efficiency of this remedy by their physiological provings, and introduced it into homoeopathic practice. Unfortunately, when Cyclamen appeared in the Materia Medicas of Hahnemann and Noack and Trincks, one range of its medical virtues remained undiscovered, owing to the circumstance that it had been proved only on the male sex. To disclose this, was reserved for the Physiological Prover's Union of Vienna. This society, by means of indefatigable provings on both sexes, (those on females, however, being separated from the rest), established the intimate relation of this medicine, to the female sexual organs, which has been abundantly confirmed by subsequent clinical experience.

2. PHYSIOLOGICAL PROVINGS. (a.) By Hahnemann and his disciples. When we read the physiological provings of Hahnemann in the fifth volume of his Pure Materia Medica, pages 40-60, we find the following significations: a sudden stupefaction, vertigo and dull-pressing headache; obscuration of the sight, dilation of the pupils; drawing pains in the nape of the neck, and in the teeth; nausea, eructations, loathing and aversion to food, and hiccough soon after eating; stinging, griping pains in the abdomen; sensation of general discomfort; flatulence and desire to urinate. Oppresion of the chest, pressing pain in the chest, stinging and drawing in the back; laming pressure, drawing and stinging in the extremities; weakness, itching, peevishness, sleepiness, lassitude, sleep disturbed and interrupted by bad dreams, chilliness of the whole body alternating with heat, loss of thirst, disinclination to labor or to speak, excessive sadness, melancholy; occasionally joyful feeling and lively fancy.

b.) The Vienna proving, (see Zeitschr. des Vereins der hom. Aerzte Eestereichs, 2 Bd., S. 445-488.) gives a similar result to that of Hahnemann, but it exceeds the latter in number of symptoms, and in the addition of those which belong to the female sexual organs, viz. Menstruation more profuse. Repeated appearance of the catamenia. Too early appearance of the catamenia. Menstruation attended by severe ab

dominal pains. Reappearance of long suppressed catamenia. (Curative effect). Menstruation increased in quantity, black and lumpy, and attended by labor-like pains.

3. CLINICAL EXPERIENCE. In the perusal of the foregoing symptoms, the powerful influence of this drug on the female organism becomes evident in a remarkable degree, and we are reminded of the similarityof the symptoms to those morbid processes which are commonly described as disturbance of the menses, chlorosis, etc. In fact, the most of the above symptoms are to be found in one and the san.e patient. and though some may be wanting in one case, we find them more distinctly marked in another.

I saw Cyclamen applied 34 times altogether; 18 times in the homoeopathic hospital in the Leopoldstadt, and 16 times in prescriptions for the poor, made by me at the dispensary connected with that institution, which I attended twice a week. and in private practice. The forms of disease in which it was applied were chlorosis-four cases; suppressed or scanty menstruation-nine cases; other diseases attended by vertigo or headache, in which scanty menstruation was also presenteighteen cases; double vision-two cases, and strabismus-one The fact that double vision was caused in three cases, twice by the use of the 15th dec. att., and once by the 3d dec. att., was interesting. In the last case, Cyclamen 15, removed the symptom.

case.

Cyclamen has proved very efficacious with blond, leucophlegmatic subjects in whom, besides retarded, suppressed or scanty menstruation, or complete chlorosis, the following symptoms existed: disinclination for any kind of labor; fatigue from slight causes; yawning; continual sleepiness: snoring, deep sleep or sleep disturbed by anxious dreams; chilliness over the whole body which no amount of covering will relieve; vertigo; sensation as if the brain wabbled about while walking; stupefaction and fullness of the head; periodical congestion of blood to the head, with paleness of the face; stinging pain in the forehead and temples; glimmering

before the eyes; attacks of faintness with cloudiness or obscuration of sight; occasional diplopia; roaring in the ears; frequent nausea; inclination to vomit or actual vomiting of ingested food or only of watery liquid; aversion to ordinary food and desire for uncatable things; frequent recurring colic-like pains; frequent urination or fruitless desire to urinate; ill-humour; disposition to weep; fear of death or an illusion of being deserted or persecuted by every one.

Cyclamen has been administered in the following forms of disease.

DYSMENORRHEA AND AMENORRHEA. Josephine K-A blond, 24 years of age, with pale delicate skin, pale lips. and pale gums, has menstruated normally, since her 19th year. Two years before I saw her, she got very wet during an excursion into the country with her mistress: the menses which had just commenced, ceased the same night and did not reappear for ten months. In the 11th month after the nominal use of many domestic remedies, they reappeared with frightful gripings and labor-like pains, which continued through the whole day and night. The two subsequent days during which the catamenia continued, she was free from pain. Since that time, they have continued to appear with intervals of from two to four months, attended by the same disorders. But as they appeared more violently than ever this time, and had already continued three days, she sought relief in the institution.

Condition on the fifth of December, 1858. Feeble but otherwise quite normal state of body; pale, delicate skin, which allows the veins to show through it; pale lips and pale gums; eyelids slightly edematons. Both lungs attenuated at the apex, but presenting nothing else of a morbid nature: the heart normal, its action accelerated; pulse 92, strong and bounding, yet slightly compressable; the rest of the organs offer no sensible alteration. The patient complains of pressing pain in the forehead; vertigo frequently accompanied by syncope; chilliness over the whole body; yery restless sleep

interrupted by frightful dreams; continual loathing of meat, longing for sardines, and frequent vomiting in the morning, The labor-like, contracting pains proceed from the small of the back and extend on both sides of the abdomen to the hypogastrium, and occur in periodical attacks of from one to two and even five minutes, during which time, no blood is discharged. The blood which is discharged after these laborlike contracting pains, is more watery.-Pulsatilla.

December 6th. Menstruation has entirely ceased, but the pain in the abdomen, and also the headache and vertigo still continue.

December 8th. The pains in the abdomen, have lost their labor-like character, and have left a sensation of soreness; the headache and vertigo still continue. Cyclamen" *

December 9th. The vertigo and headache are still present but are less severe.

December 11th, Both have disappeared; but in exchange for them, on awaking in the night, she saw fiery flames dancing before the eyes, and in the morning she saw the patients double; it seemed to her as if two patients, exactly alike, were lying in each bed, the body of one being half covered by the body of the other. Cyclamen was discontinued.

On the 13th of December, she had recovered her normal vision, and was able to leave the Institution on the 16th of December.

Two weeks afterward she came to me in the promenade, and begged me for some of the last medicine, (Cyclamen), which did her so much good; as, from the gradual return of the premonitory symptoms, viz: great lassitude, stupefaction of the head, melancholy, etc., she anticipated the appearance of the catamenia, and feared a repetition of the previous difficulties. In March of the present year, she returned to me, afflicted with a pulmonary catarrh, and she informed me that her catamenia were then present, and had been so for three days, that they had commenced with very moderate disorder

* Cyclamen was always given in the 15th dec. att. when the degree of attenuation is not specified.

in the abdomen, and that she had had no great reason to complain of headache or vertigo; since that time the menses have appeared regularly without special disorder, and she feels as sprightly as ever.

Anna F―, twenty years of age, blond, has menstruated since her 16th year; in her 17th and 18th years she was afflicted with Chlorosis; since that time, the catamenia have appeared regularly every month, but in moderate quantity. and they have continued only one or two days. She suffer frequently in the intervals with vertigo, and pressing pain in the forehead and temples, which is always relieved by a footbath of ashes. The appetitte is moderate; thirst very small at present; sleep increased; frequent sadness; bowels regular.

Condition on the twelfth of May, 1858. Developement good, skin and lips pale, lungs free, palpitation of the heart. Pulse 92. Abdomen normal. Slow in speech and movement: she is ill-humoured, and has a constant desire to sleep.Pulsatilla.

May 17th. Little change in the state of health. The beadache and vertigo continue with equal severity, but the desire to sleep and the gloomy disposition are somewhat diminished. -Cyclamen 3d dec. att.

May 19th. The headache and vertigo have entirely disappeared, and the mind is somewhat more serene.

May 20th. Dimness of sight, and glimmering before the eyes. Discontinue the medicine.

May 22d. Unclouded vision; the patient left the Institution with a cheerful mind.

In the remaining seven cases of menstrual irregularities, Cyclamen proved itself surprisingly efficacious against the attending headache, and vertigo. In one case, diplopia, and in two cases glimmering before the eyes occurred; in the remaining four cases, the sense of sight suffered no change.

(To be Continued.)

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*In all three of the cases in which deranged vision occured, the 3d dec. att. had been used; the remaining four cases received Cyclamen 15th dec. att.