188 FLORA HOMCOPATHICA. 
of temperature of the air (75° Fahr.) he expressed his dis- 
pleasure ; every loud word put him ina passion. All that he 
could still say was, that his brain felt as if contracted by a 
ligature, and that he expected speedy dissolution. He gave no 
indication of inclination to vomit, of thirst, or of any other want 
in the world. He wished to sleep, as he felt a great inclination 
to do so; but when he closed his eyes, he immediately started up 
again, so frightful, he asserted, was the sensation he felt in his 
brain on going to sleep, like the most hideous dream. The 
pulse was very small, but the frequency was not altered. 
“Tn these frightful circumstances I was called in. A few 
drops of Thebaic tincture appeared not to agree with him; this 
led me to fix upon a strong camphor emulsion, of which I admi- 
nistered to him a tablespoonful about every minute. I soon 
observed a happy change in his expression, and after he had 
thus taken fifteen grains of camphor, his consciousness was 
restored, the anxiety gone, the heat natural. In something 
less than hour he perspired a little, during the night slept 
pretty well; but the following day was uncommonly weak, and 
all the parts which during the direct action of the Cocculus 
were yesterday painful internally, were to-day uncommonly 
painful externally to the slightest touch. The bowels remained 
constipated for several days. It is very probable that all these 
after-sufferings could have been prevented if, in place of giving 
fifteen grains of camphor, I had at once given thirty. During 
the increase of the symptoms from the Cocculus, he attempted 
to smoke tobacco, with considerable aggravation; they also 
increased from taking coffee, though not so strikingly as from 
the other” (Hahnemann’s Lesser Writings, p. 378, trans. by 
R. E. Dudgeon, M.D.) 
Meprcat Uses (Homaoratutc).—Hahnemann’s observations : 
“No one before me has used this medicine as an internal 
remedy. I have now introduced it into the Materia Medica, 
after having studied its dynamic effects on persons in health. 
It possesses many curative virtues, as is proved by the symp- 
