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cramps ; there occur, r, trembling; s, stammering; t, convul- 

 sions of the eyes; u, hiccough; v, sneezing (from the internal 

 use); w, vomiting (when at its height black, bloody vomiting); 

 z, painful scanty evacuations, with tenesmus; y, local or (from 

 large doses) general convulsions; z, cold (from large doses 

 bloody) sweat ; aa, watery diuresis ; b b, ptyalism ; cc, expecto- 

 ration ; dd , general coldness ; ee, marked weakness ; ff, fainting ; 

 99* lon B> profound sleep. Some of the symptoms of its direct 

 action (/, m, n,p, q) would lead us to use it in dysenteric fever, 

 if not in dysentery. The mania it causes, together with some 

 symptoms of its direct action (e, f, g, h, n, q) would lead us to 

 employ it in hydrophobia, with hopes of a good result. A do 

 to which it was given had true rabies, lasting eight minutes. 

 The ancients speak of it with approbation in hydrophobia. (In 

 tetanus), in spasmodic constriction of the gullet, and in spas- 

 modic asthma, it will be found specific on account of / and h. 

 It wdl prove of permanent advantage in chronic cutaneous dis- 

 eases on account of c and d, as experience has already shown 

 with regard to herpes. In so-called nervous diseases, when 

 they are dependent on tense fibre or inflammatory symptoms 

 {a, q), and the symptoms in other respects resemble the Vera- 

 trum disease, it will be of benefit, so also the manias of a like 

 character" {Hahnemann on the Curative Power of Drugs, trans, 

 by R. E. Dudgeon, M.D.) 



According to the clinical observations of Noack and Trinks (op. 

 cit), Veratrum seems to be most serviceable in excessive paralytic 

 chronic debility, particularly after the abuse of China, and after 



», with disposition to faint. In tertian fever. 

 Abdominal typhus, with vomiting, diarrhoea, coldness of limbs, 

 and cold sweat. Different forms of mania. Nervous headache, 

 with nausea and vomiting. Acute hydrocephalus of infants, 

 with disposition to vomit on raising the head. Chronic vomit- 

 ings. Vomitings, which cannot be arrested, excited by drinking 

 water, or by movement. Cholera infantum. Sporadic cholera. 

 Asiatic cholera, with vomitings, diminished temperature of the 



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