Introduction
The liquid form the anal glands of the skunk.
(Mephitis, a pestilential exhalation.)
Mephitis was first proved by Hering. It is prepared by dissolving one part of the liquid in ninety-nine of alcohol (87 per cent.), making our tincture, properly speaking, the 1st.
Symptoms
The especial field for Mephitis is for spasmodic asthma (21) and spasmodic coughs, particularly whooping cough (48), worse at night, with mucous rales (45) in the upper part of the chest, a feeling of suffocation as if he could not exhale (25) and blueness of the face (47). The cough is violent and ends in vomiting.
As far as I know, Mephitis is always used low.
Willard Ide Pierce, author of Plain Talks on Materia Medica (1911) and Repertory of Cough, Better and Worse (1907). Dr. Willard Ide Pierce was a Director and Professor of Clinical Medicine at Kent's post-graduate school in Philadelphia.