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began to itch, and was red and swelled. The scrotum and 

 prepuce the same ; there were flushes of heat through the body; 

 the pulse was very quick; and vesicles arose on the wrists, 

 hands, feet, legs, and scrotum. In eight days the whole affec- 

 tion had disappeared. 



Dr. D. S. Kemball experienced the following symptoms on 

 gathering and preparing some of the R. toxicodendron : — Itch- 

 ing, burning (especially in the morning), and vesicular erup- 

 tion on the hands and wrists, and about the eyes, with smarting 

 and redness of the eyes, and photophobia, twenty-four hours 

 after gathering, but commencing about eighteen hours pre- 

 viously. Headache through the eyes and temples, with dullness 

 and sleepiness, thirty to thirty-six hours after, in the afternoon ; 

 secretion of urine more copious, and rather pale. Next day, 

 itching, burning, and extension of the vesicular eruption around 

 the eyes, upper lips, super cilia, mouth, and external orifice of 

 the ears, and drowsiness and dullness of the spirits in the after- 

 noon. Headache, slight photophobia, and obscured vision at 

 times, as well as on the previous day. Itching of the scalp. 

 Tongue more furred, and appetite not as good. After mid- 

 night, at the beginning of the third day, pain, colic, rumbling 

 and griping in the bowels during repose, with sulphuretted 

 eructations, and discharge of flatus. Two or three years ago, 

 when similarly affected from preparing some, had loose serous 

 evacuations in the morning for several days, in addition to the 

 colic and cutting pains in the abdomen. Rheumatic pain in 

 the lumbar region and through the hips. Bryonia relieved 

 many of the symptoms, but not the eruption, which extended. 

 Dr. Kemball remarks, that formerly he was able to handle and 

 prepare this plant with impunity. 



Medical Uses (Homoeopathic). — Hahnemann's observations 



(op, cit.) : " Rhus contains many very remarkable peculiarities, as 

 an instance of which may be cited one effect produced by few 

 other medicines, and by none in so great a degree. It is this : 

 its most powerful action takes place when the body, or limb, is 



