Stramonium

Cooper gives me the following experiences with Str. bro.: (1) A woman, 40,

had tenderness of limbs, and veins of legs show up and incline to inflame (chronic cellulitis), left

ankle inclined to swell; vertigo, at times darkness comes over sight; appetite not good, bowels

regular, menses every three weeks, cannot keep awake in evening. Great relief came from Str.

bro. 3x, but after taking it for ten days, severe ardor urin¢, with constant enuresis day and night,

• ▸set in, which yielded to Ferr.
• ▸phos.
• ▸6x.
• ▸, after failure with other remedies.
• ▸(2) Woman, 60, had

left leg and left foot swollen, hard and tender, red and pitting; right also but less in degree;

indigestion with pain after food, and sickness after food for seven or eight years; is rheumatic

and has had sciatica, off and on, for two years; bowels confined, sleep very restless generally.

Str. bro. 3x was given, and in two weeks the legs had gone down very much and she felt

altogether better, urine had become clear, but though ravenous for food had to stop eating and

felt more sick, and. the bowels were more confined. After this patient got quite well without

• ▸further medicine.
• ▸(3) Str.
• ▸bro.
• ▸30 gave great relief to a lady broken down by sorrow who could

• ▸not digest food.
• ▸(4) Stro.
• ▸bro.
• ▸6x produced in a woman, 70, the following symptoms: Urine thick,

and offensive and dark-looking, with grains of red sand.

• ▸Devout, earnest, beseeching and ceaseless talking.
• ▸Loquacious, garrulous, laughing, singing, swearing, praying, rhyming.
• ▸Sees ghosts, hears voices, talks with spirits.
• ▸Rapid changes from joy to sadness.
• ▸Violent and lewd.
• ▸Delusions about his identity; thinks himself tall, double, a part missing.
• ▸Religious mania.
• ▸Cannot bear solitude or darkness; must have light and company.
• ▸Sight of water or anything glittering brings on spasms.
• ▸Delirium, with desire to escape (Bell; Bry; Rhus).

[The principal range of this remedy is found in the mental affections.—In young

people who are sometimes hysterical, showing the following condition: praying and singing

devoutly, beseeching, entreating, &c.—Young women with suppressed menses may be affected

in this manner.—In some kinds of fevers, where the patients can't bear solitude or darkness, if

they are left alone or are in a dark room, the mental affections are very much <; also in

unconscious delirium when the patient will every now and then jerk up the head from the pillow,

then let it fall again, this being kept up without intermission for a long time; women in puerperal

fever or convulsions have many absurd notions—that they are double, that some one is in bed

with them, and other strange and unmeaning fancies.—Affections of the intellect in general;

• ▸madness.
• ▸—H.
• ▸N.
• ▸G.
• ▸].
• ▸—Melancholy.
• ▸—Sadness, with deadly anguish, and copious tears, esp.
• ▸in

evening, in bed.—Anguish of conscience.—Inconsolable disposition, and susceptibility to

irritation by trifles —Great activity and rapidity of movement.—Obstinacy and self-will.—Bursts

of laughter, alternating with choleric passion or moaning.—Howling and groans.—Murmurs, or

continued cries.—Ungovernable fury, desire to bite, to strike and to kill.—At one time great

indifference to matters of business, at another time fear of being found incapable of discharging

them properly.—Love of procrastinating and loss of will-power (cured in a man, 75—R. T.

• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Desire to run away.
• ▸—Desire for society, candle-light, sunshine, because darkness and

solitude < the moral symptoms.—The moral Symptoms are <-After the autumnal equinox.—Loss

of memory (loses thoughts before she can utter them; calls things by wrong names).—Dulness of

all the senses, insensibility to external influences (insensibility to mental

impressions).—Dizziness, with internal agitation Mental derangement, esp. in

drunkards.—Loquacious delirium and mania.—Mania-a-potu with clonic spasms and desire for

light and company.—Deliria, generally characterised by terror, with visions of frightful

spectres.—Loss of consciousness, so that the patient forgets his own Relations.—Fixed ideas; the

body is supposed to be cut in two.—Carphologia.—Delusions of fancy, in which all surrounding

objects appear to be very small, and the sufferer himself very large, and on an elevation.—Deliria,

with strange ideas.—Mental alienation, with praying and pious actions (prayers, hymns, devout

aspect, &c.).—Mania, generally with endless fictions of imagination, lascivious talking,

conversation with spectres, affectation of importance, dancing, laughter, and blows, or ridiculous

buffoonery, in constant alternation with sad and serious behaviour.—Hallucinations: a voice near

r. mastoid process scolding her; frightful, of rats, mice, cats, dogs, and animals

• ▸moving.
• ▸—Hallucinations that = terror or rage.
• ▸—Saw people coming out of all corners.
• ▸—Rush of

blood to head with furious loquacious delirtum.—Fear: of losing his senses; that his lips will

grow together; that he will suffocate; of failing; of everything falling on her.—Boy seemed to see

black objects, spoke of black people, black clouds, and grasped at air—Awakens with a

shrinking look as if afraid of first thing she sees.—Dulness of senses before a rash.—Conversing

• ▸in different languages.
• ▸—Talking in Jewish jargon.
• ▸—Ecstatic —Mania from shock.
• ▸—Nervousness

and restlessness.

Face red and bloated.—Cannot walk or keep on the feet in a darkened room. is

sure to fall—Restlessness of the body; staggering when walking; pithy, numb feeling of outer

parts ——Complaints concomitant to morbid sleep—< During perspiration; after sleep, when first

awakens from sleep will shrink away as if in fear; in the dark; in solitude.—> In company.—The

Stram. patient longs for light; if lying down, longs to sit up, and dislikes having head on

pillow.—Spasmodic, drawing, paralytic pains in muscles and joints of limbs.—Contractive cramp

• ▸in limbs.
• ▸—Tingling in the limbs.
• ▸—Sensation as if limbs were separated from body.
• ▸—Slow

contraction and extension of limbs.—Attacks of cramps of different

kinds.—Tetanus.—Opisthotonos (the body is bent backwards with distorted

countenance).—Cramps, and other hysterical sufferings.—Stiffness and contraction of several of

the limbs.—Attacks of cataleptic stiffness in body, with loss of consciousness, preceded by

headache with vertigo.—Easy movement, or great heaviness, of limbs.—Involuntary motions;

hydrophobia.—Excessive aversion to liquids ——Convulsions, which resemble St. Vitus!

dance.—Convulsions (in children) with profuse perspiration followed by sleep.—The movement

of the muscles subject to the will is easier and increased.—Convulsive jerking of limbs, with

weeping.—Convulsive movements and jerks, esp. on touching, or fixing the eyes on brilliant

objects (such as a candle, a mirror, or water), or else appearing periodically —Convulsions, as in

epilepsy, but without loss of consciousness.—Puerperal convulsions.—Syncope, with stertorous

breathing.—Unconscious snoring; jaws hang down; hands and feet twitch; pupils

dilated.—Trembling of limbs (also in drunkards).—Tottering of limbs, when walking, and when

standing upright.—Paralysis, sometime, after an attack of apoplexy.—(General paralysis of

• ▸insane.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Symptoms as from old age, sight becomes dim, has to use glasses, mind gets

weak, cannot complete sentences, avoids people and suspects them; wakes with r. arm over his

• ▸head and cannot get it down again (produced.
• ▸—R.
• ▸M.
• ▸Theobald.
• ▸).
• ▸—Weakness, with necessity to

lie down.—Suppression of all secretions and excretions.—Painlessness with most all

• ▸ailments.
• ▸—Movements hurried.
• ▸—Restlessness and nervousness beyond description.
• ▸—Whole body

sensitive to touch and every movement <.

• ▸Raises head frequently from the pillow.
• ▸Pain in forehead and over eyebrows, beginning at 9 am; worse until noon.
• ▸Boring pain, preceded by obscure vision.
• ▸Rush of blood to head; staggers, with tendency to fall forward and to the left.
• ▸Auditory hallucinations.

Intoxication and dizziness.—Vertigo; cannot walk in the dark, failing to |. or

backward.—Vertigo, with giddiness and staggering, or with clouded sight, headache (red face,

colicky pain and diarrhoea).—Vertigo, head feels drawn backward.—Stupefaction With vanishing

of vision and hearing, and convulsive movements of head.—Headache, with clouded sight and

• ▸dysecoia.
• ▸—Headaches with tendency to speak incoherently (much relieved.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Anzemia

• ▸of the brain in old people (relieved.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Distressing sensation of lightness and weakness

in head.—Woke up with fearful headache and extreme sickness, got up at noon but could hardly

speak to any one all day; this went on for three days and then left (produced in a woman, 60,

• ▸fourth day after single dose of @.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Head feels empty, hollow; sensitive to every

sound.—Throbbing pains in vertex, with syncope.—Congestion of blood to head, with

heat.—Congestion of blood to head, pulsation in vertex, loss of sight and hearing, bloated, turgid

face, total loss of consciousness, and painlessness.—Inflammation of brain, with heat and

pulsation of vertex, attacks of fainting, loss of sight and hearing, convulsive movements of head,

frequently raising head up or bending it backward; > while lying still —Hydrocephalus with

convulsive movements of head, sensation of lightness of head, and frequently raising head

up.—Painful dark-red swelling of the highly congested head and turgid face, with convulsive

movements, delirium, and desire for light and company.—Retraction and convulsive movements

• ▸of head.
• ▸—Lifting head frequently from pillow when lying down.
• ▸—Bores head into pillow.
• ▸—Bends

• ▸head backward.
• ▸—L.
• ▸side of head numb.
• ▸—Head perspires more than usual.

• ▸Seem prominent, staring wide open; pupils dilated.
• ▸Loss of vision; complains that it is dark, and calls for light.
• ▸Small objects look large.
• ▸Parts of the body seem enormously swollen.
• ▸Strabismus.
• ▸All objects look black.

Eyes red (inflamed) and swollen.—Pressure and tension in eyes and lids.—Inflammation

of margins of lids.—Eyelids ulcerated.—Involuntary lachrymation—Nocturnal agglutination of

eyes.—Eyes wide open, staring, prominent.—Conjunctiva injected, as if the vessels were filled

with dirty liquid.—Eyes fixed, wide open, and sparkling.—Eyes half open in

• ▸sleep.
• ▸—Photomania.
• ▸—Vague, melancholy look.
• ▸—Paralysis and spasmodic closing of lids.
• ▸—Eyes

convulsed.—Contortion of eyes and lids —Marked convergent strabismus.—Pupils dilated and

• ▸insensible.
• ▸—Cloudiness of sight.
• ▸—Transient blindness.
• ▸—Blindness (at night), periodical —Objects

• ▸appear blue.
• ▸—Myopia.
• ▸—Diplopia.
• ▸—Indistinct, confused sight.
• ▸—_(Everything looks jumbled

• ▸up.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—(Used as a lotion to prevent cataract by a well-known oculist.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.

• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Amblyopia.
• ▸—Confusion of letters, when reading.
• ▸—Errors of vision; objects appear oblique

• ▸or coloured.
• ▸—Illusions of vision.
• ▸—Hallucinations dark; black spots before eyes.
• ▸—Luminous

vibrations; fiery sparks.—Sees balls of fire roll over the counterpane.—Sensation as of sparks of

fire rushing from stomach to eyes.

• ▸Wind rushes out of both ears.
• ▸—Dryness in Eustachian tube.
• ▸—Pains in ears.
• ▸—Pain in I.

• ▸ear pressing down to |.
• ▸side of cheek.
• ▸—Tearing pain in r.
• ▸ear with shooting through forehead and

• ▸vertex.
• ▸—Hearing very acute.
• ▸—Hallucinations of hearing.
• ▸—Deafness.
• ▸—Deafness of r.
• ▸ear improves

• ▸at once from 30th (twitching of pomum Adami led me to it.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).

Obstruction of the nose.—Alz nasi white, face red.—Nasal discharge yellow, bad-

smelling, quickly liquifies—Nose feels obstructed and dry, though she is able to breathe through

it.—The cold of Stram. is accompanied by catarrh of nasal passages and shooting pains over r.

• ▸eye (produced.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Spasmodic sneezing.

• ▸Hot, red; circumscribed redness of cheeks.
• ▸Blood rushes to face; distorted.
• ▸Expression of terror.
• ▸Pale face.

Dull and bewildered air, with timid behaviour.—Stupid, distorted

• ▸countenance.
• ▸—Anxiety and fear is expressed in the countenance.
• ▸—Sardonic grin.
• ▸—Painful

distortion of features —Facial muscles in constant play during delirium.—Twitching in muscles of

face; frowns on forehead.—L. side of face for moments distorted with painless convulsions;

contraction of zygomatic muscles draws cheeks and mouth from below up, and from face

backward to temples.—Face deeply furrowed and wrinkled.—Face bloated, puffed with blood,

• ▸sometimes with an idiotic expression.
• ▸—Circumscribed redness of cheeks.
• ▸—Hot cheeks.
• ▸—Blood

rushing to face.—Deep red, or very pale colour of face.—Fainting with paleness of face, dryness

in throat, and subsequent red face.—Erysipelas on one side of face and nose.—Boils come out on

• ▸face while taking Stram.
• ▸(R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Lips dry and glued together.
• ▸—A yellow streak in red part of

• ▸lips.
• ▸—Quivering in lips.
• ▸—Distortion of the mouth—Crawling sensation on chin.
• ▸—Chewing

motion with mouth.—Mouth spasmodically closed.—Lock-jaw.

• ▸Dry; dribbling of viscid saliva.
• ▸Aversion to water.
• ▸Stammering.
• ▸Risus sardonicus.
• ▸Cannot swallow on account of spasm.
• ▸Chewing motion.

Dryness of mouth (dry fauces and dry, sticky lips).—Dribbling of glairy saliva from

• ▸mouth.
• ▸—Copious salivation.
• ▸—Saliva decreased.
• ▸—Sanguineous froth before

• ▸mouth.
• ▸—Hemoptysis.
• ▸—Tongue swollen and paralysed.
• ▸—Tongue felt stiff, dry, and parched to the

very root; as if edges rolled up as hard and dry as leather.—Tongue paralysed, trembles when put

out.—Imperfect speaking and stammering (with distortion of face).—Continued

murmurs.—Complete loss of speech.—A trembling tongue.

Grinding of the teeth.—Pulsative toothache, as if the teeth were going to fall out.

Spasmodic constriction of throat.—Impeded deglutition, with shootings in throat, or

pressure in submaxillary glands.—Deglutition obstructed, sometimes by dryness in

throat —Dryness of throat and fauces not > by any sort of drink.—Paralysis of pharynx and

cesophagus.—Contracting, tearing in throat; sensation as if a ball were lodged in

throat —Twitching of pomum Adami, up and down movement as in swallowing (R. T.

C.).—Spasm of cesophagus.

Food tastes like straw. Violent thirst. Vomiting of mucus and green bile.

Loss of taste-—Food tastes only of sand, or straw (or has no taste at all).—Violent

• ▸thirst (for large quantities, drinking with avidity).
• ▸—Violent thirst, esp.
• ▸for acid drinks.
• ▸—Constant

bitterness in mouth, with bitter taste of food—Burning thirst, generally with dread of water and

all liquids.

Risings, with sour taste—Nausea.—Watery vomiting, with colic and

diarrhoea —V omiting of mucus, which is greenish, or of a sour smell—Vomiting of green bile

after slight exercise.—Convulsive hiccough.—Pain in stomach, with smarting or pressive

sensation.—Anxietas precordium, with obstructed respiration. —(Inflammation of

stomach.).—Diaphragmitis; delirium; burning along diaphragm; short-breathed; spasms;

struggles against the water offered.

Abdomen painful when touched.—Abdomen distended, not hard.—Abdomen

inflated, hard, distended.—Contusive pain in abdomen during movement.—Violent pains in

abdomen, as if navel were being torn out.—Hysterical spasms in abdomen.—Swelling of inguinal

glands.—Borborygmi and fermentation in abdomen.—Expulsion of much flatus.

Constipation (unsuccessful urging to go to stool).—Tenesmus.—Fetid

feeces (painless) of a corpse-like smell.—Diarrhoea, with pain and borborygmi in the

abdomen.—Discharge of coagulated blood from anus.—Suppression of both stool and

• ▸urine.
• ▸—(Stools passed unconsciously and very frequently loose, with mental derangement.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.

C.)

Suppression of secretion of urine (in typhus).—Emission of urine, drop by

drop, with frequent want to urinate.—Involuntary emission of urine.—Urine: profuse flow;

sudden; and burning.

Suppression, bladder empty.

Metrorrhagia, with loquacity, singing, praying. Puerperal mania, with characteristic mental symptoms and profuse sweatings. Convulsions after labor.

Nymphomania.—Increased catamenia, with discharge of large

masses of coagulated black blood—(Menses too profuse and attended with headaches.—R. T.

• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Increased sexual desire.
• ▸—Metrorrhagia (with characteristic mental

symptoms).—Eclampsia.—During catamenia, fetid smell from body, great loquacity, drawing

pains in abdomen and thighs.—Sobs and moaning after catamenia.—Too profuse secretion of

milk in nursing women.—During pregnancy: mania; faceache; is full of strange

fancies —Cadaverous odour of lochia; she is full of strange fancies and visions.

Sexual erethism, with indecent speech and action. Hands constantly kept on genitals.

Lasciviousness (exalted sexual desire in both sexes).—Constant

uncovering of genitals; indecent talk —Priapism.—Scrotum cedematous.—Testes retracted, penis

erect as in chordee.—Onanism, causing epilepsy.—Impotence.

Voice: hoarse and croaking; high, fine, squeaking;

indistinct —(Sudden aphonia in hysterical girl just recovering from chorea.—R. T.

• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Twitching of pomum Adami.
• ▸—Constrictions of larynx.
• ▸—Periodically returning attacks of

painless, barking, spasmodic cough, in fine, shrieking tone, from constriction of larynx and

• ▸chest, without expectoration.
• ▸—Voice loud and bawling.
• ▸—Want of breath.
• ▸—Difficult (hurried or)

sighing respiration.—Suffocating obstruction of respiration.—Oppression with desire for open

• ▸air.
• ▸—(Asthma continually recurring, with some gouty tendency: attacks < at night.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.

C.).—Dyspneea on waking up every morning, cold winds catch her breath, "can cough at any

• ▸time" (much relief.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸)

Constrictive oppression on chest (with dyspnoea).—Pressure on chest, < by

speaking.—Sensation, as if something were turning over in chest.—Spasm in pectoral

muscles.—Red rash on chest.

Pressure about heart.—Angina pectoris.—For a week after single dose of

© felt as if heart beat insufficiently, and had a suffocating feeling in throat (R. T.

• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Palpitation.
• ▸—Pulse rapid, full, strong; irregular, hard, slow, small, frequent.

Neck stiff, cannot bend head backward.—Pain in nape, from neck over

• ▸head.
• ▸—Sensitiveness along spine.
• ▸—Pain as of a fracture in back, when moving.
• ▸—Drawing and

tearing in the back and loins.—Spine sensitive; slightest pressure = outcries and

ravings.—Drawing pains in middle of spine; in sacrum.—Opisthotonos (with distorted

countenance).

Convulsive movements of arms, above head.—Convulsive movements of

arms and hands; carphologia.—Contractive pain in arm, with acute lancinations in

• ▸forearm.
• ▸—Distortion of hands.
• ▸—Clenched fists Cramps in hands.
• ▸—Trembling of

hands.—Numbness of fingers.

Coxalgia, |. hip; violent, distracting pain when abscesses form.—Pain in

• ▸muscle of outer side of r.
• ▸hip.
• ▸—Morbus coxe, 1—Drawing pains in thighs.
• ▸—Jerking in legs, as

from a shock, with retraction —Drawing pains in thighs.—Bending of legs when walking (he falls

over his own legs).—Trembling of feet —Contractive cramps in feet.

• ▸Graceful, rhythmic motions.
• ▸Convulsions of upper extremities and of isolated groups of muscles.
• ▸Chorea; spasms partial, constantly changing.
• ▸Violent pain in left hip.
• ▸Trembling, twitching of tendons, staggering gait.

Shining red flash. Effects of suppressed eruption in scarlatina, with delirium, etc.

Suppressed eruptions and the consequences thereof.—Intense, bright, scarlet-red rash

over whole body.

Awaken terrified; screams with fright. Deep snoring sleep. Sleepy, but cannot sleep (Bell).

Strong disposition to sleep by day.—Deep sleep, with snoring, cries, and

howling.—Lies on back with open, staring eyes.—Restless sleep, with tossing about, twitching,

• ▸and screaming.
• ▸—(Restlessness of old age; she constantly wakes up those about her.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.

C.).—Comatose somnolency, with a ridiculously solemn expression of countenance on

waking.—(Boy wakes in a great fright from indefinable terrors; stammers and puffs on least

• ▸excitement.
• ▸—R.
• ▸T.
• ▸C.
• ▸).
• ▸—Agitated sleep, with vivid dreams.
• ▸—Frightful visions during

sleep.—Kneeling position in bed, and starting at least touch, with shrieks and wild gestures.

Profuse sweat, which does not relieve. Violent fever.

Coldness of whole body, esp. of limbs, with shaking and shivering and general

jerking. —Coldness of hands and feet, with redness of face.—General coldness in afternoon after

previous heat of head and face, followed by general heat.—During chill great sensitiveness to

being uncovered.—Chill running down back.—Heat over whole body, with red face and

perspiration.—Profuse perspiration already during the heat with violent thirst —Greasy, oily,

putrid-smelling perspiration —Cold perspiration.—Intermittent fever.—Chill over whole body

without thirst, followed by heat and anguish; sleep during hot stage, and violent thirst after

waking up, which causes a stinging in throat, until he drinks something.—Heat, with anxiety, and

redness of cheeks, or else with thirst and vomiting.—At first, heat in head, then general coldness,

followed by heat and thirst.—Pulse very irregular generally full, hard, and quick, or small and

rapid, at times slow and scarcely perceptible, occasionally intermitting and trembling —Frequent

profuse sweat, also at night—Retention of urine in any fever.

Strontium Bromatum.

• ▸Bromide of Strontium.
• ▸SrBr2.
• ▸Trituration.
• ▸Solution.

Antidoted by: Lemon-juice, Vinegar, Tobacco injections; Senna for cerebral

• ▸symptoms; Bell.
• ▸, Hyos.
• ▸, Nux; and "Particularly Camphor" (Teste).
• ▸Antidote to: Merc.
• ▸, Pb.

• ▸Follows well: Cupr.
• ▸, Bell.
• ▸Incompatible: Coffea.
• ▸Compare: Metrorrhagia, from retained placenta

• ▸with characteristic delirium, Sec.
• ▸(Sec.
• ▸often acts when Stram.
• ▸fails), Pyro.
• ▸(with fever and septic

• ▸tendency).
• ▸Delirium, Bell.
• ▸, Lach.
• ▸, Agar.
• ▸, Cupr.
• ▸, Zn.
• ▸Illusions of shape, Bapt.
• ▸, Petr.
• ▸, Thuj.

• ▸Erysipelas, Bell.
• ▸, Rhus.
• ▸Stuttering; unable to combine consonants with vowels, Bov.
• ▸Bright light

• ▸= convulsions, K.
• ▸bro.
• ▸> Light, Stro.
• ▸Hiccough, Ign.
• ▸(< after eating, smoking, emotions), Ver.

(after hot drinks). Hears voices from far off talking to him; behind him, Anac. Body bathed in

• ▸hot sweat.
• ▸Op.
• ▸Gyrating movements (Hyo.
• ▸, angular).
• ▸Loquacity, Cup.
• ▸, Hyo.
• ▸, Lach.
• ▸, Op.
• ▸, Ver.

• ▸Hands constantly on genitals, Zn.
• ▸Laughs and weeps by turns, Aur.
• ▸, Pul.
• ▸, Alm.
• ▸, Lyc.
• ▸, Caps.
• ▸,

• ▸Graph.
• ▸, Phos.
• ▸, Sep.
• ▸, Sul.
• ▸, Ver.
• ▸Tetanic convulsions < touch and light, Nux (Stram.
• ▸with mania;

• ▸Nux, mind clear).
• ▸Desire to escape in delirium, Bell.
• ▸, Bry.
• ▸, Op.
• ▸, Rhus, Hydrophobia, Hfb.

• ▸Painlessness, Op.
• ▸Sleepy, but cannot sleep, Bell.
• ▸, Cham.
• ▸, Op.
• ▸< After sleep, Apis, Lach.
• ▸, Op.
• ▸,

• ▸Spo.
• ▸Objects appear small, Plat.
• ▸Night-blindness, Bell.
• ▸, Nux.

Compare especially: Hyoscy and Bellad. It has less fever than Bellad, but more than Hyos. It causes more functional excitement of the brain, but never approaches the true inflammatory condition of Bellad.

Antidotes: Bellad; Tabac; Nux.

Thirtieth potency and lower.

ing ; numbness in the tips of the fingers ; arthritic nodosities on the

fingers. I remember a patient suffering from gouty nodosities ; he

had lived a life of peculiar continence, dwelling on his vices, broken

down in body. Staph, brought out an eruption on his legs as high up

as the knees that looked like a pair of trousers.^ One continuous coat

of crusts which lasted a year before it dwindled, but he was greatly

improved in his body and his enlarged joints gradually improved.

The eruption was yellow, crusty, tough, leathery, and, when lifted up

by the moisture beneath, it had to be cut off like a bandage ; he was

practically crippled ; new crops came out on the parts clipped off. It

was with difficulty that he walked, for the crusts cut him.

Bone troubles, exostoses, inflammation of the periosteum.

Acute articular rheumatism of fast or debilitated men, with shifting

pains. Mercurial bone diseases, ulcers, caries, injuries caused by

sharp, cutting instruments. Nightly bone pains. {Asaf,, Merc,, Sil)

When considering Stram. the idea of violence comes into mind.

One cannot look upon a patient who needs Stram., or who has been

poisoned with it, without wondering at the tremendous turmoil, the

great upheaval taking place in mind and body. Full of excitement,

rage, everything is tumultuous, violent ; the face looks wild, anxious,

fearful ; the eyes are fixed on a certain object ; face flushed, hot raging fever with hot head and cold extremities, violent delirium. In his

anxiety he often turns away from the light, wants it dark, is aggravated especially if the light is bright. High fever with delirium ; the

heat is so intense that it may be mistaken for Bell,, but it is usually a

continued fever, only at times remittent, while the intense fever of

Bell is remittent always,

Stram. is like an earthquake in its violence. The mind is in an uproar ; cursing, tearing the clothes, violent speech, frenzy, erotomania,

exposing of the person. These symptoms are found in continued

fevers, insanity, cerebral congestion. It is useful in violent typhoids.

It is useful in mania that has existed for some time ; attacks of

mania coming on in paroxysms, appearing with more or less suddenness, so that a single attack would look like Bell, but the history differentiates. Bell would hardly be more than a palliative in the first

attack, and the second exhibition of it would do nothing.

When the delirium is not on, the patient has the appearance of great

suffering, forehead wrinkled, face pallid, sickly, haggard. In headpains this anxious look, indicative of intense suffering from meningeal

involvement.

"‘Delirium bland, murmuring ; violent, foolish, joyful, loquacious.

incoherent chattering with open eyes ; vivid ; merry with spasmodic

laughter ; furious, raving, wild ; attempts to stab and bite ; with queerest notions ; with sexual excitement ; fear as if a dog were attacking

him.”

Strange ideas about the formation of his body, that it is ill-shapcn,

elongated, deformed ; strange feelings concerning his physical state.

All sorts of illusions and hallucinations. One must distinguish between these states. An illusion is an appearance in the vision or mind

which the patient knows is not true. A hallucination is a state that

appears to be true. A delusion is a more advanced state, when the

patient thinks it is true and cannot be reasoned out of it. Fear and

great anxiety on hearing running water.

He sees animals, ghosts, angels, departed spirits, devils, and knows

they are not real, but later he is confident of it. He has these hallucinations especially in the dark. At times he has an aversion to a

bright light which is painful, and again he must sit and look into an

open fire, but this may cause cough and other symptoms.

“Sings amorous songs and utters obscene speech. Crazy with distress, jumps out of bed, acts as if the bed were being drawn from

under him. Screams until he is hoarse or loses his voice. Screaches

and screams day and night with fever, with forms of mania. Hasty,

hurries with all his might if he wants to go to another place.” Violent

laughter with sardonic expression on his face.

“Child awakens terrified, knows no one, screams with fright, clings

to those near.”

Hyosc. has wild maniacal delirium, | but with very little fever. In

• ▸Stram.
• ▸there is considerable fcv'er.
• ▸Id Bell, the fever is in the afternoon and evening, 9 p.
• ▸m.
• ▸to 3 a.
• ▸m.
• ▸, and then a remission.

Violent convulsions involving every muscle of the body, opisthotonos, violent distortions, contraction of the limbs, biting of the tongue

and bleeding from the pas.sages. During spasms, covered with cold

sweat ; sometimes almost as cold as ice ; cold sweat in mania ; this feature is equalled only by Camphor.

Hysterical convulsions of long standing, associated with spinal

trouble ; worse from fright. Convulsions in nervous, excitable people

brought on by fright.

Puerperal convulsions and insanity. It has the septic nature.

Those cases going on for a while as melancholic, low spirited ; she

believes she has sinned away her day of grace, yet she has lived an

upright life : sad : imagines strange things, does strange things, until

finally violent delirium comes on ; she screams aloud ; exhorts people

to repent ; face red, and eyes flashing ; exhorts and prays in incoherent

speech. In such cases Stram. should be compared with Veratr.

In cerebral congestions, the delirium subsides into unconsciousness ;

the patient has the appearance of profound intoxication ; pupils dilated

or contracted (in Bell, they are dilated). Marked stupor, stertorous

breathing, lower jaw dropped. So in typhoid and the low forms of

fever, foetor, oozing of blood from the mouth and other passages.

Throat and mouth dry, tongue dry, swollen, sO that it fills the mouth,

pointed, red like a piece of meat, bleeding from the mouth, sordes on

the teeth, lips dry and cracked ; at times violent thirst yet dread of

water. Diarrhoea copious, involuntary ; abdomen tympanitic, involuntary urination.

Basilar meningitis from suppressed ear-discharge. The Old School

have no remedy for such cases. Forehead wrinkled, eyes glassy, staring. dilated pupils and scarcely any fever ; awful pain through the base

of the skull and there is a history of necrosis about the ear.

Violent headache from walking in the sun, and from the heat of the

sun. Aggravated all day and at night the patient must sit up because

of increased pain on lying down ; he is worse from every motion on

jar ; eyes fixed and glassy, face flushed, but later it is pale, eyes fixed

on a corner of the room, motionless ; delirium, says strange things.

Pain in the occiput.

High grade inflammation which it carries to the finish. Pus forms,

abscesses with excruciating pain (Hepar, Merc,, SiL, Sulph,), Violent

catarrhal inflammations, vicious, septic states. Chronic abscesses, carbuncles, boils, abscesses in the joints, the left hip-joint is a special

locality. You will often be able to abort a case of hip-disease, and

even when pus is present or fistulous openings have formed it is very

useful. Fulness, suppuration, and pain in the cartilages.

Stram. stands alone among the deep acting remedies, in its violence

of mental symptoms.

Stram. cures eye troubles and irritation of the brain from overstudy ; in students who are obliged to do much night work to keep up

with day lectures. The patient seems almost blind ; there is much pain

in the eyes in dim light, relieved in intense light. The mental symptoms, cough, headache, etc., arc worse from light.

''Dryness of throat and fauces^ not benefited by any sort of drink.

Swallowing difficult and impeded with stinging pain in the throat, with

pain in the submaxillary glands with convulsions ; particularly fluids

from constriction of throat."' Choking on attempting to swallow*

water. It has done some good work in hydrophobia. (Hyosc,, Bel,,

Canth,, Hydroph,)

In old cases of suppuration of the lungs where the cough is worse

from looking into the light, Stram. is often a great palliative and

causes no aggravation.

Retention of urine, cannot pass it if he ceases to strain ; old men

who have lost power over the bladder, stream flows slowly, cannot

Twitching of hands and feet; of the tendons.—Trembling of limbs; they fall asleep.