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tery. But were they real cases of dysentery, or some of those 



painful diarrhoeas so often taken for it? In the latter case it 



may, as a palliative remedy, certainly hasten the cure, and even 



help to complete it; but in true, uncomplicated dysentery, I 



have never seen it of any use. The long-continued weakness 



it occasions was against its being used for a length of time, and 



it ameliorated neither the tenesmus nor the character of the 



excretions, though these became more rare- The symptoms of 



deranged biliary secretions were rather worse during its use 



than when patients were left without medicine. It causes a 



peculiar ill humour, headache, and mental confusion ; the lower 



extremities totter, and the pupils dilate." 



Medical Uses (Homoeopathic). — Hahnemann states that 

 this medicine seems particularly adapted to chronic diseases, 

 principally characterised by chilliness and the absence of 

 animal heat. 



Clinical Observations, — Noack and Trincks (op. cit.) state 



that this drug has a powerful action upon the brain, respiratory 

 organs, lymphatic vessels, secretion of urine, the skin, the serous 

 d fibrous tissues, muscles and bones, etc. Diseases with great 

 deficiency of animal heat, and predominant coldness. Acute 

 and chronic rheumatic and gouty affections of the joints and 

 ligaments, accompanied by stinging, aching, and tearing pains, 

 worse at night, and aggravated by movement and warmth, with 

 hot swelling and numbness of the limbs, with arthritic swellings 

 and nodosities (Trinks). Gout, Arthritis nodosa. Acute and 

 chronic rheumatism of the joints. Nightly rheumatic pains 

 in the knees. (Edema of the feet. Itching of the whole body. 

 Dry itching. Herpes in the face and bend of the knees. Spots 

 on the forehead and face, as seen in drunkards. Boils on 

 the forehead. Tic douloureux. Diabetes (Hartmann). Hooping- 

 cough in the second stage. Haemoptysis (?). Phthisis pituitosa 

 (Rait). Palpitation of the heart, connected with rheumatic 

 affections. Hot inflammatory swelling of the thighs, with 

 stinging, tensive pains, etc. etc. 



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