Abies nigra

CONIFERS AND EUPHORBIACEAE.

Conifers: Abies nigra—Stomach; Sabina juniperus—Abortion; Pinus sylvestris—Infantile atrophy. Terebinthina: Kidneys, bladder, etc.; Mucous membranes; Uterus; Typhoid states; Renal dropsy. Compare Arsenicum, Cantharis, Copaiva, Camphor, Phosphorus. Pix liquida—Lung; Eruptions. Compare Anisum stellatum. Thuja: Nervous system; Sycosis; Syphilis; Variola; Marasmus. Compare Pulsatilla, Kali bichromicum, Spigelia, Mercurius, Nitric acid, Natrum sulph., Euphrasia, Staphisagria.

The large order of Coniferae? or cone-bearing plants is the subject for our study to-day. From this order we obtain the different varieties of pine, hemlock, and spruce from which the different preparations of turpentine have been obtained. The principal remedies of this group you will see in the schedule on the board. They are the Abies nigra, or black spruce; the Sabina juniperus, one form of the juniper from which the oil of savin, a well-known remedy for the production of abortion, has been taken; the Pinus sylvestris, a variety of the pine; Terebinthina, or turpentine, obtained from many of the pines; Pix liquida, or pitch; and Thuja occidentalism the arbor vitae or the tree of life.

Abies Nigra.

I cannot forbear mentioning a symptom of this Abies nigra, a symptom, too, that has been frequently confirmed. I refer to the application of the drug in dyspepsia when the patient complains of a feeling as though he had swallowed some indigestible substance which had stuck at the cardiac extremity of the stomach. That is the main symptom and the keynote of the drug. There are also present the low-spiritedness, the hypochondriasis, and the constipation incident to dyspepsia.