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constriction of the chest ; an hour after this, he complained of a 

 sense of suffocation and feeling of tightness in the throat ; there 

 was great pallor of the countenance, with anxiety. He was 

 bled, and had Assafcetida and Belladonna given him, which 

 seemed to aggravate rather than relieve ; for in five hours a 

 fresh attack came on, with very severe symptoms of suffocation . 

 Rhatany and Uva-ursi relieved him, and he was able to leave 

 the house in two days. 



Mr. Vardy, of Stamford Street, has kindly communicated to 

 the author two instances of the peculiar effects of Ipecacuanha 

 in minute quantities : one, that of a late general practitioner in 

 the Borough, who was unable even to allow any preparation of 

 Ipecacuanha to be made up in his shop, from the distressing 

 asthmatic symptoms it produced; the other, that of a lady, 

 whose susceptibility to this drug was so great that she could 

 detect, by the alteration in her breathing, the smallest quantity 

 of Ipecacuanha in a room. 



Pereira (op. cit.) says, " the most remarkable of the effects 



of Ipecacuanha seem to be produced by the agency of the eighth 

 pair of nerves." 



" How singular it is," says Dr. If. Hall, " that Ipecacuanha 

 taken into the bronchia should excite asthma, and taken into 

 the stomach, should induce another affection of the respiratory 



Sundelin {Hand. d. Sp. Heilmittell , ii. 5) 

 ascribes the red condition of the bronchial membrane and the 

 congestion of the lungs of animals killed by emetine not to the 

 specific stimulus exerted by this substance over the pulmonary 

 mucous membrane, but to an exhausting stimulus over the 

 eighth pair of nerves, by which a condition similar to suffo- 

 cative catarrh is brought on ; for he has observed the same 

 appearances in the bodies of persons who have died of this 

 disease, where there was certainly no inflammatory condition of 

 the bronchial membrane, but a paralytic condition of its small 

 blood-vessels (Id.) 



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



system — vomiting." 



