Eryngium Aquaticum

This is one of the anésthetics experimented on by J. Y. Simpson and later by

• ▸B.
• ▸W.
• ▸Richardson.
• ▸It has produced a few definite symptoms.

Exhilaration; furious excitement; flushed face.—Pleasant dreams of rapid flight

through the air, gorgeous visions and unearthly music.—Frightful dreams; fancied he heard the

ringing of his own funeral bell—Low-spirited, fearful of some disease, desponding (lasting some

months).—Complete loss of consciousness.

Circulation deadened, or as if stagnated; still great determination of blood to

surface.

A tendency to pitch forward.—Sense of fulness in vessels of brain—Much headache

and giddiness for some time after its employment.

Eyes suffused; lids closed; conjunctivé injected.—Pupils dilated —Dim vision as if mist

or thin cloud before eyes.

Extreme suffusion of face.

19. Heart—Excessive over-action of the heart.—Rapid and painful respiration.

Mouth often open.—Salivation; slight frothing at mouth.—Pronunciation difficult and

indistinct.

All viscera seemed prostrated and as heavy as lead.—Dull continuous pain in

bowels.—Pain in one spot in r. groin.

Mucous diarrhoea of children.—Constipation.—Stools dark leaden colour,

dry, and very hard; tenesmus at stool with a sensation of cutting as they pass through

anus.—Hemorrhoids and prolapsus ani.

• ▸Tenesmus of bladder and urethra.
• ▸Difficult and frequent micturition.
• ▸Pain behind pubes.
• ▸Spasmodic stricture.
• ▸Renal colic (Pareira; Calc).
• ▸Congestion of kidneys with dull pain in back, running down the ureters and limbs.
• ▸Irritable bladder from enlarged prostate gland, or from pressure of uterus.

Discharge of prostatic fluid from slight causes. Seminal emissions without erections, with lassitude (Dioscor; Phos ac).

Insensibility of corona glandis; absence of desire (secondary action);

power of erection quite gone.

Cough, with sense of constriction. Smarting in throat and larynx.

Violent cough from stinging or heat in bronchia.—Expectoration of

• ▸blood.
• ▸—Breathing quickened; stertorous.
• ▸—Congestion of lungs and brain.
• ▸—Extreme coldness of

the chest, wants it covered.—Tightness; irritation and pain.

Pain at nape compelling the support of head on hand or against

something.—Occasional shooting pains under left scapula.

Veins of hands at back appear contracted and depressed so as to be hardly

visible, though generally full and prominent.

Paralysis of lower extremities.

Ethylum Nitricum.

Nitric Ether. C2 Hs NOs (not to be confounded with nitrous ether, C2 Hs NO2, which is the

principal ingredient in Sweet Spirit of Nitre).

Patch of eruption half the size of palm of hand came out in cluster where pain had

been the day previous, like fine pin-heads, points feeling rough to fingers; died away next day

leaving red areola.

Face and upper part of the body covered with profuse perspiration.

Etherum.

Ethyl oxide. Ethylic Ether, sometimes called Sulphuric Ether. (C2Hs)20 (Alcohol is C2

HeO).

Compare: Conium; Cannab; Dios; Ocim; Clemat.

Tincture, to third potency.