STRAMONIUM

Symptoms

      1. Young plethoric persons who desire light and company, dread the dark and solitude.

2. Acute manias and deliriums, great terror, attempts to escape, hallucinations esp. of terrible animals; great rage with screaming, biting and scratching loquacity, constant praying and entreating; staring, brilliant eyes, widely dilated pupils; strange imaginations, e.g. of double personality, of scattered limbs, etc.

3. Spasmodic complains; convulsions, chorea (facial muscles chiefly affected), epilepsies; from fright, renewed by bright light, sight of brilliant objects, at attempts to swallow liquids; strabismus, stammering, hydrophobia.

4. Painlessness with most complaints but (>) intense pain of suppuration particularly in abscess of left hip joint or in panaritium.

5. In fever with intense, bright scarlet-red rash over whole body, and often suppression of all secretions and excretions.

A. Gladstone Clarke

Arthur Gladstone Clarke, a christian missionary working with the North China Mission, made good practical use of the homeopathy. He learnt as a student at MSM. He published a short introduction to the use of over 100 commonly used medicines—Decachords—first published in 1925 and still in print today.