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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    This indefatigable prover deserved a better result: the. drug in him principally affected the primae vise, producing violent flatulent colic, diarrhoea, and enuresis, by which revulsions the development of the specific effects of Thuja was prevented. F. Jacob Landesmann, chief physician to the battalion of Grenadiers, under Major Blankardt, made two experiments upon himself with Thuja. (33.) First proving with dilutions. The unquestionable effects which L. had experienced from a few drops of the first dilution of Bryonia, induced him to commence the proving of Thuja with the smallest doses of the higher dilutions, and to descend by gentle degrees to the lower. After he had discontinued taking Bryonia for three weeks, and had felt free from any drug-symptoms for two, he took, from the 4th to the 20th of Sept., 1844, regularly every morning, one hour before a milk breakfast, three globules moistened with the 27th dilution of Thuja, (1 : 100 prepared by himself five years before). Sept. 4th and 5th. L. remarked no change in his sensations. 6th. In the forenoon, drawing tearing in the right arm, lasting se- veral hours. 7th. The same sensation. 8th. Drawing,, sticking pains in the right index and middle fingers. 9th. A renewal of the drawing tearing in the right arm, in the morning; later, at about half-past ten, debility and lameness in the right forearm, and violent trembling of the right hand, in which the veins swelled without any apparent cause. This appearance lasted half an hour, and disappeared while writing. 10th. Violent itching on different parts of the skin, particularly on the breast, with a sensation as if the skin at those spots was pierced with many very fine needles, which irresistibly obliged him to scratch. On the evening of the same day, there came on, without cause, a heavy cold preceded by dulness of the head and frequent sneezing. 11th. At 10 in the morning, a sticking pain in the ring-finger of the left hand ; towards noon, stinging itching on the breast again, and on both sides of the neck, and at 9 in the evening, drawing pains in the left shin-bone. 12th. A slight pain was observed in the right side of the pharynx, extending to the ear, somewhat aggravated by swallowing. 13th. The morning pain in the neck had entirely disappeared, but returned in the afternoon, with feeling of dryness and increased thirst, and wholly vanished again in the evening. The remaining days presented no new symptoms. It is particularly to be remarked, however, that the catarrh was troublesome through the whole of this proving, and had this peculiarity, that it often com-