Rhus glabra
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BhUB glabra, smooth sumach.
I. Provings. — i. Dr. A. V. Marshall proved a tinct, of the bark —I lb. to Oj. July 14th, 1865, took 30 dr. at 6 a.m., and 60 dr. at 9 and 12. Dull aching in forehead and vertex was felt shortly after each dose, and after last two pain about navel ; p.m., diarrhoea, increasing in frequency and severity towards e., when there was also great fatigue of lower limbs, which was painful on lying down. He slept well, and woke refreshed, with dull, heavy headache, dispelled by exercise. t5th. — 6 a.m., 90 dr. Cutting pain in umbilical region for a few m., also fulness and pain at top of head. 9, 120 dr. Pain in head and bowels constant. 2 p.m., 120 dr. Pressing pain in head continues; sensation of great fatigue p.m., increasing in e. No stool to-day. Sleep at n. disturbed by annoying dreams. i6th. — Woke with severe headache and great ^tigue. Stool, first part hard and dry, latter soft and moist ; pain in bowels ; no appetite. At 6 a.m. and at noon 120
dr. Symptoms continued unabated during d. N. disturbed by distress at stomach i dreams of flying through air ; profuse sweating. 17th.— Toole no more medicine on account of exhaustion, fatigue and pain experienced. Stool as yesterday. During this d. headache and pain in stomach continued, latter aggravated by cither food or drink. There was also sense of hunger ; tenderness on pressure at umbilical region ; scanty, high-coloured urine j pulse 88, skin hot and dry, thirst ; tongue white-furred ; stupidity, weakness of memory, indifference j pain in small of back -j profuse sweats at n. He had lost 2 lbs. in last 3 d. i8th. — Symptoms continued j back still more painful. Flat, alkaline taste in mouth ; hajmorrhage from 1. nostril and from mouth j sense of coldness, while skin feels hot ; aching of lower limbs. 19th. — Expelled two clots of blood from throat soon after waking ; bloody scabs in 1. nostril. Headache till breakfast, and a little p.m. Hungry at breakfast, but could eat little ; tongue same ; pulse 86 ; urine less deep i stool in m. as before, another — hard and dry — in e. Pain in back and legs continued. Distaste to society ; no desire to speak or be spoken to. 20th. — Stool nearly normal, and all symptoms ameliorated, save that 1. nostril was hot and dry, and bled freely three times. Also several small ulcers in mouth opposite bicuspids. 21st. — Very profuse sweat last n.; buccal ulcers very sensitive -, general debility, pressure in vertex, and cutting abdominal pains continue. Symptoms now subsided ; but ulcers in mouth continued for several d., and the largest of them had to be touched with chloride of zinc before it would heal. (Hale, New Remedies^ 2nd ed.)»