Mix the recently expressed juice, with equal parts of alcohol. . This herb, which is one of the most powerful medicinal agents of our clime, has been frequently employed externally in cutaneous eruptions by the older physicians, but not always with the best success ; internally it seems to have been used with some benefit. — Modern physicians, knowing only their large doses, dare not use this heroic drug internally, and have therefore rejected it. I have been in the habit of using the 9th potency of this drug, but latterly I have constantly used the 30th. One single dose of that potency is sufficient to cure entirely epidemic hooping-cough,* as is shown by symptoms 50, 53, 57, 62, but especially 58, and also (87.) AllcEopathic physicians have never been able to relieve this fearful disease, which does not, like other acute diseases, pass off of itself without either terminating in death, or else tor- turing the patienl for twenty or twenty-two weeks ; they either let the children die, or else kill them by large doses of unsuit- able drugs. Camphor moderates the effects of Drosera. FROM NOACK AND TRINKS. Drosera may be used for diseases prevailing at the time of epidemic hooping-cough. Intermittent fevers, with spasmo- dic convulsive cough and gastric symptoms during the apy- rexia. Gauze before the eyes and blurred appearance of the letters. — Vanishing of sight when reading. — Farsightedness with the following symptoms : Sharp sight at a distance, very bad sight at a proximity, vanishing of sight when read- ing, the eyes see dim, blurred appearance of the letters, the eyes are dazzled by fire and the light of day, the eyelids are drawn together about the time of the menses when looking in the fire, constant dryness of the eyes and nose, frequent dry coryza. — Stitching and otalgia, especially when swallowing. — Face-ache aggravated by pressure. — Vomiting of bile or water in the morning. — Spasm in the stomach, a contraction extend- ing from the stomach to the back, and a spasmodic cough in- * The cure takes place surely between 7 or 8 days. Never give a second dose immediately after the first, no more than any other remedy; it would not only prevent the good effect of the former, but would even do considerable injury, as I know from experience. 122 DROSERA ROTUNDIFOLIA. ducing vomiting, especially in the morning, and accompanied with expectoration of mucus. — Bloody diarrhoea with hooping- cough. — Croup, when a chronic form remains, sometimes re- turning periodically, characterized by a spasmodic cough, a scraping in the bronchi ; this condition, when neglected, may terminate in spasms or even in hydrocephalus. (When the fever is very violent give Merc.) — Hooping-cough with hemorrhage from nose and mouth ; hooping-cough after measles ; hooping-cough, especially when excited by rattling of mucus in the bronchi ; Drosera has been especially useful when Ipec. had been given previously, and when the cough was characterized by suffocative symptoms, hemorrhage from nose and mouth, protrusion of the eyes, vomiting of the in- gesta, and falUng over of the patient ; according to Knorre, Drosera ought only to be used in the convulsive stage ; it then changes the convulsive cough with its whizzing sound to a catarrhal, with copious secretion of mucus in the bronchi ; nevertheless this catarrhal cough frequently retained a pecu- liar violence, and shook the whole body ; in this case Cina was the remedy when given in repeated doses. — Fits of cough, ter- minating in hemorrhages from nose and mouth, after epidemic smallpox. — Chronic hoarseness, remaining after repeated ca- tarrhs. — Chronic catarrhal affections with soreness of the larynx and decrease of the voice, which seemed to be smothered. — Cough with clawing pain in the chest and hypochondria. — Cough in a child of six years, whose mother had died with consumption, with greenish sputa, first resembling a hooping- cough, afterwards with a pain in the sternum and noise when breathing. — Violent cough of young consumptive persons, with sanguineo-purulent expectoration. — Incipient laryngeal phthi- sis ; disagreeable pressure in front, in the region of the larynx ; scratching in that part when coughing or swallowing ; striking hoarseness, short, more dry than moist cough, especially when the air is dry, sharp, and the mouth open; occasional ex- pectoration of white mucus which is but rarely streaked with blood ; sometimes difficulty of deglutition and pain in the larynx when touching it from without, or when turning the head ; lastly some difficulty of respiration, wheezing, dryness and disagreeable sensation in the back part of the throat, with . redness, aphthse, smell from the mouth during an expiration as of freshly drawn milk, indolence and decrease of strength. Phthisis with violent pains in the chest, purulent discharge, and purulent putrid taste in the mouth. DROSERA ROTUNDIFOLIA. 123