Sabadilla

Iyike Veratrum album, Sabadilla is a useful remedy on account of its mental symptoms. It may be used with success in cases of imag- inary disease. For example, the patient imagines that she is pregnant when she is merely swollen from flatus ; or that she has some horrible throat disease which will surely end fatally.

Thuja has the symptom, imagines herself double or treble, or that she is made of glass, and is in constant fear of being touched lest she be broken.

Sabadilla is useful in influenza and that troublesome affection, hay- fever. There are violent spasmodic sneezing and lachrymation on go- ing into the open air ; the throat also is affected, giving you a perfect picture of tonsillitis. The difficulty begins on the left side, and ex- tends to the right; the pain is worse on empty swallowing and is relieved by warm drinks. Sometimes there is a sensation as of a thread or string in the throat, or else a sense of constriction in the throat, as if it was tied by a string.

Lachesis as you know has sore throat going from left to right. It is readily distinguished by the marked aggra- vation from hot drinks and after sleep.

We may also make use of Sabadilla in worms, when there are nausea and vomiting associated with a peculiar colic, as though the bowels were being whirled around like a wheel.

LECTURE XXV.

MENISPERMACEiE.

The MejiispermacecB is not a yery large order of plants, there being derived from it but one remedy that we shall consider in this course of lectures. That remedy is Cocculus Indicus. The name given to the order has been derived from the shape of the seeds.