Grindelia Robusta

Gi'indelia. Compo^itse.

A plant growing on the Pacific coast and inland on the mountains. Proving by Bundy (not in Allen's Encyclopedia) and by Hale, see N. A. J. H., vol. 25.

Clinical Authorities JnYis, Fiske, N. A. J.

H., vol. 25, p. 204 ; Hay- Jever, rose-cold, asthma, Steele, Times Ketros., vol. 2, p. 12; Asthma, Scudder, N. A.

J. H., vol. 25, p. 203; Smith, N. E.

M. G., vol. 11, p. 353; Spasmodic asthma, Hale, Times Eetros., vol. 3, p. 25 ; Pneumonia, bronchitis, Hale, N.

A. J. H., vol. 25, p. 202 ; Ulceration of leg, Scudder, N.

A. J. H., vol. 25, p. 204 ; Affection of pneumo- gastric, Guernsey, N.

E. M. G., vol. 12, p. 138 ; Epidemic rash, Hale, N.

A. J. H., vol. 25, p. 202 ; Bhus tox. poisoning, Steele, Times Eetros., vol. 2, p. 12 ;

N. E. M. G., vol. 11, p. 351.

^ Inner Head. Terrible fulness in head, as though he had

taken ten or more grains of quinine. ^ Sight and Eyes. Conjunctiva injected, eyes j^resenting ap- pearance noticed in congestion of brain. Pain in eyeballs running directly back to brain, <. from

moving eyes. Pain in 1. eye and r. knee-joint, like rheumatism; pain in knee did not last longer than half an hour ; pain in eye

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became more intense, pupil becoming dilated ; two hours- after ward r. eye became affected. I Conjunctivitis and purulent ophthalmia.

I Iritis, traumatic, or arising from cold or a metastasis of

rheumatism; the pain is intense and the fever runs-

^^ Hypochondria. Unbearable pain in region of liver and spleen, so severe that he cannot lie still a moment; sore- ness like that of acute rheumatism.

^ Female Sexual Organs. ! Pruritus affecting vulva and vagina ; whether arising from leucorrhoea, or of venous origin, or aphthae.

"® Respiration. iiFear of going to sleep on account of loss of breath, which awakens him.

I I On falling asleep respiratory movement ceases, and is. not resumed until awakened by the suffocation resulting.

I I Mucous asthma depending on an abnormal accumula- tion of mucus in the smaller bronchi, tenacious and difficult to detach; patient feels and knows that expec- toration brings relief.

I Humid asthma, originating in catarrhal bronchitis.

lAfter an attack of pneumonia vital forces so greatly reduced that recovery was despaired of; patient almost, in a sitting position in bed, with a peculiar interrupted breathing, which entirely prevented sleep; every time he dropped into a doze breathing would become so in- terrupted that he would have to be aroused; pneumo- gastric nerve appeared half paralyzed and action of heart was very weak.

I Cardiac asthma. "■^ Cough. Cough from reflex causes; a cough maintained by habit ; chronic bronchitis and bronchorrhoea.

Mucus tenacious and difficult to detach. ^^ Inner Chest and Lungs. Chronic bronchitis, and cough, with muco-purulent expectoration after pneumonia.

■ Bronchitis accompanying heart disease.

1 I Severe cough with considerable purulent expectoration;; on examination, flatness of entire 1. lung; dyspnoea. ^Chronic pneumonia.

I Cough, dyspnoea; flatness of r. lung and partial consolida- tion at base of lung.

Asthma; clironic bronchitis ; hay-fever; pneumonia. ''Lower Limbs. 'Leg greatly swollen, especially about ankle-joint; purplish-black color; two large ulcers over tibia, two and three inches long and half an inch in depth; abundant fetid secretion; severe pain; van hardly get about. //Chronic ulceration of leg. ^ Rest. Position. Motion. Sitting position in bed: on ac- count of difficulty of broathinp;.

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Cannot lie still a moment on account of pain.

Can hardly move on account of pain in legs.

Moving eyes: < pain. *^ Locality and Direction. Right: pain in knee-joint; flat- ness of lung.

Left: pain in eye; flatness of lung. *^ Sensations. As though he had taken ten or more grains of quinine, such terrible fulness in head.

Pain: in eyeballs; in 1. eye and r. knee-joint.

Pains with soreness, like that of rheumatism.

Unbearable pain : in region of liver and spleen.

Severe pain: in limbs.

Burning: of chin.

Terrible fulness: in head.

Soreness: in region of liver.

Itching: of skin. ''^ Skin. I Epidemic rash like roseola, suffusing face, neck and often whole body, with severe burning and itching.

■ Irritable eruptions, papular or vesicular.

I Rhus tox. poisoning.

Bites of insects ; flea-bites. *^ Stages of Life, Constitution. Woman, set. 48, for two years; chronic pneumonia.

Man, set. 60, after injury to 1. eye; iritis.

Man, get. 60, suffering for twenty years; ulceration of leg.

Old man, broken down with years of sickness, with organic disease of heart, just rallying from an attack of pneu- monia ; paresis of pneumogastric. ^* Relations. It antidotes: Rhus tox.

Amm. mur., Ant. tart., Kali. hich.

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