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with oil. Towards evening vesication commenced, and was 

 most copious at the points of the fingers. On the fourth day 

 the parts were still much swollen, and between the blisters the 

 skin had assumed a dark red or purplish hue. On the fifth and 

 sixth days the swelling extended up the back part of the arms, 

 as far as the elbow. Within four weeks the skin had gradually 

 peeled off. His children, who had played with the Rue, suf- 

 fered from swelling of the face and hands. 



Helie {London Med, Gaz., vol. xxiv. p. 171) gives the follow 

 ing as the effects of Rue acting as an acro-narcotic poison, 

 in some cases where it had been taken to procure abortion. 

 Pain in the epigastric region ; violent and continued vomiting ; 

 inflammation and swelling of the tongue; salivation; colic; 

 fever ; thirst ; disorder of the muscular system (manifested by 

 tottering gait, and irregular and convulsive movements of the 

 body and limbs) ; giddiness; confused vision ; contracted pupil ; 

 delirium, or rather reverie; somnolency; and, after some days, 

 miscarriage. During the stupor the pulse was feeble, very 

 small, and slow (thirty beats in the minute in one case). There 

 was great debility, faintness, and coldness of the skin. The ill 

 effects lasted several days. 



Medical Uses (Homceopathic) 

 "Until the present time this powerful plant has been ignorantly 

 used by common people as a domestic remedy. According to 

 its pure symptoms, of which, unhappily, we know as yet but a 

 few, we may discover that its uses are of real importance. 

 Rosenstein says that it cannot be too highly esteemed in dis- 

 eases of the eye, and amblyopia, caused by too much reading 

 Swediaur and Chomel agree with him. The action is efficacious 

 only in cases strictly analogous to the symptoms it produces in 

 healthy persons. A medicine that acts so evidently in accord - 

 ance with the laws of homoeopathy, far from increasing and 

 aggravating the disease, as inexperienced persons imagine, cures 



it quickly and effectively, unless it arises from some miasmatic 

 affection." 



