118 FLORA HOMCEOPATHICA. 



wards, after thrusting his nose several times in the censer, he 

 was attacked with epilepsy for the first time in his life; it 

 returned in two weeks, passed into cachexia, nodous gout, 

 headache, and ended with death {Idem). 



In the proving of the Ranunculus bulbosus, the following are 

 the chief symptoms which appeared. Ill humour ; disposed to 

 quarrel ; censorious ; loss of power of thinking ; vertigo ; dizzi- 

 ness in the head, making it difficult to think ; sensation as if 

 the head was too large and distended. Headache, aggravated 

 by lying, relieved by walking and standing ; acute stitches in 

 the left temple; pressing pain in the forehead, from within 

 outward. Violent pressing pain in the eyeballs, at times in 

 one, at times in the other. Obstruction and soreness of the 

 nose. Scraping, burning sensation in the region of the right 

 portion of the velum palati ; white, coated tongue. 



Gastric Symptoms. — Frequent eructations; nausea in the after- 

 noon, with headache ; pain in both hypochondria ; pain in the 

 morning as if bruised, or as if one had been lying in a wrong 

 position ; painful soreness under the short ribs of the left side, 

 especially when moving the trunk ; pressure deep in the region 

 of the liver after dinner ; a pinching pain below the umbilicus ; 

 and violent stitches from the left lumbar region through the 

 abdomen, especially below the umbilicus, and towards the left 

 groin. The whole day he feels a subdued pinching colic, some- 

 times alternating with pains in the chest; when walking he 



feels constantly a subdued colic in the whole tract of the intes- 

 tines; they are painful when pressing upon the integuments 

 of the abdomen. Oppression of the chest, with impossibility 

 to prevent crying in the evening ; oppressive sensation in the 

 chest as after deep chagrin; has to take a deep breath frequently ; 

 pain in the chest, and restless nights, continuing for weeks; 

 violent pain in the chest the whole forenoon ; pain in the chest 

 on awaking ; a feeling of a sort of rheumatic pain, and as from 

 subcutaneous ulceration; constant pain in the chest in the 



