(Express the juice from the recent root of the plant, and mix it with equal parts of spirits of brandy.) The ancient physicians supposed that this plant might be used against bilious diseases because of its looking yellow. This induced modern physicians to extend its application, and to employ it in diseases of the liver. Although this drug has evidently been useful in certain affections of that organ, yet they are so various, their origin and the concomitant symptoms of the organism are so different in different cases, and the cases where the drug is said to have been useful, have been described with so little accuracy, that it is impossible, from such indica- tions, to tell when the Chelidonium may be used with the certainty of success. And yet no drug should be used as a re- medial agent unless we know its properties and remedial vir- tues. The praise which is bestowed upon a drug ah usu in morbis, is very general and unsafe, and so much more in the case of the Chelidonium majus, as it has almost always been used in combination with other agents, Dandelion, etc., and the so-called amara being used as adjuvantia. No discreet practitioner will be satisfied with the general indications alluded to above ; he will never consent to use a remedial agent the virtues of which have not been previously ascertained with the utmost minuteness and correctness by provings upon the healthy body. The following list of symptoms is by no means perfect, but it reveals curative powers which no one had suspected in this drug ; the homoeopathic practitioner will know how to avail himself of the indications which I furnish. Hahnemann has furnished the following symptoms of this drug : (Vanishiug of the senses.) Stitching headache in the ver- 70 CHELIDONIUM MAJUS. tex, ill paroxysms, especially when walking fast. Contractive headache. (Titillating itching it the eyeballs.) He imagined a daz- zling spot was before his eye, and when he looked into it, lachrymation ensued. Tremor and twitchings in the tip of the nose. Digging-up tearing in the antrum highmorianum. (a. 3 h.) Diminished thirst. Nausea with inchnation to vomit (in- duced by the external use of the drug.) Tension across the epigastrium. Colic. Pain over the left hip, as if a sac were forming in that region. Emission of a quantity of flatulence. Diarrhoea, three times a night. Mucous diarrhoea. Reddish urine (from using the drug externally). The urine was emitted from ten to twelve times a day, and several times in the night, a large quantity being emitted every time. (a. 24 h.) Burning in the urethra, immediately before the emission. Stitching and cutting in the urethra during micturition and mo- tion of the body. Asthma. Drawing, in the left fore-arm, and moving thence into the palm of the hand, which experienced a twitching motion. The left wrist-joint felt stiff", in the evening. A sort of stagna- tion, and a stiffness in the right wrist-joint, felt only during motion. A few red pimples, with white tips, on both thighs, charac- terized by a corrosive itching. The anterior surface of the thigh goes to sleep, with fine stinging and erosive pain (from applying the plant externally). Stiffness in the tarsal joint, as if sprained. (Apoplectic insensibility and numbness of the whole body, with trembling, the pulse being unaltered.) Diminution of an- imal heat. OBSERVATIONS OP OTHERS.