Laurocerasus

Prunus Laurocerasus, L.

Natural order , Rosaceæ.

Common names , Cherry Laurel; (Germ.) Kirschlorbeer.

Preparation , Tincture of the young leaves (provings by Jorg with Aqua laurocerasi, prepared from 1 pound of fresh leaves, 1 ounce of alcohol, 6 pounds of water; from which 3 pounds were obtained by distillation; symptoms from H. and T. from the Aqua lauro., and also from the freshly expressed juice of leaves).

Authorities. ( 1 to 12, Jorg's provings ).

1 , Engler, took repeated doses of Aq. laurocer., 5 to 25 drops; 2 , Guntz, doses, 5 to 25 drops; 3 , Haase, 10 to 40 drops; 4 , Heisterbergk, 10 to 112 drops; 5 , Meurer, 5 to 35 drops; 6 , Kneschke, 5 to 45 drops; 7 , Kummer, 5 to 30 drops, symptoms only after 30 drops; 8 , Strœfer, 5 to 30 drops; 9 , Peinitz, 3 to 35 drops; 10 , Seyffert, 4 to 30 drops; 11 , Siebenhaar, 3 to 20 drops; 12 , Jorg, 4 to 14 drops; ( 13 to 38, from Hartlaub and Trinks's résumé Mat. Med ., vol. 1, p. 127); 13 , Hartlaub; 14 , Neuning; 15 , Trinks; 16 , Hartmann, Hufeland's Journ., 45, p. 115; 17 , Tournon, in Bull. des Sc. Méd., 1810; 18 , Lorry, de venen., in Haller's Hist. Stirp Helv., No. 1080; 19 , Raynor, Hufel. J., 46, 14; 20 , Harless, Rhein. Jahrb., 18, p. 187; 21 , Hecker, Arznm., 1, 309; , Thilenius, Med. Leg., 2, 191; , Richter, Arznm.; , Archiv d. Hom. Heilk., 4, pt. 2; , Schwartz, Prakt. Beob. and Erf., 1827; , Wolf, in Horn's Archiv, 2, 36; , Lewis, Mat. Med.; , Madden, Phil. Trans., 1731; , Ann. de Chim., 1817; , Vater, Diss. de Lauro., 1737; , Hermbstædt, in Orfila's Tox.; , Desbois de Rochefort, Mat. Med.; , London Chron., 1781; , Rutty, Phil. Trans., 1739; , Foderé, Med. Leg., 4, p. 27; , Mortimer, Phil. Trans., 37, p. 173; , Wahle, Archiv f. Hom., 15, 2, 161, symptoms observed in self and in a healthy woman from the 30th dil.; , symptoms by Siedel, from the last; , Kaempfer, from Thilenius, Wibmer; , Hayne, Hufel. J., 95, 1843, effects of 1 1/2 ounces of Aqua lauro. in a man.

MIND

• Emotional.
• Lively, good-humored, 14.
• Lively, joyous mood (after three hours), 14.
• Very good-humored, happy (after two hours), 14.
• Joyous, interested, at 2 P.M., 14.
• He is in good humor; his work delights him (after one hour), 14.
• Everything seems fresh and bright, and she is happy (after two hours and a half), 14.
• Sad; indisposed to everything (after one hour), 14.
• Very lachrymose and despondent mood; he would rather die than live, 37.
• Sad, joyless, depressed (after one hour and a half), 15. [10.]
• *Most extreme despondency, 27.
• Anxiety in the head, with internal and external warmth of the forehead, and unchanged pulse, disappearing in the open air (after one hour and a half), 15.
• A kind of oppression which puts him in an anxious mood; he is unable to work; he must leave the room and go into the open air; the depression does not leave him the whole day, 13.
• Great anxiety about trifles, in the evening in bed; he is unable to fall asleep, 13.
• Out of humor, sad, for a short time (after one hour), 14.
• Fretfulness (after 20 drops), 5.
• Everything frets him (after one hour), 15.
• Peevish, fretful mood, 38.
• Extremely peevish and ill-humored, 37.
• He is vexed and fretful about everything, at 2 P.M., 14.
• Intellectual. [20.]
• Inclined to mental labor (second day), 38.
• Hasty, impetuous (seventh and eighth days), 14.
• Everything is irksome; he goes unwillingly to his business, 37.
• Ideas flow slowly, 37.
• Memory weakened, at 2.30 P.M., 14.
• He forgets everything very easily (after four hours), 14.
• He has entirely forgotten the occurrences of yesterday evening (second morning), .

HEAD

• Confusion and Vertigo.
• Confusion of the head, 37 ; (after 7 drops), 12 ; (soon after 15 drops), 6 ; (five minutes after 5 drops), 9.
• Confusion, especially in the forehead (after 20 drops), 11. [30.]
• Confusion of the head, when reflecting and writing, 37.
• Confusion of the head involving the whole body, so that my general condition was depressed, and I was unable to work with my usual vigor (after 16 drops), 12.
• Confusion of the head, like that preceding violent catarrh (after 14 drops), 12.
• Confusion of the head, becoming a pressive pain in the forehead and orbits (after 35 drops), 6.
• The whole head feels confused (as if the brain were enveloped in a fog), 37.
• Confusion of the whole head, gradually becoming a true dull headache, especially in the temporal region and forehead (half an hour after 12 drops), 11.
• Vertigo, 20, 21 ; (after 20 drops), 10.
• Vertigo, worse in the open air (after half an hour), 14.
• Vertigo, after rising from stooping (after one hour and a half), 14.
• Vertigo and loss of ideas whenever he moves, in the evening, 37. [40.]
• Vertigo and confusion of the head, 13.
• Vertigo and dulness of the head, on rising from sitting, lasting a long time (after a quarter of an hour), 14.
• Transient vertigo (after one hour), 14.
• Transient vertigo, followed by sleepiness (after 25 drops), 10.
• Vertigo, so that he could scarcely keep erect, 22, 39.
• Vertigo; the head seems to be going round and round, 14.
• Vertigo, as if everything were turning in a circle, in the evening, 37.
• Vertigo, as if all objects were turning around, lasting a long time (after a quarter of an hour), 14.
• Dizziness and heaviness of the head (after one hour), 14.
• Sensation of intoxication, .

EYE

• Objective.
• Staring eyes, 23.
• The vessels in a small spot in the inner canthus of the left eye were injected with blood without pain, 37.
• Subjective.
• The eyes are dry; he feels increased warmth in them, 37.
• Dryness and burning in the eyes, in the evening, by the light, 14.
• The eyes burn, are dim and weak (sixth day), 14. [180.]
• Burning in the left external canthus (after three hours), 14.
• Burning and sticking in both eyes, especially in the right, and particularity in the inner canthus, for several evenings, 14.
• Transient burning in the right eye, at 4 P.M., 14.
• Violent burning in the eyes, in the evening by the light (second evening), 14.
• Pressure in the eyes, in the evening, 37.
• Feeling as though the eyes would be pressed out, though painless (after half an hour), 14.
• A stitch externally to the left canthus (after one hour), 14.
• Constant scraping sensation in the right inner canthus (after four hours), 14.
• Biting in the right eye as from salt, at 2 P.M., 14.
• Itching in the left eye, at 4 P.M., 14. [190.]
• Itching of the left eye, relieved by rubbing, after 2.30 P.M., 14.
• Itching in the left inner canthus, 14.
• Itching in the left inner canthus, which changes to pressure; in the inner canthus, vessels filled with blood extend branching like a tree towards the pupil, 37.
• Violent itching in the left eye (third afternoon), 14.
• Brow and Orbit.
• Violent aching around the eyes, especially the left, constantly increasing till the ninth day, 14.
• Drawing in the upper margin of both orbits, on exerting the eyes (after two hours), 14.
• Pressure towards the orbits from the head, and a feeling as though water would be pressed out of the eyes, followed during the day by increased lachrymation (after 14 drops), .

EAR

• External.
• Boring in the right external concha (after two hours), 14.
• Drawing in the muscles behind the right ear, 38.
• Fine stitches in front of left ear (after half an hour), 14.
• Middle.
• Burning pain in the left ear (after one hour and a half), 14. [220.]
• A feeling of distension in the right ear (after half an hour), 38.
• Earache, worse in the left (after two hours), 37.
• Aching in the left ear (after half an hour), 14.
• A pressive sensation in the right ear (soon), 38.
• Violent stitches coming out of the left ear (after two hours), 14.
• Fine stitch in the right ear (after one hour and a half), 14.
• Tearing, coming out of the left ear and behind it (after three-quarters of an hour), 14.
• Fine tearing extending into the right ear, not relieved by boring into it (after one hour and a half), 14.
• Crawling in the left ear (after one hour and a half), 14.
• Crawling deep in the left ear, not relieved by boring in it (after four hours), 14. [230.]
• Crawling in the right ear, as after going to sleep, soon after dinner, 14.
• Itching in the right ear, not relieved by boring into it (after half an hour), 14.
• Itching in the left ear, relieved by boring into it, at 3 P.M., 14.
• Hearing.
• Roaring and whizzing in the left ear, 37.
• Whizzing in the left ear, disappearing of itself (after one hour), 14.

NOSE

• Objective.
• Ineffectual attempts to sneeze (after three-quarters of an hour), 14.
• Sneezing, 37 ; at 2 P.M., and twice at 4 P.M., 14.
• Sneezing, with yawning, frequently (after half an hour), 14.
• Violent sneezing, followed by fluent nasal mucus, at 5 A.M. (second day), 14.
• The secretion of mucus in the nose is suppressed, without the slightest sensation of catarrh, 37. [240.]
• The catarrh becomes loosened (after two hours), 14.
• Stopped catarrh, on stooping, can get no air through the nose, in the morning (second day), 14.
• Subjective.
• Stoppage of the nose, as if coryza would come on, at 5 P.M., 14.
• Stoppage of the nose, she could scarcely get any air in (after three-quarters of an hour); can get no air through the nose (after one hour and a half); the stoppage of the nose loosens (after two hours), 14.
• Feeling of coldness as from ice near both wings of the nose, 37.
• Feeling in the nose as though catarrh would appear (after one hour and a half), 14.
• Feeling above the nose as in catarrh (third hour), 14.
• Feeling of fulness in the nose (after two hours and a half), 14.
• Cramplike pain in the right nasal bone (after a quarter of an hour), 37.
• Drawing extending up through the nose (after one hour and a half), 14. [250.]
• A pressing-forward sensation in the upper nasal region (after one hour), 14.
• Pressing-asunder pain in the nasal bones, 37.
• At one time sticking, at another pressing-inward in the root of the nose (after three-quarters of an hour), 14.
• Fine stitches externally in the right wing of the nose, at 2.30 P.M., 14.
• Frequent slight crawling and itching on the left outer wing of the nose, which, when touched on the inside, was painful as if ulcerated, 37.
• Tickling in the right nostril (after two hours), 14.
• Itching in the upper part of the nose (after three-quarters of an hour), .

FACE

• Sleepy look (after three hours), 14.
• Pale look (after seven days), 14.
• Face yellow, earthy, 37.
• Face stopped yellow, 37.
• The liver spots in the same seem to become more distinct than ever (after one hour and a quarter), 14.
• Puffy face, 25.
• The features become spasmodically distorted, (soon), 26.
• Cheeks.
• Burning internally in the right cheek (after one hour and a half), 14. [270.]
• Tension as if one pressed firmly with a nail on the left zygoma, with some itching (after three hours), 14.
• Chin.
• Inclination to close the teeth tightly, as in tetanus (after a few minutes), 38.
• A pain in the articulation of the jaw as if it would be dislocated, 37.
• A stitch near the left side of the chin, in the afternoon, 14.
• Fine stitch in the left lower jaw, while walking in the open air (after three-quarters of an hour), 14.
• Transient tearing in the left angle of the lower jaw, and the lower back teeth (after three-quarters of an hour), 14.
• Violent bruised pain in the whole jaw, lasting half an hour, at 7 P.M., 14.
• Gnawing as if in the bone, on the right side near the chin (after three-quarters of an hour), 14.

MOUTH

• Teeth.
• A back tooth in the left lower row seems larger and longer (after one hour and a quarter), 14.
• A painful sensation in the back teeth of the left side, relieved by biting the teeth together, 37. [280.]
• Boring and digging in the left lower back teeth, drawing back and forth, relieved by neither pressure nor biting upon them, during dinner, 14.
• Sticking pain in several teeth of the right lower jaw (after one hour), 37.
• A dull sticking pain in the teeth, now of the lower, now of the upper jaw; at one time beneath the parietal bone, at another beneath the temporal bone, 37.
• Dull sticking toothache, 37.
• Tearing in the left upper eye-tooth, relieved by pressing upon it (after one hour), 14.
• Tearing in the left lower back teeth, and in the gum (after one hour and a quarter); relieved by cold water, 14.
• Gnawing and boring in the right lower teeth, during supper, frequently intermitting disappearing after eating, 14.
• Violent jerking toothache in the left lower row, in the evening, 14.
• Tongue.
• Tongue coated white, 37.
• Tongue coated with dirty white mucus in the morning, and the taste in the mouth was flat, as if he had had a paroxysm of ague; he even felt an emptiness and goneness in the stomach, 37. [290.]
• The left side of the tongue was swollen and stiff, painful as if something was sticking into it; two evenings in succession, 37.
• Tongue dry (after a quarter of an hour), 14.
• The tongue is dry and raw after eating, with accumulation of saliva in the mouth, 37.
• The back of the tongue was sticky, with constant watery saliva in the forepart of the mouth, 37.
• Burning on the tip of the tongue, as from a cut; soon disappearing (after four hours), 14.
• A feeling as if the tongue had been burnt, causing a sensation as if blunted, after eating, 37.
• Sore pain on the margin of the tongue, 37.
• General Mouth.

THROAT

• Objective.
• Ineffectual hawking (after five minutes), 14.
• Frequent hawking on account of rawness in the throat (after three-quarters of an hour), 14.
• Hawking of mucus (soon), 14.
• Hawking of mucus (after three-quarters of an hour, and one hour and a half), 14.
• Frequent hawking of mucus in the morning (fourth day), 14.
• He hawks sweetish mucus, at 2 P.M., 14. [320.]
• A piece of watery mucus comes into the throat, which is easily expectorated without hawking (after one hour and a quarter), 14.
• Subjective.
• Heat in the throat, with hoarseness (after two minutes), 14.
• Burning and rawness in the throat (after one hour and a half), 14.
• Burning in the throat and palate, lasting a long time, afterwards in the palate only, 14.
• Slight burning and some pain in the throat (after two hours), 38.
• Dull pain in the throat, chest, region of the heart and stomach, and in the scapula, only on the right side (after one hour), 13.
• Painful drawing downward in the throat, when swallowing and when not, frequent and long-lasting, disappearing after eating soup (after one hour), 14.
• Dull sticking pain as from a lump in the throat, which extends to the left side of the back, 37.
• Tearing, from the occiput to the throat, only somewhat relieved by rubbing (after half an hour), 14.
• Scraping in the throat, 1, 12. [330.]
• Scraping in the throat before and during cough (after three hours), 14.
• Scraping in the throat and larynx, with hoarseness and frequent need to cough (after 16 drops), 12.
• Rawness in the throat, lasting an hour, frequently returning in the afternoon (after half an hour), 14.
• Rawness in the throat with hacking (after a quarter of an hour), 14.
• Rawness in the throat, causing some cough, soon disappearing, in the morning (fourth day), 14.
• Rawness and scraping in the throat, which provokes a hacking cough (after five minutes), .

STOMACH

• Appetite.
• Appetite unusually great, 1.
• Great hunger (after four hours), 14.
• Appetite less than usual (second morning), 5.
• Loss of appetite was the primary effect; the appetite became very good in the secondary action, better than formerly; he ate more, with greater relish, and it agreed with him (after twenty-four hours), 37.
• Thirst.
• Increased thirst, 12.
• Much thirst, 37. [350.]
• Great thirst (after 16 drops), 12.
• Excessive thirst, with dryness in the mouth, without heat, at 8.30 P.M., also at 4 P.M. (second day), 13.
• Eructation and Hiccough.
• Inclination to (ineffectual) eructations (after a quarter of an hour), 14.
• Eructations and ineffectual sneezing (after a quarter of an hour), 14.
• Frequent tasteless eructations (after 25 drops), 5.
• Incomplete eructations (after one hour and a half), 14.
• Empty eructations (after five minutes and two hours), 14.
• Empty eructations, after breakfast, 14.
• Frequent empty eructations (after one hour), 14.
• Eructations of air (after three-quarters of an hour), 14. [360.]
• Eructations tasting of the food, at 2 P.M., 14.
• Eructations of the breakfast (after half an hour), 14.
• Eructations twice, tasting of the porridge that had just been eaten (after one hour and a quarter), 14.
• Eructations tasting of the drug, followed by burning in the stomach (after a quarter of an hour), 14.
• Sweetish eructations (after half an hour), 14.
• Bitter eructations, during and after breakfast (after one hour and a quarter), 14.
• Eructations of a rancid taste (after five minutes), (and also on previous days), 14.
• Eructations tasting of bitter almonds (after five minutes), .

ABDOMEN

• Hypochondria.
• The hepatic region is greatly distended, painful as if suppurating, and as if an ulcer would develop, 37.
• Pain in the left hypochondriac region, neither sticking nor burning (after five minutes), 14.
• Pain in the left hypochondriac region, not disappearing on rubbing, also not aggravated by breathing (after one hour), 14.
• Indescribable pain in the right hypochondriac region, extending towards the small of the back (after one hour), 14.
• A simple pain in the right hypochondriac region (after five minutes), 14.
• Burning in the right hypochondriac region at 3 P.M., 14. [420.]
• Twinging in the left hypochondrium (after half an hour), 14.
• Sticking, pressive pains in the liver, 37.
• Sticking in the right hypochondriac region about 1 P.M.; extending towards the axilla, at 2 P.M., 14.
• Frequent sticking and burning in the right hypochondriac region, so that the spot became painful even to touch (after three hours), 14.
• Burning-sticking in the right hypochondriac region, towards the back, which after rubbing goes to the middle of the scapula (after three-quarters of an hour), 14.
• Two stitches in succession in the right hypochondriac region, extending towards the back (after one hour), 14.
• Two stitches in the right hypochondriac region; immediately afterwards burning, extending backwards (after three hours), 14.
• Sharp stitches in the left hypochondriac region, extending forward, at 2 P.M., 14.
• A very sharp stitch in the right hypochondriac region (after two hours and a half), 14.
• A fine stitch in the right hypochondriac region (after three-quarters of an hour), 14. [430.]
• Some coarse stitches in the right hypochondriac region, extending backward, followed by a violent stitch in the nates, so that he was obliged to cry out (after two hours), 14.
• A paralytic bruised pain, extending from the liver to the shoulder, noticed on every inspiration, 37.
• Beating and bubbling in the liver, as in a sore finger, 37.
• Umbilical and Sides.

RECTUM AND ANUS

• Periodic rumbling and gurgling in the rectum (first hours), 38.
• The rectum feels constricted, 37.
• Burning in the anus in the morning (seventh day), 14.
• Violent burning in the anus, after a stool (in the evening; also second day), 14.
• A feeling like a contraction in the rectum, 57.
• Cramp in the rectum extends upward from the anus, 37. [510.]
• Fine sticking in the rectum, after urging to stool, 14.
• A stitch as with an awl in the rectum during stool, which shoots from above downward; followed by discharge of some pasty fæces, 37.
• Three tearings in succession in the rectum (after two hours), 14.
• Crawling in the rectum as from worms, in the evening in bed, 14.
• Itching and crawling in the rectum, in the morning (second day), 14.
• Desire for stool with passage of only flatus, while walking (after one hour), 14.
• Ineffectual desire for stool; she was obliged to go frequently, 14.

STOOL

• Diarrhœa.
• Diarrhœa once, followed by burning in the anus (seventh day), 14.
• Diarrhœa, without tenesmus, in the evening (fifth day), 14.
• Diarrhœa twice, with tenesmus, in the morning (fourth day), 14. [520.]
• (The diarrhœa, with tenesmus, from which he had suffered ceased), (after two hours), 14.
• Diarrhœa, with tenesmus, returns in the afternoon, 14.
• Diarrhœa, at one time with, at another without, tenesmus (in the evening, first and second days, and in the morning, third day), 14.
• Diarrhœa, consisting of thin greenish mucus, with contraction in the groin, four times in two hours, without relief; at 2 P.M. (second day), 14.
• (This prover was tormented by an obstinate diarrhœa, commencing the day after the last dose, and lasting nine days; he had three watery stools daily, especially after midnight; which, however, were not ascribed to the action of the drug), 2.
• Involuntary stool and micturition, 40.
• Soft stool twice (first evening), 14.
• Stool in the evening the third time, and after the stool tenesmus, 14.
• Soft stool twice in succession, without relief of the pain, at 5 P.M., 14.
• Two soft stools (second morning), 14. [530.]
• Desire for stool; five minutes after a soft stool (after one hour and a half), 14.
• Soft stool at 4 P.M., 14.
• Urging and soft stool, after dinner, 14.
• Pressure and soft stool, followed by some tenesmus (after one hour and a half), 14.
• Soft stool, with pressing (after one hour), 14.
• Thin stool (after two hours), 14.
• Soft stool with tenesmus (second morning), 14.
• Soft stool first (after eighteen hours); after the stool burning in the anus; during the stool twinging in the upper abdomen; after dinner, 14.
• Stool pasty, seven hours earlier than usual, with slight pain as from a cold, about 5 A.M., 37.
• Stool several hours later than usual, but of the normal consistence, . [540.]

URINARY ORGANS

• Bladder.
• It was impossible to pass a drop of urine, the bladder and sphincter ani were completely paralyzed; this condition lasted five days, 17.
• Pressure upon the bladder after dinner; he had to press a long time before the urine passed, and then but little was evacuated; but he felt very much relieved (after three days), 37.
• Urethra.
• Burning in the urethra, and urging after urinating (second morning), 14.
• Itching in the forepart of the urethra, 37.
• Micturition. [560.]
• Micturition (after three minutes), (he had urinated an hour previously), 14.
• Urinating a second time, contrary to habit (after one hour), 14.
• Urinates the fourth time, at 4 P.M., 14.
• Frequent emission of scanty urine, 14.
• He is obliged to rise from bed early in the morning to urinate, but only a little passes, 37.
• Only a few drops of urine during the stool, 14.
• The urine passed slowly and indolently, 37.
• The urine waited some time before it passed, in the morning (eighth day), 14.
• Urine after three hours as usual, but she was obliged to wait for some time before it passed, preceded by painful urging, 14.
• Urine. [570.]
• Urine increased (third, fourth, and fifth days), 14.
• Urine increased in the morning (second day), 14.
• The urine is apparently increased; the first since the morning after taking (after three hours and a half), 14.
• The urine seems to be increased in the afternoon, and becomes turbid over night, 14.
• Urine increased in the afternoon, soon depositing a thin cloud, 14.
• Urine increased in the evening, with burning while urinating (first day), 14.
• Urine increased while walking (at 4 P.M., and also second day), 14.
• Urine a pale yellow, at 3 P.M., the second time; deposits a cloud, .

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Male.
• Erections in the evening and at night, 37.
• Erections without fantasies, which had not happened for a long time, at 7 and 9 P.M., 14.
• Voluptuous itching beneath the prepuce, with desire for coition, 37.
• Female.
• Menstruation eight days too early (after six days), 14.
• Menstruation eight days too early, though not more profuse than usual (after seven days), 14.
• Menstruation eight days too early; during the first four days tearing in the vertex only at night, disappearing in the morning after rising; the discharge lasted eight days, was more profuse than usual, and painful; the blood was thin, 14. [600.]
• Menstruation more profuse and long-lasting than usual (after seventeen days), 14.
• Menstruation at the right time, but more profuse than usual; on the second day toothache; on the third day very violent cutting colic from 2 to 4 P.M., relieved by the application of warm clothes to the abdomen; on the fourth day menstruation ceased (after one day longer than usual; almost without difficulty), 14.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

• Larynx, Trachea, and Bronchi.
• Tenacious mucus in the upper part of the trachea (after 16 drops), 12.
• Dryness and rawness in the trachea, as from mucus which he could not loosen, but was constantly obliged to hawk (after three-quarters of an hour), 14.
• Pain in the trachea on coughing (second forenoon), 14.
• Sticking from without into the larynx, which takes away the breath (after three-quarters of an hour), 14.
• Sensitiveness and a feeling of drawing low down in the trachea, aggravated by swallowing (after four hours), 14.
• Some rawness in the trachea (after one hour and a half), 14.
• Rawness and scraping in the trachea (after two hours), 14.
• Rawness in the trachea, with pain like a drawing, and hacking cough (after a quarter of an hour), 14. [610.]
• Scraping in the larynx, with hoarseness; followed by increased secretion of mucus in the larynx, and frequent provocation to cough (after 14 drops), 12.
• Tickling in the larynx, 12.
• Tickling and rawness in the trachea (after half an hour), 14.
• Fine tickling in the trachea, during the rawness (after a quarter of an hour), 14.
• Tickling in the trachea provokes cough (after half an hour), 14.
• Crawling in the upper bronchi, as if tickled with a feather, 37.
• Itching beneath the larynx, causing a hacking cough, 37.
• Voice.
• Deep base voice (after three-quarters of an hour), 14.
• Hoarseness, 12 ; (after 20 drops), 11.
• Hoarseness and rawness in the throat, when swallowing and when not (after one hour and a half), 14. [620.]
• Hoarseness, and a feeling as though the breath were impeded in the trachea (after half an hour), 14.
• Hoarseness and ineffectual provocation to cough (after three-quarters of an hour), 14.
• Voice hoarse, but distinct, 40.
• Cough and Expectoration.

CHEST

• Paralysis of the lungs, 40.
• Very free in the chest and abdomen (fourth day), 14.
• Anxiety in the chest, immediately, 13.
• Pains in the chest (after five minutes), 13.
• Pains in the chest, with a feeling of oppression, lasting several hours (from inhaling the vapor), 29.
• Pain in a small spot below the left ribs (after half an hour), 14.
• All parts of the thorax are painful on every motion, 37.
• A concealed pain in the left chest, 37. [650.]
• Burning in the chest, on breathing (after one hour and a quarter), 14.
• Burning on the right clavicle, by the shoulder (after one hour), 14.
• A pulling pain in the left pectoral muscles, 37.
• Tightness in the chest, during and after breathing (after half an hour), 14.
• Tightness in the chest, on stooping, not disappearing on becoming erect (after a quarter of an hour), 14.
• Pinching pains in the outer surface of the left intercostal muscles, 37.
• Pressure in the middle of the chest (first day), 38.
• Pressure in the chest, on inspiration (after one hour), 14.
• Pressure upon the chest, in the room (after one hour), 14.
• Pressure and tension in the chest, with a fretful mood, 37. [660.]
• Pressure on the chest was often so violent that it impeded breathing and caused a fine cutting; lasting several days, 38.
• Pressure in the chest, as if a weight lay upon it, at 2.30 P.M., 14.
• Decided pressure, as from a weight in the chest, especially while sitting (second, third, and fourth days), 38.
• Superficial pressure upon the chest, when walking in the open air, disappearing in the room (after one hour), 14.
• Feeling as though a heavy body were lying on the middle of the chest, and caused a pressive pain on deep inspiration, 37.
• Oppression of the chest, unchanged by breathing (after half an hour), 14.
• Cramplike oppression of the chest, very transient, during rest, .

HEART AND PULSE

• Intermitting fine sticking in the region of the heart, aggravated by inspiration (after one hour and a quarter), 14.
• The pulse was accelerated and smaller than usual, during the headache (after five days), 9.
• Pulse 80 (after half an hour), 14.
• Pulse slow (after 25 drops), 5.
• Pulse slow; entirely without energy (after 20 drops), 11.
• Pulse slow, but remaining full and regular (half an hour after 10 drops), 5.
• Pulse slower and weaker than usual (after 12 drops), 11.
• Pulse a few beats slower than usual (first day), 1. [710.]
• Pulse 12 beats slower than usual (after 35 drops), 5.
• Pulse 5 or 6 beats slower than usual (after 16 drops), 12.
• Pulse 4 to 6 beats less than usual (after 14 drops), 12.
• Pulse 4 or 5 beats slower (after 10 drops); 5 or 6 beats slower (after 15 drops); 8 to 10 beats slower (after 20 drops); 12 beats slower (after 30 drops), 8.
• Pulse diminished from 3 to 4 beats (after 8 drops), 12.
• Pulse sank from 70 to 65 (after 15 drops), 6.
• Pulse sank to 65 (ten minutes after 10 drops); to 60 (ten minutes after 15 drops); the pulse also became slower after succeeding doses, 2.
• Pulse sank from 70 to 64 (after 35 drops), 6.
• Pulse small and slow, 59 to 63 (after 60 drops), 4.
• Pulse 67 to 70, normal; small and slow, 60 to 63 (a quarter of an hour after 50 drops), 4. [720.]
• Pulse, usually 70 and over, was only 60 in a minute after 10 drops, 1.
• Pulse small, contracted, slow, 58 to 59 (a quarter of an hour after 112 drops), 4.
• The pulse in the forearm and carotids, and also the beat of the heart, were scarcely perceptible; the beats followed each other at intervals of two seconds, 26.
• Pulse small, 40.
• The pulse was less changed after 25 drops than after a former small dose (10 drops), 1.

NECK AND BACK

• Neck.
• Stiffness in the nape of the neck, 37.
• Tension in the right side of the neck, noticed on moving the head (after three hours), 14.
• Pressure in the nape of the neck, in the open air, disappearing in the house (after one hour), 14.
• Painful pressure in the nape of the neck, which compels her to hold the head forward; on raising it, a painful tension; at 6.30 P.M., lasting an hour, 14.
• Cramplike pressive pain in the left cervical vertebræ on turning the head towards the left, not at all noticed when at rest, 37. [730.]
• Fine sticking in the right side of the neck (after three hours and a half), 14.
• A stitch in the nape of the neck, towards the left shoulder, at 2 o'clock, 14.
• Tearing in the neck, then in the left shoulder; not disappearing on rubbing; after dinner, 14.
• Violent beating, as with a hammer, in the right side of the neck, while running (after two hours), 14.
• Back.
• Tension in the back and between the shoulders, that extends into the neck (after thirty-six hours), 37.
• Slight sticking in the back (after half an hour), 14.
• Stitches into the back (after one hour and a quarter), 14.
• Dorsal.
• A burrowing and boring between the shoulders, little noticed during motion, but very much aggravated during rest, 37.
• Pressure inward between the shoulders (after one hour), 14.
• Pressive pain beneath the point of the right scapula, 37. [740.]
• Sticking pain between the shoulders, 37.
• A stitch between the scapulæ, on lacing the corsets (after three-quarters of an hour), 14.
• Stitch in the right scapula, towards the axilla, while standing, at 3.30 P.M., 14.
• Stitches in the tip of the left scapula, on inspiration (after one hour), 14.
• Fine tearing on the upper part of the left scapula (after one hour and a half), 14.
• Stitches and burning in the middle of the right scapula (after two hours), .

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

• The limbs were very flexible, and remained wherever they were placed, 16.
• The limbs seem paralyzed and lose their sensation, 22.
• Extremities paralyzed and cold, but not insensible, 40.
• Paralysis of the hands and feet, 49.
• The limbs become quite numb and insensible, 39.
• A feeling as if the joints were only loosely articulated, 37. [760.]
• Paralytic-like pains in the articular extremities of several joints, 37.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• A feeling as though both arms were drawn inward, although she could stretch them out without pain (after three-quarters of an hour), 14.
• Shoulder.
• Weariness in the shoulders, 13.
• Paralytic pain in the right shoulder, 37.
• The suspender over the right shoulder becomes very annoying, 37.
• Painful pressure and tension in the ligaments of the left shoulder, 37.
• A pressive pain on the top of the right shoulder, or a feeling as if he had received a blow a few days before, 37.
• Pressive pain in the bones of the left shoulder, 37.
• Violent pressive pain in the bones of the right shoulder (after thirty-six hours), 37.
• Violent pressive pains in the right shoulder-joint woke him every half hour at night, and he tossed about the bed (after twenty-four hours), 37. [770.]
• Rheumatic pressive pain in the right shoulder-joint, aggravated by bending the arm backward, 37.
• Sticking pain in the right shoulder, 37.
• Sticking and tearing in the left shoulder towards the forepart (after two hours), 14.
• Very violent sticking pains in the right shoulder, 37.
• Dull sticking, with tension, on the anterior surface of the left shoulder-joint, as if the tendons were too short; if she stretches the shoulder forward; not felt on any other motion of the arm (second day), 14.
• Fine sticking in the right shoulder, at 2 P.M., 14.
• A violent piercing pain in the right shoulder-joint woke him in the evening, only momentarily relieved by laying the arm over the head, 37.
• Stitch beneath the left shoulder towards the forepart (after one hour), 14.
• Stitches beneath the right axilla (after four hours), afterwards extending forward into the chest; with a joyous mood (after three hours), 14.
• Violent stitch in the left shoulder (after two hours), 14. [780.]
• Fine stitch in front of the right shoulder, together with a stitch in the axilla (after a quarter of an hour), 14.
• A fine, but very painful stitch in the right axilla at 2.30 P.M., 14.

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Hip.
• Pain, as from a dislocation, in the left hip-joint on motion, 37. [840.]
• A stitch in the right hip, extending backwards (after one hour and a quarter), 14.
• Stitch deep in the right hip, while standing disappearing on moving about; frequently, 14.
• Two stitches in succession in the right hip, extending from behind forward (after one hour, and one hour and a quarter), 14.
• Thigh.
• Pain, as from stiffness, in the tendons of the inner right femoral muscles, 37.
• A paralytic-like pain in the left thigh, which extends down below the knee, 37.
• Burning in the left thigh, near the pubis, immediately disappearing (after one hour and a half), 14.
• A pressive pain on the posterior surface of the middle of the left thigh, which, on grasping it, pains as if beaten, 37.
• Stitching in the left natis during dinner, 14.
• Frequent stitches on the posterior surface of the right thigh at 4 P.M., 14.
• Dull stitches on the inner surface of the left thigh, aggravated by pressing upon it, lasting half an hour (after three-quarters of an hour), 14. [850.]
• Violent, dull stitch in the posterior portion of the right thigh (after one hour), 14.
• A coarse stitch in the nates (after two hours), 14.
• Fine stitch in the right natis, rather by the anus, at 2.30 P.M., 14.
• A bruised feeling in the middle of the left thigh, 37.
• Both thighs are painful in the middle, as if bruised, or as if he had walked several miles; on motion, 37.
• The thighs are painful in the middle, as if beaten, 37.
• Pain, as from a blow, in the gluteal muscles, noticed only when sitting or grasping them, 37.
• Jerking on the outer surface of the right thigh; burning after scratching (second evening), 14 . [A misprint for itching may possibly have occurred in the original. -T. F. A.]
• A jerking pain in the left thigh just above the knee, 37.
• Knee.

GENERALITIES

• Objective.
• Apoplexy, 23.
• Tremulousness of the whole body, 37.
• Convulsions followed by death, 35.
• Convulsions; staring eyes, closed jaws, frothing from the mouth, followed by death, 32.
• She fell down; after half an hour was seized with convulsions and frothing from the mouth, followed in a short time by death, 34 . [In a girl of eighteen, who had taken two spoonfuls of Aqua Laurocerasi destillata.]
• Violent convulsions; with staring eyes, tightly closed jaws, frothing from the mouth; followed by death (in a young man), 33.
• Paralysis and death, 36 . [Two men from taking an alcoholic infusion of the fruit.] [910.]
• She fell into an asphyxiated, paralytic condition of the whole body, in which she remained for eighteen hours, apparently lifeless, with scarcely perceptible pulse of the heart, barely 30 beats to the minute, 16.
• General indolence and inclination to sleep (after 25 drops), 5.
• Weariness; aversion to all work (after 20 drops), 5.
• Weary and sleepy, after eating, 37.
• Great weariness towards evening (after 14 drops), 12.
• Great weariness and inclination to sleep very early in the evening (after 16 drops), 12.
• He became weaker every day, 37.
• Great weakness (after 20 drops), 11.
• Weak, prostrated (after one hour and a half), 14.
• Generally very much exhausted (after 10 drops), 6. [920.]
• Very much exhausted, and quite passive all day (after 15 drops), 5.
• Faintness; he fell suddenly to the ground (in a man recovering from intermittent fever, who had just taken an infusion of three or four leaves of Laurocerasus, and tea with milk), 30.
• He immediately fell stupidly to the ground (in a man who had taken a glass of liquor infused with Laurocerasus), 31.
• Subjective.
• Sensibility seems completely destroyed, 16.
• While sitting, a healthy feeling as after fatigue (after one hour), .

SKIN

• Objective.
• The skin was very raw and rough between the index, middle, and ring fingers, and on closing the hand in water, violent burning, which on becoming dry disappears (after five days), 14.
• Eruptions, Dry.
• Itching pimple on the right upper arm, above the bend of the elbow, not relieved by scratching, disappearing after twenty-four hours (after one hour), 14.
• Itching pimple on right upper arm, by the bend of the elbow, above the former eruption (after two hours), 14 . [See S. 934.]
• A small pimple between the chin and lower lip, painful only on touch (after one hour), 14.
• Itching of the pimples between the chin and lips, disappearing on scratching, at 2 P.M., 14.
• Burning of the pimples between the lips and chin, at 3 P.M., 14.
• The pimples on the lips itch violently, disappearing after scratching (after 4 hours), 14. [940.]
• Itching on the left lower jaw; after scratching some itching pimples appear, with burning after scratching a long time (seventh and eighth days), 14.
• Eruptions, Moist.
• Itching near the lower lip on the left side, as if an eruption were there; and there really were some vesicles in the skin, not relieved by scratching, 14.
• Small vesicles on the margin of the upper lip, without sensation (after one hour), 14.
• Redness, with small, barely perceptible vesicles, between the index, middle, and ring fingers of both hands, itching violently, burning after scratching; in the evening, only disappearing on the fourth day, 14.
• A clear vesicle on the left corner of the mouth (after four days), 14.
• Eruptions, Pustular.
• Small boil in the right corner of the mouth, smarting when touched (second day), 14.
• A small red boil in front of the right ear, with pain as if suppurating when touched (in the evening), 14.
• Subjective.
• Fleabite on the outer surface of the left upper arm (after three hours), 14.
• A stitch like a fleabite in the nape of the neck (after one hour); in right great toe, at 2.30 P.M., .

SLEEP AND DREAMS

• Sleepiness.
• Yawning and sleepiness, 14.
• Yawning, without sleepiness, 14.
• Frequent yawning (after a quarter of an hour, and two hours, also second afternoon), 14.
• Frequent yawning, without sleepiness (after a quarter of an hour), 14. [990.]
• Frequent yawning, with chilliness, 37.
• Frequent yawning, with shivering (after three hours and a half), 14.
• Frequent yawning and shivering, followed by gooseflesh, lasting two minutes (after half an hour), 14.
• Very frequent yawning, 37.
• Sleepiness, 14 ; (after 20 drops), 5.
• Sleepiness, immediately after dinner, 14.
• Sleepiness very early, at 6 P.M.; he cannot keep sleep away, 14.
• Sleepiness, yawning, and stretching (after one hour), 14.
• Great sleepiness in the evening; in the morning it was difficult to rise (after 14 drops), 12.
• Great sleepiness, with burning in the eyes, in the evening, 14. [1000.]
• Inclination to sleep (after 20 drops), 10.
• Inclination to sleep as early as 11 A.M., so that he was obliged to lie on the lounge and sleep; after sleeping a quarter of an hour, he found is almost impossible to rise and move about on account of weakness (after 20 drops), 11.
• Very sleepy, weak (after two hours and a half), 14.
• So sleepy that he could not keep from falling asleep while in the house, and it was only out of doors that he was able to keep awake (after 20 drops), 5.
• Sleep irresistible after dinner, after which he felt very well (after 10 drops), 5.
• He was unable to keep from sleeping in the evening; was awakened about 7 o'clock, for supper; he sat up and ate, but immediately fell asleep again without speaking; after awhile he started in sleep, then jumped high up, frightening those about him, stood up and walked to the middle of the room, with staring eyes and red face; at last he lay down without speaking and slept soundly till morning (first evening), 14.
• Sleep from noon till 3 P.M. (quite contrary to habit), though he had slept well the night previous; and he also slept well on the succeeding night, .

FEVER

• Chilliness.
• The temperature of the body was far below the normal, 16.
• Rather cool than warm (after one hour and a half), 14.
• Chilliness (after taking the drug), 14.
• Chilliness in the house, at 9 P.M. (second day), 14.
• Chilliness in the afternoon; shivering through the skin several times, 37.
• Chilliness after rising, about midnight, so that she was unable to get warm in bed for a long time, 14.
• Chilliness for two hours, with a flat taste in the mouth, 37. [1030.]
• Chilliness all over, the whole forenoon, with a feverish taste in the mouth, 37.
• Chilliness all over, with pains in the back, 37.
• Coldness internally and externally, with warmth of the feet, from 2 to 4 P.M. (second day), 14.
• Coldness in the open air, disappearing in the room (after two hours), 14.
• Coldness and shaking chill, in the house, not relieved by the warmth of the stove; lasting several minutes, without subsequent heat or thirst, in the evening, after walking in the open air, 14.
• Internal coldness, 39.
• An internal coldness extending over the whole body, 22.
• Great coldness, from 6.30 to 8.30 P.M., without subsequent heat or thirst, 14.
• Feeling of coldness in the open air, at 2 P.M., 14.
• Feeling of coldness in a warm room; the nose is icy cold, at 3 P.M., 14. [1040.]
• Slight feeling of coldness over the whole body, in the house (after one hour and a half), 14.
• Almost always chilly (after half an hour), 14.
• Chill, immediately on going out of the house, in the afternoon, 14.
• Shaking chill in the house (after two hours and a half), 14.
• Shaking chill once, during the coldness, 14.
• Violent shaking chill, not relieved by the warmth of the stove; relieved only by the application of warm cloths to the abdomen; it lasts for two hours after going to bed, when she fell asleep, at 6 P.M. (sixth evening), 14.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), In bed, pressive headache; lachrymation; after beer, burning in stomach, etc.; in bed, pain in thumb-joint; in bed, jerking in calf; sick feeling.
• ( Afternoon ), While walking, cutting in abdomen; chilliness.
• ( Evening ), In bed, tearing headache; by the light, dryness, etc., of eyes; burning, etc., in eyes; in bed, pain in left chest; pain in shoulder-joint; after walking in open air, coldness, etc.; heat in abdomen.
• ( Night ), From 10 o'clock till morning, perspiration.
• ( Open air ), Vertigo; pain in throat.
• ( Walking in open air ), Heaviness in head; sticking in forehead; stitch in jaw; pressure upon chest.
• ( After dinner ), Warmth in abdomen.
• ( After eating ), Weary, etc.
• ( In hot room ), Headache, etc.
• ( Laughing ), Stitches in breast.
• ( Motion ), Pain in leg.
• ( Rest ), Boring, etc., between shoulders; pains in metacarpal ligaments.
• ( In room ), head heavy, etc.; pressure in temple.
• ( Sitting ), Pressure in chest.
• ( Spinning ), Heaviness in leg.
• ( Stooping ), Pain in forehead.
• ( Walking ), Vertigo.
• ( Writing ), Pain in small of back.
• Amelioration.
• ( Open air ), Anxiety in head, etc.; tension in knee-bones; symptoms in general, 14.
• ( Cold water ), Tearing in back teeth.
• ( After dinner ), The symptoms, 14.
• ( After eating ), Gnawing, etc., in lower teeth; drawing downward in throat.

SUPPLEMENT: LAUROCERASUS. Authorities.

41 , Lond. Med. Gaz., Encyclop. des Sci. Méd., Sept., 1842 (Amer. Journ. of Med. Sci., Second Series, vol. vi, p. 499), a child, aged about eight months, was given 1/2 teaspoonful of a potion of which cherry-laurel water was the principal constituent; 42 , Mr. Semple, Pharm. Journ., vol. ii, 1842-3, p. 31, Sir Theodosius Boughton, was poisoned; 43 , Dr. Hayn, Hufeland's Journ., 1843 (Woodman and Tidy's Forensic Medicine and toxicology, p. 423), fatal poisoning of an old man, by 1 1/2 ounces of cherry-laurel water; 44 , Med. Times, May, 1845, p. 123 (ibid), a girl, aged five years, swallowed the kernels of some stones of the sweet cherry, and died in forty hours; 45 , Lancet, 1868 (1), p. 30, at Toulon, three children, aged four to five years, ate the kernels of peach-stones.

• Intense coma; eyes closed; pupils dilated; respiration hurried; urine and fæces involuntarily discharged; convulsions, 44.
• Hands and feet became paralyzed, but did not lose sensation (after three hours); at length the respiratory muscles became affected, and he then died, 43.
• Very severe convulsions; one died in less than an hour, the two others, who had, perhaps, partaken less freely of the poisonous substance, recovered, thanks to very active and persevering therapeutical measures, 45.
• Eyes fixed upwards, his teeth clenched, and froth running from his mouth (after about a quarter of an hour), and he died in about half an hour, 42. [1090.]
• She had scarcely taken the mixture when she shrieked, threw her head back, and was convulsed; death ensued in ten minutes, 41.