Cundurango

Authority. 3, H. E. Dikeman, M.D., New Eug. Med. Gaz., vol. x, 1875, p. 486, proving with the officinal tincture; took 3 drops diluted in

ounce water three times, and 4 drops twice (first day) ; 5 drops twice and 4 drops twice (third day) ; 4 drops at 6 a.m., 5 at 9 a.m., and I grain Sulph. morphia at 4 p.m. (fourth day) ; 5 drops Cundurango three times (fifth day) ; 10 drops (sixth day).

—Confusion of mind (fifth day),®.

Head

Dizziness (fifth day)

Headache, frontal (first day)

Dull headache in frontal region (third day)

Eyes

Pain in the ball of the left eye (third day)

Sight ranch dimmed (seventh day)

Ton gue coated brown (seventh day)

Tongue feels as if burned (first day)

Acrid, burned feel of the tongue (fifth day)

Stomach

Feeling of fulness of the stomach (first day)

Cardialgia (third and fourth days)

The pain in the stomach is intolerable (fourth day)

Severe gastric pains, mostly at the ml de sac of the stomach (seventh day)

Have a continuous pain in the stomach, like gastritis in character, though not affected by food or drink, heat or cold (seventeenth day)

Abdomen

Flatulence (thii-d day)

At 8 a.m. there is an uneasy feeling, not quite a pain, in, I should judge, the iliac region (third day)

Uneasiness of the bowels (fifth day)

Stool

At 8 A.M. a stool, small, papescent, without any sense of aid from the sphincter muscles, some mucus mingled (third day)

Constipation (fifth day)

On the whole the bowels have been costive. When I had a stool the excrement was small in quantity, and dry in quality

Urinary Organs

Weary ache in left kidney (third day)

Occasional darts of pain through the kidneys (fifth day)

Strangury, imputed to the Morphine (fifth day)

Urinated several times during the night, with urging of the renal ducts (first night) ; urinate frequently (third and fifth days); still urinate frequently, at times an unusual quantity (seventh day)

The urine is almost colorless, emitted without effort, and there is urging in the renal ducts after the bladder is emptied (seventeenth day)

Sexual Organs

Pulse slightly accelerated (after three hours) ; slower than natural, at 8 p.m. and in the night (first day) ; small and slow (seventh day)

Each

Pain in right scapular region, as if in the bone (first day)

Pain about fourth dorsal vertebra (first day)

Pain under apex of left scapula (third day)

Upper Extremities

Slight creeping pain along the periosteum of right humerus (first day)

Apparent increase of strength of legs when walking (fourth day)

Generalities

Have increased in weight since commencing this proving (seventeenth day)

Great stiffness of muscular system (fifth day),=

Languid when awake in the night (first night)

Skill p. 500

Skin tinted btowu (seventh day); still brown (seventeenth day)

(Several chronic blotches on my skin are no longer visible ; also ’a puffiness of hands and feet, that 1 attribute to various causes, without knowing the real one, has subsided), (third day),l

Itching of legs along anterior and outer tibial region ot both legs (third day),, (jieat itching in scapular region and on legs (fourth day) ; much itching ot skin on shoulders, over sternum, and on anterior surface of tibiae (fifth day)

Slept last night as if narcotized (third night); had a narcotized sleep last night from the alkaloid (fourth night)

Had a night of intermittent sleep (first night)

Fever p. 500

Rigors (first and third days)