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OppicmAL PnEPAKATiONS. — Tlncturc of the leaves, wifb strong alcohol ; infusion ; dilutions.

Amalogtjes. — Aielepias inc., OamlophyUutu, Gimie^fuga, Ohi'ata^\ila, Eupatorium purp., Helonioi, PuUatilla, Seneeio, Wvaurti.

Mental Symptoms. Depression of spirits. Forget&lnesB ; very forgetfuL

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Dread of approaching death. Perceptive faculties very dull.

Head and Eyes. Throbbing pain on right side of head. Severe frontal headache just behind the superciliary ridges. Ejefi dull and heavy. Eyes feel weak and watery.

Dull aching pain in right ear; burning of left car.

Hush of blood to the face.

Eructation, with burning in the stomach, and along up the

Bectum and Stool. Bowels costive.

Urging to stool; diarrhtEic stools. Small stool with tenesmus, expelled with difficulty.

* Urging to urinate; urine high color; white sediment.

* Dull aching pain over the region of the kidneys.

* Swollen and irritated condition of urethra and neck of bladder,

* Catarrh of the bladder, especially in women. {Hale.)

* Dysuria accompanying uterine complaints, A feeling of uneasiness at neck of the bladder. Kotable increase of the urinary secretion {priTnary).

" Engorgement of uterus, from lack of tone in muscular wall of the organ.

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* AmenorrlKea, dysmenorrhcea and menorrliagia.

" False labor pains in last months of pregnancy.

" Slow, feeble and inefficient labor pains. (The tincture to be

taken three times a day (ten drops) for two weeks before

continemeiit.) {Male.) Breathing hun'ied; dry, hacking cough, from accumulation of

mucns in the bronchia.

in the bronchia.

Great pain in lower extremities, Gfreat pain in knee joints, relieved by motion. Muscular soreness.

Dull bnrning and sore pains in all the muscles of the extremi- ties.