Indigo



13. WILCHER, August. 25th, after breakfast, took 1 gr. Soon nausea, then flatulence, thereafter pain in right zygoma and orbit. After 2 hours pain in let side of occiput, under left humerus and especially in left index and in right short ribs which soon went off. Pressive, often tearing pain in right upper teeth and left molars. About noon, eructation and no appetite. After dinner slight tired feeling. In evening pain in left eyeball. – 26th. 1 gr., nausea, flatulence, eructations, pain in left side of occiput, which darts through head to orbit. The toothache persisted, was pressive and intermittent. Appetite still nil. The pain in eye and ribs continued. Cross in vending when he took 1 gr. Night quiet; next morning woke earlier than usual, with nausea and weariness. Occasional subsultus tendinum in all limbs. Itching in hypogastric region and inside of thighs. The pains in eye and occiput in teeth and left acts, lasted some day. (Ibid.)

14. 15. Ind. has also been proved by LEMBKE (A. h. Z., xiv, 338) and NENNING (Ann. d. hom. Kl., iii, 229), but their results are too voluminous and trivial alike for reproduction here. EDS(>).

Poisonings

I. IDELER treated 26th patients with I for epilepsy, beginning with scruple, increased gradually to 1/2 oz. and oz. doses “At first the patients vomited frequently, without any straining or derangement of the digestive organs; after a few days this ceased and the patient had 6 or 8 stools a day, sometimes accompanied with slight colicky pains; after a short time the purging diminished, the matter passed assumed a fluid character, and this state continued as long as the left was administered, without the appetite or digestive organs being injured. ” (Lancet, 1834- 35, ii, 335.).

Richard Hughes
Dr. Richard Hughes (1836-1902) was born in London, England. He received the title of M.R.C.S. (Eng.), in 1857 and L.R.C.P. (Edin.) in 1860. The title of M.D. was conferred upon him by the American College a few years later.

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.