Amylenum Nitrosum
By Constantine Hering — The Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica
Nitrite of Amyl. C 10 H 11 O, NO 3 .
Discovered by Ballard in 1884, proposed as a medicine by Guthrie in 1859, introduced into the Materia Medica of Old School in 1866. Introduced into our School in 1871. Proved by T. F. Allen and published in his Encyclopædia in 1874. Again proved by the Boston School and published by C. Wesselhœft in 1876, a first-rate proving, which could not be dispensed with. There are very few cures on record, mostly palliations of incurable cases ; but it is of the utmost importance as regards euthanasia. Before going to press we received an excellent collection, through J. H. McClelland, by S. B. Chanter.
MIND [1]
Mental confusion and a dreamlike state. θ Epilepsy.
A trance-like state, everything seeming unreal to her.
Unconsciousness, with inability to swallow. θ Convulsions of a child.
Unable to do any business ; head in a constant state of dull confusion. θ After long-continued convulsions.
Increasing sense of stupefaction, with flushing of face and scalp.
Flow of ideas becomes more lively.
Frequent piercing shrieks. θ Child in convulsions.
Melancholy.
Melancholy without sensation of anguish.
Actual fright at throbbing of head.
Cannot sit still for fear of something dreadful happening.
Anxiety as if something might happen ; must have fresh air.
Haunted many times a day with an indescribable dread and sensation as of an oncoming fit, although it came on only once or twice a week. θ Epilepsy.
From the slightest emotion flushing of face.
SENSORIUM [2]
Dulness in head, and peculiar confusion. θ Headache.
Confused feeling after congestion to head.
Confusion of head with vertigo and drowsiness.
Vertigo, headache and nausea on rising.
Giddy ; drunken feeling.
Dizziness.
Heaviness of head.
Dizziness with slight nausea, < when eyes are closed.
Produced so much giddiness and sensation of fulness in head that he preferred ether. θ Angina pectoris.
Giddiness, confusion of mind, heaviness in head, headache and general weakness.
Giddiness, mental confusion and a dreamlike state.
Congestive state of head.
Great rush of blood to head and face.
INNER HEAD [3]
Dull heavy aching all through head.
Conscious of a dull headache for about three hours.
Headache in frontal region.
Severe dull heavy pains across forehead, without marked external heat.
Heaviness and pressure outward in forehead and temples.
When pain in forehead was <, pain in occiput was >.
Sense of fulness, pressure, tension and throbbing in temples.
Pain in right temple.
Painful pressure outward in temples, < in left, with dull, heavy aching pain in occipital region extending to nape of neck, while walking.
Severe pain in temples, occiput and over eyes, with burning in stomach.
Visible pulsating in temples.
Headache on left side, parietal region.
Hemicrania, especially where affected side looks pale in comparison with sound one.
A dull aching in cervical region, gradually moving to suboccipital region, during morning.
Sensation of something rushing upward and throbbing in vertex.
No pain in head is felt until some time after attack comes on, and it is then of a dull aching character in vertex, accompanied by unusual paleness of face and coldness of feet and hands.
Severe occipito-frontal headache, felt most in sub-occipital region.
Pain in right occipital region.
Dull pain in occiput.
Pain in occiput < in heat of room and from writing.
Constant occipital headache and aching across loins, < from fatigue.
Occipito-frontal headache, with aching in right renal region.
Heat and throbbing in head ; feeling of fulness to bursting.
A quick, somewhat sharp throbbing in head.
Throbbing headache with flushed face and confusion of mind.
Beating and throbbing in head and ears with constriction of throat and heart.
A sense of fulness and distension of head amounting at last to severe pain, and accompanied by intense flushing of face, starting perspiration on head, face and neck.
Pressure in head, forehead and temples, with moist skin.
Severe pain accompanied with sense of distension of head.
Bursting sensation in head and ears as if all blood was rushing to head.
Pain in head, with a stupid, drowsy sensation and burning in stomach and up throat.
(OBS :) Hemicrania or sick headache ; pain most violent left side.
Sick headache.
OUTER HEAD [4]
Oppression in fronto-parietal suture, extending to frontal bone.
Redness and heat of head, face and neck, with violent throbbing in top of head and carotids.
Intense crushing pain upon head, which seemed to gather into a feeling of confusion, threatening for a moment to make him unconscious.
Visible pulsation in temples.
Temporal artery protruding, hard, pulsating audibly.
Sensation as though scalp was jerked forward from occiput towards forehead, ceasing just before it reached that point, repeated several times.
Heat and perspiration of head, face and neck, while hands and feet are very cold, which continue so for hours.
Head would first fall to one side, then to the other.
SIGHT AND EYES [5]
If the eye is fixed on a spot or a blank wall, the spot itself with the surrounding surface appears of a yellowish hue, the yellow circle being encircled by a violet blue halo, with undulating lines at the edge.
Objects appear pea green or yellow.
Slight blurring of letters when reading.
Everything appears as if trembling, wavering.
Aching pains in eyes in sunlight, with profuse running of tears, followed by sneezing.
On closing eyes : dizziness <.
Pain back of eyes on looking at near objects.
Dimness of sight.
Pupils dilated.
Dull heavy pressure over eyes, as if a heavy weight was within.
Pain over both eyes.
Ciliary neuralgia ; eye injected ; face or cheek suffused.
Sudden smarting of conjunctivæ with injection of both eyes, with dimness of vision, as if caused by a film.
Conjunctivæ smarting and bloodshot.
The eye shines.
Eyes glazed, protruding with a staring look and immovable. θ Child in convulsions.
Eyes protruded, staring.
Exophthalmic goitre.
Sudden sharp pain under left eye.
Twitching under outer left canthus.
Twitching and creeping under left eye, momentary.
Arteries of optic disc small, but veins enlarged and tortuous.
HEARING AND EARS [6]
Throbbing in ears ; bursting sensation as if membrane would be forced out with each beat of heart.
Burning of ears.
Heat in left ear.
SMELL AND NOSE [7]
Constant desire to sneeze.
Numb feeling of nasal bones lasting several hours.
Slight nosebleed from left side, about an hour after inhalation, very unusual with him.
UPPER FACE [8]
Features show more vivacity.
Neuralgia of fifth pair.
Creeping sensation in right cheek below malar bone, which was momentary.
Creeping in left cheek.
Intense surging of blood to face and head, heat and redness ; feels as if blood would start through skin, with lachrymation.
Face flushed scarlet and hot.
Face and even back of hands deeply reddened.
Face flushes at slightest emotion. θ Climaxis. θ Heart disease, etc.
Intense redness of surface with great subjective feeling of heat in face and head.
Left side of face and left ear get intensely red, coming suddenly and disappearing suddenly during intervals of attacks of headache ; most after mental symptoms.
Intense redness and heat in face, often with a sensation of giddiness.
Intense glowing of face, with general sweat, most marked in palms of hands.
Burning sensation in face.
Burning of right cheek, extending up into eye and around to r. ear.
Intensely hot and red face ; on passing off face paler than usual.
Turned deadly pale, felt very giddy, became partially unconscious for ten minutes.
Left side of face pale and haggard. θ Headache.
LOWER FACE [9]
A smacking of lips as if in act of tasting.
A short munching movement of lower jaw, which was depressed and elevated as if in act of chewing.
INNER MOUTH [12]
Mouth dry, throat sore.
PALATE AND THROAT [13]
Awoke at 5 A. M. with an extremely dry, parched sensation in throat and mouth ; arose to rinse mouth with water ; marked stiffness and dryness of lips.
As if a vapor spread from throat through her head, rendering her quite powerless for one or two seconds.
Sore throat.
Feeling of constriction in throat.
Choking feeling on either side of trachea, along carotids ; feeling of constriction.
Inability to swallow, with unconsciousness. θ Child in convulsions.
Heat in head and along œsophagus to stomach, lasting thirty minutes.
Tickling in throat.
Left tonsil swollen and inflamed.
Catarrh and dysphagia (sequela of a recent attack of diphtheria) entirely relieved during action of drug, but returned after its effects had passed off.
Collar seems too tight ; desires to loosen it.
APPETITE, THIRST. DESIRES, AVERSIONS [14]
Loss of appetite.
HICCOUGH, BELCHING, NAUSEA AND VOMITING [16]
Hiccough.
Eructation.
Nausea, with dryness in throat.
Great nausea.
Nausea and uncomfortable feeling in stomach.
Nausea and heat in stomach, with pains.
Slight nausea, followed by inclination to vomit.
SCROBICULUM AND STOMACH [17]
Crampy pains in epigastric region.
Fulness and pressure in stomach, with belching.
Cardialgia.
Hot burning sensation in stomach, with empty belching.
Heat principally in stomach, moist skin.
Burning in stomach and up to throat ; nausea.
HYPOCHONDRIA [18]
Sense of oppression near liver.
ABDOMEN AND LOINS [19]
Crampy, colicky pains in umbilical region and abdomen, increased when lying down.
Rumbling in bowels.
Slight distension of abdomen, with dull pain.
STOOLS AND RECTUM [20]
Bowels moved at 7.40 A. M. with rumbling, followed by a feeling of emptiness.
URINARY ORGANS [21]
Urine, sp. gr. 1012, 1014.
Urine clear, acid, sp. gr. 1014 ; free from albumen and phosphates.
Light cloud of an oxalate and distinct traces of sugar.
Urine clear, free, acid, sp. gr. 1016, saccharine.
Urine clear, acid, sp. gr. 1020, trace of oxalate and sugar in marked quantity.
Increased flow of urine which contains an abundance of sugar.
FEMALE SEXUAL ORGANS [23]
Contraction of muscles in lower part of abdomen, as though they were all being drawn together over region of uterus.
Region of uterus, fallopian tubes and ovaries felt very hard on pressure.
During catamenia most violent left sided headache, beginning in morning ; most violent at noon, lasting till evening, with frequent vomiting.
Neuralgia during catamenia.
Chronic blushing in climacteric years ; blushing with disease of right heart in male.
(OBS :) Nervous dysmenorrhœa.
PREGNANCY. PARTURITION. LACTATION [24]
Convulsions occurring immediately after delivery.
VOICE AND LARYNX. TRACHEA AND BRONCHIA [25]
The feeling of constriction in throat extended to chest, and produced dyspnœa and asthmatic feeling in larynx and trachea, with desire to eructate.
RESPIRATION [26]
Inhalation followed immediately by dizziness and nausea.
After inhalation : blood is forced up to head ; redness of face, later very pale, more than usual. θ Headache.
Pains at times accompanied by sinking respiration.
Very deep, not more frequent breathing.
Oppressed, difficult and rapid breathing.
Hastens and deepens breathing.
Two or three full inspirations were succeeded by one of extreme depth, accompanied by depression of lower jaw and elevation of ribs and scapulæ.
Breathing panting in trance-like state.
Choking feeling in throat and chest.
Increasing dyspnœa, with sneezings, nasal catarrh and sighing respiration.
Could hardly breathe for about a minute.
Cardiac dypsnea with extreme anasarca, due to a dilated and hypertrophied heart.
Asthma ; arrests paroxysm, yet on cessation of effect dyspnœa returned.
Dyspnœa, constriction of throat and heart ; driven by actual fright to window for fresh air.
Feeling of suffocation from palpitation of heart.
Dyspnœa and asthmatic feeling in larynx and trachea.
Suffocation and cough in paroxysms of several minutes. θ Disease of heart.
COUGH [27]
Slight breathlessness and cough.
Sensation in throat producing a desire to cough, similar to that produced by fumes of a burning match.
Some inclination to cough.
Bronchial irritation, cough.
Hacking cough five minutes after inhalation, repeated forty-five minutes after.
(OBS :) Whooping cough.
INNER CHEST AND LUNGS [28]
Slight, dull, aching pain in right chest, more severe after awhile.
Commotion in chest.
Peculiar sensation in right lung or chest.
Drawing pains in left side, between seventh and ninth ribs, short but frequent.
Feeling as if a band was drawn tightly around chest.
Sense of oppression in chest, < at lower part of sternum, < on going down-stairs.
Feeling as if weight was on sternum.
Oppression of chest on walking about.
HEART, PULSE AND CIRCULATION [29]
Angina pectoris.
Precordial anxiety.
Cardiac oppression and tumultuous heart action.
Anxious feeling in precordial region with faintness and oppression of head.
Stitching pains in cardiac region and feeling of constriction (no palpitation).
Aching and constricted feeling about heart.
Violent beating of heart and throbbing of arteries with a sense of constriction.
The aching and constriction of the heart continued more or less for at least three weeks, when it was relieved after taking Cact. grand.
Depression of heart's action.
Sharp pain in region of heart < by belching, several days.
Pain in left side, in region of heart, extending around to back.
Quicker circulation.
Rapid dilatation of arteries, with quickened but weakened circulation.
Relaxes whole arterial system, greatly reducing arterial pressure.
Great dilatation of arterioles.
Causes a dilatation of capillaries, especially of head.
Violent pulsation of carotids.
Visible arteries, like the temporal, often become notably large, sometimes doubled in size.
Sudden beating of carotids, which extends to head and temples, accompanied by intense flushing of face, which precedes debilitating perspiration.
Throbbing of heart and carotids, felt as high as ears. θ Angina pectoris.
Accelerated heart's action, with increased cardiac pulsations.
Fluttering at heart on slightest excitement.
Violent palpitation.
Tumultuous action of heart, with great precordial anxiety and quick respiration. θ Disease of heart.
During paroxysm of cough pulsations of heart could not be counted, neither was it possible to count radial pulsations. θ Disease of heart.
The irregular rumbling sound of heart could be perceived almost instantaneously to change into a more regular pulsation. θ Disease of heart.
The heart gave one strong beat, and from the state of agony the patient passed to one of perfect repose and peace. θ Angina pectoris.
Aortic insufficiency with excessive hypertrophy of heart ; with severe frontal headache.
Pulse slow and very strong, then quicker and jerking, accelerated.
Beating of pulse distinctly felt in fingers.
Pulse accelerated, full and hard.
Pulse slightly quickened. θ Angina pectoris.
Quickens pulse in a very variable degree.
Pulse increased about twelve beats in minute, but could not count it at once owing to confusion of head.
Pulse rose twenty beats, remaining a few minutes, gradually coming to normal standard.
Pulse increased in number of beats, but not in force.
Pulse not accelerated but irregular in action, almost impossible to count.
Increase of pulse by 20 to 30 beats in a minute, during which tension of radial artery is much diminished.
Pulse, sitting : 78 to 84, feeble ; 66, regular, feeble ; 68, small, feeble.
Pulse before taking it, 83, in 25 minutes, 63, in 2 hours, 73, not returning to usual state till two days after.
In some pulse sank below average, in most it rose higher, became fast, full and hard.
The sphygmograph pulse-curve ends abruptly in a very sudden downfall.
As the pain in arm increases, the curve of the sphygmograph becomes lower, both the ascent and the descent more gradual, and dichrotism disappeared. θ Angina pectoris.
If blood does not flow after cupping, the cuts immediately begin to bleed freely after inhaling it.
NECK AND BACK [31]
Twinges near dorsal vertebræ.
Pain and weakness in lower lumbar region.
UPPER LIMBS [32]
Slight discomfort in right shoulder.
Lameness in right scapula.
Soreness in right arm and shoulder.
Lameness of flexor muscles of right arm.
Severe precordial pain, extending to right arm. θ Angina pectoris.
Pain and stiffness in right arm, most near wrist, < from motion ; effort of bending arm or of writing very painful.
Drawing, tensive pains in wrist and finger joints of left hand.
Veins of hands dilating to double the previous size.
Hands trembling and grasping at imaginary objects. θ Child in convulsions.
Hands tremble.
Tremulousness of hands and stiffness and slight numbness of fingers.
Pulsations distinctly felt in tips of fingers.
Profuse sweat on hands.
LOWER LIMBS [33]
Stiffness in lower limbs.
Rheumatic pains in left knee and leg.
Sharp pains in left calf.
Cold feet, sometimes cold hands.
LIMBS IN GENERAL [34]
Pain and stiffness in upper and lower limbs.
Weakness in limbs.
Lameness and soreness in muscles of arms and thighs.
Tired feeling of limbs.
Stiffness and pain in right side of neck and right shoulder, extends down right arm to wrist, neuralgic or rheumatic.
REST. POSITION. MOTION [35]
The slightest exertion brought on intense pain. θ Angina pectoris.
After rising, sneezing violently three times.
Sub-occipital and loin aching, < by fatigue.
During and after a walk of a mile (two hours after inhalation) heaviness and pressure in head and oppressed breathing remain, passed off two hours later.
Least exertion or excitement may bring on "heats."
Violent exercise during one minute produced a dull headache.
After exercise heart beats more violently.
Weak, emaciated, walking with tottering gait, inclining to go to one side when walking. θ After long-continued convulsions.
Cannot sit still.
On rising : vertigo, headache and nausea.
Worse from motion : pains and stiffness in right arm ; pains in dorsal surface of right hand.
Worse from writing : pain in occiput.
Worse on going down-stairs : oppression in chest.
While walking : painful outward pressure in temples, and pain in occiput ; oppression of chest.
NERVES [36]
Great restlessness and uneasiness.
Trembling sensation all over.
Trembling of limbs with feeling of weakness.
Every muscle seems to be in motion. θ Chorea.
Epileptiform spasms.
Convulsions. θ A child.
(OBS :) Eclampsia.
Epilepsy.
On occurrence of aura or before onset of fit (inhalation). θ Epilepsy.
Tetanus.
Succession of fits, linking together by intervening unconsciousness, fits recurring with increasing frequency, till at last no sooner is one fit ended, or before it has finished, another begins. θ Status epilepticus.
After an extensive burn, violent acute tetanus, beginning fourth day and advancing rapidly in forty hours, temperature 102, pulse 133, breathing 32 in minute, marked opisthotonos, trismus, horrid tetanic grin ; swallowing interfered ; five drops inhaled twice a day, in forty-six days restored, having inhaled one ounce.
General lassitude, did not feel like doing anything.
Relaxed feeling in all muscles and heaviness, most when rising, with an uncertainty.
General weakness with a tendency to sweat easily on slight exertion.
Weak feeling all over.
SLEEP [37]
Yawning, profoundly and repeatedly in coma during an unconscious state. θ Status epilepticus.
Drowsiness.
Sleep restless, full of anxious dreams.
Restless, awakes with pains in temples, stomach, etc.
Sleep often much broken, waking with frequent starts, feels unrefreshed in morning. θ Flushings.
Frequent waking, with severe pain in temples, stomach and bowels.
On awaking pains returned with increased intensity, most in spine, lungs and conjunctivæ, with shifting pains caused by movement on dorsal surface of right hand, l. patella, and from left thumb to axilla, with catarrhal symptoms and severe fronto-orbital cephalalgia.
TIME [38]
Hemicrania beginning in morning, most violent at noon, lasting till evening.
Many symptoms returned with varying intensity during day.
Most marked during evenings.
Restless in night.
Flushes sometimes occur chiefly at night.
At 5 A. M. : awoke with parched sensation.
At 7.40 A. M. : bowels moved.
Morning : aching in neck and occiput.
TEMPERATURE AND WEATHER [39]
Warm room causes dull pain from temple to occiput, < left, for two or three hours.
Must have fresh air.
All symptoms > by exercise out-doors.
Cold water and air relieve symptoms.
Open their clothes or remove greater part of bed-covering and throw open window in coldest weather.
Severe burning sensation over loins followed by sweat, burning so unendurable that she was constrained to open window at night even in Winter, sometimes to rush out of doors ; for three years several times daily.
FEVER [40]
Frequent chilly crawlings over whole body, face pale all day.
Cold chills running down back, during sweat.
Slight chill crept over back and sides after heat and moisture.
Sometimes warmth and sweat affect whole surface, or while surface glows hands and feet may become very cold.
Flushings occasionally, peculiarly and abruptly limited, reaching to thighs, knees or elbows, while all parts above it feel burning hot, parts below feel icy cold. θ Climaxis.
After heats pass away skin sometimes becomes cold and clammy, and may turn very pale.
Dry heats.
Flushings or "heats," starting from various parts, as face, epigastrium, etc., thence spreading over greater part of body.
Heats are followed by sweatings, often very profuse.
Heats with great throbbing throughout whole body, and followed by much prostration, seeming scarcely able to rouse herself.
Hands moist, head and body warm, especially abdomen, later greater warmth in chest.
Though not warm, sweat started freely.
Skin moist, free sweat during moderate exercise.
General sudden perspiration with great debility.
Lowers temperature by checking oxidation.
Reduces animal heat.
LOCALITY AND DIRECTION [42]
Outward pressure : in forehead and temples.
Right to left cheek and to left eye.
Right : pain in temple ; in occipital region ; aching in renal region ; creeping sensation in cheek ; burning of cheek extending into eye and ear ; heart affected ; pain in chest ; peculiar sensation in lung ; lameness in scapula ; soreness in and around shoulder ; pain and stiffness in arm ; precordial pain extending to arm ; stiffness and pain inside of neck and in shoulder extending to arm ; pains in dorsal surface of hand.
Left : headache ; outward pressure in temple ; sharp pain under eye ; twitching pain under outer canthus and creeping under eye ; heat in ear ; nosebleed ; creeping in cheek ; flushing of face and ear ; face pale and haggard ; tonsil swollen and inflamed ; headache during catamenia ; drawing pains in chest ; contraction of heart ; pains in cardiac region ; drawing tensive pain in wrist and finger joints ; rheumatic pain in knee ; sharp pain in calf.
SENSATIONS [43]
As of something rushing upward and throbbing in vertex ; fulness to bursting in head ; quick, sharp throbbing in head ; as if all the blood was rushing to head ; a stupid drowsy feeling ; confusion threatening to make unconscious ; as though scalp was jerked forward ; as of a heavy weight over eyes ; as if membrane in ear would be forced out with each beat of heart ; as if blood would start through skin of face ; as if a vapor spread from throat through head ; uncomfortable feeling in stomach ; peculiar sensation in right lung or chest ; as if a band was tightly drawn around chest ; as if a weight was in sternum ; anxiety in precordial region ; discomfort in right shoulder.
Pain : in right temple ; in right occiput ; in occiput ; back of eyes ; over eyes in region of heart ; in lower lumbar region ; in right arm, near wrist.
Dull pain : in occiput.
Sharp pain : under left eye ; in region of heart.
Stitches : in cardiac region.
Twinges : near dorsal vertebræ.
Rheumatic pains : in left knee and leg.
Burning : of ears ; in face ; of right cheek ; in stomach and up throat.
Smarting : of conjunctivæ.
Soreness : in right arm and shoulder ; in muscles of arms and thighs.
Aching : all through head ; in vertex ; in eyes ; in cervical region ; across loins ; in right renal region ; in right chest.
Soreness : of throat ; of extensor muscles.
Drawing : in left side ; in left wrist and finger joints.
Pressure : in head ; over eyes ; in forehead and temples, outward ; in stomach ; on sternum.
Crushing pain : upon head.
Tension : in temples ; in left wrist and finger joints.
Constriction : of throat and heart ; of abdominal muscles, over uterus.
Choking feeling : from throat to chest ; on either side of trachea, along carotids.
Crampy pains : in epigastric region ; in abdomen ; in umbilical region.
Twitching : under outer left canthus ; under left eye.
Distension : in head.
Bursting sensation : in head ; in ears.
Throbbing : in head ; in temples ; in top of head ; in ears ; in carotids ; of heart ; in tips of fingers.
Fulness : in head ; in temples ; in stomach.
Dull heavy pains : across forehead ; in occiput.
Heaviness : of head ; in forehead and temples.
Oppression : in fronto-parietal suture ; near liver ; in chest ; at lower part of sternum.
Lameness : in right scapula ; in flexor muscles of right arm ; in muscles of arms and thighs.
Tired feeling : of limbs.
Weakness : in lower lumbar region ; in limbs.
Creeping : under left eye ; in left cheek ; in right cheek below malar bone.
Numbness : of nasal bones.
Stiffness : of lips ; in right arm near wrist ; in lower limbs.
Heat : of head, face and neck ; in left ear ; along œsophagus ; in stomach.
Parched sensation : in throat and mouth.
Dryness : of mouth ; of lips.
Coldness : of hands and feet.
Tickling : in throat.
Tingling sensation : in different parts of body.
Subacute smartings in precordial region, then in renal region, then in right axilla, then of midsternum, then in lumbar region, then in lower lobe of right lung, at apex of heart and in lower lobe of right lung, with tenderness on pressure.
The smartings changed position rapidly, being most persistent in eyes, basis of lungs and spine.
TISSUES [44]
Intense surging of blood to face and head ; later veins turgid.
Rapidly dilates arteries and quickens but weakens circulation.
Venous and arterial blood are of same hue.
Rigidity of muscles of limbs. θ Child in convulsions.
Weak and emaciated. θ A man after convulsions.
A green spot at point of subcutaneous injection.
Quantity of urine increased, and 2 per cent. of sugar in it.
TOUCH. PASSIVE MOTION. INJURIES [45]
Collar feels too tight.
Seasickness.
SKIN [46]
Nervous, sensitive women are far more powerfully affected by it than men.
A man, æt. 60, with enlargement and softening of heart caused by years of depression, care and anxiety ; > only, but wonderfully.
RELATIONS [48]
Ringer compares it with Glonoine , with respect to varying effect of even small doses on different persons, but the greatest similarity is the first accelerated and afterwards retarded pulse.
There is a remarkable correspondence between this remedy and the Glonoine , the first characterizing the Old School, the second ours.
In some cases more useful than 20, 30 gr. bromide of potassium taken daily. Old School.
Sometimes pain returns as soon as the effect of the drug passes away. θ Angina pectoris.
In some cases it loses its effects and must be taken in increased quantities and at shorter intervals, even to an ounce a week. θ Angina pectoris.
Two drachms a fortnight for a year still unfailing relief. θ Angina pectoris.
Similar to : Glonoine (circulation of blood, congestion, etc.) ; Acon. ; Ether ; Cactus (constriction of heart ; pulsations, etc.) ; Nitr. dulc. spir . (heart, lungs, etc.) ; Laches . (flushes at climaxis ; Coca (flushing when excited, as in company ;) chloroform ; Bellad . (neuralgia with red face).
Antidote in failure of respiration by chloroform ; and to convulsions of strychnine.
Antidoted by : Cactus (cardiac constriction).