2. A chlorotic girl, aet. 19, who had not menstruated for 8 weeks, took every day fasting a cupful of a decoction made from one large peony – flower. soon afterwards she always got a pressive headache with confusion, noise in ears, flickering before eyes, nausea and several liquid stools. On the 3rd, 4th, and 5th days vomiting and painful diarrhoea. By evening the symptoms had nearly gone, but on the 5th evening the colic continued, nerves greatly affected, shivering, slight delirium, twitchings and tearings in extremities, face red and bloated, eyes red, tearful; skin very warm, pulse hard, contracted; tongue red, abdomen tender, and especially along transverse colon and in epigastrium, hard and contracted; external genitals swollen, painful, urine scanty and passed with burning, great thirst, dysphagia, loss of appetite, weariness, prostration, pain and dazedness in head, paroxysmal tearing pains in extremities, leaving behind a numb feeling. Recovered in 4 weeks. ( OPPENHEIM, Zeitsch., iv, 1850, quoted in Hom. Vierteljahrsch., ii, 474.).
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.