Hale gives this indication of Zn. pi. Cerebro-spinal troubles of the erethistic
- character.
- " Hugh Pitcairn (quoted H.
- W.
- , xix.
- 366) gives these indications: (/) Brain-fag.
- (2)
Nervous exhaustion from over-worked brain or sexual excess. (3) Chronic occipital headaches,
periodic. (4) Headache occurring in Bright's disease. (5) Threatened cerebral paralysis, especially
in children. (6) Profound neurasthenia, when nervous exhaustion has passed beyond stage of
- erethism.
- (7) Seminal emissions.
- (8) Erotomania.
- He gives this case: Mr.
- M.
- , 36, merchant.
Above ordinary intelligence. Single; correct in his habits, but subject to seminal emissions since
early manhood, occurring about 3 a.m. every third night, leaving him very weak and debilitated;
< every change of weather, especially in hot weather and before and during thunderstorms.
Never masturbated. Complains of loss of memory and energy; dull, heavy feeling in head; sticky,
pasty mouth; dry throat, poor appetite. Belches torrents of tasteless flatus after eating, followed
by relief and diarrhoea. At other times inclined to constipation. Languid, heavy feeling
- throughout body.
- Dull, aching pain in back.
- Zn.
- pi.
- 2nd trit.
- caused steady improvement, the
- emissions being reduced in frequency to one in six weeks.
- Halbert (Clinique; H.
- W.
- , xxxiv.
- 511)
reports: (/) A case of recent facial paralysis from cold cured by Zn. pi. 3x) and (2) Paralysis
agitans in lady, 45, very greatly improved by the same.