•^ oH -Kb '*% S ^ x V ^ " J o-t -t* $ •%., V s % ^ *%. "V n o o N ■^ * CHARACTERISTIC * 1 0t+l> (r MATERIA MEDICA. W) H. BURT, M.D., OF LINCOLN, ILL., AUTHOR OF 1 A MONOGRAPH ON POLTPOKUS OFFICINALIS, POLTPORUS PINICOLA, AND USTILAGO MADIS." •10 MULTUM IN PARVO. PHILADELPHIA: T A F E L. I86 0. ^cv & cA ■$ ^ Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year l v By A. J. T a ri L, In the Clerk*s Office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. CAXTON PRESS OP SHERMAN k CO., PniLADKLPHI A. TO HENRY N. GUERNSEY, M.D., PROFESSOR OP OBSTETRICS AND DISEASES OP WOMEN AND CHILDREN, HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE OF PENNSYLVANIA, The originator of the Characteristic or " Key-note System " for the choice of remedies in disease, brought out in your u Treatise on Obstetrics," the most valuable work ever written on the science of medicine. In consideration of the great benefit I have derived from your labors, I would most respectfully dedicate to you this, my humble effort, with gratitude. The Author. PREFACE. The following work is neither a u Text-book," nor an u Epitome ;" much less is it offered as a substitute for the Materia Medica. But from all the sources within my reach, including pretty much the entire range of our English and Amer- ican Homoeopathic literature, I have endeavored to col- lect those symptoms, which, whether originally patho- genetic, or clinical only, have come to be regarded as ;; Characteristics," and as " Key-notes," by reason of their own prominence, or from the frequency of their mention by the best authorities. Very many of the symptoms comprised within this book, have been expressly set forth as " Key-notes," and " Characteristics," by Drs. Guernsey, Hering, and numerous others. To all of whom due credit has been given in every instance. These symptoms, thus ap- proved, as having been tried and verified, ex usu in morbis, I have, with great labor, collected and arranged, in such a manner as to render them at the same time more accessible to the junior members of the profes- sion, and more convenient for their use. And in order the better to facilitate the study of 1* VI PREFACE. the remedies which these symptoms represent, I have adopted a method of grouping, arranging by them- selves those remedies which produce similar physio- pathological and pathogenetic symptoms. In forming such groups, I have availed myself of the labors of Dr. Hale and Dr. Hughes. The method here pursued, dif- fers from that of Teste, who based his groups upon the pathogenesis alone. His plan appears to me to be both unscientific and insufficient j since, in order bo apply our remedies successfully, we must understand their pathological relations, as irell aa their pathogenetic symptoms. It is for this reason thai I have also attempted, In a few words, to point out the several organs and tissues for which each particular remedy has a special af- finity; and also the nervous spheres through which it primarily acts upon the system. In the next place is stated the particular kind of pathological influence which the remedy exerts upon each tissue and important orgaHi Then follow what 1 have allowed myself to term the Grand Characteristics of the remedy. And here it is proper that I should refer to the sources from which these latter are derived, although it would seem superfluous to give a full catalogue of the numerous works Consulted; and the more espe- cially, since, wherever practicable, an authority has been subjoined to each individual "Characteristic," or 11 Key-note." And while! I have endeavored to render this work representative of the practical experience of PREFACE. Vll the whole profession, rather than that of a single man, I cannot here refrain from making especial mention of Professor H.X. Guernsey's work on Obstetrics. Upon this, as will appear, I have depended more for Charac- teristics, than upon any other. The initial G. stands, therefore, for Prof. Guernsey; H., for Prof. Hering; and F., for Prof. Frost. The names of other authorities being given in full. The s}^mptoms credited to Prof. J. S. Douglas, were from my notes of his lectures. In the absence of any fixed and absolute rule for group- ing, I have been obliged to depend upon my own judg- ment; and whether from nvy own inability, or the nat- ural difficulties of the undertaking, it is no doubt as true that others may prefer a different classification, as that I found it impossible to confine certain remedies exclusively to any particular groups. And from being alone, and thus obliged to depend upon my own judgment only, in regard to what symp- toms should be selected as characteristic, and what re- jected, it also follows, most undoubtedly, that many persons will look in vain in these pages, for symptoms which they know to be characteristic, from having suc- cessfully applied them for years in their practice. This being the first attempt to collect together the charac- teristic symptoms, it must be regarded onty as a be- ginning, and, therefore, necessarily imperfect. It is believed that the present work will be found of especial use to the profession, from its presenting the most important symptoms and indications of some new Vlll PREFACE. and valuable remedies, many of them contained in Dr. Hale's Materia Medica of the Xew Remedies; not to mention my own humble contributions of Pol yporus and Ustilago madis: the latter of which Dr. J. B. Wood- reports (Hahnemannian Monthly, Apr., 1869), "hav- ing used with good success in cases of uterine hemor- rhage," &c. In other respects, 1 have made use of my own experience in writing and compiling this work, which, I trust, maj r richly repay my labor, by proving itself acceptable and useful to the profession. A few inaccuracies which have crept into the text, are here noted; since, while not in themselves of much importance, they mar the sense. In page 165, the paragraph (beginning Pry, husky, scaly skin;) should be understood as a portion of the next one, or symptom quoted from 1). II. Gardiner; the quotation-marks were unfortunately omitted. A similar omission of quotation-marks occurs also on page 175, where the whole of the paragraph on Ly copodiumin Typhoid fever, should have been credited to Prof. Frost. In page 297, in the sixth line from the top, in>' of hydropho&m, read hydrophoftt'num. In the list of Group V, page 229, insert Arum tri.; . and omit " Potassium, in its various compounds," which latter had their place in Group IV. LIST OF GROUPS. GROUP I. Aconitum napellus, Veratrum viride, Cactus grandiflorus, Gelseniinum semp. , Bryonia alba, Rhus tox., Rhus rad., Rhus vernix, Digitalis, Cimicifuga, Tartar emetic, | Antimo. tart, j Veratrum alb., Arnica montana, Colchicum, Senega, Baptisia, Chelidonium. GROUP II. Belladonna, Hyoscyanius, Stramonium, Opium, Alcohol, Chloroform, Ether, Glonoine, Agaricus, Cicuta vir., Gymnocladus, Camphora, Zizia aurea, Cuprum, Cannabis ind., CofFea, Tabacum, Solanum nig. , Aethusa, Lachnantes, Ailanthus. Xux vomica, Strychnine, Ignatia, Cocculus, GROUP III. Conium, Curare, Angustura, ./Esculus hip. LIST OF GROUPS. GROUP IV. Sulphur, Calcarea carb., Lycopodium, Silicea, Hepar sulph., Phosphorus, Cistus can.. Sarsaparilla, Sanguinaria, Kali carb., Kali hyd., Causticum, Bumex crispus, Carbo veg. , Carbo an. , Alumina, Stannum, Juglans cinerea, Graphitt Thuja, Magnesia, Dulcamara, Corallia rub., Psorin, Kali biehromicum, Electricity, GROUP V. Mercurius, and its va- rious preparations. Iodine, and its com- pounds, Chlorine, and its com- pounds, Bromine, and its com- pounds, Arum triphyllum, Ammonium, Podophyllum, Iris versicolor, Phytolacca, Arsenicum alb., Sepsin, Lcptandria, StiUingia, A1(M Aigentum, Spongia, Baryta carb., Croton tig., Auruni. GROUP VI. Ipecacuanha, Antimonium crud., Tartar emetic, Bismuth, Lobelia, Robinia, Euphorbia. LIST OF GROUPS. XI Ferrum met. Manganese, Zincum, Lachesis, Crotalus, Hy drophobinum , GROUP VII. Helonias dioica, Hypophosphites. GROUP VIII. Xaja tripujians, Theridion curass. Tarantula. GROUP IX. Cantharides, Apis mel., Chimaphila, Terebinth., Copaiva, Cubebs, Hydrastis, Kali chloricum, Borax, Cannabis sat., Erigeron, Apocynum can., Colocynth, Dioscorea, Collinsonia, Plumbum, Jalapa, GROUP Asparagus, Urtica urens, Petroleum, Erechthites, Mitchella, Euphrasia, Helleborus, Sambucus, Uranium, Eupatorium purpur. , Sticta, Zingiber. X. Scammonium, Mezereum, Gummi guttse, Elaterium, Rheum. GROUP XI. Asafoetida, Valeriana, Valerianate of Zinc, Scutellaria, Ambra grisea, Xux moschata, Platina, Moschus, Chamomilla, Castoreum, Cypripedium, Agnus castus, Mephitis. Xll LIST OF GROUPS. GROUP XII. Cina, Cucurbita pepo semen. Santonine, Teucrium, Spigelia, Artemisia, Filix mas, Staphysa^ria. Kousso, • GROUP XIII. China, Gelseminum. Quinia, Chanchalagua, Ostrya vir., Capsicum, Polypori, Salix alba. Eupatorium perf } Corona florida, Natrum mur., Ptelea, Cedron, Arsenicum, Xux v.. Carbo v.. Ipecacuanha, Sulphur. GROUI 1 XIV. Secale cornutum, ( rTOCUS, Ustilago madis, Thlaspi, Pulsatilla, 8eneeio aureus. Sepia, Cinnamonum, Sabina, Millefolium. Kreosote, ( aulopbvllum, Hamamelis, Tanaretum, Trillium, Gossypium. Cyclamen, grou: P XV. Acidum sulphuricum, Acidum hydrocyanicuni. Acidum nitricurn h Acidum rluoricum, Acidum phosphoricum, Acidum benzotcum, Acidum muriaticum, Acidum oxalicum. CHARACTERISTIC MATERIA MEDICA. GROUP I. Aconitum napellus, Veratrum viride, Cactus grandiflorus, Gelseminum senip., Bryonia alba, Rhus tox., Ehus rad., Ehus vernix, Digitalis, Ciraicifuga, Tartar emetic, Veratrum alb., Arnica montana, Colchicum, Senega, Baptisia, Chelidonium. Aconitum xapellus, and its analogous remedies, are our true antiphlogistics. All produce physio- pathological states, which, if not identical, are very similar ; all reduce the activity of the circulation, quiet nervous excitement and excessive action of the heart and arteries, and prevent congestion and inflammation. Primarily, they all produce paraljsis of sensa- tion ; voluntary and involuntary motion ; venous congestion of the brain and its membranes ; the lungs, heart, and all the abdominal viscera. The blood becomes dark and coagulated, the heart loses 2 14 ACONITUM NAPELLUS. its contractility, and serous exudations, asphyxia, and death result. Secondarily, they produce arterial excitement, congestion, inflammation, spasms, tremors, general irritation, &c. ACONITUM NAPELLUS. Woi/aba Aconite especially affectfl that portion of the ganglionic nervoue m which presides over the action of the heart and arteries ; the posterior portion of the spinal cord, that which presides over sensation; the serous membranes, muscles, joints, and digestive organs. The great sympathetic or ganglionic system of nerves, is deeply invaded by the poisonous princi- ple of Aconite; the heart and arterial capillary vessels are so paralyzed as to produce violent con- gestion and inflammation in any and every organ and tissue in the body that contains capillaries ; the parts become swollen, red, hot, and painful, with all the constitutional symptoms of phlegmon- ous inflammation ; such as high fever, hard, hound- ing pulse, violent thirst, great anxiety, restless- ness, &c. Thus we find that Aconite expends its poisonous principles especially upon those delicate arterial capillary vessels, and so paralyzes their action as to produce congestion and inflammation. Meyer says: "Aconite's sphere of action is manifested principally in the ganglionic system, and exercises here its special influence upon the ACONITUM NAPELLUS. 15 nerves of the capillary vessels, exciting fevers, con- gestions, and inflammations." Grusselich says : " Its operation on the arterial system is unmistakable ; its reaction upon the nerves and lymphatic vessels easily substantiated from physiological principles." Diez says: " Aconite corresponds to the first stage of inflammation ; as such, and apart from its various modifications, it occupies the foremost rank among all the medical plants that have been proved up to the present time." Cerebrospinal System, or nervous system of ani- mal life. — This includes the brain, spinal cord, with the nerves connected with them, and the ganglia seated upon these nerves. First, the Brain. The arterial capillary vessels of the brain are so paralyzed as to produce violent cerebral congestion, as shown b}^ the swollen face, blue lips, violent pain in the head, stupor, partial insensibility, trembling of the head, mania; at times singing and laughing, and then weeping and moaning ; filled with hope or great despair ; pain in the head, as if it was filled with hot water or encircled with a hot iron ; excessive anxiety ; rest- lessness ; dread of death ; whizzing in the ears ; loss of sight ; vertigo, with partial loss of conscious- ness ; loss of memory, &c. Nerves of Motion. — Aconite sometimes produces convulsions, but more generally paralysis of the muscular system. It does not irritate the motor nerves of animal life directly, like Xux vomica. Nerves of Sensation. — These are more powerfully 16 AC0N1TUM NAPELLUS. acted upon by Aconite, as shown by the numbn< tingling, prickling, crawling, and creeping tions throughout the body. " Th sation arises from its depressing action upon those ganglionic or vaso-motor nerves which follow the bloodvessels to their most minute ramifications, and preside over their functions." This congestion, by press- ing on the sentient nerves, arrests the nervous cir- culationand produces a state similar to that when a limb is said to go to sleep ; consequently the neu- ralgia Aconite is homoeopathie too. i> secondary, from pressure of the congested V( irrounding the nerve. When the nerve alone is involved we must look to other remedies that directly all' the nerves. 31uscular System. — Aconite especially affects the muscular system, also the tendons and the fibr tissues of the joints ; producingin them - ion and inflammation of a rheumatic character. For inflammatory rheumatism of the joints and til ► r - tissue, in any part of the body, no known remedy is equal to Aconite. If the fibrous tissue is the seat of the disease, the pains are tearing and ach- ing. If it is in the serous membranes, the pains are sticking, or sore and Btinging. If in the mucous membrane, the pains are burning. If in the mus- cles, the pain from sudden movement is extremely great. Serous Membranes. — The most accurate and I authenticated cases of poisoning by Aconite estab- lish the fact that it affects especially the capillaii and this through a direct impression upon the r ACONITUM NAPELLUS. 17 inae of ganglionic and vaso-motor nerves supplied to them. This power to influence the whole or any portion of the capillary system, renders it a poly- chrest far excellence. Its field of operation is the ganglionic nervous system, which it aftects prima- rily. This primarj- impression is communicated to the vaso-motor filaments which regulate the circulation in all the vessels. The changes which occur in the circulation of a tissue brought under its (Aconite's) influence are believed to be very sim- ilar to those indicated by Dr. Bennet as peculiar to the congestive process. Dr. Prevost found that if Aconite, much diluted by water, was brought in contact w r ith the w^eb of a frog's foot, contraction and afterwards dilatation of the capillary vessels ensued. The congestive stage of inflammation in serous membranes most frequently commences w r ith a chill, followed by dry heat, &c. Inflammation in serous membranes does not generally go on to ul- ceration, sloughing and gangrene ; but the fluid that is thrown out in the second stage takes on what is termed " adhesive inflammation," the fluid eftused undergoes such an organizing process as to glue the opposing surfaces of the serous membranes together. As soon as the second stage, that of ef- fusion, takes place in serous membranes, the useful- ness of Aconite ceases, and Bryonia or some other remedy must be chosen, but up to the stage of ef- fusion, Aconite is the remedy par excellence. Most examples of serous inflammation are be- lieved to be more or less rheumatic in character. This again shows us why Aconite is so useful in ser- 2* 18 ACONITUM NAPELLUS. ous inflammation, for the inflammation caused by Aconite is rheumatic in character. Mucous Membranes. — Mucous membranes are highly vascular, and the millions of arterial capil- lary vessels found in them become the centre for the action of Aconite ; acute congestion and inflam- mation in this tissue are at once produced under its influence. Lymphatic System. — Lymphatics have 1 1 coats. 1. Internal epithelial and elastic fibre; 2. Middle, smooth, muscular, and tine elastic fibres; 3. External, areolo-fil irons, areolar tissue, inter- mixed with smooth muscular fibre. Arteries are distributed to their outer and middle and in these two coats, Aconite produces congestion and inflammation. Grand Characteristics. The grand sphere for Aconite is found in all diseases of a congestive, inflammatory, or rheumatic character, with full bounding pulse, much heat, dry, burning skin, agonized tossing about, violent thirst, red face, shortness of breath, and great nervous excitability. " Great fear and anxiety of mind, with great nervous excitability." — G. " He is afraid to go out, to go where there is any excitement or many people, or to cross a street. His life, in fact, is rendered miserable by this all-pervading fearfulness. The conn- ACONITUM NAPELLUS. 19 tenance exhibits strong and unmistakable ex- pression of fear." — G. "Fear of death — predicts the day he will die."— G. "If the patient sits up in bed, he imme- diately falls over in consequence of vertigo, and he is afraid to rise again, lest the same trouble should recur." — G. "Extreme congestion and inflammation of the parts. She dreads too much activity about her."— G. " She is alarmed, and sure she will die, al- though there is no occasion for alarm." — G. "Chill and synochal fever, from dry cold air. Everything except water has a bitter taste."— G. " Sensation as if the hairs of the head were standing on end ; the scalp is sensitive to the touch."— G. " The child has a dry, hot skin, sleepless, rest- less, cries much, bites its fist, and has a green, watery diarrhoea." — G. "Child has much pain; feverish, constant restlessness, and biting its hands." — G. Agony; has to sit straight up ; can hardly breathe; pulse thread-like; very sad. Active hemorrhages, with fear of death, and great nervous excitability. " Inflammation ; the parts burn as from hot coals." 20 ACONITUM NAPELLUS. " Excessive sensibility to the least touch. " "She complains much of her head, with an- guish and great fear of death." — G. Vertigo, when rising from a recumbent posi- tion, with fainting and pale face. "So giddy cannot sit up in bed." — G. Headache, as if everything would press out of the forehead, with vertigo on rising. Burning sensation, extending from the stom- ach all the way to the mouth, and along the dorsum of the tongue, with tingling in the lips. tongue, fingers, and spine. Everything tastes bitter except water; has great thirst for cold water. Bitter, bilious vomiting, with anguish and cold perspiration. "Sharp, shooting pains in the whole abdo- men, which is very tender to the touch." — G. "Abdomen swollen after scarlet fever/ 1 — Hempel. "Green, watery diarrhoea, like chopped spin- ach."— G. Watery, dark-colored stools. "Bilious diarrhoea of infants, with colic, which no position or circumstance relieves." — G. Dysentery, with high synochal fever; great fear and restlessness. Inflammation of the bowels; high synochal fever; great fear and restlessness. ACONITUM NAPELLUS. 21 " Cutting, lancinating, burning and tearing pains in the abdomen, with anguish and fear." — G. "Retention of urine from cold, particularly in children, with much crying and restlessness.'' — G. "Aconite often restores the menses of pleth- oric women, after their suppression from any cause." — G. Suppression of the menses after a fright. "Catamenia too profuse." — Lippe. "If a pregnant woman has fright, and the fear remains, and she cannot seem to get over it, she must take Aconite at once." — G. "Suppression of the lochia, or too scanty discharge, soon after confinement, with dis- tress in the abdomen, chest and head." — G. " Puerperal peritonitis." — Lippe. Breasts hard and knotted, with hot dry skin ; much thirst and fear. "The mammae are congested, burning hot; hard, and distended, with little or no milk." — G. " Os uteri, dry, tender, and undilatable; with distress, moaning and restlessness during every pain."_G. "Cannot bear the pain, nor bear to be touched or uncovered." — G. " When the patient, during pregnancy, is 22 ACONITUM NAPELLUS. distressed between twelve and three, A. M., having to get up to urinate. Has no affection for any one."— J. C. M. Great fear during pregnancy that the child will be deformed, or that she never can give it birth. " Desire to urinate accompanied with great fear, anxiety and distress." — G. Bright red and hot urine. " Retention of urine with stitches in the kid- neys."— G. "Difficult and scanty emissions of urine." — G. "First stages of croup, with cough and loud breathing during expiration, but not during in- spiration; every expiration ends with a hoarse hacking cough/' — G. "The child has much oppression of the chest ; anxiety ; can scarcely cough, the Buffering is so intense." — G. " Child grasps at the throat with every cough- ing fit;'— G. "Croupy cough, awaking in first Bleep, par- ticularly with children, after dry cold west winds."— G. "After violent chill, dry heat, with difficult breathing, and lancinating pain through the chest."— G. "Blood spitting; the blood comes up with VERATRUM VIRIDE. 23 an easy hawking, hemming, or some coughing, either after mental excitement, after drinking wine, or exposure to dry cold air/' — C. Hering. " Stitches in the chest, hindering respiration ; cannot breathe freely in consequence of a sen- sation, as if the lungs would not expand." — G. " Stinging pains in internal organs." — Lippe. " Burning in internal organs." — Lippe. "Numbness in left arm ; can scarcely move the hand." — C. Hering. At night the pains are insupportable, with fear, anxiety, and great restlessness. Adapted to people of full, plethoric habit, especially young girls, of sanguine tempera- ment and sedentary life; and to acute diseases brought on by dry, cold west winds. VERATRUM VIRIDE. Green Hellebore. Acts especially upon the portion of the sympa- thetic nervous system which presides over the ac- tion of the heart and arteries, the base of the brain, cervical portion of the spinal cord, and pneumo- gastric nerve. The action of Veratrum viride upon the great sympathetic differs widely from that of Aconite; the latter produces congestion and inflammation in any and every organ and tissue in the body, while Veratrum viride produces congestion and in- flammation only in the thoracic viscera, base of 24 VERATRUM VIRIDE. the brain, upper portion of the spina] cord, and stomach. Its action on the organic nervous - tern much resembles that of cholera, but it does not so profoundly affect the functional power the mucous epithelial glands of the intestinal canal. Xo remedy in the materia medica will bo quickly and surely produce congestion and inflammation of the lungs as the Veratrum viride. Nerves of Motion. — The sedative action of V trum viride upon these aervee is most profound. Sometimes it irritates them i produce con- vulsions, but generally the muscular system is completely paralyzed, so that the patient or ani- mal cannot stand or walk, and the breathing Dearly ceases. We have much to learo yet about tioD od the cerebrospinal Bystem. X< rvesof >S< nsation* — It produces pain and hyper- esthesia. Upon the pneumogastric nerve it has a most powerful effect, irritating the filaments of that por- tion of the nerve which is distributed to the stom- ach and Lungs, so as to produce violent nausea and vomiting, and asthmatic breathing. The secre- tions of the stomach and Lunge fly in- creased. Grand Characteristic** In all diseases where Veratrum will be found indicated, there will be more or less gastric irritability, congestion and inflammation of the lungs, with nausea and vomiting and high CACTUS GRANDIFLORUS. 25 fever, nausea and frequent vomiting of glairy mucus, bile, and blood, with hiccough and a sensation as though a ball was rising in the oesophagus. Constant burning distress in the cardiac re- gion, with high fever. Frontal headache, with nausea, vomiting, and fever. Complete loss of vision and hearing when rising from a recumbent position, accompanied with hiccough, nausea, vomiting, dilated pu- pils, green circles around the eyes. Tongue feels as though it had been scalded, with intense burning in the fauces. Cold sweat on the face, hands, and feet. Skin shrivelled up. Spasms of an opisthotonus character with Hippocratic face. Chorea. Neuralgia. Especially adapted to gastric, catarrhal, and pulmonary diseases and chorea. CACTUS GRANDIFLORUS. Night-Blooming Cereus. Acts especially upon the heart and arteries, also the lungs. The results of its action on the system resemble rheumatism. 26 GELSEMINUM SEMPERVIRENS. Grand Character is1 ies. In diseases that call for the use of Cactus, there will always be found more or less de- rangement of the heart. The patient will be greatly reduced in flesh, with great nervous excitability. " Feeling as though an iron band was around the heart, preventing its normal motion." Palpitation of the heart in debilitated pa- tients; worse when lying on the left side; when walking, and at night, with great melancholy. u Chronic bronchitis, with profuse rattling of mucus in the lung Difficulty of breathing. Arterial pulsation in the scrobiculus. Nervous consumption. Adapted to hypertrophy of the heart; pal- pitation of the heart; rheumatism of the heart; acute and chronic carditis and rheumatism. And also to acute inflammation of the dia- phragm. — F. GELSEMINUM SEMPERVIRENS. Yellow J< 8t This remedy depresses and paralyzes the action of the sympathetic and cerebro-spinal nervous sys- tem in a remarkable maimer. "The most promi- nent of all the effects of Gelseminum is to induce a profound and intense prostration of the whole GELSEMINUM SEMPERVIRENS. 27 muscular system. Its effects are first manifested on the voluntary muscles and then on the involun- tary. This action is caused by impairing the vi- tality of those nerves which supply it with life." — Hale. Nerves of Sensation. — Its action on these nerves is not direct ; but the excess of sensitiveness is probably caused by its action on the organic nerves, or by the " cramp-like contractions of muscles " which are presided over by the motor nerves, which it so powerfully influences. Vascular System. — The congestion produced by Gelseminum differs from that of Aconite or Vera- trum viride. The congestions caused by the two latter tend to inflammation, but the congestion of Gelseminum much resembles that of malarious af- fections, which go on to inflammation. The action of the heart is at first greatly paralyzed ; but af- terwards it becomes quick and full. Grand Characteristics. Especially adapted to nervous, excitable, hysterical females. Sensitive people and little children ; to male and female onanists. Hysteria, with spasms ; palpitation of the heart and great nervous excitability. Nocturnal emissions and sexual dreams, fol- lowed the next day by great languor and irri- tability of mind. Involuntary emissions of semen, with or without erections, with much flaccidity and 28 GELSEMINUM SEMPERVIREN>. coldness of the genital organs, accompanied with great languor and depression of spirits. "A feeling as though the heart would stop beating in a moment, if she did not walk in- cessantly, with a feeling of impending death/' — Hale. Irritative, remittent, and intermittent fevers in very sensitive people and children, with ex- cessive irritability and nervous erethism, with no gastric, hepatic, or visceral complications. Confusion of the mind. Great depression of spirits in onanists, ac- companied with excessive Languor. Intense congestion of the brain in children during dentition. Nervous headache; the pain commences in the cervical portion of the spinal cord, and then spreads over the whole head. (See Sanguin- aria.) Great heaviness of the eyelids ; it is impossi- ble to keep them open. Dilatation of the pupils, with blindness and vertigo. Dimness of vision. Diplopia. Amaurosis from masturbation. Paralysis of the sphincter muscles of the bladder. Rigid os uteri in labor, in nervous or hys- terical females. BRYONIA ALBA. 29 Nervous chills with shivering and chattering of the teeth ; depending upon an irritated con- dition of the nerves of motion in very sensitive, hysterical subjects ; these chills may appear from fear or fright in healthy subjects ; they often attend relaxation of the os uteri in labor. "Fever without thirst; wants to lie still and rest ; particularly with inflamed tonsils begin- ning on the right side." — J. B. Bell. " Fever, with shooting pressive pains through the temples and nasal sinuses, with brilliancy of eyes and loquacity." — C. H. W. " Cannot get to sleep on going to bed at night, on account of thinking, which she can- not control ; in sensitive people." — J. C. M. Intense passive congestion of both veins and arteries, in which irritation of the congested organ sets in. Congestive stage of pneumonia. Feeling of lightness in the body from spinal exhaustion, in onanists. Paralytic condition of the lumbar and sacral muscles in onanists. Congestive facial neuralgia; the pains are grumbling or shooting ; worse on pressure. BRYONIA ALBA. White Bryonia. Tso remedy affects the serous membranes more 3* 30 BRYONIA ALBA. powerfully than Bryonia. Its greatest field of action is upon parenchymatous organs, inclosed in serous membranes ; but it has the greatest in- fluence over the pleura and lungs: the next organ most influenced is the brain ; then the synovial membranes and muscular fibre. Over the liver it has a powerful influence; and, lastly, the kidneys and mucous membrane of the large intestines. Noack and Trinkfl say: "Bryonia excites both the peripheral nerves and capillary vessels, thra giving rise to symptoms intermediate between in- flammation and nervous irritation. Bryonia has Btriking relations with the secretory organs of bile and with the uterus, likewise with the serous mem- branes, and is especially suitable in hyperemia <»t' the latter. Bryonia is especially indicated in affec- tions where reabsorption is required: in typhoid in- filtrations, serous effusions, and Bangui] exu- dations. It is especially efficacious in affections where the catarrhal, pituitOUS, and rheumatic char- acter prevails, or when Bynochal symptoms \ into the nervous Btag< Hempel says: k - Bryonia is particularly adapted to inflammations of a torpid character, when de- veloping themselves from a rheumatic base; or in acute inflammations, which threaten to pass into the stage of exudation or paralysis, with a small, soft, or even compressible and somewhat acceler- ated pulse." "It is particularly in inflammatory affections of the respiratory organs, the lungs, and their envel- oping membrane, that Bryonia has been found emi- nently useful ; not, however, in the first invasion BRYONIA ALBA. 31 of the disease, but after the synochal form has been subdued by Aconite, we shall find Bryonia particularly useful." — Hempel. Prof. R. Ludlam says: "As a rule, Bryonia is more serviceable in inflammations of the synovial capsules and the pleura, than in peritonitis or peri- carditis." In rheumatic and arthritic inflammations, no remedy can supersede Bryonia. " Its powerful in- fluence over serous and synovial membranes and muscular fibre, with its fever and sour sweats, point unmistakably to rheumatism." — Hughes. "Most examples of serous inflammation are be- lieved to be more or less rheumatic " in character, and this again shows us why Bryonia is so useful in those diseases. Grand Characteristics. Stitching, tearing pains ; greatly aggravated by motion ; relieved by rest ; worse at night. The sovereign remedy for all inflammations that have advanced to the stage of serous effu- sion. This action extends over all the serous membranes. Exceedingly irritable ; everything makes him angry. Headache as if it would split open ; greatly aggravated by motion, opening the eyes or stooping; relieved by pressure and closing the eyes. "Lips parched, dry, and cracked." — G. 32 BRYONIA ALBA. " Constipation of hard, dry stools, as if burnt;'— G. " Frequent bleeding from the nose, when the menses should appear." — G. Sitting up in bed causes nausea and faints ing.— G. "Desire for things that cannot be had. or which are refused, or not wanted when of- fered."— G. . People with choleric temperament, bilious tendency, dark hair and complexion, with firm, fleshy fibre. Fear of the future. Congestive headache, as if the forehead would burst open, with epistaxis. Eyes very sore, and feel as if they would be pressed out of the head. Shooting pains in the teeth. Tongue coated grayish, or thickly yellowish, with lips dry and cracked. "The mouth is unusually dry with thirst/' — G. " Motion more or less constant, of the jaws, as if chewing something; lips dry and crack- ed."— G. " Cannot sit up from nausea and faintness." — G. "Food is thrown up immediately after eat- ing, with constipation, and lips dry and crack- ed."— G. BRYONIA ALBA. 33 Everything tastes bitter. Nausea when rising up. Pressure in the pit of the stomach as if there was a stone in it ; goes off with much eructa- tion. Sour vomiting. Stomach becomes extremely sensitive to the touch or pressure. "Diseases caused by cold drinks in warm weather, after cold." — Hering. Food is vomited immediately after eating, with constipation, and the lips dry and cracked. Diarrhoea in the morning. Burning diarrhoea. The disease is worse in warm weather. " Diarrhoea worse every spell of hot weath- er;'— G. " Diarrhoea from cold drinks in hot weath- er."— H. Constipation; stools dry and hard, as if burnt. " During colic, must keep very still ; with stools hard and dry, as if burnt." — G. Stitches in the liver. " Tensive burning pains in the region of the liver, which is swollen and sore." — Hempel. Peritonitis, with stinging, burning pains; abdomen very sore to the touch, with consti- pation, especially if in a rheumatic subject. 34 BRYONIA ALBA. Urine hot, red, and diminished in quantity. "Menses too early, too profuse, worse on motion." — G. " Frequent bleeding at the nose when the menses should appear." — G. "Pinching and uneasiness in the abdomen, as if the menses should appear." — G. " During the menses has tearing pains in the legs; worse on motion." — G. "Stitching pains in the ovaries on takin deep inspiration; can hardly hear the least touch on the affected parts; worse on mo- tion.'— G. u Menses too early, too profuse ; of dark red blood, with pain in the hack, and aching in the head, as if it would split open ; worse on motion." — G. "Nausea, relieved by keeping quiet : desires to keep still, with splitting headache." — G. " Her breasts have a stony hardness in them ; they are hot and painful, hut not very red." — G. " Lochia suppressed, with headache, as if it would burst open, greatly aggravated by mo- tion."— G. " Eruptions do not fully make their appear- ance, with much dyspnoea and quick breath- ing."-G. Shortness of breath ; a full inspiration pro- duces stitching pain in the chest. BRYONIA ALBA. 35 " Cough worse after drinking, with respira- tion much oppressed." — G. " Dry cough, with brickdust-colored expec- toration ; worse on motion. " Pleuro-pneumonia, with stabbing pains ; frequent respiration ; bloody expectoration ; high fever ; bursting headache ; worse on mo- tion, and deep inspiration. u Inflammation of the first and second divis- ions of the bronchi, with an irritative, shaking, dry cough; heat ; pain, and soreness behind the i sternum ; worse daytimes and by motion." — Hughes. Articular and muscular rheumatism, greatly aggravated by motion ; the pains are tensive and tearing ; sour perspiration. " The child cannot bear to be moved, the least movement so greatly increases its suffering ; with dry, parched lips and constipation." — G. Fever, with dry, burning heat, mostly inter- nal, as if the blood was burning in the veins. " Intermittent fever ; chills begin on the lips and on the tips of the fingers and toes ; great thirst during all stages." — R. Gardner, M.D. Colds, with a feeling as if the body had been 'pounded all over. In typhoid fevers, with the above symptoms, it is the best medicine in the materia medica. 36 RHUS TOXICODENDRON. RHUS TOXICODENDRON. Poison Oak. Under this heading I will note the particular effects of Rhus tox. only. The characteristics of the other two, Rhus rad. and vornix, not being known. They both have characteristics peculiar to themselves, and demand a careful study by the profession. Rhus tox. affects that portion of the ganglionic nervous system that presides over the skin, fibrous tissues, fascia, sheaths of nerves, tendons, liga- ments, muscles and mucous membranes, producing nervous irritation and inflammation of a rheumatic character. Also affects the cerebro-spinal system, including the cerebral, sentient and motor nerves, producing depression and paralysis. This drug must have some haematic properties, it being found so useful in low grades of typhoid fever. Rheumatism is greatly controlled by this remedy. Grand Characteristic** "Particularly suited to very rheumatic per- sons, worse before a storm, and in damp weather." — G. " Cannot lie long in one position, but must shift about, to obtain relief; the relief lasts but a short time, when the patient must move again." — G. The pains are greatly aggravated by rest ; RHUS TOXICODENDRON. 37 worse after midnight and before storms; re- lieved by motion; has to toss about constantly to get relief. "Worse at night, particularly after mid- night."— G. " Restless at night ; must turn often to find a few moments' rest." — G. " The child always gets particularly worse after midnight ; has more colic ; more diar- rhoea, and more restlessness." — G. Bad effects from severe wetting in rain, when heated. Bad effects from strains. Eyelids present a bladder-like appearance. Burning and redness over large cutaneous surfaces, which soon swell up and become cov- ered with watery vesicles, accompanied by al- most intolerable itching, with a tendency to invade large surfaces, rather than to penetrate deeply in the tissues. Slow fevers ; tongue dry and brown ; sordes on the teeth ; bowels loose ; great weakness ; powerlessness of the lower limbs; can hardly draw them up ; with great restlessness after j midnight ; has to move often to get relief. Headache relieved by motion. General unhappiness of temper. " Corners of the mouth sore and ulcerated, or chafed around the genitals." — Raue. 38 RHUS TOXICODENDRON. " Putrid taste; after the first mouthful lias no appetite." — G. " Pain between the shoulders when swallow- ing."— G. u Soreness as if beaten in the hypochondriac region, and still more in the abdomen ; worse in the side on which he lies ; worse when turn- ing, and more when beginning to move." — L. " Diarrhoea, with tearing pains down the legs; at every stool the pain streaks down the legs, which are powerless." — G. Great pain before stool, which is greenish, and contains jelly-like globules, or flakes; jelly- like stools. Involuntary stools, with great exhaustion ; bloody stools at night. Constant tenesnus, with nausea and tearing pains in the intestines ; is rheumatic, and has to change his position often to get relief. — G. Sense of constriction in the rectum, as though one side had grown up. Cholera infantum, typhoid type ; the child is very restless at night; has to be changed often to get relief. Urine red and scanty. Involuntary irritation during rest. Snow-white sediment in the urine. Bloody urine discharged in drops. " Intense itching and burning of the mons RHUS TOXICODENDRON. 39 veneris, with watery vesicles, and stitching pains in the vagina." — G. " The menstrual discharge causes a violent pain in the vulva." — G. "Menorrhagia from a strain; in rheumatic females, worse at night; must change positions often to get relief, and aggravated on change of weather." — G. u Membranous dysmenorrhoea in rheumatic females." — G. u Is particularly indicated where repeated drenchings in the rain have deranged the uter- ine functions." — G. " After labor, a vitiated discharge continues from the vagina, with shooting upwards in the parts, with a bursting sensation in the head." — G. " For weeks after delivery, has much pain in the right limb, with numbness from the hips to the feet."— G. "The lochial discharge lasts too long; is thin, offensive, and occasionally bloody." — G. " Abortion from a strain ; pains worse in the last part of the night ; very restless ; has to change often to get relief." — G. " The breasts are painfully distended, red in streaks, with a rheumatic condition of the whole body." — G. Ichorous, or yellow discharge from the nose. 40 RHUS TOXICODENDRON. " Terrible cough, which seems as if it would tear something out of the chest/' — G. " A dry, teasing cough, coming on first before the chill, and continuing during the chill." — Dunham. " Putting the hand out of the bed brings on the cough." — H. "For weeks after delivery, has a terrible cough, which seems as if something would be torn out of the chest." — G. Tickling under the sternum, that excites cough. "Acute catarrh; the nasal, laryngeal, tra- cheal, and bronchial past seem stuffed up ; commencing at about sunset, with sneezin and dry, hard, tickling cough, continuing very severe until midnight, when all the sullerin are relieved. Renewed next morning." — C. W. Boyce. Expectoration of brickdust or bloody sputa, raised with great difficulty, with high lever. Rheumatoid pains, that affect every part of the body, all aggravated by rest and relieved by motion. Rheumatic paralysis. " Pains as if sprained ; ailments from sprain- ing or straining, lifting; particularly from stretching arms high up to reach things." — H. " Lameness and stiffness, and pain on first DIGITALIS PURPUREA. 41 moving after rest, or on getting up in the morn- ing ; relieved by continued motion." — H. " Stiffness of the limbs before a storm." — G. A light edge of inflammation surrounds every portion of the eruption, with much itch- ing and vesicular inflammation. " Rubbing the affected parts increases the eruption." — G. Vesicular eruptions on any part of the body. " Aching in the left arm, with disease of the heart." — Raue. " Swollen around the ankles after sitting too long, particularly in travelling." — H. DIGITALIS PURPUREA. Purple Foxglove* Digitalis acts especially upon the muscular tis- sue of the heart and arteries, paralyzing their ac- tion to a great degree. Hughes says, " We con- clude that Digitalis acts directly upOn the muscu- lar tissue of the heart, which it weakens even to the extent of paralysis ; that the increased fre- quency of the pulse, which results from small doses, depends mainly upon cardiac debility— Na- ture endeavoring to make up by greater frequency for decreasing power ; and that the retardation of the heart's action, which is caused by large doses, is due to an influence transmitted through the vagi. The irregularity and intermission of the pulse so characteristic of the drug, we also ascribe 4* 42 DIGITALIS PURPUREA. to the cardiac debility it induces." " The re- searches of M. Claude Bernard show that Digitalis is one of the poisons which act directly upon the muscular tissue, paralyzing and killing it. It af- fects that portion of muscular tissue which consti- tutes the heart earlier than any other, so that in cold-blooded animals (as frogs) the heart's art ion may cease for four hours before general death en- sues, producing a dead heart in a living body. Rigor mortis sets in exceedingly early ; and, on opening the thorax immediately after death, the heart is found contracted, rigid, motionless, and totally empty. A farther examination dificlof remarkable chemical and electrical changes in the heart and other muscles. The muscular juice is acid instead of alkaline, and the external surf is' electrically negative to the cut surface, instead of (as normally) positive. The immediate cause of this phenomenon has been shown to be the change of the muscular juice from alkaline to acid ; and this very change is involved in the destructive ac- tion of the drug upon the integrity of the muscu- lar tissue." Digitalis also affects the pneumogastric nerve, mucous membrane of the stomach and descending colon, kidneys, and brain. Grand Characteristics. In all diseases for which Digitalis will be found useful, the heart will be more or less in- volved, accompanied with irregular or inter- mittent pulse. DIGITALIS PURPUREA. 43 The least movement produces violent palpi- tation of the heart. "A sensation as if the heart would stop beating if she moved, with fear of impending death/— Hale. Frequent stitches in the heart. Short, hurried respiration. Desponding and fearful, with great appre- hension of the future. Excessive desire to be alone. Stools very light-colored and loose. (Edema of the feet and legs. Bloating and paleness of the face. Hissing before the ears. Objects seem paler than they really are, and have a greenish look. Profuse flow of frothy saliva. Stinging in the throat between the acts of deglutition. "Nausea, as if she would die; more in the morning." — G. " Motion produces vomiting and great faint- ness."— G. " Smell of food excites violent nausea, with clean tongue, thirst for water, and absence of all fever."— G. " Tendency to nausea without real nausea." — Raue. 44 CIMICIFUQA RACEMOSA. Feeling of goneness in the stomach, as if he would die, with deathly nausea and vomiting. " Stools in the evening, passing great quan- tities of ascarides." — G. " Ash-colored stools." — Hughes. This color of the stools is probably can by a depraved secretion of the follicles of the colon, and not from hepatic disease. Obstinate constipation for several weeks. Frequent and painful emission of small quantities of burning urine of a dark, cloudy color. Profuse and frequent emission of clear, pale urine. " Dropsy consequent on organic disease of the heart, and in anasarca following scarla- tina." — Marcy and Hunt. Given in large doses, it is getting quite a reputation for delirium tremens. CIMICIFUGA RACEMOSA. Black Cohosh. Acts upon the ganglionic and especially upon the cerebrospinal system, the muscular system, ligaments of the vertebra, and the female gene: tive organs. Nerves of Motion. — It causes nervous tremors re- sembling chorea. Dr. T. C. Miller Bays, M Fifteen years' observation and experience have proved thi* CIMICIFUGA RACEMOSA. 45 as;ent to be one of the most remarkable in all dis- eases of the ganglio-spinal system, particularly when the motor side is excited ; and yet, in the whole, prevails as an atony in the muscular and nervous system." Nerves of Sensation. — Dr. Hale says, "It seems to exercise considerable control over this system, independently of its action on the vascular system. It cures many of those purely neuralgic pains to t'hich females are liable." Muscular System. — Dr. Hale says, " One of the rst of the series of primary effects of this drug is to cause relaxation of the muscular system. This leads directly to painful conditions of muscles, or myalgia. Under this head are to be found the burning, cramping, stitching pains which affect these structures. Cimicifuga is pre-eminently a muscle remedy. Hence its efficacy in myalgia and s varieties, as pleurodynia." In muscular rheumatism and myostitis caused iy cold, nervous exhaustion, or over-exertion, this ill be found a valuable remedy. Dr. Ludlam es it when " rheumatism affects the belly of a uscle." Upon the uterus it has a most powerful action, producing a rheumatic, neuralgic state of the ute- rus and ovaries ; amenorrhea ; dysmenorrhea and abortion ; accompanied with hysteria ; nervous- ness ; irritability ; sleeplessness ; sensitiveness and low-spirited. 46 CIMICIFUGA RACEMOSA. Grand Characteristics. Nervous and muscular irritation, of a rheu- matic, neuralgic, or gouty origin, especially in delicate hysterical females, who are afflicted with more or less diseases of the generative organs. Neuralgic, rheumatic dysmenorrhea, and after-pains, with great mental and nervous irri- tability; sleeplessness; low-spirited and very sensitive. Choreic affections in nervous, hysterical, rheumatic females, from irritations of the gen- erative organs. Rheumatic or neuralgic irritation of the lig- aments in the lumbar region, producing lum- bago or crick in the back. Uterine rheumatism. Obstinate insomnia. Great wakefulness, imagining strange ob- jects in the room, on the bed. &<\ ; with di- lated pupils; tremor of the limbs. Incessant talking; roaring in the head. Pains in every portion of the head, but more in the vertex and occiput; often extending to the shoulders and down the spine ; of a pr< ing and throbbing nature, accompanied with delirium. " Sensation as if the top of the head would fly off, with a sensation as if the cerebrum was CIMICIFUGA RACEMOSA. 47 too large for the skull, pressing outwards and upwards." " All the pains in the head are from within outwards.'' — Hale. Headache of drunkards and students. u Intense and persistent pains in the eyeballs, of a dull, aching, sore nature." Pupils dilated. Dry pharynx, with dysphagia and frequent inclination to swallow. Nausea and vomiting due to cerebral or ner- vous sympathetic irritation. Sinking sensation at the stomach. Neuralgic pains in the abdomen. Urine pale and abundant. Leucorrhoea in hysterical and rheumatic fe- males. Nervous irritation of the ovaries, producing amenorrhoea, dysmenorrhoea, and menorrhagia in rheumatic females. Rheumatic and neuralgic affections of the uterus. Threatened abortion in rheumatic hysteri- cal females, with much excitement. Affects the motor nerves of the uterus as well as the sentient, as so beautifully shown in after-pains. Dry cough from irritation, and tickling in the lower part of the larynx. 48 ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM. Reflex nervous pains. Urticaria from menstrual or rheumatic dis- orders. Weakness, trembling, and spasmodic action of the muscles, as shown in choreic affections. Its influence over the spinal cord renders it capable of curing many diseases arising there- from. ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM. Tartar Em The three great spheres of Tartar emetic are, first, upon the pneumogastric nerve ; second, upon the respiratory mucous membrane: and third, upon the skin. Also acts upon the base of the brain and medulla oblongata, and the blood becomes li- quefied. The action upon the pneumogastric nerve « ing vomiting, is sympathetic or nervous, n trie. Hughes says, "The emetic influence of tar- tarized antimony appear- to be purely neuro in its modus operandi. The numerous muscular movements, whose harmonious play produces the complex act called vomiting, are under the con- trol of the nervous centres at the base of the brain, and in the medulla oblongata, and are especially affected through the medium of the pneumog trie nerves. That Tartar emetic acts directly on these centres and through these nerves, is shown positively by the fact that it causes vomiting when injected into the veins or rectum, or rubbed into ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM. 49 the skin, as well as when introduced into the stom- ach, and in the latter mode of administration is emetic in doses too small to irritate the mucous membrane ; negatively, by the experiment of divid- ing the vagi on both sides, when neither antimony nor any other remedy will act." Mucous Membranes, — It produces a pustular in- flammation in the mouth, throat, oesophagus, stomach, and small intestines. Upon the respira- tory mucous membrane the inflammation is of a catarrhal character, though pustules have been seen in the larynx. u The nares escape untouched, but the inflamma- tion beginning in the larynx becomes intense in the trachea and bronchi. In the lungs the pneu- monia induced never goes beyond the second stage (i. e., that of red hepatization) ; that it is always accompanied by bronchitis ; and that the inflam- mation of the bronchial tubes is observed in cases where the animals die, before the pneumonia has time to be developed." — Hughes. Skin. — Upon this tissue it produces an eruption very similar to variola and ecthyma. This pustu- lar ulceration can be produced by vaccination or internal administration. Grrand Characteristics. Large collections of mucus in the bronchial tubes ; expectorated with great difficulty ; in- dicating approaching paralysis of the pneumo- gastric nerve. 50 ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM. "When the patient coughs, there appears a large collection of mucus in the bronchial tubes, and it seems as if much would be ex- pectorated, but nothing comes up." — G. " Much nausea and vomiting day and night, with drowsiness. ,, — G. " Colliquative diarrhoea, with meteoris!!!.' 1 — G. Vomiting of large quantities of mucus, which is a nervous and sympathetic rather than a gastric effect. " Vertigo, with drowsiness/ 1 — II. " Cannot keep his eyes open; irresistible sleepiness, and deep, stupefied sleep ; when awake, hopelessness and despair, or chill and fever, or vomiting of food." — H. "The head trembles, particularly when coughing, with an inward trembling; teeth chattering, and drowsiness, more in the even- ing and in warmth." — H. " Tongue coated thinly white, with reddened papillae; red edges, particularly with whoop- ing-cough." — H. " Nausea and vomiting of large collections of mucus." — G. The child wants to be carried, and cries if any one touches it. — Lippe. Painful urging to urinate; scanty discharge; dark red, or the least bloody, with stitches in the bladder and burning in the urethra. ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM. 51 " Leucorrhoea of watery blood ; liable to occur in paroxysms ; worse when sitting." — G. " Catarrhal and pustular inflammation of the mucous membranes." — Hughes. " The pustular inflammation occurs in the oesophagus, mouth, throat, larynx, stomach, and small intestines." — Hughes. " Upon the respiratory mucous membrane the influence of Tartar emetic is almost purely catarrhal, although pustules are said to have been found in the larynx." — Hughes. " The nares escape untouched ; the inflam- mation, beginning in the larynx, becomes in- tense in the trachea and bronchi." — Hughes. In broncho-pneumonia, second stage, with bronchi loaded with mucus, it is specific. Paralysis of the lungs, with great dyspnoea and fits of suffocation. u Rattling or hollow cough ; worse at night, with suffocation ; throat full of phlegm ; sweat on forehead ; vomiting of food." — H. " Coughing and gaping constantly, particu- larly children, when crying or dozing, and twitching in the face." — H. Acute oedema of the lungs. " Cough, when we have partial paralysis of the pneumogastric nerve; short, hoarse, weak, nearly suffocating breathing, with whistling noise ; thorax expands with great difficulty ; 52 VERATRUM ALBUM. head thrown backwards, with great anxiety and prostration ; face livid and cold ; forehead and sometimes the whole body covered with cold perspiration; pulse feeble and acceler- ated." Fever of dentition. " Beating and throbbing through the whole body, particularly in the belly or pit of stom- ach, with great concern about the future." — Raue. Variola, vomiting, viscid mucus clogging the air-passages; pustules in the larynx, mouth. throat, and digestive organs. " Ecthymatous eruptions/' — E. Wilson. VERATRUM ALBUM. White R ' Veratrum alb. acts especially on the great sym- pathetic system, on the cerebro-sj.inal axis, pneu- mogastric nerve, and the special Bene The great sympathetic " tills two ifieee in the animal economy. It regulates the metamor- phosis of tissue, the basis of all secretion and nu- trition ; and, by its infinitesimal ramifications on the coats of the bloodvessels, it gives tonicity to every part of the vascular system, and especially to the capillaries. "When its function fails, se< tion stops, and the watery elements of the Mood exude through the relaxed tissues. The acid se- VERATRUM ALBUM. 53 cretions of the stomach, and the alkaline secretions of the intestines, are perhaps the first arrested. Then that great emunctory, the liver, becomes dormant, and the stools are grayish, or foamy and limpid. If not relieved here, the patient will sink rapidly ; the kidneys will soon stop secreting, the metamorphosis of tissue everywhere will cease, and rapid emaciation, collapse, with unquenchable thirst (watery diarrhoea), and death closes the scene." — W. H. Holcombe, M.D. Xow this is just the effect of Veratrum alb. on the ganglionic system. It strikes down the func- tions of the ganglionic system that preside over the vascular capillary system of the intestinal mu- cous membrane, causing serous diarrhoea, which is a genuine sweating of the mucous membrane of the bowels. This watery element is mainly de- rived from the innumerable follicles in the intes- tinal tract. The choleraic and Veratrum album poison both affect the great sympathetic system so nearly alike, that in cholera times no man is able to tell one from the other. The powerful influence it has upon the pneumo- gastric nerves to produce such violent nausea and vomiting, shows that the nervous centres at the base of the brain, and in the medulla oblongata, are especially affected. Upon the brain it produces a " sudden sinking of innervation, causing loss of power to control one's movements ; staggers about ; feels dizzy ; vision becomes obscure, and complete extinction 5* 54 VERATRUM ALBUM. of nervous power is going on at a fearful rate/' — Hempel. Hughes says, " The picture presented by acute Veratrum poisoning is decidedly choleraic There is general coldness, with prostration going on to collapse; embarrassed circulation; copious watery vomiting and purging; and severe spasmodic colic The more recent experiments of Schroff have fur- ther proved that these evacuation- do not depend upon gastro-enteritis, as Veratrum causes no in- flammation, but at most a transient hyperamiti of the parts it touches. If its action be more inten- sified, it causes a rapid degeneration of the gastric mucous membrane, but no gastro-enteriti Grand Characteristics* Exhausting diarrhoea, with cold sweat, es- pecially on the forehead. "Cold sweat upon the forehead." — G. " Leaden color of the face, with frequeirl nausea and vomiting, with groat exhaustion/ 1 — G. "Very exhausting diarrhoea; excessively weak after every stool; with cold sweat on the forehead." — G. " Terrible colic ; the suffering causes a cold sweat to stand upon the surface, especially on the forehead." — G. " Cramps of the limbs, with cold sweat/' — G. VERATRUM ALBUM. 55 " Thirsty with craving for the coldest drinks." — G. Anguish ; fear of death. "Despair about his position in society; feels very unlucky." — H. " Headache causing delirium ; demented ; and cold sweat upon the forehead." — G. Wanders about the house; is very taciturn. " Sudden paroxysms of a sinking of cerebral innervation , characterized by sudden loss of power to control one's movements ; feels dizzy ; staggers about ; vision becomes obscured ; the pulse is depressed ; and complete extinction of nervous power is going on at a fearful rate." — Hempel. Puerperal mania and convulsions, with vio- lent cerebral congestion; bluish and bloated face; protruded eyes; wild shrieks, and dispo- sition to tear. Excessive mirthfulness ; collapse of pulse ; cold extremities ; cold sweat on the forehead ; expression of fright ; anxiety ; and stertorous breathing. " Sensation as if a lump of ice was on top of the head." — Raue. " Attacks of pain, with delirium, or driving to madness.'' — H. " Disposed to talk about faults of others, or i 56 VERATRUM ALBUM. silence ; but, if irritated, scolding, and calling names." — H. Nervous headache at each menstrual mo- limina. Vertigo in drunkards, opium-eaters, or those who use tobacco, characterized by sudden faint- ing, collapse of pulse, loss of vision, cold sweat on forehead. Cold, collapsed face; pinchcd-up bluish nose; dry and cracked lips; lock-jaw; grating of the teeth. " While in bed, face is red; after getting up it becomes pale." — II. " Neck too weak to hold the head up, par- ticularly children with whooping-cough. " — 11. Tongue cold. Voice feeble. Cold breath, with great prostration, and cold perspiration on the forehead. " Frequent nausea and vomiting, with leaden color of face, and cold perspiration, especially on the forehead." — G. Violent retching ; wants everything cold. Least quantity of liquid excites vomiting. Motion excites the nausea. Terrible colic, with violent nausea and vom- iting. Unquenchable desire for cold drinks. VERATRUM ALBUM. 57 Vomiting, with diarrhoea and great prostra- tion. Burning and oppression in the epigastrium. Colicodjaiia, with sensation as though the bowels were tied up in knots. " Irritation of the coeliac plexus, with faint- ing, great prostration, cold perspiration, nausea and vomiting, Hippocratic countenance, loss of vision, and cold extremities." — Hempel. Burning in the bowels, as from hot coals. Copious watery diarrhoea, with violent nau- sea and vomiting. " Watery diarrhoea expelled in a forcible gush, with little or no griping.": — Raue. Involuntary watery stools without the pa- tient's knowledge. " Dj^sinenorrhoea, with vomiting and purg- ing, or exhausting diarrhoea with cold sweat." — H. Nymphomania, from unsatisfied passion or mental causes. Fevers, with great coldness externally, and violent internal heat ; pulse thread-like ; great craving for cold drinks. Spasmodic cough, with blue face, suffoca- tion; retching. Asthma; with great suffocation, anguish, and oppression about the heart. " Difficult walking ; first the right then the 58 ARNICA MONTANA. left hip-joint feels paralytic (or, in other pa- tients, first left then right)." — H. Disease caused by cold drinks in warm wea- ther. Adapted to young people and women of a sanguine or nervo-sanguine temperament; also to people who are habitually cold and deficient in vital reaction, gay dispositions, fitful mood, and who have not been exhausted by long ex- cesses or starvation. ARNICA MONTANA. Leopard's Ba Arnica acts upon the muscular Bystem, tV and tendons; on the capillary Bystem of the veins and arteries; on the dermoid and cellular tissue; on the lymphatic system ; and upon the nervous system. No remedy can equal Arnica for those " muscular pains which are so apt to occur in the weakly invalid ; these pains may occur wherever there are voluntary muscles, or their tendinous pro- longations; the trunk is more commonly attacked than the limbs; the abdominal walls more than the thoracic, and the legs more constantly than the arms ; they are generally mistaken for the pains of neuralgia, hysteria, spinal irritation, indigestion or disease of some internal organ. The tendinous parts are more frequently the seat of the pain than the muscular, for every muscular fibre terminal at each end in tendinous fibre, # and these are in- serted into the bones ; hence, whenever a muscle ARNICA MONTANA. 59 contracts, there are four strains upon the tendinous fibre, viz., one at each end of the muscle, and one at each of its insertions into the bone ; hence, these pains are four times as numerous as all the muscles in the body. When the gastrocnemius muscle of the leg has been overstretched or overstrained, the pain is confined almost exclusively to the origin and insertion of the tendo-Achillis. When delicate females first attempt to sit up, after a severe fit of illness, they are apt to get a severe pain in the aponeurosis of the trapezius, and occipital insertion of the same muscle. The severe and unusual strain thrown upon the erector muscles of the back, while leaning over a table to cut out dress patterns ; the immense muscular exertion required in the birth of the child, &c, &c. This muscular ache often reaches a high pitch of severity, so as to cause a burning pain between the shoulders for many hours. When the pain is seated in the muscle, it is aching ; when it has been severely strained it is a burning ache ; when in the tendons, it is described as pain. The more feeble the patient, the more apt they are to have these myalgic pains." On the Capillaries. — The capillaries may be di- vided into those of secretion and nutrition. Arnica affects more particularly the capillaries of secre- tion; hence, its usefulness in hemorrhages, perspira- tions, mucous fluxes, dropsical effusions, &c. The capillaries are tubular continuations of the arte- ries, and the commencement of the veins. This accounts for the great power of Arnica to produce 60 ARNICA MONTANA. absorption, in extravasations of blood, effusions of serum, such as occur after falls, blows, cV On the Dermoid and CeUvlar 7 V mica has a powerful influence, producing a pustule very pain- ful to touch, with a red inflamed bafi mbling boils; also a vesicular eruption. The extravasa- tion of blood into the cellular tissue while in a fluid state, Arnica causes the venous capillai and absorbents to quicklj take up. The lymphat- ics are not so much influenced by Arnica as the venous capillaries are. Nervous System. — Affects the motor more than the sentient nervous system, as shown in paralj from mechanical injuries, where there is more or less extravasation of blood, lymph, , v Grand Cltaractrristh -s. Diseases of a traumatic origin; the muscu- lar fibre is chiefly involved; the pains are sore and aching. " The bed or couch on which he lies feels too hard; complains constantly of it. and keeps changing from place to place." — Rate. " Inflammation caused by a bruise or con- cussion; a bruised, sore feeling remaining." — G. " Sore and bruised feeling all through the patient, as if from a bruise." — G. Hemorrhages from mechanical injuries. ARNICA MONTANA. 61 Sensation of soreness in the stomach; and belchings, tasting like rotten eggs. Especially adapted to sanguine plethoric persons, with lively complexions. Acts feebly upon people that are greatly de- bilitated, with soft flesh and impoverished blood. Is very sensitive, with anxiety and restless- ness. Stitches in the head, especially in the tem- ples and forehead. Bad effects from concussion of the brain. Traumatic ophthalmia. " The face or head alone is hot, while the body is cool." — Raue. " Dry heat of the face, with coldness of the nose. ,, — H. " Swelling of the cheek, with throbbing and twitching pains ; swollen lips, and heat in the head." " Hard, tensive, shining red swelling of the left cheek." — Marcy and Hunt. Cracked lips, with formication as if they would go to sleep. " Bleeding from the nose."— G. "Contusive pain in the nose from above downwards ; same in the ears." " Toothache ; the roots of the teeth feel as 6 62 ARNICA MONTANA. if they had been scraped ; face and cheek hot and swollen." — Hempel. " Putrid eructations, as if from rotten eggs." — Jahr. " Feeling of nauseous repletion after eat- ing."— G. " Vomiting of dark clotted blood." — Hempel. Myalgia of the stomach. " The pain comes on immediately, even during eating; the patient is weak and lax of fibre, and often has myalgia elsewhere." — Hughes. Brown urine, with brick-red sediment. " Cannot walk erect on account of a bruised sore feeling in the uterine region." — II. After severe labor, great soreness of the parts. Traumatic injuries of the testicles. " Nipples itch, and are sore, as if bruised." — G. Emissions of flatus from the anus, smelling like rotten eggs. Stools of mucus, blood, and pus, where the muscles of the rectum are involved. Sensation of soreness of the muscles of the chest. "Myalgia of the intercostal muscles after great exertions, with a sensation as if all the COLCHICUM AUTUMNALE. 63 ribs were bruised ; short breath ; pain in the chest; with anxiety." — Raue. " Pleurisy, when the exudation consists of coagulable lymph or serous exudation." — Hughes. " Typhoid fever ; with the greatest indiffer- ence ; putrid breath ; and red spots, like sug- gilations, on the body." — H. " Gout ; with the greatest fear of being struck by persons coming towards him across the room." — H. " Tendency to small boils ; ecchymoses on various parts of the body." — H. Bad effects from strains, falls, bruises, con- cussions, and all mechanical injuries. C. Hering, M.D., says: " Arnica is more apt than Aconite to spoil a case. Arnica makes a much more profound impression upon the sys- tem than Aconite. Its real culminating ac- tion is similar to typhus fever. Brilliant re- sults have frequently been obtained with it in the worst forms of typhus. No Arnica should be used except such as is made from the root." COLCHICUM AUTUMNALE. Meadow Saffron. Acts especially upon the cerebro-spinal centres, and terminates in a violent inflammation, of a choleraic character, in the mucous membrane of 64 COLOHICUM AUTUMNALE. the gastro-intestinal canal. The ganglionic cen- tres are most powerfully influenced, M shown by the effects it has upon the vaso-motor nerves of the alimentary canal. The next organ moel in- fluenced is the kidneys. It also affects the li\ lungs, heart, and salivary gland-. Grand Ch a ra cter ist fag . Arthritic or rheumatic diathefl " Sudden sinking of the vital forces ; if the patient is raised up, the head falls backwards; the mouth opens to its widest extent. 91 — Rai Arthritic or neuralgic inflammation of the intestinal canal, where the mucous membrane is principally involved. "Sero-mucous vomiting and rice-water stools, thrown off with great force*; with cramps of the abdominal muscles, flexors of the arms and feet; and shrunken featun " Cold surface, tongue and breath; mottled skin and bluish nails." "Great flatulent distension of the stomach/ 1 "Stools like jelly, or bloody mucus, With spasms of the sphincter ani." Dropsy of the uterus, from suppression of the menses. "Urine dark and scanty; discharged in drops, depositing a whitish sediment.'' Dry, hacking cough, with burning and feel- ing of constriction across the chest. SENEGA. 65 " Rheumatic pericarditis and rheumatism in the small joints; rheumatic pains, that fre- quently change about; they are of a tearing nature, and are generally in the muscles." Gout ; this is the real specific for this pain- ful disease : " The pulse is slightly irritated ; affected parts exceedingly painful ; skin looks rose-colored, and leaves a white spot under the pressure of the fingers." More strongly called for if there is more or less irritation of the gastro-intestinal canal. " In warm weather these tearing pains are principally felt at the surface of the body ; as the air grows colder, they seem to penetrate the deeper tissues and bones;" — Teste; SENEGA. $rlafce-root. Acts especially on the mucoiis membranes of the respiratory organs, the fibrous tissue, eyes, and di- gestive drgatis. Crrand Characteristics « Its main sphere of usefulness is in diseases of the respiratory mucous membrane. " In subacute or chronic exudations of the pleura, and in catarrhal pleuro-pneumonia, where Bryonia heLs foiled." — Hale. 6* 66 BAPTISIA TINCTORIA. " Irritating, shaking, dry cough ; in chronic bronchitis, especially in old people." — Hughes. Severe pains about the chest. " Soreness of the walls of the chest on mov- ing the arms, particularly the left." — J. B. Bell. " Burning pain about the heart." — J. B. Bell. " Sensation of trembling, with no visible trembling." — J. B. Bell. " It has been administered with great suc- cess in hydrothorax, ascites, and anasar after primary or secondary albuminuria." — E. M. Hale. "Iritis and specks on the cornea. n — HUGHES Watery diarrhoea, with griping pains in the bowels, nausea, and vomiting. "Frequent emissions of urine with greenish tinge, depositing a cloudy sediment." " Urine at first mixed with mucous filaments ; afterwards it becomes thick and cloudy." BAPTISIA TINCTORIA. Wild Indigo. Acts especially upon the ganglionic and cerebro- spinal nervous system as a sedative ; producing paralysis both of sensation and motion, very closely resembling that of typhoid fever, for which it is such a specific* BAPTISIA TINCTORIA. 67 Mucous Membranes. — Has a special effect upon the mucous membrane of the buccal cavity and lower portion of the intestinal canal, producing ulceration "having a fetid odor and a sanious, excoriating character." — Hale. Vascular System. — Baptisia causes " a condition of the blood similar to the typhus crasis, and a state of the fluids of the body nearly identical with that occurring in low fevers." — Hale. Glandular System. — Baptisia has an irritating effect upon the lymphatic and glandular system, producing swelling and enlargement of the tonsils and inguinal glands. Grand Characteristics* "Discharges from mucous surfaces, having a fetid odor and a sanious, excoriating char- acter." — Hale. Typhoid diseases, with "delirious stupor; face dark red, with a besotted expression ; eyes injected; diarrhoea; tongue coated brown, dry, particularly in the centre ; very offensive breath ; sordes on the teeth ; fetor of the urine and stools." — Small. Very fetid and exhausting diarrhoea. Dysenteric stools of blood and mucus, with severe tenesmus and colicky pains in the hyp- ogastrium, before and during stool, without much fever. 68 BAPTISIA TINCTORIA. u She cannot go to sleep because she cannot get herself together. Her head feels as though scattered about, and she tosses about the bed to get the pieces together." — J. B. Bell, M.D. Dull stupefying headache. Stupor and delirium at night. Confusion of ideas. " While answering a question, falls into a deep sleep in the middle of a sentence." Head feels too heavy, with numbness. Excitement of the brain, especially at night " Face dark red, with a besotted expression.* — Small. Confusion of sight. " Soreness of the eyeballs; they feel as if they would be pressed into the head." Tongue dry and red, as if burned. "Tongue coated brown, and dry, particu- larly in the centre." — Small. 11 Pasty tongue, heavily furred." — Hale. " Putrid, offensive breath." — Hale. "Putrid ulceration of the buccal mucous membrane, with salivation." — Hale. "The sweat, urine, and stools are all ex- tremely fetid." — Small. " Very fetid, exhausting diarrhoea." Dysenteric stools of scanty, bloody mucus. " Violent colicky pains in the hypogastrium before and during stool." CHELIDONIUM MAJUS. 69 Great tenesmus, with stools of mucus and blood without fever. " Soreness of the flesh and whole body, with chilliness." — Douglass. "Limbs tremble and are very weak." — Douglass. Restless nights, with delirium and frightful dreams. Patient must go to the door for fresh air. CHELIDONIUM MAJUS. Great Celandine. Acts through the ganglionic system upon the lungs, liver, digestive organs, kidneys, and skin. Also powerfully irritates the sentient nervous sys- tem. Upon the lungs it produces congestion and in- flammation, sometimes going on to hepatization ; the mucous membrane is also involved, producing broncho-pneumonia. The liver is powerfully affected by this remedy. Dr. Bachmann's proving gives us the following symptoms : " Pain, both acute and dull, and ten- derness of the liver ; pain in the right shoulder ; stools either soft, or bright yellow, or whitish and costive." Deeply tinged urine appeared in all the provings. "In three, the skin became yellow or dark ; and in one, regular jaundice set in." It has cured numerous cases of jaundice, gall-stones, acute and chronic hepatitis. 70 CHELIDONIUM MAJUS. Upon the kidneys the renal irritation is so great that in " one case an examination of the urine showed the presence of tube-casts of increased uric acid, and diminished chloride of sodium. The mischief in this case was so considerable that (edematous swellings of the extremities occur- red." — Hughes. It also acts upon the diaphragm. Grand Characteristics. " Constant pain under the lower inner angle of the right shoulder-blade." — G. Loose rattling COUgh, remains a long time. Nausea causes great heat of the body. "Stools like sheep's dang. 91 — G. Very apt to have hepatic disease, with jaun- dice and pain in the right shoulder. Deeply-tinged green urine. Retarded menstruation, but when the menses do come on, they continue too long. Severe neuralgia of the head and eyes. Acts best in melancholic, choleric tempera- ments. Adapted to neuralgias, inflammations, and infectious diseases, as whooping-cough. Sallow, jaundiced complexion. Burning and redness of the face. "Must close the eyes, and is alleviated thereby, without photophobia." CHELIDONIUM MAJUS. 71 White or yellow coating on the tongue. Loathing of food. Gastric or bilious diarrhoea, stools slimy, grayish-yellow, or watery. " Stools like sheep's dung." — G. Urine scanty, deep yellow, and sour. Bloating in the region of the liver, stomach, and spleen, with hardness and painfulness on pressure. Acute and chronic hepatitis. Gall-stones, with hepatodynia and general jaundice. " Pain in the whole region of the liver, re- lieved by eating. " Pinching and spasmodic pains in the inner border of the right scapula, with a kind of drawing, pressive shooting from the left side of the occiput to the forehead." Violent, spasmodic, straining cough, with profuse lachrymation ; comes in paroxysms, with burning, shooting pains. Constant tickling and desire to cough in the larynx. Spasmus glottidis. Long-continued cough, with rattling mucus. Bilious or gastric pneumonia, with lungs full of mucus, from paralysis of the pneumo- gastric nerve ; cheeks dark red. 72 GROUP II. GROUP II. Belladonna, Hyoscyamus, Stramonium, Opium, Alcohol, Ether, Chloroform, Glonoine, Agaricus, Cicuta vir., Ailanthus, Gymnocladus, Camphora, Zizia aur Cuprum, Cannabis ind., Coflba, Tabacnm, Solanum oig., Acthusa, Lachnantes. The above group represent our true cerebral stimulants or narcotics. They all cause, prtmort/y, active congestion and inflammation of the brain and its membranes; furious delirium, spasms, and an excited circulation. Secondarily, paralysis of the voluntary and in- voluntary muscles; coldness of tin* surface; pros- tration; coma; asphyxia, and death. Pathological Conditions. — Arteries of the brain highly engorged ; effusions of serum; extravasa- tion, and a liquid state of the blood. Notwithstanding this similarity, each remedy produces physio-pathological states peculiar to it- self, "differing from each other as much as tl differ in their symptomatic manifestations." But their general similarity defines the group. ATROPA BELLADONNA. 73 ATROPA BELLADONNA. Deadly Nightshade. The great centre of action for Belladonna is upon the cerebro-spinal nervous system, especially affect- ing the cerebrum, producing active congestion of the whole encephalic mass; delirium, mania, in- somnia, sopor, exhaustion, and active inflammation of the brain, with flushed face and violent throb- bing of the carotid arteries. The medulla oblongata, and the nerves that arise from it, are powerfully irritated by the Belladonna poison, as shown by their perverted function, such as difficult deglutition and articulation, spasms of the larynx and pharynx, spasmodic cough, stridu- lus respiration, &c. " Post-mortem examination discloses considerable cerebral congestion, involv- ing also the cerebellum and medulla oblongata." Upon the eye it produces anaesthesia, amaurosis, visual hallucinations, photophobia, and through the sympathetic, it produces dilatation of the pu- pil, with brilliant staring eyes, and conjunctival inflammation. Upon the throat it produces excessive dryness ; the mucous membrane is of a deep crimson color, with constant inclination to swallow; the secre- tions are entirely arrested. The sphincter muscles of the bladder, rectum, and uterus, are completely paralyzed by the Bella- donna poison. Upon the spinal cord and its membranes, Brown- Sequard, says : " The two remedies most powerful 7 74 ATROPA BELLADONNA. in diminishing congestion of the spinal cord, are Belladonna and Ergot of Rye. These two reme< I are powerful excitants of unstriped muscular fibres in the bloodvessels ; in the uterus; in the bowels; in the iris, &c. Both of them dilate the pupil ; both are employed with success to produce contractions of the uterus ; but each of them has more power in certain parts than the other. Belladonna a more than Ergot on the bloodvessels of the iris (which is the principal cause of dilatation of the pupils); on the bloodvessels of the breast (which is the principal cause of the cessation of the secre- tion of milk) ; on the muscular fibres of the bow (which is the mode of its action in Strangulated hernia); on the Bphincter of the bladder, which is one of the causes of its Buccess against nocturnal incontinence of urine. Ergol acts more than Bel- ladonna on the muscular fibres of the uterus, on the bloodvessels of the spinal cord, \. ." Upon the skin it has a remarkable and powerful effect; the skin becomes intensely red; painful and hot; parts much swollen, identical with phlegmon- ous erysipelas, but not with vesicular. The inflam- mation is more obstinate and deepseated than that which calls for Aconite. Upon the generative organs it produces congestion and spasms. Marcy and Hunt say: "The specific action of Belladonna is on the cerebral system, which is the central point from which all its symptoms radiate, as from a centre in all diseases. Even the inflam- mations induced by this remedy always emanate from within outwards, by an increased action in ATROPA BELLADONxN'A. 75 the central organ. Thus, in the exanthemata, as soon as the eruption appears, the severe cerebral symptoms, the headaches, and general febrile symp- toms f caused by the nervous system irritating the vascular), disappear. When an exanthematous eruption is suppressed, the brain is instantly the seat of a violent attack. Belladonna cures only those diseases of the splanchnic nervous system, or of the abdomen or uterus, in which there is affec- tion of the brain. In all the visceral inflammations cured by Belladonna, we may safely conclude that these diseases were expulsions of inimical agents, which originally threatened to attack the cerebral nervous system. The same remarks apply to all fevers, especially typhus, or the febris nervosa ver- satilis" " Belladonna is then the specific remedy for the cerebral nervous system, especially for the fifth pair, and vascular system under the influence of this sphere. An inflammation or fever to which it is applicable, is accompanied by symptoms pecu- liar to the fifth pair, more or less reddened con- junctiva, the white of the eye is injected, an un- steady or fixed look, distorted features, turges- cence of the face, confusion of the head, aching pain in the forehead and eyes." Speaking of inflammation, Prof. R. Ludlam, says, " Belladonna is centric in its operation. It diminishes the calibre of the bloodvessels, after having just impressed the cerebrospinal centres. The capillary contraction, occasioned by its pri- mary action, is followed by a relaxation in the fibrous coat of the vessels, which corresponds to 76 ATROPA BELLADONNA. Bennett's second stage of inflammation. This change from contraction to dilatation is more or less marked in degree, and depends upon a diminu- tion in the reflex power of the spinal cord, which Brown-Sequard says, Belladonna and Ergot may occasion. It is due to a disorder in the motor cur- rent at its source. The hyperemia results from a direct derangement in the function of the vaso-mo- tor nerves. In all essential particulars, so far as the local tissue is concerned, the consequences do not differ from those produced by Aconite. Bat in their mode of action, they arc diametrically op- posed. And this is the indication to their proper therapeutical employment in the treatment of con- gestions. Aconite is preferable to Belladonna in the congestive stage of most cases of pleurisy and pericarditis, because the engorgement is due to causes acting concentrically ; the lesion is idiopathic The animal nervous centres arc not primarily im- plicated as they are by Belladonna. "Belladonna reduces the hyperesthesia of the nervous system, upon which the congestion is con- sequent. It aflfords relief by a removal of the cause of the abnormal phenomena. It does not promote diaphoresis, is not critical in its results, has no spe- cial relation to the emunctories, but is appropri- ate to, and exercises a calmative influence over the deranged function of reflex action." In treating of the action of Belladonna in scarlet fever, P. P. Wells, M.D., says: "The pain, intol- erance of light, vertigo, insensibility, sleep, convul- sions, &c, which characterize the action of Bella- donna on the cerebral apparatus, find their coun- ATROPA BELLADONNA. 77 terpart in the symptoms of acute inflammation, for the most part of the membranes of the brain, or, it may be, of its substance, though this is more rare. In the case before us, the brain is not suf- fering, as is often thoughtlessly supposed, from in- flammation, but from toxication. Xot from exces- sive, but from deficient action. Indeed, in all its characteristics, it discloses a state as nearly the opposite of that produced by the action of Bella- donna, as can well be imagined. The drowsiness and coma of Belladonna are accompanied by, if not the result of, active cerebral congestion, and the same is true of the convulsions it produces. Paral- ysis from the action of Belladonna, is the result of pressure on the brain, either from the accumulation of a continuously increasing congestion of this or- gan, or of its membranes, or of accumulated serum in its ventricles, and between its membranes, in the effusion of which a previous congestion has ter- minated. Paralysis, in scarlet fever, is only one of the manifestations of that loss of brain power in general, the sum of which is at once expressed by the term 'Paralysis of the Brain.' The loss of power in distant parts is the result of loss of power in the brain itself." Grand Characteristics. The primary perception or starting-point of the affection is in the brain. " Throbbing headache, with violent throb- bing of the carotids." — G. 78 ATROPA BELLADONNA. Furious delirium, with a wild look ; wishes to strike, bite, or quarrel ; face flushed and eyes red. " Almost constant moaning ; the child re- mains in a drowsy, sleepy state, with starting and jumping while sleeping, with flushed face and red eyes." — G. " Child cries out suddenly, and ceases just as suddenly." — G. " Pains come on suddenly, and leave just as suddenly. ,, — G. " The symptoms often come on suddenly and disappear with equal suddenness." — G. "Clutching pains in the abdomen, as if the hand were clawing with the nails. r — G. Involuntary diarrhoea and urination, from paralysis of the sphincter muscles. " Pressure, as though all the contents of the abdomen would issue through the genital or- gans; this is particularly felt early in the morning." — G. " Sensation of heat and dryness in the va- gina, with stitches." — G. " Feeling in the back as if it would break, hindering motion." — G. Dry, irritating, spasmodic cough. " The parts have a hot, dry sensation ; there is much throbbing ; they get worse at three in the afternoon." — G. ATROPA BELLADONNA. 79 Symptoms all worse, 3 p.m. Adapted to plethoric people, with delicate skin, and disposed to phlegmonous inflamma- tion, and to precocious children with blue eyes and fair hair. Diseases that affect the right side of the body. Delirium ; sees frightful figures and visions before the eyes. Desire to escape, with restlessness and ner- vous anxiety. " Rage ; tears the clothes, bites, kicks, strikes, howls, and shrieks." — Lippe. Crying, laughing, dancing, or muttering de- lirium, with phantasms. Violent congestion of blood to the head, with loss of consciousness ; carotids throb vio- lently; jugulars swollen; face bloated and red. " Vertigo, with vanishing of sight, stupefac- tion, and debility." — Lippe. When stooping, or rising from a stooping posture, has vertigo, with flickering before the eyes, and a tendency to fall backward or to the left side. Throbbing headache, with violent conges- tion of blood to the head, and throbbing of the carotids ; worse from motion and touch ; light and noise are intolerable. 80 ATROPA BELLADONNA. "Child cries suddenly, then ceases to cry just as suddenly." — G. " Child is drowsy, with much moaning." — G. " Sleepiness, but cannot sleep." — G. " Desires death rather than fears it. v — G. Epilepsy from irritation of the medulla ob- longata. Infantile convulsions, when of an active character, and start from the medulla ob- longata. Neuralgia on the right side of the head and face. Eyes red, glistening, and sparkling; wild and unsteady. Congestion of blood to the eyes, with bright redness of the vessels. Contracted pupils. Paralysis of the circular fibres of the iris and optic nerve. Photophobia. Diplopia. Distortion, spasms, and convulsions of the eyes. Things look red ; sees sparks of fire. Neuralgia, particularly affecting the right eye. Face very red and congested, or great pale- ness of the face. ATROPA BELLADONNA. 81 Spasmodic distortion of the mouth. "Thick, swollen upper lip; gums swollen." — H. Face swollen, bright red, erysipelatous. Toothache of a drawing, tearing nature, worse at night; from cold air, mental exertion, and from contact. Inflammation of the inner mouth, with red- ness, and the mucous membrane swollen. Tongue hot, dry, red, and cracked ; or red on the edges, with brown fur in the centre. u Sore throat ; fauces and pharynx deep red, soft palate and tonsils swollen ; swallowing painful, particularly of fluids; speech thick; feels as if there was a lump in the throat, which induces hawking; the throat is swollen out- side and sensitive to the touch." — C. Hering, M.D. Great dryness of the fauces ; tonsils bright red and swollen. Tongue partially paralyzed, right side most affected. Parotid glands hard, red, and swollen. Spasms of the throat, cannot swallow. u Pain, particularly in abdomen and pelvis ; comes on suddenly, continues violently, a longer or shorter time, and disappears as sud- denly as it came." — C. Hering, M.D. Spasms of the stomach during a meal. 82 ATROPA BELLADONNA. " Tenderness of the abdomen is ag g r a v a ted by the least jar, even of the bed or chair upon which she lies or sits. She is obliged when walking to step with great care for fear of a jar." — Hering. " Colic in hypogastric region, as from clutch- ing and griping with the nails." — G. Involuntary discharge of the urine, from paralysis of the sphincter vesicae. Urine scanty and fiery red. Involuntary discharge of the faeces, from paralysis of the sphincter ani. " Piles, with a feeling as if the back would break."— G. "Piles so sensitive to the slightest touch that the patient has to lie with the nates sep- arated." — Raue. " Ovaritis of right side" — G. "Great pressing in the genital organs, as if everything would protrude." — G. Spasmodic contraction of the uterus. Os uteri rigid, hot, and dry. u Vagina hot and dry." — G. " Menses too early ; blood bright red." — G. Inflammation of the testicles, with great hardness. " Breasts feel heavy, are very hard, and red- ness runs in radii." — G. (Streaks from a centre.) HYOSCYAMUS NIGER. 83 Indurated mammae. Dry, spasmodic cough ; worse at night and by motion. Constriction of the trachea. " Takes cold from every draft of air, especi- ally when uncovering the head; complaints from cutting the hair." — Hering. All fevers traceable to an invasion of the functional powers of the brain itself. " Inflammations come suddenly and leave suddenly.' , — G. " Erysipelas, with smooth, shining skin and not much swollen." — Raue. "Diseases are usually worse after 3 p.m., and again after midnight." — G. Eruptions, smooth and scarlet color, with very pale face. Glands inflamed, swollen and indurated. HYOSCYAMUS NIGER. Henbane. Hyoscyamus acts especially and powerfully upon the cerebro-spinal system. It affects the cerebrum centrically, like Belladonna and Stramonium, but with this difference: u The cerebral condition is equally one of excited and perverted function, t. e., delirium with hallucinations; but there is little or no determination of blood. Hyoscyamus hence takes no place in the treatment of those cerebral hypersemise for which we rank Belladonna so high. 84 HYOSCYAMUS NIGER. Nor does it reach that height of maniacal disturb- ance to which Stramonium is applicable. But in delirium of a less violent and inflammatory type, as in many cases of delirium tremens ; in the milder forms of mental disorders, especially when occur- ring in children; and where sleep is restless or too dreamful, from simple cerebral excitement, llvos- cyamus is a most valuable remedy." — Hughi It acts also upon the sympathetic nervous sys- tem (slightly) ; post-mortem examinations have vealed gastro-intestinal inflammation. It affects especially the sphincter muscles, paralyzing their action. Hardly ever produces constipation, mostly always diarrhoea. It very powerfully influen the sexual organs, and from its great value in typhoid fever it must have some haematic action. Grand Cliaracteristirs. Too active condition of the sensorial func- tions, with great nervous excitability. " Involuntary* loud laughter, with silly actions; convulsive trembling." — G. " Delirium, with jerking of the limbs, with diarrhoea; red face; wild staring look and throbbing of the carotids." — G. " Twitching and jerking of every muscle of the body, eyes, eyelids, face and all." — G. "Lascivious furor, without modesty; she wishes to uncover and expose herself." — G. " Excited sexual desire, without excitement of the fancy." — G. HYOSCYAMUS NIGER. 85 "Loud laughter at the approach of the menses, with convulsive trembling." — G. Involuntary stool. " Cough always worse as soon as the patient lies down ; relieved by sitting up." — G. Adapted to hysterical subjects ; to drunk- ards, and people with sanguine temperaments. " Wishes to run away for fear of being hurt." Severe headache. " All objects appear red or larger than they really are, or double." — Hempel. u Loss of sight and hearing." — Hempel. " Entire loss of consciousness ; sees persons who are not, and have not been present/' — G. " Muttering, with picking at the bed-clothes." — G. " Giddiness, with stupefaction."- — Hempel. " Excessive dilatation of the pupils, with complete loss of sensibility to touch. " — Hem- pel. " Tongue partially paralyzed ; red, brown, dry, and cracked. "-^-Hempel. " Violent pain in the stomach, with vomit- ing and hiccough." — Raue. " Violent trembling of the feet and hands during menstruation"— ^-G. Paralysis of the sphincter ani and vesicas, with involuntary stool and urine. 8 86 STRAMONIUM. " Spasmodic, dry cough, always worse when lying down ; relieved by sitting up." — G. " Hysteric females and young girls, whose bowels are apt to bloat, and who are subject to attacks of diarrhoea, with colicky pains, and frequent urging to stool, or where the sphinc- ters are weak, causing great difficulty in re- taining the faeces, and where the least excite- ment or mental trouble produces the attack." — Hempel. STRAMONIUM. Thorn Apple* Acts especially upon the cerebrospinal system, skin, and sexual organs. The power it posse* of deranging the sensorium and cerebral nerves, is remarkable; it causes more furious delirium than Belladonna, but not so much congestion of blood to the head, but more congestion than Hyoscyamus does. The irritating or neurotic powers of Stramo- nium seem almost wholly spent on the sensorium. "Functional derangements of the abdominal or- gans seem to result from a sympathetic irritation, rather than from direct influence of the poison." Upon the skin it causes " a fiery redness of the whole body, and a petechial rash on the chest and back, and likewise upon the lower extremities." This eruption is caused by irritation of the spinal nerves. Upon the sexual organs it causes excessive ex- citement, even to nymphomania. STRAMONIUM. 87 Grand Characteristics. " Disposed to talk continually." — G. " Desires light and company ; worse in the dark or in solitude." — G. " Imagines all sorts of things ; that she is double, lj 7 ing crossways, &c." — G. " Child is delirious ; does not know where it is ; calls for papa and mamma, although they may be present trying to console it." — G. Furious delirium. " Light of brilliant objects, and contact, re- new the spasms." — G. %i Awakens with a shrinking look, as if afraid of the first object seen." — G. " Young men or women who pray, sing, or talk so devoutly and constantly, as to excite the sympathy of all in the house." — G. " Wild thoughts when she is awake ; fright- ful sensations, without perspiration." — G. " Loquacious delirium, with a desire to escape out of bed."— G. " Pangs of conscience ; thinks he is not hon- est ; does not know his friends ; raves about his business." — G. " Mock laughter when looking at the picture of his father ; face red ; eyes wild, alternating with melancholy." — G. " Excessive loquacity during the menstrual 88 STRAMONIUM. period; face bloated with blood ; with tears and prayers and earnest supplications." — G. "All kinds of food taste like straw; in fact she has no taste." — G. "Nausea with flow of very saltish-tasting saliva." — G. " Diarrhoea of a cadaverous odor." — ( 1. u The urine dribbles away very slowly and feebly."— G. "Vertigo when walking in the dark, day or night; he Staggers and falls down every time he attempts to walk. The same when walking in a darkened room in the daytime. M — G. Muttering delirium, with an extreme degree of nervous erethism, trembling convulsions and restlessness. " Tongue yellowish-brown, and dry on the centre, or swelled and dry." — N km ward. "Lips sore and cracked, and sordes on the teeth." — Neidhard. "No desire for water, although the mouth is dry." — N. Pains are unbearable; drive the patient to despair. Dilatation of the pupils, with staring eyes. Swelling and redness of the eyes. Great confusion of sight. " The face is bloated with blood."— G. opium. 89 u Troublesome thirst, even with much sa- liva."— G. Saliva tastes salty. " Involuntary discharges of urine ; it drib- bles away slowly." — G. " Caries of left hip." — IIering. " Abscesses, with violent pain, driving one mad." — Raue. Puerperal fever and nymphomania. " Extreme degree of nervous erethism ; con- vulsions, trembling, restlessness, &c." — P. P. Wells. OPIUM. Poppy. This powerful narcotic expends the most of its action on the cerebrospinal system. IsTo drug af- fects the cerebral tissues more profoundly. The cerebral vessels and sinuses are distended with blood of a dark color ; blood becomes extra vasated into the substance of the brain, and sometimes large clots of coagulated blood have been found in the substance of the brain. This direct action of Opium upon the neurine cells of the brain is di- rectly opposite to the action of Belladonna, for it is a fact that one is a complete antidote to the other. Poisonous effects of Belladonna produce excitement going on to furious delirium. The poisonous effects of Opium are, oppression fast merging into sopor and coma. Now this gives us a clue as to how remedies cure diseases. The rem- 8* 90 opium. edy must affect the same organ and tissue diseased, and it appears from the action r>£ these remedies that the dynamic power, or spiritual substance (I prefer the latter), of the remedy acta directly op- posite to the spiritual substance causing the dis- ease. In"ow, in diseases calling for the use of Opium we find paralysis, with stupor and deep Bleep; f hese symptoms, w^e know, are cured every day by Opium; but Opium produces symptoms identical with these. Here we find our great law, SitnUia Similibus Curantur* Two forces that act on the same organ and tissue, producing similar Bymp- toms, when acting together annihilate each nth. action. From the great power ( tpium has of suspending the secretions of the mucous membrane, increasing the cutaneous Becretions, exciting first, and then depressing the circulation, we must conclude thai it has a powerful influence upon the ganglionic, as well as the cerebrospinal system. Pereira says the action of ( tpium upon the di tive system is to "diminish secretion and exhala- tion from the whole canal ; dryness of the mouth and throat; excites thirst ; lessens hunger; checks the digestive process ; in Bom< it excites vom- iting; diminishes the liquidity of the stools." From the great power it has in lead colic, am ing the spasmodic pains and restoring the action of the mucous exhalants, we must infer that it lias a great influence upon the muscular coat of the bowels as well as on the mucous coa Upon the sexual organs it produces lascivious OPIUM. 91 fancies, nocturnal emissions, and spasmodic labor- xins in the female. Upon the bladder it paralyzes the muscular fibres :>f the fundus, rather than the sphincters. Grand Characteristics. In all diseases that call for the use of Opium, the central difficulty will be found in the brain. " Diseases originating in fright, the fear of the fright still remaining." — G. " Thinks she is not at home ; this is continu- ally in her mind." — G. " Very sleepy, but cannot go to sleep." — G. Brain oppressed; extreme drowsiness, and coma, with stertorous breathing. " The face is purplish and swollen, with soporous sleep, stertorous breathing, and vom- iting."— G. " Screaming before or during the spasm.' — G. Profound coma, patient cannot be aroused from the stupor. " Constipation ; the stools are composed of round, hard, black balls." — G. " The bed feels so hot she cannot lie on it."— G. Complete loss of consciousness. Patient is very sleepy; lies in a soporous state. 92 opium. Patient is profoundly comatose ; pupils in- tensely contracted or widely dilated, and in- sensible ; face puffed, with dark red or cherry- brown appearance ; stertorous breathing; pulse full and labored, or slow and feeble. Sopor, with delirium ; depression of the lower jaw; dilated pupils; and general symp- toms of paralysis of the brain. " Delirious talking; eyes wide open; face red and puffed up." — II. " Sleepy, but cannot sleep. " — G. " Unrefreshing, soporous sleep, with < half open; snoring during inspiration and ex- piration." — H. Sleeplessness, with acuteness of bearing; clocks "striking and cocks crowing at a gne distance, keep her awake.' 1 — B. FlNCKB, " Drunkenness, with stupor as if from smoke in the brain; eyes burning, hot. and dr — H. " After a fright with fear, convulsions, or the head hot, and twitching around the mouth." — H. "After fright; the fear of the fright still re- maining." — G. " Continually thinking she is not at home ; face purplish and swollen/' — G. Sleeplessness, preceded by drowsiness. " Gaping after coughing." — H. opium. 93 " Nervous and irritable ; passes nothing but hard, black balls from the bowels." — H. Constipation ; stools consist of hard, black balls. " Colic, with great pressure downwards upon the rectum and bladder, without any passing off of faeces, gas, or urine." — Raue. Lead colic and hernia. " Child makes no water with full bladder, and has no stool ; from nursing after the nurse had a furious fit of passion ." — Hering. " Paralysis of the muscles of the fundus of the bladder, rather than those of the sphincter." — Hughes. " The skin hot and damp, or sweating, even in the morning, and a desire to uncover." — H. " Twitching, trembling of the head, arms, and hands, now and then ; jerks as if the flex- ors were overacting; body cold; inclination to stupid sopor ; motion of the body and un- covering of the head relieves." — B. Coldness of the limbs ; sleepy, but cannot sleep from too much blood in the brain. " Bed feels so hot cannot lie upon it." — Gr. Sudden retrocession of acute eruptions ; pa- ralysis of the brain sets in, or convulsions; lervousness ; diarrhoea, &c. Polypus ; tincture applied externally. 94 ALCOHOL. ALCOHOL. Rectified Spirit. Acts especially upon the cerebrospinal nervous system, great sympathetic nervous system, and the blood. On the brain, it first produces excitement; jo- vial, sympathetic, and sometimes indiscreet; con- fusion of thought ; various mental affections, vary- ing with individual character ; some become sen- timental and affectionate, but the majority become quarrelsome, and some murderous in their ferocity. Some become depressed and gad, and sit quietly by themselves. The imagination and lower impulses predominate. The symptoms are followed by- drowsiness and sometimes profound coma. At* this state of somnolency, there arc vertigo, head- ache, stupidity, nausea, and vomiting. In some cases the stupor is followed by great cerebral excite- ment; the face becomes Hushed; eyes injected; great restlessness; violent delirium; pulse accel- erated, with fever of a typhoid character. Tn other cases, it develops a tendency to congestive apo- plexy ; the coma soon becomes profound ; face livid, or ghastly pale; pupils contracted, more generally dilated ; breathing stertorous, and death takes place in a few hours. Pathological Changes. — The scalp and membranes of the brain are congested ; serous effusion occurs under the arachnoid ; the substance of the brain is usually white and firm; the ventricles generally empty. " The peculiar firmness of the brain was ALCOHOL. 95 noticed several times, even when decomposition of the rest of the body had made considerable advance. Typhus fever is the only disease, save induration of the brain, in which a like firmness is often ob- served.*' The cerebrum and cerebellum both be- come indurated, and sometimes softened. The cere- bral arteries are in a state of fatty degeneration. Nerves of Motion. — Are especially affected, as seen in the stammering speech ; staggering gait ; dimin- ished strength, from relaxation of the muscular system ; trembling of the hands and arms ; trem- bling motion of the muscles under the skin, and partial paralysis. Nerves of Sensation. — There is hyperesthesia or anesthesia ; has to move the limbs constantly, from a great feeling of restlessness ; formication under the skin, and drawing, piercing pains. Great Sympathetic Nervous System. — The chronic effects of Alcohol upon this part of the nervous system, " are evinced more by the alterations in structure and functions of the various organs of the chest, abdomen, and pelvis, than by any par- ticular sensations ;" more rapid digestion ; peri- staltic action of the bowels increased ; increased se- 1 cretions ; fatty degeneration of the heart and liver, which sometimes are much enlarged ; the omentum and mesentery become loaded with fat. The stom- ach becomes congested, and greatly wrinkled, as if a powerful astringent had been taken ; in some, the mucous membrane is perfectly white and thick- ened ; in others, it becomes softened and covered | with a copious muco-purulent secretion. The ap- 96 ALCOHOL. petite is at first increased, but becomes in a short time less and less in proportion as the taste for drink increases. The tongue becomes furrowed from the median line towards the edges, and looks as if varnished. In the morning the throat seems filled with mucus, and gradually it becomes more and more difficult to clear, and the victim has nausea and vomiting every morning, with a long train of dyspeptic symptoms ; in some cases the bowels become much irritated, and there is colic, acidity, flatulence, constipation, or alternate cone pationand diarrhoea. The kidneys become more or less congested; the pelvis and ureter- are gener- ally in a state of chronic slate-^ray inflammation. The skin at tir>t is Bofl and velvety, but gradu- ally changes and becomes dry, dirty, rigid or yel- lowish-gray, and there are more or Less prurigo, eczema, &c. The blood becomes fluid and venous, and the proportion of carbon and hydrogen is much in- creased; contains mueh albumen and fat, but little fibrin, which accounts for its non-coagulability ; blood-globules are diminished. Grand Characteristics. Tweedie says : " I. It sometimes happens that when a patient in fever has been going on favorably, the pulse becomes suddenly soft and compressible, the skin cool and damp, accom- panied by a feeling of considerable exhaustion ; with these symptoms, there need be little hesi- ALCOHOL. 97 tation in allowing six or eight ounces of wine in twenty-four hours, at proper intervals. " II. When the symptoms denoting sensorial disturbance, languor, low muttering, delirium, tremor, or subsultus, progressively increase, if at the same time, the patient lose his strength from day to day> the pulse soft and skin cool. "III. When the fever assumes the petechial character, more especially if the spots be large and of a dark livid hue. "IV. In cases of sudden and unexpected collapse." Coma, with stertorous breathing. " Melancholy, with inclination to suicide." —P. u Mania, with inclination to murder." — P. " Mania, with inclination to incendiarism." —P. " Maniacal ferocity." — P. " Mania, with excessive inclination to drink." —P. Dementia. Eyes congested (bloodshot). " Hallucination of sight ; sees double, or thinks he sees a variety of objects; men, ani- mals, snakes, good or bad spirits, angels, or de- mons." This shows that Alcohol profoundly af- fects that portion of the brain that gives origin to the optic nerve. 9 98 ALCOHOL. " Hallucination of smell ; imagines the devil has defiled his bed, and that it smells as the devil is supposed to do." " Great dryness of the mouth." Hallucinations of taste. Throat seems full of mucus, which is hawked up with difficulty. " Morning nausea and vomiting." Gagging and vomiting of sour, offensive mat- ter. Loss of appetite. Difficult digestion, with colic and flatus. Constipation, or alternation of constipation and diarrhoea. (See Nux Vomica,) Adiposis and venosis ; fatty state of the heart, and adiposis in general, in gouty and rheumatic subjects. Dr. Peters thinks it is more or leal antag- onistic to tuberculosis; in cases where there is great emaciation it may supply the fat ; it only aids in developing adipose, never muscular tissue. Alcohol as a remedy, and as a nutritious substance : — It especially arrests destructive as- similation, " so that for a certain period, during the stay of alcohol in the system, less urea, less phosphates, less water are excreted by the kidneys, less carbonic acid by the lungs, and ALCOHOL. 99 less digestion goes on in the alimentary canal, showing that the muscles, bones, nerves, &c, are not getting rid of their effete tissue, but re- taining it, and making use of it as far as possi- ble." " But at the same time, they give rise in the body to defensive reaction, which is prominent first, immediately after taking the dose, and then gives place to the special action, and on this ceasing, is again manifested to greater ex- tent." " So that if a suitable quantity be taken, and both action and reaction are allowed to exhaust themselves before the dose be repeated," there will be a positive gain in vitality; " but if such a large quantity be taken that the reaction is overpowered, or if the manifestation of life is kept down by continuous repetition of the dose, the body is not renewed, because its effete par- ticles are not removed, and the amount of vi- tality must certainly be reckoned at a loss." A distinguished politician, who suffered from the effect of habitual intoxication, thus de- scribes it: "In that world of all that is high and noble, the human heart ; that consecrated temple of glorious hopes and generous purposes, and godlike aspirations and countless joys, known only to the heart of man, the alcoholic poison breaks up the fountains of the great deep 100 CHLOROFORM — SULPHURIC ETHER. of human passion, and converts the mind into a wild distorted receptacle of passions, lashed into monstrous and phantom forms, by flames, which distil the fountains of human love and charity, and chastity, and kindness, into the red lava of hell's w T orst hate. And that bright principle of the human intellect, which comprehends the laws that govern the universe and our own mysterious being, instead of being blotted out in darkness, is transformed into the wild architect of a world distorted and ideal, peopled with fiends, such as perverted minds alone can conceive, and fraught with sufferings and agonies, for which breathing nature fur- nishes no type or parallel." CHLOROFORM. C 2 1KC1, This acts upon the cerebrospinal nervous system, producing anaesthesia, with rapid muscular relax- ation and insensibility, and is the best anaesthetic known. SULPHURIC ETHER. 2C,H 5 C1 5 0,S 2 6 . This also affects especially the cerebrospinal axis, producing anaesthesia, the insensibility Uu ing longer than that caused by chloroform. Also produces greater muscular relaxation in the last stage. QLONOINE. 101 § GLONOINE. Nitro-Glycerine. This powerful remedy acts especially on the cere- bral bloodvessels, medulla oblongata, and pneumo- gastric nerve. Xo remedy produces so quickly and so violently such a severe congestive, throbbing, bursting head- ache, with increased action of the heart and arte- ries, and sometimes nausea and vomiting. How does it produce this effect? I believe mainly through the ganglionic plexuses of nerves that en- twine round the cerebral arteries and control their action. Dr. Hughes differs from this ; he says, " I think that the phenomena of both head and heart can be accounted for by supposing that Glonoine acts as a direct sedative upon the medulla oblongata. From this centre come off the vagi, to whose de- pression we have referred the cardiac symptoms of the drug. Through the medulla oblongata also (according to Schiff's observations), the vaso-motor nerves of the brain proper can be excited or para- lyzed. The same sedative influence of Glonoine, therefore, upon this nervous centre, would, through the vagi, set the heart off palpitating, and through the vascular nerves, would dilate the cerebral ar- teries, so as to give us the phenomena I have de- scribed." If Schiff's observations are correct, Dr. Hughes is also. Prof. Hempel says, " Repeated experiments would seem to show that ^itro-glycerine acts upon the medulla oblongata, and that the symptoms of 9* 102 GLONOINE. cerebral congestion which it occasions are depend- ing upon a momentary irritation of this great nervous centre. The pneumogastric nerve is in- volved in its disturbing influence." Grand Characteristics. Intense congestion of blood to the head, with a feeling as if the temples and top of the head would burst open. Violent, throbbing headache. Vertigo; fainting, with violent throbbing of the temporal arteries. Congestive, nervous headache, with no gas- tric or bilious symptoms. "It has proved the great remedy for sun- stroke." — Hughes. " It has checked puerperal convulsion* where cerebral hyperemia was prominent" — II. "It is a capital remedy for the disturbance of the intracranial circulation, which obtains in menopausia, and for that which often results from menstrual suppression.' 1 — Hughes. "Nervous palpitation, of emotional origin." — Hughes. Has acted well in some cases of neuralgia. This remedy ought to prove valuable in apo- plexy and epilepsy. Marcy and Hunt say it is homoeopathic to AGARICUS MUSCARIUS. 103 no disease without it has its origin in the nerve- mass. It produces intense throbbing pains in the epigastrium. AGARICUS MTJSCARIUS. Fly-agaric. Especially affects the cerebro-spinal nervous sys- tem and the blood. Upon the cerebro-spinal sys- tem it produces giddiness and drunkenness, similar to Alcohol ; at last, an entire loss of consciousness takes place. The spinal cord is also especially af- fected ; the motor nerves show chorea-like twitch- ings ; " the sensory nerves lose their elasticity and power of resistance ; when even feeble pressure is applied to any spot, it pains still a long while after. Neuralgic pains as though sharp ice touched the parts or cold needles ran through the nerves ; com- pare with the Arsenic neuralgia, in which the imaginary needles are red-hot." (Hughes.) The spine is tender to the touch, especially the lumbar portion. But the most peculiar effect of Agaricus is its septic influence upon the blood, and the power the urine has of producing intoxication. The blood becomes fluid ; the brain, lungs, and liver being gorged with this fluid blood. " During life, too, there are many symptoms of septic change ; the face is blue ; the body swells ; the breath, flatus, and stools are fetid." " A man moderately intoxicated to-day, will, by 104 AGARICUS MUSCARIUS. the next morning, have slept himself sober ; but, as is the custom, by drinking a teacupful of his urine he will be more powerfully intoxicated than he was the preceding day. This intoxicating property of the urine is capable of being propa- gated; for every one who partakes of this intoxi- cating urine, has his own urine similarly affected." I have no doubt but a microscopical examination of the urine and blood of one who lias been poisoned with the Agaricus, would reveal thousands of fungi in it, capable of reproducing themselves with great rapidity, similar to yeast. Grand Characteristic** " Itching, burning, and redness of the toes, with titillatlOD as if frozen. n — (i. "Gastric derangement, with itching, burn- ing, and redness of various parts of the body, as if frost-bitten ; of the ears. nose, cheeks, fin- gers, and toes." — G. " Much hunger, but no appetite." — (i. " Abundance of flatulence." — G. "Constipation; first part very hard, latter part liquid." — G. "Menses too profuse, with titillation in the genital organs and desire for an embrace." — G. " Great selfishness." — G. Frequent nictitation of the eyelids. Chilblains itch and burn much, and are very red. GICUTA VIROSA. 105 Great chilliness in the open air, striking through the whole body, without thirst. Worse during the approach of a thunder- storm. Hysterical subjects, with spasmodic jerkings of different muscles of the body. It ought to be useful in delirium tremens, venous congestions, and in septic diseases. CICUTA VIROSA. Water Hemlock, Especially affects the brain and spinal cord, pro- ducing tetanic spasms, but differing from the tet- anus caused by Nux, by the brain being more affected. Prof. Hempel thinks, " that its irritating action upon the solar plexus is the first cause of these con- vulsions." The medulla oblongata is also greatly irritated by this poison. It also affects the skin. Grand Characteristics. "The letters seem to move about when read- ing."— G. " Convulsions, with contortions of the upper part of the body and limbs : with blue face and frequent interruptions of breathing for a few • moments." — G. " The child seems well, and in great spirits, when suddenly it becomes rigid, then relaxa- tion sets in with much prostration." — G. 106 GYMNOCLADUS CANADENSIS — CAMPHORA. " Violent shocks through the head, arms, and legs, which cause them to jerk suddenly." — G. " Violent vertigo, so that the patient falls down." — Hempel. " During the menstrual molimina, has tear- ing, jerking pains in the os coccygis." — G. " Spasmodic hiccough in cholera." — Hughes. " Thick, whitish scurfs appear on the chin and upper lip ; they secrete a dampness ; some- times affects the nose." — G. GYMNOCLADUS CANADENSIS. American I 'offi < T Acts upon the cerebro-spinal nervous system. Grand Cha rartrristics. " One-fourth of all the symptoms are on the left side, and only one-twelfth on the right." — Hering. " Hard, racking cough, increasing from morn- ing to night." — H. Useful in typhoid fevers, erysipelas of the face, scarlet fever, hives, &c. CAMPHORA. Laurus Camphora. Acts upon the cerebro-spinal system, ganglionic nervous system, and genito-urinary organs. CAMPHORA. 107 Upon the sensorium it causes vertigo, confusion of ideas, maniacal delirium, convulsions, frothing at the mouth, and insensibility ; when reaction sets in, there is great heat and vascular excitement in the head. Upon the ganglionic system, "the primary action of Camphor seems to be characterized by a depres- sion of vitality ; sinking of the pulse ; decrease of animal heat ; relaxation of the mucous membranes, and diminution of power in those nervous trunks which are specifically affected by Camphor. The coldness and torpor which Camphor causes in the stomach and bowels are characteristic of its primary action upon the mucous coating of those viscera.'' — Hempel. These primary effects are of very short duration, which are soon followed by organic reaction, with hard bounding pulse ; burning heat of the skin ; red face ; heat in the stomach and bowels ; much anxiety and restlessness. Upon the genital organs its primary effect is im- potence, with coldness and relaxation of the parts. It causes inflammation of the urinary organs, and suppression of urine. Its greatest usefulness appears to be for its pri- mary symptoms, that is, its chill-producing power. Grand Characteristics. Sudden and complete prostration of the vital forces, with great coldness of the external sur- face. 108 CAMPHORA. Long-lasting chills. " Great coldness of the skin, yet the child cannot bear to be covered." — G. " Extremities cold and blue, with cram; — G. " Skin cold as marble, yet the child cannot bear to be covered ; rattling in the throat ; hot breath."— G. " Sometimes those cold spells only come on at night and pass off in the morning, with much prostration and diarrhoea. 91 — G. u Urine emitted slowly, the bladder being nearly paralyzed." — (1. "Red urine, depositing a thick sediment." — G. " Retention of urine, with constant pressure on the bladder, and desire to urinate." — G. Strangury from Cantharis poison. "Her labor pains have ceased, and her skin is cold and blue." — G. Especially adapted to choleraic diseases, and to the first stages of catarrhal affections. " Throbbing pains in the cerebellum, like the pounding of a hammer ; synchronous with the beats of the heart." — Raue. " Features distorted ; eyes sunken ; face, hands, and feet, icy cold; great anguish, though he would suffocate; half stupid and senseless ; groans and moans in hoarse, husky ZIZIA A UREA. 109 voice ; burning in the stomach and oesopha- gus ; cramps; touching the stomach causes him to cry out ; great faintness and prostration." — Raue. " No thirst, no nausea ; no vomiting, no di- arrhoea, with cramps in the legs." — Raue. " Retention of urine, or it is discharged in small quantities ; deep red, and depositing a thick sediment." u Sometimes the urine is green." — G. Strangury, not relieved by urinating, espe- cially if it is caused by Cantharis. " Impotence, with coldness, weakness and atrophied condition of the sexual organs, in large doses." — Hempel. Suffocative catarrh, with paralysis of the lungs, from its paralyzing effect upon the pneumogastric nerve ; first stage. Sudden retrocession of eruptions, with cold skin and great prostration. " Epilepsy, with much congestion of the brain." — Marcy and Hunt. ZIZIA ATTREA. Golden Alexander. Acts especially upon the brain, spinal cord, and pneumogastric nerve. Its characteristics are unknown, but it is a pow- erful remedy, and will some day be very useful 10 110 CUPRUM. It is adapted to many nervous diseases, such as epilepsy, neuralgia, sick headache, hypochondria, &c. CUPRUM. Copper. Affects the cerebrospinal system, and especially the great sympathetic nervous centn Prof. Hempel says: " A careful study of the act of Copper upon the cerebrospinal axis seems to show that Copper affects the ganglionic centres and the medulla oblongata, but doc- aot act primarily upon the cerebrum in such a manner as to justify its em- ployment in meningitis, hydrocephalus, typhus, and other cerebral diseases, upon homoeopathic prin- ciples." The cerebral By nipt on is, although strongly marked, are secondary or sympathetic, from irrita- tion of the abdominal ganglionic nervous . Acts especially upon the cerebrospinal axis, pneumogastric nerve, and especially the skin. This powerful poison ought to prove one of our greatest remedies in scarlet rash, erysipelas, and AILANTHUS GLANDULOSA. 121 many cerebral diseases. Its characteristics are un- known, but I will give some of its prominent symp- toms. Severe headache, with dizziness, and hot, red face. Very drowsy and restless, which soon passes into insensibility, with constant muttering de- lirium. Great anxiety. Intolerance of light. Inability to sit up, with sudden and violent vomiting. Covered with a miliary rash, with efflores- cence between the points of the rash ; all of a dark, almost livid color. The eruption more profuse on the forehead and face than else- where. The pulse small, and so rapid as hardly to be counted. "The livid color of the skin, when pressed out by the finger, returned very slowly; the whole was a most complete picture of torpor, and seemingly a perfect instance of that mani- festation of it which immediately precedes dis- solution in these rapidly fatal cases of scarlet fever."— P. P. Wells, M.D. 11 122 NUX VOMICA. GROUP III. Nux vomica, Coni urn. Strychnine, Curare, Ignatia, Angostura, Cocculus, Aesculus. This group constitutes our true spinal remedies. They produce, primarily^ irritation and congestion of the spinal cord and its membranes; secondarily, depression, paralysis, and BOftening. To this group really belongs Hydrocyanic acid, tmt I thought it better to place the acids all in one group. NUX VOMICA. Strychnos Nuz V Xux vomica and its alkaloid. Strychnia, act pecially upon the spinal cord. The primary eti being first upon the sentient nerves, through which it is carried to the spinal cord, and reflected back upon the motor nervous system. Also affects the cerebellum, slightly the cere- brum; the medulla oblongata and nervo-muscular tissue of the bowels, and lastly, the sexual organs. Marshall Hall, M. Brown-Sequard, and M. Bon- nefin, have shown, against the opinion of MM. Bernard and Stannius, that Strychnine tetanus re- sults from the primitive augmentation of the exei- NUX VOMICA. 123 lability of the cord ; and we think that the experi- ments, in which we have directly poisoned the cord, leave no doubt in this regard. Traumatic tetanus exhibits, usually, the perma- nent contraction of a certain number of muscles, with exacerbation to general convulsions; the strvchnic tetanus exhibits, usually, convulsions, in the intervals of which, all the muscles are in re- pose, and they enter into contraction again, only after some external excitement has provoked a fresh crisis. It is intelligible, from the peripheric character of traumatic tetanus, that a topical agent, which paralyzes the sensitive extremities of nerves, applied directly on the wound, in the first period of the malady, may cure this, without affording a presumption as to the cure of strychnic tetanus. But even if it should cure both, that would not prove the antagonism asserted between Curare and Xux vomica. AVe have the similitude of their action, in the facts that they both diminish the excitability of the extremities, and increase that of the cord. Strychnine, in general, acts upon the cord with more intensity than Curare, and Curare upon the extremities with more intensity than Strychnine. Such is the shade of difference which we arrive at by varying the dose or the mode of administration. John King, M.D., says : " Xux vomica is an ener- getic poison, exerting its influence chiefly upon the cerebrospinal system ; it is supposed to affect the spinal cord principally, because the division of this cord does not prevent its poisonous influence ; and again when the cord is destroyed by the introduc- 124 NUX VOMICA. tion of a piece of whalebone into the spinal canal, the convulsions immediately cease. In poisonous doe Kux vomica produces violent tetanic convulsio without impairing the functions of the brain, with asphyxia and death. When given in doses suili- ciently large to influence the system, a sensation of heaviness is experienced, the spirits become de- pressed, the limbs tremble, and a slight rigidity or stiffness comes on when attempting to move. Fre- quently the person cannot stand erect | h< and if at this time he be suddenly tapped on the ham, while standing, a slight convulsive attack will often ensue, with an Inability to stand. In the most severe paroxysms caused by this medi- cine, the patient retains his mental faculties, and the slightest noise, or even a breath of wind pa ing Over him, will excite eonvu cry time these occur; somet iincs Budden starts resem- bling shocks of electricity aria It is not necessary that Strychnine should reach the organs through the circulation to produce effects. "The encephalon and medulla oblongata being exposed, and a solution of Strychnine intro- duced within the vertebral canal, the animal is s< seized with convulsions, persisting longer in a limb of which the circulation is interrupted, while its nerve communicates with the central system." Strychnine, like Curare, annuls the art ion which the excitement of motor nerves normally produces upon the muscles. If a frog be poisoned by a suit- able dose of Xux vomica or Strychnine, injected under the skin, after a variable period, and some- times without there having been the least convul- NUX VOMICA. 125 sion, the nerves subjected to the action of electro- magnetism excite no muscular contraction; but if one limb be so prepared that the poison cannot enter it, its nerve will remain alone excitable. Paralysis of the extremities of the motor nerves is independent of convulsions and of tetanus. After poisoning by Strychnine, as well as by Curare, galvanism of the pneumogastric does not arrest the beats of the heart. In these cases, the motor nerves have lost their excitability, while the muscles preserve theirs. To the homoeopath, this knowledge is of much practical importance. Prof. Haughton, in the " American Journal of the Medical Sciences/' says: "It is generally be- lieved that Strychnine exerts a specific action upon the lower or lumbar portions of the spinal column, exciting the muscular system (at least the volun- tary muscles), into a state of tetanic contraction, and ultimately producing death, indirectly, by ren- dering respiration mechanically impossible, by vir- tue of the permanent contraction of the pectoral muscles, and not, as was supposed, by its action on the heart." Prof. Hempel, says: "Xux vomica affects, pri- marily, the spinal column, motor and sentient i nerves ; it also affects the brain : we infer this from the injurious action upon the brain, in pa- tients who are attacked with apoplexy, attended with softening of the brain ; we infer it from the fact that it has caused stupor, vertigo, buzzing in the ears, sleeplessness, and turgescence of the capil- laries of the face." 11* 126 NUX VOMICA. Upon the alimentary canal, Prof. Ilempel, Bays: "INux vomica has caused inflammation of the stom- ach and small intestines; but this sort- of inflam- mation seems to be incidental to a complete disor- ganization of the nervous life of the organs, rather than the result of a temporary de] tression of the ner- vous energy. Inflammations of this kind seem al- ways to be attended with convulsive paroxysms." Dr. R. Hughes, says : "Nux vomica has little or no influence upon the mucous membranes of the secreting organs, without it is some irritant action upon the respiratory mucous membrane; it b here, as elsewhere, upon the nerves and muscles." Dr. C. Dunham, says: "Nux vomica dor- uof diminish the action of the intestine; it rather in- crease- it, hut at the Bame time renders it inharmo- nious and spasmodic a hindrance, therefore, and not a help to evacuation. This is the reason why the constipation characteristic of Xux vomica is accompanied hv frequent, ineffectual desire for stool — the action of the intestine being irregular and spasmodic, and the const ipat ion is the result of irregularity, and not from inaction." Upon the sexual organs, both male and female, Nux vomica has a powerful influence. It first ex- cites their action, which is soon folio wed by depi sion. Grand Characteristics. Especially adapted to people with choleric, sanguine, malicious, irritable temperament. and to those who make great mental exertions. NUX VOMICA. 127 " The patient cannot sleep after 3 a.m. ; ideas crowd upon the mind so as to keep him awake for hours." — G. " Symptoms always worse in the morning." — G. "Very irritable, and wishes to be alone." — G. " The disease seems to be caused by rich living, highly-seasoned food, stimulating drinks, or by a too sedentary life." — G. " Habitual constipation of large and difficult stools, or small stools with frequent urging to go to stool." — G. " Frequent calls to go to stool, but not able to defecate." — G. " Frequent urination ; she passes little and often, with much burning." — G. " Nausea and vomiting every morning, with constipation of large, difficult stools, and great depression of spirits." — G. " Very dyspeptic ; much excited by Coffea, spirituous liquors, or highly-seasoned food." — G. " Putrid taste, low down in the pharynx when hawking up mucus." — G. " Food and drink have a fetid smell to her ; cannot bear the odor of tobacco." — G. " Pressure towards the genital organs early in the morning, in bed, or during a walk, with 128 NUX VOMICA. a sensation of contraction of the abdomen." — G. " Menses irregular, and never at the right time." — G. Menses too early and too profuse, with very faint spells. " Every pain during labor produces a de- to defecate or to urinate, particularly the for- mer."— G. " Much pain in the small of the hack, which is made worse by turning in bed/ 1 — G. "Dry cough, with a sense of constriction around the hypochondria." — G. Patient often troubled with piles. Hypochondria, with an irritable temper, aris- ing from liver complaint, or in drunkards. Vertigo, from excessive use of Coflea or liquor. Headache; feels as if it would split open ; with sour vomiting, caused by a sour stomach. "Sick headache, brought on by wine, coffee, close mental application, sedentary habits: commences in the morning, increases through the day, growing milder in the evening; with dimness of vision; sour, bitter vomiting; con- stipation; worse from noise, light, in the open air, or after eating." — Hering. Loses the connection of ideas, and fears she will lose her reason. NUX VOMICA. 129 " Complaints from the open air; longing to sit or lie down ; ill-humored and resisting ob- stinately the wishes of others." — Hering. " Very particular, careful, zealous persons, inclined to get angry and s excited, or of a spite- ful, malicious disposition." — H. " Over-sensitiveness ; every harmless word offends ; every little noise frightens ; anxious md beside themselves ; they cannot bear the least, even suitable, medicine." — H. " Cannot keep from falling asleep in the evening, while sitting, hours before bedtime." — Hering. " Hypochondriasis in studious men ; sitting too much at home ; with abdominal complaints and costiveness." — H. " Headache in the forehead, as if the eyes would be pressed out, or in the occiput." — Raue. " Epilepsy where the spinal centres are prominently involved, as shown by the shocks and jerks so characteristic of Nux." " Itching and crawling in the face, as though millions of ants were crawling over it." — Hem- pel. " Objects appear in a bright light." — Hempel. " Taste is sour, musty, bitter, with a sensa- tion of hunger, but the appetite is immediately satisfied, after eating ever so little." — Hempel. 130 NUX VOMICA. " Sensation as if his head were immensely larger than his body; as large as a church." — F. " Mouth and fauces full of fetid ulcers." — G. "Mouth dry and sore, with bloody saliva. " — G. No appetite, with loss of energy. " Food and drink have a fetid smell." — G. " Nausea and sour, bitter vomiting." — Rate. "Rising of sour and bitter fluid from the stomach." — Raue. Vomiting of sour mucus in the morning. " Flatulent distension after eating or drink- ing."-II. "Sudden feeling of repletion after swallow- ing a small quantity of food. n — G. Very dyspeptic, with tongue red and sore and coated yellow at the base. " Cardialgia, with clawing, constricting in pit of stomach, extending to the small of the back or anus; brought on by coffee, liquor, nostrums, sedentary habits, mental exertions." — Raue. " Pressure over the solar plexus brings on the spasms." — Raue. " Colic, with pressure upwards towards the thorax." — Raue. NUX VOMICA. 131 Hepatic colic, with sudden severe pain in E+he right side ; spasms of abdominal muscles. " Hemorrhoidal colic, with horrid tearing, •essing pains in the small of the back and wer bowels ; frequent and ineffectual urging to stool ; vertigo, headache, &c." — Hempel. " Flatulent colic, as if the bowels, bladder, and rectum were pressed upon with a sharp instrument." — Hempel. " Sensation as if a hernia would form." — F. Spasmodic recent hernia (Strychnia). " Constipation, with ineffectual and frequent urging to stool, with a sensation as if the anus was contracted." — G. " Piles, with shooting shocks in the loins, contractive pains which hinder from rising up, and ineffectual urging to evacuate." — G. " Wishes to urinate or defecate very often, but little at a time." — G. Hemorrhage from the anus in hemorrhoids. Paralytic incontinence of urine from irrita- tion of the lower portion of the spine. " Bloody urine."— G. " Nocturnal emissions, from plethora of the sexual organs ; or emissions without erections, followed by debility and great relaxation of the parts." — Hempel. Great excitement of the sexual organs of women, with sexual dreams at night. 132 NUX VOMICA. " Menstruation never at the right time." Menses too early and too profuse, with weak, faint spells. u Fetid leucorrhoea, tinging the linen yellow, with pain in the uterus, as if bruised.'* — G. " During every labor-pain has a desire for stool, or to urinate." — G. Dry coryza ; worse nights. "Dry, hard cough, with great soreness of the abdomen." Spasmodic asthma ; muscles of the chest be- come rigid; groat anxiety and suffocation. "Tetanic convulsions, excited by contact. noise, or any external stimulus." — IIempkl. u Affects the cerebrospinal axis in the same manner as that unseen, immaterial, impalpable cause, which, by its action upon the cerebro- spinal axis, leads to the production of tetanic spasms." — IIempel. "Paralysis, resulting from softening of that portion of the cerebro-spinal axis which sends off nerves to the paralyzed limb; the tempe- rature of the limb is diminished, especially in paralysis of drunkards." — Hempel. " Much pain in the lumbar region." — Hem- pel. The pains caused by Nux vomica are ting- ling, hard, aching, sticking pains; aggravated by motion or contact. IIGNATIA AMARA. 133 u After aromatics in food, or as a medicine, articularly ginger, pepper, &c, and after al- most any kind of so-called hot medicine." — Goullon. " Will always benefit persons who have been drugged by mixtures, bitters, herbs, vegetable pills, and all kinds of nostrums." — Raue. IGNATIA AMARA. St. Ignatius 9 s Bean. Acts especially upon the medulla oblongata, producing tetanic convulsions, dyspnoea, asphyxia, and death. Marcy and Hunt say, " Its specific sphere is the spine, from which all the symptoms proceed. It produces nervous diseases, and especially clonic spasms ; over-excitement of the spinal nervous sys- tem giving rise early to nervous symptoms." R. Hughes, M,D., says, "Ignatia exalts the im- pressionability of the incident nerves all over the body. We have, hence, pains and other morbid sensations well-nigh everywhere ; increased suscep- tibility of the special senses ; emotional sensitive- ness ; and probably from reflex excitation, twitch- ings, constrictions, $ncj spasms. This action of the drug, however, is not deep and lasting. An alternating series of symptoms — numbness, torpor, depression — soon appear, which are themselves as superficial as their predecessors. The febrile symp- toms have the same characteristics." The bean contains triple the amount of Strychnia 12 134 IGNATIA AMARA. that the Xux vomica seeds do, and its action is more energetic. It debilitates or paralyzes organic or animal life, which is controlled by the spinal marrow, and cerebrum and cerebellum, — as shown by the gr depression of the mind, desponding melancholia, low-spirited, with great muscular prostration, — found in many female diseaa Grand Characteristic** The patient is full of grief; frequent invol- untary sighing, with a Bensation of goneness emptiness in the pit of the stomach. "Strongly inclined to solitude, and to be very secretive and passive." — (i. ww Sadness and sighing, with an empty feeling at the pit of the stomach." — G. " Full of grief; with a weak, empty feeling at the pit of the stomach, which is not relieved by eating." — G. " Mental symptoms change often from joy to sadness." — G. " Uterine cramps, with cutting stitches." — G. " Difficult stool, causing prolapsus ani." — G. "After stool, a violent stabbing stitch, from the anus upwards into the rectum/' — DcJHHAM. "Frequent spasmodic constrictions of the anus after stool." — Dunham. " Piles, attended with pains shooting deep IGNATIA AMARA. 135 into the rectum, seemingly up into the abdo- men, with a sensation of excoriation or con- traction of the anus." — G. " Child is spasmodic, with sighing." — G. u The patient is sensitive, peevish, excita- ble, hysterical, with sanguine nervous tempera- ment ; is delicate ; falls easily in love ; is ro- mantic ; bears trials meekly, and readily falls into clonic spasms after mental agitation." — Marcy and Hunt. Silent grief. Feeling as if being sw r ung to and fro. " Great importance about plans and bad feel- ings, which cannot be described." — G. Fretfulness of temper, with timidity. Spasmodic laughter, from grief. "Disappointed affection, with silent grief constantly preying upon the mind." — Marcy and Hunt. Silent, concealed grief, combined with mor- tification ; suppressed vexation. " Fright, followed by sadness or grief." — Marcy and Hunt. "Sleeplessness, caused by dejection, grief, &c." — Marcy and Hunt. Excessive convulsive yawning, with stiff- ness, or pain in the nape of neck. " Headache, as if a nail were driven out through the side ; relieved by lying on it." 136 IGNATIA AMARA. " Throbbing pain in the occiput ; worse from pressing at stool, from smoking, or the smell of tobacco smoke." — Rale. " Nervous headache, when the eyes are in- volved; more generally one eye, with burning lachrymation ; pressure in the eve. from within outwards." — HEMPEL. Gets sleepy after every coughing spell. Broods over imaginary trouble. Spasms and tetanic convulsions in children and hysterical women. Clonic convulsions in hysterical, fitful women. " Tetanic convulsions, with frequent inclina- tion to yawn." — Makcv and Hint. Chorea; the convulsions are greatest in the mouth, producing much distortion of the (ace. " Epilepsy, caused by fright or grief." — Raue. Spasms in children from fright. " In talking or chewing, they bite themsel in the cheek or tongue." — Hekixg. u Odontalgia, as if the tooth were crushed or smashed into fragments." — 1 1 km pel. " Boring pain in the front teeth, and a sore- ness in all the teeth ; worse alter drinking cof- fee, after smoking, after dinner, in the evenin after lying down, and in the morning." — IIer- 1NG. u Feeling of emptiness or goneness in the IGNATIA AMARA. 137 tomach, with a sensation as if a number of pins were sticking in it; not relieved by eat- ing." — Hempel. " Excessive flatulence." — Hughes. u Gastralgia, with stitching pains, brought on by starvation, care, grief." — Hartman. Cl Sensation in the stomach, as if one had been fasting too long; as if the stomach were empty, with flat taste and languor in the limbs." — Hempel. " The evacuation of faeces is difficult, because of a seeming inactivity of the rectum; cannot make a violent effort to expel them without danger of eversion and prolapsus of the rec- tum." — Dunham. u Moderate pressure at stool causes prolapsus ani." — Dunham. "After stool, painful constriction of the anus." — Dunham. "After stool, a stabbing stitch from the anus upwards into the rectum." — Dunham. "Bleeding after and during stool." — Dun- ham. "Hemorrhoids; the tumors prolapse with every stool, and have to be replaced; they are sore, as if excoriated; both hemorrhage and pain is worse when the stool is loose ; dragging pains around the pelvis." — Dunham. Neuralgia of the rectum. 12* 138 IGNATIA AMARA. Bowels inclined to be loose. Pain in the anus, returning regularly every day; worse when walking or standing; relieved by sitting. "Stitches in the hemorrhoidal tumors during every cough." " Urine pale and profuse." — G. " Scanty, dark-colored, and acrid urine." — Teste. "Sexual desire, with impotence." — Teste. "Menses scanty, black, of a putrid odor." — G. "Languor, unto fainting, during the men- ses."— G. "Uterine cramps, with stitches." — G. "Chlorosis; the stomach is very delica oedema of the lower limbs." — Dr. Eisenmanx. "Dry and hollow cough in the morning, on waking." " Constant hacking cough in the evening, in bed."— Teste. " Constrictive sensation above the throat-pit, which compels one to cough." — Teste. "'Dry, rough, harsh, spasmodic cough, with a sensation of a feather, or the vapor of sul- phur in the throat." — Jaiir. " Every time he stands still, during a walk, he coughs." — H. " Cold hands and feet, up to the knees ; CURARE. 139 numbness of the feet, legs, and sometimes of the whole lower limbs." — Teste. " During the chill, thirsty ; external warmth, pleasant ; during the fever heat, no thirst ; ex- ternal warmth, very pleasant." Change of position relieves the pains ; aggra- vated by coffee and tobacco. " Symptoms occur in the morning and even- ing, but more particularly in the morning." — Teste. "Like Nux, the symptoms are aggravated by contact, motion, open air, and artificial warpath." — Teste. " Morning is the best time to give Ignatia." — Hahnemann. CURARE. Indian Arrow-Poison. Acts especially upon the spinal cord and motor nervous system, producing paralysis, and doing so from the periphery towards the centre. " Curare acts upon the extremities with more intensity than Strychnine, and Strychnine upon the cord with more intensity than Curare ; such is the shade of difference in their action." " Curare and Strychnine differ in their action only by shades. Curare, like Strychnine, deter- mines convulsions by augmenting the excitability of the spinal cord." — Messrs. Martin, Magron, and Buissox. 140 COCCULUS IXDICVS. Adapted to neurotic, paralytic diseases, to the debility of old people, and exhausting dil COCCULUS INDICUS. Seeds of A ta Cocci/? Dr. Hughe- %t The testimony of tho-e who have experienced its effect-. Lb that it influen the voluntary muscles, rather than the intellectual powers ; with this, Hahnemann's provings entin agree. I think that tin' whole range of its cura- tive action heconies intelligible, it' we BUppoc influence the motor tract of the craniospinal ai from the corpora striata t<> the eanda equina. w * The ultimate ell- i!us upon the spinal cord, appear- to diminish its irritability, n that while convulsions are produced in a- ■:>< ming hy the drug, paralytic symptoms abound in the continued experiments of the proven. 9 ' Prof. Ilempel says: "CoCCUlufl acts UpOU the spinal system of nervea, causing even paralyse <>t" the motor nerves and tetanic COnvulflioi Pereira says: "It act- rather on the voluntary muscles than on the intellectual p It also affects the genitourinary 01 nd skin. In uterine affi one of the moat common symptoms is "weakness, BO-called by the patii but better expressed by the words languor, lai tude, inertness, or general sense of prostration, if it were impossible to make any exertion." This is caused by nervous prostration, or para the animal life, from irritation of the cerebro- spinal system. Xo remedy in the materia medica COCCULUS INDICUS. 141 produces this symptom more powerfully than Coc- culus, and I would call particular attention to this fact. Grand Characteristics* " She feels too weak to talk aloud." — G. " Always worse for a while after eating, drinking, or talking." — G. " In the morning or during menstruation she is scarcely able to raise herself in the bed from nausea and inclination to vomit, it makes her so faint." — G. " Leucorrhoea in place of the menses; she is so weak, is scarcely able to speak." — G. " Leucorrhoea like serum, mixed with puru- lent, ichorous liquid." — G. u Irregular menstruation, with nausea and faintness." — G. " Painful pressure in the uterus, with cramps in the chest and fainting nausea." — G. Nausea, even to faintness, with great depri- vation of nervous strength, with no disturbance in the vegetative sphere. Sensation of sharp stones in the abdomen on motion. " Hard stool every other day ; expelled with great difficulty." — G. " Much paralytic pain in the small of the back, rendering walking very difficult and sometimes impossible." — G. 142 cocculus m>l< Adapted to hysterical and spasmodic dis- eases, that have their origin in "the motor tract of the craniospinal axis, from the corpora striata to the cauda equina." — Hughes. " Violent headache ; unable to lie on the back of the head; is forced to lie on the side; unable to bear the least light; noise e nausea and vomiting." — Hughes. 11 Head and face hot ; feet cold." — G. " Roaring in the ears, ts though there were shells before them. 91 — G. " Sadness; irascibility: anxiety; tendency to start, especially at night." — Tj " Vertigo increased by sitting np in bed, or by the motion of a carriage/ 1 — MabOT and Hunt. 11 People who are much injured by sitting up at night, feeling weaker if they only I one hour's sleep." — MARCT and Hint. Trembling of the head; very nervous. " Paroxysms of vertigo, with nausea." — Teste. " Vertigo, as from intoxication. v — Jatir. " Painful concussion in the brain when walk- ing, when moving the head, or when talking." — Jahr. u The symptoms of the head are all vated hy talking, laughing, crying, walking, smoking, or drinking coffee." — Douglas. COCCULUS INDICTS. 143 "Choking constriction in the fauces, with lifficulty in breathing and irritable cough/ 1 — G. " Burning in the oesophagus, extending into the fauces, with a taste of sulphur." — G. " Sea-sickness, where the affection is from cerebral irritation/' — Teste. u Violent nausea during a ride in a carriage/' Teste. " One of the best palliatives for the cerebral form of sick headache, where the vomiting is plainly secondary." — Hughes. " Nausea, resembling sea-sickness, as if the stomach heaved up and down ; often brought on by looking at a vessel pitching up." — Hughes. '•Nausea; and on sitting up, the objects around seem to move up and down." — Hughes. Flatulent colic at midnight. " Abdomen distended, and feeling as if full of sharp stones when moving." — G. Diarrhoea, only in the daytime. " Hard stool, expelled every other day with great difficulty."— G. '•Menstrual colic; the pains are of a spas- modic, irregular character." — G. •• Dysmenorrhea, always followed by hem- orrhoids." — G. " Profuse menses, with a sensation of sharp stones in the abdomen on motion." — G. 144 cocculus ixr>i< Severe spasmodic pains in the neck of the uterus. " Labor pains are of a spasmodic, irregular, paralytic character; has one hard one, then several light ones." — (i. "The condition of* the nervoi; up by menstruation and pregnancy, appei especially favorable to the action ofCoCCUlu — Hughes. Spasms of pregnant women, with great weak- ness, so much BO that she can hardly talk; with much flatulency. "Irritation and dryness of the larynx, with dry COUgh." — Ti u Dry, fatiguing cough, owing to the dyspi that accompanies it." — Tf The arm and thigh cannot be moved in their joints on account of pain. Paralysis from functional disorders of the cord on one side of the body. Much paralytic pain in the small of the back. Paralysis from diphtheria, in nervous. I terical subjects. Especially suited to women and nervous children, of lively turn of mind, troubled with imaginary fears. Specific for body lice, used topically. CONIUM MACULATUM. 145 CONIUM MACULATUM. Poison Hemlock. Acts upon the cerebrospinal and ganglionic nervous systems ; also affects the glands, skin, and respiratory organs. Hughes says, "It directly paralyzes the spinal cord from below upwards, kill- ing at last by gradual asphyxia." The feet and legs become first paralyzed, and it gradually passes upwards until it reaches the chest and paralyzes the pectoral muscles, when death ensues. Prof. Hempel says, " It affects every part of the nervous system, the brain, spinal nerves, and gan- glionic system ; affects the spinal marrow antago- nistically to the action of Strychnine. Conium causes prostration of the nervous power, and sub- sequently paralysis, whereas Strychnia causes a spasmodic excitement of the spinal marrow, and as a consequence, muscular spasm." King says, " It is supposed to effect its results by exhausting the nervous energy of the spinal cord and voluntary muscles." Its action through the vegetative system upon the glands is shown by the wasting away of the mammae, and eruptions upon the skin. Upon the respiratory organs by the " dry, hack- ing, almost continual cough, worse on lying down, and at night." Grand Characteristics. " Much troubled with vertigo, particularly when lying down and when turning over in bed."— G. 13 146 COXIUM MACULATUM. Much difficulty in voiding urine; it flows and stops again, then flows and stops at each emission. — G. "Soreness and swelling of the breast*, pre- ceding menstruation. " — G. Induration of the breasts; hard as »ne. "All cases of indurations from injuries." — G. "Shrivelling of the mamma 1 , with increa sexual desire." — G. "Prolapsus uteri, complicated with indura- tion, ulceration, and profuse leucorrhoea." — (1. "Leuoorrhoea of white, acrid mucus, caus- ing a burning or smarting sensation." — G« During the menses has Btinging pains in the neck of the uterus, and vertigo while lying down. "Violent itching of the vulva, followed by pressing down of the uterus/ 1 — (i. "Frequent sour eructations, with hardi and distension of the abdomen." — (I. "Particularly suitable lor women with tight, rigid librc^s, and easily excited, as well as for those in the opposite condition." — G. Adapted to the debility of old people; to diseases caused by a blow or fall, and to can- cerous and scrofulous people, with tight, rigid fibre. "Great weakness and trembling after stool." — H. M. N. CONIUM MACULATUM. 147 "Stools liquid, fecal; mingled with hard lumps; watery; undigested.' 1 — J. B. Bell. Great concern about little things. Very easily excited. Easily intoxicated. "Dreads being alone, but avoids society." — Lippe. Vertigo when lying down, particularly when turning over in bed. Lips and teeth have black crusts on them. "Vomiting, that looks like black coffee- grounds." — G. "Terrible nausea and vomiting in women having scirrhosities, during pregnancy." — G. "Frequent sour eructations, with hardness and distension of the abdomen." — G. Constipation, with constant and ineffectual urging to stool; with vertigo while lying down. "Stitches extending from the abdomen to the right side of the chest." — G. "Frequent stitches in the anus between stools."— G. "Heat and burning in the rectum during stools." — G. " The breasts swell, become hard and pain- ful before the menses, when her hysterical symptoms increase greatly; the vertigo, when lying down, becomes very severe." — G. 148 CONIUM MACULATUM. Indurations of the breasts become very pain- ful at every menstrual period. Breasts very sore before the menses. " Induration and enlargement of the ovary. " — G. "Induration of the testicles." u Dysmenorrhoea, with aching pains about the heart." — H. " Burning, sore, aching pain in the region of the uterus." — G. " Rigidity of the os uteri/' — G. Menses wanting. Stinging pains in the neck of the uterus, with induration and seirrhositi< " Aching pain in the abdomen during preg- nancy; is disturbed between twelve and three o'clock at night, by having to get up to uri- nate. Has no affection for any body." — J. C. M. Eruptions on the vulva, with violent Btitc through it. Acrid, corrosive leacorrhoea. " Hacking, almost continual, cough; worse at night, when lying down.' 1 — Hughes. "Bruises and shocks of the spine." — Liitk. Pulse very irregular in fevers. Cancers produced by a blow, and aggravated during every menstrual period. Petechia in old people. ^SCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM. 149 ANGUSTTTRA VERA. Galipoea Officinalis. Especially affects the motor portion of the spinal cord. Grand Characteristics. "Lock-jaw; the lips are drawn back, show- ing the teeth/' — Lippe. "Spasmodic breathing; palpitation of the heart, with anguish." — Lippe. Intermittent fever; chill every day at 3 p.m. Paralytic diseases and tetanus. JESCULTJS HIPPOCASTANUM. Horse Chestnut Acts upon the cerebro-spinal, and ganglionic nervous system ; more especially affecting the lower portion of the spinal cord, the rectum, and anus. I once thought it powerfully influenced the liver, entirely suspending its secretion, producing white stools ; but a better physiology has taught me that white stools are caused by the follicles of the colon not performing their function. "Dr. Inman has shown that the feces do not become brown until they reach the colon ; and that the green stools of infants assume their peculiar color at this point." From this we must conclude that ^Esculus acts through the ganglionic system, upon the follicles of the colon, rectum, and anus, en- 13* 150 ^SCULUS HIPPOCASTAXUM. tirely suspending their secretion ; and this ac- counts for the white stools, and also for the con- stipation. But the constipation is also due to paralysis of the motor filaments of the spinal nerves that are distributed to the colon. It prob- ably produces some passive portal CO ion. Dr. E. M. Hall Bays: " A careful study of* its patho - would lead us to one or two conclusion- : (a) that it affected the whole mucous membranes in a peculiar manner, exciting therein c vith irrita- tion, and that this action was tin of the whole phenomena; op, b) that the Btarting-point ofita action wbb in the portal system, the circula- tion of which 18 deranged in a peculiar and ] found manner, and from thifl led the gastric, hepatic, intotinal, and rectal symptoms. It is difficult to hold to one explanation to the elusion of the other." The explanation under (a) is the nearest to being right. Qrand CkaructertstUm* " Constriction, protrusion, fulness, aching, dryness, itching, pricking, tenesmus, pains in the rectum and anus." — Hall. "Dry, uncomfortable feeling in the rectum, which feels as if it was fdled with small sticks." — Hughes. " Excessive dryness of the rectum, with a feeling of heat." — Hall. Hemorrhoids; " there is little tendency to ^SCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM. 151 hemorrhage, but much severe fulness and bearing down, with constipation." — Hughes. " Dreadful pain in the anus ; could not sit, stand, or lie down. The pain was like a knife sawing backw r ards and forwards; almost a martyrdom for agony." — Hughes. "Large hemorrhoids, which quite block up the rectum, without much hemorrhage." — Hughes. The hemorrhoidal tumors protrude from the rectum; are of a blue-purple color, with sharp, shooting, cutting pains in them, running up into the sacrum. " An intolerable burning, itching pain, with a feeling of fulness of the anus/' — T. C. Dun- can. "Aching, swelling, and rigid hardness of the rectum, with constipation." — T. C. Dun- can. "A painful weakness of the loins, with dull aching pain." — Dr. W..M. Cuthbert. "Soreness in the rectum, with increased secretion of mucus, or as if the folds of the mucous membrane obstructed the passage, and as if, were the effort continued, the rectum w r ould protrude." — Boyce. Dull aching pains in the small of the back; much aggravated by walking. "Severe aching pains in the lumbar and 152 ^SCULUS HIPPOCASTANTM. sacral regions, with stiffness of the back ; al- most impossible to walk." — G. Exhausts the nervous power of the spinal cord, so that its functions cannot be p« formed. Severe lumbar and sacral pains. Capillary congestion of the mucous mem- brane of the bowels. White, soft, papescent stools. Prolapsus ani, with constipation. Lumbar and sacral pains from hemorrhoids or female diseases. u Lameness in the small of the back, worse on walking." — F. Constant backackei tiffecting the Mcrum ami hipst aggravated by walking or Btoopii GROUP FOURTH. 153 GROUP IV. Sulphur, Calcarea carb., Lycopodium, Silicea, Hepar sulph., Phosphorus, Cistus can., Sarsaparilla, Sanguinaria, Kali carb., Kali bichroruicum, Kali hyd., Electricity, Causticum, Eumex crispus, Carbo veg., Carbo an., Alumina, Stannum, Graphites, Juglans cinerea, Thuja, Magnesia, Dulcamara, Corallia rub., Psorin. This group represents our true antipsoric reme- dies, and may be called our vegetative, or organic group, their grand sphere of action being on the ganglionic, or great sympathetic nervous system. In all diseases, acute or chronic, where there is more or less structural change, such as is found in inflammation, ulceration, &c, either active or pas- sive, involving the arterial or venous circulation, there is, essentially and really, a disorder of the ganglionic, or great sympathetic nervous system of organic life. This great nerve of organic life, under whose di- rection are performed all the functions of the body which are entirely out of the reach of the will, "arises from a series of ganglia, extending along 154 GROUP FOURTH. each side of the vertebral column, from the h< to the coccyx. These two gangliated cords lie parallel with one another as far as the sacrum, on which bone they converge, communicating together through a single ganglion (ganglion impar), placed in front of the coccyx. Some anatomists claim that the two cords are joined at their cephalic extremity, through a small ganglion [ganglion of Bilk ^situa- ted on the anterior, communicating artery." Prom these ganglia nerves are distributed to all the vis- cera of the body. . "The ganglionic system, as the primary and fun- damental seat of life, must contain all the hereditary elements of health and disease, which latter may he considered as latent, till they begin to he trans- mitted to some of the organizations which this system supplies. Hut as tl -ystem supplies to each of the involuntary vital organs all that is involved in their nutrition, structural, and functional life, it must at the same time imparl them the germs of its own constitutional dyscra- sia. Then that, which tor the briefest space only may he supposed to have been absolutely latent in the solar plexus, may he apparently latent in the vital organs for a longer or short- on, OT ] i ing harmlessly through them, he ultimated in the skin. And many forms of organic disease, which, from an accompanying tendcrne- t water were trickling through the bronchi bloody, frothy, tuberculous ni t% Sweats day and night, without relief." — II. "Cannot bear to be uncovered; coughs when any part of the body is uncovered." — II. "Ailments from west or Dorthwest wind. or soon after it, improved by warmth/ 1 — II. " Strumous suppuration of joints. 91 — HBXPXL. " Strumous enlargement of glands. especially where these can only be cured through suppu- ration, especially the tonsil.-." — Hugh] " Stomatitis, where suppuration seems inev- itable, with no other symptoms. " — G. Scrofulous ophthalmia, w hen disorganization and ulceration of the cornea is present. " Stinging, burning of edges of ulcers, smell- ing of old cheese; little pimples on smooth ul- cers surround the painful ulceration/' — II. PHOSPHORUS. 185 u Suppuration of long-inflamed boils on the body, or on the limbs, commencing with blis- ters ; every cut or hurt suppurates." — H. A slight injury causes suppuration. Rhagades of the hands and feet. " Eruptions on the bends of the elbows and popliteal spaces." "Fainting, with pains." — H. " Anxious feeling about the heart, with pal- pitation, in cases of hypertrophy." — R. Koch. PHOSPHORUS. This powerful remedy acts especially upon the ganglionic nervous system, destroying its nerve- force or life ; through it producing congestion, in- j flammation, and disorganization of the stomach, small intestines, liver, spinal cord, sexual organs, kidneys, muscles, brain, and especially the lungs, blood, maxillary bones, and teeth. Upon the stomach and intestines Phosphorus pro- duces a low grade of gastro-enteritis. Upon the liver it has a specific and powerful in- fluence, producing congestion, inflammation, fatty j degeneration, jaundice ; or the skin becomes re- markably semi-transparent or waxy in appear- ance. On the spinal cord it produces degeneration, de- liquescence, and paralysis. And through it the sexual organs are first greatly excited, which is soon followed by complete paralysis and impo- tence. 16* 186 phosphorus. Upon the kidneys it produces irritation. 001 tion, and inflammation, resulting in a prof cretion of albumen and exndation-cellfl in the urine. Upon the brain it fa il influence, I Hempel says: "Phosphorus Beems to be in n tion with the element or principle in the brain which regulates the renovation of the aervoua tis- sue. As Iron plays an important pari in disei of the blood, bo does Phosphorus in affections of the nervQua system. It' the reproduction or sup- ply of nervous tissue Lb defi or abnormally altered by some cause or other, Phosphorus is, un- der certain circus i, the greal power which enables os to repair the damag ]t does this through its action on the ganglionic nervous Bystem and blood. Upon the lung*i no remedy lias a more powerful and profound action, and well baa it Bhown the beauties of specific medication in pneumonic dis- eases, especially in the second Btage, typhoid form, with gray hepatization and purulent infiltration. Upon thi llood } it completely extinguishes and destroys its vitality, producing blood-metamor- phoses, which result in hemorrhages, either by ecchymosifl into the tissues, or by exudation into the cavities. Upon the mazill&rj) fames, Phosphorus spends a large share of its action ; attacking first the peri- osteum, producing first periostosis, which soon PHOSPHORUS. 187 passes on to the bone, causing complete caries and necrosis. Grand Characteristics. Tall, slender people, with fair skin, san- guine nervous temperament, sensitive disposi- tion, quick and lively perceptions. It is especially suited to fevers, where death seems inevitable, in consequence of the deep- seated injury inflicted upon the vital forces; and to acute, and subacute, and chronic dis- eases of the brain, jaws, teeth, lungs, stomach, intestines, liver, kidneys, sexual organs, and blood. " Sensation of weakness and emptiness in the abdomen ; this distresses and aggravates all the other symptoms. " — G. " Belching up large quantities of wind after eating." — G. "Very sleepy after meals, especially after dinner." — G. " Sharp, cutting pains in the bowels, some- times with sour vomiting." — G. " Stools are long, narrow, hard, and very difficult to expel."— G. " Profuse, watery diarrhoea, pouring away as if from a hydrant." — Raue. " Sexual desire almost irresistibly strong." — G. 388 PHOSPHORT Tightness across the chest, with a dry. t cough; in pneumonia, rusty sputa. Cold feet and legs. Occasional attacks of profuse hemorrha_ " Fearfulness, as if something were creeping out of every corner." — G. "Anxiety during thunder-storms." — H LASS. "Great depression at twilight/ 1 — G, Clairvoyance ; laughing against the will ; very sleepy during menstruation and after eating. 4 * Loss of hearing, with cold extremities." — G. "Deprivation of sight, with great dilatation of the pupils, and darting pains in the e balk Attacks of sudden U indues- : objects appeal- veiled. "Small bald spot over the ear." — DouoLi "Hemicrania; the forehead or occiput is swollen ; touching the swollen part causes the most excruciating pain." "Face semi-transparent, like polished ivory." — Hemfel. " Tongue parched, dry, cracked, and covered black, or glazed."— Hill and Hint. "Thirst and dryness of the mouth, with great tympanitis of the stomach, and mucous enteritis, with complete prostration of the gan- PHOSPHORUS. 189 glionic system, with typhoid condition, dry heat of skin, sallow complexion, cold extremi- ties," &c. " Constipation ; the feces being slender, long, narrow, dry, tough, and hard, like a dog's; voided with difficulty."— H. " Chronic, painless diarrhoea of undigested food, with much thirst for water during the night."— R. " Green and bloody passages ; the anus re- maining constantly open." — Holcombe. Watery diarrhoea in the morning; grains like tallow in the rice-water evacuations. Mucous stools ; the anus remaining open. Thick, turbid, and scanty urine. " Albumen and exudation-cells in the urine." — Hempel. Irresistible desire for sexual intercourse. " Impotence from sexual abuse." — Hempel. Nocturnal emissions without dreams. Discharge of prostatic juice, during hard stools. " Profuse menstruation, with sexual excite- ment,"— G. Fistulous openings and abcesses of the breast. Profuse, smarting, corrosive leucorrhoea. 11 Leucorrhoea, acrid, drawing blisters." — Lippe. 190 niosriiORUS. Fatty degeneration of the liver, with malign riant jaundice, and a weak, none sensation in the abdomen. " Cannot talk on account of pain in larvnx." —II. Green mucus in the not u Dry, tickling cough in the evening, with tightness across the chest; expectoration in the morning. 91 — II. "Cough worse coming from the warm room into the cold air." — II. u Pain in chest, with coughing; relieved by external pressure." — II. Hoarseness, with loss of voice; worse in evening. Dry, tickling cough; worse evening! Capillary bronchitis; severe and exhaustive cough. Tearing, irritating cough, with expectora- tion of mucus, pus, and Mood. Pneumonia, with sanguineous infiltration of the parenchyma, and red hepatization ; fa livid; hrickdust expectoration. " Trembling of the whole body while cough- ing." " Great emaciation." — Liitk. "Profuse hemorrhages; pouring out freely, then ceasing for some time." — Kait.. Degeneration and liquefaction of the brain CISTUS CANADENSIS. 191 and spinal cord, producing complete paralysis of motion and sensation. " Hemiplegia from apoplexy, with formica- tion in the paralyzed limb." — Hempel. Sexual abuse, producing dorsal consumption, trembling, imbecility, mania, epileptic fits, and impaired digestion. Typhus, with paralysis impending. Fistulous ulcers, with callous edges, secret- ing a thin, foul pus, and of a blue appearance. Slight wounds bleed much. — Hahnemann. Dr. Sauer uses Phosphor oil, in the worst forms of croup, to the throat. CISTUS CANADENSIS. Bock Rose. Acts especially upon the lymphatic and glandu- lar system ; also upon the throat, nose, eyes, and ears. Grand Characteristics. Adapted to scrofulous subjects, with swelling and suppuration of glands, especially of the throat ; with great sensitiveness to cold air. " Diarrhoea after eating fruit ; after drinking coffee; thin, hot, yellow; worse from midnight till noon." — Lippe. " Coldness, of the tongue, — in the throat, — in the stomach, — in the chest, and in the ab- domen. Cold feet."— F. 192 SARSAPARILLA — BAH€ UIXARIA CAHADUf SAESAPARILLA. r. Acts through the ganglionic system, upon the kidneys and lymphati m. Grand Ch&racterirtit "Urine either too often, copious and pale, or scanty, slimy, flaky, clayey, sandy." — H. "Much pain at the conclusion of passing urine, almost unbearable with women, also with men." — (i. "He lias to gel up two or three times in the night to urinate.* 1 — Bering. Frequent discharge of pale copious urin Obstinate constipation, with i to uri- nai Peeling as if the bowels would be pressed out during stool. u Pain of tips of fingers on pressure, as if ul- cerated, or as if salt were put into the wound." —II. "Great emaciation ; the skin becomes shriv- elled, or it lies in folds." — Liiti:. SANGTTINARIA CANADENSIS. Blood Hoot. Acts especially upon the mucous membrane of the lungs ; also affects powerfully the stomach and SANGUINARIA CANADENSIS. 193 liver; slightly the motor and sentient nervous system. Grand Characteristics. Tough, rusty-colored sputa, in the second and third stage of pneumonia. " Troublesome, harassing cough, with mark- ed inflammatory action, where you are uncer- tain whether you are dealing with a chronic bronchitis or an incipient tuberculosis." — Hol- C0A1BE. " Breath and sputa smell bad, even to the patient." Excessive dyspnoea. " Circumscribed redness of the cheeks in the afternoon ; patient lies on his back ; the pulse is small and quick." — H. " Roundish or oval, whitish, and raised patches on the mucous membrane of the nose, mouth, prepuce, and anus." "Sick headache. Pain commences in the back of the head, rises and spreads over the head, and settles down over the right eye, with nausea and vomiting ; has to be in the dark and perfectly still." — H. Annoying flushings at the climacteric age. 17 194 KALI CARBONICUM. KALI CARBONICUM. Carbonate of J Acts upon the mucous membranes, especially affecting the mucous membrane of the respiratory organs; also atiects the genito-urinary organs. Grand Characteristics* Distressing, darting, stitching, shooting, cut- ting pains. ••Stitching pains in the right side, com- mencing in the hack and going through the chest, which arc worse at night, when lying down or rising." — II. X. Maktix. M.D. "Stitches in the liver; worse in the cold air." — Maktix. u Dry, hard oough, especially aggrava about 3 a.m. 1 ' — Martin. Dry cough, night sweats, hectic feverj some- times expectorates bloody pus. " Great heavy aching weight in the small of the hack, especially during menstruation. " Menses bad pungent odor, and very acrid, excoriating the thighs, with great backache and sticking pains in the abdomen. "Feels very badly a week before menstrua- tion."— G. u Yellow leucorrhoea, with much burning and itching." — G. KALI CARBONICUM. 195 " Constipation, with distress one or two hours before stool, with colicky stitching pains." — G. " Intense thirst, morning, noon, and night." — G. "He talks of pigeons flying in the room, which he tries to catch with his hands." — Raue. " Great aversion to being alone." — G. " Great dryness of the hair." — G. Herpes, becoming moist on scratching. " A blowing noise and a louder second tick of the pulmonary artery is heard." — Kafka. " When touched ever so slightly on his feet, he jerks them up much frightened." — Raue. " Dropsical affections, and paralysis of old people." — Lippe. " Dry, hard cough, at 4 a.m., with sticking pains in the left side."— H. M. M. " Swelling over the upper eyelid, in the morning looking like a little bag." — J. B. Bell. " Stinging pains in joints and inner parts." — Lippe. All the symptoms get regularly worse about three in the morning. Adapted to aged people inclined to be fleshy. Colic in lying-in women, characterized by stitching pains. — F. " Stitches are the most characteristic symp- toms."— F. 196 KALI BICHROMICUM. KALI BICHROMICUM. Bichromate of I Acts through the ganglionic m upon the mucous membranes, the glandular system (liver and kidneys), fibrous tissue and skin. This remedy has a powerful and peculiar ef upon the mucous membranes, affecting more especi- ally those portions which an d with colum- nar, ciliated epithelium; these are found in the nares (excepting that portion to which is distrib- uted the olfactory), Larynx, trachea, body of the uterus, and Fallopian tubes. It so changes the functions of the mucous follicles, as to cause them to secrete ■ tough, f, ropy mucus, capable of being drawn out into tine thread.-, two or th feet long. Hughee itionof Kali bichromicum on the mu should be compared with that of Arsenic, of Mercury, and of Tartar emetic. It causes a marked increase in the quantity oi mu- cus formed, winch mucus is sometimes tough and stringy, and sometimes degenerates into pus. Higher grades of the inflammatory process i seen in the respiratory mucous membrane, and (when the poison has been swallowed) along the alimentary tract. In the former region, false mem- branes have been formed; in the latter, the ten- dency is towards ulceration. The portions of the mucous membranes chiefly affected, are the mouth, throat, cardiac portion of the stomach, duodenum. KALI BICHROMICUM. 197 jejunum, and rectum ; the whole respiratory mem- brane, including the conjunctiva, and the ureters." Upon the liver and kidneys it produces congestion, going on to the stage of softening ; and exudation of plastic lymph. Upon t) . about the joints and the periosteum, it has a marked and powerful influ- ence. It also affects the cartilages, especially that of the nose, which it has entirely destroyed. Upon the skin it causes papules, pustules, and ulcers. Grand Characteristics. Especially adapted to fat, light-haired peo- ple, and to scrofulous, catarrhal, and syphilitic diseases. Discharges from the nose, mouth, throat, stomach, vagina, or any of the mucous mem- branes, of a tough, stringy mucus, which sticks to the parts, and can be drawn out into strings three feet Ions. Cough, with expectoration of tough, stringy mucus, which sticks to the throat, mouth, and lips; the cough is choking and croupy; worse in the morning. True membranous croup. Chronic hoarseness. Especially in chronic bronchitis, with tough, stringy expectoration, and burning pain in the trachea and bronchi. 17- 198 KALI BICHROMICUM. Fetid discharge from the nose. Caries of the bones of the nose. "Profuse mucous discharge from the nose; at first it is clear water; lastly, thick, tough mucus; finally, the nostrils become filled with hard, elastic plugs. " — Hughes. (Clinkers.) Perfect loss of smell. "For chronic cold in the head, there is no medicine like it." — HUGHES. Catarrhal and strumous ophthalmia. Tongue coated with a thick, yellow felt Chronic Inflammation and ulceration of the pharynx, especially if of a syphilitic origin. " Pseudo-membranoue lesions of a diphther- itic nature, affecting the respiratory mucous sur- faces, the naivs. superior portion of the pharynx, larynx, trachea, and bronchial tuhes: the de- posits are firm in texture, apt to be develop d into casts, which are cartilaginous, or pearly in appearance, elastic, fibrinous, and more securely attached to the suhjacent integument*" — LlJD- LAM. Gastric catarrh, with vomiting. Ulceration of the stomach and duodenum. "In chronic intestinal ulceration, it vies with mercury ." — Hughes. " Dull pains in the right hypoehondrium, es- pecially when limited to a small spot, with whitish stools." — Hughes. KALI HYDRIODICUM. 199 Bloody stools, or mucus and blood. Deep red urine ; complete suppression of urine, with dull pains in the small of the back. " Prolapsus uteri, seemingly caused by hot weather." — G. " Menses too soon."— G. Yellow, ropy leucorrhoea, that can be drawn out into long strings. In pustular diseases of the skin, it will be found of great value. " Chronic rheumatism of a cold variety." — Hughes. " Periosteal and syphilitic rheumatism." — Hughes. Large ulcers, with dark centre, and over- hanging edges. Solid eruption, like measles, over the whole body. KALI HYDRIODICUM. Iodide of Potassium. Through the vegetative nervous system, it espe- cially affects the mucous membranes, acting more powerfully upon that of the respiratory tract and kidneys ; it also has a profound influence upon the glandular and lymphatic systems. And lastly, the blood is more or less affected by this remedy. Grand Characteristics. Especially adapted to scrofulous people, who 200 KALI HYDRIODICUM. have been thoroughly saturated with mercury; to secondary and tertiary syphilis, and to chronic rheumatism. lias disease of the mucous membrane of the mouth, respiratory organs, or kidnej Congestion of the brain, from suppression and habitual catarrhal discharge from the no u Complete blindness, from effusion of water on the brain, with dilated pupils. Btaring watery eyes, frequent crying out, and vomiting." — Frank. (Edema of the eyelids. Chronic angina faucium, with ulceration of the velum, in scrofulous subjects. Heal in the whole mouth, with swelling " Violent ptyalism, with irregular superficial ulcerations of mucous lining of the mouth ; the surface looks white, as if covered with milk." — Hempel. Fetid odor from the mouth. GumS recede from the teeth, which are Id u Impossible to open the mouth. v — HEMPKL. u Impressions of the teeth are left on the swollen tongue. 91 — IIkmitl. "Degeneration of the mucous membrane of the stomach, with vomiting, heartburn, emaci- ation, and diarrhoea." — Hempel. Enuresis at night, in scrofulous children. Profuse flow of urine. ELECTRICITY. 201 " Gonorrhoea of long standing, with discharge of green, thick mucus, without pain, or constant urging to urinate ; very sensitive and irritable urethra." — Hempel. Mucous discharge from the urethra in both sexes. " Red, swollen nose, with constant discharge of a watery, acrid, colorless liquid. " — Hempel. " Watery nasal discharge, that feels cool, and causes no excoriation." — Hughes. " Painful sneezing, profuse lachrymation, in- jected conjunctiva, and throbbing distress in the frontal sinus." — Hempel. Chronic catarrh of the frontal sinus, in scrof- ulous people. " Dry, hacking cough, afterwards followed by copious green expectoration." — Hempel. " Mucous phthisis, with purulent expectora- tion, exhausting night sweats, and loose stools." — H. The best-known antidote for all the bad ef- fects of mercury. " Drinking cold milk aggravates all her symptoms." — G. ELECTRICITY. Electric Fluid. Affects both the ganglionic and cerebro-spinal nervous systems ; especially affecting the nerves of motion and sensation. There are two currents of 202 ELECTRICITY. Electricity; one that flows out is called positi and the point of the substance or body with which it is connected is called the positive pole. The cur- rent that flows inward is called negative, and its point of connection with the positive pole is called the negative pole. The positive, or outgoing cur- rent, produces heat, relaxation, and ezpai the muscles become relaxed and expanded, and the nervous system prostrated. The inward, or negative pole's action, is dire opposite to that of the positive; it produces ( \city % contraction, and > nt ; the muscular and nervous systems become greatly stimulated by its action. I have seen such wonderful cures of old skin dis- eases and ulcers, by Electricity, I cannot hut lievc it does this by its action on the vegetative Of ganglionic nervous By stem; hut sonic claim that these cures arc made through its chemical action, "by which it is supposed to decompose and resolve into more simple components, unhealthy formations and secretions; either changing them into health- ful secretions, which are absorbed or excreted, or entirely dissipating them. It is to this action of galvanism that the speedy and wonderful cures of tumors, boils, cataracts, felons, warts, etc., is at- tributed." I must dissent from this. These cure- are not chemical, but dynamic, similar to those made by Thuja, Nitric acid, &c. " In health, each nerve is a perfect magnet, p< sessing the positive and negative forces properly ELECTRICITY. 203 balanced, the brain and spinal cord being the nerv- ous centre. The brain, in health, is in a positive condition, and the current flows from it ; that is, from the centre to the surface. In disease, the electrical equilibrium of the system is more or less disturbed. In certain diseases the condition of the nervous system, throughout a portion or the whole of the body, is too highly exalted, and needs to be depressed, soothed, calmed. In certain other dis- eases there is a depressed state of the nerves, re- . quiring stimulating, exciting, elevating, to bring them into proper action. Xow, we can, by sending artificial Electricity in certain directions, according to the indications, cure these diseased conditions. General Treatment — If there is much excitement of the nervous system and congestion of blood to the head, the positive electrode should be gently passed over the upper surface of the body, com- mencing at the head, while the negative electrode, in a wet sponge, is applied at the coccyx ; or the negative electrode may be placed in a vessel of warm water, in with the feet. If there is a pros- trated condition of the nervous system, the elec- trodes should be reversed, using the positive at the base of the spine or feet, and the negative to the head and upper surface of the body. For the use of Electricity in specific diseases, the reader is referred to larger works on this sub- ject.* * Garratt's is the largest, and also the best. 204 CAUST1CUM. In surgery, Electricity is being used as affair caustic, with wonderful utility. A fine platinum wire is made instantly white hot, by means of a current of Electricity sent through it from a bat- tery of sufficient power. This fine wire can be thrown around small tumors in the larynx, nasal passages, and places difficult of a and witli a little traction, the tumor is removed without hem- orrhage, and but little pain. For the removal of hemorrhoids and polypi, it is the remedy par cellence. In hemorrhages, where the bleeding ves- sels cannot be Ligated, the galvano-caustic will be found just the remedy. CAUSTICUM. Kali ( 'austicum. Acts upon the vegetative nervous system, espr.-i- ally affecting the respiratory and urinary organs; also, slightly affects the motor nervous system and skin. Grand Characteristics. " Cannot keep the upper eyelids up; they are nearly paralyzed, and will fall down over the eyes." — G. " Sudden and frequent loss of sight, with a sensation of a film before the Q\v*" — G. " Great melancholy ; looks at everything on the dark side, especially during menstruation." " Excessive sympathy for others." — G. Very yellow complexion. CAUSTICUM. 205 "Burning, itching in the face, discharging an acrid fluid, which forms crusts when dry- ing." — Raue. " Neuralgia, right side, cheek-bone to mas- toid process; worse at night/' — Raue. Facial paralysis. "Constant sensation, as if lime was being burned in the stomach, with flatulence, water- brash." — Raue. " Pressure and fulness in the abdomen, as if it would burst; nourishment greatly increases the pain." — G. " Pains in the abdomen, causing her to bend double ; greatly aggravated by the least nour- ishment, or tightening her clothes." — G. " Obstinate constipation, with varices in the anus." — G. Very apt to have hemorrhoids, which are made intolerable by walking. " Painful pustules near the anus, discharg- ing pus, blood, and serum." — Raue. " Spasms of the rectum ; preventing walk- ing."-G. Involuntary urination when coughing and at night. " Urine loaded with lithic acid and lithates, with great debility." — Hughes. " Difficult, frequent, and painful urination." — Hughes. 18 206 RUMEX CRISPUS. " Menses too early and too abundant; after its cessation, a little blood is passed from time to time for many days, which smells badly." — G. " It is the best medicine I know of for ca- tarrhal aphonia.'' — Hughes. Chronic, morning hoarseness, with dry cough. " Weakness of voice from over-exertion. v — Hughes. Phlegm in the throat that cannot be hawked up, which produces nausea. Cough, with involuntary emissions of urine. Sour perspiration. Chronic eczema. Said to 1)0 very useful in small-pox. Glandular indurations. Caries of bon< Secondary and tertiary syphilis. Adapted to weak, scrofulous people, with yellow complexions, and to diseases of the respiratory organs and kidneys. RUMEX CRISPUS. Yellow Dock. Acts through the vegetative nervous system, upon the respiratory mucous membrane, more es- pecially affecting that of the larynx ; also affei CARBO VEGETABILIS. 207 the alimentary mucous membrane, skin, and lym- phatics. Grand Characteristics. "Great exaltation of the mucous membrane of the larynx and trachea," — Dunham. u ; Violent, incessant, dry, fatiguing cough, with little expectoration; aggravated by pres- sure, talking, and especially by inspiring, cool air. and at night." — Dunham. " Sense of excoriation behind the sternum." u The left chest is more often affected than the right." — Dunham. " Brown, watery, morning diarrhoea/' — Small. CARBO VEGETABILIS, Vegetable Charcoal. Through the vegetative nervous svstem, it af- fects the mucous membranes, blood, and skin. Grand Cliaracteristics. Great foulness of the secretions. Especially adapted to adynamic diseases, with much putridity. " Patient wants more air; wants to be fanned all the time." — G. Great prostration, with Hippocratic face, cold breath, and cold knees in bed. 208 CARBO VEGETABILIS. Gums bleed readily, and are spongy. Sensation as if the oesophagus was contracted. " The most innocent food disagrees." — G. " Frequent eructations, which afford only temporary relief." — G. "When eating or drinking, sensation as if the stomach or abdomen would burst.'' — G. " Much belching of sour, rancid food." — G. Desire for acids. "She eructates involuntarily a mass of tough, glairy mucus, which runs continually from her mouth." — Dr. Goullon. "Profuse and constant salivation of stringy saliva." — J. B. Bell. Burning distress in the stomach. "Cardialgia in nursing-women." — G. " Stomach and bowels greatly distended with flatulence; the gas is generated by the walls of the viscera, rather than from fermentation of the ingesta." — Hughes. " Slimy, fecal diarrhoea in scrofulous peo- ple."— G. Tendency to diarrhoea, rather than to con- stipation. Stools of foul blood and mucus. "Stool tough, scanty; not properly coher- ing; breaks off; afterwards difficult of expul- sion." — G. STANNUM. 209 u Unceasing emissions of flatulence by the rectum." — G. Especially liable to hemorrhoids; they are large and blue. " Morning leucorrhoea; discharges very acrid, excoriating the parts." — G. " Aphthse of the vulva, with much itching, heat, and redness." — G. " Extraordinary rush of voluptuous thoughts." — G. Frequent emissions ; onanism during sleep. u Great and long-lasting hoarseness." " Greenish, fetid expectoration." — Jahr. Ulcers, secreting a foul, ichorous pus, emit- ting an offensive odor. " Icy coldness of the parts; they have a livid, purple look. (Gangraena senilis.) " Inveterate herpes. " Lymphatic swellings, with suppuration and burning pains." — Lippe. STANNUM. Tin. Through the vegetative nervous system, it acts upon the digestive, sexual, and respiratory organs. It also has a powerful prostrating action upon the ' cerebrospinal system. In diseases where Stannum is indicated, one of the most marked symptoms 18* 210 STANNUM. will be found to be great prostration of the animal nervous system. Grand Characteristics. u The pains commence lightly, increase grad- ually to a very high degree, and decre gain as slowly." — HAHNEMANN. "Neuralgia of the head; begins lightly and increases gradually to its highest point, and then gradually declines. 91 — HAHNEMANN. "Goes up stairs well, but becomes very taint on coming down." — G. Insatiable hunger. Vomiting of blood. 11 Pressure in the abdomen relieves the pains when the child is crying with colic ; relief at once obtained by carrying it with its abdo- men resting upon the point of the nure shoulder." — G. Children are frequently afflicted with worms. Symptoms not relieved by stool. Excited sexual desire. "Scratching the arm produces an intolerable sensation of pleasure in the genital organs, which extends to the uterus, and produces a real emission." — Teste. " Her distress of mind ceases as soon as the menses begin to flow."— G. STANNUM. 211 " During menstruation has hard pain in the malar bone." — G. '• Leucorrhoea, with marked loss of strength: the weakness seeming to proceed from the chest."— G. " Labor - pains produce great exhaustion, from weakness in the chest; is all out of breath; cannot answer questions, feels so weak."— G. " Reading aloud or talking produces great exhaustion." — G. " If she has a cough, with expectoration, the expectoration causes a weakness in the chest."— G. Expectoration of a sweetish taste. — F. " Profuse, greenish expectoration." — Doug- las. Chronic bronchitis, with profuse, greenish, expectoration, and great weakness. " Feels so weak she can hardly sit down ; she must drop down suddenly, but can get up very well." — G. Great weakness of the legs ; they are not able to support the body. The great prostration of the cerebro-spinal nervous system is remarkable, compared to the slight disturbance of the vegetative sphere. 212 CARBO ANIMALIS. CARBO ANIMALIS. Animal CI Acts, through the vegetative nervous system, upon the glandular system. dig< and skin ; also produces great prostration of the anii nervous system. Grand (luiractcristi, u Low-spirited and desponding." — t" Mercury so irritate these peripheral nerves, as to cause constantly increased secretion of saliva or bile. Vwy large doses carry the irrita- tion beyond the secreting-point, and then we have acute congestion, diminished secretion, icterus, in- flammation, and organic changes, such as profuse salivation. u The tongue sometimes projects from the mouth, in consequence of its greatly augmented bulk, and is covered with a thick, Boft, yellow- white fur, extremely offensive to the smell; the parotid and submaxillary glands become much enlarged, and painful; the patient cannot open his jaws; swallows with great difficulty and pain, and is wholly unable to articulate ; the head requi] to be supported on a pillow, and the saliva runs in streams from the mouth ; the odor of the breath i3 insupportably fetid, and sometimes scents the whole apartment ; ulceration of the gums, cheeks, MERCURIUS. 231 and tongue takes place, with occasionally copious and exhausting hemorrhage ; the teeth loosen and fall out ; even gangrene of the soft parts and ne- crosis of the alveolar processes sometimes occur ; and in not a few instances, death has taken place, or recovery has been attended with revolting or very inconvenient deformity. One of the greatest dangers is from hemorrhage, though a fatal result may also be owing to the joint effect of gangrene and a depraved state of the blood. Xot only is the salivary secretion increased, sometimes enormously, but there is, perhaps, not one of the secretory func- tions which is not liable to be similarly affected, though rarely in an equal degree ; the hepatic se- cretion is often energetically stimulated ; a true cholera morbus, with copious vomiting and purg- ing of bile." — "Wood. It also affects the pancreas in a manner analo- gous to its action on the salivary glands. The in- creased secretion of bile, and of the epithelial cells of the digestive apparatus, cause watery and bilious stools. But if the dose is a large one, the stools, instead of being watery, are mucus and blood, or pure blood, with violent tormina. Upon the mucous membranes, it produces destruc- tive ulceration, especially of the mouth and fauces ; small doses greatly augment the secretion of mucus. It seems to affect the colon and rectum more than the small intestines. Upo?i the skill, it produces eruptions of the vesic- ular and pustular type ; the parts are much swollen 232 MERCURIUS. and raw. Sometimes it produces profuse perspira- tion. Upon the nervous system, it especially affects the ganglionic nervous system, destroying its nutritive force to its very foundations. Also affects the motor nerves, producing tremors. Upon the osseous tissue, it especially affects the periosteum, producing periostitis, and caries of the bones. Upon the serous membranes, il dally affi the peritoneum, producing inflammation, and effu- sion of serum into its sac. It also slightly affift the arachnoid membrane. Upon the blood: Dr. Headland says: " By some inscrutable, chemical power, whose agency we know nothing of, it is able to decompose the blood ; by some destructive agency, it deprives it of one- third of its fibrin, one-seventh of its allmmen, one- third or more of its globules, and at the same til loads it with a fetid, fatty matter, the product of decomposition." " Hence we have, as a result of the diminished fibrin, ecchymoses and hemorrhages ; as the sign of the absent corpuscles, the anaemia of which we have read in our Watson, and the peculiar fetor of the secretions." — Hughes. Mercury is the great antidote for the sy])hilitic miasm, or poison, and has cured millions of cases, both primary and secondary in form. Its action upon the genito-urinary organs very closely resem- bles that of syphilis. MERCURIUS. 233 Grand Characteristics. All the symptoms are worse at night, and in damp, rainy weather. Much perspiration accompanies most com- plaints, but does not relieve. " Cold, clammy sweats on the thighs and legs at night." — G. " The parts are much swollen, with a raw, sore feeling ; worse at night." — G. Glandular swellings. Hepatic diseases, with much jaundice. Very fetid breath. " The gums bleed, and are inclined to ulcer- ate about the teeth." — G. Teeth sore and loose ; some of them are too long. Odontalgia ; worse at night, with periosteal inflammation and ulceration. Teeth all feel on edge* Profuse flow of saliva. Saltish, metallic taste, Ked tongue, with much burning and intense thirst. " Moist tongue, with great thirst." — G. " Swelling of the tongue, which is covered with a whitish, thick; tenacious coat, that is detached in shape of little skins."— Hahne- mann. 20* 234 MERCURIUS. " Grayish ulcers on the inner surface of the lips, cheeks, gums, tongue, palate." — Hahne- mann. "Ulceration of the tonsils." — Hahnemann. " False membranes; grayish, thick, with shred-like borders, adherent or free, but of a marked consistence when they are attached." — Hahnemann. Salivary glands greatly swollen, with ex< sive secretion of saliva, and breath extremely fetid. " Very sensitive about the pit of the stomach and abdomen." — G. Inflammation of the liver, with great ten- derness of the liver, and much jaundice. "Much colic; relieved by a bloody stool, with tenesmus." — G. " Faint, sickish pain in the abdomen, en- tirely relieved by a muco-sanguinolent stool, with severe and prolonged tenesmus." — G. 11 Mucous or muco-sanguinolent stools, with severe and prolonged tenesmus/' — G. "Yellow, or mucous, and bloody or dark- green stools, with tenesmus." — G. For mucous and serous diarrhoeas in chil- dren, Mercurius dulcis is the specific. Urine scanty and red, with strong smell. Urine highly albuminous. Suppression of urine. MERCURIUS PROTO-JODATUS. 235 "Prolapsus of the vagina, with sensation of great rawness ; worse at night." — G. " Itching, burning, smarting, corroding leu- corrhoea, with sensation of rawness in the va- gina; discharges of flocks of pus and mucus, large as hazelnuts ; worse at night." — G. " Pain in the mammae, as if they would ul- cerate at every menstrual period." — G. " Ascarides creep out of the anus, and can be seen on the perineum and buttocks, even at night in bed." — G. " Lumbricoides escape easily and freely, and the abdomen is hard and distended." — G. " Watery vesicles and blotches ; turn yellow and maturate." — G. Ulcerations and eruptions are swollen, and have a raw appearance. Adapted to bilious fevers and hepatic dis- eases, in lymphatic or scrofulous temperaments, and especially to syphilitic diseases. Merc. cor. is especially adapted to the dis- eases of men, and Merc, vivus, sol., and dulcis, to those of women and children. MERCURIUS PROTO-JODATUS. Iodide of Mercury. Affects especially the lymphatic and glandular system, particularly of the throat, including its mucous membrane. Its action upon the system is 236 MERCURIUS PROTO-JODATUS. somewhat similar to Mercury and Iodine, but not exactly similar to either. It affects more or less the whole organism. AVood and Bache say: "It should never be given at the same time with Iodide of Potassium, which converts it immediately into Biniodide and Metallic Mercury." Grand Characfrristi* s. Its grand sphere of usefulness is in scrofu- lous diseases of the glandular and lymphatic system; in diphtheritic affections and second- ary syphilis. "It is the only form of Mercury that ought to be used in induration of the parotid and cervical glands and tonsils, when these condi- tions attend scarlatina and measles. 91 — Dr. Freleigh. " Diseases of the glands, acute or chronic; conglobate or conglomerate; swelling of the parotids and tonsils during scarlatina." — Dr. G. W. Cook. "Enlargement, engorgement, or torpor of the liver or spleen during lexers, particularly those of a typhoid type." " Enlargement of the inguinal glands and testicles during gonorrhoea or lues." — Cook. " Tabes mesenterica ; ganglionitis." — Cook. " Excessively tired feeling of the whole body, especially of the limbs; indisposition to do any- MERCUMUS PROTO-JODATUS. 237 thing, and desire to lie down, with dull, ach- ing pains in forehead and bones of the face." " Always worse during rest; better when exercising actively." " Worse in a warm room ; better in the open air. " Symptoms disappear during care and anx- iety; soon as relieved, symptoms appear more violently." Dizziness while riding and when rising from a chair. Dull headache, affecting the whole head. " Neuralgia of the left side of the head." — Blakely. " Sharp, throbbing, boring pains, from with- in outwards, deep in the left ear." Soreness of the bones of the face, with head- ache. " The headache is always on the top of the head or right side." Great soreness and stiffness of the neck. " Great deal of mucus in the nose ; much of it descends through the posterior nares into the throat." " Polypus of the nose." — Hempel. " Thick, yellow coating at the base of the tongue; the tip and edges bright -red." — Blakely. 238 MERCURIUS PROTO-JODATUS. Tongue coated with a thick, yellow, dirty coating. Teeth feel too long ; very painful when closing the jaws. "The functions of the mucous follicles of the entire cavity, including those at the root of the epiglottis, are so disordered as to cai them to yield an opaque, viscid, and tough substance, which is sometimes expectorated with great difficulty. 91 — Cook. "The surface of the mucous memhrane is raw. the epithelium being entirely destroyed." — G. AV. Cook. 11 Pseudo-membranes located upon the ton- sils, tongue, uvula, velum palati, pharynx, or some portion of the alimentary tract." — LuD- LAM. u The deposit should he of limited extent, of feeble organization, transparent, pellicular, al- buminous, and easily detached." — R. LuDLAM. "To those cases in which there is hut a feeble effort at a reorganization of false mem- brane, when it has been removed or dropped off spontaneously." — LUDLAM, It especially affects mucous membranes cov- ered with squamous epithelium. u The buccal, submaxillary glands, and ton- sils, are enlarged, inflamed, painful, throbbing, with abundant flow of tough saliva. r — Cook. ARUM TRIPHYLLUM. 239 Great thirst for water in the evening. Pain in the liver, with dizziness all day ; the pain proceeds from the right to the left, pro- ducing dizziness and nausea. Colic, followed by soft, yellowish-brown stools. Copious, very thin, brown stools, accompa- nied by froth and wind; preceded by cutting pains in the abdomen. Stools in the daytime are copious, soft, and of a dark or light-brown color ; the stools at night are scanty, hard, and black. Stools every evening about 10 p.m. Urine dark, red, and copious. Sharp pains in the chest. Very troublesome itching over the whole body. Deep bone-pains, especially at night. ARUM TRIPHYLLUM. Indian Turnip. Affects the mucous membrane of the digestive apparatus, especially that of the tongue, buccal cavity, and fauces. The fresh plant is an acrid poison, causing violent inflammation of the buccal mucous membrane, tongue, and fauces ; rapid tume- faction of the tissues takes place, with a feeling as if a thousand little needles were being run into the tongue and lips, superficial ulceration, acute stoma- 240 ARUM TRIPHYLLUM. litis, salivation, oedema of the glottis, vomiting, diarrhoea, and convulsions. It also slightly affects the respiratory organs and kidneys. Gran d Ch a ra ctcrixt ics. " Discharge of burning ichorous fluid from the nose, excoriating the nostrils and upper lip." — Lippe. "Nose stopped up; can only breathe with open mouth. " — Lippe. "The corners of the mouth, buccal cavity, and even the throat, become raw and sore, emitting blood ; so sore, in fact, that the pa- tient refuses all food and drink, in consequence of the Buffering occasioned by mastication or swallowing." — (i. " Throat sore ; feels as if excoriated ; cannot swallow." — Lippe. " Excessive salivation, saliva acrid." — Lippe. "Raw condition of the mouth and throat; putrid odor emanating from the mouth, and if it be a case of fever, the fever is very intern The thirtieth potency, or higher, in water, will speedily produce a gratifying change, and the patient will advance rapidly to recovery ." — G. " Swelling of the submaxillary glands/' — Lippe. " Tongue sore, red, papillaa elevated." — Lippe. IODIUM. 241 " Frequent discharge of abundant, pale urine." — Lippe. "Hoarseness; voice uncertain, and chang- ing continually." — Lippe. " An excellent remedy in clergyman's sore- throat." — Lippe. "Accumulation of mucus in the trachea." — Lippe. " Exanthema like scarlet rash ; the skin peels off afterwards." — Lippe. In the higher dilutions it is especially valu- able in scarlet rash. Dr. Lippe says, " It should not be given in low potency or repeated often, as bad effects often follow." u After a long paroxysm of cough, he raises mucus, traversed with yellow threads." — J. S. Douglas, M.D. IODIUM. Iodine. Acts through the ganglionic vegetative system upon the glandular system, especially affecting the thyroid and mesenteric glands, lacteal vessels, liver, pancreas, mammae, ovaries, and testicles. It also affects the mucous and serous membranes, skin, respiratory organs, heart, head, the glandular or secreting portion of the uterus, stomach, blood, and the motor and sentient nervous system. 21 242 iodium. Upon the glandular sytfem, Dr. Hughes says, k - Its true action is one of a depressant character, exerted upon the lacteal vessels and mesenteric glan Giving a sluggish taking up of the fatty elements of the food by the lacteals, and an insufficient elaboration of their contents by the mesenteric glands, and we have at once a most important channel of nutrition choked up and rendered use- less. The fatty aliments being those taken up by the lacteals, the emaciation becomes more rapidly apparent than if it had been the albuminous con- stituents of the diet whose Bupply was cut off. The action on the glands, of which the emaciation of Iodine is thus a prominent instance, displays itself also in tin* salivary glands, the liver, the glands of the generative Bystem, and the thyroid. Salivation is produced by Iodine, more frequently than by any other drug >ave Mercury. " Upon (he glands oftfi a depressing and atonizing influence. The mamma and testes have more than once wasted and disap- peared under its use ; and a diminution of the func- tional energy of the ovaries makes it probable that these are similarly affected. It has caused barren- ness in young females previously prolific, and in full iodism the menses are commonly suppi less often becoming profuse and watery." No remedy has a greater aetion upon the thyroid gland. It affects the whole of the mnroas membranes, but acts more especially upon that of the respira- tory tract. iodium. 243 Upon the skin it produces pustules and an ery- thematous eruption. The blood it causes to become thin and watery. Upon the motor system it causes trembling of the extremities. In the sentient, we have illusions of the sense of touch, partial loss of vision, and deaf- ness. It has a great influence over the action and nutrition of the heart. Grand Characteristics. Scrofulous people, with alow, cachectic state of the system. " Scrofulous women, with dwindling and fall- ing away of the mammae." — G. " Mammas hang down heavily, and lose their fatness."— G. " Acute pain of the mammae, developed by the inflammation of the uterus ; they are very sore.'— G. " There is a remarkable and unaccountable sense of weakness and loss of breath in going up stairs." — G. " Great weakness during the menses, par- ticularly when going up stairs." — G. " Long-lasting uterine hemorrhages." — G. "Uterine hemorrhage after every stool, with cutting pains in the abdomen, loins, and back."— G. " Premature and too copious menses, with 244 iodium. goitre, dwindling away of the breasts, and great weakness when going up stairs." — G. " Leucorrhoea, corrosive even of the thighs and linen ; w T orse during the menses." — G. " Continual empty eructations, from morn- ing till evening, as if every particle of food was turned into air." — G. "Continual taste of salt in the mouth." — G. " Tabes mesenterica, with rapid emaciation, night sweats, slow fever, dry laryngeal cough, diarrhoea, &c." — Hughes. " Phthisis pulmonaliu, with constant tick- ling and inclination to COUgh, in the windpipe, and under the sternum; expectoration of trans- parent mucus, streaked with blood; morning sweats; emaciation; wasting lever; rapid pulse; diarrhoea; and in females, amenorrhoea." — Hughes. " It appears capable of doing everything, but checking the deposition of fresh tubercle." — Hughes. "Extension of a sore throat along the Eus- tachian tube, causing catarrhal deafness." — Hughes. Membranous croup in healthy subjects. u Chronic congestive headaches and vertigo, especially in old people." — Hughes. Bronchocele from chronic irritation, causing CHLORINE — BROMINE. 245 hypertrophy of the gland. It is the best rem- edy for this disease we have. " Emaciation with good appetite." — Lippe. " Chronic rheumatism in joints without swelling ; worse at night." — Lippe. Bad effects of mercury. Induration and swelling of the uterus, es- pecially affecting cervix uteri. Face, dark-brown color, or paleness alter- nating with redness. CHLORINE. Characteristics not known. It is useful in dis- | eases of the respiratory organs, and putrid, septic diseases. BROMINE. Brominum. Acts especially upon the respiratory organs, skin, glands, and bowels. Affects mostly the left side. Most important in croup. Grand Characteristics. All the symptoms are worse from evening to midnight, and during rest; better during motion. Spasms of the larynx. Suffocating cough, with hoarse, whistling, croupy sound. Impaired respiration, with rattling, wheez- 21* 246 KALI BROMIDUM. ing, and gasping, with false membrane in the trachea. Much rattling of mucus in the larynx ; when coughing, heat of the face. Extensive hepatization of the lower lobes of the lungs. "Colic as if the abdomen would bunt 91 — G. "Loud emissions of wind from the vagina. — G. " Membranous dysmenorrhea." — G. Malignant erysipelas, and boils. "Swelling and induration of glands." — Lute. "Adapted to juvenile subjects, with light hair, blue eves, and fair skin." — G. KALI BROMIDUM. Bromide of I ' />. It especially affectfl the throat and generative organs, lower portion of the Bpinal cord, and gland- ular system. It also attects the cerebrospinal sys- tem, ganglionic system, and respiratory organs. G ra n tl Oh ft ra ct eristics* Anaesthesia of the whole surface, and loss of power of the lower extremities. " Complete anaesthesia of the throat, so that the finger may be carried to the base of the tongue, touch the amygdala or posterior nares, and even tickle the uvula, without inducing AMMONIUM CARBONICUM. 247 any effort at vomiting or deglutition." This may facilitate the use of the laryngoscope in operating on the throat. " Blind, intensely painful varices, with black stools." — Hale. Spermatorrhoea from irritation of the spinal cord, with paralytic symptoms. It is one of my best remedies for this disease. No remedy controls the nightly emissions better than this. Induration of the womb. Epileptic fits from sexual irritation. In spasmodic cough. In long-lasting scrofulous ulcerations, given in the crude form, it is of great value. AMMONIUM CARBONICUM. Carbonate of Ammonia. Acts upon the spinal and ganglionic nervous sys- tems ; through these nearly every organ in the body has its functions increased for a short time ; more especially affecting the lungs, heart, muscular system, secretions of the mucous membranes and skin. It also has the power of liquefying the blood. Grand Characteristics. The moment he falls asleep he is aroused again for want of breath. Face pale. Nose obstructed. 248 PODOPHYLLUM PELTATUM. Vast hemorrhages from the bowels. Tendency to gangrenous ulceration. Urine acrid, excoriating the part- u Violent and acrid leucorrhcea." — G. Menses composed of black clots, premature and abundant. "At every menstrual period di- _es blood from the bowels." — G. Dyspiura from retrocession of an eruption. " Incessant cough, excited by a sensation si of down in the larynx." — BuGHtt. "Adapted to scurvy and spanaunic diseases." — Euohs& Affects the right side of the body more thai the left PODOPHYLLUM PELTATUM. M Acta through the ganglionic dally upon the glandular system of the intestinal canal, and its mucous membrane. Also affects the mus- cles of the bowels. The rectum, small into and stomach arc violently inflamed by its action, accompanied with vomiting, purging, violent colic, dysentery, tenesmus, and prolapsus ani. The he- patic secretion is greatly augmented, urine dark color, &c. Sometimes it has produced salivation. Grand Characteristics. Morning diarrhoea; stools watery and green ; or, they may be natural, but exhaustive. PODOPHYLLUM PELTATUM. 249 Prolapsus ani from debility. "Hemorrhoids, with prolapsus ani and morn- ing diarrhoea/' — G. Severe colic every morning, with stools of blood and green mucus. " Green, sour stools in the morning." — G. " Flatulence during dentition, with green, sour stools in the morning." — G. " Black stools, only in the morning." — Hale. " Severe straining during stool, with emis- sions of much flatulence ; mucous stools, with spots and streaks of blood ; thirst, but no ap- petite." — Dr. E. P. Angel. "Dysenteric diarrhoea, depending upon in- flammatory irritation of the rectum." — Hughes. " Food turns sour, with belching of hot flatus, which is very sour." — Raue. Vomiting, with severe spasms of the stom- ach ; vomits bilious matter, mixed with blood. u The patient is constantly rubbing and shaking, with his hands, the hypochondriac region." Has an extensive reputation for the expul- sion of gall-stones. " Biliousness, with nausea and giddiness ; bitter taste, and risings ; tendency to bilious vomiting and purging, with dark urine." — Hughes. " Prolapsus uteri ; particularly following par- 250 IRIS VERSICOLOR. turition ; with prolapsus ani, accompanied with exhausting, frequent, but natural stools; more in the morning." — Raue. IRIS VERSICOLOR. Blue Flag. Through the ganglionic system it especially af- fects the glandular system, and upper portion of the alimentary canal, but affects all partfl of the digestive apparatus. It causes incn icretioo of the Balivary glands, pancreas, liver, and epithe- lial cells of the alimentary canal: accompanied with vomiting, and profuse watery diarrhoea, little inclined to run into intlammat ion. No remedy has a more specific action upon the pancreas than Iri8. I believe that to he its starting-point of action in the Bystem. No remedy produces such hurning agony in this gland, as does this one. All the animals T poisoned with it. had genuine inflamma- tion of this gland. It also has a profound action upon the lymphatics and skin. Grand Charactcvisths. The pains caused by Iris are of a sharp, cut- ting character, of short duration, and change often. Headache in the forehead and eyes ; more on the right side; with distressing vomiting of sweetish mucus or bilious matter ; aggravated by rest. IRIS VERSICOLOR. 251 For gastric sick-headache it has no equal. Neuralgia of the head, eyes, and temples ; pains, cutting in nature, of short duration, with vomiting of sweetish water or bilious matter. Salivation, with profuse flow of saliva. " Gums and tongue feel as though covered with a greasy substance." — Lippe. Great burning distress in the epigastrium ; at the same time the mucous membrane of the -mouth burns like fire. Burning distress in the stomach, with vom- iting, watery diarrhoea, and great prostration. Violent pains in the bowels before vomiting or diarrhoea. 1 Watery diarrhoea ; worse at night, with great debility. Severe burning in the anus, with watery di- arrhoea. In colic, or, as Dr. Kitchen has it, " Grum- bling bellyache," it is very useful. Cholera morbus, with vomiting ; grumbling pains in the bowels, and watery diarrhoea. Urine very high-colored and scanty. Seminal emissions, with amorous dreams. Influenza; constant sneezing ; sharp, bearing pains in the centre of temples; light, mushy, painless diarrhoea. — C. H. W. In pustular skin diseases, especially if on 252 PHYTOLACCA DECANDRA. the scalp, it is one of our most useful reu dies. Use it internally and external ly. PHYTOLACCA DECANDEA. Puke Hoot. Through the ganglionic system it especially af- fects the glandular system ; especially affecting the glands of the throat and mammae, the periosteal and fibrous tissues, muscular system, skin, and up- per portion of the alimentary canal (mucous mem- branes), kidneys, and slightly the motor nervous system. A few year- since I recommended this remedy to the profession, as the best known remedy for diphtheria, where th lo-membrane did not extend into the respiratory i Since then I have used it constantly whenever called to attend those eases, and I wish no remedy to give bet! satisfaction. I can now repeat, that it is still best letdown n //>> dy for diphtheria, when the air-pas- sages are not involved, its action on the system being identical with that of diphtheria. The tinc- ture prepared from the green root is the only prep- aration that should he used. Grand Characteristics. The patient is of a rheumatic diathesis, and is frequently afflicted with rheumatism of the periosteal and fibrous tissues, or is suffering from the bad effects of syphilis. PHYTOLACCA DECANDRA. 253 Eyelids reddish-blue and swollen. Granular inflammation of the lids ; aggra- vated in the morning, more especially in the left eye, in rheumatic subjects. " Irresistible inclination to bite the teeth together." — Dr. Merrell. Roughness in the pharynx, with great dry- ness of the throat. Sensation as if there was a lump in the throat, that causes constant efforts to swallow. Congestion and inflammation of the back part of the mouth and fauces. Diphtheritic inflammation and ulceration of • the throat. Fauces, tonsils, and pharynx covered with dark-colored pseudo-membrane. Excessive fetor of the breath. Chronic inflammation and ulceration of the tonsils. Induration of the tonsils. Feeling as if a ball of red-hot iron had lodged in the fauces. Salivation, with metallic taste. Pain at root of tongue on swallowing. Great roughness and rawness of the throat. Easy vomiting, without much nausea. Vomiting of the ingesta, bile, and blood, with a great accumulation of flatus in the stomach and bowels. 22 254 ARSENICUM. Albuminous urine. Dark-red urine, leaving a deep-red stain in the vessel. Menses too often, too profuse, with increase of tears, saliva, bile, and urine. Painful menstruation in barren females. Mastitis, where the hardness is very appar- ent from the first, with much sensitiveness {vide Graph it is). Chronic rheumatism, where the periosteum is involved; worse in damp weather. Syphilitic rheumatism. ARSENICUM. At A id. This greatest of remedies acts upon almost every organ and tissue in the body, but affects m< especially the ganglionic nervous system. Its ac- tion upon the cerebrospinal Bystem is powerful, but not so great as it is on the ganglionic system* Through the ganglionic system it especially affects the alimentary canal,— whose organic functions are stricken down and destroyed from the inmost recesses of vitality. Its action somewhat resembles that which Aconite has upon the infinitesimal ramifications of the great sympathetic, through- out all the arterial capillary vessels. Arsenic af- fects these same capillary vessels, but more power- fully, and its action is more lasting. The mucous membrane is affected throughout ARSENICUM. 255 its whole length, hut more especially the mouth, throat, stomach, duodenum, and rectum. Its action upon the intestinal tract is so similar to that of cholera, that in an epidemic of cholera, no man could tell the difference. The innumerable follicles of the immense intestinal tract are com- pletely paralyzed, and the watery elements of the blood exude through the relaxed tissues, in im- mense quantities. But, if the poison taken is large enough, this paralysis goes on to inflammation and destructive ulceration of the most malignant kind ; the mucous membrane becomes dry, or exudes a thin, ichorous discharge, with violent vomiting, diarrhoea, dysentery, ulceration of the stomach and intestines, gangrene of the anus, aphthae of the buccal mucous membrane, violent thirst, with low, prostrating fever. Upon the serous membranes it produces subacute inflammation, with speedy and copious serous ef- fusions, affecting most frequently the pleura, but not so powerfully the peritoneum and arachnoid. Upon the skin it has a profound action, produc- ing almost every form of cutaneous irritation, from simple erythema to malignant e^sipelas, pustular inflammation, and gangrene. But the most com- mon form is the squamous and vesicular. It has also a powerful action upon the kidneys, liver, and salivary glands. Through the ganglionic system it has a powerful haematic action. " The poison acts directly on the red corpuscles, diminishing their power of taking 256 ARSENICUM. up the oxygen supplied to them in the lungs ; and the carbonaceous compounds thus anconsnmed, de- posit themselves in the form of fat. If this direct action on the corpuscles be granted, many of the phenomena of arsenical poisoning become expli ble. No wonder that the blood is black and n< in- coagulable, resembling that of malignant fever and cholera; that petechial effusions frequently occur, and the chronic poisoning takes the form of a | found cachexia." — HuGHKS. Its action upon the animal or cerebro-spinal tern is not so powerful as it is upon the organic system; nevertheless it has a profound influei upon this system, as shown by the COnVUlsioi paralysis, an;esth< >ia, neuralgia, melancholy, anx- iety, anguish, irritability, great ret 98, and even softening of the brain, which it occasions. It also has an irritant action upon the muscular system, heart, and lungs. Grand Characteristics. Rapid and great prostration, with sinking of the vital forces. Burning pains; the parts burn like fire. Pains worse during rest ; relieved by motion. "All the symptoms are worse at night, par- ticularly after midnight." — G. Great anguish, extreme restlessness, and fear of death. " Great thirst for cold water ; drinks very often, but little at a time/' — G. ARSENICUM. 257 Cold perspiration, with great prostration. Great loss of flesh. "Wants to be in a warm room." — G. " Constantly licking the dry, cracked lips, with great burning heat of the whole body." — G. White, waxy, pale face, with great debility. Cadaverous face, nose pointed, eyes sunken. " Tongue dry, brown, or black." — Raue. u Voice hoarse." — Raue. Violent burning pains in the stomach. " Skin wrinkled, dry, cold, and blue ; or cold, sticky perspiration." — Raue. 1 " Cannot lie down for fear of suffocation ; highest degree of dyspnoea." — G. " The stomach does not seem to assimilate cold water; it is wanted, but cannot drink it." — Raue. " Stomach disordered after eating fruit or ice- cream." — H. Nightly vomiting. " Violent vomiting of ingesta, serous liquids, with flakes, also brown and black substances, with violent burning pains in the stomach, and watery diarrhoea, accompanied with cramps of the abdominal muscles and extremities. " — Raue. Sensation as if a stone was in the stomach. 22* 258 ARSENICUM. " Diarrhoea of a cadaverous smell, scenting the whole atmosphere of the room." — Raue. u Diarrhoea is renewed after eating or drink- ing."— G. " Great enervation after stool ; the anus burns like fire." — Hempel. " Varices burn like fire, particularly at night."— G. u Acrid, burning, corroding discharges, often extremely offensive." — G. Painful lienteria, "Leucorrlura, thick, yellow, corroding the parts which are touched." — G. Thin, corrosive leucorrlura. General anasarca, with white, waxy pale- ness of the face, and great debility. Feeble cachectic condition, with aphtlue. M Eruptions disappear suddenly, with rapid prostration." — G. " Burning, internal or external, in eruptions, &c, relieved by heat/' — II. " Sensation as if warm air was streaming up the spine into the head." — G. "Neuralgia; the pains are burning, with agony and great restlessness; often intermit- tent ; worse during rest ; relieved by exercise." — G. Chronic inflammations of serous membranes, with copious, serous effusions. SULPHATE OF SEPSIN. 259 Phagedenic ulcerations, constantly extend- ing in breadth. Chronic, organic, valvular disease of the heart, with intermittent pulse, dyspnoea, ana- I sarca, hypertrophy, palpitation, &c; worse to- wards evening and at night, on going up stairs, i from deep inspirations, or anger. " Bran-like, dry, scaly eruptions, with itching j and burning; the latter increased by scratch- ing, and followed by bleeding." — H. " Poisoning from decayed or morbid animal matter, by inoculation, inhalation, or swallow- ing."— H. u Bad effects from China or Iodine.'' — Lippe. " Gangrene, better from heat." — Lippe. "Complaints caused by chewing tobacco." — H. Adapted to lymphatic nervous temperaments, sad and irritable; to dropsical and choleraic dis- eases, malarial fevers, especially if they have been abused by Quinine. SULPHATE OF SEPSIN. The Poison generated in Putrefaction. "Drs. Bergman and Schmiedeberg have com- municated to the Centralblatt (German), an ac- count of the isolation of a crystalline substance, which they believe is the proper poison generated in putrefactive fermentation. This poison, the 260 SULPHATE OF SEPSIN. terror of the dissecting-room, has hitherto been known only by its effects. The substance which these chemists have succeeded in isolating, they call the Sulphate of Sepsin. The London Lancet gives the following details of its preparation. It is obtained by diffusion through parchment-paper, precipitation with corrosive sublimate, removal of the mercury by silver, of the silver by sulphuret- ted hydrogen ; evaporation and purification of the residue. Large, well-defined, acicular needles are thus obtained, which are deliquescent in the air, and melt and carbonize when exposed to heat They possess a powerfully poisonous action. A solution, containing scarcely more than one-hun- dredth of a gramme, was injected into the veins of two dogs. Vomiting was immediately induced, and after a short time diarrhoea, which in the course of an hour became Moody. After nine hours the animals were killed, and on examination their stomachs and large intestines were found ecchymosed, and the small intestines congested. Frogs could be killed in the same manner." I have copied this article entire from the Scientific Amer- ican, believing that it will prove a remedy equal to Arsenicum in usefulness, which it so closely re- sembles in action. Providence permitting, I for one, will do my duty in developing its therapeutic powers. From the many cases of poisoning we have, in the dissecting-room and elsewhere, of this poison, a good proving can now be collected. LEPTANDRIA VIRGINICA. 261 LEPTANDRIA VIRGINICA. Black Boot. Acts through the ganglionic system, especially upon the liver, intestinal glandular system, and mucous membrane of the colon and rectum. G ran d Ch a racter istics, " Black, profuse, papescent, tar-like, very fetid stools, generally in the afternoon or even- ing/' — Hale. Congestion of the portal system, with con- stant distress in the lower part of the epigas- trium, and upper portion of the umbilical re- gion, with frequent sharp pains in the same region. Congestion of the liver, with an icterode condition, yellow coated tongue and brown urine. Aching pains in the liver. Chronic diarrhoea, with inflammation of the mucous membrane of the colon, and hepatic derangement very prominent. Stools, mucus, blood, and black fecal matter. Stools of pure mucus, with much abdominal pain. This is one of the best known remedies for chronic diarrhoea, especially when the stools are worse in the afternoon and evening. 262 STILLINGIA SYLVATICA — ALOW STILLINGIA SYLVATICA. Queen's Root. Acts upon the glandular and lymphal stemJ lungs, and skin. Its characteristics are unknown, bat has been used very successfully in many chronic Bcrofal affections, in venereal and skin dis< and in chronic rheuinatisin. ALOES. S<> Acts through the ganglionic system upon the liver, muscular portion of the large intestines, es- pecially the rectum, and tin' generative and skin. It produces great congestion of the portal circulation. ( i rft n ( I ( ft a rartevistics. Violent tenesmus, with stools of bloody wai great faintness daring and after each stool. Sharp pains in the bowels, with large quan- tities of flatus with the stools. " Stools in consistence like jelly-cakes; quantity of clear jelly-like Bubstance, which may be green or white, adheres like congealed mucus." 44 Sense of insecurity in the bowels, as if di- arrhoea might occur at any time." — Hughes. " Diarrhoea, with want of confidence in the sphincter ani. The rectum seems full of fluid, ALOES. 263 which feels heavy, as if it would fall out." — H. N. M. " Fistula in ano ; it never has disappointed me." — Dr. Boyd. u Yellow, fecal, bloody, jelly-like mucus ; worse when walking or standing, after eating, or passing urine." — J. B. Bell, M.D. " Diarrhoea at 10 p.m. and 10 a.m." — H. N. M. " Diarrhoea, pain, soreness and burning in the rectum; stools copious and watery, with much flatus ; great exhaustion and faintness after stool, at 2 or 3 a.m. ; every morning is driven out of bed for stool." Hemorrhoidal congestions; the hemorrhoids bleed often and profusely. Dysentery, with prolonged and severe tenes- mus ; the rectum is much affected ; much pain and faintness during stool. " A peculiar, heavy, dull, pressing pain in the forehead, of no great severity, but which indisposes to or even incapacitates for all exer- tion, especially for intellectual labor." — Dr. P. P. Wells. Dull heavy headache, with dull pains in the liver. " Falling out of the hair in adults." — Teste. Eberle says, "Experience has shown that this drug is among the most efficient agents for exciting the uterine vessels, and directing 264 ARGENTUM. the afflux of blood to them, and deserves to be accounted the best remedy we p<> against those protracted, exhausting, and obstin, hemorrhages from the uterus, which occur in females of nervous, relaxed, and phlegmatic habits, about the critical period of life." ARGENTUM. SUtk r. Acts especially on the cerebro-spinal system, the hones, articulations, cartilages of the ears, Eusta- chian tube, tympanum, cartilages of the nose, false ribs, tarsal cartilages, muscles, tendons, ligaments, particularly those in the neighborhood of joints, heart, testicles, salivary glands, and >kin. Grand Characteristics* "Time seems to pass very slowly, every- thing done seems done BO slowly. She has, for instance, been flowing for an hour, and to her it seems hours; we work rapidly for her safety, and she thinks we are so very slow." — G. " Moral and nervous disturbances come on in quite regular paroxysms every night, in the morning, or at noon, more particularly after dinner." " Dizzy, and much confusion in the head." — G. Headache not severe, but dull and constant. ARGENTUM. 265 " The spasms are violent, and are preceded by a sensation of expansion of the whole body, especially of the face and head." — G. " The stomach seems as if it would burst with wind, accompanied with great desire to belch, which is accomplished with difficulty, when the air rushes out with great violence." — G. " Diarrhoea of green fetid mucus, passing off with much flatulence." — G. " After taking any fluid, it appears as though it were running straight through the intestinal canal without stopping." — G. " Dysenteric stools, consisting of masses of epithelial substance, connected bymuco-lymph, and colored red or green, shreddy, frequently passed with severe bearing down in the hyp- ogastrium. On rising, sense of weight in the back. Advanced stages of dysentery, with suspected ulceration of the bowels." — J. C. M. " Sandy stools."— G. Sugar in urine. Ragged ulcers on the prepuce. " The urethra feels swollen inside." — G. Genital organs shrivelled; sexual desire gone. " Uterine hemorrhage, with much trouble in the head, greatly aggravated by motion." — G. 11 Bleeding ulcers of the womb." — G. " She has a presentiment of the approaching 23 266 SPONGIA. spasm; she is in constant motion from the time she comes out of one spasm till sh< into another." — G. Great debility, particularly in the lower ex- tremities, with much chilliness. " Paraplegia from debilitating causes.'' — Rale. Pain in the joints, aggravated by motion. Dry cough only in the daytime. Ophthalmia neonatorum, specific. SPONGIA. Spongia Marx Ads especially through the ganglionic Byfl on the larynx and trachea, thyroid gland, ovai and testicles. Grand CharacteriotUp* "Cough dry and sibilant, sounding like a saw driven through a pine board, each cough cor- responding to a thrust of the saw." — G. "Chronic hoarseness and cough ; the VO frequently giving out when talking or sing- ing."— G. Great dryness of the larynx, with hoai hollow, wheezing cough. — G. " Menses too early and too profuse, preceded by colic, soreness in the sacrum, and craving in the stomach." — G. BARYTA CARBONICA. 267 Violent drawing in the upper and lower ex- tremities during the menses. — G. %i Smooth swelling and induration of the tes- ticles." — Hempel. " Awakes often in a fright, and feels as if she was suffocating." " Is inconsolable, and wishes to die at once." " Keeps the head high up in bed." " Every day several attacks of heat, with anxiousness, pain in the region of the heart, and weeping." " Thinking of it renews the one-sided heat of face." Goitre in persons who live in villages. BARYTA CARBONICA. Carbonate of Baryta. Acts upon the cerebrospinal system, but especi- ally through the ganglia on the glandular system, more especially the glands of the throat, and the sexual organs. Grand Characteristics, Especially suited to dwarfish women, with scanty menstruation, and troublesome weight about the pubes in any position. — G. To scrofulous children, that do not grow. — G. Submaxillary and parotid glands are swollen and tender. 268 CROTON TIGLIUM. Chronic induration of tonsils. — F. Tonsils enlarged, and suppurate often. " It is our best remedy in tonsillitis to pre- vent suppuration." — Hughes. " The throat looks pale, is sore, with putrid breath." Impotence. Especially adapted to diseases of old men. "When convalescing from pneumonia, sen- sation as if the lungs were full of smoke; she smells pine smoke/' CROTON TIGLIUM. Or&Um OH Acts on the cerebrospinal and ganglionic nerv- ous Byetemfl ; from the ganglionic irritation a tran- sudation of the watery part of the blood is thrown out into the intestinal canal, causing eopious wa- tery stools in less than an hour, from one or two drops placed on the tongue. Also acts upon the lymphatic system and skin. Qrand Characteristics. " Neuralgic pains, from pupil of left eye to the back part of the head." — G. Watery stools, that escape suddenly from the bowels, with great prostration. " Colic and diarrhoea immediately after nurs- ing."_G. AURUM. 269 " Diarrhoea, worse after drinking." — G. " Pain extends from the nipple through to •the shoulder-blade: every time the child draws at the breast the suffering is excruciating." — G. Most intense itching and burning of the skin. No drug causes such intolerable itching and violent burning of the skin as Croton tig- lium. Vesicles on the skin, which are red, and tburn like fire. Urticaria of the skin of the abdomen. Intense redness of the skin, with a yellow, plastic exudation; burns like fire. Bad effects from suppression of the charac- teristic eruption. AURUM. * Gold. Acts upon the brain and osseous system ; especi- ally the nasal and palatine bones. Also affects the glandular system and periosteum. The grand key-notes for Aurum, are : Great melancholy. The mind constantly tends towards self- destruction. — G. No medicine produces such great loathing of life. Sensation of internal weakness. Otorrhoea ; the bones come from the ears. 23* 270 AURUM. Ozaena, with fetid discharge from the no Swelling of the skull-bones. Caries of the nasal, palatine, mastoid, and ossicular bones. — Raue. Falling out of the hair. Nightly bone-pains. Swelling of the periosteum of the forearms and shin-bones. Exostosis, especially of the skull and shin- bones. Craves nothing but sour thin Nightly diarrhoea Induration of the Oi uteri. "Great nervous weakness* with utter de- spair." — Raue. "Feeling as though the heart ceased beating for a while, and then at onee a hard thump is felt/ 1 The scrofulous element may be often extin- guished by gold. Especially adapted to svphilitico-mercurial affections. In these affections the Muriate of Gold will he most useful. " Caries of bones, paining worse at night. M — Lippe. " Hysterical spasms, with alternate laugh- ing and crying." — Lippe. IPECACUANHA. 271 GROUP VI. Ipecacuanha, Antimonium crud., Lobelia inflata, Euphorbia, Bismuth, Robenia. This group constitutes our emetic remedies. •All affect prominently the pneumogastric nerve in its various ramifications. Xausea and vomiting is the great characteristic pathogenetic symptom of this group. Tartar emetic, and Veratrum viride, might be classed with this group, but their more appropriate place is in the Aconite, or inflammatory group. IPECACUANHA. Cephaelis Ipecacuanha. This remedy acts especially as an irritant to the peripheral extremities of the pneumogastric nerve, producing spasmodic asthma in the respiratory or- gans, and in the stomach violent nausea and vom- iting. Its action upon the respiratory organs and stomach seems to be about half neurotic and half phlogistic in character. In the diseases to which it is homoeopathic, there is both the spasmodic and the inflammatory element. Upon the mucous membranes, it excites an in- creased secretion of mucus. Upon the skin, it acts as a diaphoretic. 272 IPECACUANHA. Grand Characteristics. Violent and continual nausea, with vomit- ing of large quantities of tenacious, ^\ 1 1 i * glairy mucus. Constant and continual nausea. " Stooping causes him to vomit." — H. "Nausea, with distension of the abdomen and dryness in the throat; after vomiting, in- clination to sleep." — II. "Vomiting, thirst, sweat, and bad breath." —II. Nausea and vomiting of blood. Feeling of qualmishness, emptiness, and flab* biness about the stomach, with profuse flow of watery saliva. Flat taste, with white, thickly-coated ton. "Stools as if fermented, as green as gn with nausea and OOlic." — II. Green, watery, or fermented stools; worse in the evening, with nausea. Stools of blood and mucus, with continual nausea. Diseases from eating unripe, sour fruit. "Continual discharge of bright-red blood from the womb." — G. "During hemorrhages from the womb, they commence breathing heavily." — II. 11 Much distress about the navel, but it runs off to the uterus, the seat of the disease/ 5 — G. IPECACUANHA. 273 The chest seems full of phlegm, but does not yield to coughing. " Phlegm rattling on chest ; sometimes vom- ited up by young children." — H. Incessant and most violent cough with every breath, in delicate children, with great pale- ness of the face. " Headache, as if the brain was bruised through all the bones of the head, and down into the root of the tongue." — H. " Loses breath with the cough ; turns pale in the face, and stiffens." — H. " Suffocation threatens from constriction in the throat and chest; worse from the least motion." — H. Ipecac is frequently indicated in u the sneez- ing of hay-fever, the violent expulsive cough of pertussis, the spasmodic forms of croup, and cases of half bronchitis and half asthma." — Hughes. " Backache, short chill, long fever; mostly heat, with thirst, headache, nausea, cough, and sweat, last." — H. Intermittents, where the gastric symptoms predominate. u With every movement, a cutting pain al- most constantly running from left to right." — G. " One hand cold, the other hot." — H. 274 ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM. Adapted to gastric and lung disease- Especially suited to the incessant, dry cough, which sometimes attacks children of delicate constitution, suffering with measles. — F. ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM. Antimony. Especially affects the mucous membranes, skin, and pneumogastric nerve. Its action upon the mucous membranes hardly ever goes on to inflam- mation, but the mucous membrai >me loaded with mucus, producing slow digestion, fermenta- tion, &c. Gran d Characteristic* Thick, milky-white coating on the tongue. "The mucous membranes are loaded with mucus, with slow digestion, fermentation of food, with nausea and vomiting." — HuOfiSS. " Sore, cracked, and crusty nostrils, and cor- ners of the mouth." — H. " Decayed teeth ache worse at night; can- not bear to be touched by the tongue." — II. "Stomach out of order; belching, with the taste of food, nausea, and hard stool." — II. '"Stools often liquid, containing portions of solid matter." — H. "Sensation as if a copious stool was going to take place, when only flatus comes forth ; finally a hard stool is voided." — G. LOBELIA INFLATA. 275 Diarrhoea at night, with great thirst for cold water. " Tenderness over the ovarian region, with nausea, vomiting, and white tongue. " — H. " Distinct pressure in the womb, as if some- thing would come out, with hemorrhage." — G. " Sentimental mood in the moonlight ; par- ticularly ecstatic love." — H. " The greatest sadness and woful mood, with intermittent fever." — H. " Child cannot bear to be touched or looked fit,"— H. " Crushed finger-nails grow in splits, and like warts, and with horny spots." — H. " Corns or callosities in the soles of the feet." — H. " Complaints after bathing, particularly in sold water."— H. " Cannot bear to be looked at." — Bell. " In aged people, malformations of the skin, 3orns, horny excrescences, fistulous ulcers, ? ungus articularis, obesity, excessive hemor- rhages, and dropsical effusions." — Lippe. LOBELIA INFLATA. Indian Tobacco. Its main sphere of action is especially upon the pneumogastric nerves. " About opposite the pharynx, as the starting-point, it passes in both 276 LOBELIA INFLATA. directions, involving the phrenic, solar, and cardiac plexuses, and finally the cerebrospinal system." — Hale. Nerves of Sensation. — Lohelia first affects the nerves of sensation. "The pneumogastric bei made up of both sensory and motor filaments, tin- impression passes down the extremities of that nerve, and the brain sends a motor current to eject the drug. While this is being done, the sensation has gone on to the great sympathetic, and finally it is felt at the finger-ends and tors. The sen tion is felt most severely in the solar plexus; the depression upon this and the other plexuses of the sympathetic system is Bach, that the patient im- agines that death is about to eii.Mie." — IIai. c * Nerves qf Motion* — This system is brought most powerfully under the action of this drug. The in- ferior laryngeal seem> to be the first one called into action, which causes a constricted feeling the larynx; passing on the oesophagus, contra* its whole length; then the stomach contracts fr below upwards, and emesis follows. In the mean- time the bronchi and chest contract, and the par tient feels as if suffocation was impending. V the voluntary muscles are called into action, and if the drug is carried far enough, convulsions and death ensue. " Muscular System. — This system suffi "rely, the whole nervous energies being brought so com- pletely under the control of this drug. The invol- untary muscular fibres are the ones first involved, as we observe by the vermicular motion of the . LOBELIA INFLATA. 277 muscular fibres of the oesophagus, the contractions of the stomach and bronchi, and the lateral action of the heart. The voluntary muscles do not seem to be affected until the involuntary are completely under its influence. u In the reductions of luxations, the Eclectics use it much as we do Chloroform, to relax the muscu- lar fibres, until the patient is as 'limber as a rag.' This is why it is of service in rigidity of the os uteri, perineum, intussusceptions, and herniae." — Hale. Grand Characteristics. Spasmodic asthma; worse from exertion; disordered stomach, and especially a feeling of weakness in the pit of the stomach. Hawking up copious quantities of mucus. Burning pricking in the air-passages. Dyspnoea, with a sense of a lump in the pit of the stomach rising into the mouth. " Increased flow of saliva with most ail- ments." — Lippe. Dyspnoea in emphysema. Violent nausea and vomiting, with great loss of strength. Chronic vomiting, in paroxysms, with nau- sea, profuse perspiration, prostration of strength, with good appetite; lateritious urine. — Dr. Jeanes. Sick headache, with vertigo; dull headache, 24 278 EUPHORBIA COROLLATA — BISMUTHUM. violent nausea, vomiting, and great prostra- tion, " Eruption between the fingers, on the d< of the hands, and on the forearm, consisting of small vesicles, accompanied by tingling and itching, resembling itch-pustules exactly." EUPHORBIA COROLLATA. "Large Flotr, ring Spt Acts especially upon the pnemogastric nerve, alimentary canal, and skin. Its characteristics are unknown, but it is adapted to du ofthe digestii ins, re- sembling those of Ipecac. BISMUTHUM. Svimitraii of Bismuth, Acts upon the cerebrospinal axis, the pneumo- gastric nerve, and digestive apparatus; especially affecting the stomach. Grand Characteristics* " Solitude is unbearable." — Lippe, Dull, heavy headache. Craves cold drinks in the evening. Nausea after every meal. Feeling of pressure in the stomach after every meal. ROBIXIA PSEUDO-ACACIA. 279 Burning in the stomach, with vomiting. " Desire for stool in the evening, but cannot evacuate anything." — G. u Flashes of heat, especially upon the head and chest." — Lippe. Adapted to dyspepsia, and diseases of the stomach. ROBINIA PSEUDO-ACACIA. Black Locust. Affects especially the pneumogastric nerve, in- testinal canal, glandular system, and also acts upon the cerebro-spinal system. Through its action upon the pneumogastrics and medulla oblongata, it produces the most acid state of the stomach of any remedy in the materia medica. This was noted when I first introduced the remedy to the profession, and all who have used it testify to this fact. Grand Characteristics. Excessive acidity of the stomach. Vomiting of intensely sour fluid, setting the teeth on edge. Frequent eructations of sour fluid. Great distension of the stomach and bowels, with flatulency; the intestines distended almost to the point of rupturing, with severe colic. Dull, heavy, squeezing pains in the stomach, especially after every meal. 280 ROBINIA PSEUDO-ACACIA. " Water taken before eating at night, re- turned in the morning, green and sour." Sour regurgitations of infants. Sour stools of infants ; the whole child smells sour. Desire for stool, but only flatulence pa- off; finally, constipated stools. Dull, frontal headache, much aggravated by motion, with neuralgic pains in the temples. Low-spirited, with great irritability. Especially adapted to gastric diseases, and sick headache. GROUP SEVENTH. 281 GROUP VII. Ferrum met. , Manganese, Zinc, Helonias dioica, Hypophosphites, Calcarea. This group constitutes our anaemic remedies, all of them acting through that part of the vegetative ganglionic system that presides over the blood, pro- duce a decrease of the albumen, and an increase of water in the serum sanguinis, and at the same time, diminish the red blood-corpuscles. In health, each blood-corpuscle lives a certain period of time, and after that it dissolves and disappears, and a new one forms in its place. Thus a constant rotation be- tween life and death goes on in these minute bodies, in order to sustain the life of the whole body. Xow this group of remedies, especially Iron and Manganese, destroy this equilibrium through the ganglionic nervous system, and more red corpus- cles die than are newly generated ; causing great weakness of the muscular system, nervousness, palpitation, and a bellows-sound of the heart and large arteries, murmur in the jugular veins, hy- dremia, chlorosis, anaemia, and oligocythemia, with their long train of symptoms. Other reme- j dies affect the plasma of the blood in a similar man- ner, but none so profoundly as the above group, area will be found in the Sulphur group, 24* 282 FERRUM. FERRUM. Iron. Acts upon the spleen, producing atrophy, ren- dering it unable to perform its functional support of the process of sanguification, causing anaemia, or hydremia; especially affects the blood-plasma! decreasing the albumen and red-cor] in- creasing the water in the Berum sanguinis, pro- ducing chlorosis and oligocythemia. Also affi the digestive and urinary organs, and lastly, the sexual organs. ( i ra )i fl ( h a r act eristic*. " Weakly persons, with fiery-red face" — G. "Least emotion or exertion produces a red, flushed face."— G. "Ashy pale or greenish face; With pains or other symptoms, the face becomes bright red." — Raue. Anaunia, with pal( k face and lips, with great debility. "Cannot keep the head quiet; at intervals the face looks earthy and pale." — G. "Great paleness of the mucous membranes, especially that of the cavity of the mouth. 91 — Raue. "Face becomes suddenly fiery-red, with ver- tigo; ringing in the ears; great palpitation of the heart and dyspnoea." — G. FERRUM. 283 Bellows-sound of the heart, and anaemic mur- mur of the arteries and veins. Muscles are feeble, and easily exhausted from slight exertion. u The bowels feel sore on touching them, as if they had been bruised, or weakened by ca- thartics." — Raue. " Vomiting at midnight." — G. "Everything vomited tastes sour and acrid; vomiting of food, with fiery-red face; renewed vomiting after eating." — G. " Vomiting of the ingesta after every cough." — G. Lienteria, with stools of undigested food without pain. "Frequent diarrhoeic stools, corroding the anus ; the face being fiery -red." — G. " Obstinate diarrhoea, composed of slime and undigested food ; the stools are painless, exco- riating, and exhausting." "Diarrhoea worse mornings; bad sleep before | midnight."— J. C. M. " Leucorrhoea like watery milk, smarting and corroding the parts when first appearing." — G. " Previous to the menses, she has stinging headache, ringing in the ears, and discharges of long pieces of mucus from the uterus." — G. " Menorrhagia in weakly persons, with fiery- 284 MANGANUM. red face. It occurs too frequent, is too profuse, and lasts too long." — G. u The menses intermit two or three di and then return, the blood being very pale." — G. " Much itching of the vulva, in delicate, weakly females, with fiery-red face/' — G. " Spitting blood, with flying pains in the chest."— G. " Haemoptysis; better when walking slowly .1 "Rheumatism of the deltoid muscle, of a tearing, laming nature; worse in bed/ 1 "Remitting pains; worse at night, driving him out of bed; motion diminishes the paii "(Edematous swelling of the body; cool skin ; constant chilliness, and evening fc\ simulating hectic fever." — BbMPEL, "Always better from walking slowly about, notwithstanding weakness obliges the patient to lie down." — (i. " General hemorrhagic tendency." — LlPFE. Especially adapted to cachectic and leUGO- phlegmatic individuals, and to di where the vegetative system is involved. MANGANUM. Mangai Acts especially upon the plasma of the blood, destroying its vitality: on the boi illy zincum. 285 the periosteum; skin, alimentary canal, respira- tory organs, and the motor nervous system. Gran d Characteristics. Bones very sensitive to the touch, with in- tolerable digging pains at night. Chronic suppurations of the skin, especially about the joints. " Rheumatic affections of joints, with red, shiny swellings." — Lippe. " Ehagades in bends of joints." — Lippe. " Skin does not heal readily." — Lippe. " Pain, after eating food, in weakly females." Paralysis of the nerves of motion. Symptoms are worse at night. This is a close analogue of Iron, and will be found adapted to similar diseases. ZINCUM? Zinc. Affects the cerebro-spinal system, especially irri- tating the peripheral sentient nerves and nerves of motion. It also has a powerful influence over the ganglionic nervous system, as shown by the great depression of nutrition. Its action upon the blood -light compared to that of Iron. Zinc corre- sponds to diseases of the nervous system, the same as Iron does to diseases of the blood. It is, in fact, the greatest tonic to the nervous system we have. 286 zincum. Grand Characteristics. "Incessant and powerful fidgety feeling in the feet or lower extremities; must move them constantly." — G. " The flow of the menses always relieves all her sufferings, but they return again soon after the cessation of the menses." — G. "During the menses, heaviness of the limbs. with violent drawing around the knees, as if they would be twisted off." — G. "A constant, distressing boring pain in the left ovarian region, only partially relieved by pressure or during menstruation, but returns again soon after the flow." — G. u Menses too early, too profuse; lumps of coagulated blood pass away, mostly when walking." — G. u Sexual desire several limes through the night; irresistible desire for onanism." — G. "Uterine ulcers, have a bloody acrid dis- charge, but is of itself rather destitute of feel- ing; an excessively violent and obstinate pain in the brain sometimes accompanies this ulcer. This pain may even assume the form of an in- termittent." — G. " Sudden oppression of the stomach; she has to loosen her dress." — G. " Great greediness when eating; cannot eat fast enough from canine hunger." — G. zincum. 287 "Terrible heartburn after taking sweet things; much nausea, vomiting, and fidgety feet.''— G. Taste of blood in the mouth, and sweetish risings from the stomach. j "Distended abdomen, with dry, hard, insuf- ficient stools." — G. "Great difficulty in expelling the stools, which are insufficient." — G. "Flatulent colic; worse towards evening, oind from wine." — G. "Constant trembling of the hands, with old extremities." — Raue. "Impending paralysis of the brain." — Hughes. (Hydrocephaloid. — F.) I Chronic sick headache; great weakness of sight ; sticking in the right eye. i " Alternate redness and paleness of the face." Somnambulism. "Child cries out during sleep; when awak- ened expresses fear, and rolls its head from side to side." Spasms, where old ulcers have disappeared. j " Frequent jerking of the whole body during deep." Infantile convulsions. Articular rheumatism, with tearing pains and trembling. 288 HELONIAS DIOICA — HYPOPHOSPHITES. HELONIAS DIOICA. False Unicorn. Acts especially on the generative organs of women, and kidneys ; also, "enriches the blood through its influence upon the nutritive processes ;" and, lastly, it acts upon the glandular system of the digestive organs. Its characteristics are un- known. HYPOPHOSPHITES. These valuable remedies deserve a careful iii tigation by the profession. Their characterise are unkown. LACHESIS. 289 GROUP VIII. Lachesis, Crotalus, Hydrophobinum, Naja tripujians, Theridion curass. Tarantula. This group represents our most powerful hae- matic and neurotic remedies ; the influence exerted upon the blood and nervous centres is of a most malignant nature. Their action is similar to the most malignant fevers, gangrene, malignant pus- tule, pyaemia, phlebitis, putrid sore throat, &c. LACHESIS. Trigonocephalus Lachesis. Acts especially upon the blood, cerebrospinal and ganglionic nervous systems ; has a great influ- ence over the pneumogastric nerve ; also especially affects the outlets of the body, throat, and rectum ; generative organs of woman, especially the left ovary ; urinary organs, and intestinal canal. Grand Characteristics. Very unhappy and distressed after sleeping. " She cannot bear any pressure, not even th v e clothes, upon the uterine region. She wishes frequently to lift them, not that the abdomen 25 290 LACHESIS. is so very tender, but that the clothes cause an uneasiness." — G. " Very distressing aggravation after sleep- ing, as if the child was dying/ 1 — F. " Throat greatly swollen internally and ex- ternally; discharge from the nose and mouth of an intensely fetid and excoriating fluid; fauces covered with diphtheritic membran pulse quick and small; extremities mottled and livid; swallowing almost impossible. " — E. M, Hale. "Sensation in the anus and rectum as if several little hammers were beating there/ 1 — Dr. Eggekt. "Especially suited to women at the climac- teric period, with frequent uterine hemorrhages and hot flushes, accompanied with burning vertex headaches, and pains in the hack.'' — Hughes. "Chills at night and Bushes of heat by day." — G. " Left ovary swollen, with tensive, pressing, stitching pains; inability to lie on the right side, on account of a sensation as if something were rolling over to that side.'' — G. "Pain in the left ovarian region, increasing more and more until relieved by a discharge of blood.'— G. LACHESIS. 291 " Larynx and throat painful, when touched, and on bending the head backwards." — G. " When anything touches the larynx, the latter is not only very sensitive, but it is as though it would suffocate him; it also increased the throatache behind." — S. " During the heat, as if from ebullition of the blood, he is compelled to loosen his neck- covering; it seems to impede the circulation of the blood, with a feeling of suffocation." — Smith. " Pressure upon the larynx causes cough." " On touching the throat, there comes a dry, hacking cough, also in the morning, after sleep, * at night, and from tobacco-smoke." — Smith. Spasmodic cough, worse in the evening and at night, with tickling in the throat. " The slightest pressure produces violent and long-continued cough." — Smith. Inflammation and ulceration of the left ton- sil. "A tormenting, constant urging in the rec- tum, without a stool ; wanting to pass a stool, but the constant pain is increased by urging, and the patient is obliged to desist." — Dr. Boyce. Traumatic gangrene; parts deep purple color. " Jealous, proud, suspicious." — G. Spasms come on during sleep. 292 LACHESIS. "Thinks she is dead (in typhoid), and that preparations are made for the funeral, or tl she is nearly dead, and wishes some one would help her off."— J. B. Bell. " Want of ear-wax in the ears." — Taiik. " Pain on swallowing going up into the ear; the course of the pain ifl along the parotid gland externally." — G. ''Earthy yellowness of the l\\nr^ — RAUE. " Deglutition painful, with regurgitation through the nose/ 1 — ( i. " Nose hleeds n few drops before the men& "Diseases of the throat that eoinnienee on the left Bide."— G. " Cannot put out the tongue but with diffi- culty; trying it. the tongue trembles." — II. ** Inahility to hear anything tight about the waist." The throat is so sensitive she cannot bear the least touch of the finger. "Diarrhoea in warm weather, aggravated by aeid fruits; worse at night and after sleep." "Dark, almost black urine." — I!aik. Frothy urine. u Feeling of a ball rolling in the bladder, or abdomen, or in both/' — Rai i:. Organic lesions of the stomach or how with vomiting of bilious matter. LACHESIS. 293 " Excessively offensive stools ; the child al- ways awakens in distress/' — G. " Tickling and jerking, extending from the thighs to the genital organs, with sexual ex- citement. " — H. u Pains in the uterine region, increase at times more and more, till relieved by a flow of blood from the vagina ; after a few hours or days, the same again, and so on." — H. "Catamenia at the regular time, but too short and feeble." — H. Cough worse after sleep. " Expectoration difficult; has to hawk, hem, cough and spit a good while before he succeeds in getting a little tough phlegm away." — H. Fever worse afternoons. " With every single cough, a stitch in the hemorrhoidal tumor." — H. " Cannot lie ; must sit up bent forwards." " Suddenly something runs from the neck to the larynx, and interrupts breathing com- pletely; it wakens at night; spasm of the glot- tis."— S. " It has a remarkable power of allaying the sympathetic cough of cardiac disease." — Hughes. u Much pain of an aching kind in the shin- bones only." — H. " Severe spasms of the legs." 25* 294 CROTALUS HORRIDUS. Nightly pains in the limbs. Spasms, with strange actions, such as " crawl- ing upon the floor, spits often, trying to hide, laughing, or very angry." — Raue. Fright from seeing snakes. Typhoid fever, with stupor, muttering, sunk- en countenance, dropping of the lower jaw, dry, red or black tongue, cracked on the tip and bleeding, trembles while protruding, dry li| " Is of great service in the tainting tendency of nervous women. In vesicular rashes, in pem- phigus and eczema of the hands; but most of all in the flushes that occur at the critical age, with head symptoms of insomnia. " — BaI Bluish, livid ulcers, worse in the evening; the ulcer is surrounded lev smaller ulcers, and burn where touched. Traumatic gangrene, of an ash-gray color, emitting an exceedingly offensive odor. This is one of our best remedies in all acute cases of gangrene. " It is no less important in the worst inflam- mation of the lances, malignant diphtheria, or gangrenous, especially of the left side." — F. CROTALUS HORRIDUS. Rattlesnake Poison. Acts especially on the blood, solar plexus, and pneumogastric nerves ; also affects the cerebro- CROTALUS HORRIDUS. 295 spinal system. This powerful remedy has not been used as much as it should be. Grand Characteristics. " Hemorrhages from every orifice of the body, even from the pores of the skin." — Raue. " Sore pain from pit of the stomach to re- gion of liver, with qualmishness, nausea, and vomiting of green bilious matter." — Neidhard. "Mouldy smell from the mouth.' 5 — Neid- hard. " Tongue scarlet-red, or brown and swol- len."— N. Yellow, sallow face. Vertigo and trembling of the whole body. Violent frontal headache, with difficult deg- lutition, nausea, and bilious vomiting. Very severe frontal headache, with coma and delirium. Very foul breath. " Hemorrhage from the gums, nose, stomach, lungs, urethra, womb, and bowels." — Neidhard. Fetid diarrhoea. Great prostration of the vital forces. Most of the symptoms appear on the right side. Fever of a low typhoid form. Especially adapted to bilious remittent fe- vers, yellow fever, typhus and typhoid fevers, 296 HYDROPHOBINUM. in their worst form; glanders, scurvy, gan- grene, and all malignant blood diseases. Prophylactic in yellow fever. The patient should be inoculated with the virus. — See C. Neidhard, M.D., on Crotalus. HYDROPHOBINUM. Saliva of Rabies ( Acts especially on the cerebrospinal system, af- fecting most powerfully the nerves of sensation and motion. The sentient nerves of the mouth and pharynx are especially and peculiarly affebted, also the salivary glands. There Ls great cong tioii and inflammation of the brain, medulla ob- longata, spinal cord, tongue, throat, fauces, glol I larynx, oesophagus, and Btomach. Grand Characteristic** " The desire for stool was immediately caused when lie heard or saw the running of water.* — Lute. Spasms are excited at every attempt to drink water, or at the sound of water. Wants water, but cannot drink it. " Periodical spasms of the oesophagus, with constant painful urging to swallow, but im- possibility of doing it." — II. " Difficult and incorrect speech/' — H. " Profuse, watery stools, from six to twenty NAJA TRIPUJIANS. 297 a day, with pain in the lower part of the bow- els ; worse in the morning." — Hale. " Frequent spitting." — H. " Prophylactic in hydrophobia.'* — H. " Dr. Hale, and others, have reported cures with hydrophobia, cases in which the stools were induced by sight or sound of running water."— F. NAJA TRIPUJIANS. Cobra de Capello Vines. The action of this serpent-virus is very similar to that of the Lachesis, excepting that u the neu- rotic symptoms predominate over the haematic." The pneumogastric nerve is so powerfully affected that respiration, in some cases, is completely sus- pended, causing death. The next organ which suffers the most (excepting the parts supplied by the pneumogastric nerve), is the head. It has a special influence over the heart and spinal cord. Prominent characteristics are : " Temporo-frontal headache, accompanied with great depression of spirits, and associated with spinal pain and palpitation of the heart." — Dr. Russell. Pharyngo-laryngeal inflammation, with dark- red color of the fauces, and spasmodic irritable cough. " To quiet chronic nervous palpitation, to aid in the restoration of a heart recently dam- 298 TIIERIDION CURASSAVICUM. aged by inflammation, and to assuage the suf- ferings of chronic hypertrophy and valvular disease, it is ranked by Dr. Russell as the chief remedy, and I think I can confirm his esti- mate." — Hughes. THERIDION CURASSAVICUM. Small Orange Spider of the West Indi Acts on the cerebri >->]>i nal and gang] ionic nervous systems; especially affecting the pneumog nerve. Grand Characteristic* "Time seems to pass very rapidly." — Lirn:. "(iivat aversion to work.* — G. "Vertigo and nausea increased to vomiting." "Headache behind the e\ i "Every penetrating sound and reverberation penetrates through her whole body, particu- larly through the teeth, and increases the ver- tigo, which then causes nausea." — II. "Nausea and vomiting when closing the eyes."— H. " Nausea increased to vomiting during ver- tigo." "Nausea and fainting; after it, very pale, and sick at the stomach, as soon as she closed her eyes, with vanishing of her thoughts." — II. " Violent stitches up high in the chest, be- neath the left shoulder ; are perceived even in the throat," TARANTULA. 299 " Anxiety about the heart." 11 Great inclination to be startled." " Pains in all the bones, as if every part would fall asunder ; feels as if broken from head to foot." Most complaints are accompanied with ver- tigo. u Adapted to scrofulosis, where the best chosen medicines do nothing. In phthisis flor- ida, Theridion is indispensable, and effects an entire cure if given in the beginning of the disease. In cases of rachitis, caries, necrosis, I depend chiefly on Theridion, which, although it does not seem to affect the external scrofu- lous symptoms, apparently goes to the root of the evil, and effectually destroys the cause of the disease." — Dr. Baruch. TARANTULA. A Venomous Tropical Spider. Acts on the cerebrospinal system and pneumo- gastric nerve. Grand Characteristics. " Especially indicated in chorea-form affec- tions, where the right arm and left leg are prin- cipally affected." Neuralgia of the uterus, with many nervous symptoms, accompanied with sadness and de- spair. 300 CANTHARIDES. GROUP IX. Cantharides, Apis mel., Chimaphila, Terebinth., ( 'opaiva, ( iubebe, Hydrasl Is, Kali chloricum, Borax, ( laonalnfl Bat., I i ron, Apocynum can.. Asparag Qrtica on Petroleum, Mitcliclla, Buphrafl Qellebon Sambucus, Uranium, Eupatorium purpur., Btlcta, Zingiber. Tin: above group of remedies all ad ially upon the mucous membranes, and may be called the mucous group. Many other remedies afl the mucous membranes, but none » ially as the above group, excepting Mercury. CANTHARIDES. Spanish J Acts especially on the urinary mucous mem- brane, inflaming the whole tract from the kidm to the urethra. This powerful irritation is m or less reflected upon the sexual organs. It also affects the mucous membrane of the alimentary canal, but not so specifically ; and lastly, the c< CANTHARIDES. 301 bro-spinal system, especially affecting the cerebel- lum. Grand Cliaracteristics. " Constant desire to urinate ; passing but a few drops at a time, sometimes mixed with blood."— G. Great burning distress in the urethra, with constant desire to urinate. Great desire to urinate, with complete stran- gury, and tenesmus of the cervix vesicae. Cutting, burning pains in the urethra, with ineffectual efforts to urinate. " Stools like the scrapings of the mucous membrane, mixed with blood, with burning and scanty urine." — Hempel. " Tremendous burning pain through the whole intestinal canal ; unquenchable thirst, with disgust for all kinds of drinks." — Raue. " Vesicles and canker in the mouth." " Vomiting, with violent retching and severe colic."— G. " Thoughts of drinking, sound of water, or touching the larynx, reproduces the spasms." — G. " Excessive desire for sexual intercourse." — G. u Menses too early, and too profuse." — G, " Membranous dysmenorrhoea." — G. " Sterile females."— G. 26 302 APIS MELLIFICA. u In vesicular erysipelas, burns and scalds. causing vesication, herpes zoster, &c, use a di- lute tincture locally." — Franklin. APIS MELLIFICA. Poison of the Honey Bee. Acts especially on the mucous tissues of the tongue, fauces, throat, and neck of the bladd also slightly upon the mucous membranes of the eyes, kidneys, and lungs. On the serous tissn it produces an inflammation which disp dropsical effusions. It especially affects the right ovary and tonsils, no1 so profoundly the salivary glands; also the ganglionic nervous Bystem is espe- cially affected ; d61 bo powerfully the sentient and motor nerves. And lastly, it causes an affection of the skin, similar to urticaria. Grand Characteristics, " Stinging pains in the affected parts, similar to bee-stings." — G. " Red spots on the skin, like bee-stings, with stinging, burning pains/' — (i. "Stinging and burning pains in the face, throat, urethra, ovaries, piles, tumors, panari- tium, carbuncles, induration, scirrhus, open cancers." — II. Stinging pains in the right ovary, which is much swollen, and numbness of the right side. " Red, and highly inflamed tonsils ; dryness APIS MELLIFICA. 303 of the mouth and throat, with stinging, burn- ing pains when swallowing." — H. " Sensation in the abdomen, as if something tight would break, if too much effort was made to void a constipated stool." — G. " Could bear nothing to touch his neck ; could hardly breathe from suffocation." — Dr. C. W. Boyce. " Greenish, yellowish, slimy, mucous, or yel- low, watery diarrhoea ; worse in the morning." —J. B. Bell. w Diarrhoea every morning ; stools greenish- yellow."— H. " Urine dark-colored and scanty." — H. " Great soreness when touched in pit of stom- ach, under the ribs, in abdomen." — H. u Enlargement of the right ovary, with pain in left pectoral region, with cough." — H. Amenorrhoea, dysmenorrhoea, and monorrha- gia, from acute congestion of the ovaries. " GEdema, or dropsy, without thirst." — H. " Child lies in a torpor; delirium; sudden, shrilling cries; squinting, grinding teeth, bor- ing head in pillows; one half of body twitch- ing, the other lame; head wet from sweating; urine scanty." — H. "Very busy; restless; changing the kind of work; with awkwardness; breaking things." u Much yawning and uneasiness." — Raue. 304 APIS MELLIFICA. " (Edematous swelling of the eyelids, with stinging and burning pains; lids turned inside out, with granulations on their edges ; cornea much involved; foiling out of the eyelashes (Use a cerate made by triturating the poison- bags of the honey-bee : thirty bags to one hun- dred grains of lard. This is one of my favor- ite prescriptions.) " Waxy paleness of the feet and legs, which are swollen/' — Rate. u Skin unusually white, and almost trans- parent, with ovarian dropsy." — II. "Incontinence of urine, with great irritation of the parts; worse at night and when cough- ing/ 1 — Raits, " Intermittent^ ; 'chill about I p.m.j worse in a warm room, or near the stove ; renewed chil- liness from the slightest motion, with heat of face and hands/ Protracted cases; no sweat j falls into a deep sleep." — DUNHAM. Ascites; urine scanty and dark-colored; great soreness of the abdominal walls, with stinging, burning pains. " Diphtheria, with great debility at the be- ginning; the pseudo-membrane assumes at once a dirty, grayish color; pufliness around the eyes; numbness of the feet and hands." — Raue. " Inflammations, with burning and sting- ing." — Lippe. CHTMAPHILA UMBELLATA. 305 " Dropsical effusions." — Lippe. Bad effects from suppressed scarlet fever. " Sensation as though he would not be able to breathe again." — P. P. Wells. This may be a key-note for this remedy in cases of hy- drothorax." — F. " Rapid, painful, and spasmodic respiration ; aggravated by lying down, and ameliorated by inhaling the fresh air in an upright position." — F. " A most important remedy in hydrothorax, and also in basilar meningitis of children, after effusion." — F. (See Hah. Monthly, January, ]S09, page 242; and U. S. Med. and Surg. Journal, vol. ii, pages 31 and 129.) " Aggravation from heat, especially in a warm room." — F. "Amelioration, from cold water, of the pain, and swelling, and burning." — F. CHIMAPHILA UMBELLATA. Pipsissewa. Acts especially on the mucous membrane of the lurinary organs, particularly that of the bladder, i Its grand key-notes are : Great quantities of mucus in the urine. Vesical tenesmus, with frequent inclination to urinate. 26* 306 TEREBINTHINA. "Chronic renal and vesical affections, with an enormous amount of thick, ropy, mucous sediment in the urine ; sometimes it is mixed with blood." — Hale. TEREBINTHINA. Turpentine. Acts especially on the kidneys- and urinary mu- cous membrane, and on the mucous membrane the bowels, especially the colon. Affecl - especially the ganglionic oervoos Bystem, and Blightly the cerebro-epinal system. Pro minen t Characteristic** Blood is thoroughly mixed with the urine. like coffee-grounds sediment. "Burning, drawing pains in the kidnej '•Mind clear, then unconscious, followed by inability to concentrate his mind." — E. W. Rogers. "Exhilaration; steep hills were mounted without effort" — E. W. Rogers. Griping, pinching colic. " Pressure in the bladder, extending up into the kidneys when sitting, disappearing when walking about." — Hale. " Burning in the bladder when urinating.' Congestion and inflammation of the urinan organs, with scanty urination. COPAIBA. 307 " Entero-colitis, with hemorrhages and ul- cerations of the bowels, especially epithelial degeneration." — Hale. u Stools of mucus and water; more in the i mornings." — Hale. u Tongue smooth and glossy, as if deprived of its papilla, in typhoid fevers." — Wood. Neuralgia and nervous headaches. " Great languor and loss of strength." — Hol- COMBE. Worms, with foul breath ; choking sensation in the throat; dry, hacking cough, vertigo, &c. " Dryness of mucous membrane of air-pas- sages." — Lippe. " Burning in chest, along the sternum." — Lippe. " Burning in right hypochondrium." — Lippe. COPAIBA. Copaiva Balsam. Acts especially on the urinary mucous membrane, particularly that of the urethra ; and on the pulmon- ary mucous tissues. Prominent Symptoms. !( Burning in the urethra. "Yellow, purulent discharges from the urethra." 308 CUBEBS. "Bloody urine, with constant urging to uri- nate, and tendency to chordee." — Franklin. Cough, with profuse discharge of greenish mucus. Especially useful in gonorrhoea. " Has cured numerous cases of hematuria in women." — F. CUBEBS. Act- especially on the mucous membrane of the kidneys and urinary organs; also on the mucous lining of tin: air-pa P ro mi nent Sy mp t om * Subacute inflammation of the genito-urinary apparatus, with ardor urin:i\ Retention of urine, and especially if the pa- tient lias had gonorrhoea. "False membranes; thick and dark; prin- cipally in the larynx." — Dr. Houat. " Deglutition difficult and very painful, water and food often passing through the nose and into the larynx, causing cough, with blood." — Dr. IIouat. Burning pains in every part of the neck. " Incessant bronchial cough." — Dr. Houat, Barking, croupy cough ; throat feels full and choked up. — Dr. Houat. HYDRASTIS CANADENSIS. 309 For membranous croup, this remedy is being highly recommended, used in massive doses of the tincture. HYDRASTIS CANADENSIS. Golden Seal. Acts especially on the mucous membranes of the outlets of the body ; as the mouth, nose, eyes, throat, rectum, vagina, uterine cervix, and urinary organs ; also upon the glandular and lymphatic systems. Prominent Characteristics. "After menstruation, leucorrhoea like the white of an egg." — Dr. Boyce. "Dull, aching pains in the stomach, which cause a very weak, faintish feeling." " Great sinking at the epigastrium, with violent and long-continued palpitation." Cachectic condition, with loss of appetite, and fainting turns. " Goneness in the epigastrium; acidity and constipation ; after stool, for hours, severe pain in the anus and rectum." " Old people, with debility." — Hughes. "Cough, with expectoration of thick, yellow, very tenacious mucus, stringy and profuse." M Erosions and superficial ulceration of the cervix and vagina, with tenacious discharge." — Hale. 310 KALI CHLORICUM. "Small-pox; great swelling; redness and itching, with great soreness of the throal Infantile excoriations in the folds of the neck and groins. (Use the dry powder.) " Stomatitis, with simple ulceration of the buccal mucous membrane.'' (The Muriate of Hydrastia acts best.) — Hale. In cancerous tumors it has of late enjoyed quite a reputation; but the characteristic not known ; probably of a hard, knotty nature. Simple ulcer Simple constipation, of a hepatic origin. Subacute inflammation of the mucous mem- brane of the penis and bladder. KALI CHLORICUM. Chlorat of Potash, Acta especially on the mucous membrane of the mouth and urinary organs ; also upon the glandu- lar system. Grand Characteristic** This may he called a specific for aphtha) and stomatitis; it will cure almost every ca* Heat and dryness of the mouth. Peeling off of the lips. Burning, stinging blisters on the tongue anc buccal cavity. Gums inflamed ; very sensitive ; bleed fre- quently ; sometimes salivation. a-e. and BORAX. 311 Very fetid breath. Follicular ulcers on the inside of the lips, and dorsum of the tongue ; mouth full of saliva; glands enlarged and tender. In cachectic con- ditions of the whole system. BORAX. Biborate of Soda. Acts especially on the mucous membrane of the mouth and intestinal canal ; on the female genera- tive organs, and lastly, on the skin. Grand Key-notes. " Cannot bear a downward motion, as in a swing, in a rocking-chair, or in running down stairs." — G. " Child cannot bear a downward motion, not even during sleep ; the downward motion of putting it into the bed or cradle, will surely awaken it." — G. "Or lifting up its feet to put on diaper." — F. "Very nervous; cannot sleep well; starts at the least noise." — G. Child has much colic and indigestion, and is extremely nervous and excitable. u Aphthae ; the child frequently lets go of the nipple ; showing signs of pain in the mouth from nursing." — G. " Very important in many cases of difficult 312 . PETROLEUM. dentition, and catarrhal affections of little chil- dren."— F. " Great heat and dryness of the mouth." — (I. "Pain from the stomach to the small of the back, before the menses." — G. "Sterility, or too easy conception." — Lute. '•Menses too soon, too profuse, attended with colic, nausea, and pain extending from the Btomach to the small of the back; with sharp pains in the groins. v — G. "Labor pains are accompanied by violent and frequent eructations/ 1 — (1. " White, albuminous leucorrhoea, with a sen- sation as if warm water was flowing down." — c. "Frequent soft, light-yellow, slimy stools, with faintness and weakness." — G. "Pain in the right pectoral region.* — G. "Acne, in plethoric young females, used lo- cally/' — Huge PETROLEUM. Bock OH. Acts especially on the mucous membrane of the digestive and genito-urinary organs, and upon the lymphatic glandular system and skin. Grand Characteristics. " Brown or yellow spots on the skin." PETROLEUM. 31S u Red, raw, moist eruption, burns like fire." —J. B. Bell. " Imagines that another person lies in the same bed." — J. B. Bell. •• Much diarrhoea through the day; none at .-night." Stools slimy, with pain in the bowels. u Nausea when riding." — G. " Particularly applicable in all gastric trou- ble of pregnant females." " Feeling as if there was a cold stone in the heart."— G. " Labia majora perspire and itch much." — G. " Gastralgia, with pressing, drawing pains ; .ameliorated by keeping on eating something constantly." ( Vide Chelidonium.) " Burning and stinging in the anus and rec- tum."— G. " Raw hemorrhoids ; scurf on the anus." — G. " Impaired hearing ; a large quantity of thick or thin wax, which is dry and hard, and of a brown-red color." — Raue. " Bitter, sour taste ; disgust for meat." — G. " Cold feeling in the abdomen." — G. " Great desire to urinate, with itching of the meatus." — Raue. " Itching herpes on the perineum." — G. 27 314 CANNABIS SATIVA. "Profuse leucorrhcea every day, with las- civious dreams at night." — G. " Menses cause an itching in the genitals." — G. "Small wounds Bpread and ulcerate." " Spots on the legs are painful to the touch. " " Heat in the soles of the feet and palms of the hands." " Fetid sweat in the axilla*." — G. " Tenderness of the feet when they are bathed in loul-snielling moisture." — Hl/GIIES. " Deep, fistulous ulcers." — (i. CANNABIS SATIVA. Acts especially on the mucous membrane of the bladder, urethra, and prepuce; on the lungs; slightly on the cerebrospinal Bjstem, and lastly, on the generative organs. Grand Characteristics. u Great BWellingof the prepuce, approaching to phymosis." — Franklin. Severe pains in the kidneys, every lew min- utes passing bloody urine. Inflammatory stage of gonorrhoea, with all its painful symptoms ; especially, violent pain, of a burning character, in the urethra during and after micturition ; strangury. APOCYNUM CANNABINUM. 315 " Dark redness of the glans and prepuce." — i Franklin. " Light red spots on the glans, of the size of a lentil."— Teste. Sensation as if drops of cold water were falling. " Chordee, and mucous discharges." — Teste. " Frequent, teasing, hard dry cough.'' — Teste. Vomiting of green bile. Opacities of the cornea ; cataract. ERIGERON CANADENSE. Canada Fleabane. Acts especially on the genito-urinary organs ; on the muscular coat of the arteries ; on the glandu- lar system ; and lastly, on the mucous membrane o{ the colon and rectum. Its key-notes are unknown. It is a splendid remedy for hemorrhages, from any organ in the body, and for many diseases of the kidneys and bladder. APOCYNUM CANNABINUBI. Indian Hemp. Acts especially on the mucous membrane of the urinary organs, and pneumogastric nerve ; also on the lymphatic glandular system of the intestinal canal, the skin, and cerebro-spinal system. " Acts on the system in four different ways : 316 APOCYNUM CANNABINUM. 1. Nausea and vomiting ; 2. Increased alvine dis- charges ; 3. Copious perspiration ; 4. Diuresis." — Dr. Griscomb. Prominent Characteristics. All kinds of dropsies, with a " sinking feel- ing at the pit of the stomach. " — Hale. " Irritable condition of the stomach, that cannot contain even a draught of water." — Dr. Freligii. " Obliged to rit up; lying down produces violent dyspnoea. 91 — Dr. Freugh, " Urine excessively scanty, thick, yellow, and turbid. 91 — Dr. Freugh. "Ardor nrin®." — Peters. 11 Watery diarrhoea, or constipation. " — Dr. Rogers. " Skin dry and husky." — Hale. "Ascites, with bruised feeling in the abdo- men. " Hydrocephalus; "sutures opened; fore- head projecting; Bight of one eye totally lost; the other slightly sensible ; stupor; constant involuntary motion of one leg and arm; urine suppressed ; vomiting, with stupor." — Prof. Renwick. " General oedema." " In idiopathic, chronic, and asthenic forms of dropsy, connected with a watery, non-albu- ASPARAGUS OFFICINALIS. 317 minous state of the blood, and general weak- ness of the system." — Hale. " Hoarse, loose coughs/' — Hale. ASPARAGUS OFFICINALIS. Asparagus. Acts especially on the convoluted tubes of the kidneys. Key-notes not known, but prominent symp- toms for its use are : " Countenance pale, wax-like, and bloated." " General expression of anxiety and dis- tress." " Urine scanty and straw-colored, and offen- sive to the smell." — Marcy and Hunt. " Palpitation of the heart at night." — Marcy. " Fulness of the chest." — Marcy and Hunt. " Rapid, laborious, and sighing respiration." — M. " Feeble, irregular pulse." — Marcy and Hunt. " Great languor, and disinclination to physi- cal or mental labor." — Marcy and Hunt. " Fretful and feverish." — Marcy and Hunt. " Frequent, painful micturition." — Marcy. " Pains in the kidneys just under the false ribs." " Especially adapted to hydrothorax and 27* 318 URTICA URENS. general dropsy, where the kidneys are more or less involved/' — Marcy and Hunt. URTICA URENS. Stinging ZV3 1& Acts especially on the skin, producing inflamma- tion of an nrticarious and (Edematous nature: the mucous membrane of the digestive organs ; gen- ito-urinaiy organs; mammary glands; and slightly on the brain. Its KEY-NOTES an 4 not known, but prominent characteristics ai Urticaria, "when the eruptionlooks pale. like the Btings of nettles, and requires to be rubbed all the time." — G. "The upper part of tho body enormously Swollen, pale and dropsical, and covered with confluent, small, transparent vesicles, tilled with serum and Budamina." — Kin "Sensation of soreness in the bowels while lying down, and on pressure, a sound as if the bow r els\vere filled with water." — Shaw. "Stools of mucus and blood." — Lippe. "Insufficiency, or entire want of secretion of milk after parturition." — Lippe. "Breasts swell, and fill with a serous fluid, and afterwards milk." — Fiard. ERECHTHITES — MITCHELLA — EUPHRASIA. 319 Hemorrhages from the womb, lungs, stom- ach, or bowels. ERECHTHITES HIERACIFOLIA. Fire Weed. Acts on the mucous membrane of the digestive and urinary organs, as an acrid emeto-cathartic ; and on the bloodvessels. Its key-notes are unknown; it is used in hemorrhages, dysentery, and diseases of the kidneys ; especially useful in hemorrhages. "This plant, sometimes called Senecio hiera- cifolia, has cured old ulcers on the legs. The bruised root was applied to the ulcer." — F. MITCHELLA REPENS. Partridge-berry. Acts especially on the genito-urinary organs ; on the muscular system, producing an exhausted state of the muscles ; and slightly on the nerves of mo- tion and sensation. Its key-notes are unknown. Is used in dis- eases of the uterine organs and kidneys. EUPHRASIA. Eyebright. Acts upon the upper portion of the respiratory 320 HELLEBORUS NIGER. mucous membrane, especially that of the eye. and nasal organs. Its grand key-notes are : " Profuse lachrymation, tears acrid and burn- ing."-G. " Coryza, with burning tears." — Hughes. "Catarrhal inflammation of the eyes and nasal organs, with profuse secretion of acrid mucus from the eyea and nose, with pain in the frontal sinuses/' — Kaue. Chemosia, HELLEBORUS NIGER. Chi Acts on the mucous membrane of the digestive and urinary organ ially on the serous mem- branes, striking down their functional power, so as to prevent the separation of effete principle! from the Berum, producing the various forms of dropsy of the brain, thorax, bowels, and cellular tissue, with which it i the cerebrospinal >\strm. The ganglionic nervous power of the liver and generative organs is more or less paralyzed. Lastly, it acts on the skin. Grand Characteristics. " Urine, after settling, looks like coffee- grounds.'' — G. u Diarrhoea of jelly-like mucus." — Raue. SAMBUCUS NIGRA. 321 "Slow comprehension." — Raue. u Shocks pass through the brain like elec- tricity." " Soporous sleep, with screaming and start- ing." — G. " Face pale and puffed." — G. u Nostrils, dirty and dry." — Raue. " Lower jaw sinking down." — Raue. " Chewing motions with the mouth." — Raue. " Frequent rubbing of the nose." — G. " Squinting pupils dilated." — G. " Easily made angry." — Raue. " Forehead drawn in folds, and covered with cold perspiration." — G. " Automatic motions of one arm and one leg."— Raue. Various forms of dropsy, from simple paral- ysis of the functional power of the serous mem- branes, coming on suddenly. Hydrocephalus. SAMBUCUS NIGRA. Common Elder. Acts on the skin as a powerful sudorific, and on the mucous membrane of the respiratory tract. Characteristics. Profuse debilitating sweats. Useful in catarrhal affections, whooping- 322 EUPATORIUM PURPUREUM. cough, suffocative; expectoration by day, scan- ty, tough. Suffocative attacks ; asthma of Millar. URANIUM. Irate of Acts especially on the kidneys, producii in the urine. Especially useful in diabetes, and ineonti- nence of mine. Excessive lacteal secretion. EUPATORIUM PURPUREUM. hw. Acts especially on the urinary organs and gan* glionic nervous system, Acts upon the digestive organs, but just how, La not known. Brand Characteristic** u Much smarting and burning in the urethra during urination. M — Dr. DRESSER, "Constant desire to urinate; passes but ft few drops at a time, and is obliged to make the effort very often." — Dr. B. L. DrSSSI " Suppression of urine, with restlessness and moaning. v — Dr. DRESSER. " Burning distress in the bladder/' — Dr. Dresser. EUPATORIUM PURPUREUM. 323 Deep, dull, aching pains in tlie bladder. Profuse urination. — Dr. Dresser. Urine mixed with mucus. — Dr. Dresser. " Dull, aching pains in the region of the kid- neys." — Dr. Dresser. Rheumatic pains in the lumbar region. u Numbness of the legs." — Dr. Dresser. Renal dropsy; body and extremities enor- mously oedematous ; scanty secretion of urine, and distressing dyspnoea. — Dr. Dresser. 11 The lower belly swollen and hot, in sup- pression of urine." — Dr. Dresser. " Excessive irritation of the bladder, with large deposits of lithiates." — Hale. "Catarrhus vesicae, attended with ulcera- tion." — Hale. Intermittent fever; "chill commences in the back, and then spreads over the body." — Hale. " Violent shaking, with comparatively little coldness." — Hale. " No thirst during the chill, but much fron- tal headache." — Hale. Fever for several hours ; nausea and vomit- ing, with thirst. "Not much sweat; in moving during the sweat, a chilliness would pass through the body." — Dresser. " Paroxysms come on at different times of the day, every other day." ! 324 STICTA PULMONARIA. Severe bone-pains. — Dr. Von Tagen. " Weak, tired, (insupportable feeling." Night sweats; hectic fever. " Head feels light ; cannot get rid of the sensation as if the head was falling to the left side." — Dr. Dresser. " All symptoms are worse on left side of the body." — Dr. Dresser. " A heavy, furred tongue; hrown along the centre, and a hitter, pappy taste, with the chill." STICTA PULMONARIA. Li This Lichen acta especially on the mucous n brane of tin' air-passages ; also affects the tihrous tissues, and the nervous system. CharUU d ri sties. Its great sphere of usefulness is in catarrhal affections of the air-p s, and rheumatisms. " Excessive dryness of the nasal mucous « membrane." — Dr. Boyce. "The secretions are bo quickly dried, that they are discharged after great effort* in the form of hard Bcabs." — Boyce. "The soft palate felt like dried leather." "Deglutition painful, from the same cause." "Cough at first dry and hacking, from tick- ZINGIBER. 325 . ling in the larynx, which finally extends to I the lungs." — D. S. Jones. " In sleeplessness of children, after surgical I operations (setting fractured leg, e. g.), I have 1 found it to act like a charm." — F. " It is often useful in cases of insomnia from various causes." — F. " The characteristic of Sticta in catarrhal affections (nasal), is a constant necessity of blowing the nose, but no discharge results; analogous to the well-known symptom of Nux vomica, futile calls to stool." — F. ZINGIBER. Ginger. Affects especially the mucous membrane of the intestinal canal. Grand Characteristics. " Bad, slimy taste in the mouth, with acid stomach and diarrhoea." — M. N. " Increased secretion of mucus, without ^ fever." — Strumpf. " Complaints from eating melons." — Ebn. Nasah. " Vomiting of slime, especially with old drunkards." — Strumpf. " Nausea after stool in the morning." — Fr. 28 326 ZINGIBER. Much flatulency. Diarrhoea, especially in the morning. "Diarrhoea from drinking impure wa1 often in the United States Army; relieved a few drops of the tincture in water." — Tai i "Smarting sensation below the larynx, fol- lowed by a cough, with rattling of phlegm/ 1 — Fb. "Urino. increased Becretion of; thick, tun bidj retention of after typhus." — Lii Menstruation too early, too profuse; Mood dark, clotted. Dry. hacking cough, with pain in the lungs and difficult breathing ; in the mornin pectoration. Dull aching in both ki. " Spasmodic pains in the abdomen, with un- usually severe tenesmus." — P>. " Distressing pyrosis.' 1 — IIklmitii. " Dysentery, with violent. Lancinating pains in the bowels/ 1 — Db. Rogers. "Just before and during stool a Bevere pain in the sacral region and bowels, of a writhii drawing character; the pains radiate upwards and downwards, until the whole body and ex- tremities become involved with spasms." — B, COLLINSONIA CANADENSIS. StOTU // Acts on the abdominal plexi . and through them on the whole intestinal canal, bul more especially upon the rectum and small in* tines. 1 1 also affecte the liver, kidneys, and heart ; hut just how, is not yet understood. The grand sphere for Collinsonia is in neu- roses of the bowels, where pain is one of the eOLLINSONIA CANADENSIS. 333 most prominent symptoms ; and especially in diseases of the rectum, such as constipation, hemorrhoids, diarrhoea, and dysentery. " Obstinate and habitual constipation, asso- ciated with hemorrhoids." — Dr. Fowler. u Severe weight in the rectum, with an in- tense irritation, itching, and a sensation in the rectum as if sticks, sand, or gravel had lodged . there."— Hale. " Constipation ; stools lumpy, and light-col- ored, with straining, and dull pain in the anus." " It is in constipation and hemorrhoids, from congestive inertia of the lower bowel, that Col- ; linsonia proves such a precious remedy, espe- cially in the latter months of pregnancy." — Hughes. "In large doses, it irritates the rectum so much as to set up a diarrhoea, soon running on into dysentery. It has not been used to any extent in complaints of this kind, but in proc- titis and rectal dysentery it should rival aloes." — Hughes. " Pains in the epigastrium, in constipation and piles." — Prof. G. W. Barnes. " Severe colicky pains in the hypogastrium every few minutes, with fainting ; has to sit down to get relief." — B. " Stools are all preceded and followed by se- vere pains in the hypogastrium." — B. 334 PLUMBUM METALLICUM. " Stools of mucus, or mucus and blood, or pure blood, with more or less tenesmus." — B. " Copious, watery stools, with nausea and fainting." — B. "Hemorrhages; blood dark and tough, en- veloped in viscid phlegm; previous discharge of blood per anum ; subsequent coetiv< — Dr. Liebold. PLUMBUM METALLICUM. L Acts on the cerebro-spii i m, and especi- ally upon the sympathetic nerv< em. Its action is so completely paralyzed, that nutri- tion of t he various tie specially the muscular tissue, La nearly, or quite destroyed The nervous centres arc Boftened and indurated, and we have anaesthesia, atrophy, paralysis; the bodily and mental powers are completely prostrated; spas- modic pains in the abdomen ; contraction of the colon, and obstinate constipation. Grand f ha racteri stirs. "Sensation as if drawing in from the abdo- men to the back, with great depression of spirits."— G. "Obstinate constipation, the feces eompo of lumps, packed together like sheep's dun. — G. " Constipation, with violent colic." — G. PLUMBUM METALLICUM. 335 " Sensation as if a rough body were travers- ing the rectum during stool." — G. " Severe colic, with contracted abdomen, and bending backwards." — G. " Much trouble with the urine, in not being able to pass it, apparently from want of sensa- tion to do so ; the will to do so cannot effect it, as if from paralysis." — G. Complete paralysis of the urinary organs. " A sensation in the abdomen, at night in bed, which causes the patient to stretch vio- lently for hours together; sometimes she must stretch in every possible direction, or she feels that she must do so, and this inclination is so strong that it is almost uncontrollable." — G. u Menorrhagia, with a sensation of a string pulling from the abdomen to the back." — G. " Cessation of the menses, on the invasion of colic, but they reappear after the paroxysm, or not again until the next period." — G. " Leucorrhoea, with a continual sense of draw- ing in from the abdomen to the back." — G. u Complete impotence, with excessive emaci- ation, and great debility." — Hempel. " Pale dry skin, with liver spots." — G. " Badly smelling sweat of the feet." — G. " Sciatica, with drawing, pressing pains." " Hectic fever, with dry hacking cough, and great exhaustion." — Hempel. 336- JALAPA. " Chronic spinal meningitis, when the para- lyzed parts soon fall away in flesh, and the limbs are painfully contracted." " Fluids can be swallowed without difficulty; solids come back into the mouth again." — G. " Long-continued stupid feeling in the head." — G. General or partial paralysis, with atrophy and w r asting away of the tissi; JALAPA. Jalap* Acts on the intestinal canal, augmenting it cretions, producing copious liquid >in- ponied with more or less spasmodic action of the intestines; with fever, Bhowing thai the great sympathetic Bystem is more or less involved; slightly affects the urinary organs. Its KEY-NOTES are unknown, hut prominent symptoms for its use are : Watery, sour diarrhoea, especially in infants, with restlessness and crying, nausea and vom- » iting; with griping pains in the bowels, and watery diarrhoea. Screams and nightly restlessness of infants. — Hahnemann. Painful diarrhoea of infants, with violent restlessness and crying. — Nenning. SCAMMONIA — DAPHNE MEZEREUM. 337 SCAMMONIA. Seammony. Acts powerfully on the intestinal canal, produc- ing copious watery stools, severe colicky pains, and inflammation of the mucous lining of the bowels. Its characteristics are unknown. DAPHNE MEZEREUM. Spurge Olive. Acts on the abdominal plexuses, and various parts of the sentient, nervous system. Increases the secretions of the intestinal canal ; producing copious watery stools, with more or less griping pains ; also nausea, vomiting, and gastro-enteritis. Especially affects the periosteum. Grand Characteristics. " Periostitis, and swelling of the bones, es- pecially on the tibia, with most violent nightly pains in the bones." — G. " Boring, pressing pains, coming like light- ning, which leavie the parts numbed." — G. Violent, nightly toothache. " Great emaciation ; muscles of the face tensely drawn like strings." — Hempel. Violent pain and pressure in the stomach after eating most simple things, like broth, milk, bread, &c. 29 338 GUMMI GUTT^ — ELATERIUM. " Chocolate -colored vomiting, with hard lumps in the epigastrium." — Hempel. u Prolapsed rectum, which remains strangu- lated ; very painful when touched." — Hempel. GUMMI GTJTTJE. Gambi Acts especially on the gastrointestinal canal, causing violent vomiting, purging, Byncope, and death ; all the Bymptoms \rry much resemble tliose of cholera. Important also in some a Meet ions of the eyes. Grand Characteristics* Violent vomiting, with purging and tainting. "Profuse watery diarrhoea, with colic and tenesmus/ 3 — Hempel. Diarrhoea, of water and mucus, with colic in the umbilicus during stooL The symptoms are aggravated while sitting, and in the evening. ELATERIUM. Fruit of Mvmordica EUU Acts on the gastro-intestinal canal in a peculiar manner. Dr. T. K. Chambers Bays, ** It causes an enormous flow of watery serum from the first mu- cous membrane that absorbs it. If its vapor be drawn up into the nostrils for a short time, it is a powerful errhine, and is followed by the secretion RHEUM. 339 of floods of water from the Sehneideriaii mem- brane. If it is dissolved in the oesophagus it causes such a deluge of the gastric fluids, that the stomach cannot contain them, and they are re- jected by vomiting. If it succeeds in passing the pylorus, a choleraic diarrhoea gashes forth, strip- ping the membrane of its epithelium, just like its morbid prototype." Its characteristics are unknown. RHEUM. Rhubarb. Acts on the nervous plexus of the abdomen, and through it, on the muscles of the bowels, through- out the whole length of the intestinal canal ; also on the liver, and urinary organs. Grand Characteristics. Sour diarrhoea, with cutting pains about the navel. " Much colic, w r ith very sour stools." — G. " Very sour smell of the child, which can- not be removed by any amount of washing and care in keeping it clean." — G. Fetid, papescent diarrhoea, with high-colored urine and distension of the abdomen. " Colic in children made w r orse, at once, by uncovering an arm or a leg." — Raue. 340 GROUP ELEVENTH. GROUP XI. Asafcetida, Valeriana, Valerianate of Zinc Scutellaria, Ambra grisea, Nux moschata, milium. Platina, ftioschus, Chamomilla, Castoiemn, Cypripedium, Agniu castas, Mephitis. Tma group constitutes our main remediee hysteria, and may be termed the hysterical group. "The ovaries, as the head-centre of the Bezual Bystem, musl n<>\\ be regarded a- the real fens et origo } the fountain-head of all hysterical aff tions. Eysteria extends its influence over the en- tire sexual apparatus; from its profound connection with the sympathetic Bystem, may extend its in- fluence to all the involuntary organs, and by its final extension to the cerebrospinal nervous - tern, may involve also all the voluntary muscles; but its original seat and constant wura must be found in the ovarii "Hysteria is as truly and as exclusively du< irritability of the ovaries, as irritable uterus and hysteralgia are to a similar condition of the uterus." Wk Hysteria is a purely nervoi , which, being to a great extent hereditary in its origin, finds its primary seat in the ganglionic <>r < I use it for almost every disease with great nervous irritability, with the best results; and hope the profession will develop its therapeutic properties. SCUTELLARIA. Skullcap. Acts on the great sympathetic, and, through it, on the cerebrospinal axis; especially affecting the motor spinal nerve-. Its key-notes are unknown ; but it is a most valuable remedy in many nervous diseases, es- AMBRA GRISEA. 345 pecially hysteria, sympathetic irritation of the nerve-centres in children, tremors and twitch- ing of the limbs, chorea, catalepsy, epilepsy, hydrophobia, and many spasmodic affections. It is especially adapted to the hysterical tem- perament. I once cured a case of gastralgia, of a vio- lent and obstinate nature, in a very fleshy, lymphatic, hysterical lady, with this remedy, after two days' trial with the usual remedies. AMBRA GRISEA. Gray Amber. Acts on the sympathetic and cerebro-spinal ner- vous systems, especially affecting that portion of the nervous system that presides over the sexual organs and motor nerves. Grand Characteristics. Extremely nervous, hysterical subjects. " Discharge of thick, bluish-w r hite mucus from the vagina," only at night. " Discharge of blood between the periods, at every little accident ; for instance, after a very hard stool, or after a walk a little longer than usual." — G. " Stitches in the ovarian region, when draw- ing in the abdomen, or pressing upon it." — G. " Pain as from soreness and violent itching; the vulva is swollen." — G. 346 NUX MOSCHATA. " During urination there is a burning, smart- ing, itching, and titillation of the vulva and urethra." — G. Hysteria, with fainting fits, and dry spas- modic cough. " Choking and vomiting can hardly be avoid- ed when hawking up phlegm from the fauces." — Raue. Frequent micturition of copious, pale urine. Spasmodic choking. Great languor in the morning. ( (old feel and le_ "Nervous vertigo, to which old people are subject*" — HuGHEa "Sleep disturbed by coldness of the body, and twitchings of the limbs." — (i. "Hastiness and QerVOUS excitement when talking/ 7 — Rai :e. Spasms of the facial muscles, NUX MOSCHATA. Nutmeg* Acts on the great sympathetic and cerebro- spinal nervous systems, especially affecting the generative organs of women, and the motor ner- vous system. G ra n d Ch a ra ( twist | vs. "Enormous distension of the abdomen after every nieal." — G. NUX MOSCHATA. 347 "Awakens with a very dry mouth; the tongue is so dry it sticks to the mouth." — G. " Sudden change from grave to gay, from -lively to serene." — G. " Excessive tendency to laughter." — G. " Nervous irritation of the intestinal tract; stomach and abdomen especially distended, and all her symptoms worse after every un- pleasant emotion." " At every menstrual nisus, the throat, mouth, and tongue become intolerably dry, particularly when sleeping." — G. " Leucorrhcea in women, who always awa- ken with a very dry tongue." — G. " Great pressure in the back, from within outwards, during the menses." — G. During pregnancy has great fulness of the stomach, with difficulty in breathing. Menses too early and too profuse, with dis- charge of thick, black blood; tongue and mouth very dry, particularly after sleeping. " Fainting, with palpitation of the heart, fol- lowed by sleep." — H. \ "Very sluggish flow of ideas." — H. u Pains in the teeth, from inhaling cold air, or taking warm drinks." — H. " Feeling as if the teeth were being grasped jto be pulled out." — Raue. 348 NUX MOSCHATA. " Especially adapted to people with dry skin, and who do not perspire easily." — Raue. "Spasms of the head and forehead/' u All the ailments are accompanied by sleep- iness and inclination to faint." — Lippe. "While eating, soon satisfied; headache from eating a little too much." — H. "Chronic diarrhoea, caused by pregnancy ." "Antidotes the effects of too large dose- Calc. c, in children." — F. " Diarrhoea, with disposition to faint. " — F. "Suppression of menses from exposure to the wet, with severe pains in the abdomen." — F. "SleepineM in some eases, disposition to faint in others, are remarkably characteristic of Nux moschata." — F. "Diarrhoea, undigested, or like chopped eggs, with loss of appetite and great sleepiness; in summer, with children.'' — II. "Menorrhagia; blood thick, dark, with such as have had catamenia very irregularly." — H. " Pain in sacrum, when riding in a carriage/' — H. "Sudden hoarseness from walking against the wind." " Cough when becoming warm in bed/' — H. Its great field of action is in diseases of an hysterical character. PLATINA. 349 PLATINA. Platinum. Acts upon the great sympathetic, especially the abdominal and pelvic plexuses, and upon the cere- brospinal axis, affecting both the motor and sen- sory nerves ; and lastly, it especially affects the generative organs of woman. The grand key-notes for platina are : "Very nervous spasmodic temperaments." — G. Hysteria, with much depression of spirits. Melancholia in females with uterine diseases. " Excessive sexual desire, particularly in virgin females." — G. " Voluptuous tingling in the vulva, and ab- domen, w T ith depression of spirits, anxiety, and palpitation of the heart." — G. u Mons veneris cold and excessively sensi- tive to the touch, cannot bear the napkins usually applied." — G. " Labor-pains are suspended by the very painful sensitiveness of the vagina, and exter- nal genital organs; the pains are spasmodic and excessively painful." — G. " Menses in excess ; blood dark and thick, with chilliness and sensitiveness of the vulva." — G. Metrorrhagic discharge of thick, black blood. 30 350 PLATIXA. " Albuminous leucorrhoea, only in the day- time, with great sensitiveness of the vagin — G. " Stool exceedingly difficult ; it adheres to the rectum and anus like soft clay." — G. " Much threatening of the menses to come on."-^. " Amenorrhoea, with painful pressure, a the menses would appear, with pain in the small of the back." — G. " Metrorrhagia, with sensation as if the hody was growing larger every way.'' — G. ••Ovaritis; the pain in the region of the ovary is of a burning character, occurring in paroxysms, with stitches ill the forehead, and excessive sexual desire." — (i. u Great bearing down to the genitals, with profuse menstruation." — G. ••Much anguish ; she feels as if she would lose her senses and die soon." — G. " Feeling of numbness, with trembling and palpitation of the heart." — G. "Anxiety, weeping, palpitation of the heart, with a numb feeling in the malar bones, as if the parts were between screws." — Raub. " Self-exaltation and contempt for othe — G. u The physical symptoms disappear, and the mental symptoms appear, and vice versd." — G. moschus. 851 " Past events trouble her." — G. " On entering a room after a walk every- thing looks small ; she feels large and looks down upon them." — Douglas. Hysterical cough from stifling behind the upper fourth of the sternum. Old syphilitic and sycosic affections. Indurations of the uterus. MOSCHTTS. Musk. Acts especially on the cerebrospinal and sexual systems, and upon the motor nervous system. Characteristics. " Especially adapted to hysterical parox- ysms, and nervous palpitation, even when it has gone as far as unconsciousness." Palpitation of the heart from nervous excite- ment. " Violent sexual desire, with intolerable tit- illation in the genital organs." — G. " Menses too early, too profuse, with intoler- able titillation in the genital organs." — G. " The sight of food makes her sick." — G. " Eructations, with hot saliva in the mouth." " Eructations tasting of garlic." — G. *• Vomiting of the food, then subsequent vomiting, and more vomiting." — G. 352 CHAMOMILLA. " Hysteric spasms, with fainting ; crying one moment, and next moment bursts out in in- controllable laughter." — G. u Nervous, suffocative constriction of the chest/' — Hughes. CHAMOMILLA. Chamomile* Acts especially on the sensory and excitO-DQ nervous system, and also extends its influence to the emotional nerve-centres. Also affects the pneu- inogastric nerve, and alimentary canal, especially the liver. Or a m d Characteristic* "Becomes almost furious about the pains; worse in open air and nights.' 1 — (1. " Often gives vent to her ill-humor, in spite of all restraint. n — G. "Very impatient, can hardly answer one civilly."— G. "Contrary to her condition in health, she is always out of humor, particularly at her menstrual period, when she is headstrong, even unto quarrelling/' — G. Can hardly speak a pleasant word. "Child is excessively fretful; must be car- ried up and down the room all the time; is only quiet then." — G. CHAMOMILLA. 353 u Child starts and jumps much during sleep." — G. "Child wants different things, and repels them when getting them." — H. Inflammation brought on by a fit of passion. One cheek red, the other pale. " The epigastrium is painfully bloated in the morning, with sensation as if the contents were pressing into the chest." — Raue. " Severe colic ; abdomen distended like a drum ; wind passes off only in small quanti- ties."— G. "Colic, with green diarrhoea and restless- ness."— G. "Abdominal pains, with frequent emissions of large quantities of pale urine." — G. " Diarrhoea : green, and watery, and slimy, or like chopped eggs and spinach." — G. " Green, watery, corroding stools, with colic, thirst, bitter taste, or bitter eructations." — G. Stools smell like rotten eggs. " Bitter taste, with bilious vomiting." — G. " Hot diarrhoeic stools, smelling like rotten i eggs.'— G. " Painless, green, watery diarrhoea; mixture of feces and mucus." — Raue. " Nightly diarrhoea, with severe colic, caus- ing the child to bend double." — G. " Hot all over, with thirst."— H. 30* 354 CHAMOMILLA. "Burning in the vagina, as if excoriated, with yellow, smarting leucorrlura." — G. "Frequent discharge of coagulated blood, with tearing pains in the veins of the lege and violent labor-like pains in the uteri] — G. "Frequent pressing towards the uterus, like labor-pains, with frequent desire to urinate: passes large quantities of pair urine." — (i. "Her pain- are spasmodic and dista ran hardly bear them : wants to get away from them; is very impatient" — G. "Dry, hacking COUgh; one elieek red and hot, the other pale ;md OolcL' 1 — ( I. k * Ticklillg in the pit of the throat : rau- Scraping, dry OOUgh; worse at night, even in sleep, especially with children taking cold in winter.? — EL "With the pains, hot and thirsty.'' — II. "Over-sensitive to open air; aversion to wind, particularly about the earn' 1 — II. 11 Face sweats, nfter eating or drinking/ 1 — II. M Warm sweat on the head, wetting the hair.'' Excessive sensitiveness to pain. " Sour-smelling sweat during sleep ; mostly on the head/' — 11. " Neither lying down, nor sleeping) no'r sweating, lessens the pain ; but it is relieved after sweat, or on rising/' — H. CASTOREUM — CYPRIPEDIUM — AGNUS CASTUS. 355 '•Puts his feet out of bed; soles burn." — H. " Violent rheumatic pains drive him out of bed at night, and compel him to walk about." — Freedly. CASTOREUM. Acts on the nerves of motion and the sexual organs. Its characteristics are unknown; is used in nervous, hysterical diseases (even in the form of paroxysmal cough, in chronic bronchitis. -F.) CYPRIPEDIUM. Large Yellow Lady's-Stipper. Acts on the great sympathetic, and especially on the cerebro-spinal nervous system, producing marked irritability, or hyperesthesia of the ner- vous tissues. A valuable remedy in hysteria, and many nervous diseases, where there is great hyper- esthesia and irritability of the nervous system. AGNUS CASTUS. Chaste-tree. Acts especially on the genito-urinary organs. There is no excitation of the sexual instinct, but complete prostration and impotence ; semen watery 356 MEPHITIS PUTORIUS. and deficient, with utter absence of erections: pro- motes menstruation and the secretion of milk. Ch a ra cterist ies. Impotence, with complete paralysis of the sexual organs. " Gleet; yellow, purulent discharge; old sin- ners, with sexual inability." — Hempel. "Induration of the testicles/' — IIkmpel. " Agalactia in young women ; milk much diminished." — Hkmpel. "Premature old age, which arises in young persons from abuse of the sexual powers, marked by melancholy, apathy, mental dis- traction, Belf-contempt, general debility, fre- quent loss of the spermatic fluid.' 1 — Bughes. Retention of urine, from paralysis of the bladder. MEPHITIS PUTORIUS. The peculiar t tfu Skv Acts on the motor nervoi kern and gei tive organs. Grand Charatt eristics. Adapted to neurotic diseases of an hysterieal character. In some forms of asthma it has a wonderful curative effect. "I have found it very useful in the asthma of an intemperate man." — F. MEPHITIS PUTORIUS. 357 Cough worse at night, and causes great dis- tress on inhaling. Its characteristics are unknown. Dr. Hol- combe says he has found it very useful in whooping-cough, and in many kinds of spas- modic, suffocating coughs. Whooping-cough, at night and after lying down, with suffocation; convulsions; vomit- ing. "Fine, nervous vibrations in bones." — Lippe. " Rheumatic, wandering pains, with much pressure to urinate, and shocks." — Lippe. Sensation in the head as if it became en- larged. Headache, with pain in the eyes, and weak- ness of vision. The letters become blurred; they run to- gether. " Wakens from sleep at night, with conges- tion of blood to the lower limbs." — Lippe. " Chilliness in the evening, with desire to urinate, and colic, as if diarrhoea would set in." — Lippe. 358 GROUP TWELFTn. GROUP XII. Cilia, ( lucurbita pepo & Santonin Teucriom, Spigelia, Artemii Filix mas, : physagrl Koiisso, Terebinth., Mercury, ■ lphiir. Tins group represents our main remedies for worms in tln> gastro-intestinal canal, and maybe termed our anthelmintic orentozoic group. Worms mosl frequently occur in debilitated, scrofulous, ca- chectic children, in whom the assimilating powers arc weak, the gastro-intestinal mucous membrane irritable, and in a low state of vital power. The partially digested food undergoes some other de- composition ; this semi-assimilated matter in the digestive tube is the hot-bed for the formation of intestinal entozoa. Now, this group of remedies acts especially on that part of the ganglionic or great sympathetic nervous system that controls assimilation and nutrition in the intestinal mu- cous membrane and mesenteric glands, so reno- vating and improving digestion, that the whole gastro-intestinal apparatus is enabled to perform its natural functions, and the hot-bed for those parasites cannot exist. Mercury, Sulphur, and Terebinth, will be found in their more appropriate groups. cina. 359 CINA. Wormseed. Acts especially on the ganglionic nervous sys- tem, that controls assimilation and nutrition in the gastro-intestinal canal, and, through it, on the cerebro-spinal axis, affecting more especially the motor nervous system; it also slightly affects the eyes and kidneys. Grand Characteristics, Especially adapted to lumbricoides ; not so much to ascarides. Constantly picking and boring at the nose. u Frequent swallowing, as if to swallow some- thing down the throat." — G. Scrofulous children are often ravenous for food. " The urine turns milky after standing a lit- tle."— G. " Exceedingly unamiable; nothing pleases the child."— G. " Will not lie awake five minutes without prying ; it must be rocked, carried, or dandled upon the knee constantly, day and night ; the mother and nurses are all worn out taking bare of the child."— G. Tossing, during sleep. " Short, hacking cough." — G. : 360 SPIGELIA. Grinding of the teeth, and tossing during sleep ; always cross when awake. Belly hard and distended. Diarrhoea always after drinking. Pinching colic in the umbilical region. Stools mixed with lumbrici. Itching of the anus. Spasms of children, resembling epilepsy. Santonine, the active principle of Cina, will generally be found far more reliable than Tina. The characteristics are the same that call for Cina. Lard, thoroughly applied to the anus, morn- ing and night, for two weeks, is said to be a certain cure for ascarides. SPIGELIA. Pink Hoot. Acts especially on the sentient nervous system of the head, eyes, chest, and abdomen ; irritates the in- testinal mucous membrane, causing mucous papes- cent stools. The cerebrospinal, or narcotic effi are, vertigo, dimness of vision, dilated pupils, spas- modic movements of the eyelids and facial muscles, and sometimes, general convulsions ; aiiects, espe- cially, the sclerotica and the heart. Grand Characteristics. " Dyspnoea ; can lie only on the right side, with trunk raised ; the least motion produces FILIX MAS. 361 great suffocation, with anxiety, and palpita- tion of the heart." — G. Palpitation of the heart so violent, that the walls of the chest are raised. "Waving palpitation ; not synchronous with the pulse." — Raue. " Purring feeling over the heart." — Raue. " Trembling carotids." — Raue. Rheumatic pericarditis, with violent palpita- tion of the heart, and anxiety. " Hemicrania ; the pain is increased by mo- tion, noise, and especially by stooping ; one or both eyes are generally involved in the disor- der." — Raue. Rheumatic sclerotitis ; pains are sharp and tearing ; with pressure on the eyeballs. "Nausea every morning before breakfast." Adapted to "anaemic and debilitated sub- jects;" and to scrofulous children afflicted with ascarides and lumbrici. "Should be carefully studied in cases of chronic rheumatic affections of the eyes." — F. FILIX MAS. Male Fern. Its effects and characteristics are unknown, but it is considered almost a specific for tape-worm. (Given in large doses of an infusion of the root.) 31 362 KOUSSO — CUCURBITA — TEUCRIUM. KOUSSO. Brayera Anthelmintics This has extraordinary powers for the destruc- tion and expulsion of the tape-worm. It appa to act exclusively as a poison to the worm. CUCURBITA PEPO SEMEN. Pumpkin Seed* This ads especially as a poison to taenia (tape- worm), and for the destruction of this parasite no remedy is more reliable. TEUCRIUM | Marum Verum). ( \if-th ;: This is a remedy of great value for ascarides, where there is great itching of the anus, creeping, crawling at the anus. Also for polypus noritm, a snuff, with creeping, biting sensation in the vi- cinity of the polypus. Ingrowing toe-nails. STAPHYSAGRIA. Sta\ Acts on the cerebrospinal system, gastrointes- tinal canal, genito-urinary organs, and skin. Grand Characteristics. " The teeth are black, or show dark streaks running through them." — G. STAPHYSAGRIA. 363 " Teeth turn black, and cannot be kept clean ;" gums spongy, and bleed easily. u The sound teeth, as well as those decayed, are very painful to the touch of food or drink." — G. " She is very sensitive to the least impres- sion ; the least word that seems wrong, hurts her very much." — G. " A feeling of weakness in the abdomen, as if it would drop." — G. " Sensation, as if the stomach were hanging down relaxed." — G. " Extreme hunger, even when the stomach is full of food."— G. " The more trouble she has with her gums and teeth, the more constipated she becomes." — G. u Much pain in the teeth, at the menstrual molimina." — G. " Mercurial affections of the teeth and gums; caries in the former, suppuration in the latter." — F. " Pot-bellied children, with much colic, and troubled with worms." — Raue. " Diarrhoea worse after drinking cold water." — G. " Bad effects of chagrin." — G. " Spermatorrhoea, in which the prostatic por- tion of the urethral mucous membrane is the 364 ARTEMISIA. seat of chronic inflammatory irritation, which sometimes extends into the ejaculatory canals, and seminal ducts." — Hughes. " Sensation of a round ball in the forehead, sitting firm there, even ay hen shaking the head." — H. " The least motion makes the heart beat." *-H. ARTEMISIA. Muffwort Acts on the cerebrospinal system, and alimen- tary canal. L'sed tor epilepsy in wormy children ; also for chorea, catalepsy, and somnambulism. CHINA. 365 GROUP XIII. China, Quinia, Ostrya vir., Polypori, Eupatorium perf., ]N~atrum mur., Arsenicum, Ipecacuanha, Gelseminuni, Cedron, Chanchalagua, Capsicum, Salix alba, Cornus florida, Ptelea, Kux v., Carbo v., Sulphur. The above group represent our true remedies for intermittent fever, and may be styled the anti- periodic group. All of them aifect, prominently, the ganglionic nervous centres, producing symp- toms similar to intermittent fever. They also af- fect, more or less, the cerebro-spinal nervous sys- tem. Arsenicum, Ipecac, Gelseminuni, Xux v., Carbo veg., and Sulphur, have been treated of in their more respective groups. CHINA. Peruvian Bark. Affects especially " that portion of the ganglionic -tern of nerves which presides over the functions I of the vegetative sphere; hence, the semilunar ganglion seems to be the chief focus for the action of Peruvian bark." The ganglionic nervous sys- J 31* 366 CHINA. tern is so influenced, that there are produced reg- ular paroxysms of periodical fever. It also has narcotic powers; the cerebral nerves are greatly irritated, which leads to congestions of the cere- bral vessels, as shown by the roaring, singing, buzzing, hissing, 1<>>> of hearing and vision, head- ache, fllghtinb88, phantasms, and \ e activity of the sensorial functions. It also aff ally the spleen and genitourinary md. lastly, the liver. (ha n (I ( h a racti ri sties. The system has been debilitated by the loss of vital fluids, especially blood, semen, by di- arrhoea, leucorrhoea, or over-lactation. Patient is worse every other day. u Sensation of great distension of the abdo- men, not relieved in the least by eructations or dejections." — ( 1. " Abdomen feels full and tight as if stuffed ; eructations give no relief." — G. "Offensive, painless, undigested stools, with much distension of the abdomen.'' — G. Diarrhoea of yellow, watery, undigested stools, with much flatulence, and no pain. " After eating fruit, undigested stools, some- times involuntary/' — H. The liver is swollen, hard, and tender. A good deal of colic every afternoon. " Bitter taste in the back part of the throat ; everything tastes bitter." — G. CHINA. 367 " Craves dainties, but hardly knows what." Ravenous appetite. " Salivation (years after having taken mer- cury) uninterrupted day and night, with great weakness, particularly of stomach." — H. " Menses too profuse, with sensation of great distension of the abdomen." — G. " Cessation of labor-pains from loss of blood, singing in the ears, and fainting, skin cold and blue."— G. " Hemorrhage after miscarriage (twins), with great loss of blood ; placenta retained." — F. " She cannot bear to be touched during labor- pains, not even her hands." — G. u Leucorrhoea before the menses, with pain- ful pressure towards the groins and anus; or bloody, fetid leucorrhoea, with contractions in the inner parts." — G. " Hemorrhages from abuse of chamomilla ; discharges clots of dark blood." — G. " Heaviness of the head, with loss of sight, fainting, and ringing in the ears." — H. " Intense throbbing headache, after exces- sive hemorrhage." — H. " Headache improved by moving the head up and down." — H. " Convulsions, with rush of blood to the • head and chest, with throbbing of the caro- tids."— G. 368 CHINA. " She thinks she is very unfortunate, and constantly harassed by enemies." — G. " Full of plans, projects, and schemes, especi- ally in the evening and at night* 91 — II. " Sleeplessness al night; he lies awake nearly all night, thinking, thinking, restless and un- easy, and miserable the next day." — Holcombb, Long-lasting, congestive headaches, affecting the whole brain, with deafness and noises in the ears, of a nervous origin. Neuralgia, the pain is excited by merely moving the affected parts, and gradually ri to a most fearful height. "The slightest contact causes darting, tear- ing pains." — Halt.. "Neuralgia may have disappeared tor the moment, hut the touching of the affected parts brings on the most horrid and intolerable pains." — G. Neuralgia of a periodical character in any organ of the body, aggravated by contact or motion. Congestions of any part of the body, with well-marked periodicity: worse every other day. " Weakly persons who have lost much blood, with singing in the ears, and fainting spells." —II. CHINA. 369 " Weakening night sweats till morning." — H. " Debility and other complaints, after loss of blood and other fluids, particularly by nurs- ing or salivation, bleeding, cupping, &c, or the whites, night sweats, seminal emissions, &c." — H. " Very debilitating morning and night sweats." — H. M Heat over the whole body, with the veins greatly enlarged." — Raue. Intermittent fever; paroxysms regular or irregular; retarding; thirst during the sweat; skin cold and blue; great congestion of the head; veins greatly enlarged; ringing in the ears, w T ith dizziness and enlarged feeling of the head ; sweats easily, especially at night ; pain in the region of the liver and spleen, on bend- ing or coughing; urine gives a voluminous, brickdust-like or fatty sediment, or contains crystals of urates ; cachectic sallow yellow- ness of the skin; anaemia, and great debility, anxiety, and palpitation; in miasmatic dis- tricts. " She often feels as if her garters were too tight and loosens them, and as if her waist were too tight and she must loosen that." — G. " Can only distinguish the outlines of dis- tant objects ; when reading, the letters are sur- 370 OSTRYA VIRGINICA. rounded with a white border; sees better after sleeping." — Raue. "Cough, with a granular expectoration dur- ing the day or in the evening; not at night or in the morning/' — II. "In swarthy persons, thin large stools, un- digested or not, usually with passage of wind, and sometimes colic, hut always worse in the morning; worst sleep after 3 a.m." — 1. C. ML Hypertrophy of the spleen from malaria. In all affections that China or Quinine is ho- moeopathic to. periodicity is one of the greatest symptoms. I have included the characteristics of the Sulphate of Quinine among the Chins charac- teristics, it being the active principle of China. OSTRYA VIRGINICA. Iran W <»i. Acts especially on the ganglionic abdominal ner- vous centres, and slightly on the cerebrospinal system. I deeply regret not being able to give the characteristics of this, the most valuable of all American drugs, for intermittent fever. It is the nearest known analogue to the Sulphate of Quinine, and to me it is the Quinine of North America. In sporadic and endemic intermit- POLYPORUS OFFICINALIS. 371 tents, in my hands, for the last two years, it has been a specific. Have never used it in epi- demic, malarial intermittents. I will give the method I have. adopted to prepare the remedy, and urgently call on the profession to develop .its therapeutic properties. Take a tree, from four to eight inches in -diameter, split off the outer, white sap, and leave the inner, red wood for use. Now saw this red wood into as thin pieces as is possible, .so as to reduce as much of the wood to saw- dust, as you can. Then take the saw-dust and thin slips, put into a boiler of pure, soft water; boil it six hours; then strain, and boil it down until it becomes the consistence of cream. Now place it on plates and dry in the sun until you have a dark-red powder. When it is ready for trituration and use, I use the second and third decimal triturations. POLYPORUS OFFICINALIS. Larch Agaric. Acts upon that portion of the ganglionic nervous system that presides over the functions of the liver and chylopoietic organs. The solid constituents of -the bile are increased, and the fluid portion di- minished. The hepatic cells .do not perform their ; functions, that of eliminating the excrementitious substances of the blood, consequently we have jaun- 372 POLYPORUS OFFICINALIS. dice, with all the various symptoms that accom- pany it ; with congestion, either acute or chroni and, if pressed far enough, it will produce inflam- mation of the liver, with enlargement and other lesions of that organ ; affects the whole intestinal canal and the urinary organs. ( i ra n (I ( h aracteriat ics. The solar plexus and ganglionic nervous system are so influenced as to produce regular periodical fever; type, quotidian or tertian; better in quotidians. Sporadic and endemic (not epidemic) dis- orders; and in the spring, summer, and winter. During the apyrexia the patient is tar from being well; lias headache; hitter taste in the mouth; tongue coated white or yellow; loss of appetite, and more or less pains in the abdom- inal viscera, especially the liver. Head feels light and hollow, with deep, frontal headache and laintness. Chill alternates with the fever several times a day. Not much thirst. More or less organic lesions of the liver and abdominal viscera, with anaemia and sallow, jaundiced condition of the skin. Intermissions very short; almost continued fever. POLYPORUS OFFICINALIS. 373 Urine thick and high-colored, or red and scanty. Perfect loss of appetite ; pale and ansemic. Loose, papescent stools, without pain. Ravenous appetite. Lienteria; stools undigested. Bowels inclined to be torpid, or loose, papes- cent, mucous stools. Stools of pure mucus, or mucus and blood, and bile, with great faintness and distress in the solar plexus, after stool, from portal con- gestion. Intermittent diarrhoea or dysentery. Nausea, and sometimes vomiting, Chill, light and short; fever, long, and fol- lowed by slight perspiration. Great languor, with severe aching pains in the large joints and bones of the back and legs. Great aching distress in all the large joints. Hectic chills and fever, in consumptives. Sick headache, from organic lesions of the liver. Periodical headache and facial neuralgia, Bilious temperaments. The effects of the Polyporus Pinicola are so similar, that it is useless to take up more space with it. 32 374 EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM. EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM. Boneset. Dr. Dunham says: "Its great action is upon the muscular system (or fibrous tissues), producing great soreness and aching ; said upon the gastro- hepatic system, producing a condition resembli s what is known as a bilious state." It affects the whole alimentary canal, producing green, bilious stools; it also affects the kidneys, skin, and bron- chial mucous membrane. Grand Characteristics* Its great field of action is in bilious inter- mit tents, with the following characteristics: " Intolerable aching in the back and I as if the bones were broken. " — (i. Severe, aching distress, and soreness of the limbs. u Painful soreness of both wrists, as if broken or dislocated." — G. " Calves of the legs feel as though they had been beaten; soreness and swelling of the feet." — Dr. Dunham. "These pains make the patient very restl* chill comes on in the morning; thirst several hours before the chill, which continues during the chill and heat." — Hale. "Vomiting at the conclusion of the chill." " Profuse perspiration." — F. EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM. 875 "Little or no sweat at any time during the disease." — Hale — Dr. Gray. "Great deal of shivering and trembling during the chill." — Dr. Gray. " Heavy chill early in the morning of one day, and a light chill about noon the next day." — Dr. Gray. " Vomiting of whatever is taken into the stomach, and of bile." — Dr. Gray. " Vomiting of a green liquid ; several quarts at a time ; with frequent, green, watery stools, cramps, and terrible thirst." — Dr. Gray. "Vomiting of bile, with great tenderness in the epigastrium, and trembling." Nausea ; frequent efforts to vomit ; extreme tenderness in the epigastrium, with fulness and tenderness in the hepatic region, from portal congestion. Paroxysm terminates with vomiting. Tongue coated thickly, yellow. "Urine scanty; dark mahogany color." — Hale. " Violent headache during the paroxysm." Head very sore and painful, as if bruised. "Soreness of the eyeballs." — Dr. Dunham. "Great weakness and faintness during the fever." — Douglas. "Dyspnoea very great, obliging the patient 376 NATRUM MURIATICUM. to lie with his head and shoulders very high." — Neidhard. "Influenza: great pain in the back and limbs; lassitude ; skin bathed in perspiration ; is pale and morbidly sensitive, and the excre- tion of a passive kind." — Raue. Coldness during nocturnal perspiration. NATRUM MURIATICUM. Salt act* ;;il!v an the blood, lymphatic sels, and glandular system* I to the blood, it causes a dyscrasia, resembling very closely a scorbutic dis- organization, with disposition to angry eruptions, ulcers, and inflammations. On the Lymphatic b; tern, it deteriorates its fluid, leading to disintegra- tion of the tissues. It increases the secretions of the glandular system. "Salt, which is a normal constituent of the animal body, especially of the blood, by which circumstance it is made evident that this agent is necessary to the animal body, a local excitant, causing a very considerable degree of local irritation ; a moderate quantity of it taken internally, excites the mucous membranes and mus- cular fibres of the prima* viae, promotes their secre- tions, the peristaltic motions of the intestines, and the digestion ; in a large dose, it causes burning and pain in the fauces and stomach, thirst, dryw and redness of the mucous lining, desire to vomit ; in still larger doses, it causes vomiting and diar- NATRUM MURIATICUM. 877 rhcea, which may terminate in fatal inflammation of the mucous membrane of the stomach and in- testines." It also produces vascular enlargement of the spleen ; lastly, it affects the genito-urinary organs, and the skin. Grand Characteristics. In inveterate, badly treated, or recent cases of intermittent fever. " There soon appears an eruption of hydroa, or fever blisters, which cover, like pearls, the upper and lower lip." — Raue. "Lips dry, cracked; upper lip swollen; breaks out around the mouth." — H. " Hard chill about 11 a.m., with great thirst, which continues through all stages ; the heat is characterized by the most violent head- ache." — Raue. " White-coated tongue, or map tongue." — — Raue. Sallow complexion. Pressure and distension of the stomach. "Scorbutic, putrid inflammation of the gums; bloody saliva, and difficulty of talking, as if the organs of speech w r ere weak." — Raue. "Great complaints about the dryness of the tongue, which is not very dry." — L. " Losing of flesh while living well." — H. " When the throat and neck of children ema- 32* 378 NATRUM MURIATICUM. ciate rapidly, particularly during summer com- plaint."— H. " Great aversion to bread, of which she was once very fond." — H. Bread is disgusting to the patient. " Feeling of great hunger, as if the stomach was empty, but do appetite." — G. " Very much nausea, particularly in femal using much salt food/ 1 — G. "She always has heartburn after eating." — G. " Great longing for salt." — (1. "Excoriating diarrhoea like water, only in the day time. v — ( •. "Constipation, with sensation of contraction of the anus." — (i. "Difficult expulsion of stool. Assuring the anus, with flow of Mood. Leavic nsation of much soreness in the anus." — (1. "Ripping up sensation in the anus alter stool.'— G. " Severe cutting pains in the urethra after micturition." — G. " This remedy is indicated in females, whose menses delay and decrease more and more, and every morning they awaken with a violent headache." — G. u Very sad and gloomy during the men- NATRUM MURIATICUM. 379 with much palpitation of the heart, and morn- ing headache." — G. " Terrible sadness during the menses." — G. u At the menstrual nisus, sweet risings from the stomach, and spitting of bloody saliva." — G. " Pressing and pushing toward the genital organs every morning; she has to sit down to prevent prolapsus uteri." — G. " Greenish leucorrhcea, particularly when walking in the morning." — G. " Uterine cramps, with burning and cutting in the groins." — G. " Very sad during labor; pains feeble." — G. " Chlorosis, chronic cases; cachectic individ- uals, with dead dirty skin ; frequent palpita- tion and fluttering of the heart; oppression and anxiety in the chest." — G. " Dryness of the vagina, which is painful during an embrace." — G. " Much itching of the vulva, with pimples on the mons veneris." — G. " Falling off of the hair from the mons ven- eris and labia majora." — G. " Dreams at night of robbers being in the room, so vividly, that she will not be satisfied till the house has been searched." — G. " Somnambulistic rising, and sitting about the room." — G. " Headache, as if bursting.; beating, or 380 . CEDRON. stitches through to the neck and chest, with heat in head, red face, nausea and vomit: before, during, and after catamenia, or during the fever stage, decreasing gradually after the sweat." — B. Awakens every morning with a violent. bunting headache. "Great inclination to weep, with great de- bility and great thirst." — I "Thin, watery, excoriating discharge! from the eves, after the abuse of Nitrate of Silver." — G. "Excessively sore* red, disgusting eyelids." — Kaue. ''Alter great bodily exertion, an itching, nettle-rash appears." — II. k - Hangnails; skin around the nails dry and cracked." — H. u Painful contractions of the hamstring — H. "After all kinds of cauterizations with Ni- trate of Silver." — II. CEDRON. Acts especially on the cerebro-spinal system, and the kidneys ; slightly on the bowels. Grand Characteristics. Is considered a specific for the bites of the venomous serpents of South America. CHANCHALAGUA. 381 Intermittent fevers, in low, marshy regions; in warm seasons, the paroxysms are accom- panied by violent cerebral symptoms. The paroxysms are quotidian, or tertian, in the afternoons or evenings. The chills and shivering generally very strong, with cramps, and tearing pains in the upper and lower extremities. " Palpitation of the heart, and hurried res- piration, with severe headache." — Marcy and Hunt. Dry heat, followed by profuse perspiration. "Numb, dead feeling in the legs; they feel enlarged." — Marcy and Hunt. * "Entire body feels numb." — Marcy and Hunt. " Profuse secretion of urine." — Marcy and Hunt. " Urine throws down a bran-like sediment." " Urine very high-colored." — Marcy and • Hunt. " Great deal of pain in the kidneys." — Marcy and Hunt. CHANCHALAGUA. Chironia Chilensis. I know nothing specific about this remedy, but it is claimed to be a most valuable remedy in ague. 382 CAPStcun axxuum. CAPSICUM ANNTJTJM. Cay nm I ' Acts on flic mucous membrane of the alimen- tary canal, especially the throat ; also on the genito- urinary organs, and ganglionic nerv< em. Grand ChanMCteHsti**, Burning and smarting, as though Cayenne pepper were sprinkled on the par Throat smarts as if from Cayenne pepper, with sensation of constriction on swallowrnj w * It lias bng been regarded as an efficient remedy in cynanche maligna and scarlatina anginosa." — Makct and Hunt. % - It promotes the separations of the slough*, and improves the constitutional symptoms/' u Equally efficacious in removing false mem- brane from tonsils, in torpid forms of diphthe- ria."— F. " Its extraordinary power to control the ca- pillary circulation, to bring excess of blood, and thence to scatter more than it has brought, enables it to remove congestions, to reduce swellings, as promptly and effectually as Bel- ladonna." — Marcy and Hunt. Excessive burning and soreness in the mouth and throat, with much congestion of the mucous membrane. " Diarrhoea, with severe burning in the SALIX ALBA — CORNUS FLORIDA. 383 lower part of the rectum, continued after stool."— G. Intense burning along the urethral canal. " Intermittent fever, in flabby, mucous con- stitutions; chill predominant; thirst in the chill, or during the chill and heat ; much pain in the back and limbs ; slimy, burning stools." — Marcy and Hctnt. Chilliness in the back. — G. " Much flatulent distension of the abdo- men."— G. " Coldness of the scrotum, with impotence ; atrophy of the testes, and shrivelled sper- matic cord." — Hempel. SALIX ALBA. White Willow. Affects the ganglionic nervous system, similar to intermittent fever, and is a very efficient remedy in this disease. Its characteristics are unknown. CORNUS FLORIDA. Dogwood. Acts especially on the gastro-intestinal canal, producing nausea, vomiting, violent pain in the bowels, purging and general derangement of the digestive organs. Through the ganglionic system it causes chills, fever, colliquative sweats ; depres- sion of the vital forces and loss of tonicity of the heart, and of the muscular fibre in general. 384 PTELEA TRIFOLIATA. Grand Characteristic** Its main sphere of usefulness is in intermit- tent and bilious fevers. " Paroxysms preceded for clays by sleepiness, dull heavy headache, and sluggish flow of ideas." " Chill, with cold clammy skin." — Hale. "Fever, with hot, moist skin, cerebral ful- ness, stupor, and violent, dull headache/ 9 — Hale. "Nausea, vomiting, bilious watery pi, io aurcns, Cinnamonum, Millefolium, Caulophyllnm, Tanaoetum, Gossyjiiuin, Belladonna, ( 'imicifu Platiua, Horax, • urea. This group especially affects the female organs of generation: the ovaries and their appendages (Fallopian tubes, uterus, vagina, ami mammas), and may be called the female group. SECALE CORNUTUM. Spurred Rye. The toxical action of Secale is directed against both the blood and the nervous system. " Whether the toxication of the blood is prior to the violent irritation of the nervous system, or whether the disorganizing action of the poison reaches the blood from the nervoiffe centres, seems, to some extent, immaterial in a therapeutic point of view." Acts most powerfully on the cerebro-spinal and ganglionic nervous system. SECALE CORNUTUM. 387 ^ibmer says: "At first the patients only com- plain of languor, and of formication in the tips of the toes and lingers, which sometimes look black- ish-blue in some places. Frequently it commences with nausea, violent vomiting, and pains in the stomach ; the abdomen becomes distended and hard ; the head feels heavy, dizzy ; the senses be- come blunted. At a later period the patients are attacked with violent convulsions of the hands, feet, knees, shoulders, elbows, mouth, lips, and tongue. These shift from one side of the body to the other, and are generally accompanied by in- tolerable pains ; at times by a burning heat, and at other times by chilliness ; sometimes they abate periodically, and then return again ; sometimes the spasms assume the form of emprosthotonos ; at other times, that of opisthotonos. These convul- sions most frequently terminate in epilepsy. They are very destructive to children. • Between the paroxysms the patients lie in an uninterrupted so- por; after the paroxysms, most of them manifest a craving for food, without being able to satisfy themselves. They are exceedingly feeble and lan- guid ; complain of dizziness and hardness of hear- ing ; their limbs are rigid and motionless. Some- times thev are attacked with violent diarrhoea ; the tongue swells very much ; the secretion of saliva is increased ; the eyes frequently become covered with a thick mist, so that the patients become blind, or see double. Their mental faculties are disturbed; melancholy, madness, intoxication, set in; the ver- tigo increases ; the pains now cease; sensibility is extinguished. The hands and feet are sometimes 388 SECALE CORNUTUM. covered with spots resembling flea-bites; they dry- up, as it were; the skin turns black, wrinkl whole extremities sometimes become gangrened and fall off. In this way the patients sometimes cape death, dragging their mutilated bodies about for months and even years afterwards. Many, how- ever, die within nine or twelve weeks. A number had relapses after the lapse of a year; most fre- cpiently in the months of January or February." "It was observed, in various epidemics, that the convulsions and pain in the limbs, with stupor, would prevail; and, in Other epidemics, gangrene of the extremities; hence tbe distinction between convulsive and gangrenous ergotism." It will be seen by this, that Secale vitiates the reproductive process, in its very beginning, and poisons the very fountains of lite, and is adapted to deep-seated, inveterate affections of the repro- ductive sphere. The most remarkable feature of the physio- pathological action of Secale, is upon the female sexual system. Wibmer says of it: "Xumerous experiments show that it excites the uterus to contract, and that, in ten to fifteen minutes after its exhibition, it causes the uterus to contract, and expels the foetus and placenta, without injury either to the uterus or the foetus, unless the drug is given in too large a dose, or at an improper period, [t is speci- ally during labor that it manifests this power of exciting uterine contractions. The continued use of this drug may, likewise, cause miscarriage. In animals that were killed by Secale, the uterus and SECALE CORNUTUM. 389 its ligaments were found inflamed, and an effusion of blood had taken place in the uterus, as well as in the vagina; the foetus was destroyed by asphyxia, in consequence of the excessive contractions." "Diet found, in his experiments upon animals, blood was discharged from the uterus, even when unimpregnated." Also, has a powerful action on the bloodvessels of the spinal cord ; diminishing the amount of blood in the spinal cord, and its membranes. Brown-Sequard says: "The two remedies most powerful in diminishing congestion of the spinal cord, are Belladonna and Secale." " These two remedies are powerful excitants of unstriped muscular fibres in the bloodvessels, in the uterus, in the bowels, and in the iris." Or and Characteristics. " This remedy is often indicated in thin, scrawny women, and in those who are afflicted with melancholy, anguish, dread of death; with constant sensation of pressure and bearing-down sensation in the uterus." — G. " The patient is of a passive character; of thin, scrawny, cachectic appearance, and sub- ject to passive hemorrhages." — G. "Passive hemorrhages; in feeble, cachectic people, the corpuscles are dissolved, particu- | larly when the weakness is not caused by pre- 1 vious loss of fluids." — G. " Passive hemorrhages; everything seems 33* 390 SECALE CORNUTUM. open and loose; no action in thin, scrawny, cachectic women." — G. " Copious flow of black, liquid blood; worse from the slightest motion, with convulsive movements in abortion." — G. "Strong tendency to putrescence; discharge of black blood; a kind of sanies, with tingling in the limbs, and great debility." — G. " Hemorrhage, with spasmodic contractions; every discharge of blood is preceded by a vio- lent, painful contraction of the uterus, or by distressing bearing-down pains." — G. "Labor; the pain is much prolonged, as if pressing and forcing the uterus, especially in thin, scrawny, cachectic women." — (i. "She has a constant sensation of bearing down in the abdomen ; it seems to her too con- stant and too strong to be effectual. v — G. "Labor-pains are weak, suppressed, or dis- tressing; in weak cachectic women, use the 200th dilution." Puerperal convulsions in scrawny, illy-nour- ished women, with too feeble labor-pains. " Lochia very offensive and thin ; discharge scanty or profuse ; may be painless, or accom- panied by prolonged bearing-down pains in thin, scrawny women/' — G. " The inflammation seems to be caused by suppression of the lochia or menses." — G. SECALE CORNUTUM. 391 Metritis, great prostration, extremities cold, frequent vomiting; the blood discharged from the uterus is fluid, mingled with dark, badly- smelling coagula. " Failure of lactation in thin, cachectic, scrawny females ; the breasts do not properly fill with milk ; there is much stinging in them ; she has been much exhausted with venous hemorrhage." — G. "All her symptoms are worse just before the menses." — G. c * Menses too frequent, too profuse, last too long, w T ith prolonged bearing-down pain ; cut- ting colic ; cold extremities ; cold perspiration ; great weakness, small pulse, and sometimes violent spasms." — G. " Suppression of the menses in thin, scrawny married women, who suffer much at the men- strual nisus, with continual, long-lasting, forc- ing pain in the uterus." — G. Leucorrhcea, jelly-like, alternating with me- trorrhagia, in thin, scrawny women, with pro- lapsus uteri and excessive menstruation. Moles, polypi, and morbid growths in the uterus, with prolonged forcing pains. u Putrid, fetid, and colliquative diarrhoea/' " Painful diarrhoea, with great prostration." — G. " Excessive, offensive perspiration." — F. 392 SECALE CORNUTTM. "Involuntary diarrhoea." — F. "Cholera infantum, great debility, vomiting and diarrhoea; much thirst; paleface; sunken eyes; dry heat ; quick pulse; restless md sleeplessness.' 1 — ( i . "Very thin, scrawny children, with shriv- elled skin, especially when there are spasmod twitchingS, sudden cries, and le\ erishness/' — G. "Twitching of single muscles; twistinj the head to and fro; contortion of the hands and feet, labored and anxious respirations." — G. "Cholera, cramps, and cold, clammy per- spiration; coldness in the back, abdomen, and limbs, with tingling in the limbs; cold, dry, livid tongue; serous vomiting; suppression of urine; vertigo and desire to sleep/' — ll.wv. " Hsematemesifl ; patient lies still, with great weakness, but no pain; lace, lips, tongue, and hands deadly pale, covered with a cold sweat : pulse frequent and thread-like." — Rate. "Partial paralysis of the ciliary muscle, which renders it difficult or impossible to read or see any length of time." — Hughes. " Quiet delirium, or grows wild with great anxiety, and a constant desire to get out of bed.'— G. " Ansesthesia of the limbs ; paralysis of the USTILAGO MADIS. 393 limbs, with convulsive jerks and shocks in the paralyzed limb." — Hempel. " Violent pain in the sacral region ; cannot bear the heat of the stove." — Raue. " The limbs become pale, cold, and shriv- elled, or cold and lead-colored, losing all sen- sibility." — Raue. " Skin dry and brittle, not emitting a drop of blood when cut." — Hempel. M Large ecchymosis ; blood blisters on the extremities ; becoming gangrenous ; black sup- purating blisters." — Hempel. " Dry gangrene of the extremities, the parts are dry, cold, hard, and insensible, of a uni- form black color, and free from fetor." — Hempel. " Worse from warmth." — F. " The ulcer feels as though it had been burnt ; discharges a putrid bloody fluid, and is sometimes decidedly gangrenous and pain- less ; in thin, scrawny, cachectic people." — G. 14 Desire to be uncovered, even in cholera, with cold perspiration ; worse from warmth." — F. USTILAGO MADIS.* Smut-Corn. Acts especially on the skin and generative or- gans. On the skin, it produces an eruption similar to rubeola ; rubbing any part of the body a few / 394 USTILAGO MADI>. moments, it would break out with this fine red eruption; on the face it came in patches like ring- worm (Herpes cin-inatus), lnit not vesicular. The eruption is about the size of a pin's head, itches violently at night, and constantly remains red and hard. The chest and joints arc more affected than other parts of the body. The whole scalp becomes one filthy mass of inflammation, two-thirds of the hair came out, and what was left in. was mostly matted together. A watery scrum kept constantly oozing from the scalp, so great as to keep the hair constantly wet. k * Shedding of the hair, both of man and h and sometimes even of the teeth." — RoULDf. Mules fed on it lose their hoofe."- EtouLnr. ( ha the genital organs of man, it produces sexual dreams every night, without emissions; great de- pression of the sexual system for weeks, with great relaxation of the scrotum ; constant aching pains in the testicles tor davs; Bevere, sharp, neuralgic pains in the testicles, more in the right ;mt aching pains in the right testicle for days; spells of violent pains in the testicles, more in the right; every five minutes sharp pains in the testicles that produced faintness ; two nights had a profuse cold sweat upon the scrotum, which was greatly re- laxed. On the generative organs of woman, it h; most powerful effect, but its true action has yet to be defined. I think the difference between the action of Ustilago and Secale on the uterus and tissues generally, is this : Secale acts on the striated USTILAGO MADIS. 395 or striped muscular fibres, which minister as a general rule to the animal functions. While Usti- lago acts more on the smooth or unstriped muscu- lar fibres and lymphatic glandular system, which preside over organic life ; it also especially affects ithe ovaries. It causes in the uterus constant ach- r ing distress, referred by the patient to the mouth of the womb. " In a cow-house, where cows were fed on In- dian corn infested with this parasite (Ustilago), eleven of their number aborted in eight days ; after their food was changed, none of the animals aborted." — Anl. (Med. Vetr. Beige and Rep. de Ph.). " Six drachms to two bitch dogs with young soon caused them to abort." "Fowls fed on this fungus lay eggs without shells." — Roulin. i Also affects the urinary organs, and slightly the digestive organs. Lastly, the lymphatic, glandular system, and I skin are especially affected. Grand Characteristics. I regret that I am unable to give its charac- teristics, but will give a few of what I think are characteristics. Acts better on tall, slim, very fair com- , plexions, and what might be called consump- tive persons ; also very lymphatic women, with clear, white skin. I ■ 396 USTILAGO MADIS. Menstruation too frequent, too profuse, and lasts too long. Suppressio-mensium from ovarian irritation, with much pain in the ovarian region, and flatulence and soreness of the bowels. Vicarious menstruation from the lungs and bowels. Scanty menstruation from ovarian irrita- tion. Menorrhagia at the climacteric period, with much pain on the top and side of the head ; with burning distress in right ovary; gone- ness in the epigastrium; the flooding lasts for weeks; blood dark-colored, with many clol and vertigo. Active and constant flooding, with frequent clots of bright red blood, with bearing-down pains. Passive hemorrhage; blood dark-colored, lasting many days, with anaemia, and dull, heavy headache. Abortion, with bearing-down pains, as it' everything would come from her. Deficient labor-pains, where the os is soft, pliable, and dilatable. Dysmenorrhoea of a congestive character, with much ovarian irritation ; severe pain in the ovaries, uterus, and back, every few min- utes. PULSATILLA. 397 Spasmodic pains in the left ovary, which is very sore and tender. Ovaritis; constant pain in the ovary, with sharp pains passing down the leg with great ra- pidity; ovary much swollen, and very tender. Intermittent neuralgia of the left ovary, which is large as a hen's egg, and very tender i to the touch. Between the menses, constant misery under j left breast at the margin of the ribs. Hypertrophy of the uterus. Vertigo at the climacteric period, with too frequent and too profuse menstruation. Nervous headache from menstrual irregu- larities. Neuralgia of the testicles, and spermator- rhoea. Urticaria, with intolerable itching at night. Copper-colored spots on the skin. Pustular ulceration of the skin. (For all that is known about the Ustilago madis, vide my Monograph, printed by Dr. E. A. Lodge, Detroit, Michigan ; and Hahne- » mann's Monthly, Ap. 1869.) PULSATILLA. Wind Mower. Acts especially on the vegetative or ganglionic nerves that govern nutrition, depressing and irri- 34 398 PULSATILLA. tating their action, so as to produce a statu similar to chlorosis, of a nervous character. It especially affects the mucous lining of the sexual organs, the eyes, cars, gastrointestinal canal, urinary organs, and skin. Causes a sub- acute catarrhal inflammation, with profuse mu- cous discharges, rarely going on to ulceration. If these discharge- are Buddeuly arrested, the serous and fibrous tissues take on an active inflammation. Its effects are erratic in character ; a blennorrhea of one mucous surface may change to another : for instance, a leucorrlnca may change to a bron- chitis or conjunctivitis. On the skin it produ an urticarious and vesicular eruption; also fetid sweat. On the motor nerves, il causes a sta rethism, twitching, tremors, and the motion of the body is perverted. On tfu nerves of sensation, il causes frequenl chil- liness, especially in the afternoon; hyperasthee neuralgia, especially of the uterine and abdominal plexuses. It also strongly affects the fibrous ti»ues. On the venous , it causes a state similar to varicosis. On the glandular system, it affects the b ovaries, mammas, and tonsils. Synovial membranes it affects, especially the small joints, the knee, hands, and feet, produci a rheuniatico-gouty inflammation. Grand Characteristics. Especially adapted to females with blue PULSATILLA. 399 eyes, very affectionate, easily excited to tears, and of a very yielding disposition. " Very tearful ; she weeps at everything, whether it is joyful or sorrowful." — G. " She is timid and fearful, and yet ex- tremely mild, gentle, and yielding ; sometimes silent and melancholy, with bad taste in the mouth in the morning; nothing tastes good." — G. " She w r eeps very easily about this or that; can hardly give her symptoms without weep- ing."— G. " Craves fresh, cool air;" much worse in a close, warm room. — G. " All her symptoms are worse towards even- ing; relieved in the open air, and worse on re- turning to a warm, close room." — G. " The forms of her symptoms are very changeable; she is very well one hour, and very miserable the next." — G. " Better from cold things ; worse from warm." — G. " She cannot sleep in the early part of the night, but sleeps late in the morning." " Chilliness, even in the summer, when warmly clad, with vertigo, throbbing head- ache ; pressure in the stomach ; pain in the uterus, and dysuria, caused by nervous debility or from wet feet." — G. ' 400 PULSATILLA. "Semilateral headache, with bad taste in the mouth in the morning, without thirst, with nightly diarrhoea and scanty urination." — G. "The blood is very changeable in its appear- ance; more apt to flow during walking in the daytime, and intermittent." — G. "Catamenia too Late and scanty, or sup- pressed, particularly by getting feet wet.* —II. * % Menstrual colic, with great restlec ring in every possible direction.'' — II. i% Menses supproscd, or How intermittently, with evening chilliness." — G. "Metrorrhagia, profuse at times, at other times intermittent, and mixed with clots; most profuse in persons given to reveries; in mild, tearful females." — G. " Scanty, slimy menses, appear too late." — G. Delayed menstruation, with much chilliness, and bad taste in the morning. "Dysmenorrhea, with pains so violent that she tosses in every direction, with cries and tears ; the blooJ is thick and dark, or pale and watery, flows by fits and starts, and worse in a close, warm room." — G. Amenorrhea, in tearful, yielding disposi- tions; pale face; difficulty in breathing; much pain in the small of the back ; much chilliness PULSATILLA. 401 in the afternoon, and very bad taste in the mouth in the morning. " Burning leucorrhoea, thin and acrid." — G. u Milky leucorrhoea, with swelling of the vulva, particularly after the menses." — G. " Leucorrhoea of thick, white mucus, espe- cially when lying, or before and during the menses, with cutting in the abdomen." — G. u Labor, the pains excite palpitations ; suffo- cating and fainting spells, unless the doors and windows are open ; she feels as though she must have them open." — G. u Labor-pains alternating with hemorrhage and restlessness." — G. " The breasts are much swollen, and rheu- matic pains extend to the muscles of the chest, shoulders, neck, axillae, and down the arms; she is fearful, tearful, but not thirsty." — G. " She weeps at every nursing ; the pain from nursing often extends into the chest, up into the neck, down the back, or changes- from place to place." — G. u Tension and contraction in the abdomen, as if the menses would come on, with nausea, and sometimes vomiting of mucus." — Raue. u Labor-pains grow worse towards evening, in mild, tearful temperaments ; no thirst." — G. ; * Mild, tearful women, who have but little milk."— G. 34* 402 PULSATILLA. u She can hardly find an easy position through the night, owing to the pain in the pelvic articulations." — G. u Flying rheumatic pains, with much chil- liness, especially after getting the feet wet.* — H. "Very Bluggish circulation, manifested by constant chilliness, coldness and paleness of the skin." — Raue. " Dizzy when rising from a chair, with chilli- ness/— G. " Drawing, rheumatic pains, frequently shift- ing from one part of the body to another; con- stant chilliness ; worse nights." — G. " Retention of urine, with redness, heat, and soreness of the vesical region externally." — Raue. " Involuntary emissions of urine, when sit- ting, coughing, or walking." — Jaiik. " After urinating, spasmodic pain in the neck of tli£ bladder, extending to the pelvis and thighs."— G. " Frequent and almost ineffectual urging to urinate, with cutting pain." — G. " Constant pressure on the bladder, without desire to urinate; desire to urinate, with draw- ing in the abdomen." — G. Scanty urine and no thirst. Orchitis, the testicles and spermatic cord PULSATILLA. 403 swollen and painful ; caused from cold or sup- pressed gonorrhoea. Thickly coated white or yellow tongue, with bad taste in the morning. " Morning sickness, vomiting of mucus ; pul- sations in the pit of the stomach ; bad taste in the mouth every morning on awaking; she has to wash it out soon, it is so bad she cannot bear it; nothing tastes good to her; absence of thirst, and nightly diarrhoea." — G. " She always has a very bad taste in the mouth early in the morning." — G. "Disordered stomach; nausea; vomiting; repugnance to food ; colicky pains in the abdo- men, and dizziness from looking up." — G. Cholera morbus caused by fat, rich food, with violent pains in the bowels ; worse in the evening and night; drawing, cutting pains around the navel. " Sour, bitter vomiting after fat, rich food." — G. " Gastric disturbance from rich, fat food ; she cannot sit long at a time, must walk about to relieve her pain." — G. " Loathing, nausea, and retchings after greasy food, with sour eructations." — G. " Pressure in the abdomen and small of the back, as from a stone, with disposition of the lower limbs to go to sleep when sitting, and 404 PULSATILLA. attended with ineffectual desire for stool." — Raue. "Obstinate constipation, in mild, gentle, tearful females, with very nauseous bad taste in the mouth in the morning, so very bad she has to wash her mouth out immediately on awak- ing."-G. " Discharge of blood and mucus during stool; pallid countenance, and disposition to faint, with bad taste iii the morning." — G. " Watery diarrhoea, usually at nighty with very bad taste in tbe morning. 91 — /< m, it causes cramps and clonic spasms. On the kidneys^ it causes congestion. On the sympathetic nerx U hi, it causes symp- toms resembling hysteria. Also affects the digestive apparatus similar to Helminthiasis. Its characteristics are not known. It is recommended by Dr. Lippe as " especi- ally suitable in St. Vitus's dance." CAULOPHYLLUM THALICTROIDES. 433 GOSSYPIUM HERBACEUM. Cotton Plant. Acts on the generative organs of women ; affect- ing, especially, the motor nerves of the uterus, pro- ducing uterine cramps and abortion. Characteristics are unknown. In the South, the green root, in decoction, is used in lingering cases of labor, with feeble pains ; and to produce abortion. Also, useful in dysmenorrhoea. CAULOPHYLLUM THALICTROIDES. Blue Cohosh. Acts upon the cerebro-spinal system ; affecting, especially, the motor and sentient nervous system, and the female generative organs. It also affects the muscular system, and small joints ; metacarpal, tarsal, metatarsal, and all the phalangeal joints. Grand CJiaracteristics. " Especially affects the uterine motor nerves, so as to cause painful contractions and menor- rhagia, and metrorrhagia. "Menstrual irregularities; the pains and sufferings are of a spasmodic character; scanty flow; sympathetic cramps and spasms of neigh- 37 434 CAULOPHYLLUM THALICTROIDES. boring organs: as the bladder, rectum, and bowels." — Hale. " The motor power of the uterus seems al- most entirely gone." — Hale. "The menstrual flow is retarded, from a simple lack of the excito-motor force, either in the Fallopian tubes, or the parietes of the uterus itself/ 1 — Hale. " Hemorrhage; due to deficient contractility, or deficient involution of the uterine tissues — Hale. Passive hemorrhages; an oozing from the lax uterine vessels, from debility of the exeito- motor nerves of the uterus. " Deficient, spasmodic Labor-pains." — Hale. Abortion ; the pains are irregular and spas- modic. "Protracted lochia, from atony of the ute- rus." — Dr. Krebs. " Reflex paraplegia, from an abnormal state of the uterus." — Hale. " Complete insomnia. " — LuDLAM. " In hysterical women, with rheumatism of the uterus, and many spasmodic symptoms." — Hale. Articular, inflammatory rheumatism of the small joints, in women. " Rheumatism of wrists and hands." — F. Hysterical spasms of the chest and larynx. ACIDUM SULPHURICUxM. 435 GROUP XV. Acidum sulphuricum, Acidum nitricum, Acidum phosphoricum, Acidum muriaticum, Acidum hydrocyanicum, Acidum carbolicum, Acidum fluoricum, Acidum benzoicum, Acidum oxalicum. M. Tartra considers that M four varieties may be observed in the eflects of the mineral acids. 1. Speedy death, from violent corrosion and inflam- ] mation. 2. Slow death, from a peculiar organic disease of the stomach and intestine. 3. Imper- fect recovery ; the person remaining liable ever I after to irritability of the stomach. 4. Perfect recovery." This group may r be called the corrosive or es- charotic group. ACIDUM SULPHURICUM. Sulphuric Acid. Acts especially on the ganglionic nervous sys- tem that presides over nutrition of the digestive apparatus ; upon the cerebro-spinal system ; upon the genito-urinary organs ; and upon the skin. Grand Characteristics. "Much debility, with sensation of tremor all over the body, without trembling. 9 — G. 436 ACIDUM SULPHURICUM. " Coldness and relaxed feeling in the stom- ach ; loss of appetite and great debility." — G. " Diarrhoea, with great debility; sensation of tremor all over the body, without trem- bling.'— G. "Hard stool, consisting of small black lumps, mixed with blood, accompanied with such violent prickings in the anus that she has to rise up on account of the pain, with sen- sation of tremor all over the body, without trembling:'— G. Valuable for lead colic. (Also Alumina.) " Hemorrhages of black blood from all the outlets of the body." — IIuches. Acidity of the stomach. "Aphthae; the mouth appears very painful, and the child is very weak; ecchymosis." — G. "When some general deep-seated dyserasia prevails, and the child is weak and exhausted, with no other symptoms." — G. " She always gets a distressing nightmare before the menses." — G. "Menses too early and too profuse; always preceded by a distressing nightmare; much general debility, and tremulous sensation in the whole body, without trembling." — G. ACIDUM NITRICUM. 437 "Metrorrhagia, with tremulous sensation all over the body, without trembling/' — G. "Leucorrhoea of sanguineous mucus, with a sensation as if the menses would come on." — G. " Milky or transparent leucorrhoea, without sensation." — G. " Climacteric age, with constant flushes of heat, and a tremulous sensation all over the j body, without trembling." Profuse perspiration, with great debility. Chronic headaches in leucophlegmatic tem- peraments, and relaxed muscles, with great debility in women subject to leucorrhoea. Dose, 30th, 200th, and occasionally the 3d dilution. Note. — There are so many chemical symp- toms in the pathogenesis of the Acids, which are perfectly worthless to us as to their thera- peutic value, that it is exceedingly hard to i pick out their characteristics. ACIDUM NITRICUM. Nitric Acid. Acts especially on the mucous outlets of the \ body, where the mucous membrane merges into t skin; the rectum and anus; vagina and mouth. \ It also affects the whole alimentary canal, espe- cially the liver, the glandular system, the cerebro 37* 438 ACIDUM NITRICUM. spinal system, genitourinary organs, the skin, and, lastly, the blood. Grand Chmrwcterittiicm, Especially adapted to diseased depending upon the presence of some virulent poison, such as syphilitic, mercurial, and scrofulous miasm-. Salivation and ulceration of the mouth, from abase of mercury. Spreading ulcers in the mouth and throat. Swelling of the parotid and submaxillary glands, with bleeding of the gums. Putrid-smelling breath; mouth full of fetid ulcers; bloody saliva; mouth very dry. Sore throtit, extending up into the DO discharges profuse thin purulent matter, with intermitting bteathing. "Much nausea and gastric trouhle, relieved by moving about, or riding in a carriage." — G. "Constant nausea, with heat in the throat." "Fat food causes nausea and acidity, the urine smelling like that of horses." — G. " Hard, difficult, and scanty stool." — G. "Diarrhoea; great pain during and after stool, as though the anus was fissured." — G. " Inclination to looseness of the bowels ; most violent cutting pain after stool, lasting for hours." — G. ACIDUM NITRICUM. 439 " Acute pain in the abdomen during stool ; worse in the morning;- stools brown and slimy."— G. " Very painful stools, with profuse discharge of blood ; the pain lasts so long, it is very ex- hausting." — G. " The patient is worse after twelve at night ; violent cramp-like pains, as if the abdomen would burst; with constant eructations." — G. " Old hemorrhoidal tumors, secreting much slime, and bleeding profusely after stool. " — G. " Proctalgia."— F. This is the best remedy we have for fissures in the anus. " Fissures of the anus, on going to stool ; pain in the rectum, as if something were torn away, or twitchings in the rectum, and spasmodic con- traction of the anus, many hours after stool." " Smarting more in the rectum than in the anus, immediately after stool, and continuing 1 two or three hours ; sometimes prolapsus ani, or discharge of much blood, accompanies these , symptoms." — G. Prolapsus ani, with much pain and smarting in the rectum and anus. " Typhoid hemorrhages ; great sensitiveness I of the abdomen ; green, slimy, acrid diarrhoea, with tenesmus." — Hughes. "Chronic hepatitis; gland enlarged; acts 440 ACIDUM NITRICUM. favorably, even if it is of a fungoid disorganiza- tion." — Hughes. " The urine has an intolerably strong smell, like that of horses. " — G. Extremely offensive urine. " Active h&maturia; urging after micturi- tion, with shuddering along the spine." — G. " Small blisters on the orifice of the urethra, and inner surface of the prepuce, forming chan- cre-like ulcers." — G. Balanitis and fig-warts, after abuse of Mer- cury, " Easily bleeding ulcere; look like raw flesh, with zigzag edges; exuberant granulations on its base."— G, ** In syphilis, its particular sphere IS the mu- cous patches, mUCOUS tubercles, and general weakness of constitution, denoting that the system has been poisoned by Mercury, or shat- tered by the disease itself/' — Franklin. u Mercurio-syphilitie inflammations of the fauces."— F. Secondary affections of syphilis, especially in broken and cachectic constitutions, accom- panied with emaciation, debility, caries of the bones, unhealthy ulcers on the surface, and great derangement of the nervous system. " Menses too early, too profuse, and the urine emitting an intolerably strong smell. " — G. ACLDUM NITRICUM. 441 " Violent pressure, as if everything were coming out of the vulva, with pain in the small of the back, through the hips, and down the thighs."— G. Leucorrhcea, consisting of mucus, which can be drawn out. Flesh-colored or greenish leucorrhoea. " Cherry-brown, and fetid leucorrhoea." — G. " Leucorrhoea, where a syphilitic taint is the basis of the affection." — G. The inguinal glands are sympathetically af- fected with the leucorrhoea. " Stitches in the vagina, from without in- wards, when walking in the open air." — G. Hard knots in the mammae. " Eyelids swollen, hard, livid ; copious yel- low discharge running down the cheeks." — Raue. " Old people, with great weakness and diar- rhoea." — Raue. Sleeps badly in the latter part of the night. Herpes, condylomata, tubercles, ulcers, and syphilitic eruptions, with sore, prickling, itch- , ing pains. One of the best known antidotes for all dis- eases of a mercurial origin. " Very often useful in affections occurring after typhoid fever, especially if allopathically treated with calomel." — F. 442 ACIDUM PHOSPHORICUM. ACIDTJM PHOSPHORICUM. Phosphoric Acid* Acts especially on the great sympathetic and cerebrospinal nervous Bystem; through it, it has a powerful influence on the generative organs, the urinary organs, alimentary canal, bones, and >kin. Gran d Characteristics. "The chief sphere of the curative action of Phosphoric Acid, is the nervous system : and in this it influences less the functional than the organic diseases, when these latter are not very grave and deep." — HUOHES. "Suited to individuals of originally strong constitutions, hut which have become weak- ened by losses of animal fluids, by excesses, vio- lent acute diseases, chagrin, or a long suco sion of moral emotions." — Te>te. "Trinks looks upon Phosphoric Acid, Iron, and China, as the three leading restorers of the sinking vital energies." "Is very weak, and indifferent to the affairs of life ; listless ; apathetic." — G. " Indifferent to those things that used to in- terest her the most." — G. " Conscious, but apathetic and indifferent in typhoid fever." — F. Great sense of weakness, with a remarkable ACIDUM PHOSPHORICUM. 443 state of indifference, from which she cannot arouse herself. Diseases caused by debilitating influences, with excessive emaciation, and great prostra- tion. " In children and young persons, who grow too fast, after self-abuse, or long grief." — G. Chronic consequences of grief, chagrin, care, anxiety, and disappointed love. " Dreadful pain on top of the head, as though the brain were crushed, after long-continued grief.'— G. " Delirium, drowsiness, and sopor." — G. Hypochondria, from sexual abuse. " It is probably through the nervous centres that it affects the male sexual organs, on which its influence is very powerful." — Hughes. " Impotence, especially when the sensibility of the parts is excessive, and the semen is dis- charged shortly after an erection, or without 1 an erection." Bad effects from sexual excesses, with de- bilitating night sweats. " Too early and too long menstruation, with pain in the liver; has to rise frequently at night, to pass large quantities of colorless urine. ,, — G. " Pain universally in the liver, during the menses." — G. 444 ACIDUM PHOSPHORICUM. " Profuse leucorrhoea, with itching, some days after the menses." — G. " Leucorrhoea, after the menses/' — G. " Uterine ulcer; has a copious, putrid, bloody discharge, with itching or corroding pain, or entirely destitute of pain.' 3 — G. "MeteOlistic distension of the uterus." " Metritis; great debility, with indifference to all about her; slow fever." — G. u Irritable uterus; it is distended with gas." u Scanty milk; debility and great apathy." — G. "She must often rise at night, in order to pass large quantities ofcolorlesfl urine." — G. " Urine like milk, mixed with jelly-like, bloody pieees, with pain in the kidney-/' "Phosphatic deposits, when these depend upon exeess of Phosphoric Acid, from waste of nervous tissue, or upon alkalinity of the urine, from nervous depression." — Hughes. Diabetes mellitus. " Gluey matter on the tongue, in choleraic diseases." " Bread tastes bitter."— G. " Mercurial, syphilitic ulceration of the lips, gums, and soft palate, with swelling of the bones ; condylomata." — Hempel. " Nausea, as if in the palate." — G. ACIDUM PHOSPHORICUM. 445 " Sensation as if the stomach were beinc; balanced up and down." — G. "Children, with pale, sickly look; great de- bility; painless diarrhoea, and tottering gait." — G. Meteoristic distension of the abdomen, "Clammy, sticky tongue; abdomen much bloated; great rumbling in the bowels, and painless, watery diarrhoea, in cholera epidem- ics/' — Raue. " Often specific in the diarrhoea which pre- cedes epidemic cholera." — F. " Copious, watery diarrhoea, with rumbling in the bowels." — Raue. " Stools, yellowish, and very offensive ; the child is very listless ; wants nothing, and cares for nothing." — G. " The diarrhoea, although of long continuance, does not seem to debilitate much ; the mother wonders that the child remains so strong with it all."— G. " White, gray diarrhoea." — Raue. " The stools are hard and in pieces ; she is obliged to rise frequently at night to void large quantities of colorless urine." — G, " Intense pain in the periosteum of all the bones, as if scraped with a knife. r — G. "Hysteric affections of young women, with irritable fibre, excessive sensibility and irrita- 38 446' ACIDUM MURIATICUM. bility, accompanied by extreme delicacy and sponginessof the organic tissue; vascular or- gasm, or atonic debility." — G. Cerebral weakness from brain fag Use from the 1st to the 30th. ACIDUM MURIATICUM. Muriatic or Hydrochloric A Acts especially od that pari of the ganglionic nervous system thai presides over the gasl ro-inl tinal canal and the blood. Also, affects the celrebro-spinal axis ; but I tliink this La a secondary affection, from the great irrita- tion of the ganglionic cent i Affects particularly the mouth and anus; also, the genito-urinarv organs and skin. (i rand (luirattrristica. "Cannot bear the slightest touch upon the anus, which often itches violently, and is not relieved by scratching/' — G. "Exceeding tenderness of the anus; she cannot bear the least touch, not even of the sheet." — G. "Largely-protruding piles; bluish, and ex- tremely sensitive and painful. v — G. " Varices of the anus, which are exceedingly sore to the touch : much prostration." — G. "If the anus be very sensitive, either with ACIDUM MURIATICUM. 447 or without hemorrhoids, Muriatic acid is sure to be the remedy." — G. " Diarrhoea, with intolerable itching of the anus, which is sometimes so sore that it can- not be touched. " " Watery diarrhoea ; stools and urine invol- untary." — G. Adapted to low fevers, where there is pu- trescence of the fluids. " Febris stupida ; constant sliding down in bed; groaning and moaning in sleep; mutter- ing and unconsciousness whilst awake/' — Raue. " Excessive dryness of the mouth and tongue ; it is heavy and paralyzed ; the pa- tient cannot move it at all, even if conscious." — Rale. " Pulse intermits every third beat." — Raue. " Scarlatina maligna; intense redness rap- idly breaking out all over the body, with coma; great anxiety and restlessness ; dark, bluish- red fauces." — Raue. Aphthae, and ulceration of the mouth and throat, with extremely foul breath.^ " Discharge of thin pus from the nose. ,, — Raue. Inflamed, swollen, and tender salivary glan 1 1 s ; ulcers in the mouth and throat slough and ex- tend together. 448 ACIDUM HYDROCYAXICUM. Sighing, great debility, and sliding down in bed. u It is one of the few medicine.- which have a specific action on the tongue; it has been used successfully for many affections of that organ." — HuGHES. " Leucorrhoea, with exceeding & sa of the anus, either from piles or from fissures." "Uterine ulceration; putrid discharge yr- noi act <>* putrid gases, but kills the Living germs developed in the process ot' putrefac- tion, striking directly at tl, .and not the effect. Its medical uses have been but tew. It is reported to have cured two malignant eases of 1 glanders. Dr. Hornby, of Poughkeepsie, has cured ca- tarrhal croup with it. Dr. J. P. Connely, of Des Moines, thinks it one of the best remedies for whooping-cough. Good in purulent conjunctivitis; used lo- cally (but must be much diluted) as an injec- tion in fetid leucorrhoea and ulceration of the uterus. ACIDUM FLUORICUM. 453 ACIDTJM FLUORICUM. Fluoric Acid. This acid is the most caustic and highly corro- sive substance known. It readily dissolves silica and silicic acid. As a solvent of silex in the ani- mal economy, it is especially useful. Glass ffi ener- getically acted upon by this acid; its transparency is instantly destroyed, and heat is evolved. " Its vapor is more pungent than chlorine, or any of the irritating gases." The organs and tissues it espe- cially aftects, I am not fully able to make out. but believe its greatest therapeutic action is upon the teeth, bones, cuticle, hair, faucial and pharyngeal mucous membrane, thyroid gland, genito-urinary organs, venous system, and ganglionic nervous system. Grand Characteristics* Its main sphere of action is in diseases of the vegetative tissues, of a chronic suppura- tive character. In action it closely resembles i Silicea. Great loss of memory. Falling off of the hair, with congestion of \ blood to the head. Baldness. Rapid caries of the teeth. Ptyalism. Dental and lachrymal fistula?. " Pains in the bones, with numbness and I 454 ACIDUM FLUOKICUM. powerlessness of the hands, and itching of the skin."— G. "Pains from below upwards." — P. f Excessive moisture of the hands and fe< Caries of the bones. Chronic inflammation of the pharynx and fauces. Hemorrhoids, with much congestion of Mood in the rectum. Much congestion of the sexual organs, "with menses too early and too profuse; thick and coagulated; an uncommon buoyancy of mind; she fears nothing, and is well satisfied with herself/ 1 — ( i. " Enlarged and indurated liver, from abuse of whiskey/' — Raue. Syphilitic erosions, mucous tubercles, exos- toses, and nightly bone-pains. ^ Squamous eruptions on the bod}'." — Hughes. " Tubercles on the forehead and face, even when ulcerating." — K ait. " Caries in consequence of syphilis, or abuse of mercury, especially of the temporal hone." — Raue. Varicose veins. Typhus, with decubitus. "Better able to endure fatigue; heat an J cold."— F. Whitlow, externally, solution of one-eighth ACIDUM BENZOICUM — ACIDUM OXALICUM. 455 of a grain to an ounce of water; the compress kept constantly moist; give the 30th or 200th internally. Bronchocele is said to be rapidly cured with it. ACIDUM BENZOICUM. Benzoic Acid. Acts upon the urinary organs, joints, fibrous tissue, and skin. Grand Characteristics. Especially adapted to rheumatic or gouty subjects. The urine is high-colored, with an exceed- ingly strong smell ; " dark-colored, and much heavier than normal." (See Nitric Acid.) Shifting rheumatoid pains in the joints. Concretions in the joints, from rheumatism or gout, with strong-smelling urine. Articular rheumatism, with strong-smelling urine. Symptoms and pains appear first on the left side ; then on the right. ACIDUM OXALICUM. Oxalic Acid. Acts especially on the spinal cord, and also upon the brain. u Its main sphere of action is on the nervous centres, which it paralyzes from below up- wards." " The loss of power in the lower exl remi- ttee — which is very characteristic — is accompanied 456 ACIDUM OXALICIM. with numbness, and neuralgic pains in the back and legs. As the poison advances up the spinal cord, paroxysms of Bpasmodically suspended piration and palpitation of the heart manifest influence." — HuGB It also, acts upon the pneumogastric nerve, the mucous membranes, and thejoinl id nd Characteristic** " Pain in the bark is often relieved by Oxalic Acid, bettor than any other remedy/' — Peters. Excessive lassitude of the body. " Great lassitude and weakness of the limbs." " Spinal neuralgia, with acute pain in the back, extending down to the thighs; numb- ness, tingling, and pricking in the lower por- tion of the spine/' — Ill'oin >. Wk Numbness, approaching to palsy." — Hugh] " All the pains seem to occupy only a small spot, half an inch to an inch in length, viz.: in the Eustachian tube, right wrist, right hypo- chondrium, region of navel, knee, &c." — Neid- HARD. This acid has been used so little, that we know not its characteristics. It ought to be remedy of great value. "It has been found useful in severe gastric sufferings of pregnant women, especially with ptyalism." — F. INDEX. Acidum benzoicum, 455 Acidum carbolicum, 450 Acidum fluoricum, 453 Acidum hydrocyanicum, 448 Acidum muriatieum, 446 Acidum nitricum, 437 Acidum oxalicum, 455 Acidum phosphoricum, 442 Acidum sulphuricum, 435 Aconitum napellus, 14 iEsculus hip., 149 Aethusa, 120 Agaricus, 103 Agnus castus, 355 Ailanthus, 120 Alcohol, 94 Alumina, 213 Aloes, 262 Ammonium, 247 Ambra grisea, 345 Angustura, 149 Antimonium c, 274 Antimonium tart., 48 Apis m., 302 Apocynum c, 315 Arnica, 58 Argentum, 264 Arsenicum, 254 Artemisia, 364 Arum triphyllum, 239 Asafcetida, 341 Asparagus, 317 Aurum, 269 B. Baptisia, 66 Baryta carb., 267 Belladonna, 73 Bismuthum, 278 Borax, 311 Bromine, 245 Bryonia, 29 Cactus, 25 Calcarea carb., 167 Camphora, 106 Cannabis ind., 112 Cannabis sativa, 314 Cantharides, 300 Capsicum, 382 Carbo Teg., 207 Carboan., 212 Castoreum, 355 Caulophyllum, 433 39 458 INDEX. CausticumJ 204 Cedron, 380 Chamomilla, 352 Chelidonium, 69 Chimaphila, 305 China, 365 Chlorine, 245 Chloroform, 100 Chanchalagua, 381 Cicuta vir., 105 Cinnamonum, 431 Cimicifuga, 44 Cilia, 359 in., 191 I ulus ind., 140 Coffea, 113 lib*, 307 ('Milium, 11") Oollinfoni*, 332 Corallium r., 9 Oolchioam, Ooloqynth, Cornus Solid*, 383 Crocus, 4L , 7 Crotalus, 2M Croton tig., 268 Cubebs, 308 Curare, 139 Cucurbita pepo, 362 Cuprum, 110 Cyclamen, 425 Cypripedium, 355 Digitalis, 41 Dulcamara, 223 Dioscorea, 331 Daphne mez., 337 E. Electricity, 201 Elaterium, 338 Euphrasia, 319 Eupatorium pcrf. , Eupatorium purp., Erechthites, 319 Erigeron, 315 Euphorbia, Filix mas, 361 Perrnm, 282 minum, 26 101 : ium, 433 Qraphitot, 215 Gtamml guttae, 338 Gymnocladus, 106 II. Hamamelis, 420 Helleborus niger, 320 Helonias, 288 Hepar sulph , 182 Hydrastis, 309 Itydrophobinum, 296 Hypophosphites, 288 Hyoscyamus, 83 INDEX. 459 Ignatia, 133 Ipecacuanha, 271 Iodine, 241 Iris ver., 250 Jalapa, 336 Juglans cin., 218 Kali bi., 196 Kali carb., 194 Kali chloricum, 310 Kreosote, 414 Kali hyd., 199 Kali brom., 246 Kousso, 362 Lachesis, 289 Lachnantes, 120 Leptandria, 261 Lobelia, 275 Lycopodium, 173 M. Manganese, 284 Magnesia, 221 Mephitis, 356 Mezereum, 337 Mercury, 329 Mercurius jod., 235 .Millefolium, 431 Mitchell*, 319 MoBchua, 351 N. >'atrum m., 376 Naja tripujians, 297 Nux mos., 346 Nux vom., 122 O. 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