254 FLORA HOMG@OPATHICA. 
“In its secondary action it causes a small, hard, rapid pulse ; 
it is not therefore so suitable for patients who have a similar 
(febrile) pulse, but rather for such as have a pulse like what 
Foxglove produces in its direct action—slow, soft. ‘The con- 
vulsions it causes in large doses assign it a place among the 
anti-epileptic remedies; probably it is useful in epilepsy only 
under certain conditions, to be determined by the other morbid 
symptoms it produces. During its use, objects not unfrequently 
appear of various colours, and the sight becomes obscured; it 
will remove similar affections of the retina. Its tendency to 
produce diarrhea, sometimes so adverse to the cure, is counter- 
acted, as I have ascertained, by the addition of potash. 
“ As the direct action of Foxglove lasts occasionally several 
days (the longer its use is continued, the longer lasts the direct 
action of each dose, a very remarkable fact, not to be lost sight 
of in practice), it is evident how erroneously those act who, 
with the best intentions, prescribe it in small but frequently- 
repeated doses (the action of the first not having expired before 
they have already given the sixth or eighth), and thus, in fact, 
they give unwittingly an enormous quantity, which not unfre- 
quently causes death. 
‘A dose is necessary only every three, or at most every two 
days, but the more rarely the longer it has been used. During 
the continuance of its direct action, cinchona bark must not be 
prescribed; it increases the anxiety caused by Foxglove, as 1 
have found, to an almost mortal agony.” 
Curnicat Osservations.—Noack and Trinks (op. cit.) : Digi- 
talis influences especially the sympathetic ganglia and the cardiac 
plexus. It is especially serviceable in sanguine and indolent 
temperaments, and persons with soft muscles and blonde hair, as 
well as for scrofulous individuals. Gouty nodosities (Schubert). 
Icterus, with mucous vomiting. Icterus spasticus. Morbus 
ceruleus, with great anxiety. Sense of suffocation, especially — 
on lying down. Increased action of the heart. Hoarseness 
_ and dry cough (Schiiler), Hydrothorax. Ascites and Ana- 
