Elaterium elat.

Cholera morbus-like attacks; copious, liquid, frothy dejections; profuse flow of watery serum from mucous membrane.

When chills were suppressed, urticaria appeared over the whole body. Unlike Apis, Hepar, Ign., Rhus, in which the urticaria appears during different stages of the paroxysm.

Compare, Colch., Crot. t., Sec., Ver., in diarrhœic and choleraic symptoms.

Quotidian; double quotidian; tertian; double tertian; quartan. When suppressed by Quinine or "ague cures," prone to appear under some other type, or even assume the double type.

Frequent change of type. Bilious. Remittent.

12 M.—1 P. M.—Twice a day, every third day.

Chilliness with continued gaping and quivering; headache and soreness of the limbs, and pains in the bowels.

With thirst, increased pain in the head and limbs and continued gaping and stretching. Pain under shoulder-blades; in small of back, left side, and cramps in the legs and soles of the feet. Yawning and gaping, with a sound resembling the neigh- ing of a horse; lachrymation and profuse coryza.

With intense thirst; violent, tearing pains throughout the head, more especially on the vertex. Increased cutting pains in bowels, and pains in extremities; the pains shooting to the very tips of the fingers and toes, and then shooting back again into the body. Nausea, vomiting and copious discharges from the bowels of a frothy character.

Copious, with gradual relief of all the symptoms.

Coated with a dirty brown fur; taste bitter.

Urticaria; intolerable itching $>$ by rubbing.

If urticaria appear all over the body after suppres- sion of intermittent fever, Elaterium is the remedy. Cutting pains in bowels, shooting to tips of fingers and toes. Copious frothy discharges. When chills were suppressed urticaria de- veloped over whole surface, with a disordered state of mind, characterized by an irresistible propensity to wander from home, even in the night, and range the woods.