Glonoin

Questions

"What is Glonoine, and why was it so called?

It is nitro-glycerine: the Gl is for glycerine, 0 for oxygen, 71 for nitrogen, and the termination ine, making Glonoine. Give the general action of Glonoine. Glonoine produces an active cerebral hyperaemia, palpitation of the heart, etc. ; many of its symptoms resemble those of sunstroke; fever and inflammation are lacking; there is a tendency to violent and sudden irregularities of circulation; all symptoms worse from being in the sun.

What is an important mental symptom of Glonoine ?

Confusion of place; patient forgets where he lives; well known places seem strange. Give the general difference between Glonoine and Belladonna. The differences are these : Glonoine is relieved from uncovering; the headache is worse from bending the head backwards; is relieved in the open air; cannot keep still; must walk about; no flushing of the face. Belladomia is worse from uncovering; better from bending the head backwards; worse in the open air, and better by holding the head still; face flushed. Give symptoms of Glonoine in Sunstroke. Face pale, full, round pulse, labored respiration, eyes fixed, cerebral vomiting, white tongue, sinking at the pit of the stomach.

What are the heart symptoms of Glonoine?

Feeling of fulness in the region of the heart ; palpitation with pulsation over the whole body; violent beating as if chest would burst open; radiating pains.

What is the principal use of Amyl nitrite?

In angina pectoris; during the attack there is oppressed breathing and constriction about the heart, and the slightest thing causes flushing. HAHNEMANN'S EXAMINATION IN HOMEOPATHY. The following is of interest, being from a letter written by Hahnemann, wherein he gives a specimen of the examination to which he would subject a Homoeopathic candidate: " Dear : I have much pleasure in making your acquaintance, and agreeable to your desire, I put to you some questions, from your answers to which I shall be able to judge of your capability to practice Homoeopathically and to cure patients of all sorts. " I. What course does the true ( Homoeopathic ) physician pursue in order to obtain a knowledge of what is morbid, consequently of what he has to cure in the patient ?

"2. Why does a name of a disease not suffice to instruct the physician as to what he has to do in order to cure the patient? For example, why should he not at once give Chi7icho7ia bark when the patient says he has got fever (as the Allopath does) ?

"3. How does the true physician learn what each medicine is useful for, and consequently in what morbid states it can be serviceable and curative ?

' ' 4. Why does the true physician view with horror the prescribing of several medicinal substances mingled together in one prescription for a disease ?

"5. Why does it shock the true physician to see blood drawn from a patient, whether by venesection, or leeches, or cupping-glasses ?

"6. Why is it an abomination for the true physician to see Opium given by the Allopaths for all sorts of pains, for diarrhoea, or for sleeplessness ?

"7. Why does the Homoeopathist prepare gold, plumbago, lycopodium-pollen, culinary salt., etc., by triturating them for hours with a non-medicinal substance, such as sugar of milk, and by shaking a small dissolved portion of them with water and alcohol, which is termed dynamizing?

"8. Why must the true physician not give his patients medicine for a single symptom (for a single morbid sensation) ?

"10. Why can the Homoeopathic medicines never be dispensed by the apothecary without injury to the public?

' ' When you shall have replied to these questions in writing I shall be able to judge if you are a true Homoeopathic practitioner. ' '