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the scrotum. My whole body is in an excited state. symptoms appear so frequently that they can no longer be recorded. Stool at half-past 12, light red and painful.

18th.-Took nothing, At 10 o'clock at night, stitches in the liver. Unusual excitement throughout the day, as well as at night. Slept from half-past 11, restless and dreaming, but not distressing dreams.

19th.-Cheerful. At three o'clock, pricking in the liver; from 10.30, sleep, with light dreams.

20th. At 8.30, took eight drops; no change a.m.; 3 p.m., congestion in the occiput; from 4.15 to 5, cheeks burning; after 10, sound sleep.

21st. At 1.30 took eight drops. From 4 to 6, congestion in the head: eyes and cheeks especially inflamed; 5 p.m. crawling sensation in the rectum.

22nd. Took eight drops at 3 and at 1.30; burning in the eyes all day; lips dry, brittle, and crusty; itching sensation in the meatus auditorius, first of one ear, then the other; from 10, sound sleep.

23rd.-Took fifteen drops at 8; nothing remarkable a.m; the lips better. At 2.45, spasmodic pressure on the stomach; at 2.30, considerable congestion, with heat of the head, till about 4; at 2.45, pressure on the stomach, with

nausea.

24th. Took eight drops at 8 and at 1.30. At 10 and 11, crawling in the perinæum and rectum; burning in the right eye; at 4, crawling in the perinæum; dryness of the nose and lips.

27th. Took eight drops at 8. At 10, pricking in the right shoulder and testicle; at 11, pricking pain in the forehead, right side; at 2 p.m., almost uninterrupted itching of the perinæum; lips dry, eyes burning; at 4, pricking in the right great toe, repeatedly; at 4.30, pricking in the glans and right great toe.

28th. Took eight drops at 8 a.m.; head confused.

29th. Took eight drops at 8. At 5 p.m., spasmodic contraction of the region of the navel; then pricking pains in the right meatus auditorius and upper part of the forehead.

February 15th.-During the whole fortnight since January 30th, troublesome tormenting itching in the anus and

rectum.

March 8th. Since February 15th, gentle itching of the anus and rectum, from day to day.

From March 8th, I suffered from humming in the ears and deafness for some weeks, so that I had to discontinue the proving for a long time; as the deafness did not go off of itself, a dose of sulphur caused profuse perspiration, and the deafness ceased.

Having felt no inconvenience for more than a week, I ventured on April 6th to resume the proving.

April 6th. At 11, 1, and 3 o'clock, took three drops each time in water; in two hours after, dull pain in the temples.

7th.—At 11, 1, 3, and 6 o'clock, took three drops in water; in the afternoon, drawing pains all over the body, with fluent coryza; violent drawing pains from the crown to the right temple, so that I had to go to bed at 8.

8th.-Took no more, on account of continued pains as yesterday.

9th.—At 9, 11, 1, 3, and 6 o'clock, took two drops in water; at 11, pricking in the point of the nose.

12th.-At 8, 11, 1, and 5 o'clock, took two drops. 13th.-Drawing pain through the lower middle incisors. early; at 8, in the right cheek bone.

14th.-At 7, 9, 11, 1, and 8 o'clock, took two drops. 15th.—At 8, 10, 12, 2, and 10 o'clock, two drops; urine soon after passing it became reddish and turbid; stool whitish red.

18th. At 9, 12, and 10 o'clock, three drops; at 3 p.m., itching in the rectum, and at 4 in the point of the nose; general heat, with restlessness, and paralytic sensation in the legs all day; urine reddish; pressive pain in the occiput.

Up to the beginning of June I had to give up the proving, for want of time for observing. As far as I could notice, I had no suffering during the interval.

June 11th.-At 8, 10, 2, and 10 o'clock, took two drops; at 8 p.m., cutting in the intestines, all round the navel.

12th.-Sleepless till after 11; in the morning, tongue shaggy, coated with gray, which could be partly scraped off; hawking up of lumps of phlegm; at 8, 10, 12, 2, 6, and 8, took two drops; ringing in the ears, yawning, burning and redness of the cheeks.

13th. Sleepless till after 11; distressing dream that I was going to be shot. At 8, 10, 12, 5, and 10 o'clock, took two drops; from 5 to 6, burning of the tip of the ear, pressure in the upper jaw; about 8 p.m., chill; at 10, dull pressure in the right cheek bone, drawing to the right ear; tongue coated gray all day.

14th. At 9, 11, 1, 3, 6, and 10 o'clock, took two drops; at 3 p.m., pressure, with ringing in the right meatus auditorius; at 5, itching in the anus, pricking pain in the forehead several times; tongue clean.

15th. At 9, 11, 3, and 8 o'clock, took two drops. At 11 a.m., toothache in the left upper jaw.

16th.-At 9, 11, 12, 3, and 5 o'clock, took two drops; sleepy p.m.; at 3, pain in the right cheek bone and the upper part of the occiput; at 7, pressure and constriction of the right shoulder-blade, drawing through the chest towards the sternum; pressure on the larynx, as if it was constricted; oppression of the chest.

17th. Same symptoms; so I took no more; at 5 p.m., burning in the tips of the ears.

18th. The same pressive pain in the chest, with great tightness.

19th. At 10, 12, and 2 o'clock, took three drops; heat all over the head all day; tearing from the cheek bone towards the ear, and all around it, on the right side; from thence it draws towards the occiput in the upper part, towards the suture, with the parietal bones and feet, as if the hair was bristling; feet and tips of the fingers cold.

21st.-At 7.30 and at 2 p.m., took five drops; at 1.15, constrictive pressure in the scrobiculus cordis, dryness in the throat, shortness of breath, and ringing in the ears; feet and fingers cold.

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22nd.--At 10, took five drops; feet and tips of fingers cold; pressure on the bladder, with frequent scanty urine; hair falling off.

23rd. Took none; at 11, itching in the anus; at 5, pain in the right little finger.

25th. At 9 a.m., took five drops in water; at 3 p.m., burning in the eyes, then in the forehead; at 5.15, itching on the right ankle; at 7, on the left; at 9, pricking in the right wrist, itching in the right ear, burning in the tip of the right ear, and reddened cheeks; loose stool.

26th. Took none, stool as yesterday.

27th and 28th.-Constipation.

29th. At 9, five drops in water; at 10, three; pappy light gray stools.

30th. Perspiration on awaking, after distressing dreams; dryness in the nose and throat. At 10, took ten drops in water; at 11, itching in the right ear; at 11.15, itching in the rectum; at 5.30, sense of swelling in the right cheekbone, pressure in the eyes, burning in the tips of the ears, and cold in the tip of the nose; at 6, itching in the anus, burning cheeks, glitter before the eyes, itching in the ears and arms, excitement and restlessness, frequent yawning, pricking close under the left shoulder-blade.

(To be continued.)

ON THE RELATION OF PERUVIAN BARK (CÓRT. CHINE) TO INTERMITTENT FEVER.

By Dr. LANGHEINZ, of Darmstadt.*

THE fact that Cort. China, by virtue of the alkaloids contained in it (and especially the Quinine) causes the not yet thoroughly explained intermittent process-this fact, I say, has acquired a marked and weighty significance through Samuel Hahnemann; since he affirms that this Bark, incorporated with the organism in sufficient quantity,

*From Homöopathische Vierteljahrschrift, p. 376.

calls forth in the system a process similar, with symptoms similar, to Intermittent Fever. That the above statement

is correct we are taught by the observation S. Hahnemann adds to the "Introduction to Peruvian Bark," in page 99 of the Materia Medica Pura. According to this, Hahnemann, as early as 1790 (vide W. Cullen's Materia Medica, vol. ii, page 109, Schweickert, Leipsic, note), made the first pure experiment on himself with Peruvian Bark in regard to its power of exciting Intermittent Fever. Less clearly than in this passage (1825) does Hahnemann express himself in 1810, Organon, first edition, § 32, as follows:

"The tincture of one ounce of Peruvian Bark, with two pounds of water, taken gradually, night and day, as surely produces a China fever of several days as the exposure to a fenny atmosphere in Autumn brings on an ordinary Intermittent Fever."

That the similarity of the China fever with the Intermittent was, and still is, considered as firmly established, we are taught by (amongst others) Dr. Altschul, in Homœopathy Opposed to the Other Methods of Cure by Dr. L, H. Verney, translated from the French, &c., page 20 (Prague, 1858), where we find :

Being only acquainted with the power possessed by China to cure intermittent fever, I was not a little astonished to find that it can also generate a similar disorder in healthy subjects."

By all this it will be indisputably proved that Homœopathy ascribes to China the power of exciting, in healthy persons, a disorder similar to intermittent fever.

So it will be generally admitted that this similarity of the China fever to the Intermittent has been the starting-point of all Homœopathic researches. Hahnemann's experiment, which made known to him the property in question, is looked upon as the foundation stone of Homœopathy-as its fundamental experiment. In the place of any other voucher, I here refer to the above-named little work of Dr. Altschul, p. 21, and also to Dr. Bolle's Popular Instructions for the Critical Understanding of the Medical Art in General, and Homœopathy in Particular. Paderborn, 1858, cap. ii, p. 63.