very thin, but as soon as the Palmetto fruit ripens they improve rapidly, and in a few weeks have
put on so much fat that they become an easy prey to the hunter. This fat, says Hale, "consists
principally of olein, and will not make lard." Sabal serrulata was introduced into medicine by J.
- ▸B.
- ▸Read and A.
- ▸A.
- ▸Solomons, both of Savannah, Georgia.
- ▸Read gave a "Saccharated oil," of
which he says: "By its peculiar soothing power over the mucous membranes it produces sleep
and relieves the most troublesome coughs, promotes expectoration, improves digestion, and
increases fat, flesh, and strength. It has been used with benefit in cardiac asthma, phthisis,
especially laryngeal, chronic bronchitis, and dilatation of the bronchial tubes. Its action in
catarrhal affections is rapid and permanent. A cold in the head may be checked with two or three
doses (of the saccharated oil) mixed with boiling water, and used by inhalation it has been found
beneficial in chronic ozeena." Dr. Will Scott Mullins, of Louisville, Kentucky, published the first
proving made for him by a former student of his, Miss Annie Roask. This prover is described as
a very intelligent lady of twenty-three, mediumly developed, small breasts, red hair, blue eyes, 5
feet 7 inches in height, weight, 109 pounds, bust measure 32 inches. These details are important,
as this prover developed some of the most characteristic effects of the drug, especially those of
the mammary glands, and at the end of the proving (from December 8th to March Ist) her breasts
had increased fully one-third in size, and her bust measure was 33 1/2 inches, and her weight 119
1/2 pounds. This prover had also many symptoms in the head and ovaries. Her symptoms are for
the most part not distinguished from the others in the Schema, but when I have wished to
distinguish them I have appended the letter (R). Another remarkable proving by a woman is that
- ▸of Dr.
- ▸Freda M.
- ▸Langton, of Omaha, Nebraska.
- ▸Her symptoms, when distinguished, have the
letter (L) appended. Mind, bladder, ovaries, and uterus were all strongly affected in her case. One
symptom she developed was an irritability and depression; and sympathy did not merely < as
- ▸with Nat.
- ▸m.
- ▸, it made her angry.
- ▸(This condition of mind was present in one of the prostatic cases
cured by Sb/.) Dr. Langton relates that she was unable to find in antidote, and suffered for three
months after the proving before she found one. In searching for a remedy for a case of
dysmenorrhcea she found the leading symptoms under Si/ic., and it struck her that the symptoms
of Silic. corresponded to her own symptoms. She took it twice daily, and was better in two hours.
In three days all the bladder and ovarian trouble was gone. Si/. was also given to the
dysmenorrheea patient, but only partially relieved. Sb/. was then given, and quickly and
- ▸permanently cured.
- ▸Sb/.
- ▸was proved by two men, Dr.
- ▸R.
- ▸Boocock, and an unmarried prover
- ▸whose symptoms are given by Hale (#7.
- ▸R.
- ▸, xiii.
- ▸103).
- ▸Both experienced well-marked symptoms
in the genito-urinary sphere, including increased sexual power. I have marked some of Boocock's
symptoms (B). Hale's prover had this urinary symptom, which be justly says may prove a
valuable indication: "Fears to fall asleep lest something should happen; starts up with this fear as
he is dozing." In all the provings the @ tincture, or Fluid Extract, were used in from 5- to 10-drop
doses, repeated two or three times a day; and in the clinical use of the remedy a similar dosage
has been adopted. Sb/. is an organ remedy of great power, selecting the uterus and prostatic gland
(which is the male analogue of the uterus), ovaries and testes and bladder. But the provings are
sufficiently detailed to warrant closer homeeopathising, and Dr. Langton says that though she
gives 5-drop doses four times daily in cases of over-worked brain and school-headache for the
"tonic, nutritive, and stimulating" effect of the remedy she gives the 1x as soon as relief has been
obtained, and she finds that the dilution often gives greater relief in the headaches than the larger
- ▸closes.
- ▸Mullins also says (H.
- ▸R.
- ▸, xii.
- ▸68): "I now found the use of the drug in the 3rd and 6th
attenuation curative in nearly all of the diseases of the uterus and appendages. Also in headache
from reflexed uterine, troubles, in mammary abscess, mental irritations, and nervous debility. It