Helleborus fœtidus hell-f.

Helleborus Fœtidus.

Bear's foot. N. O. Ranunculaceæ. Tincture of the root.

Cholera. Hair, failing off. Nails, falling off. Scarlatina. Skin, peeling. Stiff-neck.

The effects of Hel. f . have been observed on several persons. It is a violent narcotico-acrid poison, and in fatal poisoning cases death has taken place in convulsions. The vision is disordered; choleraic symptoms occur; skin, hair, and nails exfoliate. The anxiety is > after vomiting.

Compare: Verat. alb. (copious liquid stools); Hell. n., Hell. v., Colch.

Dreadful anxiety; > after vomiting.

Great difficulty in reading, in evening, by candle-light; the sensation is as when the light flickers from a draught of air; cannot follow the lines.

Thumping pain below and behind l. ear.

Smarting at tip of tongue. ─ Painful sensation like aphthæ in mouth (inhaling fumes of triturated plant). ─ Taste of manure; tongue yellow in middle. ─ Excoriation of mouth and throat.

11, 12. Stomach and Abdomen. ─ Nausea and vomiting of food (taken an hour before with relish). ─ Constant inclination to vomit. ─ When pounding the plant it seems that the epigastrium with difficulty keeps time with the inflation of the chest on inspiration. ─ Frightful pain in pit of stomach. ─ Colic.

Violent purging and vomiting with pain in stomach. ─ Abundant liquid stool during night; next day two liquid, whitish stools; again a liquid stool forty-eight hours later.

Tightness of chest, can scarcely half draw his breath.

Numbness in muscles of neck; sensibility to touch blunted it becomes stiff eighteen hours later.

Fatal convulsions. ─ Swooning.

Skin of whole body peels, hair falls out, all the nails fall off. ─ Profuse discharge from ulcerated surface (from application).

Stirs a good deal in his sleep.