Lowitz, a German, discovered the properties of vegetable charcoal to deoderize and arrest putrefaction. It was first employed in medicine with success, externally, to fetid ulcers and eruptions, afterwards internally for flatulence, its employment all the while being based upon its chemical properties. Hahnemann was the first who elucidated that the dynamic influence was the only curative one, by proving the triturated vegetable charcoal on healthy persons and then applying it in practice. His experi- ments were made on twenty or thirty different persons, who strictly ob- served dietetic rules and kept themselves strictly aloof from all medicinal influences. The cruder preparation failed to produce any symptoms of im- portance, but after potentization was carried farther on, a steadily increas- ing number of symptoms was produced in sensitive persons and in animals. He used the Carho ligni betulse, but assures us that well-prepared charcoal acts in the same manner, irrespective of the kind of wood used. The provings by Adams, Gersdorf and Caspari in the Materia Medica Pura, 1827, contained 720, the Chronic Diseases, 18P>0, including the former, 930; the second edition, in 1837, 1189 symptoms. We have had no provings since, excepting one by C. Neidhard, with the second centesimal tritura- tion, which is included. The charcoal contains carbonate of potash. For remarks on its use in yellow fever, see Chapt. 40. ^ Mind. Falls down insensible. B Stupor, collapse. iMemory feeble, flow of ideas slow; tendency to fixed ideas. Periodical Want of memory ; headache as if integuments of head were contracted ; hat presses on head as a heavy bur- den ; when taking off hat, he feels as if a handkerchief were tied round head ; creeping in integuments of occiput as if hairs were in motion. I Confusion of head, making thinking diflScult ; morning on waking ; he had to make great exertion, as if arousing him- self from a dream. When it became dark in her room, frightful shapes appeared before her eyes ; started from anxious dreams. Flightiness at night. Voluptuous fancies. 1 Quiet delirium. ^Typhus. Frequent screaming. iBlndilFerence; heard everything without feeling pleasantly or unpleasantly, and without thinking of it. Lack of cheerfulness in evening. CARBO VEGETABILIS. 326 Feels unhappy with every little pain. Nightly fear of ghosts. ^Worm affections. H Anxiety. 8 Anxiety: as if oppressed; with heat in face; accompanied by shuddering ; on closing eyes ; in evening after .lying down ; on awaking. Great anxiety and heat with pains. Trembling anxiety in morning. Anxiety and uneasiness causing him to tremble all over, as if he had committed a crime, ending in weeping, even before strangers ; painful hiccough in oesophagus. ■ Very irritable, excitable and inclined to anger. I Peevish, wrathful; child wishes to vent itself in rage, strikes, kicks, bites. ^Worm affections. Obstinacy. Much excited in evening, with distended veins. I Restless, anxious; 4 to 6 p.m. BEasily frightened or startled. ^Dysentery. Starting with fright on going to sleep. Worse after mental exertion. ^ Sensorium, l Vertigo: with momentary attacks of fainting; had to hold on to something; from quick movements of head ; with dark color of face ; with nausea, particularly on- looking out of window ; when stooping, ■< walking and sitting; from flatulence; venous stasis; especially after a debauch ; in bed ; when sitting up after sleep. B Vertigo, with pain in forehead. ^Chronic catarrh. I Whirling in head, whole day. I Confusion of head, which makes thinking difficult. I I Fainting after sleep, after rising, or while yet in bed, morn- ings ; belching ; caused by debilitating losses, or abuse of mercury. ^ Inner Head. I Violent tearing in forehead, at a small spot near temple. iPain in r. side of forehead and head. ^Intermittent fever. I Aching or beating over eyes, or in whole head, commencing at nape of neck ; •< evening after a meal, with congestion to head ; after a debauch. iPressive headache just over eyes, with tears ; eyes pain on moving them. I Pressure across forehead, weighing down eyelids, < by weight of hat. 8' Pressure in forehead, temples and vertex. Frontal headache with vertigo. B Sensation as if a strap were drawn tightly across forehead. I I Pressive pain on vertex, with soreness of hair to touch. Stitching headache extending to occiput, in evening. i Tearing and drawing in 1. side of occiput. 327 CAREO VEGETABILIS. llDull headache in occiput; violent pressive pain in lower portion of occiput ; feeling of weight. Sensation of emptiness in head, with hunger. I Burning in head ; head and hands hot. I I Head feels heavy as lead. Sensation of electric shocks in head. Sensation in head as of humming of bees. I Painful throbbing in head, during inspiration. Throbbing with heat in head and fulness, after a meal and in evening. Pulsating in head, as though he would be attacked by paralytic stroke. I Headache as from constriction of scalp. Constrictive headache, with nausea,. I Painful stitches through head, when coughing. Headache : causing nausea ; with great weakness, faintness and pain in every limb ; from becoming over-heated ; on awaking from sleep ; with burning here and there on body, in morning. I Rush of blood to head, followed by nosebleed. I Congestion to head, with spasmodic constriction, nausea and pressure over eyes, feeling of coryza; from over -heated rooms. Awakes with sensation of congestion of brain. Acute pain in head extending to upper maxilla. * Outer Head. >Head painfully sensitive to pressure, especially of hat ; < from taking cold or chilling of head, and from getting warm in bed. I Scalp painful to touch. ilHat pressed upon head like a heavy weight, and he con- tinued to feel the sensation even after taking it off, as if head were bound up with a cloth. Pressing and burning tearing on outer head, especially in mus- cles of occiput and nape of neck ; > from sitting quietly in warm room. I Sensation of contraction in integuments of head, which causes a cramp-like tension in brain, < from pressure of hat and over-heating, > from uncovering head. I Head sensitive to cold, easily becomes chilled, especially after over-heating and sweating of it; affections following it are < in morning and on walking in open air, > in warm room. I I Sweat on forehead, often cold. Inclination to lie and rest with head high. Feeling as if hair stood on end. Falling out of hair (after severe diseases or abuse of mercury), with great sensitiveness of scalp to pressure. I Hair falls out, < on back of head; scalp itches in evening. CARBO VEGETABILIS. 328 when warm in bed ; occasioned by severe illness or after parturition. ® Sight and Eyes. lEyes dull, lustreless, deep-set, pupils do not react to light. ^Typhus. I Black spots floating before eyes; also flickering, flames and rings. Objects near her constantly become narrower and smaller. I Eyes become weak and ache, from overwork or fine work ; myopia. ■ Pressure and aching in eyeballs. Pains in eyes after lying down. Eyes pain in evening. I i Burning in eyes. Pressing and burning in eyes. I Feeling of sand in eyes. ^Intermittent fever. I Heavy weight seems to rest on eyes ; must make exertion to distinguish letters when reading. iMuscles of eye pain, when looking up. On attempting to speak, motion of eyes as from stitches in them. 1 Hemorrhage from eyes, generally with burning. ^Conges- tion to head. ^Whooping-cough. Burning and pressure in canthi. I Itching about eyes and in margin of lids, particularly in morning. Lids agglutinated. I I Discharge of thick, flesh-colored, offensive moisture from r. eye. Lachrymation. ;rAching pain in orbits and in eyeballs passing to back of head; paroxysm passes away for a few minutes and then returns ; > on walking in open air, < on lying down. * Hearing and Ears. Hearing very acute. ■ Ringing in ears ; buzzing. Rustling in ears, as of straw, whenever jaws are moved ; dis- charge of a thickish, flesh-colored, badly -smelling liquid from ear ; painful eruption on upper lip. Roaring in ears accompanies vertigo; with scanty ear-wax. Illusions of hearing ; he thought he heard some one approach- ing his bed. I Deafness, particularly after acute exanthema or abuse of mer- cury ; ears too dry. Tearing and aching in ears from within outwards. ■ Ulceration of internal ear and discharge of pus. I Something heavy seems to lie before ears ; they seemed stop- ped, hearing not diminished. ■ Deficient or badly smelling cerumen. ■Yellow ear-wax with dryness of ears. 329 CARBO VEGETABILIS. ■ Offensive otorrhoea. External ears swollen and hot. iPain from r. ear down neck, on turning head ; after itch-like eruptions. I Left ear hot and red every evening. ■ Parotitis, swelling grows hard. ^Mumps. ^ Smell and Nose, l Nosebleed: before attack of fainting; several times daily for weeks ; face pale before and after every at- tack ; after straining at stool ; small, intermittent pulse ; after debauch ; in old or debilitated people ; after fevers. ■ Frequent copious and easy epistaxis ; < at night or in fore- noon, followed by pain over chest ; blood thin and black, generally < at night ; excited by emotions or jarring. ■ Ineffectual desire to sneeze, with crawling in 1. nostril. ■ Frequent sneezing, with constant and violent crawling and tickling in nose ; lachrymation and biting pain in and above nose. ^Hay asthma. I Dry nasal catarrh ; nares obstructed. ■ Severe coryza, with hoarseness and rawness on chest. ^Hay asthma. ■ Watery fluid discharge from nose, or stoppage, < towards evening. Stoppage of nose. ' ■Nasal catarrh, with sore throat. ^Measles. ■ Drawing in root of nose. ■ Itching of nose, particularly around nostrils. ^Coryza. ■ Nose pointed ; hippocratic face. ^ Upper Face. BFace: very pale; grayish - yellow ; greenish; hippocratic. ■ Pale face, flushes to roots of hair after a little wine. ^Asthma. ■ Drawing and aching pains in facial nerve. ■ Tearing pains in 1. half of face. ■ Jerking tearing in r. upper maxilla. ■ Facial and maxillary bones sore. ■Jerk-like tearing in 1. zygoma, in front of ear, in evening, in bed. I I Drawing pain in upper and lower jaw on both sides, with drawing in head and confusion of it. ■ Soreness of facial bones of upper and lower jaws. ■ Face hippocratic. ^Typhus. I Corpse-like face. ■ Cold sweat on face. ■ Face cold; tongue cold and contracted. Glowing redness of face with a fine network of capillaries as if marbled. ■ Swelling of upper lip and cheeks with jerking pain. ■ Red cheeks; sometimes red and covered with cold sweat. CARBO VEGETABILIS. 330 Painful eruptions on upper lip ; the vermilion border is covered "with pimples. ■ Acne in face of young people. 1 1 Parotitis. Herpetic eruptions in face. I Lupus vorax in face. ^ Lower Face. > Brown, or blackish-looking cracked lips. ■ Swelling of lips. Lower lip red and swollen on inside, preventing her from speaking. ■ Quivering or twitching of upper lip. Chattering of chin. ^° Teeth and Gums. Tearing in incisor teeth. I Teeth feel long and are sore. ■ Drawing and tearing pain in molars. ■ Tearing in teeth from hot, cold or salt food; < when touched with tongue. Pain in teeth on 1. side, < in open air, > after eating. Toothache: constricting; clucking; from cold and warm sub- stances taken into mouth. ■ ■Looseness of teeth, with bleeding of gums, which are very sensitive. ■ Teeth decay rapidly. ■ Sore pain in gum during day. ■ ■Gum painfully sensitive when chewing. I Gum retracts from lower incisors. ■ When sucking gum, pure blood flows into mouth, in forenoon, returning several days at same time. ■ Bleeding of teeth when cleaning them. ■ Pustules on gum ; gum-boils. ■ Aphthaa or thrush. ■ Teeth and gum affections from abuse of mercury. ^^ Taste and Tongue. ■ Bitterness on palate, tongue dry. • 8 Bitter taste before and after eating. ■ Bitter taste, with clean tongue, particularly in old women. ■ Sour taste in mouth after eating. ■ Saltish taste. ■ Tongue heavy, with difficult speech. ■ Tip of tongue raw and dry ; heat in mouth. ■ Sensitiveness of tongue, with rawness in it. ■ Glossitis when tongue becomes indurated. ■ ■Tongue turns black. ^Typhus. ^Yellow fever. ■ Tongue red and dry, or covered with dirty crust. ^Typhus. ■ Tongue: white; coated with yellow-brown mucus; lead- colored; blue, sticky, moist; dry, parched, fissured; black. ■ ■ Tongue cold. ^Asiatic cholera. ^Yellow fever. ^Typhus. Small ulcers sc'attered through mouth; grayish color, burning like live coals; the ulcers are small, gray, deep and isolated. 831 CARBO VEGETABILIS. '- Inner Mouth. B Mouth and breath cold. ^Cholera. ^Yellow