Iberis Amara

(Bitter Oanda-tuft.) DESdirpTioN This plant has a herbaceous stem, about a foot in height; leaver lanceolate, acute, aomewliat toothed; fiotoera white, in corymbs, be- coming racemes. Silides obcordate, narrowly emarginale; cells one seeded. A small annual, common to Europe, indigenous to England Cultivated in gardens in this country.

OFPicnjAL Pebfabations Tincture of the seeds; dilutiona. Analoooes Amys/dalia amara, Bdladonna, Cactus grand., JMgUalii, eto.

Mental Sphere. Feels aad, down-hearted, oppressed, with desire to sigh. A peculiar inability to fix the mind on any one thing. Tery writable^ with dullness of mind and laeb of memory; forgets what is said in the lectni-e in a moment, unless the mind is concentrated on it.

Feele as if frightened; an indefinable drea,d, with trembling. An excited, frightened feeling, with cold sweat on the face.

I fullness (sensation of) in the neck and head, with

increased action of the heart. Heat, and fullness in neck and head, with flushed face, and

cold feet and hands. Pain in right side of the head. Fmntal headache on i-ising in the morning. Severe frontal headache, with nansea and loss of appetite.

Heaviness of the head, with roaring in the ears. Dull pain in the head, with vertigo and feverish chilliness. Vertigo when rising in the morning; had to lie down. Feeling of lightness and giddiness of the head.

Vertigo when making any exertion, with slight nausea. Vertigo when standing, worse on stooping. Yertigo in back part of head, as if the occiput were turning

arotind.

Flushed, hot face and red eyes, with the palpitatione. Cold sweat on face, with fearfulness.

Eyes, Feeling in the eyes as if being forced outward. Eyes red, with flushed face.

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Flashes before the eyes, with doll headache and palpitation of

the heart.

Roaring in the ears, with heaviness of the head, slight nausea,

and palpitation of the heart. Dullness of hearing and comprehension.

heart, dyspncea and palpitation.

Frequent but scanty urination- Excessive evacuations of urine.

Keapiratory Organs. Dryness in throat and larynx, with hawking tip of thin,

stringy mucus, for many hours; (eating removes this

symptom.) Tickling sensation in the throat, with expectoration of stringy

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FiillnesB in the chest, with fullness and lieat in head and neek,

pains in the chest (cardiac region). Fullness and constriction under the sternum, with lancinating

pains through the chest. Continual feeling of weight and anxiety in the cliest.

Heart and PiXlse. Increase of heart's action from sepenty-two to eighty-eight (in

fifteen minutes). A wavy, tremulous sensation in the radial artery, felt by the

.finger, with pulse intermitting every tliird beat, and easily pulse has peculiar donhle beats, whicli n into each other, but full, soft, and easily

Palliation of the hea/rt on slight exertion, as when putting down a window (never had it before).

Palpitation, with vertigo and choking in the throat after walking, and on entering the house i^ifaAnt; a tingling and numbness commencing in fingers of left hand and gradually extending up left arm, with pnlse irregular, tremulous, not well defined; also, a dull, heavy aching in left arm (no perceptible palpitation, however).

Much pain over the base of the heart, with dull, heavy pain in left arm, and tingling and numbness in the tips of the fingers.

* Palpitation, plainly visible on the whole chest, aggravated* by walking, passing off on sitting still, but renewed by the slightest exertion. {English physicians.)

Walking causes indescribable sensations under the sternum,, under articulation of third rib.

Sensation of weight and pressure in the region of the heart,, ■with oooasional sharp, stinging pains in that region,. passing from before backwards, lasting but a short time,. 3i

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870 lEERIS AMAKA.

attended by acceleration of heart's action from seventy to

iiinety-six. The pulse rises from sixty to ninety-four in fifteen minutea

after taking the drng, with slight pains in the region of

the heart. Pains darting through the heart at night in bed, worse when

lying on left side. Pains of a dull, dragging character in region of the heart, not

relieved by any position, nor by pressure with the hand. Sharp, sticking pain in the region of the heart, with con-

stric-tive sensation in throat; eyes red and face flushed. On turning on left side at night, a sharp, sticking pain is felt,

as if a needle were crosswise in the ventricles and pricked

at eacli contraction. '"Palpitation, with marked increase of i\i& force of the apex- beat, and irregnlar and jerking pulse, with a peculiar

thrill under the finger. {Hale.) Strong palpitation, with forcible impulse; the hand placed ou

the heart was visibly moved. Palpitation when going up stairs (he was obliged to lie down),

and continued three days. The attacks of palpitation and other cardiac symptoms occur

within from five to fifteen minutes after each dose of the

drng, and frequently pass away altogether within an hour. Physical Signs.

1. During the first part of the proving (Dodge's), no abnormal

sounds discoverable on auscultation.

2. About the middle of the proving, with the full intermit-

tently-irregular pulse, auscultation revealed great excite- ment of the contractions at intervals of three or four beats, after which there was a much longer interval than usual before another pulsation.

3. Mcar the end of the proving, the sounds of the heart were

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fonnd to be increased in iiiteiieity, especially on the region

of the semi-luiiar valves. During the whole of the proving (Sahin's), the Jbroe of the

apex-heat was visibly increased, and the heart impulse

visibly raised the hand when placed on the diest, and the

piilse was hard and jerking, intermitting every third beat;

rising from seventy to ninety. Heart's action apparently weakened for the first few moments

after talcing the drug, but in ten minutes the pulse rose

to one hundred, fuli and strong, but somewhat irregular Heart's action weak and fluttering, with small, weak pulse.

Cardiac symptoms better in afternoon, worse at night. 'Worse in warm room. Better in open air.

Sleep at night disturbed by all sorts of dreams — (unusual, aa

Feels weary, with desire to lie down. Feeling of nervous excitement in whole system. Feeling of inabihty to move even a linger. A feeling of lameness and soreness throughout the whole

body, afl iroui a cold. Trembling sensation all over, so that he had to lie down. Desire for stimulants. Great weakness and debility. Looks as if he had been ill a good while,

. [The Ihm'i» was proven by studeats of Hahnemann College under my own directions. It will douWless becomes Tuluable cardiao remedy,— UaU\

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ILEX OPACA.

(Am^can Holly)

DBSCHiFTroTi. — A tree, from twenty to forty feet in height, having Ua/wt which are alternate, coriaceons, evergreen, smooth, shining, fiat, oval, acute at the end, and the wavymargins armed with strong, scattered, spiny teeth. The flowers are small, greenish- white, and are scattered in clusters along the base of the young branches. Bei-rim red, aa large as a whonii>- berry, and of an acrid, bitter taste. [The European Holly, I. aquijblia, is similar in appearance.]

Offictnal PREPABATioira. — Tincture of Uie leaves and berries,

AtJALOOUES.— ( f )

(No pr'mngs.) ° Intermittent fever, jaundice, pleuritis, catarrh, t

of tlie epleen, rheumatism, (periostitis I, aquifoKa). (See Therapmtieg.)

lODroE OF ARSEmC.

(Arseniei Todiiim.) pHAEMACOLOGT. — Gently heat in a tabulated retort placed in a sand bath, a mixture of one part finely pulverized metalic arsenic and five parts iodine. The iodide is afterwards to be re-sublimed, to separate the excess of arsenic. This forms an orange-red volatile solid, which is di»- solved by water, and entirely volatilized by heat. OrFiciKAii Prep ARATioBB.— Triturations ; aqueous solutions. AiTALOauBS.— .Arsenicum, Aram tripkylluin, Nitric aeii, eto.

Dullness of the head, with dull pain in the left malar bone, and

Faoe. Erj'thematons redness of the face.

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° Chronic strumous ophtlialmia, with ulceration. {Tb-) Wose.

* Tliin, watery, irritating diseliarge from the nose, from tlie

anterior and posterior nares.

* Fluent, acrid coryza, with paroxysms of sneezing — worse in

the open air.

* Soreness, rawness and. scabbiness in the nostrils.

° Acute and chronic catarrli, with ulceration and inflammation of tlie nasal passages and frontal sinuses,

" Hay-fever; the most eifectuul remedy after Gelseminum. {BaU.)

Sharp pain in both ears, especially in left ear, when ridijig in a sharp cold wind.

"Chronic otorrbtBa, with corrosive sanious discharge. (/J.) Mouth, Tongue.

Intermittent pain in front riglit upper molar tooth.

White tongue, with edges and tip of a florid, red hue.

Salivation, with acrid saliva.

° Diphtheria maligna.

" Phagadenic ulceration of the fauces and tonsils.

Severe, bui'ning, lancinating pains in the stomach, with heat of mouth and fauces.

The abdomen is hard and distended witii flatus, which is con- stantly discharged.

Sharp, cutting pains in the abdomen (at 9 a. ii.) which warned him to go to stool; the pains became excruciating, embrac- ing the entire abdomen, and obliging him to bend almost doable; after a great deal of straining he passed a large, soft stool, which afforded him some relief. {Dr. Blaheley.) [This is the kind of colic cured by IHoscorea. {Hale.)'\

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874 IODIDE OF AESENIO.

° "The most serviceable remedy we have in the diarrhcea of phtliiais.-' ( Watson.)

" Chrome diarrhcea, with intestinal ulceration — in oases of soldiers returned from the army. {Hale.)

Stiffness and soreness of left side of neck; worse when moving- Soreness of the back, especially of hack of neck, as if beaten.

Burning heat in the back (lumbar region), as if the clothes were on fire.

Itching, especially on the back.

Itching of back of left hand, followed hy stinging- itching of back of right hand.

Peculiar chilliness of left thigh, followed by formication and weight in left foot; the clothes when extending the left limb, feel cold; the formication and weight extended to right foot — was partially relieved by walking; the chilli- ness disappeared from warmth.

Formication on exterior border of left foot, followed by burn- ing in left instep.

rorraieating prickling on left ankle, also on right ankle.

Tired, weary feeling in calves of both legs, while kneeling.

Dull, heavy soreness of calf of left leg, aflerwards embracing the entire leg; disappearing during active motion, return- ing when at rest.

Heaviness of the legs, with general weariness. Chest and Heart.

Persistent itching all over the body— especially the back. Formicating, prickling itching on skin of body and extremities.

* ^?7!!^fi»?.a— especially in the face.

* Dry, scaly, burning, itchinsr eruptions on various parts of

the body. {Hale.) "Lepra, impetigo; diseases resemhhng cancer. {Thompson.)

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IODIDE OF BAKItJM. S75

° Obstinate chronic erupUona, psoriasis versicolor; tiiiea fur- fnrans; pityriasis. In the Zd trit. will often give better results tlian any other preparation of Arsenioum,. {li.) rever.

*Hard, full pulse, with puffincss of tlie lower lids and fa£e; tliick, white tongue, witli red tip and edges.

° Febrile movements attending ohronic, irritable eruptions.

IODIDE OP BARIUM.

(Baric Iodide.) PHABMACOLoaY.- — Tliis coiiipouiKi may be formed bj double decompcwi- tioD, by adding native carbonate of baryta in powder to a boiling solution of iodide of iron. Iodide of Barium crystalizesin small, colorless needles, wbirji deliquesce eligMly, and are very soluble in water. The solution promptly undergoes decomposition by exposure to air, carbonate of baryta ^ing precipitated, and iodine set free, which colors the solution.

Officinal Prep AR A TiOHS. — Tincture (made by adding one liundred grs. to one thousand drops of aqua distillata, and kept in colored glass bottles, hermetically sealed) ; triturations (witJi dry, pure sugar of milk, and kept like tlie tincture).

IODIDE OF LEAD.

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S76 IRIS VEKSICOLOB.

tnted for the nilrate, es tlie acetaie of potassium that reauItB ia a solvent of Iodide of Lead.

Tlie Iodide of Lead is an odorless, fine yellow powder, witliout taste, solnble in 1.S90 parts of cold and 1.880 parts of boiling water. Tiie solu- tions are colorless, tlie liot one depositing, aa it cools, large brilliant golden scalea, soluble in 4500 parts 80^ cold alcohol, a ti'ifle less of hot alcohol, forming a pale straw.c<dored solution.

Officinal Pbeparatioks. — Triturations only.