Æthusa Cynapium aeth.

BRAIN. Nerves. Digestion. Occiput. Neck. Glands. Liver.

MILK. Hot weather. Dentition. Frequent eating. Over-exertion.

Violent onset, profound exhaustion and lack of reaction, even speechless; as in cholera infantum, convulsions, etc. Can't stand or hold head up. Weak, nervous and prostrated; from over-work. Can't fix attention. Parts feel screwed together. Lancinating pains. Distress in occiput and nape. Violent convulsions.

Weepy; < as disease progresses. Dizzy and drowsy (Gel.). Squeezing headache, > passing flatus. Eyes turn down. Face sunken. Deathly aspect; blue white palor about lips. White linea nasalis. Tongue feels too long. Nibbling appetite. Regurgitates food long after eating (Kre.). Violent sudden vomiting of milk. DEATHLY NAUSEA. VOMITS LARGE, HARD CURDS, THEN LIMPNESS AND DEEP SLEEP. Retching. Digestion ceases from brain exhaustion. Stomach seems turned upside down. Bubbling at navel. Yellow-green, slimy diarrhœa. Watery menses. Lymphatics swelled, like a string of beads. Eruptions that itch from heat. Ecchymoses. Cool, clammy skin. Heat without thirst. Sweat (cold) with aversion to uncovering.

Complementary: Calc-c. Related: Ant-c. Cic.

Especially for children during dentition in hot summer weather; children who cannot bear milk. Great weakness; children cannot stand; unable to hold up the head (Abrot.); prostration with sleepiness. Idiocy in children; incapacity to think; confused. An expression of great anxiety and pain, with a drawn condition and well-marked linea nasalia. Features expressive of pain and anxiety. Herpetic eruption on end of the nose. Complete absence of thirst (Apis, Puls. - rev of Ars.). Intolerance of milk: cannot bear milk in any form; it is vomited in large curds as soon as taken; then weakness causes drowsiness (compare Mag. c.). Indigestion of teething children; violent, sudden vomiting of a frothy, milk-white substance; or yellow fluid, followed by curdled milk and cheesy matter. Regurgitation of food and hour or so after eating; copious greenish vomiting. Epileptic spasms, with clenched thumbs, red face, eyes turned downwards, pupils fixed and dilated; foam at the mouth, jaws locked; pulse small, hard, quick. Weakness and prostration with sleepiness; after vomiting, after stool, after spasm.

Similar: to Ant. c., Ars., Cal., Sanic.

After eating or drinking; after vomiting; after stool; after spasm.

This remedy is one of the most important in the Materia Medica, and is not so well known as it should be; it is largely characterized by intolerance of milk. (See Stomach.)

The mental symptoms peculiar to children, and frequently to adults, are great anguish and crying; restlessness, followed by pains in head and abdomen. As the disease progresses, the patient becomes more and more retired in his disposition, and more inclined to weep.

In the delirium of adults, it is fancied that cats and dogs are seen. There is a disposition to jump out of bed: if they are out of bed, will try to jump out of the window: or if they are in bed, will jump out and start for the window.

Patient will lie stretched out in an unconscious state; we often see children in this condition.

Feels bound up or as if in a vise. Distressing pain in occiput, down nape of neck and spine. Stupefaction; unable to remain in an upright position; vertigo when seated, which is increased by motion; vertigo with sleepiness. The head symptoms are relieved by expelling flatus.

Scrofulous ophthalmia; swelling of the meibomian glands; chronic inflammation of the edges of the lids--during the night the eyelids become so closely adhered to each other, that they must be washed open in the morning; pustules on the cornea; pupils dilated, but sensitive to light; objects seem much larger than they really are; chronic photophobia; staring, dilated pupils.

Yellowish discharge from the right ear; troublesome hissing in the ears. In the troubles of the ears, hissing, etc., there is great alleviation by inserting the finger, and drawing the parts asunder.

Herpetic eruption on the end of the nose. Often stopped up with a very thick mucus; frequent ineffectual desire to sneeze.

The symptoms are very important, and are more particularly applicable to children. On first glancing at a child, we see an expression of great anxiety and pain, with linea nasalis, which is a surface of pearly whiteness on the upper lip, bounded by a distinct line from the outer nasal orifices to the angles of the mouth. This symptom is more characteristic of Æthusa than of any other medicine. The face is puffed, and speckled with red spots.

The buccal cavity is usually very dry.

Aphthæ over the mouth; salivation; persons describe a sensation as if the tongue were too long, and pressing against the teeth; it seems long, they cannot use it well. Taste bitter.

Pustules in the throat; making the patient almost desperate; burning in throat; great difficulty in swallowing.

Regurgitation of food an hour or so after it has been taken. Violent vomiting of a frothy matter, white as milk, This we may find in men, children, or pregnant women. We may put down the following as a positive symptom occurring under this remedy: Very often in the summer a sick child cannot retain milk, either its mother's, or that of the cow. The child may take a good supply of it, but immediately it will all be vomited, and the little sufferer will fall over exhausted. It may take more milk shortly, when there will be the same result. The fault is not in the milk, but with the child, which this remedy will speedily correct.

A diarrhœa of curdled milk often accompanies the vomiting of milk, or an obstinate constipation with much worrying, fretting, etc. We sometimes find these symptoms of diarrhœa and vomiting in cholera infantum and summer complaints.

Copious vomiting in adults, with a great feeling of distress; can't tell what the distress is about, but still it exists. Vomiting and diarrhœa of greenish mucus, and of bloody mucus; vomiting with perspiration and great weakness, accompanied by anguish and distress. Cold perspiration; very violent pains in the stomach. Adults complain of a peculiar sensation, as though the stomach were turned upside down, accompanied by a burning feeling up to the chest.

Tearing pains in the stomach, extending into the œsophagus; colicky pains, with diarrhœa, also with constipation; bubbling sensation in the umbilical region, similar to the bubbling of boiling water, or water bubbling up in a spring.

Very cold sensation in whole of upper abdomen; internal and external coldness of abdomen, with aching pain in bowels and coldness of lower extremities. Colic followed by vomiting, vertigo, and weakness. Excessive griping pains in; tense, inflated and sensitive, especially in region of the liver.

Undigested or partly so; green, thin, bilious, with violent tenesmus before and after stool; bright yellow, or greenish watery, slimy stools, with crying and drawing up of the feet in infants. Constipation, most obstinate, with feeling as if all action of bowels had been lost. Cholera infantum; after much purging and vomiting the child becomes cold, clammy, stupid, loses consciousness and will often lie with staring eyes and dilated pupils.

Cutting pains in the bladder with frequent calls to urinate; urine is often red, sometimes white sediment.

Female: Lancinating pains in sexual organs; pimples on external parts, itching exceedingly when she gets warm; catamenia are very watery. Swelling of the mammary glands with heat and redness, with lancinating pains, which are the characteristic pains for this remedy.

Sufferings of the patient render him almost speechless; the disease has a tendency to entirely deprive him of speech. Respiration often becomes hoarse and hissing; very difficult, painful, and anxious respiration. Cough, with stunning pain in the head; the cough producing the pain. Sensation as if the chest were encircled by a band, which appears to cause an oppressed and difficult breathing. Swelling of the lymphatic glands around the neck, like a string of beads. Swelling of the axillary glands, particularly if accompanied by the lancinating thrusts. Violent palpitation of the heart.

Eruption around the joints, particularly the knee, elbow, ankle. All eruptions of Æthusa itch intolerably when exposed to the heat, or when they become warm. Tettery eruptions, which bleed easily; black and blue spots, sometimes like ecchymosis, all over the body, showing a very low state of the system. This remedy also cures anasarca.

Child can't sleep on account of frequent startings; it gets almost asleep when it awakens with a sudden start; the patient falls asleep for a short time, then awakens and keeps awake for a long time. Restlessness with excessive anguish.

Complete absence of thirst, though there is great heat, characteristic of Æthusa. Cannot bear to be uncovered during the sweat. Profuse cold perspiration.

Pulse rapid, hard, and small; sometimes irregular; often in a very low state of the system the pulse is imperceptible. Black tongue and bilious diarrhœa in typhus fevers.

Agitation and very painful distress; great general weakness, often coming suddenly, particularly in children; also considerable emaciation. Want of power to hold the head up; also to stand up. W e find this condition in children, where there is no particular sickness, but the child can't stand up; can't bear its weight on its limbs.

Epileptic form of convulsion when the thumbs are bent inward, face red, eyes turned down (which is peculiar, as in epilepsy they are usually turned up), pupils dilated and immovable, white, milky froth before the mouth, teeth set, pulse usually small, temperature of the skin natural. The convulsions are very violent; violence seeming to be characteristic.

This remedy is most frequently indicated in the summer. It often comes in very nicely where the child is much run down, and nothing seems to do any good--Arsen., Calc. carb., Silic.,--everything seems to fail; and then comes in Æthusa.

Unusual liability to excoriation of the thighs in walking. Great disposition to perspire on the slightest physical effort.

Æthusa is a great liver and stomach remedy, other symptoms agreeing. Trismus in a very violent form.

Whole body may be of bluish-black color, or black and blue spots may appear.

From 3 to 4 A.M.; also towards evening.

A drawn condition, beginning at the alae nasi, and extending to the angle of the mouth, giving the face an expression of great anxiety and pain. Intolerance of milk, in nursing children, it is forcibly ejected almost as soon as swallowed, then weakness causes drowsiness. Violent vomiting of curdled milk and cheesy matter. Spasms during dentition, with clenched thumbs, red face, eyes turned downwards, dilated, staring, immovable pupils, foam at the mouth, teeth set, pulse small, hard, accelerated. Great weakness, child cannot stand, or hold up its head.

Fool's Parsley

The characteristic symptoms relate mainly to the brain and nervous system, connected with gastro-intestinal disturbance. Anguish, crying, and expression of uneasiness and discontent, lead to this remedy most frequently in disease in children, during dentition, summer complaint, when, with the diarrhœa, there is marked inability to digest milk, and poor circulation. Symptoms set in with violence.

Restless, anxious, crying. Sees rats, cats, dogs, etc. Unconscious, delirious. Inability to think, to fix the attention. Brain fag. Idiocy may alternate with furor and irritability.

Feels bound up, or in a vise. Occipital pain extending down spine; better lying down and by pressure. Head symptoms relieved by expelling flatus (Sanguin) and by stool. Hair feels pulled. Vertigo with drowsiness, with palpitation; head hot after vertigo ceases.

Photophobia; swelling of Meibomian glands. Rolling of eyes on falling asleep. Eyes drawn downward; pupils dilated.

Feel obstructed. Sense of something hot from ears. Hissing sound.

Stopped up with much thick mucus. Herpetic eruption on tip of nose. Frequent ineffectual desire to sneeze.

Puffed, red-spotted, collapsed. Expression anxious, full of pain; linea nasalis marked.

Dry. Aphthæ. Tongue seems too long. Burning and pustules in throat, with difficult swallowing.

Intolerance of milk; vomiting as soon as swallowed or in large curds. Hungry after vomiting. Regurgitation of food about an hour after eating. Violent vomiting of a white frothy matter. Nausea at sight of food. Painful contraction of stomach. Vomiting, with sweat and great weakness, accompanied by anguish and distress, followed by sleepiness. Stomach feels turned upside down, with burning feeling up to the chest. Tearing pains in the stomach extending to œsophagus.

Cold, internal and external, with aching pain in bowels. Colic, followed by vomiting, vertigo, and weakness. Tense, inflated, and sensitive. Bubbling sensation around navel.

Undigested, thin, greenish, preceded by colic, with tenesmus, and followed by exhaustion and drowsiness. Cholera infantum; child cold, clammy, stupid, with staring eyes and dilated pupils. Obstinate constipation; feels as if all bowel action is lost. Choleraic affections in old age.

Cutting pain in bladder, with frequent urging. Pain in kidneys.

Lancinating pains in sexual organs. Pimples; itching when warm. Menses watery. Swelling of mammary glands, with lancinating pains.

Difficult, oppressed, anxious respiration; crampy constriction. Sufferings render patient speechless.

Violent palpitation, with vertigo, headache and restlessness. Pulse rapid, hard and small.

Want of power to stand up or hold head up. Back feels as if in a vise. Aching in small of back. Weakness of lower extremities. Fingers and thumbs clenched. Numbness of hands and feet. Violent spasms. Squinting of eyes downward.

Excoriation of thighs in walking. Easy perspiration. Surface of body cold and covered with clammy sweat. Lymphatic glands swollen. Itching eruption around joints. Skin of hands dry and shrunken. Ecchymosis. Anasarca.

Great heat; no thirst. Profuse, cold sweat. Must be covered during sweat.

Disturbed by violent startings; cold perspiration. Dozing after vomiting or stool. Child is so exhausted, it falls asleep at once.

Worse, 3 to 4 am, and evenings; warmth, summer. Better in open air and company.

Compare: Athamantha (confused head, vertigo better lying down, bitter taste and saliva. Hands and feet icy cold); Antimon; Calc; Ars; Cicuta. Complementary: Calc.

Third to thirtieth potency.

Is one of our best remedies for vomiting in children. The milk comes up as soon as swallowed, by a great effort, after which the child becomes greatly relaxed and drowsy; or if the milk stays down longer it finally comes up in very sour curds, so large that it would seem almost impossible the child could have ejected them. if this condition of the stomach is not cured the case will go on to cholera infantum, with green watery or slimy stool, colic and convulsions. The convulsions of this remedy are peculiar, in that the eyes turn downward instead of up or sidewise. If the case still progresses unfavourably there is an appearance of sunkenness in the face with linea nasalis, which is a surface of pearly whiteness on the upper lip, bounded by a distinct line from the outer nasal orifice to the angles of the mouth.

This last symptom is more characteristic of Æthusa than any other remedy. Æthusa has complete absence of thirst. The prostration and anxiety are very marked, but the absence of thirst rules for Æthusa instead of Arsenicum album. Vomiting of large curds (sour) is also found under Calcarea ostrearum, but with this remedy we have at the same time sour stools, and then sweaty head, and open fontanelles as well as Calcarea temperament would generally be found in the case.

There is another very peculiar symptom of Æthusa that has been cured twice to my knowledge by this remedy, viz.: Imagined she saw a rat or mouse run across the room. In both these cases the symptom occurred in hard worked, nervous women, but the symptom was very persistent and annoying. Æthusa not only cured the aberration but improved the general health. I always use it in the 200th potency.

Bad humor, irritability, especially in the afternoon, and in the open air. Anxiety. Delirium.

Giddiness, with sleepiness. Stitches and pulsations in the head. Heaviness in the forehead. Heat rises to the head ; the body becomes warmer ; the face becomes red and the giddiness ceases. Sensation, as if both sides of the head were in a vice.

Eyes brilliant and protruding. Pupils dilated and insensible.

Stitches in the ears, especially in the right ear, as if something hot were streaming from it.

Tearing in the face, in the malar bones.

Sensation of constriction, preventing deglutition. Stinging in the throat, between the acts of deglutition.

Taste sweetish, especially in the morning, when awaking.

Violent vomiting (in children) of curdled milk ; of green mucus. Violent vomiting, with diarrhœa-green mucus, or (in children) bloody substances.

Sensation of coldness in the abdomen. Black bluish swelling of the abdomen.

Loose stools, preceded by cutting in the abdomen, with tenesmus in the morass, after rising. Diarrhœa-discharges green, thin, bilious, with violent tenesmus. Bloody stools.

Sensation, as if the small of the back were in a vice.

Epileptic spasms, with clenched thumb, red face, eyes turned downwards, pupils fixed, dilated, foam at the mouth, jaws locked, small, hard and quick pulse. Spasms, with stupor and delirium.

Sleepiness all day ; sometimes better in the open air.

Coldness, stiffness and rigor of the limbs. Sensation of parts, as if they were in a vice (head, small of back).

Æthusa cynapium. Fool's Parsley. (Europe.) N. O. Umbelliferæ. Tincture of whole flowering plant.

Brain-fag. Cholera infantum. Convulsions . Cough. Delirium. Diarrhœa. Dyspepsia. Ear, discharge from. Epilepsy. Excoriation . Eyes, affections of. Glands, affections of. Headache . Herpes. Hiccough . Idiocy. Infantile paralysis. Mind, weakness of. Sleeplessness. Stomach, disorders of. Trismus. Vomiting .

The symptoms of Æthusa are particularly clearly defined, in fact violence is one of the notes of its action — violent vomiting, violent convulsions, violent pains, violent delirium. On the other hand there is prostration and somnolence. "Fool's parsley" has not received its name for nothing — it is indeed a medicine for "fools." There is great weakness of mind or body. One very characteristic symptom is: Inability to think or fix the attention . Guided by this symptom I once gave it to an undergraduate preparing for an examination, with complete success. He had been compelled to give up his studies, but was able to resume them, and passed a brilliant examination. To a little waif in an orphan home who suffered from severe headaches and inability to fix his attention on his lessons I sent single doses of Æthus . at rare intervals, with very great relief. The little boy asked for the medicine himself subsequently on a return of the old symptoms. Other mental symptoms are: Idiocy; in some cases alternating with furor. Hallucinations. Delirium; sees cats and dogs; wants to jump out of bed, or out of the window. Irritability, especially in open air. Guernsey says: "The mental symptoms peculiar to children, and frequently of adults, are, great anguish and crying. As the disease progresses the patient becomes more and more retired in his disposition, and more inclined to weep." Somnolence. Dotage. Another marked characteristic is: Intolerance of milk; vomiting of everything taken, especially milk, which is ejected in yellowish or greenish curds. There is great weakness and exhaustion after vomiting; the child is so exhausted it falls asleep at once . It awakens hungry, eats, and vomits again. "Hungry after vomiting" is the keynote here. There is also griping, with diarrhœa, vomiting, crying. For adults who complain of regurgitation of food an hour after it has been taken Æthus ., says Guernsey, is invaluable. Also copious vomiting in adults, with a great feeling of distress; can't tell what the distress is about but still it exists. Adults complain of a sensation as though the stomach was turned upside down, accompanied by a burning feeling up to the chest. Tearing pains in stomach extending into œsophagus; abdomen tense, inflated, sensitive. There is an herpetic eruption on tip of nose. Along with the gastric symptoms there is a peculiar expression of great anxiety and pain ( Linea nasalis ), a surface of pearly whiteness on upper lip bounded by distinct lines from wings of nose to angles of mouth. Other symptoms are: Sensation of swelling in head and face on entering a room. Sunken cornea. Eyeballs convulsed and directed downwards. Sleep after attacks. Sensation of swelling in hands after walking. Convulsions, with cold limbs. The pains are lancinating. Swelling of mammary or axillary glands, with lancinating pains. Prostration; stupid. All symptoms < 3 to 4 a.m. Heat = all eruptions to itch intolerably. As with Bovist . and Aster. r . symptoms are < by coffee, wine, drunkenness, cold water, and warmth of bed; > by a walk in the open air, and by conversation. > In open air (except mental symptoms). The remedy is suited to teething-children and choleraic affections in old age.

Compare: Cicut.; Coni.; Œnan. croc.; Ant. crud. and Calc. c. (vomiting of milk); Ars.; Asar.; Cupr.; Ipec.; Op. It antidotes Opium; and is antidoted by vegetable acids. Teste places Æthus. in the Sulphur group with Cicuta, Con., Aster., Bov., Lobel., Merc., Kreas.

Incapacity to think; confused. — Loss of comprehension; as if a barrier between the senses and external objects. — Idiocy, in some cases alternating with furor. — Great anxiety and restlessness, followed by violent pains in head and abdomen. — Bad humour; irritability. — Irritability, esp. in the afternoon, and in the open air. — Delirium: sees cats and dogs; tries to jump out of the window. — Loquacious gaiety.

Head confused; brain feels bound up. — Vertigo, with sleepiness, can't raise the head. — Headache in whole front part of head. — Heaviness in the forehead. — Sensation, as if both sides of the head were in a vice. — Distressing pains in the occiput, down nape of neck, and spine. — Heat rises to the head; the body becomes warmer; the face becomes red and the giddiness ceases. — Stitches and pulsations in the head. — Can't hold head up, or sit up. — Sensation as if constantly pulled by the hair. — The head symptoms are > by expelling flatus.

Looking up < headache and vertigo. — Dilated pupils. — Pupils dilated but sensitive to light. — Eyes brilliant and prominent. — Cornea sunken. — Pustules on cornea. — Scrofulous ophthalmia; edges of lids inflamed and agglutinated at night; swelling of Meibomian glands. — Chronic photophobia.

Stitches in the ears, esp. in the r. ear, as if something hot were streaming from it. — Yellow discharge from r. ear, with stitching pains. — There is great > by inserting the finger and drawing the parts asunder.

Herpetic eruption at tip.

A drawn condition beginning at the alæ nasi, and extending to the angles of the mouth, giving the face an expression of great anxiety and pain. — Tearing in the face, in the malar bones. — Jaws spasmodically fixed. — Face pale, puffed, and spotted red. — Chin and corners of mouth feel cold.

Sticking and tearing in gums. — Taste: bitter; like cheese; like onions sweetish in morning when awaking. — Tongue: moist; white coat; black feels too long. — Speech slow; embarrassed. — Aphtæ in mouth and throat. — Copious salivation which > poisoning symptoms.

Sensation of constriction, preventing deglutition. — Stinging in the throat, between the acts of deglutition. — Soft palate red, swollen. — Pungent heat in mouth and throat. — While eating, sudden heaviness in forehead. — Spasmodic hiccough.

Intolerance of milk; it is forcibly ejected almost as soon as swallowed; then weakness causes drowsiness; in nursing children. — Violent vomiting of curdled milk and cheesy matter. — Violent vomiting of a frothy matter, white as milk. This we may find in men, children, or pregnant women. — Violent vomiting of green mucus. — Violent vomiting, with diarrhœa, of green mucus, or (in children) bloody substances. — After vomiting, cold and clammy.

Coldness of the abdomen and lower limbs, esp. l., with aching in bowels; > by warm wet applications. — Sensation of coldness in the abdomen. — Swollen and tense abdomen. — Cutting, with distension. — Cutting, with violent vomiting. — Black-bluish swelling of the abdomen. — Colic, followed by vomiting, vertigo, and weakness.

Diarrhœa: stools bright yellow, or greenish, watery, and slimy, with violent tenesmus. — Undigested stool or partly so. — Loose stools, preceded by cutting in the abdomen, with tenesmus in the morning, after rising. — Diarrhœa: discharges green, thin, bilious, with violent tenesmus. — Bloody stools. — Most obstinate constipation, with feeling as if all action of the bowels had been lost.

Sufferings of patient render him almost speechless. — Respiration very difficult and short. — Sensation as if chest were encircled by a band, causing difficult breathing. — Stitches in l. side of chest. — Cough, producing stunning pain in head.

Violent palpitation of the heart, with headache. — Pulse full and rapid; hard, small, and rapid; small and frequent; irregular; imperceptible.

Distressing pain in occiput and nape of neck, extending down the spine, > by friction with hot whisky. — Swelling of glands round neck like a string of beads. — Sensation as if the small of the back were in a vice. — A feeling as if pain in back could be > by straightening out and bending stiffly backward.

Eruption round the joints, esp. knee, elbow, and ankle. — Axillary glands swollen. — Stiffness of elbow joints. — Swelling of forearms and hands. — Thumb and fingers bent inwards. — Excoriations of thighs from walking. — Paralytic pains in lower extremities; formication in feet.

Epileptiform spasms, with clenched thumbs; red face; eyes turned downward; dilated, staring, immovable pupils; foam at the mouth; teeth set; pulse small, hard, accelerated. — Spasms, with stupor and delirium. — Cold limbs and body convulsed. — Great weakness; children cannot stand; cannot hold up their heads.

Tettary eruptions, which bleed easily. — Black and blue spots, sometimes like ecchymoses all over body. — The whole body may be of bluish-black colour. — Anasarca.

Dozing of child after vomiting spells, or after the stool. — On falling asleep, rolling of the eyes, or slight convulsions. — Sleepiness all day; sometimes > in open air. — Sleep prevented by pains in limbs.

Complete absence of thirst, though there is great heat. — Cannot bear to be uncovered during the sweat. — Fever, esp. in morning, with shuddering; shuddering, weariness in extremities, internal coldness with hot and flushed face; malaise; disposition to delirium during cold stage; sweat, after the breaking out of which the previous symptoms disappear. — Sweat on least exertion.

Lies unconscious, dilated pupils, staring eyes (child).
Loss of comprehension ; a kind of stupefaction, as if there was a barrier between senses and external objects.
Unable to read after overexertion of mental faculties.
Incapacity to think ; confused.
Cannot retain any idea.
Idiocy, in some cases alternating with furor.
Idiotic children.
Hallucinations.
Imagined she saw rats run across room.
Delirium : imagines he sees cats and dogs ; jumps out of window ; even with the chill.
After a glass of wine, mind symptoms became predominant.
Cries of anguish (in a child).
Well-disposed, serene, in forenoon ; in afternoon, ill-humored, anxious and sad.
Great sadness when alone.
Anxiousness, sensation as if a heavy load was lying on chest.
Constant anxiety and weak feeling.
Great anxiety and restlessness ; soon afterwards, violent pains in head and abdomen.
Moroseness : with heavy feeling in forehead ; with heat in head.
Bad humor, irritability, especially in afternoon, and in open air.
Great agitation.
Anxiety and restlessness. θ Megrim.
After social talking, all symptoms disappear.

A kind of stupefaction, as if there was a barrier between his organs of sense and external objects.
Dizziness, with headache.
Head confused ; brain feels bound up.
Dizziness ; he cannot keep erect.
Vertigo : with sleepiness, can't raise head ; giddiness ceases and head gets hot ; with palpitation.
Vertigo and weakness.
Complete insensibility ; eyes staring, pupils dilated.
Stupor.

Heaviness in forehead ; ill humor.
Headache in whole forepart of head, as if strongly compressed, behind and above.
Sensation as if both sides of head were in a vise.
Pressing pain in forehead, as if it would split ; at its height vomiting and finally diarrhœa.
All day throbbing pain in left forehead, temple and side of head, > by pressure (felt as though she would like a band tightly fixed around head) and in open air, < by walking.
Stitches and pulsations in head.
Violent pain, as if brain was dashed to pieces.
Headache with vertigo, < walking and looking upward.
Violent headache, with thirst and nausea.
Headache ceases, with discharge of flatus downward.
Headache since five weeks, after checked menses.
Pains in head return periodically, are often accompanied by pale face, trembling in jaws and pains in precordial region.
Heat rises to head ; body becomes warmer ; face becomes red and giddiness ceases.

Distressing pain in occiput, nape and down spine, > by friction with hot whiskey.
Inability to hold head erect or to sit up.
Sensation as if she was constantly pulled by the hair.

Looking upward increases headache with vertigo.
Pupils dilated, but sensitive to touch.
Pupils dilated, staring eyes, stupid. θ Cholera infantum.
Chronic photophobia.
Objects seem much larger than natural.
Vision confused, sometimes objects appear double.
Great pain in eyes ; eyes inflamed and bloodshot.
Eyes brilliant and protruding.
Eyeballs turned downward. θ Convulsions of children.
Pustules on cornea.
Chronic inflammation of edges of eyelids.
Adhesion of eyelids in morning, requiring them to be softened by a fluid to prevent pulling out lashes.
Scrofulous ophthalmia ; swelling of Meibomian glands.

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Before Aethusa was known a certain class of cases of cholera infantum, and vomiting and diarrhea in children, all resulted fatally, because there was no remedy that looked like such serious cases.

Death is stamped on the face from the beginning, and if there are any remedies in the book that save life this is one of them.

It applies to the cases that come on very suddenly in hot weather in infancy, with extreme prostration.

The mother does not suspect the child is sick until she takes it from the crib; only a few hours before it was well; but when cholera infantum is prevalent in hot weather, this little one fills its stomach with milk and almost before it has had time to coagulate or form into curds the milk comes up partly in curds and partly liquid, and accompanying the vomiting there is a thin, yellow greenish, slimy stool.

The child has the appearance as if it were dying, pale Hippocratic face, there is a whitish-blue pallor around the lips, the eyes are sunken and there is a sunken condition around the nose. The mother is astonished and sends for the doctor hurriedly. The child sinks into an exhausted sleep.

It wakes up and again fills the stomach with milk which comes up again in a few minutes, partly in curd and partly liquid, and again there is the awful exhaustion, deathly appearance and prolonged sleep.

Without Aethusa, in two or three days the undertaker gets that child. That is pretty nearly the whole story of Aethusa.

It has delirium, it has excitement, it has mental disturbances of various kinds, but they are acute and accompany the brain troubles.

A certain class of infants come down sick in the hot weather, in the hot nights, and they get brain trouble, and from that time the stomach quits business, the bowels become relaxed, and everything put into the stomach either comes up or goes right through.

This occurs especially in those infants that have been fed as the ordinary everyday mother feeds her baby and how is that?

Every time it cries she puts it to the breast or feeds it. Well, now; let us think a bit. Every doctor ought to think a little, once in a while. Now meditate a trifle as to whether that is a wise or foolish thing to do.

It takes about two hours or two hours and a half for the ordinary baby's stomach to transact good wholesome business in digesting the milk taken, and it ought to have a rest of half an hour or so, and when we get up to three hours and the baby cries then it is probably hungry and will be glad to take some more and digest it.

Any shorter interval of feeding than that is bad practice, it would be just the same thing if the child should take half teacupful of milk and let it partly digest, and in a little while take little more, and then later add a little more.

It commences to spit up its food and it is sour, and the very first spell of hot weather that comes brings on head trouble. Only the toughest children will stand this bad method.

I have watched these children and seen them stand it until the summer. The doctor must put his foot down, and put it down violently, and make them see he means it.

The old woman comes in and says:

"That doctor does not know anything" and the baby must be fed.

Now Aethusa suits improperly fed babies. It is at the head of the list of medicines for that condition; that is, when digestion has absolutely ceased from brain trouble.

So far as busy doctors have discovered the call for this remedy, it has been mostly among babies, but adults sometimes take on an Aethusa state, when digestion has absolutely ceased from brain trouble and from excitement.

It has cured dyspepsia from constant feeding, in those nibblers, those hungry fellows who are always eating, always nibbling, always taking crackers in their pockets until there comes a time when the stomach ceases to act.

It also suits cases of indigestion from head troubles, with hot head, vomiting, exhaustion, sweat and long sleep.

Aethusa has convulsions in children.

Sometimes the brain trouble does not affect the stomach, but the child goes into convulsions, with clammy hands, deathly countenance, and the sweat, exhaustion and sleep.

"Convulsions, great weakness and prostration, with sleepiness. Dosing of the child after vomiting and after stool, with convulsions."

In the Aethusa patient there is much in the face and aspect to indicate a remedy; so much can be seen and comes within the observation, and so little questioning is necessary, that a sort of snap-shot prescribing can be done, but it is not to be recommended.

A busy physician, one who really and truly studies his Materia Medica, learned the principles, will in time do a great deal of what seems to be snap-shot prescribing, but he really does not do so, because he puts together many things that outsiders would not think of.

Aethusa then shows itself upon the surface, whereas in many remedies there is nothing seen upon the surface because they manifest themselves in any or deeper sensations.

Let me lay a case before you to illustrate this. For instance, take a robust looking fellow, who declares himself fairly well, out to lunch with you.

You have noticed for some time that his nose is all the time peeling off at once there is a star.

He never talks about his health.

Pretty soon, while lunching, the door slams and he jumps. That is the second point. Then he tells you how much he eats, how well it affects him, how good he feels after eating, and you have noticed yourself that he eats a good deal.

You have not said one word about his health to him. You have not asked him to tell you any symptoms. Finally you shove the pitcher of milk over to him, and he says:

"Oh, I can't drink milk; if I take milk it gives me diarrhoea; I never think of taking it."

Who could not prescribe for that fellow without taking him into the office?

Who would think of anything but Natrum carb. for such a case?

Sometimes you can find out the whole story by getting a stubborn patient to go and dine with you.

Especially for children during dentition in hot summer weather; children who cannot bear milk.

Great weakness: children cannot stand; unable to hold up the head (Abrot., Cal. p., Sil.); prostration with sleepiness.

Idiocy in children: incapacity to think; confused.

Features expressive of great anxiety and pain, with a drawn condition and well-marked linea nasalia.

Herpetic eruption on end of nose.

Complete absence of thirst (Apis, Puls., rev. of Ars.).

Intolerance of milk: cannot bear milk in any form; it is vomited in large curds as soon as taken; then weakness causes drowsiness (compare Mag. c.).

Indigestion of teething children; violent, sudden vomiting of a frothy, milk-white substance; or yellow fluid, followed by curdled milk and cheesy matter.

Regurgitation of food an hour or so after eating; copious greenish vomiting.

Epileptic spasms with clenched thumbs, red face, eyes turned downwards, pupils fixed and dilated; foam at the mouth, jaws locked; pulse small, hard, quick.

Weakness and prostration with sleepiness; after vomiting, after stool, after spasm.

After eating or drinking; after vomiting; after stool; after spasm.

Violent, without thirst, through whole body with gen- eral and external coldness.

Coldness of abdomen, objective and subjective (Tab.); with red face; with horripilation; with rigors and stiffness of limbs; with delirium; chin and corners of mouth feel cold.

General; skin hot and dry; with complete absence of thirst.

From least exertion; profuse, cold; on going to sleep

(China); cannot bear to be uncovered during (Acon., Nux); relieves malaise and delirium.

The fever usually occurs in nursing children, dur- ing dentition, in the morning; with marked lassitude, prostration and delirium. The complete absence of thirst, the intolerance of milk and other gastric phenomena make its selection easy.

Lies unconscious, dilated pupils, staring eyes (child).
Incapacity of mind to think, confused; idiocy.
Great sadness when alone; hallucinations and delirium.
Anxiety and restlessness, afterwards headache and colic.
Irritability, especially in the afternoon and in the open air.

Vertigo: with sleepiness, can't lift the head up; giddiness ceases and head gets hot; with palpitation.

Violent pain, as if brain were dashed to pieces.
Pressing pain in the forehead, as if it would split, at its height vomiting and finally diarrhœa.
Headache ceases, with discharge of flatus downwards.
Stitches and pulsations in the head.
Distressing pain in the occiput, nape and down the spine, better from bending stiffly backwards.
Sensation as if both sides of the head were in a vice.

Objects seem much larger than natural.
Eyes brilliant, protruding; dilated pupils.
Chronic photophobia; scrofulous ophthalmia; swelling of the meibomian glands; edges of the lids inflamed, adhere at night, must be washed open in the morning.

Yellow discharge from right ear, with stitching pains.

Nose stopped up with thick mucus; frequent but ineffectual desire to sneeze.

Expression of anxiety, with well-marked linea nasalis.
Face: puffed, spotted red; pale.

Chin and corners of the mouth feel cold.

Stinging or tearing in the gums.

Aphthæ in mouth and throat salivation.
Feeling as if the tongue were too long.
Taste: bitter; like cheese; like onions; sweetish in the morning.
Speech impeded, slow.

Soft palate, red and swollen.

Burning thirst.
Desire for wine, or aggravation from its use.

While eating: sudden heaviness in forehead.
After eating: pain below navel, lienteric stool, dry cough.

Violent sudden vomiting: of frothy white substance; of yellow fluid, followed by curdled milk and cheesy matter. Cannot bear milk in any form.
Vomiting of greenish phlegm, similar to the stools.
The milk is forcibly ejected soon after being taken; then weakness causes drowsiness. θ Nursing children.
Regurgitation of food an hour or so after eating.

Painful contractions of the stomach so severe as to prevent vomiting.
Tearing, rending pains in pit of stomach, extending to the œsophagus.

Lancinating in the right hypochondrium, in the afternoon.
Painful pressing, burning, stitching, left hypochondrium.
Shooting in left hypochondrium, often and long-continued.
Soreness and painfulness in both hypochondria.

Coldness of abdomen and lower limbs, with aching of bowels, relieved by warm, wet applications.
Bluish-black swelling of the abdomen.
Colic, followed by vomiting, vertigo and weakness.

Diarrhœa: stools bright, yellowish, then green and slimy, later greenish-grey; green, thin, bilious or bloody mucus, stools undigested; greenish mucus, with bile, much pain and tenesmus.

Right testicle drawn up, with pain in kidneys.

Labor-pains too weak, not regular.

Short breath, interrupted by hiccough.

Stitches in left side of chest.

Palpitation, with vertigo and headache.
Pulse: frequent, small, somewhat hard and unrhythmical.

Sensation as if the small of the back were in a vice.
Painful furuncle in the sacral region.

Numbness of the arms, aching about the scapulæ, extending to the arms.
Sensation as if the arms had become much shorter.

Boring and shooting in lower limbs, with great weariness.
Lancinating and drawing from left hip into the thigh.
Laming ache in the middle of right thigh while sitting; better when moving.
Lancinating from right heel into the sole.
Crawling in the feet.

Moving: 33. Walking: 33. Bending backward: 3. Cannot stand: 36. Lying: 21.

Epileptiform spasms, with clenched thumbs, red face, eyes turned downwards, dilated, staring, immovable pupils, foam at the mouth, teeth set, pulse small, hard, accelerated.
Spasms, with stupor or delirium.
Restlessness, with excessive anguish.
Great weakness; children cannot stand; cannot hold up head.

Dozing of child after vomiting spells or after stool.
On falling asleep, rolling of eyes or slight convulsions.

Morning: 5. Afternoon: 1, 28. Night: 5.

Headache better walking in the open air.
Frequently indicated in summer.
Heat: 46. Moist warmth: 19. Room: 43. Open air: 1. Washing: 43.

Coldness, rigors, stiffness of the limbs.

Right: 6, 18, 22, 33. Left: 18, 28, 33.

Sensation as if head, face and hands were swollen; worse after washing; better coming in room.
Sensation as of a band around the head and chest.
Sensation of parts as if in vice; head; chest; small of back.

Ecchymosis, black and blue spots all over.

Eruption, itching when exposed to heat.
Liability to excoriation of the thighs when walking.
Red spots on the skin.
Little water blisters, itching in bed.
Tetters bleed easily.
Reddish-blue spots on trunk and left leg.

Children, during dentition.

Collaterals: Cicut., Conium, Œnanth., Croc.
Concordances: Ant. crud. (vomiting of milk); Arsen.; Asar.; Calc. ostr. (vomiting of milk); Cuprum; Ipec.; Opium.
It antidotes Opium, and is antidoted by vegetable acids.

Æthusa cynapium, L. Natural order of plants, Umbelliferæ. A tincture is prepared from the whole plant when in flower.

This plant, formerly supposed to be poisonous, is now proved to be harmless; large quantities can be taken with impurity; it seems, however, to possess a disagreeable essential oil which provokes nausea and vomiting and causes other symptoms. ▶ It is particularly useful in gastro-intestinal disorders of children (vomiting, diarrhœa, and even convulsions).

Sulph., Sul. ac. , Tart. emet., Kali-b., Ox-ac., Ip., Grat., Gam.

Hands, head and face seem swollen after walking in open air, amel. in the house. ▶ Clothes seem loose. ▶ Secretions diminished. ▶ Stabbing pain. ▶ Seething in blood in morning on waking. ▶ Uneasiness. ▶ Weakness, with sleepiness in afternoon. ▶ Amelioration in open air; after entering house; after broth.

A case of infantile paralysis, with the characteristic indications for Æthusa, is reported cured.

It is reported to have cured a discharge from the right ear associated with spasms, stupor and vomiting of milk.

For vomiting of milk (in young children), especially of curdled milk, this remedy is unrivalled associated with this condition or consequent upon the gastric derangement there may be diarrhœa of a thin yellow or greenish character (Gratiola, gamboge). ▶ Some very obstinate cases of gastrointestinal catarrh have been cured by Æthusa, and it has even arrested convulsions and paralytic symptoms, which doubtless had their origin in indigestion. ▶ The vomiting or evacuation by the bowels of curds of milk is quite a characteristic indication.

Anxiety. ▶ Dullness like intoxication. ▶ Earnestness. ▶ Excited, lively in forenoon, apprehensive, sad in afternoon. ▶ Fixed idea of a garment which she had made the previous day, and of which she dreamed. ▶ Fretfulness; in afternoon; in open air, amel. in house; amel. towards noon. ▶ Does not talk willingly.

Aching; seeming to come from teeth; pulsating on entering house. ▶ Brain seems bound up. ▶ Constriction. ▶ Drawing upward in. ▶ Dullness. ▶ Pulsation, especially right side and backward, with heaviness; pulsation and sticking in afternoon. ▶ Raging here and there on entering house. ▶ Painful screwing together from both sides. ▶ Shattered feeling in afternoon. ▶ Vertigo; in open air; during and after rising from a seat; amel. open air; sudden while sitting, amel. rising.

Aching; crampy, with disposition to contract eyebrows; intermittent, in lines vertically over each eye; pulsating left. ▶ In forepart of head, pain as if compressed posteriorly and superiorly. ▶ Constriction from points vertically over each eye, amel. pressure; constriction and yet pressure outward; constriction of brows. ▶ Heaviness which seems to press head downward, when sitting; heaviness which presses down eyelids, during dinner. ▶ Pressure in sinuses. ▶ Pulsation. ▶ Shooting up over eyes. ▶ Sticking, in afternoon on turning head to right. ▶ Jerking tearing in left sinus while sitting. ▶ Tension as from a band fastened at each zygoma. ▶ Sensation as if something were turning around in it.

Aching as if a bloodvessel had been torn out of left. ▶ Pulsation, left. ▶ Sticking shooting in left. ▶ Sticking, left ; and pulsation, amel. pressure. ▶ Sudden tearing in right, in afternoon. ▶ Aching in left mastoid process.

Aching. ▶ Painful sticking and beating, in afternoon amel. rubbing.

Sticking in left half of head; inward in upper part of left bone; sticking and pulsating in upper part of right bone. ▶ Tearing and pulsation in right; sticking tearing in left. ▶ Twitching in right, in afternoon.

Aching in right; occasional. ▶ Heaviness. ▶ Sticking and pulsation in upper part of right; tearing stitches extending forward from, in afternoon. ▶ Tearing in right side, shooting through whole head and extending to right side, in afternoon.

Burning as from smoke, in house. ▶ Watery.

Sticking shooting in left. ▶ Sticking in left ; into stitches in right hypochondrium, in afternoon; in left, with sensation of heat coming out of it, alternating with stitches in left costal region. ▶ Stopped sensation, with hardness in left costal region. ▶ Stopped sensation, with hardness of hearing which lasted longer in left ear. ▶ Stuffiness in right. ▶ Tearing, amel. rubbing; sticking, in afternoon, in right; about left, extending to top of head. ▶ Twitching.

Much thick mucus. ▶ Ulcerative pain, as if there were an open spot in left fossa. ▶ Pressure in upper passages. ▶ Sneezing; inclination to, in left nostril. ▶ Stitches externally, left side. ▶ Stoppage; sudden, morning, after waking.

Sensation of fulness and heat. ▶ Hollow-cheeked. ▶ Stitch like the tapping of a finger in middle of left cheek, with tearing. ▶ Malar bones; crampy aching, agg. left ; sticking and tearing, in right; tearing in left in cold air. ▶ Lips dry. ▶ Tearing in lower lip extending into neighboring teeth, in afternoon. ▶ Tearing in right lower jaw.

Teeth; grumbling in a right lower back tooth; a right lower decayed molar, sensitive, agg. touch; tickling in left upper teeth. ▶ Gums, stitches here and there; sticking and tearing, now right, now left. ▶ Tongue dry. ▶ Mouth, burning; dryness; salivation. ▶ Taste insipid; metallic; slimy, with dryness; sweetish; sweetish morning after waking; tastelessness to food.

Burning. ▶ Dryness. ▶ Hawking, frequent; inclination for hawking and for spitting. ▶ Stitches when not swallowing. ▶ Desire to swallow, as if to keep something down; sensation as if she could not swallow, with spasmodic contraction in right side of throat and ear, in afternoon while sitting. ▶ Œsophagus, burning; warmth and uneasiness.

Indisposed to ear, with fair appetite. ▶ Thirst. ▶ Eructations, tasting of broth; eructations burning œsophagus and throat; empty in afternoon; of food; rancid; hot, sour waterbrash. ▶ Nausea; at sight of food; in mouth and pharynx; extending down œsophagus to stomach, with rumbling and gurgling in stomach and upper abdomen and fluttering in stomach. ▶ Hiccough in afternoon. ▶ Retching and throwing up phlegm. ▶ Burning. ▶ Feeling as before diarrhœa, and in bowels. ▶ Griping. ▶ Heaviness. ▶ Feeling of indigestion; and in upper abdomen. ▶ Feeling as after a spree. ▶ Sticking in side neat stomach, extending deeply inward on sitting bent, amel. becoming erect. ▶ Feeling as if something turned about, then heat rising into chest. ▶ Uneasiness, as before gastric catarrh; uneasiness and warmth.

Coldness, in region of transverse colon; in upper. ▶ Cramps in small intestines quickly shifting from place to place. ▶ Cutting above umbilicus; cutting in lower, with urging to stool. ▶ Griping in umbilicus, then two soft stools. ▶ Gurgling and rumbling in upper, and in stomach, with nausea and fluttering in stomach. ▶ Sensation of a load in upper. ▶ Sensation in upper, as after a dose of medicine. ▶ Movements, then a stool, which is first hard then soft; painful movements below navel, with desire for stool, after morning broth. ▶ Pain as before diarrhœa; pain in upper, and in stomach, as from something indigestible. ▶ Pressure in left hypochondrium and burning, with stitches. ▶ Rush as of boiling water in umbilical region. ▶ Stitch in right hypochondrium, then in right ear, in afternoon; in left hypochondrium; in left hypochondrium, with burning, amel. rubbing; burning stitches at one time in right hypochondrium, at another in left loin; sticking in hypochondriac region, extending backward, in afternoon. ▶ Warmth in upper.

Clawing, with straining, during hard stool. ▶ Tenesmus after soft stool. ▶ Urging to stool, with cutting in abdomen; urging after morning broth, with painful movements below navel. ▶ Stool hard; first part hard, then soft; loose, yellow and sour; two soft.

Diminished. ▶ Increased; pale, of sweet odour. ▶ Sexual desire diminished; strong, on waking.

Dry, in paroxysms, after dinner. ▶ Frequent short, hacking.

Burning, as from a glowing iron, in a spot below left breast. ▶ Crampy constriction right. ▶ Digging and tension in front of right axilla. ▶ Stitch in region of right ribs, in afternoon; beneath left mamma in afternoon, agg. inspiration; in middle of chest, 6.30 P.M., during inspiration on rising after sitting bent, agg. deep breathing; acute in middle of sternum, then burning in same spot, amel. pressure, but returning; in left costal region, alternating with sticking in and sensation of heat coming out of left ear; deep internally beneath left female breast, in afternoon. ▶ Tension in front of right axilla, evening when knitting.

Crampy constriction, with a feeling as if he could not take a long breath. ▶ Pulse rapid; slow and soft.

▶ ▶ Neck. ▶ Drawing pain as if a tendon or bloodvessel would be torn out, in right side, amel. rubbing. ▶ Stitch inward in left muscles. ▶ Tearing in a spot on right side; in tendons of right side; pulsating in spot on tendons of left side. ▶ Sticking twitching in nape. ▶ Back. ▶ Aching in small of; heavy aching across kidneys, morning on waking. ▶ Drawing in right lumbar region while walking, amel. sitting. ▶ Pain between scapulæ, morning on waking. ▶ Screwed-together feeling in small of. ▶ Stitch between scapulæ; in right lumbar region, then pressure; burning at one time in left loin, then in right hypochondriac region.

Shoulder, paralyzed feeling in left, then in right forearm; painful tension in left then right forearm, paralytic pain in left while sitting; sticking in tendons of right while using hand; sticking tearing in middle of left, along upper surface, to wrist; tearing in middle of left, along upper surface, to wrist; tearing in spot on inner surface of left ; tension in tendons of left while knitting, amel. moving fingers; sudden weakness while knitting; darkness near right wrist extending to little finger. ▶ Stitch in left external styloid process. ▶ Hand; tearing on back of right, in tendons of thumb; tearing in metacarpal bone of index, left and right. ▶ Thumb, sticking in ball of left, on flexing, amel. extending thumb; stiff feeling left twitching tearing as in marrow, between first and become joints of left ; twitching of left. ▶ Fingers, fine sticking on left side of tip of right index, amel. pressure; tearing in lower surface of third joint of right little; tearing between little and ring, agg. stretching them.

Weakness. ▶ Hip, pinching externally, in right; sticking and drawing into left thigh; tension in right in afternoon. ▶ Thigh, paralytic pain in middle of right while sitting, amel. motion; sticking in upper part of left. ▶ Sticking in right knee in evening when standing. ▶ Tearing deep in right instep in afternoon. ▶ Tearing sticking in right heel, extending into sole as far as ball of foot. ▶ Sticking in right sole below heel.

Dry, white, leathery, pinched look. ▶ Face red. ▶ Skin of hands dry and shrunken, especially palmar surface. ▶ Painful boil on sacral region.

▶ Sleepiness; in afternoon; amel. open air.

Chilliness, internal and external; internal and external, with sleepiness, in forenoon; coldness in, around and behind right ear, seeming to be in bone; of feet and limbs, nearly to knees. ▶ Shivering on entering house. ▶ Heat general; glowing feeling over whole body; morning on waking; heat of head; and burning in face; rushing to heat; in forehead, with pressure; in face; with full sensation; burning on right side of nose, then as with a glowing needle externally in pit of stomach; heat extending up back in afternoon; burning externally in small of back, amel. rubbing; general peripheral warmth. ▶ Sweat; on forehead.

(Supposed by some to be a virulent poison like Cicuta, Conium and other allied plants, by others to be innocent of such properties), has vindicated its usefulness in indigestion, especially of children, characterized by vomiting curdled milk, and in diarrhœa, thin, yellow, or green and slimy, preceded by cramps, and often followed by tenesmus.
Some desperate cases of gastro-intestinal catarrh have been cured.

Aeth. / Ethel.

Aethusa, thou of bilious ilk,
Of such intolerance of milk,
That babies vomit it in curds,
Becoming drowsy afterwards --
Hath spasms, clenching thumbs and teeth,
And lips drawn tight to mouth beneath
And pain in occiput and nape,
And slimy stools of bilious type.
With undeveloped mind the while,
Betokening the imbecile.

Ethel is an imbecile.

Ethel Bar and her negro mate, Bella Plat, are with the twin nuns at Bacil.

This Ethel, who is subject to vomiting milk in curds, is on the settle with Sam, the valet.

Imbecility: Aeth., Bar., Hell., Mer., Thuj., Bell., Plat., Hyo., Stram., Nux m., Bacil. (From onanism, Plat.)

Vomiting of milk curds: Aeth., Sul., Tart. e., Sam., Val.

Indicated in gastro-intestinal diseases of children, with great nervous involvement, violence of all the symptoms and intolerance of milk.

Violence of all the symptoms.

Great heat, without thirst.

Profuse sweating; desires to be covered while sweating.

Linea nasalis; face expresses great anguish.

Remarkable intolerance of milk. As soon as swallowed, it is thrown up in heavy curds.

Diarrhoea, thin, yellow, greenish; stools contain masses of curdled milk. Stools preceded by colic; followed by exhaustion and drowsiness.

Vomiting with sweating and great anguish.

Drowsiness after vomiting or stool.

Worse in the middle of the afternoon; in the evening; during hot weather.

Better in the open air; when fussed with.