Viburnum Opulus. This is one of our most promising remedies for dysmenorrhoea; it relieves all cases of the congestive or neuralgic type, and sometimes membranous and obstructive also, but its action seems to be exhausted in about three months. Before the menses, severe breaking-down, drawing in the anterior muscles of the thighs; heavy aching in the sacral region and over the pubes; occasions sharp, shooting pains in the ovaries; pains make her so nervous she cannot sit still; excruciating, cramping, colicky pains in the lower abdomen and through the womb; pains begin in the back and go around, ending in cramps in the uterus. During the menses, nausea; cramping pain and great nervous restlessness; the flow ceases for several hours, then returns in clots; the flow scanty, thin, light-coloured, with sensation of lightness of the head; faint when trying to sit up.
Xanthoxylum. Neuralgic dysmenorrhoea, especially in women of a spare habit and of a delicate, nervous temperament; ovarian pains extending down the genito-crural nerves. Dreadful distress and pain; headache; menses too early and too profuse; pains down their anterior part of the thighs.
ALLEN CORSON COWPERTHWAITE was born at Cape May, New Jersey, May 3, 1848, son of Joseph C. and Deborah (Godfrey) Cowperthwaite. He attended medical lectures at the University of Iowa in 1867-1868, and was graduated from the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1869. He practiced his profession first in Illinois, and then in Nebraska. In 1877 he became Dean and Professor of Materia Medica in the recently organized Homeopathic Department of the State University of Iowa, holding the position till 1892. In 1884 he accepted the chair of Materia Medica, Pharmacology, and Clinical Medicine in the Homeopathic Medical College of the University of Michigan. He removed to Chicago in 1892, and became Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Chicago Homeopathic Medical College. From 1901 he also served as president of that College. He is the author of various works, notably "Insanity in its Medico-Legal Relations" (1876), "A Textbook of Materia Medica and Therapeutics" (1880), of "Gynecology" (1888), and of "The Practice of Medicine " (1901).