MATERIA MEDICA - Abrotanum (10)

[Ardavan Shahrdar]

Proving
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Abrotanum -'A Cyclopaedia of Drug Pathogenesy, Hughes'
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Following are the first important provings of
Abrotanum, carried out by Dr Gatchell on two ladies (a
and b). Our present information about Abrotanum is
mainly based on these two provings:

'Dr. GATCHELL proved tinct. (how is not stated) on two
ladies with following results:

a. In the first, -1/4 h., numb sensation in fingers;
1/2 h., dull aching in all fingers; 1h., joints stiff,
with prickling sensation. Had fugitive pains in
shoulders all n., could not sleep for them. Next d.
piles appeared, and became worse as rheumatic pains
abated, with frequent inclination to stool, hardly
anything but blood being passed. Prover also reports,
-soreness of scalp, especially l. side; urine scanty.

b. The second was gloomy and desponding; ill-natured,
irritable, and violent; exceedingly peevish, feeling
as if she would like to do something cruel; thinks her
brain is softening, having feebleness and dulness of
mind, taciturnity, and no capacity for thinking. After
ceasing drug was excited, loquacious, like shouting,
good-humoured and happy. Head was weak, so that she
could not hold it up; conversation or mental effort
caused sense of fatigue in l. brain especially, and
there was sensation of creeping chills along cerebral
surface, with pricking sensation; also itching - after
ceasing drug - burning in stomach as from acid; weak,
sinking feeling in bowels and colicky pains; darting
and twitching in ovaries, latter extending to back,
making it feel weak; raw feeling in respiratory tract
caused by cold air, sudden hoarseness, weak voice;
arms very weak, with itching from shoulders to elbows;
very weak and disposed to lie prone. She remained very
much relaxed and incapable, with weak sickly feeling
for many d., and internal trembling when excited.

(U. States Med. and Surg. Journ., v, 291.)'
Sincerely,

Ardavan Shahrdar, MD, DIHom

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