182 FLORA HOMCGOPATHICA. 
GroGRAPHICAL DistripuTion.—South of France, Spain, 
Switzerland, Austria, Gallicia, Hungary, ‘Tartary, and 
Greece. 
Locatirizs.— On uncultivated hills, along hedges, and on 
woody hills. 
Parts usep 1n Mepictnz, aND Mops or PREPARATION.— 
- The Juice expressed from the leaves and stem of the plant, 
gathered when commencing to flower, and mixed with equal 
parts of alcohol; after forty-eight hours have elapsed, the clear 
liquid is to be separated from the dregs and prepared to the 
ninth attenuation. 
PuysiotocicaL Errrcrs.—As one of the Ranunculacee, we 
should expect to find irritating properties from the juice of the 
Clematis, although it cannot be considered as a poison. The 
recent leaves, on being chewed, excite a burning heat in the 
tongue and fauces, and if retained long in the mouth, produce 
blisters and ulceration. The leaves have also been used by 
mendicant impostors to produce ulcers on the legs, to excite 
charity. 
Mepicat Uses (Homa@opatutic).— Hahnemann’s observations 
(Chronic Dis., vol. iii.): “The various potencies of its acrid 
juice, which ought to be extracted from the fresh leaves shortly 
before the plant begins to blossom, may be used against a 
number of affections which have their origin in the abuse of 
mercury, and are complicated with psora; in dangerous erup- 
tions of the head and skin, and various kinds of troublesome 
inflammation of the eyes. Dr. Stapf found this remedy useful 
in orchitis and indurated swellings of those organs. At a more 
remote period, its virtues have been praised by Storck in cases 
of cancerous ulcers of the lips and mamme; spongy excrescences ; 
tophi; inveterate eruptions of the skin; peculiar kinds of chronic 
headache, and melancholia.” 
According to Noack and Trinks, Clematis is suitable to torpid 
cachectic individuals, and scrofulous constitutions; swelling and 
indurations of the glands; rheumatism of the joints; arthritic 
