Nerium oleander, L.

Natural order , Apocynaceæ.

Common names , Rose-laurel; (G.), Larbeer-rose; (Fr.), Le laurier rose.

Preparation , Tincture of the leaves.

Authorities. (Nos.

1 to 8 , from Hahnemann, R. A. M. L., 1, 326).

1 , Hahnemann; 2 , Franz; 3 , Gross; 4 , Gutmann; 5 , Hartmann; 6 , Langhammer; 7 , Morgagni, de sedib. et caus. morb., Ep. LIX, § 12 (from expressed juice, in a woman of sixty, -Hughes); 8 , Petrus de Abano, de Venenis. (cap. 33, statement, -Hughes); 9 , Buchner's Repertorium, second ser., vol. 15, three women drank a small glass of the tincture, thinking it brandy; 10 , Kurzak, Zeit. der K. K. Gesellschaft d. Ærzte. zu Wien (Vjs. fur Hom., 11, p. 154, case quoted from Gaultier's Toxicology, 1855), effects in some soldiers, who ate a broth that had been stirred while cooking, with an Oleander stem; 11 , ibid., another case from Gaultier, a person took 15 centigrams of powdered leaves, three times a day, afterwards 1 gram and 10 centigrams at one dose; 12 , ibid., a third case from Gaultier, a woman took 4 drops four times a day (till she took 40 drops) of a solution of 30 grms. of the extract in 120 grms. of wine; 13 , a man took repeated doses of same solution, beginning with 3 drops, and increasing by 1 drop to 60 drops; 14 , effects of swallowing some flowers, in a child, Lindley's Veg. Kingdom; 15 , Kurzak (l. c.), effects of eating two handfuls of flowers, in a weakly child; 16 , Krug, Schmidt's Jahrb., 76, 184, a woman drank a tea made of the leaves; 17 , Broughton, Br. and F. Med.-Chir. Rev., 25, p. 387 (1860), from Trans. Med. and Phys. Soc. of Bombay, 1859, a man, aged thirty-five, swallowed a cup of "Kunaree," which contained more than an ounce of the expressed juice of Oleander.

MIND

He seemed remarkably lively, and jumped about like a kitten, the whole afternoon, quite contrary to habit, 15.
Screaming, 10.
Anxiety, 13.
Became restless (after ten minutes), 15.
Loss of confidence in himself, and on that account a sad mood, 4.
He immediately became overheated; he became passionate, though he immediately repented of it, 3.
He cannot tolerate contradiction, 3.
Peevish, fretful, out of humor with everything, 2.*
Ill-humored, reserved, 4.* [10.]
Dulness of sense, ill-humor, disinclination to do anything, 4.
Disposed neither to work nor to undertake any other agreeable occupation, 4.
Weak, indolent, disinclined for every work, 4.
Disinclination to work, 5.
Mind dull; he cannot think well, 4.
While studying he had constantly other thoughts; he found himself dreaming of the future, and busying himself with beautiful images concerning it (after four hours), 5.
*On reading a book he comprehends its ideas least if while making great efforts to understand them he thinks that he will not succeed; his thoughts then become confused, and he becomes quite unable to continue reading; he comprehends everything more easily if he does not think at all that he wishes to understand it; he is then not occupied with any other thoughts besides those of the book itself, 3.
*It was very difficult to read a learned book; he was frequently obliged to read a sentence three or four times before he understood it, because he could not, with the greatest exertion, mentally grasp what he had read because his mind was disturbed by other ideas of his own, that always took his attention away from what he was reading, 3.
*While reading a long sentence, it was often difficult to grasp connection, 3.
His memory is weak; he is unable to recall the names of those with whom he is well acquainted (after two hours and a half), 4. [20.]
He recollected nothing from the moment he swallowed the draught, and could form no opinion of the time which elapsed since the suicidal attempt and his recovery (third morning), .

HEAD

Vertigo.
Vertigo, 9, 10.
Vertigo, not amounting to reeling and falling (on walking in the open air); he stood firmly, but objects, trees, and people seemed to run together and swim, as in a confused dance, and it became dark before the eyes, with flashes of lightning (as if blinded by snow), (after four hours and a half), 6. [30.]
Whirling vertigo in the forehead, and tottering of the lower extremities, as from weakness of them (after one hour and a half), 5.
On rising from a recumbent posture, he could scarcely walk across the room on account of violent vertigo in the whole head (after ten hours), 5.
He is not free from vertigo, even while walking in the open air, 5.
During dinner, which he swallowed with haste, as in ravenous hunger, the head became so dizzy that it seemed as though his vision and hearing would vanish, especially as if it would become black before the right eye, 3.
If, on standing erect, he looked towards the ground it became dizzy before the eyes, and it seemed as though he saw everything double; but if he looked straight ahead on standing or stooping he noticed nothing of it (after seven hours), 5.
Whirling, reeling, 4.
General Head.
He cannot hold up his head on account of a feeling of great heaviness in it; he is obliged to cease reading and lie down; while lying down he experiences no headache, and is well, but if he rises he feels again the heaviness and dulness of the head, nausea, and other disagreeable sensations (after nine hours), 4.
Dulness of the whole head (after half an hour), 4.
Heaviness of the head (after twenty-four hours), 4.
Pressure in the upper cranial bones, as if they were sore (after thirty-six hours), 4. [40.]
Pressive pain in the brain (after six, and fourteen hours), 1.
Pain in the head, as if pressed forward by a hundred weight (after ten hours), 4.
A pain beneath the ear, over the mastoid process, as if a dull nail were being forced into the head, with stupefaction, 3.
Sensation as if the head were tight, more stupefying than painful, 3.

EYE

Eyes sank into their sockets, 17.
Eyes distorted, 10.
Eyes fixed, 9.
Eyes staring, lustreless, 16.
Aching of the eyes as if he had too greatly exerted them in reading, 3. [80.]
Pressure in the left eye, from above downward, and in the left malar bone, 2.
Pressure as from a hard substance in the eyes, 4.
Sore pain in the right eyebrow, towards the temple, when touched (after fourteen hours), 4.
Biting in the left eye, 2.
Orbit and Lids.
Dull pressure on the upper margin of the orbit, intermittent, at one time more, at another less severe, 3.
The eyelids are involuntarily drawn together, as if sleepy (after eight hours and a half), 4.
Burning in the left lid and itching about the lids, 2.
Burning in the right upper lid (after ten hours and a half), 1.
Burning tension in both right lids, even on motion (after eight hours), 4.
Tension in the left eyelids on reading (after six hours and a half), 4. [90.]
Tensive pain in one canthus, as if the eye were turned excessively upward; it was difficult to turn the eye the opposite way, in the evening (after five days), 2.
Fine sticking and itching of the left upper lid, 2.
Lachrymation and Ball.
Lachrymation on reading, 3.
Itching of the right eyeball (after thirty hours), 4.
Pupils and Vision.
Greatly dilated pupils, 10.
Pupils somewhat dilated, though reacting to the light, 16.
Pupils dilated, 9.
Pupils dilated (second day), 15.
Dilated pupils (after one hour), 6.
Contracted pupils (after twenty-five hours), 6. [100.]
It becomes black before the eyes on looking sideways without turning the head, .

EAR

Cramplike drawing on the outer ear , and below it, as if it were drawn outward, at first gradually increasing, and then diminishing, 3.
Sharp pressive pain within the ear, 2.
Burning in the entrance of the left ear, 4.
Shrill stupefying ringing in the left ear, 3.
Singing in the left ear, 1.
Incessant whizzing in the left ear, 2.

NOSE

Sneezes twice violently, 3. [110.]
Biting itching on the root of the nose, towards the left eye, as if there were smoke in the room, 2.
Numb sensation, like a painless pressure, on the back of the nose, 3.

FACE

Face and eyes flushed, soon; face pale, towards evening, 17.
Face very much distorted, after rising, in the morning; he looks very pale; the eyes are surrounded by blue rings, and the cheeks are sunken, 5.
Pale face, 9.
Pale color of the face, all day (after forty hours), 6.
Spasmodic twitching of the facial muscles, particularly about the mouth, 16.
Pressive pain in the bones of the right side of the face, persistent even on moving the lower jaw (after three-quarters of an hour), 4.
A stupefying dull pressure between the root of the nose and left orbit, 3.
Redness of the cheeks, without heat, 2. [120.]
Violent pressure on the right cheek, near the angle of the lower jaw, 3.
A dull, numb, painless pressure on the left zygoma, close to the ear, 3.
Pressure upon the malar bone, more stupefying than painful, that extends deeply inward into the head and root of the nose; a tensive, stupefying, troublesome sensation, 3.
A benumbing compression in both malar bones, as if they were pinched with pincers, 3.
Sensation as if a cold wind were blowing upon the left cheek; when touched with the hand the sensation disappears, and it feels hot to the hand and warmer than the other cheek, 3.
Lips and Jaw.
Lips, especially the lower, brown; the color of the face in other respects unchanged, scarcely paler than usual, 7.
Burning pain in the right side of the lower lip, persistent during and after motion (after seventy-nine hours), 4.
A painless sensation as if the upper lip were swollen (a kind of numb sensation), 3.
Dull pressive pain in the right upper jaw, below the malar bone (after forty-eight hours), 4.

MOUTH

Teeth.
Sharp drawing toothache in the second left molar, 2. [130.]
Constant toothache, during the night, tearing drawing in the first left molar, and at times in the next hollow tooth; this toothache immediately ceased on rising from bed, and immediately reappeared as soon as he returned to bed, with anxiety as if he were to die, with frequent micturition, qualmishness, and heat of the left cheek (first night), 2.
A cutting-pressive toothache while chewing, disappearing immediately after chewing; the tooth, however, was not painful to touch or pressure (after two hours), 2.
A simple drawing in the right lower molars, 3.
Sensitiveness of the back teeth on chewing, as if they were all hollow, 2.
Tongue and Taste.
Tongue coated white, with a sensation of dryness in the mouth and parched lips (after thirty-one hours), 6.
The papillæ of the tongue were all elevated, that caused the tongue to have a rough look and a dirty-white color, 3.
Fine stitches in the tongue, 4.
Burning stitches in the left side of the tongue (after two hours and a half), 4.
Insipid taste in the mouth when not eating, as from a disordered stomach, 1.
In the evening all food has a flat and nauseous taste, 3. [140.]
Bitter taste, 16.
Speech.
Loss of speech for two days, 17.
Power of speech almost entirely lost, with natural respiration; when questioned she endeavored to answer, and was able to utter sounds, but no intelligible words, 7 . [With small and feeble pulse, death following in four hours. -Hughes.]
General Mouth.
Sudden swelling about the left corner of the mouth, 1.
Convulsive twitching outwardly of the left corner of the mouth, 3.
Foaming at the mouth, 17.
Burning sticking over the left corner of the mouth, 2.
In the mouth a sensation as if all the teeth were loose, with a bluish-white gum over the whole upper and lower jaw (after thirty hours), .

THROAT

A remarkably numb sensation ascending from the throat externally to the head, 3.
Sensation as if a cool wind were blowing upon the left side of the throat, 3. [150.]
Sharp pressive pain in the left side of the throat, near Adam's apple, 2.
Irritation of the pharynx, 9.
Pain as if a dull point were pressing upon the œsophagus, on the right side of the throat; the cervical muscles are also painful to external pressure, 3.

STOMACH

Appetite and Thirst.
*Ravenous hunger, with trembling of the hands while eating and great weakness over the whole body , after walking rapidly for half an hour, 4.
The longing for the food before him causes his hands to tremble, 4.
Great hunger, with much appetite (after six hours), 4.*
Great hunger, after the qualmishness, 3.*
He relishes his dinner, but is obliged to stop eating soon, because he becomes nauseated and qualmish, 3.
He is without appetite, though not without hunger; he eats very little, and more with discomfort than with satisfaction, 2.
Loss of appetite; he relished his food, but was speedily satiated (after five hours and a half), 6. [160.]
No appetite, and yet a ravenous hunger; he greedily swallowed large amounts, 4.
Loss of appetite, 13.
No appetite; everything nauseates him, as if afterwards he would vomit or have diarrhœa, 3.
She relished nothing, took nothing, 7.
No appetite for food or smoking, 5.
Aversion to cheese, which he usually relished, 4.
Thirst; he drinks more than usual, 2.
Thirst for cold drinks, especially for cold water (after thirty hours), 6.
Eructations.
Violent frequent empty eructations, while eating, at noon, 3.
Frequent violent empty eructations, 3. [170.]
During eructations, something rises from the stomach into the mouth, 3.
Frequent eructations of a bad odor (after four days), 1.
Nausea and Vomiting.
Nausea, as if in the mouth, and frequently, with every attack of retching, water rises from the mouth, as in waterbrash, for two hours, wherewith the cervical muscles are spasmodically and painfully contracted, as if it would strangle him; at the same time the abdomen and abdominal muscles are similarly affected; at first, with much retching, he raises only some mucus from the fauces, afterwards some liquid tasting of the food, and afterwards of a sour taste, for two hours (after six hours), .

ABDOMEN

Umbilicus and Sides.
Rumbling and gurgling in the umbilical region, with a sensation of emptiness in the abdomen, soon followed by emission of some flatus (after half an hour), 5.
Painful sensitiveness about the umbilicus, with a feeling of discomfort in the whole lower abdomen and an uneasiness about the umbilicus, that a times became a pressure, at times a gnawing, 3.
Pain, like needle stitches, below the umbilicus (after fifty-eight hours), 4. [200.]
A gnawing internally below the navel, 3.
Gnawing pain in the left side, just above the navel, 3.
A long-drawn sticklike pain, as if winding out of the abdomen, near the right side of the navel, 3.
Dull stitches or blows in the left side, below the navel, 3.
Itching fine stitches in left side of the abdomen, just beneath the short ribs, 3.
A kind of jerking pressive pain in the side of the abdomen, above the left hip-bone, 3.
General Abdomen.
Rumbling in the upper and lower abdomen, 3.
Rumbling in the abdomen, 3.*
Emission of much very offensive flatus, having the odor of bad eggs (after twenty-six, and thirty hours), 4.*
Profuse emission of flatus, 3. [210.]
Colic, followed by thin stools (after two hours), 9.
Violent colic (followed by death), 14.
Great emptiness in the upper abdomen, 3.
Intermitting griping in the abdomen at times, with indications of diarrhœa, 3.
Griping in the bowels (after twenty-four, and seventy-five hours), 4.
He feels as if the bowels were weakened by laxity, and as though he would have diarrhœa, 3.
Pinching sticking in the abdomen, while walking (after sixty hours), 4.
Transient jerking thrusts, that made him start, above the root of the penis, very low down in the lower abdomen, 3.
Dull stitches in the ileum posteriorly, that hurts on pressure, .

RECTUM, ANUS AND STOOL

Burning in the anus when not at stool; it also precedes and follows the stool, 2. [220.]
Ineffectual urging to stool, 1.
Ineffectual pressure and urging to stool, 2.
Diarrhœa, 1.
Involuntary evacuations of the bowels, 17.
Soft stool (after forty-eight hours), 4.
Stool very thin and yellow, preceded by rumbling and gurgling in the abdomen (after thirty-nine hours), 5.
Bloody stools (after four hours), 9.
Stool scanty, thin, watery (after six hours and a quarter), 6.
The first portion of the stool is like diarrhœa, the last harder, so that he is obliged to strain, 3.
No stool (first days), 3. [230.]
Stool hard and difficult (after thirty-one hours), 4.
*The food eaten the preceding evening passed rather undigested , and almost without effort; he thought he had emitted only flatus (after forty-eight hours), 5.
Stool only after twenty-four hours, the first part of which was hard and crumbly, the rest thin, 3.

URINARY AND RESPIRATORY ORGANS

Frequent discharge of much urine (after twenty-four hours), 4.
Involuntary emission of urine, 17.
Frequent urging to urinate with scanty discharge (after twenty-seven hours), 6.
A kind of burning in the pharynx, extending to the stomach (after nine hours), 4.
Fine stitches in the thyroid cartilage, 4.
Tickling in the larynx, that on inspiration causes a short cough, shaking the whole body, 5.
Tenacious mucus in the trachea; he was obliged to hawk very much, on rising in the morning, 3. [240.]
Stertorous breathing, 17.

CHEST

External soreness of the right chest, as if pressed hard, 3.
Oppression of the chest, in the pit of the stomach, while lying down, and a quarter of an hour after lying down vomiting of mucus, water, and small bits of bread previously eaten; the oppression of the chest was relieved on rising up (after seven hours and a half), 5.
While lying down the chest seems too tight; he is obliged to take long and deep breaths (after six hours), 5.
Sensation as though something heavy were lying upon the chest that compresses it, causing deep anxious inspiration, while walking, standing and lying (after ten hours), 3.
Violent palpitation, with sensation as if the chest had become larger; he then breathes with great heaving of the chest, without anxiety, 3.
Stitches in the diaphragm, while lying down, during in and expression, that ceases on rising up (after thirty-one hours), 4.
Dull stitches in the chest, while walking, aggravated by expiration (after eight hours), 4.
Great emptiness in the chest, as if it were eviscerated, 3.
Front and Sides.
A dull continuous stitch in the sternum (after twenty-four hours), 4. [250.]
Tensive stitches in the sternum, more violent on stooping (after twelve hours), 4.
Tensive stitch in the middle of the chest (after thirty-one hours), 4.
Crawling stitches in the sternum, 1.
Dull pressure on the upper part of the sternum, 3.
Dull pain in the sternum (after ten hours), 4.
Some intermitting dull thrusts in the ribs of the left side, 3.
Intermitting gnawing on one of the ribs of the left side, opposite the pit of the stomach, 3.
Jerking in the right pectoral muscles (after fifteen hours), 4.
A beating, like dull thrusts, on the chest, below the right shoulder, 3.
A burrowing aching in the costal cartilages of the right side, with intermitting pressure upon a small spot, aggravated by pressing upon it, 3. [260.]
Dull stitch in the left chest, persisting during inspiration and expiration (after twenty-nine hours), .

HEART AND PULSE

Dull drawing pain about the heart, more violent on stooping and lasting during expiration (after fifty-five hours), 4.
Distress at the heart and anxiety, 8 . [Original revised by Hughes.]
Anxiety about the heart, without anxious thought, with trembling of the whole body, lasting several hours (after seven hours), 6. [270.]
Several attacks of palpitation, 1.
Pulse full and rapid, in the evening, 3.
Quick pulse; later it sank to a thread, 17.
Pulse slower than usual, in the morning, after rising, 3.
Pulse small, irregular, periodically intermitting, 9.
Pulse weak, very slow, 16.
Intermission of the pulse every four or five beats; afterwards every ten to twelve beats, then thirteen, etc. (second day), 13.
Pulse very irregular, at one time rapid, at another slower; at one time full, at another soft, small, and weak, 3.

NECK AND BACK

Perceptible, violent and full, though slow, pulsation of the carotids, 3.
A pressure, seeming to press from below upward, in the anterior cervical muscles, so that he was obliged to loosen the neckband; a suffocating choking sensation, 2. [280.]
A dull tearing pain in the left side of the neck and in the left scapula, alternating with tearing in the temple and second left molar, towards evening and in the night, 2.
A burning stitch in the back, below the left scapula, while sitting, that disappears on moving about (after seventy-eight hours), 4.
Tensive stitches in the spine, when walking and standing (after twenty-nine hours), 4.
Sudden fine stitch in the right half of the back, deep internally, so that he almost started up in fright, 3.
Pain in the right side of the back, as if the hand were forcibly pressed against it, or as from a sprain, 3.

EXTREMITIES

Excessive stiffness of the extremities, especially of the fingers of the left hand; rising up in bed was difficult on account of stiffness of the back, 16.
Stretching of the limbs, associated with a general feeling of comfort (after four hours and a half), 5.
Some convulsions of the limbs, 10.
Pain in the joints, 10.
Pinching pressure in several parts of the body, and of the limbs, fingers, and toes, as if the bones were crushed, 3. [290.]
Cramplike pain (a cramplike drawing) in several parts of the limbs, as, for example, balls of the thumb, soles of the feet, etc., 3.

SUPERIOR EXTREMITIES

Stretching of the upper part of the body and of the arms (after nine hours and a half), 4.
Twitching of the muscles of the left arm (after thirty-six hours), 4.
Shoulder and Arm.
If he raises the arm high, or puts it under the head, when in bed, there is pain in the shoulder-joint, as if dislocated, 3.
Dull pressure on the top of the right shoulder, 3.
A persistent stitch in the left axilla, relieved by rubbing (after twenty-seven hours), 4.
A pinching pain, externally, in the upper part of the left upper arm, 3.
Cramplike drawing in the humerus, by the elbow, in rhythmical jerks, 2.
Itching, somewhat persistent, stitch in the left upper arm (after thirty-one hours), 4.
Sensation of jerking in the right upper arm, 2.
Forearm and Hand. [300.]
Dull pressure in the forearm, as if caused by a hard blow, 3.
Dull pressure in the forearm, just below the elbow, 3.
Drawing in the right forearm, above the wrist, 3.
Pulsating pain on the inner side of the right forearm, but the wrist, 3.
Dull stitches, or thrusts, in the left forearm, near the wrist, 3.
Intermitting pressure, in a small spot, on the outer side of the left forearm, 3.
Burning stitch in the left forearm (after twenty-eight hours), 4.
Trembling of the wrists, 9.
Veins of the hands swollen, without heat, 2.
Trembling of the hands, while writing (before eating), 4. [310.]
Cramp in the left hand (second day), 16.
Intermitting dull pressure in the palm of the hand, 3.
Fingers.
Sudden swelling of the ring finger, with burning pain; he could not bend it, 1.
Tensive burning on the tip of the left thumb (after two hours), 4.
Pain in the last phalanx of the thumb, and as if he had received a hard blow upon it, so that the thumb trembled, .

INFERIOR EXTREMITIES

Weakness of the thighs and legs, and a sensation in the forepart of the feet, mostly in the soles, as if they were asleep, while walking (after twelve hours), 4.
Whizzing, extending down through the lower extremities, 3.
Surging sensation in the legs, while sitting, as after a journey on foot, 3.
Thigh, Knee, and Leg.
Bubbling sensation in the right thigh, 4.
(Burning tension in the right thigh), 4.
A constrictive pain in the gluteal muscles of one thigh, when walking, as if sprained, 1.
A pain in the forepart of the thigh, while walking rapidly, as if some one pressed upon a bruised spot, 1.
Dull sticking pressure on the right thigh, 3.
Benumbing pressure on the outer side of the left thigh, as if the part were tightly bound up, and the circulation thereby arrested, 3. [330.]
Intermitting pressure on the upper part of the right thigh, aggravated by pressing upon it, 3.
A simple pressure on the thigh just above the knee, 3.
Pain, like needle-stitches, in the muscles on the inner side of the left thigh (after one hour and a quarter), 4.
Drawing stitches in the right thigh; unnoticed on standing or ascending steps (after thirty-seven hours), 4.
A stitch on the right thigh, just above the knee, with burning and fine sticking pain, 2.
A painless jerk on the under surface of the left thigh, as if a muscle were moving, 3.
Itching stitch in the posterior muscles of the thigh, with burning after scratching, 3.
Cramplike drawing in the right knee, that was bent, 3.
Pulsating pain in the hollow of the knee, while the leg was drawn up, 2.
Wavelike drawing in the bones of the leg, 3. [340.]
Tearing in the left calf, while walking (after thirty-four hours), 4.
Painless cramp in the right calf, while sitting, 4.
Twitching sensation in the right calf, 2.
Painful pressure just above the right ankle, at long intervals, while standing, .

GENERALITIES

Violent spasmodic contractions of the muscles of the entire body, but more remarkably so in the superior than inferior extremities; during the intervals of spasms the patient lay evenly upon his back, but when action commenced, the superior contraction of the left side threw him over on the right, in which position he remained during the paroxysm, after the subsidence of which he fell back into the natural position of exhaustion; the spasms were apparently produced by any attempts to move or rouse him; towards evening they decreased, 17.
The arms are drawn up against the chest, the lower extremities to the abdomen, and the chin down towards the chest (after four hours), 9. [360.]
Sudden shuddering as in most violent chill, or as from a violent fright, 3.
I found the girl outstretched, stiff, very pale, the extremities cool, 16.
She lay as in a slumber, though conscious and able to move, 7.
Swelling, 1.
(The symptoms are more severe on the second day than on the first), 3.
Weakness of the whole body; he was unable to walk alone, and was obliged to be carried home and put to bed, where he lay and slumbered all evening, and even then slept well through the night, 6.
Weakness of the body, 4.
Weakness (third day), 17.
Weakness, worse on rising up, 16.
Great muscular weakness, 13. [370.]
Weakness and weariness of all the limbs; could scarcely walk across the room because the knees were so weak, 5.
General sick feeling and weakness of the limbs, 13.
A bad feeling, and weakness in the abdomen and chest; he did not feel at all well, 3.
Faintness, 8, 11, 16.
Exhaustion, as if every breath would be his last, 3.
Great general prostration (after four hours), 9.
Very much prostrated and exhausted; general giving way, 3.
A forcible pressing inward, in several parts of the body, gradually increasing or diminishing, 3.

SKIN

Red swelling below the eye, looking as if an eruption would break out, 1.
Pustules on the right and left sides of the chin (after forty-eight, and seventy-eight hours), 6. [380.]
Itching vesicles on the nates, 4.
Great sensitiveness of the skin of the whole body; it becomes sore, raw, and painful from slight rubbing of the clothes, as for example on the neck, from the neckband, on the thighs from the rubbing of the clothes when walking, 3.
General itching, 1.
Itching, here and there, over the body, so that he was obliged to scratch, 3.*
*Biting itching over the whole body, as from an eruption, on undressing compelling him to scratch (after forty hours), 6.
Burning itching on the forehead, left cheek, and tip of the chin, whereupon small pimples appear, with hard elevated margins, that are painless when touched and when not, 2.
An itching biting on the right cheek, 3.
Itching about the nose, all the afternoon, 4.
Fine sticking itching on the root of the nose and left malar bone near the eye, 2.
Itching on the right scapula, 4. [390.]
Itching on the tip of the right elbow (after thirty-four hours), 4.
Sensation of itching above the bend of the elbow, 2.
Fine sticking and itching on the first phalanx of the middle finger, 2.
Itching on the right thumb, so that he was obliged to scratch, whereupon at first it disappeared, but soon changed to a gnawing, 3.
Itching on the outer and anterior portion of the right thigh, disappearing for a time after scratching, 3.
Itching, that compels scratching, upon the nates, 3.
Fine sticking and itching on the left heel, 2.

SLEEP

Frequent yawning, always with shivering, running over the whole body, causing all the muscles at first to shake and then to tremble (immediately), 5.
Marked sleepiness, 12.
Inclined to sleep (after four hours), 9. [400.]
He went to sleep about the usual time and seemed to sleep quietly; but when his father spoke to him he made no answer; he was lying with the eyes open, face and body pale, pupils very small, the head another portions of the body cold and insensible; pulse and respiration small and irregular, and he could not be aroused; after emetics the child vomited, but whenever aroused soon sank back into deep sleep, 13.
No rest and no sleep at night, 2.
Sleeplessness, 1.
Voluptuous dreams, with emissions (second and third nights), 4, 6.
Uneasy dreams, 4.

FEVER

Chilliness.
Shaking chill all over, with cold hands and warm cheeks, without thirst, during rest and motion (after three hours and a half), 6.
Febrile shivering over the body, without thirst and without subsequent heat, during rest and motion (after one hour and a half), 6.
Shivering while yawning, 3.
General coldness, with cold sweat, 9.
Feeling of coldness, as of a cold breath upon the right side of the lower abdomen, 3. [410.]
Sensation of coldness in the right side of the abdomen, 3.
Sudden sensation of coldness on the left chest, 3.
Extremities rapidly became cold, 17.
Cold extremities (after four hours), 9.
Heat and Sweat.
Hot skin, 17.
Sensation of heat, and at the same time chilliness in the whole body, without thirst; wherewith he was warmer to the touch than usual (after seven hours), 6.
Heat forces itself out of the body while reading, 4.
Head hot and perspiring, 17.
Heat commencing at one time on the top of the right, at another on the top of the left concha, and extending over the side of the head, and thence over the whole face, 2.
Sensation of heat, and heat of the cheeks without redness, with dryness of the palate and throat, 2. [420.]
A sensation of heat in the side of the thigh, followed by a sensation of coldness low down, 3.
Flushing of heat all over, especially if he was doing anything eagerly (even while sitting); also if he walked rapidly he became very warm, and the head caused a prickling in the face, as from many needles, 3.
Cold sweat, 11.

CONDITIONS

Aggravation.
( Morning ), After rising, face pale, blue rings about eyes, cheeks sunken; on rising, tenacious mucus in trachea, requiring hawking.
( Afternoon ), Lively; itching about nose.
( Towards evening ), Face pale; pain in left side of neck and in left scapula; tearing in temple and left molar tooth.
( Evening ), Pain in canthus; pulse full and rapid; flat and nauseous taste to food.
( Night ), Biting itching on scalp; in bed, toothache; tearing in temple and left molar tooth; pain in left side of neck and in left scapula; sleeplessness.
( While chewing ), Pressive pain in temple; toothache; sensitiveness of back teeth.
( During dinner ), Dizziness; hearing and vision vanish.
( While eating ), Ravenous hunger, with trembling of hands; empty eructations.
( Exercise ), Flushes of heat over body.
( Expiration ), Pressure beneath left short ribs; stitches in chest.
( Looking towards ground ), On standing, double vision.
( Looking sideways ), Black before eyes.
( Lying in bed ), After sleeping, qualmishness.
( Lying down ), Oppression of chest; tightness in chest; stitches in diaphragm.
( During and after motion ), Pain in lower lip.
( Moving ), After rising, slow pulse.
( After qualmishness ), Great hunger.
( External pressure ), Pressure beneath left short ribs; aching in right costal cartilage; pressure in thigh.
( Raising arm ), Pain in shoulder-joint.
( While reading ), Mind distracted; tension in left eyelids; lachrymation.
( During rest ), Itching sticking in soles of feet.

SUPPLEMENT: OLEANDER. Authority.

18 , Dr. T. Murray, Indian Med. Gaz., 1877 (Lond. Med. Rec., Feb., 1878, p. 87) R. D., aged thirty-five years, took a strong infusion of 4 ounces of the root for the cure of a Guinea-worm in his left leg, and died on the fifth day.

Insensibility, 18.
Eyes turned up, 18.
Stiffness of the muscles of the jaws, 18.
Bitter taste in his mouth, 18.
Vomiting, 18.
Severe cramps in the abdomen, 18.
Weak, thready pulse; afterwards barely perceptible pulse, 18. [430.]
Severe cramps in the extremities, 18.
Fingers rigid, and the thumbs turned into the palms, 18.
Convulsive spasms, with cold and clammy skin, and the pulse was barely perceptible, 18.
Cold, clammy skin, 18.

OLEANDER.