HOMCEOPATHIC

THERAPEUTICS,

THIRD, REWRITTEN AND ENLARGED EDITION.

BY

SAMUEL LILIENTHAL, M.D. ///

PHILADELPHIA :

HAHNEMANN PUBLISHING HOUSE. 1890.

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Copyrighted by Samuel Lilienthal, M.D., 1890.

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The Author.

PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION.

Once T was young, but now I am old ; and I feel grateful for the great help which my son, Professor James E. Lilienthal, M.D., afforded me in publishing the work. I am indebted to him for all the repertory work ; and proof-reading would have been to us an irksome labor, if the Globe Printing House did not excel in sending clean proofs, for which they have our most cordial thanks. My task is done; and if ever a Fourth Edition will be necessary, I can leave that work now in conscientious hands. Take this Third Edition as the old man's testament to his many students and younger colleagues, for your success rejuvenates your old teachers. Though three years' faithful work was necessary to collate and critically examine every symptom, still it can only be considered as an aid in studying up a case. Perfection is impossible, and such a work can never be expected to be finished. It is for the physicians to give us clinical reports and verifi- cations, and it is the duty of the reviewer to sift them carefully, whether he can accept the grain of wheat, or throw it aside among the chaff which encumbers too much our literature. Let every man and every woman do his and her duty, and our Materia Medica will be a pura, free from dross, and then acceptable to all physicians, so that gradually a work can be issued worthy to be named

ftomoeopatnic therapeutics.

Samuel Lilienthal, M.D.

San Fkancisco, Cal., 1316 Van Ness Avenue, April 1st, 1890.

Homeopathic Therapeutics.

ABSCESSES, Internal and external.

Internal abscesses generally require the same remedies as external. A preference should be given :

a. For acute abscesses, to : 1, Bell., Hep., Merc, SiL; 2, Apis, Ars., Asa., Bry., Cepa, Cham., Hep., Lach., Led., Mez., Phos., Puis., Sulph.

b. For chronic abscesses, whether cold or occasioned by congestions, to : Asa., Aur., Calc, Carb. v., Con., Hep., Iod., Laur., Lye, Mang., Merc, Merc, cor., Xitr. ac, Phos., Sep., SiL, Sulph.

Further, if there arises on any internal or external part a painful, red, inflamed swelling, which may point and form a suppurating swelling, Bell., or if this does not succeed in twenty-four or forty-eight hours, Hep. will often disperse the whole swelling and keep suppuration off; but when once matter has formed, Merc, will bring on the discharge of the pus and fre- quently finish up the case, its chief indication being, that suppuration must have already taken place. Should the open wound not heal under the con- tinuation of Merc, give Hep. or SiL, which are the real specifics against all benignant or malignant suppurations. If the abscess looks erysipelatous, Apis, Bell. ; if bluish, Lach.

Particular indications :

Angustura. — Abscess of the ankle-joint (Raue).

Apis mell. — Diffuse inflammation of the cellular tissues, ending in their destruction ; stinging, burning pains in incipient abscesses.

Arnica. — Hot, hard and shining swelling; pricking pains and dull stitches in the part : general sinking of strength.

Arsenicum. — Intolerable burning pains during the fever or when the abscess threatens to become gangrenous; pus copious, bloody, corroding, ichorous, watery, and of a putrid smell ; great debility, muscular prostra- tion, sleeplessness and restlessness.

Asafcetida. — Abscesses discharging a colorless, serous pus, or thin, fetid ichor ; violent pains on contact, and great sensitiveness of the adjoining parts; intermittent pulsations in the tumor, with darting, tearing pains, somewhat relieved by pressure.

Baryta carb. — Inflammation of the cellular tissue, passing over into suppuration ; incipient suppuration of glands ; boils and furuncles.

Belladonna. — Pressure, burning and stinging in abscess ; scarlet red- ness and hot swelling ; pus scanty, cheesy and flocculent, great sensitive- ness to cold air. Hepatic abscess, or other glandular abscesses.

Bryonia. — The tumor is either very red and shining, or very pale ; pains tensive, sharp, sticking, lancinating ; throbbings in the part ; worse towards evening and at night, heaviness and hardness of abscess.

Calcarea pier. — Constant tendency to form abscesses.

Calendula. — Induration after surgical operations, followed by suppu- 2 (9)

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ration ; the wound looks raw and inflamed, with stinging pains, followed by throbbing, as if it would suppurate ; profuse and exhausting suppura- tion in traumatic abscess.

Chamomilla.— Abscess very hot and painful, with clear, serous suppu- ration, not relieved by Ars.

Cocculus. — Superficial abscess just above root of nail of right little toe, pain as if a hot iron went into it on raising foot from ground in walking.

Hepar sulph. — Lacerating and pricking pains in the tumors ; throb- bing and beating in the abscess ; the skin over the abscess is highly in- flamed, hard, hot and swelling ; pus scanty, bloody, corroding, smelling like old cheese ; pains worse at night and by exposure to cold.

Mercurius. — Slowly suppurating abscesses. Burning redness of the skin, with prickling and tingling sensation ; hard, hot, inflammatory swelling ; pressing from within outward ; pulsating pains ; pus copious, bloody, cor- roding, thin and watery ; or all these characters, but scanty.

Mezereum. — For abscesses of fibrous parts or of tendons ; or for ab- scesses arising from the abuse of mercury.

Phosphorus. — Lymphatic abscesses, full of fistula?; callous feeling; hectic fever ; pus copious and yellow.

Pulsatilla. — The abscess bleeds readily, with stinging and cutting pains ;. bluish-red swelling (varices) in the surrounding parts, with itching, sting- ing and burning pains ; abscesses after violent and long-continued inflam- mations ; pus bloody or copious, greenish or yellow.

Rhus tox. — Abscesses of axillary and parotid glands, swelling painful to touch, and discharging a bloody-serous pus, with stinging and gnawing pains. Smooth, red and shining swellings, the inflamed skin being covered with little painful white vesicles.

Silicea. — It controls the suppurative process ; seeming to mature pro- cesses when desired, and certainly reducing excessive suppuration to mod- erate limits. Pains of abscesses are either burning, cutting, itching, prick- ling or pulsative. Pus copious or scanty, bloody brownish, corroding, gela- tinous, gray or greenish, putrid, thin and watery, or yellow. After matter has been discharged, it promotes granulation and cicatrization.

Sulphur. — Chronic abscess, tendency to suppuration, dependent upon a psoric or scrofulous diathesis ; pains throbbing or stinging, and after evacu- ation of the pus there is a tendency to ulceration.

Tarentula cubana. — Abscesses, exceedingly painful and inflamed, with tendency to gangrene and affecting the neighboring glands, which are swollen, indurated and painful.

ACNE.

Acne disseminata (pimples in the face of young people) : Ars., Ars. brom., Ars. iod., Bell., Calc, Garb, v., Caust., Hep., Eug., Lach., Led., Kali and Natr. brom., Natr. m., Nitr. ac, Nux v., Nux j., Phos. ac, Puis., Sabin., Sel., Sulph., Sulph. iod.

Acne indurata (indurated pimples): Ant. sulph. aur., Ars., Bell., Berb., Carb. v., Con., Hep., Kali br., Kali iod., Led., Nux v., Puis., Sil, Sulph., Sulph. iod.

Acne miharis (pimples of young chlorotic girls) : Ars. br., Aster., Bar. c, Calc, Graph., Hep., Kali carb., Natr., Natr. m., Sabin., Sel., Sulph., Thuj.

Acne punctata (black pores) : Aur., Bell., Bry., Calc, Carb. v., Dig Dros Eug., Graph., Grat, Hep., Hydr., Natr. m., Nitr. ac, Nux j., Sabad., Sabin., Sel., Sep., Sulph., Thuj. ' J ' ' '

Acne rosacea (coppery-red eruption of the face) : Ars., Aur. mur., Calc, Calc.

ADIPSIA. — ADIPOSIS. — AGALACTIA.

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phos., Cann. sat., Canth., Garb, an., Carb. v., Carbol. ac, Caust., Cic, Clem., Hydr. ac., Kali br., Kreos., Lach., Led., Mez., Nux j., Petr., Plumb., Rhus, Ruta, Sep., Sil., Sulph., Sulph. ac., Veratr., Viol. trie.

For acne vermiformis (comedones) : 1, Sel., Sulph. ; 2, Graph., Natr., Nitr. ac. : 3, Bry., Calc, Diosc, Dros., Natr. m., Sabin. ; 4, Aur., Cubeb., Dig., Eug., Plumb., Sabad.

For acne of drunkards : 1, Ant. crud., Bar. c, Kreos., Led., Nux v., Sulph. ; 2, Ars., Lach., Puis.

For acne arising from sexual abuse : Calc, Eug., Kali br., Phos. ac, Sulph.

ADIPSIA, Thirstlessness.

Apis, Ars., Bell., Fer. ac, Hydr. ac, Led., Lye, Natr. sulph., Puis., Sep., Sarsap., Tab.

Apis. — Thirstlessness in cerebro-spinal meningitis, ovarian dropsy, as- cites and pregnancy. No thirst with heat ; mouth dry.

Arsenicum. — Absence of thirst, or thirst not very marked ; no thirst during chilliness.

Belladonna. — Absence of thirst ; slight thirst, notwithstanding the gen- eral heat ; no desire for drinks ; aversion to all fluids, so that she behaves frightfully at the sight of them.

Ferrum ac. — Complete absence of thirst ; loathing sour things.

Ledum. — Constant loss of thirst.

Lycopodium. — Neither appetite nor thirst ; nausea after drinking, with dizziness ; pharynx feels contracted, so that nothing could be swallowed, from warm drinks.

Pulsatilla. — Thirst rare ; when thirsty drinks often, but little at a time ; it provokes inclination to vomit. Thirstlessness, with slimy or dry tongue.

Sarsaparilla. — Neither appetite nor thirst ; the thought of food is dis- gusting.

ADIPOSIS.

For adiposis (polysarcia) of young men and girls, observation and symp- toms point to the following remedies : 1, Aur., Calc, Puis., Sulph. ; 2, Ant. crud., Caps., Ferr. ; 3, Ars., Bar. c, Lyc. ; 4, Cupr., Veratr., Fuc. ves., Lac defl.

AGALACTIA.

Failure or scanty supply of milk : Aeon., Agn. cas., Asa., Bell., Bry., Calc, Carb. an., Caust., Cham., Chel., Chin., Coff., Dulc, Form., Frag., Jabor., Lac defl., Lach., Merc, Nux v., Puis., Rheum, Ric., Rhus, Sec, Stict., Sulph., Urt. nr., Zinc.

Aconite. — Mammse congested, hot, hard and distended, with little or no milk.

Agnus castus. — Despairing sadness ; milk scanty or disappears.

Asafcetida. — Deficiency of milk, with oversensitiveness, and when the milk flows it is offensive to the babe ; veins unnaturally distended.

Oausticum. — Amaurosis threatens ; pulsations and noises in the ears ; anxiety and despondency, sallow face— the woman has suffered from night- watching and troubles ; rheumatic diathesis.

Dulcamara. — Suppression from exposure to cold, damp air; milk scanty and skin sensitive to cold.

Lac defloratum. — Breasts diminish in size and the secretion of milk nearly stops.

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Mercurius. — Milk scanty, with scorbutic gums, swelling of glands, etc.

Pulsatilla— Mammae swollen and painful ; flow of milk scanty or ab- sent ; patient gloomy and tearful, though in apparent good health.

Rhus tox.— Entire want of appetite, mental derangement and thoughts of suicide; vitiated lochia, lasting too long; loss of power in lower extremities.

Secale —Thin, scrawny women, whose breasts do not properly fill with milk ; there is much stinging in them.

Urtica urens— (Chief remedy, E. A. F.) Nonappearance of milk with- out any appreciable cause.

AGUSTIA and ANOSMIA.

Bell., Lye, Natr. m., Phos. Puis., Sil, Sulph. ; or Alum., Amm. m., Anac, Calc, Hep., Hyosc, Kali carb., Kreos., Magn. mur., Nux v., Rhod., Sec, Sep., Veratr.

Sense of smell diminished : Bell., Calc, Sep., Sil., Sulph., Tabac. Sense of smell lost : Aur., Caust., Hyosc, Kali bi., Lye, Natr. m., Plumb., Puis., Sang., Sulph., Teucr.

Extensive organic destruction : Aur., Kali bi. Loss of smell, with impaired vision : Caust. Loss of smell and taste : Hyosc, Natr. m.

Perversion of smell: Anac, Aur., Bell., Calc, Graph., Kali bi., Kreos., Meny., Nitr. ac, Par. q., Puis., Sang., Sulph.

Loss of taste from purely nervous causes : Bell., Hyosc, Natr. m., Nux v., Sep., Verat.

Loss of smell from paralysis of olfactory nerve : Bell., Caust., Hyosc, Lye, Natr. m., Nux v., Op., Plumb., Sep.

Agustia, with catarrh, coryza, etc. : Alum., Calc, Hep., Natr. m., Nux v., Puis., Rhod., Sep., Sulph.

Anosmia : Alum., Calc, Cycl., Gels., Hep., Mez., Natr. m., Nux v., Puis., Sang., Sep., Sil., Sulph.

ALCOHOL.

Poisoning by. According to Hering, the principal remedies are : 1, milk ; 2, mucilaginous drinks ; 3, caustic spirits of ammonium (one drop in a tum- blerful of sugar-water, in teaspoonful doses). Black coffee is likewise useful, as well as Nux v., in homoeopathic doses.

ALOPECIA, Falling out of the Hair.

Alum., Amb., Ars., Bar. c, Bell., Bov., Bufo, Calc, Carb. an. and v., Caust., Chin., Colch., Con., Fer., Fluor, ac, Graph., Hep., Hyper., Ign., Iod., Kali bi., Kali carb., Kali iod., Kreos., Lye, Magn., Merc, Natr., Natr. mur., Nitr. ac, Par. q., Petr., Phos. ac, Phos., Plumb., Sarsap., Sep., Sel., Sil., Staph., Sulph., Sulph. ac, Tab., Thuj., Zinc.

After severe acute diseases: Chin., Fer., Calc, Carb. v., Hep., Lye, Sil.; after confinement : Calc, Lye, Natr. m., Sulph. ; if caused by long grief : Phos. ac, Staph., Ign., Lach. ; if by nervous or hysteric headaches : Ant. crud., Bufo, Calc, Hep., Nitr. ac, Phos., Sep., Sil., Sulph. ; if caused by frequent sweats: Merc; from syphilis: Sarsap., Thuj.

As regards the condition of the scalp and hair, give for sensitiveness of the scalp : Ars., Calc, Bar. c, Carb. v., Chin., Hep., Natr. m., Sil., Sulph.

For violent itching of the scalp, especially if in consequence of old sup- pressed eruptions : Graph., Kali carb., Lye, Sil., Sulph.

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For scales on the head : Calc, Graph., Magn., Staph.

For disposition of hair to turn gray : Graph., Lye, Phos. ac, Sulph. ac.

For great dryness of the hair: Calc., Kali carb., Phos. ac.

M hen the hair is frequently covered with viscid sweat : Chin., Merc.

For falling off of the hair on other parts of the body :

On the eyebrows : Agar., Bell., Caust., Kali carb.

When the hair falls off on the sides of the head: Graph., Phos.; on the forehead: Ars., Natr. m., Phos.; on the vertex: Bar. c, Graph., Lye, Sep., Zinc; on the occiput: Carb. v., Petr., Phos., Sil. ; on the temples: Calc, Kali carb., Lye, Natr. m. ; for some places getting bald : Canth., Iod., Phos. ; externally spiritus phosphori, a few drops to a pint of distilled water, and, after shaking, moisten well the scalp with it. Or dissolve a teaspoonful of table-salt in a pint of water and rub it well over bald spaces.

Falling off of whiskers : Calc, Graph., Natr. m., Plumb. ; of mustaches : Kali, Natr. m., Plumb. ; of mons veneris : Helleb., Natr., Natr. m., Rhus, Sil.

Acid fluor. — Itching of the head and falling off of the hair ; the new hair is dry and breaks off.

Aloes. — The hair comes out in lumps, leaving bare patches; eyelashes also fall out ; frequent frontal headache.

Ammonium mur. — Large accumulation of branlike scales, with falling off of the hair, which has a deadened and lustreless appearance, with great itching of the scalp.

Antimonium crud. — Losing hair from nervous headaches.

Arsenicum. — Touching the hair is painful; bald patches at or near the forehead ; scalp covered with dry scabs and scales, looking rough and dirty, extending sometimes even to forehead, face and ears.

Aurum. — Syphilitic alopecia.

Baryta carb. — Baldness, especially of the crown, in young people ; scalp very sensitive to touch, < from scratching.

Calcarea carb. — Hair falls out, especially when combing ; dryness of hair ; great sensitiveness of scalp, with yellowish or white scales on scalp ; sensation of coldness of outer head.

Cantharis. — Hair falls out when combing, especially during confinement and lactation ; scales on scalp ; enormous dandruff.

Carbo veg. — Falling out of hair after severe diseases or abuse of mercury, with great sensitiveness of scalp to pressure ; hair falls out more on back of head, after severe illness or parturition.

China. — Hair sweats much (Bry.) and falls out.

Colchicum. — Prurigo favosa ; great falling off of the hair.

Fluoric acid. — Larg e patches entirely denuded of hair ; new hair dry and breaks off; must comb the hair often, it mats so at the end; baldness.

Graphites. — Even the hair on the sides of the head falls out.

Helleborus. — Losing hair from the eyebrows or pudenda.

Hepar.— Hair falls out here and there, leaving bald spots.

Hypericum. — Alopecia from headaches, caused by concussion of the brain.

Kali carb.— Alopecia after nervous fevers ; dry hair, rapidly falling off, with much dandruff.

Lycopodium.— Hair becomes gray early ; hair falls off after abdominal diseases ; after parturition ; with burning, scalding, itching of the scalp, especially on getting warm from exercise during the day.

Mancinella. — Losing hair after severe acute diseases.

Mercurius. — Hair falls out, mostly on sides and temples, without any headache.

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Natrum mur— Hair falls out if touched; mostly on forepart of head, temples and beard ; scalp very sensitive; face shining as if greasy.

Petroleum. — Much itching ; scurf on the hairy scalp and falling off of the hair.

Phosphoric acid. — Gnawing grief changes hair of the young to gray.

Phosphorus. — Round patches on scalp completely deprived of hair ; falling off of the hair in large bundles on the forehead and on the sides above the ears ; the roots of the hair seem to be dry ; the denuded scalp looks clear, white and smooth ; dandruff copious, falls out in clouds.

Plumbum. — Great dryness of hair, it falls off even in beard.

Sarsaparilla. — Mercurio-syphilitic affections of the head ; sensitiveness of scalp ; falling off of the hair.

Selenium. — Hair falls off when combing ; also of eyebrows, whiskers and genitals ; tingling itching on scalp, which feels tense and contracted.

Staphisagria. — Hair falls out, mostly from occiput and around the ears, with humid, fetid eruption or dandruff on the scalp. Hair pulls out without pain after the slightest effort.

Sulphur. — Dandruff, hair dry, falling off, scalp sore to touch, itching violently, < when getting warm in bed.

Sepia. — Losing hair after chronic headaches.

Silicea. — Premature baldness, itching of scalp or of vulva before menses. Thuja. — White, scaly dandruff; hair dry and falling out. Vinca minor. — Hair falls out in single spots and white hair grows there ; spots on head oozing moisture, the hair matting together.

AMAUROSIS and AMBLYOPIA.

For amblyopia, simple weakness of sight : 1, Anac, Bell., Calc, Caps., Cin., Croc, Hyosc., Lye, Magn., Puis., Ruta, Sep., Sulph. ; 2, Cann., Caust., Sep., Natr., Natr. m., Phos., Plumb., etc.

For amblyopia amaurotica (incipient amaurosis) : 1, Aur., Bell., Calc, Caps., Caust., Chin., Cic, Con., Dros., Dulc, Hyosc, Merc, Natr., Natr. m., Nitr. ac, Op., Phos., Puis., Rhus, Sec, Sep., SiL, Sulph., Veratr., Zinc. ; 2, Agar., Chin., Dig., Euphr., Guaiac, Kali carb., Kali bi., Lach., Lachn., Lye, Nux m., Plumb., Veratr. vir.

For complete amaurosis, provided it is not incurable, the same remedies should be used as for amblyopia amaurotica, the remedy depending not so much upon the degree of weakness as upon the totality of the symptoms. Unless secondary symptoms should require other remedies we may use : Bell, Calc., Merc., Phos., Sep., Sulph., etc., though any other remedy may be used if indicated by the general symptoms.

For erethic amaurosis, principally : Bell., Cact., Calc, Cic, Cimicif., Con. Gels., Hyosc, Merc, Nitr. ac, Op., Phos., Sep., Sulph., etc.

For torpid amaurosis : Aur., Caps., Caust., Chin., Dros., Dulc, Natr., Natr. m., Op., Phos. ac, Plumb., Sec, Veratr.

As regards external causes, if the weakness should have been caused by fine work, give Bell, or Ruta, or perhaps Carb v., Calc, Gels., Lachn. and Spigel. ; by old age : Aur., Bar. c, Con., Op., Phos., Sec.

After suppression of a habitual bloody discharge, as hsemorrhoids, men- struation, etc. : Bell., Calc, Cycl., Lye, Nux v., Phos., Puis., Sep., Sulph.

After suppression of an exanthem : Bell., Calc, Caust., Lach., Lye, Merc. SiL, Stram., Sulph.

After arthritic metastasis : Ant., Bell., Mere, Puis., Rhus., Spig., Sulph.

By abuse of Mercury or some other metallic substance : 1, Sulph. ; 2, Hep., Nitr. ac, Sil. ; 3, Aur., Bell., Carb. v., Chin., Lach., Op., Puis.

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By rheumatic causes : 1, Cact, Cham., Euphr., Lye, Merc, Nux v., Puis., Rhus, Spig., Sulph. ; 2, Caust., Hep., Lach.

By debilitating causes, loss of animal fluids, sexual abuse : 1, Chin., Cm. ; 2, Anac., Calc., Natr., Natr. m., Nux v., Sulph. ; 3, Phos. ac., Sep.

By scrofula : 1, Bell., Calc., Chin., Cin., Dulc., Merc., Sulph. ; 2, Aur., Euphr., Hep., Nux v., Puis.

By drinking : Calc, Chin., Lach., Nux v., Op., Sulph.

By suppression of a suppuration or mucous discharge : Chin., Euphr., Hep., Lye. Puis., SiL, Sulph.

By catching cold in the head or in the eyes : 1, Aeon., Bell., Dulc ; 2, Cham., Euphr., Merc, Nux v., Puis., Sulph.

By external injuries, blows on the head, violent concussions : 1, Arn. ; 2, Amm., Con., Euphr., Rhus, Ruta or Staph.

As regards the affections which may attend amblyopia, the principal remedies are :

If nervous headache : Aur., Bell., Bry., Calc, Hep., Nux v., Nitr. ac, Phos., Puis., Sep., Sulph., etc.

If congestion of blood to the head: Aur., Bell., Calc, Chin., Gels., Hyosc, Nux v., Op., Phos., SiL, Sulph., etc.

If hearing and the ear are affected: Cic, Glon., Nitr. ac, Petr., Phos., Puis., etc.

If by gastric and abdominal ailments : Ant., Calc, Caps., Chin., Cocc, Lye, Natr. m., Nux v., Phos., Puis., Sulph.

If by uterine derangements : Aur., Bell., Cic, Cocc, Con., Magn., Natr. m., Nux v., Plat., Phos., Puis., Rhus., Sep., Strain., Sulph., etc.

If by pulmonary complaints : Calc, Cann., Hep., Lach., Lye, Natr. m., Phos., SiL, Sulph.

If by diseases of the heart: Aur., Cact., Calc, Cann., Dig., Lach., Phos., Puis., Sep., Spig.

If by spasm, epilepsy : Bell., Caust., Cic, Ignai, Hyosc, Lach., Op., biL, Stram., Sulph. , .

Aconite.— Sudden and complete blindness, with anguish, bitter com- plaints and reproaches ;. fear of death ; total blindness after catching cold ; vision as if through a veil, difficult to distinguish faces, with anxiety and vertigo ; optical illusions in dark colors or black.

Agaricus.— Feeling of weakness in eyes without having exerted them ; indistinct sight ; focal distance changes while reading, first grows shorter, then longer, type seems to move, things look obscured as from turbid water ; musca? volitantes ; vibrating spectra; nystagmus; if she grasped at any object held before her, the hand did not generally come near it; diplopia from overwork at the desk ; frequent twitching in eyeball while reading.

Ammoniacum- Dimness and obstruction of sight m the evening, amounting almost to blindness ; amblyopia after a blow.

Anacardium— Flickering before the eyes during the day, blind at night • indistinct vision ; blackness before eyes, with vertigo._

Antimonium sulph. aurat— Amaurosis in the beginning ; ins pro- truding. „. , . . , ,

Antimonium tart.— Vertigo with flickering before eyes ; amblyopia after strong emotion; eyes feel tired, as if the lids would close; dim,

swimming eyes. „ , . ... .,, ,

Argentum met— Amaurosis of left eye, contracted pupil, insensible to

llSAr2-entum nit.— Sight vanishes while reading or writing; at twilight feels as if he would become blind; fiery bodies flash before his eyes;

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pupils insensible to light ; complete but transitory blindness ; yellowish complexion, taciturn and apathetic.

Arnica. — Diminution of visual power, everything looks dim, pupils dilated ; loss of sight after violent blow.

Arsenicum. — Loss of vision from use of tobacco; retinitis albuminurica; everything appears green ; sees everything as through a white gauze.

Asafcetida. — Mist before eyes ; boring pain above the eyebrow ; burn- ing pain in eyeballs ; of syphilitic origin.

Aurum met. — Hemiopia, black spots floating before eyes ; tension in eyes, sees things double or mixed up, < from straining eyes ; strong press- ure from within outward and from above downward in both eyeballs; accompanied by heavy, dull aching deep in both globes ; sudden amaurosis after scarlatina and during childbed (Aur. mur.).

Baryta carb. — Amblyopia of old people ; weakness of eyes, especially in the evening by candlelight ; during the day a cloud before the eyes ; after a meal sensation as of a gauze before eyes.

Belladonna. — Amaurosis, with much vertigo, pressing pain and feeling of fulness in eyeballs ; black spots before eyes ; apoplexy of retina ; half open, protruding, staring eyes; pupils contracted or dilated; from a cold, from stoppage of menses, from suppression of exanthemata; flashes of light before eyes; flickering before eyes ; diplopia and triplopia ; optic neuritis; veins large, flashes of light before eyes and pains in head.

Bovista. — Blindness of right eye from paralysis of the optic nerve ; weak eyes, without lustre or snap ; sensation as of a veil before eyes in the morning ; all her visual perception is distorted.

Cactus grand. — Weakness of sight appearing periodically ; hypersemia of fundus, sight blurred, cannot see at a distance.

Calcarea carb. — Mistiness of sight, gauze before the eyes, especially when reading, or after eating, with black motes before the eyes ; extreme photophobia, with dazzling of the eyes by light; dilated pupils ; pressure or feeling of coldness in the eyes. Affections of onanists or drunkards.

Capsicum. — Pupils dilated, eyes protruding ; aching in eyes as from a foreign body; red, burning and inflamed eyes; red face; objects appear black, dim vision ; anguish, capriciousness, homesickness.

Carbo veg. — Weak eyes from overwork or fine work ; eyes dull, lustre- less, pupils do not react to light; black floating spots before eyes; heavy weight seems to rest upon eyes ; must make exertion to distinguish letters when reading.

Causticum. — For sudden and frequent loss of sight, with sensation as if a pellicle were stretched over the eyes ; or dimsightedness, as if looking through a cloth or mist; black threads or mists ; scintillations; photophobia.

Chelidonium. — Retinitis apoplectica, amblyopia with vomiting and coma ; dimness of vision and weakness of sight from rheumatic troubles or after suppression of ringworm, when reading or writing, letters run together and seem blurred ; blackish-gray specks before eyes.

China. — Amblyopia consequent upon venereal excesses and intoxication, after masturbation; in drunkards; nocturnal blindness ; hemeralopia; after loss of blood or other fluids ; tendency of blood to head ; dilated, not very sensitive pupils ; letters pale, surrounded by white borders ; black motes before eyes ; > after sleeping.

Chininum sulph. — Amblyopia, can only see objects when looking at them sideways ; disk and retina very anaemic ; peculiar dryness of eyes.

Cicuta. — Frequent vanishing of sight, as if by absence of mind, with vertigo, especially when walking; the objects seem to totter and the letters

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to move when reading ; diplopia ; frequent obscuration of sight, alternating with hardness of hearing; blue margins around the eyes; photophobia; burning in the eyes ; aching pains in the orbits.

Cimicifuga— Aching pain in the centre of both eyeballs ; black specks before the eyes, diplopia.

Cina. — For dimness of sight, when reading, going off by wiping the eyes ; dilated pupil ; photophobia ; pressure in the eyes, as if sand had got in, especially when reading. Pain in the eyes when using them at night by candlelight; dull pains in the eyes, which get easily tired, chiefly in the morning, and aggravated by reading and meditation; color-blindness, sees everything yellow, mistakes red for orange and blue for green ; chronic weakness of sight from onanism.

Conium. — Amaurosis ; weakness of sight ; sluggish adaptation of eye to varied range of vision ; feeling of coldness in eyes when walking in open air, > in the morning and on a cloudy day ; blindness from sunlight after a sleep.

Crotalus hor. — Momentary disappearance of vision, with profuse lach- rymation; vanishing of vision while reading; great sensitiveness of light; amblyopia from grief; muscae volitantes and colored flames before the vision.

Cyclamen. — Diplopia; amblyopia; hemiopia; after suppression of menses or an eruption.

Digitalis. — He sees objects as in a fog, vision diminished; objects appear green, yellow or as if silvered ; pupils not very active ; amaurosis.

Drosera. — For frequent vanishing of sight, especially when reading, the letters look pale and blurred ; photophobia ; the eyes are dazzled by the light or by the glare of fire ; they are very dry ; the nose is dry and stopped up, stitches in the eyes.

Elaps coral. — Everything seems white, even at night ; gray veil before the eyes ; on stooping the blood rushes to the head, with vertigo and pains at the root of the nose; can scarcely tell light from dark.

Gelsemium. — The eyes close on looking steadily at an object; diplopia when inclining the head towards the shoulder, but vision single when holding the head erect ; mist before the eyes ; dimness of sight ; dilatation of the pupils ; confusion of sight, with heavy-looking eyes ; smoky appear- ance of the eyes ; total blindness, with dizziness ; thirst for light ; after apoplexy, congestion of the head.

Hepar sulph. — Complete amaurosis ; obscuration of vision while read- ing ; the eyes become dim, and he cannot read well by candlelight ; feeling of blindness before the eyes on rising and standing up, after sitting bent over flickering before the eyes ; pupils dilated and insensible to light after abuse of Mercury ; anaesthesia retinae.

Hydrocyanic acid. — Pupils insensible to light ; paralysis of lids ; pro- trusion of eyes ; anguish at pit of stomach ; vexed mood, despondency.

Hyoscyamus. — Dilated pupils ; frequent spasms of the eyes and eye- lids; squinting, diplopia, hemeralopia; illusion of sight; as if everything were red or larger than it really is ; aching, stupefying pains over eyes.

Ignatia. — Asthenopia and amblyopia in females ; due to onanism. Dimness before one eye while reading, as if tears were in it, which is not the case; white, glittering, flickering zigzags before the field of vision.

Kali aceticum. — Amaurosis coming on suddenly in both eyes, in a patient suffering from acute nephritis.

Kobaltum. — Dim vision ; darting pains in the eyes when writing, with feeling, when opening the lids, as if little strings were holding them together and snapping ; letters look blurred ; smarting in lids when using eyes.

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Lachesis.— Amblyopia, with lung or heart affections ; retinitis apoplec- tica ; severe pain in and above the eyes.

Laurocerasus. — Amaurotic shortness of vision ; eyes burn and every- thing looks as if seen through mist.

Lachnanthes.— The sight is obscured; while looking at anything fixedly, gray fixed rings are seen. Brilliant eyes, pupils much enlarged, with red cheeks ; when reading or writing, a small gray spot, as large as a lentil, is running before the left eye; in looking long at one spot or in moving the head suddenly, it gets dark before the eyes.

Lithium.— Hemiopia ; amaurotic affection of the eye, when caused by reading, fine sewing and other steady applications of the eyes ; sunlight blinds him in the streets ; vanishing of the right half of whatever she looked at ; relieved by eating and sleep.

Lycopodium. — Hemeralopia; night-blindness coming on at early eye; hemiopia ; vision veiled ; weakness of vision after typhus ; during writing vision would suddenly, disappear, as if a dark cloud passed before the eyes. Amaurosis from aneurism of the central artery of retina; eyes hot, dim, wide open, fixed and insensible to light; obscuration of sight as from feathers before eyes.

Mercurius. — Amaurosis in left eye, when walking in the fresh air and frequent momentary loss of sight ; black motes and points ; much < from heat or the glare of fire ; cutting, stinging or aching pains in the eyes, especially when exerting them ; dilated, unequal, even insensible pupils.

Millefolium. — Like a mist before eyes, not near the eyes, but at a distance : sensation of too much blood in the eyes.

Natrum ars. — Vision weakened from poor condition of health ; objects blur when he looks at them for a short while ; feels as if he must close his lids to protect his weak eyes ; he cannot open lids as wide as usual.

Natrum mur. — Amblyopia and amaurosis ; pupils contracted, depen- dent on menstrual disorders in the chlorotic ; double vision or sees only one-half of an object, cannot see the right side of an object; frequent ob- scuration of sight, when stooping, walking, reading, writing, etc. ; frequent lachrymation and spasmodic closing of lids.

Nitrum. — Transitory blindness ; rainbow colors around light ; colored wheels before eyes ; burning in eyes ; lachrymation and aversion to light, especially in the morning, after washing in cold water.

Nux vomica. — Atrophy of the optic nerve ; paresis of ocular muscles, < from stimulants or tobacco ; vision impaired by dissipation ; photopho- bia, < in the morning ; violent pressure in the eyes, after using them ever so little ; dilated pupils.

Opium. — Amblyopia, pupils dilated and insensible to light ; eyes burn- ing, hot and dry ; sensation as if the eyes were too large for the orbits.

Phosphorus. — Amblyopia from loss of fluids, also in Bright's disease ; green halo around the candle ; aching in eyes, forehead and orbits ; sudden paroxysms of nyctalopia, or sensation as if things were covered with a green veil ; eyes sensitive to light, especially bright light, > in twilight ; retinal hyperemia.

Physostigma. — Partial blindness, on attempting to write he is unable to see a line ; dimness of vision ; nystagmus.

Plumbum. — Retinitis albuminurica ; sclerosis of optic disk, its outline hazy, disk prominent and bluish-white; strabismus; diplopia; ptosis; pupils unequally dilated ; transient amaurosis, often starting in right eye, and deafness, complicating head affections ; cloudiness before eyes, inducing one to rest them.

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Pulsatilla.— Amblyopia from suppression of any bloody discharge; from metastasis of gout or rheumatism; from gastric derangement; with heart disease ; with coexisting diminished hearing ; diminished sight, espe- cially on getting warm from exercise ; blindness at twilight and sensation as if the eyes were bandaged ; shining or flashing rings before eyes ; misti- ness of sight or sensation as if the dimness could be removed by wiping; frequent and copious lachrymation.

Ruta. — Green halo around light in the evening ; mistiness of sight, with complete obscuration at a distance ; muscse volitantes ; aching and boring pains in the eyes when using them, particularly fine work ; lachrymation in open air.

Secale. — Diplopia and triplopia; obscuration of sight; pain in eyes, with feeling as if they were spasmodically rotated ; pupils dilated ; skin dry and brittle.

Sepia. — Dimness of sight, particularly when reading or writing ; con- traction of pupils ; gauze, black spots or stripes before the eyes ; photo- phobia in daytime ; aching pains over the eyeballs.

Silicea. — Amblyopia from abuse of stimulants in nervous, sensitive per- sons ; day-blindness, with sudden appearance of furuncles ; daylight dazzles eyes ; occasional lightning-like flashes in eyes and a feeling as if something obscured vision, with nervous sensations in head ; a persistent black speck before eye; momentary loss of sight, with uterine affections, pregnancy, lactation ; dim vision after suppressed foot-sweats, after diphtheria.

Stramonium. — Hemeralopia ; illusions in colors, often dark, less often blue and red; oblique double vision; light dazzles, shuns light; pupils dilated, or insensible and immovable to light ; loss of sight and hearing.

Sulphur. — Retinitis caused by overuse of eyes, congestion of optic nerve ; blindness after suppressed skin diseases; halo around gas or lamplight; un- equal or dilated or insensible pupils ; dimness of sight from the light of the sun or when the weather is warm and sultry ; sudden paroxysms of nycta- lopia ; white spots or black points before eyes ; profuse lachrymation in open air and dryness of eyes in the room.

Terebinth. — Amblyopia potatorum, with dull, aching pain in the back and dark urine ; pain in and over eye, < at night and towards morning.

Thuja. — Amblyopia ; blurred sight, > from rubbing ; aching back into the head ; the eyes are dim in the open air and when reading ; weak eyes ; flows of light before the eyes, mostly yellow ; when looking into the light of day sees white spots like bottles of water moving about.

Veratrum alb. — For hemeralopia; sparks or black spots before the eyes, particularly on rising from the bed or from the chair ; profuse lachrymation, with burning, cutting, or feeling of dryness ; diplopia, photophobia, etc.

Veratrum vir. — Dimness of sight ; walking brings on blindness, with fainting ; dilated pupils ; diplopia ; immense circles of a green color appear around the candle, which, as vertigo comes on, turn to red ; when closing the eyes, vertigo ; after loss of vital fluids.

Zincum. — Periodic and temporary amaurosis and amblyopia, occurring during severe attacks of headache and passing away with the headache ; pains < at the root of the nose, as if it would be pressed into the head ; con- stant weariness of eyes ; vanishing of sight, with absence of ideas ; yellow, blue and green wheels before eyes, with drowsiness and a wretched look.

The following remedies deserve particular consideration for particular symptoms :

Palesightedness : Chin., Dros., Elaps, Petr., Puis., Sil. Things look blue : Bell., Lye, Stram., Stront., Sulph., Zinc.

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The eyes are dazzled by bright light : Bar. c, Calc, Caust., Cic, Dros., Euphr., Graph., Kali carb., Merc, Nux v., Puis., Phos., Sep., Sil., Sulph.

Nyctalopia : Phos., Sil, Sulph. ; Aeon., Merc, Con., Gels., Nitr., Nux v., Puis., Stram.

Hemeralopia : Anac, Bell, Chin, ars., Chin., Hyosc, Lyc, Merc, Puis., Strain., Veratr.

Complete constant blindness : Bell., Calc, Caust., Chel., Cic, Con., Dig., Euphr., Gels., Hyosc, Natr. m., Op., Phos., Puis., Sec, SiL; Stram., Sulph., Veratr. vir.

Blindness, with frequent desire to wink : Anac, Croc, Euphr., Gels., Hep., Petr., Phos. ac, Plat, Staph.

Diplopia : Bell., Cic, Cimicif.,Cycl., Daph., Dig., Euphr., Gels., Hyosc, Lyc, Natr. m., Nitr. ac, Olean., Puis., Sec, Stram., Sulph., Veratr., Veratr. vir.

Obscuration (vanishing) of sight: Agar., Aur., Bell, Bry., Cact., Calc, Caust., Cic, Cimicif., Con., Dros., Fer., Graph., Hep., Hyosc, Lyc, Mang., Merc, Natr. m., Nitr. ac, Nux v., Olean., Phos., Puis., Sil., Sulph.

Darkness (gray black cover) before the eyes : Agar., Anac, Aur., Bar. c, Calc, Caust., Chin., Chin, ars., Con., Euphr., Magn., Merc, Natr. m., Phos., Sep., Sil.

Things look as if at a distance : Anac, Carb. an., Cic, Natr. m., Nux m., Phos., Stann., Stram., Sulph.

Colored appearance before the eyes : Aur., Bell., Bor., Camph., Hyosc, Kali carb., Nux v., Puis., Spig., Veratr. alb. and vir.

Feather-dust before the eyes: Calc, Lyc, Natr., Natr. m., Sulph.

Luminous appearances, scintillation: Aur., Bell., Bry., Caust., Croc, Hyosc, Kali carb., Lyc, Natr., Natr. m., Nux v., Puis., Spig., Zinc.

Black and dark spots before the eyes: Amm. m., Anac, Aur., Bar., Bell., Calc, Caust., Chin., Chin, ars., Cimicif., Kali carb., Merc, Natr. m., Nitr. ac, Phos., Sep., Sil.

Flying spots and gauzes: Aeon., Agar., Amm. m., Bell., Calc, Chin., Con., Merc, Nitr. ac, Phos., Sep., Sil., Stram.

Luminous vibrations : Amm., Canst., Cham., Graph.

Gauze or mist before the eyes : Bell., Calc, Caust., Chin, ars., Croc, Dros., Ign., Kreos., Laur., Lyc, Merc, Natr. m., Petr., Phos., Phos. ac, Ruta, Sec, Sep., Sulph.

Things look yellow : Bell., Canth., Chin., Cin., Dig., Merc, Sep.

Things look gray : Nitr. ac, Nux v., Phos., Sil., Stram.

Things look larger than they are : Euphr., Hyosc, Natr. m., Nux m., Phos.

Things look green : Dig., Merc, Phos., Ruta. Sep., Sulph., Veratr. vir., Zinc.

Halfsightedness : Aur., Calc, Caust., Lyc, Mur. ac, Natr. m., Sep.

Light colors and appearances befoie the eyes: Amm., Bell., Bor., Calc, Camph., Hyosc, Kali carb., Natr. m., Nux v., Puis., Sil., Spig., Val.

Shortsightedness : Amm., Calc, Chin., Cimicif., Con., Cycl., Euphr., Hyosc, Lach., Lyc, Nitr. ac, Petr., Phos., Phos. ac, Puis., Ruta, Sulph., Sulph. ac, Tart., Val.

Things look smaller than they are : Hyosc, Plat., Stram.

Longsightedness: Calc, Con., Con., Dros., Hyosc, Lyc, Meph., Natr., Natr. m., Nux v., Petr., Sep., Sil., Sulph.

Contracted pupils : Anac, Arm, Ars., Bell, Camph., Cham., Chel., Chin., Cic, Coca, Dig., Euphr., Ign., Led., Mez., Mur. ac, Phos., Puis., Ruta, Sep., Sil., Squil., Sulph., Thuj., Veratr., Zinc.

Colors as of the rainbow : Bell., Cic, Kali carb., Nitr., Phos., Phos. ac, Stram., Sulph.

Things look red: Bell., Con., Croc, Dig., Hep., Hyosc, Spig., Stront., Sulph., Veratr. vir.

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Shadows before the eyes : Seneg.

Halo or aureola round the light : 1, Bell., Coca, Phos., Puis., Ruta, Sulph. ; -, Alum., Calc, Cic., Dig., Euphr., Nitr., Sass., Sep., Stann.. Staph., Stront. Disposition to squint : Alum., Bell., Hyosc, Puis.

Blackness of sight, black colors before the eyes : Bell., Calc, Chin., Euphr., Kali carb., Magn. c, Phos., Sep., Sil., Stram.

Stripes before the eyes : Aram, Bell., Con., Natr. m., Puis., Sep.

Dimness of sight: Amb, Aram, Anac., Bar. a, Bell, Calc, Cann.. Caust., Chm., ton., Croc, Euphr., Gels., Hep., Ign., Kreos., Lachn., Lyc, Merc, Phos., Puis., Kuta, Sep., Sil., Sulph.

Things look inverted : Bell.

Disposition to wipe the eyes all the time : Carb. an., Cin., Croc, Lyc, Natr., Phos., Puis.

The letters look blurred when reading: Bell., Brv., Chin., Daph., Dros., Graph., Hyosc, Lyc, Natr. m., Sen., Sil., Stram., Viol. od.

AMENIA.

Amenorrhcea ; menoschesis ; suppression of the menses, and the ailments incidental thereto.

The best remedies are: 1, Asclep., Calc, Caul., Cimicif., Helon., Lob., Puis., Sep., Sulph. ; 2, Aeon., Alet., Bry., Con., Dulc., Graph., Kali carb., Lyc, Sep., Sil. ; 3, Amm, Am., Ars., Bar., Bell., Caust, Cham., Coca, Cupr., Fer., Natr. m., Phos., Pod. ; 4, Chin., Iod., Merc, Nux m., Op., Plat., Rhod., Sabin., Staph., Stram., Val., Veratr., Zinc.

Amenia of young girls, that is, too long delay of the first menses, requires principally: 1, Calc, Puis., Sulph.; 2, Aeon., Apis, Caust., Coca, Graph., Kali carb., Natr. m., Petr., Sep., Veratr.

Suppression of the menses in consequence of a cold, principally: 1, Caul., Cimicif., Gels., Nux m., Puis. ; or, 2, Bell., Dulc, Sep., Sulph. — or, if occa- sioned by fright or sudden emotions, — 1, Aeon., Lyc. ; 2, Coff., Op., Veratr. For feeble, though not entirely suppressed menses: Asclep., Calc, Caul., Caust., Con., Graph., Kali carb., Lyc, Magn., Natr. m., Phos., Puis., Sil., Sulph., Veratr., Zinc

For amenia of plethoric individuals use : Aeon., Bell., Bry., Gels., Nux v., Op., Plat., Sabin., Sulph. ; for debilitated or cachectic individuals : Alet., Ars., Chin., Cyprip., Con., Graph., Helon., Iod., Natr. m., Puis., Polyg., Sep., Sulph.

Aconite. — Fear that menses will not return and terrible consequences follow ; laborlike pressing in womb, patient bent double ; tendency of blood to the head or chest ; vertigo or fainting on rising from a recumbent posi- tion; amenorrhoea in young plethoric girls who lead a sedentary life; menses stopped from a cold bath, from sudden checking of perspiration, from violent emotions or fright; vagina dry, hot and sensitive.

jEsculus hip. — Amenorrhcea, with general prostration and malaise, back gives out when standing or walking, especially across the hips ; consti- pation, with ineffectual urging to stool ; haemorrhoids of purple color and accompanied with much burning.

Agnus castus. — Suppressed menses, with violent contracting pain in abdomen and bearing-down sensation, feels as if the intestines were sinking down, with inclination to support the bowels with the hand ; transparent leucorrhcea passing imperceptibly from the very relaxed parts ; leucorrhcea not copious, but spotting her linen yellow ; nausea as from eating fat food ; hysteria, with maniacal lasciviousness.

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Aletris far. — Amenia, or delaying menses, in consequence of atony of the womb or ovaries ; weariness of mind and body ; fulness and distension of abdomen, with bearing-down sensation ; night-sweats ; constipation from want of muscular action ; debility arising from protracted illness ; loss of fluid ; defective nutrition.

Alumina. — Amenia, with abundant leucorrhoea, which flows only in the daytime, with weakness ; straining to evacuate even a soft stool ; restless sleep, awaking with palpitation of the heart.

Ammonium carb. — Colic and pain between scapulae ; violent pain in small of back, with great coldness; menses scanty, late, with headache; acrid leucorrhoea.

Antimonium crud. — Menses suppressed by a cold bath, with nausea and vomiting, white tongue, great thirst at night, alternate constipation or diarrhoea ; tenderness over ovarian region.

Apis mel. — Suppressed menses, with congested or inflamed ovaries ;

menses stop suddenly or cease for two or three days, to begin again, blood black ; dysmenorrhcea, with scanty discharge of slimy blood ; chlorosis, with puffy, bloated, waxy appearance of the face; oedematous swelling of the eyelids, labia and feet ; a peculiar annoying aching or pain in the ovaries, especially in the right one, usually shortly before or during menstruation, accompanied by intense occipital headache and other hysterical symptoms ; cardiac distress ; during puberty nervous and awkward from incoordination of muscles.

Apocynum. — In young girls, with bloating of the abdomen and ex- tremities.

Arsenicum. — White waxy paleness of the face, and great debility ; painful lienteria ; cold water lies like a load on her stomach ; sleep full of tiresome dreams ; constant desire for sour things, coffee or brandy ; craving for sexual intercourse; corrosive leucorrhoea; frequent paroxysms of fainting.

Aurum. — Great depression of spirits, with inclination to commit suicide.

Baryta carb. — Face pale and puffed ; moping disposition ; scurfs ; nosebleed, toothache and leucorrhoea before menses, which only last one day ; weight over pubes ; backache ; menostasia and chlorosis, especially of scrofulous girls.

Belladonna. — Suppression of menses followed by hyperemia, rush of blood to the head, wakefulness and throbbing of carotids and temples ; sub- jective feeling of coldness.

Borax. — Cannot bear a downward motion ; pain in right pectoral region ; restless sleep and excessive nervousness; engorgement of uterus, with bearing-down pains ; leucorrhoea albuminous.

Bryonia. — Vicarious menstruation ; frequent epistaxis ; hsemoptoe ; dry lips, thirsty for large quantities ; hard, dry stools as if burnt ; every motion painful.

Oalcarea carb. — Leucophlegmasia ; vertigo on ascending; feet cold and damp ; bellows or anaemic murmurs around heart and large arteries • great languor, especially in lower limbs; amenorrhcea from working in water, with anasarca.

Oarbo veg. — Violent itching of old tettery eruptions at the time when the menses should appear.

Caulophyllum. — Amenia, accompanied by spasmodic action or extreme atony of the uterus; spasmodic bearing-down pains, with scanty flow; sympathetic cramps and spasms of neighboring organs, as of the bladder, rectum or bowels.

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hysteria ; abdominal spasms, and pinching pains in the sacrum ; enuresis on walking or coughing.

Chamomilla. — Amenia from checked perspiration or from a fit of anger ; irritable and quarrelsome; one cheek red, the other pale ; pressing towards the genital organs ; passing large quantities of colorless urine.

China. — Pale face with blue margins around the eyes ; headache, espe- cially at night; fulness and distension of the abdomen, particularly after eating, with desire to eructate, which affords no relief ; emaciation ; great debility, with languor and heaviness of the lower limbs ; sleeplessness or restless sleep, with anxious or fatiguing dreams ; rush of blood to the head, with pulsation of the carotids ; nymphomania ; nervousness ; great sensi- tiveness to the least noise.

Cimicifuga. — Amenorrhcea in rheumatic and neuralgic subjects; nerv- ous excitability, bordering on hysteria or chorea ; pressive heavy headache ; melancholy; palpitations and other reflex symptoms; uterine cramps ; sup- pression from mental emotions.

Cocculus. — Mental derangement following amenorrhcea ; she appears imbecile, at other times' acts like a maniac ; is wicked, talks constantly, dances and makes all kinds of gesticulations; headache with nausea ; much paralytic pain in small of back ; leucorrhcea in place of the menses ; dis- charge of a few drops of black blood, attended with excessive prostration, she is hardly able to talk.

Colocynthis. — Chagrin caused suppression ; colicky pains, causing her to draw up double, with great anguish and restlessness.

Ooilium. — At every menstrual effort the breasts enlarge, become sore and painful ; vertigo in a recumbent position, when an attempt is made to turn over ; great nervousness ; involuntary laughing and weeping ; great weak- ness after the least walk; the urine intermits in its flow; complicated with ovarian or uterine disease and chlorosis ; depression of sexual function.

Crocus. — Sensation as if something were alive in stomach or abdomen ; epistaxis of black, stringy blood ; mental depression ; menses in dark strings.

Cuprum. — Amenia in consequence of suppression of foot-sweats ; rush of blood to the head, with a strange tingling pain in the crown of the head, or pale face with blue margins around the eyes, or burning redness of the face with red eyes ; violent cramps in the abdomen and chest, with frequent nausea and fearful vomiting ; palpitations and spasms of the heart ; con- vulsions with fearful cries ; violent delirium ; cramps in fingers and toes.

Cyclamen. — Scanty, painful or suppressed menstruation, with head- ache, vertigo, swollen eyelids ; face, lips and gums pale ; loss of appetite ; no thirst ; palpitation of heart ; melancholy, with desire to be alone ; disincli- nation to any kind of labor ; fatigue from slight causes ; continued sleepi- ness ; chilliness all over the body, which no amount of covering relieves, and a constant dread of fresh air ; > from solitude and weeping.

Dulcamara. — Suppression in consequence of exposure to cold and damp ; she has urticaria or some other cutaneous eruption every time she takes cold ; warts on hands ; breasts engorged or hard, and eruptions on the labia majora; paleness and watery condition of the flow.

Ferrum. — Chloro-anaemia in weakly, chlorotic persons, with fiery redness of face ; sexual desire lessened ; sterility, nervousness and debility ; great disposition to keep quiet ; pale face, with blue margins around eyes ; pressure in head and stomach ; exophthalmic goitre after suppression of menses.

Gelsemium.— Amenorrhcea, patient drowsy and apathetic ; sharp dart- ing and twitching neuralgic pains in face and head; headache, which causes great dulness of head and vertigo, affecting vision. Sensation of heaviness in uterine region and aching across sacrum ; white leucorrhcea.

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Glonoinum— Amenorrhoea with great congestion in head, < by shak- ing head ; > by external pressure ; dull headache with warm perspiration on forehead, cannot bear any heat about head ; throbbing, rending and pulsating pains in head.

Graphites.— Amenorrhoea without any particular symptom of malaise (Goullon) ; vagina dry ; occasional show of menses, which are pale and very scanty, with abdominal pains and pains in the limbs ; burning and itching of labia during scanty flow ; face pale and bloated ; eczematous eruptions, oozing out a gelatinous fluid or dry, scaly or scabby eruptions ; constipation ; aversion to sexual intercourse.

Helonias— Suppression of menses when the kidneys are congested, urine scanty and turbid ; heaviness and dragging in pelvic region ; weariness and languor of mind and body, still feel better when working than they did when commencing to work ; amenorrhoea from atony and torpor of the whole body, with anaemia and disordered condition of digestive organs ; prolapsus uteri from want of muscular tonicity ; loss of sexual desire, with or without sterility.

Ignatia.— Amenorrhoea from suppressed grief; -much involuntary sigh- ing and sobbing ; weak, empty feeling at the pit of the stomach.

Iodum. — Entirely out of breath on going up stairs ; paleness, alternating with redness of face ; frequent palpitations ; food does not strengthen her.

Kali carb.— Menstruation too late, a long interval elapsing between periods ; menses too scanty, menstrual blood acrid ; menses suppressed ; at every menstrual effort sour eructations and swelling of the cheeks ; shooting pains all over abdomen; organic diseases of the heart; erysipelatous erup- tions: disposition to phlebitis; swelling over eyelids. Very efficacious during puberty.

Lac defloratum. — Amenorrhoea from washing in cold water, with pains all over, especially in the head ; sensation of weight and dragging in left ovarian region ; nausea and vertigo.

Lachesis. — Amenorrhoea, with headache, vertigo, epistaxis, cardialgia, eructations and oppression of the chest ; prostration when exercising or lifting; mental depression; leucorrhoea thick, yellow, stiffening, staining the linen yellow.

Lilium tigr. — Amenorrhoea, accompanied with cardiac distress or with ovarian pains of a burning or stinging character. Amenia complicated with prolapsed or anteverted womb. Thin, acrid leucorrhoea, which leaves a brown stain on the linen. Partial amenia, the menses returning occasion- ally, and then remain off again ; sharp pain extending from left nipple through to the back.

Lobelia infl. — Violent pain in sacrum, with fever supervening upon sup- pression of the menses during the flow ; sense of great weight in genitals ; in consumptive persons.

Lycopodium. — Amenia from fright ; chlorotic symptoms ; disposition to sadness, melancholy and weeping ; hysteric headache, fainting fits ; sour taste ; sour eructations and sour vomiting ; great desire for sweet things ; the smallest quantity of food distresses her; borborygmus, particularly in the left hypochondrial region ; sense of dryness in the vagina ; wind from the vagina.

Manganum (Kali permang.). — Pressure in genital organs ; headache ; pressure under sternum ; menses absent or too early and too scanty ; fretful and depressed in mind ; eructations with a pressive, constrictive pain in stomach; frequent urination; tenderness of bones in general with great weariness; < from least exertion; menstrual flow black and thick after much bearing-down pain.

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Magnesia carb.— Scanty and delaying menses of dark color and pitchy consistence ; every effort to menstruate is attended by a sore throat which only subsides with the other symptoms or on the appearance of the menstrual flow.

Magnesia mur. — She becomes greatly excited at every menstrual nisus, with pressing down in the iliac region; hysterical mood; sleeplessness; constipation.

Mercurius.— Prolapsus of the vagina at every menstrual nisus; rush of blood to the head ; dry heat ; leucorrhcea; pale face and sickly complexion ; oedematous swelling of hands, feet and face ; pain in mamma?, as if they would ulcerate, at every menstrual period. Sad, peevish and whimsical.

Natrum carb. — Deficient menstruation in adult females; pressing in the abdomen towards the genitals, as if everything would protrude and as if the menses would appear.

Natrum mur. — At every menstrual nisus she feels anxious, melancholy and qualmish early in the morning for a few hours, with sweet risings from the stomach and spitting of blood with the saliva; awakens every morning with long-lasting headache ; skin dry and harsh ; sallow, pale face or livid ; constipation and fissura ani, with vertigo and headache ; itching pimples on mons veneris and vulva ; melancholy or vindictive disposition.

Nux mosch. — Suppression of the menses, with spasms and other hys- teric affections ; disposition to sleep and faint away, with great nervousness ; debility ; complete exhaustion after the least exertion ; bloating of the ab- domen after every meal; frequent waterbrash; amenia from getting wet, with rheumatic pains.

Opium. — Suppression, with congestion of blood to the head, which feels heavy ; redness and heat of the face ; sopor and convulsions ; amenorrhoea from fright, with irresistible drowsiness.

Oxalic acid. — Amenorrhoea from cold, with great dyspnoea, constriction of throat and chest, blood-spitting, dull, heavy, lumbar pains, < on stand- ing, > by lying down.

Phosphorus. — Particularly in tall, slender, phthisical patients. Spit- ting and vomiting of blood at the menstrual nisus.; menses too late or not appearing; tight feeling in the chest, with dry, tight cough ; profuse haemop- tysis or haemorrhage from the anus or urethra ; great sense of weakness across the abdomen ; cold legs and feet, sometimes paralyzed ; stitches in mamma?; eyelids puffed.

Phytolacca. — Amenorrhoea complicated with ovarian irritation or dis- eases ; chronic rheumatism ; constipation.

Platina. — Particularly in emigrants. Painful pressing down, as if the menses would appear, with desire for stool and pains in the small of the back ; constipation, with scanty, difficult stool.

Pulsatilla. — The sexual sphere is primarily affected in an atonic direction, and there are no chlorotic symptoms present. Amenorrhoea in consequence of getting feet wet, with frequent paroxysms of hemicrania and stitching pains in face and teeth ; uterine colic ; constant chilliness, even in summer when warmly clad ; pain and swelling of the mamma? ; soreness of apices of the lungs; morning sickness and bad taste in the morning; vicarious epistaxis. Menses pale and watery, alternating with black blood mixed with mucus ; freckles on face.

Rhododendron. — Every menstrual nisus is attended with fever and headache; < during rough and windy weather and before a thunderstorm.

Rhus tox. — Amenia from living in a foggy locality and cold, damp atr mosphere ; after getting wet in a rainstorm. 3

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Ruta. — Corrosive leucorrhcea in consequence of the suppression.

Sabadilla. — The menses are suppressed immediately on their appear- ance, when they reappear, sooner or later, but are again suppressed, and so on.

Sabina. — The menses, usually flowing profusely, cease, or are suddenly suppressed, followed by a thick, fetid leucorrhcea.

Sanguinaria. — Amenorrhcea, in consequence of pulmonary disease ; hectic flush of the face; noisy escape of flatus from the vagina; in women who are subject to sick-headache, with stiffness of the neck.

Secale. — Amenorrhcea in thin, scrawny married women, who suffer much at the menstrual nisus, with a continual, long-lasting, forcing pain in uterus.

Senecio. — Useful to nervous, restless, sleepless women, who always com- plain of nausea, debility of the whole system ; menstrual nisus, but still the period does not appear ; sensation of a ball rising from the stomach into the throat; gastric derangement and inappetency. Amenorrhcea, with bloated abdomen, little or no urinary discharge, paleness of the skin, cold hands and feet, but no pain; tendency to dropsical condition; irritable disposition.

Sepia. — Insufficient or retarded menstruation in feeble women of dark complexion, with fine, delicate skin and extreme sensitiveness to all impres- sions ; in some, tendency to cough, to congestion and pain in the apex of one or both lungs; sallow complexion, with yellow saddle across bridge of nose and dingy spots on face ; frequent paroxysms of hysteric or nervous headaches; frequent alternation of chilliness and heat; great debility ; pain in loins from uterine and other abdominal congestion; sensation as though the vulva were too large ; pressure on abdomen at menstrual nisus, then soreness of perineum and swelling of the vulva; acrid leucorrhcea of bad- smelling fluids, accompanied by much itching in genital organs ; constipa- tion and sense of weight at the anus ; feeling of emptiness at pit of stomach and in abdomen ; great disposition to sweat.

Silicea. — Amenorrhcea with suppressed foot-sweats; instead of the menses smarting, acrid and corrosive leucorrhcea or discharge of a quantity of watery fluid from uterus ; frequent attacks of momentary blindness or ob- scuration of vision ; pressing-down feeling in vagina, parts tender to touch ; itching at the genitals ; great costiveness at the approach of the menses.

Staphisagria. — Amenorrhcea in consequence of chagrin, with severe in- dignation, pain in teeth at time of menstrual molimina ; she is extremely sensitive to mental and physical impressions.

Stramonium. — Extremely loquacious at the menstrual molimina ; tears, prayers and earnest supplications. Face puffed up with blood ; she is full of fear, and shrinks back in fear when awaking from sleep ; desire for light and society.

Sulphur. — Often indicated where Pulsatilla failed (C. D.) ; face pale and sickly ; eyes sunken, with blue margins or circumscribed redness of cheeks ; freckles; stitching headache ; violent pains in uterine region and itchino- pimples on the chest at every menstrual molimina ; haemorrhoids ; flashes of heat or vivid redness of face ; heat in top of head and coldness of feet, or burning in soles of feet, at night in bed ; weak, fainting spells ; hungry about noon, cannot wait for her dinner ; short naps at night, or heavy deep sleep the whole night.

Thuja. — Suppression of menses; constipation; anxious restlessness and sleeplessness ; no desire for work ; mental dulness with pious fanat- icism ; menses too short and too early, preceded by profuse sweat ; embrace prevented by extreme sensitiveness of vagina.

UstilagO. — Suppression of menses without known cause ; troublesome cough with expectoration, sometimes dry cough with stitching pains in chest,

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especially left side ; night-sweats ; loss of appetite ; pain in ovaries, espe- cially left side ; general debility ; bearing down as if everything would come through ; leucorrhcea ; chlorosis, with tendency to phthisis pulmonalis.

Valeriana. — Hysterical women who have taken too much chamomile (vulg.) tea; nausea with desire to vomit, as if a thread or something were hanging in the throat, coming from low down in the abdomen.

Veratrum alb. — Nervous headaches at every menstrual nisus, with cold sweat on forehead; leaden color of the face, with frequent nausea and vomiting or diarrhoea; cold hands, feet and nose; great weakness with fainting turns; sexual orgasmus, even nymphomania.

Zincum. — Amenorrhoea, with alternate paleness and redness of face; vari- cose veins of pudenda ; fidgety feet ; pruritus vulvae causes masturbation.

ANEMIA.

1, Arg. nit., Ars., Chin., Helon., Hydr., Puis., Squil, Staph., Sulph. ; 2, Arm, Bell., Bry., Calc, Carb. v., Cm., Con., Fer., Graph., Ign., Kalm., Lach., Lye, Men .. Sulph., Natr., Natr. m., Nux v., Phos., Phos. ac, Rhus, Sep., Sil., Veratr.

If it arises from loss of blood or other fluids, give: 1, Chin., Helon., Nux v., Sulph. ; or 2, Calc, Carb. v., Cin., Fer. cit, et strych., Hydr., Phos. ac, Staph., Sulph.

If caused by violent acute diseases, use : Calc, Carb. v., Chin., Hep., Kalm., Natr., Natr. m., Nux v., Veratr.

Alumina. — Anaemia and chlorosis in young girls at puberty ; menses pale and scanty, with abnormal cravings for indigestible things ; profuse albuminous leucorrhcea.

Argentum nitr. — Shortness of breath, without lungs or heart being af- fected ; sallow complexion from defective oxydation of the blood; heartburn, dyspepsia ; irritative flatulent gastralgia ; round ulcer of stomach (local fail- ure of nutrition) ; menses irregular, scanty or copious ; spinal irritation, albuminuria, tendency to diarrhoea ; constant desire for candy or sugar.

Arsenicum. — Disintegration of the blood-corpuscles; rapid,- excessive prostration, with sinking of the vital forces ; oedema ; violent and irregular palpitations, with marked appetite for acids or brandy ; emaciation, wants to be in a warm room ; debility from overtaxing muscular tissues by pro- longed exertion ; extreme restlessness and fear of death ; gastro-ataxia ; pernicious anaemia.

China. — Complaints from loss of animal fluids, be it blood, semen, diar- rhoea, leucorrhcea or overlactation ; great debility, trembling, aversion to exercise; palpitations with rush of blood to head, and redness of face with cold hands ; heaviness of head, with loss of sight, fainting and ringing in ears : sleeplessness ; intolerance of fruits.

Ferrum met. — Pure anaemia with appearance of false plethora ; face ashy pale or greenish, becomes bright red in flushes ; great paleness of mucous membranes ; bellow's sound of the heart and anaemic murmurs of the arteries and veins ; vomiting as soon as food is taken, with relief of gastralgic pains ; prostration with lethargic dulness ; animal food not desired, nor is it well borne by the stomach if taken into it ; anaemia of chlorotic girls and women.

Ferri citrate et strychnine. — Post-haemorrhagic anaemia (R. L.).

Helonias. — Debility and languor from affections of the genito-urinary organs ; atony of all the organs from indolence and luxury ; feels better when attention is engaged by outside matters ; anaemia and atony from prolonged haemorrhage, especially from uterine atony.

Hydrastis. — Atony, weakness, faintness and prostration from dy scrasic

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disorders injuring normal blood-formation; carcinoma, etc.; marasmus; expression dull ; skin sallow, yellowish-white ; bad effects from Merc.

Kali carb. — Frequent chilliness, every time patient goes out of doors; he becomes chilly from deficiency of red blood- corpuscles in the blood; vertigo when turning head rapidly or from riding in a carriage, with humming in ears ; weakness of sight from sexual indulgence.

Natrum carb. — Pallid anaemia, with great debility, milky-white skin ; vitality below par ; emaciation ; nervousness and anxiety, < during a thun- derstorm ; playing on piano or hearing music makes her nervous ; inertia in psoric, phlegmatic persons.

Natrum mur. — Blood impoverished ; anaemia from loss of fluids ; mala- rious cachexia ; emaciation; skin harsh, dry, yellow ; great exhaustion from any little exertion of mind or body ; palpitation, with sensation as if a bird's wing were fluttering in left chest ; pressure and distension of stomach ; constipation, with contraction of anus ; terrible sadness.

Natrum sulph. — Hydrogenoid constitution, depending upon dampness of weather or dwelling in damp houses ; sycosis and hydraemia.

Nux vomica. — Anaemia from gastro-intestinal derangement, especially in persons of sedentary habits or given to high living or debauchery.

Pulsatilla. — Chloro-anaemic women, always complaining of feeling chilly, and still feeling better in the fresh air; feels worn out, all tissues relaxed; peevish, but not irascible; slow, phlegmatic temperament; after failure of iron or china.

Sepia. — Chloro-anaemia, with irritability and even vehemence and com- plete aversion to her usual household duties ; pelvic congestion.

ANEURISM.

Best remedies, so far as known: 1, Bar. m., Carb. v., Lach., Lye; 2, Guaiac, Puis., Sulph. In some cases may be required : 3, Cact., Calc, Caust., Graph., Kali carb. ; 4, Amb., Arn., Ars., Aur. mur., Fer., Natr. m., Zinc.

Aneurism by anastomosis yields to : Carb. v., Caust., Lye, Plat., Plumb., Thuj.

Franklin (Surgery, ii, 201) mentions, to control the force of the heart's action and irritability of the arterial vessels : Aeon., Act. rac, Gels., Cact., Dig., Spig., Veratr. vir ; to be followed by Lycopodium, Lach., Carbol. ac, Bry., Calc, Carb. v., Merc, Rhus, Sec, Sulph. Iodide of potash, in 5-grain doses, three times a day, also enjoys a good reputation ; also ergotin.

Helmuth (Surgery, 3d edition, p. 355) witnessed good effects from gallic acid in half-drachm doses for the cure of internal aneurism in combination with rest. He also speaks highly of Veratr. vir., Bell., Aeon., Dig., Gels., and of the antipsorics : Calc, Lyc. and Sulph. ; the phosphate of lime or the sulphate of soda may be required, perfect rest being enjoined.

Gilchrist (Surgical Diseases, p. 319) recommends for aneurisma of the aorta : Ars., Cact., Calc, Carb. v., Dig., Graph., Lach., Lyc, Natr. m., Puis., Rhus, Spig., Sulph., Zinc ; for aneurisma per anastomosin : Acid acet, Aeon., Bell., Cact., Dig., Rhus, Sulph. ; for naevus : Acid, ac, Ars., Bor., Calc, Hep., Iod., Lach., Lyc, Merc, SiL, Sulph., Thuj.

Baryta mur. — Complaints of elderly people, arising from chronic endo- arteritis and atheromatous condition of arteries ; pulse rapid and full, beat- ing of heart irregular, pulse scarcely perceptible.

Carbo veg. — Aneurisms ; blue varicosities ; fine capillary network hav- ing a marbled appearance ; pulse irregular, intermittent, frequent.

Digitalis. — Passive congestion of lungs, depending on a weakened, dila-

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ted heart ; great weakness in chest, cannot bear to talk ; pulse small, irregu- lar ; slow when at rest, but accelerated, full and hard from every motion.

Ferrum phos. — Small aneurism, with a great deal of throbbing.

Iodum and Kali iod. — Aneurism on a syphilitic basis. _ Lachesis. — Palpitation, can bear no pressure on throat or chest ; must sit up or lie on right side ; numbness of left arm, fainting, anxiety ; pulse small, weak, accelerated.

Lycopodium. — Sensation as if circulation stood still ; burning as from hot coals between scapulae ; acceleration of the pulse, with cold face and feet.

Plumbum. — Chronic endoarteritis, the cause of most aneurisms ; pulse 70-80, feeble, depressed, irregular, can hardly be counted, or may sink to 40 ; paralytic weakness in extremities, hands and feet cold ; total want of sweat.

Spongia. — Aneurisma aorta?, dry, paroxysmal cough, < lying down; pressure across chest, as from a heavy weight, especially at aortic arch.

ANGINA LUDOVICI.

Gangrenous inflammation of the cellular tissue in glands and fauces : Anthrac, Bry., Hep., Kreos., Lach., Merc, cyan., Sil., Tarent. c.

ANGINA PECTORIS.

Neuralgia pectoris seu cordis : 1, Amm. carb., Amyl nitr., Apiol., Ars., Cact., Cimicif., Cupr., Hep., Jug. c, Lach., Samb., Veratr., Veratr. vir. ; 2, Aeon., Asa., Aur., Bell., Cann., Caust., Dig., Gels., Glon., Hydr. ac, Kali carb., Kalm., Phos., Spong., Stram. ; 3, Ang., Crotal., Crot., Ign., Ipec, Mosch., Sep., Spig., Vibur.

Aconite. — Intense anxiety, with fear of death ; coldness, cold sweat ; feeble pulse, or full, strong and throbbing ; intense pain in all directions ; frequent change of position without relief, but no exhaustion (as in Ars.) ; suffocative constriction of chest, so distressing that he sweats from agony ; flushed face ; pain in cardiac region, going down left arm ; general or local numbness and tingling, particularly in recent cases, occurring in strong plethoric subjects.

Agaricus. — Angina pectoris, gastralgic form ; constant feeling of a lump in epigastrium, with pain under sternum ; drawing in region of diaphragm, with sharp pains in left side; faintness, with an empty feeling; heaviness of stomach, sometimes alternating with a jerking sensation, as of some heavy object; constriction of chest.

Ambra. — Oppression of chest, numb feeling in arms, palpitations < in open air, with sensation as if a lump were there, as if chest were stuffed up ; beat of heart is felt like the tick of a watch.

Ammonium carb. — Audible palpitation, with attacks of great anxiety, as if dying; cold sweat; involuntary flow of tears; unable to speak; loud, difficult breathing and trembling of hands, < after every exertion ; great precordial distress, followed by syncope ; howling from pain, but unable to speak.

' Amyl nitrite. — Tumultuous action of the heart, with much dyspnoea, felt through carotids up to the ears ; heat, throbbing and intense fulness in head ; face deeply flushed ; irregular, rumbling sort of sound in the heart, < by motions and emotions; cannot endure warmth, opens doors and windows, even in cold weather; pulse slightly quickened.

Arnica. — Pain from liver up through left chest and down left arm ; veins on hand swollen, purplish ; sudden pain, as if heart was squeezed, or as if it

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got a shock ; pain excessively violent, hardly bearable ; beating of heart more like a quivering ; motion of heart first very rapid and then suddenly slow ; faintness, feebleness ; hurried, variable pulse and irregular rhythm of heart, horror of instant death ; head hot, body cool ; < from any exertion.

Arsenicum. — Sudden tightness above the heart ; agonizing praicordial pain ; pains into the neck and occiput ; anxiety, oppression, difficult breath- ing, fainting spells ; least motion makes him lose his breath ; sits bent forward or his head thrown back ; < at night, especially from 1 till 5 in the morning ; cannot bear cold air, wishes to be covered ; pulse feeble, irregular, inter- mittent ; paroxysms recurring regularly, especially in malarious districts.

Asafcetida. — Pressure in region of heart as if too full and expanded, pulse small ; nervous palpitation from overexertion or suppression of dis- charges (in women) ; tremor of the heart while sitting ; beating of heart and pulse small, quick and irregular.

Aurum. — Organic affection of the heart ; hypochondriasis ; great nervous weakness, with utter despair ; feeling as though the heart ceased beating for awhile, and then at once a hard thump is felt ; < while reposing, > by moving, walking and on getting warm ; suffocative fit, with constrictive oppression of the chest ; falling down unconsciously, with blueness of the countenance ; when walking the heart seems to shake as if it were loose ; sometimes a single but violent beat of the heart ; ascending a hill or stairs causes palpitation and dyspnoea ; after fright or vexation palpitations, which he can feel and hear ; pain in cardiac region extends down left arm and hand to fingers ; red face, lips deep red ; sensation as if the heart stood still.

Bryonia. — Attacks from mental excitement or fright ; cutting pain in right chest above the sixth rib inside the base of nipple, extending down the left arm ; the slightest motion brings on attacks ; constant, dull pain in left arm to the fingers ; sensation of great oppression, it seems as if some- thing should expand but will not.

Cactus grand. — Nervous excitability ; palpitation of heart in debili- tated persons ; feeling as though an iron band was around heart, preventing its motion, < when lying on left side, when walking and at night, with great melancholy ; suffocative constriction at throat, with full throbbing carotids ; uncomfortable sensation at pit of stomach, as if falling ; periodical fits of suffocation, with fainting, cold sweat on face and pulselessness.

Cannabis sat. — Oppression of breathing from tensive, pressive pain in middle of sternum, which is also sore to the touch ; obliged to breathe deeply ; sensation of apprehension in throat, with dyspnoea and great agitation, must sit up most of the time, wheezing and mucous rales ; sleepiness.

Carbo veg. — Suffocative constriction of chest, mornings in bed ; burn- ing in cardiac region ; precordial anguish as though he would die.

Chininum ars. — Angina pectoris, with dropsical symptoms, venous hyperemia and cyanosis.

Cimicifuga. — Pain sharp and lancinating, from region of heart all over chest and down left arm and into the back ; palpitation ; unconsciousness ; cerebral congestion ; dyspnoea ; face livid ; cold sweat on hand ; numbness of body ; left arm numb and as if bound to the side.

Coca. — Angina pectoris while climbing ; sudden attacks of cramps in chest; coldness; pulse rapid, weak, small; cannot ascend any farther; numbness of hands and feet; excessive lassitude, must rest.

Crotalus nor. — Sudden and great prostration of the vital forces ; fre- quent fainting spells, with imperceptible pulse and inclination to vomit ; sudden breathing with open mouth and distortion of the eyes outward.

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sudden attack of dyspnoea unto suffocation, with cold face, blue lips and coldness all over; slow pulse ; attacks when excited or during exertion.

Cuprum ars. — Sense of weight on chest and difficulty of breathing ; pul- sation of heart moving wall of chest up and down ; pain in chest and back aggravated by deep inspirations ; pulse very feeble, faltering at wrist.

Digitalis.— Abnormal action of the heart ; a sense of oppression, with tendency to fainting : feeble or spasmodic pulse ; oppression of the chest ; pain extending to the head and left arm ; mental anguish, with vertigo and fainting ; heart's action more vigorous than the pulse. In advanced cases, when the disease sets in suddenly, drawing, tensive, spasmodic pains in left chest and sternum, towards nape of neck and upper arm ; indescribable deathly anguish when paroxysms come closer together during progress of disease ; skin pale, cold.

Dioscorea. — Neuralgic pains in stomach ; laborious breathing; sudden severe pain in middle of sternum : action of heart very feeble ; pulseless ; pulse intermitting every eight or ten minutes after the attack for two weeks ; pains extending from chest to both arms and hands ; cold, clammy sweat all over ; unable to move.

Gelsemium. — Sudden hysterical spasms ; nervous chills in very sensitive persons, yet skin is warm, wants to be held that she may not shake so ; peculiar action of heart, as though it attempted to beat, which it failed fully to accomplish, intermitting pulse ; feeling as though the heart would stop beating unless constantly on the move, with fear of impending death.

Glonoine. — Great anguish in precordial region; sharp shocks and stitches in the heart, with pricking pains in arms and hands ; labored action of heart, with oppression and frequent pulse, he feels the palpitations all over, even to the tip of fingers ; sensation of weakness and trembling, even to fainting, < on stooping and lying on left side.

Hepar sulph. — Sequelae of the disease ; dyspnoea after attack ; dry, nervous cough from evening all through night ; pain in neck after attack ; faintness and inability to recline after attack.

Hydrocyanic acid. — Long fainting spells ; heart disease, with violent palpitations ; feeling of suffocation, with torturing pains in chest ; irregular feeble beating of the heart. (Where Ars. failed, and Ipec. where both fail.)

Juglans ciner. — Pain behind breast-bone when walking, especially after meals or when hurried or going up-hill ; severe retrosternal pain, with suffo- cating pain in chest, especially when walking, so that he has to stand still.

Kali carb. — Pressive pains in chest, with dyspnoea ; strong palpitations, anguish, frequent interruptions of the beating of the heart; crampy pains, as if heart were hanging by bands ; pulse irregular, unequal, intermitting.

Kalmia. — Angina pectoris in fatty degeneration of heart, pulse slow and feeble.

Lachesis. — Anxious pain, with beating of the heart ; frequent attacks of fainting daily, with nausea ; difficult breathing, palpitation and cold sweat; choking, constricting or rising in throat, with organic disease of the heart ; inability to lie down or to speak ; very distressed after a short sleep.

Lactrodectus mactans. — Angina pectoris vasomotoria; apncea; vio- lent precordial anguish, with sense of impending dissolution ; skin cold, pulse rapid and feeble ; pains extend down axilla and left arm and forearm to the fingers, with numbness of extremity ; black vomit and stool with relief. (S. A. J.)

Lactuca virosa. — Crampy stitching in left chest, extending to left scapula, and indescribable tightness of whole chest; great oppression^ of chest at night, waking him from sleep and obliging him to sit up with

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anxious suddenness : feels as if he would suffocate, and finds himself sud- denly on his feet in the room ; pulse slow, contracted and small.

Laurocerasus. — Attacks of suffocation, with gasping for breath, and cyanosis when sitting up ; stitches in precordial region ; violent pain in stomach, with loss of speech ; eructations tasting of bitter almonds ; cold- ness ; cold, moist skin ; convulsions of the muscles of face ; nervous cough arising from cardiac affection.

Lycopodium. — Cramp and constriction in chest, cannot get breath ; stitches beneath short ribs, extending to small of back and shoulders ; sharp pain shooting into heart ; sensation of stoppage of circulation at night, with fright and then perspiration ; pulse quick, unsteady ; cannot bear being covered.

Magnesia phos. — Neuralgic constrictive pains in chest and throat; ner- vous spasmodic palpitation ; dry, tickling cough without expectoration.

Moschus. — Tightness of chest so that he is obliged to take a deeper breath than usual ; sensation of trembling around heart, with constriction in whole chest, almost suffocation.

Naja tripudians. — Sudden attack of fluttering at the heart, with rising' in the throat, and headache; sudden agonizing pain in heart; unusual beating of heart, audible to patient ; heat and uneasy aching, with oppres- sion, in heart; stitching pains in heart; inability to speak, with choking; pain not affected by inspiration ; nervous chronic palpitations.

Nux vomica. — Hemorrhoidal tendency ; constrictive pain in thorax, as if sternum were pressed inward ; stitches in cardiac region, palpitations ; especially at night in bed or towards morning, < from mental emotions, protracted study, after eating.

Oxalic acid. — Sharp darting in heart and left lung, extending down to epigastrium ; jerking pains, like short stitches, confined to small space, last- ing only a few seconds ; numbness and weakness in back and limbs ; sore- ness, stitches in heart from behind forward and from above downward.

Petroleum. — Pressing pain, much < between the shoulder-blades ; feel- ing as if there were a cold stone in the heart; feeble impulse of the heart with irregular and intermitting pulse ; pulse accelerated by every motion, slow during rest.

Phosphorus. — Cardiac cough, sharp, rough, short and dry — expiration prevails ; pressing pain under sternum, with feeling of tightness across chest; dyspnoea, with inability to exert himself; palpitation from every motion, < before a thunderstorm ; suitable to rapidly growing youth.

Phytolacca. — Shocks of pain in cardiac region, shooting into right arm ; heart's action weak, with constipation ; awakens with lameness near heart, < during expiration, cannot go to sleep again ; pulse full, but soft.

Rhus tox. — Tendency to fainting ; stitches in heart, with lameness and stiffness of whole body and limbs ; chest and heart feel weak after a walk ; violent beating of heart when sitting still.

Sambucus. — Spasmodic attacks of suffocation during night, with sibi- lant and accelerated respiration, fear and crying ; occasional omission of heartbeat.

Sepia. — Affections of heart, with violent, unequal, intermittent, palpitat- ing and tremulous motion of heart; flushes of heat, with cold hands and feet.

Spigelia. — Abnormal action of heart, with pain, < when stretching him- self out, when bending forward, lifting arms or from the least motion ; > in stooping, touching the stomach externally ; severe stabbing itching in the heart at every beat ; pain rapidly passing around the body from left to right, inside, to the scrobiculus cordis ; sudden severe pain in left chest so violent

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that it knocks her down: weak, irregular pulse; strong but slow pulse; spasmodic pain in stomach inducing vomiting of contents of stomach and mucus, but no bile.

Spongia. — Contracting pain in heart, heat, suffocation, faintness and anxious sweat; pressure across chest, as from a heavy weight, especially at aortic arch (aneurisma aorta?) ; sudden awakening after midnight, with suffocation, great alarm and anxiety ; < with the head lying low, at every attempt to lie down.

Tabacum. — Violent beating of heart and carotids ; sudden precordial anguish ; violent palpitation lying on left side, passes away when turning to right ; nocturnal attacks of tightness of chest, with palpitations and parox- ysmal oppression ; neuralgia up to the neck ; pale face, cold extremities and clammy sweat ; glowing heat in face, with redness frequently only on one side.

Tarentula. — Palpitation, with panting respiration and prostration ; acceleration and suspension of movements of heart ; trembling of heart as when frightened ; suffocation, so that patient thinks he is going to die.

Veratrum alb. — Periodical attacks of contractive, crampy pain in left chest, or cutting pains with excessive agony, arresting breathing and ex- tending to shoulder; violent, visible, anxious palpitation, with fainting; cramps in limbs ; cold and clammy skin.

Viburnum. — -Sharp shooting pain in left chest, felt as if the breath would leave her body ; irregular breathing, weak and sighing ; pulse weak, irregular, with great prostration and dizziness; dysmenorrhcea; severe after- pains. (E. M. H.)

ANGUISH.

Paroxysms of. Generally a mere symptom, though sometimes so promi- nent and distressing that it deserves a special treatment. 1, Aeon., Ars., Aur., Bell., Cham., Dig., Merc, Nux v., Puis., Veratr. ; 2, Alum., Anac, Bar. c, Carb. an., Carb. v., Cocc, Cupr., Graph., Hyosc, Ign.. Lye, Nitr., Nitr. ac, Phos., Rhus. Sep., Spig., Spong., Sulph., Tarent., Trill., Vip.

Particular indications :

By simultaneous affections of the chest: 1, Aeon., Ars., Aur., Ipee. Puis., Veratr. ; 2, Cact., Calc, Bry., Carb. v., Dig., Spig.

By gastric or abdominal affections : 1, Ars., Calc, Cupr., Natr., Nux v., Puis., Veratr. ; 2, Bell., Cham., Carb. v., Cocc, Laur., Lye, Natr. m., Stann., Thuj.

By affections of the heart: 1, Aeon., Ars., Aur., Cact., Dig., Puis., Spig., Spong. ; 2, Cham., Cimicif., Gels., Lye, Nitr. ac, Phos., Sep., Veratr. vir.

By hypochondriasis : 1, Aeon., Ars., Calc, Dig., Lack., Natr., Nux v.; 2, iEscul.. Alum., Anac, Bell., Caust, Cham., Con., Corn, c, Cyprip., Graph., Hell., Hep., Ign., Iris, Lach., Leptan., Lye, Merc, Mosch., Nitr. ac, Pod., Puis., Sep., Stram.

By hysteria : 1, Aeon., Cic, Cocc, Con., Croc, Cyprip., Hyosc, Ign., Mosch., Nux v. ; 2. Alet., Bell., Calc, Caust., Caul., Corn, f., Gels., Hyosc, Magn. mur., Nitr. ac, Nux m., Phos., Sil., Scutel., Veratr.

By hyperesthesia ot the brain : Aeon., Bell., Hyosc., Lachn., Merc, Nux v.,

Veratr.

ANOREXIA, Loss of Appetite.

Though generally a mere symptom, yet it is sometimes a mere dislike to certain kinds of nourishment, which can be treated with: 1, Ant., Arm, Cact., Chelon., Chin., Hep., Merc, Nux v., Puis., Rhus, Sulph., Tart. ; 2, Bar. c, Bry., Calc, Cimicif., Cycl., Fer., Gels., Gymnocl., Helon., Hydr., Iris, Lob.,

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Natr. m., Sep., Sil. ; 3, Are., Bell., Canth., Cic, Cocc., Comocl., Con., Ign., Lyc., Op., Plat, Sang., Thuj., Veratr.

For independent anorexia, or for anorexia remaining after gastric affec- tions, we have: 1, Ant. crud., Cact., Chelon., Cycl., Gymnocl., Sulph.; 2, Chin., Iris, Nux v., Puis., Rhus., Sep., Sil.

For anorexia accompanied with hunger, use: 1, Cact., Chin., Cimicif., Eupat., Helleb., Natr. m., Rhus ; 2, Bry., Calc, Ign., Nux v., Op., Sil. ; 3, Ars., Bar. c, Dulc, Magn. mur., Sulph. ac.

For anorexia accompanied with complete loathing of food, give : 1, Ipec, Puis., Rhus; 2, Chin., Ign., Jug., Nux v.; 3, Aeon., Bell, Comocl., Lach., Lob., Mur. ac, Sep.

Aversion to particular kinds of food : to acids : Bell., Cocc, Fer., Ign., Nux, Phos. ac, Sabad., Sulph.; to beer: Bell., Cham., Chin., Cocc, Fer., Nux v., Puis., Spong., Stann., Sulph.; to brandy: Ign., Merc, Rhus; to bread; Agar., Con., Cycl., Ign., Kali carb., Lyc, Natr. m., Nitr. ac, Nux v., Phos., Puis., Rhus, Sep., Sulph., Tarent. ; to rye-bread : Kali carb., Lyc, Nux v., Puis., Sulph.; to bread and butter: Cycl.; to butter: Ars., Carb. v., Chin., Cycl., Magn., Merc, Ptel., Puis., Sang ; to cheese : Chel., Olean. ; to chocolate : Osmi., Tarent. ; to coffee : Bell., Bry., Calc, Carb. v., Cham., Chel., Chin., Coc. c, Coff. crud., Dulc, Fluor, ac, Kali bi., Kali nitr., Lil. t., Lyc, Merc, Natr., Natr. mur., Nux v., Osmi., Phos., Phys., Rheum, Rhus, Sabad., Spig., Sulph. ac ; to cold food: Acet. ac, Chel., Cycl. ; to dinner: Carb. an:, Coc c, Veratr. ; to drinks : Agar., Agn. cas., Aloe, Ang., Am., Bell., Cupr., Canth., Chin., Cocc, Coff., Hyosc, Ign., Lach., Merc, Nux v., Phys., Ratan., Samb., Sec, Stram. ; to hot drinks: Fer.; to eggs: Fer.; to everything: Alum., Amm. m., Caps., Cupr., Hyosc, Ipec, Lyc, Merc, Mez., Nux v., Plat., Plumb., Puis., Rheum, Rhod., Sep., Sulph., Thea, Ther., Thuj.; to fat food: Ang., Bell., Bry., Calc, Carb. an. and veg., Colch., Croc, Cycl., Dros., Helleb., Hep., Meny., Merc, Natr., Natr. m., Petr., Ptel., Puis., Rheum, Rhus, Sep., Sulph. ; to fish : Colch., Graph., Grat., Natr. m., Sulph., Zinc; to boiled food: Chel., Lyc. ; to cooked food: Bell., Calc, Chel., Graph., Ign., Lach., Lyc, Magn., Merc, viv., Petr., Phos., Sil., Veratr., Zinc. ; to hot food : Fer. ; to warm food : Bell., Calc, Cupr., Graph., Ign., Lach., Lyc, Magn., Magn. sulph., Merc, Petr., Sil., Veratr., Zinc. ; to fruit: Bar. c, Ign. ; to bananas: Elaps; \a plums: Bar. c. ; to garlic : Sabad. ; to meat : Abies can., Agar., Aloe, Alum., Amm. carb., Arn., Ars., Aur., Bell., Bry., Calc, Caust., Chenop., Fer., Graph., Helleb., Hydr., Ign., Kali carb., Lyc, Merc, Mez., Nitr. ac, Nux v., Op., Petr., Plat., Ptel., Puis., Rhus, Ruta, Sabad., Sil., Sulph. ; to milk : iEth., Amm. carb., Ant. tart., Am., Bell., Bry., Calc, Carb. v., Cin., Guaiac, Ign., Magn., Nux v., Phos., Rheum, Sep.. Stann., Sulph. ; to mother's milk : Ant. crud., Cin., Lach., Merc, Sil., Stann., Stram.; to pickles: Abies can.; to pork: Ang., Colch., Dros., Psor., Puis. ; to potatoes : Alum., Thuj. ; to salt food : Acet. ac, Carb. v., Graph., Natr. m., Selen., Sil. ; to sauerkraut : Helleb. ; to supper : Lyc, Sulph.; to siveets and confectionery: Ars., Bar. c, Caust., Graph., Hippom., Merc, Phos., Sulph., Zinc. ; to tea : Carbol. ac, Thea ; to tobacco : Ant. tart., Arn., Bov., Brom., Calc, Camph., Canth., Carb. an., Cimicif., Cocc, Con. Ign., Lach., Lyc, Meph., Natr. m., Nux v., Phos., Puis., Spig., Tilia ; to veal : Phell., Zinc; to vegetables: Bell., Helleb., Hydr., Magn. carb and mur., Ruta ; to water : Bell., Brom., Bry., Calad., Canth., Caust., Chin., Elaps, Ham., Helleb., Kali bich., Lyss., Lyc, Natr. m., Nux v., Phys., Stram., Zinc ; to wine: Agar., Fluor, ac, Hippom., Ign., Lach., Merc, Natr. m., Nux j., Rhus, Sabad., Sulph. ; to water, very cold: Calad., Phys.

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ANTHRAX.

When caused by infection, the best remedies are: Are., Camph., Lach., mi- less Chin., Rhus, Sil. or Puis, should be indicated. The malignant pustule generally yields to : Are., Bell., Sil., Rhus, or, perhaps, Chin., Hyosc, Mur. ac, Sec, Sep. ; 2, Anthrac, Apis, Carb. v., Kreos., Hydr., Tarent. cubana.

The common anthrax or carbuncle, which is not caused by infection, generally requires Sil., or, perhaps, Cepa, Hyosc, Lyc. or Nitr. ac. Some- times Arn. is given with good effect at the commencement, after which Nux v. completes the cure.

There is a kind of carbuncle which contains lice ; this requires Are. and Chin.

Anthracinum. — Induration of cellular tissue; red lines, streaks and stripes mark out the course of the lymphatics; oedema of the affected parts ; discharge of ichorous, foul-smelling pus ; gangrene ; absorption of ichor with ichorremia, collapse ; violent burning pains, not relieved by Are.

Apis mell. — Stitching, burning pain in anthrax, with sensitiveness to the least touch, and erysipelatous redness around it; furuncles, with mani- manifold sloughs of dead connective tissue ; chronic tendency to furuncles.

Arsenicum. — Anthrax burning like fire ; reddish-bluish spots becoming gangrenous ; sensation in swelling as if boiling water were running beneath the skin; cold, blue skin, dry as parchment, peeling off in large scales; cold sweat, pulse small, irregular, frequent.

Belladonna. — Phlegmonous inflammation, affecting adjacent glands ; tendency to cerebral manifestations ; erysipelatous redness around anthrax.

Calcis murias, internally and locally applied, hastens the ripening and its discharge.

Camphor. — Skin tense, hot and dry, like parchment; nervous anxiety and stupefaction, great exhaustion ; threatening gangrene ; bed-sores ; fear of being left alone.

China. — Exhaustion of vital power, with excessive sensitiveness and irritability of the nerves, deficiency of animal heat ; decomposition of animal matter with symptoms of putrid fever ; malaria.

Hepar sulph. — Formation of boils or pustules around the anthrax ; relieves the severe pain, favors the suppurative process and hastens the discharge of the slough.

Hyoscyamus. — Anthrax in nervous or hysterical people; great rest- lessness caused by the excessive nervous excitement, shaking of head in all directions, optical illusions, constrictions of pharynx; itching around the part.

Kali iod. — Anthrax on a syphilitic basis or combined with scrofula ; tissues distended by interstitial infiltration, enlarged glands.

Kreosotum. — Tendency to decomposition ; great irritability, aggravated by rest.

Lachesis. — Dark redness around the sore, which discharges dark, bloody pus ; tension of the skin around the carbuncle, as if too short ; nightly burning of the ulcer, obliging one to rise and wash it with cold water. Gangrene, carbuncles from blood-poisoning.

Lycopodium. — Warm poultices aggravate all the pains ; boils return- ing periodically ; carbuncles, with burning stitches all around, with alter- nate chilliness and heat of the body.

Muriatic acid. — Carbuncles in scorbutic individuals, with ulcers on the gums and profuse emission of clear urine.

Phytolacca. — Tendency to boils, carbuncles or malignant pustule, very painful, and appearing specially on the back and behind the ears.

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Rhus tox. — Burning itching around the carbuncle, with vertigo as if one were about to fall; stupor; pale face, disfigured and convulsed; pointed nose ; bloody or serous frothy diarrhoea.

Silicea promotes suppuration; ichorous suppuration of the cellular tissue after induration.

Stramonium. — The pains are so severe as to set the patient nearly distracted. •

Tarentula cubana. — Anthrax, especially on back of neck, with burn- ing, excruciating pain, banishing all sleep ; great prostration.

APHASIA, AGRAPHIA.

Partial or complete speechlessness of cerebral origin ; inability to write : Ar. mac, Bar. ac, Bell., Calc, Cann., Caust., Cin., Con., Glon., Hyosc, Kali br., Kali phos., Lach., Natr., Nux v., CEnan., Olean., Op., Phos., Plumb., Stram., Zinc. (See emboly and aneurisma.)

Baryta acet. — Amnesia of words, cannot recollect the names of things or objects.

Calcarea carb. — Misplaces words and tendency to express himself wrongly ; thinking is difficult.

Chamomilla. — Omits whole words in speaking or writing.

Oonium. — Forgets words, cannot understand what he reads, cannot find the words when speaking.

Colchicum. — Can read, but cannot understand even a short sentence ; cannot find certain words, vain efforts to pronounce them ; troubles of comprehension and association of ideas; in writing leaves out syllables and whole words.

Kali brom. — Amnesic aphasia ; mental torpor ; inability to express himself ; single words are forgotten or syllables dropped.

Kali phos. — Aphasia after suppressed sweat, from fright or mental emotions, from mental overwork.

Lachesis. — Though hearing is perfect does not understand what is said to him, the exact sense of the words is lost; confusion of numbers and dates ; mistakes in writing.

Lycopodium. — Uses the wrong word which does not express what he wanted to say ; full of mistakes and cannot read what he wrote, mixes up letters and syllables, or omits parts of words in writing.

Nux vomica. — Defective memory : cannot read or calculate, for she loses the connection of ideas.

Zincum. — Repeats all questions before answering them ; weak memory and sensitive to others talking.

APHONIA, Loss of Voice.

Aconite. — Aphonia caused by fright, anger, indignation, or a violent emotion. In acute laryngitis with hsemoptoe, the result of cold, and where the patient is very anxious about his health.

Ammonium caust. — Catarrhal and paralytic aphonia, with general muscular debility, exhaustion and tumors, and with profuse expectoration • burning rawness in the throat.

Antimonium crud. — Loss of voice on becoming heated by exertion • the voice returns by resting. Extreme feebleness of voice. Deficient muscular tonicity of the organs of speech, either from faulty assimilation or deficient innervation. Much hawking and expectoration of phlegm,

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and depressed vitality of the laryngeal mucous membrane; sensation as of a foreign body in the throat.

Argentum met. — Alteration in the timbre of voice of singers, speak- ers and preachers, with feeling of constriction and rawness in the larynx ; sensation in the cricoid cartilage as if stopped up with a foreign body! Cough accompanied with an easy expectoration of white, thick, starchlike mucus, without taste or smell.

Argentum nitr. — Chronic aphonia. When in bed rattling in the larynx and trachea ; this noise is synchronous with the pulse. Nocturnal aggrava- tion, with a dry cough and flow of saliva, with some expectoration of mucus striped with blood. Tickling itchiness, burning in the larynx. Often during night fits of coughing, with gagging and vomiting ; rawness of voice alternating with uterine troubles.

Arum triph. — Aphonia or dysphonia, with sore throat in persons who speak in public and sing. Voice changeable, varying in tone from one moment to another. Catarrh of the pharynx, trachea and bronchial tubes ; muscular exhaustion and a paretic state of the larynx in singers and speakers.

Baryta carb. — Aphonia always < in damp weather; voice husky, cough from tough mucus in larynx and trachea; feeling in larynx as if inhaling smoke or pitch.

Belladonna. — Sudden aphonia, speaking very difficult, talks in a piping tone ; voice weak and wheezing ; painfulneis and dryness of larynx, < by touch ; sensation of a lump in throat and spasmodic constriction. Paralytic aphonia of cerebro-spinal origin.

Bromium. — Husky voice ; aphonia, cannot speak clearly ; voice weak and soft, with raw, scraped feeling in throat.

Oarbo an. — Rawness and hoarseness, morning after rising ; loss of voice during night.

Carbo veg. — Raw feeling down larynx and trachea, with dry, tickling cough ; deep voice, failing if exerted ; hoarseness and rawness < evenings ; aphonia mornings ; chronic cases when the change of weather produces an aggravation; < from evening air, warm, damp weather and from talking, after measles.

Oausticum. — Paralytic and catarrhal aphonia. Sudden loss of voice on taking cold ; burning huskiness in whispering ; sense of utter weakness in the laryngeal muscles. Voice weak and aphonia after excessive use of the vocal organs in singers and public speakers. Tendency to catarrhal laryn- gitis, leading to aphonia, with a sensation as if a foreign body were in the throat. Dry cough, < morning and evening, relieved by a swallow of cold water. With women every fit of cough causes an involuntary passage of urine. As concomitants, facial or glossal paralysis, or numbness of the palatine arches ; condylomata on the vocal chords ; < in dry, cold weather.

Cina. — Aphonia from exposure ; attempting to talk causes a peculiar, hoarse, soundless cough, with pain in larynx; right side of chest con- stricted, with difficult breathing.

Chininum sulph. — Intermittent aphonia. More or less complete loss of the voice about 4 p.m. ; preceded by thirst, cough, constriction of the neck, headache or neuralgia; heat in the head and frequent pulse.

Drosera. — Catarrhal hoarseness, with or without coryza or cough ; hol- low and deep voice ; the patient is only able to speak in a bass voice ; hoarse- ness after measles ; cough; scraping feeling of dryness in the fauces ; excit- ing or hacking cough, accompanied by yellow expectoration; patient involuntarily supports larynx on swallowing or coughing.

Ferrum met. — The patient when talking feels pain, and the tone of the

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voice is low ; pain in the larynx and the trachea ; burning sensation after speaking ; laryngeal haemorrhage ; asthmatic symptoms, with haemoptysis.

Gelsemium. — Paralytic aphonia during menstruation ; the voice return- ing when catamenia stop. Nervous aphonia, with dryness and burning in throat, restless sleep and twitching of muscles.

Heematoxylon. — Aphonia, with feeling of a bar across the chest ; diffi- culty in swallowing saliva ; constriction of oesophagus in its whole length ; > in open air.

Hyoscyamus. — Hysterical aphonia, she makes great effort to speak, cannot produce a sound or syllable.

Ignatia. — Hysterical aphonia, with mental anxiety and spinal symptoms. A constant dry cough excited by a tickling in suprasternal fossa.

Kali bichrom.— Catarrhal laryngitis and catarrhal aphonia; < in the evening and when weather is going to change, and after long talking. Fre- quent desire to clear the throat, with a rare, scanty, lumpy expectoration. Follicular enlargement of the mucous membrane of- the pharynx, with chronic coryza that forms hardened yellow pieces of mucus. Right side of nose more affected with bloody mucus.

Lachesis. — Hysterical aphonia, with tenderness and sense of swelling in throat; < after sleeping and in the evening. Spasms of glottis; suddenly something runs from neck to larynx and completely interrupts breathing.

Lactic acid. — Aphonia, with dryness of glottis ; hard, dry cough, with spasmodic contractive sensation.

Mercurius. — Catarrhal and syphilitic aphonia, or in that occasioned by nervous paralysis.

Nux moschata. — Hysterical aphonia, with gastro-intestinal and cardiac derangements ; sudden loss of voice when walking against the wind.

Opium. — Paralytic aphonia, originating in fright ; the fear or fright still remaining; dry mouth and white tongue; faint voice.

Oxalic acid. — Nervous aphonia, with cardiac derangement, violent palpi- tation and irregular action; change of voice, which becomes weak and hoarse.

Phosphorus. — Sensitiveness and dryness of the larynx, with feeling as if it were lined with fur; cannot utter a word on account of pain in the larynx ; nervous exhaustion ; suspected atrophy of nerve-tissue ; tubercular origin of the aphonia ; < evening.

Platina. — Hysterical or reflex aphonia, associated with uterine troubles.

Rhus tox. — Muscular exhaustion of the larynx, from prolonged and loud exercise of the voice ; hoarseness, after being silent awhile ; improved by talking ; aggravation in the evening, from change in the weather ; hot air from trachea ; cold sensation in larynx when breathing.

Rumex crispus. — Catarrhal aphonia, with irritation in suprasternal fossa, exciting a distressing cough; desire to hawk phlegm, which is felt in the larynx like moving to and fro, without succeeding ; aggravated by cold air and night hours ; in women every fit of coughing produces the passage of a few drops of urine ; sensitiveness of the trachea to pressure ; reflex aphonia due to infiltration of tubercules in left apex of the lung.

Sanguinaria.— Aphonia, with swelling in throat ; chronic dryness in throat; sensation of swelling in throat and larynx, and expectoration of thick mucus ; raw and burning ulcers in larynx ; dry cough, > by flatus and diar- rhoea ; wheezing, whistling cough, < at night and lying with the head low.

Selenium— Voice husky when beginning to sing or from talking long; hawks transparent mucus in lumps every morning, sometimes bloody ; ten- dency to hoarseness in beginning of tuberculosis of larynx and of lungs.

Senega. — Sudden hoarseness when reading aloud ; throat so dry that it hurts when talking ; dry cough, < in cold air, particularly when walking.

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Spongia. — Chronic hoarseness and cough ; the voice frequently giving out when talking or singing ; hoarseness with soreness and burning ; voice cracked and broken, or faint ; sense of choking ; whistling sound in the larynx on a deep inspiration ; phthisis laryngea ; larynx sensitive to touch, > when coughing, talking or swallowing.

Sepia. — Refl ex or sympathetic aphonia from functional or organic dis- ease of the uterus. (Murez.)

Stramonium. — Aphonia from great mental excitement, with hysterical and maniacal symptoms ; speechlessness from cerebral disease.

Sulphur. — Chronic aphonia on a psoric basis; when well-indicated remedies fail it will rouse the slumbering vitality or excite the animal electricity, < in the morning.

APHTHA.

Mth., Bapt., Bor., Canth., Eup. arom., Hydr., Merc, Mur. ac, Nux v., Phyt., Plant, m., Plumb., Sulph., Sulph. ac, etc.

^Ethusa cyn. — Aphtha? in mouth and throat ; tongue feels as if too long ; sensation of pungent heat in mouth and throat, with great difficulty in swallowing ; stinging in throat between the acts of deglutition.

Arsenicum. — Aphtha? become livid and bluish, with great prostration ; thrush in mouth and fauces ; painful blisters in mouth and on tongue.

Arum triph. — Superficial ulceration ; tumefaction of lips ; catarrhal burning and biting sensation in mouth and throat.

Baptisia. — Gums ulcerated, loose, dark red or purple ; filthy taste with flow of saliva ; cracked, sore, ulcerated tongue.

Borax. — Aphtha? of children and of old people, in mouth and inner surface of cheek, salivation ; great heat and dryness of mouth ; pains, especially when chewing.

Eupatorium arom. — A family and household remedy which needs proving.

Hydrastis. — Follicular and catarrhal ulcers, with exceedingly tenacious mucus in mouth ; aphthous sore mouth ; tongue foul and coated with thick white fur.

Iodum. — Aphthous ulcers in mouth, with putrid smell ; profuse fetid salivation, not > by washing mouth.

Mercurius. — Ulcerated gums, tongue and cheeks; fetid breath; burning pains, < at night.

Muriatic acid. — Gums swollen, bleeding, ulcerated ; teeth loose ; deep ulcers in tongue with black bases and vesicles ; mouth as if glued up with insipid mucus ; foul breath.

Nitric acid. — After abuse of Mercury; fetid and acrid saliva which causes sores on lips, chin and cheeks ; teeth yellow and loose ; ulceration of tongue with tough ropy mucus.

Phytolacca. — Small ulcers on inside of right cheek, very painful ; he cannot chew on that side ; burnt feeling on back part of tongue ; profuse, thick, ropy salivation.

Plumbum. — Aphtha?, dirty-looking ulcers and purple blotches in mouth and on tip of tongue ; sweetish frothy saliva.

Staphisagria. — Mouth and tongue full of blisters ; painful excrescences on inside of cheeks; gums ulcerated, spongy, bleeding; fetid breathy

Sulphuric acid. — Aphthous mouth and gums; yellowish and painful; talking difficult, as from want of elasticity of the parts ; great weakness ; ecchymoses.

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APOPLEXIA.

Aeon., Am., Bar. c, Bell, Cocc, Gels., Kali br., Lach., Lachn., Nux v., Op., Phos., Puis. ; and then Mac, Ant., Chin., Coif., Con., Dig., Gymnocl., Hyosc, Jpec, Laur., Merc., Nux m., Sang., Tart.

For apoplexia sanguinea: Arn., Bell., Cad., Lach., Nux v., Op.; or else Aeon., Ant., Bar., Coff,, Hyosc., Ipec., Merc, Puis., Sang.

For apoplexia serosa : Arn., Dig., Ipec, Mer. ; or Bar. c, Chin., Cocc, Con. (Hydrocephalus ex vacuo.)

For the subsequent paralysis: Am., Bell., Canst., Cocc, Cupr., Lach., Nux v., Rhus, Stram., Zinc. ; or also Anac., Bar. c., Calc, Con., Dulc, Laur., Natr. m., Phos., Plumb., Ruta, Sep., Sil.

For hemiplegia, particularly : Alum., Anac, Bell., Caust., Cocc., Graph., Kalm., Lach., Nux v., Phos. ac, Sulph. ac. ; or Mac, Arg. n., Arn., Chin., Hyosc, Plumb., Rhus., Stram.

For apoplexia of drunkards : Lach., Nux v., Op. or Bar. c, Coff., Con., Puis.

For apoplexia of old people : Bar. c, or Op. ; or Con., Dig., Kali br., Merc, etc.

For apoplexia from loss of blood or other debilitating causes : Chin., Ipec. ; or also Carb. v., Cocc, Nux v., Puis., Sep.

For apoplexia from overloading the stomach : A few tablespoons of black coffee; or if this should be insufficient : Ipec, Nux v., Puis.

-53sculus. — Severe vertigo, with reeling, like drunken men; vertigo, with nausea and dimness of sight; confused stupor; thickness of speech; great weakness, with trembling.

Aconitum. — Heat of the head ; pulsation of the carotids ; skin more warm than cold ; pulse full, hard, strong, even suppressed, but not inter- mittent; especially when fright or vexation was the cause of it in ple- thoric apoplectic subjects.

Arnica. — Head hot and rest of body cool ; full and strong pulse, with paralysis of limbs, especially left side ; loss of consciousness and stupe- faction, with stertorous breathing; sighing, muttering; involuntary dis- charge of urine and feces. Suits middle-aged, plethoric and stout con- stitutions ; ecchymoses here and there all over the body.

Asterias rubens. — Sudden attack of vertigo like shocks in the head ; heat of head, as if surrounded by hot air ; cerebral congestion with obsti- nate constipation; face red; pulse hard, compressed, frequent; pupils closed ; gradual loss of sight ; great agitation and little sleep night before attack.

Baryta carb. — Apoplexy of old people, especially those addicted to the excessive use of stimulating drinks ; the patient cannot speak ; acts childish, at times anxious and full of fear; general paralysis of old age; paralysis of the tongue, with loss of memory ; anxiety and fear and great trembling of the limbs ; inability to keep the body erect.

Belladonna. — The first stage of the disease, with grinding and gnashing of teeth before attack, where severe congestive symptoms are still present, or at a later period, when the extravasation causes severe inflammatory reaction; stupefaction; loss of consciousness and speech, or convulsive movements of the limbs and muscles of the face; paralysis of the extremi- ties, especially on the right side ; the mouth is drawn to one side ; paralysis of the tongue; ptyalismus, difficulty of swallowing, or entire inability to swallow; loss of sight; dilated pupils; red protruded eyes; red bloated face ; reaching with the hands to the genitals.

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face bloated and red, with pulsating pain in the head ; heat in the head and face, causing madness and horrible anxiety ; pulsating pain with sensa- tion of weight on the right side of the head ; pressing pain in the forehead, increased by bright light or loud noises. All these symptoms caused by profound cardiac disturbance.

Calcarea carb. — With fat persons, suffering also from fatty degenera- tion of the heart, and atheromatous state of the bloodvessels.

Causticum. — Paralytic states remaining after the apoplexy is removed. Paralysis and contraction of the lower extremities ; impossibility to find the right word.

Cocculus. — Face red and hot; eyes closed, with the balls constantly rolling about ; pupils dilated ; breathing without noise ; stupor ; paralysis of right or left extremity ; after night-watching and exhaustion.

Coffea. — Threatening of apoplexy ; overexcited, talkative, full of fear, pangs of conscience ; aversion to open air ; sleeplessness ; convulsive grind- ing of teeth.

Conium. — The senile women's remedy ; numbness, with sensation of coldness on one side of head ; headache, as if head were too full and would burst, morning when awaking ; hemiplegia, sweat as soon as he falls asleep and even with the closing of the eyes.

Crotalus hor. — Apoplexy in drunkards, broken-down constitutions, following toxsernic states ; dull, heavy, throbbing headache, with oppression in chest, burning fever and accelerated pulse ; loss of speech, sopor from which he cannot be roused ; muttering and lockjaw ; paralysis, following apoplexy, especially right side.

Cuprum. — Nervous apoplexy, with convulsions, distortions of face, and palsy of speech. Atrophy of paralyzed parts with paralysis of motor nerves, whereas sensation is normal ; paralysis of tongue ; choreic movements.

Gelsemium. — Threatened or actual apoplexy, with stupor, coma and nearly general paralysis (rarely useful in hemiplegia or paraplegia) ; head- ache, nausea, tightness of brain ; giddiness, tendency to stagger, with imper- fection of vision ; vertigo unto falling, slightly relieved by spirits ; intense passive congestion to the head with nervous exhaustion ; wine aggravates the headache and eye symptoms.

Glonoinum. — Threatening apoplexy in subjects having a hypertrophied heart or insufficiency of aortic valves ; during prodromal stage severe head- ache, hot flashes in head and face, mental exaltation or depression, ill humor, anguish, pulsation of the arteries of the head and neck ; stiff neck and pain- ful sensation at the back of neck, as if clothing were too tight ; vertigo and dulness of head; scintillations and nebulae .before eyes; surring of ears, heaviness and tired feeling of extremities ; restless sleep and frightful dreams.

Helleborus. — Idiocy following apoplexy.

Hyoscyamus. — Sudden falling down with a shriek ; soporous condi- tion; face red, lower jaw dropped ; patient weak, trembling ; twitching of muscles; stertorous breathing; inability to swallow ; involuntary stool, pulse quick and full; bloodvessels swollen; numbness of hands after# conscious- ness returns.

Iodum. — Chronic congestion to brain from hypertrophy of right ventri- cle or from compression of bloodvessels around the neck from a struma.

Ipecacuanha. — In serous and nervous apoplexy with vertigo, lips hang- ing down, loss of speech, salivation and paralysis of the extremities. Head- ache as if the brain were bruised through all the bones of the head and down into the root of the tongue ; prolonged nausea and vomiting, arising, from a gastric state. 4

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Lachesis. — Stupefaction with loss of consciousness, with blue face and convulsive movements, or tremor of the extremities^ or paralysis, especially of the left side ; the paroxysms are preceded by frequent absence of mind, or vertigo with rush of blood to the head ; blowing expiration ; after the use of liquors or mental emotions.

Lachnanthes.— Vertigo with sensation of heat in the chest and round the heart ; sensation as if the vertex were enlarged and driven upward ; the head feels enlarged, as if split open with a wedge from the outside to within ; the whole face becomes yellow, etc.

Laurocerasus. — Vertigo, bloated face; jerking of the facial muscles; speechless by full consciousness ; palpitation of heart with scarcely percep- tible pulse and cold, moist skin ; trismus, twitchings of face ; the coma looks more like a quiet, deep sleep ; pulse irregular, small and slow, sel- dom full and hard ; apoplexy with paralysis.

Lycopodium. — Impending cerebral paralysis ; patient lies in stupor ; somnolence; eyes set, fixed and suffused with tears ; dropped jaw; rattling breathing; great emaciation and internal debility.

Nux vomica. — Apoplexy of good livers who lead an easy life and suffer from dyspepsia; stupefaction, stertorous breathing and ptyalism; blear- eyedness; dimness of vision; paralysis especially of the lower limbs ; hang- ing down of the lower jaw ; the paroxysms are preceded by vertigo, buzzing in the ears, headache as if the head would split open, or the eyes be pressed out, with nausea and urging to vomit ; great irritability and hypochondriasis.

Opium. — The paroxysms are preceded by dulness of sense, vertigo and heaviness of the head, buzzing in the ears and hardness of hearing, staring look, sleeplessness, anxious dreams or. frequent desire to sleep ; the parox- ysm is attended by tetanic rigidity of the whole body, redness, bloatedness, and heat of the face ; head is hot and covered with hot or cold sweat; red eyes, with dilated, insensible pupils ; slow, stertorous breathing ; convulsive movements and trembling of extremities ; foam at mouth ; deep comatose sleep, with snoring, rattling, and hanging down of lower maxilla ; impossi- bility to rouse the patient; the head feels so heavy that it sinks back when the patient wants to lift it. (Give Apis or Nux v. where Op. fails.)

Psorinum. — Congestion of blood to the head with heat; awakes stupe- fied and cannot recollect what happened. Sensation as if the head received a heavy blow on the forehead, awaking him at night. Aversion to having the head uncovered (Sil). Debility, independent of any organic disease, and still the patient is hopeless and despairing.

Pulsatilla. — For stupefaction and loss of consciousness, bloated and bluish-reel face, loss of motion; violent palpitation of the heart, almost complete suppression of the pulse, and rattling breathing.

Sanguinaria. — Sanguineous apoplexy from venous congestion. Pain like a flash of lightning on the back of the head ; red cheeks with burn- ing of the ears; distension of the temporal veins ; vertigo on quickly turn- ing the head and looking upward ; burning heat and redness of the face ; breath and, sputa smell bad, even to the patient.

Sepia. — In men addicted to drinking and sexual excesses, with a dis- position to gout and haemorrhoids ; or in women, from affections of the reproductive system. Venous apoplexy. Headache coming on in terrific shocks ; dizziness in walking, with staggering ; forgetfulness ; cold feet ; intermitting pulse, uses wrong words when writing.

Strontia— Violent congestion to head, with hot and red face from every exertion, as walking; smothering feeling about heart, allowing no rest; cannot bear the least draught of air, wants head warmly wrapped up (Magn., Sil.).

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Veratrum vir. — Congestive apoplexy. Intensely congestive headaches ; he becomes stupid, has ringing in the ears, bloodshot eyes, thickness of speech, hot head ; slow, full pulse and hard as iron ; convulsions from in- tense congestion of the capillary vessels of the brain ; dimness of vision, with nausea a*nd vomiting.

In particular cases Apis and Zinc, (phosphide of zinc) will be indicated, and prove of great benefit,

In apoplexy and convulsions: Bell., Hyosc, Lach., Op.; followed by paralysis: 1, Arm, Bell, Nux v., Stann , Zinc; 2, Anac, Caust., Con., Lach. ; with paralysis of one side and convulsions of the other side: Apis,. Bell., Lach., Stram. ; followed by idiocy : Helleb.

Remedies for subsequent chronic changes (Raue) :

Anacardium. — Loss of memory, general paralysis.

Causticum. — Inability to select proper words; paralysis of face and extremities, complicated with muscular contractions.

Cuprum. — Paralysis of tongue, stuttering, deficient speech ; the para- lyzed limbs grow thinner, but preserve sensation ; often complicated with unyielding contractions or chorea-like paroxysms.

Plumbum. — Consciousness blunted, memory deficient ; speech is im- peded, single syllables are omitted or syllables cannot be combined into words ; mimic spasms of face when speaking ; trembling of tongue when it is put out ; violent snoring ; torpor and insensibility of the organs of sense, drooping eyelids, dilated pupils ; pulse slow ; motory and sensory paraly- sis, with violent pain in paralyzed parts and contraction of extensor muscles ; in incomplete paralysis patient's gait unsteady, with tendency to fall forward.

Zincum. — Senses remain disturbed after the attack.

APPARENT DEATH, Asphyxia.

Put a few pellets of the specific remedy on the tongue of the patient, or administer the medicine by the rectum, not omitting the required mechan- ical means of cure ; but never resort to bleeding.

If the asphyxia should have been caused by a blow, fall, etc., give Am., especially if the patient has not been bled before ; in the contrary case, or if the patient lost much blood in consequence of the injury, give first Chin. (according to Hering) and then Arn.

If arising from suffocation, Hering recommends for those who tried to kill themselves by suspension : Op. ; by inhalation of carbonic acid gas : Op., Aeon., Bell. ; and by drowning : Lach.

For asphyxia from congelation, after the patient has been resuscitated by usual means, give for the remaining symptoms : Ars., Carb. v., or Aeon., Bry.

For asphyxia by stroke of lightning, give Nux v. The patient should at the same time be placed in recently dug soil, half sitting, half lying, and should be covered with it all over except his face, which is to be turned towards the sun, until the first signs of life become apparent.

For asphyxia of newborn infants we use : Ant. tart., Op., Chin., and Aeon, (according to Hem pel).

ARSENIC.

Poisoning by : Use the stomach-pump or tube, or empty stomach by emetics, such as hypodermic solution of apomorphine or give mustard or sulphate of zinc. The stomach should then be washed out by large quan- tities of water, most conveniently administered by the pump or tube. If

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the latter is not at hand, give at once dialysed iron or freshly precipitated hydrated oxide of iron. Oil, mucilaginous drinks, the whites of eggs, and, if faintness exists, small doses of stimulants may be given.

After the alarming symptoms have been removed we give Ipec. After Ipec. we give Chin., especially when the patient is irritable, has a restless sleep and nightly febrile motions ; or Nux. v. when the patient is worse in the daytime, particularly after sleeping, with constipation or with diarrhceic slimy stools, or Veratr., if after Ipec. frequent nausea remains, with vomiting and heat, or chilliness over the whole body, and great debility.

For the eruptions of the forehead, ophthalmia, and headache caused by wearing hats that have been worked with arsenic, the best remedies are : 1, Curb, v., Fer. ; 2, Chin., Hep.

The best remedies for the ill effects of arsenic as a medicine are : Chin., Ipec, Nux v., Veratr.

ARTHRALGIA.

Intending to say everything we had to say on the pathological character of the diseases under rheumatism, gout, neuralgia, etc., we here point out more particularly the parts to which the remedies have specific curative relations. This knowledge is not required in every case, but in many cases it is, since two or three remedies may correspond to the general state of the patient, and one of them only to the part affected.

Remedies given for: arthralgia generally: 1, Ars., Bell, Bry., Caust., Colch., Fer., Kalm., Led., Lye, Mang., Merc, Natr. m., Nux v., Phyt., Puis., Rhod., Rhus, Rhus v., Sep., Stront., Sulph. ; 2, Amb., Amra., Ant., Apoc. andr., Arn., Aur., Caps., Carb v., Coloc, Dros., Eupat., Helleb., Hep., Petr., Phos., Ruta, Sass., Sil., Spig., Stann., Staph., Sulph. ac, Thuj., Zinc.

For pains in the axillary joint: 1, Bell., Bry., Calc., Carb v., Fer., Ign., Kalm., Lye, Merc., Nux v., Puis., Rhus, Sep., Staph., Sulph., Thuj., Zinc. ; 2, Amb., Am., Caps., Caust., Cimicif., Led., Natr. m., Petr., Phos., Veratr.

In the elbow-joint: 1, Arg., Bell., Bry., Calc, Caul., Caust., Kalm., Led., Merc, Rhus, Sep., Sulph. ; 2, Ant., Graph., Lye, Mez., Petr., Phos., Puis., Rhus v., Ruta, Staph., Veratr.

In the wrist-joint : 1, Amm., Ars., Bry., Calc, Caul, Caust., Graph., Kalm., Nitr., Rhus, Ruta, Sep., Sulph. ; 2, Alum., Carb. v., Euphr., Helleb., Lach., Led., Mang., Merc, Natr. m., Nitr. ac, Puis., Sabad., Sil., Stront.

In the finger joints : 1, Agn. cas., Ars., Bry., Calc, Carb. v., Caust., Graph., Hep., Lye, Sep., Spig., Sulph. ; 2, Aur., Carb. an., Cham., Chin., Clem., Colch., CycL, Helleb., Ign., Kalm., Lach., Led., Natr. m., Nitr., Petr., Phos.. Puis., Rhus, Rhus v., Sabad., Sil., Spong., Staph.

For pains in the hip and hip-joints : 1, Ars., Asclep., Bell, Bry., Calc., Carb. v., Caust., Coloc, Led., Lye, Mere, Rhus, Sulph. ; 2, Ant., Coce, Fer., Helleb., Ipec, Kalm., Mez., Natr. m., Nux v., Phos., Pals., Rhod., Sabad., Sep., Sil., Strain., Stront., Veratr.

In the knee and knee-joints: 1, Aeon., Asclep., Bell., Bry., Calc, Caul., Caust, Chin., Lach., Led., Natr. m., Nux v., Petr., Phos., Phyt., Puis., Rhus, Sep., Sil., Sulph. ; 2. Alum., Anae, Ars., Asa., Carb. v., Coce, Con., Fer., Graph., Helleb., Hep., Iod., Kalm., Lyc, Magn., Mere, Nitr. ac, Rhod., Ruta, Spig., Stann., Staph., Stront., Veratr., Zinc.

In the tarsal joints : 1, Ars., Bry., Caul., Caust., Chin., Lyc, Mere, Natr. m., Nux v., Phos., Puis., Ruta, Sep., Sulph. ; 2, Amb., Ars., Carb. an., Dros., Hep., Ign., Kali carb., Kreos., Led., Natr., Olean., Spig., Staph., Zinc.

In the toe-joints : 1, Am., Caust., Chin., Cimicif, Kali carb.. Led., Sabin., Sep., Sulph., Zinc. ; 2, Aur., Calc, Con., Ferr., Lyc, Nux v., Rhus, Sil.

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For pains in the upper arm : 1, Bry., Cocc, Fer., Phyt, Sep., Sulph. ; 2, Ars., Asa., Bell., Chin., Ign., Mgt. arc, Mez., Nitr., Puis., Stann., Val.

In the forearm : 1, Asclep., Calc, Carb. v., Caust, Lye, Merc, Nux v., Phyt., Rhus, Sass., Sep., Staph., Sulph. ; 2, Arg., Carb. an., Chin., Con., Dulc, Fer., Kali carb., Mez., Nitr., Nitr. ac., Phos. ac., Rhod., Spig., Stront., Thuj.

In the hands: 1, Asclep., Bell., Bry., Calc, Carb. v., Cimicif., Lach., Lye, Nux v., Rhod., Sep., Sulph.; 2, Ambr., Anac, Aur., Caust., Cham., Chin., Clem., Cocc, Fer., Graph., Hep., Hyose, Kali carb., Merc, Mez., Natr., Natr. m., Petr., Phos., Phytol., Rhus, Sil., Spig., Spong., Zinc.

In the fingers: 1, Asclep., Amm., Carb. v., Graph., Hep., Lye, Nux v., Phos., Puis., Rhus, Sil., Sulph. ; 2, Ambr., Amm. m., Calc, Caust., Cycl., Kali carb., Lach., Mang., Merc, Natr. m., Nitr. ac, Petr., Phos. ac, Phyt, Rhod., Sep., Spig., Staph., Sulph. ac, Thuj., Veratr.

For pains in the thighs : 1, Bry., Calc, Caul., Chin., Hep., Merc, Petr., Phos. ac, Phyt., Rhod., Sep., Sil., Stann., Sulph. ; 2, Arn., Bell., Caps., Carb. v., Caust., Cocc, Coloc, Graph., Guaiac, Led., Mez., Natr. m., Nux v., Olean., Plat., Rhus, Sass., Spig., Spong., Thuj.

In the legs : 1, Bell., Bry., Calc, Caust, Fer., Kali carb., Lye, Nux v., Puis., Sep., Sil., Staph. ; 2, Anac, Asa., Bor., Con., Graph., Ign., Merc, Mez., Phos. ac, Rhod., Rhus, Sulph.

In the tibia : 1, Asa., Calc, Lach., Merc, Mez., Phos., Puis., Sabin. ; 2, Agar., Arn., Bell., Caust., Con., Dulc, Ign., Kali carb., Lye, Mang., Mur. ac, Phos. ac, Rhus, Sep., Sil.

In the calves : 1, Alum., Ars., Calc, Cham., Con., Graph., Lye, Natr., Nitr. ac, Puis., Rhus, Sep., Staph., Sulph., Veratr. ; 2, Ant., Bry., Chin., Coloc, Euphr., Fer., Ign., Kali carb., Mgt. aus., Natr. m., Nux v., Sil., Spig., Stann., Zinc.

In the tendo Achillis : Anac, Ant., Caust., Mur. ac, Natr., Natr., m., Puis., Rhus, Staph., Sulph., Zinc.

In the feet: 1, Arn., Bell., Bry., Camph., Caust., Lyc, Puis., Sep., Sulph.; 2, Ars., Aur., Bar. c, Fer., Graph., Hep., Kali carb., Natr. m., Nitr. ac, Nux v., Rhod., Rhus, Rhus v., Ruta.

In the heels: 1, Amm. m., Ant., Am., Caust., Graph., Ign., Led., Lyc, Mgt. arc, Natr., Nitr. ac, Puis., Sabin., Sep., Sil, Sulph. ; 2, Calc, Coloc, Con., Merc, Petr., Rhod., Rhus, Spong.

In the dorsa of the feet: 1, Calc, Camph., Carb. an., Caust., Lyc, Merc, Puis., Spig., Thuj. ; 2, Anac, Asa., Bry., Chin., Colch., Hep. Ign., Led., Mur. ac, Natr., Nux v., Rhus, Sass., Staph., Sulph., Zinc.

In the soles: 1, Amb., Caust., Graph., Mur. ac, Phos., Phos. ac, Puis., Spig., Sulph.; 2, Bell, Bry., Calc, Chin., Cupr., Ign., Led., Lyc, Natr., Rhus, Sil., Tarax., Zinc.

In the toes : 1, Am., Asa., Caust, Graph., Sabin., Sulph., Thuj. ; 2, Agar., Aur., Carb. ac, Carb. v., Chin., Cimicif., Kalm., Led., Lyc, Mgt. arc, Merc, Phos., Phos. ac, Plat., Sep., Sil, Staph.

In the big toe : 1, Am., Ars., Asa., Bry., Calc, Caust., Cimicif., Kalm., Plat, Sabin., Sil., Sulph., Zinc ; 2, Amb., Amm., Amm. m., Aur., Cocc, Cycl., Led., Mgt. arc, Natr., Puis., Rhus, Sass., Sep., Thuj.

ARTHRITIS, Gout.

1, Aeon., Ant. crud., Ars., Bell., Bry., Calc, Caust., Chin., Cocc, Coloc, Fer., Guaiac, Hep., Iod., Led., Magn., Nux v., Phos., Phos. ac, Puis., Rhod., Sab., Sass., Sulph. ; 2, Abrot., Apoc. andr., Arn., Canth., Chel., Cic, Colch., Con., Dulc, Meny., Merc, Mez., Natr., Phyt., Sang., Stann., Staph., Thuj. ; 3, Ant. tart., Chin, sulph., Cin., Kali bich., Nux j., Ran., Ran. seel., Vise alb.

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For acute arthritis : 1, Aeon., Apoc. andr., Bell., Bry., Chin., Hep., Nux v., Puis. ; 2, Ant., Arn., Ars., Cocc., Fer., Kreos., Phyt., Sulph. ; with gastric affection, Ant. crud. ; with severe pains in hands and knees, Cocc.

For chronic arthritis: 1, Abrot., Benz. ac., Caust., Kalm., Lach., Natr. sulph., Sil. ; 2, Calc, Coloc, Guaiac, Iod., Mang., Phos. ac., Rhod., Sass., Sulph.

For erratic arthritis : 1, Am., Mang., Nux m., Nux v., Puis. ; 2, Asa., Daph., Plumb., Rhod.

For arthritis with swelling-: 1, Arn., Chin., Cocc, Hep., Rhus, Sulph.; Ant., Bry., Chin. ars.

For arthritis with hemorrhoidal or menstrual difficulties : Berb.

With urinary difficulties : Berb., Canth., Sass.

Arthritic nodosities require: 1, Calc, Lye, Rhod.; 2, Ant. crud., Amm. phos., Abrot., Graph., Led., Nux v. ; 3, Agn. cas., Bry., Carb. an., Carb. v., Nitr., Nux m., Ran., Sabin., Staph. ; 4, Aur., Dig., Phos., Sep., Sil., Zinc. ; painless : Nitr.

Arthritic contractions are frequently > by : 1, Bry., Caust., Guaiac, Sulph.; 2, Calc, Coloc, Rhus, Sil., Thuj.

For the precursory symptoms of gout the same remedies are generally to be used that we use for the gout itself. The following remedies will generally answer : Ant., Bell., Bry., Nux v.

For recent arthritic metastases the following are very useful: Aeon., Bell., Nux v., Sass., Sulph.; in most cases the affected organs should be considered. We refer the reader to the paragraphs on headache, ophthal- mia, gastric derangement, where the symptoms arising from arthritic causes will be found mentioned.

For the arthritic affections of drunkards we use: 1, Aeon., Calc, Nux v., Sulph. ; or 2, Ars., Chin., Hep., Iod., Lach., Led., Puis.

For arthritis of persons who indulge in rich living : Ant. crud., Calc, Iod., Nux v., Puis., Sulph.

For that of persons working in water : Ant. crud., Ars., Calc, Dulc, Nux m., Puis., Rhus, Sarsap.

Gout affecting the head or eyes : Bry., Coloc, Ipec, Kali iod., Nux v. ; 2, Colch., Lye, Rhus, Sep., Staph., Sulph.

Gout affecting the head and ears : Fer. pic

Gout affecting the stomach and abdomen: Ant. crud., Bry., Ars., Coloc, Lye, Nux m., Nux v., Sulph.

Gout affecting the heart : Abrot., Ars., Benz. ac, Colch., Kalm., Lith., Phos.

Gout affecting the kidneys : Benz. ac, Berb., Kali iod. (contracted kidney), Lye, Sarsap., Sulph. ; 2, Ars., Colch., Plumb., Phos., Tereb., Zinc.

Abrotanum. — Chronic arthritis. Gouty deposits about finger-joints, < during cold, stormy weather, painful, sore and hot at that time ; metastasis to heart ; piercing pain in heart ; high fever ; emaciation, though appetite is good.

Actsea spicata. — Rheumatoid arthritis ; swelling of joints after slight fatigue; pain as from paralytic weakness of hands; great stiffness of joints after rest ; small joints swell after walking ; legs weak after change of tem- perature ; fingers numb, cold, discolored ; exertion causes cold sweat.

Ammonium caust— Joints stiff and enlarged by calcareous matter (Caust., Graph., Guaiac, Sep., Thuj.).

Ammonium phos. — Urates of soda ; chronic nodes and concretions in the joints.

Antimonium crud. — Especially when the stomach is involved ; tongue white, bowels costive ; vomiting and retching.

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Apis mel. — Acute arthritis, where the affected parts show an erysipe- latous redness or shining whiteness and are swollen ; oedema of affected parts ; great tenderness to touch, > by cold water ; podagra.

Apocynum andr— Simultaneous affection of several joints.

Arnica. — Inflamed joint shining, red and hard, constant fear of being touched ; pains unbearable during night ; bed feels too hard ; sensation as if the foot were compressed by a hard body (Am. : stitching pains ; Sabin. : burning pains).

Artemisia abrotan.— Painful and inflamed wrist and ankle-joints, stiff, with pricking sensation ; ailments after suppressed gout.

Belladonna. — Erysipelatous redness and swelling of joints, with burn- ing, lancinating pains, < at night.

Benzoic acid. — Tearing in joints with nearly clear urine ; old nodes become painful, and as the pains abate palpitation sets in, ceasing only when pains increase; gout going from left to right or commencing in right great toe ; urine of offensive odor, depositing a reddish cloudy sediment. Chronic rheumarthritis, wandering pains (Puis.).

Berberis vulg. — Tearing, burning, stinging pains ; patient subject to formation of biliary or renal calculi ; darting, sharp pains radiate from the kidneys, usually downward and along the ureters ; urine cloudy, grayish, depositing sediment ; fistula in ano.

Bryonia. — Joint swollen, tense, not very red, < by motion or touch; deathly sickness when raising the head ; tongue white down the centre ; patient unbearably cross.

Causticum. — Nodes; joints stiff; toes or fingers contracted; pains relieved by warmth of bed.

China. — Dull, contusive pains in joints, < from external pressure and from motion, especially during the evening and at night, accompanied by sensation of weakness and numbness ; paleness of face ; bloated abdomen ; anorexia alternating with bulimy ; flatulency ; haemorrhoids ; intermittent character ; asthma, palpitations, cold feet ; brickdust sediment in urine.

Colchicum. — Gout attacking many joints ; shifting from one to another, with burning and tearing pains, < from any external impression, noise, odor, touch or bright light. The joint becomes inflamed, dark red, hot and intensely painful, patient nearly beside himself with agony ; oedema and coldness of legs and feet, with weariness, heaviness and inability to move ; urine acid, dark and scanty ; even the smell of food nauseates ; frequent, ineffectual inclination to sneeze on waking in the morning; uric acid diathesis ; gout in persons of vigorous constitution.

Digitalis. — Shining, white swelling of the joints, not very sensitive to pressure; number of joints attacked at once; almost complete suspension of urinary secretion ; chronic cases, gradually decreasing in intensity.

Gnaphalium. — Gouty pains in big toes ; sciatica.

Graphites. — Tearing in toes, awakens at night and springs out of bed suffocating, relieved by eating; gastralgia; arthritic nodosities on fingers; swelling of toes and balls of toes ; coldness of dorsum of feet ; red nose ; bloated features ; skin rough, herpetic.

Guaiacum. — Arthritic lancinations and contraction of limbs ; < by slightest motion and accompanied by heat on affected parts. Gouty inflam- mation and abscess of the knee ; immovable stiffness of the contracted parts ; pinching in abdomen from incarcerated flatulence ; pyrosis ; constipation.

Iodum. — Inveterate nocturnal pains, but not much swelling of the joints ; coldness of hands and feet. ■

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ailments ; periodical wandering pains, shooting, pricking ; stiff all over, < mornings ; audible cracking in joints on slight motion in the wrists or ankles ; lumbago, ischias, periostitis.

Kali carb. — Tearing pains in small articulations and in big toe, which make him irritable ; migraine with nausea ; anorexia or bulimy ; flatu- lence; haemorrhoids; urine red, smarting, with brickdust sediment. It prevents relapses.

Kali iod. — Chronic arthritis with considerable spurious anchylosis ; periosteum affected, < at night, preventing sleep, limbs contracted.

Kali sulph. — Pains shifting from one joint to another, leaving the first without pain.

Ledum. — Low, asthenic cases (maltreated by large doses of Colch.) ; lancinating, tearing pains ; < by motion than by touch and at midnight, when joints feel so hot that he throws off all covering ; (Edematous swelling of joint which may feel cold to the touch ; affects chiefly left shoulder and right hip-joint; habitual gout in the articulations of hands and feet; ball of great toe swollen and painful; soles very sensitive; tendons stiff; gouty nodosities in joints; fine tearing pains in toes; face bloated; pimples on forehead ; after abuse of alcoholic drinks.

Lithium carb. — Gout in knees, sides of feet and soles ; ankle-joints pain on walking ; profuse urine, with uric acid deposit ; painful urination ; pain in heart before and at time of urinating ; valvular deficiencies ; < from mental agitation, which causes a fluttering and trembling of heart, general puffiness of body and limbs ; increase of bulk and weight ; clumsiness in walking at night and weariness in standing; swelling, tenderness, some- times redness of last joints of fingers ; intense itching of feet and hands at night, from no apparent cause ; uric acid deposits in urine.

Lycopodium. — Tophi; nocturnal pains, > by heat; muscular contrac- tions; gravel; hematuria; drawing, tearing in the limbs at night and on alternate days; < at rest; muscles and joints rigid, painful, with numb- ness ; finger-joints inflamed ; also with arthritic nodes, swelling of the dorsa of the feet ; > in warmth (Led. < ); sour eructations ; frequent belching with- out relief; pressure in scrobiculum; fulness in stomach and bowels; ten- sion in liver ; abdominal and renal colic ; constipation ; lithic acid deposit in urine, must rise often at night to pass urine.

Manganum. — Arthritis vaga, shifting from one joint to another or crosswise, with shining redness and swelling of the joints ; burning spots about joints, < from touch or motion ; at night causing the patient to moan and to groan. Toe or other joint dark red in spots; tendo Achillis short- ened ; chronic arthritis with anaemia.

Menyanthes. — Painful spasmodic jerking of lower extremities in gouty persons ; with calcareous deposits in joints.

Natrum mur. — Big toe red, with tearing and stinging on walking or standing; tarsal joints feel bruised; veins of feet distended ; cracking of joints, which feel stiff on moving them ; lame, bruised sensation in small of back, as if a portion of the spine were taken out ; urine muddy and red ; skin tawny, unhealthy looking ; < at the seaside and in cold weather; > in warm weather; constant sensation of chilliness.

Nux vom.— Awakes towards morning with severe pain in great toe, in high livers, who lead a sedentary life.

Rhododendron— Arthritic nodes ; paralvtic weakness of the limbs, aggravated in rough weather and rest; sensation in lower legs and feet as if asleep ; periosteal affections.

Ruta— Pains in back or coccyx, as if bruised ; pains in bones of feet,

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cannot step heavily on them ; all parts of the body feel bruised on pressure ; < in wet, cold weather.

Sabina. — Red and shining swelling of the big toe, with excessive pains, aggravated by the least touch or slightest motion; heaviness of the affected limbs ; fever worst in the evening ; wandering pains, burning, affecting one joint after another, especially the big toe and the hand; relieved by cool applications (Apis). She changes her position often to get some relief.

Sepia. — Anomalous or regular gout ; urates in blood and deposited in or near the joints ; pains in hepatic region, > by lying on affected side (Magn. mur. < ) ; bleeding, painful piles ; after stool weakness and empti- ness in abdomen.

Staphisagria. — Arthritic nodes from deposition of urates of soda ; pain from the eyes to the teeth ; eyes burn and feel dry despite profuse lachry- mation ; patient weak and exhausted from dissipation ; face sallow. Chronic gout of men advanced in life, corpulent with feeble pulse, palpitation, dysp- noea on exertion ; pains in smaller joints of hands and feet, with much swelling and hardness ; skin affections alternating with pains in joints ; weakness of knees ; soles of feet tender.

Sulphur. — Habitual gout, especially for drunkards and those who in- dulge in rich food and take but little exercise, red blotches in face, nose habitually red ; disgust for animal food ; dyspnoea with desire to take a deep inspiration ; uric acid urine ; dull aching pressive pains in joints ; as soon as he falls asleep the affected limbs jerk and arouse him ; pains erratic and leave a sensation of numbness ; alternate constipation or diarrhoea, with excessively fetid stools and fetid flatulence ; haemorrhoids.

Compare the springs of Vichy, Carlsbad, Neuenahr in Europe, or in the United States the different suitable springs of our continent, as Poland Springs, Buffalo Lithia, etc.

Suppressed gout : Colch., Lith., Natr. phos., if to the heart ; Ant. crud., Lye, if to the stomach.

ARTHROCACE.

This inflammation of the terminal extremities of bones has been most successfully treated with: 1, Coloc, Phos. ac. ; 2, Cic, Phos. ; or perhaps with : 3, Calc, Coca, Hep., Sil., Sulph. ; or, 4, Phyt., Puis., Rhus, Zinc.

ASCITES.

The best remedies are : 1, Apis, Apoc, Ars.. Chin., Helleb., Kalm., Merc, Senec, Sulph.; 2, Asclep., Aeon., Bry., Cepa, Chim. umb., Colch., Dulc, Erig., Euphor., Eup. purp., Iris, Prun., Sep. ; 3, Asa., Dig., Led., Lye, Puis., Squil. ; 4, Alet., Ampel., Coloc, Helon.

Ascites from the loss of blood, from venesections, etc., yields to Chin., as by a miracle.

In all other cases the selection of the remedy depends upon the exciting cause and the pathological character of the disease, and the general symp- toms of the remedy have to be carefully compared with the symptoms of the disease.

ASTHENOPIA.

After correcting the defect by suitable glasses, give :

Aconite. — Asthenopia from overuse of eyes ; lids spasmodically closed and have a heavy feeling in them, while the eyes feel very dry after using them ; temporary relief from cold water.

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Agaricus. — Muscular asthenopia from uterine disorders and spinal anaemia ; cannot fix the eyes long even on distant objects ; cannot converge them ; sudden jerks of eyeballs; twitching of lids ; lids heavy, as if stuck together, but they are not ; eyes feel weak, without any exertion ; diplopia from overwork at dark.

Alumina. — Loss of power over internal rectus ; dryness of lids, burning in eyes ; feeling of stiffness in the muscles of the lids, < evening and night.

Ammoniacum. — Eyes smart and burn, especially at night by artificial light ; eyes injected and throb, particularly in inner canthus of each eye.

Apis mell. — Reading causes smarting in eyes with lachrymation and itching of the eyelids or burning and stinging, eyes are oversensitive to light, pains sudden and severe, shooting through the parts, eyes weak and not inclined to exert them, feel sore and irritated when using them ; burning and sensation of a foreign body in eye ; flow of tears by looking at anything bright ; < from being near a hot stove, > from cold applications.

Argentum nitr. — Weakened ciliary muscles from overworking eyes, which feel hot and dry, with disposition to rub them ; blurring and constant pain when using eyes ; marked hyperemia of conjunctiva with mucous discharge and redness of inner canthi.

Arnica. — Affection of external muscles, causing aching on moving the eye in any direction ; nickering before eyes ; < when reading or writing.

Arsenicum. — Violent pains and redness of conjunctiva, especially in scrofulous patients, < about midnight and from cold applications.

Artemisia vulgaris. — Neuralgic pains on fixing eyes on any near object; aching in eyes when attempting to read; blurring of vision, > by rubbing the eyes ; colored light causes dizziness.

Asarum europ. — Asthenopia accompanied by congestive headaches ; eyes < mornings and evenings, when out-doors in the heat and sunlight ; > middle of day and by bathing them in cold water ; cold air is pleasant to the eyes.

Calcarea carb. — Fatigue and pain from using eyes, on looking at near objects they become indistinct and blurred ; < in damp weather and from warmth.

Carbo veg. — Affection of internal recti; in reading the letters run together, with pressing, burning pains in eyes.

Oausticum. — Paralysis of upper lids ; sensation of a stick or sand in eyes; dimness of sight; flickering before eyes, as from a swarm of insects, as from mist ; paralysis of muscles, especially if caused by exposure to cold.

Chelidonium. — Letters run together while reading ; left eye agglutinated in the morning ; lachrymation in windy weather ; pain in eye and weeping when reading, < from candlelight.

China. — Muscular asthenopia from general debility after exhausting sickness, puerperium, after exhausting haemorrhages.

Cimicifuga. — Muscular asthenopia with irritable weakness; sharp pains in eyes, extending to vertex and occiput ; ciliary neuralgia on a rheumatic diathesis or reflex from uterus, during climaxis (Lach., Sep.).

Cina. — Objects look yellow ; spasmodic twitching of the orbicular muscle or of the muscles of the face ; eyes ache on any attempt to read and a cloud comes over eyesight, > by rubbing.

Cinnabaris. — Pain in inner canthus ; extending above and around the eye ; exit of supraorbital nerve sore to touch.

Oonium. — Excessive photophobia ; cannot read long without the letters running together ; cannot bear bright light or heat ; burning pain deep in the eye.

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Crocus. — Sensation as if looking through too sharp glasses or as though the room were rilled with smoke ; dryness and burning in eyes, succeeded by lachrymation; > by pressure on closed lids.

Cyclamen. — Sudden vanishing of sight; profuse and dark menses; blindness accompanied by semilateral headache of left temple, with pale face, vertigo; nausea referred to throat and weak digestion.

Euphrasia. — Blurring of vision relieved by winking ; eyes irritable from overuse.

Gelsemium. — Weakness of external or internal rectus muscles ; great heaviness of eyelids, with difficulty to keep them open ; eyes feel bruised and weak ; eyes feel hot and when reading letters run together ; inability to look long at near objects ; distant objects look obscure, except when exert- ing eyes ; things seem double when raising head from a stooping position or on looking sideways ; dimness of sight and vertigo ; > by copious urination.

Graphites. — Outer canthi suffer most (Alum. : inner) with tendency to crack and bleed ; burning and itching of lids.

Ignatia. — Asthenopia in nervous, hysterical people ; from onanism ; can- not bear the glare of light ; pain under upper lid, as if too dry ; flickering zigzags before eyes.

Jaborandi. — Asthenopia from irritable condition of ciliary muscles.

Kalmia. — Stiff, drawing sensation in the muscles when moving the eyes ; dull, weak eyes, < evenings and in open air.

Lachesis. — Asthenopia during climaxis, sensation of stiffness in and flickering before eyes when reading ; < on walking in the morning.

Lilium tigr. — General spasmodic contraction of the fibres of the ciliary muscles; aching, tired feeling in the eyes, as if they must be closed and pressed upon with the fingers to get relief and see better; photophobia with frontal pains ; blepharitis ; > in open air ; blurring of vision and lachrymation on looking down ; ovarian pains ; morning diarrhoea.

Lithium. — Conjunctiva dry and painful ; lids feel sore while and after read- ing ; uncertainty of vision and vanishing of right half of whatever is looked at, on both eyes ; sensitiveness of eyes to candlelight, sunlight blinds him.

Manganum. — Aching pains in eyes on looking at near objects ; < when looking at a near light, has to close them ; burning in eyes and dim sight during day.

Natrum mur. — Muscular asthenopia ; muscles' feel stiff and drawn and ache in moving the eye in any direction ; burning, smarting, itching and heat in the eyes upon reading or writing, with headaches, etc. ; heaviness and drooping of the lids on use of the eyes for near vision ; eyes irritable, with dread of light, so that he desires to close them firmly ; < on looking down ; often associated with spinal irritation in women whose wombs are displaced.

Onosmodium. — Heaviness of eyes ; stiff, strained, lame feeling in eye- balls ; dull headache over eyes, < in and over left eye, from use of eyes for near vision, especially evenings when eyes burn and water ; letters blur when reading ; occasional headache and pain in back of neck (Ruta: supraorbital).

Phosphorus. — Muscular asthenopia with photopsies and dark spots be- fore eyes from hyperesthesia of retina or of optic centres ; dull pain deep in eyes from reading ; black spots before eyes, < from looking on bright objects, > in twilight; stiffness of eyeballs and pain on motion, with smart- ing and burning in eyes after attempts to read.

Physostigma. — Drawing, twisting sensation in eyes which feel weak ; spectres flitting constantly before eyes, disturbing reading; straining and blurring before eyes, so that they must be closed ; weakness of rectus internus with double vision ; headache ; asthenopia in near-sighted persons.

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Plumbum. — Paretic weakness of internal recti; ptosis; cloudiness before eyes ; inducing one to rest them.

Rhododendron.— Insufficiency of the internal recti muscles, with darting pains through eyes and head, < before a storm.

Ruta. — Aching in and over eyes, with blurring of vision, after using and straining eyes over fine work ; eyes feel hot like balls of fire, appear irritable, especially towards evening, after working all day ; continuous lachrymation ; long-standing cases ; supraorbital headache.

Senega. — Dulness of head with pressure and weakness of eyes, which do not bear touch, > in open air; weakness of eyes from exerting them, with slight burning and lachrymation ; aching pain over orbits ; paralysis of recti and oblique muscles ; especially superior.

Sepia. — Aching, sticking pains in eyes, < by rubbing and evenings ; > by cold water, mornings and in afternoon ; blurring of vision with disturb- ances of female generative organs or from hepatic ailments in both sexes.

Spigelia. — Asthenopia from excessive drinking of tea (Thuj.) ; sharp stabbing pains in the eye and around it, extending back into the head, < from motion and at night. Ciliary neuralgia and oversensitive retina ; eyeballs feel too large ; supraorbital and temporal boring pains ; chronic twitching of eyelids.

Thuja. — Pains go upward and backward, < in horizontal position though patient wants to lie quiet, > when eyes are warmly covered ; granular lids ; granules large and wartlike.

The local application of Calabar bean is highly spoken of in muscular asthenopia by prominent oculists of the old school, and its constant use must be continued for some time.

ASTHMA SPASMODICUM, and Asthma generally.

The remedies are : 1, Aeon., Ars., Asclep., Bell., Bry., Camph., Cupr., Fer., Ipec, Lob., Nux v., Phos., Puis., Samb., Sang., Sulph. ; 2, Amb., Amm., Asclep. inc., Asclep. syr., Aur., Cact., Calc, Carb. v., Caul., Cham., Chin., Cist, c, Cocc, Dulc, Gels., Lach., Mosch., Op., Phyt, Tart, Veratr., Veratr. v., Zinc. ; 3, Ant., Bapt., Caust , Coff., Eupat, Euphor., Hyosc, Ign., Kal., Lye, Merc, Nitr. ac, Nux m., Rhus gl., Sep., Sil., Stann., Stram. ; 4, Aloe, Apis, Benz. ac, Cepa, Mill.

For asthma from congestion of blood to the chest: 1, Aeon., Aur., Bell., Merc, Nux v., Phos., Spong., Sulph. ; 2, Amm., Asclep. syr., Calc, Carb. v., Cupr., Fer., Gels., Puis.

For asthma attended with menstrual irregularities : 1, Bell., Caul., Cocc, Cupr., Merc, Nux v., Puis., Sulph. ; 2, Aeon., Phos., Sep.

For flatulent asthma, from incarceration of flatus in the abdomen: 1, Carb v., Cham., Chin., Lye, Magn. phos., Nux v., Op., Phos., Sulph., Zinc. ; 2, Ars., Asclep., Caps., Hep., Natr., Verat.

For asthma humidum or pituitosum, with accumulation of mucus in the bronchi or lungs: 1, Ars., Bry., Calc, Chin., Cupr., Dulc, Fer., Graph., Kali br., Kali mur., Kali sulph., Lach., Lob., Phos., Puis., Seneg., Sep., Stann., Sulph. ; 2, Arum tri., Bar. c, Bell., Camph., Con., Hep., Ipec, Merc, Nux v., Rhus gl., Sang., Sil., Tart, Zinc; 3, Eucal., Hydr. ac, Pulmo vulp., Silph. lac.

For the real asthma spasmodicum, nervosum s. periodicum : 1, Bapt.,

Bell, Cad., Camph., Cocc, Cupr., Hyosc, Ipec, Lach., Lobel., Mosch., Nux v. Phos., Samb., Stram., Sulph., Tart., Zinc. ; 2, Ant., Ars., Bry., Coca, Caul.' Caust., Fer., Kalm., Lye, Op., Sep., Stann.

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The following remedies are the best to control an attack of asthma immediately : frequent smelling on the strong tincture of Camphor, and 1, Ipec, Nux v.; 2, Aeon., Are., Cact., Cham., Lob., Mosch., Op., Samb., Tart.

To remove the asthmatic disposition we use: 1, Ant., Ars., Calc, Nux v., Sulph. ; 2, Amm, Carb. v., Caust., Cupr., Fer., Graph., Kalm., Lach., Lye, Phos., Sil.

For asthma from inhaled dust, stone dust, as takes place among sculptors, stonecutters, we employ : 1, Calc, Hep., Sil., Sulph. ; 2, Ars., Bell., Chin., Ipec, Nux v., Phos.

For asthma caused by the vapors of sulphur give Puis. ; by the vapor of copper or arsenic: 1, Hep., Ipec, Merc. ; 2, Ars., Camph., Cupr.

For asthma from a cold: 1, Aeon., Bell, Bry., Dulc, Ipec, Kali hydr.; 2, Ars., Cham., Chin., Cistus, Lob., Mosch.

For asthma aestivum, hay fever, catarrhus sestivus : Aral., Ars., Ars. iod., Ar. tri., Acid hydr., Ailanth., Camph., Cepa, Cyclam., Euphr., Euphorb., Gels., Grindel., Ipec, Kali bich., Lach., Lob., Mosch., Naja, Naphthalin, Sabad., Sang., Sticta, Eucal., Rosa damascena.

For asthma caused by an emotion : Aeon., Cham., Coff., Cupr., Gels., Ign., Nux v., Puis., Veratr.

If caused by a suppressed catarrh: 1, Ars., Ipec, Nux v.; 2, Camph., Carb. v., Chin., Lach., Puis., Samb., Tart. ; if caused by a suppressed erup- tion ; 1, Ipec, Puis., Veratr. : 2, Ars., Sulph., Carb. v.

For asthma of children we find generally useful: 1, Aeon., Ars., Bell., Cham., Coff., Ipec, Mosch., Nux m., Nux v., Op., Samb., Tart. ; 2, Camph., Chin., Cupr., Hep., Ign., Lach., Lye, Phos., Puis., Stram., Sulph.

For asthma of hysteric women: 1, Aeon., Apis, Bell, Caul., Cham., Coff., Ign., Mosch., Nux m., Nux v., Puis., Stram. ; 2, Asa., Aur., Caust., Con., Cupr., Ipec, Lach., Phos., Stann., Sulph., etc.

For asthma of old people : 1, Ambra, Amm. carb., Aur., Bar. c, Con., Lach., .Op. ; 2, Ant., Camph., Carb. v., Caust., Chin., Suph. ; 3, Pulmo vulp.

Aconite. — Asthma from active hyperemia of the lungs and brain ; face red, eyes staring; can talk but little at a time; asthma after emotions; after suppression of an acute rash ; feeling of a band around chest ; muscles of the chest are rigid ; occasionally vomiting ; urine scanty, dark. After the paroxysm the sputa are yellow or bloodstreaked.

Alumina. — Asthmatic breathing, always < by coughing, every morning a long attack of dry coughing, which ends at last with difficult raising of a little white mucus ; great dryness in throat, especially on waking, voice husky and sensation of lump in throat.

Ambra. — Asthma senile et siccum ; also suitable to children and scrof- ulous persons, with short, oppressed breathing, paroxysms of spasmodic cough, with expectoration of mucus, wheezing in the air-passages and pressure in the chest, followed by eructations of wind from stomach ; asthma accompanied by cardiac symptoms, oppression of breathing and a feeling as of a load or lump in left chest and fluttering in the region of the heart, or palpitations, especially in nervous, thin, scrawny women ; oppres- sion in left chest through to the back and between the shoulders, as if emanating from the heart, with palpitations, anguish and loss of breath ; asthma while attempting coition.

Ammonium carb. — Chronic asthma, especially when attended with disposition to hydrothorax, with shortness of breath, especially when ascending even a few steps, > in open air, dares not come into a warm room, where he turns deathly pale and must sit quiet; dyspnoea with short cough and palpitation after any exertion.

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Anacardium. — Shortness of breath and difficult respiration, especially after eating (Nux v.) ; fits of suffocation with cough, which is excited by tickling in trachea ; hysterical spasm of chest, terminating in a fit of crying ; anxiety in sternal region without pain, feels as if he must go in open air and busy himself.

Angustura. — Neurosis of the vagus ; difficulty of breathing with or alternating with headache; oppression when walking fast, followed by backache and uterine symptoms ; intermitting, spasmodic breathing.

Apis mell. — Great dyspnoea as if every breath would be the last, he does not see how he can get another breath ; wants to be fanned ; intense sensation of suffocation, throws the collar wide open, cannot bear anything to touch the neck (Lach.) ; oppression of chest and dyspnoea on inspira- tion; warm room unbearable on account of heat and headache; asthma from hives ; < in cold weather.

Aralia rac. — Dry, wheezing respiration, with sense of impending suffo- cation and rapidly increasing dyspnoea, < inspiration ; loud musical whis- tling during inspiration and expiration, but louder during inspiration ; could not lie down, he would suffocate if he did not sit up; constant desire to clear the chest, so that he could breathe easier. At the acme of fit ex- pectoration first scanty, then more copious, warm and salty ; raw, burn- ing, sore feeling behind the whole length of sternum and in each lung; smarting soreness of posterior nares from the passage of acrid mucus, with a peculiar soreness of ala? nasi, the rims of which feel as if fissured and smart and bleed.

Aranea diadema. — Hydrogenoid constitution ; old cases of asthma, lassitude and weariness ; constant chilliness, > by smoking and in open air.

Argentum nitr. — Pure nervous asthma, with spasms of respiratory muscles, great dyspnoea, < in crowded room ; restlessness and attacks of suffocation at night when windows are closed ; any bodily exertion brings on a fit with palpitation and congestion of face; lassitude and trembling ; is obliged to lean forward to get breath (Cann. sat.) ; craves the cold wind blowing in his face and lungs.

Arnica. — Asthma from fatty degeneration of the heart ; suffocative op- pression of chest, with desire to move about ; insomnia before midnight ; dyspnoea, face red, head hot, body cool.

Arsenicum album.— Periodical asthma ; asthma of senility, after sup- pressed coryza and coexistence of emphysema and cardiac affections ; loss of breath immediately on lying down, in the evening, with whistling and constriction in the trachea, < from motion ; must incline chest forward, must spring out of bed, especially about midnight, in order to breathe ; chest feels as if too narrow ; throat and chest feel as if bound together ; increasing dyspnoea with despair and anxious sweat all over ; asthma from fatigue, from emotions, from suppressed itch ; < after coughing, with sen- sation of contraction of chest and stomach, abating as soon as he raises frothy saliva, thick mucus or streaked with blood ; > from warmth, warm food, < from cold things.

Arsenicum iod.— Occasional asthmatic attacks in phthisical and psoric patients, < at night; must sit up to breathe; general feeble expiration, accompanied by great debility and burning in chest; heaves.

Arum triph— Hay asthma, nose obstructed, compelled to breathe through the mouth ; much sneezing, especially towards morning ; burning and constriction in throat; great heat in face and head, with fluent coryza in the afternoon ; eyes cloudy, heavy, smarting, sleepy ; aversion to light ; burning pain and soreness of lungs ; tickling cough from mucus in trachea and free mucous expectoration.

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Asafcetida. — Asthmatic feeling in trachea, dry cough; spasmodic dyspnoea, as though lungs could not be sufficiently expanded ; oppression of chest with hurried breathing, temporarily relieved by eructations ; brought on or < from bodily exertion, by eating ; > by sitting up. Asthma of scrofulous and hysterical people.

Asclepias tub. — Humid asthma, great dyspnoea, particularly after eat- ing or after smoking a little ; necessity to inspire hurriedly, followed by a sensation of oppression ; pricking and contracting pain in cardiac region.

Aurum. — Asthma from congestion to chest; great oppression at night and when walking in the open air; suffocative fits, with spasmodic con- striction of chest; face bluish-red; palpitations; falls down unconscious; morning asthma, face cyanotic ; light-haired persons ; < alter mercury, in wet weather and warm air.

Baptisia. — Asthmatic oppression of chest with frequent yawning, < from motion, > from rest ; on lying down difficult breathing, but no con- striction in chest, must rise, afraid to go to sleep, fears nightmare and suffocation ; dyspnoea from want of power in lungs, not constriction, all due to nervous depression..

Baryta carb. — Asthma senile (after Ant. tart.) ; suffocative catarrh of fleshy old people, with impending paralysis of lungs ; cough and shortness of breath in old phlegmatic persons ; night cough with asthmatic breathing, chest full of phlegm, want of clear consciousness ; whining mood; circum- scribed redness of cheeks ; immovable pupils; cold hands and feet. Asthma of scrofulous children, with enlargement of tonsils and cervical glands ; light hair ; < from wet weather, warm air, and followed by frequent and copious urination.

Belladonna. — Suitable to children and women of nervous erethism and disposition to spasms. Constriction of larynx with danger of suffoca- tion on touching larynx and on turning the neck ; oppression of chest and loss of breath, stitches under sternum with paroxysms of dry cough at night; asthmatic fits with unconsciousness, followed by relaxation of the muscles and involuntary urination and defecation ; < by motion and still he can not keep quiet ; asthma of plethoric persons (especially in hot damp climates), < afternoon and evening; sensation of dust in lungs; sweat on upper part of chest; > bending the head back and holding the breath ; < after sleep and from stimulants.

Benzoic acid. — Asthma with inflammatory rheumatic complaints; mucous oppression of lungs and difficulty of breathing when awaking.

Bismuthum. — Every asthma preceded by gastric derangement, as eructations after eating ; nausea, vomiting ; dyspnoea, palpitations, vertigo, headache, small pulse and other symptoms of spinal irritation.

Bromium. — Asthma of sailors as soon as they go ashore ; asthma coming on at or near the seashore ; patient feels as if he could not get air enough into his lungs, expands his chest to the utmost and breathes very deeply, as air does not go in enough on account of the narrowness of the opening in the larynx or constriction of the glottis ; sensation as if air-passages were full of smoke ; dyspnoea, must sit up in bed at night; sensation of weak- ness and exhaustion in chest, sensation of constriction impedes breathing, with dry, tickling cough.

Bryonia.— Respiration impeded, quick and deep, without motion of the ribs ; constriction of chest, feels the need of breathing deeply, but cannot do it. especially at night and towards morning ; < from talking or exercise ; > in recumbent position or after expectoration ; frequent stitches in chest, more during an inspiration, when coughing and during motion. (Suitable after Ipec. in acute asthma.)

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Cactus grand. — Asthma with great constriction of chest and relieved as soon as patient can expectorate ; oppression of chest as from a great weight ; periodical attacks of suffocation, with fainting, cold sweat on face and loss of pulse; anxiety returning in evening; sanguineous congestion in chest, pre- venting free speech, < when lying down in bed ; periodical stitches in heart.

Oaladium. — Pressure in pit of stomach impedes respiration and causes cough ; frequent eructations of very little wind, as if the stomach were full of dry food ; smoking causes nausea and inclination to vomit ; oppression of chest with burning in stomach. Suits stout persons of flabby fibre who are subject to catarrhal asthma with production of mucus which is not readily raised, but expectoration relieves. (Cadmium sulph.)

Calcarea carb. — Frequent need to breathe deeply ; shortness of breath on going up stairs or up the slightest ascent; morning asthma, sensation of dust in throat and lungs ; leucophlegmasia.

Calcarea phos. — Child gets a suffocative attack when lifted up from the cradle ; involuntary sighing ; breathing more frequent, short and difficult.

Cannabis ind. — Great effort to take a deep inspiration ; oppression of chest with deep, labored breathing, < ascending, feels as if he would suffo- cate, must be fanned; hard, dry cough with scraping under sternum; press- ing pain in heart with dyspnoea the whole night; stitches in heart, with great mental depression, > by deep breathing, < lying on left side ; palpi- tations rouse him from sleep ; > in open air.

Cannabis sat. — Humid asthma, wheezing and mucous rales, after fit sub- sides easy rattling cough, expectorating copious sputa of thick, yellow mu- cus ; during fit dyspnoea and extreme agitation, must sit up most of the time; oppression of breathing from tensive, pressing pains in the middle of sternum, which is sore to the touch, he is obliged to breathe deeply.

Capsicum. — Catarrhal asthma with red face and well-marked sibilant rales ; > when coughing up the mucus ; very offensive breath during the cough ; > by deep respiration, < from moving about, ascending or walking. Catarrhal asthma, with red face and well-marked sibilant rales; offensive breath during cough, and expectoration relieves asthma.

Carbo veg. — (Lye) Asthma from abdominal irritation, with marked flatulence ; asthma of old or debilitated people, during the fit they look as if they would die, so oppressed are they for breath ; suffocative asthma, with blue and cold skin and great anguish about the heart ; great dyspnoea, with anxiety, but no restlessness, he exerts the whole body and limbs to breathe fully, > by eructations, constant walking, < by sitting or lying down ; de- sires to be fanned, must have more air ; cough in violent spells, with profuse watery expectoration. Asthma of debilitated old people with great dysp- noea, > by belching of wind.

Carduus mar. — Nervous asthma of miners ; cachexia of tunnel laborers ; frequent urging to deep breathing, followed by painful sensations in ab- domen ; great debility ; loss of appetite ; empty eructations ; restless, dreamy sleep ; fulness of hypochondria which are painful to pressure.

Chamomilla. — Nervous bronchial asthma. Dry, tickling cough, suffo- cative dyspnoea, as if the windpipe were tied together with a string and as if the chest were not wide enough ; constricted feeling in the suprasternal fossa, with constant irritation to cough. Asthmatic fit seemingly produced by accumulation of wind, > bending head back, in cold air and from drinking cold water ; < in dry weather and from warm food ; palpitations and fainting. Asthma from anger.

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spasmodic cough without expectoration or with forcible ejections of small lumps of mucus.

China. — Looks as if dying during asthma, nightly suffocative fits ; in- spiration slow and difficult, expiration quick, blowing, short ; oppression of chest as from fulness of stomach, or from continued talking; inability to breathe with the head low; spasmodic cough and nightly suffocative fits, as if from too much mucus in the throat, with difficult expectoration of a clear, thick mucus ; pressure in chest as if from rush of blood, with violent palpitation of the heart, easy perspiration ; sudden prostration.

Cistus can. — Periodical attacks of asthma on lying down, with loud wheezing ; feeling as if the windpipe had not space enough ; in the evening, soon after lying down, a sensation as if ants were running through the body, then anxious, difficult breathing, is obliged to rise and open window, fresh air relieves him : immediately on lying down again sensation returns.

Cocculus. — Hysteric asthma with rush of blood to chest and difficult breathing as if the throat were constricted; racking cough, < at night, spasmodic constriction of chest, especially of one side only ; sensation of languor and emptiness in chest : anguish and palpitations.

Coffea. — Attack towards morning ; patient, wants to be continually moving; frequent and copious urination ; constriction of chest; dry, hack- ing cough, fears death during paroxysm.

Colchicum. — Oppression of chest, dyspnoea, tensive feeling in chest, high up or low down; with anxiety, > by bending forward: extreme anxiety of face ; cheeks, lips and eyelids purple ; anxious feeling in prse- cordia ; flatulency and meteorism ; rheumatic gout.

Conium. — Asthma senile ; scrofulosis with enlarged and indurated glands ; dry, nightly, tickling cough ; evening dyspnoea, < in wet weather, in the morning when awaking; want of breath from slight exercise; copious mucous expectoration with the cough.

Copaiva. — Oppression of chest with labored breathing, while working in a stooping position, as when digging; pressure on sternum ; slow respiration.

Cuprum. — Spasmodic asthma, constriction in throat, face gets blue and convulsions threaten ; asthma from mental emotions, after vexations ; violent asthmatic attacks come on suddenly, last from one to three hours and cease as suddenly ; breathing whistling, rattling, panting, quick as if stopped in the throat, < at night, before or during menses ; when coughing, leaning backward, and by walking against the wind. Very suitable to hysteric persons, especially after fright.

Digitalis. — Cardiac asthma; sudden suppression of respiration and sensation as if walls of chest were being constricted ; great anxiety and restlessness ; no heat ; respiratory murmur feeble ; quiet horizontal position brings relief, < when walking.

Dulcamara. — Humid asthma or for acute asthma from a cold, with dyspnoea, loose, rattling cough, copious sputa, < during wet weather; asthma, with faceache, after disappearance of tetters in face; chest op- pressed with mucus. Patient is comfortable enough in daytime, but great oppression at night, with dry, tearing, suffocative cough.

Eucalyptus. — Humid asthma in bronchitic sufferers, it relieves the cough and aids in expelling the thick sputa.

Ferrum. — Asthma < after midnight, must sit up, > walking slowly about and talking, and by uncovering the chest (after itch) ; suffocative fits in the evening in bed, with warmth of neck and trunk, but cold limbs. Difficult inspiration as from heaviness in chest; breathing dry, loud, anxious, in children rattling. Oppression from orgasm of blood, chest 5

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scarcely moves in breathing, nostrils dilated during expirations ; persons who flush easily and get epistaxis, dyspnoea, palpitation ; fits of spasmodic cough with expectoration of blood or of tenacious, transparent mucus; talking, reading and writing improve constriction of chest.

Gelsemium. — Sudden sensation of suffocation as in hysteria, respiration hardly perceptible in the beginning of attack ; sighing respiration ; heavy and labored breathing with rapid or slow pulse ; long crowing inspiration, sudden and forcible expiration ; spasm of glottis ; nervous chill, though skin is warm, wants to be held that she may not shake so ; heart's action slow, feeble, depressed, hands and feet cold; continued sneezing and bland, watery discharge from nose as in hay fever.

Glonoinum. — Sudden attacks ; constriction of chest with anguish and much sighing; oppression of chest alternating with headache; heavy, labored, stertorous breathing from feeling of weight, must breathe deeply, as chest feels as if laced ; sighing.

Graphites. — Suffocative paroxysm at night, awakens him out of sleep, usually after midnight, has quickly to jump out of bed, holds firmly on something for support and quickly eats whatever is on hand, which gives relief ; very hoarse cough.

Grindeiia rob. — Mucous asthma depending on an abnormal accumula- tion of mucus in smaller bronchi, tenacious and hard to detach ; patient feels and knows that expectoration brings relief. Nervous asthma, inhala- tion easy, expiration difficult ; fear of going to sleep on account of loss of breath, which awakens him. Cardiac asthma, heart feels too weak to take care of the blood sent to it ; cough from reflex causes or maintained by habit in chronic bronchorrhoea.

Hecla lava. — Oppressive breathing with sensation as if there were a heavy weight lying upon chest and as if the air-cells were stopped up and clogged ; > spring and summer, when rambling through the woods and breathing the pure fresh air.

Hydrocyanic acid. — Minute bronchial tubes mostly affected, with puffy face and feeble or violent heart's action; periodical asthma with violent attacks of spasmodic suffocative cough and involuntary urination.

Hypericum perf. — Spasmodic asthma with every change of weather from clear to damp or before storms; after lesions of the spinal cord or from a fall.

Ipecacuanha. — Asthma in stout persons of lax fibre, who are sensitive to warm, moist atmosphere; sensation of constriction in chest, < from least motion; cough and rattling of mucus in chest, yet none is expectorated; peculiar panting sound ; difficult expiration, gasps for air at the open win- dow, face pale; threatened suffocation from suddenly suppressed catarrhs ; nightly suffocative fits ; tetanic rigidity of body with bluish redness of face; cold extremities; cold perspiration; cough sometimes followed by vomiting, which relieves.

Fali bichrom. — Asthma dependent upon bronchiectasia, the bronchial tubes being filled up with tough, tenacious exudation. Asthma < 3-4 a.m., liable to return in winter or in summer time when chilly ; he is compelled to sit up in order to breathe, > from sitting up and bending forward and from expectoration of stringy mucus ; great weakness, so that he is obliged to give up work.

Kali brom.— Anxious, difficult breathing, nearly breathlessness with the headache; tightness of chest when breathing; dry, fatiguing, parox- ysmal cough.

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tion ; anxious and peevish during the paroxysm ; more or less perspiration on the upper part of body, increased by motion ; saliva increased and urine scanty ; pale face ; must lean forward during attack with head on table, < 3-4 a.m., from walking, with feeling as if there were no air in chest.

Kali mur. — Cardiac asthma, with sensation as if heart and lungs were constricted (Cad.), as from vapors of sulphur ; congestion of chest with cold feet ; expectoration of white mucus (Kali sulph. : of yellow mucus) and hard to cough up ; < after taking food ; emaciation and sunken eyes.

Kali nitr. — Tightness in larynx during inspiration, awakes about 3 a.m., out of breath, with sensation as if throat were closing up ; tightness and constriction in chest, with anguish and shortness of breath, < in the morn- ing when lying, extending from the back into the chest, when attempting to take a deep breath, gasping for air, followed by cough.

Kali phos. — Nervous asthma with depression ; asthma after most moder- ate use of food ; asthma with sallow features, sunken eyes, emaciation.

Kreosotum. — Nervous asthma ; spasmodic, fatiguing, wheezing cough ; heaviness upon chest with dyspnoea as though the chest were bruised on inhalation ; pain as though the sternum would be crushed in, with stitches here and there.

Lachesis. — Patient arouses from sleep with the asthmatic paroxysm, cannot bear the least pressure on neck and chest, finally coughs up a large quantity of watery phlegm, with great relief, > when lying with the head high ; heart feels as if turned over and ceased beating for a while, after wThich the pulsations increase; dyspnoea < from sleep, after eating, from moving the arms and touching the throat, in warm, murky air, before or during windy weather, in rain ; black urine.

Lobelia infl. — Asthma with a weak sensation in epigastrium, spread- ing up into the chest, nausea, profuse salivation, and a feeling as of a lump in stomach, < from exertion ; derangement of stomach with a feeling of weakness in pit of stomach ; asthma, often preceded by prickling all over, even to fingers and toes ; constant dyspnoea, < from slightest exposure to cold during the attack, from eating, especially warm food ; convulsive asthma from pulmonic irritation of effused serum ; nervous asthma.

Lycopodium. — Asthma from abdominal irritation with marked flatu- lence (Chin.) ; wheezing breathing in daytime with sensation of too much mucus in chest, loud rattling ; dyspnoea, < walking in open air, when lying on back, during sleep, from every exertion ; especially in warm impure air of close room or in a dusty atmosphere. Ascending even a few steps may provoke an attack.

Magnesia phos. — Spasmodic nervous asthma, constriction of chest and throat, with spasmodic, dry, tickling cough, paroxysmal, with difficulty in lying down ; stiffness of limbs ; troublesome flatulence.

Manganum. — Asthma, cannot lie on a featherbed ; bruised pain in upper part of chest when stooping, > by raising head and in open air.

Mephitis put. — Asthma of drunkards; asthma of consumptives, vhen Dros. fails. It enables the patient to stand extreme cold, he feels less chilly than usual in cold weather; washing in ice-cold water causes a pleasant sensation.

Moschus. — Cramplike and suffocating constriction in chest after taking cold in the open cold air or as soon as he becomes cold ; severe cough with great rattling of mucus in chest, > by vomiting of thick mucus. Suitable to hysteric persons and children ; suffocating fits as if from the vapors of sulphur, beginning with a desire to cough and getting worse until he nearly despairs of getting over the paroxysm.

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Naja trip. — Hay fever, flow of water from nose, followed by intense sneezing, and after a few days dryness of lungs and great difficulty of breathing, < on lying down and > by rising and sitting in an erect position.

Naphthalin. — Hay asthma. Spasms of upper bronchi with loose rales, but little or no expectoration.

Natrum ars. — Miner's asthma, produced by inhalation of coal-dust, lungs feel clogged and full, < during exertion and on full inspiration, especially behind sternum and from larynx to epigastrium.

Natrum sulph.— Asthma on a sycotic basis, often inherited ; hydro- genoid constitution ; chest filling up with rattling mucus, expectoration of large quantities of white or greenish, tenacious mucus, and vomiting after eating ; asthmatic breathing in children or young subjects ; < about 4-5 a.m., in damp or rainy weather, from living in basements or cellars.

Nux vomica. — Asthma from gastric disturbance ; feeling of fulness and of oppression in stomach, particularly after a hearty meal, during which he must loosen all his clothing about the hypochondria ; abdomen distended with flatus, belching relieves the asthma, < by cold air or any exertion, particularly ascending a height ; short, slow, stridulous breathing ; nightly suffocative paroxysms, especially after midnight, preceded by anxious dreams ; short cough with difficult expectoration ; distension, aching pains and anguish in the region of heart and hypochondria ; rush of blood to the chest, with orgasm of the blood, heat, warmth and palpitation ; spasms of chest from vapors of arsenic or copper ; > in recumbent position, by turn- ing to the other side, by raising the trunk or by belching wind.

Opium. — Congestion of blood to the chest, or pulmonary spasms, with deep, stertorous, rattling breathing ; tightness of breath and oppression, with great anguish and spasmodic constriction of chest; suffocative fits during sleep, like nightmare; suffocative cough, with bluish redness of face.

Phosphorus. — Asthma, with fear of suffocation ; oppression and anxiety in the chest, < evening and morning; spasmodic constriction in chest; stridu- lous inspiration in the evening on falling asleep ; nightly suffocative spells, as if the lungs were paralyzed ; noisy, panting breathing ; difficult inspira- tion, chest feels full and heavy, with tension; great pressure in the middle of the sternum ; dyspnoea with inability to exert himself; short cough, with salty, or sweetish, or blood-streaked expectoration ; phthisicky disposition.

Pothos foetida. — Asthma < from the inhalation of dust, as for example the inhalation of dust in a hay-loft ; > after bowels moved, relieving abdomi- nal inflation.

Psorinum. — Anxious dyspnoea with palpitations, < when sitting up, > when lying down ; want of breath in open air, has to hurry home and lie down in order to breathe; the wider apart the patient keeps his arms the better he can breathe; chest expands with great difficulty; stitches from behind forward in chest and back when breathing ; asthmatic attacks with hydrothorax.

Pulmo vulpis. — Recommended by Grauvogl according to the ancient law of signatura rerum, because foxes are long-winded.

Pulsatilla. — Asthma, especially of children after suppression of a rash ; in hysteria or with suppressed menses; in the evening, especially after a meal, dyspnoea and vertigo, with weakness in the head, when lying on the back ; at night in bed, as if throat or chest were constricted, or as if the fumes of sulphur were inhaled ; mornings, low down in chest oppression, < when walking fast, ascending a height or exercising ; shattering, spasmodic cough, excited by itching, scratching or dry feeling, as from vapors of sulphur in trachea and chest, dry at night, loose by day ; oppression of chest, loss of

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breath and suffocative fits, with anguish, palpitations and sensation of ful- ness and pressure on chest, with internal heat and orgasm of blood.

Ranunculus. — Hay fever, smarting in eyes ; eyelids burn and feel sore ; nose stuffed up, especially towards evening,' with pressure at the root of the nose and crawling and tingling sensation within the cavity; hawking of mucus from posterior nares ; sharp, stitching pains in and about the chest ; general muscular weakness.

Rumex. — Asthma of consumptives, < 2 a.m.

Sabadilla. — Hay asthma; little sneezing, but continual streaming of clear fluid from nostrils ; swelling of nose and eyelids, with redness and inflammation of conjunctiva?; breathing heavy and anxious during heat; wheezing in chest ; expectoration of tenacious yellow mucus, of a repulsive sweet taste.

Sambucus. — Anxious, loud, or quick, wheezing, crowing breathing ; op- pression of chest, with pressure in stomach and nausea; nightly suffocative attacks with great restlessness ; lachrymation and throwing about of arms ; hollow, dry cough at night, with normal inhalations, but sighing expirations, caused by spasm of chest and expectoration of small quantities of tough mucus, only during the day; suffocative cough, < about midnight, lying in bed, or with head low, from dry cold air ; occasional omission of heartbeat.

Sanguinaria. — Asthma sestivum, < from odors which cause fainting; short, accelerated, constrained breathing, extreme dyspnoea; cheeks and hands livid ; inclination to take a deep inspiration, which increases con- striction of chest, with tearing pains, especially on right side of chest ; dry cough, awaking him, and not ceasing until he sits up in bed and passes flatus upward and downward ; continual pressure and heaviness in the whole upper part of the chest, with difficult breathing.

Sarsaparilla. — Rigors over the whole body from below upward ; asth- matic breathing, < by lying down ; severe nausea and constant vomiting, writh headache ; great urging to urinate with only scanty emission ; burn- ing, stinging pain during and after micturition ; asthma from emphysema pulmonum, continual short breathing, < after eating, from ascending or exertions; cough dry without expectoration, sometimes tickling in throat.

Silicea. — Asthma on a cachectic hase, after its removal gummatous nodes on skull, clavicles and ribs ; shortness of breath and panting from walking fast and from manual labor; dyspnoea when at rest or when lying on back ; oppression of chest, cannot take a long breath, cannot bear the slightest draught on the back of his neck, spasmodic cough, with spasm of larynx ; catarrh of aged people.

Silphium laciniatum. — Asthma with large quantities of stringy mucus (Kali bi.) ; scraping, tickling and irritation of fauces and throat ; sick, faint feeling and a sense of goneness in epigastrium; constriction and tightness of the lungs; with constant disposition to expectorate.

Spongia. — Asthma from taking cold, cannot lie down, sibilant ronchi; wheezing breathing, or slow and deep, as if from weakness ; suffocative fits after every exercise, after menses, with weariness ; asthma from goitre ; spasmodic asthma, principally in throat or with organic affections of the heart, face red and eyes staring ; respiration slow, unable to lie down, urine pale, expectoration blood-streaked or yellow ; cough > by eating and drinking.

Stannum. — Asthma and oppression, especially in the evening or at night when lying down, also in daytime during every exercise, and frequently attended with anguish and desire to detach the clothes ; oppression and mucous rattling in chest ; cough with copious expectoration of viscid or

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lumpy, clear or watery, yellowish, salty or sweetish mucus ; sensation of weakness and emptiness in chest.

Sticta pulm. — Asthma of consumptives, associated with splitting headache.

Stramonium. — Asthma spasmodicum, respiration difficult and con- stricted, with anxious respiration and livor of face, pressing pain in chest, < by talking, he is hardly able to draw in the breath.

Syphilirmm. — Spasmodic bronchial asthma, < at night, after lying down or during a thunderstorm, producing intense insomnia, with sensation as if the sternum were being gradually drawn towards the dorsal vertebrae, followed by general weariness.

Tartarus emet. — Asthma senile ; asthma of children ; anxious oppres- sion, difficulty of breathing and shortness of breath, with desire to sit erect; oppression and suffocative fits, coming on suddenly, < evening, morning, in bed ; mucus and rattling in chest ; suffocative cough or conges- tion of blood to chest and palpitation of heart ; gasping inhalation, feeling of fulness and contraction of chest; the cough after having lasted some time becomes loose and relieves the contraction of chest.

Thuja. — Asthma sycoticum ; < at night, with red face ; short breathing, mucus in trachea, from fulness and constriction in hypochondria and upper abdomen ; after checked gonorrhoea or removal of fissures or condy- lomata ; suitable to very obstinate children, who throw themselves angrily upon the floor when in the least opposed and cannot get their breath.

Veratrum alb. — Asthma in damp, cold weather, early in the morning ; coldness of nose, ear and lower extremities ; coldness of upper part of the body ; > throwing head back and from motion ; < from cold drinks ; •pains in sides; hollow cough; goneness and weakness in chest, < from talking even to fainting ; suffocative fits from abuse of Ars. or Ipec. ; effects of fright, especially diarrhoea.

Veratrum vir. — Sensation of a heavy load on chest; excessively labored respiration ; patient has to sit up, cannot lie down ; engorgement of lungs, with great arterial excitement ; cold sweat or orthopncea.

Verbascum. — Asthma catarrhale with facial neuralgia, appearing quite periodically, generally twice a day, the same hour morning and evening ; much coryza and lachrymation.

Yerba santa (Eriodictyon calif.). — Asthmatic breathing from accum- ulation of mucus, with considerable emaciation and fever.

Zincum. — Dyspnoea and oppression, especially evening; increase of asthma when expectoration stops, > when it recommences ; spasmodic cough, as if it would draw the chest in pieces, with bloody sputa before or during menses ; shortness of breath and cough after eating, particularly sweet things; from accumulation of flatus; cheerful in the morning, morose and sad at night.

Zingiber.— Asthma of gastric origin ; attacks come on in the night, towards morning, patient has to sit up to breathe, yet he is free from all anxiety ; asthma humidum, it loosens the phlegm.

For anxious breathing: Aeon., Ars., Bell, Bry., Hep., Ipec, Kreos., Phos., Plat., Puis.. Scill., Spong., Stann.

Panting breathing : Am., Bell., Bry., Calad., Camph., Carb. an., Chin., Coca, Con., Cupr., Ipec, Laur., Lob., Nitr. ac, Op., Phos., Plumb., Prun., Sec, Sil., Spong., Stram. ; short breathing : Aeon., .Eth., Agar., Anac, Arm, Ars., Bell., Bry., Calc, Camph., Cann., Carb. v., Cast., Chin., Cham., Cin., Coca, Con., Crot., Cupr., Helleb., Hep., Ipec, Ign., Lach., Lob., Merc, Mosch., Phos., Plat., Prun., Sars., Seneg., Sep., Sil., Sulph., Thuj.; slow

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breathing: Aeon., Am., Bell., Brom., Bry., Camph., Caps., Cast, Chin., Clem., Con., Cupr., Helleb., Hep., Hydr. ac., Hyosc., Ign., Ipec., Law:, Merc, cor., Nux m., Nux v., Olean., Op., Spong. ; ioud, noisy : Aeon., Arn., Calc, Chin., Cin., Cocc., Hep., Hyosc., Ign., Kali carb., Merc, Op., Natr. m., Nux v., Phos., Samb., Spong., Squil., Stram., Sulph. ; whistling: Aeon., Amb., Ars., Brom., Cann., Carb. v., Cham., Chin., Coloc, Cupr., Hep., Kreos., Kali carb., Lach., Laur., Phos., Sabad., Samb., Sang., Spong., Stann., Sulph. ; rattling : Anac, Ars., Bell., Brom., Bry., Cact, Cann., Carb. an., Carb. v., Caust., Cham., Chin., Cin., Cocc, Cact., Cupr., Hep., Hyosc, Hydr. ac, Ipec, Lach., Lact., Laur., Lob., Lye, Nux m., Nux v., Op., Petr., Puis., Stann., Strain., Sulph., Tart. ; sobbing : Aeon., .Eth., Ang., Ant. crud., Asa., Bry., Calc, Ipec, Led., Op., Ran seel., Sec, Sil., Stram., Ther. ; stertorous : Anac, Am., Bell., Cann., Carb. an., Cham., Cupr., Hep., Hyosc, Lach., Laur., Lye, Natr. m., Op., Petr., Puis., Spong., Stan., Tart. ; quick, hurried: Aeon., Ars., Asa., Bell., Bry., Carb. v., Cast., Cham., Cin., Clem., Cupr., Gels., Helleb., Hep., Ign., Ipec, Led., Lyc, Natr., Natr. m., Nux v., Phos., Puis., Samb., Seneg., Sep., Sil., Spong., Squil., Stann., Sulph., Veratr. ; weak, feeble : Ant. crud., Bell., Ign., Laur., Olean., Phos., Stram., Veratr., Viol. od. ; sighing: Aeon., Bell., Bry., Calad., Calc. phos., Carb. an., Cham., Cocc, Dig., Glon., Ign., Ipec, Op., Sec, Sil, Spong., Stram. ; groaning: Aeon., Ars., Bell, Cupr., Lach., Mur. ac, Squil. ; deep : Ant. crud., Aur., Bry., Caps., Cupr., Ipec, Lach., Op., Sil., Stram. ; irregular : Aeon., Ang., Bell., Cham., Clem., Cin., Cocc, Cupr., Dros., Ign., Iod., Laur., Led., Mosch., Nux v., Op., Puis., Sep., Tart. ; oppression of chest : Aeon., All. cep., Ambr., Anac, Ang., Ant. crud., Arn., Ars., Asa., Asar., Aur., Bar. m., Bell., Berb., Bry., Cad., Calad., Calc, Camph., Cann., Canth., Carb. v., Cham., Chin., Cin., Cinnab., Cocc, Coff., Colch., Con., Croc, Crotal., Cupr., Cycl., Dros., Dulc, Evon., Fer., Graph., Hep., Ign., Ipec, Iod., Kali mur., Kreos., Lach., Lact., Led., Lyc, Magn., Magn. mur., Merc, Merc, cor., Mez., Mill., Natr. m., Nitr., Nux m., Nux v., Op., Olean., Par. q., Petr., Phelland., Phos., Phos. ac, Plat., Plumb., Puis., Ran., Rhod., Rhus, Sabad., Samb., Sang., Sec, Seneg., Sep., Sil., Spig., Stann., Staph., Sulph., Tab., Tart., Thuj., Teucr., VaL, Veratr., Verbas., Viol, od., Viol, trie, Zinc, suffocating fits : Aeon., Ant. crud., Apis, Ars., Aur., Bar., Bell., Brom., Bry., Cact., Calc, Camph., Carb. an., Carb. v., Cham., Chin., Cin., Coff., Con., Cupr., Cycl., Dig., Dros., Fer., Graph., Hep., Hippom., Hydr. ac, Ign., Iod., Ipec, Kali carb., Lach., Lact., Led., Merc, Mosch., Natr. m., Nux v., Op., Phos., Plat., Rhod., Rhus, Samb., Sec, Sil., Spig., Spong., Strain., Sulph., Tart., Veratr., Zinc; short breathing: Aeon., Amb., Amm., Am., Ars., Bell., Bry., Carb. v., Caust, Chin., Con., Ipec, Lach., Lyc, Merc, Natr., Natr. m., Nitr. ac, Nux m., Phos. ac, Plat., Puis., Sabad., Sep., Sil., Spig., Sulph., Zinc. ; heavy breathing : Alum., Ars., Bell, Camph., Carb. v., Hyosc, Kali carb., Kreos., Lach., Natr., Phos., Sulph. ; stoppage of breath: Anac, Arn., Ars., Bry., Calc, Caust., Chin., Cocc, Guaiac, Led., Lyc, Nux m., Nux v., Op., Phos., Plat., Plumb., Puis., Ruta, Samb., Sars., Sil., Stann., Stram., Sulph., Veratr. ; hot breath : Aeon., Ant. crud., Calc, Cham., Fer., Mang., Natr. m., Phos., Rhus, Sabad., Squill., Stront, Sulph., Zinc. ; cold breath : Carb. v., Chin., Cop., Corall. rub., Mur. ac, Rhus, Veratr. ; foul breath : Aur., Aeon., Ars., Bry., Carb. v., Cham., Chin., Coff., Cist, can., Croc, Dulc, Daph., Lach., Ipec, Merc, Natr. m., Nux v., Nitr. ac, Puis., Sars., Sep., Stram., Sulph., Zinc. ; sour smelling : Cham., Nux v.

Difficulty of breathing, mostly in the evening : Ars., Bell., Carb. an., Carb. v., Chin., Con., Cycl., Fer., Graph., Lach., Merc, Natr. m., Nux v., Phos., Puis., Rhus, Sep., Stann., Sulph., Tart., Verbas., Zinc. ; after bodily exercise :

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Amm., Ars., Bov., Natr. m., Nitr. ac, Sil. ; after chagrin : Ars., Ign., Phos. ac, Ran., Staph. ; by raising the arm : Ant. crud., Cupr., Led., Spig., Sulph. ; moving arm : Ang., Camph., Led. ; in bed : Ars., Bell, Carb. an., Carb. v., Chin., Con., Fer., Graph., Lach., Merc, Natr. in., Nux v., Sep., Spig., Sulph., Tart., Verbas. ; by motion: Arn., Ars., Bry., Calc, Cann., Caps., Con., Fer., Graph., Lye, Nux v., Phos., Puis., Rhus, Sep., Spig., Stann., Veratr. ; by stooping: Alum., Amm., Calc., Sil.; by eating: Ars., Carb. v., Con., Dig., Fer., Laur., Led., Rhus, Sil., Stann. ; after eating: Ars., Asa., Carb. an., Cham., Chin., Lach., Merc, Nux m., Nux v., Phos., Puis., Sulph., Zinc. ; in the open air: Ars., Aur., Graph., Lye, Nux v., Puis., Sel., Seneg., Sulph.; morning: Ambr., Bell., Carb. an., Con., Dig., Kali carb., Nux v., Phos., Seneg., Squil., Sulph., Tart. ; after emotions : Aeon., Ars., Cham., Coff., Ign., Nux v., Puis., Veratr. ; by touching throat : Bell., Hep., Lach., Spong. ; by turning head : Bell., Hep., Spong. ; after coffee : Bell. ; from cold and cold air : Ars., Bry., Carb. v., Petr., Puis. ; from cold drinks : Thuj. ; from press- ure of clothing : Amm., Bry., Calc, Carb. v., Caust, Coff., Hep., Kreos., Lach., Lye, Nux v., Sars., Spig., Spong., Sulph. ; mortification : Ars., Ign., Ran., Staph. ; laughing : Ars., Cupr., Lye, Plumb. ; after or during a quick walk: Ang., Aur., Bov., Caust., Ign., Puis., Sil. ; by lying: Ars., Asa., Bapt., Calc, Cann., Cist., Dig., Hep., Kali bi., Lach., Laur., Nitr., Nux v., Olean., Phelland., Phos., Puis., Samb., Sep., Spong., Stann., Sulph., Tart. ; lying on back: Cact., Nitr., Phos., Puis., Sil.; lying on side: Carb. an., Plat., Puis., Sabad., Sulph. ; on suffering side : Bov.-, Calc, Lye, Sulph. ; left side : Spig. ; on sound side : Stann. ; lying low with head : Chin., Colch., Eup. perf., Hep., Nitr., Puis.; when something covers the mouth: Lach.; at night: Aeon., Amm. m., Alum., Ars., Berb., Bry., Calc, Carb. v., Cham., Chin., Coloe, Cupr., Daph., Dig., Fer., Graph., Ign., Kali carb., Kali iod., Lach., Lye, Magn. sulph., Mere, Nux v., Op., Petr., Phos., Plumb., Ran., Rhus, Samb., Sel., Seneg., Sep., Stann., Sulph. ; during or after sneezing : Dros., Mere, Sil., Sulph. ; riding : Graph; when resting : Fer., Rhus, Sil. ; during sleep : Lach., Samb., Sulph., Tart. ; during deglutition : Bell. ; during paroxysms of pain : Ars., Puis., Sil. ; from singing : Amm., Sulph. ; sitting : Alum., Dig., Dros., Euphr., Lach., Phos., Samb., Staph., Veratr. ; from talking : Bov., Cann., Caust., Dros., Kali carb., Lye, Rhus, Spig., Stram., Sulph.; when standing: Phelland., Sep.; ascending: Amm., Ars., Bov., Canth., Caust., Grat, Hyose, Led., Mere, Nitr. ac, Oleum an., Sep., Stann., Zinc. ; ascending stairs : Acet. ac, Amm., Angust., Ars., Aspar., Bov., Hyose, Led., Mere, Nitr. ac, Ratan., Ruta, Seneg. ; during defecation : Rhus ; dur- ing drinking: Anae, Arn., Bell., Nux v., Squil., Thuj., Veratr.; by strain- ing : Calc, Rhus, Sulph. ; in warm room and from warm clothing : Ars. ; by bending backward : Cupr.

ATHEROMA.

Calc, Graph., Kali iod., Lach., Lye, Phos., Plumb., Sil., Sulph.

ATROPHY OF CHILDREN, Marasmus Infantum.

Abrotanum. — Marasmus with emaciation, sometimes only of lower ex- tremities ; voracious appetite, craves bread boiled in milk ; weak, sinking feeling in bowels ; frequent colicky pains ; distended abdomen ; hard lumps may be felt in different parts of the abdomen ; alternate diarrhoea and constipation; food passes undigested; helminthiasis, especially ascarides ; hydrocele; emaciation, mostly of legs; great weakness and prostration

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with some hectic fever; face wrinkled as if old, cold and dry ; comedones with emaciation ; peevishness ; child is cross and depressed, < from mental exertion.

Acetic acid. — Anorexia; great thirst, much pain in stomach or ab- domen ; diarrhoea with undigested stools ; sleepless nights ; much emacia- tion; abdomen and legs much swollen; excessive weakness with great irritability ; face pale, waxen, emaciated ; eyes sunken and surrounded with dark rings.

^Ethusa cyn. — Violent sudden vomiting of the milk, immediately after nursing, followed by curdled milk and cheesy matter, then falls asleep as if from exhaustion, awakens and wants to nurse again. Milk disagrees and produces colic, constipation or diarrhoea; great general weakness, often coming suddenly ; emaciation ; want of power to hold the head up, cannot bear its weight upon its limbs, cannot stand up ; great disposition to per- spire from the slightest physical effort ; after failure of other well-selected remedies.

Aloe. — Child passes substances looking like jelly-cakes, small or large, but adhering together like congealed mucus ; green-colored or transparent ; offensive flatulency passes and relieves colic; extreme prostration with perspiration ; face sickly > sunken.

Antimonium crud. — Vomiting of food and drink as soon as it is taken ; after nursing the bowels move, stools watery, with little hard lumps, or con- taining undigested food' or hard lumps of curd; tongue heavily coated, milky-white or yellow ; great desire to eat, but gets no strength, with sense of emptiness in pit of stomach and want of animal heat ; child is fretful and peevish, turns itself away and cries when touched ; child emaciated to a skeleton ; < from overheating, during summer, from cold bathing or washing.

Antimonium tart. — Nausea and retching with vomiting, sweat on fore- head, followed by languor and sleep, with frequent jerks of the limbs during sleep ; disgust for food ; stools brown-yellow, fecal, watery, profuse, with sharp cutting pains in abdomen.

Argentum nit. — Diarrhoea of green fetid mucus, passing off with much flatulency, < at night and from drinking ; intense desire for sweets ; emaci- ation most marked on the legs, moving upward (Natr. m. downward) ; child looks old, sallow and withered ; exhaustion, the result of rapid loss of fluid, as in cholera infantum, or of long-protracted diarrhoea and defective nourishment.

Arnica. — Forcible and painful distension of abdomen from foul flatu- lency ; lienteric stools ; anorexia during day with canine hunger in forepart of night, but eating bloats and causes colic ; general prostration and drowsi- ness, but sleep does not refresh, with horrible dreams; capricious humor, repels caresses ; face pale, bloated or emaciated.

Arsenicum iod. — Peaked, cadaverous face, with a purple, livid hue of skin ; intense thirst with uncontrollable desire for cold water, which is almost immediately ejected; almost constant copious watery diarrhoea, and distressing nausea and vomiting ; stools foul, irritating, excoriating the parts around anus ; heaviness of the cold limbs, with weariness of the whole body and great vital prostration ; rapid emaciation.

Arsenicum. — Stools painful, offensive, containing quantities of undi- gested food ; pale and waxy look ; dry, parchment-like skin ; hollow eyes with blue margins ; great restlessness at night ; short sleep, broken by starts and convulsions ; great debility, weariness, with constant desire to lie down ; cold hands and feet ; night-sweats ; the child feels constantly chilly ; food

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and drink cause instant vomiting and diarrhoea ; burning thirst for iced drinks, which cause distress in stomach till they are ejected again ; stools green, slimy, bloody, dark, watery, undigested, excoriating and intolerably offensive; urine suppressed; the child lies in stupor, hot and twitching, and when aroused is restless, demanding frequent change of position.

Arsenicum sulph. flav. — Stools green, slimy, watery, offensive, < during day (Ars. alb., < after midnight).

Baryta carb. — Swelling of cervical glands ; great physical and mental debility, constant desire to sleep ; face and abdomen bloated ; potbellied- ness, with rest of body wasted ; great laziness ; crawling in the rectum ; ascarides; scurfs on head, ears, nose; inflamed eyes; general emaciation; mental powers not developed, the child is dwarfish, cannot be taught, for it cannot remember ; it does not want to play, but sits idly in a corner ; child wants to eat all the time, but is averse to sweet things and fruit; a little food satiates.

Baryta mur. — Induration of abdominal and of other glands ; general muscular weakness, can hardly move a limb ; emaciation of thighs ; desire for dry wheat bread ; much thirst with a dry tongue ; nausea, vomiting, with worms and colic; chronic, painless, watery, fetid diarrhoea; weak, husky voice ; scrofulous eruptions and ulcers.

Belladonna. — For precocious children, with blue eyes and fair hair. The child does not sleep much, though appearing to be drowsy ; it lies half sleep- ing and half waking; moaning; jerking of the muscles.

Benzoic acid. — Ammoniacal odor of the urine, which leaves a dark stain on the diaper ; diarrhoeic stools have an odor similar to that of the urine.

Borax. — Malnutrition and excessive nervousness. Child grows pale, re- laxed, flabby, cries ; loathes the breast and falls into a heavy sleep ; head and palms of hands hot, face pale and clay-colored ; hot mouth and aphthae on tongue and cheeks from impaired nutrition, bleeding when rubbed ; every attempt to nurse causes screaming ; stools light yellow, slimy, green, or pain- less, as if fermented, thin, brown, smelling like carrion ; fear of downward motion ; easily startled by the slightest noise ; sleeps badly and awakens with screams as if in a fright, and clings to something as if afraid of falling.

Calcarea carb. — Emaciation more marked in other than adipose tissue ; atrophy of muscles, soft bones, retarded teeth (defective nutrition), with de- ceptive appearance of plumpness from excess of fat. When also the fat wastes, the body dwindles, the pale skin hangs in folds, but abdomen remains disproportionately enlarged ; partial sweats ; scalp covered with cold sweat, knees clammy, feet damp and cold ; crusta lactea, crusts dry or filled with a mild thick pus; ringworms; glands engorged, especially the mesenteric; appetite voracious, yet emaciation persists ; morbid appetite for indigestible articles of food ; fever and thirst in afternoon ; stools green, watery, sour, or pungent, or clay -like, and < in the afternoon, or creamy, fetid, frequent; urine strong, fetid, clear ; vomiting of sour food or of lumps of curdled milk ; child obstinate, self-willed, cross before stool and faint after ; growth retarded, spine weak, it sits stooped, legs curved and bones bent easily, though old enough will not put its feet to the ground ; worse by bathing ; child craves eggs ; thirst at night for cold water.

Calcarea iod. — Though looking plump and healthy, child shows well- defined scrofulosis, with thick scabby eruptions, otorrhcea, engorged glands and tonsils.

Calcarea phos. — Scrofulous diseases of children affecting the bones (Calc. fluor.) ; general debility from malassimilation of even abundant food ; child wants to nurse all the time ; delayed dentition ; anterior and posterior fon-

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tanelle large, bones of skull thin and soft ; complexion sallow ; abdomen shrunken and flabby ; diarrhoea with much flatulence ; stools watery, hot or green and slimy, often very offensive; child peevish and fretful; ears and point of nose cold; short breathing, with anxious look when lifting; pains after eating ; sense of emptiness in epigastrium ; child craves salt food, bacon.

Carbo veg. — Vital powers failing, and no reaction to well-chosen reme- dies ; skin cold, pale or blue, the face having a greenish hue ; feet and legs to the knees cold ; anxious look, but too lifeless to move or to exhibit much restlessness ; breath cold, pulse weak and rapid ; stools dark, thin, cadaverous- looking ; useful also in protracted sultry weather, when the days are hot and damp.

Causticum. — Adapted to children who grow tardily and who seem to suffer from a sort of paresis ; abdomen swollen and hard, but body wasted and feet diminutive ; they walk unsteadily and fall easily ; weakness of brain ; children timid, fear going to bed in the dark ; weak memory ; in- tertrigo during dentition ; eczema on occiput (Bar. c.) _ China. — Tense, hard and tympanitic abdomen, with rumbling, eructa- tions and flatulency ; difficult expulsion of even a soft stool on account of general and intestinal debility ; frequent, watery, painless, but debilitating diarrhoea, < from eating and drinking ; lienteria ; ravenous hunger at night, with desire for dainties ; violent thirst for cold water which increases diar- rhoea ; general atrophy, especially of lower extremities ; dry and flaccid skin ; sleepy in daytime, sleepless at night with bulimy ; indifference and apathy, aversion to company; face pallid, dejected, cold; nose sharp- pointed, eyes lustreless.

Cina. — Bloated abdomen, with disagreeable heat through it; involun- tary, yellowish diarrhoea, containing worms ; itching in the anus ; wetting the bed ; canine hunger for bread, which child prefers to breast milk ; great hunger at night, though the stomach is full ; the greater the emaciation, the greater the hunger ; child picks nose, is restless, cross and unamiable ; pain- ful sensitiveness of the whole body to motion and touch ; inability to hold anything in the hands, wants to be rocked all the time ; nothing pleases it.

Cistus can. — Hot, gray-yellow, spurting stools, < after fruit, from mid- night to noon ; glands, especially cervical, swollen or suppurating ; tetter on and around ears ; caries ; < in wet weather ; indicated in thin, scrawny children of a scrofulous diathesis.

Clematis. — Enlargement and induration of the mesenteric glands, with lancinating pains in them ; bloated abdomen, with feeling of constriction when walking ; abdomen hard and sore to the touch ; at first constipation, followed by frequent, painless, liquid stools ; no appetite, thirst for ice- water ; nausea and somnolency after eating ; great emaciation, with pallor; debility and languor after eating and in afternoon ; repugnance to motion and to bathing ; moroseness, indifference and aversion to talking ; pustular and scaly eruptions, with itching ; < by heat of bed and during night.

Conium. — Tumefaction of mesenteric glands, with hardness and bloat- ing of abdomen, with borborygmus and emission of gas which feels cold; hard, fecal stool, with burning heat in the anus ; after stool weakness, pal- pitation and trembling ; anorexia, with desire for coffe, acids and salted articles ; intense thirst in daytime ; extreme debility and wasting, com- pelling the child to lie down, legs are heavy and knees tremble ; sleepy in daytime, restless at night; great sadness, weakness of memory; sweat on the hands and cold feet ; yellow sclerotica and finger-nails.

Ferrum. — Frequent vomiting as soon as food is taken, after breakfast, and pain in stomach ceases after vomiting; abdomen hard, distended,

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but not with flatulence ; painless and involuntary diarrhoea of undigested food ; itching at the anus at night from worms ; irritability from prostra- tion ; child is pale and delicate.

Graphites. — Moist blotches on the skin, exuding a transparent, offen- sive, glutinous fluid ; chafing back of the ears ; diarrhoea painless, sour- smelling, thin, scalding, or constipation ; all discharges offensive, breath, stool, urine, sweat; child is impertinent and laughs at reprimands ; harsh, rough skin, disposed to chafing; groins become sore, and the inguinal glands swollen; emaciation. Suitable to fair, plump children with well- marked skin svmptoms.

Hepar sulph.— Though apparently the child looks plump, the flesh is flabby, the muscles withered, digestion weak ; child intolerant of pressure about stomach after eating; food temporarily > the debility; stools green, watery, undigested, or white, sour-smelling and painless, < during the day ; the whole child smells sour (Rheum) ; little tendency to cerebral symptoms ; glands swollen, and child subject to catarrhs from least draught of cold air ; eczema, < mornings, when it itches, burns and smarts.

Hydrastis. — Excoriations in groins ; eczema on forehead at the border of the hair, oozing after washing ; thick mucous discharges ; marasmus ; great debility; faintness at the stomach; aphthae of weakly children; tongue swollen, shows marks of the teeth, or appears raw, dark red, with raised papillae ; stool light-colored, soft, acrid ; fetid flatus.

Iodum. — Swelling and induration of mesenteric glands ; suffering from hunger, must eat every few hours, yet loses flesh all the time ; constant and tormenting thirst, with canine hunger; large, tumid, doughy abdomen; wasting and prostration, with low spirits, hectic fever, night-sweats, diar- rhoea ; skin dry and of a dirty yellow color ; oedema pedum, tabes mesen- terica (Kali iod.).

Kreosotum. — Qastromalacia ; belching and hiccough when sitting up ; vomiting of undigested food, with dimness of vision; painful sensation of coldness in abdomen ; icy coldness in epigastrium ; white or gray stools, chopped, very fetid, cadaverous-smelling; rapid emaciation, especially on neck and face ; skin remarkably pale ; cold face and hands ; constant whin- ing ; restless, sleepless nights ; tabes mesenterica, with hypertrophied glands in fleshy, flabby subjects.

Lithium (Gettysburg). — Rough, harsh skin ; crusta lactea ; ringworm, itching violently ; nose swollen, internally sore and dry, with shining crusts in nostrils ; light yellow diarrhoea, fecal in the morning, offensive at night ; < after fruit.

Lycopodium. — Abdomen bloated, while limbs are wasted ; face earthy, with blue rings around eyes ; wrinkles in face ; milk-crust thick, cracks and bleeds, and emits a mousy smell ; tendency to capillary bronchitis ; inordi- nate appetite, but food soon satiates ; abdomen distended, with much rumbling of wind, especially in left hypochondrium ; gastric region dis- tended and intolerant of any pressure, especially after nursing ; urine has a red sediment or is suppressed ; sleep disturbed by frequent awaking ; child weak, with well-developed head, but puny, sickly body, is irritable, nervous and unmanageable when sick, after sleep cross and pushes every one away angrily.

Magnesia carb. — Defective digestion ; emaciation, swelling of glands, abdomen heavy and bloated ; griping pain, followed by green, watery, sour diarrhoea, or the stool, when standing, forms a green scum like that of a frog pond ; great emaciation, aphthae.

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scurfs in nostrils, alae and tip being red and swollen; stomach bloated; stools in large, hard lumps, or crumble as they pass the anus ; child puny, rachitic ; enlarged liver ; glands swollen ; sweat on head and feet.

Marum ver. — Emaciation, with jerking hiccough after nursing, and belching, without bringing anything up ; child cries a great deal with the diarrhoea; increased discharge of pale urine; chilliness from want of animal heat.

Mercurius. — Emaciation; skin dry, rough, dirty yellow or clammy, especially that of the thighs ; icy-cold sweat on forehead, sour or oily sweat on scalp ; pustular or suppurating herpes ; glands swollen and suppurating ; skin chaps easily, becomes raw and sore; frequent attacks of jaundice; abdomen, especially right hypochondrium, swollen and sore to pressure ; stool green, sour, watery, with emaciation ; diarrhoea bloody, slimy, green, with tenesmus often continuing after stool; genitals sore and excoriated, urine causes pain ; child pulls at penis ; child pale, weak and obtuse, or precocious and restless ; fontanelles open, the head large and covered with offensive sweat ; gums soft and bleed easily ; sour night-sweats ; blephar- ophthalmia suppurativa.

Muriatic acid. — Child too listless to move or to take notice ; aphthae in mouth ; child exhausted from frequent vomiting and diarrhoea, and the stomach so weak that it will no longer tolerate or digest food, most marked in forenoon ; tongue shrivelled and dry as leather, or covered with deep bluish ulcers, having black bases ; breath fetid ; salivary glands tender, swollen; stool involuntary when passing urine; prolapsus ani during urin- ation ; muscular debility from abuse of soothing syrups.

Natrum mur. — Rapid emaciation notwithstanding good appetite, es- pecially of throat and neck of children, who are very slow to learn to walk ; mapped tongue and herpes labialis ; weak ankles, child stumbles or feet turn under him ; dry and ill-colored skin ; bulimy with quick satiety, marked repugnance to bread, < after greasy food and milk; sadness and dulness with anorexia and profuse sweating; palpitations; constipation, with stool only after considerable effort ; watery, sanguinolent or involun- tary diarrhoea.

Natrum phos. — Marasmus of children who are bottle-fed ; abdomen swollen, liver large; colic after eating; stools containing undigested food.

Natrum sulph. — Inherited sycotic constitution ; abdomen bloated, with much rumbling of wind ; stools watery, yellow, gushing, coming on as soon as the child begins to move in the morning.

Nitric acid. — Weakly children, after abuse of calomel, or who inherited syphilis ; child is wasted, sallow, weak ; upper arms and thighs particularly emaciated ; aphthae with putrid breath ; ulcers or blisters about mouth, rawness and soreness about arms ; stools of green mucus, sometimes fetid and undigested, < in the morning ; stools followed by great exhaustion ; glands enlarged.

Nux vomica. — Yellowish, sallow complexion, bloated face ; obstinate constipation; large, difficult stools, or alternate constipation and diarrhoea; large abdomen, with flatulence; no appetite or great hunger; desire to eat, with frequent vomiting of the ingesta ; constant desire to lie down ; sleep- lessness towards morning ; aversion to open air ; nervousness ; ill-humor.

Oleander. — The food passes off unchanged in a remarkable degree, and very easily and almost unconsciously.

Oleum jec. as. — Child emaciated, with hot hands and head ; constant tendency to catarrhs ; bones affected, rachitis ; fever at night, with sweat, mostly on head, neck and hands ; cannot take milk ; vivid dreams ; restless and feverish at night.

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Opium. — Child wrinkled, looks like a little dried-up old man ; stupor.

Ozone. — Where the symptoms clearly indicate Sulph., but that remedy fails, ozonized water cures (symptoms nearly identical).

Pepsin. — Emaciation, prostration and weakness of the digestive powers after cholera infantum.

Petroleum. — Painful bloating of abdomen, < after eating and drink- ing, from lying down, with sensation of coldness in abdomen ; diarrhoea during day, but none at night. Bulimy easily satisfied, with repugnance to meats, fats, cooked or hot aliments, and desire for dainties ; breath and feces have marked odor of garlic ; weakness and emaciation, with aversion to fresh air; sleepy in daytime, but never sleeps longer than a few minutes during the night, which makes it irritable and angry, colic during sleep, > by bending double ; eczema, excoriations ; cracked, bleeding rhagades.

Phosphorus. — Emaciation combined with nervous debility ; brain and spine suffered severely ; child overtall, but slender, emaciated but big-bellied ; face pale, almost waxen. Delicate eyelashes, soft hair, rapid breathing hint to sequela? ; even thus early diarrhoea associated with dry cough, hence suit- able to young girls with blonde hair, blue eyes, delicate skin, slender stature, with cachectic cough, diarrhoea; frequent exhausting sweats; great debility, with orgasm of the blood ; palpitation of the heart, or oppression of the chest after exercise. Copious stools, pouring away like water from a hydrant, with great exhaustion ; glandular swellings, suppuration and caries (Sil.) ; appe- tite good ; he craves cold food, ice cream ; often awakens at night, hot and restless, and will drop off to sleep if fed ; child irascible, vehement, suscep- tible to external impressions and to electric changes in atmosphere.

Phosphoric acid. — Yellowish and very offensive stools ; the child is very listless, wants nothing and cares for nothing ; abdomen swollen, much fermentation in bowels, with the diarrhoea, which, though long lasting, does not proportionately weaken.

Psorinum. — Pale, sickly, delicate children ; they have a filthy smell, even after a bath ; stools fluid, fetid, worse at night ; great debility and sweat from any exertion ; crusta lactea on face and scalp, especially over either ear and cheek, exfoliating numerous scabs, or cracks and discharges a yellow fetid humor ; dirty-looking boils on scalp, emitting an offensive odor ; intolerable itching at night, < in bed ; child < when the weather changes.

Rheum. — Sour, slimy, frothy stools with griping colic and twitching of the face and fingers during sleep.

Sanicula (Mineral Spring, 111.).— Child wants to nurse all the timej never feels satisfied, but all comes up again with a gush and child goes off into a stupid sleep ; awakes to repeat same process ; child seems to have no power to expel the stool, which consists of large lumps of undigested casein, or looks like the scum of a frog pond ; great emaciation of neck and ex- tremities, abdomen distended and hard; back gives out and feels cold; restless sleep.

Sarsaparilla— Great emaciation; the skin lies in folds; the face is shrivelled ; aphthae on tongue and roof of mouth ; neck emaciated ; fully developed marasmus ; eruptions are prone to appear in the spring, their bases inflamed, the crusts detach readily out of doors and the adjoining skin be- comes chapped ; on forehead the crusta lactea is thick, becoming moist when scratched ; herpes and offensive sweat about genitals ; child restless and un- easy before passing water, afterwards the diaper is found covered with a white sand ; stool, with much flatus, often followed by fainting.

Sepia.— Child wastes rapidly, want of bodily heat, is restless, fidgety ; ankles are weak and turn easily when walking ; diarrhoea, jelly like stools ;

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with colic and tenesmus ; of green mucus ; sour-smelling, debilitating, < after drinking milk, especially if boiled ; moist scabs on scalp ; forehead rough ; child awakens often, especially wakeful after 3 a.m.

Silicea. — Whole body wasted, while the head is exceedingly large ; child nervous, irritable, susceptible and timid ; head perspires easily and fore- head becomes cold, > by wrapping up the head warmly ; great debility, espe- cially in the joints ; slow in learning to walk alone ; from debility and iner- tia child is not able to lie on his side and turns faint when attempting it ; insomnia after midnight; face emaciated, with decrepid look and pale, earthy color; anorexia with repugnance to meat and hot or cooked food, with desire for cold and raw food ; or canine hunger, and after eating weight on the stomach, with nausea and vomiting of the undigested food ; aversion to the mother's milk, which, if taken, is at once vomited ; stools watery, offensive, sometimes bloody, or else costiveness ; atmospheric changes cause great prostration.

Stannum. — The child is always relieved in its abdominal sufferings by pressing hard upon the abdomen, leaning upon something; sickly face; weakness of the nape of the neck ; dry, concussive cough ; helminthiasis.

Staphisagria. — Large abdomen ; voracious and canine hunger; swell- ing of the submaxillary and cervical glands ; frequent and constant attacks of catarrhs ; unhealthy and readily ulcerating skin ; frequent boils ; the teeth, as they appear, turn dark or crumble ; mouth aphthous, the gums ap- pearing pale, spongy, and bleeding when touched ; nostrils sore from catarrh, eyelids and corners of mouth ulcerated ; fetid night-sweats ; abdomen swollen ; colic after least food or drink ; stools hot, smelling like rotten eggs, or dysenteric ; irritability.

Sulphur. — Emaciation; skin dry, harsh and wrinkled, giving the child an " old man " look ; offensive odor of body, not removable by washing ; eczema (capitis) dry, easily bleeding, itching more at night, scratching re- lieves but causes bleeding ; intertrigo, especially at anus ; glands swollen, particularly cervical, axillary and inguinal ; appetite voracious, child grasps at everything within reach and thrusts it into its mouth, or drinks much and eats little when the violent thirst is on ; abdomen distended and hard ; constipation or diarrhoea slimy, green, watery, changeable, > at night ; sud- den urging awakens him in the morning, followed by copious watery stools ; restlessness at night, awakens screaming or on going to sleep is annoyed by sudden jerking of the limbs ; child cross, obstinate, cannot bear to be washed or bathed; dentition slow, bones and muscles develop tardily; easily fa- tigued; face pale and sunken, with deep, hollow eyes; hunger at 11 a.m.; heat on top of head and cold feet ; ravenous desire for sweets which makes him sick.

Sulphuric acid. — Marasmus in restless, nervous, weakly children ; they do