KALMIA.
Kalmia latifolia, Linn.
Natural order
, Ericaceæ.
Common names
, Mountain Laurel, Calico
Bush.
Preparation
, Tincture of the mature
leaves.
Authorities.
(Nos. 1 to 5,
experiments of “W.” with infusion of leaves, Boston Med. and
Surg. Jour., 1834, vol. x, p. 213 et seq.)
1, effect of infusion of 2 ounces of
leaves to 1 part water, all taken in small doses during one afternoon; 2, effect of 1 ounce of strong infusion; 3, effect of two doses, of 2 ounces each, of
a maceration of 2 ounces of leaves in a pint of alcohol; proving
subsequently repeated; 4, effect of
20 grains, and subsequently of 18 grains, of powdered leaf; 5, effect of 10 grains of powder first day,
then 5-grain doses five times a day for three days; 5a,
Tully, general effects of tincture and infusion communicated to
“W.” (Nos. 6 to 23, from Hering’s
Compilations, Trans. Am. Inst. of Hom., vol. i, compared and
revised by the Amer. Arzn. Pruf., with additions from the latter.) 6 to 11,
Behlert, provings with the 30th dil.; 12,
Bute; 13, Clark, effects of 2d dil.
in a young lady; 14, Hæseler, 30th
dil.; 15, Kummer, by Dr. Freitag,
30th; 15a,
same, 3d dil.; 15b, same, 1st dil.; 16, W. Link; 17,
Puihn; 18, Reichelm, effects of 3d
dil.; 19, Thomas, 30 drops of
infusion, six times a day; 20,
Williamson, 2d dil.; 21, Hering; 22, case of poisoning from eating a pheasant,
in the craw of which laurel leaves were found, from Shoemaker; 23, same, second case. (Nos. 24 to 28, from provings by L. Faust, N. Y. Hom. Med. Coll.,
1876-7.); 24, L. Faust, aged 20, two
provings with tincture; doses repeated, from 4 drops first day to 1 1/2
drachm the thirteenth day; 25, same,
proving with tincture repeated, doses of 30 to 90 drops; 26, R. E. Mead, effects of tincture, 30 to 75
drops; 27, E. C. Stracher, tincture,
15 to 75 drops; 28, E. P. Macomber,
proving with 3d. dil., 10 drops twice first day.
MIND.
►
Emotional. ► A feeling of
anxiety; feel as though something dreadful was going to happen to me
(seventh day), [24]. ► Irritable disposition of the mind towards
evening, which continues next morning, [18].
► Irritable, feel like scolding
everybody (after first doses, fifth day); same peevish disposition as
yesterday (sixth day), [24]. ► Intellectual. ►
Do not want to study (thirteenth day), [24].
► Did not feel like going to my books
this morning (tenth day), [24]. ► Cannot study; restless, want to leave the
office; don’t know where to go (half an hour after first dose, eleventh
day), [24]. ►
Feel as though I would not like to be spoken to; do not feel like going
to the office; take up a book at home, but cannot collect my thoughts
(after second dose, eleventh day), [24].
HEAD.
►
Confusion and Vertigo. ►
Confusion of the head in the evening, [18].
► Confusion and pain in the head,
with backache, [1a]. [10.] ►
Vertigo, [5a]; (after second dose,
eleventh day), [24]. ► Vertigo, worse toward noon (fourth day), [24]. ►
Vertigo, while stooping and looking downwards (from 8 till 9 A.M.; and
from 3 till 6 P.M.), [6]. ► Vertigo and headache, [17]. ►
Vertigo, with some nausea, attended with pains in the head and limbs, [15]. ►
*Vertigo, with pains in the limbs, [15]. ►
Vertigo so excessive that antidotes were necessary (from 30 drops of the
infusion six times a day), [19]. ► Dizziness continuing two hours (after two
and a half hours), [1]. ► Slight dizziness and fugitive glow in
different parts of the surface, with increase of sweating (after one and
a half hour), [2]. ► Rather dizzy (after two and a half
hours), [4]. [20.] ►
Considerably dizzy (after two hours), [1].
► Got up after studying, but was so
dizzy that I could hardly walk (seventh day), [24]. ► General
Head. ► Dulness in the
head (after second dose, eleventh day), [24].
► Dulness in the head (first day), [15b]; (thirteenth day), [24]; in evening, [15a].
► Dulness in the head until evening,
which continues slightly early the next morning, [15a]. ►
Dulness and aching in the head, preceded by nausea, in the evening, [15]. ►
Dulness of the head and difficult hearing, with pains in the limbs, [15]. ►
A dull, drowsy feeling in the head, after this, a raging headache in the
temporal and occipital region (second day), [24]. ►
Heaviness in the head for a short time on the right side, but towards
evening the same sensation very severe on the left side, [15b]. ► Pain
in the head when awaking in the morning, and in the evening, [13]. [30.]
► Pain in the head, neck, and back
(thirteenth day), [24]. ► Pains in the head and limbs, with
vertigo, [15]. ► Headache, with vertigo, [15], [17].
► Headache, with flushed face (fifth
day), [25]. ►
Headache, with nausea, [6]. ► Headache internally, with the sensation,
when turning, of something loose in the head diagonally across the top
of it, [7]. ►
Severe headache at noon of the second day; it is most severe in the
right side, [15b]. ► Intermittent headache (tenth day), [24]. ►
A dull headache, which cannot be located; it has continued all the
afternoon and evening; at first it seems to be in one place, then in
another, but most prominently in the back part of the head, especially
in those parts back of the forehead (third day), [25]. ► A
full, dull feeling in the head (first day); increased (second and third
days), [24]. [40.] ►
Awoke with full, dull feeling in the head; for an hour after getting up
did not feel like doing anything (sixth day), [24]. ►
Surging of blood to the head, and as it were against the left cheek,
left cheek, left cheek uncomfortably hot (first day), [26]. ►
Tearing in the head, [8]. ► Tearing in the head and neck, [6]. ►
Forehead. ► Pain in the
forehead every day, which extends to the roots of one of the upper molar
teeth of the right side, [6]. ► Pain in the forehead every morning on
awaking, [8]. ► Pain in the forehead on rising, which
increases afterwards, [11]. ► Pain in the forehead and over the eyes in
the evening; it seems to move backwards and down the neck outwardly on
both sides, then disappears, and is followed by pain in the left
shoulder, [6]. ► Slight pain in the forehead, [1]. ►
Slight pain above the forehead, [3].
[50.] ►
Pain across the forehead over the eyes, [8].
► Slight aching in the forehead,
which sometimes shoots downwards to the eye-teeth, and at one time is
easier in the forehead, at another in the teeth, [6]. ►
Headache in all parts of the head behind the forehead, (third day), [26]. ►
Severe frontal headache (second day), [26].
► Severe frontal headache, lasting
two days; could not concentrate my mind on my book (after three days), [27]. ►
Dull, heavy headache, confined to the forehead and temple, especially
marked in the forehead, aggravated by mental effort (first day), [28]. ►
Pressing in the forehead late in the evening, [18]. ►
Pressing pain in the forehead, especially in the right side (first day),
[18]. ►
Pressure in the upper part of the glabella (fourteenth day), [18]. ►
Tearing in the forehead and in the head, on rising from bed, succeeded
by tearing in the bones of the hips and lower extremities down to the
feet, [6]. [60.] ►
Tearing pain across the forehead, [9].
► Tearing in the left side of the
forehead, which extends into the temple, [10].
► Pulsating pain in the forehead, [7]. ►
Temples. ► Violent pain in
the temples and forehead (second day), [13].
► Headache in the temporal region
(fifth day); (six hours and a half after second dose, fourth day), [24]. ►
Severe pressing in the temples and on both sides of the neck, [15]. ►
Violent pressure in the right temple (third day), [15b]. ► Acute
pain in the left temple, with is very much increased by going upstairs, [20]. ►
Pain shooting from the temples to the occiput (twelfth day), [24]. ►
Pain at the temples, shooting into the eyes (seventh day), [24]. [70.]
► Pain shooting from the vertex into
the temples; the head feels as if it would burst (sixth day), [24]. ►
Tearing in the right temple, passing downwards, [8]. ► Vertex.
► Pain in the top of the head, as if
bound closely with a cord, [13]. ► Violent pain in the crown of the head,
which extends down in the direction of the cervical vertebræ (after
half an hour), [22]. ► Headache on vertex (fifth day), [24]. ►
Parietals. ► Pain only on
right side of head (ninth day, [24].
► Violent pressure at times on a
small spot on the right side of the head above the forehead in the
evening in bed (second day), [18].
► Pain and throbbing in the whole
left side of the head, with stitches in the left ear and behind the
right, [15]. ► Occiput. ►
Pain in the back of the head and in the neck (tenth and eleventh days), [24]. ►
Dull pain around the back part of the head, with frequent sharp, darting
pain in the right side of the head, [13].
[80.] ►
Headache in the occiput, with pain in the neck (second day), [25]. ►
Dull occipital headache (second day), [25].
► Dull headache in the occiput and
temples (third day), [25]. ► Shooting from the nape of the neck up
into the head, [6]. ► A shock towards the occiput from the back
of the neck, with heat, [6].
EYE.
►
Inflammation of the left eye in the morning, with a burning-jerking
pain, till near noon, when the pain becomes more tolerable, and scarcely
perceptible (sixth day), [18]. ► Eyes weak, [18].
► A pain in the right eye (ninth
day), [24]. ►
Pain in the right eye, even weeks afterwards, [15b]. ► Pain
and pressure in the eyes (third day), [25].
[90.] ►
*Pain in the eyes, which makes it painful to turn them, [3]. ►
Burning with pressing in the eyes, particularly in the left one (fifth
day), [18]. ►
Pressure in the eyes (fourteenth day), [24].
► Constant pressure in the eyes; can
hardly keep them open (seventh day), [24].
► Woke this morning with a painful
pressure over the eyes, and temporal headache, which was for the time
being relieved by cold water (ninth day), [24].
► Pressing in the eyes, in the
afternoon, [18]. ► Pressing in the eyes, attended by pains
in the arms and hands, in the legs down to the feet, and sometimes in
the right side of the abdomen, [15].
► Violent pressing in the right eye,
in the evening, [15b]. ► Pressing pain about the eyes (fifth day),
[18]. ►
Sticking in the eyes, [15]. [100.] ►
Stitches in the eyes, [15]. ► Stitches and violent pressing in the
right eye; the eyes feel dim and weak (third day), [15b]. ► Acute
stitches in the eyes, towards evening; in the right eye in the morning
(second day), [15b]. ► Itching in the eyes, [15b]. ►
Itching of the eyes and stinging, when rubbed, [13]. ►
Itching and burning in the left eye, in the afternoon (fifth day), [18]. ►
Brow and Orbit. ►►
*Sensation of stiffness in the muscles around the eyes, and of the
eyelids, [13]. ► Pain in the supraorbital region extending
to the occiput (third day), [27]. ► A sensation of pressing above the right
eye, about noon (third day), [18].
► Stitches under the left eye, [15]. ►
Lids. [110.] ► Soreness of the lids (fourteenth day), [24]. ►
Soreness of the edges of the eyelids (second day), [25]. ► Ball.
► A sensation in the eyeball as
though the walls of the orbit were pressing it out of its sockets
(second day), [24]. ► Shooting pain from the temples to the
eyeballs, at 10.30 A.M. (fifth day), [24].
► Vision. ► Imperfection of vision, [5a]. ► Vision
much affected, especially by darkness, coming before the eyes every
three or five minutes, and afterwards if in an erect position, [3]. ►
Dimness of sight, which was greater in the paroxysms of vomiting (after
two hours and a half), [1]. ► Sensation of a cloud before the eyes, at
intervals, [4]. ► Cloudiness before the eyes, so that he
could not read without spectacles (third day), [15]. ►
Becoming black before the eyes while looking downwards, with belching of
wind, and some nausea, about 8 or 9 A.M. [6].
[120.] ►
Almost complete blindness when in an erect position, [1]. ► Entire
loss of sight (after half an hour), [22].
► *Glimmering before the eyes,
exactly in the point of vision, so that it is almost impossible to
distinguish the words while reading; it seems as if small points were
continually moving before the eyes; this continues half an hour,
together with some nausea, about 3 P.M. (second day), [15].
EAR.
►
Pain behind the right ear, on the right side of the head, and in the
leg, [15]. ►
Pain in the right ear (fourth day), [25].
► Darting pain through the ears,
which lasted but a moment at a time (two hours after first dose, fourth
day), [24]. ►
Stitches in the ears, [15]. ► Stitches in the right ear and behind it, [15]. ►
Severe stitches in the ears, at 4 P.M., followed by pain in the arms, [15]. ►
Severe stitches in the right ear, in the night of the second day, [15b]. ►
Hearing. [130.] ► Buzzing in the ears (half an hour after
second dose, fourth day), [24]. ► Excessive ringing in the ears in the
afternoon (fourth day), [18]. ► Frightened by cracking in the head, [18].
NOSE.
►
Fluent coryza, with frequent sneezing, and perceptibly increased sense
of smell, [14]. ► The nose is sometimes obstructed,
particularly in the evening, [9]. ► One side of the nose has been occluded
for three days (eighth day), [24].
► Pain deep in the left side of the
nose (third day), [25]. ► Continued pressure on the bridge of the
nose, with frequent sneezing (second day), [15a], [18].
► Tickling in the nose, [6]. ►
Tickling in the nose, like that which precedes coryza, [9].
FACE.
►
Objective. [140.] ► Paleness of the face, [23]; (first day), [28].
► Face flushed (first day), [26]. ►
Flushed face with the headache (fifth day), [25]. ►
Subjective. ► Pressive
pain between the right eye and right side of nose, in the afternoon, [18]. ►
Sticking in the bones of the face, [8].
► The pain in the forehead is
sometimes followed by tearing in the bones of the right or left side of
the face, or on the top of the head, [8].
► *Neuralgia in the face
(fifth day), [24]. ► Stitches in the left upper jaw and
zygoma, [8]. ► Lips. ►
Lips swollen, dry, and stiff, in the morning (second day), [13]. ►
Chin. ► Pain under the
angle of the jaws (second day), [25].
[150.] ►
Darting-aching pain in the jaw (fifth day), [25]. ►
Shooting in the jaws and teeth (first day), [28]. ►
Tearing in the right lower jaw, [6].
► Stinging in the bones of the jaws, [6].
MOUTH.
►
Teeth. ► Pain in the upper
teeth, [15]. ►
Pain in the lower incisor teeth (fifth day), [25]. ► Pain
in the molars, at 10.30 A.M. (fifth day), [24].
► Pain in the roots of the right
upper back teeth, coming from the forehead, [8]. ► Short
pains in the teeth of the right side, in the evening (third day), [15b]. ►
Dull pain in the teeth, especially in the incisor and eye-teeth, [18]. [160.]
► Neuralgic pains in the upper molar
and bicuspid teeth of the left side, [27].
► Toothache (second day), [24]. ►
Toothache as if the nerve were laid bare (third day), [25]. ►
Drawing toothache (fourth and fifth days), [24]. ► Severe
pressing in the molar teeth, which continues for several hours, after 10
P.M., [18]. ►
Shooting in the right teeth, coming from the forehead, [6]. ► Tongue.
► Tongue white and dry, [13]. ►
Inflammation of the sublingual glands, [16].
► Cutting pain in right side of
tongue, relieved by biting on it (after second dose, eighth day), [24]. ►
Stitches in the tongue, [15]. ► Saliva. [170.]
► Tingling in the salivary glands,
immediately after eating, attended with a sensation of fermentation in
the œsophagus, and copious salivation, [14].
► Secretion of saliva more free than
from an ordinary emetic, [1]. ► Taste. ►
Acrid, bitter taste in the mouth. (Hering.)
THROAT.
►
Continual rising of a slippery mucus in the throat, with tickling in the
larynx, [14]. ► Feeling of a ball rising into the throat
(after three hours and a half), [4].
► A feeling as of a ball rising up
into the throat, but without the least nausea, [1]. ► Dryness
of the throat, which renders deglutition difficult, [13]. ►
Swollen feeling in the throat, [16].
► Pressing in the throat and nausea,
with stitches in the eyes, [15]. ► Sensation of rawness and scraping in the
throat, which is painful while swallowing, and is attended by throbbing
in both the tonsils, [6]. [180.] ►
Scraping in the throat, [6];
(first day), [25]. ► Scraping in the throat, which excites a
cough, day and night, [8]. ► Scraping sensation in throat, which
lasted all day, and caused a constant desire to cough (fourth and
eleventh days), [24]. ► Difficult deglutition, [15]. ► Pain
in the region of the submaxillary gland, shooting towards the parotid,
in the evening (eleventh day), [24].
STOMACH.
►
Thirst. ► Increased thirst
(fourteenth day), [24]. ► Thirsty, [13].
► Eructation. ► Eructations and nausea, [6]. ►
Belching of wind, [6]. ► Nausea and Vomiting. ► Nausea, [24],
etc; with the vertigo; with flickering before eyes; with pressure in
throat; with oppression of chest; with pains in elbows, [15]; with entire loss of sight (after half an
hour), [22]; with blackness before
eyes, [6]; with incarcerated
flatulence, [18]. [190.] ►
Nausea, in the evening, followed by some dulness and aching in the head
(second day), [15]. ► Nausea, soon after the stool, at 10.30
A.M. (fifth day), [24]. ► Excessive nausea, with dimness before the
eyes, [23]. ►
Momentary nausea, with incarceration of flatus, in the afternoon while
riding, followed by a stool, with cutting pain in the bowels (third day,
after repeated doses), [18]. ► Continual retching (after half an hour), [22]. ►
Vomiting, with ruminating action, [3].
► Vomiting began (after two hours and
a half), recurred every three or five minutes for an hour, without the
least nausea; considerable bile thrown up towards the close, with an
action like rumination, [1]. ► Stomach. ►
Digestion better, [5]. ► Rumbling and a sense of emptiness in the
stomach, as if I had had no breakfast (third day), [24]. ► Warmth
in the stomach, [5a]. [200.] ►
Sensation of warmth through the epigastric region, which gradually
increased (half an hour after last dose), [1].
► Glow through the epigastric region,
with a feeling as though some new action was going on there (after two
hours and three-quarters), [2]. ► Some glow in the stomach, [4]. ► Slight
glow felt in stomach, with vertigo and prickling in the skin (after half
an hour), [3]. ► Feeling of weakness, extending from the
abdomen up into the throat, [6]. ► Emptiness in the stomach (fourteenth
day), [24]. ►
Emptiness in the stomach, which caused headache and nausea (after first
dose, eighth day), [24]. ► Uneasiness at stomach, not nausea, nor
yet exactly the same feeling produced by the infusion, [3]. ►
Disagreeable feeling at stomach (after six hours), [4]. ► Pain in
the epigastrium (second day), [25].
[210.] ►
Distress in the stomach after dinner, as though it was overloaded
(fourteenth day), [24]. ► Feeling of contraction in the stomach
(after three hours and a half), [2].
► Sensation of gradual contraction of
the stomach, forcing its contents up into the œsophagus, [1]. ► Pain in
the stomach as if something were tearing the walls from their
connections (ninth day), [24]. ► Drawing-tearing pain in the epigastrium,
which was aggravated by the slightest movement, even on attempting to
talk (fifth day), [24]. ► *Pressure in the pit of the stomach, relieved by
sitting erect, aggravated by sitting bent over; with a feeling as though
something were pressed down beneath the pit of the stomach, [14]. [Several provers had similar
sensations, though only after the 30th; compare heart symptoms. -C. HG.]
► Gnawing in epigastric region; a
feeling of emptiness in same region, at 8 A.M. (seventh day), [24].
ABDOMEN.
►
Hypochondria. ► Pain in
the hypochondriac region (second day), [25].
► Stitches in the left hypochondriac
region, at 8 A.M. (seventh day), [24].
► Pain in the right side, in the
region of the liver, [13]. ► Umbilical and Sides. [220.] ►
Pain about the umbilicus (fifth day), [25].
► Pains in the right side of the
abdomen, [15]. ► Pain in the right side of the abdomen,
followed by a pain in the right gluteus muscle, [15]. ►
Pressure in the right side of the abdomen, [15]. ► Abdomen.
► Incarceration of flatulence, with
nausea, [18]. ► A sensation of weakness in the abdomen,
rising up into the throat; when violent it is sometimes relieved by
eructations, but returns immediately, [6].
► Occasional pain across the abdomen,
[13]. ►
Sensation in the bowels as if there would be a cathartic operation, but
none followed, [1]. ► Pain in the bowels, which drove me to
stool; stool passed with tenesmus, at 10.30 A.M. (fifth day), [24]. ►
After breakfast, cutting pain in the bowels, followed by a loose stool,
which relieved the pain (fifth day), [25].
[230.] ►
Cutting colic during the stool, [8].
RECTUM AND ANUS.
►
Stool normal, but followed by burning in the anus (ninth day), [24]. ►
Excessive burning in the anus after stool; stools hard (seventh day);
stool this morning very hard and large, so that it was voided with
difficulty; after stool, excessive burning in ano (eighth day), [24]. ►
Inclination to go to stool, in the forenoon (fourth day), [18].® 2000
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