Caltha

Caltha palustris, Linn.

Nat. order , Ranunculaceæ.

Common names , Marsh Marigold, Cowslip (American).

Preparation , Tincture of the whole plant when in flower.

Authority.

Spiritus, Rust's Magazine, 1825, as quoted by Roth, Mat. Med., 1, 326.

MIND

• Anxiety and restlessness.

HEAD

• Vertigo (second day).
• Vertigo and roaring in ears (after half an hour).
• Headache; dull drawing, from occiput over to forehead, with vertigo (after half an hour).

EYE

• Eyes dim.
• Lachrymation.
• Pupils contracted.

FACE

• Face pale, yellowish.
• Prodigious swelling of the face. [10.]
• Face swollen, especially around eyes.
• Swelling of face, white, soft, and puffy; extended some over whole body (second day).
• The swelling of the face does not subside until the eighth day.

MOUTH

• The tongue is covered with a very thick, dirty-white coating.
• Peculiar disagreeable impression on back of tongue (third day).

STOMACH

• Very great thirst (second day).
• Nausea (after half an hour).
• Vomiting, very painful (after half an hour).
• Griping pains in epigastric and umbilical regions (after half an hour).

ABDOMEN

• Abdomen distended.

STOOL. [20.]

• Diarrhœa (after half an hour).
• Copious alvine evacuations, with emissions of a good deal of flatulence (second day).

URINARY ORGANS

• Painful burning in urethra.
• Burning pain when urinating.
• Dysuria (after half an hour).
• Urine scanty and very red.

HEART AND PULSE

• Small, quick, and contracted pulse (second day).
• Pulse small, hard, rapid, sometimes intermitting.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

• Heaviness and numbness of the limbs (seventh day).
• Pain of stiffness and tension in the joints.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES. [30.]

• Tottering gait.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

• Trembling in whole body.
• Very great restlessness; the children roll on the ground in their agony.

SKIN

• Red spots on feet and legs.
• The inner surface of the thighs is covered with dry pustules (papulæ?), which cause itching and a painful tension, when walking. This pain extends into the whole thigh. The pustules remain three weeks, then desquamate and disappear.
• Large bullæ of pemphigus, in different parts of the body, especially on the limbs, back, and face, surrounded by a red ring, and itching a great deal. These bullæ vary in size; but the largest are not bigger than an almond, and are filled with a serous liquid. On the third day, these bullæ are transformed into crusts, and on the seventh day of the disease, and fourth of the eruption, they begin to fall off (third day).