BENZOIN.

Lidera Benzoin, Meisner (Laurus Benzoin, L.; Benzoin odoriferum, Nees).

Natural order , Lauraceæ.

Common names , Spice-bush, Fever-bush.

Preparation , Tincture of twigs.

Authority.

J. S. Wright, U. S. Med. Invest., New Ser., vol. iv, 1876, p. 575, took a tablespoonful of tincture made from small limbs at 8 A.M., 2 P.M., and 6 P.M. (first day); 2 tablespoonfuls (second day).

• Hair oily (second day, and afterward).
• Wake from sleep with a sick feeling in stomach and bowels; tired feeling; turn often in bed (first night).
• Empty feeling in stomach and lower part of bowels (first day).
• Urine more frequent, and small quantity, of dark color, had to be up in the night to urinate twice. Bed swims, with sinking sensation, which made lying down on bed unpleasant. Had unpleasant, fearful feeling (third day).
• Stool soft, with pain before, in lower bowels (third day).
• Finger-joints swelled and lame (third day).
• Sense of touch fine, quick, and pleasant (second day).
• Hips feel crushed (first day).
• Pains in knees (third day). [10.]

Skin cold; feet and legs cold up to knees; remained cold in bed (first day).

• Feverish during the second night.
• Skin moist (second day).