Allium sativum

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ALLIUM SATIVUM.

AUmm tafk'vum^ L, Garlic. Nat. Ord., IMactm,

L Pr<fvtagj. — I, Dr. —^ — prepared a tincture by cutting garlic into small pieces, adding spirit and shaking well every d. for S d Of this he took m. and e.^ on June a7thf 10 drops on sugar, and subsequently as much as %o drops. Result was mcagfc. Stool, usually occurring in m,, appeared only after dinner, and accompanied by sudden urging ; during evacuation heat in rectum ; tieces at first normal, then somewhat watery and hot. During the d. scarcely half ordinary urine passed. About midnight frightful anxious dreams, with presnve headache on vertex. Did not urinate dunng n., contrary to habit; in m. scarcely one third of ordinary quantity* passed.

After proving, much troubled by smarting and burning of eyes with lachrymation and agglutination of lids (which were opened with difficulty), which regularly occurred if he allowed himself to read in bed for an hour, as he was accustomed to do. Previously to the proving he must use spectacles to read the paper, now he can read v^ithout spectacles. (Jf/g, Aom, Ziit.^ Lxxxiii, 184.)