4 FLORA HOMCEOPATHIOA. 



Fr — took nine drops in an ounce of water ; bitter taste, and 

 tearing pain in the sternum and shoulders in the evening ; four- 

 teen drops produced confusion and throbbings ; thirty to eighty- 

 drops had no further effect. 



G — took ten drops ; in an hour, sense of oppression and 

 weariness, of half an hour's duration ; eighteen drops produced 



symptoms analogous to drunkenness. 



In others, the symptoms produced from different doses, vary- 

 ing from nine to sixty drops, were : pain in the head on right 

 side, giddiness, confusion, diarrhoea, great pain in the chest, 

 violent pain in the hypochondria, nausea, vomiting, cramps, 

 convulsions, weariness and inclination to sleep, loss of appetite, 

 secretion of saliva. 



Given in powder, there was bitter taste, increased secretion 

 of saliva, pain in the region of the spleen and stomach ; violent 

 pain in the head ; borborygmi in the bowels ; loss of appetite ; 

 frightful dreams ; diarrhoea, with pain and cutting in the lower 

 bowels ; pain in the eyes, with dull pressure on the brain ; 

 oppression at the chest ; cutting pain in the region of the 



umbilicus; bloody stools; burning and lachrymation of the 

 eyes, etc. 



Medical Uses (Homoeopathic). — Hahnemann's observa- 

 tions (Mat. Med, Pur. J ; " The rapid succession of the alter- 

 nate effects of Ignatia adapts it chiefly to numerous acute dis- 

 orders, and it may justly be considered a polychrest remedy. 



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are, however, certain constitutions and conditions of disease 

 m which it fails to excite any evacuation, and I have then seen 

 it prolonged to nine days. It agrees with but few chronic 

 cases, and then can only be given as an intermediate remedy, 

 after some other more appropriate and of longer action. When 

 Ignatia is given, it sometimes happens (which is seldom the 

 case with other drugs) that the first dose fails to answer its 

 end, because, for some unknown reason, it acts primarily by 

 symptoms opposite to the disease, whence, after the reaction, 



