"198 FLORA HOMQOPATHICA. 
potu. Sanguineous and nervous apoplexy (using Coffee as a 
prophylactic). Headache from excessive congestion of blood. 
Megrim (Coffee shortens the paroxysms, but does not cure 
them). Toothache from a purely nervous cause. Toothache 
of persons who use much Coffee. Throbbing toothache, with 
great nervousness and violent weeping. In some cases of 
weakness of digestion and overloading the stomach. Diarrhea. 
Spasmodic colic. Violent pains in the abdomen in sensitive 
females. Excessively violent labour and after-pains. Coffee 
is an excellent palliative in cases of suspended animation in 
frozen, drowned, or suffocated individuals, when the vital forces 
require to be speedily roused. 
“* Coffee will in some cases prove useful in calming the nervous 
system after operations. One of my patients was operated on 
for cataract, after which the following group of symptoms pre- 
sented itself. Violent inflammation of the eye, with a gnawing 
pain about the eye and whole side of the head; excessive 
nausea, as if the patient would die with it; involuntary weep- 
ing; qualms of sickness, constantly ascending from the stomach 
to the brain. Subsultus tendinum. I had some strong Coffee 
made, and gave the patient a teaspoonful of black Coffee every 
five minutes ; after the second dose the patient fell into a sound 
sleep, which lasted several hours; when the patient awoke, all 
these symptoms had disappeared, except the pain about the eye, 
which was, however, much less, and soon disappeared” (Hem- 
pel, trans. of Jahr’s Mat. Med.) 
Antipotes.—Aconitum. Nux Vomica. Chamomilla. Ig- 
natia. 
