Belladonna bell.

Nerve centers. Brain. Blood-vessels. Capillaries. Mucous membranes: Eyes. Mouth. THROAT. Skin. Organs. Right side.

Heat: of sun; if heated. Afternoon (3 P.M.). DRAFTS; on head; hair cut (Glo.). Washing head. After taking cold. CHECKED SWEAT. LIGHT. NOISE. JARRING. Touch. Company. Pressure. Motion. Hanging down.

Light covering. Bending backward. Rest in bed.

Plethoric, brainy. SUDDEN, VIOLENT EFFECTS. DRYNESS, BRIGHT REDNESS -streaked (Pho.)- AND BURNING HEAT; WITH GREAT PAIN; FULNESS OR SWELLING. CONGESTION: TO HEAD. Dilated arteries. Inflammation. Heat in body, parts, discharges, etc. CONSTRICTIONS. Parts are hot, swelled, red and dry. THROBBING, SHARP CUTTING, SHOOTING or clawing PAINS; of maddening severity; coming and going, in repeated attacks (Nit-ac.). Scant or hot discharges. JERKS. Shocks. TWITCHINGS. SPASM; of throat, vagina, etc.

Over-active. Excited. WILDLY DELIRIOUS; ferocious, noisy, cries out. RESTLESS and talks fast. Tries to escape. Furibund. Biting mania. Violent delirium. THROBBING HEAD; < temples; < motion; > letting hair down. Brain rises and falls in waves. Rolls head. Pains go downward from head. HEAD SENSITIVE TO DRAFTS AND COLD, or washing hair. HAMMERING THROB. Pulls her hair. Meningitis. Sunstroke. DILATED PUPILS. Prominent, sparkling eyes. Red sclerotic. Lurid, red, terrifying hallucinations; on closing eyes. Blind attacks; then yellow vision. Sees red. Flashes before vision. PHOTOPHOBIA. Red nose. Fiery RED, turgid, hot FACE, or alternately pale and red. DRY, HOT MOUTH AND THROAT (Pho. Rhus-t.). Toothache, > biting. Swelled tongue. Strawberry tongue. Urging to swallow, with choking. Drinks in sips. Must drink to swallow. Craves lemonade. Pain from stomach or liver to shoulder and throat, < lying on it. Cutting epigastric colic, > bending backward. Distended transverse colon. Clawing or downward forcing in abdomen. Acute prolapsus ani (Ars.). Stools contain chalky lumps. Enuresis on lying down; nocturnal. Fiery red urine. Early, profuse, hot (Sabi.), red, gushing menses. Rigid os. Metritis. Bearing down > standing,< lying. Red streaked mammæ. Dry cough. Barking voice. Stiff r. neck and shoulder in afternoon. Back feels broken. BRIGHT, RED, GLOSSY SKIN. Intense dermatitis. Scarlatina. Erysipelas. Sleepy, but can't sleep. Heavy, hot sleep. JERKS DURING SLEEP. Frightful dreams; of quarrels, fire, etc. Internal coldness with external, pungent, burning heat. HOT HEAD, with cold limbs (Sul.). Hot sweat. Skin hot, but moist and dry alternately. Spasm, then prolonged unconsciousness.

Complementary: Calc-c. Hep. Merc. Related: Glo. Hyo. Stram.

Adapted to bilious, lymphatic, plethoric constitutions; persons who are lively and entertaining when well, but violent and often delerious when sick. Women and children with light hair and blue eyes, find complexion, delicate skin; sensitive, nervous, threatened with convulsions; tuberculous patients. Great liability to take cold; sensitive to drafts of air, especially when uncovering the head; from having the hair cut; tonsils become inflamed after riding in a cold wind (Acon., Hep., Rhus - takes cold from exposure of feet, Con., Cup., Sil.). Quick sensation and motion; eyes snap and move quickly; pains come suddenly, last indefinitely and cease suddenly (Mag. p.). Pains usually in short attacks; cause redness of face and eyes; fulness of head and throbbing of carotids. Imagines he sees ghosts, hideous faces, and various insects (Stram.); black animals, dogs, wolves. Fear of imaginary things, wants to run away from them; hallucinations. Violent delirium; disposition to bite, spit, strike and tear things; breaks into fits of laughter and gnashes the teeth; wants to bite and strike the attendants (Stram.); tries to escape (Hell.). Head hot and painful; face flushed; eyes wild, staring, pupils dilated; pulse full and bounding, globular, like buckshot striking the finger; mucous membrane of mouth dry; stool tardy and urine suppressed; sleepy; but cannot sleep (Cham., Op.). Convulsions during teething, with fever (without fever, Mag. p.); come on suddenly, head hot, feet cold. Rush of blood to head and face (Amyl., Glon., Mel.). Headache, congestive, with red face, throbbing of brain and carotids (Met.); < from slight noise, jar, motion, light, lying down, least exertion; > pressure, tight bandaging, wrapping up, during menses. Boring the head into the pillow (Apis, Hell., Pod.). Vertigo when stooping, or when rising after stooping (Bry.); on every change of position. Abdomen tender, distended < by least jar, even of the bed; obliged to walk with great care for fear of a jar. Pain in right ileo-coecal region, < by slightest touch, even of the bed- cover. The transverse colon protrudes like a pad. Skin: of a uniform, smooth, shining scarlet redness; dry, hot, burning; imparts a burning sensation to examining had; the true Sydenham scarlet fever, where eruption is perfectly smooth and truly scarlet. Pressing downwards as if the contents of abdomen would issue from the vulva; > standing and sitting erect; worse mornings (Lil., Mur., Sep.).

Complementary: Calcarea. Belladonna is the acute of Calcarea, which is often required to complete a cure. Similar: to, Acon., Bry., Cic., Gels., Glon., Hyos., Mel., Op., Stram.

From touch, motion, noise, draught of air, looking at bright, shining objects (Lys., Stram.); after 3 p. m.; night, after midnight; while drinking; uncovering the head; summer sun; lying down.

Rest; standing or sitting erect; warm room.

Manifested under this drug is a remarkable quickness of sensation, or of motion; the eyes snap and move quickly; pains come and go with great celerity; a pain may have lasted for some time, then in a second it is gone; may commence suddenly, slowly increase in severity till the height is reached, then in a second be gone. Much twitching and jerking of the muscles. Dull and sleepy, awake and half asleep.

Dulness; delirious, with dulness; with raving and disposed to injure, strike, bite, etc.; calling to each other to kill them; also merry delirium. Moaning, it seems to relieve. Vertigo. Affections of the mind in general; of the intellect; fantastic illusions (brimful of fancies); imbecility; insensibility; madness. Memory quick; weak; lost.

Sensation of heaviness. Forehead most sensitive. Shuts the eyes. Throbbing and stitches. Convulsive shaking and bending the head backward. Movements of; boring into the pillow; constantly moving it from side to side. Affections of the hair, which may split, or come out, or be hard and dry, etc. Apoplexy.

Very red; much injected and even ecchymosed; diplopia; sees wrong side up; neuralgia. Lachrymation feeling like brine; dim sight. Eyeballs, sclerotic coat; pupils dilated; eyes water; eyebrows; eyelids; inner angles of the eye; ocular illusions, in strange things particularly objects look fiery, etc. Photophobia; paralyzed optic nerve; amaurosis; look is fixed; momentary loss of sight.

Paralyzed auditory nerve; hard hearing. Affections of the locality below the ears; stitches in and about the ears, parotids, etc.; noise in, particularly humming, roaring; tearing from above downward.

Bleeding of; pale blood from; smelling too sensitive; smelling too feeble; imaginary smells; foul imaginary smells. Pimples quickly filling with pus and covered with crusts. Fine stitches or tingling in tip of nose relieved by rubbing.

Scarlet red; dark red; bluish red; changing colour frequently; very pale and suddenly red; colored like erysipelas. Distorted with the pain and suffering.

Red mouth and fauces; gaping mouth; sensations under the jaw; articulations of the jaws; lock-jaws; puffiness of the lips; affections of corners of the lips. Palate. Gullet. Tongue, red on its edges and borders, white in its middle; not clean (furred); increase of saliva: diminution of saliva, thick and tenacious; papillæ red and swollen; trembling of; stammering speech. Hæmorrhage from mouth and nose. Lower teeth; grinding of; drawing in; with flushed face and red eyes.

Dryness in fauces and burning of tongue. Sore throat. Swelling in throat and tonsils. Difficult deglutition. Fluid returns by the nose; aversion to all liquids.

Aphonia; hoarse; croupy cough. Expectoration bloody; blood pale. Respiration oppressed; quick; slow; unequal; labored; with moaning. Tender chest and rattling of mucus. Fine, stitching, needly pains in. Bubbling sensation in region of heart.

Sour taste. Eructations, empty gagging with inclination to vomit. Nausea; vomits bile and mucus. Violent hiccough; spasmodic eructations resembling hiccough. Loss of taste; putrid. Complete loss of appetite and aversion to food, especially to meat. Thirst; also great thirst and inability to drink a drop. Hard and painful pressure in stomach; after a meal or when walking, must walk very slowly and easily. Cramps in the stomach suddenly.

Inner lower belly (troubles in this locality are very characteristic). Cramp and colic-like pain in the abdomen, as if a hand had clutched some part, and was griping (squeezing) it with great force, causing great pain, or a feeling as if the nails (of the hand) were dug into the part; this sensation generally comes and goes very suddenly. Cutting pain, as if a knife was actually slicing the parts. Sensation as though the inner parts were distended. Dragging pain. Feels as if a hard body were pressing out of right inguinal ring. Constriction about umbilicus, as if a hard lump would form. Great sensitiveness of abdomen; dartings across.

Shuddering during; diarrhœa followed by tenesmus; vomiting after tenesmus; involuntary stools. Constipation.

Urine dark; yellow; lemon; gold color; pale; involuntary. Incontinence of urine in bed at night.

Male: Testicles are drawn up; lancinations in. Seminal emissions with relaxed penis; total loss of sexual instinct. Female: Pain like labor pains as if pressing out through vulva; pressing followed by flooding; labor pains cease; pains in labor, coming and going very suddenly; labor pains too weak. Abortion. Metrorrhagia. Milk diminished or increased. Erysipelas of mammæ. Rigidity of os. Menstruation painful; blood of light color; bad smell. All affections of uterus.

Pulsations of the blood vessels; may hear the pulsations of the blood vessels so loud when trying to sleep, as to be kept awake by it. Drowsy; stupid; sleepless; screams out; jumping; jerks; anxious; frightful; terrifying sleep, unrefreshing. Stupor like sleep; concomitant complaints to morbid sleep; sleeplessness, with drowsiness very characteristic.

Pulse full; hard; strong, bounding, double. Sensation of external and internal heat; heat of single parts; heat of outer or of inner parts. Congestion of blood to single parts. Shuddering in general. Perspiration; want of perspiration, Compound fevers in general; heat, with shuddering. Chills commencing in the back, pit of stomach, arms, spreading over; no thirst. During fever, thirst, drowsy, starting, delirium.

Burning of the skin, particularly when the hand continues to burn after touching the skin, as though a hot stove had been touched, very characteristic. Cutting of the skin as though "sliced" with a sharp knife. Desquamation of skin; pale; dry; red. Boils red, with sensation of heat, and feels hot to the hand. Exanthema; erysipelatous; flat; painful; peeling off; of scarlet color; smooth scarlatina, with swelling; phlegmonous erysipelas, swollen thick; red spots; swelling of the parts affected; sensation as if a part were swollen. Ulcers; cutting, hard, swollen red and angry looking. Warts, with red streaks.

All affections of the internal head, right side; right eye; right ear; face, right side; teeth, right side; mouth and fauces, left side; right hypochondria; right chest; right upper extremity; right lower extremity; general symptoms right side. Neck: glands of the neck, and lower jaw. Complaints pertaining to the back; foot; hollow of the knee; patella. Back: Pains in, can't lie, sit, or stand; sharp pain in, transfixes one on motion. Affections of glands, cervical, left axillary.

Burning in inner parts; boring as if the parts would burst, or as if they were pushed or pressed asunder; of contraction of inner parts; cramp pains in muscles; dryness of inner parts, as of the throat, etc., as though the inner parts were falling, (particularly in females, through vulva); heaviness of the outer parts, jerking pain of the outer parts. Motion rendered difficult; sensation of motion; drawing from below upwards; vibration like dull tingling in the body; convulsive motion. Paralyzed inner parts. Pricking or darting in outer parts; darting from below upwards; darting in the bones. Convulsions in general; clonic; tonic.

Upper: Creeping on limbs as of a mouse. Arthritic pains in joints; lameness of; sharp pains; dartings. Lower: Right hip-joint, can't lie on it; rising from seat very painful Lancinations in right thigh close above knee when sitting. Cramp pain in right knee; also bubbling sensation in.

Concomitant complaints to cough. Milk increased. Apoplexy. Bleeding from inner parts; blood feels hot; with forcing pains; coagulates easily. Plethora. Chlorosis. Distension of the blood vessels. Dropsy of the inner parts. Epilepsy. Hydrophobia. Indurations after inflammations. Inflammation of the mucous membrane wherever occurring. Staggering when walking. Starting of the body. Swelling in general and of the parts affected. Inflammation of the glands; induration of the glands; glands painful, prickling, swelling, hot swelling of the glands. Pricking in the bones.

From the least jar of the bed or chair which aggravates the patient exceedingly; in the afternoon; in the evening; after taking cold; after having the hair cut; from draught of air; while drinking, often times the fluid will escape through the nose; applicable to the complaints of children; from looking at shining objects (puerperal convulsions will sometimes come on from looking at a shining object); looking at running water; after moving; after taking narcotics; sausages; suppressed perspiration; during pregnancy; on rising after scarlet fever; during sleep; from strong smells; from sun burning; from touching the parts; during walking; walking in the wind particularly; with women, especially in confinement; when shaking the head; from the head getting wet.

On bending or turning the affected part; while reposing; while standing; while sitting up.

Acon., Calc. carb., Hyosc., Laches., Moschus, Nux vom., Pulsat., Sepia, Sulphur.

Hyosc., Coffea.

Fear of imaginary things, wants to run away from them. Vertigo when stooping, or when rising after stooping falling to the left or backwards, with vanishing of sight and flickering before the eyes. Intense throbbing headache, worse from noise light or jarring, and from leaning forward, better when bending backward. Face glowing red, hot and swollen. Tonsilitis, worse on right side, parts bright red, worse on swallowing liquids. Pharyngitis, and other throat affections characterized by intense hyperaemia and dryness of the parts, and tendency to spasmodic contraction. Pains, particularly in the abdomen and pelvis, come on suddenly, continue violently a longer or shorter time, and disappear as suddenly as they came. Tenderness of the abdomen is aggravated by the least jar of the bed or the chair on which she sits. She is obliged in walking to step with great care for fear of a jar. Peritonitis and other inflammation, of the abdominal viscera, characterized by great distension, and sensitiveness to touch and motion; extreme pungent heat and violent pain. Menorrhagia or metrorrhagia; blood bright red; in plethoric subjects. Dry cough from tickling in the larynx, usually worse in the evening after going to bed. Pulse accelerated, full and bounding, violent throbbing of the carotid and temporal. Wants to sleep but cannot. Takes cold in every draft of air, especially when uncovering the head, complains from having the hair out. Usually worse after 3 p. m., and again after midnight.

Deadly Nightshade

Belladonna acts upon every part of the nervous system, producing active congestion, furious excitement, perverted special senses, twitching, convulsions and pain. It has a marked action on the vascular system, skin and glands. Belladonna always is associated with hot, red skin, flushed face, glaring eyes, throbbing carotids, excited mental state, hyperæsthesia of all senses, delirium, restless sleep, convulsive movements, dryness of mouth and throat with aversion to water, neuralgic pains that come and go suddenly (Oxytropis). Heat, redness, throbbing and burning. Great children's remedy. Epileptic spasms followed by nausea and vomiting. Scarlet fever and also prophylactic. Here use the thirtieth potency. Exophthalmic goitre. Corresponds to the symptoms of "air-sickness" in aviators. Give as preventive. No thirst, anxiety or fear. Belladonna stands for violence of attack and suddenness of onset. Bell for the extreme of thyroid toxæmia. Use 1x (Beebe).

Patient lives in a world of his own, engrossed by specters and visions and oblivious to surrounding realities. While the retina is insensible to actual objects, a host of visual hallucinations throng about him and come to him from within. He is acutely alive and crazed by a flood of subjective visual impressions and fantastic illusions. Hallucinations; sees monsters, hideous faces. Delirium; frightful images; furious; rages, bites, strikes; desire to escape. Loss of consciousness. Disinclined to talk. Perversity, with tears. Acuteness of all senses. Changeableness.

Vertigo, with falling to left side or backwards. Sensitive to least contact. Much throbbing and heat. Palpitation reverberating in head with labored breathing. Pain; fullness, especially in forehead, also occiput, and temples. Headache from suppressed catarrhal flow. Sudden outcries. Pain worse light, noise, jar, lying down and in afternoon; better by pressure and semi-erect posture. Boring of head into pillow; drawn backward and rolls from side to side. Constant moaning. Hair splits; is dry and comes out. Headache worse on right side and when lying down; ill effects, colds, etc; from having hair cut.

Red, bluish-red, hot, swollen, shining; convulsive motion of muscles of face. Swelling of upper lip. Facial neuralgia with twitching muscles and flushed face.

Throbbing deep in eyes on lying down. Pupils dilated (Agnus). Eyes feel swollen and protruding, staring, brilliant; conjunctiva red; dry, burn; photophobia; shooting in eyes. Exophthalmus. Ocular illusions; fiery appearance. Diplopia, squinting, spasms of lids. Sensation as if eyes were half closed. Eyelids swollen. Fundus congested.

Tearing pain in middle and external ear. Humming noises. Membrana tympani bulges and injected. Parotid gland swollen. Sensitive to loud tones. Hearing very acute. Otitis media. Pain causes delirium. Child cries out in sleep; throbbing and beating pain deep in ear, synchronous with heart beat. Hematoma auris. Acute and sub-acute conditions of Eustachian tube. Autophony-hearing one's voice in ear.

Imaginary odors. Tingling in tip of nose. Red and swollen. Bleeding of nose, with red face. Coryza; mucus mixed with blood.

Dry. Throbbing pain in teeth. Gumboil. Tongue red on edges. Strawberry tongue. Grinding of teeth. Tongue swollen and painful. Stammering.

Dry, as if glazed; angry-looking congestion (Ginseng); red, worse on right side. Tonsils enlarged; throat feels constricted; difficult deglutition; worse, liquids. Sensation of a lump. Œsophagus dry; feels contracted. Spasms in throat. Continual inclination to swallow. Scraping sensation. Muscles of deglutition very sensitive. Hypertrophy of mucous membrane.

Loss of appetite. Averse to meat and milk. Spasmodic pain in epigastrium. Constriction; pain runs to spine. Nausea and vomiting. Great thirst for cold water. Spasms of stomach. Empty retching. Abhorrence of liquids. Spasmodic hiccough. Dread of drinking. Uncontrollable vomiting.

Distended, hot. Transverse colon protrudes like a pad. Tender, swollen. Pain as if clutched by a hand; worse, jar, pressure. Cutting pain across; stitches in left side of abdomen, when coughing, sneezing, or touching it. Extreme sensitiveness to touch, bed-clothes, etc (Laches).

Thin, green, dysenteric; in lumps like chalk. Shuddering during stool. Stinging pain in rectum; spasmodic stricture. Piles more sensitive with backache. Prolapsus ani (Ignatia; Podoph).

Retention. Acute urinary infections. Sensation of motion in bladder as of a worm. Urine scanty, with tenesmus; dark and turbid, loaded with phosphates. Vesical region sensitive. Incontinence, continuous dropping. Frequent and profuse. Hæmaturia where no pathological condition can be found. Prostatic hypertrophy.

Testicles hard, drawn up, inflamed. Nocturnal sweat of genitals. Flow of prostatic fluid. Desire diminished.

Sensitive forcing downwards, as if all the viscera would protrude at genitals. Dryness and heat of vagina. Dragging around loins. Pain in sacrum. Menses increased; bright red, too early, too profuse. Hæmorrhage hot. Cutting pain from hip to hip. Menses and lochia very offensive and hot. Labor-pains come and go suddenly. Mastitis pain, throbbing, redness, streaks radiate from nipple. Breasts feel heavy; are hard and red. Tumors of breast, pain worse lying down. Badly smelling hæmorrhages, hot gushes of blood. Diminished lochia.

Drying in nose, fauces, larynx, and trachea. Tickling, short, dry cough; worse at night. Larynx feels sore. Respiration oppressed, quick, unequal. Cheyne-Stokes respiration (Cocaine; Opium). Hoarse; loss of voice. Painless hoarseness. Cough with pain in left hip. Barking cough, whooping cough, with pain in stomach before attack, with expectoration of blood. Stitches in chest when coughing. Larynx very painful; feels as if a foreign body were in it, with cough. High, piping voice. Moaning at every breath.

Violent palpitation, reverberating in head, with labored breathing. Palpitation from least exertion. Throbbing all through body. Dichrotism. Heart seemed too large. Rapid but weakened pulse.

Shooting pains along limbs. Joints swollen, red, shining, with red streaks radiating. Tottering gait. Shifting rheumatic pains. Phlegmasia alba dolens. Jerking limbs. Spasms. Involuntary limping. Cold extremities.

Stiff neck. Swelling of glands of neck. Pain in nape, as if it would break. Pressure on dorsal region most painful. Lumbago, with pain in hips and thighs.

Dry and hot; swollen, sensitive; burns scarlet, smooth. Eruption like scarlatina, suddenly spreading. Erythema; pustules on face. Glands swollen, tender, red. Boils. Acne rosacea. Suppurative wounds. Alternate redness and paleness of the skin. Indurations after inflammations. Erysipelas.

A high feverish state with comparative absence of toxæmia. Burning, pungent, steaming, heat. Feet icy cold. Superficial blood-vessels, distended. Perspiration dry only on head. No thirst with fever.

Restless, crying out, gritting of teeth. Kept awake by pulsation of blood-vessels. Screams out in sleep. Sleeplessness, with drowsiness. Starting when closing the eyes or during sleep. Sleeps with hands under head (Ars; Plat).

Worse, touch, jar, noise, draught, after noon, lying down. Better, semi-erect.

Compare: Sanguisorba officinals 2x-6x, a member of the Rosaceæ family, (Profuse, long-lasting menses, especially in nervous patients with congestive symptoms to head and limbs. Passive hæmorrhages at climacteric. Chronic metritis. Hæmorrhage from lungs. Varices and ulcers). Mandragora--(Mandrake). A narcotic of the ancients-Restless excitability and bodily weakness. Desire for sleep. Has antiperiodic properties like China and Aranea. Useful in epilepsy and hydrophobia, also Cetonia (A. E. Lavine). Hyos (less fever, more agitation); Stram (more sensorial excitement, frenzy); Hoitzia-A Mexican drug, similar in action to Bellad (Useful in fever, scarlatinal eruption, measles, urticaria, etc. High fever with eruptive fevers. Dry mouth and throat, red face, injected eyes, delirium). Calcar is often required after Bell; Atropia. Alkaloid of Belladonna covers more the neurotic sphere of the Belladonna action (Great dryness of throat, almost impossible to swallow. Chronic stomach affections, with great pain and vomiting of all food. Peritonitis. All kind of illusions of sight. Everything appears large. Platina opposite). Hypochlorhydria; pyrosis. Motes over everything. On reading, words run together; double vision, all objects seem to be elongated. Eustachian tube and tympanic congestion. Affinity for the pancreas. Hyperacidity of stomach. Paroxysms of gastric pain; ovarian neuralgia.

Atropia and its salts are used for ophthalmic purposes, to dilate the pupil and paralyze the accommodation.

Given internally or hypodermically, it is antagonistic to Opium and Morphine. Physostigma and Prussic Acid. Narcotic poisons and mushroom poisoning. Renal colic 1-200 of a grain hypodermically.

Atropin injected subcutaneously in doses from a milligram upwards for intestinal obstruction threatening life.

Hypodermically 1-80 gr night sweats in phthisis.

Atropia 1-20 gr is antagonistic to 1 gr. Morphine.

Also used as a local anæsthetic, antispasmodic, and to dry up secretions, milk, etc. Hypodermically 1-80 gr night sweats in phthisis.

Atropia Sulph, 1-120 to 1-60 grain.

Antidotes to Belladonna: Camph; Coff; Opium; Acon.

Complementary: Calc. Bellad (contains lime). Especially in semi-chronic and constitutional diseases.

Incompatible: Acet ac.

First to thirtieth potency and higher. Must be repeated frequently in acute diseases.

All acute inflammatory diseases present prominent head symptoms, pain, red puffed face, throbbing carotids and delirium, and spasms, or jerks and twitchings.

Eyes staring, red, blood-shot and pupils first contracted, then greatly dilated.

Mouth and throat very dry, red, sometimes greatly swollen; all mucous surfaces correspondingly dry and hot.

Pains appear suddenly, and after a while disappear as suddenly as they came.

Skin very red and hot, fairly radiates heat; burns the hand touching it, but sweats on covered parts.

Several inflammations which streak out in radii from a center.

Great liability to take cold; sensitive to draft of air, especially when uncovering the head; from having the hair cut (Hep.); tonsils swell after riding in a cold wind (Acon.).

Imagines he sees ghosts, hideous faces, and various insects (Stram.); black animals, dogs and wolves.

Abdomen tender, distended < by least jar, even the bed; obliged to walk with great care for fear of a jar.

Pain in right ileo-cæcal region, < by slightest touch, even the bed covers.

Pressing downwards, as if the contents of abdomen would issue from the vulva; < standing and sitting erect; worse mornings (compare Lil., Mur., Sep.).

Tongue: Red and dry, with red edges and white coating in the middle; Papillæ bright and prominent, like scarlatina (Acon., Ant. t.), offensive, putrid taste in throat when eating or drinking, although food tastes natural.

We now come to consider what I call the trio of delirium remedies -Belladonna, Hyoscyamus and Stramonium. Many other remedies have delirium, but these three deserve to head the list. Belladonna may also be called pre-eminently a head remedy. In most complaints where this remedy is indicated head symptoms preponderate. The blood all seems to be rushing to the head. (Amyl nitrite, Glonoine, Melilotus). The head is hot while the extremities are cool. The eyes are red and blood-shot. The face is also red, almost purple red. The carotid arteries throb so as to be plainly visible. There is either great pain, pressure or sense of fullness, or an almost stupid condition. The wild, terrible delirium, if present, may be found with pain, or even with no complaint of pain. In delirium the patient "imagines he sees ghosts, hideous faces and animals and insects." Fears all sorts of imaginary things and wants to run away from them; breaks out into fits of laughter or screams and gnashes his teeth; bites or strikes those around him; in short, Performs all sorts of violent acts and is controlled with great difficulty. No remedy has more presistently violent delirium than Belladonna. One of the characteristic features of Belladonna in delirium as compared with the other two remedies is the decided evidence already mentioned of a surcharge of blood in the brain. When the throbbing of the carotids, the heat, redness and congestion of face and conjunctiva go away, the delirium subsides in proportion. Belladonna may have delirium with pale face as its alternate, but it is the exception. Even the upper lip is congested and swollen.

In inflammations, which localize, Belladonna is in the first stage as often the leading remedy as any other. It does not make much difference where they localize, whether in head, throat, mammæ or elsewhere, if they come on suddenly, pursue a rapid course, are red, painful and especially throbbing. It is astonishing how many local inflammations, even a carbuncle or boil, will so disturb the general system and circulation, as to produce the general inflammatory fever, with the characteristic head symptoms calling for Belladonna, and no less astonishing how this remedy controls the whole condition, both local and general, when indicated. What! exclaims the believer in local applications, give Belladonna internally for a boil on the hand or foot? Yes, indeed, not only Belladonna, but Mercurius, Hepar Sulphuris, Tarantula Cubensis, and many others, and you will not have any need for local medication at all. It is only in the first or congestive or active inflammatory stage that this remedy is in place; but, if properly administered then, it will often abort the whole thing and never leave it to finish all its stages, or if not, so modify as to make it comparatively insignificant.

Belladonna is one of our best remedies in the diseases of children, even vieing with Chamomilla. They come suddenly, almost without warning. This sudden and intense onset of fever is sometimes duplicated in Cina cases, but there is helminthiasis in connection with it. Child is well one minute and sick the next, and one very characteristic symptom in these cases is, the child is very hot, with red face and semi-stupor, but every little while starts or jumps in sleep as if it might go into spasms. This condition is often found in children and then Belladonna is like "oil upon troubled waters." Remember Belladonna inflammations localize more than they do in Aconite. I drew the difference between these two remedies in inflammations and inflammatory fevers when writing upon Aconite. There is no use of confounding them. Some do so; but, in so doing, only exhibit their ignorance.

There are, in every remedy, symptoms of sensation, circumstance, constitution or modality which are peculiar both to diseases and remedies. These symptoms are not always easily accounted for. The attempt to explain them from a pathological standpoint is not always possible or even necessary were it possible. A simple acceptance of them as facts is often more sensible than to wait long to find the often unfindable. To act as a prescriber upon what we know is better than waiting, because we cannot explain or account for it. For instance, it is not easy to tell why "the pains of Belladonna appear suddenly and after a time disappear as suddenly as they come," while those of Stannum "gradually increase to a great height and as gradually decline," or Sulphuric acid "begin slowly and decline suddenly," or "gradually increase and suddenly cease " but so it is, and the acceptance of these facts enables the homœopathic prescriber to cure his patient, whether he can explain them or not. Guernsey says -"This medicine is particularly applicable, and in fact takes the lead over all others in cases in which quickness or suddenness of either sensation or motion is predominant." To be sure all these symptoms have their pathological explanation if we could give it; but, acting on our law of Similia, we can cure our patients and are not left at sea, without chart or compass, because we cannot explain. We know that these symptoms are the natural outcry of the pathological state, and that the administration of a poison which is capable of setting up a similar outcry cures the patient. What else is necessary? Either this is true, or Homœopathy is a humbug.

The simple fact, abundantly proven, that the remedy having the symptoms corresponding to the symptoms of the patient, cures him, no matter what the pathology, where a cure is at all possible, is one of the greatest discoveries of scientific investigation. Long live the name of Hahnemann the discoverer.

From out description thus far of this remedy you would expect it to be a good one for congestive headaches, and so it is, and not only so, but for neuralgic headaches. Throbbing pains, with the already described evidence of congestion of blood to the head. Belladonna headaches, whether congestive or neuralgic, are worse on stooping forward, bending downward, or lying down, anything that takes the patient out of the perpendicular. "Worse on lying down," in fact, seems to be a very reliable general characteristic. The elder Lippe once told me of a case of suspicious enlargement or swelling and pain of the breast of long standing, which, as he expressed it, seemed likely to prove a case for the surgeon (cancer), which was entirely cured by a few doses of Belladonna, to which he was guided by this symptom of the pains being so much worse on lying down. Since then I have observed and verified this symptom in many cases of different kinds. I will not stop to give all the symptoms that might be present in Belladonna headaches.

No remedy has greater affinity for the throat. The burning, dryness (Sabadilla), sense of constriction (constant desire to swallow to relieve the sense of dryness, Lyssin), with or without swelling of the palate and tonsils, is sometimes intense. I once witnessed a case of poisoning in which these symptoms were terribly distressing.

There are two very characteristic symptoms in the abdominal region, viz.: "Tenderness of the abdomen, aggravated by the least jar, in walking, or stepping, or even the bed or chair, upon which she sits or lies "; and "pressure downward as if the contents of the abdomen would issue through the vulva, < mornings." This last symptom is found under other remedies, notably Lilium tigrinum and Sepia. With Belladonna there is often associated with this pressure downward a pain in the back "as if it would break." "Starting and jumping, " or "twitching in sleep," or on going to sleep is characteristic.

So also is "sleepy, but cannot sleep," and "moaning during sleep."

With Belladonna the head likes wrapping up or covering, takes cold when it is uncovered or from cutting the hair (Silicea). (Glonoine; can't bear hat on).

Uniform, smooth, shining, scarlet redness of the skin, so hot that it imparts a burning sensation to the hand of one who feels of it, is very characteristic (H. N. Guernsey).

Convulsions with other symptoms of Belladonna are very frequently found under this remedy.

I have here endeavoured to give an outline of this great remedy. A volume might be profitably written upon its virtues. No one remedy would be more greatly missed than this, if it were to be expunged from our great Materia Medica, but we must leave it here and proceed to notice.

Modalities: < after 3 P. M. or after midnight from uncovering, or draft of air, and lying down; > from covering and head high.

Nervous anxiety, restlessness, desire to escape. Stupefaction, with congestion to the head ; pupils enlarged -delirium. Loss of consciousness. Fantastic illusions (when closing the eyes). Rage, madness, disposition to bite, to spit, to strike and to tear things. Disinclination to talk, or very fast talking. Delirium, with frightful figures and images before the eyes.

Vertigo, with stupefaction, vanishing of sight and great debility. Vertigo, with anguish, and falling insensibly on the left side, or backwards, with flickering before the eyes, especially when stooping, and when rising from a stooping posture. Congestion of blood to the head, with external and internal heat ; distended and pulsating arteries, stupefaction in the forehead, burning, red face ; worse in the evening -when leaning the head forward, from the slightest noise, and from motion. Stupefying stunning headache, extending from the neck into the head, with heat and pulsation in it ; worse in the evening, and from motion ; better when laying the hand on the head, and when bending the head backward. Boring headache in the right side of the head ; changing to stitches in the evening. Pressing headache, as if the head would split, pupils contracted, voice faint. Periodical nervous headache, every day from 4 P.M., till 3 A.M., aggravated by the heat of the bed, and when lying down. Jerks in the head, especially when walking fast, or when ascending steps ; better from external pressure. Inflammation of the brain, with burning and pulsation in the head ; first in the cerebellum, then in the forehead, and later in the whole head -blood-vessels on the head and neck enlarged, shaking with the head or boring in the pillows ; worse in the evening, and when lying. Hydrocephalus, with boring with the head in the pillows ; sensation as if water were moving in the head ; worse in the evening and when lying ; better from external pressure, and from bending the head backwards. Headache, from taking cold in the head, and from having the hair cut. Headache, worse on the right side. Headache, aggravated by moving the eyes, by shaking the head, when lying down, from a draft of air ; relieved by sitting up, leaning the head backward, from pressing the head with the hands. External heat and soreness of the head. Smooth, erysipelatous, hot swelling, first of the face, then extending over the whole head, with stupefaction or delirium ; violent headache, red, fiery eyes. Stitches in the bones of the neck. Convulsive shaking and bending of the head backwards. Boring the head into the pillow. Profuse, pungent-smelling perspiration, especially on the covered parts, while the body is burning hot.

Congestion of blood to the eyes, and redness of the veins. Heat in the eyes-distention of the sclerotica. Yellowness of the whites of the eyes. Eyes sparkling, red, glistening, or dim. Look, wild, unsteady, wavering. Continued lachrymation (tears sharp and salty). Distortion, spasms, and convulsions of the eyes. Photophobia, or photomania. Ectropium. Blindness at night (moon-blindness). Things look red. He sew sparks of fire. Diplopia. Squinting. Paralysis of the optic nerve.

Inflammation of the external and internal (right) ear, with discharge of pus. Stinging in and behind the ears. Humming and roaring in the ears. Paralysis of the auditory nerves. Inflammatory swelling of the parotid glands -stitches in the parotid gland.

Inflammatory swelling and redness of the external nose. Bleeding of the nose, with redness of the face. Over-sensitiveness of the sense of smell. Putrid smell from the nose.

Purple, red, hot face, or yellow color of the face. Face pale, sunken, with distorted, anxious countenance. Alternate redness and paleness of the face. Convulsive motions of the muscles of the face and mouth. Spasmodic distortion of the mouth (risus sardonicus). Erysipelatous swelling of the face. Semilateral swelling of the face. Nervous prosopalgia, with violent, cutting pains. Lips dark red, swollen, indurated. Swelling of the upper lip. Ulcerated corners of the mouth. Mouth half open, or spasmodically closed by lock-jaw. Stitches in the articulations of the jaws. Swelling and inflammation of the sub-maxillary glands.

Toothache, drawing and tearing up into the ear, with swelling of the cheek ; worse in the evening and at night ; aggravated by the cold air, by contact, while masticating, by mental exertion. Grinding of the teeth. Swelling of the gums, with burning heat and stinging.

Dryness of the mouth, without thirst. Inflammatory swelling and redness of the inner mouth and soft palate. Tongue hot, dry, red, cracked ; or only red on the edges, with white coating on the middle ; coated white or brown, or covered with mucus. Inflammatory swelling of the tongue, painful to the touch. Heaviness of the tongue, with difficulty in talking. Stuttering. Speaks through the nose speechlessness. Hæmorrhage from the mouth.

Inflammation of the throat, with sensation of a lump, which induces hawking, with dark redness and swelling of the velum palate ; and pudendum. Burning and dryness in the œsophagus. Stinging in the œsophagus, in the tonsils ; worse when swallowing, and when talking. The œsophagus feels contracted, spasms in the throat not permitting one to swallow, the drink swallowed is discharged through the nostrils. Continual inclination to swallow. Tonsils inflamed, swollen, ulcers rapidly forming on them.

Loss of taste. Taste bitter, insipid, sour (bread) or sticky, slimy taste in the mouth. Excessive burning thirst, with constant desire to drink, drinks hastily ; or aversion to drink, or inability to swallow. Aversion to meat, acids, milk, beer.

Bitter eructations. Gulping up of food. Vomiting, of water ; of mucus ; of acid ; of bile ; of blood. Empty retching. Painful pressure in the pit of the stomach and stomach, especially after eating. Spasms of the stomach. Painfully distended abdomen, very sensitive to the touch. Colic, with restlessness, below the umbilicus, as from clutching and griping with the nails, worse from external pressure. Flatulent colic, (with protrusion of the transverse colon, like a pad), ameliorated by bending forwards and by external pressure. Stitches in the left side of the abdomen when coughing, sneezing, and touching it.

Stool in lumps, like chalk. Frequent small diarrhœic stools of mucus. Thin, green stools, with frequent micturition and perspiration. Dysenteric stools. Involuntary evacuations. Before stool, perspiration. During stool, shuddering. Spasmodic stricture of the rectum. Paralysis of the sphincter ani. Stinging pain in the rectum.

Retention of urine. Difficult discharge of urine, (and then discharge of a few of bloody urine only). Urine scanty, fiery red, dark, turbid. Continuous dropping of urine. Paralysis of the sphincter vesicæ. Strictures of the urethra.

Men. Inflammation of the testicles, great hardness in the, drawn-up testicles. Women. Great pressing in the genital organs, as if every thing would protrude. Spasmodic contraction of the uterus. Labor-pains too distressing, spasmodic, -too weak, or ceasing. After-pains. Congestion and inflammation of the uterus and labia. Prolapsus and induration of the uterus. Stitches in the organs. Dryness of the vagina. Metrorrhagia, blood clotted, with violent pain in the small of the back, and bearing down. Puerperal fever, nymphomania. Catamenia too early and too profuse. Menstrual blood of bright color, or of a bad smell. Lochial discharges in clots, and of bad smell.

Larynx very painful, with anxious starts when touching it. Constriction of the trachea. Voice rough, with a nasal sound. Hoarseness, loss of voice. Short, dry cough, from tickling in the larynx, with headache ; redness and heat in the face. Cough, with stitches in the chest, in the lumbar region, as the hip, in the uterus, -pain in the sternum, with tightness of the chest,- with rattling of mucus on the chest. Dry, spasmodic cough, with vomiturition, especially after midnight. Barking cough. Hooping-cough, with crying, or pain in the stomach before the attack, with expectoration of blood, (pale or coagulated), congestion of blood to the head, sparks before the eyes, spasms in the throat, bleeding from the nose, stitches in the spleen, involuntary stool and urine, oppressed breathing, stiffness of the limbs, shaking of the whole body, and general dry heat. The cough is renewed by the least motion, (especially at night).

Breathing labored, unequal, quick, with moaning. Vehement expirations. Feeling of suffocation when swallowing, or when touching and turning the neck. Oppression of the chest in the morning when rising, cannot breathe in the room, better in the open air. Congestion to the chest. Stitches in the chest, especially when coughing or yawning. Violent palpitation of the heart, reverberating in the head. Mammæ swelled, inflamed or indurated. Flow of milk.

Stiffness of the neck. Painful swelling of the glands of the neck. Intense cramp-pain in the small of the back and the os coccyx ; he can only sit for a short time.

Upper. Arms heavy, as if paralyzed. Scarlet redness and swelling of the arms and hands. Painful twitchings, spasms and convulsions in the arms and hands. Lower. Coxalgia, with stinging pain or burning in the hip-joint ; worse at night ; aggravated by the least contact. Involuntary limping. Heaviness and paralysis of the legs and feet. Tottering walk -when rising from bed in the morning, the legs refuse their service. Phlegmasia alba dolens.

Over-excitability of all the senses. Spasms in single limbs, or of the whole body, in children, during dentition. St. Vitus's dance. Epileptic spasms. Renewal of the spasms by the least contact, or from the glare of light. Hydrophobia. Full habit (plethora). Congestions (head, lungs). Apoplexia. Burning in the inner parts. Rheumatic pains (in the joints) flying from one place to another.

Sleeplessness, with drowsiness. Somnolence -stupor- lethargy (with snoring). Fearful visions, when closing the eyes to sleep. Starting, when closing the eyes, or during sleep, as in a fright. Dreams anxious-night-mare. Sleep, with moaning and towing about.

Pulse. Pulse accelerated, often full and hard, tense occasionally soft and small ; if glow, the pulse is full. Chilliness in the evening, especially on the extremities (arms) with heat of the head. Cold limbs, with hot head. Chilliness not relieved by the heat of the stove. Chilliness as soon as he moves under the cover. Internal and external burning heat, with restlessness. Continuous dry, burning heat, with perspiration only on the head. Internal heat, with restlessness ; hot forehead and cold cheeks. Dry heat, with thirst, and perspiration only on the head and neck (sour smelling). Perspiration exclusively on the covered parts, during sleep, ascending from the feet to the head.

Dry, burning-hot skin. Smooth, even, shining (not circumscribed) redness of the skin, with bloatedness, dryness, heat, burning, itching and swelling of the parts (especially face, neck, chest, abdomen and hands). Erysipelatous inflammations. Scarlet-red rash (over the whole body). Miliary eruptions. Vesicular eruptions, with scabs, white edges and œdematous swellings. Boils (returning every spring). Glands swelled, inflamed, painful, stinging. Bleeding soreness of the bends of the joints. Ulcers, with burning pain when touching them.

Indurations, after inflammation. Liability to take cold, with great sensitiveness to draft of air, especially when uncovering the head. Bad effects from valerian, mercury, china and opium. Aggravation, in the afternoon, and after midnight ; on moving ; from touching the parts even softly ; on walking in the wind ; from a draft of air ; on looking at shining or glistening objects ; while drinking. Amelioration, on bending the affected part backwards or inwards ; from leaning the head against something ; while standing.

Atropa Belladonna. Deadly Nightshade. (Greece, Italy, Britain.) N. O. Solanaceæ. Tincture of whole plant when beginning to flower.

Abscess. Acne. Amaurosis. Apoplexy. Bladder weakness. Boils. Brain, affections of. Bronchial glands, disease of. Carbuncle. Colic . Constipation. Convulsions. Cough. Croup. Delirium tremens. Depression . Diarrhœa. Dysentery. Ear, affections of . Enteric fever. Epilepsy. Erysipelas. Erythema. Excitement. Eye, affections of. Fear, effects of. Glandular swellings. Goître . Gout. Hæmorrhoids. Headache. Heart, affections of. Hydrocephalus. Hydrophobia. Hyperæmia. Influenza. Kidney, affections of. Lung, affections of. Malignant pustule. Mania. Measles. Meningitis. Menstruation. Mouth affections. Mumps. Neuralgia. Nose, affections of. Nyctalopia . Nymphomania. Paralysis. Parametritis. Perichondritis. Perimetritis. Peritonitis . Phlegmasia alba dolens. Pleurisy. Pneumogastric paralysis. Pneumonia. Pregnancy, disorders of . Puerperal mania. Rheumatism. Roseola. Scarlatina. Sensitiveness. Sleep, disorders of. Smell, disordered. Strangury. Taste, disordered. Tenesmus. Testicles, affections of. Thirst. Throat, sore. Tongue, affections of. Tuberculosis. Ulcers. Uterine affections. Vaccinia. Vertigo. Whooping-cough . Worm fever.

Belladonna acts primarily on the brain, and Teste very acutely explains the diversity of its action on men and animals by suggesting that it acts with an intensity proportionate to the brain development. On goats and rabbits it has no poisonous action whatever. On carnivorous animals it acts with moderate intensity. On man it acts with highest intensity. But on idiots, as Hufeland mentions, it has no more action than it has on some of the carnivora. An enormous number of the symptoms of Bell . are developed in and from the head and sensorium. Conformably with this, the pains of Bell . run downwards, i.e ., away from the head. ( Silic . and Gels . have a pain running up the back). To understand aright the action and uses of this great medicine it is necessary to bear in mind some leading features which characterise its action in all parts of the organism. But before alluding to these I will briefly refer to its correspondence to scarlatina. Cases of Belladonna poisoning have frequently been mistaken for cases of scarlatina. But it is the smooth form only, these presenting a smooth, even, red surface that come under its controlling action and prophylaxis. When such an epidemic is about, any one who may be exposed to infection may obtain almost certain immunity by taking Belladonna two or three times a day.

The several points to be remembered about Belladonna are that it is a medicine which has great general sensitiveness and also sensitiveness of the special senses — sensitive to light; to slightest noise; to motion or jar as when someone touches the bed. This is one feature which renders Bell . so appropriate in hydrophobia. It is a chilly medicine; sensitive to changes from warm to cold, to draught of air, to damp weather, to chilling from having the head uncovered, or having the hair cut ; better from being wrapped up warmly in a room. Under this drug there is a remarkable quickness of sensation, or of motion; the eyes snap and move quickly. The pains come and go suddenly no matter how long they may last. They are in great variety, but throbbing, burning, and stabbing are very characteristic: " stabbing from one temple to the other."

The great intensity and variety of the head pains has caused Bell . to be regarded as the headache medicine par excellence . Congestion of blood to the head. Vertigo, mostly at night on turning over in bed, or when getting up in the morning, also when walking and on every change of position. Headache with flushed face and brilliant eyes, dilated pupils. Feeling in brain like swashing of water. Throbbing, pulsating headache, with beating arteries and violent palpitation of the heart. It has cured a very severe headache in a nervous man occurring whenever he was exposed to tobacco smoke. In the mental sphere are mania; rage; disposition to bite, scratch and tear things. Fantastic illusions when closing eyes. Dull and sleepy; half asleep and half awake. Spasms and twitchings are very marked. Many disorders of vision. Heat, redness and burning are three great characteristic notes of Bell ., and are constantly cropping out in the pathogenesis. The face is purple, red, and hot, or yellow. Redness and pallor alternate. The mouth is exceedingly dry without thirst. Stinging in œsophagus, < swallowing or talking. Œsophagus feels contracted. Sensation of a hand clutching intestines. Stool in lumps like chalk. Spasmodic contraction of anus; obstinate constipation. Bleeding piles; back pains as if breaking. The menstrual flow is hot; of light colour; or bad smell. Cough short, dry, tickling, similar to cough of Rumex and Phos . Whooping-cough; with crying or pains before the attack; flushed face; nose-bleed and bloody expectoration; sparks before eyes; stitches in spleen; involuntary stool and urine. Paralysis of lungs and heart (vagus nerve). Violent palpitation of heart. Stitches in chest. Swelling of breast with bright red streaks radiating from centre of inflammation. Rheumatism < by motion. Sweat on covered parts only.

A striking picture of Bellad . is sometimes seen in cases of worm-fever. A case (æt. 3, pale, feeble child) reported by Lutze had the following symptoms: Awakened, or at least sits up at night in bed screaming, cannot be pacified; wets bed at night; passes worms now and then; cheeks and ear-tips brilliant scarlet, other parts of face, especially round mouth, white as snow; eyes brilliant, staring; pupils dilated. Skin dry and hot like fire. On being spoken to coaxingly flew into a violent rage. Cina 200 had ameliorated. Bell . cm. and m. cured permanently.

Bell . is a great children's remedy, not less important than Cham . Complaints come suddenly; hot, red face, semi-stupor, every little while starting or jumping in sleep as if it might go into convulsions. A very general characteristic of Bell . is < on lying down. It refers to headache and all kinds of inflammatory affections. Some characteristic symptoms are: "Tenderness of abdomen, < by least jar." "Pressing downward as if contents of abdomen would issue through vulva, < mornings; often associated with pain in back as if it would break." Starting, twitching, or jumping in sleep. Moaning in sleep. "Sleepy, but cannot sleep." The characteristic skin of Bell . is: "Uniform, smooth, shining, scarlet redness, so hot that it imparts a burning sensation to the hand of one who feels it." "Sweat on covered parts only" is also a marked symptom of Bell .

A number of cases of poisoning have been reported from application of Belladonna plasters to the skin, classical symptoms of the drug being produced and no little danger to life. One practitioner was warned by his patient that she could not tolerate a Belladonna plaster, but he, thinking there must have been a mistake, and that cantharides must have been in the plaster she had formerly used, had one made up under his own eyes and applied it himself. In less than one hour there was an unbearable pain and when the plaster was removed the surface was found to be blistered.

A case of poisoning reported in the Medical Press (September 9, 1891) brings out the profound and long-lasting effects of the drug. Three children, aged 7, 5, and 3 1/2, ate a number of the berries. Three days after, a doctor saw them. The condition of the eldest was as follows: pupils dilated to maximum and insensitive to light; pulse frequent; breathing feeble and hurried; skin dry, bright red; temperature lowered; extremities and face cold; urination and defecation suspended. Co-ordination was lost ; the patient staggered as if drunk and acted like a mad person. When asked his name he would shout as loud as he could, falling backwards with his hands in the air, his legs slightly bent as if about to sit down on a low stool, and then tumble on the floor. When raised from the ground and seeing his friends again he began to talk without ceasing, laughing, and singing local melodies in a boisterous manner. Suddenly his whole demeanour would change in to a melancholic depression of agony; he would look blank and wild on all around. He would instantly jump up, run at the wall, and endeavour to spring on the highest articles in the room with the strength of a wild animal, and it was with difficulty that his movements could be controlled.

The youngest of the three lay depressed, in a soporific condition, eyes closed, skin cold, limbs powerless. Pupillary reaction, tendon and muscular reflex were almost gone, whilst the sense of heat and cold still remained. On shouting loud in his ear, he slowly tried to open his eyes in wonder; when shaken and put on his feet he made two or three steps backward as his elder brother and fell senseless on the floor. The second eldest lay in a deep sleep, face cyanotic; skin of extremities and part of body dry and cold; breathing feeble, pulse scarcely perceptible. Loudest crying, or shaking could not rouse him; feeling and reaction lost. Washing out the stomach was effected in the eldest, but no evidence of the berries was obtained in that way. A long injection tube was inserted into the rectum and irrigation with hot and cold water alternately was carried out, with the object of exciting peristalsis. This was successful. Besides a great quantity of black-brown masticated fruit with skins and seeds, broken berries were found to the number of 28 in the case of the eldest, 39 in the second, and 37 in the youngest. Pilocarpin and morphia were injected in the case of the eldest, and camphor subcutaneously in the other two. The skin was rubbed, warm applications administered and rectal injections of milk, egg and brandy.

Nothing was heard of the children till "June of the present year" (1891), [the date of the poisoning is not stated, but it was probably the previous autumn] when the children were brought to the doctor by their father. They all looked pale and feeble; the pupils contracted slowly, and all were sensitive to light. The eldest was irritable and desponding. In the other two hearing and speech were almost gone. The almost. absolute deafness in these cases is noteworthy in connection with Dr. Cooper's cure of a very chronic case of deafness with single drop doses of Bell Ø.

Bell . is predominantly (but by no means exclusively) a right-side medicine: all affections of internal head, right side right eye; right ear right face; right teeth; right hypochondrium right chest; right upper extremity; right lower extremity; mouth and fauces left side. It is suited to plethoric persons with red face; and to conditions where there is local plethora, that is, inflammatory states with pain, throbbing, shiny redness as in acute gout. Symptoms are < afternoon; 3 p.m.; 11 p.m.; after midnight; during the night and not at all in the day; morning. By touch; draught of air; cold applications; having hair cut; looking at shiny things; drinking; sleeping; lying down; lying on affected side. > Bending affected part backwards or inwards; leaning head against something; standing; by warmth. Bell . is suited to the bilious, lymphatic temperament. Light hair and complexion, blue eyes. It grows in dry limestone soils and is the acute correlative of Calc. c.

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The patient is conscious but tormented by terrible anxiety.
Loss of consciousness.
Stupefaction, with congestion to head, pupils enlarged ; delirium.
Memory lively ; remembers things long gone by.
Memory impaired ; forgets in a moment what he was about to do.
Absent-minded and forgetful.
Likes to brood in silence, supreme indifference, nothing makes an impression.
Paroxysm of cerebral exaltation with abundance of ideas and images, generally fantastic and incoherent.
Mental confusion.
Confusion of head, aggravated by movement.
Her mind was disordered so that speech did not correspond to thought, nor thought to sense, nor sense to objects present.
Merry craziness ; while laughing or singing she constantly touches things around her.
Timorous insanity ; he is afraid of an imaginary black dog ; of the gallows, etc.
Insanity ; they stripped themselves and clad only in their shirts ran out into streets in broad daylight, gesticulating, dancing, laughing and utterring and doing many absurd things.
(In sick :) Became crazy ; got one leg over the window to kill himself, had to be tied down ; died next day ; within ten hours, two doses. θ Consumption.
Imbecility.
Fantastic illusions (when closing eyes).
When closing eyes, though not asleep, patient sees fierce, wicked looking large animals with horns and bushy heads ; room seemed to be full of strange men passing in and out, who would snatch at her as they passed, which frightened her very much, she thought
the men wanted to take her away from home ; she then saw children sitting on low benches in rows as in a school-room.
Hallucinations, and illusions of senses.
Imagines he sees ghosts, hideous faces and various insects.
Fear of imaginary things, wants to run away from them.
Frightful visions ; she wishes to hide herself.
He is afraid of an extraordinary black dog, the gallows, etc. ; he sees ghosts and insects ; gets vexed easily, and then weeps ; he tears things around him, bites and strikes, and when restrained, spits at those around him, strikes himself, curses and uses horrible words.
(These symptoms of rage much resemble those of Stramon. and Hyosc.).
Fixed ideas, thinks he is riding on an ox, uses a stick for a gun, growling and barking like a dog.
Delirium.
Lethargy and delirium, with pain in head. θ On disappearance of tumor.
Delirious moaning, flushed face, hot head.
Delirium and heat.
Rambling delirium.
Delirium : with frightful figures and images before eyes ; is afraid of imaginary things ; sees monsters ; talks of dogs as if they swarmed about him ; furious.
Violent delirium ; broke into fits of laughter, then gnashed teeth ; disposed to bite and strike those around.
Delirium ; the boy jumped out of bed, talked a great deal, was lively and often laughed ; consciousness was entirely gone ; he did not recognize his parents.
In evening he was seized with such violent delirium that it required three men to confine him ; his face was livid ; his eyes injected and protruding, pupils strongly dilated ; carotid arteries pulsating most violently ; a full, hard pulse, with loss of power to
swallow.
Delirium, either continuous or recurring in paroxysms, mirthful at first, but subsequently changing to frenzy.
Excited and delirious, with violent motions of arms and legs, increasing to a raging delirium.
Furious delirium all night with pleasant hallucinations, followed by great prostration, and mental confusion.
Bites at his attendants and himself, screams furiously. θ A boy, æt. 3.
Mania, with desire to bite, strike and run away.
Highest degree of mania, complete restlessness ; he jumps on chairs, tables and stove.
The paroxysms of madness were occasionally interrupted by loud laughing and grinding of teeth ; head was hot, face red, look wild and staring ; pulse small and very frequent ; pupils dilated ; arteries of head and neck visibly palpitating, pulse hard and frequent.
Mania, at one time merry, again would spit and bite at those around.
Epilepsy and mania furibunda.
Rage, madness, disposition to bite, to spit, to strike and to tear things.
Fury, with grinding of teeth and convulsions.
Fury ; they pulled at the hair of bystanders.
Such fury (with burning heat of body, and open, staring and immovable eyes) that she had to be held constantly, lest she should attack some one ; and when thus held so that she could not move, she spat continuously at those around her.
Desire to escape or hide herself.
Jumping out of bed with fear, trying to run away and hide.
She rather desires death than fears it.
She sought continually to spring out of bed.
Inclination to bite those around him and to tear everything about him in pieces.
She wishes to strike, bite and quarrel.
Weary of life, with desire to drown herself.
Desires light, but shuns company.
Loquacity.
Speech rapid and hasty ; they often utter inarticulate, confused sounds.
Great loquacity, foolish talk, laughs without any cause.
Talkative, then again mute.
Delirious, obscene talking.
Garrulity ; he constantly uses foolish and absurd language, at which he often laughs aloud ; when addressed he turns towards speaker, but does not answer correspondingly.
She talks like a maniac, with staring, protruded eyes.
Loud laughter, wild abandon, singing, whistling, lascivious conversation.
Changes from quiet to gay and merry mood, in which trills and sings ditties ; great thirst, violent motion of arms.
Moaning.
Much moaning, distress, a sudden crying out. θ Retention of urine.
Weeping and screaming, made < by gentle comforting.
She was violently delirious, screamed and wept aloud, and was unmanageable, suffered greatest anxiety and despaired of recovery.
The child cries out suddenly, and after awhile it ceases crying as suddenly as it began, and appears as if nothing had been the matter.
Crying and howling of children, as from rage.
Instead of eating, bit wooden spoon in two, gnawed plate, and growled and barked like a dog.
The boy was quite beside himself, struck at his mother, bit her, made terrible grimaces and contortions of limbs, did not remain a moment in one place.
She attempted to bite and strike her attendants, broke into fits of laughter, and gnashed her teeth ; head hot, face red, looks wild and fierce.
She tears her night dress and bedclothes.
Picking at bedclothes as if looking for something lost, with confused muttering.
In his delirium he picked at bedclothes, and threw them off, and sought continually to spring out of bed.
Foolish, ludicrous antics and gestures ; they touch everything within their reach ; foolish laughing, excessive sensibility.
Became wantonly merry, ran from house, and exposed their nakedness.
They behaved like drunken people.
Both children played with each other at hide and seek, calling each other in their sleep.
The boy ran around room laughing immoderately, desired neither food nor drink ; a piece of bread, which he took to be a stone, he threw far from him ; his delirium was always merry, he became totally unconscious ; pulse very slow, full ;
pupils widely dilated, not sensitive to light abdomen somewhat distended.
Dancing, running and creeping about in shirt.
The child became flushed, wanted to escape, struck at people, became delirious and restless.
She turns about in her bed in a perfect rage.
In his delirium he threw himself down from a height.
Nearly all symptoms lead to violence of action ; patient must do everything violently ; she wishes those around her to kill her.
Sensation of floating or gliding along, as if in a boat ; as if the body, or a part of it was greatly enlarged.
Aversion to noise and company.
Aversion to all mental occupation ; indolence.
Hands constantly in motion, try to catch things in air.
She will sit and break pins into pieces, half a day at a time.
She feels of those around her ; at times she seats herself ; at times she acts as if she was washing, or as if she counted money, or as if she was drinking ; she mutters as if asleep ; she talks like a maniac, with staring, protruded eyes ; talks about
dogs that swarm around her ; converses with a late sister in a churchyard ; beautiful images present themselves to her as if by a charm.
Disinclination to talk, or very fast talking.
Very mirthful mood, singing and whistling ; frequent laughter.
Depression, or too great hilarity.
Sadness and dejection ; patients are indifferent to everything, seek solitude, and desire rest.
Melancholy ; hypochondriasis ; hopelessness.
She is very despondent.
Tremulous despondency.
Great distress, with inquietude.
Despair.
Hysteria, with melancholic mood.
Became fearful when persons approached him in street, and when they had passed, he insisted on it that he had stabbed them.
Starts in affright at approach of others.
Fear of imaginary things, wants to run away from them.
Cardiac anxiety, with anguish and restlessness.
Anxiety and fear of imaginary objects and hallucinations, ghosts, soldiers which come to take them away, black animals, rats, dogs, wolves, etc.
Anxiety, restlessness, nausea and pain in back, with wind colic.
Anxiety, anguish, trembling, constant restlessness.
By day great anxiety ; she has no peace anywhere ; it seemed to her as if she must fly away.
Anxious and confused, fears she is about to die.
Tremulous, anxious, nervous.
Anxious and timorous.
Nervous anxiety, restlessness, desire to escape.
Anxiety, followed by sweat.
Intolerable anguish during time she is free from rage, with desire to die.
Loss of courage.
Very sensitive, irritable mood.
Very excitable mood, easily brought to tears.
Weeping, irritable mood.
Fretfulness ; nothing seemed right to him ; was vexed with himself.
Weeping and vexation about trifles, with headache and pressure in forehead, and great dryness of mouth.
Morose and serious.
Anger, proceeding even to paroxysms of convulsive rage.
Quarrelsome, during exuberant mirth.
Quarrelsomeness, cannot be quieted, with disposition to violent rage.
Great inquietude, goes from place to place.
Great restlessness and indescribable anxiety, cannot sit or lie long in any position ; they seek to fly.
Mania : with intense craving for snuff ; voracious appetite, they swallow everything in their reach ; generally constipated ; wild, unsteady look, eyes brilliant, face flushed, breathing anxious, irregular ; sexual excitement, inclined to
masturbate ; sleepless and restless.
Stupefying headache.

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Belladonna is a remedy that takes hold of the system with great violence. It is especially suitable to plethoric, vigorous individual, and intellectual people brainy people have complaints coming on suddenly, providing they are in a substantial state of health, and are reasonably plethoric and vascular.

The complaints of Belladonna come on suddenly, run a regular course, and subside suddenly. The pains and suffering come on suddenly and with great violence, and subside suddenly.

Colds ultimate rapidly, run a sharp course, a course of great violence, and subside sudden. Belladonna especially affects the whole vascular system, the heart, lungs, brain and nervous system.

Among the earliest conditions to examine is the heat. It has inflammations of all the organs, especially the brain, lungs, and liver.

The intestines are also involved as well as the other organs. These inflammations are always attended by violent heat; the heat is some thing unusual.

It is more marked in Belladonna than in almost any other remedy. When you put your hand upon a Belladonna subject you will suddenly withdraw it, the heat is so intense.

The memory of the heat is carried in the hand and fingers for some time.

Pains, inflammations, and sufferings, nightly attacks of delirium, violent attacks inflammatory in character are attended with that kind of heat.

No matter where the inflammation is, there is that same intense heat, There are times, though, when that kind of heat is present, and it is not Bell., and that is when the fever is of the continued type.

Bell. has no continued fever in it. It is true the older books tell you about Bell. for this violent heat in typhoid and some other continued fevers, but if you examine Bell. from beginning to end you will find nothing continued in its fever.

Its fever is remittent. It never comes on in its complaints gradually like typhoid. It has not the gradual rise and the gradual fall like a continued fever.

I only mention that so that you will not be lost.

Our lamented Hering, one of the ablest teachers the world ever had, classes Bell. for typhoid fever when the delirium and the heat are somewhat like Bell., but let me tell you just what will take place.

When you give Bell. for the delirium in typhoid fever - for such a delirium as looks like Bell. - you may subdue the delirium, but other manifestations will rise in that fever.

You will not subdue the fever, but you will subdue the patient. The patient will be sick longer, will go into a greater state of prostration than if you had let that delirium alone.

But Stramonium fits perfectly Hering's description of a case in which he says Bell. should be given.

The idea of that heat must be well fixed in the mind.

Heat, intense heat, violent heat.

There is another phase of Bell. that runs all through these inflammatory complaints and its fevers.

The inflamed parts, and very commonly the skin, are very red, and, as the inflammation advances, grow dusky; as the fever advances the face becomes mottled; but the first representation of Bell. is bright red, and the skin is shiny.

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Adapted to bilious, lymphatic, plethoric constitutions; persons who are jovial and entertaining when well, but violent and often delirious when sick.

Women and children, with light hair, blue eyes, fine complexion, delicate skin; sensitive, nervous, threatened with convulsions.

Great liability to take cold, sensitive to draft of air, especially when uncovering the head; from having the hair cut (Hep.); tonsils swell after riding in a cold wind (Acon., Hep., Rhus).

Over-excitability of all the senses; convulsions during dentition; spasms of single muscles or the whole body; chorea, epilepsy.

Quick sensation and motion; eyes snap and move quickly.

Convulsions during teething, with fever (without fever, Mag. p.); come on suddenly, head hot, feet cold.

Rush of blood to head and face (Amyl, Glon., Mel.).

Pains come on suddenly, last indefinitely, cease suddenly (Mag. p.)

Pains: usually in short attacks; cause redness of face and eyes; with throbbing of carotids and fulness of head.

Imagines he sees ghosts, hideous faces, and various insects (Stram.); black animals, dogs, wolves.

Fear of imaginary things, wants to run away from them; hallucinations.

Violent delirium; disposition to bite, spit, strike and tear things; breaks into fits of laughter and gnashes the teeth; wants to bite and strike the attendants (Stram.); tries to escape (Hell., Hyos.).

Head hot and painful; face flushed; eyes wild, staring, pupils dilated; pulse full and bounding, globules like buckshot striking the finger; mucous membrane of mouth dry; stool tardy; urine suppressed; sleepy but cannot sleep (Cham., Lach., Op.).

Vertigo: when stooping, or when rising after stooping (Bry.); on every change of position.

Headache: congestive, with red face, throbbing of brain and carotids (Mel.); < from slight noise, jar, motion, light, lying down, least exertion; > pressure, tight bandaging, wrapping up, during menses.

Boring the head into the pillow (Apis, Hell., Pod., Tub.).

Abdomen tender, distended < by least jar, even of the bed; obliged to walk with great care for fear of a jar.

Pain in r. ileo-cæcal region, < by slightest touch, even the bed-cover.

The transverse colon protrudes like a pad.

Skin: of a uniform, smooth, shining, scarlet redness; dry, hot, burning; imparts a burning sensation to examining hand; the true Sydenham scarlet fever, where eruption is perfectly smooth and truly scarlet.

Pressing downwards as if the contents of abdomen would issue from the vulva; > standing and sitting erect; worse mornings (Compare, Lil., Mur., Sep.).

Complementary: Calcarea. Belladonna is the acute of Calcarea and Tuberculinum which are often required to complete a cure.

From touch, motion, noise, draught of air, looking at bright shining objects (Lys., Stram.); after 3 P. M. and midnight; while drinking; uncovering; hot sun; lying down.

Rest; standing or sitting erect; warm room.

Quotidian, tertian. Sometimes the type is anticipating. Periodicity not marked. Continued; typhoid; yellow.

6 P. M. In evening, or at night.

Without thirst. Chill, beginning in both arms at once, thence spreads all over the body (Hell.—begins in extremities, Gels.); a violent chill seized her in scrobiculus cordis; shivering running down the back, and terminating in pit of stomach (chill felt most severely in pit of stomach, Arn.—chill begins in pit of stomach with a fixed, cold, agonizing weight, Cal.). Chill, alternating with dry, burning heat. Chill, with violent, bursting, frontal headache, dilated pupils, dread of light and noise; restlessness; pale face when lying down; red face when sitting up (the reverse of Acon.). Congestive chill, with red face, delirium and bursting headache. Chill internal, with external burning heat. Feet ice-cold; can scarcely be warmed, while face is red and bloated (Arn.). Chill after eating (Kali c., Mar. v.—chill after eating and drinking, Asar.). Chilliness in the arms, with redness and heat of the ears and nose (with coldness of tip of nose during chill, Ced.). Chilliness not relieved by heat of stove. Rarely any thirst; if any, it is during the alternate burning heat of the chill.

Ascends from feet to chest.

One hot cheek; contracted pupils. Red face when lying down; pale face and fainting when sitting up.

Chilly from being touched, or even lifting bed clothes. Body chilly, forehead and ears hot.

Begins in both arms at once, thence over body.

Hot face, dilated pupils. Pale face when lying down; red face when sitting up.

Chill after eating, with redness of the face. Chilliness, with redness and heat of ears and nose.

INTENSE, with great thirst and desire for cold water, yet everything he drinks feels as if too cold. Constant dry burning heat with sweat only on head. Burning heat within and without; burning heat of the body, with extreme distension of the superficial blood-vessels, the distended veins lie like cords on the skin (distension of veins and congestive headache, Cinch.). Violent, bursting headache, with strong pulsations of arteries, especially throbbing of the carotids; dilated pupils; very red face; delirium; restlessness. External coldness of the body, and internal burning heat. Head sometimes ice-cold, sometimes burning hot. Face hot, with extremities cold; forehead hot, with cold head and cold cheeks (Rhus). Heat the predominant stage of the paroxysm. Averse to uncovering. Sensitive to light and noise.

Redness and heat of one, coldness and paleness of the other cheek.

Sensation of coldness in the blood-vessels.

Likes to be uncovered.

Forehead hot, with cold face and cold cheeks.

Distended superficial blood-vessels, like whip-cords on the skin.

Averse to uncovering.

Beginning at the feet and rising up to head; during heat, or immediately after it, mostly on face and down the nose; on covered parts only, or on covering parts ever so little (Cinch.); sweat stains linen yellow or dark; empyreumatic, smoky odor; profuse sweat with diuresis; sweat of head, hands, face (which is very red) and feet, with burning heat; profuse sweat over whole body by the least exercise (Bry., Camp.), sudden, evanescent; during sleep, day or night, with gradual relief of pain (Nat.); may be entirely wanting.

Covered or affected parts sweat profusely.

Belladonna.

On covered parts only, or on covering parts ever so little.

Aconite.

Sour smelling sweat all over the body.

Red and dry, with red edges and white coating in the middle; papillæ bright and prominent, like scarlatina (Acon., Ant. t.). Offensive, putrid taste in throat when eating or drinking, although food tastes natural.

Coated white “strawberry tongue.” Everything but water tastes bitter; taste of rotten eggs.

Belladonna.

Sweat stains the linen yellow.

Sweat of empyreumatic odor.

Red, dry, “scarlatinalike,” mouth and fauces dry.

Food tastes salty; bread sour.

“ Where there is a doubt whether Aconite or Belladonna should be given, I have always found that a disposition to perspire constitutes a valuable indication for Belladonna.”—BAEHR.

It has been taught by some authors, and believed by many members of the homeopathic faith, that Aconite and Belladonna—except as incurrents during the congestive stage of heat—are useless in the treatment of intermittent fever. But the law of cure, as enunciated by Hahnemann, knows no such narrow restrictions, and is not bound by the ipse dixit of individual opinion.

If Aconite or Belladonna cover the totality of the patient’s symptoms, it will as certainly cure this fever, as any other remedy. They are comparatively rarely indicated, but will effectually do their work when called for. The characteristic symptoms of the remedy must always be the guide.

Strong, full, large and frequent; globular, like buckshot; or small, wiry and hard; the former in chill and heat, the latter as paroxysm passes off. Throbbing of arteries.

Aconite.

Congested, red, hot face; head and carotids throbbing; pupils dilated; cold extremities.

Heat; intense, burning within and without, great thirst, distended blood-vessels, < uncovering.

Sweat; on covered parts only, or on covering slightly.

A typical Belladonna picture, irrespective of the paroxysm.

Memory lively; remembers things long gone by.
Memory impaired; forgets in a moment what he was about to do.
Absent-minded and forgetful.
Confusion of head, aggravated by movements.
Imagines he sees ghosts, hideous faces, black dogs and various insects.
Delirium; is afraid of imaginary things; sees monsters.
Desire to escape or hide herself.
Weary of life, with desire to drown herself.
Talkative, then mute.
Picking at bedclothes as if looking for something lost, with confused muttering.
Instead of eating, bit the wooden spoon in two, gnawed the plate, and growled and barked like a dog.
Mania, at one time merry, again; would spit and bite at those around; thinks himself suddenly rich.
Quarrelsome, during exuberant mirth.
Violent delirium; broke into fits of laughter, then gnashed the teeth; disposed to bite and strike those around.
Starts in affright at the approach of others.
Very excitable mood, easily brought to tears.
Morose and serious.
Anxious and timorous.
Anxious and confused, fears she is about to die.
Fretfulness; nothing seemed right to him; was vexed with himself.

All the senses more acute.
Cloudiness, as if intoxicated.
Blood mounts to the head, which becomes heavy as if giddy.
Weariness of the head.

Feeling in brain like the swashing of water.
Cold sensation in the brain at the middle of the forehead.
Headache as if a stone were pressing the forehead.
Fulness and pressure at temples and forehead, with pain making him restless and uneasy.
Pain in head and eyeballs, eyes felt as if starting from their sockets.
Pressive frontal headache so severe, when walking, that the eyes were drawn shut; better when sitting, ceases when lying down, worse rising again or going into open air.
Pressure in head, now here now there, which occupies each time large areas.
Frequently obliged to stand still in walking, from the violence of the pain in forehead; at every step it seemed as if the brain rose and fell in forehead; pain ameliorated by strong pressure on forehead.
Strong pulsation of blood-vessels of forehead, and pain as if the bones were lifted up.
Violent throbbing in brain from behind forward and towards both sides; the throbbing ends on the surface in painful shootings.
Dull shooting in left temple, from in out.
Severe shooting in right frontal eminence, worse from bending forward, ameliorated by pressure.
Stabbing as if with a knife, from temple to temple.
Jerking headache, extremely violent on walking quickly, or ascending stairs rapidly; at every step a jolt as if a weight were in the occiput.
Boring, tearing, cutting, shooting pains in various parts of head, generally worse on right side and in forehead, less in occiput.
Pains come on suddenly, last indefinitely, but cease suddenly.
Headache from the heat of the sun.

Head externally so sensitive that the least contact, even the pressure of the hair, gives pain.
Crampy pain in frontal eminence, extending to zygoma and lower jaw.

Photophobia; worse from artificial light.
Far-sightedness.
Objects appear: double, and seem to revolve and run backwards; inverted.
Bright sparks before the eyes.
Flashes of light before the eyes.
Halo around the light particolored, red predominating; at times light seems broken into rays.
Vision obscured as from a white vapor; pupils dilated.
Deep-seated dull pain in the back of the eyes.
Eyes dry; feel stiff; feeling of sand in eyes.
Heat and burning in eyes.
Shooting in the eyes, from within outwards.
Lachrymation.
Spasmodic motion of eyes.
Eyeballs red and prominent.
Conjunctiva covered with red vessels, shooting pains; eyes water.
Yellowness of sclerotica.
Swelling and suppurative inflammation of left caruncula lachrymalis.
Ophthalmia; suddenly appearing, worse right eye; intense photophobia.
Pain in orbits: often feels as if the eyes had been torn out, sometimes as if pressed into the head.
Trembling and quivering of right upper eyelid.
Heaviness of lids.
Lids feel sore, congested and swollen.

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The entire fresh plant of Atropa Belladonna (Solanaceæ) is used for a tincture.

Action on the heart is complex, stimulating the accelerator centres and paralyzing the pneumogastric; heart's action rapid, pulse full, peripheral vessels dilated; wild delirium; ending in stupor; convulsions, with dilated pupils. ▶ Suppresses secretion of glands, of mucous membrane and skin. ▶ Intense scarlet redness of skin. ▶ Urine first increased, then suppressed. ▶ Fever.

Hyos ., Stram., Verat. vir., Duboisia, Hydrocy. ac., Sulphur.

Falling down without ability to raise himself. ▶ Lying on his belly, with head bent backward and chin resting on hand, not noticing what was said or done in the room. ▶ (Walking round and round in a circle.). ▶ Swelling of whole body, with redness and heat. ▶ Distention of veins over whole body; of bloodvessels of limbs, especially arteries of neck pulsate, so that when lower jaw is opened it strikes against the upper at every beat, causing chattering of teeth, with internal and external warmth, agg. head.

▶ Convulsions; when forced to swallow liquids; especially of flexor muscles; C., with gnashing of teeth; with ludicrous gestures, whistling, singing and crying all together; epileptic; epileptic, then apoplectic condition; after a vexation, which compel him to run to the wall; of muscles of limbs, trunk and face. ▶ Subsultus tendinum; with carphology. ▶ Incessant movements, especially of arms. ▶ Movements as in chorea. ▶ Jerks, with loud raving. ▶ Constant motion of muscles, partly alternate contraction of single muscles, partly automatic motions, starting of limbs, biting motion, carphology. ▶ Jumping, as if alarmed, when touched. ▶ Intermittent cramps. ▶ Want of muscular co-ordination. ▶ Trembling; with convulsive shivering. ▶ Unsteadiness in all her motions. ▶ Haste in all motions.

▶ Irritability and acuteness of sense, of taste, smell, touch sight, hearing, and the mind is easily moved and thoughts are more active (Nux vom.). ▶ His senses deceive him. ▶ Stitch in affected part on every second or third step, extending to head. ▶ Tearing in a part of the muscles, especially in volar side of ulna, just above wrist. ▶ Gnawing in affected parts. ▶ Boring in glands. ▶ Cramplike pain, agg. in sleep in one side of chest, one side of abdomen and one loin, so that she bends the painful part inward. ▶ Pain in evening, preventing her from stretching. ▶ Pain disappeared suddenly when it had reached its height and instantly a pain arose in some other place. ▶ Pain in all joints, extending as far as tips of fingers and toes, with a cold sensation.

(Tenderness to touch where the shootings had been.). ▶ Bad feeling in whole system on turning in bed. ▶ Trembling sensation in all muscles. ▶ Pulsation of all arteries in morning on waking; P., like a pendulum, alternating between head and chest; perceptible through whole body. ▶ Restlessness; of night with grinding of the teeth and now and then convulsions; every moment he wished to get out of bed (Hyos.), but then would fall back in prostration; the boy wished to escape and was strong far beyond his age; especially of hands and feet (Acon.); body thrown now to one side, now to other now chest is raised, now abdomen; occasionally raising his feet, as if ascending stairs, moving his mouth as if talking, but the sounds were inarticulate.

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Action on the heart is complex, stimulating the accelerator centres and paralyzing the pneumogastric; heart's action rapid, pulse full, peripheral vessels dilated; wild delirium, ending in stupor; convulsions, with dilated pupils. Suppresses secretion of glands, of mucous membrane and skin. Intense scarlet redness of skin. Urine first increased, then suppressed. Fever.

General irritability and acuteness of the special senses; generally associated with increased activity of the mind.
Convulsions, particularly of the flexor muscles; epileptiform, followed by an apoplectic condition.
Pulsation of all the vessels, with rush of blood to various parts of the body.
Extreme sensitiveness to all external impressions; the slightest touch aggravates or renews pains or convulsions.
General aggravation of all the symptoms in the afternoon and at night.
General tendency to take cold easily from slight draft.
Acute inflammation of glands.
Loss of sensation and motion of the lower half of the body, or of isolated portions.
Sensation in muscles as of something creeping, like a mouse.

Delirium; > after a meal; > after sleep, with quick movements; with heat; with springing out of bed, laughing and constant talking; violent delirium, with livid face, injected and protruding eyes, dilated pupils, strong pulsation in carotids; full, hard, frequent pulse and inability to swallow.
Fury; pulling at the hair of bystanders.
Inclination to tear everything to pieces.
Attempted to bite and strike, broke into fits of laughter and gashed her teeth; head hot, face red, look wild and fierce.
Fury, with heat of body, staring eyes and continually spitting at those about her.
Abhorrence of liquids.
Garrulity.
Anxiety, with desire to flee.
Complete loss of consciousness.
Tremulous, anxious mood.
Fright, with weeping.
Sadness, with indifference.
Mistrust.
Hypochondriac depression.

Intense, stupefying headache, particularly in the forehead, with rush of blood to the head, even loss of consciousness.
The headache is generally pulsating or jerking, with great heat < every noise or jar, associated with intolerance of noise or light, often > hard pressure.
Various acute pains in the head; shootings as from a knife.
In the forehead, pain as if the brain rose and fell with every step.
Through the temples, stabbing pains.
Vertigo, with rush of blood to the head, roaring in the ears, dim vision, etc., < motion.
The scalp becomes very sensitive; even pressure of the hair causes pain.
During unconsciousness the patient bores the head into the pillow, with symptoms of meningitis.

The eyes generally appear staring, with dilated pupils.
Squinting.
Spasms of the muscles of the eyes.
Violent inflammation, with dryness.
Heat and sensitiveness.
Conjunctivitis, with great inflammation, so great that the eyelids are rolled outward.
Lids inflamed and bleeding.
Photophobia.
Obscuration of vision.
Sparks before vision.
Appearance of halo of colored rays around candlelight.
Flashes before the eyes.

Tearing pains through the middle ear.
Extreme sensitiveness to noise.
Ringing.
Roaring.
Swelling of the parotid gland, with great sensitiveness.

The nose externally is inflamed, hot, swollen, with swelling of the upper lip.
Nostrils, internally, dry.
Bleeding.
Smell very acute.

Face red, hot, swollen.
With heat.
Pains in the face cutting, tearing, particularly on the right side.
The upper lip swollen; feels stiff on opening the mouth.
Tearing pains in the jaws.
Worse swallowing, particularly in the left lower jaw.
Tetanic closing of the jaws on attempting to take food or drink.

General swelling and dryness of the lips, mouth and fauces.
Drawing pains in the upper teeth.
Toothache from taking cold < eating, becomes intolerable.
Grinding of the teeth.
Soft palate becomes bright red and swollen.
The tongue very red and dry, interferes with speech.

Extreme redness and inflammation, with dryness of the whole throat; with shooting pains on swallowing, or even breathing; also, on turning the head, on touching the neck externally.
The throat feels constricted on attempting to swallow.
The throat becomes closed by a spasm on attempting to swallow liquids.

Aversion to food.
Burning thirst, with dryness in the throat, but with dread of drinking.
Drinks hastily, with trembling.
Though thirst is certainly associated with many conditions calling for this drug, there is no doubt that the absence of thirst may equally indicate belladonna.
(The dread of drinking, partly due to the spasm in the throat, partly to a mental aversion to liquids, doubtless deters many thirsty patients from taking water; and we have come to look upon the absence of thirst, with dryness and inflammation of the mouth and throat particularly, as marked indications for this drug. - T. F. A.)
Nausea; vomiting after eating and drinking.
Heat, with burning, cutting pain in the region of the stomach.
Extreme sensitiveness of the stomach to touch.

Distention, with tenderness to touch.
Pain, as from clawing, or constriction, or from heat; cutting; pressure outwards, downwards; internal fullness and heat in the lower abdomen, with pressure downward.
Flatulent colic in the region of the transverse colon, > by external pressure.

Tenesmus; constant straining, alternating with painful contractions of anus.
Constipation.
Diarrhœa, greenish, sometimes involuntary.
Stool sometimes bloody.

Pressure and tension in the region of the bladder.
Urine retained: passed only by drops.
Micturition involuntary, during sleep, even daytimes.
Urine sometimes very profuse; usually scanty; sometimes yellow and turbid.

Violent pressing and urging, as if the internal organs would be pressed out, > lying and sitting erect.
Dryness of the vagina, with burning heat.
Menstruation too early.
Menstrual flow very offensive, with clots.

Larynx painful and dry, a feeling of constriction.
Hoarseness, with dryness in the larynx, cough.
Loss of voice.
Cough dry, barking, sometimes spasmodic, worse after 10 P. M., caused by scraping, or pain in the larynx.
Dry, short cough in the evening in bed, from tickling in the back of the larynx.
Cough caused by the slightest motion.
Cough paroxysmal, like whooping cough, preceded by crying.
Cough followed by sneezing.
When coughing, violent stitching pain in the lumbar region.
Respiration difficult; rapid; oppressive.

A feeling of tightness or tension through the chest, extending to abdomen.
Burning pain in the right side of the chest.
A feeling of rush of blood to the chest, with throbbing.
Mammary glands inflamed.
Extremely sensitive and hot.
Discharge of milk from women not pregnant.
Heat.
Violent palpitation, with oppression of the chest, and rush of blood to the head.
Pulse full, hard.

Painful glandular swellings in the sides of the neck.
Stiffness of the nape of the neck.

Clinical:
Spinal irritability; pressure upon the dorsal vertebræ causes screams and distress in stomach, or violent cough and flushed face.
Hyperæmia of spine, with difficulty in walking, loss of co-ordination when walking.
Lumbago, with pain in hips and thighs, cramps in legs, etc.

Paralytic heaviness of the arms.
Tearing pains in the shoulders.
Shooting pressure on the top of the left shoulder.
Paralytic pains in the left arm.
Cutting, shooting pains in the thighs, above the knee.
Stitches in the hip joints, worse at night, and on touch.
Shooting of knee, and pains in the bones of lower extremities; must constantly move the feet, > walking.
Sciatic nerves extremely sensitive, intolerant of pressure.

Skin generally dry and burning hot.
Skin scarlet red, dry and burning hot.
The scarlet-redness of the skin, followed by desquamation, is exactly similar to scarlet fever.
Alternate redness and paleness of the skin.
Pustular eruptions, surrounded by inflammation, very sensitive to touch.
Erythema very sensitive.

Sleep heavy, stupefying.
As a rule, the sleep is extremely restless, interrupted by talking, startings, spasmodic muscular motions.
Constantly wakened with frightful dreams and twitchings.
Frightful images appear as soon as he closes his eyes, and he dreads sleep.
Can sleep only while sitting upright.

Persistent, dry, and burning hot (with thirst), followed by sweat only on the head.
Chill alternates with heat, internal heat, with anxiety; internal chill with external burning heat.
Heat of the head, with coldness of the extremities.

Bell. / (1st B.) / Belle.

Belladonna-deadly bane-
Stabs the never with sudden pain.
Pains that shift from place to place,
Showing redness in its trace.
Redness smooth, or spread in rays,
Points her migratory blaze.
Hence, smooth scarlatina, yes,
And smooth erysipelas
Mark her type-and so the same
Every itis we can name
Is smooth red, with pains that are
Worse from every slightest jar.
Fever hers, in early stages,
When a wild delirium rages,
Starting in the sleep at night,
Dizziness that dims the sight.
Red and painful is her eye,
Sensitive to light-and dry;
Quivering objects meet her view,
Fiery, and inverted, too.
Quinsy hers, and shifting mumps,
When into the brain it jumps.
Whooping-cough, and cough defined,
Of a dry and barking kind.
Spasms roused by every pain,
And by drink renewed again.
Mark her use in rabies plain.
Stools are hers of bloody stain,
Vomiting with horrid pain.
Falling womb, with downward pack,
After pains of keen attack.
Rigid sphincters-"Os" the same.
Back described as breaking-lame.
Ailments worse, P. M., at 3
And a. m. watches "wee."
Some relief by warmth we see,
Lemons-much desired-agree.

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Belle, - Has Delirium.

Belle Bryon is on the train with sour Hagar and the evil Spanish twins.

This Belle,- Who is subject to sore throat,- I sat Captain McPhyto's, with Amanda Sangui-bar, the baptist, lying low.

Delirium: Bell., Bry., Thuj., Rhus, Nux v., Mur. a., Nit. a., Agar., Verat. v., Lach., Canth., Hyos., Stram., etc.

Sore Throat-Quincy: Bell., Caps., Merc. c., Phyto., Am. c., Sang., Bar. c., Bap., Lach., Apis, Lyco., Ars. (Burning like fire, Caps., Phyt., Sang.)

Indicated in active congestion of any part of the body; especially cerebral; in inflammation not fully localized.

Congestion with hot and flushed face, starting eyes, throbbing carotids, great mental excitement.

Pulsations of blood vessels; hears them when trying to go to sleep and is kept awake by them.

Irritation of special senses; eyes sensitive to light; ears to loud sounds; hallucinations of smell.

Violent delirium; seeks to escape; strikes; bites; tears things to pieces; with heat, redness and throbbing.

Headache, congestive, throbbing, with sense of fulness; worse from light, jar, noise, lying down; better from pressure and in semi-erect position.

Headache form having hair cut; from exposure to hot sun.

Vertigo when stooping or rising, with inclination to fall backward or to the left.

Tongue white with red edges; red; strawberry tongue.

Throat sore, worse on right side; constant inclination to swallow; difficulty of swallowing, especially liquids, which often return through the nose.

Abdomen hot, distended; cutting pain; feels a though the internal parts were firmly clutched by a strong hand, causing severe pain; with intolerance of touch, jar or pressure, even of the bedclothes.

Stools green, thin; in lumps like chalk;

In women, labor-like pain, with pressure downward as though the pelvic contents would issue through the vagina.

Haemorrhage of hot, bright-red blood. Menses too early, too profuse.

Cough short, dry, tickling; barking; convulsive; with pain and soreness in the larynx. Bubbling sensation near the heart.

Skin dry, hot, red; eruption uniform, bright red, disappearing under pressure of the finger and returning again when the finger is removed.

Pain increases gradually until intense, then suddenly ceases, to recur in same manner.

Preference for the right side.

Worse from touch, jar, noise, from lying down, from having hair cut, from exposure to hot sun.

Better in a semi-erect position.

Reeling as if intoxicated, and mental stupefaction, better motion of head, eating and drinking. Vanishing of senses and ideas. Complete unconsciousness. Insanity with buffoonery. Violent delirium, with inclination to toss about. Biting, spitting and striking. Mental aberration after dried or fright with mortification or vexation. Anguish and restlessness. Hasty speech. Fantastic illusions and frightful pictures before eyes. Tremulous, anxious mood. Whining and fearful. Despondent. Fear of death, with great anxiety and restlessness (in child - bed). Sad and indifferent. Mistrust. Hypochondriacal depression. Peevishness. Weeping and crying. Constantly laughing. Great self - will in children. Frenzy and madness. Desire to escape.

With anguish and falling down (backward) unconscious. With weariness before and after each attack. Sensation of being rocked. Reeling, as if drunk from moving head worse after eating and drinking.

Stupefying ache in forehead with congestion to, ending in unconsciousness. Periodically recurring nervous headache. Congestion to, with heat distension and throbbing or pulsating in arteries of head and neck. The head trembles, shakes, is moved from side to side or bored into pillow. Internal and external burning heat of Pains: throbbing, worse in forehead, ascending from nape, which and in outward passing stitches, bursting, cutting, from place to place, stabbing passing off in occiput, which draw eyes shut, violent stitching, boring or pressing in skull bones. Feeling as of: A stone in, water swashing in. Meningitis. Hydrocephalus.

Exquisite sensitiveness of, as if hair had been pulled, the least touch, or even pressure of the hair can hardly be borne. Profuse sweat upon the hair scalp and face, with dry heat of remainder of body. Worse: Afternoon, till midnight, violent motion, as ascending steps, stepping hard, coughing, etc., every movement, light, opening or moving eyes, noise, open air, stooping, lying with head low, drafts, uncovering head, cutting hair, cold bathing, getting wet, after anger. Better: External pressure, drawing head back, laying hand upon, reclining head, wrapping it up.

Pains in orbits. Heat in. Conjunctiva is red and loosened. Inflammation of, with averted lids. Spasm. Bleeding lids. Sarcoma. Macular on cornea. Widely dilated pupils. Glistening, sparkling, red. Wild, unsteady or staring look. Squint. Photophobia. Paralysis of optic nerve. Vanishing of sight when raising up in bed. Vision lost, hearing remains unchanged. Sparks before.

Difficult hearing after scarlet fever or taking cold. Swollen parotid glands.

Heat, swelling and redness of. Sore, with swollen upper lip. Dry inside. Profuse bleeding from, and from mouth, with a red face. Very keen sense of smell. Much sneezing. Fluent coryza.

Red, with burning heat. Bluish red, bloated. Smooth, erysipelatous, hot swelling of, spreading over head, with stupefaction, delirium, violent head pains, inflamed, fiery red eyes and great photophobia. Faceache, with intense cutting pains. Half open mouth. Lock jaw (trismus). Ulcerated angles of mouth. Swelling and induration of upper lip. Bleeding, cracked lips.

Toothache (in children and women), after taking cold, insufferably worse by eating. Gnashing of.

Dry, without (or with) thirst. Intense redness and inflammatory swelling of soft palate. Salivation. Inflammation of throat, with sticking when swallowing. Pharynx feels narrowed. Scratching in throat. Tearing in throat when not swallowing. Swelling and suppuration of tonsils. Extreme redness of tongue. Heavy coat of mucus on tongue and palate. Inflammatory swelling of tongue. Speechlessness.

Appetite: Loathes food. Burning thirst, with a dry throat and aversion to drinks. Hasty drinking with trembling.

Taste: Loss of Bread tastes sour. Of blood in mouth.

Nausea, etc. - Qualmishness with repugnance of food. Empty retching. Vomits, Green, mucus, first food, then bile.

Distension of pit. Pressure in, after eating. Pains in.

Hypochondria: Stitches in spleen.

Painful distension of. Sensitive to touch. Painful clutching and griping in. Painful soreness in.

Flatulence: Flatulent colic with sensible distension of transverse colic, better by external pressure and stooping.

Retained. Involuntary. Constipation. Diarrhoea: Green with bellyache.

Diminished, dark red, fiery. Suppressed. Involuntary urination.

Violent urging and pressing toward genitals, as if everything would fall out. False spasmodic labor pains. Prolapsus and induration of uterus. Dry vagina. Metritis.

Menses: Uterine hemorrhage of bright red blood with urging toward genitals. Bloody discharge during intermenstrual period. Foul smelling, lumpy lochia.

Short, rapid breathing with open mouth and violent working of chest. Heavy breathing with oppression of chest. Danger of suffocation when swallowing or touching external neck. After rising in morning, want of breath in the room, better in open air.

In quarter hourly paroxysms at night, consisting of a few dry coughs in a rough, hollow, barking tone, excited by tickling as of feather down in throat, or as from constriction of larynx, sometimes a scanty expectoration of bright coagulated blood. Renewed by the slightest movement when in bed. Preceded by crying. Following by sneezing. Violent stitches in loins (in uterus) during. Complicated by cerebral inflammation.

Constriction of. Extremely painful to touch. Loss of voice.

Neck: Painful swelling and stiffness of and of nape. Distension of blood vessels in. Sour - smelling sweat on neck only. Painfully swollen cervical glands.

Oppression of. Rattling in. Violent pains in whole thorax. Congestion and throbbing therein, with restlessness. Violent palpitation which vibrates into head. Flow of milk from female mammae. Induration and swelling of mammae.

Paralytic heaviness of arms. Pressive tearing pains in shoulder. Scarlet red swelling of arms and hands. Twitching in hands. Hasty picking at the bed clothes.

Stitches in hip joint, most intense at night and when touched. Reeling, staggering gait. When rising from bed, the legs refuse their coffee and she sinks to the ground.

Shattering of whole body. Trembling. Plethoric, full blooded patients. Congestion to different parts. Excessive hyperaesthesia of all the senses. Convulsive motion of limbs. Jerkings. Spasms with stiffness of entire body and unconsciousness. Sharp, cutting pains. Twitchings. Pains come and go quickly. The action of Bell. is intensified or excited by Hyos. and Stramonium. Loss of sensation and motion of one - half of entire body Great weariness. Paralyses of single parts. Sensation of a mouse creeping about in muscles. Typhoid fevers with unconsciousness or delirium. The slightest touch renews the attacks and intensifies the pains. Consequences of taking cold. The symptoms are intensified in the afternoon and at night. Restlessness delirium and somnolency.

Glands swollen and indurated.

Dry, burning heat with pale or red skin. Alternate paleness and redness of. Smooth scarlet redness of, with dryness, burning and swelling. Glistening redness of, not circumscribed, with bloating. Swelling from insect stings. Gangrenous blisters. Boils.

Deep, stupefying. Anxious desire for. Starting (jerking), during. Starting up in affright and flightiness during. He can sleep only in a sitting posture. Frightful phantasies which dissipate sleep appear before the vision, as soon as the eyes close.

Pulse: Ordinarily quick, often full, hard and tense, but sometimes also small and soft, seldom slow, and then it is full. Throbbing carotid and temporal arteries. Violent beating of the arteries. Chill: In evening, especially on extremities, most on arms, with heat of head. Internal, with external burning heat. Alternating with heat. Evening shaking chill. Coldness of limbs, with a hot head. Shivering, running down back. Heat: constant dry burning, with sweat on head and neck only. Internal, with anxiety and restlessness. Of forehead, with cold cheeks. Internal or external, or both at same time. Of head, with red face and delirium. Generally predominating. Sweat: Exclusively on the covered parts. With, or immediately after the heat, most on face. Of an empty rheumatic odor, and stains the linen. During sleep, by day as well as night. Entirely absent. Ascending from feet to head.

Allied Remedies: ACO., Agar., Ambr., Ant-t., Ap., Bry., CALC-C., Cann., Canth., Caust., Cham., Chin., Cic., Cina., Coff., Colch., Coloc., Croc., Cupr., Dig., Gel., GLO., Graph., Hell., HEP., HYOS., Iod., LACH., Merc., MOS., Nit-ac., NUX-V., Op., Phos-ac., Phyt., Plat., Plb., PULS., Rhe., Rhus-t., Sars., Seneg. SEP., Sil., Stram., Sul., Valer.

Complementary: Calc-c., Hep.

Loss of consciousness.

Delirium.

Fantastic illusions and biting rage.

Oversensitiveness of all the senses.

Plethora.

Burning in inner parts.

Sensation, as if inner organs were distended or as if they would burst.

Tearing in inner parts (from below upwards).

Congestion of the head.

Bleeding of the inner parts.

Swelling of and pulsation in the blood vessels.

Pricking on the muscles or bones.

Pressing and tearing rheumatic pains which wander from one place to the other.

Sensation as if a mouse was running in the muscles.

Contortion of the limbs.

Spasms of single limbs or of the whole body.

Loss of sensation and motion of one side of the body.

Inflammation of inner parts (mucous membranes) with a tendency to suppuration or with nervous symptoms.

Induration after inflammations.

Nervous fevers with loss of consciousness or delirium.

Swelling and induration of the glands.

Pupils dilated.

Aversion to light.

Loss of sight.

Color of the face is bluish-red.

Alternate redness and paleness of the skin.

Inflammation of the brain.

Liability to take cold with great sensitiveness to draft of air.

Bad effects of fear and chagrin.

Exanthemata of scarlet color.

Sleeplessness with drowsiness or sleep which is stupor-like.

Pulse full and hard.

Aggravation in the afternoon and at night, from touching the parts affected even softly, and while swallowing liquids.

Amelioration while reposing, while standing, or while leaning the head against something.