FOOTNOTES:
[L] The definite article is used because it is believed to be complete, thanks to the scholarship and courtesy of Dr. Henry M. Smith, of New York. To him, also, am I indebted for the original text of Pothos fœt. from the Correspondenzblatt.
Pothos Fœtida Symptomatology.
Translated from the Correspondenzblatt by T. C. Fanning, M. D., Tarrytown, N. Y.[M]
Because the odor is quite like Mephitis it is considered a so-called anti-spasmodic.
Abstract of symptoms from Hering, Humphreys, and Lingen.
So absent-minded and thoughtless that he enters the sick rooms without knocking; pays no attention to those speaking to him. Irritable, inclined to contradict; violent.
Headache of brief duration, in single spots, now here, now there, with confusion. Pressure in both temples, harder on one side than on the other alternately, with violent pulsation of the temporal arteries.
Drawing in the forehead in two lines from the frontal eminences to the glabella, where there is a strong outward drawing as if by a magnet.
Red swelling, like a saddle, across the bridge of the nose, painful to the touch, especially on the left side near the forehead, while the cartilaginous portion is cold and bloodless; with red spots on the cheek, on the left little pimples; swelling of the cervical and sub-maxillary glands.