CICUTA VIROSA
(Long-leaved Water Hemlock.)
(From vol. vi, 2nd
edit., 1826.)
(The freshly expressed juice
from the root gathered when the plant is commencing to flower, mixed
with equal parts of alcohol.)
The following symptoms can only
be regarded as a commencement of a thorough proving of the peculiar
effects of this powerful plant in the altering the human health.
Further and more complete provings
will show that it is useful in rare cases where no other remedy
is homoeopathically suited, and particularly in chronic cases, for
I have seen its effects last for three weeks, even when given in
small doses.
Traditional medicine has never
made any internal use of cicuta virosa; for when cicuta was prescribed,
as it was very often some years ago, it was actually conium maculatum
that was meant by that name.
The juice of cicuta was used
only for external application in preparing the cicuta plaster on
LINNEUS’S recommendation, particularly by the Danish Pharmacopoeia
(Empl, de cicuta, Pharm. Dan.). It was applied for the
purpose of allaying gouty pains.
The juice of fresh root (for
it has little action when dried) is so powerful that ordinary practitioners
did not dare (“Nec, ulli austor essum, ut interno usui dicaret,”
say MURRAY (Apparat. Medicam., tom. I, 2nd edit., p.
402.) to give it internally in their accustomed big doses, and
consequently had to do without it and its curative power altogether.
Homoeopathy alone knows how to
employ with advantage this powerfully remedial juice in the decillion-fold
dilution (30th dilution).
[In this proving HAHNEMANN had
the assistance of his son FRIEDRICH HAHNEMANN, HORNBURG, and LANGHAMMER.
The only authorities of traditional
medicine quoted are:
ALLEN, Synopsis.
Bresl. Samml., 1727.
WEPFER, De
cicuta aquat.
The number of symptoms is the
same in both Editions.]
CICUTA VIROSA
In the morning after rising from
bed, confusion of the head.
Stupid and dazed (after 10 m.).
[Fr. H-n.]
Stupid in the head, with rigor;
at the same time the neck felt stiff and the muscles too short.
[Fr. H-n.]
Absence of thought, difficulty
of recollecting himself, deprivation of the senses. [WEPFER, De cicuta aquat., (Two boys and six girls are largely
of it. (Quite half of the symptoms referred by HAHNEMANN to the
authority are not to be found, after the most diligent search, in
his pages.) and ALLEN Synopsis.
(Poisoning of four children.)
5. Intoxication, staggering.
[WEPFER, l. c.]
When walking, vertigo, as though
he would fall forward to the left (aft. 72 h.). [Lr.]
On stooping he feels as if he
would fall head – foremost (aft. 80 h.). [Lr.]
Vertigo, staggering. (Not found.) [WEPFER, l. c.]
Staggering and swaying when walking
(aft. 82 h.). [Lr.]
10. When sitting, standing, and
walking, he is as if intoxicated (aft. 5 m.). [Fr. H-n.]
All objects appear to him round
in a circle, especially when he is seated – for many hours (aft.
2 h.). [Fr. H-n.]
Objects seem to him to move hither
and thither, from one side to the other, although they all retain
their right shape (aft. 10 m.). [Fr. H-n.]
She thinks she must place or
seat herself more firmly, because she sees nothing steady or firm
about her, and she consequently thinks that she herself is unsteady;
everything dazzles her (aft. 15 m.). [Fr.
H-n.]
She imagines she is swaying to
one side or another, or that the objects around her are moving to
and fro; it seems to her that nothing is standing still, but that
everything swings backwards and forwards like a pendelum. [Fr.
H-n.]
15. When she has to stand still,
she wishes she could lay hold of something, because the objects
seem at one time to come near her and then again to recede from
her. [Fr. H-n.]
Staggering, so that she thinks
she must fall (aft. 6 h.). [Fr. H-n.]
Vertigo; he fell to the ground.
[WEPFER, and ALLEN, l. c.]
He is always inclined to fall
to the ground. [WEPFER, l. c.]
He fell to the ground without
saying a word. [WEPFER, l. c.]
20. He falls to the ground and
rolls about. [WEPFER, l. c.]
A hammering pain in the forehead,
from noon till evening (aft. 2 h.). [Fr. H-n.]
Anxiety in the head. [Fr.
H-n.]
Stupefied and heavy in the head
(aft. 74 h.). [Lr.]
Heaviness in the head when sitting.
[Hbg.]
25. In the morning on waking,
headache, just as if the brain were loose and shook when walking;
when he set himself to think what sort of pain it was exactly, it
was gone.
Headache pressing together from
both sides. [Hbg.]
Aching in the left frontal bone.
[Hbg.]
Pressive, stupefying headache
externally on the forehead, more when at rest (aft.
1, 36 h.). [Lr.]
Semilateral headache, like an
aching more externally.
30. Severe headache in the occiput
like dull pressure, accompanied by some coryza (aft. 48 h.).
(After sickness in the abdomen,
violent headache lasting two days; shooting, which extended from
the nose and right eye to the occiput) (aft. 15 d.).
(After the headache, dazedness
for two days.)
The headache went off on sitting
upright.
The headache is relieved by discharge
of flatus.
35. Creeping in the forehead
as from ants (aft. 2 m.). [Fr. H-n.]
Shooting pain in the frontal
bone. [Hbg.]
Stitches extending along the
eyebrow (aft. 12 h.). [Lr.]
Great eruption on the hairy scalp
and face. [Fr. H-n.]
Exanthematous elevations, the
size of a lentil, all over the face (and on both hands), which caused
a burning pain when they first appeared, then became confluent,
of a dark red colour, lasting nine days, when desquamation ensued,
which lasted three weeks. (I have cured chronic, suppurating,
confluent eruptions in the face having only burning pain by means
of one or two doses of a small part of a drop of the juice, but
I did not venture to give the second dose in less than three to
four weeks; when the first dose did not suffice.) [Fr. H-n.]
Redness of the face. (With
S. 206.) [WEPFER, l. c.]
Face (and neck) swollen. (Not
found.) [WEPFER, l. c.]
Eyes protruded from the head.
(Not found.) [WEPFER, l. c.]
Staring look. (Not found.)
[WEPFER, l. c.]
He keeps staring at one and the
same spot, whereby everything appears to him like black stuff (aft.
6 h.). [Fr. H-n.]
45. Staring (aft. ¼ h.); she
looks fixedly at one and the same place, and cannot help doing so,
much as she would like to; at the same time she has not full command
of her senses, and must be very strongly excited in order to answer
correctly; if she compels herself forcibly, by turning away her
head, to cease having her eyes directed on the object, she loses
consciousness, and all becomes dark before her eyes. [Fr. H-n.]
Even though she keeps her look
steadily fixed on the object, she sees nothing disctinctly; everything
runs together, as when one has looked too long on one and the same
object, when the sight becomes blurred. [Fr. H-n.]
If she looks long at the same
spot, she grows sleepy, and she feels as if the head were pressed
down, though nothing of the sort is noticed, and she then, her eyes
being open and staring, is unable to tell the letters of a book.
[Fr. H-n.]
As often as she is spoken to,
and thereby forced out of her unconscious staring, and awakened
up by shouting to her, so often does she always relapses again into
it, and in this state her pulse is only 50 in the minute. [Fr.
H-n.]
If she is allowed to sit still
for a considerable time her head sinks down gradually, whilst the
eyes continue to stare at the same point, so that as thus the head
sinks very low, the pupils become almost hidden under the upper
eyelids; she then gets an inward shock, which brings her quickly
to her senses for a short time; she then falls again into a similar
state of unconsciousness out of which she is from time to time awakened
by an internal shivering, which she says is a febrile rigor. [Fr.
H-n.]
50. Sometimes everything appeared
double and of a black colour, sometimes she was affected with dulness
of hearing. [Fr. H-n.]
First (aft.
2.1/2 h.) contracted, then (aft. 8, 9 h.) very dilated,
pupils. [Lr.]
At first extremely contracted,
soon afterwards extremely dilated, pupils. [Hbg.]
Aching in the inner canthus of
the right eye, so that he must shut and press to the eyes in order
to get relief. [H.]
A quivering under the lower eyelid
in the orbicularis muscle.
55. heat and burning round about
the eyes.
Sore pain behind the left ear.
[Hbg.]
Sore sensation behind the left
ear, as after a knock or blow. [Hbg.]
Pain behind the right ear, such
as would remain after a knock or blow. [Hbg.]
Great eruption on the ears. [Fr.
H-n.]
60. Exanthematous pimples below
and in front of the ears, their apices filled with pus and painful
like a boil. [Fr. H-n.]
When swallowing something bursts
in the right ear. [Fr. H-n.]
Roaring before both ears, worse
in the room than in the open air. [Fr. H-n.]
Loud ringing in the left ear.
[Hbg.]
She does not hear well unless
one speaks loudly in her ear and attracts her attention. [Fr.
H-n.]
65. Discharge of blood from the
ears. [WEPFER, l. c.]
Yellow discharge from the nose.
The right ala nasi is painful
as if excoriated, as from a knock or blow. [Hbg.]
A burning itching vesicle on
the left side of the upper lip at the edge of the red. [Hbg.]
A kind of cramp in the cervical
muscles: when he looks round, he cannot immediately turn the head
back again; the cervical muscles do not yield, and if he should
effect his object by force it would give him great pain.
70. Tension in the cervical muscles.
[Hbg.]
On bending the head backwards
a sore tension in the left cervical muscles. [Hbg.]
Drawing pains in the left side
of the neck (aft. 6 h.). [Hbg.]
Swollen neck. (Not found.)
[WEPFER, l. c.]
Bending back of the head (a kind
of opisthotonous). [WEPFER, l. c.]
75. Twitching and jerking of
the head. [Fr. H-n.]
Lock-jaw. [WEPFER, - ALLEN, l. c.]
Teeth firmly closed, lock-jaw.
[WEPFER, l. c.]
Grinding of teeth. [WEPFER, l.
c.]
Mouth full of foam. (Post
mortem.) [WEPFER, l. c.]
80. Foam before the mouth. (Not
found.) [WEPFER, l. c.]
Toothache in the nerves of the
lower row of teeth. [Hbg.]
A whitish sore place on the border
of the tongue, very painful when touched. [Fr. H-n.]
On speaking several words he
can bring out the first five or six words without hindrance, but
the remainder, in pronouncing the words he gets a small jerk backwards
of the head observable by others, and at the same time the arms
twitch somewhat, so that he must, as it were, draw back and swallow
the syllable about to be spoken, almost like what frequently occurs
in hiccup. [Fr. H-n.]
Dumbness. [ALLEN, l. c.]
85. Inability to swallow.
[WEPFER, l. c.]
The throat appears to be grown
together internally, and externally it pains as if bruised on being
moved or grasped, getting worse for several hours, with eructation
from noon till evening. [Fr. H-n.]
Dry feeling in the mouth. [Fr.
H-n.]
Constant hunger and desire for
food, even when he has just been eating. [Fr. H-n.]
Great thirst (during the convulsions).
(Not found.) [WEPFER, l. c.]
90. He had a great longing for
coals and swallowed them. (Not found.) [WEPFER, l. c.]
Hiccup, [WEPFER, l. c. and Breslauer Samml., 1727, p. 313, (Poisoning
of three children by root.) and Hbg.]
Loud hiccup. (Not found.)
[WEPFER, l. c.]
When she was stooping (in the
open air) a very bitter yellow fluid was belched up, as by eructation,
from the stomach into the mouth, and thereafter she had burning
in the oesophagus all the forenoon. [Fr. H-n.]
A sensation up from the stomach
like water-brash; he felt qualmish and hot all over, and a quantity
of saliva that had risen up from his stomach flowed out of his mouth
(aft. 9 to 13 h.). [Lr.]
95. Nausea (aft. ½ h.). [Hbg.]
Nausea while eating. [Fr.
H-n.]
In the morning nausea, with shooting
tearing headache. [Fr. H-n.]
Nausea and shooting in the forehead,
all day. [Fr. H-n.]
Vomiting. [ALLEN, l. c.]
100. Vomiting without relaxation
of the lock-jaw. [WEPFER, l. c.]
Want of appetite on account of
dry feeling in the mouth; food has no wrong taste , but not its
full flavour.
At noon, appetite for food, but
the appetite went away at the first mouthful.
Breakfast is not relished; he
felt a stuffy sensation in the abdomen, as if he had already eaten
too much.
Immediately after eating cutting
in the hypgastrium.
105. Immediately after eating
an aching in the scrobiculus cordis, which compels him to draw a
deep breath, at the same time tendency to eructation.
Immediately after eating bellyache
and drowsiness.
In the morning sick feeling in
the abdomen and when this passed off, in the afternoon, headache,
a shooting on the right side of the head, which extended from the
right eye and the nose – in both of which it was at its worst –
to the occiput, for three days, whereon the nose became instopped,
and yellow mucus was discharged (aft. 9 d.).
Vomiting of blood. [ Breslauer
Samml., l. c.]
Burning scraping sensation from
the inside of the throat to the gastric region.[Hbg.]
110. Burning pressure in the
stomach. [Hbg.]
Scraping scratching sensation
in the stomach. [Hbg.]
Tightness in the scrobiculus
cordis and anxiety, for eight days, he wishes always to go out in
order to cool himself.
A blow in the region of the scrobiculus
cordis as with a finger which makes him start, and then only he
collects himself and comes to his senses. [Fr. H-n.]
Throbbing in the scrobiculus
cordis, which is swollen as large as a fist. [WEPFER,
l. c.]
115. Great throbbing in the scrobiculus
cordis. [WEPFER, l. c.]
Shooting (The author adds
“and burning.” ) pain in the scrobiculus cordis. [WEPFER, l.
c.]
Anxiety about in the scrobiculus
cordis. (Not found.) [WEPFER, l. c.]
Heat in the abdomen (and chest).
[Hbg.]
Great accumulation of flatulence,
with constant anxiety and crossness.
120. Grumbling and rumbling in
the abdomen. [Hbg.]
Much flatus is discharged. [Hbg.]
Constipation. [WEPFER, l. c.]
Diarrhoa. [ALLEN, l. c.]
In the right groin a sensation
as if an ulcer would break out ( while sitting). [Hbg.]
125. Itching internally in the
rectum, just above the anus; after rubbing there is burning pain,
a pain that caused a shudder through him every time it came – after
walking, when standing still, and when at stool.
Retention of urine. (With
S. 122.) [WEPFER, l. c.]
At night difficulty of urinating.
(Not found.) [WEPFER, l. c.]
Involuntary discharge of urine.
(Not found.) [WEPFER, l. c.]
Frequent call to urinate.
[Lr.]
130. Very frequent urination.
[Fr. H-n.]
Violent ejection of the urine.
[WEPFER, l. c.]
Sore drawing pain under the penis
as far as the glans, which compels him to urinate (aft. 12 h.).
[Hbg.]
Three emissions of semen in the
night. [Hbg.]
Emissions of semen, without voluptuous
dreams. [Lr.]
135. The menses come later. [Fr.
H-n.]
Stoppage of the nose, and at
the same time copious secretion of mucus from it.
Very frequent sneezing, without
coryza (aft. 29 h.). [Lr.]
Aching under the larynx when
sitting (aft. 4 h.0. [Hbg.]
Sensation in the chest and in
ther throat, as if something that pressed asunder were sticking
there, as big as a fist, which hindered respiration, and felt as
if it would burst the throat – worse when sitting than when walking.
[Fr. H-n.]
140. Tightness on the chest,
so that she can hardly draw her breath all day long (immediately).
[Fr. H-n.]
Want of breath all day long (immediately).
[Fr. H-n.]
On inspiring and expiring some
needle-pricks under the last false ribs of the left side, which
went off when standing and walking (aft. 3 h.). [Lr.]
Hoarseness. ((Not found.).
[WEPFER, l. c.]
Cough, with much expectoration,
especially by day. [Fr. H-n.]
Burning round with nipple (aft.
3 h.). [Fr. H-n.]
Itching combined with sensation
of heat in the right side of the chest. [Hbg.]
Heat in chest (and abdomen).
[Hbg.]
At the inferior entremity of
the sternum an ache, as after a blow, an as if excoriated, when
walking. [Hbg.]
General heat, and particularly
heat in the chest, for three quarters of an hour, in creased by
(accustomed) tobacco-smoking. [Hbg.]
150. A tugging at the chest near
the scrobiculus cordis (aft. 1 h.). [Hbg.]
Tearing twitching in the coccyx.
[Hbg.]
A blow in the dorsal vertebrae.
[Hbg.]
Tetanus, bending the back backwards
(opisthotonos). [WEPFER, l. c.]
Back bent like a bow. [WEPFER,
l. c.]
155. Painful tension above the
right scapula. [Hbg.]
Painful sensation on the
insurface of the scapulae. [Hbg.]
Sensation as if there were an
ulcer on the right scapula. [Hbg.]
A red vesicle on the right
scapula, that was very painful when touched. [Hbg.]
Sore pain, as from a blow, in
the right shoulder-joint. [Hbg.]
160. Painful sensation under
the right arm. [Hbg.]
Twitching in the left shoulder
(aft. 20 m.). [Fr. H-n.]
Sensation of cracking in the
shoulder-joint, which is not audible. [Fr. H-n.]
Tearing pain in the whole of
the left arm down to the fingers. [Fr. H-n.]
On raising it the arm feels very
heavy, and at the same time there are such violent shoots in the
shoulder that she cannot bring the arm on to the head without screaming
loudly; she dare not even move the fingers. [Fr. H-n.]
165. Sensation in the left arm
as if he had no power in it, with a shooting tearing pain on raising
it. [Fr. H-n.]
Powerlessness of the whole arm
and fingers,. [Hbg.]
Twitching in the left arm, so
that the whole body is jerked (aft. 4 m.). [Fr. H-n.]
Frequent involuntary twitching
and jerking in the arms and fingers (lower extremities and head).
[Fr. H-n.]
(On the inside of the left elbow-joint,
a swelling, as if a boil would come there; on raising the arm it
was painful there, as when one presses on an ulcer.)
170. Stitch-like tearing in the
muscles of the right forearm when writing, which went off when the
body was perfectly inactive (aft. 1.1/4 h.). [Lr.]
Sore pain, as from a knock or
blow, in the left forearm. [Hbg.]
Distented blood-vessels on the
hands. [Hbg.]
Feeling of cracking in the wrist,
which is not auduble. [Fr. H-n.]
Exanthematous elevations, the
size of a lentil, on both hands, even on the balls of the thumbs,
which on their appearance cause a burning pain; they then become
confluent, of a dark colour, and last nine days. [Fr. H-n.]
175. Twitching together of several
fingers and of the thumb of the right hand. [Fr. H-n.]
Dying away (gone-to-sleep feeling,
numbness, coldness) of the fingers. [Fr. H-n.]
In the right pelvic region, on
the border of the os-ilii, a kind of sore, drawing, pulsating pain,
as after a violent blow. [Hbg.]
Burning shooting in the left
hip-bone. [Hbg.]
Frequent involuntary twitching
of the lower extremities. [Fr. H-n.]
180. Painful tense and stiff
feeling in the muscles of the lower extremities, so that he cannot
walk at all, for three hours (aft. 1 h.). [Fr. H-n.]
Tearing pain in the thighs and
heaviness of them when walking. [Fr. H-n.]
Pain, like tearing in the thighs,
immediately after rising from a seat, and pain, as if bruised, in
the knees; on walking the pain in the thighs increases, like a deep-seated
stiffness. [Fr. H-n.]
Burning itching on the right
thigh, so that he must scratch, whereupon it went off. [Hbg.]
Creeping close beneath the skin
of the thighs and legs, and especially of the soles of the feet,
as if the limbs would go to sleep, only when sitting. [Fr. H-n.]
185. Perceptible trembling of
one thigh. [Fr. H-n.]
Very violent trembling of the
left leg. [Fr. H-n.]
When walking she does not tread
properly on the soles of the feet; they tip over towards the inside.
[Fr. H-n.]
Tearing round the ankles of the
left foot.[Hbg.]
Frequent needle-pricks in the
heel, when sitting. [Hbg.]
190. Tingling and “pins and needles”
in the left sole. [Hbg.]
Drawing twitching pains in the
toes. [Hbg.]
Trembling in the upper and lower
extremities.[Hbg.]
Burning itching all over.
Itching all over the body, so
that he must scratch. [Fr. H-n.]
195. Spasmodic stiffness of all
the body, with coldness thereof. [BRESL. Samml., 1727, p.
314.]
(About noon, anxiety, perspiration
in the face, and trembling of the hands; about his heart [in the
middle of the chest] he feels as though he woulf faint.)
Whilst lying in bed a peculiar
sensation, as if his whole body were swollen, and at the same time
(while awake) frequent starting, as though he were falling out of
bed (aft. 15 h.). [Lr.]
Catalepsy; the limbs hang down
loosely, as in a corpse, without breathing. (Not found.) [WEPFER,
l. c.]
The most violent (tonic) spasms,
so that neither can the flexed fingers be stretched out, not the
limbs be either flexed or extended.(Not found.) [WEPFER,
l. c.]
200. Tossing of the limbs to
and fro. [WEPFER, l. c.]
He threw the limbs now on one
side now on the other. [WEPFER, l. c.]
Epileptic convulsions in three
children, one of whom recovered. [Breslauer samml., l. c.,
p. 313.]
Spasmodic distortions of the
limbs which threw him a distance of two feet. (Not found.) [WEPFER,
l. c.]
General convulsions. [WEPFER, l. c.]
205. Very violent convulsions.
[WEPFER, - ALLEN, l. c.]
Epiplepsy. [WEPFER, - ALLEN, l. c.]
Frightful epilepsy, recurring
first at shorter, then at longer intervals, the limbs, head, and
upper part of the body are moved in a wonderful manner, with closed
jaws. [WEPFER, l. c.]
Epileptic fits with wonderful
distortions of the limbs, upper part of the body, and head, with
bluish complexion, and for some instants, interrupted respiration,
with foam before the mouth; and after the convulsions, when the
breathing was free, he was unconscious and lay as if dead, gave
no sign of sensation when called to or pinched. (In a young man
of twenty , whose death took place in two hours, the body remained
warm for a whole day without any blue discoloration or swelling;
the limbs were stiff, the lungs full of blue and yellow spots, the
blood red and fluid, the heart empty of blood, the oesophagus internally
bluish and dry.) (Not found.) [WEPFER, l. c.]
She lies like a corpse, with
closed jaws. [WEPFER, l. c.]
210. Immobility. (Not found.)
[WEPFER, l. c.]
They all lay prostrated with
weakness, without consciousness and immovable, like blocks or corpses.
(Not found.) [WEPFER, l. c.]
Frequent yawning. [Hbg.]
Frequent yawning, as if he had
not slept enough (aft. 1.3/4 h.). [Lr.]
Drowsiness, so that his eyes
always closed. [Hbg.]
215. At
night, vivid dreams about events that had occurred during the day.
Vivid but unremembered dreams.
[Lr.]
Many confused dreams with much
restlessness. [Hbg.]
Sleeplessness, all night (immediately).
[Fr. H-n.]
Sleeplessness; he woke up every
quarter of an hour with a painful feeling of wieght in the head.
[Fr. H-n.]
220. Every morning he has not
slept enough, is not satiated with sleep. [Fr. H-n.]
Frequent waking up out of
sleep, in which he perspired all over, but from which he felt strengthened.
[Lr.]
They all wish to come near
the warm stove. (Not found.) [WEPFER,
l. c.]
She has a feeling of coldness
running down her thighs, then coldness in the arms – the coldness
seems to come chiefly out of the chest - then comes on a greater
inclination to stare fixedly at one point. [Fr. H-n.]
Uncommonly strong heat in all
parts of the body from beginning to end of the action of the drug.
[Hbg.]
225. Perspiration on the abdomen
at night.
He became indifferent to everything,
and began to doubt whether this was really the condition in which
he was.
He confounded the present with
the past.
He thought with anxiety of the
future and was always sad.
Anxiety; he was violently
affected by sad stories. (Not
found.) [WEPFER, l. c.]
230. Moaning, whining and
howling. [WEPFER, - ALLEN, l. c.]
Excitement, with concern for
the future, he represented to himself as dangerous everything that
would happen to him.
When others were gay he was sad.
Sadness for several days. (Not
found.) [WEPFER, l. c.]
Great liability to be startled;
every time a door is opened, or a word spoken, even not loudly,
he starts and feels stitches in the (left) side of the head. [Fr.
H-n.]
235. He did not think he was
living in the ordinary conditions; everything appeared to him strange
and almost frightful; it was as if he woke up out of an acute fever
and saw all sorts of figures, and yet he did not feel corporeally
ill.
Mania; after unusual sleep, heat
of the body; she leapt out of bed, danced, laughed, and did all
sorts of foolish things, drank a great deal of wine, jumped about
constantly, clapped her hands, and at the same time was very red
in the face – all night long. [Bresl. Samml., l. c. p. (In
an adult woman.) 58.]
Depreciation and contempt of
mankind; hefled from his fellow creatures, was in the highest degree
disgusted with their follies, and his disposition seemed to change
into misanthrophy; he withdrew into solitude. [Lr.]
Want of trust in people and anthrophoby;
he fled from them, remained solitary, and thought seriously about
their errors and about himself. [Lr.]
Suspicious.
240. He felt like a child of
seven or eight years old, objects were very dear and attractive
to him, as toys are to a child.
Tranquillity of mind; he
was extremely satisfied with his position and with himself, and
very cheerful. (Curative secondary
action.) [Lr.]
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