Hyosciamus Niger

(Express the juice of the recent plant, and mix it with equal parts of alcohol.)

The dry herb loses a great portion of its medicinal virtues.

The following symptoms show that this drug is useful in many forms of mental and physical derangement.

Camphor antidotes the effects of Hyoscyamus.

Hyoscyamus may be used in spasms from worms, spasms of pregnant females, or of teething children. Epilepsy. St. Vitus' dance. Somnambulism. Raphania. Hydrophobia. Chronic hemorrhages. Apoplectic conditions. Redness of the skin. Erysipelas. Scarlatina. Brown spots; large brown spots, covered with small rash-vesicles, forming into crusts, and spreading over the whole body, except the face. A'"vesicles and spots, as from burns, on the lower limbs. Large pustules, like small-pox. Boils. Chronic insomnia. Febris intermUtens epileptica, consequent upon vexation. Febris intermittent (piartana. Puerperal fever. Febris nervosa versatilis, with delirium, complete insomnia, excessive excitement of the fancy, jactitation of single muscles, grasping at flocks, desire to run away, heat and redness of the face, staring and sparkling eyes, alternate dilatation and contraction of the pupils, humming in the ears, parched, brown tongue or loss of consciousness, vertigo, not recognizing the persons around, headache, weakness. 248 HYOSCYAMUS NIGER. twitching in the limbs, pain in the region of the heart, with stitches during a deep inspiration, nightly delirium, thirst, moist, shrivelled tongue, yellow-reddish urine, etc. — Nervous fever ; febris nervosa stupid ; typhus abdominalis ; nymphomania ; delirium tremens. Melancholia, with amenorrhoea. Wry-neck after epilepsy had been cured with Calc. and Bell. Inflammation of the brain in consequence of a cold, no consciousness, closed eyes, difficulty in opening the mouth, tongue coated with white frothy mucus, delirium, muttering, smiling, remaining sometimes quite still, sometimes starting, motion of the hands as if grasping at flocks, dilatation of the pupils, faint lustre of the eyes, red color of the face, dry, parched skin, accelerated respiration, full pulse, etc. — After having been cured of hydrocephalus, a child fell into the water, and was attacked with the following symptoms : Inability to walk, inability to move about, to talk, eat, pressing the tongue against the palate when drinking, as new-born children do, causing the liquid to flow out again half. — Violent neuralgia of the nerves about the head (with Ignat. and Bell.). — Blepharaspasmus ; spasmodic closing of the eyelids (also in alternation with Cham.). — Presbyopia. — Strabismus, diplopia. Blindness in the night. — Bleeding of the nose. — Trismus.— Paralysis of the tongue. — Toothache, caused by cold, throbbing and whizzing in the tooth, congestion of blood to the head, with heat, constriction of the throat, cramps, tearing and beating toothache of both sound and carious teeth, extending over the upper jaw and right half of the nose, as far as the root of the nose, with swelling of the gums, congestion of blood to the head, burning heat»of the face and body, dull headache, aggravated by pressure, feeling as if the teeth were elongated ; they are loose covered with mucus (accompanied with menorrhagia). Grinding of the teeth of children while sleeping. Haematemesis after cold or echauffement, with vertigo, cloudiness of the head, red eyes, bloated countenance, painfulness of the scrobiculus cordis when touched, distension of the abdomen dull pain in the region of the liver, constipation. dysmenorrhcEa going to sleep of the limbs, weakness and tremor of the limbs vomiting of dark-red blood, after previous redness of the face convulsions, spasm, subsequent exhaustion and coldness of the limbs. — Vomiting of the ingesta in small children. Stitches and drawing in the abdomen. Diaphragmitis. Peritonitis. Subinflammatory conditions of the abdomen (against which Bell, had been given without success). Pain in the abdomen, having remained after inflammation of the abdomen. Flatulent, hsemorrhoidal, menstrual colic. — Paralysis of the sphincter ani. Hypertrophy of the sphincter ani. (Kallenbach recommends to push a fine sponge moistened with Hyosciamiis into the anus.) Diarrhoea of lying-in women, coming off without pain, and involuntarily (when the evacuations are rather papescent and watery, give Rheum, and Antim. crudum). Spasm of the bladder, with violent tenesmus and emission drop by drop, coming on after a cold or scarlatina. Paralysis of the bladder. Painful retention of urine in typhus. — Satyriasis. — Sterility. — Spasms during parturition, (also Cham., Cic, Ign., Bell.)— Profuse menses. Metrorrhagia, with general spasms of the whole body, interrupted by jerks of the body, or by twitchings of single limbs, the bright-red blood continuing to flow all the time, and burning more violently at every new shock, whereas the pulsations diminish in number. Cough with titillation. Dry, irritating cough, especially at night. Spasmodic night-cough. Catarrhal cough, tormenting the patients in the night, in spite of a profuse expectoration of white or yellow mucus. Incipient pneumonia. Pneumonia with great anguish. Pneumonia with dry and fatiguing night-cough, with prevailing typhoid symptoms, typhoid pneumonia, the inspirations being intermittent. Incipient laryngeal phthisis, after a meal, pain and heat in the head, with faintness, weakness of the body, especially the chest, great exhaustion after long talking, frequent short and hacking cough, with greenish expectoration, want of appetite, weak pulse.

Head p. 149

Vertigo. Weak memory. Complete want of memory. Recollects things which had taken place a long while ago (cur. effect?).

5. Obtusion and cloudiness of the head, as is felt when the body is very weak, especially in the morning. Dull headache in the forehead, especially the membranes of the brain. Dull headache at the base of the brain. (Tearing headache in the occiput.) Stinging pain in the head.

10. Lancinating headache, (a. 2 h.) Stitching in the head, over the right eye, wheji coughing. Headache as if the brain shook and flapped like a wet sheet, when walking, (a. 5. h.) Creeping in the vertex, (a. 1 h.) Heat and creeping in the head. (a. 24 h.)

15. Heat and redness in the face.

Eyes p. 149

Sensation as if a gauze were stretched over the right eye. (a. 3 h.) False sight. The flame of one ght appears larger than the other, although both are of equal size. (a. 10 h.) Jerking in the eye, (a. 8 h.) 150 HYOSCYAMUS NIGER.

Ears, nose p. 150

(Ringing in the ears as of bells.) (a. 1 h.)

20. Jerking in the cheek. Dryness in the nose. Bleeding from the nose.

Mouth, jaws, teeth p. 150

Painful pimples on the lips. Loss of sight and taste.

25. Vacillation of the teeth and grumbling and humming in the teeth. Toothache, especially when chewing, as if the teeth would fall out. Tearing in the gums, especially when touched by cold air. Tearing toothache, with congestion of blood to the head, as if he would spit blood. A kind of stomachache.

Pharynx, gastric symptoms, stomach p. 150

A smarting sensation in the posterior part of the throat. Ptyalisra. The saliva tastes salt. Want of appetite, with natural taste. Nausea.

35. Inclination to vomit. The pit of the stomach is sensitive to the touch, and painful. Frequent attacks of pressure in the pit of the stomach, oppressing the breathing.

Abdomen p. 150

Excessive flatulence after a very moderate supper, and frequent, but difficult emission of flatulence, (a. 14 h.) Pressure in the umbilical region.

40. Feeling of hardness of the abdomen. Painful sensitiveness of the abdominal integuments. Cramp-like contraction of the abdominal muscles, as if something living were within, (a. 3 h.) (from the vapor of the herb.) Single stitches in the region of the liver, (a ^ h.) Stitching in the umbilical region during an inspiration. (a. 5 h.)

45. Excessive flatulent colic after rising in the morning, a pinching pressing from above downwards, as if a load were pressing in the abdomen, with inclination to vomit, and pain in the back as if bruised, without the least flatulence being emitted, in motion and rest. (a. 24 h.) Cutting colic. Cutting, deep in the abdomen. Short attacks of cutting in a small place deep in the abdomen, behind the os pubis, (a. 6 h.) Pain of the abdomen (the muscles) as if one had strained them by lifting, in the morning after waking.

Stool p. 150

Frequent desire for stool. (The desire for stool and the frequent evacuations occasioned by Hyoscyamus are alternate effects of the delay of stool and the want of desire for stool ; the former, however, appear to be the principal primary effect. A double alternate effect seems to take place here: much desire with either scanty discharge [s. 53. (192 — 194)] or copious discharge ; and too little desire, with scanty or no discharge (s. 209) (210) ; also with copious discharge, s. 51 ; the frequent desire with the scanty and rare discharge is the principal alternate effect). He discharges the faeces in his bed without knowing it. (a. 2 h.) Frequent desire for stool ; but the stool is natural. Constipation of four days' standing and frequent pressure in the umbilical region, as if the abdomen were too full, with desire for stool, without tenesmus either of the anus or rectum. Obstruction of the abdomen, and retention of urine, with urging desire to urinate.

Urinary organs p. 151

Retention of the urine, with tenesmus of the bladder. (The desire to urinate and the want of irritability of the bladder, the scanty secretion of urine and the copious emission of urine, are alternate effects of Hyoscyamus, so that great desire to urinate, with scanty or profuse emission, or inactivity of the bladder, with scanty or copious secretion of urine, may coexist ; however, much desire to urinate, with scanty emission, appears to be the principal primary effect). Paralysis of the bladder.

Genital organs p. 151

Sensation of soreness and burning in the entrance of th§ vagina, (a. 1 h.) Menses delay for a few days. Suppression of the menses.

60. Labor-like pains previous to the appearance of the menses, in the uterus, accompanied with drawing in the loins and small of the back. Appearance of the menses on the fourteenth day. Sexual desire. [(s. (232)].

Catarrh, chest p. 151

Sensation as if something were lodged in the trachea, and did not get loose by the coughing .Dry and hacking cough.

65. Dry night-cough. He coughs frequently in the night, but he wakes up during every cough, and then falls asleep again, (a. 30 h.) Continual cough while he lies down, going off when sitting up. Greenish expectoration when coughing.

70. (Burning pain in the left side, in the evening.)

Back and extremities p. 151

Stitches in the scapulae. Seated pains in the loins. (Tearing pain in the back.) Trembling of the arm, in the evening after exercise.

75. The limbs go to sleep. Frequent, large boils. Pain as if bruised in the ulcer when moving the part. (a. 24 h.) The ulcer bleeds and is extremely painful, (a. 24 h.) Tensive pain across the middle of the thighs, as if they were too short, when going up stairs :

80. Cramp-pain in the calves during motion, in the afternoon. Paralytic drawing in the legs, especially when walking. Pain as if bruised in the left tibia when walking, especially in the evening, the side of the calf being hot, swollen, and bordered with red rash, but without pain or itching, (a. 72 h.) Cold feet. Pain in the feet.

85. Catling pain in the tarsal joint when walking. Pain as if bruised of the tarsal joint, in the afternoon when walking, or when advancing the feet the toes contract as from a cramp.

Sleep and fever p. 151

Coma vigil. When slumbering he has a smiling look.

90. When in bed, he now raised his knees, now be extended them, now he turned round, turned his head in all directions, now he raised his hand and knocked upon the bed, now he pulled straw out of his bed, moved the fingers over the bed ; said nothing ; he was neither out of humor nor desponding. In his sleep he began to moan \without any consciousness, raised his sound arm, and let it fall again suddenly ; soon after the shoulder jerked suddenly upwards ; then the head was tossed to and fro ; after this the sick foot became raised, then there was a sudden jerking in the sound foot ; frequently the sound hand was affected, the fingers receding from one another suddenly and then approaching again to one another ; occasionally he emitted plaintive sounds. Anxious sleeplessness. (He cannot get warm in his bed during the night.) Fever in the afternoon, chara(;terized by coldness and pain, for instance of the back.

95. The blood burns in the veins. He is delirious while awake ; he pretended a man had been there who was not there. Taciturn. Extreme shyness. (He considers himself a criminal.)

100. He reproaches himself and raises conscientious scruples to himself. He reproaches others, and complains of pretended injustice which had been done to him. Jealousy. (Quarrelsome mood. Rage ; he wants to injure others.

Vertigo (lasting a fortnight, from the vapor of the seed). Violent vertigo. Vertigo with obscuration of sight. Vertigo, as if from intoxication (immediately.)

5. Staggering from side to side. Reeling sensation. They staggered as if intoxicated. (Several children who had eaten the roots for carrots.) Intoxication (from Hyoscyamus physaloides.) Insensible to pinching (from hyoscyamus albus.)

10. Stupefaction. Tendency to forget one's self in a staring, thoughtless gazing at things, (a. ^ h.) He remember-s involuntarily persons and events which he had no intention to think of (a. ^ h.) Want of memory. He easily thinks of things which he does not intend, and is unable to recollect things which he would like to remember, (a. 3 h.)

15. Inability to recollect ; that which he has said or done during the last years, appears to him like a dream, (a. 24 h.) Forgetful of every thing he heard before. He is not sure whether he really did say what he intended to say. (a. f h.) He complains of heaviness of the head and violent pains. Continual, violent headache.

20. Heavy, cloudy head. Heaviness of the head with swelling of the eyelids. Cloudiness of the head, costiveness and pain in the loins. The ideas sometimes seem to stand si ill.

25. Sensation in the head as if he had lost all power of thinking ; he is not disposed to do any thing, and goes to sleep in the afternoon, waking frequently, (a. 9 h.) Headache, lasting several hours (from the smell and vapor of the plant.) Headache, in the room ; he had not felt it in the open air. (a. 2 h.) Stupefying headache, especially in the forehead, with prickings especially in the left side of the head, alternately going and coming, (a. 4 h.)

30. Stupefying headache, especially in the forehead, finally becoming tearing with intermissions, (a. 10^ h.) Constrictive, stupefying headache (the literal German expression is darkening headache), in the upper part of the forehead, and general malaise, alternating with absence of all pain, ease and exalted fancy, the second series of symptoms lasting much longer, (a. 1 h.) Undulating sensation in the brain as if occasioned by a strong throbbing of the arteries, with pressure in the forehead ; worst after stooping, (a. i h.) Headache with unnatural heat. Gnawing pressure in the outer integuments, increased by moving and feeling them. (a. 15 h.)

35. Dull pain with stiffness in the nape of the neck. Headache alternating with pain in the nape of the neck. Pressure in the vertex and drawing in the nape of the neck when turning the head. (a. 3 h.) Dullness of the senses.

Eyes p. 153

Obscuration of sight ; the objects are less distinct ; he is more shortsighted and has to hold the book nearer when reading, (a. 1 h.) Contraction of the pupils. Dilatation of the pupils, (a. i h.) Dimsightedness, as if a gauze were hanging over the eyes. Dark spots hover to and fro before the eye in quick succession, (a. 1 h.)

45. Diminished sight. When consciousness returned, the eyes were dim, without lustre, and the brain was obscured. Obscuration of sight. Weak sight. Passing amaurosis.

50. Roves about towrt blind and senseless. He was scarcely able to recognize any thing at the distance of three steps. Farsightedness accompanied with great clear-sightedness, and dilatation of the pupils ; the farsightedness continued several days and then decreased gradually, (a. 3 h.) (Curative effect in a very shortsighted person.) Shortsightedness lasting four days. Chronic longsightedness. — 55 Optical illusions ; all things appeared scarlet-red to nine persons, after eating the root of Hyoscyamus. All things look red as fire, or golden-yellow. What is small seems to him very large.* Illusion of sight ; when reading, the letters seemed to move, and looked like ants crawling about in a heap.

60. AVhen scAving, he stuck the needle in the wrong place. Staring distorted eyes. Intoxicated look, for a long time.

65. Distortion of the eyes. Open eyes, distorted in different directions. Convulsively moved protruded eyes. Sparkling eyes. Red, sparkling eyes.

70. Inflammation of the eyes. Itching tearing in both canthi, more violent in the outer canthi, going off by friction. Gnawing pressure in the upper border of the orbit, going off when touching the place, (a. ^ h.) Pressure in the eyes, as if sand had got in. (a. 12 h.) Swelling of the eyelids ; the white of the eye is slightly reddened here and there ; the eyes look as if he had cried.

75. Inability to open the eyelids.

Face p. 154

Heat in the face, especially about the lobules, with increased redness of the face, and dilatation of the pupils. Burning heat of the face in the moderately warm room. Distorted, bluish, clay-colored face, with mouth wide open. Bluish countenance, (a. 2 h.)

80. Cold, pale face • (before death). Frequent change of complexion. Red, distended face. Brown red, swollen face.

85. Pustules resembling small-pox, mostly on the right side of the chin. Close-set pustules full of yellow pus make their appearance on the cheeks and chin ; afterwards the nose becomes ulcerated.

Ears p. 154

Sharp stitches through the ears from without inwards, pressure in the temples, obtusion of the head. (a. 1 h.) Sudden, indescribable pain in the right ear. Tearing in the cartilages of the ear, increased by pressing upon them. (a. 15 h.)

90. When clearing the throat he feels as if something obstructed his ears.

Nose p. 154

Sudden jerking in the root of the nose from above downwards, (a. 1 h.) Heat in the lower part of the nose, internally and externally, perceptible to the hand. (a. 1 h.) Clawing pressure in the root of the nose and the zygoinata. (a. 1 h.) Bleeding from the nose.

Jaws, teeth and mouth p. 154

90. Distorted neck, lockjaw, with full consciousness, (a. 24 h.) Swelling on the left side of the neck, passing into suppuration. Stiffness of the posterior cervical muscles ; when bending the head over, they feel stretched as if too short, for some hours, (a. 1 h.) Clean, parching-dry tongue.

100. Burning and dryness of the tongue and lips; the lips look like scorched leather. Sensation of pithiness in the middle of the tongue, as if burnt by hot food, increased by talking and inspiring air. Dumbness. Impeded speech.

105. Loss of speech and consciousness. The left gums look swollen, and the upper teeth feel a dull pain. Pain as of subcutaneous ulceration in the soft parts between the

HYOSCYAMUS NIGER. ] 55 cheeks and the last molar teeth (in the evening, during the feverish heat). Painful drawing in a single tooth, here and there, as if a tooth were becoming pithy. Impeded mastication.

110. Toothache during the sweat. Jerking toothache in a hollow tooth, extending over the temple ; when biting upon the tooth, it feels loose and elongated (did not increase when inspiring the open air), (a. 4 h.) Impeded deglutition.

Pharynx and (Esophagus : The posterior part of the throat is affected ; he points with his finger into it, as if something were lodged there.

115. Frequent hawking up of mucus, (a. I h.) Burning heat in the throat. Dryness and subsequent fine stinging in the region of the larynx, (a. 1 h.) Parching dryness of the fauces. Great dryness in the throat, and thirst.

120. Roughness and scraping in the throat and upon the tongue, the mouth being quite moist. Scraping, troublesome sensation in the throat and palate, as from too much talking. Dryness in the throat. Thirst and dryness in the throat. Thirst occasioned by the stinging dryness in the throat, (a. 2i h.)

125. His throat feels so dry and constricted that a little tea even came near choking him. [Taking the symptoms (113) to (119,) (122) to (125,) (127) to (134,) (136,) (137,) (138,) 96 to 98, 104, (414,) (451) to (454,) (465) to (472,) (474) (349,) (380,) (385,) (83,) (84,) (335) -to (337), and arranging them in one group, we shall have a tolerably accurate image' of certain forms of hydrophobia which may therefore be homoeopathically cured by Hyoscyamus. The true accounts which we possess of this fearful malady, show that there are varieties of it which may each be cured by a specific drug. Hyoscyamus is one of these. Stramonium and Belladonna correspond to other varieties. Belladonna has already cured some cases of hydrophobia, but it would have cured many more, if it had been left unmixed with other drugs, or if it had not been given in such murderous doses. Large doses of homceopathic remedies are more injurious than large doses of allopathic drugs. A practitioner tho prescribes a drug homoeopathically/, commits a real crime by administering doses of the size used in the common allopathic routine. Such doses become real poisons and homicidal agents. I say this not only in regard to Belladonna and Stramoniian, but in regard to every other drug, in all forms of disease and especially acute diseases. Let no one come and tell me that his patient died in spite of having taken one of those medicines, even a large dose thereof, every two or three hours. I tell him that the patient died because of having taken that large dose. If the patient had taken the smallest portion of a drop of the 15th or 30th attenuation, and in rare cases another dose three or four days after the first, lie would have been saved.]

Pressure in the throat as of a swelling, during and between the acts of deglutition. Constriction of the throat with impeded deglutition. Constriction of the throat. Inability to swallow.

130. Inability to swallow. He twice spit out a liquid which had been introduced into his mouth. Hydrophobia. Intolerable thirst. Unquenchable thirst. Dread of drink,

135. Violent sweat after great thirst. After drinking he was now attacked with convulsions, now he did not recognize those present. He asks for drink, and is nevertheless unable to swallow. Frequent spitting of saliva.

140. Ptyalism. Ptyalism, tasting salt. Bloody saliva, with a bloody-sweet taste (in a few hours). Want of appetite. Appetite and strength diminished day after day.

Appetite and gastric symptoms p. 156

145. Bitterness in mouth, in the morning ; but the food he took did not taste bitter, (a. 24 h.) Bitterness in mouth and bitter eructations. Frequent, tasteless eructations. Frequent, empty eructations, (a. 1^ h.) Unsuccessful desire to eructate ; incomplete eructations for ten hours.

150. When pressing upon the pit of the stomach, he is attacked with nausea ; going off by stooping, (a. i h.) Nausea. Nausea and vertigo. Nausea, vomiting. Inclination to vomit.

155. Frequent vomiting. Vomiting of a profuse, white, tenacious mucus. Watery vomiting, with vertigo. For some days he had great trouble to retain the food without throwing it up.

160. Tranquillity of mind after vomiting green bile and after copious sweats. Frequent hiccough. Hiccough with spasms and rumbling in the abdomen. Violent hiccough two midnights in succession, with involuntary micturition and foam at the mouth. Violent hiccough with costiveness.

165. Excessive hiccough with violent thirst in the night. Excessive, long-lasting hiccough after dinner, in the night. Headache after a meal, pressure in the temples and aching of the whole outer parts of the head, (a. 4i h.) As if intoxicated, immediately after a meal. The greatest number of symptoms, and the most violent come on after a meal.

170. Anguish soon after dinner as if some sad event were to happen to him.* (a. 6 h.) Frequent and continual erections after a meal. (a. 5 h.) Tightness about the pit of the stomach.

Stomach and abdomen p. 156

Weakness of the stomach. Pain ill the stomach. Sudden pressure above the pit of the stomach on the sternum after a meal. (a. -^ h.) Oppression of the stomach. Burning of the stomach. Inflammation of the Stomach. Repletion in the region of the stomach, with a troublesome feeling of tightness in the abdomen, in the evening.

180. Colic. Pricking pain below the umbilicus when walking. Drawing pain in the intestines, (a. 9 h.) Pinching drawing in the abdomen, with emission of a quantity of flatulence, (a. 3 h.)

185. Pinching in the abdomen, (a. 26 h.) Colic, as if his abdomen would burst ; he presses his fists into his sides. Flatulent colic in the epigastrium, with pressure ; his abdomen became distended in the evening alter lying down. The abdominal 'muscles are painful as if he had fallen upon them (when sitting). Puffiness of the abdomen, painful to the touch.

190. Rumbling in the abdomen, even during the diarrhoea.

Stool p. 157

Urgent desire for stool. Urgent desire for stool with sensation in the rectum as if diarrhoea would come on. (a. ^ h.)

195. Stool delaying three hours on the first day beyond the usual hour ; on the second day it takes place four hours before the usual hour. Frequent stool. Diarrhoea. One papescent stool, five hours before the usual time. (a. 1-J- h.) Copious papescent stool with scanty emission of urine, (a. -J- h.)

200. Loose stool, composed of small, thin pieces. Diarrhoea, day and night. Moderate, or mucous diarrhoea. Exhausting mucous diarrhoea.

205. Watery diarrhoea. Frequent expulsion of ascarides. Costiveness ; hard stool covered with mucus and pain in the anus while expelling the faeces, for five days in succession. Very hard stool, a few hours after the usual time, (a. 6 h.)

210. Difficult evacuations. Flowing ha3morrhoids for eight days.

Urinary organs p. 157

Yellow urhie, turbid already while being emitted, afterwards depositing a whitish-gray sediment. (Frequent and urgent desire with scanty emission the first two days, on the third and following days copious micturition.)

215. Copious micturition with rumbling in the abdomen. Frequent emission -of urine clear as water; he urinated even at night, several times, contrary to his custom. Copious emission of urine, sleep, perspiration, diarrhoea, and afterwards cheerful mood. Enuresis. Difficult mictin-tion.

220. Retention of urine. Profuse menses (hemorrhage from the uterus seems to be a primary effect of Hyoscyamus, hence it will cure them, provided the other symptoms correspond). Profuse menses with delirium. Retarded menses.

225. Violent, almost convulsive trembling of the hands and feet ; she is almost raging during the menses. Enuresis during the menses. Enuresis and sweat during the menses. Hysteric pain previous to the appearance of the menses.

230. An almost uninterrupted loud laughing previous to the appearance of the menses. Appearance of the menses accompanied with severe headache ; profuse sweat and nausea. Erection and excitation of the genital organs without any excitement of the fancy, (a, i h.) Impotence in a male (for two months).

Catarrh, chest p. 158

Fetid breath in the morning when rising ; he perceives it himself (a. 24 h.)

225. Frequent sneezing, (a. 1-;^ h.) Much mucus in the larynx and trachea making the voice rough, (a. i h.) Asthma. Clawing in the upper part of the chest, troublesome but not painful, and increased neither by walking nor talking, (a. 6 h.) Difsculty of breathing.

240. Difficulty of breathing, with occasional raling. Tight feeling across the chest, as if occasioned by too great exertions in talking or running. Oppression of the chest, as if asthmatic, accompanied with strong palpitation of the heart, (a. 3 h.) Oppression of the chest, during which an internal stinging, more violent during an inspiration, (a . ^ h.) Pressure in the lower and right side of the chest, accompanied with oppressive anxiety and shortness of breath when going up stairs, (a. 6 h.)

245. Pressure in the right side of the chest, near the xiphoid cartilage and the last true rib, with great oppression and anxiety, (a. 6i h.) Hard pressure with stitches in the chest, (a. 3 h.) Stitches in the side of the chest. Stitches in the right side. Dry, titillating cough, apparently originating in the trachea.

250. Dry, spasmodic, continued cough. Cough worse at night.

Back p. 158

(Feeling of warmth in the back) (immediately). Tension of the muscles of the back and chest near the shoulder-joint, when raising the arm, as if they were too short, (a. 6 h.) Pain in the back.

255. Repeated attacks of pain in the loins. Pain in the loins and swelling around the malleoli. Pricking pain in the loins and side.

Upper extremities p. 158

Two pimples on the elbow, with sore pain when touched. Pressure in the bend of the elbow, when curbing the arm and holding it still, (a f h.) Dull pain in the wrist and elbow-joint, spreading and decreasing during motion. Itching stitches in the flexor surface of the fore-arm. (a. 1 h.) Continuous pricking in the flexor side of the fore-arm. (a. 5 h.) Painful stupor of the hands. Rigor of the hands.

265. Tingling in the left hand, as if gone to sleep. Aching with drawing around the wrist-joints and knuckles, (a. | h.) Swelling of the hands. Drawing with pressure in the inner borders of the fingers, during motion, (a. 1-^ h.)

Lower extremities p. 158

Sharp stitches with cramp-pain in the left glutei muscles, (a 5 h.)

270. Redness of the nates and feet. Boil on the left thigh. Stitching drawing in the thighs, worse when at rest. (a. 1 h.) Gangrenous spots and vesicles, especially on the lower limbs, (a. 24 h.) Stiffness and faintness in the knee-joints when walking in the open air. (a. 3 h.)

275. Faintness and weakness of the feet. Swelling of the feet. Pinching of the calves, (a.l h.) Stitchingpinching in the region of the tibia, (a. 5 h.) Pinching-jerking pains in the feet.

280. The limbs go to sleep. Drawing tearing in the soles, mostly when at rest ; disappearing by walking and reappearing when sitting down, (a 36 h.)

General symptoms p. 159

Rheumatic pains. Pain of the limbs and loins. Sharp, continued stitches in the joints of the arms and feet. (a. 1 h.)

285. Dull drawing pains in the joints, but more in the muscles and neighborhood of the joints. Lancinations in almost all the joints, especially during motion, (a. 3 h.) Pains in the limbs. The symptoms seem to be most marked in the evening. Itching, obliging one to scratch the skin until it bleeds.

290. Fine stitches through the tips of the fingers and through all the parts of the body, from within (in a few minutes). When applying the warm hand to any part of the body, the back, arms, etc., he felt a very painful warmth in that part, lasting a long while, (a. a few hours.) Large pustules on the skin, clustering in various places, from the region above the hips to the knees, looking like confluent small-pox ; they do not contain any fluid, and peel off in four days. (a. 3 d.) Alternate appearance and disappearance of brown spots on the whole body. Herpetic spots on the nape of the neck.

295. Obstinate dropsy. Swelling. Weakness. Aversion to exercise and labor.

Fits and weakness p. 159

Weariness, faintness of the whole body.

300. When waTldng in the open air, he shortly becomes hot and weak. (a. 12 h.) Staggering. Uncommon sinking of strength, (a. 4 h.) Weakness ; lie is scarcely able to stand upon his legs, and seems constantly inclined to fall. Chronic weakness of the feet

305. General loss of strength, with trembling of the whole body and extreme coldness of the extremities, until fainting was about setting in. Fainting fits. Repeated fainting fits. Death-like fainting.

Sleep p. 159

Lying down in silence.. Drowsiness, (a. 2 h.) In the morning he shows an excessive wakefulness as if from weakness; in the afternoon drowsiness, relaxation and irreso-

lateness. [Excessive wakefulness, s. (327) to (334,) (419) to

(422) is an alternate effect of drowsiness and sleep ; excessive

wakefulness appears to be the principal primary effect.] Sleep

for two days.

315. Sleeps for three days. Deep sleep. Long,

deep sleep. Soft sleep.

320. Gluiet sleep, with profuse sweat and frequent micturition. Sweat during sleep (almost no sweat when not asleep). Excessive drowsiness. Inability to open the eyelids from drowsiness. Deep slumber.

325. Long slumber. Cornea vigil. Sleepless nights. Falls asleep too late. Sleeplessness.

330. Sleeplessness occasioned by moderate cheerfulness. Although he had fallen asleep long after midnight, nevertheless he woke very early, feeling exceedingly cheerful and vigorous. Frequent waking in the night as if he were disturbed or had already slept enough, two nights in succession. He was unable to sleep in the night; whether he laid on this or that side, he was unable to find rest ; he only slept a little before daybreak, but he became covered with sweat during that short sleep, especially on the neck. (a. 5 h.)

335. Nightly sleeplessness with convulsions and concussions occasioned as if by fright. Frightful dreams. In the evening shortly before going to sleep he has anxious dreams about furious cats assailing him. (a. 46 h.) • He wakes from his sleep -without any apparent cause, with a scream. Sleep, interrupted by grinding of teeth.

340. Suffocative snoring when taking an inspiration, While asleep, (a. 14 h.) Starting from sleep. When asleep he talks about war. Lascivious dreams the first two nights, without emission, although the genital organs are excited.

Fits p. 160

Apoplexy with snoring.

345. Hemiplegia. Sudden falling. Sudden falling with a cry and convulsions [(a. a few minutes) from fomenting the head with a decoction of Hyoscyamus] ; he is stiff all over, as in tetanus. Slight convulsive motion now of the upper, now the lower limbs.

350. Convulsive movements. In his convulsions he stamps with one foot after the other. Convulsions.

385. The limbs become spasmodically curbed, and the curbed body is jerked into the air. Excessive tossing of the body by convulsions. Convulsions with foam at the mouth. Convulsions with clenching of the thumbs. Epilepsy (of two boys, from eating the seed, one of the boys dying in a couple of hours).

360. Slight epileptic fits, alternating with paroxysms of apoplexy. Subsultus tendinum. Spasms with watery diarrhoea and enuresis. Spasms, diarrhoea, and coldness of the whole body.

Fever p. 160

Chilliness and shivering over the whole body, with hot face and cold hands, without thirst (a. 1 h.) and recurring the next day. (a. 24 h.) Violent and long chilliness in the evening, with restless sleep, followed by copious sweat. After the lapse of twelve minutes, the number of pulsations began to decrease, and from 85 finally fell to 59, the pulsations being very small (from four grains of resinous extract in a healthy man of 24 years). Small, weak pulse. Weak, irregular pulse.

370. Hard pulse. Small, quick, intermittent pulse. Stronger pulse. Quick, full, strong pulse. Increased circulation, for twelve hours.

375. Distended veins of the whole body. Burning heat in the whole internal body. External, burning heat of the whole body, no redness. In the evening, great heat over the whole body, with much thirst, putrid taste and much mucus in the mouth ; the lips adhere to one another. The skin of the whole body is inflamed and looks like cinnabar (shortly after the heat).

380. Exhalation. Copious sweats. Increasing sweat. Excessive sweat.

385. General sweat, especially on the thighs and legs, for two days. (a. 24 h.) Sour sweat. Sweat with faintness and dullness of sense. Cool sweat.

Moral symptoms p. 161

Dullness of feeling, unfeeling indolence.

390. He comes near losing his senses. (Boerhaave, from the vapor of Hyosc.) Senseless and heavy. Complete stupefaction. Does not know his relatives. Sits immovable in his bed deprived of his senses, like a statue.

395. Complete loss of sense. Imbecility. Imbecility and constant sopor.

400. Amentia. Insanity. Insanity with diarrhoea. Highest mental derangement. Says absurd things.

405. They prate about all those things that a prudent man would have kept secret. Mutters to himself, exhausted. He talks more than usual, and more animatedly and hurriedly. Absurd laughter.

410. When reading he intermixes the matter with improper words and speeches. He says absurd things. Mutters to himself absurd things. Mental derangement, with occasional muttering.

415. Incoherent words. Grasping at flocks and muttering. Delirium. Delirium, as in acute fever. Mental exaltation, with almost constant delirium (from an injection of Hyoscyamus).

420. Excessive animation, restlessness, hurriedness. Excessive activity ; he imagined himself more vigorous than he really was. (a. 2, 8,4 h.) A thousand fancies are hovering before his mind. Takes men for hogs. Stupor, manifesting itself by words and deeds.

425. He knew not what he was about. Foolish actions. He sings amorous and obscene songs. Wants to travel and prates while preparing for the journey. Prates while preparing for the wedding.

430. A peculiar feeling of mobility. Dances. They (a whole family) perform all sorts of ludicrous actions, like monkeys (from the eating of the root). He makes ridiculous gesticulations, like a dancing fool. Demeans himself like a drunkard.

435. Gesticulates. Gesticulates like the fool in a comedy. Acts as if he were cracking nuts. Acts as if he had to chase peacocks. He gropes without knowing whither he is going.

440. He feels on his head, in his face, on the nose, and moves his hands over the bed, as when picking at the bed-clothes. He embraces the stove and wants to climb upon it, as on a tree. They exclaimed that the objects near them would fall, and grasped at them. They ran with wild, open eyes against all those things that were in their way. Rage as if possessed by the devil.

445. He uncovers his whole body. He lies in his bed naked and delirious. In his insanity he roves about naked, wrapt in fur, in the heat of summer. Ludicrously solemn acts, mingled with rage, dressed in an improper garment (dressed in a priest's gown over his shirt, and in fur-stockings he wants to go to the church for the purpose of preaching and officiating at mass, and furiously attacks those who endeavor to prevent him). Labored breathing with constant, burning heat and cries, and making violent motions with the hands.

450. Extremely lively and humorous on the first day ; on the second day out of humor and disposed to quarrel. Alternations of ease and rage. Mania ; he can scarcely be governed. He is extremely strong in his rage. Raging and naked day and night, sleepless and screaming.

455. Insulting speeches, quarrel, dispute. He beats people.

460. Indomitable rage. He attacks men with a knife. He attempts to murder those in his way. Peevish, sad (second day).

465. Low spirits, sadness. Restlessness. Went from place to place (for two days). Anguish

470. Fits of anxiety. Horrid anguish. Concussive starlings alternating with trembling and convulsions. He complains of having been poisoned. Strange fear that he will be bit by animals.

475. Peevish, sad, despairing. Despairing, he wants to drown himself. Chronic fearfulness. Impatient : thought he would die when obliged to wait for something unimportant.

Notes p. 153

* He takes a lark for a goose. Another one takes the stem of an ear of corn for a beam, and a drop of water appears to him like a lake. Letters seem unusually large. VOL. II. 12