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bowels, from the umbilicus clear down to the toes. A sense of increasing largeness and numbness was felt from hip to hip; while the right thigh was thus affected, the left was skipped; the calves of both legs seemed elephantine, and "fast asleep." I sat still and sipped Nux vom. The dynamic antidotal effect which this agent has over the Collinsonia poison in the system was decided, and it was felt to be like removing a swaddling-cloth that embarrassed nervous action by its tightness and weight. I took a teaspoonful of a solution of twenty drops of the 1st attenuation of Nux vom. in twenty teaspoonfuls of water, every few minutes. Urinated several times, and had a stool during proving, the latter being in the form of balls, or lumpy agglomeration,".

COLOCYNTHINUM.

Authority. 56, Henry Usher. The Organon, vol. i, Jan. 1878, p. 104, effects of 6th dec. in three doses.

Dark redness and painfulness of the frænum penis; it ceased after a while, 56.

COMOCLADIA.

Revision of authorities, by Dr. J. Hyde, Am. Observer, xiii, p. 629. No. 1, Dr. J. Hyde, proving, 1854, with a drop of the 5th dil.; 2, Miss J., 4, afterwards 3 drops; 3, Mr. G. took pellets saturated with the 56th; 4, same; .. 8, provings by Dr. J. Hyde, Am. Obs., xiii, 593, 10 drops in water at 10.30 A.M. and 12.30 P.M., 20 drops at 4.30 P.M.; 8a, same, 10 drops at 6.30 A.M. (first day), same at 6.10 A.M. (second day), 25 drops at 6.30 A.M. (third day), 40 drops at 4.10 P.M. (seventh day); 86, 3 drops at 5.30 P.M. and 11 P.M. (first day), 3 drops at 7.30 A.M. and 1 P.M., 4 drops at 4.45 P.M. and 9.50 P.M. (second day), 8 drops at 12 M. and 2.20 P.M. (third day); 8c, same, 10 drops at 3 and 10.55 P.M. (first day), same at 7.4 A.M. and 3.30 P.M. (second day), put 2 ounces of cold water and 10 drops of 1st dec. into Fuligraff's inhaler, and inhaled for twenty minutes, at 11.45 A.M. and 3.30 and 10.30 P.M. (tenth day); inhaled twenty minutes at 2.30, 5, and 10.25 P.M. (fourteenth day); inhaled twenty minutes at 2.30 P.M.; took 8 drops at 10.55 P.M. (fifteenth day), 12 drops at 4.35 P.M. (sixteenth day).

Mind.-A cheerful condition of mind during the forenoon (first

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Head.-[190.] While inhaling at 10.25 P.M., aching in the os frontis and orbital bones (fourteenth day),.-Dull aching in the forehead, and on moving the head a sense of fulness, rigidity, and lameness of the muscles of the neck, in the afternoon (sixteenth day),.-Pain above the left eyebrow, at 4.12 P.M. (second day),".-11.30 P.M., while lying on the right side, an aching in the right temple, followed by an aching and sense of fulness in the right side of the face (second day),.-Aching in the right temple and right orbital bones, at 6 P.M. (second day),.-2.35 P.M., a sharp pain passing down the right temporal ridge and external angular process. Immediately after a sharp pain at the right supraorbital ridge, close to the supraorbital notch (fourth day),.-4 P.M., aching in the right temporal bone, commencing in the temporal ridge and extending to the occiput; the

whole base of the head is very painful on moving the head, also the sternomastoideus and trapezius muscles (twelfth day),.

Eye.-The Meibomian glands of the upper lid of the right eye are inflamed (fourteenth and fifteenth days); inflammation subsided (eighteenth day),.

Ear.-Heat and fulness in the interior of the right ear, at 1 P.M. (third

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Face.-5.10 P.M., after slight exercise in the open air, and while in my room, an aching in the left maxillary articulation, leaving a sense of fulness; immediately after an aching in right maxillary articulation, terminating in a sharp pain (nineteenth day),-[200.] 5.22 P.M., after a short walk in the open air, and having entered a warm room, an aching in the right maxillary articulation, involving the whole of the right side of head (nineteenth day),-9 A.M., an aching in the ramus of the right maxilla (seventeenth day),.-10.30 P.M., aching at the base of the right antrum of Highmore, then at the base of the left antrum (tenth day),.-10 A.M., while at rest in my office, heat and sense of fulness in the face, over the superior maxillary bone (first day),-10 A.M., while at rest in my office, a sensation as of a pimple over the right antrum (first day),".-9.15 A.M., sensation as of a scabby eruption on the median line of the lower lip, close to the vermilion border (third day),8.-10 A.M., while at rest in my office, a corrosive burning on the left side of the lower lip (second day),8.

Mouth.-5.30 P.M., aching in the upper molar teeth and gum of the right side, aggravated by cold air (second day),-1 P.M., immediately after dinner, an aching in the body of the last molar tooth of the right side of the lower jaw (third day),.-At 3 P.M., while sitting in my office reading, an aching in the lower incisors, passing to the right cuspid and bicuspid teeth, continuing five minutes (first day),.-[210.] 4.30 P.M., aching in the lower incisors, which leaves them very sensitive to pressure from the upper teeth (third day),“a.—5.30 P.M., while at rest in a warm room, a sore aching of the gum of the right upper molar teeth (nineteenth day),*.—A short, cutting pain in the gum of the first lower molar tooth of the left side, at 1 P.M. (third day),.

Throat.-3.30 P.M., while at rest, a sense of expansion in the œsophagus, as of air ascending slowly from the stomach (third day),"".

Stomach.-Appetite for dinner less than usual (first day),.—No appetite for dinner (first day),.-An acrid, rancid sensation while walking in the open air, at 3.30 P.M.,*.—11 A.M., an eructation of tasteless air (first day),.-10.15 A.M., while at rest, an eructation of air tasting of the drug (first day),.-4.30 P.M., eructation of tasteless air (third day),a.—[220.] An eructation of sour, acrid water, at 2.5 P.M. (tenth day),8.-10.10 A.M., after a walk in the open air and soon after entering my office, an intense acrid eructation, producing momentary strangulation (twelfth day),*.Hiccoughed several times, at 3 P.M.; immediately after gaped several times. (tenth day),.-About 11 P.M., while lying on the left side, an expansive, intense distress in the epigastric region, like unto heartburn, extending through the posterior border of the left scapula, continuing half an hour. Amelioration by lying on the right side (tenth day),".-10 P.M., pain in the epigastrium, as of flatus (sixteenth day),.

Abdomen.-Soon a tense feeling in the abdomen, as if the bowels were full of flatus (second day),.-Soon after breakfast, and while walking in the open air, expulsion of odorless flatus per anum (second day),8. -3.40 P.M., pain in the right side of the abdomen, running downwards,

following the course of the rectus muscle (second day),.-7.15 P.M., an aching in the left side of the floating ribs (fifteenth day),.-Wandering pain in the right side of the abdomen, at 10 P.M. (sixteenth day),*.—[230.] 6.25 A.M., after a walk in the open air, and while sitting in my room, a bubbling in the hypogastric region (second day),.-Pains in the hypogastrium from flatus, A.M. (second day),.-4.30 P.M., severe flatulent pains in the hypogastrium and an emission of flatus, which is followed by pain in abdomen; 6 P.M., severe flatulent pain in the abdomen, preceding and during a diarrhoeic stool, followed by feeling of weakness and perspiration on the face and neck (fifteenth day),.

Respiratory Organs.-7.15 P.M., after a walk in the open air and on seating myself in a warm room, an itching in the right side of the trachea, producing a dry, hacking cough. Soon after an itching in the left side of the trachea, causing a dry hacking cough (fifteenth day),8.

Chest.-A soreness in the left lung, such as is felt during the convalescence from pneumonia, at 5.30 P.M., while at rest in my office (first day),8. —11 P.M., while lying on the left side, an aching at the lower third of the sternum, continuing several minutes (tenth day),.-10.50 A.M., while walking in the open air, a sticking pain from without inwards in the region of the cartilages of the sixth and seventh ribs (twelfth day),.—While in bed sore aching in the anterior wall of the chest (fourteenth day),.— 3.15 P.M., an intense aching at the posterior aspect of the middle of the sternum (fifteenth day),.-During the day aching in the anterior wall of the chest (fifteenth day),-[240.] Drawing in the right anterior wall of the chest, soon after 3.50 P.M. (third day),.-3.25 P.M., a drawing, crampy sensation in the right anterior of the chest and axilla, extending down the arm to the fingers, and terminating in a jerking of the little finger (thir teenth day),.-3.40 P.M., pain in the right anterior well of the chest, near the axilla (second day),.-1.30 P.M., while writing, drawing sensation in the right anterior wall of the chest and right arm, passing down the arm to the elbow (third day),.—5 P.M., aching in the right anterior wall of the chest, extending through to the right scapula (tenth day),.-At 2.30 P.M., while inhaling, a drawing crampy sensation at the outer border of the right mammary glaud, extending to the axilla and arm (fourteenth day),-Pulsating raw pain near the sternal border of the left mammary gland, seeming to be in the cartilage of the fifth rib, at 5 P.M. (second day),.

Back.-3.50 P.M., pain under the lower part of the left scapula (third day),.-2.35 P.M., broad pain passing from the lower angle of the right scapula to the locality of the serrations of the serratus magnus muscles, then a pulsating pain at the posterior aspect of the coccyx (fourth day),. -9.50 P.M., a sore aching at the right scapula (fifteenth day),.-[250.] 9.45 P.M., a crampy aching below the right scapula (fifth day),.-3.5 P.M., a pulsating pain in the right sacro-iliac articulation, leaving a lameness, which is felt when walking (third day),.-10 P.M., aching in the dorsal region (sixteenth day),.—A pulsating pain in the left sacro-iliac articulation, at 2.18 P.M. (third day),.-Aching in the coccyx, while in bed (fourteenth day),.

Extremities.-Soon after 10.55 P.M., while lying on the left side, a drawing sensation and aching in the upper part of the right forearm, then a pulsating, deep pain in the right gluteal region, just above the tuber ischii, seeming to be in the periosteum, then a sharp pain just above the crest of the right ilium. After which the pain in the right gluteal region returned,

then a sharp pain just above the crest of the left ilium, then a drawing and aching in the right foot, then a drawing and aching in the anterior muscles of the right forearm, then a pulsating, deep pain in the right gluteal region, sensitive to pressure, then a drawing and aching in the anterior muscles of the left forearm. A drawing in the cuter side of the left foot, extending to the plantar aspect, as if the foot would cramp, then a drawing and aching in the left leg, not relieved by motion. A lame aching and sense of drawing in the right forearm, near the elbow, then a return of the pain near the right tuber ischii, then aching in the right leg, then a pulsating, deep pain in the right thigh, at the inner border of the sartorius muscle (first day),.-Soon after, 11.30 P.M., an aching in the right ankle, then aching in the right forearm, then a deep, pulsating pain in the right gluteal region, near the tuber ischii (second day),.-6 P.M. drawing in the muscles of the right upper arm, then drawing in the dorsum of the right foot, then drawing in the plantar region of the right foot, shifting from place to place as rapidly as I can write the symptoms (second day),.

Superior Extremities.-While in bed, aching in the muscles of the right arm (fourteenth day),.—3.8 P.M., while at rest, a sharp pain passing through the right shoulder to the scapula (third day),8a.—[260.] 4.15 P.M., while at rest, a drawing sensation and aching, commencing suddenly in the right axilla, moving down the inner side of the arm to the elbow (third day),.-2.30 P.M., while at rest, a lame, aching pain in right upper arm (third day),.-3.45 P.M., drawing, crampy sensation in the muscles of the right upper arm. After a short interval a similar sensation in the right elbow (thirteenth day),.-7.15 P.M., a drawing sensation in the right upper arm, followed by an aching in the left side at the floating ribs (fifteenth day),.-7 P.M., while riding on horseback, a drawing sensation in the muscles of the right upper arm (nineteenth day),.-4.30 P.M., a severe aching pain at the interual condyle of the right arm, after a walk in the open air and while standing in the open air, continuing five minutes; at the same time, and while the arm is resting on a support, a sense of drawing at the inner side of the left upper arm (nineteenth day),8.—2.45 P.M., a sharp sticking pain in the right elbow (fifth day),.--3.40 P.M., while inhaling, aching in the right forearm, commencing in the belly of the flexor carpi radialis muscle, extending through the arm. The arm is sensitive to pressure (tenth day),.-9.30 P.M. aching in the left forearm (twelfth day),. -3.45 P.M., sense of drawing in the right forearm, extending to the metacarpus (tenth day),[270.] 4.30 P.M., a pulsating pain in the interosseous tissue, at the palmar aspect of the left forearm, near the wrist, extending to the little finger, where it becomes a drawing, crampy pain, then a drawing sensation, extending up the forearm from the wrist (third day),§. -9.45 P.M., a crampy aching in the right wrist (fifteenth day),.—A transient drawing pain passing through the right carpus, leaving the wrist lame on motion, at 10 A.M. (fourth day),8.-9.25 P.M., after a walk in the open air and while in my room reading, a sharp pain suddenly pierces the palmar aspect of the left carpus, traversing the dorsum of the first and second fingers, becoming a drawing pain in its progress to the metacarpo-phalangeal articulation of those fingers, then involving all the metacarpo-phalangeal articulations of the hand, drawing the fingers closer together and the thumb towards the palm of the hand. The whole hand is numb, looks and feels swollen, its temperature is increased. Continued motion relieves the drawing, but not the numbness, which continued fifteen minutes (fourth day),8. -5.57 P.M., a drawing, crampy sensation in the left carpus, then in the an-

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terior muscles of the right upper arm (twenty-first day),.-3.47 P.M., crampy sensation, increasing to an aching, in the first phalanges of the right hand; continuing ten minutes, relieved by motion of the fingers (tenth day),.-1.30 P.M., while writing, a dancing pain suddenly attacks the right metacarpus, terminating in a lame aching and a drawing sensation in the metacarpa Iregion of the thumb and index finger (third day),.-3.30 P.M., a drawing pain in the dorsal aspect of the metacarpal region of the right thumb (fifth day),.-9.32 P.M., during the numbness of the left hand, a sharp pain in the dorsum of the first phalanx of the index finger of the right hand, shooting to the articulation of the first and second phalanx of the index finger (fourth day),.-4.15 P.M., stinging in a small spot on the dorsum of the first phalanx of the second finger of the right hand (tenth day),.

Inferior Extremities.—[280.] 3.20 P.M., an intermittent, pressingoutward pain at the left sacro-iliac articulation, sensitive to pressure, relieved by walking, but feels lame and sore (third day),8.—5 P.M., a pulsating pain in the right gluteal region, near the tuberosity of the ischium, sensitive to pressure (third day),.-3.40 P.M., a pulsating pain at the left pubic bone, continuing several hours, generally relieved by walking, sometimes felt when walking; the pain seems to be in the periosteum; there is sensitiveness on pressure (second day),.-10 A.M., while standing quietly before a hot stove, a return of the pain near the right tuber ischii (second day),. 4.50 P.M., a pulsating, deep pain in the posterior and upper part of the right thigh (third day),.-2.35 P.M., while writing, pain in the upper and posterior part of the left thigh (fifth day),.-4.10 P.M., pulsating pain in the neck of the right femur, seeming to be in the capsular ligament, ceasing while walking, returning when at rest (tenth day),".-At night, while in bed, a pulsating pain in the neck of the right femur; this pain was felt several times during the day (eleventh day),".-1 P.M., a pulsating, deep pain in the neck of the right femur; this pain seems to be in the capsular ligament, at the inner border of the ilic-femoral ligament, and continues ten hours, relieved by walking (twelfth day),.-5.5 P.M., a return of the pain in the neck of the right femur, continuing several hours (fourteenth day),. -[290.] 3.27 P.M., while at rest, pain along the outer side of the right thigh (third day),.-9.50 P.M., a lame aching at the inner side of the right thigh, just above the knee, followed by a wiry or threadlike pain in the right instep (fifteenth day),".-Aching and sense of drawing in the outer hamstring of the right leg, at 3.40 P.M.; return of the aching and drawing, at 4.26 P.M. (second day),.-3 P.M., a lame, aching pain in the right knee (third day),".-9.20 P.M., while seated in a warm room, and immediately after supper, an intense crampy aching in the left knee, continuing eight minutes; not relieved by motion (nineteenth day),.-3.50 P.M., a drawing pain in the right knee, extending into the anterior muscles of the thigh (third day),8.-12.30 A.M., while in bed, an intermittent pressingoutward pain in the right knee, relieved by motion (second day),.—12 M., aching in the right leg (second day),.—2.50 P.M., a numb aching passing down the outer side of the right leg to the foot, then an aching and sense of drawing in the outer hamstring (third day),.-9 P.M., an intermittent aching in the right tibia (eighteenth day),-[300.] 3 P.M., a pulsating pain in the head of the right tibia, relieved by motion (second day),.5.30 P.M., while at rest, a pulsating pain in the head of the right tibia; the tibia is sensitive to pressure (second day),.-6.30 P.M., a pulsating pain near the upper extremity and outer side of the right fibula. Immediately

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