"It is an old, popular medicine in this country, for all kinds of scrofulous diseases. It grows on low, dry, mica slate hills and serpentine rocks. It is abundant at the foot of Pine Eock, New Haven, on the barren plains, and seems to be de- pendent on the presence of talc (magnesia). It is said that in tlie months of November and December these plants send out near the roots, broad, thin, curved, ice crystals, about an inch in breadth, which wilt in the day and are renewed in the morning." Proved under the supervision of Dr. Hering, by J. H. Bute, in 1835-6, with the tincture and first centesimal potency, and by Gosewich, with globules of the X, in 1837. See Bering's Monograph, Philadelphia, 1866, or Hale's New Remedies. " It has been recommended in hospital gangrene, phagsedenic ulcers, bites of rabid animals, poisoned wounds, etc., a wash to arrest fetid discharges, ozcena, leu- corrhoea, gonorrhoea, gargle in diphtheria, etc." — U.S. D. Clinical Authoeities. — Sore throat, Guernsey, Hering's Monograph ; Colic after acid fruit, Lilienthal, Hering's Mon. ; Chronic dysentery, T. J. Comstock, Am. Hom. Obs., vol. 1, p. 123; Mastitis, Pehrson & Guernsey, Hering's Mon.; Cough, with tumors on neck, D. A. Tyler, Am. Hom. Obs., vol. 3, p. 474 ; Goitre and erysip- elas, Gabalda, Hering's Mon. ; White swelling of knee-joint, Bradshaw, M. H. Rev., v. 13, p. 38 ; Intermittent fever, Marehberg, Organon, v. 3, p. 361 ; Scrofula, etc., Bute and Ives, Hering's Mon. ; Herpes, C. Hg., Hering's Mon. ^ Mind. I Cheerfulness after supper, until bedtime. I All mental excitement increases the suffering. ■ Bad effects of vexation; feels as if paralyzed. I Every mental excitement is followed by stitches in throat, producing cough. I Mental agitation increases the cough. ^ Sensorium. Vertigo. ^ Inner Head, l Headache in sinciput after being kept wait- ing for dinner; > after eating; < toward evening and lasts all night; in r. side, with piercing pain in eye. Pressure above eyes in forehead. ■ Violent pain in head; stitches from temples into ears. ^Intermittent fever. Sick headache with chilliness. * Outer Head. Forehead cold, and sensation of coolness in- side forehead, in a very warm room. ■ Pressing pain at root of nose with headache. CISTUS CANADENSIS. 212 I Head drawn to one side by swellings in neck. ^ Sight and Eyes. Pressure alDove eyes and feeling of weight. Stitches in 1. eye. Left eye most affected. I Scrofulous inflammation of long standing; feeling as if something were passing around in eye, with stitches. Spasmodic, piercing pain in middle of upper rim of r. or- bit, with some headache on that side. ^ Hearing and Ears. Itching : in ears ; intense and deep in 1. ear. I I Stitches from temples into ears, swelling below and be- hind ears. ^Intermittent fever. ■ Discharge from ears; watery, bad smelling pus; inner swelling, of ears. ■ Tetters on and around ears, extending into external meatus. Swelling beginning at ear, and extending half way uj) cheek. ■Swelling of parotids. ^ Smell and Nose. ■Cold feeling or burning in nose. ■ Frequent and violent sneezing, mostly evening and morning; chronic nasal catarrh. 1 I Left side inflamed and swollen ; burning sensation in 1. nostril. ■ Tip of nose painful. ■ Eczema of nose. ^ Upper Face. Feeling as if facial muscles would be drawn to one side. ■ Flushes of heat in face. Heat and burning in face and bones of face. I I Half way up cheek, swelling beginning at ear. ^Paro- titis. I I Vesicular erysipelas on face. ■ Sharp shooting, intolerable itching, and thick crusts, with burning on r. zygoma. I I Lupus on face. ^ Lower Face. ■Caries of lower jaw; with suppurating glands on neck. ■ Open, bleeding cancer on lower lip. I I Lupus exedens about mouth and nose. Pains in all the joints of face; drawing, tearing; < in evening. ^° Teeth and Gums. Twitching, stitching toothache in an upper 1. molar, which was decayed. ■Scorbutic, swollen gums, separating from teeth; easily bleeding, putrid, disgusting. ^^ Taste and Tongue. ■ Dryness of tongue and roof of mouth. Tongue sore, surface as if raw. 213 CISTUS CANADENSIS. Sensation of coldness of tongue, laiynx and trachea ; saliva is cool ; breath feels cold. I Impure breath. ^^ Inner Mouth. Scorbutis. 13 Throat. Coolness particularly in throat, continues all day. ■A feeling of softness in throat. I A feeling as if sand were in throat. I Continuous feeling of dryness and heat in throat, < after sleeping, eating and drinking. ■ Dryness of throat from midday until 1 to 3 a.m., then > until next noon. I A small dry spot in gullet; < after sleeping; must get up and drink ; > after eating ; throat looks glassy ; on back of throat stripes of tough mucus. ■ Must swallow saliva to relieve unbearable dryness, espe- cially during night. ■ Periodical itching in throat. Crawling-itching in throat and fauces. Rawness extending from chest into throat. Burning in throat high up in cavity posterior to uvula. ■ Stitches in throat cause cough; when mentally agitated. ■Tearing pain in throat when coughing. ■ Tickling and soreness in throat. ■ Sore throat from inhaling the least cold air, not from warm air. ■ Sore pain in throat and drjmess of tongue, in morning. ■ Fauces inflamed and dry, without feeling of dryness. ■ Hawking of mucus, tough, gum-like, thick, tasteless; mostly mornings. ■ Expectoration of bitter mucus. ■After discharging phlegm from throat he feels generally much relieved. ■ ■Scrofulous swelling and suppuration of glands of throat. ^* Thirst, Desires. ■ Desire for acid food and fruits, but pain and diarrhoea follow after eating them. ■ Desire for cheese. Thirst, with fever. ^^ Eating and Drinking. ■ Eating and drinking relieve dry throat and pain in sinciput. After eating: pain in stomach; cold feeling in stomach; after fruit or coffee, diarrhoea. ^^ Belching, Nausea. Empty and cool eructations. Eructation, with feeling as though it would relieve. ■ Frequent nausea; nausea with diarrhoea. ^^ Stomach. ■ Cool feeling in stomach before and after eating. Pain in stomach after eating, with diarrhoea. ^^ Hypochondria. Much flatulence and pain in hypochondria. Bruised pain under hypochondria, with flatulence, in morning on awaking. CISTUS CANADENSIS. 214 Stitches in 1. hypochondrium. ^^ Abdomen. iCool feeling in whole abdomen. I I Flatulence and bruised pain in hypochondria ; evening and night. Belly puffed up with flatulency. Itching of belly and umbilicus. Colic with diarrhoea. Pain in groin coming from back. ^° Stool and Rectum. iThin, greyish-yellow, hot stools, squirting out; irresistible urging; < afterpart of night until noon. I Diarrhoea : from coffee, acid fruits ; with goitre ; chronic ; in wet weather; in scrawny, scrofulous children. Discharge of much flatus. Irresistible urging to stool early in morning. Diarrhoea with desire for acid food, nausea, pain in stomach after eating, or swelling and suppuration of cervical glands. I Chronic dysentery. ^^ Male Sexual Organs. Bitching on. scrotum. ^ Female Sexual Organs. iCatamenia absent after erysip- elas. I Induration and inflammation of mammse. ■ Left mamma inflamed, suppurating, with a feeling of fulness in chest; sensibility to cold air; scrofulous. Cancer of mammse. ^^ Larynx and Trachea, i Inhaled air feels cool in larynx and trachea. Itching and scratching in larynx at night, with anxious dreams. Dryness in larynx. I Chronic itching in larynx and trachea. ■ Feeling as if windpipe had not space enough. ■ Pain in trachea. I I Goitre size of a hen's egg ; frequent diarrhoea. ^ Respiration. ■ Impure or cold breath. I Asthmatic in evening after lying down and at night; loud wheezing; sensation as if trachea had not space enough. In evening soon after lying down a sensation as if ants were running through whole body ; then anxious, diffi- cult breathing; is obliged to get up and open window; fresh air relieves him; immediately on lying down again these sensations return. I Inhaling slightest cold air causes sore throat, which he has not when inhaling in a warm room. ^ Cough. Cough < by mental agitation. I Cough from stitches in throat; with painful tearing in throat; neck studded with tumors. 215 ' CISTUS CANADENSIS. I Expectoration of bitter mucus. I After raising phlegm he feels very much relieved. ^^ Inner Chest and Lungs, i Pressure on chest. Fulness in chest. I Raw feeling in upper chest, extending up into throat. Pain in chest accompanied by desire to eructate. Pain in chest and shoulder. ^^ Outer Chest. Chest hurts when touched. Pressure on chest. • I Small painful pimples, which bleed easily and heal slowly, across shoulders and on breast. ^^ Neck and Back, ii Scrofulous swelling and suppuration of glands of throat. Itching and scratching on outside of throat near larynx. Itching on back. Below r. shoulder-blade, extending- around to front of body, a very much inflamed spot, about size of palm of hand, painfully sore to touch ; soon after pimples appear on this spot in a large group, causing violent burning ; later, rheumatoid pain from this spot into 1. hip and groin, < from motion. I Eruption on back like zoster. ■ Scrofulous ulcers on back. I I Burning, bruised pain in os coccygis, preventing sitting ; < from touch. ^^ Upper Limbs. Pain in front of r.' shoulder. I Violent pain in 1. shoulder and chest; feels as if eructa- tion would relieve it. Tearing pain in nerves of shoulder, drawing pain in uhiar nerve, pain extending to point of little finger. Periodical, sensitive, jDiercing, drawing pain in arm, ex- tending to tip of little finger, drawing it up. Right arm and back of hand painfully sensitive to least touch. Sprained pain in wrists, drawing and scraping. In the hands, drawing, trembling feelings. Bad pain on r. hand, in afternoon, so that he cannot use it. ■ Hard, thickened places on hands of workmen, with deep, oblique cracks, 1 I Tetter on hands; blisters, oozing after scratching, with hot swelling. Tearing in finger-joints. Pain in fingers (right hand) while writing. I I Panaritium. I I Tips of fingers sensitive to cold air. ^ Lower Limbs. Scrofulous hip disease, with fistulous open- ings leading to the bone, and ulcers on surface, with night sweats. CISTUS CANADENSIS. 216 Pain as from a blow or shock in 1. buttock, going down on inside of thigh bone, distinctly felt in knee-joint, and spasmodic drawing together of calf of leg. Tearing pain in sciatic nerve. Drawing, trembling feeling in lower extremities. I Pains in knee and r. thigh, walking or sitting. ■ Tearing in knees; evening. I Hard swelling around mercurial, syphilitic ulcers on legs. ■ Piercing pain in r. great toe; evening. I Cold feet. iSwelling of 1. leg, ulcer thereon; skin copper-colored. ^* Limbs in General, i Bruised pain, as from fatigue. Tearing pain in the joints. ^'^ Rest. Position. Motion. After lying down in evening : asthmatic sensation as if ants were running through whole body; anxious, difficult breathing, is obliged to get up and open window. Sitting: pains in knee and r. thigh. While writing: pain in fingers of r. hand.