Baptisia

Baptisia tinctoria, P. Br. Natural order, Leguminosae.

Authorities. 1, Dr. Wm. L. Thompson, N. A. J. of Horn., 5, 547 (dose not given) ; 2, Dr. J. S. Douglass, N. A. J. of Horn., 6, 230 (took repeated doses of 1 to 3 drops of tincture) ; 3, Dr. S. R. Beckwith (ibid.) ; 4, W. Rowley, ibid. ; 5, L. W. Sapp, ibid. ; 6, J. E. Smith, ibid. ; 7, T. B. Hot, ibid. ; 8, Dr. Hadley, Trans, of N. Y. St. Horn. Med. Soc, 3, 325 (took 10 to 25 drops of tinct.) ; 9, Miss Hadley, ibid, (took 15 drops of tinct.) ; 10, Dr. Burt, Hale's New Remedies (took 10 to 200 drops of tinct., and 30 grains of bark subcutaneously) ; 11, Dr. Burt, ibid, (took 4 to 14 grains of Baptisin); 12 Dr. Wallace, Med. Investigator, 1873 (three provings with the one-tenth). ,

Mind

The brain a little stimulated

Febrile excitement ot the brain, like a beginning febrile delirium in a greater degree

A sort of excitement of the brain which is the preliminary, or rather the beginning, of delirium ; with him it never fails to take place if the fever continues, and increases to considerable intensity

Disposition to talk

Low spirits (third day)

Unhappy (second day)

Felt very gloomy for several days (third day)

* Cannot confine his mind; sort of wild, wandering feeling?.

Mind seemed weak, rather than confused (second day)

Inactive mind

* Indisposed to think; want of power to think (second day)

Dull, stupid feeling after breakfast

Very distinct recollection of what he had been reading

Inability to memorize as usual

Send p. 32

Confused feeling in the head

Slightly confused feeling of the brain

Dulness in the head

A little dulness of the head (second day)

Slight dulness in brain all day (second day)

Dull, stupid feeling all over the head, with severe pain at the occiput

Morning, after rising, dull heavy feeling of head, and headache

Head feels very heavy

Head feels heavy, as though he could not sit up

Head feels very heavy, with pain in occiput (after one hour)

Swimming sensation, very like that experienced before the operation of an emetic

Slight dizziness and languor

Vertigo .

•* Vertigo, and sensation of weakness in the entire system, especially in the lower limbs, with weak knees

Headache day and night, causing a sensation of wildness

Pain in base of brain, with lameness and drawing pain in cervical muscles (after twenty minutes)

Heavy pain at base of brain (aftertwentyminutes)

Slight pain of head, with bruised feeling of forehead (third day)

Head felt large

Head feels large and heavy (after twenty minutes)

Fulness of the external vessels of the head and face

Head full, and feels heavy (after twenty minutes)

Hard, dull headache, very much worse by moving (30 grains crude bark), (second day)

* Dull, heavy headache (second day)

* Didl, heavy, pressive headache

Slight pressive headache and dull pain in loins (from subcutaneous injection of 10 drops)

Soreness of brain, worse when stooping

Noise increases the headache

Severe headache in front (third day)/.

Pain in the whole anterior part of the head and in the forehead

Some headache in front, afterwards passing to the back part

In morning, headache in front part of brain

Frontal headache, with feeling of fulness and tightness of the whole head (after twenty minutes)

* Frontal headache, with pressure at root of nose (after twenty minutes)

Severe frontal headache, with pressure at root of nose (after one hour)

Slight pain in the frontal sinuses, mostly in the right side

Slight pain in the right frontal sinus

Severe pain in frontal sinuses, followed by sneezing

Heat in forehead (second morning)

Skin of forehead feels very much contracted

Feeling of tightness across forehead, with pain over right eye (after two hours)

Skin of forehead feeling very tight, with sharp pain in temples

Skin of the forehead feels as if drawn very tightly over the forehead, with sharp pain over right eye (immediately)

Skin of forehead felt as if it would be pulled to the back part of the head, with numb feeling of forehead and face (from subcutaneous injection of 10 drops, after ten minutes)

Dull pain in front part of head

Dull pain in forehead

In the afternoon, dull pain in the anterior lobes of the brain and in the right frontal sinus

Dull, heavy pain in forehead

All the evening, dull frontal headache, with smarting of the eyes and a drawing pain down nose,11. Constant dull frontal headache, and dull pain in bowels all the evening

Pressive pain in forehead

Dull pressive pain in the forehead (after three hours)

Feeling as if the forehead would be pressed in (from subcutaneous injection of 10 drops, after half an hour)

In evening, soreness in the front part of the head on moving the eyes or turning them upward

Frequent pains in right temple

-Dull pain in both temples growing more and more intense

Sharp pains in both temples (after three hours)

Sharp pains in temples, very often (30 grains crude bark), (second day)

Sharp pains by spells in right and left temples

Burning on top of head and soreness of scalp

Dull feeling, especially in the occiput, where there was slight pain and fulness (after one and a half hours)

Dull pressure in occiput (second morning)

Soreness of scalp (after one hour)

Eyes p. 33

Eyes shining

Congestion of the vessels of the eye; they look red and inflamed

Eyes feel swollen, with burning and slight lachrymation

Eyes feel as if being pressed into head, with great contusion of sight; cannot place anything until she looks at it a few seconds; everything appears to be moving

Eyes smart and ache severely

Frequent pressive pain over right eye

Sharp pain over right eye, then over left

Partial paralysis of the eyelids ; it is very difficult to keep them open

Lachrymation on going into the open air (third day)

Walking in open air produced continual and profuse lachrymation (third day)

* Soreness of eyeball*

* Eyeballs feel sore and lame on moving them (after twenty minutes),.12.

Ears p. 33

Dulness of heading

Nose p. 33

Sneezing, and feeling as after taking a severe cold (after twenty minutes)

Catarrh

Thick mucous discharge from nose

Dull pain at root of nose

Severe pressure at root of nose (after twenty minutes)

Soreness extends to posterior nares (after twenty minutes)

Face p. 33

Sallow appearance of countenance

* Hot and perceptibly flushed face

Face feels flushed and very hot

Cheeks burn

Burning and prickling of left side of face and head

Mouth p. 33

Teeth and gums have been very sore for two days ; by pressing on them with the finger, large quantities of blood ooze from the gums (third day)

Tongue coated whitish, and slightly congested (second morning)

Slight yellow coat on tongue

Tongue coated yellow,10 u.

* Tongue coated yellow along tlw centre (second day ),10 ll.

* Tongue coated at first white, with reddish papillae here and there, followed by a yellowish-brown coating in the centre, the edges being red and shining

Tongue coated yellow, with flat, bitter taste (second day)

On waking, tongue dry, with the same burnt feeling (second day)

Tongue feels thick and swollen

Tongue feels as though it had been scraped

Numb pricking sensation of the tongue

* Well-developed idlers in the mouth1.

Long-continued flow of saliva

* Saliva rather abundant, somewhat viscid and flat tasting

Profuse flow of sweetish-bitter saliva, followed by a dryish or glutinous substance; lips stick together

In the morning, increased flow of saliva of a pleasant taste

Increased flow of saliva in the evening

- A most copious flow of saliva, followed by sore throat, with scraping and burning

In a short time, an increased secretion of saliva, followed by slight pain in the right lung

Taste of food not quite natural

Flat taste in mouth (9 a.m., second day)

Flat, bitter taste in mouth11.

Bad taste in mouth

Filthy taste, with flow of saliva

Throat p. 33

In the afternoon, fulness of the throat

Slight angina; throat feels swollen or full, with oppressed respiration

* Constrictive feeling in throat, causing frequent efforts at deglutition

Sore throat, extending to the posterior nares (after one hour)

Throat sore, and feels contracted (after twenty minutes)

Sore throat, with scraping and burning, preceded by a most copious flow of saliva

Tickling in the throat, constantly provoking to cough

Tonsils and soft palate look very red, but are not painful (second day)

Tonsils congested

Tonsils and soft palate congested (second and third days)

Tonsils very much congested, with frequent inclination to swallow which produces pain in the root of the tongue

Fauces and tonsils very much congested

Scraped sensation extends through the fauces

Dryness and roughness of the pharynx, extending to the nares, with a stringent sensation, followed after a little by an increased secretion from the parts, especially the pharynx

Raw sensation in pharynx, with a large amount of viscid mucus

Pricking sensation in upper part of pharynx

Stomach p. 34

Loss of appetite

Thirst

Constant desire for water

Frequent gulping up of air (from subcutaneous injection of 10 drop's)

Frequent eructations of flatus

Nausea

Slight nausea and want of appetite

Slight nausea, with increased heat

Feeling as though it would be a relief to vomit

Feeling as if he would vomit, but no nausea, with severe shooting pain in the left kidney and left side of the umbilicus (from subcutaneous injection of 10 drops, after fifteen minutes)

Gone, empty feeling at stomach

Pains in the stomach, and feeling as if there was a hard substance in it

Severe pain every few minutes in the cardiac portion of stomach (after five hours)

A good deal of pain in epigastric region all night

Slight pain all day in stomach and right hypochondriac region ; pain in right side very severe when walking

Slight pain in stomach and right hypochondriac region and umbilical (from subcutaneous injection of 10 drops, after half an hour)

Pain in stomach, abdomen, and right hypochondrium, passing down to right iliac region (third day)

Constant pain in stomach and liver, quite sharp at times

Constant pain in stomach and right hypochondriac region

Constant pain, of a drawing character, in the epigastric and right hypochondriac regions, very severe when walking

Constant pain in stomach and right hypochondrium of a dull, aching character, and extending to the spine ; very much worse by motion

At night, frequent pain in the epigastric region, very much worse by turning over, which he had to do all the time

Great distress in epigastric and umbilical regions, with great rumbling

Great distress in stomach and bowels all the forenoon, with desire to vomit

Constant burning distress in the epigastrium, with severe colicky pains in the umbilical, and especially in the hypogastric region, every few seconds, with rumbling in the bowels and desire to vomit, but no nausea (30 grains crude bark)

In evening, cramp in the stomach

Heavy aching pain in stomach and liver, with very hot sensation in those parts

Constant aching distress in the stomach and umbilical region, with a great deal of pain iu region of gall-bladder

Constant dull aching pain in the stomach and liver

Dull pain in the epigastric region

Dull pain at the. pit of the stomach, and constriction of the diaphragm

Pressure at stomach, with belching of large quantities of flatus

Stitching pain in cardiac extremity of stomach

Abdomen p. 34

Pains in liver (third day)

Dull pain in right hypochondriac region (after three hours)

* The pain in the liver extends from the right lateral ligament to the gall-bladder ; it is almost impossible to walk, it makes the pain so severe in the region of the gall-bladder

Suffered constantly and severely all day with pain in the liver and stomach ; the pain caused a numb feeling to pass all over the body

Good deal of dull pain in liver, stomach, and umbilical region (second day),10. Soreness in region of liver

* Constant dull pain in region of the gall-bladder ; very severe on walking

* Severe pain in region of gall-bladder; lasted one hour

Good deal of distress in the umbilical region all day (second day)

Constant dull pain in the umbilical region

Constant aching pains in umbilical region (30 grains crude bark, second day)

Constant slight pain in the umbilical region

Constant dull pain in the umbilical and hypogastric regions ; by spells the pain in hypogastric region very sharp

Constant dull aching pains in umbilical region, aggravated by a full inspiration (second day)

All day, constant pain in umbilical region, with slight rumbling of bowels (second day)

* Fidness of abdomen

Distension of abdomen

Flatulence

Loud borborygmi (third day)

Rumbling in the intestines

Slight rumbling in the bowels

Rumbling, with desire for stool

Slight rumbling in the bowels, with a mushy stool (after three hours)

Dull aching distress in bowels (second day)

Dull pain in abdomen on pressure

Quite a number of times there have been sharp shooting pains all through the bowels

Soreness of abdominal muscles, as if from cold or coughing severely

Pain in hypogastrium

Glands of left groin very much swollen, one of them as large as a common-sized hickory-nut ; very painful when walking (second day)

Dull drawing pain in right groin

Severe drawing pains in right groin and testicle and right foot

Stool and Anus p. 35

Bowels loose next morning (very uncommon)

* Diarrhoea (third day)

* Diarrhoeic stools dark

Soft stools (first and second days)

Soft mushy stool

Soft papescent stool (second day)

* Stool papescent, roith a large quantity of mucus, but no real pain

Bowels costive

Bowels costive for two days

Constipation (fourth day)

Constipation throughout the period of proving (eight days)

Constipation severe, with haemorrhoids in the afternoon; quite troublesome (fifth day)

Urinary Organs p. 35

* A sort of burning when urinating

Urine is of a whitish color, does not change blue litmus, and has no effect on red paper (second day)

Urine high-colored

* Urine not very copious, but of dark-red color

Respiratory Organs p. 35

In morning, swelling of the epiglottis

Increased secretion from the bronchial tubes and fauces, with expectoration of mucus

Hoarseness to such an extent as to require the utmost effort to be understood

In afternoon, disposition to cough quite troublesome

Lungs feel easier and stronger than usual (curative reaction)

She was cured by this proving of a troublesome cough of long standing

Constant want to take a full breath

In the afternoon, difficulty of breathing

At 6 p.m., oppressed breathing, with cough, soreness of right lung, and sneezing

* Awoke with great difficulty of breathing ; the lungs felt tight and compressed; could not get a full breath; felt obliged to open the window to get his face to fresh air, with the same burning heat of surface, dry tongue, increased pulsations of the heart, and accelerated, pulse, and the same peculiar feeling of the brain as on first night. An hour passed before he could breathe easily and felt comfortably cool

* On lying down, difficulty of breathing, in half an hour becoming so great that he was obliged to rise ; afraid to go to sleep from a feeling of certainty that he should immediately have nightmare and suffocations.

This difficulty of breathing is not so much from constriction of the chest as from a feeling of want of power in the respiratory apparatus, such as he had only felt during a fever

Chest p. 35

Constriction and oppression of the chest

Tightness of chest and desire to take a deep inspiration (after twenty minutes)

In the afternoon, tightness of the chest

Oppression of chest and difficult breathing

Sharp pains in chest when taking a long breath

Pain through left of chest

Pain in the right lung, continuing some time; less pain in the left lung, with some soreness

Rheumatic pains in right side

Dull pain in the sternum

In the afternoon, sensation of weight and oppression in the precordial regions, Avith a feeling of unsatisfied breathing

Heart and Pulse p. 36

Feeling of greatly increased compass and frequency of the pulsations of the heart ; pulsations seem to fill the chest

Throbbing in heart, so as to be distinctly heard

Pulse, at first accelerated, afterwards became very low and faint

Pulse slow and weak (third day)

Slow, round, full pulse

The pulse (usually but little over 70) I judged to be 90 or over, full and soft

Pulse 70, rising, about 2 oclock p.m., to 100,5.

Neck and Back p. 36

Neck stiff and lame (after twenty minutes)

Stiffness and lameness of cervical muscles (after one hour)

Pain in neck, unbearable on moving head (after twenty minutes)

Soreness of muscles of neck

Twitching in latissimus dorsfof left side (third day)

Lameness of muscles of back and chest, especially when moving the head (after twenty minutes)

* Back and hips are very stiff, and ache severely (second day)

Pain in back extending to sacrum

Slight backache (third day)

Back aches severely, aggravated by walking (second day)

Dull heavy aching in lumbar region on going to bed at night

Dull aching pain in lumbar region; very severe when walking (second day)

Dull pain in small of back (after three hours)

* Dull pain of the sacrum, compounded of a feeling as from pressure, and fatigue from long stooping, and soon extending around hips and down right leg

Extremities in General p. 36

Wandering pains in all the limbs, with dizziness

* Aching in limbs

* Drawing pains in arms and legs,™.

At times, drawing pain in right wrist and left ankle

Prickling of hands and feet, with numbness; worse on motion

Peculiar thrilling sensation through both hands and feet, somewhat like going to sleep or a want of circulation

Upper Extremities p. 36

Constant twitching in left deltoid muscle {(since taking first dose)

Pain in left shoulder and arm (after twenty minutes)

Pain in left shoulder, extending down the arm (after one hour)

Drawing pain in shoulder and arms, more in the left (after twenty minutes)

Feel sore and stiff about shoulders and chest (second day)

Numbness of left hand and forearm, with prickling (after one hour)

Numb prickling pain of hand and arm, worse by movement ; sharp darting pain through the fingers (after twenty minutes)

The hands felt large and were tremulous

Lower Extremities p. 36

Lower limbs, on walking, feel weak and vacillating

Pain in hips and legs, with numbness (after twenty minutes)

Drawing pains in the left hip (second day)

Drawing pains in right hip and both calves (30 grains crude bark)

Soreness in an-

terror part of thighs, worse after sitting awhile (third day)

Darting pain

in left knee and malleolus of left side (third day)

Drawing pains in

Eyes p. 36

Legs ache

Cramp in calves of legs whenever he moves them

Drawing pain in calves of legs

Severe drawing pain in both calves

Frequent drawing pain in calves (second day)

Drawing pains

in the legs (after three hours)

Foot and leg prickly, and can move but

Ears p. 36

Left foot numb, and prickles (after twenty minutes)

Generalities p. 36

* Restless3.

* Restless; does not sleep quietly; wants to get up, and yet does not want to

* During the evening, uneasy, restless; could confine himself to nothing ; wanted to be moving from place to place (second day v.

No disposition to move

Ongoing to bed, feeling of inability to make either physical or mental exertion

* Great languor, ,5

Feels weary and obliged to lie down (after twenty minutes)

After walking, feeling of rather painful weariness of back and lower limbs, especially the right, and the right shoulder and arm

Painful weariness of the whole left side of body (after one hour)

General tired, bruised, sick feeling in all parts of the body, yet does not feel very badly (third day)

Debility

Muscular debility

Through the day, rather weak (second day)

* F<(/ rather weak and tremulous, as though recovering from a fit of sickness, and as yet incapable of vigorous mental or physical exertion (third day)

Feeling very weak, and trembling a good deal

Very weak and faint

Sensation of weakness in the entire system, especially in the lower limbs, with weak knees and vertigo

Prostration (third day)/.

Feeling of great prostration, with flashes of heat from small of backing all directions

Prostration and increased perspiration upon the least exertion

Felt stronger on walking in open air (third day)

Very faint and weak ; legs tremble and ache

Paralysis of whole left side; left arm and hand entirely numb and powerless

General feeling of having slept too long and too hard, with a bloated feeling of the eyes (third day)

Feel as though had taken cold ; throat sore, and sneezed several times

* Indescribable sick feeling all over

Rheumatic pains and soreness all over the body

Stillness of all the joints, as though strained

Feel stiff and sore all over; dread to move

Each time after waking from the nightmare, the parts on which he lay soon became exceedingly painful, especially the sacral region and hips. After lying for not more than ten minutes upon the back, the sacral region became intolerably painful, as though he had lain on the barn-floor all night, and inducing the conviction that a short continuance of the position would produce bedsores. When turning on the other side, the same sensation was produced on the hips, obliging him at last to turn on his face to relieve these parts

Intolerance of pressure on all parts on which pressure was made ; could not rest back against chair without pain from the pressure ; obliged to change sitting posture every few minutes from same cause; even the feet became equally painful from resting on the floor

Slight erratic pains in various parts (fourth day)

Skin p. 37

Livid spots appear all over the body and limbs; size of pea to three-cent piece ; thickest on body ; without sensation ; not elevated, and irregular in shape (after six weeks)

Sleep and Dreams p. 37

Drowsiness; disposition to have eyes half closed (third day)

Feel drowsy, and must sleep (after three hours)

Drowsy, stupid, tired feeling

Unusual sound sleep

Deep sleep till 3 a.m.,5.

Slept profoundly all night, and was not even waked in the morning by the breakfast-bell, a very unusual occurrence (second day)

Slept well until midnight, then could not sleep any more

* Slept very well until 2 a.m., then very restless till morning

Slept until 2 a.m., then could not sleep any more

* Slept until 3 a.m. ; could not sleep any more, but had to toss about constantly (30 grains crude bark, second day)

Slept well until 1 a.m. ; awoke with severe cutting pains in hypogastric region, with loud rumbling of the bowels ; very restless after (second day)

Slept two or three hours, and waked from a troublesome dream, with difficult breathing, a sort of nightmare ; felt on waking as if the room was insufferably hot and close, hindering respiration

After sleeping about two hours, had nightmare, from which he seemed to be a long time in rousing himself violent efforts to move and to make a noise. The anxiety continued some time after waking. (Has never had nightmare for many years, except when sleeping on back, or, very rarely, on left side. In all the instances recorded, was sleeping in usual position, on right side)

Lay down and slept an hour, waking from a sort of nightmare with moderate tightness of the chest and correspondingly difficult breathing, which was soon over (after one and a half hours)

Slept well the remainder of the night, after having, for a short time, slight febrile chilly horripilations over the lower limbs and back

Had a very restless night (second day)

At night, sleepless, disturbed

Restless night, with frightful dreams

Dreams at night

When asleep, continual dreaming

Dreamed all night; in dreams triumphed over all opposition

Dreams about fighting and disputations, but always comes off best

Frightful dreams,10 n.

Dreamed of being bound down with a chain across the mouth

At night, slept two or three hours, and dreamed of laboring hard in deep snow, suffering with heat from the exertion, and finally being smothered in the snow

Fever p. 38

Surface of body chilly

Slight chill about 11 oclock a.m.,5.

Forenoon, chill over back while sitting by a hot fire

In evening, great chilliness on going into open air

Slight chilliness in the lower limbs and back (very soon after taking)

In evening, chills over back

Most uncomfortable burning heat of the whole surface, especially the face ; it compelled him to move to a cool part of the bed, and finally to rise and open a window and wash his face and hands ; with these symptoms there was a peculiar feeling of the head, which is never felt except during the presence of fever

On waking at 3 a.m., flashes of heat and feeling as if perspiration would break out

General heat after going to bed

Burning sensation over the whole body, followed by perspiration, vomiting, and diarrhoea

Heat of the face (after a few minutes)

Flashes of heat over face

At night, heat and burning in lower extremities so intense as to prevent sleep much of the night

Chill all day, with fever at night

Whole surface of body feels hot and dry, with occasional chill, principally up and down the back, as if ague were coming on

Extremities feel hot, except the feet, which are cold

Conditions p. 38

Aggravation.

(Morning), After rising, dull feeling of head, etc. ; frontal headache ; increased saliva ; swelling of epiglottis ; on waking, 3 a.m., flashes of heat, etc.

(Forenoon), Distress in stomach, etc. ; chill over back; about 11 a.m., slight chill.

(Afternoon), Pain in anterior lobes of brain, etc. ; fulness of throat ; disposition to cough ; difficulty of breathing ; 6 p.m., oppressed breathing, etc. ; tightness of chest ; sensation of weight, etc., in precordial regions.

(Evening), Frontal headache, etc. ; on moving eyes, soreness in front of head ; increased saliva ; cramp in stomach ; uneasy, etc. ; chilliness ; chills over back.

(Night), Pain in epigastric region; difficulty of breathing; on going to bed, pain in lumbar region ; heat, etc., in lower extremities.

(Going into open air), Lachrymation.

(Walking in open air), Lachrymation.

(After going to bed), General heat.

(Beer), All symptoms.

(After breakfast), Dull feeling.

(Full inspiration), Pains in umbilical region ; sharp pains in chest.

(Lying down), Difficulty of breathing.

(Motion), Headache ; pain in stomach, etc. ; prickling of hands, etc. ; numb pain of hand, etc.

(Moving head), Pain in neck ■ lameness of muscles of back, etc.

(On moving legs), Cramp in calves.

(Noise), Headache.

(After sitting), Soreness of thighs.

(Stooping), Soreness of brain.

( Turning over), Pain in epigastric region.

(On waking), Tongue dry.

( Walking), Pain in right side; pain in epigastric, etc., regions ; pain in gall-bladder; pain in glands of groin; backache; pain in lumbar region ; weakness in lower limbs, etc.

(After walking), Weariness of back, etc.

Amelioration p. 39

( Walking m open air), Felt stronger.