Phellandrium phel.

Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica

C. M. Boger · Boger's Synoptic Key — Materia Medica · A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1915 — the Materia Medica half

Region

Mucous membranes. Right side: Chest. Mammæ. Nerves.

Worse

Air; cold; open. Using eyes.

Better

While nursing.

General

Catarrhal symptoms. Phthisis.

Particulars

Clang, like striking on metal, in brain. Everything tastes sweet. Expectoration; terribly foul; loose; profuse; smeary; causing dyspnœa. Pain in milk-ducts, into abdomen; on nursing. Pain from (l), border of (r), mamma, to between shoulders. Pains going backward through (r), chest. Sleepy.

Related

Related: Asaf.

Homœopathic Materia Medica

William Boericke · Homœopathic Materia Medica · 9th edition

Common name

Water Dropwort (PHELLANDRIUM)

General

The respiratory symptoms are most important, and have been frequently verified clinically. A very good remedy for the offensive expectoration and cough in phthisis, bronchitis, and emphysema. Tuberculosis, affecting generally the middle lobes. Everything tastes sweet. Hæmoptysis, hectic and colliquative diarrhœa.

Head

Weight on vertex; aching and burning in temples and above eyes. Crushing feeling in vertex. Vertigo, dizzy when lying down.

Eyes

Ciliary neuralgia; worse any attempt to use eyes: burning in eyes. Lachrymation. Cannot bear light. Headache; involving nerves going to eye.

Female

Pain in milk ducts; intolerable between nursing. Pain in nipples.

Chest

Sticking pain through right breast near sternum, extending to back near shoulders. Dyspnœa, and continuous cough, early in morning. Cough, with profuse and fetid expectoration; compels him to sit up. Hoarseness.

Fever

Hectic; profuse and debilitating perspiration; intermittent, with pain in arms. Desire for acids.

Extremities

Tired feeling when walking.

Relationship

Compare: Con; Phyt; Sil; Ant iod; Myosotis arvensis.

Dose

Tincture, to sixth potency. In phthisis not below the sixth.

Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics

E. B. Nash · Leaders in Homoeopathic Therapeutics · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Nash d. 1917; public domain)

Leaders

Sticking pains through right breast, near sternum, extending to back under shoulders. Cough with profuse fœtid expectoration, compels to sit up.

Text Book of Materia Medica

Adolph Lippe · Text Book of Materia Medica · homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML text (Lippe d. 1888; public domain)

General

Intolerable pains in the lactiferous tubes ; much worse during the act of nursing.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica

John Henry Clarke · A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica · 1st edition (1900-02, three volumes); homeoint.org / Médi-T HTML digitization

General

Œnanthe phellandrium. Phellandrium aquaticum. Water dropwort. Fine-leaved water-hemlock. Horse-bane. N. O. Umbelliferæ. Tincture of fresh ripe fruit.

Clinical

Abdomen, coldness in. Asthma. Breasts, affections of. Bronchitis. Catarrh. Ciliary neuralgia. Coryza. Cough. Headache . Influenza. Intermittent fever. Nipples, painful . Phthisis. Sleepliness, excessive. Tongue, soreness of.

Characteristics

Phelland . which, like Œnanthe croc ., grows in moist places, and even in the water itself, has not shown the poisonous properties of the latter. The provings were made by Nenning and Richter with tincture of the seeds. The symptoms show a general resemblance to those of the poisonous Umbelliferæ ─ vertigo, headache, nausea, vomiting, diarrhœa, drowsiness and weakness, but Phelland . is easily distinguished from the rest in its particular features. The provings developed many symptoms in both mammæ, especially the right, stitches shooting inward being most marked. Clinical experience in nursing women has further brought out its characteristics. The keynote is "Intolerable pain in lactiferous tubes between the acts of nursing." It has also "Pain in nipples on each application of child." Either breast may be affected, but the right breast and nipple were more affected than the left. The breast and chest symptoms have led to the use of Phelland . in phthisis and other chest affections, and it is in right-side affections that Phelland . has done its best work. The cough is continuous and suffocating; the sputa purulent and horribly offensive. There are also offensive eructations, smelling of bed-bugs. There is burning as from vesicles on the tongue, and again the right border is most affected. Nausea sick, empty, faint feeling at epigastrium. Burning and stitches. Desire for acids" is a leading symptom. The headaches and eye-pains are a leading feature of Phelland . Headaches involving the eyes; with inflammation of the eyes. Heavy headaches; as if a crushing weight were on vertex; as if the head would be drawn back by a weight in the nape. Ciliary neuralgia. Obscured vision. Phelland . has the sense of enlargement of the head with fulness. Abnormal sleepiness following confinement has been cured by it. Goullon, junr., calls attention to the value of Phelland . as a cough remedy ( H. R ., iii. 151). He regards it as a "universal cough remedy," but particularly useful in phthisicy coughs. He gives this case: Mrs. E., of spare build, has almost always a slight cough, and has had repeated attacks of influenza of weeks' and even months' duration. Of late she suffers early in the morning with continuous cough for an hour or more accompanied by dyspnœa and prostration. Phelland . 2x in water, thrice daily, effected a rapid cure. Phelland . 2x also cured a young teacher who was harassed by a chronic persistent cough. A. J. T. ( H. R ., i. 170) with Phelland . 200 removed in an inveterate coffee-drinker this symptom: "In the evening turns purplish-red in the face, with staring eyes and extreme difficulty in breathing." He found in an old repertory under Phelland .: "Livid redness of face 7 to 8 p.m." Ussher ( H. W ., xxiv. 20) had a patient who suffered from excessive sleepiness after the birth of her last child. She would even go to sleep standing over her washtub. Phelland . Ø, and later 200, repeated thrice daily, quickly relieved her. Peculiar sensations are: As if head were moving to and fro. Sound in brain as if striking a piece of silver. As if a stone or lump of lead on vertex. As if a red-hot iron were moved close to left side of neck. As if blood-vessels in whole body were in vibrating motion. Though there were many symptoms of heat and burning, symptoms of coldness are also pronounced. Coldness of head with headache (also sweat with headache); coldness in abdomen, with movements; icy coldness after stool. Phelland . is suited to: Persons of a feeble, irritable, lymphatic temperament, with weak and deficient nutrition. The symptoms are < in open air; after dinner; during and after eating; on appearance of menses; sitting; standing; lying down; after spirituous drinks; after drinking water; while swallowing; after stool (coldness in abdomen). > In open air (vertigo and head symptoms); during dinner (headache); eating bread (sore throat); motion, in open air; lying on left side; scratching; rubbing. Chilliness predominates, and the catarrh and asthma of Phelland . are > in warm and < in cold seasons. Open air = sense of intoxication; < vertigo. < During increasing moon.

Relations

Antidoted by: Rheum (diarrhœa). Compare: Breast symptoms, Con., Phyt., Bry., Ol. an. (Ol. an. has stitches shooting out ; Phelland. stitches shooting in ). Painful nursing, Crot. t. (pains in breast go through to back when nursing), Bov. (empty feeling). Stitches, K. ca. Headache involving eyes, Onos. Pains in right chest, Zn. (right apex, Calc., Ars.; r. middle, Sep.; right base, Chel., Lachn., K. ca., Sep.; left apex, Ars.; left base, Ox. ac., Sul.). Last stage of phthisis, sputa terribly offensive, Sil. Offensive breath with cough, Caps. Sleepiness, Op., Nux m.

Mind

Character sad, anxious, profoundly meditative, sometimes given to extravagant merriment. ─ Peevish arrogance.

Head

Confusion in head, as from intoxication. ─ Heaviness of head, as if too large and too full; as if it would be drawn back by a weight in nape. ─ Vertigo, which almost occasions falling backward, forward, or sideways, esp. to side to which one turns in room; < (sometimes > ) in open air, > by lying down. ─ Sound in brain as if one were beating on a metal that was freely swinging, which woke him, after which the sound died away (5 a.m.). ─ Headache, which disappears in open air, and during dinner. ─ Headache with perspiration on top of head, fifteen minutes after dinner, soon followed by coldness of the head. ─ Dizzy headache in (l.) forehead with increased warmth of head and hands without perspiration. ─ Headache involving nerves going to eyes, crushing feeling on vertex with burning of eyes and lachrymation. ─ Painful heaviness of vertex as if a hard body were lying on it. ─ Pain like weight on vertex with aching, burning, shooting pains in temples. ─ Compressive pain in sides of head. ─ Digging pain in head. ─ Ebullition of blood, with heat and throbbing in head. ─ In occiput: intermitting pressure; burning, constrictive sensation; tearing; burrowing; stitches. ─ Itching, biting like flea-bites in scalp.

Eyes

Itching in eyes. ─ Burning sensation in lids, morning and evening. ─ Frequent twitching of l. lids. ─ Twitching of lids, which close easily from a sensation of heaviness and sleepiness. ─ Dryness of eyes, with shooting and burning pain. ─ Frequent tearing in upper r. orbital margin in the bone. ─ Ciliary neuralgia, < attempting to read or sew; fearful intolerance of light; lids swollen and half-closed. ─ Lachrymation, esp. in open air. ─ Sight cloudy, as if directed through a fog, < when looking intently at any object.

Ears

Tearings and boring in ears. ─ Singing and noises in r. ear.

Nose

Nostrils red, burning, and (with upper lip) swollen. ─ Itching, confluent vesicles in nostrils. ─ Loss of smell. ─ Coryza, with obstruction of nose, can only breathe through mouth.

Face

Heat in face. ─ Livid redness of face from 7 to 8 p.m. ─ Tension in skin of face. ─ Violent, and almost tearing, quivering in cheek.

Mouth

Toothache with tearing or shooting pain. ─ Gums red, swollen, and painful. ─ Dryness of mouth and throat at night. ─ Increase of frothy saliva in mouth, which it is necessary to expectorate. ─ Burning pain and burning vesicles on tongue (r. margin towards lip). ─ Clammy or cheese-like taste. ─ Sweetish taste after drinking water. ─ Beer has a bitter taste.

Throat

Sore throat, with pressive and shooting pain when not swallowing, and during empty deglutition, but not when swallowing food.

Stomach

Thirst for milk and for beer, with repugnance to and dread of water. ─ Desire for acid drinks with thirst. ─ Disgust and nausea with inclination to vomit and to eructate. ─ Offensive risings, which have the smell of bugs, or with taste of food. ─ Pain in stomach, as if it were empty. ─ Sensation as if stomach were full of water, that would run up, followed by a sensation as if a large round body were twisting about in stomach, that afterwards fell downward, followed by rumbling in stomach. ─ Burning pain in stomach.

Abdomen

Pinchings in the abdomen. ─ Sensation of coldness in the abdomen, with movements in intestines. ─ Icy coldness in intestines; after stool; after spirituous drinks. ─ Burning extending from abdomen up into stomach, following eructations of the drug. ─ Pinching and cutting pains as if diarrhœa would come on. ─ Cutting and pinching in hypogastrium. ─ Dull stitch in r. flank; on bending to that side violent shock in r. inguinal region, after dinner. ─ Incarcerated flatus in hypochondria and lumbar region.

Stool and Anus

Hard fæces, with clawing and pressure at anus. ─ Liquid evacuation, with tenesmus, followed by pain as of excoriation in anus. ─ Abundant expulsion of flatus during and after the evacuation. ─ Burning in anus. ─ Itching in anus that becomes a burning after rubbing.

Urinary Organs

Pale and scanty urine. ─ Desire to urinate, but only very little passed, with violent burning in evening. ─ Urine pale, almost greenish.

Male Sexual Organs

Itching on prepuce, > by scratching.

Female Sexual Organs

Menses too early. ─ At commencement of menses, lassitude, yawning, and bruised pain in thighs. ─ She could neither sit, stand, nor lie for the pain. ─ Menses flowed only morning and evening, and rather more profusely than usual. ─ Menses that had just begun ceasea. ─ Menses twelve days early, lasting only a day and a half, very scanty, though without any difficulties, quite unusual. ─ Pain in nipples on each application of child. ─ Always after nursing intolerable pain in r. breast along course of lactiferous tubes; physical and mental distress; hysterical weeping; this occurred some time after micturition, the nipples were sore with purulent discharge, the pain appearing after nipples were healed. ─ Intolerable pains in lactiferous tubes between the acts of nursing.

Respiratory Organs

Hoarseness and roughness in throat and fluent coryza. ─ Suffocating, dry cough, with shortness of breath. ─ Nocturnal cough from accumulation of mucus in throat. ─ Frequent expectoration of mucus, without cough, in morning. ─ Shortness of breath, esp. when walking.

Chest

Oppression of chest when standing and taking a deep inspiration. ─ Stitches in chest. ─ (Phthisis, esp. of r. lung cavity; burning on breathing; continuous cough; profuse sweat; diarrhœa vomiting of, food; copious purulent sputa, terribly offensive; emaciation.). ─ Pressure on side of chest in bed in morning, which disappears when lying on the side affected. ─ Sharp stitches, extending inward beneath l. mamma, not affected by breathing. ─ Painful tearing stitches extend through whole l. mamma. ─ Violent stitch through r. mamma, near sternum, extending to back between shoulders, then down into r. side of sacrum, that was very painful on breathing, immediately after dinner. ─ Biting sticking in r. nipple, evening before lying down.

Neck and Back

Sensation on l. side of neck below jaw as if red-hot iron were moved along close to the part. ─ Tearing in l. side of neck to jaw. ─ Stitches: between shoulders; in lower end of l. scapula; in sacrum. ─ Pain as from a bruise in loins when seated.

Upper Limbs

Tearing in shoulders and arms.

Lower Limbs

Tearing along anterior surface of r. thigh. ─ Vibration in calves. ─ Sensation as of congested blood in knees.

Generalities

Tearing pains in limbs. ─ Sensation of trembling in all the vessels of the body. ─ The majority of symptoms appear when patient is quietly seated, standing, or lying down; they are > by movement and in open air. ─ Great dejection and lassitude.

Skin

Itching, sometimes burning or smarting, disappearing quickly when the parts are scratched. ─ Small blue spots, like petechiæ.

Sleep

Sleepiness during day, with frequent yawning. ─ So sleepy would fall asleep standing at work, lasting an hour. ─ Retarded sleep. ─ Frequent and early waking, or prolonged sleep in morning. ─ Dreams: of lightning with fright; of a robbery in which he received many blows.

Fever

Predominance of shivering, sometimes with shaking chills, generally neither accompanied nor followed by heat or thirst. ─ Shuddering, generally in evening, sometimes as if cold water had been poured over body. ─ Inability to urinate the day after ague attack. ─ Accelerated pulse.

The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica

Constantine Hering · The Guiding Symptoms of Our Materia Medica · 1879–91

General

Five-Leaved Water Hemlock. Umbelliferæ.
Grows in swampy places and on river banks in Europe and Northern Asia. Proved by Nenning and Richter, Hartlaub and Trinks, R. A. M. L., vol. 2, p. 138. Turnbull observed the effects of seeds in large doses. --Pharm. Journ., 1853, p. 590.
CLINICAL AUTHORITIES.
- Headache , Dudgeon, B. J. H., vol. 28, p. 404 ; Cough , Goullon, Hom. Rec., vol. 2, p. 151 ; Use after Whooping cough , A. R., Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 5, p. 727 ; Bronchitis, emphysema and ulcers on legs , Werner, Hah. Mo., vol. 14, p. 116, from Hom. Rundschau ; Bronchial catarrh , Pitet, Raue's Rec., 1875, p. 15, from Bib. Hom., p. 32 ; Pain in breast , Gross, Rück. Kl. Erf., vol. 2, p. 418 ; Pain in nipples , Gross, Hughes Pharm., p. 602 ; Sleepiness , Ussher, Hom. Rec., vol. 4, p. 66, from Hom. World, Jan. 1889 ; Ague , Werner, Hah. Mo., vol. 14, p. 117, from Hom. Rundschau.

Mind

Anxious, ill-humored, sad and peevish.

Sensorium

Sense of intoxication in open air.
Movement to and fro in forehead, almost as if head were moving to and fro.
Vertigo : with heaviness of head ; with disposition to fall forward, backward and sideways, particularly to side to which one turns in room ; no less when sitting than during motion ; < during walk in open air ; > lying.

Inner head

Sound in brain as if striking a piece of silver, early in morning, waking one, and gradually going off.
Headache which involves nerves going to eye ; crushing feeling on top of head, with burning of eyes and lachrymation.
Pressure at vertex with weak and aching eyes.
Pain like a heavy weight, stone or lump of lead on top of head, with aching, burning, shooting pains in temples. θ Headache.
Dull headache and majority of head symptoms disappear after dinner.
Head feels large, full and heavy, as if it would be drawn backward by a weight in nape of neck.

Sight and eyes

Ciliary neuralgia, great pain on attempting to read or sew, fearful intolerable of light ; must sit in a dark corner ; lids swollen and half closed ; conjunctiva of lid and caruncle inflamed, red, scarlet ; headache like a heavy weight on top of head, with burning, shooting pains in temples.
Increased lachrymation in both eyes.

Smell and nose

Red, burning nostrils and upper lip swollen, with coryza and hoarseness.

Taste, speech, tongue

Red vesicles burning like fire, on right border of tongue.

Appetite, thirst. desires, aversions

Desire for acids.

Hiccough, belching, nausea and vomiting

Eructations smelling almost like bed-bugs.

Urinary organs

Urging to urinate, with scanty emission and violent burning after micturition ; urine pale and watery, almost greenish.

Female sexual organs

Menses flowed only in morning and evening and more profuse than usual.
Very painful tearing stitches, extending through whole l. mamma.

Pregnancy. parturition. lactation

Pain in nipples on each application of child.
Always after nursing, intolerable pain in right breast, along course of lactiferous tubes, causing physical and great mental distress, so that she lost her strength and was seized with spells of hysterical weeping. This pain did not appear until some time after parturition, but the nipples were sore and there was present a purulent discharge, the pain appearing after nipples were healed.

Voice and larynx. trachea and bronchia

Hoarseness with roughness in throat ; dry cough with shortness of breath ; stitches in chest and oppression, great thirst ; loss of appetite ; sleeplessness on account of cough ; small black spots, like petechiæ, disappearing without desquamation ; urging to urinate, with scanty emission and violent burning after micturition ; urine pale and watery ; almost greenish. θ Influenza.
Chronic bronchial catarrhs, with more or less profuse expectoration ; also asthma of like character, especially when these always return or increase during the cold season of the year, and only abate on return of warm weather ; aged persons and lymphatic youths.
Bronchial catarrh where tuberculization is suspected ; dry cough ; incessant, persistent, excited by a tickling in trachea.

Cough

Continuous cough for an hour or more early in morning, accompanied by dyspnœa and prostration.
Dry cough with suffocation and short breath, < while walking ; cough with mucus in throat ; provoking constant hawking and coughing at night ; not relieved by sitting up ; frequent easy expectoration of mucus in morning.
Obstinate nervous irritation or phthisicky coughs.
In consequence of whooping cough emaciation with febrile condition and great oppression of chest.

Inner chest and lungs

Violent stitch in right mamma near sternum, extending to back between shoulders, then downward into right side of sacrum, which is very painful on breathing.
Sharp stitches extending inward beneath left mamma, not affected by breathing.
Bronchitis and emphysema ; coarse rales ; respiration short ; cough continuous day and night, compelling him to remain in sitting posture ; great thirst ; loss of appetite ; sleeplessness ; hands œdematous ; atonic ulcers on legs, with violent tearing stitching pains ; general aggravation during increase of moon, > during decrease.
Phthisis pulmonum, especially where right lung is seat of lesion ; cavity of lung, with hissing sound on breathing ; continuous cough ; profuse sweat ; diarrhœa ; vomiting of food ; copious purulent sputa ; emaciation.
Consumption ; last stages when expectoration is terribly offensive.

Neck and back

Sensation of left side of neck below jaw, as if a red-hot iron were moved along close to that part.

Rest. position. motion

Lying : vertigo >.
Sitting : vertigo ; coughing and hawking better ; cough compels.
Motion : vertigo.
Walking : vertigo < ; dry cough with suffocation and short breath, <.

Nerves

Sensation in whole body as if all the bloodvessels were in vibrating motion.

Sleep

Abnormal sleepiness for years, following birth of last child ; could hardly keep eyes open on account of weariness and sleepiness ; would go to sleep over her washtub.

Time

Morning : sound in brain as if striking silver ; menses flowing only ; constant cough for an hour or more ; easy expectoration.
After dinner : head symptoms disappear.
Evening : menses only flowing.
Night : coughing and hawking.
Day and night : continuous cough.

Temperature and weather

Warm weather : asthma and catarrhs abate.
Open air : sense of intoxication ; vertigo <.
Cold season : asthma and catarrhs return and increase.

Fever

Chill every third day at 4 P. M., continuing one hour and preceded by severe rheumatic pains in arms ; fever and sweat lasted two hours, followed by violent headache, nausea and stitching pains in feet ; generally day after attack there would be entire inability to urinate, or it would pass off in small quantities with urging and burning pains. θ Quartan ague.
Ague : in lymphatic, feeble and very irritable persons without reaction ; catarrhal or pulmonary affections ; cough and muco-purulent expectoration ; difficulty of respiration ; nervous trembling ; anxiety ; want of appetite, emaciation, diarrhœa, night-sweats, sleeplessness.

Attacks, periodicity

Day after attack of ague : inability to urinate.
Every third day at 4 P. M. : chill, one hour.
Increase of moon : general aggravation.
Decrease of moon : symptoms.
For years : abnormal sleepiness.

Locality and direction

Right : border of tongue red vesicles ; intolerable pain in breast ; violent stitch in mamma, then to back and down to side of sacrum ; lung seat of lesion in phthisis pulmonum.
Left : painful stitch through whole mamma ; stitches inward beneath mamma ; as if red-hot iron were moved close to neck.

Sensations

As if head were moving to and fro ; sound in brain as if striking a piece of silver ; as of a stone or lump of lead on top of head ; as if head would be drawn backward by a weight in nape of neck ; as if a red-hot iron were moved along close to left side of neck ; as if bloodvessels in whole body were in vibrating motion.
Pain : in nipples.
Intolerable pain : in right breast.
Great pain : in eyes.
Very painful, tearing stitches through whole left mamma ; in ulcers on legs.
Stitches : in chest, inward beneath left mamma ; in feet ; in r. mamma near sternum to back between shoulders, then into right side of sacrum.
Shooting pain : in temples.
Rheumatic pains : in arms.
Aching : in eyes ; in temples.
Burning : of eyes ; in temples ; of nostrils ; of vesicles on tongue ; after micturition.
Crushing feeling : on top of head.
Pressure : at vertex.
Heaviness : of head.
Oppression : of chest.
Large feeling : in head.
Tickling : in trachea.
Roughness : in throat.

Stage of life, constitution

Adapted to persons of a feeble, irritable, lymphatic constitution, with weak and defective reaction.
Son of Baron von Hornstein, æt. 13, suffering six weeks ; ague.
Lady, æt. about 50 ; headache.
Man, æt 53, stoutly built, revenue officer, suffering thirteen years ; bronchitis, emphysema and ulcers on legs.
Mrs. E., spare build, has almost always a slight cough, repeatedly affected with attacks of influenza of weeks and even months' duration ; cough.

Relations

Antidoted by : Rheum (diarrhœa).
Compare : Conium and Phytol . in symptoms of mamma.

The Therapeutics of Fevers

H. C. Allen · The Therapeutics of Fevers · 1902 Library of Congress printing (Allen d. 1909; public domain)

General

Adapted to persons of a feeble, irritable, lymphatic constitution, with weak and defective reaction.

Time

From 4 to 10 P. M.—4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 P. M.

Chill

Coldness and chilliness, with frequent shaking, about 8 P. M., continuing even after lying down; internal, could scarcely get warm in bed until midnight, though the skin was not cold to the touch. Shivering; as if dashed with cold water (Rhus, Sabad.); not > by warmth of stove. Chilliness and shivering over whole body, with gooseflesh on the arms and cutting pains in epigastric region. Chill every third day at 4 P. M., continuing one hour and preceded by severe rheumatic pains in arms.

Heat

Of the head and face, with burning and redness of the face. Heat and sweat lasted two hours, followed by violent headache, nausea and stitching pains in feet.

Sweat

Slight; intermingled with heat; often wanting altogether.

There may be present as concomitants catarrhal and pulmonary affections, loss of appetite, emaciation, sleeplessness, diarrhœa and night-sweats.

Generally on the day after the attack there would be entire in- ability to urinate, or it would pass off in small quantities with urging and burning pains.

"Jn. Frank reports (Path. Med. Trans., Paris, 1835) that he cured, without a failure, the intermittent fevers which prevailed during the spring and summer of 1801 with Phellandrium. But, he adds, immediately after that, in the following years, the same employed in the same disease failed. What more evident proof of the necessity of absolutely and always individualizing in pa- thology and therapeutics? The law of cure is immutable; there is no caprice about it; caprice is the appanage of physicians!

Phellandrium cured the fever of 1801; with the testimony of Jn.

Frank no one has a right to doubt it; and if it failed in the follow- ing epidemics it was because the medical constitution was no longer the same; and, not knowing how to individualize, Jn.

Frank has left us a memento, but a sterile one. If, however, he had left us the minutely exact protraiture of the fever of 1801, he would have left us the characteristics of Phellandrium, and the success which he obtained, instead of being lost to us, might have been repeated."—A. CHARGE, M. D.