Hyoscyamus niger

PNEUMONIA.

Rhus toxicod. If the case assumes a typhoid tendency, as shown by the tongue with its dryness and triangular red tip, and the excessive restlessness which keeps the patient tossing about, and the sensorium is blunted with low delirium. If this remedy does not, within a reasonable time, modify the symptoms and the delirium increases, also the stupor until the case is unconscious, no remedy surpasses Hyoscyamus. I am quite sure this remedy [Hyos,) is not so well and favorably known as it should be in this disease.

COUGH.

Character—Dry, hacking, persistent, spasmodic cough; little or no expectoration.

Aggravation—< when lying down.

Amelioration—> when sitting up.

Concomitants—Stupor or furious delirium; mucous râles in typhoid pneumonia.

Not a remedy of wide range in respiratory troubles, but so positive in its sphere that it becomes invaluable.

In typhoid pneumonia and scarlatina it stands close to Rhus toxicod., but the delirium or stupor is greater and will do more in those cases than the Rhus. If Hyoscyamus had no other use than here it would be indispensable. But it does the cough so markedly, < on lying and > on sitting up is often found in catarrhal colds, and even in well gone cases of consumption. In fact, in any case of this kind it must be remembered. Again it is particularly useful for the same cough in old people.