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Belladonna is, therefore, suitable especially for diseases of 
women and children, and all those diseases in which the whole 
nervous system is in a state of erethism. What Aconite is to 
inflammatory fevers, or the feverish reaction excited in the 
arterial system, Belladonna is to the inflammation itself, or the 
inflammatory action of the capillaries. If, after inflammatory 
action has been subdued by Aconite, the other symptoms of the 
nervous stage of inflammation continue, and sensation and 
irritability be alternately affected, Belladonna is then of the 
greatest use, if otherwise indicated. 
The chief affections in which Belladonna is indicated are the 
following. Phlegmonous and erysipelatous inflammations, the 
more delicate the inflamed organ or tissue the more suitable is 
Belladonna. Catarrhal affections. Affections consequent upon 
fear, fright, and chagrin. Nervous affections. Spasms of every 
kind. Epilepsy. St. Vitus’s dance. Ergotism. Tarantism. 
Hydrophobia. Congestions of the head, especially the eyes, 
chest, abdomen, uterus, and hemorrhoidal vessels. Sanguineous 
apoplexy. Erratic rheumatic pains. (Belladonna is said to be 
powerless against fixed pains.) Scrofulosis. Scrofulosis mucosa 
et ossea, when the periosteum and bones are inflamed. 
Scrofulous ulcers. Scirrhus and carcinoma. Measles, when 
combined with great intolerance of light. Miliaria alba et 
rubra, et herpetica. “Pseudo- erysipelas. Erysipelas leave, fugas, 
et bulbosum. Erysipelas of the head, with delirium. Erysipelas 
of the face. Erysipelas neonatorum. Erysipelatous inflamma- 
tions of the face, consequent upon the stings of insects. Impe- 
tigo erysipelatodes. Scarlatina levigata et miliaris, especially with 
subsequent hydrocephalus, or with swelling of the parotid 
gland. Variola, when accompanied with severe headache. 
Varicella coniformis. Metastases of acute exanthemata to the 
peahelese:a. 3 the brain. Rubeola. Pemphigus. Acne. Eczema 
mercuriale. Porrigo larvalis in children of a plethoric habit. 
Sleeplessness, with congestion of the head. Lethargy, when 
combined with redness of the face. Fevers, where the symp- 
