Helleborus Foetidus

HELLEBORUS FŒTIDUS.

Helleborus fœtidus, Linn.

Natural order , Ranunculaceæ.

Common name , Stinkender-niesswurz.

Preparation , Tincture of the root.

Authorities.

1 , Bisset, Essay on the Med. Const. of Great Britain, p. 333, "poisoning," from Hahnemann's Hellebore; 2 , Gesner; Entdeckungen, 1, p. 167, "statement;" from Hahnemann; 3 , Dr. Demeures, effects of one drop, and of inhaling fumes while pounding it, Jour. d. l. Soc. Gal., 1st ser., vol. iv, p. 111; 4 , Oxford Magazine, 1779 (Hempel's Mat. Med., 1, p. 505), effects on various individuals of eating it; 5 , Cattell, symptoms compiled (?), B. J. of Hom., 11, 343.

MIND

• Dreadful anxiety, which, however, is relieved after vomiting, 1.

EYE

• Great difficulty in reading, in the evening, by candlelight, lasting four days. The sensation is that cause when the light flickers in a draught of air; he has difficulty in following the lines (after two days), 3.

EAR

• Thumping pain below and behind the left ear; this feeling soon passes off, 3.

MOUTH

• Smarting at the tip of the tongue, 3.
• My wife, who assisted in triturating this plant, experienced a painful sensation in the mouth, like aphthæ, 3.
• Excoriation of the mouth and throat, 5.
• Taste of manure in the mouth, tongue yellow in the middle, 3.

STOMACH

• Nausea and vomiting of food, which, and hour before, had been taken with relish and in moderation, 3.
• Several turns of nausea, without vomiting, nineteen hours after, 3. [10.]
• Sickness, 5.
• Constant inclination to vomit, 2.
• When pounding the plant, it seems that the epigastrium with difficulty keeps time with the inflation of the chest on inspiration, 3.
• Frightful pain in the pit of the stomach, 2.

ABDOMEN

• Colic, 2.

STOOL

• Violent purging and vomiting, with pain in the stomach, 5.
• Abundant and liquid stool during the night; next day, two liquid and whitish stools, with colic; again a liquid stool forty-eight hours after, 3.

CHEST

• Tightness of the chest; he can scarcely half draw his breath, 3.

NECK

• Numbness in the muscles of the neck (the sensibility of the part touch is blunted); it becomes stiff eighteen hours after, 3.

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

• Fatal convulsions, 5. [20.]
• Swooning, 5.
• Same general feeling as if he had come out of a severe sickness, 3.

SKIN

• They lost not only the epidermis, but their hair and nails besides, 4.
• The hair falls off, also the nails from the fingers and toes, 5.
• The scarf skin peels off the whole body, 5.
• Profuse discharge from the ulcerated surface (from application), 5.

SLEEP

• During the night the prover stirs a great deal (in his sleep), 5.