72. A woman aged 34, nervous temperament after extreme mental exertion, suffered since eighteen months from marked irritation of the intestinal canal; distention of the stomach abdomen, worse after dinner and from the slightest mental excitement; Nux mosch.- HAHNEMANN
73. Mrs. B., aet. 29, a miner’s wife with four children. At the time when menses ought to appear, violent congestions to the chest and neck; felt as if her head would burst and her heart be squeezed off; violent stitches, as if a knife was plunged into her chest and head; frequently unconsciousness and epileptic convulsions; was bled once a month, which made her so weak that she could scarcely attend to her household duties. After mental excitement especially a short time before catamenia, slight vertigo, vanishing, of thoughts and fainting, from which she recovered in a few moments, without, however, being fully conscious; the outer world had no existence for her; automatically she attended to her household duties, and on awaking from this condition, she had not the slightest recollection of what she had done. If forcibly aroused she had violent convulsions. At times she was in a clairvoyant state, and answered questions accurately on subjects entirely out of her sphere : on returning to consciousness she was perfectly ignorant of what she had said. Pulse small and weak; in the carotid a slight nun’s murmur. Bellad. relieved the congestions, but did hot change the main symptoms. General lassitude; tired feeling in her knees as from a long journey; great sleepiness as if drunk : does not know where she is dreaminess with closing of the eyes; weak memory; forgetfulness; absence of mind; gradual vanishing of thoughts when reading; does not carry out resolutions, but remains standing thoughtlessly on one spot; appears to herself as if chained to her surroundings : Nux mosch. In three months she was free from all symptoms.- LORBACHER
74. In cases of great weakness of body and fainting, especially with pregnant and parturient women, we have made use of nutmeg and wine, applied to the epigastrium and palms of hands, with the best and quickest effect, also after parturition.- M.F. Bluff. Old School 1835.
