Abies nigra

Volume I — Main text

ABIES NIGRA.

AhUi mgray Poir. Black Spruce. Nat. Ord., Conifene,

I. Prvvings,"!, MissL., act. 19, sanguine temp., very healthy, proved saturated solution of gum in alcohol at 98°. From 2 drops, no perceptible effects ; after 3 did not sleep as well as usual, and had a little headache ; after 4, very hungry, and wakefiil at n., bad feeling in head ; pain after a hearty meal. After 5 drops, chokinfiT sensation in throat ; easily out of breath ; pains in bones ; dulness during d., but wakefulness at n.; headache, commencing i h. after dose, until i h. before next} pain in small of back ; severe pain in stomach, extending to 1. side ; is very low spirited and exceedingly hungry. After 7 drops, headache increased; alternate heat and cold; bad dreams. Continuing to eet worse, she left off proving. (Dr. Seaman, Ohio Med. and Surg. Reporter y 1, 85.)

%. Miss B., St. 19, dark hair and blue eyes, took same tinct., 2 drops twice daily fdr 2 d., then 3 drops in same way. Some sense of fatigue. After 4 drops, distressing pain in stomach ; after 5, nervousness with dizziness. After 6 drops, cheeks flushed, head hot, severe headache ; total anorexia in m., but great craving for food at noon and n. ; pains and achinjg^ in bones $ inability to think or study j very melancholy ; sleepy during d., but restless at n. Continued 6 drops during 3 d. ; all symptoms increased, especially pain in stomach, which remained some days after omitting drug, actually worse than during proving. Constipation during proving, but still more for weeks after it. Catamenia missed twice : no irregularity before. Forced by sense of illness to discontinue proving. (Ibid.)

1. Dr. St. Clair Smith has frequently found chewing the gum produce sensation as of an undigested hard-boiled egg in stomach. (Allen*s Encyclopadiay 1,2.)

2. Aug. loth, 11.30 p.m. — I took 10 drops of i8th potency. After about ) h. I felt a severe pain in or about meatus auditorius extemus, which continued to increase for 5 m. or more, and then gradually subsided. The pain was quite peculiar and different from anything I ever before experienced. This was followed by slight dyspnoea, which was increased by lying down. It soon subsided, however, and I slept immediately after retiring, which I think was soon after midnight. I felt no symptoms on the following day, and at 10.30 p.m. I took 10 drops more, and retired in about half an hour. Soon after lying down I felt a choking suffocating sensation, as though my lungs were compressed, so that I could not fully expand them. (1 had experienced a similar sensation several years ago, when labouring under

&OTnt di<;orJer of the che^t,) There winsome im'rcaet! action of the heart; li di not heat histcr than i»ual, but harder, that U, the voSume ot blood which rntercd seemed to bt greater. The pain in meatus of i. car waA doC mj marked on e« previous^ bur sit 11 it wuh pLiinlv present. It seemed on thU occa&ion to fli about, not leitHng down on a single point. A»one. prtviou, the«e ymptomi tinyed ior i 5 or 20 m.^and then sub^kUd and did not return. On the ikitixcrding da; I took 5 drc)p& I ttmr^ a day, but did not develop any new «ymptom^ The »yti ptom before mentioned were present, but were not w marked a^ on the form ^m occasions, Aug. iSth, I took 6 drop of the 9th potency in c., but did not pcrcei' ^^H any symptoms. The next e. I took 12 dropA of the t;th, and developed in a marked ^^" degree the same symptoms as after 10 drops of the i8th. Nothing new, howe ■ appeared. I followed thi^ up by taking 6 to 1 5 drops of the 9th| but I think I

I tne plaine&t re^ult^ from about la drops of this potency, I have taken varioi

I potencies from the tincture up to the 3010^ and have invariably confirmed the pnivinif,

I to wit, pain in external meatuii, heavy slow beating of heart, dy^pncra^ and, finally

I sharp cutting pain* in the heart, Thi* lait was very severe from the 50th, »o wrvere

I that I was obliged to take Aconite to antidote it. (J. B. BSLL, hi J}., AUen*«

I Mftcyclrfa^jM, x, 241,]

Volume I — Appendix

Abies nlgra.^ — P. i, 1. 9 ^rom bottomland p, i,L 15 trom top, before ** meatus '' insert " 1."