Hypericum Perforatum

The leaves of various species of Hypericum are sprinkled with pellucid dots

and black glands which contain an essential oil. These, which are most conspicuous in H.

perforatum, have evidently given the signature which has led to the chief use of the plant in

medicine, namely, as a remedy for wounds or perforations of the integuments. The leaves,

moreover, are lance-shaped. The leaves of H. androseenum, commonly called Tutsan (toute

saine), were applied to fresh wounds from olden time. The word Hypericum means "sub-heather'

(026 and épsixn), indicating its manifest relation to the heaths, which at once leads us to think of

Ledum. The proving of Hyp. by Miller and others is very complete and brings out the relation of

the drug to wounds and their consequences and also its applicability in maladies of other kinds.

Crawling sensations in hands and feet; they felt fuzzy; sticking in them as from needles. Tearing,

• ▸rheumatic, shaking pains; paralytic weakness.
• ▸One of the provers had on waking at 4 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸a

feeling as though she were suspended and not lying in bed, at another time as though she were

lying very heavy in bed. The former condition has led to cures in effects of accidents attended

with the sensation "as if being lifted high into the air; and great anxiety lest she should fall from

this height." The particular kinds of wounds for which Hyp. has been found of signal service are

wounds of parts rich in nerves, brain, spine (spinal irritation from falls), coccyx, finger-ends;

wounds from stepping on nails, or any punctured wounds. The characteristic of the Hyp. wounds

• ▸is that they are very sensitive to touch (Led.
• ▸punctures are not particularly sensitive).
• ▸W.
• ▸J.

• ▸Guernsey (H.
• ▸R.
• ▸, x.
• ▸475) relates the following case: A boy, nine, was bitten by a pet rat on the

first finger of left hand. Nothing particular was observed at the time, but some time after, he

became ill, and when Dr. Guernsey was called his state was alarming. The boy could talk with

great difficulty; teeth firmly locked; conscious; neck so stiff the head could scarcely be moved.

There was more tenderness about the wound than the appearance would indicate. Hence Hyp.

• ▸was preferred to Led.
• ▸It was given (8 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸) in the 500th, dissolved in water, at first every fifteen

• ▸minutes; later every two hours.
• ▸At 3 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸there was improvement, he fell asleep, and the next

morning was practically convalescent. Hyp. is called for in nervous depression following

wounds; effects of shock, fright and mesmerism. Ulceration and sloughing of wounds. Hard, dry,

yellow crusts form on healing wound. Bunions and corns when the pain is excruciating. Not only

is the pain sense exalted, there is exaltation of the senses of hearing and smell. Violent labour-

• ▸pains and after-pains.
• ▸Tympanitic distension of abdomen, cutting pains.
• ▸Gilchrist says Hyp.
• ▸3x,

given at intervals of twenty minutes for twelve hours or longer, seems to control perfectly the

pain following laparotomy. But it must not be thought that Hyp. has no sphere outside wounds

and their effects. Like Arnica it has many uses in the respiratory sphere. It has cured asthma < in

foggy weather; the attacks were > by copious expectoration. Whooping-cough < 6 to 10 p.m.

Tightness of chest; stinging < on moving. Summer diarrhoea with eruption. Palpitation and local

congestions, with or without hemorrhage and nervous depression, following wounds. Roehrig

• ▸(H.
• ▸R.
• ▸, xii.
• ▸40) considers Hyperic.
• ▸externally and internally the nearest thing to a specific in

bleeding piles. He gives it to pneumonia patients who have piles; it cures the pneumonia and

• ▸prevents the arrest of the flux, always a dangerous symptom in these cases.
• ▸Ussher (H.
• ▸W.
• ▸, xxvii.

500) confirms this; "pain, bleeding and tenderness" are his indications. "It seems to suit the

plethoric, with great soreness." He uses the 1x. Toothache > lying on affected side and keeping

• ▸quiet.
• ▸Hyp.
• ▸is sensitive to cold: < in cold air; in damp; in fog.
• ▸The hacking cough is < from heat

as well as by cold air. All symptoms < by least exposure. < From touch.

• ▸Feels as if lifted high in air, or anxiety lest he fall from heights.
• ▸Mistakes in writing.
• ▸Effects of shock.
• ▸Melancholy.

Makes mistakes in writing; omits letters; forgets what she wanted to say.—Talks

• ▸wildly in night after 4 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸while asleep; apprehensive; gasped for breath.
• ▸—Mental excitement as

after drinking tea—Weakness of memory.—Great nervous depression following

wounds.—Irritable-—Removes consequences of fright and effects of shock.

Consequences of shock or fright.—Prevents lockjaw from wounds in soles, in

fingers, and in palms of the hands.—Convulsions from blows or concussions.—After a fall,

slightest motion of arms or neck extorts cries.—Flesh sore, feels bruised all over.—Injuries to

parts rich in sentient nerves, esp. fingers, toes, and matrices of nails.—Mechanical injuries,

wounds by nails or splinters in the feet, needles under the nails, squeezing, hammering; of the

toes and fingers, esp. the tips of the fingers; when the nerves have been lacerated, wounded, torn,

with excruciating pains.—Lacerations, when intolerable, excruciating pain shows nerves are

severely involved.—Next to the nervous tissues, the joints are affected.—Sensation as of being

lifted up high into air.

• ▸Heavy; feels as if touched by an icy cold hand.
• ▸Throbbing in vertex; worse in close room.
• ▸Brain seems compressed.
• ▸Right side of face aches.
• ▸Brain-fag and neurasthenia.
• ▸Facial neuralgia and toothache of a pulling, tearing character, with sadness.
• ▸Head feels longer-elongated to a point.
• ▸In fractured skull, bone splinters.
• ▸Brain feels alive.
• ▸Pains in eyes and ears.
• ▸Falling out of hair.

Great heaviness in the head.—Confusion, vertigo, and heaviness.—Tearing stitches in

the brain.—Buzzing sensation in vertex at night as if something living were in brain.—Pulsation,

heat and burning in the vertex (afternoon).—Sensation in the forehead as if touched by an icy

cold hand.—Sensation as if the head became elongated—Headache, extending into zygoma or

cheek.—Headache, with sore eyes, after a fall——Hair moist, rest of body burning hot.

• ▸Sticking through (r.
• ▸) ear in evening.
• ▸—Itching in r.
• ▸meatus.
• ▸—Sensitiveness of hearing

during menses.

Pain in bridge of nose on rising.—Sore within nose; itching; continually picking

it-—Dryness of nose; with sneezing; of |. nostril with crusts in it—Smell very acute.

• ▸Hot and bloated.
• ▸—Tension in the cheek.
• ▸—Tearing in cheek; in 1.
• ▸zygoma.
• ▸—Eruption

around mouth and on r. ear.—Yellowish green scabs with cracking and moisture.

Dryness of the lips and mouth.—Dry, burning heat in mouth—Tongue: coated white;

or dirty yellow.—Taste: insipid; of blood.—Thirst, with feeling of heat in mouth.

Sensation as of a worm moving in throat.—Hot risings in oesophagus after a fright, or

with anxious feelings.

• ▸Craving for wine.
• ▸Thirst; Nausea.
• ▸Tongue coated white at base, tip clean.
• ▸Feeling of lump in stomach (Abies nig; Bry).

Great thirst—Desire for warm drinks.—Eructation on drinking water.—Desire for

wine; pickles.—Appetite increased morning and evening.—Pressure at the stomach on eating but

little Nausea and inclination to vomit.

Sticking in the stomach; in r. hypochondrium.—Tympanitic distension of

abdomen; relieved by a stool.—(Effects of laparotomy).

Urging, dry, dull, pressing pain. Haemorrhoids, with pain, bleeding, and tenderness.

Loose, bilious, yellow stools evening or morning.—Summer diarrhoea with

• ▸eruption.
• ▸—Diarrheea driving out of bed in morning.
• ▸—Very unusual severe urging.
• ▸—Constipation;

violent tenesmus, with discharge of a hard little ball; with nausea.—Rectum feels dry,

• ▸morning.
• ▸—Hemorrhoids.
• ▸—Burning, biting, and feeling of dryness in rectum.
• ▸—(Piles, with much

pain, bleeding, and great soreness.)

Nightly urging to urinate, with vertigo —Desire to urinate, with violent

tearing in the genital organs.—Swelling and hardness of female urethra, with burning soreness

and sensitiveness.

Menses too late; headache; sickening pain in abdomen; sensitive to

noises.—Tension in region of uterus, as from a tight bandage —Leucorrhcea.—After-pains after

instrumental delivery.—Scirrhus of breast from injury.

Asthma worse foggy weather and relieved by profuse perspiration.

Hoarseness; Scraping and roughness in larynx, upper part of pharynx

and nares in foggy weather.—Asthma < in foggy weather.—Frequent dry hacking cough; short,

barking cough.—Whooping-cough, < 6 to 10 p.m.

Anxiety in chest in forenoon, with short breath.—Stitches in the chest, below the

• ▸breasts.
• ▸—Stitches from within outward, through I.
• ▸breast and sternum, < from motion.
• ▸—Pressure

and burning in the chest.—Tightness in the chest.—< In foggy weather —(Pneumonia in persons

• ▸who have piles.
• ▸).
• ▸—Stinging in I.
• ▸chest, < when moving.

The heart feels as though, it would fall down, in the evening.—Palpitation.—Pulse

rapid and hard.—Local congestions and capillary erethism, with or without hemorrhages and

great nervous depression, following wounds.

• ▸Pain in nape of neck.
• ▸Pressure over sacrum.
• ▸Spinal concussion.
• ▸Coccyx injury from fall, with pain radiating up spine and down limbs.
• ▸Jerking and twitching of muscles.

After a fall, slightest motion of arms or neck extorts cries.—Cervical

vertebree very sensitive to the touch Consequence of spinal concussion.—Violent pains and

inability to wall, or stoop, after a fall on the coccyx.—Aching pain and sensation of lameness in

the small of the back.—Stitches in the small of the back.—Lies on back jerking head backward.

Stitches on the top of the shoulder at every inspiration.—Flying pains in r.

• ▸shoulder.
• ▸—Neuralgia and paralytic pain in 1.
• ▸upper arm.
• ▸—Tension in both arms and in the

hands.—Numbness in |. arm, > by rubbing.

Sensation as if the |. foot was strained or dislocated.—The feet feel pithy, as

if pricked with needles.—Fearful sharp pain in knees, could hardly touch the m.—Coxalgia after

• ▸confinement.
• ▸—Sciatica, rheumatism; from injury.
• ▸—L.
• ▸leg numb, cold while sitting.
• ▸—Effects of

running nail or pin into foot—Feet much swollen.

• ▸Darting pain in shoulders.
• ▸Pressure along ulnar side of arm.
• ▸Cramp in calves.
• ▸Pain in toes and fingers, especially in tips.
• ▸Crawling in hand and feet.
• ▸Lancinating pain in upper and lower limbs.
• ▸Neuritis, with tingling, burning pain, numbness and flossy skin.
• ▸Joints feel bruised.
• ▸Hysterical joints.
• ▸Tetanus (Physost; Kali brom).
• ▸Traumatic neuralgia and neuritis.

• ▸Hyperidrosis, sweating of scalp, worse in morning after sleep; falling of hair from injury; eczema of hands and face, intense itching, eruption seems to be under the skin.
• ▸Herpes zoster.
• ▸Old ulcers or sores in mouth when very sensitive.
• ▸Lacerated wounds with much prostration from loss of blood.

Smarting eruption, like nettle-rash, on the hands.—Painful scars in tissues rich in

nerves.

Constant drowsiness.—Spasmodic jerks in arms or legs on going to sleep;

• ▸twitchings—Dreams: with activity, travelling; vivid; distressing.
• ▸—At 4 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸talks nonsense in

• ▸sleep, distorted staring eyes, throbbing arteries.
• ▸—Wakes 4 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸with sense of levitation —On

awaking: weary, > by noon; feels refreshed; bowels distended.

Pulse hard, accelerated.—Shuddering over the whole body, with desire to

urinate.—Heat, with delirium; wild, staring look; hot head throbbing of the carotids; bright-red,

bloated face; moist hair on the head burning heat of the skin; great oppression and anguish.

• ▸After-pains.
• ▸Asthma.
• ▸Bites.
• ▸Brachial neuralgia.
• ▸Breast, affections of.
• ▸Brain,

• ▸concussion of.
• ▸Bruises.
• ▸Bunions.
• ▸Compound fractures.
• ▸Corns.
• ▸Coxalgia.
• ▸Diarrhoea.
• ▸Gunshot

• ▸wounds.
• ▸Hemorrhoids.
• ▸Headache.
• ▸Hydrophobia.
• ▸Hypersensitiveness.
• ▸Impotence.
• ▸Labour, effects

• ▸of.
• ▸Meningitis.
• ▸Mind, affections of.
• ▸Neuralgia.
• ▸Operations, effects of.
• ▸Panaritium.
• ▸Paralysis.

• ▸Rheumatism.
• ▸Scars.
• ▸Sciatica.
• ▸Spastic paralysis.
• ▸Spinal concussion.
• ▸Spinal irritation.
• ▸Stiff-neck.

• ▸Tetanus.
• ▸Ulceration.
• ▸Whooping-cough.
• ▸Wounds.

• ▸Antidoted by: Ars.
• ▸(weakness or sickness on moving); Cham.
• ▸(pains in face).
• ▸/¢

• ▸antidotes: Effects of mesmerism (Sulph.
• ▸).
• ▸Compare: Aco.
• ▸, Cham.
• ▸, Coff.
• ▸(exalted sensitiveness);

• ▸Arn.
• ▸, Calend.
• ▸, Led.
• ▸, Ruta, Con.
• ▸, Bellis, Staph.
• ▸, Al.
• ▸cep.
• ▸(wounds); Hydrob.
• ▸, Lach.
• ▸(bites); Nux

(tetanus); Gels., Lathyrus; spastic paralysis.

Compare: Ledum (punched wounds and bites of animals); Arnica; Staphis; Calend; Ruta; Coff.

Antidotes: Ars; Cham.

Tincture, to third potency.

One who makes a study of the proving of Hypericum will be

reminded of a class of injuries involving sentient nerves, and it

is not surprising that this remedy has come into use for the results of such injuries. The surgery of Homoepathy largely involves the use of Arnica, Rhus tox.^ Ledum, Staphisagria^ Calcarea and

Hypcircum. These remedies are used in a routine way when a physician

runs into semi-surgical conditions, or the results of injuries. For the

bruised, *‘black-and-blue/’ sore appearance and sensation Arnica comes

into use ; it corresponds especially to the acute stage until the soreness

and bruised condition have disappeared from the parts injured or from

the whole body ; but for the strains of muscles and tendons Arnica

proves insufficient and a thorough sturly of Rhus will show that that

remedy is suitable for the resultant weakness of tendons and musclCsS,

and the bruised, rheumatic feelings that come on in every storm and

often wear off on continued motion. For the final weakness that persists

even after Rhus we have Calcarea curb.

In these three remedies we have a series, but to distinguish

these from Hypericum is the important thing. Hypericum is only

a minor remedy for bruised and strained tendons and muscles ; it

goes into a different class of complaints. Hypericum and Ledum

run close together, and they have to be compared. Ledum has

much of the sore bruised feeling of Arnica and will often take its

place ; but Hypericum and Ledum come together for consideration

when an injury to a nerve has taken on inflammatory action. Instead

of the muscles and bones and bloodvessels, as in Arnica, Rhus and

Calcarea, the nerves arc the sphere for these two remedies. When

the finger ends or toes have been bruised or lacerated, or a nail has

been tom off, or when a nerve has become pinched between a hammer

and the bone in a blow, and that nerve becomes inflamed and the pain

can be traced up along the nerve, and it is gradually extending toward

the body from the injured part with stitching, darting pains, coming

and going, or shooting up from the region of the injury toward the

body, a dangerous condition is coming on. In this condition Hypericum is above all the remedies to be thought of and hardly any other

medicine is likely to come in. It hardly need be said that lock-jaw is

threatening.

Sometimes a vicious dog will take hold of an individual through

the thumb, or through the hand or the wrist and run one of his

great teeth through the radial nerve or some of its branches in

the hand, causing a lacerated wound. You may not find in the

earlier stages the symptoms of Hypericum, but they will develop

gradually and you will have them to treat. Do not cut the arm.

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off, but cure it. We cure all these injuries with medicines— punctured, incised, contused and lacerated wounds, painful wounds.

A wound will sometimes yawn, swell up, no tendency to heal,

look dry and shiny on its edges ; red ; inflamed ; burning, stinging,

tearing pains ; no healing process. That wound needs Hypericum.

It prevents tetanus. Every practitioner knows that lock-jaw may

develop after an injury to sentient nerves. The old school doctor

is frightened by these shooting pains up the arms after an injury.

A shoemaker may stick his awl into the end of his thumb or a carpenter

may stick his finger with a brass tack and he does not think much of it,

but the next night shooting pains extend up the arm with much

violence. The allopathic physician looks upon that as a series matter,

for he sees lock-jaw or tetanus ahead When these pains come on

Hypericum will stop them, and from this stage to advanced states of

tetanus with opisthotonos and lock-jaw Hypericum is the remedy. It

is full of just such symptoms as are found in tetanus and such

symptoms as lead to tetanus and it is full of all the manifestations

of an ascending neuritis.

Again, you may have an old scar, and it comes in contact with

a hard body and is injured, bruised, torn internally, smashed, and

stinging, tearing pains come in that cicatrix, and it burns and stings,

and there is no relief, and the paia runs toward the body along the

course of nerves, A painful cicatrix with pain slihoting up toward

the centre of the body following up the nerves. Hypericum is the

medicine for that.

Now there are other remcdiesi~all know about Arnica, but be

sure you keep it in its place. The first stage of the injury, where

much bruising has been done, and there are none of these pains

that I have described, for the first hours for bruised conditions and

concussions and shocks Arnica is routine, because it produces states

upon the human body like it had been bruised. But you will find

Arnica only fits into that one place. Arnica should never be used for

wounds the way the lay people use it, because if it is used in full

strength it may bring on erysipelas.

Again, for bruised of bone, cartilages, tendons, insertion of tendons,

bruises about cartilages and about joints, Ruta is better than any other

remedy ; and if we study the proving of Ruta we will not be surprised,

because it produces symptoms like those found in such conditions.

Lingering, sore, bruised places on bones, in joints and upon cartilages.

But Ledum comes in very often as a preventive medicine. It is a

preventive medicine when an accident happen to the ends of the!

fingers, if a patient steps on a nail or tack or sticks a splinter under

a finger-nail or into the foot. If a horse pick up a nail, pull it out

and give him a dose of Ledum; there will never be trouble, he wiH

Hypericum

not have lock-jaw. These punctured wounds, rat bites, cat bites, etc.,

are all made safe by Ledum ; i.e.. Ledum prevents the shooting pains

that naturally come and the nerves will never be involved. We will

have no trouble if we can give it at once. Again, if the pain is a dull

aching in the part that was injured, in the wound Ledum is still

the remedy ; if it shoots from the wound up the nerve of the arm it is

more like Hypericum.

A sensitive nervous women steps on a tack during the day, and

she feels all the day where the tack went in, lies down in bed and it

aches so violently she cannot keep it still. Ledum will prevent any

further trouble, but if that goes on until the morning the pains will

be shooting up the leg, calling for Hypericum. I mentioned the use

of Ledum when a horse picks up a nail. Now, if a nail goes through

the thin part of the hoof and strikes the coffin bone that horse is

almost sure to die with tetanus ; the veterinarians know nothing for

it ; though they paultice it and put on liniments, etc., that horse will

die with tetanus ; but if a dose of Ledum is given before the tetanus

comes on it will save the animal from tetanus ; after the jerking comes

on it will save the animal from tetanus ; after the jerking comes on

Ledum will not do, but Hypericum must be given. Hypericum belongs

to lacerated wounds and when there is laceration of pans that are

full of small nerves, sentient nerves, give it at once. Do not waste

time with Arnica because there is soreness, for the soreness is of

much less importance than the danger from nerves in lacerated wounds.

In punctured wounds give Ledum at once. Whatever sequences come

on, of course, have to be met in accordance with the state and symptoms

of the case.

Injuries of the spine give us another class of troubles requiring

Hypericum. I remember a case such as has been met with quite

often and such as we read of and hear about, one, however, that

was not saved. A sudden lurch of the car caused a man who was

standing on the rear end of the car to be hurled back on his

coccyx. He did not think much of it, went home, had pains in

the head and various parts of the body. Several physicians were

called ; nobody could find out what was the matter with him, and

at the end of ten days he died. They turned him over and found

that his coccyx was black and an abscess was threatening in the

muscular region. If it had been known Hypericum would have

saved his life. Many times I have seen Hypericum cure similar

conditions. Injuries of the coccyx are among the most serious and

troublesome injuries that the physician comes in contact with ; injuries

just like that, falling back and striking a stone, or something that

bruises the^ coccyx. Very little is found immediately in the coccyx ;

close examination reveals nothing more than soreness upon pressure.

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but mRny times we do have the description of pains shooting up the

spine and down the extremities, shooting pains over the body and

often convulsive movements. When such symptoms are present any

physician ought to be wise enough to find out an injury, but even

very astute physicians are blinded over injuries of the coccyx.

Many a woman sustains an injiuy of the coccyx during labor, and

however, slight, soreness remains for years afterwards, and she is

always in trouble, always hysterical and nervous, from this injury of

the coccyx. Such injuries, if taken early, can be cured by Hypericum.

It is in the remedy. Slight inflammation or irritation of the lower

part of the cord ; it feels lacerated, and sore, and aches and never

passes over until the results of the injury right in the spot have been

removed. These injuries have (been cured in after years by Carbo

animalis, Silica and Thuja and other remedies as indicated.

It is related also to injuries of the spine higher up. It is not

an uncommon thing for a man. while going down stairs, to fall

backward, his feet to slip from under him and he strikes his back

upon one of the steps and undergoes a sharp injury. Some will

at once give Rhus tax; I have known others to give Arnica. Hypericum is to be given at once to prevent the kind of inflammation that

may come from such an injury. Then there will be other tendencies,

such as drawings and rheumatic symptoms, that will come on, calling

for Rhus and finally Calcarea. Old weakness of the back, with

painfulness on rising from a seat, arc often cured by Rhus, followed

by Calcarea, but Hypericum must first of all take care of the condition

of the fibres of the cord and menhtges. Meningeal troubles are common from injuries of that class, with drawing of the muscles of the

back, a feeling of contraction or tightening. Stitching, shooting

pains in the back in various directions ; they shoot down the limbs.

Injuries of the back are not so likely to end in tetanus as the injuries

of the sensory nerves ; but they are sometimes even more troublesome

because they linger so long.

Persons who have been injured in the spine or about the coccyx

linger along for years with symptoms that would lead to many

remedies. We ‘find in the provings such symptoms as occur after

these injuries, and, of course, this remedy will cure anything that its

proving justifies. Its action is upon the nerve sheaths and meninges,

with stitching, tearing, rending pains along the nerves, wherever

there are injuries. Now, there is another remedy that we want to

know. If you have a clear-cut or incised wound made with a sharp

instrument, or if you have made such an opening with your knife

while practicing surgery, if you have opened the abdominal cavity

and the walls of the abdomen take on an tmhealthy look, and there are

B fin ging, burning pains, Staphisagria is the remedy that will make

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granulation come immediately. Staphisagria is also a wonderfully

useful remedy where the sphincter stretchers have been. Staphisgria

is the natural antidote to stretching. When the urethra of a woman

has been stretched for stone in the bladder, Staphisagria is useful,

I remember a case of stretching of the urethra ; after the operation

the patient was in great distress, screaming and crying, bathed in

a cold sweat, head hot and body in cold sweat. Staphisagria was

given to her, and in a few minutes she went to sleep. She had been

six hours in that suffering without any relief whatever. Where

coldness, congestion of the head, and rending, tearing pains occur

from stretching sphincters, or from tearing parts, for the purpose of

operation, death is likely to occur, and Staphisagria is closely relate^

to that tearing, lacerating and stretching of fibres which causes such

suffering.

After a surgical operation, where there has been much cutting,

a great stare of prostration, coldness, oozing of blood, almost cold;

breath, of course the Materia Medica man, if there is one around,

will say, ‘‘Why, give him Carbo veg,, of course.'’ Yes, you will,

but it will not help him. It may disappoint you. But if you are a

surgeon, know your surgical therapeutics better than a Materia

Medica man, you will say, “No, Strontium carb. is what I want." It

relieves that congestion all over the body ; he gets warm and has a

comfortable night. Strontium carb, is the Carbo veg. of the surgeon.

Lastly, we sometimes have to antidote chloroform, and because

there are pains and aches you will get no action from these medicines ;

you can antidote your chloroform almost instantly by a dose of

Phosphorus, because it is the natural antidote of chloroform. Phosphorus will stop the vomiting. Phosphorus has vomiting like that

of chloroform. Phosphorus likes cold things, cold water in the stomach,

and vomits as soon as water has become warm in the stomach. So

does chloroform. Why should they not antidote each other ?

Cannot walk, from affection of the spine.—Feeling of weakness and trembling of all

• ▸the limbs.
• ▸—Sensation of lameness of the |.
• ▸arm and r.
• ▸foot.
• ▸—Articular rheumatism (knees

mostly), much effusion, muddy urine.—Rheumatism of small joints—Numbness and crawling in

• ▸the limbs, hands, and feet.
• ▸—Hands and feet feel fuzzy.
• ▸—Compound fractures.
• ▸—A ffections of

joints.