For general effects and experiments with the crude drug, see Allen's Ency- clopedia, vol. 5, p. 264. We need provings, particularly with the higher potencies, to bring out the finer characteristics of the drug. Clinical Authorities. — Melancholy and loss of memory ; Affection of mind at climacteric period, Wesselhoeft, N. E. M. G., vol. 8, p. 520 ; Incipient basilar menin- gitis, Hale's Sympt., p. 117; Diphtheria, Noack, (Ehme's Therap., p. 44; Diabetes mellitus (2 cases), Begbie, Hale's Therap., Cholera infantum (157 cases reported cured), Caro., Hale's Therap. ; Polypus of rectum, Helmuth, B. J. H., vol. 29, p. 745 ; Nymphxymania, Hale, N. A. J. H., vol. 13, p. 212; Ovarian e7ilargement, Hughes, B. J. H., vol. 28, p. 793 ; Ovarian cyst, Black, Trans. World's Horn. Con., 1876, p. 763; Eaue's Kec, 1870, p. 244; Menstrual disorders, Cowley, Trans. H. M. S. Pa., 1876, p. 439 ; Puerperal eclampsia, Woodbury, Eaue's Eec, 1872, p. 193 ; Capillary bronchitis, Blakelock, Eaue's Eec, 1872, p. 11 ; Epilepsy, menstrual or hys- terical (15 cases), Locock, N. A.J. H., vol. 13, p. 210; Epilepsy, Cook, B. J. H., vol. 24, p. 330; (3 cases), Hubbell, N. E. M. G., vol. 3, p. 94; (3 cases), Neidhard, Trans. Horn. Med. Soc. Pa., 1881, p. 354. ^ Mind. Unconscious of what is occurring around them ; can- not recognize, nor be comforted by their friends. iLoss of memory. I Memory absolutely destroyed ; anaemia ; emaciation. ■ Loss of memory, despondency, inability to concentrate mind on any object; constant worry, fears to see people or to be spoken to; vertigo, with falling, < from stoop- ing; failure of mental and bodily strength ; pricking sensation all over body, palpitation; constantly busy, tying his shoes, fumbling in his pockets, picking threads, etc. ^Mental derangement. ■ Loss of memory, forgets how to talk, absentmindedness. I I Loss of memory; had to be told the word before he could speak it. 6/ Amnesic aphasia. ■Single words forgotten; syllables are dropped. I Inability to express oneself I I Mentally dull, torpid; perception slow, answers slowly. ■ Imagines he is singled out as an object of divine wrath; extreme drowsiness. Imagines she is a devil; cannot sleep; fears to be alone. I I Positive delusions of various kinds. I I Delusions during and after delirium tremens. KALI BROMATUM. 860 III! first stage with horrid iUusions, flushed face, red 63^68, and hard and quick pulse. ^Delirium tremens. I I Frightful imaginings at night (in pregnant women during latter months), they are under impression that they have committed, or about to commit, some great crime and cruelty, such as murdering their children or husbands. Hallucinations of sight and sound, with or without mania, precede brain and paralytic symptoms. I Delirium, with delusions; thinks he is pursued ; will be poisoned; is selected for divine vengeance; that her child is dead, etc. I Delirium tremens, in first or irritative stage ; face flushed ; eyes red ; delirium active; horrid illusions ; hard, quick