Characteristics—Dr. George Wigg, of Portland, Oregon, proved J/ris tenax in the latter part of
- ▸1885 (Med.
- ▸Adv.
- ▸xvii.
- ▸235, Amer.
- ▸Hom.
- ▸, April, 1888; H.
- ▸W.
- ▸, xxxv.
- ▸364).
- ▸He published the
proving under the name of /ris minor. This, as Heath has shown, is a local name only, its true
- ▸botanical name being /ris tenax (H.
- ▸W.
- ▸, xxx.
- ▸332).
- ▸Dr.
- ▸Wigg (et.
- ▸44) took gtt.
- ▸v.
- ▸to 1x.
- ▸of the
- ▸strong tincture.
- ▸A female prover took repeated doses of Jr.
- ▸t.
- ▸2x and 3x.
- ▸The order in which the
symptoms occurred in Dr. Wigg's case is roughly as follows: In fifteen minutes burning in mouth
and throat. This passed off in the night, but was intensified by each fresh dose. After the second
dose, taken early next morning, the burning was reproduced, followed by dry mouth and absence
of saliva in two hours. Then came the mental gloom and home-sick feeling, increasing towards
midnight; headache in temples; toothache; sinking, all-gone feeling; itching and burning of scalp;
abdominal pains; diarrhoea; desperate exhaustion compelling him to keep in bed; hard chill
followed by rise of temperature. The acute pains in the bowels passed off in the night, but for
fourteen days there was a tender spot over the ilio-cecal region, and the bowels did not act
normally for ten days. The symptoms which Dr. Wigg considers most remarkable are: (/)
Absence of saliva with dry mouth. (2) Gloomy, cast-down, home-sick feeling. (3) Burning in
eyes without tears. (4) Pain in one tooth only (second upper molar). (5) Itching and burning of
- ▸scalp without eruption.
- ▸(6) Chill at 2 p.
- ▸m.
- ▸(he never had a chill before or since).
- ▸(7) Painful spot
- ▸in ilio-czecal region and the length of time it lasted.
- ▸It resembles /r.
- ▸vers.
- ▸in producing bilious
vomiting; burning sensations; and low spirits. In the female prover it produced a strange
sensation in her mind: she thought some of her friends had died; the next day she was unusually
cheerful. The most remarkable symptoms were, no doubt, the "fearful pain in the ilio-caecal
region"; and the "hard chill at 2 p.m." These indications led to the cure of the two following
cases: (/) Miss X, school teacher, had for several years a pain beginning in right eye, extending
thence to right half of head. When the pain was most severe she vomited a quantity of green bile.
When she did not vomit she had nausea, and a chill between 2 and 3 p.m. The pain passed off in
- ▸sleep at night.
- ▸It always began on Saturday, before rising.
- ▸/r.
- ▸t.
- ▸30x every six hours, commencing
- ▸Friday morning, was given, and quickly cured after Jr.
- ▸v.
- ▸, Alo.
- ▸, Act.
- ▸r.
- ▸, and Kali bi.
- ▸had failed to
- ▸give much relief.
- ▸The relief from /r.
- ▸t.
- ▸was so marked the patient thought she had received
- ▸morphine.
- ▸(2) Mr.
- ▸E.
- ▸, after walking thirty miles over a mountainous country in August, while in
a state of perspiration drank a large quantity of buttermilk. Four hours after he was taken with
fearful pain in ileo-czecal region, which caused a deathly sensation at epigastrium. Finally he
vomited much dark green bile without relief. An old-school doctor was called in and diagnosed
obstruction with probable death in four days. He lingered three weeks and was brought home to
Portland, where Dr. Wigg saw him, and diagnosed typhilitis, badly treated. Pressure on the ileo-
cecal region caused death-like sensation at stomach-pit. Pain continued until he vomited a cupful
- ▸of dark green bile.
- ▸Somewhat constipated.
- ▸Under Jr.
- ▸¢.
- ▸15x every three hours, he commenced to