Homeopathic Materia Medica

Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica, James Tyler Kent

The camphor bottle is, a great mischief in the house, as camphor antidotes most of our remedies. Camphor in potentized form will cure many complaints.

It is suitable in some acute complaints attended with nervous excitement, even to frenzy, with spasms and convulsions and finally exhaustion. The Camphor state is one of convulsions or coldness.

In the most acute period of the Camphor excitement, the excitability and frenzy of the patient are extreme, or he goes into the other extreme, in which the irritability is lost and there is loss of sensation, unconsciousness and coldness.

The two extremes may be seen in one patient, one earlier and the other later. He may go from the extreme of mental excitement and violence to one of prostration and exhaustion, in which the body is blue and cold and yet must be uncovered.

Mind: In the mental state, there is anxiety and extreme fear; fear of persons, of strange spheres, of the dark; the dark is filled with imaginary specters; he dare not get out of bed in the dark; everything that moves is a specter and the inanimate things of the room become alive and terrify him.

Frenzy. Coupled with this, there is kidney and urinary trouble, like that of Cantharis, and because of this similarity, the two remedies are both complementary and antidotal to each other. If a woman has poisoned herself with Cantharis, and there is present the frenzy and excitement, Camphor will act as an antidote.

The details of the mental symptoms are worthy of much consideration. The patient goes into a state not unlike imbecility, and the appearance is as if it had come on slowly. The mind and memory are gone. He closes the eyes, seemingly asleep, and answers no questions. Delirious with the heat, rage and mania, wants to jump out of bed or out of the window. Screams and calls for help. Tosses anxiously in bed.

Anxiety and almost loss of consciousness. These symptoms will indicate Camphor in puerperal fever, in congestion of the brain, or in shock from violent inflammation of organs. Confusion comes from the shock and comes with violence.

The more violently the patient suffers, the sooner he is cold, and when he is cold, he must uncover even in a cold room. This is somewhat like Secale. In Secale the patient, when cold, wants to uncover and to be in a cold room, and it also has frenzy, and so there is nothing in what we have yet seem to distinguish Secale from Camph.

But there is another thing that runs through Camph., by which a distinction can be made. The coldness, frenzy and heat very often intermingle. When the Camphor patient is becoming cold, he has spells of heat which come over him; flashes of heat intermingle with rending, tearing, burning pains, either in the inflamed organ or along the nerves.

The patient is a most troublesome patient to nurse; nobody and nothing suits. If an inflammation of the bladder comes on, there is intense pain and tenderness, and from the shock of the suffering the mind is in a state of frenzy.

Coldness then comes on and the patient wants to be uncovered, wants cold air, wants the windows open, but before all this can be done, a flash of beat comes on and then he wants the covers on, and the register turned on, and wants a hot iron and hot bottles; but this stage now passes off, and while the nurse is bringing the hot irons he wants her to open the windows and have everything cool.

You will see at once that these are serious cases. This occurs with opisthotonos, convulsions, inflammation of the brain, liver, kidney, bladder, coming on from violent shock and cold with great exhaustion. You will see this in one who has worked for hours for his life, and when the excitement is over reaction sets in and it is like a whirlwind; he has worked until he is exhausted and now he is prostrated, cold and blue; here is the sphere where the old woman with her Camphor bottle has established a reputation, but potentized Camphor will do more for him than the Camphor bottle, it will put him into a refreshing sleep.

Menopause: It is useful in the climacteric period with flushes of heat and sweat in a warm room; the limbs and abdomen are very cold and she suffers from cold when uncovered and sweats copiously when covered. She cannot endure covering to warm her limbs though she suffers from cold.

Head: The head is full of pain; throbbing pain. Contractive feeling as if laced together in the cerebellum. The whole back of the head and neck throb like hammers, worse from bending head forward; burning and stinging. Frontal headaches.

Cholera: We have heard about Camphor in cholera, which is a disease that brings the patient down quickly. The face is cold, blue and shriveled, without much sweat, in the cases that would make one think of Camphor.

There is not much discharge from the bowels, not much vomiting and not much sweat; but suddenly he becomes cold, blue and collapsed, as it were paralyzed and goes into a stupor.

Convulsions with frothing at the mouth. Blue lips, lockjaw, tetanus. Cold sweat on the face with vomiting. Erysipelatous appearance of face.

There is a desire to drink without thirst. There is also insatiable thirst; he is not satisfied with incredible quantities of cold water. Cannot get it cold enough, and cannot get enough, but he soon vomits it up.

The gastric irritation is marked. Everything is vomited. The tongue is blue and cold and the breath is cold. Everything coming out of the body is cold. The air as it leaves the chest feels like that from a cellar, like Carbo v. and Verat.

The tongue is cold and trembling. Such states are found in cholera. All through the cold stage there is burning. The inside of the body seems to burn, or there is a sense of internal smarting like a rawness or a sense of burning without heat.

The pain in the stomach in gastritis is so violent that the anguish on the face is equal to that in Arsenic; a deathly anguish is felt in his stomach and he feels that he must die. Burning, rending, tearing pain in the stomach, with retching and vomiting.

Cramps in stomach and bowels and spreading to other parts of the body until there are convulsions and opisthotonos.

Anguish at the pit of the stomach drives him to despair. Heat in the stomach, Cold feeling in the stomach. Abdomen is full of colic and burning. Cold feeling in the abdomen.

Cholera stools; rice water discharges, with anxiety, restlessness, spasms of the muscles, cramps of the chest, prostration, increasing coldness and blueness; wants to be uncovered and he is going into collapse.

The old Camphor, Cuprum and Veratrum still hold together for Asiatic cholera. In Camphor there is prostration, blueness, coldness and yet he wants to be uncovered and the body is cold and dry.

The other two remedies have all there is in cholera, but in Cuprum there is not so much coldness, more cramping, more convulsive tendency and not so much prostration.

The more cramping there is the more it is Cuprum. The more copious the discharge from the bowels and the more profuse the vomiting and sweat, the more we would think of Veratrum. Cold and dry: Camphor. Cold and copious discharge Veratrum.

After taking cold there is cutting, with involuntary discharge of dark brown faeces like coffee grounds. Tenesmus. At times the cholera patient, with the coldness and blueness, is retching and straining to vomit and suffering with horrible tenesmus to get rid of a little stool and has convulsions here and there. These bowels symptoms gradually increase until there is no ability to strain at stool, a paralytic condition. Rectum seems contracted and painful.

Urinary and sexual organs: There is suffering in the urinary and sexual organs. Burning urination. Strangury. Frequent urination.

Frequent desire, with difficulty. The same state arises in the bladder as in the rectum, and there is retention with horrible torture. The patient sits on the commode and strains to pass the urine, but there is a paralytic condition of the bladder. The urine is red, bloody, and comes by drops like Canth. Tenesmus of the neck of the bladder.

Camphor increases the sexual erethism to an unbearable degree. In some cases from large doses this is seen in the extreme, and in other cases the reverse takes place.

It has both sexual erethism and impotency in its provings. I once knew a French woman who had an insane desire to keep her boys always at home with her, and she thought she could accomplish this if she could only keep them away from the girls; and to destroy their sexual desire she kept a bag of camphor under their pillows. All of them were made impotent. But in some provers it establishes sexual erethism. It has this like Canth.

Nose: Camphor produces a coryza, with a profuse discharge from the nose and from the air passages, from the nose to the bronchi. Bronchitis of children and old people. Old withered up people take cold at every exposure to weather and become cold and chilly.

Ant. crud., Am. carb. and Camph. are wonderful remedies in octogenarians. Every cold seems threatening. Old people don't come down with cold the same as young people; they are prostrated, sinking, have rattling in the chest and the family think it is the death rattle and that it is grandpa's last spell.

These three remedies fit the case, they are like the advanced stage of pneumonia. Ant. t., Ant. c., Am. c. and Camph. cover these cases in which the hot stage is omitted.

Camph. has very little heat; it has the sensation of heat; but not a marked hot stage. There are other symptoms in this medicine such as you will find in old people.

Jerking of the muscles, trembling and jerking. Spasmodic conditions with trembling. Trembling of the tongue.

The general constitutional state of a Camphor patient is coldness and extreme sensitiveness to cold. In acute inflammatory conditions he is cold and wants the covers off.

In acute complaints there is violent thirst, in chronic complaints thirstlessness. It is the same in Arsenic, in the acute thirsty, but in the chronic thirstless.

In Camphor an important thing to recall in the acute is that during the heat and when the pains are on he wants to be covered up. The coldness is relieved by cold, he wants more cold.

A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica, John Henry Clarke

Camphor. C10 H16 O. - N. O. Lauraceae. A gum obtained from Laurus camphora. Solution in rectified spirit.

Clinical.─Angina pectoris. Bed-sores. Cholera Asiatica. Chordee. Cold. Convulsions. Epilepsy. Eruptions, suppressed. Erysipelas. Gonorrhoea. Heart affections. Hyperpyrexia. Influenza. Measles. Memory, loss of. Priapism. Rheumatism. Sexual mania. Sleeplessness. Snake-bites. Spasms. Strangury. Sunstroke. Taste, disordered. Tetanus. Tobacco habit. Twitching. Urethra, spasmodic stricture of. Urine, suppression of.

Characteristics.─"Chill; cramp; convulsion with mental anguish"─these give an idea of the essential action of Camphor. It causes retreat from the circumference to the centre; and its chief remedial action is in correcting just such conditions─cold, collapse, repercussed eruptive diseases. "Great coldness of surface, with sudden and complete prostration of the vital forces." Feeling as if a cold wind were blowing over body. In all kinds of sudden internal pains arising from chill, or other causes, Camphor in rapidly repeated doses will be very likely to prove Curative. In these conditions it is often prescribed on broad indications and given in the lower potencies, but those whose knowledge of Camphor is confined to its coarser actions will never understand what a great remedy it is when used according to its fine symptomatic indications and given in the higher potencies. Camph. produces tetanic spasms, with showing of teeth by drawing up the mouth corners (like Nux and Phytolacca, but the deathly coldness of Camph. distinguishes it from both). Camph. has internal heat and external coldness. In the collapse of cholera it corresponds rather to the initial chill before either vomiting or diarrhoea. (The collapse of Carbo v. is rather the result of alvine discharges.) The tongue is cold. If he can speak, the voice is either high pitched or husky. The cramps of Camph. are less pronounced than in Cupr.; but cramps with icy coldness of limbs is characteristic of Camph. The coldness of Camph. resembles that of Verat., but with the latter the discharges are copious, and Camph. has marked nausea, and the expression of nausea, upper lip drawn up. In some epidemics, Camph. given early has alone cured a large majority of the cases treated, and that whether given in drop doses of the tincture or in the 30th. Salzer (On Cholera, p. 68) says the cases calling for it are those in which "arterial spasm," with difficult breathing (spasm of pulmonary arteries), coldness and lividity are the leading features. In its actions on the genito-urinary sphere Camph. approaches Canth. in intensity, and is one of the antidotes to the latter. Strangury and priapism are among its effects. Camph. is indicated in many conditions of sudden collapse from overpowering influences acting on the nervous centres. For example, sunstroke: vitality ebbing away; fainting spells growing worse; body icy cold and bathed in cold sweat. Some characteristics are: Most pains are felt during a half-conscious condition, and disappear when thinking of them. Afraid of his own thoughts; wants to be diverted from thoughts of himself. Fears to be left alone. Memory lost. Great sensitiveness to cold and cold air; which < pains takes cold easily. Surface cold to touch, yet throws off all covering. Extremities cold, with cramps. Awkwardness. Spasmodic movement of head; head drawn to r. side; rest of body relaxed; unconscious. Spasmodic drawing of head laterally or backwards with deathly coldness. Erysipelas spreading to central membranes. Repercussed eruptions. Soft parts drawn in. Skin painfully sensitive. In the form of the ordinary Camphor pilules, I have found it an excellent remedy for simple sleeplessness. In this, as in its effect on colds, it resembles Acon. Irritable, weakly blondes most affected. Scrofulous children most sensitive to Camph.

Relations.─Camph. has very important antidotal relations. It is antidoted by: Op., Sp. nit. dulc., Dulc., and Phos. It antidotes: Am. c., Canth., Carb. v., Cup., Lyc, Squil., Nat. m., so-called worm-medicines, tobacco, bitter almonds, and other fruits containing prussic acid; also the secondary affections remaining after poisoning with acids, salts, metals, poisonous mushrooms, etc. Incompatible: Nitrum. Tea, coffee, and lemonade, as a rule, do not interfere, but sometimes coffee <. Compare: Alo.; Carbo v. (coldness from undeveloped exanthema, collapse; epistaxis, dark, persistent; low haemorrhages generally); Canth.; Cup.; Dulc.; Sec. (skin cold with desire to uncover); Lyc. (head drawn to one side-Lyc. to left, Plumb. and Stram. to right, Bufo to either); Op. (narcotism, heart affections); Pho. (anguish and burning in cholera). Sp. dul. nit., Squil., Verat. Teste puts Camph. in his Belladonna group, with Agar., Lach., Cedr., Stram., Tabac., and others. He notes that it acts much more powerfully on carnivorous animals than on herbivora.

Causation.─Shock from injury. Eruptions, suppressed. Cold air. Sunstroke. Vexation.

SYMPTOMS.

1. Mind.─Anxiety with fretfulness.─Great anguish and discouragement.─Afraid of his own thoughts.─Quarrelsome and combative humour; mania to dispute.─Dulness of the senses.─Loss of consciousness.─Confusion of ideas; delirium.─Rage.─Loss of memory.

2. Head.─Dizziness, as if from intoxication, esp. on walking.─Giddiness, with heaviness of the head and vanishing of the senses.─Vertigo, and heaviness of the head, which obliges the patient to incline the head backwards.─Headache, as if the brain were bruised, or sore from a wound.─Dull headache above the os frontis, with inclination to vomit.─Constrictive headache, esp. in the occiput and above the root of the nose, greatly aggravated by stooping, by lying down, or by the touch, and disappearing when the attention is directed to the pain.─Incisive shocks in the head on lying down.─Pulsative headache at night, with shootings in the forehead and heat of the body.─Congestion in the head.─Inflammation of the brain.─Inflammation of the brain (after sunstroke), with pulsation and sensation of constriction in the brain, spasmodically turned head (to the side or backward), < from movement or in the cold air; > when lying down, or when thinking of it.─Spasms, which draw the head on one side.

3. Eyes.─Inflammation of the eyes.─Red spots on the eyelids.─Trembling of the eyelids.─Staring, wild look.─Eyes sunken.─Eyes haggard, and turned convulsively upwards.─Contraction of the pupils.─Obscuration of the sight.─Visions of strange objects.─Photophobia.─Everything appears too bright and brilliant.

4. Ears.─Heat and redness of the ears, esp. in the lobes.─Abscess in the meatus auditorius, with deep redness and pressive shooting pain.

5. Nose.─Dry coryza.─Coryza fluent or dry.─Sneezing, beginning of coryza.─Catarrhal affections with headache, from sudden change of weather.─Nose-bleed.─Nose cold and pointed.─Violent stitching or crawling, from root of nose almost to tip.

6. Face.─Face deadly pale; or deep red.─Icy-cold, livid, pale face.─Erysipelas in the face.─Convulsive distortion of the features.─Convulsive clenching of the jaws.─Hippocratic face.─Foam at the mouth.─Cold sweat on face, upper lip everted.

7. Teeth.─Toothache, as if from swelling of the sub-maxillary glands, with sensation of lengthening of the teeth.─Acute shocks in the roots of the incisors.─Painful looseness of the teeth.─Flying toothache, gnawing boring in molars, mostly in hollow ones; much < if even a soft little crust of bread touches the affected tooth; < from drinking coffee or spirituous liquors; > after drinking beer or cold water; but < from water kept in mouth; > by coition.

8. Mouth.─Breath fetid in the morning.─Foam at the mouth.─Abundant accumulation of a viscid and slimy saliva.

9. Throat.─Soreness in the throat on swallowing, as if from excoriation of the throat, which is felt even at night.─Dry, scraping sensation of the palate.─Burning heat in the throat, extending from the palate to the stomach.─More decided relish for all food, and esp. for broth.─Bitter taste of tobacco and of food, esp. of meat.─Dislike and repugnance to tobacco smoke.─Excessive thirst.

11. Stomach.─The pit of the stomach is very sensitive to the touch.─Almost continual eructations after dinner; nausea > by eructation.─Inclination to vomit, followed by attacks of vertigo.─Vomiting of bile or of blood.─At the commencement of the vomiting, cold sweat, chiefly on the face.─Sensation of burning and heat in the stomach.─Pain, as from a bruise, in the epigastrium.─Strong pressure in the epigastrium.

12. Abdomen.─Cramps in the abdomen.─Cutting colic at night.─Belly-ache as if diarrhoea would follow.─Drawing pain, as from a bruise, on the entire of r. side of the abdomen.─Sensation of fulness in the abdomen.─Sensation of cold or of burning heat in the epigastrium and in the abdomen.

13. Stool and Anus.─Constipation.─Difficult evacuation, as if from inactivity of the intestines, or from contraction of the rectum.─The rectum feels narrow and swollen; is painful during the emission of flatulence.─Asiatic cholera, with cramps in calves, coldness in body, anguish, burning in oesophagus and stomach.─Diarrhoea: with colicky pain, esp. when caused by cold; attack very sudden; sudden and great sinking of strength.─Involuntary diarrhoea.─Blackish faeces.

14. Urinary Organs.─Retention of urine.─Strangury, with tenesmus of the neck of the bladder.─Urine flowing slowly and in a small stream, as if the urethra were contracted.─Urine of a yellowish green, turbid, and of a mouldy smell.─Haematuria.─Burning pain during the emission of urine.─Urine thick and red, with turbid and thick sediment.

15. Male Sexual Organs.─Inceased desire.─Erethism.─Attacks of violent priapism during dreams.─Absence of sexual desire, and impotence.─Sudden laxness of penis.─Nocturnal emissions.─Involuntary masturbation.─Sensation of contraction in the testes.─On l. side of root of penis, while standing, a pressure outwards as if a hernia would protrude.─Strangury from stricture.

16. Female Sexual Organs.─Sexual orgasm.─Erethism of sexual system.─Labour-like pains.─Menses too profuse; or absent.

17. Respiratory Organs.─Voice husky; weak; mucus in air passages, not removed by hacking; high and squeaky.─Constriction of larynx, feeling as if throat tied.─Cutting, cold feeling deep in windpipe; causes a slight cough.─Dry feeling at bifurcation of trachea. Breathing: anxious; oppressed; sighing; quiet; deep and slow; snoring; almost completely arrested.─Asthma, < from bodily exertion.─Hot breath (with acute eruptive diseases).─Cool breath.─A cold feeling in chest followed by cold breath.─Fatiguing, hacking, dry cough.─Every inspiration starts the cough.

18. Chest.─Suffocating oppression of the chest, and constriction of the larynx, as if from the vapour of sulphur.─Excessive accumulation of mucus in the respiratory organs, with danger of suffocation.─Cramps in the chest.─Shootings in the chest.

19. Heart.─Palpitation of the heart, which can be heard striking against the side, esp. after a meal.─Anxiety at heart.─Spasmodic stitches in region of heart, with oppression of chest when lying on l. side, > when turning on r. side.

20. Neck and Back.─Tension and stiffness of the neck on moving it.─Heat with an inward vibration spreads from neck and from between shoulders into limbs.─Drawing stitches through and between shoulder-blades, extending into chest when moving arms.─Pressure in small of back with leaden-like heaviness of lower limbs.─Coldness in small of back and loins; inner coldness < by walking a few steps.─Sensation as if cool air was blowing on back.

22. Upper Limbs.─Drawing lancinations between the shoulder-blades, while moving the arms.─Convulsive movement of the arms, which describe circles.─Pressure and acute drawing in the arm and forearm.─Hands icy cold.─Hands do not feel anything he touches.─Fingers stiff, open, distorted; thumb drawn back.

23. Lower Limbs.─Pains, as from a bruise, in the thighs and in the knees.─Great weakness of the legs.─Cramp-like pains and acute drawings in the legs, and in the instep.─Cramps in the calves of the legs; with icy coldness.─Acute drawing in the extremities of the toes and under the nails, on walking.

24. Generalities.─Convulsions and cramps of different kinds.─Tetanus, with loss of consciousness, and vomiting.─Attacks of epilepsy, with rattling in the throat; face, red and puffed; convulsive movements of the limbs, and even of the tongue, of the eyes, and of the muscles of the face; hot and viscid perspiration on the scalp, and on the forehead; after the fit, comatose drowsiness.─He falls down insensible.─Diminished circulation of the blood to the parts most distant from the heart.─Uneasiness, relaxation, and heaviness over the whole body.─Sinking of all strength.─Fainting fits.─Cracking in the joints.─Rheumatic lancinations in the muscles.─Difficulty in moving the limbs.─Painful sensibility of the periosteum of all the bones.─Sufferings in consequence of a chill.─Icy coldness of the whole body, with paleness of the face.─The majority of the symptoms appear during movement, or else at night, or are aggravated by cold, the open air, and contact.─The symptoms often disappear as soon as attention is called to them.

25. Skin.─Skin sorely sensitive, even to the slightest touch.─Erysipelatous inflammations.─Skin, bluish and cold, with coldness of the body.─Dryness of the skin.

26. Sleep.─Strong desire to sleep in the day.─Coma, with incoherent words.─Nocturnal sleeplessness, from nervous excitement.─Snoring and tossing during sleep.─During sleep, the inspirations are shorter than the expirations.─Dreams: anxious; fearful; visions of spirits; about what Is intended or what has happened in morning hours.─Extreme restlessness with anxiety.

27. Fever.─Excessive sensibility to fresh air, and tendency to take cold.─Cold over the whole body, with deadly paleness of face, shivering, and chattering of the teeth.─Icy coldness of the whole body, with congestion to the head and chest.─Heat of the body, with redness of face, esp. in the cheeks, and in the lobe of the ear.─General heat, which becomes excessive on walking.─Heat with distended veins, aggravated from every movement.─Pulse remarkably small and slow, or excessively quick and full.─The blood does not circulate to the parts distant from the heart.─Sensation of dryness on the whole cutaneous surface.

Keynotes and Characteristics with Comparisons of Some of the Leading Remedies of the Materia Medica (Allen's Keynotes), Henry Clay Allen

Camphor (Lauraccae)

Pain better while thinking of it (Hell. - worse, Cal. p., Helon., Ox. ac.). Persons physically and mentally weak and irritable. Exceedingly sensitive to cold air (Hep., Kali m., Psor.). Bad effects of shock from injury; surface of body cold, face pale, blue lips livid; profound prostration. Surface cold to the touch yet cannot bear to be covered; throws off all coverings (Med., Sec.). Entire body painfully sensitive to slightest touch. Tongue cold, flabby, trembling. Sudden attacks of vomiting and diarrhoea; nose cold and pointed; anxious and restless; skin and breath cold (Ver., Jatr.). In first stages of cholera morbus and Asiatic cholera; severe, long- lasting chill (Ver.). Great coldness of the surface with sudden and complete prostration of the vital force; often a remedy in congestive chill; pernicious intermittent (Ver.); pulse weak, externally small, scarcely perceptible. Measles and scarlatina when eruption does not appear; with pale or cold blue, hippocratic face; child will not be covered (Sec.). All sequelae of measles.

Relations. - Camphor antidoes nearly every vegetable medicine; also tabacco, fruits containing prussic acid, poisonous mushrooms; should not be allowed in the sick room in its crude form; Compare: Carbo veg., Opium, Verat., Sec.

Amelioration. - When thinking of existing complaint; warm air; drinking cold water. Note for thought. - All our progress as a school depends on the right view of the symptoms obtained by proving with Camphor and Opium. - Hering.

Leaders In Homoeopathic Therapeutics, Eugene Beauharnais Nash

Great coldness of the external surface, with sudden and complete prostration of the vital force; collapse.

The patient objects to being covered, notwithstanding the objective coldness; throws off all the covering.

Pains disappear when thinking of them; exceedingly sensitive to cold air.

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The great characteristic around which the whole action of Camphor seems to revolve is: "Great coldness of the external surface, with sudden and complete prostration of the vital forces". It is no wonder Hahnemann headed his trio (Camphor, Cuprum and Hellebore) of cholera remedies with Camphor. If we were to sum up the same condition in one word it would be collapse. No remedy comes nearer to Camphor than the last of the trio, viz., Veratrum album, but Camphor has the collapse with painless stool or even no stool at all, while Veratrum has the collapse seemingly as a consequence of the very profuse evacuations of stomach and bowels. Both have great external coldness, but Veratrum has a very marked appearance of cold sweat upon the hippocratic face, especially forehead. Cuprum leads the trio, when the cramp in stomach and extremities is the most prominent symptom. These remedies are indicated when these characteristic symptoms appear, not only in cholera, but in any disease. There is one peculiarity in the coldness of Camphor, viz., the patient will not be covered, or objects to it, no matter how objectively cold he is. Secale coldness or collapse is exactly like this, and even in gangrena senilis it proves a great remedy on the same indications. The signal success of Dr. Rubini, of Naples, in treating five hundred and ninety-two cases of cholera with Camphor verified the prediction of Hahnemann beyond question.

Collapse with cold surface and aversion to heat may come on in retrocedent exanthema, or in the later stage of so-called cholera infantum, in pneumonia, or capillary bronchitis, from exposure to intense cold or traumatic shock. Indeed it does not matter from what cause except death. Camphor is the first remedy to be thought of, and according to susceptibility or strength of the patient the dose must be varied from tincture to highest potency.