Livro A Treatise on Diseases of the Eyes; Including Diseases of the Eyelids, Inflammations of the Conjunctiva, Sclerotica, and Cornea, Also, Catarrhal, ... Ruckerts Clinical Experience in Homoeopathy

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Excerpt: ... helleb0rus-N1ger--hyosciamus-niger. 35 doses, it causes vomiting, followed by delirium, succeeded by violent convulsions; while Dierbach informs us that it has been used successfully in epilepsy, which passes over into mania, a form of disease regarded as incurable from the time of Hippocrates.--Peters.

case 40.--After typhoid fever, there remained a kind of melancholy in a girl, aet. 20. Symptoms.--She does not speak a word, is dull and indifferent to external impressions. Sits still upon her bed, apparently sunken in gloomy thought; face pale and distorted; look dull and unsteady; pupils dilated; pulse slow and weak; she eats proffered food, but never desires any; sleep scanty and restless; constant desire to run away, but without wildness of manner; without speaking a word she silently clambers up to the window and attempts to escape through it; whenever she did escape she always made her way towards the river; finally she threw herself into a privy, but was rescued from it.

Helleb. cured her quickly. Knorre, General Horn. Jour., Vol. 19, ). 24. case 41.--A maiden, aet. 19, fell after typhoid fever into a dull state, which had lasted five weeks.

Symptoms.--She stares around her fixedly, even when spoken to, with a strange, or stupid, or wild look, and at times grasps at her head; she staggers while walking and hangs down her head; this thoughtless dullness or reverie, with staring at one point, alternates at times with incoherent muttering--constipation.

Treatment.--Ext. Helleb., two grains per day cured her in a few weeks. General Horn. Journal, Vol. 19, p. 25.--Knorre. Review.--The above cases fully substantiate the correctness of the views expressed in the general remarks.

17. hyosciamus-niger. General Remarks.--Hyosciamus is apt ..