Introduction
Taraxacum dens-leonis, Desf. Dandelion. Nat. Ord., compositae.
Provings
1. HAHNEMANN, Mat. Medorrhinum Pura, vol. v of original, vol. ii of translation. Contains 264 symptoms from 5 provers.
2. a lady, believing herself to suffer from a liver complaint took a dessert – spoonful of a fl. extra. twice a day for more than a week, when she began to feel uncomfortable and restless in herself-a sort of fidgetiness, as she expressed it, and general uneasiness, for which she could not account, as she had often been much more indisposed without experiencing such miserable feelings; she had, moreover, some nausea, and an uneasy sensation of sinking in the praecordia; her nights also were restless, and her bowels had become confined-rather an unusual occurrence with her. An aperient corrected this for the time, and relieved the other symptoms; but they soon recurred, and the same thing happened again. All this time she continued the t. On awaking one m., however, she found upper part of body covered with a rash, to which her attention was first drawn by intense tingling and itching. Scratching relieved this, but increased the range of eruption and redness of skin. When I saw her there was no eruption on face, but this was slightly swollen, exhibiting patches of efflorescence or redness without thickening or elevation of cuticle. On forearms and hands eruption appeared to be of a mixed character.-Lichen and urticaria combined. the lichenous or papulous eruption (papulae of pin’s head size, and of purple or dark red colour) was dispersed all over arms, back and front, thickest about wrists and bend of elbows, in which places it was clustered in papulae on an inflamed base. The urticaria occupied principally the front of the arms; the wheels were not very numerous of prominent, save under friction, by which they could be produced to any extent; they came out and went out several times in day, and were always very large and abundant in m. ‘ chest and around waist were also said to be thickly covered, and the redness intense, but I was not permitted to inspect these parts. the pulse was considerably accelerated, full, but soft, and there was also much febrile action, with rather severe frontal headache. Tongue was thickly coated at back with yellowish-brown fur, and there was much complaint of dryness of throat, in which there was a circumscribed ring of inflammation surrounding isthmus faucium; bowels were much confined and urine high coloured, and considerably diminished in quantity.
On leaving off the T. and adopting a cooling regimen the eruption and other unpleasant symptoms speedily disappeared. and after 5 to 6 day nothing was left but a little desquamation at the affected parts. (G. SMITH, Lancet, 1845 – 6, ii, 506.)
TARENTULA. See ARACHNIDAE.
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.