Part 16

This little animal is common in Brazil where it lives on trees and secures itself by means of its hind-feet, it uses its tail, which is pretty long, as a means of descending. Its length, from the muzzle to the tip of the tail, is about a foot; the tail is almost as long as the trunk. The upper parts of the body are covered with sharp prickles about an inch and a half long, and attached to the skin by means of a very thin pedicle. The head-prickles are white at the base, black in the middle and of a yellowish-brown at the top, the dorsal prickles are of a sulphur-yellow at their base. The prickles on the rump and the first third of the tail, are black at their extremity. All the prickles are very close together, mingled with a few long and fine hairs. The lower limbs are covered with a grayish fur, interspersed with little prickles; the tail is furnished with prickles at its upper part, and is covered with stiff and black hairs; the extremity of the tail is bare.

We triturate the prickles taken from one of the sides.

Prover: _Jo. Vincente Martins._

_First day._—Took one dose of the third trituration at 8 in the morning. 1. Desire to vomit and nausea at the sight of food, immediately. At night, sense of dryness and fullness in the stomach. Very drowsy after dinner.

_Second day._—5. Wakes early. Merry and quiet dreams. Sense of fullness in the abdomen, at 5 in the morning, when lying. Diarrhœa. Transitory pains in the toes, right temple and one of the right cuspidati. 10. Pains at the lower extremity of the right forearm. Pain at the right zygoma. Pain at the first incisor. Bleeding of the gums. Pain in one half of the head. 15. Buzzing in the ears. The knees give way, likewise the tarsal joints. The toothache becomes obstinate. After dinner all the pains cease. Shuddering with chattering of the teeth. 20. Cough with pains in the chest. Stitch in the region of the heart, left side, which stops his speech for two minutes. Pain at the right arm, from the hand to the elbow, as if extending the arm were prevented by a string. Improvement when turning the arm or lifting a weight, or moving it about; aggravation as soon as these movements cease. After breakfast, boring pain through the bones of the skull. 25. Aggravation when lying down, and improvement when walking in the open air. Pains in the stomach, as if strung together.

_Third day._—Quiet sleep with merry dreams; in the morning he dreams of insects and a serpent which it was difficult to kill. Painful sensation at the articulation of the jaw. Whizzing and buzzing from the left ear to the back part of the head. 30. Long-lasting prickings at the zygoma. Very much disposed to write, in the morning, ceasing after breakfast. Heaviness of the head from 10 to 11. Abundant desquamation in the region of the whiskers and at the knee. The whizzing in the ears continues. 35. Acute pain in the intercostal muscles, in the evening, while riding on horseback. Prickings on the vertex from time to time, especially on the right side. Pain at the lower extremity of the forearm. Dizziness in the back part of the head when writing. Roaring in the ears, as from a distant gale. 40. Bitter mouth and throat, with salt taste. Nausea, with piercing pain in the back, for 15 minutes.

_Fourth day._—Boring pain through the skull-bones. Cough as the day before. General weakness. 45. Drowsy all day. Lancination in the left side of the head, through the skull-bones; inability to move the head, for three minutes. When sitting or rising, lancinating pain in the right big toe hindering walking, for two minutes. 50. Painful swelling of the abdomen, before dinner. Itching of the pubis after taking tea.

_Fifth day._—Disposed to yawn, with flow of saliva. Lachrymation. Stitch in the left side, for five minutes, hindering gaping. 55. Shootings in the epigastrium, for several minutes. Pain in the left side, at the moment when he attempted to gape. Acute pain from the left ear to the jaw, for two minutes. Constriction from the neck to the diaphragm, with heaviness of the head and arms. 60. Numbness for half an hour. Pain in the right side, for two minutes, as if a plug were thrust in. Pain in the urethra after urinating, worse when stooping in order to pick up something. Pain around the navel. Continued swelling and pain of the abdomen, down to the left groin. 65. Drowsy. Good appetite. Nausea after dinner. Shuddering from time to time. Heat and numbness of the feet. 70. Merry dreams, at night.

_Sixth day._—Itching all over, with bleeding after scratching. Pain in the right arm, as if the bones were broken, with inability to grasp any thing. Deafness on the left ear, as if stopped. Inconsistent and capricious mood.

_Tenth day._—The scales on the head and in the whiskers are less; before, they were so thick that he did not feel either the cold or heat, and was insensible to water. Irritable, he quarrels about the least trifle. Cracks between the toes. Violent pain in the left kidney. Constant whizzing in the ears. 80. The speech is sometimes embarrassed. He discovers some gray hairs. His hair falls off. Every thing is disagreeable to him; he desires to travel.

ARRANGEMENT ACCORDING TO HAHNEMANN.

Dizziness behind the head. Capricious mood. Every thing is disagreeable to him, he desires to travel. Prickings on the vertex. Darting through the left skull-bones. Hemicrania. Boring pain in the skull, after breakfast. Heaviness of the head. The hair falls off. Lachrymation. Deafness on the left ear. Whizzing in the ears. Buzzing in the ears. Pain in the articulation of the jaw. Bleeding of the gums. Pain at the right zygoma. Prickings at the zygoma. Bitter mouth, with salt taste. Nausea, with piercing pain in the back. Desire to vomit at the sight of food. Drowsy after dinner. Embarrassed speech. Constrictive pain in the stomach. Dry and full feeling at stomach, at night. Painful swelling of the abdomen, before dinner. Shootings in the epigastrium. Pain in right side as from a plug. Pain around the navel. Violent pain in the left kidney. Sense of fullness in the abdomen. Pain in the urethra, after urinating, worse when stooping. Itching of the pubis, after taking tea. Cough with pain in the chest. Stitch at the heart. Constriction from the neck to the diaphragm. Pain in the intercostal muscles. Pain in right arm, as if broken. Pains at lower end of the right forearm. Pain at the right arm, as if the stretching were prevented by a string. The knees give way. Heat and numbness of the feet. Cracks between the toes. Lancing pain in the right big toe. Yawning. Morning-dream about a serpent. Merry dreams. Shuddering. Shuddering, with chattering of the teeth. Desquamation at the whiskers. Itching all over, with bleeding after scratching. Pains in the toes, right temple. Feels better in the open air.

CONVOLVULUS DUARTINUS. (NOBIS.)

CONVUL. DUART. CALONYCTION SPECIOSUM. (D. C.) IPOMEA BONA NOX. (LINN.) CONVOLVULUS PULCHERRIMUS. (WELL.) MORNING-GLORY.

This is a climbing plant, cultivated in America and Europe. Leaves large, entire, cordate, alternate, on long petioles, generally arising from the axil of the flower-bearing branches. Calix with five unequal folioles, the three outer ones sharp, the two inner ones oval and foliaceous. Corol white, large expanding into a large circular limb. Stamens five, adhering by their filaments to the tube of the corol which is shorter than the stamens. Anthers linear acuminate. The base of the ovary is surrounded by a glandular disk; style very long, filiform, terminated by a shaggy, bilobate stygma; fruit with a coriaceous tegument. There are two or three flowers on the flower-bearing pedicels; they resemble a trumpet in shape, whence their Brazilian name “herva trombetta.” This plant blossoms in the summer-months. We employ the flower.

Prover: _Dr. Manoel Duarte Moreira._

1. Heat and burning of the skin all over, with prickings like the stings of insects. Profuse sweat in bed, several nights in succession. Red spot on the right cheek when rising from bed, it disappears in the course of the day. Shuddering in the day-time, several different times. 5. Small red spot in the right side of the neck. Drowsiness in the evening, in three provers. Prostration, in two provers. Dreams about quarrels. 10. Reveries in the day-time. Dreams about dead persons and about the incisores falling out. Dreams that one flies along an illuminated street; appearance of a ghost; waking with a start. Languor. Sinking of the moral strength, in two provers. 15. Hypochondria. Mental languor. Discouragement. Pain in the left temporal region, in relation with the eye. Pain at the right cheek. 20. Pain in the frontal region. Dizziness, in three provers. Pain all over the head, especially along the median line. Pain in the frontal region, with heat at the root of the nose, in three provers. Two small spots on the forehead, disappearing in a few minutes. 25. Pain in the whole head, from the morning until 5 o’clock in the evening. Acute pain in the left temporal region, in the morning, on two consecutive days, in two provers. Headache, at times at the vertex, at others at the occiput. Pain in the temples. Violent pain at the vertex, evening. 30. Pressure in the frontal region. Headache on the left side. Heaviness and dizziness in the frontal region, two days in succession. Burning in the frontal region, ceasing after taking a cold bath. Violent pain at the vertex, morning. 35. Vertigo with fainting. Slight pain at the vertex. Inflammation of the left eye. Dark redness of the face. Slight heat in the upper part of the œsophagus. 40. Sore throat for eight days. Sense of swelling at the tongue. Toothache. Swelling of the gums. Bad taste in the mouth. 45. Spitting up of mucus. Heat and dryness at the anterior and superior part of the œsophagus, in three provers. Slight pain on each side of the thyroid cartilage. Appetite when rising in the morning, in two provers. Stomach-ache for three days. 50. Decrease of the appetite. Pain in the abdomen, with internal heat. Violent colic with pulling, in two provers. Constipation, the first days, in eight provers. Red urine. 55. Yellow sediment in the urine. Numbness of the left scapular region. Pain at the left shoulder. Numbness of the arm, worse when hanging down. Numbness of both arms. 60. Deep-seated pain in the left forearm. Numbness of the right index- and middle-finger. Pain in the left wrist-joint. Deep-seated pain under the right breast. Pain at the right knee. 65. Deep-seated pain in the calves. Pain at the forepart of the left leg, for four days. Laming pain of the legs and thighs for several days. Deep-seated pain, first in the left, then in the right thigh. Numbness of the left leg and heel. 70. Shooting stitch in the right knee.

ARRANGEMENT ACCORDING TO HAHNEMANN.

MENTAL, MORAL, HEAD: 1. Vertigo with fainting. Dizziness. Pain all over the head. Headache, at the vertex and at times at the occiput. 5. Pressure in the frontal region. Burning in the frontal region. Pain in the left temporal region, also acute. Pain in the frontal region, also with heat, at the root of the nose.

EYES, &c.: Inflammation of the left eye. 10. Swelling of the gums.

MOUTH, STOMACH, &c.: Sense of swelling at the tongue. Sore throat. Heat in upper part of the œsophagus. Bad taste in the mouth. 15. Decrease of appetite. Stomach-ache for some days. Pain in abdomen, with internal heat. Colic, with pulling. Constipation. 20. Red urine. Yellow sediment in the urine. Deep-seated pain under the right breast. Pain on each side of the thyroid cartilage. Numbness of the left scapular region.

EXTREMITIES: 25. Pain at left shoulder. Deep-seated pain in left forearm. Numbness of the index- and middle-finger. Numbness of the arms. Deep-seated pain in the calves. 30. Laming pain of the legs and thighs. Deep-seated pain in the thighs. Numbness of the left leg and heel. Shooting stitch in the right knee.

SLEEP: Quarrelsome dreams. 35. Reveries. Dreams about dead persons and about teeth falling out. He dreams that he is flying along an illuminated street. Burning of the skin all over, with stinging. Profuse sweat in bed. 40. Shuddering, repeatedly. Red spot on the right cheek, when rising from bed, also on the neck. Prostration, also moral.

BUFO SAHYTIENSIS. (NOBIS.)

BUFO. BUFO AGUA (LAT.) TOAD.

This toad is found all over America; it inhabits swamps and marshy regions. It is as big as two fists, though its size varies a good deal. It is readily known by its enormous rhomboïdal parotids, whence it sends forth a large quantity of poison. Its head is flat, triangular, more large than long; it shows a strong osseous edge, commencing at the tip of the muzzle, thence stretching towards the inner angle of the eye, round this organ, and finally terminating behind the lids. The eye and the tympanic wall are very large. The trunk, which is very large anteriorly, in consequence of the large development of the parotides, is covered, on each side of the dorsal spine, with two irregular rows of large elliptical or conical bladders; sometimes there are such bladders on the sides. The anterior extremities do not reach to the end of the trunk; the posterior extremities reach beyond the muzzle by the length of the fourth toe. The toes are rather flattened; the first toe is longer than the second. Its colors are various, consisting of a number of brown spots, which coalesce on the back, and are separated on the abdomen by yellowish dots.

The horrible croaking of these animals is well known, and might rouse the indignation of the most phlegmatic individual.

By exciting the animal, we caused it to spirt its saliva, which we collected on a little sugar of milk, and at once prepared, by trituration.

Prover: _Bruno Vidal._

_First day._—1. Extreme heaviness of the head, at 2. Aversion to work, with inability, the whole afternoon.

_Second day._—Pain at the sacrum, worse when rising, stooping or sitting. Almost continual expansive pressure in the orbits, and sensation of internal itching; he is obliged to rub his eyes with the palm of his hand. 5. Itching at the pubis. Itching at the face. Violent itching at the lips.

_Third day._—Pain at the inner part of the right knee. Easy stool. 10. Itching, almost all over. Not disposed to study. Less active than usual. Expansive pressure and itching in the orbits. The pain at the sacrum continues.

_Fourth day._—15. The pain at the sacrum is less; the pain at the knee has ceased. Expansive pressure and itching in the orbits. Itching almost all over. Constant erections without desire; not disposed to intellectual labor, not very active.

_Fifth to tenth day._—Laziness of mind as before. 20. Constant erections, but no desire. Itching and expansive sensation in the orbits.

_Eleventh day._—No sleep.

_Twelfth day._—Prickling at the right big toe.

_Thirteenth day._—Crampy pain at the outer side of the right leg. 25. Red pimple, which breaks and leaves a black spot in its place. Pricking in the pit of the stomach. Pinching at the inside of the left elbow.

_Fourteenth to fifteenth day._—Pressure at the cartilages of the false ribs. Loathing of study.

_Seventeenth to eighteenth day._—30. The eyes are red and smart. A former fungus bleeds. The orbits feel larger, and as if they were in contact with the orbital walls. Aversion to work. He is apt to forget things which he had been occupied with a moment ago.

_Nineteenth day._—35. The eyes smart and are painful when touched.

_Twentieth to Thirty-fifth day._—Careless. Lazy and discouraged. No disposition to work. Weak memory. 40. The upper portion of the orbits seems to be in contact with the orbital walls, especially at night. He is obliged to rub his face in the morning. Formication of the lower jaw. Itching at the lumbar vertebræ. Itching at the anus. 45. A black spot on the right outer ankle, which had remained after a pimple, continues.

_Thirty-sixth day._—Large red pimple on the occiput.

_Thirty-eighth day._—Very gay in the evening. Disposed to talk about merry things.

_Thirty-ninth day._—Gay. Lively. 50. The pimple at the nape of the neck remains. Itching at the lumbar vertebræ. Pain in front of the lobule of the left ear. Ganglion on the sole of the right foot. Excoriation of the left masseter muscle, discharging a little sanguinolent humor. 55. Heaviness of the head after a walk. The eyes smart and are painful when touched. Sleeps for an hour, in the middle of the day, contrary to habit. Sad, he avoids company. He is unable to act with decision, he forms projects and does not accomplish them. 60. Tingling in the lumbar region. Dreams every night, does not recollect his dreams on waking. Pressure on the right side of the forehead. Taciturn and gloomy. Painful sensation under the false ribs. 65. Itching at the sacrum. (Sense of weakness in the whole left side of the head.) Prickings in the tips of the fingers of the right hand and the left toes. Pimples on the forehead. Weakness of mind and memory, less in the evening. 70. Acute lancinations in the left temple. Acute pain in the right wrist. Continual headache. Pain in the extensor muscles of the right arm. Pimple on the right wrist. 75. Violent itching. Drowsy. Poetical and philosophical dreams. Exalted imagination.

ARRANGEMENT ACCORDING TO HAHNEMANN.

1. Sad, he avoids company. Exalted imagination. Indolence of mind. Merry and talkative. 5. Pressure on the right side of the forehead. Darting in the left temple. Heaviness of the head. Expansive pressure in the orbits, and sensation of internal itching. The eyes are red and smart. 10. The orbits feel larger, and as if in contact with the orbital walls. Formication of the lower jaw. Violent itching at the lips. Itching of the pubis. Erections without desire. 15. Pain under the false ribs. Tingling in the lumbar region. Pain at the sacrum, worse when rising. Itching at the lumbar vertebræ. Prickings in the tips of the right fingers. 20. Acute pain in the right wrist. Pain at the right knee. Prickling at the big toe. Poetical dreams. Red pimple, leaving a black spot after breaking. 25. Excoriation at the left masseter muscle. Aversion to work. Itching all over.

JACARANDA CAROBA. (D.C.)

JAC. BIGNONIA CAROBA. (WELL.)

This is a tree with white wood, the ramose top of which attains a height of from 20 to 28 feet. Leaves pennate, tri- or quadrijugate, composed of from five to nine opposite, sessile, glabrous and oval folioles. Flowers large, violet-colored, on pedicles that are expanded at their extremities, and forming ramose terminal panicles. Calix tubulous, with five teeth, corolla tubulous, slightly pubescent externally, and expanding at its summit into a limb with five obtuse divisions. Stamens five, one of which is rudimentary; ovary avoïd, surmounted by a simple style terminating in a bilamellary stygma. The husks are linear and flat. The caroba is very common in Brazil, in gardens and on plantations; it blossoms in September. We employ the flower.

Several varieties of the caroba are used in Brazil for the treatment of syphilitic diseases. For our provings we have selected the Jacaranda caroba, which has furnished results as complete as could be desired. We consider this drug of great importance in the treatment of chancres.

_First day._—1. Stitch at the heart; the heart seems to beat slowly in placing the hand upon it, at 9 in the evening. Stitch and pulling below the stomach, on the right side, at midnight. Dryness and pricking all over.

_Second day._—No sleep at night and drowsy in the day-time. 5. Dry mouth, in the morning, in bed. One does not feel any longer the beats of the heart, in the morning, in bed. The heart beats regularly again after going into the open air. Painful stitch at the heart, almost constantly. Full and slow pulse, in the morning, in bed. Weary while talking. 10. Drawing pain on the right side, from the axilla to the false ribs, at 9 in the morning. Dull pain under the sternum, in raising the head and drawing breath. He eats little, though his appetite is good, at 9 in the morning. General weakness, in the morning. Slight pain at the articulation of the second phalanx of the fingers of the right hand, at half past 9 in the morning. 15. Weakness of the legs. Pain as if bruised in the right knee, while walking, at 10 in the morning, of short duration. Sense as if bruised in the muscles and bones of the legs. Slight drawing pain from the eye to the right lower jaw, followed by shuddering in the same region, at 11 in the morning; this pain recurs, changing to a contusive pain. Sensitiveness of the malar bone when pressing on it with the finger. 20. Sensation of painfulness at the apex of the heart, on the right side, at noon. Hurried breathing, with sense of fullness under the sternum, several times in the course of the day. Painful stitch under the false right ribs, at noon. No stool. Momentary drawing in the flexor communis digitorum, left wrist, at half past 12, afternoon. 25. Pulling from the lower extremity of the forearm to the right little finger, for one hour. Weariness of the limbs, and desire to remain seated. Weakness of the limbs; and lumbar region, at 2. Slight pain in the right ribs, below, at half past 2. Painful fullness in the right temple, shifting a moment after to the left temple, and disappearing in the left side of the nape of the neck, in the evening, in the open air. 30. Sense of fullness in the head, in the afternoon. Dull pain between the forehead and right temple; it disappears in the evening, by shifting to the opposite side. Pain as if excoriated at the left side of the tongue. Pulling from the lower jaw to the middle of the neck, on the right side, in the evening. Fullness in the pit of the stomach, with feeble, hurried breathing; sometimes a strong and long inspiration, with strong and sudden expiration, in the afternoon. 35. Lancinating pain in the region of the heart. Continued prickings under the sternum. Painful stitch on the left side of the navel. Sensation, while walking, as of dull thorns or little pieces of straw between the thighs, or as if stiff and dry moss is applied to a raw sore. Itching at the anus, while sitting. 40. Pain at the left elbow, striking through the whole forearm by fits and starts, in the evening. Dull pain in the right wrist-joints, penetrating to the middle of the forearm; a similar sensation at the left arm, but slighter. Pain as if bruised in the bones of the right forearm, and lancination from the wrist to the forearm, at 6 in the evening. Acute deep-seated, drawing pain under the left last rib, at 6 in the evening. Palpitation of the heart in going up- and down-stairs, with acute pain, as if it were pushed with the tip of the finger, at 9 in the evening.