Spiræa ulmaria spire.

Spiræa Ulmaria. Queen of the Meadows. Meadow-sweet. N. O. Rosaceæ. Tincture of fresh root.

Conscientiousness, morbid. Convulsions. Epilepsy. Eyelids, affections of. Hydrophobia. Œsophagus, stricture of. Ptosis. Urine, deposits in.

Bojanus proved Spiræa , taking substantial doses. A leading symptom was the production of heat , general and local. Heat in throat; in œsophagus; under manubrium sterni; under ensiform cartilage. Bojanus was seized with remorse, a kind of morbid conscientiousness. Fulness and heaviness of head. Washing with cold water was very unpleasant, and caused a feeling as if the head were too large. A scurfy condition of eyelids and heaviness of lids after siesta cl were noted. The urine was turbid as if mixed with clay, and deposited red sand; had an oily film on the surface. Hansen mentions Spir . as having been recommended in hydrophobia, epilepsy, and eclampsia. The burning in œsophagus was > by eating and drinking but not by empty swallowing. Symptoms were < indoors; > in open air. < Moving head. < Sneezing. > Moving about.

At 1 a.m. was attacked with remorse over a long-past slight indiscretion, with most fearful qualms of conscience and loathing of himself; could not rest on account of it, obliged to rise and walk about.

Vertigo with heat in cheeks. ─ Headache: < shaking head; with increased warmth of body, as if blood flowing more rapidly through vessels; > towards evening. Dulness and heaviness in head with pressive headache. ─ On lying down at 11 p.m. sensation like vertigo, as if all senses vanished and all blood left the head, with a prickling in face. ─ Pain over whole head as if a ring were tightened about head with heaviness; on shaking head, brain seemed to wabble to and fro. ─ After washing, head felt large. ─ Pressive headache and fulness in forehead, < in house, > in open air.

Eyes full of mucus, dried to crusts on waking. ─ Lachrymation of l. eye, increased warmth in it; sclerotic bright red. ─ On waking lids so heavy cannot open them for a long time. ─ Sensation as if something hot mounted to eyes, causing biting and burning and sensation as if tears would flow, but they did not.

Face red. ─ Sensation as if blood mounted to face with increased heat.

Slight drawing toothache in l. back teeth.

Increased warmth in pharynx, extending down to stomach; burning pressure in œsophagus, generally > at night; > eating and drinking, not on empty swallowing. ─ Sensation as if œsophagus too small, constricted. ─ Cold sensation in œsophagus extending to both sides of chest. ─ Warmth in œsophagus opposite the manubrium sterni.

No relish for smoking. ─ Frequent eructations. ─ Burning in small spot beneath ensiform cartilage as if something hot or acrid had been taken.

Frequent emission of very offensive flatus. ─ Movings and gripings in hypogastrium during stool. ─ After eating moving in navel.

Prickling, crawling, sticking in rectum and anus. ─ Prickling, constrictive sensation long after stool. ─ Frequent desire for stool, that suddenly disappeared. ─ Stool delayed, evacuated with pressure and straining, hard, scanty, like sheep's dung. ─ About 10 p.m. somewhat hard stool, accompanied and followed by burning and soreness in the anus, and a sensation as if the anus were drawn up into rectum and something hard were still remaining there.

Burning at orifice of urethra while urinating during stool. ─ Urine bright yellow when passed, becomes cloudy, forming a deposit like clay with red, gritty sand.

In morning in bed, violent erections with great sexual desire.

At 7 p.m. cough, at first dry, afterwards loose, with tickling and scraping in throat, that continued long after the cough. ─ On inspiration air of room seemed very cold as if he had been chewing peppermint.

Pressure beneath manubrium sterni as if he had swallowed too large a morsel; or a large piece of hard-boiled egg.

Pulse: hard and tense; weak, soft; small, contracted, hard, afterwards full and large.

Cramp in muscle of forearm on lifting anything. ─ Veins in hands distended.

Heaviness in lower limbs as if full, esp. on ascending steps.

In afternoon, exhaustion with stretching and yawning. ─ Discomfort after siesta.

Overpowering sleepiness, heaviness in limbs and dulness of head. ─ Difficult falling asleep in evening; restlessness, frequent waking. ─ Dreams: vivid during midday nap; in evening lascivious and emission.

Great heat over whole body. ─ Heat like rush of blood to head and face. ─ While eating, and after, heat over whole body and rush of blood to head, with slight outbreak of sweat on chest, face, and hands.