Ailantus Glandulosa

Tree of Heaven. Simaruhece. " A very poisonous tree introduced from the Molucca islands, and cultivated extensively as a shade tree, on account of its rapid growth, straight stem and shady leaves, until it was observed <bo make the month of June, the most healthy in the year, a sickly one, by the stench of its flowers. See 20 and 36. The opening flowers are used for a tincture. Introduced by Dr. P. P. Wells, of Brooklyn, in 1864, as corresponding to Scarlatina, and proved by H. Minton and J. T. Alley, 1861. Toxic observations were made by many.

Mind

Past events are forgotten, remembered as belonging to some one else, or as matters read.

Cannot concentrate mental effort; compelled to read a subject several times to get even a dim understanding of it.

▌ Great anxiety and restlessness.

Stoical indifference to what happens.

▌ Semi-conscious, cannot comprehend what is said to him. θ Scarlatina.

▌ Low-spirited. θ Bronchial catarrh.

▌ Continual sighing, with depression of spirits.

Stupor ; mental indifference and weakness.

▌ Great anxiety.

Restlessness, with great anxiety.

▌ Extremely irritable.

Confusion of intellect; found it almost impossible to add columns of figures correctly ; had to go over it several times to get it right.

Loss of memory.

Mental alienation.

Recklessness in regard to present and future events.

▌▌ Semi-conscious, evidently cannot comprehend what is said to him. θ Scarlatina.

▌ Stupor, delirium and insensibility, θ After suppressed scarlatinal eruption.

▌ Muttering delirium with sleeplessness and restlessness. θ Typhoid scarlatina.

Sensorium

Since the poisoning all antecedents of her life are forgotten, or remembered as belonging to another or as matters she has read about.

▌ Dizzy and throat dry.

Vertigo, with nausea, faintness and cold sweat.

Vertigo when stooping.

▌▌ Dizzy, face hot, cannot sit up; drowsy, yet very restless and anxious ; later insensible, with muttering delirium ; recognizes no one. θ Scarlatina,

Staggers when rising or moving.

Drunken feeling in the brain, with fullness.

Thick, heavy feeling in the head ; figures look blurred.

Feeling as if an electric current were passing through the left side of the head or down to the extremities.

Apoplectic fullness of the head.

▌ Dizziness when rising up. θ Typhoid scarlatina.

Inner Head p. 90

Severe headache and giddiness ; face red and hot.

Headache, with nausea.

Dull headache : with burning in the eyes ; with great oppression of the chest ; with heavy feeling in the sternal region ; with tingling in left arm and hand.

Dull compressed feeling, with confusion and pain in the forehead.

▌ Dull heavy pressing in the forehead; disinclined to think or to act.

││ Darting through the temples and back part of the head, with confusion of ideas.

Darting pain in back of head, with beating in occiput.

Thick, heavy feeling in the base and right side of the head.

Severe pain through the temple on awaking.

Pain in the occiput, with dizziness and ringing pain in the forehead ; also swelling under the left eye from the cheek.

▌ Head burning hot, with piercing pains.

▌ Severe headache, interrupted by delirium of a frightful kind, with fever and anxiety, θ Typhoid scarlatina.

Outer Head p. 90

Beating in the occipital arteries.

Tender, bruised feeling over the pariet-frontal sutures.

Sight and Eyes p. 90

Uncertainty in seeing.

Figures and letters look blurred ; thick feeling in head.

▌ Shunning light.

"Wild looking eyes with intolerance of light.

▌ Pupils widely dilated. θ Scarlatina.

▌▌ Eyes suffused and congested; startled look when aroused ; pupils dilated and sluggish, θ Scarlatina.

Burning in the eyes.

Conjunctivitis, with redness and inflammation extending around the external canthus.

Purulent discharge agglutinating the lids in the morning.

Smarting and aching in the eyes.

Lachrymation in the open air or brilliant light.

Nerves p. 90

Pain in the ear when swallowing.

The ear, when touched or scratched, gets red all over.

▌ Parotid gland sensitive and enlarged. θ Scarlatina.

Smell and Nose p. 91

Loss of smell.

Copious thin, ichorous discharge without fetor, θ Coryza.

Coryza, with rawness in the nostrils ; nose and upper lip covered with thick gray-brown scabs ; ichorous pus discharged every forenoon.

▌ Fluent catarrh, with sneezing.

▌▌ Copious, thin, ichorous and bloody discharge from the nose. θ Scarlatina.

Chronic catarrh, difficult breathing through the nose.

Dryness of the nose : secretion suppressed.

Itching and uneasy feeling around the nose.

▌▌ Nostrils congested. θ Scarlatina.

^ Face. Face sallow, jaundiced ; pale ; blue circles around the eyes.

Irregular spots of capillary congestion, as after a debauch.

▌ Face red and hot, I covered with a rash, θ Scarlatina.

▌ Face dark as mahogany, θ Suppressed scarlatina.

Face puffed, erysipelatous ; soreness and pain on the left side of the nose.

Tearing in the face and head, with toothache.

▌ Chronic speckled, spotted face ; a sort of acne.

Eruption miliary, more on forehead and face.

▌▌ Great prostration and a countenance indicating much distress, θ Typhoid scarlatina.

Lower Face p. 91

Lips cracked.

Lip becomes puffed and sore when touched.

Small, but deep, ragged ulcer near the angle of the mouth.

Inflamed vesicles on the lower lip ; chin bright red.

Teeth p. 91

▌▌ Teeth covered with sordes. θ Scarlatina.

Tearing in upper and lower teeth, left side, also in the face ; worse by lying down, forcing him to walk about ; external pressure relieves.

Taste and Tongue p. 91

Great bitterness (chewing the bark).

Taste insipid, flat, feverish, θ Bronchial catarrh.

▌▌ Tongue dry, parched, cracked.

Tongue moist and covered with white fur; I tip and edges livid, θ Scarlatina.

Tongue thickly covered with a whitish coat, brown in the centre.

Inner Mouth p. 91

Fetid discharge from the throat.

Throat p. 91

Thick, oedematous and dry choky feeling in the throat.

▌ Throat dry, rough and scrapy ; worse in the morning.

▌ Irritability of the throat and hawking up of mucus.

▌ Hawks up greenish puruloid matter.

▌ Throat tender and sore on swallowing, or on admission of air.

▌▌ Throat livid, swollen; tonsils prominent and studded with deep ulcers, oozing a fetid, scanty discharge ; external neck swollen, sensitive. θ Scarlatina.

Hawking of mucus, constant effort to raise hard lumps of whitish matter.

Thyroid gland enlarged and tender.

▌ Diphtheria, with extreme prostration.

▌▌ Refused to swallow anything for 12 hours, θ Scarlatina.

▌▌ Throat much swollen, dark red, almost purple in color. θ Scarlatina.

Appetite. Thirst p. 92

No appetite, everything tastes insipid ; sight of food makes her worse ; disgust for food.

Hunger and distressing sense of general emptiness during the chill.

Thirst for cold drinks, for brandy.

Eating and Drinking p. 92

After wine, sleepy.

Water tastes brackish and flat ; no desire for drinks except when eating.

Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting p. 92

Frequent belching, with sick headache.

Nausea: with the giddiness; — similar to that in pregnancy; — with vomiting diarrhoea and spasmodic pains in abdomen.

Vomits food speedily during the chill ; — suddenly and violently when sitting up ; — with stupor.

Stomach p. 92

Stomach inactive, as though its contractive power was impaired.

Constant, violent increasing pain in the stomach.

Peculiar feeling of emptiness in the stomach.

Hypochondria p. 92

Debilitating oppression like a stricture below the hypochondria, with the nausea.

Tenderness over the hepatic region.

Abdomen p. 92

Weak, burning, uneasy feeling in the bowels, as of approaching diarrhoea.

Tympanitis.

Burning in stomach and bowels.

Colicky, griping pains in the bowels.

Pains in hypogastrium and hips.

Stool and Rectum p. 92

Stools frequent, watery, forcibly expelled ; burning in stomach and bowels with griping (from smoking).

Frequent painful stool, little fecal matter, much bloody mucus, with very little fever (from the odor of the blossoms).

▌▌ Bowels for days too freely moved ; thin, watery, offensive, passing involuntarily with the urine, θ Scarlatina.

▌▌ Tapeworm.

Urinary Organs p. 92

Urine suppressed or scanty ; passed unconsciously ; acid.

Male Sexual Organs p. 93

Sore on the prepuce looking like an incipient chancre. See 46.

Parturition p. 93

Malignant puerperal fever.

Voice and Larynx. Trachea and Bronchia p. 93

Aphonia preceding cough. See 27.

Voice hoarse, failing ; 8 almost lost on awaking in the morning.

▌ Croupy choking.

Oppression of the bronchia, with dull headache.

Respiration p. 93

▌▌ Breathing hurried, irregular, heavy. θ Scarlatina.

Equable oppression as if the chest was strapped ; feels as though the air cells were stuck together.

Sensation of. fullness and smothering before expectorating.

││ Wheezing, fluent coryza and sneezing ; asthmatic oppression in the bronchi ; dyspnoea. θ Bronchial catarrh.

Cough p. 93

Cough deep, exhausting, with asthmatic expansion of the lungs; — (deep and painful; — IB dry, hacking; —

▌ in violent fits before retiring and en rising until sputum is raised ; — dry, constant, with oppression, burning and pains in the chest.

Cough preceded by aphonia for a day or two.

▌ Cough with headache and congestion of the face. θ Bronchial catarrh.

Cough with breathing somewhat oppressed ; muco-purulent sputum ; free in the morning, sticky and scanty during the day.

▌ Sputa: blood-mixed; twice raised a mouthful of blood; bitter, yellow, more mornings.

Inner Chest and Lungs p. 93

Stitching and aching in the chest, under the clavicle, sometimes extending to the sternum.

▌ Pressure on the chest and sense of fullness.

││ Lungs feel excessively sore and tender.

││ Burning in the right lung and under the left shoulder.

▌ Pain and contracted feeling especially through the centre of the left lung, sternal edge.

Tired feeling in the lungs, almost too much exertion to breathe.

Hearing and Ears p. 93

▌ Dull pain and contracted feeling in the region of the base of the heart and through the centre of the left lung.

Pulse : so rapid and small as scarcely to be counted, surface cold and dry; — I weak, frequent, irregular. θ Scarlatina.

Pulse accelerated.

▌ Rapid small pulse, θ Typhoid scarlatina.

Outer Chest p. 93

Pressure of the clothes on the chest is uncomfortable, θ Bronchial catarrh.

Neck and Back p. 93

Soreness in the glands, with pain under the left shoulder-blade.

Thickened swollen feeling of the muscles of the neck.

Constant aching between the shoulders.

▌▌ Neck tender and very much swollen. θ Scarlatina.

Constant sharp pain through the small of the back and hips.

Upper Limbs p. 94

Pain deep in the right scapula, hindering motion of the arm.

Numbness of the left arm ; fingers feel as if asleep ; tingling of arm and fingers on awaking.

Large water blisters on the end of the thumb, with smaller ones at the side of the finger nails.

Lower Limbs p. 94

Feeling of uneasiness and aching restlessness in the limbs.

Left leg feels numb, with tingling and pricking pain in foot and toes.

Limbs feel as if they were asleep.

Severe pain in the left foot ; a tension while walking.

Rest. Position. Motion p. 94

Lying on right side : can sleep better in bronchial affections.

Lying down : aggravates toothache.

Sitting up : vomits violently.

Cannot sit up : owing to dizziness.

Rising : staggers ; cough.

Motion : staggers ; prevented by pain in scapula.

While walking : tension in foot.

Must walk about : with toothache.

Standing: debility.

Nerves p. 94

Jerking cramps of the limbs during sleep. θ Bronchial catarrh.

Electric thrill from brain to extremities.

▌ Great debility, I tottering gait, I cannot stand long.

Heaviness of the limbs.

Limbs feel as if they were asleep.

General malaise, increasing weakness.

▌ In low, adynamic forms of disease, characterized by sudden and extreme prostration, torpor, vomiting, pulse small and rapid, purplish appearance of skin.

Kills canary birds, if the cage is hung over night in the tree while in flower.

Sleep p. 94

Sleep heavy or disturbed and unrefreshing.

Sleepy : morning and forenoon ; — after a glass of wine, with fullness of the head.

Drowsiness, followed by insensibility.

▌ During sleep : talks, moans, has sweat, is restless.

Sleeps best on the right side. -^Bronchial affections.

Worse on awaking.

▌ Restless and incoherent, most at night; kept with difficulty in bed. θ Scarlatina.

Time p. 94

Night : itching of skin.

Morning : eyes agglutinated ; throat worse ; voice lost on awaking ; free expectoration ; yellow, bitter expectoration worse ; sleepy ; dry hot skin.

Forenoon : ichorous nasal discharge ; sleepy ; skin dry and hot.

Day : sticky and scanty expectoration.

Temperature and Weather p. 95

Air : throat more tender.

Open air : lachrymation.

Fever p. 95

Chill preceded by a miliary eruption, worse on forehead and face.

During chill : hunger, empty feeling ; intolerable pain in back of neck, upper part of back and hip-joint.

After chill : flushes of heat, severe pain in the head and soreness of the lungs.

During heat : delirium, urgent thirst, longing for brandy.

Skin dry and hot, especially in the morning, until midday.

Cold sweat and nausea.

▌ Cold sweat. θ Cholera.

Attacks p. 95

Attacks characterized by fullness of head, with heat ; pains burning, darting in temples and occiput ; vertigo and nausea.

Every forenoon : ichorous nasal discharge.

Rash returns annually.

Locality and Direction p. 95

Right : heaviness of side of head ; tenderness over liver ; burning in lung ; pain in scapula ; pain in hip-joint.

Left : electric current through head ; tingling in arm and hand ; swelling under eye ; sore pain side of nose ; tearing in teeth and face ; burning under shoulder ; pain and contraction in lung ; pain under scapula ; arm and fingers feel numb and as if asleep ; leg feels numb, foot and toes tingle and prick ; pain in foot ; tension in foot while walking ; itching around ear.

Above downwards : electric current from head to extremities ; stitching and aching in chest.

Sensations p. 95

Feeling of fullness everywhere.

Soreness, irritability, pricking and tingling.

Sensation of passage of electric current from head into the limbs.

Touch. Passive Motion. Injuries p. 95

Touch : reddens ear ; lips become sore and puffy.

Pressure : relieves heaviness in head, toothache ; pressure of clothes on chest uncomfortable ; — causes eruptions to disappear.

Scratching : reddens ear.

Skin p. 95

Skin cold, dry, livid.

Itching around the left ear, face, back and neck at night ; felt as if she would go crazy.

▌ Skin dry but not hot. θ Scarlatina.

Rash returns annually when the Ailanthus blossoms (after poisoning).

▌▌ Eruption of miliary rash in patches of a dark, almost livid color.

Rash looking like measles but without catarrh (looks like syphilis). See 22.

▌ Irregular patchy, livid eruption, disappearing on pressure and returning very slowly ; interspersed with small vesicles ; worse on forehead, neck and chest, θ Scarlatina.

▌▌ Eruption appeared scantily for two days, with sore throat and mild fever. θ Scarlatina.

Large bullee filled with a claret-colored serum.

▌ Petechiae. θ Scarlatina.

▌▌ Malignant scarlet fever.

Purple rash, with stupor. θ Scarlet fever.

▌ A livid miliary eruption. θ Scarlatina.

▌▌ Eruption plentiful, of a bluish tint. θ Typhoid scarlatina.

• Eruption is slow to make its appearance, remains livid, and even the forehead and face take on a rather purplish color. θ Typhoid scarlatina.

▌▌ Body and limbs covered with an irregular patchy eruption of a very livid color, disappearing on pressure and returning very slowly, θ Scarlatina.

Stages of Life, Constitution p. 96

The odor affects the asthmatic ; also women and children more than men, and old people least of all.

Nervous, sensitive persons.

Bilious temperaments ; stout and robust.

▌*^ Relationship. The nearest relation is Ptelea, proved by G. Bute, and the Zanthoxylese, if any ever should be proved.

Similar are : Amrri. carb.; Arnic. (sore lungs) ; I I Arum, triph.; Aloes; Baptis.; Bryon.; G-elsem.; Hi/os.; \ Laches.; Niir. acid; Nux vom.; \ Phytol. ; Prussic acid; WRlius tox.; Stramon.

Antidoted by : Bourbon whisky (poisoning) ; Rhus tox. (headache and erysipelatous face, nausea, heavy sleepy feeling) ; Nux vom. (general effects).