PYRUS.
Pyrus Americana, L.
Natural order
, Rosaceæ.
Common name
, Mountain ash.
Authority.
H. P. Gatchell, M.D.,
Northwestern Annalist (Amer. Hom. Obs., vol. xv, 1878, p. 520), the
tincture of the bark was used, several drops in a cup of water, and
repeated doses of a teaspoonful of the water were taken. 1, effects on myself; 2, effects on a married lady; 3, effects on a lad; 4,
effects on another lad.►
Some irritation of the eyes; no other
symptoms, [1]. ► Feels like crying; feels as if the knees
are immensely swollen, as if the toes the same; knees and toes ache;
feels constricted around the waist, obliged to loosen the clothes at
once; headache begins over the eyes; left side of head aches terribly,
like a toothache; aches everywhere, in every joint; left great toe feels
as if torn from its socket; sense of prolapsus of womb, bearing down and
pressing out as if swollen, and burning all over; pains in the head
knifelike; all the pain intense, acute; thinks the conditions that of
inflammatory rheumatism; as if the lungs were congested, especially at
the base; can hardly breathe, as if cold water in stomach; thinks mucus
accumulated in the cold stomach; craves hot teas; headache extends to
the right side; head feels as if it would burst; great weight on top of
head; toes burn; aching at heart; twinging pains in arms, legs, and
toes; as if rectum were shrunken, dried up; bearing-down pains, and
pressing out like labor-pains; feels gloomy and discouraged, but can’t
cry; very cold, shivers internally; thinks she must look blue; cold
creeping all over; pain in knees subsides, and is succeeded by pain as
in the tendons and along the calves. “Oh, such a drawing pain,
cutting and drawing also, like that in the head.” Feels resolute,
as if full of a gloomy determination; thinks meat bad for her, would not
digest; needs soft, mild food; irritation of bladder and urethra; feels
as if prolapsus of bladder; dreads to move, especially on account of the
joints; sensitive to cold; stomach still feels as if full of cold water;
sick feeling under right scapula; thinks bile deficient; shooting pains
in forehead; feeling as if coldness in stomach extends up under sternum;
same feeling in the gullet; excessive aching of bones of toes, seems
unendurable; thinks the stomach very weak, as if it would digest
nothing; thinks it is dry and wrinkled; hypochondriac not nervous; feels
lazy, as if she would like to lie in bed and be waited on; selfish;
headache penetrating in temples; thinks she is clairvoyant; can read
character and understand motions; can see into herself; thinks the blood
dark blue; feels pains drawing, rending along posterior aspect of thighs
and down to toes; left side most affected; feels as if the left leg were
drawn up and would never straighten again; pains seems to move in
meandering lines; seems to be able to go out of herself for a short
distance to walk around and return into the body; thinks she is looking
down upon her own body; seems to her that the fundus of the stomach is
depressed in the abdomen, as if on fire at the pyloric end of stomach;
thinks there is a red spot there looking like raw beef, as if the
stomach were burnt up with raw whiskey; exclaims in a plaintive tone,
“Don’t get out of patience with me” (of which I had given no
indications); cries, feels babyish apprehension; fears something
terrible is about to occur; very chilly; can’t talk loud; voice gone;
she feels weak, as if about to die; moans and groans; calls for help;
oppression about the heart, as if it had stopped beating, as if going
into convulsions; feels as in a spasm of the heart, tetanic, as if the
blood were too thick to circulate; thinks she would have died but for
the Camphor I gave her; felt as she did when near dying of hæmorrhage;
brain is active, intellect clear, thoughts vivid, the whole being
intensified; next morning sense of constriction at base of lungs; some
cough; clammy feeling of skin; very sensitive to air, [2]. ► Causes
a glow all over; hands sweat; some pain in finger-joints; throat feels
obstructed; some hoarseness; dry cough, as if the pharynx were stuffed
with cotton; it is an effort to talk; tongue feels partially paralyzed,
cannot direct it; throws the paper down, has lost inclination to read;
feels indolent, indifferent; feels chills when air strikes; spasmodic
breathing, like a nervous woman, silly, mystical; pain in finger-joints
continues; feels like crying; sad, weeping mood; tears will come; eyes
smart; heart aches, as if from some great sorrow; eyes feel as if they
had been crying a long time, as if swollen, burning; very sensitive to
cold; easily chilled; chills down the back and both legs; ends with a
very tranquil feeling, particularly of consciousness; next morning,
tight feeling of patella; joints all feel constricted and sore, [3]. ►
Very chilly, can’t endure cold at all; other symptoms not recorded. In
all three, pains and chilliness were much increased by moving about, [4].® 2000
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