Euphorbium

Gum Euphorbium. The resinous exudation or juice of Euphorbia resinifera, Berg., exported from Morocco.

Preparation , Tincture.

Authorities.

1 , Hahnemann, Chr. K.; 2 , Hartlaub and Trinks, ibid.; 3 , Langhammer, ibid.; 4 , Wislicenus, ibid.; 5 , Alston, Mat. M., II, 431, local effect of juice of E. cyparissias, ibid.; 6 , Alex Benedictus, Pract., 12, 117, poisonings, ibid.; 7 , Erhardt, Pflanzenhist., vii, 293, general summary from authors, ibid.; 8 , Mayerne, Syntagma Prax. Observations, ibid.; 9 , Rust's Mag., xix, 3, 498, from application of Euphorbium (from Euphorbium peplus) for freckles, ibid.; 10 , Scopoli, from external application, ibid.; 11 , Siegesbeck, in Bressl. Samml., 1792, II, p. 192 (not found), ibid.; 12 , Spielmann, Instit. Mat. Med., p. 483, observations, ibid.; 13 , Tragus, Hist. des Plantes (not accessible), ibid.; 14 , Stapf, effects of application to freckles, ibid. (possibly the same case as No.

9 ); 15 , Pyl. Aufsätze, etc., effects of external application to the abdomen, ibid.; 16 , Veitch, effects of repeated doses of from 3 to 10 grains, Edin. Med. and Surg. Journ., 49, p. 487, 1838; 17 , Tim., a Guldenklee, a woman took some of the powdered gum in order to kill herself, Opera Med. Libr., vii, cap. 7, p. 312 (1677), from Wibmer; 18 , Claudi, a woman rubbed the juice of Euphorbium "vulgaris" (esula?) on a wart near the external canthus of the eye, Med. Jahrb. Oest., 1839, p. 480, Frank's Mag., 1, 743; 19 , Kerner, effects of juice of E. "vulgaris" on the face, Wurt. Corres. Bl., 1844, p. 188, Frank's Mag., 2, 80; 20 , Dr. E. H. Spooner, a lady got juice of E. cyparissias on her hands, and transferred it to her face, N. Eng. Med. Gaz., 4, p. 317, 1869; 21 , Dr. S. A. Merrill, effects of juice externally, Am. Obs., 1866, p. 550.

MIND

• Quiet, reflective; seeks quiet, though with inclination to work, 3.
• Earnest and quiet mood, even while in company with others, 3.
• Melancholy, 13 . [From Euphorbia lathyris, Archiv, 6. 3, 182.]
• Anxiety, 7.
• Anxiety, as if he had taken poison, 4.
• Apprehensive, solicitous mood, though not unfitted for work, 3.

HEAD

• Vertigo.
• Vertigo while standing; everything turned about, therewith he threatened to fall to the right side, 4.
• Violent attack of vertigo, while walking in the open air, even to falling to the left, 3.
• General Head.
• Screwed-in sensation in the whole of the brain and in the zygomata, with toothache, 1. [10.]
• Headache, as from disordered stomach, 1 . [From the dust of the powder, Archiv f. Hom., 6, 3, 164.]
• Violent headache, 18.
• Headache, as though the head would be pressed asunder, 4.
• Tensive pressure in the head, especially in the forehead and cervical muscles, in every position, 3.
• Sticking headache, especially in the forehead, 3.
• Forehead.
• Pressure in the right side of the forehead, 3.
• Dull pressure in the forehead above the left orbit, 2.
• Pressive pain in the forehead (after twenty-four hours), 4.
• Pressive pain externally in the forehead above the left eye, with lachrymation, and inability to open it on account of pain, 3.
• Dull, stupefying, pressive pain in the forehead, 2. [20.]
• Sticking pain in the left side of the forehead, 3.
• Vertiginous tearing in the left side of the forehead, on moving the head, 3.
• Temples.
• Pressive sticking pain externally in the temples, 3.
• Parietals.
• Stupefying pain in the forepart of the right side of the head, which then extends into the forehead, 2.
• Pressure in the left half of the brain, 1.
• Pressive-sticking headache beneath the right parietal bone, 4.
• Occiput.
• Pressive pain in the occiput, 4.
• Bruised pain in the left side of the occiput; he was unable to lie upon it, .

EYE

• Objective.
• The white of the eye covered with deep fine vessels, so that it looked a pale rosy-red, and slightly puffy; the cornea was somewhat dim; the pupils very small, somewhat drawn upward, insensible; the inner vascular zone of a dark brownish-red; vision was prevented by photophobia and lachrymation, 18.
• Glutinous sensation in the right eye, as though it were full of matter, 3.
• Subjective. [30.]
• Pressure in the eyes, as from sand, 2.
• Sticking pains, extending into the inner portion of the eye, 18.
• Biting in the eyes, with lachrymation, 1 . [From the dust of the powder, Archiv f. Hom., 6, 3, 165.]*
• Brow and Orbit.
• Left eyebrow and temporal region were swollen, red and hot, not very sensitive to touch, the upper lid hanging down over the lower, œdematous, and immovable; the eyes were watery, with sticking in them, and frequent vision of sparks, 18.
• Tearing-sticking pain in the orbit, extending across the eyebrow and lids (after two hours); both lids much swollen, the upper hanging down immovable; both were hot, 18.
• Lids.
• Pale-red inflammation of the eyelids, with nightly secretion of matter which agglutinates them, 2.
• Swelling of the lids, with tearing above the eyebrows, on opening the eyes, 3.
• Agglutination of the right eye in the morning, on waking, so that it was difficult to open it, 3.
• Heaviness of the eyelids; they close irresistibly, with reeling in the head, 4.
• Feeling of dryness of the lids; they press upon the eye, 4. [40.]
• Hardened mucus in the right external canthus, 3.
• Pinching in the left external canthus, 4.
• Itching in the left external canthus, disappearing on rubbing, 4.
• Lachrymal Apparatus.
• On raising the lid, which was very difficult, a gush of tears, 18.
• Pupil.

EAR

• Earache, in the open air, 4.
• Roaring in the ears, at night, 1.
• Ringing in the ear , also when sneezing, 3.
• Noises in the right ear, as from crickets, 3.

NOSE

• Sneezing, 1 ; (from smelling the powder), 4.
• Frequent sneezing without coryza, 3.
• Increased discharge of mucus from the nose, without trace of the coryza, 4.
• Profuse discharge of mucus from the nose, without sneezing, with suffocative biting therein, extending to the frontal sinuses, so that she could draw no air through the nose, 1 . [From the dust of the powder.]
• Fluent coryza, without sneezing, 2, 3. [60.]
• Violent ineffectual irritation to sneeze in the left nostril, 1.

FACE

• Paleness of the face, sickly look, 4.
• Swelling even of portions of the face not touched by the juice, 9.
• Erysipelatous inflammation of the face and external head, 12.*
• Violent burning in the face (from the application of the juice), 9.
• Swelling of the left cheek, with tensive pain, and when touched a bruised pain, 4.
• White swelling of the cheeks, feeling œdematous to the touch, lasting four days, 4.
• Red inflamed swelling of the cheek, with boring, gnawing, and digging from the gum into the ear, and with itching and crawling in the cheek when the pain is relieved, 3.*
• Excessive red swelling of the cheek, with many yellow vesicles upon it, which open and discharge a yellowish moisture (from the application of the juice), 14.*
• *Erysipelatous inflamed swelling of the cheek, with vesicles as large as peas filled with yellow liquid (from the application of the juice), 9. [70.]
• Tensive pain in the cheek, as if it were swollen, 3.
• Jerking-like tearing in the muscles of the left cheek, almost as in toothache, 3.
• Sore pain in the vermilion border of the lower lip, as if he had bitten it, 3.

MOUTH

• Teeth.
• Toothache, aggravated by touch and by chewing, in the next to the last left upper back tooth, 3.
• Pressive toothache in a left lower back tooth, disappearing on biting the teeth together, 4.
• A dull pressive pain in the two last back teeth of the left upper jaw, 4.
• Toothache, as if screwed in , in a hollow tooth, with jerking in it, as if it would be torn out, 3.*
• Sticking pain in the first back tooth of the left lower jaw, 4.
• Dull sticking pain in the last back tooth of the left upper jaw, 4.
• Toothache, on beginning to eat, with chilliness; a gnawing-tearing, together with headache, as if shattered by the toothache, with a screwed in sensation in the brain and in the zygomata, 1 . [From the dust of the powder.] [80.]
• Pain in the tooth like a boil, when touched, 1.
• Tongue.
• Coated tongue and almost all the usual concomitants of high nervous erethism, 21.
• General Mouth.
• A membranous pellicle peels off the upper part of the palate, 3.
• Sensation of dryness in the mouth, without thirst, 4.
• Burning on the palate, as from glowing coals (after five minutes), 4.
• Saliva.
• Accumulation of saliva follows frequent shuddering in the skin, 4.
• Accumulation of saliva, with nausea and shivering, 4.
• Much accumulation of saliva in the mouth, 3.
• Excessive accumulation of saliva, with salty taste in the mouth on the left side of the tongue, 4.
• Much tenacious mucus in the mouth, after the midday sleep, 2.
• Taste. [90.]
• Flat taste in the mouth, after breakfast, with a white-coated tongue, 4.
• Bitter, sharp taste, 3.
• Very bitter taste, 1.
• Foul, bitter taste in the mouth, after drinking beer that he relished, especially on the back part of the tongue, .

THROAT

• Profuse discharge of mucus from the posterior nares, 2.
• Burning in the throat, 5.
• Burning in the throat and stomach, as if a flame streamed out of it; was obliged to open the mouth, 4.
• Burning in the throat, extending to the stomach, as from Spanish pepper, with accumulation of mucus in the mouth, 4.
• Burning in the throat, extending to the stomach, with trembling anxiety and heat in the whole upper portion of the body; nausea, flowing of water from the mouth, and dryness of the cheeks, 4. [100.]
• Scraping and rawness in the throat, the whole day, 4.
• Inflammation of the œsophagus, 7.

STOMACH

• Appetite.
• Great hunger, with a lax stomach hanging down and a sunken abdomen; he ate much with the greatest appetite (after two hours), 4.
• Thirst.
• Thirst, 17.
• Thirst for cold drinks, 3.
• Eructations and Hiccough.
• Incessant eructations, 1.
• Empty eructations, 2.
• Frequent empty eructations, 3.
• Profuse empty eructations, 1 . [From the dust of the powder.]
• Hiccough, 17. [110.]
• Frequent hiccough, 3.
• Nausea and Vomiting.
• Nausea, in the morning (after twenty-four hours), 4.
• Nausea, with shuddering, soon, 2.
• Vomiting, 8.
• Vomiting, with diarrhœa, 7.
• Stomach.
• Relaxation of the stomach; it hangs down loose, 4.
• Inflammation of the stomach, 7.
• It caused a very severe pain at the pit of the stomach, 16.
• Agreeable sensation of warmth in the stomach, as after spirituous drinks (after three-quarters of an hour), 4.
• Burning in the stomach, 17. [120.]
• Burning in the stomach, as if he had swallowed pepper, 4.
• Burning in the stomach, as from glowing coals, 4.
• Burning sensation in the pit of the stomach, after eating, combined with pressure, 1.
• Contraction in the stomach from all sides towards the middle, as if constricted, with accumulation of saliva in the mouth and nausea, 4.
• Spasmodic contraction in the stomach, with eructations of air, 4.
• Spasmodic pain in the stomach, 4.
• Griping and clawing in the left side of the stomach, followed by constriction of the cardiac orifice, with increased secretion of salty saliva and shuddering in the skin, .

ABDOMEN

• Flank. [130.]
• Sore painful pressing outward in the left flank, and after micturition also in the right, 2.
• General Abdomen.
• The abdomen is sunken, as if he had none at all, with great hunger, 4.
• Rumbling and much moving in the abdomen, 2.
• Loud rumbling in the left side of the abdomen, as from incarcerated flatus, followed by emission of flatus, 3.
• Much emission of flatus, 2.
• Uneasiness and heat in the abdomen, 2.
• Sensation of emptiness in the abdomen, as after an emetic, in the morning, 4.
• Slight pains in the bowels, confined to one spot, but never with either purging or vomiting, and the pains when produced soon went off, 16.
• Most violent pain in the abdomen, 7.
• Agreeable sensation of warmth through the whole intestinal canal, as after spirituous drinks, 4. [140.]
• Griping through the whole intestinal canal, followed by thin stool, with burning itching about the rectum, 4.
• Excessive colic and tympanites, 7.
• Most violent colic, 17.
• Spasmodic flatulent colic, in the morning, in bed; the flatulence accumulates in the hypochondria and thorax, causing spasmodic pressing asunder and constriction, which is relieved by turning about, but immediately returns on lying quietly, 4.
• The flatulent colic was not relieved until he rested the head upon the elbows and knees, after which some flatulence was passed, 4.
• Hypogastrium and Iliac Regions.
• Anxious sore aching in the lower abdomen, 2.
• Pinching pain on the posterior portion of the ilium, 1.
• Pressive pain in the inguinal region, 4.
• Violent sprained and lame pain in the left side of the pubis, extending to the thigh, on stretching the limb after sitting, 2.
• Tearing pain in the left groin, as from a sprain, while standing, 3.

RECTUM. [150.]

• Burning sore pain about the rectum, 4.

STOOL

• Diarrhœa.
• Diarrhœa several times a day, with burning in anus, distension of the abdomen, and colic, as from internal soreness, 1.
• Profuse diarrhœa and vomiting, 17.
• Fatal dysentery, 6.
• Stool diarrhœalike, profuse, preceded by itching in the rectum, with urging, 4.
• Stool at first natural, then as if fermented, and thin like water, 4.
• Thin stool after some pressure, at last three hard lumps without difficulty, 4.
• Pasty stool (after three, ten, and twenty-three hours), 3.
• Pasty yellowish stool, 4.
• Clayey stool, preceded by itching in the rectum, with urging, 4.
• Constipation. [160.]
• Constipation of the bowels, 21.
• Constipation for two days, 18.
• Constipation for two days (secondary action?), 1.
• Hard stool, difficult to pass, 1.
• Stool scanty, soft, mixed with small lumps, about fifteen hours too late, 4.

URINARY ORGANS

• Discharge of prostatic fluid from the relaxed penis, 3.
• An itching stitch in the forepart of the urethra, when not urinating, 4.
• Urging to urinate; the urine was passed by drops, with sticking in the glans penis, followed by a natural discharge, 4.
• Frequent desire to urinate, with scanty discharge, 3.
• Strangury, 12. [170.]
• Much white sediment in the urine, 4.

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Erections without cause while sitting (after half an hour), 3.
• Erections at night, without emissions or lascivious dreams, 3.
• Intermitting, sharp, cutting stitches in the glans penis when standing, 3.
• Pinching, burning pain in the left side of the scrotum, 1.
• Tearing pain in the testicles, 1 . [From Euphorbia lathyris, Archiv f. Hom., 6, 3, 173.]

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

• Larynx.
• Violent irritation to a short cough in the upper part of the trachea, 3.
• Cough.
• Cough, caused by burning tickling in the upper part of the trachea, 4.
• Hacking cough, excited by slight crawling in the throat, 4.
• Almost uninterrupted dry cough, 1. [180.]
• Dry, hollow cough from tickling within the chest during rest, 4.
• Cough day and night, as from dyspnœa and shortness of breath, followed in the morning by much expectoration, 1.
• Respiration.
• Dyspnœa, as if the chest were not wide enough, with tensive pain in the right pectoral muscles, especially on turning the upper part of the body to the right, lasting ten hours, 4.

CHEST

• Deep inspiration is hindered by a sensation as if the left lung was adherent, 4.
• Feeling of warmth in the middle of the chest, as if he had swallowed hot food, 4.
• Spasmodic pressing asunder in the lower portion of the chest, 4.
• Front.
• Stitchlike pressure upon the sternum while sitting and standing, 3.
• Sides.
• Tensive pain in the left side of the chest, especially on turning the upper part of the body to the right (second day), 4.
• Constant sticking in the left side of the chest while sitting, disappearing on walking, 3.
• Stitches in the left side of the chest while sitting and standing, 3. [190.]
• Intermitting fine stitches in the left side of the chest while reading, 3.
• Stitching pain in the left side of the chest while walking in the open air, so that he is obliged to stop still, 3.

PULSE

• Pulse 78 in the morning (third day).

BACK

• Pain in the back, a pressure in the muscles, 4.
• Jerking-sticking pain in the back, 4.
• Intermitting violent stitches, always in one place in the middle of the back, while sitting, 3.
• Pinching pain in the left scapula, 4.
• Spasmodic pain in the dorsal vertebræ, in the morning, in bed, while lying on the back, 4.
• Nightly pain in the ischia, 1.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

• Rheumatic pains in the limbs, 15.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES. [200.]

• An internal painful drawing in the arm, as if associated with weakness, especially in the radius, humerus, and wrist, 2.
• Shoulder.
• Stiff pain in the right shoulder, especially if he stretches toward the left side, 4.
• Tension in the shoulder-joint like a paralysis, in the morning after rising, aggravated by motion, 4.
• Tensive pains in the right shoulder did not allow him to raise the arm very high, 4.
• Tensive pains in the right shoulder, disappearing after walking, but immediately returning with greater violence during rest (third day), 4.
• Painful drawings in the right shoulder, 2.
• Arm.
• Pressive pain in the upper arm, on the outer side above the elbow, in the morning, in bed, 4.
• Pain as from a sprain in the right upper arm, near the elbow, on moving the arm, 3.
• Forearm.
• An acute drawing pain in the ulna, 2.
• Wrist.
• Paralytic pain in the wrist on moving it, 3.
• Hand. [210.]
• Spasmodic drawings in the right hand when writing, 4.
• Pinching pain in the muscles of the right hand near the wrist, especially on moving it, 3.
• Intermitting tearing in the muscles of the left hand, 3.
• Fingers.
• Pressive pain in the ball of the right thumb, relieved by touch and motion, 3.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Weakness of the limbs on walking in the open air; walking is very irksome, 3.
• Feeling of deadness and coldness of the left limb, as if it would fall asleep, while sitting; not relieved by motion, and on walking about an acute, cold sensation internally in the limbs remains, especially in the leg and foot, 2.
• Hip.
• Painful lameness in the right hip-joint on stepping, 2.
• Burning pain at night in the bones of the hip and thigh ; he is frequently awakened thereby several nights in succession, 1.
• Pain as if crushed in the forepart of the hip, only on moving the body while sitting, not on sitting quietly, or while walking or when touched, 2.
• Pressive pain in the muscles about the left hip, 3. [220.]
• Pain as if sprained in both hip-joints, 1.
• Painful tearing in the muscles about the right hip-joint while sitting, 3.
• A pressive tearing in the muscles of the left hip, 3.
• Intermitting, stitchlike tearing in the muscles of the left hip while sitting, 3.
• Thigh.
• The limbs above the knees frequently go to sleep, with painful crawling in them and inability to continue moving them, 2.
• Tensive pain in the thigh on stepping forward, extending from the left gluteal muscles to the hollow of the knee, as though the tendons were too short, 4.
• Pain as if sprained in the left thigh, high up near the bend of the thigh, while walking in the open air, disappearing while standing, 3.
• Tearing pain in the anterior muscles of the left thigh while sitting, 3.
• Painful tearing in the muscles of the right thigh while standing and sitting, 3.
• Intermitting tearing in the muscles on the outer side of the right thigh while sitting, not while standing, indeed relieved by walking, 3. [230.]
• Pain, as from a blow, in the left gluteal muscles on motion, 4.
• Knee.
• Stitching pain in the inner knee while sitting, 3.

GENERALITIES

• Objective.
• General swelling, inflammation, cold gangrene, death, 11 . [From external application, Archiv, 6, 3, 179.]
• Inflammation of the external parts, 10. [250.]
• Great tendency to faint, 16.
• Faintness, 17.
• Subjective.
• The whole body seems relaxed and tired, 4.
• I gave it to others, but never more than six grains. Some said that it caused pains, others that it had no effect, and others that it purged; this was slight, and did not appear to be caused by the medicine, 16.
• The action of Euphorbium seems to be late in appearing, 2.

SKIN

• Objective.
• Scarlet red stripes on the left forearm, which itch when touched with the fingers, but disappear on rubbing with the fingers, with a sensation as if thin cord were under the skin, for several days (seventh day), 4.
• Eruptions, Dry.
• A reddish pimple on the chin, that, when touched, has a pressive pain, and is like a boil, 3.
• Right wrist somewhat inflamed and abundantly covered with miliary eruption on my next visit, 20.
• Eruptions, Moist.
• It is irritating to the skin, especially in irritable subjects, producing large vesicles filled with yellowish serum. This eruption is accompanied by more or less diffused redness of the skin of the affected parts. It seems to have special affinity for the face and head, producing in many cases, where the poison has been carried to these parts, violent phlegmonous inflammation, simulating very closely and attack of erysipelas, with great tumefaction, violent throbbing pains in the head, especially in the forehead and vertex, 21.
• Erysipelas bullosum, with violent fever, 19. [260.]
• Right cheek much inflamed, and covered sparsely with fine vesicles filled with thick white lymph; the erysipelatous inflammation was most marked in the malar region, being of a livid or dark-red hue, and extending along the outer and lower margin of the orbit at 10 A.M. (second day); felt slight roughness on my next visit, 20.
• Eruptions, Pustular.
• Pustules above the right eyebrow, itching, provoking scratching, and after scratching, exuding bloody water, 3.
• One case that came to me after the poison had become fixed, had to be treated with Sulphur and Mercury. The skin broke out in ulcerating, boil-shaped elevations, 21.
• Gangrene, 10 . [Original revised by Hughes.]
• Violent itching, with urging to stool, followed by stool five hours too soon, 4.
• Violent itching of the left lower lid, obliging him to rub it, 3.
• Fine itching on the back of the left hand obliges him to rub it, 3.
• Voluptuous itching on the prepuce that obliges rubbing, with discharge of prostatic fluid, 3.
• Corrosive itching, provoking scratching, on the right thigh, close to the hip, .

SLEEP AND DREAMS

• Sleepiness.
• Frequent yawning, as from insufficient sleep, 3.
• Great sleepiness after the midday meal, 2.
• Great inclination to sleep after the midday meal, 2.
• He cannot keep from sleeping during the day, 1.
• Stupid slumbering in the afternoon; he is unable to rouse himself, and desires to continue slumbering, 1. [280.]
• He slept at night with the arms stretched far above his head, 4.
• Sleeplessness.
• Sleeplessness, with tremulous tossing about the bed before midnight, and roaring in the ears; he was unable to close the eyes, 1.
• Awoke frequently and easily from sleep, 1.
• He is frequently wide awake at night, but he falls asleep again, 3.
• Sudden starting up as from an electric shock at night while lying awake in bed, 3.
• Dreams.
• Dreams about the transactions of the two days previous; after 3 A.M., 4.
• Vivid lascivious dreams, without emission, 3.
• Anxious vivid dreams at night, which cause him to cry out, whereupon he awakes, 3.
• Anxious, confused dream, without any end, 1 . [From the dust of the powder.]

FEVER

• Chilliness.
• Chilliness of the whole body in the morning, 4. [290.]
• Chilliness while walking in the warm open air, 1.
• Frequent sensations of chilliness, which induced her to put a shawl on her shoulders, although it was midsummer, 20.
• Constant chilliness, with constant sweat, 1.
• Sensation as though he was lacking in warmth and had not slept the whole night, and was completely washed out, wherewith all the veins on the hands had disappeared, 4.
• Shivering, 7.
• Shivering over the whole body, 4.
• Shivering over the whole back, with glowing cheeks and cold hands, 3.
• Heat.
• Heat (secondary action?), 7.
• Great heat the whole day; all the clothes seem burdensome, as if even his whole body was too heavy for him, as if he had carried a great load, 1.
• Fever, 15 . [Sympathetic of S. 56. -Hughes.] [300.]
• Fever, pulse 86, 18.
• High fever, 21.
• Feeling of heat over the whole face, with warm forehead and cold hands, without thirst, 3.
• Sweat.
• Sweat in the morning, extending from the feet over the whole body, with great heat, without remarkable thirst, 1.
• Cold sweat, 17.
• Sweat on the neck every morning in bed and on rising, 1.
• Sweat in the morning on the thighs and legs, but not on the feet, 1.
• Cold sweat on the legs in the morning, 1.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), Nausea; sensation in abdomen; on lying quietly, colic; in bed, while lying on back, pain in dorsal vertebræ; in bed, pain in upper arm; itching on leg; chilliness; sweat.
• ( Night ), Roaring in ears; pain in hip , etc.
• ( Open air ), Earache.
• ( Walking in open air ), Vertigo; pain in left chest; weakness of limbs; pain in thigh; tearing in muscles of leg; chilliness.
• ( After breakfast ), Flat taste.
• ( Chewing ), Toothache.
• ( Motion ), Tension in shoulder joints; pain in gluteal muscles.
• ( Moving head ), Tearing in side of forehead.
• ( Moving body while sitting ), Pain in hip.
• ( Reading ), Stitches in left chest.
• ( Rest ), Pains in shoulder.
• ( Sitting ), Sticking in left chest; stitches in back; tearing in hip-joint; tearing in thigh; pain in knee; tearing in tibia; tearing in left.
• ( Standing ), Vertigo; pain in pubis.
• ( Touch ), Toothache.
• ( Turning upper part of body to right ), Pain in left chest.
• ( Walking ), Pain in heel.
• ( Writing ), Drawings in hand; pain in heel.
• Amelioration.
• ( Biting teeth together ), Toothache.
• ( Motion ), Pain in thumb.
• ( Standing ), Pain in thigh.
• ( Touch ), Pain in thumb.
• ( Turning about in bed ), Flatulent colic.
• ( Walking ), Sticking in left chest; pains in shoulder; tearing in thigh; pain in foot.

SUPPLEMENT: EUPHORBIUM. Authority.

22 , Mr. Furnival, Journ. of Sci., vol. iii, p. 81 (Lancet, 1836-7 (2), p. 739), Mr. F. swallowed a teaspoonful; death.

• On swallowing the poison a sensation of burning heat in the throat and fauces, afterwards communicated to the stomach; incessant vomiting of watery fluid took place almost immediately; the tongue was covered with thick mucus; the pulse very irregular, and at least 150; the patient was in a cold perspiration and unable to speak intelligibly, 22.