LOBELIA INFLATA.
Lobelia inflata, Linn.
Natural order
, Lobeliaceæ.
Common name
, Indian Tobacco.
Preparation
, Tincture of the plant.
Authorities.
1,
Dr. Cutler, Mem. Am. Acad. vol. 1, p. 484 (1785), effects of chewing
leaves and of holding them in the mouth for some time; 2, Cutler, in Thacher’s Dispensatory, p. 146,
took three doses of one tablespoonful of tincture each, at intervals of
ten minutes, for asthma (which it cured); 3,
Samuel Thomson, New Guide to Health or Botanic Physician (from Dr.
Jeane’s collection, Trans. Am. Inst. of Hom., 1, p. 171, effects in a
man of eating a sprig); 4, Dr.
Randall, in Bigelow’s Am. Med. Bot., 1, p. 813 (1817), general effects; 5, Dr. Bradstreet, from Bigelow (loc. cit.),
effects; 6, Bigelow (loc. cit),
effects of one teaspoonful of an infusion of 2 ounces of dried plant in
1 pint of diluted Alcohol; 7, Samuel
Thomson caused the death of Ezra Lovett (who had a bad cold), by large
and repeated doses, Tyng’s Mass. Reports, vol. 6, p. 134; 8, Boston Med. Intell., vol. 2 (1824),
effects of 2 or 3 drs, in a woman, taken for an emetic; 9, Chs. Whitelaw, Lancet, vol. 23, 1833,
general statement of effects (10 to 15, proving by Dr. Noak, Hygea, 1841); 10, Kermes, a young man, aged twenty-six,
took 30 drops of tinct., in the morning; 11,
Noack, took first day, tincture, 10 drops in morning, 20 at 11 A.M., 50
in P.M., after two days took 80 drops morning, 100 at 3 P.M.; 12, Birkner, 4 drops tinct. first day, 8
drops second day, 16 drops third day; 12a, same, subsequently took 10 drops first
day, 20 drops second day; 12b, same, third proving, one dose of 30
drops; 13, Dr. Moerz, repeated doses
of tinct., 20 to 150-drop doses; 14,
Laura G., aged twenty-one various doses, 6 to 40 drops; 15, Dr. Piper, repeated doses of tinct., 2 to
20 drops; 16, Norton, Br. J. of
Hom., 17, p. 464, took 1/2 dr. tinct. first day, 1dr. second day, 2drs.
third day, 2 1/2 drs. fourth day, 1/2 ounce fifth day; (17 to 25,
from Dr. Jeane’s collection, Am. Inst. of Hom. Trans., vol. 1); 17, Dr. Jeanes; 18,
Williamson; 19, Link; 20, Geist; 21,
Z—s, took a teaspoonful of tinct. every quarter of an hour, till he
had taken an ounce; 22, Dr. Caspari,
gave (?) to a lady who had not menstruated for four years, for pain in
right shoulder, which it relieved; 23,
Dr. Gosewich, effects in a lady in last stage of consumption; she had
not menstruated for six months; 24,
same, effects in a lady over fifty, who had long ceased to menstruate,
for a cough; 25, same, effects in a
boy, of a “Thomsonian emetic;” (Nos.
26 to
36, provings
on healthy persons, “medical students and naval
surgeons, at the Medical School of Toulon,” by Dr. Barrallier, “Des effects physiol. de la
Lobelia Inflata, Paris, 1864″); 26,
man, aged twenty-one, pulse 72, took 5 drops of tinct.; 27, man, aged eighteen, pulse 74, took 5
drops; 28, man, aged twenty-one
pulse 58, took 5 drops; 29, man,
aged nineteen, pulse 74, took 5 drops; 30,
man, aged twenty-five, pulse 76, took 10 drops; 31,
man, aged twenty-eight, pulse 70, took 10 drops; 32, man, aged twenty, pulse 72, took 10
drops; 33, man, aged twenty, pusle
70, took 10 drops; 34, man, aged
forty-seven, pulse 68, took 20 drops; 35,
man, aged twenty-five, pulse 72, took 20 drops; 36,
Dr. Barrallier, aged forty-seven, pulse 66, took 40 drops.
MIND.
►
Violent raving, with flushing of the face, and palpitation of the heart,
every evening after an hour’s sleep, [25].
► Indisposed to mental exertion
(after one hour), [31]. ► Lost his reason, and became convulsed, so
that several men were required to hold him, and so continued till death
(after several days), [7]. ► Narcotic, [9].
HEAD.
►
Confusion and Vertigo. ►
Confusion of the head increased to violent pressive headache with
decided heat of the face, in the afternoon (first day), [12b]. ►
Confusion of the head, especially on the vertex on moving about (third
day), [12]. ►
Confusion in the forehead (after one hour), [11]. ►
Confusion in the occiput (after half an hour), [11]. ►
Vertigo, [36]. [10.] ►
*Vertigo, with nausea, [17],
[18]. ►
Vertigo, with pain in the head, and trembling agitation of the whole
body, [18]. ►
Giddiness and pain in head, [1]. ► General Head. ►
When given in large doses, it affects the brain, [9]. ►
Cerebral torpor (after one hour), [31].
► Heaviness of the head (second day),
[14]. ►
Pain in the head, [19]. ► Dull tension in the head, in the evening
(first day), [12a]. ► Headache, [36];
(after four hours), [32];
especially on ascending steps (second day), [12]. ►
Headache with slight vertigo, and at times transient stitches in the
temples (after ten minutes), [10].
[20.] ►
Headache, at first slight; becoming worse gradually (after two hours), [30]. ►
Headache, at first slight, then gradually increasing (after two hours);
worse on awaking (after seven hours); lasted nearly all night, [26]. ►
Severe headache (after two hours), [35];
with drowsiness, for half an hour, [34].
► Violent headache, towards evening, [33]. ►
Pains through the head in sudden shocks, [18].
► Forehead. ► *Dull heavy pain passing round the forehead,
from one temple to the other, on a line immediately above the eyebrows.
(In numerous cases, both of pathogenesis and cure; the latter often
preceded by homœopathic aggravation, of several days’ continuance), [17]. ►
Temples. ► Dull pressing
pain in the temple and left molar teeth, [20].
► Outward pressing in both temples;
at the same time a dull pressing in the flesh, just above the left
elbow, and the hand feels as if paralyzed, [20]. ► Parietal.
► Pain in the parietal protuberance
on the left side of the head, [17].
► Occiput. ► Dull feeling in the occiput, [20]. [30.]
► Pain in the occiput, [17]. ►
Tension in the occiput, in the region of the lambdoidal suture, only
when paying strict attention to anything, [12a].
► Pressure in the occiput, relieved
after removing the head covering (second day), [12b]. ►
Pressive pains in the occiput in the open air (first day), [12]. ►
External Head. ►
Chilliness of the left side of the head, with a feeling as if the hair
would rise on end, [20].
EYE.
►
Pain and soreness in the right eye, [18].
► Burning in the eyes (second day), [14]. ►
Itching in the angles of the lids of the left eye, [20]. ► Lids.
► Severe and frequent itching in the
angles of the eyelids, [17]. ► Smarting of the inside of the eyelids, [20]. ►
Ball. [40.] ► Pressing pain in the eyeballs, most in
the upper parts, [20]. ► Pupil. ►
Pupils dilated, [34], [36]; (after two hours), [35]. ► Pupils
slightly dilated (after two hours), [30],
[33]. ►
Vision. ► Dimness of
vision, [36]; (after two hours), [35].
EAR.
►
Aching in the left ear, [17]. ► Shooting pain, extending into left ear
from a painful spot in the throat, situated about an inch to the left of
the larynx, and on a line with its lowest cartilage, [17].
NOSE.
►
Sneezing, accompanying gaping and flatulent eructation, [20]. ►
Bleeding at the nose, [24].
FACE.
►
There was no more color in him than a corpse, [3]. ► A
peculiar drawing feeling extending from the right side of the mouth to
the right eye, [20]. [50.] ►
Slight drawing feelings, at one time in the left, at another in the
right side of the lower jaw, [20].
MOUTH.
►
Teeth. ► Dull pressing
pain in the left molar, teeth and temple, [20].
► General Mouth. ► Dryness of the mouth, [18]. ►
Pricking sensation in back of mouth, for a few minutes (immediately), [26]. ►
Saliva. ► In certain cases
larger doses have produced only a flow of saliva, [6]. ►
Sialagogue, [9]. ► Copious flow from glands of mouth, [4]. ►
*Copious discharge of saliva, [1].
► Flow of clammy saliva, [19]. ►
Increased secretion of tenacious saliva (fifteen minutes after 100
drops), [11]. [60.] ►
Frequent accumulation of much sweetish saliva, which soon filled the
whole mouth (fourth day), [13]. ► Accumulation of water in the mouth, and
nausea and eructations tasting of the drug (after five minutes, third
day), [11]. ►
Spitting at intervals (fourth day), [16].
► Taste. ►
Taste in mouth at first insipid, but soon became pungent, [1]. ► Pungent
taste in the mouth, [18]. ► Very unpleasant sharp taste
(immediately), [36]. ► Very sharp disagreeable taste in the whole
mouth, especially at the tip of the tongue, and in the back throat; it
lasted about half an hour (immediately), [30]. ► Sharp
taste, like snuff (immediately), [27].
► Taste resembles that of tartar
emetic, [1]. ►
Disagreeable taste in the mouth, somewhat similar to that of a solution
of corrosive sublimate (after twenty-four hours), [21].
THROAT.
[70.]
► Frequent necessity for hawking, on
account of increased accumulation of mucus in the throat (seventh day), [13]. ►
Dryness of the throat, [18]. ► Dryness in the throat, and warmth in the
stomach, immediately after a dose (second day), [12]. ► Great
dryness and scraping in the throat after a meal, not relieved by
drinking, lasting more than an hour (first day), [12a]. ►
Burning in the throat, [18]. ► Burning in the throat, which soon changed
to a sensation of dryness, and lasted the whole forenoon, [12a]. ►
Burning and scraping in the throat, immediately after every dose, soon
disappearing, [11]. ► Drawing pain in the right side of the
throat, which extends upwards to the ear, [17],
[20]. ►
Soreness of the throat, [17]. ► Scraping in the throat immediately;
followed after ten minutes by a pressive sensation (after eighty drops),
[11]. [80.]
► Scraping and sore pain in the
throat (first day), [12b]. ► Scraping in the throat and eructations,
immediately, [14]. ► Scraping in the throat, followed by
slight efforts to vomit, which, with the pressure and heaving in the
pharynx, last nearly a quarter of an hour, [15]. ►
Scraping sensation in the throat, and warmth in the stomach, immediately
(first day), [12]. ► Burning scraping in the throat,
especially in the anterior arches of the palate, extending towards the
larynx, causing after half an hour frequent hawking of much mucus that
accumulated in the throat; after an hour there was only slight scraping
in the throat, seemingly on the right side of the larynx, which remains
sensitive to swallowing (first day), [13].
► Feeling of acridity and dryness in
the back throat, [34]. ► Pricking in the throat, when swallowing
the medicine, [29]. ► Fauces, Pharynx, and Œsophagus. ► Dryness of the fauces (fourth day), [16]. ►
The small doses seemed to have greater effect on the pharynx, large ones
more upon the stomach, [13]. ► Excessive scraping in the pharynx (after
half an hour, ninth day), [13]. [90.] ► A
sensation of consecutive constrictions in the œsophagus from below
upwards (first day), [12b]. ► Pressure in the œsophagus and pit of the
stomach (after 100 drops), [11]. ► Pressure as from a foreign substance, or
a morsel of food, along the whole course of the œsophagus, worse at
certain places, as for example, just below the larynx, whence there
seemed to be a twisting peristaltic motion proceeding downward as far as
the pit of the stomach; the sensation in the œsophagus was not affected
by swallowing nor by eructations; it gradually disappeared, and at last
seemed only to affect a spot between the pit of the stomach and the
back, as if there were a plug in the pit of the stomach reaching to the
spine; at times this pressive pain seemed to disappear entirely but it
was soon renewed, always having a twisting character; the œsophagus
remained quite free from troubles, but from the pit of the stomach and
the place internally near the spine the sensation seemed to extend to
the right and left through the præcordium; deep inspiration gave a
certain relief, since it seemed to overpower the pressive pain; about 5
P.M., there was nothing left of this except a slight sensation in the
back, hypochondria, and pit of the stomach, on turning the body, that
gave rise to an anatomical impression that he tendinous expansion of the
diaphragm was somewhat too tense, [11].
► Dysphagia, [35], [36].
STOMACH.
►
Appetite. ► Scarcely any
appetite all day, [34]. ► No appetite all day (after two hours), [28]. ►
No appetite for dinner (fourth day), [16].
► Anorexia, [35]. ►
Aversion to food (in afternoon), [36].
► Eructation and Hiccough. ► Eructations, [35]. [100.] ► Eructations lasting about a quarter of an
hour (immediately), [32]. ► Eructations, together with a burning
sensation rising up from the stomach (soon), (first day), [12a]. ►
Eructations immediately and repeated several times during the day
(fourth day); immediately (fifth day), [16].
► Frequent eructations, with
accumulation of water in the mouth (first day), [12b]. ►
Forcible eructations and nausea, [11].
► Very fatiguing eructations and
nausea, lasting an hour (immediately), [34].
► Painful eructations, [36]. ►
Eructations of air, [11]. ► Flatulent eructation and gaping,
accompanying sneezing, [20]. ► Flatulent eructation, with sensation of
acidity and heat of stomach, [17],
[20]. [110.]
► Eructations of an acid fluid, with
burning sensation, [18]. ► Hiccough, [21].
► Frequent hiccough towards evening
(first and second days), [12]. ► Frequent and violent hiccough more than
twenty times in rapid succession (seventh day), [13]. ► A
sensation similar to heartburn, with accumulation of water in the mouth,
immediately (after 20 drops), [12a].
► Some nausea (immediately), [35]. ►
Nausea and Vomiting. ►
Nausea, lasting about an hour (soon), [33].
► Nausea, or sensation of a lump or
weight, as if caused by undigested food (fourth day), [16]. ► *Nausea
all the morning (third day), [15].
►► *Nausea in the morning,
disappearing after a swallow of water (third day), [12a]. [120.]
► *Nausea, with great inclination to
vomit, [17]. ► *Nausea, and almost irresistible inclination to
vomit (soon), [36]. ► *Nausea with the vertigo, [17], [18].
► *Nausea, with rather cold perspiration
on the head, especially on the face, with great efforts to vomit,
without results (fourth day), [13].
► Frequent nausea, [4]. ► *Constant
nausea, [36]. ► Slight nausea (after one or two hours,
first day), also (second day), [16].
► Extreme nausea and vomiting, [1]. ►
Fatiguing nausea, lasting about a quarter of an hour (immediately), [32]. ►
Incessant violent nausea, with shivering and shaking of the upper part
of the body, [17]. [130.] ► A
scraping in the throat, which came on immediately after a dose, seemed
to change to a qualmish nausea after 50 drops, [11]. ►
Qualmishness in the stomach (ninth day), [13].
► Peculiar qualmishness, with a
sensation as of an anti-peristaltic motion of the stomach, though
without nausea, in the morning (second day), [12b]. ► He
attempted to go to a spring to drink, got as far as the wall, but could
not get over it, and laid down on the ground and vomited several times;
he said he thought he threw two quarts from his stomach, [3]. ► Nausea,
and sometimes vomiting, [6]. ► Nausea, great uneasiness, and vomiting, [17]. ►
Vomited violently (first day), [7].
► Excessive vomiting, which was long
continued, [8]. ► Sickness (after second dose); sensible
effects upon coats of stomach and very little moderate puking (after
third dose), [2]. ► Occasional emesis, [4]. [140.] ► By chewing a small part of plant,
generally no more than one or two capsules, it proves a gentle emetic, [2]. ►
Powerful and efficient emetic, [9].
► Stomach. ► Large doses seemed to have greater effect
on the stomach, small ones on the pharynx, [13]. ► *Feeling
of weakness of the stomach, [17],
[21]. ►
*Feeling of weakness in the stomach, and qualmishness, soon
(after 150 drops, eleventh day), [13].
► Warmth in the stomach, soon (first
day), [12a]. ►
A sensation of warmth or burning all over the stomach (fourth day), [16]. ►
*Burning in the stomach, [18].
► Heaviness and pressure in the
epigastric region after dinner (first day), [12b]. ►
Pressure in the stomach, though but little had been eaten (first day), [12a]. [150.]
► Pressure in the pit of the stomach,
as from a weight (after five minutes), [11].
► Feeling of weight at pit of
stomach, [35]. ► Uneasiness, or feeling of a lump or
weight, in the stomach for a few moments (third day), [16]. ►
Violent pressive pain in the pit of the stomach (second day), [12a]. ►
*Sensation of oppression at the epigastrium, as if the
stomach were too full, worse on pressure, [19].
► *An indescribable feeling about the
stomach, compounded of nausea, pain, heat, oppression, and excessive
uneasiness, accompanying the affection of the respiratory
organs, [21]. ► Painful twisting about in the cardiac
region, lasting a few minutes (second day), [13]. ►
Violent, painful sensation of twisting in the cardiac region (fourth
day), [13].
ABDOMEN.
►
Pain in the right hypochondrium, [17].
► Very troublesome borgorygmi (after
two hours), [28]. [160.] ►
Distension of the abdomen, associated with increased rapidity of
respiration, lasting about fifteen or twenty minutes (after ten
minutes), [10]. ► Movings about in the abdomen, [11]. ►
Rumbling in the abdomen (first day), [12b].
► Rumbling in the bowels, and passage
of flatus downwards (fourth day), [16].
► Flatulence, with painful rumbling
in the abdomen (second day), [12a].
► Much flatulence through the day,
with rumbling in the abdomen (third day), [12a].
► Sensation in the abdomen as if
diarrhœa was about to occur, [18].
► Pains in the abdomen and small of
the back, [14]. ► Pain in the abdomen, always worse after
eating, [14]. ► Dull pain in the abdomen, [19]. [170.] ► Griping and movings in the abdomen,
followed by emission of flatus, [11].
► Griping colic in the morning on
waking (second day), [14]. ► Drawing pains in the abdomen (second
morning), [14]. ► Colic (in afternoon), [36]. ► Slight
colic (after three hours), [31];
(after five hours), [29]. ► Slight colic, which kept getting worse
until evening (after two hours), [28].
► Severe colic, lasting almost all
night (after seven hours and a half), [26].
► Violent colic on waking (after six
hours), [29]. ► Some pain in the lower part of the
abdomen, [20]. ► Violent cramplike pain in “left
posterior iliac region,” scarcely tolerating motion or touch, [15].
ANUS.
[180.]
► Scraping sensation in the anus, as
from the passage of a rough, hard body, during stool, [18].
STOOL.
►
Two diarrhœic stools after the colic (after six hours), [29]. ► Four
copious, liquid stools after the colic (after two hours), [28]. ► Soft
stool (a quarter of an hour after 20 drops), [10a]. ►
Whitish, soft stools, [18]. ► Stools somewhat more pasty than usual in
the evening (second day), [12a]. ► Stools easier, [34]. ►
Discharge of black blood after stool, [18].
URINARY ORGANS.
►
Urethra. ► Aching pain in
the urethra, [18]. ► Urinary passage was perceptibly affected
by producing a smarting in passing urine, [2].
► Micturition. [190.] ►
Frequent desire to urinate, even during the night and next day, [10]. ►
Urine. ► Increased
secretion of urine (after ten minutes), [10].
► Diuretic, [9]. ► Urine
of yellowish wine-color (second day), [11].
► Urine diminished in quantity, and
with less frequent desire to urinate than usual; the urine passed during
the first day was found on the next morning to have deposited *a rosy red sediment, with crystals of uric
acid, [11].
SEXUAL ORGANS.
►
Male. ► Smarting of the
prepuce, [18]. ► Distressing heaviness of the genitals, [15]. ►
Female. ► Brought on
menstruation, [22]. ► Brought on the menses, which continued
for some days, though of course in small quantity, [23].
RESPIRATORY ORGANS.
► Larynx and Trachea. ► Constriction of the larynx, [35]. [200.]
► A peculiar feeling, between
tickling and smarting, in the larynx, like irritation to cough, which,
however, occurred but seldom, and then was accompanied by a feeling of
oppression, [20]. ► Sensation of a lump in the throat-pit,
impeding respiration and deglutition, [18].
► Voice. ►
Hoarseness, [36]. ► Cough and Expectoration. ► Irritation to cough (one hour after 20
drops), [10]. ► Coughing, [20].
► Frequent, short, dry cough, [20]. ►
Expectorant, [9]. ► Respiration. ►
Respiration somewhat accelerated, with a sensation as if it were
insufficient, so that from time to time he was obliged to take very deep
inspirations; the abdominal muscles seem to be used less than natural in
breathing, also it seemed more difficult than usual to hold the breath
(first day); respiration seems insufficient, otherwise free and regular
(second day), [12b]. ► Short inspiration; slow expiration, [20]. ►
Inclination to sigh; deep inspiration, [20].
[210.] ►
*Oppression of breathing (first day), [12b]. ►
*Difficult respiration, lasting half an hour, [34]. ►►
*Extremely difficult breathing, caused
by a very strong constriction at the middle of the chest, which impedes
the respiratory movements, [36].
CHEST.
►
Feeling of heaviness in the chest, with short, superficial respiration
(24 to the minute); abdominal respiration seems to fail entirely, [12a]. ►
Great distress at breast, and said he was during (after several days), [7]. ►
Pains in the chest (second day), [14].
► Pain in the chest aggravated by
deep inspiration (third day), [12a].
► Burning pain below the right
breast, extending towards the pit of the stomach, at first confined to a
small spot as large as a nut; deep inspiration or sneezing caused a
sensation as though something were drawn away from its position that
afterwards returned to place with the pains. Without the above-mentioned
exciting causes, the pain was slight and a simple burning pain; towards
noon, the pain extended more towards the pit of the stomach and the left
side, while in the original painful spot a violent boring sensation was
felt; after dinner the pains increased, but disappeared after an hour,
to return again about 4 o’clock with redoubled severity, so that it
seemed as though the pains extended from the painful spot forward below
the breast through the body to the back beneath the right shoulder; the
painful part seemed paralyzed, and was intolerant of motion; after a
time this loss of power and pain disappeared, [14]. ► A
general tightness of the chest, with short and somewhat laborious
breathing; discovered that he had a disposition involuntarily too keep
his mouth open to breathe, [21]. ► Constriction of chest (after one hour), [31]. [220.]
► Constriction of chest (with colic
and diarrhœa), short-lasting, towards evening, [28]. ► Slight
constriction of the chest (after nine hours), [27]. ► Very
painful constriction of the chest, especially at its base; a few moments
after the eructations ceased, and lasting half an hour (after one hour),
[34]. ►
Oppression of the chest, [19]. ► Oppression of the chest obliging deep
respiration (after 100 drops), [11].
► Quite severe oppression of the
chest, as if it were tightly bound; this impeded respiration, and lasted
about twenty minutes (after two hours), [33].
► Front. ►
Pain under the middle of the sternum, [19],
[20]. ►
Constriction at the sternum, [35];
(after four hours), [32]. ► Painful constriction in the sternal
region (after two hours), [30]. ► Pressing pain at the left side of the
lower part of the sternum, [20]. [230.] ►
Slight tickling sensation in the region of the lower end of the sternum
on deep inspiration (fourth day), [32].
► Mammæ. ► Pain in the breast, [20]. ►
Burning feeling in the breast, passing upwards, [20]. ► A
tightness of the breast, with heat in the forehead, [20]. ►
Feeling of drawing in the left breast, from the nipple to the axilla, [20].
HEART AND PULSE.
►
Præcordium. ► Præcordial
anxiety, [56]. ► Præcordial anxiety for half an hour, [34]. ►
Slight deepseated pain in the region of the heart, [20]. ► Heart’s
Action. ► Heart’s action
somewhat tumultuous of half an hour, [34].
► Pulse. ►
Pulse more rapid than usual (third day), [12a].
[240.] ►
Pulse 58 (before taking), 74 (after one hour), 83 in the afternoon, 76,
in the evening, [12b]. ► Pulse 55 in the morning, 82 at noon, 90,
softer than usual, in the evening (second day), [12a]. ►
Slowness of the pulse after every dose, [11].
► Pulse slower (58), although still
full (after six hours), [29]. ► Pulse fell 3 to 5 beats within fifteen
minutes, and remained so for two hours, [11].
► Pulse 56 (before taking), 68 after
dinner (after six hours), 59 (after twelve hours), [12]. ► Pulse
63 (before taking), 53 (after half an hour), 55 (after one hour and a
half), 63 (after four hours), 61 (after five hours), [11]. ► Pulse
70 (before taking), 50 (after four hours), 60 (after six hours), (after
10 drops), [11]. ► Pulse falls from 76 to 60, small, and
sometimes intermittent (after two hours), [30].
► Pulse fell from 72 to 58;
irregular, [35]. [250.] ►
Pulse fell from 70 to 62 (after two hours), [33]. ► Pulse
falls from 68 to 56, small and irregular, [34].
► Pulse fell from 66 to 50; small and
irregular, [36]. ► *Pulse of the usual frequency, but smaller and weaker, [17]. ► Pulse
in the morning 56; after an hour it was the same, but somewhat small
(after a dose); in the evening 76, [12a].
BACK.
►
Weakness in the back (second day), [14].
► A burning pain in the back, as if
in the posterior wall of the stomach (third day), [16]. ► Dorsal.
► Pain about the third, fourth, and
fifth dorsal vertebræ, [17]. ► Rheumatic pains between the scapulæ, [20]. ►
Slight drawing pain between the scapulæ; previously slight muscular
twitches over the ribs of the left side, near the spine, [20]. ► Lumbar.
[260.] ►
Pain in the loins, [17]. ► Pains in the small of the back (second
day), [14]. ►
Violent pain in the small of the back, [14].
► Sticking pain in the region of the
right kidney, [20].
EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL.
► Weakness in the limbs, [14].
SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Paralytic feeling in the left arm, [20]. ►
Pain, only when touched, in the muscles of the right arm, in a space of
the width of the hand; the pain in the shoulder gone, [20]. ► Fine
crawling stitches on the inside of the right deltoid muscle, [20]. ►
(Slight rheumatic feeling in the right shoulder-joint), [20]. ► Pain
in the right elbow-joint, [20]. [270.] ►
Severe rheumatic pain in the right elbow-joint, [18]. ► A dull
pressing in the flesh, just above left elbow, and the hand feels
paralyzed (with outward pressing in both temples), [20].
INFERIOR EXTREMITIES.
► Walking is difficult, [36]. ► Pain
in the left leg, whilst sitting, [20].
► Pressing pain on the exterior,
middle part of the thigh, and at the same time constrictive feeling in
the head, [20]. ► A feeling about the knees of pain and
stiffness, as from fatigue, [20]. ► Cramp in the calves, in the morning, on
waking, [14]. ► Cramplike feeling in the left
gastrocnemius, [20]. ► Violent tearing pain apparently in the
fibula, extending from below up to the knee-joint, on both sides, [15]. ►
Cramplike feeling in the hollow of the left foot, [20].
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
►
Objective. [280.] ► It acts very much like tobacco, but its
action is more speedy and diffusive, [9].
► Its sensible effects are very like
those of tobacco, but its medicinal action is more speedy, diffusible,
and of shorter duration, [5]. ► He trembled very much, [3]. ►
Trembling agitation of whole body, [1];
with vertigo and pain in head, [18].
► The whole system was violently
convulsed, [8]. ► Became convulsed (with loss of reason),
so that several men were required to hold him, and so continued till
death (after several days), [7]. ► Antispasmodic, [9]. ► *Muscular
weariness (after one hour), [31].
► Unusual weakness all day, [15]. ►
General debility, in evening, [32].
[290.] ►
Great debility, [8]. ► Prostration of strength, [17]. ► *Great
prostration (third day), [7].
► When given in large doses it
produces lasting prostration of strength, [9].
► Internal uneasiness, soon (fourth
day), [13]. ► Subjective. ►
All sensations soon subsided, [2].
► Feeling of weakness (third day), [12a]. ►
General malaise (caused by colic and diarrhœa), short-lasting, towards
evening, [28]. ► General malaise and weariness, [36]. ►
Great distress (second day), [7]. [300.] ►
She was in the greatest possible distress, [8]. ► He
believed it would kill him, for he never felt so in his life; when he
had gone about six rods, [3]. ► Prickling sensation through the whole
body, extending even to the fingers and toes, [16]. ► A kind
of prickly sensation through whole system, even to extremities of
fingers and toes; (after third dose), [2].
SLEEP AND DREAMS.
►
Sleepiness. ► Yawning
(after half an hour, ninth day), [13].
► Frequent yawning, soon (fourth
day), [13]. ►
Frequent yawning and stretching (ninth day), [13]. ►
Sleepiness (after two hours), [35].
► Sleepiness (after two hours)
continues after the other symptoms have ceased, [30]. ►
Drowsiness (with headache), for half an hour, [4]. [310.] ► Decided drowsiness; followed by sleep for
four hours (after three hours), [26].
► Deep sleep, for about an hour
(after five hours), [29]. ► Heavy sleep, interrupted by the slightest
noise (after one hour), [36]. ► Sleeplessness. ►
Sleep at night unrefreshing and disturbed by hallucinations, [36]. ►
Night restless, sleep full of dreams (first night), [14]. ► Dreams.
► Sleep disturbed at night by
numerous dreams and frequent wakings, [19].
► Anxious dreams at night, [14].
FEVER.
►
Chilliness. ► *Chilliness
over the whole body, soon after a dose (second day), [14]. ►
Shivering in the body on account of aversion to the drug; immediately
(after 150 drops, eleventh day), [13].
► A chilly feeling in the left cheek,
extending to the ear, [20]. [320.] ►
Chills down the back, with heat in the stomach, [17]. ► Heat.
► Heat in the evening, with dull
headache posteriorly (third day), [12a].
► Heat and inclination to sweat,
especially in the face, towards evening (second day), [12a]. ► Heat
in the face, in the evening (first day), [12a].
► Heat in the forehead, with
tightness of the breast, [20]. ► Sweat. ►
Inclination to perspire (third day), [12a].
► Sweat (with colic and diarrhœa),
short-lasting, towards evening, [28].
► Great perspiration (first night), [7]. ►
Most profuse perspiration, being wet all over as he could be, [3]. ►
Cold sweat upon the surface, [8].
CONDITIONS.
►
Aggravation. ► (Evening), After sleep, raving, etc. ► (Attending
strictly to anything), Pressure in occiput. ► (Ascending steps),
Headache. ► (Eating),
Pain in abdomen. ► (After a meal), Dryness, etc., in throat. ► (Motion),
Confusion of head. ► Amelioration.
► (Towards
evening), All symptoms, [16].
► (Uncovering
head), Pressure in occiput.® 2000
Article