Rosa Damascena

Sorrel was at one time cultivated in this country as a salad, and the Buckler-

shaped, or French Sorrel, is still cultivated in France, where it is considered as a powerful

• ▸antiscorbutic.
• ▸The leaves contain a large quantity of Binoxalate of Potash (Kali oxal.
• ▸).
• ▸The

symptoms of the Schema were observed on three men who ate largely of the leaves. In one very

violent convulsions were induced of a peculiar kind, the limbs being thrown reciprocally

backwards and forwards and the head from side to side; the hands being alternately clenched and

unclenched, the eyes prominent. Other remarkable symptoms were: Swelling of lower eyelid.

• ▸Elongated uvula.
• ▸Pain all down cesophagus < by swallowing.
• ▸Persistent short, dry cough.
• ▸There

was complete paralysis of bodily powers; copious green vomit; constipation.

Eyes sunken.—Lower lid puffed; pupil sluggish.—Eyeballs fixed, glassy, prominent.

Tongue: moist and furred; white and furred and rather swollen; furred in middle, tip

and edges red.

Pharynx congested, anterior part covered with limpid secretion, uvula much

elongated; constant pain from throat and throughout cesophagus to cardiac orifice of stomach, <

when swallowing.

Appetite lost.—Great thirst—Vomiting; thick, pulpy, dark-green

matter.—Continued retching.

Soreness at epigastrium and fulness of abdomen.—Very severe pain at

epigastrium with occasional exacerbations.—Violent and universal pain in bowels, so intense he

pressed them firmly and rolled, vociferated loudly, with a pallid, haggard countenance, and, as it

were, thrust out his eyes.

Deficient urine and alvine evacuations.—Urine increased, phosphatic,

turbid, and whey-like.

Violent pains followed by uterine h¢morrhage and miscarriage,

succeeded by faintness, spasms of chest, cold hands and feet, small, rapid, irregular

pulse.—Menses four days too early.

Unremitting short cough, unattended with expectoration (persisted

ten days).—Perpetual groaning or moaning.

• ▸Convulsions.
• ▸Gastritis.
• ▸Esophagus, inflammation of.
• ▸Paralysis.
• ▸Throat, sore.
• ▸Uvula,

elongated.

• ▸Compare: in hay-fever: Phleum pratense--Timothy grass--(Hay-fever with asthma; watery coryza, itching of nose and eyes; frequent sneezing, dyspnoea.
• ▸Use 6-30 potency.
• ▸Rabe).
• ▸Succin acid; Sabad; Euph; Psor; Kali hyd; Naphth.

Lower potencies.

Hardness of hearing; tinnitus. Eustachian catarrh (Hydr; Merc dulc).

Pulse: feeble; small and weak; small and frequent.

24. Generalities——Lay on his back in a paroxysm of general convulsions, with arms elevated

reciprocally, casting them forward and bringing them backward, doing the same with his legs,

opening and reclosing his fists, and alternately throwing his head from r. to 1.; eyeballs fixed,

glassy, prominent; rattling and grinding of teeth without foaming at mouth; absolutely senseless

• ▸(fit lasted a quarter of an hour).
• ▸—About 3 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸suddenly fell from his seat exhausted; was lifted

up and taken into the air; legs again lost power and he fell, and when down vomited a diffluent,

raw, greenish mass; was again raised, but could only support himself feebly.—Bodily powers

prostrated.