ammonia deserves attention in the sudden and often fatal sinking turns which occur during scarlet fever, forming the neuro-paralytic variety of scarlet fever of the Germans. As a palliative during the paroxysms of asthma it is to be recommended. £5.1 Vol. I. 3 26 AMMONIUM CARBONICUM. 05" See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Pains, as of ulceration in different parts, with shootings and acute pulling, mitigated by the heat of the bed.—Pains, as from dislocation, *pulling and tension of the joints, -as if from contraction of the tendons.—The right side of the body appears to be more affected than the left.—The greater part of the suffer- ings appear, either in the evening and at night, or in the morning.—General restlessness of the body in the evening.—■ Inclination to stretch out the arms and legs.—Great fatigue felt from speaking much and from listening to ano- ther.—Weariness, fatigue, and * great weakness in the limbs, chiefly when walking in the open air, -or in the evening, and sometimes with an inclination to lie down.—*Repug- nance to exercise.—Convulsions.—Local inflammations.— Tetanus.—Scorbutic dyscrasia.—Tendency of the blood to decomposition.—Emaciation.—Great sensitiveness to cold. Skin.—Violent itchings here and there, with burning vesicles and pimples after scratching.—*Miliary, "chronic eruptions.—Redness, like scarlatina, on all the upper part of the body.—Scarlatina.—"Ephelides—'Burning, acute shootings and pullings in the corns.—Excoriation of the skin, between the legs, in the anus, and in the genital parts.—Ganglia.—Swelling of the glands.—Rachitis. Sleep.—Sleepiness in the day-time.—#Sleeplessness, and -late sleep, especially after going to bed late.—*Night- mare when falling asleep.—Frequent waking with fright and difficulty in going to sleep again.—Sleep, full of dreams, both anxious and romantic, historical and lascivi- ous—Dreams of spectres, of death, of vermin and of quar- rels.—Disturbed and unrefreshing sleep.—At night attacks of anguish ; vertigo, congestion of blood in the head, ce- phalalgia, tooth-ache, nausea, gastralgia, colic, desire to make water, spitting of slimy matter, pains in the great toes and in the ganglia, shocks in the body, pains in the limbs, itching and pricking in the skin, restlessness, ebul- lition of the blood, dry heat, sweat, especially in the legs; shivering and cold. Febrile Symptoms.—* Attacks of shivering in the even- ing.—Violent shivering with trembling before going to sleep.—*Feverish heat in the head, with cold in the feet.— Sweats, every night and towards the morning. Mental Affections.—Sadness, with tearful humour, apprehensions and anguish, which often disappear towards the evening.—*Inquietude in the evening.—*Anxiety with weakness, -and nightmare.—Timidity of character.—*Dis- AMMONIUM CARBONICUM. 27 gust of life.—Ill-humour, in the morning, and when it is bad weather.—Morose and passionate humour.—Character disobedient and difficult to guide.—Excessive gaiety.— Heedlessness.—Great distraction and want of memory.— Tendency to make mistakes in speaking, in writing, in cal- culating.—*Diminution of the intellectual faculties. Head.—*Vertigo, "when sitting and reading, ~or in the morning, or in the evening, sometimes with nausea.—"Ob- stinate head-ache.—*Head-ache with nausea.—The head- aches often appear in the evening, after walking in the open air, or in the morning, or after a meal.—Pain, as if from ulceration in the head, chiefly when moving the head or on pressing it.—*Hammering, -pressure and beatings in the head, with * sensation, as if its contents were going to start through the forehead, -or that the head was on the point of bursting.—Shootings in the recesses of the brain.—Head- ache, as if from carbonic gas.—Sensation, as if the brain were loosened—Pain in the hairy scalp and in the hair.— Itching in the head.—*Falling off of the hair. Eyes.—Burning in the eyes, -principally in the evening, or in the morning, with photophobia.— Sensation of cold in the eyes.—Hordeolum.—Nocturnal agglutination of the pupils.—*Dryblearedness in the eyelids.—Inability to move the eyes.—*Confused sight, with sparkling before the eyes. —' Myopia.—'Cataract.—Diplopia.—*Black spots and bright bands before the eyes.—Weeping. Ears.—Buzzing in the ears, particularly at night.— *Roaring and tingling in the ears.—*Hardness of tearing, with suppuration and itching of the ears.—*Hard swelling of the glands of the neck, -and of the parotids. Nose.—Heaviness in the extremity of the nose, on stooping, as if from congestion of blood.—*Itching and purulent pimples in the nose.—Furunculus at the extremity of the nose.—Swelling, sensation of excoriation and pain- ful sensibility of the nostrils.—Discharge of pus from the nose.—Excretion of sanguineous mucus.—*Bleeding of the nose, particularly in the morning on washing, or -after a meal.—"Obstinate dryness of the nose.—#Qbstinate coryza.—*Dry coryza, and stoppage of the nose, chiefly at night, with danger of suffocation. Face.—Face pale and bloated, with nausea and fatigue of body and mind.—Sickly complexion.—Heat in the face during intellectual labour.—Tension and *acute pullings, with lancinating pains in the right side of the face.—Tension in the skin of the face, as if the face were swollen.—Hard swelling of the cheeks.—Distortion of the features.— 28 ammonium carbonicum. "Eruptions on the face, "with itching.—Furunculi on the cheeks.— Ephelides.—Tettery eruptions, with desquama- tion of the skin, on the cheeks, round the mouth and on the chin.—Lips, dry, cracked, burning and bleeding.—Pain- ful swelling of the sub-maxillary glands. Teeth.—Tooth-ache on compressing the teeth, or after lying down in the evening, or when the air has penetrated to them, or during the eatamenia; the pains are, for the most part, pulling or starting, or lancinating, or like those of ulceration, and they frequently extend into the cheeks and ears.—Obstinate, lancinating pain in the teeth.—Ca- ries, elongation, and *chronic loosening of the teeth.—In- flammatory swelling, suppuration and easy bleeding of the gums. Mouth.—Redness, inflammation, pain as from excoria- tion, and sensation of swelling in the interior of the mouth.— Eruption of vesicles in the mouth and on the tongue.— Difficulty of speech, as if from weakness of the organs.— Great dryness of the mouth, chiefly at night.—Accumula- tion of saliva in the mouth, and constant spitting.—Offen- sive smell from the mouth, perceptible to oneself. Throat.—Sore throat, as if something were lodged in it, principally in the morning and evening.—*Pain, as from excoriation and scraping in the throat.—Swelling of the amygdalae, with difficulty in swallowing.—The anterior muscles of the neck suffer spasmodic contraction after drinking. Appetite.—Taste of blood in the mouth.—*Bitter taste, chiefly after eating, _or after waking in the morning.— Acid taste of food, and after having taken milk.—Metallic taste of food.—*Constant thirst.—Inability to eat without drinking.—Excessive hunger and appetite.—*Want of ap- petite in the morning.—When eating, one is soon satiated. —Repugnance to milk.—*Excessive desire for sugar.— 'Dizzy vertigo, -and heat in the face when eating.—* After a meal, pyrosis, with scraping in the throat, -and desire to sleep. Stomach.—*Sour, -or empty, or abortive eructations.— *Eructations, with taste of undigested food.—*Pyrosis.— ^Eructations and vomitings.—Nausea and vomiting every time that one eats, with pressure in the pit of the stomach.— *Gastralgia.—*Contractive pain in the pit of the stomach, rwhen stretching.—Heat and sensation of burning in the stomach. Abdominal Region.—Pressure, pain as from excoriation and "burning in the hepatic region.— Piercing shootings in the liver, when seated in the evening.—*Pain in the abdo- AMMONIUM CARBONICUM. 29 men, with diarrhaea.—Contractive, spasmodic colics, with nausea, and accumulation of water in the mouth.—Pain, as from commotion in the abdomen, when walking.—*Rum- bling in the abdomen.—Elastic swelling in the groin, like flatulent hernia.—Flatulent, painful colic. Faeces.—* Constipation.—*Difficult evacuations.—Slow, hard evacuations, in small pieces.—Soft or loose, slimy evacuations, followed or preceded by cuttings.—After and during the evacuation, discharge of blood from the anus.— *Hcemorrhoids in the anus, sometimes bleeding, with smart- ing pains.—Appearance of haemorrhoids from the rectum, during the evacuation, with much pain afterwards.—Noc- turnal burning and *itching in the anus.—Excoriation be- tween the legs, and of the anus. Urine.—Constant desire to make water, even at night, with scanty emission.—Frequent and copious emission of urine in the evening.—*Making water at night.—Wetting the bed.—White, sandy urine.—Reddish urine, like water mixed with blood.—Emission of blood from the urethra. Genital Organs.—Strong sexual desire, without lasciv- ious ideas or erections ; or *want of sexual desire and re- pugnance to the other sex.—^Frequent pollutions, -and contraction, drawing, and heaviness in the testes.—Dis- charge of prostatic fluid, after a difficult evacuation.— Swelling, itching and burning in the genital parts of the female.—*Excoriation of the skin of the parts and of the anus.—Premature and too copious eatamenia with discharge of black and acrid blood.—Before and *during the eatame- nia, colic ancT pain in the loins.—*During the eatamenia, toothache, "pressure on the matrix, cuttings, acute pull- ings in the back and in the genital parts, *desire to lie down, -paleness of the face, shivering, coryza and sadness. —Discharge of serum from the matrix.—*Acrid, corro- sive, _or burning leucorrhaea. Larynx.—Roughness and hoarseness, with difficulty of speech.—Catarrh, with hardness of hearing and burning in the stomach.—*Cough, with hoarseness.—Dry cough, as if from a plug in the throat.—Cough, with asthmatic oppres- sion, particularly when in bed, in the evening.—*Tickling cough, with expectoration.—Cough, only at night, or only by day, "or in the evening before going to sleep, or in the morning towards three or four o'clock.—"When coughing, shootings in the loins, "in the sternum, or in the pit of the 6tomach.—Cough, with mucous and sanguineous expectora- tion, shortness of breath, and sensation of a weight in the chest.—Expectoration of pure blood with cough. 30 AMMONIUM CARBONICUM. Chest.—*Short breath, "with choking, principally on going up stairs.—Asthmatic difficulty of respiration, and dyspnaea, chiefly in the heat of a room, as well as after any exertion whatever, sometimes with palpitation of the heart. —Nocturnal dyspnaea.—Painful sensation of spasmodic asthma, with short and dull cough.—*Darting pains in the chest and in the sides, particularly when breathing, singing, stooping, walking, or at night, with inability to lie for any time on fhe diseased side.—Feeling of fatigue in the chest. —"Congestion to the chest.—Sensation of heaviness in the chest.—"Burning in the chest.—Stitch in the heart fre- quently.—Palpitation of the heart, chiefly after exertion, and sometimes with retraction of the epigastrium, and weakness in the pit of the stomach. Trunk.—Shootings in the integuments of the chest.— Purple miliaria; and furunculi on the chest.—Pains in the small of the back, and *pains in the nape of the neck, mostly drawing.—*Drawing tension in the back and in the loins.— "Acute pullings from the side to the scapulary joint.— ^Painful swelling of the glands of the neck and of the1 ax- illary glands.—' Ganglion. Akms.—Arms and fingers dead and stiff, at night, as well as in the morning, and when grasping any thing.—Heavi- ness and paralytic weakness of the arms.—Acute pulling in the joints of the arms, of the hands, and of the fingers, ameliorated by the heat of the bed.—Pain, as from a sprain in the wrist.—Attacks of trembling in the hands.—Swollen veins and bluish colour of the hands, after having washed them in cold water.—Exfoliation of the skin of the hands. -—The skin of the hands becomes hard and cracked.— Cramps in the fingers.—*Numbness of the fingers.— "Swelling of the hands when the arms are suffered to hang down.—Swellings of the joints of the fingers. Legs.—Tension of the legs, as if the tendons were too short.—Starting and contraction of the legs.—*Great fa- tigue in the legs.—Pain, as from fatigue in the coxo-femoral joint, and the thighs, particularly in bed in the morning, ameliorated by walking.—*Cramps in the feet, -in the calves of the legs and in the tibiae.—Jerking in the knees and in the legs.—*Drawing pain in the legs, when seated.— Acute pulling in the joints of the feet, ameliorated by the heat of the bed.—Ulcerative pains and *lancinating in the heels.—Sensation of burning in the feet.—*Swelling of the feet.—*Sweating of the feet.—Cold and shivering in the feet, chiefly on going to bed, in the evening.—*Pain, an from dislocation in the great toe, principally in bed at AMMONIUM MURIATICUM. 31 night, when moving it.—Redness, heat and swelling of the great toe, as if from chilblains, in the evening. 10.—AMMONIUM MURIATICUM. A.MM-MTJR—Muriate of Ammonia.—Hahnemann.—Duration of effect: for 7 weeks, in some cases of chronic disease- Antidotes:—Camph. hep.'.' Compare with :—Amm. am. ars. bell. bry. chin. fer. graph, hep. ka!. laur. lye. mang. mere n vom- phos. puis. rhus. sil. sulp. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Allowing ourselves to be guided by the totality of symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be employed, appear to be :—Melancholy ; Megrim ; Amblyopia amaurotica ; Haemorrhoids ; Dysme- norrhea ; Chronic cough ; Pains as from dislocation ; En- larged glands ; Scorbutic state of the gums ! ; Podagra! ; Panaris ! ; &c. &c. [In tubucular phthisis attended with a most violent dry cough, the muriate of ammonia deserves attention. Ed.~\ G^T" See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Ulcerative pains in differ- ent parts, or acute shooting and pulling, becoming better in the heat of the bed.—Pain as from dislocation, or pulling and tension in the joints, _as from contraction of the ten- dons.—The right side of the body appears to be more af- fected than the left.—The majority of the sufferings appear either in the evening and at night, or in the morning.—In the evening, general agitation in the body.—Desire to stretch the arms and the legs.—Excessive fatigue on speaking much and on listening to another.—Fatigue, sinking, *and great weakness of the limbs, chiefly when walking in the open air, -or in the evening, and sometimes with an inclination to lie down.—*Repugnance to walking.—Convulsions.—Lo- cal inflammations.—Tetanus.—Scorbutic dyscrasia.—Dis- position of the blood to decompose.—Emaciation.—Great sensibility to cold. Skin.—Itching and titillation, with desire to scratch, followed by eruption of pimples.—Miliary eruption.—Ve- sicular eruptions which form scurf.—Exfoliation of the skin in several places. Sleep.— "Diurnal drowsiness, with indolence and a dread of exertion.—Early in the evening, desire to sleep. —Restlessness before midnight.—Waking too early.— Many anxious dreams, terrific or lascivious.—At night, cut- ting pains, frequent sneezing, itching in the throat, weight and pressure on the chest (nightmare!), violent suffering in the loins, and pains in the trunk and in the limbs, cold feet, heat in the head, shivering and itching in the skin. 32 AMMONIUM MURIATICUM. Fever.—Cold shivering, most frequently in the evening, about six o'clock.—Heat with thirst, and bloated face.— * Nocturnal sweat, ''after midnight. Moral Symptoms.—Great anguish, and melancholic con- dition as from vexation or care, *wiih inclination to shed tears.—*Morose, apathetic humour -with repugnance to conversation.—Irritability and disposition to be angry.— Antipathy to certain persons. Head.—Dizziness and vertigo, which mostly disappear in the open air.—Sensation of fulness in the head, and weight over the forehead, chiefly in the morning on rising.—Pres- sure in the forehead towards the root of the nose, with a sensation as if the brain were bruised.—Acute semi-lateral sensation of drawing in the head and in the face.—Conges- tion of blood to the head with internal heat.—Itching in the hairy scalp, which forces one to scratch constantly. Eves.—Burning in the eyes, and in the corners of the eyes, in the evening, in the twilight, or in the morning, with photophobia.—Twitching of the eye-lids.—Confused sight, as from a mist.—Fluttering spots and points before the eyes, "in the day, and in the evening by candle light.— Yellow spots before the eyes when looking steadfastly at any object. Ears.—Shooting in the ears from the inside outwards, especially in the open air.—Pulling and piercing sensation in the ears.—Eruption about the ears.—Running from the ears.—°Hardness of hearing.—*Tingling and buzzing before the ears. Nose.—Swelling of the nose and painful sensibility to the touch with ulcerative pain and bloody scabs in the nos- trils.— Sneezing with shooting in the nape of the neck and as far as the shoulders.—Coryza with stoppage of the nose and loss of smell.—Flow of clear, corrosive water during the coryza. Face.—Acute, violent drawing pain in the zygomatic bones.—Burning heat in the face.—Eruptions in the face. —* Ulcerations about the corner of the mouth, "and on the up- per lip.—Lips shining, as if greasy.—Lips dry, wrinkled, chapped and excoriated with burning heat.— Tensive heat in the sub-maxillary joint when chewing and on opening the mouth.—Swelling of the sub-maxillary glands, with throbbing pain. Teeth.—Acute drawing in the teeth.—Swelling of the gums with lancinating pain. Mouth.—Burning blisters on the point of the tongue — Lancinating pain in the throat on swallowing.—Tenacious mucus in the throat, chiefly in the morning. AMMONIUM MURIATICUM. 33 Appetite.—Bitter taste in the mouth, chiefly in the morning, with bitter eructations and anxiety.— Absence of appetite and hunger.—Much thirst, chiefly in the evening. —After every meal, nausea, flow of water from the mouth, with horripilation, diarrhaea with colic and pains in the limbs, and sometimes with throbbing in the chest, heat in the face, and inquietude. Stomach.—* Eructations, mostly bitter, or imperfect.— Regurgitation of what has been taken, or of a bitter and acid water.—Frequent violent hiccough, often with shoot- ings in the breast.—Phlegm from the stomach.—Drawing or gnawing pains in the stomach, as if from worms.—Sensa- tion of burning in the stomach and in the precordial region. Abdomen.—*Shooting pains in the region of the spleen, "chiefly in the morning on waking, with dyspnoea which causes one to rise.—Inflation of the belly.—Pinching in the belly.—Tension and swelling in the groins.—^Sensation of swelling and ulcerative pain in the groins when touched. F.ECES.—*Constipation.—Hard stools, or frequent and soft.—Diarrhoea with pain, as if caused by excoriation, or by a bruise in the belly.—Loose, slimy, greenish stools — Before the stool, pain in the belly about the navel.—^Dis- charge of blood with the stool.—Pain, as from excoriation in the rectum 'when sitting.—Pain in the perinaeum when walking. Urine.—Evacuation of urine, increased principally in the night.—Reddish, clear urine, without sediment. Genital Organs.—Cutting and chrobbings in the sper- matic cord.—Frequent erections.—Menses too early and too copious, *with pain in the loins, and pains, compressive or drawing, in the back.—"During the menses, vomiting and diarrhea, drawing in the feet, -or discharge of blood with the stool.—Leucorrhaea, with inflation of the belly ; or like the white of an egg, preceded by pinchings round the na- vel ; or slimy and brown, discharged after making water. Larynx.—Hoarseness, with sensation of burning in the larynx.—* Violent cough, -chiefly in the evening and at night, when lying on the bed.—*Dry cough in themorninc, "with expectoration of whitish and thick matter.—"The cough is aggravated after a meal, as well as after a cold drink, and when lying with the head low.—Cough when breathing deeply, especially when lying on the right side. —When coughing, shootings in the chest and in the hypo- chondrium.— Spitting of blood, preceded by tickling in the throat. Chest.—Asthmatic state when moving the arm strongly, 34 AMMONIUM MURIATICUM--ANACARDIUM ORIENTALE. and when stooping.—Weight and oppression on the chest, with difficulty of breathing, chiefly in the open air or at night.—Pressure and darting in the chest.—Throbbing in the chest when standing. Trunk.—Tension and pain as from fatigue in the ex- terior of the chest.—'Eruption -and red spots, burning and itching on the chest.—Pains, as from fatigue, in the loins, principally at night, when lying down, when walking, or after stooping.—*Painful stiffness in the loins, -which forces one to stoop in walking.—*Shootings in the shoulder- blades, Especially when breathing.—Acute drawing pains in the sides of the neck and in the collar-bone.—Stiffness of the neck with pain on moving it, from the nape of the neck to the shoulders. Arms.—Dull and stiff, as if paralyzed.—During the night, acute drawing in the arms, as if it were in the bones. —Drawing in the shoulders —Swelling of the wrists, with drawing pain.—Blisters on the wrist which form scurf,— Pain, as from dislocation in the wrist.—Jerking, drawing and darting, throbbing, itching, and ulcerative pain at the tips of the fi?igers.—Exfoliation of the skin between the fingers. Legs.—Tension in the hips and the hams.—"Lancina- ting pain as if dislocated, and *drawing in the hip.—Con- traction of the tendons of the hams, and heaviness in the joint of the knee.—At night, acute pulling in the legs, as if in the bone.—Shooting pain in the calves of the legs, af- ter having walked long.—Legs dead and insensible.—-Ul- cerative pain and drawing in the heels.— Cold feet.—Fetid sweat in the feet.—Starting sensation of pulling, or shoot- ings, throbbing and itching in the extremity of the toes. 11.—ANACARDIUM ORIENTALE. ANAC.—Malacca bean.—Hahnemann.—Duration of effect: 30 days in some chronic affections. Antidotes.—Camph. juglans 1 Comtabe with : Aeon. ars. calc. oleand. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Allowing ourselves to be guided by the totality of the symptoms, it will be advisable to have recourse to this medicine against:—Alienation of mind, and insanity, proceeding even to fury ; Melancholy ; Imbecility 1 ; Hysteria and hypochondria ! ; Cephalalgia, arising from too fatiguing intellectual labours; Amblyopia, when the pupils dilate and contract alternately; when rending pains in the balls and sockets of the eyes ; a re- ANACARDIUM ORIENTALE. 35 splendence around the candle, which appears to flare and flicker widely; and one can only convince oneself that it burns quietly by straining and resolutely fixing the sight; and dimness of vision, and short-sightedness, threads and black spots set in. Hardness of hearing ; Otorrhaea ; Dys- pepsia; Haemorrhoids; Chronic coryza ; Nervous and phy- sical weakness! ; Hooping cough!; Asthmatic complaints!; Paralysis ; Evil effects from the abuse of coition ! ; Suffer- ings in consequence of vexation! &c. &c. [Anacardium appears to act powerfully upon the nerves, as it produces partial amaurosis, difficulty of hearing and even actual loss of hearing, and partial para- lysis of the arms and legs. Ed.~\ {&" See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS —Pressive pains', as from a plug in several places.—Sufferings appear for the most part periodically.—The majority of sufferings disappear during dinner ; but a short time after they return, and many others make their appearance with them.—The least move- ment occasions much fatigue.—Great fatigue, ^trembling and extreme weakness in the limbs and principally in the knees, "increasing even to paralysis.—Great weariness on walk- ing and on going up stairs.—Strong disposition to chilliness, and great sensibility to cold and a current of air. Skin.—Burning, itching, increased by scratching.—Skin difficult to excite by irritating applications.—Pain, as from an abscess in the diseased parts. Sleep.—Comatose somnolency, night and day.—Desire to sleep early, with disturbed sleep in the night.—*Sleep% slow in its approach.—*Anxious dreams, "disgusting or horrible, with cries; lively dreams with meditation and ac- tivity of mind, followed by a pain as from a bruise in the head after waking.—Dreams of projects, of fire, of diseases, of deaths, and of dangers.—At night, tooth-ache, pains in the limbs and in the bones, diarrhaea, cramps in the calves of the legs, and twitching of the mouth and of the fingers during sleep. Fever.—*Strong disposition to shivering, -and constant shudderings even in the heat of a room.—Cold and trem- bling, with sensation of pulling in the head, ill-humour and agitation, every second day.—Internal cold with external heat —Heat in the face, every afternoon, towards four o'clock, with nausea and fatigue.—*Sweat during the day when sitting.—Nocturnal sweat. Moral Symptoms.—Hypochondriacal sadness, -and melan- choly ideas.—'Anthropophobia.—*Anxiety, apprehension 36 ANACARDIUM ORIENTALE. and fear of approaching death.—Fear and mistrust of the future, with *discouragement and despair.—Disposition to take every thing amiss, to contradict, and to fly into a rage. —Manners awkward, silly.—Disposition to laugh at serious things, and to maintain a serious demeanour when any thing laughable occurs.—State, as if there were two wills, one of which rejects what the other requires — Want of moral sentiment, wickedness, impiety, hardness of heart, cruelty.—*irresistible desire to blaspheme and to swear.— 'Sensation, as if the mind were separated from the body. —Weakness of mind and of memory.—Absence of ideas. Head.—*Head perplexed.—Fits of giddiness.—Vertigo when walking, as if all objects were too distant, or undu- lating.—Whirling dizziness with obscuration of the eyes when stooping.—*Head-ache from noise and at every (false) step.—Head-ache with giddiness and vertigo aggravated by movement.—Head-ache in consequence of intellectual la- bour, with pain as from a bruise in the brain, or tractive pressure on the forehead.—^Pressing pains, principally in the temples.—Constrictive pains in the head.—Sensation of drawing in the head, chiefly on the Tight side, and often as far as the face and neck, followed by buzzing in the ears. —In the evening, sensation of searching in the head, dis- appearing with sleep.—Itching in the hairy scalp. Eyes.—Painful pressure on the eyes.—Photophobia.— Contraction of the pupils.—* Weakness and confusion of sight. —Myopia.—"Threads and black spots appear before the eyes.—Resplendence round the candle in the evening. Ears.—Shooting and pulling otalgia.—Painful pressure "in the ears.—Pain as of ulceration in the ears, principally on drawing the teeth, close, and on swallowing.-—"Brownish discharge from the ears.—*Itching in the ears.—Hardness of hearing.—Buzzing and roaring in the ears. No>e.—'Epistaxis—Anosmia.—Constant smell before the nose as if of pigeons' dung, or burnt tinder.—*Stop- page of the nose with sensation of dryness in the nostrils. —Cor}'za, and discharge of mucus from the nose, both acute and chronic.—Violent coryza with catarrhal fever, tension in the calves of the legs and in the legs, and palpitation of the heart. Face.—Pale, sickly face, with hollow eyes, sunk and sur- rounded by circles.— Pressure on the eye-balls.— Rough spots, scurfy and mealy, round the mouth and on the cheeks, with creeping sensation of itching.—Burning sensation round the chin. Teeth.—Drawing, jumping, extending odontalgia, prin- ANACARDIUM ORIENTALE. 37 cipally on taking any thing very warm in the mouth.—Ten- sive, cramp-like pains in the teeth extending as far as the ears, most frequently in the evening towards ten o'clock.— Swelling of the gums and tendency to bleed. Mouth.—*Offensive smell from the mouth, not observed by oneself.—Heaviness and swelling of the tongue, with difficulty of speech.—Tongue white and rough.—*Accu- mulation of water in the mouth.—Dryness in the mouth and in the throat. Appetite.—Insipid taste of all food.—Bitter taste with dryness of the mouth and throat.—'Fetid taste in the mouth.—Violent and constant thirst, with choking sensa- tion when drinking.—*Want of appetite.—Weakness of digestion.—After a meal, hypochondriacal humour, heat of face, pressure and tension in the precordial region in the stomach and in the belly, desire to vomit or to go to stool, repugnance to exertion, great fatigue and desire to sleep. Stomach.—In the evening, phlegm in the stomach and vomiting followed by sourness in the mouth.—*Nausea in the morning.—Pressure in the stomach, chiefly after a meal, as well as when engaged in thought and mental exertion.— "In the morning, when waking, pressure in the precordial region.—Shootings in the pit of the stomach, chiefly on breathing.—Clucking noise and fermentation at the pit of the stomach.—After a meal, commotion in the precordial region at every step. Abdominal Region.—*Pressure in the liver.—Colic in the umbilical region, mostly pressive, or dull and shooting, and aggravated by respiration, cough and external pres- sure.—""Hardness of the abdomen.—Flatulent colic with pinching, and rumbling noise in the abdomen and a desire to go to stool. Fjeces.—Fruitless desire to go to stool.—Difficult evacua- tion even of soft stools, from inactivity of the rectum.—Stools of a pale colour.—"Evacuation of blood with the stools.— "Painful piles in the anus.—*Itching in the anus.— Oozing of moisture from the rectum. Urine.—Frequent discharge of clear, watery urine.— Making water in the night.— Sensation of burning in the gland during the evacuation of urine and afterwards.— Turbid, clay-coloured urine. Genital Organs.— Causeless erection during the day. —Pollutions.—Voluptuous itching in the scrotum.—In- creased or inexcitable sexual desire.—"Want of enjoyment during coition.—Flowing of prostate fluid during the stools Vol. I. 4 38 ANACARDIUM ORIENTALE—ANGUSTURA. and after having made water.—"Leucorrhaea, with itching and excoriation in the parts. Larynx.—Hoarseness and sensation of excoriation in the throat, principally after a meal.—Cough with tickling in the throat and choking.—Cough after a meal with vom- iting of what has been taken, or in the evening, in bed, with congestion of blood to the head —Shaking cough, like hoop- ing-cough, chiefly at night, or from speaking.—*Cough (short) with expectoration of -purulent matter.—Expecto- ration of blood with the cough.—On coughing-, pain in the head.—Yawning after a violent fit of coughing. Chest.—Breath short, and respiration asthmatic.—Op- pression of chest, with internal heat and anguish, which causes one to seek the open air.—Pressure and sensation of excoriation in the chest.—Prickings in the region of the heart — Rattling in the trachea, when lying on the left side.—Uneasiness in the heart. Trunk.—Pains in the back and between the shoulder- blades, for the most part drawing and shooting or pressing. —Itching between the shoulder-blades.—Pressure upon the shoulder, as if from a weight.—Stiffness at the nape of the neck. Arms.—*Weakness and tensive pain in the arms.— *Trembling of the hand and of the arms.—Pressive pains in the muscles and in the bones of the arms, with fatigue. —*Shooting and heaviness in the fore-arm.—Cramp-like pains in the bones, and in the joints of the hands and of the fingers.—Sensation of dryness in the hands and in the fingers.—Clammy sweat in the palms of the hands.—Tor- por of the fingers. Legs.—Stiffness of the legs as if they were bandaged, with painful uneasiness of the same.—Trembling, pulling and jerking in the knees and in the thighs, as if the legs were fatigued from walking.—Quivering pressure in the thighs.---Sensation of paralysis in the knees.—Itchy erup- tion round the knee, as far as the calves of the legs.— Jerking and cramp-like pressure in the calves of the legs and in the legs.—Tensive pain in the calves of the legs, durinc the day, on walking, and at night in bed with restlessness. —#Burning in the soles of the feet, -and in the legs.—Cold- ness of the feet when walking, particularly in the morning. 12.—ANGUSTURA. ANG.—Angustura vera (bark of Bonplandia trifoliata).—Hahnemann.— Duration of effect: sometimes for 4 days. Antidote : Cofl. Compare with : Canth. cofl. bruc. carb-an. plat. ANGUSTURA. 39 CLINICAL REMARKS.—[In Africa, the West India islands, and some parts of South America, where the An- gustura is indigenous, the natives prefer it to Cinchona for the cure of fever and ague, and dysentery.—Niel and Brande have used it with benefit in inveterate diarrhoeas. It promises aid in palpitation of the heart dependent upon a nervous affection ; in convulsive diseases, and especially in convulsions of the chest, and perhaps in Epilepsia tho- racica. Ed.] GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Sensation of weakness and of stiffness in the whole body.—Stiffness and extension of the limbs.—Tension in the muscles while walking.—Par- alysis of different parts.—Convulsive starts.—Attacks of tetanus, excited mostly by touch, while drinking and by noise.—Convulsions, terminating in blueness of the cheeks and of the lips, difficult and panting respiration, groaning and closing of the eye-lids.—Commotion of the trunk, as from an electric shock.—Cracking in the joints.—Caries and painful ulcers, which attack the bones and perforate them, even to the marrow. Sleep.—In the evening, great desire to sleep, followed by restlessness before midnight.—Sleep disturbed by fre- quent dreams. Fever.—Shuddering in the diseased part.—He,£t, with perplexity and pain in the head, in the evening and at night. Moral Symptoms.—Timidity of character and tendency to be frightened.—Pusillanimity and want of self-confi- dence.—Ill-humour and discontent, with great susceptibility to offence.—Extreme excitement and elated gaiety.—Distrac- tion and musings.—Vivacity of mind, chiefly in the after- noon. Head.—Head bewildered and confnsed, as if after in- toxication.—Dizziness in the open air and when passing through a current of air.—In the evening, pressive head- ache with heat in the face.—Pain as of a bruise in the brain.—Cramp-like pains in the head.—Piercing in the temples.—The head-aches appear mostly in the twilight and continue till sleep succeeds.—Sensation of torpor in the temporal muscles, with tension on opening the mouth. Eves.—Tension and pressure in the eyes, as if from too strong a light.—Sensation of dryness and pain as from ex- coriation of the eye-lids.—Redness, heat and burning in the eyes, with nocturnal agglutination of the eye-lids.— Spasmodic stretching open of the lids.—Eyes fixed, prom- inent, immovable.—Sight confused, as if by a mist, or as if the cornea were obscured.—Myopia. 40 ANGUSTURA. Ears.—Cramp-like pain in the ears.—Jerking and pull- ing before and in the ears.—Sensation, as if something were placed in or before the ears.—Heat in the ears.—Di- minution of hearing. Face.—Heat and bluish redness of the face.—Tension of the facial muscles.—Cramp-like pains in the cheek-bones and in the masseters.—Trismus, with the lips strongly sep- arated.—After the spasms, the face and lips remain still bluish for some time.—Exostosis of the lower jaw. Teeth.—Drawing odontalgia.—Throbbing in the hol- low teeth. Mouth—Dryness of the mouth and lips.—In the even- ing, viscous, insipid and putrid mucus in the mouth, with constant desire to drink.—Tongue white, and, as it were, rough.—Sensation of burning in the tongue. Appetite.—Bitter taste, principally after dinner and after smoking tobacco.—Thirst for cold drinks, or sensa- tion of thirst without a desire for drink.—Disgust at food, principally solid food, with irresistible desire to take coffee, or with insatiable hunger.—Disgust at pork.— Imperfect eructations after eating, with a sensation of ful- ness in the chest. Stomach.—Bilious eructations.—Nausea while dining, or walkipg in the open air, with uneasy sensation of faint- ness.—Cutting and excoriating pain in the stomach, par- ticularly at the beginning of a meal.—Cramp-like pain in the pit of the stomach. Abdominal Region.—Pain, as from a blow in the abdo- men.—Cramp-like colic.—Cutting pains, chiefly after hav- ing taken milk (hot)—Lancinating pain in the abdomen.—■ Rumbling noise and fermentation in the abdomen, as if a forerunner of diarrhoea. Fxces.—Frequent, abundant stools.—Slimy diarrhoea, with cutting pains.—Pressive and contractive pain the anus, with swelling of the haemorrhoids.—Burning in the anus during the stool. Urine.—Frequent desire to make water, with scanty evacuation, or frequent evacuation of abundant urine, pre- ceded by pressure on the bladder and followed by tenes- mus.—Urine of an orange colour and soon becoming tur- bid.—Violent itching in the genital parts. Larynx.—Hoarseness from mucus in the air passages. —Voice weak and timid.—Dry cough, with rattling and scraping in the chest.—Violent, deep cough, with expec- toration of yellowish mucus. Chest.—Respiration convulsive, intermittent.—Oppres- ANISUM STELLATUM—ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM. 41 sion of the chest, on walking quick and ascending.—Cut- ting shocks or shooting in the chest, and in the region of the heart.—Violent throbbing of the heart, when seated and leaning forward, or in the evening, in bed, when lying on the left side.—*Palpitation of the heart with anguish.— Sensation of painful contraction in the heart.—Cramp in the chest, with painful spasms of the muscles of the chest. Trunk.—Pain like that of a bruise in the muscles of the chest on moving the arms.—Pain in the loins, as if bruised, mostly at night, and particularly towards four o'clock in the morning.—Painful heaviness in the nape of the neck, and between the shoulder-blades, in bed, in the morning.—Opisthotonus.—Violent itching along the back. Arms.—Arms tired and heavy, as if paralyzed, with stiffness in the elbow.—Paralytic weakness of the elbows and of the hands.—Cramp-like tractions in the fore-arm, the hands, and the fingers.—Cold in the fingers. Legs.—Pain, as of dislocation, or of cramp in the coxo- femoral joints, also in the legs and in the feet.—Pain, as from fatigue in the thighs and in the legs, when walking, as if they were going to break.—Pressive pulling in all parts of the lower extremities.—Pain in the joint of the foot on putting it down, which causes lameness.—Paralysis of the joints of the feet. 13. ANISUM STELLATUM. ANIS.—Aniseed.—A remedy, the primitive effects of which are not yet known, hut which even in a homoeopathic dose, frequently affords in- stantaneous relief in colic caus d by ftituiaicy. 14. ANTIMONIUM CRUDCM. ANT OKUD.—Crude antimony.—Hahnemann.—Duration of effect : as lone ns 4 wi-i'ks and even longer in chronic diseases. Antidotes : Hep. mere. Compare with : \cou. ars. asa. cham. coff, hep. ipec. mere. n. vom. puis: sep. mil p.— Puis, and mere, especially, answer well sometimes after antimony, if ihey are indicated. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Guided by the totality of the symptoms, it will be seen that this medicine may be em- ploj ed against:—Rheumatic inflammations of the muscles ; Arthritic affections, with swelling and even with exostosis ; Fungus articulatus ; Dropsical affections 1; Sleepy drowsi- ness; Ulcerated fistula ; Miliary eruptionsaud nettle-rash? ; Conoid varices ? ; Intermittent fevers; Gloomy melan- choly 1; Blepharophthalmia ; Odontalgia ; Distressing con- sequences of indigestion ; Chronic anorexia ; Gastric and 42 ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM. bilious sufferings; Acute gastritis?; Gastralgia; Enteri- tis ; Colic; Constipation, alternating with diarrhaea in aged persons; Diarrhsea of puerperal women ; Blenorrhaea of the rectum and of the bladder ; Aphonia; Asthmatic suf- ferings ; Corns and callous indurations in the feet; Fun- gus of the knee 1 &c. &c. [Antim. crud. is an indispensable remedy in inflamma- tions of the tendons ; and deserves especial attention in inflammations with swelling of the epiglottis.—It has been used with much success in the dropsy (anasarca) which so often occurs after scarlet fever ; and deserves attention in apoplexy attended with derangement of the stomach.—Ed.] OCT" &ee note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Rheumatic pains and •in- flammation of the tendons with redness and contraction of the part affected.—#Drawing, darting and tension, princi- pally in the limbs.—The symptoms are aggravated in the heat of the sun, after having drunk wine, after a meal, night and morning ; amelioration during repose in the fresh air.—*Great sensibility to cold—Heaviness of all the limbs.—General weakness, especially at night, on waking. —Emaciation, or great obesity.—Dropsical swelling of the whole body. Skin.—Itching, especially in the neck, chest, back, and limbs.—Eruptions which appear chiefly in the evening, or which itch in the heat of the bed and prevent sleep.—Mil- iary "eruptions and nettle rash.—Lumps and blisters, as if from the stings of insects.—Eruptions, similar to conoid varices, with shooting pain on pressing them from above.—Pus- tules with yellowish or brown scurf.—Freckles.—Hepatic spots.—Fistulous ulcers.—Corns and callous excrescences on the feet.—Nails discoloured and deformed.—Red and hot swellings.—Degenerating of the skin. Sleep.—Strong desire to sleep during the day, and *sleepiness, chiefly in the evening or morning.—Drowsiness with delirium.—Waking with fright in the night.—Dreams, anxious, horrible, voluptuous or oppressive, and full of quarrelling. Fever.—intermittent fever, with gastric or bilious affec- tions, principally with disgust, nausea, vomiting, eructations, loaded tongue, bitterness of the mouth and moderate thirst, diarrhaea, tension and pressure at the pit of the stomach with cutting pains.—*Tertian fever.—Hot sweat, early in the morning every second day.—Pulse irregular, some- times quick, sometimes slow. Moral Symptoms.—Sorrowful reflections imon one's ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM. 43 condition.—Disgust of life with an inclination to blow one's brains out or to drown oneself.—Tendency to be fright- ened.—*Peevish humour, ill-humour.—Disinclination to be looked at and to be touched (by a child).—Desire and love increased.—Dull intellect, imbecility.—Madness. Head.—Perplexity of head, as after long labour in the cold.—Intoxication.—Dizziness with nausea.—Attack of apoplexy with frothy salivation.—Cephalalgia, after bath- ing in running water.—Cephalalgia with dizziness from the smoke of tobacco.—Sensation, as if the forehead were going to burst.—Dull pain in the sinciput and crown of the head, increased by going up stairs.—Cramp-like pain in the head, ameliorated by walking in the open air— Piercing pain in the forehead and in the temples.—*Con- gestion to the head, -painful and followed by epistaxis.—Pain in the bcwies at the vertex, as if from swelling the perios- teum.—Teasing itching in the head, with falling off of the hair. Eyes.—Shooting in the eyes.—*Red, inflamed eye-lids.— Inflammation of the eyes, with itching and nocturnal agglu- tination of the eye-lids.—Slight oozing from the skin near the external angle of the eye.—Redness in the corners of the eyes—.Enlargement of the eyes.—Sensibility of the eyes to the light of day.—Blindness. Ears.—Shooting in the ears.—Redness, swelling, and heat in the ear.—Croaking and tingling in the ears.—Deaf- ness, as if one had a band over the ears.—Buzzing in the ears. Nose.—Eruption in the nose.—* Excoriation of the nos- trils, and of the corners of the nose.—Nostrils chapped and scurfy.—*Stoppage of the nose.—Bleeding at the nose, especially in the evening.—Dryness of the nose, chiefly on waking in the open air.—Accumulation of thick yellowish mucus in the nostrils. Face.—*Heat in the face, and chiefly in the cheeks with itching.—Red burning, suppurating eruptions on the face, with yellowish scurf.—Lumps and blisters in the face, as if from the stings of insects.—Granular eruptions, yel- low as honey, on the skin of the face.—Eruption, like conoid varices, on the face and on the neck.—Sensation of excoriation in the chin.—Painful fissures at the commissures of the lips.—Pimples on the upper lip.—Dryness of the lips. Teeth.—*Pains in the carious teeth, with dull prick- ing, successive pullings and gnawing, even in the head, renewed after every meal, increased by cold water and mitigated in the open air.—Darting tooth-ache in the 44 ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM. evening, in bed, and after a meal.—Grinding of the teeth, while sleeping.—Bleeding of the teeth and of the gums, which become detached. Mouth.—Dryness of the mouth.—Accumulation of water on the tongue and in the mouth.—Salivation.—Tongue loaded with a white coating.—Pain, as from excoriation of the edges of the tongue.—Blisters on the tongue.—Sore- ness of the throat, as if there were a plug in it.—Inability to swallow.—Dryness and scraping, or an accumulation of viscous mucus in the throat. Appetite.—Bitter taste.—Thirst chiefly in the night.— * Loss of appetite, sensation of hunger and of emptiness in the epigastrium, in the morning especially, and insatia- bility while eating.—After a meal, dejection, lassitude, fulness and tension in the abdomen. Stomach.—* Eructations with taste of food, -or very acrid. —Regurgitation of a watery fluid.—Hiccough when smok- ing tobacco.—*Disgust, nausea, and desire to vomit, as if caused by indigestion.—Nausea after taking wine.—*Vom- iting of mucus and of bile, -sometimes accompanied by diarrhoea, great anxiety and convulsions.—Pain, burning and *cramp-like in the pit of the stomach, sometimes with despair and desire to drown oneself.— Tension and pres- sure in the pit of the stomach.—Painful sensation, as if the stomach were overloaded with food.—Pain in the region of the stomach when touched. Abdominal Region.—Inflation of the abdomen with a sensation of fullness, chiefly after a meal.—*Violent cutting pains, sometimes with want of appetite, red urine, and hard stools.—Sensation of emptiness in the abdomen, as after violent diarrhaea.—Sensation of swelling and of hard- ness in the inguinal region, when touched or pressed.— Accumulation of flatulency in the abdomen with borborygmi. F.eces.—Difficult evacuation of hard stools.—Urgent desire to go to stool.—Stool of the consistence of thick milk.—Diarrhoea with cutting pains, generally watery.—Con- stant secretion of yellowish-white slime from the anus.— Flow of black blood from the anus.—Hcemorrhoidal excres- cences, blind and flowing, with burning and itching.—Hot itching and fissures in the anus.—Expansive pressure in the rectum and the anus.—Burning furunculus in the peri* naeum. Urine.—Frequent desire to make water, with scanty emission.—*Frequent and abundant emission of urine, "with abundant flow of mucus, and burning in the urethra, accompa- nied by pains in the loins.—When coughing, involuntary ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM—ARGENTUM. 45 emission of urine.—Urine aqueous, or of a gold colour, or reddish brown and sometimes mixed with small red cor- puscular—Incisive pain in the urethra, on making water. Genital Organs.—Excitement of sexual appetite and great lasciviousness.—Pollutions.—Metrorrhagia.—Sharp and corrosive discharge from the vagina. Larynx.—Great heat in the throat, while moving in the open air.—Great weakness, or entire loss of voice, chiefly when becoming warm.—Sensation as if a foreign substance were in the larynx, with inability to expectorate.— Violent spasm in the larynx, with sensation of excoriation. —Cough, with burning in the chest.—Morning cough, dry and shaking. Chest.—Stifling oppression and paralytic orthopnaea.— Respiration deep and heavy.—Shootings in the chest, when drawing breath and at other times.—Pain, as of contusion in the pectoralis major, on raising the arm and on pressure. Trunk.—Cramp-like drawing in the muscles of the neck and of the nape of the neck.—Rheumatic pains in the nape of the neck.—Miliary eruption on the nape of the neck, *in the shoulder blades, and behind the ears. Arms.—Rheumatic pains in the arms.—Red vesicles on the arms, with itching.— Painful inflammation of the ten- dons near the elbow, with great redness and crooking of the arm.—*Hot and red swelling of the fore-arm, with shooting tension.—Sensation of drawing in the front of the arm, the fingers and the joints of the fingers.—Arthritic pains in the joints of the fingers.—Painful sensibility of the skin under the nails, and slow growth of the nails them- selves. Legs.—Sensation of drawing in the lower limbs, especially in the coxo-femoral joint.—Lumps with red spots on the buttocks and legs.—"Violent pain in the lower extremities. —*Numbnessofthe legs after sittingfor some time.—Shoot- ing pain in the knee and in the tibia.—Painful stiffness of the knee, which does not allow the leg to be extended.— Vesicles on the knee after scratching it.—Sensitiveness of the soles of the feet, when walking on the pavement.— Red swelling of the heel, with burning shootings, which are aggravated by walking.—*Corns on the soles of the feet, and callous excrescences on the tips of the toes.—Pressive pain in the corns.—Burning in the fleshy part of the great toe.—*Callous excrescence under the nail of the great toe. 15.—ARGENTUM. ARC—Silver— Hahnemann.—Duration of effect: from 2 to 5 weeks in chronic diseases. 46 ARGENTUM. Antidotes: Merc, puis.? Compare with : Asa. aur. chin. mere, nitr-ac. n-vom. puis. plat, stann. CLINICAL REMARKS.—This medicine has been hith- erto employed only against angina caused by the use of mercury. [It deserves attention in chronic inflammation of the stomach ; in induration of the testicles ; in many chronic af- fections of the larynx and bronchia*, and especially in phthi- sis pituitosa, in epilepsy, risus sardonicus, and in syphilitic rheumatic pains, even after the free use of mercury. Ed.] O^f See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Cramp-like pressure, pull- ing principally in the limbs and in the bones.—Tearing pain, chiefly in the sacrum and the joints of the lower limbs.—Sensation of excoriation in the skin and internal organs.—Sensation of numbness and stiffness in the limbs. —Attacks of epilepsy.—Aggravation of the symptoms eve- ry day in the afternoon.—Burning itching in different parts of the skin.—Eruption of pimples, with burning pain, as from excoriation.—Anxious dreams.—Shuddering and cold- ness, especially in the afternoon and at night.—Nocturnal sweat.—Inquietude which forces one to walk quickly.— Ill-humour and aversion to talking. Head.—Dulnessand sensation of emptiness in the head. —Darkness, as if caused by smoke, and sensation of intoxi- cation with itching in the head.—Dizziness with obscurity of vision, or with heaviness and falling of the eye-lids.— Drawing and pressive pain in the occiput, as if caused by a foreign substance, with a sensation of stiffness in the nape of the neck.—Benumbing pressure in the sinciput.—Attack of compression in the brain, with nausea and burning in the epigastrium, when reading and stooping for any time. —*Cramp-like pains and shootings in the head—.Pain, as from excoriation in the hairy scalp, on the slightest pres- sure.—Cramp-like and pressive pains in the bones of the head.—Painful darting in the muscles of the temples and in the forehead.—Pimples on the temples, with ulcerative pain. Eyes.—Itching in the eyes and principally in the cor- ners.—Swelling and redness of the edge of the eye-lids. Ears.—Shootings in the ears, with cutting pain which extends to the bottom of the brain.—Gnawing sensation of itching in the external ear, requiring the part to be scratched till it bleeds.—Sensation of stoppage of the ears. Nose.—Epistaxis, after blowing the nose, or preceded by itching and tickling in the nose.—Stoppage of the nose with itching in the nostrils.—Violent flowing coryza, with ARGENTUM. 47 frequent sneezing.—Flowing of purulent matter, mixed with clots of blood, from the nose. Face.—Redness of the face.—Gnawing, cramp-like, and pressive pains in the bones of the face.—Swelling of the upper lip, immediately under the nose. Teeth.—Pain in the teeth, as if they were being ex- tracted.—Painful sensibility of the gums when touched.— Gums loosened and readily bleeding. Mouth.—Dryness of the mouth.—Sensation of dryness on the tongue, though it is moist.—Accumulation of a clammy saliva in the mouth, with shuddering.—Vesicles on the tongue, with burning excoriating pain. Throat.—Soreness in the throat, as if forerunning a tumour in the gullet, with difficulty of swallowing.— Hoarseness and scraping in the throat.—"Inflammation of the throat, with sensation of excoriation, when swallowing and breathing.—Piercing and raking in the throat.—Accu- mulation of grayish and slimy mucus in the throat with easy expectoration. Appetite.—Repugnance to all food, even when thinking of it, with prompt satiety.—Decided appetite, even when the stomach is loaded.—Gnawing hunger which cannot be appeased by food. Stomach.—Pyrosis.—Hiccough when smoking tobacco. —Constant nausea and uneasiness.—Desire to vomit, and vomiting of acrid matter, of a disagreeable taste, and which leaves in the throat a sensation of scraping and burning.— Pressure in the epigastrium. Abdomen.—Violent pressure on the entire abdomen, as far as the pubis, appearing as soon as one begins to eat aggravated by breathing and mitigated by rising up.— Pressive and painful inflation of the abdomen.—Cutting pains.—Contraction of the muscles of the abdomen when walking.—Loud borborygmi. F^ces.—Frequent desire to go to stool, with small evacuation of soft matter.—Dry, sandy stool.—Vomitings during the stool.—Pain as from contraction of the abdo- men, after a stool in the morning. Urine.—Frequent desire to make water, with abundant emission.—Pain, as from a bruise in the testes.—Pollutions. Larynx.■—Pain as from excoriation in the larynx, espe- cially when coughing.—Accumulation of mucus in the tra- chaea, which detaches itself when one stoops, laughs, or ascends stairs, and which is easily expelled.—Abundant accumulation of mucus in the chest.—Cough excited by cutting pain in the trachea with expectoration of serous 48 ARGENTUM--ARNICA MONTANA. matter.—Attacks of short cough, and rattling during the day, with easy expectoration of thick and whitish matter. Chest.—Pressure in the chest.—Pressure and shooting in the sternum and in the ribs.—Cutting pain in the sides of the chest, when breathing and on stooping forward.— Cramp-like pain in the muscles of the chest and in the sides. Trunk.—Pains, as from rending or drawing in the loins.—Cramp-like pains in the shoulders and in the shoul- der-blade. Arms.—Tension and acute drawing, cramp-like and pressive pains in the arms and hands.—Cramp-like, pres- sive pains in the bones, and in the joints of the hands and fingers.—Contraction of the fingers. Legs.—Lancinating, pressive, and, as it were, paralytic pain in the coxo-femoral joint when walking.—Jerking in the muscles of the thighs.—Cramp-like, acute and cutting pains in the knees and in the ankle-bones.—Cramp in the calves of the legs, with sensation of contraction of the muscles, on going down stairs.—Rending and throbbing pain in the joints of the feet.—Cramp-like pain in the bones and in the joints of the feet and toes.—Sensation of numb- ness in the heel and in the tendo Achilles. ■--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- — _______________i 16.—ARNICA MONTANA. ARN".—German, Leopard Bane— Hahnemann.—Duration of tffect: as long as 12 days in some cases of chronic disease. Antidote? : Camph. ign.—It is used as an antidote against: Amm. chin. cic. fer. ipec. seneg.— Wine aggravates the sufferings. Compare with : Aeon. amm. ars. bell. bry. cann. caps. cham. chin.'cic. cin. cohc. euphras. fer. hep. igo. ipec mere. natr. n-vom puis. rhus. rut. samb. sabin. seneg. staph, sulfac veratr.—This medicine, when indicated, will be often fouud of the greatest utility after aeon, ipec— Aeon. ipec. rhus. sulp-ac. are sometimes suitable after arnica. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Allowing ourselves to be guided by the totality of symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be employed will be found to be:—Affec- tions, especially of plethoric persons with red face, or also lymphatic or exhausted persons, with pale, yellowish, earthy complexion ; Rheumatic or arthritic affections, with inflam- matory and erysipelatic swelling of the parts affected; Atrophy in children \; Affections in consequence of mechan- ical injuries (falls, commotion, blows, &c.) ; Wounds, prin- cipally those inflicted by blunt instruments; Bites ; Exco- riation of bed-ridden patients; Bruises, dislocations, sprains and fractures ; Accidents resulting from a strain ; Epilepsy in consequence of mechanical injuries? ; Trismus; Teta- nus; Traumatic convulsions; Contusions; Stings of in- ARNICA MONTANA. 49 sects ; Furunculi ; Corns, by an external application of it, after having pared them; Cachexia from the abuse of Cinchona bark; Apoplectic paralysis ; Intermittent fever; Traumatic fever ; Typhus fever 1; Mental alienation ; Cere- bral congestion, with dizziness and loss of consciousness; Sanguineous apoplexy ; Congestive cephalalgia; Nervous cephalalgia ; Megrim ] ; Disturbance of the brain and of the spinal marrow; Acute hydrocephalus'? ; Traumatic op- thalmia; Hemorrhage from the nose and mouth ; Odontal- gia with swelling of the cheek ; Haematemesis; Splenalgia-; Colics, also those from the effects of a strain; Puerperal peritonitis]; Diarrhoea; Lienteria]; Inflammatory swell- ing of the testes ; Hematocele ; Pains after accouchement; Inflammation of the genital parts, in consequence of a difficult accouchement; Erysipelatous inflammation of the breasts and excoriation of the nipples; Hooping-cough]; Griping]; Pleurodynia; Pleurisy]; Haemoptysis; Inflam- matory swelling of the joints, chiefly in the knees and feet; White swelling ]; Podagra, &c. &c. OCT See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Acute drawing; crawling, pricking, or paralytic pains and sensation, as from a bruise in the limbs and the joints, as well as in the injured parts. —*Pains, as from dislocation.—*Rheumatic and arthritic pains.—Uneasiness in the diseased parts, which causes one to move them constantly.—*Aggravation of pains in the evening and at night, as well as from movement and even from noise.—Unsettled pains which pass rapidly from one joint to the other—Soreness of the whole body, with itch- ing.—Stiffness of the limbs after exertion.—Muscular start- ing.—Stiffness and *weariness of all the limbs.—*Sensa- tion of agitation and trembling in the body, as if all the vessels were in a state of pulsation.—Extreme sensibility of the whole body, chiefly of the joints and of the skin.— *Boiling of the blood.—Congestion to the head, with heat and burning in the upper parts of the body, and coldness or chilliness in the lower parts.—*Fainting fit with loss of 'consciousness, in "consequence of mechanical injuries.— "Convulsions, traumatic trismus and tetanus.—General prostration of strength.— Paralytic state, on the left side, in consequence of apoplexy. Skin.—*Many small furunculi —**Hot,hard, and shining swellings of the parts affected.—"Red, bluish and yellowish spots, as if from contusions.—Miliary eruption. Sleep.—Great sleepiness during ihe day, without being able to sleep.—Desire to sleep, early in the evening.— Vol. I. ' 5 60 ARNICA MONTANA. "Comatose sleep with delirium.—Sleep# not refreshing and full of anxious and terrible dreams, and waking with starts and fright.—Dreams of death, of mutilated bodies, of reproaches, of indecision.—-During sleep, groaning, talking, snoring, involuntary stools and urine.—State of ^ giddiness on walking. ,1 Febrile Symptoms.—*Shivering, -principally in the evening, and sometimes with a sensation as if one were sprinkled with cold water.—Heat in the evening or at night, with shiverings on merely raising slightly the bed clothes, and frequently a pain in the back and in the limbs.—*F*ver \\ with much thirst, even before the shiverings.—Before the fever, traction in all the bones.—During the apyrexia, pain in the stomach, want of appetite and disgust for food.— Nocturnal .acid sweat. Moral Symptoms.—Hypochondriacal anxiety with fear of dying and careless humour.— Great agitation and anguish fl with groans.—Unfitness for exertion and indifference to M business.—Apprehension and despair.—Over-excitement 1 and excessive moral sensibility.—Tendency to be fright- M ened.—Irritable,quarrelsome rjumour.—Tears.—*Obstinate jj resistance.— Foolish gaiety, levity and wickedness.—Ab- sence of ideas.—Distraction and musing.—Loss of con- sciousness.— Delirium. Head.—* Whirling giddiness with obscuration of the eyes, chiefly when getting up, moving the head, or walking. . —*Giddiness with nausea.—*Pressive pains in the head, • A principally in the forehead.—* Cramp-like compression in the forehead, as if the brain were contracted into a hard mass, chiefly when near the fire.—Pain, as if a nail were driven into the brain.—*Dartings, traction and shootings in the .•> head, principally in the temples.—Incisive pain across the ,.] head.— Pain in the head over one eye, with greenish /*-j| vomiting, after a strain.—*Heat and burning in ihe head%£B% with lack of heat in the body.—Heaviness and weakness of the head:—-Aggravation and appearance of pains in the head, chiefly when walking, ascending, meditating and»- j reading, *as well as after a meal.—Itching on the top of . ' the head.—Fixedness and immovableness of the hairy scalp. Eyes.—*Pain like excoriation in the eyes and eye-lids, with difficulty of moving them.—"Redinflamed eyes.—Burn- ing in the eyes and flowing of • burning teaTs.— Eye-lids swollen, and ecchymosed.—*Pupils contracted.—Eyes dull, troubled and dq,wncast.—*Eyes prominent, or half . ' open.—Fixed, anxious look.—"Obscuration of vision. ARNICA MONTANA. 51 Ears.—Pain, as from contusion in the ears.—Acute ' pulling in the ears.—Shootings in 'and behind the ears.— Hardness of hearing and buzzing before the ears. Nose.—Pain, as from contusion of the nose.—Itching in the nose.-!—*Nose swollen and ecchymosed.—Nasal hae- morrhage.—Ulcerated nostrils.—Coryza with burning in the nose. Face.—*Face pale and hollow, "or yellow and bloated.— Heat in the face without neat in the body.—Hard swelling, shining redness and heat in one cheek with throbbing pain. —Itching round the eyes, in the cheeks and in the lips.— Pustulous eruption on the face, chiefly round the eyes.— Dryness, burning heat, swejling and fissures in the lips.— Ulceration of the corners of the mouth.—Paralytic state of the lower jaw.—Painful swelling of the sub-maxillary glands and those of the neck.—"Trismus with the mouth closed. Teeth.—"Pain in the teeth, with swellingof the jaw and itching in the gums.—Sensation of traction in the teeth when eating.—Loosening and lengthening of the teeth. Mouth.—Dryness of the mouth with thirst.—Saliva mixed with blood.—Sensation of excoriation and itching in the tongue.—*Tongue dry, or loaded with a white coating. • —Putrid smell from the mouth in the mornino-. Throat.—Sensation, as if there were something hard in the throat.—Deglutition prevented by a kind of nausea. —Noise while swallowing.—Burning in the threat, with uneasiness, as if from internal heat.—Bitter mucus in the throat. Appetite.—*Tasteputrid or bitter, or slimy.—Thirst for water, or desire for drink, with repugnance to all jlrink.— * Disgust for food, principally (milk ]) meat, broth and to- bacco.—Liking for vinegar.—Want of appetite, with tongue loaded with a white or yellowish coating.—In the evening, immoderate appetite, with sensation of fulness and cramp- like pressure in the abdomen, immediately after a meal.— Irritable and tearful humour, after a meal, in the evening. Stomach.—*Putrid or bitter eructations, or violent and abortive, or imperfect.—Rising of a bitter mucus or of saltish water.—*Nausea with desire to vomit, chiefly in the morning.—*Desire to vomit, even in the night -with pres- sure in the precordial region.—* Vomiting of dark coagu- lated blood.—"After drinking, or eating, vomiting of what has been taken, often mixed with blood.—Pressure, ful- ness, *contraction and cramp-like pain in the stomach and in the precordial region.—'Shootings in the pit of the sto- 52 ARNICA MONTANA. mach, with pressure even to-the very bone, and tightness of the chest. Abdomen.—Shootings in the region of the spleen, with difficulty of breathing.—Pressure in the hepatic region.— * Abdomen, hard and swollen, -with cutting excoriating pain in the sides, mitigated by the emission of wind, chiefly in the morning.—Pain in the umbilical region when moving. —Shocks across the abdomen.—Pain, as from contusion in the sides.—Flatulence with the smell of rotten eggs.—Colic with ischuria. Anus.—*Constipation with ineffectual urging to stool. —Pappy stools, of an acid odour.—Diarrha-a with tenesmus. —Frequent small slimy stools.—"Involuntary stools, chiefly inthenight.—*Stools of undigested matter.—Purulent, bloody stools.—Haemorrhoids.—Pressure in the rectum.—Tenes- mus. Urinary Passages.—Tenesmus.—Spasmodic retention of urine, with pressure in the bladder.—Ineffectual desire to make water.—Tenesmus.—Involuntary emission of urine, at night in bed, and in the day when running.—* Urine of a brownish red with brick coloured sediment.— Evacuation of blood. Genital Organs."—Bluish red swelling of the penis and of the scrotum.—'Inflammatory swelling of the testes, in consequence of contusion.—"Hydrocele.— Painful swelling of the spermatic cord, with shooting in the testes, even to the abdomen.—Sexual desire increased, with erections, pollutions, and seminal emission on the slightest amorous excitement.—Discharge of blood from the uterus, between the periods, with nausea.— Excoriation and ulceration of the breasts. Respiratory Organs.—*Dry short cough, produced by a titillation in the larynx.—Cough at night during sleep.— -Paroxysm of cough announcing itself by tears, and *cough with children after having wept and sobbed from caprice and waywardness.—Even yawning provokes a cough.—*Cough with expectoration of blood ; "the blood is clear, frothy, mix- ed with coagulated masses and mucus.— Even without cough, expectoration of black, coagulated blood after every corporeal effect.—Inability to expectorate the mucus ; one is forced to swallow what the cough has detached.—On coughing, shooting pains in the head, or a pain as from a bruise in the chest. Chest.—* Respiration, short, panting, difficult, and anv- ious.—Rattling in the chest.—* Oppression of the chest and difficulty of breathing.—Respiration frequently slow and AKNICA MONTANA--ARSENICUM ALBUM. 53 deep.—Breath of a putrid smell.—*Shootings in the chest and sides, with difficulty of respiration, aggravated by coughing, breathing deeply, and by movement.—*Pain, as of a bruise and of compression in the chest.—Beating and palpitation of the heart.—*Painful packings in the heart, with fainting fits. Trunk.—Pains, as from a bruise, and dislocation in the back, in the chest and in the loins.—Itching on the back.— Weakness of the muscles of the neck ; the head falls back- wards.— Painful swelling of the glands of the neck. Aums.—Pain, as if from fatigue, with crawling^in the arms and hands.—Pain, as of dislocation in the joints of the arms and hands.—Darting in the arms.—Veins of the hands swollen, with full and strong pulse.—Want of strength in the .hands on seizing any thing.—Cramps in the fingers. Legs—Pains, as if from fatigue or from dislocation, or acute traction in the different parts of the" lower limbs.— Painful paralytic weakness in the joints, chiefly of the hip and knee.—Want of strength in the knee, with knuckling inwards of the same when walking.—Tension in the knee, as if from contraction of the tendons.—Pale swelling of the knee.—Inflammatory, erysipelatous swelling of the feet with pain,- and aggravation of the pain by movement.—Hot, painful, hard and shining swelling of the great toes.—Itching in the feet. 17.—ARSENICUM ALBUM. ARS.—Arsenic.—Hahnemann.—Duration of effect; 36 to 40 days in some chronic affections. Antidotes j Chin. ferc hep. ipec. n-vom. samb. veratr.—Against poison- ing by strong doses : The oxyhydrate of iron, or a solution of eulfuretum c.ilcis, rich milk taken in abundance, carbonate of potash mixed with oil, soap-lather—Arsenic is used as an antidote against: Caib. veg. chin, graph, ipec- lach. vetr. Compare with; Aeon. arn. bell. bry. calc. carbv. cham. chin, coff, dig. uulc fer. graph, hell. hep. iod. ipec. lach. lye. mere, natr-m. n-vom. phos.puls. rhus. samb. sep. sulf. veratr.—It is particularly after: Aeon. arn. bell. chin. ipec. lach. veratr. that arsenic, when indicated, does good.— Chin. ipec. n vom. sulp. veratr. wil! be sometimes found benefi- cial after arsenic. CLIMCAL REMARKS—Allowing ourselves to be guided by the totality of the symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be employed, will appear to be :—Af- fections, especially of exhausted persons, of nervous, or of leucophlegmatic constitution, with tendency to catarrhs and to blenorrhaza, or to drops'ical affections ; or also affections of persons of lymphatic constitution, with tendency to erup- tions, tetters, ulcerations, and suppurations ; or persons of 54 ARSENICUM ALBUM. bilious constitution, of choleric and lively temperament, or with a tendency to melancholy, &c. ; Suffering of drunkards ; Evils effects of a chill in the water ; Cachexia from the abuse of quinine or of iodium /Atrophy of scrofulous in- fants and atrophy of grown persons ; Scrofulous affections ; Icterus ; Chlorosis1. ; Dropsical affections ; Nervous weak- ness of hysterical persons with fainting fits; Spasms and convulsions; Epileptic convulsions; Paralysis'?; Muscu- lar weakness with trembling of the limbs; Trembling of drunkards ; Miliary eruptions, nettle-rash and itchy erup- tions; Plectonoides and furfur aceous tetter s; Gnawing tetters ; Putrid, cancerous and gangrenous ulcers ; Carbuncles ; San- guineous pemphigus ; Varioloid diseases and small-pox ; Warts 1 ; Chilblains 1; Varices ; Coma vigil and coma som- nolentum ; Intermittent fevers, even those from the abuse of quinine, and chiefly tertian and quartan fevers ; Typhus fevers with symptoms of putridity ; Inflammatory fevers with bilious or mucous state ; Slow, hectic fevers ; Gastric fevers; Religious melancholy; Gloomy > melancholy, even with inclination to suicide ; Mental alienation of drunkards ; Madness 1 ; Imbecility; Softness of the brain ? ; Megrim ; Scald-head with swelling of the glands of the nape of the neck, and of the neck ; Opthalmia (arthritic X), Rheuma- tic 1; Opthalmia in consequence of griping, or of a chill in the water; Specks and ulcers of the cornea ; Cancer in the nose, in the face and in the lips ; Milky scurf; Red pimples in the face ; Mealy tetters in the face ; Prosopalgia ; Chro- nic coryza; Enlargement of the sub-maxillary glands; Stomacace ; Aphtha in the mouth; Inflammatory swelling of the tongue ; Angina, even that caused by the small-pox ; Gangrenous anginal; State of indigestion in consequence of a chill of the stomach from ice, acids, &c; Sea-sickness ; Sufferings in consequence of bathing in the sea ; Dyspepsia with vomiting of food ; Haematemesis ; Vomitings of drunk- ards and of pregnant women ; Gastric and bilious affections ; Melcena ; Acute gastritis ; Scirrhus in the stomach ? ; Cho- lerine ; Asiatic cholera ; sufferings in consequence of cho- lera ; Colic ; Spasmodic colic ; Abdomino-glandular ob- struction of children ; Ascites ; Scrofulous buboes ; Diar- rhoea, also that of children during dentition, and in conse- quence of the small-pox ; Dysentery ; Lienteria 1 ; Hsemor-- rhoidal sufferings; Ischuria; Paralysis of the bladder; Dysuria ; Inflammation and swelling of the genital parts ; Erysipelas of the scrotum 1; Amenorrhea; Leucorrhcea ; Cancer and scirrhus of the uterus 1 ; Nausea and vomiting of pregnant women j Gripe j Acute and chronic laryngitis ; ARSENICUM ALBUM. 55 Hooping-cough ; Haemoptysis 1 ; Phthisical symptoms ; Hydrotkorax ; Asthmatic affections ; Spasmodic asthma ; Asthma of Millar ; Angina of the chest; Organic affections of the heart; Nostalgia; Sciatica; Ulcers of the legs; White swelling 1. ; Phlegmonous inflammation of the feet; Coxalgia ; Discoloured nails; Gout in the feet. fy^T See note, paere L GENKRAL SYMPTOMS.—'Attacks of suffering with anxiety, coldness, rapid failure of strength, and wish to lie down.—*Burning, chiefly in the interior of the parts affected, or sharp and drawing pains.—*Nocturnal pains which are felt even during sleep, and which are so unbearable that they excite to despair and fury.—'Aggravation of suffering on hearing one speak, as well as after a meal, in the morning on rising, in the evening in bed, on lying on the part affected, or during repose, after long exercise ; mitigation by exter- nal heat, as well as on remaining standing, or by walking and movement of the body.—*Appearance of sufferings at, intervals, or by periodical attacks.—*G3dematous swellings, with burning pain in the parts affected.—Excessive indo- lence and dread of all exertion.—* Want of strength, excessive weakness, and complete asthenia, even to prostration, some- times °with paralysis of the lower jaw, eyes dull and sunken, and mouth open.—*Rapid failure of strength, and sensation of weakness as if from want of food.—'Inability to walk, and wish to remain lying down.—'When lying down, one feels stronger, but on rising, sinks from weakness.—*Ema- ciation and atrophy of the whole body with colliquative sweats, great weakness, face earthy, and eyes sunken, and a dark ring under them.— "Attacks of violent convulsions, -spasms and tetanus.—*Fits of epilepsy, preceded by burning in the stomach, pressure and heat in the back, which ascend even to the nape of the neck and to the brain, with dizziness.— *02dematous inflation and swelling of the whole body, chiefly of the head and face, with enlargement of the ab- domen, and engorgement of the glands.—^Trembling of the limbs, chiefly in the arms and legs.—Stiffness and fixedness of the limbs, sometimes with sharp rheumatic pains.—Par- alysis and contraction of the limbs.—Fainting fits, some- times with dizziness and swelling of the face.—Sensation of torpor in the limbs, as if they were dead. Skin.—Scaling off of the skin from the body.—*Skin dry as parchment, or cold and bluish.—'Yellowish colour of the skin.—Prickings, hot itching, and violent burning in the skin.—*Reddish or bluish spots in the skin.—*Petechia.— Inflamed spots, as from morbilli, chiefly in the head, face 56 ARSENICUM ALBUM. and neck.—Miliary eruptions, red and white.—Conical pim- ples, whitish or reddish, with burning itching.—*Nettle-rash. —'Eruption of painful black pustules.—Eruption of itchy pimples, small and tickling.— Eruption of small red pim- ples, which increase and change into corroding ulcers, cov- ering themselves with a scurf.—"Pustules filled with blood and pus.—"Tettery spots covered with phlyctscna and fur- fur, with burning nocturnal pains.—*Ulcers with raised and hard edges, surrounded by a red and shining halo ; having a cherry or a blackish blue base, and with burning pains or lancinating, principally when the parts affected are cold.— *Fetid smell, ichorous suppuration, ready bleeding, putrid- ity and bluish or greenish colour of the ulcers.—Thin scurf or proud flesh on the ulcers.—Want of secretion in the ul- cers.— Inflammatory tumours with burning pains.—Warts. —"Ulcers in form of a wart.—Chilblains.—'Varices.—Dis- coloured nails. Sleep.'—Constant desire to sleep, with strong and fre- quent yawnings.—* Nocturnal sleeplessness with agitation and constant tossing.—Sleepiness in the evening.—*Coma vigil, often interrupted by groans and grinding of the teeth. —Sleep not refreshing ; in the morning, it seems as if one had not slept enough.—During sleep, starting up in fright, groaning, talking, quarrelling, grinding of the teeth, convul- sive movements of the hands and fingers, sensation of gen- eral uneasiness with tossing about.—In sleep, one lies on the back, with the hand under the head.—Light sleep ; the slightest noise is heard, though one dreams continually.— Frequent dreams, full of cares, threats, apprehensions, repent- ance and inquietude ; anxious, horrible, fantastic, lively and angry dreams ; dreams of storm, of fire, of black waters and of darkness ; dreams with meditation.—*In the night, jerking of the limbs, heat and agitation, burning under the skin, as if there were boiling water in the veins, or coldness with impossibility of warming oneself,- choking in the la- rynx, asthmatic attacks, great agitation and anguish at the heart.— Frequent waking in the night, with difficulty in sleeping again. Fever.—*Coldness over the whole body, sometimes with cold and clammy sweat.—'Shiverings and shuddering, chiefly in the evening in bed, or when walking in the open air, or af- ter having drunk or eaten, and often with appearance of other sufferings, such as sharp pains in the limbs, pendiculations, head-ache, oppression on the chest and difficulty of respiration, drawing in the limbs, anxiety and inquietude.— Universal heat, principally at night, and often with anxiety, inquietude^ ARSENICUM ALBUM. 57 delirium, heaviness and confusion in the head, dizziness, vertigo, oppression and pricking in the chest, redness of the skin, &cc.—*Febrile attacks, mostly in the morning or evening, often with shivering and heat slightly developed, burning thirst, or perfect adypsia, quartan or tertian, or sometimes daily fever ; sufferings before the attack and sweats after, on going to sleep ; apyrexia, or cold or hot stage, with great weakness, dropsical affections, pains in the regions of the liver and of the spleen, dull or shooting head- ache, sharp and drawing pains ~in the limbs, in the back and in the head, pressure, fulness, tension, and burning in the stomach and in the epigastrium, stitches in the chest and in the sides, difficulty of breathing, anxiety, puffed and earthy face, Src.—*Pulse irregular, or quick, weak, small and fre- quent, or suppressed and trembling.—* Frequent, colliquative sweats, or cold and clammy ; *sweat at night or in the even- ing on going to sleep, or in the morning on waking ; -par- tial sweat, chiefly on the face and legs.—Perspiration, which imparts a yellow colour to the linen and to the skin. —During the sweat, heaviness in the head, buzzing in the ears and trembling of the limbs. Moral Symptoms.—Melancholy, sometimes with reli- gious notions, sadness, care, vexation, cries and complaints. —* Anxiety, inquietude and excessive anguish which allows no rest, principally in the evening in bed, or in the morning on waking, and often with trembling, cold sweat, oppres- sion of the chest, difficulty of breathing and fainting fits.— *Anxiety of conscience, as if one had committed a crime. —Inconsolable anguish with complaints and lamentations.— Hypochondriacal humour, with inquietude and anxiety.— *Fear of solitude, of spectres and of robbers, with desire to conceal oneself.—Indecision and changeable humour, which demands this at one time, that at another, and rejects every thing after having obtained it.—*Discouragement, despair, weariness of life, inclination to suicide, or *exces- sivt fear of death, which is sometimes believed to be very near.— *Too great sensibility and scruples of conscience, with gloomy ideas, as if one had offended all the world.— Ill-humour, impatience, vexation, inclination to be angry, re- pugnance to conversation, desire to criticise, and great sensi- tiveness.—Caustic and jesting spirit.—Extreme irritability of all the organs ; noise, conversation, and bright lights are insupportable.—Great apathy and indifference.—Great weak- ness of memory.—Stupidity and imbecility.—Delirium, with great flow of ideas.—Loss of consciousness and of se?ise ; raving ; actions of a maniac and frenzy. 58 ARSENICUM ALBUM. Head.—*Heaviness, sensation of weakness and confusion in the head, -chiefly in a room, mitigated in the open air.— Stupor and dizziness.— Vertigo, principally, in the evening, when shutting the eyes, when walking, or in the open air, and sometimes with'tottering and danger of falling, intoxi- cation, loss of sense, obscuration of the eyes, desire to vomit, and head-ache.—*Pains, throbbing, oppressive, stun- nino- or drawing, shooting or burning in the head, often on one'side only, and chiefly above one eye, or at the root of the nose, or in the occiput, -and sometimes with desire to vomit, and buzzing in the ears.—Tension, tightness and pain as from a bruise in the head.—*The pains in the head often appear periodically, and especially after each meal, in the morning, at night, and in the evening in bed, and some- times they are insupportable, "with tears and wailiiigs, "be- ing mitigated, for a moment, by cold water, and returning much more severely afterwards.—Sensation, when moving the head, as if the brain struck against the cranium.— Cracking or buzzing in the head.—*Pain of the hairy scalp and of the integuments of the head, as if they were ulcerated or bruised, immensely increased by the slightest touch.-—Ex- cessive swelling of the head and of the face.—Gnawing or burning itching, * scurfy eruptions, pustules, and corroding ulcers in the hairy scalp. Eyes.—Pressive, burning and shooting pains in the eyes, "aggravated by light, *as also by moving the eyes, and some- times with a desire to lie down, ~or with anguish which does not permit one to rest in bed.—*Eyes inflamed and red, with redness of the conjunctiva, or of the sclerotica, and in- jection of the veins of the conjunctiva.—Swelling of the eyes.—Inflammatory or edematous swelling of the eyelids. —Great dryness of the eyelids, chiefly in the edges, and when reading by the light (of a candle).—'Corrosive tears.— 'Agglutination of the eyelids.—Spasmodic closing of the eyelids, sometimes from the effect of light,—^Excessive photophobia.—"Specks and ulcers on the cornea.—Eyes con- vulsed and protruded ; look fixed and furious.—Pupils con- tracted.— Yellowish colour of the sclerotica.—Yellow colour, spots, or white points and sparks before the eyes.—V\ eak- ness, obscuration, and loss of sight.—Eyes dull and sunken. Ears—Squeezing, sharp pains, shootings, voluptuous itching and burning in the ears.—Tingling, roaring, buz- zing, and sound of bells in the ears.—Sensation, as if the ears were stoppled, and hardness of hearing, especially the human voice. Nose.—Aching pains in the nose.—Swelling of the ARSENICUM ALBUM. 59 nose—Profuse bleeding of the nose.—Peeling off of the skin of the nose in furfurs.—Knotty tumours in the nostrils.— Ulceration at the top of the nostrils, with flow of fetid and bitter ichor.—Smell of pitch or sulphur before the nose.— Violent sneezing.—Great dryness of the nostrils.—*Fluent coryza with stuffed nose, burning in the nostrils, and secre- tion of thin and corrosive mucus. Face.—FaCe pale, hollow, and cadaverous.—* Yellowish, bluish, or greenish colour of the face.—Leaden and earth- coloured tint, with greenish and bluish spots and streaks.— * Face disfigured, with distortion of features, or with sunken ' eyes having a dark mark under them, and nose peaked.— *Redness and swelling of the face.—Hard and elastic swell- ing of the face, chiefly below the eyelids, and especially in the morning.—Swelling of the face, with fainting-fits and vertigo.—Papula?, pimples, *scurfy ulcers.—Red pimples, and mealy tetters in the face.—Blackish tint round the mouth.—*Lips bluish or black, 'dry and chapped.—Brown- ish band in the red part of the lips.—Skin rough and tettery round the mouth.—'Eruption on the mouth and on the lips, at first on the red part.—'Hard knots and cancerous ulcers with thick scurf and porky base on the lips.—Lips excoriated, with itching.—Swelling and bleeding of the lips.—*Swelling of the sub-maxillary glands, with confused pain, and soreness when touched.— Paralysis of the lower jaw. Teeth.—Sharp, pressive pains, or successive pullings in the teeth and gums, chiefly at night, extending some- times to the cheek, to the ear, and to the temples, with swelling of the cheek and insupportable pains, which impel to furious despair, or which are aggravated when one lies on the diseased side, and which are mitigated by the heat of the fire.—Gnashing of the teeth.—Sensation of elongation and painful loosening of the teeth, with swelling and bleeding of the gums. Mouth.—Offensive smell from the mouth.—Great dry- ness of the mouth, accumulation of saliva, sometimes bitter or bloody.—'Tongue bluish or white.—Torpor and insen- sibility of the tongue, as if it were burnt.—"Tongue brown- ish or blackish, dry, cracked and trembling.—"Bright red tongue.—Ulceration of the tongue on the anterior edge.— Thrush of the mouth.—Speech rapid, precipitate. Throat.—'Scraping, sharp pain and burning in the throat.—Inflammation and sangretie of the throat.—Spas- modic constriction of the throat and of the esophagus, with inability to swallow.—Painful and difficult deglutition, as GO ARSENICUM ALBUM. if from paralysis ofthe ozsophagus.—Sensation of great dry- ness in the throat and in the mouth, which forces one to drink continually.—*Accumulation of grayish or greenish mucus "of a salt or bitter taste in the throat. Appetite.—^Bitter taste in the mouth, particularly after drinking or eating, or also in the morning.—Astringent, or putrid, or acid taste in the mouth.—Acid taste of food.— Insipid or too salt taste of food.— Insipidity of food.— "Bitter taste of food, particularly of bread and beer.— 'Complete adypsia, or violent burning, choking and un- quenchable thirst, with inclination to drink constantly, but little at a time.—'Desire for cold water, for acids, for bran- dy, -for coffee and milk.— Want of appetite and of hunger, frequently with burning thirst.—Insurmountable dislike to all food, chiefly meat and butter.—'Every thing that is eaten causes a pressure in the oesophagus, as if it had stopped there.— Continual hunger, with want of appetite and prompt satiety.—*After a meal, nausea, vomitifig, eructations, pains in the stomach, colic, and other suffer- ings.—'After drinking, shivering or shuddering, renewal of vomiting and of diarrhoea, eructations and colic. Stomach.—Frequent eructations, particularly after drink- ing or eating, mostly abortive, acid or bitter.—Regurgita- tion of acrid matter, or of bitter, greenish mucus.—Fre- quent and convulsive hiccoughs, particularly in the night. —Frequent and excessive nausea, sometimes mounting even to the throat, with inclination to vomit, desire to lie down, sleep, swooning, trembling, shuddering or heat, pains in the feet, &c.—Flow of water from the stomach, like d| phlegm.—* Vomitings, sometimes very violent, and princi- pally after drinking and eating, or at night, or towards the morning ; *vomiting of food and of drink, or of mucous, bil- ious, or serous matter, of a yellowish, greenish, brownish, or blackish colour; vomiting of sanguineous matter.—When vomiting, violent pains in the stomach, sensation of exco- riation in'the abdomen, cries, burning internal heat, diar- rhea, and fear of death.—'Inflation and tension of the pre- cordial region and of the stomach.—-Excessive pain in the epigastrium and in the stomach, chiefly when touched.— *Pressvre in the stomach as from a stone, or as if the heart would burst, and excessive anguish in the precordial re- gion, with complaints and lamentations.—'Sensation of constriction, cramp-like pains,-p\.\\\'\ng, piercing, and gnaw- ino- in the stomach.—"'Sensation of cold, or insupportable heat and burning in the precordial region, and in the stom- ach.—'The pains in the stomach manifest themselves ARSENICUM ALBUM. 61 mostly after a meal, or at night.—-Tetters on the pit of the stomach. Abdominal Region.'—-Pressure in the region of the liver. —Swelling of the spleen.—* Excessive pains in the abdomen, principally in the left side ; often great anguish in flu. abdomen.—'Inflation of the abdomen.—*Swelling of the abdomen as in ascites.—* Violent cutting pains, cramp-like pains, raking, pulling, tearing and gnawing in the abdo- men.—"Attacks of colic, chiefly after eating and drinking, or in the night, and often accompanied^ with vomiting, or diarrhaia, with coldness, internal heat, or cold sweat.— •Sensation of coldness, or insupportable burning in the ab- domen.—"Pain, as from a wound in the abdomen, chiefly when coughing and laughing.— Swelling and induration of the mesenteric glands—Much flatulency, with grumbling an I rumbling in the abdomen.—Flatulency of a putrid odour.—Painful swelling of the inguinal glands.—"Ulcer above the navel. Fxces.—*Constipation, with frequent but ineffectual desire to evacuate —Tenesmus, with burning in the anus. —Involuntary and unnoticed evacuations.—* Violent diar- rhaia, with frequent evacuations, nausea, vomiting, thirst, great weakness, colic and tenesmus.— "Nocturnal diarrhaia, and renewal of the diarrhoea after eating and drinking.— ^Burning, and corrosive evacuations ; faces slimy, bilious, sanguineous, serous, &c, &c, of greenish, yellowish, whitish colour, or Hrownish and blackish ; 'fetid and putrid evacua- tions ; evacuations of undigested substances.—Discharge of mucus from the anus with tenesmus.—Prolapsus of the rectum, with much pain.—'Itching, pain as from excoria- tion and burning in the rectum and in the anus, as well as in the hemorrhoidal tumours, chiefly at night.—Shootings in the haemorrhoidal tumours. Uiune.—'Retention of urine, as if from paralysis of the bladder.—Frequent desire to make water, even at nighty with abundant emission.—Inability to retain the urine and involuntary flow, even, at night, in bed.— Difficult and pain- ful emission of urine.— Scanty urine of a deep yellow co- lour.—Urine aqueous, greenish, brownish, or turbid, with Blimy sediment.—'Sanguineous urine.—* Burning in the urethra when making water. Genital O gans.—Itching, shooting and burning in the glands and in the prepuce.—Inflammation, painful and gangrenous swelling of the genital parts.—Glands swollen, cracked and bluish.—Swelling of the testes.— Nocturnal pollutions.—Flowing of the prostatic fluid during loose Vol. I. 6 62 ARSENICUM ALBUM. stools.—Sexual desire in women.—*Catamenia too early and too copious, with much suffering.—Catamenia sup- pressed, with pains in the sacrum, and in the shoulders.— 'Leucorrhaea acrid, corrosive, "thick and yellowish. Larynx.—Catarrh, with hoarseness, coryza and restless- ness.—Voice rough and hoarse.—Voice trembling or un- equal, at one time strong, at another weak.—^Tenacious mucus in the larynx and chest.—'Sensation of dryness and burning in the larynx.—"Spasmodic constriction of the larynx.—*Dry cough, sometimes deep, fatiguing and concus- sive, principally in the evening, after lying down, or at night, with a wish to rise, or in the morning, also after drinking, when in the fresh and cool air, when moving, or breathing, and often with difficulty of respiration, choking, contractive pain, or sensation as of excoriation in the pit of the stomach and the chest ; pain, as from a bruise in the abdomen, cut- ting in the hypochondriurn, in the epigastrium, and in the chest, &c.—Cough excited by a sensation of constriction in stifling in the larynx, as if caused by the vapour of sulphur. — Attacks of periodical cough.—'Cough with expectora- tion of sanguineous -mucus, "sometimes with burning heat over the whole body.—Difficult expectoration or scanty and frothy. Chest.—* Breathing short; difficult, stifling dyspnwa, and attacks of suffocation, sometimes with cold sweat, spasmodic "constriction of the chest or of the larynx, anguish', great weak- ness, coldness of the body, pain in the pit of the stomach and paroxysms of cough.—Appearance of sufferings chiefly in the evening in bed, or at night, when lying down, in windy weather, in the fresh and cold air, or in the heat of the room, or when warmly clothed, -when fatigued, when angry, 'when walking, when moving, and even when' laughing.—*Respiration anxious, stertorous and wheezing. —Oppression of the chest, when coughing, when walking, and when going up stairs.—* Constriction and compressioji of the chest, sometimes with great anxiety, inability to speak and fainting fits.—Tension and pressure in the chest.— * Shooting pains in the chest and in the sternum.—Shivering, or great heat and burning in the chest.— Violent and insup- portable throbbings of the heart, chiefly when lying on the back and especially at night.—'Irregular beatings of the heart, sometimes with anxiety. Trunk.—Yellowish spots on the chest.—Violent and burning pain in the back, severely aggravated by pressure. —Acute dvawing pains in the back and between the shoul- der-blades, with wish to lie down.—CEdematous, painless ARSENICUM ALBUM—ARTEMISIA VULGARIS. 63 swellings of the neck and of the lower jaw.—Tetters be- tween the shoulder-blades. Arms.—Acute drawing pains in the arms and in the hands.— "Swelling of the arms with blackish pustules of a putrid smell.—'At night, acute drawing pains, beginning in the neck and extending to the arm-pits.—Acute pulling and shooting in the wrists.—Cramps in the fingers.—At night, sensation of fulness and swelling in the palms of the hands.—Excoriation between the fingers.—Hard swelling of the fingers with pain in the bones of the same.—"Ulcers at the extremities of the fingers with burning pain.—Dis- coloured nails. Legs.—Cramp in the legs.—"Acute drawing pains in the hips, as far as the groins, the thighs, and extending some- times even to the ankle-bones, with uneasiness which obliges one to move the limb constantly.—Rheumatic pain in the legs, and especially in the tibia.—Paralytic weakness of the thigh.—*Pain, as from a bruise in the knee joint.— Contraction of the tendons of the ham.—*Tetters on the ham.—Cramps in the calves of the legs.—Burning and shooting 'ulcers in the leg.—"Fatigue in the legs and in the feet.— Swelling of the foot, burning, hard and shining with burning blisters of a blue-blackish colour on the in- step.— Gnawing and ulcerous blisters on the soles of the feet and on the toes.—Pains in the fleshy part of the toes, as if they were galled by walking. 18.—ARTEMISIA VULGARIS. ARTF.M-—A medicine as yet entirely unknown, but which has been used with much success against a kind of Epilepsy produced by the effect of ** fright in pregnant women. [This remedy has been highly recommended by Bur- dach in epilepsy—especially in those cases in which par- oxysms occur every day, or even from three to fifteen times, and are so violent and frequent as to leave but little time for the patient to be restored to consciousness. Also in those cases attended with morning and evening parox- ysms; and in epilepsy of young females from 12 to 15 years of age, and prior to the establishment of menstrua- tion, as the eatamenia generally set inv, and the epilepsy disappeared. While it has been found to aggravate epi- lepsy occurring as a disease of growth in young and very robust persons, from 17 to 22 years old; and it has also proved injurious in epilepsia nocturna, with paroxysms oc- curring every five, ten, or fifteen days, and generally about 64 ARUM---ASSA FCETIDA. midnight. It also enjoys a high reputation in the ecclamp- sia of young children. Ed.~\ GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Gums easily bleeds.— Pain in the throat with difficult deglutition, as if from ob- struction of the oesophagus, and desire to swallow constant- ly.—Anxious pressure in the abdomen, which extends to the chest and to the neck.—Clear watery urine, exhaling a smell of burnt horn and depositing a cloudy sediment.— Great fatigue and weakness.—Invincible desire to sleep after a meal, and faee redder during sleep. » M~—— —m- ]&—ARUM. AR— Common arum.—Hering.—A remedy as yet very little known. [Dioscorides has praised its virtues in chronic inflam- mations of the lungs, and asthma ; Gessner and Frost, in true consumptions, and in Angina pectoris. Ed.] 20.—ASSA FCETIDA. ASSA.—Gum-resin of ferula.—Hahnemann.—Duration of effect: from 4 to 6 weeks in some cases of chronic dist ase. Aktk.otes r Caus. chin, electric—It is used as an antidote against Merc. puis 1 Compare with: Ant. aur. caus. chin. coff. con. mere, n-vom. phos1. plat. puis. rhus. rut- thu\ tart. —Assa fcetida, when indicated deservps a pre- ference particularly after thui- and puis-—Puis- and caus* are sometimes useful alter assa feeiida. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Considering the totality of the symptoms, the cases in which this medicine should be em- ployed are :—Scrofulous and rickety affections ; Inflamma- tions, softening, deviation, suppuration, and caries of the bones; Ichorous suppurations ; Tumefaction of the glands ; Hysterical and hypochondriacal complaints; Ha:morrha- gia ; Serious consequences from the abuse of mercury; Dance of St. Gny (St. Vitus's dance) ; Otorrhoca and hard- ness of hearing after abuse of mercury; Opthalmia, ozaena, phlegmon in the nose of scrofulous children ; Gastric and bilious complaints ; Gastritis 1; Oesophagitis 1; Obstruction in the abdomen 1; Ascites with general dropsy, from organic affections in the abdomen ; Asthmatic affec- tions of scrofulous persons, excited by exertion, coition, or excess in eating ; Organic affections and palpitation of the heart, &c. &c. [This remedy is also a valuable palliative in hooping- cough—in spasmodic cough—in Asthma hystericum, and pituitosum, especially when attended with violent conges- tion to the chest and head; in congestion to the liver it ASSA FCETIDA. 65 also deserves attention ; and in Asthma infantum spas- modicum Millari it is an invaluable, often indispensable remedy. It is also a valuable palliative in the flatulence of the stomach and bowels, so common in hysterical and hy- pochondriacal persons, and in Asthma fiatulentum. Ed.] f£r See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Jerking, regular and inter- mitting pains, mostly drawing, acute, with successive pull- ings, or pressive with dull shootings, or else sharp pains, which manifest themselves from the inside outwards, mitiga- ted or changing their nature by pressure, and accompanied with a sensation of numbness.—Pains in the flexor muscles. —The symptoms appear when seated, and are mitigated by exercise in the open air.—Involuntary twitching and quiv- ering of certain muscles and muscular fibres.—Scraping and piercing in the periosteum.—Painful inflammation and ul- ceration of the bones.— Caries.—Hot and red swelling of the parts affected.—^Swelling of the glands.—Sensation of heaviness in the whole body. Skim.—Ulcers with hard edges, bluish and very sensi- tive to the touch.—*Serous, fetid and purulent pus. Sleep.—Strong inclination to sleep.—Abundance of dreams, generally lively.—Sleep not refreshing with tossing and frequent waking. Fever.—Sensation of heat in the face, after a meal, without thirst, with anguish and desire to sleep.—Transient shuddering.—Quick pulse. Moral Symptoms.—Inquietude and hysterical and hypo- chondriacal anxiety.—Versatility.—Ill-humour and distaste for labour.—Great irritability with indifference to every thing. Head.—Confusion and whirling in the head.—Perplexity of the head, with strong pressure and difficulty in thinking. —Dullness of.the senses without loss of consciousness. ■—Head-ache, which changes its nature or departs under the influence of touch.—Stunning tension in the head. —Obtuse shootings or pressure in the sides of the head, the temples, and the forehead, like that of a plug which presses from the outside inwards.—Constrictive pains in the head.—Congestion in the head with throbbing.— Cramp-like pains in the forehead above the eye-brows. Eyes.—Pains in the eyes, as if there were sand in them, with a sensation of cold.—Burning in the eyes, withdraw- ing of the eye-lids, as if from sleep.—Painful sensation of dryness, or real dryness in the eyes.—Trembling of the eye-lids.—Obscuration of the sight when writing. 66 ASSA FCETIDA. Ears.—Pressive pains in the ears.—"Hardness of hear- ing, with purulent discharge from, the ears. Nose.—Pressive pains in the nose, and principally in the wings of the nose.—Tension with sensation of numb- ness in the bones of the nose.— "Flow of purulent, fetid, greenish matter from the nose. • Face.—Pains in the face, generally tensive, with sensa- tion of numbness in the bones of the face, principally in the cheek bone.—Sensation of pressive fulness in the face.— Numbing pressure on the chin.—Acute drawing pains in the lower jaw. Mouth.—Lips swollen with burning, darting sensations. —Dryness of the mouth, with sensation of burning and pain, as if excoriated.—Sensation of dryness, although the mouth is moist. Throat.—Pain in the throat, as if a foreign substance were ascending in the oesophagus, with pressure.—Sensation of burning, of dryness and of excoriation in the throat, with tension while swallowing. Appetite.—Taste generally bitter or rancid, as if from grease.—Insipid taste, and disgust, as after indigestion caused by fat meat.—Aversion to beer which seems to have a slimy taste. Stomach.—Eructations as after having eaten garlic or also with an acrid and rancid taste.—Pressure on the sto- mach with tension and sensation, as if something were ascending in the oesophagus, even after a meal.—Cramp- like, contractive pains in the stomach.—Pain, as from a bruise, and sensation of fulness in the region of the sto- mach.—Sensation of burning in the stomach and in the dia- phragm.—Visible and sensible pulsation in the epigastrium. Abdominal Region.—Hepatic pains, generally pressing, or shooting.—Piercing shootings in the hypochondria, tending towards the outside, on breathing.—Pain in the ab- domen, with great uneasiness in the hypogastrium, and anxious inquietude.—Pressure and shooting in the sides of the abdomen.—Great inflation of the abdomen.—Heaviness in the abdomen, with cold in the interior, chiefly after drinking.—Shootings in the umbilical regions.—Flatulent colic with griping. F.eces.—Constipation with abundant discharge of fetid flatulence —Urgent desire to go to stool, with constipa- tion, and slow, hard and difficult stools.—Loose stools of the consistence of pap, brownish, or yellowish and fetid, mostly accompanied by pains in the abdomen and abundant discharge of wind.—Pressure in the perinseum. ASSA FCETIDA—ASARUM EUROPIUM. 67 Urtne—Urine brownish with an acrid, pungent smell.— Cramps in the bladder during the emission of urine and afterwards. Genital Organs.—Sensation, as if every thing were pressing towards the genital parts, with pain in the testes. —Catamenia too early and too scanty.—Pressure towards the uterus like labour pains. Chest.—Short, hoarse cough, with a sensation of vapour in the bronchia.—Oppression of the chest, chiefly when lying down and after a meal, with quick breathing and small pulse.—Attacks of spasmodic asthma, as if the lungs were unable to dilate themselves sufficiently.—Pressure upon the chest, with piercing, especially when lying down, with difficult and sobbing respiration.—Pressure in the thorax.—Shootings outward in the chest.—Pulsation and beating in the chest.—Palpitation of the heart. Back aisd Extremities.—Very violent pains in the loins. —Shooting pain in the lumbar muscles.—Frequent stort- ings in the muscles of the arms and of the hands.—Stiffness and torpor of the hands.—Starting of the muscles of the legs and feet.—Stiffness and torpor of the feet.—Cold swelling round the ankles.—Very sensible pulsation in the great toe. 21.—ASARUM EUROPIUM. ASAR.—Asarum of Europe.—Hahnemann.—Dura Hon of effect: as long as 15 days in some cases of chronic disease. Antidotes.—Camph. acetum. Compare with : Aeon. hep. puis. sep. stram. CLINICAL REMARKS.—On studying the symptoms, it will appear, whether this medicine may be employed against some cases of megrim ;• Opthalmia; Gastric and bilious affections ; Helminthiasis; Lienteria, &c, &c. [Asarum deserves attention in chronic diarrhoeas, when prostration and hectic appear ; and also in the diarrhoea in the last stages of phthisis ; also in chronic vomiting depend- ent upon chronic inflammation of the stomach, or merely upon an affection of the ganglionic system; it also deserves consideration in cases with inveterate and profuse secretion of mucus from the stomach and bowels, pyrosis, &c.; and in the diarrhoea of teething children.—Ed.~\ dCr See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Excessive susceptibility of the whole nervous system.—Acute drawing pains, suc- cessive pullings and cramp-like traction, chiefly in the limbs.—Great dejection, especially after dinner, with care- 68 ASARUM EUROPIUM. lessness and aversion to labour.—Weakness in the evening and inclination to vomit with desire to lie down.—Great ac- tivity and lightness of all the limbs ; one appears to fly instead of walking.—The sufferings relieved by washing the face with cold water.—Desire to sleep during the day.—Inabili- ty to sleep in the evening in consequence of the ebullition of the blood.—Distressing, disagreeable dreams.—Cold- ness, shivering and shuddering.—Alternation of coldness and burning heat.—Captious, melancholy humour.—Sad- ness, with inclination to shed tears. Head.—Pressive confusion, with tension and dulness of the head and incapacity for labour.—Ideas are lost.—Dizzi- ness, as if from drunkenness, on rising from one's chair or on walking.—Pains in the head provoked or aggravated by intellectual labour.—Stunning traction, or pressure on the head, and chiefly in the temples, in the forehead and above the root of the nose.—Compression in the sides of the head.—Attack of cephalalgia on the left side of the head, every day towards five o'clock in the evening.—Pulsations and throbbings in the head and especially the forehead, on stooping.'—Tension of the hairy scalp, with tenderness of the hair. Eyes.—Pain in the eyes, as if the eyelids were power- fully forced asunder, on reading.—Sharp, throbbing pains in the eyes.—Sense of coldness in the eyes.—Sensation of dryness in the eyes, or burning and lachrymation, espe- cially in the evening in a room.—Eyes inflamed with abun- dant lachrymation.—Cold air benefits the eyes; but the wind and the light of the sun are insupportable.—Fixed- ness of the eyes.—Eyes dull and dejected.—Twitching of the eyelids.—Obscuration of the sight.—Redness of the conjunctiva with piercings in the corners of the eyes. Ears—Painful, pressive tension in the orifice of the auditory duct.—Ear hot on the outside.—Hardness of hear- ing, as if from obstruction or contraction of the auditory duct. Mouth.—Sensation of cold in the (upper) incisor teeth. —Burning heat in the mouth and on the tongue—Contrac- tion in the mouth with accumulation of cool, serous saliva.— Accumulation of viscous mucus in the mouth and in the throat. Stomach.—Bread and tobacco taste bitter.—Flatulent and void eructations.—Hunger with sensation of fulness in the stomach.—Putrid eructations.—Pyrosis with sour eructa- tions, which set the teeth on edge.—Nausea with disgust and shuddering.—Desire to vomit with pressure in the forehead and copious accumulation of water in the mouth. ASARUM EUROPJEUM. 69 — Violent desire to vomit, with aggravation of all the symp- toms.— Vomiting with violent effort and pains in the stom- ach, in the epigastrium and in the head, with great anguish. —Pinchings in the stomach.—Pressure in the region of the stomach and in the epigastrium.—Constriction in the re- gion of the diaphragm. Abdominal Region.—Inflation of the abdomen, with sensation of fulness.—Smarting and pain as from a wound in the spleen.—Pinching in the left side of the abdomen, which extends as far as the back.—Cutting pains in the upper part of the abdomen.—Colic with vomiting—Ingui- nal hernia. Fjeces.—Painful loose evacuations of white viscous slime, with expulsion of ascarides.—Whitish gray fa;ces, the colour of ashes—Discharge of thick, black blood during the stool.—Diarrhoea, with evacuation of undigest- ed substances, principally after having eaten potatoes.— Cutting pains before the stool.—Prolapsus of the rectum during the stool.—After the stool, pressure on the rectum, with flow of tenacious, whitish, and sanguineous slime. Urine. — An almost constant desire to make water.— Pressure on the bladder during the emission of urine and afterwards.—Catumenia too early, and of too long dura- tion, with flow of black blood.—On the appearance of the eatamenia violent pains in the loins, which interrupt res- piration. Chest.—Cough excited by a tickling in the throat, with copious expectoration of mucus—Breathing short, from constriction of the throat.—Difficulty of breathing, as if from suffocation —Pressure on the chest.—Constriction in the lungs—Lancination in the lungs on breathing.—Suc- cessive jerkings of the muscles of the collar-bone. Trunk.—Pains, as from a bruise, and sensation of para- lytic weakness in the loins, in the back and in the shoul- der-blades —Cramp-like contraction in the neck and in the nape of the neck.—Cramps in the muscles of the neck which cause one to carry the head on one side. Arms.—Pain, as from a sprain in the scapulary joint, on moving the arm.—Drawing, with sensation of paralytic weakness in the joints of the hand and of the fingers. Legs.—Pressive, obtuse pain in the coxo-femoral articu- lation and in the thigh, chiefly when resting on the foot and when walking.—Cramps in the thighs.—Traction in the knee and in the tendons of the ham.—Fatigue of the thighs and of the knees with tottering gait,—Successive jerkings in the calves of the legs,—Lancinations in the instep, 70 AURUM. 22.—AURUM. Aor.—Metallic gold.—Hahnemann.—Duration of effect: as long as 40 days in some cases. Antidotes: Bell. chm. cupr. mere.—It is used as an antidote against: Merc. spig. Compare with : A-^a. bell. chin. cupr. mere, nitr-ac. puis. spig.—Gold is most suitable, if it be indicated, after bell. chin. puis. CLINICAL REMARKS.—A total consideration of the pure effects of aurum bespeaks our earnest attention to it in the following cases:—Mercurial (and syphilitic) suffer- ings ; Convulsions and hysterical spasms; Nodous goutl ; Scrofulous affections; Dropsical affections 1; Inflamma- tion and caries of the bones, chiefly from the abuse of mercu- ry ; Rhagades ; Religious melancholy ; Hypochondria ; Hysteria ; Hysterical pains in the head; Fatigue in the head from intellectual labour; Megrim ; Exostosis of the cranium ; Scrofulous ophthalmia 1; Spots on the cornea 1 ; Amblyopia amaurotica ; Otorrhoca from caries of the bones of the auditory organs ; Ozssna, with caries of the bones of the nose ; Cancerous affection of the nose ; Swelling and ulceration of the nose and of the lips, chiefly in scrofu- lous subjects ; Inflammatory prosopalgia from the abuse of mercury ; Ulceration and caries of the palate ; Conges- tive odontalgia ; Hernia in children ; Ischuria ; Orchitis ; Induration of the testes; Prolapsus and induration of the matrix ; congestive asthma ; Hydrothorax and organic af- fections of the heart, principally those arising from the abuse of mercury, &c, &c. [It is one of the best remedies, in the frightful pains in the bones, caused By syphilis or the .abuse of mercury ; in osteomalacia; in enlargement and induration of the prostate gland and the difficulties of the bladder and rec- tum dependent upon it. In many hysterical and nervous affections it deserves particular attention, viz.: In Colica hysterica ; hysterical one-sided head-ache; Asthma hyste- ria, which often obstinately withstands the use of every other remedy ; in congestion to the head, palpitation of the heart, and pulsation of all the arteries, attended writh lan- guid hysterical prostration. Ed.] OCT See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Pain, like that of a bruise, MCUte traction and paralytic weakness in the limbs in gene- ral, and chiefly in the joints, especially on uncovering the part affected, in the morning on waking and during re- pose, disappearing when one rises.—Darting pains in the limbs with great dejection.— "Inflammation of the bones with nocturnal pains.—*Exostosis of the head, of arms and of AURUM. 71 legs.—Great acuteness and delicacy of sensation, with excessive sensibility to the least pain.—Hysterical spasms, sometimes with alternate tears and laughter.—Great sensi- bility to cold, or strong desire to go into the open air even in bad weather, because it is found to be a relief. Sleep.—Desire to sleep after a meal.—Nocturnal sleep till four o'clock in the morning only—In the morning, on walking, fatigue and weakness. —Restless sleep with anx- ious dreams.—Nocturnal raving in the form of questions. Fever.—Febrile shiverings over the whole body, in bed in the evening, followed neither by heat nor thirst.—Cold- hess of the entire body with bluish colour of the nails, nause- ous taste and desire to vomit, sometimes followed by an increase of heat.—Heat of the face, with coldness of the hands and feet.—Copious general perspiration, early in the morning. Moral Symptoms.—Melancholy with inquietude and de- sire for death.—Irresistible desire to weep.—Desire to see one's relations, a sort of nostalgia.—*Great anguish, which advances even as far as disposition to suicide, with cramp- like contractions in the abdomen.—Excessive scruples of conscience.—Despair of oneself and of others.—Ill-humour and aversion to conversation.—Peevish, quarrelsome hu- mour.---Inger and passion.—Alternation of gaiety, irrita- bility and of melancholy.— Hypochondriacal humour.— Weakness of the intellectual faculties.—Weakness of the memory. Head.—Fatigue of the head fromjntellectual labour.— Sudden stupefaction with loss of sense.—Pain like that of a bruise in the brain, especially in the morning or during intellectual labour, and sometimes proceeding so far as to render the ideas confused.—*Pain in the head as if the air passed over the brain, when it is not kept very warm.— Acute drawing pains in the head.—Beating and hammer- ing pain on one side of the head.—Congestion of blood to the bead.—*Buzzing in the head.—Pain in the bones of the cranium, especially when lying down.—Exostosis of the cranium.—Falling off of the hair. Eves.—Pain in the eyes aggravated by touch, as if the ball of the eye were pressed inwards.—Tension in the eyes, with diminution of sight.—Burning pain and redness in the eyes.—""Obscuration of the sight.—*Black spots before the eyes.—Eyes very prominent.—Flames and sparks before the eyes.—Haemiopia ; objects are seen cut in horizontal lines. Ears.—Pain in the ears, like internal tension.—Caries 72 AURUM. of the mastoid apophysis.—"Flow of fetid pus from the ears.— Hardness of hearing from hypertrophy of the amyg- dalae, with embarrassed speech.—* Buzzing in the ears. Nose.—Pain in the nasal bones on being touched.— Gnawing prickings in the nose.—^Inflammatory swelling and redness of the nose followed by desquamation.— Caries of the bones of the nose.—Nasal cavities ulcerated and covered with thick scab.—Running from the nose, of a fetid, greenish-yellow matter.—*Stoppage of the nose.— *Flo\ving coryza.—Furfuraceous desquamation of the epidermis of the nose.—Increased sensibility or absence of smell —Sweetish, putrid smell, or smell of brandy before the nose. Face.— Face puffed, and shining as if from sweat.—"In- flammation of the bones of the face.—Swelling of the cheeks.—Swelling of the bones of the forehead, of the upper jaw and of the nose.— Red eruption, which peels off, on the forehead, and on the nose.—Traction in the jaws with swelling of the cheeks.— Tensive pain in the upper jaw.—Pain in the sub-maxillary glands. Tee'H.—Odontalgia with heat and congestion to the head.—Looseness of the teeth.—Ulcers in the gums with swelling of the cheeks. Mouth.—Fetid smell of the mouth, as if from strong cheese —Piercing pain in the velum palati.—"Caries of the palate, with ulcers of a bluish colour.—"Tonsils swollen and ulcerated.—Drinks find a passage through the nostrils. Appetite.—Milky ^or sweetish taste.—Dislike to food and especially to meat.—Great desire for coffee.—Exces- sive hunger and thirst. Stomach.—Pain in the stomach, as if proceeding from hunger.—Sensation of indescribable uneasiness in the epi- gastrium.—Swelling of the epigastrium and of the hypo- chondria, with lancinating pains when touched. Abdominal Region.—Colic with sensation of great un- easiness and desire to evacuate—Tensive pressure and fulness in the abdomen.—Abdomen inflated.—Exostosis in the pelvis.—*Tendency of hernia to protrude, sometimes with cramp-like pains and confinement of flatulency.— Flatulent colic at night, with pinching, grumbling, and rumbling.—Frequent emission of very fetid wind. F^ces — Copious evacuation.—Nocturnal diarrhcea. Urine—Painful retention of urine, with urgent desire to make water and pressure on the bladder.—Frequent emission of watery urine.—Urine turbid, like whey, with slimy, thick sediment. AURUM —AURUM MURIATICUM---BARYTA CARBONICA. 73 Genital Organs.—Sexual desire greatly increased.— The whole genital system is strongly affected—Nocturnal erections and pollutions.—Flow of prostatic fluid, with flac- cidity of the penis.—*Swelling of the testes, with aching pain when touched and rubbed.—Induration of the testes. —*Fains in the abdomen, as if the eatamenia were coming. —Prolapsus and induration of the matrix. Larynx.—Accumulation of mucus in the trachea and in the chest, which is expectorated with difficulty in the morninp-.—"Voice nasal.—Cough from want of breath at night. Chest.—Great difficulty of respiration at night and on walking in the open air, requiring deep inspirations.—"Suf- focating attacks with constrictive oppression of the chest, falling, loss of sense, and bluish colour of the face.—Pain, as if there were a plug placed under the ribs.—Permanent pressure in the left side of the chest.—Cutting pain and obtuse shootings near the sternum.—Active congestion of the chest.—^Beatings of the heart, irregular, or by fits, sometimes with anguish and oppression of the chest. Trunk.—Pains in the back, generally aching, or draw- ing, and acute, chiefly in the morning, and sometimes so violent that one cannot move a limb. Arms.—Aching pains in the arms and in the fore-arms. —Cramp-like and acute drawing pains in the bones of the carpus and of the metacarpus.—Acute drawing pains, and paralytic weakness in the bones and jjints of the fingers. Legs.—Sharp pains in the thighs, especially- morning and evening.—Paralytic and painful weakness of the knees, as if a band were tightly compressed above them ; they are feeble and they bend.—Drawing pains and acute pullings, with paralytic weakness in the bones and the joints of the toes. 23.—AURUM MURIATIC CM. AUR-M.— Muriate of gold.—Hahnemann.—This medicine is employed against u'cerations in the nostrils and lips, and also against a kind of syphilitic laryngitis; but the few primitive symptoms belonging to it, mat we are acquainted with, are found equally in aurum foliatum, so that it is 'till impossible to establish a distinction between iheso iwo preparations of gola% It has also been used with success in scirrhus and cancer; in soiie forms of lepra ; in scrofulous tumefaction of the upper lip; in scrolu.u is, thick, slightly inflamed but extremely sensitive nose. 2-L—BARYTA CARBONICA. BAtVT.—Carbonate of baryt.—Hahnemann.—Duration of effect: fer several weeks in the case of some chronic affections. Vol. I. 7 74 BARYTA CARBONICA. Antidotes : Camph. (mere. bell, dulc ) Compare with : Alum. bell, calc chain, chin. dulc. magn. mere. natr. stp. sil. sulph. tart.— Tart, especially is often used with much succe.-s alter baryt. and before ii, provided, however, the symptoms of the disease indicate it. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Guided by the totality of the symptoms, the cases against which this medicine may be employed will be found to be:—Physical and nervous weakness, and other complaints of children or of old men : Sufferings after a chill ; Scrofulous affections ; Tumefaction and induration of the glands ; Atrophy of scrofulous chil- dren; Encysted tumours; Steatoma; Comatose somno- lency; Apoplexy, principally in old men, but also in drunkards; Scald-head; Alopecia; Ophthalmia and ble- pharitis of scrofulous persons; Inflammatory prosopalgia ; Facial tetters ; Crusta lacteal ; Odontalgia, especially that caused by a chill; Phlegmonous anginas; Tonsil an- gina, with suppuration; Angina caused by a chill; Angina during the small-pox; Dyspepsia; Scirrhus in the stom- ach 1; Catarrh of the respiratory organs; Paralytic orthop- naea of old men (after having giving tart), &c. &c. [It de- serves particular attention in dry tinea capitis; fissures and crusty eruptions of the face ; in rickets ; in worm complaints, especially when attended with frequent slimy, sour-smelling diarrhoeas ; in chronic predisposition to in- flammation of the throat, in scrofulous persons ; also in painful haemorrhoids, and affections of the chest caused by retrocession of the piles ; in phthisis from congestion to the chest, occasioned by suppression of the menses; and in Marasmus senilis.—Ed.] OO" See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Pains in the joints and in the hollow bones.—Cramp-like pressure or pulling, with paralytic weakness, also tension, as if from contraction of the tendons, in different parts.—Acute drawino- pains in the limbs, with shuddering.—At night, jerking of the mus- cles.—Trembling and jerking of some limbs and of the whole body, during the day.—The symptoms exhibit them- selves particularly in the left side when one is seated ; they disappear when moving or in the open air.—*SwelIing and induration of the glands.—Heaviness in the whole body. —Great uneasiness and over-excitability of all the senses. —Great weakness, which does not permit one to remain standing.—Desireto lie down, or to be seated.—*Intellectual nervous and physical weakness.—* Emaciation, or 'bloating of the body and of the face, with inflation of the abdomen.__ *3reat tendency to catch cold, with inflammation of the throat. BARYTA CARBONICA. 75 Skin.—Sensation in different parts, like the pricking of burning needles, itching, and crawling at night, intolerable itching and crawling over the whole body.—Excoriation and running in several parts of the skin.—Injuries in the skin are healed with difficulty.—Warts.—Panaris (whit- loes). Sleep.—Great desire to sleep in the day.—*Sleepy drowsiness night and day.—Nocturnal sleep disturbed by frequent waking and anxious dreams.—At night, agitation of the blood, strong beatings of the heart, and sensation in the heart, as if it were excoriated, with great anxiety and inability to lie on the left side.—*Sleep with many unquiet dreams. Fever.—Strong disposition to chilliness.—Shuddering with corrugated skin, and hair standing on end, or with tension of the face.—Shuddering which runs over the whole body, beginning at the face or at the epigastrium, followed by a transient heat over the whole body.—* Night sweats. Moral Symptoms.—"Tearful humour.—Repugnance to strangers or to society.—Anxious inquietude about one's do- mestic affairs.—Scrupulous, irresolute, suspicious spirit, with mistrust of oneself.—Fear and cowardice.—Aversion- to play (in children)—Sudden fits of passion from trifling causes.—Incessant activity.—Great weakness of memory, so as to forget easily.—Children are inattentive to their studies. Head.—* Vertigo with nausea, -and head-ache *on stoop- ing.—Pressive pains in the head, principally in the fore- head, *over the eyes, -and the root of the nose, or with tension in the occiput, towards the nape of the neck.— Shooting pains in the head, especially from the heat of a stove.—Seething in the head with a sensation of looseness of the brain.—Painful sensibility of the hairy scalp.— Ten- dency to take cold in the head.—Itching and gnawing -in the hairy scalp.—*Eruptions "and humid or dry scabs on the head.— Baldness. Eyes.—^Pressure and burning pain in the eyes, espe- cially on fatiguing the sight.—inflammations of the ball of the eye and of the eye-lids, with pain as of excoriation, sen*atjon of dryness and photophobia.—Swelling of the eyes in the morning.—* Agglutination of the eye-lids.— Confusion of sight which prevents one's reading —Specks flying about, and black spots before the eyes.—Sparks be- fore the eyes in the dark.— Dazzling of the eyes by the light. Ears.—Itching in the ears.—Nocturnal pulsation in the 76 BARYTA CARBONICA. ears or when they are laid upon.—* Eruptions on the ears or behind the ears.—Parotids swollen and painful.—Hardness of hearing.—*Tingling and roaring in the ears.—Crackling in the ears on swallowing, sneezing, or walking quickly. Nose.—Epistaxis, especially after having blown the nose.—"Scabs below the nose.—Very acute sense of smell. __"Fluent coryza with abundant secretion of thick mucus.— ^Painful dryness of the nose. Face —Face deep red, with purple lips, and strong agi- tation of the blood.—Sensation of swelling and tension in the face, as if it were covered with cobwebs.—*Pains in the face with tensive swelling.—^Eruption on the face.—Lips dry and cracked.—Acute pain in the joint on closing the jaws.—Swelling of the sub-maxillary glands. Teeth.—Tooth-ache only in the evening, in bed.— Traction, beatings and *shocks in the teeth, -advancing even to the ear and the temple.—*Burning shootings in the carious teeth, "excited by contact with any thing hot.— *Tooth-ache before the eatamenia with pale-red swelling of the gums and of the cheek.—Bleeding of the teeth and of the gums. Mouth.—Dryness of the mouth.—Accumulation of saliva in the mouth.—Offensive smell from the mouth.—Inflamed blisters in the mouth and on the tongue.—Cracks in the tongue, with burning pain as of excoriation. Throat.—*Sore threat with swelling of the palate, and of the amygdala., which suppurate.—Sensation, as if one had a plug in the throat.—Suffocation and contraction in the throat.—Shootings and pain, as of excoriation in the throat, especially during the act of deglutition. Appetite.—Disagreeable, or bitter, taste, generally in the morning with tongue greatly loaded.—Sour taste, especially before, and not after a meal.—Continual thirst.---Appetite weak, and soon satisfied, although the food pleases the pal- ate.—* After dinner pains in the stomach, uneasiness, indo- lence and aversion to labour.—* Weakness of digestion. Stomach.—^Eructations after a meal.—Frequent eruc- tations, abortive, or *sour.—*Discharge of slime from the stomach.—Vomiting of mucus.—*Nausea, chiefly in the morning, when fasting, and sometimes as if in consequence of indigestion.—*Pains in the stomach, when fasting, after a meal, or on pressing upon the epigastrium.— Sensibility and pain in the epigastrium at every step that one takes.— *Heaviness, fulness, and pressure in the stomach and epigas- trium, even after having eaten but little.—*Pain, as of exco- riation in the region of the stomach, with a sensation when eat- ing as if the parts through which the food passes were sore. BARYTA CARBONICA. 77 Abdominal Region.—Pain in the abdomen, relieved by eructation or by external heat.—Painful tension and infla- tion of the abdomen.—Colic with drawing back of the na- vel.—Pinchings and cuttings in the abdomen with desire to evacuate, as if under the influence of diarrhoea.—Accumu- lation of flatulence in the abdomen. Faeces.—*Evacuations difficult, "knotty, *or hard and "insufficient.—Frequent desire to evacuate, with a sensation of anxious uneasiness in the region of the loins, shiverinors running over the thighs, and evacuations soft and loose.— Urgent desire to evacuate, which can scarcely be repressed. —Voiding of lumbrici.—Appearance of hsemprrhoidal ex- crescences, with shooting pain.—*Itching, sensation of burning, excoriation and oozing at the anus. Urine.—*Frequent desire to make water with abundant discharge.—Urgent desire to make water; it can hardly be retained. Genital Organs.—Diminution of sexual desire and weakness of the genital functions.—Falling asleep during coition, without the emission having taken place.—Exco- riation and running between the scrotum and the thighs.— ^Diminution of sexual desire in women.—Catamenia too feeble and of too short duration.—"Leucorrhoea, a little before the catamenia. Larynx.—Catarrh with cough, voice hollow and low, and fluent coryza.—-Hoarseness and loss of voice, from an accumulation of slimy mucus in the throat and chest, with dry cough, chiefly at night, in the evening or in the morning. Chest.—Difficulty of respiration, and shortness of breath, with sensation of fulness in the chest.—Pains in the chest, mitigated, partly by eructatjpns and partly by external heat.—Fulness and pressive heaviness on the chcst,*especially when ascending, with shobting in the act of respiration.— Very violent beatings of the heart.—Beating of the heart, excited by lying on the left side or renewed by thinking of it. Trunk.—* Pains in the loins, -more violent when sitting than when in motion.—*Tensive stiffness in the loins, ag- gravated in the evening to such an extent that one cannot get up from one's chair nor stand up straight.—Tension in the shoulder-blades, the nape of the neck and the muscles of the neck, especially in a sharp and cold air.—Burning pain and throbbing sensation in the back, especially after mental emotion.—*Stiffness in the nape of the neck.—Shoot- ings in the nape of the neck.—Aching pains in the nape oj 7S BARYTA CARBONICA--BARYTA KURIATICA. • the neck.—"Steatoma in the nape of the neck, with burning pain in the bottom of it.—Swelling and hardness of the glands of the neck.—Encysted tumour under the arm-pit. Arms.—Swellings of the arms, with pain of the axillary glands.—Pain in the deltoid muscle, on raising the arm.— *The arm becomes numbed when one lies down.—Hands cold with bluish spots.—Swollen veins and redness of the hands.—Hands dry as parchment.—Trembling of the hand when writing.—Violent crawling and gnawing in the palm of the hand, with desire to scratch.—Peeling off of the skin of the back of the hand, and of the tops of the fin- gers.—The fingers are numbed.—Panaris. Legs.—Pain, as of dislocation or of stiffness of the coxo- femoral joint.—Tension in the legs, as if the tendons were too short.—*Drawings and acute pains in the legs, as if in the bones.—Itching in the thighs, even at night.—Shoot- ings in the joints of the knee.—Tension in the tibia and in the calves of the legs.—Cramps in the calves of the legs and in the toes on stretching out the limbs.—Inquietude and trembling in the legs and feet.—Pain in the joints of the foot, as if from a sprain.—"Fetid sweat of the feet.— • "Ulcers on the feet.—Lymphatic and painful swelling in the fleshy part of the great toe.—Pain like that of a corn, in the callous part of the sole of the foot, especially when walking.—Corns, with burning shootings and pinchings. 25.—BARYTA MURIATICA. BAR-M.—Muriate of Baryta.— Hering. CLINICAL REMARKS.—On studying the following symptoms, it will be seen that this medicine may be used against one or other of the following affections:—Affec- tions of the glands f Scrofula; Scabby eruptions; Gastritis; Enteritis ; Diabetes'? ; Chronic gonorrhoea ; Humid astoiima ; Dropsy after scarlatina, &c. &c. [This may be employed with benefit in some of the worst forms of scrofula, characterized by extreme weak- ness of digestion, aching iu the stomach after partaking of solid food, great tenderness of the stomach, continual nausea, profuse mucous secretion from the stomach, with affections of the liver, and obstinate constipation alterna- ting with slimy diarrhoea, enlargement and induration of the glands of the neck and abdomen ; swelling and inflam- mation of the eyelids; suppuration of the axillary and inguinal glands; yellowish, scaly eruptions of the skin, general emaciation, &c. It is particularly suitable for BARYTA MURIATICA. 79 persons with a milk-white skin and bluish tinge, with deli- cate and flabby muscles, and very irritable nervous system, with acute and active mind. It deserves attention in Phthisis meseraica ; in induration and swelling of the testi- cles; in tedious cases of dysenteria alba ; in paralysis at- tended wirti flabbiness, powerlessness and wasting away of the parts ; in chronic dropsy of the chest ; in chronic pre- disposition to inflammation of the throat and to salivation; in swellings and soreness of the gums, even when caused by mercury; and in affections caused by the suppression of itch. Ed.] GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Great weakness which forces one to lie down.—Weakness and prostration ^amounting almost to paralysis.—Syncope.—Stiffness and insensibility of the body, with periodical convulsions.— General heaviness.—Trembling of the limbs.—Convulsive trembling.—Jerking in the face, in some of the limbs, or in the whole body.—Periodical attacks of convulsions with jerking and excessive tossings. Skin.—Pricking in the skin.—Burning and pricking in excoriated places.—Small, itchy eruptions on the head, nape of the neck, abdomen and thighs.— Glands inflamed and ulcerated.—Ha?morrhagia. Fever—General dry heat, night and day.—Redness and heat of the face.—Pulse frequent and full.—Tertian' fever.—Increased perspiration.—Cold Sweat. Moral Symptoms.—Great anxiety, with gastralgia, nausea, and desire to vomit. Head.—Vertigo, swimming before the eyes.—Head confused and heavy.—Head-ache with vomitings.—Very purulent eruptions on the hairy scalp.—Eruptions, with scab on the head and on the neck.—Eruption on the nape of the neck. Eyes and Ears.—Eyes fixed and immovable—Pupils dilated and insensible with fixed look.—B.lenorrhaea of the eyes, ears and nose.—Deafness when vomiting. Face and Teeth—Tractive pains in the muscles of the face.—Painful nodosity at the point of the nose, with slight ftricking.—Shooting, throbbing pains in the teeth, especial- y on waking, after midnight.—Looseness of the teeth. Mouth and Thkoat.—Swelling of the salivary glands and of the palate.—Tongue loaded. — Tongue and mouth dry.—Fetor of the mouth, as if from mercury.—Putrid taste of the mouth and of food.—Loss of appetite.— Thirst.—Difficult deglutition. Stomach and Abdomen.—Desire to vomit.—Inclination 80 BARYTA MURIATICA---BELLADONNA. to vomit.—Vomiting in the morning with anxiety.—Vomit- ing of a small quantity of water with nausea.—Pain in the stomach.—Pressure in the stomach with spasm.—Sensa- tion of burning, ascending from the stomach to the chest and head.—Burning pain in the s.omach with vomiting.— The membranes of the stomach are of a blue-red, with red spots on the muscular part—The base of the stomach is inflamed, with isolated ecchymoses.—Uneasiness, as if from worms.—Burning pains in the abdomen.—Enlarge- ment of the liver. Fjeces and Urine.—Faeces slimy.—Easy evacuation.— Tedious diarrhoea, without pain.—Urine frequent, involun- tary and painful.—Flow of urine.—Whitish sediment of urine.—Swelling of the testes. Genital Organs—Frequent emissions of semen.— Catamenia too early.—Pains, as from a bruise in the cavi- ty of the pelvis. Chest—Catarrh with heat.—Heat in the upper part of the chest.—Oppression.—Cough.—Beating of the heart accelerated.—Palpitation of the heart.—The heart beats even after death, and for a long time.—The cavity of the heart is filled with coagulated blood. Trunk and Members.—Pains in the bones.—Cramp in the toes.—Drawing pains in the thighs.—Swelling of the hands and of the feet. 26.—BELLADONNA (atropa). BELL.—Deadly Nightshade.— Hahnemann.— Duration of effect : from 4 to 5 days in acute affections, and as long as 8 weeks in some chronic affections Antidotes: Coff. hyos. hep. vinum. (to counteract poisoning in strong doses: Coffea. tosta,).—The application of vinegar aggravates the suf- ferings. Belladonna is an antidote against: Aeon. cupr. fer. hyos. mere. plat, plumb. Comfaiie with : Aeon. agar. alum. amm. arn. ars. aur. bar. calc. canlh. caus. cham. chin. cm. coff. coloc. con. cupr. dig. dulc. fer. hep hyos. lach. mere, nitr-ac. op. phos. phos-ac. piat. plumb, puis, rhus senig. sep. sil. strain- sulph. valer —'I his medi«ine i3 often particularly suita- ble after hep. lach. mer. and nitr-ac—After Belladonna the following medicines are sometimes appropriate : Chin. con. dulc. hep. lach. rhuZ seneg. strain, valer. CLINICAL REMARKS.—If we are guided by the totality of the symptoms, the particular cases in which this medicine may be employed, will be found to be: —Affections, principally of persons of lymphatic or of a plethoric constitution, with tendency to enlargement of the elands, or to phlegmonous inflammations ; Diseases of children and of women, as well as persons of a mild tem« BELLADONNA. 81 peramcnt, with blue eyes, light hair, fine complexion and delicate skin, &c., &c. ; Sufferings resulting from a chill; Affections after fear, fright or vexation ; Evil effects from the abuse of valerian, mercury, chamomile, or opium; Rheumatic and arthritic affections, even with inflammatory fever and swelling ; Sanguineous congestions ; Tumefaction of the glands with suppuration; Scrofulous and rickety affections; Atrophy of scrofulous children ; Cachexia from the abuse of quinine; Icterus; Ergotism; Cramps, con- vulsions, tetanus ; Hysterical spasms ; Eclampsia ; Epilep- sy ; St. Vitus' dance and other spasmodic affections ; Para- lysis; Scirrhous and cancerous affections ; Scrofulous and mercurial ulcers; Carbuncles; Furunculi; Chilblains; Stings of insects ; Pemphigus 1 ; Simple and phlegmonous . erysipelas ; Vesicular erysipelas (before rhus); Scarlatina ; Purple miliaria} (after aconit.) ; Measles ; Metastasis of the small-pox upon the membranes of the brain ; Lethargy ; Sleeplessness; Inflammatory fevers, with nervous, gastric, or rheumatic affections ; Intermittent fevers ; Slow fevers; Typhus fevers ; Imbecility ; delirium tremens, mental aliena- tion, melancholy, madness and other mental affections, even those resulting from fright, or vexation, or other causes ; Hydrophobia ; Cerebral congestion, with vertigo ; Sanguine- ous apoplexy : Encephalitis, first stage ; Acute hydrocepha- lus ; Cephalalgia, even that arising from a chill; Megrim; Opthalmia, even in scrofulous or arthritic persons ; Haemor- rhage of the eyes ; Opthalmospasma ; Strabismus 1; Spots and ulcers on the cornea ; Medullary fungus in the eyes ; Amaurotic amblyopia, from over-exerting the eyes ; Otitis ; Parotitis ; Hardness of hearing, caused by a chill; Phleg- monous inflammation of the nose ; Nasal haemorrhage ; Nervous prosopalgia; Eruption of pimples on the face of children and of adults; Erysipelas of the face; Crusta lactea; Scirrhous induration of the lips; Odontalgia, chiefly in women, and especially in pregnant women ; Difficult dentition of children ; Salivation from the abuse of mercury; Trismus; Glossitis; Stammering; Phlegmo- nous ansrina ; Tonsillary, pharyngeal and uvular angina;; Anorexia, dyspepsia, vomiting and other gastric affections ; Convulsive hiccough ; Hsematemesis 1; Gastralgia ; Hepati- tis ; Icterus ; Spasmodic and flatulent colic ; Enteritis ; Peri- tonitis 1; Diarrhoea, even that with vomiting, in consequence of colds; Dysentery; Haemorrhoids; Nephritis ; Metritis ; Dysmenorrhaea ; Metrorrhagia ; Prolapsus, scirrhous indu- ration, and cancerous affection (1) of the womb ; Sufferings arisingfrom a miscarriage; Moral affections, odontalgia, gas- 82 BELLADONNA. tralgia and colic of pregnant women; Spasms of lying-in women; Adhesion of the placenta; WThite swelling, nym- phomania and other affections of lying-in women; Puerperal peritonitis, especially that caused by mental emotions, or suppression of milk ; Milk fever; Galactorrhaea and suffer- ings from weaning ; Erysipelas of the breasts, chiefly ari- sing from weaning; Swelling, induration (and cancer 1) of the mammary glands ; Opthalmia, cries, convulsions and other sufferings of new-born infants; Catarrhal affections of the respiratory organs; Aphonia; Grippe; Cough, even nervous and convulsive; Hooping-cough; Croup 1 ; Pneumonia; Spasmodic, hysterical, congestive asthmas, &c, &c; Haemoptysis; Rheumatic stiffness of the nape of the neck ; Coxalgia, &c, &c. O^T" See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—*Shooting, or tearing, ach- ing pains in the limbs.—Pains, as from a bruise in the joints and bones.—The pains are aggravated, chiefly, at night, and in the afternoon towards three or four o'clock. —The least contact, and sometimes also the slightest movement aggravates the sufferings.—Some of the suffer- ings are aggravated, or appear after having slept.—Twitch- ings of the limbs, muscular jerkings and shocks of the ten- dons.—Sensation in the muscles, as if a mouse were run- ning over them.—*Cramp, spasms, and convulsive movements and violent contortion of the limbs ; attack of convulsions, with cries and loss of consciousness ; *epileptic convulsions, "drawing-back of the thumbs.—* Attacks of immovableness and of spasmodic stiffness of the body, or of some limbs, -sometimes with insensibility, swelling of the veins, bloat- edness and redness of the face, full and quick pulse, with copious sweat.—* Attacks of tetanus even with the head bent back.—*Attacks of spasms, with involuntary laughter.— "Before the attack of convulsion, formication, with a sen- sation of swelling and stiffness in the limbs ; or colic and pressure in the abdomen, extending as far as the head ; af- ter the attack, oppression of the chest, as if from a heavy weight.—'The attacks are renewed by the slightest touch, as well as by the slightest contradiction.—Great inquie- tude in the head and limbs, chiefly in the hands.—^Trem- bling of the limbs, with fatigue and lassitude.—*Heaviness in the limbs, with weariness, great indolence "and dread of every movement and of all exertion.—*Failing of strength, •paralytic weakness and paralysis of the limbs.—*Paralysis and insensibility of the entire of one side of the body.— Attacks of swooning and of syncope, with loss of all sen- BELLADONNA. • 83 sation and of all motion, as in death.—"Agitation of blood, with congestion of the head, and fatigue even to fainting. —Over-excitement and too great sensibility of all the or- gans.—Tendency to be chilled easily, with great sensibility to cold air.—*Formication in the limbs. Skin.—* Swelling with heat and scarlet redness of the whole body, or of several parts, chiefly, the face, the neck, the chest, the abdomen, and the hands.—* Erysipelatous in- flammations, with phlegmon, "which sometimes turns to gangrene.—Gangrene and sphacelus of several parts.— *Red places, inflamed and scarlet spots on several parts of the body,sometimes with small, quick pulse, difficulty of res- piration, violent cough, delirium, memory more vivid, de- sire to rub the nose, and the pupils dilated.—Red spots, the colour of blood, over the whole body, principally on the face, neck and chest.—*Eruption resembling i-morbilli.— Eruption of petechia;, with itching and redness of the whole body.—Bhsteis which discharge abundance of serum, and are so painful that they force one to cry out and to groan.— "Eruption of pustules with whitish edges, with black slough, and oedematous swelling of the diseased part.—Red, scaly eruption on the lower part of the body.— Tumours and cold and painful knots.—Pain, as from excoriation, burning and pulling in the ulcers, principally when touched, during motion and in the night.—*Red, hot and shining swelling of the diseased parts.—The ulcers secrete a purulent and san- guineous matter. — *Furunculi. — Chilblains. — *Painful swelling of the glands. Sleep.—*Constant desire to sleep sometimes with stupe- faction, pendiculations, and yawning, and chiefly towards the evening.—* Attacks of somnolent drowsiness and of lethargy, with profound sleep, immovableness of body, -jerking of the tendons, pale and cold face and hands, small, hard and quick pulse.—*Drowsiness interrupted by momentary wakings, with furious looks.—After the fit of coma, great hunger, burning heat and dryness of the mouth.—Drowsy sleep at night, with frequent waking and convulsive move- ments.—*Nocturnal sleeplessness, sometimes with desire to sleep, and fruitless efforts to go to sleep, mostly in conse- quence of excessive anguish or great agitation.—*When sleep- ing", frequent starts with fright, groans, cries, jerking of the limbs, carpology, aggravation of pains, singing, talking, delirium, and continual dreams.—*Dreams anxious, "terrible, frightful, vivid; dreams of burning, of robbers and assas- sins ; dreams with thoughtfulness.— When closing the eyes, in order to go to sleep, frightful visions and drawings in the 84 BELLADONNA. limbs.—On waking, head-ache, °and aggravation of suffer- ings. Fever.—Coldness over the entire body, with paleness of face, or coldness of the extremities, with bloatedness and red- ness of the face.—*Shiverings and partial shuddering, chiefly in the back or in the pit of the stomach, or in the arm, and sometimes with heat in other parts, chiefly in the head, or followed by universal shivering.—The shiverings appear mostly in the evening, sometimes "with nausea; pain as from fatigue and drawing in the back and limbs, "stitches in the chest and obscuration of the sight.—"Attacks of fever composed of shiverings alternating vnth heat, or of shiv- erings followM by heat, with aggravation at night or in the evening of type of quotidian, or double quotidian, or tertian with complete adypsia, or burning and inextinguishable thirst.—*D/y burning heat, often with swelling of the veins, pulsation of the carotids, heat, redness and bloatedness if the face, burning thirst, agitation, furious delirium, and shiver- ing on being uncovered in the least.—Pulse, strong and quick, or Jull and slow, or small and slow, or small and quick, or hard and tense.—Sweat during the fever or after it; copious sweat during the night, or in the morning ; sweat of the parts that are covered only; sweat when asleep ; sweat of an empyreumatic smell, which imparts a yellow colour to the sheets. Moral Symptoms.—Melancholy with sadness, hypo- chondrical humour, moral dejection and discouragement. —* Great agitation, with continual tossing, inquietude and an- guish chiefly at night, and in the afternoon, sometimes with head-ache and redness of face.—Desire to die and inclina- tion to commit suicide.—*Lamentations, groans, cries and tears.—Mischievous propensity, with weeping (in children). __^Imidxty, fear fulness, mistrustful, and suspicious, appre- hensive and inclination to run away.—Fear of approaching death.—Excess of mental excitement, with too great sen- sibility to every impression, immoderate gaiety, and dispo- sition to be easily frightened.—Idiocy, delirium and mad- ness with groaning, disposition to dance, to laugh, to sing and to whistle ; *madness with groaning, or with involun- tary laughter; nocturnal delirium; *delirium with mur- muring; *delirium, during which, wolves, dogs, fires, &c. &c. are seen ; delirium by fits, and sometinjes with fixed look.—Great apathy and indifference, desire for solitude, dread of society and of noise.—Repugnance to conversa- tion.__Ill-humour, irritable, and sensitive disposition, with a disposition to get angry and to offend.—*Folly, BELLADONNA. 85 with pleasant and ridiculous drolleries, gesticulations, acts of insanity, impudent manners.—*Fury and rage with desire to strike, to spit, to bite and to tear every thing, some- times with growling and barking like a dog.—Dejection and weakness of mind and body—Dread of all exertion and of every movement.—*Madness, to such an extent as no longer to know one's friends ; illusions of the senses and frightful visions.—*Complete loss of reason, stupidity, in- advertence and distraction ; inaptitude for thought, and great weakness of memory. Head.—Confusion of the head, obscurity and state of in- toxication, chiefly after having eaten and drunk, or also in the morning.—* Attacks of vertigo, with tottering, swimming of the head, dulness, giddiness, nausea, trembling of the hands, anx- iety, and sparkling before the eyes; chiefly in the morning when getting up, when standing upright or when stooping. — "Vertigo with anguish and falling, with loss of conscious- ness, _or with weariness and fatigue before and after the at- tack.—*Stuporand loss of consciousness, "so as to know one's friends only by hearing them, sometimes with dilated pupils and mouth and eyes half open.—*Fulness, heaviness and vio- lent pressure on the head, chiefly in the forehead, above the eyes and nose, ~or on one side of the head, *and sometimes with dizziness, stupor and sensation as if the cranium were going to burst, -or with ill-humour and groaning, drawing of the eye- lids and desire to lie down.—Sensation of inflation and pres- sive expansion in the brain.—Sharp drawing and shooting pains in the head.—*Dartings into the head as if from knives. —*Violent throbbings in the head.—^Strong pulsation of the arteries of the head.—*Ebullition and congestion of blood to the head "chiefly when stooping.—*Sensation of coldness or of heat in the head.—*Sensation of fluctuation in the brain as if there were water in it.—Sensation during the pains as if the cranium were too thin.—*Sensation of a balancing in the brain and throbbing in the head, phiefly when walking quickly or ascending.—'Daily pains in the head from about four o'clock in the afternoon till towards three o'clock the following morning, aggravated by the heat of the bed and by a recumbent posture.—*The pains in the head are generally aggravated by movement, espe- cially that of the eyes, by shaking, by" contact, by free air and a draught of air ; "they are mitigated by holding the head back and by supporting it.—Cramp-like pain in the hairy scalp—"Copious sweat in the hair.—*Shaking or bending the head backwards.—*Boring with the head into the pillow while sleeping.—Swelling of the head and of the face. Vol. I. 8 86 BELLADONNA. Eyes.—Heat and burning in the eyes, or irritation as if from sand.—* Aching pains in the eyes and the sockets, ex- tending into the head.—*Heaviness of the eye-lids which close involuntarily.—*Quivering of the eye-lids.—Falling down of the eye-lids, as if from paralysis.—*Shooting in the eyes and in the corners with itching.—*Eyes red, spark- ling and convulsed, or fixed, glistening and prominent, 'or dull and turbid.—*Look fixed, furious and uncertain.— *Spasms and convulsive movements of the eyes.—Pupils dilated.—inflammation of the eyes, with injection of the vessels and redness of the conjunctiva and of the sclerotica. —Inflammatory swelling and suppuration of the lachrymal points in the corner of the eye.— Softening of the sclero- tica.—Spots and ulcers on the cornea.—"Medullary fungus in the eye.—"Swelling and retroversion of the eye-lids.—- *Yellowish colour of the sclerotica.— Eyes, as if ecchy- mosed, and hamorrhagia of the eyes.—Sensation of burning dryness in the eyes, or flow of acrid and (salt) corrosive tears.—*Pupils immovable and. generally dilated, but some- times also contracted.—Agglutination (nocturnal) of the eye-lids.—"Desire for light, or "photophobia "with convulsive movements of the eyes when the light strikes them.— Confused and weak sight, or obscuration and "entire loss of sight.—Presbyopia.—Mist, flames and sparks before the eyes.—*Expansion of the light of candles, which appear f be surrounded by a coloured halo.—White stars and si1- y clouds before the eyes, especially on looking at the v ll- ing of the room.—^Objects appear double, or reversed, or of a red colour.—"Nocturnal blindness as soon as the sun sets. —Trembling and sparkling of the letters when reading. Ears.—Piercing, pressure, sharp pain, pinching, squeez- ing, and shooting in the ears.—Flow of matter from the earsr.—*Tingling, roaring and buzzing in the ears.—Great acuteness of hearing.—*Hardness of hearing, "sometimes as if there were a skin before the ears.—Swelling of"the parotids, *with shooting and drawing*pains "which some- times extend even to the throat. Nose.—*Pains, as from a bruise in the nose, especially on touching it, "and sometimes with burning.—*Noctur- nal shootings in the nose.—"Swelling, *redness and burn- ing at the point of the nose.—*Painful ulceration of the nostrils.—Nose very cold.—*Bleeding of the nose, "chiefly night and morning.—"Nasal and buccal haemorrhage.— "Great dryness of the nose.—*Smell either too acute, "espe- cially for tobacco-smoke, "or diminished.—*Putrid smell from the nose.—Fluent coryza of one nostril, or alternating BELLADONNA. 87 with stoppage of the nose.—Smell of herrings in the nose, during the coryza. Face.—* Face pale, sometimes suddenly alternating with red.—*Face hollow, with restless features and wandering air.—Burning heat of the face, sometimes without redness. —*Glowing redness and bloated appearance of the face, as if from having drunk wine.—*Dark or scarlet, or bluish redness of face.—Hard swelling and bluish redness of face, principally (of one) of the cheeks, and sometimes with burn- ing, shooting, piercing and pulsation.—Spots of a scarlet or deep red colour, on the face.—*Eruption of red pimples on the temples, in the corners of the mouth, and on the chin.—*Purulent and scabby pimples, chiefly on the cheeks and on the nose.—Thickening of the skin of the face.— Cramp-like pressure, sharp and drawing pain in the cheek bones.—"Nervous, violent, cutting pain in the face, follow- ing the course of the infra-orbital nerve.—*Muscular twitch- ings and convulsive movements of the face, chiefly of the mouth, which is drawn towards the ear.— Induration and *swelling of the lips, "with shootings in rough weather.— "Deep redness and dryness of the lips.—*Pimples, scabs, and ulcers, with a red areola, on the lips and in the corners of the mouth.—*Convulsive tightening of the jaws, which renders it impossible to open the mouth.—Sensation, as if the lower jaw were drawn back.—"Sharp pains in the jaws ; *shooting and tension in the sub-maxillary joints.—*Swell- ing of the sub-maxillary glands, and of those of the neck, -with nocturnal (shooting) pains. Teeth.—Violent grinding of the teeth.—Sharp and drawing pains, or successive pullings in the teeth, some- times with pain in the ears, chiefly at night or in the evening, ox during intellectual labour, or even after having eaten.—The touch and the open air aggravate the tooth-ache. —Tooth-ache with flow of saliva.-—Piercing in the carious teeth and flow of blood on sucking them.—Painful swelling of the gums, with *heat, itching and throbbing, or with ulcerative pain when touched.—Bleeding of the gums.— Blisters on the gums with burning pain. Mouth.—*Sensation of great dryness, or actual and ex- cessive dryness and choking in the mouth.—*Foam before the mouth, "sometimes of a reddish colour, "or of the smell of rotten eggs.—*Accumulation and flow of saliva, clam- my, thick and whitish.—* Immense accumulation of clammy, whitish mucus in the mouth and in the throat.—Offensive Bmell in the mouth, chiefly in the morning.— Inflammatory swelling and redness of the buccal cavity and of the back 88 BELLADONNA. of the throat.— Violent hemorrhage from the month.—*Ex- coriation of the interior of the cheek ; the orifices o/ the salivary ducts are as if ulcerated.—Sensation of coldness, of torpor and of numbness of the tongue.—"Tongue red, hot, dry *and cracked, *or loaded with whitish mucus or yellowish or brownish ; "redness of the edges of the tongue. —Inflammatory swelling and redness of the papillae of the tongue.— Phlegmonous inflammation of the tongue.— *Soreness of the tongue, especially when touched, "with a sensation as if it were covered with blisters.—"Heaviness, trembling, and paralytic weakness of the tongue, with difficult and stammering speech.—Dumbness.—*Yoice weak, squeak- ing and nasal. Throat.—* Excoriating, scraping and shooting pains in the throat and in the tonsils, principally when swallowing, "and sometimes extending to the ears.—*Great dryness and burning in the throat and tongue.—* Inflammation and swelling of the throat, of the velum palati, "of the uvula, *and of the tonsils.—Suppuration of the tonsils.—*Painful and difficult deglutition.—Complete inability to swallow, even the least liquid, "which frequently is forced out through the nostrils.—*Constant desire to swallow "with a sensation as if one would be suffocated in the event of not succeed- ing.—*Sensation of choking, and spasmodic constriction in the throat.—*Sensation, as if there were a tumour in the throat or a plug which cannot be detached.—Para- lytic weakness of the organs of deglutition. Appetite.—* Loss of taste.—Insipidity, or too salt a taste of food.—*Putrid, or insipid, or slimy, or bitter taste in the mouth.—Acid taste of rye bread.—*Want of appetite and distaste for all food, chiefly for meat, acids,coffee, milk and beer.—^Burning, excessive and intolerable thirst, often with dread of all drink ; or constant desire to drink, with inabil- ity to swallow a single drop of liquid.—Drinking with trembling precipitation.—"Great and insupportable hunger. —After having eaten, intoxication, colic, pains in the stomach, heat and thirst. Stomach.—*Frequent eructations, often bitter, or pu- trid, or sour and burning.—Pyrosis.—Obstructed and abor- tive eructations.—*Nausea and desire to vomit, cjiiefly at the moment of eating; or in the open air, or after breakfast, sometimes with burning thirst.— ''Inclination to vomit, and violent vomitings, -principally in the evening or at night; * inclination to vomit with entire inability to vomit, vomitino- of Food, or of mucous or of bilious matter, "or acid and serous matter; "vomiting with diarrhoea, or with vertigo, BELLADONNA. 89 heat and sweat.—*Spasmodic hiccough, sometimes with sweats and convulsions.—*Pressure, cramp-like and con- tractive pains, sensation of fulness and inflation in the stom- ach and in the epigastrium, principally after having eaten or whefreating.—Shootings, beatings, pulsations and burn- ing in the stomach and in the precordial region.—Inflam- mation of the stomach and of the duodenum. Abdominal Region.—Colic with constipation, abundant flow of urine, eructations and desire to vomit.—"Violent pain in the abdomen which allows no rest whatever.— Shootings in the left side of the abdomen, when coughing, when sneezing, and on being touched.—Pains and burning in the hypochondria.—*Pressure in the abdomen, asif from a stone, "chiefly in the lower part of the abdomen and* in the groins.—*Inflation and tension of the abdomen, "chiefly in the hypochondria.—*Cramp-like, contractive and con- strictive pains and pinching in the abdomen, and especially around the navel or in the hypogastrium, with a sensation as if one or other of the parts were squeezed or seized with the nails ; the pains force one to bend himself, and are some- times accompanied by vomiting "or by inflation and protru- sion of the transverse colon in the form of a pad.— Darting in the abdomen.—Cutting and darting in the abdomen, as if from knives.—;Heat and great anguish in the abdomen.— Rumbling in-the abdomen with frequent escape of flatu- lence without smell.—* Soreness of the whole abdomen, as if every thing in it were excoriated to the quick, and painful sensibility of the integuments of the abdomen when touched.—Shootings in the groins.—"Itching on the abdo- men. Faeces.—*Suppressed evacuations and constipation -some- times with inflation of the abdomen, heat of the head and copious sweats.—Hard and insufficient evacuations.—Fre- quv.^1 .sire to evacuate with tenesmus, but without result.-— Frequent small evacuations, often with tenesmus.—Evacua- tions, whitish like chalk, or greenish, watery *or slimy.— Loose evacuations, with desire to vomit, and pressive pains in the stomach.—* Involuntary evacuations, "from paralysis of the sphincter of the anus. Urine.—Frequent desire to make water.—^Frequent discharge of urine, copious,- pale and watery; "sometimes with *profuse perspiration, thirst, increased appetite, diarrhoea, and obscuration of sight.—Difficulty of retention and involuntary emission of urine, -even in the night and during sleep.—Paralysis of the neck of the bladder.—*Urine turbid, yellow, or clfar, gold or citron colour; or scanty 90 BELLADONNA. and a brownish-red, or a blood or bright red colour.—Red, or whitish and thick sediment in the urine.—Sensation of motion in he bladder, as from a worm.—Nocturnal pres- sure in the bladder.— Shooting, burning pains in the renal region. ™ Genital Organs.—'Sharp and drawing pain in the spermatic cords, chiefly, when making wrater.—Retraction of the prepuce.—Soft and painless swelling of the glans.— Shootings in the testes which are retracted.—Pollutions, with flaccidity of the penis.—Nocturnal sweat of the gen- ital parts.—Flow of prostatic fluid.—Sexual desire dimin- ished, with perfect indifference to all voluptuous excite- ment.—* Violent pressure towards the genital parts, as if all were going to fall downwards, -principally when walking or sitting upright.—*Shooting in the internal genital parts.— "Great dryness of the vagina.—"Prolapsus and induration of the womb.—Catamenia too copious and too early, or too tardy.—"Catamenia too pale.—Before the catamenia, fa- tigue, colic, loss of appetite and confused sight.—During the catamenia, nocturnal sweat on the chest, with yawning, and transient shiverings, colic, or anguish of heart, burn- ing thirst, sharp and cramp-like pains in the back and in the arms, &c, &c.—"Flow of blood at a time different from the catamenia.—^Metrorrhagia "of clear red blood, with a discharge of fetid dots.—Leucorrhoea with colic.—"Di- minished lochia.—*Flow of milk from the breast. Larynx.—*Catarrh, with cough, coryza, hoarseness and tenacious mucus in the chest.—*Voiceweak, hoarse, squeaking and nasal.—*Loss of the voice.—'Great soreness of the larynx, with danger of suffocation when feeling the gullet, as well as when coughing, speaking or breathing. —'Attack of spasmodic constriction of the larynx.—Cough, as if one had swallowed- dust, or as if there were some foreign body in the larynx, or in the pit of the "* ^'fch, which excited the cough ; *chiefly at night, or in tfim^fter- noon, in the evening in bed, and even during sleep; *the cough is mostly dry, short, "and sometimes convulsive, fatiguing and shaking, *or hollow and "barking.—Before the cough, tears, or pains in the stomach ; *when cough- ing, cutting in the abdomen, or inclination to vomit, or pain as from a bruise in the nape of the neck ; after the parox- ysm, sneezing.—*The least movement, when in bed at nio-ht, renews the cough.—*Cough, with rattling in the chest, or with catarrh, and shootings in the sternum, "or with head-ache and redness of face—*Expectoration of thick and pus-like mucus with the cough.—Cough with spitting of blood. BELLADONNA. 91 Chest.—*Noise, rattling and crepitation in the bronchia. —* Oppression of the chest, difficult respiration, dyspnea and short breath, sometimes with anxiety, and chiefly in the evening in bed, or after drinking (coffee).—*Irregular res- piration, "at times short and quick, at others slow and pro- found.—*Respiration short, anxious and rapid.—In the morning after rising, want of breath, relieved in the open air.—When waking, cramp-like oppression of the chest, with desire to fetch a long breath.—^Pressure on the chest, -with pain in the shoulder-blades and short breath.—Ten- sion in the chest.—*Shootings in the chest, sometimes as if from knives, and chiefly when coughing and yawning.— Great inquietude andbeatings in the chest.—* Violent beatings of the heart, sometimes felt even in the head.—Palpitation of the heart when ascending.—"Trembling of the heart, *with anguish "and pressive pain. Trunk.—Painful blisters, filled with water, or small spots of a deep red colour on the chest.—Pain, as from dislocation, rheumatic and drawing pains in the back and between the shoulder-blades.—Furunculus on the shoul- ders.—Dartings, as if from knives, in the bones of the spine.—Gnawing in the dorsal spine, with cough.—Painful heaviness and cramp-like pains in the sacral regions and in the back.—Painful swelling and stiffness of the neck and the nape.—"Painful swelling in the glands of the neck and in those of the nape.—Veins in the neck swollen.—Sour sweat, on the neck only.—Severe pain's in the arm-pits.— Red and purulent pimples on the back and the nape of the neck. Arms.—Arms numbed and painful.—*Drawing pressure, with sensation of torpor and sharp pains in the arms.— Desire to stretch the arms.—Torpor and heaviness of the arms.—*Swelling and scarlet redness of the arms and of the hands.—*Drawing and aching pain in the shoulder running rapidly from the top to the bottom of the arms, and occur- ring particularly at night, diminished by external pressure, excited by motion.—*Painful jerkings, cramp and convul- sions in the arms and hands.—Trembling of the hands.— Pressure, with sharp pains in the bones of the carpus and the metacarpus.—Arthritic stiffness of the joints of the hand.— Frequent dislocation of the joints of the fingers.—Draw- ing back of the thumbs. Legs.—"Shootings and burning pains in the coxo-femo- ral joint, aggravated by fits, more unbearable at night, and increased by the slightest touch.—Stiffness in the hip, after sitting for seme time, with difficulty in rising again.—Pain 92 BELLADONNA--BERBERIS VULGARIS. in the hip, which causes lameness.—Trembling of the knees.—Drawing pains in the legs, especially in the knees. —*Heaviness and paralysis of the legs and of the feet.— Bending of the knees and feet in walking.—Tension of the tendons of the ham.—Swelling of the feet.—Crawling sensation in the feet. -—---- — j 27.—BERBERIS VULGARIS. Berb—Barberry—Hesse.— Duration of effect: several weeks. Antidote : Camph. CLINICAL REMARKS.—The totality of the symptoms, show that this medicine may be used against:—Rheumatic affections of the extremities and other parts; Cephalalgia and opthalmia, caused by disorder of the abdominal func- tions, or having a relation to arthritic and rheumatic affec- tions ; gastric complaints ; Diarrhoea ; Affections of the liver and hemorrhoidal complainis; Affections of the urinary organs and of the genital parts, especially when they arise from weakness or atony, &c, &c. [According to Hesse, Berberis, acts principally upon the nervous system, and upon the mucous membranes of the eye, the digestive and urinary organs ; and also upon the fibrous and muscular tissues. The affections of the head caused by it seem to depend upon venous conges- tion. It promises to effect much in arthritic diseases.— Ed.-] OCT" See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Tractive, shooting, and gnawing pains ; or pains in the limbs as from being bent, aggravated or excited by movement.—Muscular twitching.— Paralytic weakness in some parts.—Lymphatic swellings.— Great lassitude, increased by walking, or long standing.— Sinking after the slightest effort.—Faintness, even to the extent of trembling.—Fainting weakness, with vertigo, when walking or standing for some time.—After walk- ing a fainting-fit, with ebullition of blood, sweat and heat of the upper part of the body, paleness of face, hollow cheeks, and oppression of the chest before going to rest. —Fainting after having been in a carriage. Skin.—Small pustules, red, burning, itching or shooting, and sensitive to pressure, on the skin over the whole body, which change into brownish spots like large freckles. Sleep.—Sleepiness during the day, especially in the morning and afternoon.—Restless sleep, disturbed by burn- ing itchings in the skin, or by anxious dreams.—Waking berberis vulgaris. 93 in the morning between two and four o'clock, without be- ing able to go to sleep again, with tension and congestion in the head and thirst.—Very long sleep, with bruised pain and pressure on the head, loins and thighs.—Frequei.t waking and fatigue as if one had not slept. Fever.—Shiverings before dinner, and sometimes after, with feet icy-cold, mouth dry and clammy, and pains in the left side of the epigastrium.—Shiverings in the morning, in the back, arms and thighs, followed by burning heat, with stunning and violent shooting pains in the head, and sore throat; on the third day, sweat, smelling like urine. —Heat in the hands and head in the afternoon, continuing for several days.—Disposition to sweat on the least exer- tion, especially in the afternoon, with anxiety and thirst, with dry mouth, especially in the afternoon.—Pulse slow and weak. Moral Symptoms.—Careless, apathetic humour.—Ill- humour, distaste for life.—Melancholy, with dislike to con- versation.—Anxiety, great fear and disposition to be fright- ened.—In the twilight, all objects seem larger than they really are.—Intellectual labours are undertaken with diffi- culty and prove fatiguing, especially in the morning. Head.—Vertigo, with sensation of fainting and great weakness.—Vertigo when stooping and using of the arms.— Intoxication and stunning.—Confusion and heaviness of the head, often with pressure, dejection, ill-humour and shiv- erings, commencing in the morning, after waking.—Head confused, as before coryza.—Sensation, as if the size of the head were increased.—Sensation of swelling in the head.—Pressive, tensive pains in the forehead, temples and eyes.—Cephalalgia in the forehead and in the temples, with pressure from the inside outwards.—Acute, shooting pains in the forehead and in the temples.—Teguments of the head, as if it were stretched and swollen.—Heat in the head after dinner and in the morning.—Sweat after exertion, when stooping, and standing for any time.—Small red spots in the forehead and in the cheeks.—Itching or gnaw- ing shootings in the teguments of the head and of the face. —Pustules in the teguments of the head and in the face. Eyes.—Eyes sunken, with a blue or dirty-grey circle. —#Pressure and sensation of burning in the eyes.—Painful sensibility of the eyes when reading by candle-light.—Sen- sation of stiffness, with' pressure in the eyes.—Shootings in the eyes, originating in other parts, for instance, the " forehead, and extending towards the eyes, and thence to the forehead.—Burning and dryness in the eyes, which are 94 berberis vulgaris. dull.—Redness of the conjunctiva with confused sight, as if there were a veil before the eyes, in the morning after rising.—Indistinct sight, better near than at a distance.— Sensibility of the eyes to the brightness of the sun.—Sharp pains in the ball of the eye and in the eye-lids —Heaviness in the eye-lids during motion.—Burning jor gnawing pains in the eye-lids.—Convulsive movement of the eye-lids when reading by candle-light. Ears.—Itching, sometimes gnawing, sometimes burn- ing, sometimes shooting, sometimes with small pustules in the external ears.—Small tumours under and behind the ear (subcutaneous glands 1)—Acute and shooting pains in the interior of the ear and in other parts. Nose.—Dryness in the nose.—Coryza, with secretion, at first of yellowish serum, afterwards of purulent, whitish, yellowish, or greenish mucus, especially in the morning.— Crawling or gnawing pains in the nostrils. Face.—Bluish colour'of the internal part of the lower lip.—Dryness of the lips and exfoliation of the epidermis, with flat, brownish scab, upon the edges.—Sensation of burning in the exterior of the lips.—Sensation of crawling in the lips.—Small pustules in the lips.—Acute-pressive or acute-shooting pains in the cheek-bone and in the jaw.— Great paleness of face, dirty-gray complexion, with hollow cheeks, and sunken eyes; surrounded by a bluish or dark- gray circle.—Aspect very much dejected, for a long time. Teejh.—Acute, drawing pains and shootings in the teeth, with a sensation as if the teeth were set on edge or too large, as well as with great sensibility of the teeth to the fresh air, especially in the afternoon and at night.— Ulcers in the gums.—Small white knots in the gums with- out pain.—Dirty-red colour of the edges of the gums.— Bleeding of the gums. Mouth.—Painful sensibility of the tongue when touched and on moving it.—Stiffness and sensation of swelling at the end of the tongue.—Sensation of dryness, clammy taste in the mouth, more disagreeable in the morning after rising, with harshness of the mucous membranes and white tongue. —Diminution of the secretion of saliva, or viscous saliva, frothy, like cotton.—PainfuFwhite vesicles on the end of the tongue. Appetite.—Acid, bitter taste, especially after a meal.— Burning and sharp taste in the mouth and in the throat, as if from pyrosis.—Excessive appetite, almost like bulimia. —Want of appetite, with bitter, bilious taste.—Insipidity • of food. berberis vulgaris. 95 Stomach.—Nausea and inclination to vomit before din- ner.—Eructations alternately with yawning.—Bilious eruc- tations.—Shiverings in the epigastrium.—Pressure with shooting pains in the epigastrium—Burning, shootin«rpains in the stomach, sometimes even up the pharynx. Abdominal Region.—Cramp-like pains under the navel. —Snooting, pressive pains-in the hepatic region, increased by pressure.—Drawing, acute and shooting pains in the region of the left hypochondrium.—Sensation of tension in the groins, as ,f hernia were likely to ensue, especially when walking and standing—Pressive pains in the region of the inguinal glands, which are painful to the touch" as if they were going to swell—Pain, with throbbino- shoot- ings in the groins, especially when walking and s°tandino- extending to the testes, the thighs and the loins.—Varicose veins in the groins. Urine—Cutting pains in the urethra, even when not in the act of voiding water—Smarting pain in the urethra with sensation of excoriation, even during the emission of semen in coition—Motion excites and aggravates the suf- terings of the urethra—Burning pains in the urethra when making water, and afterwards, but especially at other times—shooting pains in the urethra extending to the bladder—Pressive pains in the region of the bladder, even when it is empty, and after making water—Contractive drawing, acute, cutting and cramp-like pains in the bladder' —Shooting, violent pains in the loins, extending to the bladder.— Sensation of burning in the bladder—Pressure on making water—Great desire to make water, especially n the morning after rising—Increased secretion of urine, which is clear as water—Urine pale-yellowish, with slimy gela .nous, mealy or white, grayish-white, or reddish sedi! merit—Urine thick, yellowish, like whey or barley-water. —Urine of a deep yellow with abundant sediment—Urine reddish, as if inflamed, with abundant sediment—Urine reddish sanguineous, with slimy, mealy and abundant sedi- ment of a bright-red colour—The emission of urine is often accompanied by pains in the thighs and in the loins Genital Organs—Burning, smarting pains in the glans. —Sensation of cold in the glans and in the prepuce, some- times with sensation of torpor—Sensation of weakness and insensibility in the external genital parts.—The penis seems to be hardened and drawn back.—Pressive drawing contractive pains in the testes and in the spermatic cords with contraction of the scrotum, which appears cold and hard.—.Pains, as from excoriation in the scrotum.—Move- 96 berberis vulgaris. ment excites or aggravates the majority of the affections of the genital parts.—Smarting, burning, shooting, draw- ing, or squeezing pains in the spermatic cords, extending onwards to the testes.—Swelling of the spermatic cord, with pains verging- towards the testes.—Sensation of great r o o ^ ..." weakness of the genital parts after coition.—Diminution of sexual desire.—Premature discharge in coition.—Tardy en- joyment of females during coition, and often accompanied with cutting, or even shooting pains.—Sensation of burning and excoriation in the vagina, as far as the labia.—Pale catamenia, composed of serous blood.—During the cata- menia, pains in the genital parts and in the loins, or violent pains in the head, with sensation of fainting.—Catamenia insufficient, with acute, drawing pains in the whole body, painful inflation of the abdomen, pain in the loins, shoot- ings in the chest, dejected air and violent pains in the head; or with ill-humour, disgust of life, dejection, smart- ing pains in the vagina, sensation of burning and excoria- tion in the anus, and pains in the arms, as far as the shoul- ders and the nape of the neck. Larynx and Chest.—Hoarseness, with soreness or in- flammation of the glands of the neck.—Sensation of exco- riation in the chest.—Oppression of the chest, especially at night, with violent flowing coryza.—Shooting pains in the centre of the chest, increased by deep breathing, with dry, short cough.—Painful shootings in the left side of the chest.—Squeezing, with shootings in the region of the heart —Palpitation of the heart. Trunk.—Shooting pains between the shoulder-blades, increased by deepbreathing.—Acute, drawing pains in the dorsal spine.—Pustules in the back.—Sensation of tension, of heaviness and of torpor in the loins, as if they were swollen or numbed.—Pressive, tensive, acute drawing, or shooting pains in the loins.—Sensation of tensive pressure in the loins, often with heaviness, heat, or torpor of these parts, especially in the morning on waking, aggravated by sitting or lying, sometimes diminished by evacuation, or by the emission of flatulence.—Drawing, acute, rheumatic pains in the nape of the neck.—Pustules in the nape of the neck, in small groups, especially near the hairy scalp. Arms.—Sensation of lassitude, of paralysis and of bruis- ing in the arms, especially when in motion, excited or ag- gravated by pressure.—Acute pains in the arms.—Pains in the shoulder, as if from sub-cutaneous ulceration.—Mar- bled spots on the arms, with burning itching, cramp-like pains in the fore-arm.—Drawing, acute pains in the fore- berberis vulgaris—bismuthum. 97 arm and in the bones, as far as the hand and the joints of the fingers, with heaviness and weakness of the arm.—- Burning or smarting pains in the fore-arm, aggravated by friction or scratching, and sometimes followed by a red spot. —Small itching spots, like petechia?, on the fore-arm and in the back of the hand near the wrist.—Lymphatic swell- ing of the fore-arm, with spots like petechia? and burning pains in the skin.—Drawing, acute pains in the joints of the hand and of the fingers.—^Pressive, searching, violent pains in the back of the hand, with sensation of heaviness. —Urticarial spot in the back of the hand.—Small warts in the fleshy part of the hand, under the thumb.—Sensation in the extremity of the finger, as if caused by sub-cutane- ous ulceration.—Flat wart on the finger.—Redness of the hands, with itching, as if from chilblains. Legs.—Sensation of weariness and pain, as from fa- tigue in the legs, sometimes with stiffness, heaviness and a sensation of paralysis, as if after a very long walk, or as if from dislocation of the parts affected, especially in the soft parts, but likewise in the bones, and easily excited by movement.—Great weakness of the legs during a walk. —Sensation in the legs, as if they were wasted away.— Tensive pains in the thighs, in the calves of the legs and :• *he knees, as if the tendons were too short.—Drawing tern pains in the legs.—Jerking of the muscles of the leg.—-Sensation of coldness on the outside of the legs, as if from quicksilver circulating under the skin.—Sensation of weariness, of bruising", and of paralysis in the knees, while walking, and afterwards, as well as on rising after having been seated a long time.—Lymphatic swelling of the tendon Achilles, with pains on lifting the foot, and a sensation as if the foot were bearing a heavy load.— Swelling of the foot after movement, with sensation of burning, swelling of the heel and cramp in the foot.— Sensation of dislocation in the joints of the toes.—Burn- ing^ pain in the soles of the feet, especially in the evening. —Drawing, acute, or burning pains in the toes.—Pain of excoriation in the toes, with redness as if from chilblains. 28.—BISMUTHUM. BIS.—Bismuth.—Hahnemann.—Duration of effect: from four to five weeks. Antidotks : Calc. caps, {nux-vom.) CLINICAL REMARKS.—Hitherto this powerful med- icine has been used only in some cases of Gastralgia. Vol. I. 9 9S bismuthum. [It also deserves attention in spasms of the stomach; in chronic vomiting in consequence of morbid irritability of the nerves of the stomach; in palpitation and even in dilatation of the heart ; also in chronic inflammation of the stomach, throat, mouth, and gums; and finally in old chronic catarrhs, and Asthma convulsiva. Ed.] . GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Cramp-like contractions in all the muscles.—Pains pressive, or pressive and drawing at the same time.—Great sleepiness in the morning after rising.—Sleep, from which one wakes with a start and in a fright.—Voluptuous dreams.—Lassitude when one wakes in the night—Burning smarting in the skin.—External coldness of the whole body.—Great heat.—Intermittent, small pulse.—Discontent, morose humour and complaints. —Inconstancy.—Aversion to solitude.—Delirium.—Deli- rium tremens.—Loss of consciousness.—Apathy and moral insensibility. Head and Eyes.—Stunning sensation in the morning.— Vertigo, as if the brain were turning.—Stupor with mist before the eyes.—Head-ache, chiefly in the sinciput, and extending even to the eyes.—Pressive heaviness on the head., especially on the forehead, above the root of the nose and in the temples.—Constant seething and piercing in the forehead, which extends to the eyes and point of the nc •' —Burning contraction in the head, especially in the lore- head and in the eyes.—Pressure at the pupils.—iileared- ness in the corners of the eyes. Face.—Earth-coloured, sickly and wan with livid circle round the eyes.—Pressive pain in the cheek-bones.—Face pale and cold. Teeth.—Pressive, drawing odontalgia.—Gums swollen with pain like excoriation.—Painful sensibility of the inte- rior of the mouth, as if from excoriation.—Constant secre- tion of a brownish, thick saliva, of a metallic taste.—In- flammation of the entire throat.—Burning pain in the throat, sometimes insupportable.—In the morning taste of blood in the mouth, with spitting of sanguineous mucus. ■—In the evening, tongue white and loaded.—In the even- ing, great thirst for cold drinks. Stomach and Abdominal Region.—Nausea, with desire to vomit, especially after having eaten.—Violent eructating of a putrid odour.—Strong inclination to vomit, with vio- lent vomiting.—Vomiting of brownish matter.—*Cramp- like and pressive pains in the stomach, especially after having eaten.—Borborygmi and rumbling in the abdomen. —Colic with pinching, pressure and a desire to evacuate.— BISMUTHUM—BORAX VENETA. 99 Great inflation of the abdomen.—Painful sensibility of the abdomen, to the touch. Fjeces and Urine.—In the evening, ineffectual urging to evacuate—Aqueous diarrhaea of a putrid smell.—Fre- quent and copious emission of aqueous urine.—Urine en- tirely suppressed.—Pressive pains in the testes.—Noctur- nal pollutions without dreams. Chest.—Cougji, day and night, with copious expecto- ration.—Pressure and squeezing across the chest, in the region of the diaphragm.—Hot, burning contraction of the chest, with difficulty of respiration and of speech.—Burn- ing and piercing in the chest and in the back.—Beating of the heart. Limbs.—Pressive and drawing pain, with paralytic weakness in the fore-arms and in the bones of the wrist. —Trembling of the hands after having eaten.—Acute drawing pains under the nails of the fingers.—Excessive dryness of the palms of the hands and of the soles of the feet.—Cramp-like contraction of the hands and of the feet. —Sharp and pressive pains in the bones of the foot.—Itch- ing and gnawing in the tibia and in the back of the foot, increased by scratching.—Thighs and feet bluish. 29—BORAX VENETA. BOR. — Sub-borate of soda- — Hahnemann-—Duration of effect: four weeks, in some chronic affections- Antidotes-—Chain, coff j Compabb with : Cham, coff mere, natr- puis, sulph. &c. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Until the present day, this powerful medicine has as yet been employed only against some cases of stomacace and of aphtha;. [We have applied this drug with success in cholera in- fantum in the last stage. Ed.] 0^7" See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS. —Shooting and drawing pains.—Appearance and aggravation of sufferings from bad and damp weather, or during a meal, and afterwards.—Suf- ferings from riding in a carriage or from eating fruit.—In- quietude in the whole body, which does not permit one to remain long in the same place.—Inquietude, trembling, nausea, stunning, and vertigo after an animated conversa- tion or when thinking.—Want of strength, especially in the joints.—Attacks of syncope with formication, trembling of the feet and nausea. Skin.—Skin difficult to heal ; every injury tends to ul- ceration.—Erysipelatic inflammations, with swelling and 100 BORAX VENETA. tension of the part affected, and fever.—Tendency of old wounds to suppurate.—Whitish pimples, with red areola.— Herpetic eruptions.—Purulent and phagedenic blisters. Sleep.—Desire to sleep long before the usual hour and late sleep in the morning.—Restless sleep, in consequence of ebullition of blood, x>f colics and of diarrhoea.—Waking too early, with difncul^sof going to sleep again, from heat and too great a flow-^jl?icfeVs.—AnxiousmCries of children, during sleep, withuc\m)vulsiv\ movements of the hands. Fever.—Shjverhug shuda\ring, or cold with trembling, heaviness and weakness, or witji cephalalgia and pains in the periosteum of the ft^tir followed by heat.—Coldness, most frequentlyin the aftermon ; ajterwards heat with head-ache or pain in the hyporthondrium, sometimes followed by sweat.—Thirst before tut durfng the chill, or else after the sweat.—i-Heat in the doling in bed, with shivering on being in the least uncover^jjii—Moisture of the body during the night. ^\ Mental"-Affection*.—Great anxiety, especially when riding in a carriage or descending a mountain.—Fear of being infected byssome contagious disease.—Strong ten- dency to b£~frightenYaS*-Irritability.—Disposition to be an- gry, witlTill-htimout and passion.—Dread of exertion. Heai\.—Attack Af vertigo with fainting.—Vertigo, with fulness in the hfead\ especially when going up stairs, or when on ahy ewvatTor^—Head-ache with shootings in the ears.—Hcad-o&jhe with nausea and desire to vomit, mostly at ten o'clock in the .morning.—Fulness in the head and press- ure above the eyes.—Passive and drawing pains in the fore- head, and as far as the root of the nose and the nape of the neck, increased by writing, by reading and by stooping.— Successive drawing pains in the forehead with nausea and acute drawing pains in*- the eyes.-—Shootings in the head, especially above the eyes and the temples —Congestion to the head, especially in the occiput, with pulsating pains.— Sensibility of the teguments of the head to cold and to bad weather.—Hair entangled, as in plica polonica. Eyes.—Pressure on thqeyes.—Itching in the eyes.*— The eyes burn and are contracted, when putting on spectacles. ^Inflammation of the eye% especially in the canthi, with exco- riation of the edges of the eye-lids, trichiasis, and nocturnal agglutination.—Sparkling before the eyes when writing.— Too great sensibility of the eyes to candle-light. Ears.—Shootings in the ears, with pain as of excoriation. —Inflammation and swelling of the ears, with discharge of pus and shooting cephalalgia.—Attack of stoppage of the BORAX VENETA. 101 ears, and of deafness.—Burning and roaring in the ears, with acute, drawing pains in the top of the head. Nose.—Itching in the nose, with formication.—Nostrils ulcerated with swelling and pain, as of excoriation at the point of the nose.—Dry scabs in the nose.—Blood flows on blowing the nose.—Nasal h&morrhagia, with pulsative pains in the head.—Sneezing with violent shootings in the riglit side of the chest.—Accumulation of thick and green- ish mucus in the nose. Face.—Complexion (in a nurse) wan, pale, and earth- coloured.—Sensation in the right side of the face, as if it were covered with cobweb.—Muscular twitching of the corners of the mouth.—Erysipelatous inflammation and swelling of the cheeks, with acute, drawing pains in the cheek bone, aggravated by laughter.—Eruption of pimples on the face, the nose, and the lips.—Smarting in the lips.— Tettery spots round the mouth and scabs on the upper lip. —Swelling of the lower lip, with burning and pain as of excoriation. Teeth.—Pressive and cramp-like pain in the carious teeth, especially in damp weather, sometimes with ptyalism, or swelling of the gums.—Acute drawing pains in the cari- ous teeth, spreading over the head, when they are touched with the tongue, or when cold water is applied to them.— Pressive formication in the teeth, immediately after sup- per, or breakfast, relieved by smoking tobacco.—Shooting pains in the carious teeth, with shootings in the ears and head-ache.—Ulcers in the gums, with flow of saliva.— Bleeding of the gums. Mouth.—*Aptha in the mouth and on the tongue, -which bleed easily.—Spasmodic stiffness and torpor of the tongue. —Skin of the palate hard and wrinkled.—Dryness in the throat.—Tenacious mucus in the throat, with difficult ex- pectoration. Appetite.—Bitter taste in the mouth when eating, or when swallowing the saliva.—Loss of taste.—Thirst in the morning.—Desire for acid drinks.---Appetite moderate, es- pecially at supper.—Nausea and inquietude during a meal. —After every meal, inflation of the abdomen, with diarrhcea and colic.—Fulness and pressure in the stomach, with un- easiness and ill-humour, after having eaten fruit (pears and apples).—Colic with tendency to diarrhcea after smo- king tobacco. Stomach.—Nausea with desire to vomit, when riding in a carriage.— Vomiting of sour mucus, when fasting in the morning or after breakfast.—Pressure in the stomach after h 9* 102 BORAX VENETA. every meal.—Contractive pains in the stomach, or a sensation as if having suffered a strain in the loins, with shootings in the vertebral column and loins. Abdominal Region.—Pain in the hypochondrium, mostly pressive and in the left side, and especially when riding in a carriage.—Pressure and shootings in the lumbar region. —Pains in the hypochondrium and in the lower part of the abdomen, as if hard and cutting bodies were moving in them.—Pinching in the abdomen with diarrhoea.—Accumu- lation of flatulency in the abdomen and frequent escape of wind. F.2ECES.—Evacuations frequent, soft or loose, with pinch- ing and borborygmi in the abdomen.—Greenish evacua- tions (in children).—Slimy diarrhrjea.—Abundant flow of pale, yellowish, or brownish slime, and of blood from the anus, with pains in the loins.—Itching, contraction and shootings in the anus and in the rectum. Urine.—Ineffectual urgency to urinate with cutting pains in the urethra, and swelling in the lumbar region.— Urgent desire to urinate.—Frequent emission of urine even in the night.—Acrid fetor of urine.—Soreness in the ure- thra after micturition, and especially when touched, even when not making water. Genital Organs.—Absence of sexual desire.—Erections with painful tension, on waking in the morning.—Catamenia premature and too copious, of a pale-red colour.—During the catamenia pulsative pains in the head, buzzing in the ears, nausea with pains in the stomach and in the loins, or shootings and pressure in the groin.—Leucorrhcea, corrosive, and thick like starch.—*Sterility.—Pain in the breasts, when suckling.—Flow of milk, which curdles speedily. Larynx.—Acute drawing pains in the larynx, even into the chest, with desire to cough.—Hoarseness in the throat, with drawing shootings on coughing and sneezing.—Dry cough, caused by a tickling and scraping in the throat, with pressure on the chest.—Dry, hectic cough, with shootings in the right side of the chest, and the groins, relieved by washing with cold water, increased by drinking wine.— Nocturnal cough.—Cough with expectoration, of the smell and taste of mould.—Expectoration of mucus with streaks of blood. Chest.—Difficult respiration, with desire to draw a deep breath, and shootings in the right side of the chest.—Con- strictive oppression of the chest, especially in going up stairs.—Short breath after having ascended the stairs, with shootings in the chest, on speaking.—Choking with heavi- BORAX VENETA—BOVISTA. 103 ness in the chest.—Shootings in the chest, especially in the right side, and principally when yawning, when coughing, or breathing deeply, or running, and from every physical exer- tion.—Drawing shootings in the intercostal muscles of the right side, even into the groins, augmented by the least movement of the chest or arms, with inability to remain lyiiiGT on the side affected.—Pains in the chest mitigated, especially when lying quietly on the back, or walking slowly, and pressing with the hand on the diseased part.—■ Sensation as if the heart were on the right side and were going to be crushed. Trunk.—Itching and crawling in the sacrum.—Pressive and burning pains in the loins, especially when seated and when stooping.—Sharp and drawing pains between the shoul- der-blades, on the shoulder, and in the nape of the neck with inability to stoop.—Furunculus in the arm-pit. Arms—Sensation in the hands, as if they were covered with cobweb.—Pulsative pains in the extremity of the thumb, day and night, preventing sleep.—Burning pains, heat and redness of the fingers, like chilblains.—Pustules in the fingers, with swelling and suppuration of the affected limb. Legs.—Gnawing blisters, with sub-cutaneous ulcera- tion in the buttocks.—Burning pain in the thighs.—Ery- sipelatic inflammation and swelling of the leg and of the foot, principally after having danced a long time, and sometimes with drawing pains, burning and tensive, especially when touched.—Shootings in the soles of the feet.—Pain, as from excoriation of the heel.—Burning pains, heat and redness of the toes, as if from chilblains.—Shooting piercing in the corns, especially in rainy weather. 1 —-------- ___u 30—BOVISTA. BVS.—The puff ball.—Hartlaub and Tbinks.—Duration of effect: as long as 30 diys in chronic affections. Antidotes: Cnmph. Compare with : Bell bry. carb-a. carb-veg. kal. mere. puis. sep. si!, spig. Strom, veratr. CLINICAL REMARKS.—This medicine has been employed against Tetters, ulcers in the lips, and whitlows, and in these affections it has been often found very effica- cious, when the rest of the symptoms indicate it. [Bovista deserves attention in chronic enlargement and induration of the cervical glands ; in ovarian tumours; in chronic rigidity of the spine; in chronic gleet ; in strict- ures ; in obstinate leucorrhaea, acrid and fetid, and cou- pled with haemorrhage ; in organic affections of the ute- rus, and in amenorrhcea and dysmenorrhoea.—Ed.] 104 BOVISTA. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Great lassitude and want of strength, especially in the joints.—Ebullition of blood. Ski^;.—Skin flabby ; blunt instruments leave a deep impression in it.—Itching, especially when one is warm, and of that kind which receives no relief from scratching.— Pimples and miliary eruption, with burning itching.—Run- ning eruptions and with a thick scab—Humid tetters.— Panaris.—Warts.—Violent shootings in the corns. Sleep.—Great sleepiness in the morning and early in the evening.—Nocturnal sleep, agitated by anxious and frightful dreams. Fever.—Shivering with thirst, even near the fire, and at night in bed.—Heat w7ith thirst, anguish, agitation, and oppression of the chest.—Sweat in the morning, especial- ly on the chest.—In the evening, fever with shivering and shuddering in the back, with drawing pains in the abdo- men. Mental Affections.—Dejection and sadness, when one is alone.—Placid melancholy, with inquietude and sombre thoughts.—Great sensitiveness.—Great loquacity and unre- served conversation.—Weakness of memory.—Abstrac- tion.—.Awkwardness ; allowing every thing that one holds to fall —Misapplication of words in speaking and writing. Head.—Intoxication after having drunk, even very little wine.—Stunning dizziness, with loss of sense.—Pains in the centre of the brain, with a sensation as if the head were enlarged.—Head-ache when walking, as if after too long a sleep.—Stunning head-ache, with heat in the eyes. —Nocturnal cephalalgia, with insupportable pain, when one raises the head.—Pressive pains in the head with beatings, as in an abscess.—Compressive cephalalgia.— Sharp pains in the head with heaviness and a sensation of bruising'.—Excessive sensibility in the hairy scalp when touched.—Falling off of the hair.—Excoriated spots on the hairy scalp. Eyes.—Painful swelling of the eyes, with excessive pressure in the sockets.—Nocturnal agglutination of the eye-lids.—Eyes dull, without brightness and animation.— Objects seem to be nearer than they really are. Ears.—Ulcers in the ears, with pain on swallowing.— Scabby and humid eruption in the ears.—Flow of fetid pus from the ears.—Diminution and hardness of hearing with frequent mistakes. * Nose.—Excoriation in the nostrils.—Nostrils scabby with burning pain.—Stoppage of the nose, which impedes respiration.—Fluent coryza with secretion of serous mucus and* confusion in the head. BOVISTA. 105 Face.—Heat in the cheeks, as if they were going to burst.—Face alternately pale and red.—Extreme paleness on getting up in the morning.—Piercing and crawling in the cheek-bones.—Large and pale swelling of the upper lip, of the nose and of the cheeks—Lips cracked.—Cor- ners of the mouth ulcerated.—Rheumatic pains in the lower jaw, with swelling and pulsative pains in the sub- maxillary gland. Teeth.—Pains in the upper incisor teeth, followed by swelling of the upper lip.—Drawing odontalgia, especially in the hollow teeth, in the evening and at night, mitigated by heat and walking in the open air.—Piercing and crawl- ing in the teeth.—The gums bleed easily at night, or on sucking them. Mouth.—Accumulation of saliva in the mouth.—Sen- sation of torpor in the buccal cavity.—Stammering — Cutting pains in the tongue.—Ulcers on the edges of the tongue, with pain like excoriation —Putrid smell of the mouth.—Sore throat, with scraping and burning pains. Appetite.—Putrid taste in the mouth.—Taste of blood.' —Desire for cold drinks, especially in the afternoon and evening.—Eager and continual hunger, even afterameal.— Great sleepiness after having eaten, especially after dinner and in the evening.—Hiccough before and after a meal. Stomach.—Nausea, with chilly disposition from morn- ing till noon.—Sensation of coldness in the stomach, as if from a piece of ice.—Pressure and fulness in the pre- cordial region, with tension in the temples and anxiety. Abdominal Region.—Pains in the umbilical region after having eaten, as if the abdomen were cut by knives.— Violent cutting, aggravated by repose.—Painful sensibility of the exterior and interior of the abdomen.—Violent colic with coldness, to such an extent as to make one tremble and to cause the teeth to chatter, especially after evacua- tion.—Pains of ulceration and shooting in the abdomen.— Frequent escape of fetid wind. FjEces.—Constipation.—Hard and compact faeces.— Diarrhoea with colic, cuttings, and ulcerative pain in the abdomen. Urine.—Frequent desire to make water.—Ulcerative pain in the urethra when making water. Genital Organs—Increase of sexual desire.—Fre- quent pollutions.—After coition, staggering, confusion in the head, and numbness.—Hard, painful, and suppurating node on the penis.—Burning pains in the genital parts.— Catamenia, premature and too copious.-—Catamenia flow 106 BOVISTA--BRUCEA anti-dysenterica. only in the night.—Flow of blood during the intervals.— Acrid and corrosive leucorrhcea.—Excoriation in the in- guinal fold during the catamenia. Larynx.—Hoarseness in the morning and speaking through the nose, as if from*coryza.—Scraping and exco- riation in the throat with accumulation of tenacious mucus. —Dry cough produced by a tickling in the throat and in the chest. Chest.—Difficult and short respiration during manual labour.—Constrictive oppression of the chest; every thing seems to be too tight.—Stitches in the chest.—Beating of the heart, with inquietude, trembling, vertigo, nausea and head-ache. Trunk.—Sweat of a strong smell under the arm-pits.— Swelling of the glands of the neck, with tensive and draw- ing pains.—*Pain in the back with heaviness after stooping. Arms.—Paralytic weakness and pains of dislocation in the joints of the arms and hands.—Tension in the shoulder joints, as if the tendons were too short.—Sensation of par- alysis in the artery of the fore-arm.—Cramp-like drawing in the joints of the hands.—Shooting pains in the joints of the hands on laying hold of any thing.—Want of strength in the hands, so that they allow the lightest objects to fall from them —Humid tetters on the back of the hands. Legs.—Formication and numbness in the legs, with in- ability to stand upright.—Shootings in the joints of the knees and of the feet.—Strong tension in the calves of the legs, and in the legs, as if the tendons were too short.— Cramps in the calves of the legs, in bed, in the morning.— Miliary eruption on the legs. 31—BRUCEA ANTI-DYSENTERICA. BRUC—False angustura.—Hering.—A medicine as yet very little known. The Brucea is similar in its aciion to Nux vomica, and has been used with success in paralysis, in lead poisoning, in withering of the limbs. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Painful sensation of fatigue in the extremities.—Pinching in several parts of the limbs. —In the evening, stiffness in the joints, and acute drawing pains in the limbs, with shootings in the head, in the ears and in the chest.—Dejection.—Disposition to stretch the limbs and to yawn.—Great weariness when walking.— In the evening, nervous excitement, trembling and totter- ing when walking.—Irritability, augmented in the evening. Fever.—Chilly disposition and aversion to the open air.—Shivering and excessive coldness.—Sweat when BRUCEA ANTI-DYSENTERICA. 107 walking, notwithstanding the shiverings which appear, chiefly during repose. Sleep.—Sleepiness during the entire day, especially when seated, in the morning, after dinner, and in the high- est degree in the afternoon.—Sleepiness early in the even- ing.—Sleep, full of dreams, with ebullition of blood.— Sleep, troubled with confused or frightful, terrifying dreams.—Sleepiness, alternately with want of appetite. Moral Symptoms.—Spirit dejected, with want of sleep. —Taciturnity and hypochondria.—Gloomy, melancholy humour, with indolence and lassitude.—Sad, and gloomy humour on waking in the morning. Head and Eyes.—Heaviness and confusion in the head, with sleepiness, disappearing in the evening.—Ver- tigo, which causes one to fall in the evening.—Searching, crawling in the top of the head.—Head-achein the evening after having walked long in the sun.—Cephalalgia behind the eye-brows, which seem to be swollen.—Shootings in the head, aggravated by walking, especially in the sun.—Head- ache aggravated by sitting, as well as after eating.—Eye dull and swollen.—Eyes, red in the corners, in the even- ing.—Itching in the eye-lids.—Eyes red and burning in the morning.—Painful sensation in the eyes, as if from sand, forcing one to rub them. Face and Mouth.—Mealy, itching tetters on the face, followed by peeling off of the skin.—Paleness in the face. —Slight convulsive, rapid movements in the lips.—Acute pains in the teeth and in the gums, especially on drinking cold water.—Accumulation of saliva in the mouth, forcing one to spit continually.—Dryness and burning pain in the throat, as if from swallowing rancid fat. Stomach.—Small appetite, with insipidity of food at dinner and at breakfast.—Clammy taste.—Abortive risings. —Sensation in the stomach, as if one had eaten nothing for a long time.—Sensation of burning and of heat in the pit of the stomach.—Sensation of throbbing in the pit of the stomach and in the entire abdomen.—Pressure at the stom- ach, immediately after eating or drinking.—After a meal violent beating of the heart, aggravation of head-ache fer- mentation in the intestines, and desire to evacuate.__In the evening attack of nausea, with cramp-like pains in the abdomen, vomiting of food, and loose evacuation with great dejection. Abdominal Region.—Painful pinching in the abdomen. —Squeezing, as if from claws in the abdomen followed by frequent, small, slimy evacuations.—Borborygmi in the 108 BRUCEA ANTI-DYSENTERIC A—BRYONIA ALBA. abdomen.—The pains in the abdomen cease after the first evacuation—Evacuations too soft, in too small quantity, and of too light a colour.—Cuttings in the umbilicus after the evacuations.—Loose evacuations, followed by fainting which forces one to lie down.—Strong disposition to loose evacuations with colic and flatulency.—Loose evacuations in the morning and in the evening.—Itching in the anus, in the evening-. Chest.—When breathing, sensation of great weight on the whole chest.—Oppression of the chest, with chilly dis- position and great sensibility to the open air.—In the morn- ing, on waking, pain as from a bruise on the outside of the chest, with Unsive pains on breathing deeply.—Pains like excoriation in the interior of the chest, especially in bed at night, most severe when lying on the side. Extremities.—Sensation of squeezing in the back.— Pains as from fatigue in the thighs and in the loins.— Cramp-like pain in the back of the hand.—Red miliary eruption, raised, and itching on the back of the hand and of the body.—In the evening, sensation of paralysis in the thigh.—Weariness in the knees.—Curvature of the joint of the foot, so that one walks almost on the ankle-bone.— Sensation of burning in the corns. 32.—BRYONIA ALBA. BRY.—Bryony.—Hahnemann.— Duration of effect: from four till five days in acute affections; thirty days in some chronic diseases. Antidotes: Aeon. cham. i""' n-/om. —Bryony is an antidote against; Alum. clem. rhus. mur-ac. semg. Compare with : Aeon. alum. am. ars. cham. chin. clem. ign. led. lye. mere, mur-ac. nux-vom. op. phos. puis. rhus. squil. seneg.—Bryonia, when indicated is of especial use after aeon, nux-vom. op. and rhus.— Alum, and rhus. will sometimes be found suitable after bryonia. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Allowing ourselves to be guided by the totality of symptoms, the particular cases in which this medicine may be used appear to be :—Affec- tions, chiefly of adults, of a nervous, or of a dry, meager, and bilious temperament, complexion dark, brown or black eyes and hair, irritable character, with a disposition to membraneous inflammations, fyc, Sfc.—Rheumatic and ar- thritic affections, even with inflammatory fever and swell- ing; Arthritic nodosities; Dropsical affections; Local in- flammations, acute (and chronic); Complaints caused by a chill from a dry, cold (east wind; Distressing conse- quences from rage, physical exertions (and straining the back, &c), and from a sedentary life ; Spontaneous dislo- cations ; Hysterical convulsions and spasms'?; Tetanus BRYONIA ALBA. 109 and trismus 1; Active congestion; Paralysis; Inflamma- tory tumours; Scrofulou s affections ; Tumefaction and in- duration of the glands1.; Icterus; Dropsical affections; Phlyctrenoidal eruptions; Furfuraceous tetters; Petechias (morb. maculos.) ; Measles and affections resulting from that disease; Symptoms preceding the small-pox and varioloid diseases; Bad effects of suppressed scarlatina ; Erysipelatous inflammations in the joints; Miliary erup- tions of children and of parturient women ; Somnambu- lism; Inflammatory fevers, with nervous, gastric, or bilious affection, and strong excitement of the sanguineous and ner- vous system; Intermittent fevers; Typhoid fevers in the inflammatory period; Cephalalgia, caused by mental emotions, or after a chill; Megrim ; Encephalitis (and me- ningitis]) also when they arise from taking cold; Cerebral affection, in consequence of cholera ; Coryza and chronic obstruction of the nose ; Epistaxis, even that caused by menostasis ; Inflammatory prosopalgia ; Ptyalism ; Scrofulous swelling of the lips; Convulsive hiccough; Chronic anorexia and dyspepsia, also with vomiting ; Pit- uita; Gastralgia; Gastritis]; Contraction of the car- dial; Gastric and bilious affections, with fever; He- patitis ; Enteritis; Peritonitis; Abdominal affections, in consequence of a sedentary life ; Ascites ; Diarrhcea, chiefly that caused by a chill; Obstinate constipation ; Diarrhoea, alternating with constipation; Amenorrhea; Metrorrha- gia ; Hysterical, abdominal spasms ; Colic of pregnant or lying-in women ; Puerperal fever ; Phlegmon of the breasts; Induration of the breasts; Milk fever*: Galac- torrhea, and sufferings in consequence of weaning; Con- stipation, ophthalmia, and miliary eruption of new-born in- fants ; Catarrh of the respiratory organs, even caused by measles, or by a chill; Grippe; Catarrhal, nervous, or convulsive cough, &c.; Haemoptysis; Acute and chronic bronchitis ; Parenchymatic pneumonia, acute, or chronic ; Pleuritis, principally in aged persons, and after having used aconitum ; Pleurodynia ; Griping; Hydrothorax ; Asthmatic complaints; Carditis; Lumbago; Phlegmonous inflammation of the feet ; Psoitis ; Coxalgia ; Spontaneous dislocation, rheumatic inflammation of the knee ; Podagra Sec, &c. (KT' See note, pa ere 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—*Tension, drawing pains, acute drawings, and stinging, especially in the limbs and chiefly during movement, with insupportable pains on beinelling of the feet, with redness and heat, pain as from a bruise on stretching the feet, tension on moving them, and pains as from ulceration on being touched.—Stingings in the feet, the soles of the feet, and the toes, especially when resting on the foot.—Corns with pressure, or with burning sting- ings, or with pain of excoriation on being touched. 33—CALADIUM SEGUINUM. CALAD.—Poisonous Pediveaux.—Hering.—Duration of effect: 30 days. Antidotes : Carb-seg. hyd. ig. zing. caps, (ext.) Compare with : Caps, carb-veg. chin, graph, ign. mere nitr-ac. phosph. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Aversion to every move- ment, with constant desire to remain in a recumbent pos- ture.—Slight attacks of syncope after writing or thinking, as well as in rising from a recumbent posture.—Diminu- tion of all the symptoms after a short sleep during the day, and disappearance of pain, during perspiration.—Burning heat of small portions of the skin, with desire to touch them with the fingers.—Painful sensibility to the stings of insects.—Hard granulous eruption on the fore-arm and on the chest, with itching and heat alternately with oppres- sion. Sleep.—Desire to sleep, also to lie down during the day, without being able to sleep, and with shuddering and confusion of the head.—Drowsiness and sleep, during which all is remembered that had been forgotten when awake.— Sleep too light during the night.—Groans and anxious sobs, with violent convulsive movements in the limbs. Fever.—Fever, with pains in the ears and swelling of the sub-maxillary glands.—Fever with coldness and thirst, panting respiration, cold in the head and pulsation in the chest.—In the evening, fever with sleep, from which he awakes 118 CALADIUM SEGUINUM. on the disappearance of the fever.—After the heat, sweat which strongly attracts the flies. Moral Symptoms.—Uneasy fear, especially respecting the health.—Anguish, before going to sleep in the evening. Head.—Eves, &c.—Head confused, with turning and nausea.—When lying down, or on closing the eyes, ver- tigo, as from rocking.—After lying down, cephalalgia in the side, on which one has rested.—Heat in the head, which ascends from below upwards.—Burning smarting in the eyes.—Hearing extremely sensitive, especially when about falling asleep.—Slight and transient attack of deaf- ness.—Cold in the head in the evening, with burning pain in the nose and sneezing. Appetite.—Clammy, herbaceous taste in the mouth.— Want of thirst, with aversion to cold water, and dryness of the pharynx and of the oesophagus.—Sensation of empti- ness in the stomach, without hunger, but which forces one to eat hastily. Stomach.—Ineffectual eructations.—Eructations, impe- ded by pains in the stomach.—Nausea in the morning with vertigo, and shootings in the pit of the stomach.—Sensa- tion of emptiness in the stomach.—Burning and smarting in the stomach.—Pressure and gnawing in the cardia.— Cuttings across the epigastrium—Shootings in the epigas- trium, and retraction of the pit of the stomach, with weak- ness and nausea.—Pulsative and fatiguing pains in the epigastrium, after walking. Abdominal Region.—Urine.—Cramp-like cuttings in the umbilical region.—Beating and pulsations, or burning pains in the epigastrium.—Escape of slight flatulencies of a putrid smell.—Evacuations of the consistence of pap, and in small quantity.—Painful sensation of fulness in the bladder, without desiring to make water. Genital Organs.—Weakness of the genital functions. —Puffed, flabby, and perspiring genitals.—Swelling and excoriation of the prepuce, with retraction after coition.— Dryness and redness of the glans, which is, as it were, mottled with small red spots.—Want of enjoyment and of emission during coition, or premature emission without erection. Larynx.—Trachea and larynx, as if contracted, with wheezing on breathing deeply—.Cough which appears to originate in the upper part of the larynx.—Cough, with difficult respiration, caused by pressure in the epigastrium, or impeded by a sensation of heaviness in that part.—Dull and weak nocturnal cough, which hinders sleep, also in the morning. CALADIUM SEGUINUM--CALCAREA CARBONICA. 119 Chest.—Oppression, especially during the burning pains in the stomach.—Chest as if empty, especially after the expectoration of slimy matter.—Pulsation below the heart.—In the morning, on getting up, pain as from a bruise in the sides and in the loins. 34—CALCAREA CARBONICA. CALC—Carbonate of lime.—Hahnemann.—Duration of effect; 50 days in chronic arleciions. Antidotes: Camph. nitr-ac. nitr-spir. sulph.—Calcarea is, in its turn, an antidote against bis. chin, quinine, and nitr-ac. Compare with : Anac. alum. am. ars bar. bell. bis. chin. cupr. graph, kal. lye. in;ign. mere, nitr-ac. nux-vom. phos. puis. sep. sil. sulf. veratr.— Calcarea when indicated, docs much good after chin. cupr. nitr-ac. and sulf.—After calcarea lye. nitr-ac. phos. and sil. will be found most suita- ble. CLINICAL REMARKS—Indications derived from the ensemble of symptoms : For persons of a plethoric or lym- phatic constitution, with a disposition to Menorrhagia, cold in the head, and diarrhoea ; or else for individuals of a weak, sickly constitution.—Sufferings caused by a chill in the water; Different affections of children and of women who have copious catamenia; Evil effects from lifting a weight; Suffering arising from abuse of cinchona; Suf- ferings of drunkards ; Gouty nodosities and other arthritic complaints ,- St. Vitus' dance 1; Epileptic convulsions (after the action of cuprum) ; Hysterical spasms ; Obesity in young persons ; Physical and nervous weakness in con- sequence of masturbation ; Muscular weakness, difficulty of learning to walk, atrophy and other sufferings of scrof- ulous children ; Tumefaction and suppuration of the glands ; Caries, softening, curvature, and other affections of the bones; Rickety affections; Spontaneous dislocations; Ar- throcace 1.; Polypus ; Encysted tumours ; Chronic erup- tions ; Scabby and humid tetters ; Scrofulous eruptions ; Fistulous ulcers; Warts; Chronic urticaria.—Intermit- tent fevers, and fatal consequences from the suppression of those fevers by cinchona ; Slow fevers ; Melancholy j Hypochondria and hysteria ; Delirium tremens; Drunken- ness ; Megrim; Cephalalgia from chill, or after injury from lifting; Fatigue of the head, in consequence of intel- lectual labour ; Scald-head; Falling off of the hair, also in parturient women, or caused by severe acute diseases; Fontanels of children, remaining open too long ; Ophthal- mia, even that arising from the introduction of a foreign substance, or in scrofulous persons, or in new-born infants ; Blepharophthalmia ; Spots, ulcers, and obscuration in the 120 CALCAREA CARBONICA. cornea; Fungus heematodes of the eye 1 ; Amblyopia; Lachrymal fistula; Haemorrhage of the eyes 1; Otitis 1 ; Purulent otorrhsea, also that proceeding from caries in the auditory organs ; Polypus in the ear ; Hardness of hear- ing, also that caused by suppression of an intermittent fever by cinchona; Parotitis; Scrofulous swelling of the nose; Nasal polypus; Anosmia; Cancer in the nose?; Coryza, with slow establishment of the catarrhal flux ; Coryza and chronic obstruction of the nose ; Prosopalgia ; Tetters and other facial eruptions; Crusta lactea; Odon- talgia, also that of pregnant women, or of those who have too copious catamenia ; Difficult dentition in children, with convulsions; Fistulous ulcers in the gums; Ranula; Amagdalitis and other phlegmonous anginse; Goitre ; Anorexia; Dyspepsia, vomitings, sourness, pyrosis, and other gastric affections ; Induration and other diseases of the liver; Taenia; Colic; Abdominal spasms; Scrofulous buboes; Obstinate constipation ; Diarrhoea of scrofulous children, or else during dentition ; Diarrhoea of phthisical persons ; Chronic disposition to evacuate often in the day ; Vermi- nous affections ; Haemorrhoidal sufferings and bad conse- quence of the suppression of the hemorrhoidal flux; Catarrh of the bladder; Hematuria 1; Polypus of the blad- dar ; Urinary calculus; Weakness of the genital functions, dysmenorrhea, and amenorrhoea of plethoric persons ; Leu- corrhoea; Metrorrhagia; Chlorosis; Sterility; Abortion; Cutting pains, too long continued after accouchement; Weakness, falling out of the hair, and other complaints of parturient women ; Odontalgia of pregnant women; Milk fever; Excoriation of the breasts; Galactorrhea or agalactia ; Ophthalmia, muscular weakness and acidity in nurses; Chronic laryngitis with ulceration; Chronic catarrh and blenorrhoea of the lungs ; Phthisical symptoms (tuberculous phthisis); Curvature of the spine ; Coxalgia ; Spontaneous dislocation ; Gout in the hands and in the feet, &c, &c. fJ3= See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS—*Cramps and contractions of the limbs, especially of the fingers and toes.—Wrench- ing pains.—Pulsative pains.—*Stingings and drawing pains in the limbs, chiefly at night, or in summer, and on change of weather.—Turns of torpor and paleness of some parts of the body, which appear as if dead.—Great tendency to suffer from lifting, which is often followed by pain in the neck, or stiffness and swelling of the nape, with head-ache. __Tendency of the limbs to numbness.—* Agitation of CALCAREA CARBONICA. 121 blood, mostly in plethoric individuals, often in the head and in the chest.—Jerking in different limbs.—*Epileptic con- vulsions, -also at night with cries.—The symptoms are aggravated or renewed after washing and labouring in the water, as well as in the evening, at night, in the morning, after a meal, and every second day.—Periodical and inter- mittent complaints.—*Great uneasiness, which forces one to move constantly and to walk much.—Frequent trem- bling of the whole body, increased in the open air.—*Pain as from a bruise in the arms and in the legs, and also in the loins, especially on moving and going up stairs.—Gen- eral uneasiness in the evening, as a forerunner of an attack of intermittent fever.—*Want of strength, dejection, chiefly in the morning early.—Fatigue and nervous weak- ness, often with paleness of the face, palpitation of the heart, vertigo, shivering, pain in the loins, &c.—Fainting, especially in the evening, with obscuration of the eyes, sweat on the face, and coldness of the body.—*Great fatigue after speaking, or after a moderate walk, "in the open air, as well as after the least exertion, with easy and abundant perspiration.—Excessive dejection, sometimes with violent attack of spasmodic laughter.—"Bloating of the body and of the face, with enlargement of the abdomen, in children. —Emaciation, though one eats with good appetite.—"Great plumpness and excessive obesity.—Great tendency to take cold and great sensibility to cold and damp air.—On walking in the open air, sadness with tears, head-ache, inflation of the abdomen, palpitation of the heart, sweat, great fatigue and many other sufferings. Skin.—Visible quivering of the skin from head to foot, followed by giddiness.—Burning, biting itching.—Ephelis. —*Nettle rash, chiefly disappearing in the fresh air.— Eruption of lenticular red, and raised spots, with great heat, much thirst, and want of appetite.—Skin hot and dry when moving.— Skin of the body rough, *dry, and as if covered with a kind of miliary eruption.— Furfuraceous coating of the skin.—*Humid, scabby eruptions and tetters, with burning pains.—Itching pemphigus over the whole body.—Skin excoriated in several places.—Skin unhealthy ; every injury tends to ulceration.—Erysipelatous inflamma- tions.—*Furunculi.—Warts.—Corns, with excoriation and burning pain.—"Encysted tumours, which are renewed and suppurate every month.—*Swelling and induration of the glands, with or without pain.—* Varices.—Arthritic nodos- ities.—'Swelling and deviation of the curvature bones.— Ulceration of the bones.—Panaris.—Marks. Vol. I. 11 122 CALCAREA CARBONICA. Sleep.—*Desire to sleep in the day and early in the even- ing.—Retarded sleep, and *restlessness from flow of ideas, or in consequence 0/voluptuous or frightful images, which appear as soon as the eyes are shut.—*During sleep, talk- ing, groans, cries, and starts, with anxiety which continues after waking, or movements of the mouth, as if one were chewing or swallowing.—Snoring during sleep.—*Dreams, frequent, vivid, anxious, fantastic, confused, frightful, and horrible ; or dreams of the sick and dead.—*Sleep dis- turbed, with frequent waking.—Sleep of too short duration, from 11 in the evening till 2 or 3 in the morning only.— Waking too early, sometimes even at midnight.—*At night, agitation, asthmatic suffering, anxiety, heat, pains in the stomach and in the precordial rejion, thirst, beatings of the heart, tooth-ache, vertigo, head-ache, ebullition of blood, fear of losing one's reason, pains in the limbs, -and many other sufferings.—On waking, lassitude, exhaustion and de- sire to sleep, as if one had not slept at all. Fever.—Excessive internal coldness.—Shivering and shuddering, principally in the evening, or *in the morning, after rising.—Heat with thirst.—Frequent attacks of tran- sient heat, with anguish and beating of the heart.—Heat in the evening, or in bed at night.— Quotidian fever towards 2 o'clock in the afternoon, with yawning and cough, followed by general heat, with desire to lie down, at least during three hours, after which the hands become cold : all with absence of thirst.—*Tertian fever in the evening, com- mencing with heat of face, followed by shivering.— * Pro- fuse sweat by day after moderate corporeal exercise.—*Sweat wi'h anxiety.—Nocturnal sweat chiefly over the chest.— Morning sweat. Moral Symptoms.—*Melancholy, -dejection and sad- ness.—Disposition to weep, even about trifles.—Vexation and lamentation, on account of old offences.—* Anxiety and anguish, excited by frightful ideas or stories, or also with shuddering and dread during the twilight or at night.— Excessive anguish, with palpitations of the heart, general throbbing and jerkings in the epigastrium.—Anxious dis- quietude, admitting of no rest.—*Disposition to be fright- ened.—*Sadness, with heaviness in the limbs.—Apprehen- sions.—Despair in consequence of the ruinous condition of the health ; or hypochondriacal humour, with fear of being ill or unfortunate, of experiencing fatal accidents, of losing the reason, of being infected by contagious diseases.—■ Discouragement and fear of death.—Impatience, excessive excitability and excessive liability to mental impressions ; CALCAREA CARBONICA. 123 the least noise fatigues.—Excessive ill humour and mis- chievous inclination, with obstinacy and a disposition to take every thing in bad part.—* Indifference, apathy, and re- pugnance to conversation.—Aversion to others.—Solitude is insupportable.—Disgust and aversion to all labour what- ever.— Absence of volition.—Great weakness of memory and of conception, with difficulty in thinking.—Tendency to make mistakes in speaking and to take one word for another.— Loss of sense and errors of imagination — De- lirium with visions of fires, murders, rats and mice. Head.—Head compressed, as if by a vice.—Dizziness, af- ter scratching behind the ear, or else before breakfast, with trembling.— Vertigo, sometimes with obscuration of the eyes, when mounting to a great height, or only a flight of stairs, _on walking in the open air, on turning the head briskly, or after being angry.—Vertigo at night, in the evening, or in the morning.—Head-ache from lifting a weight, or from having wrapped up the head in a handker- chief, or *in consequence of a chill.—Head-ache every morning on waking.—Attacks of lateral head-ache with eruc- tations and nausea —*Pains in the head stunning, -pres- sive or pulsativc, aggravated especially by reading, writing, or any other intellectual labour, as well as by spirituous drinks, or by stooping.—Fulness and heaviness of the head, especially of the forehead, with shutting of the eyes, aggra- vated by movement and corporeal exertion.—Pressive pains on the top of the head, appearing in the open air.—Tensive and cramp-like pain, with pressure outwards, commencing from the temples and extending to the top of the head.— Drawing pains in the right side of the forehead ; the part is painful, when touched.—Shooting pains in the head.— *Piercing in the forehead, as if the head were going to burst.—""Hammering pains in the head, which force one to lie down, and which appear especially after a walk in the open air.—*Icy coldness in and on the head, *especially at the right side.—Congestion of the head.—Buzzing and pains in the head.—Movement of the brain on walking.— Im- mense size of the head, with open fontanels in children.— "Sweat on the head in the evening.—Strong disposition to chilliness in the head.—*Scabs on the hairy scalp —Scaling off of the skin of the hairy scalp.—Painful sensibility in the roots of the hair.—*Falling off of the hair.—*Tumours in the hairy scalp ; which tend to suppuration. Eyes.—*■Pressure in the eyes.—*Itching and shooting in the eyes.—Smarting, burning, and cutting pains in the eyes and the eye-lids, especially when reading during the day, or 124 CALCAREA CARBONICA. by candle light.—Sensation of coldness in the eyes.—Eyes inflamed, with redness of the sclerotica and abundant se- cretion of mucus.—Ulcers, spots, and opacity of cornea.— Flow of blood from the eyes.—Inflammation and swelling of the corners of the eyes.— Lachrymal suppurating fistula. —Lachrymation, especially in the open air, or early in the morning.—*Quivering in the eye-lids.—*Red and thick swelling of the eye-lids, with abundant secretion of mucus and nocturnal agglutination.—Closing of the eye-lids in the morning.—* Pupils nearly dilated.—* Confusion of sight, as if there were a mist, a veil, or down before the eyes, chiefly when reading or when observing an object atten- tively.— *Obscuration of the sight when reading or after a meal.—A dark spot is seen before the eyes when read- ing, and seems to accompany the letters.—*Great photo- phobia and dazzling from too strong a light.—^Presbyopia. Ears.—Shootings in the ears.—Pulsation, beating, and heat in the ears.—Internal and external inflammation and swelling of the ear.— Purulent discharge from the ears.— Humid eruption upon and behind the ears.—"Polypus in the ears.—*Humming, buzzing, tingling, or thundering, sometimes alternately with music in the ears.—*Cracking and "detonation in the ears, when swallowing and chew- ing.—Attacks of sensation as of shutting up of the ears, and of hardness of hearing.—Inflammatory swelling of the parotids. Nose.—Inflammation of the nose, with redness and swelling, chiefly at the extremity.—Ulcerated and scabby nostrils.—*Epistaxis, chiefly morning and night, and sometimes even to fainting.—*Fetid smell from the nose.—*Smell dull, or exceedingly sensitive.—*Painful dryness in the nose.—*Obstruction of the nose, with yellowish and fetid matter.—Dry coryza, also in the morning with frequent sneezing.—Excessive flowing coryza.—Coryza al- ternately with gripings.—Fetid odour before the nose, as if from a dunghill, rotten eggs or gunpowder. Face.—Yellow colour of the face.—*Face pale and hol- low, with eyes sunken and surrounded by a livid circle.— Red spots on the cheeks.—Heat, redness and puffing of the face.—Erisypelas in the cheek.—Ephelis on the cheeks.— "Itching and eruption on the face, chiefly on the forehead, in the cheeks, and in the region of the whiskers, some- times humid and scabby, with burning heat.— Crusta lac- tea.—Acute pains in the face and the bones of the face — Swelling of the face without heat.—Eruptions and scabs on the lips and round the mouth.—Lips cracked.—*Swell- CALCAREA CARBONICA. 125 ing of the upper lip.—Fissures in the ulcerated lips.—At- tacks of torpor and paleness in the lips, which appear as if dead.—Painful swelling of the sub-maxillary glands. Teeth.— Tooth-ache, aggravated or excited by a current of air, or by cold air, or by taking any thing hot or cold, or by noise, or else during and after the catamenia; the pains are, for the most part, shooting, piercing, contractive, pul- sative, or gnawing and searching, with a sensation as of excoriation.—Tooth-ache at night, as if from congestion of blood.—Sensation of lengthening and loosening of the teeth.—Fetid odour of the teet i.—Painful sensibility of the gums, with shootings —Readily bleeding and swelling ofthegums, with beatings and pulsations.—Fistulous ulcers in the gums of the lower jaw. Mouth.—Accumulation of mucus in the mouth.—Con- stant spitting of acid saliva.—Blisters in the mouth and on the tongue.—Spasmodic constriction of the mouth.—Dry- ness of the tongue and of the mouth, chiefly at night and in the morning on waking.—Swelling of one side of thetongue. —Tongue loaded with a white coating.—Burning and pain as of excoriation on the tongue and in the mouth.—Tongue difficult to move, with embarrassed and indistinct speech. —"Ranula under the tongue. Throat.—Sore throat, as if from a plug or a swelling in the gullet.—Constriction in the throat, and cramp-like con- traction of the gullet.—Evcoriation of the gullet with shoot- ing and pressure in swallowing.—Inflammatory swelling of the gullet and of the uvula, which are of a deep-red colour, and covered with blisters.—Swelling of the tonsils, with sensation of contraction in the throat on swallowing__ Pain in the throat after injury from lifting. Appetite.—* Unpleasant taste in the mouth, mostly bitter, or sour, or metallic, especially in the morning.—Insipidity, or insipid, or sour taste of food.—Burning and continual thirst, especially for cold drinks, and often with total ab- sence of appetite.—*Hunger, a short time after having eaten. —Bulimia, generally in the morning.—*Prolonged distaste for meat and hot food.—*Repugnance to tobacco-smoke ; desire for salt things, wine, and dainties.— Weakness of digestion—After having taken milk, nausea or acid re- gurgitations.---tifter a meal, heat or inflation of the abdomen, with nausea and head-ache, pain in the abdomen or in the stomach, or else sa ivary flow, or dejection and desire to sleep.—Eructations, with taste of undigested, bitter, or sour food. Stomach.—Water-brash with every meal, and noisy and 11* 126 CALCAREA CARBONICA. constant eructations.—Regurgitation of sour substances.— Frequent nausea, especially in the morning, in the evening, or at night, sometimes with shuddering, obscuration of sight and fainting.—Sour vomitings.—* Vomiting of food, or of bitter slime, often with gripings and cramp-pains in the abdomen.—Black or sanguineous vomiting.—*Flow of saliva from the stomach, even after a meal.—The vomit- ings appear chiefly in the morning, at night, or after a meal.—*Pressive pain, or pinching in the stomach, or cramp-like and contractive pains, chiefly after a meal, and often vomiting of food.—Cramps in the stomach at night.— Pressure in the stomach, also when fasting, or with cough- ing, or with pressure in the hypochondrium, or also with squeezing as if from a claw, on walking.—Pinching, cutting, and pressure at night in the epigastrium.—Infla- tion and swelling of the epigastrium and of the region of the stomach, with painful sensibility of these parts to the touch.—Pain as of excoriation and burning in the stomach. Abdominal Region.—Pains generally shooting, or ten- sive, or aching with swelling and induration of the hepatic region.—Painful traction from the hypochondrium and the back, with vertigo and obscuration of sight.—*Tension in the two hypochondria.—Inability to wear tight clothes round the hypochondria.—Tension and inflation of the abdomen. —"Frequent gripings and shootings in the sides of the ab- domen, in children.—Colic, with cramp-like, and gnawing contractive pains, especially in the afternoon and some- times with vomiting of food.—*Frequent attacks of cut- ting, chiefly in the epigastrium.—*Stinging, or punching aching in the abdomen, even without diarrhoea.—The pains in the abdomen appear chiefly in the morning, in the even- ing, or at night, as well as after a meal.—*Sensation of cold in the abdomen.—Pain as of excoriation and burning in the abdomen.—"Swelling and induration of the mesenteric glands. —* Enlargement and hardness of the abdomen.—*Incarcera- tion of flatulency.—*Pressure of wind towards the inguinal ring, as if a hernia were about to be established, with loud rattling and croakings.—Painful pressure, startings, cut- tings and shootings, or heaviness and traction in the groins. —Swelling and painful sensibility of the inguinal glands. F.eces —*Constipation.—Evacuations interrupted, some- times hard and scanty, and often of undigested substances. —Ineffectual efforts to evacuate, sometimes with pain.— Difficult evacuation and only every two days.—Relaxation of the abdomen, frequent or continual; two evacuations a day.—Evacuations like clay, in small quantity, knotty, or serous, or in the times wit CALCAREA CARBONICA. 227 ith t ^ f?ri!T °i W^Whiit evacuations some- externa touhorU re ° ?* ^ *™S wakened by dentition-InvlnUrVP^°7 e^rtB—D»rrhcEa during rhata, of a sour sTj]J fit frothy evacuations-^,? Escape of ascarideTand o/^e^^'^pTor11' " ?^tS- turn during evacuation R^.fr°,apsus of the rec- cibility-After he evaTu^t^" ^ GVaCUation g™ iras- tigue fn the limbs-Loss o? blood"?011 ^ Pab &S °f fa* the evacuation and at other times ^V^ anUS durin£ appearance of hcemorrhoiZ SweUm^ and */™y*«n* the evacuati/n, S^g E5ffl^'^ contraction of the rectum R • .amPs' tenesmus, and fetid with white and mealy sediment.— Discharge of blood instead of urine.—Flow of blood from the urethra.—Abun- dant discharge of mucus with the urine.—"Polypus in the bladder.—* Burning in the urethra, when making water and at other times. Genital Organs.—Inflammation of the prepuce with red- ness and burning pain.—Aching and pain as from a bruise in the testes.—* Weakness of the genital functions, and absence of sexual desire.—*Increase of sexual desire with voluptu- ous and lascivious ideas.—^Absence of pollutions, or *too great frequency of them.—*Erections of too short continu- ance, and emission of semen too slow and too feeble "du- ring coition.—"Lancinations and burning in the genital parts during the emission of semen in coition.—After co- ition confusion of the head and weakness.—Flow of pros- tatic fluid, after evacuation of urine.—*Catamenia prema- ture and too copious.—"Before the catamenia ; breasts swol- len and painful, fatigue, head-ache, disposition to be fright- ened, colic and shivering.—*During the catamenia ; con- gestion of the head, with internal heat, or cuttings in the abdomen, and cramp-like pains in the kidneys, or vertigo, head-ache, tooth-ache, nausea, colic, and other sufferings.— ^Miscarriage.— Voluptuous se?isation in the genital parts, with emission.—*Flux of blood at a time different from the catamenia.—*Metrorrhagia.—*Shootings in the orifice of the womb and aching pain in the vagina.— Prolapsus 128 CALCAREA CARBONICA. uteri, with bearing down.—*Itching in th ewomb—Inflam- mation and swelling of the womb, with redness, purulent discharge and burning pain.—"Varices in the labia majora. Leucorrhcea before the catamenia.—Leucorrhcea itching burn- ing: also a leucorrha-al discharge of a milky appearance which passes in making water.—Pain as of excoriation and ulceration in the breasts.—Swelling of the breasts. Larynx.—Ulceration of the larynx.—* Frequent or long continued hoarseness.—*Abundant collecting of mucus in the larynx and in the bronchia?.—Cough, without expecto- ration, excited by a tickling in the throat, and often ac- companied by vomiting.—Short cough in the day, as if from down in the throat.—Cough excited by playing the piano, also by eating.—* Cough in the evening, in bed, or at night, when asleep, or in the morning, and generally violent and *dry, sometimes even spasmodic—Cough, with expectora- tion of thick mucus, or yellowish and fetid, generally at night or in the morning.—* Expectoration of purulent matter \,y° oo.vTLin^ ~—*/?aiwh with eame^toration of blood, pain of excoriation in the chest, vertigo, and unsteady walk.— *On coughing, pressure in the stomach, shootings or shocks in the head or pains in the chest. Chest.—Obstructed breathing on stooping, walking in the wind, or on lying down.—Disposed to take deep inspi- rations.—Sensation as if respiration were obstructed be- tween the shoulder-bfides.—Oppression of the chest, as if from congestion of blood, with tension, mitigated by bring- ing the shoulder-blades together.—Wheezing respiration.— Short breath, chiefly on ascending.—Anxious oppression of the chest, as if it were too tight, and could not be sufficient- ly dilated.—Great difficulty of respiration—Sensation of fatigue in thechest after speaking.—Anxiety in the chest.— Pressure on the chest.—*Shootings in the chest and the sides, especially during movement, on breathing deeply, and when lying on the side affected.—Shocks in the chest.—Sensibility andpain as from excoriation in the chest, especially on breath- ing and being touched.— ''Burning in the chest.—*Palpita- tion of the heart ; also at night, or after a meal, sometimes with anxiety and trembling movements of the heart.—Lanci- nations, aching and contraction in the region of the heart. —Pricking shootings in the muscles of the chest. Trunk.—* Pains as of dislocation in the loins and back ; and in the neck, as if caused by lifting a weight.—Shooting pains in the loins, back and shoulder-blades.—Nocturnal pains in the back.—Pains in the lumbar region, when riding in a carriage.—Drawing between the shoulder-blades, or aching CALCAREA CARBONICA CALCAREA PHOSPHORATA. 129 pain with obstruction of breath.—"Swelling, and curvature of the spine.—*Stiffness and rigidity in the neck.—Hard and strumous swelling of the thyroid gland.—Hard and painful swelling of the glands of the neck.—Tumour between the shoulder-blades.— Suppuration of the axillary glands. Arms.—*Drawing pains in the arms, also at night.— Cramps and cramp-like pains in the arms, hands and fingers. —Sudden attacks of paralytic weakness in the arms.—Acute, cramp-like pains in the fore-arms.—Boils on the fore-arm. —Pains as of dislocation in the wrist.—^Swelling of the hands.—*Sweating of the hands.—"Arthritic nodosities; swelling of the wrist, and the joints of the fingers.—Swell- ing of the veins of the hands.—Trembling of the hands.— *Hands and fingers as if dead, even in the warmth, and espe- cially on taking hold of any thing.—Warts on the arms and on the hands.—Boils on the hands and the fingers.—*For- mication in the fingers, as when they are asleep.—*Fre- quent paralytic weakness in the fingers.— Unwieldy move- ment of the fingers.—Contraction of the fingers.—Pan iris. Legs.—*Drawina lancinations, or cutting, acute pains in the hips and in the thighs, chiefly when resting upon them.—Lameness, which results from stepping on the toes in walking.—*Weight and stiffness of the legs.— *Cramps in the legs.—Pain as of dislocation in the joints of the hips, the knees, and the feet.—The legs go to sleep on sitting.—Itching in the thighs and the feet.—*Varices on the legs.—Drawings, *shootings, and acute pains in the knees, especially when standing, or sitting, or else when walking.— *Swelling of the knees.—Tension in the ham, on squatting down.—*Cramp$ in the hams, the calves of the legs, the soles of the feet and the toes, chiefly on extending the legs, put- ting on the boots, and during the night.—*Red spots in the leg.—Erysipelatous inflammation and swelling of the legs.— *Ulcers on the legs.—*Swelling of the malleoli and of the soles of the feet.—Inflammatory swelling of the instep.— Boils on the feet and legrs.—* Burning in the soles of the feet.—*Sweating of the feet.—"In the evening coldness and numbness of the feet.—"Painful sensibility of the great toe. —*Corns on the feet with burning pain as of excoriation.— Contraction of the toes. 35.—CALCAREA PHOSPHORATA. CALC—PH. —Phosphate of lime.—Hering. IV. B.—The preparation from which the following symptoms were obtained was procured by treating lime-water with phosphoric acid. When IT IS TO BE APPLIED AS A BEMEDV IT SHOULD OF COURSE BE PROCURED IN THE SAME MODE. 130 CALCAREA PHOSPHORATA. [CLINICAL REMARKS.—This remedy deserves atten- tion in chronic rheumatism, and in head-ache dependent upon, or attended with accumulation ol flatulence in the bowels. Administered internally it increases incontesta- bly the presence of calcareous salts in the bowels, the blood, and the urine; and it has been administered with success, with the view of promoting the deposition of bone- earth in the bones. Ed ] GENERAL SYMPTOMS—*Rheumatic sufferings of every kind.—Pains in different parts of the body, which traverse the muscles into the very joints.—The loins, knees and thumbs are principally attacked.—Sleep early in the evening, with frequent waking during the night.—Rest- lessness for two or three hours after midnight.—Frequent dreams, sometimes with reflections ; dreams of dangers and fires.—Transient, frequent shuddering.—Veins swol- len.—The heat of the room appears insupportable.—Burn- ing itching over the whole body.—Crawling over the whole dody.— Ulcers.— Caries.—Sentimentality which causes one to be easily affected.—Ill-humour and aversion to labour. Head—Throat.—Vertigo with nausea.—Head-ache, with flatulency in the abdomen.—Head compressed, heavy and painful, on waking in the morning.—Painful sensation of fulness in the head, as if the brain were pressed against the cranium, increased by movement and by change of position, mitigated by lying still and quiet.—During the head-ache, face and head hot, with indolence and ill-hu- mour.—The head-ache is aggravated in the open air, and by stooping.—Itching on the hairy scalp every evening.— "Redness in the face ; red pimples, filled with a yellowish pus, with shooting pains on being touched.—Pain in the eyes and in the nose, as if foreign bodies were introduced into them.—Frequent sneezing, with flow of mucus from the nose, and salivation.—Blood follows blowing of the nose.—Accumulation of acid saliva in the mouth.—Sensa- tion of contraction in the throat.—Sore throat, on waking in the morning, aggravated by swallowing. Stomach—Urine.—Nausea with vertigo, perplexity of the head, and confusion of ideas.—After taking coffee, nausea, pyrosis, head compressed and painful, and exces- sive ill-humour.—Acute pains in the stomach, with great weakness, head-ache and diarrhoea ; the least morsel, that is eaten, renews the pains in the stomach.—Violent colic with inflation of the abdomen and great accumulation of flatulency, or with head-ache.—Difficult escape of wind, CALCAREA PHOSPHORATA--CAMPHORA. 131 without mitigation.—Evacuations with abundant flatulency. —Diarrhcea, with evacuations of purulent matter (1).—Di- arrhoea, very fetid.—Frequent and copious emissions of urine, with lassitude and fatigue.—Urine deep-coloured and sometimes hot.—After evacuation of faeces and emission of urine, the genital parts feel relaxed.—Increase of sexual de- sire, in the morning with extraordinary enjoyment in coition. Chest—Extremities.—Deep and sighing respiration.—■ Crackling in the sternum.—Pain in the loins, on the least corporeal exertion, sometimes so violent as to cause one to cry out —* Rheumatic pains in the shoulder and in the (left) arm, "also with swelling of the diseased part and febrile heat.— Soreness, torpor, and paralysis of the (left) arm.—Paralysis of the joints of the hand and of the fin- gers.—Pain in the joints of the hands and of the fingers, especially in the thumbs, sometimes from a chill.— Violent pains in the knees, in the hips, and in the loins, aggravated by movement and especially by walking. 1 ——« i ..... ———^—._^ 36—CAMPHORA. Camph.—Camphor.—Hahnemann. — Duration of effect: frequently for some minutes only. Antidotfs: Op. nitr spir. Compare with : Canth. cham. cocc. hyos. kal. laur. op. puis. rhus. stram. vera I r. CLINICAL REMARKS.—This medicine has been hitherto used against a few diseases only, such as cholera, grippe, some cases of epilepsy, dropsical affections, typhus fever (after rhus.) encephalitis (from a stroke of the sun 1), and palliative as an antidote to several vegetable substances. —Against the poisonous effects of opium, cocculus, cantha- rides, and musk, and also of spongia, it appears to have a spe- cific virtue.—The effects of nitre appear to be increased by the use of camphor.—Camphor has been heretofore recom- mended against cramps in the chest caused by the vapour of arsenic and that of copper, as well as against some kinds of pneumonia caused by a <:hill, &c , &c. [It deserves attention injErysipelas of the face ; Putrid and black small pox; Pu- trid and nervous scarlet fever, attended with violent inflam- mation and threatening gangrene of the throat. In Apo- plexia nervosa ; nervous debility, and excessive nervous irritation, especially from impotence.—Ed.] O^jT See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—* Convulsions and cramps of different kinds.—*Tetanus, with loss of consciousness 132 CAMPHORA. and vomiting.—"Attacks of epilepsy with rattling in the throat, red and puffed face, convulsive movements of the limbs and even of the tongue, eyes, and muscles of the face, with hot and clammy perspiration on the hairy scalp and forehead ; after the fit, drowsy sleepiness.—*Uneasiness, relaxation and heaviness over the whole body.—Sinking of all strength.—Fainting fits.—Cracking in the joints.— Rheumatic lancinations in the muscles.—Difficulty in mov- ing the limbs.—Painful sensibility of the periosteum of all the bones.—Sufferings in consequence of a chill.—The majority of the symptoms appear during motion, or else at night, or are aggravated by cold, the open air and touch.—■ The symptoms often disappear as soon as attention is called to them. Skin.—Skin acutely sensitive, even to the slightest touch.—Erysipelatous inflammations.—*Skin bluish and cold with cold body. Sleep.—Great desire to sleep in the day.—Drowsy sleep- iness, with incoherent words.—Nocturnal sleeplessness from nervous excitement.—Snoring and tossing during sleep. Fever.—Excessive sensibility to fresh air, and tendency to take cold.—*Coldness over the whole body, with deadly paleness of face, shivering and chattering of the teeth.— Heat of the body, with redness of face, especially in the cheeks, and in the lobe of the ear.—General heat, which becomes excessive on walking.—Pulse remarkably small and slow, or excessively quick and full.—Sensation of dry- ness on the whole cutaneous surface. Moral Symptoms.—Anxiety with disposition to weep.— Quarrelsome and opposing humour.—Dulness of the senses. —Loss of consciousness.—Delirium.—Rage.—Loss of me- mory. Head.—Dizziness as from intoxication, especially on walking.—*Vertigo and heaviness of the head, which ob- liges one to bend backwards.—Head-ache, as if the brain were bruised, or sore from a wound.—Dull head-ache above the os frontis with desire to vomit.—Constricting head-ache, especially in the occiput and above the root of the nose, greatly aggravated on stooping, lying, or when touched, and disappearing as soon as one thinks of the pain. —Cutting strokes in the head after one has lain down.— Pulsative head-ache at night, with shootings in the fore- head and heat of body.—Congestion of the head.—Inflamma- tion of the brain.—Spasms which draw the head to one side. Eves.—Inflammation of the eyes.—Red spots on the eye-lids.—Trembling of the eye-lids.—Eyes haggard and CAMPHORA. 133 convulsed upwards.—Contraction of the pupils.—Obscura- tion of the sight.—Visions of strange objects.—Photopho- bia.—Every thing appears too bright and too brilliant. Ears.—Heat and redness of the ears, especially in the lobes.—Abscess in the auditory miatus, with deep redness and pressive shooting pain. Face.—Face deadly pale or deep red.—Erysipelas of the face.—Convulsive distortion of the features.—Convulsive tightening of the jaws. Teeth.—Tooth-ache, as if from swelling of the sub-max- illary glands, with sensation of lengthening of the teeth.— Acute blows in the roots of the incisor teeth.—Painful loosening of the teeth. Mouth.—Breath fetid in the morning.—Foam at the mouth.—Abundant accumulation of a clammy and slimy saliva. Throat.—Sore throat on swallowing, as if from exco- riation of the throat; and causing' itself to be felt even at night.—Burning heat in the throat, from the palate to the stomach.—More decided relish for all food and especially for broth.—Bitter taste of tobacco and of food, especially of meat.—Dislike and repugnance to tobacco smoke.—"Ex- cessive thirst. Stomach.—Desire to vomit followed by attacks of ver- tigo.— Vomiting of bile or of blood—At the conclusion of the vomiting, cold sweat, chiefly on the face.—Sensation of burning and heat in the stomach.—Pain as from a bruise in the epigastrium.—"Strong pressure in the epigastrium. Abdominal Region.—Cramps in the abdomen.—Draw- ing pain as from a bruise on the entire of the right side of the abdomen.—Sensation of fulness in the abdomen.— Sensation of coldness or of burning heat in the epigas- trium and in the abdomen. Fjsces.—Constipation.—Difficult evacuation as if from inactivity of the intestines, or from contraction of the rec- tum.—Blackish fseces. Urine.—Retention of urine.—Urine flowing slowly and in a small stream.—Yellowish green, turbid°and mouldy urine. —Hematuria.—Burning pain during the emission of urine.— Urine thick and red, with turbid and thick sedi- ment. Genital Organs.—Absence of sexual desire ; impotence, Citest.—Respiration deep and slow.—*Suffocating- op- pression of the chest, and constriction of the larynx, as if from the vapour of sulphur.—Excessive accumulation of mucus in the respiratory organs.—"Cramps in the chest.— Vol. I. 12 134 CAMPHORA--CANNABIS SATIVA. Lancinations in the chest.—Palpitation of the heart, which can be heard striking against the sides, especially after a meal. Trunk and Extremities.—Tension and stiffness of the neck on moving it.—Drawing lancinations between the shoulder-blades while moving the arms.—Convulsive move- ment of the arms, which describe circles.—Pressure and acute drawing in the arm and fore-arm.—Pains as from contusion in the thighs and in the knees.—Cramp-like pains and acute drawings in the legs and in the instep.—Cramps in the calves of the legs.—Acute drawing in the extremity of the toes and under the nails in walking. —37—cannabis^sativaT- Cann.—Hemp.—Hahnemann—Duration of effect : 2 or 3 days in acute diseases : 2 to 3 we' ks in some cases of chrome disease. Antidote: Camph. •Compare with : Am. bry. canth. nux-vom. op. petrol, puis, stann. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Guided by the totality of symptoms, the cases in which this medicine maybe em- ployed will be found to be :—Hysterical complaints 1; Com- plaints in consequence of fatigue and physical exertion'?; Mania and other mental affections 1; Scrofulous ophthal- mia 1; Cataract; Obscuration and specks on the cornea; Gastric and bilious affections'?; Gastralgia 1; Induration of the liver; Colic ; Encysted ascites'? ; Obstinate consti- pation ; Cystitis, nephritis, dysuria, hematuria, and other affections of the urinary organs ; Urinary calculus; Acute Gonorrhoea ; Leucorrhoea 1; Sterility ; Abortion ; Catarrhal affections of the respiratory organs; Pneumonia ; Asth- matic complaints ; Carditis, &c, &c. [It deserves attention in congestion of the head ; in violent and exhausting haemorrhage from the nose ; in pro- fuse menstruation ; in weakness of vision dependent upon congestion of blood to the head ; in stammering; chronic bilious vomiting, and enlargement of the prostate gland. Ed.] U^r See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Acute drawing, and con- tractive pressive pains, with sensation of paralysis or blows and deep shootings in different parts, or else a sensation, as from being pinched with the fingers.—Rheumatic pulling during movement, as if it were in the periosteum.—General dejection, with tottering and soreness of the knees.—Great fa- tigu from having spoken or written.—Tetanus, chiefly in the upper limbs and in the trunk.—Several symptoms are CANNABIS SATIVA. 135 aggravated or provoked by the touch, the open air, and heat, as well as at night and after midnight. Sleep.—Invincible desire to sleep during the day.—Sen- sation of greater fatigue on waking in the morning than when going to bed in the evening— Nocturnal sleepless- ness.—Great anxiety of heart, at night pricking and sensa- tion of burning over the whole skin, as if from boiling water. ° Fever.—Shuddering and shivering with thirst.—Uneasi- ness and external coldness.—Coldness of the body, with heat in the face.—Pulse slow and scarcely perceptible.— Burning heat over the whole body at night. Moral Symptoms.—Sadness, and indifference.—One is greatly offended by the least word.—Disposition to be easily frightened.—Mania, sometimes gay, sometimes seri- ous or furious.—Irresolution and uncertainty in conse- quence of too fickle an imagination.—Frequently writing wrong.— Vanishing of thoughts.—Want of words. Head.—Attacks of vertigo on walking, or when stand- ing for some time, to such an extent as to cause one to fall.—Head-ache, as from a stone pressing upon it. —Pressure and tension in the temples.—Compression in the sinciput, from the margins of the orbit to the temples. —Congestion of the head, with beatings in the brain ; cheeks red and hot.—Sensation in the hairy scalp, as if something were creeping on it, and frequent sensation, as if drops of cold water were falling on the head. Eyes.—Pressive pain in the balls of the eyes.—Cramp- like traction in the eyes.—Weakness and confusion of sight, on viewing objects either distant or near.—*Specks and opacity of the cornea.—Appearance of a denticulated circle of whitish flames before the eyes. Ears.—Beating and pressure in the ears.—Buzzing in the ears and sensation as if there were a film before them. Nose.—Swelling of the nose with copper-like redness. —Heat and dryness of the nose.—Epistaxis, preceded by a sensation of burning in the nose. Face.—Paleness of the face.—Crawling, itching, and soreness in the face, as if from salt.—Palpitation of the muscles of the face.—Heat of the face and redness of the cheeks. Mouth.—Dryness of the mouth, with clammy saliva, and absence of thirst.—Embarrassed speech ; at one time words are wanting, at another the voice fails.—Great anx- iety produced when speaking, by pains in the back. Stomach.—Ineffectual eructations.—Regurgitation of 136 cannabis sattva. acrid substances of a bitter sourness.—Nausea with desire for food.—Vomiting with sensation of strangulation, from the epigastrium to the throat.— Vomiting of green bile.— Pain in the stomach, when touched, as if it were ulcerated. —Attack of violent cramps in the stomach, with paleness and sweat of the face, pulse almost extinct, and respiration rattling.—Pressure, pinchings, and cuttings in the epigas- trium and in the upper part of the stomach. AbdoiMinal Region.—Pain as from a bruise in the intes- tines.—Hard and painful swelling of the hepatic region.— Cramp-like pains in the epigastrium.—Pulsation of the abdo- men, as if from within outwardly.—Painful jerks in the ab- domen, as if it contained some living thing.—Shaking of the intestines, as if they were detached, in moving the arms.^Partial swelling of the abdomen, as if from encysted ascites.—Blows and pressure from within outwards, in the region of the groins. Faces.—Diarrhaa, accompanied by cramp-like pains in the abdomen.—Pressure in the rectum towards the ou'side. —Sensation as if of a running of cold water from the anus. —*Constipation and hard faeces. Urine.—Urgent desire to make water, with pressive pain. —Difficulty of making water, as from paralysis of the bladder; nocturnal strangury.—"Obstinate retention of urine.—Stoppage of the urinary ducts by mucus and pus. -—Inability to retain the urine.—*Stream of water scattered. —"Emission, drop by drop, of a scanty and sanguinolent urine.—* Burning pain in the urethra and in the bladder, be- fore and during the emission of urine.—*Urethra inflamed and painful to the touch.— *Yellow and mucous dis- charge from the urethra.— Escape of a stone on making water. Genital Organs.—Genital parts cold.—Itching and in- flammatory swelling of the prepuce, glans and penis, with deep redness, and "phymosis.—Pressure in the testes and tension in the spermatic chord, when standing upright.— Swelling of the prostate gland.—*Erections with tensive pains.—Repugnance to coition, or strong excitement of sexual desire.—Sterility.—Miscarriage with convulsions. Larynx.—Accumulation of tenacious mucus in the larynx, with scraping, and difficulty of respiration.—Cough, violent and dry.— Cough, with greenish and clammy expec- toration.—Difficulty of respiration, as if there were a weight on the chest, with wheezing in the bronchia.—Respiration short and oppressed.—*Respiration difficult, and possible, only when standing upright.—Difficulty of respiration and CANNABIS SATIVA—CANTHARIS. 137 oppression of the chest, with uneasiness in the throat.— Respiration rattling. Chest.—*Shooting in the bottom of the chest, especially when breathing or speaking, or during movement.—in- flammation of the lungs, with greenish vomiting and deli- rium.—Painful strokes in the region of the heart.—Painful constraint and tension in the heart with palpitation of the heart and anxiety.—Beatings of the heart felt lower than in their ordinary place. Trunk.—Pains in the back which impede speech and sus- pend respiration—Shooting pain between the shoulder- blades.—Pressure towards the outside in the sacral region and coccyx. Arms.—Pain as from a bruise in the shoulder and in the fore-arm during movement.—Cramps in the hands and the fingers.—Sudden paralytic weakness of the hand, with trembling on laying ho^d of an object, and inability to hold it firmly. Legs.—Cramps in the thighs, the calves of the legs and hams.—Weakness, staggering, and pains- in the knees. —Displacement of the knee-pan on going up stairs.—Pul- sation and stretching pain in the feet, and in the joints of the foot, as if after a long walk.—"Spasmodic contraction of the tendon of Achilles with violent pains. 38—CANTHARIS. CA'VTH.—Spanish fly.—Hahnemann.—Duration of'.effect ; as long as mm 30 days in some cases of chronic disease. Antidote : Camph. Compare with : Aeon. hel. cann. camph. caps. chin. coff. coloc. laur. led. lye. puis. rhus. seneg. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Allowing ourselves to be guided by the totality of symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be used, will be found to be:—Dropsical af- fections; Convulsions; Icterus 1; Madness, hypochondria, mania, and other mental affections 1 ; Encephalitis, gastri- tis, hepatitis and other local inflammations'? ; Amygdalitis and other phlegmonous anginas'? ; Nephritis, cystitis, ure- tritis, hematuria, and other affections of the urinary ducts ; Gonorrhoea; Chordee ; Satyriasis?; Priapismusl; Coxal- gia 1; Intermittent fevers, &c, &c. [In strict accordance with the Homoeopathic law, Can- tharides, Phosphorus, Rhus, &c.,&c, should form the main reliance of the physician in the cure of acute inflammation. It deserves attention in fever and ague with inflammation of the urethra ; in dentition-diarrhoeas of children ; in ery- 12* 138 CANTHARIS. sipelatous inflammations of the mucous membranes; in enteritis and peritonitis and other inflammations when they bear an erysipelatous character, and threaten to pass over into gangrene; in putrid and typhus fevers; in hectic fever from ulceration of the bowels; it is particularly in- dicated in inflammation of the womb and ovaries; it is of immense value in true erysipelas, especially when it threat- ens to pass over into ulceration or gangrene ; in ulcers; pemphigus and other vesicular eruptions ; in hydrophobia ; acute inflammations of the eyes ; in red shining and burn- ing inflammation of the nose ; in acute and intense and disorganization of the lips, mouth, tongue, throat, stomach, &c.; suppuration of the bladder ; in acute catarrh, bronchi- tis and pneumonia; acute gout, rheumatism, &c, &c. Ed.] OCT3 See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Burning pains, as if from excoriation in all the cavities of the body.—Acute shoot- ings towards the interior in the different parts.—*Drawing arthritic pains in the limbs, with affection of the urinary ducts, mitigated by rubbing.—Violent pains„with groans and lamentations.—Sensation of dryness in the joints.— Want of flexibility in the whole body.—Dejection and weakness, with excessive sensibility of all parts of the body ; trembling and desire to lie down.—Prostration of strength, proceeding even to paralysis.—Convulsions, te- tanus.—The sufferings show themselves chiefly on the right side, and are mitigated in a recumbent posture.—The symptoms are renewed every seven days. Skin.—Itching blisters, with burning pain on being touched.—Erysipelatous inflammations.—Ulcers with acute drawing pains, with profuse suppuration. Sleep.—Great desire to sleep, especially in the after- noon, with yawnings and stretching.—Sleeplessness with- out apparent cause.—At night, half sleep, with frequent waking. Fever.—Fever which manifests itself only by cold.— Coldness and shivering, cutis anserina and paleness of the face.—Thirst only after the shivering.—Sweat of the smell of urine. Moral Symptoms.—Dejection and disposed to weep.— Anxious inquietude, with agitation which forces one to keep constantly in motion.— Want of confidence in oneself. —Pusillanimity and timidity.—Disposition to be angry, and to fly into a rage.—Paroxysms of rage, with cries, vu.vi-s and barkings, renewed on disturbing the throat and CANTHARIS. 139 at the sight of water.—Delirium.—Vesania.—Mania, with extravagant acts and gestures. Head.—Vertigo with loss of consciousness, and mist before the sight, chiefly in the open air.—Head-ache which interrupts sleep at night.—Pressive lancinations in the head, which disappear in walking.—Acute drawing pains in the head, with vertigo.—Congestion of the head.—Beat- ing in the brain and heart which mounts to the head.— Sensation of burning in the head, as if the interior were raw and sore,and inflammation of the brain.—Drawing, jerking and gnawing in the bones of the head.—Head-ache as if the hair were pulled.—Hair standing on end.—Head-ache proceeding from the nape of the neck and penetrating through to the forehead. Eyes.—Pain in the eyes, with sensation as if the eye- lids were excoriated, chiefly when they are opened.—In- flammation of the eyes with burning smarting.—Yellow- ish colour of the eyes.—Prominence and convulsive move- ments of the eyes.—The objects seem to be tinged with a yellow hue. Ears.—Inflammation and burning heat of the ears. Nose.—Swelling of the nose, also in the interior, with redness and burning heat.—Fetid' and sickly smells.—Co- ryza of long duration and catarrh, with copious flow of viscous mucus from the nose. Face.—Paleness of the face.—Face hollow, hippocratic, with features which express anguish and despair.—Yellow- ish colour of the face.—Erysipelatous inflammation and scaling off from the cheeks.—Burning redness and swelling of the face.—Swelling of one side of the face (the right side) with tension.—Swelling and inflammation of the lips. —Fissure and exfoliation of the lips.—Trismus. Teeth.—Tooth-ache, generally drawing, aggravated by eating.—Fistula in the gums.—Ulceration of the gum§. Mouth.—Taste of cedar-pitch in the mouth.—Inflam- mation of the mucous membrane of the mouth.—Phlegmo- nous inflammation of the interior of the cheek.—Aphtha in the mouth.—Frothy salivation with streaks of blood.— Foam at the mouth.—Coagulated blood from the mouth.— Inflammatory swelling and suppuration of the tongue.— Weakness of the organs of speech, and languid speech. Throat.—Sore throat in swallowing.—Difficult degluti- tion, with strangulation in the throat, and nocturna| regur- gitation of food.—Impeded deglutition, especially of liquids.—Burning in the throat in swallowing.—Inflamma- tion and ulceration of the tonsils and of the throat.—Burn- ing painsin the throat aggravated by drinking water. 140 CANTHARIS. Appetite.—Loss of taste.—Taste of pitch in the mouth and in the throat.—Thirst, from dryness of the lips, with repugnance to all drinks.—Want of appetite, with disgust and repugnance to all sorts of food. Stomach.—Eructations, with burning sensation as from pyrosis, aggravated by drinking.—Sob-like eructations, which seem to take an inverse direction and to return towards the stomach.—Vomiting of undigested food.— Vomiting of bilious and slimy substances, or of blood.— Great sensibility of the precordial region.—Pressive ful- ness, with anxiety and inquietude in the stomach.—Smart- ing and burning pains in the stomach.—Inflammation of the stomach. Abdominal Region.—.Inflammation of the liver.—Sting- ing and contraction in the right hypochondrium.—■ Great sensibility of the abdomen to the touch.—Burning pain in the abdomen, also from the gullet to the rectum.—■ Burning pain above the navel on coughing, sneezing or blowing the nose, with yellowish spots on the part affect- ed.—Inflammation of the intestines.—Dropsical swelling of the abdomen.—Incarceration of flatulency under the hypo- chondria. FjEces.—Constipation and hard fasces.—Diarrhcea, with evacuation of frothy matter or greenish mucus, with cut- tings after the evacuation and burning pain in the rectum. —Dysenterical diarrhcea, with nocturnal evacuation of whitish mucus, and of solid pieces like false membranes, with streaks of blood.—Sanguineous evacuations. Urine.—Retention of urine with cramp-like pains in the bladder.—*Urgent and ineffectual effort to make water, -with painful emission drop by drop.—*Difficult emission of urine, "in a weak and scattered stream.—Increased secretion of urine.—Urine pale yellow, or *of a deep and red colour.—Flow of sanguineous mucus from the vesica.— ^Emission of blood, drop by drop.—Purulent urine.— *Buming smarting on making water.—*Cutting pains in the front part of the urethra, during the emission of urine and afterwards.—:*Sharp, tearing, and cutting pains, ~suc- » cessive pullings and pulsations in the urinary organs.— inflammation and -ulceration of the kidneys, of the vesica and of the urethra.—*Exceedingly painful sensibility of the region of the vesica, on being touched. Ge.jital Ohgans.—Draggings in the spermatic chord when making wrater.—Inflammation and gangrene of the genital parts.—Painful swelling of the testes.—Sexual de- sire greatly increased, with erections painful, frequent and of long continuance ; priapismus.—Ready emission, during CANTHARIS,--CAPSICUM ANNUUM. - 141 amorous caresses.—Spermatorrhoea.—After coition, burn ing pain in the urethra.—Catamenia premature and too copious, with black blood and pains during the flow.— Escape of mola, of foetus, and of the placenta.—*Swelling of the neck of the matrix.—Corrosive leucorrhcea, with burning when making water and excitement of sexual desire. Larynx.—Hoarseness, with painful rattling of viscous mucus, copious, and coming from the chest, and with cut- ting shootings in the trachea.—Inflammation of the larynx.— Sensation of excessive weakness in the organs of respira- tion, when speaking and breathing deeply.—Voice feeble, timid, and trembling. Chest.—Respiration difficult and oppressed, by constric- tion of the throat, and dryness of the nose.—Suspension of respiration when going up a hill, with rattling in the chest and nausea.—Shootings in the chest and in the sides.— Burning pains in the chest, from whence small clots of blood are at times detached.—Palpitation of the heart. Trunk and Extremities.—Acute drawing pains in the back.—Sensation of constriction in the spine.—Empros- thotonos and opisthotonos.—Acute tractive pains in the arms.—Want of strength in the hands.— Pains in the hips with spasmodic sufferings in the urinary organs.—Acute tractive, piercing pains in the legs, from the feet to the hips.—Trembling of the legs. 39.—CAPSICUM ANNUUM. CAPS.—Cayenne pepper—Hahnemann.—Duration of effect: for 20 days, in some cases of chronic disease. Antidote: Camph.—Capsicum is an antidote against calad. and chin. Compare with : Arn. bell- calad. chin- cin. ign. n-vom. puis, veratr. CLINICAL REMARKS.—The cases in which this medicine may be employed appear from the ensemble of the symptoms to be:—Affections of persons of a phlegmatic temperament ; Nostalgia; Megrim and hysterical cephalal- gia!; Facial neuralgia 1; Stomacace ; Dysenieria ; Diar- rhoea ; Catarrhal cough ; Intermittent fevers ; effects of the abuse of Cinchona, &c, &c. [It deserves attention in flatulent colic ; in blind piles with intense burning smarting pains; in dysentery with violent tenesmus and profuse evacuation of blood ; in hae- morrhoids; in chronic inflammation of the bladder ; in ex- cessive over-irritation of the mind, with fearfulness and ca- price, loss of memory and mental confusion. Ed.] 142 . CAPSICUM ANNUUM. 00" See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Aching pains.—Drawing pains in the limbs excited by motion.—Pain as from dislo- cation, with stiffness and crackling in the joints, often at the beginning of a walk.—Cramps in the body, with stiffness of the arms and legs and crawling and sensation of giddiness.—Re- pugnance to movement.—The symptoms show themselves chiefly in the evening and at night, and are aggravated by the open air, contact and cold, as well as by beginning to move, and after having drunk or eaten.—Great sensibility to fresh air and to a current of air.—Sleeplessness without apparent cause.—Sleep full of dreams. Fever.—Fever chills and coldness over the whole body, with ill-humour increasing with the cold, or else with anx- iety, dizziness and dulness of the head.—Shivering, coming from the back.—Cold and shivering every time after drink- ing.—*Fever with predominance of cold and with thirst, burning heat and mucous sufferings. Moral Symptoms.—Aptness to be frightened.—Discontent. ■—Obstinate resistance.—Strong disposition to take every thing in bad part, to fly into a rage, even on account, of pleasantries, and to utter reproaches.—Capricious and ex- ceedingly changeable humour.—Dulness of all the senses. —Want of reflection and awkwardness.—"Nostalgia with redness of the cheeks and sleeplessness.—Disposition to jest and to utter witticisms. Head.—Bewilderment of the head—Intoxication, as if from spirituous liquors.—Head-ache as if the cranium were going to burst, when walking or moving the head.—Attack of one-sided head-ache, pressive, and shooting, with nau- sea, vomiting, and loss of memory, aggravated by move- ment of the eyes.—Shooting, or acute drawing pains, es- pecially in the sides of the head.—Pain of pressive sever- ing in the brain, as if from fulness.—Pulsative head-ache.— Gnawing itching in the hairy scalp, with pain at the roots of the hair, after having scratched. Eyes.—Pressure in the eyes, as if from a foreign sub- stance being introduced into them.—Inflammation of the eyes, with redness, burning pain, and lachrymation.—Eyes prominent.—Confusion of sight, especially in the morning, as if something were swimming on the cornea, admitting of momentary mitigation by rubbing.—Sight entirely ex- tinct, as if from amaurosis. Ears.—Acute drawing pains in the ears.—Itching and pressure in the bottom of the auditory tube.—Painful swelling behind the ear.—Diminution of hearing. CAPSICUM ANNUUM. 143 Nose.—Epistaxis, especially in bed, in the morning.— Painful pimples under the nostrils.—Dry coryza, with crawling and tickling in the nostrils. Face.—Redness of the face, often alternating with pale- ness.—Many small red spots on the face —Gnawing, itch- ing tetter on the forehead.—Pains in the face, in the bones, when they are aggravated by the touch, or in the nerves, when they are aggravated during sleep.—Dull pressure on the cheek-bone. — Swelling of the lips—Ulcerated eruptions and fissures on the lips.—Swelling of the lips. Teeth.—Pains in the teeth as if they were set on edge or elongated.—Traction in the teeth and in the gums.— Swelling of the gums. Throat.—Burning blisters in the mouth and on the tongue.—Slimy saliva int he mouth.—Sore throat with pain- ful deglutition and drawing in the pharynx.—Cramp-like contraction of the throat. Appetite.—Aqueous and insipid taste.—Sour taste in the mouth, and also a taste of broth.—Absence of appetite. —Desire for coffee, with inclination to vomit before or after having taken it.—Pyrosis.—Desire to vomit, felt gen- erally in the epigastrium, with pressure on the part. Stomach.—Pain in the stomach, which is inflated.—- Sensation of coldness in the stomach.—Burning pain in the stomach and epigastrium, especially immediately after a meal.—Shootings in the epigastrium, when breathing rapidly and deeply, when speaking and on being touched. Abdominal Region.—Abdomen inflated, almost to burst- ing, with pressive tension and suspension of respiration.— Draggings and moving in the abdomen.—Strong pulsations in the abdomen.—Flatulent colic.—Protrusion, flatulent hernia in the inguinal ring. Fjeces.—Tenesmus.—Small dysenteric evacuations, with discharge of slimy and sanguineous matter, preceded by flatulent colic.—Nocturnal diarrhoea, with burning pains in the anus.—Blind haemorrhoids, with pains while evacu- ating. Urine.—Tenesmus of the bladder.—Frequent,*urgent and almost useless efforts to make water.—Burning pains when making water.—Cramp-like and cutting contractions in'the neck of the vesica.—Cutting and shooting pains in the urethra, also when not urinating.—Purulent running from the urethra, like a gonorrhoea.—Flow of blood from the urethra. Genital Organs.—Impotence and coldness ofthegenital 144 CAPSICUM ANNUUM—CAKBO ANIMAL1S. „««,-Violent erections in the morning—Trembling of pans. »i during amorous caresses. La«« ^olr"Less.-*Cough more violent in the evening and at night, -with pains « other parts of the body, especially in the head and in the bladder, as if they were ing lo burst, or with pressure in the throat and ears, as if an abscess were about to open in them.—Cough after taking coffee.—Cough with fetid breath, and disagreeable taste in the mouth. Chest.—Inclination to breathe deeply.—Oppressed res- piration, sometimes as if proceeding from the stomach.— Constrictive pain in the chest.—Shootings in the chest when breathing.—Pulsative pain in the chest, which suspends respiration, and which is' increased by motion. Trunk and Extremities.—Acute drawing pains in the bones.—Stiffness of the neck.—Tension in the knees and heaviness in the calves of the legs when walking.—Stiff- ness of the arms and legs with formication as when they are asleep. 40.—CARBO ANIMALIS. CARB-AN—Animal charjoal —Hahnemann.—Duration of effect; for 40 d;iys, in some cases of chronic uiseases. Antidote : Camph. (see carb-veg.) Compare with : Carb-veg., and the medicines which are enumeratedjlun- der that title. CLINICAL REMARKS.—This medicine has been as yet employed only against some species of Gastralgia, In- duration of the glands, Metrorrhagia, Arthritic nodosities, &c. [It has been used with success in scirrhus of the lips, thyroid glands, and those of the breasts and uterus; against enlargements and indurations of the parotid glands; coppery eruptions of the face and nose ; it is said to reproduce milk in the breasts.after weanim?; it has been given with benefit against painful lumps in the female breasts, erysipelatous inflammation of the mammae, and even against open can- cer of the breast and womb; in induration with pain of the glands of the groin, arm-pits, neck, &c. ; in habitual ery- sipelas of the face,- induration and engorgement of the liver ; fistula in ano ; chronic constipation ; vesical fistula • incipient laryngeal phthisis ,• induration of the pancreas &^c. &c. nd. i ' GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Pressive pains in the joints and the muscles of the limbs.—Burning pains.-__Nocti J pains in the joints.—Pains as from a bruise «,,„!> strength, and crackling in the joints, which bend easily .J!. CARBO ANIMALIS. 145 "Arthritic Stiffness and gouty nodosities in the joints.— lension in some limbs, as if from contraction of the ten- dons.—Spasmodic contraction of several parts.—Tendency to suffer a strain from lifting a weight.—Torpor of all the members, especially of the head.—Great fatigue and in- dolence in the morning.—*Great fatigue and weakness, produced especially by walking, with easy perspiration, chiefly when eating or walking in the open air.—"Exces- sive sensibility to the open air, and especially to the cold air of winter.—Ebullition of blood, and tendency to become easily overheated. Skin.—Itching over the skin of the whole body, espe- cially in the evening in bed.—Erysipelatous inflamma- tions.—"Chilblains.—*Hard and painful swelling of the glands.—Swelling of the external parts, with burning pain. Sleep.—Late falling asleep, and nocturnal sleeplessness, caused by inquietude, anguish, ebullition of blood, and fear of being stifled.—Frightful visions before going to sleep. —Sleep, with many unquiet dreams, tears, talking, and hol- low groans. Fever.—Shiverings, especially in the evening, in bed, with perspiration during sleep—Excessive coldness of the feet and hands in the evening.—Nocturnal heat.—*Easy perspiration during the day, especially at a meal, or when walking.—Debilitating, and fetid sweat, especially at night and in the morning, principally on the thighs.—Sweat which stains the linen a yellow colour. Moral Symptoms —Nostalgia and mournful feeling of desertion, with tears.—Fear and terror, especially in the evening.—*Discouragement and despair.—*Disposition to be frightened.—Alternate feeling of gaiety and gloom, or of irascibility and ill-humoured taciturnity.—Confusion of ideas and dulness, especially in the mornino-. Head.—* Vertigo, especially in the evening or in the morn- ing, and sometimes -with nausea on rising, after remaining long in a recumbent posture, or else with obscuration of the eyes, when moving the head.—Head-ache in the morn- ing, as after a debauch.—Head-ache in the open air and aggravated by damp weather—Heaviness, especially in the occiput, with bewilderment.—Pressive head-ache, even after a meal, -and which forces one to close the eye-lids.—Con- gestion and internal heat of the head.—Sensation of wav- ing in the brain, at every movement.—Sensation of torpor in the head.—Acute, drawing pains in the integuments of the right side of the head.—Tension of the skin of the forehead and of the crown of the head.—Sensibility of the Vol. I. 13 146 CARBO ANIMALIS. hairy scalp to the pressure of the hat.—*Scabs and erup- tions on the head. Eyes.—Sensation as if the ball of the eye were detached from the socket with weakness of sight.—Presbyopia with dilation of the pupils. Ears.—"Running from the ears.—Confusion of hearing j sounds reach the ears indistinctly.—* Buzzing in the ears.— Swelling of the periosteum behind the ear.—Swelling of the parotids. Nose.—End of the nose red and cracked, with burning pain.—Nose swollen with scabby pimples (as at the com- mencement of a cancer 1).—Scaling off of the skin of the nose—Painful sensibility of the bones of the nose.—Epis- taxis, preceded by vertigo, or pressive head-ache.—"Stop- page of the nose.—*Dry coryza.—Fluent coryza, with loss of smell, sneezing and frequent yawning. Face.—Spots in the face, which are smooth, thickened and rose-coloured.—Shootings in the cheek-bones, in the teeth and jaws.—Painless copper-coloured eruption on the face.— Erysipelas of the face.—Swelling of the mouth and of the lips, with burning pain.—Blisters on the lips.—Lips cracked and bleeding. Teeth.—Pulling odontalgia when eating bread, or with dull pulsation after drinking any thing cold.—Excessive looseness of the teeth.—Tractive pains in the gums.—Red and painful swelling and bleeding of the gums.—Purulent blisters on the gums. Mouth and Throat.—Fetid smell from the mouth.— Burning blisters in the mouth and on the tongue.—*Dry- ness of the tongue and of the palate.—Sore throat, as if from excoriation, with scraping and shooting from the throat and the stomach.—Accumulation of mucus in the throat, with coughing and rattling. Appetite.—*Bitterness in the mouth, -especially in the morning.—Acid and mucous taste.—Repugnance to fat and tobacco-smoke, which cause nausea.—*Great weakness of digestion, to such an extent that almost all food causes sufferings. * Stomach.—Eructations with taste of food, or else *acid. —"Abortive eructations with pain.—Pyrosis, with scraping in the throat.—"Hiccough after a meal.— Flow of sour water from the mouth.—* Nausea, also at night.—*Insipidity in the stomach, as if one were going to fall from weakness. —Saliva from the stomach.—*Pressure in the stomach, _as if from a weight, when fasting and in the evening, after lying down.—* Cramp-like or contractive pains in the stomach.— CARBO ANIMAL1S. 147 *Burning pains in the stomach.—"Squeezing in the stomach, as if with claws.—Noisy grumbling in the stomach. Abdominal Region.—Pain in the liver, as if from exco- riation, when touched.—*Pressure and cuttings in the he- patic region.—Abdomen inflated and extended.—Constric- tion and squeezing, as if with claws, in the abdomen.— Cuttings and shootings in the groins.—Inguinal hernia.— *Loud rumbling in the abdomen.—* Incarceration of flatu- lency.—Fetid flatulency. Faeces.—Ineffectual efforts to evacuate; discharge of wind only.—Feces hard and knotty.—*Frequent evacua- tions during the day.—Before the evacuation, drawing pain from the anus to the vulva.—Pain in the kidneys during the evacuation.—Burning, hemorrhoidal tumours in the anus.—Burning pains and *shooting in the anus, -and in the rectum.—Excoriation and oozing from the anus.— Discharge of tenia.—Slimy oozing from the perineum.— When riding on horseback one is easily galled. Urine.—Urgent desire to make water, with more abun- dant emission.—Emission of urine at night.—Involuntary emission of urine.— Fetid urine.—Burning urine. Genital Organs.—Absence of sexual desire.—Frequent pollutions, followed by weakness and anxious inquietude. —Premature catamenia.—*Leucorrhaia burning, smarting, "or which imparts a yellow tinge to the linen.—Serous and fetid lochia.—*Painful nodosities and indurations in the mammillary glands.—"Erysipelatous inflammation of the breasts. Larynx.—Oppression of the chest, especially in the evening and at night.—Aphonia at night.—Morning hoarse- ness.—Hoarse cough with pain as of excoriation in the throat.—Dry cough at night.—Suffocating cough, especially in the evening, after having slept.—Morning cough with expectoration, excited by a sensation of dryness in the throat.—Cough, with purulent expectoration, and shootings in the right side of the chest. Chest.—Panting respiration.—Rattling in the throat, in bed in the evening.—Oppressed respiration, especially in the morning and after a meal.—Suffocating constriction of the chest, especially in the morning, in bed.—Shootings in the chest, as if from an abscess, especially when breathing. —Sensation of coldness in the chest.—*Palpitation of the heart, in the morning, evening, and when singing in the church. Trunk.—Nocturnal pains in the back.—Pressure and shooting in the kidneys especially when breathing deeply.— 148 CARBO ANIMALIS---CARBO VEGETABILIS. Burning in the coccyx, when touched.—Burning pain in the back.—Induration of the glands of the neck with shooting pain.— Tetters under the arm-pit.—Moisture in the arm- pit.—"Induration of the axillary glands. Arms.—Aching in the bones, raking pains in the arms —Pressure on the shoulders.—Pain as from disloca- tion of the wrist.—Torpor and numbness of the hands and of the fingers.—Painful tension and "arthritic stiffness of the joints of the fingers.—Shootings in the fingers. Legs.—*Shooting pain in the hip, which forces one to limp, attended with stitches.—Tension and contraction in the groins, which does not permit the legs to be stretched. —Tension in the hams and the instep, with contraction of the parts.—Pain as from excoriation in the knees.— Cramps in the calves of the legs, the legs and the toes.— *Pullings and shootings in the legs.—Easy spraining of the feet and of the toes, when walking.—Coldness of the feet.—Inflammatory swelling of the feet and of the toes, as if they had been frozen, with heat and burning.—Burning pain in the toes. 41.—CARBO VEGETABILIS. CARB-V.—Vegetable charcoal.—Hahnemann.—Duration of effect: for 40 days, in some cases of chronic disease. Antidotes : Arsen. camph. coff'. lach.—This medicine is an antidote against Chin. lach. mere, vinum. Compare with: Ant. arsen. calc. carb'an. chin. coff. fer. graph, kal. lach. lye. mere. natr. n vom. puis. rhod. sep stram. Zinc.—This carbon, when indicated, will do good after : kal. lach. sep. n-vom.—Alter this car- bon : ars. kal. mere, will sometimes be found suitable. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Guided by the whole of the symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be em- ployed will appear to be:—Evil effects from the abuse of mercury, or of cinchona; Scorbutic affections; Weakness in consequence of loss of temper or in consequence of severe acute diseases; Nervous torpor, wkh want of re- action of the vital force (against the medicines); Paraly- sis; Til-effects from lifting a heavy-weight or from riding in a carriage; Sufferings caused by warm (and damp) wea- ther ; Sensibility to changes of weather ; Rheumatic affec- tions; Varices; Chilblains 1; Induration of the glands 1; Miliary or humid, scabies; Nettle rash; Putrid ulcers; Lymphatic abscess; Marks at the birth; Aneurisms; Ic- terus ; Typhus fever, last stage, with almost complete ex- tinction of" vital force ; Intermittent fevers, even those which the abuse of cinchona has rendered obstinate; Ce- phalalgia, especially that caused by a dabauch, or by being CARBO VEGETABILIS. 149 over-heated; Megrim ; Falling off of the hair, in conse- quence of severe acute diseases; Ophthalmia, from having fatigued the sight too much.—Hemorrhagia of the eyes; Purulent otorrhoea ; Epidemic parotitis ; Fluent coryza ; Epistaxis; Humid tetters on the face; Pimples on the face, in young persons ; Scorbutic affection of the gums; Stomacace ; Angina in consequence of morbilli ; Gastric uneasiness, in consequence of a debauch ; Gastralgia of nurses; Gastralgia with sourness, or produced by stagna- tion of blood in the system of the vena porta? (after the use of nux-vom.) ; Asiatic cholera, with total absence of pulse ; Colic, from the motion of a carriage ; Flatulent, or hazmorrhoidal colic ; Putrid or mucous diarrhoea ; Blind or fluent hemorrhoids; Wetting the bed, in children ; Dia- betes % ; Menstrual colic; Leucorrhcea; Disposition to miscarriage, with varices in the parts ; Inflammation of the breasts; Catarrh and hoarseness,also in consequence of morbilli ; Grippe ; Chronic laryngitis (with ulceration) ; Convulsive cough ; Flatulent asthma ; Paralytic Orthop- noea ; Tuberculous phthisis (first stage ) ; Chronic pneu- monia 1 [This remedy cannot be too highly recommended in chronic and obstinate intermitting fever of years stand- ing ; in tubercular and herpetic eruptions ; chronic disgust for meat; suppuration of the bronchial glands, &c, &c. Ed.] (£T See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Pains with anxiety, heat and complete discouragement, or with dejection after the paroxysm.—Acute pullings and arthritic pains, with paraly- tic weakness,chiefly inthe limbs, and sufferings from flatu- lency, or with difficulty of respiration, when the chest is attacked.—"Pain as from dislocation in the limbs, or pain as if caused by a strain.—*Burning pains in the limbs and in the back.—*Pulsation in different parts of the body.— "Trembling and jerkings in the limbs by day.—*Ready numbness of the limbs.—The majority of symptoms appear while walking in the open air.—'Emaciation, especially of the face.—*Soren'ess of all the limbs, especially in the morn- ing, when one has just risen.—Great weakness of the flex- ors.—* Excessive dejection, -frequently proceeding to faint- ing, even in the morning in bed, or else at the beginning of a walk.—Sudden prostration of the physical powers.— General dejection towards noon, with desire to support the head and to repose oneself.—"Paralysis and total ab- sence of pulse.—*Liability to take cold. 13* 150 CARBO VEGETABILIS. Skin.—Sensation of crawling over the skin of the whole body.—General itching in the evening and on be- coming warm in bed.—Burning sensation in different parts of the skin.—* Eruption of small pimples like miliary sca- bies.—*Nettle rash.—"Tetters.—Reddish brown streaks.— Ulcers, without pain, in the extremities of the fingers and of the toes.—*Fetid ulcers and easily bleeding, with burning pains, and discharge of a corrosive and bloody pus.— Chilblains.—"Varices.—"Plexus of the veins, formed by a dilation of the capillary vessels, with violent hemorr- hages, after the slightest injury.— Lymphatic swellings, with suppuration and burning pains.—"Induration of the glands. Sleep.—Great desire to sleep during the day, "disappear- ing when moving.—*Sleep in the morning, or early in the evening.—Comatose sleep, with rattling in the throat.— Retarded sleep and * sleeplessness caused by uneasiness in the body.—At night, or in the evening, when in bed, head-ache, anguish, with oppression of the chest, jerkings and pains in the limbs, coldness in the hands and in the feet, &c.— 'Dreams frequent, fantastical, anxious and terrible, with talking, or with starts and fright. Fever.—*Shivering and coldness in the body.—Febrile shivering in the evening and at night, followed by transient heat.—*Nocturnal sweat.—*Acid sweat in the morning.— "Cold sweat on the-limbs and face. Moral Symptoms.—*Inquietude and anxiety, especially in the evening.— Fear of spectres, especially at night.— Timidity, irresolution, and embarrassment in society.— Despair with tearful humour, aud discouragement with desire for death, and tendency to suicide.—*Disposition to be frightened.—Irascibility and passion.—Sudden, and pe- riodical weakness of memory.—Slowness of the march of ideas.—Fixed ideas.—"Aversion to exertion. Head.—Vertigo, after the slightest movement of the head, or after having slept, as well as when stooping and walking.—Vertigo with nausea, obscuration of the eyes, trembling, buzzing in the ears, and even loss of conscious- ness.— Head-ache from being overheated.—Head-ache with trembling of the jaw.—Nocturnal head-ache.—Cramp-like tension in the brain, or sensation, as if from contraction of the teguments of the head.—* Heaviness of the head.— Pressive head-ache, especially above the eyes, in the tem- ples and occiput.—Drawing pain in the head, coming from the nape, with nausea.—Shootings in the crown of the head. —Beating and pulsation in the head, especially in the even- CARBO VEGETABILIS. 151 ing, or after a meal, with congestion of blood, and heat or burning sensation in the head.—The head-ache frequently extends from the nape of the neck to the brain, and is sometimes aggravated after a meal.—Acute, tractive pains in the teguments of the head, especially in the occiput and in the forehead, often extending from the limbs.—Painful sen- sibility of the hairy scalp to external pressure (for instance, that of the hat).—*Readiness to take cold in the head.— Falling off of the hair. Eves.— Pains in the eyes, after having fatigued the sight. — Pains in the muscles of the eyes, when looking into the air.—Itching, smarting, heat, *pressure and burning pain in the eyes, and in the corners of the eyes.—Nocturnal ag- glutination of the eye-lids.—"Bleeding of the eyes, often with strong congestion to the head.—Shivering and trembling of the eye-lids.— Myopia.—"Insensible pupil. Ears.—Otalgia in the evening.—In the evening, red- ness and heat, of the external ear.—Want of cerumen.— *Flow of fetid pus from the ear.—Obstruction of the ears. —Tingling and buzzing in the ears.—Swelling of the parotids. Nose.—*Itching in the nose, with tickling and crawling in the nostrils.—Scabs at the point of the nose.—"Obstruc- tion of the nose, especially towards evening, or serous flow, without coryza.—* Violent coryza, with hoarseness and raucity of the chest, crawling and tickling in the nose, and ineffectual desire to sneeze.—* Frequent and continued epistaxis, especially at night and in the morning, with paleness of the face, or else after having stooped, or after straining to evacuate. Face—*Paleness of the face.—*Complexion yellow, -grayish—"Face hippocratical.—Tractive pains, acute pull- ings, piercings, and burning pains in the bones of the face. —Swelling of the face and of the cheeks —"Tetters in the face.—Furunculi before the ear and under the jaw.;—"Red pimples on the face (in young persons).—Swelling of the lips — Lips cracked.—Purulent blisters on the lips.—Fis- sures of ulcerated lips.—Eruptions, like tetters, on the commisure of the lips.—Twitching of the upper lip. Teeth.—Tooth-ache, with pulling or drawing pains; acute, or ^contractive, gnawing or pulsative pains, "pro- voked by taking any thing hot or cold, -as well as by too salt food.—"Obstinate looseness of the teeth.—*Opening, re- traction, excoriation, and ulceration of the gums.—* Bleeding of the gums,'and of the teeth. Mouth.—Heat and ^dryness, or accumulation of water in 152 CARBO VEGETABILIS. the mouth.—Roughness in the mouth and on the tongue.— Excoriation of the tongue, with difficulty of moving it. Throat.—Sore throat, as if from interior swelling.— Sensation of constriction in the throat, with impeded deglutition.—Smarting, *scraping -and burning pain in the throat, the palate and the gullet.—Soreness in the throat when coughing, blowing the nose, and swallowing.-—*Rat- tling from muchphlegm in the throat which is easily detached. Appetite.—*Bitter taste.—Salt taste in the mouth and of food.—Absence of appetite, or thirst and immoderate hun- ger.—Chronic dislike to meat, milk and fat.—Desire for salt food, or food sweetened with sugar.—* After a meal, "but especially after taking milk, great inflation of the abdomen, *sourness in the mouth, and sour risings.—*Sweat, especial- ly during a meal.—Great heat after drinking wine.—After dinner, confusion of the head and pressure on the stomach, or head-ache, heaviness in the limbs and mental anxiety. Stomach.—*Empty or bitter risings.—Rising of food, and especially of fat food.—* Sour risings, especially after a meal.—Pyrosis.—Hiccough after every movement.—Nau- sea, especially in the morning, after a meal, or at night.— *Continual Nausea.—*Flowof water from the stomach, like saliva, even in the night.— Vomiting of blood.—Heaviness, fulness and tension in the stomach.—*Cramps in the stom- ach, contractive, or pressive and burning, with accumula- tion of flatulency and great sensibility of the epigastrium. —Sensation of scraping and of trembling in the stomach.— "The pains in the stomach are aggravated or renewed by fright, opposition, or a chill, as well as after a meal, or at night, and especially after having taken flatulent food, *or else also by lactation.—*Pressure in the pit of the stom- ach, as if the heart were going to be crushed, "especially in nurses. Abdominal Region.—*Pain in the hypochondria like that of a bruise, and especially in the hepatic region, principally when touched.—Shooting pain in the sides.—*Tension, pres- sure, and shootings in the hepatic region.—Shootings in the spleen.—Pressure of the clothes on the hypochondria.— "Pains in the umbilical region when touched.—Heaviness, fulness, *inflation and tension of the abdomen, -with heat in the whole body.— Colic, from the motion of a carriage.— Pressure and cramps in the abdomen.— * Pain in the abdo- men, as if from lifting a weight or from dislocation.—Burn- ing pain and great anguish in the abdomen.—Pinching in the abdomen, coming from the left side and extending to- wards the right side, with sensation of paralytic weakness CARBO VEGETABILIS. 153 in the thigh.—Production of much flatulency, especially after a meal, and sometimes with sensation or torpor in the abdomen.—Flatulent, cramp-like colic, even at night.— "Borborygmi and movements in the abdomen.—*Immod- erate discharge of flatulency, of a putrid smell—"Aggrava- tion of the abdominal sufferings after the smallest particle of food.—The pains in the abdomen are often accompa- nied by inquietude and tears. Faeces.---* Constipation.---Insufficient evacuations.— Difficult evacuations, without being hard, with urgent de- sire, burning pain in the anus, and pains similar to those of parturition, in the abdomen.—* Evacuations liquid, "pale or mucous.—Discharge of mucus and of blood instead of feces, with crying of children during the evacuation.—"In- voluntary evacuation of putrid substances.—Discharge of blood from the anus, with every evacuation.—After the evacuation, pressive pain in the abdomen.—*Large, "pain- ful hemorrhoidal tumours of a deep blue colour.—Fluent hemorrhoids.—Shooting, *itching and burning pain in the anus.—Discharge of tenia.—Discharge of a viscous and corrosive serum from the anus and rectum, especially at night.—Excoriation and oozing from the perineum. Urine.—*Diminution of the secretion of urine.— *Fre- quent, anxious and urgent desire to make water, day and night.—"Wetting the bed—Urine red, and very deep colour- ed, as if it were mixed with blood.—Copious urine, of a clear yellow colour, or thickish and whitish.—Smarting on making water. Genital Organs.—"Extraordinary flow of of voluptuous thoughts.'—*Pollutions too frequent.—*Too speedy emis- sion in coition.—Smooth, red, and running spots on the glans.—Discharge of prostatic fluid during defecation.— Itching and moisture on the thigh near the scrotum.— "Pressure in the testes.—*Premature and too profuse cata- menia, or too small, with discharge of pus.—Before the catamenia cramps in the abdomen and head-ache.—During the catamenia, vomiting, and pains in the teeth, head, kid- neys and abdomen.—*Itching, burning, excoriation, -apthe and "swelling of the vulva.—Milk-white, thick and yellowish, greenish and corrosive discharge from the vagina.—Leucor- rhoea before the catamenia.—"Inflammation of the breasts. Larynx.—*Prolonged hoarseness and raucity of the voice, especially towards the evening.—*In the morning and in the evening, hoarseness, aggravated by prolonged con- versation, and chiefly in ccld and damp weather.—Scraping, crawling, and tickling in the larynx.—Cough excited by 154 CARBO VEGETABILIS. a crawling in the throat, or with burning pain and sensa- tion of excoriation in the chest.—*Cramp-like cough, also with inclination to vomit and vomiting, three or four times a day, or else in the evening for a long time successively. —Cough in the evening before lying down or in bed.— When coughing, painful shootings in the head.—*Cough, with expectoration of greenish mucus, or of a yellowish pus.—Cough, with spitting of blood and burning pain in the chest. Chest.—Dyspncea on walking.—*Great difficulty of res- piration and oppression of the chest.—Fits of choking, caused by flatulency.—Painful beating in the head when breathing.—Frequent inclination to take deep inspiration. —Want of breath, especially in the evening in bed.— * Burning pain, shootings, and pressure on the chest.—Com- pression and cramp-like constriction in the chest.—T ght- ness of the chest with a sensation of fulness and anxiety. —*Pain as from excoriation of the chest.—Sensation of fa- tigue in the chest, and violent palpitation of the heart.— Rheumatic, drawing pains, acute pullings and pressure on the chest. Trunk.—Rheumatic drawing pains, acute pulling and shootings in the back, the nape of the neck, and the muscles of the neck.—"Continual shootings in the loins, especially on making a false step.—Rigidity of the spine.—Itching pim-, pies on the back.—Itching, excoriation and moisture under the arm-pits.—* Rigidity of the nape of the neck. Arms.—Acute drawing and burning pains in the mus- cles and joints of the shoulder.—*Pullings and acute draw- ing pains in the fore-arms, the wrist, and the fingers.—Re- laxation of the muscles of the arms and of the hands, when laughing.—Tension in the joints of the hand as if they were too short.—Cramp-like contraction of the hands. —*Heat of the hands.—Paralytic weakness of the wrists and of the fingers, especially when laying hold of an ob- . ject.—Fine, granulated, and itching eruption on the hands. —Ulceration of the extremities of the fingers. Legs.—Torpor and insensibility of the legs and feet.—. Drawing and paralytic pain in the legs.—Acute pulling and drawing burning pains in the hip and knees.—Strong ten- sion and cramp-like pains in the coxo-femoral joints, the thighs and the knees.—Inquietude and heaviness of the legs.—Tension and *numbness of the knees.—"Aneurism in the ham, with tensive pain, and pulsation.— Tetters in the knee.—Cramps in the legs and in the soles of the feet, and *at night, in the calves of the legs.—*Fetid and easi- CASCARILLA--CASTOREUM. 155 , ly bleeding ulcers, "in the legs.—"Obstinate torpor in the feet.—*Perspiration of the feet.—"Redness and swelling of the toes, with shooting pain, as if they had been frozen.— Ulceration of the extremities of the toes. 42.—CASCARILLA. CASC—Croton Cascarilla.—Hartlaub and Trinks—A medicine as yet very little known. Symptoms.—Heat, with thirst and desire for warm drinks. —Buzzing in the ears.—Internal and external heat of the ears.—Sore throat on swallowing, as if from an internal swelling.—Roughness of the tongue.—Bitter taste of the mouth and of tobacco smoke, for which one feels a repug- nance.—Abortive eructations.—Pressure in the stomach as if from fulness.—Pain in the stomach as from concussion.— Heat in the stomach and burning pain in the epigastrium.— Tension and pressure in the hypochondria.—Movement in the abdomen, as if hot water were undulating there.— Flatulent, pressive colic.—Evacuations, difficult, hard, bro- ken, and covered with mucus, preceded by pinchings in the abdomen.—Discharge of clear blood, with the evacuations] —Frequent emission of urine, even at night.—After the emission of urine, pain resembling excoriation, in the glands. [It deserves attention in febris mucosa.—Ed.] 43.—CASTOREUM CAST.—Fib. Castor.—Hartlaub and Thinks.—Medicine as yet very little known. CLINICAL REMARKS.—This medicine has been hitherto employed only against some cases of vomiting in pregnant women. Svmptoms.—Restless sleep at night, with anxious agi- tation and starts with fright.—Succussions of the limbs, after one has gone to sleep.—Anxious and frightful dreams. —Predominance of cold and shuddering.—Fits of shivering with icy coldness in the back.—Great sadness and exces- sive susceptibility with inclination to cry. Head.—Pain on the crown of the head, and beating in the head as if there were an ulcer in the brain, aggravated by touch and external pressure.—Fulness and heaviness of the head as if it were going to burst.—Acute drawing pains in the forehead and temples. Eyes.—Pressure in the eyes, in the evening, with weak- ness of sight.—Burning pain in the eyes, on viewing fix- edly a distant object.—Nocturnal lachrymation and agglu- 156 CASTOREUM. tination of the eyes—Stars, clouds, and on viewing fixed- ly a distant object, mist before the sight.—Susceptibility of the eyes to the light of the sun and to that of candles. Ears.—Acute dragging in the ears.—Tingling, buzzing and gurgling in the ears, dispersing as soon as the ear is stirred with the finger. Nose.—Obstruction of the nose.—Flow of aqueous, acrid, corrosive mucus from the nose. Teeth.—Tooth-ache when eating, excited by cold and re- lieved by hot things.—Odontalgia, with acute drawing pains, or successive pullings excited or aggravated by touch.— Swelling of the gums at night, with acute pulling in the temples. Mouth.—Fetid odour from the mouth, perceptible to oneself.—Pulling and jerking in the tongue.—Burning pain in the throat, as if from pyrosis. Stomach.—Burning thirst.—Bitter eructations.—Regur- gitation of a bitter sourness.—Disgust and constant nau- sea.—Vomiting of white, bitter mucus.—Sensation of ful- ness and heaviness in the stomach.—Sensation of numbness in the stomach.—Sensation of contraction and pain as of ulceration in the epigastrium. Abdominal Region.—Most violent colic, with redness of the face and yawnings mitigated by external heat and by bending oneself double.—Fulness and painful inflation of the abdomen, especially after a meal. Faeces.—Urgent desire to evacuate.—Diarrhea accom- panied by shivering and by yawning, with burning in the anus, and preceded by pain in the abdomen with grum- bling and borborygmi.—Evacuations of sanguineous mu- cus. Urine.—Frequent discharge of urine, with burning thirst, day and night.—After the emission of urine, desire to vomit and disgust.—Premature catamenia, with pains in the head and in the loins, and pale and sickly complexion.— Burning leucorrhaza. Chest.—Respiration difficult, deep, and slow, or short and oppressed.—Short breath when ascending.—Pressure in the chest.—Sensation of heaviness in the chest, especially when taking a full inspiration. Extremities.—Pain, as if from excoriation in the sacral region and back.—Drawing pains in the nape of the neck. —Nocturnal dragging in the shoulders and the arms.—Hot hand*, with swelling of the veins.—Weakness of the lower limbs. CAUSTICUM. 157 44.—CAUSTICUM. Caus.—Hahnemann.—Duration of effect: for 30 days in chronic diseases. Antidotes.—Coff. coloc—n-vom. nitr-spir.—This remedy is an antidote against asa. coloc.— Coffea tasta and phos. aggravate its sufferings. Compahe with : Amm. asa. bell. calc. cham. coff. coloc. ign. lye. mere. natr- n-vom. phos. phos-ac. rhus. sep. sulph. veratr.—Causticum, when indicated, is of especial benefit alter asa. cupr. and sep.—sep. and stann. will sometimes be found suitable after causticum. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Guided by the totality of symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be used will be found to be:—Rheumatic and arthritic affections, especially chronic arthritis, spasms and convulsions of chil- dren and of hysterical persons; Epileptic convulsions (after the use of cuprum); St. Vitus's dance; Paralysis, espe- cially that which manifests itself only on one side, or that which is the result of a suppression of some morbid secre- tion, or of some eruption, such as scabies, &c.; Encysted tumours; Warts; Excoriations of the skin ; Scabies; Hu- mid tetters ; Varices ; Melancholy, hypochondria, and hy- steria ; Megrim ; Ophthalmia, also in scrofulous persons; • Blepharophthalmia; Amblyopia amaurotica; Cataract; Oti- tis and purulent otorrhea; Hardness of hearing; Chronic coryza, with obstruction of the nose ; Prosopalgia; Para- lysis of the face; Rheumatic and arthritic odontalgia; Scorbutic affection of the gums ; Fistula of the gums ; Pa- ralysis of the organs of speech and dumbness; Paralysis of the organs of deglutition ; Gastric obstruction, in con- sequence of indigestion ; Hematemesisl; Gastralgia ; En- largement of the abdomen in children ; Constipation ; i/c- morrhoides ; Fistula in the rectum ; Incontinence of urine ; Dysmenorrhea; Hysterical spasms; Leucorrhcea; Exco- riation of the breasts; Agalactia; Excoriation and con- vulsions of children ; Catarrh and obstinate hoarseness; Aphonia; Chronic laryngitis (with consumption) ; Grippe; Spasmodic asthma 1; Organic affections of the heart; Goi- tre ; Weakness of the legs in children ; Contraction and induration of the muscles, &c, &c. O^T* See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—* Arthritic and rheumatic 9 drawing and tearing pains, especially in the limbs.—Acute and violent pulling in the joints and the bones, mitigated by heat and in bed —Contraction of the tendons, and stiff- ness in the flexors of the limbs.—Cramp-like contraction of several limbs.—Torpor and paleness of some parts or of the entire left side of the body.—"Paralysis.—*Jerkings and convulsive movements. — * Convulsive attacks, "with Vol. I. 14 158 CAUSTICUM. cries, violent movement of the limbs, grinding of the teeth, smiles or tears, eyes half-closed, fixed look, and involun- tary emission of urine ; the fits are renewed by cold water, and are preceded by pain in the abdomen and in the head, frequent emission of urine, irascibility, and tears; after the fit the eyes are closed.—* Epileptic convulsions.—Ag- gravation of the symptoms, generally in the evening, or in the open air, while those which have appeared in the open air disappear in a room.—Coffee seems also to aggravate all the symptoms.—The primitive symptoms are longer in show- ing themselves, than is the case with other medicines of long-continued action.—One-side sufferings.—*Insup- portable inquietude in the whole body in the evening, and when seated, with uneasiness in the heart.—In the even- ing, great dejection and oppression of the whole body.—* Par- alytic weakness with trembling and tottering of the limbs.— Great sensibility to a current of air, *and to cold. Skin.—Violent itching, especially in the back and in the calves of the legs.—Eruptions resembling scabies.— Miliary eruptions and urticaria.—Itching and humid tetters. —Gnawing blisters.—*Excoriation in children.—Painful • corns on the feet.—*Warts, -also with pain and inflamma- tion.—Panaris.—*Painful varices. Sleep.—Desire to sleep in the day, like comatose somno- lency.—Nocturnal restlessness, caused by anxiety, inquie- tude, dry heat and other inconveniences, with frequent starts.—Starts on going to sleep.—Frequent movement of the arms and legs during sleep.—*Anxious dreams, about grievous things, or about quarrels, or confused and volup- * tuous, with talking and laughing.—At night, vertigo, pains in the head, dryness of the mouth, and painful heaviness * of the legs. Fever.—* Violent shivering.—Nocturnal shivering with pains in the back and followed by general sweat.—Copious sweat, while walking in the open air.—^Nocturnal sweat, - sometimes of an acrid smell. Moral Symptoms.—Melancholy and vexatious thoughts, by day and night, with tears.—*Hypochondriac sadness. —Inquietude, apprehension and great anguish.—Anxiety of heart.—Fear, especially at night.—Mistrust of the future. * —*Discouragement.—* Irascibility and passion, with strong susceptibility of character.—Quarrelsome and cavillino- spirit.—Little inclination for exertion.—*Disposition to be frightened.—Weakness of memory.—Distraction.— Tendency to make mistakes when speaking. Head.—Confusion in the head, as if it were compress- CAUSTICUM. 159 ed.—Intoxication, feeling as if momentarily on the point of falling.—Vertigo, with sensation of weakness in the head, and anxiety.—Attacks of head-ache with nausea.—Head- ache in the morning sometimes on waking, with sensation as from a bruise in the brain.—Nocturnal pain in the head, as if from an abscess in the brain.—Dull and pressive head- ache, which renders one gloomy, and is felt chiefly in the forehead and in the occiput.—Shooting pains, especially in the temples.—Searching and sudden strokes in the head.—Con- gestion to the head, with ebullition and internal noise.— Tensive or compressive pains in the head.—The head-ache sometimes exhibits itself only on one side (the left).— Heat and sensation of burning in the head.—*Tightness and shootings in the head.—Tension in the hairy scalp.— Sensation of torpor in the occiput. Eyes.—Pain in the eyes, as if.the pupil were dilating.— Pressure in the eyes, as if from sand, sometimes aggravated by touch.—Itching, smarting and burning pain in the eyes. * Inflammation of the eyes and of the eye-lids.—Ulceration of the eyes.—Lachrymation.—Nocturnal agglutination of the eye-lids.—Difficulty in opening the eyes, with a sensation as if the eye-lids were swollen.—Visible tremor of the eye-lids.—Obscuration of the eyes, often sudden, and sometimes as if the eyes were covered by a skin.—Sight confused, as if a gauze or mist were before it.—* Darkness, which seems to dance before the eyes.—*Lights and sparks be- fore the eyes.—Photophobia.—"Inveterate warts • in the eye-brows. Ears.—Otalgia, with outward pressing pain.—Shoot- ings and pain as of excoriatipn in the ears.—Swelling of the external ears, with shooting and burning pain.—Dis- charge of fetid pus from the ear.—Itching in the lobe of the ear, as if from a tetter.—Loud resounding of noises in the ear, with hardness of hearing.—* Rumbling and buz- zing, rolling and *roaring in the ears and in the head.— Sensation of stoppage in the ears. Nose.—Itching on the point and wings of the nose.— * Eruption on the point of the nose.—"Inveterate warts on the nose.—Blowing of blood from the nose, every morn- ing.—Epistaxis.—Loss of smell.—*Obstruction of the nose.—Dry chronic coryza.—Fluent coryza, with noctur- nal cough, rough hoarseness and head-ache.—Discharge of fetid mucus from the nose.—Sneezing in the morning. Face.—Yellow colour of the face, especially in the tem- ples, with bluish lips.—Burning sensation in the cheeks and especially in the cheek-bones.—Arthritic and tensive pains in the bones of the face, the cheek bones and jaws 160 CAUSTICUM. —Swelling of the cheeks with pulsative pains.—Sensation of tension and of swelling under the jaw, which hinders one from opening it.—Eruption of red pimples on the face. — One-side paralysis of the face, from the forehead to the chin.—Cramps in the lips.—Excoriation and eruption on the lips and at the commisure of the lips.—Tetter on the lower lip.—Tensive, drawing pain in the jaws, with difficulty in opening the mouth.—Inflammatory swelling in the chin, with burning pain. Teeth.—Odontalgia, excited by the introduction of air on opening the mouth.-—Pain as from excoriation, or tractive pains and acute pulling, *beatings, or shootings in the teeth.—*Painful loosening and elongation of the teeth.— "Fistula in the gums.— Prolonged ulceration of the gums. —*Painful sensibility, swelling, and easy bleeding of the gums. Mouth.—Dryness of the mouth.—Accumulation of mu- cus in the mouth.—Soreness and burning in the mouth, pal- ate and point of the tongue.—"Stammering, embarrassed, whistling, and very indistinct speech.—'Paralysis of the tongue.— Distortion of the mouth and of the tongue when speaking.—Burning ulcer on the inner surface of the up- per lip. Throat.—Sore throat by straining, as if it were lacera- ted internally.—Sensation of excoriation, roughness, scra- ping, and burning pain in the throat.—Stinging pain in the throat on swallowing.—Constant inclination to swallow, with sensation of swelling or contraction of the gullet.— „ "Difficulty in swallowing, from paralysis of the organs of deglutition.—Sensation of coldness which ascends into the throat.—Dryness of the throat.—*Accumulation of mucus in the throat, and behind the palate, with expectoration by hawking and gagging. Appetite.—Putrid, greasy, rancid, or bitter taste.— Burning thirst for cold drinks and for beer.—*Aversion to sweet things.—At the commencement of a meal, loss of appetite and disgust.—Sensation as if one were suffer- ing from indigestion.—"Pressure in the stomach, after eat- ing bread.—After every meal pressure in the whole abdomen, or in the stomach, or else nausea and inflation of the ab- domen, or shivering or heat in the face. STOMAcn.—Empty eructations, with a taste of undigested food.—Ineffectual eructations, with choking in the oeso- phagus.—*Nausea, epecially after or during meals, or else in the morning.—Sensation of faintness and lassitude.__ Flow of water from the mouth, like saliva.— Vomiting of acidulated water, followed by acid eructations.— Vomiting of CAUSTICUM. 161 food.—Nocturnal vomiting of coagulated hlood.-^Pains in the stomach with heat in the head, increased by every quick movement, mitigated by a recumbent position, and with shuddering, when the pains are aggravated.—* Aching, squeez- ing, as if from claws, with constriction and cramp-like pains in the stomach, and in the epigastrium.—*Stinging pains in the epigastrium. Abdominal Region.—Pressure of the clothes on the hypochondria.—Tension and stitches in the hepatic region.— Pains in the abdomen in the morning.—*Pressure in the epigastrium and hypogastrium.—Painful and tensive infla- tion of the abdomen.—Swelling of the navel, painful to the touch.—"Enlargement of the abdomen in children.—Contrac- tive pains in the abdomen.—Facility for taking cold in the abdomen, whence results diarrhoea, or pressure in the stomach.—incarceration of flatulency with hard feces.— Frequent small expulsion of offensive flatus. F.eces.—* Chronic constipation.—Frequent and ineffectual efforts to evacuate, with pains, anxiety, and redness of the face.—The feces pass off more easily, in a semi-erect pos- ture.—Feces knotty, or of a very small size.—"Feces slimy and shining, as if composed of fat, or of a bright and whi- tish colour.—Diarrhoea in the evening and at night.—Diar- rhoea, after the abdomen has been chilled.—Flow of blood and cutting pains in the rectum, during the evacuation.— After the evacuation, anguish, with palpitation of the heart and burning in the anus.—* Itching in the anus.—In the anus, appearance of hemorrhoidal tumours, which are hard, swollen, painful, and impede evacuation.—Walking and meditating aggravate the hemorrhoidal pains, so as to ren^ der them insupportable.— Pressure in the hemorrhoidal tumours of the rectum, so as to cause them to protrude.— "Fistula in the rectum.—Abscess in the anus.—Excoriating pains, and moisture at the anus. Urine.—*Frequent desire to make water, with thirst and scanty emission.—More copious emission of urine.—Emis- sion of urine at night and wetting the bed.—* Involuntary emission of urine, day and night, even when coughing, when sneezing, and when walking.—Acrid and corrosive urine, or pale, aqueous, of a deep-brown, or reddish colour.— Stringy mucus in the urine.—The urine becomes turbid, after settling.—Sensation of burning on making water.— Flow of blood from the urethra. Genital Organs.—Increase of sexual desire.—"Defec- tive erections.—Trequent pollutions.—Escape of prosta- tic fluid after the stool.—Emission of sanguineous semen, 11* 162 CAUSTICUM. during coition.—Pressure and shooting in the testes.— Ulcers and itching scabs, on the interior part of the pre- puce.—Red spots on the penis.—Copious secretion of smegma behind the glans.—Itching on the scrotum, glans and prepuce.—Catamenia retarded, but more copious, with flow of blood in large clots.—Before the catamenia, melan- choly, pains in the loins and colic.—"Catamenia too feeble. —During the catamenia, pains in the loins, cuttings and pale- ness in the face.—Excoriation between the legs, near the vulva.—"Dislike to coition in women.—Cramps of the womb — Profuse leucorrhea, having the smell of the catamenia, or which flows in the night.— Breasts excoriated, cracked, and surrounded with tetters.— Want of secretion of milk. Larynx.—Rough hoarseness, morning and evening.— ^prolonged hoarseness, -with voice weak and stifled.— Aphonia from weakness of the muscles of the larynx.— Sensation of excoriation in the larynx, when not swallow- ing.—Hawking up of abundant mucus especially in the morning.—Cough, with short breath, and difficulty of res- piration.—Cough, excited by speech and by cold.—groin- ing or nocturnal cough.—*Short cough, provoked by a tick- ling and a sensation of excoriation in the throat.—*Cough, dry, hollow, shaking, with sensation of burning and pain as from excoriation in the chest.—Rattling in the chest on coughing.—"Impossibility of expectorating the mucus, which is detached by coughing. Chest.—*Breath short.—Attacks of spasmodic asthma. —Attack of obstructed breathing when speaking and walk- ing quick.—Oppressiveness of clothes on the chest.—Pres- sure on the chest.—Shootings in the chest and thorax, on making a full inspiration and during corporeal exertion.— Attacks of cramp-like compression and constriction of the chest, obstructed breathing.—Palpitation of the heart.—Op- pression of the heart, with melancholy.—Stitches in the heart. Trunk.—Pains in the loins which render the least move- # ment exceedingly painful.—Aching pains in the loins when seated.—*Painful stiffness in the buck, especially on rising from the chair.—Tractions and acute drawing pains in the shoulder-blades.—Itching and crawling in the back.— ^Stiffness and tension in the nape of the neck.—Miliary eruption on the nape of the neck, between the shoulder- blades.—Itching and humid tetters on the nape of the neck.—"Swelling of the cervical glands. Arms.—Pains in the arms at night.—"Drawing pains and acute traction in the arms and hands.—Convulsive movements and shocks in the arms.—Itching and eruption CAUSTICUM.— CHAMOMILLA VULGARIS. 163 on the arms.—Warts on the arms.—Pressure on the shoul- ders.— Shooting pains in the front part of the arms from the fingers to the elbows.—*Sensation of fulness in the hands on laying hold of an object.—Drawing pains in the hands and the joints of the fingers.—Spasmodic weakness and trembling of the hands.—Paleness and painful torpor of the fingers.—Contraction and induration of the tendons of the fingers.—Itching tetters on the fingers. Legs.—*Pain as from dislocation in the coxo-femoral joint, with inability to walk and to continue standing.— Pain as from a bruise in the thighs and legs whilst in bed, in the morning.—Tensive stiffness in the joints of the legs and of the feet.—Drawing pains and acute traction in the thighs, legs, k?iees, and the feet, with swelling of the parts.— "Unsteady walk and tendency to fall, in children.—Skin mar- bled on the thighs and on the legs.—Tension and cramp- like pain in the legs and in the calves of the legs.-—Cramps in tlie feet.—*Pains in the instep, ankle-bones, soles of the feet and toes, when walking.—Neuralgic pains in the solgs of the feet.—Contraction in the instep, with tensive pain when stepping.—*Coldness of the feet.—* Swelling of the feet.— Pains in the varices.-—Crawling in the soles of the feet.—Gnawing blisters and ulceration on the heels.—Pa- naris on the great toe. 45.—CHAMOMILLA VULGARIS. CHAM—Common Chamomile.—Hahnemann.—Duration of effect: some i days. Antidotes: Aeon. cocc. coff. ign. n-vom. puis—Chamomile is an antidote against: Alum. bor. coff. coloc. ign. n-vom. puis. senn. Compare with : Aeon. alum. ambr. arn. ars. bar. bell. bry. camph. caps. caus. chin. cin. cocc. coff. coloc. fer. graph, hell. hyos. ign. ipec. Kal. led. lye. magn. magn-m- mere n-vom. petr. phos. puis. rhub. ihus. sass. sep. stram. sulph.—Chamomile, when indicated, acts well after magn. CL NICAL REMARKS.—Guided by the totality of symptoms, the cases against which this medicine may be employed will be found to be :—Different affections of wo- men and of children, chiefly lying-in women and new-born infants'; bad effects from the abuse of coffee and of narcotic palliatives ; suffering in consequence of a chill; affections arising from sudden grief or a fit of passion, rheumatic af- fections with fever; Convulsive and spasmodic attacks, prin- cipally in new-born infants, children during dentition, pregnant or parturient women, and hysterical persons ; Fits of fainting or of hysterical weakness ; Epileptic con- vulsions; Catalepsy; Nervous excitement; Atrophy and emaciation of scrofulous children 1; Inflammatory swelling 164 CHAMOMILLA VULGARIS. and induration of the glands; Miliary eruption (of chil- dren) ! ; Excoriation of the skin (in children) ; Disposition for every wound to ulcerate; Erysipelatous inflammations; Icterus; Lethargic state, with fever; Inflammatory and nervous fevers, with delirium ; Intermittent fevers ; Megrim and hysterical, and nervous cephalalgia ; Catarrhal cepha- lalgia, caused by suppressed perspiration ; Ophthalmia and blepharophthalmia of new-born infants, in consequence of a chill (and in arthritic subjects 1) ; hemorrhagia oculorum ; Blepharospasma; Otalgia; Parotitis; Erysipelas of the face ; Odontalgia, with swelling of the cheek and sub-maxil- lary glands ; Tooth-ache from the abuse of coffee, or in consequence of a chill; Difficult dentition, with diarrhoea, fever, convulsions, &c. ; Bilious and gastric affections; whether from cholera or any other cause ; Gastralgia, also from the abuse of coffee ; Sour stomach in children ; Acute hepatitis; Spasmodic or flatulent colic ; Enteritis; Perito- nitis; Protrusion of inguinal hernial ; Mucous or bilious diarrhoea; Cholera 1; Dysentery1.; Diarrhoea, caused by dentition; Lienteria!; Metritis! ; Metorrhagia, also after accouchment;- Abdominal spasms of pregnant and partu- rient women ; Menstrual colic ; Too violent pains after accouchment; Precursory symptoms (ar.d bad effects of abortion) ; Puerperal peritonitis ; Suppression of the milk ; Milk fever ; Excoriation of the nipples ; Erysipelas on the breasts ; Induration of the mammillary glands ; Convulsions, cries, colic, diarrhoea, and excoriation of new-born chil- dren ; Catarrhal cough, with hoarseness, chiefly in children^ and in consequence of a chill in winter, or in consequence of morbilli; Inflammatory affections of the respiratory or- gans 1 (Laryngitis! Bronchitis'? Tracheitis!); Croup; Hooping-cough!; Suffocating cough, in children ! j Spas- modic or flatulent attacks of asthma, chiefly in children; Sciatica ; Cramps in the calves of the legs ; &. &c. [It deserves attention in hot, even erysipelatous swell- ing of the cheeks, after taking cold, and attended with bilious symptoms, in inflammation of the cervical glands; in certain cramps of the stomach, when attended with spasmodic vomiting, &c. Ed.] OCT" See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—* Rheumatic, drawing pains, chiefly at night in bed, with paralytic state and sensation of torpor in the parts affected, and inclination to move them continually; mitigation by external heat.—*Pains with thirst, heat and redness (of one) of the cheeks, and hot sweat of the head, and hairy scalp.—*Pulsative pains, as if from CHAMOMILLA VULGARIS. 165 an abscess.—Over-excitement, and excessive sensibility of the nervous system, with great sensibility-to pain, which appears insupportable and urges to despair.—*Great sensitiveness to the open air, -and especially to the wind.—*The ex- tremities feel, as it were, stiff and paralyzed.—Great weak- ness and inclination to fall, with prostration of strength to the extent of fainting as soon as the pain commences.— *Syncope with sensation of sinking and insipidity in the precordial region.—"Attacks of catalepsy, with hippocratical face, cold extremities, half-closed eyes, dilated and dull pupils.—* Attacks of spasms and convulsions, with face red and bloated, and convulsive movements of the eyes, eye- lids, lips, muscles of the face and of the tongue—^Epilep- tic convulsions, with retraction of the thumbs, and foam before the mouth, preceded by colic, or followed by a le- thargic state.—Great desire to continue lying down ; the child will neither walk nor be carried in the arms.—Crack- ing and pain resembling a bruise in the joints. » Skin.—*Miliary eruption, "with itching and nocturnal tickling.—*Unhealthy skin ; every injury tends to ulcera- tion.—In the ulcers, crawling, itching, burning, and start- ing shootings, with excessive sensibility when touched.— Yellow colour of the skin. Sleep.—Sleepiness, during the day, without being able to sleep, on lying down.—*Coma and coma vigil, -with tearing pain in the head and desire to vomit, or with fe- verish restlessness, short respiration and thirst.—*Noctur- nal sleeplessness, with attacks of anguish, -visions, and illu- sions of the sight and hearing.—*When sleeping, starts with fright, cries, tossing, tears, talking, raving, groans, snorting inspirations, °and separating of the thighs.—Fantastical" lively, quarrelsome and vexatious dreams, with morose and sullen aspect.—Nocturnal delirium. Fever.—*Constant alternate succession of cold, or of par- tial shuddering, with partial heat, in different parts of the body.—* General heat, especially in the evening, or at night in bed, with anxiety, thirst, redness of the cheeks, hot perspi- ration on the head, forehead, and hairy scalp ; and sometimes, chiefly when uncovered, mixed with shivering or shud- dering.—*After or during the heat, sour sweat, which causes an itching in the skin.—* Burning heat and redness (often only in one) of the cheeks, chiefly at night, with groan- ing, tossing, and coldness or heat in the rest of the body. — Intermittent fever, with nocturnal aggravation, pressure in the pit of the stomach, desire to vomit, or bilious vom- iting, colic, diarrhaa, and painful discharge of urine.— Nocturnal sweat, when asleep. 166 CHAMOMILLA VULGARIS. Moral Symptoms.—Attacks of great anguish, as if the heart would break, with complete discouragement, excessive in- quietude, agitation and tossing, groaning and weeping,- ac- companied often also by drawing colic and pressure at the pit of the stomach.—^Disposition to weep and to be angry, with great sensibility to offence.—*Quarrelsome and choleric humour.—Mischievous disposition in children.—Mental ex- citement, with strong tendency to be frightened.—Hypo- chondriacal humour.—Patients neither endure to be ad- dressed by others nor to be interrupted when conversing. ■—Taciturnity and repugnance to conversation.—State of distraction and inadvertence, as if plunged in meditation, with diminished comprehension.—Species of stupidity and apathy to pleasure and to external objects.—Desire for dif- ferent things, which, when once possessed, are no longer desired.—Easily misapplying words when speaking or wri- ting.— Frantic and furious delirium. • Head.—Intoxication and staggering, on getting up in the morning.— Vertigo with fainting.—*Vertigo with ob- scuration of vision.— Vertigo chiefly in the morning, or in the evening, or after a meal, or after taking coffee.—Head- ache on waking in the morning, or while asleep, sometimes with a sensation as if the head were going to burst.—Pain as if caused by a bruise, and *pressive heaviness in the head. —Pullings, shootings, and beati?igs in the head, often only semi-lateral.—Cracking in one side of the brain.—Hot, clammy sweat on the forehead and the hairy scalp.—Jerk- ing pain in the forehead, chiefly after a meal. Eyes.—Pain as of a wound in the corners of the eyes. —Shootings, burning and heat in the eyes.—*Eyes inflamed, "and red, with pressive pains, chiefly on moving the eyes and on shaking the head.—Great dryness in the margin of the eye-lids.— Inflammation of the margin of the eye-lids. —"Swelling and redness of the eye-lids, with mucous se- cretion, *blearedness in the eyes and nocturnal agglutination. —"Yellow colour of the sclerotica.—Ecchymosis of the eye, and "hemorrhagia oculorunu—"Spasmodic closing of the eye-lids.—* Jerking of the eye-lids.—Eyes convulsed.— Pupils contracted.—*Sparkling before the eyes.—Confused sight, most frequently morning and evening.—*Seeing but half of an object, when looking at any thing white. Ears.—*Otalgia, with drawing and tensive pains.— * Shootings extending into the ears, chiefly when stooping, with disposition to be angry at trifles, and to take every thing in bad part.—Tingling and *buzzing in the ears.— Sensation, as if the ears were stopped, and as if a bird were scraping and flying about in them.—Sensitiveness of hear- CHAMOMILLA VULGARIS. 167 ing ; music appears insupportable.—*Inflammatory swell- ing of the parotids, as well as of the. sub-maxillary glands and of those of the neck.—"Discharge from the ears. Nose.—Coryza, w-ith obstruction of the nose.—Ulcera- tion and inflammation of the nostrils.—*Epistaxis.—Very acute smell. Face.—*Face hot, red, burning, or redness and heat of one cheek, with coldness and paleness of the other, "or pale and hollow face, with distortion of features from pain.— *Swelling of the face.—"Erysipelas of the face, with hard and bluish swelling of one cheek.—Swelling of one tem- ple, with pain on being touched.—"Shooting, drawing and pulsative pains in one side of the face.—Red miliary erup- tion on the cheeks.—Yellow colour of the skin of the face.—*Convulsive movement of the muscles of the face and lips.—Lips cracked, excoriated, and ulcerated.—Spasms in the jaws, with compression of the teeth. Teeth.—^Odontalgia, mostly of one side, and chiefly at night, in the heat of the bed, with insupportable pains which almost drive one to despair, with "swelling, burning of the gums, and painful swelling of the sub-maxillary glands.— *The pains are commonly drawing and pulling, or pulsative and shooting, or searching and gnawing in the hollow teeth, and they appear frequently after eating-any thing hot (or cold), and chiefly after having taken coffee.—Looseness of the teeth. Mouth.—*Dryness of the mouth and of the tongue, or flow of frothy saliva.—*Putrid smell of the mouth.—°Tongue rough and cracked, or loaded with a thick and yellowish coating.—Blisters on the tongue and also under it, with shooting pains.—"Apthe in the mouth.—*Convulsive move- ments of the tongue. Throat.—Sore throat, with swelling of the parotids, "of the tonsils and of the sub-maxillary glands.— Pains in the pharynx, shooting and burning, or a sensation as if there were a plug in the throat.—"Inability to swallow hot food, especially when lying down.— Burning heat in the throat, from the mouth to the stomach.— Deep redness of the parts affected. Appetite.—Putrid or clammy taste.—Acid taste in the mouth and of rye-bread.—*Bitter taste in the mouth and of food.-—Want of appetite and dislike to food.—Obstructed deglutition.—Aversion to or great longing for coffee, some- times with desire to vomit, or even vomiting and attacks of suffocation after having partaken of it.—After eating, heat and sweat of the face, inflation and fulness of the 168 CHAMOMILLA VULGARIS. stomach and abdomen, risings and desire to vomit.—* Ex- cessive thirst for cold drinks. Stomach.—Eructations, which aggravate the pains of the stomach and of the abdomen.—"Sour rising.—Regurgi- tation of food.—Desire to vomit after eating, and chiefly in the morning.—Uneasiness and a sort of flabbiness in the stomach, as if it were going to sink away.—*Vomiting of food and of sour substances, with mucus.—*Bitter, bilious vomiting.—*Excessively painful pressure in the precordial region, as if the heart were going to be crushed, with cries, sweat, and anguish.—Pressive gastralgia, as if from a stone in the stomach, with difficulty of respiration, chiefly after eating, or at night, with inquietude and tossing, and renewed or mitigated by coffee.—"Burning pain in the pit of the stomach, and in the hypochondria. Abdominal Region.—*Tension and anxious fulness in the hypochondria and in the epigastrium, with a sensation, as if all were pressed towards the chest.—* Flatulent colic, with inflation of the abdomen and accumulation of flatulency towards the hypochondria and the inguinal ring.—*Ex- cessively painful colic, pullings and cuttings in the abdomen, -sometimes in the morning, at sunrise.—Sensation of emp- tiness in the abdomen, with constant movement in the in- testines, and blue circles round the eyes.—"Burning cut- tings in the epigastrium, with difficulty of respiration and paleness of the face.—*Shooting in the abdomen -princi- pally on coughing, on sneezing, and on touching it.— "Painful sensitiveness of the abdomen to the touch, with sensation of ulceration in the interior.—*Pressure to- wards the inguinal ring, as if a hernia were about to pro- trude.—* Abdominal spasms. Anus and Faeces.—Constipation, as if from inertia of the rectum.—Diarhma chiefly at night, with spasmodic colic, mostly with slimy, and whitish or watery, or yellowish and greenish faces, or mucus, also motley excrements, like beaten up eggs, or hot corrosive feces, of a fetid odour, like rot- ten eggs, or evacuation of undigested substances.—*He- morrhoids, with very painful fissures and ulcerations in the anus. Urine.—Desire to make water, with anxiety.—On making water, itching and burning in the Urethra.— Urine hot and yellowish, with flock-like sediment or turbid urine, with yellowish sediment.—Involuntary emission, or feeble stream of urine.—Excoriation on the edge of the prepuce. —Catamenia suppressed, with swelling and pressive pains in the pit of the stomach and in the abdomen, labour pains CHAMOMILLA VULGARIS.—CHELIDONIUM MAJUS. 169 and general dropsy.—*Menstrual colic, before the cata- menia.— * Pressure towards the uterus, as if from the pains of child-birth.—* Metrorrhagia, with discharge of deep-red blood and of clots, and accompanied with labour pains.— Burning pains and smarting in the vagina.—Acrid leucorrhcea with smarting.—*Scirrhous induration of the mammillary glands. Larynx.—* Catarrh and hoarseness, with accumulation of tenacious mucus in the throat.—Burning pain in the larynx.—Spasmodic constriction of the gullet.—*Dry cough, produced by a constant titillation in the larynx, and under the sternum, "chiefly in the evening and at night in bed, continuing even during sleep, and sometimes attended with suffocation.—Anger excites cough (in children).— *£xpectoration of mucus of a bitter or putrid taste. Chest.—Respiration short, croaking, or wheezing and stertorous.—Deep respiration with evident elevation of the thorax.—Attack of suffocation, as if from constriction of the larynx or chest.—Attacks of flatulent asthma, with anxiety and fulness in the precordial region.—*Oppression of the chest.—*Stinging in the chest, chiefly with reference to the act of breathing.—Burning in the chest, with dizziness and anxiety.—Stinging in the region of the heart, with difficulty of respiration. Trunk.—Pains in the loins and in the back, chiefly at night.—Convulsions in the back, with throwing backwards of the head, and stiffness of the body as in tetanus. Arms.—Numbness and stiffness of the arms on laying hold of an object.—Convulsions of the arms.—*Nocturnal pains, with paralytic weakness in the arms.—Swelling, or coldness and paralytic inflexibility of the hands.—Numb- ness or convulsive movements of the fingers.—Retraction of the thumbs. Legs.—*Paralytic and drawing pain in the hip and thigh, extending as far as the feet, chiefly at night.—"Ten- sion of the muscles of the thighs, and of the legs.— *Cramps in the calves of the legs, chiefly at night.—Paraly- tic tearing in the feet at night.—Burning and itching in the feat, as if from chilblains.—Swelling of the foot and of the sole of the foot. 46.—CHELIDONIUM MAJUS. CHF.L.—Great celandine.—Hahnemann—A medicine as yet little known. [CLINICAL REMARKS.—According to Orfila, this remedy when given in small doses, acts principally upon the liver and lymphatic system ; in larger doses it excites inflammation and pain in the stomach, and causes Vol. I. 15 170 CHELIDONIUM MAJUS. paralysis of the brain and spinal-marrow. It appears to act upon the vena- portee system, and to cause enlargement and induration of the liver; and de- serves attention in dropsy dependent upon disease of the liver. Dioscondes, Galen Forest and Lentilius, praise this remedy m the cure of jaundice and inflammation of the eyes; Recamier has used it with success in engorge- ment of the spleen; Creuzbauer, against gallstones; Linnaeus, Lange and others against inter- and remittent fever; Wendt against scrofula and glandular diseases; it also deserves attention m dropsy, piles, irregular menstruation, chronic eruptions, ulcers, herpes, &c, &c. Ed.] GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Paralytic traction and pa- ralysis in different parts of the body.—Attacks of torpor, with coldness and paleness in some parts, which appear as if they were dead.—Stinging, as if from pains in differ- ent places.—Cramp-like pains, great lassitude and indo- lence on waking in the morning.—Repugnance to motion, which is very painful.—Uneasiness without distinct pains and without disease.—Desire to sleep and to lie down, without being able to sleep.—Lateness of falling asleep.— When sleeping, starts, with fright, followed by head-ache. —Frequent and sudden waking, with profuse sweat, con- tinuing while awake.—Predominant shivering, shuddering and coldness.—Dejection.—Apprehension and inquietude respecting the present and the future. Head.—Vertigo, with dizziness and shuddering in the upper part of the body.—Dull pain in the head, with pulsation in the temples.—Sensation of coldness in the occiput, seeming to ascend from the nape of the neck to- wards the head.—Crawling in the hairy scalp. Eyes.—Pain above the eyes pressing on the eye-lids.— Agglutination of the eye-lids, and eyes dull, in the morn- ing.—Dazzling spots before the eyes, with lachrymation on looking narrowly at an object. Ears and Nose.—Stinging in the ears.—Sensation, as if wind were coming out of the ears.—Rumbling in the ears.—Itching in the nose.—Trembling and quivering in the point of the nose.—Dry coryza, with stoppage of the nose. Face and Teeth.—Redness of the face, without heat. —Itching tension and traction in the cheek-bone.—Pain in the lower teeth, on being touched, with looseness of the teeth. Mouth and Throat.—Dryness of the mouth with thirst. —Accumulation of water in the mouth.—Pain in the throat, as if choking from swallowing a very large morsel.—Ten- sion in the region of the pharynx, with contraction of the throat and difficult deglutition.—Sensation of burning and roughness in the throat. Appetite.—Insipid or bitter taste.—Inconvenience after having partaken of curdled milk; sweet milk produces no CHELIDONIUM MAJUS.—CINCHONA OFFICINALIS. 171 unpleasant consequence and is greatly desired.—Eructa- tions with taste of food.—Hiccough. Stomach.—Gnawing and grubbing pains in the stomach, which disappear after a meal.—Cramp-like, contractive pains in the stomach —Cramp-like pains and pulsations in the pit of the stomach, with anxious respiration.—Coldness or burning in the stomach.—Stinging in the region of the epigastrium. Abdominal Region.—Colic with cramp-like retraction of the navel, and nausea.—Cuttings of long continuance, es- pecially after eating.—Cuttings, alternating with soft evac- uations.—Dull stinging below the navel, forcing one to bend double. Faeces and Urine.—Feces hard, knotty and difficult — Slimy diarrhcea at night-Urine pale, frequent and copious, or in too small a quantity.—Catamenia too strong, or retarded. Chest.—Reparation difficult and oppressed.—Cough, accompanied with deafness.—Pressure on the chest when breathing. Back.—Pressing tearing in the back, as if the lumbar vertebre were going to break, when bending forwards or backwards. Arms.—Paralysis of the muscles of the arms, with difficult and painful movements.—Veins in the hands swollen.— Fingers dead, with bluish nails. Legs.—Paralysis of the thigh and knee, when putting down the foot.—Paralytic tractions from the hip to the toes.—Cramp and contraction of the soles of the feet.— Attacks of torpor, paleness and cold feet, which appear dead. ^7^CfNCHONA OFFICINALIS?" CHIN'.—Peruvian bark.—Hahnemann.—Duration of effect: 40 days in some cases of chronic disease. Antidotes : Arn. ars. bell. calc. caps, carb-v. cin. fer. ipec. mere. natr. natr-m. puis. sep. sulph. veratr.—Cinchona is an antidote against: ars. asa. aur. cupr. fer. hell. ipec. mere, sulph. veratr.—Its effects are aggra- vated by selen. Compare with : Amm. arn. ars. asa. bar. bell. bry. calc. cap?, carb-v. cham. cin. cupr- dig. fer. graph, hell. hep. iod. ipec. lach. mere, murac natr. natr-m. n-vom. phos. phos-ac. puis. rhus. samb. sep- sil. stann. sulph. thuy. veratr.—Cinchona, when otherwise indicated, is of especial benefit after : Ars. ipec. mere phos-ac. and veratr. and Ars. bell. puis, veratr. are sometimes suitable after quinquina. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Guided by the totality of symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be em- ployed appear to be:—Affections of persons of a meager, dry, and bilious constitution, or leucophlegmatic persons with a disposition to dropsical affections, or to catarrhs, 172 CINCHONA OFFICINALIS. colds in the head, and other mucous discharges, or to diar- rhoea ; Affections of females especially ; Rheumatic affec- tions ; Sufferings after a fit of passion, a chill, or sup- pressed coryza; 111 effects from the abuse of tea; Suffer- ings of drunkards 1; Asthenic inflammations ; Fatal effects of the abuse of mercury ; Arthritic complaints ; Arthro- cacel; Hydrarthra %; Dropsical affections ; Affections of the lympliatic system ; Icterus ; Chlorosis 1; H&morrhagia especially when caused by weakness ; Atrophy ; Debility, especially in consequence of debilitating losses (of blood, se- men, or other humours), or after severe acute diseases ; St. Vitus' dance 11 ; Sufferings in consequence of the small pox or morbilli; Fevers with bilious, gastric, mucous and rheumatic affections ; Intermittent fevers ; Marsh fever; Typhus fever, even with symptoms of putridity ; Slow fe- vers ; Hypochondriasis, especially that caused by loss of humours ; Rheumatic, catarrhal, and congestive cephalal- gia ; Megrim ; Cephalalgia from suppression of a cold in the head ; Ophthalmia, also in scrofulous persons ; Am- blyopia amaurotica, especially after excessive indulgence in alcoholic drinks, or in consequence of loss of humours ; Nasal (and buccal) hcemorrhagia ; Rheumatic or congestive prosopalgia and odontalgia; Dyspepsia, gastralgia, and other gastric affections, especially in consequence of loss of humours or of severe acute diseases; Cholerina; Bilious affections; Icterus; Acute and chronic hepatitis 1; En- largement and induration of the liver, or of the spleen ; Sple- nalgial; Colic, also in consequence of morbilli; Spasmodic and flutulent colic ; Tympanitis ; Ascites, and enevstic as- cites ; Vermiculous affections ; Chronic enteritis, with di- arrhoea without pain ; Diarrhcea, even that produced by the small pox; Diarrhoea from weakness ; Lienteria ; Hemor- rhoidal complaints ; Satyriasis'? ; Impotence; Leucorrhcea; Metrorrhagia, especially that caused by weakness ; Catarrh of the respiratory organs ; Grippe ; Pleuritis ; Pneumonia ; Bronchitis ; Hemoptysis ; Chronic pneumonia, with sup- puration; Suffocating catarrh; Gonitis, &c, &c. O" See note, pan-e 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—*Tensive drawings, or jerk- ing and piercing tearings, especially in the cylindrical bones, with paralytic pains and weakness of the parts affect- ed.—Tearing rheumatic pains in the limbs, on beginning to walk.—* Pains and sufferings excited or aggravated by touch, at night, or after a meal.—Inquietude in the parts affected, which obliges one to move them.—Sensation of torpor in different parts.—Numbness of the parts on which one has cinchona officinalis. 173 lain.—*Hard and red, arthritic swelling of some parts.— *Dropsical swelling of some parts or of the whole body.— Erysipelatous swelling of the whole body.—*Great general weakness, with trembling, difficult walking, and great tendency to perspiration when moving and sleeping.—More than ordi- nary vivacity, with the eyes fixed.— Convulsive movements of the limbs.— Over-excitability of the whole nervous system. —Aversion to mental and corporeal exertion.—Fainting- fits.—Attacks of asphyxia.—*Atrophy and emaciation, espe- cially of the arms and legs.—Great sensibility when in a current of air, and sufferings on being exposed ever so little to it.—Heaviness of the whole body. Skin.—Excessive sensibility of the skin of the whole body.—* Yellow colour of the skin.—Skin flabby and dry.— Piercing shootings and beatings in ulcers.—Burning or itching, especially in the evening in bed, sometimes with eruption of pimples, or prominent spots, as if from the sting of nettles. Sleep.—Desire to sleep during the day, often with palpi- tation of the heart.—Frequent yawning, with stretching.— * Retarded sleep, and sleeplessness, caused by a great flow of ideas.—Raving on going to sleep.—* Sleeplessness with pressive pain in the head or bulimia.—*Disturbed unrefresh- ing sleep.—Starts, with fright, on going to sleep.—When sleeping, one lies on the back, with the head turned back, and the arms extended over the head, with slow respiration and with full and quick pulse.—Groaning and snoring du- ring sleep, even in children.—*Painful, frightful dreams, which continue to produce agitation after waking.—*Disor- dered, senseless dreams, after midnight, with a sort of dul- ness on waking. Fever.—Shiverings, with shuddering, or feverish trem- bling, commonly without thirst.—Coldness of the body, with congestion to the head, heat and redness of the face and hot forehead.—General increase of heat, with swollen veins, without thirst.—Shiverings with head-ache, nausea, adypsia, vertigo, congestion to the head, paleness of the face, cold- ness of the hands and feet, vomiturition of mucus, &c.— Shivering more violent after drinking.—*Heat, with dryness of the mouth and lips, which are burning, redness of the face, head-ache, morbid hunger, delirium, full and quick pulse.— Heat, with prickings here and there, and burning thirst.— Heat, with desire to be uncovered, or shivering as soon as one is uncovered.— Quartan fever, or tertian, commencing chiefly in the evening or in the afternoon, or in the morn- ing, with shivering and trembling, followed by heat and noc- 15* 174 CINCHONA OFFICINALIS. turnal sweat.—"Fever, with pressive pain, and congestion to the head, soreness and swelling of the liver and of the spleen, bitterand bilious eructationsand vomiting,yellowish colour of the skin and face, short convulsive cough, great weakness, pains in the limbs, and painful parts of the chest. —*The attacks of fever are often preceded by palpitation of the heart, sneezing, anguish, nausea, excessive thirst, buli- mia, head-ache, pressive colic, &c.—The thirst generally takes place only before or after the shiverings, or during the sweat, rarely during the heat, and almost never during the shiverings.—Pulse small and weak.—*Easy perspiration during sleep and when moving.—*Nocturnal debilitating sweats.—Oily sweat in the morning. Moral Symptoms.—*Apathy and moral insensibility.— hypochondriacal dejection.—Great anxiety.—Character too scrupulous.—Discouragement.—Discontent; one thinks oneself unfortunate, and ill-used by the whole world.— Excessive irascibility, with pusillanimity, and inability to bear the least noise.—Disobedience.—Contempt for every thing; every thing appears insipid.—Slovenliness, with easy tears, or with irritability.—*Fear of dogs and other animals, especially at night.—Great abundance of ideas and of projects,with slow march of thought.—Dread of exertion. Head.—Dull confusion of the head, as if from prolonged watching.—Vertigo on raising the head, especially in the occiput, as if the head were going to bend backwards.— Vertigo with nausea.—Attacks of head-ache, with nausea and vomiting.—* Head-ache as if from suppressed coryza.— Heaviness in the head with beating.—Cephalalgia in the forehead, on opening the eyes.—*Pain as from a bruise in the brain, with pressive piercing in the crown of the head, aggravated by meditation and conversation.—*Pressive head-ache, especially at night, with sleeplessness, ~or by day and aggravated in the open air.—*Acute jerking or pressive pains in the head.—*Head-ache, as if the head were going to burst.—Piercing pains in the head, with violent pulsations in the temples.—Congestion to the head, with heat and fulness.—"Movements and painful beatings of the brain, obliging one to elevate and depress the head alternately.— #Head-ache, increased by touch, movement, and walking, as well as by a current of air or by walking against the wind.—Head-ache, which often attacks only one side.__ *Sensibility of the exterior of the head, and even of the roots of the hair, when touched.—Head-ache, as if the hair were torn out or the hairy scalp contracted.—Piercino- pressing on the frontal elevation.—Sweat of the hairy scalp. CINCHONA OFFICINALIS. 175 Eyes.—"Pains in the eyes, as if from pressure on the margins of the socket.— Pain, as if a grain of sand were introduced into the eye, when moving.—Painful sore- ness in the eyes.—* Inflammation of the eyes, with heat, redness, burning and pressive pains aggravated in the evening.—Eyes dull.—Prominent eyes.— Cornea dull, as if there were smoke in the posterior chamber of the eye — "Yellowish colour of the sclerotica.—Weeping, with crawl- ing on the internal surface of the eye-lids.—"Weakness of sight, preventing objects from being distinguished at a short distance.—When reading, confusion of letters, which appear pale and surrounded with a white edge.—*Pupils dilated and deficient in sensibility.—Blindness, as if from amaurosis.—*Sparkling, black, dancing spots, and obscu- ration before the eyes.—Photophobia. E vks.—Tearing in the ears, most in the external ear.— Stinging, buzzing and tingling in the ears.—Hardness of hearing.—Redness and heat of the external ear, and espe- cially of the lobes.—Eruption in the concha auris. Nose.—Nose hot and red.—*Bleedi?ig of the nose and of the mouth.—Coryza with sneezing.—*Epistavi\. Face.—Heat and redness of the face, especially of the cheeks and of the lobes of the ears.—*Complexion pale, earth-/ike, sometimes of a blackish yellow.—face dejected, with the eyes sunk and surrounded by a livid circle, nose pointed.—*Face bloated.—*Rheumatic pains in the face.— *Lips dry, blackish.—Lips cracked.—Swelling of the lips. —Burning, itching blisters on the lips and tongue.—Pain and swelling of the sub-maxillary glands. Teeth.—Odontalgia, with jerking or drawing pains, provoked by the open air, or by a current of air.—*Dull and distressing pains in the carious teeth.—*Pulsative odon- talgia.*—The tooth-ache manifests itself chiefly after a meal, and at night, and is mitigated by strong pressure, or by closing the teeth ; a slight contact aggravates it exces- sively.—Loose teeth painful only when masticating.— 'Teeth covered with a black coating. Mouth.—Dryness of the mouth.—Clammy mouth with insipid watery taste.—"Tongue cracked, black, or loaded with a * yellow or white coating.—Burning stingings in the tongue.—Painful swelling of the tongue towards the root. Loss of speech.—Flow of blood from the mouth. Throat.—Dryness of the throat.—Stinging in the throat, especially when swallowing, provoked by the least current of air.—Swelling of the palate and of the uvula. Appetite.—*Insipid, mucous, or watery taste, -espe- 176 CINCHONA OFFICINALIS. cially after drinking.—Too salt taste, or ^insipidity of food. —Sweetish taste in the mouth.—*Acid, or bitter taste of the mouth, and also of food and drink.—Repugnance to food and drink, with a sensation of fulness.—Sour taste of coffee and of rye-bread.—Bitter taste of beer and wheaten bread. —Dislike to butter, beer, and coffee.—Great desire for wine.—Dislike to water, with desire for beer.-—-Burning thirst; drinking often, but little at a time.—Bulimy, with insipid taste in the mouth, nausea, and desire to vomit.— "Voracity.—Appetite only while eating, with indifference to all food —*Desire for a variety of food and confused desire for dainties, without knowing exactly which—After each gulp of drink, shuddering or shivering, with corrugated skin, stitches in the chest, or colic.—Sour eructations and derangement of the stomach, after drinking milk.—*Great weakness of digestion ; after the most moderate meal, un- easiness, desire to sleep, great fulness in the stomach and abdo- men, lassitude and indolence, insipid taste in the mouth, hypochondriacal humour and head-ache.—*Eructations bitter, acid, or tasteless, especially after eating.—Nothing is digested after a late supper. Stomach.—*Eructations, especially after a meal, mostly bitter, acid, or tasteless—* Eructations with taste of food.— "Pyrosis, accumulation of water in the mouth, inclination to vomit and pressure in the stomach, as soon as one has eaten the least thing.—"Acid vomiting of slimy matter, of water and of food.—"Vomiting of blood.—* Pressure in the stomach withcramp-like pains, especially after having eaten.— Sensation of excoriation and pressure on the epigastrium, especially in the morning. Abdominal Region.---Pains in the hypochondria.— Piercing and pressive pains in the hepatic region, espe- cially on being touched.—*Hardness and swelling of the liver.—*Swelling and hardness of the spleen.—Piercing in the spleen.—Cuttings in the umbilical region, with shud- dering.—Strong pressure, as if from a hard body, and ful- ness in the abdomen, especially after every meal.—* Dropsi- cal swelling of the abdomen, with asthmatic sufferings and fatiguing cough.—Partial swelling of the abdomen, as if from encysted ascites.—Excessive inflation of the abdo- men, as if from a kind of tympanites.—Hardness of the ab- domen, as if from induration of the viscera.—Colic, with in- satiable thirst.—Excessively painful colic ; cramp-like and constructive pains in the abdomen.—Inflammation and ul- ceration of the abdominal viscera.—Pressive piercing colic (under the navel) especially on walking quick.—Incar- CINCHONA OFFICINALIS. 177 ceration of wind ; escaping neither upwards nor down- wards.—-Flatulent colic in the depth of the abdomen, with contraction of the intestines, and pressing forward of wind towards the hypochondria.—Escape of fetid wind.—Pres- sure towards the inguinal ring, as if a hernia were about to protrude. F,eces.—Feces small and slowly evacuated.—Difficult evacuation of soft feces, as if from inactivity of the intes- tines.—"Frequent evacuations of the consistence of pap or frothy.—Putrid or bilious evacuations.—* Slimy, watery, yel- lowish diarrhea.—"Diarrhea after eating fruit —*Loose evac- uations, with excretion of undigested food.— Diarrhea, with- out pain, but with great weakness.—Blackish evacuations. —* White feces, -sometimes with urine of a deep-red colour. —*Loose evacuations, chiefly after a meal or at night.— In- voluntary, liquid and yellowish evacuations.—Discharge of slime from the rectum.—Pressure and piercing in the rectum and anus.—Bleeding of the hemorrhoidal tumours. —*Crawling in the anus, as if from worms.— Discharge of lumbrici. Urine.—Frequent and almost ineffectual urging to make water, followed by pressure on the vesica.—Urine turbid, whitish, with white sediment.—Urine deep coloured, with sediment like brick-dust.—Slow emission of urine, with feeble stream and frequent desire.—Wetting the bed. —Hematuria. Genital Organs.—*Excitement of sexual desire, with lascivious ideas, day and night.—Swelling of the testes and of the spermatic cord.—Drawing pains in the testes.— *Pollutions frequent, "and too easily excited, followed by great weakness.—Congestion to the uterus, with fulness and painful bearing down, especially when walking.—Con- stant discharge of blood from the vagina, in clots.—Cata- menia scanty.—"Painful induration of the neck of the ma- trix.—"During the catamenia, startings with cramps in the chest and abdomen, or congestion to the head, with pulsa- tion of the carotid arteries, puffed face, prominent and watery eyes, convulsive movements of the eye-lids, and loss of consciousness.—"Leucorrhea, -also before the cata- menia, and sometimes with cramp-like contraction of the uterus, and painful sensation of bearing down towards the groin and anus.—"Watery and sanguinolent flux from the vagina, with clots of blood or of fetid pus, itching and ex- coriating the thighs. Larynx.—Hoarseness, indistinct speech, and low voice when singing, in consequence of mucus, difficult to detach 178 clmchona officinalis. from the larynx.—Stinging and scraping in the larynx.— Short, dry cough, as if produced by the vapour of sulphur, in the morning, after rising.—Suffocating, nocturnal cough, with pains in the chest and in the shoulder-blades, so as to make one cry out.—*Cough, with difficult expectoration of slimy mucus of a clear colour with painful shocks in the shoulder-blades and vomiting of bile.—* Violent convulsive cough, sometimes even with inclination to vomit.—*Cough provoked by laughing, drinking, eating, speaking, and by breathing deeply as well as by moving.—*Expectora- tion of whitish mucus, mixed with blackish particles.— Cough, with expectoration streaked with blood.— Expectora- tion of purulent matter when coughing.—*During the cough, pressure on the chest and pains as from excoriation in the larynx. Chest.—Difficulty of respiration and great oppression in the chest, with excessive anguish, as if from fulness of the stomach, or as if excited by too long a conversation. —Suffocating fits, from mucus in the larynx, especially in the evening and at night on waking.—*Respiration diffi- cult, and possible only, when lying with the head very high.—Wheezing and groaning when breathing.— Respi- ration short and quick.—Pressure on the chest, sometimes as if from a hard body, especially on the sternum, and after a meal.—*Shooting in the chest, when coughing and breathing.—Stitches in the side; with great heat, strong and hard pulse, and fixed look.—Violent congestion to the chest, and violent palpitation of the heart. Back.—Pains as from a bruise in the back and sacral region, on the least movement.—Pain in the loins at night, when lying on the back.—Pulsative, piercing pains in the back.—Easy perspiration, on the back and on the nape of the neck, from the least movement.—Pressure between the shoulder-blades, as if from a stone.—Tractive and jerk- ing tearings in the renal region, the back, the shoulder- blades and the nape of the neck, with pains from moving the parts, and excited by the least movement.—Tension in the muscles of the nape and neck. Arms.—Paralytic, jerking tearings in the muscles and bones of the arms, hands, and fingers, excited by touch.— Tension and weakness in the arms and hands.—Extension of the arms, with contraction of the fingers.—Swelling, stiffness and pains in the joints of the fingers.—Blue nails. Legs.—Paralytic jerkings, tearings in the muscles and in the bones of the legs, the thighs, the knees, the feet and the toes, especially when touched.—The legs become easily benumbed cinchona officinalis--CICUTA. 179 when seated.—Weakness and want of stability in the coxo- femoral joint, the knees, and the ankle-bones, which bend when walking.—Red and hard swelling of the thigh, painful to the touch.—'Arthritic swelling of the knees and of the feet, with heat, and painful sensibility when touched.—Hard abscess, of a deep-red colour, in the calf of the leg.— Uneasiness in the legs; it is necessary to move them con- stantly.—Swelling of the feet, sometimes with red spots, hardness, tension, and deep-coloured urine.—Paralysis of the feet. 48.—CICUTA. CIC—Water hemlock.—Hahnemann.—Duration of effect: from 4 to 6 weeks in some cases of chronic disease. Antidotes : Arn. tabac. (in case of poisoning).—Hemlock is antidote against op. Compare with : Arn. con. lye. mer. op. puis. thui. sil. veratr.—Hemlock, when indicated, exhibits particular efficacy alter lach. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Guided by the totality of symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be employed, appear to be :—Convulsions, hysterical spasms, epilepsy, Ecclampsia, Catalepsy, tetanus, trismus, and other spasmodic affections, especially in women and children, or from the abuse of opium ; Evil effects from the introduction of foreign bodies (of a splinter, &c.) into the soft parts ; Humid and scabby tetters ; congestion and other cerebral affections, even when caused by concussion of the brain; Scald head ; Amblyopia amaurotica, with cerebral affec- tion; Otorrhagia; Hardness of hearing ; Ozena 1 ; Facial tetters'?; Crusta lacteal; Cancer in the lips 1; Ulcers in the mouth (after the use of Laches) ; Trismus ; Stammer- ing 1; Gastric affections; Vermiculous affections, with convulsions; Paralysis of the vesical; Convulsions of paturient women ; Cramps in the chest. [The Cicuta acts as a violent irritant upon the spinal marrow, and ex- cites spasms or paralysis of the tongue, bladder, throat, diaphragm, eyes, abdominal muscles, &c.—It also causes inflammation and gangrene of the lungs, and serous exu- dation in the ventricles of the brain.—It deserves particu- lar attention in affections of the spinal marrow and nerves, in Dysphagia paralytica,'and Paralysis vesice, &c, &c.— Ed.] OCT See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Pains as from excoriation, or the infliction of a blow on several parts.—*Trembling of the limbs.—^Shocks, as if from electric sparks in the head, arms and legs.—*Cramp-like contortions and jerking of 180 CICUTA. the limbs.—*General convulsions and attacks of epilepsy, sometimes with cries, paleness or yellow colour of the face, closing of the jaws, numbness and distortion of the limbs, suspension of respiration, foam at the mouth.—After the fit, the body remains insensible, and, as it were, dead. State of insensibility and immobility, and loss of con- sciousness and of strength.—*Attacks of catalepsy, with relaxation of all the muscles and absence of respiration.— * Tetanus.—* Drawing pains in the limbs. Skin.—Burning itching over the whole body.—Purulent eruptions, with yellowish and burning scabs.—Lenticular pimples, of a deep-red colour.—Burning tickling over the whole body. Sleep.—Sleeplessness and nocturnal sweat.—*Half sleep, with restless movements and confused dreams.— Frequent waking, with profuse sweat, but which alleviates. ■—Lively dreams of the events of the day. Fever.—Shivering and perpetual desire to be near the fire. —Coldness of the thighs and arms, with fixedness of look. Moral Symptoms.—Anxiety and great facility to be deeply affected by hearing mournful stories.—Groans, complaints, and howlings.—Discontent and ill-humour.— Suspicion and mistrust, with misanthropy.—Disposition to be frightened.—Mania, with dancing, laughing, and ridicu- lous gestures.—Insanity.—Giddiness and absence of mind. Head.—Vertigo, and staggering, to the extent of fall- ing.—"Vertigo, on rising in bed, with obscuration of sight.—Intoxication.—Head-ache above the sockets.—One- sided head-ache, with nausea.—Heaviness of the head, with dizziness.—Stupifying pressure on the forehead.—Diminu- tion of pain in the head on rising and on passing wind.— "Head-ache, as if from concussion of the brain.—*Suppur- ating eruptions on the hairy scalp, with burning pain.—Jerk- ing and spasmodic shocksin the head, with retraction of the head. Eyes.—Burning pain in the eyes.—*Pupils, either much contracted or dilated.—*Suspension of the sight, with vertigo, when walking.—Look fixed, sometimes from a sort of absence of mind.—"Wavering of all objects before the sight.— Mobility of the characters when reading.— *Dyplopia, or obscuration of the eyes, sometimes alternately with hardness of hearing.—Luminous and coloured circle around all objects.—Photophobia.—Nocturnal agglutina- tion of the eye-lids. CICUTA. 181 Ears.—Sensation of excoriation and pain as from con- tusion behind the ears.— * Purulent eruption, before, behind, and on the ears.—Discharge of blood from the ears.—Hear- ing indistinct, sometimes alternation with obscuration of the eyes. Nose.—Pains as from excoriation and a bruise on the side of the nose.— Scabs in the nostrils.—Yellowish dis- charge from the nose.—Obstructions of the nose, with abundant secretion of mucus. Face.—Paleness, and coldness of the face, with cold hands.—Cheeks pale, with eyes sunk and surrounded by a livid circle.—Redness and swelling of the face and neck. —Running, purulent, dark red eruption on the face, with lenticular pimpies, on the forehead.—-Burning scabs, with yellowish serosity on the upper lip, the cheeks and chin.— Painful ulcer on the lips.—Painful swelling of the sub- maxillary glands.—^Trismus.—*Disposition to grind the teeth. Mouth and Throat.—Foam before and in the mouth.— Whitish pustules, painful when touched, and ulcers on the edge of the tongue.—Speech embarrassed, with convulsive movements of the head and arms at every word that is uttered.—Dumbness.—Inability to swallow; the throat is, as it were, closed. Appetite.—Want of appetite, caused by a sensation of dryness in the mouth.—*Satiety, and pressure in the sto- mach, after the first mouthful.—Great desire to eat coal.— Burning thirst, especially during the cramps.—After a meal, colic, cuttings, pressure on the epigastrium, and desire to sleep. Stomach.—Violent and burning hiccough.—Bitter and yellowish regurgitation on stooping, followed by a burn- ino- sensation in the throat.—Nausea in the morning and during a meal, sometimes with head-ache.—Vomiting of blood.—Vomiting, alternately with tonic spasms in the mus- cles of the chest, and convulsive movements of the eyes. —Burning pressure on the stomach.—Pulsative pains in the epigastrium, which is much inflated.—Oppression and anxiety in the region of the epigastrium. Abdominal Rep.ion.— Colic, with convulsions, as if from worms.—Cuttings immediately after a meal, with de- sire to sleep.— Pinchings and borborygmns in the abdo- men.—Accumulation of flatulence, with anguish and ill- humour.—Pain as from ulceration in the groins. Fjeces and Urine.—Constipation.—Too frequent Iiquid evacuations.—Retention of urine.—Frequent want to make Vol. I. 16 182 CICUTA--CIN.E. water.—Involuntary urination as if from paralysis of the vesica. Chest.—Hoarseness.—^Difficult respiration and want of breath.—Cough, with abundant expectoration.—Pres- sure on the chest, as if from a weight, with difficulty of respiration.—"Tonic spasms, in the muscles of the chest, alternating with vomiting.—Heat in the chest.—Pain as from a bruise, and excoriation, in the lower extremity of the sternum.—Burning pain in the breasts. Back.—Spasmodic bending backwards of the back.—Ten- sion above the shoulder-blades.—Pain from ulceration in the shoulder-blades.—Tension as if from a wound in the muscles of the neck, when bending the head back.—"Swell- ing of the neck. Arms.—Pain of bruising or as from a bruise, or exco- riation in the joints of the shoulder and in the fore-arms. —Sensation of heaviness and want of strength in the arms. —* Jerkings and convulsive movements in the arms and fingers. —Fingers dead. Legs.—Involuntary jerking of the lower limbs.—Painful stiffness of the legs.—Trembling of the legs.—Bending of the feet, when walking. 49.—CIN^E SEMEN—(artemesia judaica). CIX — Mugwort of Judaea.—Hahnemann—Duration of effect: from 14 to 21 days, in sime cases of chronic disease. Antidote: Ipec?—It is used as an antidote against chin. Compare with: Arn bell. bry. calc. caps cham. chin. fer. hep. ignat. ipec. phos. s-ibiid.—Cina, when indicated, appears particularly efficacious after arn. rnd hyos. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Guided by the totality of symp- toms, the cases in which this medicine may be employed will be found to be :—Affections of children ; Weakness from loss of humours; Atrophy 1 ; Scrofulous affections; Convulsions, epilepsy, eclampsia, and other spasmodic af- fections ; Intermittent and marsh fevers ; Cerebral affections, encephalitis, acute hydrocephalus of children ; Amblyopia amaurotica, even in consequence of masturbation ; Gastric affections ; Vermiculous affections ; Wetting the bed ; Hoop- ing-cough ; chiefly in scrofulous children or in those suf- fering from worms ; &c, &c. 0^7" See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Paralytic, tractive pains in the limbs.—Pressure and squeezing, with dull piercings, or cramp-like tearings, pullings and jerkings, or burning piercings in different parts.— Convulsions and distortion of the limbs.—Nocturnal, epileptic convulsions, followed by CINA. 183 head-ache.-Bppileptic convulsions, with cries, turning on the back, ana violent movements of the hands and feet — Tetanic stiffness of the whole body.—External pressure aggravates or renews the sufferings—Painful sensibility of all the limbs, on moving and when touched.—The majority of the sufferings appear at night, or when seated, and are aggravated in the morning and in the evening.— Heaviness in the limbs. Sleep.—Frequent yawning, with trembling and shud- dering.—^Nocturnal sleeplessness, with agitation, tears, cries, heat, and anguish. Fever.—Frequent shuddering, with trembling, even near the fire.—*Quotidian fevers, or tertian, *with bulimia, nau- sea, clean tongue, diarrhoea, dilated pupils, and emaciation. —Shivering in the evening.— Great febrile heat, with de- lirium, tossing, and agitation.—*Heat, especially in the head, with paleness, or yellowish colour of the face, and livid circle under the eyes, -or with redness of the cheeks. —"After the fever, head-ache.—Cold sweat on the forehead and hands. Moral Symptoms —Inclination to weeping and lamen- tation.—Child cries when it is touched.—Perpetual inquie- tude, with desire for things of all sorts, which are rejected some moments after.—Great anguish and anxiety, when walking in the open air.—Delirium. Head.—Head-ache, alternating with pressure in the ab- domen.—Numb pressure as if from a load, which weighs upon the head, especially when walking in the open air.— Tearing, drawing cephalalgia, aggravated by reading or meditation.—Dull pains in the head, with eyes fatigued, chiefly on waking in the morning. Eyes.—Pressure in the eyes, after fatiguing them by reading.—Convulsive movements of the muscles of the eye-brows.—Confusion of sight when reading, which disap- pears on rubbing the eyes.—*Pupils dilated.—Weak sight, with photophobia and pressure on the eyes, as if sand had been introduced into them. Nosh:.—Epistaxis.—* Desire to put the fingers into the nose.—Flow of pus from the nose.—Violent sneezing, which causes sensation of pressure in the temples, and seems to be on the point of bursting the chest.—Fluent coryza, with sensation of burning in the nostrils.—*Stoppage of the nose. FACE.—Paleness of face,with livid circle under the eyes.— Earth-coloured complexion.—Face, puffed and bluish, espe- cially round the mouth.—"Face alternately pale and cold, oz 184 CINA. red and hot.—Cramp-like pains and succes^p pullings in the cheek-bones. . Teeth.—Tooth-ache, excited by cold air and drinks.— Pains as from excoriation in the teeth.—Grinding of the teeth. Throat.—Inability to swallow, especially liquids.— Dryness and roughness of the mouth. Appetite.—Augmentation of thirst.—Hunger a short time after a meal.—Voracity.—* Bulimia.— Aversion of the sucking-child to its mother's milk.—"Bitter taste of bread.—"Vomiting or diarrhoea after drinking.—* Vomiting of mucus and of ascarides.—Vomiting Avith tongue clean.— "Bilious vomiting.— Disagreeable eructations. Apdominal Region.—Obstinate pinchings in the abdo- men.—Painful rolling in the region of the navel, which is very sensitive to the touch.—Pains of child-birth in the ab- domen, as when the catamenia are about to appear. F^ces.—"Loose evacuations of the consistence of pap. —"Discharge of ascarides and of worms by the anus.—Diar- rhoea of bile and of stercoraceous matter.—Loose, involun- tary, whitish evacuations. Urine.—Frequent want to make water, with profuse discharge.—' Wetting the bed.—*Urine soon becomes turbid. —Involuntary emission of urine-—Catamenia premature and too abundant.—Metrorrhagia. Larynx.—Abundance of mucus in the larynx, which ceases not and forces one to hawk continually.—Cough, excited by taking a deep inspiration.—Small, hoarse, tran- sient cough, in the evening.—Dry spasms, hiccough, with want of breath, anxiety, paleness of face, and groans after the paroxysm ; or writh stiffness of the body and bleeding from the nose and mouth.—*Cough, with sudden starts and loss of consciousness. Chest.—Difficulty of respiration and anxious oppression of the chest, as if the sternum were compressing the lungs. —Respiration short, often interrupted, or rattling.—Spas- modic rooting in the chest, as if it were going to burst.— Twitching and digging piercings in the chest. Extremities.—Pains as from a bruise in the loins.— Drawing or jerking pains in the back.—Tearings and para- lytic pullings in the arms —Spasmodic tearings in the arms and in the hands.—Contraction and jerking of the hand and of the fingers.—Weakness of the hand ; it suffers every- thing to escape from it.—Paralytic or cramp-like pains, and pullings in the legs.—Cramp-like extension of the legs. CINNABARIS. 185 50.—CINNABARIS. CIX.W— Red sulphur of mercury.—Hahnemann.— lTma! doses; 9.30.— Duration of effect: thrte weeks in some cases of chronic disease. CLINICAL REMARKS.—This medicine has as yet been employed only against sycotic excrescences. [It ex- cites intense inflammation of the Pleurae costalis et pulmo- nalis, with a sero-purulent exudation. Ed.] GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Coldness in the joints.— Pulling and shuddering in the arms and legs.—Paralytic pains in the limbs, with indolence and desire to sleep.— Nocturnal sleeplessness, which however does not fatigue. —Nightmare after midnight. Head—Nose.— Violent and frightful attack of cephalalgia, in the sinciput and in the temples, mitigated by compression of the head.—Stupifying buzzing in the head, a little after din- ner, and in the evening before lying down.—Stinging in the integuments of the head.—Painful sensibility of the cranium and of the hair to touch.—Inflammation of the eyes with pressive stingings and constant lachrymation, when fixing them on an object.—Violent fluent coryza, with se- cretion of burning serum. Mouth and Appetite.—Burning, contractive sensation in the palate.—Salivation.—Nocturnal dryness and heat in the mouth and throat with much thirst.—Pressive contrac- tions in the throat during deglutition.— Want of appetite with dislike for all food.—After a meal, disagreeable sen- sation of swelling over the whole body, with tightness in the chest and in the stomach.—At night, heat, which mounts from the stomach towards the neck and the head ; relieved by rising up in the bed. FjEces and Ukine.—Evacuations, soft and frequent, pre- ceded by pinchings in the abdomen.—Obstinate nocturnal diarrhoea, without colic. — Pain as if caused by excoriation, in the urethra, when making water. Genital Parts.—Swelling of the penis.—Pseudo gonor- rhea, with redness, and swelling of the prepuce.—Granulated eruption on the glans.—^Condyloma.—Sexual desire strong- ly excited and great inclination for coition with strong appe- tite for eating and drinking.—Violent erections in the even- ing in bed.—Fetid and acrid sweats, between the scro- tum and the thighs, when walking. Chest.—Dry cough, with single shocks, when lying down.—Pulsative and piercing pains in the chest, espe- cially when walking. Tru.nk.—Tearing in the side of the back, even at night on 16* 186 CINNAMONUM—cistus canadensis. moving in bed, mitigated by the heat of the fire.—Wrench- ing pain in the vertebrae of the neck. Extremities.—Tearing in the arms when writing, miti- gated by the heat of the fire.—Violent shooting pain in the arms.—Painful jerking of the leg, in the evening, after ly- ing- down. 51.—CINNAMONUM. CINNAM.—Cinnamon.— A medicine as yet entirely unknown, but which has been used, even by homoeopaths, against some kinds of metrorrha- gia, with excitement of sexual desire. 52.—CISTUS CANADENSIS. CIST.—Cistus.—Hering.—Usual doses, 1 (scrofulous complaints). 15 (af- fections of the respiratory organs). Compare with : Bell- carb-veg. phos., that may be administered alternate- ly with cistus, when they are otherwise indicated. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Guided by the totality of the symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be used appear to be : Obstruction of the glands, with suppuration ; ulcers and other scrofulous affections ; Scorbutic affections of the gums; Purulent otorrhoea; Caries in the jaw-bone; Chr.in c la yngitis, &c , &c. fc5" See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—In the evening pains in the knees, right hand and left shoulder.—"Aggravation of suffer- ings in the morning.—Drawing pains in the muscular parts of the hands and lower extremities, with pains in the joints of the hand, fingers and knees.—Tearing and drawing pains in all the joints, especially in those of the knees and the fingers.—Swollen and ulcerated glands.—Pains, as from a bruise and sensation of lassitude in all the limbs.—*Cold feet.—*Tendency to chilliness.—Violent shivering with trembling, followed by feverish heat with red and swollen ears, and obstruction of the glands of the neck.—Heat with thirst, which forces one to drink abundantly.—Itching over the whole body, without eruption.—Every alteration greatly aggravates the sufferings.—Evil effects from vexa- tion. Head and Eyes.—Aching pain in the head, with pres- sure above the eyes and in the forehead.—Sensation of heaviness above the eyes.—Lancinations in the left eye.— Sensation in the eye, as if something were turning in it with piercings. Ears.—Swelling from the ear to the cheek.—Swelling in the internal ears.—Ears stopped by swelling with dis* cistus canadensis. 187 charge.—"Discharge of serum and of a fetid pus from the ears. Nose.—Sensation of burning in the left nostril.—Inflam- mation and painful swelling of the nostril.—Sneezing inde- pendent of coryza or any specific cause. Face.—Sensation, as if the muscles of the face were drawn to (ne side.—Heat and burning in the bones of the face.—Transient heat in the face.—Vesicular erysipelas in the face.— Caries in the lower jaw-bone. Mouth and Throat.—Gums, swollen, separated, easily bleeding, and presenting a disgusting appearance.—Sore- ness of the tongue, which appears as if excoriated.—"Dry- ness of the tongue and palate.— Periodical itching in the throat.— Tickling, and pain as from excoriation in the throat, especially in the morning.—^Constant sensation of dryness, "and heat in the throat.—Insupportable sensation in the throat, on swallowing the saliva to relieve the dryness.— "Sensation, as if there were sand in the throat.—"Amelio- ration of the pains in the throat after a meal.—"Pains in the throat on breathing fresh air.— Sensation of softness in the throat.—"Lancinations in the throat from every motion, which cause fits of coughing.—*Difficult expectoration of very tenacious mucus. Stomach and Faeces.—"Frequent nausea.—Pains in the stomach, after a meal.—Stingings in the left hypochon- drium.—Abundant flatulence and sensation of uneasiness in the abdomen.—Transient diarrhoea.—Diarrhoea after eating fruit. Chest.—"Fetid breath.— Pains in the larynx.—"Pressure on the chest.—Sensation of fulness in the chest.—In the evening, after lying down, crawling over the whole body, with difficult respiration and anxiety, relieved by the fresh air.— Cough excited by lancinations in the throat.—Ex- pectoration of bitter mucus. Trunk and Exti.emities.—Under the shoulder-blade, a red spot, painful when touched, and followed by erysipela- tous eruption, with burning pains which are aggravated by touch.—In the evening violent pains in the shoulder and in the chest, with desire to mitigate them by striking the affected parts with the fist.— Obstruction and suppuration of the glands of the neck.—Pains in the shoulder.—Pains as from dislocation of the wrist, with drawing and gnaw- ino- pains.—In the afternoon, violent pains in the hand which prevent one from making use of it.—Pains in the fin- gers when writing.—Tearing pains in the thigh, when walking.—Pains in the knees and thigh, when walking and 188 CITRICOl ACIDUM—clematis erecta. when seated.—In the evening, violent lancinations in the toe. 53.—CITRICUM ACIDUM. CITR.—Citric acid.- A medicine as yet entirely unknown, but which is used as an antidote against euphorb. and stram., and which, in a case of poisoning by this latter substance has been employed with great suc- cess.— i he dose in this case was the natural juice of the lemon, as it is found in the fruit, administered by small spoonlulls. SYMPTOMS which, in the case cited, were removed by the lemon juice—"Attacks of convulsions, with violent motion of the hands and feet, eyes convulsed, look fixed, salivation, dilated pupils, red and puffed face.— Loss of reason and disposition to be frightened.—"Pulse small and quick.— Light renews or provokes the convulsions. 54.—CLEMATIS ERECTA. CLEW.—Upright virgin's-bower.—Hahnemann—Duration of effect; for 6 weeks in some cases of chronic disease. Antidotes : Bry. Camph. Compare with : Bell, bry- rhus. sass. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Guided by the totality of the symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be used, appear to be :—Sufferings from the abuse of mercury ; Ar- ticular rheumatism, chiefly caused by suppressed gonorrhea ; Eruption and scabby tetters ; Fungous excrescences'?; Can- cerous ulcers !; Melancholy !; Megrim, and other kinds of cephalalgia! ; Scald-head ! ; Chronic ophthalmia; Can- cer of the lips!; Spasmodic contraction of the urethra, orchitis, obstruction and induration of the testes and other affections of the urinary organs and of the genital parts, caused by suppressed gonorrhea ; Chronic gonorrhoea! ; Ob- struction and induration of the glands; Arthritic nodosi- ties; Cancer of the breast ! ; &c. [It deserves attention in swelling of the inguinal glands, scirrhous enlargement of the lips, and female breasts ; in ulceration of the bladder and kidneys ; in malignant herpes and ulcers; in dissection-wounds, &c, &c. Ed.] lEf^ See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Convulsive movements of the muscles in different parts of the body.—Relaxation of the muscles.—Great emaciation.—Fatigue of all the limbs especially after a meal, with throbbing in all the arte- ries.— Vibration through the whole body, after lying down. Skin.—"Obstinate miliary eruptions.—"Vesicular erup- tions on the body.—"Scaly tetters discharging a yellowish and corrosive sanious pus, and attended with redness heat clematis erecta. 189 and swelling of the skin.—"Obstinate tetters, red and moist with insupportable itching in the heat of the bed.—The tetters are red and humid while the moon is increasing, and pale and dry when the moon is waning.—Burning crawling and pulsation in the ulcers, with lancinations in the edges when touched.—Psoric pustules over the whole body. Sleep.—Great desire to sleep in the day, even in the morning after rising.—Restlessness in the evening and at night.—Sleep after frequent wakings, agitation and toss- ing-—In the morning, sensation as if one had not slept enough. Fever.—"Quartan fever, which consists in shuddering, followed by sweat —Sweat on waking, and sensitiveness of the skin, which renders the removal of covering intolerable. Moral Symptoms.—Sadness and apprehension.—Mo- roseness.—Aversion to conversation.—Indifference. Hr.AD.—In the morning, confusion and heaviness of the head.—Aching tension in the forehead and sides of the head, as well as in the bones of the cranium.—Searching pressure on the brain.—-Piercing in the temples.— Ham- mering and beating in the head.—Purulent pimples on the forehead, painful when touched.—Burning cutting pains in the skin of the forehead.—Eruptions on the head.—Moist phlyctaenae on the occiput and nape of the neck. Eyes and Ears.—Pressure on the ball of the eye.— Smarting in the eyes and margin of the eye-lids, especially on closing them.—Lancinations in the corners of the eyes.— * Inflammation of the eyes, with profuse lachrymation.—In- flammation and ulceration of the margins of the eye-lids.— Photophobia.—Burning pain in the exterior of the ear.— Tingling in the ear. Nose.—Purulent pimples, painful when touched, on the root and point of the nose.—Flowing coryza, with abun- dant secretion of mucus. Face.—Face pale and sickly.—Sensation of burning in the skin of the cheeks.—Cutting burning pains in the lower lip.—Phlectenoidal eruptions on the lip.—White vesicles on the nose and on the face, as if from exposure to the sun.—Purulent pimples on the chin.—Swelling of the sub- maxillary glands into hard, tensive, pulsating nodosities, which are painful to the touch. Teeth.—Tooth-ache aggravated by smoking tobacco. —Nocturnal pains in the teeth, which are aggravated when lying down, so as to drive one to despair, with tossing, weakness, anxiety, and insupportable suffering when unco- vered.—Lancinating pains or successive tractions in the 190 CLEMATIS ERECTA--COCCIONELLA. teeth, extending even into the head, and rendering one in- capable of any intellectual labour. Mouth.—Dryness of the tongue in the morning.—Dull lancinations and piercings in the root of the tongue.—Ex- pectoration of sanguineous saliva. Appetite.—Prolonged satiety, though the food appears to be well tasted.—Nausea from smoking tobacco, with weakness of the legs. ; Abdominal Region.—Pains as from a bruise in the he- patic region, when touched and on stooping.—When walk- ing, cutting contractions in the regions of the loins.— Pressure towards the exterior in the inguinal ring, as if a hernia were about to protrude.—*Swelling and induration of the inguinal glands, -with jerking pains. F.eces.—Frequent, liquid or loose evacuations, with- out colic. Urine.—Increased secretion of urine.—Purulent urine.— During the emission of urine, traction in the spermatic cord.—Burning sensation and smarting in the urethra on commencing to urinate.—* Spasmodic contraction of the ure- thra, the urinary discharge stopping suddenly, or only flowing drop by drop. Genital Parts—Drawing pains in the testes and in the spermatic cord, extending to the groins and thighs.— * Painful inflammation and swelling of the testes.—"Indura- tion of the testes.—Thickening of the scrotum.—Aversion to sexual enjoyment, as if after having abused it by excess. —Burning pain in the penis, during emission in coition. Chest.—Violent blows, with dull lancinations in the sides of the chest and abdomen.—Lancinations in the chest, aggravated by breathing.. Extremities.—Itching pustules round the neck, with excoriation after scratching.—Humid herpes, from the nape of the neck to the occiput.— Swelling of the axillary glands.—Aching or traction in the muscles of the arms and of the hands.—"Arthritic nodosities on the joints of the fingers.—Eruption of pustules in the region of the loins.—Tearing in the thighs.—"Scaly tetters on the thigh. ■—Furunculi on the thigh.—Gnawing blisters on the hands and fingers, with swelling; cold water aggravates the sufferings. 55.—co"ccTonellaT~ COCCIOX.—Cochineal.—A medicine as yet very little known. [It has been used with much success as a topical applica- tion in tooth-ache ; and is said to have proved beneficial in purpura hramorrhagica.] Ed. COCCIONELLA---COCCULUS. 191 SYMPTOMS.—Dull head-ache, as if from an enlarge- ment of the brain towards the occiput.—Semi-lateral, tear- ing and piercing pains in the sinciput.—Redness and heat of the cheeks.—Congestion of the face, like a transient heat.—Pain in the molares, as if they were carious, or the air were passing in.—Tearing and drawing pains, or suc- cessive traction in the teeth, as if they were being ex- tracted.—Pulsations and beatings in the teeth.—Swelling of the gums. 56.—COCCULUS. COCC.—Cocculus intlicus.—Hahnemann-—Duration of effect: from 20 to 30 days in some cases of chronic disease. Antidotes: Camph. n-vom.—It is used as an antidote against cham. cupr. ign. n-vom. Compare with : Ant. ars. carb-v. cham. coff. colch. cupr. ign. iod. ipec. mere, mosch. natr. nat-m. nitr. n-vom. oleand. puis. rhus. sass. sabin. stram. tart, vi-rat.—Cocculus when otherwise indicated is especially suiiaMe after ipec. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Governed by the totality of the symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be em- ployed appear to be :—Affections of persons (especially females) of a mild and phlegmatic temperament, or else of a bilious and choleric temperament; Sufferings brought on by rage ; Bad effects from the abuse of camomile ; Affec- tions caused by the motion of a carriage, a swing, or ship ; Nervous weakness; Syncope in hysterical persons; Para- lysis, especially of the lower limbs, with excitement of the nervous system ; Spasms and convulsions, especially in hys- terical women and those who have irregular catamenia; Traumatic convulsions; Arthritic affections; St. Vitus' dance ; Fevers, with bilious or gastric affections, or from the abuse of camomile ; Slow fevers, withnervous weakness, especially after severe acute diseases, typhus fever, chol- era, &c.; Cerebral congestion and apoplexy, also caused by sanguineous evacuations ; Megrim and hysterical ceph- alalgia ; Oesophagitis ! ; Gastric and bilious affections, even those caused by the motion of a carriage, &c ; Sea-sick- ness ; Gastralgia, also in consequence of weakness ; Spas- modic and flatulent colics ; Inguinal hernia (in children); Menstrual colic ; Dysmenorrhoea, with spasmodic suffer- ings ; Leucorrhcea, cramps in the uterus and other sufferings of women, who are unmarried, or who have not had chil- dren ; Tenesmus of the vesica, in pregnant women ; Cramps in the chest; Palpitations of the heart; Tabes dors alis 1 ; Gout in the hands and feet; Arthritic gonitis ; &c, &c. [It deserves attention in inflammation of the heart and 192 COCCULUS. diaphragm, after the previous use of Aconit, Arsenicum, &c, &c. In sub-acute inflammations of the brain; in bilious and nervous fevers, especially when drowsiness, ex- haustion, extreme weakness, great anxiety, and paralysis of the muscles of the throat set in ; also in paralysis, hemiplegia, apoplexy, epilepsy, and Traumatic tetanus; also in torpid amaurosis, deafness, and chronic constipa- tion. Ed.] 0^7° See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Friction and paralytic tear- ings, by fits or continuous, in the limbs and in the bones.— Convulsive movements of the muscles in different parts.— Aching and digging pains in the limbs.—Pains, as from a bruise, even in the internal organs.—*Sensation of vacuity or of constriction in the internal organs.—Painful sensitive- ness of the limbs to the slightest touch.—Painful stiffness and crackings in the joints.— *Semi-lateral sufferings.— Rheumatic pains, with hot swelling of the parts affected.— Piercing pains in the cold tumours.—Obstruction and in- duration of the glands.—Haemorrhagia.—*Cramps and convulsions of the limbs and of the whole body, "sometimes excited by the pains of ulcers or wounds which are pain- fully sensitive to the touch or motion of the parts affect- ed.—"Convulsive movements of the limbs and muscles, as in St. Vitus' dance.— During the convulsive fit, face red, puffed, and hot.—Trembling of the limbs.—Attacks of epi- lepsy.—* Paralysis chiefly semi-lateral, with insensibility of the parts affected.—*Aggravation of the sufferings from sleep, conversation, drinking and eating, especially from cof- fee or smoking tobacco, as well as from cold air.— Weakness and loss of strength, after the least corporeal fatigue, movement, or interruption of sleep.— Want of vital energy. —Fainting fits—Numbness, sometimes of the hands, sometimes of the feet, in transient fits.—The open air is insupportable, whether it be warm or cold.— Emaciation. Skin.—Great itching, especially in the evening, when undressing, or at night in bed.—Red pimples, like grains of millet, with itching when warm.—Eruption of hard and knotty pimples, with red areola? and burning pain.—Red spots on the chest and side of the neck.—"Pale colour of the skin. Sleep.—Obstinate desire to sleep in the morninrr.— Spasmodic yawninj.—Sleep retarded in consequence of a great flow of ideas.—Half sleep, like coma vigil.—Sleep interrupted by frightful anguish and inquietude.—During sleep, starts, cries, convulsive motions of the hands, eyes COCCULUS. 193 and head.—Anxious, frightful dreams, dreams of death, disease, &c.—Fear of ghosts, at night.—Sleep unrefresh- ing, with frequent waking. Fever.—Shivering and sensation of coldness, with trem- bling.— In the evening, shivering and shuddering in the back.—Fever, with chilly disposition, though the skin is hot to the touch.—Burning heat and redness of the cheeks, often with coldness of the feet.— 'Fever, with cramp-like pains in the stomach, and paralytic weakness in the loins. —Easy perspiration during motion, with great fatigue.— Night and morning sweats.—"Full, hard and frequent pulse. Moral Symptoms.—Presentiments and sad and melan- choly reflections, as if one had suffered for offences.—"Hy- pochondriacal humour ; despair.—*Strong, anxious appre- hension, inquietude and fear of death —*Disposition to be frightened. — *Excessive susceptibility.-—Disposition to take every thing in bad part and to be angry.—Mania.— Deception respecting the lapse of time; it passes too quickly. Head.—Confusion of the head, especially after eating or drinking.—Dulness in the head, increased by reading or meditation.— Vertigo,as if from intoxication, or when rising up in the bed, with desire to vomit, which forces one to lie down again.—Attacks of vertigo, with nausea and loss of consciousness.—Head-ache, with desire to vomit, or vomiting, and pain as from a bruise in the intestines—*Pressive, violent pains, especially in the forehead.—*Head-ache, from every movement, as if the eyes were going to be torn from the sockets, with vertigo.—*Pain in the head, which is, as it were, empty and hollow, or sensation of constriction in the brain.—Pulsative pains, sometimes in the crown of the head, sometimes in the temples.—Convulsive trem- bling of the head. Eyes.—Pressure and pain as from a bruise in the eyes, and difficulty in opening the eye-lids at night.—"Convulsive rolling of the balls of the eyes during the spasms.—"Pu- pils greatly dilated.—Inflammation of the eye-lids.—Eyes prominent and glassy.—Confusion of sight, with black spots before the eyes.—Phantoms before the eyes. Ears and Nose.—Buzzing in the ears, with hardness of hearing, and sensation as if the ears were stopt.—Swell- ing of the parotids.—Swelling of the nose, sometimes semi-lateral.—Coryza, with ulcerated nostrils. Face and Teeth.—Burning red, puffed and hot face.— Fugitive heat in the cheeks.—Blue circles round the eyes. —Face convulsively contracted.—Cramps in the cheek- Vol. I. 17 194 COCCULUS. bone and in the masseters.—Swelling and induration of the submaxillary glands.—Pains in the carious teeth only when eating. —Looseness of the teeth, with swelling of the gums. Mouth and Throat.—^Dryness of the mouth, with- out thirst.—Foam before the mouth, forming bubbles.— Tongue loaded with a yellow coating.—Dryness of the throat.—Excessive sensitiveness of the palate ; the food seems to be too strong or too salt.—Constriction in the gullet, which seems to be paralyzed.—^'Burning pain in the oesophagus, and in the throat, with sulphurous taste in the mouth. Appetite. — Metallic coppery taste.—Acid taste, es- pecially after a meal, or when coughing.—Acid taste of bread.—Bitter taste of tobacco.—Desire for cold drinks and es- pecially for beer.—Thirst during a meal.—*Excessive loath- ing of all food and drink.—Repugnance to all acids.—Bulimy. Stomach.—Eructations, with pain in the stomach and in the epigastrium.—*. Eructations with desire to vomit.—* Va- cant, or fetid and putrid eructations.—* Attacks of nausea icreasing to syncope.—Desire to vomit, on rising up in the bed, which forces one to lie down again.—Desire to vomit during a meal, or in consequence of a chill, with abundant accumulation of saliva.—"Vomiting and nausea from the motion of a carriage or on the sea.—Sensation of fulness in the stomach, with difficulty of respiration.—* Violent cramp-like and squeezing pains, as if from a claw, and cramps in the stomach, sometimes a short time ajter a meal.— —Anxious oppression and pinchings in the epigastrium, with difficulty of respiration. Abdominal Region.—Pain in the hypochondria as from a bruise.— Pressive pain in the hepatic region, aggravated by coughing or stooping.— Shootings in the hepatic re- gion.—Abdominal pains, as if the intestines were bruised, or as if from an internal abscess, from every movement.— Pressure, as if from a stone, in the umbilical region, and in the abdomen.—Sensation in the abdomen, as if it were hollow and empty.—*Inflation of the abdomen.—Contractive pinch- ings in the lower part of the abdomen, with suspension of res- piration.—*Burning pains, traction and tearings in the ab- domen.—-Cramp-like pains in the abdomen.—*Flatulent, cramp-like colic, especially at night, aggravated by cough- ing, or by stooping forwards.—*Disposition to protrusion of inguinal hernia. Faeces and Urine.—Constipation, with tenesmus.__ Hard and difficult evacuations.—Loose evacuations of a putrid odcur.—*Faeces soft and yellow, and "causing cocculus. 195 burning in the anus.—Aqueous urine with urgent desire.— •Frequent desire to make water, also in pregnant women. Genital Organs.—Itching in the scrotum.—Tractive pain as from a bruise in the testes, when touched.—Great sensitiveness and excitability of the genital parts, with desire for coition.—*Premature catamenia, with cramps in the abdomen.—Painful catamenia, with abundant discharge of coagulated blood, followed by haemorrhoids.—"Sup- pression of catamenia, with spasmodic and pressive colic, flatulency, paralytic debility, oppression, anxiety, cramps in the chest, attacks of nausea, even to the extent of fainting, and convulsive movements of the limbs.— Catamenia too abundant, and irregular, with leucorrhcea in the intervals. —(Metrorrhagia.)—"Discharge of sanguineous mucus from the uterus, during pregnancy.—*Leucorrhoea, similar to water in which meat has been washed, mixed with a sani- ous and purulent serum.— Cramps of the uterus. Larynx.—Fatiguing cough, from oppression of the chest, which manifests itself only during the cough.—Periodical cough, every fourth night, towards midnight, or about two o'clock in the morning, with constriction in the throat which forces one to cough. Chest.—Suspension of respiration, which stops in the pit of the throat, as if from constriction of the throat.— "Short, intermittent respiration.—Pressure on the chest, as if f om a stone.—Cramps in the chest, with sighs and groans. —Tensive constriction of the chest, sometimes on one side only, with difficulty of respiration.—Rattling and sensation of emptiness in the chest.—Fatigue of the chest from reading aloud.—"Congestion of the chest, with anxiety.—*Palpi- tation of the heart.—Red spots on the chest. Trunk.—Paralytic tearings in the loins.—Traction and tearings in the back, especially when speaking, walking, and stooping.—Shootings between the shoulder-blades and in the kidneys.—Cracking of the vertebrae of the neck, during motion.—Weakness of the muscles of the neck, which are inadequate to the support of the head.—Red spots on the neck. Arms.—Lancinations in the joint of the shoulder and in the arm, during repose.—Tearing pains in the arm, pro- ceeding from a wounded finger.—Convulsions of the arm, with retraction of the thumbs.—* Paralysis of the arms.— Palpitation of the muscles of the arm.—Pain, as from a bruise in the bones of the arm, during motion.—"Hot and arthritic swellings of the hands.—Numbness, or heat and coldness alternately of one or other of the hands.— Tor- 196 COCCULUS —COFFEA CRUDA. por of the hands.—Cramp-like contractions and jerking of the fingers. Legs—* Paralysis of the lower limbs, proceeding from the loins.—Drawing tearings in the knees, the feet and the toes.—Pain, as from a bruise in the thighs, during move- ment.—Crackling of the knees, during movement.— In- flammatory swelling of the knee, with transient tearings.— Burning sensation in the feet.—Hot and itching swelling of the feet, sometimes also in the evening.—Numbness of the feet.—Coldness and perspiration of the feet. 57.—COFFEA CRUDA. COFF.—Raw coffee.—Archiv s of Stapf. — Duration of effect: As long as 10 dnys in some cases of chronic disease. Antidotes : Aeon. cham. ign, n-vom.—Coffee is an antidote against psori- num and all the autopsorina. Compare with : Aeon. agar. ang. ars- bell. bry. canth. carb-veg caus. cham cocc. coloc. con. ign- kal laur. mang. mere, n-vom. op. phos. phos-ac. puis. rhus. sep. sulph. valer. CLINICAL REMARKS.—If guided by the whole of the symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be em- ployed appear to be :—Excessive nervous excitability ; Ex- cessively painful neuralgia ; Evil effects of a chill ; Convul- sions; Forerunners of the small pox, of morbilli (and of scarlatina) ; Purple miliary eruption ; Sleeplessness from nervous excitement ; Intermittent fever ; Evil consequences of unexpected or excessive joy ; Sanguineous and serous apoplexy!; Megrim!; Congestive cephalalgia!; Hard- ness of hearing ; Excessively painful odontalgia and angi- na ; Pains of childbirth and over-violent throes; Puerperal peritonitis ; Cries and agitation of new-born infants ; Gas- tralgia !; Gastric sufferings in consequence of the small pox; &c, &c. [It deserves attention, when unusual sharpness of sight alternates with partial blindness, and in Asthma hysteri- eum as a palliative in sick head-ache. Ed.] bty" See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—^Painful susceptibility of the rts affected.—Great flexibility of the muscles, and activity of the whole body.—"Mental and physical excita- bility—Aversion to the open air, with uneasiness and ag- gravation of the symptoms during a walk in the open air. —Convulsions with grinding of the teeth, and coldness of the limbs.—*Sleeplessness from excitement of the imagina- tion, flow of ideas, and fantastic visions.—Desire to lie down and to shut the eyes, without being able to sleep.__ Violent shivering with feverish increase of bodily heat.__Fe- COFFEA CRUDA—COLCHICUM AUTUMNALE. 197 ver with inconsolable anguish.—"Shuddering with colic and violent agitation.—*Tears, howls, cries, tossing and discouragement, especially during the paroxysm of pain.— "Cries of children.—Anxiety of heart and of conscience, with apprehensions.—* Vivacity and increased loquacity.—Viva- city and elevation of the imagination, with acuteness of the intellectual faculties. Head and Throat.—Pains in the head, as if the brain were bruised.—Semi-lateral cephalalgia, as if a nail were driven into the parietal bone.—Heaviness of the head.— Congestion of the head, especially when speaking.—Eyes lively and red, with clearer sight.—Excessive sensibility of hearing.—Musical sounds seem to be loud and sharp — "Hardness of hearing with buzzing in the ears.—Epistaxis, with heaviness of the head.—Heat of the face, with red- ness of the cheeks.—*Successive tractions and sharp pains in the teeth, with inquietude, anxiety and tears, especially at night and after a meal.—*Sore throat; with great and pain- ful sensibility, and swelling of the velum palati. Stomach and F^ces.—Taste of hazel nuts, or sweet almonds in the mouth.—Tobacco smoke appears particu- larly agreeable.—Sensation of immoderate hunger.— Thirst increased, especially at night.— Bilious vomiting. —Cramps in the stomach, with pressive lancinating pains.— Anxiety and oppression in the region of the epigastrium. —The clothes are oppressive.—* Abdominal pains, which even drive one to despair, especially in women.—Faeces soft and evacuation frequent.—* Diarrhea, also during dentition. Ukine and Genital Parts.—Abundant emission of urine, especially towards midnight.—Great excitement of sexual desire, with flaccidity or strong irritation of the genital parts.—Immoderate irritation of the female sexual parts, with voluptuous itching, profuse mucous secretion, and frequent flow of blood.—Metrorrhagia. Chest and Limbs.—Short cough, jerking, dry cough, with great irritation in the larynx, and anxious tossings.— Fit of suffocation.—Trembling of the hands, while holding any thing.—Cramp-like contractions of the fingers.— Cramps in the calf of the leg, on bending the knee.— Cramps in the soles of the feet on bending the instep.— Trembling of the feet. 587—CO LCrHIC UM~AUTUM N AL E. COf.CH. -Meadow saffron.—Archives of Stapf.— Duration of effect: for 30 days in 'ome cas>-s of chronic disease. Antidot£6 : N-vom. puis. cocc. Compare with ; Aeon. chin. cocc. mere, natr-m. n-vom. op. puis, sep- 17* 198 colchicum autumnale. CLINICAL REMARKS.—If guided by the totality of the symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be em- ployed will be found to be:—Rheumatic and arthritic affections ; Paralysis ; Dropsical affections ; Nervous fa- tigue, in consequence of long watching ; Excessive ner- vous excitement; Purulent otorrhoea, caused by morbilli 5 Gastritis!; Ascites!; Gastric affections; Dysentery; Flatulent colic, especially in hysterical persons ; Affec- tions of the urinary organs, and of the loins; Cramps in the chest; Hydrothorax. [The active principle of the Colchicum is the same as that of Veratrum, Sabadilla, &c, &c.; and even when in- jected into the veins, it will cause inflammation of the stomach and duodenum ; of the jejunum and ilion in a slight, but of the colon in a severe degree. It deserves at- tention in acute and chronic gout with piercing, rending, burning and throbbing pains; in strangury dependent upon rheumatism of the bladder; and in rheumatic Ischias. Ed.] GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Rheumatic and arthritic tearing in the limbs, and other parts of the body, especially in warm weather.—Jerking, shootings in the muscles, and in the periosteum of the limbs, especially in cold weather. —Frequent convulsive jerking of the body.—Shooting in the joints.—Paralytic weakness of the muscles.—Pains ac- companied by paralytic weakness and real paralysis.—Drop- sical swellings.—The sufferings are singularly aggravated by intellectual fatigue, by touch, too brilliant a light, and the smell of pork.—Aggravation of symptoms from the com- mencement of the night till morning.—General sinking, and consequent painful sensibility of the whole body, so that one cannot move without groaning.—"Nervous fatigue and weakness from nocturnal labour. Skin.—Itching, as if from nettles.—Formication in dif- ferent parts, as if after being frozen. Sleep.—Desire to sleep in the day, with unfitness for ex- ertion.—Sleeplessness from nervous excitability.—Fre- quent waking with fright.—Nocturnal heat, with violent thirst. Moral Symptoms.—Great dejection.—Ill-humour.—The sufferings appear insupportable.—The least external im- pression drives one to distraction.—Weakness of mem- ory.—Forgetfulness and distraction. Head.—Pressure on the occiput, during intellectual ex- ertion.—Cramp-like pains in the head, especially above the eyes.—Semi-lateral tearing in the head.—Crawling in the forehead and over the head. colchicum autumnale. 199 Eyes.—Pains in the eyes, like a digging traction in the ball.—Swelling of the lower lids.—Suppuration of the meibomian glands.—Visible traction in the lower lids. Ears.—Otalgia, with tearing shootings.—Formication in the ears, as if they had been frozen.—Sensation of ob- struction in the ears.—Purulent discharge from the ears, with drawing pains. Nose.—Pressive pain in the bones of the nose.—Pains as from excoriation in the septum narium, aggravated by touch.—Excessive acuteness of smell.—Obstinate coryza, with snuffling of viscous and abundant mucus proceeding from the nose. Face.—Features of the face disfigured.—Sickly, sad and suffering aspect.—Face spotted with yellow.—CSdematous swelling of the face.—Sensation of separation in the bones of the face.—Sensation in the masseters, as if they were distended, with difficulty in opening the mouth.—Drawings and successive traction in the muscles and bones of the face.—Semi-lateral tearing in the face, extending even into the ear and head.—Formication on the skin of the face, as if it had been frozen.—Lips cracked.—Tearing in the lower lip.—Spasmodic pain in the maxillary joint. Teeth.—Odontalgia, with tearing pains.—Sensibility of the teeth, when they touch on closing the jaws.—Acute pains in the gums. Mouth.—Heat in the mouth.—Tearing in the palate.— Abundant, serous salivation, with dryness of the throat.— Heaviness, stiffness and insensibility of the tongue. Throat.—Sore throat, as if from swelling of the orifice of the oesophagus.—Creeping in the palate.—Constriction of the gullet.—Inflammations, tearings and shootings in the palate and throat.—Accumulation of greenish mucus in the throat and mouth. Appetite.—Appetite suddenly ceasing, from the sight only or smell of food, with loathing.—Insipidity of food.— Strong thirst, especially for coffee. Stomach.—Frequent risings of wind.—Constant hic- cough.—Nausea, even to syncope, from the smell of fresh eggs or fat meat.—Nausea, during a meal.—Nausea, after swallowing the saliva.— Vomiting of food or of bile.—Stom- ach very sensitive to the touch.—Sensation of excoriation and creeping in the stomach.—Sensation of coldness or of burning in the stomach.—Shooting in the pit of the stomach. Abdominal Region.—Inflation and fulness of the abdo- men.—Pressure from within outwards at the upper part of the abdomen.—Colic, with tearing pains.—Pain, as from 200 colchicum autumnale—colocynthis. excoriation in the left side of the abdomen, when pressed. —*Dropsical swelling of the abdomen.—Pain, as from burning and pressure in the abdomen, in the region of the vesica, and in the internal genital parts. F^ces.—Constipation.—Slow, difficult, and insufficient evacuations, with urgent want.—Unnoticed evacuation of faeces.—* Dysenteric diarrhea of white, transparent, gelatin- ous mucus.—Discharge of much slime from the rectum.— Sanguineous evacuations, and, seemingly, mixed with false membranes.—Prolapsus recti.—Creeping, itching, burning and tearing in theanus.—Cramps in the sphincter ani. Urine.—Urgent desire to make water, with increased discharge of clear urine.—*Scanty discharge of urine of a deep colour, with tenesmus and burning.—Painful emission of scanty urine of a bright red colour.—Brownish or black- ish urine.—Whitish deposit in the urine.—Burning sensa- tion and pressure in the urinary organs and vesica.—Pull- ings, tearings and cutting pains in the urethra. Larynx.—Crawling in the trachea.—Tickling in the pharynx, which excites a short dry cough.—Frequent short and dry cough.—Nocturnal cough, with involuntary emission of urine. Chest.—Difficulty of respiration and oppression on the chest.—Tensive, pressive and periodical oppression of the chest.—Shootings in the chest, sometimes when breathing. —Tearings in the chest, with obtuse lancinations.—Pain, as from excoriation in the chest, when touched and during motion.—Crawling in the chest.—Violent palpitation of the heart. Trunk.—Pain, as from excoriation in the loins during movement.—Tearings in the back.—Shooting tension be- tween the shoulder-blades. Arms.—Tearings in the arms, hands, and fingers.—Para- lytic pain inthearms.—Trembling of the hands.—Cramp-like contraction of the finders.—Creeping in the fingers,as if they had been frozen.—Torpor in the extremity of the fingers. Legs.—Tearing in the legs, feet, and toes.—Paralytic traciions in the thighs.—Hot swelling of the legs, with acute pains during movement.—Tingling of the toes, as if they had been frozen. 59—COLOCYNTHIST- COLOC— Bitter cucumber.—Hahnemann— Duration of effect: 40 days in some cases of chronic disease. Antiootfs : Camp. caus. cham. coff. staph.—It is used as an antidote against ^aus. Compare with : Arn. ars. bell, canth. caus. cham. coff. die. stanh. veratr. colocynthis. 201 CLINICAL REMARKS.—Guided by the whole of the symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be used, appear to be :—Evil effects from mental emotions, with indignation and mortification ; Cramp-like affections; Ar- thritic affections; Arthrocace ; Bilious fevers, especially when caused by mortification or indignation; Megrim; Arthritic and other kinds of ophthalmia; Prosopalgia; Gastralgia, gastritis (!) and other gastric affections ; Spas- modic colic, inflammatory and flatulent colic ; Tympa- nitis!; Enteritis!; Colic caused by indignation or mortifi- cation; Colic from chill; Bilious sufferings; Diarrhoea, with vomiting ; Chronic diarrhoea ; Dysentery ; Puerperal fever ; Haemorrhoides ; Coxalgia ; Coxarthrocace, even that caused by dislocation or any other mechanical cause; Spon- taneous dislocation. [It should be held in mind, in obstinate and severe forms of colic, even in that caused by drinking cold water when overheated; in mucous fevers; in Psoitis, when se- vere tensive pains and throbbing are felt; in blind piles and varicose condition of the neck of the bladder; &c, &c. Ed.] 0^7° See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Semi-lateral sufferings.— *Painful cramps and cramp-like contractions, in the internal or external parts.—Contraction of the tendons in some parts only, or in the whole body, with contraction of all the limbs, like a hedgehog.—Stiffness in all the joints.—Tearing shootings, traversing the whole length of the body.—Physical sinking, while walking in the open air.—Fainting, with coldness of the external parts. Skin.—Troublesome itching, with great restlessness in the whole body, especially in the evening in bed, followed by perspiration.—General scaling of the skin of the body.— Eruptions which resemble scabies.— Skin hot and dry. Sleep.—Disturbed sleep at night.—Sleepiness, alter- nately with delirium, with the eyes open.—*Sleeplessness in consequence of indignation.—Lying on the back when asleep, with one hand under the occiput.—Frequent lively and lascivious dreams. Fever.—Cold and shivering, with heat in the face with- out thirst.—*Pulse hard, full and quick.—"Dry, general heat.—Nocturnal sweat, on the head, hands, thighs and feet, of the smell of urine. Moral Symptoms.—Mental dejection with taciturnity.— Inclination to weep— Anxiety and inquietude, with a "de- sire to run away.— Want of religious feeling. 202 COLOCYNTHIS. Head.—Vertigo, which causes falling, when turning the head quickly, with tottering of the knees.—Head-ache as from a draft of air, which is dissipated by walking in the open air.—Compressive pain in the sinciput, aggravated by stooping or lying on the back.—* Attacks of semi-lateral head-ache, drawing and cramp-like, or pressive, "with nau- sea and vomiting, sometimes every day, towards five o'clock in the afternoon.—Pain in the forehead and eyes, as if commencing from the outside and tending inwards.— Head-ache with violent pains, which do not admit of a re- cumbent posture, and force one to cry out or to weep.— Attacks of head-ache followed by suffocation.—"Congestion of the head.—Burning pain in the skin of the forehead and hairy scalp.— Heat in the head. Eyes.—Inflammation of the eyes.—*Burning and cut- ting pains and shootings in the eyes.— Discharge of acrid^ serum from the eyes. Face.—Pulsation and digging in the nose.—Pale and wasted face with downcast eyes.—*Tensive, tearing, burn- ing or shooting pains in the face, often on one side only, and extending to the ears and into the head.—"Scabs on the face.— Face of a deep red colour (during the fever).—■ Face puffed, with heat and redness of the left cheek, and tearing pains. Mouth.—Pains in the teeth, as if the nerve were pulled or stretched.—*Pulsative pains in the teeth on the left side. —Roughness of the tongue.—"Tongue loaded with a yel- low coating.—Cramps in the gullet, with empty eructa- tions and palpitation of the heart. Stomach.—Diminished appetite, without thirst, though one h«.s a strong desire for drinks, accompanied by an in- sipid taste in the mouth.—Constant nausea, with eructa- tions —*Bitter taste in the mouth and of all food.—*Colic anddiarrhea, however little is eaten.—*Pains in the stomach, sometimes after a meal.—"Vomiting of food or of green- ish matter.—"Vomiting with diarrhoea.— Painful sensibili- ty of the epigastrium when touched.—Violent pressure in the stomach and precordial region. Abdominal Region.—* Inflation of the abdomen, as if from tympanitis.—* Cramp-like pain and constriction in the intes- tines, especially after a fit of passion.—*Excessively vio- lent colic with cutting, cramp-like, or contractive pains, which compel one to bend double, with restlessness in the whole body, and with a sensation of shuddering in the face, which seems to proceed from the abdomen.—"Colic with cramps in the calves of the legs.—*Colic, as if from a chill. * COLOCYNTHIS. 203 -—*Colic, after meals.—Pinching, and sensation of clawing in the abdomen, mitigated by great exertion.—*Cuttings and shootings in the abdomen, as if from knives, with shiverings and tearings along the legs.—*Great sensibility, soreness and sensation of vacuity in the abdomen.—Rum- bling in the abdomen.—*Coffee and tobacco-smoke diminish the colic.—Inguinal hernia. Faeces.—Constipation.—Loose evacuations of a greenish yellow, frothy, and of a sour, putrid ormouldy smell.—Slimy diarrhoea.—Sanguineous evacuations.—*Dysenterical evac- uations with colic.—During the evacuation, contraction in the rectum.—Painful swelling of the hemorrhoidal tumours of the anus and of the rectum.—Haemorrhage from the anus. —"Paralysis of the sphincter ani. Urine.—Tenesmus of the vesica.—Diminished secretion of urine.—Abundant discharge of urine of a bright colour, 'during the pains.—Fetid urine, which soon becomes thick, gelatinous, and glutinous. Genital Parts.—Sensation, as if every thing were flowing towards the genital parts, from both sides of the abdomen, which occasions a discharge of semen, excite- ment of sexual desire, and a sort of priapismus.—Com- plete impotence.—Retraction of the prepuce behind the gland.—Painful nodosities in the mammae. Larynx and Chest.—Small dry cough, excited by irri- tation in thelarynx, or by tobacco smoke.—Atacks of asth- ma at night.—Oppression of the chest, as if it were com- pressed.—Palpitation of the heart. Trunk.—Drawing pains in the bones, as if the muscles were stretched.—Tension in the neck and shoulder-blades. —Obstruction and suppuration of the axillary glands. Arms.—Bruising pain in the joint of the shoulder, es- pecially after being in a passion.—Aching, pressive and shooting pain in the arms.—Cramp-like pain in the hands, which with difficulty suffers the fingers to be opened.— Traction in the tendons of the thumbs. Legs.— Pain in the coxo-femoral joint, as if it were se- cured with an iron clasp, the pelvis and sacral region, with pains extending from the lumbar region down to the legs.— Tensive lancination in the region of the loins and of the hips, especially when lying on the back.—Pain while walk- ing, as if the psoas were too short.—"Spontaneous disloca- tion of the coxo-femoral joint.—Want of flexibility in the knee, which prevents bending.—Cramps in the legs.—Lan- cinations in the legs, especially during repose.—Great heaviness and trembling of the legs.—Tearing in the soles of the feet, during repose. 204 CONIUM maculatum. 60.—CONIUM MACULATUM. CON.—Common hemlock. — Hahnemann.—Duration of effect: for 40 days in some cases of chronic disease. Antidotes: Coff. nitr-spir— It is used as an antidote against nitr-ac. Compare with : Arn. asa. bell. coff. dig. dulc. graph, iod. lye. magn m. magn. mere. mosc. nitr-ac. n-vom. phos. phos-ac. plumb, puis. rhus. [_rut. sabad. sep. staph, sulf. sulph-ac. tar. teuer. valer. CLINICAL REMARKS.—If guided by the totality of the symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be em- ployed will be found to be :—Hysteric and hypochondriac affections, especially also with great continence of unmarried persons, or after excessive gratification of the venereal desires ; Spasms, attacks of debility, and other affections of hysterical persons ; Scorbutic affections, with induration and obstruction of the glands ; Affections of old men, of women and especially of pregnant women ; Inveterate affec- tions resulting from contusion, principally in the glands, as well as in the regions of the tendons and membranes ; Echymosis senilis ; Dropsical affections; Chlorosis; He- patic spots; Tetters ; Scirrhous indurations and cancerous ulcers, especially when caused by contusion ; Caries! ; Gangrenous ulcers!; Petechiae!; Slow fevers!; Inflam- matory fevers!; Hypochondriacal and hysterical melan- choly ; Mania ! ; Apoplexy with paralysis, chiefly in aged persons ; Megrim ; Hydrocephalus ! ; Cerebral congestion with vertigo ; Ophthalmia, chiefly of scrofulous persons ; Cataract, caused by a blow (a concussion) ; Opacity of the cornea ! Scrofulous photophobia ; Myopia ; Presbyopia ; Amblyopia amaurotica; Otalgia; Hardness of hearing; Induration of the parotids; Ozaena, even caused by abuse of mercury ; Prosopalgia ; Cancer in the lips ; Spasms in the throat; Dyspepsia, sourness, nausea, and other gastric affections; Cancer in the stomach!; Constipation; Lien- teria !; Diabetes ! ; Haematuria ! ; Catarrh of the vesica!; Retention of urine ; Strangury ! ; Orchitis, caused by con- tusion ; Impotence, especially when caused by pollutions ; Pollutions in young persons of an irritable constitution; Cramps in the matrix ; Dysmenorrhcea ; Amenorrhcea ; Leucorrhcea; Sterility with amenorrhoea! ; Scirrhus (and cancer) in the breast, especially when caused by contusion ; Chlorosis; Catarrh with fever, angina and gastric suffer- ings; Dry cough of scrofulous subjects; Convulsive and suffocating cough ; Hooping cough ; Haemoptysis!; Asth- ma, especially in old men ; Hysterical asthma ! ; Chronic affections of the heart, &c. [It has cured many cases of induration of glands, testi- CONIUM MACULATUM. 205 cles, breasts, liver, &c. ; it deserves attention in chronic inflammation of the mesenteric glands ; in tubercular phthi- sis; in cancerous growths of the tongue, &c. ; in dropsy of the joints ; as an antidote to mercury ; in chronic net- tle rash ; in stinking, moist eruptions upon the scalp, &c, &c. Ed.] WT See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Cramps and cramp-like pains in different parts.—*Pains as from fatigue in the limbs and joints when in a state of repose.—*Nocturnal pains and sufferings, which disturb sleep.—The symptoms appear during repose, and are aggravated by attempting to walk, or by any movement.—Facility to feel pain as from fatigue in the back.—* Attacks of hysterical and hypochon- driacal sufferings.—Jerks of the tendons, trembling, and convulsive shakings in the limbs.—Agitation of blood.— Dropsical swellings.—*Swelling and, induration of the glands, with crawling and piercing pains.—*Fainting fits.—. Great general dejection, with involuntary laughter.—Sensa- tion of fatigue especially early in the morning in bed.— *Restlessness in the body, especially in the legs.—Want of energy and nervous debility.—Consumption.—*Sudden pros- tration, while walking.—Great liability to take cold.— * Great fatigue and other sufferings, from walking in the open air.—Continued deficiency of natural vital heat. Skin.—Stinging and pricking itching in the skin.— Bluish colour of the skin over the whole body.—Painful inflammation of the skin.—"Nettle rash in consequence of violent bodily exercise.—Scabious pimples, which become 6curfy.— Brown or red itching spots over the whole body, which disappear and return.—"Humid or scabby and burning tetters.—Blackish ulcers, with sanious, sanguineous and fetid discharge, and crawling tension.—Gangrenous ulcers.—Ulceration of the bones.—-Panaris.—Petechiae.— Reddish and greenish spots, as if from ecchymosis. Sleep.—*Desire to sleep during the day, even very early in the morning.—Drowsiness.—* Desire to sleep in the even- ing, with contraction of the eye-lids.—*Slow sleep.—Disturb- ed and unrefreshing sleep, with lachrymation and frequent anxious and frightful dreams.—Dreams of disease, mutila- tion, death, danger and of quarrels.—At night, head-ache, nausea, gastralgia, bleeding of the nose, pains in the limbs, &c.—Half waking after midnight, with great anguish.— Night-mare.—Jerking of the limbs during sleep. Fever.—Shivering, frequent coldness and shuddering. —Dry, internal heat.—Slow fever, with total want of ap- Vol. I. 18 206 CONIUM MACULATUM. petite.—Inflammatory fever with great heat, abundant sweat, anorexia, diarrhoea and vomiting.—Fever with in- flammation of the throat and cough.—Pulse irregular.— Nocturnal sweat, even at the commencement of sleep.— Local, fetid and pungent sweats. Moral Symptoms.—Hysterical anguish, with sadness and strong desire to weep.—Anthropophobia, also fear of solitude.—Timidity of character, (fear of robbers).—Su- perstitious ideas.—*Disposition to be frightened.—* Ill-hu- mour and moroseness.—*Hypochondriacal indifference.— *Want of mental energy.— Unfitness for exertion.—irrita- bility and disposition to be angry.—Derangement of ideas and mania.—Confusion of ideas, as from drowsiness.— Slow conception.—Weakness of the intellectual faculties and of the memory.—*Ready forgetfulness.—Delirium. Head.—Intoxication, after having taken the smallest quantity of spirituous liquids.— Vertigo on rising, and "sometimes so as to cause one to fall sideways on looking behind, or when lying down in bed, especially in the morn- ing.—Attacks of head-ache with nausea, and vomiting of mucus.—Stupifying pains in the head, especially when walking in the open air.—Excessive sensitiveness of the brain, even to speech and to a noise.—Quotidian head-ache caused by insufficient evacuations.—Semi-lateral pains in the head, as if it were bruised.—Sensation, as if there were a large foreign substance in the head—Heaviness and fullness in the head, especially on waking in the morn- ing.—Traction in the head, numbness of the brain.—*At- tack of tearing head-ache, which forces one to lie down. —*Obstmate stinging pains in the sinciput, which seem to pass out through the forehead.—Heaviness and squeezing, as if from a claw, in the forehead, and as if proceeding from the stomach.—Falling off of the hair. Eyes.—Pressure in the eyes when reading.—*Itching below the eyes,with burning and smarting pain when they are rubbed.—Itching pricking, or smarting in the internal can- thi.— Sensation of coldness in the eyes, when walking in the open air.—Burning pain in the eyes, with pressure in the sockets in the evening.—Inflammation and redness of the sclerotica —*Hordeolum.— (Specks on the cornea).— Yel- low colour of the sclerotica.—Eyes dull.—Eyes prominent. —Tremulous look.—Obscuration of the sight.—Momentary blindness by day in the brightness of the sun.—* Myopia. —*Presbyopia.—Diplopia.—The lines seem to move while reading.—*Black spots and coloured bands before the eyes in a room.—Red appearance of objects.—Eyes dazzled CONIUM MACULATUM. 207 from the day-light.—*Photophobia, "with a pale red colour of the ball of the eyes. Ears.—Tearings and stinging in the ears and round the ears, especially when walking in the open air.—Accumula- tion of cerumen, which resembles mouldy paper, and which is mixed with purulent mucus.—Blood-coloured cerumen. —*Buzzing, tingling and rumbling in the ears.—Painful sensibility of hearing.— Diminution of hearing, ceasing when the cerumen is removed and until it is renewed.— "Swelling and induration of the parotids. Nose.—^Swelling of the nostrils.—"Purulent discharge from the nose.—Nasal haemorrhage.—Increased acuteness of smell.—Too frequent sneezing.—"Troublesome sensa- tion of dryness in the nose.—"Obstinate obstruction of the nostrils.—°Obstruction of the nose in the morning. Face.—*Heat in the face.—Complexion pale and bluish, sometimes even with swelling of the face—Fissures in the skin of the face, with pain as from excoriation, after washing and wiping.—*Nocturnal tearing and stinging pains in the face.---*Itching eruptions, "tetters and gnawing ulcers on the face.—Eruptions of pimples on the forehead.—Dryness and exfoliation of the lips.—Blisters and ulcers on the lips.— Cancerous ulcer on the lip.—Spas- modic compression of the jaws.—Grinding of the teeth. Teeth.—*Odontalgia, generally drawing, "provoked by walking in the open air, ~or excited in the hollow teeth by cold food.—*Shootings, -jerks, gnawing, and piercing in the teeth.—Gums swollen, ecchymosed and bleeding. Mouth.—Dryness of the mouth and of the throat, or sal- ivation.—Embarrassed speech.—Stiff, painful and swollen tongue.—Sore throat, as if from a ball mounting from the epigastrium.—Impeded deglutition.—*Involuntary degluti- tion.—Constant desire to swallow, when walking against the wind.—Cramps in the gullet.—*Scraping in the throat. Appetite.—*Bitterness in the mouth and in the throat. —*Putrid or acid taste in the mouth.—"Total absence of appetite, and great weakness of digestion.—Bread will not go down, and does not please the taste.—Bulimy.— Desire for coffee, acid or salt food.—During a meal and especially after taking milk, a sensation of inflation in the stomach and in the abdomen, and speedy satiety.—*After a meal, sour- ness, pyrosis, pressure and fulness in the stomach, eructa- tions, -colic, flatulence, nausea, deadness of the fingers, weakness, fatigue and sweat. Stomach.—*Empty, frequent and noisy eructations, sometimes during the entire day.—* Abortive eructations, 208 CONIUM MACULATUM. with sensation of fulness in the pit of the throat.—Eruc- tations, with taste of food.—*Pyrosis, ascending up into the throat, sometimes after a meal.—Acrid regurgitation, especially after a meal.—Nausea with desire to vomit, and complete loss of appetite, or else with eructations and lassi- tude.—Nausea after every meal, or in the evening.—Vomit- ing of mucus.—Pressure in the stomach, even during a meal.—Inflation of the ftomach.—Cramp-like, contractive pain ; lancinations and pain as from excoriation in the sto- mach and in the epigastrium.—Pain, with sensation of coldness in the stomach. Abdominal Region.—Tensive pain in the hypochondria as if from a band tightly fastened.—Pressure, traction, tearings and piercing in the hepatic region.—*Lancination in the left hypochondrium, even in the morning in bed, with oppression.—*Fulness of the abdomen, even in the morn- ing on waking.—Swelling of the mesenteric glands.— Contraction of the abdomen with oppression.—Spasmodic colic.—Cutting and tearing abdominal pains.— Motion and digging in the umbilical region.—*Sensation of excoriation in the abdomen, "especially when walking on the pavement. —*Noise and borborygmus in the abdomen.—Expulsion of cold wind with cuttings — Incarceration of flatulence.— "Cuttings after expelling flatus. F.eces.—*Constipation with tenesmus.—*Hard evacua- tions, only every second day.—*Loose, undigested evacua- tions, with cuttings and frequent eructations.—Debilitating diarrhea.—Lancinations in the anus.—Heat and burning sensation in the rectum, while evacuating and at other times. —Faeces, with streaks of blood.—After the evacuations, weakness, palpitation of the heart, frequent expulsion of flatulence and trembling. Urine.—"Pressure on the vesica, as if the u*Vine were going to burst forth.—Frequent and sometimes involuntary emission of urine at night.—Flow of urine with violent pain.—°Urine thick, white and turbid.—Urine red.—Reten- tion of urine.—Difficult emission of urine which flows only drop by drop.—Wetting the bed at night.—*Frequent desire to emit a clear and aqueous urine—Slimy mucus, mixed with the urine, which cannot be passed without great pain.—Discharge of pus from the urethra.—Emis- sion of blood, sometimes with difficulty of respiration.— *The urine stops suddenly and does not flow again for some moments.—*Cutting pains in the urethra during the emission of urine.—Burning sensation and piercing in the urethra, especially after the emission of urine. CONIUM MACULATUM. 209 Genital Organs.—*Swelling of the testes.—Lascivious- ness.—^Impotence and absence of erection.—° Want of energy during coition.— "Erections insufficient and of too short du- ration. Easy emission of semen, even without strong erections.—'Dejection after coition.—*Immoderate emis- sions.—Flow of prostatic fluid, during evacuation and after any mental emotion.—"Cramps in the uterus with pinchings or contraction, or with stinging above the vulva, accom- panied by tension of the abdomen, and lancinations even into the left side of the chest.—* Itching on the external and internal genital parts.—Lancinations in the vagina and sen- sation as of bearing down.—Lancinations in the labia.— Catamenia premature, andHoo weak—^Suppression of cata- menia.—Before the catamenia, pains in the breasts ; anx- ious dreams, dry heat, pain as from fatigue in the limbs, inclination to weep, inquietude and hepatic pains.—*Du- ring the catamenia, sensation of bearing down and traction in the thigh, or painful cramps in the abdomen.—* Burning, acrid, excoriating and pungent leucorrhea, accompanied or preceded by colic.—Breasts flabby.—*Schirrous induration of the mammary glands, with itching and stinging pains. Larynx.—Catarrh, with fever, sore throat and want of appetite—Hoarseness.—Dryness in one small circumscrib- ed place in the larynx, and tickling which excites a desire to cough.—Cough provoked by tickling and scraping in the throat.—Dry cough provoked by a tickling, with oppression of the chest, and fever in the evening.—Suffocating cough, with flushes of heat in the face.—* Dry, convulsive cough.— * Cough, like hooping-cough, -with sanguineous expectoration, or in violent fits, during the night.—The cough manifests itself generally at night, or in the morning.—Cough pro- voked by taking a deep breath or by taking acid or salt things.—Thick cough, but without expectoration.—Yellow and purulent expectoration, of a putrid smell.—Cough in- creased by lying down.—During the cough, pains in the head or in the abdomen, with shootings in the left side, aggravated by movement. Chest.—* Short respiration when walking, and on the least movement, often with convulsive cough.—*Difficulty of respiration, also in the morning on waking—Respiration difficult and slow, especially in the evening in bed.—Diffi- culty of respiration, with pains in the chest, in the evening in bed.—Suffocation as if something were obstructingin the throat.—*Stitches in the sternum, or in the side of the chest.—Violent pains in the chest with violent cough.— Pressure on the chest, in the sternum, and in the region of 18* 210 CONVOLVULUS ARVENSIS--COPAIBJE BALSAMUM. the heart.—Drawing pains in the chest.—Shocks in the chest.—Palpitation of the heart, especially after drinking. —Frequent throbs in the region of the heart.—Caries of the sternum. Trunk.—Pains in the loins, on bending backwards.— Aching and compression above the hips.—Aching cramp- like and tractive pain in the back.—*Tension in the n ipe of the neck.—Pain, as from excoriation in the vertebrae of the neck.—Enlargement of the neck. Arms.—* Shoulders painful, as ij they had been bruised and excoriated.—Humid, scabby and burning tetters on the fore-arms.—Numbness of the hands and especially the palms of the hands.—Sweat on the palms of the hands.— Torpor of the fingers.—Itching on the back of the fingers. —Yellow spots on the fingers and yellow nails.—Panaritium. Legs.—Drawing pains in the hips.—Arthritic tearing and tensive pains in the knee, aggravated on beginning to walk after sitting down, with a sensation as if the tendons were too short (during the suppression of catamenia). —*Restlessness and heaviness in the legs.—* Weariness of the knees.—Painful swelling of the legs and feet.—Red spots on the calves of the legs, sometimes painful, becoming subsequently green or yellow, as after a blow or bruise, and impeding the movement of the foot, which is drawn back, as if the tendons were contracted.—Cramps in the calves of the legs.—*Coldness and strong disposition to chil- liness of the feet.—Torpor and insensibility of the feet.— Purulent blisters on the feet. 61.—CONVOLVULUS ARVENSIS. CONV.—Bind-weed.—A medicine as yet entirely unknown, but which has bei-n recommended against edematous sioellings. 62.—COPAIBJE BALSAMUM. COP.—Balsam of copaiba.—Hahnemann— Duration of effect ; 13 to 12 days.—A remedy still little known and which has been hitherto princi- pally emp'oyed against gonorrhoea. SYMPTOMS.—Nettle rash.—Quotidian fever ; in the forenoon shiverings and cold ; in the afternoon general heat and thirst, with desire for cold water.—During the febrile cold, the instep is painfully sensible to motion.— Spitting of blood.—Desire to vomit.—Tearings in the abdo- men, preceded by traction in the bones of the thighs.__ Sensation of burning in the abdomen.—Borborygmus and rolling in the intestines.—White, loose evacuations, gener- ally in the morning, with coldness and drawing tearings COPAIBA BALSAMUM--CORALLIA RUBRA. 211 in the abdomen, which force one to bend double.— Involuntary evacuations.—Constant and ineffectual desire to make water.—Emission of urine, drop by drop.—Itching, soreness and sensation of scalding in the urethra, before and after the emission of urine.—Pain, as from excoriation in the orifice of the urethra.—Inflammation and swelling of the orifice of the urethra, which remains wide open, with pul- sative pain in the whole penis.—Yellow and puriform dis- charge from the urethra.—Metrorrhagia.—Palpitatiocordis. 63.—CORALLIA RUBRA. COR.—Red coral.—Abchives of Staph.—A remedv as yet very little known. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Pain, as from fatigue in the limbs, after the least exercise in the open air.—Red and smooth spots on the skin.—Sensation of coldness in the hot parts, on uncovering them.—The symptoms of heat and coldness are ameliorated by artificial heat.—Febrile shivering, with burning thirst and pains in the forehead.— Dry heat, internally and externally, with full and hard pulse. —Violent and frequent yawnings, succeeding one another rapidly, with pain in the maxillary joint.—Strong desire to sleep, which is insurmountable.—Anxious dreams and starts on going to sleep.—While sleeping, agitation and tossing. —Grumbling humour and swearing in consequence of the pain.—Irascibility and ill humour. Head.—Head bewildered, as if in consequence of drunk- enness.—Confusion of the head, which is, as it were, empty and hollow.—Intoxication after drinking very little wine. —Pressive cephalalgia as if every thing were going to protrude through the forehead, which forces one to move the head, and is mitigated only by uncovering the body, which is burning hot.—Violent cephalalgia with nausea greatly ag- gravated by sitting down.—Pain in the sinciput as if it were flattened.—Aggravation of the head-ache and conges- tion of the head and face on stooping.—Sensation als if wind were traversing the head, on moving it rapidly.__ Sensation as if the head were increased in size. Eyes.—Sensation of compression in the socket.—Pain as from excoriation in the eyes on moving the balls or the eye-lids.—Sensation of heat Li the eyes on closing the lids, with a sensation as if they were swimming in tears.—Sen- sation of burning in the eyes by candle-light. Nose.—Swelling of one half of the nose, with heat, pul- sation and sleeplessness.—Painful ulcer in the nostril.— Epistaxis, sometimes at night.—Great dryness of the nose. 212 CORALLIA RUBRA--1 •CROCUS SATIVUS. —Fluent coryza, with excessively copious secretio 1 of an inodorous mucus, which resembles suet. Face.—Heat in the face, increased by stooping.—Pain, as from a bruise on the cheek-bone, aggravated by the touch.—Pain, as from dislocation in the maxillary joint, masticating, or opening the mouth wide.—Painful swelling of the sub-maxillary glands.—Lips cracked and painful. Appktite.—Great dryness of the palate and throat, with sensation of excoriation on swallowing.—Insipidity of food. —Sweetish taste of beer.—Desire for acid or salt things.— After a meal, the head turns round, as if from intoxication. Genital Parts.—Clay-coloured burning urine, with clay coloured sediment.—Copious sweat of the genital parts.—Swelling of the prepuce, with pain as from excori- ation when touched.—Pseudo-gonorrhea (Balanoblenor- rhoea) with fetid secretion of a yellowish-green colour.—■ Red and smooth ulcers on the glans and in the internal surface of the prepuce, with sanious and yellowish secre- tion.—Seminal emissions. Chest.—Painful cough, as if a stone were depressing the pleura.—Yellow, puriform expectoration.—"Sensation of cold in the respiratory organs, on taking a deep inspiration. with difficult hawking up of bronchial mucus. Limbs.—Pressive pain in the shoulder-blades, aggrava- ted by coughing.—Stiffness in the nape.—Pains in the shoulder joints, as if the head of the humerus were pressed violently outwards.—Smooth spots of a deep-red colour, in the palms of the hands and in the fingers. 64.—CROCUS SATIVUS. CROC.—Saffron.—Archives of Stapf. — Duration of effect: 7 days. Antidote : Op. Compare with: Aeon. bell.ign. ipec. mos. op. plat. CLINICAL REMARKS.—This drug appears from due consideration of all the symptoms to be indicated in the following cases: St. Vitus' dance; Hysterical affections; Imbecility ; Melancholy ; Religious melancholy ; Active hemorrhagia; Coma; Blepharospasma; Metrorrhagia, also after accouchment, or that caused by fright; Haemop- tysis 1 ; Miscarriage; Too abundant lochia. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Movements as if from some- thing alive, in different parts of the body.—*Convulsive at- tacks, like chorea, with laughter, dancing and leaping, al- ternating with violent paroxysms of hooping-cough.—Sen- sation of relaxation and bending in the joints.—Numbness of some of the limbs, at night, during sleep.—Amelioration CROCUS SATIVUS. 213 of symptoms in the open air ; several of them appear at night, and are generally aggravatedin the morning.—Throb- bings sometimes in the whole body.—Discharge of black slimy blood, from different organs.—Heaviness, or pain as from fatigue in the limbs, after slight exercise.—Striking alternation of the most opposite physical and mental symptoms. —Excessive general weakness, with fainting fits when moving.—Great depression in the morning.—Trembling of all the limbs. Skin.—Red scarlet colour of the body.—Chilblains.— Suppuration of old wounds. Sleep.—Strong desire to sleep in the day, especially after a meal, sometimes in the evening.—Drowsiness, with eyes dull and glassy.—Singing, cries and starts, while sleeping. —Frightful or gay and pleasant dreams. Moral Symptoms.—Strong tendency to sadness, some- times alternately with great gaiety and joyous humour.—■ Strong desire to laugh, jest and sing, sometimes with exces- sive weakness.—Gay and pleasant mania, with paleness of face, head-ache and obscuration of the eyes.—Seeming hin- drance of free will.—Choleric passion and violence, fre- quently followed by prompt repentance.—Severity and mild- ness of character alternating.—Forgetfulness and distraction. —Quickness of memory. Head.—Stupifying cephalalgia, as if one were intoxi- cated, with downcast eyes.— Vertigo, with fainting.—Con- fused vertigo on rising after having lain down.—Ceph lal- gia above the eyes, with burning pain, sensation of burning and pressure in the eyes, especially in the evening, by candle-light.—Head heavy in the morning with pressure in the vertex.—Drawing pain in the forehead with nausea.— Pulsation in one side of the head and in the face.—Blows in the forehead and the temples.—Sensation of looseness of the brain, during motion. Eyes.—Itching in the eye-lids.—Creeping in the eye- brows.—Pressure, pain as from excoriation and sensation of burning in the eyes, and in the eye-lids, especially on clos- ing them and on reading, or in the evening by candle-light.— Sensation of swelling in the eyes as from much weeping.— Dryness of the eyes.—Lachrymation when reading.—Noc- turnal agglutination of the eye-lids.— Visible quivering of the eye-lids—Heaviness and cramp-like contraction of the eye- lids.—"Nocturnal cramps in the eye-lids.—Constant winking of the eyes.—Pupils dilated.—Constant wish to rub the eyes.—Confused sight, as if through a veil, especially in the evening, when reading by candle-light.—When reading, 214 CROCUS SATIVUS. the paper seems to reflect a pale-rose colour.—Sparkling before the eyes. Ears.—Otalgia, similar to a cramp.—Tingling in the ears, in the evening, after lying down.—Buzzing in the ears with hardness of hearing, especially in stooping. Nose.—Epistaxis of black and slimy blood, often from one nostril only, and so as to cause fainting.—Violent and frequent sneezing. Face.—jPace of an earthy colour.—Alternate redness and paleness of the face.—Burning heat of the face, especially in the morning.—Lips cracked and ulcerated.—Pulsation in one side of the face. Mouth.—Scraping and roughness in the mouth.—Ac- cumulation of water in the mouth.—Tongue moist and covered with a black coating, with erection and elongation of the papillae. Throat.—Sore throat, as if caused by elongation of the uvula, or as if there were a plug in the throat, during deglutition and at other times.—Scraping and roughness in the throat. Appetite.—Repugnant, acid", sweetish taste.—Sweet or bitter taste in the bottom of the gullet.—Constant thirst in the evening, with uneasiness in the abdomen after drink- ing.—Absence of appetite, with sensation of fulness, how- ever little one eats. Stomach.—Empty eructations, when fasting in the morn- ing.—Pyrosis after eating with a good appetite.—Insipidi- ty, uneasiness and sensation of oppression in the epigas- trium.—Burning pain in the stomach.'—Borborygmi and fermentation in the epigastrium. Abdominal Region.—Abdomen inflated with sensation of fulness.—Cramp-like pains in the abdomen.—Pinchings in the abdomen after drinking (water).—Pains in the abdo- men from taking cold.—Movements in the abdomen, as if from something alive.—Sense of thumping above the left hypochondrium.—Sensation of heaviness in the inguinal region. Fjeces.—Itching and crawling in the anus.---Dull stitches in the side and above the anus.—Flow of blood towards the genital parts, as if the menses would com- mence.—Catamenia too frequent and copious.—Catamenia painful.—*Metrorrhagia of black and slimy blood.—Flow of blood, during the new and full moon. Larynx.— Violent, dry, concussive cough, much mitigated by placing the hand upon the epigastrium. Chest.—Difficulty of respiration.—Inclination to breathe CROCUS SATIVUS—CROTON TIGLION. 215 deeply occasioned by a sensation of heaviness about the heart.—In the act of breathing, a sensation is felt as from the vapour of sulphur in the throat.—Fetid breath.—■ Stitches in the chest and especially in the sides.— Movements, as if something alive were in the chest.—Sen- sation in the chest of shocks which suspend respiration.— Sensation of heat, which mounts to the heart, with anxiety and difficulty of respiration, mitigated by yawnings.—Sen- sation of heaviness at the heart. Trunk.—Pulling in the loins, with pains in the groins. —Sensation of stiffness in the neck, when moving.—Ex- ternal swelling of the neck. Arms.—Pain in the shoulder-joint, when moving the arm, as if it were out of joint, or on the point of being dislocated.—Numbness of the arms and of the hands with immobility, especially at night, during sleep.—Searching pulling in the fore-arms.—Heaviness and pain, as from a bruise in the fore-arms, after any slight movement of them. —Burning pricking and tension in the points of the fin- gers, as if from stagnation of the blood, after a walk in the open air.—Chilblains in the hands. Legs.—Sensation of weakness in the thighs, when seated.—Nocturnal tearing in the leg, with uneasiness in that part.—Pain, as from a bruise in the calves of the legs.—Fatigue in the soles of the feet, with burning pain and crawling.—Chilblains on the toes. 65.—CROTON TIGLION. CROT.—Purging croton.—A medicine as yet very little known. SYMPTOMS.'—Pressing numbing pain in the head, in the forehead, and in the sockets of the eyes, aggravated in a room and towards the evening, dispersing when walking in the open air.—Sensibility of the hairy scalp.—Head-ache from pressure of the hat.—Dryness in the throat, with ir- ritation of the pharynx, as if from inflammation.—Burning sensation in the throat.—The pharynx is, as it were, con- tracted.—Nausea with desire to vomit, prolonged disgust and uneasiness.—Sensation of uneasiness in the entire abdo- * men, with inclination to vomit.—Sensation of fulness and pressure in the stomach, with nausea and absence of appe- tite.—Pressure in the hypochondria.—Sense of coldness in the interior of the abdomen with external heat.—Yellow greenish diarrhea with tenesmus and cuttings.—Constipa- tion from inertia of the intestines. [It deserves attention in chronic catarrhs; in phthisis pituitosa ; in leucorrhcea ; catarrh of the bladder ; in dys- entery, &c] 216 CUBEBJE--CUPRUM METALLICUM. 66.—CUBEB./E. CUB.—Cubebs.—A medicine as yet entirely untested, but which even in homoeopathic doses has been successfully employed against some kinds of gonorrhoea. ^■1.........■■■■ I 1111—g—!■ ...... «^1^—»T——■^—^ 67.—CUPRUM METALLICUM. CUPR.—Copper.—Hahnemann.— Duration of effect: from 20 to 30 days, in some cases of chronic disease. Antidotes: Bell. chin. cocc. dulc. hep. ipec. mere, n-vom.—It is used as an antidote against aur. Compare with : Bell. calc. chin. cocc. dros. dulc. hep. iod. ipec- mere. nvom. pu's sulph. veratr.—Copper, when indicated is efficacious against veralr. .— Calc. and veratr. are sometimes suitable after copper. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Being governed by the whole of the symptoms, the cases in which this medicine is indi- cated will be found to be :—Rheumatic affections ; Aching in the bones ; Spasmodic affections and convulsions, espe- cially in irritable and sensitive persons ; Epilepsy ; St. Vi- tus' dance, even when caused by fright ; Weakness, with over-excitement of the nervous system ; Consumption 1; Paralysis 1; Icterus 1; Chronic eruptions; Psora 1; Invet- erate ulcers ; Tetters'?; Caries 1 ; Hectic fever 1; Slow fe- ver 1 ; Melancholy 1; JVlania 1 ; Rage 1 ; Encephalitis 1 ; Ophthalmia; Gastralgia 1; Gastritis'!; and other gastric affections; Asiatic cholera; Spasmodic colic; Diarrhcea; Hooping-cough ; Haemoptysis 1 ; Croup 1 ; Spasmodic asth- ma, chiefly in children when caused by a chill, or in wo- men during the catamenia, &c. [The purest copper is found in certain plants, such as Dulcamara, Helenium, &c. It deserves attention in chro- nic vomiting dependent upon an affection of the gastric nerves; in spasmodic Cardialgia; in Gastromalacia, when attended with copious bilious or mucous vomiting, and greenish diarrhoea, with stools resembling spinage, with great tenderness of the pit of the stomach, and with a pe- culiarly aged and sagacious expression of the countenance; in ulceration of the intestines ; in chronic hoarseness, with , dry cough and periodical fits of suffocation; in hooping- cough, which developes itself slowly from a common cough; in asthma miliari ; in spasmodic hiccough; in loss of speech, especially that occurring after convulsions; in paralysis of the eye-lids, when attended with the sensation as if pressed down by a weight; in violent delirium and mania, with great exaltation, continual singing, obscene talking, fits of extreme obstinacy, jolly actions, &c, at- tended with prominent and sparkling eyes, fixed stare quick pulse, &c. ; also in melancholy characterized by love CUPRUM METALLICUM. 217 of solitude, avoiding the gaze of others, with agony and inclination to run away; in spasmodic distortion of the face, Risus sardonius; in malignant intermittent fever attended with convulsions. Ed.] ft^T See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Pressive tearings or jerk- ings in the limbs.—Pain, as from a bruise in several places, especially in the joints and limbs.—Aching in the bones.— Rheumatic pains.—Many pains, especially those which are pressive, are aggravated by touching the parts pained.—Burn- ing pains which traverse the whole body.—Sensation as of shocks or painful blows in different parts.—From weeping, convulsions (with want of breath) and retraction of the thighs.—*Tonic spasms with loss of consciousness, throw- ing of the head backwards, -redness of the eyes, salivation, and frequent emission of urine.—*Epileptic convulsions.— "Involuntary movements of the limbs, as in St. Vitus' dance, with redness of the face, distortion of the eyes, of the face, and of the body, tears and anxiety, buffoonery and desire to hide oneself.—"The convulsions generally begin in the fingers and in the toes.—Spasmodic laughter.— *Convulsive startings at night when sleeping.—* Violent con- vulsions with great display of strength.—Paralytic affec- tions.—Symptoms which appear periodically and in groups. —Great lassitude and sinking of the whole body.—*Tedious weakness.—Consumption.—Excessive sensibility of all the organs.—Fainting fits. Skin.—Eruptions, which resemble the itch.—Tetters, with yellow scales.—Caries.—Miliary eruptions, especially on the chest and on the hands. Sleep.—Profound sleep, with shocks and jerks through the body, and starting of the limbs. Moral Symptoms—Melancholy with attacks of extreme anguish.—*Want of moral courage.—Anxiety and tears, alternating with buffoonery.—Mildness, alternating with obstinacy.—Unfitness for exertion, but with aversion to in- dolence.—Fits of raving abstraction, with obstinate imagi- nary conceptions with lively songs, or with malice and moroseness, and often with quick pulse, red and inflamed eyes, wandering looks, followed by sweats.—Insanity.—Loss of sense and thought.—Delirium. Head.—Vertigo on reading and on looking into the air.—Whirling vertigo, as if the head were going to fall for- ward.—Sensation as if the head were empty.—Pain in the parietal bone so as to cause one to cry out, on putting the hand to it.—Pain as from a bruise in the brain and in the Vol. I. 19 218 CUPRUM METALLICUM. socket of the eyes on moving the eyes.—Stupifying depres- sion in the head, with crawlings in the vertex.—Pressure in the temples, aggravated by touch.—Pulling in the head with vertigo, ameliorated by lying down.— Head ache in consequence of an epileptic attack.—External burning shootings in the side of the forehead, in the temples and in the vertex. Pains in the occiput and nape of the neck, on moving the head.—Swelling of the head with redness of the face.—Distortion of the side and back parts of the head. Eyes.—Itching in the eyes, towards evening.—*Pres- sure in the eyes, and in the eye-lids, aggravated by being touched.—Eyes red, inflamed, wandering or fixed.—Con- vulsions and restless movements of the eyes.—Eyes prominent and sparkling.—Eyes closed.—Pupils insensible.—Obscura- tion of the sight.—Pains resembling a bruise in the sockets on turning the eyes. Ears.—Tearings in the ears.—Pressure in the ears, as if from a hard body. Nose.—Violent congestion of the nose.—*Stoppage of the nose.—Violent fluent coryza. Face.—Face pale, with eyes downcast and surrounded by a livid circle.—Face bluish.—Spasmodic distortion of the face.—Sad and anxious air.—Redness of the face.— Lips bluish.—Excoriation of the upper lip.—Pressure on the lower jaw, increased by being touched.—Spasm in the jaw. Teeth and Mouth.—"Odontalgia with acute pullings extending into the temples.—Mouth clammy in the morn- ing.—Accumulation of water in the mouth.—Foam in the mouth.—Burning sensation in the mouth.—Tongue clam- my, loaded with a white coating.—Cries like the croaking of frogs.—Loss of speech. Throat.—Dryness of the throat with thirst.—Inflam- mation of the pharynx, with impeded deglutition.—*Audi- ble noise made by drinks in descending.—Swelling of the glands of the neck. Appetite.—Sweetish, or metallic, acid, or salt taste.— Watery taste of food.—Desire for cold things, in prefer- ence to hot. Stomach—Constant eructations.—Hiccough—'Flow of water like saliva, after taking milk.—Nausea with desire to vomit, extending from the abdomen to the gullet, but princi- pally in the epigastrium, with intoxication, disgust, and putrid taste in the mouth.— Violent periodical vomitings, mitigated by drinking.— Vomiting of bile, of water, of cuprum metallicum. 219 slimy matter or of blood.—Violent vomitings, with pres- sure in the stomach, cramps in the abdomen, diarrhea and convulsions.—Cramps in the stomach.—* Excessively trou- blesome pressure in the stomach and epigastrium, aggravated by touch and by movement.—Anxiety in the epigastrium. Abdominal Region.—Pains as from a bruise in the hypochondria when touched.—Drawing pains from the left hypochondrium to the hip.—Violent pains in the abdomen, with great anxiety.—Abdomen hard, with violent pains when touched.—Pressure in the abdomen as if from a hard body, aggravated by the touch.—Retraction of the abdo- men.—Spasmodic colic, with convulsions and shrill cries.— Tearing and gnawing ulcers in the intestines. Faeces.—Constipation with great heat of body.— Vio- lent diarrhea, sometimes sanguineous.—Bleeding of hae- morrhoidal tumors. Urine.—Urgent desire to make water with scanty discharge.—Frequent emission of fetid, slimy urine.— Burning shootings in the urethra, during and subsequent to the discharge of urine.—"Wetting the bed at night. Genital Parts.—Swelling of the penis, with inflamma- tion of the glans.—Before the catamenia throbbings, pal- pitation of the heart and head-ache. Larynx.—Obstinate hoarseness with desire to lie down.—Noise in the bronchia as if from mucus.—Tick- ling in the larynx.—*Dry cough with fits of suffocation, like hooping-cough.—Cough, with expectoration of whitish mucus, during the attack of spasmodic asthma.—Cough in the morning, with putrid expectoration. Chest.—Respiration accelerated, rattling, moaning, with convulsive efforts of the abdominal muscles.—Short, diffi- cult respiration, with spasmodic cough and rattling in the chest.—Cough with wheezing respiration, as soon as one endeavours to breathe.—Difficulty of respiration, increased by coughing, laughing, turning the body backwards, &c, as well as in the night.—Asthma when ascending or walk- ing quick, with inclination to breath deeply.—Spasmodic asthma.—Suffocatiny fits.—Pressure on the chest.—Pain- ful contraction of the chest, especially after drinking.— Cramps in the chest, which interrupt the respiration and the voice.—Palpitation of the heart. Trunk and Arms.—Sensation of heaviness in the axil- lary glands.—Swelling of the glands of the neck.—Herpes in the fold of the neck.—Swelling of the hand, with in- flammation of a lymphatic vessel up to the shoulder.— Pressure and acute pullings in the bones of the metacarpus. 220 cuprum metallicum—cyclamen europium. —Weakness and paralysis of the hand.—Jerking of the hands in the morning, after rising.—Torpor and. toughness of the fingers.— Cramps of the fingers. Legs.—Pains in the legs, especially in the calves of the legs during repose.—Tensive pain and cramps in the calves of the legs.—Pressive and drawing pains in the metatarsus.— Burning sensation in the soles of the feet.— ''Sweat of the feet.—Suppression of foot sweat.—Pain as from fatigue and stiffness in the limbs.—Cramps of the toes. 68.—CYCLAMEN EUROPIUM. CVCL.—Sowbread.—Hahnemann.—A medicine as yet very little known, and which has been employed only against tooth ache and some gastric affulions. [It deserves attention in chronic affections of the liver, with pain in the region of the liver, and constipation ; in affections of the kid- neys ; in night-mare, with ereat difficulty of recovering after awaking, F.d.J GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Pressive traction or tear- ings, chiefly where the bones are immediately covered by the skin.—During movement, all the sufferings, except de- jection, disappear; but numerous symptoms show them- selves when one is seated.—Great lassitude, especial- ly in the evening, with pain as from fatigue and stiffness in the legs, and drawing pressure in the thighs and knees. SKiN.-^Gnawing itching in several parts of the skin, especially when seated.—Tearing and insupportable itching in the evening in bed. Sleep.—Great desire to lie down and to sleep.—Late sleep in the evening, with sensible pulsations in the brain. —Nightmare on falling asleep. Fever.—Febrile shivering and coldness followed by heat, especially in the face, with redness of the same augmented after a.meal; afterwards anxiety with heat in some parts, in the back of the hand and in the nape of the neck, but not in the face. Moral Symptoms.—Secret vexation and troubled con- science.—Ill-humour and slovenliness, with dislike to con- versation, by fits.—Love of labour alternating with idleness. —Memory, alternately quick and weak.—Dullness and con- fusion of mind, with unfitness for every kind of exertion. Head.—Vertigo when standing, as if the brain were moving.—Numbing head-ache, with obscuration of the eyes.—Shootings in the brain in stooping.—Shootings in the temples.—Pricking, itching in the hairy scalp, which changes its situation after scratching. Eyes—Nose.—Eyes dull and hollow.—Shootings in the cyclamen europium. 221 eyes and eye-lids.—Swelling of the eye-lids.—Pupils dila- ted.—Sight confused, as if through a cloud.—Drawing in the ears.—Diminution of hearing, as if the ears were stop- ped.—Diminution of smell.—Fluent coryza with sneezing. Teeth.—Tooth-ache with dull tractions at night.—*Shoot- ings and piercing in the teeth. Mouth.—Tongue loaded with a white coating.—Con- stant sensation of roughness and of mucus in the mouth. —Sensation of torpor in the upper lip, as if it were hard- ened.—In the evening great dryness in the palate, with hunger and thirst. Appetite.—Putrid taste in the mouth.—Insipid taste of all food.—Slight hunger and appetite, especially in the morning and in the evening.—Speedy satiety followed by disgust, as soon as one begins to eat.—Repugnance to but- ter and cold food.—Great desire to sleep after a meal. Stomach.—Frequent risings, empty or acid.—Eructa- tions with hiccough, especially after a meal.—Nausea with desire to vomit and uneasiness in the region of the epi- gastrium, as after taking fat food, especially after dinner and supper.—Flow of water like saliva with nausea espe- cially in the evening. Abdominal Region.—-Fulness and pressure at the pit of the stomach as if overloaded.—Uneasiness in the abdomen with nausea.—Painful sensibility of the abdomen to the slightest touch.—Sudden attacks of griping, with pinch- ing.—Borborygmi in the abdomen, immediately after a meal. F-Eces.—Evacuations hard and frequent.—Evacuations of the consistence of pap.—Drawing pressure in the anus and in the perinaeum, as if from subcutaneous ulceration. Urine.—Frequent desire to make water, with abundant discharge of whitish urine.—Shootings in the urethra in making water. Chest.—In the evening, short breath, as if from weak- ness.—Attacks of suffocation.—Oppression of the chest, with difficulty of respiration.—Lancinations and acute pullings in the chest, with short and difficult respiration.— Pressure at the heart, as if from congestion of blood, with very evident palpitations of the heart. Trunk.—Shooting pains in the kidneys.—Pains of ex- coriation in the nape of the neck.—Pressure with paralytic weakness, or traction in the nape of the neck and in the neck. Arms.—Pressure, as if from a hard body, on the arms, as far as the fingers, which hinders one from writing.—Trac- tive pains in the arms and as far as the fingers.—Pain as if 19* 222 cyclamen europ.eum—daphne indica. after being struck, or pain of bruising in the arms.—Painful traction in the arms and in the wrists.—Contraction of the fingers.—Red blisters in the joints of the fingers, preceded by violent itching. Legs.—Cramp-like pains in the thighs.—Red spots on the thighs as if from a burn.—Frequent and violent itching in the calves of the legs, in the ankle-bones and in the toes. —Pain of dislocation in the joints of the foot.—Pains of excoriation in the toes, when walking.—Toes dead after walking.—Fetid sweat between the toes. 69.-DAPHNE INDICA. DAPH.—Indian Daphne.—Hering.—Duration of effect: Several weeks in chronic affections. Antidotes: Bry. dig. rhus. silic. sep. zinc CLINICAL REMARKS.—Allowing ourselves to be guided by the whole of the symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be used, appear to be:—Rheumatic and arthritic affections, even after suppressed gonorrhoea; Ar- thritic vaga ; Internal and external pains in the bones ; Amblyopia amaurotica; Gastralgia, and other gastric affections, &c, &c. O^T See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.— * Shooting pains as if from blows in different parts of the body, passing rapidly from one part to the other, aggravated by cold air, "and by taking brandy.—Rheumatic and arthritic pains as well in the muscles as in the bones.— Exostosis with shooting, or with pressive and dull pains.—"Pain as of excoriation, in the exostosis. —*The majority of sufferings exhibit themselves on the left side of the body, and are aggravated chiefly by fresh air, "as well as while the moon is waning, "in the morning, or towards the evening, and especially in bed.—Great lassitude and pain as from fatigue in all the limbs.—"Wish to remain lying down.—*Complete sleeplessness, °caused by aching in the bones.—Desire to sleep without being able to ac- complish it.—Dreams of fire or of black cats, with night- mare.—"Agitated sleep, not refreshing.—Starts with fright on going to sleep, accompanied by shivering, with clammy sweat.—Fever, similar to typhus, with excessive shivering, followed by continued heat, by clammy sweat over the whole body and complete loss of appetite.—Fever, with gastric and nervous suffering.—Clammy sweat of a putrid smell.—Mental dejection.—Timid character.—Irritability, over excitement, and tre mbling during the pains.—Irasci- bility, absence of mind and indecision. daphne indica. 223 Head.—Head-ache, provoked by any intellectual labour whatever.—"Pain behind the eyes, from one temple to the other.—*Sensation of fulness in the head, as if the cranium were going to burst, "especially on raising oneself in the bed.—Sensation, as if the head were too large, with shoot- ings in the temples.—Sensation, as if the external parts of the brain were inflamed, and were striking painfully against the cranium.—* Violent heat in the head, especially in the vertex, -and sometimes with a sensation as if the head were compressed.—Painful pulsation in the temples and the gums, sometimes with pain like excoriation on being touched.—"Exostosis on the cranium.—"Tuberosities in the vertex, soft, as if there were water in them, with trouble- some pains, especially at night ; the pains hinder sleep, and are aggravated by the touch.—"Hard swelling of the whole left side of the head (of the cranium'?) with sensa- tion of torpor, and acute, transient, shooting pain. Eyes and Ears.— Scraping in the eyes.—Troublesome sensation round the eyes and the eye-lids, with dryness and heaviness of the eye-lids.—Painful sensation as if the eyes were pushed outwards from the head.—Violent pains in the pupils, in the evening, with strong nervous excite- ment.—Eyes inflamed, weak, dull, and swimming in tears. —"Sensation, as if a cuticle were placed before the eyes. —"Weak sight, with confusion of letters when reading.— "Diplopia.—Pupils very much contracted.—Buzzing in the ears. Face—Teeth.—Heat and burning sensation in the cheeks, round the ears and in the vertex, sometimes with constant desire to yawn.—Sensation of swelling, of stiff- ness and of tension in the temporo-maxillary joint, with burning smarting in the skin.—Pulsation in the teeth and gums.—Acute drawing pains in all the teeth.—Tooth-ache, with and without salivation.—Tooth-ache during erections, or after coition.—Tooth-ache with attack of shivering or disposition to perspire. Mouth—Abdominal Region.—Tongue loaded, on one side only.— Dryness of the tongue after sleep, as if it had been burned.—"Fetor of the tongue.—Salivation.— Hot saliva.—Great desire to smoke tobacco.—"Pyrosis and sour vomiting.—Vomiting with nausea, after breakfast.— Sensation of fulness and boiling in the precordial region. —Pressure in the stomach after drinking.—"Frequent cramps in the stomach.—"After each meal, burning pain and sensation of excoriation in the stomach, with frequent risings of wind; with pains extending to the left hypo- 224 daphne indica—diadema aranea. chondrium and to the back.—Shootings and pains in the region of the spleen.—Arthritic pains which pass rapidly from the limbs to the abdomen.—Pain in the abdomen, with shiverings. Fjeces—Genital Organs.—*Stoppage of the abdomen, constipation.—0Fa;ces scanty, and sanguinolent towards the end.—*Frequent and abundant discharge of urine.— "Frequent wetting of the bed at night.—Urine turbid, thick, yellowish, like rotten eggs.—Urine of a reddish yellow colour.—Fetid urine.—Reddish sediment, which adheres to the side of the vessel.—Pain, as from excoriation in the urethra when making water.—Sweating of the scrotum. —Oozing of prostatic fluid, after making water. Chest.—Voice weak.—Breath fetid.—Expectoration serous, and abundant.—Sanguinolent expectoration.— *Cough with vomiting and "yellowish frothy expectoration, mixed sometimes with streaks of blood; the cough fa- tigues, and hinders sleep.—"Palpitation and jerking o tie heart, with inability to remain lying on the left side.— Acute pains in the region of the heart, with mental dejec- tion and trembling.—Suffocating fits at night, with sensa- tion as if the glands of the neck were swollen and the arteries stiff with blood. Limbs.—Pain in the nape of the neck with head-ache. —Burning itching in the back.—Painful pulling along the spinal marrow, aggravated by stooping.—Phlyctaenae, itch- ing excessively on the arms and hands.—Bone-aching, piercing pains in the bones and acute shooting pains in the fingers.—Itching, miliary eruption on the legs.—Rheu- matic pains in the thighs and knees.—Coldness of the knees and feet.—Pain, as from contusion in the toes.— °Painful swelling of the ball of the great toe, with pains which often pass rapidly into other parts of the body. 70.-DIADEMA ARANEA. DIAD.—Spider of the papal cross.—Homoeopathic Gazette.—A medicine as yet very little known. It deserves attention in intermittent fever ; in convulsions, haemorrhage from the nose and uterus ; in abortion ; and in flatulent colic. GENERAL SYMPTOMS—Dull aching pains in the bones and in all parts of the body, especially in the hu- merus, the anterior part of the arms, and the heels.—De- jection and lassitude, with thirst.—Appearance of sufferings every day, at the same hour like an intermittent fever.__ Bleeding, from almost all the pores of the body and from wounds.—Restless sleep, with frequent waking.—At night diadema aranea—digitalis purpurea. 225 a sensation as if the hands and the fore-arms were larger and more heavy.—Febrile symptoms, mostly consisting of cold.—Thirst during the fever and during the greater part of the other sufferings. Local Symptoms.—Perplexity and pressure in the head, mitigated by supporting the head.—Head-ache in the fore- head, diminished by smoking tobacco in the open air.—Burn- ing heat in the face, in the forehead and in the eyes.—Co- ryza, with thirst.—Sharp sensation of cold in the teeth (incisive) every day at the same hour.—Bitter taste, miti- gated by smoking tobacco.—Colic, with shuddering, to- wards the evening.—Fullness and heaviness in the abdo- men as if from a stone, with sensation of sinking in the epigastrium.—Borborygmi in the abdomen and heaviness in the thighs, every day at the same hour.—Watery diffi- cult evacuations with colic which is ameliorated by fric- tion on the abdomen.—Metrorrhagia.—Discharge of slimy mucus from the vagina. ~7L^DIGITALIS PURPUREA. DIG.—Fox-glove.—Hahnemann.—Duration of effect: for 50 days in some cases of chronic disease. Antidotes : n-voin. op. Compare with : Ars bell. chin, coff" coloc. con. hell. mere, n-vom. op. petr. puis. spig. sulph ac. CLINICAL REMARKS.—If we are guided by the to- tality of symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be employed will be found to be :—Arthritic affections (with nodosities'?); obstruction and induration of the glands; Icterus; Cyanosis; Dropsical affections', Fevers, with gastric, bilious or mucous affections; Slow-fevers with affection of the nervous system 1 ; Vermiculous fe- vers 1 ; Melancholy from organic affection of the heart 1; Serous apoplexy; Hydrocephalus; Catarrhal (arthritic and scrofulous 1) ophthalmia; Cataract; Amblyopia amau- rotica 1; Gastrico-mucous, or bilious affections ; Gastritis 1; Ascites; Chronic urethritis'?; Stricture of the urethral; Tenesmus of the bladder caused by gonorrhoea ; Hydro- cele; Haemoptysis; Organic affections of the heart; Hy- drothorax. [Digitalis seems to increase the activity of the venous, and to depress the arterial system ; hence it facilitates absorption, removes indurations and effusions, &c. It de- serves attention in chronic affections of the liver; in De- lirium potatorum ; in Phlegmatia alba dolens ; in epilepsy de- pendent upon serous effusion in the brain ; in gastric fe- vers with white tongue, slimy taste, nausea and vomiting, 226 digitalis purpurea. aching in the scrob-cord, cutting in the bowels, diarrhoea with inclination to dysentery, with violent pulsation in the abdomen, and extreme prostration of strength; in con- cussion and serous effusion of the brain or spinal marrow ; in asthenic and chronic inflammation of the brain; in chronic affections of the heart with tension in the left breast, aching in the pit of the stomach, inclination to in- spire deeply, dry cough, great weakness and inclination to faint, anxiety and restlessness, quick, small, and irregular pulse, diminished secretion of urine, &c. ; in inflammation of the bladder, with thickening and induration; in chronic vomiting, and morning vomitings of drunkards ; in cardi- algia, with frequent vomiting, coldness of the limbs, cold sweats, fainting fits, palpitation of the heart, &c, when occurring in weak nervous women; in retention of urine ; in jaundice ; in gall-stones ; in cyanosis ; in dilitation and hypertrophy of the heart; in dry coughs ; in tuberculous phthisis with bleeding from the lungs ; in suppuration of the kidneys and phthisis renalis ; in hectic fever with fre- quent chills, heat and redness of the face, small, quick and hard pulse, sopor, &c; in dropsy of the joints, &c, &c. Ed.] fJ^lr See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Burning hoofing* and tear- ings, especially in the limbs.—Penetrating pains, and sen- sation of soreness in the joints, as if after great fatigue.— Obstruction of the glands.—Tight and painful swellings, sepecially of the limbs.—Convulsions.—Epileptic fits.— *Dropsical swellings.—Emaciation.—Great dejection and nervous weakness.—Attacks of excessive weakness, espe- cially after breakfast and dinner.—Sudden prostration of strength, amounting to fainting, with general perspiration. Skin.—Gnawing itching, which changes if it is not scratched into a burning and insupportable pricking.— Scaling off of the skin from the whole body.—"Bluish skin, particularly of the eye-lids, lips, tongue and nails. Sleep.—Desire to sleep in the day, and somnolency in- terrupted by fits of convulsive vomiting.—At night half- sleep, with agitation.—^Nocturnal sleep, interrupted by anxious dreams with starts. Fever.—Coldness of the body, often with cold sweat, especially on the forehead or one side of the body only.__ Coldness in the hands and feet.—Frequent and sudden flushes of heat, followed by weakness.—Nocturnal and abundant perspiration, preceded sometimes by shivering or shudder- ing, with internal heat, during the day.—Pulse small, digitalis purpurea. 227 weak and excessively slow, but accelerated by the slight- est movement. Moral Symptoms.—*Extreme anguish especially in the evening, with disposition to weep, and great fear of the fu- ture.—Remorse.—Tearful moroseness ; with sensation of internal uneasiness.—Indifference.—Much relish for exer- tion.—Weakness of memory.—Nocturnal delirium and agitation. Head.—Dizziness.—* Vertigo with trembling.—Jerking pressure in the head, especially during intellectual labour. —Tension in the forehead when turning the eyes.—Tear- ing in the temples and -sides of the head.—Shootings in the temples and forehead, sometimes extending to the point of the nose, especially after drinking any thing cold.— Itching in the brain on one side of the head only.—Sensa- tion when stooping, as if the brain were falling forwards.— Undulations in the brain, as if it contained water, with confusion in the head.—Swelling of the head.—The head constantly bends backwards. Eyes.—*Pressure on the eyes, greatly augmented by the touch.—*Burning pain and pressure above the eyes, "with confused sight.—*Shootings in the eyes.—inflam- matory redness of the conjunctiva and of the eye-lids, with swelling, and sensation as if sand were introduced into the eyes.—Inflammation of the meibomian glands.—Smarting weeping, increased by a bright light and by cold air.—* Ag- glutination of the eye-lids, with copious secretion of mucus. —Disposition of the eyes to turn to one side.—Pupils in- sensible and dilated.—Sight confused, as if through a mist. —Obscuration of the sight and complete blindness, as if from amaurosis.—Opacity of the crystalline lens.—Illusions of the sight.—Phantoms, visions, and the colours of the rainbow before the eyes.—*Objects appear green or yellow. —Fire appears blue.—Sparks before the eyes.—Diplopia. Ears.—Otalgia, with tensive and contractive pains in the ears—Swelling of the parotides. Face.—Paleness of the face.—"Blue colour of the lips and eye-lids.—Convulsions on one side of the face.—Cramp- like and drawing pains in the cheek-bones.—Swelling of the cheek, with pain when touched.—Eruptions, with gnaw- ing itching in the cheeks and chin.—Swelling of the lips.— Eruptions on the lips.—Lips cracked. Mouth.—Roughness, excoriation and scraping in the mouth and throat, with clammy taste.—Sweetish and fetid saliva.—Salivation, with excoriation of the teeth and gums. —"Bluish tongue.—Swelling of the tongue.—Ulcer on the tongue.—Tongue loaded with white mucus. 228 digitalis purpurea. Appetite.—Sweetish taste, especially after smoking tobacco, sometimes with constant accumulation of saliva in the mouth.—"Bitterness in the mouth.—Clammy taste.— Bitter taste of bread.—^Absence of appetite, sometimes even with clean tongue.—Thirst, especially for acid drinks. —Great desire for bitter things.—After a meal, pressure and inflation of the abdomen and stomach. Stomach.—Sour eructation and regurgitations, some- times after a meal.—Pyrosis,—*Nausea, with desire to vomit, moral dejection and inquietude.—#Convulsive incli- nation to vomit.—Vomitings and nausea, with fulness and pressure in the epigastrium.— Vomiting in the morning, or at night.—* Vomiting of mucus, _of food, or bile, with ex- cessive nausea.—"Nausea in the morning, when waking.— Nausea and vomiting during a meal.—Vomiting of food, as one spits.—Sensation of retraction in the stomach.—*Pres- sure, burning pain, and heaviness in the stomach and in the epigastrium.—Sensation of weakness in the stomach,as if life would be extinguished, especially immediately after a meal. —Cramp-like pains in the stomach, sometimes with nausea and vomiting, mitigated by eructation.—Shootings in the pit of the stomach, as far as the sides and the back.—*Ful- ness in the pit of the stomach. Abdominal Region.—Pain like contractive tension in the hypochondria.— Sensibility and pressive pains in the region of the liver.—Spasmodic tormina in the intestines. —Shooting and tearing colic, with desire to vomit, espe- cially during movement and expiration—"Inflation of the abdomen.—"Dropsical swelling of the abdomen.—Cuttings, as if from a chill or diarrhoea.—Cramp-like tension in the groins.—Sufferings from flatulency. Faeces.—*Feces, white like chalk, or of the colour of ashes.—Diarrhea of excrement, mixed with mucus, preceded by shiverings and by cuttings.—Dysenteric evacuations.— Involuntary evacuations.—Aqueous diarrhoea. Urine.—Retention of urine.—^Troublesome and almost futile desire to make water, with discharge of hot, burning and very scanty urine.—* Difficult urination, as if from con- traction of the urethra.—Wetting the bed at night.—Uri- nary flux.—Diminution of the secretion of urine, sometimes alternately with abundant discharges.—Cutting pains in the urethra, before and after the urinary discharge.—Involun- tary discharges of urine.—* Urine of a deep colour, brownish or reddish.—Nausea before and after the discharge.—-On making water, burning sensation and constriction in the urethra.—Inflammation of the neck of the bladder. Genital Parts.—Bruising pain in the testes.—Swelling dictamnus albus—drosera rotundifolia. 229 of the testes.—Sexual desire, strongly excited, with frequent erections and pollutions.—Dropsical swelling of the scro- tum* Larynx.—Hoarseness and coryza in the morning.— Much phlegm in the larynx, which is detached by a slight COU2h.—Cough, after a meal, with vomiting of food.— *Dry cough, -with pains in the shoulders and arms.—Cough with expectoration of matter resembling starch.—Smarting in the chest in coughing.—Dry, cramp-like cough, excited by long conversation.—*Sanguineous expectoration on coughing. Chest.—Respiration painfully difficult, especially at night, when lying down, or in the day, when walking or seated.—In the morning, suffocating constriction of the chest, forcing one to rise up in the bed.— Asthmatic suf- ferings, as if from hydro-thorax.—Pressure on the chest from keeping oneself bent.—Tension in chest, with incli- nation to breathe deeply.—Contractive pain in the chest, when sitting bent.—Smarting in the chest.—Sensation of weakness in the chest, proceeding from the stomach.— Congestion to the chest.—Acceleration of the functions of the "heart, with palpitations that can be heard, anguish, and contraction in the sternum.—Shuddering over the chest. Trunk.—Drawing pains in the bones and loins, as if after a chill.—Bruising pains in the loins when moving.— Stiffness and tension of the muscles and nape of the neck. Arms.—Paralytic pullings and tearings in the arms.— Nocturnal swelling of the right hand and fingers.—Coldness of the hands.—Tearings in the joints of the fingers.—Sud- den and paralytic stiffness of the fingers.—Torpor and easy numbness of the fingers. Legs.—Great stiffness in the legs after being seated, which abates when walking.—Want of energy and paraly- tic weakness in the legs.—Swelling in the knee, like stea- toma.—Cutting pains in the thigh, and burning sensation in the calf of the leg, when crossing the legs—Tension in the ham—Cold feet.—Swelling in the feet, by day only. ~^^—D\^l^^S~khmSr DICT.—Bastard Dittany.—A medicine as yet eniirely untried, and which is found in the norm nclature of our materia medica, only because Hah- nemann, in his Organon, cites it respecting Leucorrhaa. 73.—DROSERA ROTUNDIFOLIA. DROS.—Sun-dew.—Hahnemann.—Duration of effect: from 6 to 7 days. Antidote : Camph. Compare with : Aeon. bry. cin. cupr. hep. hyos. ipec. n-vom. tpong. veratr. Vol. I. 20 230 drosera rotundifolia. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Allowing ourselves to be guided by the whole of the symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be used, appear to be :—Epilepsy"?; In- termittent fevers (with inclination to, and actual vomiting, long cold stage with violent thirst, followed by heat in the face with but moderate warmth of the body, heaviness of the head, tkrobbing pain in the occiput, &c. ; difficulty of hearing, with violent roaring in the ears ; it also deserves^at- tention in goitre.)—Presbyopia, and other defects of sight (even in consequence of syphilitic ophthalmia 1); .Gastric affections ; Catarrh and hoarseness, also that caused by morbilli.—Hooping-cough; Affections of the respiratory organs, in consequence of croup ; Chronic laryngitis, also with ulceration ; Chronic pneumonia 1 Phthisis florid, &c. 0^7" See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Gnawing shootings in the cavity of the bones of the arms and legs, excessively vio- lent, with violent shootings in the joints, during repose, rather than during movement.—Shooting and painful pres- sure in the muscles of the limbs, mitigated in no position. —Pains as from a bruise, excessively painful sensibility, par- alytic weakness in all the limbs.—Weakness in the whole body, with hollow cheeks and eyes.—Epileptic convul- sions, with sleep and spitting of blood after the paroxysm. —The majority of the sufferings appear at night and in the morning, as well as in the warmth and during repose. Sleep.—Snoring during sleep and when lying on the back.—Frequent starts with fright during sleep.—Nocturnal waking caused by the commencement of perspiration.— Sleep at noon and in the evening at sunset. Fever.—Shuddering over the whole body, with heat of the face, icy coldness of the hands and absence of thirst or *shiverings, with coldness and paleness of the hands, feet and face.—Heat with head-ache and convulsive cough.— *Fever with nausea and desire to vomit and other gastric sufferings, or with sore-throat. Moral-Symptoms.—Mental dejection, caused by imagi- nary ideas of enmity.—Anxiety, especially in solitude with fear of ghosts.—Restlessness, which does not allow one to be long occupied with the same object.—Disquietude res- pecting the future.—Discouragement.—Inclination to drown oneself.—Obstinacy in executing what one has re- solved upon.—The least thing sets the sufferer beside himself. Head.—Painful perplexity of the head, as if after hav- ing spoken much.—Vertigo, when walking in the open air, drosera rotundifolia. 231 which occasions falling (to the left).—Pressive pains in the head, especially in the forehead and cheek-bones, some- times with nausea and dizziness.—Beating and hammering in the forehead, from the inside outwards.—Pains as from excoriation in the hairy scalp. Eyes.—Shootings in the eyes towards the outside, es- pecially when stooping.—*Suspension of the sight, or con- fusion and paleness of the characters when reading.— Presbyopia.— Dazzling from the candle and daylight. Ears.—Shootings and stoppage in the ears, especially when swallowing.—Hardness of hearing, with buzzing and roaring in the ears. Nose.—Bleeding of the nose, especially in the evening —Blowing of blood from the nose.—Black pores on the nose.—Constant dryness of the nose.—Great sensibility to acid smells.—Fluent coryza with sneezing. Face.—Paleness of the face with cheeks hollow and eyes sunk.—Burning and pricking sensation in the skin of the cheeks, below the eyes.—Lips cracked and constantly dry.—Pressure in the cheek bones, towards the outside ag- gravated by pressure and contact.—Black pores in the chin. Mouth and Throat.—Shooting pains in the teeth, after taking hot drinks.—Ulcers in the tongue.—Bleeding of the mouth.—Ulceration of the velum palati.—Shootings in the throat, after eating anything salt.—Difficulty in swallowing solid food, as if from contraction of the throat.—Sensation in the throat, as if crumbs of bread had stopped in it.— Hawking of yellowish or greenish m icus. Appetite.—Thirst, especially in the morning.—Insipid- ity of food.—Bitter taste of food and especially of bread.— Bitter risings.—Frequent hiccough.—Water-brash.—Vom- iting at night and after dinner.— Vomiting of bile, in the morning.—Vomiting of blood.—Nausea after eating fat food.—Vomiting of slimy matter and food during the cough.—Shootings and beatings in the pit of the sto i aeh. Abdominal Region.—Pains in the hypochondria, on coughing and on being touched.—Colic, after eating acids. FiECES and Urine.—Frequent evacuations of sanguin- eous mucus, with cuttings.—Frequent desire to make wa- ter, with scanty discharge, often drop by drop.—Discharge of urine at night.—Brownish urine of a strong smell.— Catamenia suppressed.—Catamenia retarded.—Leucor- rhaea with pains like those of childbirth. Larynx.—Crawling in the larynx, which excites a short cough and shootings as far as the throat.—Sensation, as if there were a soft body, such as a feather, in the larynx. 232 drosera rotundifolia—dulcamara. Sensation of dryness or roughness and of scraping in the bot- tom of the gullet with inclinationto cough.—* Hoarseness and very low voice.—Accumulation of slimy matter, alternately hard and soft, yellowish, grayish or greenish.—Cough and hoarseness.—Cough, proceeding deep from the chest, with pains in the hypochondria and chest, mitigated by pressing the hand upon them.—*Coughat night and in the evening, immediately after lying down.—* Dry spasmodic cough with inclination to vomit.—Fatiguing cough like hooping-cough, with bluish face, wheezing respiration, attacks of suffoca- tion, bleeding from the nose and mouth, and anxiety.—The cough is excited by laughter, weeping and mental emo- tions.—* Vomiting of food during the cough and afterwards. Cough, with fetid breath.—Singing, tobacco-smoke and drinking excites the cough.—Cough,with expectoration of a bright-red blood, or of blackish clots.—*Cough in the morn- ing, with bitter and nauseous expectoration.—*Cough with expectoration of purulent matter, and shootings in the lower part of the chest.—Greenish expectoration. Chest.—Difficulty of respiration in speaking, as if the throat were contracted, chiefly when seated.—Oppression of the chest, as if something stopped the voice when cough- ing or speaking.—Tightness of the chest when coughing or speaking.—Pains in the chest when coughing and when sneezing.—Pains, as from sub-cutaneous ulceration in the sternum when pressing upon it. Trunk.—Bruising pains in the back.—Stiffness of the nape of the neck, with pains during movement.—Black pores in the chest and on the shoulders. Arms.—Pains, as from a bruise in the joints of the arms and hands.—Cramp and stiffening of the fingers, on layino- hold of an object.—Nocturnal pains in the bones of the arm. Legs.—Paralytic pains in the coxo-femoral joint and in the thighs, when walking, which occasions limping—In- cisive shootings in the legs.—Tearings in the joints of the foot as if they were dislocated, only when walking.—Stiff- ness in the joints of the feet.—Cold sweat of the feet, which are constantly cold. 74.—DULCA MAR A .—(solanum). DULC—Bittersweet.—Hahnemann.—Duration of effect: from 20 to 30 days. Antidotes : Camph. ipec. mere.—It is used as an antidote against: cupr. Compare with : Aeon- ars. bell. bry. con. cupr. ipec. lach. mere, n-vom. phos. rhus. sulf.— Dulc, when otherwise indicated, shows itself most efficacious after cupr. mere, and lach. dulcamara. 233 CLINICAL REMARKS.—From the mass of symptoms, it will be seen, that the cases in which this medicine may be employed are ; Sufferings from the use of mercury ; Affec- tions, in consequence of taking cold in general; Affections of the mucous membranes; Scrofulous affections, with ob- struction and induration of the glands; Cold tumours; Dropsical affections; Paralysis; Affections, in conse- quence of morbilli ; Tetters of different kinds, also those from the abuse of sulphur; Pemphigus in children ; Soften- ing of the bones ; Nettle rash; Warts; Scarletina and purpura miliaria, when there is a complication of these two diseases ; Fever with affection of the mucous membranes ; Cephalalgia, especially in consequence of a chill; Crusta lactea ; Scrofulous ophthalmia ; Amblyopia amaurotica ; Glossophlegia; Angina, especially catarrhal angina (after the use of mercury); Scorbutic affection of the gums; Cholerine; Dysentery, from a chill; Mucous diarrhcea 1 ; Catarrh of the vesica ; Contraction of the urethral ; Scrof- ulous buboes ; Tetters on the genital parts ; Inveterate ca- tarrh, with hoarseness ; Hooping cough 1; Phthisis pitu- ltosa ; Asthma humidum ; Chronic pneumonia 1: Hvdrotho- rax ; Phthisis floridal [It deserves attention in Ovarian dropsy ; Catarrhal fevers with rheumatism of the intercostal muscles, fever- stitches in the side, &c.; in Induratio tele cellulose neona- torum ; jn tinea facei; in inflammation of the throat with swelling of the cervical glands ; Thickening of the mucous membrane of the urethra, strictures, &c. .; in Induration and enlargement of the prostrate gland ; Herpes pudendo- rum ; &c. Ed.] r 00" See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS—*Tearing or shooting- drawing pains in the limbs.—* Sufferings as if from a chill in different parts.—Aggravation of sufferings, chiefly in the evening or at night, and during repose; mitigated by move- ment—Pains with coldness of the body.—"Immoderate secretion and excretion of the mucous membranes— Swelling and induration of the glands.—Emaciation— Dropsical swelling of the whole body, limbs, and face— Rapid swelling of the whole body.—Weakness and pain of fatigue over the whole body—Semi-lateral convulsions with loss of speech.—Paralytic affections of the limbs— Great lassitude. Skin—Dryness and heat of the skin.—* Miliary nettle rash, with fever—*Tetters of different kinds, such as : a.) •Dry furfuraceous, humid, scaling, or suppurating tetters 20* ' 234 DULCAMARA. -pale, discharging after being scratched; b.) Reddish tetters with red areola, bleeding after being scratched ; c.) Tetters with red edges, with painful sensibility to the touch, and to cold water; d.) Small, round tetters, bleeding after being scratched ; e.) Dry, furfuraceous tetters.— Tettery scabs, over the whole body.—*Tettery eruptions, with swelling of the glands.—"Warts.—Tetters in the joints.—"Eruption of itching pustules, which pass into suppuration and are cover- ed with a scab especially in the lower limbs and the hinder part of the body. Sleep.—Strong desire to sleep during the day.—"Nocturnal sleep agitated, restless, in consequence of heat and jerkings in the body, especially after midnight.— Waking very early. —Frightful dreams.—Visions in the morning when waking. Fever.—In the evening, frequent chills and coldness not even relieved by the heat of the fire.—Coldness during the pains.—"At first, febrile shivering, then burning heat with stunning pain in the head, red face, burning heat in the palate, and insatiable thirst for cold drinks.—*Dry heat and burning sensation in the skin, with delirium and thirst.— Fever, with aggravation in the evening.—Pulse, hard and tight.—General .sweat, especially at night.—Fetid sweat with discharge of much urine. Moral Symptoms.—Mental Agitation.—Great impa- tience.—"Impatient desire for different things, which are rejected as soon as they are obtained.—Disposition to quarrel, without anger.—Nocturnal delirium with aggra- vation of pains. Head.—*Great dulness in the head, as if there were a vice to the forehead.—Aching stunning pains in different parts of the head.—*Piercing and burning pain in the forehead, with searching from the inside outwards.—*The head-ache is aggravated by the slightest movement and "even by speaking.—Sensation of heaviness in the head.—Con- gestion of the head, with buzzing in the ears and hardness of hearing.—Sensation in the occiput as if it were enlarged. Eyes.—Pressure in the eyes, especially when reading. —Sensation, as if fire were issuing from the eyes.—in- flammation of the eyes.—Twitching of the eyelids in the cold air.—Sparks before the eyes.—Confused sight, as if from incipient amaurosis. Ears.—Ear-ache, at night, with nausea.—Acute pull- ings, with shootings in the ears. Nose.—Epistaxis of a very hot and bright red blood, with pressive pain above the nose.—Coryza with stoppage of the nose, aggravated in the cold air. dulcamara. 235 Face.—Paleness of the face, with circumscribed red- ness of the cheeks.— Eruptions and warts on the face.— "Thick, brownish or yellowish, scabs on the face, fore- head, temples, and chin.—Moist tetter on the cheeks.—■ Twitching of the lips in the cold air.—Paralysis of the lower jaw.—"Swelling of the sub-maxillary glands.—Red- ness of the face.—Distortion of the mouth. Mouth.—Salivation.—Dryness of the Tongue.—"Tongue loaded with thick mucus.—Swelling of the tongue.— Pimples and ulcers in the mouth.—Gums loosened and fungous.—*Paralysis of the tongue and obstructed speak- ing, especially after taking cold —Sore throat, as if from elongation of the uvula, with pressive pain.—Burning heat in the palate.—*Sore throat, as if after a chill. Appetite.—Insipid and saponaceous taste in the mouth. —"Bitterness in the mouth.—*Burning thirst for cold drinks, generally with dryness of the tongue, with abun- dant secretion of saliva.—Hunger, with repugnance to all food.—Distension of the abdomen and epigastrium, after eating moderately.—*Nausea, with vomiting of viscous phlegm. Stomach.—*Pressure in the stomach extending to the chest.—Cramp-like contraction in the stomach, so as to suspend respiration.—Retraction of the epigastrium, with burning pain. Abdominal Region.—Pains in the umbilical region.— Shooting pinchings and cuttings in the umbilical region, especially at night.—Pinchings, gnawing, and sensation as if a worm were creeping in the abdomen.—*Pain in the abdomen as if from taking cold.—inflammatory obstruction and induration of the inguinal glands, with drawing and tensive pains. Fjeces.—Constipation.—Diarrhea, as if after a chill, with cuttings, or vomitings, risings and thirst.—Diarrhea of greenish or brownish mw:us.—Sanguineous diarrhoea, with itching in the anus and prolapsus of the rectum.—"Noctur- nal watery diarrhoea with colic. Urine.—Retention of urine.—Scanty and fetid urine.— Clear and slimy urine, or troubled with sediment like mu- cus.—Red, burning urine.—°Involuntary discharge of urine, as if from paralysis of the bladder.—Difficult urination, drop by drop.—"Thickening of the vesica.—*Discharge of mucus from the urethra.—Stricture of the urethra.— Turbid and whitish urine.—Catamenia retarded and too abundant.—Tettery eruption of the labia.—Miliary erup- tion before the catamenia.—Tetters on the breast. 236 DULCAMARA--EUGENIA IAMBOS. Larynx.—Catarrh and hoarseness, as if from having taken cold.— Cough with hoarseness.—Moist cough.— Cough, with expectoration of bright red colour.—"Cough, similar to hooping-cough, *excited by taking a deep inspi- ration. Chest.—Strong oppression of the chest, especially with reference to breathing.—Obtuse shooting, as if from blows in and upon the sides of the chest.—Troublesome pain as of undulation in the left side of the chest.—Violent palpi- tation of the heart, perceptible externally, at night. Trunk.— Violent pains in the lumbar region above the hips, grubbing, shooting or drawing, chiefly at night during repose.—Stiffness of the nape of the neck.—Obstruction and induration of the glands of the nape and neck.—Shooting pullings in the loins, shoulders and arms. Arms.—Paralysis of the arms, with icy coldness, as from apoplexy.—Paralytic pain in the arms, as if from a bruise, chiefly during repose.—*Tettery eruption and warts on the hands.—Perspiration of the palms of the hands. Legs.—Tractions and tearings in the lower extremities, especially in the thighs.—Tetters on the knee.—Puffing and swelling of the leg as far as the knee.—Burning sen- sation in the feet and toes.—Erysipelatous scaling and itch- ing in the feet.—Crawling in the feet. ~75—EUGENIA IAMBOS. Ecg—Hering.— Duration of effect : 3 or 4 days. Antidote : Coff. GENERAL SYMPTOMS—Sufferings appear, espe- cially in the evening and at night.—Profound stupifyino- sleep, even at noon, with confused dreams.—Coldness as if one were naked.—Respiration in the morning, with burn- ing thirst.—Disposition to be wholly alone.—Uneasiness in every position ; desire to lie down when seated, and to rise when lying down. Head.—Permanent state of intoxication, with great loquacity and idleness.—Vertigo, during which all objects seem to be turned upside down.—Attacks of megrim in the evening, with rolling and burning pain in the head, with forcing towards the eyes, lachrymation, nausea and vomit- ing, during which the pains are aggravated.—Pains in the head at night, with burning pain in the eyes, violent thirst and discharge of much urine.—Cramp-like, aching pains in the head. Eyes.—Lachrymation, with burning and gnawing pains. Burning pain in the eyes in the afternoon. EUGENIA IAMBOS--EUPHORBIUM. 237 Face and Mouth.—Pimples on the face with painful sensibility of their circumference.—Abundant accumula- tion of frothy and slimy saliva, in the mouth, especially before a meal. Appetite.—Appetite increased.—Agreeable taste of tobacco, when smoking, of food and of drink.—Great thirst. —Great desire to smoke tobacco. Fjeces and Urine.—Loose evacuations, followed by vomiting.—Scanty evacuation of excrement, of the con- sistence of pap, and sabulous.— Evacuations scanty, sput- tering and fetid, with burning pain in the abdomen.—Con- stipation.—Deep-dolouredurine.—After making water, shud- dering or sudden increase of brightness and of light before the sight. Genital Organs.—Impotence.—Emission of semen too slow, or entirely wanting during coition.—After coitio.i, perspiration and thirst. Chest and Limbs.—Moist cough, without expectora- tion in the evening and at ni^ht.—Expectoration of yellow- ish, sanguineous mucus.—Desquamation and suppuration of the skin round the nail of the thumb.—Cramp-like and paralytic pains in the tibia and in the heel.—Nocturnal cramps in the sole of the foot. ~76V^EUPHORBIUM7~ Euphorb.—Spurge.—Archives of Staff.—Duration of effect: for 50 days in some cases of chronic disease. Antidote : Camph. citr. Compare with: Bell. mere. mag. nitr-ac—This medicine, when indica- ted, is particularly suitable after bell. mere, nitr-ac. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Allowing ourselves to be guided by the mass of symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be used, appear to be:—Sufferings from the abuse of mercury 1 ; Affections of the bones and mucous membranes'?; Inveterate and indolent ulcers?.; Scarlatinal; Warts?.; Catarrhal ophthalmia 1; Vesicular erysipelas of the face 1; Oesophagitis ? ; Gastralgia?; Brittleness of the teeth ; Ptyalism; Affections of the uri- nary organs; Sequelae of pleurisy, or pneumonia, with adhesion of the pleura? ; &c, &c. |E3=' See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Tearing or pressive, ox shooting pains in the limbs, especially during repose, mitiga- ted by movement.—Stinging and tensive pains in the mus- cles.—Burning pains in different parts of the body, espe- cially in the internal organs.—Paralytic weakness in th; joints, with difficulty in rising from one's seat.—Great 238 EUPHORBIUM. relaxation and lassitude.—The majority of the symptoms are aggravated during repose, by setting and by touch. Skin.—Gnawing and burning itching, which forces one to scratch almost constantly.—Streaks of a purple red on the skin.—Furunculi.—Indolent ulcers.—(Sphacelus ?.) Sleep.—Desire to sleep during the day, accompanied by frequent yawnings.—Comatose somnolency during the day. —Difficulty of sleeping in the evening, with trembling and starting.—Frequent waking. Fever.—Shuddering and deficiency of vital heat, espe- cially in affections of the internal organs.—Shivering at the commencement of a meal.—Shuddering and shivering with coldness of the hands and heat in the cheeks, without thirst.—Perspiration in the morning, with heat, without thirst. Moral Svmptoms.—Anxious apprehension.—Tacitur- nity.—Desire for exertion. Head.—Vertigo, which causes falling to one side.—Pres- sive, stinging head-ache —Pain as from a bruise on the occi- put.—Erysipelatous inflammation of the exterior of the head. Eyes.—Inflammation of the eyes, with itching and dry- ness of the lids and of the canthi.—Opacity of the cornea. —Myopia.—Diplopia. Ears and Nose.—Otalgia in the open air.—A suffoca- ting itching in the nose, extending as far as the brain, with abundant flow of mucus.—Frequent sneezing. Face.—Erysipelatous swelling of the cheek, with eruption of yellowish vesicles, and piercing and searching pain.—Pale swelling of the cheek.—Burning pain in the face. Teeth.—Pressing, stinging tooth-ache, or with piercing pain, aggravated by contact and mastication, or at the be- ginning of a meal, with shivering and pain in the head and cheek bones.—*Crumbling of the teeth. Mouth and Throat.—Dryness of the mouth without thirst.—Salivation with sensation of creeping, desire to vo- mit, and pinchings in the stomach.—Saltish saliva.—Burn- ing pain, from the throat to the stomach, accompanied by heat, anxiety, tremor, and water-brash. Stomach.—Insipid, rancid, bitter taste.—Vehement thirst for cold drinks.—Empty eructations.—Hiccough.— Flow of water like saliva from the mouth, with heat, anx- iety and tremor.—Stomach-ache as if beaten.—Relaxation and flaccidity of the stomach, with retraction of the abdo- men.—Contracting cramps in the stomach.—Sensation of pinching and clawing in the stomach.—Burning pain in EUPHORBIUM--EUPHRASIA OFFICINALIS. 239 the stomach and epigastrium.—Inflammation of the sto- mach. Abdominal Region.—Stomach-ache and constricting pains in the abdomen.—Spasmodic flatulent colic, with pains pressing asunder or upwards, generally relieved by support- ing the head on the hand.—Sensation of emptiness in the abdomen.—Burning pain in the abdomen.—Tearing in the groins as if caused by spraining. Faeces and Urine.—Urgent desire to go to stool, with itching in the rectum.—Liquid diarrhea with tenesmus, sen- sation of burning in the anus, and excoriating pain in the abdomen.—Urgent desire to make water, with difficult and scanty discharge, drop by drop.—Flow of blood from the urethra. Genital Parts.—Tearing lancinations in the glans penis.—Voluptuous itching of the prepuce.—Tearing in the testes.—Burning pain in the scrotum.—Constant erec- tions without lasciviousness.—Discharge of prostrate fluid. Larynx.—Dry, hollow cough, excited by a burning tickling in the trachea and the chest.—Dry cough, day and night, as if from oppression, with frequent expectoration in the morning. Chest.—Difficult respiration and short breath, with tensive pain in the muscles of the chest.—Sensation of spasmodic pressing asunder in the chest.—Sensation as if one of the lobes of the liver were adherent.—Pressure in the muscles of the chest.—Pressive lancination on the stern- um.—Lancination in the left side of the chest, during re- pose, mitigated by movement.—Burning pain in the chest. Trunk and Extremities.—Cramp-like pain in the dor- sal spine, in the morning, in bed, when lying on the back. —Sweat on the neck.—Paralytic tension in the shoulder- joint during repose, relieved by walking.—Scarlet streaks on the front of the arm, itching when touched.—Cramp- like tractions in the hand, after writing.—Pains of dislo- cation in the hips.—Burning pain at night, in the thigh- bones.—Great weakness of the legs.—Cramp-like contraction of the toe. ~77^EUPHRASIA OFFICINALIS. Eufhr.—Fye-bright.—Hahnemann— Duration of effect: for 20 days in some cases. Antidote : Pn's. ? Compare with : Arn. mere, n-vom p lis. seneg. spig. CLINICAL REMARKS.—If guided by the totality of the symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be used, appear to be :—Severe effects from a contusion, 240 EUPHRASIA OFFICINALIS. blow, or fall, &c. ; Rheumatic, scrofulous, catarrhal, trau- matic ophthalmia, &c.; Blenorrhea of the eyes ; Opacity, in- flammation of, and specks on the cornea ; Amblyopia amau- rotica ; Humid cough, in consequence of gripe; Condylo- ma, &c, &c. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Cramp-like pains over the whole body.—Pricking in the extremities, as if from gnat stings, with sensation of torpor.—Aggravation of symptoms in the evening.— Urgent desire to sleep during the day, as if from fatigue of the eyes.— Violent yawnings on walking in the open air.—Violent lancinations in different parts, which prevent sleep.—Frightful dreams, with frequent waking and starting up with fright.—Predominance of cold.—Co- pious nocturnal sweat.—Taciturnity and repugnance to conversation ; one is concentrated in oneself.—Hypochon- driacal indifference.—Indolence.—Melancholy. Head.—Confusion and pain in the head, as if beaten, in the evening, augmented by lying down.—Pressing head- ache with photophobia and heat, chiefly in the forehead.— Stingings in the temples and forehead.—Beating in the head, perceptible on the outside. Eyes.—Pressure on the eyes.—Biting sensation in the eyes.—Inflammatory redness of the eyes.—"Inflammation of the cornea.—^Inflammation and ulceration of the edges of the eyelids, with head-ache.—"Cicatrized ulcers and specks on the cornea.—*Abundant flow of corrosive tears, causing blind- ness, especially when exposed to the wind —*Swelling and agglutination of the eye-lids.—Smarting in the eyes, as if from sand.—Lancinations in the eyes, excited by too bright a light.—Eruption of small miliary pimples round the eyes.—Copious secretion of mucus, sometimes sanguine- ous, from the eyes and lids.—Compression of the eye-lids.— Contraction in the eyes and lids, which occasions winking. —The light seems obscure and wavering.—Photophobia, especially in day-light and sunshine. Ears.—Otalgia, with piercing pains in the region of the tympanum. Nose.—Purulent pimples on the wings of the nose.__ Excoriation and painful sensibility of the nostrils.—Epis- taxis.—Flowing coryza by day, obstruction of the nose at night.—* Violent flowing of coryza, with abundant secretion of mucus, excessive confusion of the head, and corrosive tears in the eyes. Face.—Stiffness of the cheeks when speaking and dur- ing mastication, with sensation of heat and stinging pains. —Miliary eruption on the face, with burning and redness EUPHRASIA OFFICINALIS — EVONYMUS EUROP.EUS. 241 on wetting the face.—Lip stiff, as if of wood.—Shootings in the lower jaw and chin. Mouth.—Stammering and frequent interruptions of speech.—Speech difficult in consequence of a paralytic stiffness of the tongue and cheeks.—Sensation of clucking which ascends into the throat. Teeth.—Stinging pains in the lower teeth.—Profuse bleeding of the gums. Stomach and Urine.—Insipid taste.—Nausea and bit- terness in the mouth after smoking.—Eructations with taste of food that has been eaten.—Short attacks of griping in the abdomen.—Pressing, squeezing and burning across the abdomen.—Colic, alternating with affections of the eyes.—Evacuations hard and insufficient.—Frequent emis- sion of abundant and clear urine. Genital Organs.—Spasmodic retraction of the genital parts in the evening in bed.—Lancinating and voluptuous itching in the glans and prepuce.— Condyloma.—Retrac- ti on of the testes with sense of formication on them. Chest.—Cough, especially by day, with difficult respi- ration.—Cough, with suspension of respiration.—Cough in the morning, with flowing coryza, and abundant expectora- tion of mucus.—Difficulty of respiration, even when seated. Limbs.—Cramp-like, pressing pains in the back.—Numb- ness in the arms and hands.—Spasmodic pressing pains in the hands and fingers.—Attacks of swelling in the joints of the hand or of the fingers, on moving these parts.—Tor- por of the fingers.—Stinging in the legs during repose.— Tension, as if from contraction of the tendons in the ham and the tendo-Achillis, on walking.—Sensation of heavi- ness and cramp-like pain in the calves of the legs, when re- maining long standing.—Shocks, which ascend along the thigh, followed by paralytic torpor of that part. ~~78—evonymusTeurop.eus. Evon.—Spindle-tree.—A medicine as yet very little known. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Stinging drawing pains.— The sufferings force one to lie down, and are then mitiga- ted, or at least change their locality.—The pains in the chit, head and abdomen are aggravated particularly after dinner — Crawling in the skin requiring the part to be scratch ed, followed by a burning sensation.—Eruption of small dry pustules.—Shivering and shuddering over the wholebody.— Precordial anxiety, as if from oppression.—Peevish and vexa- tious humour, with unfitness for exertion.—Absence of mind. Head—Abdominal Region.—Vertigo, when sitting.— Vol. I. 21 242 EVONYMUS EUROPJEUS--FERRUM. Violent and frequent lancinations in the head.—Sensation, as if a nail were driven into the side of the crown of the head.—Stupifying pressure above the arch of the eye-brows, which seems to compress the eye-balls.—Head-ache, with shiv- ering.—Tension in the teguments of the forehead, which are convulsively contracted.—Head-ache after a meal.— Obscuration of the sight as if through a cloud, with black spots before the eyes.—Buzzing in the ears.—Tearing in the (left) side of the face.—Cutting lancinations and paralytic pain in the cheek-bone.—Violent stinging in the region of the epigastrium.—Cuttings and constriction in the abdo- men, as if the abdomen were cut below the ribs.—The abdominal sufferings are aggravated after a meal. Chest—Extremities.—Inclination to breathe deeply, ex- cited by an impediment and a sensation of fulness in the chest.—Drawing, jerking and stunning stingings in the re- gion of the breasts.—The whole chest is, as it were, con- tracted.—Excoriating pain in the chest as if beaten.—Cutting lancinations below the ribs, in the right side.—Small, dry pim- ples on the chest.—The sufferings of the chest are aggra- vated after a meal.—Crawling on the left side of the back. —Stingings in the left side of the back, near the dorsal spine. —Small papulae on the back.—Acute tractions, with search- ing in the shoulders.—Paralytic pains in the fingers.—Par- alytic tractions and stingings in the region of the hips.— Paralytic pain in the knees, which hinders walking,'and im- pedes standing upright. 79.—FERRUM. Feb—Metallic iron.—Hahnemann—Duration of effect: 6 or 7 wetks in some cases of chronic disease. Antidotes : Arn. ars. bell. chin. hep. ipec. mere. pul?. veratr. It is used as an antidote against arsen. chin. tea. Compare with: Amm. ars. calc. carb-veg. cham. chin. cin. graph, hep. ipec. n-vom. puis. sep. thui. veratr. CLINICAL REMARKS.—The totality of symptoms of this remedy indicate its use for the following:—Arthritic affections; evil effects from the abuse of quinine or tea; Paralysis, even that caused by debilitating losses; Drop- sical affections; Chlorosis ; Congestion of blood and he- morrhagia, with over-excitement of the entire sanguineous system; Atrophy?; Weakness, from debilitating and uni- versal evacuations ?. ; Intermittent fevers, worse after the abuse of quinine ; Megrim ; Congestive cephalalgia ; Scrofulous ophthalmia? ; Haemorrhage of the nose ; Dys- pepsia with vomiting of food (especially in phthisical sub- jects) ; Gastralgia ; Spasmodic, flatulent and vermiculous FERRUM. 243 colic ; Lienteria ?.; Diarrhea, especially in phthisical per- sons and in children ; Ascarides ; Metrorrhagia, even after accouchment; Sterility; Abortion; Vomiting of pregnant women; Grippe; Hooping cough?; Spasmodic (and flat- ulent) asthma ? ; Convulsive cough ; Phthisis (first stage) ; Haemoptysis; Congestion of the chest, with palpitation of the heart; CSdema of the feet, in consequence of debili- tating discharges. [Under the long continued use of iron, the spleen and liver have been found smaller, harder and denser. It also occasions costiveness from a diminution of the secretions and exhalations of the intestinal mucous membrane. Car- michael considers the sanguine temperament, marked by a florid complexion, celerity of thought, remarkable irrita- bility of fibre, and a quick pulse, as depending upon an excess of iron; whereas the leucophlegmatic depends upon a deficiency of iron. It is said also to give the blood a more scarlet colour, to increase the quantity of red globules, and to render the crassamentum firmer and more solid. Cruvelhier has cured chronic splenitis, and en- largements of the spleen which have occupied half or even two thirds of the abdomen, when attended with paleness of the lips, great lassitude, pulsation in the abdo- men and head from the slightest exertion, pain in the left side, quick pulse, &c. It deserves attention in chronic neuralgia, with violent stabbing, plunging pain, aggravated by the slightest motion or touch ; in hemiorania with sur- face pale and cool, small pulse, debility, intense head-ache rendered intolerable by the least light or noise. Also in profuse flowing haemorrhoids ; in intermittent fever, with violent congestion to the head, earthy, pale, puffed up countenance, distended veins, vomiting of blood, paralytic weakness and colliquative sweats ; in florid consumption, with purulent and bloody expectoration ; in Asthma ex congestione ; in swelling of the joints, &c. Ed.] See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Violent pains, tearings and stingings, especially at night, with inclination to move the parts affected.—Varices.—Cramps and spasmodic contrac- tion of the extremities.—Dropsical swellings, with shoot- ing pains.—* Agitation of the blood and hemorrhagia.—The majority of the symptoms manifest themselves at night, are ag- gravated by being seated, and mitigated by gentle move- ment.— 'Great lassitude and general weakness, excited even by speech, often alternating with anxious trembling of the whole body.—"Emaciation.—After walking in the open air, 244 FERRUM. sickly feeling of fatigue, to the extent of fainting, with ob- scuration of the eyes and buzzing in the head.—Great desire to lie down. Skin.—Burning sensation in different parts of the skin, with pain as from excoriation when touched.— Paleness of the skin over the whole body. Sleep.—*Excessive and drowsy fatigue, with agitated sleep at night, anxious tossing, abundance of dreams, and difficulty in going to sleep again, after waking.—Lateness of falling asleep in the evening.—Eyes half open during sleep.—Inability to sleep, when lying on the side. Fever.—Frequent shiverings of short duration.—Shiv- erings in the evening with a feeling of coldness when in bed, all night.—Shiverings with violent thirst preceded or accompanied by head-ache.—Dry heat, with desire to un- cover oneself.—Agitation of blood in the day, with heat in the evening, especially in the hands.—"Fever, with conges- tion of the head, puffings round the eyes, swelling of the veins, vomiting of food, short respiration and paralytic weakness.—Copious perspiration, easily excited by the least movement during sleep .—Nocturnal perspiration of a strong smell.—Cold perspiration, with anxiety during the spasms. —Colliquative, clammy sweat. Moral Symptoms.—Anxiety with beatings in the epigastri- um.—Peevish humour, passion and inclination to cavil.— Gaiety, alternating with sadness every other day. Head.—Confusion and heaviness in the head.—Vertigo, which causes one to fall forwards, as if from the motion of a carriage, *especially on stooping, moving, &c—Dizzi- ness and vertigo, on looking at running water.—*Pressing pain in the head, especially in the fresh air.—Painful per- plexity in the head, above the root of the nose, especially in the evening.—Traction from the nape of the neck to the head, with stinging, buzzing and roaring.—* Periodical ham- mering, and pulsative head-ache, every two or three weeks, -which forces one to lie down.—Congestion of the head.— Pain in the hairy scalp, as if it were galled.—Profuse falling off of the hair, with pain when it is touched. Eyes.—Eyes confused, dull and watery, especially after slight fatigue (from writing).—Eyes red, with burning pain. —Swelling and redness of the eye-lids with a sty. Ears and Nose.—Buzzing in the ears, mitigated by supporting the head on a table.—Epistaxis, chiefly from one nostril and in the evening.—Constant accumulation of clots of blood in the nose. Face and Throat.—Earth-coloured, or *pale and wan face, ferrum. 245 with eyes sunk.—Fiery redness of the face.—Yellow or bluish spots on the face.—Small red spots on the cheek, which is pale.—Puffing of the face round the eyes.—*Lips pale.—Pressing pain in the throat, on swallowing.—Spitting of blood. Appetite.—Sweetish taste like that of blood.—*Bitter taste of food.—Absence of appetite, especially in the morn- ing, alternating with bulimia.—Dislike to food and acids. —Meat lies heavy on the stomach.—Insatiable thirst, or absence of thirst.—Solid food appears too dry.—After every meal, eructation and regurgitation of food, even of that which has been eaten with good appetite.—Vomiting after taking acids.—Pressure in the stomach and in the abdo- men, always after eating and drinking.—Beer affects the head or causes vomiting. Stomach.—Nausea, with desire to vomit during a meal. —* Vomiting of food, especially at night, or immediately after a meal, even after eating fresh eggs merely.—Sour vomiting and acid eructation.—Bitter eructation after eat- ing fat things.—*Pressure in the stomach, especially after eating meat.—Cramp-like pain in the stomach.—Pressing cramps in the stomach, every time after eating or drinking. Abdominal Region.—Inflation and hardness of the ab- domen.—Cramp-like pains in the abdomen.—Cramps in the abdominal muscles, as if the abdomen were contracted, especially on exerting oneself and on stooping.—Flatulent colic at night.—Painful heaviness in the hypograstrium on walking. Fjeces.—"Aqueous and acrid *diarrhea, -sometimes ac- companied by cramp-like pains in the abdomen, back and anus.—"Undigested feces.—Slimy faeces.—*Ascarides in the rectum.—Blind and bleeding haemorrhoids. Genital Parts.—Increase of sexual desire, with fre- quent erections and pollutions.—Flow of mucus from the urethra.—* Metrorrhagia "with over-excitement of the san- guineous system, fiery red face and copious flow of blood, at one time liquid, at another black and coagulated, accom- panied by pains in the sacral region and abdomen, similar to those of child-birth.—Catamenia feeble and of a pale blood.—Suppression of the catamenia.—Smarting during coition, and pain like that of excoriation in the vagina, with deficiency of enjoyment.—Before the catamenia, shooting pains in the head with tingling in the ears.— * Abortion.—Milk-like and acrid leucorrhcea.—Sterility. Larynx.—Hoarseness and roughness in the throat.— Tickling in the trachea, which urgently excites coughing. 21* 246 FERRUM--FERRUM CHLORATUM. —Cough, only on moving and walking.—*Purulent expec- toration with the cough.—Spasmodic cough, especially in the mornino-, with expectoration of tenacious and transparent mucus, ceasing immediately after a meal; or "dry, spasmodic cough, commencing after a meal, with vomiting of food.— Fetid, greenish expectoration of blood, especially at night, or in the morning.— Cough after a meal with vomiting of food.—On coughing, pains in the occiput, or stinging and pains as if caused by a bruise in the chest. Chest.—Difficulty of respiration, with almost imper- ceptible elevation of the chest, and strong dilation of the nostrils on breathing.—* Difficulty of respiration especially at night or in the evening, as if commencing in the epigas- trium, aggravated during repose, and relieved by intellec- tual or physical occupation.—Suffocating fits, in bed in the evening, with burning pain in the throat and the upper part of the body, and coldness of the extremities.—Constricting oppression of the chest.—Contracting spasms in the chest, aggravated by walking or movement.—Tensive lancina- tions in the chest, and extending as far as the shoulder- blades.—Congestion of the chest.—Palpitation of the heart. Trunk.—Tearing between the shoulder-blades at night.— Stingings in the shoulder-blades on moving the arms.— Stiffness of the muscles of the neck, with pain during movement.—Swelling of the glands of the neck. Arms.—*Stinging and tearing in the shoulder-joint and arm, or tractions, paralytic weakness and heaviness.—In- quietude in the arms.—Swelling and scaling of the skin of the hands.—-Cramps and torpor in the fingers. Lbgs.—Tearing with violent lancination, from the coxo- femoral joint to the tibia, aggravated in the evening in bed and during repose.—Paralytic weakness and torpor in the thighs.—*Weakness in the knees, so that they bend, with inquietude in that part.—Varices on the legs.—*Stiffness, traction and heaviness in the legs.—Swelling of the knees and of the joints of the feet.—*Swelling of the feet with drawing pain, especially on beginning to walk.—Cramps in the calves of the legs, soles of the feet and toes. 80.—FERRUM CHLORATUM. FER. CH.—Chloride of iron ; Muriate of iron. The few symptoms of this medicine, which have as yet been observed, differ in no respect from those of metallic iron ; and the use that haa been made of muri- atic iron against oedematous swelling in the feet, is a fact too isolated to afford a precise idea of the difference which exists between these two preparations of iron. ferrum magneticum. 247 81.—FERRUM MAGNETICUM. Feb. M.—Deutoxide of Iron.—Caspabi.—A medicine which as yet has not been used at all. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Some of the pains and itchings reappear every four weeks.—After travelling on foot, thirst, perspiration, lassitude and paleness.—Prickings, lancinations, crawling and itching in different parts.—Par- alytic weakness, difficulty of motion, and relaxation of the muscles.—Excessive lassitude.—Trembling in the legs and arms.—After perspiring, during a moderate walk, weakness and lassitude, which seem to proceed from the abdomen, with a trembling in the knees and hands.—Fatigue from taking the slightest exercise. Skin.—Itching and crawling in different parts, especial- ly in the evening, mitigated by scratching, but appearing in other parts.—Red spots, sometimes of a bright or bluish red ; some disappear from pressure.—Small warts on the hands. Sleep.—Strong and noisy yawnings, with accumulation of water in the mouth.—Desire to sleep, with immediate sleep, as soon as one lies down, or even when seated.—Absurd dreams at night, and waking towards three o'clock in the morning, with perspiration and heat.—Dreams as soon as one lies down, waking with a start and coldness, which causes shivering.—Desire to remain lying down in the morning.—After rising, weakness in the knees.—Sleep unrefreshing, with pressure on the eyes, perplexity in the head, flaccidity of the skin of the face and lassitude in the arms. Fever.—Shivering and coldness in the side on which one has not lain.—After a walk, heat with weakness, pro- ceeding from the stomach, tremor, vertigo, paleness, and inclination to lie down.—Heat, as if a catarrh were devel- oping itself, with lassitude and down-cast eyes.—Internal heat, with perspiration and slow pulse, after washing the body.—Pulse slow and small.—Perspiration from the slight- est exercise.—Sweat in the morning, especially on the body and occiput.—Sweat of an acrid swell, as in measles. Moral Symptoms.—Indecision and long reflection before undertaking any thing.—Indolence, slowness of movement. —Self-sufficiency and importance of manner.—Irascibility. Head.—Pulsating head-ache by fits.—Circumscribed head-ache, especially in the morning, generally on the rio-ht side.—Head-ache on stooping, moving the arms, and going up stairs.—Head-ache, suddenly attacking the eyes and nose, as if one were going to weep or to sneeze.-— Itchiii"- in the hairy scalp.—Eruption of small, painful pirn- 248 ferrum magneticum. pies on the hairy scalp.—Small scabs on the head.—Falling off of the hair. Eyes.—Obscurity before the right eye, which causes it to wink.—Variegated areola, around the light.—Pressing pain on the eye-lid, which impedes the sight.—Swelling of the lower lid.—Pricking, itching in the canthi.—Painful sensibility of the lachrymal caruncules with profuse lach- rymation. Ears and Nose.—Tension in the ears and pharynx, du- ring deglutition.—Itching, binding, and cold lancinations in the auditory duct.—Tingling in the ears.—Sneezing, with stoppage of one nostril and catarrh. Face and Teeth.—Face dejected, with general heat, followed by redness of the face.—Heat of the face.— Itching and crawling in the face and on the lips.—Eruptions on the forehead, in the eye-brows, at the root of the nose, on the cheeks, the lips and the chin.—Bleeding of the gums, when slightly pressed upon.—Teeth easily broken. —Painful sensibility of the teeth during mastication. Mouth and Throat.—Accumulation of water and saliva in the mouth.—Itching sensation in and behind the palate. —Bitter and rancid taste in the pharynx, on hawking.— Sensation as if mucus were adhering to the uvula.—Lan- cinations in the throat.—Pressure in the oesophagus, as if one had swallowed too much at a time. Stomach.—Flatulency during a meal, rolling and rum- bling in the abdomen.—After a meal, taciturnity, lassitude, heat, expulsion of wind, pains in the region of the stomach, with anguish, pains in the epigastrium, especially when breathing, urgent desire to go to stool and diarrhoea.—In- effectual eructations.—Nausea. Abdominal Region.—Uneasiness in the abdomen.—The abdominal sufferings are felt more particularly in the left side. —Rolling, grumbling, borborygmi and whistling in the ab- domen, with expulsion of wind, and urgent want to go to stool and to make water ; the movements in the abdomen are accompanied by pulling along the legs as far as the toes.—The flatulency seems to proceed from one and the same place, in the left side of the abdomen.— Very abun- dant and frequent emission of fetid wind. FiECES.—Urgent want to go to stool, with expulsion of wind only.—Loose evacuations, with much flatulency, and sometimes with excrements of a fetid smell, physical de- pression and paleness of face.—On expelling wind, there escapes a small liquid evacuation.—Itching and stinging in the anus.—Crawling and itching in the rectum. FILIX MAS--FRAGARIA VESCA. 249 Urine.—Abundant, red urine, which changes to a clay colour, after having stood for some time.—Itching and lancination in the scrotum and extremity of the glans penis.—Increase of sexual desire, with and without erec- tion ; or absence of all sexual desire, yet without impo- tence. Larynx and Chest.—Frequent hawking of mucus.— Dry cough, after dinner, proceeding from an irritation in the trachea, as if one had swallowed dust.—Tearing and lancination in the left side of the chest only when breath- ing.—Sensation of emptiness in the chest.—On drawing up the chest and throwing back the right arm, the heart beats violently and with repeated throbs.—In the morning, pain in the nape of the neck, as if from having lain in a false position. Arms.—Cramp-like or paralytic pulling, or jerking pull- ing in the fore-arms and hands.—Pain, as from dislocation in the wrist.—Paralytic pulling in the right arm.—Prick- ings, especially in the phalanges and ends of the fingers. —Spots, like ephelides, on the hands and fingers.—Small warts on the back of the hands and wrist.—Pulsation at the end of the thumb.—Panaritum.—Dryness and tension in the hands. Legs.—Tensive pressure in the hip-joint, from drawing back the leg, at night and in the morning ; the pain is dis- persed by lying on that part, but returns when the position is changed.—Acute lancinations in the knee.—In the morning spasms and contraction in the calf of the leg.— Painful tightness on the internal surface of the knee, espe- cially on bending it, after extending the leg, and only while walking in the open air.—In the evening, in bed, sharp pains in a part of the foot, with great tenderness to touch or when the foot is bent upwards.—Ganglion on the back of the foot.—Creeping and pricking in the heels.—Tick- ling in the soles of the feet.—The little toe is painful, as if it were strongly compressed. 82.—FILTx~MAST~ FIL—Male fern.—A medicine as yet entirely unknown, but which has been recommended against suferings in consequence oftmnia, as well as against some kinds of worm-fever, and of sterility. [Hufeland maintains, that in rapidity, certainly and gentleness of action, it exceeds all known means for the destruction of taenia. Ed] 83.—FRAGARIA~VESCAr~ FRAG.—Strawberry plant.—A medicine a3 yet entirely unknown in its primitive effects, which has however been employed with success against sufferings in consequence of tcenia. 250 grannatum. 84.—GRANNATUM. GRAN.—Bark, from the root of the Pomegranate tree-—Bibliotheque de Geneve. Compare with : Ars. chin, iod., &c. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Guided by the totality of symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be used will be found to be :—Poisoning from arsenic ; Faintness, syncope and lipothymy ; Suppuration of the internal or- gans, especially of the liver ; Inflammatory swellings; Wounds ; Ulcers ; Chilblains ; Tertian, gastric, bilious and typhus fever; Ophthalmia; Specks on the cornea?.; Lip- pitude ; Ulceration of the ear; Epistaxis ; Softening and bleeding of the gums; Stomacace ; Odontalgia; Breaking of the teeth ; Ulcers in the mouth ; Serous and catarrhal angina : Amygdalitis, with ulceration ; Disgust and vom- iting; Gastralgia ; Diarrhoea and dysentery ; Serous diar- rhoea ; Cholera; Prolapsus of the rectum ; Prolapsus uteri et vaginae; Leucorrhcea ; Catarrhal cough ; Hoarseness ; Pleuritis ; Haemoptysis ; Palpitation of the heart, &c, &c. (All affections against which ancient practice has recom- mended this medicine.) ILT See note, page 1. GEXERAL SYMPTOMS.—Great lassitude and fa- tigue, especially in the legs, sometimes with inability to re- main standing and desire to lie down.—Drowsy lassitude with head-ache, as if after a nocturnal debauch.—Great de- jection and prostration, sometimes with burning heat in the hands.—Tremor of the limbs.—Relaxation and flaccid- ity of the muscles, especially in the lower extremities.— Emaciatiou.—Yawnings, sometimes convulsive, and fre- quent stretchings.—Agitated sleep, with frequent dreams, cries and tossing.—Partial and one sided shudderings, sometimes with pain in one-side of the head.—Dry burn- ing heat over the whole body, with desire to be uncovered.— The shudderings and shiverings commonly take place in the morning ; the heat manifests itself in the evening.— Perspiration on the least movement.—Great sensibility and disposition to be affected.—Irritability and arrogance.— Penurious and quarrelsome humour.—Hypochondriacal scruples.—Melancholy, gloomy humour, dejection and dis- couragement.—Stupefaction and intellectual embarrass- ment. Head.—Vertigo, especially during intellectual labour, or in the morning on rising, and sometimes with obscura- tion of the eyes, or with nausea and stomach-ache.—Sen- sation of emptiness in the head.—Stupifying pain, and pain- grannatum. 251 ful heaviness in the head, especially in the forehead.— Pressure on the forehead and occiput.—Acute drawing pains, chiefly on the right side of the head.—Stinging in the forehead.—Pustules on the forehead and temples, with pain as from excoriation, leaving small tubercles after drying up. Eyes—Ears—Nose. — Eyes, sunken and surrounded by a livid circle.—Itchings and burning smartings in the corners of the eyes.—Dryness and smarting in the eyes. —Yellowish tint of the sclerotica.—Inflammation of the eyes, as in^ coryza.—Dilated pupils.—Convulsive move- ments of the eyelids.—Obscuration of vision.—Weak sight. -—Cramp-like squeezing, acute drawing pains and stinging in the ears.—Tingling and buzzing in the ears.—Burning and dryness of the nostrils, or an accumulation of tena- cious mucus.—Crawling itching in the nose.—Coryza, alternately dry and fluent. Face— Teeth. — Complexion sickly, yellowish and earth-coloured.—Burning heat in the face, sometimes tran- sient.—Gnawing itching in the face, and especially in the cheeks.—Swelling of the cheek, with livid colour, burning heat, itching, tension and crawling, like chilblains.— Squeezing and acute drawing pains in the face, cheek- bones and root of the nose, often on one side only.—Dry- ness and burning sensation in the lips.—Acute drawing pain, tension and squeezing in the maxillary joints, and spitting during mastication.—Stinging pains in the teeth, even at night, in bed.—The teeth seem to be elongated.— "Gums fissured, and easily bleeding. Mouth and Throat.—Excessive accumulation of saliva, sometimes of a sweetish taste in the mouth.—Tongue moist and white.—Excessive spitting of mucus.—Sensa- tion of constriction in different parts of the mouth and gullet.—Contraction of the gullet. Appetite.—Great variableness of taste ; taste alter- nately delicate and dull.—Appetite alternately diminished and increased.—Extraordinary hunger and voracity, even after meals.—Great variableness of appetite ; desire for dif- ferent things, and especially for coffee, fruits, and succu- lent and acid food.—Thirst, with desire to drink water.— Liquid food and potatoes cause nausea and eructations. Stomach.—Frequent and noisy eructations of air.—Fre- quent nausea, sometimes with lassitude, flow of water in the mouth, pain in the abdomen and stomach, frequent desire to go to stool without any result, shivering, bad looks and ill-humour. — Vomitings, even at night, and sometimes with lassitude, 252 grannatum. trembling, perspiration, or vertigo.—Troublesome pressure, fulness, burning sensation, and anxiety in the precordial region.—Cramps in the stomach, when fasting in the morning. Abdominal Region.—Pains in the abdomen, frequent and long continued, sometimes with nausea, flow of water in the mouth, shiverings and prostration, or with vertigo.— Pains in the abdomen after every meal, or when fasting in the morning.—Pains in the abdomen, mitigated by external heat and by lying down, as well as by drinking cold water. —Pinching, stinging and rolling round the navel, and in the stomach.—Anxiety in the abdomen.—Painful inflation of the abdomen, sometimes with canine appetite.—Frequent production and evacuation of flatulency.—Swelling of the navel, as if from umbilical hernia.—Fermentation in the ab- domen.—Traction in the abdomen, as if preparatory to an evacuation.—Painful pressure and swelling in the groins, as if a hernia were about to appear. F^ces.—Several evacuations during the day.—Copious evacuations of a very dark colour.—Diarrhea, with fre- quent evacuations, and evacuation of faecal matter and mu- cus.—Before the loose evacuations, nausea and fermenta- tion in the abdomen ; during the evacuations, burning heat in the face and pressure on the rectum; afterwards burn- ing heat in the rectum.—Tenesmus, with rolling and fer- mentation in the abdomen.—Prolapsus of the rectum during the evacuations.—Insupportable itching and titillation of the rectum.—Burning itching, in the buttocks and perinaeum, scrotum, and hair-covered parts of the genital organs, and especially in the thigh.—Stinging in the anus and rectum. Urine and Genital Parts.—Cutting, stinging and gnawing pains in the urethra.—Inflammation and swelling of the urethra.—Mucus running from the urethra, as in a gonorrhoea, with burning traction in the cavernous parts, as far as the glans.—Excitement of sexual desire.—Cata- menia premature and too copious, and accompanied by colic and pressure extending from the sacral region to the groins.—Yellowish leucorrhcea. Chest.—Sensation of anxiety in the chest, and groaning. —Great oppression of the chest, with lassitude in the legs.—Pressure on the chest and across the sternum.— Rheumatic pains, stinging and drawing in the diaphrao-m. -Stingings in the chest, especially when walking.—Tension and painful squeezing in the ribs.—Palpitations of the heart sometimes on the least movement.—Pains and cramp-like contractions in the muscles of the chest. grannatum—graphites. 253 Trunk and Members.—Frequent bruising pains as from a heavy weight between and on the shoulders and the loins.— Traction, rheumatic pains, crawling, and sensation of par- alysis in the arms, with difficulty in raising them.—Rheumatic pains in the joints of the hands and fingers, as well as in the fore-arms.—Painful and paralytic stiffness of the fingers. —Swelling of the ball of the thumbs, with livid colour, burning heat and marbled swelling of the veins.—Gnawing and insupportable itching in the palm and back of the hands. —Sensation of stiffness in the hips as if from sciatica.— Acute drawing pain, paralytic pulling, heaviness and sting- ings in the knee.—Pain as if from a sprain in the instep.— Painful corns on the feet. 85.—GRAPHITES. Gbaph.—Plumbago.—Hahnemann.—Duration of effect: 50 days in some cases of chronic disease. Antidotes : Ars. n-vom- vinum. It is used as an antidote against: ars. Compare with : Aeon- agar- amb. ainm.' ars- bell. bry. calc- carb-v. chain. chin. con. guai- hep. hyos. kal. lye magn. magn-m. n-vom. phos. puis. rhus. sabia. sep. sil. sulph. graph, when otherwise indicated, is partic- ularly suitable after lye CLINICAL REMARKS.—Guided by the totality of symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be em- ployed, appear to be :—Arthritic affections, even with nodosities; Obstruction and induration of the glands; Ex- coriations of the skin ; Scrofulous affections; Phlegmo- nous and vesicular erysipelas ; Zona ; Tetters of several kinds, especially on the face, and in women who have scanty ca- tamenia; Inveterate ulcers; Encystic tumours (wens); Gloomy melancholy ; Scaldhead ; Megrim; Ophthalmia of different kinds ; Hardness of hearing, and buzzing in the ears from congestion of blood ; Erysipelas in the face /Par- alysis of the face ; Dyspepsia, even with vomiting of food; Gastralgia; Flatulent colic ; Scrofulous buboes?; Tenia; Constipation or chronic diarrhoea; Hemorrhoidal sufferings ; Hydrocele; Induration of the testes ; Impotence ?; Satyria- sis?; Dysmenorrhea, especially that proceeding from stagna- tion in the vena portae system ; Amenorrhoea ; Excoriation of the breasts; Excoriations in children ; Spasmodic asthma ? ; Suffocating catarrh ; Deformity of the nails. [The use of Graphite in skin-diseases, is said to have been suggested by the fact, that in Venice, the makers of crayons are speedily cured of any such affections which they may happen to have. It deserves attention in Herpes exedens ; in violent congestions to the head from irregu- larity of menstruation or haemorrhoids; in dry, crusty tinea Vol. I. 22 254 graphites. capitis ; in chronic predisposition to flatulence ; haemor- rhoids of the neck of the bladder ; sterility from deficient catamenia ; in affections of the lungs from the suppression of herpetic eruptions ; in asthma from suppression of itch, &c.; also in enlargement of the ovaries, &c. Ed.] (SCr See note, page I. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—^Cramp-like pains, cramps and contractions in different parts.—Tension in some parts, as if from contraction of the tendons.—Jerking and distor- tion of the limbs.—*Arthritic pullings and tearing in the extremities and joints, especially in ulcerated parts.— "Arthritic nodosities.—Disposition to feel pain, as if from fatigue in the back.—*Limbs becoming easily benumbed.— Stiffness and complete inflexibility of the joints.—Hard swellings with shooting pains.—Nocturnal pains, which are felt even during sleep.—The symptoms disappear after a walk in the open air.—Varices, with shootings, tension and itching.—Swelling and hardness of the glands.—Pains from changes of weather.—General uneasiness, which forces one to groan without any sensation of distinct pain. — Violent pulsation in the whole body, and especially of the heart, augmented by the least movement.—Pulling in the whole body, with inclination to extend the limbs.—Sensa- tion of trembling in the whole body, with twitching in the limbs.—*Great emaciation.—Great disposition to take cold, and fear of the open air and of currents of air.—General lassitude.—Rapid failure of strength. Skin.—Obstinate dryness of the skin, and absence of per- spiration.—Ephelides.—Red spots on the skin, like flea- bites.—*Erysipelatous inflammations.—"Vesicular erysipe- las, and like zona, on the abdomen and on the back.—Tet- ters, and other humid or scabby eruptions, sometimes with secretion of corrosive serum, or with itching in the even- ing and at night.—"Encysted tumours.—Gnawing blisters.— * Excoriation of the skin, especially in children.—^Unhealthy skin, every injury tends to ulceration.—Proud flesh and fetid pus in ulcers, with tearing pains, burning and stinging.— * Deformity and thickness of the nails. Sleep.—Great desire to sleep during the day, and early in the evening.—*Difficulty in going to sleep.—Agitated sleep at night, with frequent waking.—Nocturnal sleep in- complete, as if only dozing.—Sleep not refreshing at night, and followed in the morning by a comatose sleep.—At night profusion of ideas, sometimes troublesome —*Great agita- tion at night, with anxious and frightful dreams, oppression and choking.—*During sleep, starts with fright.—Dreams graphites. 255 of death and of fire ; dreams and reflections.—At night troublesome ideas, anguish, heat, inquietude, jerkings, gastric sufferings, and many other inconveniences. Fever.—Chills morning and evening, with or without heat, and followed by perspiration.—Perspiration, often very fetid, from the least movement or fatigue, even from speaking.—Nocturnal sweat, sometimes fetid. Moral Symptoms.—Dejection, sadness and profound sorrow, with discouragement and much weeping.—Agitation, oppression of the heart, and anguish, as if dying, or like fear of a calamity, often with head-ache, vertigo, nausea, and perspiration.—*Anxious agitation, sometimes when seated at work, or at night, with desire to quit the bed.— *Agitation and inquietude in the morning.—Timid charac- ter.—Slow decision and hesitation.—Too great liability to impressions.—Disposition to be frightened.—Irascibility. —*Dread of exertion.—Distraction.—Misapplying words, and miswriting. Head.— Fatigue in consequence of intellectual labour. —Sensation of torpor in the head.—* Intoxication and ver- tigo, especially in the morning on rising ; as well as in the evening, with desire to lie down.—*Perplexity in the head. —Attacks of head-ache sometimes affect one side, with nausea and acid vomiting.— Violent head-ache in the morning driving out cold perspiration, and causing syncope.—Head- ache from the motion of a carriage, as well as on moving the head, or during and after a meal.—Head-ache on the side on which one has lain.—Tension and pressing constric- tion in the occiput, with stiffness of the nape of the neck.— Embarrassment and contraction in the forehead.—Com- pressive pain in the vertex in the afternoon, with rolling in the head.—Agitation of blood, with beating and buzzing in the head.—Tearing and drawing in the hairy scalp, "teeth, and glands of the neck.—^Itching in the hairy scalp.—* Hu- mid scales on the head.—*Sweat on the head, while walking in the open air.—Abundant desquamation of the hairy- scalp.—^Falling off of the hair, even on the sides of the head. —*The hair turns gray. Eves.—Eyelids heavy and sinking, as if paralyzed.— *Pressure on the eyes and eyelids, as if sand had been intro- duced into them.—Stinging in the eyes.—Heat and burning sensation in the eyes, especially from candle-light—^In- flammation of the eyes, with redness of the sclerotica, injec- tion of the veins, swelling and abundant mucous secretion from the eyelids.—Hordeolum, with drawing pain.—Dry blearedness in the eyelids and in the eyelashes.—*Agglu- 256 graphites. tino natiof the eyelids and lachrymation.—"Obscuration of the sio-ht on stooping.—*Myopia.—Confusion of letters when reading.—'Sparkling before the eyes.—Photophobia, especially by day. Ears.—Stinging and beating in the ears.—"Dryness of the internal ear.—"Fetid smell and discharge ~of blood *and of pus from the ears.—*Scabs, tetters, running and excori- ation behind the ears.—*Hardness of hearing, "mitigated by the motion of a carriage.—*Singing, tingling, buzzing, and rolling, like that of thunder in the ears.—Buzzing in the ears at night.—Sensation, as if the air were ingulfed in the eustachian tube.—"Whistling in the ears. Nose.—Swelling of the nose.—Sensation of tension in the interior of the nose.—Black pores on the nose.—* Dry scabs on the nose.—Nostrils excoriated, cracked and ulcerated.— ** Fetid smell from the nose.—Blood discharged when the nose is blown, and epistaxis, especially in the evening and at night, with congestion to the head and heat in the face.—Discharge of fetid pus from the nose.—Acuteness of smell.—*Stoppage and troublesome dryness of the nose. —"Quotidian coryza after being chilled.—*Dry coryza, with head-ache and nausea, which forces one to lie down.— Flow of mucus from the raose,^liquid, or yellowish, or thick, -with putrid smell.—Flowing coryza, with catarrh. Face.—Pale yellow complexion, with livid circle under the eyes.—Flushes of heat in the face.—Erysipelatous in- flammation and swelling of the face, with eruption of vesi- cles.—Encysted tumour on the cheek.—Constant sensation as if the face were covered with cobweb.—* One-sided par- alysis and distortion of the muscles of the face, with difficult articulation.—Drawing and tearing pains in the bones of the face.—^Eruption on the face, with appearance, as if the skin were raw.—Scabs and moist efflorescence on the face.—"Ephelis.—"Falling off of the beard.—* Ulcers on the internal surface of the lips.—*Fissures in the ulcerated lips. —Cracked lips.—Scabby eruption on the chin and round the mouth.—"Painful nodosities on the lower jaw.—Swelling and hardness of the submaxillary glands. Teeth.—Tooth-ache at night, or in the evening in bed, aggravated by heat, and sometimes with heat of the face and swelling of the cheek.—Pains in the molares, on clo- sing the jaws.—*Lancinating and drawing tooth-ache, es- pecially after drinking any thing cold.—Pain, as from exco- riation in the teeth and gums, during and especially after a meal.—*Easy bleeding and swelling of the gums.—Dis- charge of black and sour blood from the teeth. graphites. 257 Mouth.—Dryness of the mouth in the morning.—Putrid and urine-like smell from the mouth, gums and nose.— Pain, as from excoriation, vesicles and ulcers on the tongue. Profuse salivation and accumulation of mucus in the palate and throat.—Speech impeded by paralysis of the muscles. Throat.—Almost constant sore throat when swallow- ing, generally lancinating, with sensations of strangulation. ~—*Sore throat, even at night, as if there were a plug within it, or as if the food had stopped there.—Cramps in the throat, with strangulation.—Roughness and scraping in the throat. Appetite.—Bitter or acid taste, with sourness in the mouth and throat.—Great thirst in the morning, and after a meal.—Immoderate hunger.—^Repugnance to cooked food and meat; as also to any thing saline or saccharine,— *Weakness of digestion, with desire to sleep, head-ache, pains in the stomach, fulness, and inflation of the abdomen after a meal. Stomach.—Frequent and sometimes abortive eructations. —Sour eructations, with bitterness in the mouth.—Sour regurgitation of food.—Bitter and green regurgitations.— Frequent hiccough, especially after a meal.—* Nausea, especially in the morning, or after every meal, with inclina- tion to vomit.—Water-brash at night.—*Obstinate vomiting of food.—Vomiting after the slightest loathing, with great nausea and pinching in the abdomen.—Inclinationto vomit mucus.—Acid vomitings.—Pressure in the stomach, some- times with vomiting, mitigated by a recumbent position, and by the heat of the bed.—Cramp-like pains, or squeezing as if from claws, in the stomach.—At night, pinching in the stomach, with rooting in the chest.—Burning pain in the stomach, which compels one to eat. Abdominal Region.—In the hypochondria tension, stinging and beating.—Hepatic pains after breakfast, which render it necessary to lie down.—Fulness and heaviness in the abdomen.—*Abdomen enlarged, tight, inflated.—'Hard- ness of the abdomen.—Nocturnal, cramp-like pain in all the intestines, with deficient secretion of urine.—Incarce- ration and accumulation of wind in the abdomen.—*Im- moderate expulsion of fetid wind, preceded by pinchings.— •Painful sensibility of the inguinal region.—Painful swell- ing of the inguinal glands.— Erysipelatous inflammation, with large vesicles near the navel. Faeces.—Obstinate constipation, with hard feces, and hardness in the hepatic region.—Faeces hard, knotty, of too great a size, and *insufficient.—*Feces too soft.—Sourish 22* 258 graphites. putrid-smelling, or sanguinolent, slimy stools.—Diarrhoea, with tightness in the abdomen.—Faeces of a very small size, like worms.—Lumbrici and ascarides.— Taenia.— Itching, sensation of excoriation, and swelling of the anus. —Large hemorrhoidal excrescences in the anus, with pain as from excoriation, especially after evacuation.—"Painful and burning cracks, between the haemorrhoidal tumours. Urine.—Urgent, anxious and painful desire to make water, with a discharge drop by drop.—Scanty secretion of deep-coloured urine, soon becoming turbid, with white or reddish sediment.—Urine of an acrid, acid smell.— Stream of water small, as if from contraction of the ure- thra.—Involuntary discharge of urine.—^Nocturnal dis- charge of urine.—Wetting the bed.—Pain in the coccyx when urinating. Genital Organs.—Tension and cramp-like pains in the genital parts, with troublesome voluptuous ideas.—Erup- tion of pimples on the prepuce and penis.—Dropsical swelling of the prepuce.—Dropsical swelling of the testes. —Voluptuous irritation in the genital parts.—*Indiflerence or excessive excitement of sexual desire.—Absence of erec- tions in the morning.—Emission of semen, almost involun- tary, without erection.—Absence of emission of semen during coition.—*Too feeble enjoyment during coition.— Flatulent colic during the excitement in the genital parts. Catamenia.—Vesicles and pimples on the vulva.—Ex- coriation on the vulva and between the thighs.—Painful swelling of the ovaria.—Sensation, as if every thing were forced towards the genital parts.-^* Catamenia too slow, scan- ty, and pale.—*Suppression of catamenia.—Cuttings in the abdomen on the appearance of the catamenia.—During the catamenia, flow of blood from the anus, pains in the limbs, ulcers aggravated, swelling of the cheeks or of the feet, catarrh with hoarseness and coryza, tooth-ache, or cramps and violent cuttings in the abdomen, head-ache, nausea, pain in the chest and weakness.—*Leucorrhoea, white and liquid like water, with tension of the abdomen.— "Leucorrhcea, before and after the catamenia.—Painful sen- sibility and excoriation of the breasts, -with eruption of run- ning phlyctaenae.—Obstruction and induration of the mam- miliary glands. Larynx.—Sensibility of the larynx.—Catarrhal rough- ness and hoarseness, with sensation of excoriation, burn- ing pain and scraping in the throat, coryza and obstruction in the chest.— Voice false (for singing).—Accumulation of 6limy matter in the chest.—Cough produced by roughness graphites. 259 of the throat.—* Cough at night, -or in the evening in bed, ex- cited by taking a full inspiration, with oppression of the chest. Chest.—*Difficulty of respiration and oppression on the chest.—*Nocturnal attacks of suffocation, on going to sleep, or on walking in the open air.—Wheezing respira- tion.—Pain in the chest on ascending, riding on horse back, yawning, or putting the hand on the chest.—Pressing, cramp-like pain in the chest.—"Spasms in the chest.— Stinging in the chest on the least motion.—Palpitation of the heart on the least motion. Trunk.—Bruising pains in the loins, or violent achings in the loins, like squeezing from claws, or like pain from fatigue.—Contracting pain in the back.—Sensation of crawl- ing in the back.—Stiffness in the nape of the neck.—* Vio- lent tearing and cutting pain in the nape of the neck and shoulders from stooping the head or raising the arms.— Vesicles on the neck.—*Swelling of the glands of the neck.—Tearing in the glands of the neck. Arms.—Tearing and lancinations in the shoulders.— Sensation of contraction in the elbow-joint, on extending the arms.—*Cramp and tearing in the hands.—emaciation of the hands.—Erysipelas, callosities, dry skin and cracks in the hands.—Pain, as from dislocation in the joint of the thumb.—Swelling and inflexibility, stiffness and distortion of the fingers.—Granular eruption and gnawing vesicles on the fingers.—* Arthritic nodosities on the fingers.—Tet- tery excoriation between thefingers.—Thickness of the nails of the fingers. Legs.—Heaviness, lassitude and numbness of the legs in the open air.—*Excoriation between the legs.—Arthritic tearing in the hip-joint, feet and toes.—*Inquietude in the legs.—*Tetters on the thighs, hams and tibia.—Sensation of contraction in the tendons of the hams and in the tendo- Achillis.—Tension in the varices on extending the legs.— Stiffness and want of flexibility in the knee, which does not allow one to sit down.—Cramps and jerking of the mus- cles of the calves of the legs.—Congestion to the legs and feet, when standing upright.—*Ulcers in the legs.— *Swelling of the legs and feet, with hardness and stinging pain.-—Stiffness of the instep.—Stinging pain, like that of an ulcer, in the heel and soles of the feet, on rising from the sitting posture.—*Cold feet, even in the evening in bed. — 'Burning hot feet.—Fetid sweat of the feet.—*Swelling and distortion of the toes.—*Callous skin, gnawing blisters and ulcers on the toes.—Tettery excoriation between the toes. —*Thickness and deformity of the toe-nails. 260 gratiola officinalis. 86.—GRATIOLA OFFICINALIS. GRAT.—Hedge hyssop.—Hartlaub and Thinks.—A medicine as yet little known and which has hitherto been only used against Hypo- chondriacal affections, some cases of Gastralgia, and some kinds of constipation. [It deserves attention in Nymphomania; catalepsy; itch-like and moist eruptions; paralytic rheumatism of the face; in chronic,and obstinate constipation from disease of the liver, &c. &c. Ed.] GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Tearing in the limbs — Tetanus, with full consciousness.—The majority of symptoms appear at night, or when sitting and after rising from sit- ting, or in the open air ; touch ameliorates them.—Itching, with burning sensation after scratching.—Running and acrid eruptions, which resemble scabies.—Great desire to sleep, with frequent yawnings and desire to lie down, espe- cially in the afternoon.—Great tendency to chilliness.— Hypochondriacal moroseness and ill-humour.—Hysterical ca- prices.—Anxiety.—Grave disposition and concentration in oneself.—Great loquacity and gaiety. Head.—Vertigo, on shutting the eyes—Vertigo when reading and when seated, as if the head were waving backwards and forwards.—Head-ache with desire to vomit and sleep.—Sensation of fulness in the head.—Pressive head-ache, especially in the forehead and occiput.—Lanci- nating and pulsating head-ache.—Sensation, as if the head were grown smaller, as from contraction of the brain.— Vibration in the head, with vanishing of sight and hearing. —The head-ache is aggravated when rising from sitting, during motion, and while walking in the open air. Eyes and Teeth.—Itching, quivering and sensation of weakness in the eye-lids.—Burning pain and pressure on the eyes.—Eyes watery and weak when reading.—Myopia when reading.—Tearing and stinging in the ears.—Fre- quent sneezings, with stinging in the left side of the chest and hypochondria.—Stoppage of the nose.—Tension, crawl- ing, and sensation of swelling of the face.—Tearing on one side of the face.—Burning heat and redness of the face.— Nocturnal tearing or piercing in the molares.-—Sensation of coldness in the teeth. Mouth and Throat.—Accumulation of much saliva in the mouth.—Pressure in the throat, as if from thick mucus. —Accumulation of mucus in the throat.—Creeping, rouo-h- ness and scraping in the throat.-—Mouth bitter, or clammy. —Fetid breath, in the morning after waking. Stomach.—Bitter or sweetish eructations.—Ineffectual efforts at eructation, with pressure extending from the stomach to the throat, which suspends respiration.—Re- gurgitation of bitter water.—Hunger, sometimes with dis- GRATIOLA OFFICINALIS--GUAIACUM OFFICINALE. 261 gust and horror of all food.—Increased thirst.—Constant nausea, with inclination to vomit.—Nausea, with coldness in the abdomen.—Vomiting with stoppage of the nose.— Bilious vomiting, or vomiting of sour or bitter substances. —Uneasiness and sensation of fulness in the stomach.— —^Pressure in the stomach after a meal, with nausea.— Searching and digging in the stomach with inclination to vomit.—Pressure in the epigastrium after a meal, as if from a stone.—The sufferings of the stomach and of the epigastrium are often accompanied by nausea, or ineffectual efforts to eructate. Abdominal Region.—Stinging pains in the abdomen.— Beating in the left hypochondrium.—Pressing pain in the ab- domen with inclination to vomit.—Pains in the abdomen with pinchings, which compel one to bend double.—Infla- tion in the abdomen from flatulency.—Flatulent and press- ing colic, with nausea and disagreeable eructations. Fjeces.—Urgent and fruitless desire to go to stool.— * Constipation.—Feces, hard, scanty and tenacious, expelled with great effort.—Nocturnal slimy diarrhoea, with tenes- mus.—Pain, as from excoriation in the rectum.—Burning pain in the rectum during and after the evacuation.—Sting- ing, itching, smarting and beating in the anus.—Blind haemorrhoids. Urine and Genital Parts.—Diminished secretion of urine.—Reddish urine, which becomes turbid after stand- ing, and deposits cloudy sediment.—Stinging, extending from the spermatic cord to the chest.—Painful rigidity of the penis after pollutions.—Catamenia premature and of too long duration.—Stinging in the breast. Chest and Extremities.—Dry cough, excited by a sen- sation of roughness in the chest, especially in the morn- ing or at night.—Nocturnal cough, with pain as from exco- riation in the trachea, oppression of the chest and shiver- ing.—Choking, when ascending.—Oppression of the chest, with palpitation of the heart.—Pressure on the chest.— Stinging in the sides of the chest, on breathing.—Pimples on the chest, which burn after being scratched.—Palpita- tion of the heart.—Stinging in the legs and feet. 87.—GUAIACUM OFFICINALE. GUAI—Resin of Guaiacum.—Hahnemann.— Duration of effect: for 20 days in chronic affections. Compare with : Graph, mere, n-vom. CLINICAL REMARKS.—If guided by the totality of symptoms, the cases against which this medicine may be 262 GUAIACUM OFFICINALE. used, appear to be :—Rheumatic and arthritic affections ; Arthritic contraction of the limbs ; Aneurism ? ; Evil effect from the abuse of mercury ; Megrim ; Chronic pneumonia (Pulmonary phthisis ?), &c. O^T" See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Rheumatic pains in the joints.—* Arthritic pains in the limbs with stinging and tear- ing, and "contraction of the parts affected.—*The pains are excited by the least movement, and accompanied by heat in the parts affected.—Numbness of the limbs.—Pain as from fatigue aud weakness in the arms and thighs, with dread of moving.—Frequent inclination to yawn and to stretch the limbs, proceeding from a sensation of gen- eral uneasiness.—The majority of symptoms show them- selves, when sitting, as well as in the morning after rising, or in the evening before lying down.—Exostosis.—Consump- tion. Sleep.—Great desire to sleep in the afternoon.—Late sleeping and early waking.—Frequent waking with fright, sometimes on going to sleep.—Restless tossing during the night.—Nightmare, when lying on the back.—Unrefreshed feeling in the morning. Fever.—Shivering, chilliness, and shuddering, even when near a fire.—Shivering, without thirst, morning and evening.—Sweat in the morning.—Copious perspiration, especially on the head, when walking in the open air.— Accelerated pulse. Moral Symptoms, &c.—Obstinacy.—Great desire to criticize and to despise every thing.—Indolence and dread of moving.—Weakness of memory and excessive forgetful- ness, especially of names.—Fixed look and absence of ideas, especially in the morning. Head.—Tight and painful pressure, or traction and tearing in the sinciput and temples.—Violent and extended lancination in the brain.—^Tearing in one side of the head only, extending as far as the cheek.—Pulsation, beating (and stinging) in the temples, with sensation, as if the head were swollen, and the blood-vessels obstructed. Eyes—Face.—Sensation of swelling or *actual swelling of the eye-lids, -with sensation of protrusion of the eyes, and as if the eye-lids were too short.—Dilated pupils.— Amaurosis.—Pimples in the eye-brows.—Tearing and *cramping in the ears.—Stinging in the bones and muscles of the cheeks. Teeth—Appetite.—Pressing pain in the teeth, on closing them together.—Traction and tearing in the teeth, GUAIACUM OFFICINALE—H^MATOXYLUM CAMPECHIANUM. 263 terminating in stinging.—Burning pain in the throat.—In- sipid taste, with absence of appetite, and disgust for every thing, accompanied by expectoration of mucus.—Empty eructations.—Immoderate hunger.—"Nausea, excited by a sensation as if the throat were filled with slimy matter.— "Repugnance to milk. Stomach—Urine.—Anxious sensation of constriction in the region of the stomach, which impedes respiration.— Pinching in the abdomen, as if from incarceration of wind. —Sensation of emptiness, with borborygmi and rumbling in the abdomen.—Pain, as if from hernia in the groins.— Jerking of the muscles of the abdomen.—* Constipation. —Faeces hard and broken.—Constant desire to make water, with copious discharge.—Cutting pains in the urethra, on making water.—Ineffectual desire to urinate, with stinging in the neck of the bladder. Chest and Extremities.—Dry cough, with sensation in the epigastrium, as if there were not sufficient air in it. —Cough, with expectoration of fetid pus.—*Stinging in the chest, aggravated by breathing.—Pressure on the verte- brae of the neck.—Stiffness in the nape of the neck.—Stiff- ness along the back, on one side only.—Tearing and sting- ing in one side of the back only.—Contracting pain be- tween the shoulder-blades.—Shivering of the back. — Weakness in the arms.—Tearing and stinging in the shoulder-blades and fore-arms.—*Itching, pressing and crawling pains in the thighs, when seated.—Paralytic ten- sion in the thighs on walking.—Weakness of the thighs. ^sT^h^mTtoxylu m ca¥pechianuai. H^EM".—Logwood. — Bibliotheque de Geneve (Dr. Jouve.) Antidote : Camp. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Painful sensibility of the limbs with lassitude.—General uneasiness with anxiety, arising from the stomach and colic.—General coldness with eructations of wind and dry skin.—Predominance of coldness, shuddering and cutis anserina.—Sleep which is difficult to surmount.—Frequent yawning.—Head-ache at niffht, as if from indigestion, with swelling of the stomach and abdomen, anxiety, inclination to vomit, sour eructa- tions of food.—Borborygmus, colic, and diarrhoea in the morning.—Ill-humour, sadness, melancholy, vexation, in- clination to repose and desire to weep. Head—Throat.—Head heavy, painful, with difficulty in reflecting and expressing one's ideas.—Vertigo, so as to occasion falling and dullness of ideas.—Constriction in 264 HiEMATOXYLUM CAMPECHIANUM--HELLEBORUS NIGER. the forehead and occiput, with burning heat in the head.— Head-ache, especially in the forehead, with inclination to vomit on stooping.—Eyes downcast and surrounded by a livid circle.—Painful pressure on the eyes, with sensation of constriction in the aperture of the eye-lids.—Redness of the conjunctiva and of the lachrymal caruncula—Sensa- tion, as if sand were introduced into the eyes.—Heaviness of the eye-lids, which forces one to close them.—Heaviness in the eyes and appearance as of a veil before the sight.— Pupils contracted and sight confused.—Mist before the eyes, when reading the letters vanish.—Amelioration of the affections of the sight in the open air.—Face pale, dejected and distorted.—Sore throat, with difficulty of swallowing, se?isation of squeezing, inclination to swallow, salivation and smarting.—Sensation as if a foreign substance were in the throat, with yawning and stretching. Stomach and Abdominal Region.—Painful swelling in the stomach, with pressure in the epigastrium, and eructa- tions of wind.—Pain in the abdomen, with yawning, stretch- ing and desire to vomit.—Painful searching, which ascends from the abdomen to the throat, causing a convulsive pain in the region of the heart, increased by touch and accom- panied with oppression.—Attacks of tearing pains in the stomach and the abdomen, as if caused by poisonous sub- stances.—Colic, with painful sensitiveness of the abdomen to the touch, inflation, tension and searching in the abdomen, borborygmus, soft faeces, with cuttings, lassitude in the limbs, palpitation of the heart, and uneasiness with anguish. —After the colic, general coldness with burning heat in the palms of the hands.—Colic, as if the catamenia were going to appear, with slimy, whitish discharge from the vagina.—Colic, with pains in the loins and nausea.—Urine red, scanty and burning. Chest—Extremities.—Constriction, extending from the chest to the epigastrium, with smarting and burning pain, increased by touch.—Convulsive pain in the region of the heart, increased by touch and accompanied with oppres- sion. Great soreness in the region of the heart, with an- guish, redoubled beatings, small pulse, burning hands, and shivering of the body.—Palpitations of the heart, with di- minished perspiration of the feet.—Pain in the left shoul- der, as if it were going to be inflamed. 89.—HELLEBORUS NIGER. HELL—Christmas Rose—Hahnemann.—Duration of effect: from 4 to 5 weeks in some chronic affections. HELLEBORUS NIGER. 265 Antidotes: Camph. chic Compare with: Ars. bell.bry. cham. chin. dig. igni ap. par. phos. stann. strain, veratr—Hellebore, when otherwise indicated, shows itself effica- cious after Bell. bry. chin: CLINICAL REMARKS.—Guided by the totality of the symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be em- ployed will be found to be :—Dropsical affections, especially some kinds of anasarca, and chiefly those which proceed from the repercussion of exanthemata, such as purpura miliaris, scarlatina, &c.; Coma ? ; Nervous and slow fevers ; Silent melancholy ; Imbecility; Scald head, with obstruc- tion of the glands of the neck ; Hypochondriasis ?.; Ence- phalitis ?.; Acute hydrocephalus ? ; Ascites ; Hydrotho- rax, &c, &c. [It deserves attention in idiotcy; home-sickness; in inflammation of the brain, especially when effusion is just about to, or has just taken place.—It is said to prove unu- sually efficacious in effusion in the ventricles of the brain; also in convulsions dependent upon the suppression of eruptions; and finally in some varieties of intermittent fever. Ed.] OCT See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Shooting and piercing pains in different parts and especially in the periosteum, aggra- vated by fresh air, corporal fatigue, eating and drinking. —Traction and tearing in the limbs.—Shooting pains in the joints.—Sudden relaxation of all the muscles. The mus- cles refuse to perform their office, unless continued atten- tion is paid to them ; staggering gait; objects are allowed to fall which are held in the hand, &c.—Relief in the open air, and sensations as if in a state of convalescence from a long illness ; feels as if restored to life and youth again. —Convulsions.—Cramps.—Syncope.—Dropsical swellings. —Falling off of the hair and nails. Skin.—Paleness of the skin.—Miliary eruptions.— "Leucophlegmatic swelling of the skin of the whole body. —Scaling off* of the skin from the whole body. Sleep.—*Sleepiness, with eyes half open and pupils turned upwards.—Confused anxious dreams, the remem- brapce of which is not retained.—Sleeplessness.—Tossing about on the bed. Fever.—Shiverings, alternating with shooting pains in the limbs.—Coldness over the whole body, and especially in the extremities.—General shivering with cutis-anserina, and painful sensibility of the hairy scalp when touched and on moving the head; traction and tearings in the limbs, lancinations in the joints, and absence of thirst.—In the Vol. I. 23 2bb HELLEBORUS NIGER. evening, after lying down, burning heat in the whole body, and chiefly in the head, with internal shuddering and shiv- ering without thirst; drink is disliked.—Nocturnal sweat towards morning. Moral Symptoms —* Melancholic taciturnity.—Excessive and almost destructive anguish.—(Nostalgia.)—Hypochon- driacal humour.—Mistrust.—Indolence.—Sobbing lamen- tation.—Obstinate silence.—Dullness of the internal senses. Stupidity and want of reflection, with fixed staring at one single point.—Weakness of the memory.—It seems that the mind has less command over the body ; the muscles refuse their office, as soon as the attention is turned else- where. Head.—Stupifying pain and sensation of a bruise in the head.—Pressive and benumbing head-ache.—Painful heavi- ness of the head, with burning pain in that part, coldness of the fingers, general sensation of shivering and paleness of face.—The head-ache is more endurable by seeking re- pose and endeavouring to fall asleep.—Painful sensibility in the exterior of the head, and especially in the occiput, as if it were bruised, when touched and on moving the head.— Twitching in the integuments of the head, when moving, stooping and going up stairs.— Disposition to bury the head in the pillow, when sleeping.—Tumours on the skin of the forehead, with pain as from a bruise.—Moist scabs in the hairy scalp. Eyes and Ears.—Pain in the eyes, as if a nail were driven into the orbital margin.—Pressive heaviness in the eyes, pressing downwards.—Involuntary fixed look at one single point.—Photophobia by day.—Shootings in the ears, day and night, with searching piercing. Face and Teeth.—Face pale, sometimes yellowish.— Pale and ordematous swelling of the face.—Forehead wrinkled.—White vesicles on the lips, which are swollen. —Dull, aching pain in the cheek-bone.—Tooth-ache at night, with shooting and tearing pains, aggravated by cold and heat. Mouth.—Troublesome dryness in the palate, with cut- ting and scraping pain during deglutition.—Constant accu- mulation of saliva in the mouth, and salivation with exco- riation of the commissure of the lips—Blisters and aphthae in the mouth and on the tongue —Torpor and swellino- of the tongue.—Bitter taste in the throat, increased by eatrno-. Stomach.—Nausea, sometimes with excessive hunger.— Dislike to food, especially meat, green vegetables and sour- crout.—Blackish-green vomiting, with pains in the abdo- HELLEBORUS NIGER--HEPAR SULPHURIS. 267 men.—Heaviness, fulness, and inflation of the stomach.—In- flation of the epigastrium, with pain of ulceration and im- peded respiration.—Sensation of excessive uneasiness in the epigastrium.—Painful pressure in the epigastrium at every step.—Sensation of retraction in the pit of the stomach.— Burning pain in the stomach. Abdominal Region.—Pinchings in the abdomen.—Sen- sation of coldness in the abdomen.—Heaviness in the abdo- men.—"Dropsical swelling of the abdomen.—Clucking in the abdomen, especially when breathing deeply, as if there were water in the intestines.—Rumbling and borborygmus in the abdomen. FjEces.—Tenesmus, with flow of gelatinous mucus, pre- ceded by pinchings in the umbilical region.—Diarrhoea, with pain in the abdomen and nausea.—Watery and fre- quent evacuations. Urine and Genital Parts.—Frequent desire to make water, with scanty emission.—Feeble stream.—*Dark-co- loured urine.—Suppression of sexual desire, with flaccidity of the genital parts. Chest.—Suffocating constriction in the throat and nose.- Short, dry cough, with painful tension in the left hypochon- drium.—Difficult respiration, as if from hydrothorax.—Ac- celerated or deep and slow respiration.—Constriction of the chest.—Heat in the chest.—Palpitation of the heart. Trunk.—Contractive pain in the loins.—Gnawing and obtuse lancinations in the dorsal spine.—Pain as from a bruise between the shoulder-blades.—Stiffness and painful sensibility of the neck and nape when moving.—Swelling of the glands of the neck. Arms.—Tearing in the bones of the arms and joints, and in the upper part of the fingers.—Jerking in the mus- cles of the arms.—Piercing and shooting in the hands and joints of the fingers.—Want of strength in the hands.— Spasmodic stiffness of the fingers. Legs.—Violent lancinations and burning pressure in the hips.—Want of stability in the legs, with bending of the knees.—Stiffness and tension in the thighs and hams.— Obtuse and piercing lancinations in the joints of the knees and feet._______________________________ 90.—HEPAR SULPHURIS. Hep.—Sulphuret of lime.— Hahnemann.—Duration of effect: as long as 60 days in the highest attenuations and in chronic affections. Antidotes : Acetum. bell.—It is used as an antidote against ars. ant. bell. cupr. fer. iod. mere, nitr-ac. sil. zinc. Compare with: Auim. ant. arn. ars. bell. bry. cham. chin. cin. cupr. dros. 268 HEPAR SULPHURIS. ferr. lach. mere, nitr-ac. plumb, spon. sil. zinc—Hi par su'phuris, when otherwise indicated, shows itself particularly efficacious after: bell. lach. spong. zinc—After hepar sulphuris, bell. mere, nitr ac. spong. sil. are sometimes suitable. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Guided by the totality of the symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be employ- ed, will be fo nd to be:—Arthritic affections, with inflam- matory swelling ; Evil consequences of the abuse of mercu- ry ; Obstruction, inflammation and suppuration of the glands ; Phlegmonous inflammations ; Rheumatic affec- tions ; Atrophy in children?; Scrofulous affections; Icte- rus? ; Simple, phlegmonous and vesicular erysipelas ; Nettle rash ; Tetters, especially in the face ; Rhagades, especially those arising from the abuse of mercury; Inveterate, pu- trid, cancerous ulcers; Excessive nervous excitement, espe- cially that from abuse of mercury ; Megrim ; Baldness, especially that arising from abuse of mercury, or caused by violent acute diseases, or hysterical head-aches, &rc, &c.; Scald-head; Tetters on the ears ; Eruptions and tet- ters on the face ; Scrofulous, arthritic, traumatic, catarrhal ophthalmia, &c. ; Ulcers on the cornea ; Otitis, with puru- lent otorrhoca ; Scrofulous swelling of the nose?; Saliva- tion, with ulceration of the mouth, caused by abuse of mercury; Amygdalitis and other phlegmonous anginae ; Scrofulous buboes; Diarrhoea and dysentery; Unhealthy lochia; Cancer of the breast?.; Croup (exudatory stage); Acute and chronic laryngitis (phthisis in the larynx) ; Pul- monary phthisis; Rhagades in the hands; Panaris, &c, &c. [This remedy has been used with success in goitre and scrofula ; in tubercular consumption ; in inflammation with swelling and stiffness of the joints, and especially in phthisis laryngea and trachealis ; in chronic catarrh, with ulceration of the nostrils; in irregular intermittent fever; in erysipelatous inflammations of the eyes and lids ; in affections arising from the suppression of itch ; in tuber- cular, herpetic and vesicular eruptions; in opacity and ulceration of the cornea ; in involuntary urination and wet- ting the bed, especially among children ; and in haematroid, when occasioned by the suppression of itch or some other eruption, or dependent upon organic disease of the kidnies or bladder ; in salt-rheum it may be looked upon as almost specific; in cough with expectoration of blood, which is usually the precursor or attendant of tubercular phthisis, it deserves particular attention ; also in hectic and febris lenta.—Ed.] &Cf- See note, page 1. HEPAR SULPHURIS. 269 GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—^Tearing or paralytic trac- tion in the limbs, especially in the morning on walking.— 1 ains as from excoriation or a bruise on different parts when touched.—Shootings in the joints.—Arthritic swellings, with heat, redness and pains as from dislocation.—*Swelling, inflammation and ulceration of the glands.—* Appearance or aggravation of the pains at night, especially during the chills.—* Emaciation, "sometimes with anguish, irritability, shiverings in the back, redness of the cheeks, sleepless- ness, &c—*Physical depression and trembling after smo- king tobacco, -or on walking in the open air, with heat and anxiety.—Fainting fit, especially in the evening, from not very violent pains. Skin.—^Erysipelatous inflammations, even with swell- ing "and blisters.—Yellowish colour of the skin, especially of the face, with yellowish colour of the sclerotica, and red urine, like blood.—Burning itching on the body, with white vesicles after scratching.—*Nettle rash.—Eruption of pimples and tubercles, painful when touched.—*Un- healthy skin, every injury tends to ulceration.—* Cracks in the skin.—Putrid ulcers, throwing off a smell like old rot- ten cheese, and easily bleeding, with shootings, sensation of gnawing, especially at night, or with burning and pulsa- tive pains.— Cancerous ulcers.—Suppurations.—Panaris. Sleep.—Great desire to sleep, morning and evening, with convulsive yawnings.—*Unquiet sleep, with the head turned back.—Prolonged sleep with stupefaction, as in lethargy.—Sleeplessness, caused by a great flow of ideas. —Dreams of fire, sickness, danger, shootings, &c.—At night, gastric affections, head-ache, agitations, jerking of the limbs and dry heat.—"Jerking at night, during sleep, as if from want of air, with lamentation and great anguish. Fever.—*Shuddering and shivering, especially in the open air.—Shiverings, with chattering of the teeth and coldness of the hands and feet, followed by heat and sweat, especially on the chest and forehead, with little thirst.— Bitterness in the mouth, in the evening with thirst ; an hour after, heat with sleep, after which vomiting and ce- phalalgia.—*Dry heatatnight.—*Flushes of heat with sweat. —*Burning, feverish heat, with redness of the face and violent thirst.—*Great disposition to perspire in the day time, from the least effort and movement.—Nocturnal sweat.— Sweat in the morning.—Clammy acid sweat. Moral Symptoms.—Sadness and desire to weep.—An- guish and extreme apprehension, especially in the evening and sometimes leading even to suicide.—Ill-humour; dis- 23* 270 HEPAR SULPHURIS. like even to see friends.—Excessive irritability.—Vexa- tion and passion, with precipitate speech and excessive weakness of memory.— Visions in the morning, in bed. Head.—Vertigo on moving the head, from the motion of a carriage, or in the evening, with nausea.—Vertigo, with loss of consciousness and obscuration of sight.—Head-ache in the morning, excited by the slightest motion.—Head- ache at night when moving the eyes; the forehead seems likely to be torn asunder.—Pain in the head, as if a nail were driven into it.—Pressure on the temples and crown of the head, with palpitation of the heart in the evening.—Ten- sion above the root of the nose.— 'Pain, as from ulcera- tion in the head, directly above the eyes, every evening or else at night in bed.—Stinging in the head, especially after being in the open air, when stooping, or at night, as if the head were going to burst.—*Piercing in the head, especially at the root of the nose, every morning.—*Falling off of the hair.—Cold sweat on the head.—*Tuberosities on the head, with pain as from excoriation when touched.—'Humid scabs on the head. Eyes.—Pain, as if the eyes were driven into the head.— Painful and difficult movement of the eyes.—Heat, pres- sure and stinging in the eyes.—Pain, as from ulceration, im- mediately above the eye, every evening.—*lnflamm i- Hon of the eyes and eye-lids, sometimes also erysipelatous. with pain, as from a bruise and excoriation when touched.— Pimples above the eyes and on the eye-lids.—"Specks and ulcers onthe cornea.—*Lachrymation and n octurnal agglu- tination of the eye-lids.—Spasmodic closing of the eye-lids. —Prominent eyes.—Obscuration of the sight on reading.— *Photophobia by day and by candle-light.— Confusion of sight, in the evening, by candle-light, alternating with clearness of vision. Ears.—Shootings in the ears, when blowing the nose.— Heat, redness and itching in the ears.—Flow of pus from the ears, which is sometimes fetid—' Scabs behind and onthe ears.—Hardness of hearing, with pulsations and buzzing in the ears, especially in the evening in bed. Nose.—Inflammation, redness and swelling of the nose. —Pain, as from a bruise and excoriation in the nose when touched.—Burning pain, as from ulceration and scabs in the nostrils.—Epistaxis in the morning, and after singing.__Di- minished or increased acuteness of smell.—Coryza chiefly on one side only, with roughness in the throat, inflamma- tory swelling of the nose, fever and pain as if from fatigue in all the limbs. HEPAR SULPHURIS. 271 Face.—Face yellow, with blue circles round the eyes.— *Face burning and of a deep red.—Nocturnal heat of face.— "Erysipelatous inflammation and swelling of the face and cheeks, with pricking, tension and "eruption of blisters.— Drawing and tearing pains, commencing from the cheeks and extending to the ears and the temples.—Pains in the bones of the face when touched.—Pimples on the forehead, which disappear in the open air.—Swelling of the lips, with tension and pains when touched.—Ulceration at the com- missure of the lips.—Blisters on the lips, chin and neck, painful to the touch.—Vesicles on the chin.—Shootings in the articulation of the jaw on opening the mouth. Teeth.—Odontalgia with jerking and drawing pains, aggravated by closing the teeth, by eating, and in a hot room—*Swelling and inflammation of the gums, which are painful to the touch. Mouth.—Accumulation of water in the mouth.—*Sali- vation.—Hawking up of mucus.—"Hoarse and precipitate speech.— Ulcers in the mouth with suet-like bases. Throat.—*Sore throat as if there were a plug in it, or an internal tumour.—*Painful scraping in the throat, with difficulty in speaking and swallowing the saliva.—Stinging in the throat, extending eveninto the ears, asif from splinters, when swallowing, coughing, breathing, turning the head. —Great pressure in the throat, with danger of suffocation.— Deglutition impeded and without great exertion almost im- possible.— Dryness in the throat.— Swelling of amygdalae. Appetite.—Loss of appetite.—Bitterness of the mouth and of food.—Earth-like and bitter taste in the throat, with normal taste of food.— Violent thirst.—"Bulimy.—Desire only for acid or pungent things.—Dislike to fat.—Desire for wine. Stomach.—*Eructations, with burning sensation in the throat.—^Attacks of nausea, sometimes with coldness and paleness.—Nausea with desire to vomit in the morning.— Acid, bilious, greenish or mucous and sanguineous vomit- ings.—Frequent and easy derangement of the stomach.— Pressure in the stomach, even after eating very little.__ "Swelling in the region of the stomach, with pressive pains. —Pressure, inflation and sensation, as if there were some- thing weighing heavily in the epigastrium, with inability to continue standing and to endure tight clothes. Abdominal Region.—Shootings in the region of the spleen.—Shootings in the hepatic region, especially when walking.—Pain, as from a bruise in the abdomen, in the morning.—*Cramps and contractive pains in the abdomen.— 272 HEPAR SULPHURIS. Sensation of violent clawing in the umbilical region, with nausea, anxietv, and heat of the cheeks.—Gripes.—Pain, as from ulceration in the abdomen.—Shootings in the abdo- men, especially in the left side.—Swelling and suppuration of the inguinal glands.—"Incarceration and difficult emis- sions of flatulency, especially in the morning. FjEevs.—Hard and dry feces. —Difficult emission of scanty and soft excrement, *with u.ging and tenesmus.— Diarrhoea of stercoreous matter with griping.— Whitish di- arrhea, of an acid odour, especially in chi\drcn.—*Dysen- teric evacuations -greenish, or of a clay-colour, with evacu- ation of sanguineous mucus.—After the evacuation, pain, as from excoriation and sanious discharge from the anus.— Protusion of haemorrhoidaltumours from the rectum.—Per- 6pir tion on the parinaeum. Urine.—Urine slow and turbid, with whitish sediment. —Abundant secretion of pale urine, with pressure on the bladder.—Acrid, corrosive, or pale and watery, or deep-red and hot urine.—Nocturnal emission of urine.—"Wetting the bed.—Emission of blood after urination.--Redness and in- flammation of the orifice of the urethra.—Discharge of mucus from the urethra. Genital Organs.—Weakness of the genital parts.— Smarting, excoriation and running between the thigh and the scrotum.—Cancerous ulcer on the prepuce.—Painful, cramp- like and tensive erections.—*Absence of sexual desire and of erections.—Erections without energy, during coition.— Excitement of the genital parts, as if for emission.—*Flow of prostatic fluid, especially after making water, and during a difficult evacuation.—Excoriation of the vulva and between the thighs.—Congestion of the uterus.—Discharge of blood at other periods than those of the catamenia, with inflation of the abdomen.—Catamenia retarded.—"Leucorrhcea, with smarting in the vulva.—"Cancerous ulcer on the breast. Larynx.—Hoarseness.—Pain and great sensibility of the larynx, with weak and rough voice, emaciation, hectic fever and sleeplessness.—Permanent pain in the larynx, ag- gravated by pressure, speech, coughing and breathing.— Weakness of the organs of speech, and of the chest pre- venting loud speaking—Cough, excited by irritation or pain in the larynx.—Cough, deep and dull, excited by diffi- culty of respiration.—Suffocating and violent cough, with inclination to vomit.—Cough, similar to hooping-cough.— Cough after drinking.—*Dry coughin the evening, from any part of the body becoming cold, or when lying on the bed. __Attacks of dry, rough and hollow cough, with anguish and HEPAR SULPHURIS--HYOSCYAMUS NIGER. 273 suffocation, often causing one to weep.—"Barking cough.— Cough, with spitting of blood.—Cough, with abundant ex- pectoration of mucus.—Ringing and pain in the head du- ring the cough, as if it were going to burst.—Sneezing af- ter the cough. Chest.—"Anxious, hoarse, wheezing respiration, with danger of suffocation when lying down.—"Attacks of suffoca- tion, which force the patient to throw the head back.— Short breath.—Frequent incapacity to breathe deeply, as after running.—Stinging in the chest on breathing and walking.—Pimples and furunculi on the chest, with lanci- nations, and pain, as from excoriation when touched. Trunk.—Burning, shooting pain in the region of the loins.—Pain, as from a bruise in the loins, and extending as far as the thighs.—Stinging and traction in *the back, -be- tween the shoulder-blades and in the muscles of the neck. Nocturnal tension in the back, when turning in bed.—"Fe- tid sweat under the arm-pits.—Suppuration of the axillary glands.—Glandular swellings on the neck, painful to the touch. Arms.—Pain, as from a bruise, in the bones of the arm. —Arthritic swelling of the hand, fingers and joints of the fingers, with heat, redness and pain, as from dislocation during movement.—*Skin of the hands cracked, rough and dry.—Granulated eruption on the hands and wrists.— *Nettle-rash on the hands and fingers.—Easy dislocation of the fingers.—"Fingers dead.—Panaris. Legs.—Pain in the buttocks when sitting down.—Fu- runculi on the buttocks.—Pain, as from a bruise on the thighs.—Painful tension in the thighs, which prevents sleep.—Frequently sudden lassitude of the limbs when walking.—Swelling of the knees.—Cramps in the calves of the legs, soles of the feet and toes.—Burning feet.—Swell- ing of the feet and ankle-bones, with difficulty of respira- tion.—"Red, rheumatic swelling in the ankle-bones with pain, which increases at night.—Cracks in the feet.—Shoot- ings in the corns. 94.—HYOSCYAMUS NIGER. Hyos.—Henbane.—Hahnemann— Duration of effect ; from 8 to 15 days in some cases of chronic disease. Antidotes : Bell, camph. chin.—It is used as an antidote againt bell. plumb. Compare with : Aeon. am. bell, camph. cham. chin. dros. graph, ignat. lach. n-vom. op. phos. plat, plumb, rhus. rut. stram veratr.—Hyos. when otherwise indicated is particularly suitable after bell. CLINICAL REMARKS.—When guided by the totality 274 HYOSCYAMUS NIGER. of symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be used, appear to be :—Affections in consequence of a chill, fright, of anguish, or of contradiction ; Convulsions, cramps, hys- terical spasms, epilepsy, St. Vitus' dance and other spasmo- dic affections, chiefly in pregnant or parturient women, as well as in children, and inconsequence of worms; Inflam- mations, with nervous symptoms ; Excessive nervous ex- citement, with sleeplessness ; Typhus fever, also in conse- quence of cholera ; Intermittent fevers; Fever, with vermi- culous affections?; Imbecility; Delirium tremens; Vesa- nia, madness, rage and other mental alienations ; Hydro- phobia ; Encephalitis ; Acute hydrocephalus ?. ; Megrim ; Amaurotica ambliopia, with hemeralopia ; Presbyopia ; Odontalgia, caused by a chill ; Spasmodic hiccough ; Dys- pepsia, with vomiting of food, also in children ; Haemate- mesis, even caused by a chill ; Gastritis ? ; Enteritis ? ; Spasmodic colic ; Diarrhoea, especially in lying-in women ; Paralysis of the sphincter ani; Paralysis of the bladder j Spasms, diarrhoea, and other affections of pregnant or ly- ing-in women ; Cramps in the womb?.; Puerperal fever ; Convulsions, vomiting, and other affections of new-born infants ; Cough in old men, or caused by morbilli; Convul- sive cough ; Cramps in the chest ? ; Pneumonia, with ner- vous symptoms?; Incipient phthisis; Organic affections of the heart; &c, &c. [It deserves particular attention in Pleurisy when at- tended with gastric and nervous symptoms ; in abnormally increased sensitiveness, and in the cough subsequent to measles ; in anasarca subsequent to Purpura miliaris, and attended with typhoid fever ; in quartan intermittent fever; in dry spasmodic cough with dispnoea; in metrorrhagia of bright-coloured blood and attended with spasms ; in far- sightedness, and night blindness; in inflammation of the diaphragm, attended with obstinate hiccough ; in catalepsy ; impotence; tetanus; paralysis of one side, and of the tongue ; in affections caused by jealousy or ambition ; in muscular debility with violent trembling as in confirmed drunkards; in Ecstasis; in nymphomania; in inflamma- tions of the eyes when attended with spasmodic closure of the lids; in Amaurosis when preceded by flimmering, double vision, coloured red, or very large appearance of all objects. Ed.] ft^ See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Cutting, tearing and dull traction in the limbs and joints.—Limbs cold, trembling and numb.—*Convulsive movements and shakings of some of the HYOSCYAMUS NIGER. 275 limbs, or of the whole body, -sometimes on making the slightest effort to swallow liquid.—Tossing of the feet and of the hands.—*Attacks of epilepsy, sometimes with blu- ish colour and puffing of the face, involuntary emission of urine, foaming at the mouth, drawing back of the thumbs, sensation of hunger and of gnawing at the pit of the stomach, protruded eyes, cries, grinding of the teeth, &c.— Epileptic convulsions, alternating with attacks of cerebral congestion (apoplectic fits).—*Convulsions with cries, great anguish, oppression of the chest and loss of consciousness. —*Convulsions similar to St. Vitus' dance.—After the epi- leptic convulsions, profound sleep with snoring.—Fainting fits.—Great weakness and debility.—Paralysis.—*Jerking of the tendons.—The majority of, and the principal symp- toms appear after eating or drinking, or in the evening. Skix.—Skin dry and rough.—Miliary eruption.—Erup- tion of dry pimples, like confluent small-pox.—*Brownish spots on the body from time to time.—Frequent, large fu- runculi.—Spots and gangrened vesicles on different parts. —Bleeding of the ulcers. Sleep.—Somnolency, like coma vigil.—*Retarded sleep, or sleeplessness caused by excessive nervous excitement, or by great anguish, "sometimes with convulsions and starts.— —Profound, drowsy sleep, with convulsions and involun- tary movements of the limbs, and especially of the hands. —"When sleeping, carpologia, ~or smiling countenance, or starts with fright. Fever.—Shuddering from head to foot.—Burning heat of the body, and especially of the head.—*Fever of quartan or quotidian type, with epileptic fits, great weakness, flames before the eyes and congestion of head.—Pulse quick, with swelling of the veins.— Universal coldness over the whole body, with heat of face.—Heat in the even- ing with thirst and putrid taste.—Perspiration during sleep. Moral Symptoms. — Melancholy.—Anthropophobia. — Mistrust.—Anguish and fear.— Desire to run away from the house at night.—*Fear of being betrayed or poisoned. —Desire to make a jest of every thing.—Loquacity.—"Jeal- ousy.—Peevish and quarrelsome humour.—Fury, with de- sire to strike and to kill.—*Stupor, with plaintive cries, es- pecially on the slightest touch, and complete apathy.— Loss of memory.—*Loss of consciousness, with eyes closed, and raving about business.—* Delirium, "sometimes with trembling and epileptic convulsions.— Wanderings.—Per- version of all actions.—Mania, with loss of consciousness, 276 HYOSCYAMUS NIGER. or with buffoonery and ridiculous gestures.—Lascivious mania. Head.—Perplexity and heaviness of the head.—""Ver- tigo, as if from intoxication, or with obscuration of the sight.—Attacks of cerebral congestion, with loss of con- sciousness and snoring.—Head-ache, as if from concussion of the brain.—Pressive and benumbing pain in the forehead, especially after a meal.—Constrictive embarrassment in the forehead.—Sensation of fluctuation or of commotion i»the brain, especially when walking.—Heat and crawling in the head.—Head-ache, alternating with pain in the nape of the neck.—Balancing of the head from one side to the other. Eyes.—Eyes downcast and dull.—*Eyes red, fixed, con- vulsed and prominent.—*Spasmodic movement of the eyes. —Redness of the sclerotica.—Swelling of the eye-lids.— Strabismus.—*Spasmodic closing of the eye-lids.—*Dilated pupils.—Confusion of sight.—Myopia, or presbyopia.—Er- rors of vision.—Diplopia.—Objects seem to be much larger than they are in reality, or else of a red colour.—"Nocturnal blindness.—Weakness of sight, as if from incipient amau- rosis. Ears and Nose.—Buzzing in the ears.—Hardness of hearing, as if from stupefaction.—Epistaxis.—Cramp-like pressure at the root of the nose.—Loss of smell. Face.—*Face cold, pale, bluish, or puffed and blood-red. —Cramp-like pressure on the cheek-bone.—Dryness of the lips.—Cramps in the jaw. Teeth.—*Pulsative and tearing pains in the teeth, from the cheek to the forehead, especially after a chill in the cold air, or in the morning, and often with congestion to the head, heat and redness of the face, swelling of the gums and spasms in the throat.—Tearing in the gums, with buzzing and sensation of loosening of the teeth.—Clenching of the teeth.—"Teeth covered with mucus. Mouth and Throat.—Dryness in the mouth.—Saliva- tion of a saltish taste.—Sanguineous saliva.—*Foam at the mouth.—Fetid exhalations from the mouth, perceptible to oneself.—Heat and torpor of the tongue, as if it had been burned—"Tongue dry, and loaded with a brownish coat- ing.—Redness of the tongue.—Paralysis of the tongue.— Loss of speech.—Dryness and burning heat of the throat. Constriction in the throat and inability to swallow liquids. Appetite and Stomach.—Loss of taste.—Bulimy, with violent thirst.—Dread of drinking.—*Hiccough, especially after a meal.—After a meal, head-ache, intoxication, great HYOSCYAMUS NIGER. 277 anguish and sadness.—After drinking, convulsions.—Nau- sea, on pressing the epigastrium.—*Inclination to vomit and vomiting, also the same with griping, which forces one to cry out.—Aqueous vomiting, with vertigo.—* Vomiting of sanguineous mucus, "and of dark red blood, sometimes with convulsions, choking, pains in the pit of the stomach, great exhaustion and coldness in the limbs.—* Vomiting of food and drinks immediately after a meal, and sometimes with violent pain in the pit of the stomach.—Periodical attack of cramps in the stomach, and mitigated by vomiting. —*Painful sensibility of the epigastrium when touched.— Inflammation of the stomach, with burning pain. Abdominal Region.—"Dull pains in the hepatic region. —*Abdomen tight, inflated, painful when touched.— * Cramp-like pains in the abdomen, and cuttings, sometimes accompanied by vomitings, pains in the head and cries.— Shootings in the umbilical region, when walking and with respect to the breathing.— Pain, as from excoriation in the abdominal muscles in coughing. F.eces.—Constipation.—Frequent desire to evacuate, with scanty and unfrequent relief.—Aqueous diarrhea.—*In- voluntary evacuations, from paralysis of the sphincter ani. Urine.—Retention of urine.—Frequent desire to make water, with scanty emission.—Urine copious and clear, like water.—Increased flow of urine.—* Involuntary emission of urine, as from paralysis of the bladder. Genital Organs.—Increase of sexual desire.—Impo- tence.—Catamenia more abundant.—Suppression of the cat- amenia.—.Metrorrhagia, of a bright coloured blood.—Dur- ing the catamenia, delirium, flow of urine, sweat and con- vulsive trembling.—Before the catamenia, hysterical cramps and fits of laughter. Larynx.—Catarrh, with accumulation of mucus in the larynx and trachea, rendering the speech and the voice in- distinct.—Constant cough when lying down, which ceases after rising up.—Fits of coughing, as in the hooping-cough. —* Cramp-like cough at night, especially when lying down, "sometimes with redness of the face and vomiting of mu- cus.— Dry shaking, sobbing cough, with pain as from ex- coriation in the abdominal muscles.—Greenish expectora- tion with the cough.—Cough, with expectoration of blood and convulsions. Chest.—Oppression and embarrassed and rattling res- piration.—Pressure in the right side of the chest, with great anxiety and shortness of breath when ascending stairs.—Spasms in the chest, with short breathing, which Vol. I. 24 278 JALAPA--IATROPHA CURCAS--1GNATIA AMARA. forces one to bend oneself forwards.—Shootings in the sides of the chest. Trunk.—Pains in the back, and especially in the loins, with swelling of the feet.—Lancinations in the loins and shoulder-blades.—Tettery spots on the nape of the neck. Arms.—Trembling of the arms and hands, especially in the evening after motion.—Painful torpor and stiffness of the hands.—Swelling of the hands.—Hands clenched, with retraction of the thumbs (in the convulsive fits).—Delirious picking at the bed-clothes, &c. Legs.—Painful cramps in the thighs and calves of the legs, which contract the legs.—Gangrenous spots and blis- ters on the legs.—Stiffness and lassitude in the knee-joint. —Swelling of the feet.—Contraction of the toes in walking and ascending. ~~92^JALAPA7~ JAL.—Jalap.--A medicine as yet entirely unknown, but which has been recommended against some cases of colic in children, with sleepless- ness, tossing, cries and painful and sanguineous diarrhcea. 93.—IATROPHA CURCAS. IAT-—Infernal fief.—Heiung. — A medicine as yet very little known. SYMPTOMS.—Pains in the limbs and joints.—Convul- sions.— Great general prostration of strength.—Eruptions. —Swellings.—General coldness of the body.—Clammy sweat—Great anxiety.—Easy and very abundant vomiting of aqueous matter, resembling the white of an egg, with diar- rhoea.—Burning pain, with uneasiness of stomach.—Inflam- mation of the stomach and of the intestines.—Aqueous di- arrhea, which is discharged with violence.—Cramp-like pains in the legs, with distortion of the calves of the legs, as far as the tibiae. [It appears to resemble the Hydrocyanic Acid in its action ; and is nearly as poisonous ; an oil resembling Cro- ton Oil in its effects may also be obtained from it. Hering suggests that it might prove a more efficient remedy in cholera than the Veratrum. Ed.] 94.—IGNATIA AMARA. IG^T,"^Sit' Ignatius' bean.—Hahnemann.—Duration of effect:' sometimes tor y days. Antidotes : Arn. camph. cham. cocc coff. puis.-/; is used as an antidote against : cham. coff. puis. zinc. Compabewith: Alum, am calad. caps. caus. cham. cin. cocc. coff. croc byos. ipec mez. mosch. natr-m. n mosch. n-vom. par. phos-ac puis rhus. rut. sabad. sec sep stann. staph, sulph. tart, valer. veratr. zinc— Ign., when otherwise indicated, is sometimes specially euitable after IGNATIA AMARA. 279 [Ignatia resembles the Nux Vomica very much in its action, and Jorg suggests that it acts specifically upon the pancrsas and mesenteric glands, while it possess3s the peculiarity, ihat the effects produced by it often re- mit entirely, and return again after irregular and uncertain intervals. It is perhaps more generally applicable in "nervous and spasmodic than any other class of diseases. It deserves attention in concussion of the brain ; in periodical abdominal spasms, occurring in very sensitive persons and in those with congestive enlargement of the liver; in profuse menstruation and in metrorrhagia ; in chronic night cough ; in Asthma Millari, and in Rheumatic affections in which the parts are very painful and very sensitive, with swelling but no discoloration. Ed.\ CLINICAL REMARKS.—According to the totality of symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be em- ployed are :—Affections, principally of sensitive persons, of a nervous temperament, and inclined to conceal within themselves the vexations which they experience ; Affec- tions of females, and especially of hysterical women ; Evil effects of affliction, of secret vexation, of unhappy love, &rc; Bad effects of the abuse of coffee, or of camomile ; Attacks of syncope and of hysterical weakness ; Cramps, convulsions, epilepsy, and other spasmodic affections, especially in conse- quence of fright or contradiction, and chiefly in hysterical women, or in children during dentition ; Intermittent fevers; Catarrhal or rheumatic fevers; Slow fevers 1; Melancholy and other mental affections caused by affliction ; Hysteria; Nervous and hysterical megrim and cephalalgia ; Cephal- algia and falling off of the hair, caused by vexation ; Scrofu- lous ophthalmia and photophobia; Chronic coryza ; Odon- talgia, especially in hysterical women ; Difficult dentition of children, with convulsions; Quinsy and other anginae, even when caused by scarlatina; Gastralgia; Gastritis 1; Dyspepsia, and other gastric affections ; Bilious affections ; Splenalgia ] ; Colic, especially in hysterical women ; Ver- miculous affections; Prolapsus recti, also in children ; Dysmenorrhea ; Chlorosis 1 ; Cramps of the uterus ; Con- vulsions and other spasmodic affections of lying-in women and new-born children ; excoriation in children, especial- ly that which proceeds from the abuse of camomile, &c, &c. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Simple and violent pain, merely on being touched, in different parts.—Cutting or acute, and sometimes hard pressure on the limbs and other parts.—Shootings as if from knives.— Sensation of press- ing asunder, or constriction in the internal organs.—Arthri- tic tearing in the limbs.—Pain as from dislocation, or from a sprain in the joints.—Heaviness and crawling numb- ness in the limbs.—* Attacks of cramp and of convulsions, 'sometimes with anxiety, attacks of suffocation, confusion of the head, bluish or red face, spasms in the throat, loss of 280 IGNATIA AMARA. consciousness, &c.—"Epileptic convulsions, with foaming at the mouth, frequent yawnings, convulsed eyes, retraction of the thumbs, red, or alternately pale and red face, &c.— "Involuntary movements of the limbs, as in St. Vitus' dance.—"After the convulsions, profound sighs, or drowsy sleep—Great sensitiveness in the open air.—Convulsions, with cries and lausrhter.—Tetanus.—* Hysterical debility and fainting fits.—The symptoms manifest themselve's partic- ularly just after a meal, as well as in the evening, after lying down, or in the morning, immediately after rising.—Coffee, tobacco, brandy and noise aggravate the pains.—The pains are removed, either by lying on the back, or by lying on the part affected, or on the healthy side, and always by change of position.—Nocturnal pains which disturb sleep. Skin.—Itching, which is easily removed by scratching.— Chilblains.—* Excoriation of the skin.—Itching when be- coming warm in the open air.—Nettle-rash over the whole body, with violent itching (during the fever). Sleep.—Profound and comatose sleep, with stertorous respiration.—Violent spasmodic yawnings, especially in the morning, or after a siesta.—Very light sleep.—Sleep agita- ted by nightmare, or by starts and frequent dreams.—Jerk- ings of the limbs on going to sleep.—Dreams, with reflec- tions and reasonings, or with fixed ideas.—Starts, with fright on going to sleep. Fever. — Febrile shivering, especially in the back and arms, with thirst for cold water, and sometimes with nausea and vomiting.—Mitigation of the coldness by external heat. —*Universal heat, especially in the head, with redness, prin- cipally (of one) of the cheeks, and adipsia, sometimes with internal shuddering, and coldness of the feet ; shootings in the limbs and head-ache.—Sudden attacks of fugitive heat over the whole body.—Troublesome sensation of heat, sometimes with sweat.—Absence of thirst during the heat and perspiration, or in the apyrexia.—"Fever, with head- ache and pain in the pit of the stomach, great fatigue, paleness of face, or paleness and redness alternately, dry and crack- ed lips, nettle-rash, white tongue, profound sleep with snoring, &c.—Sweat, with shootings and buzzing in the ear;-.—Sweat during a meal. Mokal Symptoms.—"Sadness and concealed sorrow, with sighing.—Irresolution.—Impatience.—Great disposition to be frightened.—*Morose and sad humour; and involuntary reflections, on painful and disagreeable things.—Effronte- ry.—Tenderness of character and delicacy of conscience.— Inconstancy.—*Foolish gaiety and tearful sadness al er- IGNATIA AMARA. 281 nately.—*Laconic speech.—*Great weakness of memory.— *Love of solitude.—* Anguish, "especially in the morning on waking, or at night, sometimes with palpitation of the heart.—^Lachrymose and indifferent humour, with dread of exertion.—*Gnawing vexation of heart.—Despair of being cured.—The least contradiction irritates even to rage and passion, with redness of face.—Fear of robbers at night. —Cries of total discouragement at the least thing. Head.—#Vertigo, with sparks before the eyes.—Great heaviness of the head, as if it were full of blood.—Pres- sive head-ache, especially above the root of the nose, and often accompanied with desire to vomit, aggravated or re- lieved by stooping.—*Cramp-like pressure in the forehead and occiput, "with obscuration of sight, redness of the face and weeping.—Painful sensation of expansion in the head, as if the cranium were going to burst, especially when conversing, reading or listening to another.—Pain as from a bruise in the head, especially in the morning when waking. —The head-aches are aggravated by coffee, brandy, tobac- co smoke, noise and strong smell.—Head-ache as if a nail were driven into the brain.—Piercing and shooting tearings, deep in the brain, and in the forehead, mitigated by lying down.—Pulsative, jerking head-ache.— Trembling of the head.—"Throwing of the head backwards.—Falling off of the hair. Eyes.—*Pressure on the eyes, sometimes as if sand were introduced into them.—inflammation of the eyes.—"Red- ness of the eyes.—Agglutination of the eye-lids.—*Lach- rymation, "especially in the brightness of the sun.—Swell- ing of the upper lid, with enlargement of the veins.—In- flammation of the upper part of the eye-ball.—"Convulsive movements of the eyes and eye-lids.—Fixed look, with dila- ted pupils.—*Photophobia.—Sight confused, as if through a mist. Ears.—"Swelling of the parotids, with shooting pain.— Redness and burning heat in one of the ears.—Hardness of hearing ; "except for the human voice. Nose.—Itching in the nose.—Nostrils excoriated and ulcerated, with swelling of the nose.— "Epistaxis.—Dry coryza, with dull head-ache and excessive nervous excite- ment.—Dryness of the nose. Face.—Face pale, red or blue, or earth-coloured and wan.—Perspiration on the face only.—Redness and burn- ing heat in one of the cheeks.—'Convulsive jerkings, and distortion of the muscles of the face.—Eruption on the face. —Lips dry, cracked and bleeding.—Pain as from excoria- 282 IGNATIA AMARA. tion in the internal surface of the upper lip.—*Scabs in the commissurae of the lips and on the lips.—Pains in the sub- maxillary glands.—*Convulsive twitching of the corners of the mouth.—*Spasmodic clenching of the jaws. Teeth.—Odontalgia, as if the teeth were broken.— Looseness of the teeth.—Tooth-ache towards the end of a meal, aggravated after finishing the same. Mouth.—Inflammation and redness of the mouth and palate.—*Constant secretion of mucus, or accumulation of acid saliva in the mouth.—*Aptness to bite the tongue, when chewing or speaking.—Moist tongue, loaded with a white coating.—Shootings in the velum palati, even into the ear. —"Foaming at the mouth.—Voice weak and tremulous. Throat.—Sore throat, as if there were a plug in it, when not swallowing.—Palate red and inflamed, with a sensation as if what one swallowed passed over a burning and ex- coriated tumour.—Shootings in the throat, extending some- times to the ear, chiefly when not swallowing.—Inflamma- tion, swelling and induration of the tonsils, with small ulcers.—Impeded deglutition (of drinks).—Constriction of the gullet, with sobbing risings. Appetite.—Dislike to food and drink, especially to milk, meat, cooked victuals, and tobacco smoke.—*Want of appe- tite and prompt satiety.—*Insipid taste, like chalk in the mouth.—Weakness and difficulty of digestion.—Bitter and putrid taste of food, especially of beer.—Dislike or strong desire for acid things.—Dislike to wine and brandy.— Painful inflation of the abdomen after a meal.—Desire for different things, which are disregarded as soon as they are obtained.—Insipidity of food.—The milk which has been taken in the morning leaves an after-taste for a long time. —After smoking, hiccough, nausea, sweat and colic. Stomach.—Regurgitation of food or of bitter serous matter.—Hiccough every time after eating or drinking.—Acid eructations.—*Nausea, with agitation and anguish.—* Vo- miting of food, -even at night.— Vomiting of bile and mu- cus.—"Periodical attacks of cramp in the stomach, which disturb sleep at night, and are aggravated by pressing on the part affected.—Dull pressure or shootings in the epi- gastrium.—Coldness or sensation of burning in the sto- mach, especially after taking brandy.—*Sensation of emp- tiness and weakness in the epigastrium.—Painful sensibility of the pit of the stomach when touched. Abdomen.—Sensation of fulness and inflation of the hypochondria, with difficult respiration.—*Pain in the left hypochondria, "aggravated by pressure and walking.— ignatia amara. 283 Shooting, sensation of burning and pressure, or swelling and hardness in the region of the spleen.—Expansive pain in the abdomen, as if the intestines were going to burst.— Inflation of the abdomen.—Griping in the umbilical region. Violent pressure in the abdomen.—Rolling around the navel.—The pains in the abdomen are aggravated after taking coffee, brandy, or things sweetened with sugar.— *Shootings and pinchings in the abdomen, especially in the sides.—Periodical, cramp-like pains in the abdomen.— Cramp-like pressure in the inguinal region.—Beating in the abdomen.—Rumbling and borborygmi in the intestines. —* Flatulent colic, especially at night.—Sensation of weak- ness and trembling in the abdomen with sighing respira- tion. Fxces.—Hard evacuations, with frequent ineffectual efforts.—Faeces yellow, whitish, of a very large size, and difficult to evacuate.—Diarrhea with sanguineous mucus, with rumbling in the abdomen.—Slimy evacuations, ac- companied by colic.—Discharge of blood from the anus.— Prolapsus of the rectum during evacuation.—Itching and crawling in the anus.—Ascarides in the rectum —Contrac- tion of the anus.—Contractive pain as from excoriation in the anus, after evacuation.—Shootings from the anus high up into the rectum.—Smarting in the rectum, during the loose evacuations. Urine.—Frequent and copious emission of watery urine.—Lemon coloured urine.—Involuntary emission of urine.—Urgent and irresistible want to make water.— Sensation of burning and smarting in the urethra during micturition. Genital Organs.—Much itching in the genital parts and penis, in the evening after lying down, removed by scratching.—Pain as from excoriation and ulceration on the margins of the prepuce.—Contraction and pressure on the testes, especially in the evening after lying down.— Sweat on the scrotum.—Lasciviousness, with weakness of sexual power.—Absence of sexual desire, with painful un- easiness and pressure on the pubis.—Erection during every evacuation. Catamenia.—Catamenia premature and too violent, every ten or fifteen days.—Blood of the catamenia black, mixed with clots.—"During the catamenia, heaviness, heat, and pain in the head, photophobia, colic and contractive pains, anxiety, palpitation of the heart, and great fatigue even to fainting.—* Cramp-like and compressive pains in the region of the uterus, with attacks of choking ; pressure and 284 IGNATTA AMARA. lying on the back mitigate the pain.—Cramp in the matrix during the catamenia.—Corrosive and purulent leucorrhaea, preceded by contractive pressure in the uterus. Larynx.—Voice feeble with inability to speak loud.— Catarrh with coryza and head-ache.—Cough, excited by a sensation of constriction at the pit of the throat, as from the vapour of sulphur.—Obstinate, nocturnal cough.—Dry cough, sometimes with fluent coryza.—Cough continuing equally day and night.— Dry hoarse cough.—Spasmodic shaking cough.—Short cough, a* if from a feather in the throat, becoming more violent the more one coughs.— Hoarse dry cough, excited by a tickling above the sto- mach. Chest.—Difficulty of respiration and oppression on the chest, especially at night.—Difficult respiration, as if hin- dered by a weight upon the chest.—Shortness of breath when walking, and cough as soon as one stands still.— *Sighing respiration.—Choking when running.—Pressure on the chest.—Constriction of the chest.—Shootings in the chest and sides, excited by flatulency.—Palpitation of the heart at night, with shootings in the heart, or else in the morning on waking, as well as when meditating and dur- ing repose.—Beating in the chest. Trunk.—Violent pains in the loins, like shootings, pull- ings, or the squeezing of a claw.—"Throwing backwards of the back (from convulsions).—Shootings, as if from knives, from the loins to the thighs.—Stiffness of the nape of the neck.—Pressive pain in the glands of the neck.— Enlarged glands, like nodosities in the neck. Arms.—* Insupportable pains in the bones and joints of the arms, as if the flesh were being loosened, or with a par- alytic sensation of pain of dislocation.—"Convulsive jerk- ings in the arms and in the fingers.—Tearing in the arms, excited by cold air.—Tension in the wrist.—Hot sweat of the hands.—Sensation of torpor and searching in the arms, at night in bed. Legs.—Cutting, tearing pains in the posterior surface of the thighs, after fatiguing the muscles.—Heaviness of the legs and feet, with tension in the legs and calves of the legs when walking.—Heat of the knee, with coldness of the nose.—"Convulsive jerkings of the legs.—Stiffness of the knees and feet.—Painful sensibility of the soles of the feet, when walking.—Shootings and pain, as from ulcera- tion in the soles of the feet.—Sensation of burnino- in the heels at night, on placing them near one another.—Sensa- tion of burning in the corns. INDIGO. 285 95.—INDIGO. IND.—Indigo plant.—A remedy as yet very little known.—Annals of Thinks. [It has been noticed, that after the use of indigo for several weeks, pa- tients are easily thrown into slight convulsions, and become affected with eubsullus tendinum. Jt has been used principally in epilepsy and with par- tial success ; it seems most efficacious in Epilepsia abdominalis, and E. ulerina. It deserves attention in Nephralgia Ed.] GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Pains which disappear en- tirely, or! at least reappear only in a very mitigated de- gree, after resting on the part affected, or after scratching. —Shooting and tearing pains in the limbs, in the afternoon and evening.—Furunculi.—Desire to sleep in the evening and disturbed sleep at night.—At night, anxious waking, and with a start.—Anxious dreams—Predominance of coldness.—Ill-disposed, sad and indolent humour. Head—Fjeces—Sensation as if the head were larger and occupied more space.—Shooting and tearing pains deeply in the brain.—Noise and beatings in the head.— Heat and bubbling in the occiput, as if produced by boiling water.—Sensation in the crown of the head, as if the hair was being torn out.—Convulsive twitching and quivering of the eye-lids which impede the sight.—Tearing in and behind the ears, as well as in the lower jaw.—Tearing, piercing and gnawing pains in the bones of the face and especially in the inferior maxilla.—Congestion to the face with burning cheeks.—Epistaxis, with loss of sight.— Tearing and cutting pains in the bones and cartilages of the nose.—Torpor of the interior of the mouth in the morning after waking.—Sensation of burning on the tongue and in the palate.—Spitting of sanguineous saliva.—Empty eructations.—Eructations having the taste of ink.—Sweet- ish eructations.—Sensation in the stomach, as if one were fasting.—Loose evacuations, with pinchings in the abdo- men and strong desire to evacuate. Chest and Extremities.—Suffocating cough, exciting vomiting in the evening, before and after lying down.— Rumbling and grumbling in the chest at every inspiration. —Shooting pains in and round the mammae.—Tearing pains in the fore-arms, from the elbow to the fingers, which change their place on motion.—Convulsive jerkings in the arms.—Veins of the hands red, inflamed and tight.—Shoot- ing and tearing pains in the upper extremities.—Tearing in the lower extremities, especially in the toes.— Great lassitude of the lower extremities n the evening, and which is felt even after lying down. 286 IODIUM. 95.—IODIUM. IOD.—Iodine.—Hahnemann.—Duration of effect: in some cases 7 weeks. Antidotes : Ars. 1 camph. chin. coff. hep. phos. spong. sulph. Compare with : Ars. cocc coff. con. cupr. dig mere. phos. rhus. spong. sulph. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Allowing ourselves to be guided by the totality of symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be used, appear to be :—Inveterate arthritis ; Evil effects from the abuse of mercury ; Scrofulous and lymphatic affections; Obstruction and induration of the glands; Atrophy of scrofulous children; Rachitic affec- tions ; Rheumatic affections ; Tetters ; Scrofulous ophthal- mia and otitis; Blepharophthalmia; Crusta lacteal; Sali- vation, with ulcers in the mouth, from the abuse of mer- cury; Abdominal obstruction ; Abdominal phthisis ; Scrof- ulous and arthritic buboes; Dyspepsia; Amenorrhoea'?; Leucorrhcea; Galactorrhoea ; Cronic laryngitis, with ulcer- ation; Chronic catarrh ; Grippe ; Hooping-cough ; Inflam- matory swelling of the knee; Goitre; White swelling; Hy- darthra, &c, &c. [Iodine is found in the Spongia, Gorgonia, Doris, Venus, and Sepia, among animals. Lately an insect has been found near Ascoli, in Italy, containing Iodine; it emits when disturbed a yellow fluid, smelling strongly of Iodine. Recently it has also been detected in the oil of Cod's liver. A considerable number of the Algae yield it: especially, the Fucus serratus, F. Vesiculosus,, and F. nodosus, Sec, SfC Among the pathological changes induced by Iodine, we may mention :—profuse salivation ; stimulation and subse- quent disease of all the glands in the cavity of the mouth, of the pancreas, testicles, mammae, viz : diminution in size of the two latter ; Enlargement and reddening of the liver; inflammation of the spleen; fidgetiness or restless- ness of the limbs so that they can scarcely be kept quiet, numbness and heaviness in all the limbs, heaviness of the head, inebriation, followed by intense head-ache, spasms, tremors, or paralysis of the limbs, &c. Iodine also excites haemorrhage from almost every organ, especially from the uterus aid lungs, also from the haemorrhoidal vessels; it causes large livid petechiae over the whole body, with bleeding from almost every pore, and from the nose and mouth, attended with extreme emaciation and prostration, and a dissolute, pale and thin condition of the blood, in fact producing the worst form of Purpura hemorrhagica. The principal action of the Iodine seems to be upon the lymphatic and venous systems ; and persons with a yel IODIUM. 287 lowish, dingy or even brownish and smoked appearance of the skin, who are short and corpulent, seem to be most readily influenced by it. It deserves particular attention in enlargement and induration of the liver and spleen; in inflammatory enlargement of the mesenteric glands ; in chronic inflammation of the pancreas, characterized by a permanent, but periodically exacerbated, burning pain in the epigastrium, extending to the right and backwards to- wards the spine, accompanied from time to time with eruc- tation, which in course of time increases to vomiturition and vomiting of a tou<;h, albuminous, acid-tasting saliva, in large quantities, often as much as several coffee cups full at a time, and which is apparently composed of gastric and pancreatic juice ; also in scrofulous marasmus and hectic fever; in enlargement and induration of the testi- cles and prostate gland ; in menorrhagia and leucorrhaea; in influenza with fever and spitting of blood ; in chronic catarrhs ; suppuration of the lungs ; in violent dry coughs from tubercles in the lungs ; in chronic inflammation and induration of the uterus; in active phagaedenic ulceration ; in chronic enlargement of the tonsils; in enlargement of the ovaries ; in erysipelas, chilblains, in burns and scalds, &c, &c. Ed.] OCT See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Unsettled pains in the joints.—^Tearing in the limbs, and especially in the joints, chiefly at night.—Sensation of torper in the limbs.—Convul- sive jerkings and twitchings of the tendons.—*Deviation of the bones.—This medicine acts in an exciting manner upon the glandular system, the stomach, the liver, &c, and ex- cites secretion in these organs.—Swelling and induration of the glands.—Hemorrhage from different organs.—Powerful over-excitement of the whole nervous system.—Ebullition of blood, and pulsation over the whole body, augmented by the slightest exertion.—Trembling of the limbs.—Tottering walk.—*Great weakness, "even speaking excites perspira- tion.—Atrophy and emaciation until reduced to a skeleton.— QZdematous swelling, even of the whole body. Skin.—Skin dry, _or clammy, moist and of a dirty yel- low.—Tetters—Panaris. Sleep.—Agitated dreams.—*Nocturnal sweat. Fever.—Shivering, even in a warm room.—Increase of bodily heat.—Fugitive heat.—Acid perspiration in the morning.—Pulse quick, small and hard.—Fever with con- sumption. Moral Symptoms.—Lachrymose disposition and mental 288 IODIUM. rfe/ec^'ott.-Melancholy hypochondriasis, sadness, heart-rend.- ing and anxiety.—Anxious apprehensions.—Restless agita- tion, which prevents the continuation of standing or sleep- ing.—Excessive mental excitement, with great susceptibility.— Illusions of sentiment.—Loquacity and immoderate gaiety. Hesitation and irresolution.—Indolence of mind, with great repugnance to all intellectual labour.—Fixedness, immov- ableness of thought.—Delirium. Head.—Perplexity of the head.—*Inthe morning, diz- ziness.—Head-ache in hot air, as well as from the prolonged movement of a carriage, or from a long walk, and aggra- vated by noise and speech.—Pain, as from a bruise in the brain, with want of strength in the body, as if from para- lysis.—Acute pressive pains in the forehead.—Congestion to the head, with *beating in the brain. Eyes—Pains in the sockets.—Sensation of depression above the eyes, as if they were deeply sunk in the socket, in the evening.—*Pain as from excoriation in the eyes.—In- flammation of the eyes, sometimes after taking cold.— Swelling of the eyelids.—Dirty yellowish colour of the sclerotica.—Weeping.—Convulsive movements and trem- bling of the eyelids.—Weak sight.—Diplopia.—Sparks and scintillation before the eyes. Ears.—*Buzzing in the ears.—Hardness of hearing.— Sensitiveness to noise. Nose.—Epistaxis.—Red, burning spot on the nose, be- low the eyes.—Stoppage of the nose, secretion of mucus more abundant than usual. Face.'—Complexion pale, yellowish or soon turning brown.—Frequent and sudden redness of the face, with sensation of burning in the ears.—Face sunk, with eyes dejected.—Jerking of the muscles of the face.—Ulcer on the cheek, with swelling of the contiguous glands.—Swell- ing of the sub-maxillary glands. Teeth.—Pressive pains in the molares.—Teeth yellow and covered with mucus, in the morning-.—Inflammatory swelling and bleeding of the gums.—Ulcer on the gums, with swelling of the cheek.—*Softening of the gums. Mouth.—Aphthae in the mouth.—*Ulcersin the mouth. —Pain and swelling of the glands of the exterior of the mouth.—Exhalation of putrid odour from the mouth.__* Salivation.—* Tongue loaded with a thick coating. Throat.—Sore-throat with pressive pain, when not swallowing.—Permanent constriction of the gullet and im- peded deglutition.—Inflammation of the gullet with sen- sation of burning and scraping. iodium. 289 Appetite.—Disagreeable saponaceous, or bitter salt taste.—Increased thirst.—Appetite variable, at one time *bulimy, at another -absence of appetite.—Unusual hunger, with amelioration after a meal.—-Great weakness of diges- tion. Stomach.—Eructations, generally acid, with burning sensation.—Pyrosis, especially after undigested food.—*Fre- quent nausea.—Violent vomitings, renewed by eating.—Vom- iting of bilious matter, or of yellowish mucus.—Excessive pains in the stomach, with bilious evacuations.—Pressure on the stomach after every meal.—Cramp-like gnawing, or burning pains in the stomach.—Inflammation in the stom- ach.—Pulsations in the epigastrium. Abdominal Region.—Abdominal pains,which return after every meaL—Inflation of the abdomen.—Enlargement of the abdomen, which renders it impossible to lie down without the danger of suffocation.—Hard swelling of the spleen.— Cramp-like pains in the abdomen.—*Violent colic.—Pains in the abdomen, like those of labour.—Swelling and inflam- mation of the mesenteric glands.—*Trembling in the abdo- men, from the pit of the stomach to the periphery, with increased heat,—Swelling of the inguinal glands.—* Incar- ceration of flatulency. Fjeces.—Hard, knotty faeces.—*Constipation.—Loose soft evacuations^ sometimes whitish, ^alternating with con- stipation.—Evacuations of the consistence of pap.—Violent frothy diarrhoea, or composed of sanguineous mucus.—Dys- enteric evacuations of thick mucus, or sometimes purulent with retention of stercoral matter.—In the evening, sensa- tion of burning in the anus. Urine.—Suppressed secretion of urine.—Copious and frequent flow of urine.—* Emission of urine at night.—Urine of a deep colour, or yellowish green, or milky, or acrid and corrosive.—Parti-coloured cuticle on the urine. Membra Virilia.—Sexual desire increased.—Painful pullings in the anterior part of the penis.—Swelling and hardness of the testes.—Hardness of the prostate gland. Catamenia.—*Catamenia, at one time too late, at another too soon.—Metrorrhagia.—Weakness, palpitation of the heart, and many sufferings, before, during and after the catamenia.—Induration (and cancer 1)of the uterus.— Corroding leucorrhea.—Flaccidity and atrophy of the breasts. Larynx.—Insupportable hoarseness and crawling in the throat, especially in the morning.—*Inflammation of the throat and trachea, with contractive sore pain.—Copious secretion of Vol. I. 25 290 IODIUM---IPECACUANHA. mucus in the trachea, with frequent hawking.—*Dry cough, with pressure.—Shooting and sensation of burning in the chest.—* Cough in the morning.—*Cough, with expectoration of abundant and sometimes sanguineous mucus, pains in the chest and fever.—"Cough resembling hooping cough,ex- cited by an insupportable tickling in the chest, with anguish before the paroxysm, and excessive emaciation. Chest.—*Difficulty of respiration and dyspnoea.—Suffo- cation.— Shootings in the left side, when breathing.—* Shortness of breath, especially when going up stairs.— Weakness of the chest.—Congestion to the chest.—* Vio- lent, cramp-like palpitation of the heart, increased to the highest degree by the least exertion.—Burning, shooting tension in the integuments of the chest. Trunk.—Cramps in the back.—Tension in the neck.— Swelling of the exterior of the neck.—Swelling of the neck when speaking.—Swelling of the glands of the neck,nape and arm-pits.—Hard and large goitre.—Sensation of constant constriction in the goitre.—Yellowishspots on the neck and redness, as if from ecchymosis. Arms.—Osteocopous pains in the arms, aggravated when one is lying down, and disturbing the sleep.—"Las- situde in the arms in the morning, in bed.—Convulsive movements and trembling of the arms, hands and fingers.— Numbness of the fingers.—Tearing pains in the fingers.— Jerking of the tendons of the fingers.—Panaris.— Constant coldness of the hands, which are covered with a cold sweat while working.—Carpologia. Legs.—Cramp-like pain in the legs when seated.— Heaviness, swelling, trembling and paralysis of the legs.— Rheumatic pullings in the thighs and knees.—"Inflamma- tory swelling of the knee, with tearing pains and suppur- ation.—'Dropsical swelling of the knee.— White swelling. —Cramps in the feet, especially at night.—Jerkings of the tendons of the feet.—Acrid and corrosive sweat of the feet. 97.—IPECACUANHA. IPEC—Ipecacuanha.—Hahnemann.—Duration of effect: sometimes for 5 days. Antidotes : Arn. ars. chin.—It is used as an antidote against -• alum. arn. ars. chin. cupr. dulc. fer. laur. op. tabac. tart. Compare with : Aeon. alum. arn. ars. calc. carb-veg. cham. chin. cin. cocc. croc. cupr. dros. dulc./er. ign. laur. n-vom. op. phos. puis, sabin. suit. tart, veratr.-Ipec, when otherwise indicated, is sometimes suita- ble after : aeon. arn. ars. and veratr.—After ipec, arn. ars. chin. cocc. ign. n-vom. are sometimes suitable. CLINICAL REMARKS.—-Guided by the totality of IPECACUANHA. 291 symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be em- ployed will be found to be :—Affections, principally of chil- dren and of fair persons (of a sensual temperament) ; Bad effects from the abuse of quinine, or of fat pork; Affec- tions caused by taking cold, indigestion, or debauch; Cramps and convulsions, tetanus, and other spasmodic af- fections, especially in children and hysterical persons; Hemorrhagia; Miliary eruptions, (especially in parturient females,) and bad effects from the repercussion of that eruption; Evil consequences of apoplexy; Gastric and bilious/ezjers / Intermittent fevers ; Slow fevers ; Megrim; Gastric uneasiness, especially when caused by indigestion, or by abuse of coffee, or fat pork; Asiatic and sporadic cho- lera ; Haematemesis ; Melaena ; Gastric affections, with vom- iting and diarrhoea ; Enteritis ; Gastritis \ ; Hysterical ab- dominal spasms; Diarrhoea, especially in children; Gastric affections of pregnant women ; Puerperal fever ; Metror- rhagia ; Laryngitis 1; Grippe 1 ; Convulsive or suffocating cough; Hooping-cough; Suffocating catarrh; Asthma of Millar, and other asthmatic affections ; Cramps in the chest, especially those which proceed from the vapour of arsenic or copper. [It deserves attention in the chronic, dry, spasmodic cough, at'e ided with dyrpnoea and vomiting, and trouble- some tickling in the larynx, so common after croup; in chronic inflammation of the air-tubes; in influenza with violent straining and retching with the cough ; in asthma caused by the suppression of nettle-rash, &c, &c. Ed.] ItT See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Pain, as from a bruise in all the bones.—Crawling, like numbness in the joints.— * Attacks of uneasiness, with dislike to all food, and excessive and sudden debility.—*Bleeding from different organs.— "Too great sensibility to cold and heat.—*Tetanus, attacks of spasms and convulsions of different kinds, *sometimes with bending backwards of the head, "and distortion of the features, or with loss of consciousness, pale and bloated face, half closed eyes, convulsive movements of the mus- cles of the face, lips, eyelids and of the limbs, at times with cries, desire to vomit, and rattling of mucus in the chest.—Excessive emaciation. Skin.— Miliary eruptions.—Violent itching in the skin of the thighs and arms.—During nausea, necessity to scratch oneself till vomiting ensues. Sleep.—Sleep, with the eyes half-open.-—Agitated sleep, with groans.—Jerking of the limbs during sleep.— 292 IPECACUANHA. Frightful dreams, with frequent starts and terror during sleep. Fever.—Shuddering, with coldness of the limbs and face.—Coldness, especially of the hands and feet, with cold and copious perspiration on these parts.—Aggravation of the shivering from external heat.—Before the shiverings, uneasiness, stretching and lassitude, with cold sweat on the forehead, or coldness or shivering in the ears.—Sud- den flushes of heat when in a room, with sweat and verti- go.—"Thirst only during the shivering or chill.—"Fever, manifesting itself by much shivering with little heat, or by much heat with little shivering; or with nausea,vomit- ing, and other gastric symptoms, clean or loaded tongue, and constrictive oppression on the chest.— Fever in the evening with great inquietude, dry and troublesome heat, burning in the palms of the hands, and nocturnal sweat. Moral Symptoms.—Cries and howling (of children). —Anxiety and fear of death.—Moroseness, with contempt for everything.—Disdainful humour.—Desire for a number of things, without knowing exactly which.—Irritability and disposition to be angry.—Impatience.—Slowness of con- ception. Head.—Vertigo when walking, with tottering and stag- gering.—Pain, as if the cranium were bruised in all the bones of the head, extending as far as the root of the tongue.—*Attacks of head-ache, with nausea and vomiting. —Tearing in the forehead, excited or aggravated by being touched.—Lancinating head-ache, with heaviness of the head.—*Painful pressure on the forehead. Eyes and Nose.—Eyes red and inflamed.—Collection of mucus in the corners of the eyes.—Trembling of the eye-lids.—Dilated pupils.—Confused sight.—Epistaxis.—■ Loss of smell.—*Coryza, with stoppage of the nose. Face and Teeth.—Pale, earth-like, or yellowish colour of the face, which is bloated, with livid circles round the eyes.—"Convulsive jerkings in the muscles of the face.—Lips covered with small aphthae and eruptions.—Pain, as from excoriation in the lips.—Convulsive twitchings of the lips. —Redness of the skin round the mouth.—Odontalgia by fits, as if a tooth were being extracted. Mouth and Throat.—Painful sensibility of all parts of the mouth.—Profuse secretion of saliva.—Tongue loaded with a.white or yellowish coating.—Sore throat, during deglutition, as if from swelling of the pharynx.—Difficult deglutition, as from paralysis of the tongue and gullet. Appetite.—Insipid and clammy, or 'bitter taste, espe- ipecacuanha. 293 cially in the morning.—Sweetish taste, as if one had blood m the mouth.— Desire only for delicacies and things sweetened with sugar.—Adipsia.—Insipid taste of beer.— lobacco-smoke has a nauseous taste, and causes vomiting. Great repugnance and dislike to all food.—"Phlegm from the stomach. Stomach.—*Nausea, -as if proceeding from the stom- ach, with copious accumulation of saliva, violent itching in the skin, and empty eructations.—Inclination to vomit, especially after drinking any thing cold or after smoking. —* Vomiting of drink and undigested food, or else of bilious, greenish, or acid, or slimy, gelatinous matter, and some- times immediately after a meal.—Vomiting of blood.— Vomiting, with sweat, heat, fetid breath and thirst.— "Vomiting with diarrhea.—Vomiting as soon as one stoops. —"Vomiting of black matter, like pitch.—Sensation of exces- sive uneasiness in the stomach and epigastrium.—Sensation as if the stomach were empty and flaccid.—"Swelling in the region of the stomach.—Pinching round the epigastrium and in the region of the hypochondria.—"Pressure in the stomach with vomiting. Abdominal Region.—^Pinching in the abdomen, aggra- vated in the highest degree by movement, and ameliorated by repose.—"Pain, as from excoriation in the abdomen.— "Colic, with agitation, tossing and cries (in children).— "Colic, with cramp-like pains.—Cutting pains, in the um- bilical region, with shuddering.—Flatulent colic. Faeces.—Loose evacuations like matter in a state of fer- mentation. — Obstinate diarrhaea. — Loose evacuations, greenish, yellow, or lemon-coloured, of a putrid odour, or sanguineous, bilious and slimy.—Loose serous evacua- tions.— ^Diarrhoea with nausea, colic and vomiting.—Dy- senteric evacuations, with white flocks, and followed by tenesmus.—"Evacuation of black matter like pitch. Urine.—Turbid urine, with sediment like brick-dust.— Red and scanty urine.—Sanguineous urine, "with pains in the region of the bladder and of the navel, burning sensa- tion in the urethra, desire to vomit, and pain in the loins and pit of the stomach.—Discharge of pus from the ure- thra, with gnawing pain. Genital Organs.—Troublesome sensation, as if every thing were tending towards the genital parts and anus.— Metrorrhagia, with discharge of bright red and coagulated blood.—Catamenia premature and too strong. Larynx.—^Cough, especially at night, with painful shocks in the head and stomach, with disgust and inclina- 25* 294 ipecacuanha--KALI carbonicum. tion to vomit and vomiting.—*Dry cough, excited by a con- tractive tickling in the larynx, and extending to the extrem- ity of the bronchia, especially when lying on the left side. —*Cough, which resembles hooping-cough, with bleeding from the nose and mouth, and vomiting of food.—Cough, with spitting of blood, provoked by the least effort.—*Dry, shaking and spasmodic cough, with fits of suffocation, stiff- ness of the body and bluish face. Chest.—*Anxious and short respiration.—*Spasmodic asthma, with contraction of the larynx, and panting respira- tion.—Sighing respiration.—Oppression in the chest and shortness of breath, as if caused by having inhaled dust.— Loss of breath on the least movement.—Spasms in the chest.—Pain, as from excoriation in the chest.—Palpita- tion of the heart.—Red itching spots on the chest, with burning after scratching. Trunk and Extremities.—*Tetanic stiffness and bending of the back, backwards or forwards.—Swelling and suppura- tion in the nape of the neck.—"Convulsive jerking of the legs and feet.—Pain, as from dislocation, in the hip-joint, when sitting.—Nocturnal cramps in the muscles of the thigh.—Violent itching in the calves of the legs.—Ulcers, with a black base, on the legs. 98.—KALI CARBONICUM. KAL.—Sub-carbonate of Potash.—Hahnemann.—Durationof effect: for 50 days in some cases of chronic disease. Antidotes : Camph. coff'. nitr-spir. Compare with : Amm. amm-mur. ars. bov. bry. calc. camp, carb-veg. cham. chin. cofl'. graph, laur. magn. natr-m. nitr-ac. n-vom. phos. puis. ihus. sil. sulph.—Kali, when otherwise indicated, sometimes shows it- self efficacious after : Lye. natr-m.■, and nitr-ac.— Carb-veg. phos., and many other medicines, are sometimes suitable after Kali. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Guided by the totality of symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be used, appear to be :—Dropsical affections ; Anasarca ; Rheu- matic and arthritic affections; Paralysis; Obstruction of the glands ; Fainting fits and hysterical weakness ; Weak- ness caused by debilitating losses ; Slow fevers 1; Megrim ; Scald-head ; Wens on the head 1; Ophthalmia ; Ambly- opia amaurotica ; Parotitis; Hardness of hearing; Otitis and otorrhoea; Prosopalgia ; Dyspepsia, even with vomit- ing of food; Gastralgia; Hepatic pains (chronic hepa- titis 1); Spasmodic colic ; Ascites; Amenorrhea and dys- menorrhea of young girls (after natr. mur.) ; Pleuritis ; Tu- berculous phthisis ; Hydrothorax ; Haemoptysis; Spasmodic asthma; Pains in the loins from a fall. KALI CARBONICUM. 295 [Under the long continued use of Potash, the blood be- comes thinner and darker coloured, and loses its power of spontaneous coagulation when drawn from the body, and a state precisely similar to that of scurvy is brought on. It deserves attention in ulceration of the kidneys or bladder; in quotidian intermittent fever, and in dropsy after inter- mittent fever; in derangement of the stomach with con- gestion of the liver; in consumption; in inflammation and enlargements of the parotid glands and dropsy after scar- let fever; in obstinate intermittent fevers with frequent relapses and coupled with organic affections of the liver, spleen, lungs, &c.; in haemorrhoidal herpes; in renal and urinary calculi; in aneurysm, &c, &c. Ed.] EF See note, pas^e 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Painful sensibility of the extremities in whatever position they are placed.—Pres- sive pains in the joints.—*Spasmodic contraction of some parts.—*Drawing and tearing pains in the limbs, especially during repose, with swelling of the parts affected.—Shoot- ing pains in the joints, the muscles and internal organs.— Swelling and hardness of the glands.—*Dropsical affections of the internal organs, or of the whole skin of the body.— The pains often manifest themselves towards two o'clock in the morning, and are then more violent than by day when moving about.—Shivering immediately after the pains.—Remaining in the open air greatly aggravates some sufferings, (especially the febrile symptoms,) while others are mitigated by it.—Spasmodic attacks and convulsive jerkings of the limbs and muscles.—Nocturnal attacks of epilepsy.—Aptness in feeling pain as from fatigue in the back.—Tendency in the limbs to become benumbed when lying down.—Paralysis.—General sensation of emptiness in the whole body, as if it were hollow.—Heaviness and indo- lence.—Weakness, as if on the point of losing conscious- ness, and trembling especially after a walk.—Attacks of weakness, with nausea, sensation of heat and lassitude in the pit of the stomach, vertigo and dizziness.—Strong agi- tation of blood, with beating in the arteries.—Excessive dread of the open air and of currents of air.—*Great ten- dency to take cold, especially after heating exercise. Skin.—Painful sensibility of the skin, as if it were ulce- rated.—Skin dry with obstructed perspiration.—Sensation of burning, or burning and lancinating itching in the skin.— *Itching, burning, yellow or red spots on the body, some- times with running after being scratched.—Miliary nettle- rash.—Gnawing vesicles.—Chilblains of a reddish blue.— 296 KALI CARBONICUM. *Warts.—Tetters.—Bleeding of the ulcers, especially at night. Sleep.—Great desire to sleep by day and early in the even- ing.—Half-sleep at night—Difficulty of falling asleep,— During sleep jerkings, tears, talking, and starts with fright. —*Agitated sleep, with frequent, anxious, and frightful dreams.—Dreams of robbers, death, danger, serpents, sick- ness, spectres, devils, &c.—Attacks of anguish at night, gastric sufferings, pains in the stomach and precordial re- gion, colic, flatulency, diarrhoea, frequent erections and pollutions, asthmatic sufferings, night-mare and cramps in the calves of the legs. Fever.—Fever in the evening, with thirst, often accom- panied by tooth-ache.—Shivering immediately after the pains.—Frequent shuddering by day.—Heat in the morning in bed, with pains in the loins and chest.—Want of perspi- ration and inability to perspire, or else strong disposition to perspire during intellectual labour, or during a walk.— Nocturnal sweats. Moral Symptoms.—Sadness with tears.—Anxious ap- prehension and inquietude, especially about one's health, with fear of not being cured.—Irresolution, timidity, and timorous character.—Fear in the evening in bed.—Peevish humour, discontent and impatience.—Changeable humour, at one time mildness and tranquility, at another passion and rage.—* Disposition to be frightened.—*Irascible and passionate humour.—*Loss of memory.—Misapplying words and syllables.—Sudden loss of consciousness. Head.—* Perplexity and dulness in the head.— Vertigo, in the morning, evening, and after a meal, as well as on turning the head or the body hastily.—Vertigo with tot- tering.—"Vertigo, which seems to proceed from the sto- mach.—*Head-ache from the motion of a carriage, when sneezing, coughing, or in the morning.—One-sided head- ache, with nausea and vomiting, so as to become insupport- able, aggravated by the slightest movement.—Violent head-ache across the eyes.—* Pressive head-ache in the occi- put, especially during a walk, with irritability, or else in the forehead with photophobia.—Tearing and drawing pains in the head.—Lancinating head-ache, chiefly in the temples.—*Congestion of the head, with beating and buz- zing.—Trembling in the head, and sensation as if it con- tained something moveable.—The head-aches are mitigated by pressing the forehead.—Sensation, as if from a blow in the head, which causes one to incline to one side, with dizziness.—*Great tendency to take cold in the head.__ KALI CARBONICUM. 297 Painful and purulent tumours in the hairy scalp.—"Scabby eruption on the hairy scalp.—*Falling off and dryness of the hair.—"Perspiration on the forehead in the morning.— Large, yellowish and furfuraceous spots on the fore- head. Eyes.—Pressive and tearing pain in the eyes.—Biting and smarting sensation of burning and shootings in the eyes. —Redness and inflammation of the eyes, with pain when reading by candle-light.—Swelling of the eyes and of the eye-lids, with difficulty in opening them.—Excoriation and suppuration in the corners of the eyes.—* Agglutination of the eye-lids, especially in the morning.—Lachrymation.— Eyes dull and downcast.—Propensity to stare.—*Spots dancing before the sight, when reading, or looking into the open air.—Colours of the rainbow, spots, and sparks before the sight.—Vivid and painful brightness, before the eyes, when they are closed, extending deeply into the brain, in the evening after lying down.—Photophobia.—*Dazzling of the eyes by the light. Ears.—*Shootings in the ears, sometimes from within outwards.—Inflammatory swelling of the ears, with dis- charge of pus or of liquid cerumen.—Ulcer in the ears.— Excoriation and suppuration behind the ears.—*Inflamma- Hon and swelling of the parotides.—Excessive acuteness of hearing, in the evening, after lying down.— Weak and con- fused hearing.—Singing, tingling, and buzzing in the ears. Nose.—Swelling of the nose, with redness and burning heat.—Nose red and coveted with pimples.—Ulceration of the interior of the nose.—Epistaxis in the morninj.—Dull smell.—Coryza and stoppage of the nose, sometimes with secretion of yellowish green mucus and constant want of air.—Flowing coryza, with secretion of sanguineous mu- cus.—Secretion of purulent mucus from the nose.—Dry- ness of the nose. Face.—* Yellow, ~or pale and sickly colour of the face, with sunken eyes which are surrounded by a livid circle.— Great redness of the face, alternating with paleness.— 'Drawing pain in the face.—Tearing in the bones of the face.—Flushes of the face.—* Bloatedness of the face.—Erup- tion of pimples on the face, with swelling and redness of the cheeks.—Swelling between the eyebrows.—Pimples on the eyebrows.— Warts on the face.—Ephelides.—Lips thick and ulcerated.—Lips cracked and exfoliating.— Cramp-like sensation in the lips.—Cramps in the jaw.— Swelling of the lower jaw and sub-maxillary glands. Teeth.—Odontalgia, only when eating, or in the morn- 298 KALI CARBONICUM. ing on waking, or else excited by cold things (water) in the mouth.—Odontalgia, with soreness of the bones of the face, and drawing, jerking, or tearing pains, especially in the evening in bed.—*Lancinating pains in the teeth, "with swelling of the cheek.—Crawling, piercing, pricking and gnawing in the teeth.—Inflammatory swelling and ulcera- tion of the gums. Mouth.—Fetid exhalation from the mouth.— Sensation of dryness in the mouth, with copious accumulation of sa- liva.—Excoriation and blisters in the interior of the mouth and on the tongue.—Swelling of the tongue. Throat.—Sore throat with lancinating pain on swallow- ing.—Deglutition impeded by inertia of the muscles of the gullet.—*Copious accumulation of mucus on the palate and in the throat.—*Hawking up of mucus. ApptTiTE.—*Bitter or acid taste.—*Unpleasant taste in the mouth, as from derangement of the stomach.—Putrid, sweetish taste, or as if there were blood in the mouth.— Bulimy.—*Great desire for sugar _or acids.—Disgust for brown bread, which lies heavy on the stomach.—Milk does not agree.—After a meal, desire to sleep, paleness of the face, shivering, head-ache, ill humour, nausea, sour eructa- tions and pyrosis, colic, inflation of the abdomen and flatu- lency.—After taking hot food (pastry or soup), pinchings and uneasiness in the abdomen. Stomach.—Frequent eructations.—Sour eructationsand regurgitation.—Pyrosis.—Nausea to such a degree as to cause loss of consciousness, sometimes during a meal.— * Anxious nausea, with desire to vomit, "especially after a meal, or after mental emotion.—Inclination to vomit in the evening.—Vomiting of food and acid matter, with prostration of strength, as if one were going to fall down in a faint.—Nocturnal vomiting of food.—*Fulness in the stomach, especially after a meal.—Pressure in the epigas- trium.—"Tension above the stomach.—Contractive cramps in the stomach, renewed by all kinds of food and drink, or else at night with vomiting.—*Pinching, -searching and shooting in the stomach.—Lancinations in the epigastrium and hypochondria, which obstruct respiration.—Pulsations in the epigastrium. Abdominal Region.—"Pain in the liver when stooping, as if it were galled.—Burning pain, pressure and shootings in the liver.—Pressure and shootings in the region of the loins.—Pains in the abdomen with frequent eructations.__ *Pressure in the abdomen, "especially when stooping.—Great inflation of the abdomen, especially after a meal.— lnqui- KALI CARBONICUM. 299 etude and *heaviness in the abdomen.—Contractive and spas- modic abdominal spasms.—Colic, resembling labour pains, -sometimes with pains in the loins.—shootings in the whole abdomen.—"Inertia and *coldness in the abdomen.—"Dropsi- cal swelling of the abdomen.—Drawing and shooting in the groins.—"Abundant production and * incarceration of flatu- lency.— Obstructed or *immoderate emission of flatus, some- times preceded by pressive pain in the rectum. Faeces.—* Constipation, sometimes every second day.— Obstruction of the abdomen and difficult evacuation of feces of too large a size.—Inactivity of the rectum.—Useless desire * to evacuate and insufficient evacuation.—Diarrhea, mostly in the evening and at night, with griping and great physi- cal debility.—Discharge of mucus or of blood during the evacuation.—Discharge of teniae and lumbrici.—Anxiety before the evacuation.—*Itching in the anus.—Tearing, shooting, cutting and burning pains in the anus and rectum, especially after evacuation.—* Hemorrhoidal tumours, pain- ful, bleeding, and with shooting pain.—Excoriation and pustulous eruption around the anus. Urine.—* Frequent desire to make water, -and scanty emis- sion of fiery urine.—*Frequent emission of urine, day and night.—Cutting pains in the vesica from right to left.— Burning sensation in the urethra, especially when making water. Genital Organs.—Tension, tearing and pulling in the glans and penis.—Itching and pain, as from a bruise in the scrotum.—*Hot swelling of the testes -and of the sperma- tic chord.—*Excessive increase or absence of sexual desire.— •Repugnance to coition.—Want of erections, or too frequent andpainfal erections.—Absence of pollutions, or immoderate pollutions.—* After coition and pollutions, weakness of the body, "but especially of the eyes. Catamenia.—Repugnance to coition in women.— Du- ring coition, pinching and pain, excoriation in the va- gina.—Constant sensation of bearing down.—Burning pain and shootings in the vulva.—"Erosion, *itching and gnawing in the genital parts and interior of the parts.—*Catamenia premature or too weak.—*Suppression of catamenia.—Hae- morrhage of pregnant women.—*Corrosive menstrual flux. —*During the catamenia, itching eruption and excoriation between the thighs.—Gastric symptoms, and agitated and anxious sleep during the catamenia—*Leucorrhea, -some- times with violent pains in the loins and pains like those of labour.—Yellowish leucorrhcea, with itching and sensa- tion of burning in the vulva. 300 KALI CARBONICUM. Larynx.—*Hoarseness and roughness in the throat, with violent sneezing.—Aphonia.—Easy choking.—Sensation, as if there were a plug in the larynx.—Cough from moving the arm, when playing the violin.—Cough excited by a tick- ling,—Dry cough, especially at night, and in the evening ; with expectoration in the morning.—Cramp-like cough, with inclination to vomit and vomiting, especially in the morning.—Shootings in the throat or the chest while coughing.—Cough with difficult expectoration.—*Puru- lent expectoration with the cough.—Hooping-cough. Ch* st.—*Difficu]t respiration.—Shortness of breath in the morning.—*Respiration impeded when walking quickly, or in the morning.—"Spasmodic asthma.—Anxious oppres- sion of the chest.—Obstructed respiration at night.— "Wheezing in the chest.— Oppression of the chest, as if from hydrothorax.—Pain in the chest when speaking.—*Cramp in the chest, "sometimes when coughing.—Sensation in the chest, as if the heart were contracted.—Pressure, burning pain and shootings in the chest, sometimes when breathing. —Cutting pains in the chest.—Palpitation of the heart, sometimes with anguish, especially in the morning ou waking, with ebullition of blood. Trunk.—*Pains in the loins, "also after a fall.—Pain, as from a bruise in the back during repose.—*Drawing pains in the back, which often proceed from the loins.—^Stiffness between the shoulder-blades.—*Stiffness of the nape of the neck —"Weakness of the muscles of the neck.—Goitre.— Hard swelling of the axillary glands and of those of the neck, —Sweat under the arm-pits. Arms.—Swelling of the shoulder, with pain.—Pressure on the shoulder.—Tension, tearing, pulling in the muscles and joints of the shoulders, arms, hands and fingers.—Cold stiffness and *numbness in the arms, "especially in the cold, or after violent exercise. -* Powerlessness of the ar/ws-andthe hands, "especially in the morning in bed.—Frequent jerk- ings in the arms.—*Stiffness in the joint of the elbow.— "Paralytic pain in the wrist.—Shootings in the wrist and fingers during movement.—*Trembling of the hands when writing.—Coldness of the hands.—Skin of the hands rough and cracked.—Torpor and numbness in the extremi- ties of the fingers.—Burning pain in the extremities of the fingers.—Gnawing vesicles on the fingers.—Jerking of the fingers when sewing. Legs.—* A cute pullings, especially at night, in the joints and bones of the hips, legs, feet and toes.—Pressive pullings and tearings in the legs and feet.—Uneasiness in KALI CARBONICUM--KALI CHLORICUM. 301 the legs in the evening.—Torpor and numbness of the legs. —"Crawling shuddering on the tibia.—"Swelling of the legs and *feet.—#Stiffness of the foot joint.—Shootings in the joints of the foot.—*Coldfeet, even at night in bed.— Numbness of the feet after a meal.—* Fetid perspiration from the feet.—Burning pain and *shootings in the ball of the great toe.—*Corns on the feet, painful when touched. i —^^——■—^——~———™* 99.—KALI CHLORICUM. KAL-CH.—Chloride of potash.—Archives of Staff.—Duration of effect: several weeks in chronic affections. Antidotes: Bell. 1 puis. ? Compare with : Amm. arn. bell. cal. cocc. kal. natr-m. nitr. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Allowing ourselves to be guided by the totality of symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be employed, will be found to be :—Scorbu- tic affections; Obstruction in the abdominal viscera and haemorrhoidal sufferings'?; Prosapalgia; Melancholy1.; Asthmatic sufferings 1; &c, &c. ££?" See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Pulling and tearing pains in the extremities.—Frequent jerkings in the body, and es- pecially in the head.—Great weakness and lassitude.— Itching over the whole body, especially in the evening in bed.—Miliary eruptions.—Itching pimples.—Exceedingly chilly disposition, constant shivering and shuddering, some- times with stiffness of the hand.—Constant coldness of the feet.—Pulse frequent and accelerated..-Agitated sleep, some- times with loud snoring, great difficulty of respiration, and lying on the back.—Dreams, heavy, anxious, or trouble- some.—Dreams with a prediction of death, or of death from typhus fever.—Lascivious dreams with pollutions.—111 hu- mour and anxiety with tension in the precordial region, mitigated by bleeding at the nose.—Sad, apathetic humour, with disgust of life and shivering, especially in the eve- ning. Head—Nose.—Head bewildered and confused.—Vertigo, with congestion of blood to the head after violent exercise. —Beer and wine easily intoxicate, a single glass is suffi- cent to deprive one of reason.—Continuous head-ache, especially in the evening.—Head-ache with vertigo.—Pains in the temples or occiput, extending sometimes even to the jaws.—Tension in the forehead, followed sometimes by coryza and sneezing.—Congestion of blood to the eyes.— Pressure, shootings and cramps in the eyes.—Flames and sparks before the eyes when coughing and sneezing.— Vol. I. 26 302 KALI CHLORICUM--KALI HYDRIODICUM. Violent coryza, with frequent sneezing and copious secre- tion of mucus.—Bleeding from the nose, even at night. pACE—Teeth.—*Drawing, cramp-like, tensive, pressive, and pulling pains in the muscles and bones of the face.— Shootings in the face.—Transient heat in the face.—Erup- tion of pimples on the face, forehead and between the lip and the chin.—Swelling of the lips.—The teeth set on edge.—Pain in the teeth of the lower jaw.—Bleeding of the gums.—Gums of a pale-red colour. Mouth—Stomach.—Sensation of coldness in the tongue and throat.—Coated tongue.—Copious secretion of saliva and mucus in the mouth.—Sourish saliva.—Dryness, scra- ping and roughness in the throat.—Difficult deglutition.—■ Acid, bitter, salt, or empyreumatic taste in the mouth.— Attack of bulimy, sometimes mitigated by drinking cold water.—Frequent eructations of flatus.—Sour eructations. —Pressure in the stomach and precordial region, sometimes with desire to eructate, or with apathetic humour and shiv- erings.—Sensation of heat or coldness in the stomach.— Cutting pains in the region of the stomach. Abdominal Region—Genital Parts.—Frequent move- ments in the abdomen, with tendency to diarrhoea.—Much flatulency.—Slow, hard and dry evacuations.—Liquid, loose and sometimes mucus evacuations.—Painful diarrhoea.— Frequent desire to make water.—Turbid urine.—Frequent and violent erections.—Frequent pollutions, with lascivious dreams.—Itching in the scrotum and urethra. Chest—Extremities.—Hoarseness.—Violent rcough, sometimes with coryza.—Cough, like that excited by the vapour of sulphur, with dryness in the throat and chest.— Oppression on the chest, with sensation of constriction.— Congestion of blood to the chest.— Violent palpitation of the heart, sometimes with oppression on the chest and coldness of the feet, or with sensation of coldness- in the region of the heart.—Drawing pains and tearings in the fore-arms and wrists.—Extraordinary coldness of the arms. —Inflamed cracks in the nails.—Phlyctaenae and itching pimples on the back of the hands.—Violent shooting pains in the knee. 100.—KALI HYDRIODICUM. KAL-H.—Hydriodate of potash.—Hahtlaub and Thinks.—A medicine as yet very little known. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Tearing pains in the limbs. —-The majorityof the symptoms manifest themselves du- ring repose, and are dissipated by movement.—Very fre- KALI HYDRIODICUM. 303 quent yawnings.—Sleeplessness.—Disturbed nights, with waking with a start and fright.—Prevalence of cold or shiverings, with thirst.—Inquietude in the evening, with inclination to weep, as if some misfortune were anticipa- ted.—Tendency to be frightened.—Irascibility, passion, and quarrelsome humour. Head—Nose.—Heaviness in the head, with sorrowful disposition ; not knowing where to rest the head.—Violent, compressive or expansive head-aches, with sensation of coldness in the part affected, which is hot notwithstanding. —Digging or throbbing on one side of the forehead only.— Pain as from ulceration in the hairy scalp when scratching it.—Burning pains in the eyes, with photophobia.—Indis- tinct sight.—Otalgia, with shooting pains, tearing and great sensibility in the ear.—Tearing pains in the face, with swelling of the cheeks.—Paleness of the face.—Dry, itching tetters on the cheek.—Great sensibility of the nostrils.—Tearing and burning pain in the nostrils.—Ep- istaxis.—Stoppage of the nose, with discharge of corro- sive and burning serum. Face—Appetite.—Lips dry, cracked and coated, in the morning, with clammy mucus.—Pain as from ulceration in the teeth at night.—Odontalgia, aggravated by contact with any thing cold, mitigated by hot things.—Gums swol- len with lancinating pain, as from ulceration.—Burning and painful vesicles on the tongue.—Sanguineous saliva with sore mouth.—Exhalation of a fetid smell from the mouth, like that of an onion.—Lancinating sore throat during deglutition, sometimes with pressure, sometimes with pain as from ulceration.—Bitterness or sweetish bitterness in the mouth.—Rancid taste, after all kinds of food or drink. —Insipidity of food.—Constant tendency to discharge wa ter, like phlegm from the mouth, with repugnance to all food. Stomach and Abdominal Region.—Sensation of emp- tiness and. insipidity in the stomach, which is not removed by food.—Clucking, a kind of cries and borborygmus in the stomach.—Burning pressure in the stomach, which is not mitigated by eructating.—Burning and cutting abdo- minal pains, in the umbilical region, with sensation of insi- pidity in the stomach and eructation, after returning from a walk^—Painful distension of the abdomen.—Borboryg- mus in the abdomen, as if caused by something alive.— Pressure and sensation as if every thing were being forced towards the groins, or squeezing, as if from a claw, in these parts, as if something were going to issue from the 304 KALI HYDRIODICUM--KREOSOTUM. vagina.—Drawing in the lumbar region, as if there were something alive inside. F^ces—Catamenia.—Faeces hard, tenacious, difficult to evacuate.—Diarrhoea, with pain in the small of the back, as if it was broken, or as if the catamenia were on the point of appearing.—Urgent desire to make water, with copious emission day and night.—Catamenia more copious. —Acrid leucorrhoea, which excoriates the skin. Larynx—Extremities.—Dry cough, excited by con- stant irritation in the trachea, with hoarseness.—Tension and sensation of swelling in the shoulders, during move- ment and while resting.—Contraction of the fingers.— Pain in the hips, which produces lameness, with shootings at every step. 101.—KREOSOTUM. KRE.—Krtosote.—Wahle.—Duration of effect: from 4 to 5 days. Antidotes : n-vom. iod. 7 cham. ? Compare with : Ars. cham. chin, hep, iod. mere, mur-ac. nitr-ac. n-vom. petr. phos-ac. puis. sil. sulph. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Allowing ourselves to be guided by the ensemble of symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be employed, will be found to be :— Rheumatic and arthritic affections, even with swelling 1; Scrofulous affections ; Haemorrhagia ; Psoric eruptions ; Suppurations ? ; Gangrenous, cancerous, putrid ulcers, &c. 1 ; Wounds 1; Excoriations'?; Excoriation of bed- ridden patients 1; White and pustular tetters ; Scald-head 1; Plica polonica'? 1; Blepharophthalmia; Ophthalmia; Red pimples; Tetters on the face; Odontalgia; Scorbutic af- fection of the gumsl; Nasal and buccal haemorrhagia'?; Angina, with ulceration 11 ; Syphilitic angina 1?; Dys- pepsia 1; Gastralgia 1; Dysentery 1 ; Nausea of pregnant women ; Sufferings in consequence of cancer in the ute- rus; Metrorrhagia ; Dysmenorrhoea ; Leucorrhea ; Dispo- sition to abortion ; Chronic catarrh, principally in aged persons; Grippe; Phthisical sufferings'? ; Haemoptysis'?; Phthisis in the larynx 1 Diseases of the heart 1; Pains in the loins ; Coxalgia, &c, &c. Q^T See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Pom as from excoriation and ulceration; painful paralytic sensation; pulling and shooting pains.—Pinching pains, and *shootings, especial- ly in the joints.—Lassitude, heaviness, and *pain as from fatigue in all the limbs, "especially in the legs.—Shocks in the limbs, especially when asleep at night.—*Nocturnal KREOSOTUM. 305 pains.—Fainting-fits on waking in the morning.—Inclina- tion to faint in a warm room, with hot face and shortness of breath.—Attacks of stupor, with paleness and coldness in several parts, which seem then as if they were dead.— Pains as from a bruise or a contusion.—Excessive excite- ment of the whole body.— Restlessness in the whole body, especially during repose.—The pains appear most violent during repose. Skin.—Violent itching all over the body, especially toward the evening, and with burning sensation in the arms and legs, after scratching.—Burning itching by night and heat over the whole body.—Nettle-rash.—Eruption of tuberosities, like bug-bites, with violent itching, especially in the evening.—"White and pustular, dry or humid tetters, with violent itching in almost every part of the body. Sleep.—Great desire to sleep, with frequent yawnings, -sometimes with putrid taste in the mouth and want of ap- petite.—Fits of yawning, with shivering, weeping, pres- sive pains in the forehead, or lassitude.—* Constant inclina- tionto sleep.—Difficulty in going to sleep, caused by rest lessness of the whole body, or a sensation of fatigue, with pains in all the limbs.—*Disturbed sleep, "with tossing.— Frequent waking during the night.—Unrefreshing sleep, with paralytic sensation in all the limbs on waking.—At night, pains in the loins, internal shiverings, pulsation in the head, restlessness of the whole body, pressive and burning pains in the eyes, agglutination of the eye-lids, &c.—Starting from sleep in a fright.—*Frequent -anxious dreams; dreams of snow-falls, pursuits, poisoning, ema- ciation, fire, of erections, and desire to make water, of foul and disgusting linen, &c. Fever.—Feverish sensation over the whole body, with good appetite.—*PPredominance of coldness, -tendency to shiver, and frequent shiverings, sometimes with heat in the face, redness in the cheeks, coldness in the feet, sensation of heaviness in the arms, and excessive ill-humour ; or with epistaxis, or pain in the small of the back, pain in the head and eyes, distressing cough, &c.—Thirst after the shiver- ing.—Feverish heat, with red cheeks ; then sweat, followed by pain in the small of the back.—Throbbings all over the body, especially when in a state of repose.—Pulse small and suppressed. Moral Symptoms.—Restlessness when seated, with shivering and frequent desire to draw a long breath, but which is impossible.—Great tendency to shed tears, some- 20* 306 KREOSOTUM. times with moroseness or melancholy humour.-—Continual excitement, with obstinacy and disposition to be angry.— Ill-humour.—Mental dejection and despair of being cured, towards the evening.—Mild melancholy, with desire for death.—Easy loss of ideas.—* Weakness of memory.—Fre- quent absence of mind and a sort of stupidity. Head.—Vertigo which causes falling, sometimes in the morning in the open air.—Head-ache like that which re- sults from intoxication.—Head-ache caused by mental emo- tions.—Head-ache with desire to sleep, and drawing in the eye-lids, or redness of the face, lassitude, especially in the legs, bitter taste, ill-humour and tendency to tears.—Sen- sation of tension, heaviness and fulness in the head, some- times as if every thing were going to protrude through the forehead, especially when stooping.—Sensation of a weight in the occiput, as if the head were going to fall backwards. —Painful pressure and compression, especially in the top of the head, in the temples and the forehead.—* Throbbing pains in the head, and especially in the forehead.—Drawing pains, acute pullings and shootings in the head, sometimes ex- tending to the jaws and teeth.—The head-aches sometimes commence on waking in the morning.—Shootings in the side of the head, with loss of ideas.—"Buzzing in the head. —Soreness of tbe hairy scalp when touched.—*Falling off of the hair.—Miliary pimples on the forehead.—"Pimples on the forehead like those seen in drunkards. Eyes.—Eyes red and moist as after weeping.—Eyes dull and sunken.—*Itching in the eyes with soreness after scratching them, with inflammatory redness of the sclero- tica, and pressure as if from sand.—*Continual heat and burning sensation in the eyes, and frequent lachrymation, even on waking in the morning, and especially on behold- ing the light of day.—The eyes are constantly drowned, as it were, in tears.—Burning and corrosive tears.—*Nocturnal agglutination of the eye-lids.—Redness and *swelling of the eye-lids "and their margins.—*Furfuraceous tetter on the eye-lids.—Quivering of the eye-lids.—*Sight confused as when looking through a veil, or as if there were down before the eyes. Ears.—Heat and burning in the ears.—Inflammatory swelling of the ear, with tensive, burning pains, or also with painful stiffness of the neck, in the part affected ; the pains extending to shoulders and the arms, with heat in the forehead and pressure above the eyes.—Pullings and shoot- ings in the ears, or cramp-like, pressive, and expansive KREOSOTUM. 307 pains.—Buzzing in the ears, with hardness of hearing, al- ternating with tingling and whistling in the head.—"Humid tetters on the ears. Nose.—Offensive and fetid smell before the nose, some- times with want of appetite.—The nose is constantly moist.—Bleeding of the nose, even in the morning; the blood is bright red or serous, or thick and black.—* Fre- quent sneezing, "especially in the morning.—Fluent coryza, with painful sensibility of the nasal cavities to the air.— Coryza with sensation of erosion under the sternum.— *Dry coryza, with frequent sneezing. Face.—Frequent and continued heat in the face, some- times with throbbing in the cheeks and forehead, dark redness of the whole face, and frequent desire to make water.—"Eruption of red pimples.—Grayish, earthy colour of the face.—Furfuraceous tetters on the cheeks, eye-lids, and round the mouth.—Acute drawing pain in the right side of the face, from the jaw to the temple.—Dryness of the lips, as if caused by internal heat.—-Pustulous pimples on the chin and cheek, which are covered with yellowish scabs. Teeth.—*Drawing pains and successive pullings in the teeth, even on waking in the morning, and sometimes with pains in the diseased side of the face, extending to the temple.—Elongation of the teeth.—Inflammatory redness of the gums. Mouth and Throat.—Tongue pale and powerless, with an accumulation of serous saliva in the mouth.—Continual dryness in the throat, with burning and frequent thirst.— Scraping and roughness in the throat.—Pain, as from ex- coriation or pressure in the throat when swallowing.— Painful sensation of choking at the bottom of the gullet, extending to the chest and back. Appetite and Stomach.—Bitter taste, especially in the throat, and when swallowing food.—Insipid taste in the mouth.—Entire loss of appetite, sometimes with pale and flaccid tongue, accumulation of saliva in the mouth and burning thirst.—Risings of flatus and sour regurgitations. —Nausea, with inclination to vomit, salivation and shivering over the whole body, or with a burning sensation in the mouth.—*Inclination to vomit, especially when fasting in the morning, similar to what occurs during pregnancy, -and some- times with vomiting of water and mucus, with dryness of the nose, heat and pressive pain in the forehead, thirst and coldness in the hands and feet.—Vomiting of sweetish water when fasting in the morning.—Oppression in the 308 KREOSOTUM. stomach and epigastrium, which renders the pressure of clothing insupportable.—* Hardness in the region of the cir- dia, with painful sensibility to the touch.—Pulsation in t le region of the stomach, extending to all the upper part of the bod\', especially when in motion. Abdomixal Region.—Shooting and pressive pains in the hepatic region.—Sensation of fulness and pain, as from contusion in the liver.—Pain, as from ulceration in the ab- domen, when breathing and moving ; the pains sometimes hinder sleep during the night.—Painful sensation of cold- ness in the abdomen, with too scanty emission of urine.— Distension and tension of the abdomen, sometimes with shortness of breath.—Contractive pain in the abdomen, even at night and towards the morning, with a sensation as if there were a hard contracted mass in the umbilical region.—Shootings in the abdomen, sometimes spreading to the sexual organs.—Colic, resembling the pains of labour, sometimes with frequent desire to make water, ill-humour and irascibility, shiverings after the attack, and sometimes also a milky discharge from the vagina. Fjeces and Urine.—Evacuations hard, dry, difficult, and only every third or fourth day.—Several evacuations during the day.—Pulling, acute drawing pains, and cramp- like pains in the rectum.—Diminished or *excessively in- creased secretion of urine.—*Frequent and urgent desire to make water, even at night.—Urine of a chesnut colour, or turbid.—Urine fetid and colourless.—Reddish, or whitish sediment in the urine.—Burning corrosive urine. Genital Parts.—*Premature catamenia, continuing too long and too copious, with a discharge of black blood. —Before the catamenia, abdominal spasms, leucorrhaea, irritation and inquietude, vomiting of" mucus or frothy risings, and inflation of the abdomen.—*During the cata- menia, hardness of hearing, "discharge of fetid wind, consti- pation and incarceration of flatulency, *buzzing and roar- ing in the head, "with pressive pains, colic, cuttings, pain in the small of the back, constant shivering, or sweat on the back and chest.—After the catamenia, abdominal spasms, pressure in the genital parts, leucorrhcea and "many other sufferings.— Metrorrhagia.—*Leucorrhea, cor- rosive or bland, and sometimes followed by exhaustion and fatigue, -especially in the legs.—Cramp-like pains in the external genital parts.—Excoriation with smarting pains between the parts and thighs.—Shootings in the vagina, as if produced by electricity.—Voluptuous itching in the vagina.—Desire for coition, in females, especially in the KREOSOTUM. 309 morning.—Pain, as from excoriation and hard knottinessin the neck of the uterus, or swelling of the genital parts (both male and female) with burning pains after coition.— Prolapsus vaginae.—Pulling and #shootings in the mam- mary glands. Larynx.—*Scraping and roughness in the throat, with rough and hoarse voice.—Dry cough, excited by a scraping in the throat, or by a tickling in the bronchia.—*Dry, wheezing cough.—*Cough, with shortness of breath.— *Cough, in the evening, "in bed.—Continual cough, with sleep and shiverings, followed by dry heat.—*Convulsive cough with inclination to vomit, "especially in the morning. —Continual hoarse and hollow cough, excited by an accu- mulation of mucus in the throat, and with easy expectora- tion of whitish mucus, "or of yellowish and thick mucus. —The mucus, which is expectorated, sometimes has a sweetish taste.—#Involuntary emission of urine and con- cussion in the abdomen when coughing. Chest.—Shortness of breath, sometimes with a sensation of heaviness in the chest, and desire to make a deep inspira- tion, or with pain as from a bruise in the chest, when breath- ing.—*Difficult and anxious respiration.—* Violent shoot- ings in the chest, region of the heart, ribs and intercostal muscles, sometimes when breathing, or with suspended respiration ; these shootings manifest themselves also at night.—Burning pain in the chest, as if after drinking brandy; the pain extends from the centre of the chest to the throat and the tongue, and is accompanied by heat, redness and tension in the face. Trunk and Extremities.—Pains in the small of the back, like spasmodic labour pains, with urgent desire to make water and to evacuate, "or with leucorrhaea.—Pains, as from ulceration in the lumbar vertebrae.—*Nocturnal pains in the back, more violent during repose.—Shootings in the muscles and joints of the shoulders.—Pain, as from contusion in the arms.—Painful paralytic sensation in the fore-arms and fingers.—Cramp-like pains in the elbows and fore-arms.—Stiffness of the hands with cracked skin. —Pimples on the hand, with violent itching especially when in bed, in the evening.—"Tetters on the elbows, hands and fingers.—Pain, as from dislocation in the thumbs. —Fingers dead.—Numbness of the fingers.—Pain, as from fatigue in the hips and legs.—Drawing and shooting pains in the thighs, aggravated by movement.—Pains, as from contusion aud bluish spots on the thighs. —Pains in the hams as if from contraction of the tendons.—Heaviness 310 KREOSOTUM--LACHESIS. in the legs.—Drawing and shooting pains in the limbs, al- ternating with sufferings in the eyes.—Pain, as from dislo- cation, in the joints of the knees and feet.—The skin in the ham is red and rough, like herpes.—Tension and cramps in the calves of the legs.—*Pain as from ulcera- tion and burning sensation in the soles of the feet.— *CE- dematous swelling of the feet, from the toes to the calves of the legs.—Coldness of the feet.—Sweat on the feet.— "Tetters on the ankles. 102.—LACHESIS. LACH—Trigonocephalus Lachesis—Hering.— Duration of effect: seve- eral weeks in some cases of chronic disease. Antidotes: Alum ars. bell. caps. cham. chin. cocc. hep. mere, natr m. nitr. n-mos. n-vom. phos-ac. rhus. samb. verat.—To counteract the con- sequences of its bite, the following medicines may be used: Ars. bell. caps, nair-m. samb. Compare with : Alum ars. bell. bry. caps, carb-v. caus. cham. chin. cocc. con. dulc. hep. hyos. lye. mere, natr-m. nitr-ac. n-mos. n-vom. phos-ac. puis. rhus. samb. selen. sulph. verat.—Lachesis, when indicated is par- ticularly beneficial after : Ars. con. hep. lye. mere, nitr-ac. n-vom.— Alum. ars. bell, carb-v. caus. con.'jlulc. mere, n-vom. phos-ac. are some- times suitable after lachesis. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Lachesis appears to be indi- cated in the following cases:—Affections of meagre, ex- hausted persons of a melancholic temperament, or choleric persons, with sickly complexion ; Sufferings from warm and damp weather, as well as from a change of wind or weather; Bad consequences of sorrow, affliction (mortifi- cation) and of fright 1 ; Sufferings of drunkards ; Suffer- ings from the abuse of mercury ; Acute and chronic rheu- matism ; Arthritic affections ; Osteocopous pains; Para- lysis ; Debility from loss of the fluids (pollutions, haemor- rhage) 1; Fainting fits ; Syncope and asphyxia 1 ; Atro- phy ; Aneurism; Convulsions and attacks of tetanus, principally in children and young people ; Chronic epilep- sy ; Haemorrhage ; Aneurism ; Psora; Leprosy ; Simple, phlegmonous, and vesicular erysipelas ; Malignant scarlati- na 1; Panaris 1 ; Cancerous ulcers ; Gangrene 1; Mercu- rial ulcers ; Fevers in children; Quotidian aad tertian fe- vers ; Melancholy ? ; Religious madness 1 ; Mental aliena- tion, brought on by excessive study; Imbecility'? ; Hydro- phobia; Apoplexy; Cerebral congestion, with loss of con- sciousness ; Cerebral affections of children ; Encephalitis; Hydrocephalus'?; Consequences of a sun-stroke 1 ; Ner- vous fatigue from intellectual labour; Nervous conges- tion, hysterical cephalalgia; Acute and chronic ophthal- mia ; Obscuration and ulcers of the cornea ; Ambly- opia amaurotica 1 ; Ozoena ! ; Chronic coryza with stoppage LACHESIS. 311 0/ the nose; Coryza, suppressed by mental emotions 1; Erysipelas of the face ; Congestive and nervous prosopalgia and odontalgia (chiefly in young girls) ; Acute angine (principally in children); Mercurial angine, with ulcera- tion ; Bulimy ; Dyspepsia, with vomiting of food ; Gastric or bilious affections'?; Hoematemesis 1; Vomiting of pregnant women and of drunkards 1; Cholera! ; Hepatic affections, also in drunkards; Hepatic abscess; Softening of the liver; Icterus; Yellow fever ; Spasmodic colic; Colic of pregnant women "?; Tympanitis 1 ; Chronic tend- ency to constipation ; Diarrhoea of several kinds; Dysente- ry? ; Lienterial; Vermiculous affections of children; Hemorrhoidal colic ; Haemorrhoides fluentes, or those with a discharge of mucus; Induration of the abdomen, with purulent sanguineous evacuations; Intestinal haemorrhage 1; Impotence 1; Dysmenorrhea and other sufferings at the criti- cal age; Hysterical sufferings'?; Abortion?; Induration and ulceration of the ovaria; Catarrhal (and inflammatory) affections of the respiratory organs; Hooping-cough'?; Croup 1.; Dyspnea ; Asthmathic sufferings ; Asthma Millari; Thymic asthma of Kopp 1 ; Pleurisy; Pneumonia'?; Grippe'? Phthisis; Haemoptysis; Hydrothorax 1; Paraly- tic orthopnoea; Chronic palpitation of the heart, chiefly in young girls; Aneurisms, polypi, inflammation and other diseases of the heart"?; Cyanosis'?; Coxalgia]; Ulcers on the legs; Panaris, &c, &c. 0^7" the cheeks.—*Circumscribed redness of the cheeks.—*Bloatedness of the face, especially round the eyes. —Jerking of the muscles of the face.—*Tension of the skin of the face, frequently on one side only.—Desquama- tion of the skin of the face-—"Painful sensibility of one side of the face, when opening the mouth.—* Painful, 454 PHOSPHORUS. drawing and tearing pains in the bones of the face, especial- ly in the evening, or at night in bed, or after the slightest chill.—*The pains in the face are renewed by speaking or by the slightest touch.— Eruption of pimples and of scabs op the face.—*Lips bluish.—Lips dry, -covered with brown- ish scabs.—Cracked lips.—Tetters and pimples round the mouth.— Ulcerated angles of the mouth.—Cramp in the jaw. —Enlargement of the sub-maxillary glands. Teeth.—*Drawing or rending, or else gnawing, boring, pulsative, jerking and piercing odontalgia, especially in the open air, or in the evening and morning, sometimes at night only, especially in the heat of the bed, or else when par- taking of hot food.—*Tooth-ache with salivation, after the slightest chill.—The teeth are painful in the morning while masticating, as if they were ulcerated.—Caries of the teeth.—The teeth become very loose.—Bleeding of the teeth.—Grinding of the teeth.—Painful sensibility, inflam- mation, opening (separating) *ulceration, swelling and easy bleeding of the gums. Mouth.—*Excoriation of the mouth.—* Accumulation of saliva, -which is saltish or sweetish, or excessive dryness of the mouth.—*Viscous mucus in the mouth.—*Haemopty- sis.—Purulent vesicles on the palate.—Skin of the palate shrivelled, as if it were about to be detached.—*Tongue dry, -loaded with a blackish brown coating.—*Tongut white. Throat.—*Dryness of the throat, day and night.—Pres- sure in the throat.—*Smarting, scraping and burning pain in the throat.—Hawking Up of mucus in the morning.— Pain as from excoriation in the throat.—Swelling of the amygdalae. Appetite.—"Clammy or cheese-like taste.—Bitterness in the mouth and throat, with roughness.—"Sour taste in the mouth, especially after a meal.—"Loss of taste.—Absence of appetite from a sensation of fulness in the throat and violent thirst.—"Excessive desire for cooling things.— "Hunger after a meal.—*Bulimy even at night.—"Sensation of insipidity and softness in the abdomen, after breakfast. —After a meal, desire to sleep, indolence, heat and anxiety, burning sensation in the hands, more decided heart-burn, pressure and fulness in the stomach, chest and abdomen, accompanied by obstructed respiration, vomiting of food, inflation of the abdomen, "or head-ache, eructations, hic- cough, debility, colic and many other sufferings. Stomach.—Eructations with pain in the stomach, as if something were about to burst in it —*Tobacco smoke pro- phosphorus. 455 duces nausea and palpitation of the heart.—*Frequent eructations, generally empty, especially after a meal, and af- ter drinking, sometimes also abortive, or spasmodic, or else sour "or with taste of the food.—*Sour regurgitation of food.— Pyrosis.—Hiccough.—*Nausea of various kinds, especially in the morning or in the evening, or else after a meal.—Nausea with violent hunger or thirst which disap- pears when eating or drinking water.—"Water-brash, es- pecially after eating acid things.— Vomiting with violent pains in the stomach, and great weakness.—Greenish or blackish vomiting.—Vomiting of acid matter.—Vomiting of food, especially in the evening.—* Vomiting of bile or of mucus at night, -sometimes with coldness and torpor of the hands and feet.—Vomiting of blood.—Vomiting with diarrhoea.—Pain in the epigastrium, especially when it is touched.—Violent pains in the stomach, mitigated by a cold drink.— Sensation of contraction in the cardia ; the food scarcely digested, mounts again into the throat.—* Fulness in the stomach.—*Piercing and pressure in the stomach, espe- cially after a meal, with vomiting of food.—*Pain in the scorbiculus, when it is touched, also in the morning.__ Sensation of coldness or heat, and *burning in the stomach and scorbiculus.—Inflammation of the stomach.—*Spasmo- dic pain, sensation of clawing, -and contraction in the stomach, "sometimes with choking.—General uneasiness, but which is felt more particularly in the stomach.—The pains in the 6tomach manifest themselves especially after a meal, as well as in the evening and at night. Abdominal Region.—Stinging and piercing in the he- patic region.—^Distention of the abdomen, especially after a meal.—Hard and distended abdomen.—Contractive pain in the abdomen.—*Spasmodic colic.—*Pinching, cutting and rending in the abdomen, especially in the morning in bed, at night and in the evening, and often urgent desire to evacu- ate and diarrhoea.—Piercing pains in the abdomen some- times with pallid face, shiverings and head-ache.—Sensa- tion of coldness, with heat *and burning in the abdomen.—In- flammation of the intestines.—*Sensation of weakness and emptiness in the abdomen, like a sort of atonia.—"Uneasi- ness in the abdomen after breakfast.—'Pressure as if all were bearing towards the sides of the abdomen.—ingui- nal hernia.—*Yellow spots on the abdomen.—Swelling and suppuration of the inguinal glands.—*Incarcerated wind.— *Flatulent colic, deeply seated in the abdomen ; aggravated when lying down, with grumbling and borborygmus. Fasces.— *Constipation.—Faeces hard, slow, interrupted, 456 phosphorus. difficult to evacuate, and much too dry.—"Urgent and trou- blesome desire to evacuate.- * Prolonged looseness of the. bowels.—*Feeces of the consistence of pap.—*Serous diar-| rhoea.—"Diarrhea with diminished strength.—"Mucous diar- rhea.—"Sanguineous diarrhea.---"Undigested faces.--- Greenish, grey or black feces.—"Involuntary evacuations. —"Discharge of mucus from the anus, which remains con- tinually open.—"Passage of tenia -or ascarides from the rectum during the evacuations.—*JDischarge of blood dur- ing the evacuation.—After the evacuation, pressure, burning pain, and tenesmus in the anus and rectum with great ex- haustion.—*Itching and piercing in the anus and rectum. —Cramps and contraction of the rectum.—*Appearance and easy bleeding of hemorrhoidal tumours in the rectum and anus, with pain as from excoriation, when sitting or lying down. Urine.—Increased secretion of watery urine.—Frequent emission of a scanty stream of urine.—Urine, with white, serous, sabulous and red, or else yellow sediment.—*Tur- bid urine, with sediment like brick-dust.—Pale, aqueous, or whitish urine.—Variegated pellicle on the surface of the urine.—Hsematuria.—*Smartingand burning sensation, when urinating.—*Tension and jerking, or burning pain in the urethra, when not urinating. Genital Organs.—*Great excitement of sexual desire, with constant wish for coition.—*Erections, which are too violent in the evening or morning.—*Too frequent seminal emissions.— Powerless and too speedy emission during coition.—Pains in the testes and swelling of the spermatic cord.—Tearing in the genital organs, and piercing from the vagina into the uterus.—*Catamenia too early and too profuse, or too scanty and serous.— Discharge of blood from the uterus during pregnancy.—Catamenia of too long duration with tooth-ache and colic.—Before the catamenia, abun- dant bleeding of the ulcers, 'leucorrhoea, desire to urinate and weeping.—"On the appearance of the catamenia, cut- ting griping pains in the back and vomiting.—"After the catamenia, weakness, blue circles round the eyes and anx- iety.—Catamenia of too short continuance.—*Retardedca- tamenia.—*Duringthe;catamenia, lancinating head-ache, fer- mentation in the abdomen, expectoration of blood, pains in the back, soreness of the limbs, great lassitude and fever, "or palpitation of the heart, shiverings, swelling of the gums and cheeks, and many other sufferings—Acid leucorrhea. — Hard and painful nodosities in the breasts.— *Erysipe- latous inflammation of the mammae, with swelling burning PHOSPHORUS. 457 and piercing pains.—°Abscess in the mamme, also with fis- tulous ulcers. Larynx.—*Hoarseness and scraping in the throat, "some- times prolonged.---Aphonia, so as to be able to utter noth- ing beyond a low whisper when speaking.—*Catarrh, with cough, "fever and fear of death.—"Verypainful sensibility of the larynx, which does not suffer one to speak.— Great sensibility of the larynx, with burning pain.—Dryness in the trachea and chest.—*Expectoration of mucus from the larynx.—*Cough, excited by a tickling and itching in the chest or with hoarseness and sensation as if the chest were raw — Hollow cough at night, which does not permit sleep.— *Cough, with stinging in the throat, 'chest and scorbiculus, sometimes only at night.—*Dry cough, every day, which continues several hours, with pains in the stomach and ab- domen.—Dry, shaking cough, as if the head were going to burst, excited by cold air, by drinking, or by reading aloud.—Cough, with vomiting.—"Cough, excited by laugh- ing.— Dry cough, as if caused by tubercles, or a chronic inflammation of the lungs.—"Cough, with purulent and salt- ish expectoration, especially morning and evening —Green- ish expectoration with the cough.—Cough, with expectora- tion of slimy mucus, or of blood, vvith smarting in the chest. Chest.—"Noisy and panting respiration.—Difficult res- piration, especially in the evening, with anguish in the chest, aggravated by sitting down.—*Obstructed respiration and oppression of the chest, of various kinds, "especially in the morning or evening, as also during movement.—Spasmo- dic asthma.—Fits of suffocation at night.—Pressure on the chest.—*Heaviness, fulness, and tension in the chest.— Contractive spasms in the chest.—Tearing in the chest.— * Lancinations in the chest, and especially in the left side, sometimes continued, or else when touched.—Burning pain, as from excoriation in the chest.—Sensation of fa- tigue in the chest---Anguish in the chest.—Congestion to the chest, with sensation of heat which mounts to the throat.—* Palpitation of the heart, of different kinds, "espe- cially after a meal, morning and evening, *as also when seated, and after all kinds of mental emotions.—"Palpita- tion of the heart, with obstructed respiration.— Pain under the left breast, when lying upon it.—*Yellow spots on the cllGSt. Trunk__pain, as if from a bruise in the loins and back, especially' after sitting a long time, hindering walking, rising up, and making the least movement.—Burning pa.ns in the loins.—Tearing and piercing in the shoulder-blades.— Vol. I. 39 458 PHOSPHORUS--PHOSrHORI ACIDUM. ♦Rigidity of the nape of the neck.—Pressure on the shoul- ders.__^Swelling of the neck.—Obstruction of the axillary glands and of those of the nape and neck.—Itching and stinging under the axilla?.—Fetid sweat under the axillae. Arms.—*Rheumatic tearing (and lancinating) in the shoulders, arms and hands, especially at night.—Burning pain in the hands and arms.—Numbness of the arms and hands.—Lassitude and *trembling in the arms and hands, -especially when holding anything.— Furfuraceous tetters on the arms.—Congestion of blood to the hands with swell- ing and redness of the veins, especially when allowing the arms to hang down.—Wrenching pain in the joints of the hands and fingers, with tension.—*Swelling of the hands, also at night.— Heat in the hands.—Coldness of the hands, at nfght.—Contraction and jerking of the fingers.—Deadness of the fingers.—Paralysis of the fingers.—*Torpor in the extremities of the fingers.—Skin cracked in the joints of the fingers.— Chilblains on the fingers. Legs.—Pain, as from ulceration in the buttocks, when seated.— Wrenching pain in the coxo-femoral joints, and those of the knees and feet, with external heat.—Painful fatigue and heaviness of the legs.—Burning of the legs and feet.—Tension and cramps in the legs, especially in the knees.—Shocks in the legs, before going to sleep, day and night.—*Drawing and tearing in the knees, extending into the feet.—*Paralytic weakness in the legs, "and arthritic rigidity of the knees.—Tetters on the knee.—Spots, like petechias, on the legs.-r-Exostosis of the tibia.—"Jerking in the calves of the legs.—Tearings and piercing in the feet, especially at night.—*Swelling of the feet, or only of the malleoli, especially in the evening, or after a walk, sometimes with stinging pain.—Easy dislocation of the ankle-joint.—*Coldness of the feet, especially a't night.— *Pain as from ulceration in the soles of the feet when walking.— Shocks in the feet, day and night, before going to sleep.—°Torpor in the extremity of the toes.—Inflam- mation and redness of the ball of the great toe, with lan- cinations.—Chilblains and corns on the toes. 141.—PHOSPHORl ACID CM. PHOS-AC—Phosphoric acid.—H/.hne.mann.—Duration of effect : from 3 to 4 days in acute diseases ; from 6 to 7 weeks in chronic affections.., Antidotes : Camph. coff— It is used as an antidote againtt i Lach. Compare with : Asa. bell. cans. chin. coff. con. i«n.~ifacA. lye. mere. op. rhus. sep. staph, sulph. thuy. verat.—.'hosphoric acid, when indicated, will be found especially efficacious after: Lach. and rhus__I hin. lach. rhus, verat-, are sometimes suitable after phosphoric acid. PHOSPHORI ACIDUM. 459 CLINICAL REMARKS.—Allowing ourselves to be guided by the totality of the symptoms, the cases against which this medicine may be employed will be found to be : —Inveterate arthritis; Arthrocace ; Phthisical and nervous weakness, caused by violent acute diseases, by loss of the fluids and other debilitating causes, especially when they have rapidly undermined a constitution that was previously strong ; Sufferings caused by Onanism ; Weakness of young people. who grow rapidly.—Bad effects from vexation, with care and inquietude, or from disappointed love, &c.; Tetters ; Invete- rate ulcers; Varices; Scarlatina and evil effects from repercussion of that disease ; Typhus fever ; Nervous, slow fever, caused by vexation ; Diseases of the bones ; The hair falling off and turning gray, in consequence of vexation ; Cholerina; Diarrhea, especially after vexation, or after the repercussion of scarlatina; Epidemic diarrhea; Dia- betes mellitus 1; Pollutions, in consequence of Onanism ; Impotence, caused by excessive sexual intercourse j Dy- suria of pregnant women, &c, &c. 0^7" See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Drawings, and *jerking tearings in the limbs.—Cramp-like, pressive pains.—Sensa- tion, as if the periosteum were scraped with a knife.—Aching, burning, tearing pains at night.—* Swelling of the bones.— *Burning sensation in the whole of the lower part of the body, although the limbs are cold to the touch.—Swellings of the glands.—*Painfulness in the limbs and joints, as if from paralysis, or like growing pains, -especially morning and evening.—Numbness and weakness of the limbs.— Heaviness in the limbs and joints with great indolence — *Great fatigue after walking.—*Great general weakness, physical or nervous, with great disposition to perspiration, during the day, or with burning sensation in the body.— Emaciation, with sickly complexion and eyes surrounded by a livid circle.—Violent agitation of blood.—The pains are aggravated during repose, and mitigated by movement, and those which manifest themselves at night are miti- gated by pressure. Skin.—Insensibility of the skin.—Creeping under the skin. —Red and burning spots on the limbs.—* Eruption like scar- latina.— Erysipelatous inflammations.—Eruption of small pimples and of miliary pimples collected in clusters, and red. —Eruption of pimples with burning pain or pain as from excoriation.—Scabby vesicles.—Humid and dry tetters.— Corns on the feet, with stinging and burning pain.—Chil- blains.—Condylomata.— 'Furunculi.— Flat, indolent ul- 460 PHOSPHORI ACIDUM. cers, with a serrated bottom, secreting a dirty pus.—*Itch- ing ulcers. Sleep.—Great desire to sleep by day, early in the even- ing and in the morning, with difficulty in waking.—Co- ma.—Retarded sleep and sleeplessness at night, caused by agitation and dry heat.—Ciphers appear before the eyes on falling asleep.—Profound sleep.—Jerking and in- voluntary movements of the hands, moaning, talking and singing, or laughing at one time, weeping at another, du- ring sleep, with eyes half open and convulsed.—Anxious dreams of death, with fear of waking.—Lascivious dreams. Fever.—Shuddering and shivering, sometimes with sha- king, or with coldness in the hands and fingers, generally in the evening, and without thirst.—Sensation of coldness, with shivering and coldness in the abdomen.—Febrile heat in the evening without thirst, with anguish and great irri- tation of the circulation of the blood.—Shivering alterna- ting with heat.— Malignant fever with great weakness, apa- thy, stupidity, aversion to conversation, diarrhoea, &c.— ^Nocturnal sweat.—Sweat in the morning. Moral Symptoms.—Desire to weep as if from nostal- gia.—Sadness and uneasiness respecting the future.—Anx- ious inquiries respecting his disease.—Restlessness and precipitation.—*Silent peevishness and aversion to conversa- tion.—*Great indifference.—Inability to endure noise or conversation.—*Dulness and indolence of mind with want of imagination.—*Paucity of ideas and unfitness for intel- lectual labour.—Illusions of the senses. Head.—*The head is bewildered, -as if from intoxica- tion or from immoderate pollutions.—Stunning vertigo when standing and walking, especially in the evening.— Head-pche in the morning.—Continual head-ache, which obliges one to lie down, aggravated so as to become insup- portable by the slightest commotion or by noise.—Heavi- ness of the head as if it were full of water.—Cramp-like and hard pressure in the part of the head on which one lies, aggravated by pressing on the head and by turning it, as also by meditation and by going up stairs, but especially after midnight.—Compression in the brain.—Tearing head- ache.—Lancinations in the temples or above the eyes.—Jerks or shocks, blows and hammering in the head.—Drawing pains in the bones of the occiput.—Gray, lank hair like tow.—Falling off of the hair. Eyes—Eyes dull, glassy, downcast.—Pressure in the eyes, with sensation as if the eye-ball were too large.— ^Coldness in the internal margin of the eye-lids.—Burning PH0SPH0RI ACIDUM. 461 pain in the eye-lids and in their angles, especially by candle light in the evening.—* Inflammation of the eyes, -with red vessels in the iuternal angles.—Inflammation of the eye- lids.—Hordeolum.—Yellow spot in the sclerotica.—lach- rymation.—Dilated pupils.—Fixed look.—Sight confused as if through a mist.—Myopia.—Black band before the eyes. Ears.—Piercings in the ears, sometimes with drawing in the cheeks, jaws and teeth, aggravated only by the sound of music.—Cramp-like drawings in the ears.—*Inability to endure music, noise and conversation.—Strong reverbera- tion of all sounds in the ear.—Deafness for distant sounds. —Cries in the ear when blowing the nose. Nose.—Swelling with red spots on the back of the nose.—*Scabs on the nose.—Desire to put the fingers into the nose.—'Fetid exhalation from the nose.—Discharge of pus from the nose.—Epistaxis.—Violent coryza with red- ness of the margin of the nostrils.—Fluent coryza with cough and burning pain in the chest and throat. Face.—Face pale, wan, with pointed nose and hollow eyes surrounded by a blue circle.—Drawings in the cheeks and jaws.—Irregular features.—Heat in the face with ten- sion of the skin of the face, as if the white of an egg had dried upon it.—*Large pimples on the face.— ^Burning pain in the cheeks.—*Humid and scabious tetters on the cheeks, lips and their commissures.—Lips covered with suppurating cracks with pain, as from excoriation.—Pim- ples and scabies on the red'part of the lips.—"Pimples on the chin.—Swelling of the sub-maxillary glands.-—Pain in the lower jaw, as if it were dislocated. Teeth.—Odontalgia with tearing pain, aggravated by the heat of the bed, and by cold or hot things.—Violent pains in the incisor teeth at night.— Yellow teeth.—Gums bleeding, swollen and open,—Painful nodosities on the gums. Mouth.—Dryness of the mouth without thirst.—•*Vis- cous tenacious phlegm in the mouth and on the tongue.— Prickings and burning on the tongue.—At night one bites the tongue without intending it.—Swelling of the tongue with pain when speaking.—Speaking through the nose.— Smarting in the interior surface of the mouth during mas- tication of solid food.—Excoriation and ulceration of the velum palati, with burning pain. Throat.—Pain as from excoriation in the throat with smarting and stinging, especially during deglutition (of food).—Contractive pain in the pit of the throat.—Hawk- ing up of mucous phlegm. 39* 462 PHOSPHORI ACIDUM. Appetite.—Putrid, acid, herbaceous taste.—Prolonged after-taste of food, and especially of bread.—Repugnance to bread, which seems bitter.—Violent thirst for cold milk, or for beer, as well as in general for cooling and juicy things; bread appears too dry.—Insatiable thirst, excited by a sensation of dryness in the whole body.—Acids excite bitter eructations and other inconveniences.—*After a meal, pressure, "or a sensation of wavering in the stomach, -with confusion of the head, uneasiness, fulness and desire to sleep, or dejection, as if one were about to faint. Stomach.—Sour, incomplete, or burning eructations.— ^Continued nausea, "in the throat.—*Nausea which forces one to lie down.—Vomiting of food.—Sour vomiting — Pressure in the stomach, as if from a weight, when fasting, and after any food whatever, as also on touching the pit of the stomach.—Sensation of coldness, or burning in the stomach. Abdominal Region.—Spasmodic pressure with anguish in the hypochondria, and especially in the liver.—Sensa- tion as if the liver were too heavy.—Piercing in the re- gions of the liver and spleen.—Abdomen distended and tight.—Contractions in the abdomen on both sides of the umbilical region.—Spasmodic pains in the abdomen, espe- cially in the umbilical region.—Stinging and cuttings in the abdomen.—*Burning in the hypogastrium.—Clucking of the abdomen, as if there were water in it, especially when touched and when bending oneself backwards or for- wards.—*Frequent rumbling and borborygmus in the abdo- men.—*Production and expulsion of much wind, especially after eating.acid things.—Swelling of the inguinal glands. F.eces.—Hard faeces in small pieces, difficult to evacu- ate.— Frequent evacuations.—*Purging, but not debilita- ting evacuations.—*Loose, slimy evacuations, of a whitish gray colour.— Loose, serous, or undigested evacuations.— Involuntary evacuations, of the consistence of pap, with sensation as if one were about to expel wind.—Protrusion of hemorrhoidal tumours from the rectum during evacua- tion.—After the evacuation, tenesmus.—Tearing, smarting. and itching in the anus and rectum. Urine.—Urgent desire to urinate, with scanty emission of urine, pale face, heat and thirst.—*Frequent and pro- fuse emission of aqueous urine, "which immediately deposits a thick and white sediment.—"Urine like milk, with san- guineous and gelatinous clots.—Fetid urine.—Flow of urine, with spasmodic pains in the loins.—Urgent and irre- sistible desire to urinate.—"Urine as in diabetes mellitus. PH0SPH0RI acidum. 463 —Anguish and inquietude before urinating.—*Nocturnal emission of urine.—*Burning pain in the urethra, during and after the emission of urine.—Spasmodic constriction in the vesica.—*Cutting pains in the urethra, when making water. Genital Organs.—Lancinating pains in the glans.— Crawling and running vesicles round the framum.- ♦Con- dylomata.—Eruption on the penis and scrotum.—Inflam- matory swelling of the scrotum.—"Pain in the testes, when touched.—Gnawing pain in the testes.—Swelling of the testes, while the spermatic cord is enlarged, hard and tight- ened.—Absence of sexual desire.---Frequent erections without desire for coition.—*Frequent andvery debilitating pollutions.—Discharge of semen, when an effort is made during evacuation.—"Hepatic pains during the catamenia. —Yellowish, itching leucorrhoea, after the catamenia.— "Distention of the uterus, as if with gas. Larynx.—Great hoarseness and roughness in the throit. Contractive pain in the pit of the throat, which contracts the larynx.—*Cough, which is dry in the evening, nd with a yellowish white expectoration in the morning, ex- cited by a tickling in the larynx, -or above the epigastrium. —Cough with vomiting of food and head-ache.—During the cough, expectoration with herbaceous smell and taste.— Cough with purulent expectoration and pains in the chest. Chest.— Short breath, and inability to speak long from weakness of the chest.—Spasmodic and contractive oppres- sion of the chest, as if it were tightened.—Weakness in the chest, after speaking.—rPressure in the chesty often spas- modic or cutting.—Lancinations in the sides of the chest. Trunk.—Eruption, painful to the touch, on the back, shoulder-blades, neck and chest.—Crawling in the back arid loins.—Tension and cramp-like drawing in the muscles of the neck, especially when moving the head.—Miliaria on the neck.—"Furunculi in the axillai. Arms.—Cramp-like pressure in the arms, hands and fin- gers.—Drawings and jerking tearings in the arms and fin- gers.—"Eruption of pimples on the arms.—Drawing, cut- ting pains in the joints of the elbows, hands and fingers.— Weakness and trembling of the arms.—A ganglion on the back of the hand.—Skin of the hands and fingers, dry, shrivelled, parched.—Fingers dead, sometimes on one side only, and in a very circumscribed space.—Lancinations in the fingers and joints of the fingers. Legs.—"Swelling, and 'furunculi on t/iebuttocks.—Pains in the hips and thighs, as if they had been beaten, especial- 464 PHOSPHORI ACIDUM---PINUS---PLATINA. ly when walking and rising from the seat.—Cramp in the coxo-femoral joint with tearing in the whole.limb, insup- portable when seated, and during repose.—Pressive, cramp- like pains in the thighs, legs, feet and toes.—Tearing in the whole leg, with heaviness in the joints.—Weakness of the legs, so that one falls down on making a false step.— Burning, tearing in the tibia, at night.—Pimples on the knees and legs, which become confluent and are transform- ed into easily b eeding ulcers.—"Itching ulcers on the legs. —Burning sensation in the feet, andsoles of the feet, with ex- coriation between the toes.— Swelling of the feet.—Sweat- ing of the feet.—Corns on the feet.—Chilblains on the toes. • —Swelling of the joint of the great toe, with" burning, throbbing and cutting and dull pains when touched. 142.—PL n US. PIN.—The dynamized juice of the spring shoots of the pine—A medicine as yet entirely unknown, but which has been successfully employed against: Muscular weakness in a scrofulous child, who uas too long t'n learning to walk. [It has also been recommended as a preservative against intermittent fever. Ed.]__________________________________________________________ 143.—PLATINA. PLAT.—Platina.—Hahnemann.— Duration of effect : from 40 to 50 days in some chronic affections. Antidote : Puis.— It is used as an antidote against; Plumb. Compare with : Ang. asa. bell, canth. croc fer. hyos. lye. magi. mang. nair. nitr-ac. plumb- puis. rhus. sabad. stram. stront. valer. verb. Pla- tina, when indicated, is particularly efficacious after be . [It deserves attention in affections produced by paroxysms of intense ationy, in chronic constipation, when attended with various nervous affections; in mania putrperalis; in degeneration of the uterus; stenluyj also in asthma spasmodicum ; &c, &c. Ed.] CLINICAL REMARKS.—Allowing ourselves to be guided by the totality of symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be used appear to be :—Different affections of females, and principally of irritable women, who have copious catamenia and very decided sexual desire ; Suf- ferings from the abuse of plumbum ; Evil effects of pas- sion or vexation ; Neuralgia and neurosis ; Catalepsy, eclampsia, and other spasmodic affections ; Hysterical spasms; Mania; Melancholy; Hysteria; Nervous and hysterical cephalalgia; Facial neuralgia; Nervous and congestive odontalgia ; Puerperal peritonitis 1 ; Lead colic ; Constipation, caused by travelling in a carriage; Dys- menorrhea ; Metrorrhagia, after accouchment or caused by miscarriage ; Constipation, nymphomania ; Eclampsis, and other affections of lying-in women, &c, &c. IE? See note, page 1. PLATINA. 465 GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Compressive, cramp-like, constrictive or pressive pains, as if caused by a plug, or else by dull blows.—Cramp-like, jerking and drawing pains in the limbs and joints.—Tension in the limbs, as if they were bound with tight ligatures.—Pains, as if from a contusion, a blow or a bruise, especially when pressing on the part affected.—Pains, slight at the commencement, which in- crease gradually, often at regular intervals, and diminish in the same manner.—Sensation of torpor and paralytic rigidity in various parts, often with trembling and palpitation of the heart.—°Attack of spasmodic stiffness in the limbs, with- out loss of consciousness, but with the jaws closed tightly, loss of speech, eyes convulsed and involuntary movements of the commissural of the lips and eye-lids.—The spas- modic attacks manifest themselves especially at day-break. —Affections caused by fright, by vexation, or by a Jit of pas- sion.—Moral and physical affections succeed one another alter- nately ; when the former manifest themselves, the latter disappear, and vice versa. — Excessiv weakness.—Tingling restlessness, sensation of weakness and trembling in the limbs, especially during repose and in the open air.—The majority of the symptoms are aggravated by repose and mitigated by movement.—The affections which are miti- gated in the open air, are generally aggravated towards the evening and in a room. Skin.—Crawling gnawing, with pain as from excoriation and itching or burning, pricking and st nging pain, with desire to scratch in different parts of the skin.—Ulcers (on the fingers and toes). Sleep.—Convulsive and spasmodic yawnings, especially in the afternoon.—Great desire to sleep in the evening.— Prolonged sleep in the morning.—Anxious dreams of wars and bloodshed.—Lascivious dreams.—Waking at night, es- pecially after midnight, with anxious, sad and unpleasant thoughts.—Unconsciousness at night, on waking.—At night, one lies on the back, with the arms above the head, the legs drawn up, and an inclination to uncover them. Fever.—Continued shivering and shuddering over the whole body, especially in the open air. Moral Svmptoms.—* Sadness, -especially in the evening, with great inclination to weep, often (every second day) al- ternating with excessive gaiety and buffoonery.—Involun- tary weeping.—*Loud cries for help.—*Anxietas precor- diorum to an excessive degree with great fear of death, which is believed to be very near, accompanied by trembling, palpi- tation of the heart, and obstructed respiration.—cFear, with trembling of the hands and feet, and confusion of ideas, as 466 platina. if all persons who approach were demons.—°Hysterical humour, with great mental depression, nervous weakness, and over-excitement of the vascular system.—Disposition to be frightened.—Great irritability, with ill-humour for a long time after giving way to a fit of passion.—Apathetic indifference and absence of mind.—*Pride and self-conceit, with contempt for all others, even for those whom one most love* and respects, especially when in a room, less in the open air and in the sun.—Distraction and forgetfulness. —°Loss of consciousness.—°Delirium.—Delusion of the senses ; feeling as of being too large, and on the contrary, all other things and persons seem to be too small and too low. Head.—Tensive confusion, as if there were a board be- fore the head.—Transient attacks of vertigo in the evening, with loss of consciousness.—Head-ache, which increases gradually, or by fits, until it becomes very violent, and which diminishes progressively in the same manner.—Attack of head-ache, with nausea and vomiting.—Sensation of torpor in the head, and on the outside of the vertex.—Pain in the sides of the head, as if caused by a plug.—*Pressive cramp- like pains in the forehead and temples, especially at the root of the nose, as if compressed, greatly aggravated by movement and by stooping, "sometimes with heat and red- ness of the face, inquietude and weeping.—Crawling in the temples, as if caused by insects.—"Buzzing and noise in the head, like that made by a mill.—Sensation of contrac- tion in the hairy scalp, on the vertex. Eyes.—Pain in the eyes, after fatiguing the sight by looking attentively at an object.—Tension in the sockets, with gnawing pain, as if from excoriation in the margins. —* Cramp-like pain in the edges of the orbits.—Compressive tension in the eye-balls.—Pressure in the eyes, with sleep. —Creeping in the canthi.—Sensation of heat or of coldness and smarting in the eyes .-^-Trembling or spasmodic quivering of the eye-lids.—"Eyes convulsed.—Objects appear smaller than they really are.—Confused sight, as if through a veil, often with painless pulling round the eye.—Wavering and sparkling before the sight. Ears.—Otalgia, with cramp-like pains.—Shocks in the ears.—Sensation of torpor and of coldness in* the ears, ex- tending to the cheeks and lips.—Gnawing crawling in the ears.—*Dull thundering and rumbling in the ears. Nose.—Cramp-like pain, with sensation of torpor in the nose.—Ineffectual desire to sneeze and crawling in the no. e —*Dry coryza, often on one side only. Face,—Face pale and wan.—Burning heat and glowing platina. 467 redness in the face, with violent thirst and dryness of the mouth, especially in the evening.—"The muscles of the face distorted.—Sensation of coldness, with crawling, and of *torpor in the whole side of the face.—Cramp and tensive pressure in the zygomatic process.—"Pulsative digging in the jaws, especially in the evening, and during repose, with involuntary weeping.—Gnawing, with pain as if from excoriation in the lips and chin, and which forces one to scratch.—Running and lancinating vesicles on the lips.— Lips dry and cracked.—Reddish blue plexus venarum on the chin.—Sensation of torpor or coldness round the mouth and chin.— Cramp in the jaw. Teeth.—*Odontalgia, with pulsative and digging pain.— Cramp-like drawing in the teeth, which refcurs by fits.— Fissures in the gums. Mouth and Throat.—Burning pain under the tongue.— Sensation in the tongue, as if it had been burnt.—Sensa- tion as if the throat were raw, during (empty) deglutition and at other times.—Cramp-like drawing in the throat, like a constriction.—Sensation as if the uvula were elongated. —Scraping and accumulation of phlegm in the throat.— Hawking up of phlegm. Appetite.—Mucous, clammy taste.—Sweetish taste, on the tip of the tongue.—Adipsia.—Loss of appetite after the first mouthful.—*CompIete loss of appetite.—Repug- nance to food, arising from sadness.—Dislike to food.—Bu- limy ; one eats with ravenous rapidity, with a disposition to despise every thing.—*After a meal, eructations, pres- sure in the stomach "and colic. Stomach.—Ineffectual desire to eructate.—Empty, noisy eructations.—Serum, of a sweetish and disagreeable bit- terness, -mounts in the throat, and causes a great tendency to choke.—Continued nausea, with lassitude, trembling and anxiety.—^Pressure in the stomach, especially after a meal.—Contractive pain in the scorbiculus, as if it were squeezed too tight.—Pressure or shocks, or else throbbing, piercing and pinchings in the scorbiculus.—Burning sensa- tion in the scorbiculus, sometimes extending from the throat into the abdomen. Abdominal, Region.—Pains in the abdomen with dull and jerking pressure.—Inflation of the abdomen, with difficult and interrupted expulsion of wind.—* Constriction in the abdomen.—Pinchings in the umbilical region.—Piercing in the side of the abdomen and in the umbilical region.— Gnawing in the abdomen.—Drawing in the groins, com- mencing from the sacrum. 468 platina. F-eces.—*Constipation, sometimes very obstinate- Frequent urging, with scanty evacuation, which is dis- charged in lumps and only after great efforts.—Evacua- tions'of the consistence of pap.—Tenia and ascarides are discharged from the rectum, during evacuation and at other times.—After the evacuation, general shuddering, or sensation of weakness in the abdomen.—Frequent itching, crawling and tenesmus in the anus, especially in the evening. —Violent and dull lancinations in the rectum. Urine and Genital Organs.—Red urine with a white sediment, or else becoming turbid and depositing a red sediment.—Slow, but frequent emission of urine.—Burning pain and gnawing in the scrotum.— Unnatural increase of sexual desire with frequent erections, especially at night.— *Flow of prostatic fluid.—Coition too short and with little enjoyment.—Sensation of bearing down towards the genital organs, with pressure in the abdomen.—*Unnatural in- crease of sexual desire in females, with painful sensibility, and -voluptuous crawling in the genital organs, internally and externally.—"Induration of the uterus.—Sanguineous congestion to the uterus.— 'Miscarriage.—"Metrorrhagia of thick, deep coloured blood, with drawings in the groins. —-*Catamenia too early and too profuse, "sometimes with head-ache, inquietude and weeping.—*Catamenia too long | continued.—Before the catamenia, cutting and pains like \ those of labour in the hypogastrium.—Cramps at the com- 1 mencement of the catamenia.—*During the catamenia, pres- J sure, as if it were bearing towards the genital organs, | which are very sensitive.—Leucorrhcea, like white of eggs, flowing especially after urinating and on rising from the seat. Chest.---"Aphonia.---"Short and dry cough.-—Short breath with constrictive oppression of the chest.—Anxious op- j pression on the chest, with sensation of heat, which mounts from the epigastrium.—"Short, difficult and anxious respi- ration.—Pain in the chest, as if a weight were pressing upon it, with desire to take a deep inspiration, which is hindered by a sensation of weakness.—"Tension, pressure and stinging in the sides of the chest, which do not permit one to lie on either side.—Pressure and dull blows in the chest.—Spasmodic pressure in one side of the chest.— Spasmodic pain in the chest, commencing slightly, increas- ing to a certain intensity, and gradually diminishing in the same way.—Dull lancinations in the sides of the chest, when inspirating---Anxious palpitation of the heart. Trunk.—Pain in the loins and back, as if they had been platina—plumbum. 469 beaten, especially when pressing upon them, or else when bending backwards.—Spasmodic pain in the loins.—Sen- sation of torpor in the os-coccygis.—Rigidity of the nape of the neck.—Weakness and sensation of tensive torpor in the nape of the neck. Arms.—Heaviness and lassitude of the arms with paraly- tic pulling.—Pressure and spasmodic pain in the forearms, hands, and fingers, especially when taking hold of any thing.—Itching, gnawing, pricking and burning sensation in the arms, hands and fingers.—Sensation of stiffness in the fore-arms.—Painful throbbing in the fingers.—Distor- tion of the fingers.—Torpor of the fingers.—Ulceration of the fingers. Legs.—Spasmodic pain and tension in the thighs, feet and toes.—Weakness of the thighs and knees, as if they had been beaten.—Shocks and blows in the legs.—*Lassitude of the legs.—Restlessness and trembling in the legs, with a sensation of numbness, ai;d "rigidity.—Lassitude and tor- por of the feet when seated.—"Coldness of. the feet.— Gnawing, excoriation, and smarting in the ankle-bones, greatly increased by the least touch.—Painful throbbing in the toes.—Swelling on the ball of the toe, with tearing and nocturnal pulsations.—Ulcers on the toes. 144.—PLUMBUM. PLUM.—Lead.—Hahtlaub and Trinks.—Duration of effect: from 30 to 40 days in chronic affections. Antidotes : Alum. bell. hyos. op. plat, stram. and electricity. Compare with : Alum. bell. chin. con. fer. hyos. natr-m.,n-vom. op. phos. plat. puis. rut. sabad. sep. stram. zinc. CLINICAL REMARKS.---This medicine has been hitherto employed only against some kinds of constipation. [Among the pathological effects produced by the lead, we may mention, increased and altered secretion of bile; contraction of the intestines, often to such a degree, that a quill can scarcely be introduced into the colon; contrac- tion and diminution in size of the lungs ; applied to the skin, the capillary vessels contract violently, the skin loses its turgor vitalis, becomes lax, wrinkled, and finally passes over into a torpid condition, in which all its func- tions cease—hence its antipathic application in erysipelas, &c.; the tabes sicca caused by lead is supposed to proceed from a contraction of the absorbent vessels, thus offering an obstruction to the passage of the lymph; the lead par- alysis affects the arms in preference to the legs, and the extensor more than the flexor muscles, so that the hands are generally bent on the arms, which hang dangling by Vol. I. 40 470 PLUMBUM. the side ; the lead constipation, seems to depend upon a paralysis of the muscular coat of the colon. It has been used with benefit in Ileus when at'ended with vomiting of faces ; in Dysphagia from paralysis of the muscles of deglutition ; in vomiting of blood ; in affections of the liver and spleen, especially in Alycholy, and in biliour colic; in phthisis nephoritica ; enlargement and indura- tion of the prostate gland ; &c, &c. Ed.~\ GENERAL SYMPTOMS— Drawing and tearing in the limbs, more violent at night, sometimes removing to another place after scratching.—Burning sensation in various parts of the body.—Violent creeping pains in the bones, coming on by fits.-—Cramps and constrictive pains in the internal organs.—Chilliness, stiffness, pain as from fatigue, and contraction of the limbs.—Paralysis.—Convulsive trem- bling and jerking of the limbs, convulsions and cramps, some- times followed by paralysis.—Attacks of epilepsy.—Swoon- ing, especially in a large company.—Heaviness and torpor of the limhs.-^Great weakness with trembling of the limbs.— Depression, with desire to lie down, pulsation in the whole body, after slight exercise.—Flaccid and relaxed muscles. —General emaciation, and especially in the paralyzed parts, followed by swelling of these parts.—Dropsical swellings, sometimes of the whole body.—Sensibility in the open air. —The symptoms develope themselves slowly, and some- times disappear for a certain time, after which they again become renewed. Skin.—The skin is of a lead-colour, or bluish or yellow. —Dark brown spots over the whole body.—Easy inflam- mation and suppuration of slight wounds.—Burning pain in the ulcers.—Excoriations.—Decubitus.—Sphacelus. Sleep.—Great desire to sleep during the day ; tendency to fall asleep, even while speaking.—Coma and lethargia, some- times with dizziness.—Retarded sleep.—Nocturnal sleep- lessness, with abdominal spasms. — Jerks during sleep. —Many dreams, sometimes lascivious, with erections.— Talking during sleep. Fever.—Predominance of shiverings and coldness espe- cially in the limbs when in the open air.—Cold or clammy sweat.—Transient, anxious heat. . Moral Symptoms.—Silent melancholy and dejection.— Great anguish and uneasiness with sighs.—Weariness and dislike to conversation and labour.—Discouragement.— Weariness of life.—Weakness of memory.—Imbecility.— Dementia.—Mania. — Delirium. — Fury. — Wild delirium, sometimes* with frantic aspect. PLUMBUM. 471 Head.—Head bewildered and heavy, as if from apathy and melancholy.—Dizzt ness to such an extent as to fallsense- less.-Irttoxication.-Vertigo, especially on stooping, or look- ing into the air.—Head-ache as if caused by a ball mounting from the throat into the brain.—Heaviness of the head, espe- cially in the occiput and forehead.—Tearing in the fore- head and temples.—Lancinating head-ache.—Congestion to the head, with pulsation and heat.—Great dryness of the hair.—Falling off of the hair, also of the eye-brows and whiskers. Eyes.—Pressive and very acute pain as if the eye-ball were too large.—Heaviness of the eyes when moving them. —Paralysis of the eye-lids.—Contraction in the eyes and eye-lids.—Tearing in the eye-lids with sleep.—Sanguine- ous congestion to the eyes.—Inflammation of the eyes and of the iris.—Nocturnal agglutination of the eyes.— Swelling of the eyes.—Yellowish colour of the sclerotica.— Spasmodic closing of the eye-lids.—Eyes convulsed.— Pupils contracted.—Sight confused as if through a mist, which forces one to rub the eyes.—Myopia.—Blindness, as if from amaurosis. Ears.—Tearing in the ears.—Boring and shooting in the ears.—Sensibility to noise.—Occasional sudden dimi- nution of hearing.—Deafness. Nose.—Coldness of the nose.—Erysipelatous inflam- mation of the nose.—Red purulent vesicles in the corners of the nose.—Fetid smell in the nose.—Loss of smell.— Obstruction of the nose.—Accumulation of tenacious mu- cus in the nostrils, which can only be expelled through the nasal fossa?.—Fluent coryza, with discharge of serous mucus. Face.—Face pale, yellow, hippocratic.—Bewildered air. —Bloatedness of the face.—Swelling on one side of the face only.—Skin shining and greasy to the sight and touch.—Tearing in the maxillary bones, which is removed by friction, or made to appear in another place.—Boring in the lower jaw.—Exfoliation of the lips.—Cramps in the jaw.—Swelling of the sub-maxillary glands. Teeth.—Tearing, jerking pains in the teeth, aggrava- ted by cold things.—The teeth are coated with yellow slime.—The teeth become black.—Fetid, carious teeth, which break off in notches.—Loosening and falling out of the teeth.—Grinding of the teeth.—Gums pale and swollen, or of a bluish appearance on the margins.—Painful and hard nodosities on the gums. Mouth.—Dryness of the mouth.—Copious accumulation 472 PLUMBUM. of sweetish saliva in the mouth, with dryness of the gullet. __Salivation.—Froth in the mouth.—Clammy mucus in the mouth, on waking in the morning.—Hemoptysis.—Aphtha: and fetid ulcers in the mouth.—Inflammation, swelling and heaviness of the tongue.—Tongue brown and dry with rhagades.—Tongue green, or coated yellow.—Impeded Throat.—Sore throat as if caused by a swelling, or by a foreign body in the gullet.—Sensation as if a ball were mount- ing in the throat.—Sensation of constriction in the throat. —Paralysis of the gullet with inability to swallow.—Drawing in the throat when eating, as if the oesophagus were about to be torn out.—Sensation as if an insect were creeping in the oesophagus.—Inflammation and induration of the amygdala;. Appetite.—Sweetish or bitter taste.—Sulphurous, acid taste in the bottom of the throat.—Violent thirst for cold water.—Anorexia.—Violent hunger, also a short time after a meal.—Great desire for bread and fried things. Stomach.—Eructations with the taste of the food.—■ Empty eructations, sometimes very violent and painful.— Sweetish eructations.—Hiccough.—Regurgitation of sweetish or sour water.—Disgust and frequent nausea -with desire to vomit, sometimes with vomiturition.—Continued and vio- lent vomiting of food, or of greenish and blackish or yellowish matter, with violent pains in the stomach and abdomen.—Vo- miting of bile or of blood.—Vomiting of fecal matter, with colic and constipation.—Most violent pains in the stomach. —Sensation of heaviness and pressure in the stomach, some- times after a meal.—Dull and anxious pressure fn the scor- biculus.—Constrictive cramps in the stomach.—Shootings from the pit of the stomach into the back.—Cuttings and burning pain in the stomach.—Inflammation of the sto- mach. Abdominal Region.—Pain in the liver with lancinating pressure.—Affections of the spleen.—Most violent pains in the abdomen, with retraction of the navel.—Inflation and induration of the abdomen.—* Violent colics with constrictive pain, -especially in the umbilical region, with violent contrac- tion of the abdomen, sometimes forming elevations and pits, aggravated by the slightest touch, and sometimes increased at night, to the highest degree.—Pinchings and cuttings in the abdomen.—Shootings round the navel.—Senration in the upper part and in the sides of the abdomen, as if some- thing were torn away and were falling.—Pulsation in the abdomen.—Burning sensation or coldness in the abdomen PLUMBUM. 473 —(Inflammation of the intestines.)—Hard nodosities in the abdomen, as if caused by internal induration.—Soreness of the abdominal muscles, aggravated by movement and by touching them.—Continual production and incarceration of flatus with grumbling and borborygmus in the abdomen.— Abundant expulsion of very offensive and hot hurning flatus. —In the rectum, very urgent desire to expel flatus, with- out any result. Faeces.—Most obstinate constipation.—Continued and in- effectual desire to evacuate.—Feces difficult to evacuate, hard, sometimes in lumps, like sheep dung, and tenacious.— Loose evacuations.—Long continued diarrhea, generally of yellow excrement, or else painful, and often very offensive. —Sanguineous diarrhoea.—Painful retraction and constric- tion of the anus.—Prolapsus recti. Urine.—Retention of urine.—Difficult emission of urine, and drop by drop.—Tenesmus of the vesica.—More fre- quent and more copious emission of urine.—Watery, or reddish, fiery, turbid, and sometimes thick urine.—Dis- charge of blood from the urethra. Genital Okgans.—Swelling and inflammation of the genital organs (of the penis and scrotum).—Contraction and constriction of the testes, with jerking in the spermatic cord.—Retraction of the testes.—Excoriation of the scro- tum.—Sexual desire excessively increased, with frequent erections and pollutions.—Insufficient emission of semen during coition.— (Impotence 1) — Leucorrhoea.—Miscar- riage. Larynx.—Hoarseness and roughness in the throat.— Aphonia.—Constriction in the throat.—Copious expectora- tion of mucus from the larynx, which is viscous, transpa- rent or yellowish-green and in lumps.—Dry, convulsive cough.—Expectoration of pus with the cough.—Cough, with expectoration of blood. Chest.—Difficult, anxious, oppressed and panting respi- ration.—Shortness of breath.—-Spasmodic asthma.—Oppres- sion on the chest, appearing periodically.—Pressure on the chest, especially when breathing deeply and laughing.— Attacks of suffocation.—Shootings in the chest and sides, sometimes with obstructed respiration.—Ebullition in the chest,with anxiety about the heart,and perceptible palpitation. Trunk.—Tearings and shootings in the loins, back and between the shoulder-blades.—Deviation of the spine.— Tension in the nape of the neck, extending into the ear when moving the head. Arms.—Convulsive movements of the arms and hands, 40* 474 PLUMBUM--PRUNUS SP1N0SA. with pains in the joints.—Drawing and tearing in the arms and finders.—Weakness and painful paralysis of the arms and hands.—Ganglion on the b .ck of the hands.—Diffi- culty in moving the fingers.—Red and swollen spots on the fingers. Legs.—Drawings in the hip-joints when lying down.— Painful sensation of paralysis in the hip-joints and in those of the knees and feet, especially on going up stairs—Para- lysis of the thighs and feet.—Numbness of the legs and feet. —Tearing and shootings in the thighs and knees.—Sen- sation of torpor in the feet, with difficulty in putting them to the ground.—Cramps in the soles of the feet.—Swelling of the feet.—Fetid sweating of the feet.—Distortion of the toes. 145.—PRUNUS SPINOSA. PRUN.—Sloe-tree.—Wahle.—Duration of effect: Several weeks in some cases of chronic disease. CLINICAL REMARKS.—This medicine has hitherto been used only against:—General anasarca ; Ascites ; Di- arrhoea ; &c. [It has effected cures of the most dangerous and obsti- nate cases of dropsy of the chest, &c. Ed.] GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Shootings in the muscles. —Trembling in the whole body.—Uneasiness in the body, with short breath and oppression on the chest.—Sleep after a meal.—Retarded sleep and sleeplessness at night. —Waking too early.—Lassitude in the morning, as after unrefreshing sleep.—Sleep full of dreams and phantasies. —Dreams of furunculi or of salt things.—Shivering, espe- cially in the evening.—Dry heat over the whole body, es- pecially in the genital organs.—Sweat on the face only, during sleep.—Sadness, indifference, moroseness and ill- humour. Head—Teeth.—Heaviness in the head and vertigo.— Pressure in the head, principally in the forehead, occiput and temples.—Violent nervous pains in the head, with loss of ideas and of consciousness.—The pressure in the head mostly manifests itself from without inwards.—Head-ache, as if from the heat of the sun.—Pains in the eyes, as if the balls were being torn out.—Binding sensations in the ears. • Frequent sneezing.— Violent nervous pains or wrenching pains in the teeth, or else a sensation, as if the teeth were raised up and pulled out.—Pricking pains in the teeth. Mouth—FiECEs.—Shootings and burning pain in the tongue.—Tongue loaded with whitish mucus.—Mucous PRUNUS SPIN0SA. 475 clammy, or bitter taste in the mouth.—Speedy satiety when eating.— Continued nausea with dislike to all food, and diarrhoea.—Fulness, distention and oppression in the pit of the stomach with short breath.—Pressive pains in the hepatic region.— Violent spasmodic colic which hinders one from lying on the back or the sides, and from walking, except very slowly ; the pains diminish after bending the thorax forwards.—Pressive colic in the epigastrium, or in the right side of the abdomen, also at night.—Shootings in the abdomen, which interrupt respiration.—* Dropsical swelling of the abdomen, -with loss of appetite, scanty urine, hard and knotty faeces.—Incarceration of flatus with spasmo- dic colic and cramps in the vesica.—Shootings in the inguinal region and pressure, as if a hernia were about to protrude.—Difficult, hard and knotty faeces.—*Diarrhea, -with colic and copious evacuation of fa?cal matter.—Spas- modic pains in the rectum.—Discharge of blood from the anus after the evacuation. Urine—Genital Organs.—Cramps in the vesica, also at night.—Scanty and brown urine.—Thread-like stream of urine.—Hot, corrosive urine.—Bright yellow urine, with whitish and sometimes sky-blue coloured sediment.— Strangury.—Spasmodic retention of urine.—Tenesmus of the vesica.—Violent burning pains in the urethra when en- deavouring to urinate.—Pain in the urethra, as if from ex- coriation, especially when it is touched.—Flaccidity of the penis and retraction of the prepuce.—Itching in the scro- tum, as well as in the region of the ovaria.—Discharge of a watery and pale blood from the uterus.—Catamenia too early and too copious, with pain in the loins.—Corrosive leucorrhcea, which imparts a yellow tinge to the linen. Larynx and Chest.—Scraping and roughness in the throat, with desire to cough.—Pain in the chest when speaking, with weak voice.—Cough excited by a tickling in the larynx.—Wheezing cough.—Oppressed, short, difficult, anxious and panting respiration.—Sensation of heaviness and oppression in the chest.—Respiration is continually arrested at the pit of the stomach.—Pains under the ster- num, and oppression, with fulness in the scorbiculus, and distention of the abdomen. Trunk and Extremities.—Pain, as if from ulceration in the loins.—Stiffness in the back and loins, as if caused by a strain.—Soreness of the axillary glands.—Tension, wrenching pains and paralytic sensation in various parts of the arms and hands.—Itching in the fingers, as if from chilblains.—Pains in the hips at night, before midnight.— 476 PULSATILLA. Wrenching pains in the knees and feet.—Burning sensa- tion in the legs._____________________________________ 146.—PULSATILLA. PULS.—Anemone pratensis.—Hahnemann.— Duration of effect: from4to 5 days in acute cases, and several weeks in chronic aftections. Antidotes : Cham. coff. ign. n-vom.—Pulsatilla is an antidote against: Agar. ambr. arg. bell. cham. chin, colch- fer. ign. lye. mere. plat. ran. sabad. stann. sulph. sulph-ac. tart. Compare with : Agar. ambr. am-cr. ant. arn. ars. asa. aur. bell. bry. cham. chin. cocc. colch. con. cupr. fer. ign. kal. lach. led. lye mere, nitr ac. n-vom. n-mos. petr. plat. rhus. sabad. sep. stann. sulph-ac. tart. thuy. zinc—Pulsatilla, when indicaled, is particularly effi"acious after: Asa. ant. aur. chin. lach. lye. nitr-ac. rhus. sep. sulph. tart, and thui—Asa. bry. nitr-ac. sep. thuy. are sometimes suitable after Pulsatilla. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Allowing ourselves to be guided by the totality of symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be used are :—Affections, principally of fe- males, or of persons of mild character, inclined to pleasantry, and to laughter or weeping with a mild countenance, and of phlegmatic temperament, inclining to melancholy, lympha- tic constitution with pale complexion, blue eyes and light hair, freckles, disposition to take a cold in the head, or to other mucous discharges, &c.; Bad consequences from the abuse of sulphur-waters, of mercury, cinchona, chamo- milla, or from the fat of pork, or also from wine; Suffer- ings brought on by fright or vexation, or by a chill in the water (bathing the feet, rain, &rc, &c.); Rheumatic and arthritic affections with swelling: Arthritis vaga ; Articu- lar rheumatism ; Spasmodic affections ; Attacks of epilepsy and of syncope caused by suppressed catamenia ; Passive congestions with enlargement of the veins ; Varices ; Aneu- risms ; Mucous discharges ; Scrofulous and rachitic affec- tions'?; Atrophy of children ; Icterus; Chlorosis; Erysip- elatous inflammations ; Zona 1; Nettle-rash 1 ; Morbilli and bad effects from repercussion of that diseaae '; Conoid varicella? 1; Eruptions caused by the fat of pork ; Chilblains ; Rhagades 1 ; Suppurations ; Inflamed or putrid ulcers j Effects of contusions, falls, blows ; Febris comatosa ; In- flammatory fevers, with gastric, mucous, or bilious affec- tions; Typhus fever; Intermittent fevers, also after the abuse of cinchona or sulphate of quina; Hectic fever ; Mania, melancholy, hysteria, and other moral affections caused by suppression of the catamenia ; Cerebral conges- tion; Apoplexy 1; Cephalalgia, also when caused by the abuse of mercury or by indigestion; Megrim ; Ophthalmia and blepharophthalmia with copious secretion of mucus ; Oph- thalmia caused by suppressed gonorrhoea ; Hordeolum 1; Cataract 1 j Opacity of the corneal; Lachrymal fistula?' PULSATILLA. 477 Amblyopia amaurotica (with hemeralopia 1) ; Inflammatory otalgia; Purulent otorrhea ; Hardness of hearing, also when caused by a chill, or after repercussion of morbilli; Ozse- na?. ; Nasal hemorrhagia ; Acute or chronic coryza; Dis- position to take cold easily ; Rheumatic odontalgia ; Catar- rhal angine; Gastrico-mucous or bilious affections, with vomiting or diarrhoea ; Indigestion caused by abuse of the fat of pork or of rich pastry ; Chill in the stomach from ices, fruits, acids, &c.; Dyspepsia, with vomiting of food, also from having taken too much wine ; Hsemetemesis ; Gas- tralgia ; Gastritis 1 ; Chronic hepatic affections; Icterus; Spasmodic or flatulent colic; Enteritis 1 ; Peritonitis!; Mucous or bilious diarrhea ; Dysentery ; Bad effects from the suppression of hajmorrhoidal discharges ; Ischuria, dy- suria and strangury ; Incontinence of urine in children (wetting the bed); Catarrh of the vesica ; Gonorrhoea and bad effects from suppression of that disease; Hydrocele and Inflammatory swelling of the testes, also when caused by a compression or contusion ; Prostatitis; Priapismusj Frequent pollutions from Onanism ; Dysmenia, amenorrhea and dysmenorrhea, and many sufferings caused by the sup- pression of the catamenia, or by irregularity in the menstrual * discharge, principally at the age of puberty, or at the change of life; Metritis'?; Metrorrhagia, principally at the critical age; Leucorrhea; Moral affections, odontalgia, gastric sufferings, colic, hysterical spasms, dysuria and many other sufferings of pregnant or parturient women ; Spasmodic la- bour pains ; Cuttings, which are too prolonged and too violent; Absence of labour pains; Adherence of the pla- centa ; suppression of the lochia "? ; Puerperal peritonit.sl ; Agalactia ; Sufferings caused by weaning ; Excoriations ©f ^children who have taken too much camomile ; Ophthalmia of new-born infants'!; Catarrhal affections with moist cough; Grippe; Hooping-cough % ; Haemoptysis; Asth- matic affections ; Pneumonia 1; Phthisical sufferings'? ; Or- ganic affections of the heart; Carditis'? ; Rachitic deviation of the spine ; Inflammatory or oedematous swelling of the legs and feet ; Psoitis'?; Sciatica'?; Coxalgia. 0^7" See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—*Sharp drawing and jerk- ing pains in the muscles, aggravated at night or in bed in the evening, as well as by the heat of the room, mitigated in the open air, "and often accompanied by torpor, with paralytic weakness or hard swelling of the parts affected. .__Shootings and sensation of coldness in the parts affect- ed on a change of weather.—Tension in some limbs, as 478 PULSATILLA. if the tendons were too short.—* Shifting pains which pass rapidly from one part to the other, often with swelling and redness of the joints.—Shocks in the tendons.—*Attacks of pain with shivering, impeded respiration, pale face and trem- bling of the legs.—The more violent the pains the strong- er the shiverings.—*Pain as from a bruise or sub-cutaneous ulceration when touching the parts affected.—*Semi-lateral pains and sufferings.—Aggravation and renewal of suffer- ings in a sitting posture after long-continued exercise; or on rising after having remained seated.a long time, as well as during repose, and principally when lying on the side or back.—The sufferings which have appeared when lying on the back, are mitigated by lying on the side or by rising up, and vice versa.—Movement, walking, pressure, external heat and the open air, equally ameliorate many sufferings, while some others are aggravated under the same circum- stances.—The sufferings are generally greatest in the evening, or at night before midnight, sometimes also in the morning and after a meal.—The sufferings are aggravated every second day in the evening.—Agitation and uneasiness in the whole body, with inability to sleep or to enjoy repose, and constant inclination to stretch the limbs.—Frequent and troublesome pulsations over the whole body, more vi- olent when moving.—*Great disposition of the limbs to go to sleep.—Frequent trembling of the limbs with anxiety.— Sluggishness and heaviness of the limbs with paralytic weakness, painful sensibility of the joints and tottering gait. —Fatigue in the morning, which is increased in a recum- bent position.—"Fainting-fits with deadly paleness of the face.— Epileptic convulsions with violent movements of the limbs, followed by weakness, eructations and desire to vomit (after the suppression of the catamenia).—Great sensibility and repugnance to the open air.—Great desire to remain lying or sitting.—*Pain as if from a bruise in the bones of the extremities.—Emaciation. Skin.—Itching, mostly burning or pricking (as if caused by the stings of ants), principally in the evening and at night in the heat of the bed, aggravated by scratching.— *Red spots like measles or nettle-rash.—Frequent redness, even when the parts are cold.— Eruptions similar to vari- cella coniformis, with violent itching when in bed.— *Chilblains with bluish-red swellings, heat and burning, or pulsative pains.—'Phlegmonous erysipelas with hardness, burning heat and shooting pain when touching or moving the parts affected.—Furunculi.—Shining redness, hardness and itching roundthe ulcers, with easy bleeding and shooting' PULSATILLA. 479 burning and gnawing pains.—"Inflamed or putrid ulcers.— Varices. Sleep.—* Continued sleepiness and comatose sleep, with agitation and uneasy phantasies,day or night.—Great desire to sleep during the day, principally in the evening or afternoon. —Irregular sleep,too early in the evening, or too late in the morning, and sometimes with nocturnal sleeplessness.— * Retarded sleep, sometimes not until two hours after mid- night, and often with early waking.—* A great flow of ideas hinders sleep in the evening and at night.—*Agitated sleep with frequent waking, "and state of stupefaction on waking! —Inability to sleep except when seated, with the head in- clined forwards, or to one side.—*During sleep, talking, delirium, convulsive movements of the mouth, eyes and limbs, -tears, cries and moanings, night-mare, *starts with fright, -shocks in the body and jerking in the limbs.—*At night, great agitation and tossing, "inquietude and anguish of heart, ebullition of blood, dry heat, itching, wanderings and fixed ideas.—When sleeping, one lies on the back, with the knees raised and the arms placed over the head, or crossed over the abdomen.—*Frequent, frightful, anxious, confused, vivid, disgusting, voluptuous dreams, of quarrels and of the business of the day, "of spectres and of the dead.—* Frequent yawning. *Coldness, shiverings and shudderings, principally in the evening or afternoon, and sometimes with pale face, vertigo and dizziness, pain and heaviness in the head, -anxiety and oppression of, the chest, "vomiting of mucus, -desire to lie down and flushes of heat.—Partial coldness and shivering, principally in the back, arms, legs, hands and feet, often with hot head or red faee and cheeks.—Semi-lateral cold- ness, with torpor of the side affected.—*Dry heat, princi- pally at night, in the evening in bed, or in the morning, and often with attacks of anguish, head-ache, red and bloated face, or perspiration on the face, shivering when uncovered, burning in the hands with swelling of the veins, lamentations, sighs and moans, profound or agitated sleep, and anxious and hasty respiration, fainting-fits, with cloudiness of the eyes, inclination to vomit and loose evacuations.—*Partial heat, principally in the face, with redness of the cheeks, hands, feet, &c, and often on one side only, with coldness or shivering in the same parts of the other side.—*Febrile paroxysms composed of heat, which is preceded by shiverings, with adip- sia, and mixed with or followed by perspiration ; quotidian, tertian or quartan fever ; aggravation in the evening or after- noon ; remission in the morning; in the apyrexia, head- PULSATILLA. ache, painful oppression of the chest, moist cough, bitterness in the mouth, constipation or diarrhoea.—'Febrile symptoms with loss of consciousness, delirium, tears and despair, or with gastrico-mucous or bilious symptoms, or with coma- tose sleep.—Repugnance to external heat.—"Pulse quick and small,-or full and slow, -or feeble and almost suppress- ed.—*Perspiration, principally at night, or towards the morn- ing ; profuse and fetid sweat; semi-lateral or partial sweat (on the head and face), and sweat with crainps in the arms and hands, fatigue, comatose sleep, numerous dreams and "redness of the face. Moral Symptoms.---^Melancholy, with sadness, tears, great uneasiness respecting one's affairs, or respecting one's health, "fear of death, cares and vexatious humour.—"In- voluntary laughter and weeping.—*Great anguish and in- quietude, mostly in the precordial region, and sometimes with inclination to commit suicide, -palpitation of the heart, heat and want to loosen one's habiliments, trembling of the hands and desire to vomit.—* Attacks of anxiety, with fear of dying or of being struck with apoplexy, with buzzing in the ears, shiverings and convulsive movements of the fin- gers.—Apprehension, "anthropophobia, *fear of ghosts at night or in the evening, with desire to hide oneself or to run away, mistrust and suspicion.—-Taciturn madness, -with sullen, cold, and wandering air, sighs and constantly sit- ting with the hands joined, and not complaining of any thing.---"Despair of eternal happiness, with continual prayers.—Discouragement, indecision, dread of occupation, and obstructed respiration.—An envious, discontented, and covetous character, so as to wish to grasp every thing for oneself.—Capricious humour, with desire at one time for this thing, at another time for that, and rejection of them as soon as they are obtained.—*Hypochondriacal hu- mour and moroseness, principally in the evening, often with repugnance to conversation, with great susceptibility of char- acter, disposition to be angry, cries and weeping.—*Ill-hu- mour, sometimes with a dread of exertion, and disgust or contempt for every thing.—Inadvertence, precipitation and absence.—Difficulty in expressing oneself correctly when speaking, and omission of several letters when writing.— "State of stupefaction ; unconsciousness as to where one is or what one has done.—Great flow of very changeable ideas.—*Nocturnal raving; "violent delirium and loss of consciousness.— Frightful visions.—Weakness of memory. —Fixed ideas.—"Stupidity. Head.—Fatigue of the head from intellectual labour.— PULSATILLA. 481 *Sensation of emptiness and confusion in the head, as if after long watching or after a debauch, and sometimes with great indifference.—* Vertigo, as during intoxication, or ver- tigo to such an extent as to fall, and staggering, principal- ly in the evening or morning when rising up, when getting up after lying down, when sitting, when stooping, when walking in the open air, or after a meal, as well as on raising the eyes, and often with great heaviness, and heat in the head, paleness of the face, desire to vomit, sleep, cloudiness of the eyes, and "buzzing in the ears.—"Medita- tion and conversation increase the vertigo.—"Attacks of dizziness and loss of consciousness, with bluish redness and bloatedness of the face, loss of the power of movement, violent palpitation of the heart, almost extinct pulse, and rattling respiration.—Pain as if from a bruise in the brain, as in typhus fever, or similar to that caused by intoxica- tion from brandy.—Head-ache, as if from indigestion caused by eating fat things.—*Pain in the head, as if the forehead would split, or 05 if the brain were tight, compressed or con- tracted.—*Shootings, or sharp drawing and jerking pains, or crawling pulsation, and boring in the head.—*Roaring, buzzing, "and crackling in the head, _or painful sensation, as if a current of air were crossing the brain.—The head- ache is often only semi-lateral, extending as far as the ear and teeth, attacking the forehead above the eyes and ex- tending into the sockets, or it is experienced in the occi- put, with painful contraction in the nape of the neck.— *Appearance or aggravation of the head-aches, in the eve- ning after lying down, or at night, or in bed in the morning, as well as when stooping, "when moving the eyes or the head, when walking in the open air, *and during intellectu- al labour; -compression sometimes mitigates them.— "Head-ache, with nausea and vomiting, *or with congestion and heat in the head, _or else with shuddering and syncope, *vertigo, cloudiness of the eyes and buzzing in the ears, -photophobia and weeping.—Pain in the hairy scalp on turning up the hair.—Tickling and itching in the head.— Purulent pustules and small tumours, with pain in the hairy scalp as if from ulceration. Eves.—Pain in the eyes as if they were scratched with a knife.—Burning sensation, *pressive pain as if caused by sand, -or sharp or shooting pain in the eyes, or else boring and cutting pain.—Burning itching in the eyes, principally in the evening.—* Inflammation in the eyes and margins of the eye-lids, with redness of the sclerotica and conjunctiva and copious secretion of mucus.—Swelling and redness of Vol. I. 41 482 PULSATILLA. the eye-lids.—"Trichiasis in the eye-lids.—"Crystalline lens clouded, and of a grayish colour.—*Hordeolum, -with in- flammation of the sclerotica and tensive drawing pains, when moving the muscles of the face.—^Dryness of the eyes and eye-lids, especially during sleep.—* Profuse lachry- mation, principally when in the wind, as well as in the open air, in the cold and in the clear, bright day-light.—"Acrid and corrosive tears.—Abscess near the angle of the eye, like a lachrymal fistula.—Nocturnal agglutination of the eve-lids—Pupils contracted or dilated.— Fixed and stupid look.—Cloudiness of the eyes and loss of sight, sometimes with paleness of the face and desire to vomit (all objects present a sickly hue.)—Loss of sight in the twilight, with sensation as if the eyes were covered with a band.—*Sigkt confused, as if through a mist, or as if caused by something that might be removed by rubbing, principally when in the open air, in the evening, morning, or on walking.—Diplo- pia.—*Luminous circles before the eyes, and diffusion of the light of the candle.—Great sensibility of the eyes to light which causes shootings. Ears.—Pain in the ears, as if something were about to protrude from them.—*Shootings, with itching, or sharp, jerking pains and contraction in and round the ears ; 'the pains sometimes come on by fits, attack the whole head, appear insupportable and almost cause the loss of reason. —*'Inflammatory swelling, heat, and erysipelatous redness of the ear and auditory duct, as well as of the surrounding external parts.—''Painful swelling of the bones behind the ears.—"The cerumen is hard and black.—*Discharge of pus, blood, or of a thick, yellowish humour from the ear. —Sound, like the warbling of birds, pulsative murmurs, tingling, *roaring and humming in the ears.—* Hardness of hearing, as if caused by obstruction of the ears.—Burning, gnawing scabs on the tragus (with swelling of the glands of the neck).—Shootings in the parotids. Nose.—Pressure and pain, as if from an abscess in the root of the nose.—* Ulceration of the nostrils and of the wings of the nose—*Discharge of fetid and greenish or yellowish pus from the nose.—Blowing of blood from the nose and * nasal hemorrhage, sometimes with obstruction of the nose.—* Obstruction of the nose and dry coryza, prin- cipally in the evening and in the heat of a room.—Coryza, with loss of taste and smell, or *with discharge of thick and fetid mucus.—Tickling in the nose, -and frequent sneez- ing, principally in the morning and evening.—Continued shivering during the coryza.—Continual smell before the PULSATILLA. 483 nose, as if from a coryza of long standing, or from a mix- ture of coffee and tobacco.—Swelling of the nose. Face.—*Face pale, and sometimes with an expression of suffering.—*Paleness of the face, alternately with heat and redness of the cheeks.—Sweat in the face and hairy scalp; shuddering, or semi-lateral sweat on the face.— "Face puffed and of a bluish red colour.—Convulsive move- ments and muscular twitchings in the face.—Tension and sensation of swelling in the face, or painful sensibility of the skin, as if it were excoriated.—Erysipelas of the face, with shooting pain and desquamation of the skin.—Red nodosities in the region of the cheek-bones.—Swelling, tension and cracks in the lips, with desquamation of the skin.—Swelling of the sub-maxillary glands and those of the neck. Teeth.—*Sharp, shooting pains in the teeth, or drawing jerking pains, as if the nerve were tightened, then sudden- ly relaxed, or pulsative, digging, and gnawing pains, often with pricking in the gums.—Tooth-ache, which affects the sound as well as the carious teeth, often only semi-lateral, and frequently extending to the face, head, ear, and eye of the side affected, being sometimes accompanied by paleness in the face, shivering, "and dyspnaea.—* Aggravation or ap- pearance of tooth-ache, principally in the evening or after- noon, or at night, as well as in the heat of the bed, or of a room; renewed by eating, as also by partaking of any thing hot and by irritation with the tooth-pick ; mitigated by cold water or fresh air.—The tooth-ache is sometimes also aggravated by cold water, as well as by fresh air or by wind ; but these cases are more rare.—Sensation of burn- ing or swelling, pain as if from excoriation and pulsation in the gums.—Loosening of the teeth. Mouth.—*Dryness of the mouth, -in the morning.— Offensive smell and even putrid fetor of the mouth, princi- pally in the morning, or at night and in bed in the evening. —*Flow of sweetish and watery saliva from the mouth, some- times with desire to vomit.—Sensation, as if the tongue were too large.—Insensibility of the tongue, as if it had been burnt.—*Tongue loaded with a thick coating, of a grayish, whitish, or yellowish colour.—Accumulation of tenacious mucus in the mouth and on the tongue ; these parts are, as it were, coated with a white skin.— Cracks -and painful vesicles on the tongue.—Sensation as if the palate were swollen or covered with tenacious mucus. Throat.—*Pain, as if from excoriation in the throat, as if it were all raw, with scraping, burning sensation and 484 PULSATILLA. smarting.—*Redness of the throat, tonsils and uvula, with a sensation as if these parts were swollen, principally when swallowing.—Difficult deglutition, as if from paralysis or from contraction of the throat.—^Shootings in the throat, with pressure and tension during empty deglutition.—"In- flammation of the throat with varicose swelling of the veins. —*Dryness in the throat, or accumulation of tenacious mucus, which covers the parts affected.—The sore throat generally aggravated in the evening or afternoon. Appltite.—*Insipid, slimy, putrid taste in the mouth, -empyreumatical, earthy, or pus-like taste.—*Sweetish, acid or bitter taste of the mouth, and of food, principally meat, bread, butter, beer and milk, substances which often also appear insipid or cause disgust.-—Bitter or sour taste in the mouth, immediately after having eaten, as well as in the morning and evening.—Wine has a bitter and meat a pu- trid taste.—Food appears either too salt or insipid.—*Want of appetite and dislike to food.—Hunger and desire to eat, without knowing what.—Ravenous hunger, with gnawing pain in the stomach.—Complete adipsia, or excessive thirst, with moisture on the tongue, and desire for beer, or spiritu- ous, tart and acid drinks.—*Sensation of derangement in the stomach, similar to that caused by fat pork or rich pastry.— Dislike and repugnance to tobacco smoke.—* After eating, nausea, and eructations, regurgitation and vomiting, infla- tion, and pressure in the pit of the stomach, colic and flatu- lence, head-ache, obstructed respiration, 'ill-humour and melancholy, or involuntary laughter and weeping, and -many other sufferings.—"Bread especially lies heavy on the stomach. Stomach.—* Frequent eructations, sometimes abortive, or with taste of food, or acid or bitter, and principally after a meal.—Regurgitation of food.—Flow of water like pituita, from the stomach.—*Frequent hiccough, principally when smoking tobacco, after drinking, or at night, and some- times with fit of suffocation.—* Nausea and desire to vomit, which are insupportable, sometimes extending to the throat, and into the mouth, with unpleasant sensation as if a worm were ascending in the oesophagus.—Attacks of constriction and choking in the oesophagus.—* Vomitings, which are sometimes violent, of greenish, slimy, or bilious and bitter, or acid matter.—* Vomiting of food.—Vomiting of blood.— The nausea and vomitings take place, principally in the evening or at night, and after eating or drinking, as well as during a meal, and they are attended often with shivering, paleness of face, colic, pains in the ears or back, burning PULSATILLA. 485 sensation in the throat and borborygmus.—*Painful sensi- bility of the region of the stomach to the least pressure.__ 'Pressive, spasmodic, contractive, and compressive pains in the stomach and precordial region, principally after a meal, or in the evening, or morning, and often with vomiting or nau- sea, and obstructed respiration.—Crawling, or pulsations in the pit of the stomach, or shootings on making a false step.— Pain in the epigastrium, which is greatly aggra- vated when sitting ; (during pregnancy.) Abdominal Region.—Drawing tension in the hypochon- dria, or pulsative shootings, as in an abscess.—Hard dis- tention of the abdomen, principally in the epigastrium, with tension and sensation of fulness.—*Spasmodic and compressive pains, sometimes at the bottom of the hypogas- trium, with pressure on the rectum, or cuttings, principally roundthe navel, or sharp and shooting pains in the abdo- men.—The colics are often accompanied by vomiting or diarrhoea; they manifest themselves mostly in the evening, or after eating or drinking, and sometimes squeezing the abdomen or repose mitigates them, while movement aggra- vates them.—Circular swelling round the navel, painful when walking.—Retraction and soreness of the abdomen, with great sensibility of the integuments of the abdomen, which appear swollen, with pain as if from a bruise when touching them, or when yawning, singing, coughing, and from every movement of the abdominal muscles.—Flatulent colic, prin- cipally in the evening, after a meal, or after midnight, or in the morning, with pressive pains, produced by incarcerated flatus ; tumult, borborygmus and grumbling in the abdomen, and escape of fetid flatus.—Purulent pustules in the in- guina. F^ces.—*Constipation and difficult evacuations, some- times with painful pressure on the rectum and pains in the back.—Frequent desire to evacuate, also at night.—Involun- tary and unnoticed evacuations, during sleep.—* Loose evac- uations also at night, and sometimes with colic and cuttings, shiverings and shudderings and pains in the anus.—*Fre- queht evacuations, of whitish, *yellowish, sanguineous mu- cus, or of greenish, minced, bilious, or watery, and some- times also of corrosive matter.—Before and after the evac- uations, burning, smarting, and pains as from excoriation in the rectum.—Discharge of blood from the anus, also when not at stool.—*Blind and bleeding hemorrhoides, with itching, smarting and pain, as if from excoriation.—Protru- sion of haemorrhoides. Urine.—"Retention of urine, with redness and heat in 41* 486 PULSATILLA. the vesical region, anxiety and troublesome pains in the abdomen.—*Tenesmus of the vesica, and frequent desire to urinate, with painful pressure on the vesica, and drawing pain in the abdomen.—Involuntary emission of some drops of urine, when coughing, walking, sitting, and expelling flatus.—*Wetting the bed.—*Profuse emission of watery urine, with weakness in the loins and diarrhoea, or scanty red or brown urine, sometimes with a violet-coloured froth. —Urine with red, brick-dust coloured, violet, slimy, un- gelatinous sediment.—*Sanguineous urine, "with purulent deposit and pains in the loins.—* Discharge from the urethra, as in gonorrhea.-—Contraction of the urethra, with a very small stream of water.—Burning during and after the emis- sion of urine.—Pulling and pressure in the urethra, neck of the vesica, and vesica.—Pressure and constriction in the vesica, with soreness in the vesical region.— Swelling in the region of the neck of the vesica, with soreness when touched, intermittent stream of urine, and spasmodic pain in the pelvis and thighs, after urinating. Genital Organs.—*Itching and tickling in the prepuce and scrotum, principally morning and evening.—*Inflam- matory swelling of the testes and of the spermatic cord (some- times only on one side) vcith pressive and drawing pains ex- tending into the abdomen, "and the loins, with redness and heat of the scrotum, with nausea and desire to vomit.— *Dropsical swelling of the scrotum, of a whitish blue colour.—*Excessive increase of sexual desire almost like priapismus, with frequent and continued erections, great de- sire for coition and frequent pollutions.—Flow of prostatic fluid.—*Spasmodic pains or drawing tension in the uterus, and pains like those of labour.—'Metrorrhagia.—*Black menstrual blood, with clots of mucus, or discharge of pale and serous blood.—Catamenia irregular, too tardy, or too soon, of too short or too long duration, or entirely sup- pressed, with colic, hysterical spasms in the abdomen, hepatic pains, gastralgia, pain in the loins, nausea and vomitings, shiverings and paleness of face, megrim, vertigo, moral affec- tions, tenesmus of the anus and vesica, stitches in the side, and many other sufferings before, during or after the period. —*Leucorrhea, thick like cream, or corrosive and burning, principally at the period of the catamenia (before, during, or after) and sometimes with cuttings.—Swelling of the mammae, with tension and pressure as if they were filled with milk. Larynx.—*Catarrh, with hoarseness, roughness, dry- ness, scraping and pain, as if from excoriation in the PULSATILLA. 487 larynx and chest.—* Attacks of constriction in the larynx principally at nighty when lying in a horizontal posture.— Shaking cough, principally in the evening, at night, or in the morning, excited by a sensation of dryness, or with scraping and tickling in the throat, aggravated when lying down, and often accompanied with a desire to vomit, with vomiturition and vomiting, or by a choking, as if caused by the vapour of sulphur, with bleeding of the nose and rattling respiration.—*Cough with shootings in the chest or sides, and palpitation of the heart.—* Moist cough, with expectora- tion of white, tenacious mucus, or of thick, yellowish matter of a bitter taste.—* Expectoration of black and clotted blood with the cough.—Shootings in the right shoulder, or in the back, when coughing. Chest.—"Respiration accelerated, short and superficial (during the fever) or rattling and anxious.—*Respiration impeded, breath short, choking as if from the vapour of sul- phur, and attacks of dyspnea and of suffocation, with anxi ety, spasmodic constriction of the chest or larynx, violent hiccough, cough, head-ache and vertigo; principally in the evening after a meal, or at night when lying horizontally.— Movement, quick walking, and the open and cold air ag- gravate the asthmatic sufferings.—*Cramp-like and con- strictive tension in the chest, principally when breathing, and sometimes with internal heat and ebullition of blood.— Pain, as if from ulceration, or sharp or cutting pain in the chest.—*Shootings in the chest and sides, principally at night and when lying down, and sometimes with difficulty in taking a deep inspiration, inability to remain lying on the diseased side, short cough and paroxysm of suffoca- tion.—Congestion of blood to the chest and heart, espe- cially at night.—*Frequent and violent attacks of palpitatio cordis, principally after dinner or after moral emotions, or provoked by conversation and often attended with anguish, clouded sight and impeded respiration, especially when lying on the left side.—Anxiety, heaviness, pressure and burning sensation in the heart. Trunk.—*Pains in the loins and back, as if after having stooped a long time, or as if caused by a tight band, with rigidity.—*Pains in the loins like those of labour.—*Shoot- ings in the back, loins, and between the shoulder-blades.— "Deviation of the spine.—*Rheumatic, tensive and drawing pain in the nape and neck, sometimes only on one side, and often with swelling of the parts and pains as from sub-cuta- neous ulceration, when touched.—Cracking in the cervical vertebrae and shoulder-blades when moving these parts.— 488 PULSATILLA--RANUNCULUS BULBOSUS, Itching pimples on the neck.—Swelling of ^he glands of the neck. Arms.—* Sharp, jerking and drawing pains in the shoul- der joint, as well as in the arms, hands and fingers.—Paralytic pains in the scapulary joint, when lifting and moving the arms.—*Burning sensation in the arm, in the evening or at night, with sensation of dryness in the fingers.—Pressive heaviness in the arms, with sensation of torpor, principally in the hands.—Sensation of *swelling and wrenching pain in the joints of the elbows, -hands and fingers, with tension and rigidity.—Easy numbness of the fingers, principally in the morning and at night.—Vesicles between the fingers, with pricking pain.—Pain, as if caused by panaritium in the in- dex finger. Legs.—Pain as if from a bruise, or from ulceration in the psoas.—Wrenching pain in the hip-joint with painful jerks, as in a wound, extending as far as the knee, principally du- ring repose.—*Pulling and tension in the thighs and legs, principally in the calves of the legs, as if the tendons were too short.—Pain as from a bruise with sensation of para- lytic weakness in the bones and muscles of the thighs and legs.—Pain as from sub-cutaneous ulceration in the legs and soles of the feet.—Cracking in the knees.—*Swelling of the knees, "sometimes principally above the rotula and often with heat, inflammation, *and sharp drawing and shooting pains.—Weakness and giving way of the knees with totter- ing gait.— Pulling and great fatigue in the legs, and princi- pally in the knees with trembling.—Swelling of the veins and *varices on the legs.—Numbness in the legs when re- maining long standing.—Pain in the tibia as if from a bruise. —Tension and drawing in the calves of the legs.-*Hot swell- ing of the legs, or only of the back or of the soles of the feet, sometimes with shooting pains when touched and during movement.—Painful sensation of torpor in the soles of the feet and in the balls of the toes.—*CEdematous swelling of the feet, principally in the evening.—Piercing shootings and cutting pains in the heels.—Shootings in the soles of the feet and extremities of the toes. JN'ota.—Pulsatilla, taken a few hours before sailing, is recommended as a preventive to sea-sickness, in cases when the bowels have a tendency to become relaxed during the sickness. 147.—RANUNCULUS BULBOSUS. RAN.—Bulbous-rooted crow-foot—Archives or Stapf.—Duration of ef- fect : Several weeks in chronic affections. Antidotes : Bry. camph. puis, rhus.—Alcoholic drinks aggravate its effects: and so also do staph, and sulph. and vinegar. RANUNCULUS BULBOSUS. 489 Compare with : Bry. carb-v. n-vom. puis, ranc-sc. rhus. sassap. sabad sep. staph. r [CLINICAL REMARKS.-This remedy deserves attention in rheumatic pleurisy ; in rheumatism of the intercostal muscles ; in inflammation and abscess of the psoas muscles; in the most violent forms of nettle- rash and pemphigus; in malignant and rapidly spreading ulcers, &c. Kd.J GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Pains, as if beaten ; shootings, or tearing, rheumatic and arthritic pains in the limbs and muscles.—Jerking of the muscles.—Shocks in the whole body.—Attacks of epilepsy.—(Indurations.—Icteric affec- tions.)—Pains excited by touch, movement, stretching, or change of position, especially in the trunk and extremities. —Many symptoms appear also on a change of temperature, for instance during a transition from coldness to heat and vice versa, as also in the morning and evening and after a meal.— Lassitude and pain as if from having been beaten in all the limbs.—Trembling in the limbs after the slightest fit of passion.—Sudden weakness, as if one were about to faint. Skin.—-Frequent and violent itching in different parts of the skin.—Lancinations in the skin, which change to itching.— Vesicular eruptions, like blisters after a burn.— Deep-blue vesicles, small, deep, transparent, thickly grouped, with burning itching, and hard and tettery scabs.—Flat, eat- ing ulcers, with sharp margins and burning and lancina- ting itching.—Callous and other excrescences.—Tetters over the whole body. Sleep.—Inclination to sleep during the day.—Retarded sleep and nocturnal sleeplessness, frequently from oppression of the chest, heat and ebullition of blood, but mostly with- out any assignable cause.—Waking frequently in the night, and remaining long awake.—Waking early in the morning. —Inability to remain lying on the side.—Anxious dreams of danger (on the water) or vivid and lascivious dreams. Fever.—Attacks of fever after a meal or in the evening, consisting principally in chilliness, with pains in the abdo- men and other inconveniences.—Heat in the head, with coldness of the hands.—Shiverings in the evening, with heat in the face. Moral Symptoms.—Pusillanimity and inquietude, espe- cially in the evening.—Fear of ghosts in the evening.— Hasty irritability and quarrelsome humour, especially in the morning.—Oppression, with copious tears.—Loss of ideas. —Difficulty in meditating.—Obtuse intellect. Head.—Weakness, giddiness and confusion of the head.— Vertigo, to such an extent as to cause one to fall when passing from a room into the open air.—Head-ache, with 490 RANUNCULUS BULBOSUS. anxiety and weakness during a meal.— Semi-lateral head- ache, above the eye, with dejection and desire to weep.— Compression and expansive pressure in the sinciput and vertex.—Sensation, as if the whole head were distended.— Tearing and pressure in the temples.—Blows in the occi- put.—Sanguineous congestion to the head.—The majority of the head-aches appear when passing from a hot to a coldplace, and vice versa.—Painful crawling or burning shootings in the hairy scalp. Eves and Ears.—Itching in the eyes.—Pressure in the eye-balls.—Smarting and burning pain in the canthi, as if caused by excoriation.—Inflammation of the eyes and lachrymation.—Shootings in the ears, especially in the eve- ning.—Cramp-like sensation (in and) on the ears. Nose.—Troublesome and painful crawling in the nose. —Nose, red, swollen, and inflamed, with tensive pain and many scabs in the interior.—Obstruction of the nose, especially in a room, with pain, as if from excoriation.— Copious discharge of viscous mucus from the nose_ Face and Teeth.—Heat in the face, with bright redness of the cheeks.—Crawling in the face, principally in the chin and nose.—Spasmodic and whirling neuralgic pains in the face and jaws.—Cramps in the lips.—Tooth-ache on waking in the morning.—Cutting pains in the molares, aa if they were dissevered. Mouth and Throat.—Accumulation of much water in the mouth.—Salivation.—White saliva with metallic taste.— Accumulation of much mucus in the throat.—Spasmodic sen- sation of something which mounts in the oesophagus and into the throat.—Inflammatory burning pains in the throat and palate. Appetite and Stomach.—Insipid, sweetish or sour bit- ter taste.—Bitter, empyreumatic taste, while eating or after having eaten dry food.—Thirst, augmented in the after- noon.—Frequent eructations.—Spasmodic hiccough.—Fre- quent nausea in the afternoon or evening, sometimes with head-ache.—Pains in the stomach.—Pressure in the scorbi- culus.—Pain, as if from excoriation and burning sensation in the pit of the stomach, as also in the orifice of the stomach, especially when touched.—(Inflammation of the stomach.) Abdominal Region.—Pain in the hypochondria as if they had been beaten, sometimes when touched.—Pain, as if from excoriation in the left hypochondrium, principally when moving the trunk.—Lancinations in the hepatic region.— Pulsations in the left hypochondrium.—Dull pains in the RANUNCULUS BULBOSUS--RANUNCULUS SCLERATUS. 491 abdomen, with tenderness of the intestines during a walk. —Pinching pains in the abdomen, with rotary movements, and a sensation from external pressure, as if every thino- in the abdomen were bruised and ulcerated.—Burning pain in the abdomen, as from excoriation, or as in a slow inflam- mation.—Frequent expulsion of very fetid flatus. Fjecks—Genital Organs.—Slow and hard evacuations. —Frequent and profuse evacuations.—Dysuria.—Ulcers in the vesica.—Acrid and gnawing leucorrhea. Che^t.—Short and obstructed respiration with oppression in the chest, as if after grief or vexation, with want to take a deep inspiration and to weep much.—Pressure on the chest. —Rheumatic pain in the chest, or pain resembling that of sub- cutaneous ulceration.—Burning pressure on the chest.— Lancinations in the chest and its right side, frequently deep seated and extending to the liver.—Painful sensibility of the exterior of the lower parts of the chest and of the epigas- trium.—Painful sensibility of all the external parts of the chest, the intercostal muscles, pleura, &c, which manifests itself or is aggravated, especially by movement, touch, and stretching the body.—Pain in the chest, as if from adherence of the pleura. Trunk and Extremities.—Rheumatic pains in the whole trunk and between the shoulder-blades, as if from having been beaten.—Spasmodic, tearing, shooting, and jerking pains in the arm.—Coldness of the hands.—Itchino- in the hands and fingers.—Tetters on the palm of the hands.— Crawling in the fingers.—Tetters, blisters and ulcers in the fingers.—Drawing pains along the thighs.—Spasmodic pierc- ing pains and itching in the middle of the thighs.—Crack- ing in the knee-joints.—Painful stiffness in the joints of the feet.—Cramps in the instep.—Pulsative lancinations in the heels.—Pains, as if from excoriation and lancinations in the toes. 148.— RANUNCULUS SCLERATUS. RAN-SC— Marsh rrow-foo>.—.Archives of Stapf.—Duration of effect : from 6 to 7 weeks in chronic affections. Antidote : Camph. Compare with : Puis. ran. sil. veratr. [It deserves attention in chronic diseases of the lungs and liver; in inflam- mations of the eyes, throat and stomach ; and in chronic erysipelas, &e Ed.] GENERAL SYMPTOMS. — (Arthritic affections)— Piercing, gnawing, shooting, crawling pains, which manifest themselves, or are aggravated towards evening.—Pressive and drawing pains.—Periodical affections.—Convulsive 492 RANUNCULUS SCLERATUS. jerks.—Syncope.—Vesicular eruptions, with serous, acrid yellowish secretion.—Obstinate ulcers.—Sleeplessness, with agitation and tossing after midnight, sometimes with an- guish and heat.—Imperfect sleep after midnight, with anx- ious, frightful dreams.—Early waking with prolonged watchinor.—Fever after midnight, general heat and burning thirst, with full, soft, quick pulse ; followed by general per- spiration, especially on the forehead.—Shiverings during a meal.—Indolence and unfitness for exertion in the morn- ing.—Sadness and melancholy in the evening. Head.—Vertigo with loss of ideas.—Head-ache, as if the head were compressed in a vice.—Gnawing, drawing, spasmodic, dull pressure, often affecting only a very small spot on the vertex.—Compressive and expansive pressure in the temples.—Heaviness and sensation of fulness in the head, which seems to be swollen and increased in size.—Con- traction of the integuments of the head.—Smarting and itching on the hairy scalp. Eves and Ears.—Pain in the eyes when moving the eye-balls quickly.—Frequent pressure in the eye-balls.— Smarting in the canthi, from time to time.—Eyes convulsed. —Lachrymation.—Otalgia, with pressure in the head and drawing in the teeth.—Drawing, shooting and boring in the external auditory duct. Face and Teeth.—Smarting and crawling in the nose. —Pricking in the point of the nose.—Frequent sneezing.— Much serous mucus in the nose.—Face as if covered with cob-webs.—Drawing in the face, with a sensation of cold- ness.—Jerking in the face.—Sensation of quivering round the commissural of the lips, and in the lower lip.—Tooth- ache with shooting pains and bluntness of the teeth.— Jerking and shooting drawings in the teeth.—Red and pain- ful swelling of the gums, which bleed easily. Mouth and Throat—Dryness of the mouth.—Frothy salivation.—White coated tongue.—Inflammation of the tongue with burning sensation and redness.—Desquama- tion and rhagades on the tongue.—Contraction, with cho- king in the throat, aggravated by eating bread.—Burning sensation in the throat---Swelling of the amygdala?, with lancinations.—Soreness and shootings in the gullet. Stomach.—Sweetish taste in the morning, with white and loaded tongue.—Anorexia.—Eructations with taste of food after a meal.—Frequent, empty eructations.—Sour, rancid eructations in the evening.—Nausea, especially af- ter midnight or in the morning with desire to vomit.—Vio- lent pains in the stomach, with uneasiness.—Sensation of RANUNCULUS SCLERATUS—RATANHIA. 493 fulness, pressure and tension in the epigastrium, aggravated by external pressure, with aggravation in the morning.— Constrictive pains in the stomach.—Lancinations in the epigastrium.—Pain as from excoriation and burning sensa- tion in the epigastrium.—(Inflammation of the stomach.) Abdominal Region.—Dull pressure in the hepatic re- gion, aggravated by taking a deep inspiration.—Lancina- tions in the hepatic region.—Shootings in the splenic re- gion, aggravated by breathing deeply.—Shootings, shocks, and pressure in the lumbar region.—Pains in the abdomen with syncope.—Dull pressure, as if from a plug, or a sen- sation of twisting behind the navel, night or morning.— Spasmodic pains in the abdomen.—Pinchings and cuttings in the abdomen.—Jerks in the abdomen. F^ces—Genital Organs.—Retarded evacuations.— Frequent and urgent desire to evacuate with soft feces.—Se- rous, fetid diarrhoea.—Pullings in the penis.—Lancinations in the glans.—Smarting in the scrotum.—Pollutions. Chest.—Short dry cough, seldom recurring and without exertion.—Obstructed and deep respiration.—Involuntary Bighs.—Pain in the chest as if it had been beaten, with sen- sation of fatigue in the same part, especially in the even- ing.—Oppressive pressure on the chest.—Pinching and shootings in the chest and region of the heart, sometimes with suspended respiration, especially in the evening or at night.—Gnawing behind the sternum, which suspends res- piration.—Painful sensibility of the exterior of the chest, especially in the sternum. Trunk and Extremities.—Pain in the loins, as if they had been beaten and were paralytic.—Pricking and crawl- ing in the back and chest.—Boring shootings in the fore- arms, and extending as far as the fingers.—Boring in the bones of the hands.—Gnawing in the palms of the hands.— Gnawing, boring, shooting jerks in the bones of the fingers. —Swelling of the fingers.—Gnawing and boring in all parts of the legs and feet, especially in the toes.—lerking shoot- ings and crawling in the great toes.—Lancinations and burning pains in the corns on the feet. 149.—RATANHIA. RAT.—Kramenia Triandria, Rhatany root.—Hartlaub and Trinks.—A medicine as yet very little known. . . [It deserves particular attention in chronic and habitual metrorrhagia, and in profuse menstruation. &r. Ed] GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Tearing in the limbs.— Contraction of the flexors.—Shooting pains as if from ex- coriation.—Jerkings in different parts.—Hemorrhagia.— Vol. I. 42 494 RATANHIA. Desire to sleep, especially after dinner.—Retarded sleep. —Frequent waking, and remaining awake for a long time. __Waking with a start, with trembling, inquietude and fear.—Predominance of coldness and of shiverings, espe- cially in the evening.—Nocturnal perspiration.—Irritabili- ty, peevish and quarrelsome humour. Head.—Pains in the head, as if the cranium were about to burst, especially when sitting with the body bent forwards. —Jerking, smarting, and shootings in the head.—Conges- tion to the head, with heat and heaviness. Eyes.—Pains in the eyes, as if they were compressed in a vice, and could not be moved.—Contractions and burning sensation in the eyes, especially in the evening.— Inflammation of the sclerotica.—Sensation, as if a cuticle were placed before the eyes.—Agglutination of the eyes at night, and lachrymation in the morning.—Jerks andquiver- ing of the eyes and eye-lids.—White spot before the eye, which obstructs the sight.—Myopia. Ears—Nose.—Tearing in the ears.—Itching and shoot- ing in the ear.—Nocturnal tingling and ringing in the ears, —Itching in the nose.—Nostrils inflamed and scabby, with burning sensation.—Epistaxis.—Dryness of the nose, with frequent sneezing.—Dry coryza, with complete stoppage of the nose. Face—Teeth.—Heat in the face.—Tearing pain in the face and jaw-bones.—Burning vesicles on the red part of the upper lip.—Tooth-ache in the evening, especially when lying down, or in the morning, generally with tearing or jerking, or at times with digging pains.—Pulsative pain in the teeth.—Bleeding of the teeth.—Painful sensation of coldness and elongation of the teeth.—Acid blood is drawn from the gums when sucking them. Mouth and Throat.—Dryness of the mouth at night. —Tension and burning sensation on the tongue.—Accumu- lation of water in the mouth.—Sore-throat, generally during empty deglutition.—Spasmodic contraction in the throat, which stops the voice. Stomach.—Insipid taste in bed in the morning.—Thirst in the evening.—Anorexia with dislike to food and drink. —-Empty eructations, or with taste of the food.— Violent hiccough, which causes pain in the stomach.—Nausea and disgust, especially at night, with vomiturition and vomiting of food.—Vomiting of water.—Pains, as from ulceration in the stomach.—Excessive distention of the stomach.—Painful constriction of the stomach, which is sometimes removed by eructating. —Sensation in the stomach and above the RATANHIA—RHEUM. 495 scorbiculus, as if the abdomen had been cut.—Heat and burning sensation in the stomach. Abdominal Region.—Shootings and lancinations in the hypochondria.—Pullings and a sensation of coldness in the umbilical region.—Pinchings in the abdomen and sides of the abdomen, sometimes with burning sensation.—Move- ments in the sides of the abdomen, as if from something alive.—Shootings, pinchings and contraction in the inguina. Faeces.—Hard and interrupted evacuations, with urging and protrusion of haemorrhoidal excrescences.—Ineffectual desire to evacuate, with troublesome pains in the loins.— Soft, loose evacuations preceded by cuttings and burning pains in the anus, before and after.—Sanguineous diarrhea. —Pains in the head,as if it would burst, after the evacuation. Urine—Genital Organs.—Frequent and urgent desire to urinate with scanty emission.—Frequent and profuse- emission of urine, also at night.—Pale urine.—Scanty urine which soon deposits a cloud and becomes turbid.—Pres- sure in the inguina, as if every thing were borne towards the genital organs, followed by leucorrhcea.—Catamenia too early, of too long duration and too copious, with pains in the abdomen and loins.—Metrorrhagia.—Miscarriage. Chest.—Dry cough, with tickling in the larynx and- pain of ulceration in the chest.—Pressure on the chest from the least exertion, with shortness of breath.—Painful constriction in both sides of the chest.—Shootings in the chest, especially when going up stairs, with obstructed res- piration.—Congestion to the chest with heat and impeded respiration. Trunk and Exremities.—Pain in the loins and back, as if they had been beaten.—Drawing tension from the nape of the neck to the bottom of the spine.—Rigidity in the nape of the neck.—Tearing in the nape of the neck, with heaviness of the head.—Tearing in the shoulder, arms, fore-arms and wrists.—Spasmodic and painful contractions in the elbows and fingers.—Drawing and tearing in the thighs, knees, legs, feet and toes.—Tension and burnnig sensation in the thighs.—Jerking in the thighs, calves of the legs and feet. 150.—RHEUM. (Palmatum.) RHAB.—Rhubarb.—Hahnemann. —Duration of effect : from 2 to 3 days in acute diseases. Antidotes : Camph. cham. n-vom. Compare with: Ars. bry. carb-v. cham. n-vom. puis. rhus. samb. tart. CLINICAL REMARKS.—This medicine has been hitherto employed only against:—Diarrhea in children or 496 rheum. parturient women ; Sourness, colic, sleeplessness and cries of GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Soreness of the joints when moving.—Pulsative pains.—Twitching in the muscles, es- pecially round the joints.—Numbness of the limbs upon which one has lain.—Lassitude and heaviness in the whole Sleep.—Sleep and yawnings.—*Disturbed sleep at night with tossing, cries, moaning and snoring, or with convulsive quivering of the eye-lids, the muscles of the face and fin- gers, especially in children.—The hands are thrown over the head when going to sleep and during sleep.—Noctur- nal raving and walking in sleep, although the eyes are closed.—Head-ache and dizziness, or fetid mucus of a pu- trid smell and taste in the mouth after sleep.—Anxious, sad, vivid dreams. Fever.—Shuddering without external coldness.—Alter- nate shivering and heat, with anxiety and repugnance to every thing.—Heat in the hands and feet, with coolness of the face.—Perspiration easily excited by the least exercise, especially on the forehead and hairy scalp. Moral Symptoms.—Indifference.—Indolence and dislike 4o conversation—-Vexatious disposition with tears.—Im- petuous desire for any particular object.—Dulness of the senses, as if caused by a half-sleep.—Deliria. Head.—Stupefying cloudiness of the head, as if after in- toxication, with prominent eyes.—Vertigo, which causes one to fall sideways when standing.—Head-ache, like a dizziness, with anxiety.—Pressive head-ache, especially in the sinciput, temples and vertex.—Heaviness of the head, with heat and tearings.—Dull and cramp-like tension in the head.—Throbbing in the head, sometimes mounting from the abdomen.—Movement of the brain when stooping. Eyes.—Eyes weak and downcast, with pressive pain, especially when looking steadily at any object.—Pressure and pullings in the eye-lids.—Smarting in the eyes, as if caused by dust.—Painful throbbing in the eyes.—Convulsive twitching of the eye-lids—Lachrymation, especially in the open air.—Pupils contracted. Ears and Nose.—Otalgia with itching in the ear.—Pres- sure and throbbing in the ears.—Dulness of hearing, as if from relaxation of the tympanum, with gurgling in the ears. —Stunning drawing in the root of the nose and extending as far as the lip, with crawling in that part.—Sensation of heat in the nose. Face and Teeth.—Tension of the skin of the face.__ rheum. 497 Frowning and contraction of the muscles of the forehead. —Cold perspiration on the face, especially about the mouth and nose.—Twitching at the commissures of the lips.—Dig- ging pains in the carious teeth—Painful sensation of cold- ness in the teeth.—Sensation of torpor and insensibility of the tongue.—Contraction of the gullet. Stomach.—Loss of taste.—Insipid, clammy or sour taste. —Food has a bitter taste.—Desire for different things, which, hawever, disgust after the first mouthful.—Dislike to fat and insipid food.—Repugnance to coffee (not sweetened with sugar).—Hunger without appetite.—Nausea, as if proceed- ing from the stomach, with colic.—Fulness in the stomach, with pressure, as if it were overloaded.—Contractions in the stomach.—Shootings and throbbings in the pit of the stomach. Abdominal Region.—Distention of the abdomen with ten- sion.—Pressure in the umbilical region.—Cuttings in the abdomen, which force one to bend oneself double, frequently occurring a short time after a meal, aggravated by stand- ing.— Incarceration of flatus, with pressure and tension in the chest.—Twitching and jerking in the abdominal mus- cles. Fjeces.—Urgent and frequent desire to evacuate without any result, aggravated by movement and walking.—*Loose evacuations, generally of a sour smell, liquid, or of the con- sistence of pap, preceded and followed by tenesmus, with constrictive pinching in the abdomen and shuddering during the evacuation.—Grayish or brown diarrhea mixed with mu- cus.— Profuse diarrhoea with vomiting and great weakness. Urine.—Copious secretion of urine.—Urine red or green- ish-yellow.—Weakness of the vesica ; the urine cannot be discharged without effort.—Burning sensation in the vesi- ca.—Burning urine. Chest.—Dyspnaea when breathing deeply, as if from a weight on the chest.—Lancinations in the chest.—Twitch- ing of the muscles of the chest.—Pains and lancinations in the breasts.—Milk bitter and yellow. Trunk and Extremities.—Stiffness in the loins and hips, which prevents holding oneself upright.—Lancina- tions in the arms.—Tearing in the arms, fore-arms and joints of the fingers.—Jerking in the arms and hands.— Muscular twitching in the joints of the elbows.—Veins swollen and the hands hot.—Perspiration, sometimes cold, on the palms of the hands.—Jerking in the fingers.—Great lassitude in the thighs.—Jerkings in the muscles of the thisihs.—Numbness of the legs while they are crossed.— 42* 498 RHEUM—RHODODENDRON CHRYSANTHUM. Muscular twitchings in the hams, legs and toes.—Stiffness of the ham, with pain during movement.—Shootings in the knees and legs. __________ 151.—RHODODENDRON CHRYSANTHUM. RHOD.—Golden-flowered rhododendron.—Archives of Stapf—Duration of effect: from 4 to 6 weeks in chronic affections. Ajctidotf.s : Camph. clem. rhus. Com pars with : Calc. canth. carb-a. carb-v. clem. lye. n-vom. rhus. sep. sil. sulph. CLINICAL REMARKS.—This medicine has been hith- erto employed only against arthritic affections, a kind of hydrocele and induration of the testes. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—* Rheumatic and arthritic drawing, and tearings, as if in the periosteum of the limbs, excited by rough weather and aggravated by repose.— Wrenching pain and searching drawings in the joints, with redness and swelling.—"Athritic nodosities.—Uneasiness, crawling, weakness and sensation of paralytic stiffness in some limbs.—Great dejection and pain, as from fatigue, after the least exercise.—Dropsical swellings.—Frequent remission and appearance of sufferings in the morning.— * The sufferings are excited or aggravated by cold damp weather, or by the approach of a storm, and also during repose. Sleep.—Great desire to sleep during day, with burning sensation in the eyes.—Profound sleep before midnight, after having gone to sleep early in the evening.—Sleeplessness after midnight.—Sleep in the morning disturbed by uneasiness in the body and pain. Fever.—Shivering alternating with heat.—Augmented heat, especially in the hands.—Fever in the evening with heat in the head, coldness of the feet, burning sensation in the eyes and nose, sensation as if beaten and adipsia, fol- lowed by nocturnal heat and 'sleeplessness.—Perspiration with crawling and itching in the skin.—Perspiration which has an aromatic odour. Moral Symptoms.—Mournful, morose humour.—Ex- cessive indifference with dread of all exertion or occupa- tion.—Excessive forgetfulness.—Sudden loss of ideas. Head.—Head bewildered in the morning, after rising, with sleepiness.---Intoxication.---Giddiness with anguish.— Turning giddiness in bed, as if the head were about to be turned backwards.—Head-ache excited or aggravated by wine, or by cold damp weather.—Tension in the forehead.—Draw- ing pressure in the sinciput and temples, principally in the bon,es . ar!cin,atlons in ^e sinciput and sides of the head —Tearing in the bones of the head—Throbbing in the RHODODENDRON CHRYSANTHUM. 499 head.—Painful sensibility of the exterior of the head, as if caused by sub-cutaneous ulceration.—Pain, as if caused by contusion or blows in the occiput.—Gnawing itching on the hairy scalp, especially in the evening. Eyes.—Pressive shootings in the margin of the sockets, with spasmodic contraction of the eye-lids.—Pressure in the eyes, commencing on one side of the face.—Sensation of dryness and burning in the eyes from time to time, espe- cially in the brightness of day and when looking steadily at an object.—Agglutination of the eye-lids.—Quivering jerks in the eye-lids.—Contraction of one pupil while the other is dilated.—Confused sight when reading and writing. Ears.—Otalgia with jerking tearings.—Tearing and boring in and near the ears.—Sensation, as if there were a worm in the ear.—Continued dull humming in the ears, increased by swallowing. Nose.—Epistaxis.—Diminished smell.—Semi-lateral ob- struction at the root of the nose, especially in the morning. —Fluent coryza with obstruction of one nostril, and loss of smell and taste.—Increased secretion of nasal mucus in the open air. Face—Horripilation running over the face.—Lips dry and burning.—Vesicles on the lips with pain, as if from ex- coriation when eating. Teeth.—Odontalgia with drawing tearing in the molares, in cold damp weather, or during a storm, aggravated by a touch.—Nocturnal odontalgia with otalgia.—Itching in the gums.—Swelling and pain, as if from excoriation between the lower gums and the cheek. Mouth and Throat.—Copious accumulation of saliva in the mouth with dryness of the gullet and smarting vesi- cles under the tongue.—Scraping in the throat, as if caused by mucus.—Constriction and burning sensation in the throat. Stomach.—Dulness of the taste.—The food has no fla- vour.—Augmented thirst.—Speedy satiety with good appe- tite, followed by uneasiness.—Nausea with desire to vomit, pressure in the stomach and water-brash, relieved by eructa- tions.—Pressure in the stomach at nigh, tor after drinking cold water.—Contractive pressure in the scorbiculus, with obstructed respiration.—Pressive shootings in the pit of the stomach and the hypochondria. Abdominal Region.—Spasmodic pains in the hypo- chondria.—Tension in the region of the spleen after stoop- ino-.—Shootings in the spleen when walking quickly.—Dis- tention of the abdomen, especially in the upper part, with sensation of fulness, which hinders respiration in the morn- 500 RHODODENDRON CHRYSANTHUM. ing and evening.—Painful incarceration of flatus in the hypochondria and loins.—Rumbling and borborygmus in the abdomen, with eructations and expulsion of fetid flatus. Faeces.— Urgent desire to evacuate with slow evacuation. —Difficult evacuation, even of soft faeces.—Feces of the con- sistence of pap.—Slimy evacuations.—Diarrhea after eating fruit, or in cold, damp weather.—Beating in the anus.— Drawing from the rectum to the genital organs. Urine.—Frequent desire to urinate, with drawing in the region of the vesica and inguina.—Increased discharge of fetid urine. Genital Organs.—Pain, as if caused by excoriation be- tween the genital organs and the thighs.—Throbbings and shootings under the glans penis.—Drawing and pain, as if from a bruise in the testes, extending into the abdomen and thighs.—Testes swollen and drawn up.—Itching, sweat, and shrinking of the scrotum.—"Transparent swelling of the scrotum, as if from hydrocele.—"Induration of the testes. —Suppressed catamenia.—Too early and too profuse cata- menia. Larynx.—Catarrh and hoarseness of the trachea.—Dry, shaking cough with oppression of the chest and roughness of the throat, especially in the night and morning.—Scrap- ing cough, with scanty expectoration of mucus. Chest.—Pressure on the chest, with obstructed respiration. ■—Oppressive constriction of the chest.—Warm undulation in the chest and about the heart.—Sanguineous congestion to the chest.—External pain in the chest, as if it had been beaten. Trunk.—Pains in the back and loins, as if they had been dislocated or beaten.—Rheumatic drawing and tear- ing in the back and shoulders.—Rigidity of the nape of the neck.—Rheumatic tension and drawing in the muscles of the nape and neck. Arms.—Drawing pains in the arms in rough weather.— Sensation, as if the circulation of blood in the arms had stopped.—Weakness, with crawling and heaviness in the arms, extending as far as the tips of the fingers during re- pose.—Pulling and tearing in the fore-arms and hands, as if in the periosteum, aggravated during repose.—Wrenching pain in the joints of the hand.—Increased heat in the hands. Legs —Wrenching pain in the joints of the hip and knee.—Sensation, as if the skin were cold and shrivelled in certain parts of the legs.—Perspiration on the legs.—Swell- ing of the legs and feet.—Drawing and tearing in the legs RHUS TOXICODENDRON. 501 and feet, as if in the periosteum, especially during repose.— Excessive coldness of the feet.—Corns on the feet, with shooting pain. 152.—RHUS TOXICODENDRON. RHUS.—Poison oak.—Sumach.—Hahnemann—Durationof effect: from 3 to 6 weeks in chronic affections. Antidotes : Bry. camph. cofl'. sulph.—It is used as an antidote against t Hry. rhod. tart. Compare with : Alum, am-c ant. arn. ars'. asa. bell. bry. calc caus. cham. chin. clem. cocc. coff. con. cupr. dulc. graph, hyos. iod. ign. kal. lach. laur. led. lye. magn. mere, mur-ac. natr. nitr-ac. n-vom. phos. phos-ac. plat. puis. rhod. rut. samb. sabad.sep. sil. sulph. veratr.—Khus, when in- dicated, is particularly efficacious after: am bry. calc-ph. cham. lach. phos. phos-ac. and sulph.—Am-c. ars. bry. calc. con. phos. phos-ac. puis. and sulph. are sometimes suitable after rhus. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Allowing ourselves to be guided by the totality of symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be employed will be found to be :—Affec- tions, especially of the tendons, synovial ligaments and mem- branes ; Want of plasticity in the blood, with tendency to a cessation of organic activity, amounting to paralysis ; Rheu- matic affections with swelling ; Local inflammations, with cerebral affections; Rachitic and scrofulous affections; Obstruction and induration of glands ; Convulsions and other sufferings caused by a cold bath ; Paralysis ; Oede- matous and inflammatory swellings ; Atrophy; Exostosis, caries and other affections of the bones 1 ; Moist, or dry, or lychenoidal herpes ; .Pemphigus ; Erysipelatous inflam- mations, especially " vesicular erysipelas ;" Zona ; Petechie; Ulcers; Warts; Scarlatina, and morbilli, and affections caused by these diseases ; Precursors of small-pox ; Bad effects from a strain, dislocation, concussion, and other me- chanical injuries, especially when attended with sufferings in the joints and synovial membranes, or with sugillation and ecchymosis: Intermittent rheumatic, gastric, and typhus fevers; Hypochondria; Melancholy; Nervous, hysterical and other cephalalgia ; Megrim ; Scald-head ; Scrofulous (and arthritic 1) ophthalmia; Scrofulous photophobia ; Am- blyopia amaurotica ; Parotitis, also when it is a sequela of scarlatina ; Nasal haemorrhage ; Erysipelas of the face, espe- cially vesicular erysipelas ; Crusta lactea ; Arthritic odon- talgia 1 ; Anginse ; Gastric affections ; Dyspepsia, also with vomiting of food ; Contraction of the throat and esophagus ; Inflammatory colic ; Enteritis; Icterus; Diarrhoea and dys- entery ; Incontinence of urine; Puerperal fever; White swelling and unhealthy lochia in parturient women ; Incon- veniences resulting from weaning, or from a suppression of 502 RHUS TOXICODENDRON. milk; Grippe ; Pneumonia, with typhoid symptoms (after the use of aeon, and bryon.) ; Hasmoptysis ; Diseases of the heart; Rheumatic pains in the loins, or pains caused by a chill; Coxalgia and spontaneous dislocation ; Erysipelatous inflammation of the feet; Oedematous swelling of the feet, also when caused by repercussion of herpes, &c, &c. OCT See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Rheumatic and arthritic drawings, tension and tearings in the limbs, increased to the highest degree during repose, °as well as in bad weather, at night, and in the heat of the bed, often attended with sensa- tion of torpor and numbness in the part affected, after mov- ing it.—Cramp and tension in different parts, as if from con- traction of the tendons.—Contraction of some limbs.— * Tensive shootings and stiffness in the joints, aggravated by rising from a seat, and in the open air.—*Paralytic rigidity of the limbs, especially when beginning to move the part, after repose.—*Easy numbness of the parts on which one has reposed.—*Torpor of some parts, with crawling and insensibility.—*Crawling in the parts affected.—*Tendency to suffer a pain in the limbs, as from luxation.—* Paralysis, sometimes semi-lateral.—*Red and shining swellings, with shooting pain, as if from excoriation when touched.—*Pain, as if beaten, or else a sensation as if the flesh were detached from the bones in some places.—Pressive drawings in the periosteum, as if the bones were scraped.—Sensation in the internal organs, as if something were torn away.—Swelling and induration of the glands.—Icterus.—Jerking in the muscles and limbs.— Convulsive movements and other sufferings, resulting from a cold bath.—Semi-lateral affec- tions.—*Aggravation and appearance of pains and symptoms during repose, or at night, as also when entering a room after having been in the open air; mitigation obtained by movement and walking.— Reproduction or aggravation of many sufferings in the cold season.—General excitability of the nervous system, increased by the slightest indul- gence in anger.—Drawings in all the limbs when lying down. —Trembling of the limbs, after the least fatigue.—Un- steady gait.—*Great lassitude and weakness, with desire to he down.—Syncope.—*Inability to bear the open air, whether it is hot or cold; it makes a painful impression on the skin. r Skin.—Itching over the whole body, principally in the ftairy parts.—Erysipelatous inflammations.—Nettle-rash.— Eruptions, generally vesicular and scabby, with burnins itching, appearing especially in spring and autumn— *Erup- RHUS TOXICODENDRON. 503 tion of small pustules, on a red base, like zona.—"Gangre- nous ulcers, resulting from small vesicles, with violent fever.—"Petechia? with great weakness, amounting to en- tire prostration.—Black pustules.—"Herpes, sometimes al- ternating with asthmatic sufferings and dysenteric loose- ness.—"Warts, principally on the hands and fingers.—Rha- gades onthe hands.—Panaritium.—Crawling or shootings, or else burning smarting in the ulcers, especially at night. —Chilblains.—Corns on the feet, with burning sensation and pain, as if caused by excoriation. Sleep.—Frequent violent and spasmodic yawnings.— Great desire to sleep during the day, and also in the morning in bed.—"Somnolency full of troublesome and interrupted dreams.—Sleeplessness especially before midnight, and gen- erally caused by a sensation of heat, ebullition of blood, and uneasiness which does not permit one to remain lying down.—^Disturbed sleep with anxious and frightful dreams. —'Coma somnolentum, with snoring, murmurs and carpol- ogy—Sleep hindered by gloomy ideas.—Waking caused by bitterness and sensation of dryness in the mouth.— Sleep at night, prevented by a pressure in the stomach, digging pinchings in the abdomen, and nausea with desire to vomit.—Inability to remain lying on the side at night.— Starts with fright and jerking of the body, during sleep.— Incomplete and agitated sleep, with tossing, and abundant or troublesome thoughts.—Vivid dreams of the business of the day, with talking during sleep.—Weeping while asleep. —Dreams of fire.—Sleep with open mouth and short breath- ing. Fever.—Shivering and coldness, generally in the eve- ning, and accompanied by paroxysms of pain and other acces- sory symptoms.—Shivering and shaking in the open air, with violent thirst.—Transient shiverings, continually, as if one were deluged with cold water.—Sensation of coldness, when one moves in the least.—Coldness and paleness of the face, alternating with heat and redness.—Shiverings and heat intermixed, either general and simultaneous (in- ternal shivering with external heat, and vice versa), or in different parts.—* Fever in the evening, first shivering, then heat and thirst (and perspiration), accompanied or followed by cuttings in the bowels and diarrhoea.—"Tertian or quo- tidian fever.—*Double tertian fever, first shivering with thirst, then general heat, with shivering from the least movement, lastly perspiration.--*During the shivering, pain in the limbs, head-ache, vertigo, pulsative tooth-ache, accumulation of saliva in the mouth, and desire to vomit.— 504 RHUS TOXICODENDRON. During the nocturnal heat, drawing in all the limbs.—Tran- sient heat with perspiration, commencing from the umbili- cal region, and rapidly alternating with shiverings.—Du- ring or after the fever, jerks, tingling in the ears, deafness, dry coryza, sleeplessness, with restless tossing, jaundice and nettle-rash, pressure in the pit of the stomach, palpita- tion of the heart with anxiety, colic, diarrhcea and other gastric affections and nocturnal thirst.—"Malignant fever with loquacious delirium, violent pains in all the limbs, exces- sive weaknesss, dry or black tongue, dry, brownish or blackish lips, heat and redness of the cheeks, carpology, pulse quick and small, coma somnolentum, with snoring and moaning.—Sweat during the pains.—Perspiration when seated, often with violent trembling.—Nocturnal sweat, some- times with miliary and itching eruption.—Sweat in the morning, sometimes of an acid smell.—Continual perspira- tion. Moral Symptoms.—*Anxious sadness and excessive anguish, especially in the evening and at night, with desire for solitude and inclination to weep.—Agitation, which does not permit one to remain seated.—* Anguish, with fear of death and sighing.—Fear of being poisoned.—Mania, in- clining to suicide.—Irritability and ill-humour, with repug- nance to all labour.—"Moral dejection, with anthropo- phobia.—"Uneasiness respecting one's children, affairs and the future, with want of self-confidence.—Weakness of memory and forgetfulness.—Want of ideas and of intel- lect.—Slow march of ideas and mental dulness.—Delusions of the imagination and visions.—"Deliria. Head.—Head bewildered as if from intoxication.—Stupe- faction.—* Vertigo and staggering, as if one were about to fall ; especially when getting out of bed.—Vertigo, with fear of death, when lying down in the evening.—Head- ache immediately after a meal, or after drinking beer, and also when moving the arms.—"Attacks of head-ache, with desire to lie down ; every vexation and exercise in the open air renews the attacks.—"Periodical head-ache — *Pain in the head, as if the bj-ain were bruised, especially in the morning and aggravated by moving and lifting up the eyes.—Heaviness and pressive fulness in the head, with sen- sation when stooping, as if the brain were about to burst.— Sensation of compression or expansion in the head- Drawings and tearings in the head and especially in the temples principally in the evening and at night.—"Lanci- nating head-ache, day and night, extending as far as the ears, the root of the nose and the zygomatic region, with RHUS TOXICODENDRON. 505 teeth set on edge.—Beating and pulsations in the hr-ad, especially in the occiput.—Pains, especially in the occi- pital protuberances.—Sanguineous congestion to the head.—Burning sensation, especially in the forehead and occiput.—*Painful crawling in the head.—Buzzing and noise in the head.—Balancing and sensation of fluctuation in the head at every step, as if the brain were loose.—Pain- ful sensibility of the exterior of the head, as if from sub- ci taneous ulceration, especially when turning up the hair and on touching it.—Contraction of the hairy scalp, as if the hair were pulled.—Drawing and tearing in the hairy scalp.—Swelling of the head.—Gnawing, crawling in the hairy scalp.—"Dry herpes on the hairy scalp.—"Periodical scald-head, re-appearing every year.—"Scald-head, with thick scabs, which destroy the hair, with greenish pus and violent itching at night.—Small, soft tubercles on the hairy scalp. Eves.—*Pains in the eyes, when moving the ball of the eye.—Pressure and burning sensation in the eyes.-—"Fixed, dull and downcast eyes.—Smarting in the eyes and lids.— *Inflammation of the eyes and lids, with redness and nocturnal agglutination.—Profuse lachrymation, with oedematous swelling round the eyes.—"Photophobia.—Swelling of the eye-lids.—Swelling of the whole eye and surrounding parts.— Hordeolum in the eye-lids.—Paralytic rigidity of the eye- lids.—Jerking and quivering of the eyes and lids.—Veil before the eyes and weak sight; all objects appear pale. Ears.—Otalgia.—Painful throbbing in the ear at night. —Swelling of the ears.—Discharge of sanguineous pus from the ears with deafness.—*Swelling and inflammation of the parotids with fever. Nose.—Redness of the point of the nose, with pain as if from excoriation, when touched.—Swelling of the nose.— "Dryness of the nose.—"Discharge of greenish, fetid pus from the nose.—*Epistaxis, also at night, and when stooping or hawking.—Frequent, violent, and almost spasmodic sneezings.—Abundant discharge of mucus from the nose, without coryza. Face.—* Face pale, sickly, wan, with eyes surrounded by a blue circle, and nose pointed.—*Face disfigured and convulsed.—*Face red, with burning heat.—■*Erysipelatous inflammation and swelling of the face, with pressive and ten- sive shootings, and burning crawling.—* Vesicular ery- sipelas, with yellow serum in the vesicles.—"Humid erup- tion and thick scabs on the face, with running of fetid and Vol. I. 43 506 RHUS TOXICODENDRON. sanguineous serum.—*Eruption onthe face, like copperas. __}f..,-njtic, crusty eruption round the mouth and nose, with itchin'ff, jerkin? and burning sensation.—Desquama- tion of the "face.—Cutting contractions and burning spas- medic pains in the cheeks (which are red and hot).—"Cold sweat on the face.—Eruptions of burning pimples round the lips and chin.—Spasmodic pain in the maxillary joint, with cracking on the least movement.—"Spasms in the jaw. —Hard and painful swelling of the sub-maxillary glands.— *Lips dry and brownish. Teeth.—*Odontalgia, as if from excoriation, or with tearings, shootings, jerkings, digging and crawling, frequent- ly at night, or aggravated in the open air, and mitigated by external heat, sometimes also in consequence of a chill.— Loosening of the teeth.—Fetid exhalation from the carious teeth.—Burning pain in the gums, as from excoriation, also at night. Mouth.—*Dryness of the mouth, with violent thirst.— Copious accumulation of saliva in the mouth.—A yellow and sometimes also a sanguineous saliva flows from the mouth at night.—Copious accumulation of viscous mucus in the mouth, with frequent expectoration.—^Tongue dry, "red or brownish.—Sensation, as if the tongue were covered with a skin. Throat.—Sore-throat, as if caused by internal swell- ing, with pain, as if from a bruise, also when speaking, and with pressure and shootings during deglutition.—Sensation in the throat, as if something were torn out of it.—*Dif- Jiculty in deglutition and pain in swallowing solid food, as if from contraction of the throat and esophagus.—Brandy causes an extraordinary burning sensation in the throat.— Copious accumulation of mucus in the throat with frequent hawking in the morning.—Pulsative pain in the bottom of the gullet. Appetite.—Putrid taste, especially in the morning and after a meal.—Insipid, clammy, or acrid bitter, sour, or metallic taste.—Sweetish taste in the mouth.—Bitter taste °f /00fA especially of bread, which seems rough and dry.— * Anorexia, with repugnance to all food, -especially bread, meat, coffee and wine.—Sensation of fulness and satiety in the stomach, which takes away all appetite.—After a meal great desire to sleep, pressure and fulness in the stomach and abdomen, nausea with desire to vomit, lassitude ver- tigo and shuddering.—Bread lies heavy in the stomach.__ Pain and heat of the head after drinking beer.__Thirst * most frequently from a sensation of dryness in the mouth, RHUS TOXICODENDRON. 507 also at night, or in the morning, with a desire principally for water and cold milk.—Great desire for fried things. Stomach.—Eructations with taste of the food.—Empty eructations after a meal or after drinking.— Violent eruc- tations with crawling in the stomach, mitigated by lying down, renewed every time that one rises.—Pituita in the stomach.—Nausea and desire to vomit, principally after a meal and after drinking, as also night or morning after rising, mitigated by lying down.—Vomiting immediately after eating.—* Pains in the stomach as if there were a stone in it, especially after a meal.—*Pressure in the stomach and scorbiculus, often with obstructed respiration.—*Beating and shooting in the epigastric region.—°Squeezing sen- sation of swelling and pain, as from ulceration in the pit of the stomach.—Sensation of coldness in the stomach.—Sen- sation in the pit of the stomach, as if something were torn away from it, especially when stooping or making a false step. Abdominal Region.—*Distention of the abdomen, es- pecially after a meal.—Pressive heaviness in the abdomen, as if from a weight.—Contractive spasms in the abdomen, which force one to bend double.—Hard and visible con- traction of the abdomen across the navel.—Digging turn- ing in the abdomen, as if caused by a worm.—Cutting tearings, jerks and pinchings in the abdomen.—Burning sen- sation in the abdomen.—Relaxation of the abdomen with internal shaking at every step.— Violent colic, often at night, or aggravated by any food or drink whatever, some- times with sanguineous evacuations.—Sensation in the ab- domen, as if something were torn away.—'Scarlet redness of the hypogastrium.—Pain in the integuments of the ab- domen, as if they were ulcerated, especially when stretch- ing in the morning.—Pressure in the inguina towards the exterior, as if a hernia were about to protrude.—Great flatulence with rumbling, fermentation and pinching move- ments in the abdomen.—Exceedingly offensive flatus. Fjeces.—*Constipation, sometimes alternating with di- arrhoea.—Hard and slow evacuations.—*Ttnesmus, some- times with nausea and tearing, or pinchings in the abdo- men.—*Loose, sanguineous, serous or slimy, frothy, gelati- nous, red evacuations, or streaked with white and with yel- low.—*Obstinate or dysenterical diarrhea.—Faeces perfect- ly white.—'Nocturnal diarrhea with violent colic, head- ache and pains in all the limbs.—Involuntary evacuations when asleep at night.—Short respiration during the evac- uation.—Crawling and itching in the anus and rectum.— 508 RHUS TOXICODENDRON. Protrusion of haemorrhoides from the anus after a soft evacuation, with pain like excoriation. Urine.—"Retention of urine.—* Frequent and urgent de- sire to urinate day and night, with profuse emission.—"In- continence of urine, especially during repose.— Emission, drop by drop, of blood-red urine with tenesmus.—Dimin- ished emission of urine though one drinks much.—Deep- coloured urine, which soon becomes turbid.—White, tur- bid urine.—Urine clear as water, with a snow-white sedi- ment.—Swelling of the urethra.—Double stream of water. ) Genital Organs.—Profuse eruption on the genital or- gans.—Inflammation of the glans.—Running vesicles on the gland.—Swelling of the glans and prepuce.—Paraphy- mosis of the prepuce.—Red spot on the interior of the prepuce.—Swelling and thickening of the scrotum.—Moist eruption on the scrotum.—Frequent erections at night with desire to urinate.—Great desire for coition in the morning.—Catamenia too early and too profuse.—Catame- nia of too long duration.—"Discharge of blood during preg- nancy.—Pain, as if from excoriation and shootings in the vagina.—Discharge of blood and clots of blood from the uterus with labour-pains.—Diminished secretion of milk. Larynx.—Hoarseness and roughness of the throat with a sensation in the chest as if it were raw.—Sensation of coldness in the throat when inspiring.—Tendency to be choked when swallowing,—Burning exhalation from the larynx.—Sensation of constriction in the pit of the throat after a short walk.—Cough excited by a tickling in the rami- fications of the bronchi, generally short and dry, with anguish and short breath, and principally in the evening before mid- night.—Cough with vomiting of food, especially in the evening and when lying on the back.—Cough after waking in the morning.—Short cough with bitter taste in the j mouth, in the evening after lying down, and in the morning J after waking.—Cough with pain in the stomach, or with j shaking in the chest and head.—"Cough with expectoration % of bright-red blood, and sensation of insipidity in the 1 chest. Chest.—Difficult respiration after a moderate walk.— Anxious oppression on the chest, also at night.—Respiration impeded by a pressure and squeezing in the pit of the stomachy—Short breath in the evening with tension in the chest.—Frequent want to take a deep inspiration.—Weak- ness in the chest which renders speech difficult after a walk in the open air.—Sensation of constriction in the chest.— Shootings and lancinations in the chest and its sides RHUS TOXICODENDRON. 509 -especially when sitting with the body bent forwards, when speaking, when breathing deeply, seldom when walking or when using vigorous exertion.—Crawling in the chest with tension of the muscles of the chest, aggravated by repose- Sanguineous congestion to the chest.—"Weakness and sen- sation of trembling in the heart.—Violent palpitation of the heart when sitting quietly.—*Shootings in the region of the heart with painful sensation of paralysis and torpor of the left arm.—Transient coldness in the back. Trunk.—Pains in the loins, as if beaten, especially when touched and during repose.—Painful rigidity in the loins. —"Painful exostosis on the sacrum.—"Deviation of the ver- tebral column.—*Pains in the loins, back and nape of the neck, as if from lifting too great a weight—Drawing and shootings in the back, especially when seated and stooping, —Rheumatic tearing between the shoulder-blades, aggra- vated by coldness, mitigated by heat.—"Opisthotonus.— Rheumatic stiffness of the nape and neck, with painful ten- sion when moving.—Pajnful swelling of the axillary glands. Arms.—"Tearing and burning sensation in the shoulder, with paralysis of the arm, especially iu the cold season, during repose, and in the heat of the bed.—"Coldness, para- lysis and insensibility of the arm.— Exostosis on the arm, with burning sensation and ulcers, which discharge a sanipus pus.—*Erysipelatous swelling and pustules, with burning itching in the arms, hands and fingers —Red spots on the arms.—Jerks, shootings, and tearing in the arms.— Jerking tearing in the elbows, wrists and joints of the fin- gers.—Digging in the bones of the fore-arm.—Weakness and rigidity of the fore-arm and fingers, when moving, and trembling of these parts, after the least exertion.—Hot swelling of the hands in the evening.—Vesicular eruption, in clusters, on the wrist.—Smarting in the back of the hands. — Warts on the hands and fingers.—Swelling of the fingers. —Jerking in the thumbs.—Contraction of the fingers. Legs.— Shootings and tearings from the hip-joint into the ham, especially when resting on the foot, or with dull draw- ings and burning sensation during repose, and painful sen- sibility of the joints on rising from one's seat, or going up stairs.—Tension and stiffness in the muscles and joints of the hips, thighs, legs, knees and feet.—*Paraiysis of the lower extremities.—Cramps in the buttocks, thighs, and calves of the legs, especially at night in bed, or when seated, after walking.—Tension in the knee, as if the tendons were too short.—Drawing and jerking tearing in the thighs 43* 510 RHUS VERNIX--RUTA GRAVEOLENS. and legs.—Lancinations in the thighs, legs, knees, feet and toes.—Heaviness in the legs, especially in the hams and calves of the legs.—"Paralysis of the legs and feet— Shootings and wrenching pain in the ankle-bones, when resting on the foot.—■*Inflammatory swelling of the instep, "sometimes with pustules and miliary pimples on the part affected.—* Erysipelatous swelling of the feet.—Swelling of the feet in the evening.—Torpor and paleness of the feet. —Distortion of the toes.—Corns on the feet, with burning sensation and pain as from excoriation. 153.—RHUS VERNIX. RHUS-V.—Japan varnish-tree.—Abchives of Stapf—A medicine as yet little known. Antidote: Nitr-ac. SYMPTOMS.—Phlyctsenoidal eruptions on several parts of the skin, especially on the fingers.— Violent itching in the body, as if it had been stung by gnats, especially after midnight and towards morning.—Red and excessively elevated callosities in different parts of the skin.—Dreams of murder and of misfortune.—Insupportable heaviness of the head.—Eyes red.—A mist before the eyes, when read- ing.—Great sensibility of the eyes to the light of day, on waking in the morning.—Red spots on the face.—Swelling of the face and forehead, especially on the left side, with cal- losities and red spots, and sensation of heaviness in the parts affected.—Burning sensation in the lips.—Pain in'the throat, as if from excoriation, (on the left side) when swallowing.—Blood of the catamenia coagulated, like lumps of flesh.—Acute shootings across the lungs.—Rheu- matic pains in the joints of the shoulder and elbow.—Hard tubercles and phlyctenae on the hands.—Wrenching pain in the hip.—Cramps in the feet. 154.—RUTA GRAVEOLENS. RUTA.—Garden-rue,—Hahnemann.—Duration of effect: from S to 15 days. Antidote : Camph. ? Comparb with : Aeon. am-c. arn. ars. asa. hell. bry. con. hyos. ign. n vom. op. plumb, puis. rhus. stram. veratr—Ign. may he sometimes administered alternately with ruta. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Allowing ourselves to be guided by the whole of the symptoms, the cases against which this medicine may be employed will be found to be : —Sufferings caused by mechanical injuries, (contusion, fall, dislocation, injury of the bones, or of the perioste- um) ; Caries 1 ; Aching pains 1; Paralysis, caused by ex- RUTA GRAVEOLENS. 511 temal injuries; Sufferings caused by rainy and coll wea- ther ; Rheumatic affections, principally in the joints of the hands and feet; Amblyopia amaurotica, especially when caused by fine work, reading, &c. ; Copper-coloured spots ; Vermiculous affections of children, especially with vomit-> ing ; Dyspepsia, especially that caused by frequent vomit- ing; Vermiculous colic; Chronic pneumonia, with sup- puration, caused by mechanical injury in the chest; Para- lysis in the joints of the hands and feet, whether caused by rheumatic affections or by dislocations, &c. [Ruta has been used with benefit in a peculiar form of hysterical head-ache, attended with the eruption of large flat or oval tumours, varying from the size of a hazelnu1: to that of a pigeon's or hen's egg upon the hairy scalp, and coupled with derangement of the stomach and liver; also in profuse menstruation, and in abortion with flooding, &c, &c.—Ed.~] OCT See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—* Pains in the limbs, joints and bones, as if beaten, or as if caused by a contusion, fall, or bruise, especially when touched.—Burning or gnawing pains in the periosteum of the limbs.—Pressive, spasmodic tearings and drawings in the limbs.—Sensation of fulness in the whole body, with obstructed respiration.—Lassitude, weakness and heaviness in all the limbs, especially when seated, with great uneasiness in the legs.—Tottering, un- steady gait, from weakness of the thighs.—Sensation in all the limbs as if they had been severely beaten, with painful sensibility of the sacrum and loins when sitting down, after a short airing. Skin.—Gnawing itching on the skin.— Erysipelatous inflammations.—Tendency to excoriation in children when walking and riding on horseback.—Inflamed ulcers.—Ana- sarca.—Warts. Sleep.—Frequent yawnings and stretchings.'—Great desire to sleep in the evening, and after a meal, and waking with a start, and piercing cries from the least touch.—Noc- turnal agitation, with tossing and frequent waking. Fever.—Shuddering, coldness and shivering, even when near the fire.—Coldness in the hands and feet, with heat in the face, confusion in the head and thirst.—General heat, with agitation and excessive uneasiness, suffocating respiration and pressive head-ache.—Frequent flushes of heat. Moral Svmptoms.—Anxiety, as if resulting from a troubled conscience.—Inclination to quarrel and to contra- 512 RUTA GRAVEOLENS. diet.—Unfitness for labour^—One is dissatisfied with oneself and others, and disposed to weep.—Melancholy and moral dejection.—Slow march of ideas.—Frequent absence of mind. Head.—Head bewildered as if from too little sleep.— Turning vertigo to such an extent as to fall when rising in the morning, as also when seated and when walking in the open air.—Head-ache as if from stunning pressure on the whole brain, with great inquietude.—Throbbing or tearing pain in the forehead, with confusion of the head, in the evening before lying down and in the morning on waking. —Heat in the head.—Tensive drawing or lancinating pains in the exterior of the head, as if from a blow or contusion, especially in the periosteum.—Gnawing itching in the hairy scalp.—Nodes and abscesses on the hairy scalp, with pain as from excoriation when touched, originating after a tear- ing has been felt in the part which they occupy.—Small ulcers and running sores on the hairy scalp. Eyes.—*Pains in the eyes when viewing an object minute- ly.—Itching smarting in the canthus.—Pressure in the eyes. —Burning sensation in the eyes when reading by candle- light.—Lachrymation in the open air.—Specks on the cor- nea.—Red areola round the candle in the evening.—Quiv- ering and jerking in the muscles of the eye brows.— Spasms'in the eye-lids.—Tendency to stare.—*Sight con- fused as if looking through a mist, and complete cloudiness at a distance.—Dancing spots before the eyes. Ears and Nose.—Otalgia with scraping pressure.— Itching lancinations in the ear—Pain in the cartilage of the ear, and under the mastoid process as if from a bruise. —Acute and hard pressure on the root of the nose.—Per- spiration on the back of the nose.—Epistaxis, with pres- sure, at the root of the nose. Face and Teeth.—Pains in the face, in the periosteum, as if caused by contusion or blows.—Spasmodic tearing in the cheek-bone.—Itching and gnawing in the face and cheeks.—Erysipelas of the forehead with swelling.— Eruption of pimples on the lips.— Copper-coloured spots. — Odontalgia, with digging pain.—Painful sensibility and ready bleeding of the gums. Mouth and Throat.—Mouth dry and viscous.—Cramp in the tongue, with embarrassed speech.—Sore throat as if caused by a tubercle in the bottom of the gullet, during empty deglutition.—Sensation as from excoriation and pressure on the velum palati, when swallowing. Appetite.—Insipid and dry taste of food, like that of RUTA GRAVEOLENS. 513 wood.—Violent thirst for cold water in the afternoon.— Disgust at the first mouthful, with a sensation of fulness and satiety in the abdomen ; the appetite being good at other times.—Sudden nausea when eating, with vomiting of food.—Pains in the stomach after eating bread, or crude and indigestible food. Stomach.—Empty eructations, or with the taste of food. — Hiccough when smoking.—Putrid eructations after eat- ing meat.—Eructations like those of hysterical women.— Nausea at the pit of the stomach.—Vomiting also of food. —Pains in the stomach after having eaten raw things or indigestible food.—Pinching in the stomach after eating bread.—Gnawing, burning, or pressive pains in the stomach. —Tearing shootings in the epigastrium. • Abdominal Region.—Gnawing pressure in the hepatic region.—Pulsation and pricking in the hypochondrium.— Painful swelling of the spleen.—Pain in the abdomen as if from a bruise, with digging in the lumbar region.—Pressive pinchings in the hypogastrium.—Cutting pinchings in the sides of the abdomen.—Shootings which mount into the abdomen, when sitting down.—Sensation of coldness, or of heat, and burning sensation in the abdomen.—Gnawing in the abdomen.—'Colic, as if from worms.—Lancinations in the muscles of the abdomen, which force one to draw in the abdomen. Faeces.—Difficult feces, evacuated only with great effort, as if from inactivity of the rectum.—Faeces scanty, hard, knotty, like sheep-dung.—Slimy diarrhcea, alternating with constipation.—Frequent desire to evacuate, with scanty, but soft evacuations.—Ineffectual desire to evacu- ate, with prolapsus recti.—Prolapsus recti with every eva- cuation.—Discharge of blood during the evacuation.— Tearings and shootings in the rectum. Urine and Genital Organs.—Desire to urinate, some- times very urgent, with pressure on the vesica, and scanty emission of green urine.—Pressure on the vesica, sometimes also after the emission of urine, and at other times.—Fre- quent and profuse emission of urine, also at night.—Con- tinued desire to urinate, even immediately after an emis- sion.—Retention of urine.—Involuntary emission of urine at night, in bed, and by day, during movement.—Urine charged with gravel.—Increased sexual desire.—Pollu- tions.—Sterility.—Catamenia very irregular.—Catamenia of too short duration, preceded and followed by leucor- rhoea.—Leucorrhaja after the catamenia. Larynx.—Pain in the larynx, as if from contusion.— 514 RUTA GRAVEOLENS. Cough in the evening after lying down, with copious ex- pectoration of viscous mucus and tendency to vomit.— Croaking cough at night,, with scraping in the chest.— Cough with copious expectoration of purulent matter.— Expectoration of thick, yellowish mucus, almost without cough, but with a sensation of fatigue in the chest. Chest.—Breath very short, with dyspnea.—Pressure in the chest, with sensation of fulness.—Nocturnal compres- sion in the lower part of the chest.—Lancinations in the chest, often with suspended respiration, principally when go- ing up stairs.—Sensation of coldness or heat in the chest. —Gnawing sensation in the chest.—A part in the sternum is painful when touched.—Palpitation of the heart with anxiety? Trunk.—Pains in the back and loins as if beaten, often with obstructed respiration.—Drawing in the nape of the neck and shoulder-blades.—Pain in the loins and sacrum, as if from contusion.—Shootings in the loins when walking and stooping, or only when seated. Arms.—Wrenching pain in the shoulder-joint, espe- cially when permitting the arms to hang down or when resting on them.—Shocks in the arms, as if in the bones.— Dull tearings in the bones of the arms and joints of the elbow.—Pain as if from contusion, in the joint of the elbow. —Pain in the fore-arms, as well as Sutium ; Pseudo-gonorrhoea ; Induration of the testes'?; ydrocele 1 ; Impotence; Weakness of the genital organs, in consequence of onanism; Menostasis; Dys- menorrhea ; Menstrual colic ; Metrorrhagia! ; Sterility 1 ; Abortion'?; Leucorrhea; Chlorosis; Excoriation, inflam- mation and ulceration of the mammae ; Induration (and cancer 1) of the mammae ; Excoriation, constipation, aphthe and ophthalmia of new-born infants; Pulmonary catarrh with hoarseness, also in consequence of measles; Invete- rate catarrh ; Blenorrhoea of the lungs in old men ; Grippe; Aphonia; Catarrhal, spasmodic nervous cough, &c.; Hooping cough 1 ; Hemoptysis ; Asthmatic sufferings ; Chronic pneumonia ; Phthisis ; Pain in the chest caused by an effort, or by lifting a weight; Affections of the heart ; Paiii in the loins ; Rachitic distortion of the spine ; Trem- 584 SULPHUR. bling of the hands, also in drunkards ; Rhagades on the hands ; Panaritium ; Coxarthrocace ; Coxalgia ; Spontane- ous dislocation ; Arthritic or rheumatic gonnitis ; White swelling'?; Gout in the hands and feet; Ulcers on the legs ; Erysipelatous inflammation of the feet or legs, &c., &c. 03= See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Sharp and drawing pains, *or shooting in the limbs, principally in the joints, and sometimes with want of strength, stiffness, and sensation of torpor in the parts affected.—♦Wrenching pains as if from contraction of the tendons, with cramps and spasms in several parts.—*Cracking in the joints, principally those of the knee and elbow.—*Inflammatory swelling of the joints, with heat and redness.—*Crawling in the limbs, principally in the calves of the legs and arms.—*Propensity of the limbs to become numbed easily.—*Muscular twitchings.— ♦Jerks and shocks in certain parts or in the whole body, principally when sitting or lying down.---*Attacks of spasms.—Epileptic convulsions, "excited by fright, or by running, *and sometimes attended with cries, rigidity of the limbs, compression of the teeth, and sensation as if a mouse were running over the back or arms.—*Fainting fits, _or hysterical or hypochondriacal uneasiness, some- times with vertigo, vomiting and perspiration.—*Trembling of the limbs, principally the hands.—Sensation-of trembling in the interior of the body.—Attacks of uneasiness in the whole body, which does not permit one to remain seated, with desire to stretch and contract the limbs alternately. — Violent ebullition of blood, sometimes with burning heat in the hands.—Great exhaustion, with * excessive fatigue after the least conversation and the shortest walk with desire to remain always seated, and profuse perspiration, even when sitting, reading, eating, lying down or walking.—The sen- sation of fatigue is sometimes removed by walking.—Mus- cular weakness, principally in the knees and arms, and also in the legs with unsteady gait.—*Stooping gait.— *Extraordinary emaciation, sometimes with weakness, fa- tigue, and burning sensation in the hands and feet.—*Great sensitiveness to the open air and to the wind, "with pains in the limbs from a change of weather, disposition to take cold, and many sufferings produced by expos ire to the open air.—The affections of the head and stom c'i are principally aggravated when in the open air.—The ma- jority of the sufferings are aggravated or appear at night or in the evening, and also during repose, when standing for SULPHUR. 585 a long time, and by exposure to cold air ; they disappear when walking or moving the parts affected, and also in the warmth of a room ; but the heat of the bed renders the noctur- nal pains insupportable.—*Several sufferings appear peri- odically or at intervals. Skin.—*Itchingin the skin, even of the whole body, -more violent at night or in the morning in bed, and often attended with pain, as if from excoriation, and with heat, itching, or bleeding of the part which has been scratched. —*Eruptions, like those which often follow vaccination.— *Scabious eruptions and herpes of a greenish yellow colour, commencing with small itching phlyctaenae surrounded by a red areola.— Herpetic, red, irregular, furfuraceous spots, covered with small phlyctaenae, discharging a serous lymph. —*Scabious eruptions.—*Miliary eruptions, principally on the extremities.—♦Nettle-rash.—* Burning itching of the eruptions.—*Liver spots of a yellow or brownish colour. —"Erysipelatous inflammation, with pulsative and shooting pains.—"Extravasation, even from the slightest contusion. —"Bright, scarlet redness over the whole body.—Crawling in the skin of the whole body.—*Red, swollen and ulcera- ted chilblains, with itching in the heat of a room.—*Callous warts, principally round the fingers.—*The skin cracks easily, especially in the open air; cracks, with pain, as if from excoriation.—*Desquamation and excoriation of the skin in several places.—Unhealthy skin ; the slightest inju- ries become inflamed and ulcerated.—* Ulcers with elevated margins, surrounded by itchy pimples and red or bluish areola, with sharp, lancinating and tensive pains ; which bleed easily and secrete a fetid and sanious, or yellow and thick pus.—*Proud flesh in the ulcers.—Fistulous ulcers. —Furunculi.—Encysted tumours, or "pale, tight, and hot tumours ; inflammatory abscess.—* Inflammation, swelling, and induration, or suppuration of the glands.—"Nodosities on the skin of the whole body, from swelling of the sub- cutaneous glands, but principally on the breast.—"Inflam- mation, swelling, and painful sensitiveness of the bones.— •Repugnance to ablutions. Sleep.—* Insurmountable desire to sleep, principally, in the afternoon and evening, by candle-light.—^Frequent yawning.—Retarded sleep at night, *or sleeplessness, some- times caused by a great flow of ideas, or as if it were from over excitement.—*Sleep too light, -or agitated, with/?e- quent waking, often with frightened starts.—Waking too early, with inability to go to sleep again.—*Sleep in the morning too prolonged, -sometimes deep and lethargic, with 586 SULPHUR. difficulty in rising in the morning.—* Unrefreshing sleep.— *Pains, uneasiness and crawling in the limbs, with heat and colic at night, -gastralgia, vertigo, head-ache, visions and il- lusions of the senses, palpitationof the heart, asthmatic suf- ferings, "hunger and thirst.—Inability to sleep otherwise than on the back, with the head high.—*When sleeping, agi- tation and tossing, shocks in the body, and jerks in the limbs, starts and fright, talking, -cries, murmurs, wanderings, de- lirium, lamentation and moaning, snoring, eyes half-open, lying on the back, with the arms above the head, night-mare and somnambulism.—*0n waking, illusions of the senses, -frightful visions and fear of ghosts.—* Frequent, fantastic, anxious,frightful and horrible, angry, disgusting and agita- ted dreams : dreams of fire, of dogs that bite, of fine clothes, which one possesses, of falling, of danger, of death ; dreams with a presentiment of what will take place on the morrow. Fever.—*Chilliness-coldness, shiveringand shuddering, principally in the evening or at night, in bed, as well asinthe afternoon, and when walking in the open air.—Partial shiver- ings, principally in the back, chest and arms, with *coldness of the hands, feet and nose.—During the shiverings, paleness or heat in the face, head-ache, at times flushes of heat—♦Fre- quent flushes of heat.-*Heat, principally at night, or in the eve- ning, or in the morning, and also in the afternoon, and often with (circumscribed) redness of the cheeks, excessive thirst, burning sensation in the hands and feet, -partial shiverings, *partial sweats, principally in the head, face and hands, -fatigue and pain in the limbs as if beaten, hoarseness and cough, anxiety, &c.—*Febrile attacks, both in the forenoon and afternoon, or in the evening, consisting of heat, which is preceded by shiverings, and followed or mixed with per- spiration, or else in -heat of the face, followed by shiver- ings.—^Palpitation of the heart, delirium, weakness, ob- struction and scabs in the nose with violent thirst during the fever, and also before the shiverings.—'Pulse hard, quick and full.—* Frequent and profuse perspiration day and night, evening and morning when in bed, with *aptness toperspire when working, partial perspiration, principally on the head, nape of the neck, hands, &c, *acid perspiration. Moral Symptoms.—* Melancholy and sadness, "with an- gry thoughts, uneasiness about one's condition and affairs, to such an extent as to feel exceedingly unhappy, to be dis- gusted with life, and even to despair of eternal salvation.— * Great propensity to weep, and frequent weeping, sometimes alternating with involuntary laughter.—"Inconsolableness and scruples of conscience, even for the most innocent ac- SULPHUR. 587 tibns.—Attacks of anguish, principally in the evening, ♦tim- idity and great tendency to be frightened.—Precipitation, inquietude and impatience.---#Ul-humour, moroseness, quarrelsome disposition, desire to criticise and dislike to conversation.—* Irritability, choler, disposition to be angry, and to fly into a rage.—Great indolence and repugnance to all exertion, both mental and bodily.—Indecision, awk- wardness, inadvertence, anthropophobia and giddiness.— Stupidity and imbecility, with difficulty in understanding and answering correctly.—*Great weakness of memory, prin- cipally for proper names.—What was just about to be ut- tered escapes the memory.—Great flow of ideas, for the most part, sad and unpleasant, but sometimes gay and mixed with musical airs.—* Great tendency to religious, -and philosophical reveries, ♦with fixed ideas.—Wanderings.— Mania, with a fixed idea of having all things in abundance, and possesing beautiful things, &c.—*Delirium, with car- pologia.—Errors respecting objects, a hat is mistaken for a bonnet, a rag for a handsome gown, &c. Head.—*Confusion of the head, with difficulty in medi- tating, or with -weakness and dizziness, and stupor, some- times with desire to lie down, and occurring principally in the morning or evening, or when walking in the open air, or when ascending.—* Vertigo and staggering, principally when seated or after a meal, or when exercising in the open air, when stooping, walking, ascending, rising from a seat, lying on the back, passing over running water, and also in the morning, evening or at night, and often attended with nausea, fainting, weakness, and bleeding from the nose.— Head-ache, as if caused by incarcerated flatulence, by ob- struction in the head, or as if in consequence of a debauch. —*Painful sensitiveness of the head, and principally of the vertex, from the least movement, with pain at every step, or when coughing, blowing the nose or chewing.— *Fulness, pressure, and heaviness in the head, principally in the forehead and occiput.—Tension and painful contraction in the brain, sometimes with a sensation as if the head were compressed by a band.—♦Expansive pressure, as if the head were about to burst, -principally in the temples. —Sharp and jerking pains, or * drawing and shootings in the head.—Painful sensation, as if the brain were wounded or bruised.—When moving the head, the brain strikes against the cranium.—* Congestion of blood to thehead'with pulsa- tive clucking, hammering sensations, and feeling of heat in the brain (characteristic).—"Crawling, buzzing, roaring and vibration in the head.—*The head-aches are often 5SS SULPHUR. only semi-lateral, or they occupy the vertex, or the occiput or the forehead above the eyes, and are attended with inclination to frown, or to close the eyes, confusion of sight, *unflt- ness for meditation, humming in the ears, and nausea, with desire to vomit.—*Quotidian, periodical, and intermittent head-aches, appearing principally at night, or in the evening in bed, or in the morning, or after a meal.— ^Movement, walking, the open air and meditation often excite or aggra- vate the head-aches.—Itching and pimples on the head, principally on the forehead.—uDry, or thick yellowish scabs in the hairy scalp, with secretion of a thick and fetid pus, but always with great itching.—*Coldness in the head, some- times only in circumscribed places.—Painful sensitiveness of the roots of the hair, and of the hairy scalp, when touched. —Mobility of the hairy scalp.—*Falling out of the hair.— "Head, bent forward when walking.—Itching in the head, with impatience. Eyes.—Heaviness, *and pressure in the eyes and eye-lids, with a sensation of rubbing, as if from sand.—Itching, *tickling and burning sensation in the eyes, canthi, and eye- lids.—Pains as if from a bruise, or wound, and smarting in the eyes and eye-lids.—* The pains in the eyes often extend into the head and are aggravated by movement of the eyes, and also by the light of the sun, which sometimes increases them, so as to render them insupportable.—* Inflammation, swelling, and redness of the sclerotica, conjunctiva and eye- lids.—^Ulceration of the margin of the eye-lids.—Pustules and ulcers round the orbits, as far as the cheeks.—Inflamma- tory redness of the iris.—Opacity of the cornea, as if cov- ered with dust, "or clouded, with a deposit of grayish lymph between the lamellae.—°Specks, ♦vesicles, and °ulcers on the cornea. — Injection of the vessels of the conjunctiva.—Pupil irregular, or dilated and immova- ble.— Cloudiness of the crystalline lens.—Nodosity, like hordeolum on the eye-lids.—* Profuse lachrymation, 'espe- cially when in the open air, or great dryness of the eyes, principally when in a room.—Greasy tears.—^Copious se- cretion of mucus from the eyes, day and night.—Noctur- nal agglutination of the eye-lids.—Twitching and quivering of the eye-lids.—^Contraction of the eye-lids in the morn- ing.—Trembling of the eyes.— >Confused sight, as if look- ing through a mist, as if there were down, or a veil before the eyes—* Presbyopia.—^ Myopia.—Clouded sight, when reading.—The eyes are dazzled by the day-light.—Sparks and white spots, or dancing flies, black points and spots before the eyes.—Objects appear to be yellow.—* Great SULPHUR. 589 sensitiveness of the eyes to the light, principally to that of the sun, and during warm and oppressive weather.—"Yellow- ish colour of the sclerotica. Ears.—Itching in the ears.—*Sharp or drawing pains, or shootings in the ears, sometimes extending into the head or into the throat.—Burning heat which proceeds out through the ears.—Gurgling in the ears, as if there were wa- ter in them.—°Discharge of pus from the ears.—Furuncu- lus on the tragus.—Hearing excessively acute; the least noise is insupportable,and nausea is experienced when touch- ing the keys of the piano.-Dysecoia, principally for the human voice.—*Obstruction and sensation of stoppage in the ears, on one side only, and often when eating or blowing the nose. —Tinkling, * humming and roaring in the ears, -sometimes with congestion of blood to the head.—Cracking in the ear, as if a vessel full of water were broken.—"Excoria- tion behind the ears. Nose.—Boring in the root of the nose.—Burning in the nostrils.—* Inflammatory swelling of the nose, principally of the point, or in the alaj nasi.—Inflammation, ulceration, and scabs in the nostrils.—Cracking in the nose as if a vessel full of air had burst.—Ephelides and black pores on the nose.—^Obstruction of the nose, sometimes on one side only.—*Great dryness of the nose.—*Dry, or fluent coryza, with copious secretion of mucus.—Discharge of burnino- mucus, or * secretion of a thick yellowish, and puriform mucus from the nostrils.—*Blood, or sanguineous mucus is blown from the nose.—-* Bleeding of the nose, -principally in the morning and sometimes with vertigo.—Frequent, also spasmodic sneezing, sometimes preceded by nausea.— Smell increased or diminished, and also entirely lost.— Smell as in inveterate coryza, of burnt horn, or of smoke in the nose. Face.—*Face pale, or yellowish, with sickly complexion, 'and deep sunken eyes surrounded by a blue circle.— *Heat and burning sensation in the face, with dark redness of the whole face, circumscribed redness of the cheeks, or red spots, on the neck also.—*Pale or red swelling of the face.—Swelling of the cheeks, with lancinating pain.— Drawing, sharp pain, with bruised pressive and burning sensation in the cheek-bones.— Phlegmonous erysipelas of the face, principally affecting the eye-lids, nose and (left) ear.—Roughness and redness in the skin of the face.— Eruption of pimples on the face and forehead.—"Itching and moist herpes, over the whole face, principally above the nose, round the eyes, and on the eye-lids; small, white Vol. I. 50 590 SULPHUR. vesicles, in groups, and forming scabs.—♦Ephelides and black pores in the face, principally on the nose, lips, and chin.—Lips dry, rough and cracked.—Burning sensation and continued heat of the lips.—°Liver spots on the upper lip.—Trembling and jerking of the lips.—*Swelling of the lips.—Scabious ulcer on the red part of the lip.—Herpetic eruption on the corner of the mouth.—Painful eruption round the chin.—Sharp, lancinating, and drawing pains, and *painful swelling of the jaws.—Swelling of the sub- maxillary glands, with pains when touched, and shooting. Teeth.—Great tenderness of the teeth.—Jerking, shocks, *sharp or drawing pains, shootings, or *throbbing pains, with "boring and burning sensation, ♦both in the carious "and in the sound teeth —♦The tooth-ache often ex- tends as far as the ears or into the head, and is sometimes accompanied by congestion of blood to the head, with shiverings and desire to sleep, or with swelling of the cheek.—♦Appearance or aggravation of tooth-ache, prin- cipally in the evening, ~at night, or in the open air, and also from a current of air, from cold water, eating and mastica- ting, #and sometimes also from taking any thing hot.— Brownish mucus on the teeth.—^Painful loosening, "elon- gation, setting on edge, and easy bleeding of the teeth.— Bleeding, ^sensation of opening, and swelling of the gums, sometimes with throbbing pains.—°Hard, round swelling of the gums, with discharge of pus and blood. Mouth.—Dryness, heat, and burning sensation in the mouth, sometimes in the morning with moist tongue.— Accumulation of saliva in the mouth ; sanguineous or salt, or acid or bitter saliva.—Fetid, sometimes acid smell from the mouth, principally in the morning or in the evening, or after a meal.—Vesicles, blisters, and *aphthe in the mouth and on the tongue, "sometimes with burning or with pain, as if from excoriation, when eating.—Exfoliation of the skin of the mouth.—Burning sensation and tickling on the tongue.—*Tongue dry, rough and cracked, °of the colour of cinnabar ; ox loaded with a white coating, or covered with brownish mucus, thick and viscous.— Stammering, when speaking.—Accumulation of mucus, of a salt taste in the mouth. Throat.—Scraping, roughness, and dryness in the throat. —* Pressure, as if from a plug, or from a tumour in the throat, s metimes with difficult deglutition.—Sensation as if a ball were mounting in the throat.—Contraction and painful sensation of constriction in the throat, when swallow- ing.—Pain, as if from excoriation, burning sensation and SULPHUR. 591 shootings in the throat, principally during empty deglutition. —Sensation during empty deglutition as if a piece of meat were being swallowed.—Sensation, as if there were a plug in the throat, with empyreumatic taste.—Sore throat with swelling of the glands of the neck. Appetite.—*Bad taste in the mouth, mostly acid, bitter, or putrid and sweetish, or insipid, principally in the morn- ing on waking.—#Bitter, or too salt taste, or insipidity of food.—^Complete absence of appetite and dislike to food, principally to meat, rye-bread, -fat and milk.—*Dislike to sweet and acid things, or great desire for these things, with want of appetite.—Continued thirst even at night, often with desire for beer.—°Desire (in drunkards) to drink wine.—^Immoderate appetite, and attacks of bulimy, some- times with head-ache, lassitude, and desire to lie down.— Great weakness of digestion, principally of meat, fat, milk, acids, and foo'd made from flour, all of which occasion at times great suffering.— Food sweetened with sugar, aggra- vates the pains in the stomach and abdomen.—Milk pro- duces sour eructations, an acid taste in the mouth and also vomiting.—Beer leaves a long after-taste, and causes ebul- lition of blood.—*Oppression in the chest, nausea, pressure and cramps in the stomach, colic, inflation of the abdomen, flatulence, vomiting and great fatigue after a meal.—Shiver- ing, confusion and pain in the head, heat in the face, burn- ing sensation in the hands, flow of water from the mouth, and many other sufferings. Stomach.—*Continued eructations principally empty, or with taste of food, *or acid and burning, or bitter, or fetid, with taste of rotten eggs, *principally after a meal, or at night.—^Abortive eructations.—*Regurgitaion of food and drink, often with acid taste.—*Pyrosis, -often with burning and crawling in the chest.—Hiccough.—* Nausea, some- times even to fainting, with trembling, weakness and fre- quent eructations, principally *after a meal, ~in the morning, at night, or when riding in a carriage.—*Water-lrrash, prin- cipally in the morning, or after a meal, sometimes with pressure and digging in the abdomen.—*Vom;turition and vomiting, both of food, and of acid or bitter, blackish, *or sano-uineous substances, &c, -principally in the morning, or evening, *after a meal, -or at night, and sometimes with nausea, pains in the stomach, and cold perspiration on the face.—Heaviness and fulness, or pressure and compression, or else contractive and spasmodic pains, or digging, and -shootings in the stomach and precordial region, ♦princi- pally after a meal at night, -or in the morning, ♦often with 592 sulphur. nausea and vomiting, anxiety and inflation of the abdomen. —Sensation of coldness, or heat and burning sensation in the stomach.—Great sensitiveness in the region of the stomach, when touched.—Swelling of the precordial region.—Pulsation in the pit of the stomach.—Swelling of the pit of the stomach. Abdominal Region.—Painful sensitiveness of the hypo- chondria, as if they were wounded.—Drawing, *pressure, tension, and shootings in the region of the liver and spleen, "swelling and hardness in the regions of the liver, °and spleen. —Fulness, * heaviness, tension, and pressure as if from a stone in the abdomen, and principally in the epigastrium and in the hypochondria.—Enlargement and hardness of the abdomen.—Gripings, or *sensation of tearing, or contrac- tive and spasmodic pains in the abdomen.—*Shootings in the abdomen, principally in the left side when walking, or taking a deed inspiration.— The pains in the abdomen have gen- erally a tendency to attack the left side or extend into the stomach, and as far as the chest and back, causing ob- structed respiration, nausea, anxiety, and hypochondriacal humour.—*Pains in the abdomen, principally at night, or after eating and drinking, or else periodical, and aggra- vated by food sweetened with sugar; ^mitigated by bending forwards.—Movement and digging in the abdomen, or sen- sation as if something were pushed outwards.—Pains, as if from contusion and bruising in the integuments of the abdomen.—*Painf< 1 sensitiveness of the abdomen, when touched, as if all within were raw or one large wounded surface.—*Inflation of the abdomen with pressive pains from incarcerated flatus, principally in the left side.—'"Bor- borygmus and rumbling in the abdomen.—Frequent escape of very fetid flatus.—*Painful swelling and also suppura- tion of the inguinal glands.—* Violent protrusion of hernia, "with incarceration. F.eces.—* Constipation and hard, -knotty and insufficient evacuations.—*Frequent and often ineffectual desire to eva- cuate, principally at night, and sometimes with pressure on the rectum and vesica, and pain in the anus.—Urgent de- sire to evacuate.—*Diarrhea with frequent evacuations, principally at night, and often attended with colic, tenesmus, -inflation of the abdomen, dyspnea, shivering and weak- ness to such an extent as to cause fainting.—Mucous, wa- tery, frothy, acid or putrid smelling evacuations, -or of un- digested substances.—*Whitish, greenish, discoloured, or brownish red feces.-^-*Involuntary evacuations.— 'Evacua- tions with pieces of mucus, blood, "and purulent matter.— sulphur. 593 Discharge of mucus, even with hard faeces.—Escape of lumbrici, ascarides, and also of pieces of taenia from the rectum.—* Prolapsus recti, principally when evacuating.— Sharp and pressive pains, itching, shootings, and burning in the anus and rectum, also during evacuation.—*Hemor- rhoides which protrude, -ooze and bleed.—Excoriation and swelling of the anus.—"Haemorrhoides with diarrhoea.— •Tenesmus from protrusion of haemorrhoides. Urine.—"Suppressed, or very scanty urine.—* Frequent and sometimes very urgent desire to urinate.—Frequent and profuse flow of watery urine, sometimes gushing out with much force, also at night.—Involuntary emission of urine, principally when coughing or expelling flatus.—*Wettingthe bed.—°Red urine with sediment, -or else whitish, turbid, or dark-coloured.-Greasy pellicle over the urine-Fetid urine. —Whitish like flour, thick, reddish sediment in the urine.— °Painful emission of some drops of sanguineous urine, with much effort.—♦Discharge of blood and of mucus with the urine.—Itching, sharp pains, *shootings, and burning sensa- tion in the urethra, principally when urinating.—Redness and inflammation of the orifice of the urethra and pain as in the commencement of gonorrhoea.—*Discharge of mu- cus from the urethra.—Shootings in the vesica.—Small and intermittent stream of urine.—Spasmodic pains in the loins and groins.—°Gonorrhoea secundaria. Genital Organs.—°Fetid perspiration of the parts.— *Excoriation between the thighs and groins, principally when walking.—Shootings in the penis and glans.—Praeputium stiff, hard, like leather, with copious secretion of fetid smegma.—Inflammation, swelling and phimosis of the pre- putium, with deep cracks, burnings and redness.—Deep ulcer with elevated margins, on the glans and praeputium. —Pressure, tension and shootings in the testes and sper- matic cords.—Swelling and thickening of the epididymis. —"Excoriation and running in the scrotum.—Increased sexual desire and voluptuous irritation of the parts, often without erection.—* Weakness of the genital functions "often with icy coldness, bluish colour of the glans,* prepuce and penis, and "retraction of the prepuce.—Testes relaxed and hanging low down.—Frequent pollutions, also at noon. —Watery semen.—Escape of prostatic fluid, ^principally when urinating and evacuating.—°(Induration of the testes.) Catamenia.---*Pressure on the parts.---"Excoriation, ♦itching and burning sensation in the parts.—Inflammation of the labia.—*Catamenia too early-and too profuse, or *too 50* 594 SULPHUR. feeble, or entirely suppressed, with colic, abdominal spasms, head-ache, pains in the loins, pressure in the stomach, con- gestion to the head and nasal haemorrhage, agitation and also attacks of epilepsy.—*Before the catamenia, head-ache, itching in the parts, -spasmodic colic, inquietude, cough, tooth-ache, pyrosis, epistaxis, leucorrhoea and asthmatic sufferings.—After the catamenia, itching in the nose.— ^Menstrual discharge too pale or with an acid smell.— ''Leucorrhea sometimes corrosive, "gnawing and yellowish, preceded by colic.—#Excoriation and itching in the mam- ma?.—Cracks in the mamme with burning sensation, easy bleeding and ulceration.— Mammary glands obstructed and inflamed.—Erysipelatous inflammation of the breast. Larynx.—Catarrh, with fluent coryza, cough, pain, sensation of rawness in the chest and shivering.— ^Hoarse- ness, roughness and scraping in the throat, with accumula- tion of mucus in the chest.—Pain as if from excoriation and *crawling or tickling in the larynx, with desire to cough.—* Voice hoarse and low or entirely extinct, generally in cold and damp weather.—^Sensation as if the larynx were swollen, or as if there were a foreign body in it.— 'Dry cough, sometimes fatiguing and shaking, with vomi- turition, vomiting and spasmodic constriction of the chest, generally in the evening, or at night when in a recumbent po- sition, or in the morning after a meal.—*Moist cough, with profuse expectoration of thick whitish or yellowish mucus, like that in an inveterate coryza.—"Fetid expectoration of a greenish yellow colour, resembling pus and of a salt or sweet- ish taste, while coughing.—"Feverish cough, with *hemopty- sis.—* When coughing, pain as if from excoriation, or shoot- ings in the chest, pain as if from a bruise or shootings in the head, pain in the abdomen, cloudiness before the eyes, and pains in the hips and lQins.—Respiration and conversa- tion sometimes excite the cough. Chest.—*Short breath, -frequent chokings, *obstructed respiration,dyspnea; and attacks of suffocation, principally when lying down at night, and also during sleep, and sometimes also when speaking or walking in the open air.—Inability to take a deep inspiration, with sensation as if the chest were contracted.—Frequent, short, or wheezing respira- tion.—"Snoring and rattling of mitcus in the chest.—Shoot- ing in the back and sacrum when inspiring.—"Painful sensa- tion in the chest, as if something were falling forwards in it, when turning in the bed.—"Painful obstruction in the left side of the chest, with anguish and inability to lie on the side affected.—*Heaviness, fulness and pressure as if from a stone SULPHUR. 595 in the chest and sternum, principally in the morning, "and also when coughing, sneezing and yawning.—Pain when cough- ing and sneezing, as if the chest were about to burst.— *Periodical spasms in the chest, with sensation of constric- tion, spasmodic pains, "shortness of breath, bluish colour of the face and inability to speak.—Pulsations in the chest and sternum.—* Weakness of the chest, felt particularly when speaking, "with great fatigue in the lungs after speak- ing or singing.—*Shootings in the chest or sternum, or ex- tending as far as the back, or into the left side, principally when coughing, inspirating or lifting the arms.—#The pains in the chest tend more to affect the left side.—Sensation of coldness or *burning in the chest, sometimes extending as far as the face.—Shootings and blows in the region of the heart.— Violent congestion of blood towards the chest and heart, sometimes with ebullition in the chest, pressive pain, uneasiness, faintness and trembling of the arms.—Sensa- tion of emptiness in the region of the heart, or pressure and sensation as if the heart had not room enough.—*Frequent palpitation of the heart, sometimes also visible and attend- ed with anxiety, principally when ascending. Trunk.—Pain, as if from a bruise in the thorax, when touched.—♦ Weakness and wrenching pains, or as if from a bruise in the loins and back principally when walking and rising from a seat.—*Pain in the back after manual labour. —Shootings in the loins, back and shoulder-blades, some- times with obstructed respiration.—*Sharp and rheumatic pains, drawing, tension and stiffness in the loins, back and nape of the neck.—Pinching and burning sensation be- tween the shoulder-blades.—"Distortion of the spine.— Herpes on the nape of the neck.—Swelling and inflamma- tion of the glands of the nape and neck.—Fetid perspira- tion in the axilla?.—Swelling and suppuration of the axil- lary glands. Arms.—Pressure on the shoulders, as if from a weight. —Jerking of the shoulders, hands and fingers.—* Jerking, sharp pains and shootings in the joints and muscles of the arms, hands and fingers, andalso in the shoulders, and prin- cipally at night in bed.—Nocturual cramps in the arms.— *Crawling in the arms and fingers.—*Swelling of the arms, Sometimes with heat, hardness and lancinating or tensive pains.—Exostosis on the arm.—Warts on the arms, *or itching miliary eruption, -or red, burning spots, which ap- pear after washing.—Purulent vesicles in the bend of the neck.—*Paralytic weakness of the arms and hands.— Cracking in the neck.—^Swelling of the hands and thumbs. 596 SULPHUR. —Rigidity and wrenching pain in the joints of the hands and fingers.—*Trembling of the hands, principally when oc- cupied with fine work.—Involuntary contraction of the hands, as if in order to lay hold of something.—Coldness of the hands and fingers.—*Perspiration of the hands and between the fingers.—Eruption of small, red, itching pim- ples on the hands and fingers.—°Warts on the fingers.— Desquamation, dryness and cracks in the skin of the hands. —Cramps and jerks in the fingers.—Contraction of the tendons of the hands and fingers.—*Large and shining swelling of the fingers.—*Fingers benumbed.—- Nodosities on the fingers.—Flaws in the nails.—Chilblains on the fin- gers, with itching in the warmth.—°Swelling and inflam- mation of the points of the fingers, with sub-cutaneous ul- ceration, and boring and pulsative pains at night. Legs.—Pain, as if from sub-cutaneous ulceration in the buttocks, and ischiatic tuberosities, principally when touched, and after remaining seated for a long time.— Purulent and painful tumours in the buttocks.—Pain, as if from a wrench, or bruise in the hip, from the least move- ment, with shootings at every step.—°Pain in the hip, with contraction of the leg.—* Sharp and drawing pains in the legs, principally at night, in bed.—*Heaviness of the legs, sometimes with tension in the thighs and knees, princi- pally at night.—Red, running, painful spots on the internal surface of the thighs.*—Tension in the hams, as if from contraction of the tendons.—°Large and shining swelling of the knee, with stiffness and pain, as if beaten.—*Cracking, *drawing, sharp pains and shootings in the knees.—Herpes on the hams.—*Uneasiness in the legs and feet.— Torpor and numbness of the legs.—Painful fatigue and * paralytic weakness of the legs, principally of the knees, which bend fre- quently.—°Fugitive shooting pains in the joints.—#Red spots and itching miliary eruption on the legs.—trans- parent swelling of the legs.—cErysipelas of the leg and foot.—*Bluish spots and swollen and °varicose veins on the legs.—Pain in the calves of the legs when walking.— Cramps in the calves of the legs and soles of the feet, princi- pally at night.—Painful sensitiveness of the soles of the feet when walking.—Easy diclocation of the foot when walking.—Stiffness and wrenching pain in the instep.— *Grawling in the legs and calves.—°Burning and inveterate ulcers on the legs or feet.—-Herpes on the ankles.—*Shoot- ings in the feet.—*Coldness of the feet, principally in the evening, in bed, or burning sensation, principally in the 6oles of the feet.—^Perspiration of the feet, with coldness of SULPHUR--SULPHURIS ACIDUM. 597 the same.—Swelling of the feet, and especially of the ankles. —*Chilblains on the feet and toes.—Gnawing vesicles on the soles of the feet.—Ulcers on the instep.—Cramps and contraction of the toes.—cColdness and stiffness of the toes.—*Crawlings in the ends of the toes.—*Large and shining swelling of the toes.-—Ulcerated and gnawing vesi- cles in the toes.—Corns, with pressive or shooting pains. 177.—SULPHURIS ACIDUM. SULPH-AC.—Sulphuric acid.—Hahnemann.—Duration of effect: from 4 to „ weeks in chronic affections. Antidote : Puis. Compare with : Amnion, arn. con. dig. mur-ac. nitr-ac. phos-ac. puis. rut. sulph.—Sulph-ac, when indicated, is particularly efficacious after am.— Puis, is sometimes suitable after sulphuric acid. CLINICAL RExMARKS.—Allowing ourselves to be guided by the whole of the symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be used appear to be :—Excoriations; Bad effects from mechanical injuries, wounds, contusions, &c.; Typhus fever ; Chronic ophthalmia ; Aphthae of children ; Haemoptysis; &c, &c. IE33 See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Tearing in the whole body, and also in the face.—Cramps in the limbs.—Pains, per- ceptible during sleep.—Pains which increase, then disappear suddenly, generally as if caused by dull pressure.—Icteric sufferings.—Jerking of the tendons.—Appearance or aggra- vation of the symptoms, in the morning and evening.—One feels worse in the open air.—The left side seems to be more particularly affected.—Lassitude in the whole body, with sensation of trembling. Skin.—Itching over the whole body.—Red, itching spots on the skin, #or small, red, livid and bluish spots, as if from a bruise.—°Excoriation of the skin, also with ulcer- ation, like gangrene.—Furunculi.—Gnawing in the ulcers. —Chilblains.—Corns on the feet, with tearings and shoot- ings.—Warts. Sleep.—Retarded sleep and early waking.—Sleepless- ness from mental excitement.—Jerkings during sleep.— Anxious dreams.—Jerking of the fingers during sleep. Fever.—Predominant sensation of heat.—Small, feeble pulse.—Perspiration from the least movement.—Profuse perspiration in the morning. Moral Symptoms.—Melancholic dejection.—Inclination to weep.—Anxious apprehension and mistrust.—Agitation, precipitation and impatience.—Irritability, nervous fatigue and disposition to be frightened.—Peevish moroseness and 598 SULPHURIS ACIDUM. dislike to conversation.—Disgust of life.—Seriousness, al- ternating with buffoonery.—Excessive distraction.—Dul- ness of intellect. Head.—Head bewildered, on one side only, as if it con- tained smoke.—Vertigo when seated, disappearing in the open air.—Head-ache which increases at first, then suddenly disappears.—Sensation of weakness in the head.—Cephal- algia, as if the brain were lacerated.—Pressive head-ache. —Sensation of heaviness and fulness in the brain, as if the head would burst.—Sensation of constriction in the head. —Shocks and blows in the head.—Head-ache, with dull lanci- nations, or drawings and tearings.—Sensation, as if the brain were loose.—Sensation in the exterior of the head, as if it were ulcerated.—Itching and eruption in the hairy scalp. —The hair turns gray and falls off. Eves.—Burning pressure in the eyes in the open air, or when fixing the eyes on an object in a room.—Tension in the eye-lids in the morning.—Smarting, burning sensation in the eyes, and lachrymation, especially when reading.— Eyes red, with photophobia.—Chronic inflammation of the eyes.—Difficulty in opening the eye-lids.—Myopia. Ears.—Tearing in the ears.—Dysecoia, as if there were a band over the ears.—Ringing of bells before the ears.— Humming in the ears, in the evening. Nose.—Epistaxis in the evening.—Dry coryza, with loss of smell.—Flow of water from the nose, with obstruction of one nostril. Face.—Paleness of the face.—Pain in the zygomatic process, as if from contusion.—Tearing in the bones of the face.—Sensation, as if the face were swollen, and as if it were covered with the white of eggs dried.—Lips are cracked and exfoliate.—Pain, as if from excoriation in the commissurae of the lips.—Inflammation and swelling of the sub-maxillary glands. Teeth.—Odontalgia, more violent in the evening in bed, aggravated by cold air, mitigated by warmth, generally with tearing grubbing or gnawing.—Bluntness of the teeth. —Swelling and easy bleeding of the gums.—Ulceration of the gums. Mouth and Throat.—*Aphthe in the mouth.—Sensation of dryness in the mouth.—Dry tongue.—Profuse salivation. Haemoptysis—Sore-throat during deglutition, with lancina- ting pain, especially in the evening.—Roughness in the throat. Appetite.—Putrid taste.—Bread has a bitter taste and lies heavy on the stomach.—Bulimy, with rumbling and SULPHURIS ACIDUM. 599 borborygmus in the abdomen.—Desire for fruits (prunes.)— Agitation, gripings and digging in the abdomen, or exces- sive inflation of the stomach, after a meal.—Cold perspira- tion immediately after hot food.—Lassitude and flatulence after drinking milk.—All drinks chill the stomach, if a lit- tle spirit is not added to them. Stomach.—Empty or bitter eructations.—Acid, bitter, saltish or sweetish regurgitations.—Pyrosis.—Nausea in the stomach, with shivering.— Vomiting, first of water, then of food.—Very painful sensitiveness in the region of tne stomach.—Fulness and pressure in the stomach.—Sque z- ing and pinching in stomach in the evening, as if from a chill. —Contraction in the stomach and scorbiculus.—Cuttings round the stomach.—Sensation of coldness or burning in the stomach. Abdominal Region.—Shootings in the spleen.—Shootino- in the loins.—Colic in theabdomen like labour pains, extend- ing into the hips and Joins.—Movements, gripings and pinchings in the abdomen, sometimes at night.—Sensation of heat in the umbilical region.—Jerking in the whole extent of the hypogastrium, especially in the muscles.—Throbbing, tearings and shootings in the groins.—Smarting in the in- guinal region.—*Inguinal hernia, much protruded.—Flatu- lent colic in the hypogastrium, with rumbling and borboryg- mus, and sensation, as if a rupture were about to take place. FiECEs.—Tenesmus.—Evacuatioas retarded, hard, knot- ty and black.—Faeces of a very large size.—*Chronic relax- ation of theabdomen.—Loose evacuations of the consistence of pap, greenish and watery.—Diarrhoea, of frothy slime only, with burning sensation in the rectum.—Evacuations of mucus, streaked with blood.—Chopped-like faeces (in children).— Very fetid, putrid smelling feces.—Discharge of blood during the evacuation.—Sanguineous congestion to the rectum.—Haemorrhoidal excrescences about the anus, with shootings, burning, itching and oozing. Urine.—Diminished secretion of urine, with burning when urinating.—Emission of urine at night.—Watery urine.—Brownish-red urine, which becomes cloudy, like clay-water, after standing—Slimy sediment in the urine. —Sediment, like blood, in the urine, which is covered with a fine pellicle.—Pain in the vesica, when the desire to urinate is not immediately satisfied. Genital Organs.—Excessive heat in the genital parts and testes —Emission of semen without voluptuous sensa- tion.—Great inclination for coition, from irritation of the 600 SULPHURIS ACIDUM—TABACUM. external genital organs (in females).—*Catamenia too early and too profuse.—"Catamenia of too long duration.—Me- trorrhagia.—Night-mare before the catamenia.—During the catamenia, lancinations in the abdomen and vagina.— Sterility, with catamenia too early and too profuse.—Acrid and burning, or milk-like leucorrhea.—Discharge of san- guineous mucus from the vagina. Larynx.—Hoarseness, with dryness and *roughness in the throat and larynx.—Pain in the larynx, with embarrassed speech, as if the parts were not sufficiently elastic.— Cough, excited by the open air.—Dry, short, panting cough, sometimes in the morning, after rising.—Moist cough, with slimy expectoration.—*Cough, with hemoptysis.— Eructation and regurgitation of food after coughing. Chest.—*Dyspnea.—Great weakness in the chest, with difficult speech.—Pressure in the left side of the chest and scorbiculus.—Lancinations in the chest.—Palpitation of the heart—Lancinations across the heart. Trunk.—Sensation, as if from excoriation and as if beaten in the back and loins.—Drawing in the back and loins.—Furunculi on the back.—Stiffness of the back, in the morning.—Painful sensitiveness and swelling of .he axillary glands. Arms.—Heaviness of the arms.-—Spasmodic, paralytic contractions of the arms.— Shootings in the shoulder joint, when lifting the arm.—Tensive pain in the elbow- joint.—Bluish" spots on the fore-arm, as if from ecchymo- sis.—Cramps in the hands.—Shocks and blows in the bones of the hand when writing.—Eruption on the hands and be- tween the fingers.—Lancinations in the joints of the fin- gers.—Chilblains in the fingers. Legs.—Heaviness of the legs.—Torpor and numbness of the legs.—Inclination to stretch and retract the limbs. —Tearing in the varices of the legs.—Painful weakness of the knees, with dull lancinations, shocks and blows in those parts.—Red, itching spots on the tibia.—Stiffness of the ankles.—Coldness of the feet.—Swelling of the feet. —Tearing and lancinations in the corns of the feet. 178.—TABACUM. TAB.—Tohacco.—Hartlaub and Trinks.—Duration of effect : ? Antidotes : Camph. ipec. n-vom.— It is used as an antidote against: Cic. Ftram. Compare with: Aeon. ars. bell. cham. cin. cocc. con. hell. hyos. ipec. n-vom. op. stram. veratr.. GENERAL SYMPTOMS—Pressive pains, with agita- tion in the whole body and anxious perspiration.—Cramps TABACUM. 601 and crawling in the limbs.—Excessive emaciation.—Paralytic and painful weakness of the limbs—Trembling of the limbs.—Great general lassitude.—Jerkings in the whole body, with pulsation and palpitation of the heart.—Ame- lioration in the open air. Skin.—Itching in the skin, as if from flea-bites.—Erup- tion of itching pimples or vesicles, with yellow serum and red areola. Sleep.—Great desire to sleep, especially after a meal and towards evening, with frequent yawnings.—Retarded sleep in the evening, and difficulty in waking in the morn- ing.—Disturbed sleep at night, with fright.—Incubus. Fever.—Coldness and shivering, sometimes with chat- tering of the teeth.—Frequent attacks of shuddering, sometimes with flushes of heat.—Continual shuddering from morning till evening.—Perspiration at night. Moral Svmptoms.—Gloomy melancholy.—Anguish and inquietude generally in the afternoon, mitigated by weep- ing.—Agitation, which drives one from one side to the other.— Dislike to labour and conversation.—Over-excitement and increased gaiety, with singing, dancing and great loqua- city.—Flow of confused ideas. Head.—Emptiness and confusion in the head.—Dizzi- ness.— Vertigo, often to such an extent as to cause loss of con- sciousness, with nausea and pains in the head and eyes.— Cephalalgia with nausea and vertigo.—Excessive heaviness of the head.—Pressive head-ache, especially above the eyes, in the vertex, and temples.—Shootings in the head. —Congestion of blood to the head, with internal heat, and throbbing in the temples.—Mitigation of head-ache in the open air.—Burning sensation and crawling in the exterior of the head.—Trembling of the head. Eyes—Pain in the eyes, as if from weeping too much. —Pressure in the eyes, extending into the bottom of the or- bits.—Sensation, as if there were a hair in the eye.— Smarting in the eyes.—Heat and burning sensation in the eyes, with redness.—Contraction of the eye-lids.—Loss of sight when looking steadily at any thing white.—Confused sight in the evening, as if looking through a veil.—Sparks and black specks before the eyes.—Photophobia. Ears and Nose.—Shootings in the ears, especially in the open air, and when listening to music. —Burning heat and redness of the ears.—Hard, reddish tumour, behind the ear, with shootings.—Burning sensation and crawling in the nose.—Diminished smell, though sensitive to wine.— Frequent sneezing.—Dryness and obstruction of the nose. Vol. I. 51 602 TABACUM. Face.—Deadly paleness of the face (during the nausea). __Burning heat in the face, with redness, sometimes of one cheek only, with paleness of the other.—Red spots on the face.—Tearings in the bones of the face.—Granulated tu- berosities on The cheeks.—Emaciation of the face.—Lips dry, burning, rough, and cracked.—Eruption on the com- missure of The lips.—Lancinations in the maxillary joint when laughing. Teeth—Odontalgia, with drawing and tearing pains.— Lancinations in the carious teeth, when masticating.— Drawing pain in the gums. Mouth and Throat.—Dryness of the mouth and tongue, with violent thirst.—Swelling of the glands under the tongue.—Weak, interrupted speech.—Drawling, monoto- nous style of reading.—Roughness, dryness, and scraping in the throat, as if from a foreign body.—Much viscous mu- cus in the throat. Appetite.—Insipid and clammy, or bitter and sour taste. —Acid taste of all food.—Acidulated taste of water, as if it were mixed with wine.—Adipsia and dread of water.— Absence of hunger and appetite.—Continued hunger, with nausea, if it is not satisfied. Stomach.—Frequent empty and noisy eructations.— Sour, burning eructations.—Pyrosis.—Spasmodic hiccough. —Frequent nausea, especially when moving, often to such an extent as to faint, with deadly paleness of the face, disap- pearing generally in the open air.—Nausea, with desire to vomit, sensation of coldness in the stomach, or pinchings in the abdomen.—Vomiting of water only, with yellow and greenish appearances before the eyes.— Vomiting of acid serum, often mixed with mucus.—The vomiting is renewed from the slightest movement.—Pressure in the stomach.— Squeezing, contractive cramps in the stomach, sometimes after a meal, often accompanied with nausea and an accu- mulation of saliva in the mouth.—Shootings in the scorbicu- lus, passing through the back.—Relaxation and sensation of coldness or burning in the stomach.—*Sea-sickness. Abdominal Region.—Hepatic pain, when pressing on the part.—Pressure in the hepatic region, as if from a heavy body.—Shootings in the hepatic region.—Shootings in the left hypochondrium.—Great sensitiveness of the ab- domen to the slightest touch.—Painful distention of the abdomen.—Pressive pains in the abdomen, especially in the umbilical region, with spasmodic retraction of that part.—Nocturnal tearings in the abdomen.—Pinchings and borborygmus in the abdomen. TABACUM--TANACETUM VULGARE--TARAXACUM. 603 Faeces.—Constipation.—Frequent tenesmus.—Soft fas- ces of the consistence of pap, also at night.—Violent diar- rhea, fetid, or yellowish green, also at night, accompanied and followed by violent tenesmus and burning in the anus. Urine.—Red, yellowish and increased secretion of urine.—Inflammation of the orifice of the urethra. Genital Organs.—Frequent erections.—Flow of pros- tatic fluid.—Retarded and more profuse catamenia.—Leu- corrhoea, like sanguineous water. Larynx.—Dry cough, excited by a tickling in the throat, in the morning and towards evening.—Cough, with hic- cough, almost suffocating. Chest.—Oppression of the chest, with anguish.—Con- striction of the chest.—Pressure in the chest and sternum. —Shootings in the chest and its sides, sometimes when taking an inspiration.—Pain in the chest, as if from excoriation during a meal.—Palpitation of the heart, when lying on the left side.—Itching pimples on the chest. Trunk.—Contractive pains in the loins, especially after evacuation.—Emaciation of the back.—Red, itching erup- tion on the back.—Stiffness of the neck. Arms.—Painful weakness of the hands and arms, which are, as it were, paralyzed.—Continual desire to stretch the arms.—Shootings and drawing in the shoulders.—Red spots on the shoulder, which burn when they are touched. —Tension in the arm, especially in the elbow.—Pain and shootings in the arm, which do not permit one either to use or extend it.—Trembling of the hands.—Cold perspiration on the hands.—Cramps, and crawling in the fingers.— Swelling of the fingers.—Itching pimples on the fingers. Legs.—Burning pain in the knee and soles of the feet. —Shooting in the knee and ham.—Bending of the knees when walking.—Cramp and crawling in the eyes, extend- ing into the toes.—Tension in the leg when walking, ex- tending from the knee to the foot.—Trembling and para- lytic weakness of the feet. 179.—TANACETUM VULGARE. TANAC.—Common tansey.—A medicine as yet very little known. SYMPTOMS.—Uncommon activity with extraordinary movements, extravagant attitudes and gestures, and violent retraction of the feet and legs, without any pain. 180.—TARAXACUM. TAR.—Dandelion.'—Duration of effect: ? Antidote : Camph. Compare with : Con. kal. n-vom. puis. spig. valer. 604 TARAXACUM. CLINICAL REMARKS.—This medicine has been re- commended against gastric affections and a sort of cepha- lalgia.—The homoeopathic physician, by studying the fol- lowing symptoms, will see in what cases he may employ this medicine. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Painful tenderness of all the limbs, especially when touched and in a false position. —Sensation of weakness and uneasiness in the whole body, with continued desire to lie down or to sit.—Almost all the symptoms appear when sitting, or disappear when walk- ing.—Great desire to sleep during the day, with frequent yawnings.—Sleep, with many dreams during the night, and frequent waking and tossing.—Shiverings, with press- ive head-ache.—General heat, especially in the face and hands, without thirst.—General perspiration at night, just when going to sleep.—Irresolution and dislike to labour. —Loquacity and desire to laugh. Head.—Vertigo, with giddiness and staggering, when walking in the open air.—Head-ache, as if from contrac- tion or expansion of the brain.—Heaviness and pressure in the head.—Lancinations in the forehead and temples.— Vio- lent head-ache, perceptible only when standing and walking.— Tension of the hairy scalp. Eyes and Ears.—Pain in the eyes, as if a grain of sand were introduced into the internal canthus.—Burning sen- sation, and burning shootings in the eyes.—Inflammation of the eyes, with lachrymation and photophobia.—Noc- turnal agglutination of the eye-lids.—Shootings in the ears.—Dysecoia in the evening. Face and Teeth.—Purulent pimples on the face, cheeks, wings of the nose, and commissures of the lips.—Sensa- tion of heat and redness in the face.—Shootings and pres- sure in the cheeks.—Upper-lip cracked.—Odontalgia, with drawing pain in the carious teeth, extending as far as the eye-brows.—Pressive pains in the teeth —Flow of acid blood from the carious teeth.—The teeth set on edge. Mouth and Throat.—Accumulation of acid saliva in the mouth.—Tongue loaded with a white coating.—Tongue dry, loaded with a brown coating on waking in the morn- ing.—Sore throat with pressive pain, as if from internal swelling.—Dryness, shootings and bitter mucus in the throat.—Hawking up of acid mucus. Appetite.—Bitter taste in the mouth, with normal taste of food.—Salt or acid taste of food, principally of butter and meat.—Tobacco-smoke is disagreeable, causes pyro- sis, and interrupts respiration.—Great chilliness after drink- ing or eating. TARAXACUM--TARTARUS EMETICUS. 605 Stomach.—Bitter eructations.—Empty eructations, es- pecially after drinking.—Nausea, as if from too fat food, with anxiety and pressive head-ache, mitigated in the open air. Abdominal Region.—Pinching in the abdomen.—Pres- sive shootings in the abdomen and its side, principally in the left.—Rumbling and movement in the abdomen, as if the vessels in it were bursting. FiECEs and Urixe.—Evacuations several times a day, but accomplished with difficulty.—Faeces of the consis- tence of pap, followed by tenesmus.—Voluptuous itching in the perinaeum.—Frequent desire to urinate, with profuse emission. Genital Organs.—Pain in the testes.—Permanent erec- tions—Frequent pollutions. Chest.—Pressure in the chest.—Shootings in the chest and its side.—Jerking in the muscles of the sides. Trunk.—Pressive pains in the loins.—Pressive and ten- sive shootings in the back and loins, when lying down, with obstructed respiration.—Gurgling and swelling in the shoulder-blades, and shoulders, with general shivering.— Pressive jerkings and shootings in the muscles of the neck and nape. Arms.—Pulsative throbbing and jerking in the shoul- ders and arms.—Jerking in the muscles of the arms.— Shootings in the arms and elbows.—Drawings and tearings in the fore-arm and wrist.—Eruption of pimples on the hands and fingers.—Icy coldness in the ends of the fin- gers. Legs.—Shootings in the thighs, knees, calves of the legs, soles of the feet and toes.—Burning sensation in the knees, legs and toes.—Profuse perspiration between the toes. 181.—TARTARUS EMETICUS. TART.—Tartar emetic—Archives of Stapf.—Duration of effect: from 3 to 5 weeks in some cases of chronic disease. Antidotes : Cocc. ipec. puis.—It is used as an antidote against sep. Compare with : Ant. asa. bar-c. cham. cocc. ign. ipec. nitra-ac. n-vom. puis. sep. veratr.—Tartar emetic, when indicated, is particularly effica- cious after: puis, or bar-c.—After tartar emetic: Bar-c. ipec. puis, sep, are sometimes suitable. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Allowing ourselves to be guided by the whole of the symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be used appear to be :—Rheumatic fever; Yarioloides; Gastric and bilious affections; Asphyxia of new-born infants ; Hooping-cough ; Croup, &c, &c. (£?" See note, page 1. 606 TARTARUS EMETICUS. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Arthritic and rheumatic tearings and drawings in the limbs, with sensation as if beaten.—Contraction of the limbs.—Jerking of the mus- cles.—Convulsive jerks and spasms.—Attacks of epilepsy. —Trembling of the limbs.—Shootings in the varices.— Aggravation of the symptoms when sitting down, or else when seated and rising from the seat—General heaviness of all the limbs and great indolence.—Violent pulsations in the whole body.—Great debility, weakness and excessive lassitude.—A child wishes to be carried continually.— Syncope.—Excessive tenderness of the whole body.— When the child is touched it utters piercing cries. Skin.—Itching in the skin.—Itching pimples and miliary eruption.—Eruptions like scabies.—*Eruption of pustules, like varioloides, with red areola, afterwards eovered with a crust and leaving a scar.—Itching round inveterate ulcers. Sleep.—*Great desire to sleep during the day, with fre- quent stretchings and yawnings.—^Invincible drowsiness, with deep and stupifying sleep.—In the morning, sensation as if from not having slept enough.—Retarded sleep and nocturnal sleeplessness.-—Light sleep, with many fantastic dreams.—Much talking during sleep.—Cries during sleep, with fixed eyes and trembling limbs.—-Shocks and blows during sleep, which sometimes cause only one limb to jerk, at other times, the whole body —Lying on the back while sleeping, with the left hand passed under the head. Shivering.—Predominance of shivering and coldness.-— Shiverings, with excessive paleness of the face, and trem- bling of the whole body.—Burning heat of the whole body, principally of the head and face, increased by the least movement.—Pulse quick, weak or full.—Fever, with adip- sia and excessive drowsiness.—Profuse, frequent and some- times cold perspiration.—Perspiration on the parts affected. -^-Profuse nocturnal perspiration. Moral Symptoms.-^—Inquietude and agitation, with pal- pitation of the heart and trembling.—Anxious apprehension respecting the future (in the evening).—Discouragement and despair.—Mania for suioide.—"Wild gaiety (by day only)- Head.—Dulness, confusion, and embarrassment in the head, which is benumbed, as it were, by desire for sleep.— Attacks of vertigo, with sparkling before the eyes and dizziness when walking.—Dulness of all the senses —Head- ache, with palpitation of the heart and vertigo.—Heaviness of the head, especially in the occiput.—Semi-lateral head- TARTARUS EMETICUS. 607 ache.—Pressive pains in the head, with compressive tension as if the brain were contracted into one hard mass, often at- tended with dizziness, and exiending into the root of the nose, sometimes in the evening and at night.—Drawing, tearing and digging in the head.—Lancinating pains in the head, sometimes extending into the eyes, with desire to close them.—Boring in the forehead.—Throbbing in one half of the forehead.—Chronic trembling of the head. Eyes.—Eyes fatigued, wanting sleep, and requiring tobe constantly closed.—Pain, in the eye-ball, as if it were bruised, when touching it.—Pressure on the eyes.—Shoot- ings, burning sensation, and smarting in the internal canthi, with redness of the conjunctivae.—Eyes confused, swim- ming in tears.—Incipient amaurosis.—Confused sight, with sparkling before^ the eyes, especially on rising from a seat. Ears and Nose.—Humming in the ears.— Violent fluent coryza, with frequent sneezing, ulcerated nostrils," shiver- ing, and loss of smell and taste. Face and Teeth.—Face pale and wan, or red and bloat- ed, with anxious expression.—Dull, drawing pressure, in the zygomatic process.—Convulsive jerking of the mus- cles of the face.—Parched, and desquamating lips.— Cracked lips.—Odontalgia, with very violent pain in the morning. Mouth.—Copious accumulation of saliva in the mouth. —Tongue moist, clean, or loaded with a brown coating.— Aphonia. Appetite.—Insipidity of food.—Salt taste in the mouth. —*Bitter taste in the mouth.—Thirst for cold water.— Moderate appetite, with burning thirst.—Strong appetite, with prompt disgust, on partaking of any food.—Bulimy, when walking in the open air.—Excessive desire for acid things, or for raw fruits (apples).—Aversion to all food, especially milk.—Every mouthful produces a painful sen- sation, extending to the stomach. Stomach.—Empty eructations.—Sobbing eructations.— Eructations with taste of rotten eggs, at nifjht.—Regurgita- tion of acrid, or salt, or else sourish fluid.—Regurgitation of milk, after having partaken of it.—*Continued nausea, sometimes, -with desire to vomit, anguish, pressure in the scorbiculus and head-ache, mitigated by expelling flatu- lence, upwards and downwards.— Violent vomiturition, with copious flow of saliva, sweat on the forehead, and lassitude in the legs, or else *with diarrhoea and excessive debility. ■—Much vomiting, with violent efforts, pains in the stomach and abdomen, trembling of the body, necessity for bending 608 TARTARUS EMETICUS. oneself double, shiverings, and great inclination to sleep. — Vomiting of mucus, with mucous diarrhoea.—Sour vomit- ing of food.—*Vomiting of sour and bitter substances, especially at night.—Excessive sensitiveness of the stomach ; the smallest mouthful causes a painful sensation. —Pain in the stomach, as if from its being over-loaded.— Uneasiness and emptiness in the stomach.—Pressure in the stomach and scorbiculus especially after a meal.—Violent throbbings and pulsations in the region of the stomach.— Shootings in the pit of the stomach. Abdominal Region.—Pains in the abdomen, with great moral and physical agitation, and dislike to all kinds of labour.—Uneasiness in the epigastrium and hypogastrium, which obliges one to lie down and to stretch himself.— Fulness and pressure in the abdomen, as if it contained stones, especially when stooping forward while sitting.—Spasmodic colic in the abdomen, with violent contraction of the eye- lids, and invincible inclination to sleep.—Cutting pains in the abdomen, as if the intestines were wounded.—Pulsa- tions in the abdomen.—Abundant production of flatulence, with rumbling, borborygmus, and pinchings in the ab- domen. Fxces.---Constipation, alternating with diarrhoea.— Feces of the consistence of pap —Slimy diarrhea, or yellow, bright brown, or else watery diarrhoea, often preceded by gripings and movements in the abdomen.—Sanguineous feces.—Involuntary evacuations.—During the evacuation, palpitation of the heart.—Violent burning tickling, extend- ing from the rectum into the glans penis.—Lancinations in the rectum. Urine—Genital Organs.—Very profuse and unpleasant emission of urine, with tension in the perinseum, burning sensation in the urethra, and scanty stream, which is san- guineous towards the end, with violent pains in the vesica. —Nocturnal calls to urinate, with burning thirst and scanty emission,—Involuntary emission of urine.-—Red, fiery urine, which formsblood-redfilamentsafter standing-Deep-brown, acrid, turbid urine.—Pressure and tension on the vesica.— Shootings in the urethra and lower part of the vesica.— Catamenia of watery blood.—Eruption of pimples on the genital organs. Larynx—Catarrh with irritation, which excites a cough, copious accumulation of mucus and rattling of mucus in the chest.—Hoarseness.—Painful tenderness of the larynx when touched.—Cough, excited by much tickling in the trachea. —Child coughs, when angry.—Paroxysms of coughing TARTARUS EMETICUS—TARTARI ACIDUM. 609 with suffocating obstruction of respiration (suffocating cough j—Cough, with heat and moisture of the hands, and perspiration on the head, principally on the forehead.— Cough, with vomiting of food, after a meal.—Hollow cough, with rattling of mucus in the chest.—Cough, with expectoration of mucus, sometimes at night only, principally after midnight. Chest.—Frequent fits of obstructed respiration, especially in the evening or in the morning, in bed, so as almost to cause suffocation.—Short breath.—Difficult respiration.— Paraly- sis of the lungs.—Anxious oppression on the chest, with a sensation of heat, which mounts to the heart.—Rattling of mucus in the chest, on taking an inspiration.—Pain in the chest, as if from excoriation, especially on the left side, and at intervals.—Rheumatic pain in the left side of the chest.—Burning sensation in the chest, which mounts into the throat.—Inflammation of the lungs.— Visible and anx- ious palpitation of the heart, sometimes during evacuation. —Whirling digging and blows in the region'of the heart, at night, not ceasing till perspiration begins to be estab- lished.—Miliary eruption on the chest. Trunk.—Pain in the back and loins, when seated, as if from fatigue.—Rheumatic pain in the back.—Weakness of the muscles of the neck, which hinders holding the head up.—Miliary eruption on the nape of the neck. Arms.—Cracking in the shoulder joints, with tearing in the arms and extending into the hands.—Excessive heavi- ness of the arms.—Jerking of the muscles of the arms and hands.—Miliary eruption on the arms.—Itching pimples on the arms and wrists.—Red spots on the hand's like flea bites.—Trembling in the hands.—Coldness of the hands.__ Icy coldness of the points of the fingers.—Finger-ends dead, dry and hard.—Deep yellow spots on the fingers.— Distortion of the fingers. Legs.—Heaviness and rheumatic pains'in the hips and legs—Painful weakness in the knee-joint, in bed in the morning.—Tension of the tendons of the hams and instep when walking.—Cramp in the calf of the leg.—Coldness of the feet.—Numbness of the feet when sitting down. 182.—TARTARI ACIDUM. TAR-AC.—Tartaric acid.—A medicine as yet very little known. SYMPTOMS.—Pain, as if beaten in the whole body, especially in the lower limbs.—Melioration in the open air.—Frequent stretchings and yawnings.—Sensation of coldness in the evening after lying down.—Lips dry and burning, with black or brown margins.—Teeth set on ed^e. 610 TAXUS BACCATA--TEREBINTHINA. —Insipid and clammy taste in the mouth.—Disgust.—Sen- sation of coldness in theabdomen.—Pinchings in the hypo- gastrium, with expulsion of flatus.—Acute tearings in the 6oles of the feet after a meal, which hinder treading. 183.—TAXUS BACCATA. TAX.—Yew.—A medicine as yet very little known. SYMPTOMS.—Head-ache, with burning or compres- sive pain.—Pressure in the temporal bones.—Heat in the forehead.—Coldness in the teeth.—Pinching and burning pressure in the region of the stomach.—Pressure in the epigastrium and troublesome tension as if after too hearty a meal.—Hard, difficult evacuations.—Stitches in the sides of the chest.—Violent, fatiguing cough.—Crawling in the legs and feet.—Profuse perspiration at night. 184.—TEREBINTHINA. TEREB.—Turpentine —Hartlaub and Trinks.—A medicine which is not as yet sufficiently known. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Drawing in the limbs.— Heaviness of the limbs.—Sensation of stiffness in all the muscles, with difficult, slow, stooping gait, as if from old age.—Dropsy.—Cutaneous eruption, like scarlatina.—Le- thargy.—Retarded sleep.—Agitated sleep at night, with toss- ing and frequent waking.—Many dreams.—Nightmare.— Natural heat increased.—Fever with violent thirst.—Pro- fuse perspiration on the legs, in bed in the evening.— Mania.—Easy conception. Head — Teeth.—Dizziness, with nausea.—Attack of vertigo, so as almost to fall down, with cloudiness before the eyes.—Head-ache with pressive pain and desire to sleep. —Excessive heaviness and troublesome and pressive fulness of the head.—Tearing cephalalgia.—Spots and black points before the eyes.—Tinkling in the ears.—Epistaxis.—Dis- charge of serum from the nose, without coryza.—Odontal- gia, with drawing pain.—Gums pressed asunder, easily bleed- ing, with pain, as if from a burning wound, every morning. Stomach.—Diminished appetite.—Aversion to food.— Pressure in the scorbiculus and distention of the abdomen after a meal.—Vomiturition and vomiting of mucus.—Ex- cessive sensitiveness in the region of the stomach to the touch.—Pressure in the stomach and scorbiculus.—Burn- ing sensation in the stomach. Abdominal Region.—Burning sensation and pressure in the hypochondria.—Pressure, burning sensation and draw- ing in the renal region.—Abdomen very sensitive, when TEREBINTHINA—TEUCRIUM MARUM VERUM. 611 touched.—Heaviness, fulness and pressure in the abdomen. —Cuttings in the epigastrium and hypogastrium, often ex- tending into the thighs.—Sensation of excessive coldness in the abdomen, especially in the exterior of the umbilical re- gion, which is drawn back.—Inflammation of the intes- tines.—Noise, gurgling and borborygmus in the abdomen. —Sensation of pressure outwards in the groins as if caused by a hernia.—Painful swelling of the inguinal glands. Fasces.—Constipation with distention of the abdomen. —Tenesmus.—Scanty hard feces.—Dry, brown evacua- tions—Faeces of the consistence of pap, with pinchings in the abdomen and burning sensation in the anus.—Loose, liquid feces of a greenish yellow colour with expulsion of tenia and lumbrici.—Burning sensation and crawling in the anus, during the evacuations and at other times. Urine.—Suppressed secretion of urine.—Diminished se- cretion of urine.—Secretion of urine considerably aug- mented.—Urine smelling strongly of violets.—Thick, slimy, yellowish white sediment in the urine.—Haematuria.— Burning sensation in the urethra, perceptible also when urinating.—Burning sensation, cutting pains and spasmo- dic tenesmus of the vesica. Genital Organs.—Spasmodic and cutting drawings in the testes and spermatic cords.—Catamenia retarded and scanty. Chest—Extremities —Respiration impeded by obstruc- tion of the Jungs.—Drawing pain in the back and loins, es- pecially in the evening, when seated.—Drawing in the nape of the neck, extending to the occiput.—Wrenching pain and drawing in the arms.—Drawing and tearing in the hips and thighs. ~ 185^r"EUCRIUM MARUM VERUmT" TEUCR.—Chamaedrys.-Wall-germander.-Teucrium Chameedris. (Palma.) —Archives of Stapf-—Durationof effect: from 2 to 3 weeks in some cases of chronic disease. Antidote : Camphora. Compare with : Con. ign. magn-arct. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Allowing ourselves to be guided hy the totality of symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be employed, will be found to be:—Polypus in the nose and some affections brought on by ascarides. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Tearing in the limbs, but especially in the joints.—Jerking of the muscles.—Great irritability and nervous excitement, with trembling and diz- ziness.—Staggering and placing of one foot over another when walking.—Numbness and crawling in the limbs.— 612 TEUCRIUM MARUM VERUM. Desire to exercise in the open air.—Itching shootings in different parts. Sleep.—Sleep retarded in the evening.—Unrefreshing sleep and difficulty in waking in the coming.—Agitated sleep at night from excessive excitement, with vivid dreams and frequent starts. Fever.—Shivering and shaking, often with icy coldness of the hands and frequent yawning.—Heat augmented in the evening. Moral Symptoms.—State of irritability and disposition to be angry,.aggravated even by the conversation of others. —Moroseness.—Indolence and great aversion to labour.— Excessive moral excitement and loquacity.—Irresistible de- sire to sing. Head.—Cephalalgia, with dull spasmodic pain.—Pres- sive pains in the head, principally in the eyes, forehead and tem- ples.—Tearing by paroxysms, in the right side of the head. Eyes.—Pain in the eyes with pressure, as if a grain of sand were introduced into them.—Smarting in the eyes, especially in the internal canthi, with redness of the con- junctiva.—Eyes red and inflamed.—Eyes watery, with an appearance as if one had been weeping. Ears.—Otalgia.—Shootings and tearings in the ears.— Whistling in the ears, when speaking or when producing any sound whatever.—Eruption of scaly herpes on the lobes of the ear. Nose.—Sensation of obstruction in the nose.—Crawl- ing in the nose.—Frequent sneezing, with crawling in the nose.—Obstruction of the nose.—Fluent coryza in the open air. Face.—Sickly, pale complexion with hollow eyes— Flushes of heat on the face without redness.__Pressive tearing in the zygomatic process, extending to the teeth. Teeth.—Odontalgia, with tearing pain in the roots of the teeth and the gums.—Pain in the teeth and gums du- ring mastication. Mouth and Throat—Mouth clammy.—Smarting and scraping in the bottom of the gullet and on the root of the tongue.—Sore throat with shooting pain and impeded deg- lutition.—Pressure or drawing and tearing in the throat.— Frequent desire to hawk and hawking up°of mUch mouldy tasting mucus. * Appetite.—Bitter taste in the gullet after dinner.__Ap- petite more decided.—Sensation of hunger, as if the food did not satisfy, hindering sleep—Cuttings or nausea, with desire to vomit, after drinking water. TEUCRIUM MARUM VERUM--THEA CJESAREA. 613 Stomach.—Regurgitation of food with bitter taste.— Troublesome hiccough when eating, with violent blows in the scorbiculus.—Pain in the stomach as if from emptiness with gurgling.—Insipidity in the pit of the stomach.— Pressure and anxious oppression in the scorbiculus. Abdominal Region.—Colic with tearing drawings, under " the hypochondria.—Incarceration of flatulence, with draw- ing, pinching and gurgling in the abdomen.—Pressure in the abdomen.—Pressure towards the inguinal ring.—Ex- pulsion of much flatus of the smell of rotten eggs. F.kces.—Copious, fetid evacuation of the consistence of pap. — Expulsion of ascarides.—Itching and frequent crawlingin the anus, after the evacuations. Urine.—Increased and watery secretion of urine.— Troublesome sensation, as if from excoriation and smart- ing in the upper part of the urethra.—Burning sensation during and after the emission of urine.—Diminished sexu- al desire. Chest.—Chest loaded, with sensation of dryness in the trachea.—Dry cough, excited by a tickling in the trachea, as if dust had been inspired.—Squeezing pressure in the lower part of the chest with anxious uneasiness. Extremities.—Rheumatic drawing and tension in the back.—Painful heaviness in the arms and fore-arms.— Jerking of the muscles of the arms.—Drawing tearing in the bones and joints of the arms, hands and fingers.—Painful pulsations and drawing in the index finger.—Jerking of the muscles in the legs.—Tearings in the joints and bones of the legs, feet and toes.—Pain in the great toe, as if the nail were entering the flesh. 186.—THEA C^ESAREA. THE.—Tea of China—A medicine as yet very little known. SYMPTOMS.—Sensation of great general fatigue.—Fear of movement and desire to lie down.—Sleeplessness.—Peev- ishness, with aversion to every thing and to the least fatigue. —Dislike to conversation.—Vertigo with dizziness when walking in the open air.—Heaviness and confusion of the forehead, principally when walking.—Fetid breath on wa- king in the morning.—Sensation of hunger, with copious accumulation of watery saliva in the mouth.—When eat- ing, speedy satiety, with troublesome sensation of dry- ness in the mouth.—Dislike to all food.—Nausea and insi- pidity, with great relaxation of the stomach, which hangs down like an empty purse.—Pressure and gurgling in the region of the stomach. Vol. I. 52 614 THERIDION CURASSAVICUM. 187.—THERIDION CURASSAVICUM. THER—Theridion of Curacoa.—Hehing.—Duration of effect: ? Antidote : ? , . ,. Cjmpare with : Calc. lyc, medicines, after which theridion, when indi- cated, is particularly ' fnoacious. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Allowing ourselves to be guided by the totality of symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be used appear to be :—Seasickness ; Gastric affectious, &c, &c. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Greatgeneral weakness, with trembling of the limbs.—Excessive uneasiness, which hin- ders the accomplishment of any labour.—Great desire to sleep, and sleep full of dreams.—Deep sleep at night.—Vio- lent shivering, with heaviness in all the limbs.—Desire to sleep and inclination to lie down after breakfast.—Discou- ragement and want of self-confidence.—Great propensity to be frightened.—The time passess too rapidly.—Excessive fear of exertion.—Difficulty of thinking and especially in drawing comparisons. Head.—Confusion in the head, which hinders exertion. —Frequent vertigo, especially when stooping.— Vertigo, with nausea, so as almost to vomit.—Head-ache deep-seated in the orbits.—Sensation, as if there were a foreign body in the head.—Violent frontal cephalalgia, with pulsation ex- tending into the occiput.—Head-ache from every movement that one makes.—Tensive pressure round the head, as if from an iron hoop, from the root of the nose, round and above the ears.—Head-ache in the evening, with great dejection. Eyes-—Face—Frequent paroxysms of sparkling before the eyes.—Humming in the ears.—Roaring in the ears as if from a water-fall.—Great acuteness of hearing, vertigo and nausea on hearing any loud sound.—Violent itching behind the ears.—Frequent sneezing and flow of water fiom the nose, without coryza.—Lower jaw sometimes immovable, especially on waking in the morning. Mouth—Abdominal Region.—Mouth clammy, and as if burnt.—All sounds and coldness produce a painful sensation across the teeth.—Desire for acid things, wine, brandy and tobacco.—Continued desire for food and drink, without knowing which.—Nausea and vomiting, at night, preceded by vertigo, and renewed by the slightest movements or by shut- ting the eyes.—Nausea excited by all loud sounds. Faeces—Genital Organs.—Constipation.—Scanty evac- uations of the consistence of pap, with urging.—Prolapsus ani, painful when seated.—Increased secretion of urine.— Immoderate excitement of sexual desire.—Contraction of the scrotum. THUJA OCCIDENTALS. 615 Chest and Trunk.—Violent lancinations in the upper part of the chest.—Want to take a deep inspiration and to sigh.—Itching and nodosities on the buttocks. ni8^^HUJA~bcCIDENTALIsr~ THUI.—The tree of life.— Hahnemann.— Duration of effect: for 3 weeks in chronic affections. Antidotes : Camph. puis. 1 It is used as an antidote against: Thea. and mere. Compare with ; A-a. bry. cann. chin. cic. f'-r. led. lyc. mang. mere, nitr-ac. phos-ac. puis, sabin. selen. staph. Thuja, when otherwise indicated, is particularly efficacious after nitr-ac. After thuja, Nitr-ac. puis, staph. are sometimes suitable. CLINICAL REMARKS.—Allowing ourselves to be guided by the whole of the symptoms, the cases in which this medicine may be employed will be found to be : Rheumatic and arthritic affections ; Syphilitic herpes and obstinate chancres ; Sycotic affections (Condylomata) ; Warts ; In- termittent fevers ; Ozoena 11; Prosopalgia ; Ranula ; Co- lic, from obstruction of the intestines ; Gonorrhoea ; Can- cer uteri 1; Warts on the hands, in onanists; &c, &c. ft^T" See note, page 1. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Shootings in the limbs and joints.—Cracking in the joints on stretching the part.— Swelling of the veins of the skin.—*Jerking of some limbs and of some muscles.—*Tearing and pulsative pains, as if the parts affected were ulcerated.—Inflammatory swelling with redness.—Sufferings, after being over-heated, drinking tea, or eating fat meat, or onions.—Trembling of certain limbs. -Easy numbness of the limbs, especially at night, on waking.—The symptoms are generally aggravated in the afternoon, or in the night, towards three o'clock in the morning; they hinder sleep in the evening.—*Many symp- toms are aggravated during repose and by the heat, espe- cially by that of the bed ; they are mitigated by move- ment, cold and perspiration.—Many of the symptoms seem to manifest themselves, principally on the left side.—Stiff- ness and general heaviness over the whole body, especial- ly in the shoulders and thighs.—Physical weakness, with full mental powers.—Frequent jerking of the upper part of the body.—Violent ebullition of blood in the evening, with pulsation in all the arteries, aggravated by movement, mit- igated by sitting.—Fear of movement. Skin.—Painful sensitiveness of the skin.—Itching shoot- ings in the skin, especially in the evening and at night.— Purulent pimples, like variola.—Condylomata.—Furunculi. __Chilblains.—Brown or red marbled spots on the skin.— The majority of cutaneous sufferings are mitigated by touch. 616 THUJA OCTIDENTALIS. Sleep.—Great desire to sleep in the evening.—*Sleep retarded, in consequence of agitation and dry heat.—Noc- turnal sleeplessness, with agitation and coldness of the body.— Unrefreshing nocturnal sleep.—*Troublesome, anx- ious dreams, of dangers and death, or else with starts and cries, especially when lying on the left side soon after fall- ing asleep.—Lascivious dreams, without emission of semen, with painful erections on waking. Fever.—Shivering, with yawning, after midnight.— Shivering, every morning without thirst.—Shivering and shaking, with internal and external coldness (and thirst) followed immediately by perspiration.—Shivering every evening (at six o'clock), with external heat, dryness of the mouth and thirst.—Heat in the evening, in the face especially. —Perspiration at the commencement of sleep. Moral Symptoms.—* Mental dejection.—Anxious appre- hensions respecting the future.—Agitation, which renders every thing troublesome and repugnant.—The least trifle produces deep thoughtfulness.—Aversion to life.—Morose- ness and peevishness.—Slowness of speech and of reflection ; one searches for words in conversation.—Incapacity for re- flection. Head.—The head feels empty, as in intoxication*, espe- cially in the morning, with nausea.—Weakness and confu- sion of the head, as if from torpor, or paralysis of the brain. —Vertigo, as if one were in a swing.— Vertigo, when rising from a seat and when lying down, or else when looking into the air.—Head-ache in the morning, as if from stooping or too profound sleep, with redness of the face.—Dull, stupi- fying cephalalgia.—Cephalalgia, aggravated by stooping, mitigated by bending the head backwards.—Heaviness of the head, in the occiput, especially in the morning on waking, with ill-humour and dislike to conversation.—Cephalalgia, as if the forehead would split, with internal shivering, miti- gated by walking in the open air.—Pressive head-ache, with shocks in the forehead and temples.—Compressive head- ache, especially in the temples.—Pain in the head as if a nail were driven into the vertex.—Semi-lateral tearing in the sinciput and face, extending into the zygomatic process, principally morning and evening.—Tearing jerking in the occiput.—Lancinations across the brain.—Congestion of blood to the head.—Pulsation in the temples.—Excessively painful tenderness of the left side of the head, and also of the hair, at night, when lying down and when touched.—Pres- sive drawing in the muscles of the temples, especially when chewing.—Shootings in the temples.—Swelling of the THUJA OCCIDENTALS. 617 veins of the temples.—Itching and gnawing in the hairy scalp. Eyes.—Pressure in the eyes, and smarting, as if a grain of sand were introduced into them.—Tearing in the eye- brows.—Shootings in the eyes, in a bright light, or in the sharp air.—Burning sensation in the eyes.—Sclerotica, in- flamed and red like blood.—Inflammatory swelling of the eye- lids, with hardness.—Red and painful nodosities on the margins of the eye-lids.—Purulent and itching pimples between the eye-brows.—°Condylomatu in the eye-brows.— Sensation of heat and dryness in the external canthi.— Lachrymation, especially in the left eye, when walking in the open air.—Nocturnal agglutination of the eye-lids.— Clouded sight, when reading, with sleepy sensation.—Sight confused, as if looking through a veil.—Myopia.—Black specks, dancing before the eyes. Ears.—Otalgia, with squeezing compression and violent shootings, especially in the evening.—Spasmodic pain in the external ear.—Hammering and tearing in the ear, in the evening, in bed, with frequent emission of urine end cold- ness of the legs and feet.—Pressive pain behind the ears. Nose.—Swelling in the wings of the nose, with hard- ness and tension.—Drawing tension in the bones of the nose.—*Painful scabs in the nose.—Blowing of blood from the nose.—Frequent epfstaxis, especially after being over- heated.—Dry coryza, which becomes fluent in the open air, with continued head-ache.-—Fluent coryza, with cough and hoarseness.—Greenish and fetid discharge from the nose. Face.—Heat in the face, sometimes only transient, or else with burning redness.—Perspiration on the face.— Scabious, itching eruption on the face.—Red and painful nodosities on the temples—Boring and digging pain in the face and cheek-bones, mitigated by touch.—Jerking of the lips.—Eruption of pimples on the lips and chin.—Shootings in the lower jaw, extending through the ear, outwards.— Swelling of the sub-maxillary glands.—Prosopalgia 1 Teeth.—Odontalgia after drinking tea, with pressive pain, extending into the jaw.—Odontalgia with acute drawings, especially during mastication.—Gnawing in the (carious) teeth, with painful sensitiveness of the whole side of the head, greatly aggravated by contact with cold things or by mastication.—Gums swollen with pain, as if from excoriation. Mouth-—Aphtha in the mouth.—Excessive swelling of the salivary glands, with increase of saliva in the mouth. 52* 618 THUJA OCCIDENTALIS. —Sanguineous, or bitter saliva.—Pain, as if from excoria- tion on the end of the tongue, when touched.—Swelling of tongue, painful when touched.—°Ranula, on both sides of the tongue, transparent, bluish red, gray, and, as it were, gelatinous.—Slow speech. Throat.—Roughness and scraping in the throat.— Pressure and pain, as if from excoriation in the throat and palate, during deglutition.—Want to swallow.—Shootings from the gullet to the ears.—Swelling of the amygdala? and throat.—-TJlcers of the throat and mouth, like chancres. —Hawking up of mucus of a red colour like blood. Appetite.—Insipid and sweetish taste in the mouth, in the evening and after a meal.—Bread has a bitter taste.— Food never seems sufficiently salt.—Thirst only at night and in the morning.—Desire for cold drinks and food.— Speedy satiety, when eating.—Inconveniences after eating fat food or onions.—After a meal, great indolence, or de- jection, with anguish, and palpitation of the heart, or great inflation and sufferings from flatulence. Stomach.—Eructations of food, after a meal.—Bitter or putrid eructations.—Rancid eructations, especially after eating fat food.—Nausea and uneasiness in the region of the stomach.—Vomiting of acid serum and of food.— Cramp in the stomach, with excessive aggravation towards the evening.—Pressure in the scorbiculus after a meal, with pain when touched.—Throbbing in the scorbiculus. —Anguish in the scorbiculus, which mounts into the head. Abdominal Region.—Painful pressure in the hepatic region.—Pressure in the region of the loins.—Inflation of the abdomen, often with contractive and spasmodic pains.— Constrictive tension in the abdomen.—Pressive pains in abdomen, especially towards the side (before evacuation).— Sensation, as if something alive were in the hypogastrium. — Pain in the abdomen, as if from obstruction of the intes- tines.-—Rumbling and borborygmus in the abdomen.—De- pressing pain in the groins.—Drawing in the groins, when walking and standing, with shootings along the thighs when sitting.—* Painful swelling of the inguinal glands, some- times with drawing, as far as the knee. Faeces.—*Constipation which continues several days, sometimes after pollutions.—*Tenesmus, "with rigidity of the penis.—^Difficult evacuation, of hard, large feces, cov- ered with blood.—Discharge of blood, during the evacua- tion.—Painful contraction of the anus, during the evacua- tion.—Burning sensation in the anus and between the but- THUJA OCCIDENTALS. 619 tocks.—'Condylomata about the anus.—Tearings along the rectum. Urine.—Frequent desire to urinate, with profuse emission of watery urine, also at night.—Cloudy sediment in the urine.—Sanguineous urine.—Prolonged trickling of urine, after having urinated.—Sensation, as if a drop were flowing into the urethra, after the emission of urine and at other times.—Burning sensation in the urethra, especially in the morning and during the day, and also after and during the emission of urine.—Shootings in the urethra, during the emission of urine and at other times.—Smarting in the sexual parts of the females, during the emission of urine. —Itching in the urethra.—^Yellowish discharge from the urethra, with chordee. Gemtal Organs.—Profuse perspiration on the genital organs, especially the scrotum.—Pseudo-gonorrhea (gonor- rhoea with condylomata).—*Condylomata on the glans and prepuce, moist, itching, and suppurating, especially while the moon is increasing.—*Ulcers, like chancres in the prepuce.—Swelling of the prepuce.—Swelling of the pre- puce.—Shootings in the scrotum, penis, and along the sper- matic cord, as far as the navel.—Drawing in the testes, with retraction of (the left) one of them.—*Continued painful erections, especially night and morning, with lanci- nations in the urethra.—Pollutions, with sensation of stric- ture in the urethra.—Flow of prostatic fluid.—Profuse and watery discharge from the penis.—Itching and burning smarting, as if from excoriation in the genital organs.— Pressure on the genital organs.—Contractive and spas- modic pain in the genital organs, extending to the hypo- gastrium.—Swelling and excoriation of the labia.— Warts on the orifice of the uterus, with shootings and burning sensa- tion when urinating.—Catamenia too scanty.—Leucorrhoea. Larynx.—Hoarseness, as if from contraction of the la- rynx.—Shootings and crawling in the trachea.—Cough in the morning, excited by a tickling in the trachea.— Cough, excited by a choking sensation.—Expectoration of small gray, yellow or green lumps when coughing.—Cough, uith expectoration of yellow mucus, and pains in the scorbiculus in the afternoon. Chest.—Obstructed respiration, with violent thirst for water and great anxiety.—Dyspnaea, with want to take a deep inspiration.—Oppression, at one time in the left side of the chest, at another time in the left hypochondrium, with irritation which excites a cough.—Pain in the chest, as if from internal adhesion- -Pressure in the chest, some- 620 THUJA OCCIDENTALIS. times after a meal.—Agitation and sensation of swell- ing in the chest.—Lancination in the chest, especially after drinking any thing cold.—Ebullition of blood in the chest, and violent and audible palpitation of the heart, espe- cially when going up stairs.—*Palpitation of the heart, with nausea.—Painful sensitiveness in the region of the heart. —Blue colour of the skin round the clavicule. Trunk.—Pain, as if beaten, and stiffness in the loins, back, and nape of the neck, especially in the morning, after rising.—Drawing in the back and loins, when seated.— Boring in the back.—Pulsation in the spine.—Furunculi on the back.—Uneasiness in the nape of the neck, neck, and chest.—Tension in the skin of the nape of the neck when moving the head.—Swelling of the glands of the neck.— Swelling of the veins of the neck.—Profuse perspiration un- der the axillae.—Brown spots under the arms, like mother marks. Arms.—Throbbing in the shoulder-joint.—'Pain, as if from ulceration, tearing and throbbing, from the shoulder to the ends of the fingers.—Wrenching pain in the shoulder and arm, with cracking.—Digging drawing in the arms, as if in the bones and periosteum.—Involuntary jerking of the arms by day.—Sensation of coldness in the arms at night.— Lancinations in the arms and joints.—Cracking tn the elbow- joint, when stretching the arms.—Red, marbled spots on the fore-arm.—Trembling of the hands and arms, when writing.—Sensation of dryness in the skin of the hands.— Perspiration on the hands.—Swollen veins in the hands.— ° Warts on the hands.—Coldness, torpor and paleness in the fingers and ends of the fingers, extending sometimes to the fore-arms.—Crawling and shootings in the ends of the fin- gers.—Red and painful swelling in the ends of the fingers. —*The pains in the arms are aggravated by allowing them to hang, or by heat; they are mitigated by movement, coldness, and after perspiration. Legs.—Drawing in the legs.—Shootings in the legs and joints.—Great weakness and lassitudein the legs, especially when going up stairs.—Heaviness and stiffness of the legs when walking.—Profuse perspiration on the thighs and genital organs.—Itching on the thighs.—Eruption of pim- ples on the buttocks, thighs and knees.—Ulcers on the thighs.—Cracking in the joints of the knees and feet, when stretching them.—Suppurating pustules on the knees.— White nodosities, with violent itching in the toes.—In- flammatory and red swelling in the ends of the toes, or instep, with pain and tension when treading and during movement. TONGO. 621 —Red, marbled spots on the instep.—Perspiration on the feet, principally on the toes.—Chilblains on the toes. 189.—TONGO. TONG.—Tonkin bean—Hartlaub and Thinks.—A medicine as yet very little known. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Tearings in the limbs, mitigated by external pressure and movement.—The ma- jority of the symptoms manifest themselves when seated and during repose.—Vinegar dissipates many of the pains. —Peevishness and ill-humour.—Dislike to labour and con- versation. Head.—Head bewildered, especially in the occiput, with drowsiness.—Heaviness of the head, especially on ri- sing up after stooping*.—Drawing head-ache.—Pressure, tearings and shootings in the head, especially on coming into a room, with tearings in one side of the face and ill-hu- mour.—Shootings in the head, when laughing.—Pulsative head-ache, especially on the left side.—The head-aches dis- appear after taking vinegar.—Excessive sensitiveness of the exterior of the head. Eyes—Teeth.—Bumin'g sensation and dryness of the eyes, when reading in the evening.—Drawing, tension and qu'vering in the eye-lids.—Tearing in the ears.—Coryza, with obstruction of the nose.—Pale complexion with red cheeks.—Tearing in the maxilla;.—Tearing on one side of the face only.—Odontalgia with tearing pain, especially in the molares, aggravated by pressing upon them, disappear- ing after the use of vinegar.—Acid blood from the teeth and gums. Mouth—Genital Organs.—Copious accumulation of water in the mouth.—Roughness and scraping in the throat. —Eructations with taste of bitter almonds.—Burning sen- sation and cuttings in the hypochondria, as if externally. —Movements and pinchings in the abdomen.—Tenesmus. —Hard faeces, evacuated with an effort.—Diarrhoea, follow- ed by excessive sensibility of the abdomen.—Scanty urine with white sediment.—Urine of the colour of white wine, with much slimy sediment.—Red urine with abundant clay- coloured sediment.—Catamenia too early.—Leucorrhoea, when walking.—Discharge of thick mucus *from the vagi- na (when making an effort to evacuate). Chest.—Hoarseness, with burning sensation in the'Jar- ynx.—Shootings and burning sensation under the sides of the chest.—Pains in the loins, with excessive sensitiveness when touched. 622 URTICA URENS--UVA URSI--VALERIANA OFFICINALIS. 190.—URTICA URENS. URT.—Stinging nettle. —A medicine as yet entirely unknown, but which has been employed against burns, some cases ol dysentery and of nettle- rash._______________ ._____ 191.—UVA URSI. UVA.—Bear's berry.—A medicine almost entirely unknown, but which has been employed against urinary calculus. SYMPTOMS.—Painful emission of urine, with burning sensation. — Slimy urine like pus.—Hematuria. 192.—VALERIANA OFFICINALIS^" VALER.—Valerian.—Archives of Stapf—Duration of effect: from 3 to 10 days in some cases. Antidotes : Camph. coff. Compare with : Arn. bill. cham. cocc. coff. con. ign. mere, n-vom. plat. puis stann. • CLINICAL REMARKS.—This medicine has been em- ployed against some cases of Intermittent fever and also against Cephalalgia and colic in hysterical persons. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Rheumatic tearing in the limbs, generally not in the joints, principally during re- pose, after movement and mostly mitigated by movement, or transformed by walking into other sensations and trans- ferred to other parts.—Jerking and shaking pains, appear- ing suddenly and by fits.—Pains, which manifest themselves after a long rest in any position, and are mitigated by changing it.—Drawing and jerking in the limbs, as if in the bones.—Pain, as if from paralysis in the limbs, towards the end of a walk.—Periodical sufferings which appear again after two or three months.—Epileptic fits.—Para- lytic torpor of the limbs.—The majority of the symptoms manifest themselves in the evening and after dinner.— General morbid excitement and irritability with lassitude in the limbs, great gaiety and appearance of vigour.—Pain, as if from fatigue, especially in the lower extremities, after rising in the morning.—Eruption of small nodosities, at first red and confluent, then white and hard. Sleep.—Sleeplessness.—Disturbed sleep, with tossing and anxious and confused dreams. Fever.—Fever with continued heat, after a short fit of shivering, accompanied by confusion in the head and thirst. —Accelerated pulse.—Frequent perspiration, especially on the face and forehead (often appearing and dispersing speedily). Moral Symptoms.—Anxious hypochondriacal sensation, as if all around were desolate, disagreeable or strange.— Joyous, tremulous excitement.—Fear in the evening.r-De- VALERIANA OFFICINALIS. 623 spair.—The most opposite moral symptoms appear alternately. —Excessive instability of ideas.—General illusions and errors of the mind. Head.—Head confused as after intoxication.—Intoxica- tion and dizziness, with absence of ideas.—Whirling in the head, when stooping forwards.—Cephalalgia which appears suddenly or by fits.—Pressive cephalalgia or with pressive shootings especially in the forehead, towards the orbits, often alternating with confusion and dizziness in the head.— Drawing pain on one side of the head, from a current of a>r-—Stupifying confraction in the head, as if from a vio- lent blow on the vertex.—Sensation of icy coldness in the upper part of the head, from the pressure of the hat. Eyes.—Eyes down-cast as if from a nocturnal debauch, especially after a meal.—Pressure, burning sensation and smarting in the eyes.—Redness and pain, as if from excoriation in the margin of the eye-lids.—Swelling and painful sensibil- ity of the eye-lids.—Myopia.—Brightness and light before the eyes in the darkness, so that objects become almost distinguishable.—Sparks before the eyes. Ears—Teeth.—Otalgia, with spasmodic drawings.— Jerking in the ears.—Tinkling and ringing of bells in the ears.—Pain in the face with spasmodic drawing in the zygomatic process.—Redness and heat of the cheeks in the open air.—White blisters on the tongue and upper lip, painful when touched.—Odontalgia with shooting pain. Appetite.—Taste in the mouth (and smell before the nose) as if from fetid tallow.—Bitter taste on the tip of the tongue, when passing it over the lips, after a meal.—Insipid and slimy taste in the mouth after waking in the morning. ■—Bulimy with nausea. Stomach.—Eructations with the taste of rotten eggs, on waking in the morning.—Frequent, empty, or rancid and burning eructations.—Nausea, with desire to vomit, and a sensation as if there were a thread extending from the gul- let to the abdomen with copious accumulation of saliva.— Nausea and syncope, with white lips and cold body.— Vomiting of bile and mucus with violent shiverino- and shaking.—Nocturnal vomiting.—Weak stomach and diges- tion.—Pressure in the scorbiculus appearing suddenly and dispersing speedily, with a gurgling in the abdomen. Abdominal Region.—Pains in the hepatic region and epigastrium, when touched.— Painful shocks in the right hypochondrium.—Lancinations in the region of the loins when sitting.—Abdomen inflated and hard.—Violent sensa- tion of expansion in the abdomen, as if it were about to 624 VALERIANA OFFICINALIS--VERATRUM ALBUM. burst.—Tendency to retract the abdomen.—Spasms in the abdomen, generally in the evening in bed, or after dinner, al- lowing no mitigation in any position whatever.—Hemorr- hoidal colic.—Gripings and painful pinchings in the abdo- men, when retracting it.—Pains in the left side of the abdo- men, in the evening, as if from subcutaneous ulceration.— Drawing, pressure and pains as if from a bruise in the hypo- gastrium, groins and abdominal muscles, as if caused by a chill or strain.—Digging pains in the abdomen. Faeces—Urine.—Loose evacuations.—Greenish fa-ces of the consistence of pap mixed with blood.—Painful burn- ings in the rectum.—Discharge of blood from the anus.— Ascarides from the rectum.—Profuse and frequent emission of urine. Chest.—Obstructed respiration and anguish in the chest.—Oppressed respiration with pressure on the lower part of the chest.—Lancinations in the chest sometimes on the leftside (in the region of the heart), when taking an in- spiration.—Eruption of small, hard, nodosities on the chest. Trunk.—Drawing pains in the loins and back.—Painin the region of the loins, as if from a chill or the effects of a strain.—Rheumatic pains in the shoulder-blades. Arms.—Spasmodic drawings and jerkings, or else tear- ing in the arms.—Paralytic pain in the shoulder and elbow joints towards the end of a walk.—Eruption of small, hard, nodosities on the arms.—Trembling of the hands when writing.—Painful shocks across the hand. Legs.—Burning pain in the hips when in bed in the eve- ning.—Spasmodic drawing and jerking in the thighs.— Great heaviness and lassitude in the legs, but especially in the calves of the legs.—Pain, as if beaten in the thighs and tibia.—Paraiytic pain in the knees towards the end of a walk.—Tensive pains in the calves of the legs.—Tear- ings in the calves of the legs, especially when crossing the legs.—Drawing in the joints of the feet when sitting down.—Wrenching pain in the joints of the foot and ankles.—Pains and shootings in the heels, especially when seated.—Tearing in the soles of the feet and the toes. 193.—VERATRUM ALBUM. VERAT.—White hellebore.—Hahnemann.—Duration of effect: from 2 to 3 wet. Vitus1 dance. 200.—ZINGIBER. ZING.—Ginger-—Abchives of Stapf.—A medicine as yet very little known. SYMPTOMS.—Drawing and pressive pains in the head, especially in the sinciput.—Pressure in the eyes as if from sand.—Obstruction of the nose, with great dryness of the nose and the nasal fossae.—Insupportable, itching crawling in the nostrils.—Painful sensitiveness of the teeth with pressive drawing pain in the roots.—Bread causes pains in the stomach and head.—Contractive pains in the abdomen, with desire'to evacuate.—Cough, excited by a burning smartiflgMfl the larynx and sometimes with expectoration of thick mucus.—Pain in the loins, as if they were bruised. —Burning and pricking, crawling in the feet.—Rheumatic drawing in the back of the hands.—Heat in the palms of the hands and face.—Soreness of the heels, after standing long. i — ----------------- 201.—MAGNES ARTIFICIALIS. M. G. S.—Artificial magnet.—Hahnemann.— Method of using it:—The patient touches the north or south pole for one minute with the end of one finger. Duration of effect; from 10 to 14 days in some cases of chronic diseases. Antidotes : Ign. zinc, and the opposite pole. A.—MAGNETIS POLI AMBO. M. G. S. Both poles of the magnet without distinction. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Burning sensation in the limbs, and joints.—Burning lancinations in the fleshy parts. —Wrenching pain in the limbs.—Pains, as if beaten in the joints, especially in the evening and morning when in bed, and principally when moving.—Burning lancinations across all parts of the body, in different directions.—Shuddering, which traverses the whole body.—Shaking in the body, magnetis poli ambo. 643 with fright, or shocks, which causes it to bend and to rise again with violence, sometimes with loss of consciousness. —Tendency of all Old wounds to bleed afresh.—Painful ul- cers, as if from new wounds.—Small furunculi.—Small pustules, with lancinating, drawing pain. Sleep.—Disturbed sleep, with talking, snoring and con- tinued tossing.—Waking at three o'clock in the morning ; one falls into a drowsy lethargy towards sunrise.—One lies on the back, with the hand under the head, the legs wide apart, and the mouth half open, with snoring respiration.— Amorous, lascivious dreams.—Jerking of the body, before going to sleep.—After waking in the morning, head-ache, with pain as if beaten in all the joints, whieh forces one to change the position of the limbs continually.—Dry heat, with desire to be uncovered, at night, and in the morning in bed. Moral Symptoms.—Busy precipitation.—Distraction.— Irresolution.—Inadvertence.---Propensity to anger and rage. Head.—Vertigo, especially in the evening after lying down, as if about to fall, or as from concussion in the head. —Vertigo, with staggering when walking ; objects seem to undulate before the eyes.—Head-ache from tension of memory and reflection.—Pain in the head, as if bruised, on waking in the morning.—Digging, stupifying head-ache, which is immediately dispersed after discharge of flatulen- cy.—Cephalalgia, as if a nail were driven in, or as if from a wound, especially after being angry.—Jerking tearing in the head, appearing at intervals.—Buzzing in the head. Eyes—Nose.—Itching in the eyes, especially in the eye- lids.—Pupils dilated.—Scintillation of white light, beyond the visual range, in the twilight.—Sparks before the eyes. —Humming in the ears.—Diminished hearing.—Aberra- tion of smell; a smoky or mouldy scent is perceived. Face.—Perspiration on the face, without heat, in the morning.—Jerking tearing in the upper-jaw.—Violent burning lancination in the muscles of the face in the eve- ning.—Swelling of the lips, with salivation in the evening. —Small pimples, with pain, like that of a wound, on the lips. Teeth.—Odontalgia, after drinking any thing cold, or from contact with cold air.—Pressive, jerking odontalgia, by isolated shocks.—Odontalgia in the carious teeth, with swelling of the gums. Appetite.—Fetid breath.—Metallic taste in the mouth. —Tobacco and beer are insipid.—Many things have a 644 magnetis poli ambo—magnetis polus arcticus. mouldy taste.—Speedy satiety.—Decided hunger in the evening. Stomach.—Abortive eructations.---Eructations with smell and taste of the scrapings of horn.—Sour regurgita- tion, when stooping.—Pressure in the stomach, with cramps towards the upper parts, agitation, which allows no rest whatever, heaviness of the tongue, paleness of the face and coldness of the body. Abdominal Region.—Pressure and anxious fulness in the abdomen, especially during mental exertion.—Noisy rumbling and borborygmus in the abdomen.—Production of much flatulence.—Flatulent colic.—Expulsion of flatu- lence with painful pressure. Faeces.—Constipation, as from contraction of the rec- tum.—Painless diarrhoea, with flatulence.—Haemorrhoidal, smarting pain in the anus, after the evacuation, with constric- tion in the rectum.—Haemorrhoides coecae.—*Prolapsus recti. Genital Organs.—Burning sensation in the region of the spermatic vesicles, which excites to coition.—Want of intense sexual desire and aversion to coition.—Erection, with amorous thoughts.—Retraction of the prepuce be- hind the glans.—Swelling of the epididymis, with pain when moving and when touched.—Catamenia too early, too profuse and of too long duration. Chest.—Paroxysms of dry cough at night.—Spasmodic cough, especially after midnight when awake or reflecting. —Nocturnal dyspnaea, excited by mucus in the trachea, which is easily detached in the morning.—Burning, insup- portable lancinations in the muscles of the chest. Trunk and Extremities.—Jerking in the spine, as if from something alive.—Painful sensibility of the joint of the sacrum, in the morning in bed, when lying on the side, or by day, when stooping.—Wrenching pain in the joint of the shoulder, or like the jerking of a tendon in the wrist. —Drawing pains in the joints and muscles of the arms, often from the head into the fingers.—Tearing jerking in the muscles of the arms, after remaining some time in the cold.—Red spots in the palms of the hands, like vesicles.— Attacks of cramp in the calves of the legs and toes, after waking in the morning.—Burning lancinations in the heels and in the corns on the feet. B.—MAGNETIS POLUS ARCTICUS. M. G. S.—A. R. C—North pole of the magnet. Antidotes : Mgs-aus. ign. zinc. MAGNETIS POLUS ARCTICfJS. 645 CLINICAL REMARKS.—This remedy has hitherto been employed against: Nervous excitement; Nervous odontalgia ; and precursors of inguinal hernia. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Great lassitude and pain, as if from fatigue in the whole body, with dejection, espe- cially in the morning and in the open air, as when the weather is sultry.—Drawing sensation in the periosteum of all the bones, as at the commencement of intermittent fever.—Digging lancinations, which are more painful the deeper they are, in different parts of the body.—Lancina- ting shocks, throbbing, trembling, coldness, and sensation as if the blood were carried towards the parts touched by the magnet.—* Over-excitement, with trembling, uneasy rest- lessness in the limbs and great nervous weakness.—Crawling and lancinating itching in the skin.—Burning sensation or burning tearing in the herpes.—Panaritium. Sleep.—Violent spasmodic yawnings, with pain in the maxillary joint, as if it were about to be dislocated.— *Great desire to sleep by day.—Coma.—Profound sleep at night, during which one generally lies on the back.—Many vivid dreams (sometimes lascivious) and singing during sleep.—Waking in the evening, after going to sleep, from a violent shock in the head and muscles of the neck.— Tossing during sleep, with troublesome heat, and desire to be uncovered, without thirst.—Imperfect waking in the morning, with full self-consciousness, vivid memory, great flow of ideas, and reflections on some important subject. Fever.—Sensation of coldness, or of coolness over the whole body.— Chilliness.—Cool hands, with cool perspira- tion on these parts and over the whole body.—Shuddering, followed by transient heat and swelling in the veins of the hands.—Sensation of heat over the whole body, with the hands and legs cold. Moral Symptoms.—Peevishness and inclination to weep, with shivering.—.Mildness, submission.—Indolence when seated, as if the power of moving were lost.—Irreso- lution, followed by prompt execution, after a resolution has been once formed.—Speaking loud while quite alone, and engaged in occupation.—Fickleness.—Anxious hesita- tion and restlessness.—Loss of sense.—Loss of ideas.— Weakness of memory.—Tendency to make mistakes when writing. Head.—Vertigo, as from intoxication, with staggering, when walking in the open air, and want of stability when standing.—Semi-lateral drawing with vertigo passing from the middle of the head towards the ears, like the oscilla- 646 MAGNETIS POLUS ARCTICUS. tion of a pendulum.—Cephalalgia, when lifting and moving the eyes.—Depressing cephalalgia, as if from a weight.— Cephalalgia, as if the brain were about to burst.—Tension of the integuments of the head, as if they adhered too closely to the cranium. Eyes.—Eyes prominent and fixed.—Icy coldness of the (weak) eyes.—Restless movements of the eyes.—Lancina- tions, itching, and jerking drawing in the eye-lids, with lachrymation.—Painful sensation of dryness in the eye-lids, on waking in the morning. Ears and Nose.—Roaring in the ears and internal heat, as if from boiling water.—Deafness, as if caused by a band over the ears.—Aberration of smell, as if one smelt rotten eggs, or fresh plaster and dust.—Epistaxis, preceded by pressive cephalalgia in the forehead.—Redness and heat in the point of the nose, followed by red spots, hot aud sharply circumscribed, on the cheeks. Face.—Paleness in the face.—Tension in the face.— Painful squeezing'in the maxillary joint, with sensation, while moving it, as if it were dislocated.—Swelling of one cheek only.—Trismus. Teeth.—*Odontalgia in the carious teeth, at intervals, as if they were being extracted.—*Pains in the carious teeth, with gums swollen and painful when touched.—* Pains in the (carious) teeth, augmented after a meal, and in the heat, miti- gated in the open air, and when walking.—*Odontalgia, with red, hot, swollen cheeks.—*Qdontalgia with shocks, which traverse the periosteum of the jaw, or with drawing, pressive, or else tearing, digging, or burning lancinating pains.— Incisor teeth set on edge, when breathing through the mouth.—Torpor and insensibility of the gums, after the tooth-ache ceases.—°Carious teeth. Stomach.—Loss of taste.—Acid taste in the mouth.— Tobacco has a bitter taste.—Frequent empty eructations. —Continued pyrosis, especially after supper.—Voracious- ness in the evening. Abdominal Region.—Production and incarceration of much flatulence.—Flatulent, pressive colic.—Shocks in the abdomen, as if something in it were falling, or blows pro- ceeding from the abdomen and mounting into the chest and as far as the throat.—Inflation of the abdomen.—*Pres- sure and boring towards the inguinal ring, as if prepara- tory to a rupture, with relaxation of the inguinal ring. F.eces—Genital Organs.—^Obstinate constriction of the abdomen and constipation.—Hard faeces, of a large size, difficult to evacuate, often preceded by drawing, dysenteric MAGNETIS POLUS AUSTRAL1S. 647 pains in the hypogastrium.—Increased secretion of urine. —Deep-coloured urine.—Immoderate erections with frequent pollutions.—Excitement to coition.—Catamenia too feeble. —Catamenia suppressed. Larynx.—Dry, asthmatic suffocating cough, aggrava- ted by walking in the open air.—Spasmodic shaking cough, in the evening, when going to sleep, and which hinders sleep. —Spasmodic, suffocating cough, towards midnight, pro- duced by irritation in the bronchia, jarring the head and the whole body and exciting heat, till a general perspira- tion ensues, when the cough ceases.—Continued want to cough, in the evening, which is removed only by restrain- ing the cough. Trunk—Extremities.—Pains in the back, as if beaten, when bending it backwards.—Cracking in the cervical ver- tebras during movement.—Inflammation of the back of the hand, with pulsative pain.—Heaviness in the arms, hands, and fingers.—Pains in the hip-joints and lower-limbs, as if beaten.—Great lassitude in the lower extremities; they appear as if they were just about to break, whenjwalking.— Pain, as if from excoriation in the toes and corns on the feet. ~~C.—MAGNETIS POLUS~AUSTRATfsT_ MAGS.—AUS.—South pole of the magnet. Antidotes: Mgs-arc. ign. zinc. CLINICAL REMARKS.—This medicine has been hith- erto employed against:—Paralytic state of the neck of the vesica j Impotence ; Varices of pregnant women and pana- ritium. GENERAL SYMPTOMS.—Drawings in the fingers, joints of the fingersand feet, and in the ankles.—Lancinating, pulsative pains in the roots of the nails, as if they were about to suppurate.—Pains, with pinching or burning lan- cinations, in different parts of the body.—Pains, as if beaten in the limbs, and their joints, as if one had lain upon flints>—Liability to suffer from a chill.—Tendency of the nose, ears, hands and feet, to feel as if they were frost- bitten, from a moderate degree of coldness.—Sudden las- situde when walking, with anxiety and heat, or sudden inclination to sleep. Sleep.—Great desire to sleep, in the evening and morn- ing ; one closes the eyes without being able to sleep.— Sleeplessness with over-excitement before midnight.—Con- fused, frightful dreams.—Prolonged dreams on the same subject, with fatiguing meditation.—Slow, noisy, snoring expiration before midnight; after midnight, the same thing 648 magnetis polus australis. happens with respect to inspiration.—Lying on the back, during the night.—Congestion to the head in the morning, which forces one to lie with the head high. Fever.—Excessive dread of the open air, which pene- trates to the very marrow of the bones, even when the weather is hot, with ill-humour and inclination to weep.— Shuddering, with cloudiness before the eyes, trembling and tossing of the limbs, without shivering, followed by heat in the head and face. Moral Symptoms.—*Moroseness and ill-humour, with aversion to conversation.—Dislike to society and to smi- ling faces.—Passion and rage.—Instability of ideas. Head—Throat.—Vertigo, as if from intoxication, with staggering gait.—Heaviness, crawling and digging in the head.—Shocks in the head, sometimes with tearing.—Dry- ness and smarting in the eye-lids, especially when moving them, and principally in the morning and evening.—Lach- rymation.—Amblyopia.—Tearing, jerking odontalgia, ag- gravated by hot things.—Accumulation of watery saliva in the mouth.—Speech embarrassed, as if from a swelling of the tongue.—Burning sensation in the gullet. Stomach.—Metallic taste, at one time sweetish, at another acidulous on and under the tongue.—All food is tpo insipid.—Excessive indifference to food, drink, and tobacco-smoke.—Bulimy at noon and in the evening, some- times during the febrile shiverings.—Pressure in the scor- biculus during mental exertion. Abdominal Rkgion.—Pinching in the abdomen caused by a current of air.—Noisy borborygmus and rumbling in the abdomen.—Pressive, flatulent colic, with pinchings and inflation of the abdomen.—Sensation, as if the inguinal ring were dilated preparatory to a rupture, with painful sensitiveness of that part, every time that one coughs. F.eces.—Soft,loose feces, preceded by gripings.—Evacu- ation of liquid faeces, with a sensation as if flatus were about to be discharged.—Contraction and painful constric- tion in the rectum -nd anus, which prevent the expulsion of wind. Urine.—* Involuntary emission of urine from paralysis of the sphyncter vesice, especially at night.—Emission of urine, drop by drop, with torpor of the urethra.—Very fee- ble stream of urine.—*Frequent emission of urine, at night. Genital Organs.—Ready emission of semen.—*Impo- tence, with sudden disappearance of all enjoyment, in the mo- ment of greatest excitement.—Pain in the penis, as if some fibres were being torn or plucked away.—Painful retrac- MAGNETIS POLL'S AUSTRALIA. 649 uon of the testes at night.—Swelling of the testes, with iearing shocks and sensation of contraction in these parts. -Catamenia too early and too profuse.—Metrorrhagia. Chkst.—Cough and coryza, with expectoration of greenish mucus, and shortness of breath.—Paroxysms of cough, at night, when sleeping.—Desires to take a deep in- spiration, like sighing, with involuntary deglutition.—Op- pression of the chest, as if the respiration were tremulous n / 1 with sensation of coolness.—Drawing pressure in both sides of the sternum, with anguish of conscience, which •!oes not allow any rest whatever.—Violent palpitation of the heart.—Palpitation of the heart, during which it seems that it is not the heart that palpitates. Trunk.—Pressive, burning pain in the loins, during re- pose and movement.—Pain, as if they had been beaten or dislocated, in the joints of the sacrum and lumbar verte- brae. i - Arms.—Crawling along the arms, like slight shocks.— ».•/.£ P*1 i.ful and rapid jerking along the arms.—Heaviness and 1 jitude in the arms.—Gurgling along the arms and in ', eins of the arms.—Crawling and throbbing in the ends of the fingers.—*Panaritium. Legs.—Jerking throbbing in the tendons of the ham, with contraction of the legs, especially when moving.— Pressive tearing in the patella.—Throbbing in the muscles n; ihe feet, after walking.—The knees give way, during movement.—Easy dislocation of the joint of the foot, when making a false step.—Sensibility and pain, as if from a wound, in the nail of the great toe.—*The toe-nails pene- : '•' trate the flesh.—"Varices. Vol. I. 55 ADDITIONS ARNICA.—Fever, with coldness in the hands and feet. —"Malignant fever, with loss of consciousness and carpol- ogy, without delirium.—"Fever (puerperal) of a tertian type and watery diarrhoea.—"In the apyrexia, tension and ful- ness in the epigastrium, pressure at the liver and undigest- } ed evacuations.—'Pulse small, filiform, or strong, full and | intermittent.—"Fever in the morning; at first, shivering, j then heat. \ BELLADONNA.—*Delirium, with vision of spectres j| or devils, with desire to pull out the teeth ; or which causes to talk about military affairs, war, bulls, &c, with desire \ to hide oneself.—Mania, with oaths, or with conversation with the dead. CAPSICUM.—"Shiverings, with violent thirst, then heat accompanied (or not) by thirst and perspiration.— During the shiverings, head-ache, salivation, vomiting of mucus, painful swelling of the spleen, pains in the back, tearing and contraction of the limbs.—"During the heat, lancinat- ing pain in the head, bad taste in the mouth, gripings, with ineffectual desire to evacuate, pain in the back and chest, tearing in the legs.—"Quotidian and tertian fever. CARBO VEGETABILIS.—"Febrile shivering with vio- lent thirst ; then heat with little thirst, or shivering without thirst, followed by heat with thirst.— Before the shivering, throbbing in the temples, pains in the bones and teeth, cold feet and stretchings.— During the shivering, lassitude.— "During the heat, head-ache, vertigo, redness of the face, clouded sight, nausea, pains in the stomach, abdomen and chest, oppression and pains in the legs.—After the attack, head-ache.—"Quotidian, tertian and quartan fevers. CINA.—"Macula? corneae.—"Shivering with or without thirst, then violent heat without or with thirst, followed or accompanied by perspiration.—"Fever with thirst during the coldness and followed by vomiting.— Before the shivering, desire to vomit, with drawing in the limbs.—"During the shivering, head-ache, paleness of the face, nausea and bil I additions. 651 ious vomiting.—"During the heat, delirium, head-ache, pale- ness of the face, bulimy and pain in the chest when taking an inspiration.— Intermittent fevers, the nature of which has been changed by abuse of cinchona. ._ IGNATIA.—"Shiverings with thirst, followed by heat without thirst, with the feet cold and with or without per- spiration.—During the shivering, nausea, pallid face, pain in the back, and paralytic sensation in the legs.—"During the heat, delirium, vertigo, pulsative cephalalgia, pain in the back, aching pains and sleep.—'Quotidian, tertian and quartan fever. IPECACUANHA.—"Shiverings of short duration, then excessive heat (often in the head only), with thirst and fol- lowed by perspiration.—"Before the shivering, drawing in I the back.—"During the fever, head-ache, dulness, cough | and shootings in the chest.—"Quotidian and tertian fever. NUX VOMICA.—"Desire to leave the house and to ramble abroad; frightful visions; unreasonable answers and actions. PLATINA.—"Wandering over past events, with sing- , ing, laughing, weeping, dancing and gesticulation. PULSATILLA.—Frightful visions, with fear and desire to hide. In the Clinical Remarks of the second part will be found i other additions also, which have been joined to the indi- cations for choosing medicines.