186 FLORA HOMCEOPATHICA. 



agriae) are irregular triangular, sometimes quadrangular, slightly 

 arched, blackish-brown, and wrinkled; they contain a white 

 and oily nucleus. Their odour is slight, but disagreeable; 

 their taste bitter, hot, very acrid, and nauseous. Iodine colours 

 the seeds brown. Their watery infusion is darkened by sesqui- 

 chloride of iron. Infusion of nutgalls renders it turbid. The 

 three first attenuations are made by trituration, and the alcoholic 

 tincture prepared as ordered for all dry substances. 



Physiological Effects.— The property of Staphysagria 

 seems to depend upon an alkaloid called Delphinia ; and Orfila 

 found that six grains of it introduced into the gullet of a dog, 

 brought on efforts to vomit, restlessness, giddiness, immobility, 

 slight convulsions, and death in two or three hours. The same 

 quantity dissolved in vinegar would cause death in forty minutes. 

 An ounce of the bruised seeds killed a dog in fifty-four hours. 

 Hillefield states that a d( 



five scruples of the seeds were given. The ancients employed 

 the seeds as a masticatory ; for on being chewed they excite a 

 copious flow of saliva, and on this account were recommended 



other painful affections of the throat and 

 gums. In large doses it produces narcotism; and Schultz, by 

 only keeping it for some time in his mouth to relieve toothache, 

 was for a time deprived of his senses. 



Medical Uses (Homceopathic).— Four hundred and thirty- 



and 



Hahnema 



Materia Medic 



this remedy. From these, and from the clinical observations of 



Noack 



scurvy 



useful in the cure of sycosis; sea 



dry herpes; herpes furfuraceus; suppurating humid tetters 

 forming crusts, with swelling of the inguinal and axillary 

 glands, and violent itching in bed ; humid herpes on both arms, 

 with tensive, burning pains ; inflammation of the bon PS • «mp« , 



humid 



«»*» a 5o 



in the open air and by cold drinks, relieved by warmth, and 



