Glonoinum

"Nitro-glycerine was discovered by Sobrero in 1847, but none could be

obtained for physiological experiment until Morris Davis, a Philadelphia chemist, in the same

year, after long and laborious trials, under direction of Hering, succeeded in producing the

• ▸substance in sufficient quantities for proving.
• ▸" I quote this from the Guiding Symptoms.
• ▸Glon.
• ▸is

one of the many monuments of Hering's therapeutic genius. It is to him that we owe the

introduction of this notable remedy into the materia medica, and into medicine. The note of the

action of G/on. is a tendency to sudden and violent irregularities of the circulation. It acts very

quickly and very violently. The "signature" of this potent explosive may be said to be "bursting"

and "expansion." Bursting, throbbing headaches; sensations of expanding in the head and

elsewhere. Throbbing of carotids; violent action of heart; rush of blood to head; flushes of heat

rising from chest to head, then throbbing pain in head. The characteristic neuralgias of Glon. are

accompanied with much throbbing, and are often < at night, preventing sleep. Supra-orbital

neuralgia, pulsating; retinal congestion from exposure to strong light. Facial neuralgia, extending

through head. Cardiac neuralgia (angina pectoris) with radiating pains.

Guernsey, with his usual graphic terseness, says that G/on. is suited to "Troubles of the head in

type-setters, and in men who work under a gas-light steadily, so that the heat falls on the head;

bad results from sunstroke; can't bear any heat about the head; can't walk in the sun, must walk

in the shade or carry an umbrella; can't bear heat from a stove; great vertigo on assuming an

upright posture, from rising up in bed, rising from a seat, &c. Heat in the head; throbbing

headache." The great sensitiveness to the least jar, which is a very marked feature of the G/on.

headache, causes the patient to carry his head very carefully in order to avoid the chance of it.

The headache is in the whole head and every part—forehead, vertex, occiput. Many pains appear

in occiput and base of brain; gnawing in occiput; sore pain; pressure; severe pain in occiput,

extending to eyes and temples; sensation as if something were moving in nerves from back of

neck upward to head. The eyes may be fixed or protrude; aversion to bright light; black spots

before sight. Face flushed or pale. Climacteric disturbances.

Fainting, sudden unconsciousness; convulsions, especially during labour. Nausea and vomiting

of cerebral origin. Violent, stabbing, neuralgic pains, so violent as to make patient frantic, he

wants to escape, to jump out of window. Bad effects of fear; horrible apprehension; fear of being

poisoned. A characteristic mental condition is loss of sense of location: "well-known streets

seem strange to him." Among the peculiar sensations are: Chin feels too long. Chest feels

screwed together. Brain as if expanding; as if moving in waves; as if hanging with head

downwards; as if something were pumped into vertex; as if everything were crowded out at

forehead; as if warm water were running upwards from nape of neck; as if the neck were gripped

by a hand; as if some one were pulling eyes from within outward. Noise in left ear as if it came

• ▸from heart.
• ▸Lower lip feels swollen.
• ▸As if heart would rise to throat.
• ▸Pains are: Bursting;

throbbing; pulsative; tearing; piercing; stabbing; gnawing. Burning between shoulders. Sitting or

lying still, or walking in cold air > headache. Bending forward; bending head backward, and

almost every movement < headache. Rest < pain in knee. Excessive heat and cold = hypereemia

of brain. Heat generally <; cold applications and cool air >; but cold water applied to head <

head symptoms, even = spasms. < Damp weather. Bad effects of having hair cut; of exposure to

• ▸sun or fire heat.
• ▸All summer, headache < every day with the sun.
• ▸< From wine.
• ▸Pains from within

outward; from front to back. Bad effect of too much riding or driving; sea-sickness; < from

• ▸jarring.
• ▸Pressure > headache.
• ▸Cannot bear weight of hair; clothing seems too tight.
• ▸Suited to:

Florid, plethoric, sensitive women; nervous, sanguine, readily affected persons. Old scars break

out again.

Falling down, with loss of consciousness and alternate palpitation of the heart, and

congestion of the head.—Fear; throat feels swollen, chest as if screwed together; apprehensive of

approaching death; fears she has been poisoned.—Fear, as if something unpleasant would happen

to him.—Unusually bright and loquacious, with great flow of ideas.—Confusion of ideas; cannot

tell where he is; well-known streets seem strange; way home too long; forgets on which side of

the street he lives ——Great mental agitation (with headache); frantic, attempts to run away; to

jump out of window.—Cephalic cry.—The chin feels too long.

Fainting; with consciousness.—Great weakness and prostration.—Unconscious

falling down.—Painless throbbing in the whole body.—Pulsations, tingling, thrills, and a peculiar

sensation of warmth through the body, extending from above downward.—Convulsions (from

congestions to the head); the fingers are spread apart and stretched out——Seeming plethora, rapid

deviations in distributions of blood.

• ▸Confusion, with dizziness.
• ▸Effects of sunstroke; heat on head, as in type-setters and workers under gas and electric light.
• ▸Head heavy, but cannot lay it on pillow. Cannot bear any heat about head.
• ▸Better from uncovering head.
• ▸Throbbing headache.
• ▸Angio-spastic neuralgia of head and face.
• ▸Very irritable.
• ▸Vertigo on assuming upright position.
• ▸Cerebral congestion.
• ▸Head feels enormously large, as if skull were too small for brain.
• ▸Sun headaches; increases and decreases with the sun.
• ▸Shocks in head, synchronous with pulse.
• ▸Headache in place of menses.
• ▸Rush of blood to head in pregnant women.
• ▸Threatened apoplexy.
• ▸Meningitis.

Vertigo; < from stooping or moving head; in open air.—Giddiness when the head is

moved.—Heaviness in the head, principally in forehead.—Dull headache with warm perspiration

on forehead.—Headache with accelerated pulse, red face, perspiration on the face; he becomes

unconscious.—Headache < from the heat of the sun; > in the open air and from

• ▸pressure.
• ▸—Headache, throbbing, &c.
• ▸, during or in place of menses.
• ▸—Fulness in the head, as if the

brain was expanding itself, were moving in waves.—Fulness in the head; distinct feeling of the

pulse in the head; throbbing without pain.—Sensation as if the blood were mounting to the

head.—Congestion of blood to the head (apoplexy).—Pulsation in the forehead, in the temples, on

the vertex; when walking every step is felt in the neck, when moving the head.—Throbbing in the

head; in forehead; in temples; in vertex; in occiput; < when moving; > when sitting still and lying

and from pressure.—Throbbing in the temporal arteries, which were raised, and felt like

• ▸cords.
• ▸—Stitches in temples or r.
• ▸side of forehead.
• ▸—Sore and bruised feeling in the brain, worse

when shaking the head.—Sensation of soreness through the whole head; is afraid to shake the

head, as it seems that it would make the head drop to pieces.—The pain, heat, and fulness in the

head ascend from the chest, neck, or back part of the head.—Severe pain in the occiput, extending

to the eyes and temples.—Shaking < the headache, as well as stooping motion, ascending steps;

external pressure >; walking in the open air, uncovering the head >.—Cracking sensation in the

brain.—Skull seems too small, and as if the brain were attempting to burst the skull; violent

action of the heart, and a distinct pulsation over the whole body.—Shocks in the brain

synchronous with the pulse.—Undulating or wave-like motion in the brain.—Hemicrania; sees

half light, half dark.—Gnawing in occiput.

See everything half light, half dark. Letters appear smaller. Sparks before eyes.

Eyes dull, staring, sunken.—The white of the eye is red, the eyes protrude, look

wild.—Eyes feel as if some one were pulling them from within outward.—Pressing, protruding

pains in eyes.—In the eyeballs, stitches, twitchings, soreness, pressure.—Pupils dilated, eyes

rolled upward.—Heat in the balls of the eyes, lids, and around the eyes.—Sparks, flashes before

the eyes —The letters appear smaller.—As if focus of r. eye were suddenly displaced; sees

everything half light and half dark.—Black spots before, and obscuration of the eyes; with

fainting.

Throbbing; each beat of heart is heard in ears; full feeling.

Sensation of fulness, in and around the ears.—Ears sensitive to jarring.—Deafness, ears

feet as if stopped up.—Stitches in the ears, the ears feel as if closed.—Throbbing, piercing from

within outward in r. ear.—Ringing, singing, or cracking in the ears —Ringing in the ears, audible

pulse.

Pain at root of nose.—The headache extends into the nose.—Epistaxis on going out into

the heat of the sun, face flushed, hot, red.

Flushed, hot, livid, pale; sweaty; pains in root of nose; faceache. Dusky face.

Paleness of the face with heat and congestion of blood to head and chest.—Pale during

heat, sunstroke, congestions, &c.; flushed and hot with headache.—Heat in the face with

pulsations in the head and palpitations of the heart.—Redness of the face, esp. upper part of it,

• ▸with headache.
• ▸—Redness of the face, which comes and goes.
• ▸—Itching, esp.
• ▸in the middle of the

face.—Pain and stiffness of the articulation of the jaw.—Sensation as if the under lip were

swollen.

Pulsating toothache.

Taste: bitter with nausea; aromatic; sweet; warm; leaves a fatty taste —-Tongue numb,

as if burnt; prickling, stinging —Tongue feels swelled and raw with spasmodic

twitchings —Tongue: milk-white without coating; coated heavily at back.—Difficulty in

conversing from diminished power of tongue and confusion of ideas.—Tongue swollen with

pricking in it, the tongue smarts.—Sensation of soreness and swelling on the roof of the mouth

with pulsation.

Throbbing pain in all the teeth.—Pulsating toothache with headache.—Stabbing pains

• ▸in gums r.
• ▸side passing to 1.
• ▸without ceasing in r.
• ▸; < from hot, > from cold applications.

The soft palate feels contracted and dry.—Itching of the soft palate and throat.—In

the throat tickling, heat, soreness.—Sensation as if the throat were swelling.

Neck feels full. Collars must be opened. Chokes and swells up under ears.

• ▸Gastralgia in anaemic patients with feeble circulation.
• ▸Nausea and vomiting.
• ▸Faint, gnawing, and empty feeling at pit of stomach.
• ▸Abnormal hunger.

Appetite lost —Wants cold water; also from dry parched feeling.—Increased

desire to smoke.—Wine < all symptoms.

Nausea causing perspiration.—Nausea with and caused by the headache, with

colic; congestion of blood to the head and chest, and pale face —Nausea and vomiting in brain-

congestions, or during sunstroke.—Faint feeling at pit of the stomach; also with

throbbing.—Sensation of emptiness in the pit of the stomach.—Sensitiveness of the pit of the

stomach, esp. on stooping.—Gnawing in the pit of the stomach.

Constipation with itching, painful haemorrhoids, with pinching in abdomen before and after stool. Diarrhoea; copious blackish, lumpy stools.

Colic, cutting pain principally below the navel, wakening one in the morning,

before and after loose stools.—Gall-stone colic.—Rumbling in lower part of the abdomen,

principally when lying on 1. side.

Diarrheeic stools with rumbling and discharges of flatus, beginning in the

morning and lasting all day.—Diarrhcea; copious, loose, blackish, lumpy stools.—Morning

diarrhoea with sharp burning; with rumbling.—After eating peaches diarrhoea evening and

night—Constipation and hemorrhoids which itched and pained.—At an unaccustomed time, a

hard and unusual stool; pinching in abdomen before and after it—No stool.

Increased secretion of pale (albuminous) urine; has to rise frequently

during the night, and must pass large quantities of albuminous urine.—Tubal nephritis, with

headache, brought on by walking in the sun; numbness in arms and hands alternating with

intense tingling.

Menses delayed, or sudden cessation with congestion to head. Climacteric flushing.

Menstruation suppressed by G/on.—Instead of menses congestion

to head; face pale; worse in warm room; fainting; throbbing.—During menstruation congestion of

blood to head and chest; headache; fainting.—At climaxis, flushes of heat, pressure in head,

nausea, loss of senses, vertigo, swelling of feet.—During pregnancy headache, congestions of

blood to the head and chest.—Eclampsia; unconscious; face bright-red; puffed; pulse full, hard;

urine copious and albuminous.

Inclination to deep respiration.—Desire to take a long, deep

inspiration.—Sighing.

• ▸Laborious action.
• ▸Fluttering.
• ▸Palpitation with dyspnoea.
• ▸Cannot go uphill.
• ▸Any exertion brings on rush of blood to heart and fainting spells.
• ▸Throbbing in the whole body to finger-tips.

Constriction of the chest.—Constriction and oppression of the chest.—Oppression of

the chest alternating with headache.—Congestions to the chest.

Palpitation of the heart with heat in the face, accelerated pulse and pulsation of the

carotid arteries.—Violent action of the heart, distinct pulsation over the whole body.—Excessive

perceptible palpitation of the heart —In the heart sensation of fulness, heaviness, and heat, with

laboured beating of the heart—Pulse accelerated; rises and falls alternately; low and feeble in

• ▸sunstroke.
• ▸—Laborious action of the heart, oppression.
• ▸—Sharp pains in heart.
• ▸—Severe stitches

from the heart, extending into the back.—Purring noise in region of heart when lying, pulse

intermittent.

Tightness around the neck.—The neck feels weak and tired, cannot support

the head.—Stiffness of the neck, clothing seems to be too tight.—On the neck sensation of fulness,

tension, pulsation—Burning heat between the shoulder-blades.—Hot sensations down

back.—Pain in the whole spinal column, or heat and chilliness.

In the arms restlessness, weakness, want of circulation.—Sensation of

weakness and numbness in |. arm.—Feels the beating of all the pulses in the tips of the fingers,

accompanied by trembling of the fingers.

Weakness and numbness of |. thigh.—Weakness of the legs, the knees and

ankles give way (during headache).—Limbs relaxed, motionless in sunstroke.—Acute pain in 1.

knee on moving, seems to be deep in joint without much heat or swelling; sudden twinges or

pricks while at rest, is obliged to rise and straighten limb.—Jerking of limbs with loss of

• ▸consciousness.
• ▸—Restlessness in the limbs causes him to rise.
• ▸—(Sciatica.
• ▸).
• ▸—Cold feet, with

nausea, palpitation.

• ▸Itching all over, worse extremities.
• ▸Pain in left biceps.
• ▸Drawing pain in all limbs.
• ▸Backache.

Y awning with headache, congestion of blood to the head.—Sleepiness early in the

evening.—He is difficult to waken.—Weakness as from loss of sleep.

Pulse accelerated, irregular, intermitting, full and hard, small and rapid.—Chill: after

getting heated; alternates with sweat; with vomiting; head as if screwed up; intermittent

fever.—Heat, esp. in face, ascending from pit of stomach to head—Warmth general; flushes of

heat; waves of heat upward.—Perspiration principally in the face, after sleeping.—Perspiration on

forehead.—Profuse sweat, mostly on face and chest.—Perspiration relieves the nausea.

• ▸Angina pectoris.
• ▸Aphasia.
• ▸Apoplexy.
• ▸Brain, congestion of.
• ▸Bright's disease.

• ▸Convulsions.
• ▸Epilepsy.
• ▸Epistaxis.
• ▸Fright, effects of.
• ▸Goitre.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸Heart, affections of;

• ▸palpitation of; jarring, effects of.
• ▸Location, sense of, lost.
• ▸Mania.
• ▸Meningitis.
• ▸Menses,

• ▸suppression of.
• ▸Neuralgia.
• ▸Paralysis.
• ▸Rheumatism.
• ▸Sciatica.
• ▸Sea-sickness.
• ▸Snow-headache.
• ▸Sun-

• ▸headache.
• ▸Sunstroke.
• ▸Toothache.
• ▸Trauma.

• ▸Antidoted by: Acon.
• ▸, Camph.
• ▸, Coff.
• ▸, Nux v.
• ▸Compare: Amy] nit.
• ▸; Act.
• ▸r.
• ▸(waving in

• ▸brain); Petrol.
• ▸and Crotal.
• ▸h.
• ▸(loss of location); Bell.
• ▸(cephalic cry but not as marked in Bell.
• ▸; also

• ▸Bell.
• ▸has > bending head back, and > covering head; Glon.
• ▸> uncovered); Apis, Hyo.
• ▸(fears being

• ▸poisoned); Gels.
• ▸(inclination to jump out of window); Stram.
• ▸Sang.
• ▸(headache with the sun; ear

• ▸sensitive to jar); Nit.
• ▸ac.
• ▸and Bell.
• ▸(sensitiveness to jar); Melilot.
• ▸(headache with crimson face)

• ▸Lyc.
• ▸and Phos.
• ▸(burning between shoulders); Dig.
• ▸and Diosc.
• ▸(headache extending into nose);

Sec. (fingers spread apart).

Antidote: Acon.

Compare: Amyl nit; Bellad; Opium; Stram; Verat vir.

Sixth to thirtieth potency.

• ▸For palliative (non-homeopathic) purposes, in angina pectoris, asthma, heart-failure, etc, physiological doses-i.
• ▸e, 1-100 of drop-must be given.
• ▸Here it is the great emergency remedy.
• ▸The conditions calling for it are small, wiry pulse, pallor, arterial spasm, anaemia of brain, collapse, feeble heart, syncope, dicrotic pulse, vertigo,-the opposite of those indicating a homeopathic dosage.
• ▸Often thus used to lower the arterial tension in chronic interstitial nephritis.

gcstioii of organs, but it has also high grade inflammation. There is

nothing peculiar in the inflammation itself that would indicate Gels.,

neither should Gels, ever be given because there is inflammation, but

when the mental symptoms are present, the delirium, the flushed face,

the determination of blood to the head with the cold extremities, the

Great heaviness of ilia limbs, the disturhance of sensation, the paralysis

of sphincters, then Gels, would be good for inflammation of any organ

of the body. In a most distressing and violent, rapidly spreading erysipelas that seems destined to cause death in a few days all the symptoms point to Gels., and though Gels, may not have produced erysipelas

it will stop the progress of the disease in a few hours and the patient

will go on to a quick recovery. Many times when erysipelas has

spread over the face and scalp and in the most dangerous manner with

the dusky red color that belongs to Gels., and other symptoms such as

[ have described in a general way, Gels, has taken hold of the erysipelas and cured. If we master thoroughly the Materia Medica we

do not stop to see if a remedy produces certain kinds of inflammation,

etc., but wc consider the state of the patient.

The most common feature in this remedy is the surging of blood

to the head and to the heart. A patient often describes the state as

a feeling as if all the blood in the body must be lushing around the

heart, with a sense of hear or a boiling sensation in the region of

the heart, or in the left side of the chest. Again he complains of a

surging in the head, a warm glowing sensation in ilie head or a feeling

of intense glowing from the .stomach or from the chest up into the

head, attended at times with loss ol consciousness. There are also

wave-like sensations in the head, as if the .skull w^ere being lifted up

and lowered, or as if it were being expanded and contracted. Along

with this there is most intense pain, sometimes as if the head would

burst, sometimes great soreness in the head, or a sense of soreness

felt in the skull. Another accompaniment of the surging is great

throbbing, synchronous with the heat of the heart, and when the skull

has this soreness then the throbbing is like the beating of hammers,

and every pulsation is painful, so that there arc painful pulsations

and sometimes painless pulsations. The pulsations are tremendous

and when they are greatest in the head they are felt also in the extremities. The fingers and toes pulsate, there is pulsation throughout

the back, and it seems that the whole body throbs. If this continues

a while the soreness in the skull is likely to come on and with it the

painful throbbing, every throb is a pain. In this state, with every

jar in stepping, and every motion, it seems as if the head would be

crushed. The throbbing becomes more painful from motion. The

vomiting which attends this condition relieves. The head is relieved

in the open air, it is worse in the warmth, and is often relieved from

the application of cold. It is made worse by lying down, or lying

with the head low. In the extremities we have great coldness. The

extremities cold, pale and perspiring, the head hot and the face flushed

and purple or bright red. The pupils are dilated and the eyes red.

Now, if this progresses only a little while, the tongue becomes dry,

red and then brown. There is no great thirst, but the mouth is very

dry. The eyelids become dry and stick to the eyeballs. At times the

skin becomes dry and hot, and the face is red and glistens. All degrees

of confusion of mind, even loss of consciousness, will be present.

Have I not described to a great extent that which is seen in a typical

sunstroke? It is noticeable also that Glonoine symptoms are worse

in the heat of summer and relieved in winter. The dull headaches

and the continuous headaches are aggravated from warm weather

and ameliorated from cold. They are worse in the sun and better

in the shade. All sorts of contrivances will be resorted to by Glonoine patients to keep the sun’s heat from the head. When he has

had these troubles for years, and it has become a chronic state, he

will never go out in the warmth of the sun without an umbrella.

Glonoine corresponds to congestive states in the head that come on

suddenly, especially from heat, blit ^also from gaslight, or from any

bright light. The headaches that book-keepers are subject to, especially in those that have at their de$l^ or over the head, a hot gaslight.

The bright light accompanied by the heat so close to the head will

make this individual subject to headaches. These headaches are relieved by going into the cold air. The head aches all day when he is

at his books, and when he goes home at night and lies down the headache comes on again, and he has to be bolstered up in bed. He wants

the head high, and cold applications to the head ; the headache is relieved from a long sleep, net generally relieved from siesta. From

lying down and taking a nap the headache is sometimes aggravated,

but from a good long sleep, a night’s sleep, he is refreshed. His feet

and hands become warm, the feverish state, and the throbbing all over

the body subsides and he wakes up in the morning comfortable ; but if

he goes out in the sun, or goes to the gaslight, he comes home with

the headache again. Since electric lights have been brought into use

there is not so much heat in the light, but gas throws out an immense

amount of heat in its light.

The child comes down with cerebro-spinal meningitis, the neck is

drawn back, the face is intensely hot, red and shiny, the eyes congested

or glassy, the head and upper part of the body are very warm, the feet

and hands and lower portions of the body and the extremities are cold

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tnd covered with cold sweat. It is a most violent congestion to the

brain and spinal cord. Convulsions come on, convulsions throughout

all , the limbs, the neck and whole body drawn back, opisthotonos.

Cold feels good to the head ; heat feels good to the extremities. The

warm room increases the convulsions. When the lower limbs are

covered with clothing in a cool room and the windows open the convulsions are relieved and the patient breaths more easily. With this

head congestion there is difficulty in breathing and audible palpitation.

The head is made worse from shaking or jar, from stooping, from

bending head backwards, after lying down, when ascending steps. It

is aggravated in damp weather, and in the sun, while working under

the gaslight, after overheating with copious sweat, and from the touch

of the hat The weight of the hat is a very common aggravation in

headaches in school children. The little ones work all day in a hot

stuffy room and feel better in the open air, but the weight of the hat

seems an encumberance as in Nitric acid and Calc, phos.

The Glonoine patient is also worse from wine and from stimulants,

and from mental application. When the headache is on he cannot

think, and he cannot write. An additional hindrance to writing is

that he trembles so that he cannot write. Trembling and throbbing

of the fingers so that he is unable to do his work or perform any delicate work with the fingers or hands.

We have puerperal convulsions with such an appearance as I have

described. We may have the same violence in congestive chills, or

in any type of congestion of the brain.

There is a milder form of trouble that calls for its use, a condition

corresponding to the chronic types of disease. This milder form

exists where the patient has simply what might be called a hyperaemia

of the brain, a rush of blood to the head when able to be about. It

comes in spells, comes in moments when he least expects it ; while

walking on the street he feels a surging to the brain like a flush of

heat and a flush on the face, his hands tremble, and the hands and

feet become cold, he breaks out in a sweat ; he looks around him and

does not know which way to go home, he does not know where his

dwelling is He looks in the faces of friends and they seem strange,

he loses his way when he is near home. It is a confusion which soon

parses away, and he feels better again. But these spells come closer

together, and constitute the earlier stages of softening of the brain.

This surging of blood to the brain is attended with dizziness ; he rolls

and staggep, and must take hold of things, and especially does he

suffer in this way from a warm day, or from the heat and light of

the sun.

In threatened apoplexy, and when apoplexy has taken place, if the

violent pressure keeps on, think of this remedy. The clot may not

be at first in the place to take life, it may be outside of the life lia(?,

but if the. congestion continues that blood clot will increase. Such

medicines as Opium and Glonoine relieve the blood pressure when the

symptoms agree. They equalize the circulation, and the patient may

not die. A paralytic condition in one arm or leg may go on for

a while, and at the end of many weeks or months the motion may be

regained, and the patient recover; whereas if the suitable remedy had

not been administered to reduce that blood pressure the continued congestion would certainly have ended in death in a few days. The

stertorous breathing, the coma, the history, and the general appearance of an apoplectic patient are found in this remedy, but the intense

heat that comes on in many cases of apoplexy along with the shiny

skin and coldness of the extremities are the guiding features. Opium

is the most frequently indicated medicine, but it must not be administered in large doses. The highest potencies are the best and one single

dose is enough.

In a case noted it says, “frantic attempts to jump from the window.'’

The headache was so intense that the patient became violent and attempted to jump from the window. You may rest assured that with

his headache there was all this determination of blood to the head.

It is enough to make one frantic to feel this continued hammering

upon every fraction of the skull. He cannot lie down, and he cannot

walk, because every step increases the jar, so you see why it is that

the word “frantic" is used there. The patient becomes frantic with

the pain. Another expression used is “disinclination to step around,"

The patient wants the room perfectly still. If sitting up in bed, you

will often find a Glonoine patient with both hands pressing upon the

head with all the power possible until the arms are perfectly exhausted.

He wants the head pressed upon all sides. Wants it bandaged, or ft

tight cap fitted down upon it. The headache is worse from bending

backward and from stooping forward. There are times when the

headache is so severe that lying back upon the pillow cannot be tolerated. There is a sense of great heaviness in the head. You will

notice, in reading over these congestive headaches as reported, that

each patient has a different way of describing his headache and yet

all have the same story to tell, that of violent determination of blood

to the head.

"Some months after being violently jarred by being thrown from

a carriage, a sensitiveness of the upper part of the back and neck came

on." There are two strong characteristics of Glonoine in that cure,

viz: from wine and the < from lying down." The other symptoms might have pointed to other remedies, but these two features ara

there. It is interesting when reading a case, if you have first a knoWh

edge of the Materia Medica, td note what symptoms are verified ;

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when you do not know the Materia Mcdica then the case is confusing.

Now, as we glance over that description we see at once these two

things verified and the rest is fairly consistent. Very commonly the

pain begins in the occiput and goes to the forehead, but the whole head

is in a state of throbbing. But, we notice more particularly, the

‘‘aggravation from motion and the least noise.” This patient will sit

in perfect quietude and silence for hours. You will be astonished to

know how long a Glonoinc patient can sit without moving a muscle,

because motion is so painful- Also “aggravation from lying with the

head low and after sleeping.” It is important for you to know what

that sleeping means. As 1 have said before, the patient very often

is worse after a little sleep, but the common state is relief after a

prolonged sleep. If he can sleep long enough it will subside, unless

it be the congestive sleep, or coma, and then it is a different thing.

“Amelioration from cold and external pressure.” “Vertex burning

hot, likewise upper part of back.” The whole crown of the head feels

as if it were covered by a hot iron, as if an oven were close by. Hot,

especially in the back of the neck and bctw^ccn the shoulders. The

burning heat seems to appear at the top of the head and extend down

between the shoulders ; a sensation of heat, as from a band. “Face

bluish, with a heavy, stupid expression.” The face is bright red, but

if the condition becomes severe the face assumes a dusky appearance,

and the longer this state lasts the more dusky it becomes ; that is true

with apoplexy and also with sunstroke. When the sunstroke first

comes on the face is bright red, intensely hot and shiny, but as the

heat increases the face grows dusky, even to purple. In all of these

cerebral congestions there is a stupid, heavy expression, even going

on to coma. “Frequent deep inspirations.” With this congestion of

the head there is commonly vomiting, palpitation of the heart, pain

in the stomach, great difficulty in breathing and finally loss of consciousness. In another clinical case reported we read: “Every pulsation is felt as if the head would burst.” Now, suppose the head bones

were already intensely sensitive and sore and the head filled as full

as possible with blood, and then you commenced hammering upon the

blood column you can understand that the pain would be most intense

and would soon end in stupefaction. “Sunken eyes, bluish pallor

under the eyes.” “Red eyes, with photophobia ; optical illusions.

Black speeks before the eyes ; blindness.” “Face pale, in spite of high

fever.” In all of these cerebral congestions of great violence the pulse

fluctuates ; it even becomes fine and wiry and hard ; sometimes becomes irregular and also slow.

Another common accompaniment of these congestions is tumefaction

about the neck. The neck feels full. The collar must be opened

as it causes choking, as if he would suffocate. Even in the chronic

Nitro-glycerine--Spirits Glycerinus Nitrate

Recent German provings of Glonoine confirm the original American provings and clinical indications and bring out very marked nerve disturbances. Great lassitude, no inclination to work; extreme irritability, easily excited by the slightest opposition, ending in congestive head symptoms. The sixth potency alone produced itching all over body with later acne and furuncle formation, also bulimy.

• ▸Great remedy for congestive headaches, hyperaemia of the brain from excess of heat or cold.
• ▸Excellent for the intercranial, climacteric disturbances, or due to menstrual suppression.
• ▸Children get sick when sitting before an open fire.
• ▸Surging of blood to head and heart.
• ▸Tendency to sudden and violent irregularities of the circulation.
• ▸Violent convulsions, associated with cerebral congestion.
• ▸Sensation of pulsation throughout body.
• ▸Pulsating pains.
• ▸Cannot recognize localities.
• ▸Sciatica in other-omatous subjects, with cold shriveled limbs; seasickness.