Truths and their reception, considered in relation to the doctrine of homoeopathy / [By M.B. Sampson] ; to which are added various essays on the principles and statistics of homoeopathic practice.

  • British Homoeopathic Association
Date:
1849
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    great tenesmus as before, and were of as bad a cha- racter. The symptom of loss of taste, or perverted taste, remained. Its tendency to diminish the peri- staltic movements was therefore disadvantageous in the true simple dysentery. In diarrhoeas, even such as are of a dysenteric character, it will be more ser- viceable, at least as a palliative remedy. During its employment, I witnessed twitching movements under the skin, as if caused by live animals, in the limbs, and especially in the abdominal muscles. St. Ignatius' bean {Ignatia amara) has been ob- served to produce trembling of several hours dura- tion, twitchings, cramps, irascibility, sardonic laugh- ter, giddiness, cold perspiration. In similar cases it will show its efficacy, as experience has partly de- monstrated. It produces febrile rigor, and (in its secondary action^) stiffness of the limbs, and thus it has cured, by similarity of action, intermittent fever, which would not yield to bark; probably it was that less simple form of intermittent in which the com- plication consisted of excessive sensitiveness and in- creased irritability (especially of the primse via?). But the other symptoms it can produce must be more accurately observed, before we can employ it in those cases for which it is exactly suited from similarity of symptoms. The purple foxglove {digitalis purpurea) causes the most excessive disgust at food; during its conti- nued use, therefore, ravenous hunger not unfrequently ensues. It causes a kind of mental derangement,