(Add to the quickly dried and finely powdered bush of the Ledum palustre twenty parts of its weight of alcohol, to make the tincture.) From the following symptoms it will be seen that this powerful remedy is especially suitable for chronic affections characterized by coldness and want of animal heat. LEDUM PALUSTRE. 1 \ Large doses act four weeks. A small portion of a drop of the fifteenth potency is suffi- cient at a dose, as I know from long experience. Camphor antidotes the bad effects of Ledum, either when given in too large a dose, or when not homoeopathic to the disease. China is a bad remedy to use against the weakness produced by Ledum. Some brewers in Germany impart to the beer strongly intoxicating qualities by mixing it with Ledum ; this is criminal. FROM NOACK AND TRINKS. Ledum has a powerful action upon the brain, the respira- tory organs, the lymphatic vessels, the secretion of urine, the skin, the serous and fibrous tissues, muscles and bones, etc., and may be used in the following affections : Acute and chro- nic rheumatic and arthritic affections of the joints and liga- ments, when the pains are stinging, aching and tearing, ag- gravated by motion and warmth, most violent in the night, with hot swelling and numbness of the limbs, these latter going to sleep, and being affected with arthritic nodosities, or stiffness of the tendons and ligaments. (Edema of the feet. — Itching of the whole body. — Stinging and corrosive itching of several parts of the body. — Rash in the face and on the chest. — Red miliaria over the whole body, on the forehead, back and dorsum of the foot. — Pustules on the upper lip, burning and itching. Tubercles on the forehead, in the face, as in drunkards. — Small, round, red, insensible spots on the arms, abdomen and feet ; blue spots on the whole body, like pete- chias. — Purpura haemorrhagica. — Pustules on the arms and chest. — Dry itching herpes in the face, in the bends of the knees. — Boils on the forehead. — Hot, hard, tensive swelling of the skin and the subjacent cellular tissue. — Intermittent fevers, characterized by violent chilliness and long-lasting coldness. — Great seriousness. — Disposition to vehemence. — Intoxication, vertigo, violent stupefying, tearing, beating headache. — Lia- bility of the scalp to cold. — Rheumatic and arthritic ophthal- mia, with aching and tearing pain. — Chronic inflammation of the lids and prfouse secretion of corrosive tears and gum. — Amblyopia. — Hard hearing.as if the ear were stopped up, with whizzing and roaring. — Tearing pain in the face. Tic dou- loureux. Acute and chronic inflammation of the throat and tonsils. — Ascites ? Diarrhcea ? — Flowing haemorrhoids ? — De- 12 LEDUM P.4 LUSTRE. sire to urinite, first with scanty, afterwards with increased se- cretion of urine.— Diabetes.— Profuse involuntary emissions of bloody and watery mucus. — Too early and profuse menses — Metrorrhagia. — Hoarseness with roughness and scratching in the trachea. — Hooping-cough in the second stage.— Haemop- tysis. — Haemoptysis alternating with arthritic pains in the limbs. — Cough with purulent, greenish and fetid expectoration. — Suppuration of the lungs with purulent, greenish expectora- tion after neglected pneumonia. — Phthisis pituitosa. — Purulent cavernous phthisis. Asthma. Hydrothorax 'I — Palpitation of the heart. — Smarting itching of the chest, with red spots and eruption of rash. — Pain in the small of the back and back. — Lumbago? — Painful stiffness of the back. — Rheumatic affec- tions of the hip-joint. — Arthritic inflammation of the knee. — Hot, inflammatory swelling of the thigh and leg, with stinging and tensive pains. — Podagra with intolerable pains.