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ment, has caused unpleasant symptoms* In over-doses it causes 

 palpitation, anxiety and fainting, swelling of the abdomen, and 



diminution of vital temperature. 



Medical Uses (Homoeopathic). — Hahnemann {Mat. Med. 

 Purd) has the following remarks on this drug. "I was 

 the first to introduce into medicine several vegetable and 

 mineral substances, and I may flatter myself that in this respect 

 I have really enriched the Materia Medica amongst these sub- 

 stances. The Nerium Oleander may be so placed. It is a 

 new remedy, and is endowed with powerful medicinal virtues, 

 which we do not meet with in any other medicament. 



€g In some kinds of mental alienations, absence of mind for 

 example, in certain kinds of paralysis without pain, exanthe- 

 matous aiFections of the hairy scalp, and in several affections 

 of the back part of the head, the Oleander, if not the precise 

 remedy to produce a complete cure, is at least an indispensable 

 assistant. The homoeopathic physician can also employ it with 

 advantage in other disorders bearing analogy to the symptoms 

 it can itself produce in persons in health. 



Clinical Observations. — Noack and Trinks (op. cit.): 

 Painless paralysis. Numbness, and loss of sensation over the 

 whole body. Itching of the skin. Sleeplessness. Absence of 

 mind. Slowness of comprehension, and of retaining objects in 

 the mind. Loss of memory. Inability to think. Giddiness. 

 Heaviness of the head. Eruption on the hairy scalp. Tinea 

 capitis sicca et favosa. Pimply eruption on the face. Lienteria. 

 Diarrhoea of undigested food. Paralysis of the lower extre- 



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mities. 



Antidotes.— Camphor ? Nux Vomica ? Opium ? 



