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afternoon, mostly on the left side ; violent fine stitches in the 

 middle of the chest during inspiration ; violent stitching pains 

 in the whole of the right chest; pressure and tightness across 

 the lower part of the chest, increased by moving, stooping, or 

 taking an inspiration; pressing pain in the outer part of the 

 chest. Pain in back early in the morning on awaking; 

 jerking pain in the right upper fore-arm; dull itching in 

 the hands (vide effect of leaves, etc., recorded above) ; pulsa- 

 tive stitches in left heel when standing, in the afternoon. 

 Falls asleep late in the evening, and wakes several times 

 at night, not from any pain, but because he is not sleepy; 

 disturbed sleep at night. Herpes over the whole body, not 

 observed in the proving, but existing and caused by the medi- 

 cine. The whole body feels bruised. Great weakness in the 

 lower limbs, in the forenoon, when walking. 



Characteristic Peculiarities.— The pains, particularly in the 

 trunk and limbs, are excited or aggravated by contact motion, 

 stretching, changing the position of the body. Many pains 

 arise from a change of the external temperature, from cold to 

 warm, or vice versa, or morning, or evening, or after dinner. 



Ranunculus sceleratus. — Krapf (op. cit.) states, that a small 

 portion of a leaf or flower of R. sceleratus, or two drops of the 

 juice, excited acute pain in the stomach, and a sense of inflam- 

 mation of the throat ; when he chewed the thickest and most 

 succulent leaves, the salivary glands were strongly stimulated ; 

 his tongue was excoriated and cracked ; his teeth smarted, and 



(Orf. 



754) 



A man, at Bevay, in the north of France, after swallowing by 

 mistake a glassful of the juice, which had been kept for some 

 time as a remedy for vermin on the head, was seized in four 

 hours with violent vomiting and colic, and expired in two days 

 (Jour, de Chim. Med., 1836, p. 273). 



The following are the chief symptoms which manifested 





