Filix Mas

Male Fern. Filices.

" Galen, Theophrastns, and Avicennia speak of it as a vermifuge medicine^ Dioscorides adds to this its capability to induce sterility and abortion."

Fragmentary provings by Berridge, Med. Inv., N. S., vol. 3, p. 282.

The tincture must be prepared from the fresh root; "old preparations and tinctures won't do. The best time for curing tapeworm is, therefore, the summer season, when the root of Filix mas may be obtained in a fresh state. It is grated and taken in the course of the forenoon, to the amount of an ounce. Usually in the afternoon, the tapeworm, rolled up in a lump, takes its departure." (A. H.. Z., 80, p. 141.) * Clinical Authorities. — Tape-icorm, (100 ra-es reported), B. J. H., vol. 22, p. 322; (24 cases), Ogle, B. J. H., vol. 23, p. 273; (2 cases), Lobel, Ruck. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 804; Muller, Etick. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 388 ; Worms, Weber, Ruck.. Kl. Erf., vol. 1, p. 804.

Mind

Irritable and cross. θ Worms.

Great anxiety ; loss of consciousness.

Smell and Nose

Itching of nose. θ Worms.

Upper Face

▌ Pale face; blue rings around eyes. θ Worms..

Taste and Tongue

Furred tongue. θ Worms.

Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions

loss of appetite. θ Worms.

Eating and Drinking

Coffee > the numbness in r. arm.

Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting

Painless hiccough, starts 10 minutes after meal, lasting 15 to 30- minutes.

Nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea.

Hypochondria

Tightness in 1. hypochondrium, extending forward to middle line, causing difficulty of breathing,, in a warm room, in the evening after sunset; > walking in open air; kept her awake in bed till 1 a.m., on awaking next morning, the same; > after a Turkish, bath.

Abdomen

Bloating of abdomen.

Gnawing and boring in bowels, < eating sweet things.

Abdominal pains.

Stool and Rectum

Ineffectual urging to stool.

Pappy stools.

▌ Gnawing and boring in bowels, < eating sweet things; constipation ; loss of appetite ; furred tongue ; pale face ;; blue rings around eyes ; itching of nose ; irritable and cross. θ Worms.

▌ Symptoms indicative of worms, particularly when constipation is present.

▌ A woman who had repeatedly passed segments of tapeworm was seized with severe colic which quickly disappeared under Filix mas, and was followed eight days later by discharge of tape-worm, 50 inches in length.

Female Sexual Organs p. 327

Menstrual function stimulated.

Pregnancy. Parturition. Lactation p. 327

Causes abortion.

││ Sterility.

Upper Limbs p. 327

Numbness of back of r. wrist, extending up radial side of arm to just above elbow ; felt as if the use of the limb would go ; then the same feeling in 1. wrist, but transient and slighter; afterwards the same in a small spot on r. vertex, rather anteriorly ; afterward in anterior r. shoulder ; the numbness seemed to be in the bone in every case.

Sleep p. 327

Restless and sleepless at night.

Time p. 327

Evening after sunset: tightness of 1. hypochondrium.

Temperature and Weather p. 327

Warm room : tightness of 1. hypochondrium.

Open air: > tightness of hypochondrium.

Turkish bath : > tightness of 1. hypochondrium.

▌"* Fever ilWorm fever.

Attacks, Periodicity p. 327

15 or 30 minutes: hiccough.

Locality and Direction p. 327

Right : numbness in arm ; numbness of wrist, extending up arm ; numbness in small spot on vertex ; numbness in shoulder.

Left hypochondrium: tightness in ; wrist numb.

Sensations p. 327

As if the use of the limb would go.

Abdominal pains.

Gnawing: in bowels.

Boring : in bowels.

Tightness : of 1. hypochondrium.

Bloating : of abdomen.

Numbness : of r. arm ; of back ; of r. wrist, extending up arm ; 1. wrist ; r. vertex ; r. shoulder.

Itching : of nose.

Stages of Life, Constitution p. 327

A large majority of the patients cured were young girls or women.