Æthusa

Æthusa cynapium, L.

Nat. order , Umbelliferæ.

Common names , Fool's Parsley; (Fr.) Petite Ciguë; (Germ.) Gleisse, Hundspetersilie; (Ital.) Cicuta minore.

Preparation , Tincture, from the whole flowering plant.

Authorities.

1 , N-g, Prac. Mitth., 1828; and H. and T. Annalen, 4, 113; 2 , Hartlaub, ibid.; 3 , Petroz, Bulletin d. l. Soc. Méd. Hom., 4, 337; 4 , Didier, Archiv. d. l. Med. Hom., 1, 318; 5 , Roth (Mat. Mad., includes several poison cases; 6 , Bigler, Am. J. of H. M. M., 5, 459 (observed in a patient After the 3d dec.); t , Toxicological.

MIND

• Rage, [t].
• Liable to transports of rage, 3, 5.
• Fury, [t].
• Frenzy, [t], 2.
• Delirium, mania, 4.
• Imagined she saw rats run across the room, 6.*
• Delirium; he imagines he sees dogs and cats, 5.*
• Delirium; he jumps out of window, 5.* [10.]
• Hilarity, talkativeness, facetiousness, 3, 5.
• Very lively (second day); (seems to be secondary action), 2.
• In the forenoon, gay, good-tempered; in the afternoon, sad and anxious, 5.
• Toward noon, better mood, 1, 2.
• Sadness, when alone, 3.
• The disposition becomes retiring and tearful, as in nostalgia, 3.
• Anxiety and dejection, [t].
• Anxiety, [tt].*
• Restless anxiety, [t], 2.*
• Great anxiety and restlessness; soon afterward, violent pains in head and abdomen, [t], 2.* [20.]
• Fright, [t].
• Apprehension, [t], 2.
• Very cross and fretful (afternoons), 1.
• Fretful and cross in open air; after reentering the room, better (a quarter of an hour), 1.
• She looks very fretful and serious and does not speak willingly, during heat of head, 2.
• Awkwardness; discontent, even to vexation, 3.
• Excessive sensitiveness, 3.
• Very great and long-lasting nervous susceptibility, 5.
• A fixed idea, which she cannot throw off, of a garment made the day previous; she also dreamed of it, 1.
• Slowness or unsettled state of his ideas, even to absence of thought, 3. [30.]
• Loss of comprehension; a kind of stupefaction, as if there was a barrier between his organs of sense and external objects, .

HEAD

• Head confused; brain feels bound up (two and a half hours), 1, 2.*
• The head is confused during the coryza, 3. [40.]
• The head is heavy and confused, 4.
• Somewhat stupid in the head, like intoxication, soon after taking, 1.
• Feeling in the head as if shattered (afternoons), 1.
• Vertigo, [tt], 2, 5.
• Vertigo in the open air, 3.
• Vertigo when sitting down, aggravated on trying to rise from his seat, 3.
• Vertigo after the colic, [t].
• Vertigo after every new dose; disappears in open air, 1.
• Vertigo even in open air; must lean against something so as not to fall, 1.
• Vertigo with sleepiness; eyes will close (soon after), 1.* [50.]
• Vertigo with sleepiness , on sitting and after rising up (a quarter of an hour), 1.
• Sudden attack of vertigo on sitting; disappears after rising (second day), 1.
• The vertigo is more especially felt toward midday, 3.
• Giddiness in the head, [t].
• Giddiness and oppressive headache, [t].
• Dizziness; he cannot keep upright, 5.
• Dizziness, with headache, 5.
• Dizziness and sleepiness, 4.*
• Violent headache, [t].
• Headache, 5. [60.]
• Frequent headache, [t], 2.
• Pains in head, [t].
• Great pain, [t].
• Headache, with green vomiting, [t].
• Most horrible pains in head, stomach, and abdomen, [t], 2.
• The pains in the head stop for awhile, when eating, but soon return, 4.
• The pains of the head return periodically , and are often accompanied with pale face, trembling in the jaws and pains in the præcordial region, .

EYES

• Staring, strange look, [t], 2.
• Staring, lifeless eyes, [t], 2.
• Fixed, lifeless look, 4.
• Fixed look, [t], 5.
• The eyes are very wide open, 3. [120.]
• Eyes brilliant and prominent, 4.
• Glittering, somewhat protruding eyes, [t], 2.
• Sparkling, bloodshot eyes, [t].
• Eyes inflamed and bloodshot, [t].
• Spasm of the eyes, 3.
• Great pain in the eyes, [t].
• The eyes burn violently in the room, as if smoke were in them (half an hour), 1.
• Pain of excoriation around the eyes, 3.
• Stitches around the eyes and in the orbits, 3.
• Pressure in the eyes, 3. [130.]
• Troublesome sensation around the eyelids, 3.
• Pain of excoriation in the lids, 3.
• Chronic inflammation of the edges of the eyelids, 3.
• Morning, agglutination of the lids by a dry substance, which he is obliged to soften in order not to pull out the lashes, 5.
• Swelling of the Meibomian glands, 5.
• Swelling of the Meibomian glands; gum in the canthi, 3.
• Itching of the canthi, 3.
• Many red vessels show in conjunctiva, [t], 2.
• Eyes staring; pupils dilated, [t].
• Pupils moderately dilated, and rather sensitive to the light (in four children), [t].* [140.]
• The pupils are dilated, but sensitive to light, [t].*
• Wide open, insensible pupils, [t].
• Vision confused; sometimes objects appear double, 3.
• Objects seem enlarged, and sometimes double, 3.
• The eye-symptoms are generally felt on awaking, or in the open air, 3.

EARS

• Violent twitches in both ears, not dissipated by scratching, 1.
• Sensation of heat escaping from the ear, 3.
• Lancinating pain in the ears, from within outward, 3.
• Shootings and tearings in the ears, 4.
• Transient though painful stitches in right ear, 1. [150.]
• Stitches in right ear from without inward, 5.
• Now sticking, now tearing, in right ear; somewhat relieved by rubbing, 1.
• Sticking in right ear, going away on boring with the finger, 1.
• Sticking, extending into the right ear (three quarters of an hour), 1.
• Sticking in left ear, with sensation as if heat issued from it, alternating with sticking in left ribs (five hours), 1.
• Sticking in left ear, followed by fine tearing around the ear, extending into top of head, 1.
• Stitching pain behind the ears, 3.
• Ears feel stopped up, 4.
• Sense of stoppage of the ears, with hard hearing, which lasts longer in the left ear (one hour), 1.
• Dryness of the ears; want of cerumen, 3. [160.]
• Purulent discharge from the ears, 3.
• Troublesome whistling in the ears, 3.
• Several of the ear-symptoms are ameliorated by contact and pressure, 3.

NOSE

• Coryza in the morning, 3.
• Coryza in the open air, 3.
• Coryza with viscid secretion, 3.
• The coryza has a nauseous smell, 3.
• Sudden stoppage of the nose, mornings after waking (one quarter of an hour), 1.
• Sudden stoppage of both nostrils (five minutes), 1.
• The coryza loosens on the second morning; it discharges copious, thick mucus, 1. [170.]
• Ulcerative pain deep in left side of nose, as if there were an open place there, 1.
• Ineffectual desire to sneeze, 3.
• Irritation to sneeze in left nostril (half an hour), 1.
• Sneezing once, 1.
• Sensitive sticking in left side of nose externally, then a very fine, painful burning in the right side; then fine burning, as with a glowing needle, externally in the pit of the stomach, 1.
• Sense of pressure in the nose, 3.

FACE

• Countenance wears a cold expression, [t].
• Remarkably sunken, very much altered face, [t].
• The face has a tired look, 3. [180.]
• *Face expressive of anguish, 3.
• The features have an expression of great anguish and severe pain, [t].*
• *A draw condition, beginning at the ala nasi, and extending to the angle of the mouth, gave the face on expression of great anxiety and pain, [t].
• Pale face, [t].
• Face periodically puffy and spotted red, [t].
• Red, sunken countenance, [t].
• Moderately red face, [t].
• Puffiness of the face during the menses, 3.
• Cold sweat on the face, 3.
• Sweat on the face, 3. [190.]
• Small vesicles on the skin of the face, 3.
• Different circumscribed and painful swellings in the face, transient, and flying from place to place, [t].
• Pulling, tearing pains in the face, [t].
• Œdematous swelling of the cheeks, [t].
• A dull stitch, like tapping with the finger, with tearing, in middle of left cheek, in a small spot (second day), 1.
• Tearings in both malar bones, very painful, though transient, 1.
• Sticking and tearing in right malar bone; then tickling in left upper teeth, then again violent stitches in left ear (three hours), 1.
• Jactitation of the muscles around the mouth, 3.
• Yellowish spot on the upper lip, 3.
• Chap on the upper lip, 3. [200.]
• Tearing in lower lip, extending into the neighboring teeth (afternoons), 1.
• Tearing in right lower jaw (one hour and a quarter), 1.
• Sensation of coldness at the chin and the labial commissures, 3.

MOUTH

• Shocks in the teeth, 4.
• A sort of shocks in the lower teeth, 3.
• Grumbling in a right back lower tooth; it seems as though the headache arose from the teeth (seventh day), 1.
• Painful sensibility of a decayed, right lower back tooth; still more sensitive to touch (first day), 1.
• Sticking here and there in the gums (ninth day), 1.
• Fine sticking and tearing in the gums, now on the right, now on the left side, frequently (eleventh day), 1.
• Shootings in the gums, 4. [210.]
• Moist tongue, [t].
• Moist and white-coated tongue (from milk), with sense of dryness in mouth, [t].
• Sensation as if the tongue were too dry, 3.
• Aphthæ in the mouth, 3.
• Sensation of pungent heat in mouth and throat, with great difficulty in swallowing, [t].
• Stitching in the arch of the palate, 3.
• Jaws spasmodically fixed, [t].
• The lower jaw is fixed to the upper, so that nothing can be introduced into the mouth, [t].
• Dryness of the mouth, 4.
• Salivation, as copious as from mercurial treatment, lasting almost fourteen days, [t]. [220.]
• Sweetish, insipid taste, 4.
• Sweetish taste and dryness in mouth (eleventh day), 1.
• Flat taste in mouth, sweetish; mornings after waking, 1.
• Unpleasant, bitter taste, [t].
• Taste of cheese in mouth, 3.
• Food tastes salt, 3.
• Taste of onions, 3.
• Indescribable taste, both before and after a meal, 3.
• Speech almost prevented, 3.
• Slowness of speech, 3.

THROAT. [230.]

• Redness of the throat, 3.
• Inflamed aphthæ and pustules in throat, making the patient's conditional most desperate, 3.
• Dryness of the throat and frequent hawking (two hours), 1.
• Pains in the throat, [t].
• Burning in the throat, 5.
• Heat in the throat, [t].
• Pointed sticking in the throat, when not swallowing (second day), 1.
• Redness and swelling of the velum pendulum and adjacent parts; distress so great that he fears suffocation, 3.
• Itching and scraping in the œsophagus, 3.
• Feeling in throat as if she could not swallow, with spasmodic contraction of the right side of the throat and ear, for one hour (afternoons) on sitting (ninth day), 1. [240.]
• Great difficulty in swallowing, with sensation of pungent heat in throat and mouth, [t].
• Inability to swallow, [t].

STOMACH

• Total loss of appetite for every kind of aliment, 3.
• Want of appetite, [t].
• Want to appetite, although with clean tongue, 3.
• Want of appetite in the evening, 3.
• Burning, unquenchable thirst, [t].
• Thirst, [t].
• Continual thirst, [t].
• Urgent thirst, 4. [250.]
• Eructations, tasting of the ingesta, 3.
• Eructations, tasting of the soup eaten (one and a half hours), 1.
• Difficult eructations, 3.
• Empty eructations (afternoons), 1.
• Eructations after drinking, 3.
• The eructations are allayed by lying down, 3.
• Hiccough; evenings, 1.
• Nausea, without vomiting (in the evening), [t].
• Nausea, with prostration, 3.
• Troublesome nausea, with vomiting, 5. [260.]
• Regurgitation of food an hour after a meal, 5.
• *Intolerance of milk; the children throw up their milk almost as soon as swallowed, curdled or not curdled, in from ten to fifteen minutes, by a sudden and violent vomiting; then weakness makes them drowsy for some minutes, 5.
• Vomiting of milk, [t].*
• Vomiting, [t].
• Horrible vomiting, [t].
• Vomiting, painful, [t].
• Greenish vomiting, 3.*
• Copious greenish vomiting, [t].*
• *Vomiting curdled milk (in five children, in two others of greenish mucus mixed with the half-digested green leaves), [t].
• Violent vomiting of a frothy, milk-white mass, [t].* [270.]
• Vomiting after the colic, [t].
• Discharge of greenish mucus from mouth and anus, with violent pains; colored bloody (in two children), [t].
• Vomits bloody mucus, [t].
• Vomiting, with diarrhœa, 5.*

ABDOMEN

• Dull stitches in the side near the stomach, deep in, on sitting; heat disappears on becoming erect (first day), 1.
• A stitch in the right rib-region (afternoons), 1.
• Stitching in the lower part of the right rib-region, and soon again in the right ear (afternoons), 1. [290.]
• Sticking in lower rib-region (four hours); frequent and long-continued, 1.
• Constant sticking in left lower rib-region, with burning, disappearing only for a short time on rubbing, 1.
• A stitch in the left lower rib-region, extending backwards; then sticking deep internally under the left female breast (afternoons), 1.
• Painfulness of the hypochondria, 3.
• A painful pressing-in and burning, with sticking, in left hypochondria, twice in succession (one hour), 1.
• Now in left loins, then in the right lower rib-region, a sudden burning, as from glowing hot needles (four hours), 1.
• *Great cold sensations in whole upper abdomen immediately, 1.
• Coldness of the abdomen, both objective and subjective, with aching pain in the bowels (relieved by warm wet applications), accompanied by coldness of the lower extremities, particularly the left one, 6.*
• A painful thrust, as with a knife, round about the bowels, above the navel, internally, as it seemed (second day), 1.
• Rush, like boiling water, in navel region; then pinching in stomach, 1. [300.]
• Griping in the umbilical region and hypogastrium, 4.
• Hard and tense abdomen, [t].
• Contracted and tense abdomen, 5.
• Swelling of the abdomen, 5.
• Large, inflated abdomen, 5.
• Bloating of whole abdomen; sometimes with bluish-black color, [t].
• Abdomen swollen, sensitive, especially in hepatic region, [t].
• Severe pain in abdomen (in two children), [t].
• Pains in intestines, [t].
• Pains in abdomen, [t].* [310.]
• Digging sensation in the abdomen, 3.
• Throbbing in the abdomen, .

Æth.

STOOL AND ANUS

• Contraction of the rectum, 3.
• Sensation of dryness at the anus, 3.
• Feeling as if the hæmorrhoidal tumors were excoriated, 3.
• *Diarrhœa, [t].
• Obstinate diarrhœa, [t].
• *Stools of partly digested food, shortly after a meal or at night, 3.
• Evacuation of a thin, bright yellow, or greenish fluid , mixed with much bile, with severe tenesmus, [t].
• Morning, after rising, first some pinching about the navel; then two soft stools, 1. [330.]
• Stool, first part hard, the rest soft, preceded by moving in the bowels, 1.
• Painful "going on" below the navel, with desire for stool after breakfast, followed, after some minutes, by hard stool (one hour), 1.
• Very hard stool, with clawing in the anus and severe urging (second day), 1.
• Constipation, 3.
• Most obstinate constipation , with feeling as if all action of the bowels had been lost, 6.*

URINARY ORGANS

• Cutting pains at the bladder, 3.
• Frequent urging to urinate, 3.
• Frequent urging to urinate at night, 3.
• Copious emission of urine, 3.
• She passes, three times, much pale urine, like water (second day), 1. [340.]
• Red urine, voided with difficulty, 3.
• Urine depositing a white sediment, 3.

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Stitching pains in sexual parts (female), 3.
• Itching at the sexual parts (female), 3.
• Pimply eruption on the genitals (female), 3.
• The menstrual blood is watery, 3.

RESPIRATORY APPARATUS

• Slight cough, 3.
• Cough, with stunning pain in the head, 3.
• Cough, with titillating sensation in the throat, 3.
• Cough, with paleness of the face, 3. [350.]
• Cough, with sweetish taste in the throat, 3.
• Cough, with tearing pain in the chest, 3.
• Cough, followed by mucous expectoration, 3.
• Cough, aggravated by lying down, 3.
• Dry cough after dinner, 4.
• Dry cough, in several paroxysms, after dinner (four hours), 1.
• Frequent short, hacking (one-half hour), 1.
• Hoarse breathing, 3.
• Sibilant respiration, 3.
• Hoarse and sibilant respiration, especially when lying on the back, 3. [360.]
• Respiration short and difficult, [t].
• The respiration is very difficult and short, 5.
• Short, anxious respiration (first hour), 1.
• Very difficult breathing, with extreme oppression of the chest, [t].
• Short breathing, interrupted by hiccough, [t], 4.
• Great oppression; she can hardly breathe, 5.
• Undisturbed respiration, [t].

CHEST

• Swelling of the mammary gland, 3.
• Severe piercing pain, with heat and redness of the breast (from external application); next day, a large number of phlyctenæ; vesicles filled with lymph appear over the breasts, and discharge a great deal of serum when the plaster is removed, 5.
• Sensation of pressure, as from a band around the chest, 3.
• An excessively painful dull stitch in the middle of the chest, on inspiration, on rising from sitting bent; on deep inspiration, the pain is still more severe (evenings, at 6.30 o'clock) (first day), 1. [370.]
• On knitting, evenings, painless tension in region in front of the right axilla (fifth day), 1.
• Digging and tension in the right thorax in front of the axilla, 1.
• Burning, as with glowing hot iron, on a small spot under the left breast (second day), 1.
• Stitches in the left side of the chest, [t].
• Severe stitches and burning in the middle of the sternum, which cease when stooping, but return, 4.
• A sharp stitch in the middle of the sternum; then, burning on this spot, so that she believes it all up with her; disappears on pressure, but returns (fifth hour), 1.
• Præcordial anxiety, 5.

HEART AND PULSE

• Violent palpitation of the heart, 5.
• Palpitations which resound in the head, 3.
• Palpitation, with vertigo, headache, and restlessness, 3. [380.]
• Pulse full, rapid, [tt].
• Rapid, hard, small pulse, 5.
• Small and frequent pulse, 5.
• Small, frequent, irregular pulse, 3.
• Small pulse, [t].
• Irregular pulse, [t].
• Imperceptible pulse, 5.

NECK AND BACK

• Stitching-jerking in nape (two hours), 1.
• Distressing pain in occiput and nape of neck, extending down the spine ; relieved by friction with hot whisky.*

A feeling as if the pain in the back would be ameliorated by straightening out and bending stiffly backwards as in opisthotonus, 6.

• Shootings, tearing and beating in the muscles of the neck, 4. [390.]
• Tearing in the right side of the neck, 4.
• Painful tearing in the cords on the right side of the neck (seventh day), 1.
• Drawing pain in right side of neck, as if a cord or vessel were torn out; disappears on rubbing (eleventh day), 1.
• Violent tearing in a spot as broad as two fingers in right side of neck (second day), 1.
• In left cervical muscles, a sharp stitch extending inward; then, a similar stitch on upper part of left parietal bone; then, beating in the whole head, more on right side and backwards, with sensation of heaviness, 1.
• Throbbing tearing in a small spot on a tendon on left side of neck (second day), 1.
• Fine stitch between shoulder-blades, 1.
• Stitches between the shoulder-blades, 4.
• Sense of heat down the back, (afternoons), 1.
• Pulling in the back, 3. [400.]
• Weak feeling in the back, 3.
• Sense as if screwed up in small of back (frequent), 1.
• Burning externally in small of back; disappears after rubbing, 1.
• Weak feeling, like paralysis, when raising himself in bed, when turning in bed, and during movement, 3.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

• Extremities cold, [t].
• Cold limbs, 5.
• Extremities chilly, benumbed, and affected with tremors, [t].

UPPER EXTREMITIES

• Numbness of the arms, 6.
• Shootings, drawings and tension in different places, 4.
• Sensations as if the arms had become much shorter; so vivid that she had to examine them in the morning to be convinced that it was not actually so, 6.
• Painful tension in the shoulders, 4. [410.]
• Painful aching about the left scapula, sometimes extending into the left arm; attempt to relieve it by rigid expansion and closing the fist, as in a tonic spasm, 6.
• Pain in the axillary glands, 3.
• Tension, first on the left, then on the right shoulder, very painful (first day), 1.
• Paralytic sensation in left shoulder; then, in right forearm (second day), 1.
• Arthritic stiffness of the elbow-joint, 3.
• Heaviness of the forearm, 3.
• Tension of cords on left forearm when flexed; she does not venture to stretch it out, and still this tension disappears only by extending and bending the fingers (on knitting), (five minutes), 1.
• Fine tearing on a small spot on inner surface of left forearm, 1.
• Stitching tearing from the middle of left forearm, on the upper surface, as far as the wrist, 1.
• Sticking in cords of right forearm, on exerting the hand (first day), 1.
• Paralytic pain in left forearm on sitting (second day), 1. [420.]
• Sudden fatigue of the forearm on knitting; she must lay it aside, when she becomes better (quarter of an hour), 1.
• Sense of great weakness in right forearm, a hand's breadth above the wrist, down to the little finger (fifth day), 1.
• Cramp of the hand, 3.
• Frequent tearing in the back of right hand, in the tendons of the thumb, frequent for several days (seventh day), 1.
• Formication in the fingers, 3.
• Contraction of the fingers, 3.
• Swelling of the fingers, 3.
• A stitch in the left external metacarpal bones (one and a half hours), 1.
• Jerkings in left thumb (two hours), 1. [430.]

LOWER EXTREMITIES

• Boring pain in the lower extremities, 3.
• Lancinating, tearing pain in the lower extremities, 3. [440.]
• Formication, referred to the bones of the lower limbs, 3.
• Great weakness of the lower extremities (third day), 1.
• Coldness of lower extremities, particularly the left, with coldness in abdomen, etc., 6.
• Tension in right hip, then again stitching-tearing in right ear (afternoons), 1.
• A pinching, externally, at right hip (two and a half hours), 1.
• Sticking and drawing pain from left hip into the thigh, 1.
• Sticking in upper part of left thigh, 1.
• Paralytic pain in middle of right thigh, on sitting; disappears on rubbing, 1.
• Sticking in right knee, on standing (evening), 1.
• Tearing deep in right instep (afternoons), 1. [450.]
• Tearing-stitching in right heel, and thence into the sole, and as far as ball of toes (three-quarters of an hour), 1.
• Sticking in right sole under the heel (five hours), 1.

GENERALITIES

• Bloating, [t].
• The whole body becomes swollen and livid, [t].
• Violent epileptic spasms, with clenched thumbs, red face, eyeballs turned down, pupils dilated, insensible, milky foam from mouth, clenched teeth, small, hard, frequent pulse, with the usual temperature of body (in a four-years-old child), [t].
• Spasms, delirium, and stupor, [t].
• Death with convulsions (in two children, fifteen months old), [t].
• Whole body convulsed, [t].
• Stiffness of the whole body, 4.
• Stiffness of the limbs, [t]. [460.]
• Restlessness, [t].
• Anguish, and very troublesome restlessness, [t].
• Restlessness with excessive anguish, 5.
• Great agitation, 5.
• *Inability to hold the head erect, or to sit up, [t].
• Unable to hold herself erect, [t].
• *While walking he is seized with such languor and listlessness that with difficulty he supports himself till he gets home, [t].
• *He is powerless to raise his head and stand up, [t].
• *Great general debility, [t].
• *Great weakness and prostration, with sleepiness (second afternoons), 1. [470.]
• Weakness after the colic, [t].*
• Great weariness, [t].
• Complete insensibility, [t].
• Great and long-lasting nervous sensitiveness, [t].
• Indescribable anguish, with vomiting and gripes, [t].
• Cries of anguish (in a child), 5.
• General malaise, [t].
• State of malaise, lasting all day, [t].
• Anxiety, characterized by a feeling of weight on the chest, 3.

SKIN

• The whole body is of a bluish-black color, 5. [480.]
• During one day appearance and disappearance of reddish-blue spots on the trunk and left leg, causing the patient to fear an attack of spotted fever, 6.
• A painful boil on small of back, 1.
• Burning heat of the skin, 3.
• Itching from the heat, 3.
• An herpetic eruption itched very much from the heat, especially in the evening, 3.
• Tingling, itching, 3.
• Itching of the least-affected portions of the skin; they swell up, 3.

FEVER

• General coldness, 3.
• Internal coldness, 3.
• Chill through the whole body and external coldness, without thirst, for two days, 2. [490.]
• Violent chill and external coldness, so that she cannot get warm at all (forenoons, soon after taking it), with sleepiness; lasts the whole day, 2.
• General coldness during sleep, 3.
• Coldness, with red face, 3.
• Cold extremities, [t].
• Coldness of abdomen and lower extremities, 6.
• Shivering, which is more frequent in the afternoons, 3.
• Horripilation in the open air.
• Horripilation, with heat, which pervades the whole body, 3.
• During the horripilation the limbs feel as if broken, with hot breath and restlessness, 3. [500.]
• General heat, [t].
• Remarkable increase of bodily heat, [t].
• Temperature somewhat increased, [t].
• Fever-heat (in two children), [t].
• In spite of the great general heat complete adipsia, [t].
• General perspiration, 3.
• Sweat when going to sleep, 3.
• He perspires very soon from the least bodily exertion, 5.
• He cannot bear to be uncovered during the sweat, 3.
• The febrile symptoms occur more particularly in the morning, and are accompanied with very great malaise and tendency to delirium, which cease during the sweat, 3.

SLEEP AND DREAMS. [510.]

• Somnolence, [t].
• Sleepy, without yawning (afternoons), 1.
• The eyes will close with sleep, disappears in open air, 1.
• Fell suddenly into a deep, stertorous sleep, [t].
• Restless sleep during the first hours of the night, [t].
• Restless night; great disposition to slumber; but calm repose is wholly prevented by frequent startings and excessive agitation, [t].
• Sleep broken by frequent waking, 3.
• Sleep prevented by pains in the limbs, 3.
• Frequent waking, caused by a feeling of cold, 3.
• Waking up, followed by several hours of sleeplessness, 3. [520.]
• Distortion of the eyes during sleep, 3.
• Slight spasmodic movements during sleep, 3.
• Troubled dreams in the morning, 3.

CONDITIONS

• Aggravation.
• ( Morning ), Agglutination of lids; coryza; febrile symptoms; fatiguing dreams.
• ( Morning, after rising ), Pain in navel, etc.
• ( Mornings, after waking ), Stoppage of nose; flat taste.
• ( Forenoon ), Vertigo.
• ( Afternoon ), Sad and anxious; cross and fretful; crack in temple; pain on vertex; pain from both sides of head, etc.; crack in occiput; pain in occiput; feeling as if could not swallow, etc.; empty eructations; stitch in rib region, etc.; heat down back; tension in hip, etc.; shivering; sleepy, etc.
• ( Evening ), Want of appetite; hiccough; nausea; sticking in knee; itching of eruption; *all symptoms aggravated towards evening and during night till about 3 to 4 A.M., 6.
• ( Night ), Stools, etc.; urging to urinate.
• ( Before midnight ), Restless sleep.
• ( Open air ), Fretful and cross; vertigo; eye symptoms; coryza; horripilation.
• ( When alone ), Sadness.
• ( After breakfast ), Pain below navel.
• ( After the colic ), Vertigo; weakness.
• ( Getting chilled ), Pain in head.
• ( During the coryza ), Head confused.
• ( During dinner ), Ill-humor.
• ( After dinner ), Dry cough.
• ( After drinking ), Eructations.
• ( Bodily exertion ), Perspiration.
• ( Extending fingers ), Tearing in fingers.
• ( Flexing thumb ), Sticking in ball of thumb.
• ( Heat ), Itching of eruption.
• ( During horripilation ), Limbs feel as if broken.
• ( On inspiring air ), Sticking under left breast; stitch in chest.

Æth.

The experiments detailed below throw so much doubt upon the various cases of poisoning attributed to Æthusa that we have concluded to throw them out entirely.

Indeed, it seems established beyond any possibility of doubt, that the plant is harmless.

Our own experiments prove this conclusively; in New York we had the co-operation of thirty or forty individuals, who took varying doses of the expressed juice of the plant without the slightest effect. The editor himself drank it by the wineglassful. A few experienced some disturbance: these are given in detail. It was not attempted to make a proving, as in that case the potencies would have been tried; we only desired to verify Dr. Harley's observations as to the poisonous nature of the herb. Our preparation was obtained, through Messrs. Boericke & Tafel, from Leipzig, and was accompanied by a certificate of genuineness from the Director of the Botanic Gardens. The expressed juice was preserved by a small per cent of alcohol.

I. Experiments by Dr. Harley St. Thomas's Hospital Reports, 1873.

II. Experiments by Dr. T. F. Allen, New York Homœopathic Medical College, 1876.

III. Experiment by Dr. Brugman, A. H. Z., 72, p. 56.

IV. Experiment by Dr. Tournon, A. H. Z.

V. Case by Dr. Roques, A. H. Z.

REVISION AND RÉSUMÉ. Authorities.

1 , Nenning, from Hartlaub and Trinks's Annalen vol. iv.; 2 , Hartlaub, ibid.; 3 , Trinks ibid.; 4 , Petroz, Bull. d. l. Soc. Méd. Hom., 4, 337; 5 , Brugmans, A. H. Z., 72, p. 56, took a few grains; 6 , Tournon, ibid., ate some in salad; 7 , Roques, ibid., effects in a woman; 8 , Bigler, Am. J. Hom. M. M., 5, 459, effects of 3d dec. (in a patient); 9 , Harley, St. Thos. Hosp. Reports (no symptoms); 10 to 15 , from Dr. Allen's provings, see above. [Didier, No. 4, in résumé in vol. i of this work, is not original, but a résumé of other provings, hence it is omitted; symptoms from the supposed cases of poisoning cited by Roth are discarded; Cattell's symptoms, Br. J. of Hom., 11, also discarded; Thompson's case of poisoning, Lancet, 1886-7, p. 850, doubtful; all other supposed poisonous effects and cases of poisoning are omitted; it having been clearly substantiated that the plant is harmless to produce grave effects.]

I

By John Harley, M.D., St. Thomas's Hospital Reports, New Series, Vol. IV, 1873, p. 80.

The observations have been made with the juice of the entire plant; with tinctures prepared from ripe and green fruit; with a fluid extract prepared with the view of separating any cynapine or other active principle that may have been left in the plant after the expression of the juice, and with the oleo-resin.

Observation 1. -J. W., a weakly young man, troubled with frequent seminal emissions, took 3 1/2 fluid drachms of the Æthusa juice, and, having sat still for the first hour, strolled out during the second. At the end of an hour the oscillating pupils contracted a very little more than they were observed to do before the dose, but beyond this there was no effect whatever. 4 fluid drachms of Succus conii produced a moderate effect upon this patient.

Observation 2. -John T. B., aged twenty-two, the subject of sexual debility from excessive self-abuse, but otherwise strong and healthy, and in whom 6 drachms of Succus conii produced moderate coneism, took the Æthusa juice for a time, in doses increased from 90 minims to 4 drachms, an hour before breakfast every other day. No effects whatever followed.

Observation 3. -Clara L., an active but slightly developed child, aged seven, the subject of interstitial keratitis, and in whom 6 drachms of Succus conii produced only moderate effects, took two doses, one of 3 drachms and the other of 4 drachms, of the Æthusa juice, about two hours after breakfast, on separate days. Beyond a slight temporary rise of pulse, due to the alcohol, there was no effect. The patient subsequently took tincture of the fruit. (See Observation 10.)

Observation 4. -W. W., aged nineteen, an active healthy lad, troubled with frequent seminal emissions. 6 drachms of Succus conii, 30 minims of Succus belladonna, and 1 grain of Opium, always produced their appropriate effects in a moderate degree upon this patient. Beginning with 1 1/2 drachms, and rapidly increasing the dose to 1 ounce, he took the latter quantity of Æthusa juice every second or third day for about a month. Effects were carefully looked for, but none were appreciable, either to the patient or to myself.

Observation 5. -Henry H., aged seventeen, a strong active youth, troubled with frequent seminal emissions, took Conium for some time, and a fluid ounce of the Succus always produced moderate coneism. On one occasion. I gave him 7 drachms of the Æthusa juice, and kept him sitting under my observation for two and a quarter hours. Just previously he had walked to my house, and the pulse was 86, the pupils slightly oscillant and contracting to 1/6", and the tongue whitish and moist, with an acid secretion. After forty-five minutes the pulse was 82, full and regular, as at first. The pupils and tongue were unchanged. After an hour and a half the pulse was 80, and otherwise unchanged. The pupils were now oscillating between 1/6" and 1/7". After two and a quarter hours the pulse was 74, regular, and of natural volume and force; the pupils were 1/6", dilating a little, as before the draught; the tongue was unchanged, and the secretion acid still.

Two days afterwards 9 drachms of the Æthusa juice were taken, the pulse, being 86 and the pupils 1/6". After forty-five minutes the pulse was 88, full and soft; the pupils fairly steady, and contracting to 1/7". After one hour the pulse was 80, otherwise unchanged; the pupils still 1/7". After two and a quarter hours pulse 72, regular, of initial volume and power; the pupils 1/6". The tongue remained unchanged throughout.

After an interval of eight days I gave him 11 drachms of the Æthusa juice, two hours after a hearty meal, and watched for effects under the same conditions as before, the pulse being 84 and the pupils 1/6". After an hour and a quarter the pupils were unchanged and the pulse had risen to 82, but was not appreciably altered in volume or force. After two hours it was 80, and of initial volume and power, and the pupils was still 1/6". At the end of this time the patient passed f3iiiss. of urine (having emptied the bladder just before taking the dose), of sp. gr. 1032; excepting that it contained an excess of uric acid it was normal. Neither on this nor on any previous occasion did the patient himself experience any effect.

Observation 6. -George W., aged seventeen, a well-developed and moderately strong young man, the subject of epileptic aura. Upon this patient 30 minims of Belladonna juice, 1/30 of a grain of Atropia, 4 drachms of tincture of Henbane, 6 drachms of Succus conii, and a mixture of 4 drachms each of tincture of Henbane and Succus conii, severally produced their proper effects in a moderate degree. Failing to get benefit from either of these remedies or the bromides, I gave him the Æthusa juice, beginning with 1-drachm doses every morning before breakfast for eight days, then 3 drachms increased to 4 drachms, for six days more.

A fortnight afterwards, in the evening, I gave him a single dose of 7 drachms, and he remained quiet for the next two hours. The pulse before the draught and after a walk to my house was 84, the pupils 1/6", the tongue clean, and wet with alkaline mucus. After forty-five minutes the pulse was 85, unchanged. After two hours the pulse was 70, and of natural volume and force; the pupils and tongue remained unchanged throughout.

After an interval of six weeks the juice was again given in doses of 1 ounce, increased to 1/2 ounce every other morning, an hour before breakfast, for a month. During the next nine days he took three doses, each consisting of 2 ounces of the thick juice. Effects were carefully watched for as often as the dose was increased, but both the patient and myself failed to observe any.

During the eight months which partly preceded and included the time of this treatment, the daily fits averaged 4 6/10, never exceeding five, nor falling below two. On the days when he took the largest doses (2 ounces) of Æthusa juice he had the full number (5) of fits, and on the intermediate days four. This was probably due to the alcohol.

Observation 7. -E. B., aged twenty-one, a strong healthy young man, in whom 6 drachms of Succus conii produced slight coneism, took the Æthusa juice for a fortnight, in doses increased from 1 ounce to 2 ounces, every other morning before breakfast. The patient failed to experience any effect, nor could I detect any, except after one dose (an ounce and a half) a doubtful contraction of the pupil.

The following observations were made after a dose of 2 1/2 ounces taken with as much water, the pulse being 78, pupils 1/6", and the tongue clean and moist. After taking the dose the patent strolled out for forty-five minutes, and then sat quietly during the rest of the time. At the end of an hour the pulse was 78, regular, and of initial force and power, the pupils were slightly contracted (?), the tongue unchanged. After two and a quarter hours the pulse was 68, otherwise unchanged; the pupils slightly contracted, measuring nearly 1/7", the mouth unchanged.

Observation 8. -George L., aged nineteen, the subject of chronic spasm of the right arm, but otherwise healthy, and in whom 6 drachms of Succus conii produced moderate effects, took 2 fluid ounces of the Æthusa juice, and three days afterwards 4 fluid ounces for a dose. On both occasions effects were carefully watched for during the three hours following each dose. Excepting slight somnolency, due to complete rest of mind and body during this interval, and to some extent probably to the alcohol, no effects were appreciable, either to the patient or myself. This patient took other preparations of Æthusa. (See Observations 12, 14, and 15.)

Observation 9. -I took tincture of the nearly ripe fruit, in doses varying from 1/2 fluid drachm to 6 fluid drachms, without experiencing any effect.

Observation 10. -The subject of Observation 3, a little girl, seven years old, took this tincture diluted with a little water, in doses increased from 1/2 fluid drachm to 1/2 fluid ounce. Excepting a slight rise of pulse at the end of an hour, due to the alcohol, no effects followed any dose.

On one occasion, just after she had walked a distance of two miles, and two hours after breakfast, the pulse being 120, and the pupils 1/8", I gave her 6 fluid drachms, and kept her sitting during the next two hours. After one hour the pulse was 98 and normal, and after two hours 96. The tongue and pupils were unchanged throughout, nor were any effects felt by the patient.

Observation 11. -I have taken the tincture prepared from ripe fruit, in doses ranging from 1/2 fluid drachm to 1 fluid ounce, without experiencing the slightest effects.

Observation 12. -George L. (see Observation 8) took on one occasion 6 fluid drachms of the tincture, and on another 1 fluid ounce. No effects followed either dose.

Observation 13. -I took 1 fluid ounce of the tincture prepared from the green unripe fruit, and experienced no effects.

Observation 14. -George L. (see Observations 8 and 12) took 2 fluid ounces of this tincture, and sat still for the three hours following. Excepting the slight stimulant effect of the alcohol, there were absolutely no results.

Observation 15. -George L. (see Observations 8, 12, and 14) took the fluid extract in doses of 1/2 drachm, 1 drachm, and 2 drachms; not the slightest effect followed either dose.

My observations at present extend no further. I may mention that no trace of gastric irritation or any other effect, immediate or subsequent, occurred in any case. The results, therefore, are merely negative. The slight contraction of the pupil observed in some cases was probably due to the stimulant effect of the alcohol in steadying an oscillating pupil.

The largest dose of the juice given was 4 ounces of the spirituous mixture, which is equivalent to 3 ounces of the fresh juice and to 6 ounces of the fresh herb.

The maximum doses of the tincture of the ripe and nearly ripe fruit was 1 fluid ounce, equivalent, in either case, to 90 grains of the fruit.

The largest dose of the tincture of the unripe fruit was 2 fluid ounces, equivalent to more than 300 grains of the fruit.

Observation 16. -10 grains of the oleo-resin, obtained partly from the herb and partly from the fruit, were taken in solution by a healthy adult. No effects whatever followed.

II

Experiments made under the Direction, of T. F. Allen, New York Homœopathic Medical College, 1876.

Proving of Æthusa by Thomas Wildes . -January 14th, 1876, 1 A.M. Took of θ 1 drop in a. tablespoonful of water on retiring to bed. General peripheral sensation of warmth within five minutes.

6.30 A.M. Wakened with strong sexual desire, and a feeling of glow over the entire body. I took 1 drop on the tongue, with an instantaneous sensation of nausea confined to the mouth and pharynx. Reacted more freely than usual from my shower-bath.

7.30 A.M. 1 drop and same sensation of nausea.

9 A.M. 1 drop and same sensation of nausea.

10 A.M. 1 drop and same sensation of nausea.

11 A.M. 1 drop, sensation of nausea extended down the œsophagus and into the stomach, with rumbling and gurgling in the stomach and upper bowels, and a sensation of fluttering motion in the stomach. Metallic slimy taste in the mouth with dryness. Nausea, and general feeling in the stomach as if I had been on a spree last night. Forehead feels constricted, and yet a sensation of pressure as from within outward.

Took 1 drop with less immediate nausea.

12 M. Took 1 drop.

1 P.M. Took 1 drop.

2 P.M. Took 1 drop.

3 P.M. Took 1 drop; beat and pressure in forehead.

4 P.M. Took 1 drop.

5 P.M. Took 1 drop; sensation of stuffiness in perfectly sound right ear, with feeling of coldness in it, around and behind the same, seeming to be in the bone, 6 P.M. Took 1 drop; no sensation.

7 P.M. Took 1 drop; aching in left mastoid process.

Have noticed all day that excretions (urine and perspiration) are increased, and secretions decreased. I also felt all in a glow, and perspired easily when walking home in the cold to-night.

8 P.M. Took 1 drop.

9 P.M. Took 1 drop; a feeling in stomach and bowels as if diarrhœa was Coming on.

10 P.M. Took 1 drop.

11 P.M. Took 1 drop; skin of bands dry and shrunken, as if they bad been washed in lye, especially on the palmar surface.

12 P.M. Took 1 drop and retired; no symptoms to note.

January 15th, 6.30 A.M. Awoke with an intense frontal headache, with sensation of constriction from points vertically over each eye; relieved by pressure. Quantity of urine diminished. I took 2 drops; no sensation.

8 A.M. Took 2 drops; headache better.

9 A.M. Took 2 drops; headache gone.

10 A.M. Took 2 drops.

11 A.M. Took 2 drops; sensation of tension as of a band passing around the forehead and made fast at each zygoma.

12 M. Took 2 drops; sensation as if I had caught cold and a violent coryza was coming on.

1 P.M. Took 2 drops; sensation of heat and fulness in the face, and pressure in the frontal sinuses and upper nasal passages. Nausea. General headache. Excessive flow of pale urine.

2 P.M. Took 2 drops; face feels better.

3 P.M. Took 2 drops; face feels well, but is beginning to look peaked and hollow-cheeked. Slight headache. Feet and limbs cold nearly to the knees.

4 P.M. Took 2 drops; coldness of limbs more marked.

5 P.M. Took 2 drops.

6 P.M. Took 2 drops; slight nausea.

7 P.M. Took 2 drops; slight nausea.

8 P.M. Took 2 drops.

9 P.M. Took 2 drops.

10 P.M. Took 2 drops.

11 P.M. Took 2 drops; sharp cramps in the small intestines, localized in spots, and quickly shifting from place to place.

12 P.M. Took 20 drops and retired.

January 16th, 7 A.M. Wakened with a sort of seething feeling in my blood, and a heavy aching pain in my back across my kidneys; also a pain between my shoulderblades. Feeling as of an indigestible load in my stomach. Quantity of urine normal. Took 20 drops.

8 A.M. Before eating breakfast I drank half a goblet of milk (contrary to custom, as I never drink milk); no effect. Waited five minutes and took 20 drops without effect, except a feeling as of a load in the stomach and an indisposition to eat, although appetite was average fair. Food all tasted alike, in fact, was nearly tasteless. I also noticed this symptom yesterday but failed to record it. A desire to swallow, as though to keep something down, but without nausea. Waited ten minutes after taking the milk and the 20 drops, before eating breakfast.

11 A.M. Have noticed since breakfast a marked sensation as of a load in the stomach and upper bowels, as though the process of digestion was not going on properly for want of sufficient gastric juice. Mouth and lips dry. Urine decreased. Skin had a dry, white, leathery, pinched look; cheeks are sunken; clothes seem loose. Sexual desire diminished.

I can conceive that this drug might produce vomiting from a weak stomach ., if the proving was pressed, by reason of its retardation of the secretion of the gastric juice, and thus causing the food to act as a foreign body in the stomach. But it will not make me vomit.

January 16th, 2 P.M. Gave 5 drops to Mrs. P. just before she commenced eating dinner. She at once complained of a heated, flushed feeling, as if she had taken a glass of liquor, with a sensation of nausea. After waiting five minutes, she had drank some milk at once, she had to go into the open air to keep from vomiting. At the expiration of another five minutes I gave her 5 drops more, followed by 2 fluid ounces of milk, and this was followed in two minutes by 5 drops more. She at once sought the kitchen, retched violently, and threw up a lot of phlegm, but phlegm only. At the expiration of ten minutes I gave her 5 drops more (20 drops in all), which again made her deathly sick, but she could vomit only phlegm. Throughout this time she felt a constant nausea, and had a sensation in the upper bowels as if she had taken a dose of medicine which was working. The eyes got watery and the face flushed and hot.

I certify that the foregoing is correct in every particular.

Mrs. SARAH PACK.

The above statement was written down immediately after dinner, from Mrs. P.'s statement and doings made at the time in the presence of a table full, and was signed by her after she had heard it carefully read aloud.

THOMAS WILDES

January 16th, 6 P.M. I gave 5 drops to Mr. H. before he commenced eating his supper. He at once complained of a feeling of heat all through the body, and a perspiration broke out on his forehead. He then drank 2 fluid ounces of milk, and three minutes afterwards I gave him 5 drops more (10 drops in all, in five minutes), when he complained of nausea, metallic taste in mouth, and headache in the forehead, shooting up over the eyes. He did not vomit, and in a few minutes ate his supper.

Mr. H. reports this morning, January 17th, that he still feels a slight sensation of nausea, with warmth and an uneasy sensation in the œsophagus and stomach, and a metallic taste in the mouth. He had an increased flow of urine this morning, of a sweet odor. Up to 12 o'clock, last night, he had a heavy undefined sensation in his head like a general headache, with intermittent pains in the forehead, located vertically over each eye, in lines. The metallic taste was very marked up to that hour, and also the sensation of nausea, which extended from the fauces to the stomach, combined with great warmth covering that entire region, spreading out laterally, and extending down into the upper bowels, together with pains in the stomach and upper bowels, as though caused by something hard and indigestible. He describes the pains which he had over his eyes as shooting pains, starting above the eyes and going upward and slightly outward; thus

I certify that the foregoing is a correct statement of symptoms experienced by me this morning, and from 8 to 12 o'clock last evening, after taking ten (10) drops of a medicine from Dr. Wildes at 6.30 P.M., in addition to symptoms I felt immediately, and which he has recorded.

J. L. HURD

Mr. Hurd is a young gentleman in excellent health, knows nothing of homœopathy or the proving of medicines, and when he took the doses was not aware that the medicine was expected to do anything except make him sick at his stomach.

These points he noticed himself, and this morning described them to me in very nearly the language which I have given above.

As a verification of his symptoms I would add that I felt nauseated all day yesterday, January 16th, at the sight of food, although I was no longer taking the drug; and I had the continued sensation of a hard ball or load in the stomach, which latter I have at this moment; yet I could eat.

When I retired to bed, at 1 A.M. (this morning), I quickly had numerous fine sharp stabbing pains, lasting five minutes, and some of which were so sudden and violent that I was forced to exclaim with pain.

I have recorded throughout only such symptoms as were sudden, unexpected, and evidently came from the drug.

Proving of Æthusa by E. H. Linnell . -I received an ounce of Æthusa, which I have taken, but without any very marked or satisfactory results. I commenced with it last Friday, and during the day I took about 1 drachm, in frequent small doses. The only unusual feeling was a slight uneasiness in the stomach, as if a precursor of an attack of gastric catarrh. During the day I drank quite a good deal of milk with my meals. I took no more of the drug till Saturday afternoon, when I took it every fifteen minutes for nearly four hours. I commenced with 10 drops, and increased the dose 10 drops each time, so that the last time I took 120 drops, and 670 in all . I felt a decided weight and heaviness in the stomach, which lasted about two hours, but there was no nausea, although after taking the last of it, I made a meal mostly of bread and milk. I have a very strong stomach, and very seldom suffer from indigestion, so that I feel confident that the sensations I have mentioned, though meagre, were caused by the drug. Perhaps I should state that I took the medicine each time on Saturday, in more or less water, according to the dose, and it is possible that the water caused the sensation of weight, rather than the drug, although I hardly think that was the case.

Proving of Æthusa by Ernest P. Macomber . -I put 24 drops of this drug into twenty-four teaspoonfuls of water, taking one teaspoonful every five minutes, till all was taken, with the following results. On counting my pulse, after taking the third dose, it had decreased from 76 beats per minute to 72. After taking the sixth dose, pulse 69, and I also noticed a slight constricted sensation about head. After ninth dose pulse 66. After twelfth dose pulse 62. After eighteenth dose pulse 60 and soft in character. After twenty-fourth dose pulse soft in character, beats 57 per minute, also slight nausea, and a loose discharge from bowels, of a yellow color and sour smell.

Proving of Æthusa by Dr. St. Clair Smith . -Took at 3.30 180 drops. Immediately, burning in mouth, throat, and œsophagus, with profuse salivation and secretion of mucus in both mouth and throat; this copious flow of mucus continued for some fifteen or twenty minutes, with qualmishness, and was followed by a feeling of dryness of tongue and throat. Burning in stomach from the beginning, but gradually increasing, accompanied by eructations of a rancid taste, causing burning in œsophagus and throat; heartburn, lasting some time after the eructation, with an inclination to spit and clear the throat. Some nausea, with waterbrash, of sour hot fluid; at one time vomiting seemed inevitable. Later, an uncomfortable qualmish feeling in stomach, hardly amounting to nausea, also of pain in forehead, a sort of crampy feeling, with disposition to contract the brows. Deepseated sensation of coldness in the upper part of abdomen, in region of transverse colon. Later, aching in malar bones, principally the left (crampy). Pain in forehead increased and is decidedly uncomfortable. Occasional aching in back of head. Pulse (usually 76) 90 (after two hours). Face flushed (after two hours). Vertigo, great dizziness (soon). Aching in brows, a feeling of constriction. Rapid sticking-shooting pain in left temple and left ear, at 9 P.M.; continued till I went to bed. Weight in stomach, and uncomfortable feeling of indigestion, with uprisings of food and hot liquid; the uprisings of food tasted spoiled. Pain in bowels as if diarrhœa would follow, but it did not. A crampy constriction in heart, with a feeling as though I could not take a long breath; felt pulse to see if it was irregular; it was not; the same pain soon after in right chest. Aching in small of back.

III. Dr. Brugmans took a few grains in the morning. There followed violent headache, thirst, efforts to vomit, sticking pain in the epigastrium, cutting pain and flatulence, desire to sleep, and during the whole day a general cold feeling. Sleep was very restless for the first hours.

IV. Dr. Tournon took by mistake some in salad. He awoke with colic, vertigo, and weakness. Tea and a few glasses of wine removed the symptoms.

V. Dr. Roques treated a woman who had eaten Æthusa inadvertently. She suffered from cutting pain and violent vomiting, incessant anguish, and a feeling of weakness. The symptoms were relieved after a few doses of Laudanum.

Æth.

RÉSUMÉ.

MIND

• Imagined she saw rats run across the room, 8.
• A fixed idea, from which she could not free herself, of a garment made the previous day, of which she also dreamed, 1.
• Liable to transports of rage, 4.
• Excited, lively in the forenoon; apprehensive, sad in the afternoon, 1.
• Hilarity, talkativeness, facetiousness, 4.
• Great good-humor (second day); (seems to be the secondary action), 2. [530.]
• Sadness when alone, 4.
• Anxiety, characterized by a feeling of weight on the chest, 4.
• Uneasiness, anxiety, 2.
• Incessant anguish, 7.
• Disposition becomes retiring and tearful, as in nostalgia, 4.
• She looks very fretful and earnest, and does not talk willingly during the heat of the head; towards noon, better humored, 1.
• Very ill-humored, fretful, in the afternoon, 1.
• Peevish and ill-humored in the open air; after entering the house she again felt better (after one hour and a quarter), 1.
• Awkwardness; discontent, even to vexation, 4.
• Slowness or unsettled state of his ideas, even to absence of thought, 4.
• Loss of comprehension; a kind of stupefaction, as if there were a barrier between his organs of sense and external objects, 4. [540.]
• Somewhat stupid dulness, like an intoxication, soon after a dose, 2.

HEAD

• Confusion and Vertigo.
• The head is confused during the coryza, 4.
• Vertigo, 15.
• Vertigo on awaking 6.
• Vertigo, with sleepiness, during and after rising from a seat (after quarter of an hour), 1.
• Vertigo after every new dose, disappearing in the open air, 1.
• Vertigo, with sleepiness; the eyes close involuntarily, soon after a dose, 1.
• Vertigo in the open air, 4.
• Vertigo, even in the open air; she was obliged to support herself to prevent falling, 1. [550.]
• Sudden attack of vertigo while sitting, disappearing after rising (second day), 1.
• Vertigo when sitting down, aggravated on trying to rise from his seat, 4.
• The vertigo is more especially felt towards midday, 4.
• General Head.
• The head is inclined to fall backward, 4.
• Head dull, brain seems bound up (after two hours and a half), 1.
• Rush of heat into the head, with increased warmth of the whole body, redness of the face, and relief of the vertigo (second day), 1.
• Head, face, and hands seem swollen, after walking in the open air; disappearing in the house (after one hour), 1.
• Heavy, undefined sensation in the head, like a general headache, 12.
• Violent headache, 5.
• General headache, 10.
• The pains in the head are felt especially when he wakes up; they are easily brought on by getting chilled; sleep causes them to cease, and they are ameliorated by emission of flatus, 4. [560.]
• The pains of the head return periodically, and are often accompanied with pale face, trembling in the jaws, and pain in the præcordial region, 4.
• Feeling of tension in the head, 4.
• Raging here and there in the head on entering the house, though lasting only a short time, 1.
• Sensation as if shattered in the head, in the afternoon, 1.
• Slight constricted feeling about the head, .

EYE

• The eyes are very wide open, 4.
• Swelling of the Meibomian glands; gum in the canthi, 4.
• Spasm of the eyes, 4. [610.]
• Distortion of the eyes during sleep, 4.
• The eyes close involuntarily from sleepiness, which disappears in the open air, 1.
• Violent burning in the eyes in the house, as if smoke were in them (after half an hour), 1.
• Pressure in the eyes, 4.
• Pain of excoriation around the eyes, 4.
• Tearing pain across the eyes, 4.
• Stitches around the eyes and in the orbits, 4.
• The eye-symptoms are generally felt on awakening, or in the open air, 4.
• Pain at the eyebrows, 4.
• Eyes watery, 1. [620.]
• Chronic inflammation of the edges of the eyelids, 4.
• Troublesome sensation around the eyelids, 4.
• Pain of excoriation in the lids, 4.
• Itching of the canthi, 4.
• Vision confused; sometimes objects appear double, 4.
• Objects seem enlarged, and sometimes double, 1.

EAR

• Purulent discharge from the ears, 4.
• Stitching pain behind the ears, 4.
• Lancinating pain in the ears, from within outward, 4.
• Violent jerking in both ears, not removed by scratching, 1. [630.]
• Sticking into the right ear (after three-quarters of an hour), 1.
• Rapid sticking-shooting pain in left ear, 15.
• Sticking in the left car (after one hour); after the sticking fine tearing about the ear, extending to the top of the head, 1.
• Sticking in the left ear, with a feeling as if heat were coming out of it, alternating with stitches in the left costal region (after five hours), 1.
• At one time sticking, at another tearing in the right ear, only somewhat relieved by rubbing, 1.
• Transient, though painful sticking in the right ear, 1.
• Sticking in the right ear, removed by boring in with the finger, 1.
• Sensation of heat escaping from the ear, 4.
• Sensation of stuffiness in perfectly sound right ear, with feeling of coldness in, around, and behind the same, seeming to be in the bone, 10.
• Dryness of the ears; want of cerumen, 4. [640.]
• Stopped sensation in the ears, with hardness of hearing, which lasted longer in the left ear (after one hour), 1.
• Several of the ear-symptoms are ameliorated by contact and pressure, 4.
• Troublesome whistling in the ears, 4.

NOSE

• Sneezing once, 1.

• Ineffectual desire to sneeze, 4.
• Inclination to sneeze in the left nostril (after half au hour), 1.
• Coryza in the morning, 4.
• Coryza in the open air, 4.
• Coryza, with viscid secretion, 4.
• The coryza has a nauseous smell, 4. [650.]
• The coryza loosens on the second morning; much thick mucus is discharged, 1.
• Sudden stoppage of both nostrils for a quarter of an hour (after five minutes), 1.
• Sudden stoppage of the nose, lasting a quarter of an hour, in the morning after waking, 1.
• Tension above the root of the nose, 4.
• Ulcerative pain in the fossa of the left side of the nose, as if there were an open spot, 1.
• Sense of pressure in the nose, 4.
• Acute stitches in the left side of the nose externally, then a very fine painful burning on the right side, then fine burning, as with a glowing needle externally, in the pit of the stomach, 1.

FACE

• Face beginning to look peaked and hollow-cheeked, 10.
• Puffiness of the face during the menses, 4.
• The face has a tired look, 4. [660.]
• Face expressive of anguish, 4.
• Face flushed and hot, 11.
• Jactitation of the muscles around the mouth, 4.
• Cheeks sunken, 10.
• Crampy aching in the malar bones, principally the left, 15.
• Tearing in both malar bones, and very painful, though only for a short time, 1.
• Violent tearing in the left malar bone, in the cold air (fourth day), 1.
• Sticking and tearing in the right malar bone; afterwards tickling in the left upper teeth; afterwards stitches in the left ear (after three hours), 1.
• Dull stitch like a tapping with the finger, with tearing in a small spot in the middle of the left cheek (second day), 1.
• Chap on the upper lip, 4. [670.]
• Tearing in the lower lip, extending into the neighboring teeth, in the afternoon, 1.
• Tearing in the right lower jaw (after one hour and a quarter), 1.

MOUTH

• Teeth.**
• A sort of shocks in the lower teeth, 4.
• Grumbling in a right lower back tooth, it seems as though the headache arose from the teeth (seventh day), 1.
• Painful sensitiveness of a right lower decayed molar, still worse when touched (first day), 1.
• Gum.
• Stitches here and there, in the gum (ninth day), 1.
• Fine sticking and tearing in the gum, now in the right, now in the left side, frequently (eleventh day), 1.
• Tongue.
• Dryness of the tongue, 15.
• Sensation as if the tongue were too dry, 4.
• General Mouth.
• Aphthæ in the mouth, 4.
• Redness and swelling of the velum pendulum and adjacent parts; distress so great that he fears suffocation, 1. [680.]
• Mouth and lips dry, 10.
• Burning in mouth, 15.
• Saliva and Taste.
• Stitching in the arch of the palate, 4.
• Inclination to spit and clear the throat, 15.
• Profuse salivation, 15.
• Insipidity in the mouth, with a sweetish taste in the morning after waking, 1.
• Food all tasted alike, in fact was nearly tasteless, 10.
• Indescribable taste, both before and after a meal, 4.
• Sweetish taste, with dryness of the mouth (eleventh day), 1.
• Taste of cheese in mouth, 4. [690.]
• Food tastes salt, 4.
• Metallic taste in the mouth, 12.
• Metallic, slimy taste in the mouth, with dryness, 10.
• Taste of onions, 4.
• Speech.
• Slowness of speech, 4.
• Speech almost prevented, 4.

THROAT

• Inflamed aphthæ and pustules in the throat, making the patient's condition almost desperate, 4.
• Redness of the throat, 4.
• Dryness in the throat and frequent hawking (after two hours), 1.
• Dryness of the throat, 15. [700.]
• A sensation in the throat, as though she could not swallow, with spasmodic contraction in the right side of the throat and ear, lasting an hour, in the afternoon while sitting (ninth day), 1.
• Sharp stitches in the throat when not swallowing (second day), 1.
• Burning in the throat, 15.
• Warmth and uneasy sensation in the œsophagus and stomach, 12.
• Burning in the œsophagus, 4.
• Itching and scraping in the œsophagus, 4.
• A desire to swallow, as though to keep something down, 10.

STOMACH

• Appetite.**
• Indisposition to eat, although the appetite was average fair, 10.
• Total loss of appetite for every kind of aliment, 4.
• Want of appetite, although with clean tongue, 4. [710.]
• Want of appetite, in the evening, 4.
• Thirst, 5.
• Eructation.
• Eructations after drinking 4.
• Eructations of a rancid taste, causing burning in the œsophagus and throat, 15.
• Difficult eructations, 4.
• Eructations tasting of the broth (after one hour and a quarter), 1.
• Empty eructations, in the afternoon, 1.
• Uprisings of food, 15.
• The eructations are allayed by lying down, 4.
• Eructations, tasting of the ingesta, 4.
• Hiccough. [720.]
• Hiccough, in the evening, 1.
• Waterbrash of sour, hot fluid, 15.
• Heartburn, 15.
• Nausea and Vomiting.
• Nausea, 11, 12, 14, 15.
• Nausea, with prostration, 4.
• Nauseated at the sight of food, 10.
• Sensation of nausea extended down the œsophagus and into the stomach, with rumbling and gurgling in the stomach and upper bowels, and a sensation of fluttering motion in the stomach, 10.
• Instantaneous sensation of nausea, confined to the mouth and pharynx, 10.
• Efforts to vomit, 5.
• Retched, and threw up phlegm, 1. [730.]
• Vomiting, with chills, sweat and debility, 4.
• Stomach.
• General feeling in the stomach, as if I had been on a spree last night, 10.

ABDOMEN

• Painfulness of the hypochondria, 1.
• A painful pressing inward and a burning with stitches in the left hypochondrium, twice in quick succession (after one hour), 1.
• A stitch in the right hypochondriac region, and immediately afterwards in the right ear, in the afternoon, 1.
• Sticking in the left hypochondriac region, frequently, and lasting a long time (after four hours), 1. [750.]
• Constant stitches in the left hypochondriac region, with burning, only transiently relieved by rubbing, 1.
• A stitch in the left hypochondriac region, extending backward, then sticking deep internally beneath the left female breast, in the afternoon, 1.
• Painful movings about below the navel, with desire for stool, after the morning broth; followed after a few minutes by a hard stool (after one hour), 1.
• A rush as of boiling water in the umbilical region, followed by griping in the stomach, 1.
• In the morning after rising, at first some griping about the navel, and then two soft stools, 1.
• A sudden burning, as from a glowing hot needle, at one time in the left loin, then in the right hypochondriac region (after four hours), 1.
• Digging sensation in the abdomen, 4.
• Sensation of load in upper bowels, 10.
• Warmth in the upper bowels, 12.
• Sharp cramps in the small intestines, localized in spots, and quickly shifting from place to place, 10. [760.]
• Sensation in the upper bowels as if she had taken a dose of medicine, which was working, 11.
• Colic on awaking, 6.
• Pain in bowels, as if diarrhœa would follow, 15.
• A painful cutting as with a knife in the abdomen, above the navel (second day), 1.
• Cutting pain and flatulence, 5.
• Throbbing in the abdomen, 4.
• Movements in the abdomen, followed by a stool, the first part of which is hard, the last soft, 1.
• Sensation of great coldness in the whole upper abdomen, immediately after a dose, 1.
• Sensation of coldness in the abdomen after every dose, 1.

RECTUM AND ANUS

• Feeling as if the hæmorrhoidal tumors were excoriated, 4.
• Contraction of the rectum, 4.
• All the symptoms disappear after broth, but return after half an hour, 1.
• Sensation of dryness at the anus, 1.

STOOL

• Loose discharge from the bowels, of a yellow color and sour smell, 14.
• Very hard stool, with clawing in the anus, and great straining (second day), 1.
• *Stools of partly digested food, shortly after a meal or at night, 4.
• Constipation, 4.
• Most obstinate constipation , with feeling as though all action of the bowels bad been lost, 8.

URINARY ORGANS. [780.]

• Cutting pains at the bladder, 4.
• Frequent urging to urinate, 4.
• Frequent urging to urinate at night, 4.
• Urine increased, 10.
• Increased flow of urine, of a sweet odor, 12.
• Copious emission of urine, 4.
• Excessive flow of pale urine, 10.
• She passes much urine as pale as water, three times (second day), 1.
• Urine diminished, 10.
• Red urine voided with difficulty, 4. [790.]
• Urine depositing a white sediment, 4.

SEXUAL ORGANS

• Awakened with a strong sexual desire, 10.
• Sexual desire diminished, 10.
• Stitching pains in sexual parts (female), 4.
• The menstrual blood is watery, 4.

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

• Slight cough, 4.
• Cough, aggravated by lying down, 4.
• Cough, with stunning pain in the head, 4.
• Cough, with titillating sensation in the throat, 4.
• Frequent short hacking cough (after half an hour), 1. [800.]
• Cough, with tearing pain in the chest, 4.
• Cough, with sweetish taste in the throat, 4.
• Cough, with paleness of the face, 4.
• Cough, followed by mucous expectoration, 4.
• Dry cough in several paroxysms, after dinner (after four hours), 1.
• Hoarse breathing, 4.
• Sibilant respiration, 4.
• Hoarse and sibilant respiration, especially when lying on the back, 4.

CHEST

• Sensation of pressure, as from a hand around the chest, 4.
• Crampy constriction in the right chest, 15. [810.]
• An incessant painful dull stitch in the middle of the chest on inspiration, on rising after sitting bent over; the pain was aggravated by deep breathing; 6.30 P.M. (first day), 1.
• A sharp stitch in the middle of the sternum, followed by burning in the same spot, so that she thought it was all over with her, disappearing on pressure, but returning (after five hours), 1.
• Digging and tension in the right thorax, in front of the axilla, 1.
• Painless tension in the region in front of the right axilla, while knitting in the evening (fifth day), 1.
• A stitch in the region of the right ribs, in the afternoon, 1.
• Swelling of the mammary gland, 4.
• Burning, as from a glowing hot iron in a small spot below the left breast (second day), 1.

HEART AND PULSE

• Crampy constriction in heart, with a feeling as though I could not take a long breath, 15.
• Palpitations which resound in the head, 4.
• Palpitation, with vertigo, headache, and restlessness, 4. [820.]
• Small, frequent, irregular pulse, 4.
• Pulse decreased in frequency, and soft, 14.
• Pulse (usually 76), 90 (after two hours), 15.

NECK AND BACK

• Drawing pain in the right side of the neck, as if a tendon or a bloodvessel would be torn out, disappearing on rubbing (eleventh day), 1.
• Painful tearing in the tendons in the right side of the neck (seventh day), 1.
• Violent tearing in a spot of the breadth of two fingers on the right side of the neck (second day), 1.
• A sharp stitch extending inward in the left cervical muscles, then a similar stitch in the upper part of the left parietal bone, then a beating in the whole head, more on the right side and backward, with a feeling of heaviness, 1.
• Sticking jerking in the nape of the neck (after two hours), 1.
• Throbbing tearing in a small spot on the tendons, on the left side of the neck (second day), 1.
• Weak feeling in the back, 4. [830.]
• Pulling in the back, 4.
• Painful aching about the left scapula, sometimes extending into the left arm; attempt to relieve it by rigid expansion and closing the fist, as in a tonic spasm, 8.
• Pain between shoulderblades on waking in the morning, 10.
• A violent stitch between the scapulæ, 1.
• Burning externally in the small of the back, disappearing after rubbing, 1.
• Aching in small of back, 15.
• Heavy aching pain in my back across my kidneys, on waking, in the morning, 10.
• Frequent sensation in the small of the back, as if screwed together, 1.
• Drawing in the right lumbar region while walking, disappearing on sitting (after one hour and a quarter), 1.
• A stitch in the right lumbar region, then a sensation of slight pressure, as though a light body were lying there (after one hour and a quarter), 1.

EXTREMITIES. [840.]

• Sleep prevented by pains in the limbs, 4.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Numbness of the arms, 8.
• Sensation, as if the arms had become much shorter; so vivid that she had to examine them in the morning to be convinced that it was not actually so, 8.
• Paralyzed sensation on the left shoulder, afterwards in the right forearm (second day), 1.
• Tension at first on the left, then on the right shoulder; very painful (first day), 1.
• Pain in the axillary glands, 4.
• Arthritic stiffness of the elbow-joint, 4.
• Sensation of great weakness in the right forearm, a hand's breadth above the wrists, extending to the little finger (fifth day), 1.
• Sudden weariness of the forearms while knitting; she was obliged to lay it aside, when it became better (after a quarter of an hour), 1.
• Heaviness of the forearm, 4. [850.]
• Paralytic pain in the left forearm while sitting (second day), 1.
• Tension in the tendons of the left forearm while flexed, she did not dare to extend it, and yet the tension was relieved only by extending and moving the fingers; while knitting (after five minutes), 1.
• Fine tearing in a small spot on the inner surface of the left forearm, 1.
• Sticking tearing in the middle of the left forearm, along the upper surface, as far as the wrist, 1.
• Sticking in the tendons of the right forearm while using the hand (first day), 1.
• A stitch in the left external styloid process (of the wrist), (after one hour and a half ), 1.
• Cramp of the hand, 4.
• Frequent tearing on the back of the right hand, in the tendons of the thumb, for several days (seventh day), 1.
• Tearing in the metacarpal bone of the right index finger (second day), 1.
• Tearing in the metacarpal bone of the left index finger, 1. [860.]
• Tearing between the little and ring fingers of the hand, aggravated on stretching them out (second day), 1.
• Swelling of the fingers, 4.
• Contraction of the fingers, 4.
• Formication in the fingers, 4.
• Jerking in the left thumb (after two hours), .

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES. [870.]

• Great weakness of the lower extremities (third day), 1.
• Boring pain in the lower extremities, 4.
• Lancinating, tearing pain in the lower extremities, 4.
• Formication referred to the bones of the lower limbs, 4.
• Tension in the right hip, then again sticking tearing in the right ear, in the afternoon, 1.
• A pinching in the right hip, externally (after two hours and a half), 1.
• Sticking and drawing from the left hip into the thigh, 1.
• Paralytic pain in the middle of the right thigh while sitting, disappearing on motion, 1.
• Sticking in the upper part of the left thigh, 1.
• Sticking in the right knee, in the evening while standing, 1. [880.]
• Tearing deep in the right instep, in the afternoon, 1.
• Sticking in the right sole, below the heel (after five hours), 1.
• Tearing sticking in the right heel, extending thence into the sole, as far as the ball of the foot (after three-quarters of an hour), 1.

GENERALITIES

• Secretions diminished, 10.
• Feeling of weakness, 7.
• Weakness on awaking, 6.
• Great weakness and prostration, with sleepiness (second afternoon), 1.
• Wakened in the morning with a sort of seething feeling in my blood, 10.
• Weak feeling, like paralysis, when raising himself in bed, when turning in bed, and during movement, 4.
• She thinks she is much better and fresher after entering the house from the open air, 1. [890.]
• Reacted more freely than usual from my shower-bath (second morning), 10.
• Numerous fine sharp stabbing pains, lasting five minutes, 10.
• Clothes seem loose, 10.
• Symptoms relieved after a few doses of laudanum, 7.
• Tea and a few glasses of wine removed the symptoms, 6.
• Most of the symptoms disappear in the open air, but soon return in the house, 1.

SKIN

• Skin had a dry, white, leathery, pinched look, 10.
• Herpetic eruption itched very much from the heat especially in the evening, 4.
• Small vesicles on the skin of the face, 4.
• Yellowish spot on the upper lip, 4. [900.]
• Pimply eruption on the genitals (female), 4.
• A painful boil in the sacral region, 1.
• Skin of hands dry and shrunken, as if they had been washed in lye, especially on the palmar surface, 10.
• During one day appearance and disappearance of reddish-blue spots on the trunk and left leg, causing the patient to fear an attack of spotted fever, 8.
• Excessive sensitiveness, 4.
• Tingling, itching, 4.
• Itching from the heat, 4.
• Itching of the least affected portions of the skin; they swell up, 1.
• Itching at the sexual parts (female), 1.

SLEEP

• Desire to sleep, 5. [910.]

>> Sleepy, without yawning, in the afternoon, 1.

• Sleep very restless for the first hours, 5.
• Slight spasmodic movements during sleep, 4.
• Frequent waking, caused by a feeling of cold, 4.
• Sleep broken by frequent waking, 4.
• Waking up, followed by several hours of sleeplessness, 4.
• Fatiguing dreams, in the morning, 4.
• Troubled dreams, 4.

FEVER

• Chilliness.**
• Chilliness through the whole body, and external coldness, without thirst, lasting two days, 2.
• Violent chill and external coldness, so that he could not get warm in the forenoon, soon after a dose, with sleepiness, which lasted the whole day, 2. [920.]
• Shivering, which is more frequent in the afternoons, 4.
• Horripilation in the open air, 4.
• During the horripilation the limbs feel as if broken, with hot breath and restlessness, 4.
• Shivering on entering the house from the open air (second day), 1.
• Horripilation, with heat, which pervades the whole body, 4.
• General coldness, 4.
• During the whole day a general cold feeling, 5.
• General coldness during sleep, 4.
• Coldness, with red face, 4.
• He cannot bear to be uncovered during the sweat, 4. [930.]
• Internal coldness, 4.
• Sensation of coldness at the chin, and at the labial commissure, 4.
• Coldness of the abdomen, both objective and subjective, with aching pain in the bowels (relieved by warm wet applications), accompanied by coldness of the lower extremities , particularly the left one, 8.
• Coldness of abdomen and lower extremities, 8.
• Coldness of lower extremities, particularly the left, with coldness in abdomen, etc, 8.
• Feet and limbs cold, nearly to the knees, 10.
• Heat.
• The febrile symptoms occur more particularly in the morning, and are accompanied with very great malaise and tendency to delirium, which cease during the sweat, 4.
• Heat all through the body, 12.
• Heated, flushed feeling, as if she had taken a glass of liquor, 11.
• Feeling of glow over the entire body on waking in the morning, 10. [940.]
• General peripheral sensation of warmth within five minutes, 10.
• Burning heat of the skin, 4.

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