10G FLORA HOMCEOPATHICA. 



tilled water was used, with sometimes colicky pains and loose- 

 ness. In Storck's cases, of which he gives thirty, the following 

 symptoms usually showed themselves. Violent pain in the head ; 

 wandering and shooting pains in the arm affected, with violent 

 itching; tormina in the bowels. Quibusdam fremitus fluxum 

 menstruum praternaturalite suppressum, iterum excitat et 

 redigit in ordinem. Urina inde copiose fluxit. Violent pains in 

 the eyes, with lachrymation ; salivation, lasting some days ; burn- 

 ing, wandering, shooting pains in the right foot as far as the 

 * groin ; pains in the os sacrum, preventing sleep ; and it seems 

 that, in all the cases of amaurosis and cataract cured, violent 

 pains in the eyes were produced on first taking the medicine. 

 His preparations of this plant were the following : fy Extracta 

 Pulsatilla) nigricantis, gr. ij ; Sacchari alb., 3i: m. f. pulv. tenuis- 

 simus diu terendo in mortario marmoreo. Of this he gave ten 

 grains night and morning, until symptoms appeared. 



Christison {Treatise on Poisons, 4th edit., p. 598) says: " The 

 genus Anemone produces virulent effects on the animal economy. 

 The most pungent species I have examined are the A. Pulsa- 

 tilla, A. hortensis, and A. coronaria; the A. nemorosa and A. 

 patens are less active ; and A. hepatica, as well as A. alpestris, 

 are bland. The powder of the A. Pulsatilla causes itching of 

 the eyes, colic, and vomiting, if, in pulverizing it, the operator 

 do not avoid the fine dust which is driven up. And Bulliard 

 (Hist, de PL Ven. de France, p. 178) relates the case of a man 

 who, in consequence of applying the bruised root to the calf of 

 his leg for rheumatism, was attacked with inflammation and 

 gangrene of the whole leg. The same author mentions an 

 instance where violent convulsions were produced by an infusion 

 of the A. nemorosa, and the person was for some time thought 

 to be in great danger. 



" The activity of the Anemones is owing to a volatile oil, which, 

 when left for some time in the water with which it passes over 

 in distillation, is converted into a neutral crystalline body, 

 called Anemonine, and a peculiar acid, called Anemonic acid " 



