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FLORA HOMCEOPATHICA. 



has a peculiar tendency to attack those parts which were pre- 

 viously affected. 



One of the most singular, at the same time one of the most 

 universal, concomitants of the eruption, when it exists in a 

 violent degree, is a sympathetic fever of the arterial system, 

 and this occurs in a more or less degree in every case. The 

 general symptoms, when this fever comes on, are quick 

 frequent, full, and tense pulse ; loss of appetite, and sickness at 

 stomach; white tongue; burning of the palms of the hands and 

 soles of the feet ; headache, throbbing of the temporal arteries, 

 and delirium. The eruption is not unfrequently succeeded 

 by a great number of small phlegmons or boils, swelling of 

 the tongue and ulceration of the mouth, swelling of the lym- 

 phatic glands." 



A man labouring under fever was bled by a person who had 

 handled the Rhus vernix; in forty-eight hours a red eruption 

 and several serous vesicles appeared above the place where the 

 vein had been opened ; the eruption extended over both arms 

 and the scrotum. 



Two ounces of infusion of the leaves of R. radicans excited 

 fever, increased the frequency and hardness of the pulse, and 

 produced pain in the bowels and copious micturition j which 

 effect seemed to be the result in many cases. 



It is a general opinion in the western parts of Pennsylvania 

 that R. radicans is an effectual remedy for the cure of phthisis 

 pulmonalis. 



" In the summer of '97, T. L., a boy of about twelve years of 

 age, and possessing a very high degree of what is termed the 

 melancholic temperament, was exposed to the action of Rhus 

 radicans. He was attacked with the following symptoms : red- 

 ness and swelling of the hands and face, followed by fever, 

 unusual drowsiness, thirst, and great constipation; the eruption 

 gradually extended over the whole body, much resembling the 

 progress of inoculated small-pox ; a swelling and very trouble- 

 some itchiness accompanied the eruption through the whole of 



