208 FLORA HOMM@OPATHICA. 
She said that, in about half an hour after taking it, her stomach 
became sick, gripes came on, and a violent purging, which con- 
tinued with great severity. She had had no medical assistance, 
and had passed a most wretched time from the morning before, 
and was so tormented with pain and purging, that she had not had 
a wink of sleep in the course of the night. I administered large 
draughts of brandy and spices, but to no effect; she died two 
hours after I came in. The body was opened the next day; all 
the viscera were found healthy, except that the mucous mem- 
brane of the stomach and bowels was dreadfully inflamed 
throughout its course (Dillon, in Stephenson and Churehill’s 
Med. Bot., vol. ii.) 
Garibel, in his “ Histoire des Plantes des Environs d’ Aix,” 
records that a servant was killed by taking the flowers for an 
intermittent fever, in which disease they were said to be 
useful. 
H. P. swallowed about an ounce of the tincture of Colchicum, 
at nine o’clock, p.m., on a full stomach, and at five o’clock the 
following morning, eight hours after it had been taken, vomiting 
commenced; as the stomach was emptied the retchings increased 
in violence, and continued at regular intervals three times an 
hour for twelve hours; from the sixth hour the violence of the 
retchings gradually decreased. Acid, pungent taste in the 
mouth, with more or less bitterness 3 excessive heat, and great 
dryness of the mouth and throat; contraction of the chest ; 
breathing quick and difficult; great pain at the pit of the 
stomach, and in the bowels; frequent purgings, and coldness of 
the extremities; during the paroxysms, great trembling of the 
whole frame, and violent pain in the head; afterwards, great 
prostration of strength (Communicated to the Author by the 
patient), 
Mepicat Usrs (Homa@orarnic).—This drug was not proved 
by Hahnemann. According to Noack and Trinks (Handbuch fir 
Hom. Arzneimitt.), Colchicum is useful in sanguineous consti- 
tutions, and in phlegmatic-melancholic temperaments. It is also 
