Phosphorus.

in the chest; painfulness of the larynx, impeding speech; the larynx seemed furred, as if unable to utter a loud word. Mucous expectoration, especially mornings; dry, tickling cough in the evening, with tightness across the chest; pain in chest when coughing, relieved by external pressure; trembling of the whole body when coughing.

Oppression of the chest early in the morning, in bed, with chilliness and violent headache; tightness of the chest, as if bound by a band; pressure on the lower part of the chest; rush of blood to chest.

Rush of blood to the heart and palpitations with anxiety, very violent after dinner; a few strong beats during motions, going off when at rest.

Arsenicum.

ficient secretion of mucus; dry, racking cough; especially in the evening, after lying down, or at night, excited by drink or cold air; suffocative fits, especially at night, in bed; tenacious mucus in trachea and bronchi with difficult expectoration.

Difficulty of breathing; anxious and oppressive shortness of breath, suffocative oppression with excessive debility.

Violent, excessive palpitations of the heart, particularly at night, also irregular, with anguish, or when lying on the back.

Frequent yawning, with chilliness in the evening, light sleep and when waking up during the night, has great difficulty in falling asleep again; dreams constantly sad or frightful dreams; is drowsy and sleeps long in the morning, but awakes not refreshed, but with great langour of irritable and morose. the limbs.

Frequent yawning, with uneasiness and tossing about; restless sleep, interrupted from 3 A. M; wakes early, has difficulty in falling asleep again; starts in his sleep as if frightened, talking and quarreling; dreams full of care and anxiety, and wakes early,

Coldness of the whole body, as if deficient of animal heat, even near the warm stove, or in bed; violent chills at night, with diarrhoea, afterward heat with thirst and internal chilliness, and when

Mingling of heat and chilliness; heat generally dry and burning, sometimes accompanied by diarrhoa, great languor, weakness, trembling of the limbs, oedema of the feet and other dropsical

XIV.

Lilium Tigrinum.

By E. M. HALE, M. D.

The honor of introducing this remedy into our materia medica is due to Dr. W. E. Payne, of Bath, Maine. (See page 190.) Owing to his enthusiastic and industrious efforts, several provings of great value have been made. These provings are superior to nearly all our previous provings from the fact that the objective symptoms were noted, and certain pathological conditions recognized beyond controversy.

The sphere of action of lilium appears to involve the heart, and the sexual organs, and it affects these organs in a profound and peculiar manner. The high character of all the provers, and those who vouch for them, affords the strongest guarantes of their genuineness.' The tincture of the flowers, is the officinal preparation, but the tincture of the seeds may be more potent. The bulbous root is probably not medicinal, being eaten by the natives of China and Japan, where the plant is indigenous.

The following is a collection of the most notable symptoms obtained up to this time, excepting however, a large number which will appear in the complete resumé in the transactions of the American Institute for 1870. (See page 190).

Mental Sphere.

Do not care to be pleased; don't care to talk; desire to sleep; confusion of ideas; pressure and crazy feeling upon the vertex, so that she cannot write her symptoms (vv;) she wants somebody to talk to her and entertain her; feels quite nervous; feels hurried and yet incapable, as if she had a great deal to do and cannot do it; much thirst; drinks often, and much at a time; she is conscious of feeling nervous, irritable, and yet says she feels jolly; don't want to complain, and yet don't avoid people; she remarks that her symptoms are all worse when she gives up active resistance to them and control over herself, as for example, when she sits down to rest or tries to go to sleep; discouraged and despondent; averse to being along but does not dread it; wits and intuitions dull and languid; depres

sion; desire for fine things of every kind; dissatisfied with what she has, and envious of others; while attending a lecture desire to strike the lecturer and in the evening a disposition to swear at every body and everything, and to think and speak of obscene things; languid, dull, and forgetful; despondency with aggravation at night; nervous tremulousness and inability to apply the mind; wild feeling in the head as though she would go crazy and no one would take care of her; thoughts of suicide.

Head.

Heat and pain in forehead and brow; severe blinding headache in the anterior part of the head; the peculiarity of which was a sensation as if all the blood were pressing out through every aperture ; headache as if the head were too full of blood, as if the blood would issue from nose and ears (vv;) pressure from within outward (vv ;) darting pains in different parts of the head; grumbling pain in the right side of head and teeth; the head grows "wild" after she has been quiet a short time; pressure and a crazy feeling upon the vertex, so that she cannot write her symptoms; dull and sharp pains particularly over the eyes; the pains, etc., of the head are heaviness, heat, fullness, dullness, right side mostly affected.

Much thirst; drinks often, and much at a time; nausea.

Stomach.

Eructations soon after taking the medicine; nausea with desire to vomit, but unable to do so (vvv;) bubbling sensation in the right hypochondriumh; constant desire to vomit, with frequent hawking of mucus from the throat; great distension of the stomach, with frequent eructations and escape of flatus from the anus (vv;) (escape of flatus upward and downward was a very constant attendant while under the influence of the drug.)

Abdomen and Genital Organs.

At intervals the skin of the abdomen felt stiff and stretched; nau; sea, with bloated sensation in the abdomen, particularly across the hips and in the region of the uterus, with darting pains in different parts of the head; some tearing pain in the lower part of the abdomen, from the region of the ovary down both sides; pain in the

right iliac region; better during motion; increased depressing weight over the pubes, worse in evening; the dragging downward toward pelvis is felt as high as the stomach and even the shoulders; not relieved by lying down, though worse when standing; a disposition to place the hand upon the hypogastrium and press npward in order to relieve the dragging sensation; wants to cry from a feeling of irritation and of something wrong in the abdomen and pelvis; a sensa⚫tion in the pelvis as though everything was coming into the world through the vagina (vv); a very distressing sensation, not relieved by change of position; also, an aching and pressure across the lumbar-sacral region and some pressure on the rectum; when walking, pain in both ovaries, worse in the left, extending down the anterior and inner aspect of the left thigh, as if it would be impossible to take another step; as soon as she extended the limb she must immediately flex it again, and then, because of a restless discomfort, must again extend it; she cannot tell which pelvic pain is the worse, that in back or that in the pubic region; the whole contents of the pelvis seem to drag downward and forward and quite from the epigastric region; feels bloated, but is not so; somewhat tender, on pressure, in region of the ovaries, especially the right; aching in the pelvis between promontory of sacrum and pubes; it feels to her as if the aching was not in the uterus but around it; she feels constantly the two spots corresponding to the ovaries; and which ache and feel like coals of fire; in the pelvis a feeling like a dragging out, as if the whole contents were pushing down into a funnel, the outlet of which coincided with the vagina (vv); pain in the right ovary as if a knife were inserted into the ovary and ripped down the groin and the anterior part of the thigh; the pain extended over the lumbar-sacral region, and she must cry herself to sleep; somewhat relieved by pressure on the ovarian region; menses occurred at the regular day, and normal, but only while she keeps moving; the flow ceases when she becomes quiet; sexual instincts, formerly dormant, are now quite strong; wits and intuitions dull and languid; leucorrhoea (a thin, acrid discharge leaving a brown stain; she never had it before) (vv); a burning pain across the hypogastrium, from groin to groin; menses recurred after an interval of two weeks; a slight, dark, thick and offensive discharge; pressing down in the pelvis and burning all around the pubes and genitals, worse from three to five P. M. (v); rumbling in the lower part of the bowels, more on the right side (vvv); abdomen tender to pressure occasionally.