Prologue
Boericke
Buku-from Cape of Good Hope
- Pathogenically it produces: Somnolence; nervous insomnia; night sweats.
- Erratic pains, with bad humor, desire to weep or fear of sickness.
- Violent vertigo.
- Cephalalgia, chiefly frontal, radiating to the occiput.
- Eyes brilliant, with lachrymation or itching, the conditions accompanied by a species of stupefaction, with hardness of hearing or noises from aural pressure.
- Earthy face with disseminated rosaceous eruption.
- Nausea, fetid breath, with sensation of emptiness.
- Sensation of meteorism, with stinging pains in the spleen.
- Painful sensation in the abdomen, with pubic pressure-the pressure of the clothing becomes insupportable, with emission of high-colored, bloody urine.
- Frequent yellow diarrhoea, worse at night.
- Catamenia abundant, anticipating, sometimes metrorrhagic in type; crampy pains on ingesting food.
- Sensation of heat or of cold in the hands, with convulsive movements of the fingers.
- Weakness of the legs, aggravated by sitting down.
Clinically, this pathogeny should be useful in cerebral affections with dullness or stupefaction; in convulsive or epileptiform attacks; in hysteria; in hepatitis (cirrhosis or atrophy); in haematuria with ovarian or uterine lesions.
- In splenitis, where it should surpass Ceanothus.
- Mental disorders in nervous or ascetic individuals, particularly where there is constant fear of death, or erotic or maniacal attacks.
- Gastralgia. Gastro-enteritis.
- Sudden fright, with trembling and weakness of the legs (Dr.
- C.
- Leal La Rota).