300 FLORA HOMCOPATHICA, 
the head, cause vertigo, and a dull pain in the membranes 
lying under.the skull. The practical physician will be able 
to take advantage of this. Its direct action lasts scarcely twelve 
hours” (Hahn. Lesser Writ.) 
Curnicat Osservations.—Noack and Trinks : Hyoscyamus 
niger appears particularly efficacious in nervous constitutions ; 
in those irritable, nervous states, with variability and fickleness ; 
in hysteria and hypochondriacal conditions, arising from grief, 
fear, fright, or anger; and in many spasmodic affections, parti- 
cularly in women and children; in spasms and convulsions in 
children, from worms or from teething; and in pregnant 
females. Epilepsy from fright. Chronic hemorrhages. Red- 
ness of the skin. Brown spots on the skin. Large pustules, 
like small-pox. Chronic sleeplessness. Puerperal fever. Febris 
nervosa versatilis, with delirium and spectral delusions. Typhus 
fever. Delirium tremens. Nymphomania. Melancholia. In- 
flammation of the brain. Toothache, produced by cold. Grind- 
ing of the teeth during sleep, in children. Vomiting of blood 
after cold, with pain at the scrobiculus cordis on being touched. 
Painful stitches over the abdomen. Painless diarrhea of lying- 
in women. Spasmodic stricture at the neck of the bladder, 
with violent tenesmus. Metrorrhagia. Irritable cough. Dry 
night cough. Rheumatic typhoid pneumonia, etc. etc. 
AntTIpoTEs.—To large doses, Vinegar. Medoro states that a 
large dose of lemon-juice acts immediately as an antidote to 
Hyoscyamus; Christison doubts this. To small doses, Bella- 
donna. Camphor. Opium. Stramonium. Hyoscyamus acts 
as an antidote to Belladonna and Cina. | 
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