INTRODUCTION
STRAM. Datura Stramonium. Thorn Apple, Stink-Weed. See Hahnemann’s “Materia Medica Pura,” IV.
COMPARE WITH
Aconite, Belladonna, Bryonia, Camph., Cantharis, Chamomilla, Cocc., Helleborus, Hyoscyamus, Ignatia, Mercurius, Nux-v., Opium, Plumb., Tabac., Veratrum, Zincum met.
ANTIDOTES
Vegetable acids and Lemon-juice, Vinegar, Nux-v., Opium, Tabac. Stramonium antidotes Mercurius and Plumb.
GENERAL SYMPTOMS
Suppression of all the secretions. Extreme irritability. Fainting, with great dryness in the mouth. Heaviness of the limbs. Immobility. Loss of voluntary motion, and loss of the senses. Stiffness of the whole body. Paralyzed limbs after apoplexy.? Paralysis of several parts of the body. Epileptic convulsions, also with weeping. Spasms after fright. Spasms from mercurial vapors.? Spasms after fright. Spasms from mercurial vapors.? Spasms of children. Chorea St. Viti. Tonic spasms of children. Continual cramp in the hands and feet. Violent motion of the limbs. Convulsions. Frightful convulsions at the sight of a candle, mirror, or of water. The convulsions and the delirium were especially excited by contact; they were followed by weakness. Spasmodic movements.
SKIN
Eruption. Blisters on the skin. Itching eruption. Chest and back are covered with a red rash, pale in the morning, redder and more frequent in the afternoon. Tingling in all the limbs. Measles with delirium. Anasarca after scarlatina, with typhoid fever.? Copper color of the skin of the knee. Redness of cold cicatrices.
SLEEP
Drowsy and staggering. Deep sound sleep. Slumber, with stertorous breathing, and a bloody froth at the mouth. Restless sleep, violent headache, and profuse diuresis. Restless sleep, followed by dreams, with tossing about in bed. Restless sleep, followed by violent headache, vertigo lachrymation, and ptyalism. Sleep interrupted by screams. Great restlessness with moaning, or with itching of the skin. Sleepless.
FEVER
Tremulous, weak, unequal, sometimes intermittent pulse. Small quick pulse. Frequent, quick, small, irregular pulse. Small, quick, and at last scarcely perceptible pulse. Extinct pulse. Strong full pulse of 90 beats. Chill through the whole body. The limbs and trunks are cold. Chilliness and shuddering of the limbs at night. Violent chill. Heat of the head, then general coldness, then heat with thirst. Fever in the afternoon, two days in succession. Fever every day after noon. Great heat, with quick and small pulse and bright-red vermilion-colored countenance. Heat of the whole body. Gastric fevers, with jerking of the arms and fingers. Worm fevers. Typhus-stupidus. Typhus after scarlet and purple rash. Typhoid fever of the remittent character, with pain in the ear and terminating in the left side of the chest, dry cough aggravating the pain. Copious sweat. Frequent sweat, with good appetite, and diarrhoea, distention of the abdomen, and colic. Profuse sweat with colic.
MORAL SYMPTOMS
The symptoms are worse after the fall equinox. Is a time indifferent to his business. Furious delirium. Indomitable rage. Great desire to bite. Alternation of convulsions and rage. Hydrophobia.? Phlegmatic, with weariness of mind and sadness of heart. Out of humor and and restless. Exceedingly fretful. Loud laughing, alternating with vexed mood and moaning.
SENSORIUM
Vertigo, with pain in the abdomen, and a gauze before his eyes. Vertigo, with diarrhoea. Vertigo, headache, dim-sightedness, violent thirst. Intoxication, with thirst, and a profuse flow of a burning urine. Rush of blood to the head. Apoplexy. Weakness of the head. Heaviness in the head. Stupefaction of the head, with dim-sightedness. Stupidity. Dullness of the head. Extreme insensibility of all the senses. Intoxication. Stupid feeling in the head. Intoxication, and heaviness in the body. Vertigo. Disagreeable light-headedness, with a feeling of weakness in the head. Diminished memory. Uneasiness, delirium. He does not notice the objects around him. Stupefaction of the sense and insensibility to external impressions. Absence of mind; bland delirium. Imbecility. Insanity. Strange fancies. Loquacious delirium. Delirium with strange ideas. Insane, he dances, gesticulates, breaks into a laughter, sings. Kneels in bed, starts up at the least contact with cries and wild gestures. Religious mania, with pious looks. Confusion of intellect, he laughs, moans. Talks with ghosts. Senses quarreling. Delirium throughout the evening. Timid mania, in childbirth. Mania, with pride and affectation. Frightful fancies, his features show fright and terror; he imagines he is quite alone in a wilderness, abandoned; he is afraid. Inclines to start. Alternate consciousness and rage. Alternation of ludicrous manners and sad
