Eriodictyon

Name Eriodictyon glutinosum, Benth., is now restored, notice correction of spelling.

Authorities. 4, Dr. Scudder, Eclectic Med. Journ., Nov., 1875 (U. S. Med. Invest., New Ser., vol. iii, p. 563); 5, O. W. Lounshiiry, M.D., Cincin. Med. Advance, vol. iv, 1876, p. 134, in good health, took 5 drops tincture at 7 A.M., 10 at 1 P.M., 15 at 6 p.m. (first day); 30 drops at 7.30 a.m., 50 at 1.15 P.M. (second day); 75 at 6.30 a.m. (third day) ; 100 at 7.45 a.m. (fifth day) ; 160 at 12.20 p.m. (tenth day) ; all the doses were taken on an empty stomach.

Blind p. 514

During the day great exhilaration ; unusually elastic step (third day)

Daily duties performed mechanically rather than otherwise (twenty-ninth day)

Forgetfulness (seventh day)

Head p. 514

Headache (twenty-fourth day)

Severe headache (seventh and twenty-ninth days)

Oppressive headache (after one hour and threequarters, fifth day)

Headache, which had subsided during the night, has returned with increased violence (after two hours, third day)

General distressed feeling in head (seven hours after second dose, second day)

Dull frontal headache (after two hours)

Darting pain in forehead from left to right (after second dose, second day)

For thirty-six hours past painful frontal headache (tw^enty-third day)

Was seized in fifteen minutes with heavy frontal headache, which continued the next day (after ten da)'s)

Flying pains in left hemicrania (seven hours after second dose, second day)

Eyes p. 514

Aching of eyes on reading (seven hours after second dose, second day)

Nose p. 514

Sneezing (seven hours after second dose, second day)

Symptoms of approaching coryza (after second dose)

Coryza (seven hours after second dose, second day)

Face p. 514

Tongue and mouth felt slightly scalded (second day)

Yellow streak along centre of tongue (after five hours and a half, second day)

Mouth p. 514

Occasionally small discharge of jellylike mucus from posterior nares (second day)

Dryness of posterior nares (after third dose)

Irritation of posterior nares, sticky mucous discharge downward into throat, constant hawking, some irritation of fauces (twentieth day)

Irritation of posterior nares, fauces, and larynx (twenty-eighth day)

Great dryness of the throat (after second dose)

Dryness of fauces (after third dose)

Catarrh of fauces and larynx (twenty-third day)

Stomach p. 514

Loss of appetite (nineteenth day)

Food taken without relish (twenty-ninth day)

Eructations (seven hours after second dose, second day)

Nausea, which soon passecl away (ten minutes after third dose)

Nausea (immediately after second dose, second day)

Nausea, with severe pressing frontal headache (after eleven days)

- Nausea, with looseness of bowels (twenty-sixth day); nausea for two days past on taking the least food, followed by sensation of repletion (twenty-eighth

Unusual fulness and distension in the epigastrium, with rumbling in the bowels (after two hours, second day)

Greatly increased feeling of distension of stomach and bowels, though no real distension is apparent (after seven days)

Feeling of repletion after taking a few mouthfuls of food (nineteenth day)

Oppressive sensation in cardiac region (after second dose, second day)

Slight pains in epigastrium (after two hours)

Sharp pains in stomach (after four hours, fifth day)

Abdomen p. 514

Flying pains in left hypochondrium (seven hours after second dose, second day)

Sharp transitory pains in umbilical Legion (seventh day)

Sensation of great distension of abdomen continuing for thirty-six hours (after two hours, third day)

Rectum and Anus p. 515

Have had for twenty-four hours past a feeling of relaxation of external anal sphincter, with cool moisture of anus (seventh day); increased anal relaxation (eleventh day)

Partial prolapsus ani (after eleven days)

Very disagreeable relaxation of anus and rectum ; prolapsus ani worse (twenty-first day)

Stool p. 515

Unusual normal evacuations (second day)

Respiratory Organs p. 515

Catarrhal symptoms increase (twentysixth day); bronchial catarrh (twenty-eighth day)

In two hours some constriction of larynx, sensation as if something pressed on the trachea near the suprasternal notch, pain and constriction extending to the clavicle in the direction of axilla, dryness of throat and air-passages. The constriction and dryness of the larynx continued for three days distinctly, gradually wearing away,h

Irritation of larynx and trachea (twenty-third duy)

The prover has had ever since the proving an increased sensitiveness of larynx and trachea to changes of the atmosphere, and also to the use of the vocal organs, either of which causes or provokes a paroxysm of coughing (after three mouths)

Constant tickling cough (twenty-third day) ; cough severe, worse at nightfall (twenty-fourth day)

Aggravated cough (twenty-ninth day)

Cough night and morning (after eight weeks)

Expectoration of thick white mucus (twenty-eighth day)

Frequent sighing respiration (nineteenth day)

Chest p. 515

Constant heavy feeling in chest behind sternum (nineteenth day)

Sensation of a heavy weight on the chest (twenty-third day) ; great heaviness in chest (twenty-fourth day)

Heaviness in chest which requires an occasional deep breath to relieve (after eight weeks)

Heart and Pulse p. 515

Slight pain in the precordial region (after one hour and a half)

Pulse 67 (before the proving) ; pulse accelerated 10 beats, accompanied with a peculiar nervous sensibility (after one hour and a half, first day) ; 75 (after two hours) ; 65 (after second dose, second day); 79 (after two hours, third day); 70 (fourth day); 76 (after one hour and three-quarters) ; 68 irregular (after four hours, fifth day)

Pulse 68, regular, but weak (seventh day

Neck and Back p. 515

Rheumatic pain in right sterno-cleido-mastoid muscle (after two hours)

Upper Extremities p. 515

Flying pains in upper and lower extremities (.seven hours after second dose, second day)

Superior Extremities p. 515

Pain now and then along the ulnar nerve (fourth day)

Pain in ulnar and radial sides of left forearm (seventh day)

Transitory pains in right index-finger (after third dose)

Inferior Extremities p. 515

In three hours severe pain in left knee, with difficulty in using the leg; aching of the muscles of both legs; continuing during afternoon and evening

Sleep p. 515

Troubled dreams (first night)

Groaned much in sleep, which is very unusual (second night)

Restless sleep, with frequent turning (nineteenth day)

Moaning during sleep, and tiredness on waking (twenty-third day)