Boston Medical Library 8 THE Fenway Digitized by tine Internet Arcinive in 2010 witin funding from Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School http://www.archive.org/details/textbookofmateriOOcowp A TEXT-BOOK OF MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS. CHARACTERISTIC, ANALYTICAL, AND COMPARATIVE., Q/ by A. C. COWPERTHWAITE, M.D., Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the State University of Iowa; Author of "A Text-book of Gynecology," "Insanity in its Medico-Legal Relations," Etc., Etc. fclXTH EDITION. ENTIRELY REWRITTEN AND REVISED. With Clinical Index. CHICAGO: GROSS & DELBRIDGE. 1891. / , 7r-//r 0 r,9i I Copyright, 1891, By G ELBRIDGE. 4£BEAgi<''' Electrotyped by The VVekner Ptg. & Litho. Co., Chicago, Ill.-Akeon, O. TO THE MEMORY OP MY FATHER, JOSEPH C. COWPERTHWAITE, WHO DIED JANUARY SECOND, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND NINETY-ONE ; A DEVOTED PARENT; A FAITHFUL FRIEND AND COUNSELLOR; WHOSE CHRISTIAN VIRTUES AND UPRIGHT LIFE I FAIN WOULD EMULATE ; WHOSE LOSS TO ME IS IRREPARABLE, — THIS VOLUME IS LOVINGLY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR. PREFACE TO THE SIXTH EDITION. In the present edition the entire text has been completely rewritten and thorouo^hly revised. Every symptom of doubt- ful- origin has been expunged, and a few authentic symptoms not appearing in former editions have been added. The ''General Analysis," of each drug has been rewritten, and in many instances changed to conform to ideas resulting from more recent investigations in drug pathogenesy. Only those clinical symptoms that have been repeatedly verified, and which are undoubtedly reliable, are retained, and these are given a distinguishing mark (°), so that the student can tell at a glance whether a symptom is of pathogenetic or clinical origin. An important feature consists in the section on "Thera- peutics" under each remedy. The brief " Therapeutic Kange " of former editions is omitted, and in its place is given a. resume of the clinical uses of the drug, and which, while com- paratively brief, is intended to cover the entire range of ther- apeutic action, so far as at present known, together with the chief symptomatic drug indications in all important diseased states. The author has endeavored to include everything^ reliable in Therapeutics, as found in modern homoeopathic literature; but he is especially indebted in this connection tO' Farrington's Clinical Materia Medica, and Allen's Hand-book of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, from both of which ex- cellent treatises he has derived valuable material. Other new features have been included in this edition, which, it is thought, will commend themselves to the reader without prefatory comment. The author desires to acknowledge his indebtedness to Leora Johnson, M. D., for valuable assistance in thoroughly revising the Chnical Index, which latter, it is hoped, will prove more than ever an attractive and valuable feature. With many thanks to the Profession for their cordial recep- tion and appreciation of former editions, the present volume is- submitted, with the hope that it may bind still closer the pro- fessional and social relations existing between them and THE AUTHOR. Iowa City, June 1st, 1801. PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. In preparing this edition the author has not deviated from the plan adopted in the second edition. It is hoped, however, that the careful revision to which the work has been subjected may have eliminated most of the errors appearing in former editions. The text has been entirely rewritten, and many symptoms, especially clinical, have been added, while nearly one hundred remedies, not included in the second edition, have been incorporated. For the sake of uniformity in the hteratureof Homoeopathic Materia Medica, the author has changed the nomenclature of Actea Racemosa and Calcarea Ostrearum respectively to Cimi- cifuga Racemosa and Calcarea Carbonica. The thanks of the author are due to Dr. Jas. E. Gross for the valuable Pronouncing Dictionary he has prepared for this edition. It has been compiled from the most recent and relia- ble authorities, and it is hoped may materially aid in making the pronunciation of these terms more uniform. Hoping that these additions and changes may add to the usefulness of the book, and render it still more acceptable, it is again submitted to the Profession, with the thanks of the author for the many expressions of favor and appreciation which the former editions have elicited. A. C. COWPERTHWAITE. Iowa City, August 1st, 1885. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. In presenting to medical students and to the Profession another Text-book of Materia Medica, a few words of explana- tion may not be inappropriate. Homoeopathic literature already abounds with valuable compilations of Materia Medica obtained from the most au- thentic sources, and it is not the ambition of the author that the present volume shall, in any sense, supersede these or render their use unnecessary, but rather does he desire that it may, by presenting in a clear and concise manner the prominent feature of our most important remedies, furnish the beginner with a systematic basis of knowledge, that may facilitate his study of the complete Materia Medica, and enable him the more readily to comprehend the wider application of drug action as there afforded. How well this task has been performed the reception of this book alone will tell. Certainly no one is more conscious of its defects than is the author himself, who can only bespeak the charity of such as may not realize the difficulties to over- come in condensing the symptoms of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica, retaining only those which are essentially character- istic, and sifting out only those which are of less importance. Up to the present time even the most condensed works on Materia Medica present to the mind of the student only a vast array of unmeaning symptoms, with nothing to point out their comparative value, or to assist in their practical application, so that, as a result, he stands discouraged at the outset, with little prospect but that the subject which should be to him the most entertaining, and of necessity the most important, will ever remain a confused mass of symptoms, which he surveys with mysterious awe, but which, in fact, he scarcely attempts to unravel or to comprehend. In view of this fact it has been the aim of the author to present in this volume only the character- istic points of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica, and to include PREFACE TO THE ElKST EDITION. Ix. these as full and complete as possible. Iii so doing he has first g^iven in brief the action of each drug from a physiological standpoint, hoping thus, by presenting the general action of the drug, to bettei- prepare the student for a detailed study of its special actipn as aiforded by its pathogenesis. For practical study the symptoms of the Materia Medica may be readily divided into four groups. First: Those which occur very often in provings, and which have been repeatedly verified in practice; these we may designate as "grand charac- teristics." Second: Those which occur less often in provings, but which have been frequently verified in practice; these we^ may designate as "characteristics." Third: Those which come next in order, being important, yet falling short of char- acteristic expression ; and, fourth : Those which occur seldom in provings, and which lack clinical verification. All these' groups of symptoms find their place in an "Encyclopaedia," while it is usually intended to incorporate the first three groups, in manuals and text-books. The present volume, however, onl3^ includes the first two, and of these the first group or " grand characteristics " are printed in italics, w'hile the second group are given in ordinary text. While most of the symptoms given are pathogenetic — that" is, are the result of provings on the healthy — yet it has not been deemed advisable to throw out altogether those dis- tinctively curative symptoms which have been so repeatedly verified as to render them unquestionably characteristic, and such only of curative symptoms are given. To facilitate the use of this volume, the names of remedies, possessing similar symptoms have been recorded in the text for comparison. In presenting the therapeutic range of each di-ug only^ those diseases or morbid conditions have been named in which the symptoms of the drug are most apt to occur, and in which clinical experience has most often verified its use, yet it must ever be remembered that diseases are not treated by name, and that it is only wdien the totality of the sj^mptoms pre- sented by the patient correspond to those of the drug that its use becomes Homoeopathic. In the preparation of the material for this volume, ref- erence has been freely made to every available work on Materia X PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. Medica published, and to some which have long been out of print; yet the author desires to especially acknowledge his indebtedness to Hahnemann's Materia Medica Pura, Hahne- mann's Chronic Diseases, Allen's Encj'^clopsedia of Pure Materia Medica, Hering's Condensed Materia Medica, Lippe's Text- book of Materia Medica, Jahr's New Manual, by Hull, Hale's IN^ew Remedies, Hughes' Pharmaco-Dynamics, and Dunham's Lectures. With the hope that the work may assist in accomplishing the purpose whereunto it was conceived, it is now submitted to the Profession. Iowa City, December 10th, 1879 PRONOUNCING INDEX. Abies Canadensis {a'bi-es can-a-den^ sis) - - - - 1 Abies Nigra {a'bi-es ni'grct) 2 Abrotanum {a-hrot' an-inn) -- 3 Absinthium {ah-sin'thi-inn) ------ 5 Acalypha Indica {a-cal'i-pha in'di-ca) - - - - 7 Acetic Acid {a-set'ic as' id) 8 Aconitum {ac-o-ni'tiim) - -'- - -. . _ 9 Actaea Spicata {ac-tce'a spi'ca-ta) - - - - _ ig ^sculus {es'cu-lios) 19 .^thusa (e-thzo'sa) 22 Agaricus {a-gar'i-cus) - - - 23 Agnus castus {ag'nus cas'tus) ------ 28 Ailanthus {ai-laji'thus) -30 Aletris (aVe-tris) 32 Allium Cepa {al'li-iun se-pa) 32 Aloe (aVoe) - - 34 Alumina {a-lu'jni-na) 37 Ambra Grisea {ain'bra gri'sea) 41 Ammonium Carbonicum {am-mo'niujn car-bon/i-cum) - 43 Ammonium Causticum {am-m,o'ni-uvi caus'ti-cum) - 47 Ammonium Muriaticum {aTn-uvo'ni-ivm mio-ri-at'i-cuiyv) 48 Amyl Nitrosum {ain/il ni'tro-sum) ----- 51 Anacardium [an-a-car' di-um) ------ 53 Antimonium Crudum {an-ti-ino' iti-um crud'um) - - 56 Antimonium Tartaricum {an-ti-mo'ni-um tar-tar' i-cwrn) 60 Apis Melliflca {a' pis mel-lifi-ca) - - _ . _ 64 Ajjocynum Cannabinum [a-pos'se-num cau-na-bi'jium) - 71 Apomorphinum {ap' o-mor' fi-nuni) 72 Aralia Kacemosa {a-ra'le-a ras-e-mo'sa) - - - - 73 Aranea Diadema {a-ra'nea di-a-dem/a) - - . . 74 Argentum Metallicum {ar-gen'tuin m^e-tal'i-citjyi) - - 76 Argentum Nitricum {ar-gen'tum jvi'tri-cunv) - - 79 Arnica {ar'ni-ca) - - - 85 Xn PRONOUNCING INDEX. Arsenicum Album {ar-sen't-cum aVhinn) - - - 92 Arsenicum lodatum {io-dafuTn) 103 Arum Triphjllum {a'riom tri-phyVlum) - ^ . - 104 Asafoetida {as-a-fef e-da) ....... 106 Asarum as' {a) -rum) - - --._.. 109 Asclepias Cornuti {as-kle'pe-as) 110 Asclepias Tuberosa {as-kle'pe- as tu-be-ro'sa) - - 112 Asparagus {as-par'a-gus) ....... 114 Asterias Rubens {as-ter'i-ds riA/hens) - - - - 115 Aurum {au'rinn) ......... 116 Badiaga {bad-i-a'ga) ........ 120 Baptisia {hap-te'sia) ........ 122 Baryta Carbonicum {ha-ri'ta car-hon'i-cum) - - 125 Belladonna {b el-la-don' na) 129 Benzoic Acid {ben-zo'ic as'id) 140 Berber is (ber'ber-is) --------- 141 Bismuthum {biz-imith'um) 144 Borax (bo'rax) ---------- 146 Bovista {bo.vis'ta) -_- 149 Bromium {bro'mi-uni) ........ 161 Bryonia {bry-o'rda) 154 Bufo {bu'fo) - - - 163 Cactus {cac'tus) - - - 164 Caladium {ca-la' di-um) -------- 166 Calcarea Carbonica {cal-ca're-a car-bon'i-ca) - - - 169- Calcarea Phosphorica {cal-ca're-a phos-phor'i ca) - -117 Camphor a {cant^-phor' a) - - - - - - - 181 Cannabis Indica {can'na-bis in'di-ca) ----- 185 Cannabis Sativa {can'na-bis sa-ti'va) - - - - 189 Cantharis {can'bha-ris) - - - 191 Capsicum {cap' si-ciim) ....... 196 Carbo Animalis {kar'bo an'i-mal'is) 109 Carbo Vegetabilis {har'bo veg-e-tab'i-Us) - - - 203 Carbolicum Acidum {kar-bol'i-huin as'i-dum) - - - 209 Carduus Marianus {kar'du-its mar-i-an'us) . - - 212 Caulophyllum {kaul-o-phyl'liun) 213 Causticum {kaus'ti-cum) - - 215 Cedron {ce'dron) - - 220 Chamomilla {kam-o-mil'la) 221 Chelidonium {chel-i-do' ni-um) - 226 PRONOUNCING INDEX. XllI Chimaphila {chiTn-a-fiVla) 230 GhminuYn. KY&emc,o&um.{hin'i-nibin ar-sen-i-co'suin) - - 230 Chininum Sulphuricum {kin'i-ninn siol-phur'i-cum) - 233 Cicuta Virosa {ci-kuHa vi-ro'sa) 238 Cimicifuga {sim-i-sifu-ga) 241 Cina {ci^na) 245 Cinchona {cin-kho'na) - - 248 Cinnamomum {cin-na-mo'miom) - - - - - - 257 Cistus (cis^tus) 257 Clematis {kle-ina^tis) 259 Cocoa {kolca) 261 Coccuhis {kok'u-lus) 263 Coccus Cacti {kok'kus kak'ti) ------ 269 Coffea Cruda {koffe-a kru'cla) 272 Colchicum {kolch'i-kum) ------- 274 Collinsonia {kol-lin-so'nia) - - 278 Colocynthis {koV -o-sin'this) 280 Conium {ko-ni\tm) - - - --285 Convallaria {con-val-la'ria,) ...... 290 Corallium Kubruni {kor-ctVli-uni rit'hrinn) . . . 291 Crocus {krolcus) --------- 292 Crotalus Horrid us {kro'tal-us hor-ri^ clus) . . . . 295 Croton Ti^'lium {kro'ton tig'li-inn) - - - - - 298 Cuprum Metallicum {ku^prum me-taVi-kuin) - - - 300 Cyclamen {sik'la-meii) ....... 303 Digitalis {dig-i-ta^lis) ........ 306 Dioscorea (di-os-ko^re-a) - - 309 Dolichos (doVe-kos) 312 Drosera {dro' se-ra) 313 Dulcamara {dul-ea-ma'ra) ....... 316 Elaterium {el-a-te^rt-um) - 319 Equisetum {ec-iue-se'titin) ....... 320 Erigeron Canadense {e-rig'er-on can-a-den'se) - - 321 Eryngium Aquaticum {e-rin'ge-iun a-quatH-ciom) - - 322 Eucalyptus {u-ka-lip^tios) ------- 323 Eupatorium Perfoliatum {u-pa-to^rium per-fo-li-a'tum) - 324 Eupatorium Purpureum {u-pa-to^ri-um pur-pur^ e-um) 327 Euphorbia Corollata {u-phoybe-ci cor-ol-lafta) - - 328 Euphorbium {u-phor'M-inn) - - - - - - 329 Euphrasia {u-fraf sicC) - - - 331 XIV PRONOUNCING INDEX. Perrum ( fer'ruryi) __.----- 333 Ferrum lodatum ( fer'rum i-o-da'turyi) - - _ _ 339 Perrum Phosphoricum ( fer'rum fos-for'i-cum) - - 340 Pluoricum Acidum {fiu-or'i-cu7n as'i-dum) . _ . 341 Gambogia {am-bo^ge-a) - - - - - - - 344 Gelseinium {gel-se'mi-um) ------- 346 Glonoine {glon' o-ine) - - 352 Gnaphalium ( na-phaVi-inn) 356 Graphites {graf-i'tees) - - - - - - - 356 Gratiola {grash/e-o-la) - - - 363 Guaiacum {giua'ya-cuin) 365 Hamamelis {ham-a-me'lis) 366 Helleborus {heVle-ho-rus) ---- = -- 369 Helonias {he-lo'ni-as) ----=. = -- 372 Hepar Sulphur {he' -par suVfur) - ~ - - - 373 Hydrastis (hy-dras'tis) -------- 379 Hydrocotyle (hi-dro-ko'ti-le) ------ 383 Hyoscyamus {hi-os-si' a-vtiis) 384 Hypericum {Jii-per'i-cum) 389 Ip^natia (ig-na'sha) --------- 390 lodium {i-o'di-io77i) 397 Ipecacuanha (ip-e-cac-u-an'ha) ------ 402 Iris Versicolor {i'ris ver'si-kul-er) ----- 406 Jaborandi {j ah-or-an' di) 408 Kali Bichromicum {ha'lihi-chro'mi-cum) - - - 409 Kali Bromatuin {ha'li bro-ma'tujn) ----- 415 Kali Carbonicum {hafli car-bon^i-ciun) - - - - 418 Kali Chloratum {ha'li chlo-ra'tum) ----- 425 Kali lodatum {ha'li i-o-dat'um) ----- 427 Kali Nitricum {ha'li ni'tri-cum) 430 Kalmia (hal'mia) - 434 Kreosotum {hre-o-so'tum) 437 Lachesis {lah'e-sis) 440 Lachnanthes {lah-nanth' es) 449 Lactic Acid {lah'tic as'id) 451 Lactuca Virosa {lah-tu'ca vi-ro'sa) ----- 453 Laurocerasus {lau-ro-cer' a-sus) 455 Ledum {le'dum) - 457 Leptandra {lep-tan'dra) - - 460 Lilium Tigrinum {lil'ium ti' gri-num) . - - - 461 FHONOUNCING INDEX. XV Lithium {lUh'i-wm) 464 Lobelia Inflata {lo-he'li-a in-fla'ta) _ _ _ . _ 466 Lycopodium {li-ko-po^de-iom) ------ 468 Lycopus Virginicus {li'ko-pus vir-gin'icus) . . . 476 Magnesia Carbonica {inctg-ne' zhe-a car-bon^i-ca) - 478 Magnesia Muriatica {inag-ne^ zhe-a mu-ri-at'i-ca) - - 480 Manganum {maTi^gct-num) - 483 Melilotus {mel-i-lo'tus) 486 Menyanthes {me-ny-an'thes) ------ 488 Mephitis {me-phi'tis) ........ 490 Mercurius {iner-czo're-us) ....... 491 Mercurius lodatus Flavus {mer-cu^re-us i-o-dafus flct'vus) 507 Mercurius Corrosivus {mer-cu^re-us cor~ro^ si-vus) - 502 Mercurius lodatus Kuber {mer-cu^re-us i-o-dat'us txo%cv) 509 Mezereum {me-ze're-zun) - 510 Millefolium (jnil-le-fo^li-um) - 516 Muriaticum Acidum {mio-ri-afi-citTi% as'idinn) - ~ 518 Myrica Cerifera {me-ri'ka ce-rife-ra) ----- 521 Naja {na'ya) -..-_- 523 Natrum Arsenicatum {na^trum cn-sen-i-ca'tum) - - 526 Natrum Carbonicum {na'triom car-hon'i-cuTn) - - 529 Natrum Muriaticum {na'trztm jnic-ri-afi-cum) - - 534 Natrum Sulphuricum {na^trum sivl-fior'i-ciom) - - ^4z2 Nitricum Acidum {ni-tri'cum as'i-diom) . . . . 546 Nuphar Lutium {mu'far lu'te-um) - - - - - 553 Nux Moschata {J^ux^ Dtos-ka^ta) - 554 Nux Vomica {jzux vom^i-ca) ...... 558 (Enanthe Crocata {p-nanfthe cro-ka'ta) . . . . 571 (Enothera (o-no-the^ra) . : . . . ■ . . 573 Oleander {o-le-an'^er) ........ 573 Opium {o'pe-ztm) ......... 575 Origanum (o-rig'a-num) ........ 580 Osmium {os'mi-um) ........ 581 Oxalieum Acidum {ox-aVi-Gum as'l-d/oni) . - .. . 583 Pareira Brava {pa-ra'ra hra'va) ----- 586 Paris Quadrifolia {partis quad-re-fo'Ua) - - - - 587 Petroleum {pe-tro'le-um) 589 Petroselinum {pet'ro-se-li'nujyi) 594 Phosphoricum Acidum ( fos-for'i-cum as't-dum) - 595 ^ho>i\A\o\-\m {fosyorus) ....... 600 XVI PRONOUNCING INDEX, Physostigma ( fi-zo-stig'ma) 612 Phytolacca ( fi-to-lak'ka) 616 Picricum Acidum {pic^ri-cinn as'i-clurtv) _ _ _ 621 Platinum {plat^ e-num) -..-..-. 625 Plumbum (plum^bzom) 629 Podophyllum {pod-o-fiVluTn) 634 Ptelea Trifoliata {te'le-a tri-fo-li-a'ta) . - . . 637 Pulsatilla {pul-sa-tiVla) -------- 639 Ranunculus {i^a-nun'kiv-lus) ------ 650 Rheum {return) ---------- 653 Rhododendron {ro-do-den'dron) ----- 655 Rhus Toxicodendron {rus tox-ico-den' dron) . . . 658 Robina {ro-bi'na) --------- 666 Rumex {ru'inejc) - - -•- - - - - - 667 Ruta {rz(/ta) ---------- 669 Sabadilla {sah-a-diVla) - - - _ 672 Sabina {sa-bi'na) --------- 674 Sambucus {sajn-bu'cus) -------- 677 Sanguinaria {san-gwi-na'ri-a) - 678 Sarsaparilla {sar-sa-pa-ril'la) 682 Secale Cornutum {se-ka'le coi^-nut'iim) - - - - 684 Selenium {se-le'ni-znyi) -------- 689 Senecio Aureus {se-ne'she-o aw're-us) _ . - - 691 Senega {sen/e-ga) --------- 693 Sepia {se'pe-a) .....-.-.. 696 Silicia {si-li'cia) ...--.- . _ _ 704 Spigelia {spi-ge'lia) 713 Spongia {spun^ge-a) -..--.-.- 717 Squilla {squiVla) - - - 720 Stannum {stan'num) - - - - - -r - 722 Staphisagria {staf-i-sa' gri-a) ------ 726 Sticta Pulmonaria {stic'tou pul-mo-na'ri-a) - - - 731 Stillingia Sylvatica {stil-lin'ge-a syl-vat'i-ca) - - 732 Stramonium {strcv-mo'ne-um) ------ 734 Sulphur {suVfur) -.-,----- 739 Sulphuricum Acidum {sul-fu'ri-cinn as'i-dum) - - 751 Tabacum {ta-hak'xnn) - 754 Taraxacum {ta-rax' a-cu-m) - 756 Tarentula {ta-ren'tu-la) ------- 758 Tellurium {tel-lu'j^e-um) . . - - r - - - 759 PRONOUNCING INDEX. XV] 1 Terebinthina {ter-e-hin'the-na) ~ . . . . 700 Teucrium {tu'cri-um) „„. 762 Theridion {the-rid'i-on) ~ 764 Thuja {thu'ya) -.----.... 766 Trillium {tril'li-uin) .-.---.. 771 Uranium Nitricum {u-ra'ne-uTvi niHri-cinn) - - - 773 Urtica Urens {ur-ti'ka iifrens) 773 Ustilago {us-ti-la'go) ----_..- 774 Valeriana {va-le-re-a'na) --.-__- 776 Yeratrum Album {ve-ra'trum al'hum) , . . . 778 Veratrum Viride {ve-ra'truiiv ver'e-cle) . . . . 784 Verbascum {ver-has'cu-m) - - - - - - - 787 Viburnum Opulus {vi-hur'nuni o'pu-lis) - - ~ - 789 Viola Tricolor {vi'o-la tri'col-or) ------ 791 Xanthoxylum {zan-thoh' si-linn) ----- 793 Zincum {zink'kum) 795 Zingiber {zin'je-ber) --...-.. 802 MAR 2 2 1924 TEXT BOOK Materia Medica and Therapeutics. ABIES CANADENSIS. Synonym. — Pinus canadensis. Kativral order. — Coniferge. CoTmnon names. — Hemlock-Spruce, Canada Balsam, Canada Pitch. Hahitat. — An evergreen tree found in rocky woods in British America and the United States as far south as the Alle- ghanies. Preparation. — Tincture from the fresh bark and young buds. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts upon mucous surfaces, producing catarrhal conditions, especially of the stomach. OHARAGTBRISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Irritable and easily fretted {Cham., Jfux v.). Head. — Light headed, tipsy feeling {Cocc., Nux m., JVujo v., Op.), swimming of the head, as if top of head were con- gested (Bell.). Stomach. — Dryness of the mouth (Ars., Bry., JYuj^ m.). Gnawing, hungry, faint feeling at the epigastrium (Hyd., Ign., Phos., Puis., Sep. Sulph.). Craving for meat {Mag. carb .), pickles {Hep.) and other coarse food. A tendency to eat far beyond capacity for digestion (Bry., Fer., Lye, Merc, Cina.). Sick feeling in the bowels. Distension of the stomach and epigastrium ; burning {Ars., Colch,, Canth., Phos., Verat. alb.). 2 ABIES NIGRA. Abdomen.— Rumbling in the bowels after eating, with great appetite {Lye, Cinch.). Region of the liver feels hard. Bectum and Stool.— Burning in the rectum {Ars., Canth., Iris, Merc). Constipation. Urinary Organs.— Urinates frequently day and night; urine straw colored. Female Organs,— Thinks the womb feels soft 'and "feeble." Sore feeling at the fundus of the uterus ; relieved by press- ing. Respiratory Organs.— Breathing labored (Aeon., Ars.). Heart. — Action of the heart labored. Increased action of the heart, with distension of the stomach. Back. — Pain behind the right shoulder blade (C/^eL, Podo.). Weak feeling in sacral region. Feeling as of cold water be- tween the shoulders. Generalities. — Hands cold, shrunken ; skin cold and clammy. Lies with the knees drawn up. Great prostration, wants to lie down all the time. Sleep. — Gaping, drowsy ; great restlessness at night, with toss- ing from side to side {Aeon.). Fever.— Chills down the back (Caps., Lach.). Cold shivering all over as if blood turned to ice water. Compare. — ^sc, Copaiba, Nux v., Ign., Tereb. THERAPEUTICS. Dyspepsia.— Fever and other troubles from indigestion. Prolapsus uteri. ABIES NIGRA. Jfatural order. — Coniferee. Convinon names. — Black or Double Spruce. Hahitat.—A. tree growing in Northern United States and Canada. Preparation.— Tmet\M-e from the gum. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts especially upon the mucous hning of the stomach, causing deranged digestion, and consequent phenomena. ABKOTANUM. 3 CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Very low spirited and melancholy. Nervous; unable to think or study. Head. — Dizziness. Bad feeling in head. Dull headache. Head hot, with flushed cheeks. Ear. — Pain in left external meatus. Throat.— Choking sensation in throat. Sensation of some- thing sticking in oesophagus toward its lower end. (Upi)er end, Lactic ac.) Stomach. — Hungry and wakeful at night. Total loss of appe- tite in the morning, but great craving for food at noon and night. Pain after a hearty meal. Continual distressing sensation about stomach as if everything were knotted up; worse whenever debilitated. Sensation of an undigested hard-boiled egg in the stomach. Stool. — Constipation. Female Organs. — Delayed or suppressed menstruation. Heart. — Heavy, slow beating of heart ; sharp cutting pains. Generalities. — Gets out of breath easily. Dyspnoea. Pain in small of back (Bell., Caul., Cimic, Puis., Kreos.) PJieu^ matic pains and aching in the bones. Alternate heat and cold. Sleep.— Sleepy during the day, but wakeful and restless at night with bad dreams. Compare. — Bry., Cham., Ign., Nux v., Lactic ac. THERAPEUTICS. Dyspepsia. — Troubles from indigestion. Dyspepsia from the use of tea or tobacco. ABROTANUM. Synonym. — Artemesia abrotanum. JVatural order. — Com- positcTe. Common JSTame. — Southernwood. Hadjitat. — A shrub native of Southern Europe and the Levant. Cultivated in gardens. Preparation. — Tincture from the fresh leaves. 4 ^ ABROTANUM. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts profoundly upon the vegetative sphere, depressing nutrition to a remarkable degree, giving rise to symptoms of disturbed digestion, great emaciation, and marasmus, in which latter affection is its chief clinical use. It also acts upon fibrous and serous tissues. The primary action is upon the nervous system, where it produces a hyperaemia and gives rise to ansesthesia and paraly.sis, accompanied by neuralgic pains. The latter cause great restlessness and are relieved by motion. CHARAOTBRISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Anxious, depressed, dullness of intellect. Child cross, depressed, very peevish. Head. — Cannot hold the head up (Natr. mur., Verat. alb.) Scalp sore; itching. Aching and fullness in head. Ears. — Humming as of bees ; \yind rushes out of the right ear. Eyes. — °Blue rings around the eyes ; dull look. Nose. — Nose dry; "nosebleed in youfchs. Face. — "Wrinkled, as if old (Baryta.). "Comedones, with emaci- ation (Sulph.). Mouth. — Slimy taste, acid. Tongue sore. Mouth hot and dry. Stomach. — Gnawing hunger; ravenous appetite, and all the while emaciating. Burning as from acidity. "Sensation as if stomach were hanging or swimming in water, with cold- ness. Pains cutting, gnawing, burning, worse at night. Abdomen. — Great distension of abdomen. "Hard lumps in different parts of abdomen. Weak, sinking feeling in bowels. Stool. — "Food passes undigested. "Rheumatism after suddenly checked diarrhcea. Constipation. "Alternate diarrhoea and constipation. (Ant., crud.) . Protruding piles, with burning from touch or whenever passing stool. Male Organs. — "Hydrocele of children, especially after scarlet fever. Female Organs.— Darting pains in region of left ovary. "Blood and moisture oozing from navel of new-born. Respiratory Organs. — Cold air causes a raw feeling (Hyd.). Sensation of breathing hot air. Dyspnoea. "Pressing sen- ABSINTHIUM. 5 sation remains in affected side, impeding free breathing; after pleurisy. Heart and. Pulse. — Pain across chest sharp and severe in re- gion of heart; rheumatism. "Metastasis of rheumatism to heart. Pulse weak and small. Back. — Pains in sacrum. Heavy pain in lumbar region extend- ing to testicles. Limbs. — Inability to move. Weakness of extremities. °Emaci- ation, especially of legs. Back and limbs sore and lame; worse mornings (Rhus tox). Numb sensation in fingers (Con., Phos., Sec). Generalities.— Weak, sickly feeling; when excited, trembhng; Rheumatic pains in neck and back, chest and extremities. Lame and sore all over. Sleep. — Restless ; frightful dreams. Fever. — °High fever during rheumatism. °Hectic fever, with chilliness, after influenza; very weakening; marasmus. Skin. — °Flabby ; hangs loose ; marasmus. °Furunculus ; after Hep. s. Conditions. — Especially useful in children ; more in boys. Compare. — Agar., Baryt., Bry., Con., Cimic, Gels., Phos., Rhus tox.. Zinc. THERAPEUTICS. Marasmus of children \ wasting diseases from malnutri- tion; rheumatism, especially inflammatory, before swelling; gout; gastralgia; also bad effects fi-om suppressed gastral- gia ; hydrocele of children ; chlorosis ; furuncles. ABSINTHIUM. Synonyms. — Artemisia absinthium. Absinthium vulgare. J^atural order. — Compositse. Common name. — Wormwood. Habitat. — A shrub growing wild in Europe ; naturalized in the United States Preparation. — Tincture from the fresh young leaves. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Absinthium exercises a specific influence upon the nervous 6 ABSINTHIUM. system, inducing s}' mptoms of an epileptiform character, mus- cular tremors, tonic and clonic spasms, foaming at the mouth, involuntary defecation and discharge of semen, together with hallucinations, and delirium, the brain and spinal cord being in a state of congestion, especially in the region of the medulla oblongata. It also, secondarily, affects the vegetative sphere, producing at first increased appetite, promoting digestion, accelerating the circulation, and to some extent augmenting the secretions, this condition after a time giving way to one of an opposite character — impaired digestion, with its usual train of symptoms. Its action is similar to that of alcohol, its chronic effects being much more serious in their characterr CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Forgets what has recently happened. Insane; idiotic; brutal. Dread of assassination. Frightful visions (Opium) and terrifying hallucinations (Anac, Can. ind., Hyos., Stram...). Stupor alternating with dangerous violence. "Insensible with convulsions (Cic). Head. — Vertigo on rising, or with tendency to fall backward. Confusion with headache. Congestion of the brain and spinal cord. Eyes. — Conjunctiva injected. Sclorotic yellow. Eyes brilliant. Pain and itching in the eyes. Eyelids feel heavy (Caust., Con. mac, Natr. c). Pupils unequally dilated. Ears. — ^Running from the ears ; after headache. Face. — Foolish look. Rush of blood to the face {Aeon., Bell.). °Makes grimaces, and foams at the mouth in epilepsy. Mouth.— Jaws firmly fixed (Cic, Ign., Hyos., Nux v.). Bites his tongue in epilepsy; tongue thick, protruding; can scarcely talk; tongue trembling ; seems paralyzed. Stomach.— Loss of appetite; loathing of food. Food lies heavy a,s if it would not be digested (Ars., Bry., Cistus, Colch., JYujo v., Puis.). Stomach feels cold and oppressed. Eructations ; nausea ; vomiting of bitter mucus. Nausea, apparently in region of gall bladder. Uncomfortable, irri- tated feeling of stomach. Abdomen. — Liver and spleen feel as if swollen. Bloated around waist and in abdomen. Immense accumulation of flatu- lence in abdomen {Carb. v., Cinch., Lye, Sulph.). ACALYPHA INDICA. 7 Urinary Organs. — Constant desire to urinate. Urine deep orange, of a strong smell (Benz. ac), like horse urine (Natr. a., Nitr. ac); albuminous. Female Organs. — Darting pain in right ovary (Apis.). ° Chlo- rosis (Ferr., Helon.). Heart. — Tremor of the heart felt toward the back. Heart thumps can be heard in scapular region. Generalities.— Feet very cold. Falling down, as in epilepsy, unconscious, with distortion of the features, spasms of the limbs, bloody foam at mouth, and biting of the tongue (Cic.) ; very weak afterward. Epileptic attacks occurring in rapid succession. Excited opisthotonos; grinding teeth; fol- lowed by stupor (Nux v., Opium). ° Paralysis of inner organs. Sciatica. Conditions. — Young people. Compare.— Artem. vulg., Abrot., Alcohol, Bell., Cham., Hyos., Stram. THERAPEUTICS. Congestion of the brain, medulla, and spine ; delirium ebri- osorum ; sleeplessness in typhoid fever when there is congestion of the brain (Farrington); catarrhal conjunctivitis; enlarged liver or spleen ; wind colic ; prolonged spasms of children ; epi- leptiform convulsions ; dyspepsia ; chlorosis ; sciatica. ACALYPHA INDICA. Katural order. — Euphorbiacete. Habitat. — A weed grow- ing in India. Preparation. — Tincture from the fresh plant. GENERAL ANALYSIS AND THERAPEUTICS. Has only been found to act upon the respiratory organs, inducing "dry cough, folloiued hy spitting of blood," which is its only characteristic, this having been repeatedly verified, by its prompt cure of heemoptysis. According to Hale, it is indi- cated when there is expectoration of pure blood in the morning, and dark lumps of clotted blood in the evening. Compare. — Aeon., Arn., Ham., Ipec, Millef., Phos. 8 ACETIC ACID. ACETIC ACID. Pure glacial Acetic acid. Preparation. — Dilutions to the 3x are prepared with distilled water ; after that Alcohol is used. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts especially upon mucous surfaces, producing irritation, inflammation, and excessive secretion. It "produces directl.y gastro-enteritis and also (in one case at least) membranous laryngo-tracheitis. Its remote effects are a profound anaemia, with diarrhoea, night sweats, feeble pulse, emaciation and cough" — T. F. Allen. Applied to the skin it acts as a stimulant and astringent, and also possesses escharotic properties. OHARAOTERISTIG SYMPTOMS. Mind.— Irritable (Bry., Cham., Nux v.); nervous; anxious. Head. — Heaviness. Dull pain in forehead and vertex. Eyes.— Sunken, surrounded by dark circles. Lachrymation (Aeon., Cepa., Euphr.). Face. — Anxious, wild expression of countenance, cheeks hot, flushed (Aeon., Bell.), and perspiring. °Left cheek very red during fever. Pale, waxen, emaciated. Mouth.— Salivation (Cinch., lod., Merc, J^it. ac.). Tongue pale and flabby; dry and cold. Stomacli.— Intense thirst. Nausea and frequent vomiting (Ars., Ipec, Ant. tart.); after eating. Hot eructations. Contents of stomach feel as if in a ferment ; violent burning pain in stomach and in chest, followed by coldness of the skin and cold sweat on forehead. Epigastrium painful to pressure. Abdomen.— Distension of the abdomen; colicky pains; burn- ing. Stool.— Diarrhoea, with swelling of legs and feet (phthisical sub- jects). Watery diarrhoea. Diarrhoea with colic pains and tenderness of the abdomen. Hsemorrhage from the bowels (Ars., Ham., Nit. ac). Urinary Organs.— Urine increased in quantity, light colored (Phos. ac). Female Organs.— °Metrorrhagia. Milk impoverished, bluish, ACONITUM. 9 transparent, strong, sour taste and odor ; deficient in caseine and butter. Respiratory" Organs. — Hoarseness with laryngeal irritation (Hep. s., Kali carb., Spong.). Lining membrane of larynx and trachea covered with a fibrinous exudation as in true croup (Brom., Kali bi.). Hissing, rattling in the throat. Cough dry, then moist with fever; dyspnoea, emaciation, oedema and diarrhoea. Kespiration difficult, feeble, hurried. Limbs.— (Edematous swelhng of the feet and legs (Ars., Apis). Generalities.— Convulsions, with insensibility. Attacks of faintness. Great debility {Cinch., Sulph.). General trem- bhng. Great emaciation (Ars., Ferr., lod., Graph., Natr. niur., Phos.). Skin pale and waxen. Desquamation. Gen- eral anasarca and dropsical affections (Ars.). Fever.— Skin cold (Camph.). Slow fever with night sweats (Sulph.). Hectic fever with emaciation, diarrhoea, night sweats, dyspnoea, and swelling of lower extremities. Profuse perspiration (Cinch.). Antidotes. — To large doses: fluid magnesia; lime water. Tabac, Aeon., Jfatr. rnur., Sep. Acetic Acid. Antidotes. — All anaesthetic vapors; Aeon., Asar., Coff., Hep. s., Ign., Op., Stram., Tabac, Alcohol. THERAPEUTICS. Anasarca, ascites and dropsical affections in general, when the skin looks white and waxen, like alabaster, and when con- siderable gastric disturbance is present. General ansemia; anaemia of nursing women when the milk is impoverished and the child does not thrive. Hectic fever. Typhoid. Dys- pepsia. Diarrhoea. Membranous croup. Haemorrhages from the nose, lungs, stomach, bowels and uterus. Burns and scalds ; stings of insects; nsevi; warts; corns. ACONITUM. Synonym. — Aconitum napellus. JVatural order. — Ranun- culaceae. Common name. — Monk's Hood. Hahitat. — Native 10 ACONITUM. of EurojDe; cultivated in America. Preparation. — Tincture from the whole plant, gathered at the time of flowering. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts predominantly upon the cerebro-spinal nervous sys- tem, producing an exalted activity in the arterial circulation, paralyzing the arterial capillaries, and, as a result, giving con- gestions and inflammations of various parts, especially of the brain, spinal cord, serous and mucous membranes, muscles and joints. According to Dr. Bartholow, Aconite affects the sensory nerves before the motor. It paralyzes flrst the end organs next the nerve trunks, and finally the centers of sensation in the cord. It also impairs the reflex function of the spinal cord ; but this effect is secondary to the sensory paralysis. It causes an arrest of motility through its action on the motor centers of the cord, and subsequently on the nerve trunks. Applied directly to the heart, Aconite lessens the number and force of its beats, and Anally arrests its action in the diastole. It also lowers the arterial pressure. It is, therefore, a direct cardiac poison, affecting all the structures of the heart, the ganglia nerves, and muscular substance. Aconite also paralyzes the muscles of respiration, through its action upon the peripheral fibres of the pneumogastric. From a therapeutic standpoint, however, all these features of the physiological effects of Acon- ite are of secondary importance, as compared with its power to produce and remove congestions and inflammations of the various organs and tissues of the body, though its use in func- tional and organic cardiac diseases, and in affections of both the sensory and motor nerve centers, giving rise to neuralgic and paralytic states, has proved it to be of incalculable service in such conditions. Aconite also causes an increase of elimination by the skin and kidneys, the solids being excreted in proportion with the fluids. There is very little evidence that Aconite produces any organic changes, its power being wholly functional, though it is frequently useful in the course of organic diseases of the heart and other organs, for the removal or palliation of symptoms which may arise, and which indicate its employment. ACONITUM. 11 The leading expression of Aconite is a feverish, nervous rest- lessness, or mental distress, which characterizes its entire action. OHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Great tiiiviclity (Aur., Bell., Cinch., Ign., Phos.), especially after a fright; afraid in the dark, fear of ghosts, etc. (Ars., Puis.) ; raging delirium, especially at night. Delirium. Chattering childish nonsense (Hyos.); thinks he is dying, with restless jerking and jumping about (Ars.). Fear of approaching death (Agn., Ars., Cimic, Nitr. ac, Sec); predicts the day of death (Apis). Inconsolable anxi- ety; piteous wailing s (YeYQit. alb.); vexation about trifles (Nitr. ac, Nux v.). Excessive restlessness, agonized toss- ing about (vEth., Ars., Camph., Natr., Ars., Rhus.). Variable humor, alternate attacks of gayety and dejection '{Ign., JVux. 7)^., Phos., Plat.). Dullness and confusion of mind; weakness of memory. °Ailments from fright (Gels., Op.); from vexation ; from anger {Bry., Cham.). Head. — Vertigo zuith nausea and vanishing of sight. Vertigo when rising from a recumbent posture {Bry., Cham., Phos.) with fainting and pale face (Bell., Puis., Sulph.). Vertigo on stooping (Sulph.); staggers especially to the right. Ver- tigo from congestion; °from anger; °from fright; °from sud- denly suppressed catamenia. Burning headache, as if the brain were agitated by boiling water. Fullness and heavy feeling, as if everything would push out of the forehead {Bry., Sulph.). Aching in vertex, worse at night; better on motion and in the open air. Drawing pressing feeling in trigeminus, then shooting, wandering, intermittent, then constant pain, sometimes pressure. °Sunstroke(Bell.,Glon.) especially from sleeping in the rays of the sun. Congestion ; anxiety; face hot and red (Ferr.), or pale; carotids pulsate strongly (Bell.); pulse full, strong, or small and quick; worse towards evening. Sensation as if the hairs stood on end; scalp sensitive to the touch (Baryta carb.. Bell., Cinch., Natr. mur., Nitr. ac, Merc, Mez., Mux v.). Stitches under the scalp. Formication, better from heat. Sensi- tiveness of the scalp to cold air, especially a strong wind. Eyes. — Bloodshot. Dull, surrounded with blue rings. Dis- torted. Sensitive to the air. Pain anteriorly as if the eye 12 ACONITUM. would be pushed out when the Kds were opened (Sang.). Violent and acute iivflaimnatiojv, °in the earlier stages (Bell.). Intense burning, press! ve, shooting pains, especially" on moving the eyeballs. °Conjunctivitis resulting from the irritation of foreign bodies in the eye ; from ingrowing eye- lashes; from exposure to cold, dry winds. Sensitive to light, particularly sun light (Sulph.); light dazzles the eyes (Bell.). Pupils contracted. Vision dim or entirely lost. Eyeballs feel enlarged, as if coming out of the sockets. Lids hard, red, swollen; feel tense, hot, dry, burning and sensi- tive to the air. Sensation of sand in lower inner can- thus. Ears. — Great sensitiveness to every noise; noise intolerable (Bell., Lye), particularly music (Ambra, Phos. ac). Ring- ing or roaring in ears (Bell., Cinch., Lye). External ear hot, red and swollen (Bell., Apis). Pain in the right ear (Aeon., Aur., Bell., Colch., Hep. s., Lye, Graph.). Nose. — Sense of smell very acute (Bell.), especially for unpleas- ant odors. Epistaxis {Bell., Bry.), bright red blood. (Erig.). Coryza with sneezing (Arg., Euphorb., Osm.), fever, thirst, restlessness. Dry feeling in posterior nares. Distressing pressive pain at root of nose {Kalibi., Merc, iod., Natr. ars.. Plat.). Pace. — Anxious frightened expression. Hippocratic. Face red and pale alternately; or one cheek red, the other pale (Cham.); face bloated and red {Bell., Op.). Sensation of face growing large or szuelling. On rising the red face turns deadly pale (Verat. alb.). Twitching. Tingling. Numb- ness. Involuntary closing of jaw^s with salivation. Tris- mus, in paroxysms. Rigidity. Neuralgia of trigeminus, left side {Spig.); face red and hot; restlessness, anguish, and screaming. Mouth. — Burning, tingling, and numbness of hps, mouth and tongue. Dryness of mouth (Ailanth., Ars., Bry., Hyos., JVujcm,.). Toothache from "cold, or dry, cold winds, with throbbing on one side; cheeks red; congestion to head. Teeth sensitive to cold air (Spig.). Bitter taste in the mouth {Bry., Coloc., Cinch., JYux v., Hep. s.. Puis.). Tongue coated white, or thick yellow white {Ant. crud., Bry., Merc, J^ux v.). Tongue sivollen. Burning vesicles ACONITUM. 13 ou tip of tongue, Dry, rough feeling in middle of tongue. Copious flow of saliva (Cinch., Merc, iod., Nitr. ac). Throat.— Burning and numbness in throat (Caps.). Redness of soft palate and uvula (Bell. ) ; burning ; dryness; constriction. Fauces and pharynx dark-red (Bapt.), stinging and burning (Apis), swelhng of tonsils. Stitches in back part of throat, causing frequent swallowing. Feeling of dryness, as if some- thing had stuck in the throat (Alum., Hep. s., Nitr. ac). Stomach.— No appetite; loathing of food (Ant. crud., Arn., Ars.). Burning unquenchable thirst {Ars., Bry., Cinch., Merc., Katr. mur., Rhus tcfjc.). Desire for heer (Cocc, Sulph.), wine (Bry., Cinch.), or brandy (Puis.). °Gastric catarrh from drinking ice-water while overheated. Painful hiccough (Hyos., Nux v., Stram.). Vomiting of lumbrici (Sang.) ; of bile (Ars., Podo.) ; of green masses of mucus (Ant. tart., Ipec.) ; of what has been drunk (Ars., Phos.). Vomiting, with anxiety, heat, thirst, profuse sweat, and in- creased micturition. Anxious pulsation in pit of stomach, with shooting pain. Pressure in pit of stomach as from a weight or stone (JEsc, Ars., Bry., Nux v.. Puis.). Burning- from stomach up through the oesophagus to the mouth (Ars.). Region of stomach sensitive to touch. Abdomen. — Pressive pain as from a weight in hypochondria ; constriction, or stitches jn hepatic region hindering respira- tion. (Ars., Bry., Cinch., Kali carb.). Abdomen swollen, burning hot and sensitive to the touch {Bell., Cupr.). Meteorism {Phos. ac), vomiting, inability to urinate. Burning and cutting in the intestines, worse from pres- sure or lying on the right side. Pain in the hepatic region hindering deep breathing (Bry., Iod.). Fullness and weight in hypochondria. Pain in hypogastrium as from a flatu- lent purgative. Stool. — Watery (Ant. crud., Ars., Cinch., Podo.), white, with red urine; lihe chopped^ herbs in summer complaint; black, fetid {Ars.), bloody, and slimy, scanty, loose, frequent, with tenesmus. Bleeding haemorrhoids (Ham., Nitr. ac). burn- ing and heat in hsemorrhoidal vessels (^Esc, Sulph.). Intol- erable nightly tingling and itching at the anus, from seat worms (Ars., Cina, Graph.). Urinary Organs. — Painful, anxious urging to urinate (Bo- 14 ACONITUM. rax). Micturition pain fiol, difficult, drop hy drop; urine scanty, fiery, scalding -hot, red or darh-colored {Apis, Ars., Bell., Canth.). Urine deposits blood. Burning in fossa navicularis (Petros.). Retention or suppression of urine (Apis, Hjos., Stram.), with pressure in the bladder, or stitches in the region of the kidneys; "retention from cold, especially in children, with crying and restlessness. Male Organs. — Bruised pain in testicles {Arg., Arn.). Testi- cles swollen and hard {Agnus, Amy., Con. mac). Female Organs. — Menses suppressed from fright (Lye), vex- ation; cold ; especially in plethoric women. "Active uterine haemorrhage (Erig., Ham., Sec, Ipec.) ; imtch excitability ; giddy; cannot sit up; fear of death. Vagina dry, hot, and sensitive {Bell.). "Suppressed lochia (Cimic.) ; skin hot and dry ; milk scanty ; abdomen inflated and sensitive (Bell.). ° Ovaritis from suddenly checked menstrual flow (Cimic). "Impending abortion from fright or vexation. Respiratory Organs. — Hoarseness (Bell., Caust., Kali h., lodi., Phos., Spong.), weak voice. Larynx sensitive to touch (Lach.) and to inspired air, as if denuded (Spong., Osm.). Laryngitis with inflammatory fever ; also with suf- focative spasms. °Crozvp, awakening in first sleep; agony, tossing about; dry short cough; after exposure to dry, cold ivinds (Hep. s., Spong.). Cough dry, hoarse, loud (Spong.), spasmodic, rough; awakening with danger of suffocation (Lach.) ; dry, hard and ringing; from tickling in throat (Sang.). Child grasps its throat every time it coughs (lodi. ) . Expectoration of bright-red blood; of blood and mucus, with raw feeling behind the sternum ; rusty (Phos.); thin, frothy, white mucus streaked with bright blood (Sulph.). Ha^'inoptysis, the blood comes with an easy hawking, hemming or slight cough; anxiety, palpita- tion, quick pulse, stitches in chest {Bry., Kali carb., Phos.) ; "from excitement, wine or exposure to dry, cold air. Cannot lie on the right side, but only on the back (Merc). Stitches in chest with cough {Bry., Kali carb., Merc, Phos.); on inspiration {Bry.). Lancinating pains through the chest, with .dry heat, difficult breathing ; often violent chill. La- bored, anxious breathing; or quick and superficial; loud, stertorous, with open mouth. ° Agony; sits straight up; ACONITUM. 15 can hardly breatlie; pulse thredd-lihe {Ant. tart., Ars., Sainb.); voviitivritio; sweat ivith anxiety; swelling under short riljs; after scarlet fever. "Oppression of the chest when . moving fast or ascending (Amm. carb., Ars., Calc.),in heart disease (Cact.). Pressive weight and burning under the sternum. Heart and Pulse. — Dreadful oppression and anxiety about the heart. Palpitation (Cact., Calc), with great anxiety {Ars., Spig.), and restlessness; difficult breathing; confusion in head; flying heat in face; pressive pain in cardiac region. Feeling of fullness; pulse hard and strong; contracted stitches in loeart ; constriction of the chest ; °iu pericarditis. Uncomplicated cardiac disease; especially with numbness in the left arm (Rhus tox.); tinghng in fingers, and fainting. Pulse strong, full, hard (Bell., Verat. vir.) °in fever; small, intermitting, irregular, °in asthma (Ars.); quick, hard, small, °in peritonitis; contracted, full, powerful, over one hundred per minute; quicker than beat of heart impercept- ible, like a thread, with anxiety. (Ars.). Neck and. Back. — Tearing in nape of neck. Painful stiff neck, Avorse on moving neck; pain extending down to right shoulder {Gels.). Bruised pain between the shoulders {Rhus tox.). Drawing, tearing pain in the scapulae. Stiff- ness of the back {Bhus tox.). Numbness in small of back extending into the legs. Pain in back prevents taking deep inspiration. Upper Limbs. — Drawing, tearing pain in shoulder joint, elbow joint, in the forearm, wrists and fingers. (Bry., Rhod., Rhus tox.. Puis.). Numbness of the left arm, can scarcely move the hand. Formication in the arms, hands, and fingers {Bhustox.). Arms hang powerless, as if paralyzed by blows. Creeping in fingers, especially in writing. Hands icy cold; cold sweat in palms. Palms hot. Blueness of nails. Lower Limbs. — Drawing, tearing pains in all the joints, and in the thigh. (Bry., Rhus, tox., Puis.). Tired feehng in lower limbs during repose (Rhus tox.). Legs almost poiuerless after sitting; numbness (Rhus tox.). Cramps in calves (Calc, Camph., Nux v., Sil., Sulph.). Unsteadiness of the knees. Coldness of the feet, particularly the toes. Generalities. — Rheumatic inflammation of the joints; worse 16 ACONITUM. evening and night; intense bright-red, shining swelling of the parts; sensitive to least contact (Bry.). Lameness and numb feeling in the affected parts; pain intolerable; numb- ness and tingling in all parts. Great weariness and loss of strength (Cinch.). Faintness on attempting to sit up (Bry,). Very sensitive to the least draft of cold air (Cocc, Nux m.). Drawing, tearing pains here and there (Rhus, Puis.). Burning through all mucous membranes. Bruised pains in different parts (Arn,). Fine, stinging, or burning stingiivg pains in many parts. Body sensitive to touch; does not wish to be touched or moved. Excessive restlessness and tossing about for several hours. {Ars.). Convulsions. Most symptoms accompanied by shivering and anxiety. Skin. — Red, shining, hot, siuelling; violent pain {Bell., Bry.). Fine prickling as from needles here and there. Spots like flea-bites (Coni.); itching unchanged by scratching. °Rash of children; miliary; also in measles and scarlet fever (Apis, Bell., Puis.). Sleep. — Sleeplessness after night, luith great restlessness and tossing about (Abies can.). Anxious, vivid dreams, walk- ing luith a start {Ars., Bell., Hyos.). Nightmare. Fever. — Chilliness on slight movement, or from being uncov- ered or touched. Goose-flesh. Shivering ascends from the feet to the chest. Chilliness tozuards evening, with thirst, hot head and face, red cheehs and outpressing headache {Bry.). Shivering at night on lying down. Heat with thirst, hard, full, and frequent pulse; anxious; im- patient; inappeasable; beside himself; tossing about in agony. Profuse hot sweat during sleep; cold or sour sweat. Sweat after midnight, relieving all symptoms. Sweat on whichever cheek he lies. °Bad effect from sup- pressed sweat. Aggravation. — In the evening and night; when lying on the (left) side, or on the back; after getting in bed; when rising (Bry., Op., Dig.); inclose room; from tobacco smoke (Ign.). Amelioration.— In the open air (Bry., Plat., Pals.); when sit- ting still (rheumatism); from wine; generally better while at rest, but during night in bed pains insupportable {Merc.)\ after sweat (Rhus.). ACONITUM. 17 Conditions. — Especially applicable to plethoric persons, or those leading sedentary lives; dark hair and eyes; persons with rigid fibre. Compare. — Arn., Ars., Bell., Bry., Cact., Camph., Canth., Cham>.,Qm\\Q., Coff., Convalaria., Colch., Dig., ^mxy.^PuIs., Spig., SulpJv., Verat. Antidotes. — Acetic ac, Paris. Sulph. To large doses ; free vom- iting by emetics ; wine, vegetable acids, vinegar. Abuse of Aconite calls for Sulph. Aconite Antidotes.— Bell., Cham., Coff., Nux v., Sep., Sulph., Verat. alb. THERAPEUTICS. Aconite is most often useful in those diseases where the so- called antiphlogistic treatment — blood letting, etc. — would be the common practice. In sthenic or purely inflam- matory fever in the first stage, before localization, eruption or exudation has taken place (when the latter is about to occur or has just occurred, Bry., Gels.; after it has occurred. Apis, Ars., lod., Merc. Phos., Rhus, Sang., etc.). Aconite is never indi- cated unless there be present great anxiety and restlessness. If the patient is quiet and apathetic Aconite is not the remedy. (In such cases if there is strong arterial excitement, full hard pulse, Verat. vir.; less violence, soft pulse, Gels.). Aconite is also indicated in the chilly stage, before the febrile stage is de- veloped, often inducing a critical sweat and aborting the at- tack. Aconite produces no alteration in the quality of the blood, therefore it is never indicated in fevers of a malarial or septic character. Aconite is especially useful in the first or in- flammatory stage of respiratory diseases, — bronchitis, pneu- monia, pleurisy and all respiratory catarrhs. It is the remedy for croup, either catarrhal or membranous, when the attack has been caused by exposure to dry, cold northwest winds, the symptoms agreeing. Haemoptysis. Respiratory troubles arising from suppressing a profuse perspiration. Aconite is often indicated in the flrst stage of meningitis, not tubercular, but when arising from exposure to the sun's rays, or from fright or anger; peritonitis; metritis; cystitis; hepatitis; enteritis; glos- sitis. In rheumatism. In pericarditis, endocarditis and an- gina pectoris; also in uncomplicated hypertrophy of the heart 18 ACTtEA spicata. with numbness of the left arm and tinghng in the fingers. In measles and miliary fever; also in children's diseases, with a hot dry fever, and great restlessness. Useful in catarrhal conjunc- tivitis when resulting from exposure to dry cold winds, from surgical operations or from a foreign body in the eye. Neural- gia resulting from exposure to dry cold winds, with numbness and tingling. Supra orbital neuralgia with burning pains. Also useful in paralysis where numbness and tingling are pres- ent. Convulsions caused by intense excitement, fright or anger. Aconite is very useful in suppressed or painful menstru- ation resulting from fright or sudden exposure to cold. In pregnancy it calms the emotions, overcomes unnatural fears, and prevents abortion from fright or excitement. Milk fever and suppressed lochia with characteristic symptoms. Orchitis. Aconite may also be used in many other diseased states as in- dicated in the foregoing pathogenesis, a high temperature, full pulse and great anxiety and restlessness being the chief indica- tions for its use in most instances. ACT^A SPICATA. Jfatitral order. — Ranunculaceae. Common names. — Bane- berry. Herb Christopher. Habitat. — A perennial herb growing in the woods of Europe and Asia. Preparation. — Tincture from the fresh root. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Its chief action consists in the production of a rheumatoid condition, especially of the small joints, for which latter it is an important remedy. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Furious delirium {Bell., Canth., Strain.). Face. — Pain as of rheumatism in the face (Aeon.). Storaach. — Sour vomiting (Calc, Iris, Ipec, Nux v., Podo.). Extremities. — Swelling of the joints after slight fatigue. Pain as from paralytic weahness in thehands. Rheuma- ^SCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM. 19 Usm, of the small joints {Caul., Led.). Pains in the wrists 'or finger joints; very tender to tlie touch, excruciating pains, worse at night. In lower limbs swelling, pain, weak- ness. Tremblingin thighs when lifting them. Sensation of great weariness in the knees. Generalities.— Great lassitude and debility; after eating, walk- ing in the open air, or much talking. Tearing drawing pains. Compare.— Aconite, Caul., Cimic, Ledum. THERAPEUTICS. . Used almost exclusively for rheumatic gout of the small joints; especially useful when sour stomach is present. ^SCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM. Jfatural order. — Sapindacese. Common name. — Horse- ■chestnut. Habitat. — A tree native of middle Asia, but culti- vated in temperate climates. Preparation. — Tincture from the fresh, ripe, hulled nuts. GENERAL ANALYSIS. This drug acts prominently upon the liver and portal sys- tem, causing congestion, and giving rise, secondarily, in the colon, rectum and anus to catarrhal inflammation . The heemor- rhoidal vessels become intensely congested, resulting in hsemor- rhoids in their most aggravated form. The chief characteristic symptom is a severe aching pain in the lumbar and sacral regions. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Mind.— Depressed; gloomy; despondent; irritable (Bry., Cham., Nux v.). Unable to fix the attention. Head.— Dull pressure in forehead ; slight nausea, followed im- mediately by stitches in right hypochondria {Bry.). Con- fused feeling, with vertigo. Frequent flying pains through the temples. Flushes of heat over the occiput, neck and shoulders. 20 iESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM. Eyes. — Weight in the eyes ; they feel heavy and dull. Painful aching over left eye. Laehrymation. Nose. — Stinging and burning in posterior nares and soft palate. Sneezing. Dryness of posterior nares. Face. — Pale, miserable appearance {Ars.). Mouth. — Tongue coated white or yellow (Bry., iN'ux v., Puis.). Salivation. Taste bitter (Aeon., Cinch., Coloc, Bry., Mzix, v., Fills., Siolph.)] metallic (JJfe/^o., Sulpfi.). Tongue feels as if it had been scalded {Apis, Iris, Puis., Sep.). Throat. — Feeling of dryness (Bell.) and roughness (or rawness and burning) in throat, as from taking cold (Aeon., Alum.). Constrictive feeling in fauces. Swallowing difficult; inclined to swallow with dryness in throat. Stomach. — Violent vomiting {Ant. tart., Ipec); great burning distress in the stomach {Ars., Canth., Iris, Phos.). Pressure as from a stone in pit of stomach (Aeon., Ars., Bry., JSfujo z;., Puis.). Eructations of wind ; empty. Abdomen. — Tenderness in the right hypochondrium {Bry., Chel., Cinch., MevQ,.); stitches; fullness. Much distress in liver and epigastrium {Chel., Jfux v.). Constant, severe aching from pit of stomach to right lobe of liver. Abdo- men tender and sore to touch. Emission of foetid flatus. Stool and Anus. — Dry uncomfortable feeling in rectum, as if it luere filled ivith small stichs (Nitr. ac). Soreness; burning, itching {Bitlph.), and fztllness in rectum, also in anus. Hcsmorrhoids lihe ground nuts, purple; painful sensation of burning ; generally blind ; aching and lame- ness or shooting in the bach ; prolapsed feeling. Burning in the rectum after stool (Aloe, Nitr" ac, Sulph.). Ineffect- ual urging to stool (Nux v.). Stool large, hard, dry, and passed with difficulty {Bry.)', feeling as if anus protruded after stool. Urinary Organs. — Frequent scanty urination (Aeon., Canth., Coloc, Digit.); urine scalding hot. Urine dark and muddy; dark brown sediment; yellow (Ambra) with thick mucous sediment (Berb.). Female Sexual Organs. — Thick, dark, corroding leucorrhoea, with aching and lameness in the back across the sacro- iliac articulations. Respiratory Organs.— Eaw feeling in chest (Ambra., Phos., JESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM. 21 Eumex.). Tightness in chest (Phos.). Pain in right lung on motion when breathing. Heart. — Twitching over the region of the heart. ^Functional disturbances of the heart from hsemorrhoidal complaints. Back. — Constant bacTcache ajfecting the saoT^um and hips, very -much aggravated hy lualhing and stooping forward {Cimic.)\ scarcely able to rise after sitting. Back gives out luhen lualhing. Tearing pain in small of back and hips when walking. Aching between the shoulders. Lower Limbs. — Legs so weak she can hardly walk. Knees ache. Tendo.-achillis sore. Generalities.— Paralytic feeling in arms, legs and spine. Feels faint, weak, and weary {Alum., Cinch., Sulph.). Disposi- tion to stretch and yawn. Fullness in various organs, as if they contained too much blood. Mucous membranes dry, swollen, burn and feel raw. Conditions. — Suitable in persons with hsemorrhoidal tendency, and who suffer with gastric, bilious or catarrhal troubles. Compare. — iEsc. glab., Aloe, Bap., Bell., Berb., Bry., Collins., Diosc, Nitr. ac, Nux v., Phytol., Podo., Sulph. THERAPEUTICS. -F]sculus hippocastanum has been found most useful in the treatment of haemorrhoids. They are usually blind, very sensi- tive, and always accompanied by a sensation of dryness in the rectum as if it were filled with little sticks or splinters. There is also usually a severe aching and lameness in the small of the back, and considerable fullness and distress in the region of the liver. The drug has been found quite useful in piles after Nux, Sulphur or Collinsonia have failed. Its symptoms are some- what similar to those of Aloe. Like the remedies already named it is also quite useful in constipation and prolapsus ani, other symptoms of the drug agreeing. It has been found useful in dyspepsia and gastralgia, but only when associated with a bilious condition due to an engorged portal circulation, and usually haemorrhoids. While the characteristic pain in the back is commonly associated with haemorrhoids, it may also indicate the drug in lumbago. In dysmenorrhoea, and in leucorrhcea, when the discharge is dark, thick and corroding. ^Fsculus is also a remedy for follicular pharyngitis when the chief symp- 22 .ETHUSA.. torn is a dry rough or raw feeling in the fauces, and a sensation of constriction, and especially when occurring in haemorrhoidal subjects. ^THUSA. Synony-m. — .-Ethusa cynapium. Jfatural order. — Umbilli- ferse. Coininon names. — Fool's Parsley. Garden Hemlock. Habitat. A common weed growing throughout Europe. Prep- aration.— Tincture from the whole fresh plant when in flower. GENERAL ANALYSIS. The J^]thusa Cyna.pium has been classed as a powerful narcotic poison, but it is now claimed that this is an error, the drug being entirely harmless, though possessing an essen- tial oil that may provoke nausea, vomiting and other symp- toms of gastro-intestinal irritation. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Pace. — °^ drawn condition, beginning at the alee nasi, and extending to the angle of the mouth, giving the face an expression of great a^^xiety and pain. Stomach. — Nausea at the sight of food. Eetching and throw- ing up phlegm. ° Intolerance of milk; it is forcibly ejected almost as soon as szuallowed; then weakness cazbses drowsiness; in nursing children. ° Violent vomit- ing of curdled milk (Iris) and cheesy vzatter. Stool. — Diarrhoea; stools bright yellow (Chel.), or greenish, watery (Grat., Gamb.). ° Consisting of curds of milk. Generalities. — ^Epileptiform spasms, with clenched thumbs; red face; eyes turned d ownward; dilated, staring, immovable pupils; foam at the mouth; teeth set; pulse small, hard, ac- celerated. Great weakness ; children cannot stand; cannot hold up their heads. Better in the open air. Sleep. — ° Dozing of child after vomiting spells {Ant. tart.), or after the stool (Kux m.) °0n falling asleep, rolling of the eyes, or slight convulsions. AGAEICUS MUSCARIUS. 23 Conditions. — Frequently indicated in summer season. Suit- able for children who do not bear milk. Compare. — Ant. tart., Calc. c, Cic, Ipec, Grat., Gcnrib., Nux m., Sulph., Sulph. ac. THERAPEUTICS. iEthusa is only useful in ^astro-intestinal troubles, espe- cially in gastro-intestinal catarrh and convulsions of children during dentition, the chief indications for its use being an in- tolerance of milk, and either vomiting or diarrhoea of curdled milk. Infantile paralysis accompanied by these symptoms has been cured by this remedy. AGARICUS MUSCARIUS. SynonyTYi. — Amanita. Natural order. — Fungi. Coimnon names. — Bug Agaric. Fly Agaric. Habitat. — A poisonous mushroom growing in dry pine and birch forests in Europe, Asia and America. Preparation. — Tincture from the entire younger fresh plants. GENERAL ANALYSIS. According to T. F. Allen (Hand-book of Materia Medica, p. 19.), "Agaricus acts energetically upon the circulation, res- piration, peristalis and secretion. It irritates and excites the cardiac filaments of the pneumogastric, causes tonic contrac- tions of arterioles and smooth muscle fibre (intestines, bladder, iris), increases secretions from the salivary glands, liver, pan- creas, mucous membranes of intestinal canal, etc., and causes contraction of the pupil and spasms of accommodation. Paralysis results as a reaction from prolonged spasm or as the primary effect of large doses. Numerous effects (motor and sensory) may be referred to antemia of nerve centers (brain and spine), caused by persistent spasm of blood vessels." From the motor centers we obtain tremors, chorea, convul- sions, etc., and from the sensory pain in the spinal cord and nerves, and tenderness of the spine to the touch, especially in the lumbar reaion. 24 AGARICUS MUSCARIUS. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Indifference; disinclined to answer questions (Phos., Phos. ac). °Delirium, with constant raving; tries to get out of bed; great exertion of power {Bell., Hyos.). Ill humored, self-willed; morose, stubborn (Bry., Cham., Nux v.). Head. — Vertigo, in morning, from strong sunlight; from heat of sun, when walking in open air (Ant. crud., Calc. c, Glon., Sex).,>S^z^?yy7^.); reeling as if drunk (Stram,). Confusion, dullness and heaviness in head. In forehead, stitches, tearing, drawing, aching and burning pains; more on left side. Aching in the vertex . Dull headache, especially in the forehead; obliging him to move the head to and fro, and to close the eyes as for sleep. Drawing froin both sides of the frontal hone as far as the root of the nose. Pains as from a nail in the right side of the head (Anac, Coff., Ign.); twitching and stitches, more on left side. Great weight in the occiput; the head constantly falls backward (Cinch.). Stitching, tearing, aching and boring pains in the occiput. °Headaches of those subject to chorea, or who readily become delirious in fever; or with pain (Bell.); twitchings or grimaces. Eyes. — Burning and itching. Pupils dilated. Twitching in the eyelids (Chin, sulph.); in eyeballs. Spasms, with ach- ing in left eyeball. Feeling of weakness in the eyes without having exerted them. Agglutination of canthi, viscid, 3"el- low humor. Burning and itching in canthi; stitches ; vision dim, as from a mist; after looking long at any object while reading; also with flickering. Shortsighted. Motion of type while reading, with itching and burning. Flickering before the eyes while writing (Senega). Muscas volitantes (Physos.); vibrating spectra, with vertigo. Black spots, motes or mists before the eyes {Cyel., Merc, Phos., Sep., Sil., Sulph.). Ears. — Redness, burning, itching of the ears, as if they had been frozen. Nose. — Nosebleed when blowing the nose, early in the morning (Ambra,, Bry.,); followed by violent bleeding. Sensitive smell (Aeon., Bell., Colch., Coloc, Hep., Lye). Nose dry AGARICUS MUSCARIUS. 25 and stopped at night, sneezing in morning. Fluent coryza; clear water drops from nose without a cold in head. Face. — Face pale and sunken, with bluish appearance around ejes, nose and mouth. Lancinating and drawing pain in right cheek. Twitching of the facial muscles (Cic, Ant. tart., ^eZ?., Ign., Nux v., (Enaiv.). Redness, with itching and burning, as from freezing. Pricking in chin, as from needles. Herpetic eruptions; pimples changing to vesicles filled with yellow serum. Mouth. — Tearing, pulsating toothache, worse from cold air. Stitches, soreness or burning at tip of tongue. Tongue dry {Ars., Bapt., Bell., Phos., Rhus tox.) Tongue coated white; gums swollen. Salivation. Taste sweet. Throat.— Stitches extending along eustachian tube to right ear (Bell., Hep. s., Kalib.). Distension, with feeling as if the cravat were too tight (Lach.). Dryness and constric- tion of pharynx, as from an astringent drink. Stomach. — Much hunger, but no relish for food. Eructations, tasting of rotten eggs (Ant. tart., Ar7^., Psor., Sep.) or rot- ten apples; hiccough. Nausea and vomiting. Pinching, boring or gnawing pains in pit of stomach. Abdomen. — Stitches in region of liver; in umbilical region. Loud rumbling in the bowels (Aloe, Lye, Sep., Sulph .). Cutting, griping pains in the bowels. Meteorismus. Stitches under short ribs ; left side. Passage of much inodorous flatzvs; distension. Stool.— Grass-green, bilious stools (Ipec, Mag. carb.), waterj^ (Podo., Cinch.). Diarrhoea in morning after rising {Aloe, Podo., Rumex., Siolph.). Crampy colic, and passing wind (Coloc). Dysenteric flux. Urging in rectum ; haemorrhoids. Burning in anus. Urinary Organs.— Urging to urinate; stitches and burning while urinating. Urine clear ; lemon colored ; copious ; scanty and dark. Viscid, glutinous mucus from urethra. Male Organs.— Great desire for an embrace, the penis being relaxed {Agji., Arg. nit.. Bar., Cojii., Calad.). After an emission great debility and lassitude (Cinch., Phos. ac, Staph.); pains and weakness in the thighs. "Complaints after sexual debauches (Cinch., Phos.). Female Organs. — Awfully hearing -doivn pains ; almost 26 AGAEICUS MUSCAEIUS. intolerable. Itching and irritation of external genitals (Ambra., Coni., Kreos., Natr. mur., Nitr. ac), with strong desire for an embrace (Canth.). Respiratory Organs. — Violent cough in isolated attacks, end- ing in repeated sneezing. Sudden convulsive coughs ; worse forenoons, or during the day. Oppression and constriction of the larynx; cause a dread of suffocation (Aeon., Lach,). Dry hacking cough in forenoon. Expectoration of a ball of mucus, almost without cough. Respiration difficult; noisy. Frequent deep sighing (Ign.). Violent oppression and constriction of the chest {Ars., Phos.) dyspnoea. Pulse. — Intermittent. Irregular. Slow. Small and weak. Neck and Back. — Stiffness in the nape of the neck (Aeon., Lach., Ign., Rhus.). Peculiar sensation of weakness and stiffness between the shoulders, extending to the neck. Aching in back after dinner, especially in a spot in middle with sensitiveness to the touch and motion. Spasmodic and drawing pain, extending to middle of chest and into oesophagus. Pain in back, as after continual stooping (Rhus tox.). Muscles feel bruised; feel short when bending for- ward. Painfuhzess along the spinal cord luhen stooping. Violent shooting, Ijurning pains deep in the spine. Aching along the spine and limbs. Spinal column sensitive to the touch (Cimic, Phos.). Every turning motion of the body causes pain in the spine. Sensation as if ants were creeping along the spine. Sudden violent stitches in the sacrum while walking in the open air. Pain in lumbar region and sacrum ; a sort of crick in the back ; extends along to the nape of the neck. Upper Limbs. — Tremor of the hands (Phos.). Convulsive shocks in various muscles. Itching, burning redness, and swelling of hands and fingers as if they had been frozen ; as from splinters; as if burnt on surface. Stiffness in fingers as from gout. Lower Limbs. — Tiuitching of the m-uscles. Tearing, stitch- ing pains. Itching, burning, and redness of the feet and toes (Apis), as if frost-bitten. Generalities. — Frequent twitching of the muscles in different parts of the body (Zinc). ° Paralysis of upper and loiver limbs (Phos., Plumb., Zinc). Tearing in limbs; worse at AGAEICUS MUSCARIUS. 27 rest or sitting ; better from motion {Rhus tox.). Pains in limbs, with lameness from numbness. Uncertainty in walk- ing; tumbling over everything in the way. Tremor of the whole body. Violent muscular tiuitchings (Cic, Physos., Stram.). ° Involuntary movements ivhile awahe; cease during sleep ; chorea. Cramp in the hands and feet ; body convulsed, as if a galvanic battery were applied to the spine {Cic). Startings and twitchings on falling asleep {Bell., Hyos., Stram.). Burning, itching and redness of various parts as if frost-bitten. Symptoms generally better from motion, especially from slow walking. Spinal symp- toms' aggravated from walking in the open air, and better from being warm in bed. Sleep. — Frequent yawning ; unusual sleepiness. Fever. — Chilly on slight movement, or from raising the bed- clothes. Shiverings over the body, running from above downward. Profuse sweat when walking, or from the least exertion. Conditions. — Applicable more in persons with light hair and lax skin and muscles ; in old people with indolent circula- tion; in drunkards, especially for their headaches. Compare. — Can. ind., Cic, Cimic, Coni., Hyos., Lach., Jabor., Nux v., Phos., Physos., Sec. cor.. Puis., Tarrant., Zinc. Antidotes. — Camph., Coff., Puis., Vinum. THERAPEUTIC S. Agaricus has been found chiefly useful in the treatment of chorea, neuralgia and epileptiform spasms, due to spinal irrita- tion or anaemia. It is especially useful in muscular twitchings of a choreic nature, but where chorea has not fully developed. The drug is of very little use in true epilepsy. Headaches of those subject to chorea ; also when resulting trom prolonged desk work, and in drunkards. According to T. F. Allen it is an exceedingly valuable remedy in asthenopia from prolonged strain spasm of accommodation (Physos.), twitching of eyes and lids ; weakness of the muscles, with swimming of the type ; myopia; with chronic choroditis. Dr. Allen also mentions spasms of the muscles of the pinna of the ear, especially of the attoliens, persistent spasms, so that they attracted attention. {Op. cit.). Hering recommends Agaricus in the delirium of 28 AGNUS CASTUS. typhus, and also in delirium tremens. Farrington says that in delirium the drug seems to stand between Stramonium and Laehesis, having, some similarities to both. {Clin. Mat. Med., -p. 382). Agaricus may be indicated in a primary diarrhoea or dysentery, but its gastro-enteric symptoms are usually asso- ciated with nervous complaints. Neuralgic dysmenorrhoea. Rheumatism. Spasmodic nervous cough. Allen says Agaricus is a valuable remedy for irregular tumultous palpitation of the heart, "especially for the irritable heart of tea and coffee drinkers, and of tobacco smokers." It has proved an excellent remedy, both internally and locally, for chilblains, and com- plaints from frost-bites. AGNUS CASTUS. Synonym. — Vitex agnus castus. JSfatural order. — Yerbena- cese. Common name. — Chaste Tree. Habitat. — A shrub grow- ing in southern Europe, on the shores of the Mediterranean. Preparation. — Tincture from the bruised ft'esh, ripe berries. GENERAL ANALYSIS. This drug has a special afflnity for the sexual system, de- pressing the sexual instinct without previous excitation, and producing complete prostration and impotence. For this reason it was used, in an early day, by both men and women, to repress carnal desire. OHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Extreme ahsence of mind; unable to recollect things {Anac, Kreos., Merc, Natr. mur., JYzix m., Phos. ac). Inability to fix the attention when reading (Gels., Phos.). Indiiference; sadness; low-spirited; fears of approaching death {Aeon., Ars., Cimic); loss of courage. Head. — Tearing pain with pressure in the temples and forehead; worse during motion. Ears. — Roaring in the ears. AGNUS CASTUS. " 29 Face. — Corrosive itching of the chest. Rending, tearing pain under the alveoli of the right lower jaw. Stomach. — No thirst. Abdomen. — Rumbling in abdomen during sleep. Male Organs. — Sexual desire lessened, almost lost{Sulph.). Penis so relaxed that voluptuous fancies excite no erection (Agar., Coni.). Testes cold, sivollen, hard and painful (Aeon., Coni.). Penis small, flaccid (Arg. nit.). Feeble erections without sexual desire. Emission at night after an embrace (Phos.), semen discharged in a stream without ejaculation (Gels.), scanty and has bub littlesmell. °Impo- tence with gleet (Sulph.). °Telloiv urethral discharge {Hyd., Puis.). ° Gleet without sexual desire or erections. Emission of prostatic fluid when straining at stool (Phos. acid., Sil.). Female Organs. — "Transparent leucorrhoea {Aliom); parts very relaxed. "Sexual intercourse abhorrent. °Mil7c scanty or entirely suppressed (Aeon., Puis.). Upper Limbs. — Hard pressure in right axilla and upper arm; worse from touch and motion. Lower Limbs. — Heaviness of right foot, as from a weight. Tearing pain in joints of toes; worse when walking. Fever. — Internal chilliness with trembling of the whole body; skin warm. Skin. — The corrosive itching yields to scratching, but returns as speedily. Conditions. — In lymphatic constitutions; in ''old sinners," who have frequently had gonorrhoea. Compare. — Coni., Gels., Phos., Phos. ac, Picric acid, Selen., Sulph. THERAPEUTICS. Especially useful in premature old age, which arises in young persons from abuse of the sexual powers, marked by melancholy, apathy, mental distraction, self-contempt, general debility, fre- quent loss of spermatic fluid. In atonic conditions of the sexual powers and spermatorrhoea, especially in those who have abused themselves and who have frequently had gonorrhoea. Also gonorrhoea, gleet and induration of testes occurring in this class of persons. In women the drug has been successfully 30 * AILANTHUS. used for leucorrhoea. Also for aglactia. It is especially useful for women in whom the sexual instinct is entirely absent. AILANTHUS. Synonym. — Ailanthus Glandulosa. Katural order. — Simarubacese. Cowimon names. — Tree of Heaven. Chinese Sumach. Habitat. — A poisonous tree, native of the Molucca Jslands, and cultivated as a shade tree in the United States. Preparation. — Tincture from the fresh shoots, leaves and blossoms. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Ailanthus acts directly upon the brain and cerebro-spinal cen- ters, producing a low, adynamic condition, greatly simulating low types of fever, and malignant forms of scarlatina. It also has a special affinity for the skin, giving an eruption similar to that of scarlatina. OHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Semi-conscious ; cannot comprehend ivhat is said to him (Bapt., Gel., Phos. ae., Ehus tox.). Stupor delirium, and insensibility {BeW., Hyos., Op.). Constant muttering, delirium, with sleeplessness and restlessness (Agar., Bell., Hyos.). Head. — Severe headache, with dizziness, and red, hot face. Eyes. — °Eyes suffused and congested ; startled looTc when aroused ; pupils dilated and sluggish i^Mth., Bell., Hyos., Stram.); photophobia. Nose. — ° Copious, thin, ichorous, and hloody discharge from the nose {.Ars., Arum., Cepa.,). °Nostrils congested; secre- tion suppressed. Face. — Red and hot, covered with a rash (Bell., Rhus tox.); mahogany colored. Mouth. — °Teeth covered with sordes (Bapt., Rhus tox.). ° Tongue dry, parched, cr ached {Ars., Bapt., Bell., Rhus tox.). Tongue moist, coated white {Ant. crud., Merc). brown in center; °hps and edges livid (Bell.). AILANTHUS. 31 Throat. — Throat tender and sore on swallowing, or on admit- ting air. Throat livid, almost purple (Naja.); swollen; tonsils prominent, and studded ivith many deep, angry - loohing ulcers {Apis) oozing a scanty, foetid discharge; external nech swollen and sensitive (Bapt.). Irritability of the throat, and hawking up of mucus. Thick oedema- tons, dry, choky feeling in the throat. Throat dry and scrapy. Stool.— °Thin, watery, offensive diarrhoea (Ars.); passing in- voluntary with the urine {Hyos., Mur. ac). Respiratory Organs. — ° Breathing hurried, irregular, heavy; dry, hacking cough. Cough in violent paroxysms before retiring and on rising; painful; deep. Hawking up of mucus. Pulse. — Eapid, small pulse, weak, frequent, and irregular. Neck. — Tender, and very much swollen. Skin. — Eruptions of miliary rash in patches of darh, almost livid color; most on forehead and face. Eruptions disap- pear on pressure, returning very slowly. Sleep. — Drowsy, restless, soon passes into insensibility. Oompare.— Anac, Arum, Ars., Bapt., Gels., Hyos., Lach., Phos., Khus tox., Stram. THERAPEUTICS. Has been found very useful in low, adynamic forms of disease characterized by sudden and extreme prostration, stupor, vomiting, and purplish appearance of the skin (Bapt.). In malignant scarlatina, with above characteristics, and especially when there is much swelling both external and internal, throat dusky red, ichorous discharge from the nose (Arum), diphthe- ritic exudations and slowly appearing eruptions. Also in diphtheria with similar symptoms. Farrington recommends Ailanthus for hay-fever if the symptoms correspond. 32 ALETRIS FARINOSA— ALLIUM CEP A. ALETRIS FARINOSA. Jfatural order. — Hsemadoraceae. Common names. — Colic root. Star Grass. Habitat. — A perennial plant indigenous to most parts of the United States- Preparation. — Tincture from the fresh root. GENERAL ANALYSIS AND THERAPEUTICS. Acts as an irritant to mucous surfaces and produces symp- toms of congestion of the pelvic viscera followed by an atonic con- dition of all parts, but more especially of the female generative organs. It has been found useful in uterine atony; anaemic debility of chlorotic girls; prolapsus uteri from muscular atony, with general ansemia; endometritis; leucorrhoea; habitual abortion or sterility from atony. According to E. M. Hale "It is the China of the uterine organs." Its most important symp- toms are : — '' Tired, with dull heavy confused feeling in head, and ina- bility to concentrate the mind; power and energy of mind weakened." "Premature and profuse menses, with labor-like pains." According to Hering the drug is most useful in "debility, espe- cially of females, from protracted illness or defective nutrition ; no organic disease." It has also been used successfully in dyspepsia, with slow digestion and flatulence, and in the vomiting of pregnancy. Compare.— Aloe, Caul., Cinch., Crocus, Hydras., Ferr., Lil. tig. ALLIUM CEPA. JVatural order. — Liliacese. Common name. — Onion. Habitat.— X plant universally cultivated as a garden vegetable. Preparation. — Tincture from the fresh common red onion. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts especially upon the conjunctiva and the respiratory mucous membrane, producing a highly irritated condition, ALLIUM CEPA. 33 greatly resembling an acute catarrh. It also produces, in a less degree, catarrhal conditions of the intestinal tract. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Indefinable anxiety. Head. — Confusion of the head. Headache, with coryza; in the room,, evenings ; better in open air ; aggravated on return- ing to a warm room {Puis.). Pains in temples, most in right; aggravated by winking ; extending over forehead ; worse on left side. Eyes. — Excessive, non- excoriating (excoriating, Euphr.) lachryination; left eye luorse, ivitJi redness of the eyeball ; sensitive to light (Aeon., Bell.); worse evenings. Itching, biting, burning in the eyes. Pain as if the eyes hung loose posteriorly on a string. J^OB,e.—Copio'ivs ivatery discharge froiTh the nose, and water- ing of the eyes (Aeon., Euphr.). Constant sneezing laith profuse acrid (bland, Euphr.) coryza {Ail. gland., Aur., Merc, Sang., Squilla.) ; zvhen coining into a luarm room (in cool air, Ars.). Fluent coryza, headache, lachrymation, cough, heat, thirst, trembling of the hands ; worse in even- ing and in a room; better in open air {Puis.). Throat. — Pain in throat extending to the ear (Agar., Bell., Hep. s.,Kali bi.). Constrictive pain in fore part of throat. In region of os hyoides, then low down posteriorly on right side. Thirst, evenings with heat. Abdomen.— Rumbhng in bowels. Very offensive flatus. Sud- den burning or chilling cutting, as thin as a thread from sides of hypogastrium inward and upward. Urinary Organs. — Frequent and copious urination (Apis, Arg. met., Arg. nit., Phos. ac). Urine red, with much urging and burning in the urethra (Aeon., Canth.). Respiratory OvgBXis.— Catarrhal hoarseness (Arum, Caust., Carb. v., Phos.). Tickling in throat, with aching in larynx. Haching cough from inhaling cold air (Aeon., Brom.). Throbbing and contracted sensation in larynx (Brom.). Constant inclination to hack. Violent catarrhal laryn- gitis ; the hoarse cough seeined to split and tear the lar- ynx. Oppressed breathing from pressure in middle of chest. 34 ALOE. Limbs. — Sore, tired feeling of the limbs, especially arms. Pain in external soft parts of right great toe, and in left middle finger. Generalities. — Flitting heat over the whole body, and thirst. Weak and tired, has to lie down. Coldness alternates with heat during catarrh. Aching throughout the bod}^ Neu- ralgic pains, hke a long thread, in face, head, neck, and elsewhere; worse evenings. Aggravation. — Prominently in the evening and in a warm room. Better in the open air. Compare.— Aeon., Ars., Arum, Brom., Euphr., Ipec, Puis., Squilla. THERAPEUTICS. Is most useful in acute coryza, having the characteristic of excessively profuse secretion, that from the eyes being bland and non-excoriating, while that from the nose is very acrid and excoriating (Reverse, Euphr.). Associated with this condition we usually find the characteristic catarrhal symptoms of the larynx as noted above, and a severe frontal headache. Tliese symptoms have also led to the successful use of the drug in the first stage of measles. It has also been used for neuralgia accompanying the characteristic catarrh, and also when follow- ing the injuries of nerves after surgical operations (Hypericum), the pains being fine, thread-like, and shooting in their character. ALOE. Synonym.— MoQ Soccotrina. J^atural order.— hilmaem. Habitat.— K succulent plant, native of Africa. Freparation.— Tincture from the inspissated juice. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Aloe acts predominantly upon the liver, giving rise to por- tal congestion, and greatly increasing the secretion of bile. Secondarily, it affects the muscular portion of the large intes- tine, and also the rectum, in the latter causing intense conges- ALOE. 35 tion, resulting in hcemorrhoids, and also extending to the contiguous tissues of the pelvic viscera, especially involving the female generative system. The action upon the rectum is of most importance. . . CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Great disinclination to mental labor {Mtooo v.)\ it fatigues him. Exhaustion alternating with activity. Head. — Dull headache across the forehead, luith heaviness in the eyes, and nausea (Nux. v., Podo.). Dull, pressivepaiiv in the supra-orhital region; in the sinciput. Sense of weight in the vertex {Cact., Siolph.). Headaches are luorse from heat and better from cold applications {Ars.). "Headaches from insufficient stool ; also with gastro-intes- tinal irritation. Eyes. — Pain deep in the orbits, as if in the muscles; worse in the right side (Cimic, Spig.). Yellow rings moving before the eyes. Compelled to mahe the eyes small, with pain in forehead ; heaviness of eyes, and nausea. Mouth. — Concave edges of teeth seem sharp, and hurt the tongue. Metallic taste, with dry, irritative hacking ; bitter, nauseous taste. Stomach. — Bitter eructations. JVausea. Painful pressure under the sternum. Pain in pit of stomach on making a false step. Abdomen. — Uneasiness, heat, pressure, and tension in the region of the liver. Dull pain on the right side under the ribs, worse on standing. Abdomen painful, especially about the navel; twisting, griping, must sit bent forward (Canst., Coloc, Iris, Verat.) ; urging to stool, with passage of only offensive flatus {Bry.). Distension of the abdomen (Ant. crud., Bry., Cinch.), especially the epigastrium, with flatus moving about (Lye, Hep., Puis.). Dischai'ge of much flatus, burning, offensive, relieving the pain in the abdo- men. Griping before, with and after the stool (Merc); with the stool loud flatus (Agar., Thuja). A feeling of iveahness in the abdomen, as if diarrhoea would occur (Physos.). Heaviness in the hypogastrium ; in therectivm. Abdominal muscles pain when touched, when pressing at stool or on rising from recumbent position. 36 ALOE. Stool and Anus.— Heat, soreness, and heaviness in the rectum and anus. Sensation of heat and burning -in the rectum (Ars.). Itching and burning in the anus (Ars., Canth., Sulph.) ; weakness or loss of power of the syMncter ani. Sticking, cutting pains in anus after stool. Constant urg- ing to stool during the day ; ivakes at night, arises out of bed at six A. M. (Agar., Podo., Rurvieoc, Sulph.). Urgency to stool, luith passage of urine. Urgency, as with diar- rhoea; only hot flatus passes, with great relief; but it soon returns luith a sensation as of a plug wedged in between the symphysis pubis and the os coccygis (Anac). After the stool ^ sensation as if more luere in the rectum (Nuxv.). Involuntary stool, ivith the escape of flatus {Fhos. ac). Has to hitrry to the closet immediately after eating and drinhing (Coloc). Stool passes luithout exertion; seems so heavy that it falls out of the intestines. Fceces and urine escape together (Hyos.). Weahness and prostration at stool. Stools small, brownish, slimy, half fluid ; bright yellow (Chel.), pappy; lumpy, watery, lumps of jelly-like mucus. Hcemorrhoids protrude (Calc. c, Lach., Puis., Sil.), lihe a bunch of grapes (tEsc, Mur. ac). with soreness and constant bearing down in the rectum. Urinary Organs. — Burning when urinating. Female Organs.— Pain in the hypogastrium, as if menses were coming on {Caul., Cimic, Puis., Sang.). Fullness and heaviness in the uterine region, with labor-like pains in the loins and groins; worse standing (Bell.). Menses too early and profuse (Ambra, Amm. carb., Bell., Calc, JYux v.). Leu- corrhoea of bloody mucus, preceded by colic. Back. — Lumbago, alternating with headache. Pressure and heaviness in the sacral region while sitting ; better from motion. Generalities.— Backache {Bell.,Q\m\Q.., Nuxv., Puis.). Extreme prostration with perspiration (Cinch.). Pains of short duration. Disinclination to move or to go into the open air, though there is relief from so doing. Skin. — Golden-colored . Aggravation. — In the afternoon and evening. ALUMINA. 37 Amelioration. — From discharge of flatus; m the open air; cold water relieves the haemorrhoids. Conditions. — In phlegmatic, indolent people. In old people. In women of nervous, relaxed phlegmatic habits, especially when near the climacteric period. Compare. — iEsc, Berb., Collins., Crot. t., Coloc, Iris, Lye, Nux v., Podo., Puis., Sivlph. Antidotes.— Sulph., Mustard, Vinegar, Vegetable acids, Camph, relieves for awhile. THERAPEUTICS. Aloe is of great value in dysentery, diarrhoea, and haemor- rhoids, when the above characteristic symptoms are present. Also in atonic conditions of the uterus, haemorrhages, etc. ALUMINA. Synonyms. — Aluminum tri-hydrate. Argilla pura. Pure Clay. Preparation. — Triturations. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Alumina affects directly the motor nervous system, giving a paralytic condition, but it shows its most specific action upon the mucous membranes, and of these the intestinal and vaginal are principally involved. The condition seems to be that of extreme dryness and lack of secretion, w'ith more or less irritation. CHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Anxiety ; uneasiness as if she had done something bad. Changing mood, at one time confident, at another timid. Peevish and whining {Cham.); obstinate {Bry., JViicc v., Cham.)] low-spirited {Puis.); dread of impending evil (Anac, Ars., Calc. c. Chin, sulph.). Head.— Vertigo ; everything turns in a circle (Arn., Bell., Coni., Bry., .Kujc v.); with fainting nausea (Lob.); in the morning (Phos., Nitr. ac), on opening the eyes (Lach.). Great stupor with dread of falling forward. Severe stitches in the 38 ALUMINA. brain with nausea. Burning pressive pain, with heat in forehead, while standing or sitting. Better in the open air. Pulsative headache in vertex. Pressure on forehead as from a tight hat. Headache, worse in the morning on rising. Eyes.— Squinting. Lachrymation. Burning and pressure in the eyes (Ars.). Dimsightedness ; obliged to wipe the eyes constantly, with sensation as if the lids would adhere in the corners (Croc, Puis.). Itching in the canthi and lids. Photophobia in the morning. Eyes agglutinated on wak- ing (Ant. crud., Sil., Sulph.); burn on being opened, with dread of light. (Aeon., Bell., Lye). Eyelids thickened (Graph., Puis.); dry and burning. Ears. — Heat and redness of ears, evenings. Nose. — Septum of nose swollen, red, and painful to touch (Ars., Mere.). Swelling and hardness of left ala nasi; point of nose cracked. Ulcerated nostrils (Ant. crud., Aur., Graph., Kali bi., Nitr. ac, Puis.). Obstruction. °Chronic nasal catarrh, with scurfy, sore nostrils, and discharge of thick yellow mucus (Baryt. c, Graph., Hep. s., Hydras., Kali bi., Merc, Puis.). Face. — Tension of the skin of the face as though white of e^g^ had dried on it (Baryt. carb., Calad., Graph., Sulph. ac). Lips chapped. Involuntary spasmodic twitching of lower jaw. Mouth. — Teeth feel loose and elongated (Carb. an., Merc, Nitr. ac). Ulcers in the mouth. Swelling and bleeding of the gums (Merc, Nitr. ac). Saliva increased, though the mouth may feel dry. Throat.— Throat red and inflamed {Bell., Lach., Merc). Great dryness zvhieh indv^ces frequent clearing of the throat in the evening. Thick viscid mucus in the throat, evening and morning (Amm. mur., Kali hi.). Feeling of a splinter in the throat {^Arg. nit., Mit. ac.,Hep. s.). Sense of constric- tion from pharynx down to stomach on sw^allowing food (Lye.). Pressure in the throat as from a lump, with sore- ness, roughness, and dryness, rawness, scraping. Stomach. — Entire loss of appetite (Ars., Calc c, Cinch., Natro mur., Sulph.); no taste. Aversion to meat (Arn., Carb. v.. Graph., Puis.). °Appetite for starch, chalk, charcoal, and other indigestible things ; chlorosis. Nausea, with faintness ALUMINA. 39 and vertigo, mornings. Burning in the stomaeii (Ars,). Sour eructations {Carh. v., V\io^., J{uxv., Sulph.);heavt- burn. Constriction and twisting in the stomach, extending up the oesophagus to the throat. Abdomen. — Flatulence. Sticking pressive pain in the region of the abdominal ring, as from hernia {Cocc, Nitr. ac, JVux v.). Stool and Anus. — Rectum seems paralyzed. Pressure and sense of excoriation in rectum after a small hard stool. Tenesmus in rectum during diarrhoea. Inactivity of the rectum (Camph., Op., Sep.) ; even the soft stool requires great straining (Carb. v., Cinch.), Jfo desire for and no ability to pass stool^ until ihere is a large accumulation. Excoriation in the anus after an evacuation, with contrac- tion of the rectum and constriction of the anus {Jfatr.mur.). Stools hard and hnotty like sheep dung {Op., Plumb.); with cutting in the anus followed by blood (Merc, j\"ujo v.). Stool scanty, difficult. "Constipation of nursing children (Op., Nux v.). Urinary Organs. — Urine voided while straining at stool, or cannot pass urine without much straining. Feeling of weakness in the bladder and genital organs. Female Organs. — Profuse, transparent (Agar.), acrid leucorrhoea rzinning doxvn to the feet, during the day. Acrid, corrosive leucorrhoea, with burning in the genital organs; parts inflamed and corroded (Coni., lod., Kreos., Merc, Phos., Puis.), making walking difficult ; relieved by washing with cold water. °After menses great exhaustion in both body and mind (Amm. carb., Carb. an., Cocciil.). Respiratory Organs. — Continued dry, hacking cough, with vomiting and arrest of breathing. Irritation in larynx, inducing cough. Dry cough at night (Cimic, Hyos., Lyc.)^ with dryness of the throat. Cough with much expectoration {Stan.). Violent oppressive pain in chest, worse at night. Heart. — Palpitation . Neck and Back.— Swelling of glands of left side of neck. Pain, as if bruised in small of back and back. Pain in the back as if a hot iron were thrust through the lower vertebrae. Limbs. — Pain as if squeezed narrower, with pressure in joints. Drawing pains in limbs. 40 ALUMINA. Upper Limbs.— Pain, as if from a sprain in shoulder joint, especially on raising the arm. Gnawing beneath the finger nails. Lower Limbs. — Great heaviness in the loiuer liiribs; can scarcely drag them; when walhing staggers, and has to sit dozun; in the evening. "Inability to walk, except when the eyes are open and in daytime. Locomotor ataxia. Nates go to sleep when sitting. Great zveariness of the legszvhen sitting. Long, continued tension in the thighs and legs, al- most like a cramp; extending downward. Trembling in the knees. Frequent cramps in the calves. Numbness of the heel, when stepping. Pain on the sole of the foot, on stepping, as though it were too soft and swollen (Ant. crud.). Generalities. — Excessively faint and tired, must lie down {Cinch., Sulph.). Takes cold easily. Slow tottering gait, as after a severe sickness. Tremulous lassitude (Cinch., Sztlph.). Weakness. "Paralysis from spinal disease; can- not walk with the eyes closed. Skin. — "Intolerable itching of the whole body, especially on be- coming heated, and in bed; scratches until the skin bleeds, which is then painful (Clem., Merc, Mez., Sulph.); especially associated with constipation. Sleep. — Sleepiness in morning. Frequent waking. Dreams, anxious, confused ; nightmare. Conditions. — Dry, thin, withered subjects, and in old people. In infancy (constipation). Puberty (chlorosis). Compare.— Aur., Baryt. c, Canst., Ferr., Graph., Kali c, Mag. c, Merc, Natr. m., Nux v., Phos., Plumb., Rhus tox., Silic, Sulph., Zinc. Alumina Antidotes.— Plumbum; lead poisoning. THERAPEUTICS. Chronic diseases, especially those of a catarrhal character, as nasal catarrh, bronchitis, pharyngitis, etc, also leucorrhoea and gonorrhoea; catarrhal conjunctivitis, with dryness and smarting, and loss of power in lids; granular lids; chronic blepharitis ; asthenopia from irritated conjunctivae. Alumina is especially useful in the treatment of constipation from in- activity of the rectum, with symptoms above described. It is AMBRA. 41 the chief remedy in the constipation of nursing children, especially when the rectum is dry, inflamed and bleeding. Also in lead colic. In spinal affections, especially progressive loco- motor ataxia (Dr. Bonninghausen reports the cure of four cases). It has also proved useful in chlorosis, prolapsus uteri, and in the seminal weakness of males when there are emissions with straining at stool, especially in old men. AMBRA. Synonym. — Ambra grisea. Coimnon name. — Ambergris. Probably a nosode, or morbid product of the sperm-whale — found floating on the sea. Prepcnxition. — Triturations are mostly employed, though Hering says the alcoholic tincture is the best preparation. The substance readily dissolves in alcohol. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Ambra acts directly upon the nervous system, producing superficial functional disturbances ; aflecting especially the gen- erative organs of the female, producing irritation of these parts, and giving rise to various forms of nervous and hysterical affections. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Anguish in the evening. Despair. Head. — Must lie down on account of vertigo and feeling of weakness in the stomach. Tearing pain in left temple up to the vertex ; in right frontal eminence and behind the left ear. Extremely painful tearing' on top of head, and apparently in whole upper part of brain ; with paleness of face and coldness of left hand. Dullness and confusion in occiput. Falling off of the hair {Graph., Hep. s., Natr. mur., Lach., Phos., Sep.). Eyes. — Pain in the eyes as if they had been closed too firmly. Itching of the eyelids as if a stye would form. Ears. — Roaring and whistling in the ears, in afternoon. Hear- ing decreases. 42 AMBRA. j sive pain on top of the head when coughing or taking a 54 ANACARDIUM. deep inspiration. Pressive pain in temples, as from a nail (Agar., Arn., Coff. c, Ign.). Constriction in vertex. Eyes. — Dull pressure as with a plug, on upper border of right orbit. Vision indistinct. Short-sighted. Contraction of the pupils (Physos., Op., Phos.). The light appears to be surrounded with a halo in the evening. Ears. — Stopped feeling in meatus ; obstructed feeling as from cotton. Cramp-like contraction in left meatus, luith press- ure against tympanuTn. Pain in the ear, as from ulcera- tion when biting the teeth together. Humming in the ears. Roaring. Nose. — Illusory smell as of burning tinder, in the morning when rising. Constant smell before the nose like pigeon or chicken dung, especially when smelling the clothes of his body. Smell almost lost. Face. —Pale. Mouth. — Bleeding of the gums upon slight rubbing. Painful vesicles in the mouth {JVitr. ac). Flat offensive taste in the mouth and of food. Throat.— Sensation as of scraping in the throat. Firm tough mucus in fauces, also obstructs posterior nares. Stomach.— "Symptoms disappear during dinner; begin anew after two hours. Hiccough, eructations, nausea, and vomiting. Abdomen. — Fain around the navel as if a hlunt plug luere squeezed into the intestines. Contiimal rumbling in the abdomen (Lye). Stool and Anus. — Great urgent desire for stool, but with the effort the desire passes away without an evacuation ; the rectum seems powerless, with a sensation as if plugged up {Aloe) . Urging to stool after eating, more in upper part of intestines. Inactivity of rectum; even small stool passed with difficulty. {Alum. ) . Respiratory Organs. — Dull pressure as from a plug, in right side of chest. Sharp stitches in region of heart, extending to small of back ; also when breathing. Neck and Back.— Stiffness of nape of neck (Rhus tox.). Dull stitches in left scapula, returning slowly. Upper Limbs.— Very painful strokes, as from a heavy body at the middle of the left upper arm. Great feehng of dryness ANACARDIUM. 55 of the hands and fingers. Cramp-hke pain at the meta- carpo-phalangial articulations. Lower Limbs.— Painful uneasiness about the knees, with sen- sation of stiffness, as if bandaged or made tense, when sit- ting. Knees feel paralyzed, with stiffness and great lassi- tude; is scarcely able to walk. Cramp-like, intermittent drawing in the legs, from heels into calves. Cramps in calves (Calc. c, Camph., Sulph.), when walking or rising from a seat. Dull pressure as from a plug in left glutei muscles. Painful, dull jjressure in thighs, at times in rhythmical intermission. Painful drawing in the tibia. Generalities. — Weakness in the body ; wants to lie down or sit down all the time (Coccul.). Very faint on going up stairs. Pressing or penetrating pain as from a plug in different parts. Sensation as of a hoop or tand arozvnd the part. Trembling debility or paralytic weakness. Sensitive to a draught of air; liable to take cold (Bell.). Skin. — White herpetic spots. Excessively itching erujjtions. Itching of the skin ; worse from scratching. Sleep. — Vivid dreams; of fire; of dead bodies. Conditions. — Frequently indicated in nervous hysterical females. In old people. During pregnancy. In hypochon- driacs. Compare. — Ailanth., Apis, Comocladia, Nitr. ac, Merc, Nux m.,Nux v., Phos. ac, Rhus tox.. Zinc. Antidotes. — Coff. c, Camph., Jugl. ; smelling raw coffee. Anacardium Antidotes. — Rhus tox. THERAPEUTICS. Anacardium is a remedy for insanity, m its various degrees^ from hypochondriasis to mania, also for various nervous dis- orders accompanied by the characteristic mental condition. It is an excellent remedy for the bad effects of over use of the mind, or brain-fag. Headache associated with great mental irri- tability. Also for alcoholism, restlessness and sleeplessness, other symptoms corresponding. Especially useful in melan- cholia and hypochondriasis. The patient is irritable and in- clined to swear, or feels himself possessed of two wills. Has been found useful in the morning sickness of pregnancy, which is better while eatins: but returns soon after. The latter is 56 ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM. characteristic of all the gastric symptoms of the drug. Rheu- matic jDericarditis with deep stitches through the cardiac re- gion, and mental oppression. Palpitation of the heart in the aged, -associated with slight disturbances, such as coryza. Is useful in diseases of the spinal cord where there is a feeling of a plug in the spine, or a band tied around the bodj'', and the knees feel paralyzed, and as if bandaged tightl3^ Very valuable in eczema, especially when there is also great mental irrita- bility. The skin symptoms are very similar to those of Rhus tox. ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM. Synonym. — Ter-sulphuret of Antimony. Preparation. — Triturations made from the crude antimony after it has been pulverised under water. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts powerfull}^ upon all the mucous membranes and upon the skin, but its intensity seems to be upon the intestinal mucous lining, which it tends to disorganize. Its action does not go on to inflammation, but seems to produce a depressed vitality. The mucous membranes are loaded with mucus, thus interfering with digestion as its pathogenesis indicates. A thick, milky-white coating on the tongue is its chief character- istic. The fretful, peevish disposition is also important. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Child delirious, drowsy, with nausea; hot and red face; pulse irregular; feverish heat; cries when washed in cold water; better washed in W'arm water. Child is fretful and peevish ; does not ivish to he tottched (Cina.) or loohed at. °Great sadness and woeful mood; in intermittent fever; loathing of life. Sulky; does not zvish to speak luith anyone. Head. — Heaviness of the forehead; vertigo; nausea (Lob.); nosebleed (Bry. ). Shght, dull headache, and vertigo, in- ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM. 57 creased by ascending stairs (Calc. c). Violent headache, after hathing in the river, with weakness of tlie limbs and aversion to food. Eyes.— Eyes red, inflamed, with itching and nightly agglutina- tion; morning photophobia {Lye., Sulph., Natr. m.). Recl- ness and inflaimnation of eyelids (Arg. n.. Graph., Merc, Lye, Sulph.). Soreness of outer canthi. Gum in canthi. Nose. — Sore, cracked, and crusty nostrils (Ailanth., Graph., Kah bi., Nitr. ac, Puis.). Nose painful when breathing, as if from inspiring cold air (Hydras., Psor.), or inhahng acrid vapors. Face.— Sore places with honey-colored granules here and there. Cracks in corner of mouth; painful-hke sores (Arum, Graph., Lye, Merc, JVitr. ac, Zinc.) Suppurdkirtg and long lasting eruptions on cheeks (Graph., Mez.). Mouth.— Toothache in hollow teeth; worse at night ( BeU.); worse after eating {Lach., Nux v.), and from cold water (Calc. c, Coccul., Staph., Sulph.) ; touching the tooth with the tongue causes pain, as if the nerve were torn. Stitches in tooth when inspiring air. Bleeding. Gums stand off from the teeth and Ijleed ea.sily. Dryness of the mouth (Ailanth., Ars., Bry., JVujc m., Hyos., Kali bi.). Much saltish saliva in the mouth {Cycl., Merc, cor., Sep., Sulph.). Rawness of the palate, with expectoration of much mucus when clearing the throat. Tongue coated thick white (Aeon., Ailanth., Bry., Merc, Mux v., Sulph.). StorQach. — Violent thirst, with dryness of the lips (Aeon., Ars., Bry.); evening and night. Belching zuith taste of luhat has been eaten (Carb. an., Calc c, Cinch., Graph., Puis.) ; vomiting of mucins and hilc Nausea; after a glass of wine (Ars., Nux v., Zinc); with convulsions (Nux v.. Zinc); with diarrhoea. Aversion to food (Am., Ars., Coccul.); longing for acids (Ant. tart., Cinch.). Pain at stomach after too much eating, with distended, but not hard, abdo- men (Cinch., Lye). Cramp-like pains at stomach (Ars.). Loathing nausea, and desire to voniit {Ars., Ant. tart., Ipec). Stomach zueak; easily disturbed, digestion {Ars., Puis.). Burning at pit of stomach (Ars.), like heartburn, with good appetite. Painful sense of fullness of stomach, which is sore to pressure (Ars., Bry., Lye, Nux v.). 58 ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM. Abdomen. — Abdomen very much distended; much rumbhng (Lye). Stool and. Anus. — Stool luatery, luith little hard lumps, or containing lundigestecl food (Calc. c, Cinch., Podo.)- Diarrhoea, worse from vinegar and other acids, sour wine, overheating, after cold bathing, at night and early morn- ings. ° Alternate diarrhoea and constipation (Cimic, Card, m., Natr. ars., Nux v., Podo.), of oldpeople. Difficult hard stools; fseces too large (Bry.). Constipation. ^Mucous piles, pricking and burning; continuous mucous discharge from the anus ; haemorrhage from haemorrhoids. Pain in - the rectum during stool : feeling of soreness as if an ulcer had been torn open. Itching of the anus (Nux v., Sil., Sep., Sulpha) . Urinary Organs. — Frequent and profuse urination; burning in urethra during urination (Aeon., Canth., Can. sat.). Female Organs. — Pressure in uterus as if something would come out. ^Suppression of the menses from cold bathing. °Leucorrh(Ba, watery and containing little lumps. °Nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea during pregnancy. Respiratory Organs. — Loss of voice {Carh. v., Caust., Fhos.) from getting overheated ; better after rest. Feebleness of voice. Violent spasms in the larynx and pharynx, as if the throat were filled with a plug, which becomes alternately thicker and thinner, accompanied by a feeling of soreness. Cough after rising in the morning, in paroxysms ; as if arising from the abdomen; the first paroxysm always most severe; the subsequent ones weaker and weaker, until the last only resembles a hacking. Burning with dry cough and dyspnoea ; at every cough with hot breath. Pain in the chest with heat. Generalities.— Worse in warm weather, exhaustion with night sweats; sleepiness; nausea; vomiting. °Cannot bear the heat of the sun. °After the sweat is over heat and thirst return. Heat at night in bed, \vith sweat. Getting fat (Kali c, Graph.). Convulsions with vomiting. Upper Liimbs. —Ai^thj^itic pains in the fngers. Finger nails do not grow as fast as formerly ; skin beneath the nails painfully sensitive. Discolored nails. "Crushed finger nails grow in splits, and like warts, with horny spots. ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM. 59 Lower Limbs. — Rheumatic pains in legs. Drawing pain in leffc hip joint in evening. Numbness of legs during rest and while sitting. Large, horny places on the soles, close to the toes. Great sensitiveness of the soles when walking (Alum.); worse on a stone pavement; fine prickings in soles. Sleep. — Great sleepiness during the day. Waking frequently at night as from fright. Skin. — Eruptions like boils and blisters. Horny excrescences ; smooth warts. Pimples and vesicles as from stings of in- sects {Apis, Arn., Led.), especially on face and joints. Measley-like eruptions (Coff. c, Puis.). Pustules here and there with brown scurf. Aggravation. — After eating; from wine (Ars., Glon., Lye, Nux v., Zinc); after bathing ; °from cold water internally or externally; from motion; from heat of sun (Bell.). Amelioration. — During rest; in open air (Lye, Puis.). Conditions. — Children; young people who grow fat; old people; bad eifects from getting cold; from washing or bathing, particularly in cold water. Compare. — Apis, Ant. tart., Ars., Cham., Lye, Graph., Kali bi., Hep. s., Ipec, Merc, Nux v., Petrol., Puis., Sulph., Zinc Antidotes.— Hep. s., Merc, Puis. THERAPEUTICS. Antimonium crudum is particularly useful in affections of the mucous membranes characterized by an excessive secretion with a depressed, torbid state of the membranes rather than an irritated inflamed condition. A mucous flux without fever; this may appear as a nasal, bronchial, gastric or enteric catarrh, though gastric catarrh predominates, a milky-white coating on the tongue being the most characteristic symptom, also a loathing of food and continual nausea and tendency to vomit. In the gastro-enteritis of nursing children with the above symptoms, the child vomits curdled milk after nursing (^Ethusa) and refuses to nurse again; is very peevish and cross. It is an excellent remedy for indigestion from overload- ing the stomach, also from fat or indigestible foods, sweet things, sour wines, etc Alternate diarrhcea, and constipation of old people. Mucous piles. Antimony is also of great ser- vice in some forms of skin disease, when pustules or pocks 60 ANTIMONIUM TAKTARICUM. arise, and when there is pricking and itchino- of the skin ; eczema of face, ears, nose, cheeks, etc. Corns and callosities which are thick and horny. Nails grow in splits and like warts with horny spots. Split hoof in horses. Farrington reports a case of diphtheria cured by Antimony, the child being peevish and having the characteristic crusts about the nostrils and corners of mouth. Menses suppressed from cold bathing, with other symptoms agreeing. Suppression of menses with charac- teristic gastric and mental symptoms. Leucorrhoea, watery, containing lumps. Nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea during pregnancy. Acute rheumatism in fingers, with gastric symp- toms ; also chronic arthritis. Chronic blepharitis with sore- ness, eyes red and agglutinated at night. Obesity, especiall3^ in young people. ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM. Synonym. — Tartrate of Antimony and Potash, Common ita-me. — Tartar Emetic. Preparation. — Alcoholic dilutions from a watery solution, or triturations of the pure crude tar- tar emetic. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts directly upon the nerve centers at base of the brain and in the medulla oblongata ; through these Tartar Emetic exerts its power on the mucous membranes of the stomach, lungs and liver, at the same time through the pneu- mogastric nerve, depressing in a remarkable degree the cir- culatory and respiratory systems. On the mucous mem- branes we have catarrhal inflammation established, or as another result of the drug's action we may have a pustular in- flammation. This latter condition also extends itself to the cutaneous tissues, giving rise to a condition closely simulating that of variola. The drug promotes a rapid waste of tissue. The most essential characteristic of Tartar Emetic is the large accumulation of mucus in the chest, causing much rattling especially in children, with vomiting and drowsiness. ANTIMONIUM TAKTARICUM. 61 OHARAOTBRISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Furious delirium, talking to himself. Bad humor; apprehensive; restless; anxiety. Wild gaiety. Head. — Headache as from a band compressing the forehead. (Gels., Nitr. ac, Merc, Sulph.). Intoxicated condition as from wine. Confusion in head mornings; feels as if he ought to sleep. Heaviness, on lifting head from pillow (Cact.). Pressive pains in the forehead, stitching extending" downward into left eye. Throbbing in the right side of fore- head. Painful drawing in the right side of temple, extend- ing down to the zygoma and upper jaw. Trembling of the head, particularly when coughing. Eyes. — Obscuration of sight ; flickering before the eyes, worse on rising from a seat. Eyes bloodshot. Weak eyes. Eyes feel so tired that they would close. Inclination to press the eyes tightly together. Nose. — Sneezing, fluent coryza, and chilliness, with loss of taste and smell (Puis.). Stupefying tension across the root of the nose, as from a band. (Ars., Camph., Yerat. alb.). Face. — Pale, sionhen face {Ars., Carb. v., Verat. alh.) ; bluish. ^Tearing pains in whole side of face, even into the head and neck. Lips dry and scurfy, or cracked (Ars.). Mouth. — Toi%gHje covered ivitlv a thick, luhite, pasty coat ; reci in streaks, very red, dry in middle {Rhus to jo.). Difficult, even painful, to move the tongue. Throat. — Sharp pain in the throat. Swallowing difficult and painful. Stomach. — Desire for acids (Ant. crud.. Cinch.); for apples^, with increased thirst. Entire absence of thirst (Apis, Nux m., Puis.).. Empty eructations at night, as from foul eggs (Agar., Am., Psor., Sep.). Qualmishness in stomach after dinner. JYausea, caus- ing anxiety, with slight pressure in pit of stomach, followed by headache in forehead; incessant, with vomiting, the whole night. Yom,iting luith great effort ; intense and long lasting {Ipec), till he becomes faint ; folloiued lyy languor, droiosi- ness (Ailanth., Nux m.), ajtd loathing, with headache and trembling of the hands (Plat.). Fullness and heaviness iu stomach. 62 ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM. Abdomen. — Abdomen feels as if stuffed full of stones, though he has eaten nothing, and it does not feel hard. Sharp, cutting colic before stool (Coloc, Merc). Meteorism of the abdomen. (Phos. ac). Stool and Anus. — Watery, slimy, bloody diarrhoea. Diarrhoea and vomiting {Ijjec). Very offensive diarrhoeic stools. Urinary Organs. — Burning in the urethra during and after urination (Canth., Can. sat.). Urging to urinate; scanty discharge; last drops' bloody, accompanied by violent pains in the bladder. Urine dark, brownish red, turbid {Chel.), with strong odor {Benz. ac, JYit. ac). Respiratory Organs. — Respiration short, rapid, heavy, anxious, diflEicult; must be supported in a sitting posture in bed (Aeon., Ars.) ; at 3 a.m. ; in the evening; better from cough and expectoration. Szvffocated and oppressed ; can- not get air ; has to sit up in hed {Aeon., Ars., Sanib.). Shortness of breath from suppressed expectoration. Op- pression of breathing, relieved by expectoration. Short cough, with a shrill sound. Cough compels the patient to sit up ; is moist and rattling, but no expecto- ration. Cough grows less frequent ; patient shows signs of "carbonized blood. " Much rattling of mucus in the chest {Ipec, Phos., Senega., Stan.). Chest seems full of phlegm without ability to expectorate. Anxious, with op]jression of the chest and rising of warmth to the heart ; constriction of the chest. Coughing and gaping (Op.) consecutively, particu- larly children with crying or dozing, and twitching in the face. °The child always coughs on getting angry. Heart and Pulse.— Palpitation of the heart (Aeon., Ars., Cact., Calc. c, Spig., Sulph.). Pulse rapid, iveah, tremb- ling. Oppression of the heart. Pulse full and slow (Can. ind., Digit.), or contracted and hardly perceptible ( Aeon.) . Great prsecordial anxietj^ with vomiting of mucus and bile. Back.— ° Violent pain in the sacro-lumbar region ; the slightest effort to move causes retching and cold, clammy sweat. Lumbago. Pain as from weakness, better after eating and while sitting. °The vertebrae feels as if rubbed against each other. ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM. 63 Limbs.— Insensibility and coldness of the limbs. Weakness in all the limbs. Upper Limbs. — Trembling of the hands (Agar.). Lower Limbs. — Tension in the hamstrings on walking (A mm. mur.), in evening (Rhus tox.). Feet "go to sleep" immedi- ately after sitting down (Sec. c). Generalities.— Trembling ; whole body (Physos.); internal; head and hands. Child wants to be carried (Cham.); cries if touched {^nt. cruel.); will not let you feel the pulse. Con- vulsions and tetanic spasms. Excessive restlessness {Aeon., Ars., Rhus tox,.). Great weakness and lassitude; faint- ness. Great prostration and sluggishness of the body. Throbbing and pulsating in all the vessels of the body. Skin. — Thick eruptions like pochs ; oftenpxistular ; aslargeas a pea. °Red areolte. Vesicular eruptions over the whole body. Pustular eruption leaves hluish-recl marks on face ; also similar eruptions on genitals, thighs, etc.; painful. Sleep. — Great sleepiness {Apis); irresistible inclination to sleep (JVz^o; 772..); yawning. Shocks and jerks during sleep. Trembling during sleep, and drawing up of arms and feet. Fever.— Trembling and chilliness over the whole body. Unusual heat of the whole body. Cold, clammy sweat over the whole body. Profuse sweat all over ; frequently cold and clammy. Com.pare. — Ars., Ant. crud., Cham., Digit., Ign., Kali b., Ipec, Lob., Nux v., Phos., Tabac, Verat. vir., Sec. c. Antidotes. — Asaf., Cinch., Coccul., Ipec.,Lach., Op., Puis., Sej). To large doses: Cinch., Ipec. • THERAPEUTICS. The chief sphere of usefulness of Tartar Emetic is in the treatment of catarrhal inflammations of the respiratory tract, more especially the capillary bronchitis of children, character- ized by much rattling of mucus in the chest, oppressed breath- ing, rapid pulse, nausea, vomiting and drowsiness. Sometimes this accumulation of mucus in the chest threatens suffocation, and cyanotic symptoms become manifest. In all cases the patient is at once relieved if it succeeds in expectorating, or if vomiting occur. In all respiratory troubles where there is much rattling in the chest, catarrhal colds, incipient bronchitis, croup, whooping cough, asthma, broncho-pneumonia, pleuro- 64 APIS. pneumonia, etc., Tartar Emetic is the chief remedy. A valua- ble clinical observation in such cases is that the child always coughs on getting angry. In catarrhal pneumonia of old people, where there is a great accumulation of mucus, and but little or no expectoration, great debility, cold perspiration, and threat- ened paralysis of the lungs, Tartar Emetic is an invaluable remedy. In oedema of the lungs with dilated heart, char- acterized by great dyspncea and cyanosis, it is often an excellent remedy. In asphyxia neonatorum, Tartar Emetic is useful w^here there is much rattling in the chest and c}' anosis. Also in the spasms of young children accompanied by cyanotic symptoms, etc. Tartar Emetic is useful in gastric and enteric catarrh. In the former there is continual nausea and vomiting, or efforts to vomit, cold perspiration, great prostration, etc. In enteric catarrh the same symptoms may be present accom- panied by sharp cutting colic and watery or grass-green, slimy stools. Tartar Emetic has also been used in lumbago and sci- atica, the symptoms agreeing. On account of the similarity of the pustules produced by this drug to that of small-pox it has been successfully employed in that disease, especially in ad.y- namic types, and where other symptoms of the drug are pres- ent. It has also been used in varicella and for pustular erup- tions on the skin and mucous membranes in general. APIS. Synonyms . Apis Mellifica. — Apium Virus. Poison of the honey bee. Preparation.— TheTe are two preparations of Apis. The one usually employed (Apis mellifica) is obtained by shak- ing the live bees in a bottle and then digesting them, together with the poison they may have emitted, in dilute alcohol. Triturations of the whole bee are also employed. The second method consists in preparing a tincture from the pure virus (Apium virus). The latter was the preparation employed by Dr. C. Hering, and that from which most of the symptoms were obtained. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Apis acts powerfully upon the kidneys, producing an acute inflammation. Through this action upon the kidneys we obtain APIS. 65 the characteristic effect of Apis upon the cellular tissues, mani- fested by acute oedema, both of the skin and mucous mem- branes. Apis also causes an erysipelatous form of inflamma- tion with a tendency to destruction of dermoid tissue, and develops an eruption resembling urticaria. On the mucous membranes it acts as an irritant and produces a mild inflam- matory condition. . Apis also affects the serous membranes, producing conditions similar to those which are the products of serous inflammations, h^Tlrocephalous, hydrothorax, ascites, etc., but it does not appear to have in itself the power of pro- ducing serous inflammation. Apis acts prominently upon the ovaries and the uterus, producing irritation, congestion, mild inflammation, and dropsy of these organs. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Loss of consciousness {Bell., Hyos., Op.). ° Sopor, iiv- terrivptecl by piercing shrieks; tubercular meningitis. ° AhsentTnijidedness {Anac, Carls., Jfux jn., Naja, Phos. ac). "Awkwardness ; lets everything fall; breaks things. °Busy, restless; changing occupation. ° Great tearfulness ; cannot help crying {Ign., Natr. mur., JYujc m., Puis.). Indifference (Phos., Phos. ac.) ; irritability (Bry., Chain., JVii^x v.). °In women : jealousy (Hyos., Lach.) ; mania from sexual irritation. Head. — Headache with vertigo. Confusion and dizziness, with constant pressive pain above and around the eyes ; some- what relieved by pressure of the hands ; confusion worse when sitting than when walking, extreme when lying and closing the eyes. Dull pain over the whole head, relieved by pressure. Brain feels as if tired. Dull heavy headache from rising until 3 p.m. Aching over right eye extending to right eyeball. Aching in forehead and temples ; in left temple. ° Child lies in torpor; deliT'iuT}% ; sudden shrilling cries ; squinting ; grinding teeth ; horing head in pilloivs {Hell.); one side twitching , the other paralyzed ; head wet from siv eating ; urine scanty, milhy; acute hydro- cephalus. "Head feels swollen; integuments feel swollen and stiff. 66 APIS. Eyes.— Burning, stinging, shooting, piercing pains in and about the eyes. Eyelids much sivollen, red, o&dematous (Ars., Carls., Phos.) ; upper lid hangs like a sack over the eye Kali carh.), Conjunctiva injected ; full of dark vessels; chemosis. °Cornea; thick, having dark, smoky spots; grayish, smoky opaque. Keratitis. Itching in eyes and lids. Weakness of the eyes, with pain, photophobia and lachrymation. Burning in margins of lids (Sulph.), caus- ing lachrymation. Agglutination of the lids. Inflam- mation of the eye, with intense photophobia and increased lachrymation {Aeon., Ars., Bell., Euphr., Merc). Ears. — °Redness and stvelling of both ears (Aeon., Bell., Puis.). Erysipelas. Nose. — Swollen, red, oedeinatous (Rhus tox.). Coryza, worse from warmth. Face. — ° QSdematous swelling of the face (Ars.) ; waxj^ pale. Face swollen, red and hot {Bell.), with burning and pierc- ing pain (.^r^.). Erysipelas of the face, with fever, coated tongue and thirst. Mouth. — Lips cedematous; upper lip swollen (Hep. s.), hot and Ted. {Bell.). Dryness of tongue, mouth and throat (JVz^x m.); fiery redness of buccal cavity, with painful tender- ness {Bell.). Rawness, burning and painful stinging bhsters along the edge of the tongue. Scalding in mouth and throat (Merc. c). Tongue swollen, dry, cracked (Bell.) sore, ulcerated, or covered with vesicles {Ars., Bapt., BJlus tox.). Throat. — Dryness in the throat with heat, without thirst (Nux m., Puis.). Burning and stinging in the throat {Aeon., Canth., Caps.). Throa,t swollen inside and outside; hoarse, sense of constriction ; breathing and swallowing difficult. Ulcers on the tonsils, palate, etc. {Ailanth., Mere. iod.). Stomach. — JYo thirst vuith the heat (Puis.). Burning heat in the stomach {Ars.). Great soreness in pit of stomach when touched (Bry.). Vomiting with diarrhoea (Ipec). Abdomen. — Soreness of the bowels and abdominal walls; mornings when sneezing or pressing upon them {Bell., Bry., Nux v.). Fullness and sense of distension of the abdomen (Cinch.). Pain in ahdoiiven on pressure, touch and hori- zontal position, zvith sensitiveness. Pain in hypochondriac regions extending upwards. APIS. 67 Stool and Anus. — Sensation of T-aivness in the anus with diaTvhoea. Discharge of flatus before stool. Diarrhoea is copious, blackish-brown, green or whitish, orange colored; greenish, yellow mucus {Puis., Merc, Sulph.); yellow watery; soft and pappy, mixed with serum, thin yellow. ° Stools occur with every motion of the body, as if the anus luere constantly open; during urination (Aloe). Urinary Organs. — Burning soreness when urinating {Can. sat.). Frequent desire, with passage only of a few drops (Aeon., Canth.). Urine scanty and high colored (Aeon.). Urine suppressed (Aeon., Hyos., Stram.). Frequent and profuse urination (Apoc, Arg. met.). Burning and sting- ing in the urethra. Male Organs. — °Dropsy of the scrotum ; hydrocele. Female Organs. — ° Enlargement of the right ovary {Bell.), with pain in the left pectoral region, and cough. Burn- ing and stinging pain in region of uterus or ovaries. Pain and sensitiveness in right ovarian region during menses. Bearing down with sensation as before menses. Sharp, cutting, stinging pain in the swollen ovary ; worse during menstruation. ^Dropsy of the ovaries (right) ; of uterus. Abortion during the early months. Respiratory Organs. — Irritation to cough in the supra sternal fossa. Hoarseness. Chest feels sore as if beaten or bruised (Arn., Cinch., Sil.). Respiration hurried and diffi- cult ; oedema glottidis. Great feeling of suffocation\ cannot bear anything about the throat (Lach.). Dull aching pain in the left side of the chest, near the middle of the sternum, with sensation of fullness in the chest, and short breath. Severe cough before midnight, worse after lying and sleep- ing (Lach.) . Expectoration of copious, transparent, frothy, bloody mucus. . Stitches in left side of chest, and through the back. Sudden pain just below the heart, soon extend- ing toward right chest, with suffocation. Melting heat in region of diaphragm, as from running violently. Burning stinging pain through entire front of chest. Upper Limbs.— CEdema of the hands. Sensation of numbness in fingers, especially the tips about the roots of nails. ^Panaritium with burning, stinging and throbbing, very sensitive to touch. 68 APIS. Lower Limbs. — Sensation in the toes and ivholefoot, as if too large; swollen and stiff. Legs and feet waxy, pale, and CBdematous (Ars.). Burning in the toes, with redness (Agar.); feet cold. Generalities. — Qildematous swelling of the extremities ; of the whole body. Tired, as if bruised in every limb, and especially in the back, as after exertion ; worse on rising after sitting {Rhus to jo.). General feeling of lassitude ivith trembling . Burning, stinging pains, lihe hee stings, occzirring occasionally . Pricking over the whole body. Sudden weakness with coldness. °Effects travel from right to left (left to right, Lach.). Redness and swelling, with stinging and burning pain in the ej^es, eyelids, ears, face, lips, tongue, throat, anus, testicles. Great sensitiveness to touch and pressure. Skin. — °Skin usually w^hite, almost transparent (ovarian dropsy). Stinging, burning, prickling, smarting, or itching of the skin ; sensitiveness to the slightest touch. Urticaria lihe hee stings, or stings from other insects, with intolera- ble itching at night (Ant. crud., Arn., Led.). Eruption like nettle rash over the whole bod^^ (Aeon., Puis.).. Swelling and dr3^ erysipelatous redness. Body covered with large, elevated white wales. ° Carbuncles, zuith burning , stinging -pains {.Ars.). Intensely deep, red rash {Bell.). Sleep. — Great desire to sleep ; extreme sleepiness {Ant. tart., JYuxTu.). Dreams, full of care and toil. Sleep late in the morning. Fever. — Intermittents. Chill about 3 p.m. ; worse in warmth ; from slightest motion with heat of face and hands ; runs down the back, with great prostration. °During hot stage more or less violent headache ; generally a continuous deep sleep. "Sweating stage either absent or of a very light grade. Continuous low^ fever ; no thirst ; worse 3 p.m. ; is then very drowsy. °Thirst wanting during sweat ; may or may not be present during heat; always thirst during chill. °Apyrexia; pain under short ribs, left side; feet swollen; urine scanty ; limbs and joints sore. Sweat after trembling and fainting, then nettle rash. Aggravation. — In morning, aching; diarrhoea; hoarseness; sleepiness. Afternoon: (intermittent). Night: headache; APIS. 69 pain, eye and chest. From exercise ; from warmth. °A gen- eral aggravation of all symptoms about 5 p.m. Amelioration. — Cold water: pain. Swelling and burning. Pressing relieves headache. After sleep. Those predis- posed to miscarry should not receive Apis except in high potencies (Hering). Compare. — Ars., Apoc, Arn., Bell., Canth., Gels., Lye, Lach., Natr. mur., Led., Mag. m., Merc, Puis., Phos., Rhus tox., Sec. cor., Sulph. Antidotes. — Lach., Plantain, Lact. ac. To massive doses: common salt, sweet oil, onions. THERAPEUTICS. The great clinical key-note of Apis is oedema, and the drug is pre-eminently useful in the treatment of (edematous swellings when occurring acutely, as an apparently primary condition, or when associated with erysipelas or any other form of disease. In general dropsy it is an invaluable remedy. It is chiefly indi- cated by the whitish waxen, transparent appearance of the skin, absence of thirst, and scanty urination. The urine is highly albuminous, and contains tube-casts. Local oedema is usually present, especially about the eyelids. The dropsy gen- erally comes on rapidly, and predominates in the upper part of the body and the face. It is especially indicated when such troubles arise from acute inflammation of the kidneys, whether during or following eruptive diseases or not. It may also be indicated in sub-acute or chronic Bright's disease. In hydro- thorax there is also great suffocation, the patient not being able to lie down, and feeling as if he were going to die. In pleu- ritic exudations Apis stands next to Sulphur as a remedy to cause absorption. . In acute hydrocephalus, especially tubercu- lar, Apis is a valuable remedy in the first stage, and is indicated by the child boring its head into the pillow, rolling it from side to side, and uttering shrill, piercing cries. Often one side of the body is convulsed and the other paralyzed. In cystitis, dysuria, and strangury Apis is only secondary to Cantharis in useful- ness. In cardiac inflammations and dropsies Apis is a valuable remedy, being indicated by dyspnoea, scanty urine, swollen limbs, etc. The laryngeal symptoms of Apis usually arise from 70 APIS. rapid oedematous swellings which may occur in the larynx or glottis. Sometimes there is great difficulty of breathing from oedema of the pharynx and soft palate. Apis may be indicated in any form of erysipelas, and when attacking any part of the body, the swelling rapidly becoming oedematous, and especially when characterized by burning, stinging pains, the mental con- dition being usually one of apathy and indifference, bordering on unconsciousness. This mental state also often indicates the drug in diphtheria, scarlatin,a, and other fevers where they assume a low form, even genuine typhoid, or typho-malaria, especially if there be a tendency to oedema. It is an excellent remedy in intermittenb fever, the chill occurring about 3 p.m., and other symptoms agreeing as noted in the preceding patho- genesis. In urticaria Apis is indicated by the intolerable burn- ing, stinging pains. Apis is often useful in diseases of the female organs, but should be used cautiously during the first three months of pregnancy, as in low potencies it is liable to produce miscarriage. It is useful in erysipelatous and oedematous condi- tions of the genitals. Ovarian dropsy, even cystic degeneration of the ovaries has been cured. Ovarian neuralgia, and ovarian and uterine inflammations may call for this drug. The right ovary is offcenest affected (left ovary Cimic, Lach.). Burning stinging pains and great soreness in right ovarian region are the most characteristic symptoms. Apis maybe a valuable remedy in many diseases of the eye — asthenopia, staphyloma, any kind of inflammation of the cornea, ophthalmia ; in fact iu any form of eye disease characterized by serous exudation, oedema and sudden piercing pain. Carbuncles, panaritia, etc., characterized by severe stinging pains. The drug is also useful for ailments from the stings of insects; ailments from the use of iodine, or the abuse of cinchona, turpentine or cantharides. It has been recommended for bad eflects from vaccination (Sil.); also from suppressed or delayed eruptions (serous exudations, oedema, etc.). APOCYNUM CANNABINUM. 71 APOCYNUM CANNABINUM. Jfatural order. — Apocynacese. Cortvinon name. — Ameri- can hemp. Habitat. — A perennial plant growing throughout the United States, north of the Carolinas. Preparation.— Tincture from the fresh root. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts upon the kidneys, skin, and serous membranes, giving rise to various dropsical affections ; also to some extent upon the mucous membranes of the digestive tract, especially the intestines, where it causes increased secretions — watery diar- rhoea. It causes weakness of the sphincters of the rectum and bladder, and produces congestion of the haemorrhoidal vessels. It also has a depressing action upon the heart, causing great W'Cakness and irregularity of the pulse. CHARAOTBRISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Bewildered; nervous; low-spirited (Ljc, Natr. mur.^ Puis.). Head. — Vertigo, suddenly appearing and disappearing. °Hy- drocephalus; stupor; sight of one eye totally lost, the other slightly sensible; constant involuntary motion of one arm and leg ; forehead projecting ; sutures open ; stage of exudation. Stomach. — °Great thirst, but water disagrees, causing pain, or is immediately thrown off (Ars.). Thirst on waking. Short unsatisfactory respiration. Sinking feeling at pit of stomach (Hydras., Ign., Puis., Sep.). "Distressing vomit- ing at intervals. °Great irritability of the stomach and vomiting. Abdomen. — ^Aseites. Abdomen distended and painful (Ars., Merc). Stool.— Tenesmus of rectum. Bearing down pain in anus. Evacuations very scanty. Watery stools. Symptoms al- W' ays immediately after eating. Urinary Organs. — Scanty discharge; no uneasiness. Profuse light-colored urine; no sediment (Apis, Arg. nit.). 72 APOMORPHINUM. Female Organs. — "Menorrhagia continuous or paroxysmal; fluid or clotted; nausea; vomiting, palpitation; pulse quick, feeble when moved ; fainting when raising head from pillow. Bespiratory Organs.— Cough short and dry, loose and rat- tling, with oppression. Sense of oppression about the epigastrium and chest (Ant. tart., Ars., Phos.) impeding breathing, after a light meal. Short unsatisfactory respi- rations. Generalities. — Excretions diminished, especially urine and sweat. General restlessness with debility. Pulse weak, quick, irregular. Compare.— Acet. ac. Aloe, Ars., Apis, Asclepias, Colch., Digitalis, Elat., Hell., Oleander, Podo., Verat. alb. THERAPEUTICS. Very useful in all varieties of dropsy, both idiopathic and secondary, especially when dependent upon disease of the liver. Not so useful in albuminuria. Has cured both hydro- cephalus and hydrothorax. In the former resembling Apis, but lacking the cephalic cry. In all dropsies the chief indica- tions are great thirst, and extreme irritability of the stomach (Ars.). Menorrhagia with symptoms as named above under "Female Organs." Has also been used for watery diarrhoea, and for haemorrhoids where there is a sensation "as if a wedge were being hammered into the anus." APOMORPHINUM. An alkaloid obtained by treating morphine with hydro- chloric acid. Preparation. — Triturations. GENERAL ANALYSIS AND THERAPEUTICS. The essential feature of this drug is its wonderful power in producing emesis,its only characteristic symptom being "/y^c?^- nation to vomit. Vomiting without previous nausea ; easy ; of water as soon as drank; of milk." Its homoeopathic use has therefore been restricted to vomiting of a similar nature as ARALIA RACEMOSA. 73 that described. Vomiting of food with or without organic disease; vomiting from pregnancy, uterine displacements, or other uterine or ovarian irritation. Seasickness. The value of Apomorphinum as an emetic should be borne in mind, it be ing especially applicable when prompt emesis is required, in cases of poisoning, etc. In such cases the best method of using is by hypodermic injections, one-tenth of a grain producing full emesis in an adult in from five to fifteen minutes. (It should not be used for opium poisoning.) Compare. — Cuprum, Ipecac, Sang., Yerat, alb., Zinc. ARALIA RACEMOSA. Jfatural order. — Araleacese. Common naT)%e. — American Spikenard. Habitat. — An herbaceous plant growing in rich woodlands throughout the United States. Preparation. — Tincture from the fresh root. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Chief action is exerted through the pneumogastric nerves upon the organs of respiration, giving rise to suffocative at- tacks resembling asthma or hay fever, in the treatment of which it has been successfully used. CHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Nose.— Smarting soreness of the posterior nares, caused by passage of acrid mucus (Ars., Arum, Amm. carb., Cepa), with peculiar soreness of alee nasi, as if fissured. Hespiratory Organs.— Dry, wheezing respiration; sense of impending suffocation ; whistling worse during inspiration ; must sit up (Ars., Samb.); hay asthma. "Spasmodic cough at night, awakens after the first sleep, and cannot sleep again on account of it; caused by tickling in throat, associated with constriction of chest ; has to sit up and cough violently; sometimes caused by a feeling of a foreign body in the throat. Sputum at acme of asthma scanty ; then increased, warm, and saltish. Eaw, 74 AKANEA DIADEMA. burning, sore feeling behind the whole length of the sternum (Euviex) and in each lung. Female Organs.— ° Acrid, offensive leucorrhoea, with bearing down pains. Compare.— Ant. t., Ars., Ipec, lod., Sambucus. THERAPEUTICS. Has been used chieflj in the treatment of asthma, hay fever and suffocative catarrh. Has been used as a domestic remedy, in infusion, for dysmenorrhoea, leucorrhoea and suppressed lochia. ARANEA DIADEMA. JVatioral order. — Arachnida. Common name. — Cross Spider. Preparation.— A. tincture is prepared by crushing the live spider and digesting with alcohol. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Aranea is especially noted for its production of symptoms analagous to those resulting from malarial poisoning, and has been chiefly used in such cases, when the cold stage is the most pronounced, and when the symptoms return precisely at the same hour. Aranea was selected by Dr. Von Grauvogl as typi- cal of what he called a " hydrogenoid " constitution, where there is too much water in the system, the patient being always deficient in warmth, and very susceptible of moisture or damp- ness, such a condition being especially favorable to malarial poisoning. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Head. — Headache and confusion in the head; relieved hy sT)%o'king (reverse Ign.). Headache continues till evening ; becomes milder, however, after a few hours, and ceases en- tirely in the open air. Headache, with burning in the eyes and heat in the face, also flickering in the eyes on read- ing and writing, which aggravates the headache. ARANEA DIADEMA. 75 Mouth. — Siodclen violent pains in all the teeth at night, im- mediately after lying doiun. Abdomen. — Sensation of heaviness and fullness in the lower bowels ; it seems as if a stone lay there, with unpleasant feeling of faintness in pit of stomach, together with grip- ing in abdomen ; sensation of heaviness in thighs, so that they can hardly be carried forward, with confusion of the head; returns the next day at the same hour; lasts half an hour (5 P.M.). Enlargement of the spleen. Stool, — Thin, fluid stool, luith pain in ahdomen. Female Organs. — Periods eight days too early, too strong, and too copious. Chest. — Haemorrhage from the lungs. Extremities.— Bone pains of a boring, digging character (Eupat.,eM67^c.), particularly in the right tibia and os cal- cis, and in the right upper and forearm bones. Sensation as if hands and arms were enormously swollen. Formica- tion in ring and little fingers. Generalities.— Great lassitude and weariness. Eestless sleep, with frequent waking. Worse in damp, wet places, or in wet weather (Rhus tox.). Every damp day or place favors chilliness; feels cold to the very bones. Chilliness pre- dominates; no fever. Symptoms return periodically at precisely the same hour {Ced.). Compare. — Arnica, Ars., Arg. met., Cedron, Eucal., Eupat., Secal. cor., Tarantula. THERAPEUTICS. Has been used mostly in malarial fevers, and in malarial conditions in general, with the characteristic symptoms (see General Analysis). Intermittents checked by quinine, enlarged spleen, etc. Toothache, worse in damp weather, and imme- diately after lying down in bed. Lumbo-abdominal neuralgia, worse in damp weather. Diarrhoea. Asthma and bronchitis, always worse at night on lying down. Simple periostitis, or caries of os calcis — boring, digging pains. 76 ARGENTUM METALLICUM. ARGENTUM METALLICUM. Pure Metallic Silver. Preparation. — Triturations. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts prominently upon the mucous membranes of the digestive, respiratory and genito-urinary tracts ; also upon the articulations and their component elements — bones, cartilages, ligaments, etc. ; cartilaginous surfaces ; cartilages of the ears. Eustachian tube, nose, false ribs, tarsal cartilages, etc. It also acts upon the spinal nerves, causing pains in various parts and a tendency to spasmodic action of muscles. It also acts upon the glandular organs and upon the heart. OHARAOTBRISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Increased cheerfulness and disposition to talk the whole time. Head. — Suddenly giddy, as if a midst were before the eyes (Gels.), vertigo, with difficulty in controlling his senses. Pressing pain, ivith dullness in forehead, with drawing pressure in occiput and stupor. Pressive, tearing pains, at the temporal bones, increased by touch. Aching, drawing pains in left temple. °Crawling and whirling in the head as if drunken. Eyes. — Margins of lids swollen, red and thick (Ant. crud.. Graph., Lye, Merc). Violent itching of lids and corners of eyes (Sulph.). Ears.— Corrosive itching of the lobules of both ears. Stitching, tearing, drawing pains. Nose. — Excessive, fluent coryza, with sneezing (Aeon., Ars., Euph., Merc, cor.); mornings. Tingling and itching in nose, then bleeding. Face. — Pressing and tearing in facial bones; drawing, tearing in right zygoma. Swelling of upper lips (Calc. c). Mouth. — Dryness in the mouth; foetid breath. Tongue sore, and burning vesicles. Throat. — Region of sub-maxillary glands swollen; neck stiff; swallowing difficult, as from internal swelling; has to force every mouthful down the throat. °Sticky, tough saliva on AKGENTUM METALLICUM. 77 palate causing scratching. Viscid, gray, jelly-like mucus in pharyiijo, easily haiuked up ; early in the morning. Throat feels raw and sore {Arg. nit.) during expiration and coughing ; not on swalloiuing. Painful tension in the fauces as from swelling when yawning. Stomach. — Excessive appetite even when stomach feels full (Lye). Abdomen.— Bruised pain over the left hip, and on the whole side of the pelvis. Loud rumbling and croaking in the abdomen with hunger. Stool and Anus.— Frequent urging in the lower part of the rectum, with discharge of small quantities of soft stool. Dry stool, like sand ; after dinner. Urinary Organs.— Frequent desire to urinate, with profuse discharge (Apis, Arg. nit., Phos. ac.) ; °urine turbid; sweet- ish, profuse at night; °diabetes. Male Organs. — Crushed pa^in in thetesticles (Aeon.) ; clothing increases the pain on walking. Seminal emissions almost every night, without erection, with atrophy of penis ; after onanism. "Yellowish, greenish gonorrhoea, of an indolent character from the beginning. °Chronic gleet. Female Organs. — Pains in the left ovanj (right. Apis) and loins. °Left ovary feels as if it were very large. °Prolap- sus uteri, with great bearing down and pain in left ovary, pain extending up back and down thigh, with leucorrhoea, yellow excoriating, ichorous, of intolerable odor. °In uterine disease a sore feeling as if ulcerated, in the whole abdomen, worse when riding in a carriage. Respiratory Organs. — "Hoarseness, especially of professional singers, speakers, etc. (Arg. nit., Arum, Phos.). Laughing produces mucus in the larynx, and excites cough (Cinch., Dros., Phos.). When stooping or ascending stairs, mucus rises in the throat, which is expelled by a single cough. Rawness and soreness in the upper part of the larynx, ivhen coztghing, not ivhen swallowing (^voTn..) . °Over the bifurcation of the trachea a raw spot, Avorse when using the voice. A dull cutting which becomes a stitch, in the aii^- passages, from below upward, causing two or three fits of coughing. Attacks of short, rattling cough by day, not at night, 78 AKGENTUM METALLICUM. nor in the open air, zvith easy expectoration of white, thick miocus, like toiled starch. Great weakness of chest, worse on left side. Heart. — Frequent spasmodic, though painless twitching of the Avhole cardiac muscle, especially when lying on the back. Extremities. — Tenderness ; tearing pressure and pain in bones. Joints feel weak, sore, especially in descending. Sensation of soreness in joints, especially of hands and feet, fingers and toes. Drawing in anterior surface of right upper arm when at rest. Paralytic drawing on outside of left arm, with bruised feeling on pressure. Bruised pain in radial part of wrist on pressure. Painful tension in muscles about trochanters and buttocks, as if sprained, with bruised pain on pressure. Bruised pain on left internal malleolus. Tear- ing in the feet, at times in the soles, dorsum, heels or toes; in tarsal or metatarsal bones. Generalities. — Loss of power; after walking, unusual fatigue. Weary, forced to lie down and sleep. Sensation of soreness and rawness in internal organs. W^eahness in the morning on waking. The attacks recur every clay at noon. Hectic fever every day from 11 to 12 or lo'clock. Restless at night. Compare. — Agar., Alum., Asaf., Calc. c, Cinch., Chin, sulph,. Per., Gels., Hep. s., Lye, Merc, Nitr. ac, Puis., Plat., Sep., Zinc. Antidotes. — Merc, Puis. Argentum Metallicum Antidotes.— Mercury. THERAPEUTICS. A valuableremedy in chronic laryngitis and hoarseness, espe- cially in public singers or speakers. Cough from laughing or talk- ing, or from irritation in larynx, with characteristic expectora- tion. Chronic pharyngeal catarrh with same expectoration, and with much rawness and soreness when coughing, not when swal- lowing. Arthralgia and arthritic inflammation of the joints. Rheumatic pains in limbs and back, generally worse when sit- ting, better when lying down. Irritabihty of the heart. Gen- eral anaemia with oedematous feet. Diabetes, especially insipi- dus. Gonorrhoea and gleet, with symptoms already given. Orchitis. Seminal emissions without excitement or loss of sex- ARGENTUM NITRICUM. 79 ual jDOwer. Bad effects from onanism. Prolapsus and other uterine and ovarian diseases, with symptoms ah'eady named. Hectic fever. Aihnents from abuse of mercury. ARGENTUM NITRIOUM. Nitrate of Silver. Preparation. — The pure salt is dissolved in distilled water, one part by weight to nine parts by weight of water. The first three decimal dilutions are made with dis- tilled water, the 4x with dilute alcohol, and subsequent dilu- tions with alcohol. Dilutions should be made fresh when used. GENERAL ANALYSIS. The most important action of Argentum Nitricum is on the blood, producing an antiplastic effect, rendering it more fluid and darker ; the red corpuscles lose their coloring matter ; the blood stagnates in the vessels causing ecchymosis, and nutrition is interfered with. The flow of bile is increased, and degenerative congestion in the liver is produced, and albumi- nuria. As a result of defective nutrition the bones and perios- teum are involved. The drug also acts as a highly irritant poison, affecting primarily the mucous membranes of the eyes, mouth, throat, and upper air-passages, the bowels and urethra, causing violent congestion, and destructive inflammation and ulcerations of these tracts. The nervous system is also decidedly affected, giving rise to great prostration, and causing violent tetanic convulsions, followed by paralysis. OHARACTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Loss of memory {Anac, Kreos., Lach., Merc, Natr. mur., Mux TTb., Phos. ac). "Impulsive; must walk fast. Melancholic; does not undertake anything lest he should not succeed (Aur.); "impulse to throw herself from the win- dow. "Apprehension when ready to go to church or opera, bringing on diarrhoea. Nightly nervousness, with heat and fullness in the head. Nervous, faintish and tremulous sen- sation. Head — Vertigo and buzzing in the ears, and general dehil- 80 AKGENTUM NITRICUM. ity of the limbs and tremhling . Headache relieved by binding something tightly around the head (Sil.); worse in the open air. Headache from mental exertion. Boring in left frontal eminence (Coloc). Head feels much en- larged (Borax, Cimic, Glon.). Drawing in bands over sur- face of brain, apparently in membranes or sinuses. Congestion, with throbbing of carotids, heaviness and stupefying dullness in head, melancholy, weakness of mind and inability to express himself suitably and coherently. Digging, cutting motion through the left hemisphere, from occiput to frontal protuberance^ recurs frequently, increases and decreases rapidly. Aching in one side of head, ivith enlarged feeling in corresponding eye. Digging pains in the hemisphere of brain. Painful full- ness and heaviness in the head ; inability to recollect. Ex- cessive congestion of blood to the head {Bell.). Almost constant boring, cutting in bones of forehead, vertex, tem- ples and face. Itching, creeping, crawling, as from vermin (Colch., Cupr. m.), roots of hair feel as if pulled upward. Eyes. — Ophthalmia, with intense pains; worse in warm room; better in cool open air (Puis.) . Intolerance of light (Aeon., Bell., Euph., Graph.). Gray spots and serpent-lihe bodies move before the vision. °Ciliary blepharitis from being over a fire; better from cold air and cold applications; ectropion. Vanishing of sight; must constantly wipe • away the mucus (Alum., Croc, Puis.). Acute granular con- junctivitis ; conjunctiva intensely pink, or scarlet red ; dis- charge profuse, inclined to be muco-purulent (Merc). Can- ihi red as blood; the caruncula sivollen, standing out lihe a lump of red flesh ; clusters of intensely red vessels extend from inner canthus to cornea (Kali iod.). "Opacity of the cornea ; "ulceration of cornea in infants ; profuse pur- ulent discharge from the lids (Merc. cor.). Ears. — Whizzing in left ear, with feeling of obstruction and hard hearing. Nose. — Discharge of whitish pus, with clots of blood. Coryza, with stupefying headache over the eyes ; has to lie down ; sneezing; chilliness; lachrymation ; sickly look. Violent itching of the nose. Face.— Sickly appearance (Ars.) ; face sunken, pale, bluish AKGENTUM NITRICUM. 81 (Carb. v.); °yellow, dirty looking (lodi.); prematurely old look. Infra orbital neuralgia, left side. Mouth. — Gums tender and bleed easily {Merc, Kitr. ac, Phos.); but neither painful nor swollen. Toothache, worse from chewing, eating sour things, and putting cold things into the mouth. Teeth sensitive to cold water (Calc. c). Tip of the tongue red (Ars.) and painful ; papillm erect, promi- nent. White tongue. Red streak down middle of tongue. Fetor from the mouth ; ptyalism {Merc, Jfitr. ac). Tongue is remarkably dry, with violent thirst. Throat. — Thich. tenacious mucus in the throat, obliging hirrv to hawh. Rawness., soreness, and scraping in the throat {Arg. met.). Sensation as if a splinter were lodged in the throat, when siualloiuing (Ailanth., Hep. s., Kitr. ac), breathing or jnoving the nech. Uvula and fauces darh- red {Ailanth., Bapt., Bell., Mur. ac, Phyt.). Burning and dryness in fauces and pharynx (Ars.). Paroxysms of cramp in the oesophagus. Stomach. — Irresistible desire for sugar. Violent belchings, °witli most gastric ailments, after every meal; difficult;, finally air rushes out with great violence. Nausea after each meal, especially after dinner. The vomited substance tinged the bedding black. Awakens at midnight with op- pression at stomach, as from a heavy lump, inducing vomit- ing; in the morning throws up glairy mucus, which can be drawn into strings ; during the afternoon desire to vomit, tremulous weakness, and a sensation as if the head were in a vise (Merc). "Violent cardialgia, with griping and burning, after ice cream or food. Stinging, ulcerative pain in left side of stomach, worse from touch and deep inspiration. Inflam- mation of the stomach ; gastro-enteritis. Trembling and throbbing in stomach (Puis., Sep.). Painful swelling of the pit of the stomach, luith great anxiety. Feeling as if stomach would burst after yawning, with sensation of spasmodic closure of oesophagus, hence inef- fectual efforts to eructate; becomes strangulated, face purple, almost unconscious, relieved by empty eructations. Abdoraen. — Fullness, heaviness and distension of the abdomen (Ant. crud., Aloe, Cinch.), with anxiety. Stitches dart 82 AKGENTUM NITEICUM. through the abdomen like electric shocks on left side, espe- ciall}' when changing from rest to motion. Pain in hypo- chondria. Intolerance of lacing' around hypocliondria. Flatulence {Aloe, Carh. v., Lye). Stool and Anus. — Stools greenisli^ {Axm-n. niur.), very fetid mucus (Ars.), ivith noisy flatus, at night ; green mucus (Ars., Bell., Ipec, Puis., Merc, Sulph.) luith retching and vomiting of muczts ; scanty and watery, ivith flatulent colic at night; °like spinach in flahes ; copious fluid; bloody mucus; masses of epithelium connected by muco- Ijmph, looking red, or green or shreddy, with severe bear- ing down in the hypogastrium ; ^advanced dysentery, with suspected ulceration ; diarrhoea as soon as he drinks {Aloe, Coloc, Ferr.); °child fond of sugar but diarrhoea results from eating it. Itching in the anus (vEsc. h., Sulph.). Urinary Organs. — Burning during and after micturation (Aeon., Canth.); urethra feels sore, as if swollen ( Ca7z.. sat.). Quick urging to urinate; flow copious and clear (Apoc, Phos. ac). Rare urination, urine scanty and dark. In- ability to pass urine in a projecting stream. Scanty emis- sion of concentrated urine, wdth disappearance of uric acid. Oozing of mucus from urethra; thick, white at night. Stitches in extremity of urethra (Nit. ac); cutting from posterior part of urethra to anus, when emitting last drop of urine (Thuja). Inflammation of urethra, ivith pain (Can. sat., Cubeb., Merc, cor.. Thuja), increased gonor- rho&a, priapism, dysuria, Moody ztrine and fever (Petrosel.). Ulcerative pain in the middle of the urethra, as from a splinter. Stream of urine spreads asunder. Male Organs.— Want of desire; organs shriveled (Agar.). Coition painful; urethra as if put on the stretch, or sensi- tive at its orifice. Painful tension during erection, chordee, bleeding from urethra, and shooting in urethra from be- hind forward. °Ulcers on the prepuce ; small, covered with pus; later, spreading, bowl-shaped, with a tallow-like coat- ing. Contusive pain, with enlargement and hardening of right testicle. Female Organs. — °Coition painful, followed by bleeding from the vagina. ^Prolapsus, with ulceration of os or cervix {Hydras.). Menses irregular, too copious or too scanty, ARGENTUM NITRICUM. 88 too soon or too late. Orgasms at night. ^Metrorrhagia, with nervous erethism at change of hfe; also in young- widows and those who have borne no children ; returning in attacks, region of ovai-ies painful, with pains radiating to sacrum and thighs. °During pregnancy, stomach as if it would burst with wind ; head feels expanded. Respiratory Organs. — Internal soreness of the larynx and pit of the throat, worse mornings. °Chronic laryngitis of sing- ers (Arg. met.. Arum, Phos.); raising the voice causes cough. Suffocative cough at noon. Evening cough, worse from tobacco smoke. DyspncBa. Btorjiing in chest ; heavi- ness. Expectoration purulent, mixed with light blood. Heart. — Heart's action irregular, intermittent {Digit., JSCatr. mior.), with an unpleasant sensation of fullness; worse when noticing it, better on motion in open air. Violent palpitation of the heart {Aeon., Ars., Bell., Spig., Verat. alh.)\ in afternoon with faintish, nausea; from sudden mus- cular exertion or excitement. Back. — Pressure in back at night. Pain in back, better from standing or walking. Heaviness in os sacrum, extending along pelvis with painful drawing. Heaviness, with para- lytic sensation, preventing long sitting, and obliging him, when walking, to stretch the dorsal spine. Lower Limbs. — Limbs, especially knees, start up at night, awakening him. Debihty and weakness of lower limbs, with sick feeling and dread of work (Nux v.). Calves weary as after a long journey {Cinch.). Paralytic heaviness and debility, so that he did not know where to put them. Weari- ness with rigidity. Generalities.— Chorea-like convulsive motion of all the limbs. Lassitude, weariness of forearms and legs. Tremulous iveahness accompanied with general debility. Paralysis, convulsions, twitchings. Trembhng and tremulous sensa- tion (Cupr., Gels., Merc). Expanding sensation, especially in face and hea.d (Glon., Gels.), with feeling as if bones of skull separated, and with heat. Emaciation. Dropsy; oedema of legs and ascites. Loss of voluntary motion. °Paraplegia from debilitating causes. Sensation of splin- ters in various parts {JS^itr.ac), especially in mucous mem- branes. 84 ARGENTUM NITRICUM. Skin.— "Bluish-black eruption; scarlet fever. Sweat in the mornino-; at night. Skin brown, tense and hard. Discol- oration from blue, gray, violet or bronze to black. Sleep.— Restless, stupefied sleep, with horrid dreams of serpents, etc. Prevented from falling asleep by fancies and images hovering before his imagination. Compare.— Ars., Aur., Cupr., Gels., Hydras., Hydroc. ac, Merc, Nitr. ac, Phos., Picric ac, Plumb. Antidotes.— Ars., Merc ., J^atr. mur., Nitr. ac. To large doses : milk, salt in water, mucilaginous drinks. Argentum Nitricum Antidotes.— Amm. caust., Tabac THERAPEUTICS. The chief therapeutic value of Argentum Nitricum is in the treatment of catarrhal affections of mucous membranes charac- terized by a profuse muco-purulent discharge (Puis. ) . Especially useful in purulent ophthalmia-acute granular conjunctivitis, with profuse discharge, great redness, swelling and even ulcera- tion, the cornea being involved. An excellent remedy in the purulent ophthalmia of new born infants. Useful in ciliary blepharitis (see symptom), though in chronic cases with much thickening of the edge of the lids Arg. met. is more frequently used. Paralysis of accommodation from errors of refraction; glasses faihng. Nasal catarrh, with loss of smell and haemor- rhages. Acute and chronic pharyngitis, uvula and fauces dark red, thick, tenacious mucus, rawness and soreness, sensation of a splinter, etc. Catarrh of smokers, with sensation of a hair causing cough, better again by smoking. Gastric catarrh and gastro-enteritis, the symptoms agreeing. In children who have disordered stomachs from eating sweets. Cholera infantum in children w^ho look dried up like mummies. Diarrhoea, with characteristic green stools, and flatulence. Advanced dysen- tery, bloody, slimy stools, suspected ulceration. A valuable remedy, internally, in urethritis, simple or specific, great sore- ness, burning, violent cutting pains, dysuria, bloody urine. Especially useful in the early purulent stage of gonorrhoea. In gonorrhoea of the female, and in profuse purulent leucorrhoea it is a valuable remedy. Also in erosions and ulcerations of the OS and cervix, with much soreness and bleeding. In the chronic laryngitis of singers it is an excellent remedy, though less often ARNICA. 85 indicated than Arg. met. Threatening paralysis of the lungs. Asthma. Angina pectoris. Argentum Nitricum has proved useful in various chronic affections of the brain and nervous system. Melancholia; spinal irritation ; epilepsy and epilepti- form convulsions; paralysis, paraplegia; functional paralysis following acute diseases, post diphtheritic, etc.; prosopalgia; cardialgia ; gastralgia ; nephralgia ; locomotor ataxia. Accord- ing to Allen it is a valuable remedy in the mental depression or irritability which results from brain-fag, with general debility and trembling of the whole body. Has been used in septic forms of scarlet fever. In bone affections, especially caries of small bones. In chlorosis. ARNICA. Synonym. — Arnica Montana. Jfatwral order. — Compositse. Common name. — Leopard's Bane. Habitat. — A perennial herb growing in mountainous districts of the northern hemisphere. Preparation. — Tincture from the root, leaves and flowers, mixed. GENERAL ANALYSIS. The chief action of Arnica is upon the blood, producinggen- eral anaemia and a tendency to haemorrhages, capillary stases, ecchymoses, defective nutrition, etc. On the muscular, serous, and cellular tissues and tendons it produces conditions quite similar to those resulting from injuries, falls, blows, etc., both external and internal, even to traumatic fever and septicaemia, by purulent infection. It also acts, secondarily, upon the ca- pillaries, stimulating their absorbent power, especially after having been weakened by external injuries. Through the motor nerves it affects the cerebro-spinal axis, causing spinal irritation and its attendant evils, paral3^sis, etc. In the diges- tive tract it produces irritation and a low inflammatory condi- tion, giving rise on the one hand to dyspeptic symptoms, and on the other to typhoid conditions. A bruised, sore feeling is its leading peculiarity. 86 ARNICA. OHARAOTEmSTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind.— °Un conscious (Campli., Bell., Op.); when spoken to answers correctly, but unconsciousness and delirium return at OQce (Bapt., Hyos.). °Stupor, with involuntary dis- charge of faeces; typhoid. Indifference to everything (Phos., Phos. ac); hopelessness. Fright. Inability to per- form continuous active work. Sullen, morose, does not speak a loud luord. Sensitive. °Low muttering delirium or complete stupor in malarial or typhoid fevers. Want of memory (Anac, Lach., Nux m.); forgets the word he is about speaking (Baryt. carb.). °Fears being struck or even touched by those coming toward him. "Violent attacks of anguish; angina pectoris. Hypochondriacal anxiety (Aur., JSfux v., Puis.) Head.— Vertigo with nausea; better when sitting or bending the head, but on righting the head or moving it a feeling as if everything turned with her (Alum., Bell., Bry., Coni., Jfujc v.). Vertigo when closing the eyes. Confusion of the head, with pressure in right half of head, especially over risrht brow. Pressive headache, as if distended from within out- ward. Pain, as if a knife were drawn through the head transversely, followed by coldness. Headache in the morn- ing on waking, and later when walking in the open air, when there was vertigo. Stitches in forehead with sen- sation of extravasation of blood. Aching over the eyes ex- tending towards the temples, with sensation as if the integu- ments of the forehead were spasmodically contracted ; as if the brain w^ere rolled up in a lump, worse near the stove. Stitches in the temples; intermittent tearing in left temple. Headache as if a nail were thrust into the temple (Anac, Agar., Co#., //;?..). Cold spot on forehead. °Bad effects from falls or blows on the head. Eyes. — Eyes sunken. Pinching in inner half of right eyeball. Pupils contracted ; dilated. Margin of upper lids painful when the lids are moved, as if they were dry and slightly sore. "Inflammation of the eyes, with suggillations after mechanical injuries. "Retinal haemorrhage; expedites ab- sorption of clots. Ears. — Bruised pain in ears; stitches in and behind ears; ears AKNICA. 87 very dry. °Hard hearing from concussions. Humming in. the ears. Nose.— Bruised pain from above downward. Frequent blow- ing of nose with traces of blood. °Nosebleed, dark, fluid blood, from mechanical causes; during whooping cough or typhoid fever. Face.— Face sunken. Lips chayjped. Red swelling of right cheek, with throbbing and pinching pain, sw^ollen lip and great heat in head, with cold body. Redness and burning in one cheek (Aeon., Cham..). Trembling of lower lip; °in typhus. Mouth. — Putrid smell from the mouth {Auv., Hep. s., lodi., Kreos., Merc., Jfitr. ac, Nux v.); foetid breath. Drj'ness in mouth, with great thirst (Ars., Bry.). Biting, burning and scraping at root of tongue and in oesophagus. °Tooth- ache after operations, plugging, etc. Tonghe coated white {Ant. crud., Bry., Merc, Mux v.). Taste bitter, disgust- ing (Hep.); putrid, slimy (Ascl. t., Merc, Nux. v., Puis.,. Sep.); like rotten eggs. Stomach. — Repugnance to food; aversion to meat (Alum., Graph., Ptel., Puis.) and broth. Eructations hitter and like rotten eggs (Agar., Ant. tart., Cham., Psor., Sep., Valer., Ptel.); empty at night. Thirst without external heat, the pupils being little capable of dilatation. Nausea ; with general relaxation ; with burning and scratching in throat. "Vomiting of coagulated blood ; after injuries. Spasmodic contraction of stomach causes a general pain, but mostly in posterior wall, with a sensation as if wall of stomach would be forcibly pressed toward the spine, and as if spine would be made painful from that place downwards. Feeling of repletion in stomach with loathing. Pinching, spasmodic griping in the stomach. Abdomen. — Tympanitic distension of the abdomen (Cinch.); frequent urging to stool ; though constipated. Offensive flatus (Ascl., Aloe, Bry., Carh. v., Graph.) ; smelling like rotten eggs (Sulph.). Stitches heloiv false ribs {especially left) zuhen standing, intercepting breathing . Pi-essure and constriction below last ribs. Stitches and cutting in abdomen ; in sides during cough. Sharp thrusts in abdo- men from one side to the other. Colic resemblino- dysen- 88 AKNICA. tery, a deep-seated digging pain in hvpogastriuin on both sides, with nausea and drowsiness. Intermittent tearing in left half of pubic eminence. Stool and Aumb,.— Involuntary stool (Ars., Carb.v.) at night (Hyos.) ; ivhen asleep. Diarrhoea, resembling brown yeast. Stools undigested {Ant. crud., Cinch., Poclo.) ; blood or pus; copious, thin pap-like, sour smelhng {Poclo.), following tenesmus, and giving relief; small mucous stools. Diarrhoea at night, with cutting in intestines. Frequent stools with necessity to lie down after ed^ch stool. Urinary Organs. — Urine dai-k, scanty (Aeon.) ; brick-dust sediment (Lye, Cinch., Natr, mur., Phos.) ; dark-brown. °Bloody urine from mechanical causes. Tenesmus of the bladder, with involuntary dropping of urine; with in- effectual urging. Urine retained, with aching and pressing in bladder. "Involuntary urination {Ars., Bell., Hyos.) at night during sleep (Caust., Cupr., Puis.). °Has to wait a long time for urine to pass. "Retention of urine from exertion. Sexual Organs. — "Soreness, pain, swelling, haemorrhages, etc., resulting from mechanical injuries. "Phymosis from friction, parts bruised and much swollen. "Soreness and lameness of parts after labor, especially after instrumental delivery. "Sore nipples {Graph.). "Mastitis from injury. "Uterine hsemorrhages, and other disorders from injuries. Respiratory Organs. — ° Cough in children proclucedby iveep- ing and, lainenting ; from itching in upper part of larynx. Dry cough from tickling in lowest part of trachea ; short, hacking, dry ; every morning after rising ; constant, shak- ing the whole frame. Bloody expectoration (Bry., Phos.). Short, panting respiration. Dyspnoea; quick inspira- tions and expirations. Stitches in chest (left side), worse from a dry cough; worse from motion; better from external pressure (Bry.), with short cough which aggravates the pain, and with tightness of chest. Violent stitches in the middle of the left chest (Bry., Kalicarb.). Pain, as if bruised (Apis, Cinch., Sil.), or sprained in the articulations and cartilages of chest, during motion, breathing and coughing. Raw feeling in chest. Heart and. Pulse. — Pain in region of heart as if squeezed ARNICA. 89 {Cact., Lil.), or as if it got a shock. °" Strain of tlie heart," from violent running. "Pressure under the ster- num, anguish, collapse, small irregular pulse; dyspnoea; angina pectoris. Articulations and cartilaginous con- nections of chest feel as if beaten, when moving, breathing or coughing. Stitches in cardiac region {Bry., Cact., Kali cart., Spig.) from left to right side of heart. Pulse inter- mittent, feeble, irregular, hurried (Apoc, Dig.). Neck and Back. — Violent pain in the spine, as after sudden rising up after long stooping (Cinch., Dulc, Puis.) ; in the morning on rising. Great soreness and pain in back, as if bruised or beaten (Ars.,Berb., Bry., Rhus tox., Sulph.). Pain in the middle of spine when sitting; in spine as if it could not carry the body. Pain in lower cervical vertebrae on bending the head, with tension ; on spinal processes of lower cervical and upper dorsal vertebrae, with tension. Pain between scapulae, with pressure near spine. Stitches in right side of back, from last ribs to axilla, at every inspiration. Limbs. — Heaviness in all the limbs. Paralytio pains in all the joints during motion,- as if bruised. Limbs as if bruised, at rest or on motion ; painful concussion from jolt- ing of carriage, or stepping firmly, also tingling. Upper Limbs. — Arms feel weary, as if bruised (Cimic). Pain, as from bruises, on anterior surfaces of arms. Sensation as if the joints of the arms and wrists were sprained. Acute bruised pain in the balls of the thumbs. Violent twitching pain from shoulder joint to little finger. Shght cracking and sensation of dislocation in ria'ht wrist when moving the hand. Sharp drawing in outer half of back of right hand. Tearing, twitching, drawing pain in ulnar side of back of right hand. Cramps in fingers of left hand. Tear- ing in tips of left ring and little finger. Drawing in right thumb. Xiower Limbs. — Drawing, pressi\^e pain in left hip-joint, when sitting with thigh extended. Pain as from a sprain in the hips. Pain in thighs when walking, as from a blow^ or con- tusion. Pain in calf of right leg, as from a blow, with lassi- tude of the legs. Pain as from a sprain in tarsal joints. Arthritic pains in foot, worse towards evening; big toe joint red, feels sprained. Burning spot on outside of left tibia. 90 AKNICA. Tearing pain in right outer mallelous, and on dorsum of foot. Drawing in outer half of back of left foot. Tearing in left little toe. Generalities. — Stitches in various parts. Formication or dull pain in contused part. Weakness, ivith a hruised sensa- tion (Bapt.). Lassitude and sluggishness of the whole bod J ; scarcely able to stand. Weary, hrioised (KawmiQ.), sore (Bad., ^utdu); great lueahness {Gmoh.); ° must lie down, yet hed feels too hard (Bapt.). Whole body, especially skin and joints, excessively painful and sensitive. Tearing, tingling, drawing, etc., in outer parts (Aeon.). Skin. — Red, hot, oedematous (Apis, Rhus tox.). Inflammation of skin and cellular tissues; tender on pressure; erysipela- tous. Hot, hard, shining, swelling, as from insect stings (Ant. crud., Apis, Led.). Many small painful boils, one after another ; extremely sore. Sleep. — Sleepiness; drowsiness {JSTuxm.). Frequent yawning in evening, without sleepiness. Sleepiness {Op., Cinch., Laur.), Dreams vivid, frightful, anxious (Aur., Puis., Sulph.); of graves; of lightning striking, etc. Fever. — Chilly in morning in bed. Chilly, with heat and redness in one cheek. Shivering over zvhole body and head, at same time heat in head and redness and heat in face {Ars.); cool hands; hips, hach and arms feel hruised. Dry heat in bed ; violent thirst, even covering makes him chilly; chilly on moving in bed. Head alone, or face alone, hot, body cold. Great internal heat, hands and feet being cold (Ars.). Sweat, sour or offensive (Ars.); at night. Compare. — Aeon., Cimic, Apis, Ars., Bapt., Bov., Bry., Carb. v., Flaps, Hyper., Ipec, Merc, Nitr. ac.,Phos.,Puls., Rhus tox., Ruta, Sec. c, Sep., Sil., Symphytum. Antidotes. — Camph., Ipec, Cinch., Ign., Cic, Ferr., Senega, Vinegar. Arnica Antidotes.— Alcohol, Amm. carb.. Cinch., Cic, Ferr., Ipec, Senega, Charcoal vapor. THERAPEUTICS. The chief use of Arnica is in the treatment of the acute or chronic bad effects, even inflammations from mechanical inju- ries, bruises and contusions (Allen says "of cuts rather than ARNICA. 91 bruises"). Hypericum is better in spinal concussion; Calen- dula ill wounds, with loss of substance, or w^ith suppuration ; Rhus in sprains; Symphytum in bone injuries. Arnica is espe- cially useful in bruises with well-marked ecchymdses, and in con- cussion of the brain or spine (Hypericum). An excellent rem- edy both locally and internall^^ for the swehing and tumefac- tion accompanyin'g fractures. Compound fractures and their profuse suppuration. Haemorrhages from any part, of mechani- cal origin. Myalgia. Muscular pain and soreness from a strain or wrench, or after over exertion (Rhus tox.). Hypertrophy of the heart and palpitatiorj from like causes. It is sufficient to say that Arnica is useful in any disease of any organ or tissue where the disease results directly from traumatic causes. The chief symptom of Arnica in all cases is a "bruised, sore feeling." This symptom also often indicates Arnica in rheumatism and rheumatoid affections. In gout the patient fears being struck by those coming towards him. Arnica is an excellent remedy to administer after parturition. It relieves the sore- ness and lameness of the parts, especially after instrumental delivery, and tends to prevent septic infection. Farrington says that it also "promotes proper contraction of the uterus, and expulsion of coagula, and of any portion of the membranes that may have been retained." It is also an excellent remedy for sore nipples, and for mastitis resulting from injury. The power of Arnica to prevent pysema is w^onderful, and makes its application after injuries and surgical operations the more im- portant. In retinal haemorrhages Arnica expedites the absorp- tion of clots. As might be surmised from its action on the blood, Arnica is a valuable remedy in typhoid or typho-malarial fevers, and in typhoid states in general, its chief indication being an indifferent, stupid condition, the patient falling asleep when answering a question (Bapt.); feels sore and bruised; the bed seems too hard ; the head is hotter than the body ; suggil- lations; petechise; intestinal haemorrhage; involuntary stools; also when bedsores form. Arnica is useful when boils or abscesses do not mature well and discharge, but are absorbed and pass away, new ones continually forming. Erysipelatous inflammations, and echymoses. Varicose veins and ulcers. Arnica is useful in gastro-enteritis, diarrhoea and dysentery with foul stools, and a typhoid tendency. Dyspepsia with foul 92 ARSENICUM ALBUM. eructations like rotten eggs, and much offensive flatus of a like odor. Angina pectoris. Pneumonia and pleurisy, especially from injuries. Whooping cough ; the child cries before the par- oxysm, as though in fear of the soreness it will cause; cough causes blood-shot eyes, nosebleed ; expectoration of foaming blood, or clots of blood. Apoplexia; mania; delirium tremens, with characteristic symptoms. Anaemia with great prostration, after injuries or low forms of fever. Spinal irritation ; paraly- sis. Thrombosis. Hsematocele. ARSENICUM ALBUM. Synojiyivi. — Arsenious Acid. Preparation. — Triturations for the lower attenuations. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Arsenic is an irritant poison and has a specific action on almost every organ, tissue and secretion of the body. It acts directly upon the blood composition, upon the tissues, and upon the nervous system. The condition produced is one of asthenia, which characterizes the entire pathogenesis, and ex- haustion of vital powder, producing symptoms of impeded func- tional activity amounting in some cases to positive paralysis. This exhaustion giving rise to lassitude, prostration, weakness, etc., is so peculiar to Arsenic, that it becomes at all times its most characteristic and important action, not resulting in all cases, as might be supposed, from organic destruction ; but being present as a "sudden and complete sinking of the forces," due to functional causes alone. Paralysis may also occur as a result of a persistent hj^persemia and subsequent softening of the gray matter of the spinal cord. Of the tissues of the body the mucous membranes are most powerfully affected, producing irritation, inflammation, and ulceration. This is noted espe- cially in the digestive tract, where a violent destructive gastro- enteritis is established. The respiratory mucous membrane is also involved causing at first increased secretions. Later the pneumogastrics are paralyzed. Upon the serous membranes and the skin Arsenic produces its peculiar irritated and in- ARSENICUM ALBUM. 93 flamed condition ; in the former giving rise to copious effusions, and in the latter causing violent itching and burning followed by squamous and vesicular eruptions and ulcerations. It ex- cites inflammation of the kidneys, destroys the glycogenic func- tions of the liver, irritates the heart, resulting in vaso-motor paralysis, and causes fatty degeneration of all these organs (Phos.). Glandular action in general is first increased, then diminished. The blood corpuscles are affected, sometimes de- stroyed. Arsenic has also the power of producing fever of an intermittent type, and resembles in its pathogenesis the many degrees of both acute and chronic malarial poisoning, but lacks the distinct stages, regular periodicity and complete resolution of Cinchona and Chin . sulph. The leading peculiarities of Arsenic are its great restlessness, profound exhaustion, peculiar thirst, rapid emaciation, aggravation after midnight, and ameliora- tion from warmth. OHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — DeliriuTTh at night, ivith great restlessness {Aeon., Rhus tox.). Carphologia. Sad, tearful, aibxious mood (Ign., Lye, Natr. mur., Nux m.. Puis., Rhus tox.). An- gzvish and despair driving from one place to another for relief (Aur.). Her desires are greater than her needs; she eats and drinks too much ; walks too far. Sensitiveness ; to the least noise. Anxiety ; at 3 a.m., ivith hot feeling or nausea; after 3 a.m.; evening after lying down. Loss of consciousness. Ideas crowd upon the mind, too weak to repel them and dwell upon one alone. Great anxiety and restlessness at 3 a.m. {Aeon., Camph., Rhus tox.), driving out of bed. DrertcZ o/ fZeai/i. (Aeon., Cimic, Agn., Nitr. ac, Sec.); sudden, when alone or going to bed. Determined to commit suicide. Fretful, discontented, fault-finding, capricious, easily angered {Bry., CJiam., JVioxv.). Great fear and anguish; vsees ghosts dav and night (Aeon., Puis.). Head. — Vertigo, as if he would fall; evening; with stupidity; heaviness in the head ; with humming in the ears ; goes off' in the open air, hut returns on re-entering the room. Headache; throbbing; stupefying; burning; periodical. Confusion and stupefaction in the head. Intense headache, 94 AESENICUM ALBUM. increased with light and noise (Bell.), with vertigo; worse on left side. Sensation as if the brain "moved, and beat against the skull during motion (Hyos., Glon., Rhus tox., Sulph., Sulph. ac). Drawing pressive pain in right side of forehead. Pain as if bruised or sore over the nose and in forehead, rubbing relieves temporarily. Throbbing over root of nose during motion. Pain in right temple ; in ver- tex. Neuralgia on left side of head ; hemicrania. Aching in occiput. Pain in head and face, especially severe on left side. Falling out of the hair {Graph., Hep. s., Jfitr. ac, Phos., Sep., Sulph.). °Can scarcely bear the head to be touched, scalp so sensitive. °Chronic eruptions with pus- tules and vesicles filled with pus. °Tinea. Eyes. — Red. Injected. Staring. Protruding. Pupils dilated ; contracted. Lachrymation and itching in the eyes. Blue spots in white of eye. Eyeballs hot and burning sore. In- flammation of the e^^es and lids, luith severe hztrning pain (Aluryi.), lachrymation and photophobia. Feeling of sand in the eyes {Caust., Sulph., Ign., Natr. mur., Phyt.); even- ings. Conjunctiva looks hke a piece of raw beef. Pulsa- tive throbbing in the eyes, with every pulsation a stitch; after midnight. Eyelids cedematous, often coinpletely closing the eye {Apis, Kali carb., Rhus tox.). Excessive photophobia (Aeon., Bell., Sulph.). Burning in margins of upper eyelids. Dryness of the eyelids, as if the eyes were rubbed by them. Corrosive tears, niahing the cheehs and eyelids sore (Euphr.,Merc. cor.; bland, Cepa). ^Ophthalmia of children; skin rough; dry, and dirty looking; photopho- bia and profuse acrid lachrymation; relieved by hot appli- cations. Ears.— Stitching pains in left meatus (Kah bi.) at night, from within outward. Otalgia. Roaring in ears (Bell., Calc, Graph., Kali carb.), with every paroxysm of pain. Nose.— Swollen, and pouring forth a watery discharge. Watery excoriating discharge from the nostrils (Ailanth., Amm. carb.. Arum, Cepa, Euphr. ,I^jc.). Coryza; fluent and dry together; fluent with frequent sneezing (Aeon., Gels.); with hoarseness and sleeplessness; worse in morn- ing; burning and excoriating ; hetter in open air (Puis.) ; better in hot weather. Pain in bone at root of nose. Sore- ARSENICUM ALBUM. 95 ne^s of mucous membranes. Burning and dryness in nose. Distressing stoppage at root of nose. Nosebleed. °Ex- treme sensitiveness of smell, cannot bear even the smell of food. Face. — Face deathly color; pale, yellow, cachectic looh ; swollen; sunheiv {Ant. cruel.); covered luith cold sweat; Hippocratic (Camphor, Verat. alb.). Distorted. Face expressive of great agony {Camph., Plumb., Verat. alb.). Twitching of muscles of face. Lips livid, blue, swollen, black and cracked; ulcerated. Lancinating pain along right inferior maxillary nerve. Pricking twitching in one side of upper lip. worse ^vhen going to sleep. CEdematous swelling of the face (Apis). °Cancer of face and hps, with burning pain. Mouth. — Grinding of teeth w^hile asleep (Hell., Hyos., Podo.). Teeth seem longer; become loose (Jferc, Nitr. ac, Bhus tox.)\ are sensitive to pressure and cold water. Swollen, bleeding gums, painful to touch. Jerking toothache at night, extending to temple. Sore lips and ulcers in the mouth. Tongue: sides furred, red streaks in middle and red' tip {Phyt., Rhus tocv.); whitish, fiery red, smooth, fZ/'T/ {Bell., Bhus tojc.), and broiun (Bapt., Bhus tojc.)\ bluish white. Violent burning on the tongue; gangrene. Swelling about the root of the tongue. Externally and internally. Dryness in mouth with violent thirst {Bry., Rhus tox.). Painful blisters in the mouth and on the tongue. Drinks often, but little at a time (Hyos., Cinch., Natr. ars.; reverse, Bry.). Aphthae in the mouth. Burning in the mouth, pharynx and oesopha- gus (Aeon., Canth., Caps.). Excessive thirst; drinking does not refresh. Burning thirst without especial desire to drink. Constant thirst for cold zuater, the smallest quan- titij of luhich could not be retained. Bitter taste after eat- ing {Bry., Cinch., Colo., JSfzvx v.. Puis., Sulph.). Taste sweetish; putrid. Sahva profuse ; bloody ; frothy. Throat.— Ulceration. Diphtheritis. Inflammation and sw^elling internally and externally about root of tongue. Dryness ; with soreness, scraping and burning. Dryness and burning in fauces, throat and oesophagus (Aeon., Bell., Canth., Caps.). Swallowing very difficult and painful; sensation 96 AESENICUM ALBUM. of constriction {Bell., Hyos.) ; paralysis of pharynx and oesophagus. Burning when swallowing; food goes down to region of lar^^nx, w-hen it is ejected. Burning in the- cesophagus. Stomach. — Loss of appetite (Alum.) ; loathing of foodi (Acon.,. Ant. tart.). Hiccough after eating; at the hour ivhen fever ought to have come. Unsuccessful eructations. Water-brash. Long-lasting nausea, anguish, with fainting tremor; heat all over, and shuddering; at 11 a.m. and 3 P.M., obhging him to lie down. Violent retching. Violent and incessant vomiting; excited hy eating or drinking {Jfudc v., Puis., Verat. alb.). °Stomach out of order from eating fruit, ice cream, etc. Vomiting; of all nourishment as soon as it reaches the stomach] of ingesta (Aeon., Phos., Verat. alh.); brown substance; mucus and green bile; blood and mucus. Great anxiety ahout the epigastric region ; at night on rising up. Intense hurning pains in stomach and pit of stomach (Ant. crud., Apis, Bell., Colch., Canth., Iris Phos., Verat. alb.) ; with thirst anxiety and retching. Dra\\dng pain in pit of stomach, in evening when sitting, extending arouncf to lower border of left ribs. Internal chilliness in epigastric region. Soreness in pit of stomach when talking, drawing breath or moving (Bry.). Weak digestion. Could not bear any wine. Cramps in stomach (Aeon., Ant. crud.). Weight in stomach, as of a stone, after eating {Bry., JSfux v., Puis.). Stomach tender to pressure (Ant. crud., Bry., Bell., Lye). Abdomen. — Abdomen distended and painful (Apoc, Merc). Violent, hurning pains, xvith intolerable anguish (Aeon., Canth.) ; better after stool. Cutting pains in abdomen (Aeon,, Coloc). Pain over region of liver, worse from pressure. Hypertrophy of the spleen. Pain about the um- bilicus, causing him to bend forward, worse on touch, or on attempting to raise himself, or to lie on his back. Pinching in hypogastrium, increasing to cutting, in morning, before, during and after diarrhoea. Stool and. Anus.— Painful spasmodic protrusion of rectum. Burning in rectum after stool, with weakness and trembling in all the limbs. Ineffectual urging to stool. Tenesmus,, AESENICUM ALBUM. 97 with burning pain and pressure in rectum and anus (Canth., Iris, Merc, Sulpli.). Prolapsus ani (Podo.) ; lisemor- rhoids ; burning pain. Evacuations excoriate the anus (Merc, Sulph.). Involuntary stools {Am.) and urine (Hyos.). Stools blacJc (Aeon.) ; acrid (Merc, cor., Carb. v., Lept., Sulph.) ; putrid; slimy and dark green mucus (Aur. mur., Arg. nit., Merc, Puis., Sulph.); dark, bloody, watery and painless; dark colored; offensive (Bapt.); blackish-brown bihous, with griping; dysentery-like. Diarrhoea with coldness of the extremities ; vomiting ; prostration. Diarrhoea worse after midnight, also in morning after rising. Diar- rhoea, after chilling stomach by taking cold substances; from fruit and vegetables. Haemorrhages from bowels; dark; offensive. Constipation (Bry., Calc. c, Xux v.. Op., Siolph.) ; with pain in abdomen. Urinary Organs. — Burning in the urethra during mictu- rition {Can. sat., Canth.). Involuntary micturition (Bell., Hyos.). Urine scanty ; passed luith dijficztlty ; burning during emission (Aeon., Canth.) ; copious. Suppression or retention of urine (Aeon., Hyos., Stram,.) ; paralysis of bladder. Hfematuria (Canth., Colch., Ham., Fhos.); albuminuria; uraemia. Male Organs. — Painful swelling of the genitals, and gangrene. Glans blue, red, swollen, and cracked. (Edema of scrotum. Female Organs. — Leucorrhoea profuse, yellow, thick (Hydras., Kali bi.), corroding (Kali carb.). °Thin, whitish, offensive discharge, instead of the menses. Ovaritis. Menses too early, profuse (Ambr., Amm. carb., Calc. c, JVux v.); ex- haustion (Alum., Carb. an., Cocc); dark blood. Amenor- rhoea. Constant exhausting menorrhagia. Lancinations from abdomen into vagina. Burning or tensive pain in ovary. Pressive, stitching pains in region of right ovary ; sometimes extending into thigh, which feels lame. Respiratory Organs. — Voice weak, trembling, uneven, hoarse. Cough excited by smoky sensation, or as of vapors of sul- phur (Cinch., Ign., Lye); or by constant titillation in larnyx (Amm. carb.. Bell., Calc c, Dros., Ign., Rhus tox.y Rumex, Sang.); worse after drinking (Phos.) Spasmodic; asthmatic (lod., Ipec); deep and dry; short; increasing 98 ARSENICUM ALBUM. after midnight. Cough' with bloody sputum. Cough suffo- cating at night; must sit up (Aeon., Ant. tart., Samb.); after lying down ; on going into cold air. Loss of breath immediately on lying down, in the evening, with whisthng and constriction in the trachea. Oppression, increased by stormy weather and heavy air, walking quickly, ascending, warm and tight clothing, but especially from changes of warmth and cold. Wheezy res- piration, with cough and frothy expectoration, looking like beaten white of egg. Bifficult hreathing, with great anguish (Ascl. t.). Oppression, luant of hreath; must spring out of bed at midnight. Asthma. Air-passages seem constricted (Ign.). Oppression of breathing on walk- ing fast, or ascendAng a height (Aeon., Amm. carb., Ascl. t., Calc. c. Kali nitr., Merc). Constriction of the chest, with great anxiety and restlessness evenings; great dyspnoea ; face cyanotic and covered with cold sweat ; great anxiety. Chilhness in interior of chest evenings. Stitches in chest when coughing. Very tenacious mucus in chest {Ant. tart.. Kali bi.). Burning in the chest. Yellow spots on the chest. Haemoptysis after loss of blood ; burning heat all over, especially with pain between scapulae ; in drunkards, or from suppressed menses. ^Catarrh in chest, great suffocation ; child tosses about in agony. °Gangrene of the lungs, with green ichorous sputum. Stitches and pressing in sternum. Heart and. Pulse. — Violent palpitation of the heart, espeeial- ly at night, visible and audible, luith anguish (Aeon., Spig., Verat. alb.); after stool, ivith tremulous iveakness, so that he has to lie down; irregular irritable heart. Pulse accelerated ; irritable; quick and small ; quick, zueah and. irregular (Aeon., Ant. tart.); weak, scarcely percepti- ble (Aeon.). °Angina pectoris ; sudden tightness above the heart; agonized prsecordial pain; anxiet^'^, dyspncea, etc. Neck and back.— Nape stiff, as if bruised or sprained. Stiff- ness in spinal column, beginning in region of os coccygis. Bruised pain in small of back (Arn., Bry.). Loss of strength in small of bach. Limbs. — Excessive weakness and exhaustion of limbs, obliging him to lie down. Twitching, tremor, trem^bling. ARSENICUM ALBUM. 99 weariuess of the limbs. Convulsions. Contractions. Pa- ralysis. Tearing in arms and limbs, worse lying on the affected side, better from motion of the affected parts. Upper Limbs. — Drawing, jerking, and tearing from tips of fingers into the shoulders. Hand and lower half of fore- arm dark and livid. Pain in arm of that side on which he lies at night. Burning ulcers on tips of fingers. Lower Limbs. — Sensation as if lower limbs would break down on going up stairs. Uneasiness in lower limbs ; cannot lie still at ni£ht ; has to change position of feet constantly , or lualk about to get relief {Rhzts tox.). Coldness in lower limbs. Stiffness, especially of knees and feet, alternating with tearing. Numbness of legs and feet ; with tingling. Feet pain as if sprained (Rhus tox.). Tearing, sticking periosteal pain along the limb to the big toe. Sciatica. Paralysis. Violent drawing, tearing pain in the right foot. Drawing pain in legs, when resting feet upon the floor, wdiile sitting. Cramps in the calves (Sulph., Calc. c.,Camph., Nux v., Sil.). (Edematous swelling of the feet (Acet. ac, Apis, Colch.). Sore pain in balls of toes while walking as if chafed. Ulcers on soles of feet and toes. Generalities. — Great emaciation (Ferr.). Epileptic convul- sions {Bell., Calc. c); frequent fainting* Great restlessness and anxiety {Aeon.). Sudden sinking of strength (Aeon., Camph., Sec, Yerat. alb.); from slight pain or other causes. Great weahness and prostration {Bry., Phos., Sec); scarcely able to walh (Ferr.). The parox- ysm of pain is frequently accompanied by other minor symptoms. (Edema of the head, face, eyes and neck. Faint, anxious and lueah, early in morning. Pains intol- erable, periodical. Burning pains (Carb. veg., Phos.), especially in inner organs, shin and ulcers. °After great exertions, climbing mountains, -etc. J^ervous prostration. Typhoid conditions. Senses morbidly acute. Skin. — White, pa-sty looking skin. Painful black eruptions. Miliary eruptions. Parchment-like dryness of the skin. Petechige (Arn., Sec). Pustules. Vesicular eruptions. Desquamation from head to foot. Formication with trembling. Burning itching, painfivl after scratch- ing. Ulcer on leg, covered with gray crust, and sur- 100 AESENICDM ALBUM. rounded by an inflamed crust border ; burning and painful (Carb. v.). Bran-lihe, dry, scaly eruption {ISiitr. ac). Gan- grenous aspect of sores (Carb. v., Kreos., Lacli.,Sil., Sec), °Cancers with burning pains. "Carbuncles. Sleep. — Frequent starting in and from sleep (Agar., Amm. carb., Bell., Brj.,Hyos., Stram., Sulph.). Restless, uneasy sleep with moaning (Lye, Puis.). Dreams full of care, sor- row and fear ; thunder-storms, fire, black water, darkness ; about death, etc. Fever. — Shuddering, zuithout thirst, zvorse in open air; after dinner; after drinking. Intermittent fever, quotidian, sometimes tertian. Fever at same hour for several days. Remittent fever. Irritative fever. Typhus fever with rest- lessness, alternating with stupor. Coldness of body, dry skin, alternate with cold sweats. Chills and heat inter- mingled, or internal coldness, external heat, and red cheeks {Am.); blue nails and lips during chill. Internal Tjurn- ing, dry heat {Aeon., Bry.); after midnight, with anxiety and inclination to uncover; while vomiting, with thirst. Heat beginning in stomach and prsecordial region, passing to rest of body at 2 a. in., warmth over whole body, sweat on face, feet, tension in hypochondria and epigastrium, causing colic and anxiety; at night; without thirst or sweat ; at night, with restlessness, and with pulsations in limbs, hindering sleep, luith thirst; with diarrhoea and en- larged spleen ; chills every evening followed by heat. Feel- ing as if the blood in arteries were boiling hot. Sensation as if the blood coursed through the veins too rapidly or was too hot, with small, rapid pulse. Cold, clammy (Cham., Digit., Kali nitr., Merc, Sec); or sour and offensive sweat (Arn., Merc); copious. During sweat unquenchable thirst; sweats on going to sleep, better after a little sleep ; in bed causing faintness ; about lower limbs at night, especially about knees. Aggravation. — At night, especially after midnight (1 to 3 a.m.). Amelioration. — From zvarmth in general. Compare.— Ant. cr., Apis, Arn., Bell., Camph., Carh. v.. Colch., Cinch., Graph., Hell., lod.. Kali hi., Lach., Merc, Nux v.. Plumb., Phos., Rhus tox., Sec c, Tabac, Silic, Samb., Sulph., Verat. alb.. Zinc ARSENICUM ALBUM. 101 Antidotes.— Cam ph., Carb. v., Cinch., Chin, siilph., i^6r7\. Hep. s., locli., Ipec, Lach., Nux v., Samb., Tabac, Verat. alb. To large doses: sesquioxide of iron, hydrated peroxide of iron; or precipitated carbonate of iron; juice of sugar cane, or honey water; lime water in copious draughts; emetics of sulphate of zinc ; carbonate of potash and magnesia, shaken in oil; infusions of astringent substances; large quantities of diluent drinks. Arsenicum Antidotes.— Carb. v.. Cinch., Ferr., Graph., lodi., Ipec, Lach., Merc, Nux v., Verat. alb. Lead poisoning, and evil effects of alcohol. THERAPEUTICS. Arsenic has a wide range of action and is applicable in very many forms of disease. It is a valuable remedy in all forms of malarial and adynamic fevers, and low types of disease in gen- eral, where the proper indications are present. The chief indi- cation in intermittent fevers is the irregularity and inequality of the three stages. The chill is not well defined, though the fever is, and often the sweat does not bring relief. Often the chill and heat are intermingled. Withal we usually have present the characteristic prostration and restlessness of Arsenic, and more or less gastro-enteric irritability. In long- standing cases the apyrexia is marked by symptoms indicat- ing a bad state of the system— cachexia. Often dropsical indi- cations are present due to an enlarged liver or spleen. Arsenic is also useful when in such patients neuralgia or headaches supervene, evidently due to the malarial poisoning. It is said to be most often indicated in malarial fevers after the failure or abuse of quinine. In typhoid fever Arsenic is indicated in the later stages where there is profound prostration, grea,t rest- lessness and other characteristic symptoms. Also in pyaemia, hectic fever, yellow fever and low types of disease. In eruptive fevers, especially scarlet fever of a malignant character, with similar symptoms; the eruption delays, or becomes pale, or livid with petechial spots. Tendency to gangrene of throat. Hemorrhagic measles. Malignant diphtheria. Arsenic is used by nearly all schools of practice, in the treatment of skin diseases. Its characteristic eruption is bran-like, dry and scaly, with desquamations ; also black eruptions, vesicles, pus- 102 AESENICUM ALBUM. tules. Petechia. Gangrene, particularly the dry gangrene of old people. Ulcers. Carbuncles. Cancers. In all skin diseases, especially those last named, Arsenic is indicated by the severe burning lancinating pains so characteristic of the drug. In all conditions characterized by great exhaustion and rapid sinking" of strength, even collapse. Arsenic may be indicated. This may be present in the diseases already named, but is especially liable to be associated with gastro-enteric troubles. Gas- tralgia, gastro-enteritis, diarrhoea, dysentery, even Asiasic cholera, where Arsenic is a valuable remedy, the symptoms agreeing. Hepatitis. Enlarged liver. Inflammation of the abdominal viscerse. In general, dropsy of the thoracic and ab- dominal cavities, whether resulting from heart, liver or kidney diseases. Arsenic is a most important remedy. Also in oedema, from simple pufflness about the eyes to swelling of the feet and limbs, and ending in general anasarca. In all such cases the general symptoms of Arsenic will be more or less present, according to the locality of the dropsical effusion and the nature of the disease causing it. Arsenic is often the remedy for a weak irritable heart with palpitation ; also for endocardi- tis, hypertrophy and hyper-pericardium. In angina pectoris it will often give relief, when the dyspnoea is very great and the patient shows extreme anguish. In catarrhal affections of the respiratory tract Arsenic may be useful when the symp- toms correspond. It is especially useful in asthma, worse after midnight, must spring out of bed, sits with chest inclined for- ward. Hydrothorax from Bright 's Disease. Emphysema with excessive dyspnoea, suffocative cough, etc. According to Allen a valuable remedy " for the cachexia which leads to chronic disease of the lungs." General anaemia with pros- tration, with or without cachexia. Catarrh of the eyes and upper a,ir-passages; ophthalmia and other eye inflammations, oedema, etc.; fluent coryza characterized by burning pain, photo- phobia, profuse acrid lachrymation, oedema, etc. ; fluent coryza characterized by sneezing and a profuse acrid discharge, caus- ing burning and smarting in the nostrils; often an excellent remedy in influenza, with these symptoms. Inflammation of the oesophagus, with burning and spasmodic constriction on swallowing food. Epithelioma of mouth, tongue or throat with burning pain. Aphthse; ulceration and gangrenous sores ARSENICUM lODATUM. 103 in mouth. The nervous affections in which Arsenic is useful are- mostly neuralgic headaches and often neuralgias due to malarial influences; chorea ; epilepsy ; paralysis, especially of lower ex- tremities; spinal paralysis from myelitis; hysterical paralysis; convulsions. Delirium tremens. Bad effects from tobacco chew- ing; abuse of quinine, iron or iodine. Effects of poisoning from decayed or morbid animal matter, by inoculation, inhalation or swallowing. ARSENICUM lODATUM. . Iodide of Arsenic. Preparation. — Triturations. THERAPEUTICS. Our knowledge of the action of this drug is derived chiefly from clinical sources. It has been found especially useful in the treatment of catarrhal diseases in scrofulous subjects, where many arsenic symptoms are present, together with enlarged lymphatic glands. Nasal catarrh. Hay fever. Ophthalmia. Otitis. Catarrhal inflammation of the nose, throat and ears,, ■ with swelling and stoppage of Eustachian tube. Diphtheria. Leucorrhoea. Mammary abscess. Mammary tumors, with ulcerated nipples sensitive to touch and painful. Enlarged spleen, after intermittent fever treated with quinine. Tabes mesenterica ; cholera infantum . The clinical use of this drug in chest diseases is admirably summed up by Dr. Allen (Handbook of Materia Medica, p. 133) as follows: "Pulmonary tuberculosis with cavities in lungs, hectic fever, etc. Chronic catarrhal pneumonia, with muco-purulent expectora,tion, dyspnoea, night sweats, etc. Chronic pneumonia with abscess in the lung, hectic fever. Acute catarrhal pneumonia, with caseous degeneration and fibrosis. Fibroid degeneration of the lung, with inflammation and haemorrhage ; commencing cavity. In general, many cases of pulmonary disease, pneumonia, sub-acute and chronic, and various forms of phthisis pulmonaris have been cured, the special indications being great debility, night sweats, either after the cavity is formed or when a cavity threatens to form^ 104 ARUM TRIPHYLLUM. Avith a decidedly cachectic condition of the patient. It seems probable that in the Iodide of Arsenic we hare found a remedy most closely allied to manifestations of tuberculosis ; it will be indicated by a profound prostration, rapid, irritable pulse, re- curring fever and sweats, emaciation, tendency to diarrhoea, ■etc. It is especially valuable in non-tubercular phthisis. A number of cases of weakness of the heart have been reported as relieved, and it undoubtedly acts similarly to Arsenic in such cases ; unfortunately nearly all the cases reported have been treated with a combination of other drugs with tliis one, so that perhaps as much credit should be given to the other drugs, as to Arsen. iod." This drug has also been successfully used for chronic skin affections; psoriasis ; eczema of the beard, watery oozing, great itching, worse from washing. Not only useful in the night sweats of phthisis, but also in that of other debilitating diseases. Compare. — Arsenic. Iodine. ARUM TRIPHYLLUM. JVatural order. — Aracese. Common names. — Indian Turnip. Jack in the Pulpit. Habitat. — Grows in moist, shady places throughout America. Preparatioii. — Tincture from the fresh root. Should be kept in a dark, cool place. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Arum acts as an irritant poison to mucous surfaces, af- fecting especially , the mucous membrane of the mouth and fauces, and to some extent of the larynx and bronchi, pro- ducing violent inflammation, tumefaction, and ulc-eration. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Mind. — "During delirium, boring in the nose (Cina.); picking at one spot or on the lips. Head. — Violent headache. Nose. — Fluent coryza afternoons luithheat in head and face. Continual discharge from left nostril. Coryza in the morning with streaks of blood and hardened mucus ; yellow AKUM TRIPHYLLUM. 105 and thick during the day ; watery, and at the same time obstruction, worse in the morning. ° Discharge of burn- ing ichorous fluid from the nose, excoriating the nostrils and upper lip {Ailanth. Aimn., carh., Ars., Cepa, Merc); in scarlet fever. Jfose oId struct ed and T)%ust hreathethrough the mouth (Aur.). °Drink passes up and through the nose. Jfostrils sore and chapped {Ant. crud., Graph., Nifcr. ac). "Constant picking of the nose (Cina, Selen.). Face. — Jfose, lips and face chapped, as after exposure to cold luind (Ant. crud.. Graph.), Great heat in the face and head afternoons, zuith fluent coryza. Pichs the lips until they bleed. Corners of mouth sore, crached and bleeding (Ant. crud.. Graph., Lye, Nitr. ac). Scalded feeling in the face in morning. Sprained pain in left articulation of jaw when swallowing. Mouth. — Cracked tongue, painful and burning Boot of tongue and palate feel raw. Buccal cavity raw, sore and bleed- ing. °Mouth burns, and is so sore that the child refuses to drink, and cries when anything is offered. Excessive sali- vation; saliva acrid. Dryness of mouth. Throat. — Swelling of submaxillary glands (Aur,, Baryt. carb.); especially left side. Constriction in throat with sneezing. Sensation of swelling in soft palate when swal- lowing. Soreness, dryness, burning pains, and ulcers in palate and throat. Stool,— Waterj", brown diarrhcBa, with eructations of food. Urinary Organs. — Discharge of much pale urine. °Urine scanty or suppressed, in scarlatina. Respiratory Organs. — ° Voice hoarse, from overuse in sing- ing or speahing {clergymen's sore throat), (Arg. met., Arg. nit., Phos.). Hoarseness. Accumulation of mucus in trachea. Expectoration of tough mucus (Kali bi.). °Voice uncertain, changing continually. Lungs feel sore (Ail., Phos.). Skin. — ° Exanthema, lihe scarlet rash, with itching ; shin peels off afterwards (Apis, Bell., Ehus tox,, Stram.), Compare. — Ailanth,, Amm, mur., Arg. nit., Ars., Bapt,,Caust,, Cepa, Camph,, Canth., Kali bi., Nitr, ac, Natr. ars,. Hy- dras., Phos., Phyt. Rhus tox., Stram., Sulph, Antidote.— Buttermilk, 106 ASAFOETIDA. THERAPEUTIC S. Arum has been found an excellent remedy in malignant forms of scarlatina and diphtheria, characterized by the acrid ichorous discharges above noted, the patient continually boring the nose and picking the lips. Sometimes the nose becomes ulcerated, and the ichorous discharge very offensive. Coryza with characteristic discharge. Hay fever, with severe pain over the root of nose ; nose and throat feel raw and sore. Laryngitis, especially the so-called clergymen's sore throat, oc- curring in public speakers, auctioneers and singers; great hoarseness and loss of voice, constant hawking and clearing the voice. In all inflammatory affections of the mouth, tongue and buccal cavity where symptoms indicate. In typhoid forms of fever. ASAFCETIDA. J^atural order. — Umbellifer<3e, Coimnon name. — Devil's dung. Habitat. — A large perennial herbaceous plant, native of Persia and neighboring countries. Preparation. — Tincture from the gum-resin. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Through the nervous system Asafoetida acts particularly upon the female generative organs and the respiratory system, giving rise to conditions simulating ovarian irritation, hys- teria, chorea, asthma, etc. Also acts upon the bones and skin. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Mind.— Ill humor; irritable {Bry., Cham., Kux v.)\ appre- hensive. Head. — Pressive pain in forehead from ivithin outward {Aeon., Bry.). Single deep penetrating stitches in left fi-ontal eminence. Drawing pressive pains like a plug {Anac.), in sides of head or temples; most on left side. Drawing above right ear, w^hich changes into stitching. Eyes. — Nocturnal throbbing pains in and around the head; ASAFCETIDA. 107 ^syphilitic iritis. °Extensive superficial ulceration of the cornea, with burning, sticking or pressive pains from within outward ; rest and pressure relieves. Itching of right eye. Burning in eyeballs. Periodic burning in the eyes and press- ing together of the lids, as if overcome by sleep. Pinching drawing across supra-orbital region. Dryness and burning in the eyes (Ars., Sulph.). Severe boring pains over the ej^ebrows. Nose. — ^Offensive discharge from the nose; bones swollen and inflamed; caries of the bones. Face. — Sensation of numbness in the bones of the face. Swell- ing of the upper lip. Throat.— Dryness of mouth, throat and oesophagus. Sensa- tion of a hall rising from the stomach into the throat {Lye., Sulph., Mag. mur., Physos.), obliging frequent siualloiving to keep it down, and causing at times difficult breathing; globus hystericus. Sensationinthe cesophagus as if the peristaltic motions were from below upw^ard. Stomach.— Pulsation in the pit of the stomach (Ant. tart., Puis., Sep.). . Distension of stomach and bowels, with feel- ing as if peristaltic motions were reversed, with spasmodic w^orking in oesophagus. Eructations ; smelKng like garhc ; tasting rancid, sharp or putrid. Flatus passing upward, none down. Abdomen.— Great distension of the abdomen (Ant. crud.. Cinch.). Sense of fullness as if beaten, in epigastrium and whole abdomen (Merc), with fullness in former and eructa- tions. Aching in flanks on drawing in abdominal muscles. Griping pains with emission of flatus. Pain as from taking cold, and as if diarrhoea would ensue, with ravenous hun- ger. Stool and Anus.— Dull, pressive pain in perineum. Stool pro- fuse, watery, or thick, papescent, brown and exceedingly of- fensive {Ars., Lept., Bapt ), reheving the symptoms. Urinary Organs.— Urine warm, and of pungent ammoniacal smell {Benz. ac). Female Organs.— Labor-like pains in uterine region, with cut- ting and bearing-down {Agar., Aloe, Caul., Cimic, Puis.). °Leucorrhoea profuse, greenish, thin, and offensive. Swell- ing and inflammation of the genitals. 108 ASAFGETIDA. Respiratory Organs, — Spasmodic tightness of the chest, as if the lungs could not he fzvlly expanded {Crot. tig., Ign., Laur.). Oppressive, pressing, aching pains in the chest. Pressure in the chest (right side), from within outward. Heart and Pulse, — Nervous palpitation (Cocc) like a tremor when sitting, with small, quick, irregular pulse. Neck and Back. — Fine burning stitches behind right scapula, extending to ribs. Cannot work on account of backache. Upper Limbs, — Tearing stitches in upper arm and forearm, down to tips of fingers. Twitching of the muscles of the arms. Fine sticking pains in elbow. Cramp-like twitching in metacarpal bone of left thumb. Lower Limbs, — Twitching of the muscles of the legs. Swell- ing and caries of the tibia, and bones of the feet (Rep. s., Kali, Merc, Mez,, Nitr, ac, Phos., ac, Sil.). Painful throb- bing in tip of great toe. Generalities. — Hysteria, with much trouble about throat or oesophagus ; well marked globus hystericus. Skin. — °Ulcers, with high, hard edges, sensitive to touch, easily bleeding {Hep. s., Merc, Mez.); pus profuse, greenish, thin, offensive, even ichorous. Fever. — Chill runs over body from time to time. Heat on the face after dinner, with anxiety and sleepiness, without thirst. Conditions. — Particularly adapted to nervous, hysterical, scrofulous individuals, with venous hsemorrhoidal constitu- tions; to scrofulous, bloated, clumsy children. To syphi- litic patients who have taken much Mercury. Compare. — Ambr., Aur., Ars., Bell., Bry., Calc. c. Canst., Cinch., Carb. v., Coff. c, Coni., Croc, Lye, Merc, Mez., Mosch., Nitr. ac, Phos., Puis., Sep., Sil., Sulph., Valer. Antidotes.— Caust., Camph., Cinch., Merc, Puis. Electricity. AsafcBtida Antidotes.— Merc, Puis. THERAPEUTICS. Is used chiefly in hysteria when the globus hystericus is well marked, difficult breathing, sensation as if peristaltic motions were reversed, etc., especially after the suppression of any ha- bitual discharge. Also in hyper-sensitive conditions, hypochon- dria; asthma; pertussis; indigestion; cardialgia; diarrhoea; the symptoms agreeing. It has been found a valuable remedy ASAKUM. 109 in Mercurial and scrofulous affections of the bones and skin- caries and ulcers ; also for the latter when the result of destruc- tive syphihtic processes. Orbital neuralg-ia, boring pains above the eyes. The same symptom may also indicate the drug in iritis, and in intra-ocular inflammations. Nervous diseases in general, resulting from the sudden checking of habitual dis- charges, such as ulcers, expectorations, diarrhoea, etc. ASARUM. Synonym. — Asarum Europoeum . Jfatural order. — Aristo- lochiacese. Coiinnon names. — Hazel-wurz. Asarabacca. Habitat. — A plant growing in shady elevated forests in Europe. Preparation. — Tincture from the entire fresh plant. GENERAL ANALYSIS. The chief action of Asarum is upon the cerebro-spinal ner- vous system, causing an excessive nervous erethism, which is its most important characteristic. It also affects the mucous membranes of the alimentary tract. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Gradual vanishing of thought, as when falling asleep. Head. — Very sensitive, compressive headache, especially in left temple and behind the ears. Tension of scalp (Canst.), making hair feel painful. Eyes. — Painful dryness of the interior of the eyes. Swelling of upper lids with inability to endure much reading. Ears. — Pressure and tension in region of meatus auditorius. Face. — Warm feeling in cheeks. Mouth. — "Disgusting taste in the mouth. Stomach. — Nausea and inclination to vomit. Frequent empty eructations. °Want of appetite, even nauseated by food. Empty retching ; during the retchings all the symptoms are aggravated, except the stupid feeling about the head, which decreases. "Unquenchable longing for alcohol (Carb. ac.) 110 ASCLEPIAS COKNUTI. Stool. — Before stool, cutting in the abdomen, and sharp stitches in the rectum, from above downward. Respiratory Organs. — Stitches in lungs during inspiration. Neck and Back. — Pain in left side of nape as if a bundle of muscular fibres had been displaced by violent exertion, afterwards extending over head and shoulders. Paralytic pain as if bruised in nape and back, when moving, stand- ing or sitting, better when lying. Limbs. — Lightness of all the limbs (Mez.); when walking seems to be gliding through the air; dull pressure in the right hip, Oeneralities. — Excessive sensibility of all the nerves ( Cinch., Coff. c.)', whenmerely thinhing {and this he must con- tinually) that someone mi£ht, with the finger tip or nail scratch even lightly on linen or similar material, a most disagreeable sensation thrills through hiin, arresting momentarily all his thozights and actions. Weakness every afternoon with constant yawning. Slow and lazy. Weakness in knees, staggering if not careful. Weariness, sometimes as if bruised all over (Arnica). Conditions. — In nervous, excitable temperament; in drunk- ards. Compare.— Cupr., Mosch., Nux mos., Nux v., Phos., Piper m., Puis. Antidotes.— Camphor, Vinegar, Vegetable acids. THERAPEUTICS. Has only been used when the above peculiar nervous sensi- tiveness has been present, particularly in gastric and bilious disorders; especially during pregnancy; anaemia; nervous, hacking cough ; desire for alcoholic drinks. ASCLEPIAS CORNUTI. Synonym. — Asclepias Syriaca. JVatural order. — Asclepia- dacese. Common names.— Wi\k Weed. Silk Weed. Habitat.— A common herb growing on roadsides throughout the United States. Preparation. — Tincture from the root. ASCLEPIAS COKNUTI. Ill GENERAL ANALYSIS. Through the nervous system Asclepias acts upon the liver secondarily, producing serous and mucous fluxes and diaphoresis. It tends to congestion, which is especially noted in the brain and in the female generative organs. OHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Head.— Dizziness ; violent headache between the eyes. Sense of constriction across the forehead. °Headache from sup- pressed perspiration, or from the retention of effete mat- ters in the system. Nervous headaches, followed by sweat- ing or profuse urination (Gels.). A feeling (after vomiting) as if some sharp instrument were thrust from one temple to the other. Mouth. — Tongue covered with a white fur. Throat. — Tickling sensation in the fauces. Stomach. — Excessive nausea ; violent vomiting and retching. Stool. — Increased secretion of bile (Iris, Podo.). Slight incli- nation to evacuate the bowels. Diarrhoea with nausea and vomiting {Ipec. Iris), with excoriation of the anus {Ars., Sulph.). Copious stools of soft, fluid consistence, yehowish in color, and attended with some griping pain. Urinary Organs. — Ardor urinse. Increased flow of urine (Eu- pat., Phos. ac). Pale-colored urine, with light specific gravity. Increase of solid matters in urine (Bry., Colch., Cimic). Male Organs. — Tickling sensation at the end of the penis. Female Organs. — °Intermittent,bearing-down, labor-like pains (during dropsy or pregnancy). Suppression of menses (during dropsy). Respiratory Organs. — Increase of the bronchial secretions {Ant. tart., Ipec, Phos., Stan.). Heart and Pulse. — Action of heart lessened; pulse slow {Digit., Can. inch.. Op.). Feeble pulse after vomiting {Ant. tart.). Sleep. — Drowsy; sleepiness; hard sleep during the night. Fever. — Coldness of surface after vomiting. Diaphoresis ; pro- fuse sweat. Compare.— Ascl. t., Apoc. c, Bry., Colch. 112 ASCLEPIAS TUBEROSA. THERAPEUTICS. This drug has been successfully used in the following con-^ ditions when the indications were present: Congestive and nervous headaches, after suppressed perspiration followed by profuse flow of urine. Diarrhoea. Uraemia of pregnant women. Post-scarlatinal dropsy. Renal dropsy. Cardiac dropsy. Anasarca from sudden check of perspiration. Gonorrhoea and gleet. Rheumatism of large joints. Influenza, Bron- chitis. ASCLEPIAS TUBEROSA. Matural order. — Asclepiadacese. Common names. — Pleu- risy Root. Butterfly Weed. Habitat. — A plant found in dry fields in the United States and Canada. Preparation. — Tinc- ture from the fresh root. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts chiefly on the mucous surfaces, especially of the respi- ratory organs, and intestinal canal; also upon the serous tissues, especially the pleura and synovial membranes, and upon the muscles, especially of the chest. In all these tissues it pro- duces irritation and inflammation of a sub-acute character. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Head. — Confusion, dullness, and heaviness of the head ; swim- ming of the head. Dull headache in the forehead and ver- tex, aggravated by motion, and relieved by lying down. Pain in forehead when coughing (Bry.). Nose. — Fluent coryza, with much sneezing (Aeon.). Blowing of blood from left nostril. Itching of the nose (Sulph.). Mouth. — Tongue covered with a tough yellow coating. Taste putrid (Arn., Merc, Puis.)] of blood. Throat. — Slight constriction of throat and pricking in larynx. Stomach. — Nausea, and efforts to vomit. In stomach : neural- gic pains ; pressive pain ; weight (Ars., Bj^y., JYux v., Puls.)\. burning {Ars., Colch.). ASCLEPIAS TUBEROSA. US Abdomen.— Rumbling in the bowels, with uneasiness, or sharp, cutting pains. Colic pains from flatulence (Aloe, Carb. v., Coloc, Lye). Dull pain in bowels on pressure. Stool. — Emission of foetid flatulence {Am., Aloe, Bry., Carh. v.. Graph.). Soft and foetid stool at 11 a.m., preceded hy ruTYhblijig in the bowels. Stool, dysenteric ; like white of eg^; yellow; green; clammy; smelling like rotten eggf* (Calc. c, Cham.). Urinary Organs. — Dark red, saturated urine, readily decom- posing. Respiratory Organs. — Dry cough, with constriction of throat ; causing pain in forehead and abdomen ; dry, haching cough. Breathing painful, especially at base of left lung. Oppression and difficulty of breathing ; in par- oxysms, like asthma {Ars.). Sharp pain shooting from left nipple doiunward, ivith stiffness of left side of nech^ Sharp, cutting pain behind the sternum, aggravated by drawing a long breath, or moving the arms. The spaces betiueen the ribs, close to the sternuin, are sensitive to pressure, and the pain, zvhich is acute, quick, and dart- ing, shoots over to the right side. Pain in chest relieved- by bending forward. Acute pleuritic pain in right side, with dry, haching cough and scanty mucous expectora- tion (Aeon., Bry.). Heart and. Pulse.— Constrictive pain in the heart. Lancinat- ing pains in region of heart (Aeon., Cact., Bry., Kah carb., Spig.). Pulse slightly accelerated. Neck and back. — Lancinating pains in back and between the shoulders. Sharp pain in loins near sacrum ; lumbago. Extremities.— Rheumatic pain in all the joints (Aeon., Bry., Rhus tox.). Sharp, shooting pains in right shoulder. Pain in left shoulder, shooting from left chest. • Generalities. — Weak and languid, as if he had been sick along time. Fever.— Great emaciation and debility. Chilly, with cold feet ; high fever, with hot sweat. Skin. — Vesicles, pimples, and pustules all over the body, espe- cially on arms, legs and face; itching (Sulph.). Sleep.— Drowsy, uneasy, restless sleep. Troublesome dreams. Compare. — Aeon., Arn., Ascl. c, Bry., Cimic, Coloc. 114 ASPAKAGUS. THERAPEUTICS. This remedy lias been used chiefly in pleurodynia, and other rheumatic troubles, including rheumatic fevers, rheumatic pericarditis and lumbago. It may also be useful in pleurisy, bronchitis, capillary bronchitis of children, influenza, carditis, catarrhal fever, catarrhal and bilious diarrhceas and dyspepsia. ASPARAGUS. Synonym. — Asparagus Oflicinalis. Jfatural order. — Sili- acese. Hahitat. — A perennial plant cultivated in gardens. Frej)aration. — Tincture from the young sprouts. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Through the spinal nervous system Asparagus exerts its chief action upon the kidneys, giving rise to secondary affec- tions of the heart, which have their origin in functional derange- ments of these organs. It also acts upon the mucous surfaces, producing catarrhal conditions, characterized by profuse secre- tions, especially of the nasal and bronchial tracts, and the bladder, CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Head. — Confusion of the head ; vertigo. Heaviness in forehead. Pressive; aching pains in temples, increased by pressure. Eyes. — Stitching and tickling in the eyes. Nose. — Frequent sneezing. Severe cor^-za and nasal ca- tarrh, with profuse secretions of thin whitish fluid. Urinary Organs. — Cutting and })urning in the uretlira. Fre- quent urging, with increased secretion (Ascl. t., Phos. ac). Frequent urination, with fine stitches in the orifice of the urethra. Urine has strong, offensive odor (Asaf., Benz. ac, Nitr. ac). Urine straw-colored; turbid, containing white, flocky sediment ; reddish sediment. Urine scanty; loaded with phosphates and the urate of ammonia (°in renal dropsy). °Gravel passes, in small quantities, with the urine. ASTERIAS RUBENS. 115 Respiratory Organs.— Tickling, and inclination to cough. Distressing cough, with copious mucous expectoration (Stan.). Difficult breathing when moving, or on going up stairs (Aeon., Ars., Calc. c); has to sit up in bed {Ars.). Constriction, and stitching pains in chest. Heart and Pulse. — Palpitation of the heart, with oppression of the chest. Irregular action of the heart {Digit., Natr. mur.). Pulse slightly accelerated ; feeble. Generalities.— Rheumatic pains in the back and limbs. {Aeon., Bry., Rhus tox.). Concretions of lithic acid in the joints. °Great languor and disinchnation to physical or mental exertion. Compare.— Apoc. c, Conval., Dig., Paris, Squill. THERAPEUTICS. Asparagus has proved useful in functional cardiac troubles, rheumatism, dropsy, a.nd other ailments dependent upon kid- ney disease. Cj^stitis, with much mucus and pus. An excellent article of diet in rheumatism and in renal dropsy. ASTERIAS RUBENS. Common name. — Star Fish. Preparation. — Tincture from the live animal. GENERAL ANALYSIS AND THERAPEUTICS. Acts upon the cerebro-spinal system, "giving readily and often in profusion symptoms indicating disturbance of function, but it never goes on to alteration of tissue, rarely even to the earliest indications thereof" {Petroz.). Hysterical and neu- ralgic symptoms predominate, and it is in the treatment of these conditions, and in chorea and epilepsy that it has been chiefl}^ used. It has also been used in cerebral congestion, when apparently a precursor of apoplexia. The symptoms given are not markedly characteristic. It is said that the drug has a tendency to produce irritation of venous parts, but never reaching true inflammation. 116 AURUM. AURUM. Synonym. — Aurum Metallicum. Coimnon name. — Metallic Gold. Preparation. — Triturations of the precipitated metal. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Aurum affects especially the osseous and glandular systems^ most prominently the nasal and palatine bones, and the oculo- nasal mucous membrane, giving rise to conditions quite analogous to those which, in these parts, result from a syphi- litic mercurial or scrofulous disease, the drug having a general tendency to destruction of tissue in the parts affected (espe- cially on connective tissue in parenchymatous organs. — Allen). Aside from its local action, the distinguishing feature of Aurum is its desponding melancholy, with suicidal tendency. OHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Disgust for life; suicidal tendency (Naja, Nux v.). Religious mania, imagines herself irretrievably lost. Mel- ancholy ; imagines he is unfit for this world, never can suc- ceed (Arg. nit.). Despondent, dejected, unhappy, weeping (Lye, Natr. mur., Nux m., Puis., Rhus tox.). Great anguish, coming from the prsecordial region, driving him from place to place {Ars.)\ palpitation. Apprehensive; full of fear (Aeon., Bell., Cinch., Ign., Phos.) ; a mere noise at the door makes him anxious. Peevish and vehement,- the least contradiction excites his wrath {Bry., Cham., Ferr., J^ujc v.). ° Ailments from grief, disappointed love- (Hyos., Ign., Phos. ac). Head. — Vertigo when stooping, as if turning in a circle, better on raising the head {Bry., Coni., Jfux v.); as if drunk (Stram.) ; as if he would fall to the left when walking in open air (Agar., Calc. c, Glon., Sep., Sulph.) ; must lie down, but returning even then on slightest motion. Rush of blood to- the head, with sparks before the eyes and glassy, bloated face; worse from mental exertion. Skull bones painful as if broken, when lying down. Fine tearing from the right side of the occiput through the brain to the forehead ; worsen AURUM. 117 during motion. Heat on vertex. Bony tumors on cranium; boring pains. Eyes.— Protruding. Feeling of sand. Tension, making vision difficult. Sees things double or mixed up (Bell., Cic, Nitr. ac, Pliyt.). Objects as if divided horizontally; can see only lower half, upper half as if covered luith a darh hody. (Left half, Lye), Heat in eye when looking, as if blood pressed upon the optic nerve. Feeling of weakness and pressure in eyes. Pressive pain in eyeball from above downward; inward; right eye; worse during motion. Constant lachrymation (Euphr.). Morning agglutination (Ailanth., Calc. c. Lye, Merc, Sulph.) ; burning in lids; burning in inner canthi, with stitching, drawing and itching. Ears.— °Caries of the mastoid process (Caps.) ; obstinate foetid otorrhoea (Bovis.). Nose. — Ulcerated, agglutinated, painful nostrils (JVitr. ac.) ; cannot breathe through the nose (Arum) ; crusts in the nose (Ant. crud., Graph., Kali bi.. Puis.). Nose feels ob- structed as in dry coryza, yet air passes through freely. Burning, itching, stitching and smarting in the nose; feel- ing of soreness in the nose, especially when touched {Merc). Boring inside of nasal bone, toward maxilHary. Redness and swelling of right nostril and beneath it. Sensi- tive smell; everything smells too strong (Aeon., Agar., Coff., Bell., Colch., Hep. s., Lye). Putrid smell when blow- ing the nose. °Caries of the nasal bone (Calc. c, Merc). Face. — Drawing tearing on left side of face. Burning, tearing and boring in zygoma. ^Inflammation of the bones of the face ; caries of the cheek bones. Swelling of one cheek, with drawing and tearing in jaws. Painful swelling of the submaxillary glands {Arur)v, Calc. c, lodi., Rhus tox.). Fine eruption on lips, face or forehead. Mouth. — Toothache from drawing air into the mouth. Putrid odor from the mouth (Arn., Hep. s., lodi., Kreos., Merc, Jfitr. ac. Puis.), as from old cheese. Bitter or putrid taste in the mouth (Arn., Hep. s., Merc, Puis.). °Caries of the palatine bones. Throat.— Parotid gland painful, as if pressed or contused on touch (Merc). Dull pressive pain, with or without swallow- ing, in a gland below angle of lower jaw (Merc). 118 AUKUM. Stomach.— Immoderate appetite and thirst with qualmishness in stomach. Pressure on left side, near pit of stomach, at noon. Abdomen.— Burning heat and cutting pain in right hypochon- dria. Incarcerated flatulence; rumbling {Carb. v., Cinch., Lye). Urine.— Turbid, like buttermilk ; much sediment of mucus. Stool.— Constipation, stools hard and knotty. Male Organs, — Right testicle swollen ; pressive tensive pains when touching or rubbing, as from contusion. Swelling and induration of the testes (Coni., Rhod., Puis.). Nightly erections and pollutions (Phos. ac). Female Organs. — "Prolapsus and induration of the womb. Respiratory Organs. — Dyspnoea; constantly taking deep breath; cannot get air enough {Ars., Ant. tart., Phos.), at night. Dyspnoea, with dull stitches in the chest when in- spiring. Suffocative attacks, with spasmodic constriction of the chest; °asthma, from congestion to chest; great op- pression at night and when walking in the open air ; face bluish red ; palpitation ; falls down unconscious. Heart and Pulse. — Violent palpitation of the heart, with anxiety and tremulous fearfulness (Aeon.). Pulse small but accelerated . Weak pulse, cardiac asthma ; mental de- pression ; great debility. Lower Limbs. — All the blood appears to rush from her head into her lower limbs ; they feel paralyzed ; she has to sit down ; knees pain, as if firmly bandaged, when sitting. Generalities. — Boring, tearing bruised bone pains in extremi- ties. Over-sensitive to all jjain {Cham., Coff. c, Ign.), and to cold air (C^/z-c/^., Coccul., Sep., Sil.). "Hypochondriasis and hysteria. "Hysterical spasms ; alternate laughing and cvymg {Ign., Jfux m., Phos.). Great nervous weakness; tremulous agitation. Boring in the bones ; "caries, espe- cially after Mercury. Very sensitive to cold over the whole body. Violent orgasm, as if the blood were boil- ing in the veins. Better in open air. Pains aggravated at night. Sleep. — Awake all night ; no pain ; no lassitude or sleepiness in the morning. Vivid frightful dreams about thieves (Arn., Bell., Puis., Sulph.), sobs aloud during sleep. "Awakened AURUM. 119 by bone pains; suffering so great he despairs; dots not. want to live. Skin.— °Deep ulcers, affecting the bones ; after abuse of Mer- cury (Kali iod., Nitr. ac.) Conditions. — Especially indicated in scrofulous subjects, with light hair, sanguine temperament, and ruddy complexion in corpulent old people. Also in syphilitic and mercurial patients. Compare.— Asaf., Ars., Bell., Calc. c, Cinch., Ign., lodi., Merc, Mez., Jfitr. ac, Phos., Plat., Puis., Rhod., Sil. Antidotes.— Bell., Camph., Cinch., Coccul., Coff.c.,Cupr., Merc.,, Puis., Spig. Aurum Antidotes.— Merc, Spig. THERAPEUTICS. The chief therapeutic application of Aurum is in the treat- ment of syphilitico-mercurial affections and scrofulous diseases, especially caries of the nasal, palatine, mastoid and ossicular bones ; ozgena ; otorrhoea ; nasal catarrh ; angina ; exostoses of skull and other bones . The nightly aggravation of the pains, and their boring nature is characteristic. Bones usually very sensitive to the touch, and ulcerated tissues give forth horribly offensive discharges. Allen says that the drug " is always to be^ thought of in interstitial changes of heart, liver and kidneys, and in gouty diathesis." Fatty degeneration of these organs (Phos.). Cardiac hypertrophy without dilatation. Acute in- flammation of the eye in syphilitic subjects, great photophobia; tendency to corneal ulcers ; iritis with sore briiised sensation, around the eye (Asaf.); glaucoma; scrofulous ophthalmia, great vascularity, scalding lachrymation, eyes sensitive to light and touch. Orchitis, especially on right side. Chronic enlargement and induration of the testes. Hydrocele. Aurum has also been used in chronic inflammation, induration and prolapsus of the uterus. Sterility, causing great melancholy. Vaginismus. Hysteria. Hypochondriasis. Melancholia. In all mental states there is a very low spirited condition, and disgust for life. Religious melanchoha, with weeping and crying. 120 BADIAGA. BADIAQA. Synonyin. — Spongilla Fluviatilis. Spongia Palustris, Com- Tivon najne. — Fresh-water Sponge. Bzvssian ncnne. — Badiaga. Habitat. — A protozon, found in ponds and slow-flowing streams. Preparation. — Tincture or trituration from the dried sponge. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Hahnemann considered Badiaga an antipsoric, which might well be expected from the character of its constituents, — lime, silica and alumina. It acts upon the blood producing condi- tions analogous to those resulting from scrofula and also has many points of similarity with its nearest relative, the Spongia Officinalis, CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Head..— Headache from 2 p.m., with slight aching pains in the posterior portions of both eyeballs, and in the temples. During the day more or less headache, with pains in the eyeballs (Cimic, Spig.)\ worse in the left; more from 1 p.xM. to 7 P.M. Pain in temples and eyeballs; from eyeballs to temples. Excess of dandruff (Canth., Mez.), or dry tetter- like appearance of the scalp, with shght itching. Scalp sore to touch, with tetter-like eruption on forehead. Eyes.— Bluish-.purple margin of the eyelids, and blue under the eyes. Scrofulous inflammation of the eyes, with hard- ening of the Meibomian glands {Graph., Sulph.). Severe pain in left eyeball and temple. Headache extending into the eyeballs (Cimic, Spig.). Left eyeball quite sore, even when closing it tightly. Severe intermittent pain in pos- terior portion of right eyeball. Ears.— Slight shocks heard in the ear, as if very distant ar- tillery; afternoons. Nose.— Profuse coryza, mostly from the left nostril; worse in afternoons and evening; with sneezing. Face.— On forehead; tetter-like eruption. Pale, ashy or lead color of the face. Stiffness in the maxillary joints. BADIAGA. 121 Mouth. — Mouth and breath hot and feverish, with thirst for large quantities of water at a time {Bry.). Throat. — Hawked up a viscid, solid lump of bloody mucus in the morning'. Throat inflamed and sore, especially on swallowing. Abdomen. — Indurated inguinal glands. Respiratory Organs. — Occasional severe paroxysms of spas- modic cough, ejecting viscid mucus from the bronchial tuhes, ivhich at times comes forcibly out of the moutn, caused by tichling in the larynoc. Severe sharp lanci- nating pain in right supra-clavicular region. Heart. — Severe vibrating ; tremulous palpitation of the heart, while sitting or lying, especially upon any sudden elating thought, or emotion of mind. Neck and Back.— Very stiff (Rhus tox., Chel.). Soreness and lameness, with stitches in nape of neck, aggravated by bending the head back and torth. ^Scrofulous swelling of the glands of the left side of the face, throat and neck; nearly all of the size of a hen's egg ; some hard, some sup- purating. Severe lancinating pains and stitches in the pos- terior right side, below the scapula; much aggravated by throwing the shoulders back and chest forward, or contor- tions of the body. Generalities. — General soreness of the muscles and integu- ments of the whole body ; flesh sore to touch, even of the clothes; sore as if beaten (Arn., Ruta.). Compare. — Baryt. c, lodi., Kali iod., Merc, Phyt., Sil., Spig., Spong., Sulph. THERAPEUTICS. Badiaga has been used in scrofulous diseases, particularly swollen glands. Scrofulous ophthalmia. Neuralgia of right eyeball. Hay fever with sneezing and watery discharge and other symptoms given above. Whooping cough with character- istic forcible expectoration. Has cured uterine haemorrhage, worse at night, with feeling of enlargement of the head. Indu- rated syphilitic buboes. Indurated inguinal glands. Haemor- rhoids, Has also been a popular remedy for chilblains; for ulcers on feet of horses and hurts of the hoofs of horses. 122 BAPTISIA. BAPTISIA. Synonym. — Baptisia Tinctoria. iN'atural order. — Legumi- nosse. Common ncmze. — Wild Indigo. Habitat. — A perennial herb growing in dry poor soil throughout the United States. Preparation. — Tincture from the fresh root. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Baptisia acts especially upon the blood, having a disorgan- izing and decomposing influence, producing a state similar to that present in low forms of fever and typhoid conditions. Through the blood it affects the mucous membranes, especially of the mouth, throat and intestines, and also involves the motor and sensory nerves, giving rise to prostration and to paralysis, both of motion and sensation. CHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind.— Indisposed to think, want of power; mind seems w-eak and confused (iEth., Gels., Phos. ac, Khus tox.) ; confused, as if drunk. Cannot confine his mind ; a sort of wild, wander- ing feeling. °Body feels scattered about, tosses around to get pieces together ; cannot sleep because he cannot get pieces together ; typhus fever. Head.— Vertigo, and w^eak feeling of entire system, especially lower limbs and knees. Dull heavy pressive headache (Coni., Gels., Hydras.) . Frontal headache, wdth pressure at root of nose. (Aeon., Kali bi.). °Head feels large and heavy, with numbness of head and face. Soreness in the brain, worse on stooping. °Dull, bruised feeling in occiput. Eyes.— Eyeballs feel sore; sore and lame on moving them. (Agar., Bry., Cimic, Eup. p.) Pace.— Face flushed, dusky, hot; darh-red, with a besotted expression. Heat and redness of face. Mouth.— °Sordes on the teeth and hps {Ailanth., Rhus tox.). Tongue yellow ; along the center ; first white, with reddish papillee, followed by yellow-brown coating in center, edges dark-red and shining; dry, brown down the center (Plumb.) ; cracked, sore, ulcerated (Apis, Ars., Rhus tox.) ; BAPTISIA. 123 dry on waking, feels burnt. Saliva rather abundant, some- what viscid, tasting fiat. Putrid ulcers of the buccal cavity, with salivation {Merc, J^itr. ac). Mouth and tongue very dry in fevers (Aeon., Ars., Bry.). Putrid, offensive (Arn., Hep. s., lodi., Kreos., JYitr. ac, Puis.) ; foecal breath. Flat, bitter taste in mouth (Borax, Bry., Hep. s., Miojc v., Puis., Sulph.). Throat.— Constrictive feehng in throat, causing frequent efforts at deglutition (Ars., Bell., Hyos.). Redness of tonsils and soft, palate; of tonsils with frequent inclination to swallow, which causes pain at root of tongue (Phyto.). °Fauces dark-red (Naja) ; dark; putrid ulcers (Mur. ac.) ; tonsils and parotids swollen ; absence of pain, and great prostra- tion; diphtheria, etc. "Difficult deglutition; can only swallow water. Stomach.— "Sinking, gone feehng at the stomach (Cimic, Hydras., Ign., Sep., Sulph.); after typhus. Pain in epigas- tric region; distress in stomach. Loss of appetite. Nausea. Abdoraen.— Pain in liver, from right lateral ligament to gall bladder; can scarcely w^alk, it so augments pain in gall bladder. Constant severe pain over gall bladder (Berb.). "Right iliac region sensitive; typhus. Fullness and dis- tension of the abdomen (Bry., Cinch., Caps.); rumbling. (Lye). "Abdominal muscles sore on pressure; typhus. Stool and. Anus. — "Frequent small, thin, dark, offensive, and acrid stools (Ars.). "Very foetid exhausting diarrhoea {Ars.). Stool papescent, with large quantities of mucus; no pain. "Dark-brown mucous and bloody stools, with tenesmus and typhoid tendency (Ars.). Diarrhoea in the morning (Aloe, Podo., Rumex, Sulph.). Constipation, with fullness of abdomen. Urinary Organs. — Burning when urinating (Aeon., Ars., Canth.). Urine rather scanty, dark-red color (Aeon.). Respiratory Organs. — Awakes with great difficulty of breath- ing ; the lungs feel tight and compressed ; must have fresh air (^7^5., Carb. v., Sulph.). Soreness of right lung. Con- striction and oppression of the chest. Pulse. — At first accelerated, afterward slow and faint. Neck and Back. — Stiffness and lameness of cervical muscles. Back and hips very stiff, ache severely. Dull sacral pain, 124 BAPTISIA. compounded of a feeling as from a pressure and fatigue, from long stooping ; soon extending around hips and down right leg. Limbs. — Drawing pain in arms and legs ; aching in the limbs. Numbness of left hand and forearm, with prickling; also of left foot. Generalities. — Restless; does not sleep quietly ; wants to be on the move (Aeon., Ars., Ehustox.). Great languor, wants to lie down. Tired, bruised, sick feeling in all parts of the body (Arn., Cinch.). Weak and tremulous, as if recovering from a severe illness, and as yet incapable of vigorous men- tal or physical exertion. Great weakness, especially in lower limbs. Prostration, with disposition of fluids to de- compose. Indescribable sick feehng over the whole body. Numbness, prickling and paralytic feeling over the whole body, especially left side. Ulceration of mucous membranes, especially of the mouth, with tendency to putrescence. Dis- charges and exhalations foetid. Sensation all over the body as if bruised or beaten {Arn., Ruta). Feels as if lying on a board ; changes position, bed feels so hard, makes him feel sore and bruised {Am.)] as if he would have bedsores. Fever. — Chilly going into the open air ; chills over the back and lower limbs. Whole surface hot and dry, with occa- sional chills, mostly up and down the back. °Typhoid and cerebral forms of fever. "Beginning of tj^phus when the so- called nervous symptoms predominate; causes sweat to break out and relieve ; critical sweat on forehead and face. °Fever originating from confinement on shipboard, without good care or food. Sleep. — "Delirious stupor ; falls asleep while answering a ques- tion or being talked to {Hyos., Am.). Sleeps well till 2 or 3 A.M., then restless till morning. °Drowsy, stupid, tired feeling; disposition to half close the ej^es. Eestless, with frightful dreams. Skin. — Great heat and burning in skin {Ars.). "Eruption like measles or urticaria (Aeon., Ant. crud., Coff. c. Puis.). Livid spots all over body and limbs, thickest on body. Compare. — Apis., Ars., Am., Bry., Gels., Hyos., Merc, Mur. ac, Nitr. ac, Op., Phytol., Rhus tox. BARYTA CARBONICUM. 125 THERAPEUTICS. Baptisia is used chiefly in the treatment of typhoid fever and typhoid conditions in general, associated with other diseases, when there is an evident tendency to rapid decomposi- tion of the blood. In typhoid fever Baptisia is most useful in the first week, during the stage of general hyperaemia, before ulceration of Peyer's glands has taken place. If properly indi- cated and given at this time, it will, undoubtedly, abort the disease. The chief indications are: Confusion of mind; mutter- ing delirium ; restlessness ; dusky-red face ; shght sensitiveness in right iliac region ; tongue white, with red papillae and red edges ; yellow offensive stools, weary bruised feeling all over. In the second or third week of typhoid fever Baptisia may be indicated when the patient is in a stupor ; face besotted ; sordes on lips and tongue ; tongue dry and brown in center, edges red ; stools thin, dark and very offensive ; putrid breath ; profound prostration. The drug may also be useful in an3^ low type of fever, especially malarial or accompanying eruptive diseases. Ship fever. Also where a typhoid state accompanies diseases of the digestive mucous membrane. Diphtheria ; fauces dark-red ; dark putrid ulcers; horrible odor from the mouth; absence of pain and great prostration; can only swallow liquids; with typhoid symptoms. About the same symptoms may also indi- cate Baptisia in the stomatitis of nursing women and infants ; also in cancrum oris. It is an excellent remedy in diarrhoea ac- companying typhoid and other fevers of a low type, the stools being dark, thin and extremely offensive. Typhoid dysentery, dark, brown mucous and bloody stools, with some tenesmus, but little pain. BARYTA CARBONICUM. Carbonate of Barium. Prej)aratioiv. — Triturations. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Affects profoundly the sphere of nutrition, producing symp- toms of malnutrition, and consequent degenerative changes in tissue, its most characteristic effect being upon the glandular system, especially the glands of the throat and neck. It also 126 BARYTA CARBONICUM. irritates and depresses the cerebral and ganglionic nervous systems, producing a condition as from mental and physical decay. OHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Great forgetfulness, does not know what he has just spoken (Anac, Arn.). °Great mental and bodily weakness; childishness; old people. "Deficient memory ; child cannot remember or be taught (Calc. phos.). °Want of self-confi- dence (reverse, Plat.). Dread of strangers ; imagines she is being criticised and laughed at. Child does not want to pla}'. Fear and cowardice. Head. — "Apoplexy, vertigo; in old people who are childish. Headache in the evening, worse from noise, especially the human voice. Confusion and vertigo, especially in the morning. Pressure in brain under vertex, towards occiput, on waking, with stiffness of neck. Pressing sticking in the ver- tex, which extends through the whole head whenever he stands in the sun. "Baldness, especially on the crown (Zinc). "Scalp sensitive on the side on which he lies; worse, from scratching. "Crusta lactea ; dry or humid scurf (Calc. c. Graph., Hep. s., Lye). "Encysted tumor of the scalp. Eyes. — Weakness of sight; gauze before the eyes (Caust., Phos.) in the morning and after a meal. Inflammation, with sensation of dryness in the eyes. Light dazzles and hurts the eyes ; fiery sparks before eyes in the dark. Ears.— Gland below right ear swollen and painful to touch. Drawing, twinging pain in ears. Tearing pain, with boring and drawing in bones of right ear. Itching in the ears (Sulph.). Buzzing and jingling in the ears in evening like a violent wind and ringing of bells. Hardness of hearing. Cracking in the ear as if breaking when sneezing, swallow- ing or walking fast (Graph.). Reverberation in ears on blowing the nose violently. Nose. — Ohstifiate dryness of the nose ; secretion of thick yellow mucus (Aila.nth.). "Coryza, nose and upper lip sw^ollen; children with large abdomen (Calc. c). Frequent nose- bleed. BAKYTA CAKBONICUM. 127 Face.— Face pale and puffy (Ars.). Tension, as from a cobweb over the face (Alum., Brom., Graph.). Pain in articulation when closing the jaws. Mouth.— Smarting, burning pain in tip of tongue ; cracked and sore. ^Paralysis of the tongue in old people ; loss of speech (Caust., Gels.). Mouth filled with vesicles, especially palate and inside of cheeks. Much tough phlegm in the mouth. Mouth very dry, with thirst (Aeon., Ars., Bry.). Taste foul every morning, with coated tongue ; sour taste. Fre- quent and profuse bleeding from the teeth. Throat. — Smarting in the throat when swalloiving ; though most on empty sivalloiuiitg. Tonsils: inflammation after every cold; tend to suppurate (Hep. s.); chronic indura- tion (Calc. c). Constriction in throat; sensation of a plug in throat when swallowing (^eZ^., Kali bi.. Hep. s.). Chok- ing in attacks after dinner, when sitting and writing, with sensation as if the th3a'oid gland were pressed inward, im- peding respiration. Sensation as if a fine leaf lay before posterior nares in morning after waking. Painful indu- rated siuelling of the suhmaxillary glands {Aruin,Cablc. c, lodi., JVatr. card., Rhus tox.). Stomach. — Sensation of hunger in stomach, but no appetite. Eructations, hiccough, nausea. Yomiting. Weak feeling in stomach, better after eating. Pressure, as from a stone {Am., Bry., Mer^c, Puis.); relieved by eructations. Sensi- tiveness of the stomach; every step painful to it. Abdomen. — Abdomen distended, hard {Ars., Merc., Lach.) and painful. Intestines fall from side to side on turning in bed. Male Organs. — Diminished sexual abihty (Agn.); increased de- sire (Agar.). Respiratory Organs. — Feeling in larynx as if inspiring smoke (Natr. ars., Brom.) or pitch. "Suffocative catarrh in old people; impending paralysis of the lungs. Soreness in chest when coughing (Arn.). Neck and Back. — Sivelling of the glands of the nech and occiput (Calc.c, Carb. v., lodi.). Stiifness in nape of neck. Tensive pain in the small of back. Upper Limbs. — Pain in the arms, with hard, swollen axillary glands (Sil.). 128 BARYTA CARBONICUM. Lower Limbs. — Drawing pain down the entire left leg. Stitch- ing pain in knee joints. "Foetid foot-sweat {Jfitr. ac, Sep., Sil.). Generalities. — Weariness and heaviness of the body. Great weakness of mind and body in old people. Ver^^ sensi- tive to cold air (Coccul., Sep., Sil.). "Offensive sweat of one (mostly left) side. "Dwarfish ; defective mental and physi- cal growth. Heat all night, with anxiety. Sleep. — Anxious dreams nearly every night. Awakens often at night; feels too hot; soles of feet feel bruised. Skin. — Fatty tumors about the neck. Burning prickings here and there. Swelling and induration of the glands (Calc. c, lodi., Hep. s., Graph.). Humid and sore. "Warts (Thuja). Aggravation. — In morning; while sitting; when thinking of symptoms. Amelioration. — When walking in open air; when standing; on motion. Conditions. — Especially suitable for old people; dwarfs; scrofu- lous children, especially those who have inflammation and swelling of tonsils from least cold. Left side most affected. Compare. — Alum., Bell., Calc. c, Calc. iod., Canst., Gels., Todi., Merc, Merc, biniod.. Lye, Phos., Sep., Sil., Sulph. Antidotes.— Ant. tart.. Bell., Camph., Dulc, Zinc. To large doses: Sulphate of soda or magnesia. THERAPEUTICS. The therapeutic range of Baryta carb. has been outlined in the clinical symptoms already given. It is especially useful in the treatment of glandular troubles of the throat, particu- larly tonsilitis in those who are very sensitive to cold air, and always when expos ed have tonsilitis with a tendency to sup- puration. It removes this predisposition. It also cures en- larged and indurated tonsils, and submaxillary glands. It will sometimes cure fatty tumors, especially about the back, neck and scalp (wens). Crusta lactea in scofulous children. Suppurative inflammationof the middle ear, post-nasal catarrh, chronic cough, etc., occurring in scrofulous children with swollen glands and enlarged tonsils. Also enlarged mesenteric glands, tabes mesenterica, the abdomen being swollen and hard, and feels heavy. Malnutrition in children ; they are hungry, but BELLADONNA. 129 refuse food, and are subject to colic. According to Allen {Op. cit.) Barytacarb. "isan extremely valuable remedy in degenera- tive changes in coats of arteries, aneurism, arterial fibrosis, in apoplexy as the result of senility, etc." The drug is valuable in many diseases of old people, but especially in paralysis and other affections arising from impaired brain function, which may or may not result from organic changes. In such cases the patient is usually very childish, has weakness of memory, and other symptoms indicating a half imbecile condition. Senile dementia ; often the tongue is paralyzed, which, in itself, indicates Baryta. Sometimes we will find the same class of symptoms in scrofulous ill-nourished children, who are mentally weak, almost approaching idiocy. They do not want to play, have no memory, and are very slow in learning to talk, read or understand. This may result from masturbation, the patient giving all the appearances of premature senility, but more often it is a semi-imbecile condition, perhaps non-development of the brain resulting from defective nutrition and a strumous inheritance. Whichever it may be, Bartya will often induce such tissue changes as will effect a cure. It has been used in the suffocative catarrh of old people. Allen mentions it as a remedy for cataract. It is the remedy when in old men there is great sexual desire, but no ability, also for enlargement of the prostate gland. Other conditions agreeing, it may cure impotence in young and middle aged men. Like Silicea it will cure foot-sweat, especially when associated with other con- ditions indicating the drug. BELLADONNA. Synonyin.—Atropa, Belladonna. JYatural orc^er.— Solan- acese. Coimnon ncmte.— Deadly Nightshade. Habitat.— A.\\ herbaceous perennial plant, native of Europe. Preparation.— Tincture from the entire fresh plant. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Belladonna has its chief center of action in the cerebrum, from which radiates its influence upon the entire organism. The 130 BELLADONNA. brain and its membranes are involved in active congestion and inflammation. "The sensorium is prominently affected, giving rise to delirium, illusions, hallucinations, mania, stupor and insomnia. From this central point Belladonna acts as an irri- tant to the entire nervous system, producing congestion of the medulla, oblongata and the spinal cord, and in consequence general hypersesthesia of both sensory and motor nerves. The special senses become intensely acute, and at the same time perverted in function. The voluntary muscular system is in- volved in tetaniform convulsions and sometimes clonic spasms, while the involuntary muscles are completely paralyzed, the sphincters being relaxed, and the iris dilated. On the skin and mucous membranes Belladonna shows its most important local action. The skin becomes intensely red and hot, present- ing a smooth, shining red surface, similar to that present in scarlet fever, and non- vesicular erysipelas. The mucous mem- branes chiefly affected are those of the eyes, mouth, throat, and genito-urinary organs. The condition is similar to that found elsewhere, being an intense congestion going on to acute inflammation, involving also the submucous cellular tissues. Neither the digestive apparatus, nor the serous, osseous or fibrous tissues are directly affected. The glandular system is often involved in the characteristic congestion and inflamma- tion of the drug, as are also the uterus and its appendages. The most characteristic expression of Belladonna is the flushed face, the throbbing carotids, the hard and bounding pulse, and the wild delirium that ever attends its operations. CHARAOTBRISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Furious rage; anger; disposed to Mte, strike, and spit at those around (Hyos., Stram.); to tear things to -pieces (Verat. alb.). Violent deliriztm ; loud laughing and grinding of teeth; afraid of imaginary things; sees mon- sters (Op., Strain.); changing from mirth to fury; constant desire to spring out of ~bed, with complete loss of con- sciousness {ko^wc., Apis, ir?/05., Stram.); carphilogia (Hyos., Stram.). Garrulity (Hyos.); using absurd language. Abhorrence of liquids ; liquid poured out makes her furi- ous. Anxiety, with desire to flee. Fear of imaginary things, wants to run away from them. Great anxiety; BELLADONNA. 131 timidity and restlessness (Aeon., Ars., Cinch., Phos.); de- sire to escape or to hide. Stupefaction with congestion to the head and dilated pupils (Hyos., Op.). Extreme irrita- bility of temper. Quarrelsome. Head. — Vertigo when stooping (Aeon.), or when rising after stooping (^rz/,, Petrol., Puis.); falling to the left or back- ward (Nux v.), with vanishing of sight and flickering before the eyes (Natr. mur.). Vertigo, as if objects turned in a circle {Bry., Coni.), or swayed to and fro. Vertigo on motion; on turning over in bed (Coni.). Confusion in the head, Avorse from motion. Sensation of a board pressing on the forehead. Ten- sive pressure in left vertex and in forehead. Rush of Mood to the head (Ferr., Coccios); pulsation of cerehral arteries ; throbbing in the brain (Aeon., Carls., Glon., Op., Maug.). Intense headache ; aggravated by noise, motion, moving the eyes, contact and zvhen coughing {Qvy.,Q,\m\Q,.). Pressure in the head, now here, now there, which occupies each time large areas. Violent throbbing in the brain, from behind forward.- and toward both sides ; the throb- bing ends on the surface in painful shootings. Jerking headache, extreinely violent on lualhing quichly, or as- cending stairs rapidly ; at every step a jolt doivmvard, as if a weight luere in the occipztt. Freqitently obliged to stand still in walhing, from the violence of the pain in the forehead ; at every step it seems as if the brain rose and fell in the forehead; pain relieved by pressing strongly on forehead (Cinch. ) . Pain in head and eye balls, as if the latter would start from their sockets. Pressive pain in forehead, so severe during motion that it causes him to close his eyes. Stabbing, as if with a hnife, from one temple to the other. Headache, worse from leaning forward, better from bending backward. °Headache from a draft of air (Cinch. ) , or from having hair cut; from the heat of the sun. 'Head so sensitive externally that the least contact, even press- ure of the hair , gives pain (Aeon., Cinch., Merc). Eyes. — Eyes protruding, sparkling, pupils dilated; staring look (^Eth., Amyl., Ailanth., Hyos., Naja). Eyes red, siuollen, distorted {Stram.). Eyes dry ; feel stiff; heat 132 BELLADONNA. and burning (Aeon., Ars.). Great intolerance of light, and lachrymation (Aeon., Euphr., Graph., ^ej-c, Sulph.). Insensibility to light. Eyeballs in constant motion. Optic disc deepened in tint and retinal arteries and veins enlarged. Dilated, immovable pupils {Hyos., (Enan., Op., Sir am. ) , Double vision {Aitr., Cic, Stram., Phyt.); objects ap- pear upside down or crooked. Vision dim. Bidght sparks and flashes of light before the eyes (Cycl., Glon., Kali carb., Sulph.). Halo around the light, partly colored, red pre- dominating; at tijnes light seems broken into rays (Phos.). Chromopsia. Agglutination of lids in morning. Ears. — Intolerance of noise, hearing sensitive (Aeon.). Eoar- ing, ringing, or noises in the ear (Aeon., Ars., Cinch., Lyc.^ Nux v., Sulph.). Tearing at the internal and external ear (Cham., Puis., Mar. ver., Merc.) in a doivnward direc- tion. "Inflammatory swelling of the ears (Aeon., Apis, Puis.), and of the parotids; shooting pains. Nose.— (xrea^ sensitiveness of sinell (Aur., Aeon., Agar., Coff., Colch., Hep. s., Lye); faintest odor, especially tobacco, un- bearable. Tip of nose swollen, shining red, and burning^ (Borax, Nitr. ac. Ox. ac, Rhus tox.). Great dryness of the nose (Graph., Kali bi.). Frequent sneezing, with tickling- in nostrils. Discharge of mucus mixed with blood. Fre- quent nosebleed {Aeon., Bry.), with congestion of the head. Face. — Face glowing-red and Tto^ (Ailanth.); sivollenand hot (Aeon., Op., Stram.). Convulsive movej)%ents of the mus- cles of the face and mouth (Agar., Ant. tart., Cic, Ign., Nux. V. ) . Great sivelling andj tension of the upper lip {Apis, Bry., Calc. c, Psor.); stiff feeling on opening the mouth. Tearing, pressing below right zygoma. Tearing on inner surface of left loiuer jaw, luorse duriiig deglutition. Shootings from the maxillary bones and the ear (Calc. c.^ Hep. s.. Kali bi.). "Nervous prosopalgia, wdth tearing cut- ting pains {Pids.). Mouth. — Dull dracving in upper right roiv of teeth; worse at night and from cold air (Ant. crud.). "Grinding' of teeth. Painful swelKng of the gums (Graph., Merc). Tongue and palate dark red and dry (Bapt.). Dryness of mouth, tongue and throat interferes with speech and BELLADONNA. 133 deglutition. Tongue hot, dry, red, cracked {Ailanth., Ehus tox.); white center with red edges. Tongue dry, cracked and swollen, hanging from the mouth; difficult to move, scalded feeling. Scraping in mouth and throat; heat and dryness in mouth ; breath hot. Slimy mouth in morn- ings ivhen luahing, zvith pressing headache. Thick whitish mucus in mouth and throat, with constant inclina- tion to hawk and swallow. Throat. — Great dryriess of fauces and throat (Apis, iN'ux m., Fuls.\ also burning and scraping. During deglutition, feeling in the throat as if it were too narroiv, or drawn together as if nothing zuould pass properly {Hyos., StT-am.). Constriction in throat extending to stomach. Suffocative spasrns of fauces and glottis on attempting to swallow. Siuallowing difficult; of water; of solid food possible only by constantly taking liquids; painful ; can only swallow a few drops, the rest being forced out by spasmodic action of the muscles of deglutition (Lach.). Intermittent contraction of the cesophagus when swallowing, followed each time by scraping in region of epiglottis, as if the latter ivere raw and sore. Shooting in right parotid gland, extending into external ear, where it becomes cramp-like. ° Tonsilitis ; zuorse right side; parts bright red; zuorse swalloiving liquids. °Cervical glands inflame suddenly. Stomach. — Excessive unquenchable thirst for cold water Aeon., Bry.); or, aversion to all fluids {Hyos.). Mauseain the stomach; vomiting after eating and drinking. Gnaw- ing, pressing, cutting, drawing, wrenching pain in stomach, compelling him to bend backward and hold his breath. Hard pressure in stomach after eating {Ars., Bry., Jfux v., Puis.). Acute pain at pit of stomach; periodical, at night, with tremor. Burning in stomach {Ars., Ant. crud.. Apis, Phos., Verat. Alb.). Stomach sensitive to touch (Ars., Bry., Lye, Colch.). Abdomen. — Painfully distended abdomen, very sensitive to touch {Aeon., Coloc, Cupr., Merc). Heat and burning in abdomen (Aeon., Ars., Canth.) with anxiety. Colic, as if a spot in the abdomen were seized with the nails ; a griping, clutching, clawing (Ipec). Violent cutting pres- sure in abdomen, now here, now there. Tenderness of 134 BELLADONNA. the abdojnen is aggravated hy the least jar of the bed,, or the chair on luhioh he sits; obliged in lualking to step ivith great care, for fear of a jar. Tain in abdo- men as if sore and raiv. Tensive pain in morning on get- ting out of bed, as if hypogastrium were spasmodically constricted. Squeezing constrictive pain in lowermost in- testines, alternately with shoots or jerks in direction of perineum. Tenderness on pressure, especially in ovarian region. °Pains, particularly in abdomen and pelvis, come on suddenly, continue violently a longer or shorter time, and disappear as suddenly as they came. Stool and. Anus. — Pressing and urging in rectum toward anus ; painful contraction of anus. Straining and urging to stool, with scanty evacuations. Frequent ineffectual urging, or with scanty, hard stool. °Stool containing lumps lihe chalh {Hep. s., Fodo.); green mucus (Apis, Aig. nit., Ars., Merc, Puis., Sulph.); slimy and bloody (Merc, Nux v.). Paralysis of sphincter ani; involuntary stools (Ars., Hyos.). °Spasmodic constriction of sphincter ani. Dysentery. Retarded stools. Urinary Organs. — Retention of urine, which passes only drop by drop (Aeon., Canth., JS'ux, v.). Urine becomes turbid like yeast (Chel.), with reddish sediment {Kreos., Sep.); deep red, with white sediment. Involuntary micturi- tion (Ars., -ffr/05.); constant dribbling; paralysis sphincter vesicae. Difficult scanty urination (Aeon., Canth.), tenes- mus. Dull pressing in vesical region during the night. Female Organs. — Great pressing dozvmuard in the genitals,, as if contents of abdomen would protrude through the vulva (Lil. tig., Natr. mur., Plat., Sep.) . Burning, pressure, uneasiness, and weight in the uterine region. Ovaritis; right ovary much enlarged {Apis); burning, lancinating pains (Coni.). Shooting in internal organs at every step. Menses too early and too profuse (Amm. carb., Calc. c, J^ux v.); bright-red blood {Ham., Ipec), or thich, decomposed, dark-red blood. Smelling badly. "Lochia offensive, feels hot to the parts (Aeon.). °Labor pains too weak or ceas- ing (Caul., Gels.). °Rigid os. °After pains (Gels.); retained placenta. Respiratory Organs. — Voice husky and hoarse, and a dry BELLADONNA. 185 cough from dryness of larynx. Sensation as if larynx luas injiamed, swollen and constricted. °Spasm of the glottis (Lach.). Hoarseness, especially luhen crying. Aphonia, or confused sounds uttered with pain. Violent cough in sleep, with grinding of the teeth. Short, dry cough, from tichling in the larynx (Phos.); everting, in hed. Dry, spasmodic, or holloiv hoarse cough, ivorse at night (Dros., Hyos.). Barking cough (Dros., Spong., Verbas.); aiuaking after midnight, with pain in larynx and threatened suffocation. Short, hurried, anxious breathing (Aeon.). Tightness and oppression of the chest (Phos.). Pressive pain in the chest between the shoulders (Bry., Cimic, Merc, Phos.), Burning in the right chest. Reart and Pulse. — Pulse much increased in force and fre- quency {Aeon.) Throbbing of the carotid and temporal arteries (Glou., Physos.). Neck and Back. — Swelling of glands of neck and nape of neck. Pain in nape as if it would break when coughing. Shooting and gnawing pain in spinal column. °Pain in small of bach, as if it would break (Aloe, Cimic, KaU carb., Natr. mur., Nux v., Plat.). Limbs. — Convulsive motion of the limbs; twitchings (Hyos., Strajn.). Heaviness of the hands and feet. Loss of co-or- dination of the muscles of both upper and lower limbs, very much like the heaviness and helplessness of movement ob- served in first stage of progressive paralysis of the insane. Upper Limbs. — Sense of stretching and twisting in upper limbs. Shooting pressxtre on top of left shoulder. Draw- ing pain in inner side of left upper arm; weakness of xuhole left arm. Paralytic draiving pressure in upper extremities. •. Paralytic tearing in middle joint of right index finger. Painful draiving in posterior joint of left middle finger, as if in periosteum. Lower Limbs. — Cutting stitches inthe outer muscles of right thigh, just above the knee, only when sitting. Pain in thighs and legs as if beaten, and as if carious ; fine shoot- ing and gnaiuing along the bones, luith violent tearing in the joints; pain gradually rises from the tarsal joints to the hips, necessitating while sitting constant motion and 136 BELLADONNA. shifting of the feet; milder when lualhing. Tearing pressure in -middle of inside of leg, zminfluenced hy motion or contact. "Phlegmasia alba dolens ; cannot bear to be touched. Generalities. — Pains come on suddenly , and, after a shorter or longer duration, cease suddenly . Violent convulsions; distortions of all the muscles (Agar., Cic); especially flex- ors. Epileptic convulsions; then apoplectic conditions. Irritability and acuteness of sense, of taste, smell, touch, sight, hearing, and the mind is easily moved and thoughts T)%ore acute {Coff., Nux vom.). Cramp-like pain, worse in sleep, in one side of chest, one side of abdomen, and one loin, so that she bends the painful part inward. Great rest- lessness, with sudden startings; grinding of teeth; convul- sions. Paralytic weakness; tottering gait. Cannot bear to be touched anywhere. Restless, constantly changing po- sition, or moving the body to and fro, especially hands and feet. Throws body forward and backward, while lying, like constant change from emprosthotonos to opisthotonos. Skin. — Painful sensitiveness of skin to contact. Redness of the zvhole body, luith quich pulse (Amm. carb.). Smooth, scar- let redness of the surface of the whole body (Aeon.). Eruption resembling scarlatina (Apis, Arum, Stram.). Erysipelatous inflammation (Aeon., Apis, Rhus tox.). Erythema. Pustules break out in the cheeh and nose, which rapidly fill luith pus, and become covered with a criost. Sleep.— Great inclination to sleep (JVujo m.). Wants to sleep, but cannot (Cham.,Lach., Op.). Starts as in a fright from sleep, or on just falling asleep (Agar., Amm. carb., Ars., Bry., Hyos., Stram., Sulph.); in evening, the feet are jerked upward and the head forward. "Waked constantly by fearful dreams and twitchings. Waking at night full of fear. Sleep, with moaning and tossing about (Aeon.). Anxious and frightful dreams (Arn., Aur., Puis., Sulph.). Fever.— Chill in evening, mostly on arms, with heat of head. Chill alternately with heat; without thirst, and mostly with confusion of head. Cold hmbs; feet ice-cold; head hot. Heat with distension of superficial veins, greatthirst, anxiety and trembling; with furious delirium. Temper- BELLADONNA. 137 ature much increased; face reel; pulse accelerated; delirium. Inteivse hurning heat ivithin and luithout ; sweat only on head, luith confusion of head. Sweat on the covered parts (Cham.). Sweat with or just after the heat, mostly on face. Aggravation.— ^/ifer 3 p.m., and again after midnight ; on moving; from touch; from draft of air; from sudden changes from warm to cold weather; in hot weather; from heat of sun (Ant. crud.); while drinking. Amelioration. — When wrapped up well in a warm room. Conditions. — In plethoric lymphatic constitutions who are jovial and happy when well, but violent when sick. In young, full-blooded people. Compare. — Aeon., Calc. c, Cinch., Coff., Coloc, Hyos., Lach., Merc, Op., Phos., Stram., Yerat. v. Antidotes. — Camph., Coff., Hep. s., Hyos., Op., Puis., Vinum. To large doses: Emetics, strong coffee. Op., Hyos. Belladonna Antidotes.— Aeon., Cupr., Ferr., Hyos., Merc, Plumb., Jab or. THERAPEUTICS. Belladonna is especially useful in congestive types of dis- ease. In congestions and inflammations of a violent and intense character which come on suddenly, and especially when they tend to the rapid formation of pus. In all local congestions and inflammations as they are about to localize, or after local- ization has taken place, but before products have formed. Thus it is an excellent remedy in the first stage of boils and abscesses, and will, if indicated, often promote resolution, and prevent suppuration. So, too, in cellulitis, ovaritis, tonsilitis, etc., it will answer the same purpose. In such cases it is indicated by the great heat and redness of the affected part, throbbing pain, sensitiveness, etc. It is the most useful remedy in violent con- gestions and inflammations of the brain and meninges, being indicated by a violent headache, pressure, and delirium, to- gether with a flushed face, throbbing carotids, and bounding pulse. The latter is the chief characteristic symptom of Bella- donna, and may indicate its use in congestion or inflammation of any organ or tissue, or in any type of fever when such symp- toms maybe present. Studying the clinical range of Belladonna 138 BELLADONNA. in detail we find it useful in the following conditions : First stao-e of eerebritis, meningitis, typhus cerebralis, and apo- plexia, the symptoms corresponding. Also in acute mania, when there is furious rage, etc., desire to hide or escape, fear of imaginary things. This mania may be present in cerebral ty- phus, and other brain troubles mentioned. Also in dehrium tremens. Belladonna is the chief remedy in congestive head- aches. The pain is of a throbbing nature, and is always aggra- vated by noise, hght or jarring, and by bending forward, better from bending backward. Such a headache may result from exposure to cold, especially a draft of air, or from having the hair cut, or from exposure to the rays of the sun. Congestions and inflammations of the eyes occurring suddenly and violently. Great pain, redness and swelling, and intolerance of light. Especially right eye. Retinitis. Iritis. First stage of otitis media, with terrific tearing pains into the ear and brain, roar- ing noises. Acute parotitis. Tonsilitis, worse on right side; parts bright red ; worse on swallowing liquids. Pharyngitis, and other throat affections, characterized by intense hypereemia and dryness of the parts, and tendency to spasmodic contrac- tion. (Esophagitis. Stomatitis. Glossitis, the tongue being hot, dry, swollen, and painful. Gastritis. Belladonna is most often the first remedy indicated in inflammations of the abdomi- nal viscera. Especially in peritonitis, whether puerperal or non-puerperal, also in metro-peritonitis. The abdomen is greatly distended, painful and very sensitive to touch ; sensitive to the least ja.r ; extreme pungent heat ; violent pain. Acute hepatitis. Dysentery, especially in children, spasmodic con- striction of sphincter, other symptoms agreeing. Cystitis. Nephritis. Orchitis and ovaritis, with characteristics already named. First stage of mastitis. Dysmenorrhoea ; congestive type, in plethoric girls, violent pains, etc. Menorrhagia, bright red blood, or dark and decomposed ; in plethoric girls, congest ive symptoms. In all uterine troubles, including prolapsus, there is, in addition to other symptoms, a great pressing down- wards, as if the organs w^ere heavy and congested, and would press out at the vulva. Labor pains too weak or ceasing. Hour glass contractions. Rigid os. After-pains. Lochia hot and offensive, or suppressed. Retained placenta. Milk-le^\ A most valuable remedy in uterine haemorrhage, especially post- BELLADONNA. 139 partum, blood bright red and hot, in gushes, cerebral symp- toms. Belladonna is very useful in a dry cough which comes from tickling in the larynx, usually worse in the evening after going to bed. This may indicate the drug in acute laryngitis and bronchitis. There is always, in the former, dryness and sore- ness of the larynx, and hoarseness, with tendency to suffo- cation. Also useful in spasmodic and catarrhal croup, spasms of the glottis and whooping cough. In the two latter diseases it constitutes one of our most important remedies. Belladonna is a valuable remedy in some forms of skin disease, including erysipelas and exanthematous fevers, especially scar- latina. Its pathogenesis forms a perfect picture of the true Sydenham scarlet fever, in which it is indicated in a great ma- jority of cases, but it is seldom if ever useful in low and malig- •nant types of the disease, where blood poisoning is the chief characteristic. The same holds true in diphtheria, and all other forms of blood poisoning, as Belladonna does not poison the blood, and is therefore not a remedy for that condition. In scarlet fever it is chiefly indicated by the smooth scarlet redness of the skin, sore throat, high fever and cerebral symptoms. In erysipelas it is indicated only when the swelling is red hot, smooth and shining (vesicular erysipelas, Rhus tox. ; oedema- tous. Apis), and tendency to cerebral irritation. Or the- redness may have a central point and radiate in streaks from that point. Also phlegmonous erysipelas, first stage, with throbbing pains. It may also be indicated in measles where the cerebral symptoms are prominent. Boils, abscesses, etc., as already mentioned. Acute inflammations of glands. Bella- donna may be indicated in worm fever, and that accompanying dentition, when there is cerebral irritation, but it is seldom use- ful in typhoid and malarial fevers, though it may be indicated in the beginning of the disease. In nervous diseases Belladonna is often useful. Neuralgia, especially of the face and head. Sciatica. Gastralgia. Sometimes, though rarely, in paralysis. A valuable remedy in convulsions, tetanic, epileptic, puerperal hysterical, with the characteristic cerebral and other symp- toms— great rush of blood to the head, face red and hot. etc. Chorea. Hydrophobia. Sunstroke. Rheumatism, especially lumbago. 140 BENZOIC ACID. BENZOIC ACID. Benzoicum Acidum. Preparation. — The pure crystals are dissolved in alcohol. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts especially upon the urinary organs, giving rise to symptoms of a uric-acid diathesis, affecting especially the joints and tendons. The peculiar characteristic of the drug is its deep-red-colored urine, with very strong urinous odor. OHARACTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mouth. — "Extensive ulceration of the tongue, with deeply chapped fungoid surfaces. Throat. — ° Angina faucium and tonsillaris, with characteristic urine. Stool. — ° Diarrhoea in children ; profuse, luatery, light col- ored, offensive, exhausting stools, zvith urinous odor and characteristic urine. Stool frothy. Urinary Organs. — Urine highly colored; changeable color, hroivnish (Carb. ac, Nit. ac), urinous odor exceedingly strong (Nitr. ac); offensive ; pungent smell (Asaf., Aspar.), Soreness, or hot, burning pains in left kidney. A granular kind of mucus mixed with phosphates in the sediment ; urine dark -reddish brown; acid reaction, or very offensive; fleeting pains in bladder, not when urinating, but at other times ; "vesical catarrh from suppressed gonorrhoea ; calculi, or gout. Benders the urine acid ; hippuric acid. Sexual Organs. — "Suppressed gonorrhoea ; gleet; with offensive urine. Prolapsus uteri, with foetid urine. Respiratory Organs. — Great weakness, difficult breathing, increasing every hour. Cough, followed by expectoration of green mucus. Heart. — Pain in region of heart. Back. — Dull pain in back, in region of kidneys ; stiffness in loins. Lower Limbs. — Swelling in right knee; ulcerative pain in whole leg, with pains in kidneys. Cracking or sense of dry- ness in knee joint. Pain in both knees. Tearing and BERBERIS. 141 stitches, especially in the metatarsal joints of the right great toe. °Gouty concretions and nodosities. Generalities.— Weariness and lassitude (Cinch.). Pains sud- denly change their locality (Kali hi., hed., Puis.). °Syinp- toms in sick go from left to right, and from below upward, especiall^^ in rheumatism and gout. Conditions. — Especially adapted to rheumatic or gouty sub- jects ; in syphilitic or gonorrhoeal patients. Compare.— Arn., Berb., Carb. ac. Led., Nitr. ac.,Puls., Rhod.,, Sulph. Benzoic Acid Antidote.— Copaiba. THERAPEUTICS. Benzoic Acid may be indicated in any form of disease char- acterized by the peculiar urine of this drug, without which it is seldom to be employed. It is especially useful in gout and rheumatism of the joints, and of rheumatic and gouty arthritis. It is a valuable remedy in catarrh of the bladder, cystitis, nocturnal enuresis, and nephritic colic, the urine always being dark and extremely offensive. Asthma, especially in rheumatic patients, offensive urine. Diarrhoea in children, stools and urine both having a urinous odor. Also useful in other conditions already named. Bad effects from copaiba. BERBERIS. Synonym. — Berberis Vulgaris. JVatural order. — Berberi- dacese. Cormnon name.— Barberry. Habitat. — A plant indi- genous to Europe, but naturalized in New England. Prepara- tion.— Tincture from bark of the fresh root. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Through the ganglionic system Berberis produces engorge- ment of the venous capillaries, and shows its especial action upon the kidneys and bladder, and next upon the liver, where it promotes the flow of bile, and lastly upon the mucous mem- branes of these and other parts, and upon the muscular system. Its most marked symptoms are the pains in the region of the kidneys. 142 BERBEEIS. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Head. — Yertigo and dizziness. Sensation as if the head were becoming larger (Cimic). Tearing pains in forehead and temples, often changing locality (Puis.). Cold sensation in right temple. Eyes. — Burning pains with dryness and redness; biting. Nose. — Dr^mess of the nose. Face. — Pale, earthy complexion, with sunken cheeks, and hollow, blue-encircled eyes (Ars., Cinch., Sec, Sulph.). Mouth. — Dryness of the lips. Sticky, frothy saliva, like cotton. Stomach. — Thirst, with dryness of the mouth. Eructations; without bad taste or smell. Heartburn, Abdomen. — Violent sticking, pressive pain in region of gall bladder (Bapt.). Pains, mostly sticking, in left side of abdomen, often extending to lumbar region, or to the groin, the liver, the spleen or the stomach. Deep-seated, sticking, or tearing pain from the ilium, near spine, ob- liquely inward toward sacrum. Varicose veins near right inguinal ring. Burning smarting pain in right inguinal fold, with tension on motion. Stitches at origin of Poupart 's ligament, at left ilium, extending down it, then shooting outward into left side of female urethra. Tearing pos- teriorly in crest of ilium, usually'' only on one side extending into gluteal muscles or into the bones. Stool and Anus. — Long continued sensation in rectum after stool, as if one had just been to stool, or had just recovered from a pain in anus. Frequent urging to stool. Violent iuribiibg pain in the anus, as if parts around it were sore. Tearing, stitching, burning, crawling or itching in and around anus. Hard, scanty stools, like sheep's dung (Chel., Op., Plumb.). Watery evacuations (Ars., Cinch,). Haemorrhoids; burning pain before, during and after stool. Urinary Organs. — Sticking, digging, tearing or pulsative pain in region of one or the other hidneys. Burning pain in iladdyer {Aeon., Ars., Canth.). Violent stiching, cut- ting pains from the hidneys into thehladder and urethra. Cutting and burning in the urethra {Can. sat., Canth.) \ during and after urinating. Sensation as if some urine had remained after urinating. Stitches in female urethra, beginning in bladder. Pains in loins and hips while urinat- BERBERIS. 143 ing. Urine pale-yellow, with a slight transparent, gelati- nous sediment, with no deposit, or a turhid, flocculent, clay -like, copious, imocous sediment, mixed with zuhite or luhitish gray, and later a reddish mealy sediment. Urine bright-yellow (Ars.) ; blood-red; profuse mucous sediment. Male Organs. — Dragging or lancinating pains in spermatic cord, extending into testicles (Clem., Ram., Merc, Puis.). Smarting, burning pains or stitches in spermatic cord. Weakness and coldness of genital organs (Caps.). Female Organs. — Sensation of darning and soreness in vagina; painful to touch. Menses too scanty and pain- ful ; gray mucus or blood. Back. — Bruised pain, luith stiffness and lameness in small of bach; rises from a seat ivith dijfcitlty {Rhus tox.). Backache luorse ivhile sitting or lying {Rhus tox.). Pain ful pressure and tension in lumbar and renal regions, some- times with sensation of nuinljness, pufBness, warmth, stiff- ness and lameness, extending at times into the lower limbs. Sticking pains in loins, or digging, tearing, as if suppurating, worse on deep pressure. Upper Limbs. — Rheumatic, paralytic pain in right shoulder (Puis., Rhod.), with stitches over left eye. ^Neuralgia under fingernails, with swelling of finger joints. Xiimbs. — Tearing, stitching or throbbing pains, or bruised feel- ing in extremities. Compare.— Aloe, Ars., Bry., Ca;:'^., Chel.,Cimic., Cinch., Clem., Diosc, Iris, Kux v.. Puis., Podo., Sil., Zinc. Antidote .—Camph . Berberis Antidote.— Aeon. THERAPEUTICS. This drug is most useful in arthritic and rheumatic affec- tions, particularly when associated with urinary complaints. It is especially applicable when renal and vesical symptoms are prominent. Passage of renal and vesical calculi; nephritic colic; nephritis. In all these conditions the leading symptom is sticking, digging, tearing pains in the region of the kidneys, extending to the bladder and urethra. Neuralgia of the sper- matic cords and testicles (Clem., Cimic, Puis.). Vaginitis, 144 BISMUTHUM. vaginismus and dysmenorrhoea, with the characteristic urinarj symptoms. Berberis may also be useful in bilious and gastro- intestinal disorders, especially hepatic colic from the passage of gall stones, with jaundice. Bilious diarrhoea, with soreness over the liver, characteristic pain in back and side, burning in anus as if sore. BISMUTHUM. Sub-nitrate of Bismuth. Preparation. — Triturations. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts especially upon those organs and functions which are under the control of the pneumogastric nerve— more especially upon the stomach, where it produces symptoms resembhng those of gastralgia, and in general produces irritation and catarrhal inflammation of the whole alimentary tract. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Mind.— Morose, discontented and complaining about his con- dition. Head. — Pressing, drawing now here, now there. Confusion,. Vertigo, in attacks as if anterior half of brain were turning- in a circle. Cutting above right orbit, extending to occiput. Pressive pain and sensation of heaviness in the frontal region, worse on motion ; also in occiput. Eyes.— Pressure in the right eyeball, from before backward, and from below upward. Thickened mucus in both canthi. Mouth.— "Toothache, relieved by taking cold water in the mouth (Coff.). Tongue coated white, evenings (morning, Sul ph.), without hea,t or thirst. Taste nauseous metallic (Puis.); metallic, sweetish-sour, on back of tongue; bitter. Stomach.— Thirst for cold drinks in evening, without heat (Puis.). Eructations of wind after drinking water. Fre- quent empty eructations and feeling of discomfort in the stomach {Vu\i^.). Nausea after eating or nursing. Vomit- ing of all fluids ; w^ater vomited as soon as it reaches the BISMUTHUM. 145 stomach (Phos.). Pressure like a load in tlie stomach after eating {Bry.,.Jfux v., Puis.). Distressing pressure and burning-in region of stomach (Ars.)- Gastro-enteritis. Vom- iting; convulsive gagging and inexpressible pain in the stomach. Crampy, spasmodic pains in the stomach; burning, alternating with pressure ; pressure on the spine ; must bend backward. Abdomen.— Frequent passage of flatus. Pinching pressure on lower abdomen, and rumbling, with desire for stool. Urine. — Copious; frequent; watery. Respiratory Organs. — Cra-mpy, -pressive pain through the chest, in the region of the diaphragm, when walhing. Pain in the chest and back, with boring and burning. Upper Limbs. — Paralytic weariness and weakness in the right arm. Laming, tearing pressure on right forearm ; more toward outer side; passes off by motion and touch. Tear- ing in metacarpal bones of right fore and middle fingers. Fine tearing in finger tips of right hand; particularly under the nails. Skin. — Corrosive itching on side of tibia, and on back of both feet near the joints; worse from scratching; must scratch until it bleeds. Sleep. — Cannot get his accustomed morning nap. Frequent waking at night, as from fright. Eestless sleep, through lascivious dreams, with (sometimes without) seminal emis- sions. Compare. — Ant. crud.,.^r5.,t^rtf., Bell., Calc. c.,Colch., Hyclroe. ac. Kali, Lye, Phos., Nux v., Puis., Ehus tox.,Sep., Sulph. Antidotes. — Calc. c, Caps., Nux v. To large doses: Emetics followed by albuminous and emollient drinks, such as milk. THERAPEUTICS. Bismuth is often the homoeopathic remedy in gastralgia, especially when occurring in connection with gastric catarrh. According to Farrington, Bismuth is "the remedy for pure gas- tralgia, that which is not associated with any cata.rrh, or with any symptoms of indigestion." The pain is usually of a severe, pressive, burning character, the pressure seeming to extend back to the spine. There is usually also considerable nausea and vomiting, especially after taking fiuids ; they are at once 146 BORAX. ejected. Allen says it is "very valuable for inflammation of the stomach occurring during, the progress of chronic diseases, for instance, schirrhus." Cholera-infantum with gastric symp- toms prominent, white coated tongue, vomiting, etc. Neural- gic headaches alternating with gastralgia. BORAX. Biborate of Soda. Preparation. — Either triturations of the pure borax, or dilutions from a solution composed of one part to ninety-nine of distilled water. GENERAL ANALYSIS. The rationale of the operations of this drug is not well un- derstood, but it has an important action upon the mucous membranes, on which it produces an aphthous ulceration (Merc), especially of the mouth, intestines, uterus, and v^agina. It also involves the respiratory tract and the skin. Its most prominent mental expression is a 'fear of downward motion, which seems to characterize most of its pathological conditions, and which is not found in any other remedy. OHARAOTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Dread of downiuarcl motion, ivith anxious expression, as ivhen in a swing, rocking chair, cradle, or in going down stairs. Idles through the afternoon ; does not get at work; changes from one work to another; from one room to another ; without keeping to any object. Great anxiety and sleepiness; anxiety increased until 11 p.m. Fretful; ill-humored, discontented {Brij., Cham., JYux v.), indolent. Easily startled by unusual sounds. Head.— Hairs become entangled at the tips and stick together ; cannot be separated ; if these bunches are cut off they form again. Aching at 10 a.m. in the whole head, with nausea and inclination to vomit, and trembling in the whole body. Heat of the head in infants. Eyes.— Lashes turn inward toward the eye and inflame it, es- pecially at outer canthus, when the margins of the lids are BORAX. 147 very sore (Merc). Inflammation of right eye at external canthus, with irregularity of the lashes ; nightly aggluti- nations {Lye, Merc, Puis., Sulph.). • Flickering before the eyes in the morning, when writing, so that he does not see distinctly; there seem to be bright moving waves, now from right to left, now from above downwards. Ears. — Roaring in the ears. Stitches in the left ear. Nose. — Dry crusts in the nose; re-form if removed. Boil in fore part of left nostril; toward the tip, with sore pain, and swelling of the tip of the nose. Red and shining swelling of the nose, with throbbing and tensive sensation (Bell.). Face. — Sickly pale, earthy color of the face (Ars., Cinch.). Burning heat and redness of face (Aeon., Bell.). Erysipelas in face. Mouth. — Gum boil, paining Severely, with dull pain in hollow tooth ; swelling of cheek, and whole left side of face. Grip- ing in hollow teeth in rainy weather. Aphthm on the tongue, in the mouth, inside of cheeks, etc., with great heat and dryness of the mouth (Hydras., Hell., lod., Jferc.,Nit. ac). Painful red blisters on the tongue (Nux v.), as if the surface were eroded. The mucous membrane of fore part of palate is shriveled, as if burnt, and pains especially when chewing; child cries zuhen nursing. Aphthae inside of cheek, bleeding when eating. Flat, insipid, or bitter taste (Bapt., Bry., Puis.. Sulph.). Throat. — Tough, whitish mucus in throat, w^hich is loosened only after great exertion (Ailanth., Amm. mur.). Stomach. — Great distension, discomfort, sick feeling, and ill humor after a meal. Pain in region of stomach after heavy lifting; pain extends to small of back and then becomes stitching; cannot turn at night without pain; better in morning. Abdoraen. — Flatulent distension after every meal (Carb. v., Cinch.). Pinching in the abdomen with diarrhoea. Pain as if diarrhoea would result. Stool. — Soft., light-yellow {Mth.., Chel.), mucous stool, with weakness and exhaustion. Green stool in infants, preceded by crying (Coloc). Painless diarrhoea in mornings (Podo., Sulph.). Frequent easy stools. 148 BOEAX. Urinary Organs. — Severe urgent desire to ui-inate (Aeon.). At night must rise several times to urinate (Ambr.). Desire to urinate without being able to pass a drop (Aeon., Canth.). Smarting in urethra after urination {Canth.). Hot urine in iiz f a nt s {Xcon., Canth.). Pungent smell of urine (Benz. ae.). Infant urinates every ten or twelve minutes, and frequently cries and screams before the passage. Female Organs. — Menses too early and too profuse (Amm. earb., Ars., Calc. a., J^ux v.), with nausea and eolie. Leucorrhoea lihe the white of an egg (Amm. mur., Bovis., Calc. phos., Mez.), xuit% sensation as if warin ivater were floiuing cloiun. Leueorrhoea, white, thiek as paste. Pains from the stomach to the small of the back, before the menses. Stitching, tearing pains in groins at time of menses. Gripings, and sometimes stitches in left mamma, and when the child has nursed, obliged to compress the breast with the hand because it aches from being empt}^ Respiratory Organs.— Hacking and violent cough, with slight expectoration of moldy taste and smell. Dry cachectic cough as in old people, worse mornings on rising, and evenings on lying down. Cough with expectoration of white mucus streaked with blood. Obliged every few minutes to take a quick, deep breath, which is followed by a stitch in right side of chest, with subdued pain, sigh, and slow^ exhalation. Sticking in the chest luith every cough and deep inspiration {Bry., Kali carl.). Stitches in chest when yawning, coughing or breathing deeply {Bry.). Pains in chest, relieved by pressure, by w^ashing chest in cold water ; aggravated by wines. Generalities.— Stitches in the soles of the feet. The infant be- comes pale and nearly earthy-colored, flesh soft and flabby, cries much, refuses the breast, and screams out anxiously in sleep. Skin.— Unhealthiness of the skin; slight injuries suppurate (Cham., Hep. s., Graph., Sil., Sulph.). Sensation of a cob- web on skin of face and hands. Severe itching on the back of the flnger joints, must scratch them violently. Bed, papulous eruption on the cheeks and around the chin. BOVISTA. 149 Burning heat and redness of fingers and toes during cold as if frost bitten (Agar,). Sleep.— Sleeps more than usual, wakes frequently. Wakes uncommonly early, 3 a.m., cannot fall asleep again for two hours on accoimt of heat in thewholehocly , especially in the head, with sweat on the thighs. Child cries out during sleep, as if frightened hy a dream. Conditions. — Period of dentition and infancy. Compare.— Bell., Bry., Cham., Cina.,Calc. c, Calc. phos., Coff'., Hep. s., Merc, Nux v.. Puis., Silic, Sulph. Antidotes.— Cham., Coff. THERAPEUTICS. The chief sphere of usefulness of Borax is in the treatment of aphthse and diarrhoea in infants, especially when they occur in the same child, and have associated with them the peculiar mental symptoms of the drug. In nursing infants the mouth is very dry, hot and tender, with great thirst and vomiting. It often relieves functional urinary troubles in infants, the urine being scanty and hot, and causing burning and shooting in the urethra, so that the child dreads to urinate and screams before each passage. Borax is an excellent remedy in Dysmenorrhoea, especially membranous. Cervical leucorrhoea, albuminous. An excellent remedy both internally and locally for inflammations and erosions of the os and cervix (Arg. nit.. Hydras.). Endo- cervitis. Hacking cough, with characteristic expectoration. Pleurisy. Pleurodynia. Erysipelas of the face. Plica Polonica. Trichiasis. BOVISTA. Synonym. — Lycoperdon Bovista. JVatural order. — Fungi. Common name. — Warted puff ball. Habitat. — A fungus found on pasture grounds and dry meadows in Europe. Prepara- tion.— A tincture is made from the entire fungus. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Bovista affects the cerebro- spinal system, its most import- ant local action being upon the skin and the female sexual 150 BOVISTA. organs. According to Allen its most marked action "seems to be upon the circulation predisposing to hsemorrhages." This is probably caused by relaxation of the capillary system. OHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Sensitive, takes offense at everything. Staimnerijig when reading. Head. — Vertigo and feeling of stupidity in head on rising. Ver- tigo; falls over; momentarily unconscious in morning. Sensation as if head were much enlarged (Arg. nit., Cimic, Glon., Zing.); headache deep in. Violent itching of the scalp, especially when getting warm; Scratches on fore- head until sore ; not relieved by scratching. Nose. — Bleeding of the nose in the morning (Aeon., Bell., Ham.); drops of blood when sneezing or blowing the nose. Scabby nostrils. Face. — Very pale in morning after rising. Eruptions at corners of lips. Mouth. — Cutting pain in the tongue as with a knife. Scorbutic gums ; bleed easily (Garb, an., Merc, Nit. ac). Violent draw- ing aching in carious teeth ; less in the air and in warmth ; worse in the evening. Increased flow of saliva. Throat. — Burning in the throat. Stomach.— Empty eructations. Nausea in morning, better after breakfast, with vomiting of water. Stool.— Stool, first hard and difficult ; last, thin and w^atery. Female Organs. — Diarrhoea frequently before and during menstruation. Menses too early and too profuse (Ars., Calc. c, JYux v.). Flow most in morning; scanty during day and night, flowed for most part only at night (Mag. c). Painful urging toward genitals, and weight in small of back {Bell.). During the intervals occasional flow of blood Ajnm. carl.). Leucorrhoea a few days before or a few days affcer the menses, like the white of an egg (Amm. mur.. Borax, Calc. phos., Mez.), when walking; yellowish, green, acrid. Generalities.— Palpitation of the heart. Great weakness of the joints. Weariness in hands and feet. Intolerance of tight clothing around the waist (Calc. c). Drops things from the hands, as from weakness; awkwardness. Unusually BEOMIUM. 151 deep impression on finger from using hlunt instruments (as seissors or knife). Itching of os coccyg'is ; must scratch until the parts become raw and sore. Stitches in right ex- ternal malleolus. Sleep. — Great drowsiness in the afternoon and early evening. Fever. — Chilliness all night. Intermittent fever, chill every day from 7 to 10 p.m. Compare. — Aloe, Carb. v., Calc. c, Cic, Mag. c, Merc, Phos., Rhus tox., Puis., Secale, Staph., Sulph., Verat. alb., Ustilago. Antidote.— Cam ph. THERAPEUTIC S. Bovista is used chiefly in uterine haemorrhage, menorrhagia and metrorrhagia and in leucorrhoea. In the former the chief characteristic is that the flow takes place mostly at night or early in the morning, a diarrhoea often precedes and accompa- nies the menses. The leucorrhoea may be either uterine or cer- vical, mostly the latter, being of an albuminous character, and acrid, and occurs just before or a few days after the menses. Epistaxis, especially mornings. The drug has been successfully used in urticaria, tetter and eczema, either dry and red, or moist forming thick crusts, burning and itching. Has been used to antidote the effect of charcoal fumes. Stammering. BROMIUM. Common name. — Bromine. An elementary substance. Preparation. — Dilutions made from a solution of one part of Bromine to ninety- nine of distilled water, which corresponds to the 2x dilution. The 3x and 4x dilutions are made ^vith dis- tilled water, the 5x with dilute alcohol, and subsequent dilu- tions with alcohol. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Bromine acts as a powerful irritant to the mucous mem- branes, especially of the respiratory tract, the larynx being mostly involved. An intense inflammation is established, 152 BROMIUM. which tends to the determination of a false membrane, hence its value in the treatment of membranous croup and diph- theria. When taken internally it also acts as a corrosive poison, producing violent gastritis, and the phenomena of depression and collapse, which usually attend the action of cor- rosive poisons. Bromine also affects the glands producing enlargement and induration. OHARAOTBRISTIO SYMPTOMS. Head. — °Mi^raine, left side, worse from stooping; especially after drinking milk. Eyes. — Lachrymation of right eye, with swelling of the lachry- mal gland. Stitches through left eye. Ears. — °Hard swelling of the left parotid gland, feeling warm to the touch. "Suppuration of left parotid, edges of the opening smooth ; discharge watery and excoriating ; swell- ing remaining hard and unyielding; after scarlatina. Nose. — Severe coryza, right nostril stopped up and sore throughout, later the left. Fluent coryza, with sneezing (Aeon., Gels.); long continued and obstinate; corrosive soreness under the nose and on margins of nostrils. {Ailanth., Arum, Cepa, lod.). Nose sore and swollen with scurfs in it, and pain and bleeding on wiping {JSfitr. ac). Face. — °Grayish, earthy complexion; old appearance. Sensa- tion as of a spider web on the face (Baryt. carb., Carls., Graph.). Strong hard swelling of glands, especially on lower jaw and throat. Throat. — Scraping in the throat. Swelling of mucous mem- branes of fauces and pharynx. Abdomen. — Tympanitic distension of the abdomen, and pas- sage of much wind (Aloe, Arn., Cinch.). Kitool and Anus. — Blind, intensely painful haemorrhoids, with black stool. i^emale Organs. — Loud emission of flatus from the vagina (Lye). Menses too early and too profuse (Ars., Calc, J^ux v.); of bright red blood {Bell., Ipec.) ; flow passive, with much exhaustion (Carb. an.. Cinch.) ; or membranous shreds may pass off (Cycl.). Violent contractive spasm before or during the menses, lasting hours, leaving the abdomen sore. Membranous dysnienorrhoea. BROMIUM. 153 Respiratory Organs. — Cold sensation in larynx, with cold feelwig luhen inspiring . Constriction in the larynx; tick- ling, causing cough. Stitch in posterior portion of larynx, with feeling of constriction when swallowing saliva. Scrap- ing and rawness in larynx, provohing cough, as if the pit of throat were pressed against the trachea. Voice hoarse, cannot speah clearly ; loss of voice. Cough, with sudden paroxysms of suffocation on swallowing ; respira- tion very short; obliged to catch for breath. Tickling in trachea on inspiration, causing cough. Spasmodic closure of the glottis. Stitches in right side of chest. Deep forcible inspiration is necessary from time to time. Difficulty of breathing; cannot inspire deep enough; with anxiety. Sensation as if the air passages were full of smoke (Baryt. carb., Natr. ars.). Right lung most affected. Generalities.— °Great weakness and lassitude after all the symptoms passed off; in diphtheria. Shivering with yawn- ing and stretching ; repeated every other day, as a chilliness and cold feet. Cold and moist hands. Sleep. — Continued yawning and drowsiness, °with the respira- tory troubles (Ant. tart.). Skin. — Swelling and induration of the glands — thyroid, testes, submaxillary, parotid (Baryt, carb., Calc. c, Coni., lodi., Graph., Natr. carb.). Boils on the arms and face (Sil.). Aggravation. — In the evening till midnight ; in warm room ; left side most affected. Amelioration. — From motion, walking, riding on horseback; after eating; from ammonia gas. Conditions. — More suitable for persons with light hair and blue eyes. Compare. — 7o(i^., Spong., Kalibi.). Antidotes. — Emetics, followed by tepid demulcents, starch, flour, arrowroot, etc. Inhalations of the vapors of Am- monia neutralize the effects of Bromine inhalations. Fol- lows Iodine or Spongia well in respiratory diseases. THERAPEUTICS Bromine is an invaluable remedy in the treatment of in- flammatory diseases of the larynx and trachea. Spasm of the glottis. Laryngitis and croup with paroxysms of suffocation, 154 BRYONIA. sensation of constriction in larynx. Rattling of mucus in the throat; hoarseness; inspiration excites cough; in spasm of the glottis and spasmodic croup, the spasmodic constriction is temporarily relieved by a drink of water. Diphtheria when it invades the larynx. In asthma, bronchial catarrh, and pneu- monia, Bromine may be indicated by the severe suffocative attacks, apparently from spasmodic constriction, the latter being the most essential feature of the drug in respiratory troubles. It may also, in these conditions, be used by inhala- tion. Coryza, or nasal catarrh, discharge profuse, watery, ex- coriating, pressing at root of nose, nose seems stopped up. It is an excellent remedy for enlarged and indurated glands, espe- cially in scrofulous children — goitre, enlarged parotids, with ten- dency to suppurate. The tonsils, submaxillary glands, testes, ovaries, or mammse may be affected in a like manner. Hsemor- rhoids which are intensely painful. An excellent remedy in membranous dysmenorrhoea, when there are contractive spasms of the uterus. Chronic Ovaritis. Hypertrophy of the heart,, with suffocative paroxysms. BRYONIA. Synofiym. — Bryonia Alba. J^atural order. — Cucurbitacese. Cowiwioji name. — White Bryony. Habitat. — A high climbing perennial plant growing in hedges and along fences, especially in Germany and France. Preparation. — Tincture from the fresh root. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Bryonia acts especially and powerfully upon the serous membranes and the viscera they contain, more particularly the pleuree and lungs ; next the brain, and finally the liver. Then comes the action upon the synovial membranes and muscular fiber, and last upon the mucous membranes of the respiratory and alimentary tracts. The condition setup is not one of acute inflammation, but rather of subacute; more closely simulat- ing that condition when infiltrations, exudations, or effusions are about to occur, the symptoms indicating a condition inter- BRYONIA. 155 mediate between inflammation and nervous irritation. When, however, the synovial membranes and the muscular fibres are in- volved, the inflammation, while still being subacute in its charac- ter, partakes more decidedly of a rheumatic or arthritic nature, and possibly this condition may be said to always characterize the Bryonia inflammation, regardless of the tissues involved. The most characteristic expressions of Bryonia are its stitching, tearing pains, and the aggravation of aU its symptoms by motion. OHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Very morose, ill-humored {Agar., Ailanth., Borax, Cham., J^uxv .); inclined to needless anxiety; fright., fear and vexation (Aeon.). Exceedingly irritable, and in- clined to he angry (Aur., Cinch., Cham., Hep. s., Kali carb., JYux v., Ign.). Great anxiety ; mental depression and apprehension about the future: fears she has not the wherewithal to live (Aur., Ars., Natr. mur., Nux m.. Puis.). Delirium about his business ; worse at night. Weahness of mind so that his ideas disappear, as if he would faint. Head. — Confusion of the head. Confusion in the head and ach- ing, as after a night's dissipation; does not wish to rise {Mux V.) morning on awa.kening. Confusion in the head with drawing in the occiput, extending into the neck, before going to sleep. "Sensation in bed as if she were sinking deep down. Vertigo, as though objects were reeling ; as though brain were turning around; as if head luere turning in a circle (Bell., Carls., Coni., Nux v.); causing him to reel backward; on rising from the chair (Sulph.) or bed {Phos., Rhus tox.); on sitting up in bed; on raising the head {Aeon., Cinch.). Headache commences in the morning, not on waking, but luhen first opening the eyes. Great heaviness of the head, and pressure of the brain forward. Pressure on the head, as if the brain were too full and pressed outward (Aeon., Cinch., Nat. mur., Merc). Headache, as if every- thing would press out of the forehead {Aeon., Asaf.); worse on stooping. Pressivepahv above the left eye, followed by dull press- ive pains in occipital protuberances ; thence spreading 156 BRYONIA. over the whole body; on quich jnotion and after eating pain so severe that it seeined a distinct pulsation within the head. Stitches through head on stepping hard, mostly from before backwards. Pressive pain in head on coughing. Slight draiuing in the temporal hones from above doivn- ivard toward zygom^a. Throbbing headache on top of head (Natr. ars., Glon., Stram.) morning when svaking. Continued deep stitch in brain, left side, on coughing (Carb. v.) . Press- ive pains in the occiput, drawing down into nech ; relieved toward noon. Headache, as if head w^ould split open (Amm. carb., Cayy5., Cinch., Merc, JSfatr. mior., Puis.). Pain like a heaviness which pressed upon a sore spot, in morning when lying on back, extending to shoulders. °Headache from ironing ; from washing perspiring face in cold water. Hair seems fatty in morning and hands become fatty while combing it. Scalp sensitive towards evening. Eyes. — Severe burning and lachrymation of right eye (Ars.). Swelling of right upper lid, with agglutination. Twitching drawing together in left upper lid, with heaviness. Every object appears covered with rainbow colors, followed by photophobia. Very sensitive pressive intermittent pains inleft eyeball, especially violent on moving the hall (Physos., Spig.), with feeling as if eye became smaller, and were retracted within the orbit. Ears. — Roaring in the ears. Nose.— Swelling of the nose, with very sore pain when touched (Alum., .Merc). Profuse coryza. Kosehleed {Aeon., Bell.), especially in morning when rising (Agar., Amhr., Calc. c. Cinch.). Face. — Hot, red, soft pufflness of the face; red, round, hot spot on malar hone. Heat in facewithredness and thirst. Pinching pressure in articular cavity of right jaw, more violent on motion. Twitching, externally in malar bone, extending to right temple, worse on touch. Painful press- ure under right cheek, better on pressure. Lower- lips cracked. Upper lip and nose swollen, red and hot {Bell., Merc. ) . Mouth. — Great dryness of mouth, lips and tongue (Aeon., Ars., Hyos., Kali nitr., Jfux m,.); tip of tongue moist (Merc). Drawing, sticking toothache while eating, extend- BRYONIA. 157 ing to muscles of neck ; aggravated bj warmth. Toothache relieved by cold luater (Bism., Coff., Clem.), aggravated by taking anything warm in the mouth (Calc. c, Merc, Puis.); aggravated hy lying on painless side; goes away if one lies on painful side. Jerking toothache ; when smoking (Ign.). Gums pain as if sore and raw, with painful loose teeth. Aphthse on tip of tongue ; something bitter rises into mouth, without eructations, with nausea. Dryness in mouth, better for a moment from drinking, then worse, so that the tongue sticks to the palate. Tongue thickly coated luhite {Ant. orud., Merc). Taste flat, insipid; sweetish {Merc); intensely hitter (Ars., Coloc, Cinch., J^ux v., Puis., Sulph.) ; pasty. Taste for food lost, bitter when not eating. Frequent drinhing of cold water relieves the hitter taste and the inclination to vomit. Soapy, frothy salivation. Throat.— Great dryness of throat {Bapt., Bell.). Stitches in throat when swallowing (Calc c. Bell.). Back of the throat seems swollen (Ci^/^a.). Tough mucus loosened by hawking. Stomach.— Too great appetite (Ferr., lodi., Lye). Desires things immediately, which when offered are refused (Cham., Bhod.). Excessive thirst (Bell., Bhus tox.) ; desire for- large quantities of water (Podo.; reverse Ars.). Great thirst with longing for wine (Cinch.) ; for coffee. Hiccough; after eating (Hyos., Ign.). Bitter eructations after eating (Cinch., Nux v.) ; also sourish. Nausea and vomiting from slightest motion ; in the morning on waking. Vomiting of solid food but not of drinks. Cutting in pit of stomach. Pain in stomach while eating. Contractive pain in stom- ach, better from drawing legs up against the abdomen (Coloc.) . Stomach distended and sensitive to pressure (Ars., Bell.). Pressure in stomach after eating, as froin a stone (Aeon., JEsc, Ars., JSTux v., Puis.), makes him fretful. Epigastric region painful to touch and pressure (Ars., Ant. crud., Bell., Lye), with anxiety; soreness in pit of stomach when coughing. Abdomen. — Tensive pains or transient stitches below false ribs, right side; especially sensitive on deep inspiration (Aeon., Chel., Cinch., Merc). Distension of abdomen and colic (Aloe, Coloc, Lye); after eating; heaviness in abdomen. 158 BKYONIA. Passage of offensive flatus {Aloe). Pain in abdomen as if diarrlKjea would ensue. Griping-pinchiDg colic, painful cut- tings, and digging pains relieved by diarrhoea {Coloc). Abdomen very sensitive and sore {k.^\^, Bell.). Twitching on left side, as if in muscles of abdominal walls, then stick- ing pain deep in left side of back. Stool and Anus. — Stools followed hy a huming in anus {Ars.. Canth., Sulph.). Burning in rectum with evacuation of stool and urine. Diarrhoea accompanied by confusion in head ; also constipation with same, and rush of blood to head from great straining. Stools offensive, pasty or bil- ious and acrid ; smelling liTce old cheese. Obstinate con- stipation, stools large, hard and dry {Calc. c.), as if burnt (Sulph.), with great effort {Msc). Urinary Organs.— ZJrw^e dark (Ars., Ant. tart.), almost broiun (Canst.), like beer (Coloc.) ; scanty and dark (Aeon.) ; red. Female Organs. — Stitching pain in ovaries on deep inspira- tion. Menses too early and too profuse (Ars., Calc. c, JYuM v.). °Suppressed, with bleeding of the nose (Carls., Ham., Puis., Sep.). Br-easts swollen, very tender, painful, red, worse on motion and deep inspiration. °Flow of milk suppressed, or scanty secretion. °Child does not like to take hold of the breast, but after mouth becomes moistened it nurses well. Respiratory Organs.— Tough mucus in trachea (Nux v.), loosened only after frequent hawking (Kali bi.). Coming into warm room from cold air excites a cough (Natr. carb., Verat. alb.). Voice rough and hoarse {Carb. v., Phos., Spong.). Hacking dry cough from upper part of trachea. Sensation of a vapor on going from a warm room into open air, causing cough, with feeling as if he could not' inspire air enough. Cough from irritation of mucus in trachea, after cough- ing ; pain, pressure and soreness in trachea, the pain worse while talking and smoking. Dry cough; as if coming from stomach {Sep.); with sticking pains under sternum; pre- ceded by crawling and tickling in pit of stomach. Cough from constant crawling upward in throat, followed by expectoration of mucus. BRYONIA. 159 Constriction of chest; must breathe deeply, but so doing- causes pain in chest. Stitches in sternum on coughing ; obliged to hold the chest luith the hand. Intense sticking pains or stitches in chest (Aeon., Kali c, Phos., Puis.) ; cannot hear to move or to draw adeephreath (Borax, Bell., Cimic, Merc, Phos., Sulph.). Sensation of heaviness beneath the sternum, extending toward the right shoulder, impeding respiration; deep inspiration difficult ; oppression of right side of chest, with very fine, extremely severe stitches in right axillary gland. Short hut violent stitches in right side of chest, so that they must hold the hreath in order not to cry out. Sharp pain in left infra-mammary region; worse during inspiration. Heart. — Pressive pain in praecordial region; stitches. Heart beats violently and rapidly. Pulse full, hard and rapid (Aeon.). Neck and Back. — Pain in nape of neck as after taking cold. Drawing and stiffness in muscles of right side of neck. Shooting stitches from the back through to the chest. Twitching and tearing pain in region of last dorsal verte- bra and sacrum ; at union of right ilium with sacrum, in evening. Pain in muscles of lumbar region, worse on lying outstretched, on walking, turning, or any motion ; better at rest with the body bent forward. Pain in small of back, making walking or turning difficult. Pain in small of back, as if bruised (Arn., Ars.), when lying on it. Limbs. — Weariness and heaviness in all the limhs ; xveah- ness ; stiffness. Joints red, swelling (Cimic, Puis.), stiffs, luith stitching pains from slightest motion. Tran- sient drawing and tension in almost all the limbs and joints ; paralj^tic pains. Stitches in the joints on motion and on touch. Upper Limbs. — Painful tension and pressure in right shoulder when at rest. Swelling of the right elbow joint, with stitches. Sensation in right elbow as if arm were broken, with paralytic pain, then drawing pain extending to shoulder joint. Tearing pains on inner surface of forearms, in a line from elbow to wrist. Pain in wrists, as if wrenched or sprained, on every motion (Aeon., Calc c, Eupat., Rhus 160 BRYONIA. tox,). Swellinp^ and sticking pains in finger joints (Colch,), worse on exertion and touch. Lower Limbs.— Legs so weak they will hardly hold him. Stitches in hips; in hip joint extending to knees. Great weariness in thighs; worse going up steps. Tensive pain- ful stiffness of the hnees. Feeling in right knee cap as if he had knelt too long. Pain and stitches in knees. Pinch- ing, tearing or bruised pains in calves. Tension in ankle on motion. Hot siuelling of the feet; of instep, ivith bruised pain on stretching out the feet (Ars., Puis.). Pains as if sprained in the feet ; always worse on motion. Tensive pain in feet in evening, with swelling. Sudden pain in ball of great toes. Generalities. — Unsteadiness of all parts of the body when walking, worse after rising from a seat and on beginning to walk, better from continued walking. Stitches in all joints on motion and on touch. Bruised suppurating pain in whole body when taken hold of (Arn.), especially in pit of stomach, worse mornings. Great weahness and exhaustion {Ars., Phos., Sec), worse from walhing ; in morning; on rising. Sitting up in ted causes nausea and fainting (Aeon.). Every spot in body painful to pressure. Drawing, rheumatic pains in various parts of the body (Coloc, Led., Puis.). °Dropsical swellings increase during the day; diminish during the night. Skin. — Yellow skin of the whole body, even of the face. Bed, rouncO hot spot on the cheeh over the malar hone. Red elevated rash, like eruptions, over the whole body {Bell., Bhus tox.). °Slow development of rash in eruptive fevers ; or sudden receding of rash, causing respiratory or menin- geal troubles or dropsy (Gels., Hell.). Sleep. — Frequent yawning the whole day. Much sleepiness during the day (Ant. tart.. Apis, Merc, Jfux m^., Nux v., Phos., Sep.). Sleeplessness and restless sleep; before mid- night. Dreams, vivid, frightful (Arn., Aur., Bell.) ; about business or household affairs. Starts in a fright before falling asleep (Agar., Ars., Bell., Hyos., Stram.). Fever. — °Intermittent ; chill commences on the lip and on tips of fingers and toes; great thirst during all stages. Dry, BKYONIA. 161 burning heat, internal, blood seems to burn in the veins , {Ars.). Chilliness; after midday nap, with confusion of the head ; in evening in bed ; all over in evenings, with gooseflesh, thirst, and with hot and red cheeks. Sweat in morning all over body when walking in cold air, after slightest exertion. Profuse, easily excited sweat, sour or oily sweat {Merc). Aggravation. — Mornings and evenings; from motion', from heat ; from warm food ; after eating ; while coughing. Amelioration. — In cold weather; in cool room; from cold food ; while sitting ; while lying, especially on painful side ; after a short rest in bed. Compare. — Aeon., Ant. crud., Ant. tart., Arn., Ars., Bapt.y Bell., Carbo. v., Chel., Colch., Cinch., lod.. Led., Ign., Lye, Merc, JStiiJo v., Puis., Phos., Rhus tooc.. Senega., Sulph., Verat. v. Bryonia follows well after Aeon., Nux v., Op., Rhus tox. Following Bryonia are frequently indicated Alum., Kali carb., Nux v., Phos., Puis., Rhus tox., Sulph. Antidotes. — Aeon., Alum., Cam-ph., Cham,., Clem., Coff., Ign., Mur. ac, Nux v.. Puis., Rhus tox.. Senega. Bryonia Antidotes.— Rhus tox., Chlorine. THERAPEUTICS. Bryonia is a useful remedy in headaches of a rheumatic or congestive character. They are always worse from motion, even moving the eyeballs causing an aggravation. They are most often located in the occiput, but may be frontal. Head- aches from gastric derangement ; from ironing, from washing perspiring face in cold water ; from suppressed eruption (menin- gitis). Very frequently the headaches aid in selecting Bryonia in intermittent and remittent types of fever, in which it is often useful, either rheumatic, gastric or bilious. It may also be use- ful in scarlet fever or measles when the eruption does not develop well or has been suppressed. In measles it is a standard remedy, particularly indicated when the eruption is delayed, and when there are pulmonary complications. Bryonia may be indicated in typhoid fever, when there is confusion of mind, irritability, delirium about business, great thirst for large quantities of water. According to Hering the symptom "they want to go home" strongly indicates Bryonia in the later stages 162 BRYONIA. of the disease. Bryonia is one of our most valuable remedies in the treatment of serous inflammations, especially of the pleura, in which it is probably oftener indicated than any other drug. Also in meningitis and synovitis. It may be indicated at the outset of the disease, but more often after the violent inflammatory symptoms have abated and exudation is about to occur. In all such cases Bryonia is indicated by the stitch- ing pains worse from motion, so eminently characteristic of the drug. It follows Aconite well after the symptoms indicating the latter have been subdued. The very common practice of alternating Aconite and Bryonia in all cases of acute pleurisy is unnecessary and unscientific. The same holds true in all other inflammations, especially those of the respii atory tract. In pneumonia and bronchitis, and sometimes in laryngitis, Bryonia is invaluable. In pneumonia, as in pleurisy, it is indi- cated early in the disease, but not until after the extreme high fever, restlessness, etc., have been subdued by Aconite or Verat. vir., and exudation is about to occur, the symptoms being less violent. There is a dry, rough cough, but as yet little expecto- ration, that being mucous in character. There is considerable soreness, and the patient feels better when lying on the affected side, and keeping perfectly quiet. Especially valuable in pleuro- pneumonia. Phosphorus often follows Bryonia in pneumonia. As has already been intimated, Bryonia is a valuable remedy in gastric derangement. The tongue is thickly coated white, dryness of mouth and lips, pain and sensitiveness in epigas- trium, bitter taste, nausea and vomiting. Gastric catarrh, dyspepsia, bilious conditions; soreness and pain over liver; heaviness; stitches; coated tongue; headache; bitter taste, etc. Hepatitis. Typhlitis. A valuable remedy in constipation, when the stools are large, hard and dry, as if burnt. Gastro- enteritis. Bryonia may be indicated in summer diarrhoea, brought on by getting overheated, or by the use of vegetable food or cold drinks. Bryonia vies with Hamamelis and Pulsa- tilla in vicarious menstruation, especially when nosebleed takes the place of the menses. Ovaritis with stitching pain. Suppres- sion of lochia ; of milk; In first stage of mammary abscess, breast swollen, very tender, red, hot, painful. Last, but per- haps most important of all, is the use of Bryonia in rheuma- tism, and rheumatic and arthritic inflammations in general. BUFO. 163 Rheumatism of the joints, especially of the large joints, the local inflammation intense, part swollen, hot, shining redness, better from warmth, worse from motion. Especially useful in muscular rheumatism in any locality. Muscles swollen, sore to touch, painful, worse on motion. Severe muscular pains in neck, back (lumbago), or any other part. Frequently indi- cated in pericarditis and endocarditis in the stage of exudation. Bryonia is said to be useful in general for complaints from exposure to heat of Are, and complaints when warm weather sets in after cold days. BUFO. Synonyryi. — Bufo Rana. Jfatural order. — Bufonidse. Com- Tnon name. — Toad. Preparation. — Triturations of the poison. GENERAL ANALYSIS AND THERAPEUTICS. Acts upon the cerebro-spinal sj^stem, affecting both the moral senses and the motor nerves. It serves to rouse the lowest passions, making man beastly. Causes a desire for in- toxicating drinks, and the victim seeks solitude that he may abandon himself to onanism. It also produces impotency, and, it is said, has been given by women to their husbands for that purpose. It also produces a condition simulating epilepsy, and has been successfully used in the treatment of that disease ; especially when the fits come on during coition, or are the result of onanism. Dr. Lippe says "epilepsy from fright." Epilepsy at the time of the menses. The aura appears to begin in the solar plexus, or in the uterine region. The attacks are preceded by an angry state of the mind ; talks incoherently, and becomes angry if not understood. Bufo has a decided and rapid influ- ence on the lymphatic system, a bluish swelling following the course of the lymphatics. This is apt to start from a wound. Bufo is indicated in malignant pustules, when the ulcer occurs on the mouth or cheeks and causes perforation. It has been used successfully in the treatment of indurations of the mam- mary gland, possibly of a cancerous nature. Has also been used in other cutaneous disorders, and in the beginning of soft- 164 CACTUS. ening of the brain. Most of tbe symptoms accredited to Bufo are from unreliable sources. Compare. — Agn. cast., Coni., Lach., Phos. CACTUS. SynonyTn. — Cactus Grandiflorus. Jfatural order. — Cac- tacese. Common Jtame. — Night blooming Cereus. Habitat. — A flowering plant, native of Mexico and the West Indies. Prejjaration. — Tincture from the fresh flowers and youngest twigs. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts especially upon the circular fibres of the heart and arteries, causing irritability, hypergesthesia, neuralgia, spasm, and palpitation of the heart. Through the pneumogastric nerve it acts upon the heart, lungs, and stomach, causing in the latter indigestion and excessive acidity, and, in the lungs, con- striction and asthma. It also produces an intermittent fever with regular periodicity (Cedron). Its chief characteristic is a constrictive sensation in various parts of the body, especially in the region of the heart, as if bound with an iron hoop. OHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind.— Sadness, taciturnity, hypochondriasis; irresistible in- clination to weep (Lye, Natr., Nux m., Plat., Puis.). Fear of death (Aeon.), belief that his disease is incurable. Love of solitude. Head. — Heavy pressing in the head as if a great weight lay on the vertex (Aloe); better from pressure; worse from noise and light (Bell.). Intense pulsating pain, with pain in right side of head. Nose.— Profuse nosebleed {Bell., Ham.). Face.— Paleness of the face. °Chronic prosopalgia, right side, worse from slightest motion. Stomach.— Copious vomiting of blood. Acrid sour fluid, rising into the throat and mouth, making food taste acid. Burn- ing; pulsating in stomach. Heaviness. Gastro-enteritis. Stool and Anus.— Copious hsemorrhage from the bowels. Sen- CACTUS. 165 sation of great weight and urging to evacuate a great quantity, but nothing passes. Urinary Organs. — Frequent urging; at night, with a copious flow each time; constant irritation in urethra. Urine red- dish, turbid, straw-colored. °H8ematuria ; urination pre- vented by clots. Female Organs. — Menses too early. Very painful menstrua- tion (Cham., Cimic, Cupr., Nux v.). Scanty menstruation, ceasing while lying. Respiratory Organs. — Spasmodic cough, with copious mucous expectoration. Oppression of breathing in going up stairs (Aeon., Amm. carb., Ars., Calc. c). Catarrhal cough with much viscid expectoration. Much rattling of mucus {Ant. tart., Ipec). Cannot lie in a horizontal position. Difficulty of breathing ; continued oppression and uneasiness as if the chest were constricted {Ars., Lil. tig., Phos.) with an iron band. Oppressed breathing from a weight on chest. Periodical suffocation, with fainting, and sweat on face and loss of pulse (Dig.) . Congestion of the chest which prevents lying doiun; palpitation ; constriction as from atight cord around false rihs. Sensation of a great constriction in middle of sternum, as if the parts were compressed hy iron pinchers, with oppression of breathing ; worse on motion. Heart and Pulse. — Sensation of constriction in the heart, as if an iron hand prevented its normal movement (Arn.). Very acute pains and stitches in the heart (Aeon., Arn., Bry..^ Kali carb.., Natr. mur.). Palpitation of the heart (Aeon., Ars., Spig., Sulph.), day and night, worse when walking, and at night, when lying on left side. Palpitation in small irregular beats, from slightest excitement or deep thought, with necessity for deep inspiration. Pains in apex of heart, shooting down left arm to ends of fingers ; feeble pulse; dyspnoea. Endocardial murmurs; excessive impulse; increased prsecordial dullness; enlarged ventricle. Irregu- larity of the heart's action; at times frequent, at others slow. Fever. — Coldness in back, and icy-cold hands. Quotidian inter- mittent fever, which occurs every day at same hour (Ced- ron), for many successive days. 166 CALADIUM. Compare. — Aeon., Camph., Cedron, Convallaria, Digit., Spig., Magnol. Antidotes.— Aeon., Camph., Cinch. THERAPEUTICS. Cactus has been used chiefly in cardiac diseases, both acute and chronic. Acute inflammation of the heart, endocardium and pericardium. Hypertrophy. Functional disorders of the heart. Cardiac dropsy. Angina pectoris. Cardiac asthma. Cactus may be useful in any cardiac trouble where its symptoms are found, especially the characteristic of an iron band constrict- ing the heart and preventing its normal movement, also op- pression of breathing, etc. Cactus is an excellent remedy in bronchitis, asthma, and other pulmonary troubles where its characteristic constriction, oppressed breathing, etc., are present. Haemorrhage of the lungs with violent action of the heart and oppressed respiration. Congestion of the chest. Also useful in haemorrhages of the bowels or bladder, especiaUy with heart symptoms. Diaphragmitis, with constriction about false ribs, as if tied with a cord. Cactus may be useful either in menorrhagia, amenorrhoea, or dysmenorrhoea, the symptoms agreeing, and especially if there be any characteristic cardiac disturbance. Neuralgic and congestive headaches ; intermittent. Intermittent fever; paroxysms every day at the same hour; coldness predominates; anguish; oppressed breathing; even convulsions and intestinal haemorrhage. CALADIUM. SynonyTvh. — Caladium Seguinum. J^atural order. — Araceae. CorrumoTb jiames. — Dumb Cane. Poisonous American Arum. Habitat. — A plant native of South America. Preparation. — Tincture from the fresh root. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Through the cerebro-spinal system Caladium exerts its chief action upon the generative organs, w^here it causes hyper- CALADIUM. 167 sesthesia, irritation and non-inflammatory swellings. It also affects the mucous membranes, especially of the alimentary tract, the skin and the muscular tissues. OHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Forgetfulness (Anac, Ambr.,Lach., Nux v.). Very irri- table and depressed. Confused, cannot concentrate the mind. Head. — Dull, frontal headache. Vertigo with nausea, mornings. Fullness in head, as if too much blood were there. Throb- bing pain in the head (Bell.). Headache with nausea (Ipec, Iris, Sang.). DuUpressive or sharp cutting pain in temples. Numbness in side of head. Eyes. — Eyelids red and inflamed, with smarting and burning. Dull, pressive aching in portion of eyeballs (Aloe, Cimic). Eyeballs sore and sensitive to pressure. Ears. — Sensitive to noise (Bell.). Nose. — Fluent or stopped coryza. Face. — Sensation as if a spider web or plaster were sticking here and there (Alum., Baryt. carb., Brom., Graph.). Mouth. — Tongue coated white {Ant. cruel., Bry., Merc). Dark brown streak in center of tongue (Bapt.). Tongue swollen. Toothache, teeth feel elongated. Throat. — Dryness and roughness in the throat ; without thirst ; with aversion to cold water. Stomach. — Nausea, especially in the morning on rising (Nux v., Petrol., Puis.). Acid eructations. Frequent eructations of very little wind, as if the stomach were full of dry food. Pressing, gnawing, or weak gone sensation in stomach {Hy- dras., Ign., Sep.). Abdomen. — Spasmodic cutting pain in stomach and abdomen {Coloc). Abdomen swollen and tender to touch {Bell.). Stool.— Soft, pasty, clay-colored stools, passed with difficulty. Stool containing hard lumps. Very scanty, pasty stool. Urging to stool on rising in the morning. Burning in the anus after stool. Male Organs. — Sexual desire with relaxed penis (Agn., Agar., Arg., Coni.), or painful erections without desire. Impo- tence with mental depression. Frequent nocturnal emis- sions (Cinch., Phos. ac). Organs swollen and puffy. 168 CALADIUM. Female Organs. — Pruritus of vulva and vagina (Arg. nit., Graph.) Cramp-like pains in uterus after midnight. Bespiratory Organs.— Sharp stitches in right side of chest {Bmj., Kali carb.). Larynx and trachea seem constricted; impedes deep breathing. The irritation to cough seems to originate above the larynx. Oppression of breathing, can- not get his breath easily. Kash on the chest, itching in- tensely with oppression of breath, as if mucus would cause suifocation. Back. — Eheumatic pain in back ; can hardly turn in bed (Rhus tox.). Limbs. — Limbs feel tired and weak. Rheumatic pains in the limbs. Trembling of the limbs. Generalities. — Weariness over the whole body (Cinch.). Ex- tremely nervous (Cimic, Coff.). Great throbbing all through the body (Glon.', Puis.). Sleep. — Drowsy and sleepy. Sleepless or unrefreshing sleep. Groans and moans anxiously in sleep. Dreams ; frightful. Skin. — The skin has a rough dry feeling. Violent itching on various parts (Sulph.) Fever. — Chilly even in a warm room. Feverish^ skin hot and dry. Face, head and hands hot; legs and feet cold. Aggravation. — Most symptoms worse indoors; from 3 or 4 P.M. till midnight. Amelioration. — Better in the open air and from motion (Puis.) ; from sweat; from short sleep during the day. Conditions. — Lax, phlegmatic temperament. Compare.— Agn., Arum, Graph., Hep. s., Helon., Phos. ac. Puis., Rhus tox., Sulph. Antidotes. — Caps. Juice of sugar cane. Caladium Antidotes.— Nitric acid. THERAPEUTIC S. Caladium has not been extensively used except, perhaps, in pruritus of the vulva and vagina, in which it has proved an excellent remedy. Also in little girls from worms getting into vagina. Nj-mphomania. It is also probably a valuable remedy for inflammation of mucous membranes character- ized by dryness. Catarrhal asthma. Has been recommended for impotence and complaints from loss of fluids (Cinch.), espe- CALCAREA CARBONICA. 169 daily .sexual excesses, when emissions occur without lascivious dreams or sexual excitement or erection. Rheumatic troubles ; dropsical swellings. CALCAREA CARBONICA. Synonym. — Calcarea Ostrearum Hahnemanniani. Frepcu- ra-^iow..— Triturations of the pure white middle layer of the oyster shell. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Calcarea acts primarily upon the vegetative system, excit- ing moderately the functions of secretion and absorption, resulting in a condition of irritation which extends to all the organs and systems of the body, impairing their nutrition, favoring a deposit of the earthy salts, and altering profoundly the composition of the blood. In thus affecting the processes of assimilation Calcarea resembles, in its effects upon the sys- tem, the three great disorders of nutrition, scrofula, tubercu- losis, and rachitis, and it is in the treatment of these condi- tions, in their various forms of manifestation, that we find its chief sphere of usefulness. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Great anxiety, with -palpitation of the heart (Aeon., Cact., Spig.). Despondent and melancholy (Ign., Puis,, Natr. mur.). Disinclination for every kind of work. Fright- ened apprehensive mood, as of some future misfortune or impending evil (Aeon., Alum., Anac). Feared she would lose her reason, or that people would observe her con- fusion of mind (Cimic). Shuddering and dread as evening draws near (Aeon., Ars., Merc, Rhus tox.). Head. — Vertigo when walking in the open air (Agar., Glon., Led., Sep., Siilph.), especially on suddenly turning the head (Sang.) ; when ascending a height, or looking upward (Cupr., Sang.), as if everything were turning around. Bush of hlood to the head, with heat in it, and with redness and puffiness of the face (Bell., Op.). Constant feeling of full- ness in the head ; confusion. Heat in head, with orgasm of 170 CALCAREA CARBONICA. blood. Icy coldness in and on the head (Laur.), also one- sided (Phos. Verat. alb.). Headache, as if a board lay upon the head. Heaviness in forehead ; worse when reading or writing. Painful pres- sure in forehead, extending down into nose (Aeon., Kali bi.). Stitches in head; evenings; left side. Frequent one-sided aching, always with empty eructations. °Large, open fontanelles; head large (Calc. phos., Sil.). Itching of the scalp ; °children scratch their heads on being disturbed or awakened out of sleep. Falling off of the hair (Graph., Natr. mur., iMitr. ac, Phos., Sep.), especially on sides of head. Scabs on hairy scalp. Pimples on fore- head. Eyes. — Painful sensation, as if a small foreign body were in the eye (Aeon.); sensation of sand. Profuse lachrymation (Euphr., Merc); pupils dilated. Swelling and redness of the lids, with nightly agglutination {Mth., Lye, Merc, Puis., Sil., Sulph.) ; also in mornings, eyes watery. Itching in the margins of the lids (Carb. v., Sulph.). Twitching of upper lids. Burning or stitches in the inner canthi. Far sighted. Can see only one side of an object (Lye). Ears. — Swelling in front of left ear; painful to touch. Singing, roaring or crackling in the ears (Cinch., Sulph.). Crushing in ears when swallowing. Cracking in ears when chew- ing. Heat and pulsation in ears. Purulent discharge from ears (Hep. s., Graph., Lye). Eruption behind right ear, which becomes moist {Graph., Hep. s.). ^Polypus of the ear, bleeding easily. "Hardness of hearing ; also after sup- pression of intermittent fever by Quinine ; from working in water. Nose. — Intermittent. Swelling of the nose, especially at the root. Sore ulcerated nostrils (Alum., Aur., Graph., Kali bi., Nitr. ac, Puis.). Frequent sneezing without coryza, or with drycoryza. Stoppage in morning on rising. Fluent coryza, with headache. Dryness of the nose at night. Very offensive smell from the nose (Kreos.), as from bad eggs or gunpowder. Bleeding of the nose, especially in the morning (Agar., Ambr., Bry.). °Polypus of the nose (Mar. ver., Phos.). Face. — Face pale and hollow or bloated, with deep-seated eyes. CALCAKEA CARBONICA. 171 surrounded by blue rings (Cinch., Kali iod., Sec.) Face yel- low. Moist, itching, scurfy eruption on face, chiefly on cheeks and forehead (Ant. crud., Graph., Lye). Eruption on lips and mouth (Ant. crud., Graph., Lye). Swelling of the upper lip in the morning (Apis, Bell.). Painful sivell- ing of the submaxillary glands {Arum, Aur., Baryt. carb., Katr. carh., Rhus tooc., Sil.). Mouth. — Toothache caused hy a current of cold air, or hy drlnhing cold liquids (Ant. crud., Coca., Staph., Sulph.). Inclination to gnash the teeth, as in a chill. Difficult den- tition (Calc. phos.). Toothache after, menstruation. Bleeding of the gums; swelling. Tongue coated white (Ant. crud., Bry., Merc, JVux v.. Pals., Sulph.). Burning pain at tip of tongue (Calc. phos., Carb. an., Coloc), as from soreness ; worse from warm food or drink. Pain be- neath the tongue when swallowing. Sour taste in mouth (Cinch., Ign., Mag. carb., Nitr. ac), slimy, offensive. Throat, — Pain in throat, extending to the ears (Bell., Hep. s., Kalibi.). Stitches in the throat when swallowing (Bell., Bry.), Sensation as if the throat were contracted when swallowing. Spasmodic contraction of the pharynx and cesophagus {Bell., Hyos.). Stomach. — Ravenous hzinger in the inorning. Loss of appe- tite, but when he began to eat he relished it. Great thirst. Frequent eructations, tasting of the food {Ant. crud., Cinch., Carb. an., Graph., Phos., Puis.) ; of tasteless fluid. Nausea in the morning {JYux v., Puis.), with qualmishness and shuddering, with blackness before the eyes. Nausea, with a flow of sour water from the mouth. Nausea caused by drinking milk. Sour vomiting ; "especially during den- tition {ASth.). Pit of stort^ach szuollen, lihe a saucer turned bottom up. Burning in stomach, extending up into throat (Ars.), after every meal. Pain in epigastric region on touch. Warm streaming of blood from pit of stomach into head. Pressure in stomach, as if a lump were in it Ars., Bry.) ; after eating. Severe pressure in pit of stomach. Abdomen. — Tight clothes about the hypochondria are unen- durable (Carb. v., Graph., Lach.). A feeling as if laced be- low the hypochondria, with trembling and throbbing in 172 CALCAREA CARBONICA. the epigastric region. Pressure in hepatic region with every step. Stitches in the hepatic region during or after stooping. Abclortven hard and very much distended {Ars., Baryt. c). Frequent severe cramps in the intestinal canal, especially in the evening and night, with coldness in the thighs. Drawn pain in posterior part, extending towards back ; in right hypochondrium extending towards symphysis pubis. Tensive pain in abdomen. Incarcerated flatulence (Aur., Carb. v., Lye. ; rumbling. ^Mesenteric glands swollen and hard in children. °Relieves pain attend- ing the passage of biliary calculi. Swelling and painful- ness of the inguinal glands {Clem.). Painful pressure in lower abdomen ; on physical exertion. Stool and. Anus. — Swollen haemorrhoids protrude and cause pain during stool (Aloe, Lach., Mur. ac. Puis.). Discharge of blood from the rectum. Feeling of heaviness in lower portion of rectum (Aloe). Cramp in the rectum the whole - forenoon; a griping and stitching, with great anxiety; was not able to sit, but obliged to walk about. Burning in rec- tum and anus (Ars., Canth., Iris). Crawling as from pin worms in rectum. Stool frequent; first hard, then pasty, then liquid; undigested (Ant. crud., Cinch., Podo.) ; offen- sive, like bad eggs (Ascl. t., Cham.) ; white; sour. °Stools look like lumps of chalk, in children during dentition. "Tendency to diarrhoea and acid stomach, and prolapsus recti; precursory of tuberculosis of the lungs. Constipa- tion; stools large and hard {Bry., Sulph.). Urinary Organs. — Very dark-colored urine, without sediment ; offensive (Kreos., Sulph.) ; dark-brown, with white sediment (Canth., Colch.) ; sour smelling at night. Frequent urina- tion ; also at night. Burning in urethra during urination. Male Organs. — Inflammation of the prepuce, frsenum, and ori- flce of the urethra, with a little yellow pus beneath frgenum and glans. Excessive sexual desire, with retarded erection, and too early emission of semen during coitus (Natr. carb.) ; followed by excessive weakness. Frequent emis- sions at night which debilitate both body and mind. Female Organs. — Menses too early; last too long; too pro- fuse (Ambr., Amm. carb., Coccus, Jfujc v.). Leucorrhoea lihe milh (Coni., Lye, Puis., Sep., Sulph. ac), with itching CALCAREA CARBONICA. 173 and burning. Mammary glands pain as if suppurating (Merc, Phyt., Sil.), especially when touched. Inflammation and swelling of genitals. Respiratory Organs. — Whistling in the larynx after lying down evenings. Painless hoarseness, mornings {Caust., Carh. v.). Frequent need to breathe deeply. Shortness of hreath on going up the slightest ascent (Aeon., Amm. carb., Ascl. t., Ars., Cact.). Cough; tickling as from a feather in the throat; at night] dry, especially at night {Syos.); first with dry, afterward profuse salty expectoration (Ambr., Carb. v.. Lye., Phos. Stan., Sep.), with pain as if something had been torn loose from the larynx; in the morning, with yellowish expectoration {Puis.). Cough caused by a sensation of a plug, which moved up and down the throat. Cough excited by inspiration ; by eating. Expectoration of mucus, ivith a siueetish taste {Stan.) ; of blood, with a rough, sore sen- sation in chest. Stitches in chest in evening on breathing. Raw pain in chest during cough. Chest painfully sensitive to touch, and on inspiration. Tightness and oppression of the chest, as if filled too full with blood; anxiety. Cutting in chest on inspiration. Sore pain in chest on inspiration. Heart. — Palpitation of the heart with anxiety (Aeon., Cact., Spig.). Neck and. Back. — Hard swelling of the cervical glands {Baryt. c, Carb. v., lodi.). Painless swelling of the glands in the neck, at the margin of the hair. The glands of the neck pain. Pain in neck on turning the head, as if a tumor would protrude there. Pains in loins and back, as if sprained, could scarcely rise from a seat {Rhus tox.). Draw- ing pain between the shoulders. Pressure between shoulders which on motion impedes respiration. Limbs. — Weakness and weariness of all the limbs. Paralytic bruised pain in the long bones and in the joints of the limbs; also in the small of the back on motion. Upper Limbs. — The arms feel bruised on moving them, or tak- ing hold of them. The arm goes to sleep if he lies on it, with pains. Cramps in the whole of one or the other arm. Weakness and a kind of paralysis of the left arm. Pain as 174= l^ALCAREA CARBONICA. from a sprain in right wrist, or as if something had been wrenched or dislocated (Aeon., Bry., Eupat., Rhus tox.). Pain in joints as if swollen on waking in morning, without swelling. Trembling of the hands; finger joints much swollen. Sweating of the palms. Lower Limbs. — Painful weariness of the lower limbs, especially of the thighs and feet, as after a long walk (Arg, nit.. Cinch., Nit. ac). Weakness and trembling in the legs after coition (Cinch., Phos. ac). Swelling of the knees; stitches, tearing. Stitches in patella on stepping when beginning to walk. Cramps in the legs (Camph.) ; in calves at night (Aeon., Camph., Nux v., Sil., Sulph.) ; in hollow of knee when stretching out legs ; in the soles ; in the toes. Legs go to sleep in the evening when sitting. Burning in the soles {Sulph.). Feet feel cold and damp ; sweating of the feet (Sep., Sil.). Generalities. — Twitching of the muscles (Ign., Stram.). Tremb- ling of the body. Great weariness; not able to walk. Easily strained; cannot lift anything (Rhus tox.). Weak and sick for several days after coition. Great exhaustion in the morning ; unable to go up stairs, or becomes much exhausted from it. Inclination to stretch in the morning. Takes cold very easily {Kali carb., Natr. ars., Phos., Sil.). Epileptic attachs (Ars., Bell.). Tendency in children and young people to grow very fat. Great heaviness of the body. °Children cannot walk ; they have no disposition to do so and will not put their feet down. Skin. — Elevated red stripes on the tibia, with severe itching and burning after rubbing. Unhealthy, ulcerative skin; even small wounds suppurate {Graph., Hep. s., Sulph.). Warts here and there. Nettle rash, mostly disappearing in cold air. Itching over various parts. Scurfy pimples on border of red portion of lower lip. Moist, scurfy eruptions ( Graph., Hep. s., Lye, Merc). Sleep. — Sleepiness and weariness during the day. Difficult to arouse on waking, mornings. Persistent sleeplessness; so soon as he closes his eyes he sees figures. Late falling asleep in the evening. Frightful, anxious dreams (Arn., Bell., Bry.). Fever. — Excessive internal chilliness. Chill and heat alternat- CALCAREA CARBONICA. 175 ing (Coccul., Merc.) ; forenoons. Frequent flushes of heat, especially at night (Lach.). Internal heat at night, espe- cially in hands and feet; in morning; dry tongue. Pro- fuse sweat from the slightest exertion (Anibra, Chin. s., Kali nit., Merc, Phos., Sep., Sil.). Profuse sweat in the mornings {ChAn. s., J^itr. ac., Phos., Rhus tox.). Night sweat {Cinch., Mere., Phos.. Phos. ac, Sulph.) Aggravation.— Mornings, evenings or after midnight; from cold and cold air; on ascending a height; during and after coition; after eating; from exertion; from walking; from milk ; °near or during full moon. Chronic troubles, better every other day. Oonditions.— Fair, plump children; leuco-phlegmatic temper- ament. Excessively obese young people. Compare. — Arn., Ars., Baryt. c, Bell., Calc. phos., Cinch., Cupr., lodi., Graph., Lye, Kali c, Mag. c, Nitr. ac, Merc, Phos., Sepia, Sil., Sulph. Antidotes.— Camph., Nitr. ac, Nitr. sp. d., Nux v., Sulph. Oalcarea Antidotes.— Acet. ac, Bism., Cinch., Chin, s., Nitr. ac, Sulph. THERAPEUTICS. Calcarea carbonica is a tissue remedy and invaluable in the treatment of all conditions resulting from mal-nutrition. Espe- cially useful in scrofulous, tubercular and rachitic affections in general. Defective growth and development in children, both mental and physical ; especially of the osseous system ; open fontanelles ; slow dentition, and consequent troubles ; even con- vulsions ; hydrocephalus ; emaciation ; skin flabby, hanging in folds ; marasmus ; patient weak and sluggish. Diseases of the bones; curv^ature of the spine, especially in dorsal region ; child slow in learning to talk and walk. Tabes dorsalis. Chronic inflammation of the joints, swelling without inflammatory symptoms, worse from change of weather, especially damp ; white swelling and hip-joint disease after abscesses have formed. Diseases of the glands; enlargement and induration in Calcarea subjects, as already explained ; glandular suppuration and fis- tulous ulcers. Goitre. Valuable in polypus of the nose 6r ear. Scrofulous inflammations of the eyes and ears. Corneal inflam- mations, ulcers and opacities ; closure of lachrymal ducts ; as- 176 CALCAKEA CAEBONICA. thenopia. Chronic nasal and bronchial catarrh in scrofulous subjects. Tuberculosis; hoarseness, dyspnoea on ascending; purulent expectoration. Calcarea is often indicated for the dis- ordered nutrition, menstrual derangements, and general cachexia that so often indicate incipient phthisis; dry night cough; emaciation; weakness; sweats, etc. Abscesses in the lungs, with characteristic symptoms. Hectic fever. Diseases of the skin in scrofulous children, especially eczema of the scalp. Warts, rhagades, etc. In chronic rheumatism Calcarea may be indicated in the characteristic subject, after Rhus has failed, especially if caused by working in water. Allen gives special stress to the value of Calcarea in all affections caused by work- ing in water. Constitutional gout, gouty nodosities on fingers. Rheumatoid arthritis. Calcarea may be useful in some nervous diseases in scrofulous subjects, especially epilepsy, particularly if it results from the constitutional cachexia or brought about by fright or suppression of some chronic eruption. Chorea; in- somnia; melancholia. Enlarged liver in scrofulous subjects; jaundice; passage of gall-stones. Enlarged mesenteric glands. Calcarea is of great service in stomach and bowel troubles, espe- cially of teething children. In such, milk disagrees, may be vomited in curds, or pass the bowels in the same manner. Sour vomiting; sour or undigested stools; cholera infantum. Dys- pepsia, ravenous hunger, craving for eggs ; also for coal, chalk and other indigestible things ; bloated abdomen ; acid fermen- tation, everything sours, sour risings ; irregularity in menstru- ation, especially menorrhagia. Amenorrhoea in scrofulous girls, with symptoms pointing to tuberculosis. Leucorrhoea like milk. Excessive lactation, but milk poor in quality and gives no nourishment, in scrofulous or tubercular women. Calcarea is useful for the results of sexual excesses in the male ; impo- tence; sexual desire without erection; emissions imperfect or premature; weakness after coition. Hydrocele, especially in scrofulous children. CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA. I'^T CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA. Coimnon name. — Phosphate of Lime. Preparation. — Triturations of the precipitated phosphate of lime. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Affects exclusively the vegetative system, causing defective nutrition, imperfect cell development and consequent decay or destruction of tissue, especially in the osseous and glandular systems. OHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Children are peevish and fretful {Cham., Cina.). For- getful ; difficulty in performing intellectual operations. Head. — Crawling sensation runs over top of head, as if ice were lying on upper part of occiput (Verat. alb.) ; head hot, smarting of the roots of the hair. Delayed closure or re- opening of fontanelles(Calc. c). °Skull soft and thin; crack- ling noise like paper when pressed, mostly in occiput. °Headache of school girls, with diarrhoea. Eyes. — Light, particularly candle or gaslight, hurts the eyes. Ears. — Singing or other noises in the ears (Calc. c). Inner and outer ear swollen, red, sore, itching, hot. Excoriating dis- charge from ears. Nose. — Coryza, fluent in cool room (Puis.); stopped in warm air and out of doors. Bleeding of nose, afternoons. °Nasal polypi, large, pedunculated. Face. — Pain in face, particularly in upper jaw bone, from right to leffc; extends from other parts to face, or vice versa. Swollen upper hp {Bell., Calc. c, Psor.) ; painful, hard and burning. Mouth.— Ketarded dentition (Calc. c), with cold tumors and emaciation. Tip of tongue sore, burning (Calc. c, Carb. •an., Coloc, Kali carb.) ; little blisters on it. Bitter taste in the morning, with headache {Bry., Kux v., Carb. an., Puis., Sulph.). Throat.— Sore aching in the throat ; worse when swallowing. Stomach. — Unusual hunger at. 4 p.m.; infant wants to nurse 178 CALCAKEA PHOSPHORICA. all the time. With every attempt to eat he has bellyache. After dinner heartburn, and other gastric symptoms (Carb. an.). After belching, a burning in epigastrium. Empty, sinking sensation at the epigastrium {Ign.). Vomiting from hawking phlegm. Easy vomiting in children Burn- ing at the stomach and rising of water into the mouth. Stomach feels expanded. Abdomen. — Aching soreness and pain around the navel; re- lieved by passing foetid flatus. Burning in the abdomen (Aeon., Ars., Canth.). Cutting, pinching, sharp colic, fol- lowed by diarrhoea. Stool and Anus. — Very offensive diarrhoea (Ars.). Diarrhoea from juicy fruit or cider; during first dentition with much wind; from vexation; containing white points or flakes, like pus; scanty with much flatulence. Passage of offen- sive flatus. Sore feeling in anus; worse outside, with stitch- ing, burning and throbbing. Itching in the anus (Sulph.). °Fistula in ano, alternating with chest symptoms. Urinary Organs. — Violent pain in region of kidneys, when lift- ing and when blowing the nose. Large increase of urine with sensation of weakness. Male Organs. — Erection while riding in a carriage without desire. Shooting through the perineum into the penis. Swelling of the testicles; scrotum sore, oozing a fluid. Female Organs. — Weakness and distress in the region of the uterus; worse during passage of stool and urine; with uterine displacement. Pressure upward over mons veneris. Voluptuous feeling as if the parts were flllingupwith blood; feels pulse in all the parts, with increased sexual desire. Menses too early, blood bright, with girls; too late; blood dark, or flrst bright, then dark, in women. °Child refuses the breast, the milk tastes saltish. Leucorrhoea like white of an egg (Amm. mur.. Borax), worse mornings. Mammae sore to the touch (Bry.). Respiratory Organs.— Hoarseness {Aeon., Hep. s., Fhos.). Must hawk or hem to clear the voice. Involuntary sigh- ing {Ign., Sec). Breathing more frequent, short and diffi- cult. °Cough during difficult dentition. Contraction of chest, and difficult breathing, evening till 10 p.m. ; better lying down ; worse when getting up. CALCAKEA PHOSPHOEICA. 179 Neck and Back. — RheuTnatic pain and stiffness of the neoh (Rhus.), with dullness of the head; from slight draught of air. Cramp-like pain in neck, first one side, then the other. Backache and uterine pains (Cimic, Puis.). Sore- ness in sacro-iliac symphysis, as if separated or broken. Throbbing or jerking pains below scapula. Limbs. — Pains flying about in all parts of rump and limbs, after getting wet in the rain {Rhus tojc.). Aching in all the limbs, with weariness. Upper Limbs. — Rheumatic pain in shoulder and arm. Pains as if ulcerated around the finger nails, especially of right hand. Lower Limbs. — Lower limbs fall asleep ; feel restless ; anxious ; has to move them. Legs tired, weak, restless, crawling, tingling. Pains above the knee. Cramp-like pain in calves (Aeon., Calc. c, Nux v.), when walking. Generalities. — Weariness when going up stairs; wants to sit down; hates to get up. On every little cold she is much worse. Sensation mostly on small spots. "Children do not learn to walk, or lose the ability (Sil.) ; lose flesh. Pains along sutures or at symphysis. Flabby, shrunken, ema- ciated children. Soreness of tendons when flexing or extending. Sleep. — Gaping, with irresistible drowsiness all day Jfuxm.). Cannot get awake in the early morning. Fever. — Frequent creeping shiverings. Copious night sweats, on single parts. Aggravation. — Mornings; evenings; from motion; artificial light; from cold; after eating; from juicy fruit; from change of weather, or from getting wet in rain. Amelioration. — After lying down. Conditions. — Girls at or near puberty ; during dentition ; espe- cially second dentition, old people. Compare. — Baryt. c, Berb., Calc. c., Fluor, ac., lodi., Nitr. ac, Phos.. Ruta, Sil., Sulph. THERAPEUTICS. The clinical range of Calcarea Phosphorica is very similar to that of Calcarea carbouica, though not so extensive. Like the latter it is a tissue remedy and is especially useful in defec- 180 CALCAREA PHOSPHORICA. tive nutrition, particularly in diseases of the bones and glands, especially in strumous tubercular and rachitic subjects. In such cases this drug' may be indicated when the patient fails to present th^e characteristic Calcarea carbonica individuality, fair, fat and flabby, but is thin, emaciated, and the skin is not so white, having more of a brown or yellow hue. The child grows slowly and does not learn to walk readily ; is stupid and slug- gish. The fontanelles are open, but the drug is more useful when they have reopened during the second dentition; the cranial bones are thin and brittle; curvature of the spine; neck thin and weak, so that it will not hold the head up ; emaciation ; at the same time the child always has more or less indigestion; vomiting of undigested food, especially milk ; colic after eating ; green mucous stools, etc. Chronic hydrocephalus; spina bifida ; tabes mesenterica ; promotes the development and heal- ing of bone, hence its value in non-union of fractures, especially in old people. Caries of the hip-joint and heel with offensive pus. According to Grauvogle, a woman who has scrofulous children, with a tendency to hydrocephalus, should be given Calc. phos. and Sulph., occasionally during pregnancy. The adult Calc. phos. patient is always very sensitive to damp, and worse at every damp change of weather. This may indicate the drug in chronic rheumatism, and assist in its selection in many other conditions. Pott's disease. Lumbar abscess. Useful in the disorders of the female functions, when other characteristics of the drug are present; menorrhagia; dysmenorrhoea ; leucor- rhcea; uterine displacements. Chronic dry cough, with night sweats; incipient phthisis; cough during difficult dentition, better on lying down, worse when sitting up. The action on bhe skin is not characteristic, yet the drug is recommended for fistulous ulcers on ankles ; varicose veins. A valuable remedy for school girls at or near puberty, especially for their head- aches. They are usually anaemic and are developing a chlorotic condition, and are nervous and restless. Yertigo*of old people, Farrington {Clinical Materia Medica, page 629) gives the fol- lowing excellent clinical differentiation between Calc. carb. and Calc. phos. : " Calc. ost. has an enlarged abdomen ; Calc. phos. has flabby abdomen, from the admixture of Phosphorous with the lime. In cholera infantum Calc. ost. has craving for eggs; Calc. phos. for salt or smoked meats. The Ca1c» CAMPHOEA. 181 ost. stools are sometimes green, but generally watery, white, and mixed with curds. The Calc. phos. diarrhoea has green, slimy or hot, watery stools; accompanied by foetid flatus. Calc. ost. has particularly the anterior fontanelles remaining open ; Calc. phos. has both anterior and posterior fontanelles open." CAMPHORA. Synonym.— Lsiurus Camphora. JVatural order. — Lau- racese. Coimnon name. — Camphor. Habitat. — The Camphor tree is found principally in Central China, Japanese Islands and the Island of Formosa. Preparation.— '^v^Q.tViYQ made by dis- solving one part of camphor gum in nine parts of Alcohol. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts powerfully upon the cerebro-spinal system, depressing both the motor and intellectual centers, causing a general prostration of the system, giddiness and cerebral oppression. Its pathogenesis also shows convulsions, hysterical and epilepti- form, delirium, and other nervous systems. The mucous tissues are involved in a catarrhal irritation, giving rise to coryza and diarrhoea, though the primary effects of camphor upon the mucous lining of the stomach and bowels a.re manifested by extreme coldness and torpor of these parts, and a similar con- dition, also, is found upon the skin, the body being ice cold, the system in profound collapse and the pulse feeble. The genito-urinary system is involved, the genital organs becoming cold and relaxed ; and in the urinary tract a condition of strangury is established. The action of camphor is rapid and intense, though comparatively evanescent. Its chief sphere of usefulness is in the treatment of choleric conditions, and the effects of cold. OHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Great anxiety and extreme restlessness {Aeon., Ars., Rhus. tox.). IjOss of consciousness (Ars., Bell., Op.). Afraid to be alone, especially at night in the dark. Inde- scribable wretchedness. Agitation. Haste. 182 CAMPHORA. Head. — Vertigo and heaviness of the head, especially on stoop- ing (Aeon., Bell., Puis., Sulph.). Headache as from con- striction of the brain. Dull headache above the frontal bone, with nausea. Contraction, as if laced together, in the cerebellum and glabella, with coldness all over. Throbbing in* the cerebellum (Glon,, Bry.). Eyes. — Eyes fixed, staring, distorted {Bell., Hyos., Stram.) ; hollow ; pupils dilated. Sensation as if all objects were too bright and glittering. Ears. — Red ulcer in left external meatus, with sticking on press- ure. Lobules of ear red. Nose. — Fluent coryza, on sudden change of weather. Sneezing. Nose stopped. Air in room seems cooler to nose when walking. Face. — Face pale, livid, haggard; pale and anocious (Ars., Plumb.); distorted; bluish cold (Verat. alb.); red. Mouth. — Tongue cold (Cupr., Naja, Verat. alb.). Speech fee- ble, broken, hoarse. Teeth seem too long, with toothache which seemed to originate from swollen submaxillary gland. Stomach. — Increased taste of all food. Eructations after eat- ing. Burning in pharynx and stomach. (Ars., Canth.). Coldness in the stomach. (Colch.). Pressive pain in pit of stomach. Abdomen. — Aching in anterior part of liver. Constrictive pain below the short ribs, extending to the lumbar verte- brae. Coldness in the upper and lower abdomen, followed by burning heat therein. Stool. — °CoHc and diarrhoea from cold (Coloc, Dulc). °Ab- sence of discharges; cholera {Ars., Cupr., Verat. alh.). Constipation from inactivity of the rectum (Alum.). Urinary Organs. — Diminished urination. Retention of urine with full bladder (Aeon., Hyos., Verat. alb.); strangury. Burning urine (Aeon., Apis, Ars., Canth.). Scanty. Male Organs. — Absence of sexual desire; testicles relaxed (Agn., Arg. nit., Coni., Sulph.). Impotence (Agn., Phos. ac). Female Organs. — Increased sexzial desire. Respiratory Organs. — Mucus in the air-passages {Ant. tart., Ipec.). Almost complete arrest of breathing. Suffocative dyspnoea, as if from pressure at pit of stomach. Short CAMPHORA. 183 cough from scraping in the throat. Dry, hacking cough, stitches in left chest when walking. Heart and Pulse. — Great prcecordial anxiety and distress {Aeon., Ars.) ; sensation of severe coldness and irresistible sleepiness. Palpitation. Pulse very weak, scarcely per- ceptible (Aeon., Ars.). Back. — Drawing stitches through and between scapulae, on moving the arm, extending into chest. Difficulty of motion. Numbness, tingling, coldness. Coldness of the limbs (Ars., Cupr., Verat. alb.) and cramps of the calves (Aeon., Calc. c, Nitr, ac, Nux v., Sil., Salph.). Cold arms, hands and feet. Upper Limbs. — Pressure in right elbow, worse when leaning upon it, which causes it to extend into the hand. Hands pale. Fingers bluish. Lower Limbs.— Staggering as if drunk. Cracking and creak- ing in hip-joints, in knees and ankles. Drawing bruised pain after walking in right thigh and on inner side near and below patella; he fears that the leg will bend forward sud- denly. Drawing in muscles of left calf when sitting, extend- ing into foot. Tearing cramp in dorsum of foot ; extending along outer side of calf to thigh; worse on motion. Generalities. — Convulsive circular motion (rotation of arms). Suhsultus tendinum. General discomfort. Restlessness. Easily startled when awake, and then feels throbbing and palpitation. Great prostration. Sudden and great sink- ing of strength {Ars., Sec). Icy coldness of the whole body {Tabac). Feeling as if a cold wind were blowing over the body. Epileptic and other convulsions (Ars., Bell., Calc. c, Cic, Stram.). Want of bodily irritability ; insensible to touch. Cold, clammy, exhausting sweat {Ars., Tereb.). Cramps in inner and outer parts. Aggravation.— At night; in the dark; from motion; from cold or cold air. Amelioration. — In open air. From profuse sweat. Pains dis- appear when thinking of them (Reverse, Baryt. c. Ox. ac). Conditions. — Irritable; weakly; blondes most affected. Scrofu- lous children most sensitive to camphor. Compare. — Aeon., Ars., Bell., Canth., Ci67?r.,Coccul., Carb. v., Hyos., Op., Tereb., Secale c, Stram., Verat. alb. 184 CAMPHORA. Antidotes.— Op., Nitr. sp. d. Camphor Antidotes.— Canth., Cupr., Squilla, and most vege- table poisons. Tea, coifee and lemonade do not interfere with action of Camphor. (C. Hg.) THERAPEUTICS. Camphor is chiefly used in cholera and choleraic conditions in general. In Asiatic cholera it is indicated when the dis- charges are scanty, or suddenly suppressed with icy coldness of the body and collapse. It is also useful at the onset of the disease before the characteristic choleraic discharges are estab- lished, the immediate prostration being very marked, the body cold, the voice husky. The mother tincture should be given a few drops on sugar or in water every few" minutes until reaction takes place. According to Allen, Camphor is not to be given if there is perspiration, or should be stopped as soon as that occurs. Cholera infantum, attacks sudden, great prostration, vomiting, diarrhoea, coldness. Cholera morbus, or colic, with prostration and coldness. Camphor will often break up a cold if given at once during the chilly stages with sneezing. Often a palliative in cough and hay fever. It may also be useful in asthma, dry cough, congestion of the lungs, emphysema, etc., other sym- toms agreeing. It is also useful in delirium, mania, convul- sions and inflammation of internal parts when there is great coldness and extreme prostration. Especially when troubles are caused by suppression of measles or other eruptions in children. Camphor is the remedy in sudden and rapid prostration with tendenc^^ to collapse from shock or other causes. Excessive strangury, retention of urine occurring in cholera, from suppressed eruption, suppressed gonorrheal dis- charges, cold, or poisoning by cantharis, etc. May also be use- ful in many other conditions when prostration, coldness and collapse are the chief indications. Camphor is an antidote to drastic vegetable poisons. Also tobacco, mushrooms, etc. Bad effects of poisonous insects. CANNABIS INDICA. 185 CANNABIS INDICA. Jfatural order. — Urticaceae. Cormnon names. — Hashish. Indian Hemp. Habitat. — A plant native of India, botanically the same as the Cannabis sativa, but possessing very different medical properties. Preparation. — Tincture from the dried herb-tops. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Cannabis Indica acts as a powerful excitant of the nervous system, perverting the functions of the brain, and increasing both intellectual and motor activity. For this reason, in India, it is used as an intoxicating exhilarant. Its action depends largely upon the temperament of the individual in whom it is employed, varying from a mild exhilaration, and happy reverie in some, to a most intense and highly exalted ecstasy in those most susceptible to its influences ; in such, all sensations, per- ceptions and conceptions being exaggerated to the utmost de- gree. "Distances seem infinite and time endless; pleasure is paradise itself, and any painful thought or feeling plunges at once into the depths of misery." As the action varies in intens- ity, so also does it to some extent in character, according to the natural disposition of the person, the existing state of mind, and the quantity of the drug employed ; the exhilaration and activity sometimes g-iving place to sadness, depression and weakness; and those possessing evil and malignant disposi- tions sometimes become extremely vicious and violent. In short those faculties most active in health are most powerfully affected by the drug. Convulsions are sometimes produced. Its special effects may be better understood from a detailed study of the symptoms which arise. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Exaltation of spirit, with excessive loquacity {Hyos., Lach., Stram.). Full of fun and mischief, and laughs iimiioderately . Hallucinations and imaginations in- numerahle (Absinth., Hyos., Stram.). Imagines that he 186 CANNABIS INDICA. hears music, shuts his eyes and is lost in delicious thought. Imagined that he was gradually swelling. Kidic- ulous speculative ideas. Anguish, accompanied by great oppression ; better in the open air. Constant fear of becoming insane (Calc. c, Merc). Exaggeration of duration of time and extent of space; seconds seem ages, a few rods an immense dis- tance. Horror of darkness. Fear of approaching death {Aeon., Ars.). Inability to recall any thought or event, on account of different thoughts crowding on his brain. Yery absent-minded {Apis). Fixed ideas. Every few minutes he would lose himself, and then wahe up, as it were, to those around him. Clairvoyance. ^Delirium tremens; trembhng; hallucinations; tendency to become furious ; nausea ; unquenchable thirst. Head. — Vertigo; on rising; with stunning pain in back part of head, and he falls. Frequent involuntary shahing of the head. Heavy pressure on the brain,, forcing him to stoop. Violent shochs pass through the brain. Dull, drawing pain in forehead, especially over the eyes. Throb- bing, aching pain in forehead. Jerking in the right side of forehead, toward the interior and back part of head. Ach- ing in both temples, most severe in the right. Dull stitch- ing in the right temple. Pain in the whole side of the head. Head feels heavy, loses consciousness and falls. Eyes. — Fixed gaze. Visual clairvoyance. Jerking at the outer angle of the eye and eyelid. Injections of vessels of conjunctiva of both eyes (Aeon.). Letters run together ivhen reading. Twinkling, trembling and glimmering before the eyes. Ears. — Aching in both ears. Throbbing and fullness in both ears. Ringing and buzzing in the ears. Noise in the ears, like boiling water. Periodical singing in the ears dur- ing a dreamy spell, ceasing when he came to himself. Face. — Wearied exhausted appearance. Drowsy, stupid look. Mouth. — Lips feel as if glued together. Gritting and grind- ing of the teeth while sleeping (Cic), Dryness of the mouth and lips. White, thick, frothy and sticky saliva. Every article of food is extremely palatable. Stammering and stuttering (Caust., Stram.). CANNABIS INDICA. 187 Throat. — The throat is parched, acGompanied hy intense thirst for cold water. Stomach. — Ravenous hunger. Pain in the cardiac orifice, relieved by pressure. Swollen feeling when eating, with oppression of the chest, as if he would suffocate; must loosen the clothes. Anus. — Sensation in the anus as if he were sitting on a ball ; as if the anus and part of the urethra were filled up by a hard, round body. Urinary Organs. — Pain in the kidneys when laughing. Burn- ing, aching, or sharp stitches in the kidneys. A white glairy mucus may he squeezed froryi the urethra. Burn- ing and scalding or stinging pain in the urethra before, during and after urination {Can. sat., Canth.). Urg^'ng to urinate, but cannot pass a drop. Profuse, colorless urine. Has to wait some time before the urine flows. Has to force out the last few drops with the hand. The urine drihhles out after the stream ceases. Male Organs. — Sexual desire excessively increased {Canth.). Erections not caused by amorous thoughts. Violent, pain- ful erections (Co. w-^/i',) ; chordee. Penis relaxed and shrunken {Agn.). Satyriasis. Itching in the glans penis. Female Organs.— Very profuse menstruation {Bell., JSPux v.). Respiratory Organs. — Bough cough, ivith scraping immed- iately under the sternum (Ambr., Phos., Rumex). It re- quires a great effort to take a deep inspiration. Oppres- sion of chest, with deep, labored breathing. He feels as if suffocated, and has to be fanned (Ars.). Heart and Pulse. — Palpitation of the heart, awaking from sleep. Pressing pain in the heart, with dyspnoea the whole night. Piercing pain in the heart. Sensation as if drops were falling from the heart. Stitches in the heart, accom- panied by great oppression; the latter relieved by deep breathing. Pulse very slow (as slow as 46.) {Dig., Op.). Back. — Pain across the shoulders and spine; must stoop, cannot ivalh erect. Limbs. — Paralysis of the loiuer limhs and right arm. Upper Limbs. — Agreeable thrilling through the arms and hands. Lower Limbs. — Entire paralysis of the lower extremities. 188 CANNABIS INDICA. Weariness in limbs, and stiffness and aching in knees; almost paralysis. Agreeable thrilling from the hnees doiun, luith a sensation as if a bird's claws were clasping the hnees. On attempting to walk, intensely violent pain as if treading on spikes, which penetrated the soles and ran up- ward through the limbs to the hips; worse in right limb, and accompanied by drawing pains in both calves. Shooting pains in the joints of the toes of left foot; worse in great toe ; aching and stitching pain in ball of left great toe. Generalities. — Great desire to lie down in the daytime. Thorozvghly exhausted after a short walk. Felt so weak that he could scarcely speak (Stan,), and soon fell into a deep sleep. Sleep. — Excessive sleepiness (Nux m.) ; sound sleep, with melancholy dreams. Starting of the limbs while sleeping, causing him to awake. Voluptuous dreams, with erections and profuse seminal emissions. Dreams prophetic; vex- atious; of dead bodies, of danger and of perils to be encountered. Nightmare every night as soon as he falls asleep. Fever. — Loss of animal heat (Sil., Sep.). General chilliness. Coldness of the face, nose and hands after dinner. Profuse stichy sweat, standing out in drops on his forehead. Aggravation. — From coffee; while eating; from liquor and tobacco ; on right side. Amelioration. — From fr-esh air ; from cold water ; from rest. Conditions. — Affects nervous and sanguine temperaments most; the bilious nearly as much ; the lymphatic but slightly. Compare. — Agar., Bell., Camph., Digit., Can. sat., Canth., Crocus, Nux v., Hyos., Op., Stram. THERAPEUTICS. Not extensively used. May be indicated by its peculiar mental symptoms in delirium tremens and mania. Catalepsy; neuralgia ; migraine, as if the head were opening and shutting with mental symptoms. Ursemic headaches. Said to be espe- cially useful in gonorrhoea when the chordee is well marked. Uterine colic. CANNABIS SATIVA. 189 CANNABIS SATIVA. Katural order . — Urticacese. Coinmonname. — Hemp. Habi- tat.— An annual dioecious plant, native of Europe and America. Preparation. — Tincture from the fresh herb-tops. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts especially upon vae mucous lining of the urinary tract, and upon the prepuce, giving rise to excessive irritation, fol- lowed by inflammation and a mucous discharge, the whole con- dition closely simulating that presented in gonorrhoea. "As compared with Cannabis indica we see much less mental dis- turbance (less of the peculiar gum "Hashish" in the plant used) and more effects due to the other constituents of the plant, ethereal oil and titrate of Potash (the latter is found in an un- usual amount in the plant). {Allen. Handbook of Materia Medica, p. 261.) OHARAOTBRISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Sadness (Ign., Natr. mur,, Puis., Khus tox.). Head..— Vertigo when standing with dizziness ; when walking, with tendency to fall sideways. The forehead feels com- pressed, from the margins of the orbits to the temples; not relieved by bending forward. Pressure below the frontal eminences, extending deep through the brain to the occiput. Sensation as if drops of cold water were falling on the head. Eyes. — Pressure from behind the eyes forward. Sensation of spasmodic drawing in the eyes. Nose. — Dryness of the nose. Stomach. — Uninterrupted dull stitches near pit of stomach, just below the ribs. Eructations of air; of bitter, acrid fluid. Anxious and apprehensive feeling at pit of stomach, with oppression of breath and palpitation. Dull stitches in the left side, just below the ribs, when breathing and when not. Abdomen. — Painful jerks as if something hving were moviDg 190 CANNABIS SATIVA. about in the abdomen (Crocus), with pains in limbs. Sticking in left side just below the ribs. Rectum and Anus. — Pressure in the rectum and sacral region, as if the intestines were sinking down and would be pressed out, while sitting. Constrictive pain in the anus, together with a sensation as if the thighs were drawn together, so that she was obliged to close them. Urinary Organs. — Drawing pain from the region of the kid- neys to the inguinal glands, with anxious, nauseous sensa- tion in pit of stomach. Burning, smarting in the urethra, froT)%the meatus hachward ; posteriorly stitching luhile urinating. The urethra feels inflamed and sore to touch along its luhole length (Arg.nit.); during erection tensive pain. Burning luhile uri^^ating, hut especially just after (August., Canth.). Burning along the urethra at com- mencement and end of urinating. When not urinating, burning pain in forepart of urethra, which compels him to urinate almost constantl3\ Pressure as if to urinate, espe- ciall}^ in forepart of urethra, when not urinating. Stitches along the urethra when not urinating (Caps.). Jerking stitches in the posterior portion of urethra when standing. Tearing as if in the fibres of the urethra, in the form of a zigzag. The stream of urine forked (Canth.). Male Organs. — Penis swollen, without marked erections. Fre- quent erections, followed by stitches in the urethra. Penis painful, as if sore or burnt, when walking. Dark redness of glans and prepuce. Pressive, dragging sensation in the testicles when standing (Berb.). Respiratory Organs. — In the morning tough mucus in the lower portion of trachea; cannot be dislodged by coughing and hawking; after coughing and hawking the trachea feels raw and sore ; finally the mucus loosens itself, a,nd he must hawk it up frequently. A hacking cough arises from the pit of the throat, with a cold, salty fiuid deep in the throat. Oppression of breathing, from tensive, pressive pains in the middle of sternum, which was also sore to touch, wdth sleepiness. Oppression of the chest ; sensation of apprehension in the throat ; obliged to breathe deeply. A digging beneath the upper part of sternum, without oppression of breath. CANTHAKIS. 191 Heart. — Violent beating of the heart on moving the body, and on stooping, with warm sensation about the heart. Generalities. — Sensation as if drops of cold water were falling on the head ; from the anus ; from the heart. Sleep. — Disagreeable and frightful dreams ; he is disappointed in everything, and is filled with great anxiety. Awakes at night from slumber, with frightful dreams, not knowing where he is. Compare. — Arn., Apis, Cannab. ind., Canth., Copaiba, Nux v., Tereb. Antidotes. — Camph. To large doses : lemon juice. THERAPEUTICS. Cannabis Sativa is used chiefly in the treatment of gonor- rhoea. It is mostly indicated in the first stage, but is often given through the whole course of the disease, physicians claim- ing that by so doing they limit the disease to ten days. In cases characterized by a profuse discharge Cannabis is not indicated, Arg. nit. being most useful. Cannabis Sativa is also an excellent remedy in simple urethritis; cystitis; nephritis and other urinary troubles. The urethral symptoms are very simi- lar to those of Cantharis, the latter having more tenesmus, while under Cannabis there is more burning and smarting. The drug has also been used in pneumonia, asthmatic complaints and cardiac troubles. CANTHARIS. Synonym. — Cantharis Vesicatoria. Cownnon name. — Spanish Fly. Preparation. — Tincture made from the dried flies by digesting in alcohol. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Cantharis acts especially upon the mucous membranes and upon the skin. Its decidedly most important action is upon the mucous lining of the urinary tract, through which the drug is eliminated, where it produces conditions ranging all the 192 CANTHARIS. way from an irritation to a violent destructive inflammation, either of a part or of thewliole tract. The mucous membrane of the whole gastro-intestinal tract is involved in a violent inflam- mation, especially the lower bowel. On the skin the irritative action of Cantharis results in an erysipelatous form of inflam- mation, and vesicular conditions in general, even sloughing blisters. Farrington says that the "irritating property of Cantharis is the foundation stone of the whole proving." The chief characteristic of this drug is its constant urging to uri- nate, scanty discharge and violent cutting, burning pains before, during and after the discharge. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Anxious restlessness, ending in rage. Constant, com- plete, furious, almost frenzied delirium {Bell., Hyos.,CEnan., Strain.) . Insolent and contradictory mood {Bry., JYux v.). Head. — Vertigo. Scales on the scalp; enormous dandruff (Bad., Mez.) ; hair falls out when combing (Calc. c. Graph., Natr. mur., JSfitr. ac, Sep., Sulph.). Eyes. — Eyes protruding ; fiery, sparkling, staring look. {Bell., Hyos., Strain.). Eyes yellow (Cinch., Chel., Podo., lodi., Plumb.) ; objects yellow. Face. — Expression of extreme suffering {Ars.). Death-like look during and after the pains ( Verat. alb.). Mouth. — Tongue thickly furred ; red edges. Sublingual glands swollen and red. Tongue and back of mouth in part exco- riated, in part covered with small blisters. Dryness in the mouth. Burning pain in the mouth (Aeon., Ars., Caps.). Lockjaw, with grinding of the teeth. Throat. — Burning sensation in the throat {Ars., Caps., Merc, cor.); feels "on fire." Throat inflamed, and covered with plastic lymph. Throat swollen (Bell., Merc, Kali bi.). Constriction and intense pain at back of throat. Aphthous ulcers in back part of fauces and on right tonsil. Swallow- ing very difficult {Bell., Hyos., Stram.). Stomach.— Intense thirst, with burning pain in throat and stomach {Ars., Iris, Phos., Mez., Verat. alb.). Appetite diminished. Disgust for food. Eructations, frothy; sour; sour mucus; tinged bright red. Nausea and vomiting {Ant. tart., Ipec.). Acute pain in region of stomach and CANTHARIS. 193 bladder, with such exquisite sensibihty that the shghtest pressure produces convulsions. Abdomen. — Great distension and tenderness of the abdomen {Bell.). Violent burning pain through the whole intestinal tract {Ars.). Cutting in abdomen (Aeon., Ars.). Incar- ceration of flatus under short ribs. Stool and Anus. — Tenesmus in rectum. Passage of pure blood from anus and urethra. Violent burning in anus after diarrhoea {Ars., Bry.). Pain in perineum, seemingly aris- ing from the neck of the bladder. With stool, cutting in abdomen; aft^r stool, shivering {Merc). Stool: hloocl and muous {Merc.) ; slimy, bloody, white, or blood- streaked mucus {Merc, cor.), like scrapings from intes- tines {Colch.) ; pure blood. Urinary Organs. — Cutting and contracting pains from ureters down to penis; pressure on glans relieves a little. Dull pressure in region of the kidneys. Violent pains in the bladder, with frequent urging; intolerable tenesmus. Tenesmus of the bladder {Merc. cor.). Violent buj^ning, cutting pains in the nech of the bladder, extending to navicular fossa of urethra. Passage of blood from urethra. Violent burning, cutting pains in urethra before, during and after urination (Ant. tart.. Can. sat.). Urine scalds him; passed drop by drop (Aeon., Bell.). Urging to urinate with burning sensation in urethra. Fruitless effort to urinate {J^ux v.). Urine passes in thin, divided stream (Can. sat.). Retention of urine, causing pain. Urine red, as if mixed with blood (Aeon., Carb. v.) ; dark-colored (Aeon.) ; bloody (Ars., Millef.) ; turbid; scanty (Digit.) ; at night cloudy, like mealy water, with white sedi- ment (Cale. e., Colch,). Burning in excretory ducts of vesi- culse seminales, during and after coition. Male Organs. — Drawing in spermatic cord while urinating. Painful swelling of the glans. Gangrene. Painful pri- apism (Copaib., Tereb.). Strong and persistent erections; painless and without voluptuous sensations ; with sore pain along urethra. Sexual desire increased; disturbing sleep. Female Organs. — Swelling and irritation of vulva (Asaf.). Inflammation of the ovaries, with cutting and burning. Pruritus, with strong sexual desire. Miscarriage. Violent 194 CANTHAEIS. itching in the vagina (Coni., Merc). Menses too early and too profuse (Calc. C; JVw-x v.) ; blood black or scanty. Respiratory Organs. — Voice low, with sensation of weakness of respiratory organs. Stitches in chest (Brij., Phos., Kalic), particularly in right side. °Exudation within the pleura; dyspnoea; palpitation; scanty urine; tendency to syncope. Heart. — Palpitation of the heart. ^Pericarditis, with effusion ,; pulse feeble, irregular ; tendency to syncope. Back. — Pain in the loins, kidneys and abdomen, with such pain on urination that he could not pass a single drop without moaning and screaming. Pain in loins, with incessant desire to urinate. Upper Limbs. — Stitches in right axilla, extending into chest. Lower Limbs. — Ulcerative pain in soles of feet; could not step. Tearing in limbs ; relieved by rubbing. Generalities. — Weakness, prostration; faintness. Raw and sore pain in the whole body, internally and externally. Over-sensitiveness of all parts (Cinch.). Convulsions, with dysuric and hydrophobic symptoms (Strajn.). Skin.— Erysipelatous inflammation, forming blisters (Rhus tox.). Tearing and ulcerative pains. °Burns before blis- ters form. Compare.— Aeon., Apis, Ars., Bell., Camph., Can. sat., Caps., Copaiba, Kali hi., Phos., Merc, cor., Nitr. ac, Sahina, Sulph., Tereh. Antidotes.— Aeon., Camph., Laur., Puis. Oil (according to Hering) increases the bad effects of Cantharis. THERAPEUTIC S. The clinical value of Cantharis in diseases of the urinary organs is well known, it being oftener indicated in that class of affections than any other drug. This fact, however, leads to its abuse, Cantharis often being prescribed on general prin- ciples, when a careful study of the case would show that some other drug was indicated. The violent irritation of the urinary tract with intense inflammatory symptoms, together with pain in the back, and the characteristic urine, leads to the successful use of Cantharis in all acute and chronic inflammations of the urinary system. Cystitis; Nephritis; Bright's disease; inflam- CANTHARIS. 195 matory strangury; renal calculi; haematuria, etc., where the symptoms are of a violent character, there being usually in- tense tenesmus, constant urging to urinate, with scanty bloody urine, etc. The same class of symptoms may indicate Cantharis in gonorrhoea when the suffering is excruciating, chordee, bloody urine, etc. Gangrene of the sexual organs in both sexes. The inflammatory action of Cantharis is always intense, and violently destructive in its character, so that it may be indi- cated in gangrene of any organ or part, following any inflam- matory disease. Of other sexual diseases Cantharis may be in- dicated in spermatorrhoea, accompanied by great irritation of the urethra and prepuce. In the female in nymphomania, where the sexual desire becomes a perfect frenzy, which cannot be con- trolled. A sexual mania may also occur in the male, violent painful erections, excessive uncontrollable desire. Ovaritis with distressing cutting, burning pains. Puerperal metritis, especially with sexual mania ; gangrenous tendency. Puerperal convul- sions. Sterihty. Cantharis may be the remedy in a violent gastritis or enteritis (interstitial) with extreme burning pain, tympanitis, great sensitiveness, dysuria. Diarrhoea and dysen- tery; stools like scrapings from intestines (Colch.), mucous or bloody, violent cutting, burning pains, chilhness after stool, tendency to collapse. Tonsilitis or pharyngitis, the chief symp- tom being great burning, as if the throat were on fire. Aphthous ulceration of throat. Diphtheria. Cantharis is also to be thought of in violent inflammation of serous membranes, espe- cially in pleurisy and pericarditis during the stage of exudation, great dyspnoea and characteristic burning pains. Also perito- nitis with symptoms already mentioned. Ulceration and erosion of internal parts, gangrenous tendency, symptoms of collapse. Cantharis is an excellent remedy in vesicular er^-sipelas when blisters form and where intense burning pain in the eruption is the chief indication. The same is also true in other vesicular eruptions, especially eczema. Cantharis is useful in burns when blisters form. May be used as a lotion largely diluted. Can- tharis may be useful in typhoid fever where the tympanitis is great, intense burning pains and dysuria. 196 CAPSICUM. CAPSICUM. Synonyni. — Capsicum Annuum. Katural order. — Sola- nacese. Common names. — Cayenne ; red pepper. Habitat. — An herbaceous plant, native of tropical America and Asia, culti- vated in almost all parts of the world. Preparation. — Tincture from the ripe, dried fruit GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts almost exclusively upon the mucous membranes, especially those of the alimentary canal, the condition setup being one of intense irritation, favoring congestion and inflam mation. A similar action is, to some extent, had also upon the mucous membranes of the respiratory tract. Capsicum also produces a chill and fever like that of malarial origin. The tendency of the capsicum inflammation is to destruction of tis- sue, thus giving rise to ulceration, abscesses, and phlegmonous conditions. Like Cantharis the drug is eliminated through the kidneys, producing irritation, strangury, tenesmus, etc. The chief feature of Capsicum is the sensation of intense burning and smarting which it produces, as if Cayenne pepper had been sprinkled upon the parts. OHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Taciturn, obstinate, easily offended {IN'zixv.), Con- tented, jocose and singing, but angry from the slightest causes. °Homesickness (Hell., Phos. ac); with flushed cheeks; sleeplessness; hot feeling in fauces. ^Children be- come clumsy and awkward. Head. — Vertigo, °during cold stage of intermittent fever. Head- ache as if the shuull would hurst (Bry., Cinch., Natr. mur., Merc, Puis.) : on coughing, moving the head or walking (Bry.). Sticking headache, worse on rest, better on mo- tion. Confusion. Intoxication. Aching above root of nose, with stitches through eye and over ear. Aching in temples; throbbing. Pressing frontal headache. Throb- bing headache in forehead ; drawing, tearing pain in frontal CAPSICUM. 197 bone, more on right side. Pressive pain in temporal region ; drawing tearing in leffc side of head. Eyes.— Pressing pain in eyes, as from a foreign body. Eyes seem large, reddish and protruding. Nose.— Influenza, with violent sneezing and discharge of thin mucus, sometimes with burning, tickhng and roughness. Stopped coryza, with crawhng and tickhng in^ the nose. Nosebleed. Ears. — Painful s%v6Uii%i behind the ears; caries of mastoid process (Aur.). Tearing pain behind the left ear. Pressive pain in ear, especiahy with cough, as if an ulcer would open. Face.— Pain in face, partly hke bone pains, excited by external touch. Lips swollen, cracked, smarting, chapped. Month.— Foetid odor from the mouth {Am., Chin, ars.. Hep. s., Kreos., Merc, Jfrit. ae.). Tough mucus in mouth. Watery flat taste in mouth, followed by heartburn. Throat.— Burning (Aeon., Ars., Canth., Merc, cor.), and pains in the throat ; worse between the acts of swallowing. Pain in throat when coughing, as if from painful swelhng or ul- cer. Spasmodic contraction of the throat {Bell., Carb. v. Hyos., Stram.). Stomach.— Burning in the stomach (Ars., Camph., Canth.), especially after eating. Heartburn; waterbrash. Nausea and vomiting, with headache; nervous; spasmodic vomit- ing. Vomits phlegm with the chill ; vomiting in malignant fevers. Stomach icy-cold, afterward sensation of trembling or burning in stomach, with occasional pungent eructations. Abdomen. — Tensive pain from abdomen to chest, as from dis- tension of the abdomen. Flatulent colic {Coloc, Lye), drawing, twisting pains. Abdomen distended; suffocative arrest of breathing. Stool and Anns. — Tenesmus {Merc); burning pain in anits (^7-5., Canth.). Haemorrhoids, burning and itching {Sulph.). Stool mucous; frequent mucus, mingled with blood, causing tenesmus {Merc cor.); after drinking. After every stool thirst, and after every drinh shivering. Urinary Organs. — Burning, biting, and smarting after urina tion {Canth., Can. sat.). Burning at orifice of urethra, be- fore, during and after urination (Ca7^'^7^., Can. sat.). Stitches in orifice and forepart of urethra when not urinating ( Can. 198 CAPSICUM. sat.). Strangury with tenesmus of bladder (Canth., Merc, cor. ) . Burning urine. Male Organs.— Impotence; scrotum cold (Berb.). Purulent discharge from the urethra like cream. Dwindling of testes. Respiratory Organs.— Crawling and tickling in larynx and trachea, with dry hacking cough; evening after lying down {Hyos.) . The cough expels an offensive hreath from the lungs (Crocus, Sang.). Coughing causes pressure towards • bladder, after cough stitches extend outward in region of bladder. Oppressed breathing and pain in chest ; as if chest were too full; as if constricted. Throbbing pain in the chest. Dyspnoea, which seems to rise from stomach. Neck and Back.— Jerking, tearing pain in the right cervical gland. Drawing, tearing pain in and near the spine. Lower Limbs. — Shooting tearing from the hip to the knee and foot, especially on coughing. Drawing pain in the hip joint, worse from touch and on bending the trunk back- ward. Tensive pain in the knee. Sleep. — ^Yawning, restless sleep, full of dreams. Generalities. — Burning and smarting pains, now here, now there. °Vital forces exhausted; no power to react (Laur,). Paralysis; gangrene; meteorism; typhus (Carb. v.). He shuns all motion {Cinch.) Sensation as if parts would go to sleep. Fevers.— Chill begms in back {Eupat. purp., Lach.), with thirst; worse after drinking. Shivering and chilliness after every drink (Tarax.). Chill, followed by sweat, or by heat, with sweat and thirst. Fever heat, with violent burn- ing (Aeon., Ars.). Conditions.— Most useful in persons who are fat, lazy, unclean- ly, clumsy, awkward, peevish, easily offended ; light hair, blue eyes ; dislike to open air. Those who do not respond well to medicine, and react badly ; old people ; those of exhausted vitality, who are run down and debilitated with no power to react. Compare.— ./^r/. nit., Ars., Bell., Calad., Canth., Cinch., Crot., Ign., Lye, Merc. c.,Natr. m., Nux v.,Puls.,Ilhustox., Verat. alb. Antidotes.— Calad., Caraph., Cina., Cinch., Sulph. Capsicum Antidotes.— Calad., Cinch., Coff. CARBO ANIMALIS. 199 THERAPEUTICS. In all inflammatory conditions Capsicum is chiefly indicated by the peculiar peppery burning character of the pains, usually accompanied hj chilliness. Coryza, with violent tickling, sneez- ing and burning. An excellent remedy in chronic suppuration of the ear; also of middle ear; with perforation of the tym- panum; caries of mastoid, painful swelling, tendency to involve meninges of brain. Tonsilitis, pharyngitis, etc., with burning pains, spasmodic contraction ; pains worse when not swallowing ; especially when occurring in those who smoke and use alcoholic liquors. Elongation of the uvula (both locally and internally). Diphtheria with same symptoms, gangrenous sloughs forming (also may be used as a gargle). Dyspepsia ; heartburn ; water- brash; burning in stomach. Stomatitis. Haemorrhoids with burning, itching and soreness. Diarrhoea and dysentery; bloody, mucous stools, violent burning and tenesmus ; stools after each drink ; also thirst after stool, drink causes shivering ; pain in back after stool. Catarrhal asthma. Threatening gan- grene of the lung, each cough expelling an offensive odor. Cys- titis ; catarrh of bladder ; strangury ; gonorrhoea ; all charac- terized by violent burning, tenesmus, etc. In impotence. In in- termittent fever, with symptoms already named, Capsicum is an excellent remedy. It may also be indicated in typhoid and scarlet fever. Also recommended for complaints from drinking coffee. Fevers from or after abuse of quinine. CARBO ANIMALIS. Cormnoib name. — Animal Charcoal. Preparation. — Tritu- rations of charred ox-hide. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts especially upon the glandular system and upon the digestive organs; on the former producing painful swellings, inflammations, indurations and ulcerations, and on the latter symptoms of a dyspeptic nature. The glandular action (often of a scirrhous nature) is its most characteristic feature. 200 CARBO ANIMALIS. CHARAOTBRISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Desire to he alone (Hyos., Ign., Rhus tox. ; reverse, Strain.) \ sad and reflective ; avoid conversation. Home- sickness (Caps.). Anxiety and orgasm of blood at night; must sit up. Head. — Confusion in morning; did not know whether he had been asleep or awake. Vertigo, with nausea, on rising after stooping. Heaviness in the head at night, with weari- ness ; in forehead on stooping, as if a weight lay over the eyes. Tearing in the right side of the head. Pain in vertex as if the skull had been split or torn asunder ; holds the head with the hands ; also at night ; worse in wet weather. Throbbing in the occiput. Eyes. — A net seems to swim before the eyes. Ears. — Hearing confused ; does not know from what direction sounds come. Nose. — JVosehleed in the -morning {Bry., Calc. c); preceded hy vertigo, or confusion in head. Coryza, scraping in throat; worse evening, night, and when swallowing. Tip of nose red, painful to touch; skin feels tight, as chapped; little boils inside. Hard, bluish tumor on end of nose. Face. — Cachectic appearance, earthy look. Erysipelas of face; copper-colored eruption. °Acne; young, scrofulous persons. Vesicles or cracks on the lips. Mouth. — Burning on tip of tongue, and rawness of mouth (Calc. c, Coloc). Teeth loose, sensitive on chewing (Merc, Mtr. ac). Bitter taste every morning {JVujo v., Calc. phos,, Puis.). Burning blisters in the mouth. Throat.— Mucus in the throat ; frequent hawking and raising. Burning in throat (Ars., Canth., Caps.). Painful swallow- ing. Raw sensation in throat, extending to stomach; not increased on swallowing. Raw feeling, like heartburn, better after eating. Stomach.— Eructations tasting of food eaten long before {Ant. crud., Puis.). Heartburn (Calc. phos.). Long-continued nausea after eating meat (Carb. v.). Abdomen.— Great distension of the abdomen ; much annoyed by flatus (Aloe, Carb. v., Cinch., Lye). Painful sensation in right lower abdomen, as if something would be squeezed through. Sticking pains in groins. Feeling after sitting CARBO ANIMALIS. 201 down as if a large heavy body were lying in groins ; better after pressure, hy passage of flatus. Tearing across pubes, through pudenda to anus. °Hard buboes suppurate, or maltreated cases, with callous edges; ichorous, offensive discharges. Stool and Anus. — Burning in rectum and anus {Ars., Canth., Caps.). Soreness. Viscid moisture oozes from anus (/Sz^Z.), Haemorrhoids much swollen; burn on walking. Stool scanty, delayed. Soft stool. Passage of blood during stool. Urinary Organs. — Burning soreness in the urethra while uri- nating (Can. sat.). Frequent urination at night. Male Organs.— Seminal emissions; parts feel weak ; exhausted mentally and bodily. °Syphilis; buboes. Sticky, odor- less moisture behind scrotum. Female Organs. — Menses too early and too profuse (Amm. carb., Ars., Borax, Calc. c, JVujo v.). °During menstrual flow so exhausted that she could hardly speak (Alum, Coocul.). Leucorrhoea staining the linen yellow (Kreos.). ^Induration and ulceration of neck of womb (Cofii.); burn- ing (Ars.). ^Burning into thighs; labor-like pains in pelvis and sacrum; slimy, bloody discharge, very weak; cancer of uterus. °Darting pains in mammee of nursing women, arresting breathing; worse from pressure; hard, painful spots; swollen, inflamed (erysipelatous) during conflne- ment. °Hard tumor in mamma, uneven, skin loose ; burning pain ; dirty, blue-red spots ; pains drawing toward axillae ; night sweats ; low-spirited ; scirrhus of mammae. Bespiratory Organs. — Rawness and hoarseness, morning, after rising (Caust., Coff., Phos.). Hoarseness; worse evenings (Carb. v.). Tickling cough, with constriction of larynx and chest. Severe dry cough ; shakes the abdomen as if it would fall out ; must support the bowels ; loose rales until something is coughed up; mornings on rising, and nearly all day. Burning in chest, with pressive pain. Sen- sation of coldness in chest. Neck and Back. — Glands of neck indurated, swollen, painful {Borax, Calc. c). Pressing, drawing and stiffness in small of back, as if broken. Sharp drawing across small of back, sensitive to every step. Bruised pain in coccyx, burning when touched. 202 CAKBO ANIMALIS. Limbs. — Numbness of all the limbs. Bruised sensation in all the limbs. Upper Limbs. — The wrists pain as if sprained. The hands go to sleep daily. Lower Limbs. — Stitches in left hip when sitting. Corns pain- ful to touch. Legs, far as calves, go to sleep during the day. Cramp in forepart of lower leg, near tibia. Pain- ful tension in calves when walking. Generalities. — Weakness and want of energy; confusion of head; prostration. Induration of glands. °Indolent tumors ; with burning pains. Skin. — Pimples on face; red spots on cheeks. ^Erysipelatous swellings with burning pain (Ars.). Sleep. — Sleepiness and yawning in forenoon. Sleep full of hor- rid fancies. Vivid dreams. Fever.— Chilliness during the day; fever awakens at night. Exhausting sweats. Offensive debilitating night sweats (Sil.), staining linen yellow. Conditions.— Especially useful in scrofulous, venous constitu- tions. Young, scrofulous subjects. Old people. Compare. — Ars., Aurum, Calc. c. Caps., Carb. v., Coni., Hydras., Nux v. Antidotes.— Ars., Camph., Nux v., Vinum. THERAPEUTICS. Carbo Animalis is used chiefly in enlargements, indurations and ulcerations of glands, and is invaluable in scirrhus. Scirrhus of the breast, hard, nodulated, looks blue; axillary glands involved; burning, drawing pains. Scirrhus of the uterus; induration of cervix, haemorrhage, offensive discharges, burning pains extending into thighs. Useful in other affections of the female organs as already noted in the symptoms under that head. Indolent tumors with burning pains. Syphilitic buboes, hard, with blue look. Old buboes which do not heal, but remain hard and secrete an offensive ichor. Syphilitic coppery colored eruptions. Erysipelas. Acne punctata in young scrofulous persons. An excellent remedy in Acne rosacea. A valuable remedy in dyspepsia, when there is much flatulence and tasting of food eaten long before, especially with glandular troubles in scrofulous subjects. Said to be indicated CARBO VEGETABILIS. 203 after debilitating diseases, especially when the veins are dis- tended, and the skin looks blue, venous plethora being an indi- cation for the drug. May be used in bronchitis and pneumonia, hoarse cough, profuse purulent offensive expectoration, much rattling in the chest. CARBO VEGETABILIS. Common name. — Vegetable Charcoal. Preparation. — Trituration of charcoal made from birch or beech wood. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts upon the blood and nervous system, devitalizing the former and exhausting the latter; but its most important action is upon the mucous membranes, especially of the diges- tive tract, where it has the power of increasing the secretions, rendering them impure, and causing an excessive accumulation of gas in the stomach and bowels, which latter is the chief char- acteristic of the drug. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Anxiety and oppression. Peevish, irritable and in- clined to anger {Bry., Cham.). Indifference to everything he hears or sees (Berb., Phos.). Ideas flow slowly. Peri- odic want of memory. Head. — Confusion of the head, which makes thinking difficult {Am^m. carh., Kreos.) ; in morning after rising, better after lying down. Vertigo; had to hold on to something ; also when stooping (Aeon., Bell.). Head feels heavy as lead (Lach.). Pain in temple. Tearing in spot near temples. Headache, as from contraction of the scalp. Painful stitches through the head when coughing (Bry.). Painful throbbing in the head during inspiration. Pressive head- ache in the forehead, just over the eyes. Dull headache in the occiput. Drawing and tearing in the left side of occiput. Pressive pain in lower portion of occiput. Head painfully sensitive to pressure, especially of hat (Nitr. ac, Mez.) \ 204 CAKBO VEGETABILIS. sensation remains after hat is taken off, as if hound up luith a cloth. Hair falls out; worse on back of head. Eyes. — Heavy weight seems to rest on the eyes (Canst., Coni., Gels.); must make exertion to distinguish letters when reading. Black, floating spots before the eyes. Muscles of the eyes pain when looking up. Itching on the margins of the lids (Calc. c, Sulph.). Short-sighted, from over- taxing the eyes. Ears. — Ringing in the ears (Aeon., Bell., Cinch., Sulph.). Some- thing heavy seems to lie before the ears; seem stopped (Chel.), but hearing not diminished. Heat and redness of left ear every evening. Discharge of thick, flesh-colored offensive moisture from right ear. Nose. — Severe nosebleed, several tii7ies daily for zueehs ; face pale before and after every attack. Frequent sneezing, with constant and violent crawlings and tickling in the nose. Drawing in root of nose ; dry coryza. Face. — Face very pale (Ars.), grayish-yellow color; Hippo- cratic (Yerat. alb.). Soreness of facial and maxillary bones (Hep. s., Kali bi., Nitr. ac). Drawing in the upper and lower face. Tearing in left cheek (Puis.). Swelling of the upper lip and cheek, with jerking pain. Jerking, tearing in right upper maxillary. Twitching of the upper lip. Mouth. — Easily bleeding gums (Jierc, Nitr. ac, Phos.). Gum boils. Drawing, tearing pain in molars. Gums become loosened from the teeth, and retracted. Gums painfully sensitive when chewing (Canst,, Merc). Tongue coated white {Ant. crud., Bry., Merc, Jfujo v., Puis.); yellowish brown mucous coat. Tongue sensitive and raw (Nitr. ac). Mouth hot, with rawness and dryness of tip of tongue. Increase of saliva. Aching in posterior part of palate. Bitterness in palate ; dry tongue. Bitter taste before and after eating {Bry., Jfux v., Puis.). Throat. — Much hawking of mucus. Scraping, rawness and burn- ing in the throat (Amm. carb., Canst., Phos., Puis.). Tear- ing in muscles of throat. Swallowing, coughing or blowing the nose causes pain in posterior nares and fauces, as if sore. Sensation of contraction in pharynx {Bell., Caps., Hyos.). Stomach.— Aversion to meat (Alum, Arn., Graph.), and fat CARBO VEGETABILIS. 205. things {Puis.); to milk, which causes flatulence (Cinch., Sulph.). Violent, almost constant eructations; sour (Ambr., J{iojc v., Phos., Sulph.), rancid or empty (Puis.). Waterbrash. Nausea in the morning with qualmishness in stomach. Feels acidity in stomach while lying on the back and when walking. Burning in stomach (Ars., Camph., Canth., Lob., Sulph.). Stomach feels tense and full. Tlve simplest food distresses. Griping in pit of stomach as from flatulence. Contractive cramp, extending into chest, with distension of abdomen. Epigastric region very sensi- tive (Ant. crud., Ars., Bell.). Abdomen. — Hypochondria painful to touch; clothing op- presses him and is unendurable {Calc. c, Lach., Graph.). Tension and stitches in liver (Bry., Kali carb.. Cinch., Nux v., Sep.). Colic froin flatulence ; abdomen full to burst- ing; worse from least food ; better from passing flatus- {Coloc, Lye, CinGh., Sulph.). Abdomen greatly distended; better from passing wind up or down {Sulph.). Abdomen feels as if hanging heavily ; walks bent. Flatus collects here and there in abdomen, under short ribs in hypogastrium, etc. {Lye); causing a pinching pain. Dragging or griping in abdomen after stool. Oifensive flatus ; dragging toward sacrum and thence toward abdomen. Paralytic drawing, extending from abdomen into left leg, as after taking cold ; as from lifting or a sprain, as soon as she lies on side, especially left side. Bruised pain in the liver. Pain in the hypochondria on touch. Tension in region of the liver. Hypochondrium oppressed by clothing which is unendurable. Stool and Anus. — Acrid, corrosive moisture from rectum (Merc. cor.). In rectum: gnawing, crawling; tenesmus. Ineffectual urging in rectum, only wind passes with pressure. Glutinous, musty exudation from the anus at night. Sore- ness in perineum at night, with painful itching and moisture. Bleeding from anus. Much offensive flatus (Aloe, Bry., Colch., Mez., Sil.). Burning in anus after stool {Ars., Canth., Co^/?5.). Sticking, stitching soreness in anus. Even soft stool passed with difficulty {Alum., Jfux m.). Stools: ' mucous with much urging; cadaverous, putrid, offensive, involuntary {Ars.); enveloped by filamentous, yellowish, mucus. 206 CAEBO YEGETABILIS. Urine. — Red sediment in urine (Bell., Lye., Kreos., Sep.). Urine dark-red, as if mixed with blood (Aeon,, Canth.). Wetting- bed at night {Caust., Puis.). Male Organs. — Onanism during sleep. Seminal discharge too soon during coitus. Prostatic discharge while straining at stool. Female Organs. — Menses too early and too profuse (Amm. carb., Ars., Calc. c, Nuxv.); blood too thick and of a strong odor. Leucorrhoea thin in morning on rising, not through day; milky; excoriating (Ars., Coni., Kreos.). Red, sore places on pudenda; aphthae; itching; sore and raw during leucorrhoea (Merc). Vaginal fistulse, burning pains. °Debility from nursing {Cinch.). Lumps in mammae, with induration of axillary glands, and with burn- ing pains, anxiety, want of breath (Carb. an.). Respiratory Organs. — Great roughness in the larynx, with deep rough voice, which failed if he exerted it {Caust., Cinch., Kali hi., Phos.). Hoarseness and rawness, worse evenings; aphonia, mornings {Caust., Phos.). Difficult breathing, fullness of the chest, and palpitation on slightest motion. Desires to be fanned ; must have more air {Ars., Bapt.). Cough, spasmodic, hollow; involuntary, rough, caused by roughness and crawling in throat; caused by itching in larynx ; in evening in bed ; in morning on rising. Expectoration: mucous; yellow green; tenacious, salty (Ambr., Lye, Phos., Sep.). Sensation of weakness and fatigue of the chest {Stan.). Burning in the chest as from glowing coals ; raivness, soreness. Oppression of the chest with wheezing and rattling {Ant. tart.), after disap- pearance of coryza; on waking, with weakness of chest. Pressive pain in upper chest. Stitches in left side of chest extending into short ribs. Oppressive tearing in left chest. Heart and Pulse. — Pulse thread-like; weak and faint (Aeon., Ars., Camph.). Palpitation of the heart. °Cheyne-stokes breathing in organic heart disease. Neck and Back. — Cervical glands swollen and painful (^ari/^., Calc. c); especially those near the nape. Tearing in cervi- cal muscles. Rheumatic drawing pains in neck and back, extending to head; with nausea and salivation. Burning in right shoulder blades. Severe pain in small of back ; CARBO VEGETABILIS. 207 she was unable to sit, then felt like a plug in back, had to put a pillow under it. Pressive, sore pain in coccyx and lower spine. Limbs. — Numbness in all the limbs; go to sleep while lying on them. Drawing and tearing pains in all the limbs (Bry., Coloc, Lye, Merc). All the limbs feel bruised. Upper Limbs. — Burning on right shoulder. Bruised pain in both elbow joints. Drawing, tearing in left forearm, from elbow to hand. Drawing pain in arm when lying on it at night. Fine itching on the hands. Tearing in either wrist. Tearing in fingers of left hand. Lower Lim.bs. — Drawing pain in hip joints, extending to thighs, worse when walking. Stiffness of legs, unsteady when first attempting to walk. Left lower leg feels paralyzed. Itching on thigh near scrotum. Paralytic, drawing pain from abdomen to left leg. Cramp in soles of feet (Sil.); evenings after lying down (Sulph.). Numbness of the feet. Generalities. — °Yital forces nearly exhausted (Caps., Laur.); cold surface, especially below knees to feet ; lies as if dead ; breath cool ; pulse intermittent, thready ; cold sweat on limbs. Great debility and weakness as soon as he makes the least exertion. Attacks of faint-like weakness. Burning pain in various places. Tearing, drawing pains in various parts of the body. °Sepsis, sunken features, sallow complexion, hectic, typhoid symptoms. °Blood stagnates in capillaries, causing blueness, coldness; ecchymosis. °An8emia after summer complaint; feeble; pallid, white skin. °Atrophy, body cold, lies as if dead, yet conscious. Lymphatic glands swollen, indurated, or suppurating; burning pains. Most syinptoms appear when walking in the open air. Skin. — Fine moist rash, with burning at spots where there is no eruption. Ulcers; bleeding easily {Asa f., Merc.) ; putrid with burning pain {Ars.). Sleep. — Great sleepiness and yawning during the day; sleep- less at night ; from uneasiness. Night full of dreams. Fever.— Shivering in evenings, with weariness. Chill, generally with thirst, cold hands and feet; mostly evenings. Fever generally without thirst (Pt6Z5.). Hectic fever. Exhausting sw^eat {Cinch., Phos. ac). Oonditions. — In persons whose vital powders are low, venous 208 CARBO YEGETABILIS. system predominant; especially old people; children after exhausting disease. Compare.— Ars., Calc. c, Carb. an., Cinch., Ferr., Graph., Lach., Lye, Kah carb., Merc, Nux v., Phos., Phos. ac, Secale, Sep., Sulph., Yei-at. alb. Antidotes.— Ars., Camp., Coff., Lach., Sp. nitr. d. Carbo Vegetabilis Antidotes.— Cinch., Lach., Merc. THERAPEUTICS. On account of its powerfully devitalizing influences upon the blood Carbo vegetabilis is indicated in diseases where there are profound blood changes, with the symptoms already enum- erated; purpura; scorbutic affections; pj^semia; typhoid con- ditions; hectic fever; intermittent fever ; yellow fever; haemor- rhages of a low type, flow passive, persistent, dark, fluid blood, long continued, with coldness, collapse; also in col- lapsed stage of various exhausting diseases ; vital forces nearly exhausted ; body cold, skin bluish ; breath cool ; thready, inter- mittent pulse; cold sweat on limbs. Anaemia after summer complaint; pernicious anaemia; chlorosis; debility from nurs- ing or from sexual excesses. Gangrene (senile). Ulcers putrid, easily bleeding, burning pains. Varicose veins, with tendency to ulceration. Ulcerating scirrhus. Carbuncle, parts blue and livid, discharges offensive, burning pains. Abscesses, offensive discharges, slow reaction. Swelling, induration and suppu- ration of glands, offensive pus; especially mammar}^ glands. Eczema. Carbo veg. is an excellent remedy in various diseases of the digestive system; dyspepsia, low type, resulting from dissipation, excessive indulgence in rich foods, luxurious wines, etc., especially after Nux vom. has failed. Great flatulence; aversion to meat, fat food and milk, the latter always causing flatulence; constant acrid eructations; heartburn; sensitive- ness and burning in stomach. Gastralgia, with similar symp- toms. Diarrhoea. Constipation. Haemorrhoids. In the fe- male organs it is useful for uterine haemorrhage ; leucorrhoea, excoriating; varicose veins, etc. Often an invaluable remedy in certain respiratory troubles such as laryngeal and bronchial catarrh, when hoarseness and aphonia predominate, with raw- ness, burning and soreness. Cough hollow, spasmodic, suffoca- tive, especially in old people; also asthma, with oppressed CARBOLICUM ACIDUM. 209 breathing, wants to be fanned, other symptoms agreeing. Haemorrhage of the lungs. In phthisis and last stages of pneu- monia, with similar symptoms and exhausted vitality as al- ready described. Ailments from quinine, especially suppressed chills and fever. Ailments from abuse of mercury; from salt or salt meats ; from putrid meat or fish, or rancid fats. CARBOLICUM ACIDUM. Cormnofi name. — Carbolic Acid. Preparation. — Solution in alcohol, from which dilutions are made. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts primarily upon the cerebro-spinal nerve centers, destroying their vitality, and thus producing a tendenc}^ ta deterioration of the solids and fluids of the body, even causing the presence in the latter of animal and vegetable organisms, and from the disorganization of the blood hsemoglobinuria (black urine) results. Thus is readily understood not only its therapeutic action when administered internally, but also its important .property both as a therapeutic and preventive agent, in its destructive influence over the lower grades of organic life, whether vegetable or animal. In very weak solu- tion it instantly destroys vegetable mold, both plant and spores, and operates with equal destructiveness upon minute or microscopic animalcules. Through this power it checks the different fermentations, including putrefaction, and thus acts powerfully as an antiseptic or disinfecting agent. It operates with wonderful efficiency in correcting or preventing putre- faction in animal substances, produces the same effect in the living human subjects, and through the same influence cor- rects or suppresses those fermentative processes in the body which often lead to the most serious results, as purulent infec- tion, poisoned dissecting wounds, carbunculous disease, and hospital gangrene {Arch. Gen. 1873). Carbolic acid produces paralysis of the heart and respiration. Either locally or internally it causes inflammation of the mucous membranes ■210 CAKBOLICUM ACIDUM. with hardness, whitening, shriveling, and tendency to ulceration and membranous exudation. It causes a vesicular eruption upon the skin, and applied locally causes anaesthesia. CHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS, Mind. — Disinclination to mental exertion ; very irritable. Head. — Dull, heavy headache, as if a rubber band were stretched tightly around the forehead (Ant. tart., Chel., Merc, Nitr. ac, Sulph.). Feeling of tightness across the forehead, above the frontal sinuses. Small pustulous vesi- cle at left of vertex. Itching of the scalp (Caust., Graph., Sep., Sil., Sulph.). Eyes. — Orbital neuralgia over right eye. Kose. — Ozsena, with great fsetor and ulceration. Face. — Face pale or flushed, and burning. Throat. — Sore throat, worse on the right side. Hawking of clear white mucus. Fauces red and covered with a mucous exudation. Spasm of carotid artery, while walking rapidly after dinner. Uvula whitened and shriveled. Spasmodic contraction of oesophagus. Storaach. — Total loss of appetite. Empty eructations. Desire for whisky (Asar.). Constant belching of large quantities of wind. Excessive nausea, and inclination to vomit; while eating a little, after breakfast. Abdomen. — Pain in right hypochondrium ; also in iliac region of both sides. Rumbling and rolling in the abdomen, with a sense of distension (Cinch., Lye). Stool. — °Cholera infantum, with putrid discharges like foul eggs. Urine. — Urine dark; dark greenish-brown ; almost black; dark smoky color ; alkaline. Female Organs. — Menses profuse and dark-colored. Pain in region of left ovary when walking in the open air, soon sub- siding. °Puerperal fever, with putrid symptoms. °Ulcer- ation of the cervix uteri (Hydras.). Respiratory Organs. — Stertorous respiration (Op.). Short, hacking cough, with tickling in the throat. Feeling of nar- rowness in the chest, as if the diaphragm depressed the lungs. CAEBOLICUM ACIDUM. 211 Back. — Soreness of the muscles of the back and limbs. Pain in the loins ; worse when straightening himself and by jolting while riding. Upper Limbs.— Constant tired, heavy feeling in left arm. Soreness of the muscles of the right arm. Aching pain in left forearm. Lower Limbs. — Lower extremities feel heavy as lead. Aching soreness beneath left patella ; feel as if it would be stiff and sore to move it, but it is not felt at all during motion. Aching pain in left shin bone. Sharp pain in left shin bone. Generalities. — Great languor and profound prostration. Easily fatigued by the least walk. Faintness, causing sweat and nausea, the heart seems to almost stop. Aggravation by reading, especially of the pressing at occiput, unfitting him for study. Skin. — Itching of the skin on various parts of the body (Sulph.). Vesicular eruption all over the body, which itches ex- cessively ; better after rubbing, but leaving a burning pain (Sulph.), Compare. — Ars., Bapt., Gels., Kali chl., Kreos., La,ch.,Mur.ac., Nit. ac. Petrol., Phos., Picric ac, Khus tox., Sulph. Antidote. — Sacchrate of lime in solution. THERAPEUTICS. As may be readily inferred Carbolic acid is a remedy in diseases having a putrid tendency. Malignant diseases such as diphtheria ; scarlet fever ; typhoid fever ; tendency to destruc- tion of tissues. An invaluable remedy, both locally and in- ternally, for unhealthy putrid discharges from any mucous sur- face ; nasal catarrh ; aphthae ; leucorrhoea ; erosions and ulcera- tions of the OS and cervix; epithelioma, etc., also, in like man- ner, on the skin it is useful in irritable ulcers, ulcers following burns, vesicular eruptions; epithelioma; especially useful in pruritus and prurigo. Confluent small-pox. Has been used in diabetes and Bright's disease. Often useful in laryngitis, bron- chitis, whooping cough, phthisis; with offensive purulent ex- pectoration. Dyspepsia. Vomiting of drunkards. Morning sickness. Sick headache. Dysentery with putrid, bloody mucus discharges, also with vomiting of a dark green substance. Car- bolic acid has characteristic headache as if a rubber band were 212 CAEDUUS MAEIANUS. stretched tight around the forehead and temples, and which is apt to accompany dyspepsia and other conditions when the drug is indicated. On account of its germicidal properties Car- bolic acid is a valuable remedy for diseases arising from bad drainage, defective sewerage, etc. CARDUUS MARIANUS. Matural order. — Compositae. Cowiwion name. — St. Mary's thistle. Habitat. — An annual or biennial plant, native of Southern Europe. Preparation. — Tincture from the ripe seeds. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts upon the liver and portal system, giving rise to jaun- dice and other bilious disturbances; and for the removal of similar conditions it has been used with marked results. OHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Head.— Dullness of the head. Vertigo, with confusion of the mind. Storaach. — Bitter taste ; loss of appetite. Nausea ; eructations ; pyrosis, and distension of the bowels. Abdomen. — Swelling and painfulness of the liver; feeling of fullness in hepatic region ; jaundice {Chel., Merc). Tension in liver when lying on the right side, with pressure. Stool. — Constipation alternating with diarrhoea {Ant. crud., Nux v., Podo.). Urine.— Coloring matter of bile in urine ( Chel. ) . Urine scanty, brownish, and turbid (Ant. tart., Chel.). Chest. — Stitches in region of seventh rib when stooping, after- wards the pain spreads all over front of chest, making movement of arms, walking and stooping almost impossible • (Chel.). Compare.— Chel., Cinch., lod., Merc, Podo. THERAPEUTICS. This drug is only useful in hepatic disturbances, especially hypersemia of the liver, with jaundice, soreness of liver, etc. A CAULOPHYLLUM. 213 valuable remedy in jaundice. Duodenal catarrh. ' Gallstones. Intermittent fever, with jaundice (one marked cure). Said to be especially useful in miners with chronically disordered livers, and consequent symptoms, especially jaundice; sometimes with asthma. Several cases of varicose veins are reported cured by this drug. CAULOPHYLLUM. Synonym. — Caulophyllum Thalictroides. Natural order. — Berberidacese. Cowumon names. — Blue Cohosh. Papoose Root. Hahitat. — A perennial herb growing in rich woods in most parts of the United States. Preparation. — Tincture from the fresh root. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts upon the muscular tissues of the female generative organs, and especially upon the uterine motor nerves, also up- on the small muscles and joints. OHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Head. — ° Rheumatic or neuralgic headaches, especially in females (Cimic). °Headaches, dependent upon uterine dis- order (Cimic). Eyes. — Pressure behind the eyes ; profuse flow of tears. Face. — ° " Moth spots " on forehead, with leucorrhoea. Mouth. — Teeth feel sore and elongated. Tongue coated white. Sensation of heat and dryness in the mouth. Throat. — Distress in fauces, which causes frequent inclination to swallow. Stomach. — Empty eructations. Frequent gulping up of sour, bitter fluid, with vertigo. ^Spasmodic vomiting, cardialgia, excessive nausea, spasms of the stomach attending uterine irritation. °Dyspepsia, with spasmodic symptoms; from uterine irritation. Abdomen. — Spasmodic action of the muscular tissues of the in- testines, from irritation of motor nerves, and from rheuma- tism. 214 CAULOPHYLLUM. Female Organs. — Sensation as if the uterus ivere congestedy with fullness and tension in hypogastric region (Aloe, Bell., Cimic, Puis.). Spasmodic pains in uterus, and various portions of hypogastric region. "Menstrual colic ; retroverted uterus. "Suppression of menses, with spasms of uterus, or great atony (Cimic). "Dysmenorrhoea ; with aphthae in vagina; with hysterical convulsions. "Threatened abortion; pains feeble, irregular, spasmodic. "Deficient, spasmodic labor pains (Gels.) ; they seem to fly in all direc- tions, but do not press down. "Deficient labor from spas- modic rigidity of os uteri (Bell., Cimic, Gels.) ; sharp prick- ing pains. "Passive hemorrhage after abortion or confine- ment (Cinch.). "Protracted lochia from atony of the uter- us. "Intermittent uterine contractions (>Sfec. cor^z-.). "After- pains, after exhausting lengthy labor. "Sub-involution after abortion or confinement. Respiratory Organs. — ^Spasmodic affections of chest and larynx. Limbs. — ^Rheumatisni of the small joints {Act. spic, Led.). Constant flying pains in arms and legs, reinains only a few minutes in any one place. Drazving pains in joints of arms and legs, hands and feet. Upper Limbs. — Severe pain in zvrists and joints of fingers. Fingers very stiif ; shutting hand produces severe cutting pains in finger joints. Conditions. — Especially adapted to women. Compare. — Act. spic, Cimic, Puis., Sabad., Sec THERAPEUTICS. As has been detailed in the foregoing list of clinical symp- toms, Caulophyllum has been found most useful in diseases of the female generative system, including important abnormal puer- peral conditions which need not be repeated. It has also been used in hysteria ; spinal anaemia from uterine irritation ; chorea at puberty ; hysterical or epileptiform spasms at puberty. It is a valuable remedy in rheumatism of the small joints (Actea sp., Led.), especially of the wrists and fingers. CAUSTICUM. 215 CAUSTICUM. Preparation. — Causticum is a drug made according to- Hahnemann's directions, by mixing Caustic Lime and Bi- sulphate of Potash. It is probably, both chemically and patho- genetically, a weak solution of Potassium hydrate. The three lowest decimal dilutions are made with dilute alcohol ; after that alcohol is used. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Through the medulla oblongata and the inferior recurrent branch of the pneumogastric, Causticum produces paralysis of the vocal organs, together with an inflammation of the mucous lining of the larynx and trachea. It also causes paresis of the portio dura, thus paralyzing all the muscles of the face, paresis of the sphincter vesicae, and of other single parts. The condition is rather one of paralytic weakness and thus exhibits the gen- eral weakness so characteristic of all the potash salts. It& main sphere of clinical application has therefore been in para- lytic affections and laryngeo-tracheal catarrh, aphonia being- its chief indication in the latter affections. OHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind.— Weakness of memory. Melancholy mood; apprehen- sive, despondent; with exhaustion. Melancholy; before menstruation ; with prostration. Anxious, uneasy ; un- willing to go to bed ; preventing sleep ; after stool. Peevish, fretful (Calc. phos., Cham., Cina.). Inattentive and dis- tracted. Disinclined to work. Head. — Vertigo ; forward and sideways; at night in bed, on rising and lying down again ; on looking fixedly at an ob- ject; during menses, worse on stooping, better afternoons. Painless digging in the whole head. Throbbing and stitches in vertex. Pressive pain in the right frontal eminence. Pain at small spot on vertex as if bruised, only on touch. Stitches in the temple. Itching of scalp (Graph., Nitr. ac, Phos,, Sep., Sulph.). Tension of the scalp (Asar., Phos.). 216 CAUSTICUM. Eyes. — Inflammation, with burning, stinging; dryness and, photophobia. Pressure in eyes as if sand luere in them {Ars., Ign., Natr. mur., Sulph.). Lachrymation ; worse in open air. Itching of the eyes, especially of the lids (Calc, Sulph.). Inclination to close the eyes, lids seem heavy (Coni.), evenparalysis of upper lids. (Gels., Plumb., Sep., Zinc.). Weakness in the recti muscles. Photophobia with constant necessity to wink. Burning and itching in inner canthi (Ars.). Flickering or sparks before the eyes (CycL, JJferc, Phos.). light obscured; as from gauze (Baryt., Croc, Khus tox., Sulph.) ; as from a thick fog or cloud (Nux v., Phos., Puis.) ; momentarily, on blowing the nose; as from swarms of insects. Ears. — Koaring or buzzing in the ears (Bell., Cinch.). Words and steps re-echo in her ears (Merc, Phos.). Stitches in the right ear. Nose. — Dry coryza, with stoppage of the nose {Jfux v.). Fre- quent sneezing, in morning. Pimples on tip of nose. Pro- fuse nosebleed. °01d warts on nose. Face. — Transient, violent drawing pain in right cheek, and then in the ear. Sensation of tension and pain in the jaius, so that she could only with ^difficulty open the mouth, and could not eat zvell because a tooth seemed too long {Merc). Paralysis of one side of the face. Kheumatic pains in lower jaws. Mouth. — Painful looseness and elongation of the teeth. (Lye, Mtr. ac). Burning pain in lower molar, extending to nose and eyes. Tearing, stitching toothache (Puis.). Gums painfully sensitive {Carb. v., Merc). Painful vesicle on tip of tongue. Greasy, putrid taste (Cham., Puis.). Epidermal coating of mouth and fauces abraded ; mucous membrane swollen and loose ; tongue, palate and uvula swollen and red ; sensation of glowing coals ; disposition to swallow and haw^k, increasing pain; much saliva and mucus; hoarse- ness ; fever with rapid pulse and unquenchable thirst. Sore, painful spot on hard palate. Stuttering, difficult, indistinct speech (Hyos., Stram.). "Speechlessness from paralysis of organs of speech. (Dulc, Gels., Hyos., Naja, Nux m.). Throat. — Mucus collects in throat; cannot be raised by hawk- ing; is obliged to swallow it. Dryness, rawness, scrap- CAUSTICUM. 217 mg, tickling' in the throat (Aram, carb., Carb, v., Phos., Puis.). Stomach. — Eructations, burning hot (Lye); empty; tasteless; as from undigested food in stomach. Pains in stomach, re- lieved by lying down. Pinching, clawing in pit of stomach on deep breathing. Pressure in pit of stomach. Sensation as if stomach were disordered. Abdomen. — Pains in abdomen, causing her to bend double (Aloe, Coloc, Iris) ; worse from eating or tightening the clothes. Stitches in hepatic region. Stool and. Anus. — Haemorrhoids, large, hard, stinging, burning ; painful when touched ; walking unendurable. Fissures in anus ; pains worse when walking. Frequent loud emission of offensive flatus. Pressure in the rectum. Frequent sud- den piercing pain in the rectum. Itching arid stick- ing in the rectum. Itching in the anus (Cham., Sulph.) and genitals. Frequent ineffectual urging to stool. Stool passes better when standing. Pain in perineum with pulsa- tion. Stool tough and shining, as if greased (Amm. mur.). Urinary Organs. — Paralysis of the bladder from long reten- tion of urine. Involuntary passage of urine at night when asleep (Ars., Cupr.) ; when coughing (Colch.), sneez- ing, or blowing nose (Natr. mur., Puis., Zinc). Burning in urethra when urinating (Apis, Aeon., Canth.)] sudden at night. Ketention of urine, with frequent and urgent desire ; occasionally a few drops or small quantity may dribble away (Aeon.). Urinates so easily, not sensible of the stream (Arg. nit.). Urine dark-brown (^rz/.), turbid and cloudy on standing. Male Organs. — Pressive pains, as if crushed, in right testicle (Aeon., Arg, nit.). During coition, blood discharged from urethra with the semen. Itching of the scrotum. Female Organs. — Biting in the pudenda, as from salt, after micturition, xiversion to coition. Menses too late, but profuse; no discharge at night; offensive odor; cause itching of the pudenda. Cutting colic and diarrhoea during menses. Pain in the back during menstruation. Leucor- rhoea profuse ; flows like the menses, and has same odor. Respiratory Organs. — The laryngeal muscles refuse their service; cannot speah a loud word (Arum, Phos.). Great 218 CAUSTICUM. hoarseness, worse mornings and evenings, with scraping in the throat {J^uoc v.) ; could not speak aloud for several days (Puis.). Dry sensation in air passages. Pain in larynx on blowing the nose. Frequent need to hawk and clear the larynx. Cough, violent, hollow, at times dry, with pain in right chest; night and morning, with tightly adhering mucus in chest; soreness in chest; tickling in paroxysms, with sore sensation in a streah doivn along trachea, where every cough pains; wakes from sleep; caused by crawling in larynx or from stooping ; always from speaking. Cough, with pain in hip, and involuntary discharge of urine (Alum.). Cough relieved by a swallow of cold water. Short- ness of breath precedes the cough. Arrest of breath when speaking or walking rapidly; must suddenly catch for breath. Rattling in the chest when coughing. Tightness of chest; musfc frequently take a deep breath. Soreness in chest (Arn., Baryt.). Burning soreness in a streak under the sternum, with cough, etc. Stitches in the chest (Bry., Kali carb.). Sensation as if the clothes were too tight. Painful compression from both sides towards ster- num, with oppression of breath and weakness of voice. Neck and Back. — Painful stiffness and tension of neck. Sharp stitches in left lumbar region. Pressing, cramp-like pain in region of kidneys. In coccyx, dull, drawing pains; bruised pain. Limbs.— Paralytic weakness of the limbs; trembling. Intoler- able weariness in limbs in evening. Arthritic pains in all parts of the limbs. Upper Limbs. — Trembling of the hands. Drawing pains in finger joints. Lower Lim.bs.— Bursting pains in leffc hip when coughing. Cracking in knees when walking. Bruised pain in the thighs and legs ; mornings in bed. Tension and stiffness in hollow of knee when walking. Cramps in the calves in the morn- ing ; in feet. Stiffness in the ankles. Tearing in tendons be- neath the right calf. In ball of great toe, crawling, burn- ing, severe pressive pain ; burning stitches. Generalities. — At night cannot get a quiet position or lie still a minute. Uneasiness of body while sitting, with CAUSTICUM. 219 anxiety about the heart. Parts upon which he lies feels bruised (Arn., Bapt.); bruised pain when touched. Tearing in joints and bones. Trembling. Faint-like sinking of strength. Sour smelling night sweats all over (Sil.). Pro- fuse sweat when walking in open air. "Hemiplegia after cerebral haemorrhage or softening. "Epileptic attacks dur- ingtime of puberty ; also worse duringnew moon (Sil.) . "Con- vulsions, with screams, gnashing of teeth, and violent movement of limbs, with feverish head and coldness of hands and feet. "Chorea, even at night; right side of face and tongue may be paralyzed. "Haemorrhages of very dark blood. "Painful varices, ulcers, or warts; net-like appear- ance of capillaries. Skin.— Itching over the whole body. "Intertrigo during denti- tion. Excessive itching; moist tetter on the neck. Erup- tion of pimples on tip of nose. "Injuries of the skin which had healed become sore again. Sleep. — Uneasy, restless sleep. Yawning and stretching. Many motions with arms and legs during sleep. Intense sleepi- ness; cannot resist it; must lie down. Startings from sleep. Aggravation.— Generally morning and evening-, in open air. Conditions.— Persons of dark hair and rigid fibre most af- fected. Compare.— Amm. mur., Brom., Calc. c. Gels., Ign., Lach.,. Nux v., Fhos., Puis., Ehus tox., Spong., Stan., Sep., Sulph., Zinc. Antidotes.— Asaf., Coloc, Coff., Nux v., Sp. nitr. d. Causticum Antidotes.— Merc, Sulph. THERAPEUTICS. The most important clinical use of Causticum is in the treatment of paralytic conditions of single parts; facial paralysis, especially from exposure to dry cold winds ; paralysis of upper lids; paralysis of the hps, tongue; larynx (diflScult speech) ; gloso-pharyngeal muscles (difficult deglutition); blad- der (enuresis), etc. Paralysis following rheumatism, diphtheria, etc. Hemiplegia after cerebral haemorrhage or softening. Causticum is a valuable remedy for aphonia, which may result 220 CEDRON. from laryngeal paralysis, as is usually the case when it is indicat- ed, but it is also useful in catarrhal aphonia, from taking cold, even acute laryngitis, the hoarseness and aphonia being always worse mornings and evenings, and accompanied by rawness and scraping in the throat. The cough of Causticum is hollow and spasmodic, worse from warmth of bed and better from sips of cold water. There is also oppressed breathing, soreness, etc.. thus often indicating the drug in phthisis, especially'' laryngeal or bronchial. Epileptiform attacks during jjuberty. Chorea, especially affecting the right side. Neuralgia. Intertrigo in folds of skin. Unhealthy skin. Warts and horny growths (Ant. c). Varices. Ulcers. Net-like appearance of capilla- ries. Haemorrhages of very dark blood. Acid dyspepsia. Gastralgia. Hsemorrlioids, painful. Constipation from partial paralysis of the parts; stool passed better When standing. Fissures of anus. Pruritus ani. Causticum is a useful remedy in rheumatic and arthritic inflammation, with contractions of flexors and stiffness of joints. A sort of rheumatic paralysis, so frequently observed, often flnds in Causticum an excellent remedy. Indeed in almost any trouble where Causticum is indicated there is a tendency to paralytic weakness, either general, or, more offcen, of single parts. The patient is usually anaemic, apprehensive, anxious, and has neither disposition or ability to make any physical or mental exertion. CEDRON. Synonym. — Simaba Cedron. Katwral order. — Simaruba- ceae. Habitat. — A small tree indigenous to tropical America. Preparation. — Tincture from the dry, powdered seeds. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts upon the cerebro-spinal and the sympathetic nervous systems, giving rise principally to cerebral congestion, and fol- lowing this to a febrile condition much resembling intermittent fever, especially such as occurs in damp, warm, low, marshy climates. The chief characteristic of this remedy is a periodi- city which is often clock-lihe in its regularity (Aran. diad.). CHAMOMILLA. 221 THERAPEUTICS. Has been little used save in intermittents, especially those of an obstinate character, accompanied by violent cerebral dis- turbances, and which continually recur in spite of other treat- ment ; also, more particularly, if originating [in damp, warm, marshy climates, or in tropical countries, and when accom- panied by an enlarged liver and spleen, general anaemia and dropsy. Has also cured intermittent neuralgia, chorea and hysterical spasms. According to Casanova, residents of hot countries are more susceptible to the influences of the drug. In South America, Cedron is considered a specific for the bites of venomous serpents. Compare.— Arn., Ars., Cinch., Gels., Lach. CHAMOMILLA. Synonym. — Matricaria Chamomilla. Jfatural order.— ^ Compositse. Cownnon name. — Chamomile. EaMtat. — ^An an- nual plant found in uncultivated fields in Europe, especially in sandy regions. Preparation. — Tincture from the whole fresh plant when in flower. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts primarily upon the nervous system, causing an in- tensely acute susceptibility to morbid impressions and in the motor sphere giving rise to general exhaustion and prostra- tion. Through the nervous system it acts prominently upon the liver and upon the digestive and respiratory mucous mem- branes, producing irritation, and giving rise to congestion, catarrh, and other abnormal conditions to which these parts are especially liable. The leading feature of Chamomilla is its excessive sensitiveness to pain, accompanied usually by great peevishness and irritability. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Anxious; uneasy; fretting and moaning about trifles (Aeon., Abies can.). Uneasiness, anxiety, agonized toss- ing about. Irritahle, impatient mood (Anac, Bry,, JSfux 222 CHAMOMILLA. v., Hep. s.). Peevishness (Calc. phos., Caust., Borax); ill- huTYior (Bry.). Whining restlessness ; the child wants different things, and refuses or repels them when given (Bry., Cina.). Child cries; quiet only when carried. Omits words when writing or speaking (Lye, Nux m.). Pains intolerahle ; cannot he endured (Cinch., Caff.). Head. — Confusion ; afternoons, with pressure over the eyes. Vertigo after eating (Nux v.), or on rising from bed (Acon.j Bry., Phos.), with tendency to faint. Pressive headache in temples, as from pressure with fingers. Wandering, lanci. nating pains in temples and one-half of head. Transient attacks of throbbing in one-half of the drain. Pressure extending from vertex to forehead and temples; worse when thinking of it (Ign.); from sudden stooping and from mental exertion. Eyes. — Eye swollen ia morning. Agglutinated with purulent mucus (Calc. c, Lye, Merc, Puis., Sil., Sulph.). Violent pressure in orbital region ; sensation in eyeball as if tightly compressed from all sides, with momentary obstruction of vision. Ears. — Eoaring in the ears as from rushing waters (Coccul., Gels.). Pressing earache; stitching, tearing pains {Merc, Puis.). Nose. — Extremely sensitive smell (Aeon., Agar., Aur., Bell., Colch., Hep. s.). Irritation to sneeze, with crawling, dry heat ; stoppage ; sensation as if coryza would appear. Face. — Redness of one cheeh, the other pale (Aeon., Arn.). Burning in face. Stitches in the jaw, extending into the back teeth or inner ear. Mouth. — Lips crack and peel. Toothache ; drav*^ing ; stitching ; from cold; after eating; in the room ; getting warm in bed {Merc)', after a warm drink {Puis.). Teeth feel too long (Caust., Lye, Nitr. ac); sensitive. Collection of metallic, sweetish saliva in the mouth (Phyt., Phos., Plumb., Puis.). Taste bitter (Ars., Bry., Coloc, Cinch., Kux v., Puis., Sulph.); in morning like rancid fat (Caust., Puis.). Blisters on and beneath the tongue, with etinging pain. Tongue coated ; yellow ; dirty white ; dry. Throat.— Spasmodic constriction of the pharynx. Sore throat, with swelhng of parotid gland. CHAMOMILLA. 223 Stomach. — Eructations smelling of bad eggs (Agar., Ant. tart., Arn., Psor., Sep.). Great thirst for cold water (Aeon., Ars., Bry.). Nausea; sour vomiting. Pressure in the stomach, as from a stone, after eating {Ars., Bry., Puis.). Pressive pain in stomach and beneath short ribs, which impedes breathing, especially after drinking coffee. Abdomen. — Griping, tearing colic In region of navel and lower down on both sides, with pain in small of back, as if broken {Bell.). Emission of flatus. Cutting, sticking colic ; flatu- lence in hypochondria; abdomen distended like a drum (Carb. v., Cinch.), and sensitive to touch. Pain in belly from side to side just above the navel, corresponding to the transverse colon, commencing in the right and going- over to the left. Stool and Anus. — Blind haemorrhoids (Brom., Nux v.). Stools white, slimy, with colic; painless, green watery (Sulph.); hot, smelling like rotten eggs (Ascl. t., Calc. c); green watery, corroding, with colic (Sulph.); thirst, bitter taste, and bitter eructations. Itching in the anus. Urinary Organs. — Burning in neck of bladder when urinating. Female Organs. — Drawing from sacral region forward; griping and pinching in uterus, followed hy discharge of large clots of blood. Profuse discharge of clotted blood, with severe labor-lihe pains in uterits', tearing pains in legs (Cimic, Puis.). Dragging toward uterus like labor pains, with frequent urging to urinate. Leucorrhoea ; acrid, watery; yellow, smarting. Nipples inflamed and very tender ; infant's breast tender to touch. Mammae hard and tender to the touch (Bry., Coni.). "Distressing after-pains. "Suppression of lochia, followed by diarrhoeic cohc, and toothache. Respiratory Organs. — Pressure in air-passages, with irrita- tion to cough. Hoarseness on account of tough mucus in larynx, only loosened by violent hawking. Sensation of rawness and scraping in larynx {iN'ux v.). Cough at night, from irritation toward the trachea. Paroxysms of coughing about midnight, with which something seems to rise to the throat, as if she would suflocate. Severe dry cough during sleep. Whistling, wheezing and rattling in trachea when breathing {Ant. tart., Ipec). Constriction in upper part 224 CHAMOMILLA. of chest; in larynx. Stitches in the chest {Bry., Canth.,. Kali carh.). Heart. — Palpitation of the heart. Back.— Bruised sensation in the muscles of the loins and back (Arn.,, Bry.). Pains in the sacral region, especially at night. Drawing pain in the back. Limbs.— Pain in the periosteum, with paralytic weakness. Joints sore as if bruised or tired out ; cracking ; no power in hands and feet. Upper Limbs.— Arms go to sleep (Lye), especially when tak- ing hold of anything. Lower Limbs.— Cramps in the calves (Calc.c.,Camph., Nux v., Sil., Sulph.). Crawling and heaviness in the calves. Burn- ingin the soles (Calc. c, Sil.) ; puts them out of bed (SiUph.). Generalities.— Child makes itself stiff and bends backward ; kicks when carried; screams immoderately, and throws everything off. Convulsions of children; legs moved up and down, grasping and reaching with the hands, mouth drawn from side to side, eyes staring. Twitching in the eyelids, eyeballs, hps and facial muscles. Attacks of faintness; sick and qualmish about the heart. Excessive sensitiveness to pain (Aur., Cinch., CoiT., Ign.). Para- lytic sensation always accompanied by tearing, draw- ing pain, and these pains rarely occur without the paralytic or numb sensation in the part. Stitches jumping from place to place, especially in knees and ankles (Puis.) disap- pearing on motion. Sleep.— Sleepy, but cannot sleep (Bell., Lach., Op.). Restless sleep; moaning, starting up, crying, tossing about and talking. Skin. — CEdematous, unhealthy, every injury suppurates (Borax, Graph., Hep. s., Sil., Sulph.). Burning and smart- ing pain in the ulcer, at night, with crawling and painful oversensitiveness to touch. Red rash on cheeks. Severe itching of the sweating parts. Fever.— Coldness of the whole body, with burning heat of face and eyes, and hot breath. Chill of posterior part, with heat of anterior part of body, or vice versa. Slight shiver- ings, alternating with heat, creep over the back and abdo- men. Alternations of heat and cold in various parts (Calc. CHAMOMILLA. 225 c). Heat in head and face (Aeon., Bell.). Chilliness from exposure to air. Profuse sweat on covered parts (Bell.). Perspiration on scalp and forehead. Condition. — In children ; lig^ht or brown hair ; nervous, excit- able temperaments ; arthritic or rheumatic diathesis. Compare. — Aeon., Agar., Ars., Bell., Bry., Cinch., Cina., Coccul., Coff., Coloc, Graph., Hep. s., Hyos., Ign., Mag. carb., Merc, Natr. m., JYuoc v., Puis., Sulph., Strain. Antidotes.— Aeon., Alum., Borax, Camph., Coccul., Coff.. Coloc, Ign., Nux v., Puis. Chamomilla Antidotes.— Coff., Op. THERAPEUTICS. In Chamomilla the emotional predominates, and this peculiarity often indicates the drug in a variety of diseases not suggested by its general symptoms. It is especially useful in women and children of a nervous, excitable temperament, and so effectually calms nervous excitement that it has been termed "the opium of homoeopathy." The patient is peevish and irri- table, and cries and whines continually if it cannot have its own way. If a child it must be petted and carried continually. The adult is very sensitive to pain, which seems unendurable, and she is all the time whining and complaining. These symptoms call for Chamomilla, no matter what is the nature of the ailment- children during dentition, and with bowel troubles; earache, etc. ; women who have hysteria, neuralgia, toothache, or gastric or hepatic derangements. Often indicated in persons who have been depending on Opium or the Bromides. Bad effects from anger or violent excitement. Chamomilla is a lead- ing remedy for fevers arising from local irritation— during denti- tion, or from indigestible substances in the stomach or intes- tines, from worms, etc., or from liver disturbances; also diar- rhoea or convulsions from the same causes, especially if the char- acteristic mental symptoms are present. An excellent remedy for the diarrhoea of nursing children, the stool being green and shmy; watery; often like chopped ^^^ and spinach; undigested; smelKng badly; cohc; from taking cold or during dentition. Gastralgia, pressure as from stone in stomach after eating. Dyspepsia. Sometimes useful in catarrhal troubles of children, either nasal, laryngeal or bronchial. Nervous cough. Chamo- 226 CHELIDONIUM. milla is an invaluable remedy in many disorders of the female sexual system, being especially useful in the lying-in room ; menorrhagia; neuralgic or membranous dysmenorrhoea ; leucorrhoea; threatened miscarriage; severe after-pains; sup- pressed lochia, or flow dark or too profuse ; puerperal convul- sions; milk suppressed from anger; inflamed breasts, etc. Convulsions in children brought on by excitement or intestinal irritation. Sleeplessness in children or adults from nervous ex- citement. Also useful in muscular or articular rheumatism, with great nervous excitability ; also with erratic pains ; drive him out of bed and compel him to move about ; wounds which suppurate (topically and internally). CHELIDONIUM. Synonym. — Chelidonium Majus. J\fatural order. — Papa- veracese. Common name. — Celandine. Habitat. — A perennial plant growing in waste places in Germany and France. Prepa- ration.— Tincture from the fresh plant. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts powerfully upon the hepatic system, giving rise to con- gestion, inflammation, jaundice, and a train of general symp- toms indicative of serious hepatic disturbance. It also acts sympathetically upon the lungs, especially the right, producing congestion, inflammation, and symptoms of hepatization. The most important characteristic of Chelidonium is a constant pain under the lower angle of the. right shoulder blade. OHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Great anxiety. Apathy. Head. — Vertigo with bilious derangements (Podo.). Heaviness in the head, extending into the right side of the neck. Press- ure in the forehead extending to the orbits, which pain as if sore, on moving the eyes {Bry.). Pressive pain in right side of head. Tensive pain in forehead, as from a band above the eyes (Ant. tart., Gels., Merc, Jfitr. ac., Sulph.). Heaviness in the occiput (Lach.) ; with drawings down- CHELIDONIUM. 227 ward into the nape. Pressive, drawing pains in left side of occiput. Pain extending back and forth from the vertex to neck, whereby the shoulders are drawn upward. Eyes. — Neuralgic, tearing pains in and above the eyes. Whites of eyes dirty yellow (Canth., Crot., lodi.. Plumb.). Aching in the eyeballs; worse on moving the eyes {Bry., Cimic). Dimness of vision. Blinding spot before the eyes, lachryma- tion when looking at it. Pressing pain under left eye, which seems to press down upper lid. Ears. — Sensation as of wind rushing out of the ears. Ears feel stopped (Carb. v.). Neuralgic pains in and around the ears (Bell., Merc). Loud distant roaring in the ears. Face. — Yellow color of the face (Asc. t., Hep. s., Myrica, Natr. mur., Sep.), especially of the forehead, nose, cheehs, and luhites of eyes. Cheehs darh, reddish- yellow (Bapt., Gels.). Pain in right cheek bone; feels as if swollen. Vio- lent tearing in maxillary antrum. Mouth. — Tearing pains from right ear to right teeth, in after- noon. Tongue: dry; thickly coated yellow (Cinch., lodi., Phos., Rumex) ; white slimy, with red margins showing im- print of teeth. Bitter water collects in the mouth. Bitter taste when not eating or drinhing {Bry., J\Cux v.. Puis., Sulph.). Throat. — Choking, as from swallowing too large a morsel. Sen- sation as if something pressed against oesophagus, imped- ing swallowing. Stonaach. — Eructations. Vomiting. Thirst. Appetite dimin- ished. Sharp painful stitches from pit of stomach through to back. Anxiety and oppression at stomach. Abdomen. — Pains from region of liver, shooting toward the back. Stitches in region of liver (Ars., Bry., Cinch., Kali carb., Merc, Nux v., Sep.). Fain in hepatic region; also in right scapula. Hepatic region sensitive to pressure. Pain across the umbilicus, as if the abdomen were con- stricted by a string {Plumb., Pod., Tabac). Abdomen hard and distended. Griping, cutting pains in the bowels. (Bry., Coloc.) ; after eating. Spasmodic drawing pains in both inguinal regions. Stool and Anus. — In rectum: burning and cutting; crawling and itching. Contraction of anus; itching (Sulph.); dur- 228 CHELIDONIUM. ing stool. Stool: thin, pasty, bright yelloiv (^th., Borax) ; light gray; slimy; mucous; constipated, like sheep's dung; dark j^ellow. Urinary Organs. — Spasmodic pain in right kidney and liver. Dragging pain in bladder, with spasmodic trembhng pains in inguinal region. Violent pains in the direction of the uterus, preceding the passing of turbid urine. Urine darh- yellow; tin^bicl on passing, darh, brownish red (Ant. tart.) ; stains diaper dark-red ; whitish; foamy; lemon -yellow, turbid. Female Organs. — Menses too late, too profuse, and of too long duration (Ferr.). Burning in vagina, recurring each day at precisely same hour. Respiratory Organs. — Hoarseness {Aeon., Carb. v., Caust.)^ Cough : after waking, on rising, with sensation of dust un- der sternum ; racking, as in consumption, with much ex- pectoration ; violent, somewhat spasmodic; in paroxysms {Bros.). Short and oppressed breathing, with sensation of constriction in chest ; anxiety. Pains in chest and back. Oppression of the chest ; clothing seems too tight. Spas- modic pressure behind middle of sternum, extending into the bronchi with constriction. Stitches in chest {Bry., Kali carb.). worse right side ; worse during inspiration. Stitches- beneath right ribs. Back and Neck. — Stiffness of the nech (Khus. tox.. Lye). Pain in right cervical muscles, and in region of right clavi- cle. Stiffness in back between the shoulders. Drawing from nape of neck down the back. Pain in or beneath the right shoulder blade (Abies can., Podo.) ; stitches. Pain in right shoulder. Constant pain under inferior angle of right scapiola {M^G.hvg.); may extend into chest or stomach. Pain as though lower lumbar vertebrae would separate when bending forward . Limbs. — Limbs feel heavy, stiff, lame; feel paralyzed; cold. Eheumatism, the least touch anywhere is exceedingly pain- ful; sweat without relief. Rheumatism worse in the lower limbs, especially in the right tarso-tibial articulation, worse from walking. Sleep. — Frequent yawning ; drowsy and sleepy during the day {Mux in.). CHELIDONIUM. 229 Generalities. — Great debility and lassitude after eating and after waking in the morning. Paralytic drawing and lame- ness in single parts. Indolence, better in the open air, with prostration and sleepiness. Numbness in muscles of various parts, especially on right side. Fever. — Chill and coldness of whole body, most in hands and feet. Intense heat in evening, after lying down. Sweat in the morning or toward morning (Calc. c.) Compare. — Bry., Bapt., Caul., Cimic, Cinch., Gels., Lye, Mag. c, Merc, JYiom v., Podo., Phos., Puis., Sulph. Antidotes. — Aeon., Cam ph., acids, wine or coffee. Chelidonium Antidotes.— Bry. THERAPEUTICS. Chelidonium is particularly useful in the treatment of vari- ous functional and organic disturbances of the liver from sim- ple biliousness, to congestion and inflammation. It is a valua- ble remedy in jaundice, and has proved palliative in the passage of gall-stones. Its hepatic symptoms are well defined — soreness, swelling and pain in right hypochondrium ; tongue coated yellow with red margin, showing imprint of teeth; or coated white; diarrhoea, stools yellow or clay-colored ; skin and whites of the eyes yellow. These symptoms may be more or less present, but there is another symptom that is still more characteristic and is always present if Chelidonium is well indicated — a pain under the angle of the right shoulder blade, which may extend to the chest, stomach or hypochondrium. The drug is of frequent use in neuralgia dependent on disordered liver, especially when affecting the right side of the head and face, over right ear or right eye, or in right cheek bone. Headache, vertigo, dull- ness, lethargy, hypochondria, associated with disturbances of the stomach and liver. Gastric catarrh and gastralgia \vith symp- toms already mentioned. Sometimes indicated in rheumatism associated with hepatic derangements. Frequently useful in <3atarrhal affections of the respiratorytract, especially in what is known as bilious pneumonia, when affecting the right lung. Also in the capillary bronchitis of children, and whooping cough. Cough loose and rattling, expectoration difiicult, oppressed breath- ing, hepatic disturbances, pain under right shoulder blade, etc, Chelidonium has very little affinity for the left side of the body. 230 CHIMAPHILA-CHININUM ARSENICOSUM. CHIMAPHILA. Synonym. — Chimaphila Umbellata. JSCatural order. — Eri- caceae. CoTmnon names. — Pipsissewe. Prince's Pine. Habitat — A small perennial evergreen plant found in dry woods in the United States and Canada. Preparation. — Tincture from the entire fresh plant. GENERAL ANALYSIS AND THERAPEUTICS. Acts very markedly upon the urinary apparatus, and has proved very efficacious in the treatment of catarrhal inflam- mations of the urinary passages, especially of the bladder. The urine is high colored, offensive, turbid and containing consider- able ropy or bloody mucus and depositing a copious mucous sediment, burning and scalding during urination ; great strain- ing before and after. Also recommended in retention of urine ; suppression of urine in infants ; acute prostatitis with retention of urine. Compare.— Aeon., Apis, Apoc, Can. sat., Canth.,Equisetum. .CHININUM ARSENICOSUM. Synonym, =— Arseniate of Quinine. Preparation. — Tritura- tions. GENERAL ANALYSIS. This drug has not been extensively proved, our knowledge of its action being chiefly derived from clinical sources. It seems to affect the blood composition, the mucous tissues and the nervous system, giving rise to arthritic conditions^, low mflammatory states, especially involving the mucous mem- branes, and accompanied by great exhaustion of the vital forces. It thus becomes homoeopathic to diphtheria and malig- nant scarlatina, in both of which affections it has been re- peatedl}^ and successfully used. It also produces a fever closely CHININUM AESENICOSUM. 231 simulating an intermittent, while the neuralgias resulting from its use are periodical in their character. It has been successfully used in various malarial affections. Its action evidently com- bines, more or less, the effects of both Arsenic and Quinine, from each of which, however, it is markedly different in the to- tality of its symptoms. CHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — °Depressed spirits ; mental dullness ; wishes to be quiet and let alone {Gels.). ° Anxiety and nightly delirium. ^Irritable mood precedes the headache. Head. — °Hemicrania, worse from bodily or mental exercise; also in consequence of fright. Confused feeling in head. Severe, darting, tortuous pains running up into the head and preventing sleep. Frontal and occipital headache. "Neuralgic pain in right temple and above eye. "Tearing, boring pain in left side of head, affecting the eye, with flicker- ing, pain and lachrymation ; ringing in ears, nausea and vomiting during the attack, which regularly appears at midnight {Chin, sulph.). Eyes. — "Intense jjhotophobia and spasms of orbicularis muscles, gushing hot tears, large ulcers attacking each eye ; aggravation from midnight until 3 a.m. ; keratitis. "Scrofu- lous ophthalmia ; worse after midnight. "Flickering before left eye, with pain and lachrymation ; in hemicrania. Ears. — "Ringing in ears; hemicrania (Chin, sulph.). Nose.— Fluent coryza, profuse discharge. "Nose stopped up ■with a purulent and bloody substance ; diphtheria. "Corners of nose excoriated ; diphtheria (Arum). Face. — "Pale, sallow and bloated; in intermittent fever (Ars., Natr. mur.). "Swelling of the submaxillary and parotid glands; in diphtheria. "Blueness of the lips; in tuber- culosis. Mouth. — "Tongue coated thick and brown ; diphtheria. "Foetor oris ; in diphtheria and scarlatina. Throat. — "Malignant angina during scarlatina, with paleness of skin, quick exhaustion and rapid destruction of mucous membranes of fauces. "Diphtheria; great fetor oris; sub- maxillar}^ glands swollen and painful ; nose completely stopped up with a purulent bloody substance; corners of 232 CHININUM ARSENICOSUM. nose excoriated ; tongue coated thick and brown ; both ton- sils covered with a gray exudation, which on disappearing leaves a bloody ulcer with uneven edges; lower half of uvula gangrenous, upper half covered with exudation; posterior wall of fauces completely covered with exudation; swallowing of liquids very difficult; great prostration; sleeplessness ; pulse small, very frequent. Stomach. — °Thirst which cannot be appeased, during attacks of suffocation ; in tuberculosis. °Eggs and fish cause pain- less diarrhoea at once. °Nausea and vomiting, followed by sleep {Ant. tart.), hemicrania. Abdomen. — °Left hypochondriac region enlarged; also abdo- men bloated ; in intermittent fever. Stool. — "Diarrhoea from malaria {Chin, sulph.); stools thin, watery, offensive {Ars.); with pains in bowels. Urinary Organs. — "Spasmodic retention of urine. Respiratory Organs. — "Hoarseness in diphtheria; seemed to prevent diphtheritic membrane from spreading to larynx. "Attacks of suffocation begin in morning and last till noon, with blue lips, hands and nails. Tuberculosis. "Must sit bent forward, and, if possible, at an open window during attack of suffocation {Ars., Carh. v.)\ worse in any other position. "Dyspnoea with anxiety ; in tuberculosis. "Senile sub-acute catarrh with periodical fever, generally worse at night. "Paralysis of respiratory muscles on left side ; inter- costal neuralgia. Heart and Pulse. — ° Angina pectoris, with dropsical symp- toms, venous hypercemia and cyanosis. Trembling of heart ; palpitation, noticed on leaning against back. Sen- sation as if heart had stopped ; beats not perceptible ; action irregular. Pulse small; very frequent {200); ir- regular. "Violent neuralgic pain in left mammary region, as though torn with red hot tongs ; intercostal neuralgia. Limbs. — "Blueness of hands and nails ; tuberculosis. "Limbs icy-cold ; tuberculosis. QfQi[iQr2iHt\QS>.—° Great prostration. "Epileptiform spasms. Sleep. — "Deep sleep after suffocative attacks. "Restless sleep ; sleeplessness. Fever. — "Intermittent fever ; chill always in forenoon, not at a regular hour; sometimes once every day, again every other CHININUM SULPHURICUM. 233 day ; soraetimes paroxysms close with perspiration, some- times without; before attack, headache, yawning and stretching. ChiDiness coming in waves in evening, with restlessness; gooseflesh; worse on moving hands and feet to a cool place in bed, also on motion, and by thinking of it. After chill, fever toward midnight; pulse full and strong, with inclination to throw olf covers. No sweat after fever, but weak broken-up feeling in morning and no appetite for breakfast. °Violent fever, with great prostra- tion, in diphtheria and mahgnant scarlatina. Cold, clammy sweat all over. Skin. — Dry skin, pallor of skin, with rapid exhaustion. Peri- odical furuncula and abscesses, which relieve the head. Conditions. — Hydrogenoid constitution {Aran.). Compare. — Apis, Ars., Aran., Chin, sulph.. Cinch. THERAPEUTICS. The clinical range of this drug has already been sufficiently set forth and need not be repeated. Its chief use is in the treat- ment of intermittent fever and other diseases due to malarial poisoning, and in malignant forms of diphtheria and scarlet fever. CHININUM SULPHURICUM. Synonym. — Sulphate of Quinine. CoTi%mon najne. — Qui- nine. Preparation. — Triturations. GENERAL ANALYSIS. The physiological action of Quinine is not definitely settled. Probably its chief center of action is upon the base of the brain and the ganglionic nerve centers, yet it is equally probable that the cerebro-spinal system is primarily affected. From these centers of action the drug exerts its power upon nearly every organ and tissue of the body. The blood becomes hyper- fibrinized, and the number of red corpuscles are diminished, thus causing leucocythsemia and anaemia, resultin.o- in general debility and prostration, for which it is a true homoeopathic 234 CHININUM SULPHURICUM. remedy. The force and frequency of the heart's action are at first increased, afterward diminished and enfeebled, and the temperature of the body reduced, the vaso-motor nerve centers bein^ at first stimulated and afterward paralyzed, Hypersemia of local parts, bordering upon inflammation, may be set up ; the cerebrum being especially involved in this action, as is evinced by the characteristic brain symptoms so commonly manifest. Thus Quinine is homoeopathic to inflammations and fevers, as well as to the conditions of debility which result there- from. The likeness of its pathogenesis to those conditions resulting fi'om malarial poisoning is sufficient to explain its successful use in the treatment of intermittent and pernicious fevers, in which it may be, and often is, the true homoeopathic remedy. The spleen becomes enlarged and hypertrophied, its blood-making properties being destroyed, thus aiding in the production of an anaemic condition. This is accomplished through the profound action had upon the pneumogastric nerve, by which also the liver becomes paretic and congested, causing jaundice, and giving rise to many functional disturb- ances of the digestive tract. The supra-orbital branch of the trigeminus is especially affected by Quinine, which causes hyper- sesthesia and severe neuralgic pains, without necessarily hav- ing associated there with malaria or other disturbing influences, as is usually the case when other local nerves are affected. Quinine causes blindness and deafness, and produces stupor, delirium, and even convulsions. The most important feature of the action of Quinine is the intermittent character of the attacks which it produces, and the general resemblance of its eifects to those which result from malaria. Dr. Allen well remarks that while Quinine " arrests the development of low forms of vegetable life, and especially of the poison of marsh malaria, it rarely antidotes the effects of the poison on the system" ; and for this reason the drug is very seldom useful in the treatment of the many phases of chronic malarial poisoning, or even in acute cases after the effects of the poison are well developed. CHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Buoyancy, excited state; later despondency. Feeling of impending evil (Alum., Anac, Ars., Calc. c); anxiety. Memory "muddled"; thoughts not clear. CHININUM SULPHURICUM. 235 Head. — Whirling in head like a mill wheel. Vertigo with buzzing in ears, dijficult breathing and sichncss at stomach. Heaviness and confusion of head. Violent head- ache ; throbbing, pressive, or tearing pains in forehead and temples. Frontal headache; a shaking pain; feels every step ; begins toward noon with chill. ° Intermittent neio- ralgia at regula^r hours. ° Intermittent headache ; violent throbbing, luith vertigo and heat in face; involuntary closing of eyelids from prostration. °Headache; pain not severe, but day after day and week after week the brain is one continued ache. Distension of veins about head and neck. Eyes.— Disk and retina very anaemic; disk looks dry. Dim vision, as from a net or from a fog {Caust., Phos., Merc, Puis., Sulph.). Pupils dilated {Bell., Hyos., Stram.). Eyes very sensitive to light (Aeon., -BeZ^., Cinch.); lachryma- tion ; in the full glare of light. Bright light and sparks be- fore the eyes. {Cycl., Merc). Neuralgic twitches in supra and infra-orbital nerves; generally periodic. °Intermitten fc strabismus; child would squint one day and be entirely well the next. °Conjunctiva injected; lids red and swollen, pupils contracted; lachrymation ; extreme pho- tophobia; tearing in orbit, and headache, with thirst and fever; all appearing every second day. Black spot, size of pin's head, moves with right eye. Blind- ness. Twitching of the eyelids (Agar.). ° Severe supra- orbital neuralgia (Bell., Cinch., Spig.); occurring daily. Ears. — Hinging and roaring in the ears (Aeon., Ars., Bell., Cinch., Sulph.) ; also with deafness. Buzzing in ears. Nose. — °Violent epistaxis of young persons. Face.— Pale; suffering; sickly; puffy; earthy; oedematous. Aching about left malar bone. Jaundiced hue of face and conjunctiva. Neuralgia of left lower jaw (Cinch., Spig.). Facial neuralgia; morning periodicity; commences under eye, and extends into and around it. Mouth.— Mouth dry. Thirst, mostly only during sweat. Tongue white {Ant. c, ^rr/., Merc); thick yellow fur ; yellow at root (Merc, iod.); flabby (Merc). Saliva increased (Cinch., Merc, lodi., Nitr. ac). Excessive repugnance to all food. Taste pasty, flat or bitter. Speech disturbed or difficult (Caust., Gels., Hyos.). 236 CHININUM SULPHURICUM. Stomach. — Anorexia, or loss of appetite. Eructations; pyrosis; hiccough; nausea; vomiting. Pressure in pit of stomach. Pressure in stomach after eating, followed by cutting pains in abdomen. °Djspepsia or cardialgia, with nausea, loath- ing of food, eructations, bitter taste, vomiting of bile. Abdomen.— Pain in region of liver shortly before going to bed. °Fainful enlargeimejit of spleen after iivberinittent ; also with dropsy (^r5.). Dull pain in region of spleen, disap- pearing on pressure; also stitches in spleen. Distension of abdomen, with much rumbling and discharge of flatus {Carb.v., Cinch., Lye, Sulph.). Violent cutting, colicky pains, especially in region of transverse colon; also after eat- ing. "Relaxed condition of digestive organs of old people. Stool.— "Dysentery ; the fever intermits, or the evacuations ex- hale a gangrenous odor {Ars.). Nightly diarrhoea. Consti- pation or soft stools, followed by weakness. Stools pappy, frothy, frequent with much wind. Urine. — Deposit of a straw-yellow, granular, or of a brick -red sediment. Urine turbid, high-colored, and of a strong, urinous odor (Benz. ac). Haematuria; albuminuria. Female Organs. — Passive metrorrhagia, with diminished irri- tability. Respiratory Organs.— Cough caused by tickling in the larynx and bronchi. Breathing increased, slow, irregular {Digit.). Oppression of the chest, can scarcely breathe from weakness. "Stitches and sticking pains in sides of chest (Br3^, Kali carb.) ; intercostal neuralgia. Heart and Pulse.— Prsecordial anxiety; palpitation; heart feeble; general prostration (Aeon., Ars., Digit.). Pulse full and large; weak, trembling, scarcely perceptible (Aeon., Ars.). Neck and Back. — Sensitiveness of last cervical and first dor- sal vertehrce to pressure ; also of dorsal ver-tebrse. Third dorsal painful to touch, with oppression of the chest (Phos.). "Periodical pains in back; returning about mid- night, and extending into head ; spinal irritation. Limbs. — Weakness; trembling; power of will over limbs seem greatly hampered. Hands cold, and cold sweat. "Inflam- matory rheumatism ; acute, articular ; fever, remitting or intermitting; joints exquisitely sensitive (Cinch.). Heavi- CHININUM SULPHURICUM. 237 ness and aching in all the limbs, and especially in joints. °Sciatic neuralgia on right side. Generalities. — Restlessness ; excessive sensibility to touch and to noises. Internal bad feeling, as of coming illness. Weak- ness ; trembling ; faintness ; hunger. °Great sensitiveness to external influences. Great weariness, heaviness and disin- clination to work. Intermittent neuralgic pains in various parts. Symptoms return periodically (Ars.), on alternate days (Cinch.), or antepone. °Suppuration, with chilliness (Hep. s., Merc.) ; profuse sweat {Ars., Cinch., Phos., Sulph. ac). °ffidema, especially with liver and spleen affections {Ars.); malaria {Ars., Cinch.). °Feels lueak and nervous; a little exercise gives hiin palpitation. ° Debili- ty, caused by considerable loss of fluids; particularly after weakening loss of blood {Cinch.). Twitching or clonic spasms in limbs. Tetanic convulsions, with loss of consciousness. Sleep. — Sleeplessness ; °from over-stimulation of the nervous system. Fever. — Chill, regular paroxysin at the same hour (Ced.). Decided shaking chill at 3 p.m. Distinct cold, hot andj sweating stages, and a perfect apyrexia. Chill 10-11 A.M. (Natr. mur.) and 3-10 p.m., periodical, anteponing, tertian (Cinch.), or quartan; trembling of the limbs; pain in spleen (Ars.); spine sensitive; face pale; thirst; lips blue; ringing in the ears (Cmc/i/.). General chil- liness, especially in the back. Extremities, also nose and chin, cold. Bodily temperature diminished. Heat intense; fullness of head; face red; great thirst; after going to. bed, heat, with frequent yawning and sneezing ; delirious ; veins on arms and legs enlarge ; skin hot and dry. Pain in spine on pressure. Flushes of heat with thirst 4 p.m. Sweat with thirst; profuse even while quiet; coming on gradually after the heat; profuse also on least motion (Calc. c, Merc, Phos.); very profuse mornings in bed (Calc. c, JSCitr. ac, Phos.); profuse, exhausting, nightly diarrhoea; profuse sweat during sleep {Cinch., Phos.); debilitating siueat. Conditions. — Cachectic persons weakened by loss of blood. Compare. — Ars., Ced., Cinch., Eupat., Ferr., Lach., Natr. mur. 238 CICUTA VIROSA. THERAPEUTICS. The clinical uses of Quinine have been detailed in the fore- goinoj general analysis and symptomatology. It is undoubtedly most often useful in intermittent fever when the paroxysms recur at the same hour every day or every other day, or else occur a little earlier each day ; distinct stages, apyrexia perfect ; generally great sensitiveness and pain on pressure in dorsal region. In such cases the drug is homoeopathic and will cure. More often it is prescribed from a physiological standpoint and without proper indications, when it may temporarily neutralize the poison but does not cure, only having the effect of com- plicating the case with other symptoms and conditions, which makes its cure by the appropriate remedy all the more difficult. ■Quinine may be indicated in all conditions of malarial origin, if the symptoms agree, but not upon a pathological basis alone ; remittent, and pernicious fevers; congestive chills; enlarged spleen ; enlarged and congested liver ; jaundice ; anaemia ; leuco- cythemia; debility. To be thought of when typhoid fever, eruptive fevers, pneumonia, etc., display intermittent symp- toms, or become rapidly pernicious ; inflammations and sup- purations ; oedema ; congestion of the brain ; apoplexia ; neu- ralgia ; spinal irritation ; rheumatism ; dyspepsia ; deafness ; amaurosis, etc. CICUTA VIROSA. Katural order. — ^Umbelliferae. CorrvmonnaTnes . — Water Hem- lock. Cowbane. Habitat. — A perennial plant growing near streams and ponds and on wet lands in Germany and Western France. Preparation. — Tincture from the fresh root. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts pre-eminently as a cerebro-spinal irritant, producing tetanus, epileptic and epileptiform convulsions, trismus, and local tonic and clonic spasms in general. Its action closely re- sembles that of Nux vomica, with the important difference that in the latter the consciousness is unimpaired, while in Cicuta the functions of the brain are paralyzed, and an entire loss of consciousness is the result. CICUTA VIROSA. 239 CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Mind. — "Weeping, moauing and howling (Verat. alb.). Aberra- tion of mind, singing, performing the most grotesque danc- ing steps, shouting {Hyos.,StraTn.). Quiet disposition, con- tented, happy. Dull and stupid, mental torpor (Hyos., Op.) ; loss of ideas; unconsciousness. Anxiety, excessively affected by sad stories. Excitement and apprehension about the future. Head. — Vertigo; and reeling; falling to the ground. Jerking and twitching of the head. Severe occipital headache. Stupefying pain externally in forehead ; worse during rest. ° Affections of the brain from concussion; spasms (Cupr.). Eyes. — Staring at objects. Pupils dilated and insensible {Bell., Hyos., Op., OEnan.). Pupils at first contracted, afterward dilated. Objects appear double {Aur., Bell., Phyt., Stram.). Objects appear to alternately approach and recede. Ears. — Hardness of hearing. Face. — Face red; pallid; cadaverous {Ars., Verat. alb.). Dis- tortions, either horrible or ridiculous (Cupr.). Convulsions of the facial muscles {Agar., Ign., Nux v.). Mouth. — Teeth clenched, lockjaw (Absinth., Hyos., Laur., JVY<.jtJ v.). Grinding of the teeth (Arn., Hell., Ign., Cina., Podo.). Swelling of the tongue ; white, painful, burning ulcers on edges of tongue; painful to touch. Speech difficult; when talking he feels a jerk in the head, from before backward, as if he had to swallow the word, as in hiccough. Foam in and at the mouth (Coccul., Cupr., Laur., Naja). Throat. — Inability to swallow ; throat appears to be grown to- gether. Dryness in the throat. Stomach. — Great thirst (Aeon., Bry., Cham.). Longing for coal. Violent hiccough (Nux v., Hyos., Stram., Sec. cor.). Burning in the stomach (Ars., Camph., Canth.); and pres- sure. Swelling and throbbing in pit of stomach. Vomit- ing; with convulsions. Sudden shock deep in the stomach causes opisthotonos. Abdomen. — Rumbling and roaring in the abdomen. Disten- sion and painfulness of abdomen. Stools.— Frequent liquid stools. Diarrhoea early in the morn- ing, with irresistible desire to urinate. 240 CICUTA yiROSA. Urine.— Involuntary micturition. Spurting of urine. {Ars , Bell., Hyos., Op.), Passes large quantities of urine or else none at all. Male Organs.— Testicles drawn up. Stitches in fossse navicu- laris, with nightly emissions. Female Organs.— Menses delayed; spasmodic state if the menses do not appear. Tearing and drawing in the os coc- cygis, during menses. ^Eclampsia during child-birth. Respiratory Organs.— Oppression, want of breath; may arise from tonic spasm of pectoral muscles (Cupr.). Tightness of chest; scarcely able to breathe. Cold sensation in chest. Burning and hea,t in chest. Back. — Back bent backward like an arch (Cupr. Nux v., Op.). Pain on inner surface of scapulae. Tearing and jerking in coccyx. Limbs. — Trembling in all the limbs. Weakness of arms and legs. Spasmodic distortion of the limbs (Cina.). Com- plete powerlessness of limbs after sudden jerks. Upper Limbs. — Frequent involuntary jerking and twitch- ing in arms and fingers (Cupr. ). Nails blue. Lower Limbs. — His legs refused to carry him and he stag- gered. Trembling of one leg. Jerking. Generalities. — Spasms of all muscles {Agar., Zinc). Spasms with dark redness of face, blue lips and bloody froth from, the mouth. Convulsions, with loss of consciousness (Absinth.) ; frightful distortion of the limbs and whole body (Agar.). Convulsions with opisthotonos (Absinth., Nux v.. Op.). Epileptic attacks, with swelling of the stomach, as from violent spasms of the diaphragm; hiccough, screaming, redness of the face, trismus, loss of conscious- ness, and distortions of limbs (Absinth., Bell., CEnan.). Tonic spasms renewed from slightest touch {Strain.) ; from opening the door and from loud talking {Strain.). °Sud- den rigidity with jerks, afterward relaxation and weakness, during worm affections. Sensation in many parts, as from a bruise. Catalepsy, limbs hang down and patient appears lifeless. Sweat, most at night; on abdomen. Chills; chilli- ness, with a desire for warmth and warm stove. CIMICIFUGA. 241 Sleep. — Frequent waking, with sweat all over feels refreshed. Vivid dreams about events of previous day. Skin. — Elevated eruptions as large as peas^ on face and hands with burning pain zvhen touched ; later becomes confluent (Ant. tart., Crot. tig.). Burning, suppurating eruptions. Red vesicles on right scapula, painful to touch. Compare. — Absinth., Aeon., Bell., Coni., Cupr., Jjach., Hydroc. ac, Hyos., Jfux v., Puis., Stram., Verat. alb. Antidotes. — Arn., Op.; for large doses : Tobacco. Cicuta Antidote.— Opium. THERAPEUTICS. Cicuta is an invaluable remedy for convulsions from any cause where consciousness is lost — epileptic, hysterical, from indigestion, worms, repercussed eruptions, etc., frightful distor- tions, opisthotonos, frothing at the mouth, and other symp- toms above detailed. The paroxysm always followed by pro- found exhaustion. Spasms relieved by touch, jar or loud noise. Spasmodic affections in general. Chorea. Affections from con- cussion of the brain, especially convulsions. Cerebro-spinal meningitis, especially with convulsions. Mania. Melancholia. Has been used for deafness in old people, with sudden detona- tions in ears, especially on swallowing. Neuralgia of coccyx, especially during menstruation. Pustular eruptions, with yel- lowish honey-colored scabs, becoming fatty, especially about the corners of the mouth, matting the whiskers. Has been used in somnambulism. CIMICIFUGA. Synonyms. — Actea Racemosa. Macrotys. JVatioral order. — Ranunculacese. Common naine. — Black Cohosh. Black Snake Root. Squaw Root. Ratfcleweed. Habitat. — A perennial plant indigenous to the United-States. Preparation. — Tincture from the fresh root. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Through the brain and spinal cord Cimicifuga affects di- rectly the entire nervous system, disturbing the nerve centers 242 CIMICIFUGA. and producing a universal depressing irritant condition, which indirectly extends to the muscular system, and to the female generative organs, giving rise to various disorders indicating rheumatic and neuralgic disturbances of those parts. Cimicifu- ga is supposed to increase the contractility of unstripped mus- cular fiber, but to a less degree than by Ergot. The heartbeats are slower and stronger, and the arterial tension increased. In the brain, the primary action is to cause congestion, giving rise to vertigo, dilated pupils, and other symptoms resembling those v.). Pressive headache, as if the head were compressed by a bandage, or as if screwed together (Merc, J^itr. ac). Headache, as if the eyes were being torn out. Headache aggravated after sleeping, eating or drinking (Ign.); from riding in a carriage (Kali c. Petrol.); in the open air; bet- ter during rest and in a warm room. Convulsive trembling of the head from weakness of the muscles of the neck. Eyes.— Dimness of vision. Bruised pain in the eyes, with in- abihty to open the lids at night. Eyes closed, with balls constantly rolling about. Ears.— Noise in the ears like the rushing of waters (Cham.), with hardness of hearing. Face.— Heat in face, and redness of cheeks {Ferr.). Earthy countenance, with painful expression. Mouth.— Swelling and induration of the submaxillary glands (Calc. c, lodi., Rhus tox.). Dryness of the mouth (Nux COCCULUS. 265 m.). Dry tongue, with whitish-yellow coat, without thirst. Nux m., Puis.). Bitter taste at root of tongue. Metallic taste, with loss of appetite (tEsc, Merc, Naja). Foamy phlegm before the mouth (Cic, Cupr.). Throat. — Dryness of the throat. Choking constriction in upper part of throat, which impedes breathing and provokes cough. iStomach. — Extreine aversion to food (Ant. crud., Ipec), espe- cially acids. Desire for cold drinks, especially beer. Eruc- tations empty, offensive {Am., Cham., Psor.); bitter {Am., JSfux v., Fuls.); ineffectual, instead of which there is hic- cough. Attacks of nausea increasing to syncope {Tahac.). Unusual nausea and inclination to vomit, while ridin£ in a wagon {Jfujc jn., Petrol.), or from getting cold. Nausea in morning, so that she can scarcely rise. Inclina- tion to vomit associated with headache, with pain in intes- tines as if bruised. Violent cramp in stomach; griping, squeezing, lacerating sensation. Sensation as though a worm were moving in the stomach. Abdoraen. — Great distension of the abdomen (Aloe, Cham., Cic, Cinch.). Emptiness and sensation of hollowness in the abdomen. Constrictive pinching in epigastrium, talc- ing away the breath. SpasT)%odic flatulent colic about ■ midnight; passing flatus without relief; aggravated ivhen coughing. Painful inclination to inguinal hernia (Alum., JVuM v., Mtr. ac). Stool and Anus. — Contractive pain in rectum, preventing sit- ting, afternoons. Stool soft, thin, whitish-yellow; hard and dijERcult evacuations {Alum., Bry., Sulph.). Female Organs. — Menses too early, with cramps in the abdo- men, distension, and colic pains. Suppression of menses, with cramps in chest and fainting nausea. °During menses so weak that she can scarcely stand or talk (Amm. carb., Carb. an.). °Leucorrhoea (Alum., Ars., Calc c, Kreos., Hydras., Puis.) in place of menses, like serum, mixed with a purulent ichorous liquid. Painful pressure in uterus, with cramps in chest, nausea and fainting. Respiratory Organs. — Fatiguing cough from oppression of the chest. Contractive tension of right side of chest, taking the breath. Cramps in chest ; also hysteric obstruc- 266 COCCULUS. tion of breath at pit of throat, as from constriction {Asaf.). Heart.— Nervous palpitation of the heart (Asaf.). Neck and Back. — Weahness of the cervical muscles ; unable to support the head (Yerat. alb.). Pressure in scapula and nape of neck. Painful stiffness in neck when moving it {Chel., Rhus tox.). Paralytic pain in small of back; with spasmodic drawing across hips, preventing walking, with anxiety and fear. Trembling in the back. Limbs. — Painful stiffness in all joints. Paralytic drawing con- stant and paroxysmal, here and there in the bones. Tremb- ling of all the limbs (Coni., Gels., Merc); worse evenings with chilliness. Painful lameness in arms and legs, could scarcely rise from a seat. Feet and hands go to sleep alternately . Upper Limbs. — Sticking in shoulder joints and muscles of upper arm during rest. Forearm asleep and sensation as if the hands were swollen. Trembling of the hands luhen eating] worse the higher it is raised. Arthritic hot swell- ing of the hands. Hands numb and asleep ; alternately hot and cold. Lower Limbs. — Paralytic immobility of the lower limbs. Paralysis of lower limbs from loins down. Knees give xuay ; totters ivhile lualhing. Inflammatory swelling of the knee, with transient stitches. Soles of feet go to sleep xuhile sitting. Generalities. — Great weakness so it was difficult to stand firmly; from slightest exertion; with exhausting sweat. Starts easily; inclination to tremble. Restless. Attachs of paralytic ujeahness, ivith pain in bach. Intolerance of open air, whether cold or warm (Am. carb., Aur., Nux v.. Petrol., Ehus tox., Rumejc, Sep.). Feels too weak to talk aloud (Stan.). Hemiplegia on left side. Paralytic tearitig, digging pains in bones, as if beaten. Faintness; on motion, with distortion of facial muscles. Sleep.— Sleeplessness ; from night watching; from business thoughts; from anxiety and restlessness. Sleep unrefresh- ing (Arn., Cinch., Op.). Fever.— Alternation of heat and chilliness (Calc. c, Merc). Burning heat and redness of the cheeks (Aeon., Bell.). COCCULUS. 267 Aggravation. — All the syjnptoms and pains, especially in the head, are aggravated by drinking, eating, sleeping, talking, riding in a carriage, smoking, exertion, and by cold air. Conditions. — Most often indicated in women and children. Compare. — Ant. crud., Arg. nit., Ars., Bell., Cham., Coff. c, Cupr., Ign., Ipec, Lye, Nux v., Petrol., Plumb., Phos., Fuls. jUhus tox., Sil., Verat. alb., Zinc. Antidotes.— Camph., Cham., Cupr., Ign., JVux v. Cocculus Antidotes. — Alcohol, Cham., Cupr., Ign., Nux v.^ while coffee is noxious to it. THERAPEUTICS. Cocculus has found its chief sphere of usefulness in the treat- ment of functional neurosis, but it may be of value in troubles arising from organic changes in the spinal cord, as will be noted later on. Probably the greatest use is in hysteria, and in nervous troubles resulting from loss of sleep. The hysteria is usually associated with menstrual irregularities, especially menorrhagia, with cramps and flatulent distension of the ab- domen, the patient complaining of being so weak that she can hardly talk, and can bear no exposure to air, whether cold or warm. Frequently the hysteria is brought on by over-anxiety and; night watching with consequent loss of sleep. The weak- ness referred to is very characteristic of Cocculus. It is not an ordinary weak feeling, but seems to partake of a paralj^tic nature, there being apparently a complete loss of power in the back and limbs as well as other parts, even the organs of speech, so that if the patient undertakes to walk the knees give way and she falls powerless, or if she attempts to speak she can barely utter a sound. With all this there is a sort of paralytic numbness in the extremities, especially in the hands and feet, and not unusually a sensation of hollowness in one or more cavities of the body, especially the abdomen. This condition is due to spinal weakness, and may indicate Cocculus in a variety of nervous troubles arising from spinal diseases, whether that be only spinal aneemia or the grave forms of spinal disease — softening or sclerosis. Hemiplegia on the left side has been directly produced by Cocculus, and the drug is a most ef- ficient remedy in spinal paralysis if the proper symptoms are present. Neurasthenia or nervous exhaustion. It may also be 268 COCCULUS. useful in chorea, epilepsy and other spasmodic affections, arising either from functional or organic causes, and usually occurring in women of weak, nervous temperaments. Spasms from sup- pressed menses or prolonged loss of sleep. Also melancholia a,nd other mental disturbances ft-om the same causes. General bad effects from long continued insomnia ; often a remedy for nurses after prolonged night watching. Nausea and vomiting are quite characteristic and accompany to some extent almost any disturbance where the drug is indicated, and with the sick stomach there is usually a distressing vertigo. An excellent remedy for nausea accompanying the menses, or for the nausea and vomiting of pregnancy. Nausea and vertigo from the motion of a carriage, swing or ship — probably our most valu- able remedy for car-sickness and sea-sickness (Petrol.). Sick headache in nervous women, especially when brought on by attempting to read while riding in the cars ; pain from occiput dow^n the spine, etc. An excellent remedy in flatulent colic of nervous women, especially when accompanying menstrual troubles, or during pregnancy. The abdomen is greatly dis- tended, even tympanitic. This tympanitis may indicate Coc- culus in nervous types of fever, where there is also great pros- tration, tendency to faint, nausea, vertigo, etc. Cocculus is said to cure hernia, both inguinal and umbilical, and to pre- vent the same when a weak feeling in the abdomen indicates that a hernia may take place, though the symptom is probably of a purely nervous character. Dyspepsia. Gastralgia from suppression of the menses. Menorrhagia; dysmenorrhoea ; amenorrhcea, leucorrhoea in place of the menses. Other symp- toms as already noted. Cocculus is also used in intermittent and other malarial fevers, where the characteristic symptoms of weakness, vertigo, nausea, faintness, flatulence, etc., pre- dominate, and especially when the disease occurs in nervous subjects. coccus CACTI. 269 COCCUS CACTI. Synonym. — Coccionella Indica. JVatural order. — Hemip- tera. CoTnmon naTue. — Cochineal, Preparation. — Tincture from the dried insects. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Through the cerebro-spinal system this remedy acts espe- cially upon the kidneys, and the digestive and respiratory tracts, giving rise to irritation, inflammation and excessive se- cretion of ropy mucus from the parts affected, notably the fauces and larynx. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Apprehensive, irritable, fretful. Head. — Confusion of the head : dizziness. Eush of blood to the head (Bell., Fer.). Dull, pressive headache ; also in frontal region. Throbbing, pressing, or sticking pains in temples. Eyes. — Pressive pain in orbits. Conjunctivitis ; increased lach- rymation. Ears. — Drawing, tearing pain and stitches in and about the ears. Sensation as if the ears were stopped (Mang., Si^.). Tickling and itching in the ears (Baryt., Hep. s., Merc). Cracking in the ears on swallowing. Great roaring in the ears as from a storm. Nose. — Frequent and violent sneezing. Excessive secretion of mucus in the nose. Dryness of the nose. Yellow crusts on margins of nose. Face. — Crawling sensations in the face. Mouth. — Drawing and jerking pains in teeth ; teeth sensitive to cold things (Ant. crud., Calc, Staph., Sulph.). Mouth and tongue dry, with much thirst (Ars., Bry.). Burning in mouth and throat {Ars., Canth., Caps.). Rawness of mouth and throat. Great sensitiveness of mouth and fauces, so that rinsing the mouth caused cough and vom- iting ofthich masses of mucus. The arches of the palate very irritable; loud speaking or brushing teeth causes 270 COCCUS CACTI. cough and voTviiting. Metallic taste, with accumulation of water in the -mouth. Taste: jnetallic (Msc, Coccul., Merc, Sulph.) ; bitter {Bry., Cinch., Jfux v., Puis., Sulph.) ; sweetish {Ars., Bry., Merc, Sulph.) ; sour. Throat. — Dryness aud burning in throat and fauces. Rawness and scraping in throat, with expectoration of mucus. Constant tickling in throat. Sensation as if uvula ivere elongated, causing constant hazuhing . Throat syT)%ptoms worse from warmth, especially in bed. Difficult degluti- tion. Stomach. — Ravenous appetite; jnuch thirst. Eructations; Heartburn. Nausea, retching ; inclination to vomit. Dis- tension of stomach. Heaviness and pressure in stomach ; sticking pains. Epigastric region sensitive to touch. Abdomen. — Pains in left hypochondrium, as from incarcer- ated flatulence; pains extend, to leftside of bach and lumbar vertebrce. Burning drawing in region of spleen. Flatulent distension of abdomen, with much rumbling. Griping in abdomen, followed by diarrhoea. Stool. — Urging to stool ; sometimes ineifectual. Copious, soft or pasty stools. Urinary Organs. — Dull, pressive pain and soreness in region of kidneys. Pressure in bladder. Burning pain in urethra while urinating (Can. sat., Canth., Staph.). Stitches and itching in urethra. Frequent and great urging to urinate. Frequent and copious urination, urine clear as water (Phos. ac); soon becomes turbid and cloudy. Urine deposits brick- dust sediment (Arn., Lye, Natr. mur., Phos.). Male Organs. — Frequent erections, with increased desire. Lascivious mood; nocturnal emissions (Cinch., Phos. ac, Staph.). Female Organs.— Swelling and heat of pudenda. Menses too early; too profuse, and last too long (Calc c, Nux v.). Kespiratory Organs. — Collection of mucus in air-passages {Ant. tart., Ipec, Samb., Stan.). Rawness in air-pas- sages, causing cough. Sensation of a crumb the size of a walnut stiching behind the larynx, obliging him to siual- low constantly . Tickling in the larynx very violent, wahing at night, causing cough, with expectoration of much tenacious mucus. Fatigue of the vocal organs coccus CACTI. 271 (Arg. nit., Arum, Phos.), even after speaking ivithout exertion; the voice hecoining rough and hoarse ; respira- tion somewhat laborious. Paroxysms of tichling cough, ending luith expectoration of mucus. Cough caused hy brushing teeth or rinsing mouth with luater. Cough, with expectoration of large quantities of viscid, albumi- nous mucus (Stan.). Short paroxysms of cough, folloived by easy expectoration of globules of mucus. Difficult breathing. Oppression and soreness in chest. Stitches and sticking pains in sides of chest. Heart and Pulse. — Pressive pain in praecordial region. Irreg- xilar beating and palpitation of the heart, with anxiety after eatiivg. Pulse accelerated. Back, — Stitches between the shoulders. Bruised pain in small of back and region of kidneys. Violent pressive pain in region of kidneys. Extremities. — Drawing, tearing pains in the limbs {Rhus tox., Puis.). Generalities. — Great weariness and prostration. Itching and prickhng sensations in the skin. Sleep. — Irresistible desire to sleep. Uneasy, restlesg sleep, interrupted by vivid dreams. Fever. — Chilliness all over the body, especially in the afternoon and evening. Increased warmth of body. Greatly over- powered by moderate heat. Profuse general sweat, espe- cially in the morning. Compare. — Canth., lodi., Kali bich., Kali iod. THERAPEUTIC S. The chief use of this drug has been in the treatment of laryngitis, bronchial catan-h and whooping cough . Character- ized by an excessive secretion of mucus, usually rop3% tenacious, and difficult to expectorate, causing strangulation. Chronic catarrh of the larynx with much hoarseness and accumulation of mucus. Coryza. Pharyngitis, much hawking of thick viscid mucus, causing retching and vomiting- A valuable remedy in nephritic colic, pains extending from kidneys into bladder; haematuria ; excessive deposit of uric acid and urates. 272 COFFEA CEUDA. COFFEA CRUDA. Synonym. — Coffea Arabica. Katwral order. — Rubiacese, Common name. — Coffee, Preparation. — Tincture from the un- roasted coifee beans, by powdering, moderately heating and macerating in alcohol. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Coffea irritates the cerebro-spinal nerves, producing excita- tion of the special senses and of all the organic functions, the former becoming highly acute and sensitive, and the nervous activity of the latter morbidly increased. Hence the general condition is one of high nervous excitement, or exaltation of both mind and body, both cerebral and organic manifestations. Therefore, we find its chief characteristics to be a morbid ex- citation of the special senses, great sensitiveness to pain, and sleeplessness from excitement, one or more of which conditions are always present. CHARAOTBRISTIO SYMPTOMS. M.m.6..—Crreatest mental activity (Angust., Lach.); full of ideas; quick to act (Ox. ac); no sleep on this account (Cinch.). Lively fancies, full of plans for the future. Pains seem insupportable (Aur., Cham., Cinch.), driving to despair. All senses more acute, reads fine print easier; hearing, smell, taste and touch acute, particularly also an increased perception of slight passive motions {Cinch.). Head.— Dizziness and confusion of head. Headache, as if the brain were torn or dashed to pieces (Mur. ac, Verat. alb.). One-sided headache, as from a nail driven into the parietal bone, worse in the open air (Agar., Anac, Arn.). Headache worse after eating (CoccuL, Nux v.); disappears in open air; returns after re-entering the room (Puis.). Eyes. — Power of vision increased ; especially in the open air. Ears.— Hearing more acute (Coca, Op.); aversion to noise; it hurts him. Nose.— Sense of smell more acute (Aeon., Agar., Bell., Colch., Hep. s.. Lye). COFFEA CRUDA. 273 Face. — Dry heat of the face with red cheeks. "Neuralgia of right side of face and head, and right eyeball at 1 p.m. Mouth. — Toothache relieved only by ice, or ice-cold water (Bism., Bry., Clem.). Taste more acute. Stomach. — Great hunger before meals; hasty eager eating. Diminished appetite. Hiccough. Abdomen. — Abdominal pains, as if abdomen would burst, driving to desperation . Respiratory Organs. — Roughness and hoarseness in larynx, in the morning on waking (Carb. an., Caust., Phos.). Op- pression of the chest ; short inspirations. Spasmodic dry, hacking cough (Alum., Cimic, Hyos.). Generahties. — Would like to scratch or rub the part, but it is too sensitive. Physical excitement through mental ex- altation. The hands tremble if he tries to hold them still. Fainting from sudden emotions. °Convulsions after over-excitement. Pains insupportable {Aur., Cinch., Cham.), driving to despair. Mental and physical exhaus- tion. Aversion to open air, which aggravates the symptoms. Sleep. — Sleeplessness frorvb excessive mental and -physical excitemsnt (Cimic, Coca, Hyos., Op.). Dreams long and vivid. Skin.— Measly spots on the skin (Ant. crud., Bapt., Puis.), with dry heat (Aeon.); over-excitability and weeping. The itch- ing of the eruption changed into burning. Fever. — Chilliness increased by every movement (Arn.). In- ternal chilliness with external heat of face and body. Compare.— Aeon., Ars., Bell., Bry., Caust., Cinch., Cham., Coccul., Hyos,, Ign., Lye, Jfujc v., Op., Plat., Puis., Sep., Zinc. Antidotes.— Aeon., Cham., Ign., JYujc v.. Puis. Chronic affec- tions from abuse of coffee require Cham., Ign., Merc, Nux v., Sulph. Coffea Antidotes.— Cham., Coloc, Nux v. Noxious to it are Canth., Caust.; Coccul. and Ign. THERAPEUTICS. The chief remedy for excessive nervous excitability, whether occurring as a result of sudden en^tions, particularly sudden 274 COLCHICUM. pleasurable surprises, or in the course of various acute and chronic diseases, childbed, etc. There is always great mental activity, great acuteness of all the senses, and excessive sensi- tiveness to pain, which seems intolerable. Such patients are always sleepless, Coffea being our most valuable remedy for sleeplessness resulting from excessive mental and physical ■excitement, the mind being so active with fancies, ideas and plans that there is no sleep. Neuralgia of face, head and other parts, also nervous headaches, excessively painful, great nervous excitability. Neuralgic toothache, only relieved by ice or ice-cold water. Nervous cough. Nervous palpitation of the heart. Hysteria, with characteristic excitement, lively fancies, etc. Bad efiects of stimulants, alcohol, tea, etc. COLCHICUM. Synonym. — Colchicum Autumn ale. J{atural order. — Melanthacjese. Coimnon nai}ve. — Meadow Saffron. Habitat. — A perennial plant growing in meadows in Germany, France and southern Europe. Preparation.— T'lnctuve from the fresh bulbs just before blooming. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts upon the cerebro-spinal and ganglionic nervous sys- tems, irritating the nerve centers and producing convulsions, cramps, neuralgia, paralytic conditions and debility. As a re- sult of this primary action on the nervous system, Colchicum finds its most important action exerted on the periosteum and synovial membranes (especially of the small joints), on the urinary and digestive tracts, and to some extent upon the respiratory organs. The secretions of all mucous surfaces are altered and increased, and the general condition throughout strikingly resembles a violent acut-e arthritic inflammation. Dr. Allen says {op. cit. p. 393) that "it is specially interesting to note that it produces symptoms of the acute manifestations ofgoirt, quite apart from any direct modifications of the excre- tion of urea or uric acid. Its relief of acute gout seems to be purelj a homoeopathic action." The chief peculiarity of the COLCHICUM. 275 drug is its tearing pains with intolerable exacerbations at night. CHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Peevish; nothing satisfies him (Calc. phos., Cham., Cina.). External impressions, such as bright light, strong odors (Nux v.), contact, misdeeds of others, makes him quite beside himself. Head. — Pressure in the head, especially in the occiput, and deep in cerebellum. Boring headache, especially over the e^^es (Coloc). Creeping sensation in the forehead, and over the head (Arg. nit., Cupr.). Eyes. — Inflammation of the eyes, dim sightedness; watering of the eyes ; white spots on cornea. Ears. — Earache with lacerating pains {Bell., Puis.). Roaring in the ears, they feel stopped up. Nose. — Excessive acuteness of smell (Aeon., Agar., Bell., Coff., Hejj. s., Lye). Sore pain in the septum. Nosebleed, evenings. Face. — Sickly, sad, suffering expression (Ars.). Drawing, tear- ing pains in muscles and bones of face. Tingling in face as after being frosted (Agar.). (Edematous swelling of the face. Mouth.— Tongue coated white {Ant. crud., ^rr/.,Nux v.. Puis., Sulph.). Tongue heavy, stiff and insensible (Coni.). Tooth- ache with tearing pains ; teeth sensitive. Inflammation of mucous membranes of mouth and throat. Profuse flow of saliva, with dryness of the throat. Throat. — Inflammation and redness of the palate and fauces. Stomach. — Aversion to food {Coecul.); loathing {Ant. crud., Ars.) the sight, and still more the smell of it. Great thirst, but no appetite. Eructations, with burning in the stomach {Ars.). Every motion excites or renews the vomiting; cannot sit erect {Bry.). Vomiting of food or bile {Ant. crud.). Epigastrium extremely sensitive to the touch (Bell.). The stomach feels icy cold (Camph.). Vio- lent burning in the epigastrium {Ars., Bell., Canth., Phos., Verat. alb.). ' Abdomen. — Great distension of the abdomen, as if he had eaten too much (Cinch., Lye). Griping pains in abdomen 276 COLCHICUM. (Bry., Coloc, Chel., Merc). Colic; aggravated by eating; after flatulent food ; with great distension of abdomen, until diarrhoea sets in; better from bending double (CoZoc). Stool and Anus.— Very offensive flatus (Aloe, Bry., Graph.), in the evening. Spasms in the sphincter, with a shuddering over the back. Unsatisfactory urging to stool ; relieved by passing flatus. Violent tenesmus {Merc, Caps.). Stools bilious; then mixed with membranous pieces; slimy and bloody ; frequently orange-yellow, slimy, with bright-yellow flakes; copious yellow coating; transparent, gelatinous {Hell., Rhus tox.); very Tnsmhranous mucus, relieving the colic, very foetid. Discharges contain large quantities of small, white, shreddy particles. Urinary Organs. — Scanty discharge of dark, turbid urine, with tenesmus and burning {Canth., Caps., Merc. cor.). Dark, bloody urine, almost like ink, with strangury (Ars., Canth.). Whitish sediment in the urine (Calc. c, Canth.). Respiratory Organs. — Difiicult breathing and oppression of the chest. Night cough, with involuntary spurting out of urine (Alum., Caust., Puis.). Lacerating, tearing pains in chest. Heart. — Violent palpitation (Aeon., Ars., Bell., Spig.); with oppression. Trembling in prgecordial region with sticking pains. Anxiety and pressure in prsecordial region, provok- ing sighing ; sensitive to pressure. Fullness at night when lying on the leffc side, with oppression as from stagnation of blood. Dull, irregular, suppressed beats of the heart, with indescribable sensation in chest. Impulse not felt and only heard with difficulty, as . if at a great distance, or through a thick wall. Pulse accelerated and hard, or full and slow; slow and feeble; quick and thready; irregular; intermittent; scarcely perceptible (Aeon.). Neck and Back.— Rheumatic, tearing, drawing pains in neck and back (Puis.). Spot on sacrum feels sore and bruised as if ulcerated ; very sensitive to touch. Limbs.— Rheumatic pains in joints of flngers, toes, wrists and ankles; in shoulder joints and knees during rest, with uneasiness, in hands and feet, so that she could not bear to have her finger-joints pressed or extended from their semi- flexed condition. Joints stiff and feverish. Tearing pains COLCHICUM. 277 in muscles and joints. Numbness and prickling of hands and feet. Upper Limbs. — Paralytic pain in arms, so violent that he cannot hold the slightest thing firmly. Rheumatic pains in arms extending into the fingers, especially finger-joints (Bry., Caul.). Lower Limbs. — Rheumatic pains in legs extending to toes. Cramps in the legs (Calc. c, Camph., Nux v., Sulph.). OEdematous swelling of legs and feet (Ars., Apis). Tingling in toes after being frosted (Agar.). Generalities. — Great exhaustion and weahness, as after exertion {Ars., Bry., Cinch.). Sudden and extreme pros- tration {Ars., Camph., Sec. cor.). Very sensitive to slight- est touch. Paralytic feeling with the pains, and real paralysis. Tearing, tensive pains, quickly changing loca- tion {Puis.). Sleep. — Drowsiness during the day {JYivx m.). Skin. — Tingling here and there, as after being frozen {Agar.). Fever. — Coldness and chilliness running through all the limbs down the back. Shuddering and creeping in isolated parts. At night, dry heat with excessive thirst (Aeon., Ars.). Suppression of perspiration. Copious, sour sweat, sud- denly coming and going; in rheumatism. Aggravation. — At night; from mental exertion; from rising up in bed; from motion {Bry.). Better during repose and in the open air. Compare. — Aeon., Am., Bell., Bry., Cimic, Cinch., CoccuL, Merc, cor., Nux v.. Op., Puis., Rhzis tax., Sep., Verat. alb. Antidotes. — Bell., Camph., CoccuL, Nux v., Spig., Puis. To large doses : Amm. generative organs. Its special sphere of usefulness is in the treatment of hsemorrhoids, caused bj inertia and congestion of the portal system, and also in functional troubles (especially cardiac) arising therefrom. OHARAOTBRISTIO SYMPTOMS. Head. — Dull frontal headache. °Headache from suppressed haemorrhoids. Mouth. — Tongue coated yellow along the center or base, with bitter taste in the mouth. Nausea, with cramp-like pains in the stomach. Abdomen. — Sharp, cutting pains in the hypogastric region. Stool. — Constipation, stools light-colored and lumpy, with hard straining, followed by dull pains in the anus and hypogastrium ; stool in form of balls. Diarrhoea, mucous^ and bloody discharges ; or thin yellow matter, or Avatery. accompanied by violent tenesmus, and sharp cutting pains in the bowels (Merc). "Haemorrhoids, either blind or bleeding (^sc); sense of weight in rectum ; itching, feeling as of sticks or sand ; caused by congestive inertia of the lower bowel ; also for obstinate cases. Male Organs. — "Varicocele, with characteristic rectal symp- toms. Female Organs. — "Violent itching of the genitals ; parts badly swollen, dark-red and protruding; during pregnancy. °Dys- menorrhoea and other affections resulting, from haemor- rhoids and constipation. Heart. — "Irritation of the cardiac nerves; cardiac hyperaes- thesia. "Functional disturbances; rapid pulse; fullness and oppre«sion of the chest ; difficult breathing and faint- ness (Aeon.). Compare.— .^50., Aloe., Dios., Digit., Ham., Nux v., Podo.;, Sulph. THERAPEUTICS. The clinical range of Collinsouia has already been outlined. It is especially useful in haemorrhoids and constipation, and in functional disorders arising therefrom, especially functional disturbances of the heart, dysmenorrhoea, pruritus of the vulva. 280 COLOCYNTHIS. prolapsus uteri, etc. The haemorrhoids may be either blind or bleeding, though probably the latter predominate. The con- stipation is usually very obstinate, with painful protruding haemorrhoids. Has also proved useful in membranous dys- menorrhoea, and pruritus during pregnancy, with the symp- toms above given. Varicocele with rectal symptoms. May be useful in organic disease of the heart, and in ascites resulting therefrom. Has also been used in ascites from hepatic disease, with constipation and haemorrhoids. Diarrhoea and dysentery with stool as above described, violent tenesmus, and sharp cut- ting pains in the bowels. COLOCYNTHIS. Synonym. — Cucumis Colocynthis. J^atural order. — Cucur- bitaceae. Citrullus Colocynthis. Common names. — Squirting Cucumber. Bitter Apple. Habitat. — A slender plant with perennial root, growing in dry regions of the western hemis- phere. Preparation. — Tincture from the dried fruit, freed from the outer rind and seeds. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Colocynth acts especiall}^ upon the ganglionic nervous sys- tem, more particularly upon the trigeminus, the solar plexus, the lumbar and femoral nerves, and the tissues which these nerves supply. The condition produced is one of irritation resulting in neuralgia, and at times passing into a true inflam- mation. This latter is particularly the case in the profound action had upon the alimentary canal through the solar plexus, giving rise to vomiting, purging and an intense griping colic, which is the most important action of the drug. Through the trigeminus we obtain neuralgic affections of the face, eyes and head, due entirely to functional derangements of its sentient extremities, and through the lumbar and crural nerves we get sciatica and other neuralgic affections. The chief characteristic of Colocynth is its severe colicky pains, obliging the patient to bend double, and worse in any other position. COLOCYNTHIS. 281 OHARAOTBRISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind.— Disinclined to talk, to answer, to see friends (Gels.). Extremelj^ irritable and morose; impatient; easily offended (Caps., Nux v.). Anger, with indignation {Bry., Cham., Coni., JVux v.). Head. — Confusion of the head, with pressive pain in the orbits. Intimations of vertigo and nausea. Passive frontal head- ache, worse while stooping or lying on the back. Heaviness in sinciput with stupefaction. Painful tearing, digging through the whole brain, becoming intolerable when mov- ing the upper lid. Severe boring in right side of forehead. Boring stitches in right temple, disappearing on touch. Pressing and dull throbbing in left temple, growing grad- ually more acute and cutting. Eyes. — Smarting in eyes, with pain in eyeball. Painful pres- sure in eyeballs, especially on stooping. Pain in the eyes ; sharp cutting in right eyeball. Twitching of the right upper lid. Ears. — Roaring and throbbing in both ears, especially the left. Nose. — Fluent coryza, worse in the open air. Throbbing, bur- rowing pain from left side of nose to glabella. Face. — Dark redness of the face (Bapt., Op.). Constriction and pressing in left malar bone, extending to left eye. Left-sided tearing or burning and stinging pains, extending to ear and head. Sticking pains in upper jaw. Tearing pains in cheeks. Mouth. — Persistent, bitter, disgusting taste {Bry., Cinch., JYiix v., Puis., Sulph.). Burning of tip of tongue as if it had been scalded {Iris, Plat., Sang., Verat. alb.). Stomach. — Violent thirst (Aeon., Ars., Bry.). Aversion to food, with scraping in the throat. Empty eructations (Coccul.). Nausea rising from the stomach. Vomiting of bitter-tasting, yellow fluid. Burning pains in the stomach {Ars., Apis, Canth., Colch., Phos., Verat. alb.). Griping in epigastrium after each meal ; worse toward evening. Feel- ing of fullness in the epigastric region. Cramp in stomach at night, relieved by eructations. Feeling of emptiness in the stomach. Pit of stomach very sensitive to touch. Violent cutting, tearing pains, which from different parts of chest and abdomen concentrate in pit of stomach; 282 COLOCYNTHIS. better from hard pressure and bending double; ^brought on by vexation and indignation. Abdomen. — Cramp-like pains in both sides of abdomen ; worse after pressure, or leaning with abdomen on table. Ah-_ donien distended and painful {Aeon., Bell., Mere.). Terrible contractive, twisting (Cina.), griping, cutting pains mostly about the umbilicus; has to bend double (Aloe, Caust., Iris, Nux v., Rheum., Sulph., Verat. alb.), being worse in every other posture (reverse Bell.); great restlessness and loud screaming on changing position; ivorse at intervals of five or tejt minutes ; discharge of stool or flatulence affords temporary relief {Carb. v.). ° Colic so distressing that they seeh relief by pressing the corner of a table or head of a bed-post against the abdo- men. Feeling in the abdomen as if the intestines were being squeezed betiveen stones (Nux v.). Pain in the groin as from a hernia, and on pressing sensation as if a hernia were receding. Isolated deep stitches, sometimes in left, at others in right flanh, apparently connected with the ovaries. Constant rumbling and croaking in the bowels as from frogs (Thuja). °Coffee and tobacco smoking relieve the pains in the bowels ; every other food or drink aggra- vates (Ferr.). Stool and Anus.— Frequent excessive urging to stool, with sensation as if anus and rectum were weakened by long con- tinued diarrhoea. Dysentery-like diarrhoea, renewed after taking the least food or drink {Aloe, Ferr.). Stools: copious fgecal, with great discharge of wind {Aloe); bloody; fluid, after eating, with much flatulence and pain in abdo- men (Agar.); thin, frothy, saffron-yellow of musty odor; pappy ; mucous. Constipation, hard stools ; as if passing stones. Urinary Organs.— Sudden violent pressure upon the bladder, which was full, passed off suddenly on the emission of flatus. Frequent urging to urinate, ivith scanty emis- sions {JEsc, Apis, Graph., Hell., Merc, JVitr. ac). Urine- like brown beer (Bry.), becoming turbid soon as cold (Cina.) depositing copious sediment. Thick, foetid, viscid, jelly-like urine. Female Organs.— Cramp-hke pain in left ovarian region, as COLOCYNTHIS. 283 though the parts were squeezed in a vise. ^Intense boring or tensive pain in the ovary, causing her to draw up double with great restlessness. Respiratory Organs. — Frequent tickling and irritation in larynx induces cough at night. Oppression of the chest. Neck and Back. — Feeling of stiffness in the muscles of the nape when moving the head {Chel., Rhus tox.). Violent tensive drawing in left cervical muscles ; worse on motion. Pressure in left side of nape ; worse from turning. Drawing pain internally, in region of right scapula, as if the nerves and vessels were made tense. Tensive sticking in the right loin only during inspiration (Bry.); most violent when lying on the back. Bruised pain in small of back and in lower limbs in the evening. Limbs. — Rheumatic tearing, drawing pains in all the limbs, (Bry., Led., Lye, Merc.) and joints. Upper Limbs. — Sticking pains in right metacarpus, hindering opening of the hand and stretching of fingers. Tensive pain in thumb, impeding its motion. Lower Limbs. — Crampy pain in hip joint, as though the parts were screwed in a vise, with pains extending from the lum- bar region down to the legs. Drawing, twitching, with dull throbbing in region of left hip and in right loin. Pain in right thigh only when walking, as if the psoas magnus were too short. Drawing pain in right thigh, down to the knee. Origin of pain in sacral region, corresponding to position of plexus ischiadicus, thence is extended through the incisura ischiadica major towards hip -joint doivn posterior portion of thigh into fossa poplitea ; sensi- hility of parts affected. Knees and feet "go to sleep." Cramp in the left calf. Drawing aching in the left foot. Generalities. — Great tendency to painful cramps and cramp- like contraction in all the muscles of the body (Cupr.). Paintings with coldness of external parts. Weakness. Tearing shootings traversing the whole length of the body. °Rheumatism, with all sorts of pains, with formication and numbness. Fever. — Feeling of coldness in the whole body. External dry heat; worse in upper part of body. Nocturnal sweat, smelling like urine; towards morning. 284 COLOCYNTHIS. Aggravation. — In evening; at rest; after eating and drinking; from anger. Amelioration. — From discharge of flatus ; from coffee ; from smoking; from bending double] from hard pressure. Oompare. — Ars., Bell., Berb., Brj., Caust., Cham., CheL, Coccul., Coff., Cupr., Diosc, Lye, Mag. c, Merc, Nux v.. Puis., Stan. Antidotes. — Camph., Caust., Cham., Coff., Staph. To large doses: tepid milk, infusion of galls, Camph., Op., Coloc. Oolocynthis Antidotes.— Caust. THERAPEUTICS. The chief clinical use of Colocynth is in neuralgia, and in this category must be classed the well-known colic so char- acteristic of this drug, and which results from nerve irritation rather than from any inflammatory disturbance. No drug equals Colocynth in colic and enteralgia, provided the symp- toms already noted are present, as they usually are; especially is it important that the pains are relieved by bending double and from hard pressure; relieved by discharge of flatus or stool; aggravated by every attempt to eat or drink; may have been brought on in the first place by taking cold in hot Aveather, suppressing the perspiration, by drinking ice-water w^hen overheated, by eating fruits, or by emotional causes, especially anger. Sometimes indicated in dysentery with bloody mucous stools, if the characteristic colic pains are present. Colocynth may be useful in neuralgia of any part, when the pain is sharp, cutting, or boring, and relieved by firm pressure. It is especially useful in sciatica, and often in facial neuralgia. In ovarian neuralgia it is one of the most often in- dicated remedies, the character of the pain being almost identi- cal with those of colic already mentioned. It may also be useful in ovaritis and dysmenorrhoea, or in suppressed men- struation characterized by the same pains. Many cases of cysts of the ovaries and broad ligaments have been reported cured by Colocynth. Said to be indicated especially where the tumors are small and round ; paroxysms of colicky pain, better from pressure, wants the abdomen supported by a bandage. Sometimes useful in rheumatic headaches and ophthalmia; heaviness in head, with boring or sharp cutting pains in CONIUM. 285 the eyeballs, relieved by firm hard pressure. Useful to relieve the pains of glaucoma and iritis, when they extend into the head and are better from pressure. Sometimes useful in nephritic colic ; also in chyluria, the urine being white like milk, coao-uiating; when cold. CONIUM. SynonyTn. — Conium Maculatum. Katural order. — Umbel- liferge. Coinwion names. — Poison Hemlock. Spotted Hemlock. Habitat. — A plant native of Europe, but naturalized in the eastern portion of the United States. Preparation. — Tincture from the fresh plant. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts upon the motor nervous tracts, especially the periphe- ral extremities of the nerves, producing paralytic conditions. It benumbs the brain and causes vertigo, dilated pupils and even convulsions. It affects in a remarkable degree the glandu- lar system, causing engorgements and indurations, and alter- ing the structure of the glandular substance. In this latter condition we find its chief therapeutic action, rendering it of essential value in scrofulous and cancerous affections. The main peculiarity of Conium is its adaptability to the diseases of old people, especially old men. OHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Delirium. Ill-humored and morose (Bry., Coloc, Nux v.). Hypochondriacal depression and indifference (Phos. ac). Inahility to sustain any mental effort (Gels., Nux v.). Want of memory (Anac, Natr. mur., Kreos., Jiiojc m.). Disinclination for business (Cycl., Nux v., Phos.). Dullness; difficulty in understanding what he is reading. Averse to being near people, or hearing them talk (Ign.); Inclination to seize hold of and abuse them. Head. — Vertigo {Alum., Aur., Bell., Bry., J^udc v.), particu- larly when lying down and when turning over in bed (Bell.); on rising from bed in morning (Bry.); when walking. 286 (^ONIUM. Heaviness. Constant confusion in region of eyebrows and loot of nose. Stitching pain in forehead, from within out- ward; morning or at noon. Headache as if the brain were too fiili and would burst, in the morning on waking. Tearing headache, must lie down. Numbness, with sen- sation of coldness, in one side of the head. Sensation in right half of brain, as of a large foreign body. Pain in the occiput with every pulse, as if pierced with a knife. Eyes. — Weakness of vision. Weakness and dazzling of the eyes, together with giddiness and deMlity, especially of arms and legs, on walking, staggering, as if drunken. Burning in the eyes (Ars.). Pupils dilated. Burning on upper surface of lids. Yellowness of the sclerotica. Could scarcely raise the lids ; they seem pressed down by a heavy weight (Caust., Natr. ars., Natr. carb., Naja, Physos.), dis- posed to fall asleep (Nux m.). Sluggish adaption of the eye to varied range of vision. Ears. — Ringing, humming and roaring in the ears {Cinch., Nux v., Sulph.). Stitches in and around the ears (Kali carb.. Graph.). Ears feel as if stopped up on blowing the nose. Blood-red ear wax. Nose. — Bleeding of the nose. Face. — °Cancer of lips from pressure of the pipe. Lips burning dry; shooting pains. Submaxillary glands swollen and hard. Mouth. — Drawing pain in teeth from eating cold food (Ant. crud., Calc. c. Staph., Sulph.). Difficult speech {Caust., Gels., Hyos.) from lingual paralysis. Taste bitter in throat. Throat. — Itching in throat, with irritation to cough. Stomach. — Appetite lost. Thirst. Offensive eructations {Am., Ant. tart., Coccul., Sep.); sour, empty. Violent vomiting; °like coffee grounds (Sec. cor.); of cleai sour water; of chocolate-colored masses, sour and acrid. Sour rising from the stomach after eating. Violent pain in stomach; pressing, burning, squeezing, lancinating (Ars., Coccul.). Pressure and sore, raw feeling at pit of stomach. Pain in epigastric region, gradually extending to left side of abdomen, with nausea. Pain in pit of stomach extend- ing to throat, as if a ball rose (Ign.). CONIUM. 287 Abdomen. — Swelling of the abdomen ; trembling. Stitches in the hepatic region (Ars., Calc. c, Bry., Kali carb., Sep.); tearing. Lancinations in the abdomen, as if knives were plunged in (Merc). Stitches extending from the abdomen to the right side of chest. Cutting in abdomen, before the emission of flatus. Pinching pains in the abdomen, as if diarrhoea would set in. Aching pain in h^^pogastrium. Forcing down feeling in hypogastrium. Contractive pain in lower abdomen, like after-pains, with urging to stool. Stool. — Frequent ineffectual urging to stool (Ambr.). Stool: undigested, painless {Cinch.); liquid, mixed with hard por- tions ; watery, frequent. Tremulous weakness after every 5^00^ (Phos.). Involuntary stools during sleep. Frequent stitches in the anus, when not at stool. Burning in the rectum during stool. Urinary Organs.~I''requent micturition at night (Ambr., Borax, Phos. ac). Dribbling after micturition. Burning during and after urination (Aeon., Ant. tart.), °T/^e jioxv of urine suddenly stops, and continues again after a short interruption (Clem.). Male Organs. — Sexual desire ivithout erections (Agar., 'Agn., Nuph.). Emissions even while froliching ivith a luoman. Discharge of prostatic fluid on every change of motion, without voluptuous thoughts, with itching of the prepuce. Swelling of the testes (Aeon., Agn.). Female Organs. — Severe itching deep in the vagina (Canth., Merc). Leucorrhoea; with weakness and paralyzed sen- sation in small of back before the discharge; thick, milky, Mith contractive labor-like pain, coming from both sides; of white acrid mucus, causing burning (Alum., lodi., Kreos., Merc, Phos., Puis.). Suppressed or delayed men- struation. ^Indurations of uterus (Aur., Carb. an.); of ovaries ; of hr easts. ° Lancinating pains (BqW.). ° Soreness and siuelling of the breasts preceding menses. °Shrivel- ing of the mammae (lodi.), with increased sexual desire. Needle-like stitches in left mamma. °Terrible nausea and vomiting during pregnancy. °Tumors in mammse, with piercing pains, worse at night; glands abnormally tender. Respiratory Organs. — A dry spot in the larynx, where there is a craivling, and almost a constant irritation to a dry 288 CONIUM. cough. Violent spasmodic dry cough almost only ivhen first lying down during day or night {Hyos., Puis., Sep.). The clothes lie like a weight on the chest and shoulders. Sharp thrusts directly through the chest, from sternum to spine, while sitting. Violent stitches in right chest, about the nipple, on every inspiration {Bry., Kali c); while walk- ing relieved by hard pressure with the hand. Heart. — Palpitation; beats intermit {Digit., Kali carb.). Vio- lent palpitation after drinking. Pulse unequal in strength, and sometimes irregular in rhythm ; insufficiency of the mitral valve. Back. — Pain between the scapula. Stitches in small of back, with drawing through lumbar vertebrae, while standing. Limbs. — Trembling of all the limbs (Coccul., Gels., Merc, Stram.). Itching of the dorsum of the finger. Difficulty in using limbs ; unable to walk. Sensation of weakness, even to trembling of the right thigh while walking. Paralysis of the lower, then of the upper limbs. Generalities. — General trembling. Convulsions; with danger of suff'ocation. Easily overstrained. Liability to take cold. Sudden weakness while walking, with tendency to fall forward on knees, heaviness over eyes and giddiness. Exhaustion and faintness, as if paralyzed. Sick and faint early in the morning in bed. ^Chlorosis, chilliness, exces- sive fainting, palpitation of the heart, pale face, suppressed menses and profuse leucorrhoea. Swelling of the glands, with tingling and stitches; after contusions and bruises (Arn.). Sleep. — Falls asleep only after midnight. Frightful dreams at night and towards morning. Fever. — Heat through the whole body. °Sweat immediately on falling asleep. Aggravation. — At night; during rest; while sitting ; while eat- ing; when lying down. Conditions.— Suitable for old people , old men ; old maids ; for women with tight, rigid fiber ; for scrofulous and cancerous people; children who are prematurely old. Compare. — Arg. nit., Ars., Baryt. c. Bell., Calc. c. Digit., Dulc, Gels., Hydras., lodi.. Lye, Merc, Nitr. ac, Nux v.,. Phos., Puis., Rhus tox., Sep., Sil., Sulph. CONIUM. 289 Antidotes. — Coff., Nitr. ac, Nitr. sp. d., (Vinum). Conium Antidotes.— Nitr. ae. THERAPEUTICS. Conium has proved an invaluable remedy in the treatment of indurations and scirrhosities of glands, characterized by- sharp knife-like pains ; also painless ; especially the testicles and mammary glands; induration following injuries. Numerous cases reported as scirrhus of the breasts have been cured by Conium. Swelling, soreness and pain in the breasts preceding the menses, either with or without tumor. An excellent remedy in a variety of sexual diseases. Especially useful in both sexes for the bad effects of suppressed sexual appetite ; ma}'' be in the^ female hysteria ; in the male melancholia ; also bad effects from excessive indulgence, especially in the male, where it may pro- duce impotence and also prostatic emissions which may occur while straining at stool, or from motion ; especially in old men ; enlarged prostate gland ; also in strong, healthy men, who have great desire but no erection, and w^ho have an emission as soon as they begin to caress a w^oman. A valuable remedy in indurations, even scirrhus of the uterus or ovaries, with sharp lancinating pains. Has been used in uterine polypi; uterine haemorrhages; leucorrhoea, thick, milky, or of white acrid mucus ; pruritus of vagina and vulva. Studying the remainder of the clinical range of Conium in anatomical order we find it useful in mental weakness, hypochondriasis, melancholia, hys- teria, etc., especially from sexual causes. An excellent remedy for vertigo, especially in old people; when lying down, turning over in bed, or on rising up ; often associated with a numb feeling in the brain ; vertigo from excessive use of tobacco. Often use- ful in eye diseases ; disturbances of vision, often with vertigo ; sluggish adaption of the eye to varied range of vision ; partial or complete paralysis of the lids ; scrofulous ophthalmia; has proved useful in the cure of cataract, especially if traumatic. Epithelioma of the lips, with hardness and burning, shooting pains ; especially when resulting from the habifc of using a pipe. Has also been used with some benefit in cancer of the stomach or liver with coffee ground or chocolate-colored vomiting, burn- ing, lancinating pains, etc. Gastralgia with sympathetic spasmodic cough. Enlarged mesenteric glands and abdominal 290 CONVALLAKIA. tumors in general with lancinating knife-like pains. Has been very successfully employed in the treatment of urinary diseases, especiall^^ of old people; paralysis of the bladder, with inter- rupted flow, and dribbling after micturition; the same symp- toms have led to its prescription in gravel ; diabetes. A valua- ble remedy for irritating night cough, especially in old people; spasmodic, dry cough, from dryness (dry spot) in larynx, only when first lying down, has to sit up and cough till a little mucus is expectorated, can then lie down and rest. Asthma and bronchitis in old people. Whooping cough, Conium may be useful in paralysis especially partial, the patient being weak and continually trembling; the limbs give out when walking and he falls forward ; sudden attacks of giddiness and faint- ness. Especially useful in profound and long continued weak- ness following exhaustive diseases. Post diphtheritic paralysis. CONVALLARIA. Convallaria Majus. Jfatural order. — Liliacese. Cominon name. — Lily of the Valley. Habitat. — A perennial herb found in shady woods from Virginia to Georgia, but cultivated farther north. Preparation. — Tincture of the entire fresh plant. GENERAL ANALYSIS AND THERAPEUTICS. This drug has a profound action upon the heart, causing irregularity in its action, and diminishing the rate of the pulse, at the same time causing vomiting and symptoms of collapse. Has been used chiefly in cardiac troubles, especially valvular and other organic diseases accompanied by dropsical effusion, great dyspnoea, palpitation, feeble and irregular pulse. An ex- cellent remedy to relieve the dyspnoea present in organic or functional heart disease, and to dissipate the cardiac effusions, which it seems to do by causing diuresis. Dyspnoea with pul- monary stasis and hydrothorax. Has also been successfully used in pelvic congestions after abortions or surgical opera- tions, with sensation of great weight and pressing down of pelvic contents, causing cutting pains in rectum, and dull ach- ing soreness, worse when lying on the back. Compare.— Digitalis. COEALLIUM RUBRUM. 291 OORALLIUM RUBRUM. Family. — Gorgoniadese. Cowimoji name. — Red Coral. Preparation. — Triturations. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Phrough the ganglionic nervous system this remedy exerts its important action upon the respiratory tract, causing a catarrhal condition and giving rise to difficult breathing and profuse accumulation of mucus. OHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Head. — Sensation as though wind passed through the skull, on rapid motion, or on shaking the head. Head seems very large, as if it were three times its natural size. Extremely violent headache pressing out at the forehead, obliging him to move the head from side to side, which does not relieve, and is only relieved for a short time by almost complete uncovering of the burning hot body. Headache very vio- lent, as if the parietal bones were forced asunder, aggra- vated by stooping. Eyes. — Eyes hot and painful, with sensation as if swimming in tears. Extremely sensitive drawing pain in the external wall of the left orbit, whence the pain extends down beneath the cheek bones. Nose. — Dry coryza, nose stopped up; ulcerated nostrils. Violent fluent catarrh of odorless mucus, looking like melted tallow. Epistaxis, especially at night. Face. — Left zygoma painful, as if bruised, worse when touched. Pain in left articulation of lower jaw as if sprained, when moving the jaw. Throat.— Submaxillary glands of left side swollen and painful, worse when swallowing or bending the head forward. Male Organs. — Glans and inner surface of prepuce sensitive, red and swollen, secreting a yellowish-green, offensive matter. Red, flat ulcer on glans and inner surface of pre- puce, exuding a yellowish moisture. 292 CKOCUS. Respiratory Organs. — On deep inspiration, sensation as if icy-cold air were streaming through the air-passages, with some provocation to cough, and much difficult hawking of bronchial mucus, in the morning; difficult oppressed res- piration. "Convulsive spasmodic cough occurring in par- oxysms (Dros., Osm.). Compare. — Bell., Cocc. cacti, Dros., Merc, Mtr. ac, Nux v. THERAPEUTICS. Coral] ium has proved a valuable remedy in whooping cough when the paroxysms occur in rapid succession and are ex- tremely violent, causing the child to become purple in the face, followed by exhaustion and vomiting of mucus. Has also been used in nasal and pharyngeal catarrh, with profuse discharge. Balanitis. Venereal ulcers on glans or prepuce, exuding a yel- lowish moisture. Chancres having a coal-red hue. Farrington sa3^s a combination of sj^philis and psora. Smooth spots on body having a coral-red hue, changing to the coj)pery color characteristic of syphilis. , CROCUS. Synonyjyi. — Crocus Sativus. J^atural order. — Iridacese. Common name. — Saffron. Habitat. — A perennial plant, native of Greece and Asia Minor, but has become naturalized by culti- vation in most temperate countries. Preparation. — Tincture of the dried stigmas. ~ GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts upon the cerebro-spinal system, producing in the brain irritation and congestion, and causing hysterical mania. It also produces great venous congestion of the womb, and passive uterine haemorrhage, the blood being dark, clotted and stringy, which is its chief peculiarity. CHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Vacillating mood; angry and soon repents of it; de- pression and hilarity; ill-humor, then lively (Aeon., Ign., CROCUS. 293 Nux m.,Plat.). Uneasy, anxious, sorrowful mood. Gay and pleasant mania ; strong desire to sing, laugh immoderately, and jest (Hyos., Strain.)] w£ints to kiss everybody. Loss of ideas on attempting to write anything down. Head. — Sudden broad thrust deep in the brain in right temples, or above left frontal eminence, causing him to start. Eyes. — Must wink and wipe the eyes frequently, as though a film of mucus were over them (Alum., Puis.). Pupils much dilated. Feeling as of biting smoke in the eyes. The light seems dimmer than usual, as if obscured by a veil (Baryt. c, Caust., Hyos., Petrol., Phos., Puis.). Feeling as though water were constantly coming into the eyes. Feeling in the eyes as after much weeping. Sore burning in eyes after reading; also dimness, must wink frequently {Uuphr.). Inclined to press the lids tightly together from time to time (Euphr.) Twitching in the upper lid. °Pain goes from the eyes to the top of the head. Nose. — Epistaxis of very tenacious, thiclc, hlach hlood, with cold sweat on the forehead in large drops. Violent sneez- ing. Throat. — Feeling as if the uvula were elongated, during and when not swallowing. Stomach and Abdoinen. — Excessive thirst for cold drinks (Aeon., Bry.). Eructations. Distension of the stomach and abdomen. Sensation as if something living were juinping about in pit of stomach and abdomen {Thuja), with nausea and shivering. Anus. — Sensitive, dull, long stitch near left side of anus, from time to time. Intolerable writhing in the anus. Crawling in the anus as from threadworms. Male Organs. — Excitement of sexual desire. Female Organs.— Sensation as if the menses would appear; with colic and pressing towards genitals (Cimic, Caul., Puis.). Metrorrhagia of dark (Kali nit.), viscid, stringy blood in blach clots {Amm,. carb., Cycl., Ign., Plat., Sabin. ) ; from, slightest motion. Respiratory Organs. — Very violent attack of exhausting, dry cough, better from laying hand on pit of stomach. Offensive, sickly odor of the breath {Caps., Sang.). Dull stitches in the left chest. Heaviness of the chest ; must frequently take 294 CEOCUS. a deep breath. Jumping as of something living in right lower part, beneath ribs. Limbs. — Pain on moving the upper arm, as if the head of the humerus were loose, and would be easily dislocated. Generalities. — Sensation as of something living jumping in various parts. Bleeding from different parts, blood black, viscid, clotted. Excessive prostration and weariness in the evening, as from severe physical exertion, accompanied by great sleepiness, with feeling as if the eyelids were swollen; literary occupation relieves. Jerking in the muscles ; in single sets of muscles. Sleep. — Confused and frightful dreams. Fever. — Heat towards evening, worse in head, with redness of face and thirst, without dryness of mouth. Aggravation. — ^In morning ; all symptoms better in the open air. Compare.— Aeon., Bell., Calc. c, Ign., Ipec, Nux v., Op., Plat., Puis., Rhus tox., Ruta, Sab., Sep., Sulph., Zinc. Antidotes.— Aeon,, Beh., Op. THERAPEUTICS. Has been proved of great value in the treatment of active haemorrhages, characterized by dark, viscid, stringy blood, in black clots, worse on slightest motion, especially metrorrhagia and epistaxis. Has also removed the tendency to miscarry. Chorea, with characteristic nosebleed or metrorrhagia. Hys- teria, with sensation of something living jumping around in abdomen and other parts; convulsive twitchings; metror- rhagia. Useful in eye diseases where symptoms agree; spas- modic affections of eyelids, has to wink frequently ; asthenopia ; posterior sclero-chorioditis in near-sighted persons; ciliary neuralgia. A valuable clinical symptom is that the pain goes from the eyes to the top of the head. CROTALUS HORRIDUS. 295 CROTALUS HORRIDUS. JVatioral order. — Ophidia. Commoiv name. — Rattlesnake. Preparation. — The venom is received on milk-sugar and tritu- rated. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Like other serpent poisons Crotalus acts primarily upon the cerebro-spinal nerve centers, producing secondarily decom- position of the blood, a destruction of blood fibrine, hiBmor- rhages, ecchymosis, etc. (see Lachesis). The most essential peculiarity of Crotalus is the similarity of its poisoning to that induced by yellow fever, in the treatment of which we find its chief use. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Delirium, especially at night. Torpor, coma. °Mut- tering delirium of typhoid. Delirium, with wide open eyes. Dullness of the intellect; confused speech, disconnected answers. Remarkable weakness of memory (Anac, Kreos.). ^Delirium tremens, nearly constant drowsiness, but with inability to sleep ; also in broken down constitu- tions. Melancholia, with timidity, fear, anxiety; weeping or snappish temper. Head. — Headache extending into the eyes; above the e3^es, with oppression. Stitches and pains in temples. Severe pain at center of forehead; dilated pupils; profuse menses. Heavy pressive headache; in occiput. Violent itching of the scalp (Carb. an., Sulph.). Eyes. — Yellow color of the eyes {Cliel., Podo., lodi., Plumb.); also of the whole body. Blue rings about the eyes. Blood exudes from the eye. Dim vision. Burning in the eyes. Aqueous humor, cloudy. Pressure and oppression above the eyes. Nose. — Bleeding from the nose and all the orifices of the body. °Epistaxis during diphtheria. °Ozoena of syphilitic origin or following exanthemata ; sanguinolent discharge. Face. — Yellow color of the face (Chel., Podo.), or leaden colored. 296 CROTALUS HORRIDUS. Mouth. — Gums white. Bleeding of the gums. Grinds the teeth at night. Swelling and inflaimnation of the tongue. Loss of speech from constriction of the tongue and throat. Throat. — Throat dry, with thirst. Great difficulty in swallow- ing anything solid. Stomach. — Unquenchable burning thirst. Stomach irritable, unable to retain anything. Hunger, with trembling and weakness. Vomiting of food ; of green fluid ; of blood ; often violent. Painfulness in pit of stomach. Intolerance of clothing about the epigastric region and beneath the hypochondria (Calc. c, Lach.). Abdomen, — Swelling of the whole abdomen. Burning pain in the abdomen (Ars.). "Inguinal glands enlarged; slough- ing, unhealthy pus. Stool and Anus. — Bleeding from the anus and other outlets of .the body {Haii%.). Diarrhoea; dysenteric discharges of dark fluid blood; involuntary; great debility and faint- ness. Urinary Organs. — Haemorrhage from the urethra. Yellow or reddish-yellow urine, from much bile. "Albuminuria in the course of typhoid, diphtheria, etc. ; urine smoky from transuded blood. Female Organs.— Dysmenorrhoea; before menses; pain in hypogastrium and down thighs ; flow copious for two days, then lingers on and off for four more; heart weak; feet cold. Respiratory Organs.— Hoarseness, with weak, rough voice. Moderate cough, with expectoration of bloody mucus. Difficult respiration. °Whooping cough; debihty; face blue or pale, remaining so for a time after the paroxysms ; epistaxis; puffed face. "Oppression in old people with hydrothorax ; in fever and ague. Pulse. — Pulse rapid and weak, scarcely perceptible (Aeon., Ars.). Palpitation as if heart tumbled about. Generalities.— Extremities inflamed, swollen and gangrenous (Ars., Lach.). Hands go* to sleep, more the left. Tremb- ling of the hands during rest. (Edematous swelling of the whole body (Apis, Ars.). Haemorrhages from all the ori flees of the body— eyes, ears, nose, mouth, urethra, etc. ; also from the gums and from beneath the nails. Easily tired CROTALUS HORRIDUS. 297 by slight exertion. General loss of power ; the muscles re- fuse their service. Tremulous Weakness all over, as if some evil were apprehended. Paralysis. Yellow color of the whole body (Chel., lodi., Podo.). Sleep. — Sleeplessness from disproportionate nervous agitation. Drowsy, but cannot sleep. Skin. — "Chilblains. Gangrene pending ; circulation sluggish. Fever. — °Dry skin, dark-brown; tongue dry, or tongue coated yellow, with red edges and tip; low muttering delirium; drowsiness; urine dark, scanty; hmmorrhagio tendency; vomiting of bile or blood, etc. Compare. — Apis, Ars., Canth., Carb. v., Chel., Elaps, Lach., J^aja, Tarent. Antidotes. — Amm., Camph., Alcohol, radiated heat. THERAPEUTICS. The chief clinical use of Crotalus is in the treatment of low, malignant fevers, and adynamic conditions in general, especially when characterized by a hcemorrhagic tendency, and putres- cence, and whether caused by zymotic or septic poisoning, or by previous low states of the system, blood poisoning predominat- ing. In all such conditions there is also great prostration ; low, muttering delirium ; vomiting of bile or blood ; tongue, dry, brown, cracked, or yellow, brown in center, red edges; urine scanty, dark, almost black, sometimes suppressed, etc. In this class of diseases, in which it may be indicated, and has been fre- quently used with success, are: malignant scarlet fever, also with epistaxis, dark red, tumid, or gangrenous tonsils ; diph- theria ; hsemorrhagic measles, eruption dark, confluent ; malig- nant remittent fevers of the south, especially the so-called hsemorrhagic malarial fevers ; low bilious fevers ; typhoid. The most important remedy for yellow fever. Pyaemia. Septicaemia from poisoned wounds (dissecting, etc.). Jaundice. Haemor- rhages from any orifice of the body, also from the gums and from beneath the nails, resulting from low conditions of the blood. Purpura haemorrhagica. Petechia. Inflammations of a low type. Cerebro-spinal meningitis. Ecchymosis. Effusions into inner organs. Gangrenous tendencies. Low forms of erysipelas, with symptoms above named, especially following poisoned wounds or bites of poisonous insects. Abscesses, 298 CEOTON TIGLIUM. boils, carbuncles, etc., with unhealthy appearance, symptoms of blood poisoning. Chilblains, threatening gangrene. Felons with adynsemic symptoms. Bad eifects from vaccination, pustular eruptions, erysipelas, gangrene, blood poisoning. Has been used in paralysis. Chronic rheumatism, also gonorrhoeal rheumatism. Tetanus (a case cured by injecting the poison). Delirium tremens ; also gastralgia, atonic dyspepsia and blood states from long continued abuse of alcohol, Dysmenorrhoea. Ciliary neuralgia and Keratitis, cutting pains around the eyes ; worse at menstrual periods. Whooping cough, Otorrhoea. Syphilitic ozoena. Softening of spinal cord. CROTON TIGLIUM. Synonym. — Tiglium ofRcinala, Jfatural order. — Euphor- biacese. Coimnon name. — Croton Oil, Habitat. — A small tree indigenous to India, and cultivated in many parts of the East. Preparation. — One part of pure Croton Oil is dissolved in ninety-nine parts of alcohol, corresponding to the 2x dilution. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts especially upon the mucous lining of the intestinal tract and upon the skin ; in the former producing a transuda- tion of the watery portions of the blood, causing a copious watery diarrhoea, and on the latter developing a true eczema. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS, Eyes. — Copious lachrymation (Euphr.). Ears. — Spasmodic, twinging pains, deep within the left ear, Stomacli. — Sensation of emptiness in the stomach (Sep.). Sinking in stomach, and sensation of weakness (Ign.). Abdomen, — Abdomen full and distended, with griping pain about the navel (Coloc). Unpleasant sensation of empti- ness and hunger; rumbhng in the abdomen. Gurgling in the intestines, as though only water were in them (Hell.) ; mostly on left side. Swashing in the intestines, as from water. Stool and Anus.— Flatulence, soon followed by urgent desire for stool {Aloe.). Evacuation sudden, and with much CROTON TIGLIUM. 299 flatus [Aloe.). Upon pressitre at the umbilicus a -painful sensation is felt down to the amis, ivhere there is a con- stant pressure outward. Dragginpj in the anus, as if diar- rhoea would easily ensue. Pain in the anus, as if a plug were forcing outward. Constant urging to stool, followed hy sudden pasty, offensive evacuation of a dirty-green color, ivhich is forcibly shot out of the rectum {J^atr. carb., Grat.). Stool very thin, like yellowish water, forcibly evac- uated. {Grat., Thuja., Senega.). Painless, watery diar- rhoea (Ars., Cinch., Podo.). Male Organs. — Frequent corrosive itching in the glans and scrotum. Scrotum shriveled, itching severely, disturbing the sleep; better from scratching, which, however, causes a voluptuous sensation. Corrosive itching pain in the scrotum ; worse while walking ; redness of the part. Vesic- ular eruption of the scrotum and penis {Rhus. tox.). Female Organs. — Intense itching of the genitals ; relieved by very gentle scratching. °Breasts hard and swollen, with pain from nipple to scapula. °Nipple very sore to touch ; excruciating pain running from nipple through to scapula of same side when child nurses. Respiratory Organs. — Feels as though he could not expand the lungs {Asaf.). Feeling of fullness in both sides of chest, with burning stitches in left thorax, and toward both scapulae. Generalities — Great weakness, especially of the arms and legs. Skin. — Red, moist, spot, exuding an offensive moisture, on left thigh, opposite the scrotum, painfully sore to touch, and on walking. Itching and painful burning, with redness of the skin, formation of vesicles and pustules; desiccation of the pustules ; desquamation and falling off of the pustule {Ant. tart., Cic, Rhus tox., Sulph.). Itching pustules. Fever. — Coldness of the feet, extending as far up as the calves. Conipare. — Anac, Apis., Colch., Gamb., Grat., Jatropha., Mez., Rhus tox., Thuja., Verat. Grot on Tiglium Antidotes. — Rhus tox poisoning. THERAPEUTICS. A valuable remedy in eczema ; vesicular and pustular erup- tions, as above described. Especially eczema of scrotum and 300 CUPRUM METALLICUM. penis. Pustules and vesicles on the eyeball, accompanied by eruptions about the lids, and ciliary neuralgia. Diarrhoea with characteristic stool, forcibly evacuated, flatulence, occurring after eating or drinking, and other symptoms already given. Summer complaint of children. The clinical symptoms of the female breast as above given are of characteristic importance. CUPRUM METALLICUM. CoTmnojb name. — Copper. Preparation. — Triturations of pure precipitated metallic copper. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Cuprum acts prominently upon the alimentary canal, pro- ducing symptoms of gastro-intestinal inflammation, colic, di- arrhoea, vomiting, etc. Secondarily it affects profoundly the nerve centers, giving rise to spasmodic affections, cramps, con- vulsions and paralysis. The chief characteristic of the drug i§ that its symptoms are disposed to appear periodically and in groups. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Mind.— Anguish, with restless tossing about (Aeon., Ars.). Paroxysms of deathly anxiety. Delirium, with wild look, disconnected talking. Crying like a child. Obliged to think a long time before they can answer. Head.— Yertigo on looking up (Calc. c. Sang.), as if the head would fall forward, with vanishing of vision, as though a veil were before the eyes. Confusion. Heaviness. Bruised pain in the brain (Hell.), and also in the orbits, on turning the eye. Intermittent lancinations in forehead, vertex, tem- ples or occiput ; worse on pressure. Strange tingling in ver- tex. Crawhng sensation in the vertex (Arg. nit., Colch.). °Children cannot hold up the head in brain affections. Eyes. — Light obscured. Pressing pain in the eyes. Pain in orbits, as if bruised, on turning the eyes. Convulsive and restless movements of the eye. Violent itching in the eyes towards evening. CUPRUM METALLICUM. 301 Ears.— Distant drumming in the ear upon which he is lying, in the morning, in bed ; always disappearing on rising. Nose. — Sensation of great congestion of blood in the nose. Loss of smell. Face.— Bluish face, w^ith blue lips (Carb. v.). Face pale; anx- ious, dejected expression (Ars.). Spasmodic distortion of the face (Cic). Mouth. — Bitter taste in the mouth. Foam at the mouth (Cic, Naja., Laur.). Dryness in the mouth. Throat. — Audible gurgling of the drink passing down the CBSophagus. Sense of constriction and acute pain in throat. Stomach. — Excessive nausea (Ant. tart., Ipec). Loss of appe- tite. Hiccough. Constant eructations. Frequent ineffectual attempts to vomit; forcible vomiting; with constriction of oesophagus and across chest in direction of the dia- phragm. Vomiting: with burning nausea rising to throat ; after drinking (Ars.) ; of yellowish fluid; sudden, violent, of water, w^ith copious greenish diarrhoea and colic (Verat. alb.). Vomiting is relieved by drinking cold water. Pres- sure in pit of stomach; aggravated by touch and by movement. Yiolent pressure at stomach, with contractive pains at intei-vals. Excessive tormenting pains in the stomach and epigastric region. Abdomen. — ATjcLomen tense, hot and tender to touch (Aeon., Bell,, Merc). Abdomen drawn in and sore to touch. Spas- modic movements of the abdominal muscles. Yiolent in- termittent colic ; cutting drawing pains. Stool. — Painful green stools, with violent cutting and tenes- mus {Merc); profuse, squirting out; much wind passing. °Gray stools with flocculect matter in cholera. Violent watery diarrhoea (Ars., Cinch., Podo.). "Summer complaint of children, with brain affections. Urinary Organs. — ° Wetting the bed at night (Ars., Canst.). Scantiness or entire suppression of urine. Female Organs. — "Before or during menses, or after suppres- sion, violent, unbearable cramps in abdomen, extending up into chest, causing nausea, vomiting, and sometimes con- vulsions of limbs and piercing ' shrieks. "Vaginismus. °Clonic spasms during pregnancy ; spasms during parturi- 302 CUPKUM METALLICUM. tion. °Distressiiig, cramping after-pains, particularly of women who have borne many children ; sometimes causing cramps in extremities. Respiratory Organs. — Constant hoarseness; cannot speak a word. Cough, with interrupted, almost suppressed respi- ration. Very fatiguing cough, with discharge of bloody mucus from the nose. Painful contraction of the chest, es- pecially after drinking. Spasmodic attack of dyspncea ; the chest feels constricted, respiration is difficult, even to suffo- cation (Cic). Limbs. Cramps in all the limbs (Sulph.) ; convulsive move- ments. Weakness of the limbs. Upper Limbs. — Jerking in the arms and hands (Cic). Pecul- iar sensation of right hand and forearm, as if constricted and larger in size and not under control of the will. Lower Limbs.— Weakness of the knees, with painful drawing w^hen walking and standing, which is very difficult; the knees will give way. Spasms and cramps in the calves {Sulph., Yerat. alb.). Painful heaviness in the ankles. Generalities.— Nervous trembling, with great acuteness and sensitiveness of the senses {Cham., Cinch., Coff.). Con- traction of muscles and tendons {Stram., Zinc). °Clonic spasms; accompanying brain affections (Bell., Hell., Hyos., Stram.). General convulsions with stiffness of hmbs and body; jaws clenched. Epileptiform convulsions; trtoibling, tottering, and falling unconscious without a scream ; froth- ing from the mouth ; followed by headache. ^Eclampsia of children during dentition (Calc. c). Eestless tossing about and constant uneasiness. Paralysis. Coldness, with cramps in the limbs. Cold legs, hands and feet. Oompare.— Ars., £ell., Calc. c. Cinch., Coccul., Hep. s., Ipec, Nux v., Plumb., Puis., Sec. c, Stram., Sulph., Yerat. alb. Antidotes.— Aur., Bell., Camph., Cinch., Coni., Coccul., Dulc, Hep. s., Ipec, Nux v., Merc To large doses: Sugar, white of an egg, Ferr., Sulph., Hep. s. Cuprum Antidotes.— Aur., Op. THERAPEUTICS. The chief therapeutic value of Cuprum is in the treatment of convulsions, and spasmodic conditions m general. The con- CYCLAMEN. 303 T'ulsions are usually epileptiform in character. A valuable remedy in epilepsy. Convulsions from worms; from brain affec- tions; during dentition ; from repercussed eruptions or preced- ing development of eruptions; from fright; during cholera: during pregnancy; during parturition. Ursemic convulsions, especially following cholera. A valuable remedy in chorea, when the attacks are violent, with spasmodic vomiting, etc.; from fright ; from ovario-uterine irritation ; during pregnancy. Spasms of the oesophagus. Spasmodic contractions of flexor muscles; paralysis of flexors (extensors. Plumb.). General paralysis. Paralysis of the tongue. Stuttering. Occasionally useful in neuralgia, especially of the face Spinal irritation, par- oxysmal pain, sensitiveness of the whole spine. A valuable remedy in meningitis, occurring during dentition or from sup- pressed eruptions ; with convulsions. Extremely violent head- aches, chronic from nervous causes, gastric derangements, or in frontal region from nasal catarrh. Cuprum is a valuable remedy in cholera and choleraic conditions ; body cold ; skin blue ; cramps of the muscles, muscles of calves and thighs drawn up into knots ; violent cramps in stomach, abdomen and ex- "tremities, especially of flexors; violent convulsive vomiting; hiccough ; collapse ; the stools may be watery, or gray stools with flocculent matter. Useful in spasmodic respiratory affec- tions, especially whooping cough ; laryngismus stridulus; asth- ma; very difficult respiration from contractive spasms of the chest, almost suffocates, face becomes purple; violent vomit- ing. Chronic aortitis. Intermittent fever with choleraic symp- toms. Enuresis, especially nocturnal, in children. CYCLAMEN. Synonym. — Cyclamen Europaeum. Jfatural order. — Primu- lacesea. Common name. — Sow-bread. Habitat — A perennial herbaceous plant indigenous to southern Europe. Prepara- tion.— Tincture from the fresh root. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts especially upon the digestive and female generative frinctions, and through these affecting the sensorium and the 304 CYCLAMEN. vision in a characteristic manner. The general action of Cycla- men closely resembles that of Pulsatilla. OHARACTBRISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Ill-humored, morose; easily offended (Caps., Coccul., Nux v.). "Depression, weeping, desire to be alone, in sup- pressed menstruation. Disinclination for all kinds of work (Cinch., Coni., Nux v., Phos.). Head. — Great confusion of the head ; in the evening with ver- tigo. Vertigo; with pain in the forehead, toward evening. Oppressive stupefaction with obscuration of vision, and sensation as if the eyes were about to close. "Headaches as- sociated with menstrual disturbances, or with anaemia, indigestion, etc. Congestion of blood to the head. Violent headache, ivith flickering before the eyes, on rising in the morning (Phos.). Violent pressive frontal headache. Itching, sticking in scalp, changing place on scratching. Eyes.— -Dw?^»e55 of vision and spots before the eyes {Merc, Sulph.)., especially on luahing. Flickering before the eyes as of various colors; glittering needles, fiery specks and sparks (Agar., Caust., Merc, Phos., Sep., Sil., Sulph., Thuja.). Dii7%ness of vision, as of smoke or fog before the eyes (Phos., Gels.).. Burning of the eyes and flickering of the light on attempting to read. Diplopia (Aur., Bell., Cic.).; swelling of the upper hds (Apis., Ehus tox., Sulph.). Ears.— Drawing pain in the inner passages of right ear. Nose.— Frequent sneezing (Aeon., Cina., Gels.). Mouth.— Sahva increased; tastes pasty. Saliva and food have a salty taste (Ant. crud., Merc, cor., Sep., Sulph.) ; food tastes flat, almost tasteless. Stomach.— Little hunger or appetite ; no desire for breakfast or supper. Entire loss of appetite. Aversion to bread (Natr. mur.) and butter. After eating but little, aversion to food, with nausea in throat. Jfo thirst during day, but thirsty in evening. Eructations; with oppressive sensa- tion in stomach ; tasting sour with hiccough. Nausea with uneasiness and qualmishness as after eating too much fat food {Jfux v.. Puis.). "Nausea after eating fa,t food {Puis.). Nausea in throat and palate on eat'ing a little. Full- ness and pressure in pit of stomach, as if overloaded. CYCLAMEN. 305 Abdomen. — Tearing, piercing through and through. Stitches in epigastrium when moving about. Rumbling in the ab- domen immediately after eating, returning daily. Discom- fort in lower abdomen, with some nausea in it. Stool. — Diarrhoea, renewed after drinking coffee. Female Organs. — Menses too early and too profuse (Calc). Menstrztal hloocl black (Kali nit.), clotted (Amm, carb., Croc, Ign., Plat.), and membranous (Brom). Menses sup- pressed, scanty or painful (Cimic, Puis.). Respiratory Organs. — Violent suffocative cough, from tick- ling and scraping in larynx, especially at night ; worse dur- ing sleep. Heart. — Palpitation in the evening. Upper Limbs. — Paralyzed, hard pressure in right arm, as if in the periosteum and deep seated muscles; extending to fingers, impedes writing. Lower Limbs. — Cramp-like pain on right thigh above the pop- liteal space. Pain as from a sprain in the sole of the foot. Generalities. — Great weakness and prostration; on waking; also with clammy mouth and irritable mood ; also with pal- lor, sunken eyes and rapid pulse. Enervation of whole body ; burdensome to move even a limb. Great uneasiness and restlessness at night. Sleep. — Restless, uneasy sleep ; full of dreams. Great inclina- tion to sleep mornings. Compare.— Bell., Carb. v., Cham., Croc, Crocus., Lye, Rhus tox., Sep., Sulph., Puis,, Ruta. Antidotes.— Camph., Coff., Puis. THERAPEUTICS. Cyclamen is most useful in deranged digestion, and in men- strual derangements, when accompanied by the disturbances of vision above enumerated, and by vertigo and headache. The action is very similar to Pulsatilla. In digestive troubles there is a general aggravation from fat food. Menorrhagia, or amenorrhoea with gastric derangements, and usual disturb- ances. Chlorosis. Anaemia is usuall}' present with constant chilliness and dread of fresh air. Membranous dysmenorrhoea- with profuse flow. 306 DIGITALIS. DIGITALIS. Synonym. — Digitalis Purpurea. JVatural orcler. — Scrophu- lariacese. Common name. — Fox Glove. Habitat. — A beautiful plant, common throughout Europe, cultivated in the United States. Preparation. — Tincture from the fresh leaves of the uncultivated plant in its second season. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Digitalis acts profoundly upon the muscular substance of the heart and arteries through the pneumogastric and the vaso-motor nerves, producing debility of these tissues even to paralysis, causing greatly increased arterial tension and a slow and intermittent pulse. "Its action upon the heart is remark- able in that it produces vigorous systolic contractions, which become very irregular, one portion of the ventricle dilating while another remains in a state of contraction; finally, the heart stops in stystole." — (T. F. Allen.) It also secondarily produces functional derangcunents of the brain, the kidneys, and the digestive apparatus. The chief characteristic of Dig- italis is its extremely slow, intermittent pulse. OHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Great anxiety {Aeon., Ars., Rhus tox.); about 6 P.M., with dread of the future. Apprehensive; sad Avith great de- pression; extremely aggravated by music (Sabin.) Think- ing difficult, and weakness of memory {Anao., Kreos., Lach., Nux m., Natr. mur., Phos. ac). Head. — Confusion and heaviness of the head. Vertigo; with anxiety, and faintness (Aeon.), on rising from sitting (Bry., Sulph.), with very slow pulse. Head constantly falls back- wards while sitting and walking, as from paralysis of cervical muscles (Agar.). Sudden cracking noise in the head during siesta, with starting, as in a fright. Head heavy, confused, as if full. Throbbing headache in the forehead {Bell., Cinch.). Eyes. — Pupils dilated and insensible {Bell., Cic, Hyos., Op., Strain.). DIGITALIS. 307 Ears. — Hissing in both ears, as from boiling water. Face. — Face pale; sickly, death-like expression (Ars.). Stomach. — ExtT-eme thirst (Aeon., Bry.). Deathly nausea {Ant. tart., Ipec.,Lioh.) ; vomiting with irregular feeble pulse. Faintness or sinhing at the stomach ; feels as if he zuere dying {T ah a e.). Extreme anxiety in the epigastrium, causing frequent deep sighs. Extreme sensitiveness in epigastrium (Bell., Bry., Lye). Stool. — Constipation. Ash-colored diarrhoea ; nearly white. Urinary Organs. — Constant urging to urinate, with scanty discharge (Ars., Apis, Coloc.). Frequent urination at night (Ambra., Borax., Coni., Phos. ac, Sep.). Dragging in bladder as if distended, not relieved by frequent micturi- tion. After micturition pressure in bladder and burning in urethra. Functions of kidneys suspended. Urine scanty, dark, turbid (Canth., Chel., Cina); depositing a red sedi- ment. Male Organs. — Copious nocturnal emissions (Aur.). Respiratory Organs. — Frequent painless hoarseness. Res- piration irregular (Chin., Gels.), difficzvlt; slow, deep,per~ formed hy frequent deep sighs. Feeble respiratory mur- mur. Suffocative painful constriction of the chest, as if in- ternal parts were grown together. Dry spasmodic cough, ffidema of the lungs. Expectoration of blood, or streaked with blood {Phos.). Constant desire to take a deep breath, which seems prevented by some impediment in the chest, with dry cough, especially on deep inspiration. Heart and. Pulse. — Uneasiness in region of heart (Physos.), with sensation of weakness in forearm. Sudden sensation as though the heart stood still, ivith great anxiety. Heart's action feehle (Lye); heats more frequent and in- termittent (Coni., JYatr. mur., Kali c); sometimes irregu- lar. Thready (Aeon.), sloiv, intermittent pulse {Jfatr. mur.); irregular; srnall. Pulse weak and jerky, on slowly sitting up after reclining in a chair. Extremely slow pulse (Ascl. c. Can. ind.. Op., Ferr.). Lower Limbs. — Infiltration of lower extremities (Ars.). Las- situde in legs and knees. Generalities. — Great weahness and sinking of strength; mornings {Ars., Bry., Phos.), on waking; sudden with 308 DIGITALIS. sweat. Cold, pale and covered with profuse sweat (Tabac). Could not bear the upright position. Convulsions. Faint- ness; feeling of great debility. Sleep. — Uneasy, unrefreshing sleep. Frequent waking, as from anxiety. Fever. — Great coldjvess of the shin. Coldness of the ejctremi- ties. Cold, clammy, copious perspiration (Ars., Camph.). Compare. — Ant. crud., Apocy., Ars., Bell., Bry., Calc, Coni., Fer , Hell., Kalm., Lob., Lye, Nux v.. Op., Puis., Sep., Spig., Sulph., Taibac, Zinc. Antidotes. — Camph., Nux v., Op. To large doses: Sweet milk with Foenum grsecum ; vegetable acids, vinegar, infusion of galls, ether, camphor. Digitalis Antidotes.— Wine. THERAPEUTICS. The chief use of Digitalis is in the treatment of organic disease of the heart. With the old school it is used, indiscrim- inately, in large doses as a "cardiac sedative." Given in this manner it will often afford prompt temporary relief, but the ultimate results are disastrous, the drug soon producing its characteristic physiological effects, weakness of the heart muscles, dilitation,etc., and thus hastening a fatal termination. Digitahs should only be employed in small doses, and only when its symptoms correspond to those of the individual case. These symptoms have already been detailed, the most important be- ing a great anxiety and oppression, d^^spnoea, sudden sensation as if the heart stood still, pulse feeble, irregular, fluttering, in- termittent, or extremely slow; any motion, especially rising from a bed or chair, causes the pulse to become rapid, weak and jerky, sometimes cyanosis and even syncope. With this class of symptoms Digitalis may be indicated in any form of cardiac disease, but it is especially useful in pericarditis with effusion, and in all forms of dropsy of cardiac origin ; hydrothorax; emphysema, etc. Aneurism. Cyanosis. Digi- tahs is frequently indicated in inflammatory diseases of the kidneys, especially when the urine is suppressed, and there is pulmonary oedema, and threatened heart failure. Nephritis, especially after scarlet fever— post-scarletinal drop- sy; also useful in cvstitis, especially inflammation of the DIOSCOREA. 309 neck of the bladder, with frequent urging and scanty discharge, strangury. Urethritis with burning and purulent discharge, thick and yellow ; glans penis swollen and covered with thick pus (gonorrhoea); chordee; also with oedematous infiltration of the penis and scrotum." Digitalis is sometimes required in seminal weakness, with weak heart; involuntary emissions at night, with or without dreams. Chronic elongation of the prostate glands. Hydrocele. AmenorrhfBa, with cardiac dis- ease, and pulmonary haemorrhages. Pneumonia of old peo- ple, with prune juice expectoration, symptoms of collapse and heart failure, ffidema of the lungs and eifusion into the pleu- ral sac, with great dyspnoea and weak heart. Digitalis may be useful in jaundice; often when associated with an enlarged and indurated liver ; soreness over the liver, slow Or irregular pulse ; urine scanty and high-colored ; ashy white stools. Not use- ful in jaundice from retention of bile by obstruction, but when the liver fails to remove the coloring matter of bile from the blood. (In jaundice compare Myrica cerifera). As- cites from hepatic disease, with weak heart. Incarcerated hernia. Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy. Spinal ansemia resulting from seminal emissions, with the characteristic weak heart. Digitalis is often, a valuable remedy in Meningitis, during the stage of effusion with dark, turbid urine and characteristic heart symptoms ; also with errors in vision, such as bright balls of fire, objects appear of various colors; later amaurotic congestion of retina, pupils dilated, and insensible to light and coma. Useful in detached retina ; also in anaemia of the retina and optic nerve. DIOSCOREA. Synonym. — Dioscorea. JVatural order. — Dioscoreacese. Common name. — Wild Yam. Habitat. — A jDerennial creeping plant indigenous to the United States. Preparation. — Tinct- ure from the fresh root. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Through the ganglionic nervous system Dioscorea exerts its action mostly in the umbilical region, giving, as its most char- 310 DIOSCOREA. acteristic effect, severe pain simulating a so-called "bilious colic," and different from its well-known analogue, Colocynthis, in that "while the patient has a tendency to bend double, and feels as if pressure would relieve, as a matter of fact it aggra- vates, and most solace is obtained by stretching the body out." OHARACTBRISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Calls things by wrong names. Head. — Vertigo and dizziness. Dull pain in head and temples. Sharp pain in the temples. Eyes.— Eyes weak, sore and smarting. Agglutination of the lids mornings. Ears.— Dull, pressing pains in front of both ears. Sharp pain in front and behind the ears. Nose.— Irritation of nasal passages with much sneezing (Aeon., Gels.). Discharge of bright-red blood from left nostril. Soreness of the nostrils. Offensive, bad smell in the nose. Face.— Dull, grinding, drawing, digging or sharp darting pains at angle of left lower jaw. Mouth.— Heavy brown coating on the tongue mornings. Sides of tongue sore as if burnt (Coloc, Iris, Plat., Sang., Verat. vir.). Tip of tongue sore. Mouth very dry, bitter and clam- my in the morning. Soreness of gums and roof of mouth. Throat.— Irrita,tion, burning and smarting in throat and fauces. Soreness and pain in parotid glands. Stomach.— Sour or bitter eructations. Belching of large quantities of tasteless wind, momentarily relieving the dis- tress at the stomach (Carb. ac). Nausea. Empty eructa- tions. Faint, uneasy feehng at stomach. Constant dis- tress at stomach, with frequent sharp p.ains ; had to un- fasten the clothing. Distressing pain at epigastrium re- lieved by raising sour, bitter wind. Burning at the stomach (Ars.). Sharp, cramping pain in pit of stomach, followed by raising, belching and gulping enormous quantities ot tasteless wind,, followed by hiccough and discharge of flat- ulence from the bowels. Sharp, cutting pains in epigas- trium (Coloc). Abdomen.— Sharp pain in lefb hypochondrium. Dull, heavy grinding pain in region of liver, worse evenings. Cutting pain in region of hver. Hard, dull pain in region of gall DIOSCOREA. 311 bladder. Constant distress in the innhiliGal and hypogas- tric regions, with severe cutting, colic-like pains every few minutes in stomach and small intestines {Coloc). Griping, cramping pains in the umbilical region {Coloc). Rumbling in the bowels and passing large quantities of flatus. °Flatnlence after meals, wind colic, with but little or no hepatic derangement. Discharge of offensive flatus. Twisting and sharp cutting pains in the bowels. Bowels sore and tender on pressure. Pain in inguinal regions ex- tending to the testicles. Stool and Anus.— Itching in the rectum. Haemorrhoidal tumors like red cherries, with pain and distress in anus. Frequent urgent desire for stool. Diarrhoea early in morn- ing, driving out of bed (Aloe, Podo., Rumex, Sulph.). Very profuse, thin, yellow stool in the morning. Loose stools with much straining. Stools slimy, dark-colored ; bihous ; very offensive ; light mushy. Male Organs.— Constant excitement of genital organs, with frequent erections. Genitals cold and relaxed (Agn., Camph.). Strong-smelling perspiration on scrotum and pubes. Diminished sexual desire. Emission of semen dur- ing sleep (Cinch., Phos. ac). Respiratory Organs. — Hacking cough from irritation and tickling low down in the throat. Dull, aching, or sharp cutting pain in both lungs. Heart. — Sharp pain in region of heart. Neck and Back.— Dull pain in back of neck. Back lame in the morning. Severe backache. Sharp pains in the back. Upper Limbs.— Pain in left shoulder. Hard aching pains in bones of forearm, and in w^rist and hands. Lower Limbs.— Hard dull, or tearing pains in the hips. Pain in right leg from point of exit of sciatic nerve, felt only when moving the limb, or when sitting up. Knees lame, weak and painful. Hard, dull, or sharp pains in leg. Ankles weak and painful. Generalities.— Restless, trembling, faint feeling. Languid tired feeling. Itching of Various parts of the body and limbs (Carb. ac). Skin.— "Panaritium, early when pains are sharp and agonizing,, or W'hen pricking is felt ; nails brittle. 312 DOLICHOS. Aggravation. — In evening after lying down ; at night ; from lying down ; fr*om doubling up. Amelioration. — When moving in the open air; motion; riding or walking ; standing erect. Compare. — JEsc, Aloe, Berb., Bry., Coloc, Magn., Nux v., Podo., Puis., Sulph. THERAPEUTICS. The chief use of Dioscorea is in the treatment of flatulent or bilious colic, with the symptoms already mentioned, and differ- ing from Colocynth in that the pains are more continuous, not occurring in paroxysms, and are worse from bending double, only being relieved by stretching the body out or standing erect, though like Colocynth there is relief from pressure. Sometimes the pains seem to radiate from the abdomen into the back, chest, arms, etc. May be useful in colic from the passage of gall stones; also nephritic colic ; menstrual colic; dysmenorrhoea. Useful in flatulent dyspepsia. Gastralgia. Haemorrhoids, which look like bunches of red cherries. Diarrhoea with characteristic colic, worse mornings. Seminal emissions from sexual atony. Sciatica, right side ; only felt when moving the limb or when sit- ting; better when lying perfectly quiet. Panaritium (see symp- tom). DOLICHOS. Synonym. — Dolichos Pruriens. JSl'atural order. — Legumi- I10S8B. Common names. — Cowhage. Cow-itch. Habitat. — A lofty climbing plant common in tropical regions. Prepara- tion.— Tincture from the fuzz or hair scraped from the epider- mis of the pod. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts upon the liver, producing conditions which result in jaundice, constipation and white stools. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Eyes. — Eyes yellow (Chel., Cinch., lodi., Plumb.). Mouth. — °Soreness and tenderness of gums in teething children. Gums swollen ; neuralgic pains in them ; worse at night. DEOSERA. 313 Throat. — Pain like a splinter, near right tonsil; worse when swallowing. Stool. — '^Constipation during teething or pregnancy . White stools {Bell., Calc, Hep. s., Podo.). Respiratory Organs. — ° Cough on lying down at night (Hyos.). Generalities.— "Neuralgic pains following herpes zoster (Ra- nunc. b.). Skin. — Violent itching all over body, without any visible erup- tion. Dry tettery eruptions on arms and limbs, resembling zona. Compare.— Calc. c, Chel., Hep. s.. Ran. b., Podo., Rhus tox., Sulph. THERAPEUTICS. Jaundice with white stools ; intense itching. Affections, especially nervous during dentition or from worms. Constipa- tion, jaundice and other troubles during pregnancy. Herpes zoster, with itching, burning and smarting. Also for the neuralgic pains which follow. According to Farrington {vide Hering Cond. Mat. Med., 3d ed., p. 393). "in teething affections, if feverish symptoms exist, always give a dose of Aeon, before -fche Dolich. ; where this precaution has been neglected, convul- sions have followed the use of even the high potencies." DROSERA. Synonym. — Drosera Rotundifolia. Jfatii^^al order. — Dro- seracese. Common name. — Round-leaved Sundew. Habitat. — A plant growing on turfy, mossy ground in Europe, Bavaria, Northern Asia and America. Preparation. — Tincture from the entire fresh plant. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Through its influence on the pneumogastric nerve, Drosera acts powerfully upon the respiratory system, producing, as its most characteristic effect, a spasmodic dry cough, simulating iihat of whooping cough. Is said to cause Tuberculosis in animals. 314 DROSERA. OHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind.— Uneasiness ; when reading cannot dwell long on one subject, but is constantly obliged to change to another. Anxious depressed mood, with gloomy forebodings. Head. — Pressive pains in the head, especially in forehead and cheek bones, extending outward. Sore feeling in skin of right temple. Eyes.— Pupils dilated ; contracted ; prickling burning pains beneath left eyeball. Nose. — Frequent sneezing, with or without fluent coryza. Face. — Face hot and red. Mouth.— Profuse flow of watery saliva. Stomach.— Frequent hiccough. Waterbrash. Vomiting dur- ing the chill ; finally of bile. Hypochondria. — Constrictive pain in both hypochondria,, which impedes coughing; must support with the hands when coughing. Urinary Organs.— Frequent urging to urinate, with scanty discharge, frequently only by drops. Respiratory Organs.— Bruised feeling in the larynx while inhaling. Hoarseness and very low voice {Carh. v., Caust., Fhos.). Oppression ; with every word he speaks the throat contracts; no dyspnoea when walking. Chest and throat symptoms worse from talking (Caust.). TJie paroxysms of cough follow each other so violently that he is scarcely able to get his hreath. Crawling in larynx provok- ing cough (Con.), with sensation as if a soft substance were in the larynx; with sticking extending to right side of pharynx. Cough at night; in evening immediately after lying down; waking at 2 a.m. (Amm. carb., Kali c). Dry spasmodic cough, wdth inclination to vomit. Vomit- ing of food during the cough and afterward {Ant. tart., Ipec). Cough, with purulent or bloody expectoration (Cinch., Lye, Fhos., Plumb., Sep., Sil.). Rough, scraping, dry sensation deep in the fauces, and in soft palate, causing a hacking cough, ivith a yel- low mucous expectoration {Puis.), and hoarseness, the voice having a deep hass sound, together luith oppression of the chest, as if the air was ivithheld, on talking and coughing, so that the hreath could not he expired. DROSEKA. 315 Stitches ill muscles of chest on coughing and breathing (Bry.); hetter from pressure. Heemoptysis. Limbs. — All the limbs feel lame and bruised ; general paralyzed sensation. Painful sticking pressure in muscles of lower limbs in any position. Gnawing and stitching pains in long bones, especially in joints; severe stitches in the joints ; less painful during motion than during rest. Upper Limbs. — Twitching in the right shoulder only during rest. Lower Limbs. — Paralytic pain in right hip joint and thigh, with pain in the ankle, as if sprained, only when walking. Occasional single stitches in middle of left thigh, anteriorly. Fine cutting stitch in right calf, coming on when sitting, passing off when walking. Tearing pain in right ankle, as if dislocated, only while walking; as if sprained Stiffness, of the ankles. Generalities. — Whole body feels weak, with sunken eyes and cheeks. Prickling, burning pain in the skin. Febrile shivers over whole bodj^ with heat of face and icy coldness of hands, without thirst. Compare. — Aeon., Amm. carb.. Bell., Bry., Chel., Cina, Con., Coral., Cupr., Hyos., Ipec, Kali c, Nux v., Puis., Rhus tox., Samb., Sulph., Verat. alb. Antidotes .—Camph . THERAPEUTICS. Drosera is only prominently useful in respiratory affections, especially catarrhal, and when assuming a spasmodic character. Especially useful in whooping cough with violent paroxysms, following each other so rapidly the child cannot get its breath ; usually worse at night, immediately after lying down or after midnight, often from tickling in the larynx, frequently end- ing in gagging, vomiting and cold sweat. There seems to be a contraction of the throat and chest, also sometimes of the abdomen and sides; has to hold his sides with his hands. Sometimes hgemorrhages occur from the mouth and nose dur- ing or immediately after the paroxysm. With symptoms of a similar character the drug is indicated in laryngitis, also with deep, hoarse, bass voice; laryngeal phthisis; bronchitis, espe- cially of old people. Often of benefit in pulmonary phthisis. :316 DULCAMARA. Useful in measles, with a hoarse, spasmodic cough. All coughs usually end in a free expectoration (or in whooping cough, ■vomiting) of mucus. DULCAMARA. Synonym. — Solanum Dulcamara. Jfatural order. — Solan- acese. Common naines. — Bitter Sweet. Woody Night Shade. Habitat. — A climbing, shrubby plant found growing in moist ■situations in many parts of the w^orld. Preparation. — Tinct- ure from the fresh plant before flowering. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts especially upon the mucous membranes and the mus- cular tissues, giving rise to catarrhal and rheumatic inflamma- 1^1 ons, with symptoms like those which result from exposure to damp, rainy weather. It also acts upon the lymphatics and the skin, producing glandular enlargements, cellular effusions and eruptions. The leading peculiarity of this drug is an ag- gravation of its symptoms in damp, cold weather. CHARAOTBRISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Inclination to scold without being angry. Restless and impatient. Quarrelsome mood {Bry., Cham., J^ux v.). Head. — On waking in the morning, giddy and dizzy, dark be- fore the eyes (Sulph.), trembling and weakness. Dullness and painful stupefaction of the head. Heaviness in the head. Boring pain in the temples (Coloc). Thick crusts on the scalp, causing the hair to fall out (Graph., Merc). Eyes. — Inflammation from exposure to cold. Pupils much dilated. Ears.— Stitches in the meatus auditorius and parotid gland. Earache; at night, preventing sleep. Nose.— Nosebleed ; blood bright red (Ipec), and hot, with pres- sure above the nose (Aeon., Ham.). Dry coryza, aggra- vated in the cold air. Face. — °Faceache and asthma, after disappearance of tetters in the face. Thick, brown, yellow crusts on the face, fore- head, and chin. DULCAMARA. 31T Mouth.— Mouth and tongue dry (Apis, Ars., Bry., Mux in., Puis.). Accumulation of saliva (Aeon., Merc, Mitr. ac). Tongue and jaws become lame if cold air or water chills him. °Paralysis of the tongue (Gels., Caust., Hyos.). StorQach. — Aversion to food (Ant. crud., Cocciol., Ipeo.). Burning, unquenchable thirst for cold drinks {Aeon., Ars., Bry.). Eructations, Nausea. Vomiting {Ant. tart., Ipee., Loh.). Abdomen. — Colie, as from taking eold (Merc, Nux v.). CoUe,^ as if diarrhoea luould occur (Aloe), with rumbling, and pain in back. Sticking in umbilical region. ^Swelling of the' inguinal glands from a cold {Merc). Stool and Anus. — Desire for sfcool in evening, with griping in lower abdomen, followed by large, thin, sour-smelhng- stool, which relieves but weakens. Alternately yellow and greenish diarrhoea. Yellow zvatery diarrhoea, ivith tear- ing, cutting colic before every evacuation, as after talc- ing cold (Camph.). °Diarrh(]ea or dysentery from damp cold weather. Urinary Organs. — Catarrh of the bladder {Aeon., Canth. Burning in the meatus while urinating {Aeon., Ars., Canth.,. Coni.). Involuntary discharge of urine (Ars., Bell., Cic, Hyos.). Constant desire to urinate felt deep in the ab- domen. Male Organs. — "Impotence. Herpes on genitals. Female Organs. — °Rash before the menses (During, Kali carh.). Pruritus with heat and sexual desire. °Menses, milk or lochia suppressed by cold (Aeon., Cimic, Puis.). Respiratory Organs. — Oppressed breathing from a eold; with accumulation of mucus. Rough, hoarse voice (Carb. v.). ^Rheumatic pleuritis and pleuro-pneumonia, with tough, difficult discolored sputa. °Hydrothorax, worse in wet weather. °Cough, with expectoration of bright blood. °Loose, moist cough, worse indoors and at rest. Excessive secretion of mucus in the chest {Ant. tart., Ipec, Samb.). Neck and Back. — Neck stiff, back painful, loins lame, °after- taking cold (Cimic). Deeply cutting pain in right loin, transiently disappearing upon pressure. Pain in small- ofhach, as after stooping a long time{(yiM(ih., Puis.). Upper Limbs. — Paralytic bruised pain in left arm. 318 DULCAMARA. Lower Limbs. — "Exostosis on upper part of right tibia, with bluish-red spots; suppurating lumps. Drawing, tearing pain in thighs; disappears on walking, returning while sitting. Generalities. — °Dropsical swelling after suppressed sweat, by cold, damp air. "Paralysis from suppressed eruptions; from cold. Rending pains upward. Weariness. Skin. — Tetter oozing a watery fluid, bleeds after scratching {Merc, Nitr. ac). Jfettle rash over the ivhole body (Aeon.) with much itching; after scratching it burns; increases in warmth; better in cold. Thick, brown-yellow crusts over the whole body . Sticking and itching in various parts of the body (Sulph.). Sleep. — Uneasy, restless sleep (Aeon.). Fever. — Chilliness with the pains. General dry, burning heat all over (Aeon., Ars., Bry.). Offensive perspiration (Arn., Carb. an., Sil.). Aggravation. — At night; when at rest (Amm. c, Rhod., Rhus tox.) from cold air; in wet, cold weather (Rhus tox.); from cool change of weather. Amelioration. — After rising from a seat ; from motion ; from warmth in general and dry weather. Conditions. — Phlegmatic, torpid, scrofulous patients, w^ho are restless and irritable ; take cold in cold changes. Compare.— Aeon., Ars., Bell., Bry., Cimic, Lye., Mere., Nitr. ac., Puis., Rhus tox., Sep., Sulph. Antidotes.— Cam ph., Cupr., Ipec, Merc, while repugnant to its action are Bell., Lach. Dulcamara Antidotes.— Cupr., Merc. THERAPEUTICS. Dulcamara is most useful in catarrhal and rheumatic affec- tions caused by exposure to damp cold air; in cold, wet w^eather; exposure to cold, damp atmosphere, as in a cellar or ice-house. Also in all such conditions where there is a decided aggravation in cold, wet weather. (Rhus tox.). Bearing in mind the foregoing as the great key-note of Dulcamara, and present with all conditions, we will simply mention the affections in which it is most offcen indicated. Nasal catarrh, with free secre- tion of mucus ; laryngeal or bronchial catarrh, cough usually ELATERIUM. 319 caused by tickling, and free expectoration of mucus; influ- enza; headache; earache; inflammation, of middle ear; neural- gia; especially facial; lameness of tongue and jaws; paraly- sis of tongue; diarrhoea; catarrh of the bladder; nephritis (Bright's disease), with suppressed urine from working in water; menses, milk or lochia suppressed ; rheumatic pleuritis ; pleuro- pneumonia; hydrothorax; asthma; myelitis, painful stiifness and lameness in neck, back and loins ; dropsical swellings after suppressed sweat ; paralysis and other troubles from retroces- sion of eruptions, from above causes. Also a valuable remedy in urticaria and eczema, with the characteristics mentioned in symptoms of the drug ; rash before the menses ; crusta lactea ; pemphigus; large, smooth or fleshy warts. Salivation after mercury. Swelling and inflammation, even gangrene of the buccal mucous membrane. ELATERIUM. Synonym. — Momordica Elaterium. Jfatural order. — Cucur- bitacese. Common name. — Squirting Cucumber. Habitat. — A coarse, fleshy plant found in the Mediterranean. Fre-para- tion. — Tincture from the unripe fruit. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts powerfully upon mucous surfaces, causing an enor- mous flow of watery serum from the first mucous membrane that absorbs it, w^hether it be in the nose, oesophagus, stomach or intestines. Its most important action is upon the gastro- intestinal canal, where its characteristic effects are produced, causing vomiting of the excessive gastric secretions, and vio- lent purging, stripping the intestinal membrane of its epi- thelium, a gastro-enteritis resulting from its prolonged ac- tion. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Stomach. — Nausea; vomiting of watery substance, or of greenish bilious matter, with great weakness. Abdomen.— Cutting, griping pains in the bowels. Stool. — Copious liquid stools (Ars., Cinch., Verat. alb.); 320 EQUISETUM. watery ; frothy, or of an olive-green color (Crot. tig., Grat., Sec. cor.). Lower Limbs. — Shooting, also dull aching pains in the course of the left sciatic nerve to the instep and toes. Oorapare. — Colch., Coloc, Crot. tig., Grat., Sec. cor., Verat. alb. THERAPEUTICS. Has been used chiefly in choleraic diarrhoea with forcible copious stools, as above described. Has been used in dropsy of renal origin; hydropericardium ; also in jaundice, with high fever of an intermittent type, and characteristic stools. Sciatica. EQUISETUM. Synonym. — Equisetum Hyemale. JVatitral order. — Equi- setacese. Common name. Scouring Bush. Hahitat. — An in- digenous leafless plant. Preparation. — Tincture from the fresh whole plant. GENERAL ANALYSIS. The characteristic effects of Equisetum are displayed exclu- sively from the urinary organs, where it gives rise to dysuria and symptoms which would indicate a speciflc influence over the mucous lining of the bladder. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Urinary Organs. — Dull pain in region of right kidney, with urgent desire to urinate. Pain in hladcler, as if distended ; not relieved by micturition. Pain and tenderness in re- gion of bladder. Excessive burning in urethra while uri- nating (Apis, Canth., Can. sat.). Sharp, cutting pain in the urethra. Frequent micturition at night. Constant de- sire to urinate (Aeon.). Constant urging, with scanty dis- charge. Urine high colored and scanty {Aeon., Apis). Urine deposits a mucous sediment. Urine shows great ex- cess of mucus after standing a short time. Compare. — Aeon., Apis, Canth., Can. sat. ERIGERON. 321 THERAPEUTICS. A valuable remedy in catarrhal affections of the bladder ; with great vesical irritation ; pain and tenderness ; pain not relieved by micturition, generally worse just after ; much blood and mucus in urine. Dysuria, especially in women during pregnancy and after confinement. An excellent remedy in nocturnal enuresis of children. Also in weakness of bladder, incontinence of urine, dribbling, especially in old men and in- sane people. Hsematuria. Gonorrhoea. Gleet. ERIGERON. SyJ^onym.—Y,rigeron Canadense. JVatural order. — Com- positse. Coimnofi names. — Horseweed. Butterweed. Canada Fleabane. Habitat. — An indigenous annual plant. Prepar- ation.— Tincture from the entire fresh plant. GENERAL ANALYSIS AND THERAPEUTICS. Clinical uses of Erigeron show that its most important action is upon the unstripped muscular fibre of the arteries, making it especially useful in the treatment of haemorrhages, particularly from the uterus, where it has become an indispen- sable remedy. It is also useful in haemorrhages from the nose, bowels and other parts, the characteristic being that the flow is of a bright-red color, and is increased by every move- ment of the patient. It is used both internally and topically. It has also been successfully used in dysuria, especially of children, with symptoms as given below. CHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Head. — "Congestion of the head, face red, nosebleed {Bell.); febrile action. Nose. — °Epistaxis of bright-red blood (Aeon.). Stomach. — "Violent retching and burning in the stomach, with vomiting of blood (Ars.). Stool. — "Stool small, streaked with blood; tormina; burning in the bowels and rectum ; hard lumps of faeces mixed with 322 ERYNGIUM AQUATICUM. the discharges. °H8emorrhage frpm the bowels (Ham.), °H8emorrhoids, bleeding with hard, lumpy stools ; burning in the margin of anus ; it feels as if torn. Urine. — "Urination painful or suppressed (Aeon.). °Dysuria of teething children; frequent desire; crying when urinating; urine profuse, of very strong odor; external parts (female) inflamed or irritated, with considerable mucous discharge. Female Organs. — "Metrorrhagia, with violent irritation of rectum and bladder ; after abortion, with diarrhoea and dys- uria; with prolapsus uteri. °Very profuse flow of bright-red blood {Aeon., Bell., Ham., Ipec); every movement of patient increases the flow {See. c, Sab.); pallor and weak- ness (Cinch.). "Leucorrhoea profuse, with spasmodic pains, and irritation of the bladder and rectum. "Bloody lochia returns after the least motion ; worse during rest. Respiratory Organs. — "Cough, blood}^ expectoration; incip- ient phthisis. Compare. — Aeon., Cinnam., Canth., Ipec, Sabina, Sec. cor., Terebin., Tril. ERYNGIUM AQUATICUM. Natural order. — Umbelliferse. Coimnoiv name. — Button Snake Root. Habitat.— kn indigenous perennial herb. Prep- aration.— Tincture from the fresh root. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts most prominently upon the sexual powers, depressing sexual instinct and lessening sexual energy. It also affects the mucous lining of the respiratory and urinary tracts, producing irritation and slight catarrhal inflammation. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Urinary Organs.— Frequent desire to urinate, with scanty dis- cliarge, and burning and smarting in the urethra {Can. sat., Canth.). .Sexual Organs.— Sexual desire suppressed, then excited, with lewd dreams, and pollutions; discharge of prostatic fluid from slight causes. EUCALYPTUS. 323 Respiratory Organs.— Short, hacking cough, with a little ex- pectoration of thick, stringy mucus, of a light yellow color. THERAPEUTICS. Used chiefly in seminal weakness; involuntary emissions without erection, day and night ; after masturbation ; dis- charge of prostatic fluid from slight causes. Also used in catarrh of the bladder and in bronchial catarrh with symptoms .above given. EUCALYPTUS. Synonym. — Eucalyptus Globulus. J^atural order. — Myrta- •ceee. Common names. — Fever Tree. Australian Gum Tree. Blue Gum Tree. Habitat. — A tree native of Australia, and cul- tivated on the Pacific coast. Preparation. — Tincture from the . fresh leaves. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts upon the digestive sphere, producing indigestion, fol- lowed by diarrhoea, all the secretions having the characteristic odor of eucalyptol, the most important constituent of the drug. It also increases the action of the heart, lowers the arterial tension, and induces a feverish sta.te, the conditions of which correspond to fevers of a remittent or intermittent char- acter, and which result from malarial poisoning. It is, there- fore, homoeopathic to these conditions, which account for its remarkable success in their treatment at the hands of physi- cians of all schools during the past fifty years. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Head.— °Nervous headaches and other pains in the head, not exactly periodical. Nose. — Catarrh of the nasal passages {Hydras., Kali hi.). Eyes.— Catarrhal ophthalmia. Mouth.— Burning sensation extending to phar^nix and oeso- phagus with thirst. Excessive secretion of saliva {lodi., Merc, Kitr. ac.). 324 EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM. Stomach. — Strong-smelling eructations. Slow digestion. Hot, burning sensation in stomach. Fullness, pressure and weight in stomach {Ars., Bry., Jfux v., Puis.). Abdomen. — Uncomfortable pressure and fullness in umbilical region. Sensation as if diarrhoea would occur {Aloe.). Stool. — ° Dysentery, with heat in the rectum ; tenesmus ; dis- charge of mucus ; great prostration ; haemorrhage from the bowels (Ham., Ipec). Thin watery diarrhoea, preceded by sharp aching pains in the bowels. Respiratory Organs. — Respiration quickened. Skin. — Eruptions on the skin, of a herpetic character; gland- ular enlargements ; foul, indolent ulcers. Compare. — Absinth., Ars., Bapt., Carb. ac, Cinch., Ced. THERAPEUTICS. Used primarily in the treatment of intermittent and remit- tent fevers; malarial poisoning, after quinia fails; quinine cachexias. Malarial fevers do not exist in localities where this tree grows, and it is generally believed that the culture of the tree improves to a surprising degree the sanitary condi- tions of low, marshy, miasmatic districts. Chronic nasal ca- tarrh and acute coryza. Allays dyspnoea in cardiac asthma, also when aneurisms press on the vagina and its branches. Subacute cj^stitis. Whooping cough ; gangrene of the lungs. Bronchitis with profuse expectoration. Also sometimes usefal in dysentery ; diarrhoea ; leucorrhfBa ; eruptions ; ulcers ; sup- purating wounds; neuralgia; rheumatism; typhoid fever. In- fusions, or water containing infusoria, cryptogamic organisms,, and bacteria, are purified by the addition of eucalyptus. On account of these antiseptic properties, the drug has been used topically in uterine catarrh, ozoena, cancer gangrene, etc., when characterized by great foetor. EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM. Synonym. — Eupatorium Cormatum. JYatural order. — - Compositae. Common nainss. — Thoroughwort. Boneset. Ague Weed. Habitat. — A hairy perennial found throughout the United States and Canada. Preparation. — Tincture of the entire fresh plant, just in bloom. EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM. 325 GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts upon the gastro-hepatic system, the fibrous tissues, and the bronchial mucous membranes, its most characteristic condition being a bilious derangement partaking of a malarial character. OHARACTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Head. — Headache with a sensation of soreness internally ; bet- ter in the house ; aggravated when first going into the open air; relieved by conversation. °Head ache and nausea every morning on waking. Pain in occiput after lying, with sense of weight ; must aid with hand in lifting head {Chel.). Eyes. — Soreness of eyeballs (Bry., Cimic). Intolerance of light (Aeon., Bell., Merc). Nose. — °Coryza, with sneezing (Aeon., Sang.); aching in every bone. Stomach. — Thirst for cold water {Aeon., Ars., Bry.). JSfausea and vomiting of food {Ant. tart., Ipec.). Retching and vomiting of bile {Iris, Podo.), with trembling and pain in stomach, and weakness even to fainting. Vomiting -pre- ceded by thirst. Vomiting after every draught (Phos., Sil.). Abdomen. — Soreness in region of liver (Apis, Bry., Chel. Merc, Podo). Tight clothing is oppressive {Calc. c, Carb. v.). Stool. — Purging stools, with smarting and heat in anus. Urinary Organs.— Dark-colored clear urine. Respiratory Organs.— Hoarseness {Aeon., Carb. v.. Hep. s., Phos.). Hacking cough in the evening (Caust.). Cough with soreness and heat in the bronchia; flushed face; tear- ful eyes. °Hectic cough from suppressed intermittent fever (Cinch.). Soreness in chest ; worse from inspiration (Arn.); cannot twist when standing, sitting or lying. Keck and Back. — Beating pain in nape and occiput (Chel.); better after rising. Aching pa^in in the back, as from a bruise. (Am., Bry.). Weakness in small of back. Trem- bling in back during fever. Limbs. — Intense soreness and aching in liinbs, as if bruised or beaten (Arn., Cinch.). Wrists pain as if broken or dislocated (Aeon., Bry. Calc. c, Khus tox.). 326 EUPATORIUM PEEFOLIATUM. Fever. — Intermittent fever; quotidian, tertian or quartan. Chilliness throughout the night and in morning; trembling and nausea from least motion ; intense aching and soreness in back and limbs ; more shivering than the degree of cold- ness warrants. Vomiting of bile after the chill. Thirst several hoitrs before the chill, which continues during the chill and heat. Fever commences in morning ; attended with painfulness, trembling, weakness and soreness; hut little or no perspiration. Compare. — Arn., Ars., Bapt., Bry., Cham., Chel., Cimic, Eupat. purp.. Gels., Ipec, Merc, Nux v., Podo., Phyt. THERAPEUTICS. Boneset has long been a favorite domestic remedy in ague and bilious conditions, as well as in colds characterized by great aching and soreness in the bones and muscles. It is. in exactly these conditions that homoeopathy finds it a most valuable medicine, the indications for its use being plain and unmistakable. It is especially valuable in intermittents, either quotidian, tertian or quartan, the paroxysms being character- ized by violent bone pains, great pain and soreness in the muscles, violent headache and vomiting, the latter occurring especially from taking a drink of water, also vomiting of bile as the chill passes off. According to T. F. Allen the latter is even more characteristic than the violent bone pains, though such is not the usual experience. Thirst always begins several hours before the chill, and continues during the chill and heat. The chill and heat are usually well marked, but the sweating stage almost or entirely wanting. This is not invariable, "and the presence of a profuse sweating stage does not contradict the use of the drug if it is otherwise well indicated. I once cured the most violent case of quotidian intermittent, of over a year's standing, that I ever saw, with one prescription of Eupa- torium, where with the violent break-bone pains and vomiting there was an excessively profuse sweating stage, so that the water actually ran from the pallet on which the patient \^as lying to the floor. Eupatorium is also useful in catarrhal and bihous fevers; pain and soreness in muscles; headache; sore- ness in the head and eyeballs, vomiting of bile, etc. Influenza, with much sneezing, soreness of the eyeballs, lachrymation,. EUPATORIUM PURPUREUM. 327' hacking' coug-h, soreness in chest, and bone pains. Laryngitis- with hoarseness, soreness and heat in larynx extending into bronchia and chest, bone pains, etc. EUPATORIUM PURPUREUM. Katural order. — Compositee. Common naines. — Queen of the Meadow. Grand Weed. Trumpet Weed. Purple Boneset. Habitat. — A herbaceous, perennial plant growing on low grounds from Virginia northward. Preparation. — Tincture from the fresh root gathered in autumn, GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts especially upon the urinary organs and muscular sys- tem; in the former acting as a powerful diuretic, greatly in- creasing the urinary secretion, and also causing excessive vesi- cal irritation. This has led to its frequent use in gravel, renal dropsy and irritable bladder. In the muscular system it pro- duces rheumatoid affections. OHARACTBRISTIO SYMPTOMS. Head. — Sensation as if falling to the left side (Arum., Bell., Stram., Sulph., Zinc), with dizziness. Throat.— Choking fullness of the throat. Smarting and burn- ing in back part of throat (Cantli.). Urinary Organs. — Deep, dull pain in kidneys; also cutting pain {Berb., Canth.). Intense smarting and burning in. bladder and urethra on urinating (Can. sat., Canth., Caps.). Greatly increased quantity of urine (Phos. ac). °Inconti- nence of urine, especially with children . Constant desire to urinate; even after frequent passages bladder still feels full. °Soreness and pain in bladder; deep aching; uneasiness; catarrh. Female Organs. — Quick, jerking pain in left ovary. Heavy pressure above left ovary. Abundant leucorrhoea, with uri- nary complications. Generalities. — ^General tendency to rheumatism ; pains pass from below upward ; with loose bilious stools. °Great 328 EUPHORBIA COROLATA. restlessness, tossing, moaning, tired and faint, in rheuma- tism and bilious fevers. Sleepiness. Pever. — °Chill at different times of day, every other day ; he- gins at small of hack (Caps., Lach.), and spreads over body; violent shaking luith comparatively little coldness; bone pains; lips and nails blue; thirst during chill and heat. Chilly when changing position during sweat. Oompare. — Apis, Apoc. c, Can. sat., Eup. perf., Senec. THERAPEUTICS. Has been used chiefly in urinary troubles. Diabetes insipi- dus ; chronic or acute cystitis ; dysuria ; incontinence of urine ; vesical calculi. Intermittent fever, with characteristics above given, and especially when dysuria is a prominent symptom, deep dull pains in kidneys, aching and soreness in bladder. Bright's disease, scanty urine, oedematous swelling, etc. Has also been used in impotence, atony of sexual organs. Also in sciatica, especially of left side, and in rheumatism, especially of old people, with aching bones, pains passing from below up- ward, and great restlessness. EUPHORBIA COROLATA. Jfatural order. — Euphorbiacese. Common naines. — Flow- ering Spurge. Milk Weed. Wild Ipecac. Bowman's Root. Hahitat.—k perennial plant indigenous to the United States, especially abundant in the south and west. Preparation.— Tincture from the fresh root. GENERAL ANALYSIS AND THERAPEUTICS. Acts upon the raucous tissues of the digestive tract, giving rise to a choleraic condition, its chief symptoms being: sudden and poiuerful vomiting, first of food and other contents of stomach, then large quantities of water mixed with ynucus, and clear fluid lihe rice water ; followed immediately hy co- pious luatery evacuations, the diarrhoea and vomiting alter- nating at short intervals, accompanied hy painful spasms of the intestines, great anxiety, and a death-lihe sense of faint- EUPHORBIUM. 329 ness and exhaustion (Ars., Verat, alb.). It has accordingly been used with success in the treatment of sporadic cholera, and especially cholera infantum. Has cured attacks of deathly retching and vomiting, with feeling of clawing in the stomach and with cold sweat. Compare. — Ars., Camph., Sec. c, Verat. alb. EUPHORBIUM. Synonym. — Euphorbium Resinifera. Jfatural order. — Eu- phorbiacese. Commojt names. — Wolfs Milk. Gum Euphor- bium. Hahitat. — A perennial plant, native of Morocco. Prepa- ration.— Tincture from the powdered gum-resin. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts upon the digestive tract in a manner similar to its rel- atives Croton, Jatropha, and other so-called drastic purga- tives, inducing vomiting, purging, and other symptoms simu- lating a choleraic condition. It also acts upon the brain, pro- ducing violent congestion, accompanied by symptoms of acute mania. Hempel considered this so important a part of its ac- tion that he remarks, "I should never use Euphorbium inter- nally, unless the brain symptoms indicated its use together with the other phenomena. If the cerebral action is not dis- turbed, if there are no signs of cerebral irritation, no signs of violent congestion of the brain, or even delirium, Euphorbium may not prove homoeopathic to the existing irritation in the stomach and bowels." — Hempel and Arndt's Materia Medica. Vol. II, p. 107. Euphorbium also produces violent irritation and inflammation of the respiratory mucous membrane. It also acts upon the skin, producing eczematous and erysipela- tous inflammation. OHARACTBRISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Melancholia; anxiety; apprehension. ° Acute mania {Bell., Hyos., Op., Stram.), Avith symptoms of violent cere- bral congestion (Bell.), and irregular hurried pulse. Head. — Violent vertigo while standing or walking in open air. Violent pressive headache. 330 EUPHORBIUM. Eyes. — Biting iu the eyes, with lachrymation. Intolerance of light {Aeon., Bell., Merc, Siilpfi.). Ears. — Ringing in the ears, also when sneezing. Nose. — Frequent sneezing; fluent coryza. Pace. — Erysipelatous, inflaDved swelling of the cheeh, with vesicles large as peas, filled with yellow liquid. Mouth. — Toothache, as if screiued in, in a hollow tooth, with jerking in it as if it would be torn out. Excessive accumu- lation of saliva {Cinch., lodi., Merc). Throat. — Burning in throat, extending to stomach {Ars., Canth., Caps., Merc. cor.). Stomach. — Thirst for cold (ivmk^ {Aeon., Ars., Bry.). Eruc- tations ; frequent hiccough. Nausea and vomiting. Burn- ing in the stomach {Ars., Canth., Caps., Merc cor.). Spas- modic contraction and griping in stomach. Abdomen. — Abdomen sunken. Much rumbling in abdomen, followed by emission of flatus {Aloe, Coloc, Lye). Vio= lent spasmodic flatulent colic {Coloc). StooL— Profuse diarrhoea and vomiting. Stools profuse, diar- rhoeic, dysenteric, fermented and thin, like water; pasty, yellowish, clayey {Bell., Calc, Hep. s., Podo.). Constipa- tion. Respiratory Organs. — Dry, hacking cough, from tickling or crawling in throat or chest. Difficult respiration. Stitches in leffc side of chest. Pulse. — Small, irregular, hurried pulse. G-eneralities.— Burning pain at night in bones of hip and thigh. Tendency to faint. Skin. — Erysipelatous i7%flamination ; large vesicles filled with yelloivish serum. Violent phlegmonous inflamnia- tion. Pustules, Eczema, Gangrene {Ars., Lach.). Corro- sive, burning, itching of the skin. Fever. — Chilliness and shivering over the whole body. Hot, dry i>,\i\n {Aeon., Bell.). Cold perspiration (Ca'7^7:>7^., Verat. atb.). Compare.— Ars., Camph., Crot. tig., Jatropha., Colch., Elat,, Verat. alb. THERAPEUTICS. Has been successfully used in gastro-intestinal irritations; gastro-enteritis ; sporadic cholera; choleraic diarrhoea; especi- EUPHKASIA. 331 ally when associated with cerebral irritation, congestion, delir- ium, even acute mania. Useful in influenza, with headache, much sneezing, lachrymation, acrid coryza, hacking cough. Toothache as if screwed in, with jerking and throbbing. Vesic- ular erysipelas of the cheek. Violent phlegmonous inflamma- tions— erysipelatous. Pustular and eczematous eruptions. Old torpid ulcers. Gangrene. Has been used topically for can- cers, and is said to have cured epithelioma. EUPHRASIA. Synony-m. — Euphrasia Officinalis. J^atural order. — Scroph- ulariacesB. Common name. — Eyebright. Habitat. — A small annual plant growing in meadows and on borders of forests all over Europe. Preparation. — Tincture from the fresh plant, omitting the root. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Through the ganglionic nervous system Euphrasia exerts its power almost entirely upon the mucous membranes, especi- ally those of the eye and lids, and of the upper portion of the respiratory tract, producing a distinct catarrhal inflammation, partaking of the nature of an influenza and characterized by an excessive watery secretion, which is the chief characteristic of the drug. OHARACTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Head.— Confusion and bruised pain in head {Gels.). Dull fron- tal headache (Hydras., Kali bi., Nux v., Puis.). Eyes. — Burning in the eyes with lachrymation (Ars.). Press- ure in the eyes, with lachrymation. Frequent burning, biting in the eyes; hiting ivater runs from them (Ars., Merc. cor.). Itching and burning in the eyes, obliging fre- quent winking and wiping the eyes (C]'oc., Puis.). Eedness, hxorning and swelling of the margins of the lids (Merc, cor., Sulph.). Frequent inclination to blinh (Croc). Lids sensitive and swollen. Abundant flow of corrosive tears, almost blinding him (Merc. cor.). Vision dim, as through 332 EUPHRASIA. a veil, in the evening (Caust,, Merc, Petrol., Puis., Sulph.). Feeling as though cornea zuere covered with mucus ; it obscures his vision and obliges him to frequently close a7%d press the lids together (Croc, Puis.). Excessive pho- tophobia {Aeon., Bell., Merc.). Spots, vesicles and ulcers of the cornea (Merc, Sil.). Sensation as though a hair hung over the eye, and must be wiped away. Nose. — Profuse bland {Cepa, acrid), fluent coryza (Ars., Merc), with scalding tears and aversion to light ; worse in the evening and during the night. Violent irritation to sneeze, without cold or apparent cause (Cham.). Profuse coryza in morning, with much cough and expectoration. Respiratory Organs. — Catarrhal hoarseness {Aeon., Carb. v., Hep. s., Phos.); mornings. Irritation of the larynx impell- ing him to cough, followed by tensive pressure beneath the sternum. Cough on rising in the morning, with abundant expectoration of mucus. Profuse expectoration of muczis by voluntary haching cough. Difficult deep inspiration, even while sitting. Pressive pain beneath the sternum, with transient sticking here and there in the chest. Sleep. — Unusual yawning while walking in the open air. Fre- quent waking, as from fright, in the night. Aggravation. — In morning; in-doors; in evening. Amelioration. — After getting out of bed; out-doors; from eating ; from coffee. Compare. — Aeon., Arg. nit., Ars., Cepa, Coni., Hep. s., Kali bi., Merc, cor., Nux v.. Puis., Phos., Sulph. Antidotes.— Cam ph., Puis. THERAPEUTICS. An extremely valuable remedy in acute catarrhal condi- -fcions in general with influenza symptoms. Acute or subacute conjunctivitis, characterized either by an excessive acrid watery dischai-ge in the acute variety, or profuse acrid mattery dis- charge in the latter, making the cheeks sore, accumulation of mucus in the cornea, causing frequent winking,- and pressing for its removal; photophobia margins, of lids swollen and red, burning, even ulcerated. A valuable remedy in acute corj^za or influenza, with excessively profuse acrid lachrymation, and profuse bland discharge from the nose, with great photopho- FERRUM. 333- bia ; also when there is associated with these symptoms of in- fluenza, soreness and pressive pain beneath the sternum, hack- ing cough with free mucous expectoration. Cough always worse on rising in the morning, lasting more or less through the day, but not disturbing the patient at night. Has successfully re- moved spots, vesicles and ulcers of the cornea, and other eye troubles with the peculiar symptoms of Euphrasia above men- tioned. Frequently indicated and useful in measles with char- acteristic symptoms. FERRUM. Synonym. — Ferrum Metallicum. Preparation. — Tritura- tions of pure Iron reduced by Hydrogen. GENERAL ANALYSIS. . Ferrum acts pre-eminently upon the blood in such a' man- ner as to produce a debilitating and disorganizing effect upon the entire system, the nutrition being profoundly affected. It at first and for a short time only vitalizes the blood and in- creases the red corpuscles, but soon the watery portions of the blood are increased, the albumen is decreased, and the number of red corpuscles diminished, this being accomplished through the influence of Iron on the blood-making organs, the result be- ing that condition known as anaemia in the treatment of which Iron constitutes the most important remedy. The beneficial effects of Iron in anaemic states, however, are not due to the fact that it is supplied as a food to the blood which is deficient in this constituent; for, as Hughes truly remarks, ''the malady does not ordinarily arise from any failure in the quantity of Iron supplied in the food. If the element is deficient in the blood, the fault lies in the assimilative processes. But Reveil has ascertained that in anaemia there is no change whatever in the amount of Iron present in the blood. However few the cor- puscles, they contain within them the full proportion of the metal normal to health; and though under the influence of Iron itself the.y increase to double and triple their number, they vield no more Iron." It is also true that when Iron is intro- 334 FERRUM. duced into the sj^stem in large quantities, with a view to sup- plying the deficiency of Iron in the blood, that it is not assimi- lated, but may be almost entirely re-obtained from the faeces, having been eliminated by the intestines. It is also true that the immediate primary effects of Iron are to increase the red blood corpuscles, as before noted, but its continued use results in exactly the opposite condition. It is thus evident that Iron does not act as a curative agent by virtue of its absorption as a constituent of the blood, but rather are we led to conclude, from its physiological effects upon the organs and tissues of the body, that it owes its therapeutic virtues to the same essen- tial dynamic agency possessed by other drugs, and its applica- tion is subject to the same therapeutic law. OHARAOTBRISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Anxiety, with throbbing in pit of stomach (Puis.). Ex- cited by the slightest opposition {Aur., Ign.) ; everything irritates or depresses her (Nux v.). Mind confused ; cannot collect his thoughts. Head.— Confusion of the head. Vertigo on descending (reverse Calc.)] on looking at running water (Sulph.); when walk- ing. Rush of hloocl to the head ; veins of head swollen ; with flushes of heat in face {Aeon., Bell.). Headache after the menses ; with hot head and cold feet. Severe frontal headache, with cold feet. Haimnering and heating pul- sating pains in the head; has to lie doiun. Pressure in frontal eminences ; relieved by pressure of the hands, and in the open air. Stitches in temples, extending to forehead. Shooting headache in left side of head. Sticking pain over left eye, coming suddenly. A drawing from the nape up- ward into the head, in which there is shooting, roaring, and humming. Falling out of the hair {Graph., JSFitr. ac., Sep., Sulph.) ; scalp and hair painful to touch (Cinch., Merc., Mez.) and formication. Eyes.— Eyes confused, dull and watery (Euphr.). Eyes red, with burning pain (Ars.). Dark before the eyes; giddy. Letters run together when reading or writing. Aching in the eyes, as if they would protrude. Ears.— Ringing in right ear. Over-sensitive to sounds. °Foetid discharge from left ear. FERRUM. 335 Nose. — Bloody, purulent, greenish, slimy, acrid discharges. Epistaxis ; mornings when stooping ; in anaemic patients. Face.— Cadaverous, earthy complexion (Ars.). Pale, wan face, greenish or yellow. Blue rings around the eyes, which are dull and lusterless. Fiei-y redness of the face (Aster., Sa- bad.) ; veins large. Flushed face, with burning cheeks. Lips pale. Mouth.— All solid food tastes dry and insipid. Throat. — Feeling of constriction in throat. rStomach. — Voracious appetite (Bry., lodi.). Anorexia ; ex- treme disUhe to all food (Ant. crud., Ipec, Nux v., Puis.) ; always feels full. Eructations and regurgitations of food after eating {Ars., Puis.). Nausea and vomiting of food after eating {Ars. Puis.). Vomiting of food iimnediately after midnight, or in morning after breakfast. Distension of epigastric region. Pressure in the stomach after eating {Bry., Lye., Jfux v.). Heat and burning in stomach, with momentary cramp-like pain in splenic region. .Abdomen. — Tightness and fullness in region of liver. Liver en- larged ; sensitive to pressure. Spleen large after intermit- tents. Abdomen hard and distended, but not with flatu- lence. Flatulent colic at night. Bowels feel sore when touched, as if bruised (Merc), or w^eakened by cathartics. rStool. — Frequent diarrhoea; stools watery (Ars., Podo., Cinch.), with or without tenesmus, and preceded or not by pain, but aliuays ivith much flatulence, and worse after food, or drinh {Aloe, Coloc). Sudden, watery, painless, without smell (Cinch., Podo.). ^Diarrhoea, with undigested food, painless and involuntary, during a meal. Constipation (Alum., Bry., Calc. c, JShox v.. Op., Sulph.). °Ascarides in the rectum (Merc, Spig., Sep.). Urinary Organs. — Urging to urinate ; with tickling in urethra extending to neck of bladder; with pain in liver, chest and kidneys. Involuntary urination, especially by day. Male Organs. — Nocturnal emissions, impotence; increased desire. Pemale Organs. — Menses too late, long-lasting and jjrofuse {Chel.). "Haemorrhage from the uterus, with labor-like pains in abdomen, and glowing heat in the face (Bell.). °Desire lessened ; sterility. Vagina very dry ; coition exces- 336 FEREUM. sively painful. °Before menses stinging headache, ringing in ears, discharge of long pieces of mucus from uterus. °Hysterical symptoms after menses; from suppressed menses. Leucorrhoea, mild, milky or itching, with soreness. Respiratory Organs. — Voice hoarse, almost extinct (Caust.). Roughness of the throat. Difficult breathing and oppres- sion of the chest, as if some one pressed with the hand upon it (Nux v., Phos.). Uneasy breathing from pain across the chest. Coughing up of blood in the morning on rising from bed. Scanty, thin, frothy expectoration, with streahs of hlood ; or copious purulent, putrid, greenish or frothy; worse mornings. Cough worse when moving. Spas- modic cough, from tickling in the trachea, after eating. Contractive cramp in the chest, and cough, oiAy when mov- ing and walking. Breath fails at the end of a coughing fit. Dry, tickling cough, with blood spitting. Pressure under the sternum, with catarrh and cough. ^Haemoptysis, morning and night, in onanists; con- sumptives; from severe exertion ; after loss of fluids ; from suppressed menses. °Flying pains in chest; blood spitting (Mille.) ; persons who flush easily and get epistaxis, dyspnoea, palpitation (Aeon.). Heart and Pulse. — Rapid action of the heart ^Consecutive heart disease. °Ch]orosis. Throbbing in all blood vessels ; soft bellows sound at apex. Small, weak pulse; slow pulse (Digit., Op.). Limbs. — Swelling of the hands, and legs up to the knees (Ars., Led.). Nightly tearing in arms and legs. Upper Limbs. — Downward shooting pains in shoulders and arms. Creaking in right shoulder joint, with bruised pain on touch, and shooting and tearing down through upper arm; inability to raise the arm. Pinching in right deltoid. Lower Limbs.— Shooting and tearing in the hip joint, which pains as if bruised when touched, down along the tibia; worse in the evening in bed ; must get up and walk about {Rhus tox.). Painful drawing in the legs, with heaviness and stiffness. Cramp in the calves; worse during rest, es- pecially^ at night (Sulph.). Cramps in the soles of the feet and the toes (Sulph.). FERRUM. 337 Generalities. — Great emaciation (Ars., Phos.). Great iveak- 7^655 and prostration ; very easily fatigued {Ars., Cinch.). Increased bodily irritability; excitable. Restless; must walk slowly about. °Paralysis from loss of fluids. Peri- odical attacks of pain. Red parts become white. °H8emor- rhages; blood light or lumpy; coagulates easily. Blood vessels distended, especially those of head, face and feet. °Pseudo-plethora ; congestions, etc., yet anaemic. °Erethis- tic chlorosis ; worse during cold weather. Fever. — Chilly every evening ; hectic fever. Frequent short at- tacks of chilly shivering. Chilly, and want of animal heat. Sweat profuse, long-lasting, clamm^^, debilitating. Sweat stains yellow ; is foetid on going to sleep. Worse while sweat- ing. Skin. — Skin pale, yellow, sallow, dirty (Merc), withered,, flabby (lodi.). Sleep. — Restless sleep at night. Excessive and drowsy fatigue,, with restless sleep at night. Sleep disturbed by dreams ;, much weariness in morning. Aggravation. — At night; in morning; after eating and drink- ing;, while at rest, especially while sitting still; from noise; from conversation ; from heat; from motion. Amelioration. — From slight exercise ; from solitude. Conditions. — In persons who, though weak and nervous, have a very red face ; in delicate, chlorotic women ; sanguine tem- perament. Compare. — Ars., Bell., Calc. c. Cinch., Gels., Helon., Ipec, Lye, Mangan., Nux v., Phos., Puis., Sulph., Sabin. Antidotes. — Ars., Cinch., Hep. s., Ipec, Puis., Verat. alb., mxea. Perrum Antidotes.— Copper, Mercury, Prussic ac, Ars., lodi.,, Cinch. THERAPEUTICS. Iron is undoubtedly often the true homoeopathic remedy in^ anaemia (see General Analysis); but it is not the only remedy, and should never be prescribed unless the symptoms indicating it are present. There is always a sort of nervous erethistic con- dition present if Iron is the remedy. It is never indicated in anaemia characterized by a torpid, sluggish condition. Though. 338 FERRUM. there is great weakness, and the patients cannot endure the slightest excitement or fatigue, yet they cannot keep quiet and are better from very gentle exercise. The face is of a pale earthy hue, but flushes very easily ; there are frequent attacks of severe headache, the head is inclined to be hot and the ex- tremities cold, and the hands and feet are often oedematous. The patient is very easily excited, is sensitive to cold air and cannot endure pain. Often there is palpitation of the heart, with a well-marked bellows murmur. Iron is an exceptionally valuable remedy in erethistic chlorosis with the above symp- toms, and in addition there is usually a milky, acrid leucorrhoea, and pale, watery menses, with lumps of blood, and attended with labor-hke pains in the abdomen ; also gastric sj^raptoms, especially nausea after eating, or about midnight. Sometimes the menses are suppressed, and vicarious discharges of blood occur from other parts, especially the nose or lungs. Sometimes a remedy for menorrhagia in anaemic subjects. Haemorrhage from the uterus, with labor-like pains in the uterus, and glow- ing heat in the face; also the consequent anaemia. Head- ache after menses, with hot head and cold feet. Iron is fre- quently a valuable remedy in haemoptysis occurring in phthi- sis, especially in young people who are in the incipient stage of phthisis florida, flying pains in the chest ; patients flush easily and get epistaxis, dyspnoea and palpitation ; cough spasmodic from tickling in the larynx ; thin, frothy expectoration streaked with brighfc-red blood ; later the expectoration may be purulent and greenish. According to T! F. Allen, Ferrura is "extremely useful when the chest symptoms seem to occur from a kind of surging of blood to the chest— a not infrequent symptom in per- sons whose circulation is feeble ; in such cases there are oppres- sion and dyspnoea. It has been prescribed for asthma and even for pneumonia, and it is very probable that Ferrum has been overlooked as a valuable remedy for inflammation of the tho- racic organs, for it certainly may be indicated when there is marked febrile excitement." Iron undoubtedly produces true febrile paroxysms, and may be indicated in fevers, especially intermittents, when the foregoing symptoms of prostration are present, and when there is a profuse, clammy debihtating sweat; especially after the abuse of quinine, with enlarged spleen, an8emia,and dropsical swellings of the extremities. Fer- FERllUM lODATUM. 339 rum is often a valuable remedy in chronic diarrhoea, with anae- mic symptoms, and in the diarrhoeas which accompany phthisis and other exhausting diseases. The stools are painless, watery, sometimes containing undigested food, and always brought on by taking any food or drink. Sometimes useful in the diarrhoea of teething children ; also with vomiting, which too is worse after food, drink or nursing. The drug is also useful in the dys- pepsia of ansemic patients ; usually a voracious appetite, or else the patient feels full and has no appetite ; considerable flatu- lence; cannot eat, because it produces vomiting and sometimes diarrhoea. Bleeding hgeoiorrhoids. Ascarides. Enuresis; both day and night, in children. Bright 's disease. Violent neural- gias, with ansemia and characteristic symptoms, always better from moving slowly ; pains usually throbbing. Paralysis. Ex- ophthalmic goitre. Sometimes useful in lumbago and rheuma- tism, especially of the shoulders and lower limbs; better from walking about slowly. FERRUM lODATUM. Iodide of Iron. Preparation. — Triturations. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Combines with the blood state and debility of Iron the cachexia of Iodine, rendering it especially useful in scrofulous and chlorotic conditions, and when the system is in an impov- erished state. In such persons, its chief curative range is in the female sexual system, where may be present passive con- gestion, atony and uterine displacements, with their usual phenomena. OHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Head. — Cephalalgia. Face. — Injected, red; chlorotic look (Ars., Ferr.). Abdomen.— Fullness, even after a little food, as if she had eaten too much (Lye); a sort of upward pressure; stuffed feeling as if she could not lean forward (Nux v.). 340 FERRUM PHOSPHORICUM. Urine. — Dark-colored, depositing a thick white sediment ; urine scalds. Female Organs. — "Constant bearing down as if something was coming away; while sitting, feels as if pushed some- thing up; she can touch the cervix uteri (Bell., Lil.). "Retroversion of the uterus. °Leucorrhoea like boiled starch, when the bowels move the discharge is stringy. "Itching and soreness of vulva and vagina (Sulph.); parts much swollen. Compare. — Caul., Ferr., Helon., Sep., Sulph. THERAPEUTICS. Has been found most useful in conditions resulting from atony and passive congestion of the female generative organs ; uterine displacements, with symptoms above given; leucor- rhoea ; suppressed menses ; pruritus. In acute nephritis follow- ing the exanthemata it has proved a most valuable remedy. Chlorosis in scrofulous patients ; suppurative stage of tubercu- losis ; scrofulous affections in general. FERRUM PHOSPHORICUM. Phosphate of Iron. Preparation. — Triturations. GENERAL ANALYSIS AND THERAPEUTICS. Ferrum phos. is the preparation of Iron selected by Schiiss- ler for his group of tissue remedies. It appears to represent in many points the combined action of Iron and Phosphorus, and gives us a fever remedy that seems to occupy a place mid- way between Aconite and Gelsemium. Schiissler proposed to substitute Ferrum phos. for Aconite, and recommends its use in the first stage of all inflammations, before exudation has taken place (second stage. Kali chloratum). Clinical experience has already demonstrated the value of Schiissler's suggestion, in so far that it has led, not to the substitution of Ferrum phos. for Aconite, but to the establishment of the true sphere of action of Ferrum phos. in fevers and inflammations, though doubtless there is much yet to learn of its action. No doubt FLUORICUM ACIDUM. 341 the use of Iron and its salts in these conditions has heretofore been greatly neglected. The indications for Ferrum phos., so far as known, are : — First stage of inflammatory diseases before exudation has taken place; heat, with soffc, full, quick pulse; thirst; sweat, which does not relieve the pains; if a mucous inflammation, the discharge is blood-streaked; especially use- ful for the results of taking cold, particularly from suppressed perspiration. Thus it may be useful in many conditions, espe- cially inflammation of mucous tracts. Congestions and inflam- mations of the respiratory organs, especially with great oppres- sion, and dyspnoea, dry hacking cough, expectoration streaked with blood ; cough with tickling in trachea and bronchi, and with feeling of soreness in the lungs — laryngitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, pleurisy ; croup. Also in acute coryza ; catarrh of external ear with inflammatory symptoms and muco-purulent discharge; catarrh of eustachian tube ; pharyngitis; tonsilitis; etc. Schiissler recommends the drug in a long list of inflam- matory diseases, and others that cannot well be classed in that category. His observations still require verification. The drug has been successfully used in dyspepsia, and in the morning sickness of pregnancy, or during the menses. Haemorrhoids, inflammatory with acute pain ; also bleeding, the blood being bright red. Diarrhoea; cholera infantum; dysentery, with watery or blood-streaked stools, but without tenesmus ; espe- cially from taking cold, checked perspiration in hot weather. Cystitis, with fever; retention of urine in children, with fever. Measles, flrst stage. Ovaritis. Ovarian neuralgia. Dysmenor- rhoea, with hot face and soft quick pulse, also with vomiting and indigestion. Rheumatism, articular, with fever ; shooting pains, worse on motion. FLUORICUM ACIDUM. Hydrofluoric Acid. Preparation. — One part of pure fluoric acid is dissolved in ninety-nine parts of distilled water, and preserved in gutta-percha vials. This corresponds to the 2x dilution. The 3x dilution is made with distilled water. The 4 X dilution with dilute alcohol. Subsequent dilutions with alcohol. 342 FLUORICUM ACIDUM. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts especially upon the vegetative system (a tissue rem- edy), affecting powerfully mucous surfaces, glandular structures and bones, presenting conditions analogous to those resulting from perverted nutrition. OHARACTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Uncommon buoyancy of mind ; fears nothing and is self-satisfied. Disposition to anxious ideas, apprehensive. Head. — Severe pressing pain in temples, from within outward. Dullness and pressure in occiput. Falling off of the hair, °Caries of the skull bones, especially temporal. Pain along the sutures. Ears.— Intolerable itching in both ears. Eyes. — Sensation as if the eyelids were open by force, and a fresh wind were blowing on them. Sensation of sand in the e^^es (Canst., Hep. s., Sulph.). Nose. — Fluent coryza. Red, swollen, inflamed nose. Mouth. — Sensation of warmth in the teeth. Increased flow of saliva. Mouth and teeth coated with mucus in the morn- ing. Rapid caries of teeth. Tongue deeply and widely fis- sured in all directions, with a large, deep phagedenic-looking ulcer in the center. Painful ulcer in right angle of jaw. Face. — °Crusta lactea, dr}^, scaly, itching very much. °Tuber- cules in skin of forehead and face, suppurating; syphilis infantum. Throat. — °Throat peculiarly sensitive to cold, slightest ex- posure resulting in inflammation, with increase of pain and impeded deglutition. Constriction in throat, with difiicult deglutition ; in the morning, hawking of phlegm, mixed with blood. Stomach. — Hunger predominates; speedy satiety. Thirst; craves refreshing drinks. Frequent eructations. Nausea; with general heat. °Bilious vomiting after slight errors in diet, with increased alvine discharges, preceded by tormina. Fullness and pressure in epigastrium. Feeling of weight in stomach between meals. Abdomen. — Frequent passage of flatus and beichings, which relieve. °Great tension and dropsical swelling of the ab- domen. FLUORICUM ACIDUM. 343 Stool. — Constipation ; stools frequent and hard (Bry.). Urinary Organs. — Free discharge of light-colored urine, af- fording relief. Intolerable burning in the urethra during and after urination (Canth.). Male Organs. — Increased sexual desire, with violent erections at night. Highly excessive enjoyment and pleasure during coition. Seminal discharge tardy but free, and without bad after-feelings. Female Organs. — Menses too early; too copious; discharge thick, and coagulated. °Acrid leucorrhoea ; itching. °Nipples itching, sore, cracked. Upper Limbs. — Pain in right shoulder joint, extending toward fingers, with sensation as if air w^ere passing down. Pain in left index finger ; the whole finger is painful internally. In- flammation. Sensation of splinter under thumb-nail and in cellular tissue, when touched, pulsating pain in hand ; worse in tip of thumb, which was sore to the touch ; whole hand swollen and hot; suppuration; panaritium. °Brittle- ness of the nails. Lower Limbs. — "(Edematous swelling up to the abdomen. Burning itching in soles ; feet hot and burn. °Soreness be- tween the toes. Soreness of corns. "Varicose veins. Generalities. — Increased ability to exercise his muscles without fatigue. Lassitude. "Disposition to walk rapidly and keep in constant and energetic motion. Loss of strength. Old cicatrices become red around the edges, and itch violently. Sleep. — Drowsy and sleepy in the early evening. Sleeplessness without inclination to sleep ; a short sleep suffices and re- freshes him. Dreams towards morning. Fever. — General heat with nausea. Profuse, sour, offensive perspiration : in the afternoon. Aggravation. — In morning, at rest; on rising; w^hen standing; but better than when sitting. Amelioration. — From motion ; while walking. Compare. — Ant. crud., Ars., Borax, Boracic ac, Calc. c, Calc. phos., Kali., Phos., Merc, Sil,, Sulph, THE3R APEUTIC S. Fluoric acid is a valuable remedy in disorders resulting from perverted nutrition, reminding us in its clinical action of Silicea, a sick, debilitated sensation. General miLscular lameness and soreness; lassitude; depression of spirits. Sleep.— Drowsiness ; vertigo; semi-stupor. Restless, or sleeps soundly until toward morning; awakens generally feeling worse. Fever.— Chilliness on going out of doors: slight aching in lum- bar region. Excited, feverish feeling, alternating with chilliness; warm sensation along spine, then chill and gen- tle sweat. Face hot and flushed. Skin.— Yellow jaundiced appearance; itching as fi-om flea-bites. Aggravation. — From warmth of bed at night. Amelioration.— After breakfast ; in the open air. Compare.—- Chel., Digit., Podo. THERAPEUTICS. Useful in catarrhal conditions of mucous membranes, mouth, pharynx, bile ducts, etc.; hepatic disturbances ; jaundice ; with symptoms already described. "Seems to affect the sys- NAJA. 523 tem profoundly, and has proved curative in low states, with or without jaundice, when, with necessary debility, there is a viscous state of the mucous membranes, characterized by scanty tenacious, crust-forming secretions on tongue, and in mouth and pharynx." — Farrington. NAJA. Synoi%yTrh.—l^Q^}Qo Tripudians. C?«55.— Keptilia. Order.— Squamata. ^^yniZr/.— Elapidge. Coimnon name.— Gobvo^. Prep- aration.—1^\iq poison obtained by compressing the gland which secretes it, is triturated in the usual manner. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Naja, like Lachesis and other serpent poisons, affects pro- foundly the cerebro-spinal system, the pneumogastric and glosso-pharyngeal nerves being most affected. Hence we have difficult respiration, cardiac oppression and the usual decom- position and fluidity of the blood, resulting in ecchymoses^ htemorrhages and other general effects which result alike from all the serpent poisons. OHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — °Suicidal insanity (Aur., Nux v.). Wandering of the mind. Sad and serious; irresolute; melancholia; makes himself wretched brooding over imaginary wrongs and mis- fortunes (Nux v., Ign.). Very forgetful: absent-minded (Anac, Apis, Carls., Nux m., Phos. ac). Insensible; loss of consciousness. Head.— Confusion and dullness in head. Dull frontal headache. Severe throbbing and aching in temples. Heat and con- gestion in head. Eyes. — Eyes fixed and staring {Bell., Stram.); wide open and insensible to light (6>7J., Hyos., Strain.). Heaviness in eyelids (Coni., Gels., Natr. carb.). Loss of the sense of vision. Nose. — Severe coryza, thin, acrid secretion ; nose sore, hot and swollen. 524 NAJA. Face. — Pale, thiu, haggard; greenish-yellow color; livid. Neuralgic pains in face, sometimes shooting to eye and temple. Lips dry, parched and cracked (Ars., Lach.), hot and sore. Jaws firmly clenched (Cic, Ign., Hyos., Laur., Mux- v.). Mouth. — Mouth Avide open; tongue cold (Camph.). Gnawing toothache; gums hot, swollen and painful to touch. Tongue coated thick, yellow; white, dry, no thirst (Nux m.). Ulcers on frsenum. Great dryness of the mouth (Ars., Bry., Nux m.). Foaming at the mouth (Cic, Coccul., Cupr., Laur.). Taste insipid, bitter, sour, metallic (Coccul., J5]sc., Merc). Loss of speech (Dulc, Caust., Gels., Hyos., Laur.). Throat. — Much mucus in throat. Pressure and gagging in throat. Eoughness and scraping in throat. Grasping at throat, with sense of clicking (Aeon., lod.). Dryness and constriction of throat and fauces. Soreness and pricking in left side of throat. Stricture of the oesophagus; degluti- tion difficult or impossible. Dark-red color of the fauces {Alicuith., Bapt., Phyt.). Stomach. — Loss of appetite. Craving for stimulants, which aggravate the sufferings. Eructations ; heartburn. Nausea, with faint feeling; vomiting. Uneasy, disagreeable feeling in stomach, as from indigestion ; pressure as from stones, after a meal {^rs., Bry., JSfux v., Puis.). Abdomen. — Cutting, twisting, griping pains. Much flatulence, with rumbling and colicky pains. Stool.— Sudden urging to stool. Bihous diarrhoea. Constipa- tion. Urinary Organs.— Uneasiness aud pressure in bladder. Urine deposits red sediment, mixed with mucus. Male Organs.— Increased sexual desire. Nocturnal emissions. Female Organs— Crampy pain in left ovary. Thin, whitish leucorrhoea. Secretion of milk decreased. Respiratory Organs.— Cough, with tightness and fullness in larynx. Irritation and tickling in larynx and trachea. Hoarseness: short, hoarse cough. Dry, hacking cough; blood spitting (Aeon., Ferr., Ham.). Respiration very slow, shallow and scarcely perceptible; labored and diffi- cult; gasping for breath. Uneasiness and dull, heavy pain in chest. Lancinating pains, worse on deep inspiration NAJA. 525 (Bry.). Asthmatic constriction of cliest; followed by mu- cous expectoration. Heart and Pulse. — Feeling of depression and uneasiness about the heart. Severe pain in region of heart. Fluttering and palpitation of the heart. Audible beating of the heart {Spig.). Pulse slow and irregular in rhythm and force {Digit.); weak and thready; scarcely perceptible (Aeon., Ars.). Neck and Back. — Eheumatic pains in neck and back. Pain between the shoulders. Aching in loins. Acute pain in small of back ; gnawing pain. Limbs. — Sudden prostration of strength in limbs. Rheumatic pains in limbs. Generalities. — Languor; fatigue, torpor. °Organs seem to be drawn together, especially ovary and heart. Depression of both mental and physical powers. Symptoms worse from stimulants : better when walking in open air. Skin. — Creeping, itching, and tingling sensation in skin. Skin swelled, mottled, and of dark-purple livid color. Large pimples on inflamed base. Small white blisters on inflamed base, with much itching. °Gangrene. Sleep. — Yawning; great sleepiness. Restless, disturbed sleep. Vivid dreams. Fever.— Body cold and collapsed (Carb. v., Caniph.). Extremi- ties very cold ; icy coldness of feet (Tabac). Burning heat in face. Feels very uncomfortable, hot and feverish. Free perspiration. Compare.— ^7?^5, Ars., Cact., Crot. tig.. Hep. s., Lach., Merc, Nitr. ac, Phos., Rhus tox., Sulph., Spig. Antidotes. — Heat, Alcohol, Salt. THERAPEUTICS. Naja is useful in similar conditions with Lachesis, but not so generally employed: asthma; spasmodic croup; jaundice; angina pectoris; pericarditis; rheumatic carditis; neuralgia; neuralgia of left ovary, with palpitation and pain about the heart ; organic disease of the heart ; chronic nervous palpita- tion of the heart ; sympathetic, irritative cough, with organic diseases of the heart ; diphtheria, with symptoms similar to Lach., larynx invaded, threatening paralysis of the heart; ul- 526 NATRUM ARSENICATUM. cers ; hay fever, with asthmatic symptoms, after first stage has commenced to subside, parts feel dry, suffocative attacks, espe- cially when lying down or after sleeping (Lach.); hydrophobia; purpura. ' NATRUM ARSENICATUM. Synonym. — Sodium Arsenate. Cormnon name. — Arsenate of Soda. Preparation. — Triturations. GENERAL ANALYSIS. The action of Natr. ars. is especially upon mucous surfaces, where it causes irritation, congestion and subacute catarrhal inflammation. It also acts upon the blood to a limited degree, and interferes with nutrition, the patient becoming weak and emaciated. In its general action the drug resembles Natrum mur. more than it does Arsenic. OHARACTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Nervous restlessness {Aeon., Ars., Camph.). Cannot concentrate mind ; dull, listless (Gels., Jfivx v., Phos. ae.); forgetful (Anac, Apis). Head. — Confused feeling; head heavy, dull. Feeling of heat and fullness in whole head. Dull aching in frontal region and root of nose ; on awaking in morning; severe during day; indisposed to study or speak. Aching across brow over orbits and eyeballs. Fullness in forehead, with throb- bing in top of head (Bry.). Every motion jars the head (Bell.). Eyes. — Vision weakened; objects blur when he looks at them for a short time ; eyes sensitive to light (Aeon., Bell., Merc, Sulph.). °Eyes soon tire and pain when reading or writing (Myrica, Natr. mur., Phos., Buta, Sep.). Feels as though he must close hds to protect the weak eyes. Lids disposed to close; cannot open them as wide as usual (Caust., Coni., Gels., Natr. carb.). Blood vessels of balls and lids much congested, whole orbital region swollen ; oedema of orbital region {Ars., Bhus tox., Phos.), especially of supraor- NATRUM ARSENICATUM. 527 bital region {Apis, Kalic). ^Congestion of conjunctiva from least exposure to cold or wind (Aeon.); conjunctiva dry and painful. Eyes smart as from wood smoke ; smart- ing and lachrymation on going into open air. Inner sur- face of (lower) lids granulated. Edges chronicall}'' inflamed; morning agglutination. Aching through and over brows and orbits, and in temples on awaking. Eye symptoms worse in the morning, better towards evening. Nose. — Smell defective or lost. Patient feels stuffed up in nose and chest. Nose constantly stopped up, worse at night and in morning (Nux v.); must breathe at night with mouth open (Amm. carb.). Nasal discharge yellow, tough; also hawked up from posterior nares ; mucus drops from poste- rior nares (Hydras., Kali bi.). Pieces of hardened bluish mucus flow from nose, after which mucus membrane feels raw. Dry crust in nose; when removed blood follows. Na- sal mucous membrane thickened, can inhale air, but difficult to exhale. Compressive pain at root of nose and in fore- head; catarrh (Aeon., Kali bi., Merc. iod.). Face. — Face flushed and hot (Bapt., Bell.); feels puffed. Malar bones feel large, as if swollen. Swollen, oedematous; more orbital region (Ars., Apis, Rhustox.); worse mornings on awaking. Mouth. — Corners fissured ; also indurated. Muscles of masti- cation stiff, painful to move jaw. Tongue furred ; coated yellow ; deep-red, corrugated, anterior part fissured ; large, moist, fissured, flabby {Merc). Throat. — Fauces dry on swallowing and on inspiration, worse in morning and after a cold. Fauces and pharynx red and glossy. Tonsils, fauces and pharynx purplish and (Edema- tous ; patched with yellow mucus (Merc, iod.); "diphtheria. Uvula, tonsils and pharynx thickened ; surface irregular, swollen, purplish-red, covered with yellowish-gray mucus, which is hawked out. Stomach. — Drinks often, but little at a time (Ars., Hyos.); very thirsty, made worse by drinking. Belching and sour eruc- tations. Nausea, worse from cold drink of water Vomits large quantities of sour water, worse after eating. Stom- ach feels sore ; warm things cause a sensation of burning, and can be felt entering stomach. Moderate dinner lies 528 NATKUM ARSENICATUM. heavy {JOyc, Jfiox v.)\ Feeling of fullness. Epigastrium ten- der, also sinking sensation. Abdomen. — Gas forms rapidly (Carb. v., Lye), worse only when bowels move; colic from flatus and before stool. Stool. — Alternate diarrhoea and constipation {Ant. crud., Cimic, Card, m., Nux v., Pod.). Stool thin, soft, dark, fol- lowed by burning at anus (Siclph.). Yellowish, watery ; co- pious, painless, hurries out of bed in morning (Sulph.); pre- ceded by colic, relived after (Coloc). Urinary Organs. — Dull aching in kidneys, with profuse urine. Sore feeling in region of bladder, worse while urinating. Urine copious, frequent, clear ; heat precipitates phosphates; contains some epithelial scales, casts and fat globules. Respiratory Organs. — Dark slate-colored, scanty mucus in larynx, detached with difficulty. Oppressed or stuffed sen- sation all day from larynx to bottom of sternum. Rough- ness and irritation in bronchi mornings, with slight cough. Lungs feel dry, as though smoke had been inhaled (Baryt. c, Brom.). Dry cough, with feeling of tightness and opres- sion in middle and upper third of chest. Chest feels full and oppressed ; worse during exertion and on full inspiration. Sharp, quick pain below seventh rib anteriorly. Supra- clavicular regions sore on pressure. Heart and Pulse. — Oppression about heart on least exertion. Pulse irregular, variable in volume, slower than usual (Digit., Can. ind.. Op.). Neck and Back.— Neck stiff and sore. Pain and soreness in back, between scapulae ; in lumbar region. Limbs.— Neuralgic pains recur frequently. Joints feel stilf {Rhus tox.); pains erratic, worse in joints and on left side. Lower limbs feel heavy ; weary, bruised feehngs. Aching an- teriorly down legs, until restless, uneasy feeling is produced. Generalities.— Restless, nervous, cannot sit still without great e^ovt{B.hustojc.). Feels tired all over; desire to remain quiet. More susceptible to cold air, takes cold easily (Calc, c, Kali c, Sil.). Pains show preference for left leg. (Edema {Apis, ATS.,B.h-astox.). Marked emaciation {locli., Natr. mur.); after previous increase in flesh. Sleep.— Drowsy, heavy, restless; wakes as if frightened. Skin.— Squamous eruption, scales thin, white, and when re- NATRUM CARBONICUM. 529 moved leave skin slightly reddened ; if scales remain they cause itchino', worse when warm from exercise. Fever.— Chilly, disposed to wrap up or c^et near a fire. Chilly at night, then burning, dry heat. Skin hot and dry. Sur- face cool, covered with cold, clammy sweat {Ars., Camph., Verat. alb.). Aggravation.— In the morning. After eating. Amelioration. — When walking in the open air. Compare.— Ars., Lye, Kali bi.. Hydras., Nux v., Natr. mur., Natr. carb. THERAPEUTICS. Natrum ars. is especially useful in chronic catarrhal condi- tions—nasal, pharyngeal, bronchial, gastric, cystic or intes- tinal; conjunctivitis; granular lids; rheumatism; neuralgia; sciatica ; oedema. The symptoms have already been described, and need not be repeated. Often a valuable remedy in dipth- theria where there is great prostration, dark, purplish hue of the throat, great swelling, not much pain, uvula hangs down like a sac of water, feeble intermittent pulse, surface cool, cov- ered with a cold, clammy sweat. Intermittent fever. Hectic fever, night sweats, emaciation, in phthisis pulmonalis. NATRUM CARBONICUM. Common namje. — Carbonate of Soda. Preparation. — Trit- urations. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Natr. carb. acts through the ganglionic nervous sj'stem, upon the mucous membranes, especially of the nasal cavity, the eyes and the digestive tract, including the liver, producing symptoms of catarrhal inflammation. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Depressed, extreinely despondent mood; intolerable melancholy and apprehension (Ign., Puis.). Peevish ai:i&.); gray; crumbling. °Cholera infantum, with stupor, vsnoring, convulsions. Urinary Organs. — Involuntary micturition (Bell., Hyos.). Retention of urine from paralysis of fundus of bladder; from spasm of sphincter; °from nursing after 578 OPIUM. passion of nurse. Desire to urinate, but inability; only after long exertion. Urine scanty, red, dark-brown, cloudy (Cantb.). Male Organs. — Increased sexual desire, with frequent erec- tions and pollutions {Phos., Nux v.). Respiratory Organs. — Dry cough, with tickling and scraping in the larynx {Ezomejo); better from drink of water, with gaping, drowsiness {Ant. tart.), yet cannot sleep. Deep snoring i^espiration, luith open inozvth. Frequent invol- untary deep breathing ; long and sighing respiration. Respiration irregular, sloiu and stertorous . °Laryngis- mus stridulus. Cough, with scanty, tenacious expectora- tion and rattling in the chest. Cough, with dyspnoea and blue face. °Cough, wdth profuse sweat on w^hole bod}^ Pulse. — Full and slow {Digit.), zuith snoring ; slow and soft; small and w^eak (Ferr.); beat of heart and pulse cannot be felt; irregular. Back.— Spasmodically curved, like an arch (Cic). Limbs. — Trembling of all the limbs, especially arms and hands °after fright. Numbness and sensation of swelling in hands and forearms. Spasmodic jerkings and numbness of limbs. Convulsive movements of limbs (Cic, Bell., Hyos.). Cold- ness of the extremities (Camph., Verat. alb.). Generalities.— Twitching, trembling of head, arms and hands; now and then jerks of flexors ; body cold; inclination to stupor ; motion of body and uncovering of head relieves. Tetanic spasms; opisthotonos; begin with loud screams, foam at mouth, trembling of hmbs, eyes half open, pupils dilated and insensible to light; face dark-red and hot (Hyos.); °from fright, anger, etc. General insensibility of the nervous sy stein ; no reaction (Carb. v.). Sensation di- minished; afterwards reflex irritability. ^Paralysis after apoplexia ; in drunkards ; in old people. °Bed feels so hot she cannot lie on it. Emaciation and debility. Sleep. — Great drowsiness, can hardly heep aiuahe {J^ux 77^.). Unre freshing, soporous sleep (Arn., Laur., Physos.), ivith eyes half open and snoring (Sulph.). Sleepy, hut cannot go to sleep (Cham., Bell., Lach.). Restless, uneasy sleep; full of visions and imaginations. Whining in sleep. °Sleep- lessness (Cimic, Cofi'.), with acuteness of hearing; clocks OPIUM. 579 striking and cocks crowing at a great distance keep her awake. Fever. — Body cool, head warm. Cold limbs. Head hot, cheeks red and burning. Whole body burning, even when bathed in sweat ; wants to uncover ; complains that bed is too hot. Cold perspiration over whole body, especially on the head and forehead. Aggravation. — From heat ; from brandy, wine ; while perspir- ing; during and after sleep. Amelioration.— From vomiting; from coff'ee, all symptoms except trembling, but they soon return. Conditions. — Especially suitable for children and old persons ; for drunkards. Compare. — Aeon., Ars , Bell., Bry., Camph., Can. ind., Carb. v., Coff., Digit., Gels., Hyos., Lye, Merc, J^um v., Puis., Rhus tox.. Sec. c, Stram,, Sulph., Verat. alb. Antidotes. — Bell., Coff., Coni., Camph., Ipee., Merc, Nax v., Plumb., Vinum. To large doses: nqy^ strong Coffee; Camph., Bell., emetics; warm baths. Opium Antidotes.— Ant. tart.. Bell., Digit., Lach., Merc, Nux v., Strych., Plumb., Stram., Charcoal Vapors. THERAPEUTICS. A valuable remedy for ailments from fright (Aeon., Gels.), or emotion after fright, fear of the fright still remaining— after- effects. An extremely valuable remedy in apoplexia, the symp- toms agreeing, especially in drunkards. Paralysis of the brain. Cerebral hsemorrhage. Delirium tremens, especially old and oft- repeated cases, worse from the least quantity of liquor. Con- vulsions, as described in symptoms; especially from fright or anger ; particularly in infants, especially after nurse has been frightened or very angry Epilepsy. Lock jaw. Puerperal convulsions with coma, etc Paralysis of tongue. Paralysis of pharynx. Colic, with great tympanitis, belching without re- lief, constipation. Intestinal obstruction, colicky pains, faecal vomiting. A most valuable remedy in constipation resulting from inertia of the rectum and the entire intestinal tract ; no inclination for stool; impacted faeces and incarcerated flatus; often after long-lasting and debilitating diseases from long con- tinued and habitual use of enemas. Ailments from lead in 580 ORIGANUM. paints, pipes and otherwise; lead colic. According to Allen, Opium "has cured chronic catarrh and ulceration of the ileo- csecal region, with persistent discharge of enormous quantities of flakes of mucus, constipation, faecal stools completely enveloped in mucus, the indication being complete atony of the lower bowels and the accumulation of hard balls of faeces." Cholera in- fantum, especially after discharges have been suppressed, with stupor, snoring and convulsions. Has been found useful for re- tention of urine, especially when resulting from fright, or after parturition. Aphonia from fright. Laryngismus stridulus. Threatening paralysis of lungs. Bronchial catarrh. Haemop- tysis, especially in drunkards, chest hot, limbs cold, drowsy, with cough. Suppuration of the lungs, especially in drunkards; rattling and snoring respiration, blue face, etc. Amenorrhoea from fright. Threatening abortion from fright. Suppressed lochia from fright. Has been used in diphtheria, with charac- teristic respiration, etc. Sometimes indicated in typhoid types of fever, stupor, can scarcely be aroused ; speechless ; eyes halt open ; mild delirium or loud talking, fury, singing, desire to es- cape; the darker-red the face, the more it is indicated ; impend- ing cerebral paralysis from profound congestion. Puerperal fever, with stupor, etc.; offensive discharges. Intermittent fever, cold stage predominates; fever, with heat of the head and great drowsiness, the body burning hot even with a profuse sweat, which does not relieve the heat or drowsiness. Congestive chills with characteristic stupor, snoring respiration, hot sweat with- out relief, etc. Said to be useful in ailments from charcoal vauors. ORIGANUM. Synonyms. — Origanum Majorana. Origanum Vulgare. Habitat. — An indigenous perennial plant found growing in poor soils, along road-sides and in fields. Preparation. — Tinct ure from the fresh plant. GENERAL' ANALYSIS AND THERAPEUTICS. Acts especially upon the generative organs, particularly of women, stimulating the seat of erotic impulses, and affecting the brain and nervous system just as excessive sexual excite- OSMIUM. 581 ment does. Its chief symptom is an increased sexual desire, lascivious ideas and dreams. It is used successfully for trou- bles arising from sexual irritation and onanism, especially in girls; leucorrhoea, with sexual irritation. OSMIUM. Synoytyjn.—Ofimmra Tetroxide. An element. Cowimon name. — Osmic Acid. Preparation. Triturations, GENERAL ANALYSIS. Through the cerebro-spinal system Osmium exerts its chief action on the respiratory tract and upon the kidneys, produc- ing violent irritation and inflammation. OHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Morose, irritable, impatient. Consciousness of mental weakness. Misplacement of words (Dulc, Plumb.). Disin- clination for work. Head. — Dull, heavy headache. Eyes. — Sharp pain in orbit ; lids spasmodically closed. Dim- ness of sight ; letters run together, as from a fog ( Cyol., Phos., Gels.). Burning pain in eyes, with profuse lachry- mation. Flame of candle surrounded by a bluish-green or yellow circle (Phos.); or a rainbow ring; at a distance the flame seems enveloped by dust or smoke. Ears. — Ringing in right ear. Earache evenings; first right, then left ear. Nose. — Coryza, with sneezing (Aeon., Arg., Euphorb.). Burn- ing irritation in nose. Nostrils sensitive to cold air (Hy- dras., Psor.). Sense of smell diminished. Mouth. — Aching in jaws; pain in muscles of mastication. Tongue coated ; edges rough; red stripe in middle. Copious sahvation. Taste of blood ; metallic (.^5c., Coccul., Merc., Naja). Stomach. — Eructations ; nausea ; vomiting. Qualmishness and extreme discomfort, with dull pain and heaviness in pit of stomach. \ 582 OSMIUM. Abdomen. — Distended and sensitive ; much rumbling. Stool and Anus. — Burning in anus during and after stool (Ars., Canth., Iris, Merc). Diarrhoea. Constipation, Urinary Organs. — Urine albuminous {Merc, cor., Phos., Phyt., Plumh.). Strong-scented; dark-brown and scanty (Plumb.). Deposits bright-red sediment. °Bright's disease. Male Organs. — Pain in testicles and spermatic cords ( CZe/W/., Spong. ) . Violent erections. Respiratory Organs. — Larynx, tickling, irritation to hawk and cough; sore pain; burning; rawness and scraping {Wo.Vi^'to's.., Bumejc). Profuse secretion of mucus in air passages {Ant. tart., Ipec, Phos., Stan.). Stringy mucus, very difficult to loosen, has to swallow it (Kali bi.). Burn- ing irritation in trachea. Hoarseness and pain in larynx ; with cough and coryza. Hoarseness, worse from singing, and worse entering the house. Paroxysms of convulsive coughing (Coral, rub., Dros.). Dry, hacking cough. Bron- chitis. Difficult respiration; tightness and oppression of the chest (Merc, cor., Phos.). Pain under sternum when coughing, extending to both sides of chest, with burning soreness, as if everything were raw ; after long coughing, expectorates lumps of yellow, tenacious mucus. Back. — Pressive pain in back and loins. Generalities. — Great weakness and prostration. Cutting and pinching pains in limbs. Skin. — Bed spots on dorsum of hand. Copious exanthema on forearms, hands and cheeks. Ked-brown papules, with des- quamation, on arms. Small, pointed vesicles, surrounded by red areola. Itching, as from crawling of insects. Compare. — Ars., Mang., Selen. THERAPEUTICS. Has been used but little chnically. Has been of benefit in acute laryngitis, bronchitis and pneumonia and in whooping cough with characteristic irritation in air passages, spasm odic^ cough, stringy mucus, with great and futile efforts to ex- pectorate, etc. Has been used in supra and infra-orbital neu- ralgia, with lachrymation. Has actually cured glaucoma (Allen); is indicated by iridescent vision and severe pain around the eyes. OXALICUM ACIDUM. 583 OXALICUM ACIDUM. Synonym. — Hydrogen Oxalate. Common navte. — Oxalic Acid. Preparation. — Triturations. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts powerfully upon the brain and spinal cord, exerting its special influence upon the motor nerve centers, paralyzing them and sometimes annihilating the functional power of the cere- bro-spinal axis and destroying life very suddenly. It produces violent spasmodic conditions, especially of the muscles of the chest, and stiifness of the limbs, and also aneesthesia, neuralgia and paralytic symptoms. It also affects the respiratory mu- cous membrane, producing an inflammatory condition, and in large doses, by its irritating presence, causes violent inflamma- tion of the mucous lining of the alimentary tract. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Diminished power to concentrate ideas. Very much ex- hilarated; quicker thought and action (Coff.). As soon as she thinks about the pains they return (Baryt. c). Head. — Vertigo ; swimming sensation on lying down. Sensa- tion of emptiness in head ; faint feeling, as if all the blood had left the brain. Dull, heavy headache in forehead and vertex. Compression in head, as if from a screw behind each ear. Eyes. — Type blurs when reading. Vanishing of sight, with gid- diness and sweat. Pains in both orbits ; worse in left. Nose. — Sneezing; watery coryza. °Red, shining swelling of right side of nose, beginning at the tip (Bell.); with pimples in nose. Face. — Face pale and and livid. Feeling of heat in face. Feel- ing of fullness in face; face redder. Face covered with cold sweat (Tabac, Verat. alb.). Mouth. — Gums bleed and are painful in spots. Small ulcers on gums. Tongue swollen, sensitive, red, dry, burning; swol- len, with thick, white coating. Sour taste in mouth (Calc. 584 OXALICUM ACIDUM. c, Mag. carb., Nux v.)- Profuse secretion of saliva {lodi., Merc, Kitr. ac). Throat. — Burning in throat and stomach. Rawness and scrap- ing in throat; thick mucus accumulates. Difficult, painful swallowing. Stomach. — Appetite increased ; absent, with loss of taste. Thirst, with vertigo, loss of appetite, nausea, colic. Heart- burn ; worse evenings. Empty or sour eructations ; of tasteless wind, after each meal. Frequent hiccough (Ign., Hyos.). Nausea and frequent vomiting. Empty feehng, compelling one to eat. Violent pressive pain at pit of stom- ach. Burning at pit of stomach (Ars., Colch., Merc. cor.). Stomach sensitive; slightest touch causes excruciating pain. Abdomen. — Stitches in liver ; relieved by a deep breath. Con- tinuous pain in left hypochondrium, as if bruised ; stitches. Colic about the navel (Coloc); difficult emission of flatus. Burning and pain in abdomen. Stool.— Constant involuntary stools. Stools: dark, muddy, copious; mucus and blood. ^Diarrhoea, as soon as one drinks coffee. °Lying down causes return of diarrhoea. Pressing and straining in rectum ; tenesmus. Constipation. Urinary Organs. — Pain in region of kidneys. Frequent and copious urination, which is clear, straw-colored ; oxaluria. Burning in urethra, as from acrid drops. Pain in glans pe- nis when urinating: Male Organs.— Great increase of sexual desire. Emissions at night with lascivious dreams. Testicles feel heavy and con- tused ; shooting along cords (Clem., Spong.). Respiratory Organs.— Hoarseness a,nd sensation of mucus in larynx during talking. Constant dry cough on violent ex- ertion. Difficulty of breathing, with constrictive pain in larynx, and wheezing; oppression more toward right side; °angina pectoris. Spasmodic breathing. Paroxysms of short, hurried breathing, with intervals of ease. Sharp, shooting pains in left lung and heart, extending down to epigastrium ; °angina pectoris. Dull, heavy, sore pain in chest. Heart and Pulse.— Shooting pains about the heart. Heart in a continual fluttering palpitation. Pulse increased in fre- OXALICUM ACIDUM. 585 quency, almost imperceptible ; with coldness, clammy sweat, etc. {Tahac, Verat. alb.'). Neck and Back.— Pain under point of scapula, between shoul- ders, extending to loins ; bruised sensation, worse beneath tip of left scapula, with stiffness. Stitches from chest into scapulae. Acute pain in back, gradually extending down the thighs, with great torture; seeks relief in change of posture. Weakness in loins and hips, extending down to lower extremities; back feels too weak to support the body. Limbs. — Strange sensation of numbness in limbs. °Pains in rheumatic gout worse from sweets. Upper Limbs. — Numbness of shoulders to tips of fingers. Sharp, lancinating pains in arms ; °angina pectoris. Right wrist pains as if sprained ; wants to stretch it ; cannot hold anything. Hands feel heavy ; cold, as if dead ; fingers and nails livid ; fingers twitching. Lower Lim.bs. — Blueness, coldness, and almost complete im- mobility of the lower limbs. Numbness and tickling or pricking in thighs. Lameness and stiffness in lower limbs. Numbness and weariness in lower limbs, making it difficult to ascend stairs. Violent contracting pain in external ten- don of left knee. Generalities. — Peculiar numbness, approaching to palsy. Symptoms recur in paroxysms; intermit for hours or a day. Fain in small circumscribed spots. Jerking pains, like short stitches, confijvecl to small spots, lasting only a few seconds. Skin. — Sensation during shaving, as from chafing. Skin mot- tled in circular patches. Sleep. — Yawning; sleepy during the day, awakens at night with palpitation. Pever. — Chilliness, with sneezing. Shaking chill, with red face. Creeping chill up the spine. Heat from every exertion. Flushes of heat, with perspiration. Cold, clammj^ perspi- ration. Aggravation. — All symptoms and pains reappear when think- ing about them (Baryt, c); from sugar, coffee, wine. Bet- ter in the open air {Puis.). Compare. — Ars., Merc, cor. 586 PAREIRA BRAVA. Antidotes. — Chalk or Lime; Carbonate of Magnesia; Potash and Soda not available, since their oxalates are exceedingly poisonous. Sugar, Coffee and Wine disagree. THERAPEUTICS. Has been used chiefly in spinal diseases. Softening of the spine, with weakness and numbness about the loins and hips, extending down the legs, and numbness in the back. Spinal men- ingitis, intense inflammatory pains all through the back. Lo- comotor ataxia, with violent shooting pains down the limbs, dyspnoea and numbness, with symptoms of the drug. Paralysis from inflammation of the spinal cord, stiffness of limbs; parox- ysms of dyspnoea. Acute spinal symptoms of this drug are cha-racteristic and important. Spinal neuralgia from under joint of scapula to loins, sharp, lancinating pains. Has proved useful in angina pectoris, sharp, shooting pains about left lung and heart, dyspnoea, with forced expiration ; back numb and weak, legs cold and powerless, etc. Palpitation after lying down at night. Congestion and inflammation localized at base of left lung. Neuralgia of spermatic cords, shooting pains. Some- times useful in amenorrhoea, with spinal symptoms. Oxaluria^ with characteristic symptoms of extremities. Rheumatic gout, pains worse from sweets. Diarrhoea immediately after drink- ing coffee. Dysentery. Gastro-enteritis. Gastralgia. PAREIRA BRAVA. Synonym^. — Chondodendron. Tomentosum. JTatural or- der.— Menispermaceae. Habitat. — A plant supposed to be na- tive of West Indies and South America. Preparation. — Tinct- ure from the dried roots. GENERAL ANALYSIS AND THERAPEUTICS. Acts specifically upon the mucous lining of the genito-uri- nary passages, producing irritation and catarrhal inflamma- tion, which has led to its successful use in the treatment of gon- orrhoea, leucorrhoea and chronic inflammation of the bladder. PARIS QUADRIFOLIA. 587 Its chief symptoms are constant urging to urinate ; violent pain in glans penis ; straining ; pain extorts screams ; must get cloiun on all fours to urinate ; urine contains much vis- cid, thick, luhite mucus, or deposits a red sand. The urine has a strong ammoniacal odor. Frequently there are pains down the thighs, during the efforts to urinate. Compare. — Aeon., Berb., Can. sat., Chim., Canth., Hydrangea arb., Urva ursi. PARIS QUADRIFOLIA. Natural order. — Liliacese. Common names. — Herb Faric. Fox Grape. True Love. Habitat.— K. plant growing in Europe, in wet woods and thickets. Preparation. — Tincture from the entire fresh plant. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts upon the cerebro-spinal system, causing neuralgic pains and other symptoms of nerve irritation. Its chief local action is upon the respiratory tract. OHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Loquacious mania (XaoT^.); foolish talk and silly ac- tions. Head. — Vertigo and dullness in the head. Piercing and single stitches in the head ; in temples ; then weight on forehead, worse from stooping. Constrictive pressure in forehead and temples; brain, eyes and skin feel tense, and the bones scraped sore ; worse from motion, excitement or using the eyes; worse in evening. Pressive pain in right temporal region, relieved b}'- pressure of the hand. Bruised pain in left parietal bone on touch. Eyes. — Feel too large or swollen, and orbits too large (Carls., Phos. ac, Plumb.), °Eyes feel as if projecting with a sensation as if a thread were tightly drawn through the eyehall, and hachward, into the middle of the brain, very painful ; sight weak ; stitches through middle of eye. Jerk- ing and twitching of right upper lid (Agar.). Ears.— Sudden pain in ears, as if forced apart by a wedge. Rinscing; in left ear. 588 PAKIS QUADRIFOLIA. Nose. — Red and g-reenisli mucus blown from the nose. Alter- nate fluent and stopped coryza (Amm. carb., Natr. ars., Jfiixv.). Face. — Tetter around tlie mouth. Vesicles on surface of lower lip. Mouth. — Tongue dry, rough, and coated white; feels too large. Dryness of mouth in morning. Profuse tart saliva. Throat.—Sore throat, as if a ball were lodged in it. Much mu- cus in fauces, causes hawking. Stomach.— Hiccough, after eating (Bry., Ign., Hyos.); eructa- •jions. Heaviness in stomach, as from a stone {Ars., Bry., JSCujov., Puis.)] better from eructations. Weak, slow di- gestion. Abdomen. — Rumbling and rolling in abdomen (Aloe, Carh. v., Cinch., Lye); cutting, griping pains. Stool. — Diarrhoea ; stools smell like putrid meat. Urinary Organs. — Burning and stinging in urethra when sit- ting. Sticking in forepart of urethra. Frequent mictu- rition, with burning. Dark-red urine, with red sediment, and a greasy-looking pellicle on surface ; acrid, excoriating. Respiratory Organs. — Periodical, painless hoarseness. Hoarseness, voice feeble, continuous hawking of mucus and burning in larynx. Expectoration of greenish, viscid mucus. Oppression, with desire to draw a long breath. Constant hawking and gagging from tenacious mucus in larynx and trachea. Stitches in the chest {Bry., Kali c). Heart and Pulse. — Palpitation during rest and motion; in evening. Pulse full but slow. Neck and Back. — Jfape of neck weary, as if a great lueight luere lying on it. Neck feels stiff and swollen on turning it. Stitches between the scapulae. Limbs. — Stinging pains in limbs. All joints painful on mo- tion. Icy -cold feet (Sil., Verat. alb.); at night in bed. Para- lytic pain in limbs. Fingers feel asleep. Stitches in all the limbs. Heaviness in all the limbs. Contractive pressure in joints. Skin.— Papular eruptions, especially face and lips. Skin sore; crawling sensations. Sleep.— Restless, broken sleep, with many dreams. Yawning and sleepiness PETROLEUM. 589 Fever. — Chilliness, mostly toward evening. Coldness of right side ; left side natural. Chilliness and goose-flesh, yawning and cold feet. Heat descending back from neck (reverse, Phos.). Heat and sweat of upper part of body. Sweat in morning, on waking, attended with frequent biting itching. Oompare. — Led., Lye, Rhus tox. Antidote.— Coff. THERAPEUTICS. Perhaps the most common use of this not commonly used drug is in neuralgic headache when the eyes feel as if projecting, and a painful sensation, as if a thread were drawing through the eye backwards into the middle of the brain. Facial neuralgia, hot stitches in left malar bone, which is very sore. Neuralgia in left chest extending into arm, which becomes stiff; nape of neck weary, as if a great weight were lying on it. Has also been successfully used in spinal neuralgia. Neuralgia of coc- cyx. Catarrhal laryngitis, green viscid mucus, painless hoarse- ness. Laryngeo-tracheitis, much tenacious mucus, causing con- stant hawking and gagging. PETROLEUM. Synonyms. — Oleum Petrse. Naptha Montana. Comm^on names. — Rock Oil. Coal Oil. Preparation. — A tincture is pre- pared by dissolving one part of the crude oil in ninety-nine parts of Alcohol, which corresponds to the 2x dilution. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts especially upon the skin and mucous membranes, pro- ducing irritation and the usual secondary conditions, as indi- cated in the following pathogenesis. Allen says the action i& "very complex and not easily defined." CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS Mind. — Violent, excitable, irritable, easily"- offended (Caps., JYux v.). Qioarrelsome. Great fearfulness; easily frightened (Nuxv., Op.). Loss of consciousness. Very forgetful, and disinclined to think. Delirium, thinks another person lies 590 PETKOLEUM. alongside of him, °or that he is double, or one limb is double. Head..— Vertigo on stooping or on rising (Bell.) Confusion after eating a little. Dullness and heaviness of the head ; as if enveloped in a fog. Headache from anger, or after fast- ing in the morning. Dull, pressive frontal headache. Heavy headache in the morning. °Neuralgic headache, beginning in occiput and extending forward. "Occipital headache ex- tending to vertex, with vertigo. Stiffness of neck, swelling of muscles ; rapid motion of the hands seems to relieve. °Vertigo in the occiput, with general feeling of numbness, stiffness and nausea. "Occipital headache, with nausea, es- pecially in seasickness. Fresszire and heaviness, like lead, in occiput. Dull, pulsating pain in the occiput. Pinching in occiput. Falling off of the hair {Graph., Xitr. ac, Phos., Sep.). Moist eczema, worse on occiput (Lye, Sep.). Moist, itching eczema; sore after scratching {Graph., Lye, Merc). Eyes. — Burning and pressure in the eyes and on exerting them dimness. Conjunctivitis and blepharadenitis. Inflamed swelling in inner canthus, hke an incipient lachrymal fist- ula, with dryness of right side of nose. Inflammation, with itching and stitches in the eyes. Weakness of vision ; veil before the eyes (Canst., Puis.). Itching of the lids; he is obliged to rub them. Ears.— Inflammation and painful swelling of meatus audito- rius. Hardness of hearing. Eoaring, ringing and cracking in the ears (Bell., Cinch.). Kedness behind the ears, with rawness, soreness and moisture. Eruption on outer ear. Nose.— Bleeding of the nose (Aeon., Bell., Bry., Ham.). Ulcer- ated nostrils ; and stopped catarrh. Much mucus in nose. Itching on tip of nose. Face.— Pale. Papular eruption at corners of mouth. Mouth.— SweUing of the gums. Pustule above a hollow tooth, like a fistula. Painful soreness on chewing. Tongue coated white {Ant. crud., Bry ., J^ujc v., Puis.). Bad odor from the mouth (Hep. s., lodi., J^itr. ac, Merc, Xux v.). Taste slimy, sour, bitter (-^7-5., Bry., Puis.). Accumulation of mu- cus in the mouth (lodi., Merc). Throat.— Swelhng of the submaxillary glands (Baryt. c, Calc. c, PETEOLEUM. 591 J^atr. carb., Rhus tox.). Rawness in pharynx on swallow- ing. Tickling on swallowing extending to the ear. Dryness and burning in pharynx. Stomach.. — Ravenous hunger, but speedily satisfied after a stool. Violent thirst for beer (Coccul., Puis.). Hot, sharp, sour eructations, tasting hke bad eggs (Arn.). Heartburn toward evening. Incessant nausea and qualmishness in the moj^ning, with accur)%ulation of water in the mouth ; °from motion of carriage or boat {Coccul., Nux m.). Vio- lent vomiting {Ant. tart., Ipec). Feeling of great empti- ness in stomach (Hydras., Ign., Sep., Sulph.). Heaviness and pressure in stomach (Nux m.). Abdomen. — Distension. Violent, cutting colic, with nausea, retching and diarrhoea; as from taking cold; evenings; °colic better from bending double (Coloc). Stool and Anus. — In anus burning itching; pressure. Weak- ness of rectum. Diarrhoea, preceded by colic, only during the day. Stools difficult and hard; slimy, profuse mucus ; bloody mucus; violent, involuntary. Urinary Organs. — Constant dribbling of urine after mictu- rition (Caust., Stram.). Involuntary micturition. Fre- quent, scanty urination. Discharge of mucus with the urine. Burning pain in the urethra. Urine bloody and tur- bid ; offensive ; it deposits a red, slimy sand that adheres tightly to vessel ; urine contains albumen, hyalin and granu- lar casts ; covered with a glistening film and with red sedi- ment. Male Organs. — Reddish eruption on glans, with itching. Itch- ing and moisture on scrotum (Sil.). Female Organs. — Itching, soreness and moisture of external parts. Menses too early; the discharge causes itching. The nipples itch, and have a mealy coating. Respiratory Organs. — Hoarseness {Carb. v., Caust., Phos., Sulph.). Dry cough at night {Coni., Hyos., Puis., Sulph.). Oppression of the chest at night. Heart. — °Feehng of coldness about the heart (Graph., Kali nit., Natr. m.). Keck and Back. — Heaviness and pain in nape of neck. Pain in the back and loins. Painful drawing extending from nape to occiput. Coccyx painful on sitting. 592 PETROLEUM. Upper Limbs.— Great weakness in the arms. Bruised pain in finger nails. when touched. Tips of fingers rough, cracked, fissured, with sticking, cutting pains. Hands cracked and rough. °Salt-rheum, red, raw, burning; moist or cov- ered with thick crusts. Lower Limbs.— Itching, burning, moist eruption on legs. Stiffness in thighs on walking, with heaviness. Stiffness in knees, legs and ankles. Heel painfully swollen and red, with stitches; blisters; chilblains (Agar., Nitr. ac. Zinc). Burn- ? ing and stitching in corns. Eruption between the toe» (Calc. c, Camph., Nux v., Nitr. ac, Sep.). Profuse perspi- ration on feet (Sil.). °Foetid perspiration of the feet with tenderness. Cramp in calves, thighs and feet all day. Cramp in the soles at night (Sulph.). Generalities.— Limbs go to sleep and become stiff. Cracking and arthritic stiffness in joints. Aversion to open air (Aur., CoccuL, Nux v., Sep., Sil.). Takes cold easily. Weakness in morning in bed. Skin.— Unhealthy skin; small wounds ulcerate and spread (Borax, Cham., Hep. s.. Graph., Sil., Sulph.). Chronic moist eczema; parts seem excoriated (Graph.). Painful sensitiveness of skin of whole body; clothing painful (Bell.). Ulcers, with stinging pain and proud flesh (Carb. v., Nitr., ac); often deep ulcers, with raised edges. Aggravation. — °Before or during a thunder storm ; °from rid- ing in a carriage or ship. Amelioration,— At noon ; °in the open air. Compare.— Bell., Bry., Calc. c, Cham., CoccuL, Colch., Graph., Ign., Lye, Nux v., Phos., Puis., Rhus tox., Sep., Sil,, Sulph., Tabac Antidotes.— CoccuL, Nux v. Petroleum Antidote.— Lead Poisoning. THERAPEUTIC S. The chief use of Petroleum is in the treatment of diseases of the .skin, especially eczema and herpes, upon any part of the body, but more especially in and about the ears, on the occi- put and on the hands. In eczema there is a raw, moist surface over which thick scabs form, or the eczema may first appear as a vesicular eruption, forming a thick crust and oozing pus. PETROLEUM. 593 The herpetic conditions calling for Petroleum are very impor- tant and often met with. The affected part becomes fiery -red and almost entirelj^ raw and oozing a thick gelatinous fluid, with violent itching and burning. This is most Hable to attack the perineum and scrotum. Herpes zoster. An important con- dition of the skin indicating Petroleum, and which is often pres- ent with eczematous eruptions, is where the skin is dry, rough and chapped, and frequently, especially on the tips of the fingers, bleeding fissures form which are very sore, always worse in cold weather. The skin is unhealthy, slight wounds ul- cerate and spread. Ulcers with stinging pains and proud flesh. Intertrigo. Psoriasis of the hands. Has been found useful in the eruption of secondary syphihs. Blepharitis marginalis. Inflammation of the lachrymal canal when suppuration has commenced and a fistula has formed. Catarrh of the middle ear. Often valuable in chronic tiasal catarrh and ozoena where scabs and purulent mucus are discharged, and the posterior nares obstructed, nose sore and nostrils cracked. Tendency to the formation of dental fistula. Catarrhal pharyngitis, raw- ness on swallowing, with pain and tickling which extends along the Eustachian tube to the ears. Has been found useful in the morning sickness of pregnancy. Sea-sickness. Acid dyspepsia with nausea and attacks of vertigo, better after eating. Gas- tralgia, with sharp, cutting pains and feehng of great emptiness in stomach. Haemorrhoids and fissures in anus. Diarrhoea, con- taining undigested food ; also with other symptoms described in pathogenesis; from taking cold; from eating cabbage or saur-kraut, with offensive stools, nausea and offensive eructa- tions. Catarrh of the bladder. Atony of the bladder, dribbhng after urination. Hsematuria. Chronic Bright's disease. Sprains of joints, especially in old rheumatic patients. Rheumatism with great stiffness of the joints, especially knees and neck ; cracking sounds when moving the head, due to roughness of the muscular fiber. A popular domestic remedy in rheumatism (externally), in which it undoubtedly possesses curative virtues not yet understood. Has cured intermittent fever with the characteristic occipital headache. Is given in typhoid fever and other low fevers, when the patient imagines that another person lies alongside of her, or that she is double, or that one 594 PETEOSELINUM. limb is double (Bapt.). In childbed the patient imagined that there were two sick babies in bed with her, and that she could not take care of both. PETROSELINUM. Synonym. — Apium Petroselinum. Petroselinum Salivum. JVatural order. — Umbelliferse. Common name. — Parsely. Habitat. — A plant native of Southern Europe, cultivated as a house-plant. Preparation. — Tincture from the fresh plant. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts decidedly upon the urethral mucous membrane, pro- ducing a considerable degree of irritation and inflammation, and has been used accordingly in subacute gonorrhoea and gleet. CHARACTBRISTIO SYMPTOMS. Urinary and Sexual Organs.— Discharge of a milky fluid from the urethra. Orifice of urethra agglutinated with mu- cus. Yellow discharge from the urethra {Hydras., Puis.). Burning in navicular fossa while urinating. Drawing and stiching in navicular fossa, changing to a cutting bit- ing after urination (Can. sat.). Creeping and crawling throughout whole length of urethra. Pressure just behind navicular fossa. Frequent voluptuous tickling in navicu- lar fossa. Frequent desire to urinate, caused by crawling stitch behind navicular fossa. Priapismus, with curvature of penis. Profuse emission toward morning. Compare.— Can th., Can. sat., Copaib. THERAPEUTICS. Subacute gonorrhoea and gleet, especially with the char- acteristic localization of the sensations in the navicular fossa. PHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM. 595 PHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM. Common name. — Glacial Phosphoric Acid. Preparation. — One part of the purified Glacial Phosphoric Acid is dissolved in ninety parts of distilled water, and then ten parts of Alcohol are added to make the 2x dilution. The 3x dilution is pre- pared with dilute Alcohol. Subsequent dilutions with Alcohol, GENERAL ANALYSIS. The chief sphere of action of Phosphoric Acid is upon the nervous system, in which, from waste of nerve tissue or from depression, it produces debility without erethism (with ere- thism. Cinchona), giving rise to conditions simulating those which result from continued grief, over-exertion of mind or body, sexual excess, etc. Through this influence its chief local effects are upon the kidneys and male sexual organs, and next upon the bones and skin, as indicated by its pathogenesis. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Weakness of memory {Anac., Agu., Ambr., Kreos., Lach., Merc., Natr. mur., Nux m.). Quiet; perfectly in- different \^evh., Selen., Sep.); difficult comprehension; im- becility. Ideas lost and mind weak. Incapacity for thought (^th., Cimic, Gels., Kux v.). Disinclination to talh ; answers questions reluctantly {K^BbV., Phos.). Can- not find the right word when talking. Homesickness (Caps., Hell.), with inclination to weep. Quiet delirium, with stupefaction and dullness of the head (Bell., Khus tox., Phos.). Head. — Vertigo ; in the morning ; towards evening, when stand- ing and walking ; and head sinks backward and forward. Confusion and dullness of the head. Pressure as from a weight in the head, or as if the vertex had been beaten. Ach- ing with tingling in the head. Violent pressure in the fore- head, in the morning on waking. Headache forces one to lie down, and is insupportably aggravated by least shaking or noise {Bell.). Bones in the shull feel as if some one had scraped the swollen and tender periosteum with a 596 PHOSPHOKICUM ACIDUM. knife. '^Hair turns gray early (Lye), or flaxen; falls off, especially after grief or sorrow. Itching of the scalp (Calc. c, Carb. an., Sulph.). Eyes. — Pressure in the eyes, as if the eyeballs were too large (Carls., Paris, Plumb., Spig.). Agglutination, mornings. Yellow spots on the white of the eyes. Dilated pupils (Bell., My OS., Stram.). Ears. — Every sound re-echoes loudly in the ears {Caust., Merc, Phos.), Intolerance of noise, especially music (Aeon., Ambr.). Roaring in the ears, zvith diffvcult hearing (Calc. c, Merc, Sec, Sulph.). Spasmodic drawing pain in the ear. Nose. — Bleeding of the nose, dark blood (Croc, Ham.). Face. — Paleness of the face. Large pimples on the face. Mouth. — °Ked streak in middle of tongue, widens in front. °Teeth become yellow. "Degeneration of the gums, which bleed easily. "Speech difficult, tongue swollen. Dryness of tongue, palate and whole mouth, without thirst (Apis, J{u;}c in., Puis.). °Lips dry and cracked, with brownish crusts, in fever. ° Bites side of tongue involuntaT'ily ,•» also at night. Throat. — Sticking in throat on swallowing food. Stomach. — Loss of appetite (Alum., Ars., Cinch., Natr. mur., Sulph.). Unquenchable thirst (Aeon., Ai^s., Bry., Nitr. ac). Longs for something refreshing and juicy (Phos.). Sour or acrid eructations {Carh. v., Nux v., Phos., Puis., Sulph.). Aversion to coffee (Lye); desire for milk and beer (Coccul., Puis.). "Sensitiveness in lower csecal region. Pressure in the stomach, as from a weight, after every meal (Aeon., Ars., Bry., J^ux v.. Puis., Sep.). Pressive pain in stomach, from touching pit of stomach. Abdomen. — Meteoristic distension of the ahdomen {Aeon,); rumbling and gurgling. "General tympanitis with enlarged spleen. Pressure in the hypogastrium. Stool. — Diarrhoea not debilitating {Puis.), though of long continuance (reverse, Ars., Cinch., Phos., Sec). Involun- tary stools, with the emission of flatus {Aloe). Stool thin, whitish-gray (Phos.); yellowish and very offensive (Asaf.); pasty, involuntary, bright-yellow. Urinary Organs. — ° Urine like Dvilk (Stil.), even coagulating. Urine passed in large quantities (Acet. ac, Ascl. c, Eupat. PHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM. 597 purp., Physos.), especially at night (Ambr,, Amm. mur.), profuse, watery, pale, flowing freely ; deposits a sediment. Male Organs. — Erections in the morning in bed ; in morning when standing. Frequent, profuse and debilitating emis- sions (Cinch.). Emissions when pressing at stool. Emis- sions at night without erections. Weakness of sexual or- gans (Agar., Agn., Baryt. c, Coni., Phos., Sulph.), with onanism and little sexual desire. Exhaustion after coition ; also after pollutions (Agar., Cinch. ,JLali c. Staph.). Swell- ing of left testicle. Female Organs — .°Menses too early and too long ; too copi- ous ; blood dark. °Fain in the liver during -menstrua- tion. Profuse, yellow leucorrhoea, mostly after the menses, with itching. °Meteoristio distension of the uterus. Respiratory Organs. — Hoarseness and roughness in the throat {Phos., Carh. v., Jfux v.). Capillary bronchitis, worse evenings, with fever, d^'^spnoea, pain under sternum, then violent sneezing, thirst and coryza, profuse purulent secretions. Dry cough, caused dy tichling low down in the chest ; worse evenings after lying down. Cough in morn- ing, with yellow expectoration. Cough, with copious ex- pectoration ; with expectoration of herby taste and odor. Salty expectoration in the morning. Oppressed, difficult respiration. Pain in the chest, as from weakness {Stan.). Heart. — ^Palpitation in young persons growing too fast ; after onanism. Pulse irregular, intermittent. Back.— Boring pain between the scapulae. Burning pain in a spot above small of back. Limbs. — Bruised pain in all the joints in the morning, and in the arms and legs. Burning, gnawing, tearing pains in the bones of the extremities. ° Weakness of extremities after loss of fluids (Calc. c. Cinch., Phos.). Generalities. — Great weahness and prostration, especially in the morning. Disinclination to do anything (Cinch., Nux v.). ^Swelling and sponginess of the bones (Asaf., Hep. s.). °Painless swellings of glands (lodi.). Periosteal in- flammation (Staph.), with burning, gnawing, tearing pains. Bruised sensation in all joints in morning ; in hips, arms, thighs and nape, as from growing pains. Pains at night, as if bones were being scraped with a knife (Cinch.); °after 598 PHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM. contusions. Constant disposition to move (Aeon., Ehus tox.). Skin. — Formication of the whole body. Herpes dry or humid, squamous; ° variola. Sleep. — Great drowsiness and apathy. Sleeps in the evening. Sleeplessness after midnight. Cannot arouse in the morn- ing. Lascivious dreams (Sil.), luith emissions. Fever. — Chills with shuddering and shaking, always in the evening; more internal shivering than external coldness {Eupat.)] with coldness in hands and tips of fingers. Heat over the whole body in the evening. Internal heat, without being hot to the touch. Profuse sweat during the night and in the morning (Calc. c. Cinch., Merc, iS;^?., Sulph. ac). Fever heat, almost depriving one of consciousness. Aggravation. — At rest, at night ; from uncovering ; from warm food ; from coffee. Amelioration. — General relief of pains by motion, sometimes by pressure. Conditions. — Especially suitable for young people who are growing too fast. Compare. — The Mineral acids. Fluoric acid. Picric acid Asaf., Anac, Ars., Bell., Calc. c. Cinch., Coni., Ign., Lye, Merc, Phos., Puis., Khus tox., Sep., Sil., Staph., Sulph., Yerat. alb., Phos. ac. follows Cinch, (sweat, diarrhoea and debility), Nuxv. in fainting after a meal, while after it comes Ferr., Khus tox., Yerat. alb Antidotes.— Camph., Coff. THERAPEUTICS. Phosphoric acid represents a mental and physical weakness and torpidity of a nature found in no other drug. It is especially useful in neurasthenia, or nervous debility. This may have resulted in young people, in whom the drug is most often useful, from growing too rapidly, the physical system developing at the expense of the nervous and mental, or it may result as a re- mote effect from depressing emotional causes, such as grief, sor- row, homesickness or disappointed love, but more often the neurasthenia is of sexual origin, and results from long-contin- ued sexual excesses or onanism. The patient has involuntary emissions during sleep, or after urinating or straining at stool. PHOSPHORICUM ACIDUM. 599 Is greatly exhausted therefrom, and has vertigo, weakness of the back and limbs, mental torpidity, brain fag, etc. The sex- ual powers are so weakened that erections are deficient ; during an embrace emissions take place too soon, and after coition the patient is greatly exhausted, with symptoms as above stated, and burning in the spine. It is unquestionably the chief rem- edy in spermatorrhoea and sexual neurasthenia. It has also been used for swollen and tender testicles. Herpes preputialis with tingling, Sycotic excrescences. Fig warts complicated with chancre. In women it has been useful for menorrhagia of dark blood, with great weakness ; debility from long-continued nursing; leucorrhoea; meteoristic distension of the uterus. In all nervous diseases the urine is loaded with phosphates, and there is generally aching in the small of the back. Frequently the hair turns gray early, and falls out after the emotional causes above named. The drug causes polyuria, and is the chief remedy in diabetes insipidus, and is unquestionably curative in diabetes mellitus, as the experience of the author and many oth- ers abundantly testify. Catarrh of the bladder. The drug may be useful in chorea and hysteria, with characteristic weakness and mental symptoms. The peculiar mental apathy of Phos. ac. with its prostration, involuntary stools, nosebleed, etc., has led to its frequent use in typhoid and other low forms of fever. A clinical symptom is a red streak in the center of the tongue, which widens in front, the urine often looks milky, contains albumen, and decomposes rapidly, and the abdomen is tym- panitic. It does not reach the very profound low types of fe- ver, such as call for Ars. or Lach. or even Rhus tox. Has often proved useful in intermittent fever, probably not of malarial origin. Acid dyspepsia (see stomach symptoms). Chronic di- arrhoea, painless, not debilitating. Painless diarrhoea during cholera time (Phos.). Sometimes- useful in laryngitis, tracheitis and bronchitis ; cough arising from tickling low down in the chest, worse in the evening after lying down ; expectoration, mostly in the morning, tasting salty. Capillary bronchitis (see symptoms). Phthisis, with great weakness in chest (Stan.). Nervous palpitation of the heart, from causes previously named. Spinal anaemia from sexual excesses or onanism. Has proved palliative in caries of the lumbar vertebrae. Swelling and sponginess of bones. Caries (not necrosis). Periostitis. 600 PHOSPHOEUS. Hip-joint disease. Painless swelling of glands. Warts indented or pedunculated. Condylomata, with bone pains, complicated with chancre. Atonic ulcers on legs. Skin adhering after ul- ceration grows to the bone. Acne of young people from onan- ism. Blood boils. Chilblains. PHOSPHORUS. CoimnoTb ^^'«'7?^6.— Phosphorus. Preparatiofi. — A saturated solution is prepared in Alcohol by a special process (see Phar- macopoeia) which corresponds to the 3x dilution. Subsequent dilutions are prepared in the usual manner. Triturations are also used, but the alcoholic solution is preferable. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts powerfully upon the vegetative nervous system and upon the blood, tending in each to disorganization and destruc- tion, which is manifest more especially in the paralysis conse- quent upon the destruction of nerve force, and in the disorgani- zation and decomposition of organic substance, consequent upon the modification of the blood life. The first condition produced is one of violent erethism, going on to congestion and inflammation; this soon gives way to a condition of torpor and paralysis, which may indicate exudations in parenchymatous organs, or decomposition of the blood and of organic tissues, including the brain, spinal marrow and the bones. The most essential action of Phosphorus is upon the blood, the maxillary bones, the lungs and the teeth. The character of this action has already been indicated. In the blood, as a result of the de- composition and of the lowering of the power of resistance in the parietes of the vessels by fatty metamorphoses, there are haemorrhages and ecchymoses ; in the maxillary bones and the teeth, caries and necrosis, and in the lung tissues sanguinous infiltration, while in various organs and tissues there is fatty degeneration, notably in the liver and heart. It causes nephri- tis, subacute hepatitis and acute yellow atrophy of the liver. In all mucous membranes it causes inflammation and degene- ration, especially throughout the alimentary and respiratory PHOSPHOEUS. 601 tracts. The special action of Phosphorus on each of the sepa- rate tissues and organs of the body may only be studied in the careful provings which Hahnemann and his immediate follow- ers have left us. OHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Stupor, low T\%uttering delirium (Phos. ac, Rhus tox.); grasping at flocks (Bell., Hyos., Stram.); loquacious (Hyos.). Thinks he is several pieces, and cannot adjust the fragments (Bapt., Petrol.). Stupor froin which he could be aroused for a jn>oment only to lapse bach into a mut- tering lethargy ; and forget fulness. Great apathy ; very sluggish ; dislihe to talh; answers slowly or not at all {Merc, Phos. ac). Great indifference to everything (Berb., Carb. v.. Cinch., Phos. ac, Selen.). Alternations of hyster- ical laughiug and weeping (Aeon., Ign., Nux m.). Tender mood, weary of life. Sad, apprehensive, depressed ; filled with gloomy forebodings (Ign., Natr. mur.. Plat., Puis.). Anxious, apprehensive. Great anxiety and restlessness (Aeon., Ars., Bell.), especially when alone or during a thunder storm. Nervous, fearful (Aeon., Cinch., Ign.), especially in the evening (Calc. c, Rhus tox.). Very irrita- ble and fretful mood (Bry., Nux v.). Great indisposition to mental or physical exertion (Nux v., Sep., Sulph.). In- ability to thinh ; ideas sloiu ; cannot heep the mind on any particular subject (Gels., Nux v., Phos. ac). Head. — Vertigo, with heaviness and pain in head, as if he had been lying with the head too low. Staggers while walking (Nux m.); after rising from bed {Bry., Cham., Lye, Pier, ac); or from a seat {Bry., Kali bi.); worse mornings (Alum., Nitr. ac). Great dullness of the head; confused and heavy, with some vertigo. "Weakness in head, could not endure sound of a piano. Congestion to the head (Aeon., Bell., Glon.). Dull, pressive, frontal headache, ex- tending to the eyes and root of nose (Aeon,, Bapt., Kali bi., Merciod.), Throbbing pain in the temples. Stupefying pain in the vertex. °Sensation of coldness in cerebellum, with sensation of stiifness in the brain. Pulsations, stick- ing and burning in the brain ; the heat enters the head from the spine (reverse, Paris) . °Sensation of heavy pressure on 602 PHOSPHORUS. the top of the head. °The brain always feels tired, as if he could not get it rested. °Shocks in the head following a mental strain. Sensation, as if the skin of the forehead were too tight (Caust.). Violent itching of the scalp (Caust.); with copious dandruff (Canth., Mez.). Falling out of the hair {Graph., Mitr. ac, Sep., Sulp}i.)\ the roots seem dry ; in large bunches ; bald spots above the ear. Eyes. — Pupils contracted (Merc, cor.. Op., Phyt., Physos.); dilated. Eyes give out while reading (Myrica, Buta, Sep.). Distant objects appear to be covered by a smoke or mist {Gels., Lye, Natr. mur., Sil.). Sees better in the morning, in twilight, or hy shading the eyes with the hand. As if a black veil were before the eyes. Green halo around the candle (Osm.; red halo. Bell.). Blaoh floating points ; sparks, spots and flickering before the eyes (Agar., Bell., Cyol., Merc., Sep., Sulph.). CEdema of the lids and about the eyes {Ars., Apis, Natr. ars., Rhus tox.). Twitching of left lids and external canthus. Frequent itching in the eyes. Ears. — Difficult hearing, especially of the human voice (Sil.). Sounds re-echo in the ears {Caust., Merc, Phos. ac). Feel- ing as if something were in front of the ears. Roaring ring- ing in the ears. Aching. Tickling. Itching. Nose. — Kose swollen and painful to touch (Alum., JVitr. ac, Rhus tox.). 'Internal nose swollen, dry, and stopped up; ulcerated; scabs on margins of nostrils (Alum., Calc c, Graph., Lye, Merc, Sulph.). °Polypus of the nose (Calc. c, Mar. ver.); bleeding easily. Frequent sneezing (Aeon., Gels., Sang.). Greenish-yellow discharge from the nose (Kali bi.); bloody, purulent mucus. Frequent hloiuing of dlood from the nose; profuse nosebleed (Aeon,, Ham.). Slow bleed- ing. Coryza ; with inflammation of the throat (Merc), and dullness of the head ; fluent and dry alternating (Alum., Nux v., Sil.). Over-sensitive smell (Aeon., Agar., Bell., Colch., Graph., Hep. s., Lye, Sulph.); especially with head- ache. Face.— Face red, pale, sunken, earthy (Natr. carb.); sickly yellow (Sep.); icteric (Chel.); swollen, puffy (Rhus tox.). Eyes sunken with blue rings around (Cinch., Kali iod.. Sec, Sulph.). Cheeks hot; one or the other. CEdema of the hds PHOSPHORUS. 603 and around the eyes {Apis). Tension of the skin of the face. Tearing-, darting pains in bones of the face, temples and jaw. Lips dry and parched, swollen (Bry.). Crack in middle of lower lip. Necrosis of the lower jaw, rarely of the upper. Mouth. — Tearing, stinging pains in teeth. Gums separated from the teeth, and bleed easily (Arg. nit., Carb. an., Carb. v.), especially from touch {Merc, J^itr. ao.); painfully sen- sitive (Carb. an., Merc). "Toothache from having the hands in cold water. Tongue swollen, dry and black {Op., Yerat. alb.), chalky white; dry and white; dry and red (Rhus tox.); dry and brown center (Bapt., Plumb.); coated yellow {Chel., Cinch.). Dryness of the mouth and throat {Ars., Bry., JYux in.. Puis.). Bitter taste in the mouth; sour; after milk. Bloody erosions on inner surface of cheeks. Saliva increased, ivatery, tasting saltish (Ant. crud., Merc, cor., Sulph.); or sweetish {Pliunh., Puis.). Difficult articulation {Bell., Gels., Stram.); speech slow. Throat. — Dryness of the throat day and night. Tonsils swol- len. Hawking of cool mucus in the morning. Roughness and scraping in the throat; worse toward evening (Amm. carb., Carb. v., Caust., Puis., Rumex). Stomach, — Ravenous hunger, especially at night; feels faint. Loss of appetite (Alum., Ars., Cinch., Natr. mur., Op.), Longing for acids and spicy things (Ant. crud., Ant. tart., Hep. .?., Verat. alb.). Thirst: unquenchable; longs for some- thing refreshing (Phos. ac). Regurgitations of foo& (Podo.); also in mouthfuls (Alum., Carb. v., Jfux v., Sulph.). Eructations, empty, sour, of food; tasting of the food{Ai\.t. crud., Calc. c.,Carb. an., Cinch., Graph.); ineffect- ual. Much belching of wind after eating {Carb. v.. Cinch.). Constant nausea {Ant. tart.. Digit., Ipec, Lob.). As soon as the water becomes warm in the stomach it is thrown up (Bism.). Voiniting of food (Ipec, Kreos., Plumb., Verat. alb.); of blood, mingled with bile and mu- cus (Nitr. ac); of black substances (Plumb.); like coffee grounds. Great fullness in stomach, and painfulness to touch and pressure (Ars., Bell., Bry., Lye). Cardialgia. Pressure, as from a hard substance above pit of stomach. Pressure in pit of stomach, as from a heavy weight, after 604 PHOSPHORUS. eating {Bry., JVux v.). Oppression and burning in epigas- trium (^sc, Ars., Canth., Iris, Verat. alb.)- Drawing pain in pit of stomach, extending to chest. Spasmodic drawing pains in stomach (Puis.). Abdomen. — Enlargement and induration of the liver (Cinch., Sulph.); with pain. Pain in hepatic region on pressure. Enlargement of the spleen (Cinch.). Sensitiveness in hepatic region, worse when lying on right side, with pain on touch. Painful pulsation in right hypochondrium. Abdomen dis- tended and tympanitic; painful to touch {Bell., Cinch.). Incarcerated flatus; loud rumbling in abdomen (Lye); emission of inuch flatus {Aloe, Cinch., Lye.). Sensation of great weahness and eivuptiness in abdomen {Sep., Stan.); must lie down. Sensation of coldness hv the abdo- men (Caps.). Stool and. Anus. — Stitches or smarting in rectum. °Paraly- sis of the sphincter ani, anus always open. Violent burning in anus and rectum, with great exhaustion, after stool {Ars., Cinch.). Urging in rectum; on rising; stitches and itching in anus. Painless, debilitating diarrhoea {Cinch., Podo.; not debilitating, Phos. ac); worse mornings (Aloe, Apis, Eumex, Sulph.). Chronic, painless diarrhoea of undigested food (Calc. c. Cinch., Podo.). °Desire for stool whenever she lies on left side. Intestinal haemorrhage. Di- arrhcea; stools involuntary {Am., Ars., Carb. v., Hyos.); at least motion, gray or whitish-gray {Phos. ac); bloody; green; watery, with flakes of mucus and clots of blood; watery, with whitish-yellow and cheesy inasses ; lumps of white mucus; copious, like water from a hydrant. ^ Constipation ; faeces slender, long, dry, tough and hard, like a dog's; voided with difficulty (Caust.); small, -darh, difficult, clay -colored. Urinary Organs. — Frequent micturition at night ; scanty dis- charge. Urine turbid and high-colored ; brown, with red, sandy sediment (Arn., Cinch., Lye, Natr. mur., Nuph.); de- posits white, cloudy sediment (Calc. c, Sep.); variegated cuticle appears on surface; albuminous {Merc, cor., Osm., Phyt., Plumb.)] bloody, milky-white. HcBmaturia (Arn., Canth., Colch., Ham., Tereb.); with acute pain in region of kidneys and liver, and jaundice. PHOSPHORUS. 605 Male Organs.— Sexual excitement; frequent erections and emissions, or irresistihle desire for coitus (Canth.); with feeble erections or none at all. Emissions soon after coi- tion. Impotence after excessive excitement and onanism (Cinch., Phos. ac. Staph.). Female Ogans. — Menses too early and too scanty, or too pro- fuse ; pale, with colic, nausea and diarrhoea. Frequent and profuse metrorrhag:ia (Aeon., Ham.). Acrid, excoriating leucorrhoea (Alum., Coni., Kreos., Merc, Puis.). Respiratory Organs. — Hoarseness, cannot speah atove a ivhisper (Aeon., Carb. v., Caust., Spong., Sulph.); morn- iit£s. Voice hiosky, rough. Aphonia ; from prolonged loud talking (Arg. met., Arg. nit., Arum, triph.). Irritability in lower part of trachea, with suffocative pressure in up- per part of chest. °Cannot talk on account of pain in the larynx (j5eZ^.). Bazuness in larynx {Kcon., Ambr., Lach., Plumb., Sulph.) and trachea, with frequent hacking cough and hawking . Cough dry ; tickling, zuith tight- ness across chest (August., Merc, cor.); hollow spasmodic; loose, without expectoration; with soreness of chest (Arn., Caust., JSPzox v., Stram.); loose rattling; hacking; hollow, mornings in bed, with trembling of whole body; dry on reading aloud; from tickling iiv throat {YLd]}. a., Rumex, Sang., Sep.); ivith violent oppression of the chest and difficult respiration, causing pain in the abdomen. Expec- toration tZ^^citZ^, frothy ; bloody; vu^t-coloYeA ; tenacious , purulent mucus {Kali bi.); mucus streaked with blood (Digit.); purulent, white and tough; cold mucus, tasting salty (Ambr., Calc. c, Carb. v.. Lye, Sep.); transparent mucios, in morning after rising. Cough worse evening and night (Nux v.. Puis.); change from warm to cold air (Ars.; reverse, Bry.); from reading, laughing or loud talking (Cinch., Dros.); from lying on left side or back; drinking; exercise. Pains in chest, with coughing, relieved by exter- nal pressure. Respiration short, labored, anxious, pant- ing, ivith tightness and oppression of the chest. Loud mu- cous rales during respiration {Ant. tart., Ipec), especially in lower lobes. Tightness; of upper part ; xvorselying on left side. Sensation as if everything about the chest were too ti^ht. Congestion of the chest, with anxiety and 606 PHOSPHOKUS. oppression. Heaviness in the chest, as if a weight were ly- ing on it {Ferr., Nux v.). Stitches in the chest {Aeon., Bry., Kali c.), especially on left side (Sep., Stram.). Stitches through lungs, worse on deep inspiration, in various parts. Suffocative constriction of the chest ; at night. Burning, soreness and tension in chest. Inflammation of the lungs ; hepatization ; especially of lozuer half of right lung, la- ter part of period of deposit, and early part of that of ab- sorption. Suppuration. Cavities. Tubercles, with hectic fever. All symptoms luorse zuhen lying on left side. Yel- low spots on chest (brown spots, Sep.). Heart and Pulse. — Violent palpitation, With anxiety, evenings and mornings in bed ; while lying on left side (Natr. carb., Natr. mur.); on slight motion. Blowing sounds of the heart. Pressure in middle of sternum and about the heart. Pulse rapid, full and hard; small, weak, easily compressed. Neck and Back. — Stiffness in nape of neck (Kali c, Lach., Ehustox.). Weakness in back, as if crushed, then weak- ness in limbs, and trembhng on least exertion. Sensitive- ness of spinous processes of dorsal vertehrce to pressure (Agar.). Softening of the spine. Burning pain hetweeix the scapulce. Throbbing pain in a small spot between shoulder blades. Pain in lumbar region. Limbs. — Weakness in all the limbs, as if paralyzed; especially in joints, trembling from every exertion. Swelling of hands and feet. Bruised pain in limbs. Extremities, especially hands and feet, heavy as lead. Upper Limbs. — Tearing pain in left shoulder, worse at night in bed. Stiifness in morning on washing, with pressure. Arms and hands become numb ; fall asleep. Trembling of the hands (Agar., Calc. c). Fingers draw'n bent at times, as from cramp. Fingers, especially tips, feel numb and insensi- ble. Motor paralysis of fingers. Lower Limbs. — Uneasiness, weakness, worse on ascending steps, with heaviness. Pain in right hip-joint. Suppura- tive pain in nates on sitting long. Bruised pain in perios- teum of tibia. Gangrenous periostitis of tibia, with fever ; the periosteum peeled off as far as the hnee, leaving the bone rough. Weariness and heaviness of the legs and feet. Paralytic feeling in feet. Pain in knee drawing to feet. PHOSPHOKUS. 607 Cramp in the calves. Sprained pain in ankles on walking. Heaviness in the hollow of the knees. Feet swollen in the evening, or when walking. Generalities. — Great eTnaciation (Ars., Ferr., Graph., lodi.). Can lie only on the right side (reverse, Merc). Haemor- rhages from various organs and parts of the body (Croc, Ham.); hlood fluid, non-coagulahle. Small wounds bleed much. Great xueahness and prostration of the whole system {Ars., Cinch., Ferr.). J^ervous exhaustion, with general heaviness and dread of motion. Mucous mem- hrane pale. Muscular system lax. Ataxia and adyna- mia. Trembling. Motions involuntary and uncertain, as in palsy. Paralyzed feeling. Painful heaviness of the whole body. Lying on the left side at night causes anxi- ety. Numbness of the whole body, accompanied by pricking sensations. Takes cold easily in open air (Calc c. Kali c, Sil.). Pains tearing, drawing, tensive, excited by slightest chill; body feels bruised, with sensation of cold- ness. Epilepsy, with consciousness. Spasms of the para- lyzed side. Paralysis, formication and tearing in the limbs ; anaesthesia; increased heat. Exostosis, especially of the skull. Hip-joint disease, oozing a watery pus. Skin. — Jaundice (Chel., Cinch., Merc). Pale. Ecchymosis (Arn., Sec). Petechia (Arn., Ars., Sec). Purpura haemor- rhagica spots. Anaesthesia. Formication. Itching over the whole body. Tetter in round spots over whole body. Ulcers bleed on appearance of menses. Fistulous ulcers : erysipelatous ; pus thin, ichorous, hectic. Sleep. — Constant sleepiness ; ° coma vigil. Sleepless and rest- less before midnight. Unrefreshing sleep. Dreams anx- ious, lascivious; of fire; of biting animals; of restless work and business which he could not finish. Sleepy all day, restless at night. Pever. — Typhus fever, often with pneumonia and bronchitis, that developed into consumption. Chilliness every even- ing, with shivering, ivithout thirst (Ign., Puis.); not re- lieved by warmth. Coldness of limbs ; in knees at night in bed. Chill at night, alternating with heat. Heat, with anxiety, burning in face and hands, flushed cheelcs, left more than right ; afternoon and evening. Heat at night. 608 PHOSPHORUS. Profuse perspiration ; at night {Cinch., Merc.)] during 'sleep (Cinch.); in morning, in bed (Calc. c, Chin, sulph., J{itr. ac); on slight exertion (Calc. c, Hep. s., Kali nit., Lye, Sep., Sil.). Exhausting sweat in morning. Cold, clamm3^ sweat {Ars., Camph., Kali nit., Merc.). Aggravation. — Before midnight ; ° during a thunder storm; when lyin^ on back or left side; in warm room; from onanism and emissions. Amelioration. — In cold, open air; after eating; from rest. Conditions. — Tall, slender women. Compare.— Aeon., Ambr., Amm., Apis, Ars., Bell., Bry., Calc. c, Carb. v.. Canst., Cinch., Crotal.,Ipec.,Kali c, Lye, Merc, Nux v., Natr. sulph., Podo., Puis., Rhus tox., Sec. cor., Sep., Sil., Sulph. The remedies Calc. c. Cinch., Kali c. Lye, Nux v.. Pier, ac, Rhus tox., Sil. and Sulph. precede Phos. well, while Ars., Carb. v., Rhus tox. and Sulph. follow well. Antidotes.— Camph., Coff. c, Nux v., Tereb., Yinum. To large doses : Emetics, Magnesia in water. Phosphorus Antidotes.— Excessive use of Salt: lodi., Camph., Tereb., Rhus ven. THERAPEUTIC S. Phosphorus is the first remedy to be thought of in fatty de- generation of organs, especially of the liver and kidneys. It may also be useful when it is the lungs, heart, brain or spine that is affected. It is indicated in a hsemorrhagic diathesis — haemorrhages from various organs and parts of the body, the blood being fluid and non-coagulable, hence the symptoms "small wounds bleed much, "it being almost impossible to stop the bleeding from the prick of a pin, or from a small cut (com- pare Lach.). Persistent hsemorrhages after extraction of a tooth. Useful in diseases of bones — caries and necrosis, as will be hereafter noticed . Exostosis, especially of the skull. Rick- ets. Frequently indicated in marasmus. Fistulous ulcers, es- pecially in glands. Polypi, erectile tumors, ulcers, etc., which bleed readily. Vascular growths. Fungus hsematodes. Fun- gus excrescences. Ecchymoses. Petechia. Purpura hsemorrha- gica. Cancerous ulcerations, burning, profuse bleeding. Psori- asis palmaris. The action of Phos. upon the nervous system is of special clinical importance. The mental symj)toms are pe- PHOSPHORUS. 609 culiar, and frequently indicate the drug in typhoid fever, especi- ally with painless diarrhoea, and swollen liver and spleen. Es- pecially useful when a typhoid state sets in with pneumonia or other respiratory diseases — typhoid-pneumonia, etc. The chief remedy in brain fag ; sometimes with a feeling of coldness in the cerebellum and stiffness in the brain. Neuralgia of the brain. Apoplexia; grasps at the head; mouth drawn to the left. Impending paralysis of the brain and collapse; burning pain in brain. Very often required in softening of the brain, with persistent headache ; slow answering questions ; vertigo ; feet drag; formication; numbness of the limbs. Acute atrophy of the brain and medulla oblongata, with uraemia. Useful in many forms of paralysis. Paralysis of face and extremities, usually hemiplegic. Post-diphtheritic paralysis. Paralysis following exposure to wet. Pseudo-hypertrophic paralysis, with numbness, etc. Spinal irritation ; spine sensi- tive to touch; weakness, the back soon gives out, the limbs tremble and totter, etc., especially from loss of animal fluids, haemorrhages, sexual excess, etc. Locomotor ataxia, with burn- ing along the spine, formication; may arise from causes last named. Chorea especially in children who are growing too fast; they are weak and walk as if paralyzed. General neuritis, with numbness, etc. Phosphorus is an invaluable remedy in diseases of the deeper tissues of the eye, especially when involving the nerve supply. Dim vision from nervous exhaustion, especially sexual neurasthenia, objects seem covered by a smoke or mist. Various disturbances of vision from lesion of the retina and op- tic nerve. An invaluable remedy in muscular asthenopia, the eyes pain and give out when reading. Myopia. Ambylopiaafter typhoid fever, sexual excess or loss of fluids. Blindness after a lightning stroke. Retinitis albuminurica. Retinal apoplexia. Glaucoma, and detachment of retina. Will arrest the growth of a cataract if the symptoms of vision, etc., are present. Lach- rymal fistula. Deafness from neurasthenia. Polypus of the nose, bleeding easily. Nasal catarrh, nose swollen and sore; obstructed; ulcerated; greenish, j^ellow, bloody discharge. Caries of the nasal bones. Necrosis of the lower jaw, rarely of the upper. Retarded development of speech in children. Phos- phorus is useful in a variety of diseases of the digestive system. Atonic dyspepsia, and regurgitation of food with vomiting. €10 PHOSPHORUS. Yoiniting o- pregnancy. The vomiting of Phos. is tempora- rily relieved by a cold drink, but returns as soon as the water becomes warm in the stomach. Chronic gastritis. Perforat- ing ulcer of the stomach. Cancer of the stomach. Gas- tralgia, with excruciating, cutting, burning pains, and heavy pressure. Haemorrhage of the stomach, temporarily better by drinking cold water. Diseases of the pancreas (Iris), es- pecially inflammation or fatty degeneration, with Phos. symp- toms, stools oily or like cooked sage. A useful remedy in various diseases of the liver, especially fatty degeneration. Jaundice from organic changes in the liver, stools grayish- white. Malignant jaundice. Jaundice from anaemia ; from brain disease ; during pregnancy. Diffuse hepatitis. Cirrhosis of the liver. Hepatitis, being extremely valuable in the stage of sup- puration, much swelling and soreness of the liver, hectic fever, night sweats. Acute yellow atrophy of the liver. Ascites. Chronic enteritis, stools pasty and yellow. Intestinal haemor- Thage; bleeding haemorrhoids; chronic diarrhcea; painless, ■worse in hot weather; stools contain undigested food; or particles like grains of tallow, very debilitating. Cholerina. A valuable remedy in constipation, with the characteristic long, dry, hard stool. Very frequently useful in Bright's disease, the urine containing epithelial, fatty or waxy casts, especially with the characteristic degenerative heart changes, pulmonary engorgement and oedema. Haematuria. A val- uable remedy in sexual weakness, with great desire and ex- citement, too rapid emissions, nocturnal pollutions. Impo- tence after excesses. Nymphomania. Sterility. Menorrha- gia. Metrorrhagia, especially in nursing women. Amenor- rhoea, with blood-spitting, or heemorrhage from nose, anus or urethra (Bry., Ham., Puis.). Chronic metritis. Membra- nous dysmenorrhoea. Cancer of the uterus, sharp, lancinat- ing pains, bleeding easily. Abscesses and ulceration of the mammae, with hardness (Coni.); bluish color (Lach.); red streaks start from the openings in the abscess ; fistulous open- ings with burning, stinging pains; thin, watery, ichorous, offensive discharges (Silic). Phosphorus is an exceedingly valuable remedy in respiratory diseases, in which it is more often prescribed than in any other form of disease. Lar^ai- gitis, with hoarseness and aphonia, larynx extremely sore, PHOSPHORUS. 611 so that it causes pain to talk or cough. Aphonia from prolonged loud talking. Not useful in the first stages of croup, but may be later in the disease, when collapse threat- ens, rattling breathing, weak, thready pulse. Said to act as a prophylactic and prevent the return of the disease. Tracheitis and bronchitis, with dry cough; worse in going from warm to cold air, from lying on the left side, caused by tickling in trachea, frothy, mucous expectoration, with soreness, oppression and constriction in chest. Occasion- ally useful in capillary bronchitis. Phosphorus is indicated in a great variety of coughs, the character of which is mostly outlined in the foregoing pathogenesis. It is often a useful remedy for reflex coughs, brought on by excitement, strong odors, or any nervous disturbance ; also reflex from stomach and hepatic derangement. Phosphorus is an invaluable rem- edy in pneumonia after exudation has taken place. It is never indicated in the inflammatory stage of this or any other dis- ease, but follows after the symptoms usually indicating Aeon, and Bry. (not in alternation) have subsided, and the patient has a dry cough with bloody mucus, or rust-colored expecto- ration, violent oppression or tightness of the chest, difficult breathing, as if a heavy weight lay on the chest, worse when ly- ing on the left side. May be useful when any part of the lungs are involved, but more often the lower lobe of the right lung. There is complete solidification of lung tissue, with dullness on percussion and an absence of vesicular murmur. In purulent infiltration and abscesses of lungs in the third stage of pneu- monia. May be indicated in any stage of pneumonia when ty- phoid symptoms supervene, as has already been mentioned. Chronic solidification of the lung after typhoid fever. Equally valuable in broncho-pneumonia and pleuro-pneumonia. Bron- cho-pulmonary catarrh, with dilitation, or fatty degeneration of the heart. In pulmonary tuberculosis Phos. is valuable in the stage of tubercular deposit, especially of miliary tubercles, attended with afternoon fever, flushed cheeks, dry, short cough, rapid respiration and progressive emaciation. Said to be es- pecially useful in tuberculosis occurring in tall, slender persons, or in the young who are rapidly growing; great debility; fre- quent attacks of bronchitis ; hoarseness and aphonia; dry, tormenting cough ; hectic fever. Phthisis florida. Hsemopty- 612 PHYSOSTIGMA. sis. Fatty degeneration of the heart. Endo-carditis ; myocar- ditis, especially when occurring in the course of pneumonia or acute rheumatism. PHYSOSTIGMA. Synonym. — Physostigma Venenosum. Katural order. — Legumiuosae. Common name. — Calabar Bean, Habitat. — A perennial plant growing near the mouths of the Niger and Old Calabar river on the Gulf of Guinea, Preparation. — Tincture from the pulverized bean, GENERAL ANALYSIS. Through the spinal cord, Physostigma produces general paralysis and loss of sensibility, death resulting from paralysis of respiration, or from diminished heart's action, due to paraly- sis of the exciting ganglia of the heart, in all cases the sense of touch and consciousness remaining unimpaired' to the last. It first causes contraction of the smaller blood vessels, and after- ward dilitation of the same, and both internally and externally applied, produces strongly contracted pupils, due to its convul- sive action upon the muscular substance of the iris, which it causes to contract by small, rapid jerks or twitches. It also in a like manner acts on the accommodation in the approxima- tion of both the far and near point of vision. Fibrillary mus- cular twitching occurs very persistently, due to local irritation caused by paralysis of the motor nerve termini. The same cause produces a tetanic condition of the involuntary muscles, result- ing in frequent discharges from the bladder, stomach and bow- els, the latter often being twisted up in knots. All secretions are somewhat increased, especially the tears and saliva. The most important feature in the action of this drug is its effect upon the eye, in causing contraction of the pupil and disturbed ac- commodation, myosis being only caused by Physostigma and Opium. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS Mind. — Uncommon mental activity (Cinch., Coff. c). Difficult thinking; cannot concentrate the mind (Gels.). Nothing PHYSOSTIGMA. 613 right; too many things in the room; continually counting them. Head. — Confusion and dizziness; dull, heavy, stupid feeling. Dull, heavy, oppressive headache. Intolerable pain over both eyes (Cinch., Chin, sulph.). Severe, dull frontal head- ache, especially in the morning (Kali bi., Natr. mur., Nux v.). Sensation of rush of blood to frontal and temporal regions {Bell., Glon.). Sharp, shooting pains in temples. Throbbing of temporal and carotid arteries {Bell.). In- tense, painful pressure in vertex and both temples, the pres- sure in vertex extending over to occiput; must lie down. Eyes. — Inflamed, first right, then left; sclerotic dry, red and swollen; eyeballs pain and smart; lids feel sore. Sharp, shooting pains, and drawing, twisting sensation in the eyes. Eyes sore and painful when moved from side to side (Bry., Spig.). Pain deep in over top of eyeball, running up from inner canthus to right frontal eminence, then down obliquely outward into temple. The musoularis internus seems not to do its worh rightly, and the axis of the eyes differs in each ; eyes feel weak, with lachrymation. Sight blurred, hazy or misty {Caust., Phos., Merc), film over eyes {Puis.)] objects mixed ; after which dull pain over the eyes and between the eyes. Muscse volitantes (Agar.), both black and white. Aching in posterior part of orbit, extend- ing back into the brain ; worse on reading, causing nausea. Lids heavy (Coni., Caust.); cannot bear to raise them; twitching of the lids (Agar.). Contraction of the pupil (Merc, cor.. Op., Phos., Phyt.). Eyes sensitive to light {Aeon., Bell., Sulph.). Disturbed accommodation; approxi- mation of far point (myopia), and also of near point (the accommodation recovers before the pupil). Vision abnor- mally acute; double; dim and indistinct; blurred, hazy, misty. Ears. — Sharp, shooting pains in the ears. Hissing, buzzing, ringing in the ears. Nose. — Fluent coryza, sneezing; burning, smarting, itching and tingling of nostrils; nose stuffed and hot. Tvvitchings in nose and involuntary expansion of nostrils. Face. — Face pale; flushings of theface(Ferr.). Neuralgic pain in riffht side of face. Sensation of contraction of left side of face. 614 PHYSOSTIGMA. Mouth. — Tongue sore on tip, and rough. Smarting of end of tongue; feels as if burnt {Iris). Tongue coated, more heavily at root. Numbness and tingling of tongue and lips, with constant desire to moisten them. Bad taste in mouth. Profuse salivation ; thick, leathery saliva. Diffi- cult speech (Caust., Coni., Gels., Hyos.). Power of speech retained long after inability to swallow. Throat. — Sore throat, painful swallowing; tonsils and soft palate dark-red ; burning, scraping, raw feeling; elongated uvula ; small ulcers, with yellow centers in pharynx. Pain extending from throat to left ear when swallowing (Phyt.). Feeling as if a ball were coming up in throat {Asaf., Lye). Submaxillary gland tender and tumefied. Stomach. — No appetite, disgust for food, tobacco and coffee, and especially for cold drinhs. Tasteless eructations. Nausea and vomiting. In stomach : prickling, sharp pains ; heaviness and weight, as from undigested food; griping; emptiness and weakness; sensation of nervousness and trembling. Soreness in region of stomach. Abdomen. — Lancinating pains' in hypochondria. Hard, sore pain in splenic region. Pain and soreness in umbilical re- gion. Stitches in left side of abdomen. Much rumbling and distension in abdomen, with discharge of large quantities of flatus {Aloe, Lye). Colicky pains, with feeling as if diar- rhoea would occur (Aloe). Sharp, cutting pains in lower part of abdomen. Dull pain in groins. Stool and. Anus. — Sphincter ani swollen and rigid; evacuation painful; rectum protruding, swollen and very sensitive; piles hard, protruding, painful and very sensitive. Tenes- mus and burning, with diarrhoea ; also tenesmus of bladder {Merc. cor.). Stools: copious; soft, thin; watery; yellow- ish; bilious; brown, black hke tar ; lumpy; dark ftnd offen- sive. Constipation. Urinary Organs. — Bruised, sore feeling in region of kidneys. Bladder feels distended. Frequent and copious urination (Phos. ac). Urine yellow; high-colored; strong smell; clear ; muddy. Female Organs. — Leucorrhoea; metrorrhagia. Pain as if menses were coming on. °Irregular. Menstruation, with PHYSOSTIGMA. 615 palpitation; congestion of the eyes, with tonic spasms^ rigidity, sighing respiration, consciousness retained. Respiratory Organs. — Cough, from tickling in throat. La- bored, sighing resjjiration ; ^^awning. Stitches in the chest. Heart and Pulse. — Dull pain, uneasiness and distress about the heart (Digit.). Violent palpitation of the heart {Aeon., Cact.), °with feeling of pulsation through whole body. Heart's action irregular and tumultuous {Digit.), when ly- ing on left side, better when lying on the back. Pulse vari- able; accelerated; small, frequent, slow, feeble, intermit- tent. Neck and Back. — Stiffness in neck. Drawing on turning the head. Rheumatic pains in neck. Back very Aveak, unable to stand erect. Dull pain in the back. Creeping numbness from back of head down the spine. Cramp-like stitches up and down the spine. Pain under right shoulder blade {Chel.). Dull, heavy pain in lumbar region; also over left hip, extending to back. Pain in sacral region, worse on motion. Limbs. — Limbs feel weary, as after great fatigue (Calc. c.^ Cinch.). Numbness and paralytic feeling in all the limbs (Aeon.). Neuralgic pains in the limbs. Stiffness or bruised feeling in the joints. Staggering gait. Unsteadiness from knee downward when walking, especially with the eyes shut. Generalities. — Great sense of fatigue and weariness; weakness {Ars., Cinch.). Convulsive twitchings {Agar., Cic, Stram.). Violent trembhng all over the body (Ant. tart.). Great prostration of the muscular sj'stem. Omits bath on ac- count of horror for cold w^ater. Sore and stiff all over, as from a cold. Severe, sharp pains in various parts of the body. Sleep. — Irresistible desire to sleep; soporific sleep {Op.). Rest- less sleep, with dreams. Fever. — Creeping, chilly sensation in back. Hands and feet cold (Sil., Verat. alb.). Cold, clammy skin. Heat in head and face; flushed and hot. Dry, burning heat in hands. Perspires very easily. Cold sweat in drops over whole body. Strong-smelling sweat around the genitals. 616 PHYTOLACCA. Aggravation.— Mostly in morning; from exercise; from men- tal activity. Amelioration.— In open air and from walking; closing the eyes; from quiet; in warm room ; from inhaling Camphor; from Arnica. Compare.— Agar., Atrop., Gels., Jabor., Nux v.. Op., Stram., Tabac. THERAPEUTICS. Physostigma has been used with some success in paralysis, traumatic tetanus, chorea, progressive locomotor ataxia, gen- eral paralysis of the insane ; paralysis agitans and progressive muscular atrophy. Congestion of the spinal cord, with tetanic spasms. Numerous cases of tetanus in horses. Its chief homoeo- ])athic application has been in eye troubles, such as myopia, a.stigmatismi, spasms of the ciliary muscles; torpor of the retina.. Staphyloma; glaucoma; prolapsed iris; opacity of cornea ; ulcers ; keratitis, etc. On account of its extraordinary power to contract the pupil it has been used to tear up adhe- sions of the iris, especially when complicated with ulceration of the cornea at the margin. — Allen. PHYTOLACCA. Synonym. — Phytolacca Decandra. Natural order. — Phy- tolaccacese. Common names. — Poke Weed. Poke Eoot. Garget. Habitat. — An indigenous perennial plant. Preparation. — Tincture from the fresh root. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts especiall}^ upon the glandular system, particularly of the throat and mammae, and the serous, fibrous and mu- cous tissues. It acts upon the kidneys, and produces symptoms of general lithtemia. It also acts prominently upon the perios- teum and the skin, its effects resembling those of Mercury, the iodide of Potash, or of the syphilitic poison. The general con- dition produced by Phytolacca is one of inflammation, which, in the fibrous tissues, partakes of a rheumatic character, and, in mucous and glandular tissues, has a tendency to ulceration PHYTOLACCA. 617 and suppuration. It also acts prominently upon the stomach and bowels, producing- emesis and purging. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Indifference to life. Loss of personal delicacy, complete shamelessness ( Hy os . ) . Head. — Vertigo, with dimness of vision. Sore pain over head, worse on right side. Sensation of soreness deep in the brain, as if bruised. Headache, with sick stomach (Iris, Nux v., Podo., Sang.); worse in forehead, or above eyebrows ; comes every week (Sulph.). "Headache, worse from wet weather. Headache, commencing in frontal region and extending backward. Pain in the vertex, with dryness. Pressive pain in forehead or on top of head. Tinea capitis {Graph., Rep. s., Merc, JVitr. ac, Sep.). Eyes. — Pupils contracted {Merc, cor., Op., Phos., Physos.). Double vision (^z^-r.. Bell., Cic, Stram.). Feeling of sand in the eyes, with burning and smarting (Ars., Caust., Ign., Natr. mur., Sitlph.). Nose. — Flow of mucus from one nostril while the other is stopped. Drawing sensation at root of nose (Aeon.). Feel- ing in nose and eyes as if a cold would come on (Cepa, Euphr.). Acrid, excoriating discharge. Face. — Paleness of the face. Pains in bones of face and head, at night. Chin drawn closel}^ to sternum by convulsive action of muscles of face and neck ; lips everted and firm ; tetanus. Mouth. — Tongue feels rough; white-coated blisters on both sides, and very red tip {Ars., Rhus tox.). Great pain in root of tongue when sivallowing. Profuse saliva; tena- cious, yellowish, ropy, with metallic taste (Cham.). Throat. — Tlvroat sore; fauces congested, and of a darh-red color {Alianth., Arg. nit., Bapt., Naja); dryness of the throat; tonsils swollen {Bell.). Sore throat, swelling of soft palate in morning, with a thick, white and yellow mu- cus about the fauces. Feeling when swallowing as of a lump in the throat {Bell., Lach.), also when turning head to the left. Sensation of rawness and scraping in the throat and tonsils (Carb. v., Caust., Phos., Puis., Rumex), Dry- ness, soreness, smarting and roughness of the throat. X)yj- 618 PHYTOLACCA. ness in the throat provoking cough, with disposition to hawk and clear the throat. Difficult swallowing; with every attempt excruciating shooting pains through both ears. Stomach. — Violent vomiting of clotted blood and slime, with retching, intense pain, and desire for death to relieve. Abdomen. — Intense vomiting and purging, with griping pains and cramps in the abdomen. Stool and Anus. — Neuralgic pains in anus and lower part of rectum, shooting along perineum to middle of penis; in middle of night. Diarrhoea of mucus and blood, or like scrapings from intestines. Bleeding haemorrhoids {Ham., Nitr. ac). Female Organs. — °Menses too frequent and too copious (Amm.carb., Ars., Bell., Borax, Calc. c, Jfux v.). Metror- rhagia (Aeon., Bell., Ferr., Ham., Ipec, Sabin.). Urinary Organs. — Chalk-like sediment in the urine. Urine acid and albuminous (Osni., Phos., Pluinh.). Slight suppression of urine, with pains in loins. Respiratory Organs. — Hoarseness. Dryness of the larynx. Sharp pains through upper part of chest, preventing a long breath. Tenderness and lameness of the muscles of the chest, as if bruised. °Rheumatism of lower intercostal muscles from exposure to cold and dampness. Neck and Back. — Hardness of glands in right side of neck. Stiff neck, worse on right side, and in bed; after midnight. Back very stiff every morning. Constant, dull, heavy pain in lumbar and sacral regions. Pains shooting from sacrum down both hips. Limbs. — Rheumatic pains in arms and hands. Neuralgic pain in outer side of both thighs ; sciatica. Rheumatic pains in lower extremities. Ulcers and nodes on legs. Nightly pains in periosteum of tibia (.Merc. ). Stitches in various parts, always from without inward and near surface. The pains are always in outer parts. Skin. — ^Syphilitic eruptions and ulcerations — secondary and tertiary {Merc, Nitr. ac). °Squamous eruptions; tinea capitis; lupus; ulcers. Aggravation. — Pain always worse at night and in wet weather. PHYTOLACCA. 619 Amelioration. — Most symptoms better while lying down ; pain better in the open air. Generalities. — Great exhaustion and prostration. Convul- sions. Feeling of soreness in all the muscles (Aeon., Bry.). Bones and glands inflamed and swollen (Asaf., Hep. s., Merc, Nitr. ae.). Compare. — Colch,, Kali bi., Kali hyd., Lye., Merc, Mez., Nitr. ac, Petrol., Khus tox. Antidotes.— Milk and Salt; Ign., Sulph. To large doses : Op., Coffee. THERAPEUTICS. Phytolacca has been found useful in syphilis, both primary and secondary. Syphilitic headache. Syphilitic periostitis. Spyhilitic sore throat. Chancres. Syphilitic eruptions and ulcerations. Syphilitic or gonorrhoeal rheumatism, glands swollen, worse at night and in damp weather. Subacute rheumatism and gout; pains shift; joints swollen, red; peri- osteum affected, especially in mercurialization and in syphi- lis ; pains in middle of long bones or attachment of muscles ; worse in damp weather or at night. Intercostal rheuma- tism from exposure to cold and dampness. Eheumatism affecting dorsal muscles. Chronic endocarditis from rheu- matism. Gouty heart. Fatty degeneration of the heart. Inflammation and swelling of bones and glands in general. By many considered our most valuable remedy both inter- nally and locally for inflammation, swelling and suppura- tion of the breasts ; pain whenever milk flows into the bn^ast, especially when nursing; pains radiate from the nipple over the whole body, particularly up and down the backbone (a poultice of the fresh root is invaluable for dissipating recent inflammations and engorgements and lumps in the breast, and preventing suppuration). Abscesses or fistulous ulcers of the breasts (SiL). Nipples sensitive, cracked and excoriated (Graph.). Mammary gland full of hard and painful nodosities. In the same line of glandular action comes the remarkable clin- ical value of Phytolacca in tonsilitis. The tonsils are swollen and bluish, usually worse on the right side, throat dry, swal- lowing difficult, with every attempt excruciating pains through both ears. Pharyngitis, and sore throat in general where the 620 PHYTOLACCA. fauces are congested and have a dark-red color, with dryness, scraping, rawness and roughness in the throat, and stiffness of the muscles externally ; sometimes ulceration ; usually worse on right side. Much aching in the limbs. Often useful in diphtheria. Throat and fauces covered with a dirty, dark pseudo-mem- brane (Merc, iod., JYitr. ac), like washed leather; mucus hawked with difficulty from posterior nares; hangs down in strings ; cannot drink hot fluids. Severe pains in head, neck, back and limbs ; great prostration ; faint on rising. Urine often albuminous. Aphthous ulceration on cheeks and margin of tongue, thick, tenacious secretion in the mouth. Granular con- junctivitis. Blepharitis, with swelling of the meibomian glands, lids thickened, indurated, dark-red and tender ; sometimes be- come ulcerated and covered with crusts. Hypopion. Suppura- tive choroiditis. Threatening suppuration of the cornea. Na- sal catarrh, fluid, acrid discharge from one nostril, the other stopped ; drawing pain at root of nose. Sometimes indicated during difficult dentition. Constipation. Bleeding haemorrhoids. Diarrhoea. Ulcers and flssures in rectum, (Natr. m., Nitr. ac). Metrorrhagia. Bright's disease ; also for uraemic convulsions. Nephritis, with dull, heavy pain, heat and soreness in region of kidneys; most on right side; urine albuminous, dark-red, stains the vessel; chalk-like sediment. Catarrhal laryngitis, with hoarseness, burning in larynx and trachea, sensation of con- traction of the glottis, labored breathing, spasm of the glottis. Sciatica. Squamous eruptions. Tinea capitis. Lupus. Chronic ulcers surrounded by small boils. Eingworms. Barber's itch (local application of tincture). Phytol. has been found use- ful in boils and carbuncles, with burning pains w^orse at night, usually swollen glands. Scarlatina, with characteristic sore throat; acrid coryza; urine dark-red ; non-appearing eruption. Tetanus, alternate spasms and relaxation of muscles, especi- ally of the face ; general muscular rigidity. PICRICUM ACIDUM 621 PICRICUM ACIDUM. Synonym.— Carhazotic Acid. Comm^on name. — Picric Acid. Preparation. — One part of pure Picric Acid is dissolved in ninety-nine parts of distilled water to make the 2x dilution. The 3x dilution is made with dilute alcohol, and subsequent dilutions with alcohol. GENERAL ANALYSIS. In poisonous doses Picric Acid acts profoundly upon the blood, causing disintegration of the blood corpuscles, and soft- ening and degeneration of the cortex cerebri, cerebellum, me- dulla oblongata and spinal cord, and consequent paralysis. It also causes inflammation of the kidneys, the urine being loaded wdth phosphates, urates and uric acid. Albumen and sugar are also found in the urine. In smaller doses there is at first slight congestion followed by weariness, which may vary from a slight feeling of fatigue to actual paralysis. Associated with this is a mental inactivity, lack of will power, indifference to everything, and a desire to lie down and rest, thus simulating brain fag and neurasthenia, in which conditions is found its chief sphere of usefulness. CHARAOTBRISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Great indifference ; lach of will poiver to undertake anything (Phos.). Disinclination for mental or physical work. Aversion to talking or movement, luith the head- ache. Mental prostration after reading a little; after writing a little. Inability to collect thoughts or to study. Head. — Yertigo and nausea. Vertigo on stooping (Aeon., Bell., Puis., Sulph.); bending the head; lying down; rising from a seat (Bry., Sulph). Heat in head ; in forehead. Burn- ing along coronal suture. Headache worse on rising, better in the open air; worse on motion or on stooping; better from pressure, from bandaging the head (Arg. nit., Sil.). Heavy, blind, dizzy aching iu vertex, worse from stooping. Pressure outward, as if the head would fly apart, worse from 622 PICRK^UM ACIDUM. motion or study. Throbbing pain in left side of head, worse in the eyeball and forehead, and extending back to occiput, better from quiet. Aching over the eyes, worse from study and motion, better from sitting still. Heavy pain in su- pra-orbital region, extending to vertex, worse from motion or rolling the eyes. Sharp, shooting, cutting pains in the temples. Full heavy pain in vertex, worse on stooping and moving the eyes. Pain in occijjut and nape of nech. Heavy pain in occiput extending doivn nech and spine. Confusion in the base of the hraiTi. Eyes. — Yellow sclerotica. Conjunctivitis ; ivorse right eye; better froin ivashing ivith cold water and by cold air ; worse in a warm room, with difficulty in Iceeping eyes open, and stichy sensation on reading. Dryness and sen- ■ sation of sand in the eyes (Ars., Caust., Hep. s., Ign.,Merc., Puis., Rhus tox., Sep., Sil., Sulph.). Feeling of sticks in the eyes. Agglutination in the morning on waking. Heaviness of the lids on studying, cannot keep them open (Gels.). Vision dim and confused ; as if looking through a veil (Ca.ust., Croc, Natr. m., Puis., Sepia, Sulph.). Air looks smoky. Whirling of objects ; sparks before the eyes. Ears. — Ears burn and look puffy, with sensation as if worms were crawling in them . Buzzing and hissing in the ears. Nose. — Sensation of a weight on bridge of nose (Kali bi.). Nose full of mucus ; can only breath through the mouth, better in the open air. Mouth.— White, frothy saliva hangs in strings to the floor. Taste sour; bitter; bad. Throat. — Throat red, feels raw and scraped (Amm. c, Caust., Carb. v., Nux v., Phos., Puis., Sulph.); stiff and hot, as if •burnt; with thick, white mucus on tonsils; great difficulty in swallowing, with sensation as if the throat would split open; soreness, worse on left side; worse after sleep (Apis, Lach., Sulph.); better after eating. Stomach. — Appetite increased, then lost. Thirst unquench- able for cold water. Empty or sour eructations. Water- brash. Nauseated, faint feeling in epigastrium, worse on rising and moving about. Sensation of weight at pit of stomach, with ineffectual desire to eructate. Abdomen. — Rumbhng. Emission of flatus. Sharp stitching PICKICUM ACIDUM. 623 pains in hepatic region ; in umbilical region ; mostly on left side. Sensation of giving way in epigastrium. iStool and Anus. — Stinging and itching in anus during and after stool. Stools yellow, copious, oily, frequent; light- colored, with straining; soft plugs, shooting away easy, then much flatus ; quick, as if greased ; sweetish smell, as of boiling soap. Urinary Organs, — Dribbling micturition. Urine yellow; dark- yellow, with strong odor; scanty ; copious and pale; urates abundant; contained mioch indican, numerous graivular cylinders and fatty degenerated epithelium. Male Sexual Organs. — Terrihle erections at night, with rest- less sleep. Great desire aizd violent erections all night, with emissions. Desire, with almost constant priapism day and night. Female Sexual Organs. — In left ovarian region, aching; twinges of pain. Yellowish-brown leucorrhoea in place of the menses, which are delayed. Voluptuous pruritus at night in bed, before menses. -Respiratory Organs. — Dry cough, as from dust in the throat. Tightness of chest, as if encircled by a band (Cact.). Heart and. Pulse. — Fluttering. Palpitation. Pulse slow, small, feeble and irregular. Back. — Pain in back, worse from sitting. Heaviness and weak- ness in the back and limbs. Dragging pains in region of kidneys. Burning along spine, worse on trying to study, better on motion. liimbs. — Great heaviness of the limhs, especially the left ; of arms and legs on exertion, especially legs ; wealcness and heaviness of the legs ; and in region of hips ; ivorse on left side. Numbness of the lower limbs. Feet feel as if frost- bitten (Agar.). Generalities. — Tired feeling on the least exertion ; with lame sensation over the whole body. J^o desire to talh or to do anything; indifferent to everything. Jfumhness, with pains, as when taking cold. Skin. — Yellow. Pimples and boils, especially on face; painful. iSleep. — Frequent yawning. Sleepiness; in evening; better from walking in the open air. Sleep sound, but unrefreshing. Sleepless all night. Restless sleep. Constant dreams. 624 PICKICUM ACIDUM. Fever. — Cold extre-mities ; cold feet. Chilliness predominates. Heat in lower dorsal and lumbar reo^ions. Cold, clammy sweat. Aggravation. — From study; after sleep (Lacli.); from motion (except burning in spine). Amelioration. — In open air; walking in open air; cold water; at rest. Compare. — Arg. nit., Caust., Coccul., Gels., Lach., Petrol., Phos., Phos. ac. Puis., Sep., Sil., Sulph. THERAPEUTICS. Picric Acid has proved extremely valuable in brain fag (Phos.) and neurasthenia (Phos. ac). The indications for its use are to be found in the pathogenesis. An important char- acteristic is the general prostration, both mental and physi- cal, from any attempt at mental labor. A valuable remedy in occipital headache, worse from any mental effort. Has proved useful in hysteria; aching in left ovarian region; leucorrhoea in place of menses; great exhaustion during menses (Coccul.), etc. A case of hysteria is authentically reported as speedily alleviated by administering Picric Acid to the husband for "toothache" — in which is a thought worthy of considera- tion. A valuable remedy in sexual weakness, with seminal emissions and general exhaustion, even threatening paralysis. Dim vision from neurasthenia, especially sexual neurasthenia. Ophthalmia, better from cold water and in cold air. Chronic deafness following long-continued nervous headaches and pros- tration. Nephritis, chronic or subacute ; dark, scanty urine; dragging pain in region of kidneys ; great prostration. Proba- bly an antipsoric remedy (see cases reported in Medical Ad- vance, April, 1890). Pimples and boils on the face. Said to be especially useful when there is a disposition to boils on the back of the neck, or within the ears. PLATINUM. 625 PLATINUM. Synonym. — Platinum Metallicum. Preparation. — Tritura- tions of precipitated Platinum. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts chiefly upon the nerve centers, depressing the senso- rium, and producing in general a tendency to anaesthesia, tor- por and paralysis, manifested mostly in women in deranged sexual health, hysterical conditions and melancholia. CHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Illusions ; everything around her is very small, and everyljody inferi'or to her in mind and, body. Arrogant, proud, haughty (Lach., Stram.) ; looJcs down ivith pitiful contempt on others. Low-spirited, sad, apprehensive, in- clined to shed tears (Ign., JVatr. mur., Nux m., Puis.), worse evening in the house, better in the open air. Alternate cheerful or depressed mood (Croc, Ig7^., JViox m., Stram.). Feels that she is all alone in the world, and that life is wearisome, but dreads death, ivhieh she thinhs is near at hand. Deathly anxiety, with trembling of the limbs, op- pression of breath and palpitation. Absent-minded and for- getful. Peevish, irritable, fretful mood ; very sensitive to the least word or action, however innocent (Caps., Nux v., Staph.). Easily excited to anger. Physical and mental symptoms alternate. Head. — Vertigo on sitting down or ascending stairs. Sensa- tion of numbness in the head, especially in forehead, as if constricted ; interinittent, cramp -lihe. Tense, numh sen- sation in temples, zygomatic and mastoid processes, as if the head ivere screwed together, or too tightly hound (Aeon., Ant. tart., Chel., Gels., Merc). "Periodical head- ache, increasing and decreasing gradually, worse from stooping, better from exercise in the open air. Numb pain on top of vertex, as if scalp would be contracted, and as if a heavy weight were lying on it. Formication in one temple, 626 PLATINUM. extending to lower jaw, with sensation of coldness on that spot. Eyes.— Spasmodic tAvitching of the eyelids (Gels.)- Intermit- tent, cramp-like pain near right outer margin of orbit. Ob- jects appear smaller than they really are. Objects appear larger {Hyos.). Ears.— Roaring, whizzing and ringing in the ears. Sticking jerking in right outer ear, with numbness and coldness ex- tending through cheeks to lips. l^ose. — Numbness and crampy pain in nose and root of nose (Aeon., Kali bi., Merc. iod.). Corrosive sensation on nose, as of something acrid. Pace. — Face pale and sunken. Sensation of coldness, craivl- ing and niimlmess in right side of face. Sensation of burning and redness in face, without any visible change in color. Cramp, pain, numbness and boring in 'malar hones, especially left. Mouth. — Toothache, with pulsating, digging pains. Numb pain in left lower teeth. Sensation as if the tongue were scalded {Iris, Puis.). Crawling sensation on the tongue. Stomacli. — Ravenous appetite, and greedy , hasty eating, with contemptuous mood. Empty eructations, after fasting, in morning; loud. Continuous nausea, with great weak- ness, anxiety, and trembling sensation through the whole body {Ant. tart.). Fermentations in epigastric region. Flatulent soreness towards hypogastrium. Abdomen. — Sensation as if the abdomen were too tightly con- stricted. Pressing and bearing down in abdomen, extend- ing into pelvis {Bell., Cimic, Lil. tig.. Puis., Sep.). Stool and Anus. — Constipation; frequent urging, scanty stool, with sensation of great weahness. Crawling tenes- mus in anus every evening before sleep. Stool indurated, as if burnt (^rj^.); preceded and followed by pressure. Stool adheres to rectum and anus, like solt clay. Urinary Organs. — Red urine. Male Organs. — Excessive sexual desire, with violent erections, especially at night, with amorous dreams. Voluptuous crawling in genital organs and abdomen, with anxious op- pression d-nd palpitation, then painless pressure downwards in genitals, with sticking in sinciput and exhaustion. PLATINUM. 627 Female Organs, — Painful sensitiveness and constant pres- sure in mons veneris and genital organs, with internal chill and external coldness, except face. Frequent sensation as if the menses would appear. Menses too early and too profuse (Calc. c, Kux v.); lasting too long; flow dark and clotted (Amm. carb., Cycl., Croc, Ign.); with much bear- ing down and drawing pains in abdomen. Stitches in right ovarian region. Leucorrhoea like the white of an egg (Amm. c, Borax, Bovis.). Respiratory Organs. — Deep breathing, caused by a sensation as of a weight on the chest {Ferr., Nux v., Phos.). Inchna- tion to draw a long breath prevented by a sensation of weakness in the chest {Stan.). °Nervous, dry cough, with palpitation and dyspnoea. Cramp-like pain in left side of chest. Cramp-like constriction close to the shoulder. Neck and Back. — Tensive, numb sensation in nape, close to occiput, as if tightly bound. Weakness in nape of neck; the head sinks forward (Aloe, Cimic, Kali c, Natr. mur.). Pain in back and small of back, as if bruised or broken (^eZL, Nux v.). J^fumhness in sacrum and coccyx, luhile sitting, as after a blow. Limbs. — Tension in the limbs, ^specially thighs, as if zvrapp&d tightly. Paralyzed sensation in left arm. Cramp- like pains; numbness in limbs and joints; trembling of right thumb, with numbness. Sensation of great weakness in and about the knee-joints. Pain as from a blow in left knee. Tremulous, restlessness and tired feeling in legs and feet, when sitting ; a miinbness and rigidity, worse even- ings in bed. Generalities. — Weakness and prostration. Bruised pain on pressure in the parts affected by cramp -like pain. Tremu- lous sensation at times, through whole body, with throb- bing in veins, Painful numbness here and there, as from a blow; in spots, more on head. °Dull, pushing pains, as from a plug (Anac, Asaf., Ign.). °Pains generally increase and decrease gradually. Sudden heat ; she thought she was very red, but color same as usual. Sleep. — Great inclination to violent, almost spasmodic yawn- ing. "Sleeplessness, with great nervous excitability. Awakes at night and has difficulty in collecting his senses. 628 PLATINUM. Aggravation — In evening ; before sleep ; in room ; °at rest. Araelioration.— From motion in open air. Conditions. — Especially suited to females. Compare. — Aur., Asaf., Bell., Croc, Hyos., Ign.,Lyc.,Plunhh., Puis., Rhios tox., Sabad., Sep., Sulph., Verat. alb. Antidotes. — Puis., sp. nitr. d. Platinum Antidotes.— Bad effects of Lead. THERAPEUTICS. The chief use of Platinum is in the treatment of diseases of the female sexual system and certain forms of mental and nerv- ous disturbances arising therefrom, the latter constituting the chief indication for its use. A peculiar haughtiness and pride, or a melancholia, or both combined, as described in the pathogenesis, are usually associated with the diseases referred to where Platina is indicated. It is very frequently called for in hysteria with the above symptoms; also hysterical spasms, from nervous excitement, with globus hystericus, and embar- rassed respiration simulating asthma. Useful in mania, es- pecially puerperal ; nymphomania, especially in lying-in women (Verat. alb.), with voluptuous tingling extending from geni- tals into abdomen. Great sensitiveness of external organs, sometimes numbness. Melancholia, with fear of deaths which she thinks near. Anxiety. Palpitation and weeping. Sexual melan- cholia in both sexes. Hysteria and other characteristic mental and nervous symptoms of a reflex character, such as a dry, nerv- ous cough, palpitation, spasms, sleeplessness, etc., from suppres- sion of the menses or other uterine or ovarian disorders. Pru- ritus vulva, with voluptuous tingling, anxiety and palpitation of the heart. Useful in indurated and prolapsed uterus, Avith contin- ued pressure in the groins and back, sensation of numbness, sensitiveness to touch. May be indicated in fibroid tumors and uterine cancer, with same symptoms, and also with met- rorrhagia, flow dark and clotted. Ovaritis, especially right side, with burning pain, occurring in paroxysms, sensitiveness to touch, often sterility. Neuralgia, dysmenorrhoea, even spasms, with characteristic nervous symptoms, usually fol- lowed by a profuse flow of clotted blood. The Platina patient not only has the mental symptoms first mentioned, but also PLUMBUM. 629 usually menorrhagia with dark, clotted blood, and an abnor- mal sexual appetite. In the niale satyriasis. Bad effects of jDre- pubic masturbation, melanchoha, epileptiform spasms, etc. Otalgia. Nervous deafness. Facial neuralgia (see symptoms). Gastralgia, hysterical, flatulent pressure towards hypogas- trium. Painter's colic; pain in umbilical region, extending through into back; patient screams and tries to relieve the pain by turning in all possible directions. Constipation, after lead poison or while traveling. Spasms caused by nervous ex- citement ; during labor ; from sexual erethism ; spasmodic affec- tions in general occurring in hysterical women or in children, (Asaf.,Ign.). Meuralgia of various parts, characterized by ting- ling, and especially by numbness of the parts affected. Paraly- sis with numbness. PLUMBUM. Synonym. — Plumbum Metallicum. Coiivmon name. — Lead. Preparation. — Triturations of precipitated Lead. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts especially and with great power upon the spinal nerve centers, first producing irritation, giving rise primarily to in- creased sensibility, neuralgic spasms and convulsions. This condition of the nerve centers gradually gives way to softening or induration (also cerebral degeneration), and as a result of this process there are anaesthesia, paralysis, muscular atrophy, mental and physical decay, while at the same time there may occur, at longer or shorter intervals, neuralgia, epilepsy or kindred affections of the nervous system. Plumbum acts di- rectly upon the kidneys, causing granular degeneration of these organs, and producing albuminuria ; hence its use in Bright's disease and other renal affections. It may also cause degenera- tion of the heart, liver and other organs. According to Allen {op. cit., p. 898), "it produces general interstitial inflammation characterized by proliferation of connective tissue (nerve mus- cles, and parenchyma of organs)." The chief feature of Plumbum is the well-known "lead colic," or "painter's cohc," characterized by excruciating spas- 630 PLUMBUM. modic pains in the abdomen, from contraction of the colony with obstinate constipation. OHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Sloiv jjeroeption ; apathetic (Phos., Phos, ac). Loss of memory (Anac, Natr. mur., Nux m., Merc, Phos. ac); unahle to find proper ivord zvhile talking (Dulc). Coma. Quiet and melancholy mood. Wild delirium with distorted countenance. Delirium; dread of assassination, poison- ing; thinks every one about him a murderer. Head. — Vertigo. Aching. Heaviness in the head, especially in. cerebellum. Pain and heaviness in forehead. °Headache, as if a ball were rising from the throat into the brain. Eyes. — Yellowness of the sclerotica (Cinch., Caust., Chel.)\ of conjunctiva. H^^popion. Diplopia. Loss of vision. Disc prominent, opaque, its outline hazy. Pain in eyeballs, as if too large (Carls., Phos. ac, Spig.). Paralysis of the upper lid {Caust., Gels., Nitr. ac. Op.). Pupils dilated. Face. — Sallow, pale comjjlexion, liJce a corpse (Carb. v.). Ex- pression of extreme anxietj' and suffering {Ars., Camph., Verat. alb.). Lockjaw (Cic, Ign., Hyos., Laur.). Mouth. — Distinct hlzte line along vtargins of gx(,ms. Tongue dry and white. Tongue paralyzed, cannot put it out (Caust., Dulc, 6^e?5., Hyos., Lach.). Breath foetid. Imper- fect articulation (Caust., Gels., Hyos., Stram.), sometimes only confused sounds. Margin of tongue red, brown fur down the center (Bapt., Phos.); slate-colored, along border coated. Dryness of the mouth {.Apis, Ars., Bry., J^xix m., Puis.). Taste sweetish (^Esc, Bry., Merc, cor., Sulph.)\ bitter, metallic Throat. — Constriction of the throat luhen trying to sivallouj^ {Bell, Hyos., Stram.). Tonsils swollen, inflamed and indu- rated. Paralysis of the throat, with inability to swallow {Bell, Op., Nux m.). Stomach. — Loss of appetite (Alum., Ars., Cinch., Phos.). Vio- lent thirst (Aeon., Ars., Bry., Merc, Phos. ac). Eructa- tions sweetish, sour {Carh. v., JVu jo v., Fho8., SulpJt.); of offensive odor (Cham., Kreos., Phos., Sep., Verat, alb.). Hiccough. Jfausea. Incessant vomiting of food ; of fae- cal matter; of brownish or blackish substances (Ars., PLUMBUM. 031 Phos.); streaked with blood. Pressure and tightness about the stomach. Pains extending from the stomach to the loins and down the limbs. Feehng in epigastrium as if a ball ascended to throat, where it caused suffocation, pre- venting speaking and swallowing, with anxiety. Abdomen. — Violent colic ; ahdomen retracted to the sjjine, as if draiun in by a string (Chel., Podo., Tabac). Constric- tion of the intestines ; navel violently retracted, recti mus- cles hard and knotty. Excruciating pains in umbilical region, shoot to other portions of the abdomen and body ; somewhat relieved by pressure. Kumbling in the bowels. Sensitiveness to touch. Lacerating pains in the umbilicus and epigastrium. Stool and Anus.— Anus drawn up; with constriction. Diar- rhoea; alternating with constipation. Constipation; stools scanty, hard, in lumps or balls, like sheep's dung {Alum., Kali c. Op., Mag. mur.); blachish or green color; passed with difficulty. Urinary Organs. — DifficzoU micturition ; urine passes only in drops (Aeon., Bell., Canth.); ineffectual urging; stran- gury {Merc. cor.). Urine darh-colored and scanty (Osm.); albuminous {Merc, cor., Osm., Phos., Phyt.); brownish-red, turbid, acid, flocculent sediment, consisting of red blood, corpuscles and cylinders ; all the symptoms of acute diffuse nephritis; with amaurosis and cerebral symptoms. Male Organs.— Loss of sexual desire (y pressure (Apis, Arg. nit,). Pressive pain in forehead above the orbits, aggravated on raising the eyes. Stitching, tearing pain in temples and through the whole head. Pulsation in the head in the evening (Nux m,). Biting itching of the scalp. Pressive and constrictive PULSATILLA. Gil pain in temples. Constriction above eyes, worse on looking intently. Eyes.— Dryness of the eyes and lids, with sensation as if dark- ened by mucus, which ought to be wiped away (Alum., Croc, Euph.). Pressure, as from sand in the eyes, when reading (Ars., Cctust., Ign., Natr. mur., Sulph.). Conjunc- tivitis, luith profuse, thich, yellow, bland discharge. Bivrning and itching in the eyes, provohes nohhing and scratching. Inflam'mation of eyes and margins of eye- lids, with lachrywiation and nightly agglutination (Alum., ^th., Calc. c, Graph., Lye, Merc, Siolph.). Suh- ject to styes, especially on zipper lids (Graph., Lye). Ltch- ing, biting and burning in the lids and canthi, in the evening. Profuse lachrymation, in the wind or open air {Sulph.). Dir)%ness of vision, lihe a fog or veil before the eyes {Caust., Hyos., Laur., Merc, Phos., Petrol., Eanunc, Sulph.). DarJc before the eyes in the morning o^^ rising (Dulc), and on going into a ivarm room. Ears. — External ear and meatus red, swollen and hot (Aeon., Apis, Bell.). Otalgia, with darting, tearing pains (^e^?., Sil.), and pulsating at night (Merc). Itching deep in the ears. Violent pain in the ear, as from something forcing oiotward. Hardness of hearing, as if the ears were stopped. Sensation as if the ear luere stopped, luith roar- ing in it lihe a loud, distant noise. Humming, roaring, singing and ringing in the ears (Calc c, Graph,, Kali c). Cracking in ears on moving head or body. Bland, nearly inoffensive discharge of mucus and pus from the ears. Nose. — Coryza, fluent or dry; frequent sneezing ; loss of smell and taste {Ant. tart.); nostrils sore; ivings raiu (Lye);. latter, yellow -green discharge (Graph., Merc); worse in- doors (Cepa, Nux v.); chilliness; pale face; head con- fused; frontal headache (Aeon., Cepa, Sang.). Stoppage of nose in evening ; and in zuarm room in morning ; yel- loiu, opaque, offensive iriucous discharge (Nitr. ac). Bad smell, as of old catarrh in the nose {Sulph.). Epistaxis; with catarrh; with suppressed menses (Bry., Carls., Ham., Sep.). Abscess at root of nose near inner canthus, as if a lachrymal fistula would form. Ulceration externally of wings of nose, and oozing of watery moisture. Pressive sen- 642 PULSATILLA. sation at root of nose (Aeon., Kali bi.). Nasal bones pain as if they would be forced asunder. Pace. — Paleness of the face. Boring in left malar bone. Lower lip swollen and cracked in the middle, with tensive pain. Mouth. — Sharp, shooting pains in teeth, or draiuing, jerhing, as if nerve were put on the stretch, and then let loose. Toothache worse; eveiving cmd night; imuarintlv of heel (Cham.); from taking anything luarin ijt the mouth (Cham.); when eating; from picking teeth. Pain in the gums as if sore. Better in open air ; from imcovering ; luhen cold water taken into the mouth becomes ivarm. Tongue dry ; covei^ed luith a tenacious mucus ; as luith a mem- hrane; coated thick, white or yellow {Bry., Merc, JSFux. v., Podo.). Sensation in middle, as if burned (Iris, Plat., Sang., Sulph. ac, Yerat. vir.); insensible, even when moist; at night and in morning ; painful blister on right side of tip. Very offensive odor from the mouth (Arn., Aur,, Hep. s., Merc, Nux v.) in morning; in evening affcer lying down; at night. Mouth and pharynx dry and covered with tasteless, insipid, tenacious mucus iiv morning. Accu- mulation of sweet saliva in the mouth (Cham,, Phos.); watery saliva, like waterbrash. Taste: of putrid meat, in morning, with inclination to vomit (Arn., Merc); slimy ; foul, clammy, insipid; hitter, especially after eating {Bry., Coloc, Jfux v.)\ or smoking, though food has a natural taste ; had taste in the moitth in the morning. Food, especially hread, tastes bitter {Bry., Cinch., Coloc, JSCux v., Sulph.), or taste of food diminished. Great dry- ness of the mouth in the morning, without thirst (Apis, Jfux m. ) . Throat. — Rawness and scraping in the throat (Amm. carb., Carb. v., Caust., Phos.), with dryness of the mouth. Great dryness of the throat (Apis, JSTux m.), in the morning. Throat internally covered with a tenacious mucus, in morn- ing. Pressure and tension in throat on swallowing. Con- striction. Sensation of a worm creeping up into the throat. Stomach.— Desires food, but does not know what kind. Aver- sion to fat food (Hep. s., Ptel.), meat (Graph., Ptel.), bread {JVatr. mur.), butter (Ptel.), milk; to smoking (Ign.). PULSATILLA. 043 Tliirst for beer (CoccuL, Petrol.), or alcoholic drinks. '^ Tliirstlessness, ivith all complaints {Ant. tart., Apis). Eructations after eating, tasting and smelling of food (Aut. crud., Calc. c, Cinch., Graph., Phos.); hitter, hilioits, rancid, soxi^r {Bry., JVtvjo v., Phos.)] tastes like putrid meat. Hiccou^'h when smoking. JsTausea ; in epigastric region, worse from eating or didnhing ; w aterhr ash {lje(i., Nux Y.); disagreeable risings, especially after eating and drinking (Ars.). °Morning nausea, especially during menses, from suppressed menses, or during pregnancy (Graph., Kali c, Nux m., Sep.). Vomiting of bilious mat- ter (Ars., Bry., Nux v., Podo.); of food eaten long before, or after each meal. Distension. Griping pains in pit" of stomach and epigastrium. ° Stomach disordered from fat food (Cycl., Tarax.), pasty (Ipec, Nux v.), fruit or ice- cream. Pain in stomach an hour after eating {Mux v.). AVeight, as from a stone (Aeon., ^Esc, Ars., Bry., Jfux v.), especially in morning on waking. Crampy pains in stom- ach, in morning, or after meals. Gnaiving distress in stomach, as from hunger (Abies c). Pressing, pinching, or choking pains in stomach after eating, impeding breath- ing. Sensation as of having taken too much food, ivhich rises into the mouth, as if one would vomit. Scraping sensation in stomach {Mux v.), and oesophagus, like a heartburn. ■ Tension in region of stomach in forenoon, better from moving about. Perceptible pulsation in pit of stomach (Ant. tart., Asaf.). Abdomen. — Flatulent colic ; loud rumbling and gurgling {Lye); flatzts moves about in abdomen {Aloe, Carb. v.), especially in evening ; in bed. Incarcerated flatus, press- ing here and there; not relieved by passing flatus (Cinch.); after midnight. Colic and griping, especially in upper ab- domen. Fullness and distension of abdomen and stomach ; painful sensitiveness. Pain, in evening after drinking; after drinking; after stool; on touch. Chilliness extending around from abdomen to lower part of back. Pressure in abdomen {Berb.), and small of back, as froin a stone; limbs go to sleep while sitting ; ineffectual desire to stool. Draiuing , tearing or forcing-down pains in abdomen, like labor-pains. Cutting low down in abdomen, pene- 644 PULSATILLA. trating into pelvis (Cham,). Constriction as from a stone extending to the bladder. Stool and Anus. — Painfztl, protruding , blind piles {Aloe, Calc.c, Lach., Merc, Sil.), with stitches, smarting, soreness and itching (Sulph.). Pressure in rectum after stool. Fre- quent urging, as if diarrhoea would occur. Stools zuatery at night, like bile, preceded by rumbling ; green mucus (Apis, Arg. nit., Ars., -SeW., Ipec, Merc, Sulph.); slimy; soft ; mixed ivith mucus, or only mucus, with colic ; fre- quent {Merc, cor.); bloody mucus, zuithout colic; not ex- hausting {Phos. ac). Constipation; difficult evacuation, with painful pressure and pain in back ; stools white ; yel- lowish-white, mucus mixed with stool. Urinary Organs.— Tenesmus of the bladder (Canth., Caps., Merc. cor.). Eegion of bladder painful to touch. Sharp pressure on bladder, wdthout desire to urinate. Burning in orifice of urethra during and after micturition ( Can. sat., Canth.). Frequent, almost ineffectual, urging to urinate, with acrid urine and cutting pains. Involuntary micturi- tion {Ars., Bell., Hyos.); at night, in bed (Arn., Cupr., Graph.), especially in little girls, while coughing or passing flatus {Caust., Natr. mur.). Dribbling of urine while sitting or walking. Frequent urinations, profuse flow (Apis, Apoc, Arg., Cepa, Ber.). Urine watery, colorless; brown; bloody. Male Organs. — Drawing, tensive pains, from abdomen through spermatic cords, into testicles (Berb., Ham.^ Merc), luhich hang low dozun. Szuelling of the testicles, with soreness and tearing pains. Swelling of right side of scrotuin (Clem.). Desire in the morning on waking. Noc- turnal emissions (Cinch., Phos.), without dreams. Itching biting on inner and upper part of prepuce. °Thick, yellow, or yellow-green discharge from urethra, in gonorrhoea (Agn., Hydras.). Female Organs. — Bziring menses and zvith ziterine trozzbles, heavy, pressive pain in abdoinen and small of bach, as from a stone {AXum., Caul., Cimic); limbs tend to go to sleep; ineffectual ztrging to stool. Drawing, pressing pain extending tozuard uterzis, luith nazisea in morning. Chilliness before the menses, zuith yawning and stretch- PULSATILLA. 645 ing. Constrictive pain in left side of uterus, lihe lahor- -jjains, obliging her to bend double. Menses suppressed ; after getting feet wet. Menses delayed, with coldness of body and chilliness and trembling of the feet. First menses delayed (Graph.). Menses too late, scanty, and of short duration {Q\rmQ,.,^\i\'^h..)\ suppressed, or flow inter- mittent (Cimic); flow thick and black (Ign.); more during day while walking about (at night, Mag. carb.). Leucor- rhoea thich, lihe cream or milh (Calc. c, Coni., Sep., Sulph. ac); zuorse when lying doivn ; luith sivollen vulva ; painless; acrid, thin, burning (Alum., Coni., Kreos., Merc.,Phos.). Respiratory Organs. — Violent tichling and scraping in the larynx, bringing tears into the eyes and causing dry cough. Constriction in larynx, especiallj^ at night when ly- ing down. Hoarseness and roughness of throat ; cannot speak a loud word (Caust., Hep. s., Phos.). Dry cowgh at night or in evening, after lying down (Co7*^.,Mez., Nux v., Rumex, Siolph.); disappears on sitting xtp in bed, returns on lying down (Hyos.); causes dryness of throat; pre- vents sleep ; with nausea and vomiting ; causes exhaustion. °Cough dry at night, loose during the day. Expectoration difficult ; yellow mucus (Calc. c), in morning after rising; bitter; scanty, of tenacious mucus; black clotted blood {Mux v.). Dyspnoea in lower part of chest, as if too full and tight, especially mornings (Bell., Phos.). Oppression of the chest. Cramp-like and constrictive tension in the chest. Shortness of breath, anxiety and palpitation xuhen lying on left side. Scraping and soreness in chest, causing cough (Cham.). Pain in chest behind sternum, as if ulcerated (Psor.). Pressure and soreness in chest. Stitches in the chest and sides, when l3ing, at night, from inspiration or coughing (Aeon., Bry., Kali c). Heart and Pulse. — Catching pain in cardiac region ; better for a time from pressure of hand. Stitches in prsecordial re- gion, better while walking, with pressure and anxiety, imped- ing respiration. Palpitation, with anxiety, after dinner ; from lying on left side, with anxiety and want of breath; °with menstrual irregularities, chlorosis, etc. The beat of the pulse is felt in the pit of the stoma.ch. 646 PULSATILLA. Neck and Back. — Stiffness, and rheumatic, tensive, and draw- ing pains in nape of neck (Colch.). Sticking pains in nape of neck and back. Pain in nape at night, as if he had lain in an uncomfortable position. Pain in small ofhach, as froirb long stooping (Arn., Cinch.), or from a sprain (Siolph.); on inotion; after sitting (Rhus tox.); in evening. Back painfully stiff. Lahor-like pains in small of hach (Caul., Cimic, Kreos.), as if constricted by a tight band. Pain as if suppurating. Drawing, tensive pain in loins. Pressive pains in sacrum, in evening, as from fatigue. Limbs. — Redness and swelling of joints (Bry.), with stinging pains (Apis). Anxious tremulous sensation in limbs. Draw- ing, sticking, worse in joints, which are painful to touch. Weakness in limbs morning after rising, with relaxation without feeling weary. Drawing, tearing pains in limbs (Aeon.), ° shifting rapidly from place to place; worse at night, from Avarmth {Merc.)\ better from uncovering. Pain in linvbs in morning in heel, worse in joints, forcing him to stretch, with general heat. On waking, the parts on which he has lain are asleep, with crawling and tingling* (Aeon.). Coldness of hands and feet; they seem dead. Upper Limbs. — Sensation of numbness and heaviness in the arms, as if beaten. Drawing, tearing pains, in shoulder joints, and in arms, hands and fingers (Bry., Led., Rhus tox.). Swelling and wrenching pains in elbow joints. Lower Limbs. — Hip -joint painful, as if dislocated. Acute, drawing, jerking pains from the hip to the knee. Bruised pains in the gluteal muscles, and in muscles and bones of thighs. Draiuing, tensive pains in thighs and legs at night, with great restlessness, sleeplessness and chilliness. Painless swelling of the knee. Knees swollen, with tear- ing, drawing pains. Drawing, heaviness and ^Veariness in legs and feet. Legs seem asleep on rising from a seat. Cramps in legs, in evening, after lying down {Sulph.). Feet inflamed, red-hot, swollen {Bry.), with tensive, burning- pains; also soles. Varices on the legs (Ham., Zinc); on feet. Weakness in feet. Pain in soles, as if beaten. Boring pain in heels toward evening (Zinc). Chilblains, !)urniug, sticking, itching (Agar., Nitr. ac). Generalities.— Violent trembling of the whole body; with cold PULSATILLA. G4T sweat, anxiety and drawing pains. Excessive weariness and prostration (Ars., Phos., Ferr.). Everything about body seems too tight, wishes to throw off her clothes. Heaviness of the whole body. Inchnation to stretch. Lies upon back with hands above head when sleeping; also with feet drawn up. Longing for fresh air {Lye). Feeling of discomfort over the luhole body, in morning, after rising, disappearing on moving about. Weaker the longer he lies in the morning. "Wandering pains shift rapidly from part to part (Benz. ac. Kali bi., Led.). "Symptoms ever- changing. Pulsations through the whole body ( Glon., Sep., Zinc). Skin. — Burning, biting, itching here and there ; worse froirv warmth of bed, in evenings and before midnight ; froiro scratching ; from becoming heated during a ivalh (Clem., Merc, Mez., Sulph.). Itching in the evening in bed. °Measly-like eruption (Ant. crud., Bapt., Coff. c, Rhus tox.); nettle rash (Apis). Sleep. — Irresistible sleepiness in afternoon and early eveiv- ing. Cannot go to sleep in evening ; sleepless first part of night. Sleeps late in morning . Restless sleep, with sen- sation of heat ; wakes frequently, as in frights. Dreams; confused; vivid, frightful, disgusting, anxious (Arn., Aur.^ Rhus tox., Sulph.). Frequent yawning. Fever. — Constant chilliness, even in wajvn rooin ; cold chills all over, chilly, with the pains; luorse evenings {Phos.). Shivering, creeping sensations. Anxious heat, as if dashed with hot water. Intolerable, dry, burning heat, evening or night; with distended veins (Cinch.), and burning hands that seeh out cool places, without thirst {Ign., Phos.). Profuse sweat in morning (Calc. c, J{itr. ac, Rhus tox.), one-sided sweat. Aggravation. — In the evening and in succeeding hours till midnight; every other evening ; at night; from warmth of bed ; °while lying down, especially on left side ; °from lying on painless side ; in w^arm room ; after eating, "especially after fat food, pork, ice-cream, fruit, pastry. Amelioration. — In open air (Ox. ac); in cool place; when lying upon the back; "lying on painful side; "from cold- drink ; "from slow motion. fj4:8 PULSATILLA. Conditions. — Sandy hair, blue eyes, pale face, inclined to silent ^rief and submissiveness ; especially women and children. Slow, phlegmatic ; peevish but not irascible. Compare. — Ant. crud., Ars., Bell., Bry., Calc. c, Caul.,ChQim.., Cimic, Cinch., Coccul., Coloc, Coni., Cycl., Euphr., Ferr., Ham., Ign., Kali bi., Lye, Merc, Nux v., Nux m., Plat., Phos., Rhus tox., Sep., Sil., Sulph., Zinc. Antidotes. — Coff. c, Cham., Ign., Nux v. (Acetum). Pulsatilla Antidotes. — Cinch., Iron, Sulph., Sulph. ac. Vapor of Mercury or of Copper (Bell., Cham., Coff. c, Colch., Lye, Plat., Stram.). THERAPEUTICS. The chief clinical use of Pulsatilla is in the treatment of ca- tarrhal affections, characterized by thick, yellowish-green dis- charges, disorders of digestion and disturbances of the fe- male sexual system. It is also useful in rheumatism, usu- ally subacute, often arising from derangements of digestion, with drawing, tearing, shifting pains, better from cold, worse in "the evening. Gonorrhoeal rheumatism. Neuralgia, wandering pains, mostly tearing, with tendency to chilliness and the char- acteristic modalities. Chorea, epileptiform spasms or para- l^^tic symptoms, arising from suppressed menses or other dis- turbances of the sexual sphere. Hysteria from similar causes; chlorosis and anaemia, patient always chilly, but wants to be in the open air ; mental disorders ; especially after the abuse of Iron and Quinine. Pulsatilla acts prominently on the venous system {Ham.), and is useful in varicose veins; in the hae- morrhages calling for the drug, the flow is passive and dark. In all the above conditions and those which are to follow, the temperament of the Puis, patient as mentioned, under "Condi- tions," must be borne in mind, sadness and weeping, even to melancholia, being extremely characteristic. We will now con- sider the special clinical uses of Puis, in the customary anatom- ical order. Conjunctivitis thick, bland, yellow or yellowish- green discharge, after measles or from taking cold. Ophthal- mia neonatorum. Pustular conjunctivitis. Styes. Blepharitis. Pustules or ulcers on cornea. Disease of the lachrymal duct with characteristic symptoms of drug. Episcleritis. Hyper- SBmia of the choroid. Ketinitis. Occasionally useful in iritis. PULSATILLA. 649 A valuable remedy in earache, with darting, tearing pains, re- lieved by cold. Otitis, external ear and meatus red, swollen and hot. Otorrhoea, discharge of mucus and bloody pus. Deaf- ness from catarrh or after scarlet fever. A most valuable rem- edy in acute coryza from taking cold especially in the advanced stages, patient cold and chilly all the time (see symptoms). Chronic nasal catarrh, with characteristic discharge, etc., worse evenings, especially with loss of smell and taste. Neuralgic toothache; during pregnancy; w'ith characteristic modali- ties. Occasionally useful in pharyngeal catarrh, parts dark- red, varicose dry, covered with mucus, bad taste. A frequently indicated and extremely useful remedy in various disorders of digestion. Gastric catarrh, dyspepsia and indigestion in gen- eral, characterized by putrid, slimy, greasy or bitter taste after eating or in the morning ; tongue coated thick-white or yellow ; loss of appetite ; vertigo ; bitter or rancid eructations ; contin- ual nausea and qualmishness ; regurgitation of food; pain and weight in stomach; especially aggravated by fat foods (Cyc\.). Dyspepsia from ice-cream, etc. (Ars.); ice- water; fruit; buck- wheat cakes; fat food. Atonic dyspepsia. Gastralgia, with more or less of above symptoms. Morning sickness of preg- nancy ; also during menses or from suppressed menses ; also colic from same causes. Flatulent colic, intestinal catarrh and diarrhoea from causes above named, and from taking cold, with gastric symptoms. Haemorrhoids with characteristic gastric symptoms. Occasionally needed in dysentery, with bloody mu- cous stools, burning in anus, etc. Enuresis, especially in girls; while coughing (Caust.), or passing flatus. Catarrh of bladder from cold ; during pregnancy or suppressed menses ; with en- larged prostate; from suppressed gonorrhoea. Gonorrhoea with characteristic discharge and other symptoms. Orchitis. Enlarged prostate. Epididymitis. Neuralgia of testicles. Hy- drocele, especially congenital. An extremely useful remedy in suppressed menstruation, especially from getting the feet wet; dysmenorrhoea from same causes. Amenorrhoea and dysmen- orrhsea in general, with Puis, symptoms, and especially witli characteristic temperament; gastric derangements. Vicarious menstruation. Leucorrhoea as noted in symptoms, especially with delayed or irregular menses and other Puis, symptoms. Prolapsus uteri. A valuable remedy for the disorders of preg- 650 KANUNCULUS. nancy; also during the lying-in period. Is said to correct mal- positions of the foetus, by altering abnormal conditions of uterus. Inertia of uterus ; during labor-pains slow, weak and ineffectual. Retained placenta. Tones up the uterus and pre- vents post-partum haemorrhage. Phantom tumors ; scanty or suppressed lochia; lochia becomes white, like milk. Phlegma- sia alba dolens. Milk suppressed. Puis, is the remedy for lumps in the breasts of school girls, before puberty, or escape of thin, milky fluid. Puis, is not so often used in catarrh of the lower air passages. It may, however, be indicated in catarrhal lar- yngitis or bronchitis, or even in catarrhal pneumonia, the symptoms agreeing. Aphonia reflex, occasionally catarrhal. Asthma, in children, or in women with menstrual irregularities. Chlorosis. Occasionally indicated in whooping cough. Threat- ening phthisis, especially in girls near puberty, menses delayed or suppressed, chlorotic symptoms, soreness in apices of lungs, short breath ; characteristic temperament. Haemoptysis, blood black and clotted, soreness in chest. An excellent remedy for the ordinary "backache"' of women, especially with menstrual derangements and other Puis, conditions; and during preg- nancy; extending from small of back downwards into sacrum and hips ; as if sprained ; worse when lying on the back, better when lying on the side, or on changing position. Lumbago. Spinal irritation ; neck and back stiff; small of back feels as if constricted by a tight band. Eheumatism of extremities as be- fore mentioned. Gout. Varicose ulcers on limbs. A valuable remedy in measles, after Aeon., etc., with dry cough, earache and other Puis, symptoms. Not often indicated in fevers, but mav be useful in gastric, remittent or intermittent fevers with the characteristic gastric symptoms, and especially when chilli- ness is the predominating feature. RANUNCULUS. Synonym. — Ranunculus Bulbosus. JSTatural order.— ^SiW- unculacese. Common name. — Bulbous Crowfoot. Habitat. — An indigenous plant, common in New England. Preparation. — Tincture from the entire fresh plant. RANUNCULUS. 651 GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts upon the sensory nerves, the muscular tissues and upon the skin, its most characteristic effects being exerted upon the walls of the chest, where it produces a condition simulating pleurodynia, in which affection it is most prominently useful. OHARACTBRISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Vanishing of thought on reflection. Obtuse intellect. Irritable and quarrelsome. Head. — Vertigo ; with danger of falling, when going from room to open air ; making it difficult to think. Sensation as if the head were too large and distended (Mang. c). Conges- tion of blood to the head {Aeon., Bell.). Pain in head and eyes. Headache over the right eye, W'Orse on lying down, better from walking or standing; in evening. Neuralgic headache in forehead and vertex, as if forced asunder, worse evenings, or on coming into warm room. Pressing pain in forehead, from wdthin outward. Headache mostly caused or aggravated by passing from a hot to a cold place, and viee-versa. Eyes.— Pressure in the eyeballs. Balls sore on moving them. Pupils insensible. Burning, soreness and smarting in lids. Smarting and sore feeling in right outer canthus. Smarting in eyes as from smoke. Mist before the eyes {Caust., Hyos., Phos., Petrol.). Ears. — Stitches in the ears, principally in the evening; in region of right tympanum. Nose. — Redness and inflammatory swelling of the nose, with tension. Stoppage. Profuse, tenacious mucus. Blows blood from the nose. Internal tingling and upward pressure. Mouth. — White saliva, with metaflic taste. Throat. — Much viscid phlegm in the throat. Inflammatory burning pains in the throat and on the palate. Stomach. — Increased thirst afternoons. Frequent eructations. Spasmodic hiccough (Hyos., Tgn.). Nausea in the after- noon, sometimes with headache. Pressure in the pit of the stomach (Ars., Bry., Puis.). Sensation of burning in pit of stomach, and in region of cardiac orifice. 652 RANUN(^ULUS. Abdomen. — Pain and soreness in hypochondria, as if hruised ; evenings; with pain in haeh, lassitude and ill- humor. Stitches in the hepatic region, arresting the hreathing with stitches and pressure on top of right shoulder {Bry .) . Stitches in left side of abdomen. Pinching, cutting cohc. Abdomen sore on pressure, as if bruised and ulcerated. Pinching sometimes alternating with pain in chest. Stool. — Frequent and easy. Hard stools every morning, mth much urging; natural stool in afternoon. Respiratory Organs. — Short and oppressed breathing, with burning and fine stitching pains in the chest, and inclina- tion to draw a long breath, with much weeping. Stitches in chest ; increased by moving, stooping, inspiration (Bry.), or touch; with pressure and tightness across lower part of chest. Rheumatic pains in the chest, as from subcuta- neous ulceration. Burning pains. Chest feels sore and bruised {Arn.)\ worse from contact and motion (Senega). Back. — Pain in back, lassitude and pain as if bruised, in region of short ribs. Pain in morning on rising. Stitches in right lumbar region when walking, with slight burning sensation. Upper Limbs. — Spasmodic, rheumatic pains in the arms. Stitches in arms, hands and fingers. Crawling in single parts of fingers. Shining red, loose swelling of fingers, with infiammation, etc., changing to flat, spreading ulcers. Blis- ter-like eruptions on palms of hands and fingers. Itching in hollow of hand. Lower Limbs. — Drawing pains along the thighs. Great w^eak- ness in lower limbs when walking, forenoons. Pulsative stitches in left heel when standing. Generalities. — Great heaviness and lassitude in the whole body. The whole body feels bruised {Arn., Ruta). Shoot- ing, tearing, rheumatic and arthritic pains in limbs and muscles. Skin. — Vesicular eruption, as from burns (Canth.). Darh-blue vesicles, small, transparent, in groups, ivith burning and itching, and forming hard, hornj^ scurfs. Tettery eruptions over the whole body. Sleep. — Falls asleep late and wakes frequently during the night. Restless, disturbed sleep. RHEUM. 65S Aggravation. — From changes of temperature (Mang., Rhus xo^. ), morning s ; evenings; touch; motion; °change of po- sition ; °from alcohoHc drinks. Compare. — Aeon., Bry., Cimic, Clem., Puis., Rhus tox., Sa- bad. Antidotes. — Bry., Camph., Puis., Rhus tox. Inimicals. — Alcohol, Staph., Sulph., Vinegar, Wine. THERAPEUTICS. Ranunc. has been found most useful in neuralgic, arthritic and rheumatic conditions. Always worse from damp weather or from change of temperature. Rheumatic neuralgia. Intercos- tal rheumatism, chest feels sore and bruised, as from subcuta- neous ulceration. Pleurodynia. Pleurisy. Diaphragmitis. Peri- tonitis. A very valuable remedy in herpes zoster; dark-blue, transparent vesicles, with characteristic neuralgic pains. Also herpes frontalis, with violent pains in and above the eyes. Ve- sicular eruptions, with burning and itching. Pemphigus. Malig- nant and rapidly spreading ulcers. Hay fever, with smarting, burning and tingling in e\^es and nose, nostrils dry and ob- structed, worse evenings. Has been found useful in delirium tre- mens and for the effects of intoxicating liquors in general. RHEUM. Synonyms. — Rheum Officinale. Rhubarbarum. Natural order. — Polygonaceae. Common name. — Rheubarb. Habitat. — A plant native of China. Preparation. — Tincture from the dried root. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts especially upon the liver and intestinal canal, increas- ing the secretion of bile, stimulating the muscular activity of the bowels, and causing purging of fgecal matter, without symp- toms of inflammatory action. Its chief characteristic is a diar- rhoea, with an excessively sour-smelling stool. 654 KHEUM. OHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — The child demands different things, with vehemence and crying. Head. — Dull, stupefying headache. Heaviness of the head. Sweat on forehead and scalp after slight effort. Face. — Cool sw^eat on face (Verat. alb.); most around nose and mouth. Storaach. — Desire for various things, hut cannot eat them; they hecome repulsive {Bry., Cham., Cina). Nausea, as from the stomach or abdomen, with colic. Fullness in stom- ach, as after eating too much {Cinch., Lye, Jfux v., Puis.). Abdomen. — Violent, cutting colic, forcing one to bend double (Aloe, Canst., CoZoc, Iris). Tension. Griping in abdomen, with great urging to stool; better after stool; worse from plums. Stool and Anus. — Frequent, ineffectual urging to stool (ximbr., Coni., Natr. carb., Nux v.); worse on motion and when walking. Colic before each stool {Coloc, Merc). De- sire for stool after a meal. Thin, pasty, sour-smelling stools (Arn., Hep. s., Podo., Sulph.), with straining before, and colichy, constrictive cutting in the ahdoinen after, and shivering during stool (Merc). Frequent, forcible, semi-liquid stools; brown, mixed with mucus; followed by tenasmus. and great burning in anus and rectum {Ars., Sulph.). Back. — Violent cutting, as if in the lumbar vertebrae, increased from stool. Limbs. — Pain in all the joints during motion. The limbs upon which he lies fall asleep. Weariness of the thighs, as after great exertion. Tensive, pressive pain in the hollow of the left knee, extending to the heel. Sleep.— Restless sleep, with tossing about, and talking in sleep (Aeon., Rhits tox.). Vivid, sad, anxious dreams. Snoring inspiration during sleep. Generalities.— °Child smells sourish, even if washed or bathed every day. Heaviness of the whole body, as after awaking from a. deep sleep. Condition. — Often suitable for children, suckling or during dentition. RHODODENDROiN. 655 Compare— Ars., Bell., Cham., Coloc, Mag. c, Nux v., Podo., Puis., Rhus tox., Siolph. Complemeutary to Mag. carb., while Rheum, follows Ipec. well. Antidotes.— C/^«7>2.., Camph., Coloc, Merc, J^ux v., Puis. Rheum Antidotes.— Canth., Mag. carb. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. The chief and almost only chnical use of Rheum is in the treatment of diarrhoea, especially in infants, teething children and lying-in women, characterized by excessively sour-smelling stools, and other symptoms as noted above. Not only are the stools sour, but the whole body smells sour, no matter how often bathed, thus showing an excessively acid state of the svstem. RHODODENDRON. Synonym. — Rhododendron Chrysanthemum. J^atural or- der.— Ericaceae. Common names. — Dwarf Rosebag. Habitat. — An evergreen shrub, native of Siberia, growing on mountain heights. Preparation. — Tincture from the dried leaves. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts upon the muscular and fibrous tissues, producing arth- ritic and rheumatic conditions, and upon the testes and epididy- mis, producing inflammation, swelling and induration. Its chief characteristic is the aggravation of all symptoms in cold, stormy weather, and before and during a thunder storm. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Forgetfulness of what he is talking about. Head. — Headache, almost depriving him of his senses, better on rising. Confusion. Pain in forehead and temples, when lying in bed, in the morning; worse from drinking wine (Nux v., Zinc), and in wet w'eather, cold weather; better after rising and on moving about. Tearing, boring pains in left temporal region. 656 RHODODENDEON. Eyes. — Sensation of dryness and burning in the eyes ; worse in bright daylight, and from intent looking; on reading or writing. Ears. — Violent pain in the right outer ear, commencing in morning, and continuing all day. Humming before ears, with ringing. Buzzing and sensation as if water running into the ears. Loud sounds re-echo long. Nose.— Obstruction of left nostril, sometimes alternating with right ; best in open air. Mouth. — Toothache, drawing, tearing pains ; worse in stormy iveather or before a storm (Rhus tox.); in cloudy or windy lueather, ivith cutting. Throat. — Scraping and scratching sensation in the throat, as if lined with mucus. Stomach. — Empty eructations. Contractive pressure in pit of stomach evenings when walking, with tight breath. Stool. — Soft stool, evacuated slowly, and with much urging (Carb. v., Cinch.). Diarrhoea; in damp weather; from fruit; food passes undigested. Urinary Organs. — Frequent urging to urinate, with drawiug- in region of bladder. Pain in urethra, as from subcutane- ous ulceration. Urine somewhat increased, pale, of offen- sive acrid odor. Male Organs. — Drawing pain from anus to testicles. Testicles draivn up, swollen and painful {Clem.). Testicles, espe- cially epididymis, intensely painful to touch. Contusive pain in testicle {Arg. nit., Spong.), ivith alternate draw- ing. Induration and swelling of testicles (Aeon., Arg., Caust.), especially right, with violent drawi?hg pains, ex- tending to abdomen and thighs. Sticking, stitching pains in right testicle. Itching, and increase of heat about the scrotum (Sil.). Female Ogans.— °Pain in ovaries; worse in change of weather. Respiratory Organs.— Dry, exhausting cough, morning and evening, with oppression of the chest, and rough throat; in paroxysms, from tickling in trachea. Transient, dull pain from chest to left hypochondrium when walking fast. Neck and Back.— Rheumatic pain, with stiffness in nape of neck ; early in morning, in bed or after rising. Bruised pain in small of back; luorse at rest, and in rainy weather (Rhus RHODODENDRON. 657 tox.). Sprained pain, or as if he had been sitting bent too long, or lying upon it too long. Pain in back when sitting, better from motion, worse from stooping. Limbs. — Rheumatic, drawing, tearing pains in all the limbs (Aeon., Coloc, Led., Puis.); worse at rest, and in rough weather (Rhus tox.). Sensation in the joints aw if sprained ; also tearing, drawing pains. Drawing and tearing in the periosteum, mostly in forearms and legs ; in small spots ; worse at night; at rest; from change of weather (Rhus tox.). Heat of the hands. Itching of right middle and ring fingers with erysipelatous redness. Aggravation. — In morning; luhile at rest (Amm. carb., Rhus tox.); before a thunder storm; in cold, damp weather (Dulc); luindy and cold weather ; rough lueather. Araelioration. — In bed the limbs drawn up. Compare. — Aur., Bry., Calc. c, Clem., Com.., Kalmia, Led.,, Lye, Merc, Nux v.. Puis., Ranunc, Rhus tox., Sep., Sil., Sulph. Antidotes.— Bry., Camph.,Clem., Rhus tox. THERAPEUTICS. Especially useful in arthritic and rheumatic pains in vari- ous parts, aggravated before a storm, or in cold, damp, rough weather. Chronic rheumatism of small joints (Actea sp., Caul., Led.). Rheumatoid arthritis. According to Allen, Rhod. is useful in threatening glaucoma, always worse at the approach of a storm, better after the storm broke, patient strongly rheu- matic. Muscular asthenopia, with darting pains through the eye, worse before a storm. Ciliary neuralgia Otalgia. Fa- cial neuralgia and neuralgic toothache, with characteristic aggravation. Diarrhoea in damp, cold Aveather ; from fruit. Ca- tarrh of the bladder. Hydrocele. A valuable remedy in orchi- tis (see symptoms). Induration of testicles. €58 RHUS TOXICODENDRON. RHUS TOXICODENDRON. Synoivym. — Rhus Humile. Jsfatural order. — Anacardiacese. Coininou names. — Poison Oak. Poison Ivy. Habitat. — .1 shrub growing in fields, woods and along fences all over North America. Preparation. — Tincture from the fresh leaves. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts prominently upon the organs of animal life, upon the mucous membra.nes, the lymphatic glands, the skin, the muscu^ lar tissues, a,nd the tissue which compose the joints. The pri- mary condition produced is one of irritation, and this may pro- ceed to inflammation, or, if it stops short of that, produces se- rous discharges, in the form of evacuations or oedema. This condition of irritation affects most prominently the skin. "Even contact of the leaves of the plant, or proximity to them, produces an eruption, varying in intensity, from the slightest erythema to the gravest form of vesicular erysipelas." The action of Rhus upon the mucous membranes resembles that which it has upon the external skin, simulating eczema- tous and vesicular eruptions ; it acts most powerfully upon the conjunctiva, though affecting other mucous surfaces to a greater or less degree. In the sero-fibrous tissues the characteristic primary irrita- tion develops a rheumatoid inflammation of the joints and muscles, affecting particularly the fascia, tendons, sheaths of nerves, ligaments and fibrous tissues. The lymphatic glands throughout the body become enlarged and inflamed. The cel- lular tissues become inflltrated with a serous exudation, and the functions of nutrition are depressed and impaired. On the organs of animal life Rhus acts secondarily, produc- ing dullness of the senses, and a condition of the cerebral sys- tem closely resembling that present in low types of fever. The chief characteristic of Rhus is the prominent aggravation of its symptoms during repose, and amelioration by motion. RHUS TOXICODENDRON. G59 CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Full of sad thoughts, anxious, apprehensive, especi- ally in the evening and at night (Ars., Calc. c, Merc), with desire for solitude (Carb. v., Ign.), and inclination to weep (Lye, Natr. mur., Puis.); worse in house; relieved hy lualhing in open air. Anxiety, with great restless- ness; cajinot remain in bed {Aeon., JEth., Ars., Camph.). Discouragement and dissatisfaction ; evening. Satiety of life, with desire to die, without sadness. Fretful; impa- tient, ill-humored, easily vexed (Bry.). Forgetful; difficult comprehension; cannot remember the most recent events (Phos. ac). Low, mild, delirium, with stupefaction and insensibility (Phos., Phos. ac). Head. — Confusion, dullness of the head, and vertigo. Giddy, as if intoxicated, with staggering (Cinch., Coccul., Nux v., Puis.); when rising from bed {Bry., Phos.). Fullness and heaviness of the head, with pressing downward, as from a weight in the forehead. Tearing in region of brows and in malar-bones, with drawing. Sensation as if the brain were loose, and hit against the skull (Cinch., Hyos, Nux n>., Sulph. ac), when stepping or shaking the head. Aching in occiput, which disappears on bending head backward. Sen- sitiveness of the scalp to touch (Cinch., Merc, Mez.). Moist, suppurative eruptions on the head, forming thick crusts, eating off the hair; offensive smell and itching; worse at night {Graph., Lye, Merc, Staph., Sulph.). Eyes. — Inflammation of the eyes and lids, zuith redness, swelling and nightly agglutination {Avt. crud., Caust.. Crraph., Lye, Merc, Puis., Phos., Sulph., Zinc). Swelling of the luhole eye and surrounding parts {Ars.). Eyelids oedejnatous, or erysipelatous, with scattered watery vesi- cles; meibomian glands enlarged, cilia fall out. Burning and itching in the ej'CS and lids (Sulph.). Sharp pains running into the head. Lachrymation in evening, with burning pain. Aching in the eyes on exerting vision. Ach- ing, pressive pains, as from sand in the eyes (Ars., Caust., Hep. s., Puis., Sep., Sulph.). Heaviness and stiffness of lids, as if paralyzed {Kalm.). Eyeball sore when turning the Qje or pressing upon it {Spi^.). Obscured vision, as if a veil were before the eyes (Caust., Petrol., Phos., Puis., Sul])h.) mo RHUS TOXICODENDRON. Ears. — Lobule of left ear swollen. Inflammation, swelling and suppuration of parotid gland. Nose. — Frequent, violent, spasmodic sneezing. Involuntary discharge of mucus in morning after rising, without coryza. Nosebleed in morning or at night ; when stooping ; °in ty- phus. Puffy swelling of nose (Apis). Tip of nose red (Bell.), and painful to touch; nose sore internally. Hot burning beneath left nostril. Face. — Sickly expression, sunken face, blue rings around the eyes (Phos., Sulph.). Erysipelatous inflcumnation and swelling of face {(jVQu\i\\.), with much burning, smarting and tinghng; also vesicular erysipelas of face (Cist.). Cramp-like pain in articulation of lower jaw, close to the ear. Pressive and digging pain in glands beneath angle of lower jaw. Lips dry, cracked and covered with a red crust. Corners of mouth ulcerated and sore (Ant. crud., Graph., Lye, Sil-.). Moist eruptions and thick scabs on the face (Lye, Merc, Staph.). Mouth. — Toothache, tearing, jerking or crawling; better from external heat; at night. Teeth feel elongated and loose (Ars., Merc., Sil.). Blisters on the tongue. Tongue reel, dry and cracked (Bapt., Bell.); covered with a brown mu- cus ; yellowish-white at root. Sore sensation of tongtte, with red tip (Ars., Arg. met.). Mouth dry, with much thirst (Aeon., Ars., Bry.). Sahva runs from the mouth during sleep. Putrid breath {Am., x\ur., Hep. s., lodi., Kreos., Merc, Xitr. ac, Nux v.). Taste putrid (Merc); bitter {J{ux v.); also of food {Bry., Cinch., Coloc, Puis., Sulph.)\ especially of bread (Natr. mur.). Throat. — Sensation oi dryness of throat (Apis, J{u.v m.). Sore throat; difficult deglutition, with stitching pains; throat swollen externally. Difficult swallowing of solids, as from constriction; of liquids, as from paralysis {Bell., Hyos., Nux m., Plznnh.). Parotid and suhiivaxillary glands hard and swollen (Baryt. c, Calc c lodi.); with sticking on swallowing. Stomach. — Great thirst for cold water {Aeon., Ars., Bry.), or cold milh, from dryness of mouth and throat. Hunger and emptiness in stomach, without appetite. Complete loss of appetite (Alum., Ars., Cinch., Hep. s., Merc, Phos., RHUS TOXICODENDRON. 661 Sulph.). Eructations incomplete; nausea after eating and drinking. Fullness and heaviness in stomach, as from a stone, after eating (Ars., Bry., Merc, Mux v., Puis.). Pres- sure in stomach and pit of stomach after eating. Abdomen.— Pressive drawing, from below upward, in left hy- pochondrium, with anxiet}^ wdth nausea in chest. Soreness, as if beaten, in hypochondria, and still more in abdomen; worse on side lain on, when turning and when beginning to move. Extensive distension of the abdomen, especially afber eating (Cinch., Lye, Nux m., J^ux v.). Cutting, griping and jerking pains in abdomen, especially after eating; bet- ter after stool ( Coloc). Colic pains and contraction in ab- domen force him to walk bent (Aloe, Caust., Coloc, Iris, Nux v., Rheum). Swelhng. Pain in region of ascending colon. Swelling of the inguinal glands {Calc. c, Clem., lodi.). Stool and. Anus.— °Sense of constriction in rectum, as though one side had grown up. Stools thin, tinged with blood ; loose, dark-brown (Ars.); mucus, mixed with blood; gela- tinous (Colch., Hell.), and hquid, red and yellow. Urinary Organs.— Frequent urging day and night, with pro- fuse emission. Incontinence of urine, especially during re- pose (Arn., Cciust., Puis.). Urine hot, high-colored, scanty (Aeon., Apis), irritating; dark, soon becoming, turbid (Cina, Digit., Graph.). Male Organs. — Swelling of the glans and prepuce; dark-red; erysipelatous. Scrotum and penis red ; scrotum flaccid and hanging low. Scrotum becomes thick and hard, with intol- erable itching. Paraphimosis, CEderaa of scrotum. Hu- mid eruptions on genitals, and between scrotum and thighs {Hep. s., Graph.). Female Organs. — Menstrual flow hght-colored and acrid, causing biting pain in the vulva. Soreness and pain in the vagina. Erysipelatous inflammation of the external geni- tals. Suppression of the milk, with general heat (Aeon., Hyos., Puis.). Respiratory Organs. — Hoarseness and scraping rawness in larynx, with roughness and soreness in chest (Osm.). Short, hurried respiration ; oppressed and anxious. Putting hand out of bed covers brings on a cough {Hep. s.). Short, dry 662 EHDS TOXICODENDRON cough, from tiokling in trachea and bronchi (Nux v., Ru- mex); ivorse evening and before inidnight. Hacking- cough in the evening after lying down. Cough in the morn- ing, soon after waking. Spasmodic cough that shatters the head. Cough, with tearing pains, and stitches in the chest (Aeon., JBry., Kali c, Puis.). Anxious oppression of the chest. Tension in chest in the evening, with short breath and weakness in the limbs. Stitches in chest and its sides ; worse when at rest, and while sneezing and breathing. °Pneumonia, with typhoid symptoms, often after re-absorp- tion of pus. Heart and Pulse.— Violent palpitation when sitting still, so that the body moved with every pulse. Sensation of weak- ness and trembhng in the heart {Aeon., Kalm.). Pulse rapid, small, compressible. Neck and Back. — Rheumatic stiffness of neck (Bad., Chel.), with painful tension on moving (Aeon., Calc. phos.). Pain in shoulders and back, as from a sprain (Aeon.). Pain in cervical muscles, as if asleep, or as if head ha,d beeen too long in an uncomfortable position, especially toward even- ing. Stitches in back, worse when walking or stooping; more when rising up after stooping. Rheumatic pain be- tween scapulae, better from warmth, worse from cold. Con- striction of dorsal muscles when sitting, better bending back* worse bending forward. Cutting in sacrum when standing and bending backward. Stiffness and aching (Aeon.); bruised pains in small of bach, xuhen sitting still or luhen lying (Berb.); better from motion °or luhen lying on something hard (Natr. mur.). Limbs. — Limbs swelling, stiffness and paralyzed sensations in joints, from, sprains, °over-lifting or over-stretching . Lameness, stiffness and pain on first moving after rest, or on getting up in the morning ; relieved by constant ino- tion. Tremhling or sensation of trembling, in the limbs. Tl%e limbs upon luhich he lies, especially arms, go to sleep. Rheumatic tension, drawing, tearing in limbs, daring rest. Upper Limbs. — Rheumatic tearing, stitching or sprained pains in shoulder joints, in arms, elbows, wrists, hands, and fingers (Acon,,Bry., Led.); worse in cold, wet iveather. RHUS TOXICODENDRON. 6(33 in heel and at rest (Rhod.). Sprained pain in arm luhen carried far upiuard and bachward. Weakness in upper part of forearm, and sprained pain in wrist on grasping anything. Swelling of axillary glands (Baryt. c, Lye, Sil.)- Swelling of hands ; of fingers. Crawling, prickling sensation in palms, surfaces and tips of fingers. Lower Limbs. — Great weakness and paralytic heaviness of the legs and feet ; is scarcely able to lualk. Great zveari- ness in the legs while sitting, disappearing on walking {Ars.). Aching pains in legs; mzvst change position every moment. Tingling pain in shafts of tibia at niglit when feet are covered, with constant necessity to move legs, preventing sleep. Tension and paijt in hip and knee- joints, when sitting, when rising from a seat, or after over-exercise. Sprained, pain in feet in morning on ris- ing. Drawing like paralysis in feet luhen sitting. Cramps in legs and feet; must walk about; especially at night. Swollen about the ankles after sitting too long ; feet swell in evening. Generalities.— G^retx^ debility, paralytic weakness and sore- less, especially luhen sitting and at rest (Agar.). Great restlessness and ztneasiness ; must constantly change po- sition (Natr. ars.), especially at night. Sensitiveness to cold open air (Aur., Petrol., Rumex, Sep.). Sufferings dur- ing cold weather and the prevalence of northeasterly winds. Skin. — Itching over the ivhole body (Graph., Sulph.), especi- ally on hairy parts. Red rash, like measles, all over the body (Ant. crud., Bapt., Coff. c. Puis.). Vesicular and pustular eruptions, ivith burning and itching {Graph., Merc, Sulph.). Eczema: surface raiu, excoriated; thick crusts, oozing and offensive {Graph., Hep. s.. Lye, Sitlph.). Erysipelatous swelling and inflammation {Apis, Bell.): vesicular ; phlegmonous. Sleep. — Sleeplessness, with restless tossing about (Aeon.). Disturbed sleep, with anxious, frightful dreams (Arn., Aur., Puis.). Anxious drp.ams about business as soon as he falls asleep. Fever. — Constant chilliness, especially evenings {Phos.). Chill in back and heat in anterior portion of body. Coldness of hands and feet. Fever in evening, luith shivering, over 664 RHUS TOXICODENDRON. the body ; stretching , headache and pains in the limbs. Remittent type of fever ; sometimes with brain symptoms. Profuse sweat in the morning (Calc. c, J{itr. ac, Puis.). Sweats from warm drinks. Aggravation. — While at rest (Amm. carb., Ehod.); after mid- nighfc ; before storms ; on rising from a bed or seat ; on be- ginning to move; from getting wet; in wet weather (Aran.); from northeasterly winds; cold air or taking cold; after drinking cold water. Amelioration. — From continuous motion; from moving af- fected parts ; in warm, dry weather. Compare. — Anac, Ailan., Apis, Arn., Ars, Bi^y., Caust., Clem., Con., Crot. tig., Dulc, Euph., Ferr., Led., Lye, Nux v., Phos., Phos. ac. Puis., ilanunc, Rhod., Ruta, Sep., Sil., Sulph., Viola tr. These remedies precede Rhus tox. well : Arn., Bry., Calc. c, Calc. phos., Clem., Lach., Phos. ac, Sulph.; while these fol- low well: Ars., Bry., Calc. c, Coni., Nux v., Phos. EiC.,Puls., Sulph. To Rhus Apis is inimical, while Bry. is comple- mentary. Antidotes. — Bell., Bry., Cam ph., Coff. c, Crot. tig., Sulph. Rhus Antidotes. — Ant. tart., Bry., Ranunc, Rhod. THERAPEUTICS Rhus is especially useful in rheumatism and rheumatoid affections in general with the characteristic modality of the drug — worse on beginning to move, better from continued mo- tion. Rheumatism worse during cold, wet weather and from northeasterly winds ; from getting wet, especially when over- heated; from working in the water; from living in damp houses; from checked perspiration. Not ordinarly useful in acute in- flammatory muscular rheumatism with high fever, etc., but more in chronic forms, or in acute attacks occurring in rheu- matic subjects, from causes above named, but without much fever. A valuable remedy for sprains, and for soreness of mus- cles and tendons from over-lifting, or reaching high up with the arms. Rheumatic paralysis, and rheumatoid neuritis, with great stiffness and numbness of the parts involved, with char- acteristic modalities, and when brought on by ca,uses above named. Rhus often becomes a valuable remedy in cellulitis KHUS TOXICODENDRON. 665 after pus has formed, especially' when the parts look dark-red, erysipelatous, and other Rhus symptoms. Boils. Carbuncles. Abscesses. One of our most valuable remedies in skin diseases, the vesicular character of the eruption always predominating, with much burning and itching. Acne rosacea. Urticaria. Ery- thema, with tendency to vesicular formations and oedema. Ec- zema (see symptoms). The chief remedy in vesicular erysipelas, especially of the scalp, face or genitals. Phlegmonous erysipe- las. Suppuration of inflamed glands. Valuable in adynamic forms of scarlet fever, with characteristic restlessness, typhoid tendency, eruption irregular and dark-red, sometimes vesicular, swelling of cellular tissues and oedema, enlargement and threat- ening suppuration of the parotid or cervical glands. Purpura hsemorrhagica. Variola, pustules turn black, diarrhoea, dark, bloody stools, restlessness, typhoid symptoms. CEdema is a prominent feature in the action of Rhus, reminding us of Apis, from which it is readily differentiated. An invaluable and very frequently used remedy in typhoid fever, and in low, typhoid states in general occurring in the course of other diseases, such as diphtheria, peritonitis, t^^phlitis, enteritis, pneumonia, dys- entery, puerperal diseases, etc Mild delirium, stupefaction, restlessness; red, dry and cracked tongue; sordes; epistaxis; diarrhoea, yellowish-brown, offensive stools, etc. Useful in many affections of the eyes, especially when characterized by oedema- tous swelling of the lids and surrounding parts, and when ag- gravated by cold air or in wet weather. Only second to Apis in orbital cellulitis. Purulent ophthalmia, worse at night, intense photophobia. Conjunctivitis. Iritis, especially rheumatic. Glaucoma. Paral^^sis of the upper lids from exposure to cold, especially cold, damp winds. Inflammation of middle or exter- nal ear. Otalgia, with pulsation of the ear at night. Paroti- tis, especially after suppuration. Nasal catarrh in rheumatic suVjjects, worse from cold, wet weather. Facial neuralgia, from cold or wet, numbness and stifl'ness, cramp-like pains. Some- times indicated in sore throat. Haemorrhoids. Fissures in anus. Diarrhoea or dysentery from getting wet, stools of dark- brown or bloody mucus, tearing pains down thighs during stool, etc. Rheumatic cystitis. Paralysis of the bladder. Ox- aluria. Useful in various affections of the genital organs, some of which have already been outlined in pathogenesis. Uterine 666 ROBINA. displacements. Ovarian cysts. Membranous dysmenorrhoea, worse in wet weather and from getting wet. Abortion impend- ing from straining or over-exertion. Lochia vitiated and offen- sive; lasting too long or often returning. Milk leg; also metri- tis, with typhoid symptoms. Laryngitis, with hoarseness, scrap- ing and rawness, w^orse in wet weather. Bronchitis. Typhoid pneumonia. Haemoptysis. Hypertrophy of the heart from over-exertion, such as wood-chopping, etc., also from rheuma- tism. Rheumatism of the heart. Organic diseases of the heart, with painful lameness and numbness of the left arm (Aeon., Kalmia). Lumbago, with characteristic modalities. Sciatica. Locomotor ataxia. Sometimes useful in intermittent and other forms of malarial fever with characteristic Rhus symptoms. ROBINA. Synonym. — Robina Acacia. Kcttural order. — Legumin- osse. Co7y%rt%on name. — Yellow Locust. Habitat. — An indige- nous tree, common in the Middle and Southern States. Prepa- ration.— Tincture from the fresh bark of the young twigs. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Through the pneumogastric nerve Robina acts especially upon the stomach, arresting digestion, and causing excessive acidity, resulting in emesis, the vomited matter being so in- tensely sour that the teeth are set on edge. — Biort. CHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Very low-spirited ; irritable. Head.— Constant, dull, heavy, or throbbing frontal headache, aggravated by motion and reading. Stomach.— Constant eructations of a very sour fluid. Nausea, follow^ed by profuse vomiting of an intensely sour fluid, setting the teeth on edge. Violent vomiting. Sour stom- ach. Sharp pain in stomach and epigastrium. Burning in stomach and region of gall-bladder. Dull, heavy, aching distress in the stomach. Great distension of stomach and bowels, with flatulence : severe colic and acid diarrhoea. RUMEX. 667 Stool. — Desire for stool, but only flatulence passes off; finally constipated stool. Diarrhoea, stools yellow, green, burn- ing. °Sour stools of infants (Calc. c. Pod., RheuTn). Generalities. — °The whole child smells sour {Rheum). Coinpare. — Calc. c, Iris, Mag. carb., Puis., Rheum. THERAPEUTICS. Especially useful in gastric disturbances, indigestion and sich headache, charactertzed by excessively sour eructations and vomiting. Acid dyspepsia. Heartburn. Cholera infan- tum. RUMEX. Synorajmj. — Rumex Crispus. Jfatural order. — Polygona- cese. Common name. — Yellow Dock. Habitat. — A plant na- tive of Europe, but introduced into this country where it is found in pastures, dry fields, waste grounds, etc. Preparation. — Tincture from the fresh root. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Rumex affects the mucous membranes, lymphatics and skin, but its prominent action is upon the mucous membrane of the larynx and trachea, diminishing its secretions, and ex- alting, in a very marked degree, its sensibility, indicating an excessive morbid irritability, yet not passing into an inflam- matory condition. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Head.— Dull headache, and slight bruised feeling in the fore- head. Nose.— Epistaxis; violent sneezing and painful irritation of nostrils. Fluent coryza, watery discharge, with violent sneezing (Aeon., Cepa, Sang.); worse evenings and night; with hea,dache; desire to pick the nose. Mouth.— Tongue coated yellow {Chel., Cinch., lodi.). 668 RUMEX. Throat. — Excoriated scrapino^ fpeling in the throat (Amm. carb., Carb. v., Canst., Phos., Puis.), with secretion of mu- cus in upper part of throat. Stoniach. — Heaviness in epigastrium soon after a meal (Bry., J^uoo v., Puis.). Feeling of repletion. Sensation of fullness on pressure, in pit of stomach, extending up into throat ; every empty swallowing carrying it downward, but it im- mediately returns. Shooting from pit of stomach to chest. Stool. — Morning diarrhoea (Aloe, Podo., Sulph.); hrown and watery {Ars., Kalihi.); preceded by urging, with pain in abdomen. Constipation {Alum., Bry., Mux, v., (9/;., Phos., Sulph.). Respiratory Organs. — Tenacious mucus in larynx (Kali bi., Nux v.), with constant desire to hawk, but without relief; worse at night. Irritation in larynx when eating, causing: cough. Pain in larynx (Phos.); hoarseness (Carb. v., Caust.). Frequent feeling as though she could not get an- other breath; as if the air did not penetrate the chest. Dry, incessant, fatiguing cozigh {Jfux v.), caused iy tich- ling in throat-pit (Hep. s., Phos., Sang., Sep.); aggravated by pressure, talhing, and especially hy inspiring cool air, and in evening, after lying doiun {Q,om., Dros., Hyos., Mez., Nux v., Puis.). Dry, spasmodic cough, like the early stage of whooping cough, preceded by tickling in the throat. Sensation of soreness and rawness in larynx, and behind the sternum {Ambr., Aral., Phos., Rhus tox.). Stitches in substance of left lung. Aching over anterior portion of both lungs. Acute stitching or burning, sting- ing pains in left side of chest, near heart ; worse from deep breathing, and on lying down in bed at night; "rheumatism (Bry.). Limbs.— Legs densely covered with a rash; small, red pimples. Generalities.— Great languor and weakness. Restless in the evening. Very sensitive to the open air (Amm. carb., Aur., Coccul., Sep., Sil., Rhus tox.). Sleep.— Restless, disturbed, with short naps, and unpleasant fancies, even when awake. Skin. — Itching in various parts (Graph., Rhus tox., Sulph.) ; worse on lower limbs, while undressing and on rising in morning, better from warmth of bed. Stinging itching, or RUTA. ■ 669 pricking itching of the skin. Vesicular eruption; itching when uncovered and exposed to cool air. Aggravation.— In evening on lying down ; from cool air ; in raw, cold weather. Compare. — Apis, Bell., Caust., Hep, s., Lach., Phos., Podo., Spong., Sulph. THERAPEUTICS. Rumex is a valuable remedy in acute catarrh of the larynx or bronchi, and coughs from laryngeo-tracheal irritation, with the peculiarities mentioned in pathogenesis; always pro- duced by tickling in throat pit and associated with sensation of soreness and rawness behind the sternum. Asthma. Sympa- thetic gastric cough. Catarrhal aphonia. Gastralgia, pains extend to chest or back. Dyspepsia. Affections from excessive tea-drinking. Diarrhoea, early in the morning, driving out of bed, stools brown and watery, especially when associated with characteristic cough. RUTA. Synonym. — Ruta Graveolens. J^atural order. — Rutacese, Common names. — Rue. Bitter Wort. Hahitat. — A plant widely cultivated in gardens ; indigenous to Southern Europe. Preparation. — Tincture from the fresh plant. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Ruta acts especially upon the periosteum, bones, joints and cartilages, producing symptoms of a rheumatic character. It also has a special action upon the eyes, producing a somewhat similar condition. It also acts profoundly upon the uterus, causing both active determination of blood to that organ, and contraction of its muscular walls, hence its use as an emmena- gogue and aborti-facient. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS Mind. — Fretful. Inchned to anger and vexation. Head.— Pulsative, pressive pain in the head. Stitching, draw- 670 RUTA. ing pain in frontal bone; extending to temporal bones. Bruised pain in periosteum, extending from temporal bones to the occiput. Eyes. — Itching at the inner canthus, and on lower lid, smart- ing after rubbing; eye becomes full of water. Bruised pain in orbicular cartilages. Pressure deep in the orbits. Cramp in lower lid, followed by profuse lachrymation. Eyes hum, ache, feel strained ; sight blurred ; frorn fine seiving or reading too much, or otherwise overtaxing them ; worse on using eyes in evening (Myrica, Natr. ars., Natr. mur., Phos., Sep.). Coldness beneath left eye. Ears. — Scraping pressure, as with a blunt piece of wood. Face. — Pain as from a blow behind mastoid process. Stoniacli. — Frequent eructations ; odorless. Burning or gnaw- ing in the stomach. Nausea in pit of stomach. Tension in stomach worse from drinking milk. Epigastric region sensitive. Abdomen. — Pressing, gnawing pain in the hepatic region. Rectum and Anus. — Tearing stitches in rectum when sitting. Frequent, unsuccessful urging, with prolapsus ani and emis- sion of flatus. Rectum protrudes immediately on attempt- ing a passage. Urinary Organs. — Pressure on bladder as if continually full, with constant urging, as if urine could not be retained, yet little is voided ; feeling as if bladder moved up and down. "Incontinence at night. Female Organs. — Metrorrhagia as a forerunner of miscar- riage. Bearing-down pains. Miscarriage ; at seven months ; Respiratory Organs. — Hacking cough, awakens about mid- night. Pressure in the sternum. Gnawing pain in the chest ; in right side with biting and burning. Neck and Back. — Pain as if sprained or bruised in nape and shoulder. Pain as if heaten, and lame in the spine; and like lumbago. Bruised pain in back in cocc3'x, extending to sacrum. Digging as if bruised just above sacrum, when sitting after a long walk, better from continued walking, returning when standing still and sitting. Coldness down the spine. Limbs.— Pains in the limbs, joints and bones, as if beaten, or as after a blow or fall (Arn.). Falling from side to side RUTA. 671 when walking', legs will not support him, no power or steadi- ness in thighs. Legs give out on ascending or descending stairs. Ankles pain a.s after a sprain or dislocation ; as if ulcerated. Pains in bones of feet, cannot step heavily thereon. Generalities. — Great weakness after a walk ; limhs feel bruised (Arn.). Small of back and loins painful. AUjjarts of the body on luhich he lies are painful, as if bruised (Arn., Bapt.). Bruised pain on touch, worse in hips and bones of legs. Sleep. — Sleepiness during the day, with stretching. Frequent waking at night. Confused dreams ; vivid. Skin.— Itching all over the body (Graph., Rhus tox.,); relieved by scratching {Sulph.). Aggravation. — Pains usually worse in cold, wet weather. Amelioration. — From motion. Compare.— Amm. carb., t47^n., Bry., Calc. c, Euphr., Lye, Merc, Mez., Phos. ac, Phyt., Puis., Rhus tojc., Sep., Sil., Sulph. Antidote.— Cam ph. Ruta Antidote. — Merc. THERAPEUTICS. Ruta has been found especially useful in bruises and Other mechanical injuries of bones and periosteum ; periostitis ; rheu- matism, etc ; always characterized by a general feeling of sore- ness, as from a bruise. Usually worse in cold, wet weather; better from motion. Lameness after sprains, especially of wrists and ankles. Synovitis from strains. Ganglia, especially on wrist. A very valuable remedy in bad effects from over- straining the eyes ; asthenopia. Weakness of accommodation. Has been used in dyspepsia resulting from a strain of the abdominal muscles ; also when meat always disagrees, causing great distress and an eruption like nettle-rash. 672 SABADII.LA. SABADILLA. Synonyms. — Veratrum Sabadilla. Asagrsea Officinalis. Jfatural order. — Melanthacese. Common names. — Indian Caustic. Barley, Cevadilla. Habitat. — A bulbous plant indige- nous to Mexico, and countries south of it. Preparation. — Tincture from the seeds. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Through the cerebro-spinal nervous system Sabadilla af- fects especially the vegetative sphere, the mucous surfaces be- ing more particularly involved by its action. OHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Head. — Vertigo on rising from a seat, on waking at night. Pressive stupefying headache in forehead and temples, causing a reeling sensation. Head feels dull and heavy. Headache, especially after every walk ; °after eating. Head- ache from much thinking, or too close attention. Corro- sive burning point on top of the head. Eyes. — Lachrymation, as soon as the least pain is felt in some other part. Lachrymation during exercise in the open air. Margins of the eyelids red. Ears. — Tickling in the ears. Nose. — Itching and tingling in the nose. Sensitive dryness of upper part of nose. Epistaxis. Violent spasmodic sneez- ing, shaking the abdomen, then lachrymation. Fluent co- ryza; influenza; °hay fever. One or other nostril stuffed up ; inspiration through nose labored ; snoring. Face. — Heat of the face, with fiery burning redness (Ferr,). Beating and jerking in the muscles of the left upper jaw, with itching. Face feels hot, as after wine; red face and eyes ; °hay fever. Mouth.— Shooting pains in the molar teeth. Tongue coated mostly whitish-yellowish, more in the middle and back part. Feels sore and full of blisters. Mouth and tip of tongue SABADILLA. 673 burning: and sore as if scalded. Bitter taste in the mouth {Bry., Jfux v., Puis.). Throat.— Dryness of the throat ; when swallowino^. Sensation in the throat as if a lump were lodged, obhging him to swallow. Roughness and scraping in the throat with incli- nation to swallow. Constriction in fauces as from an as- tringent drink. Stomach.— Aversion to meat (Sepia). Nausea; with constant spitting of insipid water. Pain as if a sore spot were pressed below pit of stomach, on pressure and inspiration. •Corrosive, burning pain in the stomach and oesophagus; wdien walking. Abdomen.— Cutting in the bowels, as with knives. Burning in the abdomen (Ars.). Rumbling in the abdomen, as if empty (Lye). Stool and Anus. — Crawling in rectum and anus, as from as- carides. Diarrhoea; stools brown, as if fermented. Urinary Organs. — Urging to urinate, especially' in the evening. Urine dark, muddy, thick, turbid ; like muddy water. Burn- ing in the urethra when urinating. Respiratory Organs. — Oppressed breathing, with anxiety. Dry cough at night (Hyos.). Short, dry cough, produced by scraping in the throat. Stitches in sides of chest, espe- cially when inspiring or coughing {Bry.). Limbs. — Weariness and heaviness in all the limbs, worse towards evening, obliging her to lie down. Stinging sensa- tion in the thighs. Tension in the calves. Coldness of the limbs. Heaviness of the feet. Generalities. — Lassitude and weakness. Intense but transient bruised pain in various parts of the body. Intense pains in all the bones, especially in joints, as if the anterior of bones were cut and scraped with a sharp knife. °Great sensitive- ness to cold air, which aggravates. Symptoms appear first on right, then on left side. "General aggravation at the same hour each day. Most symptoms better when lying down ; in the open air. Sleep.— Great inclination to sleep during the day. Disturbed and unrefreshing sleep at night, with anxious, confused dreams. Skin.— Red spots and stripes, more marked when in th« coldair^ 674 SABINA. Fever. — Fever without thirst (Apis, Puis.); shivering, with isolated attacks of heat, mostl}^ in head and face. Chill afternoon or evening, returning at the same hour ; often without subsequent heat. Feverish; feels sick, anxious, starts easily, trembles, breath short and hot. Chill pre- dominates, particularly on extremities, with heat of face. •Compare. — Aeon., Bry., Cinch., Natr. mur., Puis., Sep., Verat. alb. Antidote .—Pulsatilla. « THERAPEUTICS. Sabadilla has been found useful in intermittent fever with above symptoms, paroxysms recurring at the same hour each day (Ced.). An excellent remedy for worms ; ascarides; lum- brici ; taenia ; fever from worms. Nymphomania and pruritus caused by ascarides. Ovaritis, with cutting pain. Influenza and hay fever with symptoms already mentioned in pathogenesis. Tonsilitis, commencing on left side and extending to right side. Measles, with violent sneezing, etc. Gastric disturbances, with longing for sweet things, honey or pastry; aversion to meat, symptoms better after eating. Has been found useful in a men- tal condition where the patient imagines himself sick, or has imaginary diseases. SABINA. Synonym. — Juniperus Sabina. Matural order. — Coniferaj. Common Jtames.—Ssiym. Habitat.— A woody evergreen shrub found mostly in the southern Alps in Austria and Switzerland. Preparation.— Timtwre from the fresh tips of the younger branches. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts chiefly upon the generative organs of women, but also affects prominently the urinary organs and the gastro-intesti- nal canal. The general condition produced is one of intense irritation, resulting in congestion and inflammation, which in SABINA. 675 the uterus gives rise to haemorrhages and abortion, in the uri- nary organs to strangury, and in the bowels to purging and bloody stools. OHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Hypochondriacal mood {Mux v.). Great anxiety and apprehension (Aeon., Ars.). Music is intolerable (Digit.). Head. — Vertigo when standing, as if she would fall ; with ob- struction of vision ; with orgasm and heat in head. Pres- sive headache, especially in temporal eminences, suddenly appearing, and slowly disappearing. Circumscribed pain in temples. Painful stricture in temples. Dull, pressive fron- tal headache. Nose. — Dry coryza. Face. — Drawing pain in right angle of jaw, in masseter mus- cles, worse on touch. Mouth. — Dryness in mouth (Apis, J^ux m.). Throbbing tooth- ache in evening and at night, Tearing in roots of molars. Throat. — Dryness, with drawing pain. Sensation as if he had to swallow over a foreign body. Stools hard and painful, followed by discharge of blood from anus. Stomach. — Desire for acid things (Ant. tart.. Cinch., Hep. s., Phos., Podo., Verat. alb.), especially lemonade. Poor ap- petite. Heartburn and eructations (Nux v., Lye). Abdomen. — Griping, twisting, labor-like pains in the. abdomen to the groins ; with sensation as if vomiting would come on without nausea. Stool. — Blood and mucus, or diarrhceic stools. Stools hard and painful, followed by discharge of blood from anus. Urinary Organs. — Frequent, violent urging to urinate, with copious emission (Apis, Apoc, Arg. met.). Retention of urine; discharge by drops, with burning {Bell., Canth.,- Can. sat.). Burning pain in vesical region. Male Organs. — Burning sore pain in glans, and in figwarts. Female Organs. — Menses too profuse, too early, and last too long {Bell., Calc. c. Kali c., Mux v.). Passes clots of blood after rising. Almost insatiable desire for coition with corresponding gratification. Contractive pain in region of uterus. Hmmorrhage front' the uterus in parojo- ysms ; worse from motion; blood dark {Kali nit.) and 676 SABINA. clotted {Croc.)] red, profuse ; from loss of tone in uterus {Caul.)\ after abortion or -parturition; luith pain from hack to pubis. Miscarriage, especially at third month (Sec). Leucorrhoea, °thick, yellow, foetid ; after suppressed menses (Puis.). Respiratory Organs. — Crawling and tickling in lai*ynx, ex- cited cough and a slimy expectoration. Dry, hacking cough and tickling in the trachea. Hsemoptysis (Aeon., Cinch., Ferr., Ham.). Tensive, pressive pain in sternum, not af- fected by respiration. Stitches in left nipple. Intermittent stitches in clavicle. Neck and Back. — Drawing pains and dragging in small of bach, extending into the pubic region. Pain in back oblig- ing him to bend inward. Paralytic pain in back. Limbs.— Drawing, tearing pains, especially at night; most in wrist-joints and toes ; with red, shiny swelling; worse from motion and touch. Middle of anterior surface of thighs feel bruised and painfztl. Stitches in elbows ; in heels, ex- tending outward. Generalities. — Great weakness and weariness in all the limbs ; with despondency. Heaviness and indolence of the body, obhging him to lie down. Throbbing in all the blood ves- sels. Symptoms cease in open air, return on entering the house. Sleep. — Restless, disturbed sleep. Compare.— Arn., Bell., Calc. c, Croc, CoccuL, Ipec, Millif., Puis., Rhus tox., Ruta, Sulph., Tril. Antidotes. — Camp h , Puis. THERAPEUTICS. The chief use of Sabina is in uterine hsemorrhages and men- orrhagia, with the symptoms above described. Said to be es- pecially useful in women of gouty diathesis. Dysmenorrhoea, with characteristic pain from back to pubis. Threatening mis- carriage, with haemorrhage and pain from back to pubic re- gion. Leucorrhoea after menorrhagia or suppressed menses; during pregnancy ; acrid, much biting and itching, thick, yellow, foetid. Chlorosis, with tendency to hsemorrhages; also hysteria. Useful in arthritic affections, better in open air, worse from warmth. Arthritic nodes. Facial neuralgia, better in open air. SAMBUCUS. 677 SAMBUCUS. Synonyirh. — Sambucus Nigra. Natural order. — Caprifoli- aceee. Common names. — Black Elder. European Elder. Habi- tat.— An indigenous shrub, common in thickets and waste grounds. Preparation. — Tincture from the fresh leaves and flowers. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Affects especially the mucous membranes and the respira- tory organs and the skin, causing in the former obstructive ca- tarrh, and in the latter profuse debilitating perspiration. OHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Constant fretfulness; very easily startled; trembling, anxiety and restlessness (Aeon.). Face. — Bloated or dark-blue. Abdomen. — Griping colic, as after taking cold, with emission of flatus. Urinary Organs.— Frequent desire to urinate, with copious discharge. "Deposits a heavy sediment. Respiratory Organs. — Hoarseness, with much tenaciozvs, glutinous mucus in the larynx (Kali bi., Rumex). Op- pression of the chest with pressure in the stomach, nausea and weakness. Oppression and stitches in left side of chest, below the nipple (Kali c). "Suffocative attacks after mid- night (Aeon., Ant. tart., Ars., Cinch.); wakens suddenly, sits up in bed, turns blue, gasps for breath (Ipec). "Quick, wheezing respiration, suffocative cough, with crying in chil- dren. Generalities.— Hands and feet bloated and blue. Dropsical swelling of the body. Sleep.— Sleepiness, without sleep {Bell., Cham., Lach.). Fever. — During heat, dread of uncovering (reverse, Led.). Sen- sation of burning heat in the face, with moderate warmth of body, and icy-coldness of feet, without thirst. Very pro- 678 SANGUINARIA. fuse, debilitating perspiration, while aivahe without ' thirst ; skin dry and burning, without sweat during sleep. Profuse night sweats {Cinch., Phos., Phos. ac, Sulph.). Aggravation. — While at rest. Amelioration.— From motion ; on sitting up in bed. Compare.— <^co«-., Ars., Bell., Cinch., Ipeo., Rhus tox., Sep., Sulph. Sambucus follows well after Opium. Antidotes.— Ars., Camph. Sambucus Antidote.— Abuse of Arsenic. THERAPEUTICS. Sambucus is of use chiefly in respiratory affections charac- terized by suffocative attacks as above described. Laryngis- mus stridulus ; acute laryngitis ; suffocative catarrh ; croup ; whooping cough; asthma of Millar. Cough, etc., always worse after midnight and lying with the head low. Useful in dropsy, especially from acute nephritis, with characteristic urine and sweat. SANGUINARIA. SynonyTvi. — Sanguinaria Canadensis. Jfativral order. — Papaveracese. Common name. — Blood Root. Habitat.— kn indigenous perennial plant. Preparation.— TmatViVQ from the fresh root. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Affects chiefly the respiratory mucous membrane, produc- ing irritation and catarrhal irritation. It has a decided influ- ence upon the pneumogastric nerve, and through it creates de- rangement of the liver and digestive tract. , OHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. 'EiQQ.d..- Vertigo in morning on rising from a sitting or stoop^ ing position (Bry.); on quickly turning the head {Calc. c.) or looking upward (Calc. c, Cupr.). Determination of SANGUINAEIA. 679 hloocl to the head, with ivhizzing in the ears, and flushes of heat (Aeon.). Headache in morning; worse from stoop- ing and moving about. Dull, pressive frontal headache (Euph., Merc. cor.). Headache occurring in paroMysiiis (Cinch.). ° Headache begins in occiput (Yerat. vir.), spreads upward, and settles over right eye. Headache, as if it would burst (Br3^, Caps., Cinch., Puis., J^atr. mur.), in forehead and temples; mostly right; better in open air (Puis., Sep.). Pain over eyes in morning lasting all day; on rising from a seat, with vertigo. Pain in occiput and nape in afternoon. Headache luith nausea and chilliness, folloived by flioshes of heat, extending from head to- stoinach. Throbbing headache, worse from motion or stooping ; with bitter vomiting. Eyes. — Pupils dilated {Ailanth., Bell., Cic, Hyos.). Burning dryness in the eyes, followed by copious lachrymation (^r5., Euphr.). Pain in eyeballs on moving them. Balls, sore, with darting through them and dim vision. Ears.— Burning of the ears; cheeks red. °Earache, with head- ache, with stinging in the ears and vertigo. "Humming and roaring in the ears, with painful sensitiveness to sudden sounds, in the women at the climacteric. Nose. — Fluent coryza, with frequent sneezing {Aeon., Ars., Cepa, Gels., Iris, Kumex); watery, acrid; with tingling; with heavy pain at root of nose and stinging in nose. Dry coryza, as from a sudden cold. Alternately fluent and dry coryza. Loss of smell. Face. — "Circumscribed redness of one or both cheeks (Kreos.). Palenesfe of the face, with disposition to vomit. Sensation of dryness of the lips. Pain in cheek-bones. "Neuralgia in upper jaw, extending to nose, eye, ear, neck and side of head ; shooting, burning pains ; must kneel down and hold head tightly to the floor. Mouth. — Loss of taste, with burnt feeling on the tongue (Puis.). Sores on gums and roof of mouth. Throat.— Feels swollen, as if to suffocation, when swallowing, worse on right side. Pain on swallowing. Feeling of dry- ness in the throat ; not relieved b^' drinking. Throat sore, as if raw and denuded (Arg. nit.. Arum.). Stomach. — Craving for he knows not what ; for spiced things; 680 SANGUINAKIA. (Phos.). Deathly nausea, in paroxjvsms {Ant. tart.), with much salivation ; with headache, chill and heat. Nausea; not relieved by vomiting. Vomiting 6i bitter water; of sour, acrid fluids; of ingesta (Ipec, Phos., Verat. alb.); °of worms (Aeon., Sabad.). Sensation of emptiness in the stom- ach, with faint, feverish feeling. Soreness and pressure in epigastrium ; worse after eating. Burning in the stomach (Ars., Canth., Iris, Verat. alb.). Stool. — Diarrhoeic stool, mixed with much flatus (Aloe). °Di- arrhcea following corj'za; pains in chest, and cough. Urinary Organs. — Copious and frequent nocturnal urination, clear as water (Natr. mur., Phos. ac). Female Organs. — "Climacteric disorders, especially flushes of heat, and leucorrhoea (Lach.). Abdominal pains, as if menses would appear (Aloe, Caul., Cimic, Puis.). Stitches in nipples, especially right. Respiratory Organs. — Dry, hacking cough, caused by tich- ling in throat (Hep. s., Phos., Rumex, Sep.), with dryness of throat ; craivling sensation, extending doivn behind the sterniom ; evenings after lying doivn. Dry cough, awaking from sleep ; not ceasing until after he sits up in bed and passes flatus, upward and downward. °Cough, with circumscribed redness of the cheeks ; pain in the chest and coryza. Severe dyspnoea and constriction of chest, with inclination to take deep inspirations. Constant pres- sure and heaviness in upper part of chest, with difficult breathing. Sharp, pinching, myalgic pain midway between sternum and right nipple. Intense pain and burning under sternum, and in right side of chest. Burning below right arm and clavicle, streaming down to hepatic region at 4 P.M. Acute stitches in right side of chest, near nipple (Bry.). "Expectoration tough, difficult; rust-colored; ex- treme dyspnoea; pneumonia; hepatization. Pain in right chest to the shoulder ; can only with difficulty place hand on top of head. Burning pain between breasts in afternoon, worse on right side. "Exceedingly offensive breath (Caps., Croc.) and expectoration. Heart and Pulse.— Irregularity of the heart's action, and of tlie pulse, with coldness, insensibility, etc. Pulse slow, ir- regular, feeble. SANGUINARIA. 681 Neck and Back. — Rheumatic pains in nape of neck, shoulders and arms. Generalities. — Great weakness and prostration, especially in morning on waking. General torpor and languor. Sensa- tion as if hot water were poured from breast into abdomen. An uncomfortable prickling sensation of warmth spreading over whole bod3^ Ulcers about the nails. - Fever. — Burning heat, rapidly alternating with chill and shiv- ering. Heat flying from head to stomach. Flushes of heat; glow of warmth over body (Calc. c). Aggravation. — Morning and evening; from light, noise and motion. Amelioration. — When lying quiet; in the dark room; after vomiting. Compare. — Ant. tart., Bell., Bry., Chel., Hep. s.. Iris, Lj^c, Merc, Natr. mur., Phos., Rumex, Squilla, Sang., Spong.; follows Bell, well in scarlet fever. Sanguinaria Antidotes. — Op., Rhus tox. THERAPEUTICS. The chief use of Sanguinaria is in the treatment of certain respiratory diseases and various forms of headache. Nasal ca- tarrh, with dull frontal headache, pain over root of nose, sore throat, etc. Acute coryza, frequent sneezing with pain over and in eyeballs, at root of nose, etc. Aphonia. Laryngitis. Croup. Whooping cough. Oedema of glottis. Asthma. Espe- cially valuable in pneumonia, rather subacute in character. After exudation, dry cough, tough, rust-colored expectoration, extreme dyspnoea, circumscribed redness of cheeks, better when lying on the back. Hypostatic pneumonia. Typhoid pneumo- nia. A valuable remedy when jjhthisis follows pneumonia. Often of great service in tuberculosis, hectic fever, circumscribed redness of one or both cheeks, haemoptysis. Hydrothorax. May be indicated in a variety of headaches, catarrhal, gastric and climacteric. The most characteristic is a sick headache, beginning in the occiput, spreading upwards and settling over the right eye. Other forms of headache are detailed in patho- genesis. Catarrhal conjunctivitis, especially of right eye, with other characteristic symptoms. Blepharadenitis. Polypus of the ear. Nasal polypus. Neuralgia of face (see clinical symp- 682 SAKSAPARILLA. toms under " Face "). Pharyngitis, feeling of dryness and burn- ing as if scalded, feels raw and denuded, worse on right side. Ulcerated sore throat. Diphtheria, pearly coating on palate and fauces. Gastric derangements, with nausea, not relieved by vomiting, headache, etc. Nausea during pregnancy. Ulcer in stomach with Sang, symptoms, flushes of heat rising into the head, better from vomiting. Sometimes useful in jaundice; hepatic derangements. Catarrhal diarrhoea or dysentery fol- lowing or accompanying characteristic coryza. Often a useful remedy for the flushes of heat, headache, leucorrhoea, etc., oc- curring at the climacteric period. Polypus of uterus. Profuse, irregular or suppressed menstruation, with other Sang, symp- toms. Ulceration of os uteri ; foetid discharge. Sore, painful nipples. Sometimes indicated in rheumatism of nape, shoulders and arms, worse at night in bed. SARSAPARILLA. Synonyryis . — Smilax Medica. Smilax Officinalis. Matural order. — Smilaceae. Cojmnon name. — Wild Liquorice. Habi- tat.— A plant indigenous to Mexico and as far south as the Northern part of South America. Preparation. — Tincture of the dried root (Honduras variety). Triturations of the dried root-bark. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts powerfully upon the blood, giving rise to herpes and other skin eruptions. It also acts prominently upon the uri- nary system, producing symptoms similar to those of gravel, in which affection it is an excellent remedy. OHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind.— Anxiety with the pains, also after seminal emissions. Cheerful. Head.— Heaviness in the head. Pressing and stitching pains in left side of head. °Shooting pains from left ear to root of nose; base of nose and eyes swollen. "Neuralgic head- SARSAPAEILLA. 683 ache, right side, throbbing, stitching, starting from occiput. Throbbing pains in the head. Eyes. — Shooting pain in eyes. Red stripe from cornea to outer canthus. Cloudiness before the eyes, as from a fog {Caust., Phos., Ranunc, Sulph.). Face. — Eruptions on the face; hke milk crust (Viola trie). Stiffness and tension in the muscles and articulations of the jaw. Mouth. — Bitter taste in the mouth, in the morning {Bry., jy'ux v., Puis.). stomach. — Bitter eructations after eating. Abdomen. — Rumbling, with sensation of emptiness in the ab- domen. Stitches in sides (left) of abdomen. Stool. — Painful, difficult evacuations. Stools hard. Obstinate constipation. Urinary Organs. — Frequent desire to urinate, with scanty dis- charge, accompanied by burning (Aeon., Canth.). Frequent and profuse discharge of pale urine, day and night (Apis, Apoc, Verbas.). °Urine contains gravel or small calculi. Urine scanty and turbid, like clay-water as soon as passed. Severe pain at the conclusion of urination, the last urine containing blood. Respiratory Organs.— Spasmodic oppression of the chest. Back. — Pains from small of back down spermatic cords ; worse at night and from motion ; after emissions. Upper Limbs.— Stitches in the joints of the arms, hands and fingers. Deep rhagades on fingers, with burning pains. Finger tips feel as if ulcerated, or as from salt in a wound. Lower Limbs. — Weariness in the thighs. Stitches in the thighs, knees and legs. Skin.— Herpes on almost all parts of the body ; especially on prepuce. Deep, burning, painful rhagades (Graph.). Itch- ing sometimes over the whole body, especially in evening in bed and in morning when rising. °Moist eruptions, with ex- coriating discharges. Dry, red pimples, only itching when exposed to the heat. Shriveled skin. Fever. — Frequent rigors, running from below upward. Heat in the evening in bed ; with feeling of strength. Sweat on forehead ; during the evening heat. Conditions.— Frequently useful after the abuse of Mercury. 684 SECALE CORNUTmi. Compare.— Am m. carb., Bell., Cham., Merc, Sep., Sulph. Antidotes.— Bell., Merc. THERAPEUTICS. Sarsaparilla is used chiefly in cystitis with bloody urine, and other symptoms above mentioned. Gravel, especially in children. Discharge of gas in urine, showing fermentation in bladder. Herpes preputialis. Swelling of spermatic cords, pain from small of back down cords, after sexual excitement or nocturnal emissions. Secondary syphilis. Herpes and other eruptions. Eruptions during hot weather, becoming ulcers. Rhagades. Bone pains, especially after Mercury, worse from dampness. Marasmus, with characteristic urine, emaciation, shriveled skin. Useful in syphilitic and Mercurial headaches, ex- tending from occiput to eyes. SECALE CORNUTUM. Synonyms. — Acinula Clavus. Ergota. Jfatural order. — Fungi. Common names. — Spurred Rye. Ergot. Preparation. — Tincture from the fresh fungus. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts powerfully upon the cerebro-spinal system, giving rise to two distinct and characteristic conditions known as convul- sions and gangrenous ergotism ; the former resulting directly from nerve poisoning, while the latter is due to secondary blood disorganization, or, as is well maintained, to the power Ergot possesses over the unstripped muscular fiber, producing persist- ent contraction of the arterial coats, diminishing their caliber, and so reducing their current of blood. This, too, might pro- duce cerebral and spinal anaemia, and thus also cause the con- vulsive form of Ergot poisoning. A full description of these conditions may not be presented here, but sufficient may be gathered from the annexed hst of symptoms. To the powerful action of Ergot on the unstripped muscu- lar fiber also is due the important effects it displays upon the SECALE COKNUTUM. 685 gravid uterus, exciting contractions thereof, and expelling its contents. To avert such a disaster Secale is often the true homoeopathic remedy, but to give it in parturition, in order to hasten delivery is an inexcusable practice. OHARACTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Stupid, half-sleepy condition (Bell., Op.). Dullness of all the senses. Moaning. Mild or raving delirium (Bell., Hyos., Stram.). Great anxiety and fear of death {Aeon., Ars.). Head. — Stupefaction. Vertigo. Aching. Dullness. Heaviness of the head and tingling in the legs. Eyes. — Eyes sunken, and surrounded by blue margins (Phos,, Cinch., Kali iod., Sulph.). Eyes look fixed, wild, staring {Cantlv., Bell., Yiyo^.). Obscuration of sight. Pu- pils generally dilated {Bell., Hyos., Strain.). Cataracts, hard and soft, with headache, vertigo and roaring in the ears. Ears. — Eoaring in the ears, with great difficulty in hearing. (Calc. c, Merc, Phos. ac, 8ulph.). "^Hard hearing after cholera. Nose. — Bleeding of the nose (Aeon., Bell., Bry., Ham.). Face. — Pale, sunken^ Hippocratie, anxious expression {Ars., Cawiph., Verat. alh.). Lips bluish or deathly pale. Eisus sardonicus. Mouth. — Tongue clean or coated white {Ant. crud., Bry., JVux v.. Puis.). Painful crawling in tongue; burning and ting- ling. Very offensive breath {Am., Hep. s., lodi., Mere., J^itr. ac, Nux v.). Increased secretion of saliva {Hep. s., Mere., Kali iod.). Feeble stuttering, indistinct speech, as if the tongue were paralyzed (Caust., Gels., Hyos., Stram.). Throat. — Dryness of the throat (Apis, Ars., JVux m.). Stomach. — Ravenous hunger (Bry., Cina, Ferr., Lye). Vio- lent, unquenchable thirst {Aeon., Ars., Bry., Rhus tox., Sulph.). Hiccough. Nausea and inclination to vomit {Ant. tart., Ipec). Vomiting of bilious matter (Bry., Iris, v., JNux Podo.); of mucus; of dark-brown, coffee-grounds fluid (Coni.); of all food and drink. Hamiorrhage from the stomach (Ham., Phos.). Great anxiety and oppression in stomach, with great sensitiveness to the touch. Violent pressure in the stomach, as from "a heavy weight (Aeon., 686 SECALE CORNUTUM. Ars., Bry., JSPux v., Puis.). Burning in the stomach (Ars., Canth., Iris, Sang.), with pain in abdomen. Abdomen. — Abdomen distended and tympanitic (Arn., Cinch., Phos,). In liver: enlargement; inflammation; gangrene. Painful colic, with convulsions. Continual bearing down in lower abdomen. Cold feeling in abdomen and back. Pains in hypogastric region. Stool and Anus.— Paralysis of rectum and anus. Anus wide open. Biarrho&a ; frequent brown, slimy discharges ; dark- colored (Ars.); very offensive {Ars., Asaf.): thin, olive- green; involuntary {Am., Ars., Hyos.); very exhausting (Cinch., Phos.); pernicious. Hsemorrhage from the bowels (Ham., Op.). Constipation (Alum., Bry., JSfux v., Op., Phos., Sulph.). Urinary Organs. — Paralysis of the bladder (Bell., Caust., Coni., Hyos.). Retention of urine {Bell., Op., Strain.). Suppression of urine. Urine pale and watery (Natr. mur., Phos. ac, Staph.). Pemale Organs. — Menses too profuse and of too long dura- tion (Amm. carb., Ars., Calc. c. Kali c, JViox v.). Uterine hmmorrhages ; tuorse from the slightest motion (Erig., Sab.); discharge black, fluid, and very foetid. Fains as of an expulsive character in the uterus {Caul.). Irregular, stormy contractions. Uterus and right ovary congested and sensitive to touch. Pain in uterus and ovaries. Threat- ened abortion, especiallj^ .at third month (Sab.). After abortion uterus does not contract {Caul.); thin, black, foul-smelling discharge. Gangrene of vaginal mucous mem- brane, with a dark, slate-color. Suppressed lochia, fol- lowed hy fever and inflaimnation of the uterus {Aeon., Bell.). Suppression of milk. Respiratory Organs. — Yoice feeble, inaudible, stammering. Spitting of blood, with or without cough. Anxious, la- bored inspiration. Expectoration of blood during vio- lent efforts to breathe. Constant sighing (Calc. phos., Ign.)\ hiccough (Cic, Nux v., Hyos., Stram.). Heart and Pulse. — Palpitation of the heart. Pulse small, very rapid, contracted; frequently intermittent {Coni., Digit., Kali c, Natr. mur.); fluttering, slow, depressed. Back. — Pain in back and small of back {Bell., Cimic, Nux v., SECALE CORNUTUM. 687 Puis.). Tingling in the back, which is numb, extending to fingers and toes (Aeon.). Limbs. — Convulsive movements of the limbs (Cic, Bell., Hyos., Stram.). Contraction of hands, feet, fingers and toes. Heaviness and trembling of the limbs. Limbs become cold, pale, and zurinhled, as after being a long time in hot water. JSfumbness , insensibility , and coldness of the limbs, especially tips of fingers and toes. Disagreeable sensation of sleep and formication in the limbs. Cramps in legs, calves, arms, hands and toes. Crawling and tingling in the limbs (Aeon.). Drawing pains in the limbs. Burn- ing of the hands and feet (Ars., Sulph.), Fuzzy feeling in the limbs. Cold gangrene of the limbs (Ars.); the dead part separates at joints and drops off. Generalities. — Ejctreme debility, prostration and restlessness {Ars.). Unsteadiness of the whole body ; trembling. Rapid sinking of strength {Ars., Camph., Carb. v.). Convulsions; tonic; of all extensors; epileptiform spasms. Epilepsy. Cramps in legs, arms and chest. Skin. — Cold and dry. Formication over the whole body. Sen- sation of something creepijig under the shin. Petechia Arn., Ars., Phos.); ecchymosis (Arn., Phos.); gangrenous blisters (Ars.). Swelling and pain without inflammation; coldness, blue-color, gangrene. Anthrax becoming gan- grenous. Fever. — Coldness of the surface of the body, especially the ex- tremities and face; dr^mess. Heat in internal organs; hands and feet. Profuse cold, clammy sweat over the whole body {Ars., Camph., Merc, Phos.). Aggravation. — During menses; from warmth; heat applied to any part. Amelioration. — In the cold air, and from getting cold; from sweat. Conditions. — Particularly useful in tall, scrawny women, of lax muscular fiber; feeble, cachetic; in yqyj old decrepit persons. Compare.— Ars., Bell., Cham., Carb. v., Caul., Colch., Lye, Phos., Plumb., Puis., Rhus tox., Sabin., Sulph,, Tabac, Ustil., Verat. alb. After Sec. follows Cinch, , Resembles Colch, in cholera morbus. Antidotes,— Camph,, Op. 688 SECALE COIiNUTUM. THERAPEUTICS. Especially useful in uterine haemorrhages, from atony of the uterus ; after parturition or abortion ; during climacteric ; flow black and offensive ; worse from slightest motion ; skin cold ; threatening collapse. Often used after labor to cause contrac- tion and prevent post-partum haemorrhage. Allen says {Hand- book of Materia Meclica, p. 993): "During labor or uterine hsemorrhage it should be used with great discretion ; it is ex- tremely dangerous when there is albuminuria, for it is liable to bring on convulsions; if used too freely during labor it is extremely apt to cause puerperal metritis." The drug should never be given during parturition in large doses to hasten de- livery. Sometimes if the pains are prolonged and ineffectual, irregular, spasmodic, weak or entirely wanting, a dose of the potentized drug may be of benefit. Hour-glass contractions causing retained placenta. Suppressed lochia, with metritis, or offensive, purulent discharge. Often valuable in puerperal fever, with putrid discharges, tympanitis, coldness, threatening col- lapse. Has cured fibroid and other uterine tumors. Milk sup- pressed, threatened abortion. A valuable remedy in spasms; epilepsy; puerperal convulsions; extensor muscles especially involved. Paralysis of flexor muscles (Plumb.). Paralysis with flexor muscles (Plumb.). Paralysis, with numbness and for- mication; spinal auEemia. A valuable remedy in gangrene, especially senile (see symptoms). Ulcers. Anthrax. Petechia. Ecchymosis. Lymphatic tumors. Collapse with choleroid and other diseases (Carb. v.), skin cold, but external warmth intolerable. Asiatic cholera, with collapse, icy-coldness, but cannot bear covering or warmth, face sunken and distorted, particularly about the mouth. Dysentery, threatening col- lapse. Cholera infantum, watery, offensive, causing great pros- tration. SELENIUM. 68^ SELENIUM. An element. Preparation. — Triturations. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts chiefly upon the larynx, and upon the male sexual or- gans, producing inflammation of the former, and weakness tending to complete impotence ; in the latter, the general tend- ency of the drug being to produce exhaustion and debility. OHARACTBRISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind.— Great duflness, with complete insensibility and indiffer- ence to his surroundings (Carb. v.. Cinch., Phos.). Forget- ful, especially in business ; but when lying half asleep, every- thing recurs to him. Difficult comprehension, mental labor fatigues; unfit for any kind of work. Head. — Vertigo, as if intoxicated (Agar., Jfux v., Stram.). Hair falls off when combing; also of eyebrows, whiskers, and genitals. Nose.— Itching in nose and on borders of wings. Inchnation to bore fingers into nose {Cina). Yellow, thick, jelly-like mucus in nose. Face.— Greasy, shining skin of face. Comedones (Sulph.). Great emaciation (Natr. mur.) of face and hands. Mouth.— Teeth covered with mucus. Stammering speech ; ar- ticulates with great difficulty (Can. ind., Canst., Stram.). Throat.— Hawking of lumps of transparent mucus every morn- ing (Argent.). Abdomen.— Pains in right side, around under last ribs, especi- ally on inspiration, extending to 'region of kidneys, which were sensitive to external pressure. Stool.— Threads, like hairs, in stools. Constipation, hard stools, with blood at end. Urinary. Organs.— Urine dark, scanty; red in evening. Invol- untary urination when walking; dribbles after stool or uri- nation when walking. Biting in the top of urethra. 690 SELENIUM. Male Sexual Organs.— Erections slow, insufficient; semen emitted too rapidl^^, and with long-continued thrill ; weak and ill-humored after an embrace ; weakness in loins. Se- men thin, without normal odor. Lewd thoughts, but phys- ical impotence. Prostatic juice oozes while sitting, during sleep, when walking, and at stool (Agn., Sil.). Respiratory Organs. — Voice hoarse when beginning to sing, or from long talking (Arg. met., Arum., Phos.); has to clear the throat, hawks transparent lumps of mucus every morn- ing, sometimes bloody. Cough in morning, straining the chest, with expectoration of lumps of mucus and blood. Neck and Back. — Neck stiff on turning the head. Pain, as from lameness, in small of back, in morning. Limbs. — Tearing in hands at night, with cracking in wrists. Emaciation of hands and legs. Itching of palms, also of ankles, in evening. Ulceration on legs; blisters on toes. Cramps in calves and soles {Calc, c, Sulph.). Legs feel weak, with fear of paralysis, after typhus. Generalities. — Irresistible desire to lie down and sleep; strength suddenly leaves him. Throbbing in vessels of whole body (Glon., Sep.), especially felt in abdomen. Every draft of air, even warm, causes pain in limbs, head, etc. Great emaciation, especially of face, thighs and hands. Fever. — Chill, alternating with heat. External heat, burning in skin, and only in single spots. Profuse sweat on chest, armpits and genitals, from least exertion ; as soon as he sleeps ; stains yellow or white, and stiffens the linen. Aggravation. — Pains and most other symptoms worse after sleep; from draft of air; on hot days. Oompare. — Arg. met., Caust., Phos., Stan. Antidotes. — Ign., Puis. Incompatible: Cinch., Wine. THERAPEUTICS. Selenium is an excellent remedy in general debility, especi- ally of old people, or after typhoid fever or other exhaustive dis- eases ; early exhausted both mentally and physically ; after coi- tion or seminal emissions; bad effects from sexual excesses. Impotence. Nervous headache over left eye, worse from heat of the sun, strong odors, tea or acids (lemonade); periodical every afternoon; hysterical with profuse flow of urine, and melan- SENECIO AUREUS. 691 cholj^ Headache of drunkards, enlargement of liver, stitching pains, sensitiveness, worse on motion and pressure, rash over hepatic region. Constipation from atony of the bowels. Follicu- lar laryngitis. Paralysis of vocal cords. Hoarseness, especially of singers and public speakers, must hawk and clear the throat of mucus. Incipient tubercular laryngitis. SENECIO AUREUS. Jfatural order. — Compositse. Coimivon 7Z'«'7>?/e5.— rGolden Ragwort. Squaw Weed. Habitat. — An indigenous perennial plant, growing on banks of creeks and on low marshy grounds throughout the North and Northwest. Preparation. — Tinct- ure from the entire fresh plant. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts powerfully upon the mucous surfaces, causing irri- tation and increased mucous discharge. It has especial affinity for the genera^tive and urinary organs, and to a less degree, the bronchial and intestinal tracts. It also produces a condition of nervous irritability and prostration similar to that present from reflex causes in hysteria and other affections of the female generative organs. OHARAOTBRISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Inability to fix the mind on any one subject for any length of time. Head. — Dull, stupefying headache. "Catarrhal headache from suppressed secretions. Eyes. — Sharp, lancinating pains in left eye and left temple. "Catarrhal inflammation from suppressed secretions. Nose.— Sneezing and sense of burning and fullness in the nos- trils. Coryza. Mouth.— Dryness of the mouth, throat and fauces. Stomach.— Nausea on rising in the morning (Graph., Nux m., Puis., Sep.). Abdomen.— Griping, colic-like pains, relieved by bending for- ward (Coloc). 692 SENECIO AUREUS. Stool.— Stool : thin, watery; dark-colored ; containing hard lumps. Urinary Organs. — Tenesmus of the bladder, with heat and ui'ging ; pain in region of kidne,ys and frequent urination. Urging to urinate followed the chilliness ; urine tinged with blood. Urine scanty and high-colored. Frequent copious flow of urine. Slight pains in region of kidneys. Male Organs. — Full, heavy pain in left spermatic cord, moving along the cord to the testicle. Prostate gland enlarged,, and feels hard and swollen to the touch. Female Organs. — "Suppressed menses from cold (Cimic), °Dysmenorrhoea, with urinary sufferings. "Premature and profuse menstruation, with* backache. "Retarded and scanty menstruation (Sep.). "Irregular menses, at times too soon, at times retarded. "LeucorrhcBa instead of the menses, or with urinary troubles. Respiratory Organs. — "Loose, catarrhal cough; especially when attended with irregular or suppressed menses. In- creased secretion from bronchial mucous membrane; the bronchi and lungs seem full, but it cannot be coughed up. Back. — Pain in back and loins at night. Dull pain in the lum- bar region in morning. Lancinations in lumbar region. Generalities. — Nervousness, sleeplessness and hysterical moods. Great sleeplessness, with vivid, unpleasant dreams. Aggravation. — Symptoms generally worse in the afternoon. Compare.— Calc. c, Helon., Phos., Puis., Sang., Sep. THERAPEUTICS. Senecio has been found of most value in disorders of men- struation (see clinical symptoms above mentioned). Bronchial catarrh and pulmonary diseases, especially associated with sup- pressed menses, chronic cystitis with heat, strangury and bloody urine. Nephritis, pain in back, tenesmus and urging. Scanty and bloody urine. Ascites with scanty, high-colored urine. Insomnia from uterine irritation. SENEGA. 693 SENEGA. Synonym. — Polygala Senega. JVatural order. — Polygala- cese. Common name. — Seneca Snake Root. Habitat. — An in- digenous perennial plant, most common in the AVestern States. Preparation. — Tincture from the dried root. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Chief action is upon the mucous lining of the respiratory tract, where it produces catarrhal inflammation. It produces a similar effect upon the conjunctiva, and also acts upon the eye itself. It causes irritation of the gastric and intestinal lining, resulting in vomiting, colic, and diarrhoea, and has a marked action upon the pleura and joints, as shown by the chronic exu- dations from these parts. It also produces paralytic sj^mp- toms, w^hich are most pronounced in the eye and larynx. CHARAOTBRISTIO SYMPTOMS. Head. — Confused feeling in head. Shght vertigo before the eyes; reeling sensation in head. Dvtllness of the head, tvith pressure and weahness of the eyes. The head feels heavy. Sort of aching in forehead, sinciput and occiput; comes every day, is felt when sitting in a warm room, and is ac- companied by pressure in eyes, that does not bear touch, though headache is not worse from pressure , better from exercise in open air. Pressing pain in forehead and orbits after dinner, especially in left side of head ; relieved in open air. Eyes. — Aching over the orbits ; eyes tremble and water when he looks at any object intentl}' or steadily; eyes weak and watery when reading. Burning in eyes when reading or writing. Drawing and pressure in eyeballs, with diminu- tion of visual power. Dryness, with sensation as if balls were too large for orbits. Weakness of sight and flickering before the eyes when I'eading ; must wipe them often. When walking toward the setting sun, seemed to see another smaller sun beneath the first, assuming a somewhat oval shape on looking down disappearing on bending the head iachiuard and on closing the eyes. Double vision relieved 694 SENEGA. hy tending head hachiuard. Cilia hang full of hard mucus ; smarting of the conjunctivae, as if soap were in the eyes ; mornings ; blepharitis ; sometimes lids stick so after sleep they must be soaked before they can be separated. Nose. — Troublesome dryness of Schneiderian membrane. Sneezes so often and so violently head grows dizzy and heavy ; followed by thin coryza. Face. — Paralytic feeling in left half of face. Mouth. — Tongue coated white, yellowish-white, or slimy, in morning, with slimy, unpleasant taste. Throat. — Mouth and throat dry ; tenacious mucus difficult to haw^k up ; scraping and roughness ; constriction in fauces ; hawking; rawness; burning. Irritation and roughness in oesophagus; burning sensation as if abraded. Stomach. — Eructations which relieve the mucus and hawking. Pressure below pit of stomach; sense of gnawing hunger; burning; deranged digestion. Stool. — Watery stools spurting from the anus (Crot. tig., Grat., Thuja). Urinary Organs. — Diminished secretion of urine ; dark-colored and frothy ; acrid. After cooling, urine becomes turbid and cloudy, or deposits a thick sediment, yellowish-red, with upper stratum jellow and flocculent. Respiratory Organs. — Tenacious mucus, causing hawking or coughing. Sudden hoarseness when reading aloud. Tearing and stinging in larynx and trachea. Hacking cough from irritation in the larynx. Short breathing and oppression of chest on going up stairs. Dry cough, with oppression of chest and roughness in throat ; short, hacking cough from mucus, or from irritation or tickling in larynx, worse in open air, and from walking fast. Cough ends in a sneeze, as in a common cold. Soreness of chest, dry cough, throat dry, hoarseness ; later much mucus in bronchi and trachea. °Cough worse evenings, at night, during rest, sitting, lying on (left) side, and in warm room. Orgasnis of blood; op- pression, wdth flushes of heat ; oppression especially during rest. Tightness and oppression of the chest (Merc, cor.), worse during rest. Violent aching pain in chest, especially at night and while at rest. Walls of chest sensitive or pain- ful when touched, or on sneezing; better from deep inspira- SENEGA. 695 tions; °often remaiiiiuo; after colds on chest (Ranunc), Cer- tain movements cause pain, as if chest were too tight; dis- posed to expand the chest ; this leaves soremess. Burning, sore pain under sternum, especially during motion and on deep inspiration. Shooting stitches in chest, worse duriiig inspiration, and during rest. Accumulation of much mu- cus in lArynx, trachea, and chest (Ant. tart., Ipec, Stan.). Heart. — Violent boring pain in region of heart (Stil.). Generalities. — Great debihty, with stretching of the limbs, and confusion in head. Lassitude and slight trembling of upper limbs. Faintness when walking in open air. Fever. — Chilhness; shuddering over back ; heat in face; weak; burning eyes; beating headache; difficult breathing; body feels bruised ; hot skin ; accelerated, hard pulse. Aggravation. — During rest ; walking ; in open air. Amelioration. — From sweat. Conditions. — Best suited for the phlegmatic, also for fat chil- dren predisposed to catarrh ; or to the sluggish, who react from colds imperfectly. — Hering. Compare.— Baryt. c. , Bry., Calc. c, Caust., Hep. s., Phos.,. Spong., Squilla. THERAPEUTICS. The chief use of Senega is in the treatment of catarrhal affections of the respiratory tract, with symptoms above out- lined, especially laryngeal and bronchial catarrh. Catarrhs thab tend to leave sore and tender places in walls of chest, as though there had been left circumscribed spots of inflamma- tion. Bronchial catarrh in the aged, especially during cold weather, much tough mucus, which cannot be raised, difficult breathing. Anxiety. Whooping cough, with characteristic ex- pectoration. Congestion of lungs. Pneumonia, especially right side. OEdema of the lungs. Hydrothorax after pleuro-pneu- monia. Exudations in pleura, after Bry. with tightness and great oppression. Useful in various affections of the eye. Pro- motes the absorption of lens fragments after operations for cataracts. Iritis. Catarrhal conjunctivitis. Hypopion in scrofu- lous subjects. Double vision, relieved only b}^ bending the head backward. Muscular asthenopia. Catarrhal pharyngitis. Ca- tarrhal cystitis. 696 SEPIA. SEPIA. Synonyms. — Sepia Octopus. Sepia Succus. Jfatural or- der.— Dibranchiata. Cojmnon ncnnes. — Cuttlefish. Squid. Preparation. — Triturations from the inky juice of the cuttle fish. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Affects especially the portal, hepatic, and the female sexual systems, and diminishes in general the reproductive energies of the vegetative sphere. Its action is sluggish, and its pains and isolated symptoms feebly pronounced, the general condition being one of torpidity and depression. The functions of the liver are not greatly disturbed, but the secretions are altered, becoming sour and foul, and their con- sistence changed, as is indicated by a special analysis of the symptoms produced. Sepia exerts its chief local action upon the female sexual organs, producing weakness and irritation, and upon the skin producing hepatic eruptions. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Excessively nervous ; sensitive to the least noise (Coc- cul., Sil.). Great sadness and dejection, with much weeping • (Lye, J^atr. mur., Plat., Puls.)\ in evening; when walking in the open air. Gloominess, and dark forebodings of the future; about her health. Depression on awaking in the morning. Anxiety, with flushes of heat in the evening (Aeon.). Very irritable, fretful, and easily offended (Bry., Cham.). Great apathy ; indifference to everything (Berb., Phos. ac.)\ even to one's own family. Indolent mood ; indisposed to any exertion, mental or physical (Nux v., Phos., Sulpli.). Absent-minded. Dullness of compre- hension. Stupid. Heavy flow of ideas; language coming slowly (Nux m., Phos.); unable to collect thoughts; weak memory {Anac., Kreos.,Lach.,Merc.,Natr. m.\iv.,JSl'uxj)i'.). Head. — Painful confusion of the head, particularly in the fore- head. Rush of blood to the head. Vertigo when walking in the open air (Agar., Calc); with nausea and anxiety. SEPIA. 697 Violent pressive headache, as if the head would burst (Natr. mur., Puis., Sang.); worse from stooping, motion, coughing or shaking the head (Bell., Bry.). Headache, with mental depression in the morning. Headache, with nausea, begin- ning in the morning (Natr. mur., Mux v.), and lasting till noon or evening; better in the open air (Puis., Sang.). Heavy, pressing pain in the left orbit and left side of head, zvith darting pains froin left eye over side of head toward occiput ; better after meals. Headache worse from mental labor. Pain over eyes; over left eye; worse on mo- tion in the house ; better on walking in the open air, and on lying down; with nausea. Intense frontal headache, dull pressure, or stitching, tearing pains. Jerking pains in fore- head. Tearing pains from left temple to upper part of left side of head. Fullness in forehead and temples, with throb- bing in carotids. Great falling out of the hair {Amhr., Graph., Hep. s., Lach., Lye, Merc., Katr. mur., iN'itr. ac., Petrol., Phos.). Mmst eruptions on vertex and back part of the head {Graph., Hep. s.. Lye, Rhus tox., Sulph.). Scalp and roots of the hair very sensitive to touch (Cinch., Ferr., Hep. s.. Staph., Sulph., Verat. alb.). Much itching of the scalp (Canst., Graph., Siolph.). Eyes. — Inflammation of the eyes, with swelling, redness, and burning, sma,rting, pressive pains; lachrymation, which relieves. Lachrymation morning and evening. Eyes feel heavy, and lids inclined to close, as from paralysis {Caust., Coni., Gels., Plumb.). Soreness, roughness and hxirningiin the eyes, from wallcing in cold luind ; aggra- vated by gas-light, and from reading. Pressure as from sand in the eyes; aggravated by rzvbbing and pressing lids together (Ars., Canst., Hep. s., Puis., Rhus tox., Sulph.). Whites of eyes become yellow. Eyes become easily fatigued from reading and writing, especially by candle-light (Myrica, Phos., Ruta.) Nightly agglutination of the eyes • (Calc. c, Graph., Lye, Merc, Rhus tox., Sulph.). Red, her- petic spot on upper lid, scaly and peeling off. Pustules on conjunctiva. Heat and dryness of the margins of the lids, with much vtohm^ {Staph., Sulph.). Vision obscured, as from a veil (Caust., Croc, Natr. mur., Petrol,, Phos., Sulph.), Sight vanishes during the menses, better on lying 698 SEPIA. down. Intolerance of reflected ligbt from bright objects. Fiery sparks (Bell., Cycl., Natr. mur., Fhos., Sulph.) and zigzags before the eyes. Many black spots before the eyes {Agar., Merc, Phos.). Ears. — Very sensitive to noise (Aeon., Bell., Lye, Sil.). Loud sounds and humming in the ears. Itching. Nose. — Nose inflamed and swollen; nostrils sore and ulcerated (Alum., Ant. crud., Graph., Merc). Painful eruption on tip of nose. Severe dry coryza, especially of left nostril. Flu- ent coryza, with frequent sneezing (Aeon., Cepa). Violent bleeding of the nose, especially during menses. Face. — Yd^cepale; yelloiu (Hep. s., Natr. mur.); red; flushed; swollen. Yelloiv saddle across the nose and zipper part of cheehs ; also yellow spots on the face {Yew.). Yellowness around the mouth. Herpetic eruption on the lips. Red roughness on face ; on forehead. Skin swollen on forehead. Itching pimples on the skin. Mouth. — Early decay of the teeth. Toothache, drawing, tear- ing, stitching, extending to the ear, especially after eating, drinking, or taking anything hot or cold into the mouth. Toothache during the menses. Gums painful, swollen dark- red, ulcerated, and easily bleeding {Merc, Jfitr. ac.,Phos.). Vesicles on the tongue (Borax, Nux v., JSfitr. ac). Tongue coated white (Ant. crud., Bry., Jfua> v., Puis.). Tongue feels as if scalded (/ri^5, Merc, Plat.). Bad smell from the mouth {Am., Hep. s., lodi., Merc, J^itr. ac, Nux v.). Dryness of lips, mouth and tongue (Apis, Jfux m.). Taste bitter {Bry., Cinch., JYux v.. Puis., Sulph.), sour (Calc c. Cinch., Mag. carb., Nitr. ac, JSCux v.), slimy, foul, mostly in morning. Throat. — Dryness and soreness in throat, with tension and scraping. Much mucus in throat. Pressure in throat in region of tonsils, as if neck-cloth were too tight. Roughness and burning in fauces ; aggravated by hawking. Soreness of throat, with swelling of cervical glands. Stomach. — Excessive appetite, never satisfied, or no appetite at all. Aversion to meat (Sabad.). Desire for vinegar {Hep. s.). Frequent eructations, sour, bitter {Jfux v., Phos., Puis.), or hke rotten eggs (Agar., Am., Borax), es- pecially after eating and drinking. Hiccough after a meal. SEPIA. 699 JYausea, mornings, passed off after eating something ; after a meal ; from smell of food ; with weakness, vertigo, and darkness before the eyes. Vomiting of -bile and food (Nux v., Podo.) during pregnancy (Kali c, Nux m., Puis.); straining so hard that blood comes up. Sensitiveness of pit of stomach to touch (Hyos., Natr. carb., Sil.). Pain- ful sensation of emptiness in stomach and abdomen (Cimic, Hydras., Ign., Petrol., Puis., Sulph.). Pressure in stomach as from a stone, after eating {Pry., JViia) v.. Puis.). Pulsation in pit of stomach (Ant. tart., Asaf., Puis.). Stitches or burning in pit of stomach. Abdomen. — In region of liver, stitches (Ars., Bry., Cinch., Kali c); fullness; pressure; soreness (Apis, Bell., Bry.). Se- vere stitches in left side of abdomen. Attacks of contract- ive pain in right hypochondrium. Pressure and heaviness in the abdomen. Abdomen distended and sensitive (Bry., Cinch., Graph.). Abdomen puffed up; °pot-belliedness of mothers. Loud rumbling in abdomen (Agar., Aloe, Lye), especially after eating. Pain across hypogastrium at night on lying down, better from micturition. Brown spots on the abdomen. Stool and Anus. — Burning and itching in the rectum and Sinus (Sulph.). Prolapsus of rectum. Weak feeling in rec- tum in evening in bed. Painful protruding hcemorrhoids ; during stool; luhen tvalking ; bleeding when walking. Soreness, aching, or stitches in the anus. Inactivity of the bowels {Alum., Camph., Op.). °Rectum feels full all the time, even after a soft stool. Ineffectual urging to stool, with discharge of mucus or flatulence only; with sensation of a plug. Stool insufficient, retarded ; like sheep's dung (Alum., Kali c, Op., Plumb.); difficult, mixed with mucus. Bloody. Diarrhoea, °after boiled milk. Whitish or brownish color of the stools. ExpuLsion of ascarides (Ferr., Merc, Spig.). Urinary Organs. — Urging to urinate from pressure on the bladder and tension in hypogastrium,. Frequent mictu- rition, even at night (Ambr., Borax, Coni., Phos. ac). Feeling as if the bladder were greatly distended. Burning in the urethra, when urinating (Aeon., Ars., Canth., Coni., Natr. carb.); stitchesj smarting. Urine; turbid, clay-col- 700 SEPIA. orecl, with reddish sediment ; thick, slimy, very offensive (Cale. c, Kreos.), depositing a yellowish, pasty sediment ; becomes turbid and offensive, with white sediment (Calc. c, Colch.. Graph.); staining bottom of vessel. Female Organs. — Pain in the uterus, and sensation of hear- ing down in all the pelvic organs, with strong pressure, as though the contents would issue through the vulva {Bell., Lil. tig., Natr. mur.. Plat.); must cross her liinhs to prevent protrusion of the parts, with oppressed breathing. Dull, heavy pain in the ovaries; especially left. Great dry- ness of vulva and vagina, especially after menses ; pain- ful to touch. Prolapsus uteri (Arg. nit., Coni.), luith con- gestion, ivith yelloiu leucorrhcea. Prolapsus, with inclina- tion of fundus to left (Puis., Nux v., right side), causing numbness in left lower half of body, with pain, better when lying, especially on right side, tenderness of os uteri. Menses too early ; and scanty, appearing only in the morning. Too late and scanty; regular but scanty; flow dark (Nux v.). Soreness and redness of the labia; in the perineum, and between the thighs {Kreos.). Leucorrhcea yellozu ; lihe milk (Calc. c, Coni., Lye, Sulph. ac, Puls.)\ excoriating {Alum., Ars., Kreos.); hke pus; of bad-smelling fluids; before the menses ; with soreness of pudenda. Abortion after the fifth month. Itching of nipples which bleed and seem about to ulcerate (Graph.). Respiratory Organs. — Dry, hacking cough, especially in the evening, on lying down and at night { Coni., Hyos., Puis., Sil.).' Spasmodic; from tickling in larynx (Hep. s., Phos., Bum^ex, Sil., Sang.); much rattling of mucus in the chest {Aizt. tart., Ipec, Phos.). Short, dry cough, as if proceed- ing from the stori%ach i^vj .)\ with pain in stomach; with nausea and bitter vomiting. Expectoration profuse, puru- lent, offensive, tasting salty (i^mbr., Carb. v., Lye, Phos.). Expectoration of blood while lying down. Oppression of the chest and shortness of breath when walking or from slightest exertion (Aeon., Ars.). Oppression of the chest morning and evening. Stitches in chest when coughing {Bry., Kali c.)\ especially in left side (Phos.V Brown spots on the chest (yellow, Phos.). SEPIA. 701 Heart and Pulse.— Palpitation ; in evening, in bed with beat- ing in all arteries ; during digestion ; with stitches in left . side of chest. Neck and Back. — Pain in the hack, and small of haoh par- ticularly luith stiffness; hnprovecl hy walking {Rhus to JO.). Aching pain between the shoulders, and under left scapula. Tearing in back during the menses, with chills, heat, thirst and contraction of chest. Aching and dull pain in lumbar and sacral regions, extending to thighs and legs. Heaviness in back in morning on waking, almost as if asleep. Weakness and tired pain in small of hack (Hy- dras.), when lualking. Sprained pain over hips, in evening in bed, and in afternoon. Limbs. — Heaviness of the limbs. Drawing, paralytic pains, and weakness in limbs, especially in joints. Arthritic pains in the joints. Limbs go to sleep easily (Sil., Sulph.). Cold- ness of the hands and feet ; but moist. Upper Limbs. — Itching eruption in hands of elhows. Tension in meta-carpal joints. Lower Limbs. — Lancinating stitches over right thigh ; must get out of bed for relief; sore as if ulcerated. Bruised feeling in lower limbs, desires to sit down, and when sitting feels that she must stand up. Pains in hips and thighs, ex- tending to knees. Soreness and burning pain between the thighs. Swelling and heaviness of the feet. Sticking pain in heel ; and corns. Offensive foot-sweat (Baryt. c, J\fitr. ac), causing soreness between the toes {Sil.). Generalities. — Frequent trembling of the whole body. Exces- sive prostration, exhaustion and faintness in inorning during menses ; in morning on waking ; in morning on ris- ing. Indolence; after a meal. Easily fatigued from the least exercise. °Excessive sensitiveness to pain (Aur., Cham., Cinch., Coff., Ign.). Sensitive to cold or damp air (Aur., Nux v., Petrol., Khus tox., Bumex, Sil.). Violent ebullition of blood, also during the night. Feels pulse beat- ing through the whole body {Glon., Puis., Sil., Zinc), espe- cially in whole of left chest. Skin. — Itching on various parts of the whole body (Khus tox., Sulph.), face, arms, hands, back, hips, feet, abdomen and genitals. Red, herpetic eruptions ; with itching and burn- 702 SEPIA. ing. Brown or reddish liver spots on the skin. Indolent ulcers, with itching, stinging and burning. Sleep. — Great sleepiness in the day-time, especially in forenoon. Difficult waking in the morning, with much weariness. Eest. less, unrefreshing sleep ; wakes up tired and aching. Wakes at night in a fright, and screaming. Talking in sleep. Fever. — Want of natural body warmth {Led., Sil.). Chilli- ness in the evening, in the open air, and from every motion. Chilly in the warm room, during the day. Flushes of heat, SiS if hot weitpiV were poitred over hiin, or from least mo- tion. Anxious heat afternoons and evenings. Heat as- cends to the head and face. Profuse perspiration ; at night (Calc. c. Cinch., Merc., Phos., Sil., Stan., Sulph. ac), in morning after awaking (Calc. c, J^itr. ac, Nux v.. Puis., Sulph.); while walking; from slightest motion (Ambr., Calc. c, Hep. s.. Lye, Phos., Sil.). Cold sweat at night on breast, back and thighs. Aggravation.— Morning and evening; from 12 till 1 p.m., and from 4 till 6 P.M.; after eating; while sitting; after sexual excesses. Amelioration.— In the open air ; during violent exercise. Oonditions. — Especially suited to persons with dark hair ; for women, and particularly during pregnancy, child-bed, and while nursing. Oompare.— Aeon., Ars., Bell., Berb., Bry., Calc. c, Carb. v., Cinch., Graph., Lil. tig.. Lye, Merc, Matr. ryiur., Nux v., Podo., Puis., Rhus tox., Sil., Sulph. After Puis., Sil., Sulph., then Sep. follows well. Inimical to Sep. is Lach. Antidotes.— Vegetable acids, Nitr. sp. d.. Aeon., Ant. crud.. Ant. tart., Khus tox. Sepia Antidotes.— Calc. c. Cinch., Merc, Phos., Sars., Sulph. THERAPEUTICS. The chief clinical use of Sepia is in the treatment of diseases of the female organs. In general it stands at the head of all remedies in the treatment of uterine displacements, especially prolapsus, with engorgement and the characteristic bearing- down sensation as if the organs would protrude, has to cross her limbs to prevent it. Has cured many cases of prolapsus without this symptom, but where other indications for Sepia SEPIA. 703 were present, especially a sensation of "goneness" in the stom- ach. In general it is the chief remedy in chronic endometritis, and uterine leucorrhoea, with pain in back, yellow or milky ex- coriating discharge, etc. Congestion and induration of the cer- vix, with soreness and burning. Useful in all disorders of men- struation. Especially valuable in chronic amenorrhoea ; scanty irregular menstruation. Dysmenorrhoea. Metrorrhagia. Chronic vaginitis, parts dry and painful, especially during coition. Morning sickness. Threatening miscarriage; disposition to miscarry; sore nipples. Pot-belliedness of mothers. Flushes during climacteric period. Ovarian irritation. Indurations; of mammary glands and ovaries. Chlorosis. Often useful in melancholia and hysteria, associated with uterine troubles. Hemicrania. Anaemia. Jaundice. Epithelioma of lip, stomach or vagina, with burning pain. Herpetic eruptions, especially on face and in bends of joints. Acne. Eczema. Indolent ulcers, and ulcers around joints, especially of fingers. "Liver spots," especially on abdomen and chest. Often used in eye affections. Asthenopia associated with uterine disease, worse evenings; also from loss of semen in the male. Sudden vanishing of sight during the menses. Scrofulous conjunctivitis, subacute muco- purulent discharge in the morning, eyes dry in the evening. Supra-orbital neuralgia from uterine disease. Granulated lids. Paralysis of upper lid from uterine disease or disordered men- struation. Phyctenular conjunctivitis. Blepharitis ciliaris. Pustular keratitis. Tarsal tumors. Cataract. Dry catarrh. Nasal polypi. Epistaxis during menses. Facial neuralgia dur- ing pregnancy, with chronic amenorrhoea ; intermittent worse at night. Toothache from same causes. Frequently useful in dyspepsia during pregnancy, or with uterine disease or amen- orrhoea, with hypochondriacal mood, also from severe mental labor or sexual excesses; desire for acids, "gone" feeling in stomach, etc. Acid dyspepsia, enlargement and congestion of the liver, with heaviness and soreness. Useful when the liver is sluggish and torpid, with headache, bad taste mornings, sal- low complexion, especially "yellow saddle," across bridge of nose, constipation, etc. Constipation from inactivity of the rectum. Bleeding, painful, protruding haemorrhoids, especially with uterine or hepatic disease. Diarrhoea from boiled milk, especially in teething children. Chronic cystitis, with charac- 704 SILICIA. teristic urine and sediment, constant urging and pressure, etc. Atony of the bladder. Nocturnal enuresis. Chronic urethritis. Gonorrhoea. Bladder troubles, with uterine displacements. Chronic bronchitis, cough worse evenings, with gastric, hepatic and other Sepia symptoms. Whooping cough, worse before midnight, cough seems to come from the stomach. Reflex coughs irom uterine or gastric troubles. Often indicated and useful in the course of phthisis pulmonahs, particularly in women, with characteristic Sepia symptoms. Functional heart troubles with uterine disease, menstrual disorders or at climac- teric, especially palpitation, fainting, flushes, etc. Arthritic affections. Sometimes indicated in intermittent fever. SILICIA. Synonyms. — Acidum Silicum. Silex. Coinmon names. — Flint. Silica. Preparation. — Triturations of pure Silica. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts powerfully upon the vegetative sphere, affecting more especially the organic substances of the body and involving prominently mucous surfaces, glandular structures, bones and joints. The general condition of system produced, representing a perverted nutrition, resembles the two great dyscrasias— scrof- ula and rachitis — while the action of the drug, like that of the disease, is also slow, deep and long-lasting. The chief property of Silicia is its power to produce a suppurative process, either in soft tissues, in the periosteum, or in the bone itself. As a secondary result of the morbid processes set up by Silicia, the nervous system becomes involved, giving a condi- tion of erethism conjoined with exhaustion, and resulting in va- rious nervous disorders, spinal irritation, exalted activity of the senses, followed by depression and paralysis. OHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind.— Difficulty in flxing the attention; mind confused (Gels., Nux v.). Restless and fidgety ; startled and anxious from SILICIA. 705 the least noise, to which he is very sensitive (Coccul.). De- sponding, melancholy, tired of life ; lachrymose. Irritable, ^yeez/i.s/i', low-spirited {Nuxv.). Excitement, with easy or- gasm of blood. Compunctions of conscience about trifles (Ign.). Head. — Vertigo ascending from dorsal region, through nape of neck into head, constantly inclined to fall forward ; all day,, while stooping at work. Congestion to the head, with red- ness and burning in the face. Difficulty in holding the head up. Heat of head. Pressing, bursting headache, as if the eyes and brain were forced outward (Aeon., Bry., Kaliiod.). Headache, rising froTvi the nape of the nech to the vertex. Violent headache, with loss of reason and unconsciousness. Headache at night, with confusion of mind. Koaring and shattering sensation in the brain, when stepping hard, or knocking the foot against anything. Vi- olent pressive headache in the morning, with chilliness and nausea. Violent tearing in the head, fi^eqztently one- sided, starting from occipital protuberances; extending upward and forward. Headache, consisting of a bruised pain above the eyes, so that he could scarcely open them. Jerking headache extending deep into the brain. Tearing to vertex as if it would biorst, extending through the head, ivith throbbing and chilliness, necessity to lie down and toss about in bed, better from binding the head tight- ly. Stitches in the forehead and temj)les. Weight over the eyes. Jerking pain in middle of forehead, renewed by sud- denly turning around, stooping or talking. Pressive head- ache in occiput. Headache worse from mental exertion; noise; motion; jarring ; light; stooping; cold air; bet- ter from binding head tightly {^rg. nit.); lurapping head warmly (Mag. mur.); hot compresses; in warm room. Head is ivet from profuse sweating at night (Cinch.); lihes lurapping up. Scalp very sensitive to touch, even of thehat{Carb. v.. Cinch., Merc). Eruption on back of head, moist, dry, or offensive; scabby, burning, itching; discharging pus (Hep. s.. Graph., Lye, Ehustox., Sulph.). Itching on scalp (Camph., Sep., Sulph.); painful and sore after scratching (Mere.) . Itching pustules on scalp and neck ; better from wrapping up warm. 706 SILICIA. Eyes. — Inflammation of the eyes; red, with smarting, burning and profuse lachrymation {Alum., Calc. c, Lye, Merc, Puis., Sulph,). Agglutination of the lids at night (Calc. c, G^7^«'7?7^., Lye, Phos., Rhus tox., Sulph.). Painful dryness of the eyes, as if full of sand, in the morning (Ars., Caust., Hep. s.. Puis., Rhus tox., Sep.). Tearing shooting pains in the eyes, on pressing them together. Weakness. Heat, twitching. Swelliivg of the right lachrymal gland and sac ; shin inflamed. Dimness of vision ; mist or flickering before the eyes (Phos., Sil.). Blackness before eyes after headache. Letters run together (JVa?^7\ 77^^^/r,); appear pale. Black spots before the eyes (Agar., Cycl., Merc., Fhos., Sep., Sulph.). Ulcers, spots and opacities of the cornea (Euphr., Nitr. ac, Sulph.). Ears. — Swelling of the external ear, with thin discharge from the inner ear, accompanied by a hissing noise. Otalgia, with drawdng, stitching pains (Puis.). Itching in the ears (Baryt. c, Hep. s., Sulph.), especially wdien swallowing. Stoppage of the ears (Coccus., Mang.), which open at times with a loud report. Diflicult hearing, especially of the hu- man voice {Phos.). Roaring and singing in the ears (Cinch., Merc, Sivlph.). Over -sensitiveness to loud sounds (Aeon., Bell., Lye, Sep.). Nose. — Frequent, violent sneezing, or inefiicient efforts to sneeze. Acrid, corroding discharge from the nose (Ars., Amm. carb.. Arum., Merc. cor.). Discharge of much mucus without coryza. Drycoryza; complete stoppage of the nos- trils (Nux. v.). Alternate fluent and dry coryza (Alum., Nux v., Phos.). Sore, painful spots heloiu septum of nose, with sticking on touch. Nose inwardly dry, painful, ex- coriated, covered with crusts. Drawing in root of nose and in right malar bone. Bleeding of the nose (Aeon., Bell., Bry., Phos. ac). Itching in the nose {Sulph.). Voluptu- ous itching about the nose, in evening. Soreness as if beaten, in nasal bones. Face.— Pale, suffering expression. Pimples and ulcers in Ver- million border of lower lip. Blisters on margins of upper lip, sticking or smarting on touch. Painful ulcers in cor- ners of mouth (Ant. crud., Graph., Lye, 'Rhus tox.), with itching. Burning about the mouth. Herpes on the chin SILICIA. 707 (Hep. s., Graph.). Painful swelling of the submaxillary glands (Hep. s.); pain on touch. Mouth. — Teeth become loose and feel elongated (Ars., Merc, Rhus tox.), with swelling and painful soreness of the gums; inflamed gums; gum boils. Gu^l^s painfully sensitive on talcing cold, luater into the mouth. Soreness of the tongue. Sensation of a hair lying on forepart of tongue (back part, Kali bi., Natr. mur.). Offensive odor from the mouth ^ (Arn., Hep. s., lodi., Mere., Jfitr. ae.) in the morning. Taste sour after eating. Dryness of the mouth (Apis, Ars., JSfujo m., Puis., Sep.). Throat.— Sore throat, as if swallowing over a lump or an ex- coriated surface ; especially on left side. Swelling of uvula. Sticking on swallowing, with pain on touch. Pressive pain or prickling in throat when swallowing. Paralysis of the velum palati ; food is ejected through the nose. Stomach. — Ravenous hunger, or loss of appetite. Excessive thirst {Aeon., Ars., Bry., Rhus tox.. Sec.). Bitter taste in the morning {Bry., Cinch., Puis., Siolph.). Sour, acid eruc- tations (Carb. v., Nux v., Phos., Puis.); after a meal, with burning in throat. °Water tastes bad ; vomits after drink- ing. Nausea, with good appetite and natural taste of food. Heaviness and pressure in stomach after eating (Ars., Bry., Jfuxv., Sep.). Burning in pit of stomach (t/^7^5., Canth., Phos., Sang.). Sensitiveness of pit of stomach to pressure (Hyos., Natr. carb., Puis., Sep.). Squeezing and clawing in Dit of stomach, especially after meals. Abdomen. — Swelling ; uneasy and pressive pain in region of liver. Abdomen distended, hard and tense {Ars., Baryt. c, Calc. c.,Merc.). Flatulence, with much rumbling (Agar., Aloe, Hep. s.). Emission of very offensive flatus {Aloe, Bry., Graph.). Cutting and pinching pains in abdomen, with constipation. Inflamed inguinal glands, large as peas, painful to touch. Stool and Anus. — Cutting and stinging in the rectum. Burning or stinging in rectum during stool. Moisture in the anus (Carb. an., Carb. v., Merc. cor.). Burning in the anus {Ars., Canth., Sulph.), especially after a dry, hard stool. Constriction in anus during stool. Constant but ineffectual desire for stool {^MS.\.). Stool remains long 708 SILICIA. in rectum. Diarrhoea ; stools horribly offensive {Ars., Asaf., Lept.). Pasty, liquid mucus. Constipation ; stools scanty or composed of hard lumps, light-colored; expulsion difficult, as from inactivity of the rectzim {Alztm.)\ when partly expelled, it slips bach again. Painful hcemor- rhoids ; protrude during stool (Aloe, Calc. c, Lach., Mur. ac, Puis.). Urinary Organs. — Frequent micturition, with distress, from irritable sphincter. Urging at night. Male Organs. — Sexual desire increased or very weak. Violent erections at night (Graph.). Nocturnal emissions (Cinch., Digit., Phos. ac). Lascivious thoughts. Discharge of pro- static fluid while straining at stool (Agn., Selen.). Itching and moist spots on scrotum (Petrol., Sulph.). Hydrocele. Sweat on scrotum (Khod.). Female Organs. — Increased menses, with repeated paroxysms of icy coldness over the w^hole body. Suppressed menstrua- tion (Caul., Cimic, Puis.). Menses too early and too feeble. Profuse, acrid, corrosive leucorrhoea (Ars., Kreos.); °puru- lent; milky; in paroxysms. Pressing-down feeling in va- gina. Itching, burning and soreness in pudenda (Sulph.); during menses. Mammae swollen hard, and painful (Coni.), as if ''gathering" (Merc, Phyt.), near the nipple. Darting, burning pains in left nipple. Nipple ulcerates ; is very tender. Respiratory Organs. — Hoarseness ; roughness of the larynx {Carb. v., Hep. s., Kali bi., Rhus tox.). Dry, hacking cough with hoarseness ; with soreness in the chest, caused by tick- ling and irritation in the throat {Phos., Puinex, Sang., Sep.). Cough, especially in the evening on lying down, dur- ing the night {Coni., Puis., Sep.), and after waking in the morning. Expectoration thick, yelloiu, lumpy; puru- lent (Carb. v., Lye, Staph.); tenacious mucus {Kali bi., Phos.); profuse; greenish (Stan.). Obstructed respiration ; shortness of breath; oppression. Bruised pain in chest when coughing (Apis., Arn.). Sticking pain in the chest and sides (Bry., Kali c, Phos., Sep.). Pressive pain in the sternum. Heart.— Palpitation and throbbing over the whole body while sitting. Violent palpitation on every movement. SILICIA. 709 Neck and Back. — Cervical glands and parotids swollen ; indu- rated (Baryt. c, Calc. c, lodi.). Stiffness of the nape of neck; with headache {Chel., Ign.). Weakness in back, and paralyzed feeling in limbs ; could scarcely walk. Burn- ing in back when walking in the open air and becoming warm. Aching, shooting, burning and throbbing in lumbo- sacral region. Stitches between the hips. Tearing between and beneath the scapulse. Stiffness and pain in small of back on rising from a seat, or on getting out of bed in the morn- ing. Pain as if beaten, in the small of back and hips. CoccyX' painful, as after a long carriage ride. Stinging in OS coccygis on rising ; painful to pressure. Scabby ele- vation on coccyx, above fissure of nates. Limbs. — Nails dirty-yellow, crippled and brittle. Ulcers about nails. Weakness of the limbs ; ca>n acarcelj wa\\i. Limbs go to sleep easily (Sep., Sulph.). Icy -cold legs and feet ( Yerat. alb.). Soreness and lameness in the limbs. Upper Limbs. — Heaviness and paralytic weakness of the arms. Trembling in all the limbs, especially in the hands. Great swelling of the axillary glands (Baryt. c. Lye). Tearing pain in wrists and ball of hand. Arms go to sleep when resting on them. Skin cracked in arms and hands. Cramp-like pain and lameness of the hand after slight exer- tion. Profuse sweat of the hands. Falling asleep of the hands at night. Finger nails roiogh and yelloiv. Dryness in tips of fingers. Contraction of fiexor tendons ; very pain- ful when moving fingers. Tearing, drazuing, sticking pain and nuinbness in fingers, as if suppurating , or as if a panaritium zvould forin. Lower Limbs. — Heaviness and weariness of the lower limbs. Tearing, stitching pains in the hips and thighs. Ulcer on leg, zuith sticking, burning pains. Suppurating pains in hip-joint. Drawing pains extending from the hips to the feet. Knee is painful, as if too tightly bound. Tearing in knee when sitting, better from motion. Cramp-like tension in the calves, and contraction. Swelling and redness of the feet. Intolerable carrion-like odor of the feet, without sweat, every evening. Offensive foot siueat (Barj'^t. c, J{itr. ac, Graph.) ,ivithrawness between the toes (Sep.), Burning of feet. Cramp in soles of feet (Carb. v., Sulph.). Corro- 710 SILICIA. siye ulcer on heel, xuith itching. Soreness of the soles ; also burning (Calc. c, Sulph.). Itching, suppurating scabs on toes. Constant, violent boring or tearing in the great toes. "Ingrowing toe nails (Mar. ver.); offensive dis- charge. Stitching pains in corns (Sulph.); also under toe nails. Generalities. — Weakness and sense of great dehility ; wants to lie doiviv; in morning after waking; on rising; evening; after walking ; at night, even to faintness. Emaciation ; with pale, suffering expression. Trembling when writing. Coldness of left side of bod j. Epileptiform spasms ; start- ing, distortion of eyes, twitching of lips, lolling of tongue, stretching and distortion of head and limbs. Restlessness, zvith excitement. Want of vital warmth (Led., Sep.), even when taking exercise. SensUive to cold air (Aur., Coccul., Kreos., Sep.); takes cold easily (Calc. c). Tainful, bruised feeling over the ivhole hody (Arn., Bapt.); after coition; at night, as if he had lain in an uncomfortable position. Whole side of body on zvhich he lies is painful, as if ulcerating, with chilliness on iincovering ; thirst, and flushes of heat to the head (Calc. phos.). Itching and stick- ing in various parts of the body. Feeling as if knives were running into her. Skin. — Small xuounds heal xuith difficulty, and suppurate profusely (Borax, Graph., Hep. s., Sulph.). Fainful pus- tular eruptions (Cic, Crot. tig., Sulph.); at last forming suppurating zilcers ; on forehead, occiput, sternuiri and spine. Eczematous or herpetic eruptions {Graph., Hep. s., Lye, Sulph.). Disposition to boils; boils in various parts ; xuith stinging on touch. Ulcers, xuith stinging, sticking, bximing pains ; offensive, with ichor and proud flesh (Ars., Carb. v., Graph.). Itching on various parts, worse at night, with sticking. Painless swelling of glands ; also with sup- puration (Graph., Hep. s.). Fistulous openings ; discharge offensive ; parts around hard, swollen, bluish-red. Sleep. — Great sleepiness after eating (Kali c, Nux m.), and in, the evening. Yawning. Sleepiness all day. Restless, un- easy sleep ; starting from sleep in fright, with trembling of whole body. Talking in sleep. Sleepiness after 2 a.m., with rush of thoughts. Dreams confused ; frightfxtl, of his SILICIA. 711 youth; ot past events ; anxious; lascivious, with emissions {Phos. ac). Fever. — Constant cliilliness, even wlven exercising or in c^ warm room {Puis.). Shivering creeping over the whole body. Fever, with violent heat in the head (Bell.); after- noons; at night, luith thirst and catching inspiration. Frequent flushes of heat, especially face and head. Fever zvorse at night Profuse perspiration at night (Cinch., Stan, ac, Sulph.); sour or offensive (Arn., Ars., Carh. an.). Perspiration on slight exercise (Ambr., Calc.c, Hep. s.,. Lye, Phos., ^ep.. Aggravation. — During neiu moon (Caust.); from motion; at night; in morning; from uncovering the head; open air; cold and wet; lying on painful side; wine. Amelioration. — From wrapping head ; from warmth ; in the room. Conditions. — Scrofulous children ; large bellies, weak ankles, and much sweat about the head. Over-sensitive; imper- fectly nourished, not froin want of food, but from imperfect assimilation. Oonipare. — Arn., Bell., Calc. c, Carb. v., Fluor, ac. Graph.,. Hep. s.. Hyper., Kali c, Lach., Lye, Merc., Mur. ac, Nitr. ac, Nux., Phos., Phos. ac. Pier, ac. Puis., Rhus tox.,Kuta, Sep., Sulph., Thuja. After Bell., Bry., Calc c, Cina, Graph.,. Hep. s., Ign., Nitr., ac, or Phos., then Sil. follows well. After Sil. come Fluor, ac, or Hep. s., Lach., Lye, Sep. Antidotes.— Camph., Hep. s., Fluor, ac. Silicia Antidotes.— Merc, Sulph. THERAPEUTIC S. The chief clinical value of Silicia is in the treatment of slow suppurative processes in general — long-lasting suppurations; glands, abscesses ulcers, felons, boils, carbuncles, cancers, caries, etc. Bad effects of splinters, needles, etc., penetrating the flesh. Indurations following suppurative inflammations, to cause absorption. Valuable in scrofulous and rachitic condi- tions in general. Defective nutrition in scrofulous children, not from v/ant of food, but from imperfect assimilation; open fon- tanelles ; head large ; body emaciated ; large abdomen ; sweat on the head, earthy complexion. Child slow in learning to 712 SILK^IA. walk. Diseases of bones (Fluor, ac); of glands. Caries of bones, especially long bones, with stabbing pains. Caries of vertebrae. Spinal curvature. Necrosis. Enchondroma. Exostoses. Hip- joint disease. Felons sometimes aborted ; they are generally better from warmth. Abscesses, especially about joints, with fistulous opeidngs, offensive discharge, surrounding parts hard, swollen, bluish-red. Mild and malignant suppurations, cellular tissues. Disposition to boils. Pustular, eczematous and her- petic eruptions. Herpes zoster. Ulcers, with stinging, burning pains, offensive, proud flesh. Ailments from impure vaccina- tion. Finger nails become yellow and brittle. Ulcers about the nails. Ingrowing toe-nails. Offensive feet. Offensive foot sweat. Useful in a variety of chronic diseases of the nervous system. Epilepsy, with well-marked aura starting from the solar plexus. Paralysis, more often a paralytic weakness arising from defect- ive nutrition. Spinal irritation. Locomotor-ataxia. Often useful in nervous affections following injuries of the spine. Chronic effects of fright or shock. In all nervous diseases the patient is extremely sensitive to all- external impressions. The surface of thebodj^is tender to the touch, and the spine can- not bear the least jar or pressure, also mental irritability and restlessness. Often valuable in nervous headaches, with symyjtoms noted in pathogenesis, especially when better from bandaging the head tightly or wrapping it up warmly. Useful in various diseases of the eye, A valuable remedy in inflamma- tion of the lachrymal sac and in lachrymal fistula (Fluor, ac). Caries of the orbital bones. Scrofulous conjunctivitis. Blepha- Titis. Tarsal tumors. Ulcers and opacities of cornea; corneal fistulse. Senile cataract. Keratitis. Hypopion. Sclero-cho- roiditis. Irido-choroiditis. Big styes; also to prevent their recurrence. Inflammation of external, middle or inner ear; especially chronic suppurative inflammation of middle ear; hissing noises most characteristic ; ichorous discharge. Caries of mastoid processes. Chronic nasal catarrh, offensive puru- lent discharge, or thin, bloody, excoriating; ulcerated mem- brane; Eustachian tube involved, with itching and tinghng. Hay-fever, with symptoms given in pathogenesis. Necrosis of the jaw (Phos.). A.n extremely valuable remedy in ab- scesses at the root of the teeth and dental fistulse. Tonsilitis, when the tonsils have suppurated and the process does not SPIGELIA. 713 •cease. Hepatic abscess. Hgemorrhoids. Fissures of the anus, with irritability and moisture. Diarrhoea, stools painless, offen- sive, lienteric, with constitutional symptoms of the drug. Con- stipation, from inactivity, stool when partly expelled slips back again. Diabetes, with general Silicia symptoms. Nocturnal seminal emissions. Sexual weakness. Hydrocele. Chlorosis. Suppuration of mammary tumors. May be useful in bronchial troubles of Silicia childi-en ; also in old people, especially phthi- sis mucosa. Suppurative stage of tuberculosis, with offensive, purulent expectoration. Sometimes useful in asthma following a suppressed fistulous discharge of long standing. Hectic fe- vers, with night sweats. Sometimes useful in chronic rheuma- tism. SPIGELIA. Syjionym. — Spigelia Anthelmia. JVatural order. — Logan- aceee. Coininon name. — Pink Koot. Habitat. — An annual plant found in the West Indies and South America. Prepara- tion.— Tincture from the freshly dried herb. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Acts especially on the nerves of animal life and of special sense, and upon the fibrous and muscular tissues of the eje and the heart. It produces irritation of the nerves, resulting, in the motor sphere, in spasmodic movements of the facial muscles, subsultus tendium, and even convulsions; in the sentient nerves, to neuralgic pains, especially of the fifth pair and of the heart, which, together with the rheumatic condition of the eye and heart which it produces, is the most important action of the drug. CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Weak memory. Mental exertion difficult. Head. — Vertigo on looking down, as if he would fall; better when lying down. Dullness of the whole head, luith pressive pain from ivithin ozttwarcl, in the forehead. Sensation of a tight band around the head (Ant. tart.. Gels., Kali 714 SPIGELIA. iod.), especially when stooping. Burrowing pain in fore- head, occiput and left side of vertex, worse from motion, loud noise, better from lying down. Tearing pains in tem- ples and forehead, extending toivard the eyes ; worse on motion, especially on making a false step. Brain feels loose on turning the head. Pressive headache, mostly in right temple, and involving the eye ; worse from, mo- tion, noise, jarring or straining at stool. Shooting through frontal sinuses ; behind and above right eminence. Neu- ralgic pains flying from one part to another. Feeling as if the head would burst asunder (Bry., Caps.). Periodical headache. Shaking in the brain ; worse when moving the head or stepping hard {Bell., Nux m., Rhus tox.); swashing sensation. Scalp sore and sensitive to the touch (Aeon., Cinch., Merc, Natr. mur., Sil., Sulph.); worse on moving the scalp. Eyes. — Eyes hurt on motion, as if too large for their orbits (Carls., Paris, Phos. ac, Plumb.). Sharp, shooting, cut- ting pains radiate from the eye in every direction. Itching in right eye-ball, retlirning after rubbing. Intense, pressive pain in eyeballs, especially on turning them {Bry., Phy- sos.). Pain in the eyes, deep in the sockets (Aloe, Cimic), Vision dim. Ears. — Sensation of distant ringing in the ears, with sensation as if the ear were loosely stopped, or a thick mist were in front of it. Itching in right vesicle. Otalgia, with pressive pain, as from a plug. Nose. — Copious mucus flows through the posterior nares, caus- ing choking at night; mucus at one time white, at another yellow. Tickling on back of nose, as if lightly touched by hairs, or as if a gentle wind were blowing across it. Face. — Prosopalgia, mostly left-sided (Aeon.), luith tearing, shooting, burning pains, especially in cheeh-bones, lower jaw extending to ears, above the eyebroius, and in the eye- ball; periodical ; from morning zvntil sunset; worse at noon; worse from 7}%otion or noise (Cinch., Chin, sulph.). Burning in right side of upper lip. Mouth. — Toothache, pressing outward; throbbing, tearing, and jerking, especially in hollow teeth (Merc); aggravated by cold water (Ant. crud., Graph., Staph., Sulph.); cold SPIGELIA. 715 air {Aeon.); after eating (Ant. crud., Lach.); better when lying down. Toothache in the evening after smoking. Tongue cracked (Bapt., Bell., Rhus tox.). Stitches in right side of tongue. Salivation, white, frothy. Throat.— Discharge of mucus from fauces all day, most from posterior nares Stomach.— Pressing in pit of stomach, as from a hard lump. Dull stitches in pit of stomach (Bry., Kah c, Merc, Nux v., Sep.), worse from inspiration, with oppression of the chest. Abdomen.— Griping in abdomen, as if constricted, with anxi- ety and difficult breathing. Sharp stitches in the abdomen. Pain in abdomen as if it would burst, worse evening before a soft stool, then slight relief. Anus. — Itching and tickling in anus and rectum; °ascarides (Ferr., Merc, Sep.). Boring stitches in perineum. Urinary Organs. — Discharge of prostatic fluid from the ure- thra. Sexual Organs. — Erections, with voluptuous fancies, but with- out sexual desire. Itching stitch in right testicle and penis, from behind forward. Respiratory Organs. — Constriction in chest, with anxiety and difficult breathing. Tearing constriction in pectoral muscles when standing. Stitches in the chest ; worse from the least movement, or when breathing (^y^r/., Kctli c.). Cutting, tearing heneath the left nipple, extending to region of scapiilce and upper arm,, worse during inspiration and deep breathing. Dyspnoea and suifocating attacks when moved in bed, or raising the arms; must lie on right side, or with head high. Heart and Pulse. — Palpitation {Cact., Calc c), violent, visi- ble and audible (Glon., Kali nit., Thuja, Yerat. alb.); luhen bending forzvard, on sitting down, or after rising from bed in the morning ; from deep inspiration, or holding the breath; luith anxious oppression of the chest (Aeon., Sulph., Verat. alb.); Treinbling of the heart. Heavy ach- ing in region of apex, with feeling as if a dull-pointed knife were slowly driven through it. Stitches in the heart (Arn., Ascl., Bry., Cact., Kali c); sometimes synchronous with the pulse. Pulse weak, irregular, trembling. Back. — Bruised feehng in spine, even during rest. 716 SPIGELIA. Limbs.— Trembling of the upper limbs. Fatigue. Drawing, tearing, twitching pains in Kmbs and joints (Bry., Led.). The limbs are affected mostly when walking. Generalities. — Body painfully sensitive to touch or jarring; causes pain, or tingling, or crawling. Great w^eakness, es- pecially mornings. Sleep. — Kestless sleep, with frequent waking. Late falling asleep. Confused dreams, which cause him to awaken wearied, and which he cannot remember. Fever. — Chilliness from the slightest motion. Chilliness every morning on rising, without thirst. Clammy sweat on the hands, from motion of arms; lying on back. Aggravation. — From motion; noise; inspiration; touch; turning the eyes ; from 10 a.m. till 12 M. Better about 3 or 4 P.M. Compare. — Aeon., Arn., Bell., Bry., Cactus., Calc. c, Cimic. Cinch., Cilia, Digit., Kali c, Kalmia, Laur., Lye, Merc, Nux v., Phos., PiUs., Rhus tox., Sep., ^^^'Zyo7^., Zinc. After Aeon, (endocarditis), then Spig. follows well. After Spig. comes Ars., Digit., Kali carb. (heart symptoms), Cimic, Zinc. Antidotes. — Aur., Coccul., Camph., Fuls. Spigelia Antidote.— Merc. THERAPEUTIC S. Spigelia is chiefly useful in neuralgia, especially of the fifth pair of nerves, and in rheumatic and neuralgic affections of the heart. A general characteristic in neuralgia is that the pain begins at one point and radiates in different directions, gener- ally worse in stormy weather. Neuralgic headaches, with symp- toms already described. The chief remedy in ciliary neuralgia. Rheumatic ophthalmia. Inflammation of the eyes, with red injected sclerotica, violent ciliary pains. Rheumatic iritis. Ptosis, with sharp pains and profuse lachrymation. Astheno- pia. Post-nasal catarrh, supra-orbital pains. An extremely valuable remedy in facial neuralgia, especially supra-orbital, also involving the eyeball, worse on left side, begins in the morning, grows worse towards noon and diminishes towards evening. Neuralgic toothache. Enteralgia. Inter-costal neu- ralgia. A valuable remedy in organic disease of the heart, SPONGIA. 717 with symptoms noted in pathogenesis. Eheumatic pericardi- tis, or endocarditis; purring feeKng over the heart; wave- like motion not synchronous with the pulse. Systolic blowing at apex. Always great dyspnoea and extremely violent palpi- tation. Nervous palpitation of the heart, irregular tremulous action, intermittent pulse. Neuralgia about the heart. An- gina pectoris. Hydrothorax. May be useful for the pains and general reflex symptoms resulting from worms. SPONGIA. Synonyms. — Spongia Officinalis. Spongia Tosta. Jfat- ural order. — Ceratospongiee. Cormnon name. — Sponge. Prep- aration.— Tincture or triturations from the turkey-sponge, roasted brown, but not burnt. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Affects chiefly the larynx, trachea, thyroid gland, heart, and testicles, producing irritation, inflammation, swelling and sometimes fibrous exudations. Its action upon glandular structures — enlargement and induration, as well as its inflam- matory effects upon the larynx and trachea — resembles closely the action of Iodine. OHARAOTERISTIO SYMPTOMS. Mind. — Irresistible desire to sing, with excessive mirth, then distraction of mind and disinclination to work. Head. — Dull headache in right side of brain, on coming into warm room from the open air. Sharp stitches in left tem- ple extending to forehead. Congestion of blood to the head. (Aeon., Bell.). Eyes.— Yellow, crusty eruption, painful to touch, on left eye- brow. Nose. — Fluent coryza, with much sneezing (Aeon., Cepa). Dry coryza; nose stopped up (Alum., Nux v., Sep., Sil.). Face. — Bloated, red, or bluish, with anxious expression. Heat of face. Swollen gland beneath left lower jaw, painful to touch. Stitches transversely through left upper jaw. 718 SPONGIA. Cramp-like pain from left jaw-joint to cheek, in evening when eating. Mouth. — Swelling of the submaxillary glands. Throat. — Thyroid gland swollen and hard (lodi.), with suf- focative attachs at night ; stitching pains and pressure. Stomach. — Increased appetite. Hiccough. Bitter taste (Ars., Bry., JfuDc v., Puis.), especially in throat. Urinary Organs. — Frequent urging to urinate. Male Organs. — Pressive, painful swelling of the testicles (Clem., Rhod.). Pinching, bruised, squeezing pain in the testicles (Aeon., Arg. nit., Bhod.). Stitches from testicles into spermatic cord (Clem.). Spermatic cord swollen and painful. Bespiratory Organs. — Hoarseness; voice cracked. Great dryness, of the larynx, worse from hawking. Pain in the larynx on touching it (Aeon., Lach.), and on turning the head ; when singing. Scraping in larynx, with burning and constriction. Sensation in region of thyroid and cervical glands on breathing, as if forced in and out. Sensation of obstruction in the larynx, as from a plug (Lach.), ivith iT)%peded respiration. Incessant cough from low down in chest, where there is a sore pain. Cough dry, harking {Bell.), holloiu, croupy, or wheezing and asthmatic. Dry cough day and night, with turning in the chest. Cough worse from lying with head low ; °from too warm room ; °dry, cold winds (Aeon., Hep. s.); better after eating or drinking. ° Wheezing, whisthng, sawing, anxious breath- ing ; worse during inspiration, and when lying down. °Ex- pectoration yellow, tenacious, hard or slimy ; tasting salty. Dyspnoea and great zveakness in chest, so that she could hardly talk after slight exercise (Hep. s., Stan.). Short, panting respiration, surging from heart into chest, as if it would force out upward. °A wakens from sleep with suf- focative sensation. Burning sore pain in chest and bron- chi, with rawness in throat, when coughing. Sensation as if he had to breathe through a dry sponge. °Chronic cough, violent attacks, brought up small, hard tubercle. Heart and V\x\.^%.— Violent palpitation of the heart (Aeon., Ars., Bell., Lycopus, Spig., Sulph.), with pain and gasping respiration ; awakens after midnight with suffocation, great SPONGIA. 719 alarm, and anxiety. Pulse full, hard and frequent yAcon., Bell., Verat. vir.). Back and Neck. — Painful stiffness of muscles of neck and throat; on left side when turning head to the right. Cold- ness in back, not relieved by warmth of stove. Limbs.— Twitching- of the muscles about the left shoulder joint. Cramp-like pain in the ball of the right thumb ; on moving hand, extends to thumb. Generalities. — Extreme exhaustion and heaviness of the body after slight exertion, luith orgasm of hlood in chest, heat of face, vessels hard and distended, great anxiety, and dijficult breathing. Heaviness when walking in open air, must sit down. Sleep. — Sleepy, yawning, no activity, afternoons. Sleep inter- rupte'd by dreams. Fever. — Feverish heat, with hot, dry skin (Aeon., Ars.); anx- ious heat; red face; weeping; inconsolable; wants to die. Aggravation. — At night ; lying with head low ; in the room ; when ascending. Amelioration. — When descending ; after eating and drinking, especially the cough ; when resting in horizontal position. Conditions. — Children and women, especially with light com- plexion and lax skin and muscles. Compare. — Aeon., Bell., Brom,., Bry., Calc. c, Carb. v., Coni., Dros., Hep. s., Ign., lodi.. Kali bi.. Lye, Merc, Nux v., Phos., Puis., Rhus tox., Sep., Spig., Stan., Sulph. Aeon, or Hep. s. precede Spong. well. After it, Brom., Hep. s. Antidote.— Camph. THERAPEUTICS. The most common use of Spongia is in croup, in which it is a most valuable remedy, though it is often prescribed when a careful selection of Iodine or Bromine would answer better. Thevirtues of Spongia largely depend upon the small amount of Iodine and Bromine which the drug contains, especially the for- mer. Spongia is not indicated in croup with high fever and dry hot skin, but in cases when this condition is not present, or after it has been subdued by Aeon., a dry, barking croupy €Ough, and anxious, wheezing, whistling, sawing respiration, with suffocative attacks, still remaining. If Spongia fails to re- 720 SQUILLA. lieve, consult lod. or Brom. If the symptoms ape, similar to> Spong. but more moisture, there being a slight mucous rat- tling in the respiration, give Hep. sulph. Aeon., Hep. sulph. and Spongia are all indicated in croup arising from dry cold winds. Suffocative attacks are more common in Spong. than any other drug except Bromine. Generally of little value after membranes have formed. Acute laryngitis, with similar symp- toms to those first mentioned, larynx very sensitive to touch and sore when turning the head. Laryngismus stridulus. Lar- yngeal phthisis, with great hoarseness; voice gives out when reading or talking (Phos.). Bronchial catarrh. Whooping cough, worse about midnight and from cold air. Pneumonia, stage of resolution, patient cannot lie down, profuse mucus ex- pectoration. Phthisis, especially following pneumonia; begin- ning in apex of (left) lung ; hoarseness ; suffocative attacks , worse from exposure to dry cold air. Often useful in organic diseases of the heart, when the patient cannot lie flat with the head low without bringing on suffocative attacks. Rheumatic endocarditis ; loud blowing with each beat of the heart. An- gina pectoris; contracting pain in chest; heat, suffocation, faintess, anxious sweats. Aneurism of aorta ; drj, paroxysmal cough ; worse lying down. A valuable remedy in goitre (con- sult pathogenesis). Sometimes useful in enlarged and indurated testicles, after maltreated orchitis, or following checked gonor- rhoea; spermatic cords swollen and painful, etc. SQUILLA. Synonyjyi. — Scilla Maritima. Jfatural order. — Liliacese. CojyvmoTi names. — Squill. Sea Onion. Habitat. — A perennial plant found generally in countries bordering on the Mediter- ranean. Prep araif^f?7Z'.— Tincture from the fresh bulb. GENERAL ANALYSIS. Squilla acts upon the mucous membranes of the respiratory and digestive tracts, producing irritation, even to inflamma- tion. It also acts upon the kidneys, causing excessive secre- tion ; sometimes bloody urine and even suppression. SQUILLA. 721 CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOMS. Head. — Cloudy dizziness in the head. Stitching pain in right side of forehead. Contractive pain in both temples. Sud- den transient drawing pain in occiput from left to right. . Eyes. — Contraction of the pupils. Ears. — Tearing pain behind theleft ear. Nose. — Acrid, corrosive, fluent coryza in the morning; sneez- ing and watering of the eyes {Ars., Cepa, Euphr.). Sensa- tion of soreness of the margins of the nostrils. Throat. — Burning in palate and throat. Irritation and tick- ling in throat, inducing cough. St oniach.— Sweet or bitter taste of food. Insatiable appetite. Excessive nausea in back of throat, with accumulation of saliva in mouth. Pressure in the stomach, as from a stone {Ai^s., Bnj., Nux v.. Puis.). Abdomen. — Painful sensitiveness of the abdomen and region of bladder. Urinary Organs. — Continuous painful pressure on the bladder. Great desire to urinate, with profuse emission of watery urine (Apis, Apoc). Red, deep-colored urine (Aeon., Ars., Canth.). Scanty urine. Greatly increased secretion of urine (Apis, Apoc). Respiratory Organs. — Cough violent, ivitlv stitches in the side; caused by tickling beneath thyroid cartilage; ivith expectoration of mucus; short and dry on inspiration. Cough in mojviing, luith profuse, slimy ejcpectoratioji. Cough causes retching. Violent, dry cough, causing shat- tering in abdomen and dryness in throat. Difficult respi- ration ; frequently obliged to take a deep breath, which ex- cites cough. Oppression and tightness in chest. Dyspno&a, with stitches in chest ; ivorse during inspiration. Stitches in chest, especially when inhaling or coughing ; pleurisy {Bry.). Neck and Back. — Stiffness of the neck. Painful jerking above left scapula. Painless drawing on left scapula. Limbs. — Convulsive twitching of the arms and legs. Generalities. — Stretching and yawning, without sleepiness. Great weahness and weariness of the whole hody. Exco- riation in bends of limbs (Graph., Mang.). Sleep. — Restless sleep, with much tossing about (Aeon.). 722 STANNUM. Fever. — Icj-cold hands and feet, with warmth of the rest of the body. Dry, burning heat, wdth shivering and pain when in the least uncovered. Corapare.— Ant. tart., Bry., Caust., Cepa, Kah c, Nux v.,Ehus tox., Sulph. THERAPEUTICS. Squilla has been used ahnost exclusively in catarrhal affec- tions of the respiratory tract. Influenza; bronchitis; pneu- monia, later stages ; pleurisy ; pleuro-pneumonia. Said to be ^.,Coc. cact., Caps., Clem., Digit. ,Dulc., Equiset., Eryn^., Eucal., Eup. purf., Ferr., Ferr. phos., Kali iod., Lach., Lye, Merc, Mere, cor., Nitr. ac, Nux v., Pareira, Petrol., Phos., Puis., Rhod., Rhus tox., Sars., Senec, Senega, Sep., Squilla, Sulph., Tereb. Dandruff. — Ars., Badiaga, Calc. c, Canth., Fluor, ac. Graph., Hep. s., Kali m., Kali s., Lye, Merc, Natr. m., Sil., Sulph. Deafness, Acute. — Aeon., Bell., Canth., Gels., lod., Merc, Phos., Puis. Deafness, Chronic. — Ars., Calc c, Calc. phos., Graph., lod., Merc, Pic ac, Puis., Sil., Sulph., Tellur., Verb. Debility. — Anac, Ars., Calc phos., Carb. v.. Chin, sulph., Cinch., Goloh., Coccul., Ferr., Helon., lod., Phos., Phos. ac, Selen., Sulph., Sulph. ac, Uran. Delirium Tremens. — Absinth., Agar., Ant. tart., Arn., Bell., Calc c. Can. ind., Cim., Crotal., Hyos., Kali hrom., Lach., Nux v.. Op., Ranunc, Stram., Zinc, Zing. Dentition, Disorders of. — Aeon., Jj]thus., Apis, Ars., Bell., Borax, Bry., Calc c, Calc. phos., Cha-m., Cina, Cupr., Dolich., Gels., Graph., Hell., Ipec, Kreos., Magn. c, Magn. m., Merc, Phos., Phytol., Podo., Rheum, Sil., Sulph. Diabetes. — Arg. met., Arg. nit.. Apis, Ars., Carb. ac, Con., Eup. purp., Fluor, ac, Helon., lod., Jab., Kali brom.. Kali nit., Kreos., Lac. ac, L3'copus, Lye, Merc, Natr. mur., Nat. sulph., Nitr. ac, Nux v., Phos. ac, Plumb., Sil., Squilla, Uran. nib. Diaphragmitis.— Aeon., Brj^, Cact., Colch., Hep. s., Stram., Sulph., Uran. Diarrhoea.— Acet. ac. Aeon., ^Ethus., Agar., Aloe, Am. m.. Ant. c. Apis, Apoc, Arg. nit., Arn., Ars., Asaf., Ascel. cor., Ascl. tub., Bapt., Bell., Benz. ac, Berb., Bism., Borax, Bry., Calc c, Camph., Canth., Caps., Carb. ac, Carb. v., Cham., Chel., Cina, Cinch., Cistus, Colch., ColHn., Coloc, Crotal., Crot. tig., Cupr., Dios., Dulc, Elat., Eucal., Eu- phorb., Ferr., Ferr. phos., Gamb., Gels., Graph., Grat., Hell., Hep. s., Hydras., Hyos., Ign., lod., Ipec, Iris, Kali c, Kali nit., Kreos., Lach., Lauro., Lept., Lye, Lycop. v., Magn. c, Merc, Mez., Mur. ac, Natr. ars., Natr. carb., Natr. mur., Natr. sulph., Nitr. ac,'Nuph., Nux m., Jfujo v.. CLINICAL INDEX. 813 (Enoth., Oleander, Op., Ox. ac, Petrol., Phos., Phos. ac, Phytol., Plumb., Poclo., Ptelea, Puis., Rheum, Rhod., Rhus tox., Rumex, Sab., Sang., Secale, Sep., Sil., Staph,, Sulph., Sulph. ac, Tabac, Tereb., Thuja, Ver. alb., Zinc. Diphtheria. — Ailanth., Ant. c. Apis, Ars., Ars. iod., Arum., Bapt., Bell., Brom., Canth., Caps., Carb. ac, Chin, ars., Crotal., Hydras., Hepar. s., Ign., Kali hi., Kali chlor., Kali iod., Lach., Lachnan., Lac ac. Lye, Merc, Merc, cor., Merc. iod. fla., Merc. iod. rub., Mur. ac, Naja, Natr. ars., Nitr. ac. Op., Phytol., Rhus tox., Sang., Sep., Sulph., Sulph. ac Dropsy. — Acet. ac. Aeon., Apis, Apoc, Ars., Ascl.cor., Aspar., Bry., Cact., Calad., Cedron, Cinch., Colch., Collin., Dig.^ Dulc, Elat., Ferr., Hell., Helon., Jabor., Kali c, Kali nit., Lach., Led., Lept., Lye, Mag. m., Merc, Merc, cor., Natr. ars., Natr. mur., Phos., Rhus tox,, Samb., Sil., Squilla, Stram., Sulph., Tereb., Uran., Zinc, Dysentery. — Aeon., Agar., Aloes, Arg. nit., Arn., Ars., Bell., Bapt., Bry., Canth., Caps., Carb. ac, Colch., CoZoc. , Crotal., Eucalyp., Ferr. phos., Gambo, Hep. s., Ipec, Kali bi., Kali chlor., Lept., Lycop. v., Merc, Merc, cor., Mur. ac, Nitr. ac, Nux v.. Ox. ac, Podo., Puis., Rhus tox.. Sang., Secale, Sulph., Tereb., Zinc Dysmenorrhoea. — (See Menstruation, Painful.) Dyspepsia. — Abies c, Abies n.. Absinth., Acet, ac, M^g., ^thusa. Agar., Alet., Alum., Ant. c, Arg. nit., Arn., Ars., Asar., Asaf., Ascl. tub., Bapt., Bisin., Bry., Calc c, Calc phos., Carb. ac, Caps., Carb. an., Carb. v., Carls., Caust., Cham., Chel., Chin, sulph., Cinch., Coccul., Colch., Collin., Con., Crotal., Cycl., Bios., Ferr., Ferr. phos., Fluor, ac, Gamb., Graph., Hep. s.. Hydras., Ign., Iod., Ipec, Kah bi., Kali brom., Kali carb., Kali nit., Kreos., Lach., Lac. ac, Lith., Lob., Lye, Magn. c, Merc, Natr. ars., Natr. carb., Natr. sulph., Nitr. ac, Nux m., JSPujc v.. Petrol., Phos., Phos. ac, Podo., Ptelea, Puis., Robhv., Rumex, Ruta, Sang., Sep., Sulph., Sulph. ac, Ver. alb.. Zinc. Dysuria. — Aeon., Apis, Arg. nit., Benz. ac, Can. sat., Camph., Canth., Chiin., Equiset., Erig., Eup. purp., Gels., Kali nit., Lith., Mez., Puis., Sars., Senega, Tereb., Vib. op. 814 CLINICAL INDEX. Earache.— ^cow.., Ars. iod., Baryt. c, Bell., C^o^w.,Dulc.,Led., Mang., Merc, Nat. sulph., Nux v., Plat., Puis., Ehod., Rhus tox., Ver. vir., Zinc. Eczema. — Anac, Ant. c, Bov., Cale. c, Canth., Carb. ac, Carb. v., Cistus, Clervi., Crot, tig., Dulc, Eucal., Euphorb., Graph., Hep. s.. Hydras., Hydrocot., Iris, Kali chlor.,Led., Lye, Merc, Mez., Natr. mur., Natr. sulph., Nitr. ac.,01ean., Petrol., Phytol., Phos., Rhus tox., Sep., Sil., Staph., >S'^^'?75^., Telluer., Thuja, Viola, Zinc. Elephantiasis.— ^7^5., Ant. c, Hydrocot., Lye, Merc, Nit. ac, Sil. Emissions, Seminal. (See Spermatorrhoea.) Emotions, Bad effects o/.— Aeon., Cham., Croc, Hyos., Ign., Gels., Nux v.. Op., Plat. Emphysema. — Am. c, Ars., Bell., Brom., Camph., Chin, ars., Carb. v.. Dig., Lach., Lob., Natr. mur., Nit. ac, Sulph. Encephalitis.— (See Meningitis.) Endocarditis.— (See Heart.) Enteralgia.— (See Colic.) Enteritis. — Aeon., Aloes, Ars., Bell., Canth., Coloc, Cupr., Euphorb., Ipec, Lye, Merc, Merc, cor., Nitr. ac, Nuph., Nux v.. Ox. ac, Phos., Podo., Ehus tox., Sulph., Ver. vir. Enuresis. — August, v.,' Bell., Benz. ac, Calc c, Canth., Canst., Cina, Cupr., Dig., Equiset., Elat., Eup. perf., Ferr., Gels., Graph., Hep. s.. Kali nit., Kreos., Merc, Nux v., Podo., Puis., Sep., Sil., Sulph., Verb., Viola. Epididymitis.— Clem., Merc, Puis., Rhod., Spong. Epilepsy.— Absinth., ^^ar.,Amyl. nit.,Arg. nit., Asaf., Artem., Aster., Bell., Bufo, Calc. c, Camph., Caul., Caust., Chin. ars., Cic, Cim., Cina, Coccul., Crotal., Cupr., Gels., Glon., Hell., Hyos., Ign., Kali hrom., Lach., Lauro., Magn. c, Nux m., JYujo v.. Op., QEnanth., Plat., Plumb., Secale, Sil., Stan., Stram., Sulph., Taran., Ver. vir.. Zinc. Epithelioma.— .^7^5., Carb. ac. Con., Kreos., Merc, ac, Phos., Sil., Thuja. Epistaxis.— Acet. ac, Aeon., Art., Bell., Bor., Calc. c.,Carb. v., Cinch., Cinam., Croc, Crotal., Erig., Ferr., Ferr. phos., Ham., Hydras., Ipec, Kali chlor.. Kali iod., Lach., Lac. ac, Millef., Nux v., Phos., Rhus tox., Sulph., Zinc. Erysipelas.— Am., Am. c, Apis, Ars., Arn., Bell., Borax, Brj., CLINICAL INDEX. 815 Canth., Carb. an., Euphorb., Graph., Hep. s.,Kali c.,Lacli., Merc, Mez., Rhus tooc., Sil., Stram. vSulph., Zinc. Erythema. — Aeon., Apis, Arn., Ars., Bell., Bry., Crot. tig., Gnap., Graph., Hj'-dras., Merc, Rhus tox., Snlph. Excoriations.— Graph., Hep. s.. Hydras., Lye, Merc, Ehus tox., Sulph. Exophthalmus.— (See Goitre.) Exhaustion.— (See Neurasthenia.) Exostosis. — Ars., Dulo., Hep. s., lod.. Kali iod., Merc, Merc iod., Mez., Phos., vSil., Zinc Fatty Degeneration. — Aur., Phos. Fever, Bilious. — Aloe, Bry., Cham., Chel., C^7^c/^.,C^otal.,Eup. perf.. Gels., Hydras., Ign., Ipec, Iris, Lach., Lept., Mere., Jfux v., Phos., Podo., Rhus tox.. Sang., Sulph., Ver. vir. Fever, Catarrhal. — Aeon., Ars., Ascl. tub., Bell., Bry., Eucal., Eup. perf., Gels., Hep. s., Merc., Puis., Rhus tox.. Sang. Fever, Gastrie. — Aeon., Ars., Bell., Bry., Caps., Cinch., Gels., Hydras., Ign., I-pec., Lach., Merc, Nux v.. Puis., Sang., Sulph., Ver. vir. Fever, Hectic. — Acet. ac. Aeon., Arg. nit., Ars., Ars. iod., Calc c, Carb. v., Cham., Cinch., Gels., Hep. s., Iod., Lach., Lye, Merc, Mur. ac, Natr. ars.. Nit. ac, Phos., Rhus tox., Sang., Sil., Stan., Stram., Sulph., Sulph. ac, Ver. vir. Fever, Inflammatory or asthenic. — Acojv., Bell., Bry., Mur. ac, Yer. vir. Fever, Asthenic. — (See T^yphoid.) Fever, Intermittent. — Am. m., Angust. v.. Apis, Aran., Ars., Bry., Cact., Caps., Carb. m., Carb. v., Cedron, Chii%. o,rs., Chin, sulph., Cina, Cinch., CoccuL, Crotal., Cupr., Elat., Eucal., Eup. perf., Ferr., Gels., Hell., Hydras., Ign., Ipec, Kreos., Lach., Lob., Lye, Meny., Merc, Mur. ac, Natr. ars., Jfatr mur., Nitr. ac, Nux v.. Op., Petrol., Phos. ac, Podo., Puis., Rhus tox.. Sab., Sang., Sep., Stram., Sulph., Taran., Ver. vir. Fever, Miliary. — Aeon., Puis., Sulph. Fever, Puerperal.— Aeon., Ars., Bapt., Bell., Cim., Cinch., Crotal., Gels., Hyos., Lach., Merc, Mur. ac. Op., Phos., Rhus tox., Secale, Sil., Sulph., Ver. vir. Fever, Typhoid. — Acet. ac, vEthu., Agar., Ailanth., Apis, Arn., 816 CLINICAL INDEX. Ars., Arum., Bcvpt., Bell, {^cerebral), Bry., Canth., Caps.^ Carb. v., Carb. ao., Cinch., Colch., Crotal., Eucal., Gels.. Ham., Hydras., Hyos. {nervous), Ign., Kreos., Lacli., Lept., Myr. c, Merc, Mwr. ac, Natr. mur., Nux v., Op., Pe- trol., Fhos., Phos. ac, Bhus tox., Sang., Stram., Sulph.,^ Sulph. ac, Tereb., Ver. vir. Fever, Yellow. — Aeon,, Ars., Camph., Carb. v., Cinch., Chin, sulph., Crotal., Lach., Merc, Phos., Ver. alb. Fever, From local irritation {not hectic). — Chain., Cina, Gels., Ign., Ipec, Merc, Nux v.. Sang., Sulph., Yer. vir. Fibroma. — Ars., Calc c, Con., lod.. Hydras., Kali hrom.. Kali iod., Magn. m,. Plat., Ehus tox., Secale, Thuja, Ustil. Fistula, In anus. — Calc c, Calc phos., Caust., Fluor, ac.^ Graph., Hep. s., Lach., Lj'c, Merc, iod., J^'itr. ac, Petrol., Phytol., Sil., Sulph. Fissures, In anus. — (See Anus.) Fissures, In skin. — Ant. c, Calc. c, Graph., Hep. s.. Lye, Merc, Petrol., Sil., Sulph. Flatulence. — Arg. nit., Carb. ac, Carb. v., Cinch., Cocc, Ign.,. Lye, Nux m., JSfujc v., Phos. Flushings. — (See Menstruation.) Fractures, Ununited. — Calc phos., Ruta, Sil. Fright, Bad effects of.— Aeon., Bell., Coff., Cupr., Gels., Hyos.,. Hyper., Ign., Op., Sil., Stram., Yer. alb., Zinc Fungus Hsematodes.— Calc. c, Lach., Lye, Phos. Furuncle.— (See Boils.) Gall-stones.— Ars., Berb., Chel., Cinch., Lach., Lye, Merc, Nux v., Phos., Podo. Gangrene. — Am. c, Ars., Canth., Carb. ac, Carb. v.. Chin, sulph., Cinch., Crotal., Eucal. {lungs), Euphorb., Kali chlor., Kreos., Lach., Merc, Phos., Secale. Gastralgia.— Abrot., JEscul., Anac, Arg. nit.,^r5.,Asaf., Bell., Bis., Bry., Calc, Carb. v., Caust., Cham., Chel., Cina, Coc- cul., Colch., Con., Crotal., Cupr., Dios., Graph., Ign., Kah carb.. Kali nit., Kalmia, Lach., Lob., Lye, Magn. m., Merc, Jfux v., Ox. ac, Paris, Petrol., Phos., Plat., Plumb.,. Ptelea, Puis., Robin,, Rumex, Sab., Stan., Sulph., Tabac, Yal., Yer. alb., Yer. vir. Gastric Catarrh. — Ant. c. Ant. t., Arg. nit., Bis., Bry., Calc CLINICAL INDEX. 817 c, Carls., Chel., Cinch., Coccul., Digit., Eup. perf., Euphorb., Hep. s., Ipec, Iris, Kali bi.. Kali carb., Lye, Magn. m., Merc, Mez., Natr. ars., J^'ujo v., Petrol., Phos., Ptelea, Puis., Eobin., Rumex, Sep., Sulph., Tarax. Gastritis.— ^co7z,.. Ant. c, Ant., t., Ars., Bell., Bis., Bry., Canth., Cham., Cinch., Cupr., Euphorb., Graph., Ipec, Iris, Kah chlor., Lye, Merc, Natr. mur., JSfux. v.. Ox. ac, Phos.,, Podo., Puis., Sab., Sang., Sulph., Ver. alb., Ver. vir.. Zinc, Zing. Glands, InflammatioTi, swelling and induration o/'.— Ars.. iod., Baryt. c, Bell., Brom., Bufo, Calc. c, Calc phos., Carl, an., Carb. v., Cistus, Cham., Con., Graph., Hep. s.,. Iod., Kali iod.. Lye, Mere'., Merc cor., Merc. iod. rub.,. Natr. carb., Natr. mur., Nitr. ac, Phos., Phos. ac, Phytol.,, Rhus tox., Secale, Sil., Staph., Sulph. Glaucoma.— Aeon., Ars., Aur., Bell., Bry., Cedron, Colch., Col- oc, Kaliiod., Merc, Osmium, Phos., Physos., Rhod.,Spig.,, Sulph. Gleet.— Agnus, Arg. nit., Ascl. cor., Benz. ac, Canth., Chin.,. Ela,t., Equiset., Hydras., Kali iod., Mere., Mez., Natr. mur.,, Pareira, Petrose., Stil., Sulph., Thuja. Glossitis.— Aeon., Apis, Ars., Bell., Canth., Kali chlor.. Kali iod., Lach., Merc., Merc, cor., Nitr. ac, Sulph. Goitre.— Badiaga, Brom., Calc c, Calc 'iod., Ferr., Fluor, ac,, Iod., Kali iod.. Lye, Merc, Merc iod., Spong., Sulph. Gonorrhoea.— Aeon., Agnus, Alum., Arg. met., Arg. nit., AscL cor., Benz. ac, Camph., Can. ind.. Can. sat., Canth., Caps., Clem., Crotal., Digit., Elat., Equiset., Ferr., Gels., Graph., Hydras., Kali bi., Merc, Merc cor., Merc. iod. rub., Mez., Natr. mur., Natr. sulph., Nitr. ac, Pareira, Petros., Phy- tol., Puis., Sep., Spong., Stilling., Sulph., Tereb., Thuja. Gout. — Abrot., Ant. c, Arg. met., Arn., Ars., Benz. ac, Berb.,. Bry., Calc. c, Caust., Cinch., Coccul., Colch., Coloc, Gnaph., Guai., Kaliiod., Led., Lith., Lye, Mang., Mere, Nux v.. Ox. ac, Phytol., Plumb., Piils., Ranunc, Rhod., Rhus tox.. Sab., Sars., Staph., Sep., Sulph. Gravel. — (See Calculi, Renal.) Grippe. — (See Influenza.) Hsematemesis. — Acet. ac. Aeon,, Arn., Ars., Cinch., Crotal., 818 CLINICAL INDP]X. Erig., Ferr., Ham., Ipec, Kreos., Lach., Millef., Nux v., Phos., Sulph. ac, Tereb., Trill. Hsematocele, Pelvic— km., Croc, Ferr., Ipec, Sab., Sec, Thlaspi. HsBinoptysis.^-e/^caZyo/^o!' ind., Acet. ac, Aeon., Arn., Ars., Ars. iod., Bell., Cact., Carb. v., Cinch., Crotal., I>\^.,Erig., Ferr., Ham., Ipec., Lach., Led., Lycop. v., Millef., Nitr. ac, Op., Phos., Plumb., Puis., Sang., Stan., Sulph., Sulph. ac, Tereb., Trill. Hsematuria. — Bell., Cact., Canth., Coco, c, Elat., Equiset., Erig., Ferr., Ham., Ipec, Lye, Nitr, 'ac, Nux v.. Petrol., Phos., Plumb., Sulph., Tereh. Hsemorrhage, From the intestines. — Acet. ac. Arn., Cact., Bell., Cinch., Ej^ig., Ferr., Ham., Ipec, Millef., Sulph. ac, Tereb. Hsemorrhage, From the uterus. — Bell., Caul., Cinch., Cin., Erig., Ferr,, Ipec, Puis., Sab., Sec, Trill., Ustil. Hseniorrhoids. — JEscul., Aloes, Apoc, Bad., Brom., Caps., Carb. v., Caust., Collin., Dios., Erig., Ferr., Ferr. phos.. Ham., Hydras., Ign., Kali c, Lach., Magn.m., Merc, Millef., Mur. ac, Natr. mur., Nitr. ac, J{ux v.. Petrol., Phos., Phy- tol., Podo., Puis., Khus tox., Sil., Sulph., Thuja. Hair, Falling off. — Ars., Calc c, Ferr., Fluor, ac, Graph., Hep. s., Kali c, Kali iod., Merc, Natr. mur., Natr. sulph., Phos., Sep., Sil., Sulph. (See Alopecia.) Hay -fever. — (See Asthma.) Headache, Keuralgic. — Amyl. nit., Ars., Bis., Cact., Epiph.,^ Gels., Iris, Lach., Melilo., Meny.,'Natr. mur., Paris, Ver. alb., Zinc Headache, Rheumatic. — Aeon., Bry., Cic. Colch., Gels., KaU iod., Merc, Puis., Rhus tox., Spig., Staph., Sulph., Ver. vir. Headache, Menstrual. — Bell,, Cim,., Coccul., Ferr., Gels., Ign., Natr. mur., Nux m., Puis., Sep., Ustil. Headache, Catarrhal. — Aeon., Ars., Bell., Bry,, Camph., Dulc, Eup. perf., Gels., Hep. s., Kali bi., Merc, Natr. mur., Nux V. Headache, Gastric or bilious. — Ars., Bell,, Bry., Carb. ac, Chel., Cinch., Cupr., Eup. perf,. Gels., Ipec, Iris, Lept., Melilo,, Merc, Natr, mur., Nux m., Jfux v., Podo., Puis., Kobin., Sang., Sep., Tarax., Ther., Ver. vir. CLINICAL INDEX. 819 Headache, JH'ervous.—kv^., Asclep., Bell., Bry., Can. iiid., Cim., Cinch., Coca, Coccul., Coff., Cupr., Epiph., Gels., (jlon., Ign., Iris, Kali brom., Melilo., Merc, Natr. carb., Natr. mur., Nux m,, Nux v., Pic. ac. Puis., Robin., Sang., Selen., Sep., Sil., Stan., Sulph., Therid., Val., Ver. vir.. Zinc. Heart, Inflammation of.— Aeon., Apis, Ars., Ascl. t., Bell., Bry., Caet., Can. sat., Collin., Colch., Digit., Gels., Kali c. Kali nit., Kalmia, Lith., Lye, Lycop. v., Naja, Spig., Spong., Ver. vir. Heart, Debility o/.— Amyl. nit., Angust. v., Arg. met., Ars., Collin., Dig., Kali nit., Kalmia, Lach., Lil. tig., Lycop. v., Phos. ac, Tabac, Verat. alb., Ver. vir. Heart, Hypertrophy of. — Aeon., Amyl. nit., August, v., Arn., Ars., Aur., Brom., Cact., Collin., Dig., Ferr., Kalmia, Lacli., Lycop. v., Naja, Natr. mur., Phos., Rhus tox., Spig., Spong., Ver. vir. Heart, Valvular disease of. — Caet., Colliu., Corral., Caps., Dig., lod., Kalmia, Lach., Lycop. v., Naja, Natr. mur., Rhus tox., Spig., Spong., Ver. vir. Heartburn.— (See Dyspepsia.) Helminthia.— (See Worms.) Hemicrania.— (See Headache, Nervous.) Hemiopia.— Aur. {horizontal), Lith., Lye. {lateral). Hemiplegia.— (See Paralysis.) Hepatitis.— Aeon., ^sc, Ars., Bell., Bry., Cact., Chel., Cinch., Hep. s., Kali carb., Lach., Lye, Merc cor., Natr. sulph., Nux v., Phos., Plumb., Podo., Ptelea, Puis,, Sulph, Hernia.— Bell., Coccul., Dig. {incarcerated). Lob., Lye, Mur. ac, Jfujc v.. Op., Plumb., Sulph. ac, Tabac., Ver. vir. Herpes.— Ars., Bad., Bor., Calc c, Canfch., Cistus, Clem., Dolich., Dulc, Graph., Hep. s.. Iris, Kalmia, Led., Lye, Mere, Mez., Natr. carb., Nat. mur., Nitr. ac, Olean., Petrol., Phos. ac, Phytol., Ranuuc, Rhus tox., Sars., Sep., Sil., Staph., Sulph., Tellur., Thuja. Hiccough.— Agar., Am. c, Amyl. n., Cistus, Coce, Cupr., Gels., Hyos., Ign., Kali brom., Lauro., Mosch., Jfux. v., Stram., Sulph. ac, Ver. vir. Hip Joint Disease.— Ars., Coloc, Calc. e, Calc. phos.. Hep. s., Kali c, Kali iod.. Lye, Merc, Natr. sulph., Phos. ac, Sil., Stram., Sulph. 820 CLINICAL INDEX. Hoarseness.— (See Aphonia.) Hordeolum. — (See Stye.) House Maid's Knee.— (See Synovitis.) Hour G-lass Contractions.— i?eZ?., Seeale. Hydrocele. — xibrot. {of children), Aur., Apis, Calc. e., Dig.^ Graph., loci., Kali iod., Merc. iod. rub., Natr,, mur., Puis., Rhod., Sil., Sulph. Hydrophobia. — Bell., Hyos., Lach., Naja, Nux v., Stram. Hydrocephalus. — Aeon., Apis, Apoc, Ant. tart., Ars., Bell., Calc. c, Calc. phos., Glon., Hell., Hyos., Hep. s., Lye. Sil.,, Stram., Sulph., Zinc. Hydrocephaloid. — Cinch., Hell., Poclo., Zinc. (Also see Hy- drocephalus.) Hydrothorax. — Am. c, Apis, Apoc, Ars., Colch., Coral, rub.,. Dig., Dulc, Fluor, ac. Ham., Hell., Jab., Kali c, Kali iod., Lach., Lact. v.. Lye, Eanunc, Sang., Senega, Stan.,, Sulph. Hypochondriasis.— Anac, Arg. nit., Asaf., Aur., Arg. nit.^ Ars., Calc. c, Cic, Cim., Coccul., Con., Hell., Helon., Hyos., Ign., Kali brom., Lach., Lil. tig.. Lye, Melilo., Natr. carb., Natr. mur., Jfux v.. Plat., Phos. ac, Puis., Sab., Selen.,, Sep., Staph., Sulph., Taran., Ver. alb.. Zinc. Hysteria. — Ambra, Am. c, Asaf., Aur., Baryt. c, Caul.^ Cedron, Cham., Cic, Cim., Coccul., Coff., Con., Cor. rub.. Croc, Cypr.,' Gels., Hyos., Ign., Lach., Lil. tig., Lob.,. Magn. m., Natr. carb., Nux m., Phos. ac. Pic ac, Plat.^ Plumb., Puis., Sat., Selen., Sep., Stan., Staph., Sticta, Stram., Sulph., Taran., Ther., Val., Ver. vir., Vib. op.,, Xanth. Icterus.— (See Jaundice.) Ileus. — Aeon., Bell., JSPux v., Opi., Plumb., Thuja, Ver. vir. Impetigo.— Ant. tart., Ars., Calc. c, Clem., Dulc, Graph., Hep, s.. Iris, Kali bi.. Lye, Merc, Mez., Ehus tox., Sulph., Viola. Impotence. — Arg. nit., Aur., Baryt. c, Bufo, Calad., Con.^ Calc c, Cinch., Eup. purf., Eryng., Graph., Kah. brom.. Kali iod.. Lye, Mere, Natr. carb., Natr. mur., Nuph., Nux v., Phos., Phos. ac, Salph., Selen., Sep., Zinc. Incontinence of Urine.— (See Enuresis.) Indigestion.— (See Dyspepsia.) CLINICAL INDEX. 821 Influenza (Grippe).— Aeon., Ant. tart., Ascl. cor., Ars., CaTYiph., Cepa, Dulc, Eup. perf., Euphor., Gels., Ipec., Iris, Kali bi., Merc., Merc, cor., Merc, iod., Nux v., Sang., Squilla, Sulph., Stict. Infra Mammary Pain.— (See Pleurodynia.) Intermittent Fever. — (See Fever, Intermittent.) Intertrigo.— Caul., Hydras., Lye, Petrol., Sulph. Insomnia.— Ambra, Bell., Calc. c, Cim., Coca, Coccul., Coff., Gels., Hyos., Iod., Kali brojn., Sen. Injuries, Bad Effects from. — Bruises and Contusions : Arn., Bad., Hyper., Kuta. Spinal: Hyper. Sprains: Rhus tox. Lacerated wounds : Hyper., Calend. Punctured zvounds : Hyper, Led. Incised wounds: Staph. Chafing, etc.: Hyper., Lye, Merc, Natr. mur., Euta, Sulph. ac. Insanity. — (See Mania.) Iritis. — Asaf., Aur., Bell., Clem., Colch., Gels., Hep. s., Iod., Kali bi., Kali chlor., Merc, Merc cor., Merc. iod. fla., Natr. mur., Nit. ac, Physos., Puis., Terebin., Thuja. Iron, Bad Effects o/.— Bell., Cinch., Hep. s., Ipec, Merc, Puis. Itch. — Apis, Ars., Hep. s.. Led., Lye, Merc, Natr. mur., Rhus tox., Rumex, Senega, Sep., SiL, Spig., Staph., Sulph. Jaundice.— Aloes, Am., Berb., Bry., Card, m., Chel., Chin, sulph.. Cinch., Crotal., Big., Dolich., Elat., Gels., Hydras., Iod., Lach., Lept., Lye, Magn. m., Merc, Myrica, Naja, Natr. sulph., Nit. ac, Nux v., Phos., Plumb., Podo., Sa,ng., Sep., Sulph., Tarax. Keratitis.— Aeon., Arg. nit.. Apis, Ars., Bell., Calc. c. Chin, ars., Euphras., Hep. s., Kreos., Lach., Merc, Merc cor., Natr. mur., Nux v., Physos., Rhus tox., Sep., SiL, Sulph., Thuja. Labor, Alnonrhal.—^^., Caul., Cim., Gels., Ign., Nux v., Puis., Secale, Ustil., Yer. vir. Laryngismus Stridulus. — .^cow-.. Bell., Brom., Cor. rub., Chlorine, Cupr., Lach., Op., Samb., Spong. Laryngitis. — Aeon., Ant. tart., Apis, Arg. met., Arg. nit., Arum., Bell., Brom., Bry., Carb. v., Carb. ac, Caust., Cocc c, Dios., Eup. perf., Ferr. phos., Hep. s., Ipec, Kali bi., Kali c, Lact., Lact. v., Mang., Merc. iod. rub., Paris, Phos. 822 CLINICAL INDEX. ac, Phos., Puis., Ehus tox., Rumex, Samb., Sang., Selen., Spong., StaD., Stillin., Sulph. "LieBid., .^dilments from. — Alum, 6^/?., Petrol. Leprosy. — (See Elephantiasis.) Leucocytheniia. — (See Anaemia.) Leucorrhoea.— ^scuL, Agn., Alet., Aloe, Alum, Am. c. Am. m., Ant. c, Aral., Arg. nit., Ars., Ars. iod., Borax, Bov., Calc. c, Calc. p., Carb. an., Carb. v., Carb. ac, Cham., Cim., Cinch., Clem., Coccul., Con., Eucal., Ferr., Ferr. iod., Graph., Helon., Hydras., Ign., Kali bi., Kreos., Lil. tig.. Lye, Magn. m., Merc, Merc. iod. fla., Merc. iod. rub., Mez.^ Natr. carb., Natr. mur., Nitr. ac, Nux m., Orig., Pareira,. Phos., Phos. ac, Pic ac, Podo., Puis., Sab., Sang., Se- necio, Sep., Sil., Stan., StiUin., Sulph., Thuja, Trill., Ustil,, Vib. op., Zinc Lithiasis.— (7o/^., Elat., Eup. perf., Lye, Natr. sulph., Sars.,. Sep., Uva ursi. Liver, Congestion of. — Am. m.. Agar., Aloes, Ars., Bell., Berb.^ Bry., Card, m., Chel., Cinch., Gels., Hep. s., Iod., Iris, Lact. v., Lauro., Lept., Lye, Magn. m., Merc, Nux v., Phos.,. Podo., Sen., Sil., Sulph., Ther., Zinc. Liver, Enlarged. — Absinth., ^Esc, Ars., Calc. c, Cedron, Chin. sulph., Cinch., Digit., Fluor, ac, Iod., Lauro., Lye, Kali brom.. Kali c, Kali iod., Magn. m., Mere., Merc, iod., Natr. mur., Nux m., JYux v., Phos., Podo., Selen., Sulph., Tarax. Liver, Acute yellow atrophy of. — Merc, Podo., Phos. Lochia, Suppression of. — Aeon., Aral., Bell., Bry., Caul.,, Cham., Cim., Dulc, Gels., Pztls., Bhus tox., Secale, Trill. Loconiotor Ataxia. — (See Ataxia.) Lumbago. — Aeon., tEscuI., Ant. tart., Ascl. tub.. Bell., Bry.,, Cim., Ferr., Kali c. Kali iod.. Lye, Merc, Nux v.. Puis., Rhus tox. Lupus. — Ars., Hydras., Hydrocot., Iod., Kali bi.. Kali iod., Kreos., Lye, Merc, Phytol., Phos., Thuja, Sulph., Uran. Mania.— t/^^ac, Am., Aur., Bell., Canth., Camph., Can. iud.,. Cie, Cim. Euphorb., Gels., Glon., Hyos., Kali brom., Lach.,, Lil. tig.. Plat., Stram., Yer. alb., Ver. vir., Zinc. Marasmus.— Abrot., Ars., Calc e, Calc. phos.. Hep. s., loA.y Mur. ac, Natr. mur., Nux m., Phos., Sars., Sil., Sulph. CLINICAL INDEX. 823 Mastitis.— Arn., Ars. iod., Bell., Bry., Cham., Graph., Hep. s., . Lach., Merc, Phos., Phytol., Puis., Sil., Sulph. Mastodynia.— Aeon., Bell., Calad., Cim., Con., Crot. tig., Gels., Phytol., Ver. vir. Measles.— c^co/Z'., Allium cepa, Anac., Ant. tart., Apis, Ars., Bell., Bry., (Jrotal. {hcemorrhagic) , Dios., Euphras., Ferr. phos., Gels., Ham., Hep. s., Kali bi., Merc., Puis., Ehus tox,. Sab., Squilla, Sticta, Stram., Ver. vir. Melancholia. — (See Hypochondriasis. ) Meningitis. — Aeon., Ailanth., Am. c. Apis, Bell., Bapt., Bry., Carb. ac, Cic, CiTn., Cinch., Crotal., Cupr., Dig., Gels., Glon., Hyos., Hep. s., Kali brom., Lact., Lachnan., Plumb. ^ Stram., Sulph., Ver vir.. Zinc. Meiiopause. — (See Menstruation, Cessation of.) Menorrhagia. — (See Menstruation, Profuse.) Menstruation, Painful. — Aeon., JEscul, Agar., Alet., Am. c, xim. m., Aral., Bell., Berb., Borax {membranous), Brom. {membranous) , Cact., Calc. phos.. Caul., Cham., Cim., Coc- cul., Collin., Coloc, Crotal., Cyc, Dios., Ferr. phos., Gels., Gnap., Graph., Guai., Ham., Ign., Kali carb., Kreos., Lach., Lauro., Magn. c, Merc, Natr. mur., Nux v., Phos. ac. Plat., Plumb., Puis., Ehus tox.. Sab., Senecio, Sep., Sil., Sulph,, Ustil., Ver. alb., Vib. op., Xanth., Zinc. Menstruation, Delayed, Irregular, Scanty, or Suppressed. — Aeon., Agnus, Ant. c. Bell., Bry., Cact., Calc c. Caul., Ci77v., Coccul., Coloc, Cyc, Digit., Ferr., Ferr. iod., Gnap., Guai., Graph., Helon., Ign., Kalic, Lach., Mag. c, Natr. mur., Nux m., Op., Ox. ac, Phos., Puis., Secale, Senecio,. Sep., Sil., Staph., Sulph., Ustil., Ver. alb., Vib. op., Xanth., Zinc. Menstruation, Profuse.— ko^^t. ac, Agnus, Alet., Aloe, Am. c, Amyl. nit., Apoc, Bell., Borax, Bovis, Bry., Cact., Calc. c.,. Calc. phos., Carb. an., Carb. v., Caul., Cham., Cinch., CinaT)%., Coccul., Croc, Erig., Ferr., Ham., Helon., Hyos., Ign., Ipec, Kali c, Kreos., Lach., Lye, Magn. m., Mang., Merc, Millef., Nitr. ac, Nux m., Nux v., Phos. ac, Phos., Phytol., Plat., Sab., Sang., Secale, Sen., Sep., Sil., Sulph., Tril., Ustil., Xanth., Zinc. Menstruation, Cessation o/. — Cinch., Coccul., Cyc, Gels., Graph., Lach., Lye, Puis., Sab., Sang., Ustil., Zinc 824 CLINICAL LXDEX. Menstruation, Vicarious. — Bry., Calc. c, Ferr., Ham., Puis., Fhos., Sen., Sep., Sulph., Tril., Zinc. Mercurial Affections.— ^50^/., Aur., Carb. v., Clem., Dulc, Fluor, ac, Guai., Hep. s., lod., Kali bi., Kali chlor., Kali iod., Lach., Lye, Merc. iod. rub., Mez., JSl^itr. ac, Podo., Sars., Staph., Stil., Stram., Sulph. Metritis. — Aeon., Bell., Bry., Caul., Cinch., Gels., Ham., Kali carb., Lach., Lil. tig., Lye, Merc, Merc. iod. rub., Nux v., Puis., Phos. ac, Khus tox., Sab., Sep., Secale, Tereb., Ver. alb., Zinc Metrorrhagia. — (See Menstruation, Profuse.) Migraine. — (See Headache, Nervous.) Milk Crust. — (See Crusta Lactea.) Morning Sickness. — (See Pregnancy, Vomiting of.) Mortification. — (See Gangrene.) Mouth, Inflammation of. (See Stomatitis.) Mumps. — (See Parotitis.) Myalgia. — Aeon., Ai^n., Bry., Cim., Gels., Rhus tox., Ruta, Ver. vir. Myelitis.— x\con., Arn., Ars., Bell., Con., Dulc, Gels., Hyper., Lach., Ox. ac, Nux v., Pho«., Physos., Rhub., Rhus tox., Ruta, Secale, Sulph., Taran., Ver. vir. Myopia. — Agar., Calc c, Jab., Phos., Physos. Musc88 Volitante.— ^^ci^r., Arn., Bell., Calc. c, Ferr., Hyos., Kali iod., Merc, Phos., Sulph., Sil. Nsevus.- Acet. ac, Fluor, ac, Lye, Thuja. Nasal Catarrh.— (See Catarrh of Upper Air Passages.) Nephritis.— ^co7^., Apis, Apoc, Ars., Bell., Benz. ac, Berh., Can. sat., Canth., Chim., Cocc c, Colch., Dig., Dios., Dulc, Ferr., Hell., Helon., Iod., Kali bi., Kah carb., Kali iod., Kali nit., Lact., Lith., Lye, Merc, Merc, cor., Nux. v., Phytol., Pic. ac, Plumb., Samb., Sen., Squilla, Sulph., Tereb., Uran. Nettle Rash. — (See Urticaria.) Neuralgia.— Aeon., Agar., Allium cepa, Amyl. nit., Ars., Aster., Bell., Can. ind., Caust., Cedron, Cham., Chel., Chin, sulph.. Chin, ars., Cic, Cim., Cinch., Coff., Coloc, Croc. {ciliary), Crot. tig., Cupr., Dulc, Dohch., Eucal.. Ferr., Gels., Glon., Gnaph., Graph., Guai., Ham., Hell., Hyper., CLINICAL INDEX. 825 Ign., Ipec, Iris, Kali bi., Kali brom., Kalraia, Lach., Lil. tig., Lycop. v., Mag-n. m., Merc, Merc, cor., Mez., Naja, Natr. ars., Natr. raur., Natr. sulph., Nux m., Nux v., Osmium, Ox. ac, Paris, Phos., Phytol., Plat., Plumb., Puis., Ranunc, Rhod., Spig., Stan., Staph., Sulph., Tarax., Ther., Thuja, Ver. alb., Vib. op., Xanth., Ziuc. Neurasthenia. — Anac, Arg. nit., Calc, c. Cinch., Coca, Coccul., Gels., Hyper., Kali brom., Phos. ac, Phos., Pic. ac., Sil., Stan., Sulph., Zinc. ISTodes. — Gnaph., Fluor, ac, lod.. Kali iod., Merc, Merc iod., Mez., Nit. ac, Sil., Stillin. Nymphomania. — Ambr., Canth., Cinch., Hyos., Kah brom., Orig., Phos., Plat., Sab., Stan., Taran., Ver. alb.. Zinc Obesity.— Agar., Amm., Ant. c, Ars., Baryt. c, Calc c, Graph., Lye, Merc, Sulph. Odontalgia.— (See Toothache.) (Esophagismus.— Asaf., Bell., Cupr., Lact., Merc, cor., Naja. (Esophagitis. — Aeon., Bell, Merc, Phos., Sab., Ver. vir. Onanism, Bad effects of. — Agnus, Arg. met., Cinch., Coca, Con., Eryng., Phos., Phos. ac, Selen., Staph., Sulph., Zinc Onychia. — Arn., Calc. c, Fluor, ac. Graph., Hep. s., Kali iod., Merc iod., Natr. sulph., Phos. Ophthalmia.— Absinth., Aeon., Alum., Ant. c, Apis, Ar^. nit., Ars., Ars. iod., Aur., Bad., Bell, Calc c. Chin, ars., Cistus, Clem., Coloc, Con., Euph., Gnaph., Graph., Eep.s., Hydras., Ipec, Kali bi.. Kali chlor., Led., Lith., Lye, Merc, Merc cor., Merc iod. fla., Merc. iod. rub.,- Natr. ars., Natr. carb., Natr. m., Natr. sulph., Nitr, ac, Nux v., Phos., Phytol., Pic. EiC.,PiUs., Rhus tox.,Sang., Senega, Sep., Sil., Spig., Staph., Sticta, Sulph., Sulph ac, Thuja, Viola, Zinc, Zing. Opacity of Oornea.—Calcc, Colch.,Euphras., Phos., Physos., Sil, Sulph., Thuja, Zinc. Orchitis.— Aeon., Arg. met., Aur., Bell, Cham., Clem., Con., Gels., Ham.., Kali iod., Merc, Puis.. Bhod., Spong., Staph., Sulph., Zinc Otalgia. — (See Earache.) Otorrhoea. — Aur., Calc c, Caust., Crotal., Fluor, ac, Hep. s., Hydras., Iod., Kali bi.. Kali carb.. Lye, Merc, Mez., Natr. 826 CLINICAL INDEX. carb., Natr. sulph., Nitr. ac, Petrol., Puis., Sil., Sulph., Tellur., Thuja. Ovaries, Dropsy of. — Apis, Ars., Jab., lod.. Kali brom.,. Sulph. Ovaritis. — Ambra, Apis, Bell., Brom., Bry., Canth., Ciwi., Cinch., Coloc, Ferr. phos., Gels., Guai., Ham., Lach., Lil. tig., Lye, Merc, Phos. ac, Plat., Podo., Puis., Sab., Sep., Sulph., Thuja, Ustil., Zinc Ovaralgia,— ^0^?., Chin, sulph., Ciii%., Coloc, Ferr. phos., Gels., Ign., Kali brom., Lach., Lil. tig., Merc, Puis., Sep., Ustil., Ver. vir., Xanth., inc. Ozoena. — Arg. nit., Aur., Calc c, CrotaL, Eucal., Fluor, ac, Hep. s.. Hydras., lod., Kali iod., Kreos., Mag. m., Merc, Merc iod., Mez., Natr. carb., Jfitr. ac. Petrol., Phos., Puls.^ Sang., Sep., Sil., Sulph., Thuja, Zinc Panaritium.— (See Whitlow.) Pancreas, Disease of. — Ars., Iod., Iris, Merc, Phos. Paralysis. — Aeon., Arg. nit., Arn., Ars., Baryt. c, Bell., Caust., Coccul., Colch., Con., Crotal., Cupr., Dulc, Ferr., Qels., Hyos., Ign., Kali brom.. Kali carb.. Kali nit., Lach., Laur., Merc, Natr. mur., Nux m.. Mux v.. Oleander, Op., Ox. ac, Phos., Physos., Plat., Plumh., Khus tox., Secale, Stan., Sep., Sil., Staph., Stram., Sulph., Tarent., Ver. alb., Yer. vir., Xanth., Zinc. Paralysis, Agitans. — Gels., Hyos., Merc, Phos., Physos., Plumb., Tarent., Zinc. Vs.Totiti^.—Acon., Am. c, BeU.,HQ]}. s.. Jab., JJferc, Merc cor.. Puis., Khus tox. Pemphigus.— Apis, Ars., Canth., Dulc, Kali iod., Lach., Merc, Ranunc, Rhus tox., Sulph., Thuja. Pericarditis. — Acon.,Ajm. c, Ars., Ascl. tub.. Bell., Bry., Cact., Canth., Colch., Dig., Iod., Kalnvia, Lach., Naja, Spig., Spong., Ver. vir. Periostitis. — Aran., Asaf., Aur., Bell., Calc, Kali hi., Kali iod., Mang., Merc, Mer. cor., Mez., JVit. ac, Phos. ac, Phytol., Ruta, Sil., Staph., Stillin. Peritonitis. — Aeon., Apis, Arn., Ars., Bell., Bry., Canth., Coloc, Hyos., Kali nit., Lath., Mang., Merc, Merc cor.,. Ranunc, Rhus tox., Sulph., Tereb., Ver. alb., Ver. vir. CLINICAL INDEX. 827 Pertussis.— Ambra, Ant. c, Ant. t., Arn., Asaf., Bad., Bell. Carb. ac, Chel., Ciiia, Cocc, Con., Cor. ruh., Crotal., Cupr. Bros., Dulc, Eucal., lod., Ipec, Kali brom.,Kali c, Kreos. Lach., Lact. v., Lanro., Led., Lob., Naph., Merc, Mosch. Nux Y., Osm., Plios., Puis., Samb., Sang., Senega, Sep. Spong., Squilla, Sticta, Stram., Sulph., Ver. alb. Pharyngitis,— Ji]scu], Alum., Arg. met., Arg. nit., Bell., Canth. Caps., Cocc. c, Ferr. phos., lod., Hep. s., Kali bi., Kali carb., Kali chlor., Merc, Merc, iod., Merc cor., Natr. sulph. Nitr. ac, Petrol., Phytol., Sang., Senega, Stan., Sulph. Phlebitis.— Aeon., Apis, Arn., Bapt., Bell., Ham., Lach., Merc Puis. Phlegmasia.— (See Phlebitis.) Photophobia.— ^cow.., Ars., Aur., Bell., Clem., Con., Euph. Graph., Gels., Hyos., Merc., Na,tr. carb., Natr. mur., Natr sulph., Nux v.. Puis., Rhus tox., Sulph. Phthisis, Puhnonalis. — Aeon., Am. c. Am. mur., Ars. iod. Bapt., Bell., Bry., Cede, c, Calc phos., Carb. v., Carb. ac. Caust., Chin, ars.. Cinch., Dios., Ferr., Ferr. iod., Guai. Hep. s., Hydras., Iod., Ipee., Jab., Kali c, Kali iod., Kal nit., Kreos., Lam-o., Lob., Lye, Lycop. v., Mang., Merc. Merc. iod. rub., Millef., Natr. ars., Natr. sulph., Nitr. ac Phos. ac, Phos., Plumb., Puis., Rumex, Sang., Selen., Sep. Sil., Spong., Stan., Sticta, Sulph., Sulph. ac, Ther. Pityriasis.— Ars., Kali iod., Fluor, ac, Merc, Merc, iod., Nitr ac, Sil., Sulph. Placenta, Retained. — Ars., Bapt., Caul., Cinch., Cim., Kreos. Lach., Merc, Sah., Secale, Ustil. Pleurisy.— ^co7^.. Ant. t., Arn., Ascl. t.. Bad., Bell., Borax Bry., Cact., Canth., Colch., Dig., Ferr. phos., Ham., Hep. s. Kali c, Natr. mur., Phos., B.aminc., Squilla, Stan., Sulph. Yer. vir. Pleurodynia.— Aeon., Arn., Ascl. t.. Borax, Bry., Cim., Lycop v., Nux v.. Puis., Ranunc, Ruta, Rhod. Plica Polonica.— Arg. m., Borax, Graph., Lye, Natr. mur. Sulph., Viola. Pneumonia. — Aeon., Am. c, Ant. tart., Arn., Ars. iod., Ascl t., Bell., Brom., Bry., Cact., Can. sat., Carb. an., Carb. v. Chel., Cinch., Dig., Ferr. phos.. Hep. s., Iod., Ipec, Kali c. Kali iod., Kali nit., Kreos., Lach., Lachnan., Led., Lyc^ 828 (CLINICAL INDEX. Melilo., Merc, Natr, mur., Osm., Phos., Rhus tox., Sano;., Senega, Sil., Spong., Squilla, Stan., Sulph., Ver. vir. Polypi. — Calo. c, Con., lod. {uterine), Kali nit., Lye, Merc, Ma7\ y.^Merc, Merc iod. rub., JYitr. ac, Phos., Sang., Sep., Sil., Staph., Sulph., Thioja. Pregnancy, Vomiting of. — Aletris, Anac, Ant. c, Apomorph., Asar., Carb. ac, Cim., Coccul., Dig., Ferr. phos., Graph., Ign., Ipec, Iris, Kreos., Lact. ac. Lob., Magn. c, Merc, Nux. m., Nux v.. Petrol., Phos., Puis., Sang., Sep., Sulph. ac, Tab. Proctitis. — Aeon., Aloes, Bell., Colch., Collin., Merc, Merc. cor., Nux v., Phos., Podo., Sulph., Tereb. Prolapsus Ani.— (See Anus.) Prosopalgia. — Aeon., Amyl. nit., August, v., Arg. nib., Ars., Bell., Chin, ars., Chin, s.. Cinch., Coloc, Ign., Ipee., Iris, Kalmia, Lach., Magn. e., Meph., Merc, Mere, eor., Mez., Nux v., Phos., Plat., Ehod., J^hus tox., Sab., Sang., Sep., Spig., Stan., Stram., Sulph., Thuja, Ver. alb., Verat. vir., Xanth. Prostatitis. — Aeon., iEse. hip.. Dig., Hep. s., Iod., Kali iod., Lith., Lye, Merc, Natr. sulph., Nitr. ac, Puis., Sil., Sulph., Thuja, Uva ursi. Prurigo. — Ars., Carb. ac. Sab., Kali bi., Kali brom., Kreos., Lil. tig.. Mere., Mez., Natr. mur., Rhus tox., Rumex, Sidph. Pruritus Ani.— (See Anus, Itehing of.) Pruritus Vulva. — Ambr., Calacl., Calc. e., Collins., Helon., Hydras., Mere., Plat., Sulph. Psoriasis.— ^7^5., Ars. iod., Bor., Carb. ac. Graph., Hep., s., Hydroe., Kali iod;, Lye, Mang., Merc, Mez., Natr. mur., Nitr. ae.. Petrol., Phos., Sep., Sidph. Pterygium. — Arg. nit., Ars., Cale. c, Sulph., Zine. Ptyalism. — Cinch., Dule., Hep. s., Iod., Iris, Jab., Kali iod., Merc, Merc cor., Jsitr. ac, Podo., Sulph. Puerperal Convulsions.- (See Convulsions, Puerperal.) Puerperal Fever. — (See Fever, Puerperal.) Puerperal Mania.— (See Mania.) Ptosis.— Caust., Con., Gels., Natr. ars., Nat. carb., Naja, Nux m., Rhus tox., Sep., Spig., Zinc. Purpura. — Ars., Carb. veg., Crotal., Ham., Kali iod., Lach., J^aja, Natr. ars., Phos., Rhus tox., Secale, Sulph. ac, Tereb. CLINICAL INDEX. 829 Pyaemia.— Arn., Ars., Bapt., Carb. ac, Carb. v., Chin, sulph., Crotal., Eucal., Hep. s., Lach., Merc, Mur. ac, Phos. Pyrosis. — Bis., Calc c, Caps., Cinch., Hep. s., Iris, Lye, Merc, Nux v., Puis., Rob., Sulph. Quinine Cachexia. — Eucal., Ferr., Natr. m., Ver. alb. Quinsy. — (See Tonsilitis.) Rachitis. — Asaf., Calc. c, Calc. phos., Fluor, ac, Hep. s., lod., Kali iod.. Lye, Merc, Phos., Sil., Sulph., Therid. Ranula. — A'mhra, Calc. c, Fluor, ac, Merc, JSfitr. ac, Thuja. Remittent Fever. — (See Fever, Intermittent.) Red Gum. — Aeon., Bry., Calc, Cham., Merc, Rhus tox. Retinitis. — Bell., Crotal., Big., Gels., Glon., Lach., Lye, Merc, Merc cor., Nux v., Phos., Physos., Puis., Sulph. Rhagades. — Calc. c, Fluor, ac. Graph., Hep. s,, Merc, Nitr. ac, Petrol., Sars., Sil., Sulph. Rheumatism. — Abrot., Aeon., Agar., Arg. nit., Ars., Ascl. cor., Ascl. t., Aspar., Bell., Benz. ac, Berb., Bry., Cact., Calad., Calc. c, Calc phos., Carls., Caul., Canst., Cham., Chin, sulph., Chel., Cinch., Cim., Colch., Coloc. Crotal., Dulc, Elat., Eucal., Eup. perf., Ferr., Ferr. phos.. Gels., Gnaph., Hyper., Iod., Kah bi., Kali c. Kali iod.. Kali nit., Kalmia, Lact. ac.. Led., Lith., Lye, Lycop. v., Mang., Teue m. v.. Mere, Mez., Natr. ars., Natr mur., Natr. sulph., Nitr. ac, Nux. v., Ox. ac. Petrol., Phos., Phytol., Puis., Ranune., Bhocl., Rhus box., Ruta, Sa;ng., Sars., Sill. Spig., Spong., Stil., Sulph., Tarax., Thuja, Ver. alb., Ver. vir.. Zinc. Rheumatism of Small Joints.— ^c^^ea sp., Caul., Colch., Led., Kali bi., Lact. ac, Led., Lith., Rhod., Sticta. Ringworms. — (See Herpes.) Rupia.— Ars., Clem., Nitr. ac. Kali iod., Phytol., Sulph.,, Thuja. Salivation.— (See Ptyalism.) Scabies. — (See Itch.) Scald Head.— (See Crusta Lactea.) Scarlet Fever.— Aeon., Alianth., Ain. c. Apis, Arg. nit., Ars., Arum., Bapt., Bell., Bry., Caps., Carb. ac, Chin, ars., Crotal., Gels., Hell., Hyos., Lach., Lachnan., Mere, Mere 830 CLINICAL INDEX. iod. rub., Mar. ac, Natr. mur., Nitr. ac, Paris, Phytol., Rhus tojc., Stram., Sulph., Tereb., Ver. vir., Zinc. Sciatica. — Absinth., Aeon., Am. m., Ant. t., Ars., Bell., Bry., CUn., Coloc, Dios., Elat., Eup. perf., Gels., Gnaph., Ign., Iris, Kali bi., Kali c, Kali iod., Lach., Led., Mang., Merc, Natr. ars., Nux. v., Phos., Phytol., Plumb., Rhus tox., Stil., Sulph., Tellur., Thuja, Val., Xanth., Zinc. Scirrhus.— (See Cancer.) Sclerosis. — (See Myelites.) Scorbutis. — Am. c, Ars., Ber., Carb. v., Ferr., Kreos., Merc, Mur. ac., Jfatr. 7}%ztr., Phos., Staph., Sulph. Scrofula. — Asaf., Aur., Bad., Baryt. c, Bor., Calo. c, Calc. phos., Camph., Chin, ars., Cistus, Clem., Con., Dulc, Ferr., Graph., Hep. s., Iod., Kali bi.,Kali iod., Kreos., Lye, Merc, Merc, cor., Merc. iod. rub., Mez., Nux v., Phos., Sep., Sil., Staph., Sulph., Stilling., Tellur., Ther., Viola. Scurvy. — (See Scorbutis.) Sea Sickness. — Apomorph., Coccul., Glon., Kali brom., Kreos., Jfux in., JVujc v.. Petrol., Tab., Ther. Seminal Emissions.— Agnus, Arg. nit.. Arum., Cinch., Con., Dig., Eryn., Gels., Phos., Phos. ac, Sulph., Staph. Septicaemia.— (See Pyaemia.) Shingles.— (See Zona.) Sick Headache. — (See Headache, Nervous.) Singultus. — (See Hiccough.) Small-Pox. — Aeon., Am. c. Am. m., Ant. t.. Apis, Bapt., Bell., Carb. ac, Crotal., Ham., Hep. s., Hydras., Lach., Merc, Mur. ac, Phos., Rhus tox., Sulph., Thuja, Ver. vir. SomnamLbulism. — Cis., Kali brom., Nux v.. Puis., Sulph., Zinc. Spasms. — (See Convulsions.) Spermatorrhoea. — Acet. ac, Agnus, Ars., Canth., Cinch., Eryng., Kali brom., Meph., Merc, Natr. mur., Nuph., Nux v., Phos. ac, Phos., Staph., Sulph., Zinc. Spina Bifida. — Calc. phos., Iod. Spinal Irritation. — Aeon., Agar., Arg. nit., Arn., Caul., Chin, sulph.. Can., Coccul., Cupr., Gels., Hyper., Ign., Kali c, Natr. mur., Naja, Nux v.. Ox. ac, Phos., Physos., Puis., Seeale, Sil., Sulph., Taran., Tellur., Ther., Zinc. Spine, Concussion of. — Aeon., Am., Con., Hyper., Nux v., Physos., Ver. vir. CLINICAL INDEX. 831 Spine, Curvature of. — Calc, c, Calo. phos., Phos., Sil., Sulph. Spine, Congestion of. — Absinth., Aeon., Agar., Arn., Gels., Hyper., Nux v., Phos., Sil., Sulph. Spine, Softening of. — Agar., CoccuL, Crotal., Ox. ac., Phos. Spine, Sclerosis o/.— Alum., Arg. nit., Coccul., Nux v., Plumb. Spleen, Enlargement of. — Absinth., Ao-ar., Aral., Ars., Ars. iocl., Calc. c, Cedron, Chin, ars., Chin, sulph., Cinch., Ferr., Iocl., Kali iod., Merc, Natr. mur., Natr. sulph., .Phos., Sulph. ac, Sulph., Zinc. Spleen, Inflammation of. — Aeon., Ars., Cinch., Chin, ars., Chin, sulph., Iod., Kali iod., Merc, Natr. mur., Nat. sulph., Nux v., Sulph. Sprains. — Aeon., Am. c. Am. mur., Arn., Led., Phytol., Buta, Rhus tojc. Staphyloma.— Apis, Physos. Stammering. — Bell., Hyos., Strain. Sterility. — Agnus, Aletris, Aur., Borax, Canth., Con., Iod., Kreos., Natr. mur., Nux m., Phos., Plat. Stings and Bites of Insects.— Acet. ac. Am. c, Ant. c, Apis, Carb. ac, Camph., Crotal., Lach., Led. Stomatitis.— .^r5., Arg. nit., Bapt., Bell., Benz. ac. Borax, Caps., Hyd., Kali chlor., Merc., Mere, cor., Mur. ac, Nitr. ac, Nux v., Sulph. Strabismus.— ^eW., Cic, Cina, Cyc, Hyos., Jab., Lach., Merc, Strain. Strain.— (See Sprain.) Strangury.— ^co^., Apis, Bell., Camph., Can. sat., Canth., Caps., Chin., Dig., Gels., Nux v. ^tjes.—Apis, Bell., Graph., Ham., Hep. s., Merc, Natr. mur.. Puis., Staph., Sulph., Thuja. Sun Stroke.— Aeon., Amyl. nit., Bell., Gels., Glon., Tab., Tlier., Ver. vir.. Zinc Suppuration. — (See Abscess.) Syncope.— Amyl. nit., Dig. Sycosis.— Ars., Merc, J^atr. sulph., JVitr. ac, Phos. ac. Plat., Staph., Thuja. Synovitis.— Aeon., Apis, Bry., Calc. c. Cinch., Fluor, ac. Hep. s., Iod., Kali iod., Led., Merc, Puis. Rhus tox., Ruta, Sulph. ■Syphilis.— Arg. nit., Asaf., Aur., Bad., Benz. ac,Carb. ac. Cor. 832 CLINICAL INDEX. rub.; Crotal., Fluor, ac, Guai., Hep. s., lod., Kali bi., Kali iocl., Lach., Merc, Merc, cor., Merc. iocl. fla., Merc. iocl. rub., Mez., Kitr. ac, Petrol., Phytol., Plat., Sars., Staph.^ Stil., Sulph., Thuja. Tabes Dorsalis.— (See Ataxia.) Tabes Mesenterica.— Arg. nit., Ars. iod., Baryt. c, Calc. c, Calc. phos.. Cinch., Iod., Hep. s., Kreos., Merc, Natr. sulph., Nitr. ac, Phos., Sil., Sulph., Zinc. Testicles, Hypertrophy o/.— Agnus, Aur., Clem., Con., Iocl., Lach., Merc, Mer. iocl.. Puis., Sulph. Tetanus.— Amyl. nit., August, v., Ars., Bell., Crotal., Gels., Hydroc ac, Hyos., Hyper., Kali hrom., Lach., Lauro., Nux v.. Op. Physos., Plumb., Stram., Val., Ver. alb. Tic Douleurex.— (See Prosopalgia.) Tinea Capitis.— (See Crusta Lactea.) Tinnitus Aur ium. — Acon.,5eZZ., Calc, Calc. phos., Chin, sulph.,. Cinch., Graph., Kali iod., Merc, Puis., Sil. Tonsilitis.— Baryt. c. Bell., Benz. ac, Berb., Canth., Caps., Cistus, Ferr. phos., Guai., Hep. s.. Hydras., Ign., Kali bi., Lach., Lye, Merc, Merc. iod. rub., Merc. iod. fla., Natr, sulph., Nitr. ac, Phytol., Rhus tox.. Sab., Sil., Sulph., Sulph. ac Tonsils, Enlarged. — Baryt, c, Calc. c, Colch.,\o^., Merc iod., Sil., Sulph. Toothache, From Cold. — Aeon., Bell., Cham., Coff., Kali carb., Merc, Nux m.. Puis., Rhod. From Indigestion. — Ant. c, Bry., Euphorb., Kreos., Merc, Nux m.. Puis. JVer- voxbs. — Ars., Bell., Cham,, Cinch., Coff., Guai., Hyos., Ign., Merc, c, Nux v.. Plat., Spig., Verat. alb,. Zinc, In Preg- nancy.— Magn. c, Nux m., Puis., Sep., Staph. Froin, Decay. — Carb. ac. Hep. s., Kreos., Merc, Mez., Sil., Staph. ,^ Thuja. Tympanitis,— Ars., Asaf., Carb. v.. Cinch., Coccul., Colch., Coloc, Ferr., Lye, Nux v., Phos., Phos. ac, Plumb,, Secale, Taran., Tereb., Val. Typhoid Oonditions.— (See Fever, Typhoid.) Typhlitis.— e/^co^., A.rs., Bell., Bry., Colch., ^e/:>. 5., Kali iod., Lye, Merc, Merc, cor., Natr. sulph;, JVatr. sulph., Op., Rhus tox., Sulph. CLINICAL INDEX. 833 Ulcers.— x\rs., Asaf., Aster., Bufo {nvalignaut), Cauth., Carb. v., Carb. ac, Cistus, Clem., Eiical., Fluor, ac, Graph., Hep. s., Hydras., lod., Kali bi., Kali brom.. Kali iod., Kreos., Lach., Ly'c, Merc, Merc, cor., Merc. iod. rub., Mez., Mur. ac, Naja, Nabr. c, Natr. mur., Natr. sulph., Nitr. ac, Phos., Phos. ac, PhytoL, Ranunc, Sang., Sars., Sec, Sep., Sil., Staph., Stil., Sulph., Thuja. Ursemia.— Am. c. Apis, Apoc, Ars., Ascl. c, Beuz. ac. Can. ind., Cupr., Kah iod., Kali nit., Lith., Op., Phos., PhytoL, Plumb. Stram., Uran., Ver. alb. Urethritis. — (See Gonorrhoea.) Urinary, CaZcz^Z^.— (See Calcuh, Renal.). Urticaria.— ^yf?^5, Ars., Bor., Carls., Dulc, Graph., Hep. s., Kreos., Led., Lye, Natr. mur., Nitr. ac, Nux v., Puis., Ranunc, Rhus tox., Sulph., Tereb., Urtic. ur. Uterus, Atony o/— Aletris, Aloes, Alum., Bell., Caul., FeiT. iod., Helon., Lil. tig., Millef., Puis., Sec, Sep., Tril., Ustil. Uterus, Bisplacervhents of. — Absinth., Aletris. Alum., Am. m., Apomorph., Arg. met., Aur., Bell.,Calc phos , Cim., Col- lin., Ferr., Graph., Helon., Iod., Lach.,iiZ, tig., Natr. mur., Nux m., Nux v., Plat., Podo., Puis., Rhus tox., 6'6;t?.,Stan., Staph., Sulph., Thuja, Tril. Uterus, JJlceration, etc., of. — Arg. nit,, Ars., Bapt., Carb. ac. Hep. s., Hydras., Kreos., Merc. iod. rub., Mez., Mur. ac, Natr. carb., Nitr. ac, Phos., Phytol., Sang., Sep., Sulph., Thuja, Zinc. Uterus, Subinvolution of. — Calc c, Calc phos., Ferr. iod., Hy- dras., Iod., Kali brom.. Kali iod., 'Kreos., Lil. tig., Merc, iod., Natr. mur., Phos,, Plat., Podo., Sab., Sep., Sec, U^til., Vib. op. Vaccination. Bad effects of — Apis, Ars., Crotal., Sil-, Thuja. Vaginitis. — Aeon., Ars., Berb., Calad., Cauth., Can. sat., Ham., Hydras., Kreos., Merc, Natr. mur., Nitr. ac, Sep., Sulph. Vaginismus,— Ars., Aur., Bell., Berb., Calad., Ham., Kah brom,, Kreos., Merc, Plat., Plumb., Sulph. Teuc m. v. Varicella. — Aeon., Ant. t.. Apis, Ars., Bry., Ipec, Merc, Puis., Rhus tox., Sulph. Varices.— Arn., Calc, Carb. v., Caust., Colhn., Ferr., Fluor, 834 CLINICAL INDEX. ac, Ham., Hydras., Hep. s., Lye, Merc, Mellif., Natr. mur., Puis., Sulph., Thuja^ Zinc. Variola. — (See Small-Pox.) Varicocele. — (See Varices.) Vertigo. — Ambra, Ant. t., Arg. nit., Ars., Bry., Bell., Calc. c , Calc. phos., Chel., Chin., Cinch., Coccul., Coff., Con., Lye, Dig., Gels., Ferr., Glon., lod,, Ipec, Kali c, Merc, Natr. carb., Nux v., Oleander., Petrol., Phos., Phos. ac, Puis., Sulph., Tab., Zinc Vermicular Affections.— (See Worms.) Vulvitis. — Aeon,, Apis, Ars., Bell., Canth., Crot. tig., Lach., Merc, Khus tox., Sab,, Sep., Sulph., Urtica, Zinc. Warts. — Acet. ac, Ant. c, Calc. c, Caust , Dulc, Kali iod., Merc, J^itr. ac, Phos. ac, Staph., Sulph., Tlxuja. Whitlow. — Am. c, Apis, Ars., Crotal., Fluor, ac, Hep. s., Merc, Merc iod., rub., Natr. sulph., 8il., Stram.. Sulph. Whooping Cough.— (See Pertussis.) Worms. — Aeon., Calc. c, Cham., Cina, Dolieh., Ferr., Ign. {convulsions), Mang., Merc, Natr. m., Nux m., Sab., Spig., Stan., Sulph., Tereb., Teuc. m. v.. Zinc Wounds.— (See Injuries.) Wry Neck. — Lachnan., Lye, Nux v. Yellow Fever.— (See Fever, Yellow.) Zona.— Ars., Crot. tig., Dolieh., Graph., Merc, Mez,, Puis., Ranunc, Rhus tox., Sulph.