Cinnamomum Camphor, Fr. Nees; Laurus Camphora, Linn.

Natural order , Lauraceæ.

Preparation , Tincture of the gum.

Authorities.

1 , Hahnemann, R. A. M. L., vol. 4; 2 , Franz., ibid.; 3 , Hartmann, ibid.; 4 , Hermann, ibid.; 5 , Stapf, ibid.; 6 , Wislicenus, ibid.; 7 , Alexander, Exp. Essays p. 227, proving with large doses, quoted by Hahnemann; 8 , Collin, Obs. circa morbos, III, 148, proving with large doses, ibid.; 9 , Cullen, Mat. Med., from grs. xl, in a female maniac; 10 , De Meza, Compend. Med. Pract., p. 3 [not obtainable.], ibid.; 11 , Geoffroy, Mat. Med. IV, 30, general statement from authors, ibid.; 12 , Griffin, Dis. de Camph. viribus. proving with large doses, ibid.; 13 , Heberden, Med. Transact., I, 471, effect of large doses in patients, ibid.; 14 , Hergt, Hufeland's Journ., XXVII, 1, 151, from 3 grs. twice a day, ibid.; 15 , Hoffmann, Opera Omnia (Geneva, 1740), VI, 60, general statement from observation, ibid.; 16 , Hufeland's Journ., I, 428, from large doses in rheumatic patient, ibid.; 17 , Koodhaas, Med. Not. Zeit., 1799 [not obtainable.], ibid.; 18 , Loss, Obs. Med., p. 314, from continual smelling, in a man of 40, ibid.; 19 , Murray, App. Med., IV, 584, general statement from authors, ibid.; 20 , Ortel, Med. Pract. Beob., I, 1, [not obtainable.], ibid.; , Ponteau, Melange de Chir., p. 184 in a woman three weeks after labor, ibid.; , Quarin, Meth. Med. Febr., p. 51, occasional effects of large doses on fever patients, ibid.; , Sommer, Hufeland's Journ., VII, 87, from gr. 8-12 in lead-colic, ibid.; , Sponitzer, Hufeland's Journ., V, 3, 16 [observation not found.], ibid.; , Unzer, Med. Handbuch, II, 25 [not obtainable.], ibid.; , Whytt, works, p. 646, from gr. xxx, ibid.; , Tode, Acta H., IV, 4, 188, from gr. v in commencing fever, ibid.; to , Provings of Jörg and his class with the tinct. and crude drug (when not mixed with magnesia), Jörg's Materalien; , Delander, experiment with twelve grains, Frank's Mag., 3, 463; , Schreter, N. Archiv. f. Hom., 3, 1, 183, symptoms from the X taken in water; , Lembke, provings with the tincture, N. Z. f. H. Kl., 10, 161, and 169; , ibid., proving with the 200th; , B. F. Joslin. M.D., proving with the 200th U. S. Med. and S. J., 3, 146; , Dr. Norton, proving with the tincture, 10 to 40 drops, repeated 6 times in 5 days, B. J. of Hom., 17, 465; , Dr. B. Fincke, Hom. Month., 2, 12, provings with the 22m; , ibid., with the 1st. trit. (one grain); , Dr. Berridge inhaled crude camphor, N. Eng. Med. Gaz., 9, 401; , Dr. Hiller, symptoms from a man who took about a scruple daily for more than a month, on account of excessive sexual desire, A. H. Z., 33, 381; , Klingbon, A. H. Z., 33, 381, a man took an ounce is some brandy; , Siemerling, Frank's Magazine, 1, 30, a rheumatic man took two drs.; , Frank's Mag., 4, 12, a man with cancer of the lip took four ounces, containing 160 grs., which had been ordered for rubbing his rheumatic shoulder; , Eickhorn, Lond. Med. Gaz., 11, 722, effects of 120 grs. at a dose; , Kohler, Schmidt's Jahrb., 159, 240, a woman took 200 grs. for a "bilious colic and diarrhœa"; , Toothaker, Hom. Times, 5, 284, effects of about half a wine glass of a saturated solution; , Trousseau and Pidoux, Trait. Mat. Med., effects of 5 to 18 decigrammes; , Wildberg, Jahrb., 1837, effects of 35 grains, quoted by Cattell, B. J. of Hom., 11, 527; , Wendt, of Breslau, effects of a large dose, quoted by Cattell, B. J. of Hom 11; , Mesarguel (Arabian), effects of six drs. at one dose, from Leadam, B. J. of hom., 8, 391; , Pharm. Journ., 26, 557, effects of a small quantity of camphorated oil on a boy 20 months old; , Dr. Beck, Practitioner, 2, 61 (from St. Louis Med. and S. Journ.), poisoning of a chill 3 years old, by the gum; , Braithwaite, Med. Times and Gaz., 1, 658, poisoning by 30 grs.; , Reynolds, L. and Ed. M. J. of M. S., 1846, poisoning of a man from eating bits of gum (in all about 1 to 2 drs. in a few minutes); , Journ. de Chim. Méd., 1860, a woman took 12 grs. in brandy to produce abortion; , Schaaf, Ed. M. J. of M. S., 1850, poisoning of three children, each taking half a teaspoonful of the gum; , Klingelhöffer, Lond. Med. Rec., 1, 654 (Berlin Kl. W.), effects of 30 grs.; , Hahn. Month., 9, 301, effects of two tablespoonfuls of the tinct.; , Lancet, 1874, p. 105, effects of from 25 drops to a teaspoonful of a concentrated solution; , Emerich, Hom. Archiv., 2, 36, effects of wearing it in flannel bands; , Beebe, Med. Invest., 9, 17, poisoning from a large piece of the gum; , Aran, N. Z. f. H. Kl., 1, 98, effects of a clyster of camph.; , Hom. Vierteljahrsch., 8, 107, effects of a clyster taken for priapism; , Christison, cited by Harley, Practitioner, 9, 210, effects of 40 grs.; , Orfila, cited by Harley, l. c., effects of 40 grs. in olive oil; , Harley, l. c., from Journ. de Chim. Méd., 1860, effects of 180 grs.; , Harley, l. c., effects of two tablespoonfuls of camphorated oil (Ol. oliv. 3j. camph., 3ss.), on an adult female; , Effects of a few pieces of crude camphor, taken for the cure of seminal emissions, Hom. Vierteljahrschrift, 1, 231.

MIND

Emotional.
Agitation, 52.*
Great excitement, 51.
Excitement, as of intoxication (after three hours), 45.
Great excitement, almost amounting to frenzy (after two hours), 57.
Rage, with foaming at the mouth, 7 . [During unconsciousness. See S. 61.]
Often felt as if he ought to kill people, when in the street; never felt a disposition to kill any of his own family, but thought he ought to kill somebody, 49.
Delirium, 16.
Slight delirium, attended with somnolency and a small, languishing pulse, 68.
A little delirium, 59. [10.]
Active delirium, 66.
Most furious delirium, being with difficulty restrained in bed by two men (after one hour), 56.
Delirium, with pain in stomach, 51.
Delirious, but when spoken to gave rational answers (after three hours), 70.
Gestures and conversation very strange and wild, 57.
Talked wildly, constantly repeating the same sentence (after one hour), 56.
He talks irrationally, and proposes absurd things, 25.
He beats himself on the chest, and falls into a faint, 9.
Strips himself, and tries to jump out of window, 51.
Stripped naked, he danced wildly about, and attempted to jump out of window, 57. [20.]
He is averse to all external objects, they excite in him a repelling fretfulness, 1.
Aversion to all kinds of work, 25.
Calm opiate effect on mind and brain (after two hours), 39.
Voluptuous ideas (after eight days), 35.
Lively mood (after half an hour), 29.
Greatly exhilarated (soon after), 57.
Disposition to cry frequently, he knew not what for, but would frequently find himself crying when at work or when walking about, 49.

I ran to the mantle-piece and struck a light. I saw it, came to myself, and the thought came over me that after all it might be only a dream, - a horrible vision of the night. I left the light burning, again lay down, and took a book, that I might drive away the fearful images; but scarce was I in bed before they returned, and with them a renewed desire to throw myself from the window. I started up, ran out, and fell prostrate, with a loud shriek for help, not far from the door of a neighbor. Persons came out, and seeing my desperate condition, were about to bring me a cordial, but I could not bear to be alone. Fearing some new misfortune, I seized my neighbor and held him fast, that he might not leave me. They gave me a few swallows of Moldavia water, which were followed by nausea and efforts to vomit. Next day they told me they could not stay in my room for the smell of camphor; on this account they brought me down stairs into the street, that I might breathe the fresh air, while they were making some tea for me. The sight of the sky, the pale moonlight, renewed my torturing fancies. I pressed close to my neighbor, and implored him to talk to me, that I might be freed from them, but terrified at my terror, he could find no topic for conversation. We went upstairs again, and tea was given me to drink. It tasted cold, though the woman next day assured me it was fairly boiling. Violent vomiting them came on, without any relief to my mania; they read to me, but I could not follow the train of ideas; my own thoughts absorbed me.

After the vomiting I began to feel a little cold; I became more quiet, was put to bed and fell asleep. Next morning I visited again the scene of my night visions, and attempted to drive away my morbid impressions by force of will. I went to my business in town, but the attacks returned. Again I felt my sense of touch disappear; my eyes started out of their sockets, convulsive movements attacked my head, and I could not get warm. A physician prescribed some quieting mixture. In the evening I attended the theatre; but scarce could the excitement of the crowd, the music, and the play beguile my thoughts.

What I have related took place, not in a half-waking state, but clear and distinct, with full conviction of their reality, and so vividly that I perfectly recollect the smallest incident. I suffered all, not only in a higher degree than I can express, but also in an inconceivably longer duration. As I lay stretched on my couch, as the evil demon, and suffered all the anguish of a condemned and God-forsaken soul, the time seemed an eternity, and the most painful thought was that I was forever deprived of the Divine protection, and of every consolation and every hope. Nothing remained to me but the conviction of my everlasting damnation.

Since that time I have been subject to these attacks of terror at night, when I am alone. I feel a tendency to self-contemplation; outer things vanish, and I behold myself in spirit freed from matter.

I am constrained to this agonizing self-contemplation, in spite of every effort of the will, and every opposition which my thoughts can make . In consequence my nervous irritability is greatly increased, and I sleep but little and very restlessly, which is quite the reverse of my former habit. The pollutions have much diminished in frequency, but I often wake terrified by nightmare; I shrick and call for help, because it seems that a murderer stands at my bedside. I dare not drink either tea or coffee, lest the phantasms of that fatal night return; I cannot then sleep at all. My temper is irritable and peevish, with an inclination to despair and suicide. I am afraid to go to sleep; and when I think it near it suddenly flies from me, my eyes open wide, and I fall into self-contemplation and mystical and dismal trains of thought. The source of my annoyance is not the presentation of images, but of feelings simply, without any mixture of the visible; it is my personal self, my unembodied spirit. By day I am quite quiet; night and solitude are my terrors. I still have faith and reason enough left to see in all this nothing but the phenomena of a morbid state, 71.

An indifference whether the world uses one well or ill (after two hours), 39.
Intellectual. Thought.
Unusually clear-headed (soon after), 57.
Never felt better; ideas never more lively or clearer; it appeared as if the intellectual powers were increased; champagne never brought on a more pleasing intoxication (after half an hour), 47. [50.]
Intellectual dulness, 39.
The intellectual power became much disturbed, 34.
A tumult of crude ideas floated through his mind, 67.
The ideas were confused, delirium, 10.
Memory.
Want of memory, 63.
Complete loss of memory, after an attack of catalepsy, with loss of consciousness, followed by vomiting (after three hours), 6.
Cognition.
Stupefaction of the senses, like fainting, 25.
Unconsciousness, 65.
Unconscious for several hours, 62.
Falls down, without consciousness, with howling cries, 44. [60.]
Loss of consciousness, 1.
Loss of consciousness, 7, 25 . [Original corrected by Dr. Hughes.]
Loss of consciousness, during which he was attacked with violent convulsive fits, and maniacal frenzy, 67.
Sometimes complete loss of consciousness, at others recovered senses, 59.
Insensibility, 9.
The senses vanish, 7.
The senses disappear (after a few minutes), 1.
Coma, 7, 58, 62.
Coma (after half an hour), 48.
Stupid coma and delirium, 5 . [Quoted from authors only to question it.]

HEAD

Confusion and Vertigo. [70.]
Confusion of the head, 28.
Confusion of the head, with perfectly clear consciousness, 5.
Confusion of the head, changing to vertigo (after one hour), 31.
Confusion of the head, which soon changed to a vertigo, 30.
Slight confusion of the head (after two hours), 39.
Slight confusion of the head, especially in the anterior portion, 33.
Head confused, burning hot, 46.
Vertigo, 7, 8, 25 , etc.*
Vertigo; was obliged to steady himself, it seemed as if he could not stand still, 4.
Vertigo, so severe that he was obliged to sit down, to avoid falling (fourteenth hour after 16 drops), 28. [80.]
Vertigo, so severe that the knees knock together, and he nearly falls (soon after 20 drops), 28.
Vertigo, returning at various times, 12.
Short attacks of vertigo, after repeated inclinations to vomit, 16.
Frequent short attacks of vertigo, 16.
Vertigo, when sitting, 36.
Vertigo, with tendency to fall forwards, when walking, 37.
Vertigo and heaviness of the head, especially on stooping, 31.*
Vertigo, with sparks before the eyes, 46.
Said she had no pain, but her head turned round (after three hours), 70.
Seized with giddiness, for the relief of which she went out of her room, but the giddiness increased and compelled her to return, 60. [90.]
Giddy, confused, and forgetful (after one hour), 67.
Giddiness and dimness of sight (after twenty minutes), 51.
He staggered as if drunk, 4.
He staggers from side to side, when walking, and is obliged to steady himself, in order to stand still, 6.

EYE

Objective.
Eyes staring, 68.* [170.]
He looks at one staring, and wondering without consciousness (after two hours), 6.
(Staring inflamed eyes), 22.
Staring, distorted eyes, 1.*
Eyes hollow (after three days), 58.*
Blue circles around eyes, 63.
Eyes brilliant, 52.
Eyes glittering, 46.
Distorted eyes, 20.
Eyes inflamed, 63.
Inflammation of the eyes (after ten hours), 1.
Subjective. [180.]
A feeling of tension in the eyes (after three-quarters of an hour), 4.
Soreness or tense, stiff feeling in eyes and eyelids all day, 39.
Orbit, Etc.
Pressure above right eye, 37.
Pressure on the muscles of the right eyebrow (after three-quarter of an hour), 4.
Lids.
The eyelids are covered with many red spots (after twenty-four hours), 6.
Twitching of lids, 63.
Eyelids, in constant agitation, and half closed, showed the eyeballs turned upwards and outwards, 59.
Visible jerking and twitching of the upper lid (after thirty-six hours), 2.
Transient burning in the eyelids, 33.
Burning in edges of lids, 36. [190.]
Biting and sticking in the lids (after five hours), 2.
Biting at the edges of the lids, 36.
Smarting in the lids, 36.
Biting-itching in the lids, 5.
Frequent twitching in the external canthus (after twenty-eight hours), 2.

EAR

The lobules of the ears are red and hot, 5.
A dark red ulcer, as large as a pea, in the left external meatus auditorius; on touch he feels a sticking pressure (after twelve hours); it suppurates (after thirty-six hours), 4.
Burning in the ears, 36.
Sticking in the ear from a draught of air or wind, 35.
Stitches in ears, 63. [240.]
Stitches deep in the left ear, 36.
A kind of tearing in the left ear (after one hour), 1.
Tearing behind and above the ears, 36.
Ringing in the ears, 34, 51, 63.
[Ringing in the ears], 7 . [Just before losing consciousness.]
Singing in the left ear, 36.
Roaring in the ears, 45.

NOSE

Objective.
Obstruction of nose in right side, then secretion of thin mucus (immediately), 41.
Nose stopped, or running, or bleeding, 63.
Sneezing (twice), 36. [250.]
Coryza (after ten hours), 1.*
Stopped coryza, 1.
In the morning, on rising (and evenings on going to sleep?), discharge of thin mucus from the nose, without sneezing, and without real coryza (after eighteen hours), 1.
Bleeding from the nose (after four hours), 31.
Moderate nose-bleed (at 7 A.M., second day), 30.
Subjective.
The air of the room, breathed through the nose, seems cooler, when walking, 36.
Sudden, momentary boring in the right side of the nose, 36.
Drawing in the left side of the nose, 36.
Violent stitching, or crawling, from the root of the nose almost to the tip, 36.
In the anterior corner of the nostril, a stinging pain, as if the place were ulcerated and sore (after two hours), 1. [260.]
Itching in nose, 63.
Itching in left nostril, 36.

FACE

Objective.
Paleness of the face, 1, 51, 63.*
The countenance, naturally red, was pale (after six hours), 60.
Face pale and livid (after three days), 36.*
Countenance pale and haggard (after two hours), 57.*
*Face pale and anxious (after three hours), 70.
Countenance pale, distorted, sunken, 66.*
Very pale face, with at first close, afterwards open, staring eyes, with the eyeballs turned outward (after two hours), 6.
Excessive paleness of face, with a fixed and stupid look, 59. [270.]
Face and hands deathly pale, 61.*
Bluish color of the face, 65.*
Flushing of face, 69.
Face flushed and expression wild (after one hour), 56.
*Redness of face, 36, 52, 58.
[Very red face], 22.
Face red, puffy, 44.
Face scarlet-red and puffy, 46.
Black in face, 62.
In morning, disturbed countenance, with blue rings around eyes (second day), 40. [280.]
Lineaments relaxed, expressionless, 63.
Slight twitchings of the face, 39.
The face, alternately pale and livid, was the seat of incessant spasmodic movements, 59.
Spasmodic distortion of the facial muscles, with froth from the mouth, 20 . [From several grains of Camphor injected into the median veins.]
Face hot to the touch, 36.
Burning in the face, 36.
Cheeks.

MOUTH

Teeth and Gums.
A little froth about the teeth, which were firmly clenched, 39.
Painful looseness ot the teeth (after ten hours), 1.
Transient toothache, now in one, now in another tooth, 35.
The teeth seem too long, with cutting toothache, which seems to originate from the swelling of a submaxillary gland, 1.
Drawing in hollow lower back teeth, 36.
When walking, drawing in decayed upper incisors, 35. [300.]
Continual toothache for several weeks; gnawing and boring in nearly all the back teeth, though especially in the hollow teeth, aggravated by coffee or alcoholic drinks, and also if even a soft piece of bread touches the affected teeth; relieved by drinking cold water; if however, cold water is held in the mouth, it aggravates the pain, as also does cold air; together with longing for beer, which affords him relief, as also tobacco-smoking, 35.
On going into the cold, or windy air, with the toothache, a stitch shoots from the tooth into the eye, 35.
Toothache; transient, cutting shootings through the gum to the roots of the incisor and canine teeth (after a quarter of an hour), (from smelling), 6.
During coition the toothache ceases, immediately after which he sleeps quietly for the first time, 35.
Gums loosened, of a livid color, 43.
Tongue.
Tongue thick, spongy, fissured, covered with much tough yellowish mucus, 43.
Tongue dry, or covered with aphthæ, 63.
Sensation of dryness on the back part of the tongue, like a scraping, with much saliva, 5.
Tongue cold, flabby, trembling, 66.
Very decided burning on the edge of the tongue and hard palate, 36. [310.]
Tongue felt swollen and numb, 61.
Biting sensation in the end of the tongue, as from pepper, 36.
General Mouth.
The breath had the odor of camphor (after six hours), 60.
Offensive odor from the mouth in the morning, which he himself noticed (after twenty hours), .

THROAT

Heat in throat, 59.
Burning heat in throat, mouth, and stomach, 58.
Painful drawing and stiff sensation in the side of the throat and neck, when walking in the open air (after five hours), 2.
Sore throat (at night) when swallowing, and even more when not swallowing, as if the throat were sore and torn up, with a sensation as if she had eaten rancid substances, 1.
Scraping in throat, 69.
Slight scraping in the throat, 36.
Burning in the pharynx and stomach, 45.* [350.]
Repeated short stitches at back and toward left side of pharynx, 42.
Slight warmth in the œsophagus and stomach, extending over the whole body (soon), 29.
Drinking difficult, 44.

STOMACH

Appetite and Thirst.
Total loss of appetite (after six hours), 60.
Aversion to the accustomed tobacco-smoking without its tasting badly; he soon becomes averse to it, even to vomiting, 1.
Thirst, 59.*
*Great thirst (after six hours), 60.
Continued thirst, with frequent drinking, 28.
Longing for drinks, without thirst, 1.
Loss of thirst (first twenty-four hours), 6. [360.]
Loss of thirst (first thirty-six hours), 4.
Eructations.
Frequent eructations, 36.
Frequent eructations, tasting of camphor, 36.
Occasional eructations having a strong odor of camphor, 60.
Empty eructations frequently after eating, and almost continuous (after three hours, and later), 4.
Eructations and gulping of the contents of the stomach, 1.
Nausea and Vomiting.
Nausea, 7, 12, 37.
Nausea (after one and a half hours), 40.
Nausea, with accumulation of saliva, 5.
Nausea and inclination to vomit, which disappeared every time after an eructation (after a quarter of an hour), 2. [370.]
Nausea and vomiting, especially mornings, 63.
Retching, 44.
Constant retching, 59.
Vomiting, 56, 64 , etc.
Profuse morning vomiting of sour mucus disappeared during the whole proving of Camphor, 35.
Vomiting of yellow, watery liquid, smelling of camphor, 68.
Vomited black-streaked fluid smelling strongly of camphor, 62.
Bilious vomiting colored with blood, 12.

ABDOMEN

Hypochondria.
Constrictive pain below the short ribs, extending to the lumbar vertebræ, 1.*
Pressive pain in the hypochondria (after one hour), 1. [400.]
Stitch in hepatic region, from before backwards, worse in running (second day), 40.
Umbilical.
Sensation of hardness and heaviness in the abdomen, above the navel, 5.
Pressure and burning above the navel, 43.
Slight cuttings in the region of the navel, followed by passage of flatus, inclination to stool, and urging to urinate, 33.
General Abdomen.
Abdomen retracted, 55.
Transient ascites, 14.
Movements in the intestines, and in the afternoon, frequent passage of offensive flatus; and, during the next night, from 1 to 2 o'clock, violent pressive pain, located in the cœliac ganglia, so severe that he feared that inflammation would ensue, which caused great anxiety and sweating, 33.
Flatulence, 63.
Flatulent troubles in the abdomen, 1.
Slight discharge of flatulence, 36. [410.]
Copious emission of flatulence, 37.
Much discharge of flatulence, when walking, 36.
At first, passage of much flatus, and after several hours, in the morning, pressure in the abdomen as of distension from flatulence, 1.
Pain in abdomen, as if she would get diarrhœa, which, however, did not come (second day), 40.
Cold sensation in the upper and lower portion of the abdomen (after fourteen hours), 4.*
Burning in the abdomen, which is distended, 43.
Violent burning heat in the upper and lower abdomen (after four hours), 4.
Pinching pain in the lower portion of the abdomen, especially in the umbilical region (after seven and a half hours), 4.
Cramplike pain in abdomen, with diarrhœa following several times (after one a half hours), .

RECTUM AND ANUS

The rectum seems contracted, swollen, and painful, on passing flatus, 1.
Pressive sensation along the rectum, with urging to urinate, not only in the bladder, but beginning in the kidneys, and extending along the ureters to the bladder, with a dragging sensation along the spermatic cords to the testicles, and a general feeling of turgescence in this part of the body, 33.
Smarting in the rectum, 5.
Urging to stool (after four hours), 4.
Urging to stool; the stool is of the usual hardness, but only a little passes, followed by very violent urging again, and a scanty discharge again (after one hour), 4.

STOOL

Diarrhœa.
Two stools the first day, preceded by some griping in the abdomen; the second day, no stool; the third, a rather hard and difficult stool, 2.
Stool dark-brown, thin and scanty, 33.
Stool hard and retarded, 36.
Stools sour, 63. [440.]
Stool increased during the first days afterwards passed only with much exertion and great pressure, and also much flatus passed with as much difficulty as the hardest stool; this usually preceded the evacuation, 35.
Constipation.
Constipation, 1.
Constipation, for five to eight days, 43.
Extremely costive at stool the day after, 7 . [Corrected.]
Stool sluggish and incomplete, 33.
The fæces were passed with difficulty, not without exertion of the abdominal muscles, as if the peristaltic motion of the intestines was diminished, and at the same time the rectum was contracted (after twenty-four hours), 1.

URINARY ORGANS

Bladder.
Diminished power of the bladder; the urine passes very slowly, without any mechanical hindrance (after twenty hours), 1.
Urethra.
Once, for a few minutes, a hot burning in the urethra, like the effects of Cantharides, 39.
Sticking-burning on urinating, 35.
Frequent desire to make water, 59. [450.]
Frequent desire to make water, with some pain in course of spermatic vessels (after two hours), 57.
Micturition.
Micturition frequent and difficult ; urine clear, 51.
Almost involuntary urination, and pain as if the passage of urine in the urethra has a contraction from before backward, 1.
Involuntary urination, after severe urging to urinate, 1.
Urine passed in large quantity, probably in consequence of much water having been drunk, 65.
Urine increased, of a dark-brown color, 33.
Urine profuse, colorless, frequent, almost every five minutes, 43.
Diminished urination, 36.*
Scanty urine, without difficulty, during the first hours, but after several hours (in the afternoon), a biting pain when urinating, which lasts several days, in the posterior portion of urethra; this is followed by pressure in the bladder, like a renewed desire to urinate, 2.
No urine passed during the first ten hours, 6. [460.]
Retention of urine for twenty-four hours, the bladder being full, 58.
Retention of urine, with urging to urinate; tenesmus of the neck of the bladder, 1.
Retention of urine (the first twelve hours), with constant pressure in the bladder and desire to urinate, when, however, none passes; but after twenty-four hours frequent urination of the usual amount, though more in the aggregate is passed; after forty-eight hours, still more frequent and more copious urination, 4.
*Painful urination, 1.
Burning urine, .*

SEXUAL ORGANS

Male.
Weakness in the genitals, and want of sexual desire (first two days), 6. [480.]
Pressure in the left side of the mons veneris; at the root of the penis, in the groin, when standing (after ten hours), 2.
Pressing-out sensation in the mons veneris, in the groins, at the root of the penis, as if a hernia would protrude (after twelve hours), 2.
Sticking-itching on the inner surface of the prepuce, 4.
Incomplete erection, with weak venereal desire, which soon again vanished (after one hour), 50.
Erections completely impossible for a year and a half (taken on account of satyriasis); scrotum relaxed, not even contracted by cold, 43.
Impotence, 53, 63 , etc.
During the first two days laxity of the scrotum, want of erection, want of sexual desire, but after forty-eight hours far more violent erections than usual, 4 . [The want of sexual desire, erections, and emissions are, as we see from these observations, only the primary action of camphor, hence it acts only as a palliative, if one prescribes for excessive sexual desire, erections, and frequent emissions, which have already lasted a long time; there then follows an increase of the disease on account of the reactionary effect of the organism. H.]
A contractive sensation in the testicles, 5.
Increased sexual desire, 19.
Sexual desire seemed to be increased during the first days (curative action), 35. [490.]
In the night, experienced unusual sexual ardor, with continued delusions respecting the objects of embrace, 39.
Inclined to nightly emissions, 1.
Emissions for several nights (after sixty hours), 2.
Nocturnal pollution, without dreams, 36.
Female.
Os uteri enlarged and hot, 58.
Severe labor-like pains as in parturition, 13 . [From gr. xl, in enema.]
Absorption, 58.
Slight discharge of blood from vagina, 58.
Sexual orgasm, 17.
Menstruation too profuse, . [500.]

RESPIRATORY ORGANS

Larynx, Trachea, and Bronchi.
Mucus in the air-passages ; it makes the voice husky and is not removed the hacking, or clearing the throat, 1.*
Pain in the air-passages, and bronchial tubes, mostly in coughing, and even when hacking and clearing the throat, 1.
Complains of a contractive sensation in the larynx, as from sulphur-fumes, 20.
Cough.
Short cough, from scraping in the throat, 36.
Hacking, dry cough, 63.
Dry, hacking cough, especially in the forenoon, which lasts more than fourteen days, 35.
Respiration.
Respiration hurried, 51.
Breathing hurried, and at times greatly labored (after two hours), 57. [510.]
Deep and slow respiration, 1.
(Short inspiration and expiration, during sleep), 1.
Respiration short and snoring, 59.
Respiration impeded, 44.
Breathing labored (after three days), 58.
Heavy, slow, difficult respiration (after one and a quarter hours), 4.
Oppressed, anxious, sighing respiration, 20.
Choking sensation, 65.
Suffocative dyspnœa, as if it arose from a pressure in the pit of the stomach (after one hour), 1.*
It threatens to suffocate him and constrict the larynx, 23. [520.]
Almost complete arrest of breathing, 1.*
The breathing seems to have almost entirely ceased, 9.*

CHEST

Contraction of chest, 63.
Oppression of chest, 63.
Painful sensation in the chest, like stitches, 5.
Stitches in chest, especially left side, often extend to spine, 63.
Stitches in the chest, and hacking cough, as if caused by a cutting cold sensation deep in the air-passages (after two hours), 2.
The stitches in and about the chest become worse every day, 2.
Fine stitches in the nipples (after two hours), 1.
Fine tearing pain near the right nipple, extending down into the pelvis (after four and a half hours), 4.
Front. [530.]
Pressure in the upper part of the sternum, as from a load, 2.
Pressure on the breast-bone when standing (after twenty-seven hours), 2.
Soft pressure internally in the chest, under the sternum, with difficult breathing, and a cold sensation, which rises from the chest into the mouth (after twenty-nine hours), 2.
Sides.
Stitches in the left side of the chest, when walking (after half an hour), 2.
Internal trembling of the left side of the chest, and of the left arm, when lying upon the left side; it ceases on turning to the right side (second day), 35.

HEART AND PULSE

*Præcordial anxiety, 43, 45.
Great anxiety in the præcordial region, 46.*
When very loudly spoken to, he complained of indefinable distress in the præcordial region; sensation of severe coldness and irresistible sleepiness, 68.*
Spasmodic stitches in the region of the heart with oppression of the chest, when lying on the left side; on turning to the right side it ceases (second day), 35.
Heart's Action.
Heart's impulse hard but regular, 44. [540.]
Palpitation, 63.
*Palpitation of the heart, 1.
He felt and heard the throbbing of the heart against the ribs, after eating (after four and three-quarter hours), 2.
*Heart beating very slowly, and intermitting, 61.
Pulse.
Pulse accelerated, 29, 36.
Pulse accelerated, 19 . [From gr. xl.]
Pulse accelerated from 70 to 79 (after a few minutes), 34.
The pulse becomes accelerated by ten to fifteen beats and tense (from the continued use of large doses), 16 . [The large doses are 40 to 60 grs.]
Pulse accelerated twenty beats (100), 33.
Pulse accelerated by twenty-three beats (after tree hours), 7 . [After recovering from loss of consciousness.] [550.]
Pulse very much accelerated, but undulating, and without strength, 66.
Excessive frequency of pulse, 66.
Pulse frequent, full and hard, or soft, 52.
Pulse frequent and scarcely perceptible (after twenty minutes), 52.
Very rapid pulse, 22.
After the administration of gradually increased dose of camphor the pulse became very rapid, for several days (nearly ten), without increase of the temperature, 16.

NECK AND BACK

Neck.
Stiffness in nape of neck, 38.
Tensive pain in the muscles of the nape of the neck and lower portion of the neck; worse on every motion and on turning the neck (after fifteen hours), 4.
Drawing on left side of nape of neck, toward the shoulder, 36.
Stitches in the neck, near the right shoulder, on motion (after one and a half hours), 2. [590.]
Tearing pain in the nape of the neck, on bending the head forward (after two hours), 1.
Several painless drawings in the cervical vertebræ, on motion, 5.
Creeping sensation in the left side of the neck, above the clavicle, 36.
Swelling of cervical glands, 63.
Back.
Violent pain in the back, all day, 36.
Pain in course of spine, 51.
Painful tearing along the medulla spinalis, 45.
Dorsal.
Tearing pressure on the anterior margin of the shoulder-blade, which renders motion of the arm difficult (after thirty-two hours), 2.
Drawing, painful stitches through the shoulder-blades, and between them, extending into the chest on moving the arm, for two days (after twenty-four hours), 2.
Lumbar.
Pressure in the small of the back, 43. [600.]
Tired feeling in the small of the back, when walking, 36.
Sacral.
Sensation of sticking coldness in the sacral region, which passed with lightning-like velocity along the side of the vertebræ to the nape of the neck, and over the whole body, alternating with a feeling of transient heat, 66.

EXTREMITIES IN GENERAL

Stretching of limbs, 63.
Trembling limbs, 63.
Convulsive agitation in the limbs, after the tetanic stiffness, 54.
Violent cramps in extremities (after three days), 60.
Limbs as heavy as lead, 43.
The limbs are difficult to move, 1.
General painful sensitiveness in limbs, 63.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

Arms more convulsed than lower limbs, 59. [610.]
Pressure and drawing on the inner side of both arms, during rest of the parts, ceasing while moving them, 36.
Heaviness in the left arm, 36.
Sensation of fatigue in the left arm, 36.
The pain immediately begins again during rest of the arm; also in the right arm, when that is at rest, 36.
Tired feeling in the left arm, commencing at the left shoulder, extending into the wrist; relieved by motion of the arm, 36.
Tearing on the inside of the left arm, passing at times into the thumb and index finger, 37.
Shoulder.
Pressure on the top of the shoulder (after two hours), 2.
Violent pressure on top of right shoulder, 36.
Drawing pain in the left shoulder, 35.
Bruised pain in both shoulders, 36.
Arm. [620.]
Tearing pressure in the middle of the posterior portion of the right upper arm, 4.
Jerking, fine tearing from the middle of the inner surface of the left upper arm to the middle of the forearm (after three-quarters of an hour), 4.
Drawing in the muscles of the left upper arm, when walking, 36.
Tearing in the muscles on the inner side of the left upper arm, 37.
Elbow.
Painful pressure in the right elbow-joint, more violent on leaning upon it, when it extends into the hand (after one and a half hours), 4.
Bruised pain in right elbow, wrist, and fingers, 36.
Forearm.
Tired feeling from the left elbow into the hand, 36.
Pressure in right forearm, 36.
Tearing pressure on the inner surface of the left forearm, 4.
Stitches in the forearm (after one and three-quarters hours), 2. [630.]

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

Tottering, weariness, and heaviness of the lower limbs (after one hour), 4.
The gait was tottering, 34.
The legs are difficult to move and weary, 1.
Could walk with difficulty (after six hours), 60.
Tired feeling in the legs, especially in the knees, when sitting, 36.
Pressure and drawing on the inner side of both legs, extending to the ankles, during rest of the parts, ceasing while moving them, 36.
Hip.
Cracking and creaking in the hip, knee, and ankle-joints, 1.
Pressure in right hip-joint, 36.
Thigh.
Pain in the posterior portion of the thigh, above the hollow of the knee, as after a long walk, 2. [650.]
When walking, painful sensation of stiffness in the outer side of the right thigh, 39.
Internal coldness through the right thigh, as if cold air blew on it, 36.
Drawing in the gluteus maximus, in the upper part, at its attachment to the crest of the ilium, as if it would make the leg lame, 2.
Drawing bruised pain in the thighs, after walking (after five hours), 2.
Drawing bruised pain in the right thigh, and on the inner side, near and below the patella, he fears that the leg will bend forward suddenly (after four and a half hours), 2.
Pressure deep in the whole right thigh, 36.
Tearing in the thighs (after twenty-eight hours), 2.
Knee.
The knees feel as though they would suddenly bend forward, and as if beaten (after twenty-six hours), 2.
Heaviness and pressure in both knees, when sitting, 36.
Pain in right knee, as if fatigued, 36. [660.]
Sensation of coldness in right knee, extending into the foot, when sitting, 36.
Severe heat in right knee, 36.
Pressive-drawing below the patella, on the inner side of the knee (after thirty hours), .

GENERAL SYMPTOMS

Objective.
Appears drunk, 51.
Extreme emaciation, 43.
Flesh and strength decreased, 43.
It predisposes to inflammations, 11.
Distension of the arteries, 36.
Relaxation and heaviness of the whole body (after twenty-five minutes), 4.
After the violent symptoms had diminished, in about twenty minutes, he lay quiet for the next three hours muttering incoherently to himself, and following with his eyes the motions of persons about the room, 56.
General excitement of the muscular power (soon after taking), 34. [710.]
*He is hasty in his actions and speech, 1.
Often easily startled when awake, and then feels throbbings or palpitations, 49.*
Trembling, 7, 25.
Trembling, which prevented writing, 33.
Trembling, mostly of the heart, 20.
Subsultus tendinum and insensibility, 51.
Spasms, 8.
Spasm which was like an epileptic spasm (after one-quarter of an hour), 48.
Convulsions, 65.*
Convulsions, 7, 22 . [In Alexander's case during loss of consciousness.) [720.]
Convulsions in children, 63.
True convulsions, with loss of consciousness, more or less prolonged, 59.
Strong convulsions, 55.
Violently convulsed, 62.
Violent convulsions, 27.
Violent convulsions, with disordered expression of countenance; livid aspect, 59.
Most violent general convulsions, especially of the hands and feet, so that five men could scarcely hold him, 44.
Clonic convulsive movements, at intervals of a few seconds, sometimes a minute.
*Convulsive circular motion (rotation of the arms), .

SKIN

The skin appeared in general to be pale and moist, and heat of surface diminished, 59.
Skin shrivelled, relaxed, often cold, 63.
Skin became leathery, dry, burning, without a trace of sweat, 43.
Erysipelatous inflammation, 1 . [From the external application of camphor.]
Erysipelas (from the external use), 24.
Vesicle on neck and chest, 63. [780.]
Very dry skin, even in bed, with good appetite, 16.
Acute drawing in the skin, above and below the left clavicle, 36.
Stitches in the skin of the right forefinger, on the side of the last joint, 36.
Itching here and there over the body, in the evening, after lying down in bed (after six hours), 1.
Severe itching (from the external use), 24.
Itching in the palms of the hands (after five hours), 2.
Continually increasing itching on the backs of the hands and knuckles, with sticking pain, relieve by scratching (after four and a half hours), 2.
Itching on the knuckles and between them (after twenty-five hours), 2.

SLEEP AND DREAMS

Sleepiness.
Yawning, 63.
Yawning and sleepiness, 12. [790.]
Frequent yawning, 5.
Much yawning, when walking, without sleepiness, 36.
Sleepiness, 1, 36.
Sleepiness, towards noon, with marked confusion of the head, 29.
Weary with sleep; it seems as though he should fall asleep (after one hour), 4.
He became overpowered by sleep at 7 P.M., and slept for more than two hours; on waking he did not know that he had been awakened in the meantime and had spoken to some one, though he was usually awakened by the slightest nose; after waking the headache was relieved, but he continued to feel sleepy, 28.
Sleep deep, prolonged, refreshing, 28.
Stupid slumbering, with pinching headache, great heat of the whole body, with distended veins, very rapid breathing, and bruised pain in the back, without thirst and with natural taste, 1.
Sleep during the first night very sound and deep, could scarcely get awake in the morning; in the night following, he awoke at midnight, and was unable to fall asleep again, but in the morning he could not arouse himself on account of sleepiness, 35.
Sleeplessness.
Sleeplessness, 36, 43. [800.]
Loss of sleep, 11.
The usual evening sleep, which he had taken upon a sofa, is omitted, 35.
Restless sleep, 36.
Sleep restless, he was continually awakened by thirst, 33.
Distressed sleep, with fearful dreams, visions, spectres, etc., 49.
Starts in his sleep, 49.
Snoring during sleep, on inspiration and expiration, 1.
He murmured and sighed during sleep, 1.
Talking in the sleep, the whole night, in a low tone, 1.
Crying out and starting up in sleep, 63.
Dreams. [810.]

FEVER

Chilliness.
The body generally quite cold, 1.*
Coldness of the body, with paleness, 9.
Coldness of the skin, 65.*
Skin cold and insensible (after three days), 58.
Cold skin, covered with clammy, inodorous perspiration, 66.
Shivering, 63. [820.]
Shivering and chilliness, in the evening when lying down, 35.
Shivering, chilliness, and creeping goose-flesh over the whole body, for an hour (immediately), 2.
Slight shivering, with paleness of face, 12.
Sensitive to cool air, 63.
In the evening, great sensitiveness to cold over the whole body, and headache, as from constriction of the brain, with pressure over the root of the nose (after twelve hours), 2.
He is excessively sensitive to the cold air, 1.
Great aversion to the cold air; it affects him very unpleasantly; he is obliged to wrap himself up warmly, and even then is chilled through, 35.
He is unable to endure slight cold, from which either a chill results, or cutting pain in the abdomen, with a diarrhœa-like passage of blackish-brown or black fæces, like coffee-grounds, 1.
Frequent cooling, especially in the pit of the stomach, 15.
Chilliness (after ten hours), 1. [830.]
Chilliness over the whole body (after a quarter of an hour), 4.
Chilliness over the whole body (after one and a half hours), 40.
Chilliness over the whole body (after two and a half hours), followed (after one and a half hours) by increases warmth of the whole body, 4.
Chilliness and shivering, with goose-flesh; the skin of the whole body is painfully sensitive, and sore to the slightest touch, 1.
Great chilliness, 63.
Excessive chill, 43.
Shaking chill and chattering of the teeth, .

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Morning ), After rising, headache; on waking, headache in temples; on rising, discharge from nose; odor from mouth; nausea, etc.; stitch in hepatic region; on rising and walking, pain in ankle; on waking sensation of heart.
( Forenoon ), Dry cough.
( Evening ), The pains; headache over eye; when lying down, shivering, etc.; sensitiveness to cold, etc.
( Night ), All symptoms; fearful, etc.; when alone, attacks of terror; cutting colic.
( Dark ), All the symptoms were greatly aggravated at night and as it began to grow dark; would often be able to comfortably work through the day, and when night came would be almost raving, wretched, and disconsolate; also aggravation by taking cold; even after five years this was more or less the case; never goes into the cellar alone at night, but will go with his little daughter, a child of only eight or nine years of age; would scarcely dare, when at the best, to stay alone in his own house over night, 49.
( Open air ), lachrymation.
( Alcoholic drinks ), Toothache.
( Coffee ), Toothache; vomiting.
( Cold air ), Toothache.
( Holding cold water in mouth ), Toothache.
( In the dark ), Fear.
( After acting ), Throbbing of heart.
( Inspiration ), Pain in side of abdomen.
( Leaning on the part ), Pressure in right elbow-joint.
( Light ), The symptoms.
( Lying down ), Pain at base of brain.
( After lying down ), Immediately, headache; itching.
( When lying on left side ), Trembling of left chest; stitches in region of heart, etc.
( Motion ), Most pains; pain in nape of neck; stitches in neck; drawing in cervical vertebræ; pain in thumb-joint; .

SUPPLEMENT: CAMPHORA. Authorities.

72 , Wm. Alexander, M.D., Exper. Essays, London, 1770; 73 , Jas. L. Brooks, Bost. Med. and Surg. Journ., vol. xix, 1838, p. 397, Miss B. took a dessertspoonful of a strong solution; 74 , Mr. Clark, Lancet, 1842-3 (1), p. 300, a man, æt. thirty-nine years, ate about 35 grains of powdered C.; 75 , Dr. O. E. Brown, West. Med. and Surg. Journ., 1847, Mr. A., ate bits of gum C. during an evening; 76 , J. H. Beech, M.D., Penn. Journ. of Med., Feb., 1855, p. 367, a man, æt. fifty years, swallowed a quantity of nearly saturated alcoholic tinct.; 77 , T. P. M., Lancet, 1857 (1), p. 384, a young lady, æt. eighteen years, swallowed a piece of the size of a marble; 78 , A. Legat, M.D., Brit. Med. Journ., 1875 (1), p. 242, a young lady, æt. twenty years, took a few drops of a solution; 79 , Geo. Johnson, Brit. Med. Journ., 1875 (1), p. 272, a boy, æt. fourteen years, took about 15 drops of hom. C., for a cold; 80 , ibid., p. 171, a lady, æt. thirty-five years, took 7 drops of hom. sol. of C. on sugar; 81 , ibid., a young lady took 25 drops for a cold; 82 , ibid., a man took eight doses of 3 drops each, within forty minutes; 83 , W. Thursfield, M.D., Lancet, 1875 (2), p. 825, a child, just recovering from a fever, was given half an ounce of C. liniment; 84 , New Remedies, 1876, p. 85, a lad, æt. thirteen years, ate two pieces of C. (about 120 grains); 85 , omitted; 86 , Geo. Johnson, M.D., Brit. Med. Journ., 1877 (1), p. 607, a man, æt. eighteen years, took within six hours seven hours seven doses of three drops each, of hom. C. on sugar; 87 , Chas. Hallet, Lancet, 1841-2 (2), p. 891, a woman, æt. thirty years, took about a scruple dissolved in rectified spirit of wine.

Great mental excitement, much resembling intoxication, with occasional delirium, with external laborious breathing, performed without the assistance of the abdominal muscles, great anxiety, languor, and giddiness, and occasional loss of sight, but the pupil perfectly natural; also a very distressing sense of numbness and tingling, with coldness of the extremities, so severe that she was at times quite unable to walk, and as she expressed it, "they felt as if they did not belong to her;" pulse 90, very feeble, 87.
Immediately a very faint feeling, which compelled her to lie down flat on the hearth-rug, and she nearly lost consciousness; this lasted about five minutes. When I arrived, her face was very pale, and her pulse was weak. She was very drowsy after she got to bed, 80.
He immediately became insensible; was soon found pulseless, with his extremities cold, and his face and lips pallid, 79. [920.]
Within five minutes after the last dose, without the slightest warning, he had a severe epileptic fit, in which his tongue was badly bitten. Ever since he has felt "queer," complaining of a peculiar cold sensation of the tongue, extending for about half an inch from the tip, 86.
A most vacant expression of countenance, eyes wandering about the room, speechless an powerless. Soon had a violent epileptic fit, which lasted for about two minutes. She went into a state of stupor, and in about half an hour vomited freely, the matter ejected smelling most strongly of Camphor. In the morning she complained of violent pain in the head and chest, and still the taste and smell of Camphor were most disagreeable; her mouth was slightly distorted, 77.
A fit of epilepsy, which lasted about ten minutes, followed by an extraordinary state of exhaustion. The extremities were cold, the surface was covered with clammy sweat; the pulse frequent and scarcely perceptible, and the pupil dilated. When roused he had scarcely power to articulate. Occasional suppression of the urine for three months afterwards, 74.
Violent convulsions and nervous sequelæ, which continued for several months, 81.
Convulsions; speechless, but perfectly conscious of all that was going on around him, 73.
Breathing slow, stertorous; pulse 98 and forcible; veins of forehead distended and tortuous; countenance livid, and covered with perspiration; convulsions (after half an hour), violent, racking the whole frame, in which opisthotonos was considerable; whole surface red with capillary congestion, the eyeballs injected and prominent for an instant, and then the eyes forcibly closed, loud moaning, grinding of teeth, and blowing of bloody saliva, through the closed teeth (after three-quarters of an hour); this continued for about half an hour, when the opisthotonos gave place to rapid rolling over and over, now this and sometimes that way, burying the face sometimes for a moment in the bed, so that respiration was sometimes difficult, .

First Experiment.

I took one scruple of Camphor inclosed in a little of the pulp of tamarinds. It made no alteration on the height of the mercury in the thermometer at my stomach. But twenty minutes after, my pulse beat only 66; whereas, before I took the dose, it had 68; some time after this it was reduced to 65.

Second experiment.

I took two scruples in a little syrup of pale roses; which immediately caused a sensation in my mouth, something like that occasioned by taking strong peppermint-water, but much more disagreeable. On looking at the thermometer at my stomach, the mercury, ten minutes after the dose, was fallen one degree; and my pulse, which before was 77, only beat 75. Twenty-five minutes after the dose, the mercury was risen to the same height at which it had been before I took it, and my pulse was again at 77.

Long before this time, however, I began to feel an unusual lassitude and depression of spirits, accompanied with frequent yawnings and stretchings, which stole upon me by slow and almost imperceptible degrees; till, at the end of three-quarters of an hour from their first appearance, they were grown extremely troublesome. The mercury in the thermometer remained at the same height as it had done before the dose; but my pulse was now fallen from 77 to 67.

Soon after this, my head grew so very giddy, that it was with great difficulty I could walk across the room; when feeling myself, as I thought, stifled, I imagined the fresh air would remove that symptom, and therefore opened the window and looked out; but everything in the street appeared to me in the utmost tumult and confusion; in which, imagining that I was involved, I felt myself in danger of losing my balance, and tumbling from my position. I therefore staggered from the window to my bed, and having a book with me, read several pages of it; but had no distinct idea of any one sentence, but far less could I connect two or more of them together, so as to comprehend the meaning of the author. At last, being able to read no longer for the tumultuous motion which I perceived among the letters of the book, and finding it had no power to divert the attention of my mind from the uneasy sensations which disturbed me, I arose to see whether I could walk any better; but to my great mortification, found my head more confused, and could hardly walk any at all. I then returned to the bed, and being a little thirsty, called for some mutton-broth to drink. It being dinner-time, the servant, instead of bringing the broth, covered the table as usual, not knowing that I was complaining. When the victuals were brought, I got out of bed again, and with no small reluctance swallowed a little of the broth, but could neither taste bread nor meat, on account of a nausea, which, however, was not accompanied with any inclination to vomit.

I now staggered again to bed, and took up the book I had left there, in order to make one more effort to divert the attention of my mind from the uneasy sensations I felt; but could not read, as the letters on the book formed only a confused group of unsteady images. Now the confusion of my head increased so much, attended with such a noise in my ears, that all knowledge of what was present, as well as memory of the past, was soon entirely lost in as state of insensibility.

Fortunately, about this time, one of my young gentlemen came into the room, who told me afterwards, that I desired him to shut the windows, and then threw myself backward on the bed, where I lay a few minutes very quiet, then started up, sat on the side of it, and made some efforts to vomit, but threw nothing up; that I then flung myself back again with dreadful shrieks, fell into strong convulsions, foamed at the mouth, stared wildly, and endeavored to lay hold of and tear everything within my reach. This outrageous fit was succeeded by a calm, something similar to fainting, with this difference only, that my color was very florid. The servants, concluding me to be mad, durst not come near me, and therefore sent for my brother, who lived at a little distance. When he arrived and spoke to me, I awaked, as I thought, from a profound sleep, and had just sensibility enough to know him. My pulse beat 100 in a minute. Though I was recovered so much from the fit I have just now described as to know every one about me, what is strange is, I was entirely ignorant of my own actions, as well as of the place where I was.

At this time, feeling myself very warm, I got out of bed, threw myself down on the floor, and thinking myself refreshed by the cold of it, called for some cold water, and bathed my hands and face in it. This refreshed me a little, and in some degree quieted a tremor which had seized on every part of my body. I drank plentifully of warm water, and soon vomited; and though more than three hours had passed since I had taken the Camphor, the greatest part of it was evacuated, undissolved, along with the water.

In mentioned before that I had not only lost all remembrance of my past actions, but also the knowledge of every present object; but I now began slowly to recover both, though in a manner so amazing, that my business, connections, and everything of the same nature, which I had entirely for gotten, at their first occurrence startled my mind, as if they were things I had never before been acquainted with; and what is still more extraordinary, after I knew every one of my family, I did not recollect the use of any part of the furniture of my own room; and every object on which I cast my eyes appeared as strange and new to me as if I had only that moment begun my existence.

Whether it was owing to the vomiting or to the Camphor I know not, but I was now affected with a pretty severe headache, which disturbed me a good deal all the evening. Between 5 and 6 o'clock the giddiness of my head, singing in my ears, excessive heat and tremor, which had been so severe on me before, were now considerably abated, but far from being entirely gone. About 7 o'clock Dr. Monro returned to visit me, and found my pulse reduced from 100 strokes in a minute to 80. We now applied a thermometer to my stomach, and in half an hour the mercury arose two degrees above blood-warm; it was then changed from my stomach to the doctor's, and in half an hour the mercury fell more than one degree.

Between 8 and 9 o'clock, feeling myself still very much confused, I went to bed, and soon after fell into a very calm and easy sleep, which continued till next morning, with much less interruption than usual. When I awaked, I found my headache quite gone, though a little of the confusion in it still remained. Some time after this, upon going to stool, I was extremely costive, though I had not been so before; nor did I feel anything of it afterwards. All that day I had a very great soreness and rigidity over my whole body, as if I had been exposed to cold, or undergone some severe exercise; but this, with all the other symptoms, went off entirely in a few days. Hoffman mentioned a case where half a drachm given to a healthy man, neither augmented his natural heat, quickened his pulse, brought on thirst, or occasioned any uneasy sensation whatever; and another, where two scruples, almost as soon as swallowed, gave a remarkably severe headache, an extreme coldness, pale countenance, languid pulse, a cold sweat over the head, loss of memory, etc. Monsieur Duteau relates that one drachm was given to a girl in a very severe colic. After taking it, the pain soon became easier, but it brought on such an extreme cold over all her body, as resembled death, which could hardly be removed by the assistance of warm cloths wrapt round her, and the internal use of wine, 72.

Violent headache, sickness, and inability to work for two months, 82.
Violent pain in the head and through the temples, accompanied with an indescribable sensation of sinking and exhaustion, as though her breath were leaving her (immediately); flushed face, eye suffused with blood, pupils dilated, extremities cold, pulse full, soft, and about 40, breathing laborious, and a constant putting of the hand to the top of the head, and again to the stomach, as though suffering great pain in both of those organs, the brain and the stomach. In addition to these symptoms there was a total loss of speech for the time being; but notwithstanding the power of speech was lost, her hearing remained unimpaired, so that she understood every inquiry that was made, and nodded her head in confirmation or denial of all questions asked her (after four hours), 73.

CAMPHORA.