Xantoxylum Fraxineum

{Priekly Ash)

BOTAMICAL Descriptob. — A shrub, ten or twelve feet in height, with

alternate branchm, which are armed with sh-ong, conical, brown prickles,

with a broad base, scattered irregularly, thougli most frequently in pairs

al Uie InBertios of the young branches. The leavet are alt^'nate and

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pinnale, tlio Icflflets about flye pairs, wtth aD odd one, nearly sessile, ovate, acuto, with slight vesicular serratures, somewhat doway underneath. The common petiole is rouud, usually prickly on the back, an (J sometimes unarmed. Thefii^eevi are in small, dense, sessile umbels, near the origin of the young hi'ancheB ; they are small, greenish, ditecioua, or polygamous, appear before tlie leaves, and liave a somewhat aromatic odoi .

[The X. Caralinianum is the only othei' indigenous species. It is found only in the Southern States, and is a large tree, sometimes growing forty feet high, and having a diameter of ten or twelve inches.]

Officikal Prbpakations. — Tincture of tlie beiries and bark ; dilutions.

Analootjes. — Oamp/tora, Ammoitium, carhonicam, Asa/nim,, Yeratruia alhum.

Meutal Sphere, Great despondency; irritability. Anguish about tlie chest. Fearfnlness; terrible nervous frightened feeling.

Dull pain in the loft ear; ringing in the right ear.

Fhient coryza. Discharge of bloody scales of mucus from the nose, right side.

Pain in the right jaw-socket. Dull pain in the left side of the lower jaw.

Ptyalism; tongue coated yellow.

Tln'obbing in the throat, and sensation of swelling, tvith expectoration of tough mucus.

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658 XiNTHOXYLUM FHAXINEUM.

A, " bmicli " in left side of throat wlien swallowing.

Aphonia, from cold or general debility.

Fullness and pressure at the epigastrinrn, witli colic pain in right iliac region.

Rumbling, with soreness on pressure.

"Epidemic dysentery, characterized by spasmodic tenesmns, intestinal spasms, tympanitis, etc.

Inodorons discharges, with tenesmus.

° Oholera, in the stage of collapse (when Yei'atrum album fails). tTrinary Organs.

Profuse and light colored urine.

Generative Organs.

TTumeTi,— Menses too soon.

Profuse menses, with violent pains.

" Leucorrhcea, with amenorrhcea. ° After paias

° Menorrhagia, and threatened abortion.

'^ Amenorrhcea, recent. {^Dr. Oullis.)

" Amenorrhcea for ^m months; face and legs (edematous; very nervous, sensitive to the least noise, hysterical mood; voice tremulous; fears she is going to die; general clilor- otic appearance, constipation, scanty, frequent and dark nrine; (the 1st dil. cured this case in a few weeks.) (I^.)

" Amenorrhea for five months; with severe pains over right ovary; constant headache; bearing down and tension in hypogastric region, (the 1st, soon relieved the pain in the head, and restored the menses in a few days.) (/5.)

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" Amenorrhcea from getting the feet wet; ]asting six months. Symptoms: emaciation, with cough; dirtj-gi-aj expector- ation; pale face, night sweats, (cured in a short time by the 1st.) {Ih.)

° Ovwrian and sacral pains Awning pregnancy. (li.)

" Ovarian pains, with scanty and retarded menses. (Tb.)

° DystnmyyrrhcRa, with agonizing pains, driving patients almost distracted. {Dr. CuUi^.)

Oppression of the chest, with a desire to take deep inspiration.

Shortness of breath.

Tightness of the chest; difficulty to inflate the chest.

Pain in the left side, under the fourth rib. Arms.

Fain in the right shoulder and arm.

Pain and pricking feeling in the right arm, extending to the third finger.

Krrmhness of the left arm.

Pricking and throbbing sensation in the left arm and fingers. Legs.

Exeeesire weakness of the lower Hmbe.

Pain in the left leg, between hip and knee.

Prickling sensations extending to the whole body and extreme ties.

Gentle ahocl^, like electricity, pouring through the body.

iN'umbness all tlirough left side of the body.

° Paralysis of single members.

" Hemiplegia, after Nux vomica failed.

Fever, with flushed and hot face, followed by great depressioa

Flashes of heat from head to foot.

Nausea, followed by chills.

° Typhoid fever, in the stage of collapse.

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tJCO ZIZIA ISTEOKKIMA..

ZIZIA INTEGEEIMA.

(Golden Aler'tnder.)

BoTABiCAi. Description op Z Ibthoekima.. — Stem smooth, erect, glau- cous, one to two feet tigh; leases, bi or tri-ternale : leaflets entii'e, ovate, oblong, one inch or more in length, petiolate; rayi of the umbels \^ry slender, two or three inches long, about thirteen in number, with minute involueels or none; seeds terate or five-angled.

"The root of this plant is very large, sometimes the size of a small wrist or a large thamb, very soft and spongy, perfectlj white internally with a weak, not unpleasant odor, a weak, swePtiih irimatic taste not very unlike that of sweet cicely; not pungent or disagreeable Swine ire very fond of it, and eat it eagerly." (J}r. J. B. Dniglas )

It is doubtful if Z. integerima is .capable of causing poisonous aymn-

The Zizia Aurea has been removed from that genus, and is now ca'.led the T/iaspium awream. I am satisfied that the symptoms recorded in the pathogenesis under that plant, belong to the Thaspium. I have therefore placed it under thai name. (Sale.)

(See "Thaepium ay^eum.")

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APPENDIX

SYMPTOMATOLOGY OF NEW REMEDIES,

E. M. HALE, M.D.

This Appendix contains all the remedies mentioned in the last edition of Therapeutics of New Remedies, and not mentioned in the last edition of Sympiomaioloffy.

It gives the latest provings of such remedies, or the oharacter- istie symptoms of their pathogeneses.

If no provings of the drug have been made, the curative or clinical symptoms are given.

The description, officinal preparation, etc., of each remedy is given, as in the body of this work.

The author has aimed to bring this volume, by means of this Appendix, fully up to the date of this writing.

E. M. H.

Chicaoo, January Isl, 1882.

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AISTOHIA CONSTEIOTA,

Desoriptiom. — A tall shrub or tree, belonging to the order of Apoeynacete, indigenous to tlie colonies of New South Wales and Queensland. Pebpabatios. — Tincture of the bark. Triturations of Alatonin.

Invariably produces great debility and general prostration. Low fever often, with diarrhcea. When pushed sufficiently far, rigors, sweats (usually cold), and other symptoms resembling fever and ague. [Gdhcart.)

° Intermittent fever, especially after the abuse of quinine.

° Great debility during convalescence from acute diseases of every kind.

° Summer diarrhcea in hot climates, with passage of undigested food.

" Malarial dysentery, or from bad water impregnated with de- cayed vegetable matter,

° Camp diarrhcea and dysentery of soldiers.

° Atonic diarrhcea.

° Typho- malarial fever?

AMMONIUM lODATTJM.

[Iodide of Ammonia.)

DFStBiPiiON. — -The Iodide of atamonia is made hj mixing the Iodide of potaosium ind the Sulphate of ammonia in boiling water, and cooling the mixture Altohol is then added, and the mixture cooled W below 40° C. This 13 filtered and evaporated. The ciyatala are granulai', white, and deli- quescent It diesolves freely in water and alcohol, the Bolntions beajming yellow on exposure.

Pkbpaeation. ^Triturations,

(° No Frouings.) ° Chronic, persistent headache in young or full-fed persons. " Headaches, caused by close rooms or confinement indoors. " Headache in school duldrcR,

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664 AJIYL KITKITE.

AMYL HITEITE.

(Nitrileqf Aiayl) Phakmacoloqy.— See page 42 of Symptomatology.

* Btaiing, throbbing, burning sensation in the head and ears, with

eonsiricti<m of the throat and heart.

Pace, ° Flushing and perspirations of the face and neck of women at

the change of life. ° Neuralgia of the fifth nerve. ° Supraorbital neuralgia.

Byes, Under the ophthalmoscope the vdns of the dish were seen, to become enlarged, varicose and tortuous.

Much throbbing in tlte ears.

* Tinnitus aurium.

* Epistaxis.

Btomaoh.

° Spasm of the stomach (Dr. Austie), very Buecessful in sea- sickness (by inhalation and internaHy), ° Hiccough.

Generative Organs. " "Violent dysmenorrhtea with scanty menstruation.

Chest and Respiration.

A feeling of constriction in the throat extended to the chest, and ■produced dyspncea and asthmatic feeling in the larynx and trachea with desire to eructate.

" Asthma, it removes the dyspncea immediately and prevents its return.

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ASTIMOSIUM AESEKITDM. 665

Heart and Circulation.

* Pr<ecordiat anxiety.

* The becding of the heart and of the carotidi, is in &oiue pers<ms

very marked.

* Acaeleraied heart-adion, with increaxtd frequency of cardiao

pulsations.

* Great cardiac oppression and tumultuou's heart-action.

* An aching pain and constriction around the heart.

It invariably quickens the pulse, sometimes doubling its pace. " Angina pectoris with throbbing of the heart and carotids as high aa the ears.

* Angina pectoris with great agony (Dra. Brunton, Auatie, and

Tired feeling of the limbs.

° A severe burning sensation over the loins, from whence a glow of beat spreads over the whole body, followed by perspiration.