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Skunk Cabbage. Aracese.
Experiment by Bigelow, Amer. Med. Botany, vol. 2, p. 48. Symptoms in Jahr's Symptomatology are from provings by C. Hering and others.
^ Mind. Cross; impetuous; inclined to contradict.
Absence of mind and inattention; enters sick-room with- out knocking, does not listen to patient. ^ Sensorium. Vertigo and dimness of sight. ^ Inner Head. Headache on single places, lasting a short while, then changing place; dulness; pressing in tem- ples now more in one, then more in the other, with violent pulsation of arteries. Drawing in forehead in two lines from protuberances to glabella, where it draws outward as from a magnet. ^ Sight and Eyes.
Dimness of sight, with vertigo. ^ Smell and Nose. The nose is swollen as far as the nasal bones extend, red like a saddle, sore to touch, < 1. side. Cartilage cold and bloodless, with red spots on cheeks and
small pimples on 1. side of face. Violent sneezing, with pains in palate, fauces and oesoph- agus to stomach, hurting for a while after in cardiac end of stomach. ® Lower Face. Swollen submaxillary glands. ^° Teeth and Gums. Scurvy.
^^ Taste and Tongue. Numbness of tongue, cannot touch teeth with it. Papillae elevated.
Tongue red and sore on tip and edges. 13 Throat. Burning from fauces downwards through chest.
(Esophagus painful on sneezing. " Appetite, Thirst. Desires, Aversions. Inclined so smoke,
but it does not taste good. ^^ Hiccough, Belching, Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea and
vomiting. " Scrobiculum and Stomach. \¥ith every firm step, pain
in pit of stomach as from something breaking loose. ^^ Abdomen. Expansion and tension in abdomen. Pain in abdomen here and there, in single spots. When walking sensation as if the entrails were hanging loose and flabby, without any pain.
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Urinary Organs
Great urging ; urine darker. '^ Male Sexual Organs. iTitillation voluptuous, but painful,
around corona glandis. ■^ Female Sexual Organs.
Amenorrhoea. '^ Respiration.
B Spasmodic asthma.
iSudden anxiety, with dyspnoea and sweat, followed by
stool and relief of that and other complaints. Inclined to take a deep breath; with hollowness of chest;
with constriction in fauces and chest.
I I Asthma, aggravated or caused by dust. ^Heaves in horses from dusty hay. ^ Cough.
I Spasmodic cough.
I I Senile catarrh. ^* Inner Chest and Lungs.
Pain in chest and in axillae; seems to have a connection with burning in oesophagus. '" Outer Chest.
Pressing pain on sternum. ^^ Neck and Back.
Glands on throat swollen. ^' Lower Limbs.
Aching along r. cresta tibiae, '^ Rest.
Position.
Motion.
With every firm step : pain in pit of stomach as from something breaking loose.
When walking: sensation as if entrails were hanging
loose and flabby.
On sneezing: Painfulness in oesophagus. *^ Nerves.
> Hysterics.
': Epilepsy. ^'^ Sleep.
Sleepiness early in evening. ^^ Temperature and "Weather.
All complaints disappear in
open air. *^ Locality and Direction.
Right : aching along cresta tibiae.
Left: small pimples on side of face.
Outward: drawing in forehead. *^ Sensations.
Erratic and spasmodic pains.
Drawing as if from a magnet in forehead; pain in pit of stomach as from something breaking loose; as if en- trails were hanging loose and flabby, without pain.
Pain: in palate; in fauces; in oesophagus to stomach ; in pit of stomach; in abdomen here and there in single spots; in chest and in axillae.
Painful titillation: around corona glandis.
Pressing pain : in sternum.
Drawing: in forehead, in two lines from protuberances to
glabella, where it draws outward as from a magnet.
Pressing: in temples, now in one, then in the other.
Aching: along r. cresta tibiae.
Burning: extends from fauces downwards through chest.
Soreness : of tip and edges of tongue.
Violent pulsation : of arteries of temples.
Expansion and tension : of abdomen.
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Constriction : of fauces and chest.
Dulness: in head.
Numbness : of tongue.
" Tissues.
I Spasmodic asthma; senile catarrh.
■ Dropsy.
■Chronic rheumatism. *^ Touch.
Passive Motion.
Injuries.
Touch: nose sore;
tongue numb, cannot touch teeth with it. *^ Skin. ■ Herpes and cutaneous affections. *^ Stages of Life, Constitution.
Catarrh of aged persons. *^ Relations.
Compare;
Arum triph., Asaf., Mephit.