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the catamenia. Acute and chronic diseases of the spine. Acute 

 and chronic irritation of the spine. Myelitis. Neuralgia of 

 the spine. Lumbago. Ischias antica et postica. Cramps in 

 the legs. Hysteria. Hypochondriasis. Complete loss of 

 appetite. Loss of smell and taste. A variety of gastric diffi- 

 culties after every meal. Excessive sensitiveness of the 

 respiratory organs, the least cold causing a catarrh. Catarrhal 

 affection of persons affected with piles, attended with paroxysms 

 of cough, induced by violent titillation in the throat. Pa- 

 roxysms of dry cough, with vomiting immediately after lying 

 down in the evening, attended with soreness at the pit of 

 the stomach. Influenza. Pleurodynia. Neuralgia pectoris. 

 Asthma, with nightly suffocative fits. Spasm of the heart. 

 Angina pectoris, when it is a purely nervous, inflammatory 

 affection. Stitching and bruised pain in the small of the back. 

 Periodical attacks of pain in the small of the back, increased by 

 motion and attended with constipation. Paralysis of the left 

 arm. Paralysis of the hands of drunkards. Spasms of the 

 lower limbs after taking cold. Intermittent paroxysms of 

 gonagra, with formation of arthritic nodosities, the attacks being 

 attended with vomiting and constipation. Cramp-like con- 

 tractions of the soles of the feet and toes. Intensely painful, 



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by walking, etc., etc. 



Antidotes. — To large doses : according to some, Wine, 

 Coffee, Camphor, and Opium ; and Donne states that Bromine 

 and Iodine are antidotes to Strychnia. Emmert says that 

 Vinegar and Coffee increased the poisonous effects of Nux 



Vomica bark. 



To small homoeopathic doses : Alcohol. Belladonna. Cha- 



momilla. Cocculus. Coffea. Opium. Pulsatilla. Stramonium. 



