(Express the juice of the recent plant, and mix it with equal parts of alcohol.) The dry herb loses a great portion of its medicinal virtues. The following symptoms show that this drug is useful in many forms of mental and physical derangement. A small portion of a drop of the twelfth potence is a suffi- cient dose. Camphor antidotes the effects of Hyosciamus. FROM NOACK AND TRINKS. Hyosciamus may be used in spasms from worms, spasms of pregnant females, or of teething children. Epilepsy. St. Vitus' dance. Somnambulism. Raphania. Hydrophobia. Chronic hemorrhages. Apoplectic conditions. Redness of the skin. Erysipelas. Scarlatina. Brown spots; large brown spots, covered with small rash-vesicles, forming into crusts, and spreading over the whole body, except the face. A'"esicles and spots, as from burns, on the lower limbs. Large pustules, like small-pox. Boils. Chronic insomnia. Febris intermUtens epileptica, consequent upon vexation. Febris intermittens (piartana. Puerperal fever. Febris nerosa versatilis, with delirium, complete insomnia, excessive excitement of the fan- cy, jactitation of single muscles, grasping at flocks, desire to run away, heat and redness of the face, staring and sparkUng eyes, alternate dilatation and contraction of the pupils, humming in the ears, parched, brown tongue or loss of consciousness, ver- tigo, not recognizing the persons around, headache, weakness. « 248 HYOSCIAMUS NIGER. twitching in the limbs, pain in the region of the heart, with stitches during a deep inspiration, nightly delirium, thirst, moist, shrivelled tongue, yellow-reddish urine, etc. — Nervous fever ; febris nervosa stupida ; typhus abdominalis ; nympho- mania ; delirium tremens. Melancholia, with amenorrhoca. Wry-neck after epilepsy had been cnred with Calc. and Bell. Inflammation of the brain in consequence of a cold, no con- sciousness, closed eyes, difficulty in opening the mouth, tongue coated with white frothy mucus, delirium, muttering, smiling, remaining sometimes quite still, sometimes starting, motion of the hands as if grasping at flocks, dilatation of the pupils, faint lustre of the eyes, red color of the face, dry, parched skin, accelerated respiration, full pulse, etc. — After having been cured of hydrocephalus, a child fell into the water, and was attacked with the following symptoms : Inability to walk, inability to move about, to talk, eat, pressing the tongue against the palate when drinking, as new-born children do, causing the liquid to flow out again half. — Violent neuralgia of the nerves about the head (with Ignat. and Bell.). — Blepharaspasmus ; spas- modic closing of the eyelids (also in alternation with Cham.). — Presbyopia. — Strabismus, diplopia. Blindness in the night. — Bleeding of the nose. — Trismus.— Paralysis of the tongue. — Toothache, caused by cold, throbbing and whizzing in the tooth, congestion of blood to the head, with heat, constriction of the throat, cramps, tearing and beating toothache of both sound and carious teeth, extending over the upper jaw and right half of the nose, as far as the root of the nose, with swelling of the gums, congestion of blood to the head, burning heat»of the face and body, dull headache, aggravated by pres- sure, feeling as if the teeth were elongated ; they are loose covered with mucus (accompanied with monorrhagia). Grinding of the teeth of children while sleeping. Haimate- mesis after cold or echauffement, with vertigo, cloudiness of the head, red eyes, bloated countenance, painfulnesS of the scrobiculus cordis when toucTied, distension of the abdomen dull pain in the region of the liver, constipation. dysmenorrhcEa going to sleep of the limbs, weakness and tremor of the limbs vomiting of dark-red blood, after previous redness of the face convulsions, spasm, subsequent exhaustion and coldness of the limbs. — Vomiting of the ingesta in small children. Stitches and drawing in the abdomen. Diaphragmitis. Peritonitis. Subinflammatory conditions of the abdomen (against which Bell, had been given without success). Pain in the abdomen, having remained after inflammation of the abdomen. Flatu- lent, hsemorrhoidal, menstrual colic. — Paralysis of the sphinc- HYOSCIAMUS NIGER. 149 ter ani. Hypertrophy of the sphincter ani. (Kallenbach recommends to push a fine sponge moistened with Hyosciamiis into the anus.) Diarrhoea of lying-in women, coming off without pain, and involuntarily (when the evacuations are rather papescent and watery, give Rheum, and Antim. cru- dum). Spasm of the bladder, with violent tenesmus and emission drop by drop, coming on after a cold or scarlatina. Paralysis of the bladder. Painful retention of urine in typhus. — Satyriasis. — Sterility. — Spasms during parturition, (also Cham., Cic, Ign., Bell.)— Profuse menses. Metrorrhagia, with general spasms of the whole body, interrupted by jerks of the body, or by twitchings of single limbs, the bright-red blood continuing to flow all the time, and burning more vio- lently at every new shock, whereas the pulsations diminish in number. Cough with titillation. Dry, irritating cough, espe- cially at night. Spasmodic night-cough. Catarrhal cough, tormenting the patients in the night, in spite of a profuse ex- pectoration of white or yellow mucus. Incipient pneumonia. Pneumonia with great anguish. Pneumonia with dry and fatiguing night-cough, with prevailing typhoid symptoms, ty- phoid pneumonia, the inspirations being intermittent. Incip- ient laryngeal phthisis, after a meal, pain and heat in the head, with faintness, weakness of the body, especially the chest, great exhaustion after long talking, frequent short and hacking cough, with greenish expectoration, want of appetite, weak pulse. HYOSCIAMUS.