INTRODUCTION
EUG. Malabar Plum Tree. See “Archiv,” XII.
COMPARE WITH.
Opium
ANTIDOTES.
Coffee.
CLINICAL REMARKS.
Dr. Hering has derived great use from the tincture of Eug. in an epidemic disease, characterized by cough, coryza, ophthalmia, and pain in the ears, which was very troublesome to children.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS.
Laming and crampy pains, particularly in the tibiae and heels. Constant slight yawning in the open air. Headache, burning in the eyes, a good deal of thirst, and copious micturition at night. Heat before midnight, with little thirst, sweat, pain in the small of the back, and disposition to sit alone sweat in walking. Sweat and thirst in the morning. Violent thirst at night. Out of humor.
SENSORIUM AND HEAD.
Dullness of the head. Vertigo with congestion of blood to the head. Rolling and burning in the head and in the eyes, with lachrymation, afterwards and vomiting.
EYES.
Violent itching in the eyes. Violent burning in the eyes. Inflammation with stitches in the inner canthus. Lachrymation, evening and night, with sensation as if fire were pouring out of the eyes. Sleepy appearance and unsteadiness of the eyes. Obscuration of sight, with diplopia.
FACE, NOSE, AND TEETH.
Ptyalism. The gums of the decayed teeth become painful.
MOUTH, PHARYNX,.
Yellowish, bloody mucus in the mouth after dinner. Dryness of the throat, with thirst.
APPETITE AND GASTRIC SYMPTOMS.
Heartburn at night. Evening nausea, with vertigo, headache, vomiting, subsequently bitterness of mouth, desire for cold water, and then sweat.
STOMACH AND ABDOMEN.
Crampy sensation in the stomach, with spasmodic feeling, and afterwards nausea. Stitches in the pit of the stomach. Burning in the abdomen as from brandy. Drawing around the umbilicus as from a cathartic. Distention of the epigastrium with coldness internally.
STOOL.
Scanty stool. Scanty, hard stool, after much pressing. Several stool a day, with burning in the abdomen. Diarrhoeic stools, followed by vomiting. Cramp pain in the rectum.
URINE.
Dark urine. Suppression of the usual nightly urination. Burning when urinating.
MALE GENITAL ORGANS.
Impotences.
LARYNX AND TRACHEA.
Constant hawking up of yellow and bloody mucus. Moist cough, evening and night, without expectoration. Dryness of the throat from coughing.
BACK, ARMS, AND LEGS.
Stinging burning itching on the back. Painful stiffness of the nape of the neck. Heat of the hands. Nightly cramp in the soles of the feet. Rhagades between the toes.
