Spiraea Ulmaria

Bojanus proved Spirca, taking substantial doses. A leading symptom was the

production of heat, general and local. Heat in throat; in Ssophagus; under manubrium sterni;

under ensiform cartilage. Bojanus was seized with remorse, a kind of morbid conscientiousness.

Fulness and heaviness of head. Washing with cold water was very unpleasant, and caused a

feeling as if the head were too large. A scurfy condition of eyelids and heaviness of lids after

siesta cl were noted. The urine was turbid as if mixed with clay, and deposited red sand; had an

oily film on the surface. Hansen mentions Spir. as having been recommended in hydrophobia,

epilepsy, and eclampsia. The burning in Ssophagus was > by eating and drinking but not by

• ▸empty swallowing.
• ▸Symptoms were < indoors; > in open air.
• ▸< Moving head.
• ▸< Sneezing.
• ▸>

Moving about.

At | a.m. was attacked with remorse over a long-past slight indiscretion, with most

fearful qualms of conscience and loathing of himself; could not rest on account of it, obliged to

rise and walk about.

Vertigo with heat in cheeks.—Headache: < shaking head; with increased warmth of

body, as if blood flowing more rapidly through vessels; > towards evening. Dulness and

• ▸heaviness in head with pressive headache.
• ▸—On lying down at 11 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸sensation like vertigo, as if

all senses vanished and all blood left the head, with a prickling in face —Pain over whole head as

if a ring were tightened about head with heaviness; on shaking head, brain seemed to wabble to

and fro.—After washing, head felt large —Pressive headache and fulness in forehead, < in house,

> in open air.

Eyes full of mucus, dried to crusts on waking.—Lachrymation of |. eye, increased

warmth in it; sclerotic bright red—On waking lids so heavy cannot open them for a long

time.—Sensation as if something hot mounted to eyes, causing biting and burning and sensation

as if tears would flow, but they did not.

Increased warmth in pharynx, extending down to stomach; burning pressure in

Ssophagus, generally > at night; > eating and drinking, not on empty swallowing.—Sensation as if

Ssophagus too small, constricted.—Cold sensation in Ssophagus extending to both sides of

chest.—Warmth in Ssophagus opposite the manubrium sterni.

No relish for smoking.—Frequent eructations.—Burning in small spot beneath

ensiform cartilage as if something hot or acrid had been taken.

Frequent emission of very offensive flatus——Movings and gripings in

hypogastrium during stool.—After eating moving in navel.

Prickling, crawling, sticking in rectum and anus.—Prickling, constrictive

sensation long after stool—Frequent desire for stool, that suddenly disappeared.—Stool delayed,

• ▸evacuated with pressure and straining, hard, scanty, like sheep's dung.
• ▸—About 10 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸somewhat

hard stool, accompanied and followed by burning and soreness in the anus, and a sensation as if

the anus were drawn up into rectum and something hard were still remaining there.

Burning at orifice of urethra while urinating during stool.—Urine bright

yellow when passed, becomes cloudy, forming a deposit like clay with red, gritty sand.

At 7 p.m. cough, at first dry, afterwards loose, with tickling and

scraping in throat, that continued long after the cough.—On inspiration air of room seemed very

cold as if he had been chewing peppermint.

Pressure beneath manubrium sterni as if he had swallowed too large a morsel; or a

large piece of hard-boiled egg.

Pulse: hard and tense; weak, soft; small, contracted, hard, afterwards full and large.

Overpowering sleepiness, heaviness in limbs and dulness of head.—Difficult falling

asleep in evening; restlessness, frequent waking.—Dreams: vivid during midday nap; in evening

lascivious and emission.

Great heat over whole body.—Heat like rush of blood to head and face.—While

eating, and after, heat over whole body and rush of blood to head, with slight outbreak of sweat

on chest, face, and hands.

• ▸Conscientiousness, morbid.
• ▸Convulsions.
• ▸Epilepsy.
• ▸Eyelids, affections of.

• ▸Hydrophobia.
• ▸Ssophagus, stricture of.
• ▸Ptosis.
• ▸Urine, deposits in.