Atropinum Purum

Atropine, as the most active principle in Belladonna, produces, as we should

expect, most of the characteristic effects of that drug; but at the same time the two are not

• ▸identical.
• ▸Atrop.
• ▸produces hypereesthesia of the sensory nerves.
• ▸The most numerous symptoms

• ▸have been observed in the eyes.
• ▸All kinds of illusions of vision.
• ▸Everything appears large.
• ▸Motes

over everything. I once cured with it a lady who had an appearance of shadows passing over

whatever she looked at. It has shown an affinity for the pancreas, which relates it to Jod., Kali

iod., and Iris. A case of chronic wryneck, of three years' standing, was relieved and finally cured

within two weeks by injections of 1/120 into the platysma, the dose being increased up to 1/20th.

This was in old-school practice. It has caused difficulty of speech: frequent stuttering, especially

at words difficult to pronounce; articulation indistinct, rapid and chattering.

Frenzied with excitement.—Spectral illusions; sees insects and crawling things and

tries to catch them.—Mania, tries to escape.—When spoken to often turns his head to wrong side.

Vertigo on turning head suddenly.—Feeling as if head were screwed up; walking

• ▸caused the most severe sticking pains; > towards 11 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸, and disappeared by evening.
• ▸—Head

very hot.—Headaches of epileptics.—Sticking pains in back of skull and over eyes, < every

motion and stepping.—Sticking |. temple on waking, extending into ear and eye; > moving in

open air.—Headache, with flushed face, blindness, and delirium.

Objects appear large, with red halo.—Everything seems elongated, objects appear in a

cloud.—Clouds of flies; motes; bright spots; stars; flashes.—Figures on carpet appear constantly

• ▸and successively to rise in her face.
• ▸—Diplopia.
• ▸—Sharp neuralgic pains in and about eyes.
• ▸—At 9

p.m. eyelids heavy, difficult to keep open.

Mouth dry.—Tongue thick; cannot articulate distinctly Tongue semi-

paralysed.—Speech slow, embarrassed, stuttering, chattering.

Burning caused by coughing —Dryness.—Dysphagia; swallowing causes paroxysms

of suffocation.—Throat dark red.

Vomiting of food; after hot drinks; with severe sticking pains in umbilical

region.—> After vomiting.—Region of stomach very sensitive; swelling in pyloric region.

Frequent micturition.—Involuntary, but scanty; nocturnal

enuresis.—Cutting, drawing pains in |. ovary, extorting screams, > bending; ovary swollen and

tender during menses.—Epilepsy from ovarian irritation.

Failure of action from chloroform and other cardiac paralyzers.—Accelerated pulse.

Burning in back under sternum and in region of stomach.—Spinal irritation, pressure

causes pallor, nausea, belching, and retching.

• ▸Blepharospasm.
• ▸Convulsions.
• ▸Enuresis.
• ▸Epilepsy.
• ▸Eyes, affections of.
• ▸Gastric ulcer.

• ▸Locomotor ataxy.
• ▸Mania.
• ▸Neuralgias.
• ▸Pancreatitis.
• ▸Spinal irritation.
• ▸Stammering.
• ▸Tetanus.

Vision, disorders of. Wryneck.

• ▸/t antidotes: Muscarine and Opium.
• ▸It is antidoted by: Op.
• ▸and Physostigma.
• ▸Like

Bell., it is a right-side medicine.

Numbness; heaviness; paralysis of limbs.

24. Generalities—Hyperesthesia of some nerves: ophthalmic, auditory, olfactory, vaginal,

spinal, solar-plexus, nerves of uterus and bladder.—Great desire for open air (faintness).—Very

weak in the open air.—Giddiness and staggering —> From motion.