Homoeopathic provings : containing the Vienna provings of colocynth and thuja-occidentalis, and the symptoms of aethusa-cynapium, alcohol-sulphuris, amphisbaena-vermicularis, anagallis-arvensis, apis-mellifica, aristolochia-milhomens, arsenicum-metallicum, artemesia-vulgaris, asterias-rubens, cinnabaris, turpethum, coccus-cacti : being the appendix to the North American homoeopathic journal / edited by James W. Metcalf.

  • Metcalf, James W.
Date:
1853
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Credit: Homoeopathic provings : containing the Vienna provings of colocynth and thuja-occidentalis, and the symptoms of aethusa-cynapium, alcohol-sulphuris, amphisbaena-vermicularis, anagallis-arvensis, apis-mellifica, aristolochia-milhomens, arsenicum-metallicum, artemesia-vulgaris, asterias-rubens, cinnabaris, turpethum, coccus-cacti : being the appendix to the North American homoeopathic journal / edited by James W. Metcalf. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pecially after eating warm food. This was accompanied with painful compression in the region of both malleoli of the left foot, and slight burning during urination, the urine being redder than usual. 8th. Another twenty grains. They produced frequent eructations, as of rancid grease ; desire to urinate ; great drowsiness in the evening. 12th. Another twenty grains in the morning. They occasioned ran- cid eructations, violent bleeding at the nose almost every time he blew it, and frequent urination, with burning in the fossa navicularis. (13.) Second proving, with the tincture. After an interval of more than two months and a half, Dr. B. insti- tuted a second proving with the tincture of Thuja. He diluted ten drops of the tincture with six ounces of distilled water, of which he took two table-spoonfuls on the morning of the 3d of March, 1845, be- fore breakfast. After the lapse of two hours he experienced frequent eructations; frequent urging to urinate in the daytime. Next day : obstruction of the nose, which began to bleed as soon as he attempted to expel air through it. March 5th. In the morning, B. took four tablespoonfuls of the above- mentioned dilution. Headache in the forehead with warmth, frequent urination with urging, slight burning under the sternum, painful pressure at the root of the nose. These symptoms disappeared gra- dually within three days. 10th. Eight spoonfuls of the same dilution. Result: continued ran- cid eructations; oppression of the chest; frequent hawking and hack- ing ; continued burning along the whole length of the sternum; fre- quent urination followed by long-continued urging. 15th. B. took, as a final experiment, ten drops of the undiluted tinc- ture on sugar. The effects were rancid eructations (for eight hours); fluent coryza, disturbing the night's rest; weight on the chest; painful stitches in the big toe of the left foot; frequent urination with urging. All these symptoms increased on the day following, subsequent^ de- creased, and disappeared entirely in a few days. It is to be regretted that B., whose organism seemed to possess a great susceptibility to the effects of Thuja, did not pursue his experi- ments with more perseverance. B. Doctor Frohlich proved the Thuja on himself, and on one girl and two rabbits. I. frohlich's provings of the thuja on himself. F. instituted six separate provings with Thuja.