II. 1. Dr. WAUTH of Liege, who has great belief in the efficacy of J. as a stimulant of the mammary functions, mentions a case which has recently occurred in his practice, showing that inconvenience may occasionally arise form the administration of this drug. He prescribed 10 dr. of the fluid extract every 4 hours for a patient whose milk had ceased for a fortnight, with satisfactory results, the secretion being re – established. After a time, however, the patient began to suffer from extreme nervous excitement, accompanied by a fixed idea that she should murder all her family with a hatchet. On the J. being stopped, these alarming symptoms disappeared, and with them the activity of the mammary glands. (Lancet, Dec. 24th, 1887.
JATROPHA [Jatropa].
Introduction
Jatropha curcas, L. Physic – nut. Nat. Ord., Euphorbiaceae.
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1. a. LEMBKE took Dec. 21, 6:30 a. m., 1 dr. lx dil. Immediately continued rumbling in all parts of belly, which is distended. Pain deep in umbilical region. Chilly feeling deep in lumbar vertebrae, and at 6:45 a. m. call to stool, a couple of hours earlier than usual. 7:45 a. m., great chilliness through all limb, extending to scalp, violent tearing pain deep in umbilical region aggravated by pressure. Skin of extremities cold, nails bluish, chill over back, urgent call to stool; tension in inguinal region; whilst walking, twice like a blow in muscles of sacral region. 8 a. m., loose stool preceded and followed by rumbling, sometimes a noise as though a bottle were emptied. 11 a. m., pain in umbilical region; copious and frequent discharge of urine. 22nd. – Stool delayed. 23rd – 7 a. m., 5 dr. tinct. Pressure and contractive pain in various parts of extremities, especially wrist, toes, and calves; shooting in calves; nausea; severe drawing pain in stomach; dull pain rising rom stomach to oesophagus; great coldness deep in spine and weariness of upper arm; stiffness in nape. Deep in chest behind sternum severe shooting pains from above downwards. 8 a. m., rumbling and empty eructation; stitches in anus; dryness in fauces; discharge of flatus. When sitting bruised feeling in knees; pain in umbilical region; frequent urination. Normal stool at 9 a. m., constant irritation in fossa navicularis penis, like a tickling with frequent urination; clear mucus exudes slowly navicularis penis, like a tickling, with frequent urination; clear mucus exudes slowly from urethra when walking and sitting. 24th. – Stool harder than usual. 25th. – 9 a. m., 10 dr. scrapy taste. 9:30 a. m. persistent pain in stomach; chilliness over back extending to upper arms even in warm room. Hands cold, blue nails. 9:45 distended and soft, stomach pains aggravated by pressure, 12:30 p. m., stitches in rectum, formication under skin of sacrum. 26th. – 7:45 a. m. 20 dr. immediately heat in stomach. Transient pains in both hypochondria and various parts of extremities. Heart’s beats suddenly perceptible to hand and in the chest. Roaring in ears; rumbling in belly and jerking pains deep in abdomen, which is distended and soft. Contractive pains in left masseter muscle; much rumbling in belly. 8:15 a. m., bruised pain in knees. Jerking pains in region of stomach; drawing pains in various parts of extremities under skin; pressive pains in calves and right masseter muscle. Frequent shivering in lumbar region; transient pains in lumbar muscles, chest, and shoulder joints; frequent call to urinate. Persistent dryness of fauces. The stool at 9 a. m. unusually hard. Repeated quivering in left eyelids. 11 a. m. frequent rumbling in belly. All day and next n. urine scanty, dark brown, clear.1 b. Jan. 1st, 8 a. m. gr. lx trit. of seeds. Taste oily, slightly soapy. Warmth in stomach, some rumbling, discharge of flatus. 7:15 a. m., slightly soapy. Warmth in stomach, great coldness in back extending to upper arms; persistent obtuse pressure in stomach extending upwards into oesophagus; transient pressure in dorsal muscles and left upper arm.. 8 a. m., empty eructation; quivering of left eyelid; bruised pain in shoulder – joints; frequent flow of thin saliva; on outside of right calf – persistent pressing drawing pain. In left calf and dorsum of left foot feeling of stiffness and pressing; bruised pain in muscles of arms; occasional pressure in stomach. 9 a. m., persistent cutting pain in stomach and whole abdomen increased by pressure, abdomen soft, much rumbling; abdomen then very distended, these, tympanitic 9:30 soft stool; the abdominal pain lasts 1/2 hours, then goes off, much flatus discharged; great chilliness with cold hands and blue nails. 12, noon, much rumbling in belly and sometimes pressure in stomach. – 2nd, 7 a. m., 8 gr. Chilliness in spine; warmth in stomach. 8:15 a. m., pain in stomach going by jerks into navel and oesophagus. Shooting and pressure in left sole and calf. Pressure deep in chest behind sternum. Rumbling and flatus shooting and jerking in sole whilst sitting. A jerking pain in left hypochondrium and to lumbar muscles. 7.0 a. m., stiffness in left calf; bruised and stiff feeling in shoulders; abdomen tympanitic; urging to urinate; eructations of air. 8 a. m. prickling in dorsum of left hand, pressure in upper arms and right calf when sitting; a soft stool, followed by persistent pain in umbilical region abdomen tympanitic spasm in stomach on bending forwards. Occasional coldness through back. 8:30 a. m., abdomen has become soft and sunken without discharge of flatus Frequent micturition, urine bright yellow, urinary tenesmus after having urinated. Abdominal pain till 11 a. m., and stitches in rectum. E., much borborygmus as if bottles were being emptied. The stool which occurred at 10 a. m., was thin, and the borborygmus continued after it has passed. – 3rd. Abdomen soft and sunken. – 4th, 6:45 a. m., 26 gr. 7 a. m., pressing in forehead, heaviness of head, pressure and drawing in left big toe and foot dorsum, internal twitching in right toes. Painful weary feeling in lower limbs, especially knees. Internal pressing in flexor muscles of left forearm 7:30 a. m., pulse 70 (75 is normal.) Bruised feeling worse when sitting after walking about room. Pulsation in left calf, stiffness of both calves. When walking, stiff and unsteady in limbs. Borborygmus, like fluid running to and fro in belly; flow of salvia; hot feeling from stomach to vertebrae. Abdomen distended, nausea and flow of saliva 8 a. m., head confused, vertigo as if he turned round. When walking, pain in calves and drawing in legs internally; heat over back. Inward itching in fingers. Persistent urging in fingers. Persistent urging to urinate. Obtuse pressure in stomach; pulse 66. Painful stiffness in lumbar, nuchal, and frontal muscles. Pressing in shoulder – joint. Unsteady gait, body inclined to go to l. Pain in muscles, worst when sitting. Noise in bowels like fluid running to and fro. After the slightest exertion painful feeling of exhaustion in the muscles, even when writing and standing; pulse 7 -. Urine bright yellow, frothy. 8:30 a. m., urging continues after urinating Persistent dull pain deep in umbilical region. Pressing in left masticating muscles. Abdomen tympanitic. Painful pressure in right pectoral muscles and stomach. Repeated chilliness in back. 9:30. am., normal stool, pain in abdomen continue. Urging to urinate. 9:30 a. m., internal twitching and pressing in toes and left calf towards internal ankle and on inner aspect of tibia. 10 a. m. painful pressing in lumbar, dorsal, and pectoral muscles. Pain in belly and cal to stool, with anxious feeling in scrob. Cordis. heels very sensitive when trading. For 1 hour chilliness and cold feeling through abdomen; palms moist and cold.
1 c. Jan. 6th., 6.5 a. m., took the whole outer shell of a seed weighing 6 gr. 6:30 a. m., stitches in left big toe and rectum. Shooting in throat when swallowing. Heat in sinciput, and boring in ears. Pressing an stiffness in left calf. Pulse 75, irregular. Pressive pain on dorsum of right foot, posterior aspect of left upper arm, and flexor surface of left forearm. Urging to urinate. 7 a. m., pressure in occiput, nausea, heat in head and face, confusion shivering over back. Respiration laboured. Borborygmus.; pupils contracted; heat in stomach. Sudden violent stitch from ensiform cartilage over left costal cartilages, affecting breath. Urging to stool 7:30 a. m., noise of a fluid in bowels, abdomen soft. Pressive pain in shoulder and dorsal muscles in knees and calves, with feeling of exhaustion. Head confused, heavy. Persistent chill over back. Constant call to stool and noise of fluid in abdomen. Persistent stitches deep in left ear. Constant urging to urinae. 8:45 a. m., eructation of air. When coughing and blowing nose, feeling of stretching and protrusion in left inguinal ring, making him bend thigh up towards abdomen. Urine bright yellow. 9 a. m., constant bruised pain in calves, back, and pectoral muscles. Noise of fluid in abdomen. Stool followed by rumbling 5 p. m., soft stool preceded by mucus borborygmus and copious urine.
Hughes was a great writer and a scholar. He actively cooperated with Dr. T.F. Allen to compile his 'Encyclopedia' and rendered immeasurable aid to Dr. Dudgeon in translating Hahnemann's 'Materia Medica Pura' into English. In 1889 he was appointed an Editor of the 'British Homoeopathic Journal' and continued in that capacity until his demise. In 1876, Dr. Hughes was appointed as the Permanent Secretary of the Organization of the International Congress of Homoeopathy Physicians in Philadelphia. He also presided over the International Congress in London.