Baptisia Tinctoria

(Wild Indigo.)

BoTANiCAi, DESCBirTiON This plant is indigenous, growing in most parfs of tlie "UDited States, in dry aud poor soils, in woods and on iiills. It blooms in July and August,. having bright yellow JUnoera, in small loose clusters at the ends of the branches. It resembles a shrub, and grows from one to two feet liigh, TtieJVuit is an oblong pod of a bluish black color, [t contains indigo, tannin, an acid, and haptisin.

Wlien the whole plant or any portion of it is dried, it becomes black and affords a blue dye, inferior to Indigo.

There are thirteen species of the Baptisia in the United States. Tho most important are theB. Uneloria, B. oiftii, {with white flowers,)B. leaeoRiAo. (with white flowers.) These grow in the Western States on prairies, etc. and probably possess very similar qualities to the B. fimbria, hut none have been proven hut the last named. Aa the other species may be mis- taken for the one in use in, our school, the botanical description of the B, tinctoria is here given from Wood:

"Smooth braJiching, leaves nearly destitute of a stalk, leafiett small, roundish, aeul« at base, very obtuse at apex; stipules bristly, falling off early; rtweff^ss loose, terminal ; /e^iimea nearly round. Aplant with bluish

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green foliage, freqtient in dry soila. Stem very tiushy, aLout two ftnd ;ne half feet higli. Leaflets about seven lines by four to sis long, einarginate; petiole one to two lines loag. Flowers six to twelve or more id. eacli raceme. PetaU six lines long, yellow. Legume (seed vessel) about as long as a pea- pod, on a long stipule, mostly one.seeded."

OFnciNAi. PRSa-iHATiON.— Tincture of tlie fresh bark of the root, with strong alcohol.

The B. leueantha is etiually active and trustworthy. (Bale.)

Sphere op Action. — It exerts a marked action on the blood and vascu- lar system, the nerves of sensation, and on tlie intestinal lesions common to typhoid and other low types of fevers. (Sale.)

On. the gastric mucous membrane and the great semilunar ganglion of the sympathetic nervous system. (Bayes.)

Analo&ueb. — Bryonia, Agaricm, Kali ehtorieum, Nitrie acid, Shua io^, Muriatia acid, Arsenticum, Carbolic acid.

Mental Sphere. i, uneasy friglitful dreiime, gloomy and cast down for

Indispoeition and want of power to think; unhappy; mind

seems weak. "The patient imagines he "cannot get himself together," as

if the pieces of his body were scattered about. i^Bell.) ° Stupefaction and drowsiness in typhoid, a " wild " feeling,

with the headache.

Sharp pains in both temples. DtiU, heavy, preasive headache, very mach aggravated by

Dull feeling in occiput, with pain and fulineas of the vessels. Vertigo, a confused feeling, or swimming sensation in the head.

* Peculiar feeling of the head, which is never felt except dur

ing the presence of fever, excitement of the brain, such as precedes deliriiira.

* Headache which precedes and accompanies typhoid fevers. Head feels too large, and too heavy, with numb feeling of head

and face. Soreness as if in, the hrain in frontal region, with pain, heat,

and vertigo, worse on stooping. (Muriaiio amd.) Great tightness of the skin of the forehead, it feels as if it

could be drawn to the back of the head, with pain in right

eye, and pressive pain in right temple.

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Preasive pain in the forehead, as if it wonid be pressed in,

with sliarp pain in hoth temples, very much aggravated

by motion. Severe pain in occiput, with dull, stupid feeling all over the

head, witJi sharp pain over the eyes. Brain feels numb with stitches, or shocks in various parts of

the head. Head feels heavy, as if he could not sit up, day and night,

causing a "■wild" feeling, aggravated by noise. Severe frontal headache with severe pressure at the root of the

cerebro-spinal fever, also from brain exliaustion, " Her head feels ae though scattered about, and she tosses

about the bed to get the pieces together. Eyes, Feeling as if the eyes would be pressed inio the head, with

great confusion of sight; cannot place anything till after

looking at it a few seconds. Vertigo, with sensation of paralysis of the lids, eyes smart

i feeling of the eyes; eyes unusually glistening; dispo- sition to have the eyes half closed ; soreness in front part of the head upon moving the eyes or turning them upward; soreness of the eyeballs, eyes feel swollen, witli burning and slight laehrymation ; congestion of the vea- sels of the eye, tliey look red and inflamed. Eyes feel sore and lame on moving them.

Thick mucns discharge from the nose. Severe drawing pains along the nose.

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Catarrt, with dull pain at the root of the nose.

Burning heat (if face; fafic flushed and hot; external \'essels of face distended and fnll; flashes of heat over the face, which feels flushed and vejy hot; cheeks bum.

* Profuse flow of saliva, with small vesicles and ulcers in the

Tongue feels as if it had been scraped or burnt.

* Tongue coated yellow along the centre, with flat, bitter taat«

in the mouth.

* Tongue feels dry on rubbing it against the roof of the

mouth; smarts and feels as if burned. Saliva abundant, viscid, with flat or filthy taste.

* Tongue coated white, with red papillse protuberant, followed

by yellow, brown coating in the centre, the edges red and

* Great dryness of mouth and tongue, in fevers.

° Chronic mercurial sore mouth, with fcetid breath.

" Stroraatia materna, in feeble women, with offensive breath.

Bore throat, extending to ^e posterior nares; the throat feele sore and contracted.

Soreness of the throat, with scraping and burning.

Raw sensation in pharynx, with abnndant viscid mucus.

Constrictive feeling in throat, with frequent desire to swallow.

Pricking sensation in upper part of pharynx.

Throat feels swollen and full; tonsils and soft palate injected with pain in root of tongue when swallowing.

The dryness of the mouth and tongue extends to the throat.

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" Angina, with swelling, but with imtisual absence of pavn.

{J)i: Miner.') " D-'i^ktlisriay with fcetid breath, ulcerat'ons of throat, and

great proetration.

Much distress in the stomach; severe pains every few momenta

in the cardiac region. Dnll pain in the epigastric region, frequently recurring, aggra-

* " Gone," empty feeling in stomach.

° Dyspepsia, following typhus, with great sinking at stomach, frequent fainting, and brown tongue in morning.

Feeling as if there was a hard substance in stomach.

Stitching pain in the cardiac portion of stomach.

Nauaea, with want of appetite, and constant desire for water Abdomen.

Constant pain in right hypochondriac region, with sharp, shooting pains in the bowels.

Severe colicky pains in the umbilical and hypochondriac re- gions, recurring every few seconds, with rumbling and desire for stool.

Pain in abdomen on pressure, with dull aching pain in the lumbar region on going to bed.

* Fullness of the abdomen, with borborygmus and diarrhcea. Pain in the hypogastrium, with soreness of the abdominal

niuBcles as if from a cold, or from severe coughing. '^ Distension of the abdomen, with rumbling, and a feeling as

if it would be a relief to vomit. The small and large intestines filled with bloody mucus,

(pathological appearance in a cat.) " Abdominal typhus, with ulcerations of Peyers glands.

Pain in the right hypochondriac region aggravated by walk- ing; constant dull pain in the region of the gall bladder; the pain extends to the spine.

1 the region of the liver; pain in the hver.

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■^ C.Tigeetion of the liver diiring tjplioid fever.

* Frequent, small, offensive, and acrid stools. Dysentery, with offensive, bloody discharges.

" Dysentery after confinement, with violent colicky pains in

the hypogastric region before stool, with great tenesmus;

stools pure blood with a little mucus, occurring every five

minutes. " Dysentery, with bloody, mucas evacuations, tormina, brown

coat on the tongue, with low fever. ° Autumnal dysentery, with tendency to typhoid fevers.

Urine dark red and not very copious, with burning during

emission. Shooting pains in the region of the left kidney

heart; pulsations seem to fill the chest. Difficulty of breathing; the lungs feel tight and compressed;

cannot get a full breath.

* Tightness of the chest; feeling of want of power in the

respiratory apparatus, such as is felt during fever. Constriction and oppression of the chest.

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Oppressed respiration; sharp pains in the chest when tating a long hreath; throbbing in the heart so ae to be die- tinetly heard.

Awoke with great difficulty of breathing, the lungs feel tight and compressed ; could not get a full breath ; felt obliged to open the window, to get my face to the fresh air.

° Dyspncea during the low stages of typhoid.

Dull heavy pain in the lumbar region, very much aggravated by walking.

Back and hips are very stiff and ache severely.

Chills up and down the back as if ague were coming on.

Dull heavy aching in the lumbar region on going to bed at night; flashes of heat from the small of the back in all directions.

Upper Extremities.

Stifihess of the joints as if strained, and twitching in the left deltoid, and latissimus dorsi of left side.

Soreness of muscles of neck; muscular debility; feeling of weariness in the right arm and shoulder.

Hands feel too large, and are tremulous with a thrilling sen- sation as if going to sleep.

Iiower Extremities,

Dull drawing pains in right groin and testicle; also in the legs and knee joints.

Burning heat of feet; feeling of pulsation.

Dull pain in the sacrum, extending round the hips and down the right leg.

Extremities feel hot, except the feet, which are cold.

Cramp in the calves when walking.

Aching in the limbs; heat and bni'ning in the lower extremi- ties so intense as to prevent sleep most of the night.

A general redness, like Erythema, all over the body.

" A hot, pnngent, but moist skin (in typhoid fever).

" Intense heat of tlie skin, which may be dry or moist.

Heavy sleep, with feverish feeling on waking.

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Feeling of greatly increased compass and frequency of the

* The feverish heat, at night, compelled him to move to a cool

* Burning sensation over the whole body, followed by perspi-

ration, vomiting and diarrhoea of dark stools, debility,

* Heat and burning in the lower exti-emities so intense as to

prevent sleep.

* Chill all day, with fever at night; rheumatic pains and sore-

ness all over the iody; mouth arid tongue vevy dry.

* ^everishness, with feeling all over as if hrvised; the parts

on which lie is lying soon ache, and feel sore and hruised. " Typhoid fever, in the premonitory stage of bilious, gastric,

or catarrhal origin — or from impure exhalations^ it will

disease, and bring about a rapid convalescence. (^Hale.) ° Typhus fever, with heavy sleep, unconsciousness, delirious

muttering, etc. " Fmers, with drowsiness; pnlse one Imndred and twenty, and

thready; lips parched and cracked; pasty tongue, h

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Gastric fevers, with naneea, vomiting, dry, baked tongue, rapid pulse, tenderness of the abdomen, diarrbcea. {J. JECarmer Smith.)

' Scarlet fever, with dark-red eruption; dry, brown tongue, inclined to be red in the centro; fiBtid breath; stupor; fever; dysenteric stools. {Hale.)

■ Cata/rrhal fever, or influenza, when the prostration is excess- ive, and the sore, bruised pains and sensations predomi- nate. {Hale.)

" Bilious fevers^ gastric fevers j enteric fevers; septic fevers.

Tevers setting in during dysentery, or any intestinal affec- tion, and assuming a low type. [Hale.)

° Puerperal fevers, from absorption of purulent matters, or from infection.

The hands felt large, and were tremulous, with a peculiar thrilling sensation through both hands and feet, some- what like going to sleep^a want of circulation.

Intolerance of pressure on any part of the body — it caused

Numb sensations a!l over the body.

Sensation of paralysis of the eyelids.

Numbness and prickling, followed by temporary paralysis of

and prickling of left side of face and head. GeueraJities. * Feels weak and tremulous, as though recovering from a fit of

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* A sensation all over the lody as if bruised oi beaten.

Very great prostration of the whole system.

It prevents too rapid metamorphosis of tissues during illnesses, or from too long sustained mental and physical exertions.

BAROSMA CRENATAS.

(Buchu.)

BoT.usiOAL Description, — It is a slender, smooth, upright, perrenial slirub, between two and three feet in lieiglit, witli twiggy, somewhat angu- lar branolies, of a brownish purple color, growing in various parts of South America.

Officinal Prbparation — Tincture from (lie leaves, with dilut« alcohol.

Analo&uks. — Copai'ea, OMmapMla, ErigeriMi, Ter^biiUhina, Uva. arti.

by mttco-pitmlent secretions. ° Chronic inanimation of the pelvis, of the kidneys, and moeons membranes of the bladder, attended with copious discharge of mucus. ° Irritable bladder, from vesical catarrh, " Irritable conditions of the iirethra, as spasmodic stricture. ° Gleet, witli profuse discharge,

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BROMIDE OF CAMFHOK.

" Undue eeeretion from the mncoue follicles of the urethra, the vesiculfe seminales or prostate, produced by excesBive venery, or self-polution. {Stille.)

BROMIDE OP CAMPHOR.

(Monolrromide of Camphor.)

Officinal Pbepabation. — TrituratimiB.

ANALOorBS. — Ambergris, C^ea, Otmieijkga, (f) Qel8imiinum,{?) Gonium, (?) SeuUUaria, Thea, Valerian.

* Cerebral congestion, with great nervous erethism. (^.)

* Cerebral ansemia, with coldness, torpor and debility, (s.)

* Headache from mental excitement or excessive study, (p.)

* Headache from auEemia, with sleeplessness, (s.)

Qeuerative Organs. Debility, coldness and relaxation of the generative organs, {p.)

(in man.) Absence of sexual desire or power (_p.) in both sexes.

* Sexual erethism, spasmodic erections, emissions, etc. (s.)

* Hysterical conditions, mania, etc., from irritation of the sex-

ual organs. («,)

* Epileptiform, hysteric and choreiform spasms, [p.) *Ooldneas of the body and extremities, with cramps and

jactitations. [In cats and Guinea pigs it causes; A lesseuing of the number of the pulsations of the heart/ and

it determines the contractions of the auricular muscles.

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Diinmishes tlie number of inspirations. Lowers the temperature in a regular manner, (p.) Increase of the temperature of the body. {«.) ° It calms tlie cerebro- spinal nervous system and the circula- tion. "Tremblings, excitability, insomnia and visual delusions, " Insomnia with heart disease. (3 grs.) ° Insomnia (in locomotor ataxia) with nightmare. {13 grs.) ° Chorea, not able to walk or lie in bed. {16 grs. palliated.) ° Paralysis agitans. {4 to 15 grs. caused amendment.) ° Chorea in the left arm.

(9 grs. daily, cured in five days.) ° Hysterical chorea with vomiting. {9 grs. daily, rapidly cured.) ° Inenflicieney of tlio mitral valve. {Digitaline aggravated; under the Brom. Camph. the heart-beats diminished in frequency and became regular for two weelcs after.) " Nocturnal incontinence of urine, (cured by 6 grs.) " Paralysis agitans. {much relieved.)

(See Therapeutics, Vol. II.)