Bellis Perennis

{English Daisy.) Description The only Bellia (Daisy) iDdigenous to tlirs couiifry — B Integrifolia ; grows proflisely all over tho United States; has probably Uie same properties. Tlie B. perenitis is a native of England. Officinal PitffiPAKATiOBS

Tincture of the plant; infosion. Analogues.— .ilmiVo, ffamamelia, (f) Mhua. (?) Leueanthem.wm. A large boil on the back of my neck, (for the first time in my life,) right side, commencing with a dull aching pain; some difficulty and bruised pain in keeping the head erect; slight nausea, want of appetite, and a little giddi- ness in the head.

Pain in the little finger of the left hand, as of a gathering; at the same time pain in inner side of left forearm, as of a boil developing; afterwards similar pain in right arm. A boil beginning as a slight pimple, with burning pain in skin, increasing until in six days' time it was very large, of a fiery purple color, and very sore ; burning and aching pain in it, accompanied with headache, extending from

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BEHZOATE OF AMMONIA. 97

occiput to siiicipnt; of a cold, adiing character. The brain felt as if contracted, with vertigo. This was fol- lowed by other boils. {From proviiigs hy Dr. Thomas, m '^Additions to Mat. Med." Zondon, 1868.) ' Eoils, all over the bodj. {Dr. Thomas.) (, with extra^asated blood. {lb.) s of ankle aud wrist. {H-) " Whitlows. {lb.) (Dr. Thomas used it in. the same manner as Arnica.)

EENZOATB OF AMMONIA.

(AmnKmia Bensoat.) Phakmacoloqy.- — This salt may be matle as follows: Take of solution of ammoaia three fluid ooucea (imperial measure), beaxoic iicid two utmcefi (sToirdupois), distilled water four ounces; mix the solutioc of amnionia' and the wsfer, and dissolve In them the benzoic acid ; evaporate at a geniio beat, keeping Mmmonia in a sliglit excess, and set aside that crystals may

It is in minute, wliite, glistening, extremely thin, four-aided laminre,, having a slight odor of officinal benzoic acid, and a bitter, saline, some- what balsamic taste, leaving a slight but persistent sense of acrimony on' the tongue.

Soluble in water and alcohol, when heated sublimes wiUioot residne; but is probably changed into acid benzoate.

Officinal pRBPARATiONe. — Triturations; tinctures in dtstilled water; dilutions to tlie 8<1 x with water.

Tlie Benzoate of Potassa is now used more extensively, and may be the best preparation. AWALOeUES. — Benzie acid, Colchieam, Ferr. inur. I/ycopoeliwm. ( t)

Bheumatic pains about the head aud neck. " Heaviness and stupidity of the head, (in dropsy.)

Pace. Bloated face, with swollen eyelids.

Upmary Organs. * Very scanty, dark-red, bloody -looking urine, with strong'

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OS BERBEBIKA,

Profuse and frequent tirination.

Clear, limpid, and abundant urine.

The sediment disappears from the urine, (secondary.)

" Nocturnal incontinence of urine.

* Scanty, blood-red urine in rheumatic affections.

° Urinary troubles of infants.

° Dropsy after sca/rld fever, or Bright's diseases.

Extremitiea- " Rheumatic affections of the arms and legs and small joints, " Dropsical swelling of the legs. ° Jaundice, from suppression of the biliary secretion (not

trom obstruction of the ducts). {Harley.') 0(nit^ when the small joints are red and swollen, or when fluid

is deposited in the joint of the great toe; and also in

cases when the lithate of soda existed in the joints of the

fingers. (^Seymour.) " Albuminuria/ the albumen in real dropsy diminished under

its use. {lb.)

BERBEEINA.

^ Muscular debility, atony and wasting.

"^ Myalgia, and all the pains iiicident thereto.

" Enlargement, of the liver, (and spleen?)

' Intermittent fevers; remittent fevers.

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M-SULPHIDE OF CAKBON.

° Loss of appetite, with slow and imperfect digestion.

[Useful in all esses ivliere Hydrastis is recommended eccg»{ in diseatet of mueoua membranePi

BI-SULPHIDE OF CARBON.

is read. They forgot what they had to do; sought for things which

were lying before them; coiild not find the right words

Ifrequent attack^ of vertigo when sitting. Dullness and vertigo in the forehead. ° Intoxication, to entire loss of consciousness, from drinking

stooping. Pressing frontal headache, with occasional flying, tearing pains

in the temples. Drawing, tearing pain from the forehead toward the temples;

better in the open air than in the room, wiien at rest. Frontal headache, more of a tearing nature, which goes toward

the temporal bones. Frequent, transitory, jerking stitches in tke forehead ; heat in

the head and face. Violent, pulsating pains in the temples (megrim), on awaken-

ing in the morning. Head very painful when brushing the hair, particularly on the

verteL.

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" Violent pain in the Lead; headache increasing tinti] it causes

confusion. is^ mind; feverish attacks; cold extremities, aJid

spasmodie pulse. Pain in the head is ecHinected with the discharge of blood with

the stool.

Eyes, Weakness of tlie sight; objects seem as if fading away, on

acconnt of a mistiness, which spreads out before them. Pupils enlarged.

Sensation of pressure in the sockets of the eyes. Jerking stitches in the muscles of the right eye; intermitting

Everything smells like tiie drug.

Frequent sneezing.

End of the nose barns^ an<I is quite red ; eruption on the nose.

Pace. Face bloated np and red; convulsive jerking of the corners

of the mouth. In the -momings, after shavmg, a red empiion on the cheeks

and nose similar to the eruptions on the noses of hard

drinkera, looking like tetter, and lasting till night. Eruption makes its appearance after drinking a glass of beer.

ful tooth.

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Drawing, tearing toothache, fyom evening uotil miduiglit,

which quickly rises to a stitching burning. Burning, pungent pain on the tongue, ae from peppermint,

with peculiar onion or garlic taste. Tkroat Immediately after lying down, tickling in the posterior portion

of the palate, causing a violent dry cough. " Rough, scraping pain in the left side of the throat when

swallowing. " Burning and scraping in the whole of the (esophagus, with

difficult swallowing. Severe stitching, contracting pain in the upper part of the

tesophagus, as if a piece of bone had lodged there. ° Chronic pharyngitis. Scraping, scratching feeling, with fine stitches in the throat.

Appetite—Thirst. Increased appetite, with a pleasant warmth spreading through

the stomach. Groat thirst; beer relished unusually.

After breakfast, headache, pressure in the stomach, diarrhcea. After dinner, diarrhcea; tickling in urethra; pain in thigh;

pain in feet, ifter eating, and in the cold, all the symptoms disappear, or

ai-e ameliorated. Aggravation of tlie symptoms from wine.

Rising of flatulence, tasting and smelling of the medicine;

flatus in the evening; better from helchingj inclination

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102 BI-8CLPH1DE OF CAKBON.

to vomit; pain in scrobieiiluni; pressure of stomac-lk; impeded respiration.

Vomiting of greenish, bilious masses, accompanied witli nausea, cold sweat, and dejection of spirits.

Increased aiuouat of saliva in the mouth and stomach, pro- ducing nausea; aecnmulation of water in the mouth; eructations; fnllness in the stomach and abdomen; rum- bling and cutting in the abdomen, from wind; also cntting, tearing belly-ache; a bubbling in bowels, relieved by copious diarrhteic stools; also producing dullness of the head; attacts of vertigo; pressing frontal headache; surly mood; sleepinees during the day, and sleeplessness at night; confused dreams.

Inclination to vomit on entering a room, or when going out from the room to the open air.

" A single attack; vomiting a small quantity of bitter water.

~ "' s of the stomach, with belching, yawning, and inclina- tion to vomit.

;. tearing pain in the chest, stomach and abdomen.

"Pressure in the region of tlie stomach, and under tlie ster nnm, with hepatic depression.

Pressing, stitching pains, of short dnration, in the pit of the stomach, beginning at one point and radiating to the cardiac region, like neuralgic colic, followed by loud belching, which gives relief.

Very severe stabbing pains in the stomach.

Burning in the stomach and region of the liver, aggravated by pressure.

Pressure on stomach and abdomen increases nausea. Hypoehondrium.

Diseased condition of the liver, with swelling of the feet.

Unpleasant, undefined, painful feeling in the region of the left lobe of the liver, coming on in attacks; this pain changes to a pressing (distending), stitching feeling.

Under short ribs, stitches.

Pressing, cram py pain in the abdomen; passing much flatus, both up and down.

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Pains in the bowels, with twisting, rolling, and rumbling, &a if diarrhtea would set iu.

"" Coliciky pains, cutting, with diarrhoea.

Griping pains in the bowels, followed by stool; after the stool the pains cease.

On awaiting at 4 a. m., cutting in the abdomen, with a moving swelling as if from flatus or incarcerated wind; on taking a deep inspiration, and from pressure, this pain changed into a stitch pain, and settled in the region of the cceeum for about one honr; small passages of wind has no intlu- ence on this condition; turning in bed or bending in- creased tlie pain or brought it on anew after it had nearly passed off.

°Puffiness of the abdomen, with bruised, sore feeling of tlie abdominal walls,

" Fullness and distension of tlie abdomen.

''Flatulent complaints; sour smelling flatns.

Single, fine, jerking stitches, extending from the right side of the umbilical region toward the bladder.

In ocecal region, on taking a deep inspiration or from pressure, a cutting in abdomen changed into a stitching pain, set- tling in cceeum, often repeating.

° Strangulated hernia.

Papescent stool, with urging; during the passage, and par- ticularly afterwards, a feeling of weakness and trembling.

Stool always papescent and small; papescent stool with dis- charge of blood.

Papescent stools, preceded by the peculiar stitching, distending pains in the abdomen, and followed by griping;, stitching pains in the cceeum.

During rumbling in the bowels, violent diarrhtea of sonr- amelling stools, with tenesmus.

I at 5^ A. M., with urging to stool; profuse, thin, yel- lowish evacuations, followed by burning at the anus, as from an acid. . chronic diarrhcea, which set in every four or six weeks, and lasted for one or two days; yellowish, frothy, sonr-

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104 BI-6ULPHIDE OF CARBON.

SDielling fluid evacuations, witli tencemus and ■colicky

belly-ache, particularly in the umbilical region, in the

night. DifBcult, small stools, even when the passage is snaall and soft,

as if from want of power in the rectum, " Constipation, with belching after eating, with herpes. No desire for stool for three days, when he had a soft passage,

with discharge of bright i-ed blood. ° Griping; urging before; pains before; tenesmus with the

stool; with diarrhcea. Anus and rectum, stitch-like, cramping pain; likewise in the

bladder and uretlira. Burning and itching at the anus, with flying stitches in the

After drinking a glass of wine, on urinating at midnight,

violent, stitch-like, cramping pain in the bladder and neck

of bladder, extending throngh the urethra; at the same

time a similar pain in the anus and rectum. Burning in the urethra when urinating; slight irritability of

the mncous lining of the urethra; urine smells like suU

phur; increase of sulphates and carbonates i/n the urine.. Strong urging to urinate.

Entire want of sexual desire, and of erections; inability to

have sexual intercourse (constant); increased eexnal desire

abdominal ring. Jerking, stitching pains in the left testicle and left seminal

proving. The previously regular menses appeared three days too soon. ' I^bor-pains too weak.

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Sensation of contraction of the larynx upon swallowing the

drug, producing great irritation to cough, even to stran-

gnlation, and expectoration of mucne. Scratching and scraping leeling in the throat; irritation to

Violent dry cough, from tickling in palate after lying down. Immediately after lying down, violent, asthmatic, dry cough,

hronght on by a continued and irritating tickling in the

upper part of the pharynx, causing mjicli straining of the

chest, and producing pain. Cough from irritation in larynx, even to strangulation, and

expectoration of mucus. Anxious breathing, with pressure on the sternum; aggravated

by the close air of the room and from going up stairs. Expiration hot; breathing difficult; flying stitches and burn- ing in the chest, quickly passing over, but frequently

repeated. Difficult breathing, with nausea.

Throughout the whole chest, agreeable warmth, ascending

from the pit of the stomach. Congestion of the lungs, which appears to aifect the upper

lobes most. Deposit of tubercles in the lungs, some ecchymosis and some

infiltration. (Eabbits.) Hepatisation of the lower or posterior lower surface of the

(Rabbits.) ° In the first stage of tuburculosis of the lungs, before any, or

yet only slight, fever has set in, flying, burning and

stitches in the chest; quickly passing heat of the feee;

shooting upwards like a flash of lightning.

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106 BI-SULPniDE OF CAKBON.

"Palpitation of the heart, with antemic patients in an advanced

stage of the disease; nun's murmur in the vessels of the

neck; fever symptoms not frequent, and mostly at night.

In one case, diminution of the pulse to fifty-two beats in

a minute.

scapula to the, other), weighing him down so that the

awakening.

Upper Extremities. Stitches from the shoulder joint to the elhow, or even to the

wrist, especially violent after midnight, and during damp

or cold weather. "Crackling in the right shoulder joint from strong motions

of the arms, either forward, backward, or upward. " Crackling in the right shoulder joint from every motion,

connected with more or less severe stitches from the

shoolder joint to the elbow, on every change of the

lingers, where he discovered small vesicles. ° Vesicular, scurfy herpes on the dorsum of the hand. Pricking, stitching sensation in the lingers, more or less

through tlie whole day.

Lower Extremities. Jerking, stiteliing pains at different places, particularly on tlie

tnbei- ischii, and at the insertions of the gracilis and sar-

torious muscles at the knee.

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" EJienmatism of the lower extremities; the slightest motion brings on violent pains, partieiilarlj in the hips and knees, with redness and swelling of the feet from a severe cold.

" Dropsical swelling of the feet, arising from diseased condi- tion of the liver.

"Inflammatory sciatica in left tliigh, brought on by taking cold, with entire inability to walk,

" Chronic sciatica in right thigh, movements of the iimbs impeded.

Tearing pains in the right knee and ankle joint.

" Jerking, flying, stitching pains in the legs.

Violent pains in the ankle joints, as if broken, in the morning in bed; after getting up, the walking, at flrst, very difB- ciilt, but continuing to walk makes it easier,

" Audible crackling of the ankle when walking— ankle was sprained two years ago.

Sudden, violent, stabbing, piercing pain from the metatai'sal bones through the toes, while walking.

Tearing pains in the left foot, particularly in the tarsal bones.

Feet, pains; underpart; hollow of the foot; soles of the feet.

Severe painful tenderness and bruised feeling in the soles' of the feet; knee to the great toe stitches.

Painful cramp of the limbs; involuntary contractions and stiffness of the limbs ; staggering gait, on account of gen- eral weakness of the muscles; paralysis; atrophy of the

" Chronic, rheumatic and arthritic affections without fever. Jerkinff, stiiokmff, tearmg,J!/yiiig pams. retvmvmg at regular

again in another limb; sour belching, and passage of

much sour-amelling flatus; cold feet; stool not increased,

but accompanied with tenesmus. " Elieumatism and gout; after the relief of the acute and

inflammatory conditions, to be applied externallv. with oil

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ot almondsj or, when the sufferinga are great, to be taken internally.

' Gouty swellings when not of too long standing.

Great sleepiness the whole day, but at night restless sleep.

Restless sleep, with continual rolling about in bed; particu- larly with the head.

Sleeplessness, disi/wrbed dreams, starting as from fright, fol- lowed daring the day by lassitude, want of energy.

Good and long sleep during the night.

Heat of the whole body, with slight headache, followed by great debihty, succeeded by sleep.

Coldness, with succeeding burning pain.

Coldness of the legs, with general warmth of the upper part of the body.

Cold face; coldness in mouth; cold extremities.

Pulse diminished to 53 beats; pulse, 90-93.

Strong pulse; spasmodic pulse.

" Itch and herpetic diseases.

"Herpes phlycttenodes covering dorsal surface of the hand; vesicles appearing on a red, inflamed and swollen basis; partly close together, but mostly separated irom each other. They contain an opaque, yellowish fluid, which is discharged, and forms thick, yellowish scabs; sometimes the discharge excoriates the surrounding parts and pro- duces violent itching.

"Impetigo; pimples which form scabs, in the popliteal space and on the dorsum of the foot and hand.

" A tetter-like eruption on the left cheek, for more than tw'o years, jjrodueed through scratching with the finger nails; spreads, and is covered with yellowish-brown scabs, dis- figuring the lace; almost unbearable on acount of con- tinued itching.

'Herpes exedens; together witli constipation and alternating of cutting pains in abdomen and flatulency; drawing and tearing in the limbs, and particularly in the head.

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bkomitpe of ammonium. lOy

Itching on both thigha, right side of the back to the region of the kidneys, and on the right forearm, which neeeseitatea scratching. On inspection, small, colorless pimples aro seen, which, on scratching, are more irritated, and through the friction thej redden, get points, and finally form an itch-like eruption.

Nodules on scalp, pustule on eyelid, eruption on nose and face.

" Slight burning of the left hand with boiling water; bright redness without much pain or swelling.

° Wrist joint was scalded with boiling water, several days ago; wrist much swollen, blisters partially opened.

BROMIDE OF AMMONIUM.

* Sensation as if a band were tied around the head, pressing

the hardest Just above the ears. *Pain in right side of head, near the eye, as if a nail were

driven in. " Shar]) pain in left side of head.

In cases where there is suspicion of the existence of conges- tion of the base of the brain, and still more of congestion of the spinal cord, or its meninges, the Bromide of Ammonia is preferable to the Bromide of Fota^sa. {Brown Fi&quard^

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* Headache from congestion of tlie brain.

"Epilepsy, when the predominant symptom is intense conges- tion of the brain. {Brovm, Seqtuird.)

° Oerebro- spinal meningitis; in the congestive stage. {Sale.)

° Pain around both eyes, into the head.

" Right eye full of white, stringy mucus.

Loots as if a membrane were growing over the eye, like a pterygium.

Both eyes very sore and red; lids stuck together in the morn- ing.

Eyeballs unnaturally full, large.

Every evening eyelids droop, and it is painful and difficult to raise them,

"Strumous opthaimia, conjunctivitis, corneitis, leucoma, Nose.

Discharge of stringy mucus from the nose.

° Catarrh of the anterior and posterior nares, of thjiik, stringy mucus.

White, stringy, tasteless mucus in the month.

Aecumulatiom of mucus in the throat.

Fauces, and top of tongue for half its length, feel as if scalded.

Stinging in fauces, inclination to cough, relieved by sneezing.

Tongue very sore, as if burnt; cannot talk or read without pain.

Throat looks mottled, as if diphtheric deposit were commenc- ing. {See Brom. Pot.)

Larynx and Trachea,

Cough caused by a secretion of mucus in the throat.

Tickling in the throat in the morning, with inclination to

Irritation of the throat, with inclination to cough.

" Sudden, deep cough, spasmodic, causing a pain in the stomach.

"Irritation of the organs of respiration and stomach, accom- panied with spasmodic cough, and even a distinct whoop, simulating whooping-cough. {OMe.)

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BROMIDE OF AMMOKIDM.

° Whooping congh, many eases. {Drs. Hurley, Oiiis.)

* Ooiigli deep, epasmodic, and very severe, and at times an interval of only a few moments, almost continnons for hours, especially when lying down at night, with a sensa- tion of tickling irritation, with heat and burning. {Hale.)

" Congh distressing, hoarse, dry, spasmodic, f^tlimatic and

exhausting, without expectoration. {Talbot. Cushing?j

Cheat.

Tightness across the chest, with pain in the chest; inclination to take a long, deep breath.

Swallowing anything cold causes a feeling of distress thp whole length of the (esophagus.

Sensation on top of right shoulder as if a heavy load were upon it.

Something seems to issue from the stomach, as if it would stop my breath, causing a faint and disagreeable sensa- tion, and belching of wind, which relieves me.

Sensation as of liot air passing up the throat on the right side, though the stomach feels cold.

Feeling as tliougb eometliing were pressed hard against tlie right kidney; relieved by pressure, but leaving a pnlling sensation.

Uteriis.

° In all forms of utei-ine hemorrhage, whether from lesions of the uterus itself, from ovarian irritation, excitation, in- flammation, or any of the various diseased or deranged actions peculiar to tlie ovaries or adjoining parts and viscera. {Griffik.')

" A'menorrhcea, dysmenorrhcea. I have used it with great alleviation of suffering. {Griffith.')

° Premature and profuse menses.

Superior Extremities.

Great lameness, with sharp pains in back of left leg, midway from the hip to the knee.

Pains lea\'e the right leg, and are felt in the left in same place.

Pains leave above the knee, and are felt below the knee, then in the ankle, then in the foot.

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BROMIDE OF IRON.

(Ferri Bromidura.)

This is obtaiftcd by heating gectly in tliirty parts water, two parts bro- mine, and one of iron filings. Wiieu the liquid lias become greenish, it is fillfired and evaporated to dryness in aa iron vessel ; and the dry maas is again dissolved and evaporated to dryness.

It is a black-red deliquescent salt, very soluble and styptic.

eoluble in water.

BROMIDE OF LITHIink.

(Lithivm Bromid/wm.) FoABUACOLOas. — This salt may he made hy adding to a solution of iron

and bromine in water an excess of tlie Carbonate of Lithia, filtering to

Belladonna, Conium, Opium.

° Epile-psy. When the Bromide of Potassium loses its effect, or disagrees, the Lithium salt arrests the paroxysms.

" Epileptic fit every morning on rising; (cured by ten grains twice a day.)

" Kelieved a case in which any prolonged mental exertion Unshed the face, caused intense pain between the shonl- ders, and insomnia.

° It removes obstinate sleeplessness more promptly and surely than the other bromides.

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It doea not cause the acne, eruptions, and sldn-ulcers of the other bromides.

BROMIDE OF POTASSIUM.

Analoques: — Sromides vf Ammonivm, Sodium, LitMvm; QeUeminum, Oo/tmm, Chloral, ete.

Remarkable elownees of speech, and difficuJty of collecting the

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Gloomy ideas relative to his present and future condition,

Seren.) Imagined tiie weekly bills of tlie landlord were the evidences

of a conspiracy got up against her father. (li.) While standing on the guards of the boat she suddenly gave

a loud shriek, and declared she had seen her brother fall

overboard, {li.) Profound depression of spirits, with melancholy delusions. (75.) She is very absent-minded, low-spirited and childish. {Ham,-

mond.) Mental depression, with, feeling of approaching death and

great weakness, {Thomas.) Feebleness of intelligence. {Pletser.)

Decided lack of will and mental activity. {Srown Sequard.) ° llemoves the delusions during and after delirium tremens.

° Acute mania, with fullness of the blood-vessels of the brain.

"Frightful imaginings at night (in pregnant women during the latter months); they are under the impression that they have committed, or about to commit, some great crime and cruelty, such as murdering their children or husbands. {Ringer:)

' I^ight terrors of children, (not from indigestion,) with screaming, unconsciousness of what is occurring around them ; cannot recognize, nor be comforted by their friends; sometimes followed by squvntin-g. {liiti^er.)

° Somnambulism in children. (/5.)

" Spasms, from emotional or moral disturbances. {Srowne.)

" Puerperal mania. (Sale.)

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° Delirhim tremens, — not so good in the acute attacks of

mania as in the " nervousness " whicli precedes it, {Beghie.') " G-reai despondency — in men and women,- — tliej "feel as if

tliey should go oiit of their minds." {Ringer.) •^Deep depression, with painful delusions, with persistent

sleeplessness, and dread of impending destruction of all

near to her. {Beghie, Wmselhtaft.') Insanity, disappeaiing on suspending the nae of the drug,

{HaTnmond^ Delusions tliat lewd women had got into his mother's house. He imagined he was pursued hy the police, (/J.) He imagined his lite was threatened by members of his

family. (/5.) He believed he had thousands of dollars sewed up in his cloth-

ing. (/J.) He appcjired like a drunken man, except that h s 1 ice was very

pal>'-, pulse sixty, skin cooi, and pupih contiActed. (/S.) Manner exciting and rambling, his hands constantly busy,

either fumbling in hie pockets, tj ing his shoes picking

threads from hie clothing, oi in seatching ti i the gold

which he imagined was concealed in the hning of his

coat. (/6.) His character had undergone a ladical change, frcm having

been frank and bi'ave, he had become excessively timid

and suspicious of every triiiing circumstance (-^5.) He several times attempted to throw himself from the window,

and battered down a door witii an axe, in order to'escape

from some imaginary danger. (/S.) Her memory was absolutely destroyed; she could not recollect

the simplest things, and even forgot her own name and

that of her husband, though reminded of both an instant

before. {Th.) Frequently she would burst into tears for no cause whatever,

and often from purely imaginary causes, (/5.) Incoherent, full of delusions, of no fixed character, and Remarkably depressed in spirits. (/S.)

(Tliia was tlie most prominent symptom.) She had the erroneous idea that she was deserted by all her

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friends, and as a consequence, she passed all lier waking

moments, which were not many, in tears. {lb.) A fixed delusion that her child was dead; she declared she

saw it dead before her; and when it was brought to her,

siie refused to acknowledge that it was hers, or had any

resemblance to the one she imagined was dead. (/J-) M'ist intense Tiielanc/ioh/, attended with fits of uncontrollable

weeping, in a man. (/5.) Positvae delusions of various kinds.

Brain. It lessens the amount of blood circulating within the cranium

and prodiices a shrinking of the brain from this cause.

{Hammond.') Heaviness of the head, with confusion of the head. {Pletser.) In a case of epilepsy, caused by cerebral-ansemia, ea«h dose of

20 grs. caused an attack. {Swimnond.) Vertigo, both slight and extreme, with dullness ot the head.

{Noac.) Drooping of the head ; difficulty of holding it erect {Broivn

Sequard.) ° The flushed face, the throbbing of the carotids and temporals,

the suffusion of the eyes, the feeling of fullness of the

head, all disappear, as if by magic, under its use. {Sam,-

Tnond.) ° Violent headache, from concussion of the brain. {Ih.) ° Mercurial headache. {lioierteaii.) ° ConvnlBions— during acute meningitis, after the inflamation

has declined, leaving serious damage. {Singer, Hale.) ° Delirium tremens/ it relieves the delirium (not furious)

removes the delusion, and produces sleep. [Beghie, Hale.) " Bad results from overtaxing the brain by intense study; too

close attention to business; grief; anxiety. {-/5.) ° Calms excitement, removes the giddiness, noises in the ears,

and perversions of tlie external senses from diseases of

the brain. (/5-) ' Cerebral irritations during cholera infantum; pupils dilated,

eyes simken, eyeballs moving in every direction witlioiit

taking any notice; feet and hands blue and cold; pulse

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"Head hot, feel as If in a furnace, with coldness and chills, etc., etc See "Abdomen." {C<wo.)

" A feeling of " lightness " and exhilaration takes the place of heaviness and depression, {Simpson,)

"Incipient hasil^ir m&ningitis. A delicate thin female child aged five years, had complained for several weeks of sevei'e headache, Tiearly all the time, worse at night. She would play a tew minutes with other children, then lie her head down on a ehair or other support, and cry with the head- ache. She grew weak, emaciated, dull, heavy-eyed; had no appetite; did not sleep well nights; when sleeping it was disturbed by groans, grinding of tlie teeth, starting up as if frightened; complains of terrible headache; tongue clean; pulse 90 to 100, quick and wiry; constipa- tion; scanty urine, and too much heat about the head.

A careiul honi(eopathist had given Belladoima, Hyocia- mus, Oina, Bryonia, and other apparently well chosen remedies, without effect." I at first gave Belladonna, 200,, then Sulphur, 300th, which mitigated the pain a short time. Agaricus 3d was tried without much effect, i^inally Kali hrom,. one-half grain every thi-ee hours for a few days.- — no perceptible improvement; then one grain every three hours, when decided improvement in all respects set in, and in three weeks she was quite well.

As soon as decided improvement occurred the medicine was given at longer intervals. [Ilale^ Eyea.

Sight impaired, weak vision, with greatly contracted pupils.

Diminution of sensibility in the occular conjunctiva, so that the finger may be passed with impunity over the surface of the eyeball without causing winking. {Twmhull!)

Weak sight, wi^h, intoxication and deafness. {iStille.)

Dilated pupils, with extreme vertigo and confusion of the head. {Ifering.)

Pnpils prominent. (If^oac.)

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Pupils dilated, and contract very sliiggislily under the influ- ence of a very strong light. {T'urniull.)

Lusterless ejes. {Basiro.)

" Squinting, after niglit-terrors of children. {Smger.')

° Dilated pupils and sunken eyes (in cholei'a infantum.) {Caro.)

" Eyeballs moving in evei-y direction. {lb.)

° Pliotophobia ^s a collyrium, 3 parts to 30 of water.) {Coth- hron a/nd Eosignol.)

Diminution of hearing. {Hammond.)

° Einging in the ears. {Begbie.)

° Erythematous swelling of the nose.

branes. {Fletser.) Slight traclieal and bronchial catarrh. (75.) The lauces do not cowtract when touched, tickled, or even cut

with instruments. {lb.) ° Tongue pale and cold. {-lb-) " Tongue red and dry (in cholera infantum.) {Tb.) ° Infants are choked every time they attempt to drink fliiids,

although they can swallow solids without difficulty, — no

malformation of the throat. {Ringer.) " Hot, dry mouths of teething infants. {Oat-o!)

Pace. A papular rash on face and nose, with heat and itching. {Mc~

Ovegor.) Successive crops of small boils in the face, with troublesome

itching. {Basire.) Acne-like eruption on the face, neck and shoulders. {Browt

Seqtuwd.) ' Expressionless face. {Basi/re.) ° Acne, in young persons, {Hale.)

Jaws and Teeth. ° Difficult dentition of children. {Caro.) {See Broin. Oalc.)

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" Odontitis in children, " I have never failed to relieve the

child by its local application." (/5.) "After the first rubbing on, the gums, from being turgid,

swollen, and red, they assume their natui^al color, and a

certain amount of ease is felt. {/5.) " The salivary secretion is restored (in teething children), and

as if by enchantment, agitation, carpopedal involuntary

motion, vomiting, and looseness of the bowels disappear.

(n.)

Irritation of the mucous membrane of tlie mouth and fauces, painfulness of the tongue, prominent pupils, rongh and burning sensations in the whole butecal cavity as if burnt with caustic. (.Noac.)

Increased Secretion of sahvaand mucns, (Jb.)

Short-lasting titillation in the tauces, (/5.)

A state of insensibility of the larynx and palate; the fingers may be carried to the base ■>!' the tongue, touch the amygdala and posterior nares, ^Mid tickle the uvula, with- out inducing any efibrt at vomiting or deglutition.

" Uestoration of the suppressed salivation in teething children.

*^(Etid breath; a pcKiuliar sickening odor, (/fale.)

Wliite tongue, involving tho edffes as well as the dorsum, and

not necessarily furred, with great Imiguor, sle&pmess, and

anoretda. (/5.)

quantity of mucus, with salt taste in the mouth. (/5.) ° Troublesome pressure at the stomach after dinner. {Hering.) " Loss of appetite. {Noac.)

Liver. ° Enlargement of the liver; under the use of half a grain three

times a day, the belly rapidly assumes tho natural size.

{Magerulie.)

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Slight catatrh of tlie stomach. (Pletzer^

Peculiar pressure in the region of the stomach, succeeded by

° Ascites of hepatic or splenic origin. ° Constipation of years continuance. (Hale.) Obstinate constipation. {Pletzer^

Sensation of warmth in the abdomen. {HeimerdingeT^ Flatulence; frequent rumbling, (/5.) Frequent soft stools, preceded by colic. (/J-) Several papescent and afterward liquid stools. (/5.) " Bloody muco-purulent diarrhea, with intense thirst, vomit- ing, eyes sunken, pnpils dilated, skin corrugated and spotted blue, body cold, tongue red and dry, pulse imper- ceptible, urine suppressed. {Caro.) ° Colic in young children; the walls of the belly are retracted and hard, while the intestines can be seen at one spot contracted into a hard lump, of the size of a small orange, and the contraction can be seen through the abdominal wall to travel from one part of the intestines to another; these attacks are frequent and excruciating;

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are unconnected with diarrhtea or constipation, but are often associated with an apthons condition of the mouth. {Ringer, Sale.)

" Periodic colic, in infants, occurring about 5 p. m. every even- ing, with the ahove symptoms. {Hale.)

° Abdomen snnicen, almost stuck to the vertebral column, in cholera infantum. {Caw.)

° Retention of tnecomum, with vomiting of all food, and obsti- nate constipation; in a cbUd three days old, cured by 1-50 of a grain every hour, {Caro.)

° Painless diarrhrea, fiiteen or twenty passages in twenty-four hours, with great chilliness, even in a hot room; burning in the chest; abdomen cold internally; pulse one hundred, weak; urine scanty, dribbling a few drops at start. "At every evacuation felt as if my intestines were sinking from me. I was restless and shaky as if from palsy." Dose five grains; after the second dose fell asleep for si.x hours, perspiring profusely. {Caro.)

° Summer complaint, or cholera infantum, is not an inflamma- tory affection, but arises from an over exGitement of the nervotis and vascular systems, and therefore the b. of p. is a specific. (/5.)

° Asiatie cholera, in the first stage, arrests the vomiting, the cramps, and the rice-water discharges; restores the secre- tion of urine; the warmth and color to the previously cold and livid skin. (Dose twenty grains every hour.) Its use should be suspended when reaction or fever sets in. {Begiie^

° Discharge of a considerable quantity of tar-like substance (decomposed blood), Iiaving a fcetid smell; accompanied with tenesmus in animals. {Jfoao.)

Diminution of sextial desire. {Huett et al.)

Absence of sexual desire, with impotence, {Ih.)

Semen is not secreted. {Pfmffer^

" Nocbumal endBsionSy with amorous dreams and erections.

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123 BROMIDE OF POTASSIUM.

° Excessive sexual desires, with constant ereetiona at night

{Bale.) ° Chordee, during gonorrhcea. {!/>.) "^ Satyriasis. {TMallman.)

° Sensual and lascivious fancies and dreams, (Hale.) The anapiirodisiac power of tlie b. of p. is dne to contraction

of minute afferent vessels of the corpus eavernosus.

(Pelvet.)

cock.) "Enlargement of the uterna ("eub-involution") after parturi- tion, with abnormal discharges. [Simpson.) " Diminished the size and alleviates the pain in fibrous tumors

the menses : epileptic spasms, nymphomania, itching.,

burning and esecitemsnt in the vulva, pudenda and

clitoris; after the menses: headache, insomnia, and heat

Urinary Organs, In a few cases the urine contained albumen. (Pletser.) Pain in the region of the kidneys, spreading in the direetiou

of the colon ascendens; afterwards copious secretion of

{Noao.)

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Dimimitioii of the sensibility of the urethra. (^Caro.)

Profuse urination, with thirst. {HeTing'.)

Thin, yellowisli-white, copious iirine- {Heiinsrdinger.)

Pale, thin urine, having a peculiar f(Etid smelL {JVoao.)

Diminished secretion of urine. {lb.)

° Convulsions from Bright's disease.

"Abnormal irritability of the urinary passages. (/5.)

° Nocturnal involuntary emissions of urine. {ITewaoti.)

" Suppression of urine in cholera infantum. (Caro.)

milUtua, (Two cases.) Symptoms: emaciation; 'dn cold and dry; pulse rapid and feeble; tongue red and tender; gumsspongy and bleeding; thirst excessive; appetite voracious; bowels constipated; wrine pale, frequent, large quantity, of high density, and loaded with sugar; liver tumid and tender. (Twenty gre, b. of p. three times a day.) Ail the symptoms disappeared in six weeks; no relapse. {Beghie.') ° Neuralgia of the neck of the bladder. {Pfeiffer.) ° Spasmodic affections of the neck of the bladder. (Hale.) ° [The b. of p. is found in the urine two weeks, even four weeks, after it was taken in an animal.] {Boh&rteau.) Iiarynx. Lose of sensibility in the larynx.

Hoarseness, extremely painfuland disagreeable. {Sering,') Hacking cough, with dullness and confusion of tlie head. (Ih.) " Hyperaasthesia of the laryngeal nerves. [Mayhofer.) ° Whooping-cough, v/iicompUeated by other affections. " Laryngismus stridulus, uncomplicated. {Mayhofer.') " Diphtheria, with quick pulse; fever; dry tongue; offensive breath; highly injected and dusky-red fauces; with patches of wash-leather exudation on tonsils or pharynx. {Snelling, Belcher^ ° Follicular and catarrhal lai-yngitis, {Mayhofer, of Nice.) 'Membranous croup, with whitish exudation. [Kali bi*'li.,

when yellow.] (-/S-) [A solution of b, of p. dissolves false membranes.] {Laboul-

hene.) ' Whooping-cough— -the spasmodic action disappears in about

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124 BKOMIDE OF POIASSinM.

five days, leaving a simple broncliial catarrh. It r

tlie anxiety and the vomiting; improves the appetite, and

increases the strength. [De Beavfort^

Slight bronchial catarrh. (Pletzer?)

Tightness of breathing. (JVWo.)

Violent congestion of blood to the respiratory organs, occa- sioning spitting of blood.

" Asthma of a nervous origin. {Begbie^

° Breath hot and hurried, with burning in the ehest. {Caro.)

~ ~ " , with nervous headache, and want of sleep,

'■)

"The respirations are affected in a secondary manner only." It appears to be influenced only mechanically, that is to say, its muscles are paralyzed, like tlie other muscles, more or less rapidly; early in frogs, and at the moment of death in birds and rabbits, {Demowrette and Pelvet.) Iiower Extremities.

Debility of lower limbs; step tremulous and uncertain. {StiUe.)

Loss of sensibility in lower limbs; pinching and burning causes no pain, (Paehe.)

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Extremities cold, pulse slow and very weak. {Tv/mhull^

° Legs and feet cold and blue, and on being touched would

leave the white impress of the fingers for more than

twenty-five seconds, — in cholera infantum. {Oaro^

She slept all night, and would often fall asleep iu her chair,

and in most uncomfortable positions. (/5.) H.e falls suddenly asleep at intervals of a few minutes, (/i.) A kind of stupor resembling that of the first stages of typhoid

fever, (Basire.) "Deep, prtrfound and quick slumber, (from twenty to thirty

grains). {Ilaimnond.) " Obstinate insomnia, in case of mercurial poisoning. {Jioh.

erteau.) " Sleeplessness during convalescence from acute diseases,

_ (Begbie.) ° Night terrors of children; horrible dreams. (/5.) ° Waking yitli severe headache, in a child. {Kale.) "Grinding of the teeth during sleep, with moans and cries.

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126 BEOSiroE OF

Heart and Pulse.

The rainnte blood-vessels contract immediately in the region of injection, and later throughout the organism, and the contraction is succeeded by dilation. {Pelvet.)

The heart alone survives many hours (in animals); when it stops, its irritability can be again aroused for some instants, to disappear at last totally. But from the com- mencement of the physiological or toxic action, the capillary circulation is diminished, and the pulsations of the heart are retarded. i^Damoeyette and Pelvet^

" Pulse imperceptible, with coldness and collapse. {Ca/ro^

" Neuroses of the heart. {Sale.)

° It has a sedative effect upon the action of the heart.

The temperature of the body was reduced one or two degrees centigrade. {Pletser^

The temperature is sensibly lessened in warm-blooded animals first, and during many hours in the region injected, and afterwards throughout the organism. The phenomena depends upon the diminution of the capillary circulation, at first local, afterwards general.

° Body cold; skin corrugated and mottled. {Caro.)

"Shivering with cold, and cold skin, although the child was covered with mustard plasters. (/J.)

The gait became staggering; false steps became frequent.

"Weakness of tlie muscles of the arms — ^!mt no vertigo. {Pletzer.)

It paralyzes the nerves of the spinal cord. {lb.)

Intoxication, with loss of sight and hearing. {Stille.)

* Epilepsy from large doses in a case of cerebral ansemia. {JTa7n.m,ond.)

Unsteadiness of gait; he was frequently taken for a drunken man ; was once arrested for supposed drunkenness, [limn- iRond.)

Well marked numbness throughout the body, and very decided diminution of sensibility.

Almost constant twitching of the fingers and a busy occupa- tion of them in matters of no importance.

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Unable to stand or walk; fa«e ashy pale; pupils contracted; loss of meiiioiy. Great M'eakness of the extensors of the legs and feet.

Vertigo, fainting and nausea.

Very emaciated, weal;, and of a peculiar pallid color. {Turn- hull.)

As an agent for lessening reflex excitability, exceeds all other remedies. {Pletser.)

" Neuroses involving the brain and accompanied by convul- sions, (li.)

"Mercurial trembling. {Roberteau.)

° Zead poisoning. (/5.)

* Infantile conmtl&tona, during teetl ing, whooping cough or

laryngismus stridulus. Spasm of the glottis; it prevents the recurrence of the spasms. {Ilvnger, Hale.)

* Epilepsy, chiefly grand mal; rarely useful in pelyit mal. Restless and shaky, as if from palsy. (Caro.)

It diminishes the abnormal vascularity of the great nervous centres.

The temperature of the body was reduced one or two degrees centigrade. (Pletser.)

The temperature is sensibly lessened in warm-blooded animals first, and during many hours in the region injected, and afterwards throughout the organism. The phenomena depends upon the diminution of the capillary circulation, at first local, afterwards general.

"Body cold; skin corrngated and mottled. (Caro.)

° Shivering with cold, and cold skin, although the child was covered with mustard plasters. {-lb.)

It mitigates those convulsive movements and spasmodic twitchings, which are the results of the rapid conversion of sensory impressions, or of morbid reilex action tlirough the medulla oblongata. {C. Browne.)

" Quotidian ague after qninine had been given for two weeks without result. "The sweating stage was unusually pro- tracted and exhausting," " A full dose every three, hours daring a remission, cured." {Segiie.)

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128 BEOMIDE or rOTASSIOM.

* It removes pathological deposits of fetty matter (inlj, while the iodide removes normal adipose matter. {Simpson.)

It diminishes the r^^ea; excitability of the nervotis centi-es. (Broton Sequard.^ The functions of organic life are not disturbed. {Hu^t^

" Epilepsy — especially occurring at or near the menses. {Lay- cock.)

/ may be arrested by it, but returns when this drug

Pa/ralyds agitatis.

° Trembling sensation throughout the whole body, {Hale.)

": Sym^oms from an affeoUon of vaso-motor nerves, namely:

ir. A feeling of "largeness," or "ae if the limb were swollen," there being at the time of its occurrence no change in the size of the extremity.

ni. The occurrence of " aching," of " uneasiness," or of actual "pain," the latter not very severe.

IV. The feeling of " coldness," and occasionally, the obvious fiict of coldness.

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[Aconite, Gelseniinum, Platinum, Pulsatilla, Ljcopodium, Veratrum album, and Oalcarea carb. have many of the above symptoms, {Hale,')]

"The symptoms due to large doses of the Bromide of Potas. siura may be stated as follows, in the usual order of their occurrence :

Dr. Hammond asserts that to a condition of cerebral anwmia most of the obvious phenomena which follow its adminis- tration should be ascribed.