1. Sad, he avoids company. Exalted imagination. Indolence of mind. Merry and talkative. 5. Pressure on the right side of the forehead. Darting in the left temple. Heaviness of the head. Expansive pressure in the orbits, and sensation of internal itching. The eyes are red and smart. 10. The orbits feel larger, and as if in contact with the orbital walls. Formication of the lower jaw. Violent itching at the lips. Itching of the pubis. Erections without desire. 15. Pain under the false ribs. Tingling in the lumbar region. Pain at the sacrum, worse when rising. Itching at the lumbar vertebræ. Prickings in the tips of the right fingers. 20. Acute pain in the right wrist. Pain at the right knee. Prickling at the big toe. Poetical dreams. Red pimple, leaving a black spot after breaking. 25. Excoriation at the left masseter muscle. Aversion to work. Itching all over.
JACARANDA CAROBA. (D. C.)
JAC. BIGNONIA CAROBA. (WELL.)
This is a tree with white wood, the ramose top of which attains a height of from 20 to 28 feet. Leaves pennate, tri- or quadrijugate, composed of from five to nine opposite, sessile, glabrous and oval folioles. Flowers large, violet-colored, on pedicles that are expanded at their extremities, and forming ramose terminal panicles. Calix tubulous, with five teeth, corolla tubulous, slightly pubescent externally, and expanding at its summit into a limb with five obtuse divisions. Stamens five, one of which is rudimentary; ovary avoïd, surmounted by a simple style terminating in a bilamellary stygma. The husks are linear and flat. The caroba is very common in Brazil, in gardens and on plantations; it blossoms in September. We employ the flower.
Several varieties of the caroba are used in Brazil for the treatment of syphilitic diseases. For our provings we have selected the Jacaranda caroba, which has furnished results as complete as could be desired. We consider this drug of great importance in the treatment of chancres.
First day.—1. Stitch at the heart; the heart seems to beat slowly in placing the hand upon it, at 9 in the evening. Stitch and pulling below the stomach, on the right side, at midnight. Dryness and pricking all over.
Second day.—No sleep at night and drowsy in the day-time. 5. Dry mouth, in the morning, in bed. One does not feel any longer the beats of the heart, in the morning, in bed. The heart beats regularly again after going into the open air. Painful stitch at the heart, almost constantly. Full and slow pulse, in the morning, in bed. Weary while talking. 10. Drawing pain on the right side, from the axilla to the false ribs, at 9 in the morning. Dull pain under the sternum, in raising the head and drawing breath. He eats little, though his appetite is good, at 9 in the morning. General weakness, in the morning. Slight pain at the articulation of the second phalanx of the fingers of the right hand, at half past 9 in the morning. 15. Weakness of the legs. Pain as if bruised in the right knee, while walking, at 10 in the morning, of short duration. Sense as if bruised in the muscles and bones of the legs. Slight drawing pain from the eye to the right lower jaw, followed by shuddering in the same region, at 11 in the morning; this pain recurs, changing to a contusive pain. Sensitiveness of the malar bone when pressing on it with the finger. 20. Sensation of painfulness at the apex of the heart, on the right side, at noon. Hurried breathing, with sense of fullness under the sternum, several times in the course of the day. Painful stitch under the false right ribs, at noon. No stool. Momentary drawing in the flexor communis digitorum, left wrist, at half past 12, afternoon. 25. Pulling from the lower extremity of the forearm to the right little finger, for one hour. Weariness of the limbs, and desire to remain seated. Weakness of the limbs; and lumbar region, at 2. Slight pain in the right ribs, below, at half past 2. Painful fullness in the right temple, shifting a moment after to the left temple, and disappearing in the left side of the nape of the neck, in the evening, in the open air. 30. Sense of fullness in the head, in the afternoon. Dull pain between the forehead and right temple; it disappears in the evening, by shifting to the opposite side. Pain as if excoriated at the left side of the tongue. Pulling from the lower jaw to the middle of the neck, on the right side, in the evening. Fullness in the pit of the stomach, with feeble, hurried breathing; sometimes a strong and long inspiration, with strong and sudden expiration, in the afternoon. 35. Lancinating pain in the region of the heart. Continued prickings under the sternum. Painful stitch on the left side of the navel. Sensation, while walking, as of dull thorns or little pieces of straw between the thighs, or as if stiff and dry moss is applied to a raw sore. Itching at the anus, while sitting. 40. Pain at the left elbow, striking through the whole forearm by fits and starts, in the evening. Dull pain in the right wrist-joints, penetrating to the middle of the forearm; a similar sensation at the left arm, but slighter. Pain as if bruised in the bones of the right forearm, and lancination from the wrist to the forearm, at 6 in the evening. Acute deep-seated, drawing pain under the left last rib, at 6 in the evening. Palpitation of the heart in going up- and down-stairs, with acute pain, as if it were pushed with the tip of the finger, at 9 in the evening.
Third day.—45. Doughy mouth, at 6 in the morning. The heart seems to beat in the pit of the stomach, at 6 in the morning; its beats are no longer felt under the left breast. The beating of the heart recommences during motion, but is slow and feeble. Noise in the ears, like the flapping of the wings of a butterfly, at 8 in the morning. Sneezing and fluent discharge from the nose, at half past 8 in the morning. 50. Itching at the left commissure of the lips, at 9 in the morning. Fatiguing drawing pain in the anterior cervical muscles, extending to the right ear, at half past 9 in the morning. Colic; flatulence shifts about in the abdomen, followed by emission of inodorous flatulence, at half past 9 in the morning. Painful stitch in the integuments of the abdomen, between the navel and the pit of the stomach, a little on the right side, at 10 in the morning. Dull pain above the wrist and in the radius, at half past 10 in the morning. 55. Dull crampy pain in the right elbow, shifting afterwards to the left elbow. Pain as if bruised in the right side, at a quarter of 11 in the morning. Painful stitch at the heart, shifting at once to the other side, as if one had two hearts, at 11 in the morning. Extensive aching pain from the right upper part of the forehead to the eye, at noon. Slight pain in the right temple, as if several dull points were pressed upon it at the same time; dull pain in the right orbit. 60. Coryza at half past 12. Mouth dry and doughy. Sensation in the skin as if grasped, on the right side of the navel, at one in the evening. No stool. Lancination from the elbow to the middle of the forearm, thence to the left wrist, from 9 to 3 in the evening. 65. Stoppage of the nose, at 3 in the evening. Boring pain at the right external carotid, at half past 3 in the evening. Vertical pullings above the pit of the stomach, at 4 in the evening.
Fourth day.—Stiffness of the loins and pain in the abdomen and hypochondria as if bruised, at 6 in the morning. Soft and easy stool, (previous to the proving the stools were generally hard and painful.) 70. The inflammation of the anus has disappeared. Coryza, with heaviness and weariness at the vertex, forehead and eyes, at 9 in the morning. Coryza, with digging, lancinating pain in the left side of the forehead, corresponding to the palatine arch of the same side, at noon. Dry lips, mouth and tongue. Intense itching between the left ring- and little finger, and a red, itching spot on the second phalangeal joint of the ring-finger. 75. A red spot, with a yellowish pellicle and itching at the forepart of the wrists, at noon. Heat at the left ear, with burning digging pain extending to the left nostril, at half past 2 in the evening. Sensation as if the left ear were stopped up, at half past 3 in the afternoon.