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Golden Ragwort. ' Compositse.

Proved by Small, U. S.JMed. and Surg. Jour., 1866, p. 151 ; .Jones, Hale's New Eem., 1876, p. 971.

Clinical Authorities. — Dysmenorrhoea, Blake, Horn. Kev., vol. 16, p. 403; Hale, A. H. O., vol. 1, p. 46 ; Htemoptysis, Irish, A. H. O-, vol. 1, p. 46.

^Mind. I I Low spirits alternating with cheerful mood; I sleepless; sensation of a ball rising from stomach to throat. ^Amenorrhoea. ^Hysteria. I I Inability to fix mind on one subject for any length of

A feeling like homesickness. ^ Sensorium. l ' Dizzy feeling while walking in open air like a wave from occiput to sinciput ; he feels as if he would pitch forward ; nausea. ^ Inner Head, l ' Dull stupefying headache with fulness of

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* Sight and Eyes, l ' Sharp pains from within outward, 1. eye ; ladnymation in open air. 1 1 Catarrhal ophthalmia from suppressed secretions. ^ Smell and Nose. iCoryza, at first dull headache, dryness of nose and sneezing, burning and fulness in nostrils, later secretion of copious mucus. iCoryza with nosebleed. ® Upper Face, l Face pale, depressed appearance ; weary,

Catarrh of bowels, rumbling colic and watery stools. I I Abdomen much enlarged and very tense ; lower limbs cedematous; urine scanty, high-colored, not more than eight ounces a day ; pain in lumbar region and in ova- ries; constipation; cervix uteri congested ; albuminous leucorrhoea ; sense of weight in uterine region. ^Ascites. ^^ Stool and Rectum, i i Stool, thin, watery, bloody; with tenesmus and colic; catarrhal dysentery; evening. I I Stool copious, with great debility and prostration; flatu- lence; morning.

Stool in hard lumps mixed with yellow mucus. ^^ Urinary Organs. Slight pains in region of kidneys. ■ Congestion and inflammation of kidneys. I I Attacks of renal inflammation, attacking particularly r. kidney, causing intense pain, fever and great prostra- tion; on one occasion suflfering intense and bladder seemed implicated ; great pain on passing urine, causing him to cry out ; constipation ; urine reddish, very hot, and acrid ; dull headache; dryness of mouth and throat; chilliness, fever and perspiration.

I 1 Severe renal inflammation with fever, chilliness and pain in lumbar region, particularly in 1. kidney ;^ quan- tity of urine below normal; urine red, depositing a brickdust sediment; considerable arterial excitement;

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skin hot and dry ; motion caused him to cry out with pain ; constipation.

■ Intense pain over r. kidney, severe pain during urination, urine red, hot, acrid ; bowels constipated.

I Renal dropsy.

I I Ascites and oedema of lower extremities in a young woman.

I Inflammation of kidneys and ureters after passage of gravel.

Tenesmus of bladder ; smarting in urethra, dropsy.

Increased urinary secretion ; followed by acute inflam- mation.

iHsematuria; renal pain with nausea.

I I Tenesmus of bladder, with heat and urging.

Urging to urinate following chilliness.

Uncomfortable heat in neck of bladder.

I I Irritation of bladder in children, preceded by heat in head and headache.

I I Renal colic with or without nausea.

I Chronic inflammation of neck of bladder with bloody urine and tenesmus of bladder.

I I Chronic inflammation of kidneys.

iDysuria: of women and children evidently of catarrhal origin ; mucous sediment in urine ; with uterine dis- placement.

Smarting in fossa navicularis before urination. ^^ Male Sexual Organs. Lascivious dreams, emissions.

Prostate gland enlarged, feels hard and swollen to touch.

Dull heavy pain in spermatic cord, moving along cord to testicle.

Gonorrhoea, gleet.

Chronic prostatitis. ^^ Female Sexual Organs, i i Menses, every three weeks, very profuse, lasting eight or nine days, accompanied by severe cutting pains in region of sacrum, hypogas- trium and groins ; she was pale, weak and nervous and had a slight cough, generally at night ; after an abor- tion.

Menses premature and profuse or retarded and scanty.

iDysmenorrhoea with urinary symptoms; cutting in sa- cral and hypogastric regions ; flow scanty or profuse or irregular ; pale, weak, auEemic ; strumous ; hacking cough at night.

lAmenorrhoea: from a cold; nervous irritability, lassitude, dropsy ; wandering pains in back and shoulders ; sen- sation of a ball rising from stomach into throat ; costive; in young girls with dropsical conditions.

■Symptoms as if menses would appear, but they fail ; nerv- ous, excitable, sleepless ; loss of appetite.

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I I Suppression of menses from a cold; after venesection.

■ Menstrual irregularities in consumptive patients. iLeucorrhoea: preceded by headache, sleeplessness and

■ Mucous rattling with suppressed cough.

I I Great debility ; loss of appetite ; flashes of heat during day ; redness of cheeks in afternoon ; occasional night sweats ; menses very irregular for a year, have now- been absent two months ; six weeks ago had caught cold, cough, at first dry then loose with copious expec- toration of yellowish, thick, sweet mucus, often streaked with blood, with sensation of rawness and soreness in chest; paroxysms of coughing were quite severe and exhausting.

1 I Palliated cough and bloody sputa in a woman far gone with consumption and brought back menses which were absent four months.

Cough with bloody expectoration. ^* Inner Chest and Lungs. iCatarrh of lungs; loose cough and copious mucous expectoration.

■ Haemoptysis; great emaciation; dry, hacking cough;

hectic flush ; sleeplessness.

■ Haemoptysis after venesection or suppressed menstrua-

tion. I I Chronic hemorrhage from lungs with dry, hacking cough, hectic fever, emaciation, sleeplessness.

■ Incipient phthisis, attended with fatiguing cough, result

of obstructed menstruation ; increased bronchial secre- tion ; loose mucous cough, rattling in chest, labored res- piration.

■ Phthisis, with obstructed menstruation ; bloody or copious

■ Cutting pains in region of sacrum, hypogastrium and

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'^* Limbs in General. ' i Sharp stitches here and there; rheu- matic pains in joints.

iCEdema. ^^ Nerves, l Nervousness, sleeplessness and hysterical mood.

I Much lassitude and great nervousness.

I I Hysteria.

I I Wants to lie down ; pale.

Slight exertion produces syncope. ^^ Sleep. Great sleeplessness, with vivid, unpleasant dreams.

■ Sleeplessness : of women suffering from uterine irritation, prolapsus and its attendant nervousness (it is the Coffea of women) ; during climacteric period.

lAt night sleepless, nervous, hysterical ; by day drows}^, languid.

I 1 Dreams mostly of an intellectual character ; memory very active. ^*Time. Morning: flatulence; severe pain in small of back; sweat toward.

Forenoon : chilly.

During day : flashes of heat ; drowsy, languid ; frequent desire to urinate.

Afternoon : redness of cheeks.

Evening : forehead sweaty ; stools.

Night: cough; occasional sweats; sleepless; frequent de- sire to urinate. ^ Temperature and Weather, i i Sensitive to open air ; ten- dency to catarrhs.

Open air: walking in, dizziness; lachrymation. ^" Fever. Chilly forenoon as after taking cold ; followed by heat and sweat in evening with moderate thirst.

Chilliness followed by urging to urinate.

Sweat toward morning; catarrh.

Hectic fever. *^ Attacks, Periodicity. Alternate : low spirits and cheerful mood ; urine profuse and watery or dark colored and scanty.

Every three weeks : menses. *^ Locality and Direction. Left: lancinating in temple and eye; pain in lumbar region.

Right : inflammation of kidney; intense pain over kidney.

From within outward: pain in forehead; pain in eye. *^ Sensations. As of a ball rising from stomach to throat; as of a wave from occiput to sinciput ; as if he would pitch forward ; respiration as if greatly fatigued.

Pains: centre about navel; in lumbar region and ovaries; in region of kidneys; in back and loins; in joints.

Intense pain : in r. kidney; over r. kidney.

Severe pain : in small of back.

Sharp pains : in 1. eye.

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Sharp, lancinating pains : in 1. temple, upper part of 1. eye

and inside of lower jaw ; in lumbar region. Sharp cutting: in diaphragm; in region of sacrum, hypo-

1 I Face bloated, abdomen enlarged, feet oedematous ; urine

alternately profuse and watery or dark-colored and

scanty ; frequent desire to urinate day and night.

in a young woman. lAnsemia. ''''Stages of Life, Constitution. 1 1 Women and little girls of

nervous temperament. Lady, mother of one child, had an abortion three years

ago, another (at second month) four months ago ; dys-

inflammation of neck of bladder. Woman, set. 30 ; dropsy.

Woman, set. 40, passing through climacteric period ; cough. Merchant, set. 45, nervous temperament, inclined to h&

Caulophyl., iSepia (irregular menses); Adsearacem., Pulsate

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