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toms, which are by no means complete, furnishes an additional 

 proof of the correctness of the homoeopathic law. If Senega 

 has fallen into disrepute with physicians, it is probably owing 

 to the excessive size of the doses in which it has been 

 administered, or to the fact that it was not strictly homoeo- 

 pathic to the case. Senega seems to correspond to a kind of 

 angina pectoris, especially in cases which are of a rather lentes- 

 cent nature from the beginning, or after the inflammatory 

 symptoms have been subdued by Aconite or Bryonia; when 

 the pleura is more the seat of the inflammation than the lungs; 

 when the angina is more like the so-called rheumatic angina; 

 when the pain is more increased by inspiration than by motion; 

 when the pain is increased in rest ; and when many symptoms 

 are relieved by walking in the open air. 



" It may be administered with benefit in the acute exanthemata, 

 if symptoms appear which are like those of lentescent rheumatic 

 angina; also in chronic catarrh and epidemic catarrhal fevers, 

 when symptoms of the previously mentioned angina are present, 

 especially inasmuch as the power of Senega to excite weak- 

 ness corresponds to the weakness of influenza and to nervous 

 fevers, with local affections of the chest generally. 



" In pulmonary phthisis, Senega alone will probably not suffice 

 to afford radical help ; nevertheless, it will be able to remove 

 many troublesome symptoms, by means of its action upon the 

 respiratory organs, especially in laryngeal phthisis. 



" It will probably be of some use in the treatment of asthma, 

 on account of the analogous symptoms which it is capable of 



producing. 



u Senega produces symptoms resembling those of angina mem- 

 branacea, but those symptoms correspond more to the later 

 stages of croup, the so-called angina serosa ; this affection can 

 be relieved by Senega. Senega does not produce any of the 

 characteristic symptoms of whooping-cough, still it will be found 

 curative in many cases of cough resembling whooping-cough. 



" The eye symptoms of Senega do not exactly correspond in 



