SKIN.--A long-cured impetiginous eczema reappeared on both legs, 1a.--[60] A few hot prickings in the skin (second and third days), 1.--Itching of the face and forehead, 1a.--The itchings repeated themselves (third day), 1.
SLEEP AND FEVER.--Fantastic dreams (second night), 1.--Voluptuous dreams and increased sexual desire, sympathetic with urinary excitement, 1a.--A few cold chills rushed up the spinal column (first day), 1.
(In addition to the foregoing we quote the following from same authority):
Prover cured a severe acute flowing coryza, headache, vertigo and cough, with sticking pains throughout the chest, heaviness and trembling of the lower limbs; pulse, 110. _Penthorum_ 3x quickly cured.
Miss P----, a blonde of 17, had a severe cough of several weeks duration; worse from talking or singing. Frothy greenish sputa. _Pulsatilla_ and afterwards _Phosphorus_ were given without benefit. _Penthorum_ soon cured.
In the prover it produced a general malaise, headache, weakness of limbs and inability to attend to business, a feeling as though he must give up and be sick. I have promptly relieved several patients having these symptoms with _Penthorum_. It produces a soreness throughout the chest, with a severe dry cough, "as though I would cough my insides out," worse in the morning. Have speedily cured several such coughs with it.
PREPARATION.--The crushed beans are macerated in five parts by weight of alcohol.
(In 1896 and 1897 Dr. A. M. Cushing wrote several articles on this new remedy, and among them the following, which appeared in the _Homoeopathic Recorder_, 1897.)
While making a proving of the above remedy I felt a sudden curious sensation in the region of the heart, and immediately felt of my pulse and found it _very weak and fluttering_. I have been asked what that sensation was, but I can't describe it, for, to tell the truth, I believe I was frightened and failed to remember it. Although it is unpleasant to be badly frightened, the nice results I have seen from the use of the remedy and the kind words I have received from the profession in regard to it has more than paid for the little fright. As so little is known of the remedy, I wish to report one case that was not at all indicated by the proving and two cases under the care of an old school doctor. My case was that of a lady aged about forty, who for two years was under the care of a homoeopathic doctor for some trouble, I don't know what; then two years under the care of another homoeopathic doctor for a fibroid of the uterus. She had twice consulted a specialist in Boston, who said it could not be removed. Then she came under my care with a fibroid as large as a fetus at full term. Suffice it to say, I gave remedies in a higher attenuation than I believed she had taken, and in a few months the tumor had greatly diminished and gave her no trouble. Still she was nervous and had neuralgic pains almost all over her. As remedies did not seem to relieve her for any length of time, I decided to give her _Phaseolus_ 9x, as it probably would do as well as what I had given her. The next time I called she met me with "I want a whole bottle like what you gave me last." She does not have to take any medicine now.