Rhus Glabra

Rhus glabra, Linn.

Natural order , Anacardiaceæ.

Common names , Smooth Sumach.

Preparation , Tincture of the bark.

Authority.

Dr. A. V. Marshall, Hale's New Remedies, 2d ed., p. 872, took 30 drops of tincture once and 60 drops twice, first day; 90 drops once and 120 drops twice, second day; 120 drops twice, third day.

MIND

• Distaste for society; no desire to speak to any one, or to be spoken to (sixth day).
• The sensorium was affected, weakness of memory, much indifference to surrounding objects; sensation of stupidity (fourth and fifth days).

HEAD

• Awoke in the morning with a dull heavy headache, which was dispelled by exercise, but again returned on resuming the use of the drug (second day).
• Several cephalalgia (third day).
• Headache until breakfast, and a little in the afternoon (sixth day).
• Dull aching pain in the front and top of the head, for a short time after taking each dose (first day).
• Fulness and pain in the top of the head (second day). The dull heavy pain in vertex continues (fourth day).

NOSE

• *Hæmorrhage from the left nostril and mouth (fifth day). [10.]
• Bloody scabs in the left nostril (sixth day).
• Left nostril hot and dry, free hæmorrhage from it three during the latter part of the day; the prover is quite sure that the epistaxis is caused by the action of the drug (seventh day).

MOUTH

• Tongue furred white (fourth, fifth, and sixth days).
• Several small ulcers from in the buccal mucous membrane, opposite the bicuspids (seventh day); the ulcers are very sensitive (eighth day); they were quite sensitive for several days, but healed kindly, except the largest, which was touched with chloride of zinc (seventeenth day).
• Could taste the drug in the mouth thirty hours after the last dose was taken.
• Mouth has a flat alkaline taste (fifth day).

THROAT

• Expelled two clots of blood from the throat, soon after waking (sixth day).

STOMACH

• Sensation of hunger (fourth day).
• At breakfast could eat but a little, although feeling as if he had fasted for many days (sixth day).
• Loss of appetite, anorexia (third day). [20.]
• Distress in stomach, disturbed, very restless (third night).
• Pain in the stomach aggravated by either food or drink, so much so as to cause the prover to nearly abstain from their use (fourth and fifth days).

ABDOMEN

• Cutting pain in the umbilical region for a few minutes (after first dose); constant (after second dose), (second day); the sharp cutting abdominal pains continue (eighth day).
• Some tenderness on pressure in the umbilical region (fourth and fifth days).
• Pain in the umbilical region (after second and third doses).
• Pain in the bowels (third day).

STOOL

• Occasionally during the afternoon a diarrhœa, increasing in constancy and severity towards evening; at 7 P.M. a dry, hard stool (first day); no stool (second day); stool, first part hard and dry, the latter, soft and moist (third and fourth days); stool as usual, in the morning; another, hard and dry, in the evening (sixth day); stool nearly normal (seventh day); slight diarrhœa of short continuance (ninth day).

URINARY ORGANS

• Scanty, high-colored urine (fourth and fifth days); urine not so highly colored as yesterday (sixth day).

PULSE

• Pulse 80 (before the proving); 88 (fourth day); 86 (sixth day).

BACK

• Pain in small of back (fourth day). [30.]
• Increased pain in back (fifth day); pain continues (sixth day).

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

• Great fatigue of lower limbs, so as scarcely to be able to stand, in the evening (first day).
• Aching of lower limbs (fifth and sixth days).

GENERALITIES

• Has lost two pounds in the last three days (fourth day), 1.
• The administration of the drug was discontinued, owing to the exhaustion, fatigue, and pain experienced by the prover (fourth day).
• Painful fatigue after lying down (first night); sensation of great fatigue during the latter part of the day; increasing at evening (second day); arose with great fatigue (third day); the general debility continues (eighth day).

SLEEP

• Sleep disturbed by annoying dreams (second night); disturbed, very restless (third night).
• Dreams of flying through the air (third night).

FEVER

• Sense of coldness, while there is an actual increase of heat in the skin (fifth day).
• Skin hot and dry, with thirst (fourth and fifth days). [40.]
• Sweat profusely during sleep (third, fourth, and seventh nights).